... . By H. E. SYMONS. QUITE a new idea was put forward recently by Mr. Palmer Phil lips, Sales Director of the Vauxhall concern, who suggested that people did not buy 8-h.p. cars because they were enamoured of cars in that horse-power category, but because the first cost of such vehicles was all that they could afford. He argued that if people could get a io-h.p. car which cost no more, when new, ...

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... MODELS PRICES I940 Better cars at no increase in price. Year by year 10 h.p. Saloon £275 the Rover continues its steady advance in appearance, comfort i° h.p. Coupe £285 performance. Consider these latest improvements to One 12 h.p. Saloon fjoo 1 1 12 h.p. Sports of Britain's Fine Cars Saloon £310 14 h.p. Saloon £330 Re-designed 6 cyl. Induction for Higher Performance 14 h.p. Sports Saloon f ...

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... Not for twenty-one years has a British private soldier seemed the most important picture of the week. Now in September 1939, we have once more learnt what it is like to see uniform in the streets, the buses the restaurants, to see chaps like this going to their depots with their girls, smiling like the chaps did In 1914. She carries his knapsack and his Short Lee-Enfield, he carries her ...

... It is early in the morning, the time when clerks are at breakfast and junior partners are shaving and civil servants are sipping tea in bed. In St. James's Park is solitude and a golden autumn haze and the Prime Minister walking, as his daily custom is, with his wife. In a short while he will be plunged back into the Downing Street maelstrom of calls, communiques, conversations, concessions ...

... Professor Mamlock The Russian anti-Nazi film was twice banned in London, is now at the Academy What Soviet Russia thought of the Nazi regime until two weeks ago could hardly be more powerfully conveyed than by Professor Mamlock. This tremendous indictment of Nazi cruelty and barbarism was due for presentation at the Academy Cinema last Wednesday. It was first shown in London by the Film ...

... The Cortachy Highland Games took place as usual but their chieftain, the Earl of Airlie, had to leave suddenly for London. Here is his elder son, Lord Ogilvy, aged thirteen, who took his place as acting chieftain, talking to Mr. James Laird, the forester of the Airlie estates. Lord Airlie is. I A. 'Col. in the 10th Hussars, R. of 0. Golfers at North Berwick were fewer but still keen. Mr. F. J. ...

... By Alan C. Hess FOR several years past I have been ad vocating the abolition of the amber light between the red and the green at controlled crossings, retaining it when the green is changing to red. Indeed, I made an impassioned appeal for the adoption of this principle in an article in the BYSTANDER in 1937. Now to my joy I see that the Minister of Transport has decided to try it out. I still ...

... pfafdot %|i7 PLAYER'S CORK-TIPPED MEDIUM OR MILD 10for6io 20for1/0*D \1 II J 2\.C.C.48GQ GOOD TASTE marks her choice in most things. With cigarettes her pre ference is cork-tipped but for good taste she knows they must always be ...

... On Monday, September 4, 1939 Postage Inland, l^d. Canada and Newfoundland, 1$d. Elsewhere Abroad rJ-j. L__ A- A a- The state of war which was broad cast to the nation on Sunday received a further ratification in an official proclamation made in front of the Royal Exchange in the centre of the City. The procla mation was read by Mr. W. J. Boston, Salt-bearer and acting Common Crier. The ...

... by the Old Stager -September, 1939 32-34 St. Bride Street, E.C. 4 Wednesday, September 6, 1939. AT WAR. --And so the thing that has hung over us, the thing we have dreaded and thought impossible, the horror and imbecility of war, is come on us. European war has broken out, and Britain is in it to the hilt. The Premier has made the issue clear. One man, Hitler, could have prevented it at any ...