... SYMBOLS OF ENDURANCE War, Export and Home Production Since 1885, through crises and wars, depressions and good times, the Avon Company has continued to contribute its full share towards the evolution and development of Tyres and General Rubber Goods. Today the Company is proud to use its resources in furthering the common task, and the demands of His Majesty's Government receive absolute ...

... Little lives, once sad, may, with your help, be lifted up where brightness shall follow gloom, and laughfer take the place of tears. 5000 children now in our care. ...

... CAPTAIN B. A. W. WARBURTON-LEE, who com manded the destroyers which attacked the German flotilla in Narvik Fiord on April .10 and who died in H.M.S. Hardy after the brilliant action which was the prelude to the further action led bv H.M.S. IVarspite. Captain Warburton-Lee assumed com mand of the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla last July and next month he would have completed thirty years' service in ...

... fHE Air Force take part in the Norwegian Battles Special Sphere Drawings |nd Official Photographs vMright-- AIR FORCE AND NORWEGIAN NAVY CO OPERATE This picture was taken by a Royal Air Force aeroplane near Bergen on April 9. It shows a Norwegian gunboat rounding up suspect ships to establish their identity. The gunboat is the third vessel from the bottom of the picture I WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10-- ...

... WILL SWEDEN BE THE NEXT? The Upheaval in Scandinavia is Full of Menace for Her IF Sweden were swung round with its southern most point as the pivot, it would stretch all the way across Europe to Naples. Whilst the length of the country from top to toe is no less than 980 miles --corresponding to the distance from Newcastle to Madrid-- it is only just over 300 miles in breadth. This elongated ...

... FIGHTING IN THE CLOUDS: aO FZL1 --SPECIAL SPHERE SECTION Daytime Changes in Wind and How They Come About. Turbulence in the lower layers of air is responsible for a diurnal change in both the speed and direction of wind. During the day, turbulence is active. The wind at, say, 1,000 ft. gives up some of its momentum to the wind near the ground which, consequently, increases in speed, reaching a ...

... THE MAKING of a BIG GUN jjg^ How the Navy is Supplied With Its Mighty Weapons of Offence THE chief problem facing a manufacturer of big guns is the obvious one of sup plying his customers with weapons which will hit their enemies at ranges beyond which their enemies can hit back. In order to propel a shell farther than hereiofore, a greater propellant force must be let off behind it. Since the ...

... THE MAKING of a BIG GUN The Final Stages of Fitting the Breech Block and Mushroom Plunger -SPECIAL BIG GUN SECTION NEARING THE END IN THE TASK OF PRODUCING A BIG GUN FOR THE NAVY The problem of securing a gas-tight breech is solved by providing a pad which creates a closely-fitting joint. The explosion of the powder forces back the mushroom plunger as shown here HOW THE INTERRUPTED SCREW ...

... IS This the END of CIVIL AVIATION in BRITAIN? A Few Things which Must be Said Before the End Comes By CHARLES G. GREY (Founder of Tim Aeroplane) Mr. C. G. Grey is famous throughout aviation circles the world over for the forthrightness of his views. The article which follows may be counted as amongst his most forthright. Mot only Mr. Grey, but many other competent observers as well, have been ...

... -SPECIAL CONTRABAND SECTION The question of Contraband grows in importance with every passing week for it is by checking war goods reaching Germany that her downfall can be accomplished within measurable time Here the question of one of the back doers is examined in detail NOW that Mr. Chamberlain has announced that the Allies intend to tighten the blockade against Germany, the Black Sea ...

... [HE BALKAN CONFERENCE C ord Halifax Presides Over the Foreign Office Discussions ^ritain's counterblast to Germany's economic campaign in the Balkans has begun. On Monday last the first of a series of discussions on the political and economic situation in south-eastern Europe began at the Foreign Office under the presidency of Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, when the pictures reproduced ...

... FILM Scarlett O'Hara Comes to Town Next Week VIVIEN LEIGH AS SCAR LETT O'HARA PRESENTED IN LONDON NEXT WEEK The long-awaited film from Gone with the Wind, the enormously popular novel of the American War, appears on April 18. Miss Leigh is partly Irish SCARLETT O'HARA ON THE PORCH AT TARA WITH THE TARLETON TWINS, WHO HAD JUST BEEN EXPELLED FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA: it doesn't matter ...