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THE AVON INDIA RUBBER CO. LTD

... 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 ...

WAIFS & STRAYS SOCIETY

... 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. ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 29 | Page: Page 31 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MEN WHO DID IT ALL IN NORWAY

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 479 | Page: Page 5 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE AIR FORCE take part in the NORWEGIAN BATTLES: Special Sphere Drawings; and Official Photographs

... 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-- ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 753 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

WILL SWEDEN BE THE NEXT?: The Upheaval in Scandinavia is Full of Menace for Her

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1153 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

FIGHTING IN THE CLOUDS: The Varying Forms of the Cloud Masses

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 791 | Page: Page 18, 19 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

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... WE WILL SEND THE SPHERE TO MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY SERVING AFLOAT, ANO H.M. FORCES SERVING IN FRANCE AT SPECIAL 1IEOCCEO BATES ft Months I ft/ft :t Months JO/- A subscription to THE SPHERE will be a gift well appreciated by a friend in fhe Services above. Just send us your name and address, Ihe name and address of the person to whom the copy is to bo posted, and the remittance. We will then ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 104 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Other  Photographs 

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The BOMBING of STAVANGER: Official Photographs of the German-occubied Aerodrome and Seaplane Base Continuously ..

... The BOMBING of STAVANGER Official Photograbhs of the German- occubied Aerodrome and Seaplane Base Continuously Bombed by the R.A.F. by Day and Night THE SEAPLANE BASE AT STAVANGER, PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE ROYAL AIR FORCE Stavanger has the best and most modern aerodrome in Norway with, alongside, a seaplane base. Presumably it was to be used as a base for attacks on Britain by the Germans. The ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 459 | Page: Page 30 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE DESTROYERS off the NORWEGIAN COAST

... Mr. Winston Churchill The light metal of the Navy has had a terrific ten days off the Norwegiat coast since the German forces swooped unannounced on a neighbouring state News has come of several specific actions necessary to rout out the Germar forces from the fiords which they seized early last week, but in additior to these operations, constant naval action proceeded up and down wide ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1085 | Page: Page 22, 23 | Tags: Illustrations  Photographs 

NORWAY'S CAPITAL: At the Head of an 80-Mile Gulf and Backed by Innumerable Lakes

... NORWAY'S CAPITAL At the Head of an 80-Mile Gulf and Backed by Innumerable Lakes WOODED SLOPES ARE BROKEN BY BARE HEADLANDS on the way up the 80-mile gulf to Oslo harbour and city. The form of the inner portion is very irregular. Here on a bare rocky spit is a cable station on Oslo Fiord THE VISITOR BY WATER TO OSLO first catches a glimpse of the city through two low converging headlands. From ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 317 | Page: Page 14 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

The NAVY'S LEADERS: And the Three Principal Leaders of Norway

... I The NAVY'S LEADERS And the Three Principal Leaders of 7\[orway FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY-- the rt. hon WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL, P.C., C.H., who has been a prominent figure since his first election to Parliament in 1900. During the last war he also held hioh office First Lord from 1911--15 Minister of Muni tions 1917 War Secretary and Secretary for Air, 1918-1921. During the years ...

Published: Saturday 20 April 1940
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 320 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs