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AUSTIN

... Read the Austin Magazine it contains useful tips 4 d monthly from your newsagent 8Di5o lv/ i YOUR SPEEDOMETER PROVES IT The proof of the car is in the mileage. If your Austin is an old friend the substantial total on your speedometer will confirm the well-known fact that every Austin is a good long-term investment. Austin owners whose cars are in constant use on war work are finding, even in ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 107 | Page: Page 32 | Tags: Photographs 

SOLD IN TINS

... Dear Sir, I thought you might be interested in the follow ing, a true incident that happened to myself yesterday. I went to the Army Dental Centre for a teeth inspec tion at and these were the actual words used by the dentist on examining my mouth. Your teeth are perfect, and I can't find anything wrong with them, not even to scale them, as they are so clean. I've always used Eucrvl tooth ...

SOLIGNUM REGD

... Drtf in full flower! WOOD PRESERVING STAIN AND WHITE ANT DESTROYER SOLIGNUM LTD. Donington House, Norfolk Street, Strand, London, W.C.2 WHEREVER TIMBER IS USED SOLIGNUM PROTEUS IT For forty years Solignum has been used all over the world for the protection of timber against attack by Dry-Rot, Damp and Insect Pests but never before has this protection been of such vital importance as now. In ...

Published: Saturday 13 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 118 | Page: Page 34 | Tags: Photographs 

Advertisements

... ?re-war Quality in Wan-time Canada produces these four famous Insulating, Building and Wall Boards from raw materials grown near the factories. This makes it possible for us to guarantee pre-war quality. Your Local Distributor will tell you how to ob tain your requirements, or apply direct to Why we need LEGACIES BEQUESTS The need of ex-servicemen of All Wars, including the disabled and their ...

THE BATTLES IN THE DESERT: The Fighting at Knightsbridge which Preceded the Fall of Tobruk and the Retirement ..

... THE BATTLES IN THE DESERT The Fighting at Knightsbridge which Preceded the Fall of Tobruk and the Retirement to the Egyptian Frontier Actual pictures just received from the 8th Army which show conditions during the very heavy fighting I IN THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE AREA The interior of a Gunnery Command ost in the forward area. When this picture was taken messages ere being received and positions were ...

THE R.A.F. HUNT DOWN THE U-BOATS: A Series of Official Air Ministry Photographs

... I A WHITLEY LOCATES A SUBMARINE IN THE BAY OF BISCAY Diving to the attack, the bomber straddles her with a stick of bombs AND THEN THE BOMBS EXPLODE JUST OVER THE TARGET, throwing up a huge column of water. What happens next is graphically portrayed in the three pictures below TWO MINUTES AFTER THE WHITLEY'S BOMBS HAD EXPLODED The U-boat rises to the surface, forced up by the heavy explosions. ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 454 | Page: Page 8, 9 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

The BATTLE off MIDWAY ISLAND: The U.S. and Japanese Air Fleets Join Action in the North Pacific, with ..

... The BATTLE off MIDWAY ISLAND The U.S. and Japanese Air Fleets Join Action in the North Pacific, with Disastrous Results for the Enemy A Special Sphere Section, with Drawings and Diagrams from Eye-witness Reports THE battle off Midway Island was the culmination of the longest, strangest naval action of the present war; during its course, all the damage was inflicted by aircraft, and the oppos ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1742 | Page: Page 11, 12, 13 | Tags: Maps  Photographs 

TOWNS AS FORTRESSES: Their Defensive Value Against Armoured Armies: Why They Should Not be Abandoned; A Note on ..

... TOWNS AS FORTRESSES Their Defensive Value Against Armoured Armies Why They Should Not be Abandoned A Note on Allied Strategy by DONALD COWIE TOWNS were always fortresses in the past, then artillery made them death-traps and armies pre ferred to stay in trenches outside; but the tank made armies think again-- first, in the Spanish Civil War, when Madrid, Barcelona and other places stood like ...

Published: Saturday 27 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1218 | Page: Page 15 | Tags: Photographs 

HAS the LUFTWAFFE LOST ITS DASH?: Some Reasons for the Changed German Air Tactics--Suggested by

... HAS the LUFTWAFFE LOST ITS DASH? Some Reasons for the Changed German Air Tactics Suggested by K. PARSONS BROWN THE Germans are sufficiently astute propagandists to appreciate the value of occasional reports ostensibly unfavourable to themselves. For this reason, neutral rumours of declining military prowess or inefficiency can rarely be relied upon. But when we get reports of changing tactics ...

REMEMBER the HOSTAGES of the OCCUPIED LANDS: How these Unfortunate Men are Picked Out by the Nazis, and then ..

... REMEMBER the HOSTAGES of the OCCUPIED LANDS How these Unfortunate Men are Picked Out by the Nazis, and then Executed for Crimes in which ,They Took No Part and of which They Had No Prior Knowledge and the Manner in which the United Nations Should Deal with Them After the War By FERDINAND TUOHY IN the long run the public is bound to grow un thinking towards certain recurring tragedies of the ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1882 | Page: Page 8 | Tags: Photographs 

The JAPS in BURMA: Actual Pictures of the Enemy's Methods in their Rapid Advance

... The JAPS in BURMA: Methods in their Rapid Advance A PICTURE TAKEN BY A JAPANESE WAR CORRESPONDENT showing Jap infantry storming a town after their artillery and dive-bombers had prepared it for the final assault LIGHT TANKS OF A JAPANESE MECHANISED FORCE IN BURMA cross an emergency bridge built to replace the one destroyed by the British MANDALAY In the Muslim residential district after Jap ...

Published: Saturday 06 June 1942
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 322 | Page: Page 10 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE BIG GUNS OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE And the Revival of the Seventeenth-Century Maritime Regiment to Man Them

... THE arming of merchant ships on the outbreak of war is not a simple business. To be effective against a ruth less enemy like the Germans, it must be done quickly, as it is necessary to convince the enemy at once that attacking merchant ships by gunfire is too dangerous to be worth while. As manv merchant ships return to this country only at infrequent intervals, it is necessary for guns to be ...