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... I FROM HOT-WATER j BOTTLE TO BARRAGE BALLOON. OUCH pleasant adjuncts to comfort as hot-water .bottles, rubber mattresses, vacuum flasks were made in peacetime by the firm whose activities arc shown on this page. But war transforms, and now the same firm, employing some 3000 workers, makes products which are essential to the war effort. The articles constructed in its factories in very large ...
... Grim and Gay Getting Mine-Sweeping Gear Outboard By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler What goes on here? Well, these nautical technicalities are not easy, but the idea is to get the cigar-shaped object, known as an 44 Otter, outboard, without a hitch, one on each quarter of the ship, and tow them along astern. The otter floats and flies a red flag to mark its position. Near its nose is the ...
... The D.D.S. and T., London District, and his Staff Most people are apt to take the question of how the Army and the R.A.F. gel their food as a matter of course. It arrives, is cooked and eaten, but behind all this is a highly, efficient and complex organisation, whose job it is to gel the right food to the men at the right time and place under all conditions. In these modern times of highly ...
... Wings for Victory Week Coastal Command Leads the Way By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler This is the sort of scene, our artist solemnly assures us, that will be enacted at any Coastal Command station during the next few months, when Wings for Victory weeks, sponsored by the R.A.F., will be in full swing all over the country. Banners flown by Balloon Command, R.A.F. detachments 'marching ...
... ROYAL ACADR SELECTIONS, 1943. ...
... And Then the Gun Jams By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley-Beuttler It 's happened more than once one of our submarines steals into an Italian harbour, surfaces, finds herself presented with a sitting target and then the gun jams. Here is our artist's version of the incident, portrayed with much local colour and nautical detail. The conning-tower and gun arc just clear of the water the gun's crew, ...
... by The Tout The five men seen in this picture are well-knotvn members of Headquarters, R.A., of a famous Armoured Division, stationed somewhere in England. They were sketched in the mess by The Tout. One of them, Capt. Gwynne Evans, was a double Blue (cricket and Soccer) at Oxford just before the war 44 The Tout 99 ...
... MR. FRANK SLATER, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, has caricatured the cast of Grouse in June, produced in a German Prisoner of War Camp. The Officer in Charge of Entertainments, Lieut. M. W. V. Maude, says The production of plays forms quite an important part of the life in this Camp, and I wonder if any of your readers have some acting copies of recent plays which, from the point of view of ...
... September Sales by The Tout Hyperion stock was in strong demand at the recent September Sales at Newmarket. For his Silver Birch filly by Hyperion, Mr. Ernest Bellaney, who is a director of the National Stud, got 7100 guineas, the purchaser l>cing Frank Butters on behalf of the Aga-Ali Khan partnership. Major L. B. Holliday, who trains with Bob Colling at Newmarket, gave 6100 guineas for the ...
... Monocles and After By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler Chief Petty-Officer Electrical Artificer Philip Morter has made Naval History. As an instrument-maker in civil life he had worn an eyeglass for four years, and did not mean to give it up when he volunteered for the Navy. A rating with a monocle was a phenomenon without precedent, and as King's Regulations contained no ban, something ...
... by The Tout Bright Lady won the Ascot Cesarewitch for Sidney McGregor, who is part owner of her sire, April the Fifth, winner of the 1932 Derby in the colours of Tom Walls. S/Ldr. Humphrey Foster was a leading apprentice attached to Digby's stable before the war. Since then he has earned more laurels in the skies, but found time recently to pay a visit to the scenes of his former successes on ...
... At the Sign of the Stork; By Wing-Commander E. G. Oakley Beuttler This touching picture embroiders a trvie stOry ad infinitum. The story itself was broadcast by Lt. J. C. Y. Roxburgh, D.S.O., D.S.C., commander of the submarine United, on her safe return to base in the Mediterranean. He was expecting news from his wife about a highly important event, but the cable had not arrived by the time he ...