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... The REWARD accurate aim is sure with The easy action of Pneumatic Cartridges minimises the risk of Gun-headache, a wonderful advan tage during a long day's shooting, and particularly appreciated by experienced lady shots. For Trap- shooting they are invaluable, as you can use them all day without fatigue. CARTRIDGES IE MOST EFFICIENT YET EVOLVED IN common with most things Pneumatic ...

November--1948

... November 1948 TO-DAY, 90 per cent., or even 99 per cent.*, of car owners have no more idea of actual working parts of their car than they have of the digestive system of a horse. They expect both to work, and they buy on looks according to their pocket. The car should tell at a glance the class that it is in if its performance is much better than it looks, then the body designers are at fault, ...

Farm and Estate Transport

... By LAND AGENT Bell Horses, Bell Horses, what time of day One o'clock, two o'clock, three and away. THIS merry little jingle of our grand fathers' suggests two things: firstly, that if three o'clock was the latest that they dared leave market for home, their journeys must have taken a considerable time, and, secondly, that if they could not afford to linger on the road for fear of losing time, ...

Up and down the land

... THE Ministry of Agriculture, in the course of discussions with the National Farmers' Union on the vexed problem of labour supplies in 1949, stated that the County Agricultural Executive Committees were not to be regarded as a source of seasonal labour, but rather as a means by which workers might enter the regular agricultural labour force. The N.F.U., on the other hand, made it plain to the ...

Sugar-Beet Harvester Demonstration in Norfolk

... Sugar -Beet Harvester Demonstration in Norfolk THE British Sugar Corporation, with the assistance and co-operation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, organised a most successful demonstration of beet-harvesting machinery on land farmed by the Marquess of Townshend near Fakenham, in Norfolk. The venue was a happy one, as it was on the Townshend estate in the eighteenth century that ...

Record Crowd at Cruft's

... Record Crowd at Craft's CRUFT'S SHOW, for which exhibitors have been clamouring for so long, has come off at last, amid scenes of unparalleled enthusiasm. Nothing like the crowds that thronged the Grand Hall at Olympia has ever been seen before at a dog show. When I went there in the early morning of both days, it was to find queues outside nearly a quarter of a mile long. Several times it was ...

Graphic

... THE QUEEN ELIZABETH HELD UP IN PORT--THE CUNARD-WHITE STAR LINER AT HER MOORINGS IN SOUTHAMPTON FROM WHICH HER DEPARTURE WAS DELAYED BY A STRIKE OF MEMBERS OF THE CREW WHO CAME OUT IN SYMPATHY WITH THE AMERICAN LONGSHOREMEN The Queen Mary, in dry dock, was also held up, because of the delay in moving into her sister-ship's berth to take on passengers and luggage By last week-end the strike ...

Published: Saturday 27 November 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: Graphic  Photographs 

THE QUEEN ELIZABETH STRIKE: The Stranded Passengers; the Dockside Meetings

... THE MANAGEMENT MUCH REGRET The first notice posted for the information of passengers sailing in the Queen Eliza beth last week-end. Later a longer notice was set out, indicating that the Queen Elizabeth would not leave port until Tuesday afternoon at the earliest. The company expressed regret both to those on board the Queen Elizabeth and those awaiting embarkation at Cherbourg. Mean while ...

CROOKES VITAMIN QUOTA

... For those critical months The physical demands upon expectant and nursing mothers call for an increased food intake. Food, how ever, is not properly used up by the body without vita mins. It is clear that, with present restrictions, the best use must be made of the available diet. Adequate vitamins are, therefore, essential. Crookes Vitamin Quota Capsules contain the six necessary vitamins A, ...

British Friesians' Year

... British Friesians5 Year Establishing a strong lead in the Milking Trials, British Friesians, although not in the first three places on inspection, won both the Bledisloe Team Trophy and the Supreme Indi vidual Award at the 62nd Dairy Show at Olympia, beating the Ayrshires into second place and thus reversing last year's posi tions. The winning team consisted of (left to right) R. and H. ...

Prizewinners for New Apparatus or Inventions at the Dairy Show

... On the Production Side On the Distributive Side THE BURBRIDGE VALVE A complete new seat can be fitted in two minutes without disturbance to valve body or any pipe work. Supplied in sizes from 3-8ths in. to 2 ins. Lime Free Water and General Services Ltd. Bronze Medal. ELECTROBLOCK STEAM-RAISER Designed to supply all hot water and steam needed for washing and sterilising a combine milking plant ...