London, Sept. 25.
The Bristol Ca. is working on an experimental aeroplane for flight in the "stratosphere."
A special highly super-charged and extremely powerful engine is being Aeveloped, designed to maintain pow-for output' at levels of 50,000 ft and More, "and. drive an air-screw of variable pitch.
The designers now have a great] deal of information about the condi-ions to be mot in a flight at great heights, as Bristol engines have been fitted to each of the three aeroplanes which set up height records in recent years.
'The present record of 47,350 ft, held by Renata Donati, the' Italian aviator, was established in a biplane equipped with a supercharged Bristol Pegasus 1,100-lip. motor.—Wireless through Reuter. established during the trial run to-day of the London and Northeastern Railway's new streamlined express train, the "Silver Jubilee."
The "Silver Jubilee" will, on Monday, inaugurate a new four-hour service between King's Cross and Newcastle, travelling once n day in ach direction.
The train consists of a specially-built" streamlined engine weighing 165 tons, and seven. streamlined coaches capable of accommodating 198 passengers.
will maintain an average speed of 67.7 miles an hour on the—258- mile run, with a halt at Darlington, the only one it will make—Reuter.
The grave fears of tension between Lithuania and Germany on. the occasion of the elections to the Memel Diet on Sunday have, it is hoped, been allayed as the result of action by the Powers guaranteeing the Memo! Statute,
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