The Wingham Advance-Times, 1941-12-04, Page 7Thursday, December 4, 1941
CANADA AT WAR
NO. 4—TWO TYPES OF TANKS /
By C. Earl Rise, formerly of Springfield Times, Lac Du Bonnet, Man.
• We have heard a' great deal during
the past year about tanks. There are
many people in almost every part of
the country, who are of the opinion
that we are unable to build a real
tank in .this country, Ler me assure
you that this is not so! We are build
ing them, both the Infantry and Cruis
er type of tnak, and every month sees
production increased.
The assembly of the two types of
tanks—infantry and cruiser—was un
dertaken by two of the largest loco
motive works in Eastern Canada. The
Infantry tanks are built to British
thousands of an inch variation. The
tread guards alone comprise a total
of 60 different parts.
These infantry tanks are powered
by Desjel Engines. When I looked in
side one tank I wondered how it could
possibly carry its crew, There hardly
seemed space enough for one man, let
alone three, Not a single inch of space
is wasted,
After each tank is completed, it has
to go to the noise proofing room.
Her? wdh its engine running, it is
thoroughly checked for radio interfer
ence. It is imperative that tanks in
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Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McDowell,
and Mrs. L L McDowell, were guests
on Thursday at the home of Mr, and
Mrs, J, Killough of Dungatmon.
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'.1NEW TANK COMES OFF LINE taken to produce 100 tanks for Russia
Another Canadian tank is shown as before the end of the year, in ad
it receives its finishing touches in a dition to fulfilling the needs of its own
'Montreal factory. Canada has under- (forces.
•design. They are very mobile, can
■turn around at full speed, in their own
length, and it is practically impossible
■for them to become bogged down.
They carry three men, the driver, a
..gunner and a radio operator.
Difficulty Over Rivets
A tank is not constructed like an
-automobile, on a chassis; for the body
itself becomes the chassis. The two
sides of the bodycare lined up on the
■assembly table, and then bolted into
.•place by means of two cross members.
Then the pieces are riveted. There an
other difficulty was encountered. Riv
eted plates, in the ordinary sense of
the word, are unsafe, because of the
-ordinary rivet if hit by a bullet would
Le driven back endangering the crew
inside. A method of riveting by means
of pressure, instead of hammering,
•was instituted. The red hot rivet is
placed into the holes of the plates,
and a huge machine .with two jaws,
-clamps down on each side of the rivet.
This type of riveting causes the rivet
to expand in the middle, thereby mak
ing it safe as it cannot be driven back..
When the body has been formed,
the unit passes onto another., table,
and the bottom is fastened on. The
turret housing is next attached, the
inechanism' for revolving the turret
put in place, the tread guards and the
assemblies for carrying the treads put
<>n.
Every part that goes into these
tanks has to be specially machined to
a perfection that allows only four one-
operation be able to maintain com
munication with the commanding of
ficer at all times.
The Cruiser Tank
The cruiser tanks are entirely dif
ferent from the infantry .tank. The tur
ret housing—that is the roof—instead
of being composed of hundred of
separate units, individually machined,
a*s is the case with the infantry model,
is one huge casting of special steel,
composd of great thickness.
They carry five men—the driver, in
a small compartment „ of his own, a
small turret where the machine gun
ner sits, and the large turret holding
three men, the gunner, (for these
tanks carry cannon as well as a ma
chine gun), the radio operator, and the
officer in charge. They can plow
through almost any obstruction, and
considering their weight are very
speedy. s .
The power is provided by a power
ful twelve cylinder Curtis Wright Air
plane motor.
Another interesting fast regarding
the plants producing these tanks is
that, the necessary dies, drills, jiggs,
etc., for this new type of work are
produced in their own machine shops.
It required an entirely different tech
nic to handle armor plating from that
used in the handling, of ordinary steel.
Also, it took some time experimenting
with various alloys until one was pro
duced that met up with the specifica
tions required by the British author
ities, '
FLYING OVER THE
ATLANTIC ON A
MAGIC CARPET
This is the second of a series of art
icles about conditions in Great Brit
ain and other countries visited dur
ing six weeks spent in Europe. It
is written specially for the Can
adian Weekly Newspapers by the
editor of the Fergus News-Record.
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Flying across the Atlantic is pure
magic.
There is no other way to describe
it. No modern novelist has ever told
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the story. It is necessary to go away
back to the Arabian Nights with its
magic carpets, to Icarus with his wax
wings and his Unsuccessful attempt
to fly over a much narrower body of
water, or to Pegasus with his broad
pinions. Clipper trips are more mod
ern than otlr literature,
A writer in one popular American
magazine recently tried to tell about
the flight from New York to Lisbon,
gut he depended .heavily on photo
graphs. He did say, though, that those
who had crossed the Atlantic by Clip
per belonged to the most exclusive
club in the world. The membership
fee was $1,000 f°r less than a week
and one requires “pull” besides to be
come initiated into this society. (Of
ficially, the term is - not “pull* but
“priorities.”)
Perhaps there is some truth to that,
but it does seem a prosaic way to
speak of magic.
In many ways, modern science im
proves an ancient fairy stories, I al
ways had some doubts about the de
sirability of travelling by carpet high
above the earth. The carpet was sure
to be draughty. If one moved too near
the edge, there was always a danger
of falling off. And after all, the lady
of the Arabian ‘Nights and the other
aticient story tellers knew nothing of
the actual loveliness of the world far
above the clouds and particularly at
sunset, or the approach of a thunder
storm, or when a rainbow spread it
self into a full circle in front of the
plane. Nothing they ever imagined
could equal the beauty of that world
and it is almost Impossible to describe
it to earthbound readers, -
Meeting The Other Editors
At New York, I met five of the
other editors who were to make the
trip to England, Three were from
Ontario and two from Montreal: B.
K, Sandwell and Bishop R, J, Renison
of Toronto; Grattan O’Leary of Ot
tawa; Oswald Mayrand and Lionel
Shapiro of Montreal, The last named
Jives much of the time in Washington
and knows New York, which was fort
unate, for we learned that a Portu
gese visa was necessary before we
boarded the1 Clipper, and this required
much running around and the pay
ment of eight precious American dol
lars each to the Portugese Embassy
before we embarked. (Later we learn
ed just how much travellers through
Portugal have to pay toward the up
keep of Dictator Salazar’s govern
ment.)
The new Airways Terminal, op
posite the Grand Central ’ Station in
New York, is surely one of the most
beautiful and appropriate buildings in
• the world. The entrance is a semi
circle of inch-thick doors of plate glass
or one of the new plastics. Inside the
doers, the passenger acends by a
moving stairway into a great blue
dome studded with stars. Circling
across the dome are the signs •'of the
zodiac and a bronze man with wings
on his back. Not until the traveller
reaches the top of the stairs does he
see the offices of the various airways
companies almost hidden around the
horizon.
When the
motor buses
the rear of
from deep
Atlantic passengers are hurried away
by tunnels, and roads to the airport.
The Dixie Clipper rides at anchor
in the bay. It looks exactly like a
whale with wings. The wings seem
inadequate—not at; all the kind or size
of wings that one would expect a
whale to grow if it had to fly 4,000
miles or more in the next two days,
But, the four big Wright motors look
efficient enough to drive their three-
bladed propellers indefinitely.
A 4Six- Roomed House With Wings
. Fifty-five passengers left New York
in the Dixie Clipper that day but more
than half of them stayed in Bermuda.
They sat around in six rooms, most
of them large enough for ten persons,
for the Clipper is as large as a house
inside, and upstairs the eleven men of
the crew sat around in another room
which the passengers never saw.
It took 20 minutes to get the Dixie
Clipper up off the water. It taxied
back and forth over by the bay while
the pilot tried the feel of the wind
. against the wings and manoeuvered
for the longest run over the water.
Once we passed three of Uncle Sam’s
new motor torpedo boats, each one
with two machine gun turrets and four
torpedo tubes. We were almost touch
ing one of New York’s marvellous
bridges before we finally started down
the bay at full speed. Spray flew up
over the little square windows and
soon the slap-slap of the waves
against the bottom of the hull grew
less violent and then disappeared —
and the Clipper was in the air. It
circled over the edge of New York
twice, gaining height, and then turned
.east over the marshes and swamps
and then the broad Atlantic. Two
ships were nearing the coast. After
that, nothing but waves and clouds
in every direction.
Wonderland Above the Clouds
Flying the Atlantic, as I said be
fore, is pure magic. One does not
realize it at first. Flying was not a
new sensation for me. I had been
doing it for 20 years in planes large
and small, but never for more than a
few hours at a time. This was differ
ent. I sat on a sofa with two others.
One was a young American girl who
had Saved her money for a luxury
holiday in. Bermuda: the other a De
troit newspaper man returning to
Europe. The plane was heated and air-
conditioned. Even the wall covering
added to the feeling of luxury for it
was a tapestry with maps of tile com
tinents and oceans. Dinner consisted
of consomme, chicken salad, ice cream
and coffee.
All these' things were mere man-
made attempts at comfort. The real
magic was outside the windows, Every
time I looked out, the long, slender,
pointed wing was still there with its
two whirring propellors. Far down be
low us were the clouds, for we flew
at 6,000 to 8,000 feet
is Still and there are
was fortunate that.we
the way across. The
from that height, grows desperately
monotonous witch the air is clear but
clouds are always changing shape and
Color.
The sun set behind a distant row of
thick clouds which looked, like far*off
mountain range. A long path of yel
low light stretched over the whiteness
of the nearby clouds. They looked
like masses of spun sugar candy. As
the sun dropped away, the sky flamed
with .color. In three-quarters of the
dome of heaven, it was already night
but out iu the west the full range of
the spectrum stretched across the sky,
brilliant red at the horizon, going up
where the air
few bumps. It
had clouds all
Atlantic, seen
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through the yellows and the bues to
the deep indigo of night overhead with
a few stars already brightly shining.
Lightning Around the Wings
Nearing Portugal, we met a high
thunderstorm. This time, the Clipper
seemed unable to rise above it. The
clouds were close around. and often
we were in them, like a thick fog.
The lightning was around us, too,
sometimes just beyond the wings, but
there was no sound of thunder above
the roar of the motors. It was bumpy,
too, and for the first time, two ladies
felt sick and strapped themselves to
their seats. For some others, meh
women alike, it was just a new
enjoyable sensation,
At night, the steward made up
berths. That was after we had
Bermuda. There Were 23 passengers
then and room for them all to sleep.
I had one of the worst positions—up
close to. the wing and number three
and four engines—but the bed was
comfortable and there was a rhythm
to the noise that was soothing, so I
slept well. Outside the window there
Was a titty silver of new moon and
the very bright stars.
Magic Dbsett’t Always Work
Yes, flying the Atlantic Is magic,
but sometimes In the hands of hard*
headed Americans the magic goeV
wrong. We should have left New
York on Tuesday morning and have
been in Lisbon on Wednesday night.
But number four engine wasn’t be
having too well even before we left
New York. Out of Bermuda six hours,
the Clipper turned back because of
bad weather ahead. On the second
try, we reached the Azores, but after
landing there for more gasoline, the
ailing engine died as we were oppos
ite the last islands of the group and
we- turned back to Horta, where the
Atlantic Clipper came along and
picked us up, taking us the rest of
the way. Even food ran short at last
before we dropped down out of the
darkness on to the Tagus River at
Lisbon on Friday night. We had been
47 hours in the air instead of the
usual 23, and had done some 2,500
extra miles of flying.
And the next morning, We were in
the air again this time headed
England.
Mrs. J. E. Ellis of Listowel is visit
ing with Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Camp
bell and other friends,
Mr. Jim Walsh has been employed
to work for Mr. Dan McGowan of
3rd concession of East Wawanosh.
Little Miss Edna Daer has return
ed home after spending three months
at the home of her cousins, Mrs.
Douglas Campbell.
Mr. and Mrs, Albert Campbell were
Goderich visitors on Thursday.
On Monday afternoon, Rev. JI. C.
Wilson spoke over “The Church of
the Air” over CKNX. The music was
provided by Mr, J. L. McDowell and
Mr. W. F. Campbell. Miss Winnifred
Campbell presided at the piano.
Mrs. Norman McDowell, Mrs. Wm.
Walden, Mrs. W. K Campbell, Mrs.
Walter Cook, Mrs. Wm, McVittie,
were Goderich visitors on Thursday.
The executive of the Sunday School
met on Tuesday evening at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Norman McDowell.
Plans were made for the Christmas
concert to be held . Monday evening,
December 22. Supplies were ordered
for the coming year. Other business
was also dealt with. After which Mrs.
McDowell served a dainty lunch, and
a Social time was spent.
Mrs. Norman McDowell and child*
ren visited recently with Mrs. Carl
Deans of Wingham.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Smith and.-
Barbara of Goderich visited on Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. J. L. McDow-
ell. .
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Campbell,
Lois, visited on Monday with Mr, and
Mrs. A. E. Johnston of West Wa
wanosh.
Miss Eileen Taylor spent a couple
of days with Mrs. R. Stonehouse of
Goderich.
It was a shock on Monday to heat
of the death of Mr, J, L. Stonehouse,
who underwent an operation in Alex
andra Marine Hospital, Goderich, and
did not survive the operation. The
funeral will be held on Wednesday
afternoon from the home of his son,
Mr. Roy Stonehouse of Goderich. In*
terment in Maitland Cemetery;
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Campbell, Miss,
Winnifred, were London visitors ott
Tuesday,