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Air tunnel tease nave tiemousttated
that the Golden Arrow iyeete nidal•
catty fie preateet speed pussibllitios,
04•n o.ix while the gaiety margin egaittat Poe-
Itable inretabllity 19 Bahl to be eYen
.Golden f Arrow,' W-11 Race greater than that of Major Seagrave's
huge mystery S, -with witiclt leo drove.
Over the Ormond -Daytona ata rate of 203,79 utiles au hoer✓ 1n
March, 1927.
Le low gear Major Segetive's highest
speed will be eighty -ciao miles an hour,
In scoucl 160 miles seed in high 246
miles.
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The newcar Is espeoielly designed
British Driller Will Compete to Meet the problems of aero.dyaang
With Previous Victor which face drivers who have mended
into the now pians of extreme. speed,
iv\iajjar II, 0. 11. Segr'ave: of London, They find strenge equations introduced
will attempt to drive his' new super- ` into the guidance. and t'oactioee ce- an
ontoa t
240 zoites' an .hour on
Bead. Course March
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Tests Show Giant Power
speed rasing Gar, the Golden Arrow, at •• The Golden Arrow cannot e extreme high velocity car,
Crmond•Daytona all of these am -dynamic problems;
Beach, Fla., sometimes between March for much still tentaius,to be learned by
1. and March 2S. lls w111 lease London' experience,•
Golden Arrow
With his ear and a party of friends• The engine of the
January 30. weighs almost 'et thousand pounds.
This Is at a rate of four utiles in one ; The steel frame is, enormously strong.
nttnute, or oma ntile,in fifteen seconds,' The carwill be gilded, hence its naive.
or 369 feet per second, a velocity The springs are very 'stiff so that
which was undreamed of four years I they will not give should the car, leap.
ago, It was not thought thou that on striking some slight irregularity in
tires .could be made to stand the heat, the .sand. Because it is expected to
and friction or that cars geuerally go at a rate of 356 feet a second,
could be built to stand tip under the 'Major Seagrave has au aiming device
meehaaioal strain. 1 to keep the car on a straight course.,
But atter deducting the possible loss There is a stream -lined projection at
lit ground speed through slippage, oris -[ the front of the car, joined by a black
Unit and wind resistance, which, in the al hand along the top of the hood to the
case of the Golden Arrow, has been rear sight, which is immediately in
ascertained ey careful wind tunnel front of Major Seagrave. This should
teas, the car is believed capable of be a tremendous help in keeping the
making a maximum ground speed of ear on a tone 00008e between the ocean
2J6' miles an hour.
New ?,larks Are Expected
on the one hand and the sand dunes
on the other.
Oar Almed at Objective
Since each additional mile in speed Nerve impulses in the human body
when high velocities are reached travel almost too slowly for modern
means increased peril to- the driver, high velocity drivers. By the time a
why, the may ask, sloes Major Segrave man's eyes told hio. he was on the
Plan to attempt suli a great itl0rease wrong course he might be seventy-five
ever the present world's record of feet out of lime. It would be too late:
207.33 mile, en hour? Hence the modern driver looks a guar -
The answer is that many would not tet, of a mile ahead, at which distance,
be surprised to nee the present record despite his speed, he tau clearly see
Good Advice
Ford ShowsHow to Prevent
Waste in Trade and
9
Finance
eW York,---Rofarmation of the
!"money system" of the United States
takes an important place among the
new book entitled "My. Phitosephy in.
twice discussed by llenry,Ford in a
InModuOaustrn;. y,'t (-published by Coward -
Mr. Ford propounds a hypothetical
question int finance and then proceeds
to answer it. He shows how a 5000,-
000,000 pttblic improvement bond
iesne is financed by the Government,
the security, for which "Is nothing
more or less than the energy of
wealth in its moat produt,tive Perm;
i.e,, natural resources,"
"Suppose we bor'r'ow $30,000,400
and pity 120 per cent, interest, we
literally have to pay 966,000,000 for
the use of. 930,000,000," he says
"That is, we pay 980,000,000 for. the
pnhlic improvement and 988,000,000
for the loan. And it was the govern-.
intent's money to begin with. It seems
like a very childish and unbusinesslike
method. -
"Suppe e, for example," he says,
"we decide to relieve unemployment
by carrying on some necessary inr
provutent and to do this the Gov-
ernment needs 930,000,000, That's
1,600,000 $20 bills or 3,000,000 910
bills. The Government can issue these
against the value of the thing in pros-
pect and with them pay every expense
connected with the work, then put the
plan in operation and out of its earn-
ings
arni tgc retire the entire $30,000,000
worth of currency which has been
issued, Economists no longer ques-
tion that method of doing things. In -
x, deed, it ,looks as if financial engineer-
ing will come round to something
very like 'it.' We shall see great im-
provement when we apply engineering
methods to finance."
"The more alert financial men of
tit.is country are thinking of these
Seven-year-old of Atklelstone se reed as her matters on broader lines than ever be-
i scheme o 1 P til Village Homes.fore, and that is very heartening for,. subjects in Morocco of the tali on va- twelve locomotives,
tapped by a wile margin not only on the way he is going. Some drivers protege under the adoption sc e
the &hewing oe the last tew speed con-
have even proposed to loch their steer- t lYl has just t upbsecl one
IVY
was
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by
Queen
Maly
Rhodesia Reports
Good Strike of Tin
Near Salisbury
Joint Operations Developing
Tanganyika, Dutch and
Belgian Companies
FOREIGN NOTES
London,—Cables from Rhodesia re-
port a promising tin strike near Salis-
bury, and another is about to be ex-
plored at Shamve. Meanwhile, the
joint operations of the Tanganyika
Company and the Dutch and Belgian
companies in developing the tin Ida
of Uganda and that part of the Bel-
gian Congo adjacont is now actively
starting, It is on the Congo side that
the richest section of. the field seems
to lie,
It ie understood here that the nego-
tiations .foe acquiring the necessary
steamers for the' passenger, fruit and
cargo 'service between Jamaica and
London (to be put in operation by
the Jamaica Banana Producers' As-
sociabion) aro' now completed, artd
that these will start early in the New
Year. '
The Governor of. Uganda has just
announced that large areas of that
central African colony are now being
actively .prospected for oil, and there
On to ud• on
Govt. Slots
New Railway in Far North.
Grows Apace as Data
Shows
Up-to-date intarnlation on the pro-
gross made in the development of
Canada's 1 -Judson Bay Recite is eon,
twined in a report recently prepared
by the Natural iteeouroes Intelligence
Service of the 'Department of the Ire~
torior in co-operation with the Depart•
meat of Railways and Canals, The
objeotive set on the extension of the ,
Hudson Bay Railway' during 1928 was
,Mlle 460, tines bringing the steel with-
in 00 tulles of Churchill, Actually the
steel reached Mile ' 462 thus tyccom-
plieling all that wee expected and
leaving roily 48 miles to he pone
structed during 1929 to reach the tide -
Teeter terminus,
The mobilization of men and mate-
rials and eetalpment necessaOry to ae-
compItsle the work. planned for 1928
on the railway and at the port is
deait with in the report. At tho
peak of operations . during the seinsoa
it stated that 2200' neen' were ear
ployed on the railway.. At Churchill
the preliminary aporetions 011 Port de-
velopment employed S49 men during
the season and a feature of the opera-
tions was that the week was nratoriel-.
was every hope of these efforts •being ly expedited by the use of alrplanee
rewarded. The Anglo -Persian Oil. which operated between Churchill and
Company has the sole right to pros- the end of steel.
pest and develop oII products here. The report points out that the' visit
Tin is being'in increa$in to Churchill of Frederick Palmer,
e ]etch vent British Bngtneer, w
eminent quantities, he'remarked, and copper is
re -
shortly to be developed, Contrasting suited in the selection: of that port as
their cotton exports he mentioned tidewater terminus, was made In
that in 1926 'the export was 196,000
bales, valued at £4,686,000. In 1927,
181;000 bales were exported, and in
1928 up to the end of July, 127,000
Wes .had been exported. For the
August, 1923. In a little mere than a
year from the date of Mr. painter's
report, the railway lead been advanc-
ed 106emiles from the point'' at which'
the. Churchill extension leaves the
whole year the total cotton exports ;original•,rtlileto Nelson at Bette;. 356,
should be 136,000 bales, valued at
62,430;000.
The British Government has just
authorised the extension to British
In the operations of 1928 the equip-
ment used on the Hudson Bay -'Rail-
way woke included three steam
shovels, a track.layiitg •machiue ani
f the Princess Mary after nll, financial problems will have
p cant land sites which the Trench Gov- The. past summer was a very busy
• to be handled by financial miltds. the at Churchill m t_e cont t
Crisis is replace,l b litlona Bey Lico, Thtts a t ] p on its nationals. H, B. M. s Consular of to po
y i 's ou ht to be but the f ornament coustruc-
Conit in orocco tas e oe a
Iley Vienne, the Poreigu tlhtister, who+ ernmen oforocco . 'r" s roc ion
r r Ic-and file o£ oar neo le are able to t,ar dock and tLe tom -
to sea hots th ng g bI 1 th 1 uth- meneement a P
a,. s ectalt,ts Mill have to create the
a wi er reeietatandina of the prob• giant gun possesses great acivautagos 77gg p� i
torus rnr, ut tered, particularly those over the locked gear As a whole,
dli� �1��.�t�• ��� 1 th •er tlro ority tct melte British stil,lcets nn Nlor- tion• .Dating Che navigation season
acco obey such dahus. @
of w.n:l i •iatance, vacums, upward i 1 d 1 ith its as t con p
throe heel suction, and other un- t t behveen hY sea tom a R
tests. but :deo because of the groat frig gear. but Majojr Segrave's plan
improren e•me,+n high velocity cars and to aim bis car as one would aim a
bi
Ca net
it was not .the Minister of Fuance who
wss eliminated by a crisis of
methods by which the 'ought -to -be' son 16,00(1 tons of material sent In
r is cigar shaped a nuc wIssue
11; come into practice." The yn or an railway f • IT lif x and Sydneywere'
the ca n P To udget $� �f ' tete finances are clearly tied up withpunloaded at the new port and ileo dip-
long projecting tail, has an over-all War will, not be abolished until its
g CasaUlanca, the commercial ntetrop
alis ofk French Morocco, and Marra- per dred;es,- "Churoliitl No. 1'" and
keesh, the great southern capital, at "Churchill No. 2", built at Montreal I
the foot of' the Atlas Mountains, has especially for the work, appeared' ou -
recently been opened by the boy Sul- the scene as well as the hopper bargo
tan. In fact, he insisted on riding in "Chesterfield'. A second hopper
the first train. This Iength of line barge Was also towed teem Pont' Net-
is 160 miles, but, as the vicinity off son to Chm•Gcili and added . to the
the southern terminus has recently equipment. The arrival: of the dredges
been found to be so heavily mineral-, clears the way for an early start on
:Zed, it will probably become the first i extensive development this year and
section of an important system open-, large supplies of Materials are now on
ing up that part of the country. For' haud Lor prosecuting the work.
Up to March 31, 1923, there had
been expended on the work at
Churchill, 9307,960 and during the
present fiscal year to November 30
there had beeu,a further expenditure
of $2,501,000 raking a total of $3,458,-
950. The expenditure on the Hudson
Bay Railway up to March 31, 1928, its
given as $20,7S0,248. and since that
date up to November' 30, the report
states, all additional $2,606,000 had
been expended a total of $23,386,248.
The expenditures on the' railway- and ,
port during the 1928 season arena ex-
veedecl five million dollar's. The cost ,
of the railway, exclusive of ocean
terminals, when completed it is esti-
mated will be in the neighborhood of
rtue:etion of finances. In other worsts will
B
act
certaint°-•s ,f aeradpuamics which of- length of twenty-six feet. The wheel
ten deer:up phages in actual trials base is thirteen and one-third feet and
b-ltich have been unforeseen in then- the distance between the wheels is
Weal estimates. five feet. The minimum clearance is
Opposed to the Golden Arrow in its seven "fleece,
attempt to take the speed crown back As already mentioned, the ' eugine
to Great Brirain w11Ybe J. M. White's is of the same type as that iu the
mighty 36 -cylinder Triplex racing car. Blue Bird, Captain Malcolm Canna
, the question of foreign 1•elations. roots ate cut, Mr. Ford holds, and
Difficulty Said to- Indicate The disuti;,sal of tier• vttloni is no "one of its maim note is a false
Chan e in Tirana's Relat- i ordinary matter, since he lids long money system and the high priests
g been one of the strong men in Albania, thereof,"
tions With Italy✓loser to King Zogu than any other, and
Mr. Ford ehaxacter°izes farming as
Tirana, Albania,—The latest Cabinet his unwavering supporter from the "the first, important industry," and
crisis here indicates a change in the first. Vrioui has also been an enthus- envisages the passing of the small
herdic admirer of Italy and an ardent farmer• and the advent of "large cor
upholder of the Italian -Albanian potations, whose sole business it will
alliance. be to perform the operations of plow-
ing, planting, ' cultivating and her -
intimate relations between the Gov
La -t week the contest board of the bell's famous racer. The twelve cylin- erumesits of King Zogu and the Italian
American Automobile Association, ders are arranged in three rows of Premier, Benito Mussolini. The Cab
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meeting. in New York, decided that the four each and at angles in the crank Met resigned on Jan. 12 because of
plea -le -len as to reverse gearing would case to give au even thrust. The budget difl}oulties. The State platuly
not apply int tae forthcoming trials.' cylinders are five and one -eighth -inch needed more money. But all members
As Mr. White has only one gear ratio bore and five and one -halt -inch of the Cabinet were not able to agree
in the Triplex. that is, high gear, be stroke and, therefore, give much on methods of securing it. ?tench of away their tools i' that way, tho
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will not be obliged to install a reverse greater power than the Lockhart car the money used in the new Albanian ute the clock begins to strike, as if
gearing in hie big car, The Tripler is and probably greater power then kingdom comes from Italy. The Al- they tools no pleasure i' their work
nt
equipped with three Liberty airplane Major Seagrave's Mystery S. . banian national banks are in Italian and was afraid o' doing a stroke too.
much. I trate to see a man's acme
engines, one of which is in front of the. In Major Seagrave's "Golden Ar- hands, Most Albanian concessions go
driver's seat, the other two being set the
down as f he was shot before
8
row" we find a car of much- greater to Italians, tho clock's fairly struck,. just as if
side by side behind the driver's seat. cylinder capacity, coupled with a high Naturally it is to the interest of
During the last trials the Triplex he's never a bit o' pride and delight
missed fire on some of its cylinders
when at high speed, Mr. White, there-
fore, is planning to install one new
Liberty motor and perhaps three in
th
Pleasure in Work vesting.
"I can't abide to see men throw Mr. Ford sees a gap between the
people and political leaders, and he
holds that nowhere is it more riscern-
ible titan in the matter of liquor. ,
"The United States is dry, not only
legally, but by moral conviction," he
continues. "The American home is
dry,. and the American Nation gets
its tone from the home and not from
the wet propaganda." .
Mr. Ford pays a striking tribute
to machinery, which "is accomplish-
ing in the world what han has failed
want t0 become too (deeply involved, to do by preaching, propaganda or the
e Triplex. because among the Albanian peopleSuccess. Ideals written word."
The Triplex, therefore, will presum- fully .is unpopular, Tite Albanians re- Dipping briefly into foreign affairs,
ably go int; the race with a higher Wby this longing, thus forever sigh -
Mr. 14Ir Ford asserts that "both Russia's
900 horsepower. So the power of the sent Italian encroachment. • So the ing '•
potential speed than ever, Golden Arrow is presumably greater Government wants and retains as and China's problems are fundame ..
leer the far-off, unattained and dim' 11 d t 1 and will be solved by
High Powered Rival than that of any other racing car in
turn, and many developments equal or Italy to keep Albania. going, so me -
Perhaps exceeding that of the Lock- doubtedly the Government of Tirana
hart car, but, as a while, on a much could get more money from home,
larger and heavier scale. • But the Albanian Government does not
Also the rated horsepower is in ex-
cess of the rated power of the Blue
Bird which, ohwever, developed about
in 's work. The very grindstone 11
go on turning a }lit after you loose
it,"—George Eliot, in "Adam Bede."
the nlomeift, its usefulness lies in
handling produce and accommodating
tourists. Marrakeesh, perhaps, more
nearly resembles the Bagdad of the.
Caliph Hamlin al Roschid than any
other city on earth, and is an increas-
ing•'lure for. tourists. When the sec-
tion of railway on the northern sys-
tem between Fez and Oudja is com-
pleted, it will be possible to travel
by ' train from Marrakeesh to Tunis,
'without changing, a distande of 1,660
miles.
Railway Branch Line
Programs
Saskatoon Star -Phoenix (Lib.) :
much independence as possible. There -
While the beautiful, all around,thee+ta y tit us ria
fore, some members hesitated to ac the application o£ ...right methods There is every indication that the $28,600;000.
lying, of thinking,practically applied." heads of the two companies have not The development of the ocean ter•
regarding
the conditions Italy laid down fl its low, perpetual hymn' p as yet been able to get together on
regarding forthcoming loans 00 act-
Tenees, and the Government resigned.
However, in the cabinet appointed
three days later every minister re-
ceived his old post back, except Elian
offers
Major Seagrave's car will have a the extreme velocity class except the
high engem turnover, attaining about I Triplex. That enormous power plant
900 hor.epower at 3.00 revolutions of on wheels was equipped with three
the engine per minute, This is not I Liberty airplane engines, one in front
as past as Frank Lockhart's car, which
wee driven by an adapted Miller en-
gine, which had sixteen cylinders in
ttvo bartkc of eight, at fifteen degrees
off vertlet°, set in the same crank
case and was able to turn over from
5,200, and perhaps up to 7,800 revolu-
tions per minute, but much faster than
,T. 1+1. White's three -engined Triplex,
which won the world's record, with
of the driver's seat and two, side by
side, behind. Bach of these engines
had a rated power of 450 horsepower.
The Triplex weighs 8,000 pounds;
The Mystery S weighed 0,000 pounds.
The Golden Arrow weighs about 5,000
Pounds, but she is very carefully de-
signed and calculated to keep on the
ground and she has a tremendous re-
serve of power in, relation to her
Ray Ke<ch driving. For the Tripiexlweigltt. Major Seagrave is one of the
reached Its highest speed at 2,300 re world's most skillful and experienced
voltaiats per minute when, barring 1 drivers. It is the car that best hangs
slippage, it WAS estimated to have a! to the ground that stands the best
potential :peed, though on a prelimin-1 chance of winning, The new car has
dry trial Iieeclt's tachometer showed' been so carefully tested in wind tun -
between 2,200 and 2,300 revolutions,' nets, and has been constructed with
such "meticulous care; that hope is
high, and not without reason, that the
gallant British sportsman will :tang
up a new world's record
and let •-t',materl his speed for post of
a mile at above 240 miles an hour.
Atter reaching 2,300 revolutions per
minute the Triplex would begin to
lose power, which shows the advan-
tage of the small eylindered faster
revolving engine, which continues to
increase in power, to "wind up" as
the saying goes.
Opposition to Wind
Major Seagrave's new cat' will pre-
sent an opposition to the wind of but
twelve square feet, equal to a frontal
area of three by four feat being shoved
through the air at terrific speed. In
fact. the theoretical speed of the new
sur. based on the engine speed, Is
given at 246 miles per hour. The en-
gine -is a private cylinder Napier, No
doubt the new car possesses the same
fine qualities as Captain , Malcolm
Campbell's Blue Bird, which was 'fitted
with a Napier Lion engine, and kept
"winding up" and increasing in speed,
always, 'indeed. seeming to have a
• little extra in reserve,
Coupled with this great reserve of
•power, which will provide cbntlnued
sidoeleraticn until the maximum is
reached„ Is tete deeiga' of the Goidex
,Arrow to encounter d relatively low
Wound :resistance, and the Past t4E t1
pig ,.ear weighs two and orkhalt to
awlzs 2984 Clean OFpr 19.04 higl!, *i,4ll ik
Reaching Your Goal
Favored by Fate? Smiled on by
Chance?
Is that what you think of the win-
ning man? -
Then atop, new friend, another glance
And you'll sense the tare he ran.
Oh, men by ]him, as Meet by yott,
And all of then striviug to win the
race,
P.ut he, among the very few,
Found and stuck to hie pace.
Work, hard work, through the long,
bard hours;
Olt, dreaming and planning for more
work, too;
Plodding along through the hardest
showers--•
Ie such manner fortune grew;
There's work ter all, for you—for
upniinals will account for an expenditure
rag t rest upa bit about the question of branch line construe- of manyrniilions more and other work'
notfriends with gifts; Science mgt tion, but. it may be hoped that before in the development of Canada's north"- •
Purchase
me-•
And the chance to make, within
each soul,
Ourselves, our slaves, ah --then you'll
seg pki-joriug behind a horse is one
tl'he-peekilg oE—'vette g@91, Alps, unci it IS a great sport, Near
By Katharine di[aviland 7}ayler, hind motor 0025,
when thou ceasest to give, slide will
cease to love.—Fuller.
the origin of niers and determine wh
his finish is to be.
A Sport Fast Growing in Popularity
q�
fer�.v 3. sa>1i,19=602.M.In IS20112-232113.41.73=Iu
at the Railway Committee of the House
of Commons, which will have the final
— say, gets down to busineas,.comprom-
iees win be suggeteed which will sat-
isfy not only the railway heads, bat,
more important still, the people who
will be affected by the lines in ques-
tion, t
The Tariff Threat
Winnipeg Tribune (Ind. Cons.) :
I Congress is now preparing to increase
the United States tariff protection
-' I with particular relation to agricultural
products. Actually, though not in
form, the purpose is to shut out more
of the farm products from competition
' with the products of the American
farmers Whatever effect these mea -
SKIJORING iN THE ALPS •
of the popular- wit tet' .pastimes or. those who take a whiter holiday in tete
Toronto ;;it N,} itr 1"(inge Street It 15 not unusual to see skl-iers towing he -
ern transportation route includes the
establishment of modern aids to nevi
gtation•in Hudson Bay and Strait. The
aerial expedition establlsh,ed by tho
Department of Marine attd Fisheries
at three points on Hudson Strait in
1927continued its reconnaissance UM -
111 late in 1928 and much metal Me
formation beating on navigation was
secured. As a result strategic loose
•tions for aids to navigation are being
selected and these will include direcr
tion-iiuding devices which will be of
invaluable assistance to navigators in
those northern waters.
The report on "Progress in Develop-
ment of Canada's Hudson Bay. Route"
reviews the listory of the <develop-
ment of the Hudson Bay' transports
includes a considers•
sures have upon our export trade will tion scheme and
•
be felt directly by the .farmers and tion of its economic aspects and of
the mileages involved in the new rail •
and water route from various centres
in Western Canada to Liverpool. The
report in mimeographed form is avail-
able on appeleation to the Director,
Natural Resources Intelligence Ser-
vice, Department of the Interior, Ot-
tawa.
'Good Seed
Indirectly by ,every business interest
in the Dominion.
Gypsum in Nova Scotia
Gypsutn was mined in Nova Scotia
as early as 1829, hut it is in recent
Years that the industry has had its
moat remarkable expansion. The pres-
ent output of over 500,000 tons an-
aually is more than three time that of- the good need for the coming .-
all the rent of Canada.
An Economist
The man who explores the depths of
natural science and revealed truth,
bringing forth that which advances
the prosperity of his epodes, and mak-
ing the world tate richer that he has
been born into it, is the true econo'
mist—Stephen Bourne, Bourne, if'..S.S,
tti--
Self-Government
The neeeseity for external goTQrq•
ment:to man is In inverse ratio tq the
ylgor of hip 5e1t1-. over.nmeat• o
the,•last is, nemple e, the firs%.atl Tp st
ptaated, 91'ettoe, tate more !liters.
more liberty.
hour,
That all the days' may be calm and
free;
rand so ye may kind the immortal
flower •
In the golden sheaves of eternity,
—Anonymous.
Reality
One of the first scientists of the age/
Ws late Benfamtn' Pierce, said; "Is
t,11t 4tiagniligent dtspiay of ideality a
�{ as elt ±9on,e oS-#d it a define ti@,pf•
iehavens find tho oat t t
¢x�o:Ae a eRao,..04e»a�.
Ii1 * ,TOY ' ' Oboe ,1 4,000 mQa11C
mortar