MILITARY AIRSHIPS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 656, 5 November 1909, Page 7

MILITARY AIRSHIPS.

THE CLEMENT-BATARD. ; % NIGHT ATTAcks ON : FORTREBSEJU :! QEBMAN BXPEEBIENTa. .V'."''\ (By Telesrapli-Press ABiodatlon-OopTrlthU ■•■', 1 Berlin,, Novembor Si- ; German balloons ate operating-nightly ia i ' the Ehine Valley. Three succossfuny attafcked Tj Ehronbreitstoin (a firet-class fortoess on tho oi Rhine) and afterwards: roturned in safety" to n Celogne. . " : ";':, ;, . : ■ . ~' ~ ■,' ..London, Norember S. cj The proposed voyage from Paris to England a of the Clement-Bayard military airship (over ; . whieh option of purohsen has been securedyon behalf: of Brttate). has; b«*n . . in-; .^ definitely. ' ' .... ■'. ~,.■: n 1 The.garage nt Wormwood Scnrbs (built.spect '? ally for the Cleaentßaydrd but of money pro- 5 Tided by the'"Daily Mail") has beon'com- I phted. ■■■. .•■;• ■■;.. •..., •, ... ■•' ......,, . .J ; "MANY NEW DEVICES." « :, Whon fte airship Clement-Bayard 11,'irhich ;? is to sail from Paris to London, is com- , Pleted, it will, in the opinion of M. Sabattier, f the chief engineer in charge of its construe- „ uon, be the most sciontific aerial vessel ever c built. Never before (says a Paris correspondent) has an. airship contained so many new | devices.. Every particle- of thft Clement-Bayard * is being made at the Clement Works at Loval- t lois. . ,-' . ..■'. ■„■ '..''■•' ■' '■.. ; ."' .';•■• " "Some idea of the close application and ar- • duous labour, which the' construction of 'tho- i Clement-Bayard II has necessitated, may' bo gathered from the fact that work en tho ves- J sel has boon proceeding without a break since April 15, whon tbo first steel.tubes were cast i for the car. So absorbing in the interest that mechanics have acquired in ! the ship that even the chance of more remunerative work { in other, parts of the groat Clement factory has btien refused by every ui'on ; ,engaged' : on the vessel. . ; VNo. 2 seems to. have an absolute fasoination for bnr'best mcn.'said ono of-the : chief officials to-day, ' and Wβ can't got thorn ' to work on any, other job.' j ■ "It is-estimated that "the totkl cost of the airship Mil be' nearly X 24.000; the highest ' sum , over' spent on a French aerial' vessel; - It has been decided'to. discard the motors t originallyi made for the airship in favour of two lighter motors of; the samo type as those 1 used last year in tho Clomont-Bayiird'motor- j cars in the Dieppe Circuit. These motors'will give 130-h.p. each. Experiments showed that the consumption of petrol in the higher'pd'per motors would have been'so.-groat that it would have been necessary to c6m« down to replen- ■■ ish' Etipplies qu the .journey ibetiTeen Paris ,end ', London. It is.M..Clements determination to ' make .'the journey: without a break;" ■ '..',-•:■'•-■■■■- '