SEARCH FOR SMITH

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 123, 21 November 1932, Page 9

SEARCH FOR SMITH

(Received 21st November, 9 a.m.)"

PARIS, 20th November. 'The Ministry of the Colonies has ordered the Governments of French equatorial Africa to search for the missing aviator, Victor Smith, who was not re? ported after leaving .Duala for Niamejn on a Cape-Croydon flight last week. -

EXPERIMENTAL TANK

SHIPBUILDING .--'RESEARCH

TESTING HULL SHAPES

(British Official Wireless.)

:RUGBY,I9th November. ■■" Mr. Stanley. Baldwin opened a. new* experimental tank: at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington^built at a cost of £45,000 to provide addi.tional facilities for shipbuilding "research... It is 678 feet longhand 2ff feet wide and is equipped with apparari tvs for" wave making and • for' Simulat» ing rough water so that the weather; conditions of almost"1 any ocean can-be" reproduced.. -; ■■'■•'■-

The possibility of solving" practical problems of. design.by experiments on: models' was first shown, by William: Froude in 1870, and the largest shipbuilding firms thereafter privately; erected tanks/but in 1911- a large tank was built at Teddington for the uset of the British industry as a, whole, A propeller tunnel for investigation; of propeller problems was added later, and with the new tonic now installed: the equipment at" Teddington i» more> complete than anywhere else -4n the world.

Experiments in the tanks are carried! out with was models, and immense; savings, particularly ■'in"fuel consumjn tion, have been effected by .modifica-* tions in design suggested t>y thesai tests. -■■•■.- . •.■■■■-.•