Airships at the Show.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 6, 1 April 1907, Page 228

Airships at the Show.

The offer of Lord Northchffe of to be given as prizes for working models of aeroplanes, to be exhibited at the Agricultural Hall Motor Car Show, next Spring will serve to incite inventors even more than the prize previously offered by the newspaper with which he is associated The leading organisations in the Press are already discussing the excellent conditions which will be afforded for the display of improvements in aeronautics, and coupled with the revival of public interest m the subject there is no doubt that the Aero Club display at the next Motor Car Exhibition will be of considerable importance As we mentioned last week, the space devoted to this section of the Exhibition will be much greater than heretofore, and this has been •secured without any lessening of that taken up by motor cars and their accessories. ****** M Bellamy who will be remembered as the constructor of the 200 h p petrol car for Miss Hockenhall arrived in London m January last with an aeroplane with which he has actually flown o-'er a lake on the Continent He betook himself with bis machine straightway to the grounds of the Brooklapds Automobile Racing Club, atWeybndge, wheie "Suitable accommodation was provided for him, and where he at once commenced to carry out certain experiments It is understood that, although M. Bellamy's machine will make progress through the air when started from a Plight eminence he desires to perfect its lifting powers before competing for the various prizes offered We (Autocar), have been c hnwn a photograph purporting to be a snapshot of M Bellamy's aeroplane in full flight over a lake ****** Although the manufacture of aeroplanes has not vet developed into a staple industry of this or any other country, there are signs of its coming, as shown' by the following advertisment which appeared in some of the motor papers " Aeroplane, wanted quotation drawings and details supplied, opportunjty to embark on industry ,"