With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.: (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)Kipling, Rudyard
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With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D.: (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)
Kipling, Rudyard
Aeronautics -- Fiction; Science fiction
I AM NOT CONCERNED WITH YOUR 'PLANE AFTER IT LEAVES MY GUIDES, BUT _TILL
THEN_ I HOLD MYSELF PERSONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR LIFE, SAFETY, AND
COMFORT. MY HYDRAULIC BUFFER-STOP _CANNOT_ RELEASE TILL THE MOTORS ARE
WORKING UP TO BEARING SPEED, THUS SECURING A SAFE AND GRACEFUL FLIGHT
WITHOUT PITCHING.
Remember our motto, "_Upward and Outward_," and do not trust yourself to
so-called "rigid" guide bars
J. D. ARDAGH, BELFAST AND TURIN
ACCESSORIES AND SPARES
CHRISTIAN WRIGHT & OLDIS
ESTABLISHED 1924
Accessories and Spares
Hooded Binnacles with dip-dials automatically recording change of level
(illuminated face).
All heights from 50 to 15,000 feet L2 10 0
With Aerial Board of Control certificate L3 11 0
Foot and Hand Foghorns; Sirens toned to any club note;
with air-chest belt-driven from motor L6 8 0
Wireless installations syntonised to A. B. C.
requirements, in neat mahogany case, hundred mile range L3 3 0
Grapnels, mushroom anchors, pithing-irons, winches, hawsers, snaps,
shackles and mooring ropes, for lawn, city, and public installations.
Detachable under-cars, aluminum or stamped steel.
Keeled under-cars for planes: single-action detaching-gear, turning car
into boat with one motion of the wrist. Invaluable for sea trips.
Head, side, and riding lights (by size) Nos. 00 to 20 A. B. C. Standard.
Rockets and fog-bombs in colours and tones of the principal clubs
(boxed).
A selection of twenty L2 17 6
International night-signals (boxed) L1 11 6
Spare generators guaranteed to lifting power marked on cover (prices
according to power).
Wind-noses for dirigibles--Pegamoid, cane-stiffened, lacquered cane or
aluminum and flux for winter work.
Smoke-ring cannon for hail storms, swivel mounted, bow or stern.
Propeller blades: metal, tungsten backed; papier-mache; wire stiffened;
ribbed Xylonite (Nickson's patent); all razor-edged (price by pitch and
diameter).
Compressed steel bow-screws for winter work.
Fused Ruby or Commercial Mineral Co. bearings and collars. Agate-mounted
thrust-blocks up to 4 inch.
Magniac's bow-rudders--(Lavalle's patent grooving).
Wove steel beltings for outboard motors (non-magnetic).
Radium batteries, all powers to 150 h. p. (in pairs).
Helium batteries, all powers to 300 h. p. (tandem).
Stun'sle brakes worked from upper or lower platform.
Direct plunge-brakes worked from lower platform only, loaded silk or
fibre, wind-tight.
_Catalogues free throughout the Planet_
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Transcriber's note
The following changes have been made to the text:
Page 30: "passenger's faces" changed to "passengers' faces".
Page 41: "Instead of shuting" changed to "Instead of shutting".
Page 68: "orgie" changed to "orgy".
Page 71: "earth,and water" changed to "earth, and water".
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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