LEARN WITH A LAUGH AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION S eLkLLEST. of British birds,
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but' loud voiced and full of song, is the wren. Wren is therefore an appropriate pen. namefor the author of " Oddentification," which is a booklet about aeroplane identification and in which Wren sings many songs-64, to be exact.
Each is about a specific machine, and is full of w.it and humour. All are illustrated by clever drawings (alsoby the author) that are virtually caricatures and that bring out, in excellent manner, the features of the respective types, by which they may be distinguished.
Pictures and poems, in every case. are supplemented by reproductions of actual photographs and brief descriptions, and the last are as snappy as 'the rhymes.
One could hardly devise a better
means for learning how to identify aircraft—British, American, Russian, Italian and German. A Cambridge professor has described the booklet as " a pleasing jeu d'esprit." . All the drawings and rhymes have previously appeared in " The Aeroplane." The booklet costs 2s. and is published by Temple Press Ltd.
OBITUARY .
• The death is announced of CAPTAIN P. A. STONE, a director of the Cathedral Garage, Ltd., of Bristol. He was 58 year's of age and pad been associated with the company since its inception. He was a Captain in the R.A.S.C. in the 1914-18 war and was awarded the O.B.E.
The death has taken plaie at' Wallsend. Northumberland, of MR. A. A. HOLLINGS, a local bus proprietor. He was 59 years old and for the past year was chairman of the north-eastern counties of the Motor Agents Associa
tion. He had also served on the committee and passenger board of Associated Road Operators.
A life-time's work in road transport has been ended by the death, in tragic circumstances, of Me. EDGAR BRAGG, proprietor of Bragg's Rapid Transport Service, of Dewsbury.. He was 54 years of age, was a member • of the C.M.U.A:, the Heavy Woollen District Transport Association, and the Federation of Yorkshire Road Transport Employers.
We regret to learn of the death of MR. W. G. BoND, who was resident director of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., and of the Shropshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire Electric Power Co. He Was 79 years of age. In 1899 he joined the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., with which he remained connected for the rest of his life. For many years he was a member of the Joint Industrial Council for the Tramway Industry.