The Junior School

The start of the Christmas Term is always rather an upheaval, for there are over fifty new boys to learn our ways and, although the majority settle down quickly to the life of their new school, there are always one or two who find it difficult to adjust themselves to somewhat unfamiliar conditions. The whole social structure alters too, for last year's seniors may become monitors, and those who for years have been smaller fry find themselves seniors with a more important role to play. The fact that we did not have to change the form of a single boy after the first order shows that we were rather more fortunate in placing boys than is generally the case. We did, in fact, get off to a cracking start, and the very fine weather played no small part in our success. One dark shadow, however, was cast by the death of Ian Bytheway, an Old Olavite of whom we were proud, and we should like to record our heartfelt sympathy to his family on their bereavement.

The only main change in the landscape has been the building of an excellent new Scouts Room, which should help Scouting and Cubbing very considerably. We had, indeed, a most successful "camp fire" at the end of term which would have been impossible to run without a suitable room. At the start of the term, some of our P.T. periods had to be given in the open, and it is indeed fortunate that these forms may seek sanctuary in the Scout Room during bad weather. j1 have been given a new set of desks, of which they are still justly proud. It is clear that there are a few boys in the School who have too little respect for School property, and there have been cases of needless damage through sheer carelessness and ragging. There is, however, a steady improvement in this respect and, though we have some of us a long way to go, we are tidier and less rowdy than we were.

This term has seen the foundation of an Archaeological Society, as previously foreshadowed. It has been started on a businesslike footing, with J. R. Shannon as Secretary and M. R. Wroe as Treasurer. The only meeting so far has been a lecture on Hadrian's Wall given by Mr. Cooper. The lecturer had some difficulty in delivering his oration, as he himself walked the Wall from West to East with the wind at his back, whilst most mistakenly all the guide books (and the Romans themselves) started on the East coast and worked to the West. It is hoped to have three meetings each term, one of them being a visit to a local place of interest.

Work has progressed steadily, and the ultimate destination of the Work Shield was always in doubt. By doing very well in the exams., Alcuin managed to secure a convincing lead for the term, but all four houses are so close that anything may happen.

It has been decided that in future marks will not be given for Art, Music and Divinity, which may cause a certain reversal of current form. It will, however, tend to give a rather truer indication of academic worth, and there would be little point in having marks at all if they did not show this in a comprehensible form. Slightly less attention, however, should be paid to the actual position, and more importance should be attached to the percentage. Boys are grouped in six sections, ranging from A which is over 85% to F which is under 50%. A boy with a C who is 20th is obviously doing as well as his companion in another form who is 1st but can only achieve a D. There is no particular reason why the bottom boy of a form should not have reasonable marks.

After last year's poor season, our rugger team started rather with the idea that they were going to lose matches, an idea which bore disastrous fruit in the first match against Ampleforth. Against Pocklington, however, we showed our true worth and, although this match was our one success, we by no means disgraced ourselves thereafter. Our Middle XV was also heavily defeated, but it was encouraging to note that our team improved considerably between being hopelessly defeated by Gilling at home and putting up a determined fight for it at Gilling. It must be realised that the only means of winning matches is to go on to the field feeling thoroughly aggressive and determined to fight on to the bitter end. We have two home matches next term, against St. Martin's and against Drax, both of which can be won. Jesper has good material to lead, and we look forward to avenging former defeats.

The House matches have been held over until next term, and is to be hoped that the weather will enable us to complete a fu programme.

On 10th October we had our Harvest Thanksgiving and, as AI Saints' Day was devoted to a whole holiday, we had a special servi on All Souls' Day. We joined with St. Peter's for the Remembranc Day Service, the only occasion during the school year when both schools attend Chapel together. Our Carol Service, this time on the last Monday, was a notable success. Both the lesson reading and the singing were outstanding, and the fact that this year our cassocks were all the same colour gave an added dignity. We are greatly indebted to St. Helen's Church for lending us their robes.

Our annual P.T. display was run on the old familiar lines. There was a distinct feeling at one time that perhaps too much time and effort were spent on this particular event, to the detriment of both work and games, and that the P.T. display had outlived its usefulness. After the display, for which Mr. Power had devised an even more varied and interesting programme than usual, we felt that after all it was worth it. At this display, every boy in the School has a real feeling that he is playing his part, and we think that this has great value in making the new boy feel that he is doing something vital in the life of the School.

On 3rd October Mr. H. Evetts gave us a talk on Weasels, Stoats and Otters. It was a most interesting and instructive lecture and, without the aid of film or slides, he kept our whole attention. An unprecedented array of questions at the end showed that he had certainly succeeded in stirring up our interest, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Evetts will visit us again in the near future, giving us another of his talks on British wild life.

To complete the picture of the term, we may say something of the general health of the School. On the whole, it has been good, but there have been fairly constant visitors to the sanatorium, and a number of boys were away for long periods. For those who like statistics, the maximum number of boys away from School on any one day was seventeen, and one hundred and seven boys out of our record total of 236 missed at least a fraction of their school work.

SALVETE (September, 1956)

AINSTY P. N. Abel (JiiiB), P. N. Banks (Ji), J. A. F. Bilsborough (HM, P. G. Brindle (JivA), R. C. Dixon (Ji), D. J. Emsley (Ji), M. E. Gough (Ji), J. P.

Hugill (Ji), P. S. Oglesby (Ji), M. E. Raine (JivA), P. L. D. Rank (Ji),

E. P. Raynes (JivA), C. Ryan (JiiA), R. G. Steel (JiiA), R. J. Watts (Ji) and J. C. H. Wright (JiiB). ALCUIN J. R. Dalkin (JiiiB), M. E. Gough (L.) (Ji), R. H. Grayson (JiiiA), J. C. Key (L.) (JiiB), M. J. Oxley .(L.) (JiiA), A. W. H. Powell (L.) i(Ji), P. R.

Scholefield (L.) (JiiB), P. F. A. Shearsmith (L.) (JiiB), N. Shipley (L.) (Ji),

A. G. Slater (D.B.) (L.) i(JiiB), P. F. Sutton (L.) (JiiB), R. C. Sutton (JivC), M. J. Thompson (L.) (Ji), J. J. Vooght (L.) (JiiB), T. A. Wilson (L.) (JiiB) and S. M. Wright (L.) (Ji). ELMET R. M. Anderson (Ji), G. A. Barber (Ji), A. B. Best (JiiA), J. D. Cartwright (JiiB), G. H. C. Elliot (Ji), P. E. Haxby (JivA), B. L. Holmes (JiiA),

H. A. King (JiiiA), S. G. Lancaster (Ji), N. C. P. Marsden (Ji), W. N.

Marshall (Ji), D. Outhwaite (JivA), J. S. Scott (JivA), R. A. C. Seymour (JiiiB), J. H. Reiss .(Ji) and D. G. Woolley after an absence of four terms. WENTWORTH C. S. Dew (Ji), N. E. Furey (Ji), A. M. Hedley (JiiA), J. P. Lovell (D.) (Ji),

M. G. Mallinson (Ji), D. J. Mutch (JiiA), N. F. Perry (JiiiB), R. J. D.

Wilson (JiiiA) and J. G. Wood (JiiiB).

JUNIOR SCHOOL GAMES

We have had a very full programme of games this season as we have been able to turn out every Tuesday and Thursday of the term excepting the week the P.T. Display was held and the last Thursday. There have been five games of Rugger (Seniors and Middles) and three of Soccer (Juniors).

In spite of the practice, one match was won against Pocklington Grammar School (Under 13 XV) and the remaining five games were 59

lost. Two against Ampleforth and one against St. Martin's (Nawton), Drax, and Pocklington away.

The following represented the School XV :—Hutchinson, S. R., Holgate, G. M., Sessions, W. M., Tomlinson, C. I. D., Abel, M. A., Hackney, J. D. M., Yeomans, J. F., Daniel, R. B., Middleton, R. T., Adcock, R. J., Hart, G. A., Raley, M., Jesper, M. C. M. (Capt.), Bruce, R. L., Kettlewell, J. J.—also played : Wood, R. A., and Brown, J.

Of the above, Jesper, M. C. M., Hutchinson, S. R., and Bruce, R. L., were awarded their School colours.

The "House" matches, Senior, Middle and Junior, will be played off in the Easter Term.

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Racing and Turbospeed tyres

OVER the past five years Avon has developed, in conjunction with Aston Martin, racing tyres which have made a great contribution to the outstanding performance of the D.B.R.1 and D.B.R.2 cars. From these racing tyres a range of road tyres for high-performance cars has been developed which has been named the Turbospeed, symbolic of modern developments in this field.

In 1957 the racing public became more than ever aware of the requirements of racing tyres, for at least one race was lost by the inability of the tyres to withstand the power output of the car. Thus the first requirement of the racing tyre and most important from the point of view of safety is that it should never lose its tread when subjected to the highest speeds. When a tyre is run at a speed in excess of a certain critical velocity which is a characteristic of the particular tyre and its inflation pressure, a wave will be formed in the tread immediately where it leaves the road surface. This wave indicates that the tyre is consuming a

considerable amount of power which is converted into heat in the tyre and leads eventually to a breakdown in adhesion between the tread and casing. It is thus essential that the critical velocity should be sufficiently high so that maximum speed of the car cannot substantially exceed it. A most important requirement, particularly for short-circuit races, and probably the most difficult to perfect, is to have the highest ultimate cornering adhesion coupled with good handling characteristics so that this adhesion can be used. To have an adequate resistance to wear is an obvious essential requirement and finally the car designer needs to limit the size and weight of the tyres. Although these properties require conflicting features in the tyre it is not too difficult to settle on a reasonable compromise.

The Avon racing tyre has a casing composed of 6 plies of cord which have the advantages of tremendous strength and lightness. The rubber sidewalls are no thicker than required to cover the cord. The casing has a squat shape, i.e., the tyre has a wide section compared to its height, and the cords cross over the crown of the tyre at an angle of 25°-30° to the circumference. These features have been proved by theory and experiment to be vitally necessary for a high critical wave velocity and for maximum cornering stability.

The tread pattern consists of a mixture of a broad based rib with interconnected triangular studs which give stability in all directions and allow adequate drainage on wet tracks. The contour of the tread is almost flat to place the maximum area of rubber on the road surface. The tread compound is most important and the one used was arrived at after many hours'

testing on skid circles and on the Silverstone race track. At one stage in a lap time of about two minutes an improvement of four seconds was made merely by a change of tread compound. The final compound has the best wearing properties compatible with the needs of ultimate adhesion.

That the design has fulfilled the requirements is best borne out by the 1957 wins at the gruelling Nurburgring 1,000 km. where, due to the good wearing properties of the tyres, only one change of rears was made; at Spa where the tyres gave the Aston Martin a trouble-free run at lap speeds up to 125 m.p.h. and at Silverstone where in the sports car race the winner demonstrated his confidence in the road-holding of the tyres, achieving the highest race average speed for a sports car race in Britain.

Section of AVON Turbospeed Road Tyre Section of AVON Racing Tyre

The new Turbospeed tyre was designed taking the racing tyre as a starting point and modifying the design to meet the additional requirements of normal road use. A minor relaxation can be made in high-speed performance as the maximum sustained speeds on roads are normally lower than on the track. This enables a greater weight of tread to be used to improve mileage. The road tyre has to cope with a wider variety of road surfaces (race tracks rarely have very smooth surfaces which are so slippery in the wet) and must be quieter in running. To meet these two needs a well-slotted continuous rib design was evolved which preserves the basic pattern and flat tread contour of the racing tyre. When the tyre is under load, the ribs touch and support each other at intervals so improving the stability of the tread and damping out excessive squeal noise. The length of the features in the tread pattern is varied round the circumference of the tyre in accordance with the principles of frequency modulation in order to break up into a less recognisable noise any single whine note due to the regular impact of the pattern.

The tread rubber is the same compound as that developed for the racing tyres. The casing is composed of high-strength cords which have excellent low growth properties and high resistance to fatigue. Due to the need for a compromise between comfort and high performance the cord crown angle is slightly higher at 32°-35°, i.e., halfway between racing tyres and normal road tyres.

As success in racing leads to benefits in production components, the Avon Turbospeed tyre with its racing ancestry is a valuable contribution to better road holding and greater safety in highperformance cars.

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