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AIR SERVICE AT EPSOM ON DERBY DAY Tiiis is how the congested roads to Epsom Downs were regulated and the news spread by the English air forces when the Derby was run there June 1 1The The airship R33 which the Air Military placed at the disposal of the Scotland Yard authorities to give assistance to the police in the control of this traf ¬ fic had on board Major Fox of the Automobile Association the traffic expert selected by the as ¬ sociation at tlie request of Scotland Yard to act as first aerial organizer of road traffic trafficAny Any congestion or hitch in the traffic which he observed was communicated either by wireless teleg ¬ raphy or radio telephony to the stsitlon which had been temporarily erected by the Marconi Company in a motor car beside the grandstand at Epsom EpsomThree Three representatives of Scotland Yard issued by messages and telephones to various stations such in ¬ structions as were necessary to remove the con ¬ gestion and speed up the traffic trafficIt It was arranged so tjiat the Marconi portable sta ¬ tion near the winning post communicated the result of the Derby to tin R33 by wireless telephony The R33 repeated the message by telegraph and tliu Air Military station broadcasted the news by telegraphy These messages were picked up by wireless telegraphists on ships in the vicinity of the countiy and also at laud stations in northern Francu and Belgium BelgiumTJie TJie pojjce unship dW R9t approach wtbta ft threemile radius of the center of the course and did not fly below 1000 feet so that the horses were not startled by the noise of the engines or by shadows and thu refluutiou of lijjht from the
