British-built airliners of the Fifties and Sixties could be quirky at times. With the Handley Page Herald, for example, if you became tired of sitting at the end of the runway waiting for the engine oil to reach working temperature, you could turn on the landing lights and―hey presto!―the gauges would jump five degrees. That idiosyncrasy may have been confined to one particular aircraft, so how about the Herald's fuel system? Talk about complex. And the gauges were so small you needed a magnifying glass to read them. If you could find the room, that is, for the cockpit was so cramped it hardly justified being called a flight 'deck'. They used to say that Sir Frederick Handley Page, the firm's autocratic founder, did not care if pilots had to fly standing up as long as the aircraft flew well. Which the Herald certainly did.
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机译：英国制造的五十年代和六十年代的客机有时可能很古怪。以《 Handley Page先驱报》为例，如果您厌倦了坐在跑道尽头等待机油达到工作温度，则可以打开着陆灯，“嘿！”！仪表会跳五度。这种特殊性可能只限于一架特定的飞机，那么《先驱报》的燃油系统又如何呢？谈复杂。仪表是如此之小，您需要一个放大镜才能读取它们。如果您能找到房间，那就是因为座舱太狭窄了，几乎没有理由称其为“驾驶舱”。他们曾经说过，该公司的专制创始人弗雷德里克·汉德利·佩奇爵士（Sir Frederick Handley Page）并不关心只要飞机飞行良好，飞行员是否必须站起来飞行。 《先驱报》当然做到了。
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