In 1972, Lelek introduced the notion of Class (W) in his seminar at the University of Houston [see below for definitions of concepts mentioned here]. Since then there has been much interest in classifying and characterizing continua in Class (W). For example, Cook has a result [5, Theorem 4] which implies that any hereditarily indecomposible continuum is in Class (W) Read [21, Theorem 4] showed that all chainable continua are in Class (W), and Feuerbacher proved the following result:

(1.1) THEOREM [7, Theorem 7]. A non-chainable circle-like continuum is in Class (W) if and only if it is not weakly chainable

In [14, 4.2 and section 6], a covering property (denoted here and in [18] by CP) was defined and studied primarily for the purpose of proving that indecomposability is a Whitney property for the class of chainable continua [14, 4.3].

It is well known that a translation plane can be represented in a vector space over a field F where F is a subfield of the kernel of a quasifield which coordinatizes the plane [1; 2; 4, p.220; 10]. If II is a finite translation plane of order qr (q = pn, p any prime), then II may be represented in V2r(q), the vector space of dimension 2r over GF(q), as follows:

(i) The points of II are the vectors in V = V2r(q)

(ii) The lines of II are

(a) A set of qr + 1 mutually disjoint r-dimensional subspaces of V.

(b) All translates of in V.

(iii) Incidence is inclusion.