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Motor Car Mascots A. E. LEJEUNE
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SHIPPING.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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Tas-chip Gata, Mina,
Scandinavian countries, and pointed being thoroughls, united with the out that the country · found | original metal of the casting. „The Itself In the possesioa of a current for welding was suppiled by | large Government-owned feet, almost | the Charing Cross Company, so that wholly steam-driven, which private ) the only equipotent which had to be owners were reluctant to purchase or brought by the Union Electric operate. The advantages of the Welding Company, Limited, consisted
The profts of Mears. J. Lyors and internal-combustion engine were of a portable resistance, the electrode Co, whose tesshops are dotted all taken for granted, and the question | holderu --and-- some cables, The over London, rose by £106,639 in the was presented as to whether it would peumatic chisels used for chipping last year to well over £500,000. Their be preferable to convert some of the out the grooves were supplied with report for the year ended March 31, existing steam vessels or to build | ale from a portable compressor. last shows a profit of £503,322, which new motor ships. No direct answer By the courtes of Mr. C. M. May compares with £396,683 for the pre was given to this question, the son, the Substation's Engineer, wevious year. This year £100,000 is authors devoting themselves princi- were able to examine the finished | placed to reserve, which received only pally to the question of the relative jcb, the engine being on load at the 50.000 last year, and the total of costs of operating comparative vessels time, and the repair appeared to be that fund is now a round £1,000,000. of 13,000 tons deadweight capacity all that could be desired. As In spite of the fact that some £77,400 and 3,500 shaft horsepower, one have already indicated, it was carried driven by geared turbines and the out without dismantling the engine other by Diesel engines. The in any way, and the engine was run steamer Was supposed to burning on load again within four weeks oil to the furnaces. Very com- of the commencement of the repair plete estimates were presented, work--Engineering.
echoes received from objects at con- siderable distance. Experiments had not yet been made with this device ECHOES FROM ICEBERGSpen icebergs, but the success
obtained with them in the detection of other obstacles led to the hope that they might solve the iceberg danger.
NEW SAFETY DEVICES FOR NAVIGATING SHIPS.
A lecture arranged by the Institute of Industrial Administration was given at the Institution of Mechanical
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WIRELESS WATCHERS.
RULES
Engineers by Dr. C. V. Drysdale, | NO ALTERATION IN BOARD OF TRADE Scientific Director of Admiralty Re search, ca Recent Developments in
ELECTRIC WELDING.
REPAIRING THE FRAME OF A DIESEL
ENGINE
GENERAL NOTES.
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more has to be paid this time in pre- ference dividends, the year's dividend on the ordinary shares is 424 per cent.-the same as last year.
Japan's New Warshipä.
It is claimed by the Nest York American" according to information verified at Washington," that while Sepator Borab is talking of a Mariners are notised that inform-conference between the United ation has been received from the States, Great Britain, and Japan Master of the steamer "Coen" that with the object of reducing his ship passed a quantity of big float armaments, Japan is actually building ing iron drums marked Pladjoe be the greatest warships in the world. tween Djang and Saja on July 25.
According to Mr. Hearst's "exclusive information," Japan's new monsters are battle craisers of a size, strength, and armament sufficient to blow any other vessel afloat out of the water. They out-class in power even the Hood," of the British Navy, and the American fighting fortresses of latest type will be insignificant beside the Japanese vessels. Apparently re- ference is made to the "Akagi" and the "Amagi," now building in Japan,
An Exchange Telegraph Company's telegram from Melbourne states that the Orient Company contemplates
the Melbourne Navigation Act requirements.to en- able them to continue in the coastal trading, and consequently raising coastal fares.
At a special meeting of the Gener-
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GENERAL ITEMS.
At the age of 105 years, the death has occurred in the Hartimere Infirmary, Eye, Suffolk, of Mrs. Seymour Tuts.
Describing himself as a sparkler" a witness in Shoreditch County ex plained, I sell Imitation diamonds to servant girls."
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A blind workman of Venne. South
useful metal boot. It is said to be very light and strong and is fire and water proof.
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A perfectly white-wren is to be | seen_fying about in the wooded district of Bromley Green, a Kentish hamlet between Ashford and Ham Street.
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Two seaplane races for prizes of £250 each arranged by the Royal August 1 and 2 during the regatta Aero Club will be held at Comes on week.
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Mr. John Robin, a laundry manager of Billericay, was killed through his motorcar overturning whilst be, was trying to avoid a dog at Lexden, Colchester. His wife and a dy friend were also fojured.
Securing Safety in Navigation." Sir In the House of Commons, Mr.
Dr. Drysdale said that directional Rupert Gwynne asked the President the Charing Cross, West End and cubic metres of cargo spare was British troops is indescribable." An-up the altar steps at the wedding of | Berks, was missed and the body was
Charles Bright presided.
wireless bad proved
useful of the Board of Trade whether of
Its bearings with reference two or more stations. The device of submarine sound ranging comprised
two methods. In one, which was called "multiple station" sound rang.
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which may be summarised by saying that the motor ship was calculated to earn 1665 per cent on the capital invested as against 10 per cent in the case of the turbine vessel. The William Penn, a vessel of 12,375 tons deadweight, the first large oil-driven | vessel to be owned by the United States Shipping Board, has a pair of six-cylinder Diesel engines, of 3,500 shaft horse-power, the bore of the cylinders and the stroke being 740 mm. and 1,150 mm. respectively, The vessel will have a service speed of 10-5 knots to 11 knots and will be ¦ conforming. - to operated over the same route and by the same company as the electrically driven ship Eclipse," recently put into service. This should enable very useful comparative figures to be obtained, and we may fairly presume that in due course they will be at Committee of Lloyd's Register of with six months construction com- France, claims to have invented a published, in accordance with the Shipping, Sir John Luscombe was re-pleted. with reported displacements open-minded policy which is char elected chairman for the ensuing of 43,600 tons and a speed of about acteristic of Americag engineerselve months, Mr. J. Herbert 31 knots. "in every respect," says Engineering.
Scrutton deputy-chairman, and Sir the New York American, "the Japan- Thomas J Storey chairman of Classi-ese ships will surpass the American
By the will of the late Mr., Alfred Mr. W. Dorset, the magistrate fication Committees for the same vessels except in speed, and even this Hayman, the theatrical magnate, his who heard the case at Epsom in period.
advantage will be wiped out by the wife and family are 'completely cut which 28 men were charged in superior gun-power of the Japanese." off and his fortune of £200,000 is connection with the alleged ambush During June 150 ships called in ur | Humour in Upper Sitesin.
left to Miss Ann Murdoch, 25, and fight at Ewell, has lived at Soerabaya. They had 1,733,780 cubic Even Upper Silesis has its humorous actress. It is understood that Mr. Epsom for 76 years. But he has never metres cargo space. During the first side. In some places the situation is Hayman amply provided for his wife seen the Derby run. six months of 1921. 883 ships were positively ludicrous. The Oppeln during his lifetime Reater. An interesting application of elecberthed in the same port as against a correspondent of Herr Stinnes'
The fourteen months old daughter tric welding to the repair of a large total of 695 during the same period Deutsche Allgemeine says:
"The joy
A small Pekingese puppy followed of a carter named Marshall, of casting was recently carried out at in 1920. An increase of three million of the population at the arrival of the the bridesmaid along the nave and Chapel Green Farm, Wokingham, the St. Martin's-lane sub-station of
City Electricity Supply Company,
Miss Nira Penelope Pemberton, | subsequently found in a well which Limited. A three-cylinder Sulzer.
other Chauvinistic paper prints an daughter of the pro-Vice-Chancellor had been left uncovered. The mather method of enabling a ship to find 1200 watchers' certificates had been Diesel engine of 600 brake horse anderquated by Americans in tender.correspondent at Gleiwitz, pictunng H. Wallace, D. S. O. at Pittington shock.
British firms have been hopelessly almost fantastic telegram from ite of Durban University, and Major had to be medically attended for to issued, was he aware that if these
men were all employed 600 skilled power capacity fractured the base of
a demonstration that occurred there Hallzarth Church, Durham.
An inexpensive and ingenious form wireless operators would be thrown the columns supporting the ending for a valuable contract running out of work, did he take this matter cylinder, one column being complete into six figures for steel axles for the after some citizens had been shot by
Russian eggs are now being sold in of publicity for the new issue of 6 into consideration when he stated broken off and the opposite caelodian State railways. Americans insurgents on the outskirts of the
National Defence Bonds ing, an explosive charge was dropped that the main cause of the unemploy./ having cracks running inwards from Cucted 30 per cent. below the lowest town. The crowd seems to have divided Eagland for the first time slace per cent.
British prices, and for the first time its time between singing "Deutschland August 1914. The first shipment, is being tried in Paris Adamg from the ship and the position located i ment amongst wireless operators was each side, so that only a comparathe Indian State railways have placed über Alles" and cheering, not forvia the Kiel Canal,” said. Mr. W. roller, on which is an inscription from a shore station by the difference the present depression in shipping, tively narrow strip of solid metal
Hindenburg of Ladenorff, but for the Corderoy, a produce broker," reached sunken letters, drawing attention to in times of arrival of the sound at and, whether seeing that it meant was left at the centre. The fractures a contract outside the Empire.
British and Italian officers. A British us quicker than Irish eggs and in the issue, is run over the pavement, receivers near the shore. The pasi permanent displacement for these took place just above the flanges by
which the columns were bolted to Shanghai Tug and Lighter. Co captain, despite repeated appeals for good condition. The packing was forming a wet strip some aft, wide tion was worked out from these ob wireless operators he would reconsider the bedplate, the broken metal vary. Ltd., state that an interim dividend order, was crowned with leaves and not quite as good as before the war, on which the letters stand out in the servation and could be signalled to the ship. At alternative method was under the Merchant Shipping (Wire from 23 in. to 3 tu, in thickness has been declared for the half year carried shoulder high through the but still superior to home packing." ordinary colour of the stone slabe
at this point. The cause of the break-ended June 30, 1921. of 3 per streeta" The Italians were the wireless acoustic sound ranging, in less Telegraph) Act introducing down was water in the cylinder, leik. cent. on the Preference shares and object of similar ovations. French
The quarterly figures, issued by death at Lekester early in the mor Asmall terrier saved a family from which a ship could determine its watchers for wireless telegraphy age having occurred through a faulty | Tis. 1.25 per share in the Ordinary troops made a pretence of blocking / the Ministry of Transport in respect ning, Mr. Peach, the owner of the dog. shares, payable at the Hongkong and the approaches to the centre of the of 16 of the principal railway. cons. was awakened by the animal entering It was decided to attempt to repair Shanghai Banking Corporation
town with armoured cars, but the panies, show that the number of his bedroom barking. He drove it demonstrators
conveyed (excluding welding, the cxy-acetylene process the fracture by means of electric and after August 15 next.
season ticket holders) for the first twice and tried to pull the bed- downstairs, but the dog returned these engines of war with outspread three months of 1921 was 30,000,000, clothes off him. Then noticing a was determined by the time between have been issued, but it is not correst being unsuitable because it would the reception of the two impulses and to assume that the employment of have involved dismantling the envine now comb into the list of British arms, and young men climbed on the or 12 per cent, fewer than in the smell of burning, be got up and the direction could be found either by each pair of watchers necessarily in order to beat the casting. The naval war effectires. It is a sort of top of them and covered the muzzles corresponding period of last year. found the place on re The six
the displacement of work was entrusted to the Union coastal motor-boat of the type that of the machine-guns with their bodies. by a directional Lydrophone. For operater who would otherwise have Electric Welding Company, Limited. was evolved during the latter stages | Sir James Craig Under Fire,
children were rescued with difficuly. been employed. Under
Silent railway stations are a boon of 14, Cockspar-street, London, S.W. of the war. The Germans experi
The details were revealed last month Ernest Birch, speaking at a private
promised in the early future. – Sir |
While on his round at -3 a.m. on channels in fogs, Leader gear had conditions the Mercantile Marine1, who undertook to carry out the mented with such craft on the Belgian of a dramatic incident outside the view of the International Exhibition † Thursday a watchman at the Royal
to carry more repair on site without disturbing the coast, but not successfully. During
airshipthed, Cardington, and feeding it with alterating operators than are now necessary for engine. The first thing to be done the past two years, however; our residence of Bir James Graig, when the of Rubber and Other Tropical Bedford, was surprised to see a was to chip out a veegroove along naval inventors have brought the Ulster Unionit leader returned from Products in the Royal Agricultural parachute float to the ground, and to current. The ship was provided with safety purposes under peace con-
the cracks on both the inside and out device to such perfection that these addressing the selection meeting Hall, Islington, N. said that the noise bear a calm Toice ask if a bed could ditions, and there was necessarily a two coils on the two sides, connected redaction in the number of operators 2 in. wide and varying in depth long distances. Both engines and some time past Sir James's home has could easily te obviated by rubber was Air-Commodore F. N. Maltand, side of the columns, this groove being boats can be run satisfactorily for at Banbridge, County Down. For and turmoil of railway stations be obtained there. The parachutist successively to an amplifier and 'telephone set. The current was employed, but the number has been Interrupted to form signals, and further reduced by the depression la with the thickness of the cast meering gear are captrolled by wire-} been in charge of a certain section of covered platforma.
line of small less from a station ashore or from a the Crown forces, and the guard is
who explained later that he had been these signals could be heard on shipping. It is not proposed to alter studs was then screwed into the larger ship.
in the R33 at the Derby, and that always on duty at the entrance. Just There is now-some support for while the airship was on its return chipped faces, the studs being inclined to the normal face of the casting, and i
before the arrival at midnight of Birthe old legend that the hero's legs journey to Howden, he had suddenly thus acting as an anchorage for the The Shanghat River Police are just James Craig the guard was changed, exude an of that has a fascination remembered that he had to attend a metal with which the grooves were now giving attention to the leakage and the men forming the new guard for fish, and lures them within reach special conference at Cardington There were no landing a distance of 30 to 40 miles at full INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES FOR to be filled. The grooves were next of oil from ships in port, a noticeable were not informed that the leader had of its beak. Sir Herbert Maxwell. Works, speed with considerable accuracy,
welded up solidly so as to restore the quantity of crude oil having lately not returned so they assumed that R., in Nature, tells of a pond where facilities, so just had to jump, "he metal which had been removed by been observed, spreading over a he was at home. When the private terminated them. When the bird
goldfish flourished until a heron ex- said. and to keep at a fairly definite dis tance on one side of it, so that out-
chipping. The electrodes used were considerable ares of the river and motor containing Sir James and two stood on a shallow ledge, the fish The American Society of Naval of the A.W.P" brand, approximate even for some distance along the friends dashed up to the entrance, moved out of the deep water and at Dundee in connection with a An unprecedented hitch occurred Architects and Marine Engineers ly 700 ft. of electrode being used up Soochow creek. In this case the have recently been discussing the in the work, representing about 50 soome of the leakage, defective followed by a second car, the guard congregated round the heroe,, who Scotish marriage Declaration in connection with submarine bells or relative merits of oil engines as lb. of added metal. In addition to pipes, was traced, but generally it concluded that an attack was about to picked them off at leisure...
The parties having made the al declarations before two witnesses, sounders, so as to assist ships to ap against steam engines for the pro- this the joint was strengthened by a is a matter of some difficulty, be made, and fired a volley at the proach at very considerable distances. pulsion of cargo vessels. The subject steel gusset plate at each side of the River pollution of this character first car. Fortunately none of the The Social Purity Committee, į attended at the Sheriff's office to A cable 80 miles long had been laid was brought before them by a paper column, connecting the flange with necessitated the drafting of a special occupants was hit, although two of the after seven months investigation have the marriage duly registered. ont from Portsmouth Harbour and entitled 'The Internal-Combustion the column wall. These gusset plates harbour regulation last year, the bullets penetrated the lower part of has issued a serious indictment of It was discovered, "however, that other cables, both in the United Engine as Applied to Marine Pro-were fastened entirely by electric nuisance being a dangerous one in the car. When the guard learned Bombay morals. Nearly 900 one, of, the witnesses was blind, States and in this country, were in pulsion," read by Messrs. John F. wekling, and while they add con; many respects, and pardonlarly in its that Sir James was in the car they brothels have been discovered, with sad the Sheriff on the ground that contemplation.
Metten and J. C. Shaw at their siderably to the security of the job effect upon the water supply. The were naturally thunderstruck, and 5.220 inmates. Terrorism of the such a witness could not see the As regards the avoidance of meeting on May 26 last, in New they do not detract from its appear serious light is which the matter is
profuse apologies
made worst sort is an inevitable incident signing of the declarations, declined obstacles, such as icebergs, the mest York. The authors appeared to be ance.
regarded elsewhere, may be judged Proustic echo, and devices had been ment of the motor ship in America columns was done in sections of 9 harbour regulations, discharge of oil shots attested other soldiers, and women live," says the report. It is again in the presence of competent if not most of these unfortunate parties went through the ceremony promising method appears to be by far from satisfied with the develop The welding up of the fractured from the Lact that, under American to the leader. The sounds of the of the state of slavery in which many to save his warrant. Later the developed which enabled powerful as compared with the progress made in, at a time, and every care was refute is subject to a pensity of police, and an armoured car rushed strongly urged that brothal-keeping witnesses, and the marriage was duly
in the taken to ensure the added - metal! $5,000..
position relative to a single fixed station if that station sent out wire less and sound impulses simultaneous. ly. The distance from the station
this decision and rescind the rules
purpoces in view of the present state
of unemployment in this country.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin.-I am aware that over 1,200 watchers certificates
the directional wireless receiver or
means
the navigation of harbours and
been devised, consisting of laying
a submarine cable along the channel
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at A whole was required for defence purposes
the ship's telephones, being stronger the present rules.
or the side on which the cable
lay, It had already been found
possible to follow 2 cable for
going and incoming ships would be able to pass without collision.
The Leader gear could also be used
beams of sound to be sent out and in
WHAT'S THAT.
DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME
THAT CHECK IS 'NO GOOD-MY. WIFE GAVE IT
TO ME.
OIL OR STEAM.
SHIPS.
Great
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EVER GAVE THIS CHECK TO YOUR WIFE KNEW IT WAS WORTHLESS
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The wireless-controlled vessel has
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FATHER.
WELL- VRAT ARE
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WOMAN - DO YOU KNOW THAT THIS CHECK MRS. SMITH GAVE YOU IS A BAD ONE
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be made a criminal offence.
WELL POCA THING. IT'S PROBABLY THE "BEST, SHE HAD
registered.
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