1933-01-31

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1933.

Aviation, Engineering and Building

NEW OIL-ELECTRIC

ENGINES.

Armstrong's Big Diesel. Units.

PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION,

bert Headlam (Parliamentary Se-

TRAIN STOPPING ROBOT.

Electrical Device To Prevent Disasters.

Satlefactory tests are reported to have been made at Cosenza in Southern Italy of electrical device intended to warn the engine-

Mr. Walter Runciman (President driver and subsequently apply the of the Board of Trade). Col. Cuth-brakes of railway trains in case cretary to the Ministry of Trans. A broken rail, Damage to a bridge, port), many representatives of in-An obstacle on the line, or lacor. dustry, and directors and officials of rectly-set points. home and oversous railways were

The inventor is Signor Francesco present at a deroonstration of four 1,700 .h.p. oil-electric locomotives Labato. His contrivance la based at the Scotswood, Newcastle, works upon the creation of an induced

and

•

of their type yet produced in of 250 yards along the permanent Europe, and have been ordered by way. the Buenos Ayres Great Southern

oil-electric trains for the post three of an ampere

that oil-electric locomotion Is the cheapest and most efficient form ef rail traction known to modern en- gineering.

traction.

POWER UNITS FOR RUSSIA.

All

THE CHINA MAIL.

Principles In Central Heating Systems

BRITAIN'S AIR CHANCE.

West Coast Route

To Africa.

Automatic Control And Solid CAN SHE DEVELOP IN FIRST?

Fuel Firing

uniform

called

APPLICATION OF TOTAL CONVECTION

air.

and

GIANT PLANES FOR ATLANTIC.

New Regular Service In Two Years.

It was announced recently in New York that a regular passengers,

NURSERIES IN AIR LINERS.

Catering For Juvenile Passengers.

London.

Places were booked for a two- Recent flights via the West Coast mail and cargo air service to Europe, year-old baby boy and his father in to or from the Cape, and the forth-and the Orient would be opened two coming R.A.F. long-range experi-years hence by the Pan-American

the Imperial Airways Biner which ment towards the Cape, have special

left Basra recently. The child's mother died recently, at Abandan and the baby is to be brought home to its grandparents in Glamorgan. The big liners of Imperial Air-

Interest for their bearing upon Airways Company with six huge

at air liners.

field of

The normal route will probably be by way of Bermuda and the Azores, changing during

The

passan-routes.

the

summer

take

African air line developments, the present moment the keen international rivalry.

The Imperial Airways routo is by way of Egypt and the East side. The problem of the production and supply at an exactly controlled It involves flying across Europe and months to the Great Circle route, ways have provided nurseries for

maintenance of desired, and temperature. Instead of warming apending a night in a callway train. via Newfoundland and Ireland.

children on two long journeys re- of Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth current between coll placed in the all parts of a large and sometimes level

temperatures throughout by radiators, situated on the floor The West Const route includca Contracts have already been as-cently. A party of five chikiren be- and Co. (engineers).

frequently occupy the crossing of the Sahara, where signed for the construction of two longing to two families were taken They are the largest locomotives engine-driver's cab and at intervals scattered building has naturallying space which could be more the French are established, with a

forth a large amount of effectively used for other pur- route at present travelled partly by giant machines 'capable of flying from Athens to Baghdad. The thought and design in order that poses-and from which, too, the car, but soon to be entirely by air. continuously for 2,500 miles, with a youngest was three weeks old and central heating plants shall be equal warmed air often rises and escapes

It offers Any subsequent mechanical opera- to these requirements and be also from open windows without essen

an opportunity for safety margin of 600 additional the eldest was only four years of Railway. They are to be shipped tions are

Great Britain, which, if lost, will miles and performed by electro-economic in operation, and, as fartial circulation throughout the room

carrying 50 passengers age. They crossed to Alexandria to South America in the next few

be regretted.

and several tons of mails and gen-in one weeks.

The current used is said as may be possible, entirely auto-the air, in the unit system, is in-

of The Buenos Ayres Great magnets.

From Lagos to the Cape a main

the big flying-boats. Southern Railway has been running to be extremely small-one-quarter fuel feed will be not only mechanical steam heaters, it quickly acquires be at least as important as the line

matic. Thus the regulation of the duced from above. Passing around air route, once established, would eral cargo.

From Cairo to Baghdad they were at a pressure of 1,but controlled from the tempera- the desired temperature, and is then which takes in the Nile, Kenya, and these super-planes have not been Hannibal as their nursery. They detailed specifications of given the forward saloon of the years, and it has become convinced volt, or less than that required for tures of evin distant parts of an directed by suitably disposed vanes the eastern territories.

published, but they have been drawn and their mothers made the long a fashlamp.

extensive building, writes the En-to the exact situation at which it in French Sahara Claims. up under the direction of Col. Lind- journey in comfort, the youngest gineering correspondent of the required.

The West Coast route could not bergh, who is chairman of the member of the party having ita Daily Telegraph.

The heating elements are of the be entirely British, for the French Technical Committee of the com-cradle throughout. Other passen. The demonstration appeared in

That a large degree of success type of steam-heated copper tubes, naturally claim rights over the pany. Though the new the minds of all present to justify

has already been attained in this which effect a rapid transfer of Sahara. They would, however, co-oceanic machines will be smaller

trans-gora occupied, the rear aaloop. direction is well-known to all in heat. Silent motor fans then direct operate by arranging schedules for than the German Do-X, they will be travelling by air occurred when Another example of families the faith which Armstrong-Whit- !

Berlin,

contact with the problem.

the air in a downward direction mutual convenience. worths have put in Dil-electric A large shipment of transforma-

much larger than the 17-ton linera Sir Hubert Young went to for circulation, and ordinary con- From Lagos to the Cape the route which the company employs on the up his duties as Governor of It is claimed

that oil-tors destined for the Soviet Union in the choice of fuel and also in the with the continuous admission of resources, gold transport,

There is ample scope for diversity vectional currents ensure its escape would tap immediately rich traffic Central America and West Indies Nyasaland. From Cairo to Kisumu, electric traction can cut railway has just left the Siemens-Schuckert arrangements by which running costs in England by nearly Works here. These transforma- heat is converted into heat and

its latent further quantities of conditioned gers, and mails. At many points it 50 per cent. and that an oil-electric tors, it is announced, are the big transferred to the locality requiring |

he, with Lady Young, three children Metal Machines. train can take advantage of every gest ever built in Germany.

would link up with Belgian and

and a nurse, travelled in one of the Utilising as it does relatively Portuguese lines. definite temperature. Oil fuel in small units, it will be seen that, downward gradient

They will be metal. machines of big air-liners and had the exclusive and freewheel nine units with switch-boards and particular has been thoroughly these are more easily adapted to or coast with the engine stopped, all other parts were ordered by the plored in this application and it the Individual requirements of the

the high-wing monoplane type, each use of the forward compartment. Once it was organised, the equipped with four air-cooled radial At the lakes, they transferred to a thus saving fuel and wear and tear. Soviet Government in 1931 to be cannot be doubted that the results workers of the factory, workshop, or

African air line system would be engines, giving a cruising speed of machine of the Hercules class which Unlike the ordinary electric train, used in large Industrial

complete as regards the main over 125 miles an hour. The "keels" took them to Salisbury where their plants which have been achieved have office, and the system carries ad-

vertebræ, so that very quickly of the two air leviathans have been route diverged from the main line. proved entirely satisfactory.

"feeder" lines would be started to lald in great secrecy in factories They completed their journey in vantages which are securing for it a eral standard of equipment has in-

Again, for many years the gen-wide adoption.

many places in the interior and at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and three Puss Moth cabin aeroplanes of across the Continent to the Im-Baltimore, Maryland, Heating is thus effected entirely volved the use of radiators. Many by convection, there being no ele

periul Airways system.

the Rhodesian Aviation: Company. efforts have been made to add to ment of radiation. The result is their eyes on the possibilities, and the British Air Ministry, was here the comfort and quietness of their

France, Germany, and Italy have tor of Aeronautical Inspection

When Col. H. W. Outram, Direc- Imperial Airways have accepted their appearance, as although re-that fresh air, warmth, and com- there are indications of Italian and recently for the purpose of nego biggest machines. On a recent ser- at such incidents as fresh tribute to garded us the standard equipment, fart are ensured there has always been a certain provided by the ordinary types of than one.

to a degree not German co-operation in more ways tiating a reciprocal Hcensing agree-vica in Africa, two of the passen- amount of aesthetic objection to radiator.

ment for British and their shape.

One "feeder" line between Fortu- aaroplanes, he was permitted to Both the very young and the old American gers were over 70 years of age. Possibilities of Solid Fuels. A Cause of Prejudice. At first sight it would not appear about to be started by a British con-air liner which is under construc- and the company has taken credit gacse territory and Salisbury is examine the skeleton design of the are reported as satisfied passengers Jan, 30, June

Moreover, systems of central to be possible to apply the principle cern in co-operation with Portuguese tion at the 1938 1918 heating have not always made an of automatic control to a aystem in intereste. Cts. Cts. immediate appeal, and there has which solid fuel replaced oil.--

Bridgeport. been a certain amount of prejudice: At the same time it would have against it on account of the nature to be admitted that national ad-ing Nigeria, is projected; and there A line from Gao to Boma, cross. 30 of the heat given off from the vantage would accrue to the use of are already a number of landing 28 radiator. Of this heat a consider-home-produced coal for this purpose places on this route.

able proportion is in the form of if this were possible. Smail wou- B.A:F. service flights have already 22convection, so that the term radia- der, then, that the problem has been extended to Nigeria and the West

tor is not altogether descriptive of subjected to close attention,, and African Colonico. the nature of the heating.

that the principle is being put into Great Britain has, in fact, done Nevertheless, this type of heating practical use. has been largely employed in the

much of the preliminary exploration In effect the method involves the work, and has the best chances of numerous systemis which have automatic feeding in of the solid catablishing air lines which, by rea lately been devised. A number fuel, a matter which has already son of the rich and rapidly-develop KO 24 of these employ the principle been curried out satisfactorily in ing territories to be covered and the of burying, the heating elements the case of large-scale water heating enormous amount of time saved on in ceilings, walls, and floors, and evaporation for steam power many of the stages, would be assur- or by the use of flat meial purposER.

led of commercial success. plates flush with the finishings of It is only a matter of adapting the room, behind which the heating the principle to the smaller scale re-great advantage that it does not in- elements or pipes are formed. quired by central heating systemis. volvo flying to and from aerodromes It is entirely automatic in opera-at high altitudes, a very serious and tlon, both as regards the introduc-costly operational drawback of the

it is a self-contained unit and can which are to be erected on the river travel over any line without the Daleper and provided with electric need for laying third rails or over-current from the giant power-works hoad cables.

of Dnieprestroy.

HONG

KONG MARKET PRODUCE APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.

Tongue, fresh

ench 40 22 Eggs, Hen (cooking) per doz. 30

38 25

16.

Jan, 20, June

1933 1918

Cts. Cts.

BUTCHER MEAT.

POULTRY.

Beef Sirloin

lb.

Prime Cut

30 28 Chicken

b. 70

Corned

40 23

Ronst

Bronst Soup

32. 20

Capone, Sminl

Large

28 20

Duck

Steak

Stenk Sirloin

Deres

48 30

Sausages

Bullock's Brains.

per set 17

Egge, Hen (fresh)

each

corned

1.00

Fowis, Hainan

Hend

1.00

Canton

.14

Heart

15.

Hump, Salt

Greso

Fort

each 12

Pigeons, Canton

Helhow

rach 60 40

Kidneys

Turkeys, Cock

Tail

Turkeys, Hen

Ib. 76 70

Snipe

each 25

Tripe

Calves' Head & Feet set $1.50 $1.00

Pheasant

Quail

16.

Partridges

each 36 1.10

Log

Saddle

FRUITS.

Almonds

per set

Ib. 1.00

18 15

Applea (California)

Bananas (bride's)

Carambola

each 18

Coconuts

each

15 10

Lemons, China

Ib.

3. 60 80

Lichers, Dried

Lemons (American) ench

Ib. 1.20

Oranges (Canton)

Oranges....

Pears (Canton)..

Peanuts

Peralmmons, Large

Pumelo, Siama

Walnuts

Grapes

Liver

Mutton Chop

Shoulder

Pig's Chitings

品

Brains

Feet

Fry

Fend

Heart Kidneys Liver

Pork Chop

Loin Leg

Fai

Heart

Kidneys

Liver

each

or Lard

Sheep's Head & Feet per ket 90

Sucking Pigs, to

Suet, Beef

Yeal

Mutton

Bagages

Jb.

order

No. 1 14

FISH.

Ib.

Borbel Bream

Canton Fresh Water

Fish

Сатр

Codfish

Crabs

Cattle Fish

Fresh Wa

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100 Per Cent. Convection.

It is not unreasonable, however,

Preliminary Work

The West Conat route has the.

to consider the possibility of totally tion of the fual and the control offenstern route.

24 20. reversing the proportions of the draught.

4 radiated and convected heat and

Jaiming, at 100 per cent. convection

without appreciable radiation. 10

8-APRAR-1938

VEGETABLES, ETC.

Artichokes

Beens, Sprout

each

Ib.

ነፃ

05 82

Long

Beet Rast

Brinjals, Green

Red

Cabbage, Chinesa

(Shanghai)

Cauliflower (Large)

Carrots

(Medium) (Small)

Celerity, Chinese

Chillies, Dried.

Green

Carry Stuff, English Cucumbers

Galle Ginger, Young

Old

Horseradish, S'hal

Indian Cora

Lettuce

Onions, Bombay

each

» 1.10

32 13

Red

Okroes

Dnce

Eels, Conger

Yellow

Frogs

Garoupa

Gudgeon

Herrings

Halibut

Labelera

Mackerel

Mullet

Oysters

Porch

Pike-

Green Shanghai

Pinica Pomfret, White Pomfret, Black Prawns

Pursley

Potato, Sweet

10.

Japanese American

Roach

96+

Pumpkin

Radish

Shark

Rhubarb (Fresh)

2010

50:28

Salmen

Skate

4022

Spinach

Turnips, Panti

76 83 Tomatoes way

(Long) Vegetable Marrow Water Crea de Water Lily Root

Shrimpa

Snapper

Boles

Turbot

35 12

rties, small fresh.

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The Choice of Fuel. Obviously the choice of fuel re- quires some careful consideration in For this scheme there is the no- view of the many different types, of 25tural parallel in that most of the solid fuel available and their differ- heating effected on the earth by the ent behaviour under the conditions Jaun is by convection after the sun's of combustion. At first such solid, rays have warmed up the surface fuels were required to contain little of the earth or the water. An ex-or no fines, with not more than 10 ample of this is surely the effect of per cent. of ash, but improvements the Galf Stream in producing the in details are catering for a wider comparatively equable temperature variety of coals. maintained in this country.

ITALY'S BUILDING PROGRAMME.

Swamp Lands To Be Converted.

Littoria, Italy.

A statement by Premier Benito Mussolini that war against nature The mechanical motions involved was the kind Italy prefers was the In a similar way, therefore, the in feeding in the fuel and supplying guide for the building of the "city" purpose of central heating is the and controlling the draught, are of Fascist ideals on the plain be maintenance of aquable temperatures effected by a small electric motor, tween Rome, and Naples. In buildings and apartments. The directly coupled to the draught fan "It is here we have conducted and 5 main object might be regarded as and also driving the device for the will conduct our real war opera that of preventing people from fed fuel feed, which, in one example, is tiona," the Premier said at the in- ing cold rather than that of supply of the underfeed type common and auguration ceremonies referring to |ing them with heat. ⠀

effective with steam-raising plants. transformation of awamps On this reasonable basis a good The volatiles are first driven off and farm lands. deal of attention has been given to consumed, after which the coke is

"This is the kind of war wo the problem of circulating large forced out on to the fire-bars, on choose," he said, but warned "It is 25 volumes of fresh air over the heat-which It 'is then burnt.

necessary for everyone to leave us 10 ing elements and then directing the The system is effective amenable alone at our work"

warmed air to the points at which to entirely automatic control. This

Into

Streets, squares and buildings

It is more particularly required. is operated from the application of jacon will spring into being in this This principle is now making a con- thermostatic devices, the main con-city," now ouly a huge feld half- siderable appeal for the heating of trol being supplemented by other way between the sea and Sermoneta factories, offices, and other build valves operated from distant points Mountains, ......

where uniform temperatures are The Premier announced a Fascist This system adopts the principle aimed at.

pregramme for agricultural dévelop

Inge

of the convection of currents of The system has proved quite ment to be completed by 1986, 1 heated air. The principle is simple, sound and responsive and the ad calls for the building of three large and the results achieved are regard vantages of the use of such a fuel agricultural communities-Edittorie, 60ed as eminently satisfactory in that with its relatively low cost justify Pontinia and Mussolinia The site there is a feeling of comfort and claims to consideration where, can- of the latter has been selected in warmth by each person or worker tral heating is required, and where, Sardinia, ja ta thus supplied with the heated air too, there is some desire to be in The city of Littoria was mapped not usually realised in the ordinary dependent of outside sources of all act after years of labour sponsored type of radiator heater. MAR and to further the home industry of by the National War Veterans' AS- Important Essentials, coal mining. Hand labour is re- Nociation had converted, a wide

The system adaures three import quired only in keeping the fuel hop-stretch of, swamp into tillable soll ant essentials the right amount of per charged and also in the periodior Veterans and their families will set air, delivery to the point at which removal of Ash at intervals of be on the land and come to Littoria fresh and warmed air is required twelve, to eighteen högra

for marketing, diversion and study.

Sikorsky factory, to itself for pleasing the most

exacting of its customers.

1933

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the "Hong Section" of the 1933 DOLLAR DIRECTORY?

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