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TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1933.
Aviation, Engineering & Building
PROPOSED
NEW SHIP
CANAL
Ambitious Project For West Counties.
The Somerset Rivers Catchment Board, who are endeavouring to find a remedy for the flooding of large areas of the low-lying lands of Somersetshire, are considering
THE CHINA MAIL.
Pursuit 'Planes Up Six Miles
New Tactics Developed For Air Fighters
GREATER
ACTIVITY OF SWIFT
BOMBERS
SYNTHETIC STONE AT CHICAGO.
ENGINEERING IN BIRMINGHAM
Rivals Natural Material James Watt Memorial
In Strength.
Opened.
PULVERISATION TREATMENT
Chicago.
ally it was hoped to endow a Chair year, and they were already assur of Mechanical Engineering at the ed of nearly 5700.
Mr. Chorlton, in appraising, the
ST. PANCRAS TOWN HALL SCHEME
A James Watt Memorial Insti. University, which would have re- tute was declared open at Birmingquired £20,000. Eventually they genius of Walt for sound detail, ham recently by Mr. Alan Chorl-visualized the erection of a fine said in a general sense the steam Visitors at the Century of Proton, M.P., president of the Institu. building as a memorial home for engine to-day was not a great deal gress Exposition at Chicago this tion of Mechanical Engineers. The
the various engineering societies different from the earlier engines, summer will have the opportunity of
In Birmingham,
just as the locomoitve had chang inspecting a home made entirely, premises are a wing of the recently
Unfortunately the amount sub-jed very little since George Stephen- except for steel framework, from erected. York House and include a man-produced, synthetic stone. This lecture hall, a library, and a com-scribed was very much less than son's day except in size, speed, and new product, recently announced at mittee room.
was contemplated. Hence the post-boiler pressure. the Washington meeting of the American Chemical Society,, rivals. When in 1919 Birmingham cele-tion had to be reconsidered. Their scheme for a ship canal from
just as Major Gen. James E. Fe-strength, resistance to weathering Watt a fund
common types of natural stone in brated the centenary of James £6,000 had now grown to £10,000, Bridgwater to Taunton and Lang-
was raised which, and as at least £40,000 was needed Army chet, retired chief of the Air Corps and other characteristics sought in after paying the commemoration to erect an appropriate building port which would not only drain
Air Corps is undergoing another"Aero Digest," points out in
and now national defence editor of building material. It the areas affected by the floods,
his natural
the trustees decided to proceed in stone in change. The advent of bombers current article.
the variety of expenses and the cost of 籍 but would also provide means by
colouring possible and ease of memorial volume, enabled the
a small way with a view to future St. Pancras Council is proposing which vessels of the coasting type with nearly double the speed of the "Pursuit tactics
are even now building fabrication.
trustees to set aside £5,000 for a development...
ta, build a town hall on a freehold would reach inland centres giving bombing planes that were standard undergoing a change," he says, Developed during an eight-year research scholarship in mechanical As
site on the south side of Euston-- hoine for engineering road, with frontages also to Judd- direct connection by with two or three years ago has placed "brought on by the impending research at the Department
water
the emphasis on speed as never be presence of 200 mile an hour (or Chemical Engineering at Purdue jengineering in Birmingham Uni-societies the purpose of the street, Bidborough-street and Tun-
faster) bombers. It is true that University the synthetic
rock has versity. A sum of £6,000 remain-institute would be educational and bridge-street. The site is cleared The proposals will be laid before fore. Furthermore, the designers the Boeing F-26 and it is most pro-a tracted the attention of building ed.
manner they needed about £800 a of buildings and ready for Immedate and manufacturers are not only be bable that the Curtiss XP-934 (the and construction trades, and the Ministry of Health.-Engineering required to deliver faster latter recently received at the Air architects also, because of its ease the trustees, explained that origin- manner they needed about £800 a vestry hall) was built in 1846.
Sir Gilbert Barling, chairman of scientific. To run it in a fruitful hall building (which was the old development. The existing town planes, but they must supply planes Corps Material Division for test) of manfacture and the promise it that can hold their speeds at ex-are considerably faster than our holds of ultilizing the cheapest kinds tremely high altitudes,
latest bomber. Let us assume iney of shale and slate rocks,
the South Wales coal ports.
ing.
LIQUID ZINC PISTOL NOW BEING USED.
Pursuit aviation
New York. in the
exceeds
of
of
quarry
Is is now part of routine training are twenty-five miles an hour fas-waste and other previously worth- for pursuit squadrons to go ter.
We know, however, that less material. throught their evolutions at 30,-twenty-five miles per hour advani 1000 feet. The pilots, protected by tage is not really as effective in)
In the synthetic stone as develop- face masks as well as goggles and the 200 mile an hour speed range cheap stone utilized undergoes
ed at the Purdue laboratories the A spray pistol, which turna
warmly lined Helmets against the as it was when bombers did 100 chemical change. - This distinguish- solid zinc into a liquid, and pro-extreme cold, must carry oxygen and pureulters 125 miles an houred is from cement and concrete. In mises to revolutionise many tanks, weighty apparatus which Undoubtedly bombers will travel branches of the iron and steel cuts down the climb and conse-faster than they do now, but so will way it is real rock. It is synthetic.
fquent efficiency of their machines, pursuit aircraft”
jonly in the sense that man hurries industry, was demonstrated by writes Lauren D. Lyman.
Retaining Wings After Power
through the process in a few hours the British Oxygen Co. at their All this means more
for which nature would take millions powerful
Dive At 400 m.p.h. Glasgow works last month. Al-engines, hullt to deliver power at The pursuit planes, until recently clay beds into shale by pressure, the of years. Thes as nature changes though still in its infancy a great temperature extremes, equipped single-seaters armed with machine chemist turns the shale into some- future is assured for this new with superchargers able to create guns only-highly manoeuvrable, thing much stronger, and if found industry, and experiments are at surface atmospheric pressure at stronger for their size than any in nature it would be much older present being carried out on the altitudes of six miles.
other aeroplanes bullt, able to dive rock. Actually the methods change
shipbuilding,
bigger type of jobs-such as It is likely, moreover, to mean at better than 400 miles an hour natural steps at various stages and
fundamental changes in tactics, and then to terminate that dive produce rock not found in nature.
abruptly and pull up into a climb of miles without losing their wings laminated form of soft and crumb Everyone has seen shale, that must protect the other arms of ly rock along the banks of certain
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE their own air force and enable creeks Structurally it is so weak
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Aug. 11. Aug.
them to operate without serverein its natural state that a child can loss. A the same time they must break a piece in his bands. That make it impossible for the enemy shale is the end product of layers air forces to operate except with of clay that, when pressed through Aug. 11, Aug. disastrous losses.
1938 1918
ages of time, has solidified into its Cta. Cts.
present form.
nt-
During the last year of
the World War both the German and the Allied air services used pur- suit planes to dive low on the trenches in conjunction with tacks by ground troops or to attack. ng troops marching up to the lines. The the 22 planes performed well under
circumstances, but the actual dam-14.
1933 1918
Cta. Cts.
BUTCHER MEAT.
POULTRY.
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lb. 34
Prime Cat
30
Chicken
1b. 68
30
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42
Capons, Small
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34
Large
64
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Duck
35
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Soup
Daves
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Eggs, Hen (cooking) per doz. 38
18
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23
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Snipe Pheasant
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Quail
Steak
Steak Sirloin Sausages
Bullock's Breins
Tongue, fresh
corned
73
per act
1.80
Kidneys
Liver
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Shoulder
Saddle
Pig Chitlings
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15 Coconuts
20 Lemons, Chirn
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Pears (Canton)
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26
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age their light bombs and machine
gun bullets accomplished was small
In comparison with the moral ef-] fect of the manoeuvre,
Since the war the Air Corps has
29 sought to develop special planes
SMALL HOUSES AT CHICAGO FAIR
Mail Order Firm Shową Latest Plans.
Chicago.
Sears Roebuck & Co. will have a
for this attack duty; powerful, fast, small house. exhibition at the Cen- low-flying machines of great pair 230 2.60 oeuvrability, heavily armed and
each 40
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1.20
Ib. 1.00
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tury of Progress, in Chicago, which will show the latest ideas the com-
able to give and take a beating any has developed in the low-priced both from the elementa and the housing field.
enemy.
No house in the group will cost
The creation of this attack wing more than $7,500, and most of them increased the divisions of our fight-will be in the $2,500 group. There
26 ing forces to four: pursuit, attack, will be some which will cost sight-
The fly than $600.
4 bombing and observation,
12 pursuit, in addition to its offensive
Four of the designs which. the
duties, must act as the protector company will show at the Chicaga'
of the other three in carrying out exhibition will be placed on the
26 their operation.
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Carp
Codfish
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Yellow
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Lobsters
Mackerel Mollet
Oysters
Perch
Pike
Plaite
Pomfret, White
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Shrimpa Boles
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Tarbot
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Brinjala, Green
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Japanese American
Radish Phubarb (Fresh)
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market this week. The house will
The Air Corps has demanded new cost $2,500 anywhere' east of the attack planes and the failure
purchase them in any large quan-
to Mississippi and north of the Ohio.
The price includes the cost of site.)
been brought out in
tity indicates that he type wanted They have
has not yet been developed by the answer to the demand for incx- manufacturer. Meanwhile, tests pensive houses. Thirty bave been made of planes built signs ranging in cost from $3,500 other de- or pursuit work in attack manged to $5,000, including the site, have vres and still the material division been worked out by David S. Bet at Wright Field is far from satia-come, architect for the company. fied with the results.
STEEL SPRING TO DIVINE GOLD.
Yeovil Engineer's Claim.
In the $2,500 group the house will have the same foor plan, although two will be Colonial and two. Eng- fand in exterior design. Each house will have four rooms and bath.
The prices quoted, according to E. R. Bibbs, general manager of Sears, Roebuck & Co., is one-third less than those prevailing in 1929, Mr. Bibbs said.
A Yeovil engineer who claims to "divine" gold, using a steel spring Improved factory methods of instead of the water diviner's hazel assembly on the building site, 20 twig, is to lead an expedition to find ready-cutting lumber and the Ba new goldfield in South America. fabrication of other materials, local He is, Mr. Frank Cooper, and he coupled with lowered labour and has just returned from an expped-materials cost, are responsible for tion in search of a treasure hoard the great drop in prices.
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said to have been buried by pirates On building materisis, as of April on Cocos Island, the Treasure-Sears, Roebuck & Co. also an- 60. Laland" of the Pacific.
No treasure was actually brought ounce reduction in prices of 8. per to the surface, Mr, Cooper and his cent under those 9, 1982. Price friends are convinced It is there, and years on building materials sold by reductions during the previous 'two could probably be recovered if Sears totalled sightly more than 20 sufficient machinery were used per cent.
My new expedition will be to search - for a now South American goldfeld," said Mr. Cooper.” “Our actual destination; must be kept secret. We shall saif in about, wit weeks time
Last year "ita volume of building!
sales amounted to 189,-
Idivision.
Ich $8,533,345 was home construction
a
21ST IS A RED LETTER DAY.
FROM NEXT MONDAY.
LEICA MODEL II
WITH AUTOMATIC RANGE FINDER
IS BEING SOLD FOR $220.00
FOR ONE MONTH ONLY,
+
SCHMIDT & CO.
*GLOUCESTER BUILDING.
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