TUESDAY,
OCTOBER 24, 1933.
Aviation, Engineering and Building)
TEST FLIGHT OF TROOP-CARRIERS
Trans-African Cruise Next Month.
CAIRS TO BATHURST AND DAKER
Three big
troop-carrier aero- planes are in the coming antumu
to undertake a formation flight of
12,000 miles in Africa, from Cairo
14.
*to
Middles
THE
CHINA MAIL.
DAMAGED
BUILDINGS
Changing Methods In AMERICA'S
Building Impermanence The
The Keynote
THE MARCH OF PROGRESS
Modern Architecture.
16,000,000 In Need Of Immediate Repair,
Tidal Electricity INFRA-RED RAYS IN
Scheme
It has conducted seven
be
PHOTOGRAPHY
Views. Taken Through Mist And Smoke.
INTERESTING LECTURE BY
DR. K. MACKENZIE -
This
| £50,000,000 -Power Plant On River Severn.
Construction of the most remark NATION-WIDE SURVEY MADE
able power station in the world in £50,000,000 enterprise and, the
Dr. K. Mackenzie on Saturday There are 16,000,000 buildings infuae of the Severn's tides to pro-afternoon last, at the University of the United States in need of com- duce one-tenth of Britain's electri-Hong Kong, delivered an interest- plete remodelling of major repair city supply is proposed by the ing and instructive lecture on the work. Of these, more than 12.000,- Severn Barrage Committee in its use of the infra-red plate in photo- Building construction in the Impermanence In Building Policy 000 are one-family residences. final report jesued last month.
Whilst it is true that few]
graphy. present age differs substantially,
J. C. Knapp, vice-president of the Carrying out this giant project; in methods and materials from buildings erected in the present modernization of commercial
The lecturer began by showing to Bathurst and Dakar in the west the principles current a hundred, age may be expected to stand a Otis Elevator Company, says that for 15 years.
and would employ 12,000 men a year that white light can, by means of They are Vickera "Victorias" of fifty, or even twenty years ago. comparable test of time, this industrial structures would cost $4,- It would mean
a prism, be broken up into its con- No. 216 Squadron stationed
building a dam stituent colours, that at The changes that have come fact does not support the implied 000,009,000,
is, the Helopolis. They will be ender the about are due not only to the criticism of present-day archi-
right across the Severn mouth, colours visible to the human eye. cummand of Wing-Cdr. C. W.
and Mr. Knapp does not approve of parallel to the famous tunnel evolution of new synthetic Lecture and constructional eff
But the photographic plate will Mavkey, and, starting an October materials, the application of new ciency.
destroying buildings because they saving £1,099,215 in electrity pro-detect light rays beyond the scope will By Khartoum, over scientific principles, and the de-
have stood 20, 30 or 40 years. He duction costs avery year. French Equatorial Africa, Nigeria.velopments
Buildings are rarely erected believes they should be modernised The Severn Barrage Committee, of the eye, i.e. the ultra-violet. in manufacturing nowadays with the intention that and then "old age" would never be of which Lt.-Col. J. T. C. Moore tive to the green, blue and ultra- The early plate was only sensi- the Gold and Ivory Passt, Sierra technique which have marked the they shall stand for centuries. Leone, Cambia, and Senegal
jevident in our buildings. In Eng-Brabazon, M. P., is chairman, was violet, the sensitivity to red and industrial history of the past few Permanence in building policy and a protest was raised recently appointed in 1925. The cruise, which will last two decades, but also to the entirely would, in fact, be altogether in against destroying buildings in Lon-
very low. This months, will be longer than that different requirements which incongruous
years yellow being
to the West Coast in
in an age when the don which had stond 99 years. The tireless investigation at a cost of accounts for the fact that these 1930. The fluence the planning of commer-conditions of domestic, commer-Grosvenor House is more than 200 £50,000.
early plates register red as black trip projected for 1941 WAN aban- cial or industrial structures incial, and industrial life
and ultra-violet and blue lights as are years old and is still occupied be The power station would doned on account of an outbreak of these times.
changing so rapidly. yellow fever in French territory.
cause it had been modernised. Eng operated by the strong tides flow-white on the finished print, and What is erected to-day as a land and other countries of Europe ing in the mouth of the Severn. hence sky and distant landscapes Last year the demand for
white light economy prevented cruise. This disparagement of modern archi-, have to be
It is commonly put forward in block of residential property may do not destroy buildings, but keep Seventy-two turbines, giving a total which reflect much
converted in ten or them fit.
of more than a million horse power, (and therefore ultra violet rays) your The pesestablishment of
tecture, especially by those who twenty years' time into commer- Mr. Knapp says that the United would drive generators capable of become white in the print. routin East
are conservative in their artistike cial offices. The factory building States is the only country that ad 2,252 million electrical units per accounts for the difficulty in photo- leanings, that it will not bear which is eminently suitable for vocates tearing down buildings year for transmission to the elec-graphing objects at a distance. comparison with those historic its purpose to-day may no long merely because they have stood
trical "grid" now being spread over By the use of a yellow filter, the structures which stand as evid-fer
the whole country.
yellow rays were allowed to act serve to house the as yet certain number of years. ence of the thoroughness and unthought-of machinery that will absolescence insurance has been in
In order to keep up a regular more on the plate and at the same Bakar as heen undertaken at the skill of builders in former ages. The in operation half a century use in England and Germany for supply of electricity, even after the time the blue and ultra-violet les-
There are, it is true, buildings hence.
tides have many years and, according to viewa
the sened in their effect on the plate. extunt to-day which bear elo-
an immense re- Hence the distance could be photo- jexpressed in the Executives Service) quent i timony to the advanced
However, the position was stili, manship
Insurance Company, the adoption Yards of water, is suggested. of which characterised
There of this form of assurance old Water would be pumped into this unsatisfactory, as Was acutely twentytwo building construction in bygone
||reservoir during the tides and al- evident during the World War, to the river when it was found mist or smoke. » 770 miles & Pange
saving of bilhons of dollars to build-lowed to fall back War ledge of
and drive the turbines in the op- A search was then made for a largely responsible for the safe which still govern this industry must ask himself what purpose Knapp says, "that 'tear down and evacuation from Kabul of nearly was possessed by man long be his structures may have to serve rebuild' has been a national motto,
Mr posite direction between the tides. way to cut out these blue and Engineers who have worked out ultra-violet гауб, во that their 600 Europeans in 1928-29, thereby fore his achievements became
the full scheme contend that affect would not wipe out those of recorded history.
We have not had time or patience 'tidal electricity" could be produced the weaker red and yellow, and If they have been designed continually to modernised, hence to 35 per cent. below the cheapest tive to red and yellow.
by the Severn Barrage at a cost of also to make the plate more sensi- without regard to the possibility day's last word' in a million-dollar of their becoming obsolete. If edifice is sadly outmoded
existing rates.
This WAN accomplished by there i no elasticity in plan and morrow. Once out of fashion, once
The cost of the power scheme immersing the photographic plate jelevation, and if the materials lacking efficiency, it has become food?
self would be £38,000,000, but con- In certain dyes (which render it chosen are such as to make for wrockera.
templated road and harbour facili-more sensitive to red) and also by future adaptation impossible, the
ties would bring the total Ogure using a deeper yellow Alter. "Amortization hus covered tha depreciation
hin on
annual owners' losses,
up to more than £50,000,000.
now have the "panchromatic" Oct. 20, Oct. balance-sheet
A new building has may be entirely replaced the wrecked on: Advane---- 1088 1818 nadequate.
plate, which, being, sensitive to Cts.
ing rentals have kept pace with the
red, has to be developed in alther| Stringent building regulations Increasing values of real estate and step further, if the plate im-totel darkness or deep green light, imposed by authorities through- all has been merry as a wedding bellmersed in special dye, it cap be to which it is not sensitive. It. 30 out the country provide for This cycle might have been repeated made sensitive to A light-ray for this plate, a red alter be used,
soundness of
construction, and indefinitely if the financial and in- beyond the red, viz., the infra-red, the blue ray is almost completely protect the public against what dustrial reaction of the inst four which is invisible
known
as "jerry_building," years had not compelled investors in This plate, used with a very deep graphed much more clearly, since ut imperamanence, rightly con- buildings to retreach and reform." red filter, will photograph through the "wiping-out-effect" of the blue
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necessary Formerly West Coast cruises were by singlengined day bumbers
The extension of the tour 4
request the French Ar
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try, and a French squadron is ex- pected to visit the Freuch
West
A
He Buys
construction
done their work,
African cobonies at the same time. techniqu and remarkable work- Even were it desirable, Bulletin of the Metropolitan Lifeservoir, holding 53 million cubic graphed more successfully.
The twin engined frompcarcier carries
"Victoria"
one
Keeping Pace With Change.
cannot arrest the march scientific and industrial progress,
who invests a thousand or a
fall-equipped infantrymen, and has days, and it is clear that a know-- and the industrialist of to-day age in buildings would result in a
the main principles million pounds in new buildingsing owners in this country.
preventing compliestions
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Elasticity In Design,
It Is: (Continued at foot of preceding
rebuild" policy. As an illustration, known as the Infra-Red Plate. Mr. Knapp refers to a building in.
Column).
Among the many undoubted Kansas City, which was remodeled
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Pears (Canton)
Peanuts
Persimmons, Large
Puntelo, Slam
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Grapes
VEGETABLES, ETC.
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Beans, Sprout
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merits of steel as a construc-at a cost of $875,000, and as a re- tional material, that which com-ault its gross income has increased
from $96,910 to $228,707. mends it most for present-day re- qurements in the fact that it lends itself so admirably to the achievement of elasticity in
work, enables the engineer to use building design.
The skeleton of a modern steel-smaller and lighter steelwork.
There is also frame building will bear com-saving in time, and the work of a considerable, parison, so far as durability is various trades concerned in the concerned, with the massive
can proceed expendi structures of the ancients; it is tiously, and in
erection
many cases,
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28 crete, stone, wood, and other Speed in erection not only materials which can, when the effects appreciable economice in necessity arises, be removed to labour costs, but enables ther allow of extensions and altera-eventual occupier of the building Itions in the design.
to have the use of it with the
The increasing employment of minimum of delay, steelwork has entirely revolu-
Strains And Streses.
tionised working methods in the In recent years a great deal of building industry, during the last knowledge has been gained con thirty years. Before even the cerning strains and stresses, foundations of a building are Building constructors have had completed the steelworks can be to revise many established ideas. occupied in the fabrication of the regarding the weights which can 5 skeleton structure. It is manu- be carried on given sizes of steel
factured to Buch close and ac-framework.
The ideal steel frame consists
12 curate limits that it can be
brought to the site, as soon as of columns and beams neither the foundations are laid, and thicker nor heavier than Is erected with remarkable speed necessary to carry the weight_off 10 and simplicity.
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