MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26,' 1934. -
THE CHINA MAIL,
Engineering and Building
PRODUCING OIL
FROM COAL
Huge Plant Designed For South Wales.
£7,000,000 SCHEME
Details of a scheme for the pro- duction of all from coal were plac- ed before a meeting of the South Walen Industrial Development Council at Cordif. The scheme, which has been prepared by Pro- fessor G. Knox, Dr. Roy Ilingworth, and Mr. H. H. Merrett. provides for the erection of one hydrogena- tion plant and ten 1,000-ton low-; temperature carbonisation plants along the south-eastern outcrop of the coal-field at an estimated total cost of £7,000,000.
The end of the longest mass formation fight in avia-įmander Kneffer McGinnis, come to rest in Hawaiian tion history is pictured as six United States Navy waters after the 2,150-mile non-stop flight from San seaplanca, under the leadership of Lieutenant Com-Francisco to Pearl Harbor in a little over 24 hours.
NEW WHITEHALL
BUILDING
Devonshire Architect
Commissioned.
PRIZEWINNER OF 20 YEARS AGO
It is estimated that the hydro- genation plant would produce 100,000 tons of petrol a year from about 365,000 tons of coal, and would provide permanent employ ment for 1,000 miners and 1,509 process workers. Its construction would give temporary employment to about 15,000 men for one year,
The ten 1,000-ton L. T. C. plants would treat 3,650,000 tons of coal
Ormsby-Gore, First per annum, producing about 240,missioner of Works, announced in 000 tons of heavy oil, 140,000 tons the House of Commons
Mr.
Com-
that Mr.
ap-
E. Vincent Harris had been
FAMOUS TIMES
SQUARE BLOCK
TO BE SOLD
Huge Structure Plan Abandoned.
VALUABLE LOT ON MARKET
New York.
tween
NEW USE OF SOLID CARBON-DIOXIDE
Refrigerating Medium
For Food-Stuffs.
SUPERIORITY TO ICE FOR TRANSPORT PURPOSES
AT LAST IN HONG KONG REAL LIVE
A
BROADWAY REVUE
HENRY BELLIT PRESENTS
"Hello Hong Kong”
99
20 STARS FROM NEW YORK'S "BROADWAY”
Featuring
EDDIE CONRAD
STAR OF ZIEGFELD FOLLIES and WINTER GARDEN REVUES
As
BILL
The employment of solid carbon- Plans for a towering structure to
dioxide as a refrigerating medium is rapidly extending in Britain, It cover the New York Theatre block offers particular advantages, of light of, 70.000 tons of pitch. 3,220,600,000 rabic feet of surplus pointed architect of the new Goy the east side of Broadway, be compared with water ice, in the gas, and 2,520,000 tons of smoke.ment building in White-hall.
Forty-fourth and Fourty-transport of perishable foodstuffs, Structures on which Mr. Harris Jess fuel. These plants would find
fifth Streets. opposite
in that the gas given off can be the Hotel Ci- permanent emplomyent for 4,000 is already working are Leads
employed to create an atmosphere] abandoned miners and 1.400 process workers, le Hall. Manchester Town Hall Astor, have been
de-which inhibits the growth of bac- and temporary work for 12,000 extension and City Library, Chi-finitely and the property is to be teria or moulds, this property be-[]
chester County Hall, Somerset sold. men for one year.
The combined plants would County Hall, the County House at therefore use over 4,009,000 tons of Bristol, and Sheffield City Hail. He
University extension,
The Paramount Publix Theatre
coal annually, and would produce also responsible for the Exeter trustees. Messrs. Charles D. Hilles, developments that are taking place
Town Hall. Essex. Giamorgan
about 1,500,000 tons of Huld and gaseous fuel and 2,500.000 tons of smokeless cos). The total value County Hall, Cardiff, and Suncey of the products is extimated County Ball at Kingston.
arheme for
were
ing particularly valuable in the case of meat or fish.
An interesting example of the Braintree Eugene W. Leake and Charles E. in its application is afforded by a Ruchardson, have commissioned new Insulated container mounted on a trailer which has recently. Messrs. P. Day and Peter Grimm to been put into service for the trans- When the £5,475,000 from 4,015,000 tons of
a new go into the real estate market and port of meat. The container has building coal costing £3,011,250, leaving
was projected in 1914 End a buyer for the big structure. been designed by Messrs. R: A. Dy- balance of £2,463,750 to cover la-competitive plang
Invited, The nnouncement brings to an cos and Company. Limited, of bour costs, water and electricity and 187 designs were submitted by
with supplies, maintenance and repairs, architects in various parts of the end the hopes of Broadway that an- Liverpool, in collaboration
Messrs. Imperial Chemical Indus- Mr. Harris won the com- other greater theatre, then any that tries, the actual Empire. rates, faxes, and insurance, and, amortisation and interest on a ca-elfiion, but the scheme was drop. has been erected in this city, would the complete vehicle being carried construction of ped because of the war. He now be built on this site. This was the out by the former firm. The operating costs of the conures the commission by selec-orlyinal plan of the Paramount
tion, nearly 20 years atter
The container is 13 ft. long, 6 plants are estimated
Publix interests when they started ft. 6 in. wide, and 6 ft, 10 in. bigh," ning the rumpetition. of!
A Devonport man. Mr. Harris assembling this property, following these dimensions being all mea- As an alternative to the shove peut seven years, as a young ar-the completion of the Paramount sured internally. The capacity is scheme, it was suggested that the chitect, in the service of the Lon- Building on the site of the Putnara 575 cub. ft., and the designed load hydrogenation praress might bedon County Council.
is 8 tons to 10 tons. Buliding, formerly Shanley's on the!
A 4-in. air space is provided on block diagonally opposite.
jevery side of the body. Including | The aseembinge of this large pro- the gas-tight doors, and is Alled perty, which includes the Broadway with 12 layers of "Alfol," an in- frontage a number of connecting sulating material consisting of parcels on cach side street, was sheets of crinkled aluminium foil. curried
with on
considerable Apart from the fact that this ma
pital expenditure of £7,000,000
bined £1,475,000, leaving a balance £988,000.
at
limted to the oils produced from
the L. T. C. plants, together withị what could be obtained from
ric..
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win-
works, roke ovens, which NEW TECHNIQUE FOR would reduce the initial capital BUILDING NEEDED.
expenditure by about £2,000,000,
and produce
A more
profitable
yicid, as the tur oils, worth £2 10%. "City Planning Schemes secrecy. Properties were acquired terial is less easily fouled than
a ton, could be converted into pe trol worth £15 a ton. Under this scheme a balance of £1,800,000 was estimated on the converaton of 240,000 tons of tar oil into petrol.
It was pointed out that the south. ern and eastern rim of the coalheld
contained the best coal for hydro-
genation, while the adjoining ares
contained the best coal for low-tem
Now Obsolete."
Mr. Clarence S. Stein asserts that there is a need for new technique city planning and building in which individualistic methods will have no place.
in the names of different
persons compressed sawdust or cork, ita and companies over a period of extreme lightness renders it very! years until the company had secured suitable for refrigerating vehicles| a site large enough for the improve-of all types, in which a low body ment which it had in mind.
weight represent a corresponding. Two years ago there was a story ly low heat capacity. that pians would soon be announced for the development of the plot,
Refrigerating Equipment.
through a depression like other de- higher than
He says "We are not passing with a structure which would tower The refrigeration equipment con- the Empire State Bist of two bunkers, one at each perature carbonisation (if used pewarld is not temporary,
presalons. The allment of the Building, and at the base of which end of the body, each capable of parately), but a mixture of all the
The old would be a theatre that would seat holding 100 lb. of “Drikold," a form small coals in the coalfield, from world is dying and in dying it is more persons than any other show of solid carbon-dioxide manufac anthracite to bituminous, could be giving birth to a new era. converted into a smokeless fuel. although the yield of off would be come less with increasing propos tions of the drier coals.
"Architecte will go back to work another world. The old scenery they painted in 1920 will not fit the
house in the world.
tured by Messrs. Imperial Chemi- cal Industries.
In order that full advantage may be taken of the property of carbon-
realities of this changed world. SWANSEA ELECTRIC dioxide gas In inhibiting the
Unless architects have some idea of what the play is about they are go- EXPRESS FREIGHTng to make a pretty poor job of
ENGINES.
40 Of Latest Giants For British Railway.
Forty new super-heated tender engines are being constructed
at
the L. M. S. Rallway's Crewe works for working primarily the heavily loaded express freight trains tween the principal commercial,
be-
The new engines have six cou- pled wheels and weigh over 107 1ons in working order, being equip- ped with a six-wheeled tender carrying 3500 gallons of water and
the setting and costumes,
"Our cities are obsolete. Our Lask is to build a new setting for a new era, but by the old piecemeal, wasteful, speculative methods we cannot attain that end."
SHANGHAI'S FIRST SKYSCRAPER,
Patekar
POWER STATION
growth of bacteria or moulds, the doors of the van are made comTM pletely gas tight. It may be men-
Great Progress Madeloned that carbon dioxide gas is
With New Work.
READY FOR MACHINERY IN SUMMER
approximately twice as heavy a air at the temperature of the solid brick, and it therefore tends to
Dour out of any opening.
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Arrangements are made for the gas given off by the Drikold to be Sir Cyril Kirkpatrick, the con- pumped either into the refrigerat- aulting engineer to the Swansea ed space of the body, into the out- Corporation In connection with alde atmosphere, or into the insula- their new electric power station, tion, according to the type of goods in the course of a recent address.
carried, the object of the last ar
centres on the L. M. S. system. Savings Society Building said that the civil engineering rangement being to improve the
Nears Completion. the summer.
work would be completed during efficiency of the insulation,
The Drikold is loaded into the The deeper of the shafts and bunkers through the roof so that, Work on the new Grosvanor tunnels connected with the King's In case of necessity, the bunkers House, on Rue Cardinal Mercier, Dock for the cooling water had can be re-charged without opening Shanghai, is progressing and the been completed, while the work on the main doors. This, however, is |building is beginning to take shape, the other to the Queen's Dock was rarely necessary, as a full charge intended to be on of the finest had been made with the founda circumstances..... This apartment when completed Is well advanced. Great progress will last about 23⁄41⁄2 days in normal structures of its kind in this part tious,
.b tons of coal,
SCISSORS COMBINE FOR SHEFFIELD,
Costs Lower Than Ever Previously Known,
ANA UTests carried out on the trans-
of the world. Palmer and Turner The Swansea Electricity Commit-port of frozen meat in this trailer are the architects.
tes have arranged for the town on journeys from Liverpool to The maiting has been removed clerk and the borough electrical Smithfield Market have proved en- from the exterior of the new Joint engineer to Interview the Electri-tirely satisfactory. The trailer Savings Society building on Babcity Commissioners with regard to described form one of a range of A combination of scissora mann-bling Well Road overlooking the the grid connections. The grid "Drikold" refrigerated containers facturers has been set up for the Race' Course and fhis structure, has been connected with the Swap for all purposes, including detach- production of acissors on mass pro-Bhanghai's frat akyscraper, offers sen power station and has been able skips or iling vans for one duction lines by processes new to an Imposing sight to Shangat tested, but it is not required for when Shefeld, Previous stages of man-landers. The building, designed present supplies, and it is suggest. ufacture will be eliminated - and by Architect La E. Hudeo, is done ad that fullë, operation, should be costs will be reduced below any in a reddish brown colour which deferred for some months-Engin level formerly attained.
proven very pleasing to the eye": "dering,
required-/tó be
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IN THE LEAD!
UNRIVALLED IN DELICACY OF FLAVOUR & COOL SMOKING QUALITIES
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