THE CHINA | MAIL," TUESDAY," SEPTEMBER 11, 1934.
MARVELS OF MERSEY TUNNEL ASTOUND WORLD
SHEFFIELD STEEL BRILLIANT LIGHT AND
INDUSTRY
Current Output A Record
ADMIRALTY ORDERS
Features of Я favourable character have developed in sereral sections of the local steel. engineering and machinery branches. Steel production is increasing. Current output is
estimated at the rate of 11⁄2 million tons per annum, which constitutes a record. A steady run is reported on basic-steel billets. Acid materials show little '. change.
belter ione machinery
branches.
CLEAN AIR
DREAM THAT CAME TRUE
AFTER 9 YEARS TOIL
COST NEARLY £8,000,000,
Liverpool. THE Mersey Tunnel, is a hundred-year dream come true.
Many of the dreamers have died since the funnel was only a glorious conception, but now the vision has become a reality—a standing tribute to the far sight of the promoters, the Ingenuity of the designers, and the skill of the workmen.
There is romance in every line of Queensway, the name by which, with the King's permission, the tunnel will be known-the romance of men fighting against opposition from above" ground and danger below it.
IN
Viktor Latse, above, 'was named", chief of the Nazi'storm troops when Chancellor Hitler... deposed and summarily executed' Captain -Ernat Roehm, former Brown Shirt leader, for conspiracy, in the mase "blood bath" that swept Germany.
SUMMER LETHARGY IN BUILDING
Low Land Sales In Shanghai
MARKET CONSIDERED SOUND
The all-pervading, summer leth- argy has been reflected in land transactions during the past two months, sales having been few in number and small in size, bring- ing the total value of land report- Jed sold to slightly over $1,750,000.
Except during the time of mili- tary operations in Shanghai (Jan- uary and February, 1932), this Is the amallest, volume of turnover in any two months period during five years;
The scrap market is in A healthy condition. Prices of most classes of scrap show a rising Many a time during the past nine, In view of the possible risks from tendency, particularly in the case years of building, as the throbbing poison-gas, It was decided to add of seid-steel scrap, of which sup drills bored through stubborn rock £1,000,000 to the cost of the ven-
However, this is a fact which plies are nono too plentiful. A and sandstone, with only a few feet tilation system. The result is a
need not be viewed with alarm, as exists in the peavy sometimes between them and the tunnel which is absolutely pure from 40-foot grass verges have been pro-in addition to the seasonal duli-
and engineering Mersey bed, the promoters and end to end, with fresh alr
engineers must have known despair.stantly circulating through it and led with thousands of flowering ly the result of a factor which, convided. These are at present plant-ness mentioned above, it is large- Armament production has un-The tunnel, now a gleaming under-noxious fumes diapersed from trees-but if it ever becomes neces-in the considered opinion of many, dergone little change. Firms en-water thoroughfare, two miles long, towers many feet above the street. gaged in the manufacture of holds stories of heroism which will Thirty great fans, some of themary to construct supplementary is a wholesome one. This factor carriageways, the land will be is. the withdrawal of purely spe- heavy forgings and castings in never be told,
[28ft. across, are housed in six ven-
available.
| culative ́oparators to fields other connection with Admiralty orders It took nearly nine years of hard tilation buildings, where everything
At 24 important crossings, than real estate trading. are working at full capacity. In ftoil to build this tunnel at a cost has been done to ensure against circuses" 240 feet In diameter sonte Instances overtime is neces of nearly £3,000,000. In that time. breakdown.
Evidence Of Soundness assure a safe, swift passage to all sary". Mercantile requirements
· 800.000 cubic yards of rock, Safety in the tunnel is guarded
Inquiries in the present market comers. are on the increuse.
weighing 1,200,000
was by a control-room which is a scien-
are almost solely from prospective tons.
Filling The Swamps The call for railway rolling-
shifted, and
tific marvel. Delicate instruments
users of land who are seeking stock shows little sign of revival. in its place was put a great tube record air purity and visibility. Many engineering difficulties were sites for specific development. Al- Sheffield Corporation have placed of iron and concrete weighing The slightest mishap in the tunnel met and overcome during the course though this is reflected in a small- contracts valued at many thou-
Towards theler turnover, the real estate situa- 350,000 tons.
is brought to the immediate notice of its construction.
Liverpool end the bullders found)tion is sands of pounds for high mangan- During the boring 33,400,000 tons of the operator, and fires can be
now characterized by themacives confronted with large steady prices, ese steel tramway ruiks, fishplates, of water were pumped into the dealt with instantly.
easy mortgage mil see tie-bars, crossings and river.
areas of bog, and had to excavate money at comparatively low rates Other scientific wondere Include juntions, and anchor bolts, nuts, The debris excavated from the beams of light which count the peat to a depth of from seven to ten of interest, and brisk activity in and plates.
tunne! was used for making road number of vehicles entering the feet to provide a sound foundation building.
for the road. of tunnel and measure the height of
The French Concession showed Orders are also to be given out foundations, the reclamation
For this purpose good. usa was the greatest volume of sales in for 26 oilcooled transformers, large stretches of foreshore at their loads. Automatic weighing
made of the unsightly slag-heaps the period under review, and was transformer sub-station equipment, Otterspool, and to fill in a disused machines do the work of many men that disfigure the landscape in the considerably ahead of Greater four 30-est. tipping lurries, con-quarry at Storeton. The quarry is and the tunnel crete-lined cast-iron pipes, and automatically-operated electrically-j driven pumping plant for use in connection with increased water supply. British orders for mining gear are not impressive.
Foreign Mining Gear
ELM
now a nine-nere field cattle graze.
un which an
electrically-driven machine.
The man who more than
cleansing
any
feat of joining Liverpool and Bir-far-sightedness and dogged On the other hand, foreign min. kenhead with a tunnel double the mination prevented the tunnel ing enterprises are taking bigger cross-sectional area of any other scheme from degenerating into a
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aupplies of locally-made pneu-under-water thoroughfare and with mouldering document In a pigeon building this magnificent, highway,
New £3,000,000 'Road
820,000
227,000
121,000
79,200
$1,766.900
is cleaned by
St. Helens district. In all, 1,700,000 Shanghai and the Western Exten- tons of earth was cut from, the hills aion, which were near each other and used to fill up the valleys, in turnover. Totals of reported First Borings
other was responsible for making supplemented by a further 1,000,000 sales in June and July were From a jagged hole beside the a dream a reality was the late Sirtons from the slag-heaps, and more follows: river there emerged gradually the Archibald Salvidge-better known than a thousand men were engaged French Concession... $603,900
do this task. graceful lines of Queensway. This an "Salvidge of Liverpool," whose
Greater Shanghai
.355,800 deterbuilt, to carry the road over rail-Western District
In addition, 30 bridges, had to be Western Extension
ways and riversat
Central District Great as has been the task of Eastern District matic drills, dredger buckets, a road-width of 36ft., taking four hole.
yet it is merely a first instalment Total washing plant, and grinding and lines of traffic, began with the sink-
of ・ #gauch mi greater.. schemes crushing machinery. Active con- ing of a 200ft. shaft on either side
The new East Lancashire road, Ultimately, it la planned to ditions prevail in special steel of the river. From these shafts production. Heavy orders are on two tunnels, no larger than those if along which their Majesties the tinue the road from its present hand for stainless steel for des London's Underground, and one King and Queen drove when open- extremity at Irlame-o'th-Height- patch to various parts of the above the other, were started framing the tunnel has been described across the Pennines to the Hum- as "the Ship Canal of land comber, and thus open up a new route country. An inquiry has been re-jeither end. ceived locally from Calcutta for Slowly the workmen, groped their munications" between Liverpool and across England.
Manchester, 3,336 lb. of tool steel.
way towards one another, boring, The tool trades make headway, drilling, blasting, until that momea- Strong recommendations having tous day came when the twin tun- been made by the Sheffield Cham-nels met 150ft. below the surface of the river. It was a great moment ber of Commerce, the British au- thorities in Madrid have succeed-for Merseyside when a swinging ed in procuring exemption, so far pick shattered the last thin wall of as this country is concerned, from rock separating Liverpool from
Birkenhead,
and when. a few the excessive duties on files, pub- lished in the Spanish Govern-minutes later, the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birken-
ment's Decree of March 13.
In a Decree dated May 25, the Spanish Government indicates that the previous increase in duties
made
• was
head shook hands below the river.
When the twin tunnels met they
were little more than half an inch. out of linea fact which attested taken to make
to operate against the infinite care countries which were dumping on Queensway the safest and most the Spanish market, and that efficient tunnel in the world.
is not taking place.
it will not be enforced against At that time Queensway was but countries that can prove dumping a pair of roughly hewn tunnista. Now it is a brilliant highway, Ita The evidence submitted on be half of the Sheffield firms (who doreamy wall and black glass dado gleaming under subtly diffused
re-
of
a big trade with Spain) proved lighting. Its four entrances-two that Great Britain was. not dump on the Liverpool side and two In ing files. Hence, in their case, Birkenhead-are a triumph the higher duties have been with utility wedded to beauty. The six drawn. Increasd sales are
buildings which house the vast ven- ported in farm and garden Imple-tilating systems have added con- ments. Only a moderate busi-giderably to the architectural charm ness, however, is passing in sawa, of both cities. eythes, and plantation tools.
Underneath the smooth plaster of the arching walls is a water-tight casing of iron and concrete of
OVERTIME WITHOUT enormous strength Across the
PAY
Speeding Production
In Soviet
middle of the tube. is a fast thoroughfare with a non-skid sur-
face.
12,000,000 Vehicles A Year Twelve million vehicles will be able to go through it in a year.
A Moscow telegram says that the Cars travelling at twenty miles an working of overtime is increasing hour will complete the journey be
to an enormous extent all over Rus tween Liverpool" and Birkenhead in sia in an effort to speed up pro-61⁄2 minutes, duction. ..'..
The two main entrances-et Old
"The well-known Margelian fac Haymarket in Liverpool tory in Siberia" provides," it is Chester-street in Birkenhe stated, “a typical example of pre- with curving tunnels sweeping sant-day labour conditions. Men to the main channel, which
at
and women are working from 12 to straight for,
14 houra 78 day and everyday; indle: Uma This schedule had been in force for docka" on te
the
the past five months "All the extra complete anind work is being done without pay of nearly three
Jedway
con-
By providing an alternative to BLOCK OF FLATS FOR THE PEAK the old tortuous route through a
BUILDING ON MT. CAMERON
Three More Bungalows
Three new bungalowe are to be reel-added to the number already built
on Mount Cameron.
succession of congested towns it Another block of modern has reduced the time for the journey denial flats are to be built in the by nearly half an hour. This Feak district. Plans are being Plann have already been submit- ted to the Building Authorities for saving of time, in view of the prepared for the site. thousands of commercial vehicles An old building off Plunkett's approval, and as soon as this bar which use the road daily, is said Road, formerly known as "Hill been obtained, work will commence. Two of these bungalows are of already to justify the 23,000,000 Crest has been demolished. The which was spent in constructing building stood on Rural Building two storeys, while one is of single. Lots Nos. 5 and 17 and was situat-storey. They are being built for On each side of the earriagewayed under Mountain View Terrace.
private owners.
the road.
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