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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1949,
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ENGINEERING PAGE
Large Industrial Construction By McGraw And Co.
F. H. McGrow ond.Company is a gonóral contractor in the best and fullost sense of that form. It embodies. within its own organisation super- visors, foremon and mechanics, all trained and qualified experts in the handling of every major phase of an
industrial construction pro-
gramme.
The organisation of the Company's jobs is such that almost without exception work is completed on schedule even when deadlines are extremely short. An example of this is the building of the US$17,000,000 aluminium plant for the Reynolds Alloys Company at Sheffield, Ala- bama. Although the contract was signed on February 7, 1941, the first sheers were rolled on August 2, 1941, less than six months later.
of all foundations and meant that the company's forces had to work at a spoed and of- ficiency without previous parallel.
of Indication the Alabama, in less than six months, A further
Included the engineering Company wad This versatility of the the moving of the entire plant of design the Howard Axle Works from its Icention at Homestead, Penney Ivania, to a new alte 11 miles away. Despite the fact that thin Involved the moving, rehabilitation and re-erection of all machinery including the biler plant, a high Award for its construction rate of production was maintain of the $1,000,000 Jayhawk Or- ed at the plant throughout the dinance Works at Barter Springs,
Kansas.
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In February, 1943, The Com- pany redicelved the Army-Navy
Optical projectors are the most reliable and convenient means of examining compileated shapes that are required to be produced with great shapes that are required to be pro- duced with great accuracy. This projector made by Adam Hilger Ltd., St. Patora Way London N. W. 1. England, is shown with m large hob in position for having the form of
its teeth, checked,
GEC Laboratories
And Atomic Research
This was the first "E" to be also The Company
has had the erection given to a construction company wide experience In
A recent and brief review of the size of of heavy machinery, example of this was the installa-lhe project tells what a construc- way! tion of the largest hydraulic tien achievment this job
used: press in America. Built by the 145,000 blue prints were Mesta Machine Company, Pitts71 structures and 6 cooling towers. thene weal burgh, Pensylvania, this 18,000-were erected; into ton press was erected at the North 0,500 tons of steel, 5,000,000 board 200 miles of Grafton,
Massachuette, plant of foot of lumber,
miles of the Wyman-Gordon Products Cor-process piping and 700 porntion. It will be used for the copper wire. forging of magnesium,
To quote from the address given Tangible proof of the trust by General Lewis A. Pick, U.S.A., placed in the Company was the at the presentation of the "In
cannot give a com- Ford Motor Company's selection Award: "I of F. McGraw's as the first or parlson of 'size of this plant but awarded am free to tell you that no con- zanisation ever to bo
by tractor in his sane mind would contract comprehensive Ford for the purchase and ins-in normal times dare to take such to build a plant of tallation of all production equip a contract ment in a Ford automotive plant. this nature with less than two This was for new assembly years allotted time. piunt at St. Louis and marked d signal departure in the policy of Ford, which had heretofore han dled all such work within its own organisation.
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"No, I might say that the con- tractor would ask much more than For two yeare' time to build this in normal times. You, as soldiers of construction, have accomplished your mission in less than a year." Less than 1 year later, F. 1. The Company is proud of the McGraw and Company recolved role it wan permitted to play its second Army-Nary "E". This during the war years, who was for the construellon of the activities were 100 per cent devát- ed to the war effort of the allles.tal $30,000,000. Bermuda Neval
Air Station.
·Some of the problems encoun- Flor to the entry of the United Staten into World War II, F. H. terod were: loveling two Islands McGraw and Company built the and joining them to the mainland: transporting 3,600 workers from U.S. $12,500,000 Ammonia
the United States to the job-site; Plant Nitrate Ainmonium Welland, Ontario, for the Allied Retting up housing, commissary War Council,
At the time this and recreational facilities for thly furnishing un it number of men; built Waa Canadian project was the largest complete explosive akqoate water supply in a land dependent upon a rainfall for plant yet conceived.
drinking water,
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at
Charter Ships
the earliest announcements concerning the atomic bomb, which also revealed the immense field of research work in progress on all mattørs rolating to atomic energy, it was disclosed that Ce General Electric Company Ltd. of England was sharing in the development work. security reasons little can be said of the nature of this work, but it can be disclosed that the GEC has been associated with the construction of the latest synchrotron designed and operated by the Atomic Energy Research Establishment of the Ministry of Supply.
This synchrotron is used for nine feet and is built up from the acceleration of electrons to several sections which are clamp- with pressure-Ught energies of 30 million electroned together
two 8skels.
The GEC Research Laboratories volts, and is useful for main purposes:
havo developed new techniques to metal scals for the precision munufacture of these columns. in making glass
First, as a model to provide in- ther machines of very high en formation for the design of fur ergy and secondly, to produce penetrating X-rays for treating deep-seated malignant tumours, not at present easily accessible to external radiation.
The Research Laboratories of
In 1941, when scarcity of threatened aluminium seriously the American defence programme F. H McGraw and Company con-
F. H. McCraw and Company the GEC have built the glass structed the $17,000,000 aluminium
for rolling mill
the Reynolds was not in the shipping business, vacuum annull (or "doughnuts") Alloys
but during its contract period for this synchrotron, in which Company at Shefield,
it had to charler more
the electrons being accelerated needed have a score of ships to carry
stable orbit of 10 cm men and materiala through sub- marine infested waters,
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In association with the Radio Therapeutic Research Unit of the Medical Research Counoll, work a micro- is also being done on wave linear accelerator to give compact source of electrons and X-rays in the range five to 20 Mev.
Electrons are injected into a specially designed resonator which is, fed by a high power pulsed magnetron and are then acceler New to marine work, the com The synchronised dectric fieldsted to a high velocity by the
successfully and is produced in a radio-frequency pany dredged
axlal electrical
field,
in minimum time channels for resonator mounted on a lead con- sonator. the largest vessels, built harboura xial with the "doughnut," which and demonstratou its ablilty
also incorporates a mount for an
to handio efficiently any type electron gun designed to operate
of engineeringing and construction
work under the most trying of up to 20 kv.
conditions.
Work is also in hand on vacuum This building of the Bermuda annuli of much larger dimensions for other synchrotrons to produce diversified types of construction. electrons of much greater
baso Involved
more than 50
Yet, despite the enormity of the energy.
projest, thoatation and main
hangar of the base were ready
The
synchrotron accelerates alternative
for airplanes to land and tako-electrons whilst they traverse a off within eight months
coral rock was lifted.
Fifteen men and officers
froms
circular path. An
the time the first shovelful of method employs a Van der Grant electro- of generator which is an F. H. McGraw and Company stated that acesta ng vor-
ticles in straight paths by received for their work on the ages between two and four MV. Bormada Naval Air Station the
the length of Méritorious Civilian Service In order to keep
reasonable this apparatus to award Award, highest civilian
figure and to cusure a uniform given by the US Navy.
In December, 1945, F. H. Mc-gradient, the accelerating tube la of thin Graw and Company was addition built up of a number ally bondured by beltig awarded the rings separated by annular gloss Certificate of Achievement of the spacers at a regular spacing of U.S. Navy. This award was niade four to the inch.
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in recognition of exceptional ac
A certain proportion of the complishment on behalf of the
metal rings is connected to United States Navy and of mar-
so that ttorious contribution to the nation potential divider
potential difference between the al war effort,
In addition to the Bermads Arends is spread equally over all Station, this award covered the the glass spacers. work done by F. H. McGraw and
Company to the $7,000,000 recon The general result is that th struction and modernisation (in-rings act as a succession of weak cluding the building of a marine electron-optical lenses and the railway, permanent barracks, accelerated particles follow paths Warehouses, laboratories, plers, substantially parallel to the axis mazesinės, sea walis, etc. of the of; the column. 13.
. Bubmarine Base $1-Now Lon-
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that the
of equipment, fehabilitation of tube la vacuummelight while under priating facilities/ami miscellanari extorial pressure of 400 Th. dis volstruction at the US. Nával nh trị, the spacers: und rings are The accelerator Chedinance Plant at 9outh Charles- fused together.
* tube has a total length of about son Went Virale:
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