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Short Brothers & Harlant Ltd; of Belfast, left that elty fast month for an extensive demonstration tour of Western Europe and North- West Africa, piloted by Mr. G. Moulton-Barrett.
Today there are, tow aircraft in production designed to operate from elther land airfields or marine, bazes,
Skurt Brothers & Harland, ploneet, scaplane builders,, have! therefore planned this tour of |0,500 miles, to show, the, unusual versatility of the "Scaland", "with its flylig þoại · hull, and neat retractable and undercarriage:
Normally accommodating, five passengers, the comparatively "Sealoud" small twin-enuince also provides all the comfor! So ustoelated with the famous Short commercial, flying bonts used by the British Overseas Airways) Corporation antt.ottler airties.
Nor in performance greatly hampered by the inulti-purpose cappelly of the "Scalond": the maximum dying speed, for ex- umple, is 218 m.ph, and a range!
of 405 mulles coh be operated with safety and eficiency.
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'Ghell'a aracolate Company.
Venezuala recently took delivery of two Preludi prince comma Alrarifi the firkt Öfitlan Aircraft of delt.#ke Bécību to be oldered by the Royal Dutcli/ößell Broua. Pietūrė shows shall'a first Peròival Prince off test before lesy.
ing for Venezuela.
Improved machine tool testing
many of the requirements of mödörn lile depend directly or indirectly on machine tools that the dévëĺöpmönt of more effectiva máćkiñë tôðli constitutes one of the most frültfül sðürces of improved standards of living and improved no- tional economiids.
Shell have been entrusted with Moreover, the mere maintenence of present
the fuelling and lubrication of the "Sealand" throughout i Lour, to last more than a month. No fewer than 30 fuelling opera- tions, ni the least, will be LA- valved, at airports.tanglug as far uffeld as Las Palmas in the Canary Islands and Sun Homb (Italy).
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standards of living demands continued improve- ment in production tools and technique to off- set the effect of steadily rising läbour and material costs,
Low water damage in boilers
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Tad many owners of studim ANDERSEN, MEYER & COMPANY, LTD.
bollers fail to realise that the
baller is constantly exposed. DAVID HOUSE:
to low water damage. They seem to feel that low water is something that ofEurd only bil rare occasions some thing that they can prevent by merely glancing at the water glass once or twice day.
This idea has long since been exploded, Nutitally, rariful watching of the water glass helps fo reduce the danger of dantile, but the history of Iterally hun dreds of burned or cracked boties proyes that the onb safe course is found a the constant protection that can only be assured by a thurhughly dependable ublier: tebiler of low water etti-of?.
As a matter of fact, every feat Ing man knows, that no due cant tell when or why the, water hing suddenly cave à bolter,
A sputting är valve, b. sagged return which traps conderentjoh, abartially closed valve, briming,
caming, and syphonlik, dře just A few of the many causes of low water damage that bhi and de develop when- least expected.
When a condensation pump is used the hazard becomes still greater due to the danger of d fuse blowing and making the
Piecemeal development carried determine accurate allhitibat, pump thoperative.
but haphazardly By isolated firms is no longer adequate a. properly organised comprehensive plan of hichthe tool research is essential to sustain the engineering indus- try of any country which aspires to a place finog the leading in- dustrial nations of the world.
Pēta röseärch
has already begun to provide for The British engineering industry
The investigations, of this body are Onanced and broadly con- trolled by both makers and users
of machine tools, and all those firms which support FERA, have -ca; equal-right to the information derived from the experiments.
The general object of machines SOUTH RHODESIAN to research is the attainment of
DAM PLANNED greater economy in the manufac
ture and use of manfilné tools.
This is emphasised by the fact deflection, vibration, mechanical efficiency, and other feptuses of that insurance companies otten the machine tool, pointed out Dr. insist on Boiler feeder for pump D. F. Galloway, PERA Director of Johs befort underwriting the risk. Research, in a survey of the re- Essential as lov wafer protbe- search programme made at a rction is for hahulfred, hollets, it is cent meeting of the Manchester still inero, essential for autoindu Association of Engineers,
cally fired boilers.
Basic data sölight-
Jacking,
Sound practice
The very term, "automatic,"
A survey of existing Informa-implies telling the burner or tools has revented that until, re- the boiler room. What can he tion on researches into machinb stoker do the work and forgetting
design, mntinufacture, and efficient gramme of machine tool tests boller owner 12 forget the baller the continued development of the contly no comprehensive pro- more inconsistent, than telling the utilisation of machine tools by
room in one breath, and then making this one of the main sec- had been carried out.
naking him to watch the ghuge tions of the research activities of the Production Engineering Re of machine tools have now com-
Tests, covering a wide range glass in the
next? Certainly the caly sound prae- search Association (PERA).
menced at the FERA Liboratorics, tice, is to make the boiler water and it is intended that these level as automatic as the firing:
Viewed in asis tight, a combin should provide the fundamental dals which, in the past, has beened boller her feeder atto
water cut-off is as essential 18 A pressure automatic firing. The general policy. Behind the control or
All Halföial althofflies on be programs that the tests
and fire Protec- should be compréhensive rather eldent, Property, and Crin deltiled; their main ob- tian have recognised the impor feet is to survey the field and tance of boiler water lövbl edn
It search out the problems. The trol. mentin under which observations to this writice, recommended dre balrig made have been indien by the A. S. of H. & V. E. Gulde This object is achieved by nna- | ted above.
urged by the boiler Insurance London building, firm, is to begin lysing and correlating the results
endorsed by the work in the New Year dn a of carefully controlled lests to
In order that the results on-
riters' Laboratories, /
and £500,000 dam In Rhodesk
tained, may form a valid basis actually made mandatory, by the for general conclusioits it i brdinances
more than 20 casental that the tests should Le cohdutta on a timber of ve cities in the US.
every boller owner could be Presentative machines from differ-made fully to appreciate the hazard of low water, and realisg ent males.
Only in this way eat a sound the cost of repairing the damage background of data be, secumu it pauses; there would unquestion lated on the general performance ably be a boiler, feeder or low and standard of British machine water cut-off on every steam tools.
Bolier.
Richard Costain, Ltd., the
The contract, which is shared with a Cape Town fim, provides
for the construction of a dam at large building projects in South Hupyantpoort, about 20 miles from ern Rhodesin, ineluding houses Salisbury, with a Etorage capacity and two céinent factories, expect of about $5,000,000,000 gallons to complete the dam within 18 and covering an area of about months. efgat, square mifts.
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The water from the dam lehard Costain, who have needed for irrigating large farm already carried out a number oft lig drets.
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