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SCIENCE
THE CHINA: MAIL” MONDAY," JUNE 25, 1950.
ENGINEERING
Sub-Miniature Valve Production TV Eye Clears
SPECIAL MEASURES
TAKEN AT
MODERN FACTORY
Special measures have been taken to ensure absolute cleanliness in 2 U.K. sub-miniature valve factory that recently went into full production near London.
the
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wornesi In the 200 main assembly hall wear nylon headscarves and white cotton overalls Atmospheric pressure in kept above normal to stop sust entering.
A highly-polished wood-block
Personal $5.00 per insertion thor prevents dust collecting. not exceeding 25 words, 25 | Dirt collecting
stanchions and
cents each additional word. roof girders are avolden by a
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FOR SALE
TRUSSES, BELLINE
the alt fun Hearing And Long-
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barrel vaulted roof
fr info from a
Dow
Unique Mature of the factory is that all servies--gas ele, tricity, water and vacuRRUTI parip-
the 4- sembly are
specially constructed basement, Tils en- ables Per servicing below and leaves floor space in the pressurised aver free for
assembly Wink
WANTED KNOWN
from
Wir for The Hate
lungsten Blanets is draws in the third ni the thickness of a human a lalontory adjoining hoor 111
TUONE MAGAZINES Ju wish to keep will look better and singer the thats halt Bratly bound Wo apre riallas in book berulang. ", C Ad."
STAMPS
AOMETHING EXCLUSIVE, Collec- ancurved rampo. tore packets of From 20 cents per packet ugwards.
An nurely SNOW series, South China Morning Post Lid, Wyndham Stroel
Bilsbury Bongkung Houd, Kowloon.
STAMP
ALBUMN
Builder" portes
"Collection Now stock now available, From South China Morning Post Lid, Wyndian street and Salsbury Road, Kowloon.
NOTICE
Mr. W. William; Littler I no longer connected with The A. P. B. Ltd.
THE ADVERTISING &
PUBLICITY BUREAU
LIMITED. 701-706. Marina Rouse, Queen's Kond, Hong Kong.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
TAIPING"
and Ord June, 1956
Danang si cate this vessel with and 199 Menara Grckach de Douglas at Hong Kong
4 Kowloon What Godown at 104 m ne Yiean Wednesday. day, 760 June, and 27th June, 1930,
engreverilatives adv
arest
After ports (31 the valves I have been stamped out in the jeanponistats shop and chemieniły Cesented they are not touched
Lines Painted In Middle
Of The Road
All handling is done by women wering plastic finger stolls or using tweezers.
are
are
These valves
used in hearing aids, portable radio sets, and other miniature circuits.
Valves that will have to under- go specially rigorous conditiers, as aircraft or rockou built in special project called Operation New Pin by the makers
They claim that these
made Valves Are
to highest degree of accuracy possible.
Women on this project work in un velosed
ureu al sperial ther They wear distinctive bluc AVION overnil Fİ K special rates of pay. Supervisors going into
enclosed alu The wear nylon, conts.
☆
The benches have Klass never that Drivent
mallure from the women's breath con desing on
components dutre nessembly. Dust is blown away from the work bench by air thf!t1!* Microscople examina- Inspections cl the electrodes system during t
after assembly
reinforce these precautions.
The Company J talk! of Britade's main mara:facturers of
b-miniature
lyuf valves trandstors. They claim to have proceed
"first the world's midget valve sultable for hearing
la
Their 1932. valves are exported to Scandl navia, Germany and the United Stales.
Several orders have Hiyne Ltd. Stonegeld Way. Viruttas Road South Rulslip. already been received Middlesex, England. from overseas for a new British petrol driven machine that paints white lines in the middle of roads.
claimed to las straight, I N
fara linge nyer log stretchers
cond it for lesN time than that taken by older method
The machine crudate. The siriver to see both rond and Hue 28 18 is being laid, enabling one operator to repaint an old line, whether continuous or broken, marved or straight.
NEW TYPE
A new type of plastic comme will be used with the machine requested is he | Existing Types of rood line paunt have a very short Bfe under modern traße conditions, show- lng bad signs of wear after only La fow werkя
ent durizu nives
BUTTERFIELD &
Akevit,
AWIRE
Austraẞan,ČArientat Line 1. China Navigation Co, Ltd
To ADVERTISERS
SUNDAY POST-HERALD Spice for commerplat advertising should booked not later that
noon on
Wednesdaye.
bo
The new material is claimed to have several advantages, It has lastest over twelve months, the makers my, on some mairi roads.
In adelision it has outstanding colour and quick drying pro- perties, enabling traffic to cross the line within four to six minutes of appileation.
Machine by: Aerostylo Lt, 13
For the SOUTH CHINA Sunbeam Road, London, NW 10.
MORNING POST and the
CHINA MAIL, 48 hours
before date of publication. New Method Of
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and Classified Advertise-
mints as usual,
THE BOYF A GIRLS' CLUDO
• ASSOCIATION
Tyre-Making
A new method of construction
for tyres which may in future
regarded
*1
ss revolutionary
has been developed by Dunlop, their chairman, Lord Baillie, atnounced at the annual general meeting.
"Put simply," he mid, "this
of winding cord routes drum in series of geodetic loops. Patent pro-
consists
a
invites your support in helping to tection for this new procces la train the longkong elitens of to being taken out, but it will be morrow. Subscriptions should be some time yet before it
be COTS
want to:-The Hon. Treasurer, They
fully developod and apolled, Boys and Girls Clubs Association. This new construction may. If Wat Southors Playground. Wanchal
Telephone --- 7401)
Memorial Welfare Cratre, Su
succcssir). introduce entirely
new methods of manufacture for a wicie range of tyres in the future."
NOTICE
JORDAN ROAD — WANCHAI FERRY SERVICE
On and after the 1st July, 1956, the Timetable for
the above Ferry Service will be amended as follows:-
From Jordan Noað
6.20 a.m. 7.05 am,
From Wanchal
Every
0.10 am.-
6.45 a.m. 15 mins.
+í
7.00 --- 10.10 10.18
10
7.20
*
P
H
- 10.10 p.m.
A
1
10.20 p.
11.00
10
11
11.12
1.00 am. 12
TE
10.30 10.30 -10.30 p.m. 10.40 pm. — 11.30 11.42
1.00 n.m.
+
THE HONGKONG & YAUMATI FERRY CO, LTD,, Hongkong, 23rd June, 1956,
A blooming and slabbing mill designed and built by the
and Brightside Foundry
Engineering Company Ltd, of Shenold, England, for an oversta customer, The company has supplied rolling mill equipment to many countries In- cluding Austraila, New Zealand, India, Canada, South
Africa and countries in Europe and South America,
سوال:
Modern Farming Aided By Chemist
Modern tarining Is very largely conducted by the aid of the chemist, to whom the farmor now looks more navd more not
for fertiliser but abo for pest Control
Engineer and chernist get to gether when it comes to provid- machines for spreading ing
for applying ex
and
sprays.
Among the newost types la a now range recently announced by Fleons Pest Control Ltd, Hurston, Cambridgeshire, Eng Land. This Is the
tractor mounted Fieldmaster range, in-
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SO HAPPY
TO SEE YOU--DEAR COUSIN --
ER-WE'RE ALWAYS
PLEASED TO SEE
YOU, MICHAEL.
FERDINAND
NANCY
SLUGGO HAS A
HOLLER TREE IN HIS YARD
IT'S BEEN YEARS SINCE WE RODE TOGETHER. WILL YOU, TOMORROW,
NARDA?
In 1796 |
JOHNNY HAZARD
A KISS FOR LUCK, BABY! GUSTY'S BUILDING [ANEST EGG FOR US,
HONEY!
ER--YES. 600DBYE.
MICHAEL.
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cluding tow volumo aud medium/low volume models in which three stage Altration is incorporated.
Steelworks Emergency
A serious emergency in the biggest steel works in South Wales was recently
DISCOVERING THE WEALTH BENEATH US
By John D. Hillaby
Who is European Science Editor of the "New York Times"
Little of the earth's surface remains
| minimised by the use of unexplored today, but there is still plenty of scope for investigation below the floor
industrial television.
alert to the potentialities of
The company had long been of our planet, and a veritable army of clock! circuit. TV, and some geologists and allied researchers are already while DRO, experimental boring into the rocks, and collecting in- facturers of Arch equipments formation, piece by piece, so that they
monstrations by various manu-
were carried out at their works.
As
A
result of these stringent can map the very foundations of our tests an order was placed with existence.
Marconi's,
But
This form of exploration has therefore, the basic "blueprints" been intensified in recent years, of many Industries.
for
μιτελ
not only because new fuels are before the equipment
A central organisation was could be delivered a crisis blew needed for atomic furnaces and
how
capable of metals
with :<l up in London In 1047 up. A telephone call from the
standing enormous temperatures
to co-ordinate all the geolo firm to Marconi's revealed that for
jet engines. The work in glent turvey work which is the
the 48 inch ( operation of
equally Important because those now taking place in the colonial (1.1 more) slabbing mill was who are planning for the future territories. There are 21. geolo- being very seriously affected by in rapidly developing areas rely gical survey teams in the held the failure of a slab manipula-entirely on the rocks beneath with 205 geologists, geophysicists tor, which would take at least them
hydro- and chemists. Over £3,750,000 fortnight to repair. Previously electric schemes, for conds, has been made available from a similar breakdown (but on the harbour foundations, airtelds. Colonial Development and Wel- front side of the mill and with building materials and also, in fere funds towards the cost of
the direct vision of the a certain extent, for their crops. this work. operator), had been overcome for soils are simply mixtures by the use A special hook, of humus and weathered rocks. manipulated by an overhand crane.
it This time, however, was necessary to use the sume method on the outgoing side of the mill and this prevented clear sighting by the operators. It was therefore decided to pro-TT vide an "eye" behind the mil by the use of industrial TV.
tn
the
Like Layors Of A Neapolitan ice
Is, therefore, the first task of the geologist to make multi-coloured regional maps of the great variety of rocks which, to the layman, often look very much alike.
Much attention has been gear was devoted by British ogricultural fully gested, and the mill again of them engineers recently to developing | rolling. plant for use in connection with livestock.
A Smithfield
experts interested in an electrically con- 1rked
milking machine
werd
Some of the value of the in- vestigations is in the nature of an invisible export. For example, the great Volls River project in West Africa would not be possible without patient ex- ploration of geologists of
of the Gold Coast Survey. Similarly. the гети harbour works at Tema, also in the Gold Coast, not essentially on the knowledge who know precistiy what lies underground.
of
men
Structural History
the
oro
A1 10 o'clock that night two engineers were dumping equipment on the works floor. By 2 o'clock in the morning the j
But they are not alike. There in position, success are many different kinds, some stratifled. Jne above the other. Hike the layers of ice. The effect of the breakdown, Neupolitan
They runge FTEN
geologists has, by this means, been limiled from the soft river silts, the
faced with a purely focal such 1) extent that
of an clays
tomorrow. to Bolld rock formation which can be fr average of 1,000 tons per shift underground platforms of rock dated approximately and thereby Gascoigres Lid, of Reading 1 still being produced. To which may be more than three placed in Its correct sequence Berkshire, England, and also a date, the sumera equipment has thousand
million years old. only by the fossil remains it may range of milling and mixing been working continuously day Geological maps indicate where contain of some ancient beast of machinery by means of which and night, and will continue to the biggest concentrations of known age.
minerals arc feeding stuffs are prepared and do so until repairs to the mani-particular
mixed on the form.
pulator are completed.
likely to be found. They are, The end-product of all this work is a rip of the structural history of the region.
Sven without further exploration, the geological map, indicates the possibility of the wealth beneath us. It has already led the way to the development of many minerals Including manganese deposits in, British Gulana, gypsum in Jamaica, copper, in Uganda, bauxite-the source of aluminium —in Sarawak,fron ore in Malaya and gold in tho Solomon Islands.
UGH-I NEVER LIKED HIM. I STILL DON'T, WHY MUST TRIDE WITH HIM,
SIGRID T
JUST TO
KEEP
PEACE
IN THE
FAMILY
A HOLLER.
TREE
MANY SMOKE-FILLED KOURS LATER......}
WE DID IT AGAIN, CHA-CHA,MONEYŹ WITH JOUR LUCIC WITEL HAVE
| SAAPUES WORKING
FOR US SOON!.
POOR BA-BEE'S EYES ARE TIREDĮ. COMAS, WE CASH EEN YOUR CHIPS EEN
FOURPUSS'S FRIHE
****#21:4:30 hang
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
SEE! ONE KI65-SKE ALMOST FAINTED! ONLY HER ROYAL
BLOOD KEPT HER CONSCIOUS. SHE'LL BE MINE!
5-19
ANWHILE CHACHA FEEXES YOU SOME HACE, STRONG COFFEE! WASH THE COBWEBS
AWAY, YEST
THINK
HE REALLY
BELIEVES #
By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
WOW
|
172 BUSAMTALAR
By Frank Robbins
Y'SURE KNOW WHAT,
GUSTY LIKES, CHA-CHA, HONEY! MEANWHILE TRIT OUT THE LETTUCE,
SOUER-AR. GÁMESTI
EVEN
MAGICIANS
most
Capit Carlsberg
Couldn't be fresher!
try Libbey's
MEAS
FROZEN PEAS TODAY
ROWNTREES
You can Zasto the fruit!
...this situation. calls for a ̈
San Miguel
...
Today, the demand för "hew minerals is increasing, One, called columbite, from which the metal columbum or niobium la extracted, has been found in valuable quantities by geologiste in the granite of Nigerin. Others ero kimerzite and rutile, the sources on titanium, tho new Ught but immensely strong metal which will be used in the con- struction of the aircraft of the future. These are the profits of underground exploration
Pump Handles All Types
Of Fluids
ESIGNED
to handle all Aulde from petrol to bitumen at pressures up to 100 pounds per square inch, le a new hand-opérated pump now in production by Plenty and Son Ltd, Eagle Iron Works, Newbury, Berkelire, England.
The pump is -self-priming, re- versible, and develops 27 Inch suction Acylindrical rotor in the bore of the body haa four rectangular ports at "200 degrees through. Bis walle, and It is designed to det solely at a listributor,
4
The
rotor la turned through" blades which slide freely, in slots in the main shaft, and register in stofa with inclined top faces machined - between the rotor porte,
The blades thus red off and form four chambers is the. Totor. With the rotation" of the shaft the bladen sfido radially" in their slots "dnd.
· frivers (the 'Inclined-favos; in- the rotor bore, ...
The ombre fine of the shaft G
· oftet from that of the rufor, and it da・ this eccentricity which imparts the pumping action as the shaft is turned," Two handles of different lengthe
sre provided with the pump- one for pressures, upto 50 pounds per square inch and a longer, one for the higher
· proindres. An adjustable relief
en volem te buite into, they pump,
100
also provided with
'a celibrated pressure goigt.