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THE CHINA – MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1956.
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
A NEW
POKE
Specially Designed For The
Aircraft Industry
device has
been
A poke welding developed by The General Electric Company Ltd for use with its 4KVA electronically- controlled spot welding machine.
be
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Proloved particularly for the in the careruft industry where it
Industry aircraft
ervice is employed in Eise fabrication facilitates the spot welding of of the sheet metal assemblies
which are too longe required. Jurseraballes
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of potential
applications,
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if not propald
a booking fee of 60 cents is charged.
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An industrial television camera is installed in This machine wa developed Britain's
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The fully
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The spot weliling machine has impossible 111
Bedford by a Durham, England, formed the basis of several de tunnel.
which poko firm. Weighing only 40 bs. and measuring eight inches in diameter at the buse and less than 11 inches in height the pump is operated by existing electrical or pueumatic rotary mine drills.
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To operate the pump. the chaick if the drilling machine, n unversal itting, engagged vertically with the coupling on Notice is hereby given that the pump Input drive which ROBERT K. MARQUES of specially designed in a harden- anci toughened R.N.Y. Pulier, Stone Culler. tempered,
material to trunsault the power
Island, Hongkong, is applying available and to maintain align- to the Governor for naturali-ment.
sation, and that any person who knows any reason why naturalisation should not be
tary, Colonial Hongkong.
Secretariat,
To ADVERTISERS
When the power is switched drill 15 on, a firm grip of the sufficient to overcome the start- Inst torque renction.
con-
granted should send a written With the pump under jond and signed statement of the | the ctrlil requires only a stently. facts to the Colonial Sucre. Ing haud to maintain stability.
The pump la robustly structed In high-cuty Cast Iron to graphite) (spherical resist corrosion. Its three main sections are bolted together form a squnt circular unit.
Main features of the Pump are that it requires no additional power or attention; the use of an open-sided impeller revolving at high speeds avoids choking; it can be handled in slurry and water containing a high proper- tion of solid matter, and on lonse surface the base tends to dig a sump for Raelf and almost complete dewatering is possible.
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The makers claim that the pump is being increasingly uskl in Briush coni mines. Bladgon- Durham Ltd, Engineers, Fram- wellgate Works, Durham City, Co. Durham, England
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WANCHAI FERRY SERVICE
We have pleasure in announcing the opening of the above Ferry Service at 6.00 p.m. on Tuesday the 3rd
July, 1956.
TIMETABLE
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of velopmenta welder is the latest Complete The lens of the industrial TV machines have previously been introduced for
sheets, tubes und bellows. duphragme.
scam
camera is placed over one of the welding | perforations in this liner wall and and aimed at the model under test. Models are those of de-
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
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Nov
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IF THAT ENVELOPE JESS
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signs from the fourteen 441- pantes belonging to the associa- tion, and are, for the most part, on the secret list.
By-Pass Engine
Synthetic Speech In Communication System
telephone
An attempt to compress
the ordinary speech into a compass corn clreut, the complicated sound parable with that of a telegraph waves of the voice are turned channel by transmitting not the by the microphone into com- original waveforma, but instruc- sponding electric currents which tions to a synthesizer to gener- travel to the for instrument, ate new sminds conveying the where they
tanci sro turned same message was demonstrated again into sound waves. Every at the Royal Society's headquar- variation of the air pressure tems in London recently by the must be faithfully copied by n UK Post Offee Research Station, variation of the current.
organs are simulated.
The Conway engine, which, it was announced recently, is to In the process the voluntary The demonstration showed be used by Trans-Canada Air-movements of the talker's vocal what has been achieved with a
new method lines to power their long-runge alrcruft, is the only high power- ed by-pass turbo jet in the world and it passed un oficial Ministry of Supply type test in August, 1905,
It is a "win spool,” "twin shaft," engine. The high pres- sure compressor in driven by the high pressure turbine turd The low pressure compressor La driven by a shaft running in- side the high pressure shaft and | connected to the low
| turbine.
pressure
The two "spouls" operate in- dependently of one another and [adjust themselves to different
conditions of flight.
The low pressure compressor "over size" and excess air is taken through the by-pass duct past the high pressure pressor
com-
and combustion rcijun to join the main gas stream in the jet pape after the turbine.
This
SLOWER
of transmission which seems to have consider- uble promise. Instead of hith-
all the
stund waves formed. It sends a code
Making Thelly following
World's Money
More than 200 million coina were struck for 16 countries by Britain's Royal Mint last year.
Adtogether The Mitral struck 505,506,029 coins. weighing #3 tertail of 2,052 tons, for cireuta- This | Hon at home and abroact,
output, which Ly roughly The sume as that for 1934, and was obtained with some ten rever workmen, again represents 1121 average of ever ten million coins. every working week.
101
message to the far end of th Irinds of sound being made by the speaker.
For instance, when we speak. as well as making a noise in our throats (voicing), we RECOM- pany it by hunming noises made 10 the mouth which turn the noise into articulate speech, The pitch of these noises
is Axel by adjusting the longue and pa so as to make two rezona!- ing chambers behind and th front of the tongue; each vowel
Matt is
is cogni-ed by the pileh of these hunming noises We Biro start and stop the sound in various ways (the consonania,} Sounds Bite S, SH, F are hirsing noists.
into
Coinmge for the United King- dom comprised nearly 80
An electronic device analyses cent of the
total production,
The speaker's noises, and sends This was the first yehr simer 1048 that the production of signals to hun, to hiss, to home couTHIS?
materially start and stop, which are inter- had
preted by another device at the exceeded that for overseas,
LL was made up of 23,628,726 half-far end and turned back
"25
speech. CROWNS, 25,887,253 floris, 73.210.814 shillings.
The system is us 109,029,554
yel only but it is hoped sixpences, 4,282 silver Maundy experimental, coins, 41.075.000 threepeners that good reproduction will be 18,465.000
achieved, Bird that the control 5,779,200 farthings.
signals which have to be settl In this shorthand may be us The
much 05 # hundred umes
At the opening demonstra Don
gives arrangement of a calibration | skwer, use was made
conder Jet efflux
and model, te a mode! To repre- greater
elliciency. proptalive sentative of any particular de- Because of the slower jet pipe sign, and used in comparing the velocity, there is a reduction in characteristics of different wind-Jet noise, turmels.
halfpennies
and
207,005,400 remaining lnes were struck in 51 de-
and outside
signals.
nominations for 16 countries and simpler than ordinary telephone Because of the cool envelope territories inside of by-pass air arounding the the Commonwealth, namely, the "hot" parts of the engine. the British Caribbean Territories. skin temperature of the engine Bettish Honduras.
British East only in the order
ate hent shields reduction
which give »
Since the nasociation is pion- cering the um of TV in wind- Kannel, much of the installation is still in the experimental stage,
about Alrica, Burma, the Centrul In particular the lighting, to the 200 degrees F. Therefore the African Federation, Cyprus,
of which no one problem of
has engine does not require elabor. Irish Republle, Fiji. Iceland, been ab
able to
to offer a solution. At
Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan Hong- in installed present, special fittings made by
weight kong, Mauritius, New Zealand, a leading manufacturer of elee and does not require cooling air and Uruguay, trical components are in
whtel: would
British The coinages for the ellipsoid reflectors with a focal drag.
Caribbean Territories, the length of exactly 8 in are or-
Central African Federation, and the runged around the Jets of
The Rolls-Royce Conway by Cyprus were completely new V camera. 60 that light ispuse turbo jet can be operated necessitated in the case of the directed precisely through the on "wide cut”, petrol. JP 4 first two territories by On-
wall perforations of the inner
the American jet fuel avlastitutional changes, and in the on 10 the model-Pye Ltd. tion kerosene without altering case of Cyprus by a change to a Cambridge, England.
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By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
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Giant Wagons For Open-Cast Mine GIANT coal haulers, 56
ft. long and weighing 66 tons are to be used to move 16,000 tons of coal A
from week Britain's deepest open- cast coal site at Bedling- ton, Northumberland.
The eight bottom-dump semi- trailers will be used, with four prime movers, for hauling the coal to the screening plant. They Bre clotmod to be largest ever manufactured in England.
the
The coal haulers had to be finally assembled in the open under a mobile canopy us it was not possible to manoeuvre the tractor
within
the
with the semi-trailer The workshops.
60 cuble capacity of each is yards which allows for a load
of 40 tons of coal.
The bottom dump doors are robustly constructed and are opened by gravity, They are held in the closed position by D suries of cams, the
hand relcape locking gear for the cams being a hand lever and operated by a the doors are closed by a hand wheel operated cable winch.
The body of the coal hauler mainly constructed from
1⁄2 inch and 5/10 inch platen
reinforced with channel and angle sectiona The rear axla unit is a single unsprung axle with four earth mover tyres. They are interchangeable with those on the tractor unit.
Two
JACK LEGS
hydraulic Jack legs at. the front corners of the body are operatiedi from a mechanical hydraulic pump on the tractor so that the trailer can be un- coupled from the prime mover during looding operations, quick acting coupler is fitted for,
of men and machines.
hp
ecome mover har... 770
The
Holls-Royce diesel
company the
Conant coal site on contract
have arranged a programme to recover over five million tons of coal
the next soven during years. The site occupies. 440 acres of agricultural landi.
Originally normal highway transport VIDE used to
the coal. decided to construct £1
transport
Inter, the
COPY
haul road 111⁄2 miles long a 30 th carriageway. The coal haulers will use the road.
way up to speeds of 80 mph,
While the four prime movers are hauling their 40-ton lotuta of coat along the road which traverses two main roads and a river, thio- remaining four traliers will be loaded. It:hom boon estimated that to carry the work out by
using nomal
transport, at least 80 węgorie would have to be used.
To lay bare seven cool scame, totalling 11 feet in . thiolentus; the deepest 220 ft. below the surface, 95 million cuble yards of overburden will be razvid —a dig equal to the excavation. required for the Panama Canal conetatiction. Engie Enginoar. Ing Company, Wolverhampton, England.