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ENGINEERING
RETRACTABLE MAST
HAS MANY USES
An interesting development recently announced by Mitchell Engineering Ltd, of 1, Bedford Square, London, WC1, is a
| mast which consists mainly of a three-sided articulated chain wound flat on to a drum when not in use.
An electric through a genr unrils the
motor operating unit reduction Bioks from the
drum med, ne the links travel through curved guides, the two outer pecliors swing inwards and jednogether to form Arisau mast,
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a rigid
raised
be Vertoully at 15 feet per minute ley maximum height of 40 text,
TESTING WATER HARDNESS
Paterson
Lid,
pany
Engineering Com- House, Windsor Į Kingway, London, England, has developed a hardness and alkalinity testing set for use in conjunction with water-soften- fecting plant.
The overall dimensions of the complete unit with the must ro- tracked art: whith-Ove
two inche
ten inches,
length-eight height-seVLI
feet
fort
six inches; weight-two arki 11 half form.
UP TO 50 FEET
The mast dispenses with time- wasting erection tackle, such as
alding, bxstar chairs, uni ras muny uses, both indoors and vuldoors where men
have to work loft up to heights of 50 feet.
two
The unit comprises automatic burettes, complete with reservoirs for Wanklyn
solution Rap
andi N/50 sulphuric acid respectively.
Included titrating
arc two
porcelain basins, dropping bottles and dirring rods, and also shaking bottle graduated cylinder.
and
a
a
Al theat
fitted in are portable wooden case with (corrying handle, lock and key. Also provided with the set is a supply of chemicals comprising standard acid, soup solution. foi-methyl orange
phenol
and
The solutions are kept free from dust, evaporation and con- tamination In both reservoir and burette.
It can be used for the Towing
repatr purposes:
and thalein. |malittenance of street lights and
overhead
systems; power cleaning of walla, roofs undi kylights; The inspection and mylying of aircraft and hangars; work on ships hulls in drydock; fire fighting television and motion lowers.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WHO IS MANDRAKE?
Hmm HE IS A FRIEND OF MINI
IN AMERICA. SOME MEN TRIED TO
HURT HIM.
FERDINAND
NANCY
Latest
style
SHORTS
MICHAEL,
GIVE ME YOUR WORD
YOU HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
towers;
SAMITIGTA
I DON'T UNDER- STAND, NARDA. WITH WHAT?
You
THE MAN JUST
YOUR FINISHED
NEW CEMENT WALK
I'D BETTER PUT UP A SIGN
I'LL DO
IT FOR
JOHNNY HAZARD
AND NOW I SUPPOSE
MU WANT TO ZEPUTIZE
[ ME,
TIG FINGER ON MY
BUPPY CUSTY
NO, JESS, I WANT- YOU TO HELP ME
CLEAR HUMI OKAY?
O.K.
Simply by pressing and releas
the air butt, the buretic la Alled and the solution automati- cally adjusts itself to the zero mark.
ON-- FORGET
г.
I WANT TO APOLOGIZE
FOR TRYING TO KISS
This retractable mast unrolls from a drum and can be raised vertically at 15 feet a minute to a maximum height of 50 feet. Manufacturers are Mitchell Engineering Ltd, of 1, Bedford Square, London, WC1.
Record Oil Equipment Orders
Orders for equipment and materials to the value of
were placed 298,490,000
okl companies Britain by the during the first quarter of this year. This figure-compiled by On Companies Materials the Scoretariat and published by the Council of British Monutae- turers of Petroleum Equipment with £ 30,430,000 ---compares
for the previous quarter.
Orders placed during the first tiree months of the year nor -
to mally tend
be above the average level, but in this case they are also well above the cor-
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
YOU. FORGIVE ME --
OKAY? BUT I I HAVEN'T GOT IT FIGURED [PON'T SEE HOW, YET EITHER,BUT STRING ALONG, [IF HE'S INNOCENT | WILL YOUR WHEN GUSTY AND I
GET BACK TO MUROCAIR BABE, WE'LL LOOK INTO ITA,
OF SPYING!
ITAXI
YOU'RE SO LOVELY. I LOST MY
HEAD
IT WON'T
HAPPEN AGAIN.
LET'S
IS HE FORGET LYING
IT.
ABOUT MANDRAKE
By Mik
ordered.
have
of
the
New Treatment For Timber
All cut timber is subject to disease, no less than the living tree-or the human body. Sometimes a malady occurs in the wood which baffles the doctors. It may even happen, as in human medicine, that the success of past defensive measures has left the organism exposed to other forms of attack.
of
symptoms of the familiar die for year at Oxford,
to Join them
cases
now
A leading firm specialising in from a biological as well as a timber preservation, Hickson's chemical point of view.
result, Mr Nevard concluded Timber Impregnation Co. (GB)
that breakdown was due Lid, was rocently faced with some kmd of fungal decay, that kind of problem. They had probably a mould. ovulved a preservative, Tanalich U, which proved highly success-
A fundamental research pro- Jeet
seemed now
neccesary. ful as a protection against all
Company policy had always the agents of timber decay. All been to employ specialists Findi the known agents, that is; for give them complete control of Hickson's were suddenly con- their departments, They frunted with several breakdowns approached Mr E.A.S. Price, at In Tanalith-treated timber, that time still a student in his which showed none
the Anal
arranged im- mextintely after graduation, and gave him acceSS to all the in- In order to appreciate the formation
Meanwhlic available, magnitude of their problem, it the Company's small mycological is nostry to go back a little laboratory was rebuilt and ex- way and examine the history tended. I a lew months Mr of the firm. Over
he years Price
Price was In Africa, and the Hickson's have built up a strong report he wrote on his return position 4.3 the largest sup confirmed Mr Nevard's pliers of water-borne preserva- hypothesis and established 11 tives in the world. Their pro link between the failures ira ducts.
which carry the trade poles and those In cooling name Tanalith, and ure toxic to timber-destroying fungi and Insects,
Are applied by vacuum-pressure process which forces the toxic salts into cell cavilles and walls deep in the body of the wood. The treat- Specially wet and warm con" ment also acts as a deterrent to ditions seemed to provide |fame-spread. It has been used breeding ground for the
with
good effect in mines, | buildings, telegraph poles
fiores.
In temperate tropicul cilmates alike,
*
Originally
manufacturers dye-stuffs intermediates,
timber preservallves 1:1
Д
lowers
the
un-
known fungus. After eighteen and and mouthp
of exhaustive invest)- gation, it was found that the softening symptoms were prom duced by chaetomium globosum, a type of mould often found in rotting paper, straw and
other cellulose
Although material.
of these moulds had been isolated
responding figure of £32,773,000 for January/March 1956.
This further increase in of industry's purchases in Bri- satisfactory tain is especially
a record year, since 1955 was
Hick in decayed timber before, their of milion a total
£123
son & Welch Ltd, the parent ability actually to cause break- materials and equipment being company, had begun to produce down had never been suspected.
1932. and At present the chief problem The war gave great impetus to shey had been discarded g
to masking the true agencies with which the manufacturers this development, especially for decay.
moulds These
travel la difficulty in to cope
the protection pl ammunition longitudinally within the cell obtaining the necessary supplies boxes and radar towers.
So w
walls; that was why they were of steel, which is essential
was this expansion that not discovered from longitudinal the making of so many items-immediately
rfler the war a sections. flickson's found that from drilling rigs and pipelines
asparate company. Hickson's there are about a dozen species to storage tanks and refinery
Timber Impregnation Co. (GB) of moulds which in excessively equipment.
Lid, was formed to take over hot, wet conditions such as are the distribution of Tanalith found in cooling towers deve- preservatives, and to erect and lop rapidly and cause "soft operate treatment oints in rot," the name coined for this Brees not provided for by Lype of decay. licence arrangements. Associate
EVEN
MAGICIANS
Cant Carlsberg
If we were
any fresher we'd still be on the vine!
Libby's
TRY
By Ernie Bushmiller
FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
BUSHMILLER
DAYS LATER
WELL, THIS IS OUR
By Frank Robbins
GRADUATION TEST, JOHNNY! IF WE DON'T. SPLATTER INSIDE THE PREPPURE CHAMBER, WE GET OUR DIPLOMAL
You can Taste the fruit!
fri
compardes
ΣΟΥΝ
in operate
Having established the cause South Africa, New Zealand and of the Trouble, Australia.
the
practical problem of combatting it had to in- be tackled. This involved By 1948 the company's post- dividual but closely linked tion seemed comfortably secure, compaigns on the chemical and and future prospects
were production sides.
A compound Occasional bright.
fallures of had to be devised which would impregnated timber were usual- be toxic to the mould: but for ly put down 10 Inadequate production reasons it had to be treatment. excessive teaching more, The preservative had to or gross
variations in the timb- be soluble in water with er itself, But in 1048 several tle sludge as possible, and failures occurred
could contain which
the maximum propor not be explained in this way. tion of active ingredients. High 'The nature of the breakdown ixation in timbere And low did not always seem to
tolly
corguelen hazards both to im- with either of the two main pregnation plant and to nails fungal causes of timber decay, and screws, were essential. Most brown rots and white rots. In difficult of all, it had to be certain cooling towers erected manufactured as a free flowing by the Central Electricity powder which could be handled Authority jouvres were im with safety. This was a com- pregnated with both the water- plex set of requirements. borne
preservatives available,
one being Hickson's Tanallth U The final compound. contain- It was found that both failed to ing copper sulphate, arsenic prolong the timber's life to any oxide and chromium, is a new great extent, and the breakdown product with outstanding pro- was clearly not due to any type perties. It is toxic, not only to of decay known at that time. Loft rot but to all the known agencies of decay which attack About the same time reports timber. Its fixation value of 07 from Rhodesia described similar per cent is unsurpassed. Despite Inexplicable failures of trans- all this the company did not in- mission poles. Failure was not vent a grand new_name,
but due to tormite or other insect modestly called it Tanalith C. altack, nor to recognised fungi;
yet the timber had softened and lost its strength, and the poles had fallen down.
TODAY
So the company "was Laced with two mysteries, so
The whole economy of many
such
conditions, It tected by
viously
effective,
same.
ROWNTREES
San Miguel
suspi- Commonwealth countries,
elously alike in their circum- as Malaya, may be affected, for can render lances that it looked as though the new treatment the cause might be
durable the
the secondary timbers these countries In both cases the timber was with, which subjected to extremely abound. In New Zealand, for pro instance, durable hardwood and was pro-
in-
preservatives pre- heart timbers are in seriously
and short supply; non-durable that digenous species, when pressure
found there 08 10 evidence
either the compounds or their Tamilsed, are interchangeable application were faulty,
with durable woods which may cost ten times as much. Tonalised medium hardwood may coat 00 per cent less than on untreated heavy hardwood, and has a life five or six times
The story of the way Hici- longer. son's tackled the problem is al- . most an essay in detection. The The invention of Tanalith C first clue to be analysed was the brings low-cost timber to many
timber Itselt. Ordinary fungi places where the hot humid can be exantined by cutting atmosphere would otherwise longitudinal sections of the make it either imposible - - or affected timber, but these kö- very costly to use wood. There vealed nothing. When the soften are some industrial washing ed
samo
wood was cut straight processes, In trades such as across, however, it was seen danning and detergent monu- that a cell wall was clearly and facture, where timber must be
punched
through in used because metal would cor
Hickson's rode and damago several places. As
the product. own laboratory facilities wore Here the now preservative will not at that time adequate to bring costa.down, - The the task, the Forest Products applies to specialised, structures - Research Laboratory undertook such as oca defence works and. a complete investigation of theso of course, to power station cool- unidentified holes.
ing forwars. As a result of HlOK". son's discovery, the use of limber Mr. Nevard, ú director of may now be extended, in dozena Hickson's, went to Africa to of industries, where work "T study the faulty transmission done under, hot, damp conditienne. « poles and their environment, As" trópical rejlors, develop, 1Sectiona of the poles avere Tanalith C will, help them to examined, oti | the... goli" su overcome natural conditions that rounding thom) pram (whalywed onen beki them back.
JUST CANKE BE
NOT GUSTYI IT
CUSTY
...this situation calls for a