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THE CHINA, MAIL,^ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1956.
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
IRRADIATING RUBBER
AND PLASTICS:
APPLICATION ON INDUSTRIAL SCALE
A SPECIALLY designed laboratory for
the irradiation of rubber and plastics, has been completed at Birmingham.
vel to
say
if the
The
has been too early Cluse re-operation maintained with The Atomic effects in the rubber and plas- Energy
Research Establishment tựs industry will be Os for- at Harwell on all the construe- sepching as they were in
details and Technic case of the chemical Industry. points involved by the firm eva- cerned (Dunlopi
י
"National scale
development of atomic
have Horky enormously increased the avou ability of sources of radiation," says Mr EA Murphy, director Births, Deaths. Marriages, a
research. "thei It is now Personal $5.00 per insertion possible to envienge their up- not exceeding 25 words, 25plication on an industrial seale.
Fut
Time now. cents each additional word. For a commiderable
arrediation of rubber and plus. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS Lies has featured in our research
10% EXTRA
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OFFICIAL NOTICE
Proposal to change
Ship's name
I, Allister George Inglis of
TOW
be able to curry out planned scheme of research.
curles
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"As the gamma radiations are irin at the strength used, one of our must serious problems ta The protection of the operators. a suitable con- The cobalt, m teiner, his had to be screened on all sides by four feet of cane dangerous crete to absorb the
unlike Toys, for radio-activity. not mal power cannot be switch-
on and ll.
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"Agar, 201 Arrangement 1 of mirrors allows an experiment in "progress to be viewed in safety i
and from outside the chamber
deviens,
"Work with a 100 eurie pource m cobalt
oblined 60
from Harwell I about to start, and later i full source of about 1900
will heetane
avitables For various senses i was Reli expedient to begin Will isolope source although the TH stallation of an electron 4ee5- lerntor has not been ruled out. "The effects of anising radia- tions in bringing alt ehemaal changes, of which polymerisation is but one example, have been known for more than o genera-
and since the we much he and to start the mechanST) drives the cobalt source into work has been done by Charles-
the chambes by and thers on rubber anel
rrehatiisins are defer-connected, plasties in particula
that. when the door is open.
we have varily of automatic un elementary form of rnin, usk.ng a series of ques- tions which must be favourably answered before the door Con be opened to allow the operator to antler
When, will the source i withdrawn, he does so, he takes with him a portable meter in- level dealing of the Platon « sale une. "The same key is used to b the door to the working chaen
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that irradiation by "The fact gamma rays from a radio-active erse-bukig
Source caD CHIC*
of the molecules suggesta possi- ilities of carrying out yuleum
which tion and other reactivis
easily be attained 1343
by inuy other methods. and the
the oppor tunity of dispensing with dinary chemical methods on
ineon vulcanising jerevicusly
non-viilennisubje patible materials
new types and ranges merk.
SIT
promises
可
Die
of synthetic pily
the contribution atomic energy programme in this country Lakes two furma great stimulus it has given the commercial development
and the particle scerlerators, large quantities radio-netive isotopes available as by-products
There is an interesting parallel here with the developmunt dyestuffs and other elemirals ....
BeUENCE
of the by-p duels developed in the past the gas industry, although it as
Programming
And Setting
Machine control and
701 7 Edinburgh House, Hong | programming by the use Kong hereby give notice that of punched cards is no
in consequence of change of
of
transfer ownership and Port of Registry of the vessel 1 have applied to the Minis ter of Transport and Civil Aviation under Section 47 of the Merchan: Shipping Act 1894, in respect of the steam- ship "INDIAN IMPORTER"
of HONG KONG REGISTRY Official Number 101119, Gross tonnage 5101.16 tons, Register tonnage 3229.97 tons, hereto- fare owned by India Steam- Limited of ship Company Calcutta for permission
to change her name to "SOUTH BIRCH" and 15 have her registered in the Tiew nume
longer a dream; several
makes of machine are way operating in this
and were demonstrated at the recent Inter- national Machine Tool Exhibition, London,
v
horizontal Large
boring imachines are being built with electronic selling of the table cross position and of the height of the boring head so that co- orabrale boring is possible with little risk of errors setting.
HW, Kearns and Company Broadheath, Manchester, England
British Thomson- Houston Computy 14d, Rugby, England.
Lich
The co-ordinates may be pre-
at the Port of HONG KONG set manually by dinis on a con-
as owned by Birch Steamship trol desk, there being six dials Company Limited,
Any objection to the pro- posed change of name must be
cach
for
co-ordinate so that both co-ordinates may be set to six-figure accuracy,
The actual machine adjust- ments are then made automati-
ment to the REGISTRAR OFcally. This relieves the opera-
SHIPPING at HONG KONG
tor from the strain of reading and verniers and is tine scales and
production.
within SEVEN days from suitable for single piece or small the
of appearance
advertisement.
this batch
Dated at HONG KONG the 31st day of August, 1955.
BIRCH STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED.
A. G. INGLIS,
Director.
To ADVERTISERS
SUNDAY POST HERALD Ante for commercial advertising should be booked not fatar than ngon on Wednesdays.
For the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication. Special Announcements and Classled Adverties mentane sisusi.
However, a punched card can be prepared for each pair of co-ordinates and the corde fod into the reading head of the equipment, so that settings of the table and spindle head ore madie
as the cards automatically are scanned. This is suitable for large batches of components and obviates the use of draw- Ings by the machine operator.
An Interesting feature of this particular system is that the actual scale to which settings are made a bar of magnetic material having holes in it at unit intervais; this bar is scan- ned by a magnetic head which responds to le magnetic varly- tions. This same system hds been embodied in a well-known
make of fig boring machine, an show at the Exhibition, › podj controls the soiling of the table In two directions,
Bekiah Thomson Houston
England Company Ltd Rugby, Nawal Engineering Company Lid, Peterborou
veroning is #
that the
These Teking
far key ember be removed and
anserred to the source drive;
HINS
key conversely when the
WI
5
the lock controlling the drive, at cargut be moved to open the door until the source. 15 with-
its safe drawn lo
position mally,
should DA Beeldent leave the source exposed. dectrically controlled safely system detects the radiations by a Geiger tube operating a series of relays to keep the door closed. "his short, the various pately devices which we have adopted make it virtually impossible for himself to myone to expose nigh levels of, radiation by get- the working chamber ling Into when the source hy netion
In
This British Linotype letter-composing machine will be on view
1 ut The Damascus International Fair this month. composes lines of type for newspapers, book, periodical or To the left Kneral printing in Arabic and Roman characters. of the keyboard is the Arable reversible galley which auto- matteally arranges for the cast nes for Arable right to left reading. Linotype and Machinery 1.4d. 50/51 Fetter Lane, Londen, EC4.
A
EASY-TO-FIT CEILING ROSE
A re-
rose
or domestic
London firm which but the industrial has been making electric plug is wired up on the bench. The cover, of similar appearance switches, plugs and
30C- to the usual rose cover, prevenis
whe withdrawal of
plug years the kets for over thirty
when in use is responsible for designed ceiling
Apart from cutting down an
time the new Pose simplifies which
wiring stallation
allows fittings to be taken down for cleaning, repair or changing in a matter of seconds without tools or technical skill. Neither Is there any need to switch off
fuse for te
the or remove method is shockproof. search All types of lighting
can be supported, construction of the rose ng industrial pendants wl. to be used.
and may become the stan- dard method of the future,
The strained neek and aching num which 100 often accompany the filling of flex into the cell- ing rose and then the
for the dropped screw are finish- ed with by using the new rose Bocket which consists of plug, and rover,
The sockoi pusition is fixed to word block or standard circular the usual way cunduft box
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
MY FAVORITE DEPARTMENT
IN THE BUREAU, CHIEF.
WHERE WE SEND ALL THE CRANK CASES. WE GET SOME WEIRD ONES.
6.5.
"THE SILLY STUFF DEPARTMENT."
FERDINAND
I KNOW YOU LIKE TO LISTEN IN BEHIND THE SCREEN. MANDRAKE, MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME. IVE WORKTO DO.
IS
Marine Engines
The Brilishi Richardson Westgarth marino engineer- ing group of companies announce that they have installed engines in 70 colliers with a total of 84,700 indicated hp sinov 1046,
Thirteen of the 76 were motorships with a total of 18.295 Indicated horro- power. To remainder
were steamers with a total of 66,408 Indicated hors-
power.
The marine engineering en- group have installed rines for various Important turcian owners including The French State Railways,
well as for British companies.
British-Built Tug For Persia
Sales Conference On 600-Mile Closed Circuit TV Link
MORE
ORE than 4,000 radio and television dealers from all over the United Kingdom attended a big radio firm's London sales conference recently without even entering the capital.
Instead, the dealers gathered ordinary one and a half voli, In tive bin halls
The in Bristol, single-cell torch butterles Dorking, Glasgow, Manchester radio Brm are also exhibiting and Birminghain to see and hear their "Black Level" television executives of the Arm over what receiver, which they will be ex- was described
hibiting the biggest ពង
at the Damascus Fair, closed-cireult television Tik September 1-30. This sel ever employed by a private or designed to provide rich black ganisation. was also the first and white images of the sharp- netinal sales conference ever en possible contrast entirely I be held on
without constant nation-wide automatically [ television circuit,
hand adjustment.
Pye 144., Cambridge. England,
Six-hundred miles of ex-axisi cubles linked the ve halls with hall in London. The cabies were made available by the General Post OfLee, the British Broadcasting Authority and the Independent Television Author- ity. Three television camerna were used in the broadcast and more than 150 21-inch television receivers were distributed bc- Value of the equipment used was estimated com-nt more than £100,000.
A Devon shipbuilding tween the halls. company
have
representatives
the
wenl 10
organisers estimated Usut between 4,000 and 5,000 dealers went to the other five halls.
pleted a 115-ton tug by Several hundred dealers and A new, cost-cutting London conference itself. but building method for use the in the Persian Gulf by I the
Qatar Petroleum Company Ltd.
Brm of marine archutrets
THE dealers
Galw the
radio Br's executives introduco Known as "Hydroconie Con-
and struction," the method of but the 1957 ranges of radio ing was devised by a London Clevision receivers and gramo
thn the rm are ex- und Phones
the 23rd National hibiting at 24 | Radio Show in London.
The exhibits range CA
combined radku, television
ranphone costing more than
Nail אנ
to reduce constrainer costs by a with The methrif nycicis double curvature plates, allowing simplification in forraine, and is also sad to give | a tug à superior performance to
the normal round-bilge type.
The new tug is 82 11 tons, has a beam of 21 ft, an engine giving
482
shaft horse Jurwer
and ample becommodation for a crew of 13.
frum
and
New Methods
Of Blade Machining
New methods of blade machining have been in troduced; an interesting example of this is grinding
on
· special machine which can produce all the complex curves needed.
The blade blank is held in a which fixture between centres
that are in vructe rocked.
con
be
the
in
The cradle is carried by
Lable with grinding metilere which It can reciprocate
The blade |longitudinally.
thus rotated, reciprocated axially rocking motion, and given a the result of which is genero- tion of the blade form.
£150 to a small radio met al less than 211 They include a low- priced "Record Maker
designed to enable the ordinary house- holder to make disc recordings. Said to be the only recorder of is type, the Record Maker is a normal 4-speed
a diameter gramophone
the turntable with a special mugne- ot Lic head
records on mounted co-axtally
The disc nagnetic disc.
can grinding wheel.
thai
Q
Rocking motion is imparică by a rotary cam coupled to the cradle and working in conjunc→ on with a circular follower of Proximating that wheel and
with the
This not only
The same shipbuilding <??? - pany have completed a £400,000 futar i order for six diesel tugs
months ahead of schedule. As a tribute
be played on the same turntable end-to-end but it can to the company's 350
be used and reused indefinitely enables the blade to have
*
cross-scetion
from
twist to
impart the
the
filings robust allow- of A
while normal records can
also changing
empinyces, the tug owners saded their six new bouls ju i pro- cession up the Tyne.
with an alternative head.
|
set that can be
There is a portable television tuned to ali
any degree blade,
of
channels and
接 low-priced
transistorised portable
record
Cum- Rantern and Co. Ltd, merce Road, Brentford, Midille- sex, England,
MR CRAB, WE LOOKED INTO YOUR FIRST COMPLAINT AGAINST THE JONESES. THE STRANGE LIGHT WAS A SUN LAMP. NOW YOU EXPECT US,
TO BELIEVE--
г.к. Harris & Sons Ltd, Appledore, Devon, England.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
I'LL TELL YOU AGAIN WHAT I SAW!
A MAN-SHOOTING OUT OF
THEIR CHIMNEY--
LIKE A CANNON
BALL
AGAIN-- IT MAKES NO
SENSE!
FURNITURE
RUGS
By Mik RUGS
7-5
By Ernie Bushmiller
NANCY
HEY, HANS COME IN
HERE
I TRAINED HIM TO COME IN THE DOOR THAT WAY
NOW HE DOESN'T LET IN AS
MANY FLIES
JOHNNY HAZARD
KITTY, DARLING, IF YOU KNEW HOW LONG I'VE...
I NEED YOUR HELP, JESSDO WE GO!
-ERNIE BUSHMILLJEPRA
JULY.
OKAY, KITTY--'
WE GO
YOU'RE BEING FOOLISH | AND HEADSTRONG, KITTY
YOU'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH
YETMO
By Frank Robbins
IF I CAN DRIVE A WHEELCHAIR...I CAN DRIVE A PLANB: NO ONE 19 GOING TO CHEAT ME
OUT OF MY RACE!
player that can work off five
ÉVEN MAGICIANS
Beat
Carta arlsberg
If we were
ány fresher we'd still be
on the vine!
Libby's-
TRY FROZEN STRAWBERRIES
TODAY
ROWNTREES
You can tarte the fruit!
this situation
calls for
San Miguel
A feature of the machine is that the cams can be produced on it. This is done by mount-
centres
and
ing the com blank between using → master blade as a cam in conjunction with the large circular follower, will be whereupon a contour ground on the cam in necord- In ance with the blade shopc. view of the diameter of the cam the rises are not so pronounced as is the contour of the blade.
Newall Engineering Co. Ltd. Peterborough, England.
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