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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1956.
SCIENCE
NEW HACKSAW
A
SAVES TIME
PRECISION-PRODUCED
hacksaw with
eight blade positions and all its adjustments controlled by a single thumbwheel is drawing orders from all over the world for its London manufacturers.
Moverneri of the thumbwheel, just in front of the pistol grip. machined worm and operates a pinion that control the length of
sw and the tension positioning of the blade
The
"PAGING”
0
14
or
Demonstrating the saw at London exhibition, the inanu- facturers said that although had been in quantity production
orders and only a few weeks,
had been received enquirica
New Zealand,
BY
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Nende financial support for the sake of poor chlidren
vest-pocket
radio demon-
This device was recently strated in London by the Bri- tish Communications Corpora- stot. Its purpose is to main- tain immediate and personal contact with key staff inside a building, and does away with the need for messengers, for A loud haller and the attention demanded
conventional by indicator système,
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The device operates by the
of
radio- reneralion
within frequency signal closed wire loop encircling the buliding, this loop being fed from a central transmitter.
The receiver has a bulit-in miniature crysdal joud-speaker which gives ample volume. Messages can be heard with. out the need for putting the receiver to the car and
yet¦ the volume is not excessive. There are no controls on the in a unit, which is housed moulded plastic Case with inside a fertile aerial. When not carried in, the packet or propped in a vertical Dosition the unli can only be laid flal. In the taler position a mercury wwitch automatically disconnects the tiny battery.
Brities Communications Cer- poration Lid, Wembley. Middx. England.
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A Jura of the thumbwheel slackens the bow and allows the binde to be turned on its spring- louded phingers to any of eight positions at 45 degree Intervals round a full etete.
be 10
For a
blade longer
10 Atled the wheel has simply be turned sufficiently for the small blade to be lifted tree of the reinner pin and then turned direction again in the opposite
uritil the bow is long enough for the new blade
All adjustments can he made within seconds and with none of dismantling the
Trichy processes usually associated with heckews.
The thumbwhrel mechanism
totally enclosed against dust and diri and requires no aften-
The bow
and forged
light alloy. heal treated
for
| toughness und rigidity combined
Any with light weight
blade Com min to 12 arches (228 to 304 in) can be used
M
The saw
priera shillings fob i parcels. packing free.
15
of 100,
Rolls Tools Ltd, 154/8 Black- frity Road, Londen, SEL
ENGINEERING
In the This machine, in a British mill, is claimed to be the widest papermaking machine world. The pleture shown its “wet end”, where the dilute pulp now on to a swiftly-moving belt through which the water is extracted.
Tractor-Mounted Harvester Combine
Development
of
equipment is now possible the complete farming year.
tractor mounted har- vesting combine described as offering small farmers the features and advan- tages of the self-propelled with
been combine, has nounced in Britain.
ARTM
It has been developed Massey Harris - Ferguson
the Ferguson mounting tractor.
on
for
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from
MODERN DEVELOPMENT
OF THE PAPER MAKING INDUSTRY
By JOHN RIGG
THE papermaking industry was an important part of Britain's economy long before the period of 19th century expansion known as the Industrial Revolu- tion.
In the beginning, IL was chemical woodpulp in the 18800 entirely a craft industry; for led to a period of considerable from 1400, when the first known colpansion. The Introduction of paper mill was set up in Eng- free education in 1870, the need land, until 1803, all paper pro- for packaging materials duced in Britain was handmade, norve the growing textile trade, and almost exclusively from and incremed demenda for linen rags.
Paper
from the electrical and other Industries, encouraged the The first mill, which was not increased production of up near Stevenage, in Hertford-
the end of the 19th shire, was followed by
many century. others so that by the time Queen Elizabeth (1558-1603)
the craft of papermaking
alrendy well established
England.
30
was
In
towards
paper
Three Important Factors
pur-
In Britain, as clauwhere, three the factors have 'influenceri sting of paper mills: the needl There was a temporary act- for abundant supplies of fresh back at the time of the Great water (for manufacturing Plague which swept London in poses), the need to be near large 1005, when it was thought that consuming centres (to save
and the the tribution cvEN), to spread
that for mills to be on tietal
(for the easy reception of bulky seaborno raw materials).
rog's
heiped disease. The result WAS papermakers soon found them
without Lives
raw materials, #ince rags normally destined for pulping were then all burned.
An Accident Set A Custom
But production soon
ninde
nfter sugar
Apart
dis-
nood
water
(where
Kent
For these reasons the chief contres of the British paper In- dustry are now to be found on the banks of the Thames and its picked tributaries; in Lowcostire; and up again, the first pumper to be in the Clyde arta Ferth valleys from tho In England immediately in Scotland. the Plague being blue counties of Lancashire
paper-blue, so tradition there are 40 mills), sundi nsects, because a woman (where there are 20), two other Among its interesting features nccidentally dropped some dys important papermaking counties are the variability of its height into the vat in which some of In Britain are the northern in
raw material Wos being dustrial controlled the
of Yorkshire, County of cut-hydraulically
to with 18 milia, and the Scottish With a cutting width of 7M.
And now, even Thirty-prepared. de from two inches
clay. sugar packels in Britain county of Midlothian, with 12. is the new machine is
stable two inches rect position hydraure sull made of blue paper or These are the main production ribed as exceptionally
mills controlled and able to negotiate steep hills lically
the hoard
But individual its case and safety
Operator's
and pre-packed,
un making high The industry profited by
quality
aro widely papera tractor mounting.
usually in districts 1080; and in 1803 the first patent
with papermaking English for
a particularly pure water the supply. For example, fine paper machine was granted Fourdrinier brothers of London is still made in northern Somer A further development was the set, where there is a mill which sinco in 1809 of the Dickin- has been making paper invention
And among mould machine; the 17th century. son cylinder and it was with the commercial these producers are one or two of thicso two who sul find there is a demand' exploitation
machine do for
made and
high-clum paper machines, veloped from them, that modern entirely by hand.
be ac
Adequate Supplies papermaking may have begun.
The papermaking industry The introduction of esparto in Britain is one of considerable 1858
of mechanical and
While variety.
there number of vast manufacturing
sealed, plastle and oil-retaining | indux of French papermakers in specified.
semt,
by
for
shielded bearings: drives
by and quickly detachable guards cutterbar cutting live inches be- to get into low the horizontal hollows.
in
Zooland
After continuous tests of the combine since 1953,
Three models of the mounted not only
for throughout the British Isles but combine will be available
such widely
separated the 1957 harvest a two spout spout rotary countries as Australia, Germany, bagger, a three
Denmark and New screen bugger, and a grain tank France;
Massey-Harris- model for bulk handling, Ferguson clabm that it will harvest any drop trom grusa to beans.
its de- Quickly detachable,
to signed to enable the former reduce to a minimum both de- in idle capital preciation and winter months when the com- vine is not in use. It also means that standardisation on Ferguson
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
TELL YOU--THAT GUY JONES NEXT DOOR HAS GREEN BLOOD
FERDINAND
NANCY
YOU'VE
HAD A NIGHT- MARE. MR. CRAB. GO BACK
TO SLEEP.
OF ALL THE CRANKS I'VE MET IN THE SILLY STUFF DEPARTMENT HE'S THE WORST! WHAT
AN IMAGINATION!
NOBODY'LL BELIEVE ME ABOUT THAT FAMILY!
I CAN'T BELIEVE
iT. MYSELF.
HUH-KNOCK
ON THE
DOOR--
Massey - Harris Ferguson, Coventry, England.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
KNOCK
GRONOCK
MY
BUT THESE
ARE USEFUL,
YOU'RE RIGHT
& ORIENTAL
LOOK, AUINT FRITZI-I GOT
A PAIR OF BOXING GLOVES
I TRADED
BEACH UMBRELLA
FOR THEM
BUT YOURS WAS A USEFUL
ARTICLE
TOO
R. M. S. "CORFU"
NOTICE TO
BAGGAGE:
PASSENGERS
Friday, 21st September, at 12.00 Noon for the UNITED KINGDOM, vin Singapore, Penang & Colombo, THENCE WITH LIBERTY TO PRO- CEED VIA SUEZ CANAL, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE OR PANAMA CANAL AT OWNERS' OPTION, Passengers are requested to send ALL BAGGAGE to the Hongkong & Kow- loon Wharf Co.'s Godown No. 2 GATE, CANTON ROAD ENTRANCE, By Noon on Thursday, 20th, Septem- ber.
SPECIAL NOTE: With the exception of hand packages carried by passengers themselves, ALL BAGGAGE must pass through the Wharf Co.'s Godown for loading on board by ship's slings only.
EMBARKATION: Fassangers should embark between 9.30 and 11.00 am. on Friday, 21st September, 1956.
Subject to alteration with or without notice
JULY.13
JOHNNY HAZARD
'AS LONG AS WE'RE NEAR·. THE SANATORIUM WHERE MISS HAWKES IS STAYING, I'LL PUT IN A CALL FROM THE TERMINAL AND ARRANGE TO MEET WITH
BUSHMILL
LATER.
JUST OUR LUCKÉ HURSE SAYS SHE CHECKED OUT RARLY- TODAY. LEFT FOR THE
-', COASTİ.
WHICH TAKES US A BACK WHERE WE CAME FROMI I'VE GOT HER HOME. ADDRESS, JOHNNY] THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE YOU'LL FINE
UN--JONES AND HIS SONT
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
YOU.
By Mik
7-17
By Ernie Bushmiller
By, Frank Robbins
WHILE, ON THE COAST, KITTY AND JESS LAND
ON THE FALCON CO. AIRSTRIP«s« F
-KITTY, WHY DON'T YOU FORGET, THA" WHOLE SILLY IDGAF LET ME DRIVE YOU RIGHT HOME
· PH-UN, JESS, I'M GOING "TO HAVE A SHOWDOWN WITH SCOTTY THAT TROPHY RACE JOB BELONGS TO ME WHOT HAZARD!
EVEN
an
and
MAGICIANS
to
cant Carlsberg
FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY!
TRY.
Libby's
FROZEN FOODS
TODAY!
ROWNTREES
You can faste the fruit!
¡this situation.
calls for a
San Miguel
to
W*D*
In
are
concerns such as Bowaters, Albert E. Reed, Wiggins Toupe, ared Dickinson (which last founded by the inventor of the Dickinson machine), there
also
of great number amaller concerns which deglendi for their custom or producing. specific linen od outstanding
are
quality.
ע
In general, an outstanding feature of the United Kingdom paper industry in recent months has been the coming to
an, end
of the "seller's market" for
board
m
converted
This is langely the the with exception of
natural consequence of long de- mand resulting in the produc tion of adequato supplies; it has also
from re partly resulted cent Government measures curb Inflation which have caused a minor fall in demand. while most varieties of paper are now in good supply, there is certainly no glut, and demand may well Tise again
But
later this year.
to
There are adequate supplies
of raw material, and prices re- main study.
The coats of fuel, freight and labour tend to rise, but so far. that tendency hús not been re- flected in any recent increase fu the price of paper, except in the case of mechanical printing paper. There have actually. been reductions in certain lines. in particular in price of
the....
sulphite bags.
Production rises year by year
and
It seems posible that the figures for 1956 will show alight Increases on those for 1955, with the possible exception of certain wrapping papers" and ' esparto paper.
Plastic-Coated Fabric
Can Breathe'
A PVC (Plastle) conted fabric that DI #breathe" is "boing minutschtred by'a British-com- pany. Known as "Vynair, it is the first dabric of its 1-to-be. produced in Beliam, m
WORKƏSƏNO
The manufacturers say that Vynair" is the product of a completely new..proces but
all the durable and stain-resistant qualities of the a "Vynide" PVC same company's.
fabric, It's introduction
amated
"breathable' percent Offerings
PA
the British coated fabrics in-
i now
means that
able 16' offer fabric givng the confurt of it a part cover type cushion
| dustry is,
the use of eyelets bod LUGLIORAN
the advantage of being exly lo
elean
impl
Marks can be moved
darip
to blend, and mamich. with contemporary furnishings Imperial Cheerlead. Tak Lid. "Imperial Chamiani Ho