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THE CHINA MAIL,” MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1956.
OLD TECHNIQUES USED FOR MAKING LAMPS
IN
the belief that the combination of craft with modern production techniques would result in interesting design when applied to lighting fit- tings, Robert J. Reynolds, MBIA, of the GEC Fittings Design Office, approached Alan Brough of the Deacon Pottery, a master potter, and asked him to execute the prototype bases of some newly designed table lamps in pottery.
This he did with such success primitivo bamboo tools, circular that the GEC has decided that decoration being added by the rather than spoil the effect by vigo of a drill. using
production ITIBAN techniques it would ask him personally to make bases for a
now range of table standards on his self-built throwing wheel Tablc lamps employing these barca will shortly be In the
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Personal $5.00 per insertion not exceeding 25 words, 253 cents each additional word. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS 10% EXTRA
If not propald a booking for of 50 cents is charged.
TUITION GIVEN
JAPANESE LEASONS by experi- enerd teacher with university de Kere, Fang, effective method Chick
acce
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10. Bax 6236, Hengkons
AMONG recommenci
MUSICAL
:
mixed bag of LPs wa Miklos Cagna's **Opera
**Neapolitan Calypom, neveral Niki harp recliale, folk dance set indgaria, Rumania, India. Chma, Poland, Borneo, Mexico, Argentine el.. African tribal nie, Englan medieval 20nua capoja, Madrigals, Greek dancer. Hale agent, D. Fasen., 700 Alexandra House, Telephones 30180, 30067.
SOMETRING
tota
STAMPS
EXCLUSIVE Packets of amorteď
Collee RADA
From 30 canta per pocket upward. Ал entirely new
Porlez. South
Cina Morlog Post 1td., Wyndham Street. Hongkong and Bairbury Hund, Kowloon,
shopa.
who once
Alan Brough is the son of a sculptor, well known In the North of England,
e carved the head of King George V in coal. He was apprenticed the Potteries at Hanley, near Stoke, and has taught his tende in such diverso places Ад Harrow College of Art Rend Brixton Prison.
request,
The last commission
was at the Governor's
with the object ot interesting prisoners in the art so that on release they would attend even- ing classes instead of loltering at street corners,
After fashioning, drying out and turning of the product takes ten days, by which time, after glezing and feitling, it is ready for
1100°C. Aring at Sticking his electric kiln takes Alan Brough a further working day for there must be sufficiens space for air to circulate be- tween the various warès, none of which must be touching the other.
*
have be-
Many housewives como interested In pottery following evening classes on visit the tho subject, and pottery, of London's Grays Inn Road, to watch Alan Brough
his wares. fashioning
the pottery in students attend
the
Axt
ENGINEERING
Robert J. Reynolds, MSIA of the GEC Fittings Design Office working out
designs for the new table lamps.
Hydraulic Draw Bending Machines
Chamberlain In- (30.48 centimetres) hore, and quick in manufacture; and
their holiday times to gain ex-dustries Ltd of Leyton, bore. periance Ond skill, and in
London, has
recently
In 1953 he won the first prize And silver plaque in the accompanying illustrations may
Com by wren Shelia Connor, who has enlarged its range of most respects throughout the
National Handicrafts
petition.
119CS
won a five-year scholarship to and Terry
Brown
both
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more
are
of the height the arrangement of coch machine
so that the work is at bench level.
white
of the standard Staffo
CHEMISTRY HELPS THE HOUSEWIFE
By, LEONARD G. RULE THE trouble about Aladdin was that he needed a wonderful lamp and its
| attendant genie to work his miracles. Such lamps exist only in stories--and, perhaps, housewives' dreams. But there is a slave ready and willing to help in the home, to take much of the labour out of washing, cleaning, and polishing, This slave, is chemistry. For the future it promises even more than it has already achieved.
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Housewives would probably matertal between thin layers of say that the greatest beneßt yet plywoods, the product la to corne to them from the Umber which will not word or chemical laboratory Sa synhetic detergents which have end some degree of heat,
the crack, and is rezistent to water,
takan SD much inbour out of
the weekly wash. Thoy abound
Covering the frames of these
in number and variety, but in timbers are now soft furnishings general Sent they work on the same of plastics such as polyvinyl
which is make water wetter or, rather,
to chloride, and cloths which have
been
treated with to mako textiles
plastica and other material. Curtains are made of things more receptivo to water the same materints, apare so that it can penetrate more shelf coverings and lamp shades, casily to carry away dirt.
These can be cleaned by wiping them with a damp cloth.
SILICONES
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The plastics laboratorios have also produced new floor cover- polegs and wall coverings in the
of tiles and sheets plastics materials; which are
there are door knobe and finger plates; electrical Attings of all kinds;
At exactly the opposite from water absorbency is the group of silicones
now employed to make Some
in the home water- these com
PRESERVING FOOD
For the preservation of food of there are bugs of thin plastics cotton sheeting; there are boxes for same use in refrigerators, Brushes for every purpose have bristles of one kind of plastica and backs of another.
An obvious use for trays, sink bowls, bottles; table compounds is in furniture vases; tablo-ware; book- binding materiala-the number polish to protect furniture from
of items is enormous, water stains. By reason of its damp resistance, silicone pollst keeps furniture cleaner for much longer than ordinary polishes. The principio is also applied to some articles of clothing, making possible the production system of such The machines are similar in
The whole of the hydraulic waterproof coats of
machine, with which Among the
"breathe" in the of the motor- the exception For the GEC lamp bases he the Goldsmith's School of Art. "Staffa" tube bending range,
Interesting features only Cornish china clay
and machinery by the intro- indicator which
the riven pump, is made up from way as untreated fabrics. ullows and oxides of mineral origin for yers of the the coloured clay. duction of a series of of bende
to be predeter-
The manufacturers By far the largest number of rango He prospects for his preparing
mined by eiting apointer believe that they probably now the new chemical things for the own minemis,
have
from love the most comprehensive house
садо mac duction there is a special thrill hydraulic draw benders, against a dial; an arrangement
Insect pests of all kinds have he finds in old Roman copper much
of mandrel and booster rams, ¡ine of tube bending machinery plastics laboratories, They long been a bane in the homo. and Iron mines in Cheshire.
possessing
in seven sizes, suitable both concentric with the
for bending tubes cold range from the fabrics Terylent Flies, in particular, were a 1 made shaped individually
manarei rod; hydmulle clamp and unloaded, Graflaman.
and und for bending steam pipe ing of the tube to the centre
Ardil-both invented in nuisance, and the chemists did hands Two proceSSEN are used for in developing these designs and and other tubes and sec- former, obviating the need for The larger machines, together Britain to cares for television a fine thing when they по- resin-bonded duced insecticides which made interpreting Mr Reynold's having them produced by Alan
aim or any other with the Staffu production bend-sets and the new beyond the outside ing machinery,
fly-papers a thing of the past. The first, founded in Brough the GEC is catering for tions in all sizes from a revolving
are marketed ümbers used for furniture, projection the 12th and 13th centuries by many
Nowadays it is enough to spray people who demand 1 inch. (2.54 centi- or the tube; the building up of exclusively by Drummond- the Cistercian or White Monks, originally as well as beauty in
These resins aro synthetic, with one of the compounds to better known of course, for the their homes.
metres) up to 12inch centre formers in malleable Iron Asquith (Sales) Lad, Birming-
segments, which are both cheap ham, England.
and when used as the bonding exterminato all kinda of
unwanted insects. The com. development of a remarkably
pounds can also be introduced Into paints.
colour.
STAMI ALBUMS "Collection designs.
Bulder**
serien. New stock_DOW avaliable, $3. From South China Morning Toat Lid, Wyndham Street and Salsbury Road, Kowloon,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES simple and pure style of archi-
Consigneer per
TIE DER MESSAGERIEK
MAJUTIMES
A. INDUS"
are hereby notified that their cargo will be discharged into the Hong Kong & Kowloon Whorf & Godown Co. Ltd.'s godown where it will be já consigueen' risk add subject the wharf's terms and conditions of storage, and where delivery may be obtained.
to
Damages packages are to
be lett inil down for examination by porngthens and thọ, compatiy's Bike- veyor, Mews Clodders & Douglas at 10 am. on Tuesday, 23rd October, 1936.
No clam
tecture, consists of Inlay work in which the elay is incised on hand rotating wheel and slip (clay with oxides added for colour) is placed In the muts, any surplus cotour belag
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rubbed off later.
The gocond process Is Sgraffito, a method
of decora- tion that had its
origin ancient China, was passed by travellers to Egypt and thence to Italy. For this process the base is painted with coloured clay
ent cul through with
TESTING A
HELMET will be achinaṭted after
The georis have left tese pudown and
Temang undeliverest after the 24th October, 1956, will he subject to reot.
All chupts, ustalist the vessel muat
be presented to the undersigned on
or before the 17th Novembär, 1936,
or they may not be recognised.
Na Fien Isaurance will be effected.
CIE DRA MESSAGERIES
MARITIMES
Ilengkeng, 22nd October, 1980.
In these days of mase pro-
about
2
something the by
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
| THOUGHT I HAD A SPARE
PART HERE, BUT I HAVEN'T. WE'LL SEND YOU UP FOR LIMB REPAIR.
FERDINAND
HA/HA HA
HA
YES.
SPARE OUT
PAR -REPAIR
MANDRAKE, YOU CAN'T SPEAK,
BUT YOU CAN HEAR ME. YOU
FIND THIS CONFUSING? YOU THOUGHT HE
WAS MY
FATHER.
HE ISN'T--
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By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
HE ISN'T EVEN ALIVE, HE'S WHAT YOU'D CALL —A ROBOT.
By Mik
AVEN MAGICIANS
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cant Carlsberg
the
of
Now there is active research going on into the possibility of preserving food by means the radiations from radio-active material
There is no doubt
that these radiations will keep food fresh for long periods without the
canning
of decessity
for As
ore
yet, however, it is a promise of the future, because there dificulties to be overcome, such de discolouration 'and” loss of flavour. But there seems to be Little doubt that these problems will be solved.
J
Parasitic skin disense, itching tegema etc,
'Mitigal'
OIL & ONETTVERKST
»Bayer « LEVERKUSEN GERMANY.
Oblivor
THE WONDER-DRUG:
THAT BANISHES
FEAR AND NERVOUS TENSION! |
| Kale,
mon-kabil - forming.
ne "hang-over", in sun-king;
*
Thus man, hanging by his hands to the chin-strap of
British crash helmet for motor-cyclists, weighs
over 180 iba.” He WHE demonstrating the strength of the "Kancork." In another demonstration a double" docker Tra driven over the helmet without ›ilf-effect. Designed to motor-cyclist full protection. the new helmet has a shell made of polyester · reali -reinforced with' glass' fibre. Ti fa` line with spoolally prepared, compressed cork, and its leather head band has been proceed, Sto
· prévant 'Irritation."
Mive the
· The adjustable: skull-cap
of the helmos la of › strong colfen webbing. The chin-
the airsin 'the harder
Morfolk *Street,
NANCY
NANCY-- WHAT ARE
YOU DOING ?
WASHING
MY FACE
JOHNNY HAZARD
HMM, OUR HUNCH: ONE MR. AXIOM KNOWS IS PAYING DIVIDENDS! PLENTY ON HOW MY PLANE AND I'M SAFE UNTIL BLEW UP! TWO..OUR BRIBZ (I KEJECT ME MASTERSE BOY, NAME OF MASTERS, 15. BRIBE OFFER:
HIS EFFICIENCY EXPERT! L
PITOR
8.20
I DON'T
HEAR ANY
WATER
By Ernie Bushmiller
ANIF" BUSHMILLON
AND THEN I'LL HAVE · MAYBE, KITTY BAL » TO BE ON MY "BES TO : BUT DON'T STICKS FIND OUT HOW THEY | THAY PRETTY NECK ||PLAN TO SABOTAGE † OUT TOO FARI MEET- | YOU, JOHNNYS MAYBE › YOU TOMORROW, SAME IF I PLAY MR, AXIOM I PLACH. SAME TIMRI
THE RIGHTS
I JUST HAVE TO
WALK THROUGH YOUR
WET STOCKINGS
By Frank Hobbins
'SHORT TIME LATERAL
SHE HAS POTENTIALS, MR. AXIOM.J· BUT SHEE ROUGH HAD TO GIVE YOUR MBCH A CHECK LISTA MILE LONG TO WORK ONE
GOOD GIRL I BUT":
WANT YOU TO CONSERVE YOUR ENERGY FOR THE +BIB KACE I Z KNOW,
A PLACE WE CAN HAVE UNNIK SORT LIENTS AND MUSIC. TO RELAX BYŁA
FROZEN FRESH IN THE COUNTRY
Libby's
FROZEN FOODS TODAY!
ROWNTREES
You can the fruit!
San Miguel
Polish Political Upheaval
(Continued from Fage 1)
Workers' Party central, committee.
"The following have been elected, secretaries of of the Polish United Workers' Party central committee:
"Jerzy Albrecht, Vladislav Edward Gierok, Vladis- lay Gomulka, Witold Jarosinaķi, Vladislav Matwin, Edward Ochab and Roman Zam browski,"
News Cheered
Marshal-Rokossovsky,
Red Army General in World War Two, is re- garded by many Poles as a symbol of Soviet control and an opponent of de
There
that
W
during his flying
Poles to retain
shal
hey,