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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1956.
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
NEW LOADING SYSTEM
UK CIVIL ENGINEERS BUSY OVERSEAS FOR LOBITO
By Dr S. B. Hamilton..
A Past President of the Institution of Structural Engineers, London
THERE has been a marked increase in recent years in the volume of oversea constructional work carried out by British contractors. Most of them started 1956 at a high level of activity, and the indications are that this will be another record year.
The last officini review, which light with all the necessary covered the year ended March handling. storage and ASTCAR 31, 1935, showed thunt work edities; much of this is on res worth £70 milion
been ela med land carried out overset by some A Hetish Irma, operating in almost B30 countrica, new orders
been booked for nearly 275 million, and at the end of the
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Of outstanding interest In East Africa is the Owen Falls hydro-electrie 140wda, site where the White Nile Bows, out of Lake Vicluria. Here a dem of cyclopean con- erot $00 teen high and 2,500 feet long has beeny constructed by the twen Pails Construction Company combination ggght firms, British, Danish and Dutea. Te consultants were Sir Kennedy and Donkin and Alexander Gibb and Parties.
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Wilde and Company Lid, also variety of styles, stitch and pal- tern. All these machines are fully Company (Canada) An agreement was signed in
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automatic in operation. New Delhi in November, 1955, sidiary of Comentation Company feed machine for multi-coloured Bentley Group of missileciton
between the Government of Lid, of London): John Inglis India and the Associated Elee- Company Ltd, Toronto (ILSSO- teleul Industries of the United elated company of English Elec- Kandom for the budding of
Company Lid, London); factory to manufacture heavy English Electric Company Ltd: ONSIGNEES electrical equipment. The capital Sir Robert McAlpine and Sons, Lenga of the plant is expected in Canada, Lid. (subsidiary of the be the squ/vi/tr1;& of about Lotion firm) and Brillsh In- £20 million This is only one of mulated Callender's Cables Ltd. my projects at present being Lordon, are participating in the undertaken in Indur hy Briten Vast St Lawrence Seaway pro-
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A Canadian subsidiary Braithwaite and Company En- Jahu
Laing und Son Lati janeers Ltd, has been engaged (Holidays) won [1 £2.1 mil-
Rong-term
lion plan for the tvelopment of the txort vf hend offices Li Vancouver Chittagong in Pakistan. which for the British Columbia Electric will enable the handling of 20 Company. Bwbank and Partners |alqis at a fitne. Giammon (Paki (Canada), a wholly-owned sub-
Stan: L. * won the contracts
acts xkllary of a London firm, have dry dock at Karacht, been appointed bewe
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and fue a barrage at Gugu, 50 the flist stage in the £14 million Ite Indus The latter is said to Boundary Dum generating
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In the Middle East, one of the heen appointed Jont consulting most interesting projects engineers for the Kariba hydro- which British engineers have letries scheme in Rhodesia been engaged is that for ulls- With Morz and McLennan con- ing for water storage the Wad sulting electrical and mechanical Thertar in Iraq. The scheme Engineers, Other British flrms was prepared by Coode Dod are securing contracts for con- Partners. struction work, Thus Cementu- In connection with I power
Company Ltd has secured a stalion to be installed later £1.5 million contract for build channel 150 metres wide and ing coffer dams and a diversion 50 kilometres long has been cut turzel, nud Richard Costain by Balfour Beatly and Company Lehousing contract worth Litch
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A contract worth £450,000 for work involving the construc- tion of embankment approach
Special Announcements A contract to build roads and roads, abutments and river plers, and Classified Advertise-bridges and for work on various and the steel superstructure of a engineering projecte for all com- new highway bridge over the on excavation Euphrates al Samarra has been panies engaged work in Papun went to George awarded to Sir William Arrol Wimpey and Company Ltd. This und Company Ltd. And D. and thought to be the Targest C.md Willam Press Ltd, and a single dévelopment since the French company. have
been senich for all began in Papua. commissioned by the Iraq Deve-
in the Gold Coast, John lopment Board to construct Howard and Company Lid, and 75-mile road from Jalawa to Sir Lindsay Parkinson and Com- a reservoir which is being bulli pany Ltd are building a Tema bt Derbend-I-Khan,
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This con- a new harbour with breakwaters, tract, which is valued at over quays, warehouses and railways, £5 million, includes pbridge planned eventually to be the antt some 2,300 feet of tunnel-
largest entirely ariliclal barbour ling.
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Baghdad, has been given to the Holloway London firm of, Brothers Lic. At Apopà," the port area of This survey le by no
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A UK Mall, Me, Wiltshire, have secured.
UK firm, Messrs. Spencer (Melksham) Ltd,
contract to supply and install a loading system worth over £400,000 at Port Lobito, Angola, West Africa.
The installation will handle The Wiltshire-, !firm supply bulk supplies of magnesium ore, similar loading systems for use on zine concentrates at the rate with all types of raw materials, of 400 tons per hour.
At present the ore in
including cool and other miner-
als, arki they have already un-supplied equipment for exten- Joadeck by skip from a store sive use by coal and coke un-
some distance from
the loading dertakings in Britain, in addi- jetty. Under the new system the tion to pooumatic intake plants are will arrive at the loading for grain at various ports.
plant in railway trucks and will then be fed on 10 conveyors by means of a sido tippler and two concrete hoppors, with discharg- ers beneath feeding a transverse conveyor, feeding in ita turn a long belt conveyor to a large store adjacent to the quay, and
dumps, each
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containing about
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to the hold of the ship at a rate of 400 tons per hour.
firm have been
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Variety Calla Bhu removed from the store by two
Tund; 2. Stuuleni Matinees paturing and the Dands of Palli Weston cranes with grabs and fed to
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Music by two long belt conveyors, ope of | Lopez--with Guest Artista: 4. which will food a travelling out- Bomances of the World-Lout XV. 1 Episode); 4.15. Tea for Two:
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Newi 5,18, Tho 8.30, Monday Requests Presented Maliber: by Belty: 0.15, Birthday 0.19. "La Musique Francaise Fre sented by Jeannette Ply: 0.49, The House of Peter MoGovern; 3. Time Signal and the News; T50, Weather Report and Announcements: 7.10. A Moment for Malody-With Fella King and his Orchestra; 7.30, Edale Fisher with Axej_Stordahl's Orchie- stra; 7.45, Light Classical_Selections: 8 Personality Parade-Burl Ives; 8.15. The works of Tchaikowsky, 8.30. The Highland Jaunt--Written and Narrated by Moray McLaren; Time Signal and the News; 9.10, Music by Andre Kostelanetz and Orchenica: 9:30. Monday Con- cert--(Entire presentation devoted to the works of the eminerit Eng- lish componer-Eric Coates), “itie Three Bear"-A Phantory (played by the New Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pric Cuates) The Four Centurier-Bulte (played by the New Symphony Orchestra, con- ducted by Eric Coutes; 10, noutbals Commentary-Poppy Day Charly Match-Combined Services v. Com- bined Chiness, (Recorded); 10.50, Musical Interlude: 11. Date withi Dreamland-Featuring the songs of the Emile Coto Singers: 11.30 Ire Favourites, 12 Midnight, Ged Save Jude to Midnight--Popular Concert
engaged negotiations during the past five years and have obtained the contract in competitve tendor against Arma from other countries, including Holland, Germany, France and Italy.
Foundations for the plant are now being prepared and i Is hoped that the whole Instalintion will be completed within about three years.
The
contract,
which AW.EU placed with the Wiltshire frm by
Overseas the Portuguese Ministry, will result in the pro- vision of the latest type of Bri- tish handling equipment for this rapidly expanding West African port,
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