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THE HONGKONG &
YAUMATI FERRY COMPANY LTD.
THE CHINA MAILLA MONDAY, MARCH
11, 1987.
SCIENCE &
'CATSEYES' MAKE IT SAFER TO
DRIVE AT NIGHT
By DOUGLAS CORDON
A DARK night and a lonely stretch of road twisting and turning across the desolate hills with fog spreading over the fields; early motorists dreaded driving on such a road, with its innumerable hazards dimly discerned in the flickering light of their none too powerful lamps. Such was night driving in many parts of England even in 1934. But men were wondering if nothing could be done to improve this state of affairs.
now
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becoming this day Catseyes are the only reflecting stud approved by the Ministry for public Britain. Famo Spread Rapidly
major Win
The ronds were more and more crowded. Ac eldents were on the Increase and the highways that had been sulted to the slow journeys of the stage coach and the wise old herre with his nose for danger were national problem. Much written about it In the press, birt in Yorkshire, England, somebody as the local saying goes “had got his thinking cap our", and was employing it to some usatul purpose. Tramlines Gave Him Idea
"CAT
the
CATSEYES“ owe their origin to a Mr Percy Show of Halifax, In 1934 his occupation necessitated much night driving. He was often met by fog and had great difficulty in Anding bis way until he reached tramlines, after whleb he could drive with reasonable Adence. He was intrigued by the fact that whilst the use of head- lamps in fog created the effect of a white blanket, light rilee ed from the tramlines enabled him to dad his way safely. He decided to try to provide alternative,
con-
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Everybody has seen the eyes of a cat reflecting light In the dark like small twin lamps when the rest of the animal le Invisible. Such infallible And automatic tight on Britan's roads was what Mr Shaw sought to achieve
leve as he toyed Arst with
one iden and then another
Problems--he had in plenty. First bow to achieve the Juminosity; secondly how to en- sure its infallibility under
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It; and fourthly how to enaire that the passage of traffic could not damage it. One by one these problema were solved and Catseye Road Studs were per- fected.
Note to Shareholders
Notice is hereby given that the Twenty-Ninth Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Com-conditions; thirdly how to install
will be held at the pany Company's Office, Jordan Road Ferry Pier, Kowloon, on Saturday, the 6th April, 1957 at 12.00 noon for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Directors and Statement of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1956, to doclare Dividends, to elect Directors and to appoint Auditors.
Notice is also given that the Share Register of the Company will be closed from
20th Monday, the
March, 1957 to Saturday, the 6th April, 1967, both days
inclusive.
By Order of the Board, LAU CHAN KWOK,
Managing Director.
Hongkong, 8th March, 1957.
TO ADVERTISERS
be then
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The First Model
IT was in his own home, an old
that
one of the
Mr Shaw invented
maasion gear Halifax,
most important devices of the 20th century.
There, the first full scale models of the Catseye Road
Studs were produced in 1934 and the following year a com- party was incorporated 10 market them. The first order received was assembled in the stables of the old mansion and as the demand quickly spread a workshop was erected in
the mansion yard. From then the growth of the company
Was rapid, outgrowing the old man- sion which reverted to a private residence in 1955, and where the inventor Mr Shaw still lives,
Although at first the authori- ties were slow to recognise their worth, a strip of rond laid out with Catseyes was publicised as a show piece and representatives of many authorities gathered lo see Calaryes actually operating. Wide recognition followed, including investigation by the Ministry of Transport,
and to
MOORING LIGHTS FOR TANKERS
British
Malayan
The Petroleum Company Ltd recent- ly installed special lighting equipment to assist tankers to moor at night off the coast of Lutong, in British Borneo,
Four fixed and two flashing lights, mounted on marker buoys, mark the seaward and shores ward limits of the offshore lighter
berth, and two winking of the
end
indleute the pervard loading and bunker lines.
The lights are controlled by a time-switch which automatically switches them off during the dey, and tests have been under. taloca to ensure that the equipment
successfully realst exposure to heavy BOILIE and the corrosive action of salt water.
لملاب
Pilot bringing in tankers at night, will pee a line of four
short,
tions: Secretary, Hongkong Hights parallel with the Society for the Protection and, mowing their distances of Children.P.O. Boz 1803 part, will be able to judge
Hongkong,
is
Please and u'your unwanted boys. Collection Centre' at Rediffuelors.
accurately the speed of the www.Additiöck)), help. In
by mooring: will be devolven reflectors" on the woods out attached to the mooring wires.
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fame of Catseyes spread rapidly, as over the roads of Britain their long friendly rib- bons of light begin to appear up hill and down dale trum John O'Groats to Land's End."" On the Continent of Europe 100, the dark roads bocame safe for driving as a well lit suburban highway.
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across
In Africa and the Middle East long stretches of road desert and veldi received their gleaming pinpoints of light
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The Briush Army authorities
gnised their possibilities on roads used for the transport of military traffic in remote train- ing areas and gave the project its approval.
Road authorities throughout Britain made dangerous bends and bridges safer to negotiate. Night driving became almost as safe and as simple as by day.
In 20 years a minor revolution in road safety has been achieved. The idea inspired by
the old fashioned tramline and worked out in the old mansion has now given eyes to the highways of the world; reliable friendly eyes travellor to guide the modern sufely and swiftly on his way.
ENGINEERING
Mr Perey Shaw, Managing Director of Reficeling Roadstuds Lid of Boothtown, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, the inventor of "calsoyes", with a number of different types of these road safety devices. The studs reflect the light from car headlamps at night along the centre of the foal. More thin five million of those "cat poyes" have been laid along 19,000 miles of roada in Britain. They have also been laid on roads in America and on the continent of
Europe,
(Inset, Top Right) "Cu#soyca" reflected in á car ́a headlampa ni night.
'Conveyor-Belt For People'
A Horbury (Yorkshire) fitm of The Speedwalk consists of a
Richard
convoyor manufacturera --- Messra
Sutellite, Limited-are extending their interest in the mechanical handling of goods
the Transportation of human beings.
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At their Universal Works they are to produce two systems in which the familiar in dustrial moving belt principle has been adapted to conveying of people. Known n the Speedwalk and the Carveyor, they will be made under licence from American firm.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
REMEMBER LOTHAR, I WILL.
IF I DON'T COME OUT
AT ONCE, PULL
| ME OUT!
DON'T
GO-
FERDINAND
THAT FOG-IS WEIRD
AND SCARY--THOSE FIREBALLS THINGS DISAPPEARING --LET'S GET. THE ARMY--} LET'S GET
TANKS-
D
NANCY
SHE'S
I HAVEN'T SEEN YOUR AUNT. FRITZI
LATELY
BEEN IN BED WITH A COLD
I'VE BEEN DOING ALL THE COOKING
JOHNNY HAZARD
HAVE YOU TOLD THEM ANYTHING YRT, SCOTTY 7
HO MORE THAN 19 NECESSARY TO TEST A JET BOMBER, COL.MARLONI| TVB WITHHELD IS REAL"
· BIGNIFICANCE......AND ONLY WHEN IT'S BEEN "TEST" CHECKED OUT
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bell-generally made of rubber-running at 11⁄2 miles an hour over many rollers a series of fat plates, No cxxertion
required from passengers, who. however, may increase the speed at which they travel by walking on the system.
Cars, or
compartments, travel at 15 miles an hour
in the claborate Carveyor mord system. They are entered at "pick up" stations after their speed has been geared to that of a 60-foot conveyor of the
IT MIGHT NOT STAY HERE-WE MIGHT NEVER SEE
AGAIN-
Speedwalk type, So that passengers get the impression of getting into a stationary vehicle.
NEW TEXTILE MACHINERY
ALTHOUGH textile macldnery builders may
not be quite so busy as they were a few years ago, business continues at a comparatively brisk level. This is undoubtedly due in great measure to the quality of the products and also to the steady research undertaken by many machinery builders, says The Times Weekly Review.
Tweedales and Smalley (1920) by the firm of Thomas C. Kegy, Limited, of Castleton, near of Dundee, the device is for Rochdale, have just produced a side-loading of the pim into the large packing ring frame which shutite instead of top-loading. la making a 10in. bobbin inatend of a fin. bobbin, This permits a scale of production four or five times greater than was possible with the olden type of ring
tramo,
Another company with a good record of progress over the years are Muschamp Textile Machinery Ltd, of Bardsley, near Oldham. It is three years since the firm introduced the SS-100 spindle automatic pirn- trated two new machines the winder.
They have now demor Muschamp S3-160 super-speed fully automatle pirnwinder and speeds and production the Muschamp automatic Combl and higher
overall efficienry winder. The 65-100, a deve and is an all coun: general pur-lopment of the SS-100, has been
Another recent development comes from Platt Brothers und Co., Ltd, of Oldham the MR3 ring spinning frame. This offers Increased
pose machine, The claim is made
that it codices bath running and specially designed at the request of the larger firms Interested in mass production. The machine, built in units of 24 or 30 spindles, is equipped with a high- special large capacity, speed, centralised pirn hopper. Automatic Hopper Feed
maintormace costs. The machine —a direct successor to the com- pany's well-proved M1 frame- la in lifts up to 12in, and in corporates many refinements and improvements made possible by advances in efficiency and
spinning techniques.
One of the problemts involved Long Staple System
in developing the machine was to devise an automatic hopper The same company have also the now
food expable at working at sumi- recently announced
clonlly high speed to ensure that long staple (21⁄2im, to Bin.) dradi ing system for the MS2 speed even when winding medium to and MR3 ring frames. Process heavy counts at very high speeds mechanism ing techniques for materiais of the pirn feeding
supply
empty pirns of would
to cach the normal cotton
new The
em- Tange
staple lengths exceeding those of Mickly eno 30 of supply-
plagio the urgent need for
adividual
short sequence of operations and mechanisan le
опе
coch
an efficient high draft system for ing a 32-spindle machine, even stiver and roving which will if it takes only a minute com embrace the full range of fibre pletely to and doff
has pirn. It deniers,
interesting longths,
man-made
whether the pirns are fibres, and blends of these fibres features with one another and with wool taken
ool taken from the hopper the right The successful development of
of way up or upside down, the (long device will always deliver them intended to work without any staple) and M3 ring frame chute the right way up.
for the MSI into the empty pirn conveyor
The high degree of "automation"
envisaged can be gauged by the fact that the systems are the Platt Versatox
traffic stall.
the
to
frame
*
that speed It is felt systemo
The Cambi automatic winder would have a application opens up wide fields wide
of range
of for the employment of these is a combination application, for the
a high- especially where it is desired
to speed spooler (chocso winder) materials by enabling them
อ commercial and move concentrations of be processed on
fully automatle pirn- le both
and economically people to and from confined scale
Little
additional foor winder. spaces quickly at football effectively.
space is required for this com matches, for example, Another development is a new binatious machine and less than landing grounds and in large type of shuttle holder for auto one extra hp. It la claimed that factorien and mines.
malle jube looms. Manufactured the new system of winding will be of enormous advantage to the Lancashire cotton Industry,
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
82 CAREFUL-
AND MANDRAKE ENTERS
THE MYSTERIOUS
LITTLE FOGʻ
ANNN
By Mik
HOW LONG
HAS SHE
BEEN
SICK ?
THAT LONG
APPE
By Ernie Bushmiller
AND THEY'RE
FINE THE FEWER PEOPLE READY FOR THE KNOW THE REAL SECRET THE FINAL GLOBE-. | LESS CHANCE OF A LEAKI AND |CIRCLING TEST, BRO-THER-R, HOW THE IRON
WILL I LET
CURTAIN BOYS WOULD LIKE THE DOPE ON THIS BABY!,
THEM IN ON PHASE I
By Frank Robbing
WHILE ON A DISTANT MOUNTAIN RANGE...
THIS IS AS CLOSE AS WE CAN GET WITHOUT |RUKNING ONTO RESTRICTED
“TERRITORY: WHAT'S COMING OVER, MACT
A NEW BIG ONE! DELTA-WING BOMBER...MUST DE UNDER TESTA
JACK, DO YOU THINK THIS COULD
on
There's More than Magic
about
They're
CADBURY'S
во веленуі
Mist Tray
Wonderful
CUTEX
LIPSTICK
AND
NAIL POLISH They always harmonise
ROWNTREES
IT'S THE FULL
CREAM MILK THAT
MAKES MOUNETREE'S
CHOCOLATE SO
Maya Horas 1
MILK CHOCOLATE
...this situation calls for a
San Miguel
news
From Yorkshire comes of a mobile wool baling press for the baling of any type of waste material. Finally, In view of the present oil attention, the pro duction by GB. Furness Lid of an econonte all burner which to will burn tar would appear solve at least one problems the boilerhouse.
Tropospheric Scatter Research
In common with other countries, intensive re- search into Tropospheric Scatter is being carried out in Britain.
an ex-
Manconi's, who have been conducting tests for many years, have now, established perimental 200-mile tropospheric scatter Hnk ́ between the north and south of England, and hope
shortly to extend the Unit further 200 miles into Scotland.
Tho links has
beer Im continuous operation for six months, and results are to indicate à sound commercial
for future
communication systems maiting 100 tropospheric scalier principle,
Plans are now. In hand to set up high power transmitters and sacolated
receivers a
Newcastle,
of the
on the north-east
coast of England, and Londony, with the object of operating up telephone between these two points (u distance of about 270 miles).
to 30 simultaneoUS channels
For the future, the ultimate ilmitu of transmission depend largely on the fram mitter power available. With a power of 100low it right bo possible to athlove telegraph franmission out to distances of the order of 700 kslām.
BUZZING DOCTOR
Doctor available immediately by remote control will soon be walking the
Margaret's Hospital, / Epping, Esox. In their top pockets will be What looks like, mi fountain on But the pene give a high pitched, buzu whenever a docjot" la Winted
The control will be worked from the hospital wwwitchboard where the operator will fast. different intimber for osch doctor - and senior member