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THE CHINA MAIL, `MONDAY, MAY 13, 1957.
SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
BRITISH INDUSTRIES
FAIR
Vast Range Of
Equipment
On Display
By LEONARD G. RULE
Nearly 1,000 exhibitors are displaying their products at the 1957 British Industries Fair-biggest event of its kind in Europe-at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, England (May 6 to 17). In previous years, the Fair has been held in two centres— London and 'Birmingham.
This year, for the first time, it is located in Birmingham only, where hitherto there has
concentration always been the greatest engineering exhibits, and the stress engineering-both mechanical and electrical-is greater than ever.
On
on
But this does not mean the surfacca,
These enable the exclusion of other trades such bricks to be laid at the rate of as the plasties industry, paints, pix per minute, varnishes and painting equip-
Nylon runners are becoming
ment, domestic wares of all popular for use with curtain kinds, building materials and rails. They are said to eliminate equipment, fancy goods, selenti-friction, and to ensure nolaciess Alc. instruments, felt and leather movement of the curtains. In products, ropes, wood turnings addition, they have an extreme ord mouldings, typewriters, odice
and factory furniture, y long life. These, too,
being demonstrated at the BIF. surgical and veterinary instru- ments, small printing machinery aircraft engines, and even half- | dressers" equipment,
aro
-18
But the basis of the Fair on the well-established Unes of British engineering: engines of all kinds, brassware-for which Birmingham world famous- aluminum ware, steel ware, bearings (there L
something erva. new to replace phosphor
is enormous
and
represents
Twelve-lense camera for atomie research,
HIGH-SPEED CAMERA
05
Electronic Colour Printing
DIESEL-ELECTRIC
PROPULSION FOR
SUPER-TRAWLER
By W. MACONACHIE
Britain's fishingflects have a new queen.
A new electronic device Portia is her name and she has set the world_of which will greatly simplify fishermen talking, for there is not another like
colour printing processos:
will be shown for the first her. time xt the British Industrins Fair in Birming-] ham which opened on
May 6.
by
Although she is of handsome, even graceful, lines, she is strictly a working girl, sturdily built for the hard life before her.
Colour reproduction, in print Portia did not gain her proud and conts a vessel's super- or photographic form, can be a title by British craftsmanship at structure with layer upon layer alow and costly business if true e Middlesbrough shipyard of of fee, gradually rendering be colour values are to be faith-Smith's Deck Company Lunited, top-heavy. Ropes and rigging, fully recorded, as often much who bullt this 883-ton trawler which always provide a good depends upon hours of pains for Hollyer Bros Lid, the Hull hold for ice, have boon lept taking work
skilled trawler owners who have spent to a minimum by sitting a hipod retouchers. A considerable over
of a million mast without a querior
attys mad M saving in time and in costs is pounds to add Portia to their flatable life-carta and aluminium claimed for the device, best fishing fleol. described o reproduction camera with electronically con- To say that she is a super- trolled light output for scanning trawler is no exaggeration, for coloured copy and producing site la
$19
separation negatives.
every
beats are carried.
Distant-water fishing is a hard
Britain's biggest and ad hazardous business, a bitter colour And tone corrected fastest, and, to quote Mr Mark battle against the worst the sea
Hellyer,
the men endeavour has can do, relentless on been made to attain consider who wige it and the vessels they sall in. Unshaven, tired and ably higher standards of sea stiff, the trawlermen jumble out, worthiness and safety than have watch after watch, day and ever been reached before.
to manhandle the goar dard every low hours, dres it in over the fail
All-Welded
glng
freezing fingers, deluged in ley Spray. Readers will perhapa
Protection
Known
as the Autoscan, should not be confused with the electronic SCOINCTS, already well-known in process engrav- Ing, which produce a printing block by means of a stylo culting into plastic or metal. Or all-welded hull construc- remember the tragic loss of In fact, it is claimed that # tion, she is nearly 180 tons Thornelia and Roderigo, which Typical of the wide It takes a sequence of 12 represents the most direct con- bigger than any trawler now capsized under the weight of range of "Atomic World" pictures
with
exposure tribution yet made to a solution operating and is the first British 'binck frost." equipment which was times which may be
of the constant problem in any commercial shing vessel to shown at the recently held short us
colour studio-thint of produc- have diesel-electric propulsion. one ten-millionthing colour corrected negatives The machinery, Physical Society
by English Ex- of a second and the interval which do not need excessivo Electric, has been designed to hibition in London was between pictures is adjust- | ratouching. this high speed camera for able between less than a
develop 1,500 shaft horsepower Every effort has been made to give her an estimated loaded to protect porta against these Such atomic research.
negative: are millionth and a thousandth produced
ingenious speed of 15 knots. The installa conditions. by
Sho La the first of a second.
system of colour and density tion of diesel-electric machinery British trawler with no access control. A great advantage is has made possible push-button from the mala dock into the that
to engine control from the bridge accommodation, this being pro- no attempt is made
particularly useful when displayed at record unsuitable densities
the vided from the boat deck only, the Show were personal ganuna
then correct electronically, but ship is nching, and malting it so that when her main deck lá rudlation monitors,
the latest highly sensitive beam scans unnecessary for an engineer to awash, as it often will be, water
coloured original and the stand by the engine room con- cannot get below decios,, the reactor Instru- apparatus for
trols for hours on end, impulses are recorded directly anentation and research equip-on to a photographic plate.
They find their reward ha ment for radio isotope applica-
Under skipper Arthur
releases a bulging bag that Don,
The The fact that as many as
new apparatus can be coll, Portia will spend most of allthering avalanche of fish as y British
usco for reflection coples, such her shing time in severe Arctic the mate releases the cod-and, finns showed up- paratus for use in the nuclear colours, combination drawings, grounds.
ал oll paintings. water conditions on the distant-water and they deserve the beat that energy filed underlined Britala's materials. cloth, leatherette, will encounter bitter wintry way of comfort and safety, world lead in the peaceful ap marble and colour reproduction gales and the dreaded 'black plication of atomic energy.-COL. prints of all kinds.
Birmingham is not only in the centre of England and its second
Shown by the British fargest city, it is also the heart
Armument Research and the manufacturing of
Development Establishment, Within 30 miles of it are most bronze), and so on to engineers' it has twelve lenses and is of the heavy manufacturing tools and hand tools. The range capable of photographing centres of Britain, and almost every engineering works of Im- most of the skills which have at the rate of a million portance is within 150 miles of been developed in the Black frames per second.
This means that any visitor Country" As the ares round to the Fair can go to sco the Birmingham is called. actual proers of manufacture of anything that interests him in a matter of hours.
Buyers' Train
Already it is known thal buyers from more than 60 NOTICE TO CUNSIGNEES countries are to visit the Fair.
Consignera per
CIE DES MESSAGERIES
MARITIMES
3. “VIET-NAM
are hereby notified that their cargo: will be discharged into the Hung Kone & Kowloon Whart & Godown Co. Ltd.'s godown where it will bo connor risk and subject to the whaith terms and conditions of storage and were delivery may be oblained.
Damaged packages are to be left la the fuwn für examination by consignées" and the company's mur-
veyor, Mesin Goddard & Douglas
ut 19 km. on 16th May 1951,
No claims will be admitted after the 'goods have left the godowa sudi all goods remaining undelivered attaṛ the 17th May, 1957, will be subject. 10 гель.
All clain agulust the vessel murt be presented to the undersigned on or before the 9th June, 1957, or they
may not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
CIE DES MESSAGERIES
MARITIMES
Hong Kong, 19th May 1937.
So far, the largest number of bookings is from the United States of America, but the great interest in the European, Trud- ing Union is shown by the largo mumber of Continental countries which are being represented.
in
Buyers በጦ also expected from Japan and countries South America. This is reflected in the very heavy bookings re- ported by British Overseas Air- ways and British European Air- ways for the period of the Fair.
Many of those travelling pre being conveyed in Vickers Vis- count" aircraft, and the Rolls- Royce "Dart" turbo-propeller engine, which powers those machines, is being shown in the
Fair.
A large number of buyers prefer to stay in London and make the two-hour journey on the special "Buyer' train
from Euston every day, return- ing by it in the evening. On that train, special secretarial servicos include a shorthand-typle who is able to take dielation ith French, German, Italian, Span- ich and Portuguese,
One of the most interesting exhibits at the BIP is the latest
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES development in what is called
"EUMAEUS"
Damaged cargo ex this vowel wil be surveyed by Mears Goddaří de Dongles at Hoth Wharf from 19. on May 14 and 15, 1957, and con- MEILOGO are requested to have their representatives present during the SLAVET.
MUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, A RONZA.
Hong Kong, May 11, 1057.
To ADVERTISERS
ba
"printed circuits." These are printings in metal which replace the "cata cradie" of wiring which used to be part of any radio, televizion, zadar, or other electronic apparatus. One firm 19 now producing radar sets with printed circuits which are only one-tenth the size of those with normal wiring.
Printed Circuits
The process of making print- od elreuita is similar in some ways to that of printing words on paper, and one of the exhibi- fors used to be in the printing industry before turning over to the making of printed circuits. The metal foils used for the to exacting process one inegla standards, and one of the chief firms in this business (also ex- hibiting at the Fair) is responal- üle for preparing the metal for making Britain's coinago and that of some other countries, as well as medals of many idinde,
Another exhibit is a device Announcements for helping to
overcome the and Classified Advorilo
diflculty which
may be EX- menta na wOUR),
perienced
diesel in staring engines in cold weather. The Idea is to pass the fuel dit over a heating element so that it is Warm when it reaches Live
SUNDAY POST-HERALD Bpace for commercial advertising should booked not Fator than noon on Wednesdays,
For the 8OUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication, Bpoolal
THE BOYS' » GIRLS' CLUBS ASSOCIATION
invites your support, ks. belplog to trades the Hongkong ellizena
cylinder and can bo ignited Coally.
4.
Among the cooking apparatus to be ecen, is a range of infra- | sod cookers. This includes grill for use in the home, 16 well as a number of larger types for hotels, regintironta pad
of conterra. There is also a nów
to-morrow," "Bubacriptions should be | type of screw-driving - machine mooi ba?-The Hon. Sreveuer. The } which can deal automatically Boga" and "Girls" Ctuba Asociation, witli muxt size of #prew
Memorial
drops
Wolfare Centre. thora used it spectacle tramos
Boutborn Flaground, Wasche
Telephone - 7463).
-giants 23 inches long.
Builders will find a new type
of brick which hos Interlocking
ih:1
The camera can take pic It may be event will prove to be the mosting outwards from an ex- this year's tures of metal particles y representative that Birmingham has had during the 40 years the plosion at speeds twenty
times that of sound.
Fair has been held there.
MANDRAKE the MAGICIAN
SEND US
BACK!
IMPOSSIBLE. THE LAST TIME MACHINE WAS DESTROYER. ITS ILLEGAL TO BUILD A NEW ONE,
FERDINAND
NANCY
THIS IS A WONDERFUL AGE WE'RE LIVING IN
JOHNNY' HAZARD
I THOUGHT, PERHAPS, MISE ALLEN, YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE HERE TO GREET YOUR BROTHER
WHEN HE LANDS HIS `ATOM-BOMBERJ
BUT WE CAN'T LET YOU STAY HERE! WE ARE NOW) GERAL-FREE AND HAVE, NO RESISTANCE TO GERMST YOU'RE COVERED
WITH THEM!
WHAT WON'T THEY THINK OF NEXT?
ATOM-BOMBERH Y-YOU NEVER TOLD MEL. YOU MADE ME BETRAY MY COUNTRY | AS WELL AS««M«M¥
BROTHER!
*YOU FILTHY BEAST! I'LL STOP
YOU
Other exhibits
an
By Les Falk and Phil Davis
NO € IF WE CANT LEAVE. GERMS AND CAN'T STAY WHAT ON ME. THEN? WILL YOU
DESTROY US?
DESTROY YOU? NOI CAPITAL PUNISHMENT), INTO
A-- WAS OUTLAWED AGES, AGO. NO, WE'LL PUT WHAT? YOU INTO AN ORBIT.
TOMORROW: ORBIT
By Mik
By, Brule Bushmiller
IMAGINE
VACUUM
A LITTLE CLEANER
TO CLEAN YOUR
ΤΕΕΤΗ
DICTATING
MACHINE
and
Ash-
In these areas she
Irost' which treezes flying spray
There's More than Magic in
FRY'S A
"FAVOURITES
They are Delicious
CUTEX
LIPSTICK:
IN THE
LATEST,
SHADES
ROWNTREES
YORK
"CHOCOLAT
A FAMOUS
ARCH
BUSHMANLI
NAME IN CHOCOLATE
By, Frank Robbins
PLEASE, MISS ALLEN....... YOU STRAIN MY FRIENDLY
INTENTIONS
...this situation calls for a
San Miguel
can be given them in the
In putting Portia into service. Hellyer Bros, have set a new standard in seaworthiness and sca-kindliness. In fitting her out, only the best has been good. mnough, from her English
Electrie equipanont in the engine
room to the Marconi Marian radio, rada, and fish-indicating Installation the bridge. **** The Marconi Companies and Their People.
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Thailand, Burma, India, 2 1.1 Cambodia, 9_0.1
Indo-China, France. 1 p.
Australia, New Zealand, 2 p.m.
Quan Hawall, U.S.A.,
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Canada, 6 p.02 Howall, U.E.A, 0 p.m.
My Burface
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Philppines, a p.zz.
Thaliad, Iraq. 3 p.m.
Sarawak,
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Canada, 1 p.m.
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SBORO, P.
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