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SCOPE FOR COASTAL AND RIVER TRADE.
[BY A HONG KONG CORRESPONDENT.]
"Shipping is the life-blood of the 33 berths. Warship construction Colony is a statement that has has deminished which has Kad ita "been made frequently and the truth reaction in the shipyards of Britain, af which is apparent even to the Hong Kong offers facilities for docking the largest vessels on the new comer.
Pacific" as well as for carrying out all necessary repairs,
What is not so obvious is that there are many thousands of men employed in Hong Kong and Ker In this connection it is worth loon in connection with ship-repair-mentioning that the ships of the United States nover have any re- ing and shipbuilding.
U.S.A.
A
BUILDING
NEW BOOSTER CONTROL GEAR-
DEVELOPMENT FOR SHIPS' AUXILIARIES.
[BY A LONDON CORRESPONDENT]
It is more or less common know ledge, that an inherent disadvan tage of electric driving for the deck auxiliaries of steamships and Diosol engine vessels, such as windlasses, warping winches, and capstane, has been a lack of flexibility as "com. pared with steam drive.
The use of electricity for this
tages, including convenience, baso of supplying power to any desired spot, and the elimination of a con- siderable amount of steam piping, with the troubles of leakage, ex- pansion and contraction, and loss of heat by radiation, and originally came into extensive use because of the Diesel vessel, only equippòd with auxiliary steam, mainly for heating.
Everyone soon becomes aware of paire made in our local shipyards,purpose has of course many advan- the well-equipped establishments except those absolutely essential known as the Hong Kong & Wham-for taking them to sea. All of the poa Dock Co., Ltd., and the Taikoo routine refits are done in the Dockyard & Engineering Co., Ltd.
Many people, ako, have heard of
Shipbuilding (and ship-repairing) the shipyard of Messrs. W. S. is one of the most important indus Bailey, Ltd. There is, in addition, tries in the Colony. Here are wait the Royal Naval Dockyntd, employing well organised establishments ing many thousands of workers ready to carry out work of almost whose wages are paid by the any description. For the sake of British tax-payer, but whose spend the general prosperity of the ing must ultimately benefit the Colony it is to be hoped that they Colony.
will soon be as basy as in those prosperous times of ten or twelve
What is not so apparent is the large number of Chinese yards where ship-repairs, etc., are under-
Laken.
years ago.
There is, perhaps, no more won derful creation of man then the In many of those places the equipment is crude and the scienti-modern ocean liner, Merchandise, fic knowledge shown is negligible.nien and mails are carried from Yet it must be confessed that for London to Hong Kong with a cer sheer ingenuity displayed it would be hard to find better examples.
The Engines Used.
In the past ocean-going steamers have been built in Hong Kong and such work is welcomed. There is any amount of scope for steamers and oil driven vessels, not only on the Chiun Const, but on the inland waters, of the country. There is no reason why Hong Kong shipyards should not supply the vessels need
ed.
Not only have steam engines heen built in the shipyards of long Kong, but there is the necessary skill and equipment for Diesel and other oil engines. It would appear that these incts ought to be men tioned in Chinese officials circles more frequently..
Waterways of China, From time immemorial the waterways of China have provided The Grand transport facilities. Canal was, in its day, n grent triumph of engineering work,
However efficient the railways, however excellent the ponds, the great waterways and the extended const line of China will always.nt- trael transport of goods and of people.
tainty and punctuality that would
seem incredible if we think over Like some the problem involved. astounding living intelligent animal, possessed of an unernay instinct, the huge ship moves across the seas, giving to these with imagina tion the illusion of life..
Economic Dificulties.
The real trouble today is the world-wide depression. In the past caused by bad bad trade was harvests and scarcity. To-day- paradoxically-it is the general ex cess that is the trouble.
Markets cannot be found for the
sugar, rubber, colton, silk, metal, and engineering goods. The heavy fall in values has meant a drying up of business with disastrous effects on the rest of the world.
Now, however, the trouble of in- suficient flexibility has been elimin ated in practical fashion by the new Booster Control" system for deck auxiliarics recently introduced by Clarke Chapman & Co., Ltd.. of Gateshead-on-Tyne, being special form of modified "Ward. Leonard" control which is much
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less in capital cost. This is claim ed, with every justification, to give with electric driving a degree of flexibility absolutely equal to steam in the operation of windlasses, warping winches, and capstans, as proved by the experience that has now been obtained with a consider able number of installations on the vessels of different steamship com. panies Also the general principlo is of great interest for general ap- plieation on land.
The entire operation is enrried out by a simple hand wheel, which enables complete control of pull and speed to be obtained, from the slowest creep to the maximum speed, quite irrespective of the degree of the pull on the cable or rope. Also stalling as caaily ob- tained on overload, and the whole
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shipbuilding, ship-repairing and the the ordinary steam drive. engineering industries.
The shipbuilders in Britain have met their diffienities by a new move-rationalisation. The Nation- at Shipbuilder's Security, Ltd., is a company formed to help the whole of the industry in Britain and to meet foreign competition.
Among the ships Jaunched in 1930 Wh the motor vessel Britannic (27,000 tons) and the turbine driven The immediate problem is the
Empress of Japan, so much admir. mechanisation of this system. The
ed in Hong Kong. This ship is said mator oat, the river steamer, and
to offer the passenger of to-day the ocean-going turbine driven ves-three times as anuch space as her sel, will do the work efficiently predecessor of the same namo. She In 1917 there were registered 2,857 offers ever so much more luxurý, steam vessels for inland
The Empress of Britain (42,000 navigation in China, Canton head-tons) is being finished at Clyde. ed the list with 905 and Shanghai bank. It is alivious that the Cana had 01. Each year the number of dian Pacific Steamship people mean power driven boats on the inland to serve their clients well. They
water
waters increas29, The size and number of the big ships on the Pacific grows. Hong Kong can. build, any vessels required on the inland waters of China-or on the China Coast,
The Huge Cunarder,
It must be admitted that, from a shipbuilder's point of view, the past year does not present a very cheerful · picture of engineering activities. Almost everywhere all over the world there was declining production and a tremendous strug-
are easily maintaining their fine reputation as a cet efficient and up-to-date organisation.
The advent of new Inrgo ships on the Pacific finds the Hong KongTM shipyards well equipped for all re- paira. We sincerely hops that they will find plenty of work to keep the establishments busy,
gle, to find markets even for the LOCAL MAPS
reduced output shipbuilding Ögures show that the work in hand in Britaiit at the end of the year-was- considerably less than at the begin- ning, slthough that latter tonnage included the giant new Cunarder of 73,000 tong hd down on the Clyde. It is worth noting that the
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formed-in-Britain_last_year, closed.
The basic principle consists in using a small electric motor genera- tor in the place of the ordinary. starter or controller, which alterf the voltage of the electricity supply to the main driving motor. This latter is coupled in the usual man- ner on the lines of the ordinary contractor controller, but because of the variable voltage supply, any speed or pull can be obtained Power according to this voltage.
is taken direct from the ship's mains, but the effect of the small métor generator, which is also of course itself driven from the main, is either to boost up or reduce the voltage actually delivered to the driving motor.. within the wide. range of zero to double the line voltage. Also special windings on.
the drivin motor, as well as the motor generator, are included for protection, these windings provid- ing automatic stalling in the case
of overload.
The same results are obtained is
the with
complicated" Ward. Leonard" electric control, but it is claimed, with the added import- ant advantage of simplicity and amall amount-of-room,-ne-wall- ast much lower capital cost.
Some of the other points' also in connection with this," Clarke Chap- man" control are that a heavy pull can be maintained as long as required, with, a very low power consumption, the latter is- propor- tional to the actual work done and not to the torque or load irrespec
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