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MAIERFORM SHIPS.'
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*EFFICIENCY.
IN PRAISE OF THE PIPE.
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Among the London pipe manu- facturers whose products have stood the test of time one of the best known is Adolph Frankan and Co., Ltd., makers of the popular B.B.B. A paper by Mr. Marley F. Haywood unsurpassed for quality and briar. It is their boast that only
pn the Maier form of hull construc- tion was rend at the Spring meet ing of the Institution of Naval
Archicels.
London.-The fortation of au international compnay, to he called the International Hydrogenation
Maier's experiments led him to Patents Company, which will hold the patents and interests tantside the belief that in a vessel of nos Gerusiny and the United States) in mat form particles of water on- the hydrogenation process for pre-
countering the bow passed over the surface in their passage to the ducing oil from cond of the Stangen in a path which if projected Gard LG Company, the Roya", Dutch Shelf group and Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd, has "stared the wars" of the last
unmed “company's shares the Stock Exchange.
an
The formation of the new com pany, though nu event of first im portance, does not however menn the immediate solution of the troubles of the British coal indus try or entail any immediate in- erease in the world's supplies of oil,
the lady plan produced a sort of serpentine curve, and he con- chided that if the hoay plan could be so altered ns to produce a path that would appear on the body plan as a more OF dingona! the path would be shorter Jess straight
and the resistance less. Carrying ong experiments in the Vienna tank with models constructed on these lines he obtained a reduction of resistance of about 10 per cent. The weited surface of a Maierform
grain is used in the production" of pipes which it is the pride' of the connoisseur to possea.
At the recent British Industries Fair Frankau's had two attractive exhibits. One was an illuminated a house on fire: In the picture of Alunes was suspended a B.H. B.
pipe. There was no description,
but the motto was obvious-the
pipe that does not huru. Another feature was a workman busy with lathe, fitting stems into bowls and carrying out other work at a bench.
As a special fenturn for Pipe Weck the makers of the well-known' QBD and City de Luxe" models are marketing the new Tween," a size between feather-weight and ordinary. It weighs only three quarters of an ounce and has the
"King GeorgelV
OLD SCOTCH
WHISKY
INTERAMNIK
OPENING AND CLOSING FACILITATED BY
NEW SCREW CAP
Simple Safe & Secure
No corkscrew necessary
Possibility of leakage or contamination through faulty corks eliminated
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which are already surplus to car vessel being about per cent, less additional advantage of being GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.,
rent requirements. The company intends the pooling of patents research work, but na wanafactur
ing operations, in the early future
on a commercial scale.
A subsidiary companý, tode enil- od Hydrogenation Engineering and Chemical Company, is to be formed at the Hague, which will be staffel by experts of the constituent groups and will be the chanel for the licensing and designing - hydrogenation plants.
greater than for a corresponding normal ship was inherent in Maier- form linen,
than that of a corresponding nor-fitted with siper lipa for dentures, mal form; it was evident that the Another pipe being featured is reduction in resistance could not the "Maurice," in which is incor- he explained by a reduction in porated a patent moisture trap and frictional resistanee alone, and cover, enabling the pipe to be put in safety glove with an ebonite bowl
that the difference must be sought in the pocket half smoked and say. in n decrease in wave-making re.ing heavy tobacco waste, while at the same time keeping the pocket. sistance or in eddy rusistance or in clear both. Subsequently an extensive series of comparative model trials for a large variety of different types of vessel was undertaken in half a dozen experimental tests in The Standard Ol's Experiment.
different parts of the world, and The formation of this company the results confirmed Maier's has long been forestindowed. It original experiments. the reduction will be recalled that the IG. Far-in resistance reaching 12 per cont., benindustria and the Standard Od Company of New Jersey not inug ago camme to E aureument, develop the Bergius hydrogenation process for the liquefaction, of con! and the refining of heavy oil They formed a company, culled, the Standard 1.0, Company, which leased to the Standard Oil Con. pany of New Jersey the Americar rights of the hydrogenation process The Standard Oil built a refinery on a commercial scale to treat 5,000 harrels of oil a day. This plant has been completely successful, ha ing turned heavy asphaltic crudo nila and heavy fuel oils isits refined petrol with virtually no loss, but
or even 15 per cont. in some excep- tional enses, Modol propeller trials also indicate that the Maierform lines exercised no adverse otteet on propeller efficiency.
Early Experimenta, The first Maierform vessels built were three trawlers. Observations made for a period of eight months in comparison with a normal-form trawler identical in dimensions and power installation showed that, the latter was 10.3 knots with a while the average mean speed of consumption of 6.16 tons of coal
a day, the average moan speed of the Maierform trawler was 15.8
it cost many millions of dollar. knots and the coal consumption and with the present tow-price o! | 5,78 tons. The economy obtained petrol, which is selling at 3d per in service exceeded the predictions gallon in bulk ex Oklajuma re finery, there is no prospect of this hydrogenation proessa being ap
lied to the conversion of hy oils dà a commercial scale
The Royal Dutch Shell group had originally held an interest with the Standard Oil in the distribu. tion of petrol derived from the Lydrofuntion process, and the directora of the Royal Dutch stateil in their report for 1920 that their group had decided to poal interests with the Standard 1.C. Gempany is the bydrogenation.process.
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of the model testing tank. Twenty- five vessels of the Maierform type had already been built, comprising a large variety of types and sizes, from 700 tons to 20,000 tons dis- placement, and 21, of them were in service. One of the latest was the Lo de Beaute, a high-speed pas stager vessel for the Nice-Corsica service, which had a displacement of 3,100 tona and a contract speed of 18.75 knots, to bo obtained with 5,400 1i.h.p. Model trials made bo- fore the construetion of the vessel was begun índicated” that' with Maierform lines 0.8 knot more speed could be obtained with the designed horse power, and the forecast of the testing tank was confirmed on the measured mile, as n speed of 19.05 knots was obtained with 5,400 i.b.p, and 20.3 knots with a maxi- mum power of 3.200 i.h.p.
Steadiness La Seaway.
British Progrees. Menawbile the Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., were developing their own procesa for the conver Bon of con into petrol and fuol eil by hydrogenation Sir Henry Meliowan,
So far as stability, steadiness, at the Imperiai Chemient meeting recently stated responsiveness to helm, and rolling that their researd work on this and pitching movements wore con- process had led to striking develop
cerned, reports were unanimous in confirmation of the exceptional geni ments, and that an experimental worthiness of the Maierform vessels. unit operated by the company had Under similar weather conditions succeeded in producing, with no the pitching of a Maierform vessel appreciable loss, petrol Inving was much less violent than in the
anti-knock qualities equal to the finest grades of petrol on
the market.
It is therefore of great import ance that the four most powerful groups in the oil and chemical in- dustries should have come together to pool their knowledge 'and_re
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case of a normal ship, and the immersion of the propeller, and consequently the thrust, was more uniform. The steering And manoeuvring also required halm in heavy weather than with a normal ship. These facta sufficed sources in the developnient of a to explain the discrepancy in process which ten years hente may results obtained in smooth water favour of the Maierform between b of enormous commerein in- portance. If and when the world's and in a heary BOA. supplies of crudo oil begin to The advantages of the Maierform liminish and the price of sil towere not purchased at the expense rise, the commercial application of of a loss in capacity or in metacon- the hydrogenation process will be trip height. In fact, there was a cone na immediato, ponability gain of 8 or 3 per cent in capacity working of the process in treat for identical ships, without taking Britain on
into consideration -the possibility commersial mealo would not only provide a nine outs
of a reduction in bunker capacity, let for British collieries, but would for the same steaming radius, whils
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ninke the navy independent of immetacentric height somewhat
ported supplies of, foreign oil.......
Of all the devices and appurten ances contrived to increase the pro- pulsive efficiency of ships, the which brought substantial econo Maiorform was one of the fow
mies in fuel into sight without add- ing a penny to the first cost of the ship. To secure 7 per cent., or even 5 per cent., steam saving shipowners would spend consider-
the elaboration of the machinery, but the Malerform introduced mo complexities and added nothing to the first cost.
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