HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY JULY
1931.
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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
EAST AND WEST
TUNNEL BORING RECORD.
numbers of British seamen who are now doing the work which would
Sixty men employed on the Man-be taken over by the Russian ships" chuster Corporation waterworks Ando Mr. Graham holds his scheme at Hawes-water, Love in a hand
CASE-HARDENING IN ELECTRIC FURNACE,
SIAM'S WATER POWER RESOURCES
SURVEY BY SWEDISH ENGINEER.
A Swedish engineer, John F. Hagerup, has bpen.cagaged by the Siamese Government to make a -day week broken the Europeaa
survey of the waterpower resources tannol bering record, Working
of that country as a preliminary continuously in gangs of 20, they
step towards the electrification-ciel have in a week advanced the tunnel.
its railways, He is now organist. 180 feet, thereby breaking the pre- According to a method of caring and conducting envernl expedi vious record of 163 feet created by bonizing introduced in America by men with elephants and necessary. tions, each consisting of about 50% the men engaged last year on the the Hovi Duty Electric Company, equipment into different parts of Halkyn Tunnel.in Wales.
the European patent rights of which the country. Mr. Hagerup has They also have removed more are controlled by Wild-Barfield never before visited by a white man had to travel through districts than 1,000 tons of solid rock from Electric Furnaces, Limited, and where he had to be the tracks an aperture about feet wide and GWB. Electric Furnaces, Limited, through the jungle made by tigers, feat high, and fired 20 rounds of the charge to be treated is loaded Although Siam has namorails rivors elephants and other will beasts. explosive, by which they advanced in a basket which sits inside, a and waterfalls the supply at the rate of 8 feet per round.
retort of heat resisting alley with varies so much etween the rainy The company employing the mun in an electric furnace, or with be latter powerful Fiorenta- and dry season that during the intend to award a gold medal te vel or other gears plates suspended racts almost disappear.. each man in commemoration of the on a vertical rod can be used. In feat. The boring has had to be
the cover, which makes a sealed done by heavy blasting, as the tun-working chamber, is incorporated nel is cut out of solid rock,
motor-operated paddle fan which circulates the carbonizing gases
survey
Mr. Hagerup during his bydro
work, therefors gaphic planned the creation of huge reser vairs to make a constant water supply for the future power sta- tions work.
MODERNISING »SHANGHAI.
recent years were
He finds his taak very interest- CANTON'S WATER SUPPLY..through the charge. The furnaceing, and the natives of the remote and charge having been brought, districts are most friendly and help-
ful. The task will tako at least a. Canton's authorities are giving with the fan running, to the car-year and a half. close attention to the question of benizing temperature required, Care] water supply. Canton has two bonal, which is made up of a vege- system, one at Tung Shan, the new table base rich in hydrocarbons, is ly developed residential district introduced by means of a drip feed
The following achievements" pof and a plant which the city govern-attachment on the retort cover, and the City Government of Greater ment built two years ago. Dr. Wu by the action of the fan is forced Shanghai in
a reception to Pek-liang, former, Commissioner of outwards against the hot wala mantioned at
Press representatives of Shang- the Canton Waterworks early in where it is "cracked" into hydro hai by Mayor Chang Chun: have gases which circulate "48 kilometers of, roads 1920 signed a contract with a lead- carbou ing British company for erection through the charge and constitute been built, 101 kilometers of old streeta have been repaved and im- of new plant to supplement the an active carbonizing agent. The proved, 37 miles of drains laid, 45 old waterworks of Canton. When forced circulation assures that a bridges repaired; 16 wharves con- this new plant is completed a sup-fresh, uniform supply of gas is constructed, and embankments of a length of more than 1,000 feet built. ply cf ten million gallons of puretinuously brought to the work, and In crder to meet the huge expen water an hour will be provided. it is stated that carbonizing proditure for construction work the The water is supplied from Pearl coods rapidly, a penetration of Government has iperensed the bud get for building and construction Hiver six miles from the city and from 12 to 15 thousandths of an from 83,130,000 to $15,000,000. It chan hour taking plase at is believed tants the development of is pumped to filters by means of inch an three electrically driven low low. 830deg, C. With ourrent at id. a. the new Shanghai will go forward awiftly. When the city building lift pumps, each capable of handl. unit the total cost of carbonizing plan now being worked upon is components carried out Shanghai will be one ing 5,000,000 gallons per hour. The pur
based
case of 1-10 in. of the world's most completely mo.. new waterworks additions, now
dernized ports, and it is needless nearing completion run in cost to and an average load of 1,000.
to say, the city will not only be a per charge, is given as 0.188d., ris great monument to now Ching, but 82,000,000.
ing to 0.281d, and 0.411d. with curit will also serve as an example for rent at d. and 1d. a unit respec- city planning movement throughout the encouragement of a general
tively.
the country. bmedy
£10,000,000 GLASS ORDER.
not
on
lb.
♫
of
NON-ROCKING MANHOLE
COVERS.
The Dover Engineering Works,
A New York message to Reuter's Trade Servico says that what is probably the largest order ever placed in the glass industry has been given to the Libbey-Owone- Limited, Dover, have produced a Ford Glass Company by the Ghossy main road manhole cover eral Motors Corporation. Aecard with frame which it is stated is a ing to the agreement just reached, precision casting made frem an or
DODWELL & CO., LTD. the glass company will supply dinary mixture of light" cant-iron
CANTON.
HONG KONG.
ASSETS
£13,000,000
UT APPOINTMENT
FOOCHOW.
CLAIMS PAID
£40,000,00
GENERAL
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All Classes of INSURANCE
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practically all the gasss require scrap and is of such a design as to ments of General Motors for 1 prevent rocking. The cover is 4. period of seven years. It is esti rectangular open-topped cast-iron mated that the minimum require-box and its four sides, inclined at ments of General Motors for this deg, to the horizontal, form a length of time will exceed continuous seating surface that re 850,000,000 worth of glass. As sts on a correspondingly inclin: result of this huge contract, the ed surface in the frame, which is Libey-Owens-Ford Company is en composed of four separate castangs larging its factories and taking socurely bolted together. The bot- over the plate-glass factories cf the tom and sides of the cover are, National Plate Glass Company, a connected to and tied together by subsidiary of General Motors, at Ottawa, Ill.
THOSE SOVIET SHIPS.
tapering crcas-webs dividing it into "squares which form when filled with
concrote a number of truncated, in verted pyramids. The cover, at s stated, is about half the weight of the form for the same size of clear opening, but carries a safe lead at least 50 per cent. greater, while the in the heavier types, the extra cost yalus of the metal saved balances,
of producing precision castings,
Mr. Graham, President of the Board of Trade, was asked to say whether the British Government has now obtained all the necessary information to enable a decision to be taken ccncerning the proposal to provide credit facilities to en able the Soviet Government to con struct ships in British shipyards
flag
The President of the
PEACE AT HOME },
Happily the trouble that pas threatened in the British engineer. ing industry has been' averted, and a certain amount of give-and-tako
for subsequent amplymout na meron both sides has resulted in the chant, vesels under the Russian formulation of a compromise which the representatives of the uniora. the Board have accepted by a large majority, of Trade, could only reply that the Under the new conditions," which matter is still under consideration, rates are not affected, but nitarn fook affect on July 6, ordinary wago
for he is clearly-in a difficult positiens.aro made in the piece rate,
tien
The proposal has not
al' has not re- in the overtime and night-shift rates, and in the two and three- colod
onthusiastic support in any shift systems of working. Both the quarter except from the representa- employers and the employed are to tives of the shipbuilding trade un bo congratulated on this result, op ́s stoppago" of "work" would have mekne berwantón, cudition to
an opportunity of putting some of burden of misfortunt, under whi their unemployed members into the industry is already labouri
ding from causes outside ita' own
work despite the fact that the retrol KEROINES sult might to displace "large" = (Clontinued on next
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