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ENGINEERING AND
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EAST AND WEST
CONSTRUCTION WORKS IN
"CANADA,
in the system were purchased from a number of foreign companies, after extensive tests, by experts, According to MacLean Building The ringing through lost and the Roports, Ltd. of Montreal, the talking test were employed with the greatest proportion of construction result that the products of Messrs. work in Canada this year, has been Ericsson & Co. were selected for use undertaken in the Province of On-over the entire system. Wires and tario, During the first six months. switchboards were bought from of 1931, 33.0 per cent of the Messre
Siemens. (China), Co. Dominion volume, or $04,442,300 Mosers, China Electric Co. and worth of work has been started in others. that province. Quebro is also ac tive, having accounted for 35.7 per cent, on its total of $58,152,500. The Prairie Provinces show $20,- 20,300 oz 12.3 per cent. Eight per
cent has been the share for British Columbín, or $13,022,100, and the Maritimes 37,214,200 or 4.4 per cont.
JALAINOR COLLIERY TO
RE-OPEN,
Jalninor Colliery on the Chines Eastern Railway's Western Bection, which was demolished by the Red
CHEMICAL PLANT
EXHIBITION.
BUILDING
SULPHUR IN WATER GAS.
NEW PROCESS FOR REMOVAL.
Tho prosence of sulphur "in com- bustible gasit objectionable for many reasont, and gas companies
are severely restricted as to the amount their product may contain Water gas, besides being, a com mon ingredient of town's gat, it now, used for & number of indus-
trial processes, some of them do pending on the action of catalysts, which are poisoned by the presence.. of sulphur. To a greater or less
The Times Engineering Supple. extent, however, sulphut exists in ment of July 11 publishes an ex-all coke used for making water gas,. tendeu account of the exhibition and appears therefore in the gas. of British chemical plant and ap Accordingly part of the study of paratus, which was held at the Central, Hall, Westminster, in con- nection with the Jubilee celebra tions of the Society of Cheraical Industry. Over 50 firms took part in the exhibition, which was the largest and most comprehensive of
water gas which for some time has been proceeding at the British Fuel Research Station has been devoted
to ascertaining the nature of the sulphur compounds in the gas, and
Guard at the time of their attack its kind ever held in the British to devising means for their removal,
and in a report published by the Department of Scientific and In- dustrial Research (Fuel Research.. Technical Paper No. 31, H.M. Stationery Ofice, od. net) Mr. W. E. Bakes, Dr. J. G. King, and Dr.
Empire. The British Chemical on the North Manchurian borders Plant Manufacturers. Association, in 1990, has been left in practical by which it has been organized. is disuse since, but the Chinese directo be congratulated on the display, tors of the C.E.R., Harbin, insist which gave conclusive evidence that ing upon the resumption of its
British makers are not only able to operation, the Directorate finally supported the ides, the restoration supply plant suitable for almost work having been arranged to be every branch of chemical manufac. commenced on July 1 at the estimate ture, but are also alert to improve F. S. Sinuatt describe the present on old apparatus and to develop state of knowledge on the subject outlay of G.300,000."
new types. An attractive adjunct and the experiments that have been to the exhibition is the section, carried out at the station. which, in illustration of the appli- cation of science of research, is do
The net effect of these experi voted to the work of the various ments has been to develop a pro- industrial, research organisations cess of purification which appears formed under the Department of Scientific and, Industrial Research
RUSSO.BRITISH ELECTRICAL
PACT..
The following joint statement has been issued by Mr. Saul G. Bron, Trade Representative of the U.S.S.R. in Great Britain, and Sir Philip Nash, Chairman of the Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Export Co., Ltd::-
JAPAN BUYS GERMAN STEEL
to be effective and cheap. The pro-
material is co
of renewing the purifying
ceas
covered by letters
"A technical agreement of far-
Japa se consumers have recently Patent vested in the Department, reaching importance, extending
resumen buying in Germany on and it is thought that it may have over a number of years, has just larger scale than at any time this application in many cases where it been signed between the Soviet year, reports the Iron Age In the is desired to purify a gas from sul- Government and the Metro- politan-Viekera Electrical Co..
last week of March more than 5,000 phur. The Department invites apsi Ltd., under which the latter have tons of wire rods have been booked plications for non-exclusive licences," agreed to provide expert tech- for shipment to Japan by German which will be granted upon terms nica) nasistance in the manufac-mills compared with a total of to be ascertained from its Secre ture of steam turbo-generating
plant, condensing plant, heavy about 7,000 tons since January 1tary, 18, Old Queen-street, S.W.1. electrical plant, industrial motore, The average price of the wire rods switchgear," "etc.," which are to be built in Russia in the works of the All Union Electro-Technical Combine.
The plant manufactured will extend to the largest capacity required for the generation and distribution of electricity, and it will be employed in connection -with the Five-Year Plan of: In-
dustrial Development.
This is the second agreement covering the supply of expert technical distanco which Metro- politan-Vickers Co. have conclud- ed with the U.S.S.R, the first having been in operation antis- factorily to both parties for four years.
HUPEH'S TELEPHONES.
•
Hupeh. in the heart of Central China now boasts long-distance telephone lines of a length of 8,838
just placed was £3 ($24.30) a ton, c.i.f. Japanese port. There has also been some business with Japan in tubing, light gnge black sheets, hoops and structural steel. Japanese. Arms, including a shipyard and two steelworks, recently ordered machine tools in Germany to the liveries were to be made in May total value of 3,300,000 marks. De-
and June:
SHEET STEEL PILING.
With the Seitetsu Jo (Govern- mout Steel Works) producing 1,200 to 1,300 tons of sheet steel piling a month, which is the programme for the rest of this year, competition duct is expected to bring reductions in Japan with the imported pro- in price, followed by increased use of steel piling, reports the Iron This system has only recent been increasing steadily advancing. Age. The demand for piling has
ly been installed at 'a cast of from 18,00 metric tona in 1027 to. G.§270,297.'' A, net-work of tele- 23,707 tona in 1928, 28,551 tons in phone communications now radiates 1020 and 26,549 tons in 1930. The current quotation on stoel piling is through the whole provinco with its about Y.150 (73.95) a ton A 69 hsiens and its 18 market
contres. The system involves seven ⠀⠀⠀ ITALIAN SLATE TRADE. main lines and dibranch lines,
pre-war years. Production in 1013 totalled 43,562 metric tons and no post-war year has recorded half the annual production of slate that quantity. From 1920 to 2020
showed little variation-19,070 tons
and the head office is located' Since the World War the yield at Hankow, on' the Yangtzo, of Italian slate quarries has declin Branch offices have been established od wall below the levels reached in at Wachang, Ichang, Shast and Fanchen. In the small hsiens cut in stations are installed, and in a puraber of the market centres only single telephones are to be found. in 1920, 18,000 in 1927, 18,650 in IDE, and 19,900 in '1020-but in 1930 The entire province has one 50-exit declined to 10,900 tons, accord change switchboard; fourteen 10 exchange switchboards, ten five-cr- change switchboards, 37 out-in sta tions and '90' centers with single telephones
ing to provisional figures given out by the mining corps in the Ministry of Guilds
The Carrara district furnished 87.7 per cent of the total Italian production in 1913, 94.4 per cent in 1928, and 834 per cent. In "19en." The seven main lines have a total In fact, the greater part of Italy's length of 4,030 The line which slate comes from a still more re- links Hankow and Ichang is the stricted nres, the Province (:ol; longest-700 Ti The 40 branch Genova, within the Carrara dia lines have a total length of 3,300 triat Slate has been questiod in making & total of 8,638 74 of long 10, communes, in the Genora Pro distance lince
vinco, and operations in 5 com munce recently have been reporte active
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