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to get something that they want badly. If the article was only possible
sold for cash it is vo
vory that the buyer would go without,
THE NANKING WATERWORKS but they cannot see any reason to
do so when they can buy at auch, a small sum down and the next payment spread over a number, of months. Deferred payments make it possible to use the pur- chass during the time that would be spent in anving the full amount.
Many business tonces sell only on the deferred payment plan and do not care to sell for cash. Their goods are advertised as so much
Work is going ahead at top speed Automatic ... machines for on the construction of a new Water lifeboat radios will be a special works at Nanking, and it is hoped feature of the two new turbo that the project will be completed electric liners President Hoover by the end of the year. The actual and President Coolidge of the plant and reservoirs are almost Dollar Steamship Lines. The gen- finished, and the work of laying the Grators of these sets may be driven underground water mains has be either by a hand crank or by the gun. The system is being installed special lightweight gasoline anginoon the most modern lines, and it a designed and manufactured for this said that it will cost something down and the balance in caly pay. purpose. This lifeboat radio set is the region of one million dollaraments. Anything can be bought by this system, from an expensive fully automatic. If the gasuline It is gratifying to the citizens of motor-on to a suit of clothes. engine is operative, prossing a nut Nanking to know that at lost they Musip houses sell most of their tan starts the set, which will send are to be relieved of their worries higher priced articles by
method, out S.O.S. signals continuously, concerning the water supply ques with a range of from 500 to 2,000tion. miles
DURALUMIN FOR TRAMCARS,
COAL OIL IN THE NAVY. Rear-Adml. Beamish (Con., Lewes) asked the First Lord of the Admir alty in the House of Commons whether creosote oil from British coal was now being purchased and used regularly for the feet, if it was intended to extend its use, and whether any technical difficulties had arisen regarding its qualities,
Mr. Alexander Creosote is not regularly used in the feet, but oc casional purchases have been made.
rieed
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American business is done on a
much faster system than in other countries. Ti, American business man considers that his time is worth, 'money and thorofaro ho does not waste time.. He states his price and if the buyer wants the goods he gets them in the shortest possible. time, if not he leaves the shop or store immediately. Bargaining over prices is not done. If the burer doce not like the price he can go elsewhere and try to do better.
Advertising
Sheffield Corporation Tramway Department, which builds all its own tram-car bodies and erects them cu the chassis, is at present engaged on an interesting experiment--the building of cars in which duralu- min will be used to replace steel and wood. This is the first car of its kind to be built in Sheffield. At present aluminium is largely used in the construction of the standard Sheffield car, the parts consistingIt is unlikely that its use will boare advertised through the news- of this material including the greatly.extended, owing to its many staircase framing, the dash or disadvantages as compared with screen in front of the driver, the petroleum oil fust Owing to roof panels, the side panels, the re technical difficulties it can only be flectors, and "small castings. The used as fuel in H.M. ships when. parti: now made of steel or wood, mixed with a much larger bulk of which are being replaced by 'dura-petroleum oil fuel. lumin in the experimentál ear, aro
Advertising plays a prominent part in the selling campaign of the business man and advertising is done on a more extensive scale in America than anywhere else. All of the nationally known products
papers and the magazines. The. sale of a product falls off as soon as it is out of the public eye and the successful business man realizes this and sees that his product is kept in the mind of the buyers by.. the means of advertising. Every where one goes in the United States he will see advertisements in pro- minent places. Many magazines are mainly advertising publications and
the whole of the underframe fitting A NEW COPPER ALLOY FROM are bought as such, the stores boing.
over the chassis, the driver's plat- form, the pillars separating the widows, the rails running along
AMERICA,
American research workers claim the car sides, and the framing supto have produced a copper alloy porting the roofs, both upstairs and downstairs. It is calculated that harder than structural steel, but the total weight of the completed there is no fear, in the opinion of vehicle will be three tons less than local experts, that this will com that of a car of the standard pat tern. In consequence there will be pete with Sheffield steel. The term so much less dead weight to carry “hardness," ne used; has no re- about and the yearly cost of transference to that of a cutting edge, porting dead weight is about £18' n tan in electrical energy-leas wear as in a file, twist-drill, or turning and tear of permanent way, and less tool. Dr Perey Longmuir, a well consumption of energy in braking, known Sheffield metallurgist, has The running this lighter car will also mean a reduction of noise, a mattor well worth consideration, especially in busy oentral streets."
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stated that the comparisons with structural steel were not very evi- dent, and, hecause of the initial high price of copper, there would seem to be little prospect of com- marcial rivalry. He pointed out that one of the most important pro- portics of copper, that of resistance to corrosion, was not mentioned, and even in this respect it was very doubtful whether the claims of the new alloy, if substantiated, could meet in competition, the structural and other types of stainless steel so largely produced in Sheffield.
LOCOS AND HEMATITE, Mr. S. G. Bron, chairman of the Trade Delegation of the US.S.R. in Grant Britain, states that an order for 175 portable locomobiles for the timber industry, to the value of nearly £100,000, has been placed with Marshall and Sons, Ltd, Gainsborough, an extended credit terms The order in to be completed and delivered by September. He further announces that an order has been placed with the British (Guest Koon Baldwins) Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., for 30,000 tons of hematite to
The transport manager of a well- the value of more than £100,000. Orders for tinplate to the value of known Hong Kong firm recently 200,000 have also been placed with visited the Glasgow works of Albion British firms. It is added that Motors, Ltd. Be spoke in glowing these orders are for immediate de terms of the results obtained from livery and that mutually satisfaca fleet of Albions of which he in tory credit, terms have been arranged:
STEEL SPRINGS FOR LOCOMO, TIVES AND MOTOR CARS,
A new discovery in connection with steel springs for locomotives and motor-cars was made recently by the Spring Committee of the Department of Scientific and In-
BRITISH VANS' SUCCESS IN HONG KONG.
in charge, and was particularly en thusiastic in his praise of a 30/35 owt, model purchased a year ago. He had just seen a further machine { of the same type innded before he
left for Scotland on leave...
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mercury vapour lamps characterize struction at Grand Rapids, Minn., a new building that is under con-
te house a168in, newsprint ma- chine for the Blandin Paper Com pay: Lower cost of construction,
a side line. A good example of this is the Saturday Evening Post. It has the largest circulation of any | magazine in the country and enor- mours prices are paid for advertis ing. space. Specially trained măn are employed in advertising and it is in itself a big business.
Absence of windown and utiliza dustrial Research and it is undertion of the ultraviolet rays from stood that: British spring "manu facturers are now utilizing it. During tests with foreign springs of paroma vanadium steel which were found to have a surface weak ness: 30 per cent. greater than car responding springs of British steel,
saving in heating expenses and it was discoverod that material ún. polished, was as much one-fifth to close control of ventilation, are the ane-half weaker that when ma- advantages claimed for this type chined and polished, a fact which of ecstruction. MENS the Department, believes has been. The last is by far the most im unsuspected by steel und spring portant since drying is one of the. makers here and abroad. The diff dominating factors in both the cost ferences have been proved to be fun of paper manufacture, and the to variations in surface conditions quality of the finished product. probably due to decarbonisation Exact control of the air conditions. during heat treatment. In view of in the machine and finishing rooms the importance, of the discovery is made posible by the absence of more detailed investigation into the windows and betur working con- effect of the surface on the fatigue ditions are also anticipated since resisting properties of steels has bono arranged and considerable pro gress has boen made: The result, it eclaimed, ahould be cithar a cheap or and lighter spring of the same strength as existing springs or a stronger spring of the present weight
constant circulation of air with-- out draughts is obtained, This installation will not appreciably increase the cost of lighting, since
paper-mill-worry:4 hours a day? Lad, even with ordinary construo tion, artificial lighting is necessary in the daytime:ja
In short the American business man tries to do the greatest amount of business in the shortest possible time, and he will us any method (within the law) that he can to set tho Great American Public- as his steady customer., Business is done on an apparently smash, bang devil-may-care system but under it all there is generally a carefully thought out plan. The buyer is the person who is beguiled into "snap judgments.
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