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THE YEAR ROUND
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BOLU AGENTH.
ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
EAST AND
MPROVEMENTS_AL
GREENOCK HÅRBOUR.
WEST
LOCOMOTIVE CONSTRUCTION.
CHINAT
The first locomotive to be built at the Tangshan railway workshopa of the Peking-Lannoning ⠀⠀ · Line, China, has recently been completed. The test run from the shopa to Tientsin station is stated to have been satisfactory, and four more
ate future.
ELLS BRANDIE
MARTE!
STE
PLANTS FOR SHIPS
CORDON BLEU!
ANTILE MARINE. PROBLEM.
"FIVE" METHODS OF
PROPULSION.
During the generation drawn to a close, the mechanical means of
standing.
The scheme for the reconstruction of the existing obsolete entrance to the Garvel. Graving Dacks, Greenock, has now gone w stu further, and, subject to certain de tails to be approved by the conlocomotives are to be constructed at propelling ships have been extend- aulting engineer, Mr. N. K. Gedye, the Tangshan shops in the immedied in a remarkable manner.
Indeed, in no-sphere of engineer London, the Greenock Harbour
ing have the inventiveness and re Trust have accepted the sender of HELIUM PRODUCTION IN THE source of engineers been more out- Messrs. Molville, Dundas and Whir, F. UNITED STATES. son, contractors, 224, St. Vincent street, Glasgow, to carry out the work. The estimated expenditure is 27,000, part of which will be met by a grant from the Exchequer When the scheme is
is completed-in from twelve to fifteen months--the Harbour Trust will lease the dock to the Greenock Dockyard Com. pany, Limited, for a period of fit teen years. The alterations will make the Garvel Graving Dock available for use to its utmost capacity by large vessels of modern design, and as the leasing company is associated with the Clan Line, it is fully expected that these liners will receive any repair | TURBO-ELECTRIC MACHINERY work of overhaul in the recon- structed dock, the length of which Fim 835 ft.
FLOATING DOCK FOR NEW
ZEALAND.
All three sections of the floating dock constructed by Messrs. Syan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Ltd, for the Wellington Harbour Board, New Zealand, have now been launched, and the three sections will now be joined up and subsp. quently towed out to New Zealand, insurance policies to cover the voyage having now been arranged The dock as constructed is designed to have a lifting capacity of 17,000
tons.
BANGKOK'S NEW BRIDGE.
It has now been announced that the new. memorial bridge at Bang. kok, built by Messrs Dorman, Long &Co., Ltd, at a cost of nearly £200,000 was formally handed over on 4th June, after all tests had been satisfactorily carried out four months in advance of the stipulated contract time. The bridge carries a roadway across the River Chow Phya, in the centre of the city, and has a large-central, opening span of the bascule type to allow for shipping passing through Bangkok
AMERICÄN SKILLED WORKERS
TO GO TO RUSSIA.
At the close of last century the Admiralty and the shipping com- The new United States airship panics had to depend without Altron, is, as is known, to be filled choice, upon the reciprocating an- with helium. The gas required has been produbed at the Government sine, a universal form of propul sion, disregarding sail, which coin- plant at Amarillo, Texas, which cided with an abounding prosperity has now been in operation for a little more than two years. It is at a Though it would be extLA, stated by the Bureau of Mines that agant and absard to identify past. the net cost of the 29 million cub prosperity with this simplicity of ft. produced in this time at the marine transport, it is none the Plant, has worked out at 11.47 dolas, instructive to look back on those days, and to recall the res per 1,000 cub. H Improvements. markable achievements of simple, made in the course of operation are old-fashioned propelling plant, as indicated by the fact that present conspicuous for its initial chesp cost now stands at no more than 5.95 dole, per 1,000 cab ft Theness, long life and low cars and maintenance costa,, as it was apt to Akron, it may be stated has on board an open flame gas cooker.
be extravagant-in-fuel consump tion.
FOR P. & O. LINERS,
85 Years Old Starmer, - Thus, to give a few examples, an Atlantic liner in 1881 on horse. power of 10,680 achieved a speed of 18 knots. The paddle-steamer, Meaars The British Thomson-Iona, is still doing her 17 khots Houston Co., Ltd., Rugby have on the Royal Route among the supplied the 28,000-s.hp. turbo Western Tales after 67 years of un- electric propelling machinery for broken service, having carried oven the new liners. Strathnaver and
5,000,000 passengers. The Glencoe, Strathaird, built by Messra Vickers with one teeple vertical engine," Armstrongs, Ltd, for the Foninthe only engine of the kind remain- sular and Oriental Steam Navisa ing, I believe, in the world, is tion Company. The machinery years old, and, as the oldest steam comprises two separate turbo alter vessel on service in the world, nator seta; each having its own con- ceased work in May. Her engines densing plant and auxiliaries, two surely deserve to be preserved in a double unit synchronous motors museum as a tribute to the skill and which are coupled direct to the craftsmanship of those early days twin propeller shafts, a contractor of steam: cubicle to control the power from the alternators to the propulsion motor, and two balance booster sets for excitation purposes.
BENZINE TANK WAGONS
FOR EGYPT.
The life of these alby running re- ciprocating engines is in fact, long that they may be said to stay their welcome rather than to wear outwater
The engineers of other, days, were they still among us wou justifiable pride in findi the re
prove. ciprocating engine, with In response to a call for tendere mente,hut no radical changes, for the supply of ten 10-ton benzine still a formidable competitor for tank wagons, the Egyptian State pride of place in the humbler. Railwaya Administration had to gine rooms of our Merchant Navy
between twenty-seven though from the Navy adjudicate offers a result a British firm modern demands for very was successful, Masera Charles: speed and lack of night bet Roberts & Co., Ltd., near Wake decks, they have teme field, being awarded the contract shed. at the unit prices of £E.400, a total sterling value of approximately £4,100,
Five Bratama
To-day there is a choi five main forms of propulsion-Re ciprocating Turbines, Turbo-elec tric Dissol (direct drive) Diesel- electric. Of these five systems the Navy has concentrated exclusively on the turbine, but the shipowner. has a choice between competing systems which in many cases must prove embarrasing
Each system has its own peculiar merits and attraction; and some them are specially adapted to of t particular routes and service, but
wages, food, and so forth. When allowance has been made for the cost of the fuel for the motor ship, Cables from New York state that about 3 times that of coal, and the Amtorg Soviet Trading Cor-for the considerable increase in poration are arranging for the lubricating oil, and extra pay of migration of 6,000 skilled American the highly-skilled engine-room staff, workers, including miners, machin- it remains trus that the opcration sts, railwaymen, bricklayers and al cost of a similar run may be carpenters, to Russia before the little short of half as much again end of the year. The workers are in the steamer. Furthermore, the when full allowance has been made to pay their own expenses. In smaller bulk of fuel permits of a for variatio Russia, they will have the rights small increase in cargo capacity does seem that some and privileges of Russian workers, or, alternatively, of speed. Why, advantages and and their wages will be paid in then, should there be pause for the various systems
we find varying roubles. Over 100,000 applications, reflection after seven years'
sions in almost, ani it is stated, have been received, and perience already 2,000 men have been select-
on one speci; similar ships we similar services.
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