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hoir far to go.
I should take with me men who were prepared to rough it" to! the last degree, and who would stick to the search without losing heart and until the treasure came to light or it became reasonably evident that it did not exist,
READY TO TRY, There is no dearth of such man in this country. A short time ago, when it was reported that I was thinking of organising another at tampt to plumb the golden mystery of Coons, I received hundreds of letters from all classes of men pleading to be allowed to actom- pany me--scine at their own ex-
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wonder
whether they would have huen so eager for the venture if they had had my experi- ence on Cocos,
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ELECTRIFICATION
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A SURVEY OF RECENT
PROGRESS.
LONDON TO BRIGHTON, BY ELECTRIC,"
50136
SATURDAY,
DOMINICA.
Requiring a prime mover to drive ico-making machinery. the authorities in Dominigs decided toį, support the Buy British can. pamàgia by buying a British engine for the work, In quence a 30 B.H.P. Potter Atomic Diesel Engine was chosen, and this unit will shortly be shipped to the j
extensively hroughout the world for the driving of ico-making ma- chinery and have proved themsolves a thoroughly reliabls and officient motive power for this class of work.
FEBRUARY 27, 1932.
A SIAMESE RAILWAY TRAIN.
The Siamo Stato Railways aro beilding a train for the Panang orvice with single-berth compart». ment sleeper, running water and loavra ventilation instead of fans, also closed-in car ends." This train will diso be fitted with" a second- class restaurant car, second-class
facilities for victualling third- class passengers.
RAPIDS TO BE BLASTED,
In 1931, the jubilee year of olee.Republic. Patter Engines are used sleepers, and will also have spocial bris traction, there were throp out standing events in Great Britain. On April 24 the Weir Com- mittee reported in favour of electrifying all the important lines in the country. On May 11 the first Pulsvenger service on the 1,500-volt d.a system
was inaugurated; be- tween Manchester and Altrincham. Fu December the London ard
THE LONDON FLOOD. LIGHTING
North-Eastern Railway decided to In paper of the Street Ar-
Illumination
The dangerous Kung Ling Tan. rapids in China, known as the "Graveyard of the Upper Yang taze." arb to be eliminated. As soon as the water sinks to a level that will permit operations. blasting
£
FRENCH TRAMWAYS AT SHANGHAI
put an oil-electric railcar into re.chitecture of London, at the Royal and dredging are scheduled to be gulär service in the. Nowenable area. H. Robertson said that in the dis£10,000.-
Institute of British Architecte, Mr.gin. The undertaking will cost
The Weir Committee considered of play during the September Inter- comprehensivo schome essential to national
Congross javoid the handicap of dual work-perhaps the real and unconscious-
ly felt appeal of the floodlighting| Hing. The total cost (spread over lay in the power of light and shade twenty years) was estimated at London into the semblance of an to transform familiar parts of
The increase of the population in £201.000.000 for the main lines and ideal alty, one in which all that the French Concession at Shanghai, £45,000,000 for the suburban lines. was sordid was blotted out, and shown by the last consus, and tho The resulting coonomics were eaten only the fine things left to yield lack of means of communication in their greatest value. Most of the lated to givu"return of 2 per cent, buildings which were floodlighted some of ils regions, has induced nad 8 per cent respectively after were worthy of the effort expended the French Tramway Co, to tako the interest charges had been mot
on them.
stops towards the reorganisation of About 8,000,000,000 units of elovi
its tramway and motor-bus systems. tricity annually would be provided [|)
A plan is being considered for a by the national "grid," necus-
new line along Route Stanislas aitating additional plant coating
Chevalier and the Route Frolupt £80,000,000,. and the high loud
tip to Sicenwei. Iy is also To the various means of com-planned to join the Rue Pere Ro- factor would help to lower the cost munications at the Chinese Capital bort and tas Routes des Soeurs of current throughout the country. will shortly be added that of rail with the International Settlement The economic crisis has unfortalesa trolley Cary. Overseas mor- by means of a trolly busline, and nately rendered the Weir propants chants have submitted a proposal to proleng the Sicca wei line as far the Nanking. Municipal Govern- | us the Saint Georges. If conditiona impracticable for the present, ment. It is expected that next are favourable it is expected that spring would see railless trains on all necessary works will be per- the streets.
formed within the next year.
RAILLESS CARS FOR NÄNKING.
ROLLING STOCK FROM BRITAIN,
HYDRO-ELECTRIC ENERGY
IN SWEDEN.
THE ALTRINCHAM LINE. „
The electrification of the Man- ühester-Altrinchamn fine (nine miles) hagineretsed the number of trains daily from 67 to 100 in each direc tion, and the expresses are among. the fastest in Europe. Each motor coach has a total power of 1,312 It is learnt that the Nanking Sweden ranks as the third coun h.p.. divided among four of the Ministry of Railway is arranging try in Europe in the matter of biggest exla-mounted moters in the for the purchase of a huge consign- total resources of water power, and, country. Substations as, Old Trafiment of lacomotives, passanger and according to a report issued by the ford and Timperlay convert the freight care to augment the present Royal Swedish Board of Trade, 11.000-volt .c. supply to 1,500 volts rolling-stock in the various national now ranks as the sixth in actually de. for the overhead conductors. rallways A total of 114 locomo explaited hydro-electric energy. The tives will be imported; and 119 report also shows that, since 1916, passenger conches and 587 freight the capacity of Sweden's water. built in China according to the and is now about 1,195,000 kw. Tho ears will either be imported or power plants has nently doubled, plans. The new equipment will be Swedish Government owns plants, distributed as follows:-
producing some 30 per cent, of the Lasomo Pass. Fraight total energy generated, and is tha Lives Cars. Cars. largest single owner of electric in- stallations in the country. It in Railway 20
from the three Government-owned power stations at Trollbattan, Por. jus., and Motala that the elcutri- fed State Railways derive their power.
On the Southern main line cler- tric rhine will be running as far as The Bridges by Mart, and before the and of the year the whole of the sixty miles to Brighton and Worthing, including the Redhill- Reigate and Preston Park-Hove sections will be in operation. Lon-
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I den and Brighton will bë linzal by † Peking Mukden
ato-minute service in each direc tion, composed of expresses and Kinochow-Tainan Įstopping braing alternately," Over motor coaches and trailers, which can be driven from, either end | to avoid shunting at terminals, will be used, Colour light signalling is being installed. Alternating current at. 23,000 volts will be supplied from the grid at Croydon, Three Bridges. na Portslade; there will be eigh teen rectifier substantions control- Jel from Three Bridges.
The Underground (Piccadilly line) extension from Finsbury Park to Cockfosters (7) miles) will be opened to Arnos Grove in May nad roughout a few months Inter. In June the new lines from Hammer- amith to Northfields (1) miles) will he opened as far as Aceton Town. and eventually a through service I and my two companions were will run from Piccadilly Circus to so completely played out" by it Hounslow vid Northfields, and to shak when we returned to camp in South Harrow nid Acton Town. Nearly 300 new concher have been the evenings we were too weary to ordernd, and speeds will be inernas- at We lived almost entirely oned from 20 to 24 m.p.h. Thirteen
30
200
40
120
200
Railway Tientsin-Pukow
Railway ...... 10 Lang-Hai
Railway.. 16 Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai H'chow-Ningpe Railways 20 Peking-Suiyuan
Railway Peking-Hankow.
1.2
Railway 12, Hunan-Bupeh sec-
tion of Canton- Hankow Railway 16
114
39
47
119
357
It is understood the most of clie locomotives will he imported from Great Britain.
water. Mercifully, there is an un- sub-stations are being re-equipped NEW MALAYAN ELECTRIC ending supply of fresh water; but with mercury are rectifiers. for that ng ong would ever be able to stay long enough to look for the
Liensure.
PLANT.
branch from Wembley Park to In the autumn the Metropolitan
Stanmore will be opened; 81 new AN EXCITING GAMBLE.
sonches will deal with increasing The town of Kuala Kangsar is trafie on the Harrow line, which shortly to have an electric installa Fish, too, is plentiful, and thoro has been widened. Work in hand tief of its own, established by the are wild pigs. But on its lower on the London Midland and Scot Kinta Electric Distribution Co., levels the place is swarm with in- tish Railway (LT, and A. section), Ltd. The Perak Transport Co., hai over which District trains run to been given the contract for the nedts that bites with peculiar sava gory-and generally the back of Barking, will enable the electric transport work. one's neck And there are armies service to be extended to Upminster of land-crabs which would eat you (7 miles), and for the Euston-Wat- alive if you made no protest. ford, line 31 -now 'cönches are on order" on both sections colour-light signalling is being introduced.
However,
coconuts abound-as they did when Lionel Wafer visited the island with Davis and their mon drank so deep of the milk of the nuts that they were half-parnly- sed for days afterwards! My tarki
OIL-ELECTRIC TRACTION.
Owing to the difficulty of carry
the
varying
generator voltage through a field rheostat. Automatio. acceleration and multiple-unit con- trol-are available:
Another experiment with an in dependent haulage unit was carried out at Dublin at the end of November on
1 two-coach train
w exceptionally difficult because in the source of power on the my expedition was a hasty one and train, oil-electric tractions, as its very ill-equipped-and
therefore foremost advocates admit, can only equipped with alkaline storage
I spent nearly three weeks on the fairly doomed to failure.
he an adjunct to the electrification batteries of the low-resistance type island-the most exhausting, body- None the less, and in spite of the of all lines with a fairly high invented by Professor Drumm, An bronking time of my life.
fast that I am convinced that the traffic density. Much will depend average speed of 45 m.p.h. with an Pieturo, the scene: forbidding treasure of Lima still remains on the success of the Salerni and accuration of 1 m.p.h.p.. was hills covered with well-nigh impeno hidden on Cocos, I am not pre- other processos of obtaining pil obtained. The experimental train trablo undergrowth, and rising pared to any that a perfectly aquip from coal, but on lightly, loaded will, shortly be put into service be almost from the verge of the shark.ped axpedition would be hound to branchen oil-electric trains will between Dublin, Bray, and Groy infested aza; Bizn whose forse succeed. So much I must confess widely used. A few weeks age stones, but only time can test the heat aickens you, and as you are for the benefit for anyone who may rail car equipped with a 250-3. F. battery life" on which its ability. Two additional trains. slowly toiling higher and higher contemplate taking part in the oil engine was on trial between depends. seems to be melting you as if you financing of any expedition to Newcastle and Durham and reached are on order nach motor coach will
Coook were a candle before a fire.
speed of 64 mph on the level.bo Atted with two 200h.p. 500-volt Burrowing in the rocky shore is Booking brenauto - troye must The engine we coupled to a deda traction motors arranged for little short of agony. The effort always be a gamble but it is the generator supplying two traction multiple unit control and regenera of digging in much dreadful heat most exciting form of gambling motors geared to the axles, the tive braking.
Charging will be which no white man can stand for that has ever tempted me to throw tractive effort being controlled by carried out automatically at two longis utterly exhausting.
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