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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932.
ENGINEERING AND
BRITAIN'S LARGEST MOTORSHIP.
MACHINERY AND LUBRICATING SYSTEM OF THE
M.S. GEORGIC.
fast Yard of Harland
BUILDING
NEW £2,000,000 ROAD.
LIVERPOOL-EAST LANCASHIRE.
port of
KUALA KANGSAR, NEW POWER STATION.
NEAT SOLUTION OF DIFFICUTIES.
FOOD CANNING MACHINERY.
BRITISH-AMERICAN CO-
OPERATION IN LANCASHIRE.
A leading American, industrial The activities of the Perak-Hydro concern, the Food Manufacturers' Electrio Power Co., in installing a Corporation, has entered into a large hydro-electric plant on the working agreement with Messrs. The second passenger motorshipins) and a stroke of 3,000 mm.
For many months an army of | Perak Biver and covering a large Mather & Platt, of Manchester, by in the fleet of the White Star Line (63 ins.) They are as large as any workers has been busy cutting, area in the State of Perak with which the Lancashire Arm will recently completed by the Bel of the cluas that have yet been built, dredging, and building, and now overhead transmission lines are make nnchinery for the can.
and are of the air-injection type.
well-known in the Far East.
ning industry, which is making Wolf. Ltd., the Georgie, has a They do not, however, drive their there reaches from the
The nativities of their subsidiary rapid strides in Britain. gross tonnage of approximately own air compressors for the supply Liverpool inte the heart of indus- company, the Kinta Electric Dis-
A selling organisation, called 29,000. She has been built for, the of blast air. The three-stage com- 1trial Lancashire a broad white tribution Co., though equally im Food Manufacturers (M. and P.), owner's Liverpool New York sorpressors are coupled to four 4-cylin-highway that will make industrial portant in their way, are less well-¡ Ltd., has been formed. vien, and is designed on graceful der Diesel engines which at 100
known and we therefore propose to The agreement is largely due to lines with a straight stem, oruiser 1.p.m. develop 850 b.h.p. Electric history.
give a brief description of their the effect of the suspension of the stern, two low broad type funnels, ity is generated by four 6-cylinder
work in goneral and their latest gold standard, which shut out a and a curved bridge front. The Diesel engines direct coupled to 500 principal dimensions are overall kw dynamos. There is also a 75
installation at Kuala Kangsar in large proportion of the machinery length. 712 ft., depth 99 ft. Tha i kw. Diesel generator on the upper For Georgie is termed a sister ship deck for emergency service,
particular.
formerly sent to this country by the to the "Britannic, but, actually, purifying the lubricating oil there
American concern, how 2 somewhat greater are six Sharples centrifugals with
sho
Pumping 16,000 gallons of Gargoyle Marine Oils into the new White Star liner Georgie" just before she sailed on her maiden voyage on June 25,
!
Sections of the Liverpool East Lancashire road are already in use, and in a
few months' time the whole stretch will be alive with traffic from Liverpool to Manches ter and on to centres of Lancashire's industry.
The road from the Liverpool boundary to the Salford boundary is just over twenty-five miles. It has cast two and two-thirds million pounds, or about £106,000 per mile.
current to the many small towns in The usual procedure in supplying
.It is believed that certain parts Perak is for the Perak-Hydro to of the available business will be carry a high tension line to the pooled on a basis of equality, while outskirts of the town and from the British company will enjoy the there the K.E.D. Co take over and experience of the old established carry out the laying of street American company.
mains, house and factory connec- Messia Mather & Platt, a famou tions, sea to revenue collection, and firm of textile-machinery makers, the thousand and one details in have recently concentrated part of connection with a town supply.
When the town of Kuala Kangsar ·
their work on making machinery on the conveyor-beli, systom for the
The greatest difficulties facing the was to be connected a difficulty filling, seating, cooking, and pack.
arose in that the town lines lies some distance from the nearest ! and high tension line and the load did
engineers wore on the five or six miles between Knowsley Ashton, while the "Flashes at not warrant the expense of a line Leigh, which are great shallow lakes of the length necessary.
Consequently it was decided to due to mining subsidences also instal oil engine driven gencrating proved formidable problems.
Ten of the fifteen bridges on the rond occur between Knowsley and Ashton, the biggest carrying the London, Midland and · Scottish Railway over the road at Carr Mill St Helens. This bridge carries four sets of metals and nine
seta of crossings, and is Le two
draught, earries a slightly greatern capacity of 300 gallons per hour. number of passengers, and her gross
little fourge is
In addition, to the refrigeration more. The Georgie sailed. on her maides necessary for provisions for the voyage from Liverpool to New York passengers and crew, there are two at the end of June. She has insulated cargo rooms with a totul mear commodation for 1,633 passengers,
The propelling machinery, in-capacity of over 80,000 cubic feet stalled in the Georgie consists The horizontal electrically driven.' of two Harland B. & W. ton-
cylinder, four stroke cycle, double-Cee compressors are by J. & E. acting, Diesel engines. Each of Hall, Ltd. and will be lubricated 000 ton sections. Its total weight, these engines will develop 10.000 with Gargoyle, Arctic Oil Heavy. including steelwork and railway a.h.p. at 102 r.p.ta. The cylinders
The Georgic is one of the lead-ballast, is 1,200 tona. have a diameter of 840 mm. (33
ing ships in the 1932 building pro- gramme and in the motorship class she will undoubtedly be the boat of the year.
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GOLD IN THE PHILIPPINES.
BIG DEVELOPMENTS IN PROGRESS.
capital and approximately 1,000 stockholders. The concurrence of this. strike with increasing produe tion in other properties opens the mining year with the greatest op timism.
South Africa last year produced nearly five times as much gold us ita nearest competitor, Canada, and nearly sixty times as much as the
The Big Wedge Mining Company, Philippines, which ranked tenth. operating the Antimok properties
Except in rare instances in placer in the central group near Baguio, mining, gold assays only a few has reported one of the most sensa-
ounces to the ton. Last July de- tional gold strikes in Philippine
posits were reported near Rono, history, Sumates of ore brought Nev., assaying as high as 20,000 to to Manila show a remarkable assay value for straight commercial ore, ruming at least 82,000 to the ton. Several specimens rate actually as high as 83,000 to the ton.
The discovery was made by Ar- thur Doo, a mining engineer from San Francisco, in the course of an inspection of the properties,
The Big Wedge Mining Company is making plans for the establish- ment of mills and the necessary machinery for large-scale opora tions. At present lateral develop- ment is being pushed vigorously in preparation for the prove-up and the installation of a reduction plant
The new discovery was made. at the bottom of a winze at the lowest point in the operations. However,
« new cat is planned considerably below this in the hope of tapping the vein at a lower level.. Recent improvemente in transportation and communication have given the Baguio district increased accessibil- ity, which, coupled with this deve- lopment, induces the belief that the Philippine mountain provinces are destined to become the great gold- producing center in the world.
The Big Wedge Mining Company was organized by E. J. Harrison," a Manila resident, purely as a lócal corporation, representing $1,000,000
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the ton.
sets until such time as the load
warrants bulk supply, when the oil engine plant can be removed to another town and a similar process repeated.
The whole of the contract for the power house and plant was en- trusted to United Engineers, Ltd., Ipoh, with the exception of the switchboard and the 80 kva, alter nator which were to be supplied by the General Electric Co.
The plant comprises one three cylinder vertical airless injection engine developing 150 bhp at engine of similar type developing 300 rip.m., and one three cylinder
47 b.h.p.. at 500 r.p.m.. both being products of Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Lincoln, England.
ing of canned goods,
fugal pump belt driven by a G.E.C. motor to supply make, up water to the cooling pond from the Perak River, or to pump direct to the overhead tank in case of breakdown ói the pump at the cooling pond. 5.-A Do Taval cencr.Jugut
separator for the lubricating oil.
8-A73 ton Morris doublé girder
hand crane.
None of these auxiliaries warrant special mention though perhaps the exhaust system is of interest.
Absolute silence was essential since the power station is situated quite close to the residence of the sultan of Perak and the residences of other Malay notables and Gov- ernment officials.
An exhaust pit was therefore pro- vided for each engine, the ratio of pit volume to cylinder volume being approximately 80-1 in each case. The larger engine is direct This arrangement has given very coupled to 11 125 kva, 440-volt satisfactory results, no sound of the alternator by Crompton, Parkinson, exhaust being hoard at all until Ltd., while the smaller engine is one is close up to the pits them- direct coupled to a 50 kva, 400-volt selves. alternator by the General Electric The choice of a site for the Co., Wilton, England.
power station presented difficulty The switch-board is of General owing to the frequent rise of the Electric Co. manufacture, and the Perak River and consequent flood- following auxiliaries were supplied: ing.
1.-A Ruston motor-driven air | In 1996 there was the little of compressor for charging the Kuala Kangsar town above flood starting air receivers.
level; in fact the District Officer's 2.-A. Ruston power compressor launch is said to have grounded on
ks a standby, consisting of a the roof of the local police station. two cylinder unit, one cylin- der being the power unit and the other being the air com
pressor. 3-4 Rexa-Roturbo direct cou- rled motor-driven pump to xunply water to the 1,500 gallon, overhead tank from the cooling pond. 4-A Ruston two stage centri-
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Again in December, 1931, serious foods occurred, which incidentally caused serious delay in the con- struction programme.
Eventually a suitable site was found which is about ten feet above any previous flood level. But it means a lift of some 50 fect to pump water from the river to the overhead cooling tank outside the power bouse,
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