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Description
Use Green Island Cement
TWO REFLEX TYPE ROTARY KILNS HAVING AN OVER ALL LENGTH OF 254 FEET. THESE KILNS ARE USED. TO
MANUFACTURE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT.
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The General Electric Co. (of China), Ltd.
ENGINEERING AND
STEEL RAILWAY SLEEPERS.
BUILDING
WIDENING OF PUTNEY
BRIDGE
WORK TO BE EXPEDITED
Difficulties and delays caused ta Thames trallio by the girders, which
AUTOMATIC STOKER are being used in the widening of
INTRODUCTION OF NEW
- PLANT IN SCOTLAND.
putney Bridge from 44ft. to 1486. haya indtreed the contrators, Dör man Long and Co., Limited, to expedite the work on the central arch from three months- en` about ond month.
| BRITAIN'S SHARE IN WORLD MARKET.
Sheffield. - Singe Mr. J. Hatua, where ants and other insects Thomas as Lord Privy Seal point- | play havoc -with wooden sleepers,
The bridge has five spans, aud An Instance of the dependence, the central Rich rovers the main ed out recently that the use of has been amply demonstrated, and | steel sleepers
be of the mills equipped for the rolling country for progressive duvelopsary to carry the granite stones would
in this navigation channel of the river. of the mining. industry
Th steel girders, which are neces... great help to the British steel of sleepers are assured of a succes-ment upon the technical branch of during the proges of building them industry experimental longths den of orders.
to
tructing the opening under the
have been laid on numerous British manufacturers are not electrical engineering has been the into position are now partly obs sections of British railway track sing so many orders for railway invention of an electrically impel-arch Graft using the river at the so that cbservation might be made materials to the Continent sa form of boilers. This system of automa- and commercial hits, have to pro led salid fuel plant for the, firing, moment, including both pleasure
of its response to the wear of the orly. They have coordinated manu- tic fuelling with wal, which has coed yory carefully when going un- different classes of British railwayfacturing effort and brought down now been introduced into Seatland der the bridg at high tide, be traffic, from express passanger to cats and prices until the way for calculated to ovalutionise the Casionally a bout has to wait for commercial and domestic uses, I cause of the small headroom. De-
heavy goods. It is understood the seems to be set for recovering world use of low-grade coal, and, thus the cbb before it enn pass under the tests have yielded satisfactory re-trade in railway intorials when provide a much-needed fillip to the central archway sults.
the railways are in a
depressed mining industry.
To remove this difficulty the con- A good deal of permanent way is
The now plant, known as the tractors have decided to build the spend.
Rail and sleeper rolling, za well Prior Mastoker, has been put on central arch in record time. It is dye for renewal, but some of the as some other departments of the the British market by Prior Auto-expected that the whole of the work is being delayed or postponed heavy steel trades, is being coneon-matic Stokers, London, whose widening will be completed, next putil the financial outlook is clear-rated nearer the seaboard so that Scottish representative is Mr. R. April.
inland transport costs may be Clifford Primrose, of the Prim- er. In normal funucial times there largely eliminated in the case of rose Motor Company, Ltd, Crom- would have been many additions to export business. It is to those mills well Street, Glasgow. Its advan- bed. the lengths of steel sleepers on Bri-that the major number of orders tages over the hand-firing of boil- tish railways. Initial costa are for steel sleepers for shipment have èrs are evident from the fact that, higher, but there is a big saving on been sent.
although only recently introduced. renewals compared with wooden
into Scotland, it is being installed sleepers,
large administrative offices, in schools, in commercial establish
Use In China.
mente,
Automatic Control,,
Aftor the fire is lit in the burner in the usual manner by paper or Slag Instead of Gravel.
wool, the automatic controls go British railways in recent years
vern the working of the machine, a thermostat being set to maintain In other countries there has been have greatly improved their per-
Cheap doal Used.
a predetermined temperature, va- marked progress with the use ofmanent way and at the same time
ried to meet the requirements of steel sleepers. South Afrier, India, helped the steel trades a little by A feature of the Prior Mastoker the moment. The apparatus is 20 and China have placed substantial using slag instead of stone or is that cheap low-grade coul is us designed that it will operate as orders for steel sleepers, and in the gravel as ballast. Unsightly heaped for the firing of boilers: indeed, long an 24 hours without attention. case of South Africa and China, of sing towering above the build the plant works more efficiently As the temperature of a room British steel mills have mainly Ings in stoelworks yarda haye been with low-grade coal than with coal dalls, the stoker commences opera- benefited. All the initial orders broken up in crushing machinery of better quality, Enabling boil-tions automatically and the coal is placed by the Chinese Government made in Sheffield and other steel ors using solid fuel to be under fed from the hopper to the retort. Purchasing Commission empowered centres and the material utilised complete thermostatic control, it is. As the combustible gases. are gon- to buy British railway quatorials for making a better and more claimed that the plan affords an erated and burned the coal is con- from the funds of the Boxer In- economical permanent way. It economy of from 23 to 60 per cent.verted into coke, which burns with.. demnity wire for penannout. way needs less attention, and is almost as compared with hand-firing.. a clean flame. An ingenious clock materials, including steel sleepers. dust-free, a great advantage to the The underfeed stem of atoking | pilot control, the purpose of which The economy of using steel sleepers traveller who prefere the open a boiler is adopted, and the appa is to start the motor for a short. in tropical and semi-tropical clim window on a hot summer's day. ratus, which is of a design, suitable period at predetermined intervals. for operation by stokers with no to prevent the fire from dying is great technical skill consists of a invaluable for long spells when a hopper of appropriate size con- fire is not necessary, say, during nected to a burner by a worm con- the night in a school. In the voyer. Air for combustion is sup-morning an attendant can place. plied by a fan, and the conveyer the plant under thermostatic con- and the fan are driven by an electrol, and so ensure a good fire im- trically propelled motor. As the mediately. The extensive use of a fus is carried along the conveyer plant of this description, it is Halifax, Casada Three thou tube to the burner it is preheated claimed, would enable the home.coal
to the extent that all the volatile trade to cor-poto more successfully: sand inhabitants of the town of In-matter in the fnet is released in the against the producers of foreign verness, Nova Scotia, all dependent burner as it passes through the fire fuel oil, of which large quantities upon a coal mine which is its one
(Continued on next column) are imported into this country.
idleness and loss of income by industry, have been saved from
operative plan which will give the
own salvation. community a chance to work out its
SHIPYARDS IN
GREAT BRITAIN.
NAVAL WORK AWAITED.
TYNESIDE'S BARE STOCKS.
1
CANADIAN COAL MINE.
RUN BY COMMUNITY
6 Co-
government will guarantee losses.
Two versels-n sloop and a train ferry-comprise the only shipbuild- ing work on the Tyne, and with the exception of two or three important repair jobs the whole situation is
Under an agreement made by the generally stagnant. The remaining miners, the municipal council and vossols, it is fully expected, will be launched by the end of September will be controlled by
the provincial government, the mino a committee. Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham of five headed by the parish privat Richarlson, Ltd Walker-on-Tyne, and comprising also a prominent it, is announced, hope to launch merchant and three miners. The the train-ferry for use in China in the middle of next month, while the
up to a certain amount until the second sloop which Mesure, Haw-committee has the business on a thorn Leslie and Co., Hebburn, are
profitable basis, when it is hoped to building for the Portuguese Navy arrange a sale. The property after is in an advanced stage of con many vicissitudes now has fallen struction, and mainly requires back on the province. painting prior to launching. Orders
Closure of the mine under its will be placed soon under the naval former managment seemed im programme, and locally it is hoped minent, and it was to avert what that the Tyno will receive more of would have been a catastrophe for the work than it did from the last the community that co-operative ac programme, when keen disappointtion was taken. At one time the. ment was felt it the small amount mine had a production of 291,000 of work obtained. At Hebburn tons in a year, although of fate the Messrs. Hawthorn Leslie have ten total has dropped. The property dered for more naval work for is believed to be capable of greater Portugal, so that there is a possible and cheaper production, and the avenue for employment is this di- present experiment of communal rection,
operation will be watched with The Goncalo Velho, laid down by much interest, Messrs. Hawthorn Leslie and Co
on Oct. 9 last year was launched
Olyde Ship Repairing.
last week. The vessel is a Portu- hand. Messru, Harland and Wolff guose sloop, specially designed for have still the hoveria for ssgine service in the Portuguese colonies. |repairs and the Cerabero for minor
voyage repairs," "At the Blythewood Shipbuilding and Engineering The volume of ship-repairing Company's yard the Pacific Trader work, continues on recent lines, and Pacific Shipper are in tốt voy- Messrs. D. and W. Henderson have age and damage repair.
the Shuns dry docked on Mendow The Caledon Shipbuilding and side for bottom painting, bow, dam- Engineering Company repòr; that age repaits," survey, and yoyage re- the Locksley, which lost & propeller pairs. The Hector and Ulyases are land broke
sha
at Goyan Dock for bottom paint, North Beg, has hod a new fall md
and
pn; the Ola
nade and propeller fitted, for
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