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ENGINEERING
EAST AND WEST
Pukow-Tainan Phone,
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1932.
BUILDING
CEMENTING HARD CUTTING ALLOYS
SOME INTERESTING -
EXPERIMENTS
THE PORT OF RANGOON
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS
strategic reasons. Experts are now is a higher total temperature than in Hunan Province selecting any that has hitherto been employ suitable site in proximity to sulphured in commercial service, to be con-
Extremely hard alloys compos The importance, as a port, of mines. The works will be capitaliz structed. by The British Thomsoned largely of tungsten, cobalt and Rangoon, the capital city of Lower Installation of a long-distanceed at $3,000,000, and British and Houston Company, at Rugby, under other carbides are now widely en- Burma, my be gauged from the telephone line between Pukow and German interests will supply the his personal supervision.
ployed for such purposes as the fact that, during past three years, Tainan for the Tientsin-Pukow necessary technical assistance. The
culling edges of lathe and other upwards of 1,000 steamers, about Railway has been ordered. Owing Chinese Ministry of Industry will Honolulu Dam-In Shenei.
tools, and the tearing surfages of half of which had a gross tonnage -to-the-absence of this important shortly establish at Shanghai a Late in May in the Wei Pei dis-lies used in wire drawing. In the of more than 5,000 tons, have visit
of communication railway branch of the Central Industrial Re-trict of Shensi Provinco there was manufacture of these alloys the ed the port annually. Of late service on the Pukow-Txinan section search Laboratory. The develop formally dedicated a great irriga hard and brittle particles of car years, the total seaborne trade has has frequently been delayed. The ment of sulphur mines in Hunan, tion project which has been under hide are customarily cemented into averaged 5,400,000 tons per annum, Telegraph Section of the Railway Homan, and Shanai is being con- construction for the past two years a compact mask by means of co-shout two-thirds of which are ex Administration is to undertake the sidered by the Ministry of Indus-as one of many measures designed alt, which metal in much softer ports, the remainder being imports constraction of the line.
try. Mineralogists will shortly be to prevent the famines which so thinn the carbides. Naturally, the and transhipments. The principal sent to the three provinces for pros. many times have scourged Shensi greater the proportion of cobalt porting purposes, and plans are an-1 Kansu provinces.
present, the lessor the brittleness, being drafted by the Ministry for
but on the other hand, the lesser the operation of mines on a com-
also the hardness of the resultant basis-Chemical Trade
carbide alloy.
TICARS
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Australia's Largest Company.
Broken Hill Proprietary Co. end ed the financial year with a profit of £103,720, after providing £264 540mercial for depreciation. Work at the | Jourani. Great Broken Hill Proprietary mine) is almost atspended because of low prices for metals, but the iron and
Alaska Gold Mining.
A huge body of 'water, known as
exports include rice and other foodstuffs, timber, pig lead, zino. ore and hides and skins, while im- ports consist largely of manufac- tured goods of all descriptions- Board of, Commissioners whose-an- The Port is administered-by, ‘a nual reports contain partaculara of all maintenance and improve.
Alaskan gold production in the are fairly active. There has beened to $2,035,131, a slight decrease a marked improvement in the wire from shipments for the correspond- Rock tunnels and canals have been and wire-netting manufacture busi- ing period of 1931. Beach mining built to carry water to crops over The chairman, Mr. H Gat Nome, which produced several many miles of countryside which Darling, said:"I firmly believe million dollars' worth of gold in otherwise would be parshed and that there is a truly prosperous the gold rush of 1898, is boing re-cause death to thousands. time ahead, dependent, as to time vived, and although no big pay has upon the soundness of reconstruc-been reported, miners are said to tive treasures undurtaken internall be making from $4 to $5 a day with by Australia; perhaps not as specú-hand rockers. Other items of lative as the last prosperous ern, perhaps slow in developing, yet surer in its gains, which, after all, is better for the moral welfare as well as for the general welfare of the community."
steel works and other enterprises first aix mouths of this year amount- the China International Famine New York, recently conducted animent, work carried out, as well
Alaskan commerce, despite curtailed production and low prices, in June amounted to $1,001,902 in value of shipments to the United States.
Recent Engineering Contracts.
Messrs. Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd., 45, Grosvenor-place, Lon- don, S.W.1, have secured the order for the whole of the temperature measuring instruments for the new Dunston Power Station, Newcastle upon-Type. They have also received instructions to supply, through sub contractors, & number of 13-in, illu minated-dial thermometers for the reheater steam pipes,
review. The con-
the Honolulu Dans because so rauch at the money required for its con struction was raised by Chinese in Hawaii, has been made at Wei Pei. G. Fink and Mr. G. A. Meyor Bearing these facts in mind, Dr. under the joint auspices of the
sou, of the Electrohomistry De Shensi Provincial Government and partment of Columbia University, Relief Commission,
investigation with a view to ascer tain whether an improved carbide a statistics of a commercial na- alloy could be produced in which ture. The last report issued, which the auxiliary material was, in it covers the your ending March 31, self, hard and tough, thus not 1931, shows that considerable sums were expended on nurveys, dredg- only acting as an efficient cement, but also reducing the brittlenessing operations, and on the erection without sacrificing the hardness of of new, or the reconstruction of the final carbide "alloy.
existing, works' during the twelve The results of their research are month under set out in a recent issue of The seruction, in reinforced concrete, Märket wharf, From Agt. A series of carbide al- of the Strand inys was prepared synthetically, the which was commenced in Novom- constituent carbides and metals her, 1925, was completed and form. being obtained from pure salts of ally opened to traffic on February tungsten, cobalt, &c. The general 19, 1931. It is built on the site procedure, in brief, was to take previously occupied by the Cor Mr. Frederick Samuelson has
the requisito quantity of each in-poration Strand Market and has The Metropolitan-Cartmell Car been honoured by His Majesty the
gredient, these being in the form had the effect of joining the form Messrs. Buston Buryrus, Limited, of powder, mix them thoroughlyer Sule Pagoda wharf and the riage, Wagon and Finance Co., Ltd., King of Sweden, who has conferred
in a ball mill for periods, ranging Latter-street wharf into one struc- has built rolling stock, bridgework on him the Royal Order of Nord- Excavator Works, Lincoln, have re
from 4 hours to 20 hours, accord- ture, now designated Sulo Pagoda and equipment for the Chinese rail-stiernan. Mr. Samuelson has been ceived ati order for 5 electrically. ways through the whole period of in the service of lessrs. The operated excavators, mounted on ing to the nature of the powder, wharves
The new whart is 300 It long railway development in China and British Thomson Houston Co., Ltd., caterpillars and equipped as shovels compress the mixture at a pres-
sure of 25 tons per aquare inch in and is equipped with two lines of haa at the present moment just Rugby, for over thirty-five years, with buckets of i euh. yard capa
six electric, completed 70 all-stee bogie covered having joined the company on May city, from the Crown Agents for the tungsten-steel mould, and finally railway track and luffing, goods wagons of 10,000 kilos capa 1, 1897. He has been in charge of Colonies, for use upon the new civilsinter the mass in hydrogen for three-ton,
semi-portal several hours at a temperature cranes. The replacement of tem- city and six spans of bridgework the turbine department ever since aerodrome at Singapore. for the Chinese National Railways. it was started in 1903. In connec- Mesara. Brown, Lenox and Com-rising gradually from 900 deg, .porary jetties at the Salt depot, tion with the design of steam tur pany (London), Limited, Millwall, to between 1,400, and 1,500 deg. C. Pazundaung, hy four new timber The cementing materials experi- jetties of a much more solid con Chemical Industry in China. bines, Mr. Samuelson occupies a, London, E.14, have received an or
With regard to the proposed esleading position, and a few years der from the Iraq Petroleum Commented with comprised pure cobalt struction, has also been carried tablishment of an aramonium sul no Messrs. The Detroit Edison pany, Limited, for 42 storage tanks and alloys of cobalt, tungesten and out during the year covered by the
report. phate works by the Chinese Gov. Company, D.S.A., ordered a 10,000 in connection with developments carbon; cobalt, tungsten, molybde and carbon; cobalt and erument, it leamt that this will kw. turbine, to run at 3,600 r.p.m., which they have in hand.-Engineer - num :
molybdenum; and cobalt, ruolybde he established in the interior for with steam at 1,000 deg. F., which ing.
nuni and copper.
Goods Wagons for China,
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Swedish Honour for British Turbine
Designer.
THE CHILDREN'S
EXTRA!!
Dadar
RECEIVER'S
TIMMY'S LUCKY TUMBLE
(Continued from Thursday.)
• How
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CORNER
Edited by UNCLE Jack:
much?" inquired the
A COAT OF ARMS
The coat of arms of the Fitz) gerald family of Ireland is the figure of a baboon carrying a baby, and underneath the Latin motto: Non-Fumerier beutfcit.
A SOAPY SEA
Bath-tub Fleet is deep in battle; Hear the War Guns crash and rattle!
Far and near the spray is flying, While Destroyer Nailbrush, lying Lew upon the heaving Ocean, The story connected with this Rocks with steady rhythmic mio- strange devies in interesting:
tion.
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---Lolig-ngo-one-of the family was (-Warship-Toothbrush-seens.......in. away at the wars and hud loft his i trouble,
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household in charge of one or two Look! She's hit a floating bubble; old retainers and the women ser While her crew and captain bris. vanta. Suddenly there
came an tle, alarm of the enemy and all fled, forgetful of the little baby, the heir of the house.
Neath her prow torpedoes whistle. U-Boat 3 (a matchhox weighted), Cruises near with thirst unsated, But n depth-bomb strikes her
tower
A pet baboon ran to the cradle, caught up the child, and climbed- with him to the top of the abbey And she seeks her funeral bower, steeple. The servants were all in terror, but the baboon brought the Red Sponge Island now is looming. Through the smoke, from grey child safely to the ground.
When the father returned he felt guns booming- that he owed a debt of gratitude. But the fighters must take cover, And, wondering what was going to the dumb animal that has saved or be caught and held by Mother, to happen, Timmy followed his the heir of his house. So he set Who insists that War and fighting now friend into a large building the monkey in the centre of his In the Bath is too exciting,
Eight copies-eightpence," said Timing.
"Here's a shilling for lot. Now come along."
close by. It was big, empty, and knightly shield and placed beneath barn-like, with great lamps all over the motto, "Not unmindful of his
the pince anil all kinds of people | kindner."
in funny clothes walking about
"I want you to do that tumble again," said the big man to Tim my. Timmy did so, and the big man nodded approval,
"I want you to do that for the films!" he said to Timmy "Here
are the camera' men ready!”.
And dressed just as he was,
IN LIGHTER VEIN
Right in Lire.
New Boss: "Strange as it may orank on simplified
Timmy tumbled off chairs and seem, I'm a
tables and down flights of stairs, | spelling:"
while the men turned the handlo Lady Typist: That's O).. K
of their cameras and laughted at with me, chief. I've never been his antics,
particular, aither."
That is, fine," said the big
Prize Package. man. "Now I'm coming to 500
Passenger (alighting from train); your mother."
Timmy's mother was surprised I found this dozen eggs someone when she saw the strango gentle left on the train."
Station Master: "Well, if no- man with Timmy, but she was more
for them in 20 days rurprised when the hoard from body calls him that he wanted Timmy to they're your." tumble for the 5)men
"Won't he have to sell pape any more, air" she asked.
"No, I am sure he is too clever for that," said the big man." He will earn more money for you na n cinema artiste. I can make a
big name for him, I think
In » Helps. "The knock in the motor bas dis- appeared. How did you fix it?
I took all the mudguards off."
Cleaned Up.
Ann Which one of you chil- dre ate the grapes, hat in the
And he was quite right: Timmy cupboard 1 No-use denying it-I is now a well k known screen artiste, saw the seeds and sking on the but he is still fond of gymnastics, floor."
and runs a big one especially for Ronald: "It wasn't me, Auntie, newsboys,
'cause I ate skins, seeds and all."
EXPLORERS
Do you know the names of these five explorers they are quite well described by each verse.
1.
A scholar, a courtier,
A soldier, and rover
Once spread down his cloak
For a queen to walk over.
Thin Puritas brave
Was a leader intrepid; - His method of courting, However, seemed tepid
Orice Rittting astrido,
The top of the world, The flag of America
This hero unfurled,
He searched for a fountain
In which he might" dip
To geir lasting youth-
But it gave him the alip
After travelling Enet,
Braving deserts and floods, He returning with rich gems
Sewed up in his dads.
(Answers on Monday.)
Other important works comprise the replacement of the pontoon It was found dificult to obtain jetty and bridge at Hteedan by quantitative data on the relative reinforced-concrete, double-deck, toughness of the various carbide T-headed loading-stage, measuring alloys; accordingly actual service 180 ft. by 16 ft., and the construc- tents of prepared tools were carried: tion of a 4,000,000-gallon earth re- out. These, it is stated, gavo acervoir for collecting rain water very good idea of the superio at King's Bank, together with fil- rity of the carbides cemented with ter and supply tanks. Extensive alloys over those cemented with repairs were also carried out to pure metal. An alloy containing make good the damage caused by 04-75 per cent of tungsten carbide an earthquake to warehouses (WC) and 5.25 per cent, of cobalt, Latter-street wharf, Dredging was in which the cementing material conducted for 912 days, at several was an alloy of cobalt, tungsten points in the approach channels to and carbon, apparently gave the the port, and 938,000 tons of sand best results. It yielded a Rock- and silt were removed; in addition, well hardness (scale "A" load: 104,700 tons of spoil were dredged 00 kg.) of 87-3 and is characteris from the berths at the wharves and ed as "very tough."
jetties.—Engineering.
Alloys of similar composition,' but cemented together with pure
on
cobalt, gave Rockwell hardness | carbon; and cobalt, molybdenum values of 96-67; thear, however, and copper, respectively, Gen- are stated to be "brittle." In two orally speaking, alloy cementing other carbide alloys, described as materials, while causing little "very tough," the cementing ma- change in the hardness of the final terials were alloys containing cocarbide material, certainly appear balt, tungsten, molybdenum and to increase its toughness. En
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