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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
HIGHWAYS IN THE YEMEN, ARABIA
AMERICAN ENGINEERS
BUSY
An American engineer, employed jointly by the fiovernment of the Yemen (in southern Arabia) and] by an American philanthropist, re- ports that the highway he has been engaged in constructing between Hodeida, & port on the Red Sea,
and Sanaa, the capital of thei Yemen, is nearing completion and! should be open for motor traffic within 12 months.
The distance between the two
first 50 miles out of Hodeida in a north-easterly direction the rond passes over the Tehama, a low const al plain. For the next 130 miles it winds over a mountain range to the capital, which has an altitude of about 7,600 feet..
BRICKS AND TILES FROM TUTSUN, CHEKIANG
parts of Scotland. By a simple method of folding the man in small Bastions continuity is obtained from oge extremity of Great Britain to
LARGE TURBO SETS FOR JAPAN
the other without the awkwardness SUPPLIED BY BRITISH FIRM involved in opening out the whole map. The other mop gives the Isle of Skye, half-inch to one mile (price 3s, met), in a delightful piece of
EAST AND WEST
Shanghai's New Station,
The new building of the Shanghai | cartography. North Railway Station, the sito off
TWO KINDS OF MUD ARE which has been selected near the Lord Essendon on Shipping.
Chenju Station, will be a ветер- storeyed one and will cost appraxim ately ten million dollars,
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Tatsu, a village in the district of Yuyao, Chekiang, has a popula. tion of 402, practically all of whom are engaged in the manufacture of bricks and tiles. There are 22 kilus is the village, each with a total
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Russian Oil in Manchuria.
Dairen, September 22-A great deal of attention is being called to the steady increase of imports of Russian oil into the Manchurian
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When, in 1947, the Imperial' Government Railways of Japan decided to erect their own power station to serve the electrified linen an order for two 90,000 kw, turbo- alternator seta was placed with the Presiding at the annual meeting! British firm of Thomson-Ilouston of Mesars. Furness, Withy & Co., Co., Ltd. One of these sots is cap- Lord Essendon, the chairman, was able of sustaining an overload of cautious in referring to the pros. 23,000 kw., a peak load of 30,000 pects for the shipping industry in kw., and a momentary overload up the early future. He declared that to 30,000 kw. The turbine, which the improvement which was hoped is of the two-cylinder type, has 25 for when he addressed the share-stages and is designed for normal holders at an extraordinary general steam conditions of 23 kg. per sq. annual output of 720,000 bricks and market. This is said to be the re- meeting in December had been deem and a total temperature of 376 tiles. At the average selling pricesult of the adoption of an active layed. From January onwards the deg. C. at the stop valve. The of 835 per 10,000, the yearly income į dumping policy by Soviet Russia shipping trade had steadily det-rio- normal vacuum in about 700 mm. is about $53,000, bet the villagers in accordance with the five-year rated, and the psychological effect at 23,000 kw. Stainless steal is used termini is about 200 miles. For the are very poor owing to the high plan. Whereas about 150,000 barrels of the continual depression was for all blading. The turbine is ar- cost of manufacture and primitive of oil were landed here in April aggravating a position that was ranged with three branches for the trading methods.
another 200,000 barrels are expect already bad. However, he still pre-extraction of steam for boiler feed- The raw materia! for making ed to reach here from Batum inferred to think that the improve water heating purposes. Initially bricks and tile is clay taken from October or November this year.ment was only delayed. After com the lakes nearby. Two kinds of With the arrival of the new shipmenting on trade barriers, such as two-stage feed heating, giving
the plant is being operated with
clay are used-the ordinary mud found at the bottom of lakes and likely to be staged between the sidios, prohibitions and restrictions. C. at 20,000 kw., the third point ment, a fierce competitive war is exchange régulations, quotas, sub fiual feed temperature, of 90 deg. streams, and the wu ni, which is a Soviet Oil Syndicate on the one ho suggested that the inspiring in-being only used in connection with American Equipment. black, porous material compesed of hand the Standard Oil, the Asiatic fluence of the Lausanne Agreement, the evaporator. Later on the foed Blasting, grading, and the prea mixture of clay and decayed Petroleum and Texas Oil Companies to be followed, it was hoped, by a heating plant may be rearranged
· paring and laying of rock materials reeds. These two clays are mixed ¦ on the other.
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successful outcome of the Ottawa with a third stago heater to give, for this hard-surfaced highway are in certain proportions, trodden
Conference, would go a long way in conjunction with the other being done with road machinery down by cattic to get a thorough, Value!
towards restoring confidence and heaters, a final feed temperature of and equipment of American manu nixture, and then molded into
An indication of the enormous setting the wheels of commerce in 150 deg. C. at 20,000 kw, facture, by native labour under biscuits." The kiln's are of stone losses which have resulted from the motion, and it might be that these The alternator is wound for American supervision. An import. ant feature of this highway is the and clay, cylindrical in general tall in the value of ships in the last important developments would mark 3-phase, 50-cycles, 0,000-v., so per erection of a steel-truss suspension shape but narrower at the upper thirteen years is given by the sale the turning-point in the trade situacent power factor, and is equipped. bridge, all materials for which have end. After the clay "biscuits" in August of the B.8. Castlegarth, {tion.
with a directly coupled cascade-type bridge, located 00, miles east of have been shaped into tiles and of about 6,487 tona deadweight,
exciter. A closed circuit system of Hodeida at an elevation of 1,100 bricks, the latter are piled in a built in 1901, to shipbreakers. The
Building and Furniture Woods,
ventilation is employed, the cir feet, is the only one of its kind in kilu, fire is started, and the convessel was sold in August, 1918, for
London. The early opening of culating water being obtained from The Government of the
tepts baked for 24 hours. Water is £178,000, and has now been acquir- the Russian timber shipping senson the condenser supply. A motor Yemen had several hundred men employed then poured on the fire and the ed by foreign shipbreakers for bas helped largely to increase im generator standby exciter set has in the construction of a second openings of the kiln scaled for four | £1,630,-
porta of building and joinery woods, also been provided. The equip highway from Hodeida to Sanas, days, at the end of which period
which to the end of last month, acment includes contactor-type start- which extends in & curve to the south of the straight line between the finished bricks and tiles are
cording to the Board of Trade Ro- ing gear, and the main and exciter the port and the capital. This will removed. The wi is capable of Two well known firms engaged interns, amounted to 1,205,563 loads field rheostats are arranged for open up a section of the country burning itself, and thus saves a
(of 50 cu. ft.), against,098,148 loads motor operation. about 100 miles south of the nor
the aluminium ware, and utensils for the first half of last year. Fin thera Hodeida-Amran-Sanaz route. considerable amount of kiln fuel, industry, Corfeld, Ltd., of Merton land and Sweden, too, have sent The road will be easier and less but the bricks and tiles thus-made Abbey, Surrey, and Sigg, Ltd., of more; Canadian woods have in- costly to construct than the nor
creased little, but the American
the minimum. thern highway, as it passes around are porous and not very strong.. In Frauenfeld, Switzerland, have de have declined. June receptor the mountain range,
j-recent years, the supply of Fu ucided to pool their resources in planed and dressed woods also were North-East Coast Engineers.
Great Britain. has shown signs of exhaustion, and
Iarger than a year ago.
London: The Council of the Among hardwoods mahogany logs the villagers are trying to find a
increased last month compared with North-East Coast Institution of (substitule.
June, 1931. The 10 per cent. pre- Engineers and Shipbuilders has de ference is helping the Empire maho-cided to Award gold medals for gany countries.
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As most of the villagers are very poor and always in urgent need of money, they often sell their output months before actual production. Their eagerness to obtain money is frequently exploited by purchasers
who make them sell at a loss. ` The
villagers, needing money badly. sometimes accept prices amounting to only three-fourths the cost of manufacture. When the date of delivery is agreed upon, the buyer pays half the purchase price in advance, the balance being paid on delivery. The villagers, although industrious, appear to be getting still poorer, and unless they im prove their business, methods there seems to be in hope of bettering their condition.
"JUMPING" TANK'S HIGH SPEED
00 M.P.H. ACROSS COUNTRY
New York. The first demonstra- tion before officets of the United States Army of a new type of tank, designed to travel at very high speeds and jump obstacles, was held at Linden, New "Jersey,
Travelling on caterpillars acro rough country, the tank attained a speed of 60 miles an hour. The operation of raising the caterpillar treads and lowering wheels in their place took only two minutes, where- upon the tank was ready for a road test in which it reached a speed
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slight damage to one wheel the jumping test had to be postponed.
The tank in feported to be cap. able of making a jump eft, high "And soft long, and it is to be tested by having a tractor placed across its path. It performs the jump by means of a spring on the Underside near the rear, which the driver relcasey as be approaches the obstaclo. · It is further claimed that the tank can easily. A be carried through tha air by a Jarge bombing-
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Aluminium Firma Co-operate.
Production for the United King- dom market which formerly took place in Switzerland will now be transferred to the Corfield Warks at Morton Abbey.
It is anticipated that as a result
of this transfer over 500 additional workpeople will be given employ- ment at Merton.
Double-Sided Mapz.
Two maps just issued by the Ordnance Survey Ofce are worthy of nota not only by motorists and walkers, but by all to whom a good map rivala a good picture. One is & toad map of Great Britain from | John O'Groat's to Land's End, 10 miles to one inch, showing the fication (price Gs. 6d. net), Ministry of Transport road classi
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papers send during the 1931-32. Ke sion as follows:-Engineering gold New Philippina Saw Mill.
medal for the paper by, Mossra. L J. Le Mesurier and R. Stansfield, The new sawmill oreeted by the entitled "Combustion in heavy oil.. Findlay Millar Timber Ch of engines" Shipbuilding gold medal Manila, is neuring completion. for the paper by Dr. F. H. Todd, This mill replaces the old mill des entitled "Some measurements of troyed by fira on July 4 last. The ship vibration." Mr. Le Mesaurier mill is situated at Kolambugan on is chief engineer to the Anglo- Misamis Bay, Island of Mindanao, Persian Oil Company, Limited, and and will have a capacity of 3,000,000 Mr. Stansfield belongs to the re- feet per month, operating one shift. dearch department of that com
The plant is modern in every pany, Dr. Todd is a member of the respect, the main units consisting staff of the National Tank at the of two eight-foot headrigs, two National Physical Laboratory, Ted- edges, three vertical resaws, and dingtom: It has been decided to one 16-foot automatic trimmer. The award to Mr. W. Spencer Paulin, The map is mounted on both remanufacturing plant, which is aan maistant manager in the employ."" sides; but it is the ingenuity of its continuation of the main plant is ment of Messrs. Donkin & Co., make-up that is most attractive, equipped with rip and cutoff saws Ltd., the Reed Medal, founded by On one
de it shown, when and the latest type of planers, the late Mr. T. A. Reed, of Cardiff, extended, the centre and North matchers, etc. The installation of and awarded to the candidato “ whó of Scotland live rolls and mechanical transfers most successfully produces and ex- of England part up to Dundee on the back it and other labour-saving devices will hahita evidence of his ability to shows the South of England, the reduce the labour in the plant to take a share in the control of in- Test of Wales, and the northern (Continued on next column.)
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