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ENGINEERING AND
EAST. AND WEST.
A Landmark.
A flagstaff of British steel on the tower of Southwark Cathedral, where John Harvard was baptised, will be nearly 200 feet higher than the level of London Bridge, and will healanimark for vessels arriving at the locks in the Pool of Lon don.
Netherlands Ald to Shipping,
The Future of the Tramway.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1932.
BUILDING
Matins Engineers Not All "Macs."
The final figures for the census of seamen, taken in April, 1931, now little increase in the numbers ses trading stemn
£1,500,000 ORDERS
· FOR CLYDE YARDS
IMPORTANT NAVAL CONTRACTS
FOUR DESTROYERS AND TWO SLOOPS
In hu address given to the Annunl Meeting of the Canadian Electric Railways Association, which was held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, reemployed on cently, the President, Mr. K. D. vessels, but a considerable growth
Important naval contracts for Thornton, said that notwithstanding as regards motorships. The pre Clydeside shipyards and engineer motor car and 'hus competition, thevious census was taken in Juing shops have announced by the tramway remained "the backbone 1921, when there were 148,028 set-Admiralty. of mass transportation," and there was no need for pessimism about its futuro: In 1927, Canadian tram- ways curried 791,308,194 fare-paying passengers, a figure which rose to 830,720,851 in 1929. Though in 1930
men of all types for 10,200,000 gress, The orders are for the hulls and tons of steam sea-trading shipping machinery of four destroyers and in 1931, the figures were 149,350 and two sloops, and for the machinery 13,000,045, respectively. On motor of a flotilla leader--contracts which
tips for the earlier date the figures mean to the Clyde were 1:05% and 124,358; but by 1031,
the number had fallen to 788,087,980,numbers employed had risen by and to 798,020,293 in 1931, he he.
The Netherlands Parliament, by a law of July 22, 1932, auabies' dis treased shipping companies to oh- Lain credits under conditions that will guarantoo such financial recon-lieved the lowest level had been struction as will prevent the vessels reached, and that there from being transferred to foreign lings. To handle these loans, the definite signs
of
IL
were stabilisa- bill provides for a limited liability tion, which ought to precede re- company with nominal capital ofcovery, Buses, he went on, would 5,000,000 dorin (82,000,0), se per only be substituted for trams in
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The title of the Association has been changed from that given above to the Canadian Transit Associn- tion-Engineering,
cent, owned by the State; remain areas where the traffic was lighted that 59.7 per cent. of the searnen ing shares will be sold to those shipping concerns that receive aid from the company through secured loans. An advisory committee on alministration of the law is being formed by the Government,
Kinematograph Cameras.
Car Parking at Chicago.
10.016 and the tonnage to 1,905,120. In fishing vessels, both crews and tonnage figures showed an increase for steam, but a con- siderable decrease for motor prapul. sion. Averages for all ratings show covered by the census were English, 14.3 per cent. Scottish, 5.0 prr cent. Irish, and 5.6 per cent. Welsh, The greater number of the stewards employed (72.5 per cent.) were Eng hel, and 87.4 per cent. of the ap A vertical motor-car parking prentices were English. Masters, machine has recently been put into deck and navigating officers wer The City of Birminghim Informa-service at Monroe Street, Chicagn. also mainly drawn from England, tion Bureau informs us that a new Built by lessrs. Westinghouse Elec-which provided over 60 per cent. industry as just been introduced tric and Manufacturing Company, in each class. The great tradition into Birmingham by Messrs. The Pennsylvania, the machine consists that engineers are mainly Scottish Coronet Camera Company, who are of, two units, each accommodating is not upheld so far na British Ship- producing small low-priced motorcars. The structure is 103 ping is concerned. Only 26.0 per kinematograph cameras. It is stated, ft. higit and occupies & ground area cent, of this class came from north that the market for is particular measuring 32 ft. by 24 ft. It will of the Tweed, while England sup type of camera. has previously been be recalled that the machine plied 57.9 per cent.-Engineering, entirely in the hands of a Contin operates on a continuous chain prin- ental firm, but that the Birmingham ciple and that a separate cradle made model is now being marketeil ia provided for rach car. A 75-h.p.. nt a third of the price of the foreign direct-current, elevator-type motor, The pipe lines used for transport- product. We understand that the brake and theostatic control are ing oil in the United States have cameras are being made at the rate installed in cach unit of the an aggregate length of 111,000 miles, of 2,000 a week, and that the firm machine. We understand that and have a capacity of 23,214,000 has just been asked by a conera in machine capable of accommodating barrels of oil, thus affording, as in the United States to quote for 144 cars has been in operation at the case of the gas pipe lines, a con the supply of 4,000,000 cameras.East Pittalurgh for upwards of a siderable supplement to the recog- Nagini cring.
| year.--Engineering.
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OUR SPORTS—FOOTBALL
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on Pipes in the U.S.
THE CHILDREN'S CORNER
GET NEAR IT
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WHEN making a strong kick- watch the ball, get near i'. and kick straight through it. Neves? mind about anything else until you are sure of these three points. The problem of watching the ball was
lealt with last time.
• Gebar it." If you want to kick with the right foot plant the left fool beside the spot where you intend to meet the bail. It is not a bit of use to place the font u yurd, or even two feet, away from that } Spot The shot would lick power and direction. Put it right up close, so that the right foot, as it passes, will almost graze the left.
While the left foot is coming to earth bend the right knee in rendi uos fr the kick. There is no need Lo swing the upper leg far back. Nearly all the power of a kieki comes from the snup with which the knee straightens out. Besides, a big back-swing wars the opponents to expect a big kick..
Make the kick with toe, instep, And shin in line. If the tou is al lowed to meet the ball first there is no knowing, where it will fly off so small a surface. To ensure accurate fight kick the ball with the intop.
But there must be nothing timid or half-heared about the kick. Koep the head down over the ball and kick right through it. To straighten un before the follow-through is com- pleted lifts the toe in, the air. The ball is scooped up high and valu- able acconds are wasted,
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The best passes and the best shots at goal travel low, and to keep the ball low the foot must follow through parallel to the ground.
Jones
How did that ill-man- nered son of yours get his "black" eye
Bones: Your polite son threw. Rower pot at him."
BY
UNCLE JACK
ANSWERS PLEASE!
What tree is like a donkey? Ter (you) of course!
When is a ship lonely! When' she wants a mate.
Why is a mouse like hay? Beenuse the cattle ent it.
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When is a pie like a poul? When it is browning.
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When are doors rive to eat? When they are "jammed "
ALWAYS
In the course of one of his lecture tripa, Mark Twain ar- rived at a small English town, Before dinner he went to a barber shop to get shaved.
"You are a stranger ?” ask- Ase harber.
"Yes," Mark Twain plied. This is the first time I've been here."
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"You chose a good tiine to come," the barber continued. Mark Twain is going to rend and lecture to-night, You'll go, suppose"......
"Oh, I guess 80." "Have you bought your tickets 1"
"Not yet." ·
"But everything is old "out-Yoo H have to stand "
"How very annoying!" Mark Twain mid-with-a-sigh "I never new such luck! I always have to stand when that follow. lectures."
IN LIGHTER VEIN
Work valued at over £1,500,000;
And Employment for from 2,000 to 3,000 witkmen for 18 months or two years.
The Lucky Firms, The destroyers and sloops are the remaining ships of the 1931 naval building programme, and the Clyde contrasts have been thus:-
WOOD
PRESERVATION
SOME RECENT
DEVELOPMENTS
A useful summary of the method. which are now being employed to preserve the timber used in struc- tures from deterioration, due to such agents as dry rot, auta and the teredo, was given in a paper read by Mr. J. Ferguson before a recent meeting of the British Wood Preserving Association.
Much attention, he said, had been paid during the last few years by British and American bodies to the causes of the destruction of marine piling and other harbour works, but unfortunately many of the test pieces had given poor or neagtive results, with preservatives which might be useful on a large scale.
Bil
Creosote especially had proved unsatisfactory, although there wore many thousands of creosoted piles standing up old and sound in some distributed of the most active waters in the world. In fact this particular pre- Jenny Brothers, Dumbarton-servative had oulidistanced Bulls
and machinery of two others in effectiveness, and its cost destroyers.
could be reduced by recovering a Scotts, Greenock-Hulls and ma considerable amount of the total quantity used and by combining it chinery of two destroyers.
Fairfield, Govan-Machinery for with petroleum fuel oil, so that flotilla leader.
tho mixture would still contain suf John Brown, Clydebank-Hulls ficient active antiseptic properties and machinery of two sloops. and might be as effective physically. Contracts for the other four Care was, however, necessary in destroyers in the programme have making the mixture, and a special gone to the Tyne. Hawthorn, Leslie knowledge of the qualities of the and Co., Hebburn-on-Tyne, are to components and of their behaviour provide the hulls and machinery of was required. Crude coal tar had two of them, and Swan, Hunter been mixed with the creosote when and Richardson, of Wallsend-on-the former was much more valuable Tyne, are to build the hulls of the tain purposes the bituminous bodies than its parent, and while for cer- other two destroyers, the machinery in the tar might improve the phy- for which will be constructed by sical properties of the wood, the amount of "free carbon ก present the Wallsend company.
was so great, that handling was disagreeable and filth and water collected in the plant. As regards railway sloopers he felt sure that the use of creosote not only increas ed the preserved, but also the me chanical, life-Engineering.
The hull of the flotilla-leader, for which Fairfield will provide the machinery, is to be built at H.M. Dockyard at Portsmouth. -
Reopening Yards,
The order is the most important placed in Clydeside in recent years writes our shipping correspondent,
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DEMONSTRATION' AT CHARING CROSS STATION.
and it will provide a welcome abimu: AN OBJECT LESSON IN OIL lus to the industry. It is particu. larly good news for the workers in Clydebank that two sloops are to: be built and engined by Messrs John Brown and Co., Ltd., for their yard has been entirely idle since December last year, when work on the Cunarder was suspend
od.
Found on Examination Papers.
The Pyramids are a
The other Clyde firms who have range of mountains between France and received shipbuilding orders have
each only one vessel on the stocks.
Spain.
,
A circle is a line which meats in It is a remarkable fact that at a poriod when disarmament is very the end without ending.
much in the air nearly all of the work on the Clyde is provided by
A buttress is the wife of a butler.
A schoolmaster is enlled a pedi-naval contracts. gree.
Wind is, air in a hurry, An equinox a man who lives near the North Polr.
A filigree is a list of your ances tors,
Benjamin Franklin worked him self up to be a great literal man, He was also able to invent elgetri- city. His father was a tallow chan- delier.
The Comedy. Th manager of a small touring company, who played a faree in the big room of a village inn, mention ed to the landlord the quietness of the crowd, which didn't even amile.
"Aye," chucked the landlord, "I told 'em I'd chuck out the first man that made a sound. I didn't want good actors like you laughed at."
Overworked.
The strongest nyster oft will droop When he has made ton quarts of [
soup.
MANY A MICKLE.
A little sound- Only a little, a little-
The breath in a reed,
A trembling fiddle;
The trumpet'a ring,
The shuddering drum;
So all the glory, bravery hush
Of music come.
A little sound-
Only a stir and a sigh
Of each green leaf
Just in Time.
October 2-The crowds passing through Charing Cross Station will, be attracted by an ingenious de-* monstration of the evolution of power-oils froia the crudo state to the car-tank.
In conjunction with the Under- ground Railway, Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd. have combined to exhibit, in an attractive and dxplicit man- nez, the various products of petro- leum, and to illustrate their development from the raw material. Messrs Scotts Shipbuilding and By means of appropriate scenery Engineering Company, Ltd, who and a model with working parts, are to build and engine two de- the production of petrol is shown stroyers, have on the stocks from the time it gushes up in the steamer for service in China, The oil-wall do the moment when it latter vessel will be launched in reaches the cylinder of aeroplane or November, so that the new orders car. Through many series of trans- have just come in time.
parent tubes, the fuld travels. con
Mesars Donny Brothers, Ltd.,tinually to its various destinations, Dumbarton, have a railway steamer and sheds its turbid colour and on the stocks which will shortly be consistency until it evolves into clear launched. The order for two de and volatile oil or spirit. At the stroyers will brighten the outlook same time chemists carry out analy for the workers in Dumbarton, whoses and tests in full view, and are are in the depths of depression, ready to answer questions from the onlookers concerning matlere like Messrs. Deany having only one distillation methods, the determina- vessel, and the adjoining yard, that tion of flashpoints, and the elimina, of Archibal Macmillan and Cotion of impuritics and faulte. having closed down permanently.
The Fairfield Company, who are
In addition Capt. Naville Stack
wind to build the turbines for a flotilla and Flight Lt. Bannister operate a
model aeroplane inside. leader, have in their fitting-out tunnel with glazed sides, so as to basin two destroyers which will soon demonstrate the first principles of be completed.
nised storage facilities. Of the total, 52 per cent of, the mileage represents trunk lines' and 18 per cent. gathering lines. The latter are not necessarily permanent and
aviation. The exhibition is taking place in the booking-hall of the Underground Station at Charing Cross and will remain of view until October 29:
NOVEL SCHEME ON L.M.S.
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LONDON, Oct. 1.
are frequently moved as production TRAVELLING WAREHOUSES changes, while the former though mero permanent, are affected by large-scale developments such as shipment from now ports, or the rapid expansion of the refinery business in now districts. Since the
A new scheme has been intro last census, five years ago, the total mileage has increased 24 per cent., duced by the L.M.B. Railway Co. trunk linen 30 per cent. and gather for the provision of a fleet of mobile
which ing linos 17 per cent. In the in waruliouses
will provide terval, some trunk lines have been temporary storage accommodation turned over to, gas companies, timus oither at outlying stations or at partly-offsetting new construction. Į points where a proper warehouse In 1931, Oklahom had more gather is not available, bosc warehouse worlding-lino mileage than any other on wheels are converted brake vans state; this state has more walls than and passenger vehicles and re any other. The greater part of the placed at wayside goods depots so trunk mileage laid between 1926 and that freight can be unloaded direct- 1931 was in Texas, and consisted of ly into them from the waggons. linos to refineries and Gul ports, Traders and merchants are keenly The most general size of pipe, for interested and it should be of trunk lines is 8 in., 6 in, and 10. special value to traders desiring in, also being employed. For gather to test a local market before tak ing up more permanent accommoda- Mother, the fading wall, the dreaming finns, 2-in. pips is most com
mon.Engineering.
tion for their, goods: The drowsy bod..--
Its fluttering neighbour, by
Oak on to oak
The wide dark forest through- So o'er the watery wheeling The night winds go.
A little sound
Only a little, a little
The thin high drona
Of the tiramoring kettle,
The gathering frost,
The click of needle and thread;
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