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EVERYTHING & ELECTRICAL
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"Magnet" ELECTRIC FANS
MADE IN ENGLAND
Price with Rod
25.18.6.
Speed Regulator 15/6d.
"KINGSWAY" CEILING FAN 56′ Sweep.
Price with Rod.
£4.12 6.
Speed Regulator 15/6d.
'KINGSWAY JUNIOR" CEILING FAN 44" Sweep.
TheKINGSWAY" Ceiling Fans are specially designed for use in tropical climates. They are practically noiseless and represent a marked improvement on any other alternating current ceiling fan hitherto produced.
For further particulars please apply :-- The General Electric Co. of China, Ltd. Queen's Building, Hong Kong.
Shanks
&
CO. LTD
BARRHEAD-SCOTLAND
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1933.
Engineering and Building ENGINEERING AND
ENTERPRISE AT CANTON
Money For Public Works And Utilities
Canton. At the 218th meeting of the Provincial Council on August 25, the following, resolutions were adopted:
MODERN FAN DRIVES
Installation At Ford Works (Dagenham)
BUILDING
ENGINEERS AND SHORTER HOURS
Employers Firm Opposition
LABOUR NOT OUSTED BY MECHANISATION
London-The engineering and trade unions SG-
mination to secure the forty- hours' working week-without re- duction of wages--as a remedy for unemployment.
One of the most remarkable, in- dustrial installations in the world is the new Ford factory at Dagen- ham, how partly running, which is designed for an output of 200,000 That application for $8.000 by cars per "annum Included in the the Namshan Development and equipment is an installation for Emigration Committee for the pur- the induced and forced draught shipbuilding chase of the motor-lorries be fans of the "Vulcan-Sinclair in-nounced last March their deter- sanctioned and the amount be ap-finitely variable speed hydraulic propriated from the Reconstruc-coupling, which is a British inven- tion Fund of the Committee k
tion, that of Mr. Harold Sinclair, manufactured by the Hydraulic That application for a loan ot Coupling and Engineering Co. Ltd... $50,000 by the public bodies or the Ceylon Works, Isleworth, London, Hing-ning District for the erection Some of the other more important of barracks to accommodate gar fields of application are, to men- rison forces be sanctioned and tion
few &
only. centrifugalį that the loan be advanced by In-pumps. turbo-compressors. Diesei stalments of ten thousand dollars locomotives, automobiles. Cranes. each month commencing August and load equalising flywheel gen- until December, this year.
Ierators.
That the contract for the" pur- chase of machinery for the pro- posed Wool Weaving and Knitting Factory together with the estimat- ed expenditure for the Factory be approved;
The power plant at the Ford factory will have 3 high pressure water tube boilers for operation at 1200 lbs. per sq. in, burning pul- verised coal, coke oven gas. blast furnace Kas,
and towns refuse
The Engineering and Allied Em- ployers' Federation has issued an incisive reply in the form of a 94- page pamphlet bearing the title. "Unemployment; Its Realities and Problems."
The answer to the sustained agitation of the trade unions is
brief and decisive:
of
"The engineering industry this country is emphatically on- posed to the introduction of a forty-hour weer"
After inquiry over the whole of
Federation has come to certain conclusions.” amongst definite which are the following:
the industries represented. the
The world is suffering from a lag of probably six years' arrested growth, owing to the war.
The interchange of goods, whereby the world lives, has been clogged by prohibitive tarift bar- riers and frozen exchanges.
Further two lower pressure water That the contract entered into i tube bollers of 200 lbs. pressure. with Mr. Robert Fan for the fired with pulverised fuel and blast building of the Provincial Govern- | furnace "gas, supply" the whole es- ment Headquarters be referred to tablishment with steam in con- 'Councillors Wu and Li and that the junction with the exhaust of a contractor's commission be not in 30,000 Kw. back-pressure, turbine excess of 3 per cent, of the build- this latter taking steam at 1200 ing cost;
lbs. per sq. in. from the high pres sure bollers. a general method possessing great importance for many industrial conditions. Full details are still not yet available. but the two low pressure boilers each have one "Sirocco" induced and forced draught fan, the latter running at 960 revs. per minute,
irect driven by a 30 H.P. squirrel The diminution of emigration cage A/C motor, while the speed has been so marked since 1929 of the induced draught fans, each that immigrants now exceed with 110 HP. squirrel cage A/C, emigrants in number. motor is 725 revolutions per min- ute.
That the draft form for applica- tion of registration of factories be adopted as revised by the Depart- ment of Reconstruction.
SANITARY WARE
MODERN SANITARY
EARTHENWARE. APPLIANCES IN WHITE & COLOUR
THE JARDINE ENGINEERING CORPORATION, LTD..
14, PEDDER ST. HẠNG HỒNG
· {Incorporated under the Companies" Ordinances of Hongkong)
SOLE ACENTS ——
SHAMEEN; CANTON,
For Constructural Work of Every
Description
Use Green Island Cement
·WHERE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT IS MADE.
GENERAL
VIEW OF THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT WORKS
TAKEN FROM THE SEAT
Issued by the
GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.
2ND FLOOR EXCHANGE BUILDING
The four fans are driven through "Vulcan-Sinclair" hydraulic coupl- ing which allow the driving unit, that is the A/C, motor to be run at a constant speed while the dri- ven unit, the fan. can be varied infinitely as required within the limits of about 20-98 per cent. of the motor speed.
Natural
the
migration to Dominions and Colonies is far less. Britain is losing by migra tion 18.7 thousand fewer persons per annum than before the war.
In effect, this country is assum ing responsibility for the unem- ployed of other countries.
This country, with its social, economic and financial stability. and above all, its realism in ae- tion, is and will be a profound in- Aluence in the coming revival
Two Theories Refuted.
The employers refute two theories often advanced, that mechanisation of industry has produced the crisis, and that fem- ale labour has displaced male labour. The motor car industry is taken as an example of a new and highly mechanised manufac- ture, in which automatic, methods
ave displaced skilled men.
markets of the world that employ- ment is greater now than in 1928, even. amongst skilled adult males."
Essentially the coupling con- sists of a driving half or impeller together with a casing, mounted "on the motor or driving · shaft. through which oil is allowed to circulate continuously from a small overhead tank, while the driven half is fixed on the fan or driven shaft, directly opposite the impel- ler, with a gap of 1-4" between. Both these driving and driven halves are provided with radial "But so anccessfully has that vanes. and the power is transmit-industry established itself in the ted across the gap from one to the other by the kinetic energy of the all. That is the impeller, acting as a pump, discharges the oll against the blades of the runner and drives. it like a turbine, and
In the electric lamp manufac- by altering the amount of the oil ture, it is stated, there has been in the coupling, which is carried considerable increase in the em- out easily and accurately by means ployment of women, but they have not displaced any workpeople and of a weir device in the overhead tank, the speed of the fan or employment is greater than ever. driven unit can be varied to an Three aspects of the whole infinite degree. Further the whole problem are studied, international, arrangement is noiseless, and national, and engineering as a lends itself particularly well to staple industry. It is submitted "distance" as well as completely as an axiom that reduced hours, automatic regulation of all the of work would necessarily increase fans in a power station. Another costs of production, and industry. of the latest installations of these dependent on the market price of coupling is 48 induced and forced goods, would have to reduce labour draught fans at the "Dunston B". costa. station, now being completed at
"If the International Labour Newcastle, and over 40,000, HP. is Office would apply itself to bring- already bullt or building for tan ing the low level countries into work alone while noteworthy also line with the more advanced
is a centrifugal boiler feed pump countries it would do more to jus- installation at the Greenwich Statify its existence than anything it tion of the London County Counhas yet accomplished." cil Tramways..
The markets of the world de- mand cheapness rather than quality at present, it is stated, and this country is handicapped by competition with countries which
THE PICCADIDLY by reparations, inflation, failure to
RAILWAY
Cockfosters Extension
meet War Debt obligations," and longer hours of labour, have modernised factories and far lower charges..
The opening, on July 31, of the being a reinforced concrete struc- Enfield West-Cockfosters section ture. There the railway rises by completed the Southgate extension an easy gradient in a cutting on of the Piccadilly Railway, which to a low, "embankment, until the has been under construction since approach to Cockfosters station the autumn of 1930. The main which is also in a shallow cutting features of this extension, which is reached
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CASTROLLO
-the Upper Cylinder Lubricant by WAKEFIELD
Reduces Friction, Wear, Petrol Consumption, Carbon formation, Improves performance, Gives easier starting, prevents sticking valves..
A quart tin of Castrollo costs only $5.00 and contains sufficient oil to treat 160 gallons of fuel. which is a little over 3 cents a gallon. The cap on the tin is a half oz. measure for two gallons of petrol.
Robertson, Wilson & Co., Ltd., Sole Agents in Hong Kong and South China
for
Messrs. C. C. WAKEFIELD & CO., LTD., The All-British Firm of Oil Manufacturers."
Stored-Up Breezes
to Bring You Comfort!
HOT, stifling days hold no terrors for
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Trim, tireless and silent in operation-a Westinghouse Fan gives many years of faithful service and costs but a trifle to
operate.
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WUCHOW. WATER WORKS
SWATOW INDUSTRIES
1. READY IN SEPTEMBER Stimulated By High Prices Of
After a period of several years Foreign Goods
and an expense of nearly a million The increasing price of foreign dollars the Wuchow Water Works goods in recent years has given was completed a few days ago. rise to a number of factories in The population of that city was Swatow Latest Investigations re- over joyed at the, convenience af÷·
comprises 4 miles of twin tun- Practically all the way between veal that there are factories for forded An opening ceremony will nels, and 3 miles of viaduct, em- Enfeld West and Cockfosters de- matches, cigarettes, textiles, can be held in Beptember, and the bankment and cutting, were des pot tracks have been laid along-ned foods, glass wares, soaps, and Kwangs High Authorities will - be cribed in Engineering earlier inside the main tracks, and these are so forth. The aggregate value of present. the year, when the section from skirted on the south by an 18-1t the output of all these factories in. Finsbury Park to Arnos Grove was road, which terminates, at the a year is reported to be well above are not than 10 in which steam" put into service, but it may be Cockfosters substation. At the En- the militon mark, and the number or electric power is used to operate mentioned that the line from Enfield West end of the depot is of workers exceeds 700. However, the machines. As Swatow people fleld West to Cockfosters, a dis- washing house for the cars, while tance of 7 furlongs, passes under adjacent to this is a cleaning the East Barnet road the bridge shed, with tracks for three eight eprying the station at the point car trains, and a car shed,
most of these concerns are on a are known for their enterprising rather limited scale, with but a spirit at home and abroad, it is small capital. The cigarette Tac expected that more factories will tory is the only one with a capital spring up ancá consequence of of over hal
And there government promotion of industries