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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 con- tains sufficient oil to treat 160 gallons of fuel which is a little over 3 cents a gallons. The cap on the tin is a half oz. measure for two gallons of petrol.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1933.
AND BUILDING
ENGINEERING AND
MOTION CAMERA USED FOR
TESTING PURPOSES
Destined For Important Part In
Such Work
AN ARCHITECT'S
SUCCESS
Worked His Passage To Fortune
The kinema camera, and similar, high-speed air circuit-breakers, Reginald, Harold Uren, a deter- recording cameras, are of great use fusible cutouts and lightning arres-mined young New Zealander, who in connection with the testing of tars. In all these, the significant worked his way to London in the electrical equipment, and are des- part of the teat jasta only a short engine-room of a cargo, steamer in tined to play an increasingly im-time, such as from one cycle to order to compete for the glittering portant part in such work. Their seven oycles (0 milli-seconds to 140 prizes of British architecture, has principal uses are, firstly, the re-milli-seccnda) and a complete re- gained his reward. cording of the visual result of tests, cord, can, therefore, be afforded by Mr. Uren, who is aged 27, in at more especially those, effects which only a few feet of film. The date present on holiday with his wife may be too transient for reliable supplied by the photographic re- in Spain, and the news was convey detection by the eye; and, secondly, sord include the nature and dura-ed, to him by cable last night that the keeping of a continuous and tion of the are (in the case of an he has won a competition in which simultaneous record of the readings air-break apparatus), the emission 0 British architects entered for of a comparatively large number of of fame, smoke, or molten metal, the desigh of a new £100,000 Town meters during a long test cycle. A the duration and speed of any Hall at Hornsey third function is the instruction of visual effects, and, not least im- A money prize of £350 accom- operators in the management of portant, the moving or springing panies the award, and Mr. Uren, intricate pieces of apparatus, of the various parts. The record who three years ago was working while propaganda and advertise is especially valuable in that it is as a penniless ship's greaser, will, ment exemplify a fourth use which able not only to detect such occur- also earn £8,000 in fees. has become quite an extensive one, rences, but to measure with, a close but, does not call for further re-degree of accuracy their dimensions ference in this paper. Testa be and duration. An excellent exam- longing to the first category may be ple of such tests has already been exemplified by those on electrical published by Torchio. In these, the circuit-breaking apparatus, such heavy current-carrying capacity of a large oil-immersed breakers, vertain large oil switches
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This romance of real life began & little more than three years ago in New Zealand, when Mr. Uren, even then a promising young architect, decided that London was his Mecca,
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SEARCHING THE WATER. FRONT
were
measured in air by passing currente of the order of 100,000 amperes through their locked contacts, and Unfortunately he had no money photographing the result by the but, nothing daunted, he searched kinema camera. In order to record the water-front at Wellington for the action at every half cycle, the a ship requiring emergency hands. taking speed was increased to 50 Patience and determination frames per second, and the shutter rewarded when the engineer of the was synchronised with the positive 8.8. Rangitiki, then on the point of and negative peaks of the 25-cycle casting off from the quay-side, current employed. This also had raced to the ship's aide and, called the advantage that the reproduc-agitatedly for a greaser to replace tion in the projecting lantern took a man who had deserted. place at less than one-third the Young Uren was an architect, but taking speed, and the happenings he wanted badly to go to England. could thus be the more closely He was the only man on the spot. studied. As the current and vol and be got the job. tage values were simultaneously Six months after he landed in recorded by means of the oscillo-England Uren had already met graph, it was possible to correlate with moderate success. He was the are flashes and the general be- confident about his "future and he haviour of the models with the sont for his fiancée, a girl he had changes in the electric circuit; and met in New Zealand. They were conclusions were drawn which had married immediately on her arrival. important consequences in circuit- breaker design.
Mr. Ure then entered for his first big competition-that "for a design for Norwich Town Hall. He failed. This, however, was bat. a temporary setback; Next time,he was successful, and was chosen to design the Manchester Exhibition Hall
When a more or less elaborate structure is being tested, it is im- portant to know which member fails first, and it is frequently in- possible. to do so without taking a continuous photographic record.
In tests on electrical apparatus, This work accomplished, young the occurrence of arcing is the most Uren went on with a design for common visual phenomenon, and by Hornsey Town Hall, placed his virtue of its high luminous inten- effort with the judges, and went to sity, it lends itself readily to photo-Spain with his wife for & well- graphie recording, imprinting itself carned holiday. upon the film even under highly To-day he will be racing back to adverse conditions:
London by fast steamer to discuss
Since the duration is abart and plans for actual work on the now the luminosity intense, most areing Town Hall, which will be in his tests can be very conveniently re- charge. corded by means of a simplified
form of motion-picture camera, which renders higher speeds prac- bicable, and requires only a singla glase plate of say half-plate whole-plate size.
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HATCHES
Advent Of Steel Automatic Covers
For some time past there has been a good deal of discussion in shipping circles as to the most con- venient and efficient method of
Finally, the kinema type of film ie employed to record continuous testa involving indentions of flue- tuating currents, voltages and other quantities, as well as movements of mechanical parts, whether in the form of travel over comparatively large distances or low amplitude vibrations. Such records are effect- ed by means of, ossillograph vibrá tora, and are thus really outside the category of motion pictures.
The above are only examples of cloning up hatchways, Every sea- the ways in which the motion man has experienced the defects. camera can assist the investigator and dangers attached to the old- and user in connection with the fashioned device of wood covers and development, design, testing and tarpaulins, and would welcome gay operation of electrical apparatus. improvements which would add to Its use is extending and its services will undoubtedly be considerably more valuable in the near future. Mr. W. Wilson in "Engineering."
DIESEL ELECTRIC EXPRESS
safety of life at sea. Also conven- ience of covering and uncovering batches when working cargo in port ja a very important item in the economics of ship-handling, Many types of steel hatch covers have been devised and put on the market during recent years; but they have never caught on properly because of their unwieldiness and heavy cost. These objections have, how- ever, been removed in what is pro- A report on the first Diesel-bably the best-known type--the electric express train service in Macanking patent steel hatch, mar- Britain was issued on Saturday by keted by Messrs. Macgregor and Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth King, Ltd. & Lloyd's Avenue, Lou- and :06 It describes the first don, E.C., Mar week's performance of the Arm- strong-Shell Express, which is run ming on the LM.8. route between Buston and Castle Bromwich for the duration of the British Indus tries Fair.
This cover combines strength to withstand any sea and watertight- Bess without tarpaulins, with safe, easy handling, and rapid, conven- ient stowage, On the score of ex- pense, they are very little dearer than the old wooden type when note The train, it is stated, has run is taken of the various accompani- for the week ended. February 24 mente of the latter in the shape of a distance of 1,157 miles without a locking bars, battening bare, wire, bitch! The total fuel consumption lashings, tarpaulins wedge cleats, for the five days was 225 gallons, and web beams. As regards con- osting £3 68. 6d. equivalent to venience of handling the following 0.681. a train mile The train will concrete example is very significant: continue in service until the end of The German T.&.S. General Von, the coming week
Steuben originally had her hatch- On Friday, in spite of the bliz-waya wood covered, when it took zard, at ran from London to two hours for sixteen men to un- Birmingham to time, with a fuel cover eight hatches; after being consumption of 20 gallons, costing fitted with Macanking steel covers 210d. Only 10 minutes were lost it was found that eight men could dislocation on uncover the eight hatches in five
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ELECTRIC
IN
ARC - WELDING
SHIPS
A Recognised Means Of Fabrication
It is a healthy sign of progress called for are stipulated.
The that the controlling authorities in provisions abow no signs of nay consructive work, such as the ship desire to impose vexatious condi ping registry societies, should in- tions, but a genuine endeavour to corporata in their rules as early as assist in the utilising of the process they do auch modifications as are to the fullest extent possible. This warranted on the basis of recent is well shown by the results speci- experimental work. Electric aro-fed to be obtained with bugitu- welding affords a good":"example. dinal welds, with the line of appli it has been recognised as a menos cation of the stress the same as that of fabrication of the structures of of the run of weld metal. Joints to such loading are ships for some time, but naturally subjected the conditions under which the notoriously weak, but recent work work had to be done were always has shown what may be, expected, the subject of strict specification, from them, and counted upon in
constructional work The stipula order that complete success in should be assured. As doubs have, tion that test pieces from mild ship one by one, been cleared away, and steel, of a tensile strength between the evidence of actual experience 28 ns and 32 tona, per square inch. should withstand 14 tons per square has been accumulated, the societies inch on the cross-section, when so have shown every desire to modify walded and loaded, without showing the provisions of their stipulations. Any disturbance in the weld or at to permit the extension of
the junction of the weld metal with application, as 1oon, 过 the the plate, is certainly not too harsh.. conditions warranted it. Soma In earlier days some authorities eighteen months ago the British banned such joints when they had Corporation Register of Shipping to be so loaded. It is surely better and Aircraft issued a series of Pros that their limitations should be re- visional Rules for Electric Arecognised, as is now the case, and Welding Ships. Since then to specify what may be expected much has been done, and the socie- from them, so that when they must ty has now revised its regulations, be resorted to, the general strength in the light of recent investigations of the entire structure shond not. and experimental work, and has be impaired by their presence published a new series of rules in Everyone concerned with welded corporating the modifications. In joints in any type of structural these regulations, the oonditions work will find much to interest which electrodes must fulfil, and the them in the new rules of the British Fard tests on specimens that are Corporation.
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