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MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA
Railways, Mining And Road Building
CONSERVANCY WORK ON YUNGTING RIVER
Tientsin, Dec. 21. Work on the construction of a highway between the Yungting Ho River) and Nanyuan, northern Hopel, will be started early in the new year, according to Mr. Hu Yuan-hui, the new Provincial Commissioner of Reconstruction, who returned here yesterday fol- lowing an inspection trip to Pel-
ping.
Mr. Hu, who is also concurrent- ly Director of the Hopel Provin- cial River Rehabilitation Engin eering Bureau and Vice-Chair- man of the North China River Conservancy Commission, con- ferred to-day with Mr. Hsu Shih- ta, chief technical expert of the Conservancy Commission, regard- ing plans for the fundamental control of the Yungting Ho and irrigation work along the Kuto River near the city- Kuo Min,
THE UPKEEP OF BRIDGES
Nanking, Dec. 21.
A sum of $12,800,000 will be needed for the reconditioning of all bridges along the Peiping- Hankow Rallway, including the Yellow River iron bridge, accord- ing to an estimate submitted to " the Ministry of Railways by the P. H. R. Administration.
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In view of the urgent need of Improving traffic on the Hupeh- Honan section, work must be started for the repair of the bridges between Hankow and Sinyang, southern Honan; 、 for this a sum of $566,000 will be re- quired.-
Kuo fin.
HIGHWAY BUILT BY
TROOPS
Nanchang, Dec, 21. Omnibus service on the new highway between the two recently recovered districts of Kwangchang and Ningtu. in south-eastern Kiangs!, was started yesterday. The road was built by soldiers of the 3rd Route Army of the Ban- dit-Suppression Forces under Ge- “nerai Chen Cheng,
This highway is of particular Importance as it not only greatly facilitates rehabilitation work in the bandit-devastated districts but also renders possible a trip be- tween Nanchang, the provincial · capital, and Ningtu in 10 hours.- Kuo Min
EQUIPMENT FOR NEW` CHINESE PORT
Big Order for Britain
(Special Air Mail Servion)
London, Dec. 12.
In connection with the develop- ment of a new part for the Chi- nese State Railways in Honan: the Fraser and Chalmers En- gineering Works, Erith, Kent, has Just secured an extensive Сод tract for 0 complete power, station, a coal storage, reclaiming and shipping plant, and handling equipment for general mer- chandise. The power station - wil house four steam turbo-alterna- tors. The coal-handling plant includes
a wagon tippler and 'some 5,000 feet of belt conveyera capable of handling 400 tons of coal an@hqur...
KWANGTUNG-HUNAN
BUS SERVICE
Changsha, Dec. 24. Better commúnications between the two provinces of Hunan and Kwangtung will be available early in the new year, as the Human Provincial Department of Recon- struction has decided to extend the omnibus service" from here to Pingshek, northern Kwangtung. Arrangements for through tran- sportation are also being made with the authorities in charge of the southern section of the Can- ton-Hankow Railway. Kuo Min.
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ROMAN ROAD DISCOVERED IN CHINA
Pelping, Dec. 20. One of the three main routes, through which communication in Iden, days between China and Rome of the Caesars was made
cording to a telegram received possible, has been discovered, ac-
here from Dr. Sven Hedin, famous" Swedish explorer, upon" his 10- turrr to Suchow, north-western Kansu, following a long expedi- tion to Central Asia.
The route discovered was from, Ansichow, north-western Kansu, to Hami, eastern Sindang, the message states. Efforts are still being made to locate the other two ancient inter-continental routes; these are believed to ba' froin Tunhuang, northwestern Kansu, to Bupupo, near Lob Nor In south-eastern Sinklang, and from Kunlun Shan (Mountain) to
KIANGSI WOLFRAM MINES Hottenchow, south-western Sin-
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Nanchang, Dec. 22. In order to reorganize the wolfram mines in the southern part of Klangal, the Klangsi Pro- vincial Government has approved the plans of the Provincial De
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partment of Reconstruction to establish a Wolfram Bureau in Kanchow to attend to the task-- Kuo Min.
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PORTLAND CEMENT
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PRODUCT OF
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1934.
ENGINEERING AND
ROAD SURFACING
Asphalt, Bitumen And Tar
At the present time when so many confteting claims are made for the materials used in the sur- facing of roads, it is particularly interesting to note the presenta tion of a paper which gives de- tailed consideration to the three most widely used-asphalt, bitu- men and tar-and which In- dicates, the manner in which they can be employed to the best advantage.
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Such a paper was read by Major D. M. Wilson before Joint meeting of the Bristol Sec- *tion and the Road and Buliding Materials Group of the Society of Chemical Industry. In the case of each of the materials Major Wilson dealt with their occurrence and accepted definitions, illustrat- ing the principal properties" and comparisons »with a number of tables and charts.
Asphalt, he said, occurred in natural state in France. Switzer- land, Italy, Germany and other countries, in the form of asphalt rock, which was a limestone naturally impregnated with bitu- men. Unfortunately there were no deposits in the United King- dom. In some cases the rock was obtained from outcrop work- ings, but at St. Jean, in France, it was necessary to sink shafts to a depth of 1,000 feet.
Asphaltic bitumen was a very complex mixture of hydrocar- bans, together with sulphur and. nitrogen derivatives. Very little
was known about its constitu tion but it was thought to con- sist of colloidal carbon dispersed In a heavy oll, Different asphaltic. crudes yielded bitumens of diffe rent properties; they could prepared to have the same pene- tration. but their properties, especially the viscosity, varied widely.
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Use Of Soft Pitch Tar had been used in the road industry for at least 60 years,
and far more care was now being devoted to its preparation than was the ease a few years ago. Modern stills, comparable with those used in the prepara- Mon of bitumen, were coming into use, but even now the mate- rial supplied to a customer was often B blend of tars of two different viscosities. Efforts
SHIPBUILDING IN SCOTLAND
Recent Contracts
Orders for new tonnage keep coming
in, and the following contracts have lately been re- ported. Messrs. Årdrossan Dockyard, Limited, have secured orders from Messrs. Lynch Bro- thers, London, to build five steel Ughters for shipment abroad. These vessels will be 158 fin length and will carry 240 tons of cargo on a draught of 3 ft. They will be erected at Androssan and then dismantled and shipped for re-erection, in the Near East. This order has given much satis- faction at Ardrossan because it 15 a
repeat order on the strength of the excellent perfor- mance of lighters already sup- piled by the same builders.
Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson, Limited, Paisley, have been suc- cessful in obtaining the contract for two dredgers for service in India, The order has. been secured. In face of very keen competition from foreign. bull- ders, and it is interesting to state that Messrs. Fleming and Ferguson expect to fix up a third Vessel when certain technical details have been arranged.
The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Limited. Goran, have received orders from the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company "for a new caisson to be installed at the Devonshire Dock,
Barrow-in- Furness.
The Manchester Ship Canal Company have placed an order with Messra. Henry "Robb, Limited, Leith, for a steel screw tug of 90 ft. by 23 ft. by 12 ft. She will be fitted with triple- expansion surface condensing
engines of not less than 700 ih.p.. and will be used for the towing. berthing and general manoeuv- ring of large vessels under all weather conditions, both loaded and light, using the Manchester Ship Canal. The vessel will also be fitted with two Merryweather. combined steam-driven fire and salvage pumps, each capable of pumping 2,000 gallons of water per minute.
Messrs. Scott and sons, Bowling, have secured orders from Messrs. The James Dredging. Towage and Transport Company, London and Bouthampton, for two steam tugs.
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BUILDING
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BRITISH STEEL
For British Structures
In the course of his speech to the toast of the British' Steelwork Association at the annual general meeting and luncheon of that body. Lord Dudley reminded his hearers that the Association had Just completed the first five years of its existence. It was therefore, of interest to recall that it had been founded as a community en- terprise in which producers of steel and the consuming structur- al industry had joined forces with the object of expanding markets; hence the aim of the Association was to make known the position which the steel industries oc- cupied in the life of the nation. The shipping and "railway com- pardes, and other old friends of these industries, had been beset by hard times-it was to be hap ed only temporarily—and the nor mal trading relations between manufacturing and exporting in terests had suffered a severe and prolonged check. In such cir- cumstances, the importance outlets
of
new stimulating and expanding extisting chan- nels acquired great. significance... The rebuilding of central London and other large cities on lines which moder constructional
technique had made possible, the modernisation of passenger und goods railway rolling stock, the rebuilding of the great terminal stations, and the reconstruction of weak bridges throughout the land, constituted three main lines of development which appeared to be full of promise.
High-Tensile Steal
Mr. E. A. Willson, the president of the Association in his reply to the toast, mentioned two recent "advances in the structural-steel industry, namely, the production of the new high-tensile steels- having a 40 per cent. grester load-carrying capacity than the material previously employed, and the introduction and active de- velopment of welding. He stated that the greatly increased strength of high-tensile" steel had completely revolutionised the fin- ance of long-span bridges and in- troduced new aesthetic-possibili ties in design which architecta and engineers had yet to evaluate.
were being made to further the Messrs. David Rowan and Com- FREE LECTURES
use of soft pitch with a view to replacing bitumen made from imported crude oils, and it was
'pany will supply the bollers and Messrs. Aitchison, Blair, Limited, Clydebank, will supply the pro- The latter
the vessels, and of 600 horse- power for the other.
of interest to see how the propelling machinery. perties of the two materials
will consist of triple-expansion compared. Ta general figures. engines of 1,600 hp. for one of showed that the bitumen and pitch differed widely in their " properties, and, "therefore, could not be expected to replace each other in the manufacture of road constructional materials. For some purposes bitumen was to be preferred, and for athers the coal tar product was the more suitable.
Messrs. George Brown and Company, Greenock, have secured an order for a motor yacht of 120 tons for an English owner. It. 15 also reported that Messrs. William Hamilton and Compnay Limited, Port-Glasgow, have booked an order for a second. 8,000-ton cargo steamer
TO CLIENTS
Chinese Railway's Innovation
Hauchow, (By Mall)
In order to give the merchants some knowledge of freight trans- portation by rail and thus facilf- tate daily operations of the rail- Mesars. The United Africa Com-way service, several small" audi- реду.
for
piled and there was no doubt that if a technique, similar to that adopted for asphalt were to be more generally applied better product would result. At- tempts had been made to con- struct surfacing mixtures of the asphalt type by using soft pitch in place of bitumen in hot pro-
Asphalt being by', definition either natural. or a mechanical mixture, in practice there were road materials made from natural asphalt, either alone or in con junction with other materials. and, on the other hand, purely artlacial mixtures of asphaltic bitumen with mineral matter. By the application of precoated chippings asphalt surfaces could be made safe for all types of traffic, and any sinooth surface laid at a time when smoothness was looked upon as a desirable fea-cess tar macadami - Pitch: was. ture could easily be provided with roughened surface at a comparatively low cast. All types of asphalt were laid under guarantees which carried free maintenance, for a number öf years, usually five.
Although surfacing materials made with coal tar products as at present manufactured could not, by reason of their proper tleg, compete with asphalt for the roads carrying the heaviest trame. they were, nevertheless, widely used, but in a different manner, for the lighter trafic propositions with complete auc česa.
Tarimmesdam
Apart from surface dressing the principal use of tar was for the manufacture
for which purpose it desirable itslag was the"
Ployed
oper
to improve the
tarmacadam
dearer than bitumen, and, so far, the results had shown that it- was more susceptible to tem- perature changes, and was much less viscous than bitumen of the same penetrators, Mixtures of pitch and tar had, however, been employed with some success in the "binder" course under – Ba- phalt carpets where they had been protected to some extent from extremes of temperature by the layer of asphalt,
The latter half of the paper. dealt with the analysis and ident cation of road
It was pointed out that
and
Insist
·mate
should
ularly
tories for lectures on that subject will shortly be established at the main stations along the Lunghai Railway under the auspices of the railway authorities, me
The auditories, which will be open to the general public free of "charge, will be established at the following commercial centres along the railway, namely, Hsin- pu, Hsuchow, Shangchiu, Kaifeng, Chengchow, Loyang, Shenchow, Tungkwan. Welnan and Blan.
The number of auditors for each class has been fixed from twenty. to forty, and lectures will be given every night, except Sun- days, from 8. to 9 o'clock. - Lec- turers will be appointed by the Railway Administration and will be under the supervision of the respective station masters,
Bubjects of lectures range from loading and unloading to water and land through transpor tation. Following are me of the subjects that will be given;
General principles of rall
transportation, 2-Reguli-
parseriger
freight
gove thods
loading
FARADAY HOUSE
Famous Training Centre For Electrical Engineers
There is no parallel to Faraday House among the multitudinous engineering educational Instifu- tions of the country. Neither me- chanical nor civil engineering has anything of the same kind to show: so far as we know, the nearest approach to the special position which it holds is to be found in the architectural profes- *sion...
The success of Faraday House is in the first place due to the ability with which it has been directed and the high technical standard which it has aimed at and achieved.
Some measure of credit for that success must, however, niso be awarded to the electrical pro- fession, generally which," in spite - of domestic differences, does form a united body holding together in a way that has no parallel in. say, mechanical engineering. An example of the essential unity of the electrical industry is afforded by the columns of "The Faraday House Journal in which records are given of the various Arms in which Faraday House men are receiving the practical training which forms part of the normal course..
Professional “Plums”
In fairness to the mechanical branch of the profession it should. be said that many of the second year men, who are receiving me- chanical engineering training. are placed in -non-electrical works but this we interpret ra- ther as an example of the ability of the Faraday House direction, rather than as example of the existence of the type of unity in mechanical engineering which is evident in its electrical sister.
Faraday House with its indus trial connections and Its own scientifle attainments is able to give a type of training which has resulted in distinctly more than, their share of the higher post- tions in the electrical engineering
METAL
MANUFACTURER:
world falling to old Faraday House students, as is illustrated among other ways by the number of past-presidents of the Institu-· tion of Electrical Engineers Egur ing among the past-presidents of the Faraday House, Old Students, Association.
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It's Growth
The institution was founded in 1889 and is now located in its third headquarters. There were éleven students in the first course and this number has now grown to 400, half in the college and half in various worka..
That there is no slackening la the progress of the institution was made evident by Dr. Russell, the Principal, who, speaking at the annual dinner of the Old Students Association, announced that to relieve the always in creasing pressure on their accom- 'modation, a large anner to their
Southampton- row headquarters" would be completed next May.
Dr. Russell stated that during last year 187 students from Fara day House obtained appointments.
The dinner, as is usual with these functions, was a great suc- cess and a pleasure to attend.
REINFORCED CONCRETE
· BRIDGE
A reinforced-concrete bridge of the cantilever type is being built across the Rossello Valley in or der to afford direct means of communication between the town of Sassari Sardinia, and one of it most important quburbs: At preži sent, the only thoroughfare Is g -somewhat roundabout roRd em
bodying some steep gradients. The new bridge is to be 498 ft, in lengthi and 39 ft in width; the cost will be 1,500,000 ltre: 75 per centy of which, we understand, is to be borne by the Italian Cavernment.
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