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MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA
MODEL SILK FACTORY
The Ministry of Industry is making preparations for the 'est- ablishment of a model silk factory in Hangchow. A tract of land altuated outside the Wu Lin city gate has been selected as the site for the factory.
TO IMPROVE. TEA PRODUCTION
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La order o promote the sten- dard of the tea production in China, the Ministry of Industry has issued a circular order to the Departments of Reconstruction of the various tea producing provin- ces, instructing that measures for the improvement of the methods of cultivation and manufacture of tea should be introduced and en- forced and more tea experiment stations established in order to study the methods of improve-
ment
SUIYUAN WOOLLEN
FACTORY :...
Since ite opening on March, 20 the "Sulyuan Woollen Goods Fac- tory has been visited daily by thousands of people. Because of the superior quality of its pro- ducts, as well as the cheap prices, the factory is doing thriving business, During the first three days, orders for $10.000 worth of goods have been received.
THROUGH RAILWAY. HIGHWAY TRAFFIC
Negotiations with the North- western braich of the National Economic Council for the opera- tion of through transporation be- tween the Slan (Shensi)-Lanchow (Kans) Highway and the. Lung- Hai Railway have been completed by the delegates of the Lung-Hai Rallyer Administration, It is understood that omnibus service will be operated on the highway in May and through traffic with the railway, will be simultaneously inaugurated.
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TRAFFIC BETWEEN TSING-
TAO AND PEIPING
It is officially announced by the Kaochow-7sinan Rallway ́Admin- istration that through train ser- vice between Tsingtao and Pel- ping will be started on April 1 in order to facilitate travellera be- tween the two cities.
TELEPHONE LINE TO BE
COMPLETED
Under the direction of the Ho- nan Provincial Department of Re- construction, installation work för a long-distance telephone line between Loyang and Hsinan, north-western Honan, is nearing -completion. Ag the Provincial Department intends to extend the line to Tungkwan, on the Shengl border, engineers have been des- patched to make surveys.
NANKING-HANKOW TELEPHONE LINE
Surveys on the projected Nan- king-bankow long-distance tele- paone dine are expected to be completed in April, according to information from the Engineering Bureau in charge of the nine pro- vince long-distance telephone network Surveys are being con- ducted simultaneously on Ave -sections; Nanking-Shuman (An- hu, Yinchlahul-Hukow (Klang- al), Hukow-Sinyang (Hupeh) änd Binyong-Hankow sections.
TWO FUKIEN HIGHWAYS
Work on the two Fuklen prð-' vincial highways, one from Yen- ping to Lencheng and the other from Hsinchuan to Fengshih, is making rapid progress and is ex- pected to be completed before the end of May. The two roads are being built with soldiery labor un- der the supervision of engineers dispatched by the Provincial Re- consruction Department.
NEW WHARF COMPLETED
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The engineering work for the No. 1 Wharf at the new port of Llenyunkang the eastern. minus of he Lung-Hai Railway, in northeastern Kiangsu,, has been completed, according to a foes- sage received by the Lung-Hai Ballway Administration.
HIGHWAY PROGRESS
Acting under orders from Gen-
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1935.
ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
eral Chiang Kai-shek. Presid NEW FERTILISER RANDOM NOTES
ent of the Military Affairs Com- mission, the Szechuan Provincial Highway Construction Bureau is speeding up the work on the Sze- chuan-Kulchow Highway. The Bureau has telegraphed the dis- trict Government of Pabalen, la- structing the enlistment of 25,000, workers within four days to has- ten work on the line.
TENTATIVE THROUGH
SERVICE
оп
As a result of deliberations at the joint conference for the three sections of the Canton-Bankow Railway recently held in Canton It is announced that tentative between direct through service Canton
will and Hankow
be Train service started in April. has been
the in operation Canton-Shiuchow section, south- ern end, and on the Chuchow- Hankow section, northern end, of the Railway. Fending the com pletion of the middle section be- tween Saluchów, in northern Kwangtung, and Chuchow, in central Hunan, arrangements are being made with the Kwangtung- Hunan Inter-Provincial" Eighway to bridge the gap by omnibus. The entire trip between Canton and Hankow will then take only three days. The minimum fare will be only $30.
DIRECT OMNIBUS SERVICE
Preparations to operate a dir. ect omnibus service between the Capital and the "Modal Vilage" for returned overseas compatriots in the district of Hsuancheng. Anhui, in order to facilitate.com
munications, are being made by the Committee in charge of the the village. Hsuancheng la situat- ed in southeastern. Anhul and is only 20 11 (about 7 miles) from the 60-mile Nanking-Kaoshun Highway, on the Kiangsu-Auhai broder.
On completion of the Hsuancheng-Kaoshun section of the road, it will take only four hours to travel from the Capital to the "Model Village" by omnibus,
TAIYUAN-FENGYANG RAILWAY
In order to develop the inter- provincial communication be- tween Shansi and Shens, the- Shansi Provincial Government has decided to build a new rail- way between Talyuan and Feng- yang.. Burvey work on the route of the projected line has already' been started and construction work is scheduled to begin in Jane. It is expected that the line, 410 kilometers in distance, will be completed by the end of the year, when plans for its extension to Chikow on the Shanal border will be made.
NANKING-WUHU RAILWAY
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The Nanking-Wuhu Railway, 98 kilometers in distance, is nearing completion. - A trial will be made on Apri 1 while regular service will be formally opened in the middle of April. The twelve loco- motive purchased from the Unit ed States some time ago have ar- rived at Shanghai and will im- mediately be transported to Wuhu for use. The train will pass over one large and three small bridges, The ticket price for single trips between the two cities will be $2:40, which is cheaper than the present bis-fare. As regards the through-traffe of the line with the Nanking-Shanghai, Rallway, arrangements have been made for goods from Hsiakwan Station to be first transported by trucks to the Central Station outside the Chunghwa Gate where they will be loaded on the trains, of the line.
Money's Worth
"I suppose you and your wife go "out a good dealt
"No, we are paying such high
rent that we stay in all the time
in order to get the full value-of our money."
Nostalgia.
An American, while playing golt in France, was held up and robbed by two masked men. The in- cident, we understand, made him
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FACTORY
To Combat Com petition
Severe competition and the ne- Čessity of reducing the cost of the product to a level sufficiently low to enable an attractive price to be quoted to a depressed industry. have recently led Mesars. Fison, Packhard and Prentice, Limited, to erect a new fertiliser factory at Cu Quay. Ipswich. This factory, which is designed for an output of 70.000 tons of superphosphates per annum, has been electrically equipped throughout by Messrs. General Electric Company, Kamit- ed, Magnet
House. Kingsway, London. W.C.2. Some 80 motors and control gears, with an aggre- gate capacity of about 900 p. have been installed...
Acid Plant
The factory, which adjoins the River Orwell, consists of á phos- "phale rock preparation plant and superphosphate plant. with a separate acid plant on. the h side some distance away. The necessary electrical energy is ob- tained from the Corporation on the three-phase system at 6,300 volts, and is stepped dow to 400 volts in the works sub-station. This low-tension supply is con- trolled by B flat back switch board, three panels on which are associated with the low-tehston side of the transformers, one with condenser for synchronous
power factor correction, and an- other with the feeder to the acid plant. Al these panels are equip- ped with oil circuit-breakers. The other five panels control feedera to various parts of the main works. At the acid plant there is a similar board with four panels, one for the incoming feeder and the others for the works circuits..
The synchronous condenser, which is housed in the main switch room, has an output of 290 KVA at 1,000 f.p.m., and is capable of improving the power factor (of the factory up to 0.95 lagging. Its design generally follows standard practice, but it is provided with a that it can shaft extension so carry a mechanical load at a later date, if required.
Dust-Laden Air
The production of fertilisers in- volves a large number of pro- cesses, many of which have to be carried on in the presence of dust-laden air and acid fumes, while their variety makes the use of the individual drive an advant- age in nearly every case. Totally- enclosed induction motors were therefore installed and ball-bear- ing were standardised throughout. A considerable number of the motors are of the frame-cooled type, the special cooling equip- ment enabling a larger output to be obained without increasing the size. Except in a few special cases, all the motors are equipped with automatic contractor star- texx operated by push buttons. these being of the direct-to-line or star-delte types on the squir- rel-cage motors, according to out- put, together with a three-pole isolating switch. On the slip- ring machines rotor starting with time Amit control is employed. For the reason mentioned, tha distribution boards and control KERIA are all enclosed in dust- tight cases,
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Turning to the manufacturing process, the raw material-phos-, „ phate rock, pyrites or coal, as the case may be-is unloaded at the docks on to an underground belt conveyor. This conveyor dis- charge into an elevator, which feeds an overhead main belt con- veyor leading to the works. The conveyors and elevator are Atted with 80-in, rubber belts and are driven by 7.5-hp, 20-1.p. and 22-h.D. motora, respec- tively. The phosphate rock or coal is discharged from the
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Specifications For Woods
Two speciications relating to wood have recently been issued by the British Standards Institu- tion. The first, designated No. 588-1935, relates to the grading of plywood veneered with ook. mahogany, walnut, teak. and The other ornamental woods. second specification, which bears the designation No. 589-1935, con- sists of a standard nomenclature of soft woods." Upwards of 70 trade names. for soft woods are given, and the botanical species and the sources of supply of each are included. Copies of the new specifications may be obtained Trom "the B.S.I. Publications. De- partment,
Victoria-street, 23. London, S.WI, přice 25. Bd. each, post free.
JAVA STATE RAILWAYS
CONTE ROSSO
To Have Loeffler Boiler
The announcement that it has been decided to install a Loeffler "boller in the Italian vessel Conte. Rosso will undoubtedly create keen interest in marine circles. It may be recalled that the Conte Rosso, owned by the Italia-Flotte Reunite was built in 1923 by Messrs. W. Beardmore and Com- pany, Limited, Glasgow. She is a twin-screw vessel of 17,836 grass tonnage, with a length of 588.2.
I, a breath of 743 ft., and a depth of 35.9ft. She is driven by geared turbines and was origin ally fitted with three double-end- ed and one single-ended Scotch lb. per boilers operating at 200 square inch uressure. The single- ended boller is being replaced by the Loeffler unit, which will sup- ply two new Escher Wyss high- pressure turbines coupled by the existing gearing to each propeller. Two Turbines
The two turbines, one on each shaft, will operate in series, the frat with steam at 1,900 lb. pér square inch pressure, exhausting at 660 lb. per square inch pressure to the second turbine, which will exhaust at 200 1b, per square inch pressure. The steam from the second turbine, will be fed to the main turbines, together with that from the double-ended Scotch bollers. The Loeffler boiler will be built by Messrs. The Vitkovice Mines Steel and Ironworks Cor- Czechoslovakia, who hold 'the world rights for · these bollers and have been largely responsible for their development.
According to a recent report, a number of coaches which weze put into service on the Java State Radways on January 20, 1932, had covered some 142,000 miles up till September, 1934. This is equival- ent to nearly 80 million revolu- tions of a wheel 2ft 6in. In dig- meter. The complete axleboxes were supplied by Messra. British Timken, Limited, Aston, Birming- ham, and it is stated that attention
poration. was given them other than lubrication. and als Bad only to be tone at intervals "of from 3 months to 5 months. For the period January. 1932, to Sep- tember, 1934, it has been estimat- ed that the ol consumption amounted to just over half a gal- Ton per bearing.
THE UTILISATION OF
COAL
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The current issue of the C.0.0. „News, which is published by the Coal Utilisation Council, Columbia Hause, Aldwych, London, W.C.2, gives an accent of the work of that body since its establishment at the beginning of 1933. Broadly speaking, it is claimed that of the equivalent of nearly 2,500,000 tons of coal consumption convert- ed annually to oil burning about 750.000 tons per annum has been retained. That result has been achieved in many of the various "ways that come under the head- Ing.or propaganda, including showrooms and exhibitions, lec- tures and speeches, and advertis- ing. Useful work is also being. "done by providing technical ser- vice and by investigating some of the more scientific aspects of the subject. As regards the future, an advertising campaign has just been opened in favour of do- mestic solid fuel, the stak of the Technical Department is to be in- creased and an architect appoint- ed. more lectures are being ar- ranged, and, in fact, everything possible is to be done to make Great Britain self-supporting so far as fuel supplies are con- cerbed-
SCOTTISH SHIPBUILING
CONTRACTS
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Messrs. Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Govan, have Just secured an order: to build a cargo and 'passenger motor "vessel for the Bombay Steam Navigation Company. She will be 250 ft, in length and is for the owners' service between Bom- bay and other Indian ports. The propelling machinery will consist of Diesel engines-Messrs. Scott and Sons, Bowling, have received · the contract to build a motor vessel for the Canterbury team
main conveyor on to a 24-in. belt Shipping Company, Christchurch, conveyor, which is driven by New Zealand, The Auckland Har- 10-h.p. motor, This conveyor runs
bour Board, Auckland, New Zea- along the roof, of a rock store with
land, have placed an order with a ̈capacity of from 11,000 tons to
Messrs, Lobnitz and Company, rock at any point in this store, or 12.000 tons, and either discharges Renfrew, for a twin-screw tux.
coal on to a short 18-in. conveyor, driven by a 3-h.p. motor, which runs across the far end of the building. and a boom at the dock end, so Pyrites from the main conveyor "" that the burnt ore can be return
ed for disposal and the fertilisers and other products loaded into, ships. Both the elevator and the boom are driven by 1-16
is taken to the acid plant by an 18-in, belt conveyor, which is `drf- ven by a 25-hp meter. Both these conveyors are reversible, and there is an elevator between klem “atnoi
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Faster Ship
The new boiler will have an evaporative capacity of 40,000 15 per hour, against an evaporative capacity for the old single-ended Scotch unft of 18,000 lb. per ndur, and, in addition to the increased capacity will occupy a smaller space, Allowing for the addition- al auxilares required, it is antici- pated that here will be a gain of 5,000 shaft horse-power, and it 19. expected that this will increase the speed of the ship by at least 14 knots. The Conte Rosso is 13- ually employed in the East Asia service of the Lloyd Triesting, and she is due to make her first jour- ney to East Asia with the new in- stallation at the beginning of
next year, after which she will travel regularly in this service. The British Empire rights for Loeffler boller are held by Messrs Mitchell Engineering, Limited, 84, Victoria-street, Westminster. S.
W. 1. to whom we are indebted for the information given.
CIVIL AVIATION WIRE-
LESS STATIONS
The Air Ministry informs us that the plans which have been approved for the establishment of new civil aviation wireless sta- tions through the country will provide openings for a substantial number of experienced wireless operators. The detailed plans re- ferred to provide for the estab- lishment a chain of wireless sta- tions which will afford full facilit
ies for direction finding," and for communication with aircraft and between airports. For the pre- sent. applications will be enter- tained only from time-expired wireless operators of the Royal Air Force who have extensive practical experierice of direction- fading ground stations, radio ..telephony and telegraphy, and the general mainten- ance of wireless apparatus. Good rates of pay are offered, and application should be add- ressed to the Secretary, Air Min istry, Kingsway, London, WC2—
Light Sentences
Witness at Tottenham: He lives in the suburbs, pear Scotland, I bellere.
North London Solicitor: Has our husband a vehicle of any sort to carry him to his place of busi- ess-Woman: Yes, he has a wheel-barrow.
Wife at Willesden: My husband came in, tasted his dinner, said he did not like it, and asked for a proportion of the house-keeping money back. I told him he could go and fish for 11.
Woman at Tottenham; I see very little of my hummand, and when I asked him to buy me a dog for company, he said, "You have got what more a bowl of could you
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Our Busy Engineering Firms
The Landon Midland and Scottish Railway Company has placed contracts to 80,147 tons of steel rails' with British manu- facturers in connection with the permanent-way renewal program- me for 1935. The" firma par ticipating comprise: Messrs. Bar- row Hematite Steel Company,
· Limited (13,953 . tons); Messrs. Iron and Steel Company, Limited (8,489 tons);
Mesara. Cargo Fleet Iron Company. Ltd. British (Guest, Keen, Baldwins) (3,311 tons); Messrs. Colvilles. Limited (13,264 tons); Messrs Borman Long and Company. Limited (5:387 tons); Messrs. The Lancashire Steel Corporation. Limited (8,812 taxis); Messrs She- Iton Iron, Steel and Coal Com-
Limited pany,
(7,134 - tons); Mesers. Skinningrove Iron Com- pany, Limited (2.343 tona); Messrs. Steel Company of Scotl- and. Limited (2,195" tons); and Mestrs. The United Steel Com-" panies, Limited, (17.284 tons)."
Messrs. Chloride
Storage
Company.
Workington
Electrical Limited,
18-cell, 320
Clifton Junction, near Manchester, have supplied an ampere-hour Exide" marine-type battery for the 35-tom motorship Columbia. The vessel,which has a length of 55 ft., and a beam of 16 ft has been designed in the United States and built in a Ger- man, shipyard for ber owner, Mr. F. J. Schussel. She is furnished with a British Alisa Craig 13-1.p." Diesel engine.
and
Messra. Merryweather Sons, Limited. Greenwich-road. London, SE 10, inform, og "that in connection with the Ideal Home Exhibition full-size:replica of the house which the Royal Warrant Holder Association are presenting to The King in com- memoration of HM. Jubfee, the appliances for fire extinction are being provided by them. The are appliances for the King's House are reproduced in exact detail in the replica house àt Olympia.
cipitators, each working in con- junction with B pulverised-fàct fired boiler evaporating 200,000 13: per hour; and the Leeds equip- ment is to work with a' pülver- ised-fuci" ́holler evaporating 230,000 lb.per hour.
"Messrs. Brooke · Marins. Còn- struction Company. Limited Adrian Works, Lowestoft, have received an order for the ship- ment of a further series of their 12 to 14, hip, two-cylinder, high- speed Diesel engines to Buenos Aires. This constitutes the second repeat order for this type: of engine from the same agency In the last six months.
Messrs. Crossley Brothers, Li- mited. Openshaw. Manchester, have received an order for two" further engines for the British. " Broadcasting Corporation. There are required for stand-by" gen- erator sets at the North Scottish and North-East England broad- casting stations. Each Is a 600- b.p.. six-cylindar, Crossley ver tleal Diesel engine, and will be similar to other Crossley se's already owned by the Corpor ation-Engineering
IRON AND STEEL
Statistics issued this week place the imports of from and steel to Middlesbrough and district last
month at 4,550 tons, comprising » 157 tons of pig-fron 4,035 tons of crude sheet bars, biljeta, blooms, and slabs, and 358. tons of plates," bars, angles, rafis, and joista, com- pared with" February total upload- Ings or 2,629 tons, comprising 149 tons of pig-iron, 1,995 tons of crude sheet bars, etc., and 485 tons of plates, bars, angles, etc. In the.. pre-war month of March, 1914, the aggregate tonnage unshipped.. reached. 8,997 tona, comprising 5,661 tona of crude sheet bars, etc., and 3,336 tons of plates,' bars, angles, etc. Mouthly returns show that 47,894 tons of fron and steel," composed of 14,357 tons of pig- Iron, 2,382 tons of manufactured Iron, and 33,155 tons of steel, were whipped from the Tees In March. In the previous month the importa
totalled 48,264 tons, and in March.
last year, 45,711 tona were "bon-
Mesars The Hunslet Engine Company, Limited, Hunslet Eng- ine Works, Jack-lane, Leeds, 10, have received an order from the Crown Agents for the Colonies- for three tank locomotives of the 0-8-0 type for 3 rt. 5 in. gauge.loaded. Scotland was the largest.
The cylinders measure 18 in, by for 33 an. The locomotives are service in the Gold Coast Colony. Messrs. The Diverpool Refriger: ation Company, Limited, Colonial House, Water-street, Liverpool. 2, who recently installed plant at the Hull Ice Factory, have now received repeat order for additional plant. This will
lude
vertical a four-cylinder sleeve-valve compressor, oper- ating on the supercharged principle, and three horizontal" multi-pass ammonia condensers and horizontal heat interchang- erg all to be installed in the No. 7 Ice Factory
purchaser of pig-ironi, taking 7,859 - tonk, Wales being second ÷ with 2,200 tons, While Sweden: kccepted. 850 tom, Baby, 700 tona, nad Bouth. Africa, 320 tons." South Africa, with an import er 99 tons, was the fot largest · overseas customer manufactured' from: Among the principal importers of steel were: India; 4,397 tons; South': Africa, 2,711 tons; Sweden; 1.818 tons; The Straits, 1,714 tons; Argentina, 1,835 tons; and Russia, 1,483 tons.
Ingenius
An American restaurant special- izes in old English fare. We un- derstand that by an ingenious gramophone device each table is made to groan under the weight of good things.
Messrs. Sturtevant. Engineering Company, Limited, 147, Queen Victoria-street. London, EC4," have recently received orders for electrostatic precipitators from the Leicester, Nottingham, and
Farm Fape's Please Copy Leeds Electricity Departments..
"What
laagriculture?” asked The precipitator for Leicester is to be used in conjunction with a boller evaporating 230,000 Ib, of "Well," responded the popli, steam per hour; the contract for
́"it's just about the same as farm- Nottingham comprises four pre-ng-only in farming you do it."
the teacher.
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.
BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSSES OF SHIPS, BUILDERS OF · RECIPROCATING STEAM ENGINES. SUILDERS OF MARINET AND LAND BOILERS. BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY
Under License From Messrs. Parsons. BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES
Under Special License From Messrs Sulzer Bros., Winterthur.
Licensed To Manufacture Lanz Perlit Iron, Specially Suitable For Internal Combustion Engine Working Parts.
DOCK & SLIPWAYS.
FOR DOCKING VERY LARGE, AS WELL AB SMALLEB VESSELS,
ON ANY TIDE
ALL CLASSES OF SHIP, ENGINE AND BOILER
REPAIRS AND EXTENSIVE
WELDING, BOTH ELECTRICAL AND OXY- ACETYLENE SKILFULLY AND PROMPTLY
-CARBIED OUT.
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HONG KONG, CHINA & TAPAK
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