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NEW INDUSTRY FOR
THE CLYDE
Manufacture Of Salvage Gear
Negotiations have reached, an advanced stage for the establish- ment of a new industry on Clyde- side. The firm concerned, the Argonaut Corporation. Ltd., of Glasgow and London, owners of the salvage vessel Orphir, now fit- tng out at Dalmuir, propose to manufacture salvage equipment."
The intention is to set up a new factory in the Gyde area, equip- ped with all the latest machinery and plans for this specialised in- dustry. It is understood that the site ultimately selected will have ready access to the river front.
ONE-MAN SUBMARINES The principal products of the new factory will be ingenious ap- paratus known as "one-man sub- marines."
The "one-man submarine" has been devised by the inventor of the Tritonia diving dress," and it has been designed for examinłaz large areas of the bed of the ocean with a view to locating s bmarine products and wrecks.
The apparatus, which is operat- ed by one man, is indeed a minia- ature submarine, capable of mak- Ing evolutions in all directions, of ascending. descending. going
ahead or astern.
It is also equipped with ade- quate means of lighting its tm- mediale surroundings, and it gives promise of Immense possibilities in submarine films and photo- graphs and in studying under- water conditions. The faculties this apparatus offers will be of. obvious service for-warship pur- poses as well as for commergal
work.
It is understood that the com-` plete apparatus will cost about £30,000, and the Argonaut Cor- poration, who have all the rights for manufacturing this product. have already received several in- quiries from foreign sources.
As the design and manufacture of these "submarines" must be cessarily be of a high standard, the workers who will be employed by the company will all need tu be highly skilled craftsmen.
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The company also proposes to manufacture the Tritonia diving dress and a wide range of equip-. ment employed in modern salvage operations. It is expected that
official announcement cerning the site to be selected for the new factory will be made-to- wards the end of this month, and the new plant and machinery will be installed before the au- tumn.
EACH MAY EXPECT INJURY TO SELF OR FRIEND
One person out of every 100 in the United States was injured i an automobile accident last year, it is reported in the current issue of the National Safety Council's publication, "Public Safety." This "estimate is based on a total of 1,260,000 Injuries and a popula- tion of approximately 125,000.000 persons. Going further with his proportional presentation of the dubject, the report continues:"
"Following this line of. reason- ing, one of each two persons now living may expect to be injured within the next 50 years, one out of four within the next 25 years and one out of five in the next 20 years.
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"Probably you have near rela- tives and close friends to a total of at least 20, If so, the above figures mean this to you: Unless each person in your group is more careful than the average person. some one of the 20 will be injured 'or killed, in .8 motor vehicle accident within the next Ove years."
MOTOR ACCIDENTS IN AMERICA
People, apparently, are learning to take care of themselves every- where except on streets and highways, Deaths due to motor- vehicle accidents rose from 4,227: In 1913 to approximately 38,000 last year. Meanwhile, deaths caused by all other accidents declined from 78,233 in 1913 to about 65,000 last year. It is true that a great many more motor vehicles were on the roads in 025 thần 1931, but it is 'abo true!
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Meantume the Argonaut Cor poration are busy making plans for their steamer Orphir to leave the Clyde early next week for the scene of the Lusitania.
LUSITANIA SALVAGE
As already announced in "The Glasgow Herald," the purpose of the expedition, is to carry out sal- vage operations with a view to the recovery of some of the treasures locked in the sunken liner's strong- room, and also to take cinemato- graph and still photographs of the ship. After the Orphir locates the Lusitania she will return to the Clyde for the installation of ad- dicional equipment, the firs: voy- age being purely experimental
A representative of The Glas- gow Herald" was shown over the salvage vessel Orphir yesterday at Dalmuir, and inspected the selen- tific equipment which has been installed during recent months.
The wireless apparatus is the most complete ever fitted on a sal- vage vessel, and it is of the same standard as that installed, on the Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary, baving been supplied by the International Marine Radio Com pany, Ltd.. New Southgate, London, which has also, supplied the ves sel's direction finder.
The direction Önder is sode- signed as to locate the vessel's position, either. by line bearing or cross bearing. ·
SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
Other instruments on the Or phir include a Mareon!" sounding device which indicates the depth of water by an electric spark, and ar Admiralty system of echo sounding gear. The latter instru- ment, by Messrs Henry Hughes, London, gives a graph: indicating the depth and formation of the Sez bed. Another instrument. showing the extent of the vessel's equipment, is a 9in base range ander.
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Captain Russell, commander of the Orpher and leader of the ex-. pedition to the Lusitania, "inform- ed "The Glasgow Herald" that they hoped to "get up steam" this week and to have the vessel ready to leave the Clyde by Wednesday next week...
Mr. A. J. Jarratt, who has join- ed the ship as diver, will carry out the salvage operations on the Lu- shania by means of the Tritonia diving dress. Mr. Jarratt has suc- Lessfully tried out this diving equipment in Loch Ness, where he descended to a depth of 450ft. last years
Bravo, Britain!
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The British motor industry has reason to bė pleased with- the results of the sporting events when British cars scored signal successes in France and Germany. Aty Le Mans the La- gonda won the Grand Prix d'En- durance with a twenty-four hours' ' demonstration of speed and re- ilability, against tht famous cars of France and Italy. It is the first time since 1930 that a British car has won this much-coveted honour, and those who drove and those who prepared the two biz British cars in this contest de- serve heartiest congratulations. The Rudge-Whitworth Cup Race; on formula, was also won by a Br'sh car-an Aston Martin-... with two other machines from this country-a Singer a id a Riley
second and third.
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In Germany, on the Nurburg Ring, a team of four British-made
ERA, cars secured first, third, fourth, and fifth places in the 113-mile race for cars not exceed - ing 1,500 cc. capacity against a.... representa Ive German and Italian entry. As these cars were built by.. enthusiasts "ror patriotic reasons, their success is doubly satisfac- tory.
It is not without interest that the visit of the ERA. "stable" was ' due to an invitation from Ger- many after the recent ERA, suc-. cess in the Tale of Man.
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that the population increased 31 per cent. In the same period. An increase in motoring was accom panted by an increase in traffic Increase in fatalities, but an population was accompanied by a decrease in accidental deaths in homes, factories and other fields of human activity.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1935.
ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
THE BATTERSEA STATION
Proposed Extension
ACCIDENTS
Their Cause And Prevention
In the second, of the "three Shaw lectures, which was deliver-
At their meeting on Tuesday, February 12" the London County Council considered & long reported before the Royal Society of
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the Housing and Public Health Committee on the subject of thy Battersea generating sta- tion of the London Power Com- pany. The immediate occasion" was a letter from the Electricity "Commissioners, inviting the ob
servations of the Council on an application from the company to install three additional boilers. and thus to complete the first half of the station. Opportunity was, however, also taken to re- view the whole of the controversy, which has centred round this plant, and especially to call at- tention to the recent report of the Government Chemist Committee In view of the terms of this re- port, it was agred. in a confer- ence with the representatives of the Battersea, Chelsea, Kensing- too and Westminster Borough Councils, that it would be difficult to oppose the proposed extension on the grounds of danger to pub- lic health
At the same time, the opinion was unanimously expressed that, in order to ensure that the gas washing plant was maintained at Its present high degree of effic- lency, and that "advantage was taken of further developments in sulphur removal, the Commis- sioners should be asked to attach detifte conditions to..the more extension of the station than ap- ply to the existing plant. This has already been done at the new station at Fulham, where there is a stipulation that the most effic- lent methods available shall be used continuously for the elimin- ation of smoke and grit, for the prevention of the discharge of sulphur and its compounds into the atmosphère and for the avoid- ance of noise and vibration.
It is also laid down that the Commissioners may require the installation of more efficient ar- rangements than those already la use, and that any such equip- ment shall be maintained and operated to their satisfaction. Apparatus for the continuous measurement of sulphur emission. is to be provided, and the station is to open to inspection at any time. It was, therefore, recom- mended that consent "should only be given to the Battersea exten-
on these conditions, that such consent should apply only to the three particular units in question, and that the local authorities concerned should be informed when any further exten- sions are contemplated.
Further, as one argument in," favour of large power stations was that it would enable small sta- tions to be closed, it was suggested that the Commissioners might 'be asked to what extent this counter-balancing factor has been brought into play up to the pre- sent, and how the proposed ex- tension is likely to accelerate pro- gress in that direction.- Engineering
CONTROL OF THE "MISSOURI
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United States Army engineers. are about to construct A great dam and reservoir at Fort Peck, Mont, which wul mean the end of a long period of destruction river caused "by the Missouri changing its course unexpected- ly, flooding miles of land and making river traffic impossible. ไป At
of $80,000,000 and a cost over a four-year period of con- struction, a dam two miles long and 275 feet high will enclose a reservoir covering 332 square miles and having a shore line of 2,500 miles. There, during high- water periods, the excess flow of the river will be stored and re- leased as needed to maintain a navigable channel. When this big project is completed there will be navigation all the way from South Dakota to the Gulf of Mexico, and foods will become a thing of the past
Arts on Monday, March 4, Mr. G. Stevenson Taylor, HM. Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories." de- scr.bed a number of typical ac- cidents. which had resulted from the pre-disposing factors schedul- ed by Mr. DR. Wilson the week before. These factors, he point- ed out, might be divided inte the "personal and the imper- sonal. The former included fat!- gue. speed of production. Inex- perience, and accident proneness; and the latter plant lay-out, ventila- lighting. heating and tion. Though
mass-effect accident of these factors on causation could be ascertained. their influence in connection with any individual accident could only be determined in a limited number of casra,
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For instance.
if a man fel through an unfen- ced opening in a floor, inadequate. Humination of the vicinity might be an important factor. But even If the lumination." were adequate. It might still be a factor if the In man had defective eyesight. any event the over-ruling cause was the unfenced condition of ac- the opening." In fact, an cident was always directly caus ed by some physical object or .condition, and investigations were therefore generally directed to the determination of these, other mat- ters being regarded as subsidiary.
Classifications of accident based on these main causes are, as is well known, set out in the Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories. but a tables given by Mr. Taylor showed that tr: 1933 688 fatalities and 112,572, accidents occurred, and that these could be distributer over 21 causations and 30 industrial groups.
Contrary to expectations, ma- chinery accounted for only about one-Arth of the accidents in factories, the actual number being 23,962, of which 163 were fats-
The precentage due lities.
to.. this cause was 20.6 per cent. of the total and 23.7 per cent, of the fatalities. Of these totals, 1.301 non-fatal and 35 fatal ac- cidents were due to transmission `· machinery, and 137 non-fatal and 18 fatal to shafting, a state of affairs which, as has often been pointed out, is largely due to the impression that smooth clean shafting can be approached with safety. Th's is, of course, quite erroneous. Risks taken with belts also lead to unnecessary accidents, though lack of proper fencing and insufficient maintenance were
other pre-disposing 'causes,
The remedy for this state of "affairs, as Mr. Taylor hints, and as Mr. Wilson pointed out in the first lecture, is easier to discover than to apply. Since 1844 the fencing of certain machinery has been compulsory in all textile factories.. ́and this requirement was extended to other industries by subsequent Acts, while safety provisions have generally been
rhtened up
Under the consolidating Act of 1901, the Secretary of State was empowered to make codes, of special regulations for dangerous. trades and such codes have been issued for 43 industries and pro- cesses: while, by the Workmen's" Compensation Act of 1923, he is able to direct certain classes of factories to set up safety. organisations, and experience "shows that these bodies whether voluntary or compulsory, can do much to eliminate causes and, to reduce accident rates. Neverthe- legs, it is obvious that much remains to be done, and ways, for they are numerous, must there-) fore be sought to bring about an improvement in the existing state' of affairs. Engineering.
INLAND WATER SURVEY
NEW BUS ROUTE
Shanghai To Link Wusih
Shanghai, July 28. Bus service on the newly-con- structed Wusth-Shanghai High- way will be formally inaugurated. on August. 15, it was decided at a meeting of the shareholders of the AW Wusih - Shanghai Long-Distance
SIAN - CHENG AIRWAY
Protection Asked For
Nanking, July, 28. Trial flight on the Sian-Chengsu Airway, linking up the provincial capitals of Shens and Szechuan,
Aviation Corporation next week. The regular service will be inau gurated on August 10,
Committee Set Up omnibus Company yesterday. The will be conducted by the Eurasia
To Advise
The Minister of Health, Sir Hil-"
the tol: Young, announced in House of Commons, on December 7, that after consultation with the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, and other Departments, and with Sir God- trey Collins, the Secretary of State for Scotland, it had been decided to set up a committee to advise on the inland water survey for Great Britain. It is with con- siderable interest that we read the recent official announcement that ..the Committee bad been appoint-
ed.
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The chairman is-Sir Henry G. Lyons. FR.S., a former director of the Geological Survey and of the Survey Department, Egypt, and of the Meteorological Office,
The other members are Sir Charles H. Bird, chairman of the Cardiff, Corporation Water Com- mittee; Professor Emeritus W, S. Boulton. formerly Professor of Geology and Dean of the Faculty of Science of the University of Birmingham; Mr..G. Dallas, chair- man of the Nene Catchment Boadd; Mr. G. J. Griffiths, M. Inst. C.E., chief engineer of the Thames Conservancy Board; Lt.-Col.. F. Hibbert, M.C., M. Inst. C.E., water engineer, Liverpool Corporation; Sir Clement-D. M. Hindley, K.C.- LE., M. Inst. C.E, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Department of Scientific and in- dustrial Research; Mr. S. R. Hob- day, chairman of the Canal Com- miss'on, and general manager of the Lee Conservancy Board; Mr. W. A. Millar, secretary of the Scottish Steelmakers' Association? Mr. D. Paul, chairman of the Fal- kirk Water Board; and Mr. B. Verity, estates manager of Calico 'Printers' Association, Limited. Tha The Committee, to secretary, of whom all communications should be addressed, is Mr. I F Armer, of Health, Whitehall, Ministry London, B.W.r.
In addition to its main work on the inland water survey, the Com- mittee will advise on the progress of the measures undertaken and on the further measures required. and will. issue an annual report. Some surprise wil, no doubt, "be felt by many at the som what ungracious disregard in the com- position of the committee of the work which the British Associa- Hon has already put in on th's Bubject. It might quite reasonably have been thought, in view of what they have contributed that the Association would have been Invited to suggest representatives, and we greatly regret that, from what we gather, no courtesy of nis kind appears to have been thought necessary. Engineering. ***
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SALINOMETERS FOR QUEEN MARY
Messrs W. Crockatt and Sons, Ltd., Glasgow, have received the order for a complete outfit of Crockatt patent electric salino- meters for installation in the Cunard-White Star liner Queen Mary.
This outfit, which is the most comprehensive yet ftled on ship- board, provides a complete check on the purity of the feed water, system, which will be tested at no fewer than 18 separate points Instead of all being grouped on one main control board, as on. the Normandie, the present out- fit is sub-divided for greater con- venience of observation, there being altogether five groups in the engine rooms, turbo-generator rcoms, etc.
So as to ensure immediate warn- ing of any leaking of salt water into the feed system, notification is given both by warning lamps and belts of any salt, the exact amount of which in any circuit: can then be read on the Indicat- motors will equip four huge dredges, boaster barges and landing. Instruments by operating the stations for pumps and winches
A power line from the Rainbow generating station of the Mon- tana Power Co. is being built which will be 287 miles in length The project being financed by the Federal Emer- gency Administration of Public/
Already a construction town which will have an estimated population of 10,000 is being bullt, and forty rallway trucks are transporting GE motors and control equipment from factories In New York, to the alte These?" "Works,
selector switches.
This order, follows on the com- pletion of the Normandie outat and is one of many supplied to mode
including the
the Orion, the Strath ships to being.com
together with a
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Highway was built at the expense of the Company."
The meeting was presided over
The Ministry of Communications by Mr. Wang Hsiao-Lai, · General
and attended by over has telegraphed to General Chiang Manager, 50 shareholders. Among those Kai-shek, President of the Military Affairs Commission, requesting him present were Mayor Wu Te-chuen, Messrs. Esu Pei-huang and Pan to issue a circular order to the Kung-chuan, respectively Commis- Government troops stationed along sloners of Public Utility and Edu- the route to accord due protection cation for Greater Shanghai; to the service-
Chang- Kla-ngau, Vice-Governor Kuo Min. of the Central Bank of China; Tu Yuen-sheng, Chairman of the Shanghai Civic Association; and " *** Yu Ya-ching, General Manager of the Sanpei Steam Navigation Company,
FASTER AIRWAYS
There is nothing unexpected in the remarks of Sir Edward Camp- After hearing a report from Mr. bell in London recently on the which Imperial Air- Wang Hsiao-lal. on the construe- speeds at tion of the highway and the pur- ways w'll soon be travelling to the chase of omnibuses, the meeting ends.. of the Empire. India in decided to despatch a deputy to three days, Singapore in Ave, make a final inspection of the Australia in seven, and New Zea- route, in conjunction with Mr. Mel land in eight, are all, by modern Cheng-chang, of the Klangsu Pro- standards, reasonable rates of air takes vincial Department of Reconstruc progress. The time-table
account of some night flying; and uses **the aeroplane The capital of the Company will until the
reduced from 31 million to whole clock with confidence and
for $500.000. Application regls- regularity it will be robbed of tration will be filed immediately half its virtue. with the Ministry of Industry-
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NEW BUSES FOR HUNAN -
Changsha, July 28.
A fleet of 60 omnibuses has been ordered by the Hunan Provincial Highway Bureau to meet the needs of the various bus lines. The Bur- eau has been instructed by the neral Ho Chien, Chairman of the Human Provincial Government, to equip the omnibuses with charcoal burners.-
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FURTHER PROGRESS: IN FUKIEN
Foochow, July 27, As a result of the strenuous efforts of the Provincial Depart ment of Reconstruction, Fuklen province has now completed 1,500 kilometers of highways. Another.
under con- 1,000 kilometers are struction, the completion of which will link up the province with Cheklang, Klangsi and Kwang- trung-
Kuo Kin
NEW BRIDGE AT- NANCHANG.
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CLYDE SHIPBUILDING "Unhappily the outlook for em-. ployment in Clyde shipyards is not very encouraging. The amount
of
work under construction 15 rapidly decreasing, and although one or two new contracts are ex- pected these will not greatly im
the prove
situation. Neglecting the shipyards that have been em- pty for years and the yacht-build- ing establishments, there are 22 yards on the Clyde, and of these no fewer than six are left with empty stocks. Two yards have cne ship each on the stocks, seven have two, and seven have three or more. Messrs Denny Dumbarton. are the busiest yard, and although they have six ships laid down, or ready to lay down, their largest contracts are a 5000 ter liner and two destroyers.
CIVIL AVIATION IN EDINBURGH
of Edinburgh The members Chamber of Commerce have been untiring in their efforts to over- come what they regard as the in ertia of the Edinburgh Town Connell with regard to the provi- sior of a civil aerodrome. In or der further to press their case, a civil aviation section has been formed comprising the leading business men who are interested in civil aviation. The Town Coun-
Nanchang, July Work for the construction of the Chung Cheng" Bridge, named in honour of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, is being hastened and will be.com cil, they claim, is dilatory and pleted by the end of September. they fear that the absence of a The bridge, which will be 1,080 civil aérodrome may result in the metres long, is to span the Kan exclusion of Edinburgh from new
schemes for air transport River.
vices. Kuo Min
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