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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING AT HOME
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STEEL PLANTS
RESTARTED
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Extensions have been made to several steel plants in the West of Scotland, and mills which have been idle for years have again been been brought into operation. Last month two light milfs, be- Arm near Glas- longing to a
gow, restarted
after being idle since 1928. A Arm at Wishaw put another sheet mill into opera- tion. In addition to the alread producing sharts
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MORE SHIPBUILDING
Shipbuilding tonnage ou hand on the Clyde was about 100,000 tons greater at the end January than it was three months before. The total af about sixty vessels of an agzte- gate of nearly 400.000 tons, build- ing or on order, in the Clyde dis- trict, at the end of last month was. about 40 per cent. of the total merchant ship tonnage building in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
In several Clyde yards from which vessels were launched dur
ing January, the work of prepar- for the ing the berths vacated laying down of new keels was begun immediately.
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A feature of the industry present, is the revival in the con- struction of oil tankers, of which there are thirteen bulding or on order in the Clyde yards.
The total
Scottish ourput for shipbuilding centres last year was 212 054 ton... representing 104 vessels. Of this total 171,930 ton (74 vessels) came from the Clyde. The work of the year consisted largely of carro boat construction. the three firms with the highest output having launched pract1- cally nothing e's
MOVING NORTH
The Greenwich plant of Michael Nairn & Greenwhich, noleum manufacturers, is being trans- ferred Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire.
to Scotland. An Iniposing factory. which forms a fresh Jandmark la the district. has been built and part of the plant is now in opera- tion. The new plant is of the very..latest type, and will compare in efficiency with any in the no- leum world.
AN UNDERSEA COALFIELD
It has been decided by the United Steel Companies to slak two pits at Workington to obtain coal from an undersen feld, ca- timated to contain 125,000,000 tons of coal. This new enterprise.. 's stated to be part of a long-term plan for modernising the com pany's plant in West Cumbriand and making it a self-containea unit. The 'aying down of a main chani mii is being considered as part of the company's scheme for making Workington one of thre most important of its tron and steel branches
HARBOUR ENTRANCE
ENLARGED
It is proposed to enlarge the entrance to Whitehaven harbour ho enable ships of 2,000 tons to he berthed. The Commissioner for Special Arcas will give finan- cial assistance,
THREE WORLD'S RECORDS
The world's largest mould has been made in Sheffle.1 and de- livered by means of the world's largest motor lorry. It is requir ed for the moulding at ingots weighing over 200 tons." The making of, the mould necessitated the use of over 164 tons of mol ten metal.
Also, there was recently turneQ out in Sheffield, for a ship's tur- bine, the largest gear wheel rims ever made.
Note. The makers of the mould were the Brightside Foundry & Engineering Co, to the order of the English Etce Corporation. The latter firm made the gear wheel rims for a turbine being constructed by Cammell Laird & Co. for the Ellerman Line. They were forged under the 7,000 tons electro hydraulic forging press re cently erected at the Corpora tion's, Vickers Works.
ASSISTING FACTORY
DEVELOPMENT
The City of Liverpool is to seek powers from Parlament to assist industria development on two of Its largest housing estates. In a B wich is to be presented to Far lament shortly, the City Coun- cl. will ask for powers to bufd factorles, warehouses and offices on specially selected sites. for sale or to. let on ease,
There is at the present time a substantial and regalar demand. for ready-made factories in skele ten form available at reasonable rents, from Arms with Insufficient capital Lo undertake building entirely on their own initiative.
SHIPBUILDING
ACTIVITY
The shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Cammel. Laird and Company, at Birkenhead, is busier than it has been for years. The latest orders are from London owners for two. motor tankers-one of 9,500 tons capable of 13 knots, and the other of 9,200 tons, capable of 12 knots.
New
New sheds and new overhead cranes are being erected. and the slipways are being Improved so that
can they
accommodate larger vessels more easily. plant is being installed for weld- ing which is superseding riveting to arge extent in modern ship- building, and large sheds for this purpose are in process of erectio
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1936.
ENGINEERING AND BUILDING
LIVERPOOL'S FACTORIES
Many Buildings And
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Extensions
Liverpool's importance 23 A manufacturing centre is somewhat obscured by its position as a port Actually there are half-a-dozen factories in the city which are the largest of their kind in the coun try, while, several
factories. together with some large factory extensions, are at present in course of erection. Among the Biore important of these develop- rent schemes are the following.
firm of manufacturers of
A
new
metallised paper containers for cil, having established an industry which is the first of its kind
the British Isles, аге doubling
their works accommodation, and will increase their staff from 80 to
200 workers.
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NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS
WELSH LAND
SETTLEMENT ·
Co-Operative Scheme To Be Launched
The scheme to settle unemploy-
In common with the railway administrations of many countries. the New Zealand Covernment Railways are meeting with severe enterprises. By further increasing land in South Wales is now ready. competition from road-transport ed men and their families on the
the efficiency of the railway ser- to be launched. vice, however, by the introduction
AC-
An estate of 650 acres of good; of special goods rates and reduced agricultural land has been Passenger fares, and also by an Intensive publicity campaign, the quired i Llantwit Major, in the Rallways Board is succeeding in Vale of Glamorgan, and between retaining passenger and goods sixty and eighty selected families traffic threatened by rival trans- will be settled there during the
the next twelve months... port
That
the
A body to be known as Welsh Land Settlement Society has been formed, with Captain Geoffrey Crawshey, District Com missioner for the Special. Areas; under whose supervision this State-aided scheme is authorised by the Government, as chairman Mr. Lloyd George is also a member of the executive.
undertakings. efforts made have gone even fur- ther, and that they have even suc- ceeded in winning back some of the lost traffic is apparent from the annual report of the Board for the year ending March 31, 1935, Compared with the previous twelve The largest manufacturers of
months, passenger Journeys rose Automatic telephone apparatus by 607,281, representing an in- the British Empire, employing Crease of £32.254 in revenue, and. more than 4,000 workers. are ex- similarly, the total tonnage of the
The property will be developed tending their switch assembly. goods carried increased by 381,761
as a residential settlement, the and the earnings by £227,189. Society building houses and pro: factory. At the works of a sub-
While traffic statistics are undoub-viding necessary equipment... sidiary company, which manu- factures electric cookers and tedly influenced by economic fac- lors, it is fair to assume that the Board's progressive policy was res- popsible for a proportion, at all events of these increases, and the fact that the harvest for the year under review was not exception: the contrary, ally heavy, but on appears to have been below the average. constitutes additional evidence.
household: electrical alterations
appliances
and additions will
double the accommodation during
the next few months,
Employment for 100 additional IMPROVED CLAY CUTTER workers will be found on the com- pletion. next June or July, of ex tensions to the laboratories of Arm of wholesale druggists,"
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An improved clay cutter for and feeding wet breaking up
clays in brickworks, clay-drying Installations and the ceramic in dustry generally was recently ex hibited by a Sheffield firm. It meant to take the plane of crush- Ing rolls and edge runner milis The materials can now be con- veyed in their original. wet con- dition in anu size, dumped into i feeding hopper and cut imto strips by a series of small knives. Stones in the clay are automati- cally separated when the clay is (automatically) discharged on to a collecting table.
Note. The firm is Edgar Allen & Co
PROTECTING MINE WORKERS
Three years ago 650 stee' hats were in use in the South Wales mines, but the number now ex- cecds 185,000, and is increasing at the rate of 10,000 a month. Other equipment to protect mine-work- ere is being introduced.
ENGINEERS ARE BUSIER
Many branches of the engineer- ing industry in Lancashire report substantial improvement during recent months. Particularly does this apply to electrical engineer Ing more men are employed in this section in Lancashire than in any other part of the country- where employment is higher than It has been for years.
In the textile machinery branch, activity is more pronout:- ced than last year, and lately * number of substantial orders have been placed with machine tool makers in the Manchester cis- trict.
KEEPING WARM ON, EVEREST
Special Equipment From. Manchester
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When the members of the Everest-expedition make their as- cent this summer, they will be
kept warm by equipment supplied
by a Manchester firm.
The same firm provided the tents and sleeping bags for the 1933 expedition. The equipment
was so satisfactory that the 1936 party have taken tents, sleeping
baga and eiderdown nothing ⚫specially designed by the head
the firm.
The tents are exceptionally light in weight-the heaviest only weighs 18 lbs-and will have tus stand the strain of 100-mile-an- hour hurricanes. For the first time, the climbers will wear elder down è othing made on the cube cet principle. Instead of being flat.. thứ delle frè cuble, giving a uni- forár thicknész alj over. Although weighing no more than 24 lbs.
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A. silk hosiery factory, which is the biggest in Britain devoted ex clusively to the manufacture women's fine hose, and at present employs 1.700 workers, will in- crease the number to 2,000 when extensions now under construction are completed by the middle of the year.
A vegetable canning factory, 27 Aintree will have its output doubled by the installation of new machinery, which will be ready for the beginning of next season.
A firm of sugar refiners, are about to complete an extensive scheme of factory alterations and machinery replacement which has been in progress for two years,
A factory erected for a frm of paper bag makers a year ago has proved so successful that additions have already been made, s
During the first year develop ment period selected unemployed will be trained in land cultivation raising of market produce, etc. Wages will be paid at recognised county agricultural rates.
Seasonal employment at piece rates will be available for mem- bers of the employees' families, Attractive modern houses will be bullt, and let at four shillings weekly. Inclusive of rates.
Meanwhile, special arrange- ments will be made to accommo- date the men on the estate, their families remaining in their pre- sent homes until the garden vill- age is completed. At the end of the development period д co- operative society will be formed, and given a lease of the property at a fair rent
Employees who have proved suitable willi become members, earning wages and sharing pro. fits.
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TOTAL EARNINGS
The total gross earnings of the Railways for the year "ending March 31, 1935, amounted to £6,627,925, and the working ex- penses to £5,540,437, leaving a balance of $1,087.491. This sum represents about one-half of the interest charges que, hence the authorities are renewing their ap peals for an increased measure of support, in order that the deficit," which has to be borne by the com- The munity, may be reduced. work carried out during the year in the Board's workshops and by
Similar schemes in other parts its Way and Works Department;
have appears to
been mainly of South Wales are under const-
A routine nature.
Commissioner work deration, but the of some considerable importance states that there is serious "diff however, is the construction of culty in securing suitable land of a new station at Wellington adjacent to good markets. which was in active progress when " the report was written; the anti- cipation is that the new station and yards will be completed and available for use on April 1, 1937. New locomotives, coaches and wagons were built to meet the re- quirements of the service. and others were repaired and recondi- Magnesium Metal And· Alloys tioned. The permanent way, tan- nels, bridges and culverts, build- subsidiary pigs and equipment, were also maintained at the necessary stan- dard to ensure efficiency.
A firm of waterproof wrapping manufacturers are extending their factory for the production of wax- ed wrappings for bread and other foodstuffs" "and for general pur- poses.
Work upon
upwards at eightv schemes of extensive factory addi tions was undertaken in Liverpool Curing 1935.
Note The above firms are: Ge Manufacturing Co.: Automatic Telephone Co. (with Flexcel, Ltd.): John Thompson. Bear Brand Silk Hosiery: Hart- ley's: Tate & Lyle: R. Gregory and Co.; Koters (Liverpool) Ltd.
IMPROVING CARDIFF'S
AMENITIES
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NEW INDUSTRY FOR
LANCASHIRE
A magnesium metal and alloy factory is to be established at Clif- ton for the manufacture of "Elektron." This is a new indus- try for the Manchester district. and promises to be important.
The industry will be partly housed in what. as formerly a private electriė power station. Since both the principal processes employed in the production of. owing to the pioneer magnesium are electrolytic about efforts of the chemists of the Bri- 50.000,000 units of electricity will tish Dyestuffs, Corporation (now be required annually at the outset. the Dyestuffs group of Imperial It is understood that the Lanea- The weiring of the River Tait Chemical Industries, Ltd.: that in shire Electric Power Company's from a point near Cardiff Central great development of the acetate ability to furnish a cheap supply Station to the cathedral city of artificial silk industry throughout of electricity from the Kearsley Llandaff with laid-out" sidewalks the world
WES made possible. Station, which is about two miles and pleasure boat stages, is one of when the industry began to grow from Clifton, was a prominent the schemes under consideration. after the Great War, it was held factor influencing the choice of
Big schemes of public works are. contemplated at Cardiff, with the dual object of improving the city's amenities and easing its unem- ployment problern. ·
A plan is also under notice for the establishment of a seaplane base, either adjacent to the muni- cipal aerodrome. or between, Car- diff and Penarth,
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It "was
back by the fact that no dyestuffs this district for the industry loca- were available which could be tion satisfactorily used with the acetate Most supplies of magnesium and abres. One of the first triumphs its alloys are at present imported of the war-born British dyestuffs Into Great Britain. The new fac- industry was to evolve a series of tory will be in a position to re- colours with which they could be place, foreign sources of supply dyed but though these made dye- and to cater for the extended use Queen ing possible, they were regarded which is being made of “Elektron”
of aircraft, motor vehicles and a variety of machinery.
This base may be linked up with the revival of a 50-year-old pro- Ject to build a dam ACTOS the tidal channel between Alexandra Dock at Cardiff and, as litle more than temporary sub-metal for the lighter construction Penarth Head, which would en- stitutes. close a water ares of about a
Independent of tides, an square mile, and make the docks Other proposed schemes to ab- sorb unemployed labour include completion of the eastern section of the orbital road and the cover- ing-in of the old Glamorgan canal now practically disused.
this
clothing. Will prötcet the wearers from the icy winds which blow along the, ridges of Everest. Forly seeping bags are a so being zaken on the expedition.
Not-The firm is. R. Burns, Ltd. Buxton Street, London, Read, Manchester.
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Now, the Dyestuffs group has produced an entirely new range of The plant is expected to be in dyestufts which will be known as full production by September next. the Solacet colours. These are, it Several hundreds of workers will is claimed, the first dyestuffs to be employed.. satisfy perfectly the requirements Note." Magnesium Elektron, of acetate allk. They are satis Ltd, are establishing the new factory in that they have a direct business in association with P. A. affinity for cellulose acetate, and Hughes & Co their application can be more ac- curately controlled than has be- fore been possible. They are solu- ****
ble, in water, and possess the common salt to the bath, The advantage of enabling the yarn to first two of these new colours, be treated similarly to cotton dyed scarlet and crimson, will soon be with direct cotton colours Ful- In the market, and others of the ther, the dyeing can be controlled series, will be marketed at short by temperature of additions of fèrvais.
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