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Finance and Commerce
Record Gold || ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING ECONOMY Holdings In America
OVER TWO THIRDS OF WORLD'S STOCKS
WASHINGTON. Oct. 26 (Reuter: -The United States Treasury's gold holdings have reached the highest Brure on record-over -3,400,000,000,-which-represents-more. than two-thirds "of the world's monetary gold stocks.
The figure of £800,000,000 worth of gold was added to the Treasury's holdings in the past year,
INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENT
The United States industrial em- ployment has increased by 200.000, compared with September, accord- ing to an estimate by the Secre- tary of Labour...
Treatment And Use Of Oil
In all stages of engineering work, from the making of the largest units to the quantity production of components which have to be of extreme accuracy to secure their proper incorpora- tion in the completed machine, there is ever present the desire to secure the utmost economy.
The designer and the metallur- characteristics and advantages for gist working together are always some particular purpose, some of striving to see that by the use of them using town gas or electric the best materials for the job and current and others having oil fuel the elimination of materials that burners. is not really essential for strength or for the proper, working of the structure.
WELDING
Welding is another department of engineering where some of the For, a long time it has been the more recent developments have practice to employ centrifugal tended in the direction of economy, separators to clean such oils as and the success which has been those for lubricating turbines, secured in the joining of steel and diesel engines, compressors, marine cast iron by, this method promises engines and transformers, as well to make possible some new ideas as switch oil, and now the pray-in fabricating. tice is being extended to the re- onvery of test-bed lubricating oils, cutting olls and grinding süds.
Owing to their different carbon contents these metals have pre- sented dificulties to the welder. It is, a development in which but in view of the success that has practically all engineering con- been achieved it is suggested it is: cerns are taking an interet, for now practicable to arrange for the
LONDON STOCK the sets are available in many welding of steel water-jackets on
EXCHANGE
(REUTER'S SERVICE)
London, October 23.
sizes, ranging from 20 to 4,500 gallons an hour, and the machines Incorporate many Ingenious de vices.
BURNERS
፡፡
The centrifuge principle is one The following quotations are the which is being used on an ever- middle prices st the close of the increasing scale for the cleaning market in London. All quotations and clarifying of liquids of many are subject to confirmation and different characteristics, and in no responsibility is assumed for some of the machines the work is errors in transmission,
done in a sealed chamber.
Another direction economy In the matter of oll is being, achieved is the making use of used and waste libricants as a fuel for furnaces and for the heat- ing of kilns and other purposes.
Reference
War Loan, 3% (Red
after, 1952) Cantan-Kloon Rly. 5% Chinese 41% Gold Lean,
921+
1898 (Brit. Issue)..... 40 Chinese 5%. Gold Bonds,
1925-47.
Chin. 4% Angid-French
Loan, 1908
Chinese 5 Crisp Loan.
1912
Chinese 5 Reorg. Loan.
1913 (Ldn. is.)
Chinese 8% Ster. Notes,
1925 (Vickers)
Chin. Imperial Rly. 5%
. Loan
Honan Rly. 5
30
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43
10
3
Hukuang Bly. 5%, 1911...
11
Hukuang Rly. 5% 1911
(German Issue]
IX
Lung Tsing & U. Hal Rly.
5% 1913 Bhai-Nking Rly. 5%. 11 Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5% ~
(Bry. Stpd.) Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5%
(German Stpd.).... Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5% (Brit. Etpd. Bupl. Loan) Tientsin-Pukow Rly. 5%
(Ger. Stpd. Bupl. Loan) 9
Jap. 5% Ster. Loan, 1907 371
in which
to cast-iron cylinders or to fabri- cate main bearing housings of steel into cast-iron crank-cases.
Then there are other develop- menta ke the low-temperature welding of cast iron, which simpll- Bes the making of joints and In makes it feasible to some cases carry out repairs without dis- mantling the job.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER
FINANCE
Hongkong Daily Press CLASSIFIED
ADVERTISEMENTS
27, 1939 -PAGE 9
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The extensive use which is being dicate that the scheme has been made of welding for building up proved thoroughly sound, especial- such as engine ly in the direction of being able to various parts. foundations, from steel plate in- stand up to prolonged vibration.
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Hydran burners some little time ago, and it may be recalled that one great advantage claimed for them is the very great ease with which they may be controlled.
The great amount of attention that has been given to heat treat- ment of metals has been reflected in the new designs of furnaces and ovens that have been produced for the purpose.
SHAREBROKERS- ASSOCIATION
Buyers Sele
Maler
Nomien THURSDAY 26,
OCT.
Buyers Sulieta Selry opiina
$1290
B.K. Bankg
$76
Bankc
Do. (Col. Rež.)
Do. (Lon. Bag)
Chartered Banks....
Marcantila Bks. “A”
£10 Mercantile Eks, "0" Bank of East Asin ... $72
N. C. & S. Banks... Insurances
Canton Insurances
Underwriters
H.I. Birm
Shipping
Dougisam zna
$19 Steambosta
$64. Indo-Chinas"
#30 Indo-Chinas (Del.)
84/41 Sbelle
$8.10 Waterbosta.
Docks, Wharves,
Godowns, sic.
$202
#395
Union InsuraBoer
#11
$170
The making of small tools sult- able for working the many special steels now utilised in the making of automobiles and aircraft has led to the production of Brayshaw furnaces, for example, for the Initial hardening process which is $67 carried out at the comparatively high temperatures of 1,200 to 1.400 deg. Cent,
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$101 H.K. & E. Wharves
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Providents (new)
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HK. & Shai Bank (Ldn.
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HK. Banks, '$1300.
Shal Waterworks “A”
10
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Union Insurance
19
Fizes." $170.
Qula Kalumpong Rubber 16
Docks, $18.
$32
$4.10
:
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Allied Ironfounders
15/71
Asso. Elec. Industries 38/3.
Austin Motors, ord........
18/9
Cable & Wireless New
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481 F
Providents, $4,
Raubs," $9.60,
H. & 8. Hotels, $4).
Lands, $32.
Realties. $4.10
$22
B-A Tob. (bearer)
86/3
Tramways. $15.80.
Mercantile Bank
104
Yaumati Ferries, $22.
$15.60 $16
Cammell Laird, ord.
6/9
China Lights (Old) $7.80..
Hong Kong Mines ...
Lands, Hotels and Buildings
H.K. Hotels
H.K. Lands
154
Do. 4% Debentures
$8 Shanghai Lands B
87)
H.K. Ronition
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$100 Chineas Extate.
Cotton Mills
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3175 8'hal Cotions (5.)
$42 Zoong Sings (8.)
$434 Wing On Textiles (8.)
Public Utilities Tramways
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98",
$7.80
22 $163
$42
$60
$15
$140 Pack Trams jold)
Mexican Eagle
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Sandakan (Old), $11]..
Courtaulds
28/6
Telephones (Old), $20.10.
83.70 (Peak Trama (new) $61 Star Ferries
$7 40 $3.70 $60
Distillers
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Cements, $14.
$22
{Y'mati Ferrind
$221
Dunlop Rubber
27/3
Dairy Farms (Old), $194.
Do. (new)
$7.10
Gen. Electric (England)
72/9
@Watsons. $7.80.
China Lights (0)
$7.80
China Lights (New)
137-1_
Guinness (A) Son & Co.
85/6
SALES
Chins Lights it.
Hawker Siddeley Airc....
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$50
H.K. Electrics P
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Bristol Aeroplane
17/14
Union Ins., $400.
$18
Macso Electrics ...................
Imperial Chemical Ind. 30
Sandakan Ligh.....
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Imperial Tobacco
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115/74
Telephones (old)
$20
Lands, $32.15.
$7,8-Telephones (Daw) ....
Marks & Spicer "A" ord, 50/71
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Rolls Royce
94/41
19/0 Tractions yeemaan
*22/
Leyland Motors
87/6
BELLERS
22
Tractions (prod.)
Tate & Lyle
Cements, $14.10.
60
Turner & Newall
75/74
Watsons, $7.807.90.
Industrials
814 Cald., Maög. (Ord,) S..
United Steel .....
Smethwick Drop Forg... 13.
Armstrong Stevens, ord: 5/6
Pressed Steel, com.
$13/101
Vickers, ord.
17/7
Woolworths
50
Anglo-Dutch
26/3
Rub. Plant. Invest. Trust
30/3
Burma Corporation
9/11.
Commonwealth Mining.
Maraman Investments... 12
Randfontein Estates
35/71
Western Holdings,
10
Sub-Nigel
.192/6
Tanami Gold, Mining. 3d
.... 22/104
Anglo-Iranian
Burmah.
61/3 483/9.
Shell Trans. & Trad
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84/41.
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HK. Govt. 4% Loah. 973.
Watsons, $9.
Tramways, $16.
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$4.90 Bope
$1% $201
$6.35
$8/7.80
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$1 Constructiona (new)
$74 Lane Crawfords
Nawying Tobacco. ....
$1.80 Hinceres
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1940
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