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LAMMERT BROS.
AUUTIOSTERS, AFFRAINERS AND SURVEYOzs"
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*WEDNESDAY April 6, 1991.
commencing atit am.
at. No. Godora of The Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Cas Lad, Kowloon
(For account of the concerned} 194 Bales "Green Stripe* Gunales (2) lbs.) and afterwards at No, & Godown. 192 Bales Else Stripa" Gunules (3) lbs.) Terma Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
Auctioneers
Hongkong, April 1, 1921,
THURSDAY, April 7, 1921.
commenting at 10.30
* No. 10 Godown, of the Boogieog & Kowloon Wharf
& Gorown Co, Ltd.,
Kowloon
Bales 2", * BLUE STRIPE" Gorry Bags, Heary Cees--4028 (2) Tbs.)
Terms ---Cah oo delivery.
.LAMMERT BROS., Auctioneers.
Hong kong, March 31, 1971.
об
THURSDAY, April 7, 1891,
commencing at 10.30 km No. 18 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd. Kowloon
A Large Quantity of Miscellaneous Goods. Tams Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROË,
Anctioneers.
*Longkong, March 31, 1921.
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FOR SALE
NE HORNSBY-ACKROYD OIL ENGINE-3 Horse Power, Fuel, Kerosene. Complete with cooling appara tin good condition. May be viewed by pointment at Gaz Club Hill Barracks, Keaton. Apply to the undersigned.
LAMMERT BROS.
FOR SALE
MILNER'S SAFES
Apply to
LAMMERT BROS.,
Duddell Street.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
Level and Storage of water in reservoirs
the 1st March, 1921 :---
GETT AND WILL DIETRICH WATER WORKS
1:0 Wait, in, Below
Ian Break 2.
Tin. Below overdow
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192
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Bakralem, 17 * 11
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(it sin Below overdow STORANK IN MILLIONS AND ZOUTKALE OF BALZORN,
Na Catag
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1,
14950
1415 TALAC
Consumption of water in the City and Hill District in milions and decimaŠE of galleon during the month of February.
Coumpčion
manistač population.
smption per Band
$1,70
13120 3,300
195.01 IL.E
gationa
Constant supply in all district daring Kebruary of both 1990 and 1921.
KOWLOON WATER WORKS LAYKL.
1281
Zorion Gravitt vin on 16
tion Bancrokz. (below cvectow, below overlaw. BELLES OF caves and peccLÁLO OF SALIZES
1590, Lavines Caviation
4
194
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Laksumption per band Į
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The Govertonent Analyst's reports ahew ths: the water's of arcelimot quality.
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MARINE ENGINEERING,
SOME CURIOUS CASES.
BOARD OF TRADE CHANGES."
of
out things ordered by the suri-yors could give us most valuable-practical they shall call in experts to survey evidence, as well as advice, both of the report. First survey of which, I am pleased to assure you, boilers, engines and machinery to be proved to be always very helpful to made while they are being placed in us.
the vessel and they are to be sure. In conclusion, I would impress on veyed every six months afterwards. you always to study carefully, the The licence is to express whether for failures you experience in engineer- Mr. P. B. Fielden, the superinten-cargo only for towing vessels; foring, es from them you may learn dent engineer of the Atlantic Trans-three purposes. Also whether for never very certain what you have conveying passengers; or for all much. From "accesses you are pert Line, presided over a lecture river of sea service. The surveyors discovered, for you camot always arranged by the Institute of Marine to ascertain if safety valves are suffi- tell how far away you have been Engineers, at Olympia, London, by cient to pass all the steam which the from the danger zone. Mr. A. E. Seaton, with the title boilers can generate. The maximuta The French Government in 1839
pressure load to be fixed by the bad the following rules in forces "Marine Engine Curiosities maker of the engines or boilers. High pressure, boilers (over 7lbs. Practice and Experience.”
Safety valves to have levers, pressure) to be tested by bydraulic Mr. Seaton, one of the oldest and spindles, &c. not exposed so as pressure three times the working most experienced of British marine to be overloaded. Penalty for adding. pressure. Rectangular boilers exempt engineers, gave first of all an inter-gauges, and
All meamers to have glass water from proof when working pressuré mercurial pressure did not exceed 7Ths. per square esting history of the development gauges if they are to have passenger inch. All cylinders and cylinder of the steamship, supplemented certificates. Consider fusible plugs jackets of steam engines to be proved with many original stories of Dosabatitute for proper care. If to three times the working pressure. curiosities in marine installations. deteriorated and unfit, he shall be pection every three months. The surveyor hears of a boiler being Marine machinery to undergo - He went on to say Before empowered to examine, and if faulty, engine man to be a skilful mechanic the invention and introduction of the to suspend passenger licence. Mary and possessed of suficient know. Bourdon gauge, both boiler presture ing to the hull and equipment. It is good repair.
other recommendations chiefly rela ledge to maintain the machinery and condenser vacuum were indicated interesting also in read further the formulated and hung in the Rules to be by means of the mercury column in following extract from the report engine room for the guidance of the metal or glass tubes. Included in the "There is one additional measure engineer. Every boiler to have: at engine-room stores of all ships in strongly advocated, but we feel great water float and inder, two glass; those days was a bottle of mercury compelling of engineers employed on and an open-ended mercurial steam doubts of its practicability, vize the water gauges, three gauge cocks. I remember that year after the mere board steam ressels to undergo a pre ganges Also recommend a pipe with cury gauges were gone and forgotten, paratory examination, and, to find whistle to warn when water is too the bottle of mercury was not omitted surety for their good babaviour, low. Two safety valves to each from the supplies shipped at the There is no existing board at the boiler. High pressure to have lever dockyards. It always came back, the fitness of this cless of men for Two frsible plugs Rules for the different parts competent to determine load. Low pressure direct weights. and with the remains of the glasses their occupations, and we think it managemelt of fires and for the of water gatizes and the debris of other would be difficult for any local or conduct of the engineer and captain damages, wear and tear of fittings, etc. veyor to decide individual qualifica-reciprocally when the engine has to delivered to the dockyard storehouses. tions.”
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The following copy of letter from Mr Ewart, of Woolwich Dockyard, to Dinner at Chatham, who was, later on Chief Inspector of Machinery Cross, shows the sort of precautions the Admiralty, and eventually kill- ed by being run ever at Charing
taken at the date of the Committee's port to ensure a successful trial
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It would appear from some of the These are brief abstracts of the to inscribe their remarks in the log Glazed Tiles, also Cast evidence that it was not uncommon report on which as a basis so much for a merchant steamer to have no has been built up. Seeing how really mercury gauge in working condition, good and reasonable it was, we are dependence being altogether on the day at a loss to understand why safety valve for indication of pres it was so long in bearing fruit. It was | Surej
A committee, consisting of Captain got the celebrated Merchant Shipping in 1854, or fifteen years after, that we Pringle, RE, and Josiah Parkes CE Act as the first great menstre. It was reported on the causes and means of many years after this that the boller prevention of steamboat accidents in question was tackled by the Board 1839, and recommended that a board of Trade, and it was so late as 1873 be appointed in connection with, and or 1874 that an attempt was made to under the President of the Board of require that bollers should be design Dear Sir, Please to request
Woolwich Hard, Anz. 5, 1839, Trade, whose business it shall be to ed and made to accord with rules Cragg to provide proper register and classify all vessels issued by the departinent for the stokers for trying the Hecia, and navigated by steam." guidance of its veyors. In 1917 request you to see that, before.ady The register to record detailed a committee was appointed to con- water is put into her boilers, the specifications of hull and machisider and unify all the rules then in: insides of the boilers be carefully nery periodical surveys to be use for guidance of the surveyors of painted over with black lead and made spon them and particulars of all the several authorities; and last tallow, and also that two sacks of disasters and accidents which happen year, or 80 years after the above oatmeal be scattered uniformly down to, or may be occasioned by, steamreport, we have such unified rales in the water spaces" before the water is vessels. It then goes on further to force On that committee we had, put in may not reach Chatham recommend the appointment of local amongst other representatives of the before two o'clock on Wednesday Burveyors to jaspect, etc. The board Institute of Marine Engineers, and Your obedient servant, P. Ewart, tu grant or withhold licences on their as chairman of it. I reports. The Board to make annual having selected such the men when there was always a fear of thank you for This was written 81 years ago, reports to Parliament. The Board to They not only represented iyon and the formation of in hard deposit of frame sad issue general instruction your own Interests, but were most sulphate of time, most incult to for the guidance of surveyou, To helpful in every way, but especially remover Probably the boilers of the publish an abstract of the law to be as users of, and responsible for the Victory could have remained freer hung in a conspicuous part of the safety and efficiency of the marine from leaks if they had omitted the ship. I owners object to carry boller. From their experience they dung and potatoes.
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