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TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1933.

Aviation, Engineering & Building'

NEW TRAINS FOR THE L.N.E.R.

278 Passenger Vehicles,

WONDERS AT THE

1933 B.I.F.

THE CHINA MAIL.

ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT AT BIRMINGHAM

MODERN PLANTS

LONDON'S COUNTY The Engineer As

HALL COMPLETED..

4 Miles Of Corridors In 18 Acre Building.

25-YEAR-OLD PROJECT.

London.

Drawbacks Of The

Civil Service.

Manager

NEW FEATHERWEIGHT AEROPLANES.

£250 Pleasure Machines.

imposed upon him by the rules of the service irksome and may sometimes be led to ex- press, more forcibly than polite ly, the opinion that he is pre- the engineer is no more free from vented from rising to the posi

tion to which he considers his A new class of aeroplane may disabilities than those engaged abilities should entitle him. soon be on the market. It is driven

In the exercise of his profession

London. *

After nearly 30 years of effort in other walks of life, whether The latter frame of mind, is, if The London and North Eastern Bailway Company have decided

the County Hall, the home of the they be the highest or the lowest. we may judge from documents by a 6 h. p. engine and has aptly to construct 278 new passenger

London County Council, is finish-If he is in practice for himself that have recently been issued, been named the "slow-but-sura” he may be forgiven for, on oc-most prevalent among engineers machine. Superficially, it is not Government appoint-junlike the "motor-cycles of the air” ed at last. Its fine facade! train vehicles during 1933, In-

casion, complaining that work holding cluded in these proposals are new restaurant cars, buffet ears, first

had definite advantages in repe- the grim fortress-like building has gone elsewhere; and that it the hidebound tradition of the

of Scotland Yard. It houses is becoming more and more com- Civil Service, in distinguishing been at the Lympne trials ten years > and third class main-line car-adaption of plant to modern in-tition work.

mon for local authorities and so sharply between administra-fago. In point of fact there are Some of the new equipment the greatest local authority of private firms to act, through tive and technical duties, press fundamental differences. riages, and brake vans.

dustrial uses is strikingly illus

The 1923 Lympne class was de- hardly upon them.

With this feeling we have Five new train sets are to be trated in the section devoted to exhibited means to a number of

industries the passing of the the world which cares for some their officials, as their own con-

an sultants. built for special traffics. Each engineering, machinery and pov- river. Locomotives now being 8,000,000 people and has

If, on the other hand, he is one every sympathy and we are glad signed for high speed and long train is composed of 10 carriages er units at the British Industries built by the railway companies annual budget exceeding that of

of those same officials he may to think that in the Post Office, duration of flight with the minimum the restrictions at least, the regulations, which of power, but Mr. Lowe-Wylde, the and two buffet ears, and is cap-Fair now open at Birmingham will have many vital parts weld-

prevent an engineer rising to the designer of the new machine, has ed which hitherte would have some of the smaller European|frequently find

highest position, for which his been riveted. Mass production states.

has made manufacture as two trains, nearly all phases of engineering hydraulic press of supreme im- a house-warming to celebrate its

Progress in the application and tic profile arc welding machine / dominates the river and faces which should have come his way ments, some of whom feel that that some may remember having

There has been a concentration able of currying 600 passengers of representative productions of may be leading British firms which cover! alternatively, it or, divided and run each carrying 300 passengers,

practice. The steam engine with the steari boiler is in co

cual.

portance

und new

presses,

the

types of

An1

with

MARBLE WORK OF ANCIENT DAYS.

Skilful Masonry In The Acropolis..

EARLY BUILDING PRACTICE.

abilities render him fitted, will sought the lowest possible speed to-

shortly be removed, and that it gether with complete manoeuvrabi-

will no longer be impossible for lity.

him to exercise his talents us an His machine can do no more than administrator. Such freedom about 60 miles an hour; and the should be equally beneficial to landing speed, even in a calm, is the individual and to the organi-jonly about 18 miles an hour. It is sation of which he forms part. the "baby car of the air.

cost

The Council has recently given'

completion. It has at last been! with buffet refreshment car operative alliance with all the presses for work with insulating

will sheets

be demonstrated. various activities, which were! These trains, which will be com-other great forces. underlying materials and mica and asbestos able to gather under one roof its Giant toggle drawing presses at one time housed in 26 different pleted by July next, are to be the production of power —

The great building of an entirely new design, and gas electricity and oil engine will complete in one operation a

It must, however, be pointed out A fair run is needed to get off and boilers alike, representing!

cup 10in. diameter and 8in. in buildings.

of with its 18 acres of offices and

that there are other sides to the the ground, but this is said not to will be distinctive in colour the latest developments in en depth, from heavy sheets

picture.

be really a handicap, as the 'plane The new trains are to be used be-gineering science, are installed metal; and coining presses as four miles of corridors accom-

The use of marble in architec-1 Not every engineer possesses a can turn almost abruptly the mo- the British and modates about 3,500 officials yet supplied to

Not ment the wheels are clear. Thus tween Manchester, Leicester. Much new and ingeniously de-

shown, Colonial Mints are also be on

London's ture is older than recorded his talent for administration. Nottingham, und London, Leeds, signed equipment is

it is not big enough.

tories. The Greeks employed every engineer desires to be anțit can avoid obstacles and, in case view as well as hot plate presses Bradford, Lincolnshire, and under working conditions, for

In private con- of trouble, remain in the field. for the manufacture of Bakelite needs are rapidly outgrowing it marble as an ordinary building administrator.

The new aeroplane would be Lundon, and between the towns the first time.

Few Londoners look at this on material, everything being cerns, at least, there is even now named and seaside resorts.

British engineers have brought mouldings and safety glass, boil-

is estimated to Eighty-five new carriages will out great improvements in weld-ing

scrap bundling municipal palace without recalling massive, but stone and no effort no bar to engineers rising to such suitable for fine-weather pleasure

economize perfect positions if their bent is in that flying. It

about £250.-Router. be constructed for East Anglian ing processes, in electric

are presses and a variety of power the romance of its building. Mr.was made to

mathematically. The huge marble direction.-Engineering. services, and new vehicles will welding and oxy-acetylene types pumps and rotary pumps,

interesting unchokable sewage pump is also Ralph Knott, an unknown young blocks were finished off by grind- also be built for the Newcastle- of equipment. An

man of 29, then an architect'sing and rubbing until a wall sur- Liverpool and Newcastle-Bourne- aspect of the spot-welding ma-te shown.

an automatic current)

World Show-Room. mouth through express trains. chines in

assistant, decided to try his luck face was homogenous. No cement|

or mortar was used. The new

famous carriages for

Other interesting exhibits in-in a competition use in control a device which limits

The Greek columns, as they are Scotland will be employed on the the amount of current passing, clude small machine tools (auto-

over the described in

many histories, Edinburgh-Aberdeen, Edinburgh- through the weld to a value prematic and semi-automatic), die- Perth, Edinburgh-Mallaig, Edin- determined by the charge hand casting machinery, equipment world, for the plans of the new were built with thick drums and burgh-Elgin, and Glasgow-Fort, and definitely prevents spoilt William services: a buffet car will work. Rivet heating processes is for foundries, heavy weighing building. Just 25 years ago this when laid up the faces came tu- apparatus, capital representa-month a committee of eminent gether with such perfection as to render the joints almost in- he operated on the latter route. also demonstrated.

tion of Sheffield high-speed steel

When built the wholeh products, annealing machines, assessors selected his plans, 106 visible.

the best and so column mass was

80 skillfully trenching machines, magnetic in number, as

masoned into a pillar of diminish- separators, drop forgings, wood- brought him fame and fortune.

The tale is also a story of two ing entasis and delicate flutings working machine, wire-forming

good friends. Working against as to appear to be a monolith. machines, industrial oil burners,ime to have his plans ready by Travellers with a sense of the and modern plating equipments. day the competition closed. beautiful and the ability to de- Bells and chain drives, which

scribe what they see, pen word have

for Mr. Knott called on his schoo!" a well-defined place

pictures of the Acropolis at They became Athens that give the reader Cis. Cis. energy transmission in factories fellow and chum, Mr. Stone Col-

pf and engineering shops, are ad-lins, to help him.

colour partners and worked together visualization airably represented.

A number of famous engineer- until Mr. Knott's death in 1929-subtlety of form not to be found ing firms are using the Fair as Mr. Collins has supervised the elsewhere

The marble a "world show-room" for demon- last stages of the building and architectural gems,

has throughout preserved of the Acropolis is a warm ivory strating to foreign buyers new

friends general design.-Reuter. tint. equipment which is seen for the 22 first time. There are giant

An automa-

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BUTCHER MEAT.

4 Beef Sirloin

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POULTRY.

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Chicken

lib.

Capons, Small

Large

Duck

Doves

each

Eggs, Hen (cooking) per doz. 36 Eggs, Hen (fresis) Fowls, Hainan

fira༥p Pigeons, Canton

Hoihow Turkeys. Cuck Turkeys, Hen

for packing and

rach 45

veyors.

20 furnace plant embodying the

latest developments, dozens of

each 28

oil fired furnaces, in actual fac-

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Steal Sirlons

Sausages

Tongue, fresh

Bullock's Brains

Heat

Henet

cathed

Hump, Salt

Kidneys

Tall

Liver Tripe

Calvos' Hend & Feet set $1.50 $1.00 Button Chip

ench

1.80

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Shoulder Saddle

Pig's Chillinge

Brains Foot Fry Head

per set 5

11,

1b.

Heart

Kidneys

Liver

Pork Chop

Leg

Loin

Fat or Lard

Sheep's

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order

Suet, Beef

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Codfish

Crabs Cultle Fish Dace

Eela, Conger

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Frogs

Garoupa

Halibut Lobstera

Mackerel

Mollet

Oysters

Perchi Pike Pomfret, White

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Canton

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each 36

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blades for cutting thick steel

architects from all

his

plates for ship construction; tools FIRST FLYING

so big that they will only just

go into the building; machines

works

ron-

“COMMERCIAL.”

and

in the realm of

Methods of Quarrying. Methods of quarrying marble' by Greeks and Romans was

about the same, the latter hav ing adopted the earlier practices,

There is on view a blast Captain Robertson Takes it is said. An old Roman quarry

Off.

Captain H. S.

Robertson,

can be recognized at a glance for the upright face of the rock is invariably carefully tooled.

The Romans, as is well known,

pair 2.60 2.50 tory conditions; for metal mel- Manager of the Export Aero took over all of the white marble ting, annealing, hardening art Section of the Dunlop Rubber quarries of the Greeks and in general heat treatment, power Company, recently took off from order to obtain quarries where

in a Puss choice colours predominated. percussion and notching presses. Croydon Aerodrome

It is worthy of note to state Makers of sheet metal work-Moth on what might well be re-

the that the Romane quarried their attemet on 3ting machinery are adequately garded as an

In columns in Siut, or in the quarry represented, and there is a full long distance flying record.

FRUITS.

lb, 1.00

Apple (California) Bananas (bride'z} Carambola

Coconuts

12 range of folding and bending ma-128 days he proposes to visit thir- engaged to the parent rock,

chines. Heavy plant includes teen European countries.

ench

1b. 12

ench

lb. 1.20

(Canton)

Lemans, Chinu Lemone American Lichees. Dried Oranges

Dranger

Pears (Canton)

Peanuts Persimmons. Large Pumelo, Slam Walnuts

Grapes

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lb.

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VEGETABLES, ETC.

Artichokes

Beans, Sprout

Long

Beet Root

Brinjala, Green

Red Cabbage, Chinese

(Shanghai) Cauliflower (Large) (Medium) (Small)

Carrots ***** Celerity, Chinese Chillies, Dried

each

lb.

Red

Green

Curry Stuff, English

1,00

Cucumbers

Garlic

Ginger, Young

Old

Horseradish, Bhat.

Indian Corn

oach

Lettuce

lb.

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Groen

Plaice

Pomfret, Black Prawns

Reach

Salmon

Shark

Skate

Shrimps

Snapper

Sol#

Turbot Tortion, amall fresh

WALET

Okroes

Onions, Bombay

Shanghai Pursley Polato, Sweat

Pumpkin

Radish

Заравезе American

B Rhubarb (Fresh)

Tomatoes

Turnips, Pund

(Long)

They either horizontally or vertically,

coal pulverising machines, fur-are Holland, Belgium, Switzer according to the bedding or the naces, stokers, incinerating and land, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland solidity of the stone. Large cir- salvage plant. Further improve- Germany Lituania, Latvia, Es-cular hollows remain in some of Nor- the quarries where it is said ments have been effected in the thonia, Finland, Sweden, construction of elevators, over-way, Denmark. In each he will that Justinian obtained_the_great Sar- head chain conveyors, pneumatic call on the technical officials of Verde Antico columns for the St. conveyors, petrol trucks, tractors civil and military air services and Sophia in Constantinople.

cophagi were quarried in the and trailers.

on aircraft manufacturers.

His journey, however, is pure- same manner by being worked ELECTRIC "EYE" THAT KNOWS ly a business affair, for his all around and then wedged off

COLOURS.

machine is fitted with the pro-at the bottom.

Travellers describe many ex- ducts of his firm, including the An "electric eye" which will sort recently introduced Dunlop Air- amples of finished and unfinish- At each ed work in Siut, especially in the out coloured objects, from marbles craft landing brake.

www.

to cigare, as fast as the eye can port of call he will give demon-fold Carystian quarries of Cipo- follow their movement, was demonstrations of this.

12 strated at Dorland House, London,

by Mr. Rex Horsfield, an electrical engineer.

The "eye" can be adapted to take 10 or reject any particular shade of 25 colour and can be applied, it is! 10 claimed, to any industry involving the rapid selection of sorting of commodities. It even can be used to select light-coloured beans for canning, and can be made to turn

20 over cigarettes so that they shall

lino.

World Air Routes Growing

6,000 Miles Increase In 1932.

Against this growth we must set the cessation of the German, Jun- kers service to Persia, though this. cessation is probably only a tem- porary one.

and red International rivalries In 1982 tape Bull Interfere with the free

Londen. Aviation goes areadily ahead in

be packed with the imprint up-spite of the depression. wards.

the mileage of the world's great development of international afr

by transport, but there are

As the objects to be sorted pass trunk routes was increased

th front of the eye they are illumin- about 6,000 miles, ated by a bright light. The light

several welcome instances of co-operation ex-between nations. The friendliest The Imperial airways was

from Kisumu to Cape- relations exist between the British 40 reflected from them fails on a pho-tended

about air line to India and the Dutch air: a distance 8to-electric cell, the eye proper, town,

which responds by producing an 3,000 miles. A line 1,100 miles line from Amsterdam to the Dutch long from Karachi to Madras was East Indies, while German and electric current,

This is amplified, as in wirelesa, inaugurated. The route now run French co-operation is also evident and if greater than some particu-ning from Gao, in the Sahara, to in the service across the South At lar value, which can be adjusted, Leopoldsville, on the Congo, ac-lantic, which will soon be made an It will release a jet of compressed counts for 1,500 miles; and the "all-air”, route with a "mother ship” air by which the sorting is done, French air route in China was, ex-jabout half-way between Daker, in Sorting can be done, it is claimed, fonded from Hanoi to Hong Kong, French West Africa, and Port Na-

tal, in Brazil.-Router. 1a distance of 800 mlles. at 90 a second.

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