1934-01-08 — Page 7

MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1934.

Engineering and Building

COAL-OIL SOUGHT

IN AUSTRALIA

"Country Should Follow Britain's Lead."

NEEDED FOR DEFENCE

www.

Canberra.

A number of public men who are Interested in Australia's national defence are hoping to persuade Commonwealth Government to in- vestigate the production of oil from coal.

If they succeed. the co-operation of British Interests, such as Im- perial Chemicals Industries Ltd., will probably be invited.

It in estimated here that at pre-. sent the fuel stocks of Australla; would only last a few months, if supplies were cut off. ENGINEERING

Experts are of the opinion that a capital of £10.000.000 or £12,000,- 000 would set up a hydrogenation) industry employing between 7,000 and 10 000 je de and producing 50,000,000 gallons of petrol yearly.

It is asserted that Australia should follow Britain's lead in this enterprise.

At present only 6.000.000 gallons of oil are produced in Australia so that she was almost entirely depen- dent on Imports for the 200,836,000 gallons which she consumed year. Reuter.

Inst

BUSINESS PLAN FOR

7/6D. HOUSES Scheme To Tackle Britain's Problem.

London.

Houses let at 78. 6d. a week are envisaged by Mr. Reginald Nichol- son and Mr. F. H. Rees, whose joint scheme for a National Housing Corporation has, by official request, been placed before the Ministry of Health,

They state:

be raised an the organisation was perfected.

200,000 A Year.

THE CHINA MA

One Drink Goes a Long Way on Revolving Bar

1

As if the potency of the "real McCoy," honest-to-goodness tegul liquor, were not enough to induce that floating sensation, Boston repeal celebrants do their imbibing on a merry-go-round that revolves with the drinkers. This is one way for getting twice the kick out of the newly-emancipated Mr. Harleycorn.

Air

According To

Taste

Man Harnesses The Atmosphere

WONDERS OF MODERN PLANT

world's

(By Basil Murray.)

in

British Building

Ready

Men PRODUCTION OF

bour is available, and the industry is prepared for the biggest possible scheme.

"The speed of building in · this

Can Erect 250,000 Houses country exceeds that of any other

country in the world.

"There is no need to fear that

Yearly,

"THE SPEEDIEST COUNTRY"

London.

OIL FROM COAL

Only Possible While

Petrol In Taxed.

+

NO GREAT EFFECT. ON COAL TRADE

an extensive programme would That coal can be converted into drive up the price of materials. I have every confidence that the in-tics desired is a technical triumph of having almost any characteris The building trade is quite capsibility and supply the finished ar-wall plume himself; but the econ dustry would appreciate its respon on which the chemical engineer may able of facing programme of ticle at the cheapest possible price. omic and social importance of the quarter of a million houses a year,” states Mr. R. Coppock, secretary of the National Federation of Build- ing Trade Operatives. "The la-

NEW RAILWAY FOR MANCHURIA.

Laho - Harbin Line Almost Completed.

Changchun.

"A real, national slum clear- ance scheme would go far to which the product can be sold.

feat depends upon the priest solving the unemployment, pro `blem in our industry, which em- As matters stand, fuel oil from ploys more male labour than any natural sources can be delivered other..

into ships bunkers at British ports) **The effects of absorbing 100,000 for about 21. per ton, and were is to 170,000 operatves would be in-not for the tax of 8d. per gallon on calculabic. Eighty

of imported petrol, per cent.

even gasworks all outlay on building would go would probably abandon the re eventually in wages, and the In-covery of benzol. crease in purchasing power would Ae regards the effect on the coal be of enormous benefit."

trade, the starting up of two

The Laho-Harbin railway, to be Mr. Cooppock advocates that modern blast-furnaces would lead 261 kilometres long, is almost commoney for a national scheme should to an increased demand for one plcted and is expected to begin come out of the revenue.

million tons of coal per annum, an service before the end of this year "The saving on interest and sink-amount not likely to be required at the latest. Engineers are nowing fund would be enormous." he either for the hydrogenation of cool constructing a railway bridge over added, "and the country would ul-jor for low-temperature carboniss the Sunguri River.

timately possess a grent asset." tion for many years to come. Upon completion, this line wil

northern Manchuria and western Japan.

HORNSEY TO HAVE for the shortest route between

NEW TOWN HALL

£100,000 To Be Spent.

MODERN DESIGN BY YOUNG

NEW ZEALANDER .

Hornsey, in North London, is to spend £100,000 on a new town hall, the plans for which are on exhibi-.

LONDON'S SLUM CLEARANCE

210,000 Houses To Be Demolished.

London.

The programmes of slum clear-

tion at the Building Centre in Newlance which have reached the Min- Bond Street.

istry of Health show that 210,000 A Modern Design.

houses, unfit for human habitation. The

new building will be in will be demolished without com. Crouch End Broadway, near the pensation. stated Mr. Hiltok Clock Tower, a site made central Young, the Minister of Health, at by recent developments, and much West Bromwich recently,

New

London. Big cotton spinning mills in all more suitable than the present Man is harnessing the atmosphere parts of the world are to-day able town hall, which is within only a to his service. Science in accom-to deal in the finer counts because very short distance of the neigh- plishing what has been for centuries they are conditioned throughout.bouring borough of St. Pancras. The only real way to tackle the one of the goals of human endea- The temperature in their machine. The present building dates from housing problem is on sound busi-your.

rooms never varies, the percentage the time of the old Hornsey Local ness lines with an executive com- In this industrialised era control of moisture in the air remains ab-Board, and both its interior and ex- poned of the best men available.

terlor are out of date. with a proportion of Government shops and factories has become an

of the atmosphere in offices, work-olutely constant.

In contrast, the new building will All the leading chocolate-making representatives.

The corporation would be fully urgent matter affecting the health firms have their dipping and pack-be of strikingly modern design. It will be "L" shaped, wh the angle ing rooms air-conditioned, for of the human body. self-supporting and non-profit- making.

The problem, except in its sim-making chocolates it is craential space used as a court-yard.

that the air of the factory should

Worked His Passage. It should start with a loan of 20 plest form, the warming of cold

be cool and dry once the mixture Mr. R. H. Uren, the successful to 25 millions guaranteed by the rooms by open fires, had until rehas set in its final shape. Any architect, is only 27, and & TORT Gavernment. More money could cent times remained unsolved. The change in the atmospheric conditions ago won another open competition.

colton-spinning Industry entred in Lancashire largely be-may make the chocolates soft or that for the proposed Manchester

sticky, destroy their "bloom", and Exhibition Hall. He is a cause that county's damp, equablo A first year programme of 60.-climate seemed to be the only one expose them to the risk of showing Zealander, and at the age of 24

Įmarks,

worked his passage to this country 000 to 70,000 houses Is possible.auitable

for spinning the finer In certain processes of artificialļas a greaser on a cargo boat. 100,000 to 120,000 in the second threads, and could not be imitated

silk manufacture molst air is neces- elsewhere. year, working up eventually to a

Bary. Courtaulda, the largest Bri- yearly maximum of 200,000.

But since the war an immense,tish makere, have 63 air condition- If you make the programme un-advance has been made in the tech-ing plants in their factories alone. wieldly at the start, with a huge nique of atmospheric control. Out Tobacco and cigarettes require an loan of several hundred millions of doors modern meteorological re-even temperature and not too dry no one will be able to control it. search, spurred on by the require air if they are to remain in perfect You will have waste, extravagance, ments of aviation, has embled wea-condition. and no prospect of an economic ther forecasts to be made with 13 of the new plants.

The huge railway bridge over degree of accuracy undreamed of Innumerable

the Sungari River, northwest of: other industries, Harbin, has been completed, and twenty years ago.

such as the making of macaroni and Indoors prolonged selentifie re-the painting of motorcars, at some

was formally inaugurated on De search hus created the completely stage require the even atmospheric cember 16. The first trial run was new form of engineering called "Air conditions which air-conditioning made on the following day, Conditioning." This means the alone can create. control by mechanical methods of every breath of air that enters

rent,

SHANGHAI REALTY SALES SLUMP.

October And November

Carreras have installed

The 'best opportunity that the "public have of appreciating the ad- - İvantages of the system in in the

wet

New Bridge For The Sungari,

Harbin.

had the pure cleanliness of moun- tain air. The outgoing wind made

Total $5,500,000. building.

Temperature can be raised or great new cinema. Real estate transactions report-lowered at will; it can be made v I went all over the plant installed shudder to hiink of how often ed during October and November for dry;, it can be cleared of all dust)by, the Carrier Engineering Comitioned theatres: it was hoj, with anį

the

I had sat unmoved in un-air-condi-

unpleasant smell which seemed a' mixture of stale tobacco smoke and ex-billion germa from the throats of

the 4,000 people inside.

500,000 for the previous two months/as pure a state as is the building largest single units in Great Bri-putchouli and I wondered how many |

In Shanghai amounted to about and pumped through a factory or pany at the Empire Theatre, Leices- $6,500,000 as compared with $7,-an office in the City of London inter-square, which is one of period, according to the Realty stood on an alpine peak.

tain. It WAL a fascinating Market, house organ of the

Air conditioning has been in perience. Asia Realty Company.

existence in this country for 12

The Theatre System. The largest volume of business, yours. In America it began about

Deep down in the cellars are the over $2,000,000, was done in the the same time, but has made more Western District of the Settlement rapid strides owing to the greater electric refrigerator for cooling in auditorium is carefully concealed. summer and the steam boilers for It enters by ducts in the ceilings of but the largest number of transac- quantity of new construction,

Greater Use Foressen, The distribution of the air in the

ions mostly involving less than $50,-) Factories, theatres, large blocks winter heating. From here a sup the various circles and through the 000 each, was reported in the Wes of flats or offices, hotels and res-ply of water, regulated to the exact lighting candelabra in the dome: It tern Extension. The French Con-taurants are most suited to its in-required, temperature, is forced is drawn out through small cowis cension was neat in order of installation, though other uses have straight up to the roof of the build-under the wests, thus avoiding any

ing, where the real process of air noticeable, draught, terest with almost $1,500,000 turn-been found for it..

The motor liner. Victoria, the conditioning takes place, mow fastest ship of its type in the world; has air-conditioning in its first-class mow saloons and cabins. It is used on some American..trains-de-luxe)

over.

Avenue Road, nearly 1% with old residence.

Park and Burki!] Roads, 84.

Eubbling Well Road, mów with building.

BRIDGE NAMED AFTER

HITLER

0.318|

Cologne.

"Adolf Hitler Bridge," the, now

Industrial Valde.

Air-conditioning will inevitably The air stream is operated by two spread. Already small wets for use large fans, one sucking new air in private houses are on the mar» into the building, the other expell-ket, and are being sold on a con- Ing the old,

alderable scale in the United States The new air enters through In countries which experience the large grating and is drawn through extremes of heat and cold demand In the vast new Cumberland (a series of washing chambers, for domestic air-conditioning: Is Hotel at Marble Arch every room where innumerable tiny, whirling naturally keeneat, but even in Lon- is air-condition: all the air in the fountains spray it with the warmed don many householders would wel building is changed every four or cooled water from the pumps become the opportunity of having an minutes, and it is unnecessary ever low.

evan temperature in their rooms; The air temperature is thus whatever the season.

to open a window,”

A number of Indian princes have brought to approximately the cor In offices on noisy streets the bridge over the Rhins at Krefeld, it in their palaon, at this mome rect loyal, But in case of really cold vantages are incalculabl has been officially opened a private house, which, da

It is 880 yards long. The pillars built at a cost of, £20,000 15

fur weather is drawn on throug two can be kept freals wit

which can be listed by dows ever being ope

are of reinforced concrete covered West End, is having a complete steam t with atons, - More than 8,000 Lona system Instalad.

suf staal were used in its construo: But. Ita chief,valon - agen

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