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SOUTH CHINA BUILDING MATERIALS LIMITED.

The Directors of SOUTH CHINA BUILDING MATERIALS, LTD. beg to announce that the Company was incorporated on the 27th of May. 1947, under the Companies Ordinance, 1932, and is now ready to enter into contracts for the supply of cement concrete bricks, blacks, tiles, Spuncrete pipes, and Hollow Blocks, manufac- tured under Patent Licence.

All enquiries should be addressed to the Managing Director, South China Building Materials, Ltd., Room 204, Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank Building: Tel. No. 30238.

ROBERT STEEN SMITH,

Secretary.

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1947.

ENGINEERING PAGE

Improved Steam System

An English firm has developerl new equipment which will ashist the engineer in the problem of removal of air and condensed water from any typo of steam system.

The equipment, known 1.6 M.J.L. la constructed of corrosion resistant material, the valvo and seat being of high quality stain- lena steel. The body and strainer housing are of brass stampings capable

withstanding of

All working pressures up to 300 lb. a Munro inch.

An Important feature of the M... is that the fully balanced valve is unaffected by steam pressure changes; Onco net to operate at a fixed temperature, it will continue to dlecharge air or water at any temperature lower than the

the setting, whatoyer, the pressure on the steam mains.

Again, carefully designed parts enable the machine' to achieve large capacity with a' compara-| tively small alze trap.

The firm in Midland Industries. Ltd., of Wolverhamofan.

MOSLER

Safes and Vaults

BUILT BY

THE MOSLER SAFE CO.

Hamilton, Ohio, U.S.A.

AGENTS

ANDERSEN, MEYER & COMPANY, LTD.

DAVID HOUSE

We are pleased to announcg our appointment da

Sote Agents for Hong Kong & 5. China of

PHONE 28091

THE UNITED STATES RUBBER CO.

NAUGATUCK

CHEMICAL DIVISON

Associated with

PRUFCOAT LABORATORIES INC.,

New York.

BRUNO COURT,

Grasse, France

LABORATORIES. LOUIS BORNAND

Neuilly-sur-Seine,

(Ne. Paris).

- COMPAGNIE AFRICAINE DES PLANTES A PARFUM

Casablanca, Morocco.

Manufacturers' of:

RUBBER CHEMICALS:

Accelerators, Activators,

Antioxidants, Plasticizers, Elc.

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS:

Livestock, Orchards,

Lawns, Etc.,

Plants, Shrubs,

SOLVENTS

Rubber, Paints, Lacquers, Perfumes, Plastics, Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, Paper, Glass, Etc.

PROTECTIVE COATINGS

Masonry Walls, Steel Structures, Water Tanks, Oll Storage Tanks, Chemleat, Tanks, Concrete Floors & Structures.

BASIC PERFUME MATERIALS

Soap, Toiletries, Perfume and Flavouring Industries.

M. BATER-LYNN HELLWIG

rinco's Building, 2ad Floor

Stood Up To The Atomic Bomb Tribute To AMERICAN-BUILT BANK

VAULTS SURVIVED" AT HIROSHIMA

A British

Aeroplane

The following tribute to a new British plane appears in "Amori- can Aviation" magazine:-

"Somebody forgot to tell tho engincera at de Havilland Air- craft Co. in England that airplane windows must be small and that it's impossible to build a cabin

American-bullt bank vaults at Hiroshima surviv→ with windows large enough for

ed the blast and heat of the Atomic Bomb, des-passengers to me out of,

"Somebody slipped up badly on pite the fact that the reinforced concrete bank this one, because de Havilland building itself was blasted to rubble. Japan-went ahead in its innocence and ese-built vaults were crushed and their doors built the Dove feeder airplane and shocking as it may sound, blown off their hinges.

coch

is over window

two feet Eyewitness accounts and photographs attest to the

wide.

"Now it doesn't take a mathe- fact that though the outsides of the American- built vault doors were seared by the heat and matical genius to figure out that a Lwo-foot window view makes it some slight damage occurred to the external possi lo for the passenger to look fixtures, the doors were still in working order out over the countryside he's fly- and the contents of the vaults completely in- ing over and, as a matter of fact, tact. Copies of some of the photographs and of we suspect de Haylland were bo-

ing devilish enough to want salient portions of the official reports have just make the passenger enjoy his trip. been received by the "China Mail" from the local agents, Andersen, Meyer & Co., Ltd.

The significance of this nowa; vaults made by the Japanese.

the

to

"This innovation is an effshoot of the curious British idea that the air passenger should be made comfortable and that he is tho

Just imagine-airplanes with windows big enough to see out of! We're just waiting for the next US. airplane designer to explain why it can't be done.".

in indicated by the expressions These were completely destroy-one who's paying the fare. of interest from presidenta of ed, their doors blown off leading American banks in the hinges, and the sides crushed. Aurvival of these Hiroshima To me this was a very positivo. vaults. Many of the estimated demonstration of the superi- 13.000,000 holders of safe de ority of American equipment. posit boxes in the United States No othier, test than that of the have voiced their concern over atomic bomb could have been the realstance of bank vaults more severe or exacting." io atomic explosion, according When this letter came to the

to lettera from bank officials. attention of banking circles, Insurance companies, whose the safe company was urged to

Accurities are held in vaults. The resulting investigation pro- have

expressed their also muxiety.

Several months ago, the com- pany received a letter from an

Ingenious Temper

large ho.dings of negotiable get more detailed information: Preventers

American Ingenuity handleked a duced a more extensive report, long-standing problem of table including the story of an eye.

to start ketchup otiquette how witness to the bombing itself flowing, from

a bottle without and photographs of the wreck-spattering the tablecloth or your

*irf front.

The answer is a small hydrau- pump. It TVAB conceived by

packaging Industry designers.

Special tongs for extracting

and a

MEASURING

TRADE MARK

INSTRUMENTS

E. R. WATTS & SON, LTD.

LONDON, B.E5, ENGLAND

WATTS CIRCULAR DIVISION TESTER

WATTS' 90' CLINÓMETER

WATTS MICROPTIC

· PRECISION

CLINOMETER

WATTS MICROPTIC

PROTRACTOR LEVEL

WATTS MC. CLINOMETER

MARK VIN

WATTS MICROPTIC REVEL PROTRACTOR

WATTS

BRINELL MICROSCOPE'

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WATTS M.C. CLINOMETER MARK V

WATTS MICROPTIC GEAR TOOTH TESTER

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WATTS JIG Borer MICRÓSCOPE

WATTS

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DRAWING INSTRUMENTS

WATTS PILECISION BLOCK. LEVEL

Manufacturer's Representative:

FAR EAST IMPORT & EXPORT LTD. .127, ILK. & Shanghai Bank Bldg,

TeL 32509

Coldair

ELECTRIC REFRIGERATORS

olives from long, narrow bottles, NOW IN

funnel to help keep tooth- powder on the brush instead of the wash-basin were among

the

new container devices exhibited in Philadelphia at a packaging con- ference of the American Manage- ment Association.

Keeping The Mercury Down

A super de tuxe air condition. ing system, guaranteed to bring the mercury down to 85 degrees below zero, is in operation at the Enstman Kodak Co. "Rochester, NY, this summer.

will

Designed to speed up CON- dehsing, one

operations in the pro- ductions of photographic goods, the refrigeration system was con-: structed at a cost of $1,000,000.

The system uses nearly two Army Lieutenant inspreting the ed bank building and the intact miles of nickel steel pipe which

CATTY

100,000 tons of Hiroshiins damage. In part, vau.ts. the writer said:-

This account conflicted slight menthylene chloride. Each cool- ".... In visiting the remains ly with the Army Lieutenant's ing unit is capable of turning out of the City of Hiroshima, I version that only three build-875 tons of refrigeration daily at found in one of the three struc-ings remained standing in Hiro 85 degrees below zero, tures still standing four large shima. The report stated: vaults built by the Mosler Safe Co. of Hamilton, O. The 'vaults were entirely intact and except for the exterior being burned and rusted there was no dam-

age.

Jap-Built

Vaults Crushed "Across the room from the American-made safes wero two

Extent of Destruction

"Those buildings constructed of steel and concrete la Hiro shims were best able to stand the explosion and hence protect ed their contents to some de gree... The explosions crack. ed the exteriors, tore the cement

doors into pieces and the fire (Continued at foot of next Col.)

"SIZZ-WELDER”

Ira A. Daffin, president of the| New Holland Machine Co., be- Heves that with modern mechani- zation United States farms will one-sixteenth the require cniy manpower now used, says United Press.

Dafin based his prediction on

pany

study conducted by his com-

- He said farm equipment manu- facturers already have built a flame-thrower weeding machine, called the "Sizz-Walder," which cut from 6 to four the number of men noodled to weed, an ex- perimental plantation in Alabama.

which followed gutted the build- ings of all else.

"Those buldings constructed of reinforced concrete only, such as the Teikou .Bank, were damnged to a larger degree. These built of wood or brick were completely demollehed."

The report stated further: "Two Mooler bunk vaults, nue being located at The Tel kou Bank in Nroshima and) the other located in the Geibl Bank in Kure, were in excellent condition and were in opera- tion.".

Kero wits burned with con ventional incendiaries and the brick Geibl Bank' bulking sur vived entirely although sur- rounding wooden buildings wero all burned to the ground.

The yaults in the Hiroshima. Tejköy Bank were built above ground level on the aircot floor. of the bank which made them oven more vulnerable to do true-

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The gold "storagu" vaulia, ati

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