1947-08-21 — Page 8

Shortage Of Spraying Telephones

"Suede'

The spraying of wood or chrt. Thenra with a metal surface result.

In un all-metal appearance

"Every country is short of being given is an accepted process telephones," states the Angio, and net in industry the world Portuguese Telephone Company's | GVCI. annual report, and the aggregate shortage involves many hundreds of millions of pounds of expend!. ture which can only be met over years."

A British Arm us now adopted the pray process to provide n text Aniah!

The process makes it possibic

to uray any surface with materi

and

Nevertheless,

at having the appearance of suede the company, which operates the telephone sygand being both fadelery teat in Portugal,, and 14 employed crueless. Instead of the tedious of llning boxCK or in a Ave year develoment pro. trainers Bramme, last year ned drawers for cutkry with separate livery of over £500,000 worth atted.on plcers, the new method British telephone mystrial Portugal.

employs a "cartridge" in a spray

un and the suede" coating la

A further outlay of appox, įsproyed on.

The work is completed in imately £400,000 is planned for

One "cartridge" the current year for the develop. ew renda, men of the Portuguese telephoneufees to spray a surface of B

square feet with material. Three system.

The walling st of alicants types of Anish and 16 different Lur telephones totals 17,000. The shades are to for avaliable. world shortage af basle materials

The tinge will soon be coming

is the main reason which prevents when a card table or the interior urders fur Parliament being of a car may be sprayed with the

covering .reotilred.

fulfilled mare promptiv,

Chubb & Sons Lock & Safe Co., Ltd

WALL SAFES

Sole Agenta

THE JARDINE ENGINEERING

CORPORATION LTD.

14.16 PEUDER STREET, HONG KONG.

TELEPHONE 30311

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21; 1947.

ENGINEERING PAGE

Stringent Tests Passed SKILLED

By Chubb Safes

Specially Designed Locks

WORKMEN LEAVING

Motor manufacturers in Eng Jand are seriously perturbed by the drift of skilled fitters and cruftamea from their factories. A considerable number of these Chubb & Sons Lock & Safe Company Limited was founded 130 years ago, men

ΗΓΟ becoming free-lance Since then, the company has gained many honours, including Royal Ap-repairers, and mushroom enter- pointments and distinctions conferred by leading banks and commercial prises are springing up in many manufacturing houses throughout the world. The quality of the product, and the high areas near car tradition of workmanship behind it, has inproved steadily during the plants.

Acuto shortage of spare parts | years. Today, Chubb can proudly assert that it is among the world's lead-

has accelerated this trend, for ing manufacturers of safes and deposit boxes.

a mechanic who can turn hig the Chubb Patent and to panel beating or turn-: High Heat Test-of a fire which] ted with

for generates intense hent

Monitor Lever, a device which ing up a component on a lathe makes Mury that the bolt is pro-ability and skill. High prices

can find ample short period.

Acope for hi perly home

all Chubb pro. Features of ducta are:-

The outer ateci casing, which la made of the thinest steel con- sistent with safety so as not to form a heat-conductor,,

The next is the Duration Test, in which a safe la subjected to not-so-intense heat for a longer The Insulating material is the period, and, thirdly, there is the finest known for this purpose. Fall Test, in which a safe is Ja of dilatamie construction tested for hent for two hours, of 20 and when speelally prepared for dropped from a height insulation forme a hard rock- feet to simulate the collapse of like surface which itself a burning building, and

then strengthens the cabinet and again put in the furnace for helps I to withstand terrific more fire-tenting. pressures but does not leter-j iorate with nge. Wire mesh ai embedded in the miterial tu strengthen it further.

Undamaged

No Such Thing! The Chubb Company Rays, frankly, that there can be no such thing as a burglar-proof or fire-proof safe. The length of time involved is the main factor, and Chubb can guarantee im munity for a given length of time with every one of its pro-

ducts.

Sole agents in Hong Kong for

14-16

are willingly pņid - usunily in notes to these two-or-thres men busincasco by people who are desperate to keep vehicles on the road.

their

Several of these enterprises wore started па Saturday- morning occupations when the five-day week was introduced. They have proved so profitable that they have become full-time! joha for artisans who have be- come irritated by short-time

RADIO and

ELECTRICAL

COMPONENTS

and ACCESSORIES

including:

“SKYROD” and “ELIMINOISE”

Anti-Interference

Radio Aerials

Communal Aerial Systems

-for

Blocks of Flats

O

Interference Suppression

Devices

襲

BELLING & LEE LTD

Solc Agents:...

working in factories and who GILMAN & COMPANY, LTD."

are Jardine En- In each of these tests, carried Chubb safca out not once but many times, gineering Corporation, steel one of the papers inside the Pedder Street,

safes were damaged. tests are carried out regularly un ather Chubb products.

Then comes the inner lining completely enclosing the Insulation. All the corners of the safes are reinforced by steel, angle sectiers, while tongue and grove fitments are formed with fabricated mitred sections, pro viding heat and water protection around the door. There is also gasket for additional proteg.

tion.

are

Similar

There is a Chitbb safe for every purpose, ranging from the large Safe Cabinets, both single and folding-door types, to

the Records Cabinet and through, to the small, brick-size wall safe.

Chubb Wall Safes are adapt- able for a number of purposes, With coin slots and suitable let-

Engineering

Exhibition

In London

cannot be effectively employed ahops in garages and repair beenuse of lack of spare parts.j It is computed that there are orders outstanding in the motor Industry today for more than £2,500,000 worth of spares.

Life Of A Car

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

The average "service" life of CRAWFORD & CO. Tottenham) LTD.

ears has gone up from five to over 10 yeara. Emphasis on the production of completo Specially designed locks

vehicles for export prevents filled on all Chubb safes, the tering adder, they are idcul One of the world's material being allocated for the result of their 130 years of ex alma boxes for use in Churches, most important engin- manufacture of spares. Before

the schools, ule. Size One Is 34"

perience and research.

pose,

for

bent steel welded body,

best type of lock for each pur-high x 8" wide x 1 1/8" deep, eering exhibitions is due the war, the unit replacement of components and larger anes can be fitted. to re-open in London worn or defective

was widely adopted by garages; Chubb safes arc regularly! They are constructed with this month after a lapse over-night change of an engine, aubjected to tests arranged both

with

of nine years. This is the for instance, rather than an by the Chubb cumpany the lugs wolded to the back. The

As a selves and by other organtan (loor is hung on concealed pivots: Engineering and Marine overhaul was advocated.

result local repairers allowed tions, (such as the National Fire, arranged to form a dog bolt on Exhibition

which, ex-their workshop engineering Brigades' Association).

the back of the door. They are,

capacity in diminish.

A Chubb safe, filled with easily concealed either by wall-cept in the years of the world wars, has papers, books and other perish. paper or a picture, making them two

place able_material, is put through ideal for household use, as well taken

annually free tests to determine its heat as for office equipment. All the since 1906.

ro qualities. The first is the locks on the Wall Safes are fit. The exhibition will be held at

THE MARSMAN, BUILDING, designed and built in 1939 by the Marsman organization, houses the technical and directive staga of the organization.

CONSTRUCTION

On the staff of the Construction Division of the Marsman- organization- are civil engineers with many years world-wide ex- perience in practically all phases of construction, who form the planning and directive center of the organization's construction contracting work. The organization has performed several out- standing construction jobs for government and private interests in the Philippines and in Hongkong.

Marsman. civil engineers are in the field preparing to resume construction work on a larger and more extensive scale than in the past. The organization is ready to undertake contracts in the Philippines, China, Hongkong and throughout the Orient.

MARSMAN H.K. CHINA LTD.

204 HK, ̈& Shanghal Bank Bldg..

Telephono 80208-

and refreshes.

real taste of Malt

Most Tivertonin

Olympia from August 28 to September 13,

It la highly likely that the whole pattern of the car dis tributing and repair industry will be revised during the next decade, Pressure to export will inevitably continue, which means that overseas considerя-

The

WITNEY, OXON, ENGLAND

COLLET SPECIALISTS

This year, more than 400 Bri tions will play a major part fish firms will be exhibiting. in formulating manufacturers" Their products

will comprise model policy, Already plant equipment, accessories, and Standard Company has taken services of all kinds for the mechanical marine and electrical the bold step of announcing & one-model programme--a husky, engineering industries.

Bixacuter British research work in ship. four-cylinder

that We manufacture COLLETS and FEED FINGERS building and inerring will employs the same engine na la well represented. The Depart. usett

agricultural for every type of Automatic and Capstan Lathe, ment of Selentine Industrial Retractor-with obvious manufac search will have one stand where turing economics. It will show new testing equlo. ment, new materiais, methods of increasing efficiency of boilers by smoke elimination, Improvements

Ιπ their

Second-Hand

The cost of distributing cars to the public has attracted at- terition of the economists. The

in welding technique and so on. recognised 'deals in second-hand

Photographs will show triethods ears out of new-car sale com

Watch-maker's Lathe, Milling Machine and

Special Purpose Machine

30 YEARS' EXPERIENCE

and instruments used in assessing missions, before the war was in this class of work is your guarantee of accuracy

the finish of various surfaces,

Unification of screw threats for always open to crifilelsm. At to- use in the United Kingdom, the days high prices, something like

Afth of the basic price paid]

U.S.A. and Canada is another as-

pect of research work which will for a new car is absorbed be. ba illustrated, while two work. tween the factory and the cus- ing model creep machines will tomer, Indicate the importance of high

temperature research now being

carried out by Britain in engineer.

ing development work.

Research

Research, carried out by Bri-

Mobile Fair

A Success

་

Manufacturers' Representative:

FAR EAST IMPORT & EXPORT LTD.

127, HK. & Shanghal Bank Bldg.

Tel. 32509

tish research associations, will be werks about the "Coating fair" on

We have been hearing in recent BELGIAN PORTLAND BLAST FURNACE illustrated by specially designed board the British mutor vessel apparatus, models and photo- st. Merrict, visiting ports along graphic exhibits.

of

.

Typical of the items shown by the East Coast of South America Individual manufacturers will be and showing Britain's post-war the products of one well-known goods.

This first mobile fair has now English Arm (Vicbeds Ltd. of Vickers House, Broadway, West come to an end. with a million minister, London) which include pounds' worth of orders to its machinery' for the manufacture credit. When repeat orders come

Boap

and Ink, a bottle in the organisers estimate that Alling and drowning machine, the total value will be in the variable speed gears, a model of region of £3 million.

vibration damper box makin The floating fair was particular. machinery and a hardness testingly well organised and everything machine.

for which there could possibly be This last machine, which was a demand overseas was shown on developed as a result of research board-planos, knifo grinders,

and for a thoroughly reliable and at. hair curlers

every other curate method of testing hardness imaginable thing, Including pro. [of metals applicable to all classes ducts from a number of British of work, Is claimed entirely to Arms, not previously represented eliminate the passibility of error.

in South America, but for whose goods, there is good market as the orders prove.

Powerful

Power tion

This first mobile fair has proved so successful that it will be re- peatad' again next year but on'n considerably larger scalo..

*

The State chicity Commis

The Jute plant's fondnem for sion of Victim Australia la to | eréct a power son at Yelloun damp heat, plus avallability of more power than any so far cheap labour, maket: the Aber a virtual monopoly for Bengal, saya Installed.

"Commission, haa ordered twin turbo general the National Geographie Society,

from British firm in

fle machinery for thoailourn brea has a particularly top of the new power high moisture content. The two new generetora havo à capacity of type of generators to be 90.000 kilowatta and will be the was not ensy to decidons | most powerfil over erected in tho The: krown ghool evaltable in the State of Victoria,

CEMENT

(British Standard Specifications)

"INRODOR"

(Brand)

Guaranteed for End Sept./Oct. shipment

at

175/-Shillings

par ton of 2200 lbs. C.I.F.

5000 TONS ONLY -

Sole Agents

Industrial & Commercial Trading Co.

Tel No: 25177,

(Raont Bigazzi & Co.)

Chinese Dept. Tel. 25848