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EXHIBITION AT OLYMPIA

Among many British inventions will be seen at this Exhibition. to be seen at the Engineering and There ropes are strong, resistant Marie Exhibition at Olympia, to water and are unaffected by London, this week will be car and rot or murine decay. cycle tyres that Inflate thm- Another British Invention to be aelves, keep at correct pressure demonstrated will be the "Reel. and save wear and tear. This is proscope," C fog binocular,

the invention of Mr. F.J. Camm. Lifescribed as the only instrument Inother of Sydney Camm, the of its kind in the work. As it noted aircraft designer.

will not be possible to de.

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The Ides can be visualized by monstrate it in a real fog at the jungining baby tyre pump Exhibition, Instruments will be fastened to spokes bei ween the shown in milk and water. valve and an eccentric cam on

| Invented that doubles the capn.

dis increase in size.

had their limitations and advantages in the handling. Now,

ropes made from nylon orẻ a new, Chronic nelitis affects 25 per British invention and specimens cent of linols dairy entile.

BRITISH INDICATORS LTD.

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1947.

ENGINEERING PAGE

Diesel

Power

Plants

arc

the

HIGH-PRECISION INSTRUMENTS

China for

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Just Arrived!

Aluminium Smiths Industrial Instruments Ltd.,

Foil For Packages

Foil can best be described na A solid. continuous thee, of

flexible metal, with a thickness type resembling that of paper. Aluminium foil ually hina a

A wide range of high-¡ range caused by temperature precision instruments is changes over a wide range.

The drum and pointer assCM- Behind the illustration now on display in the bly is mounted on jewelled bear- on this page of an Allen Engineering Department ings and is robust, although de the hub of each wheel. As the The current pennut crop In whret revolves the cam works the Queensland, valued at $3,200,080, Diesel Power Plant lies of Messrs. Choy Bros. &licately poised; It carries are pump and air in forced Into the is an all-line Australian record.

the story of one of the Co. Ltd. (Loke Yew turn hair-spring of

evolved, and especially made, tyre. When the correct pressure

pioneer, English firms in building, Queen's Road for this instrument. A light. renched a blow-off valve A chemical mixture has been the engineering field. Central). Choy Bros. come into play.

In the past, ship's repes have elty of fashilght batteries with The plant has just been are sole agents in Hong

San Kong and installed in Mauricio Mines, which Smith Industrial Instru

managed by the ments Ltd., London, and Marsman interests.

its associate company in W. H. Allen, Sony & Co., Ltd. Birmingham, David Har- have been engaged in the manu- facture of mechanical hydraulic, court Ltd. and electrical engineering equip-j ment for almost 70 years. dny, the company is in an, un- rivalled position of being able to supply all forms of combined plants for complete installations without division of responsibility, Contracts of any size are under- taken in any part of the world. The range of Allen manufac Lures covers steam turbines in sizes up to 10,000 h.p., which have heen suppiled for a wide

and variety of industries central power stations, as well 1 the Royal and foreign Navies and almost every leading shipping company. They apecin lize In the

manufacture of vertical steam engines in Bizca from 5 to 500 h.h. (or larger if

"JOHN BULL" Precision Measuring Instrument;

DIAL GAUGES English and Metric readings.

Complete range. Various dal sizes.

INSPECTORS TEST SETS

Five sizes and types,

COMPARATORS

Three sizes

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These firms specialise in hand To tachometers, revolution Indien. tors, counters, pressure guages and vacuum guages, quite apart from a complete, and famous, line of ship's accessories such os telegraph chains and Attings. Among the most interesting precision Instruments on dis- the ATH-type hand Play in tachometer. This is of the com- The pensated mnguet type. mechanism consists of a rotat

which forting permanent magnet

influences an alumlulum-alloy drum carrying a pointer.

The magnet is of special alloy steel and is 80 constructed as to eliminate variations over a wide

required) as well as in the build-uned on some of the ferrles of

tmaximum commercial gauge, or

of

London

David Harcourt Ltd., Birmingham,

'sickness, of .006 and a mini- SHIP'S mun practicable gauge .0003," depending on the use It is given and the type of packag ing machine employed.

Starting usually with a spe- cially cast bilet #" thick, foll is produced by a series of rollingo which successively reduce the thickness of the metal until the paper-like sheet is obtained.

From commercial view- point, the desirability of alumi- nlum foil is its unequalled pro- tection and attraction. With distribution the changes in methods of foodatuita from bulk sales to individus! pack- ages has come the realization of the manufacturer's responsi- bility In preserving and protect. ing the original quality and freshness he has put into his product.

The field, of course,

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which

is not confined to foodstuffs, but Includes auch products cigars, cigarettes, etc.

Competition has grown keen that the product posscases even the sightest ad- vantage in freshness, flavour and quality is in a position to outsell others not so well pre ternally, provides rigidity to sented. This has led consum- nerve both as the chassis and era in turn to expect the utmost in these qualities. Consequent- the casing of the instrument.

The high speeds now commonly, the far-seeing manufacture in many kinds of machinery aro is devoting as much study and proper packing met by the provision of a gear investigation

ing of condensing plant for the Hongkong & Yaumati Ferry alloy die-casting, well ribbed in- power stations and for marino, Co, have been working with- auxiliary purposes.

out interruption and replace An important division of the ment parts during all the years Allen Works is their of engines since the outbreak of the Pacific department. Allen Diesel engines, War.

careful research. They are Allen is a family concern in minus 0.5 per cent. characterized by simple and which all the directors robust constructior, easy control actively engaged, and it is a amnoth and silent ruoning, characteristic of such concerns Absence of vibration, and that the preservation of goodwill economy in operation.

ranka very high in the com A large number of these pany's tradition. Mesere. Mars- engines have been suppiled for man Hongkong China, Ltd. have land and marine service through- been agents for Allen for ton out the world. Allen engines years.

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PRESSURE GAUGES

VACUUM GAUGES. HAND TACHOMETERS, REVOLUTION. INDICATORS TELEGRAPH CHAINS & FITTINGS,

ETC., ETC.

FOR

Durability-Precision-Design

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

Sole Agents:

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Engineering Dept. Mr. P. L. So

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Tel. 34218

Loke Yew Bldg., 6th Floor,

50. Queen's Road C. Hong Kong.

For Your

ROOFING SANITARY

ELECTRICAL

REFRIGERATION AIR-CONDITIONING

HOT AND COLD WATER HEATING AND VENTILATING INSTALLATIONS

CONSULT

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

range in sizes from 30 to 1200 it is interesting to note that 11.p. They represent the very the founder of the company, box incorporated in the casing of his product as to the mak-

of ing of the product ituo f. latest practice and incorporate W. II. Alien, in the beginning and which offers a range

On the other hand, the many special features which are of the eighties was among the speeds from 0 to 60,000 гpm,

or container which the results of long and wide first to start the manufacture of to be indicated within a gua- package

ranteed accuracy of plus or Orst attracts the buyer's atten experience, extensive tests and dynamos.

tion is the package that selle REISS, BRADLEY & CO., LTD.

Attractive packaging Transmission of the driving-fastest. Bre

spindle rotation to the indicat-is therefore of paramount im- pointer ia performed portance to all food manufac- ing mechanically in the first stage turers, bottlers of all types of and magnetically in the second. beverages, manufacturers An idler-gear and rocking arm candles and confectioneries, etc. Aluminium foil, being a solid, in included in the drive of the

This gives auto- continuous sheet of metal, is tachometer. malic, uni-directional drive to impervious to water and gases, the operating magnet, irrespec-i opaque to light and impassable tive of the direction of rotation to common infesting insccta. of the driving shaft.

Aluminium foll is an iden) re- Another convenience is the, ilcctor of radiant energy of all between the push-button control for remote wave-lengths - reading and which locks the in- largest infra-red and the short- dicating pointer while running cat ultra-violet-testa show at any desired speed. This in- that it reflects as much as 95% proved dial is particular.y use- radiant heat.

San Mauricio Mining Company P-wer Plant, consisting of five Diesel engines which supply power to San Mauricio and to the Philippine Smoking Company. These engines were built by W, H. Allen, Sous & Co. Ltd., Bedford, England,

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING

The Industrial and Manufacturing Division of the Marsman organization was formed to engage in industrial engineering and manufacturing activities in the Philippines and through- out the Orient. It is staffed with capable industrial engineers of executive expérience and well-grounded knowledge of the technique of machinery and equipment selection and operation,' plant layout and design, production procedure, and administra- manufacturing It will tion.

develop industrial and projects, and offers industrial engineering, management con- sulting and general engineering services.

MARSMAN H.K. CHINA LTD.

204 H.K & Shanthal Bank Bldg.,

Telephone 80238

ful for checking speeds of In other words, aluminium shafts where the dial of the in- foil prevents the transmission and strument is obstructed by pro- of molature, gases, light jecting parts or where the inzeçta and retards the trans- In the ense lighting is too dim to enable mission of heat. one to take an accurate read- of light, the highly reflective ing. The instrument can be characteristic of aluminium at. removed to a place of vielbility tracin the human eye subcon- for recording after the reading nelously. *.

has been fixed on the dial by

the locking of the pointer.

By depressing a push-button

on the opposite side of the in- strument, the pointer instantly returns to "0,"

Combined 'Four-In-One' Fireplace

The driving spindle is carried in a substantial bearing with provision for lubrication and bua a hardened, squared end for Lac as a driving centre at low

A coal grate, an electric fire, a speeds. In addition to detach- able male and fema e rubber bined in an ingenious new fire-

screen, and a fireguard aro com centres, a disc is supplied for place designed by London firm. the measurement of surface and The grate itself is a standard cutting speeds.

type which can, if needed, be fit- The pressure and vacuumted in front of a boiler typo fire guages are of the "Phosphor. back. When the fire is not needed, Bronze Bourden-Tube" type, the empty Krate is hidden by a They come in many sizes and the upper part of the grate.

screet which is pulled down from for each there are different ranges

Ifile screen has two other uses; of dial-readings for it can create a draught for a steam, air, water and other gen-nowly-kindled Agg and, also, con- cral uses.

vert the grate into a slow com- bustion stovo during the

night.

TH the surrounds of the grate are.] louvers which keep

the room

Electronic Brains

warm by circulating a current of hot air when

on the #creen is lowered.

An electric fire is contained in the second screen, which can be. pulled down in front of the grate. An automatic master switch pro New mathematical laboratorios vents this screen from being rais.

In which giant electronic brainsed while the elements are burning. will find speedy answers to the The whole fireplace is fully earth-

problems calsed

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atomic research and avtalion have "A guará is provided by the been established by the U.S.third screen in a form of a motel National Bureau of Standards, grille, which can be lowered in

the coal or the Dr. Edward Condon, Director of front of either the Bureau, as ann

this electric are. announced creation of national applied-

The "Four-in-One" can be filte mathematica laboratories which in any modern hearth. Although will have branches in New York, this fireplace I was only recently, Los Angeles and Washington, put Ints production, it is already.

Two ultra-high-speed electronic raving extremely popular. Of a heavy valuma of orders received computing machines, sald to faster and better than any preto date, a large proportion Is from vious devide, already aro

overscan. being built for the new laboratories,

be

The manufacturers.

to the

Dr. Condon reveals that the Riva Fireplace Co. Ltd. of Tanton new machines will solve In 10 Hour, Haymarket, London. minutes problem which an ex~. pert mathematician, working day and night by ordinary means, would require three days to work

out.

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a year cats up 600 pounds of coal "flich-quality legume haya.in 'at the powerhousbe.

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