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THE CHINA HAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1947.

THOMAS SMITH & SONS

(RODLEY), LTD., LEEDS.

ELECTRIC CRANES

ELECTRIC OVERHEAD CRANES RAILWAY BREAKDOWN CRANES DIESEL AND PETROL CRANES HAND CRANES EXCAVATORS

SOLE ACENTS:

THE JARDINE ENGINEERING CORPORATION LTD.

14-16 PEDDER STREET, HONG KONG, Telephone 201

PREST COLD

REFRIGERATORS

Domestic Model 3.3 cu.ft. Arriving Shortly

Future Shipments will comprise 4.4 cu.ft. und

7 cu.ft. streamlined models with tee trays,

All above with sealed units,

shelvador etc.

5 Years Guarantee

Also 15 cu.ft, domestic model. White enamel laside and out. No woodwork. With Ice trays.

One Year Guarantee

For full particulars apply to:-

ENGINEERING PAGE

New 5-Ton Diesel Mobile Crane

Crane Taste

Electronic Device To Capture Criminals

electronic device

service..

cranes

Research

When the

great fashion

Founded in 1820. Thomas weather protection, Is provided Smith & Sons (Rodley) Lid. for the driver,

includo builders of cranes and excava Other mobile cranes tors, have established a world- lorry-mounted diesel cranes. In- The spectrophotometer,

that, can dia-wide reputation for sturdiness, cluding the MEC, which can be

a erano or ex-houses of both the Old and the different long-life and high-class perfor used either as tinguish 2,000,000

10-ton diesel cater New Worlds send their crea- colours, is now being used to mance under all conditions of cavator; a

pillar

Д crane; 5-ton diesel tions to other countries, they track down criminals.

Their products (for which caterpillar crane; and various

fashions popular clsc- It is particularly effective in Jardine Engineering Corporation sizes of locomotive crane equip-generally attempt to make their

drivers, are agents) may be divided into ped to travel either on steel rails Own hit-and-run tracing

English where. The great according to D. J. Parsons of four main branches electric or rubber.fired road wheels.

cranes, mobile

Excavators

fashion houses, however, have the Federal Bureau of Investiga- cranes, steam

The fourth major product of adopted a different principle. tion laboratory in New York. He cranes, and excavators.

the Smith worka at Rodley, reports that the FBI laboratory

Electric Cranes

They fully appreciate that receives evidence in many hit-

Leeds, are the excavators. These Taking the electric and-run easca where a driver!

are the outcome of many years the taste of one country may leaves the scene of an accident, first, these are capable of rat working experience and embody not necessarily appeal to an ning at low cost, with high out a number of unique Lentures, other and have assumed an ex- "The clue most helpful to the puts over long periods; they are They are normally manufactured port policy in accordance with |

view. Climate playa μ cusy in standard sizes ranging from this investigators," he said, "Is in-uted for their smooth,

yd. large part in the need for heavy formation as to the kind of car working and absence of naise.4 cu. yard

or light materials, but there is involved. Frequently the cloth Workmanship is of the highest capacity.

.There ing of the victim struck down on quality, ench ernne being built The Sinth "Two-Ten" is per-more to it than that. the highway wil be examined, to BESA specifications and in-haps the most popular, being are wide divergencies of taste, and minute specks or smears of earporating adequate safely de- both reliable and (puble-free. and a cut or design that ap paint from the automobile are vlees. Operating levera

Seven attachments are available, pears in no way conspicuous to found and removed."

grouped close together, an easily and quickly interchange. the women of one country may every known device is employed able, for which only two jibs seem startling in the extreme

to those of another. to ensure the safe manipulation are required. of the various movements with The "Five-Twenty" embodies British textile manufacturers the least possible effort on the some exclusive features, while niready have devoted considor- the "Super-Ten" is one of the able research to this question

He said that the spectrophoto meter was useful in making the analysis. Results are searched

in the national automobile paint operator.

to 1

Cu

file which contains the standard Single or mull-motor types latest models, high-powered, fast of taste and most interesting samples of paints and 'finishes are supplied as required. The in action and embodying most conclusions have been reached. used by the various automobile most satisfactory arrangement, of the modern features.

During the first five months of manufacturers. These often re- of course, is to have separate In conclusion, it should be this year Denmark purchased sult in good clues, lending to the motors for each motion; this painted out that Smith cranes six times as much wearing ap- Identity of the hit-and-run makes clutch operation unneces-are always in stock or in pro- parel from Britain as during driver.

sary and allows the gearing to greas; all parts are made of the the Bame period in 1938, be totally encloned.

best material and are accurately Sweden seven times and the ex- Selected types includes a 3-machined to jigs and templates. port figure to Norway rose ton locomotive crane; the level. Each crane 18 erected and from a former £52,000 to over luffing dockside crane, a hit thoroughly tested before it leaves £1,950,000,

Export Of British Bicycles

speed affair lifting 4 tons at the works and a certificate la

Transformer

Specify

Ferranti

GILMAN & COMPANY. LTD.

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Telephone

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NEWEST IMPROVED FLUORESCENT LIGHTING

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Schools, Offices, etc.

55 ft. radius: & 4-ton electric issued with it to comply with Trade in these goods with forge crane on a fixed base; a the Home Office requirements. other countries shows a similar: EASY 234-ton crunc on caterpillar Smith cranes in the past 127 increase. In general terms the trucks; and a 5-ton travelling years have been supplied to all export of British clothes overhead crane.

parts of the world and have throughout the world has risen acquired an incomparable re- over fourfold, from £3,500,000 over £14,500,000, which putation for absolute reliability. to soundness of construction and proves the practical appeal of trouble-free working.

British wearing aparel abroad.

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The

"Queen Mary" Refit No Easy Job

Steam Cranes

Britain, the third largest of

Next come the steam cranes, the bicycle exparting nations produced in various sizes with before World War II, is now! ifting capacities frein 1 ton ap the chief supplier of bicycles to 15 tons and which can be to the world. In 1937, the re-mounted on ordinary or sint- ing carringes for all rail ganges. cere! pre-war year, 831.600 British bicyrles were exported,

Other types include breakdown worth £3,000,000. Overseas re crunes, grabbing, cranes quirements naturally could not magnet cranes. be met during war years, as principal gears in the manufacturers were busy with Smith, steam erane are of aicel,

with machine-cut teeth. war production,

When World War II ended principal gears are mounted on

The story of the refitting off anuds-were dismantled, clean- the change-over to peacetime high tensile steel squared shafts. production was quickly effected Another feature la the spur- the "Queen Mary" is the story ed and rewired; all reflectora,

over of a magnificent job of work totalling by last year the United King-geared travelling motion,

7,000 pieces, The carriage is constructed of done under extremely difficult were stove-enamelled again. dom achieved a new record ex-

Some of the reflectors in the port of slightly over 1.000.000 rolled steels sections and plates conditions.

axics When

war broke out, the public rooms comprised bicycles valued at £7.000.000. while the special steel Overseas requirements, how. have self-olling bearings. All safety of the "Queen Mary" plecos; each piece had to be ever, are so vast (estimated to pulleys are of large diameter, became major problem and numbered so that everything Thou ba 50,000,000) that this year with machine-cut grooves, while she was for a time in Ameri went back correctly.

the jib-head pulley is removable can waters. Eventually, how sands of feet of metalwork it is hoped to export over two without disturbing tie rods. Full over, it was decided to equip were cleaned and re-lacquered. million, including component parts,

load can be derricked safely by her for troop-carrying, this One of the principal diff- The coal crisis at the begin-the derricking-gear, which com- being done in different parte culties, was the replacement of ning of the year, caused a tem- prises a large grooved barrel, of the world wherever she was broken glassware. Straight!

places, curved pieces, plain Some of the many thou- pieces, coloured pieces, mould- sands of lighting fittings with ed pieces-all had to match! which the great ship was equip

Short Supply world demands. But it is con-large-capacity boller tested to ped saw service throughout! It would be difficult to fidently expected that last twice the working pressure, an the whole of the war, but most imagine worse possible condi year's record will be surpassed. improved type of steam regula- of the large decorative fittingstions for the refit. At times

REISS, BRADLEY & CO., LTD.porary set-back in production, operated by a aclf-locking worm operating at the time.

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Telephone 28006

2 Queen's Rd., C.

Hong Kong

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and steel supplies are not yet wear, with screw-operated adequade for the considerable friction brake. expansion necessary

Other features

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tor valve, automalle mechanical | were taken out in Americra the job was held up for lack lubrication for cylinder and and Australia. There, stored of material. Practically every steam regulator, and high car-away in the quaysido sheds, thing needed was in short sup bon steel slewing roller path they were to stay for years ply and to add to the probleme and, rollers.

until the vessel had completed the fuel crisis came and made her war service.

things still more difficult.

The lighting fittings were

Mobile Cranes

far да the

In the field of mobile cranes, Somo idea of the magnitude: Smith have produced a new of the task of refitting the ship not the G.E.C.'s only contribu

can be gauged from the fact tion to the reconditioning of crane designed to meet the re quirements of contractors, works, that over 1,500 men have been the ship. For many months, rallways; docks and so on. working on her in Southamp- топ from the company'

Nothing is sacrificed in the ton docks. So

Coventry works were on board' design and manufacture of this lighting fittings are concerned overhauling the telephone sys crane, which has the guarantee it has taken nearly ten months tem. The main switchboard of reliability of Smiths, being to restore them to their origin-

whs completely stripped and built to conform with the BESA al state.

rewired and every phone was requirements. This is the 5-ton The main contractors for the

and diesel mobile crane, powered reat were John Brown & Co. taken away. to Coventry

overhauled or replaced. with a 40 hp motor, which can Ltd., the original, builders, of

Ultimately all difficulties If 1% tons at a 24 ft, radius Clydebank, who sub-contracted

were surmounted, the recondl- to the furnishing firms whp and 6-tons at a 12 ft, radius..

tloning was completed and the Another necful S-tonner is the were responsible for the vari "Queen Mary has taken her [dlegel' or petrol-electric

public rooms when the place on

the North Atlantic with n 34 hp. engine driving a ship was built. These, in the DC generator

which gives 12 case of the lighting fittings, in Kw at 220 v. This in turn sup- turn sub-contracted to the elec plies power to four electric tricat firma: who manufactured motora which drive the respec- the Attingha

G.E.C.

tive motions.

crano,ous

service alongside her sister ship, "Queen Elizabeth."

The General Electris. Co. Ltd. of England is directly repre sented in the Colony, by the British General Electric Co. Ltd., Queen's Building, B

- Crane, speeds are Holsung, Thus the Genoral Electric 5-tons at 25 feet per minutes; Co. Ltd. of England, who were Derrickings, full range in 15 originally responsible for the Multicore Solders Ltd., mak seconds; and travelling, &, zaph design, and manufacture of a ers of the solder so widely used with full load and, 6 mph with-large part of "the lighting in- In the Services, during the war," out load. The crane lifiá 6 tons stallation in the public rooms have issued a useful brochure at a 10-ft. radius and 2 tons at and cabins, wero faced with of facts and figures about sold- nn 18-ft. radluskog d

the tank of reinstating several | er, with details in French and- The main-control is by a hundred fittings on board... | Spanish, and also a card carrys single accelerator pedal, with All fittings, including thous Ing samples of the 14 and 16 separate reversible controllers which had been in use all the Bar, solder. These can be ob for each motion. The machine time were overhauled there tained on request from the

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