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THE CHINA MAIL, THURS DAY, JANUARY 1, 1948.

ENGINEERING PAGE

TRUCK DESIGNED FOR EXPORT

An entirely new range of linea of a comfortable car type duty 12-ton vehicle and ultra-modern trucks known as Tenh to give the

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vehicle pro- from strengthened car units. It is to meet this mar-

customer medium capacity "Comet" is announced by Ley-something entirely new in out-duced land Motors, of Lancashire. line.

of this series is the new and

OverSCIS

The nest nuteworthy feature The Comets are Intended for ket that Comet export, models market, where av been designed. In track weight form it is offered in three dif (Continued at foot of next columns

MAT frontat appearaner there is as present a which combines with the flowing carrying gap between the heavy

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SEARCH FOR BETTER RAYONS

rayon

concerns

The Chinese call rayon "man. It is also their constant alm † 1947, (production 12,800,000 British Tudo alik," so emphasising the to Improve established rayon reund). It is noteworthy that have put forward ambitious, essential distinction between production procenses, such as this comision of Brillsa rayun modernisation plans:- Cours natural and artificial silk. Rayon viscose, veetate and cupramon«, productkin has been attained in taulds have reserved £40 million sa product of the laboratorynjum, particularly by combining spite of the fact that 10,007 and Colancse £0 inillion for and hence of human rescarch.] these products with each other fewer workers are employed It;} capital investment with this In their laboratories scientists and with aatural fibres such as it than beforb World War II. | object.

make use of artificial means. wool and cotton. The field of In mid-1939 the silk and rayon ndeavouring to produce resulta[activity before rayon research industries employed a total of This emphasises to a remark 'dentical in principle with those thus appears to be very wile-72,200 workers; the presentable degree the urgency

and Produced by the silk-worm since indeed, almost limitless,

figure is only. 62,000.

responsibility of rayon research work. The foundation of tho. In other words, modernisation | British Rayon Research Asso- has raised the British rayon | clation shows that the industry industry's productivity above in setting about ita tank in the its pre-war level. The major right way.

ancient times without the slight

at sign of difficulty: the spin- ing of a fine thread cut of raw cellulose, which the little crea- ture extracts from plants.

Extension

The extension of markets is another objective. Formerly the clothing industry used to be the chief party interested in fibro

Human beings find this less any; they have to fell trees and arch developments; but a put the wood, through a long and growing market has been din complicated chemical process covered in the furniture indus in the microscopic spinneret- try, and now rayon research has ex chinned finally yield on al-stimulated an interest in fibre developments ndditionally 201 most invisible thread.

the part of other industries.

Brain Work

Few women think of the vast mount of brain work involved] in the research which lies be- ind the stockings they wear, which is a "combined operation"

Another problem awaiting an ideal solution is that of con- drueting special looms to weave rayon yarù. The object is to emancipate rayon production from the machine processes uned n the beat sense of the word. for natural silk; an abject which British research successes Rayon research on a collec-

have stituired already to a tive basis has begun in Britain large extent in the field of dye

nly since World War II. It

ng, where special dyestuffs and had not that rayon research

machines are now used for previously been neglected in

acetate silk. A smoke-producing device, pr-Britain; on the contrary, great; morily for use as a distress signal progress had been made-but it by those lost at sea or elsewhere in places difficult of access or incntion, even by aircraft, also effective as a smudge pot in orchards and the like, has been W Van patented by Joseph Karner of New York City.

One

391 of the

inventions patented in one week by the United States Patent Offer, Mr. Karner's device, Nn. 2,423,859, signal which easily provides may form a part of the standard equipment of lifeboats, rafts, air craft and the like, and may be

but

set in operation by anyone with put the use of tools and caused to emit a stream of smoke which will rise to a substantial height, It consists of a water-tight con- atrer having a charge of smoke reducing materials in the bottom. a ameke-accumulating chamber the top and delayed action means for igniting the material. Also, in order that it will not be rendered inoperative if thrown overboard, means are provided for maintaining it in an upright position.

This development has sprend was chiefly in the laboratories also to fabric printing, where of a few individual firms. Other special dyes, machines and pro- British textile industrica had eesses also have been introduced. collective research al- British research workers are begun

eady into the fields of wollen not resting on their laurels, but cotton and linen fibre.

are constantly seeking further

Progress

It was not until November | improvements in dyeing and 1946. that the rayon industry printing processes. set up its research centre, the British Rayon Research Asso- ciation, Traditionally, of course, industrial pioneering in Britain always has sprung mainly from individualism.

doubt why the rayon industry developed along individualistic lines between World Wars I and 11.

benefited This progress has

market consider- the oversens and this is no ably since the end of World War II. The value of British rayon exports in now some five times greater than before World War 11: for the first seven months of 1947, it totalled £16,400,000 Os against £3,200,000 for the corresponding period of 1938. British production of rayon yarns and staple fibres during July of this year amounted to 18,200,000 pounds as against a

It coordinated itself, at last in 1943, and set up the British Rayon Federation, with head Thi quarters in Manchester. Federation organized Im mediately joint research, cul minating in the foundation of the Research Association. Thir Association is now busy pre naring the ground for collective research work.

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A life expectancy of 12 to 15

The July figures also show years, with the tubing itself

that the rayon industry han rated for 10,000 hours or more.

All users of rayon, especially made a healthy recovery from is claimed by the Colorescent

it suffered after Laboratories, Inc., New Jersey, women, will admit that there the reverse

for Improvement in Britain's coal crisis in February for their Col Cathode tubes: is scope Through the use of new Pyrex rayon products. Rayon research sleeve electrodes, there is no workers, themselves, do not by blackening of lamp ends, emis- any means claim to have found ion is broken down evenly over a porfect substitute for natura} the entire ahell, and there is the silk, for they have not yet suc minimum of shrinkage and ceeded in coaxing the silk-worm to give up the secret of its "laboratory work," although on (Continued from Col. 3) the other hand, scientists are ferent wheel bases, each avail-

now able to produce rayon able with left or right hand fibres, the properties of which steering. There is a choice of surpass those of natural silk in petrol or diesel engine.

many respects. The invention of nylon is the latest sensationali example of the possibilities of rayon research,

nluiter.

Designs are also completed for a Leyland Comet export passenger chassis for a 32-35 seater body, the production of which will astart in the first half f 1948. This chassis will have the same frontal appearance as the trucks.

Experiments

At present the British rayon industry is making experiments with various

types of

new

The name Comet was choser for the new range of models fibres, which one day may lead as a tribute to the "hush-hush" to the manufacture of fabric- Comet heavy cruiser tank de of unprecedented beauty, soft- signed and built by Leylandness, durability and warmth Motors

workers are trying Research Ltd. during the war Britain's fastest and mos! to find new raw materials to heavily armoured tank, it led make fibres from-for example the way across the Rhine and] by making caseln Abre out o played a major part in the des- milk and' alginate rayin out o' truction of the enemy.

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