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ENGINEERING PAGE

NEW DESIGN FOR LIVING

IN HONG KONG

A very considerable ecuMMITTIY

in structure could be achieved.

if architects took the trouble

to design their buildings with

am!

-Economy In Structure

estimates are

L

ik

ing system. de $2.50 u cubic feet, Mr. sold, or, say, in round $37.000.

House

3

exceed Kluge figures

bed!-

Two

British. Industries Fair, 1948 Model

With four months to go, pre-other things the latest scientific parations for "B.LF, 1948" are and photographie, goods, offies now in full swing, Allocation | appliances and sports goods, of space to 3,000 and more ex-| mys nud silverware, clocks, hibitors has been completed. | watches and Fancy goods, In Decisions have been taken on ai) 87 industries will be repez- the siting of various groups off cented at the three contres,

exhibits and arrangementa Demands For Space

planned for the comfort and

convenience of oversens visitors in view of the immense sue- always a prominent fendurecess of the British Industries of B.L.F. organisation.

Fair in 1917, the first to be held The organisers of the world's for eight years, it may reem largest industrial fair have a rash to predict stil greater heavy and full-time job. Be success for this year. Yet from fore the last renctions from the display point at least this oversons have been received, it should be the case. is time

Far more to begin preparations.

manufacturers for the next fair. To cope with have applied for space even this nonstop work there Is a than last year: in London the

In demand perruanent staff in London.

exceeded the area addition a number of commit avalable more than 520.000 tres, consisting of representa square feet-by no leas than 36 tives of bading British firms per cent, The 1.1.F. organisers and trade associations, are ap-f could therefore be highly selec-

choice of exhibi- pointed each year to net in auf Vive in their

tors whose goods will represent advisory caquelty.

One of the more important of the cream of British industry. these is the Textile Committee The exhibits will, mereover, headed by Sir Raymond Streat, have a strong export angle since Chairman of the Cotton Board urity in spare is also deter Far alt hemich leather will this mined by the export potential

of an individual manufacturer replacing textiles nos your bo the highlight of the fair, tex- and his industry.

a sincere desire to reiluce to #y thut, amplified by profit-thirsty meeting the problem would be minimum those parts of the prp-| contractors, the

to ill intermediate floor where

The semi-detached house col mises whica are nut

strictly unly ureeptable if key-money in the older buildings

In ench Hectich) of often go sists Bessary.

or similar financial under-tak- | the "bendspace" FA This viewpoint was expressed ings enable the owner to get n fer! or more provided the work stround door made up of un en- by Mr. C., Kluge, architect. return, as soon as the building throughour the building is due trance hall, study, lounge with in an interview with the "China | ja completed, on a

e-related verandah, dining room, pantry; major part simujiances

kitchen, lavatory and servants Mait." Mr. Kluge, who studied) at his investment.”

If #ks{{{t1

2 10-feet head.

Grat floor, ast the National architeture

WAK josufficient, Me. Kluge showed the "hinn sper

air- quarters;

of four Superior Academy of Fine Arts Main" a few of the designs he conditioning could he installed consisting

three Bathan emas. Paris,

received his is

exhibit ne poing to

of quite easily to remedy matters, rums, Architect Hiptoma fran the which apperats on this page),;

At his exbibition. Mr. Ringe balconies and a farge box room; French Governmeal śn 1937. Noteworthy points were the will be exhibiting plans, eleva and a second ikor, consisting of al bathroom, n plans to hold an exhibition g6.6 [compactness if the structures, tions,

Play a k of ha reent architectural de the design of the varrying models of most of his designs. stali rom and a roof garden Mr. Kluger extimates that the skeleton, and the rational, or- Tot 11e Alr, Klope

states,

Typical of these are his de cost of a couple of such moms of disposition Lanie Mail that in his opinien mest rooms,

signs for an apartment build built with all the best materials, serviers.

Ther Tractate and a semi-detached house, she uld be in the neighbourhoodies as ons of Britain's greatest One of the mest popular fon- abeleforts, whose remuneration|was the pțininu sm ! is based on a percentage of the wastare of spuer,

Flats eet of bulking, de mug ware to reduce as much as pregible the

Isigns.

"China

A: kmt if he was not afraid that his exhibition might not

A part of their Intilel

] n&s uf tous competitors, ing. There include corvider &, Mr Khuge said that he did not crudings verandudn Cloth mats+ | mind if other architects her fer's and servants"), large e5-| rowed bis idens "providing trauer halls, and sun,

that as a result many bauldings AL times. these "auxiliary are erected in this Colony and elements" occupy twice as much the problems of houses and

Hiving | often spare find a solution.” the essental

space as quarters,

"If calculations and the en gineer's design of the structure show the

negleet 4/

[

conomy as the architect's rat lay," he said, "it is, no wonder

New

perspectiveS

aren

of $140,000.

Experiments

In Tin

the

institute

and most famous exports will tures of last year's B.1.F. wOR continue to cover a wide area its remarkably wide range of at Earl's Court and attract a entirely new products and de- The Boor plan of the apart.

very high proportion of the velopments. While it is doubt- Twit building shows Cour

overseas buyers who visit ton-ful whether 1948 will eclipse apartments in each storey, two

con in May.

this performunge-which repre- 2-roomed fats and two B-room-

The three big exhibition era-senteil the fruits of wartime as The rd,

1 tl lilt

is

Tres occupied by the British In- well res prestwar industrial re- dustries Fair Castle Bromwich | search-it is certain that Bri- 6340 sq. feet and the height of

11 feet, one storey volume of 58.740 rabic feet, or giving a

in Birmingham and Barletish inventiveness and ingenuity A publication issued by

Court and Olympia in Lendon will provide a new substantial an average of 14,695 en. ft. per British Tin Research

same contribution. A random selec- apartment.

states that interesting experiments--will house mich the

from One Solution

developments an- The Lotal cost of such

An have been in hand for more than groups of exhibits as last year. tion Concerning the lack of office-apartment, including the best four years to discover the most Thus the engineering industries nounced in the last few months space in Hong Kong. Mr. Kluge available building materials, a reliable means of protecting ster will be represented at Birming wives, such items as Pyroe (n ham and light industries in revolutionary building materi means of poud lift, sanitary and plumb

attractions mujal. substitutes suggested that

Experiments were marle with London. The various sorts of steel and various Earl's Court besides leather oil and wood. Lypes of protective surfaces such gods and textiles will nebuie smetacles, Indderless stockings. and horthand machine for blind as oil paints, lacquer ele. In plastics, pottery, glas -

Tw "brain" The different hall-operators every case results showed that the furniture.

reliable most

runt. of

of Olympia will show anong marbine. proofing was the application of a thin layer in. The latter need only be 0.00005 inches thick, and yet provides complete protection against rusting.

Standards For At Last Agreed

2-1-1

+

New Values

<£

The new values for the ricetri cal units which were also adopted on New Year's Day do not, on the surface, I ok very greatly dill rem from those already use; behind them is

determmations

ล

bul

Light

new

from rust.

h

mcans

every cast

the

rusted beneath the

The cust of tinning is small.

to 是

it

different currents being For convenience the "new can-made. Britain's National Physicut Lat

It is easy to paint over the p with dh" is express d as a fraction used from time to time. The ac jat ry, in Coperation

of this layer of tin; and re-paint- untit uther the brightness and this

ofcuracy of working aimed at was

without organi-alun 19 malar

Ing can be done later rajion luminous intensity

such fa tew parts in Countrits, has just amoune: để ti

The work which has established any need for the previous layer coming no free of certain inter-maghittade that the brightness of nationally agreed standards, which a full or cavity radiat r (or black thes new vaates for the Ohm and to be scratcher away carefully. body at the temperature of the the ampere was carried out com-On the other hand where paint in will ensure thist unts

sillation of platin Curently in the British Nati nat) applied without the intermediate aleirority and m masuring inter

Physten Laboratory and the layer of tin, ins shy of light have precisely the cartiles per square centimetre.

Bureau of Standards in Washing steel sare meaning in all those coun

on anal methods basically similar pamt. Fries.

but in practice stan what dhfer- Many manufacturers of preci

an sheet of steel costs less than institutions. There was then

quarter as much as painting only instruments and appliances in

were emol yet in the two The singing of both surfaces of a the British 14es make a point of

additional check on the findings.

one of its surfaces. These establish that one inter- having their products tested for

hitherto, national Ohm, as used accuracy or even calibrated-by

fundamentul

17 Laboratory,

1.000-19 equivalent the staff of the there is a direct line between the change in the principles by which "atselute" Ohing and that one in-

According

Canadian made ternational ampere is are

equivalent extensive scientifle work that has such

two fundamental to 0.90035 new absolute" ampere. Consumer Survey made recent- Itd to the establishment of these Bittert the

units the Ohrn and Amperc

ly by the Canadian Daily News- precise standards and the actual

have been defined in terms

paper Association, users of British precision equip.

35.7 per certain material standards; in the

cent (one car in three) is a ment wherever they may be.

ense of the Ohm the standard was

The re- The implications of these figures 1936 model or older. So far as lighting is concerned, broadly based on the electrical

most obviously to certain port also shows that 13 per there had been no Internationally resistance of a certam column of apply

resistance instruments cent of the cars owned in 60 agreed unit by which brightness mercury, while the ampere

was precise can be expressed until the "new fixed by the amount of current such as current measuring resis Canadian cities are 1931 models candle" was defined.

unit which, when

passed through ators bleause what formerly was recommended to the Inter-solution of silver nitrate in water, say, 10000 Ohms is now nearly or earlier. national Bureau of Weights and would deposit a certain weight of 10005 and such instruments Cun- damental to accurate electrical Measures in 1939 and cume into silver per second. force on New Year's Day, 1948.

Now, however, the values are measurement will thus suffer a nf the so change in value of nearly .05 per expressed in terms called "absolute units"--the centi. cent, metre, the gramme and the second, The calibration of capacitors or Their calculations need nit, there condensers-notable fore, take into consideration the ports-is also affected and perallar properties of any material instruments play a most important part in devices for measuring substances.

radio wavelengths and frequen. cies.

This

had

all lung The difficulty been that of arriving at a stan; dard of illumination which could be produced accurately from a set up written specification and

wherever it might be needed for purposes of comparison or culibra- tion. Methods employed hitherto much have been subject to too variation for them to be interna- timully acceptable.

Ampere Value

Implications

was.

British CX-

three

nre

High precision condensers very frequently sent to the Na ple, was obtained in effect by lonal Physical Laboratory for

Value for the ampere, for exam

In the nineties, special lamps weighing on a balance the attrac-calibration before marketing and burning volatile hydrocarbons- tion between two colla carrying from the New Year the new valves

A very large will of course be employed when

such as the "Pentane lamp"-were a given current. designed to provide standards of number of measurements Ilumination, but these could not be accurately reproduced and in any case had to be corrected for humidity, barometric pressure and

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hollow

were this is done,

Tanks Of The

Future In

Plastic

plastle He said these lighter armoured

most

Tanks made largely of and light enough to be flown from vehicles must mount the one front to another will play a highly penetrative guns available decisive role in the event of an- for ranges up to 3,000 yards. other war, U.S. itary expert Their armour must be sufficient to protect the crew from Flak, small predicts.

arms, and air burste.

who commanded

the

Now recoil-

New Standard The now standard of light is the result of research chichy In Bri- Maj. Gen. James M. Gavin, These vehicles will use the new Lain and the United States. It

parachute principles of the shaped charge depends on the known physical assault troops in the Normandy and recoilless guns, he said. The tact that the brightness of a small Invasion, said the heavy tank of shaped charge what enable the aperture in a

enclosure World War II in 30 outdated it Bazooka to blow to hole through maintained at a uniform tempera-belongs in the "Smithsonian In- heavy tank armour. ture dopends only on

that tom stilution."

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righted article in the "Armoured vehicles," anid Gavin, "or we wil A thorium container copable of Cavalry Journal,

be left with the fliest civilian being heated by radio frequencies "Either we show foresight now luxuries in the world and ne is flied with solid platinum. Into and develop the means that will means of protecting them." thi, platinum projects a small enable us to fly everything we He said his airborne armies wil; tube which passes through the lid need for combat or another na-need lightweight anti-tank guns of the container. By an arrange- tion-will," he said. “If another planes that can fly many different ment of lenses any light originat-does-well, we've had. It.” types of payloads, and lighter

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ing it the end of the tubo của to Gavin envisioned. the Airborne combat equipment of all kinds led to a phobometer which mea- Armoured vehicles of the future What is needed, he said, sures its brightnes

con 4s being made of plastic, silicate, hedge-hopping plano that

above ita melting point, and then duce their weight,

1,000 miles, and can land in c allowed to cool very slowly. At The race between armour, and pasture, as well as on a concreta the point when it solidifles. or the gun, with the tank constantly runway, J freezes, the temperature remains growing bezvleri Kirendy upkila) Gavin commanded a division in constant Zora slost period and it doom for the heavy tank... Gevir. the airborne, fighting In Holland then that the brightness of the mid. "The future of armoured and the Battle of the Bulge. He Light is observed for, at this: tem- Vehicles, lies in 1'ihter, • much is oneinander, of the US, #2nd perature it provides the standard. lighter equipment.”

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