1948-05-20 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 20, †1948.] *

Perkins

DIESELS

F. PERKINS LTD.

Type S6M Marine Diesel Engines

100 HP-2,000 RPM

ENGINEERING PAGE

Modern Features Of Recent

....

Rolling Stock Construction

Pletures in this page show a 1/32-hich thick strips and was "Self-Service" Cafeteria Car ce- rolled in unbroken lengths of cently constructed at the Rail- 75 feet. The interior is coloured way Workshops ot Islington, masonite and includes anodised | South Australiä, for use on the 8.A. Railways. The car has an overall length of 77 fi, is 9' 0" wide, weighs 44 tons fully equip

large number of cars and other railway Items to meet urgent needs,

stock with the construction of a Print Mills, and now not relatively, small number of cars. only manufactures its own rull- In the atter year, the workshops ing stock, Locomotives and Rail-

way requirements but were modernised and the main

airo, [nluminium #ttings. generous engineering block is now an all-

where other rallroads have window. space. and venetian steel building with flood area

found difficulty in obtaining blinds for the windows, the slats

construeled n which are also Anodised of 400 ft. x 377 ft, and is fitted equipment, have ped and incorporates many un-atumimum. An. unusual table , with many modern machines usual features of design which and seating arrangement enables Included in the equipment is a HES of interest to technicians in ready access to each vacant seat Cap Rivetter with crane towers

These workshops are now en this fleld of construction.

without inconvenience to other above the floor and squeezes

rivets

Küged up to 14 Inches diameter

upon comprehensive passengers,

Into bullers: n number of programme of construction which

of Sleep Pusses up to a copacity of 1,600 Includes the building The air conditioning ardungeons: Batteries of Automatte, ap Ing Cars, incorporating the la

type of ment gives a constant supply of pilances: and numerous Multiple test features in this Altered

and

Transportation controlled tem-' Drills Automatic Lathes: Railway

The car is corrled on four wheel bogies of a fabelatert Ught weight design, made up of mild steel pressings, electrically welded together. The roller bearing axleboxes and flexible springs combined with the Ube- r. use of rubber ant special honded asbestos wenring sur- faces. ensure the passenger A snooth and comfortable rlde, and noise being considerably re- tired. The underframe, ક્રાંતન tinmes and roof are combined in a box unit by welding the sec- tions together All side frame.

pressings and the result lཐཱུ 1 light-weight fabricated structure of exceptional strength rigidity.

Complete--with reverso-gear and 2-to-1-roof and floor-members-are-steel-

reduction gear

Available for carly delivery.

SOLE

AGENTS

GILMAN & COMPANY, LTD.

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Telephone: 31146.

In the general design special attention has been given to tem- perature control and the redue- tion of notce by the use of kapok mattresses as Insultators in the side frames and roof, provising uf two inches of eork and ruliber in the floor and the double glaz- ing of all the windows, the Inner pines of which are shatter-proof, Its streamlined appearance is enhanced by the attractive ex- terior panelling of anodised aluminium alloy which Is of

Air Conditioning

sir at

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HENLEY CABLES

FAMOUS FOR OVER A CENTURY-

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THE JARDINE ENGINEERING

CORPORATION LTD.

. 14-16 PEDDER STREET, HONG KONG,

Telephone 10311.

Farnsworth

ALL WAVE BAND SPREAD RADIOS

Bigger on the inside

the New

Frigidaire Compact 7

NOTE

these Features

• Famous Matar-Misar mach-

anism

• Exclusive Quizkube Trays with Instant Cube Relenzé

• Full-width, rollar-bearing Hydrator with glass top

• Large Super-Frasim

•Multi-purpose Storage Tray

· All-porcelain Interior with

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ARRIVING

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Holds more food than ever before in the same kitchen space

Here's more of the things you want in a new refrigerator. MORE usable space on the new. flat top, MORE frozen food storage in the big new Super-Freezer, MORE room för kaaping fresh or frozen meats, MORE space for leafy

· vegetables and fruity, MORE usable space for other foodi, MORE food storage capacity per dollar. Come ing sed these new Frigidaires, team how economical they are -to-buy, to operate

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Alexandra Building

Hong Kong

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·

perature which is circulated with ù complete air change every six minutes.

The electrically catering equipment 18 Inost morier design

and a variety of types of heavy | Lino Passenger and Buffet cars miuchino tools and equipment. and also in the Passenger field. The Workshops layout incor-the conversion of existing cars operated porales a completo Chemical to modern-requirements.--Freight. steel of the and Physical Testing Laboratory: wagons and wooden Louvre cars

stock including open air conditioned Tool room: vides refrigeration space for a Heat Treatment Department Modern streamlined

are also on the production lines. 4-8-2 type cold meats, salads, liquids and with Electric Furnaces; ice cream, with the usual heated Metrology

and jocomotives for jast passenger The centre.

Plant traffic are also containers

in production ferrous and

nonferrous and a number have already

for cooked

18oup, cofice und. ten,

and pro-

foods, has

New Developments In Radar And Radio

Two separate electrical 'Instal- Foundries; Forge Shops and been placed in service. " lations provide the power re- quired for the various services and uses. A 20 kilowatt, 48 volt D.C. Generator, driven from one bogie wheel angle, #upplies power for the air conditioning system and emergency lighting. while n 23 K.V.A. 415 volt 3 phase generator, driven by a,30 H.P. 8 cyclinder V type petrol

At the British Industries Fairfried on board a vessel by a plot engine, supplies the main light- Marconi's Wireless Telegraph so that he has a portable self- ing. heating and refrigorating Co., Ltd., of Chelmsford, Eng-contained, means of talking to land, last week showed some of the shore or to the pilots of other The use of aluminium in the the latest developments in radar Vessels.. Other applications uf general construction is designed and in radio for

Bet Include its use by the communication this and navigation. Their stand was Press for reporting and for a in the Empire Hall, Olympia, variety of mobile uses.

power,

to minimise dead weight as well jus for its decorative qualities.

The Cafeteria Cor can accom London. The exhibits

hibits Included The police equipment includes modate 45 passengers and its police equipment; long-distance a new frequency-modulated construction is in keeping with the high standard

of skill and

communication

equipment, such

design, maintained by the Islingus 18 used on the world's tele-mun/uarters" set for

At Islington

equsembly of

com-

a large metro-

with police cars and graph services; the latest do- with other control centres. A ton Workshops,

Some of the features of the ter equipment and M. rack

velopments

television trang new development is a complete workshops in which this car was broadcasting electronle testing as Deen designed for use at the

mitter

of control centre constructed may be of interest.

This

rack-which and measuring equipment; com- mentator's microphones, and a control centre of The Islington Workshops with display of radio valves which in-politan or county police force- 2,000 employees, is controlled by ecludes the largest water-cooled combines in one compact until : the South Australian State Rail-transmitter valve in the world. all the various control panels and ways, and covers a total area of

equipment

used The smallest of the exhibits is transmisaloh

diversity 101 acres of which 23

reception. aru occupied by buildings..

The earliest shops were bult in 1800 and the main work cat ried out unin 1920 was the main- tenance

and repair of rolling

acres

for

and

a '2 watt combined transmitter Diversity communication is be- and receiver which has been doing widely adopted by, the police veloped for use by river pilots. as a means of ensuring clear and It works on very high fra- reliable contact with mobile units: 'quencies and can easily be car-lover a very wide, area,

Buyers:from, "alf parts" of the worldṣvhulted the "Belessh" "Industries -Fair which clawed on: Maturday. More than 3,000, leading manufacturers, emhihsted, at "Olympia, Karls, Court and Birmingham. Qur picture shows foxture of the engineering section, al58,ion" drankshaft "for"a" henvy marine angine, made by Somers Ltd Hales Owen, nr. Birimingham.

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FIVE WAVE BANDS FROM 535 to 1605 K.C. and 3.0 to 23.0 MLC.

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Telephone 25901.

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