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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1910.

The SINCERE Colte

HONGKONG'S GR

Ltd. IMENT STORE

SOLE. AGENTS

FOR

Farnsworth

RADIOS

KNOWN FOR TONE

BRC

FABRIC

ELECTRICALLY CROSS-WELDED ́ ́

STEEL-WIRE-MESH-

IN ROLLS OR SHEETS

FOR CONCRETE REINFORCEMENT

Stock Available

DAVIE, BOAG & CO., LTD.

Chartered Bank Bldg.

Agents for:

Tol. 28117

BRITISH. REINFORCED CONCRETE. ENG. CO.,LTD.

Small in Size

Large in Capacity

It is the new

PHILCO Refrigerator.

Model 780

Sole Distributors:

GILMAN COMPANY LTD.

*A

REFRIGERATION DEPARTMENT

· Gloucester. Arcade

ENGINEERING PAGE

BRITISH HEAVY INDUSTRY GOES TO IT

Right in the forefront of the British export drive are the engineering and anetliary. Inglise thes. Together they, how

count for between 80 nud. Ulf per. cent, of total export. Arnulted- Fly, their task is made custer by the enormous world demand for capital and similar goorls,, which should, take some"years yet

to

By JOHN KINGSLEY

is true of many sections of agri- cultural machinery.

more

future,

Exports of many British en- glueering goods are now break Jr all-time records and the overall target of the volume for December, 1948, is more than twice the 1930 average. Look- Ing at this from the angle of help to save stect, economise in Since 1930, the productivity Europe AR A whole, British . But this is not the

the use of manpower and counter of the industry only

has grown by machinery exports now account inflation as well as help exports. some 25 per cent and the labour for almost 60 per cent of the reason for the present prosperity

of tla, it is forro --British Arros are ns before the Sul in the face

ongaged in it by about total as against Jhila war still the leading suppliers of

'estimated that current capital the Ame proportion to more than 30 per cent, pre wor many types of engineering pader of £2,000,000,000 or 20 per

Investment is potentially of the than 11 per cent, of the indus- As to the immediate

trial population. Between Jan- shortages ducts.

of manpower and cent.pt the gross national pru. ĮBury, 1946, and December, 1947. materials must needssary be This does not meim, of course, duct, which wil prove a good the protiuction rate of engineer-limiting factors. But it in sig-

other that it is just a case of getting buffer if and when

de. ing. shipbuilding And electrical nificant of the determination the orders, settling the price and

mands fall off.

Koods increased by almost one behind Britain's drive that the going ahend with delivery These The British engineering indus- balf. Going down to detalls 48 output target for steel has industries have to balance their try, despite the ravages of war, 33,000 passenger eats were minde' just been increased by 500,000 productive capacity neatly

is well situated cope with in March, 1948, ugalinst

lons to 14,500,000 tons. 28,000 (four main domultis: an inerense nost needs. In fact, "the

In 1835 Bri-cent monthly war month in 19838.

production hax the emphasis in the export of their own pro-strengthenedi

of thin made 20.000 rallway been running at an annual rate duets, particularly to lollar and

the engineering section of the wagons; last year 38,000. The of over 15,000,000 tons there is hard currency areas: esquépmezzt British econoiny; Home develop value of output of many Items a reasonable prospect of this

ed products are and the servicing of other baste

replacing in- fot plant, such as bollers, pump-alm being reached, with direct extent sanct British exporting industries suci ports to some

In- | tng platit, specialised machinery benefits to the consuming indus as coni url stech; provision 1

vention and quality are still un- and so on is 456 and more times tries, of which engineering 1 braten. plant for development of over-

The average for 1935. The same the biggest. Hent resources especially Colonial and European; pinvision of phy- ulcal estets likely

Jurrase Brilish Invisible enrolls, for [example, from shipping and overs

sean investments.

SEVER

Industry's Big Effort

Aditing all these arest to ware tline losses of plant and arrears of maintenaner work the full denied is obviously beyoui the onellate certy of the on- gineering Trotistry tu supply, The call has also been baterailed by hu virtad removal from The postwar stucket of Germany which was a lembing prewar supe plier.

#

41-

The effort the indust, v is put- ting into answering the Many Calix on it is shown by the fact

1*1 that production

the third quarter of 1947 was warly 24 per eeut. above 1934. But the Economie Commission for Europe has recently estimated that the European Tron

steck gineering industries t Ul chemical_industries need to be Rome

40 to 50 per cent. nbal productive 'than" in 1938 to res |duce dependence on inports and

sustain overall production when, the present period of remonstrie- tion. Is complete. The greatest Immediate engineering shortages

to

As re-

CANADA'S FIRST INTERNational trade fair.—The first International trade fair to

be held in North America was opened in Toronto, on Saturday, May 28, by Viscount Alexan- der of Tunla, Governor General of Canada. He is shown above' addressing the audience of for-

eign exhibitors and buyers during the opening ceremony, Hon. A. Mackinnon, a Minister of the Canadian Government, is shown at the right. Buyers from 60 countries and exhibitors from 32 countries including Hong Kong, are represented at the fair, which is to be held again in

1949.

Special Alloy

are for railway wagons, mining Tubes

equipment. electrical equipment. al agricultural machinery.

com-

sea-

Police Diversity Communication

-mil

Tubes made of a special niloy copper. nickel and Britain also has to consider containing

iron, which resista cupraskan.and. The calls OF "Her Counter for

hot and cokl

At the British Industries Fair (equipment which has been de- machinery and equipment to do erosion by

water to a very high degree were Marconi's recently showed someveloped specially for the Mer- velop new projects, such as the

slown in The Birmingham of the latest developments in chant Novy after exhaustive East African ground-nuts scheme,

radio for con-trials under actual seagoing con- which will increase her food and section of the British Industries radiar and in

ditions. of this alloy are munication and navigation:

It shows the plan pasi- raw materials supplies. As these Fair. Tubes

recommended for all sea-water The smallest of the exhibits was tion, indicator which presents great schemes get underway there will be an almost insatin- pipe-lines on board ship where

a 2 watt combined transmitter under operational condlifens) a ble call for all kinds of engineer- unalloyed copper tubes are liable and receiver which has been decontinuous "picture" of an area

to corrosion and erosion. ----- Ing products ranging from

veloped-for-use by river pilots at about 29-miles radius.

round J vessel Any objects These copper-nickel-iron tubes I works on very high frequen- within this plete railways small items of

be carried

area such. as other plant and machinery and inelut can be bent and flanged by any eles and can easily

vessels, Ing

buoys, roastlines coppersmith and atg made in a

etc., on board a vessel by a pilot equipment. earth-moving

wide range of sizes from one that he has

self-

appear in the "picture" as spots docks and harbours. At the

A portable -quarter-of-an-inch up to 12 in contained

of light and enable the naviga- moment and "because

means of talking to other

to rapidly to determine als urgent calls it is reckoned that ches in diameter. As a result of the shore or to the pilots of other

exact work prolonged research ittle more than one-third of im-feld tests with a wide range of this set include its use by the

and vessels. Other upplications

position in darkness or in foggy weather, as well as medlate firm requirements or alloys of high temperatures, the Press for reporting and for a

knowing continuously the posi Cotonial works are now being makers have proved the suit variety of mobile uses.

tion of any other shipping in the ability of aluminium-brass tubes The police equipment included vicinity in relation to his own for use in various forms of heatla new frequency-modulated position. exchangers for all apparatus and "headquarters" set for communi- similar applications.

cation with pollee cars and

inct.

Home Demands

Pruned

of

The tubes are particularly rewith other control centres. Boon To The

A

Gardener

sistant to corrosion and retain new development is a complete In the process of expanding their strength to a marked de rack assembly of control centre exports, Home demantts have had gree at temperatures in the re equipment. This rack-which i to be pruned to the lowest safegion of 400 degrees Centigrade. has been designed for use at the ty limits. Last year the Govern-Imperial Chemical Industries control centre of a large metro- An English firm has invented ment put in hand its copital Limited, Metals Division, are the polltan or county police force programme cuts. which will manufacturers.

Have your

combines In one compact unit all the various control panels and equipment used for diver- sity transmission and reception. Diversity communication is be--

ing widely adopted by the poller reliable contact with mobile tmlts over a very wide area.

Kadar equipment on view in- cluded part of the Marconi | "Radiuloentor" Marino radar

ins a means of ensuring clear and

RADIOS REFRIGERATORS & OTHER

ELECTRICAL

APPLIANCES

SERVICED

-WITH- COMPLETE CONFIDENCE.

by our

Servicing Dept.

|All-Welded

a machine which will come as á boon to every gardener: it duces irksome weeding novel pastime.

ta

appearance of

The machine, which has the an Army flame thrower, works on the principle similar to that of the blow lamp. Pressure is built up in a three gallon welded steel tank which a mounted on akids. Paraffin or dicael all vapour is forced along a Ave-foot length of hone through a short metal' pipe to a vaporiser where the vapour centigrade,

Steel Tower reaches a heat of 2,000 degrees

One of the largest single-place

It is claimed that the gun can towers ever exported from Bri- bo put to 100 uncs, including tain has left the works of G. A. the destroying of weeds, moss, Harvey & Company (London) ground pests, clearing paths, Lich, of Greenwich, London, on drives, rockerles, removing paint the first stage of its journey to rust, healing metals of all typos Venezuela. This mammoth picco

of engineering, wolghing 108 tons, and sterilising chicken rung. having a height of 83 feet and

The manufacturers are Mor-1

an inside diameter of 10 feet in un Langleys Lki.. of The

British Radar For Sweden

Proof that British supremacy

of all-welded construction. The Bencon, Uxbridge Road,HU¬ welds were X-rayed before dis-lingdon, Middisacx, palch, and this

along nd this operation took several weeks and over 1,000 feet of photographical film were used. An internal, Į

pressure test of 400 pounds a. square frich was also carried out before dispatch. During its journey to Venezuela the tower is being filled with vir ot 25

pounds,

a square inch. This

his in the navigational field applies Guarantees Its water-tightness equally to radio radar comes in when, In the absence of more the report that the Swedish orthodox landing facilities, it is State Hallways authorities have dumped in the sea for floating decided to Instal Cossor, marine ashore at Punta Cardon...

radar equipment in one of their The decks of the 0,000-ton largest train-carrying ferry: ships." steamship Loch Ryan were apecl- This ship carries over 1,500,000 ally altered to take the cylinder passengers and $3,000 rollway

The wagons annually between Copen column, to be used in the din-hagen and Malmo and because tilation of mineral oil, was made the route is frequently obscured" of steel plates up to two inches by for accurate and reliable thick, cold-bent to give the de- radar is regarded as an “India- sired “curvature, media

pensabla" park of her equipment.

REISS, BRADLEY & CO., LTD.on 4,000-mile journey.

2 Queen's Rd., C.

ENGINEEPING DEPT.

Tel 18006.

W. & T. AVERY, LTD.

Weighing Machines

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14-10 PEDDER STREET, HONG KONG.

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