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ENGINEERING PAGE

BRITISH MACHINE TOOLS

How Britain is excelling in the postwar production of highly complex machine tools Was amply demonstrated

recently

when members of the Slamese Purchasing Mission visited the Monda} works Kor¬the"?two : - Manchester ins

firms of H. W. Keams & Co, and George Richards & Co.

SWIRE & MACLAINE LTD.

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. CONNAUGHT RD, C. TEL: 30331.

316 sizes.

ENDLESS V-BELTS

CAN EI

Replaced with only sites of Verlink

APB

At the H, W. Kearns works the visitors saw the demonstra-

NEW tion of a light-weight horizontal boring machine of a type which cannot be procured from any other part of the world. It is

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nough to do any job of sur- facing, boring, milling or drilling likely to be needed in automobile shops and all small qom-

is also small enough

ents in railway workshops. It and light enough to be shipped in single packing case ready for erection on the floor of the works where it is to be used. It needs only connection with the electric mains supply to go straight to waris.

This light-weight machine has brought orders to Britain from all parts of the world including the United States. It weighs less than a ton and a half but will drill a hole an inch in diameter into cast iron at rate of half an inch

minute. per Push Buttons

the

Sergeant-Major James Lambert, M.M., explains a model of a construction bridge to Mr. A.. V. Alexander, the Minister of Defence, and Fleld Marshal Sir Willlam Sim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff. The exhibition is part of a recruiting campaign 'to increase the nation's auxilia ry services.

WIND-TUNNEL

TO TEST

BUILT

MODEL BRIDGE

Insido a specially-designód wind-tunnel at Thur-

leigh, Bedfordshire, England, Mr. Alfred NEW COMBUSTION

Barnes, Britain's Minister, of Transport, ro-

contly saw demonstrations of the effect of

wind forces on a 52 ft. model bridge.

there

has

CHAMBER FOR JET PLANES

A new kind of combustion

Members of the Mission saw the simplicity of its operation. The machine is started and stop ped, by push buttons. The total range

of the speeds to the main spindle is controlled by the rotary switch and one lever. Push In the first demonstration, a and dimensions which work on buttons start and stop table feeds form of bridge dock similar to the present model may show to for longitudinal and transverse that of the ill-fated Taconma be necessary, or desirable, in the motions. Changes of speed are Narrows which culminated in interests of economy. In all this chamber for jet aircraft is to obtained by one lever.

Among

experimental

work, the State of Washington, USA, been free. interchange of informa be made in the United States countries which have already bought small type vibrations which culminated in and engineers, and their opposite

was used, and the alarming tion between British scientists under British licence. boring machines is

is Colombiz

but the same factory has had a long the destruction of that bridge in numbers in U.S.A.; research will

The new combustion cham- As many as 316 sises of industrial and fractional endles V.

connection with the Far East 1940 were reproduced in the continue in both countries inde. ber has been developed bp helts can be replaced with only four reels of Veelink, the

Orders are now in hand for Hong model.

pendently, and in this way cach Armstrong-Siddelep Motors of Kong, Burma, link V-belt. From these handy reels required belt lengths are

Malaya and Cey- Then the form of dock set of results acts to some extent London (The Hyde, London, quickly uncoupled. made

In addition several constrúction was changed, and £

check on the other. The N.W.9, England), and incor- placements for any type drive are always on hand. RapidLast year

endless and installed. Belt re- machines for India Railways the improvement in the behaviour knowledge

gained will be of turnover of VeeLink on reels climinates spare belf deterior-China and most of the countries that of the first type; was dramın span suspension bridges in all which not only maintaina -100

customers Included of the model, compared with great value in the design of long

porates a vaporising system

of Latin America.

diately apparent. The expert-parts of the world. 'At the works of Georgements now being started will Richards & & Co., members of the determine the anal

design of example of electronic control of River Severn, which will be the Mission were shown the Arst the

proposed bridge over the

machine tool for shaping and largest suspension bridge in Eu finishing railway wheels. They rope and the third largest in the sawit akinning the surface off world.

When the wind blows against VesLink--known throughout the

a railway wheel of hard steel at Statea baa

the rate of 210 feet per minute. Haelf proven in service on thousands upon thou-Production on a full scale has which will be communicated to

The machine is a prototype, may be set up in the platform, More than 20 locomotives a gas turbine, is progressing safis- -sands of drives. Wherever En used higher levels of power trans-

not yet begun but

and in already some the cables

turn to the mission efficiency are attained.

of the leading British

towers. Those monu-

vibrations can facturers of railway wheels are

increase in size to a point where eager to install it în order to

the bridge falls completely, un speed up still further British tess proper precautions, are taken production for the

In design. railways of this country and the rest of the world.

stion. Complex, costly belt inventories are ended. Stock re- cords are simplified. Standard reels, hold 100 feet, sare stor- age space.

VeeLink goes on quickly and eastly...lowers machine down- time. On drives with outboard bearings, it is installed with out moving the motor or dismantling the machine, on drives of this type have been estimated to run as high as Savings 9/10 the cost of installing any other V-belt.

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The Managing Director said Sole Agents- KIU FOONG TRADING CO. that one of the minor problems his experts are trying to solve before they go into full

full pro- duction le that of the waste stoel which files from the cutting tool too fast to be easily disposed The advantage of the machine is that it cuts time for machin ing

wheel; to about half the time required by older machines,

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of.

a suspension bridge, vibrations

to the

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Aerodynamics

Ash Disposal By Conveyor

per cent uniformly it also avoids distortion of the cham- ber. Britain's Ministry of Supply has helped to finance, the development of the new jet-chamber.

The new series of dosis “with Britain's M.G.B. 2009, the first Bea-going craft to be fitted with

The

first machinery. mank-

̈ ̄by ̄ ̄

v Metropolitant-

factured Vickers Electrical Company

come dully for ash disposal to faclorily. a plant of novel design built. at the Polmadic locomotive depot of the Scottish Region, British Railways. Four loco- motives can be dealt with simultaneously at four pits, cach: 199, feet long,

The floor of each pit consists

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Limited (Manchester, England),

m was destined to be tried for partod of not more than about 30 hours and then to be returned to the manufacturers' works for

bine at

Early in 1846, Britain's Minis- try of Transport asked the Do- partment of Scientifle and In- of gelds, which allow the ashes examination and overhaul prior dustrial Research to undertake to fall through into reinforced to its installation for a second, an investigation into the nerody-concrete- hoppers, containing series of trials............ namic behaviour of suspension troughs filled with water to bridges, with part the proposed trough the ashes are removed by

cach Tho ashes. From quench the

behaviour of the fur- design of the

sea, however, was Severn Bridge. The work was

which is sub- so satisfactory that the first undertaken in the Aerodynamic merged in the water.

trials were extended to 55 hours. Division of the National Physics Each belt extends for Some salt was deposited on the Laboratory of the D.S.I.R., and

full

theblading but by washing the com- This great increase is obtained since then experiments have been trough, and is driven by pressor with fresh water, the sait. by adaption of the knowledge going on at the laboratory at an electric of electronics gained by British Teddington, near Londonut in fect per minute: It is carried ance unimpaired. The second

a conveyor belt

the

length

of

at a speed of was dissolved and the perform

400

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- BRITISH MADE G.F. MALLEABLE TUBE FITTINGS HAVING PERFECT THREADS AND REAL MALLEABILITY. RELIABLE FOR STEAM; WATER, GAS, OIL AND AIR.

fitting individually tested to 360-Iba-

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STOCKS CARRIED

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FABRIC

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FOR CONCRETE REINFORCEMENT.

Btook. Available

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FOR

DUST AND FUME EXTRACTION EQUIPMENT

CONSULT

CARTER & SUTTON

VENTILATION ENGINEERS

try during the war to peace-time has been spent in investi- upwards at one end of a slope, phase of the trials is now in pro- time uses.

gating the behaviour of models to another ernveyor belt operat-gress and will last until the en-] 236-A, Hong Kong & Shanghai of short lengths of deck plattor the troughs; The ashes from this hours' total running.

ing at right-angles so, the line at gine has completed about From these, it has been possible belt aro deposited on to an in- to reject certain types of con-

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REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE 600

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struction, because they proved to clined conveyor belt which leads be unsafe even in normal wind up through a subway in this conditions of frequent occurrence ground to a height of 50 feet, Gradually the form of construc and are discharged into .on tion most likely to be safe was elevated reinforced-concrete bun. determined; the next step was ker of 50 tons espacity. to build a complete model bridge, The bunker straddles a.

on which wagons are

80 that the results of the section for transporting the

al trials

rials could be finally checkelt.

A special wind tunnel had to ashes, the empty wagons having

be built for the full model tests, been ahunted from the coaling

for no tunnel big enough to take plant after delivering coal,

Bánk Bldg. Tel. 28004.

H. W. SUTTON,

Manager."

CROSSLEY Diet Reversing

the model existed in the United The locomotive coaling plant SCAVENGE PUMP DIESEL MARINE ENGINES

Kingdom. itself had to be minda and tested skip-hoist type, of 400 tona to determine the precise shape capacity. It has thres bunkers: and details of construction; this one for coal suitable for express having been found, construction Passenger work; another for coal of the tunnel itself started in the suitable for local-passenger and autumn of 1910, and the work fast-freight trains; and a third for was completed in the summer of coal for ahuniing and Strip" 1947. Since then careful obser- wagon, loaded with cool. tations have had to be made of

A model of the tunnet also of a novel design, is of

way.

The

the air dow in the tunnel, and at is placed on a tippler table,, which the same time construction of the is then tipped sideways to dia- bridge model „has.

under! charge the coal into a steel cen: tainer or skip of 22 tons capacity, Test At 140 M

MPH The skip is hoisted to the top of the plant, and · traversed, by "a The maximum wind speed carriage which, brings it over the which can be attained in the desired coal bunker & bolteni tunnel is about 14 m.p.h.. but door in the skip sa opened by the effect of this on, the model, electrically-operated remote con is equivalent to the effect of trol mechanism, allowing the coal wind of about 140 m.p.h. on the to fall into the bunker. NA full-size bridge, This Is high | The coal; in "foi" · "out of wind speed--much more than has the

the numerous - bunker

out boon recorded in Britain but it lets by digger feeders which a Important to investigate safety Pare alectrically driven and are at moderate as well as high capable of supplying coal at speeds, for the Tacoma Bridge rate of between 100 and 170 tone "Faust"in" 5" Wifid of only Bumi.plz. per. hours. The ash handling A second model will have to plant, has been built by thi, John be built in due course, watch pron - Engineering Company, will approximate much more

nsptoan in the in linh closely the 'final's destrus of the mi

and the coulins £plant Severn Bridge; this will Incord has porate certain changes, of delani

TYPE CR'

Tho regular and officient operationi of the Crosley Marina" Engine / is ** well-known to all engineers in charge. Donie, dasign - Incorporates ¡exhause,

pare pressure charging. Aldavango

fficiency of pres 90 per cent is;: Cobtained,

One of a range of this type ka illust Surerad, it is "bullt, in four to eight wylinder sizes, ranging from 600 B.H.Pat 250. R.P.M. to 1,440 8.H.P. 'at 320 ̊ R.P.M.

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