1949-02-10 — Page 8

3

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY

"DISTINGUISHED:

HE

"ENGLISH

VICE.

ELECTRIC

MOTORS

FOR EVERY INDUSTRIAL DRIVE

SOLE AGENTS:

THE JARDINE ENGINEERING

CORPORATION LTD.

14-16 PEDDER STREET, HONG KONG. TELEPHONE 30311.

Imperial Chemical Industries

(China) Ltd.

ANNOUNCE

THEIR APPOINTMENT

as

SOLE AGENTS

IN HONG KONG & CHINA FOR

ELDORADO

ENGINEERING PAGE

New Tube Extension

The new extension to the Cen- trat Line of London's underground rallway, whose ladyrinths

now

spread from Ealing to the midst of Epping Forest, has already become part of the everyday lives of millions who travel to the city and beyond. To shyor a comfortable. and cficient train service is of vital importance and this recent Improvement has deservedly earn- ed the plaudits of all who havo xeen and journeyed on it.

One of the outstanding features of the modern stations along this ime la tha "daylight" illumination provided by duorescent lamps In fittings specially designed to the Trans- pceification of the Lo

the London port, Executive. Combining with erb construction of each the_superb main station-speedy escalators,

excellent ventile

ventilation, attractive appearance and spaciousness the new lighting system' helps to de- monstrate to United Kingdom and overseas visitors alike the en- gineering skill which has gone

this

outstanding postwar development

Into

The fluorescent lighting is shown to full advantage in the Bothasi Green. Gants Hill, Wanstead and Redbridge Stations, where fittings supplied by The British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd. are employed. Station

The entrance takes the form of an

to Gonts

Gants H

at not

yet

excessively

The the lighting

Bux-

"Aninally "Warm" to ercato, a comTM|

ENGINEERING EXHIBITION

BRITAIN INCREASES HYDRO-ELECTRIC POWER

As part of British Industry's vast programme of capitai expansion, the North of Scotland Hydro-Electricity Board-is do- ing everything in its power to complete the work now pro- gross on 12 of the 19 projects for which authority has been 1 obtained. In Scotland 1,500,000 000 kw/hrs of electricity are estimated already being generated annually, and it has been

that the water-power potential is 6,274,000,000 kw/hra annual. ly. Picture shows the growing dam of the Loch Blay scheme In the mountaine West of Loch Lomond, About 200,000 ouble. yards of concrete will complete the dam, 1,200 feet long and 160 feet high, which will hold back 1.200, million cuble feat of water to power the four hydro-generatora which will 130,000 kws. of electricity to the grid.

supply

New Techniques In Coal-Burning

NEW ALLOY FOR MAGNETS

A new permanent magnet. ni- loy has been developed" due to the work of the British-Forman- pant-Diagnet Association_ich_col- thuoration with the British Elec trical and Allied Industrias Re- search Association. The property | in which the new magnet shows: improvement is that of "coerci-. vity" or resistance to demagneti- zation and its chief application should be in electric motors and small Fenerators. The new magnet alloy is a combination of tron, aluminium, nickel and co- balt. It also contains a raro ele- ment Noiblum, metal which Occurs associated with tantalum In the Bure mineral tantalito. Nibium received its name from Nicbe, the daughter of Tantlus, son of Zeus, chief God of the ancient Greeks,

'su

the

ESC

SHEFFIELD

Stocl

Tools, Drills, Taps,

Dies,

Filcs, Hacksaw Blades, Lathe Tools.

Stocks held in Hong Kong,

ENGLISH STEEL CORPORATION LTD. SOLE AGENTS:

SWIRE & MACLAINE LTD.

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT 1.CONNAUGHT RD. C. TEL.. 30331.

FOR

A.P.8.14.

QUALITY-DURABILITY-DESIGN

The new magnet, alloy requires Ja new kind of heat treatment.

which includes keeping magnet at a temperature of about 600 C. for a considerable time. By a new process, developed by the English physicist Professor D.A. Oliver, the new alloy is heated and then cooled, in a magnetic field, The fleld must be applied in the direction in which it is ultimately intended to magnetize the material. The result is that the alloy can be more easily magnetized In that fortable atmosphere and of an From the power plant of the 24 inches diameter plping was direction. The alloy is so hard intensity which permits comfort- British Electricity Authority at Axed to the bottom end of cach that it is almost impossible to able vision. Occasional emergency Burton-on-Trent, England, comes distributing chufe, and to it were forge, cut or drill it even before fittings which are equipped with news of how the engineers there welded four splayed, finger bars, it has received the heat treat- tungsten lampe provide a standard

are managing to get the best out These cross bars relieved direct ment and the usual method of to cast the of comparison between old and of a

of a type of coal which was not pressure on the coal in the stoker manufacture is

magnets as nearly as possible to new forms of lighting and em at first suitable for use in a power hoppers, and the splayed angerschape and remove any

rough phasise the improvement which plant, An output of 80,000 in travelling from side to side of have been made.

pounds an hour has been obtain the hoppere scarified the coal and parts, or reduce to exact dimen

slons by grinding. When amull Water kept it ed from boilers which previously

reasonably open. maintained only 55,000 pounds was sprayed on to the coal on poles are required in the magne! for Instance, for fixing an hour with high carbon in ash entering the distribution chutes screws, the usual practice is in loss.

are Babcock and saturated steam was intro cast with a larger hole which The boilers The British Engineers Associa- and Wilcox. C.T.M. type, design-duced into the coal stream at a can be filled with a soft alloy 66

ed for a maximum continuous point about five feet from the capable of being drilled. Mining & Refining (1944) Ltd. tion of 32 Victoria Street, London, rating of 80,000 pounds per hour bottom end of the chute.

S.W.1, are holding an Engineering team at 375 pounds a squaro amount of water, added varies and Marine Exhibition at Olym- pla. from August 25 to September Inch and 810 degrees fahrenheit with the coal,

Boiler availability has been in 10 this year.

from feed at 190 degrees.

They Bince 1924 when that Assocl- are equipped with Babcock and creased from 500 hours to 3,000 ation

Wilcox style 28 compartmented hours at normal rating, and 1,500 responsible for the WRA

continuous rating. Palace of Mechanical Engineer chain grate stokers, Detrick front at maximum

OF The heavy "bird's nesting."

Instruments that measure to a ing at the Wombley Exhibition, the walls, Balley side walls and rear imping of the coal, has been al- degres of fineness of four parts, in British Engineers Association has arches, superheaters, economaliers ium)

will be included most eliminated, and water lanc-1,000,000,000 sponsored = biennial Engineering

and balanced draught. and Marina Exhibition,

The coal allocated was free-ing is suficient to keep the boiler among several entirely new count

and nuperheater tubes clean. Ing and measuring devices to be Just as, during last year, the burning bituminous slack with Normal output of 64,000 pounds shown at the British Industries specialised Machine Tool and En-eight per cent. Inherent moisture, an hour is maintained with oase, Fair this year. gingering Exhibition organised by four per cent free moisture, 3 and maximum of

Some of these instruments, on pounds their Member-Association,

13 the per cent volatile matter,

80,000 per

The view in the Machine Tool Trades Association cent, ash

and 10,750 British an hour when require t

scientific and optical Olympia, have been was hailed as an outstanding suc- thermal units a pound. In size, 1 inch diameter isolating valves, section at

orifice plates, armoured, flexible specially produced to meet the cess, so their own Exhibition of 55 per cent, was below one eighth hose, cross. bars and scarifier fin- needs of atomle energy research. wider interest goes og each alter of an inch, including 33 per cent. nate year drom strength to below one sixteenth of an i.ch. As cost no more than £35 for One firm is also expecting to show strength. For the EXHIBITION steam output of 55,000 pounds ana-boller-having-twin distributing a portable rate-meter scaling

units and probes deve

obes developed special. of 1040, the whole of the three hour for each boiler was all that

ly for

for the production of radio- Halls at Olympia, London, have could be obtained; after 500 hours

Bettye by-products of nuclear been hired.

(the total boller avaliability) the

bombardment in superheaters - were completely fouled. There was a very high drift loss.

Ottawa Canada

Producers of

RADIUM

and

RADIUM PRODUCTS

Full Information from

_Imperial Chemical Industries (China) Ltd.

Prince's 'Bldg..

Chater Rd.,

IT'S HERE

Hong Kong.

THE MAGIC IN A CAN OF PAINT NOW PROTECTS YOU FROM

THE PAINT THAT STOPS FIRE:

Albi-R

FIRE

Chemistry creates a new

'weapon to fight the

FIRE PERIL

Tested and recommended by the famed Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., and is the only fire retardant listed by them. Also tested by other, world famous labor- Latorics:

1. New York Board of Standards & Appeals

2 Purdue University Exportmont Station

?

3. Columbia University Research Laboratories

5. Canadian Standards Association

6. National Rescatch Laboratories, Canada.

4.U.S. Governmental Agencies

7. British Govt. Building Hosearch Station

8. American Hotel Association

and approved and recommended by Mr. C. W. Brand Deputy Chief Officer of the Hong Kong Fire Brigade

ALBI-“R”

99 the paint that stops fire, is now ready to protect your home, form, factory, and school; your hospital, hotel, theatre ond store from the dread peril of fire.

*Albi="" gives positive" fire protection to Wood plywood, fibre board and other

Interior building: materials ::

is applied like paint by spray or brush and may be tinted shade or color by adding dry, plaments.

retards the spread of flame byon when over-coated with an oil paint. den, or enamelidy mobil q

.

Režis the only fire retardant waiing material listed by the world famous

tors Laboratories, Inél Cent

ODAY HOW ALBI-"D" CAN KEEP YOU AND YOUR PROPERTY SAFE"

FROM FIRENISAM MUAS

CO. LTD.

12:31341/2/3

Distributora:

PATTERSON & CO.

*****chutes.

The coal was then subjected to A combined water and steam damping process. The fires im- proved at once, but it was dim- cult to obtain a continuous flow of coal on to the grates because of arching in the stoker hoppers, To overcome this a cross bar of

New Weapon Against Fire

With Hong Kong's fire losses hitting a now high...the Colony will welcome the arrival of a new weapon ALBI "R" to fight fro.

After years of research, 4his sa revolutionary that it a new era in the field of) fire protection was discovered in the laboratories of Ilarvard Uni- versity.

Thly discovery of

chemical compound, which simply painted on any surface, effectively pro- tected it from fire, was, at first, too great a miracle to be readily accepted. So to prove that this was 110 Rash in the pan", it was sont to the experts.

1

Magnetic Escapement Clocks

The

New Precision. Instruments

atomic pilo scientific and optical COYCTB a wido fleld of British scientific craftsmanship,

hibits also including cosmic ray recorders, a radar device that its on the pilot's Instrument panel in an aircraft and gives warning of The Horstman Clifford magne-other planes approaching in cloud the escapement which was origin or fog. ally developed for

pendulum

every

clocks, only, cat, now be applied FORT WORTH, Texas-John to alarm clocks,, strikes and J. Prachyl's car traveled chimes, and mantelpiece clocks way but on four whools. too. This Was demonstrated He collided with a truck, aftor some days ago at a one-day ex-which his car traveled 60 feet on hibition arranged by the British two wheels, then toppled on its |Horological Institute in London, side and alld 100 feet, and finally The new magnetic escapement rolled over on its top for another clocks were exhibited together skid of 240 feet.

Prachyl received minor bruises. with some of the finest historie pieces which brought early dis--United Pros. tinction to the United Kingdom! clock industry.

Yet, though many visitors ad. ¿ mired the famous John Harri-1 con fourth-marine, timeksoper which won a reward of £20,- 000 nearly 200 years ago and in at ticking, the chow was stolon by the new magnatio device. It is not only delight. fully simple but, as ita inven tor, Mr. C. F. Cliffard dectored, ila commercial' production 'Ja n good deal cheaper than that of the usual lover sscapements of ordinary clocks.

the new

Albi "I was sent to the Under-1 writers' Laboratories, Inc. to the New York Board of Standards and Wrist watches, or others sub- Appeals to the United States, Ject to continual shocks, vibra- British and Canadian Govern lorts, or change of position, can- ments-to. Are officials, estoty not be made with directors and building inspectors. magnetic device, but it is hoped After critical tests, their reports that this may also become possi- give substantial evidence that this ble fh a not too distant future. paint is an important now means The quick adaptation of the new to ́simple, offective and economical devico from pendulum clocks to a Aro protection.

whole scribs of other clocks shows the versatility of the new Inven

on.

The paint is a fire retardant conting material designed for usd on combustible surfaces such as wood, plywood, fare Insulation board, acoustical ülek and non- combustible surfaces such as plas tor, plastorboard and non

heat.

RECORDS BROKEN

London— Britain's steel industry

AUTO Ron-protectcake all records last year." "wit)'

to flame or

an output of 14,877,000 tons. It forms an insulating mat, This was nearly 900,000 tons This prevents the same from above the coriginal target

and spreading and considerably Wre: almost!/100,000 tong higher than tarde" the penetration of heat to the revised target set in the mid- the surface over which the paint dio of 1940 The previous beat

is applied to deals record achieved by the industry Hofa' "agenta for those products wa 223,000, $tons in 1989. Ard Thoresen & Co.Lids, and •Patrón production, alsóviant their distribgfora ure H. G. Patter" | now.ŭrecords: End is vicsodadilte son & Co.787@David: Honos WA local demonstration will be hald in the most futurga

with:

INSTALL

Standard

PLUMBING FIXTURES

WRITE FOR OUR HOME BOOKLET'

Agents:

ANDERSEN, MEYER & COMPANY, LTD. DAVID HOUSE

TEL: 28091.

SUCH GLARE AND WASTE OF ELECTRICITY

80w..

PHILIPS

300w.

AH!NOW I KNOW BY BUYING

PHILIPS FLUORESCENT TUBES

CROSSLEY Dirt Reversing

SCAVENGE PUMP DIESEL MARINE ENGINES

TYPE CR'

||The`regular and efficient operation of the Crossley. Marine Engine : ls" well-known to afl engineers in charge. The design Incorporates thKUSE pulse pressure charging.. A scavenge efficiency of over 10 per cent, a Vobtained, White

One of a range of this type is lure Airated. "It is bullela, four to eight cylinder sizes, ranging from 600 B.H.P. st.250 R.P.M. 26 1,440 8.H.P.

E320 R.P.M.T

Our full range of enginer of all types from: 6) HH,P. to 3.000 B.H.P.

CROSSLEY

BROTHERS LIMITED,

OPENSHAW, MANCHESTER

QUICK DELIVERIES AVAILABLE

ES

CHINA CONSTRUCTION CO. (IMPORTS) LTD.

HONG KONG & SHANGHAI BANK BUILDING

な