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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1940. )

ENGINEERING Progress Of British Industry Described

ה.

Progress of British manufacturing industry in 1948 1948 may be truced in the experience of a typi- cal company. The Tude Investments Company. at Birmingham groups together several dozon firms making steel and light motal tubos, bicyclos, electrical appliances, paints, traffic signs and many other products based on tubes. Assets of the Group amount to efficiency, specialised training in 37 million; it employs 30,000 the art and science of production workern, In December 1948 the is necessary at all levels of works Chairman, Mr. I. A. R. Stedsford, maangement. Good foremen, for gave a full report on the year's instance, have an imp

importance in a operations which mirrors many of factory almost equal to that of a Industry's current problems. The good worka manager, whereas foremost anxiety In re-quipment. poor foreman can upset the best In 1948 the Company and its sub- fald plans for production, Last sidiaries spent £1,250,000 on new

I told you of the courses we plant and equipment, making a were instituting to help our fore total of nearly £6 million since men to a fuller understanding of the end of the war, Even so, their responsibilities Thear the Bupply 'of new plant and courses have been keenly appre machinery does not by any means rinted, and have yellded such good keep pace with the Company's results that we have now acquired plans.

suitable premises to enable them Apart from new and modernised to be conducted on a residential plant, The Investments have been basis, with all the advantages umong the first groups to make which continuous personal contact the experiment that Is now provides". The Company has en-1- spreading throughout the country dowed a Research Fellowship at --the introduction of new seleni-Birmingham University in connec

.

fie methods of production manage- tion with the newly established

ment. In 1947 these methods were (Chair of Production Engineering. introduced in the first batch of the Company's factorles, and produced Profit, Liabilitios. startling results,

Outpat Гли

per The financial resulta

of this inachine-hour was in some cases group during the year an also nearly trebled, and the output of fairly representative of what has one entire factory was increased happened in a large mctor of by 31 per cent.

British Industry. Ar production In 1948 the overhaul of produc-has increased gross profits have tion methods was carried further also increased but not in the through the group. The changes same proportion. In response to required affected the habits, work- the Government's appeal for price ing times, and pay rates of reductions as an aid to the gen- thousands of workers, and the feral

ine feral stabilisation of tices and costs, management decided from the the Company cut a large range of outret that the full benefits of prices at cost of about £1 the new methods could only be ob- million in a full year. On the tained if the workers freely AC- other hand, the cost of гож cepted the changes. This meant

tamaterials continued to rise, and slow start? At the end of 1948 the Company will pay about

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An experimental train of double-decked coaches, with more seats per coach, is being consigned by the British Rail- between London ways for us on the Southern Region Lines

and Dartford. (AP photo).

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on

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Deep in the Nigerian jungle, Ministry of Supply scientists and administrative assistants, aided by 200 Africans, are engaged in research, the results of which are vitally important to British tropical areas and to British oxports to tropical countrics.

Through this research, the to the ravages of tropical weather, i equipment of British troops, if they Insects and fungi. are ever again called upon to fight in tropical theatres of war, will be better able than ever to stand up to the attacks of tropical climates. Similarly. Briush goods exported to hot countries are being made Increasingly durable and resistant

Orders For

New Ships Pile High

of

The testing of methods of Tropic is proceeding at the Proofing Ministry's Tropical Testing Estab- lishment in Nigeria, it is a con- tinuation of the studles and ex- the periments done in Nigeria by War Omce, on behalf of the Ministry of Supply, during the

war.

One reason why the Nigerian jungle was chosen for T.T.E, was its climate, which is conducive to quick attack on materials by fing Nigeria offers a complete range of tropical climatic condi- tions, from the hot dryness of ita #cml-desert areas, to the Jungle's sticky humidity. The reinfall is very heavy, in some areas reach- ing oven 150 inches a year, and provides just the degree of damp- heas which the Ministry scientists need for their work.

Methods of dealing with attacks upon materials and equipment by moulds and damp, the chief to wireless sources of damages one

sets, for example, are being de- vised, as are means of counter- acting destruction by tropical in-

the ects, In

the Chairman report, that these 400.000 more for them than, it methods have now been applied in did in 1947. In addition, the now la further group of factories with National Health Scheme has im

the "enthusiastic co-operation of posed now outlay on employers, the workers."

and wages have also risen; the The results in Improved output cost of these two factors in a full and lower prodhuaction costs havo)

Company will be year to this already been very substantial",500,000.

Orders placed with the ship- A number of important price re-

Even with there added liab- ductions were made during theilities, however;

the net profits yards of Britain at the present year, and output nevertheless in-would have been higher on the lime total 4,500,000 gross tonis, and their total value is approximately, creased considerably over that of year if i had not been for the

£325,000,000. In volume these the previous year. Production per serious increase in the replacement man continued to rise.

costs of plant and buildings in re-orders represent more than half of the world's total commitments for With the detailed review of mo- cent years. The depreciation al-

new ships. duction methada has gone a

the Tax rolowances permitted

insuff vived Interest IN trataing, of! Authorities and now

Anshipbuilding le management personal. AЯ the icient to cover the cost of raplac Britain's most highly developed Chairman of Tube Investments ing the assets. Tube Investments industries, with a high reputation puts it: "If industry is to reach has had a new valuation made throughout the world, it is not sur

which has placed the value over prising that, these orders for new the highest standard of production

if these assets have come from ship-owners

the p

In 20 countries. Almost every that it type of vessel 'sailing the water Filmagement estimate would cost at least £25 million. ways of the world is represented. Large sums have herefore been Orders for oversean countries total

In addition to side in

to the normal

about 1,750,000 gross ton, and are depreciation charges. A special valued at approximately £110 depreciation reserve started in 400,000. During 1948 the total 10:33 and built up out of taxed pro-value of the new ships exported fils has now reached £3 million to overseas countries, was about and the directors have announced that in futuro an additional ro- pincement charge would be set aside every year out of taxed profita

quite apart from the official deprociation allowance. In this deproctus way, audiclent funds will be pro- vided to maintain and replace all the fixed assets of the Group at the present Increased costs, But this will be a permanent addition to the operating coste,

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latter case, the scientists energies are primarily directed against termiles, or white ants, which swarm in their mill- lone in the jungle, woolly bears (caterpillar-like creatures with long hair), and ghoons, a pest fro quently causing destruction of materials in India, Corpenter hees, mud whaps, sliver fish, crickets and spiders also contribute to the destruction of materials by jungle conditions,

The

The T.T.E. is testing many kinds While centuries of designing of materials and equipment, rang- and building have provided the ing from needles to guns, boots to shipbuilding industry of Britain helmets, tents to building mate- with a vast store of experience it rint; and including plastics, metal is by no means resting on its finishes. optical, electrical and laurels. For research today in an radio equipment, various kinds of integral part of the industry. The wall boards, and textiles. British Shipbuilding Research materials are tested for resistance

example, Agreciation,

is to deterioration by exposure to unique.. No other shipbuilding hot-damp, hot-dry conditions, and country in the world provides com- to the highly corrosive atmosphere parable facilities for the testing

of a tropical surt bench, In the Reporting on the operations De

of now model forms and screw laboratories, chemical, phyalcot themselves, the Chairman records

rds propellers, changes in construe and mechanical tests are made to that thero werd Indications tional methods and now designs. determine the progress of decay. iwolve

months ago that the post- All this permanent research, sup- Already the research done dur- war honeymoon for exporters was plemented by the private researching and since the war is paying coming to an end, and that British of Individual shipbuliders, has dividends. for wireless sets are Industry would soon be confrent made it possible for Britain to more reliable, and cars, furniture od with the hard facts of life in design and build such ocean grey and furnishing give better service the form of keener competition in

hounds as the Queen Elizabeth and in the 'tropics because of T.TENS restricted, and dislocated markets. the Caronia,

work. Import restrictions were being imposed by other countries, and production costs in this country wore eising These conditions have begun to appear during the vear, but the change has not come na quickly nor gone sa far, as most people papocted. The sallers' mar- kot has continued in most parts of the world, and Tube Livest- ments exported in 1048 soven times more in value than it shipped in the recard pre-war year.

Order

books are still huge, but propara- tions are being made for more difficult #elling conditions in the future.

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