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Chubb & Sons Lock & Safe Co., Ltd.

THE · CHINA - MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1949,

Available er stock as illustrated.

THE JARDINE ENGINEERING

CORPORATION LTD.

14-16 PEDDER STREET, HONG KONG.

TELEPHONE 30311.

new look

in

PHILIPS

lighting

PHILIPS Tuorescent LAMPS

Sole Agents: MANNERS ENGINEERING LIMITED. Mercantile Bank Bldg.

JAEGER

ENGINEERING PAGE

Demand For British

Machinery

London

The demand from overseas for British machinery shows no sign of diminishing with the result that although the indu- stry is working at high pressure the waiting list of buyers has not yet been wholly eliminated.

Yet the East Aslan markets have been amongst those which have obtained deliverles during the first quarter of this year aggregating Lo considerable sterling value. Machinery exported from Britain to that are comprised in a large part textile plants, excavators and nining equipment, generators, in- ternal combustion engines, pumps, un road construction vehicles.

Malayn, according to the Board! of Trade returns, was the princi- pal recipient, but an interesting" fact is also disclosed that China and Hong Kong combined only occupy the second placo by fall- ing short of Malaya's grand total

of nearly a million and a half by only £10,000 in the three months specified,

ceived about a fifth of the amount position on the other hand, re- shipped to either of the other two. A signifiennt itan in this cate- gory of British exports to these markets is that of machine tools. at product Although this type forms only a small fraction that for the machinery supplied to East Asia the British machine tool

A "Liquid" Red Diamond 12-spout automatio filier, syrupor Company. Aerated Water and crowner, used by the Cosmos The machine is capable of filing and sealing 22 to 28 bottles minute. Watching the machine in operation are the Philip- pine Consul, Mr. T. C. Baja, Mrs. Baja, and Mr. Hubert G. H. Como Aerated Water Com- Wong, General Manager of the pany. "Lido" photo,

Two-Way

Telephony

For Road Vehicles

Burma which occupies the third For many years aircraft have enjoyed two-way com. ⚫munication with their ground stations; and long ago successful experiments were carried out with telephony from trains, in many coun- tries; but it remained for the war to develop a practical system of two-way telephony applic- able to fast-moving road vehicles. Today, that system is being applied to scores of peaceful purposes.

of

Industry has proved to be one of Britain's most successful export- ing Industries during the post-

war

New Design

watch

Boat

Of Washing your

Machine

A new machine disigned by Mr. W. J. Morrison, Chief En gineer of the Eastern National omnibus Company, Limited, provides an economical substi- tute for the expensive and bulky tunnels now generally employed for washing omni- buses,

The now machine, manufsetur- ed by Mesars. Strathstone, Idmit- ed, 7, Herbrand Street, London,

G. wic.i.,

consists essentially

These

a row of rotating flaps, which are

verlosed Close

in troughs. troughs At round the sides and rear of the vehicle to be cleaned and lower- and can be raised ed electrically. A distributing

system, which supplies water at a low pressure through a number of fine holes, is installed beneath the flaps.

vehicle to be The

washed is driven

between two guide rails on the floor of the depot until a beam of light falls on a photo- electric cell and thus Indicates to the driver that the correct fore- and-aft position has been reach- ed. Moreover,

waching machine, which is suspended from the roof, can be adjusted as it descends to enclose the vehicle. Water Turned On

the

The the water is furned on, the machine is lowered, the cleaning. flaps rotate and remove the mud and dirt, which has been pre- viously soaked and loosened by

Cleaning

continues the reaches automatically stops.

the water. until the machine floor, when

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seas buyera were more than twicef and the British Post Office nowwhich in Britain is now a very traverséd without the flaps belag

continue steadily to grow and this Coastal and river tug fleets,milarly, it has been

to

the

te

the

The control lever is next

next moved Into the "up" position, thus re- machine, which rises In Britain it has been chris-is Ideal, and has added tro- versing the mo

the efficiency of until it again comes to rest in

the roof. The

machine every Force which han adopted it

can be The deliveries last your to over-tened officially Business Radio,mendously to

The Home Office Fo

rotated.

Under these conditions the tonnage of the machines ex- issues Business Radio licences

is gently ported in 1938. Calculating on a enabling widely differing In-large number.

awilled with water

and equipment for some 300 equip- basin of the value exports for 1943 dustries to use the new VHF has, in fact, placed orders for the body of enthus were more than three times the (Very High Frequency) two-ments for different police bodies, vehicle is given a final rinse, 1998 tutal. Further overseas de- way radio telephony system, in addition to the 50 or so City and

Forces already sidely four

and which improves the finish of the machine tools mand for these

coachwork. The flaps, driven by 1 h.p. motors are made of taxi-cabs, railway 'marshalling notwithstanding the fact that the

yards, newspapers, electricity adopted for Fire and Ambulance rubberised fabric and many hun efforts of competing nations

undertakings, building con- services, and an unusual applica dreds of vehicles eth be washed sectare u afınre of the market have

and tion is the case of the Lanarkshire before the replacement of tractors, doctors, bakers

Department, dieps is necessary, also been intensified

snowy The British makers, however, green-grocery distributors have Road Maintenance are not content to rest on their all found valuable use for it. who have equipped their laurels but have already adopted In police work it has added one ploughs with R/T to enable these a plan of demonstrating their pro-hundred per cent to the effec- to keep clonaly in touch during ducts to buyers.

tiveness of roving police patrols emergency winter operations. One manufacturer pushing this by using a mobile and created a new terror for domonstration unit. This unit is criminals,

One of the most ambitious am touring Europe, is present itiner- Leading the way in this impor-bulanco control schemes so far ury, being Italy, Switzerland, tant new industrial and adminis

In the remote Island of Skye, France. Scandinavia and Spain. trative development la Pyo Tele-developed in being put in hand in the West Riding of Yorkshire, To ensure that these demon commications of the University where two 100 watt transmitters around the edge of lonely Loch strations are not provented

by com

historic ZET THE of Cambridge, Town

Glasgow engineer, local conditions the vehicle em-40

mualcations with some 50 am-Mr. Hugo B. Millar has started Company. mobilising its bunicatio ployed is capable of generating centre of scientific research, Thea to be used for two-way com- Culthir,

bulances on the road.

a new industry for the produc- its own power supply to run the Pye

British Railways are busily extion

substance of three heavy machines which it great resources for research, did

much in the war years to develop perimenting

with its application cartles,

the eff

efficient radio VHF Intercom-

delivery problems. One example is munkation which had so great an to marshalling yards and road Diatomite,

Tesult,

at Whitemoor near March, Cambe,, influence on the ultimato in addition to work on radar and where certain unusual conditions all the specialist radio services exist and shunting takes place tooth Office has given a 80- which the war called forth it is over a "bump", and to deal with

is

accom-

Neither is there any danger of Tel. 34174.the unit running short of raw material, for if carries sufficient it to quantity of this to enable

bases operate away from more than two months,

NEW STANDARD

"air plus" compressors

AVAILABLE EX STOCK :

ONE 250 CFM PORTABLE COMPRESSOR,

DRIVEN BY INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER UD-14 DIESEL ENGINE, MOUNTED ON FOUR PNEUMATIC TYRED WHEELS.

AND A LARGE RANGE OF

Thor

PNEUMATIC TOOLS

YU TUNG TAI LTD. Engineering Dept.

YORK BUILDING

Ambulance Control

New Industry For Producing 'Diatomite

called

This substance can be used for

a wide variety of purposes rang»

ing from insulators and fire bricks

cosmetics and insecticides. The

begun.

new

Mr. Millar and

not surprising therefore that

on this situation a "fixed" station has year lease of the land to a com- through their Telecommunications t

boon provided on the "hump", pany owned by branch, croated for the specific and mobile equipment fitted in work on the project has already

continulag this ro- purpose of

Tofour locomotives regularly in oper- First estimates put the maxi- search and development for pre-attort. sent-day applications, they should

Finally, this versatile apparatus mum production at between 250,-

000 and 300,000 tons. have boon responsible for more

cent than eighty per

Chemical analysis shows the of the found a quite unexpected utility,

Scottish deposits are of high business VHF mobile radio tele neither official nor strictly business, in motor racing. In July last, a horitiell commercial world.

equipment now in wes in His team of three H.KG. rac- quality and there is likely even- A three- Moreover, within the year and can were oruipped with mobile tually to be enough to start a

export industry. first business VEF R/T Instruments and were

link the Loch with the outside installation was successfully car-able during the race for the King mile road is to be constructed to Belgian Cup, at Spa, Belghum, link th When the road is com- ried out on a fleet of tugs opera

the English rivers Tyne with a fixed station in their praction of diatomite deposits will

be in direct telephone contact world

ploted next year, mechanical ex- ting on and Wear and which instantly service pit, and won the race with b bagan

to prove its value-eimilar

Until then A handful of men and exported to a score of count- /klad has boon the Installation of will do the work by hand collect- equipment has been designed for caso, Latest development of this begin.

phones in teams of three Hill-cells in every cubic inch. When

VHF intercommunication man care taking part in the Monte deposits around the Loch have

Rally, enabling the Carlo

them to been maintain communication through

a half since the

rations and industries.

.

Licence Granted

The definite acceptance of the

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of

exhausted, it is planned that the water should be drained away by a tunnel. The most pro life soll is believed to be under- neath.

Mr. Millar's Company-Scottish

the Scottish Offer:

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AMOTOR

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Engineering Dept.

Der Voca Rd, Co

Tel 31188

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SPRING HINGE

Bommer Spring Hinge Co. U.S.A. SPRING BUTT HINGE

Double Action Threo Loaf Type.

..

3", 4", 5" and 6′′

Bronzed Plated and Dead Black Colour.

Stocks carried by

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105; Des Voeux Rd, C.

Telst

MP,

23812

(Opp. Central Market

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out the long four days trial.

The sets, which have a range now VHF équipment for business in ordinary ground use of about ne having now been obtained, it 20 miles (it is greater from the was obvious that manufacturers of airt, employ two pre-set wave Diatomite Ltd, formed by the apparatus were free to BP-lengths which are allotted by Messrs. R.D. Millar of Glasgow proach industry with a view to the the Fest Office and fall without is taking over part of the Kilmuir salo of the apparatus, and since the 27 to 125 megacycles band Estate in Skye, now administered- Pye had led the way in designing of frequencies. The width

by It was not an this band enables a very large

Arthur Woodburn, gour, they that

should have been

beer number of installations to operate Secretary of State for Scotland, Instrumental in obtaining Busines in the same area without danger has said that Ekre Radio Licence No. 1-es the now of interference.

the finest available anera in commercial R/T service was rather Use of two wavelengths for the British Commonwealth. unimaginatively christened on be

cach

addition installation-one for trans-also said that in

1, to the half of "Camtax" Cambridge taxi cab and hire service car firm. misaton and are, for reception road to be build with Govern

This licence was granted on arch with all the mobile units, construct secondary roads and keeps the HQ, of any system in ment help the Company would August 27, 1947 and no sooner while miting

communication light railways to carry earth from had the fixed sta Hor and the WIKO

700! between the separato vans or the Lochside.. moble units boon katalled in the

́the meantime transmitter In

tracked cars. The mobile Camtar company's offices and cabe, that it begun to grows itself a receiver is quite small, weighing vehicles will be used for crossing remarkable money aver in Ume only 40 lbs and occupying only the rough land to the norOS and petrol. Within a month the 12 inches by 11 inches.

firm was reporting an ortimated saving of 30 per cent in

In petrol 'and tyres and conexquet weSK

and teår.'Quadrag 45,5lew business;|

Motor Starters Tedjo #orvloe arrived, and development which hitherto had Mägnetic Clutchen been-rerved to the Home Office knd the military and selber Ber-

Timis Switches vices was now likely to be in con- siderable, desman;; for, industria

road.

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