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THE CHINA LAILA MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1956)

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

HELPING OTHER COUNTRIES

TO PRODUCE MORE

STEEL

Britain's Contribution In Supply

Of Plant And Equipment

By W. Andrews

The capacity of the British steel industry has expanded ACCOUNTANCY, BOOK - KEEPING, by about 65 per cent since the end of the war. This has naturally

Company Seroláryship, Costing. An "Intensive method" course (for award addigalotna insociate or fellow! will amint you to higher statue and better salary luleresting spare-time prastai atudy with expert

for London Attre Siamter ! Commerce. RS.A. In. For trea wate of Commerce etc. Dunklet, wife new idom Sedon

Munauth England

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017 Argoonbanky Street London, we

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MUSICAL

been accompanied by

the

greatly increased activity on part of the manufacturers of steel-making plant and equipment.

class

Because vf the enormous carbomsing plant in the Com- growth in demand, firms which manwealth. have always speciniised in this The Woodall-Duckhom Con- of work have extended struction Company Ltd. 03/07 their scope, by the development Brompton Rd., London, SW3, is or acquisition of new designs, building

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plant, and some companies have turn valued £1,750,000, for the

Plant for Norway--

ed to the supply of partletter South African Iron and Steri and machinery Industrial Corporation's Pretoria types of płani WE PROUDLY PRESENT Wert. mlister's superh recordings on pre- į stimulated by the technical ad- plant, recorded tages Rachmaninoff Piano įvances which have been made

Trio. Chopin Concerto, Archduke

in the past ton or 15 years, Second Coɛcerto, Liszt Kiapeodies, Beethoven Overtures, Moonlight and Pathetique malas, Carmen Sultes, Pictures At Exhibition, New World Symphony

Esc. 150, rie. D Alexandru oue, Telephones 30160, 13057

FAR

NOTICE

FREIGHT

Hems werE

42 inch

company

prietary Company, Australia, at an estimated cost of £500,000.

British Another which has

sold much plant abroad is the Brightside Foundry and Engineering Company Lid, Ecclesteld. Sheffield. One of its most interesting recent contracts has been a 34 inch two-high reversible slabbing and bloom- Ing mill for the Karabuk Iron and Steel Works in Turkey.

Supplied to the order of the Sumerbank General Directorate.

forme the mill

excellent example of the marmer in which new machinery can be designed to fuif the user's requirements

for Integration with

plant al-

ready in service,

A

an

JAVY ned United Engineering One of the intest advances in which the Industry

Company Ltd, Park Iron in Britain

Sheffield has taken a leading part is the Works,

4. recently provision of extensive Instru- completed plant for the Nor- mentation ami The availability wegian national steel works at of such itema 15 Immersion Mai Rana, of which the principal pryometers for regulating cast-

by 108 Ing temperatures, flow-meters incl high-ft, reversing bloom- and recorders of all kinds for Ing and slabbing mill with 900

--And Sweden measuring the volumes of gaser ton electric bloom aboer, roller

ad EASTERN

quids

consumed. elce table and auxilary equipment; a

CONTINUOUS modium tronically operated automali 32 tr3ch two-high reversing. CONFERENCE

strip for the loa Altifoni e controls for different processes three-stond structural mili for which producing sections up to 18 inch

'Acciaierlo d'Italia at Genoa, Is FAR EAST GULF OF ADEN similar accessories

one of several orders received broth Kunint high quality beams, with electric billet shear,

by tho Loewy production and inite posible the electele sliding frume hot saw,

Engineering AND RED SEA PORTS

Company Lid, 551-558 Wallis maximum

from output

cooling banks: and a complete CONFERENCE

preifle type of plant.

19-stand Morgan

Rd., combination Downs

Bournemouth, merchani bar,

wire-rod and Hampshire, strip plant capable of flushing Has recently completed an im- portant order for the Swedish 5,000 [cel t

firm, Avesta, for hydraulic forg- Ing presses and hae manufac- tured rolling and forging plant of all kinds for steel works all over the world including Russia. The British electrical equip- ment manufacturers have also participated

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The Conference Lines wish 1 to inform Shippers and Mer chants That, consequent OR inflation, their operating and huilding costs have continued to rise substantially since the last general increase in freight in 1961. The Lines therefore now and it essential to increase the general level of freight rates from the Area by Hongkong Tariff about 15 per cent although there will be variations and exceptions in the case of a fow commodities,

Engineering Consortium

speeds Un

MHE heavy metallurgical in minste.

dustry throughout the world

tu

The total value of the material

tends towards the construction supplied by British firms ef integrated fran Arch stee this Norwegian works was

works where the whole process the order of

the iron ore

of production, from the receipt the despatch material.

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ut the finished

out on one site, carried ganised to chatre the maximum economy and efficiency of opera

tion throughout.

For the customer it is ob

viously more convenient tu

tion.

contract with a single company for the complete plant rather than with the Individual manu- facturers

the different and in recognition of sections, the advantages to be gained to The new rates of freight this way from joint representa.

to cargo wit only apply

a number <f prominent British companies formed in loaded by vessels commencing

1045 the Metallurgical Equip- ment Export Company Limite loading at the port concerned

This consortium is after midnight on 31st August, (MEECO).

engineering. e-ordinong 1956. For earge on Bills of

and sales group of British m Lading with transhipment the capable of suplying and erect - increased rates will apply to ing a complete iron and steel Through Bils

Lading works. of dated 1st September, 1955

onwards

rales of The Conference freight from Shangbai and North China Ports are also being revised. The new rates will apply equally to direct shipments from Shanghai and from the usual North China loading ports. The new rates will apply to cargo loaded by vessels commencing leading at the port concerned after midnight on 31st August,

1956.

an

Among the important oversen

contracts which the consortium has arranged in recent years are the supply of Bessemer steel. making plant to the Swedish concern. Norbotten Jarnverk, and the provision of iron and steel-making and rolling mil plarit for the Empresa Nacional Siderurgign SA at Aviles Spain. Firms associated in this way cuntnue, of course, to ac- cept individual contracts.

£80 Million Order

In

AN British firms is the Indian

N even larger consortium of

Steelworks Construction Com- pany. which recently concluded an agreement with the Indian For Through Cargo Government for the construc- transhipped at Hongkong, the tion of an £80 million iron and increased rates will apply to steel works at Durgapur,

Bengal. Through Billa of Lading dated ist September. 1956, onwards.

American President Lines ready started Ltd.,

West

The plant will have an Initial capacity which may eventually be doubled-of a million tons à year; work on the site has al- Of the total of £50 million of foreign exchange required for, the plant, the United Kingdom is arranging credita for more than half.

Prominent manufacturers plant for every phase of iron and steel production have many China Mutual Steam Navi- orders in hand for oversen cur- gation Co., Ltd.,

Ben Line Stenmers Ltd., Cio Maritime des Chargeurs Reunis,

ship Co., Ltd.),

tomers. Ashmore Benson Pease and Company Lid, for example, Ellerman & Bucknall Steam- Parkfield Works, Stockton-on- Tees, England, is engaged on the construction of two large blast Glen Line Ltd. (Glen, & furnaces, both with hearth dia Shire Joint Service),

Hamburg-Amerika Linie; - Holland-Oost-Azie Lijn,

Simon-Carves Lid, Cheadle Heath, Stockport, England, 10 Lloyd Triestino, S.P.A.N., building two batteries each of Cie. des Messagerien Mari-70 coke oven, also at Burnpur,

times,

Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Norddeutscher Loyıl, “Oconn Steam Ship Co., Ltd.,.

Osaka Shosen Kalsha, A/S Dot Ostaniatiske Kom pagni (East Asiatic ,Ltd.),.

Peninsular

Co.,

incters of 25 feet and rated out- puts of 1,200 tons a' day, for tho Indian Iron and Steel ComTM pany's plant at Burmpur,

together with by-product plant and coa and coke handling equipment. This will raise the capacity of the existing plant to it is 0,300 tons a day, this, claimed, making it the biggest

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

"PELEUS!

DANGAR ONO và thi voi

Oriental be surveyed by Mebar Palen &

Steam Navigation Co.,`

Bhores-Davy at Hoft's WhatỂ, from 10, de una '18 and R20, 1958, and

A/B Svenska Ostasiatiska heir, representatives prément - during

Don times are requela, to hun

Kompaalet (Swedish. East the survey,

Asia Co., Ltd.),

With Wilhelmsen,

DUTTKAFIELD & SWIE,

Hona Kória, June 10, 1980.

£2,000,000

for set

which in addition

to a major extent in these contracts, supplying the maint

auxiliary driving and

Among valuable orders for works in the Commonwealth is new 18 Inch, 14-stand, Mor- EL gen continuous skelp and strip

the Newcastle NSW motors, control gear and equip- inill for works of the Broken Hill Pro- ment.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

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FERDINAND

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AGREED

NANCY

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THANKS

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TO LEAN ON JOHNNYS THIS LADDER (SABT.

This 6,000 ton wheel press was buili, by Davy and United Engineering Company Ltd, of Sheffield, England. A similar wheel press la now on order for France. The company has provided many large pieces of equipment for overmés countries. Last year the firm completed a 88 inch (1.42 metres) four- stand laudlem cold trip milt which is now in production in

Australis.

Electronic

The electronic simulator con- tinues to be used for the study of

mulomatic

control and of problems involving the solution of differential equations.

Most of the development work has been completed and special units are still being in- troduced as the need arises and as experience is gained in using the machines.

Mathematical and engineering problems have been studied on The simulator during the year,

TODAY COCKAIGNE IS RICH, RULED BY NARDA'S BROTHER

KING SEGRID.

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JEES. THE CHLY BOOK- NORM TO FLY DON'T.) TANGLE WITH HIM; V- JOHNNY HE THINKS ONE TECHNICAL WORD IS

WORTH A THOUSAND

[A1

Simulator

including the study of an exist- ing control systern in an oil refinery and an investigation of the off changes in a turbo al- fernator.

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Problems of this type are dealt with

a' service for industry in collaborailon with the engineers concerned.

A certain amount of work has also been done on the simulation of economie systems in conjunction with the London School of Economica.

By Leo Falk and Phil Davis

IF MY GREAT- GRAND FATHER HADN'T BEEN SUCH A FOOL PD BE KING

TODAY!

PRINCE MICHAEL. DESCENDANT

OF THE OTHER TWIN

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

I'VE BEEN.

GETTING

FAT. LATELY

By Frank Robbins

"WHAT A PAIR OF HONEYS, THESE GUYN COL MARLON: 15 OUT OF HIS BRASS-BOUND

| HEAD, IP BR THINKSʻEITHER

OF EM IS CAPABLE OF

g"> ESPIONAGE 2

THIS LAMP WILL NOT BLOW OUT

A FIRM in the UK recently produced new, indicator lamp, developed specially to show speed restrictions to engine drivers when the engineers are in possession of the line.

CEMENT

Other tises have now become apparent.

The lamp is designed so that no wind will blow it out, and

HANDLING 40 that it will stay alight for

EQUIPMENT

| eight days.

Those lips are normally placed at three points besido the line when a speck wetriation is, in force-a mile before the

Now in production is restriction, and at the beginning

equipment for auto-and end.

matically transporting In addition to being open to cement from the site the wind, they are subject to vollent eddying in the alpstream, where it is mixed to the of passing trains. point where it is to be used.

The firm approached Britain's

Yet a lump that blows out can prove a great dunger,

Preturiatically operated, the Nalionai Physical Laboratory equipment will transport the and asked for a test on their mixed cement 1,000 feet hoexisting indicator lamp.

zontally and more than 100 feet

vertically,

It is claimed that it will con-

Using tho wind tunnel vey up to 35 cubic yards per techniques perfected in investi- tour through a olx-inch pipeline.

top.

the

be

gating the aerodynamic prob- The pressure cylinder, which ema of high speed flight, will hold 17% cuble feet of NPL chowed that it was under cement, is located at the mixing certain conditions possible to point and the cenrent poured blow out the lamp. into it through a hopper at the

Suggestions were mide

the lamps might

The tem re-designed the lamp and again submitted it for test ing.

It passed the tests attccessfully, none of the three burners ever being blown out, As a result the lamp is now recommended for use in nit. regions of British Railways,

is an example of how carried out im one.

how Compressed air, stored in on modified. air receiver, is then, admitted to the top of the cylinder through a valve and the cement is forced through the pipeline.

Regulation of the air pressure in the cylinder governs the cement's speed of travel.

At the delivery end of the This pipeline, a discharge box separ-research. ates the cement and the air and held can be of benenit in others

central baffle within it divides entirely dissimilar. (the flow of cement inbo

two streams which

re-united before the final delivery.

Velocity is thus arrested and the force of discharge reduced.

Pipeline is supplied in acc- tions 10 feet long and one, two, three and five foot sections and berxis are also available. Firm

COTTON DISPLAY

is: Blaw Knox Ltd, 85, Brom IN LONDON

ton Road, London, 8W3.

EVEN

MAGICIANS

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try Libby's

FROZEN PEAS TODAY

ROWNTREES

You can

the fruit

Can

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London Design Centre, opened by the Duke of Edinburgh. April 20, now has the first of Its special displays, Called "Design-In Cotton, the display was opested on June 4 and will be on show to the public for a month.

by

The exhibition was assembled the Colton Board, Colvur

Design and Style Contre, Man- to show current

chester,

examples of well designed dres and furnishing fabrics, woven. and printed, in 100 per cotton

cent

and blcade and mixtures of cotton with other fibres Most of the fabrics, and already on salo both in Britain and abroad but there aro a number of brand new designs on show of particular interest to trade buyers.

Already neatly 100,000 people, have visited the permanent ex hibitions of a wide range of well designed British-made articles, ranging from a motor cycle and typewriters to kitchen sinks, This wathibition continues dur- ing the specki tlaponcil

Design Contro,

of

Industrial Design): 28 Hoy- market, London, SW1,

Vital Link In

Kai Tak Scheme

In Burma, the Rangoon University Engineering Col" lege and Polytechnic will be completed later this year and In Australia the group is carrying out large-scale building to help meet the acute housing: shortage...

system

An office intercom made, by 'a UK dan 'la" playing an important part in a big air- port development scheme In Hongkong.

One of them mullkorn stallations-guld to be the only apparatus of Indy and

in nomally unit whhots in

offiera

helping

engsince working on Kai ank Airport

by development is scheme, which soolades

roclamation

conscionable arou land

The

uniguo ikin

complete bebyden "every", point

on t system construct

loud to loud, loud to phone,

phont to phone hanno

A central exchangO INC.

In the Hongatong Clovnenenat

Chier Roukkuza

the airport,utch, twar, toth

of the system