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THE CHINA * MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1956.

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

New Advances In Aluminium Foil

CIVIL ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENT IN For Insulation

THE

COLONIAL TERRITORIES

By DR S. B. HAMILTON

la Past President of Britain's Institution of Structural

Engineers)

THE earliest problem that confronted

of

civil engineers in the United Kingdom dependencies was the development communications. In the tropical territories land travel was confined, at the time when they arrived there, to foot-paths through the bush, and water travel to sailing or paddling canoes along the rivers or the coast.

To the early stages and trans- haw host to be bullt virtually to

Kos Involved then-hint on a vast concrete raft

vad tinge by Terry nenes las gied, untankged rivers July.

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torthods tolerated, but until long-seaty established, there NO TEVEREIOS to invet the

building benikwatvLS, deepwater berika besuche

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and quky, fungt-span bridges Where, as in the Poceration of Malayı, Nære

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harbours, **** score built earlier, but exten-

4. these have already be CHY FRCTssury

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LARGEST ARTIFICIAL

HARBOUR

Jan best of a bou Wolks ul- hands earied out or #21

West Alle

JA MADNESSIIVAN, forvently a new what has been e expletel at Bathurst, in this tiambia, zaid deep-water Quays

Preetown, in Swern

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In the Gold Coast, Takoradi. Amft previously hat berths fon Polisenfreztee

[ company

13', 1" Asan-going tners, {N} policy I have applied to the

been enligt 1 accretinodate Minister of Transport and mx

w.nch

Civil Avantin ander Serlion 47 of the Men hant Shopping Nou Act, 191, in respect of the British bo "Lyngheim" of HONG KONG REGISTRY lein! Number 169930, Gross

Accra, fle vupitil, the port 1 Tetta. evafually Lave :s for 20 large ships, will t the largest

artifici KALORY Harirast in Africa. In Nigeria

the

The

of Lagos, have bezal

Rically excited with the con-

struction of warehoLLSA28), [XS- shalling yards, and staff quarters, innd reclaimed

of

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Lontage #18% tuns, Register berthing facilite. at Apapu Tonnage 1807 pms, heretafore owned by Wallem & to. Ltd.. Hong Kong, for permissions to change ber name to "SOUTH mauch HOPE" and to hate her regla. tered in the new name at the Port of HONG KONG મ owned by Wallem & Co Fid, Hong Kong

hom the stu

1 East Atiku poot tuculihe: İlave bin extended and new bantis omstructed at Mombase, Dar-es-Salaam, and Tazigu, and post constructat ht

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Mtwar Any objection to the pros posed change of name must in South-East Asta a sixi be seat to the REGISTRAR | graving duck is being built at OF SHIPPING #t HONG Sgjære, additional deep- water berths at Port Swelten-

KONG within SEVEN days ha from the appearance of this Advertisement,

Dated at HONG KONG the 7th day of July, 1956.

Itt Mixe Federation of

Sandakan and Jesselton in North Borneo.

Malaya, and wharves ut Labuan,

la muny cases the full value of the new facilities depends on the links between the ports and WALLEM & CO., LTD.

their hinterland. In the Gold Const Loast notwork of roads and PETER GLATVED,

allways

is being built for this Director. purpose, with some remarkable bridges, including on impressive sicel-noch bridge to carry the road to Togoland across the

To ADVERTISERS

BUNDAY POST-HERALD Врасе for commercial advertising

should be

Volla River.

A new road crossing hills ond willeys like a switchback links Nigeria with the Cameroons by booked not lator than a 350 feet suspension bridge over noon on Wednesdays.

the Cross River, In the Federn- For the SOUTH CHINA tion of Malays a double-deck MORNING POST and the bridge more than 600 feet long CHINA MAIL, 48 hours to be built over the river before date of publication. Klang, and a general improve. ment of bridges and rond sur- Announcements faces is planned. and Classified Advertise. ments as usual.

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HARNESSING RIVERS

In ourly all the dependencies пеш

Industries

haya

been developed, and · the demand for power is insistent and growing. In many parts of Africa this demond is being met by harness- Sng the swift great rivers which flow from the central uplands.

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The Kariba Dom on the Upper Zambent, for instance, tire first glage of which is planned provide 500 merawatts of power | at a cost of nearly £80 million, will hold back a laine 100 miles long, the longeut man-made surich of water in the world.

Another great scheme is in. prospect for the Shira River, ‹ În Nyosalami. Nisceka's fabost addi- tion to its power racotarcom is the Merge modern, genoriing station known as Ijora, B, which

In the Gold Coast, a plan to bacne the Vaita rive to pro- | Guer na là 684,000 kikowatte is in the jetiminary stages

Schemes involving diamnge. tigation, or both together dry in best in many dependencies, to vekilise prstentially fertile wade Jand in conlal plains or the flot pinins of the larger rivers

A general view from the south-east showing the two crude oil distillation units and the power house of the British Petroleum Company Ltd's oil refinery at

Oil-Filled

oil

The highest-rated filled cable to be made in the United Kingdom is the 301 kv cable supplied to the Aluminium Company of Canada for its Kemano- Kitimat project.

An example from the Federa- Jam of Malaya is that in Perak, where 180,000 veros af swampy Jungle are jo be turn into resigned,

#rowing lond

Water control is the most im- portant kind of engineering work in British Guiana

The scheme at Bocrastrie will charlly add 130,000 acres along The cast between the Essequibo and Demrezara Rivers cultivable land

the

This cable

WEB de. manufactured and installed by Pirelli- General Cable Works Ltd, in conjunction with Pirelli of Milan.

The

successful development of the Kenano-Kitimat cabir entailed the soiting of new and higher standards of manufacture and testing, and the equipment

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

WIT

OH, DEAR, THE WASTEBASKET'S

SEEN EMPTIED, I WANTED

TO READ MANDRAKE'S LETTER AGAIN.

FERD'NAND

NANCY

Dear Mandraka,

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no idea who it Dry to stop you from sexing

Eden Bilthy Prince Mich couldn't be that childik

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Cable Made In Britain

have and techniques evolved now become part of the normal Pirelli- production proces for General super-tension cables at the Eastleigh Works.

[1]- hau been

A specially designed

machine lapping installed, capable of applying simultaneously up to 200 layers of paper Insulation under conditions precisely controlled of tension and registration,

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One of the most important developments in modern building construction emphasised in the "Aluminium in Building" Exhibition in London was the use of aluminium foil in the thermal insulation of buildings.

Experiments have shown that The material fleet is, in fact, roma 30 to 80 per cent of the supplied in compact roll each heat flow across a normal-sized containing 300 sq. 14. in a width cavity air space bounded by of 24 in, or 17 in. ordinary building materials is by radiation. The remainder is by convection.

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Further experiments with foll ny being curried out at tho U

J.K. Buliding Research Station, Hundreds of millions of squaro

76 countxuract this low radiant heat, sheets of bright foot of aluminium foil have al- aluminium foll are placed in the ready been

ta insulate Insulation spice. Hero the high modern offices, faclorics and

reflection and low emission of houses throughout the world. radiant heat from the surfaces of

the foll effectively prevent the passage of this heat.

The effectiveness of the barrier

ly improved by air layers, form- between the shents, which

ed

reduce the convection loss.

be

The sheets of foll may siiglibly crumplest so that they

creati ale pociecta and, at the same time, ensure the minimum points of direct contnct between the lot) Elself and the surfaces of the structure.

The interesting

tiny

Big Orders For British Truck Co.

A British company, makers of goods and passenger vehicles, recently received overseas orders worth £130,000,

point about this crumpled foll' type of in- sulation is that, being extremely flexible, foli may be ustad an any

or type pt construction |trregular surface.

In an

alternative system of kong. A bus enables I consistently high to insulation the shests can be ordered 13 standard of electrical Lisulation spaced apart by distance strips. to be maintained automatically, so that parallel air layers are

alma-formed between irrespective of external

them. This spheric conditions during manu- method is extremely efficient for fucture.

the insulation of Ond surfaces ve

Als.

and

test New development

trical laboratory

been hasÇ་ with the latest equippect

for carrying apparatus development work and approval tests on cables for the highest voltages.

out

The countries include Aus- trilla, East and West Africa, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Hongkong. Ordets cover nearly 30 passenger and goods chosis, Largest order is troan Hong- company hig bus ringle-deck chassis with diesel engines, (uid flywheels and preselector gear- boxes as well as 12 underfloor vgined chassis Another Hung- kong company wants two goods chassi with diesel engines.

An Antwerp company has ordered seven passenger chassis and five goods chassis of vary- ing lengths. All the chassis will have diesel engines.

In addition to the plain foil, a

has bays associated with the eternit foll

been developed for insulating walls, Tools and floors of buildinnaga.

This material consists of foi type bitumen

laminated to one or both sides of tough paper. The Three African orders cover 22 additional

given

chels. strength

by

A Nairobi, East Africa, Laurinabo crables cosy company wants 12 chassis with Today therU Art over 600 this feeder-miles of oil-filled

handling and fixing in all parts diesel engines, and a Gold Court installed or

of a building.

company wants eight chassis in process of in-

Two King-

With regard to the actual use also with diesel engines, stallation in the United

wheeled chessis that of the reinforced foli, an area of <ight dom, and it is estimated

Portuguese East This equipment, the first of there are nearly 2,000 feeder- approximately 20 sq. ft. may be ordered for its kind to be used on full-seule måles installert throughout the insulated with a 1b. weight of Africa.

this tr production

country, world.

that

The machine is housed in fully air-conditioned enclosure. the entire Japping operation can be carried out in a controlled atmosphere.

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cable

By Lee Filk and Phil Davis

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the foil/paper laminate.

European orders include three passenger chassis for Lisbon and one goods chassis for Madrid.

A West Australian farmer's co-operative has ordered two chnes with diesel engines, Guy Motors Lk, Wolverhampton,

England

By Ernie Bushmiller

By Mik

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MAGICIANS

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try.

PRAS

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ROWNTREES

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