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THE CHINA, MAIL,^ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1956.

SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

IRRADIATING RUBBER

AND PLASTICS:

APPLICATION ON INDUSTRIAL SCALE

A SPECIALLY designed laboratory for

the irradiation of rubber and plastics, has been completed at Birmingham.

vel to

say

if the

The

has been too early Cluse re-operation maintained with The Atomic effects in the rubber and plas- Energy

Research Establishment tựs industry will be Os for- at Harwell on all the construe- sepching as they were in

details and Technic case of the chemical Industry. points involved by the firm eva- cerned (Dunlopi

י

"National scale

development of atomic

have Horky enormously increased the avou ability of sources of radiation," says Mr EA Murphy, director Births, Deaths. Marriages, a

research. "thei It is now Personal $5.00 per insertion possible to envienge their up- not exceeding 25 words, 25plication on an industrial seale.

Fut

Time now. cents each additional word. For a commiderable

arrediation of rubber and plus. ALTERNATE INSERTIONS Lies has featured in our research

10% EXTRA

programme and we shall

If not prepaid a booking foa

of 60 cents is charged,

BIRTHS

GREEN-TO Urmula, wife of

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rance Garen, at The Malikda j

September 1, TUSC, Daughter

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BUYING AGENT

WANTED

THE Managing Dirvour of reputable English inerchandise boste will in Hong Kong shortly, and woul like to engage a Buying Agjent whee has contacts with manufacturers of competitive diren in Children Wear, Shuly. Khad knickers etc Box 186,

Chma Mall

MUSICAL

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For Dancing, Merengues, Strickly A Night in Spain Soja, agents, D. 700, Alexandra House, tele

36037. phones 30108,

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ALBUMS

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New stuck available. $3. From South China Morning Poel Lid. Wyndham Street a Salbury Hoed. RowIDO

OFFICIAL NOTICE

Proposal to change

Ship's name

I, Allister George Inglis of

TOW

be able to curry out planned scheme of research.

curles

་

"As the gamma radiations are irin at the strength used, one of our must serious problems ta The protection of the operators. a suitable con- The cobalt, m teiner, his had to be screened on all sides by four feet of cane dangerous crete to absorb the

unlike Toys, for radio-activity. not mal power cannot be switch-

on and ll.

☆

"Agar, 201 Arrangement 1 of mirrors allows an experiment in "progress to be viewed in safety i

and from outside the chamber

deviens,

"Work with a 100 eurie pource m cobalt

oblined 60

from Harwell I about to start, and later i full source of about 1900

will heetane

avitables For various senses i was Reli expedient to begin Will isolope source although the TH stallation of an electron 4ee5- lerntor has not been ruled out. "The effects of anising radia- tions in bringing alt ehemaal changes, of which polymerisation is but one example, have been known for more than o genera-

and since the we much he and to start the mechanST) drives the cobalt source into work has been done by Charles-

the chambes by and thers on rubber anel

rrehatiisins are defer-connected, plasties in particula

that. when the door is open.

we have varily of automatic un elementary form of rnin, usk.ng a series of ques- tions which must be favourably answered before the door Con be opened to allow the operator to antler

When, will the source i withdrawn, he does so, he takes with him a portable meter in- level dealing of the Platon « sale une. "The same key is used to b the door to the working chaen

★

*

that irradiation by "The fact gamma rays from a radio-active erse-bukig

Source caD CHIC*

of the molecules suggesta possi- ilities of carrying out yuleum

which tion and other reactivis

easily be attained 1343

by inuy other methods. and the

the oppor tunity of dispensing with dinary chemical methods on

ineon vulcanising jerevicusly

non-viilennisubje patible materials

new types and ranges merk.

SIT

promises

可

Die

of synthetic pily

the contribution atomic energy programme in this country Lakes two furma great stimulus it has given the commercial development

and the particle scerlerators, large quantities radio-netive isotopes available as by-products

There is an interesting parallel here with the developmunt dyestuffs and other elemirals ....

BeUENCE

of the by-p duels developed in the past the gas industry, although it as

Programming

And Setting

Machine control and

701 7 Edinburgh House, Hong | programming by the use Kong hereby give notice that of punched cards is no

in consequence of change of

of

transfer ownership and Port of Registry of the vessel 1 have applied to the Minis ter of Transport and Civil Aviation under Section 47 of the Merchan: Shipping Act 1894, in respect of the steam- ship "INDIAN IMPORTER"

of HONG KONG REGISTRY Official Number 101119, Gross tonnage 5101.16 tons, Register tonnage 3229.97 tons, hereto- fare owned by India Steam- Limited of ship Company Calcutta for permission

to change her name to "SOUTH BIRCH" and 15 have her registered in the Tiew nume

longer a dream; several

makes of machine are way operating in this

and were demonstrated at the recent Inter- national Machine Tool Exhibition, London,

v

horizontal Large

boring imachines are being built with electronic selling of the table cross position and of the height of the boring head so that co- orabrale boring is possible with little risk of errors setting.

HW, Kearns and Company Broadheath, Manchester, England

British Thomson- Houston Computy 14d, Rugby, England.

Lich

The co-ordinates may be pre-

at the Port of HONG KONG set manually by dinis on a con-

as owned by Birch Steamship trol desk, there being six dials Company Limited,

Any objection to the pro- posed change of name must be

cach

for

co-ordinate so that both co-ordinates may be set to six-figure accuracy,

The actual machine adjust- ments are then made automati-

ment to the REGISTRAR OFcally. This relieves the opera-

SHIPPING at HONG KONG

tor from the strain of reading and verniers and is tine scales and

production.

within SEVEN days from suitable for single piece or small the

of appearance

advertisement.

this batch

Dated at HONG KONG the 31st day of August, 1955.

BIRCH STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED.

A. G. INGLIS,

Director.

To ADVERTISERS

SUNDAY POST HERALD Ante for commercial advertising should be booked not fatar than ngon on Wednesdays.

For the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST and the CHINA MAIL, 48 hours before date of publication. Special Announcements and Classled Adverties mentane sisusi.

However, a punched card can be prepared for each pair of co-ordinates and the corde fod into the reading head of the equipment, so that settings of the table and spindle head ore madie

as the cards automatically are scanned. This is suitable for large batches of components and obviates the use of draw- Ings by the machine operator.

An Interesting feature of this particular system is that the actual scale to which settings are made a bar of magnetic material having holes in it at unit intervais; this bar is scan- ned by a magnetic head which responds to le magnetic varly- tions. This same system hds been embodied in a well-known

make of fig boring machine, an show at the Exhibition, › podj controls the soiling of the table In two directions,

Bekiah Thomson Houston

England Company Ltd Rugby, Nawal Engineering Company Lid, Peterborou

veroning is #

that the

These Teking

far key ember be removed and

anserred to the source drive;

HINS

key conversely when the

WI

5

the lock controlling the drive, at cargut be moved to open the door until the source. 15 with-

its safe drawn lo

position mally,

should DA Beeldent leave the source exposed. dectrically controlled safely system detects the radiations by a Geiger tube operating a series of relays to keep the door closed. "his short, the various pately devices which we have adopted make it virtually impossible for himself to myone to expose nigh levels of, radiation by get- the working chamber ling Into when the source hy netion

In

This British Linotype letter-composing machine will be on view

1 ut The Damascus International Fair this month. composes lines of type for newspapers, book, periodical or To the left Kneral printing in Arabic and Roman characters. of the keyboard is the Arable reversible galley which auto- matteally arranges for the cast nes for Arable right to left reading. Linotype and Machinery 1.4d. 50/51 Fetter Lane, Londen, EC4.

A

EASY-TO-FIT CEILING ROSE

A re-

rose

or domestic

London firm which but the industrial has been making electric plug is wired up on the bench. The cover, of similar appearance switches, plugs and

30C- to the usual rose cover, prevenis

whe withdrawal of

plug years the kets for over thirty

when in use is responsible for designed ceiling

Apart from cutting down an

time the new Pose simplifies which

wiring stallation

allows fittings to be taken down for cleaning, repair or changing in a matter of seconds without tools or technical skill. Neither Is there any need to switch off

fuse for te

the or remove method is shockproof. search All types of lighting

can be supported, construction of the rose ng industrial pendants wl. to be used.

and may become the stan- dard method of the future,

The strained neek and aching num which 100 often accompany the filling of flex into the cell- ing rose and then the

for the dropped screw are finish- ed with by using the new rose Bocket which consists of plug, and rover,

The sockoi pusition is fixed to word block or standard circular the usual way cunduft box

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

MY FAVORITE DEPARTMENT

IN THE BUREAU, CHIEF.

WHERE WE SEND ALL THE CRANK CASES. WE GET SOME WEIRD ONES.

6.5.

"THE SILLY STUFF DEPARTMENT."

FERDINAND

I KNOW YOU LIKE TO LISTEN IN BEHIND THE SCREEN. MANDRAKE, MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME. IVE WORKTO DO.

IS

Marine Engines

The Brilishi Richardson Westgarth marino engineer- ing group of companies announce that they have installed engines in 70 colliers with a total of 84,700 indicated hp sinov 1046,

Thirteen of the 76 were motorships with a total of 18.295 Indicated horro- power. To remainder

were steamers with a total of 66,408 Indicated hors-

power.

The marine engineering en- group have installed rines for various Important turcian owners including The French State Railways,

well as for British companies.

British-Built Tug For Persia

Sales Conference On 600-Mile Closed Circuit TV Link

MORE

ORE than 4,000 radio and television dealers from all over the United Kingdom attended a big radio firm's London sales conference recently without even entering the capital.

Instead, the dealers gathered ordinary one and a half voli, In tive bin halls

The in Bristol, single-cell torch butterles Dorking, Glasgow, Manchester radio Brm are also exhibiting and Birminghain to see and hear their "Black Level" television executives of the Arm over what receiver, which they will be ex- was described

hibiting the biggest ពង

at the Damascus Fair, closed-cireult television Tik September 1-30. This sel ever employed by a private or designed to provide rich black ganisation. was also the first and white images of the sharp- netinal sales conference ever en possible contrast entirely I be held on

without constant nation-wide automatically [ television circuit,

hand adjustment.

Pye 144., Cambridge. England,

Six-hundred miles of ex-axisi cubles linked the ve halls with hall in London. The cabies were made available by the General Post OfLee, the British Broadcasting Authority and the Independent Television Author- ity. Three television camerna were used in the broadcast and more than 150 21-inch television receivers were distributed bc- Value of the equipment used was estimated com-nt more than £100,000.

A Devon shipbuilding tween the halls. company

have

representatives

the

wenl 10

organisers estimated Usut between 4,000 and 5,000 dealers went to the other five halls.

pleted a 115-ton tug by Several hundred dealers and A new, cost-cutting London conference itself. but building method for use the in the Persian Gulf by I the

Qatar Petroleum Company Ltd.

Brm of marine archutrets

THE dealers

Galw the

radio Br's executives introduco Known as "Hydroconie Con-

and struction," the method of but the 1957 ranges of radio ing was devised by a London Clevision receivers and gramo

thn the rm are ex- und Phones

the 23rd National hibiting at 24 | Radio Show in London.

The exhibits range CA

combined radku, television

ranphone costing more than

Nail אנ

to reduce constrainer costs by a with The methrif nycicis double curvature plates, allowing simplification in forraine, and is also sad to give | a tug à superior performance to

the normal round-bilge type.

The new tug is 82 11 tons, has a beam of 21 ft, an engine giving

482

shaft horse Jurwer

and ample becommodation for a crew of 13.

frum

and

New Methods

Of Blade Machining

New methods of blade machining have been in troduced; an interesting example of this is grinding

on

· special machine which can produce all the complex curves needed.

The blade blank is held in a which fixture between centres

that are in vructe rocked.

con

be

the

in

The cradle is carried by

Lable with grinding metilere which It can reciprocate

The blade |longitudinally.

thus rotated, reciprocated axially rocking motion, and given a the result of which is genero- tion of the blade form.

£150 to a small radio met al less than 211 They include a low- priced "Record Maker

designed to enable the ordinary house- holder to make disc recordings. Said to be the only recorder of is type, the Record Maker is a normal 4-speed

a diameter gramophone

the turntable with a special mugne- ot Lic head

records on mounted co-axtally

The disc nagnetic disc.

can grinding wheel.

thai

Q

Rocking motion is imparică by a rotary cam coupled to the cradle and working in conjunc→ on with a circular follower of Proximating that wheel and

with the

This not only

The same shipbuilding <??? - pany have completed a £400,000 futar i order for six diesel tugs

months ahead of schedule. As a tribute

be played on the same turntable end-to-end but it can to the company's 350

be used and reused indefinitely enables the blade to have

*

cross-scetion

from

twist to

impart the

the

filings robust allow- of A

while normal records can

also changing

empinyces, the tug owners saded their six new bouls ju i pro- cession up the Tyne.

with an alternative head.

|

set that can be

There is a portable television tuned to ali

any degree blade,

of

channels and

接 low-priced

transistorised portable

record

Cum- Rantern and Co. Ltd, merce Road, Brentford, Midille- sex, England,

MR CRAB, WE LOOKED INTO YOUR FIRST COMPLAINT AGAINST THE JONESES. THE STRANGE LIGHT WAS A SUN LAMP. NOW YOU EXPECT US,

TO BELIEVE--

г.к. Harris & Sons Ltd, Appledore, Devon, England.

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

I'LL TELL YOU AGAIN WHAT I SAW!

A MAN-SHOOTING OUT OF

THEIR CHIMNEY--

LIKE A CANNON

BALL

AGAIN-- IT MAKES NO

SENSE!

FURNITURE

RUGS

By Mik RUGS

7-5

By Ernie Bushmiller

NANCY

HEY, HANS COME IN

HERE

I TRAINED HIM TO COME IN THE DOOR THAT WAY

NOW HE DOESN'T LET IN AS

MANY FLIES

JOHNNY HAZARD

KITTY, DARLING, IF YOU KNEW HOW LONG I'VE...

I NEED YOUR HELP, JESSDO WE GO!

-ERNIE BUSHMILLJEPRA

JULY.

OKAY, KITTY--'

WE GO

YOU'RE BEING FOOLISH | AND HEADSTRONG, KITTY

YOU'RE NOT STRONG ENOUGH

YETMO

By Frank Robbins

IF I CAN DRIVE A WHEELCHAIR...I CAN DRIVE A PLANB: NO ONE 19 GOING TO CHEAT ME

OUT OF MY RACE!

player that can work off five

ÉVEN MAGICIANS

Beat

Carta arlsberg

If we were

ány fresher we'd still be

on the vine!

Libby's-

TRY FROZEN STRAWBERRIES

TODAY

ROWNTREES

You can tarte the fruit!

this situation

calls for

San Miguel

A feature of the machine is that the cams can be produced on it. This is done by mount-

centres

and

ing the com blank between using → master blade as a cam in conjunction with the large circular follower, will be whereupon a contour ground on the cam in necord- In ance with the blade shopc. view of the diameter of the cam the rises are not so pronounced as is the contour of the blade.

Newall Engineering Co. Ltd. Peterborough, England.

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