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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1958.

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Man-made weather

Hongkong. He

by David Lan

Mr James Hon-man Wu made local Industrial his- tory when he turned out the first air-conditionr over produced

was elected full This enterprising En- member of the American gineer and Businessman Society of Refrigerating En- is currently General gineers and President of the Manager of the Central En. Rotary Chib East, Hong- terprises, the Central Taxi- kong, both in 1957. cab Co., the. New Texieni

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room

Mr Wu told me that most package units abroad are made on batch system' and room air- conditioners were mass pro duced. But even then assembly of and testing and the making cbinets, colls and fans still re- quired good deal of manual labour. This is where Hongkong for lacour had an advantage office broad was ten times es costly as in Hongkong. This was part- cularly true of the labour for

Since then Mr Wu'a com- pany has designed, manufac- tured and installed around a hundred package units for hotels, restaurants, buildings, theatres, photo Inbs and nylon factory, maintenance. Its wares are found in Rangoon, Taiwan and Hong kong.

Co., the China Cold Storage The cradle of the first End Engineering Co., and Hongkong-made air-condi- Golden Star Theatre tioner was a small zigzag at the rear of the He designed and con China Cold Storage and alructed the China Cold Engineering Co. The first in Storage and Engineering Co. product was a 5 hip. pack- plant in 1953 which will age unit sold to a local cafe have completed expan in 1955, and that unit is in sion by July this year, still going strong.

A Hongkong weather box that churns it out for years.

The plant that started опе room has now removed to EL new 20,- 000-square-foot premisce

equip

Quarry Bay, ped with modern tools, tur. ret lathes, power presses and machines for milling, shaping, grinding, spot and are welding and metul formation.

Conventional compressors the Hongkong product may

In be

lifted with motor chosen to muit Jocal power supply.

The manufacture of room air- conditioners, Mr Wa said was delayed by too many orders for package unite and too many in- stallauors in the late Spring. A prototype will undergo experi ments early in summer to be followed by production in the coming October.

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Capacities will be 3⁄4, 1, 14, and 2 hp. Costs are 30 to per cem cheaper than imporlea models but no company uses compressor The engineering departe samme hermelic

manufacturera ment has a staff of eight. 44 out of 45 factory hands, number 120,

und are to increase to 200 in

two months, time.

The top capacity of output at

Amerida,

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Big Market

Mr Wu pointed out that Hong-

present is 50 units per month kong has Imported 8,000 ream

of different kinds ranging from air-conditioners in the leat wo

5 to 75 h.p. Package units of

72, 10 and 18 tons capacity years. A minimum of 2,000 units cre available for export

(ono a year is tom equals 12,000 BTU. per hour), all ere erecsed in skin- stressed cabinets, they arc sound-proofed and rust-proof ed, and can be filled with re- verse-cycle.

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Parts mode In Hongkong in- clude tinned tube evaporator coll, - centrifugal fans, air ducts, water-cooled condensers, cool ing towers, propeller fang and many others,

requirea tu Justify Iccal manufacture. But further alled, the whole of Scutheast Asia, Africa and Australia, pro- miso a market that could call for millions upon millora of these costly but more, and more necessary machines.

Asked about his secret of suc- cess, Mr Wu said, "Well, I look- ed around the world. They all go about it the same way,

The formula is: study hard to know the theory: experiment; use of local conditions and resources; compare your products will others; try to do better; and last but not the least, stard bebind your product and see that your customers are satisfied."

Mr Wu Armly believes that

Features of local products ATC cooling. dehumidifying tering, ventilating, circulating, exhausting, thermostat. control, work at both the bench and the and have an evaporating coll specially designed for the humid local air.

Poor local quality?—All units are sold under, one year guar thich.

desk makes a world of differ- ence from work at the desk alonel So don't be taken aback if you visit this factory to find a magnate with his sleeves roll- ed up, squat on the factory floor Price depends on size. A 10- with his workers to demonstrate turner sells at $0,500 and a 5- with chalk a formula that keeps Conner, at $5,500 exclusive of the weather-making plant hum- justallation.

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