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SEMI-DIESEL ENGINES.

THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND ADVANTAGES.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST sta, 1912.

(BY A CORRESPONDENT OF THE TINES.")

So much attention has been paid of late to the Diesel oil engine that the claims of the so-called semi-Diesel type have been somewhat overlooked. It is comparatively

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latter type for small powera has been realized at all, and only a limited num- her of engineers are manufacturing or experimenting with such engines in this country. Continental firms have been the pioneers in this case as in so many others, and one Swedish firm who build somi Diesel engines on a very largo scale are said to be rafusing orders owing to the Impossibility of turning them out quickly enough.

PRINCIPLE OF WORKING.

The term semi-Diesel is in the reality a misnomer, for the engines work on a vory different principle from that of the Diesel engine, though the two are alike in the fact that they are capable of using. heavy crude oil as fuel. The difference between them may be briefly described as follow:-In the cylinders of Diesel enging the air is first compressed to a very high pressure (from 40 to 50 atmospheres) and, near the termination of the compression stroke, oil is injected by means of a charge of compressed air supplied by an auxiliary air pump. The mixture is then ignited by the high tem- perature created by the high compression. In the case of the semi-Diesel engine the compression pressure is moderate (gon-

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THE LIQUIDATOR'S REPORT

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and perseverance with which he has con- ducted the litigation in all its varied phases from the beginning, is beyond all praise. You have had, gentlemen, a de-. votion which no money can buy, his patience in wading through the most appalling mass of documente is in- eredible, the wisdora with which he avoided the nurgerous traps laid for us was at times almost uncanny, and his conduct of one of the most, if not the most, complicated and difficult trials ever held in Shanghai, could not have been excelled by any one.. Mr. Mossop bas assisted Mr. Douglas and myself with great loyalty and ability, and if he has not been so much in the limelight as Mr. Douglas and I, he has nevertheless had a very important part to play in all the proceedings which have taken place, and has played that part, right

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theplications is required. In fact the most Liquidator as to the progress of the and noticeable feature of the erging is its winding up, and to fix the liquidator's extreme simplicity. A single-cylinder remuneration. Mr. J. E. Bingham, the engine has only three working parts, Liquidator, presided, supported by Mr. exclusive of the fuel pump and the J, C. E. Douglas, irgal advisor, and Mr. governor, whereas in the case of an

A. C. Moisop. ordinary four-stroke paraffin engine there

Mr. Bingham gave a very long account are at least ten auch parts and often of the liquidation and the extraordinary The operation of the litigation initiated by Dr. Nijhuis in many more. engines is equally simple; they work on Shanghai, Singapore and Hongkong, the two-stroke cycle, so that there is an from which we may take the following impulse for every revolution of the crank extract: The day I anished my evidence

After Mr. Douglas had addressed the shaft There are no valves whatever, the in Singapore I left for Shanghai, stay distribution of the gases being effected by ing over in Hongkong to interview Mr. meeting and given explanations asked Stcaveuson, of Deacon, Looker &for by shareholders, Mr. Bingham said: SYPHON $2 each. | BULBS 90 ets. per box means of ports opened and closed by the Deacon, who had spent three months in

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tinues until the piston passes and opens day delay I proceeded back to Shang the exhaust port, permitting most of the hai hoping to find Mr. Looker there, but discovered we had crossed one another. exhaust gases to escape to the atmosphere. Nijhuis, however, subsequently prevent During this working stroke, air is ed Mr. Steavenson giving evidence by the simultaneously compressed on the under simple process of writing the firm a letter side of the piston within the crank informing them that he was going to chamber, and immediately after the bring an action against the Hongkong

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covers the air port, allowing the com- story short, you know how after a trial

pressed air to travel from the crank-lasting twelve days I got a full and chamber to the cylinder. At this port the antisfying judgment. The judgment in piston is moving comparatively slowly itself resulted in various necessary de and the incoming air sweeps out most of lays, which I was compelled to wait in the residue of exhaust gases through the Shanghai to attend to, meantime Nijhuis exhaust port and fills the cylinder with had proceeded to Hongkong and com relatively pure air in readiness for the menced a long series of proceedings not following compression stroke. With cer- only against me, but against Craig & tain oils it is found necessary to inject a Co., Ltd., others and the Siak Company. little water into the cylinder along with As soon as I could I proceeded to Hong- the air, in order to assist the internal kong and after a strenuous struggle, with cooling of the cylinder and to prevent the the exception of the petition which was excessive deposition of carbon.

in open Court, all in Chambers, I suc ceeded in placing myself in a position to a warrant out for his arrest for my get taxed costa, only to find that the bird had flown and his whereabouts are as far as I am concerned unknown.

For starting the engine, the bulb on the eylinder head is heated for few minutes by means of a blow lamp. Speed regula tion is generally effected by means of a governor in combination with a variable stroke fuel pump.

BIZE AND RUNNING (STS.

The sei-Diesel system has so far been adopted for moderately small powers only: the largest engine at work within the writer's knowledge is of 120 h.h.p., this power being derived from two cylinders of 00 hp. each. Engines have been made, and are successfully running, for so low a power as 7 h.p.

LIQUIDATOR'S REMUNERATION,

Gentlemen, my fee for winding-up this Company, including work still to be done, in Tle. 25,000. You are at liberty to accept or refuse this amount just as you like. If you refuse on a show of hande. I shall ask for a poll. Before asking you to vote I would merely say that if you refuse, the fee will then have to be fixed by the Hongkong Court. There is, as perhaps you are aware, a liquidation scale of fees under the Hong kong Ordinances. To this 1. am entitled without reference to anybody. During the progress of the liquidation I was away from Shanghai on your business for nearly six mnoths, and I am entitled a daily allowance during this absence, If, on taking into considera- tion the extraordinary difficulties of the liquidation, I am allowed absence fees on the highest scale, then my taxed fee will be considerably larger than I am now asking you to pay; if I am merely granted the normal absence fee I shall receive about Tis, 25,000. I merely ask

No. you now to vote "Yes" ar I do not wish for any comment.

The resolution was unanimously passed.

to

A

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and

barking were successful he might possibly be able to pay a further dividend of fifty cents per share. (Applause.)

A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the Liquidator, and to Mr. Douglas and Mr. Mossop for the amount of work they had done on behalf of the company and the care and attention in conducting a difficult case.

The meeting then terminated..

CHILDREN OF FAR CATHAY.

Mr. BINGHAM next announced, amidst applause, that he would be able to declare dividend of Tls. 4.50 per share, and be The following further extracts from hoped to hegin paying out on Monday Mr. Bingham's speech may be quoted: next. The share registry was in a fright- -So many holders of shares have pressed ful mess, and there were several people of shares. Share- ne the necessity for bringing an claiming single lots action against the directors, that I went holders would facilitate matters by pro into the matter very carefully. I arrived perly filling in transfer deeds. If cor- at the conclusion that to bring an actiontain enterprises upon which he was em

How would only be waste of money. ever, I took the advice of Mr. Douglas both of whom advised me that any such and Messrs. Hanson, McNeill & Jones, action would surely fail. After over a Owing to their simple construction,

year and a half of daily association with they can be built at a cost something like the liquidation, in which even the minor 30 per cent. less than that of any other acts of the directors and the servants of type of oil or gas engine. This, compled the company have been so to speak under with the fact that cheap fuel can be used, Ia magnifying glass, I have come to the will undoubtedly in due course render conclusion that not only are your direc- them serious rivals of the small stationary tors, .., Dr. Marshall and Mr. John gas and oil engines at present in the Liddell, not deserving of censure and the market, at any rate up to those powers many hard and bitter things you have for which it is worth while to install said about them, but they are worthy of suction gas plant. They are suitable for every praise, and whatever their faults any commercial purpose, and in marine at the beginning, and for the life of me I cannot find any faults which the most work they supply an excellent form of power for the small sizes of craft, such extraordinary and unprecedented cir- as fiabing and canal boats, owing to their cumstances do not most fully exonerate, simplicity, flexibility, comparatively low they have by their courage and devotion coat of running, and the facility with to your interests saved you all and every which they can be reversed without the penny you receive back from my hands. usual reversing gear. (

For this you owe them a deep debt of gratitude. Dr. Marshall, Mr. Liddell So far as fuel economy is concerned and the late Mr. Noel have lost very they are inferior in thermal efficiency to heavily; they did not, as has so often the Diesel engine, but compare very far been suggested to me in the early days- earably with other types of small explo of the liquidation, make large sums of sion engines. For example, a 10.b.h.p. seri-Diesel engine will use about 0.60lb money by dealing in the shares. Dr. Marshall took 1,000 shares, original of adde vil per b.h.p. per hour. There allotment, and bought 400.

He still fore, if the normal price of crude fuel oil holds the 1,000. Mr. Liddell acquired 200 be taken, as about £2 108. per ton, the by original allotment and bought 000 cost of working such an engine is approxi-more, none of which he sold. Sir. Noel mately 1.76d, an hour for fuel. But the acquired 50 shares in his own name and fuel. costs of these engines become com- 450 in the name of Mrs. Noel, none of paratively unimportant when the first which were sold when I took over the cost, cost of upkeep and repairs and liquidation. If you do the right thing renewals are taken into consideration. you will before this meeting terminates They show remarkable flexibility under zive Dr. Marshall and Mr. Liddell a varying loads, and one that was recently hearty vote of thanks, tested with Scotch shale oil with a specific THERAPION AFE DAL 175 gravity of 0.85 was found to work equally

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