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Yangtaze Valley Flood

Hoist With His Own Petard !!!

Hong Kong-Canton Telephone

Child Welfare Work in Hong Kong

and

Other Interesting Features.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5 1931.

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

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SYDNEY HARBOUR

BRIDGE.

RED LEAD PAINT FOR

STEEL PROTECTION..

za! Yin (Contributed.)

As interesting experiment was inaugurated in Newpers Dodies,

A party of German engineers llave South Wales, when Clan Line left for China to carry 925 pre- steamer was connected telephonical-liminary survey work for the Nan-

For the protection of iron a Byrith London, Glasgow and king Government in connection. Liverpool. Cables had been laid to with the establishment of a large there is no real rubiditate for Red MAPLEKALER stool. Against rust and corrosión

the general cargo side of the locks (now steel plantat Pukow. There are over the

Lead paint, available of course, where nino plugging in switokos had proposed plant is to turn out rails Can installed as Gian Line has and structural steel and will have tural red, by the addition of of abados, apart from the a range used Newport Docks for forsyn annual output capacity small amounts of other, pigments years and, it is estimated, it has

such as fampblack, Prussian blue, carried two million tons of cargo

of chrome yellow. Consequently Red Lend print has long been ex- tonaively used for every description of constructional steel work, such as pit-hand gear iron and steel plant, ships, railway stations, light houses, docks and harbours, oil tanks, and bridges. In this latter connection auriking example in the new Sydney Harbour Bridge

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After 24 years with the Federal | now under edastruction for the New

COMEDY OF US. PAGEANT.

BRITISH DEFEAT NOT TO BE

STAGED

WashingtonFear of wounding by the ro-enactment

to

of Lord Cornwall George Washington at Yorktown on October 19, 1781, bas raised a lively issue in Washington, hich three tans

disrupt the

an historical pageant next October

The protest is made by Dr. War Goodwin, president of the Yorktown Bosquicentennial ociation. He asserts that the object of the York town pageant

oslebrate the birth of a

the defeat

onder

to invite criticism from a friendly the War of Independ

Power

Cornwallis,

död Loe would be

ROYAL RESCUE.

KING BORIS BAVES 81X

LIVER

tho horo

resoud at from his palace ne Euxinograd, on the Black Sea, storm which had suddenly stisn and he noticed, a small boat which was being bufje by the waves and was in iminent dange oap:

Notwithstanding loud ories for help from the occupants of the boat, some of whom were womon,20 one would youtura out on the dan gerous so to the rescue.or

fastened his motor boat, and after King Boris hastened at once to the Royal harbgyp whers,ha mul

a hard battle with the wayes man aged to got alongside the distress- boat and rescue the six occupants

The military authorities support Dr. Goodwin by pointing out that it is contrary to military traditions Navigating skilfully through the and ethics to depict a victory over rocks the Ring made the shore and a foreign foe. The Congressional took the rescued tourists to the Commission, which must finally devils of the former Bulgarian Am cide the delicate question, believes bassador in London, bl. Stancioff that there is no real for that the where they were provided with dry British Government would make clothes and restoratives, varanda diplomatic representations if the aurrender scene wero included in the pageant, or that the British Embassy at Washington would with- draw its representative fromoure monies

Engineers and United Engineers in South Wales Government by Dorsist that the surrender scene must be Yorktown residcots, however, in-

The Bridge,

A demonstration was given at the | Malaya Mr. A. 8. Simpson has re-man Long & Co., Ltd, the largest deleted. works of Hardy Motors, Limited, tired and come to this country. arch bridge in the world, which is Slough, of a metro-gauge rail conch The death is reported at Bangkok | being protected by Red Lead paint. chassis which they have built forof Mr. Gedde, who went East in the Argentine Transandine Rail-1900 for the Siam Electricity Co., way. It is driven by a six-cylinder and had been in Government sor engine made by the Associated vice and in business on his own ao Equipment Company, Southall, count

which develops se b.bp. at 1,000Mr. D. W. M Hutchison, chief r.p.m, and 110 b.b.p. at 2,500 1,p.melectrical engineer and inspector, From the four-speed gearbox, Kuala Lumpur, has been appointed which, with the clutch, is of unit acting Director of the Electrical construction with the engine, the Department of the Federated. Malay drive is taken to a roveras box and States during the absence on Inave thauen to the two azlea. An air of the Director, Mr. W. J. Wil compressor, which, with a dynamo,liams, is driven direct from the engine, Colonet J. P. Swettenham, Dites supplica air for the Westinghouse tor of Public Works, F.M.B., re- brake which is applied to all the tired last month. wheels, and Westinghouse air stand-

Essentially it may be remembered this "bridge" consists of a central

arch span, 1,630 feet long, across the harbour and five

approach spans at each side, the total length being 3,770 feet, while included also are abutment towers flanking the main arch at either end, rising to height of 95 feet above the man sea level. About 37,000 tons of stool have been used for the main

arch alone, which of the highest 'point is 450 feet above the high water level, with also 12,000 tons

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in the approach spans. The main arch is also to carry the heaviest ever constructed, being 150ft.

deck

Among recent visitors to London ing apparatus is atted. All the contre-Mr. A. L. Fawcett, of F.M.8. trois are duplicated, and symmetri Railways; Mr. F. E. R. Morphy, of, wide, taking four lines of cal seta of control gear are mount-the Electrical Department, F.M.Selectric railway sit. Shin. gauge, a

ed at each end of the vehicle, which has an overall length of 29ft, and is designed to take a body seat ing about 32 passagera

RUBBER SURFACES FOR"

CITY STREETS,

Over 1,300 members and associates of the Institute of Municipal and County Engineers and delegates from local authorities were present on June 18 at the opening of the 58th annual conference in Birming

bam.

Mr. E E Draper, of FMS: Rail ways, Kuala Lumpur, and Mr. L. Kesteven, of the P.WD, Kuain Lumpur.

MACHINERY TROUBLE: DIAGNOSIS, BY X-RAY, ·

road 57ft. Gin, wide, and two foot ways each 10ft.. Ola, wide, while the headway for shipping under the deck is het. Din at high water, reducing to 200ft." pin, near" the harbour foreshores. The contract; for the complete work was signed on March 25, 1924, while operations "The day is fast approaching" commenced in January, 1929, and says Harold G. Pataing of the the arch was dosed on August 19, Westinghouse X-Ray Co., when 193 industry will, so to speak, take a leaf from the note-book of the sur- geon and quito casually use X-rays te diagnose the various troubles and ills of the machinery it uses

Dense and Resistant Film,

work generally Red Lead paint, In protecting bridges and steel

which is an intimate mixture of

small amount of a drier, forms Sa Red Lend and lipseed oil with a

dense and tough yet elastic film. the first place over the surface a

This is highly resistant to oxygen,

In his presidential address, Mr. An interesting example, of the H. H. Humphries, Birmingham industrial use of X-rays is now go- City Surveyor, claimed that the ing on at the plant where the auto science of road construction bad gyro planes are being constructed. practically advanced sufficiently to Castings for the main support of meet the road destructive powers. the tripod arrangement,, carrying

carbon dioxide, moisture, salt, the of modern traffic, but what further the revolving auto-gyro, is subjected currents, whilst also expanding and rays of the sun, and stray electric increases of weight and speed for to severe strain, and X-ray inves contracting in unison with the struc Fond traffic might be realised was tigations of these castings by the n matter for conjecture, depending, Westinghouse X-ray Co. Have shown most paint material is a chemically ture Secondly, Red Load unlike apart from definito boundaries bo- that external appearances are very ing ascribed to it, largely upon misleading. The result of the reactive substance of a basic charac probable modification in railway of X-rays for inspecting this vital ter which has a pronounced "re traffic methoda. Actual road con part is that every one of these cast.

tarding", or "ighabiting" action struction had brought new difficulings han functioned perfectly.

upon rust and corrosion, neutralis- ties The necessity for the "abnui,

ing for example any acid in the According to Mr. Petsing, a piece donment of the single carriago way of aluminium 10 in thick cay be

atmosphere including: carbon dio road for arterial routes wild, X-rayed within a very few minutes,xide. Also there is now used for without doubt, force itself upon

the purpose special non-setting and defects which)

any

1 may exist public opinion as the need, became can be determined with the utmost Red Lead which has little or no PARTEKA permisha jeffect upon the linseed oil the precision. end accuracy. One com mora apparent. Another nood for

way of semi-sabiliscation or ́ ́ set- pany, after

fter investigation, found

ting during storage in container, safety provision was that for traffic that X-ray examination of material crossings, and he thought the estat at their plant costs about per athe, paint will keep ready for use constitating a great advance so that lishment of round-about aratom, it, of film, which is by no means paint

and can be supplied in buk. excessiva, X-rays ara with as large central islands as

are being applic practically in the transportation

Won-setting Red Lend, possible, at the junction of import field, especially by the German

Non-antting Bed Lend cons ant routes, gave the best results and | State Bailways, which use the X-ray

about 04 per cent.” al actual- reached the ideal of traffe control, machine as an everyday inspection Lend (plumbie betroxide):

NUK PO WORK SO

tool for concealed imperfections: which was to keep the wheels' turn-

berbent monoxide and, à total, ing, even if but slowly. In regard

centend to surfaces, some success was how being mot with in Jaying down rub."

bor paved rriageways, and be

painting is about 80 per Inhour go that a low grade product careful conte that does not. run much more Finally st lötal cost o when com

believed advances would be made în

that material that would enable it to be used with advantage in and main arch cad

ral-city streets al wres mable.com

yda

dolic

Afterwards the King returned in bis launch to the Royal Palace: He called Inter at M. Standoff' vills to ask after the holiday-makers and received their thanks for say?? ing their liven, pr naturally caused a great impression

The King's fearless action, has

here.

DAMP

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