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TRAIN.

BRITAIN'S WORLD SUPREMACY IN SPEED.

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British railways continue to main- tain their roputation for high-speed long-distance runs, and engineers -in-Britain are continually experi-- menting with a view to improving upon the records already held in rail travel. As a result of experi- menta dating over many months the Great Western Railway decided to the Cheltenham-London express train to run from Swindon to London, a distance of 77.3 miles, in 07 minutes, representing 89,2..... miles an hour: This makes the train unquestionably the fastest in the world. It is regularly every afternoon, and the management of the railway abate that there will be

no great difficulty in maintaining this high speed during all seasons of the year.

LIGHTHOUSE.

IN TRADE.

MANCHESTER ARCHITECT'S ENGINEERING CONTRACTS

SUCCESS.

COLUMBUS MEMORIAL

A British architect has won

FROM ABROAD.

The Egyptian State Railways have placed an order for the supply of 16-bogie passenger underframes

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against all comers the prize ofWith Messrs. Hurst Nelson & co,(also in square-pints 10,000 dollars offered by the Pan L, Motherwell, at an approxi American Union for the best pins mate total price of £8,700. Twenty- for a memorial lighthouse to be

three offers were received, erooted in honour of Columbus at

Antus for Egyptian State Railways, San Domingo (Dominica), He is

Mesure Brown Bayley's Steal Mr. J. L. Gleave, of Nottingham awarded & contract for the supply Works, Ltd., Sheffield, have been

of axles at sa approximate total price of £8,100 Twenty-four offers were received.

practises in Manchester, His plan was selected by the Judges (who sat at Rio de Janeiro) because of its clean and simple lines. and its provision for stability against earthquakes, a factor seri. ously to be reckoned with on the

te chosen...

£1,000,000 Order.

representatives of a British concera It is reported from Warsaw that

have arrived to conduct negotin- The competition was 100 per cent. tions for the construction, on a international in character, Bosides concession basis, of a large market heing open to architects all over hall and cooling plants for Warsaw the world, the jury itself was inter. Municipality. The estimated cost of the contract is. given At £1,000,000.

This train holds the world's re-national and consisted of three ex- cord for the fastest non-stop jour-perts, an American, an Uruguayan, ney. On September 15 it broke it and a Fine. They had to make their selection from the finalists. own reword by making the rua be-representing Great Britain, the tween Swindon and Paddington in United States, -

Oranes for Egypt.

As the result of the adjudication

58 minutes at an average speed "of Italy, and France, Germany, on the 18 tenders received, Messrs.

approximately 80 miles an hour...

many

74 M.P.H. for Long Distance.

The new timing of the train is in ways a very remarkable undertaking, considering that it will often be necessary, because of the stopa, to achieve a speed of about. 74 miles an hour for long distances, There is no risk

isk, as sharp curves are avoided on the route and the train is protected by a special automatic system of signalling whereby signals along the line are repeated on a dial in the locomo. tive. Much higher rail-speeds have been achieved experimentally, ia England and in other countries; but they have been made by spjeti- ally constructed engines and cars and never by locomotives hauling. fall trains under normal running conditions. During the world war the English railways, for purposes of economy, ceased Iran competing. with those of other countries in the struggle for speed. In 1993 they began it again, and since then they. have steadily forged ahend until they have reached their present most unchallengeable position for Apeed combined with safety and comfort.

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Clyde Crane & Engineering Co., The final choice was taken at an Ltd., were awarded the contract for elaborate ceremony at which Dr. the supply and erection of Ave Getulio Vargas, the President, overhead electric driven travelling Monsignor Lome da Silveira Cintra, cranes for Awu-Zaabul. Thin order Cardinal Bishop of Rie. Ministers is worth £0,745,

Welsh. Goal for Egypt.

The Egyptian State Railways

of State, and members of the Diplo matic Corps wore present. The decision, which was announced at Washington, moans that Mr.vited tenders for the supply of Gleaves will have the right to steam coal, and T. Beynon & Co., supervise the construction of the Ltd., of Cardiff were given an order. lighthouse.

for 200,000 metrical tons delivered c.i.f. Alexandría atau approximate cost of £240,000. Railway Material for South Africa.. Coutracts for the supply of 9,500 tons of steel Fails, including, fish. plates, for the South African State Railways, are being placed with British manufacturers,

Sam Domingi was the first spot in the New World which was off- cially occupied by Columbus on his first royage, when he believed he bad reached Asia by the Western route. He christened it Espanoda, and he left behind a garrison of forty men before returning to Spain.

The Problem and How It Was

Solved.

Excavators for Russia.

Priestman Bros., Holderness Foundry, Hull, have received an Mr. J. L. Gleave, who is only 34 order from Arcos, Ltd, on behalf years of age, was educated at the of the Soviet Government, for 18 Manchester Central High School excavators. They are required for and took the four years course at building and mining work in Rus the Manchester University School sie, and delivery has to be given of Architecture. He served his in nine months. articles, with Mr. J. T. Halliday, who was last year president of the Manchester Society of Architects.

Mr. Gleave last year won a pre- mium in the international competi- tion for designs for the Christo- pher Columbus memorial at San Domingo. He wax thus, so to speak, one of ten inalists who were invited to submit detailed plans from which the winning design was

to be chosen.:

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Traq Railway Order.

An order for eight locomotive boilers has been received by Kitson & Co., Airedale Foundry, Leeds, for the Iraq Railway.

Order for Laminated Springs for

the Colonies. '.

A contract for liminated springs. has been placed by the Crown Agents for the Colonies with Steel, Peech & Tozer, Sheffield, The memorial scheme for which Hydraulic Forging Press for Buzzia. the Pan-American Union are the Davy Bros., Shefeld, have re- sponsors, and to which the nationsceived an order for a 0,000.com of the world, especially the Italians hydraulic forging press for Russia, and Spaniards were invited to con.and have placed with the English tribute, brought in 481 sots of draw. Steel Corporation, Sheffield, orders ings from over forty countries,

for seven large castings required The problem, as set to compets for the construction of the press. tors, was as follows:

British Motors for Athens.

Given 2,000 acres of waterside A large repeat order for the sup property for what, is to become a ply of electric motors for Greece arefully preserved Pan-American hae recently been placed in Man- park, find, the best site for the chester.

Columbus memoria lighthouse-- The Lancashire Dynamo' and the best for a

beacon to guide Motor Co. of Trafford Park were navigation by sea and air-and | successful in obtaining an order for co-ordinato it with the harbour 900 special motors in connection and the old city opposite..... with the change from a varying to In the journal of Columbus, writ standard voltage in Athens. ten by his companion Las Casas,

It is as a result of the Astising. appears the following sentence: tion given by the performance and They made it a practice in all reliability of these British-made those countries and islands, on motors that the Trafford Park firm going on shore, to set up and have "secured this further large

| order," leave there a cross.

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Taking this idea, Mr. Gleave has designed as the central monument a great cruciform building, from the centre of which rises, the great navigation buscan

Order for Light Locomotives. W. G. Bagnall, Ltd., Stafford, have secured a contract for eight locomotives for the Gwalior Light Railway, an ordar worth 24,000;

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