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WITH WHICH, IS INCORPORATED THE BUSINESS OF

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1932.

ENGINEERING

THE ELECTRIC TRAM.

HOLDS ITS OWN AGAINST 'BUSES IN CANADA.

Transit Association."

AND BUILDING

SELF-PRIMING

CENTRIFUGAL

MARINE PUMPS.

A NOTABLE NEW BRITISH DESIGN.

A MODEL BRITISH FACTORY.

MODERN MANUFACTURING METHODS.

GRAVING DECK

EXTENSIONS

AT GENOA

NEEDED FOR NEW ITALIAN LINERS.

An interesting extension af "the length of a graving dock from 703 f. to 853 ft, has recently been com

SUIYUAN

IRRIGATION

SCHEME...

MOTOR PUMPS REPLACE DRAGON FOOT-PUMPS

--The-outstanding construction; in Suiyuna Province, project China; during recent years has

| ploted in Genoa. The 109 ft, dock been the Saratsi irrigation develop. was actually only brought into comment, officially known as the "Min Halifax, Canada.-Optimism con.

What would the stern industriumission in 1925, but the rapid in- Søn," or "People's Livelihood cerning the future of the electrio

lists of the nineteenth century have crease in the length of Italian Drainage Canal," the engineering tram as the mainstay of urban of great interest in the field of thought of a factory, which provid- transatlantic liners necessitated the on which has been conducted by the transportation was expressed at the marine engineering is a self-prima-od & ball room and theatre for its provision of accommodation for China International. Famine Re annual meeting here of the Cana ing centrifugal pump, with verticale

employees, tennis courts and croquer docking 800 ft. ships, and it was lief Commission in conjunction dian Electric Railways Association, spindle and self-contained electric lawns, and chose for its site à plea- decided to meet the situation by | with the provincial authorities. The whose name was changed at the motor, suitable for pilge, ballast sant countryside with flowers and increasing the length of the new completion in June, 1031, of the same meeting to "The Canadian and wash deck work, as well as shrubs worthy of a private house dock. Up till the year 26, the

main chual and 8 laterals brought emergency bilge and fire purpose, in the gardens round its walls? two graving docks at Geuos were

irrigation to an area of between Mr. K. B. Thornton, of Montreal, that has recently been placed on Actually, such conditions would operated by the Società Esercizic 250,000 and 333,000 acres.

The main canal is 50 miles in president of the Association, doclar the market by the Pulsometer En have been entirely beyond their Bagini which owns the Riva Trigoso

gineering Co., Ltd., of Hending ed that, notwithstanding inroads on

comprehension, for the study of the Shipyard. At that time it became length and, with its 14 laturals, street railway transportation by

The outstanding feature is a paychology of the worker and bis clear that further accommodation totals 267 miles of irrigation can buscs and private automobiles, the rotary exhauster which can be reaction to his surroundings is was necessary, the larger of the nis. Construction work on the ie electric car "remains the backbone thrown in and out of operation by essentially a post-War development, wo existing docks which had a maining Interals ims progresse-1. of mass transportation, and the hand clutch, and a complete just as the longing for the open length of 680 ft., being unable to during the year and they were ex- future held no warrant for pessi-range of pumps of different sizes air and the cult for physical fit accommodate some of the ships cnpected to be opened during the

of 1932 spring

Twenty-three tering the port, which were accordi miam. Electric railways in Canada, is available. As typical of the per- nes

Welfare Pavilion. he said, corried 781,389104 rovenue formance the standard 5 unit will

ingly forced to avail themselves of bridges have been built over passengers in 1927. In 1999 a peak deliver for example 75 tons per

The most striking testimony to the Navat Dockyard at La Spezia canal, and four water gates oreet. was reached of 836,799,851; in 1930 hour against a total hrad of 89 this modern trend is to be found As a result of discussions betweened to regulate the water flow. there was a decrease to 765,807,880 feet or 115 tons against 55 feet. At the Ovaltine factory in Hert the Port Authority, the Consorzio Though mass labour has been us and last year a further decrease to The drive is by means of a 16 fordshire, where the welfare of the Autonome del Porto di Genoa, and ed throughout on this projeos, ka 799,920,293. Mr. Thornton believed B.H.P. D/C motor running at worker is studied to the atmost, the Bacini Company in 1926, it was interesting innovation was the us the downward trend seemed to 1300-1000 reve. per minute, with for it is realised that upon this deaccordingly decided that a third, of three kerosene-engine centrifugal have ronched its lowest level and shunt regulation, forming a compends finally the high quality of 793 ft., graving dock should be pumps he saw definite signs of stabiliza pact and completely self-contained the product, and nothing less than constructed. This, as already stat, draining wet strutches, replacing to tion which ought to precede reco. unit whict is equally suit for fresh perfection is the ultimate aim. Toed, was completed in 1928.

water or salt water, and in Diesel this end, therefore, the Welfare vessels can be used for such pur-Pavilion, as it is called, includes a poses as jacket cooling..

doctor, dentist, ultra violet ray Also the pump is gunmetal, of room, reat room, where any ent single impeller design, with the ployee may receive expert atten- casing slit along the vertical centre tion, while the canteen supplic line and supported in a substan- more material requirements. Fur- tial ateel frame and bass.

very.

The average fare in Canada is 6.10 cents, or just over three pence, In the United States it 7,8% conta.

Mr. Thornton oxpressed tho be lief that substitution of bus for rail lines appeared, likely only in areas of light traffic where small units at shorts intervals best could meet the ther, hydraulic balancing is in- public demand. He warned mucluded, while the weight of the cipalities against too liberal grant-rotating parte is taken by a thrust ing of taxicab licences, daiming such a course was unfair to the bearing at the top of the motor, electric railway companies which the bottom end of the pump shaft which did 80 per cent of the mass running in a lignum vitae bearing transport business and in addition tended to increase traffic congestion fitted in the lower part of the pump and street perila.

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In Use While Extensions in

Progress.

Marittimi

of American make

the

fur

that extent the primitivo, "dragon" foot-power pumps in more genera use on the work. Three Chinese mado kerosene engine pumps also This dock, originally 783 tt. were operated on the job. This. fong, was constructed by the Societá was the first time that either the Italiana Lavori

of native-style foot-power pump or the Rome, and the extension was car kerosene-engine pump had been-in- troduced into Suiyuan Province. ried out by the same firm. A con. In the Factory.

dition of the contract was that the The cost of this Irrigation project In the factory itself the first and utilisation of the dock by shipping approximated Chinese 750,000, half lasting impression is one of abso- should not be interfered with dur of which was contributed by the government Buiyuan provincial luta cleanliness.

ing the lengthening. The work was To gain some idea of the scope carried out by sinking six caissons and the rest by the China Interna tional Famine. Relief Commission of this factory it is necessary to a distances of some 20-m. ahead of quote a few figures. For instance, the existing end wall. Owing to on a loan banks. there are over a thousand employeer the nature of the site and the fact

at King's Langley; some 50,000 eggs that the excavation had to bo car-1 when the dock was âlted. When the are required daily; 40,000 gallons ried close to the face of the exist

new work was completed the old

Longest Dock in Mediterranean.

The packing in the stuffing box and the bearing at the lower end of the pumps are lubricated with of milk are used each week, while ing wet dock wall, it was necessary end wall was cub through

this concern is probably the largest to work under compressed 17. consumer of barley malt, in the When the caissons were in place, world; and, for packing purposes connection was mede between them about 16,000 sheets of tin are need and between the inner two, and ed every day.

the existing graving dock side walls by means of sheet piling, In this way a curved trench was form

water under pressure from the circuit, and in addition there is provided a large capacity, spring loaded grease cup to give initial Jubrication to the stalling box on starting before the water lubrica tion comes into action.

Early Dismantled.

Noteworthy is that the whole pump can be completely dismantled in 30 minutes, without disturbing the electric motor or any of the pipes, both the suction and the delivery branches being in the back half of the casing. Between the pump and the coupling the vertical shaft passes through a gear box made of silicon-aluminium alloy

fitted with a set of skew gears hav ing maching-cut teath, to transmit the drive to the horizontal spindle of the exhauster, this gearing run. ning in an oil bath, while the fric tion clutch is fitted inside the gear box and operated by an outside hand wheel.

Also the rotary exhauster is of the double-acting water ring type

and consists of a rotor, having a number of radial vines running in an elliptical casing, being kept in operation until the air is evacuated from the auction pipe and the water drawn up to the inlet of the

LIGHTING & POWER INSTALLATION centrifugal pump, which will then

by an experienced

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

retained at our Hong Kong Branch

The General Electric Co. (of China), Ltd.

QUEEN'S - BUILDINGS,

HONG YON

start to deliver. As already in dicated, the main points of this highly interesting, design are that the exhauster is of the rotary type and can be de-clutched by hand and thrown out of action thus re-

"ducing wear" and, tehr and saving power, in addition to constituting

prov

the way of

great

silent

senger vessels.

Ingenious Machinery

The ingenuity of some of the mu chines is uncanny and it is interest- ing to learn that many have been od in which the new end wall was designed and constructed on the

With the completion of this ex teneion, Genos, has the longest mercantile dry dock on the Modi- • terranean, the next longest - baing the 989 it, dock at Naples, follow-

promises. One automatio tin-mak built. As the dock was in commised by the 585-ft, dock at Marseilles. ing machine turns out 180 tins a sion while the whole of this work Gibraltar has a pasal dry-dock minute, another inserts the paper

other, meticulously copying the at-

bags into the tins, while yet an- was being carried on, precautions 563 ft. long, but only 91 ft. wide, as compared with the 105 ft. of the tual movements of an operator's had to be taken to support any fingers, folds the paper wrappers

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is humanly possible, nothing is were exposed, owing to the un dock sao it. long Aala one of 796

on the outside of the tins. are parts of the old end wall which Genon deck. Venice has a naval touched by hand and, in this way balanced pressure of the water ft, and La Spezia one of 702 If... every precaution is taken to anfe guard the health of the public.

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