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DEALING WITH TYRES AND RIMS.

SMALL BEGINNINGS OF THE MOVEMENT.

RUST AND

CORROSION

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY BUILDS FOR FUTURE.

BRITAIN AND EGYPT.

DISCUSSIONS RESUMED BY

NEW PREMIER. --

London, Aug. 12-A resumption of the Anglo-Egyptian negotiations. is imminent, according to the Daily Express. It will be recalled that

OF STEEL. REMARKABLE POWER DEVE. negotiations were broken off two

TA NOTABLE PAPER IN THE UNITED STATES.

At the recent 83rd Convention of the American Chemical Society at

LOPMENT IN CANADA.

of 1031 the installations had a cap.

centra

years ago in view of Premior Naha's intransigeant attitude. With the present Egyptian Pre- Montreal, Canada.-There has mier. Sidky Pasha, avowedly bean a remarkable growth during Anglophile, better results are ex- the past few years in the Canadian pected from the resumption of electric industry,, which is build discussions at this juncture.

The same nowspaper says that The International Federation of New Orlevina Dr. Gustav Egloffing for an assured future, and a Standardising Associations was read a detailed paper on the sub-slight falling-off in current con- the agenda for the forthcoming ne established in April, 1928 The jeut of the huge losses caused by sumption in 1831, owing to the un- gotiations contains the following usual conditions, does not dim the fasues: Alliance between Great Federation covers 18 participating corrosion. He estimates that in

Britain and Egypt, mutual ap countries and its affairs. are man- the United States alone the corro. I story of consistent development.

Even last year there were addi.pointment of ambassadors in Lon aged by a Council. As from Janu-¦sion of metals is resulting in a ary, 1932, the council consists of loss of more than $1,000,000,000, tions to the bydra-clectric installa dou and Cairo, and the mainten members from the United States of (2200,000,000) per annum.

Also he tions of the Dominion to the extent aree of a status quo in the Sudar America, Austria, Denmark, Italy, states that on a conservative basis of 546,650 horsepower, accompanied where, however, Egypt shall be en- Poland and Russia. The president rust and corrosion is costing the by an increase of about £24,000,000 titled to maintain small garrisons. is Professor V. List, chairman of American oil industry over 8125, in capital investment. At the end Discussion will also

around the gram of a British loan the Standardisation Association of 000,000 (£25,000,000). per annum, Czechoslovakia. The annual

exequivalent to a levy of 1 cent (fd.)acity of 6,886,337 horsepower, which penditure, amounting to 40,000 on every gallon of potrol, apart represented a three-fold increase in Swiss francs, is apportioned among from the 8100,000,000 (£20,000,000) less than a decade.

Output of central electric stations the participating countries accord-spent every year on paint and other

for March of this year was ing to an agreed schedule. The protective material.

link between Liverpool and general secretary is Mr. A. Huber-

There is emphasised also the well. 1,402,686,000 kilowatt hours, which Ruf, with headquarters at Balo. known facts that a vast army of re- was only slightly less than for the Birkenhead, now severed by the na- Although Great Britain took

search workers are engaged on the corresponding month of 1930 and tural barrier of the river Mersey. active part in the preparatory subject of rust and corrosion, and only 200,000,000 below the figure for Coating over £7,000,000, the tun- stages of the formation of the that all kinds of methods are in November, 1020, which was the peak nel will rank as one of the engineer- I.S.A. it retired at the time of its use to try and protees iron and month in the industry in Canada. ing wonders of the world. It is 44

Capital invested in the electric, in- definite foundation, and together steel, including coating with non-dustry stands as about £250,000,000 feet in diameter, two and three- with Australia and Canada is not oxidisable metals, ceramic mate- and has more than doubled in ten quarter miles in length, and, when completed, will have taken appro- associated with the work. The rials, and bituminous coverings.

ximately seven years to construct. British Standards Institution haa, The widespread use of rustless and liowever, expressed its willingness stainless alloy steels, of the nickel, to assist and co-operate in special chremium, and molyddenum vario cases. It has recently been decid- ties for example, cannot of course ed to set up 1.3.A. Technical Comba carried out because of the high mittee No. 31, to deal with tyres

and rims for automobiles and aero. cost, and the main remedy is paint- planes. The work of this commiting

tee will be carried out in England so that it will lie partly outside the organisation of the 1.S.A.

Alms and Objects.

Higher Grade Paint,

Also the American petroleum in dustry has found that much im- proved protection against corrosion The aims and objects of the I.S.A. is given by using high grade paint. are as follows:-

(a) To prepare the ground for international agreement on stan. dards by providing simple, sya- tematic menus of interchanging in formation on the standardization work and activities of different countrica.

(b) To develop general guilding principles for the assistance of na- tional standardisation bodies.

(c) To promote uniformity among the standards of the various na tional standardisation badies.

(d) To co-operate with any in ternational body engaged in stan dardisation.

la this commection it has long been known that one of the most valu able methods for the protection of iron and steel in the application of Red Lead paint, and every des cription of steal structure is being protected on these lines, including ail tanks, gasholders, lighthouseS, docks and harbours, bridges, and pit-head gear for example, and în mhny cases the steel is in perfect condition even after 40-50 years,, because of the regular ase of such paint. Largely for this same reason

(e). To devise administrative ma also any serious corrosion of ship's chinary, so designed that it may hulls in constant contact with sea readily be extended or modifed to water is now practically unknowD. include the international approval of standarde.

New Forms of Red Lead.

Modern developments in the 'Method of Working.

manufacture of Red Lead have re- The method of working prescribed sulted in the production of a pig- in the statutes is that requests for ment containing not less than $4 international standardisation must per

cont. Red Lead (Plumbię originate from one or more of the Tetroxide) and 89 per cent, total national bodies. On receipt of such oxides of lead, with not over. 6 per a request, the central office informs cent, Lead Monoxide. Excess of the various constituent bodies the latter causes the setting or

and,

if the

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is hardening of the paint on storage agreed to by a majority of not less in the usual containers, but the than three, a technical committes mixing of small lots; at a time of sat up, one of the standardising Red Lead and oil is therefore no bodies of the various countries be longer necessary.

ing appointed to act as secretarint On the subject also of the losses for the committed. A circular let-caused by the rusting and corro- ter is sont out by the central officesion of iron and steel it will be to the various national bodies, ask-remembered that Sir Robert. Had- ing if they are willing to partici- field in his well-known paper pate in the work of the technical Corrosion of, Ferrous Metals, read committee and nominate a delegate before the Institution of Civil En- to it. The practice followed hither-gineers (Proceedings, Vol. CCXIV, to. has not been in accordance with Session 1991/2, Part 2, Published this arrangement, the meeting of in 1023) estimated the total figure the tedical committees being ut at the gigantic total of £700,000,000, tended by representatives from all per annum for the world, based on Countries ticipating in the, an an average value of about per fual confereboda. Engineering:

ton for steel as the finished article.

years.

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to Egypt in return for which Egypt is to give England certain tonees- sions respecting the administrating of the Suez Canal.

Its capacity, with two lines of vehicles moving in each direction,

spaced 100 feet apart, "moving at 15 m.p.h., will be over 8,000 vehicles. every sixty minutes.

During the work of excavation, Įthe immense total of 1,200,000 tons of rock was removed, involving the [ use of 240 tons of explosives, while 263,000 tons of concrete and 75,500 The building of the Mersey road tons of cast-iron segments have been tunnel, the largest and longest sub used. Close on 2,000 men have been aqueous road tunnel ever construct. I employed constantly during the a- ed, now rapidly nearing comple, for portion of the period of con- municipal enterprise. It is to form ches completion the number is tiun, is

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