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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

NEWPORT-IN SOUTH HAMMERS THROUGH

WALES

ENGINEERING FIRMS BUSY

developments

Among

new the which have occurred and contracts which have been secured in the Newport area of South Wales, are the following:-

THE AGES

MAN'S FIRST TOOL

SUPPLYING EUROPE

AMERICAN FIRM USES ENGLAND AS CENTRE

Mr. Honry Ford, having decid- Which was the first tool thated that it is better and cheaper to for the European fan used for making tools? No manufacture expert is here required; without market in England, many other come to the doubt it was the hammer. Earliest. American firmas have

EAST AND WEST.

A Bailway's Census,

Shanghai's Building Materials,

A recent one-day consus of all The bulk of Shanghai's imports general merchandise traffe handled of softwood lumber and railway by the London Midland and Scottish ties comes from the United States Railway, shows that in the case of but hardwood imports are very over 100,000 consignments, convoyed small. The United States also sup- by goods train,.00 per cent. were plig a great part of Shanghai's: actually in the possession of the imports of shooks for making casks. consignees on the accord day after. Under the hoad of building mate- being handed to the railway.

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rials are included naphalt-prac tically all of which comes from the United States; bathroom and lava- tory fittings, of which the United States supplies the bulk; casements,

plaster of Paris, paity, and roof

Naw Gas-making Process,

Cheaper gas is being provided for many east-Lancashire towns as the The British Mannesmann Tube'implementa ware flint scrapers with same conclusion. Among the latest result of a new process of treating doors and gategypsum, ele ators, -

which d beast was ekinned, or to take this step has heen Liptak coal. Experiments were first made

Co., Ltd, have secured a contract | for a substantial quantity of line wool was shaped for use. And the Furnace Arches, Ltd., who have es-

at a group of collieries at Althan ing-a large part of all these

pipe from the Iraq Petroleum i making of the fint scraper requir-tablished a works at Broadheath, with a vein of coal of low sulphuric | articles originating in the United

Company, which will kept this firm's large Newport works fully occupied for five or six months The order was obtained in open market, where keen foreign com- petition had to be faced.

large. "works

age tanks.

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ed force provided by stored on orgy by a hammerblow in fine. I claim it a true then that mechani ca! histor began with the ham mer, and I have therefore dared to take on the title of the address

near Altrincham, for the manufac- turo of high-temperature cement, and its marketing in Europe.

The works have recently been equipped, for the manufacture of fire-brick and furnace arch cement,

DIESEL ENGINES

EXPERIMENTS ON RAIL

AND ROAD

content and they were so successful States--Commerce Reports, that the neighbouring towns Of Accrington and Haslingden have Eficient Port Equipment. given up making ghs and take it direct from a works elected near the collierice.

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Speeding Up Contracts,

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Coal and coke shipments from West Hartlepool during the first

1931. The dovelopment of collieries:

in the south-eastern part of thaj

county of Durham has been respon sible for the steady increase in coal shipments from this port.

and with bunkers.

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The recent inauguration in Argen-

tina of the Rio Negro Bridge has opened up a greatly needed means:

that I present to your indulgent and are now in full swing. The The larger town of Burnley has half of 1032 amounted to 1,612,2784 John Lyenght, Ltd., who have attention, “Humanity under the now" factory will supply the whole arranged to take ite supply of gas, tons, au increase of 42,068 tons com- alongside the Hammer," The great and ancient of the company's European mar- and other towns are contemplatingpared with the same period of River Usk, which dows into guilds of Hammer-wen, most faket. Formerly European custom a similar step. Other collieries are the Severn at Newport, have

mous perhaps in Glasgow, declare ers were supplied from the co-expected to take up the process. recently completed extensions by in their creed, "By hammer in pany's factory in Missouri, U.S.A., laying down a galvanising plant hand all arts do stand," and un- where several thousands of work- Now Shanghai Eallway Terminus. which embraces the latest machinder that sign are enrolled in com people are employed. "Now." said Plans for the transfer and recon-

New appliances have just been Lery. This innovation enables, the

posite unity goldsmith, silver-

an official, "we are simply import-struction of the Shanghai North black sheets produced at these

amith, blacksmith, coppersmith, aring the raw material and are manu-railway-station at a site near Chen-installed by the London and North Eastern Railway Co., the owners off works to be galvanised On the

mourer, cutler, swordmaker, gun- facturing the product in England, ju, involving an approximate outlay aput, and a large number of addi-

maker, saddler, bucklemaker, clock At the present time, the works are of $10,000,000, have been made. due the decka, capable of shipping coal at the rate of 500 tons per hour. tional men are employed. The gal-maker, pewteror, nailmaker, 'hook on a comparatively small scale, but consideration to future expansions These are part of a scheme of im- vanished sheets from their works

maker, founder,

there is plenty of room for expan- and should be sufficient to serve the

provements which have taken nearly are produced for overseas markets

Flint, which is the material, Gratsion, and eventually it may be noeds for the next fifty years, ac and shipped from Newport Docks

made by hammers into tools, is come an important undertaking."cording to a high official of the two years to completo, with the re to all parts of the world.

Ministry of Railways: The first sult that the port is now equipped homogeneous in structure, ·

with plant of the utmost efficiency Burt, Boulton & Haywood, Ltd.,

part of the programme comprises have recently extended their works- The men with the technique of

office buildings for the various de for dealing both with coal cargoest as the Newport Docks to cope with the Stone Age were later either

partments of the Shanghai-Nanking, their increased business. They spe- destroyed, dispersed, or educated

and Shanghai - Hangchow - Ningpo | The Elo Negro Bridge, Argentina, cialise in making oreosoted telo by those who had learnt the art of

Railway Administration: graph poles, railway alcopers, etc. working in bronze. Examples re-, The British Oil Storage Co., niniu of bronze hammers, rather of Ltd., recently established an oil the pestle type, but bronze wore

In order to speed up the making of communication between the Pro- and motor spirit distributing de- rapidly away, and was readily. pot alongside the River Usk at recast by the founder, no that not

Following experiments for some of contracts for the carriage of vince of Rio Negro and Buenos Newport, where storage tanks have much evidenos is preserved of ham months on local services round goods, the London Midland and Aires, and makes possible the only been erected, and from their primers that civilisation which Newcastle-on-Tyne with an oil. Scottish Railway is spending a direct rail connection between the vate wharf tank steamers discher immediately proceded the intro alegtrie motor-train, the second of large sum of money on a new tele northern and the southern portions ge their bulk cargoes to the stor-duction of iron. With the forging the trains was completed last phone services. By this menna, local of the Republic.

The bridge, built by a Germang or iron the hammer head could be mouth at the Scotswood works of officials of the railway will be able made in any shape that the form of the Armstrong-Whitworth Com- immediately to consult with district engineering firm for the State Rail, the article manufactured required, pany. The train made a run to officers, and, if necessary, with the ways, accommodatea rail, vehicular,

It is oft and the infinite variety began London, a distance of 271 miles, in head office in London Instead of and pedestrian traffic. "which has been carried on with an less than six hours and at a total, heing compelled to await written cantilever type, with a length of instructions, local officials will be 270 metes (885 feet) between but unintermittent and expanding scr-fuel cost of 118. 5d. Fuel consumpahle to arrange contracts on the tresses. There are two fixed spans ies to this day.

tion was '42-2 gallons of diesel oil spot.

80 metres (282 feet) in length on Hammer heads have a variety in and there was enough oil in the

QI in Now Guinea.”

the Patagones side of the river, an shape which is surprising, as any tanks to make the return journey

At 8 meeting of shareholders of opening span of 52 metres (170, trade catalogue will show. We can without refuelling.

Messrs. Mandated Development Co., feet), over the main chungel, and a only notice a few; but we cannot Developments in the use of oil Limited, held recently in Sydney, small span of 48 metres (15) feet)); fail to start with the "Monday" electric engines have been held agreement with Messrs. Oil Search, on the Viedma side, all of steel con- hammer, called after Monday, the back in Great Britain by the high Limited, Mr. E. L. Walter, manag struction. The movable portion of least-loved day of the worlding cost of petrol, but the progress of ing director of the latter company. the bridge is electrically operated

stated that of nine shallow bore week; 28 lb. it is in weight. There the diesel engine, burning heavy bolts aunk in the Matapau area of and can be opened or closed in is in the Dales of Sheffield a su- oils, has removed this' obstacle, It the Mandated Territory of New two minutes. perlative Monday hammer which is claimed for the diesel-electric Guinea, seven hud produced oil of Traffic on the bridge is controlled

high quality. Analytical resulte re- weighs 140 lb, and was used for engine that it is cheaper than coal, ported by the Federal Government by a modern system of signal lights; breaking sorap-an heroic imple- that it can be operated by one Analyst had given 41.6 per cent, The barriers at either end of the ment described in one homerie man, that it works without smoke of petral, 23 per cent. of kerosene, bridge open and close automatical sentence: "Me and my mate lifte or coal dust, and that it needs 24.5 per cent. of fuel oil, and 11

per cent of heavy oil and wax.ly.

¿Continued on Pago 3.)' it up, and

the Lord sends it neither stoking nor grate-cleaning Engineering. down."

There is a trade that perhaps I might be described as hanimering par excellence. To be able to re duce a piece of metal to one 280,- 000th, of the thickness from which a start was made is indeed a feat, but the gold-beaters have, been do ing work of this kind since the time before history bégair. A bar of gold, about 2 oz.in weight, is rolled to a length of 61 yards and cut into pieces 1 in. square. This in the "cutch" piece. One hundred and eighty are piled in the cutch And beaten to 3 in.square-half: an-bour's work. The finished catch sheets are cut in fcur and put in the "shoder," comprised of 700 skins and beaten ous to the edge, Bay, 4 in. square-two hours beat. ing. The shoder gold is lifted out,"

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