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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1932.

ENGINEERING

AND

SOME NEW RUSSIAN CONTRACTS

NEW ROADS TO

ROME.

TWENTY-SIX EOCOMOTIVES NEARLY 46,000 MILES OF

RELAID HIGHWAYS

BUILDING

THE VALUE OF RESEARCH

NEW IDEAS NEEDED

WHAT IS WRONG WITH INDUSTRY?

A plow for research as being ne-

A LARGE CAISSON FOR SOUTHAMPTON DOCK-

An order has been placed by the' Southern Railway Company with the Furness Shipbuilding Com pany, Limited, for a sliding cale-

NEW INVENTIONS.

TELEVISION APPARATUS WINS FIRST PRIZE

· The principal prizes for the most "E son in connexion with the dry dock | useful exhibits at the International, which is being constructed on the Exhibition of Inventions at Con- site of the dock's extension scheme tral Hall, Westminster, have been at Southampton.

awarded by the judges as follows:

Gold Medal-Mr. J. de Wet, 37, Novernapinie, S.W., 5, for his tele

The caisson, which will be one of. the largest ever built, wili be 142ft.

in length, 20ft, din. in width, and vision camera and projector, which 388. Gin. in depth. About 1,800 [introduces an entirely new method tons of steel will be required, and of transmitting a photographed oỡn city to the existenes of the enthe contract will be completed in a ject by means of tation of the Kineering industry was inade by year. The graving dock itself will image and radial (instead of line) Mr. Julius Frith in his presiden- rebuilt

til address to the Manchester As-

London, Oct. 14.--At the begia- } ning of this year, there was a large

Rome. The report of the last number of Russian contracta ready four years of the work accomplish to be placed in this country, formed by the National Road Building ing the purchasing programme in and Repair Institution in Italy this country for 1032. The con- contains the surprising figure of tracts were placed in part, but nearly 46,000 miles of public high there was a considerable acoumla-ways either improved or tion owing to the difficulty of place and a rumber of entirely new roads ing them on acceptable conditions, constructed. especially of credit.

J

be Anished well within a year.

reuusion.

Silver Medal-Mr. Lewis Burn, Tudor Cottage, Longparish, Hamp- sociation of Engineers at the open-bringing this into beneficial use in shire, director of Burg Silent Gears It is a work which in some re-ing meeting of the session held in the industry there was a great gulf Ltd., for his silent reverse gear for The Russian trade organisations specta rivals the gigantic eater 'the Engineers' Club,'

fixed. The research worker who motor honte, &c., which uses are still placing order. Among prise of Ancient Rome, Motorista Life, especially for an engineer, discovered the good news was often toothless "slipper" drive and gives the most rebent may be mentioned who had experiences of Italy high-gainst getting into a rut, said the the works, and this possibly was the ward and reverse.

should be a. perpetual struggle the least fitted to introduce it to silent action of equal power infor an order for twenty-six locomo-ways before the reconstruction re-. tives. It has not been placed yet, member that some of the roads in president. A business needed now, reason of the lag of about ten years Bronze Medal:-Mr. R. T. Waite, but the Russian Trade Delegation the vicinity of Rome, and still more

na perhaps never before a co-which usually had to elapse between

of Porthmeor, Preston New road, are arranging to place it in about so these around Naples, were often tinunt stream of no ideas. As the discovery of a new process or Blackpool, for his "lock-loose" đės. a fortnight with Mesars. Bayer, a mortal danger. To-day they are

à nation we have, I think, been material and the taking it up by vice for tin lids, by which the lids Pancock, and Co. The values of the a pleasure to motorists who make rather too prone to start the hare the folk who most needed it. For of tins or any other form of con- order amounts to over £100,000, and excursions to the Alban Hills, to the eatch and cook it, relying on our ment" was an indispensable' ad and lifted off without effort and but let our Kireign competitor this reason a "devolopment depart. tainer can be. Jocked or loosened the credit terms are twenty-one Campagna of Naples or the heart flair for adopting a good idea when someone else has worked it out. But The National Road Tústitution, this sometimes brings us in a lit which is an autonomous organisatie late for the feast. It required tion working with State capital, the horrid stimulus of the war do

of Abruzzi,

ex-

junot to the research laboratory, though the qualities of the ideal liaison officer were hard to conte by. The research worker was apt to become a man running in a nar

without risk of spilling the cop- tenta.

prizes, also given by the Institute In addition to thẻ medals, the prize-winners" will receive cash

from those already placed. There but an independent administra-show us that we had lost many of row groove and with a limited out-of Patenteca,

tion, has already spent 1,000,000,000 the industries which our own scien- lire (£14,000,000 at par) on roads biss hal created, as, for two and its budget calls for a total examples, the manufacture of dyes nonditure within the next for years and of magnetos, which had been of more than 3,000,000,000 of lira rendered possible by the discoveries

of Perkin and Faraday." (£93,000,000).

look if he was not continually. brought up against the realities of commerce and industry. Often he was the very last man capable of explaining his discoveries to the "practical man.""

months from the ddte of delivery. Steel Orders,

There are also several orders now for rolling-mill equipment, apart are a number of rolling mille to be ordered in England and the actual contracts are under negotiation, One of thein is with Messrs. Foster, of Opinshaw. There aro large orders, too, for paper machinery.

Now things to make, new mate research the speaker said that that Speaking of the value of applied Among orders that have been

More than 4,000 miles of roads rinls of which to make them, now on buried cables cost about £18,000, placed but not announced are those have been covered with bitumen or methods of shaping them t

our and was saving the industry ten for steel boiler plates for United asphalt, and when its work is comhem, new methods of transport Refrigeration began life as a play." needs, new markets in which to sell times this amount per amium. Steel Companies, Sheffield, the Amount of which will be over pleted half the roads of Italy willing them there, and new methods £30,000. The same material has have been rebuilt on the most me of hypnotising people into buying been ordered from British (Guest,dorn system.

them (called advertising)-all these The company has said Mr. Frith, were proper sub- Keen, Baldwine) Iron, and Steel Company Ltd, Cardiff, to the al planted nearly half a million jects for research. So, in a slight amount of £50,000, making a total trees along the roads, built es newly different sense, was the con of more than £100,000 for steel boil-bridges and suppressed numerous old problems, of which, among er plates. There is still another

order for steel tubes, placed with level railway crossings. Mesars, Acelea and Pollock, of Old- bury, approximately of £18,000. An order has been placed with the Climax Rock Drill Engineering, Works, Crn Brea, Cornwall, ruosť- ly for drill sharpeners.

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thing of the scientists, and nownies have placed with Messrs. Bus- enabled us to live by imported ton & Hornsby of Lincoln, an or foodstuffs. In some large firms in

the United States the search deder for five all engines to be in- partment ran a miniatura works stalled in a new power station at of their own to try out new pro within a works had become a suc Cossce, Sometimes these "work Baara. cossful that they had entered into commercial rivalry with the parent

tinual search for now solutions to

others, the speaker mentioned get ting electricity straight from coal, making a water, tap that would not! concern! splash one in the waistcoat, making gas turbine, or, better than any; how to make lead into gold, and surprise America by paying our

FOR FIRST QUARTER OF 1932 dehta,"

Returris issued récently by Lloyd's Register of Shipping show that 54 ships. of 100 tons gross and up wards, totalling 64,473 tons, were totally lost or condemned in couse- quence of casualty or stress of wea thor during the quarter ending March 31, 1932. Forty-nine of these, aggregating 59,750 tons, word eleaners and motorships, the re- i |maining 3 being sailing ships, all of which latter were of foreign na tionality. Among the 40 steamers and motorships Jost, 14, making tó- gether 6,430 tons, flew the British lag. Vessels otherwise broken up or condemned, during the three months under review, totalled 84, comprise ing 337,070 tons. Of these, 82, mak- ing together 330,912 tons, were eteamers and motorships and 22 to- talling 145,247 tons were British One British sailing ship of 168 tons and one, foreign one of 90 tons also broken up.-Engineer-

were

ing.

ALL THE WAY TO

ROUMANIA

BRITISH RAILCAR'S. LONG RUN

The first of consignment, of Sentinel-Cammell steam railcars, ordered some time agò from Moests Sentinel Waggon Works, Limited,

LIGHTING & POWER INSTALLATION by the Roumanian State Railways,

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retained at our Hong Kong Branch

left Birmingham recently, and tra- velled on its own wheels to its de

intion. The route taken was via the Harwich-Zeebrugge train ferry, and thence through Aachen, Pasu Hegyeshalom, Lokosbazi and Our tici. The vehicle is of ft 8 in. long and weighs 3 tons. The journey, and

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the Continent was arranged by the London-and-North Eastern Ball- way Company and Messrs. Gravé and Company (Lo foreign freight contractor

in oo-operatiar

Liaison Work,

It was becoming more and more evident, continued Mr. Frith, that every industry had many problems in common which should be tackled by the industry as a whole, but be tween the discovery of a now pro- in the laboratory and the (Continued on next Column.)

cylinder units of 440 b.h.p. each Two of the engines will be eight- direct-coupled to a 250 kw, alter- nator, two will be four-cylinder Mr. Frith thought that the test- units coupled to 123 kw. alterna- ing department, the members of tors, and the fifth will be a four- which had, or should have, the run cylinder unit of 120 b.b.pl coupled of the works, was the best place for to a 65 kw, alternator. The whole the search worker recruit to pick series will be arranged to supply up a knowledge of the problems he lighting and power circuits in would later have to solve. He re parallel and to deal with a lond ferred to the appeal of Mr. A. E. up to 815 kw. The contract also. L. Chorlton, M.P., for an Indus covers the installation of accessory trial Research Council for Man plant, such as exhaust and cooling cliester, and suggested that there water arrangements, compressed-air was no better body to fill his want starting equipment, emergency than the Manchester Association of lighting set, and fuel oil and lubri Engineers,

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