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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932.

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

BRIDGE ACROSS THE

PEARL RIVER ·

NEW ERA FOR HONAM ISLAND

CLEARANCE PERMITS LARGEST STEAMERS TO PASS

CANTON, Dec. 6. Honam, because of its geographi cal position, and financial resour- €29,

a subsidiary of the US Steel Corporation, Ltd.

A GAS "GRID" FOR SCOTLAND

PITHEAD CARBONISATION OF COAL

MR. MACLAURIN'S VIEWS

ROADWAY UPKEEP IN KWANGTUNG

DISTRICT AUTHORITIES TO

PROVIDE SQUADS OF ·

WORKMEN

Add t

PING-HAN EXPRESS TRAIN SERVICE

HANKOW TO PEIPING IN

44 HOURS

If the sixty-seven out of the oue Canton-With the completion of hundred ninety Incomotives of the many highways in the Department of Reconstruction

Kwangtong, Pig-Han Railway will be repaired has ordered the district governments by the end of this year it is ex- to fom road maintenance squads pected that commencing from Jan- to plant trees and for the general upkeep of communication routes.

uary 1st, 1933, express train ser vice will be started from both the Some of the highways am not terininuses, Peiping and Hankow, well kept at present.

authorities are endeavouring their every day. Besides, the railway,

time covering the entire line by ex- utsnost to cut short the period of press trains from. Afty-five to fourty-four hours,

Professor Henry Briggs presided The new order requires that at a mesting of the Royal Scottish member of a squad should be post- M. Robert Madauriu, Stirling Money for repairs is to be secured Society of Arts, Edinburgh, when ed off the highways every ten li. rend a paper on The Lothians from the profits of the motor buses The electrical equipment for Area and n Gas Grid for Scot and other vehicles operating on the operating the bascule spans was land." The Chairman, in introduce highwaye, supplied by the British Thomson ing Mr. Macinusin, said his name Houston Co., Ltd, Rugby, whosein cannection with the carbonisa Far Eastern representatives are! tion of cond was known"all ever the Mesars. Kiddill & Co."

world.

Engincers of the Department of Reconstruction will, supervise the work.

Monopoly Aimed At.

haa long bren recogniz. ed 118 the potential industrial centro of Canton, writes Mr. Henry W. Kwong in the Canton Sun. Ita ongy necess to cheap

Reports are current there that it water transportation and its wide

is the intention of the Ping-Han. 600 Foot in Length, fertile plains hold unlimited pos

They were all familiar, and Mr.

Administration Committee to de- sibilities for future commercial

The bridge, when completed, will Maclaurin, with the electricity

clare a monopoly of all transporta- tion business from the various na- and industrial development. How be 500 feet in length, exclusive of grid, with its pylons and cables

tive goods producing districts in ever, the Pearl River, on which the inclined 3.85 per cent. gradio stretching across the country, and could be made by carbonising roa! the interior, and into the inland bank it is situated, instead of sery. 'approacties on each side; and will some no doubt believed that the at the pithend at a price varying districts from river ports and The bridge will be approximate electricity grid made a gas grid from 1 to 1d/per thera. The cities along the entire railway ing 63 an artery for trade and ly, 115 feet above street level, or unnecessary but this was a comicer price was possible only under line. commerce, has handicapped its progress by the separation of its building. When closed, the clear was due to the youth of the industry the higher price was easily realis equal to the height of a ten story plete mistake. The electricity grid certain favourable conditions, but torritary from Canton Proper.

It is understood that since the ance of the bridge at mean high and the energy and neumen of its able.

Administra..on took over the trans- Canton, on the other hand, has tide will be 23 feet which height engineers The electrical industry

portation business from the cities permit grown by leaps and bounds during would

ordinary

The yields he took per ton of coal traversed by the line a couider- river|brought into existence the electric the last few decades. Trade and steamers and junks to pass under. grid because it had no inherited were:-Dil-18 gallons. The appliable increase was noted and in commerce have increased. Public The navigation passage between prejudices.

ed to internally or externally heat view of this the authorities desire utilities, such as water, electricity, the piors will be approximately

ed processes, automatic telephone, and bus ser 115 feet wide. The stream depth

to monopolize not only the cities vice have boen introduced. Street, will be approximately 35 feet at

Ammonia-ll from the Maclaurin along the railway but also trans- procres; 121b, from externally district to this railway stations, and building constructions. have mean high tide. This

Twenty years ago electricity and

portation business from the inland clearance increased.

heated proceSSES," The population has would permit

the French liner those who could afford to pay for Gas-80 therms from the Maclaurinexacted,

gaa were fighting for the custom of

hoping much more funds will be multiplied.

Normandie, world's largest hip cleanliness and convenience. now under construction, to pass by price of gas in Glasgow at that The

process: 30 to 40 therms from with ease.

time was about il per therm. A

externally heated processes, Two Minnte Ürossing. therm in electrical energy was about Fuel-1ewt. from Maclaurin pro- The Bankow Chamber of Com- Assuming that a man can walk seven timen that price. The electric- 4 miles per hour, the length of the al

cess: 13owt. from processes like merce on behalf of many private industry wis using about bridge can be traversed in about 4,500,000 tons of coal per annum;

the Hird or "Coalite." transportation hongs, which have two minutes.

dealt in this business since the An automobile,

The values he placed on these in construction of the railway sent a the gas industry over 10,000,000 arriving at 11 for the gas ware: complaint to the fleneralissimo's travelling at 20 miles per hour twenty years had doubled its con-1b; fuo, large and small mixed, vention of the Headquarters. The -tona, The electrical industry. in Oil, 003 per ton; nnonia, id per Headquarters requesting the inter- can traverse the bridge in half a minute. An idea as to how much sumption time can be saved may be taken in the face of increasing costs for of coal and nearly quadrupled its output of energy. from the above, illustrations.

I

W the Bridge Was Built, flowever, the progress and econo- mic changes in Canton have brought manifest social problems. The concentration of capital and wealth has meant the concentration of population. And the concen- tion of people has evolved unem ployment, housing and other pro blems. The solution of these pro- blems lies, in part, in the develop ment of Honam.

carried

Changes of 20 Years.

209 par to..

In

Hankow Objects.

reasons stated are that it is im- possible for the railway adminis- tration to transact this line of

dent upon this business will be business to its fullest extent and besides numerous parsons depen- thrown out of work.

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The Chukiang Steel Bridge will coal, labour, and material, the in- The working costs ured not exceed. 48 and 3s per ton for the internally The construction of the Chukiang congestion of Canton but it will price of the kilowatt in Glasgow spectively, and the capital charges not only serve to relieve the social dustry, ha reduced the selling and externally heated retorte ro Steel Bridge, then, was under combine the resources, advantages, by about 13 per cent. taken partly under the pressure of and the commerce and industry of industry was still carbonising only tively; making a total of 7s and 9s, The gas need not exceed 39 and 48 respec- social necessity and partly in anti the two regiona to promote the about the same weight of coal, but for safety he had allowed 11s cipation of the future commercial development of a Greater Canton. The output of theras had, however, and 138 for all working and capital and industrial progress of Canton At the present rate of progress, been slightly increased-probably charges-figures which be considered by the Canton Municipal Govern the Bridge will be opened, to tral by, about 15 per cent. The selling to be excessive, ment. Consequently, plans were fie on New Year's Day, 1933. drafted. The Scherzer Rolling Lift!

price of the gas par hent unit had, LARGE PAPER FACTORYishunent of a large paper factory. Bridge design was adopted, and bridge is estimated at $2,000,000

The cost of Constraction of the however, almost diabled.

By carbonising at the pit-head Saiwan, where river transporthe Wai Sun Road site was chosen, local currency.

The reason for this

more than fd per therm would be PLANNED FOR CANTON tation facilities are available and

that the saved on the cost of the coal by | immboo

hereditary prejudices of the gas Having ir transport alone. The contract was awarded to compose of three spans, two att industry were many. In the first addition to lower transport charges Railway's "Royal Scot " class, grows exuberantly, has Provincial Chairman, Lin Yun een chosen as the site for the pro casra. Anderson Moser & Co.. tionary spans 220 feet löng, and place. the industry has never got there would be a ring in handle which are among the most power- Eight locomotives of the LM.S.. Kai, in his capacity as hend of posed plant. The construction of Ltd., the actual construction being one movable centre pan 160 feet away from the memories of the ing, less breakage, a reduced capital ful express passenger engines in the Department of Rerenstruation, the factory calls for an initial ex-|

out by McDonnell and long, all of which will rest on two days of the fut flane burner. The coat, and à reduced price for steam,e country, are to be named after has instructed Director Chen Yaufpenditure of 81,400,000. The daily Gorman Inc., Changhai.

piers constructed Rivor.

in the Pearl Welsbach muntla did away with light, and electric power, and algo famous Territorial Regiments of Dien of the Industrial Testing See-output of the plunt, it is estimat The steel was made and supplied tion to draft plans for the estab. ed, will be one hundred picula..

the necessity for a rich gas, but the for supervision." by the American Bdge. Co. Inc. were made with red olay, inte recognise all that this implied. other very definite advantage in The foundations of the pier veterans of the industry failed to would also lend to savings! An-

The larger scale London and the Home Counties.

The following are which

the chosen pine piles from Oregon. They still clung to the belief that carbonising nt. the colliery was that U.S.A., 19 inches in diameter were driven. 102 piles are driven in B.Th.U.s per cubic foot to be of profitably at the colliery that it Company,

gas hay to have nearly 500 much material could be carbonised No. 6144.-Honourable Artillery. concentric circles for each founda. any use, and this belief has prac would not pay to transport, such as tion around which a steel cylinder tically tied their hands. 30 feet in diameter was placed and electrical engineer, on the other Labic pickings. It is quite possible The small coal, washing discards and

No. 180. Queen Victoria's. Rifleman, which concrete was poured hand, was not bound by prejudice. Granite blocks and concrete filling His aim throughout has been to by the use of such fuels to produce No. 4102.-Queen's Westminster form

the upper portion of the produce energy cheaply and distri-gas at the colliery at a

Rifleman, piora,

bute it cheaply, The bridge is of the Scherzer,

three-farthings per therm. At this Rolling Lift Type. The centre

price gas could be used for steami apan will be composed of two

raising or for heating the externally equal and movable sections, ench After dealing with various aspects heated retorts.

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80 feet long and weighing over 600 of economical production, Mr. tons which

aru to be counter. Maclaurin stated that from vatima-1 balanced by concrete blocks.

Mr. Maclaurin then discussed the The tes he had made and estimates he various problems of distribution and centre span when finished will re had examined he was antisfied that

semble two swinging doors laid on gas of any calorific value desired which arose, and stated that 0.50

No. $107.-The

n horizontal plano which will re-between 200 and 700 B.Th. Us per therm was an ampla allowance. Regiment. volvo on pinion gears on racks to

be supported by the piers.

Electrical Control. Electric power Erom the Canton Electric Company will be used to operate the centre span.

Two 10 h.p. Induction motors, with the gear ratio of 1500-1, will be re- quired to turn 1100 times to open the bridge. Hand pulleys to oporate the bridge will be. installed for emergency no. The electric brakes, which will be automatical- ly set if the current is shut off; vill control tha mogement of the centro span.

The control house' will be situat- od above the roadway of the bridge, where clear vision. will bo available. The control house will, bo provided with various electric control devices for the proper

neration of the bridge.

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Regarding the proposed plan for the connection of the Canton-Kow- loon and the Kwong-Shui railroad Hace, Mr. Lei Shin Gun, Directer of the Kwong-Shui Line, has deni ed the truth of the report, Mr. Lim, however, announced that plans are being made for the in- troduction of motor railway ser vipa on the Kwong-Sam Line our Jan. 1, 1983. From 6 to 8 motor sara sepcially built in the railroad workshops will operate on the line, according to the director, mach having a beating pacity of 68 persons. It is expected that the traffe income of.. the lie will be thus increased by $3,000 a month.

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