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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

ROAD v. RAIL IN E. AFRICA NEW VESSEL BUILT

SUGGESTIONS FOR CO-ORDINATION

the Benguela Railway to the West

FOR AMOY RUN

· RAILROAD ZEPPELIN' MAKES

FIRST BERLIN-HAMBURG RUN

TRAIN PROPELLED LIKE AIRPLANE BEATS REGULAR EXPRESS BY 38 MINUTES.

Coast, is serious, and there is no TO BE FITTED WITH M.A.N.utes, the new streamlined, propel

prospect at present of any pro- fitable substitute.

DIESEL ENGINES

Owing to the state of the roads, which makes road transport for a

The Hai Tong Steamship Co., considerable part of the year_im practicable, tha Tanganyika Rail- Amoy, early this year placed an ways have little to fear, from com-order for a twin screw motor ferry petitive lorry transport at present, with the Kiangnan Dock and En especially as licences for competi-gineering Works, this vessel Sun. even heavier in, day week carried out her final tive lorries are the Mandated Territory than in trials outside Woosung and obtain- e about half a knot over her guaraniced speed of 12 knots per hour. The principal dimensions of

FEEDER SERVICE BY LORRY

Dar-Es-Salaam. It has been es timated that in England the per- centage of rail traffle which can economieally be carried by road Kenya. only amounts to a comparatively |- small percentage of the total. Yet

Al Communications.

it is sufficient to have caused the! The need of aeroplanes for com- Home Railways considerable con- munications, survey, and inspec tion work has long been recognised cern and long,

in the Maodated Territory, which boasts an official establishment of five seroplanes and certain qualifi-

In East Africa the position is intensified, and until quite recently lorry owners have been free to car

115'-0" 110'-0"

the vessel are:

Lougth overail Length B. P. Beam moulded Depth moulded Loaded draft ..... T.-0”

The vessel is propelled by two

Hamburg," Deo 97.-After a breath-taking race lasting 141 min ler-driven super-express, popularly called Railroad Zeppelin," ar rived here to-day on her first run from the German capital. to her largest port.

The exigencies of the traffic and the signal system, however, com- pelled the super-express to hold down her speed, and it is hoped that in the future the travelling time will be still further reduced to about two hours. While so far the fastest, ordinary trains need 179 minutes.

The new train was welcomed by an enormous crowd at the ter minal, while all along the line the public thronged to the stations to watch the swift passage of the speed monster. The train, which consists of two closely connected cars, departing in their design

considerably from heretofore known railroail cars and accommodating 102 passengers, is equipped with two 12-cylinder motors, developing 410 h.p. each. The motors were de- signed by the May-bach Works, a subsidiary company of the Zeppe lin Works, while the electric equip- ment was designed and executed by the Siemens Arm,

Though the run has justified the greatest expectations, the authori ties have deemed it necessary to have a few more trials, especially because even the most up-to-date signal system has proved anti- quated for such a tremendous. speed na 180 kilometers,dr 33.9 English miles per hour.

Though the new train will be put into the schedule within a short time, it is not expected that it will run to its full capacity be fore the beginning of the travel season, next spring.

y the most paying traffic, to the ed pilots. Because the necessity serious financial detriment of the has been greater, this small flying Kenya and Uganda Railway, whose service has been brought into opera M. A. N. Diesel engines of 380 ipases as a result of such traffiction in Tanganyika before Kanya B. H. P. each, and when on trials between Mombasa and Kampala or Uganda have been able to con in 1000 were as high as £100,000 a tider a similar Government guter-save every satisfaction and handled THE ELECTRIC EYE rity to the human eye in colours

prise.

year..

on

carry

VARIOUS USES OF NEW INVENTION

sensitiveness.

The second of these reason is why it is used in some America hospitals to measure the redness of blood. Cigarette making firms employ it to box their cigarettes with the printed name upwards. Each cigarette is rotated till stop. ped by the light ray falling on the print, and in that position it goes into the box.

A concern in the United States,

beautifully. The first class accom- modation is on the top deck and In order to eliminate or control Recently, in the middle of the comprises four state rooms all fin this unfair competition as far as rainy season, the Governor was ished in the best of style porcelain possible, an ordinance was intro able to make an extensive tour by wash basis with hot and cold run- Juced last year which imposed air of districts which a few years heavy licences on all vehicles en-ngo would have been quite inacces ning water. Saloon is abalt the

London, Dec. 27. gaged in the transport of goods, Isible, and this is only one instance wheel house and extends across the Second and third This has to a large extens Limited of the invaluable work which can deck housés,

According to Mr. Rex Horsfield, the traffic, but further steps have be done by a few aeroplanes in a class accommodation is arranged

deck. The vessel can an English consulting engineer who been considered by the authorities vaat Administrative territory in- to protect the railway, which habited by nearly six million na- is still said to be losing £40,000 atives, where the roads are always about 300 passengers besides about has worked for the past 10 years

had, and for many meaths of the 100 tons cargo. The vessel is light in the United States, our manufac that markets yeast in small square year impassable, and the railway red-throughout with electric light turers are slow by comparison with packets. fidding that occasionally system only serves an infinitesimal and has fans in all rooms. Anthote of America in seiring on the one went out without a label, com- missioned Mr. Horsfield to design part of the area.

industrial possibilities of the

a machine which throws out every He made an- photo-electric cell. The popular anisbelled packet. name for this invention is the other machine which labels a bot- electric eye and this is very aptitle, draps it in transparent paper, in view of its remarkable proper rotates the bottle till it is stopped ties

at the right point by a photo- electric cell, and places 's second label exactly as the first.

year.

Branch Lines, !

The East African territories hav

electric windlass is fitted for

It seems not unlikely that cer tain branch lines may have to be closed temporarily, for in Konya unquestionably benefited by the Im Ward and gives every satisfac and Uganda the roads are general-perial Airways Service; and the tion and works without a sound suficiently good to allow feeder vantage of being placed on, or This vessel will be scheduled to service by lorry, nor is near to the Cape-to-Caire air make two round tripa daily from probably any transport contractor route will become more pronounced Amoy to Chang Chow Fu, calling in the world who works om a

as time goes on. There are some

there

In his laboratory on November 26th Mr. Horefield explained and smaller margin of profit than the fifty aerodromes or landing grounds in at Shima. At present there are Indian, who at present, under a throughout East Africa, many of several small and slow launches on demonstrated some of its uses. The Also the Electric Eye serves, sev- stiff licence, carries his cargoes of which would be judged unsuitable the run and they carry a large photo electric cell is electrically oral purposes in the printing and whiskey and piece goods up the sp-for big, passenger carrying ma- number of passengers. The new sensitive to light-rays. Since light engraving arts. Half-tone engrav palling road from the const to chines, but the majority can all be vessel should be a great acquisi- of an object reflecting it, the apa without acids; the picture to be varica in intensity with the colourings are now being made in Ameri- Nairobi; and often through to made into efficient aerodromes at a Uganda.

tion on the run. The Shun An on paratus will, after suitable ad reproduced is mounted on a re- In Tanganyika the railway.

When more money is available her first trials at Woosung was un-justment, permit or stop the pas volving cylinder, which is 'scanned' though passing through a very for private enterprise in de ter fortunate in meeting a N. W. blow aage, of a currect according, as the by the photo-electric call. lean period, is not burdened by a

it reflects or fails to reflect suff-sufficient to work, an engraving number of unprofitable branch ritories, there is little doubt that and very bad weather. The boat colour of an object placed under, currents are amplified to a strength lines. On the other hand, the lose "feeder" and individual service showed herself very seaworthy and vient light. The electrice impalees

will forge ahend on each side, of

of the mineral traffic from the Congo, which is now carried by

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tive machinery. Thus, the cell is lines corresponding to the dark the Imperial Air Route, and that even in the bad weather maintain- given out by the cell operate alec tool; which cuts in a metal, plate as facilities increase, so will the ed a mean speed of just over 12 used in America to reject dia and light elements in the original, number of private owners, who knots. The weather was too bad to coloured beans before packing,

The cell is used alio in three-colour even now often find a journey by air more economical than by road. finish the six runs and adjust com- The beans pass along a conveyor

passes, so it was decided to return belt at the rate of 90 a second. As reproduction, separating out at Rationalisation.-

to Shanghai. Mr. Homar Ling of they do so, each bean is inspected each scanning the particular.co by the Electric Eye. If its colour Perhaps it is not stretching the the Amoy Water Works Co. has falls short of a pre-determined lour desired. An automatio press- imagination too far to visualise acted as engineer adviser for the standard, a jet of compressed air stop used in the printing of news- ritional public transport service in East Africa twenty years hence. above Amoy Company and is to be kicks the bad bean aside. It is the

superhuman apced at which it papers "sees" an impending break In the first place the Cape-to-Cairo congratulated on obtaining such works that makes the Electric Eye in the roll of newsprint, and in- Air Liner service dividing Kenya fine vessel.

so valuable that and its superio- stantly stops the machinery. Colony and Tanganyika Territory longitudinally, carrying all mail and European passenger traffic- then a fast feeder service to Ugan da and the Belgian Congo...

Traversing the great Air Route will be the Kenya and Uganda Railway and the Tanganyika Rail- way-no further developed than at present but still carrying the country's produce, imported goods, and native traffic..

Lorries would be practically eli minated by licence from carrying goods in competition, but encou raged to connect outlying districts with the main line. Working on greatly improved metalled roads co-ordinating services of lorries and buses will feed the railway sys- tem.

There is a growing feeling out hare that if some scheme of ration alination is elaborated and put in. to operation now-and there is ample time before any serious. in- 'convenience is felt these new coun- tries will in after years, be saved from the "crisis of competition which now, threatens countries, with infinitely greater transport pro blems.

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