1933-04-08 — Page 2

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1933

CONTRACTORS You Must

See The Lister Auto Truck

Lister

Note the following outstanding features of the Standard Model.

1. Low initial cost.

2. Low running cost. Less than 10 cents. H.K. per ton wile for petrol and oil.

3. Carries from 1 to 5 tons, at 1-8 miles per hour.

4. Ravorses, without complicated gearing, simply swing engine round.

6. Turns on a radius less than its own length.

6. Works 24 hours a day without speed lag or power loss.

Used extensively in every country in warehouses, wharves, factories and wherever quick and cheap haulage is required. On View At

Messrs. Reiss, Massey & Co., Ltd. Sole Agents for South China, Hongkong & Macao.

Particulars and prices supplied on application

For Constructural Work of Every Description

Use Green Island Cement

TWO REFLEX TYPE ROTARY KILNS HAVING AN OVER ALL

LENGTH

OF 264 FEET.

THESE KILNS ARE USED TO

MANUFACTURE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT.

Issued by the

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2ND FLOOK

EXCHANGE... BUILDING

COMPLETE ELECTRICAL INSTALLATIONS

with

C. M. A. CABLES.

Advice and Estimates given free on all types of

LIGHTING & POWER INSTALLATION

by an experienced

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

retained at our Hong Kong Branch

The General Electric Co. (of China), Ltd.

QUEEN'S BUILDINGH,

KONG.

ENGINEERING & BUILDING

ENGINEERING EXHIBITION

Chiao-Tung University Project

FIRST CHINESE-MADE TRUCK ON VIEW

• Shanghai Chi Tung

A SMALL ROTARY PUMP

Notable New Design

Of great interest, especially as regards the operation of planta- tions, estates, and agricultural areas generally, is a new design of small electrically-driven rotary pump of simple and efficient typ", known as the "Centrivac," parti' Univer-cularly suitable for private water sity Engineering and Railway. Ex-supply from wells, a production of hibition recently commenced the Fulsometer Engineering `C'>. new era in industrial and mechani Ltd., Reading (England). cal life in China; by holding the largest exhibitinayofits typo over to be held in this country. The exhibition, will extend until April 9, during which time the exhibits of the 238 agencies and manufac. tarers will be open daily from 9 'clock.

No admission fee is being charg ed, beyond a small fee for visitor to the cinema and boxing shows, the proceeds of which will go the relief work in the north. Tickets of admission may be obtained, free of charge, from the Exhibition Committee, which will also supply guide books. There are two en- trances to the exhibition grounds,

Other fields are sump drainage, as well as the pumping of petrol benzene, and other light liquids, ane one of the main characteris tics is absolutely positive auction without priming when using n suction pipe up to 23 feet deep.

For example the set for operat ing with a 1" diameter pipe, con- aiste of an electric motor running. at 1,450 revs. per minute, direct coupled on the same baseplate, to the pump which delivers 400 gal. 15ns of water per hour against a head of 100 feet with a suction of

25 feet.

one at 1954 Avenue Haig, and one Essentially the design of the on Amberst Avenue, ample parkCentrivac" pump is that of a ing space for cars being provided, rotor set eccentrically in the cas Among the attractions offered, ing and having two movable vagns, besides the exhibits, will be exhibi- each carried in slots. These vanes tions of Chinese art and drama, are carried on 4. contre black, Various athletic events, education rotating on a hardened steel cen al cinema shows, and on the last tre pin in the cover, the rotor day, a huge bonfire," fireworks, and with the vanes always being a lantern parade, which will take clear of the casing at all points. place at 10 p.m. A narrow guage Also the design is such that both railway, on which a small train the centre block and the vanes can holding twelve persons will run, easily removed fin simple fa- will wend its way about the shion, by removing the pump grounds.

cover, and replaced at small cost, without disturbing the pipe line.

In Four Sections.

W18. de-

The exhibition "itself has been

The pump is made in four stan- divided into four sections each to dard sizes ", 1", 1" and 1}' bo hold in A separate building suction, and to give another and coming under the head of ample of the duty the I" size, do- Engineering, Railway Roads and livering 1,000 gallons of water per City, and University Exhibits. The hour, under the conditions of 23 Engineering Exhibition building, fect puction and 100 feet head, completed last August,

running at 1,000 revolutions per signed by Mr. L. Hudec, and cost

minute. In all cases there is in 8500,000. At the close of the excluded cast iron casing and cover, hibition it will be turned into la Admiralty gunmetal valves, phos boratories and class-rooms for pher bronze blocks and hardened practical work in industrial and steel pins. For sides 1-3 also the technical engineering having been rotor and shaft art of gunmetal planned, with in view.

but in the largest size the rɔtor is A centre of attraction at the ex- of cast iron and the shift of ur hibition will be the Min Sheng Chine steel T necessary alse thr stand, which is exhibiting the first pumps can he made of gunmetal all-Chinese truck, built at the

throughout. Mukden Arsenal. Among the for- sign exhibitors are leasrs. Dad- The firm manufacture a wide well & Co. showing a full range of range of centrifugal pumps which Morris Commercial trucks and cover the whole field of pumping, Gardener Diesel engines, Fiat, including very high heads in which is showing aeroplaneen- mines up to 3,400 feet or over. gines and motor cars, the Ford Thus a well-known smaller type is stand, on which may be seen Ford the "K" centrifugal pump for cars, trucks, and tractors, and drainage, irrigation, and similar other well-known foreign use, with a central side inlet sue- tion, for bandling large volumes at heads up to 100 feet.

many agencies.

CHINESE TARIFF DECISIONS

GALVANISED SHEETS 'AND KEROSENE CASES

Among recent decisions given. by the Inspector-General In regard to questions of export tariff classifi-i cation and duty treatment are the following:-

Galvanized Steel Sheets, Mild steel galvanized sheets, made from ungalvanized sheets, imported from nbroad; are subject to 7 per cent. duty when exported coastwiss or abroad; in accordance with No. 225 of the export tariff, metalic products n.o.p.f."

Old Kerosene Cases-Old woo- den kerosene-oil cases, knocked- down into shooks, are liable to: 73 per cent. export duty,

PUKOW RAILWAY FERRY

7

By next August or Seutamber, trains will be ferried across the Yangtze at Pakow. The railway Terry constructed in England will sail for China at the end of this month, and is due to arrive here. April, according to a raport from the London office of the Min- istry of Railways Materials purchased in England for the con struction of the piers and other work in connection with the lorry will be sent out on board the ferry. The completion of the entire sys- tem will probably take four months after the vessel'e arrival...

RAILLESS TRAMS FOR NANKING

A proposal for the installation of a railless trama system in Non- king has been adopted in principle the Capital Reconstructiou

the

will be instructed." 1:0

for understoo

NEW STEEL

Researches began with the pro- duction of a silicon high-tensile steel for use in the Sydney Har- A now steel for structural pur-bour bridge. The company have poses which is claimed to be au- carried out an exhaustive series of perior to any other high-tensile experiments on full-size girders structural steel is being produced, and columns made with the now after years of experiments, by steel, which is said to possess 50 Dorman Long & Co., Limited, por cont, greater strength than the Middlesbrough, under the name of usual quality besides possessing

Chromadar steel."

greater resistance to corrosion.

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