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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1933

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A GENERAL

WHERE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT IS MADE

VIEW OF THE GREEN ISLAND CEMENT WORKS TAKEN FROM THE SEA.

Issued by the

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO., LTD.

MODERN 'BUS CENTRE

LARGE-SCALE SCHEME CON- SIDERED IN CARDIFF.

The Cardiff City Council have decided to procbed with a schems to provide a modern motor omni-

2ND FLOOR EXCHANGE BUILDING.

£1,000,000, as described in detail in Industrial Britain for April.

It is stated that the develop ment which, involves the demoli- tion of part of two streets will not incur any extra charge on the rates, the estimated annual income from the scheme being £14,000, ds com Dazed with an estimated annual expenditure of £13,800;"

CONTROLLING THE WORLD'S TRAFFIC

12.58.

ENGINEERING & BUILDING

CHINA'S POWER-

PLANTS

Total Number 665

THE CUMBERLAND HOTEL, LONDON

DIMENSIONS AND VENTILA- TION, ETC.

COMPRESSED AIR IN ENGINEERING PRACTICE

WIDE RANGE OF APPLICATION AND OF PNEUMATIC TOOLS

The use of compressed air for accomplishes its work, and the say- power transmission carries many ing of time which it effects in and obvious advantages. Not only these days of heavy road traffic. is thers the universality of the Coming not "taz, if at all, behino medium, but also the fact that its is the rivetter so much used in discharge at the end of the opera- shipbuilding and other tion carries with it other advan- tional work. tages, as, for exa'iple, in under- ground work, in which the supply of fresh and cooled air is of cou aiderable importance.

construc-

Hore the conditions" necessitate

rapid work in order to take the fullest advantage of the heat in

A better standard of production.

Rust and corrosion of steel is Far about forty years electric one of the most serious problems power has been employed in China of civilization, and the loss in is estimated at for various purposes, but compre this connection hensive statistics relating thereto £700,000,000 per annum, on a con- were lacking until recently Mr. servative basis. The best protec.

the rivet. Rivets of 1 inch in Yun Chen, au expert of the Nation- tica, as known from the experience

The prominent note of portabl diameter are readily handled, and, al Reconstruction Commission and of over a century is Red Lead concurrently Chairman of the-Na-paint, and thousands of buildings, lity, too, is of far-reaching mo with air pressures of 200 b. per tional Electricity "Commission, for example, are protected on these ment. In outdoor work the "range sq. inch the heaviest type of work. of operation may extend to many including that for steam and water made a general systematic survey lines,

One of the latest is the new miles, although it has to be borne pressure, can be executed. of the power plants in China,

When it is remembered that some The plants how operating in va- Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch, in mind that with this increased rious parts of the Republic, num- London, W.1, now under construc-length there is the unavoidable loss, hundreds of rivets can be inserted ber 665, with a total capacity of tion for the Cumberland Hotels of pressure and therefore efficien- in the course of a day's work the 833,845 kilowatts. Of these plants Ltd., associated with Messrs. J.cy. But portability finds another saving of labour will be appreciat 310 are erected for the purpose of Lyons & Co., Ltd. the architect be expression in the smaller outfit ined, together with the accelerated supplying public consumers with ing Mr. F. J. Wills, F.R.I.B.A. of which a small and compact unit, speed of construction, while the electricity, and have a capacity of London, amongst the largest hotels comprising compressor and a num-elimination of the most fatiguing 359,270 kilowatts, while the re-in Europe, with 966 bedrooms on ber of tools, is readily available work of the previous hand rivetter over a wide area and involving no makes for more congenial work and maining 148 have been built by Iac 8 doors, each of which has its own tories and mines for their own use, internal bathroom and lobby, re-considerable length of pipeline.

Again, the enormous amount of

A large namber of types of the capacity of these plants being quiring a staff of 2,500 people.

work which "the pneumatic tool 335,376 kilowatts. In other words. Ground Floor 66,120 Square Feet,

Below the ground floor the site seems capable of hinds its origin paeumatic hammers are now avan 78 per cent, of the total number of power-plante having 62.5 per cent. occupies 06,490 square feet superfi- in the velocity developed through able for this and similar pur of the total capacity, are public cial area, and above the ground the stroke, and also the number of poses, and improvement in design original disadvantage of yibra- utilities supplying power, and 22 floor 56,810 square feet, while in strokes, of the order of hundreds, has very considerably reduced the per cent of the number, with 37.5 addition there is an annexe and which are produced per minute.

The conversion of this repeated' tion. With the smaller types for per cent, of capacity, are plants subway, 13,366 square feet below for producing power for private the ground floor and 7,050 square application of force into that or small rivets as many as 1,000 blows

is feet above. Further it may be impact developed over a very short per minute are struck. Further, no occasion, as, with In regard to the distribution of stated that the total subic content distance in the case of hard and there

accounts hydraulic rivetting, for the rivet- these undertakings, Kiangsu heads of the hotel is 7,024,000 feet, and impenetrable materials the list with 154 plants, Chekiang for the annexe and subway 120,000 for the apparently surprisingly ter to operate both sides of the coming second and Kwangtung cubic feet. Approximately 100,000 large amount of work which they rivet. Whatever, therefore, could third, the largest aggregate copa cubic yards of material have had are able to perform. Their exten be done by hand can be very much city being also credited to Kinng to be excavated, and a consider- sion to the numerous departments more expeditiously handled by the

able complication has been that the of general engineering and other pneumatic tool. adjoining old nuderground station constructive work which is now Mostly Private Enterprises. Among the plaats erected for for the Tube Railways was demo-called upon to handle the hardest public supply purposes 91 per lished in 1832 and a new station materials with expedition is there-

fore not surprising. cent, are operated by Chinese, pri has been built. vate enterprise, 5 per cent. by the Government, and the remaining 4 are concerns promoted by foreign invastors: Regarding capacity, the first group producas 35 per cent of the total output of power and the Government concerns 13.9, while the foreign enterprises pro- duce the largest share of the out put, 51.1 per cent. with the Shang. hai Power Company the biggest individual concern, with a capu. and a city of 181,000 kilowatts capital of $118,000,000,

Although

the electric among plants for private supply the Chi- nese-owned (58.4 per cant) greatly sutnumber the foreign plants (11.6 per cent.), their respective capa cities are in the proportion of 53.3 to 48.7, an excess of 6:6 per cent. only in favour of the Chinese com cerns. Moreover, some of the Chi- nere-owned plants, like the Kailan Mining Co, also utilize foreign capital, so that the capacity of the exclusively Chinese-owned concerns the weight of the paint averaging

$1.

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An elaborate system of ventila Like all other examples of power tion is also provided, which is transmission and use, however, effi- in three portions, comprising supcient operation calls for a large ply of refrigerated conditioned air element of design both in the op- for the public rooms, ventilation paratus and its operation. At the for services, kitchens and lavato- compression end the efficiency has ries, and mechanical ventilation been raised by the introduction of for internal bathrooms, while the multi-stage compressors upon which boiler house and the ventilation every element of design has been

impressed and in which mechanical" plant are situated in the anexo.

efficiency is assured through per feotion in construction.

The total weight of structural steel involved, all supplied by Dorman Long and Co., Ltd. of Middlesbrough is 15,500 tons for the hotel itself and 1,800 tons for the annexe and subway, and the whole of this steel has been given a priming coat of Red Lead paint for protection against rust and corrosion.

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Other Tools.

Of similar operation is the chip- ping hamater, which finds applica tion in the dressing of casting. These are usually of smaller stroke, but they operate much more rapid ly, giving a number of blows per minute which varies from 1,000 to 3,000. Much the same operation is involved in the dressing of rough- ly-hewn-stone, while a finer illue- tration is that of the tool in the hands of the sculptor.

Reverting, however, to engineer- At the consumption end of the ing practice, mention may be made process greater attention to the use of the process of caulking pipe Here, again, advantage seem to obtain with the of individual tools will make for joints. further raising of the total effi- would ciency, which with the prevention pneumatic method by reason of the of leakage throughout the trans- much larger number of blows which " mission system is obviously all-im- can be more uniformly distributed portant. Over a wide range of over the mass of the caulking ma mechanical operations compressed terial. Red Lead owes its efficiency in-air has been pressed into the ser- this connection to three different vice of the engineer to the greatest reasons. In the first place it forms advantage of the industry. & heavy dense paint film, affording protection from air and moisture,

Use of Red Lead,

Variation on the usual recipro of pneumatic drilling, in which cating motion is found in the case the drill is operated by cranke from suitably disposed cylinders arranged so that the balance deve running. If the most familiar example of lops a smoothness in about 35 lbs. to the gallon. Un-

Rivetting.

is actually less than the 53.3 perike paint materials, however, Red pneumatic tool is that of the road. These drills may run at 400 to 700

cent. mentioned.

Under the regulations governing Lead is chemically active, and two maker's drill, with its incessent revolutions per minute, and ob there must be some appreviously, especially with the appli-, electrical enterprises, plants are different sets of beneficial reac din, classified in four grades, those hav-tions are involved. Firat it is an ciation even by the layman of the cation of modern steals, very rapid- ing a capacity above 10,000 kw. be oxidising agent, and there is form speed and efficiency with which it fly achieve their desired object. ing in the first grade, those with aed on the surface of the steel a capacity of from 1,000 to 9,999.kw. "passive" film of oxide of fron constitute the second grade, from which is strongly resistant to the 100 to 990 kw. the third grade, and passage of the local electric cur from 1 to 90 kw. the fourth grade. rents regarded as essential to car Of the 610 power-supplying plants rosion nccording to the electro- five belong to the first grade, 34 to chemical theory, as well as to the the second," 10s to the third, and action of the atmosphere general- 293 to the fourth, with the stand-ly ing of the remainder unknown.

The Grading.

ELECTRICAL ORDERS FOR BRITAIN

Messrs. Parsons have on order a 20,000. kw. turbo-alternator for the Calcutta Electric Supply Car poration-the second supplied to Calcutta.

The most important high-voltage

Finally, the Newcastle firm is Further, Red Lead is a basic generating plant in the world out- substance and therefore neutralises side the British Isles is to be erect despatching special machinery for traces of acid in the atmosphere, ed by Mesers. O A. Parsons and the laboratories of the N.V. tot Among the 519 plants the capa- such as sulphuric, sulphurous, Co., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for Keuring van Electrotechnische Ma-

Allocated by the testing large switchgear.. city of 402, amounting to 508,800 nitric, nitroas, and hydrochloric, the Salt River Power Station, terialen at Arnhem, Holland, for kw. can be estimated with certain-which increase very considerably Cape Town. ty. The total capital of 8303,377,140 the rapidity of corrosion. That is Electricity Supply Commission of invested in these plants indicates the paint, in addition to covering South Africa, the contract provides Ltd., of Dursley, Gloucestershire,

for a 20,000 kw. turbo-alternator- that cach kilowatt is capitalized at the surface of the steel with a an average of 8000 According to layer which is protective for physi- similar to one already supplied by the biggest manufacturers of cream

ba an in- Messra. Parsons. rating

first grade plants are cal reasons, also acts

Another contract is to supply &. financed at $821 per kilowatt, hibiter or retarder of rust and second grade at $645, third grade corrosion in two different direc-20,000 kw. unit for the Congella

supplied in recent years.. at 8683, and fourth grade at 2846. tions, due to its oxidising and Power Station, Durban-the fourth In accordance with the principles basic character.

of engineering, the best equipped plante return the least average ex- Dense, but the non-proportion be tween the first and third grade plants is caused by the fact that the former are all erected in great industrial and commercial ventres, where land is exponaive and values are high all round.

In the power plante for private use the most accurate estimate of the capacity of 37 is 35,308 kw., the planta costing 89,340,273, with an average of $425 per kw., the email equipment of the latter plants ac counting for the great difference in the average capitalization of public utility and private plants. Taken as a whole, the 519 public supply plants are financed at about 8336,000,000 and the 148 pri- vate plants at approximately 886,000,000, making a total sum of 3412,000,000 invested in power-pro- duction in Chins.

BIG TINPLATE EXPORTS The automatic traffic signal's re- cently installed in Trafalgar Square, one of London's busiest The total tonnage handled in traffic centres, were manufactured Llanelly barbour during the Inst by the Automatic Telephone Manu-six monthly period has only been facturing Co., at their works at exceeded once in a similar period. Liverpool.

since the war. The exporta, prin-

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The plans allow for an extensive | This company, which was the cipally coal and tinplates, showed bus ventre in the heart of the city motor-Car park alongside the omni- pioneer of automatic traffic signals, an increase of 56,579 tone over the at an estimated cost of £243,650,

This estimate allows for acquisi- bus contre, as well as for the erec has carried out orders for all the corresponding period of the pre- tion of property, road works and tion of new shop premises. Omni important towns of Great Britain vious year. construction upon a site adjoining buses from all the industrial val. The works are now busily engaged All the works at Llanelly, which the new General railway station, leys around Cardiff vill make the in coping with order for algual shares the tinplate trade of West which is being built by the Great contre their terminus, thus linking any of which a wanted for Wales with Swanses, are busier Western Railway at a cost of up effectively with rail facilities, European countries.

than for some time part.

Shanks

CO

LTD

AD-SCOTLAND

Messrs. R. A.. Lister and Co

separators in the British Isles, are laying down a new factory. Build- ing operations have already begun. cover over 70,000 square feet. The new separator factory will

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