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'GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE

PRES. ROOSEVELT BLASTS

FIRST ROCK

San Francisco, July 1-The ex- President. Mr. Herbert Houver, did the first shovelling on the con- struction of the bridge across San Francisco Bay

and President Roosevelt blasted the first rock.

Thereafter, the leaders of the two great political parties turned- the job over to men with harder greater experience muscles and with shovels and dynamite....

Work will begin to-morrow with a full crew of men and will, con- unue until the fridge, some five- miles long, is completed. The bridge will connect the cities of San Francisco and Oakland.

It

will give San Francisco residents clay access to the entire east shore

of the bay. In the past, the only means of crossing was by boat.

Agitation for the bridge has buen epnstant for 23 years and, until recently, its construction was opposed by the War and Navy Departments on the ground that destruction of the bridge during war would seriously hamper navi gation.

The Departments yielded, how completed. ever, and plans for the bridge were Work was begun to-day on Yerba Island, which is the property the Navy. A naval training station operates there.

Buena Island,

formerly

Gont

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1933

ENGINEERING

£3,000,000 ROAD

OPENED

JOURNEY FROM MAN- CHESTER TO COAST SHORTENED

trus

AND

BUILDING

TIN IN SHIP. BUILDING

17 TONS USED IN AVERAGE ·

MOTOR LINER

this

BRITISH IRON RESERVES

5,000,000,000 Tons of Ore Lying Idle

SUPPLY SUFFICIENT FOR 300 YEARS

IMPROVEMENTS AT

NINGPO

IMPORTANT NEW ROADS

BUILDINGS

AND

Ningpo, July 3.-On Tuesday,, in the nature of strong tides

July 4the new premises of the destroying portions of the bund Bank of China were formally open-wall- already completed. This ex- ed, several prominent Hangchow tension enterprise has meant the officials being present at the core disappearance of much old pro- mony. The now building, which perty, and the band is beginning has three stories,, in Bat-roofed, to take on an entirely new appear. and built of red brick in the Gerance, new and better property mon style, is situated on the bund, having been built to take the place and helps to give the latter a of the old. As already mentioned slightly more modern appearance. the Bank of China has given a fine. The bank authorities have con- lead in this matter." structed another building rext door A few months ago wide-spread to their own new premises, and in that a great manufacturing firm that this building has been leased Bureau is not quite finished, sev interest was excited by the news the same style. We understand structed by the Hangchow Road proposed to

use the English iron to a Hangchow hotel proprietor, he done on the

eral weeks' work still remaining to, and is to be opened abortly a However, the road as far as Loh castern section. foreign style hotel. The building

ore recoverable in the immediate neighbourhood of its own works.

In the building of a modern liner, ti is extensively used in Industry will derive many ad- the manufacture of various alloys, vantages from the new £3,000,000 and in the construction of an aver main road from Liverpool to Elstage motor liner of from 20,000 to Lancashim which is now open to 30,000 tons register about 17 tous traffic throughout its entire length. of inget tin would be required for The new road appreciably shortens steam vessel the amount might be purpose. In an Aquivalent the journey from Manchester to slightly less. the coast and will be of valuable r service to transport conveying is utilised in making up special A considerabie quantity of tin goods from the manufacturing cen

of Lancashire for shipment alloys for machinery journal bear from Liverpool.

ings, and most engine builders have their own private formulas Twenty-seven miles long, the for the composition of their va road has been four years in, the rious bearing metals,

It may, making and represents one of the however, be accepted that for high biggest road-building achievements class work the fin conteng will ex of modern times. It pursues an ceed 70 per cent., and as general almost straight line across coun- rule the more important the bear- try hetween Manchester and Livering the higher the percentage of pool, skirting the towns of Leightin and St. Helens, and passing north arise when the enfety of the ship of Knowsley before entering Liver depends on the reliability of the pool. For the first fifteen miles principal engine bearings support from Manchester the road passes ing the shafting which drives the through the South Lancashire coal propellere. These boarings have field. One hundred and twenty feet been brought to a very high state wide between fences, the road proof efficiency, as result of labora-culture, and would make some of vides a 40-ft. carriage throughout its length.

Way

present. The

occasion

may

tory research and experience and even when in continuous service; the indications of wear may be so very slight that it is not uncom non to measure in years the pe which elapse between the

It has involved difficult en- gineering problems. Thirty brid. ges had to be built to carry it.riods An extensive peat bag had to times when it is considered neces- filled in, and nearly 3,000,000 tons sary or desirable to make adjust of earth were transported to fill ments. up hollows and thus ensure easy gradients.

At 24. cross-roads "circuses," 940-ft. in diameter, have been con-

structed to reduce the danger of Cross-road collisions. The 28-16: reinforced concrete surface of the road is said to be virtually skid proof.

Provision for needs has been made in the con- possible future

each side, down the centre of which struction of 40-ft. grass verges on is a 6.ft. wide footpath. Trafic developments may eventually make it necessary to provide 20 ft. wide "slow trafic roads" on each side

of the existing carriage way, leg foot passengers. Trees and shrubs ing still 20 ft. for grass verges and are to be planted along the entire Mr. Hooverturned the Arst length of the road, and experts

prophesy that in a few years' time: shovel of dirt and President Roose the road will not only be one of velt, in the White House, touched the best, but one of the most beau an electric key that set off three tiful highways in Europe blasts of dynamite in the Island's rock formation.

A scheme has been

prepared

Band Widening.

The motor road to Saen Peh con-

Do Gyiao has been in use for several months, and a very efficient 'bus service "ia being maintained. There is no doubt that means of communication around Ningpo are rapidly improving, as in addition' Work on the widening of the to the Saen Peh bighway, a motor bund continues steadily, but pro road from Chinhai to the famous gress is very slow, the contractors' temple at Yush Wong is also under having met with several setbacks construction.-V.C.D.N

It was a significant statement, is provided with central steam but the employment of home re-heating, and each guest. 100m laas that Britain has sufficient ores to sources is belated: few people know a bathroom attached. maintain supply for at least threa centuries on the basis of present consumption. It is not high-grade, it will not compare with that

largely bought so

from Spain, Sweden, and North Africa; but it contains phosphorous, and the basic slag that is recoverable after smelting is of great worth to agri-

the lowest grade.ore propositions practicable.

An expert of high standing has stated that 30,000 men could be employed with steam shovels to annually and this would suffice for mine ten million tons of iron ores all home and export needs. It goes without saying that the melt- King of this ore would call for mil- lions of tons of coal, sufficient to Alloys containing a percentage reopen many mines that cannot the manufacture of Ettings that sion of the ore into pig-iron, coke af tin are generally used also in Pay today, while for the conver are subject to constant or intermit-oven and blast-furnace men now tent submission in sea water-such out of work would be needed in as the liners fitted on that portion their thousands.

Use in Alloys.

of the propeller shaft which is in valves, storm-valves, contact with the sea water, sen- and side. lights.

Drastic Change of Method,

All this new development would On deck may be seen deck-plates, valves

numerous involve a drastic change of method. which the layman might designately-produced highgrade foreign ores and fittings It may be admitted that the cheap- as "brass. But many of these have very defnite and reasonable carefully controlled alloys each view of what must be deducted articles are manufactured from attractions to importers, bat in

without which the metal would be dole to the thousands who would containing percentage of tin, from their advantages to

pay the unable to withstand the demands find employment if English ores of its particular service.

were used, it was recently suggest- steam fittings, cocks, gauges and usera of the native material would' various

In the engine room there are ed that a system of bounties to the

other accessories of the pay the country handsomely. modern engineer, most of which are wholly or partly manufactur-· Manufacturers of steel and iron The bridge extends from San which aims at this rond eventualled from alloys containing tin as claim to eave five million pounds Francisoo to

a year by the use of high-grade the Island, crossing ly being continued right across the one of its chief components. the regular ship lane from the North of England to Hull, which

Also in the engine room can be

imports, but the amount spent on Golden Gate to the wharves. From would provide industrial Lanes which control various systems such said on expert authority to be at numerous groups of valves the orr-mining industry at home is the Island, it extends to Oakland.shire with a direct transport link as, circulating water for cooling least three times as much. lore

purpose, bilge,, ballast and fresh over, the money that goes to buy water tank arrangements, fuel ser

oras-hardly less than £100,000 a vices, fire and wash deck systems, day would be spent in England, and hot and cold fresh and salt and the workers would not keep it water supplies for domestic ser- in their pockets; they would take vices. These valves and also the it to village store and country very numerous subsidiary valves town shop and it would reach many' on such of these systems as will be of the factories that are now on found throughout the whole length halftime because of unemploy. and breadth of the ship, and on ment: practically every deck, are either, manufactured entirely from alloys containing tin, or have internal fit tings of such mixtures.

United Press..

with the Continent.

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2ND FLOOR

EXCHANGE BUILDING,

seen

deny that the cheap foreign high- It is not enough to affirm or to grade ores have crippled the home industry and rendered the home Pure Block Tin.

product unattractive; the whole Pure Block, tin is sometimes used matter calls for close investigation for covering dreisers in the gul by experts with a public report leys and pantries. Tin having a for the guidance of ship and strue. high degree of purity, is used also tural steel builders and the mak for tinning" or coating the iners of machinery. Their must be ternal surfaces of certain cooking the final decision, but there is no utensils and hot fresh water boi- reason to believe that it would be lers, so as to guard against food an unpatriotic one. contamination by direct or indirect

contact with baser metala.

"Tinning" is also adopted is means of protecting certain metaj surfaces from corrosion and chemi- cal actions. Fittings such as brass splash. plates, drip trays,, etc. are tommonly dealt with in this man- ner, and will be noted that, in ad dition to the protection afforded, the articles treated are improved in appearance and more easily kept clean.

To the foregoing marine uses of tin should be added, increased by a hundred-fold, those instances of its utilisation with which the or dinary householder is familiar. Then, and then only, is it possible to gain some idea of the indis- pensability and the extensiveness of the use of tin on a large passenger vessel.

NEW PIPE-MAKING PLANT

A new asbestos cement pipe-mak ing plant has been installed at the Rhoose works of the Aberthaw and Bristol Channel Cement Co., near Barry, Glamorgan,

The original portion of the fac tory was opened a year ago for the manufacture of asbestos coment corrugated roofing, slates and tiles, Its products have been so succes fal that thres shifts are now being worked.

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