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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

WOMAN MASTERS THE MACHINE

Crashed Into Engineering

In the general process. gate-crashing male preserves, wo-' men have made giant strides in the most unlikely of all professions

engineering.

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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP, MENTS IN LANCASHIRE

THE LUNG-HAI RAILWAY

Nanking, Oct. 24%Mr. Sun Mou, Chief Engineer for the Tungkwan- The scheme entered upon some Slan Section of the Lung-Hai time ago by Mesars. The Lancashire Railway, in an interview yester Steel Corporation Limited, to ex- day. stated that the first half of tend and modernise their Parting the section from Tungkwan to ton works upon such a scale na to Weinan is to be completed by the make them among the finest of their end of this year. The roadbed kind in the world, is being expedit has been paved and materials ed, and already several new depart- are being -awaited for the laying ments and other developments aim- of the tracks. Tenders are now Mrs. E N. Mason is head of a Conversion To Pleasure Yachting at increased efficiency and being invited for construction Colchester engineering firm spec-

decreasd production costs, have been work

on the

other half from Jalising in engineer's photo-

completed and put into operation. Weinan to Bian, he added.—Kuo print equipment and drawing Lord Moyne has purchased the Further work is proceeding, includ-| Min. ofce materals," "She" employs | cross-Channel”- steamer Dieppe, ing the erection of now steel two-hundred "workers.

which was jointly owned by the furnaces and other plant. Meas.TA.

Pelping, Oct. 25.-The north- Bouthern Railway Company and Platt Brothers and Company, Limit- western provinces of Suiyuan and the French state Railways, toed, Oldham, who in the past have sinking are now linked by a replace. his yacht Roussalka, supplied cotton manufacturing motor-highway, and a long-dis- which was lost of the Irish machinery to many leading cotton

tance omnibus service is being coast.

frms in North China, are, it is operated between Kuelhua and stated, to supply most of the plant Tihua, provincial capitals respec- and equipment for new Government tively of Suyuan and Sinklang ---- mills which are being erected in Kuq. Min. Kwantung. An important contract, stated to be valued at approximates Dieppe la of 1,426 tons engine-gross, is 273 feet long, and Isy 50,0001. has been secured by gram to the National Economic Messrs. Pearson- and Knowles Council, the Hunan Provincial propelled by triple screws driven Engineering Company, Limited,

Government requests that a aum by three steam turbines.

Warrington, who undertake the of 8750,000 he remitted to Hunan The wrecked Roussalka was also structural-steelwork, programmes of immediately for the construction formerly on the Newhaven-Dieppe Messrs. The Lancashire Steel Cor of highways--yo Min. service under the name of Brish-poration, Limited, of which it is one of the constituent firms. The

As one would expect, the avia- Of

tion side of engineering has not escaped the eye of the woman en- ginieer. This is a new sphere and one that must inevitably expand.

"Miss E. J. Munts elected for thisy branch of work. She took a job

Conservative masculinity, taunt-

ing women with complete inability to comprehend even the most- elementary of gadgets, is disturb ed; the notion of Eve "among the machines still seems odd" to him, Yet, actually women broke into engineering during the war and, after it, consolidated their position with astonishing speed and ad- mirable enterprise.

Among the thousands" who learned

machines something of during the war, the vast majority returned to civil life without any But one desire to know more.

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The Dieppe, a sister ship to the Roussalks, has been engaged on the Newhaven-Dieppe service. Work on her. conversion to beginning pleasure yacht will begin shortly

The

the

as a fabric hand with the De Hyland aircraft people, and frahat bumble worked her way through shops, ending. In the testing department.

From the shops was but a step to the air. Miss Muntz switched from record-breaking ambitions to taking the technical side after ner pilot's "ticket." To-day she is flying as an aerial photograph- er, photographing the mouth of, the Mersey for stage for the Mersey. Dock authorities?

For the highest ranks of the profession a woman needs more than average mathematical' abil- ity. In the view of Lady Parsons, a former president of the Wo- men's Engineering Society, the best roure is by way of a honours in mathematics from a degree university. After that comes the practical work.

But the engineering Institu

little group of girls discovered that engineering is "an interesting job and decided for it as a pro- fessional eareer.

.." The result was a small partnership company. Miss An- .nette Ashberry was its leading

spirit. They had

little very capital, but unlimited enthusiasm. Their first workshop was in a Midland town. It was a disused bell-factory that housed horse and odd chickens when they tooktons slowly opened their doors to the women and the results" go to These, tenants were ejected

show that Eve, as engineer, can and the girl-engineers set about

place beside the men converting the place. They work take her

with rather more than passing ed by candlelight, in overalls and

credit. breeches.

over.

After two years they moved to Brixton and there Atalanta," Ltd., stili carries on the business of contracting engineers. There are no men in that arm..

Mrs. L. A. Willson started life as a half-timer-thirty hours a week for eighteen pence. She be- came full-timér and drew three half crowns a week. Meanwhile the machines among which her childhood was being spent, got

New Chief Engineer House, Aldwych, London, HC, hold of her.

Appointed

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London, Oct. 10.

Messrs. The British Thomson- Houston Company. Limited, Crown

have secured from the Southern Railway Company the contract for the supply of Mazda lamps for the twelve months ending August 31, 1934. Further, the General Post Office has renewed the contract for the supply of Mazda lamps for s period of twelve months.

To-

She married an engineer, be- came an engineer herself.. day, she is a director of Smith, Barker and Wills, machine tool makers, of Halifax

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Miss Violet Drummond. walked into a Dundee shipyard and said she wanted to sign on. As what? she was asked. "As a hand, she replied. The thing was unheard of, but she was taken on. She stayed there six years until her

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Take, for example, the case of After her Miss Verena Holmes. name she can put B.53, A,MI Mech, E. M.I. Loco. M. Inst. Met., A.M.I. Mar. E. Miss Holmes was the first wo- man to become a marine engineer, and her real love is steam en- ginees.

She was patented many inven- tions among others, a poppet valve for locomotives and an ap- paratus that plays an important part in the curing of consump- Mon. She knows as much about

Diesels as any male engineer ever

Will

gineer is Miss Caroline Haslett, general secretary of the Women's For fve Engineering. Society." years" she ran the large staff of a firm of boilermakers.

To-day she edits two technical

journals among other activities.

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Messra. Brooke Marine Motors, Limited, Adrian Works, Lowestoft, At yesterday's meeting of the have received in order for the con- Metropolitan Water Board, Lieu-struction of a Diesel-engined tag for tenant-Colonel J. R. Davidson, the Messrs. Lobitos Oilfields, Limited, chief engineer to the Liverpool Peru. The vessel is to be 45 ft. Corporation Waterworks, who will retire on pension on attaining the long, and have a beam of 11ft. The machinery comprises a Diesel engine age of co on May 30, 1904, was developing 80 h.p., at 800 r.p.m. appointed chief engineer to the Board for a period of five years as

· Messrs. Atlas Diesel Company, from June 1 next. He will receive Limited, New Oxford House, Eart- a salary of £3,000, -

street, London, W.C.1, have received The General Purposes Committee an order from Mesers, W. T. Lamb pointed out that last July Mr. H.

Sons, Limited, Shoe-lane, E. Silgoo, the chief engineer, was EC4, for a British Polar Diesel retired on account of ill-health as engine developing 725 b.b.p. at 950 from December 31, 1933. Important -p.m. This will be direct-coupled matters requiring early considera-to an Asca 500-kW, 400-volt, alter- tion in regard to the adequacy of ator for supplying power and light frock she is as feminine as the popular one.

to Mears. Lamb's new brick works

next girl. Even her hands are well kept.

Women engineers are doing an extraordinarily breeches cessed to cause comment.

wide range of To what end? To become a work. One was employed on the ship's engineer, no less. Miss building 01 the great Sydney Drummond signed on as tenth Bridge: one holds the post of Her metallurgist to the Lanston Mono- engineer and went to sea lot lay far below deck where the type Co.; another runs an fron over unfoundry in the Midlands; yet an- giant machines turn

other "runs "à large general en- ceasingly in majestic rhythm.

gineering business in Exeter.

and

the board's works to meet future at Bletchley. Another recent order demands were pending, including comprises four 450-6.h.p. engines for questions of additional storage, driving generators on a new vessel improve means of distribution, building at Messrs. Harland and. intercommunication, and the moder Wolff's yard at Belfast for Messra. nization of the pumping machinery: Shaw, Savill and Albion Company, While the committee had every Limited-Engineering. confidence in the deputy chief engineer, reecatly appointed, it was considered desirable to secure, for a limited period, the services of a water engineer of the highest dia tinction and experience.

forward such a proposal at such short notice.

Mr. H. Berry said that the posi- tion should be thrown open to com- petition. It was not in accord with the best principles of public life that a man, retiring at 60 and in receipt of a pension, should appointed.

To-day, Miss Drummond is a Member of the Institute of Marine Engineers, She does it because she likes it. There is nothing like

a ship's engine room, she says...

Just the same, in an evening

Twenty odd years ago the mo- husband. She was faced with the ther of four children lost her problem of supporting her family. She turned to engineering.

To-day, 28 years after opening shop with a capital of £7 108.

There are several methods of approach for the girl ambitious to enter this profession. In London

the Borough Polytechrilc has a course for women, and it is a very

East London College (University of London) is open to any girl who aspires to the B.Sc. (Eng), a three-year course, The Nor-

running thampton Polytechnic has been years. It is one that covers ma- a "women's course for

thematics engineering, magnetism and electricity, drawing and work- Ing in iron and steel

UNDERGROUND HYDRAULIC MINING FOR GOLD

be System That May Revolutionize Present

Mr. F. G. Howard, chairman of the committee, said that it was the policy of the board to promote from within its own staff, At the mo- ment they suffered from the com- plaint of youth. However highly qualified, their engineers lacked the

The appointment was made by 31 long and varied experience which votes to five. the position demanded An immense, amount of work, was in prospect, It was reported that Sir Alexan- involving expenditure of possibly der Houston Director of Water £4,000,000. That could not be start- Examinations, had tendered his ed without skilled advice. Lieuten- resignation as from the end of the ant-Colonel, Davidson was a high present year.. authority. At the end of five years the door would be reopened to promotion. If the salary was ex ceptional so were the circumstances. If the board were to engage con- aultants, the fees payable on 24,000,- 000 would be £100,000.

APPOINTMENT OPPOSED

Theories

Centerville-While many of the Located approximately 139 feet world's foremost mining engineers below Mammoth Channel, the tun- shake their heads dubiously, W. Lnel eventually will be upraised Leland is directing operations at into that chasm buried unknown. the California Treasure Box gold centuries ago when tons of, lava The Board, in accepting the re-mine which may revolutionize all seared scorching signation, placed on record its high previously

paths down appreciation of

conceived mining mountain sides and filled the stream" bed. Houston's services during the past

Backed by a lifetime of, gold ste reservoir has been construct- 23 years.

Sir, Alexander theories,

hunting and engineering, Lelanded at the tunnel portal

COLONEL DAVIDSON'S

CAREER

From

terrife force-against walls of the under ground gorge, which pre- viously have been blasted,

is preparing to start hydraulic there water will be piped to the operations miles, underground to old channel and released with tap a hitherto unreachable source of the precious yellow metal.”

Grimy, perspiring miners swing picks monotonously and ceasingly in a tunnel under and flume will carry the gravel and A specially constructed steel paralleling the widely known water out of the tunnel, Leland Mammoth Channel, where Butte expects to run as high as 3000 car- creek twists and tumbles through loads per day through the aume rugged hills-15 miles east of Chico. through more than three-fourths

Already, they have "hewed

Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. David Mr. J. Edwards moved the refor-

son was educated at Liverpool ence back of the report. He said University and has been with the that their late chief engineer, Mr. Liverpool Corporation since 1880. Stilgoe, received a maximum salary He became chief engineer in 1914, of $3,500. There were those who and has taken a prominent part in thought that too much, even for as the development of the great water- engineer of his undoubted eminence works at Vyrnwy, in North Wales, Now it was being proposed to make from which Liverpool draws its an appointment he said no wore chief supply of water. against the capacity and standing After serving for many years as of Lieutenant-Colonel Davidson-atan officer in the 10th Battalion Channel, an ancient burled river but he is confident expenditures

A BIG EXPENDITURE - Machinery and present opera-

of a mile of stubborn lavaz AA tions: have cost: Leland and his they advance, toward - Mammoth associates. thousands of dollars, a salary of £5,000, or £1,500 more The King's Regiment (Liverpool) than was considered ample for their better known as the Liverpool at Columbia river bed, the work Butte Creek is the only stream channel considered as large as the will be "more", "than Justified. own engineer That required Scottish," he went to France in ers blast away boulders, and erect wilch has been able to cat great deal of explanation. The 1914 as second in command of the timberne chief enigneer of the London County battalion, and which he afterwards The world proceeds despite the underground channel and im

-through the láva and reach this Council only received £3,000 a year commanded.”

warning of experts who claim une mense wealth has been taken Mr. W. Carter,.in seconding, said In recognition of his War services derground by hydraulic mining from its sands and gravels; heade that be was astounded at the auda- he was awarded the O.M.G. and through ground that requires tima. Taland Belleves most of the gold sity of the committee in bringing I mentioned in dispatches.

bering is impossible; A

found in Butte creek Country

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ton.

come from the channel he seeks to tap, but at a higher point He be- Heves his operatong .will CAITY him into virgin gold-bearing

sands.. -

Other men connected with this unique attempt to wrest wealth from another of nature's jealously guarded treasure chests include I. N. Dally, Seattle, who has leased an option to mine the upper two

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