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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY NOVEMBER

25 1933.

S&C

EVERYTHING & ELECTRICAL

"Magnet" ELECTRIC FANS

MADE IN ENGLAND

Price with Rod £5.18.6.

Speed Regulator

15/6d.

'KINGSWAY" OBILING FAN 56" Sweep.

Price with Rod

£4.12.6.

Speed Regulator 15/6d.

"KINGSWAY JUNIOR" CEILING FAN 44′′ Sweep.

The "KINGSWAY" Ceiling Fans are specially designed for use in tropical climates. They are practically noiseless and represent a marked improvement on any other alternating current ceiling fan hitherto produced.

For further particulars please apply ca The General Electric Co. of China,

Queen's Building, Hong Kong.

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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

| EXPERIMENTS IN TELEPHONES

A Way To Reduce Cost Of Service

The Engineers' Department af the British Post Office is engaged in experiments which will have far- reaching effects on telephonic com- munications. Such great advances have been achieved recently with ultra-wave wireless that they will mean the gradual replacement of submarine cables by wireless: first across the English channel and, later, in similar stretches of water where the maintenance of cables is uneconomic.

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FIRST BRITISH DIESEL

ELECTRIC TUG.

Power Supplied By Two Engines

Developing 300 B.H.P.

THE FIRST BRITISH DIESEL

ELECTRIC TUG.

PROFESSOR J. D. CORMACK ON ENGINEERING

Encouragement Given To The Inexperienced

In the Presidential Address; last quarter of the century, had which he delivered to the Institu- attained great dimensions,

The

was therefore faced

tion of Engineers and Shipbuilders coming of the turbine and all that in Scotland on Wednesday, October resulted from it was advertised by 4, Professor J. D. Cormack paid the Turbinia, while in more recent. what we feel is a not undeserved | years public works, sanitation, bad tribute to the engineers of the been

and improved. developed younger generation. "To my opin- ion," he said, "they are not in "During the period under review, side by side upou either side of the general inferior in

moreover, shipbuilding and ship knowledge, contre line of the ship.

ability, capacity, grit or physique," machinery had reached a high pitch An interesting example of the

Coupled to each engine in tandem though they have much more to of perfection, the oil engine and the electric propulsion of ships is pro- are a 200 kw G.E.C. D.C. genera- learn before they reach the average aeroplane had made rapid pro- vided by the Diesel-electric tug tor and a 20 kw auxiliary genera-level, which has risen considerably grese cutting tools and precision Acklam Cross." which is the first tor. The two main generators are and is more widely spread." The grinding had made great strides, and British electrically propelled tug to connected in serice, each giving a truth of the latter part of this above all, research, both in science be built. A tug boat is a class of voltage of 250. The windings are statement is amply confirmed by a And, engineering, had grown. The vessel which is particularly suit- shunt wound with interpoles, and study of the main body of the young man able for Diesel electrio propulsion. ae each machine is separately ex- address, in which the President re- with the task of acquiring, more The advance has been made possi-Such a vessel must be ready for cited the voltage may be varied ferred to the history and progress knowledge in order that he might ble by the production of a remark- service at a moment's notice after from plus 250 to minus 250 volta. made in engineering since the equip himself properly for a place able

transmitting and receiving hours of waiting at the quay side, By this means it is possible to con- Institution was founded scie seven-in his profession and at the same apparatus, capable of dealing with or along-side the vessel to be towed. trol the propeller motor on the ty-five years ago. That date was time with the difficulty of securing six two-way telephone conversations It must also be capable of rapid | Ward Leonard system.

about midway between the year in such a place. It is sincerely to be on adjoining wave-bands without manoeuvring and of exerting its QUICK STARTING ENGINES

which Watt invented the separate hoped that the latter condition is the risk of interference, Hitherto maximum power over a wide range

condenser and the present time. only temporary, but as regards the only one channel of communication of speeds, while its fuel consump- The magnet frames of the main The theory of the steam engine had former, expansion is likely to oon- has been possible. It is estimated tion should be negligible when it generators are of fabricated con-already been clearly stated, and its tinue, and the young engineer who that the initial outlay on such is standing by. All these condi, struction. Each frame consists of construction had reached & stage stops to philosophise may well be- wireless routes will be about one- tions are met by Diesel electric a rolled steel fabrication split along when a col consumption of to come imbued with the spirit of hundredth of that on a cable of propulsion to "a greater extent the horizontal axis. The main per indicated horse-power hour pessimism, not to say appalled by Almost im- what is required from him. The similar, capacity; while there can

poles are laminated with acid could be expected. be no comparison between the total

interpoles, The field shant colls mediately afterwards, the. Bessemer antidote to this, Professor working costs. Although the close The "Acklam Cross" Is a single are excited off the the 110 volt and open-hearth processes, by en- Cormack rightly points out, is to juxtaposition of wave-bands repre- screw vessel with a length of 98 ft.,, supply taken from the auxiliary abling mild steel to be produced, remember that knowledge of any sents a great advance, it is fully breadth of ft, and a depth of generators, each of which is of met the demand for better mater-kind is useful, and that the young expected that practical experience 11 ft. 6 ins, and the electric pro sufficient capacity to supply all ex-ials, while 1871 saw the stars of the engineer who possesses it may face will enable still further increases topulsion equipment has been manu- citation and current, for auxiliary electrical industry, which in the future demands with equanimity, be made on the possible number factured and supplied by the Gen- drives. Each is of the multi-polar of channels of communication by eral Electric Co., Ltd. of Kings type, compound wound, the ingret using the same method of trans-way, London. Three water-tight frame being fabricated as in the mission. It may, indeed, soon be bulkheads divide the hull into four ease of the main generators. Either possible for some sixty wireless principal, divisions, comprising the auxiliary, generator may be used telephone links to be provided across fore peak, fore cabin, machinery if required for charging the two the English channel between wave-space and aft peak. Advantage 56-cell banks of secondary batteries lengths of car and six metres. In has been taken of the electrio pro- which are used for starting up the this way the present heavy cost of pulsion system to provide bridge Diesel engines by motoring the telephonic communication may be control of the propelling machin-main generatore. These batteries reduced to an almost negligible ery. Control is thus effected from are also used for running the either the wheelhouse or the flying auxiliaries and ship's lighting in bridge, in each of which two comport. trol points are provided. By means of a transfer switch, designed so that it can be moved only after. all excitation is cut off, control may be transferred to the engine

Iamount."

SANITARY WARE

MODERN SANITARY

EARTHENWARE *APPLIANCES IN WHITE & COLOUR

JARDINE ENGINEERING CORPORATION, ITD

THE

14, PEDDER ST. HÙNG HỒNG

(Incorporated under the Companies" Ordinances of Hongkong)

SOLE ACENTS

SHAMEEN, CANTON,

For Constructural Work of Every

Description

Use Green Island Cement

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.

286 FLOOR EXCHANGE BUILDING

than is possible with any other class of drive.

room.

POWER EQUIPMENT Power is supplied by two high speed, six-cylinder Botherhood Ricardo Diesel engines driving electrical generators which supply current to an electric motor coupl- ed to the propeller shaft. Each Diesel engine develops 300 B.H.P. at 900 r.p.m. The engines run in opposite directions and are placed

IMPROVEMENTS

IN CANAL

Fine Old Waterway Is Modernised

- The engines are started by means of push buttons which connect the batteries to the generators in euch way that either engine may be started from either battery in a minimum of time (one second fram the time it is switched on to the generator) and with the minimum discharge from the battery per start. It is a feature of importance that this method of starting the engines entirely eliminates com- pressed air equipment for starting purposes, the "Acklam Cross" be ing the first electrically propelled vessel to be started in this manner.

FAN-AND-PUMP BELT ADJUSTMENT

Easier Adjustment System

These makers who provide a belt drive for the fan, with the shaft of the latter continued rearward to form the shaft of a water pump

at

The Grand Union Cadal, which provides internal communication by water between London and the the front of the cylinder block, Midlands, leaves the Thames at ought to devise some simpler way Limehouse and, after running of "adjusting the fan belt than is Westwards nearly to Slough, turnsow usual in such cases. I fully

north-north-west to Norton Junc-

ion, not far from Northampton. realise that it is impossible to vary Here it bifurcates, one branch run the centres of (i.e-the distance ning aorth-westward to Birmingham and the other north-eastward to between) the driving and drives Leicester. Rather over two years pulleys, as is done, by an eccentric ago work was begun, with Treasury mounting of the fan shaft, where assistance, on the modernisation of the belt drives only the fan; the this waterway, the object being to water-pump shaft must be a "fix- make it possible to navigate hosta ture," so far as its position relative of 12 ft. 6 in, beam and 4 ft. 6 in.

to the cylinder block is concerned, draught between London and Bir- and obviously it is out of the ringham, and in this way nearly question to vary the location of the to double the loads carried. A driving pulley on the "crankshaft or further important development camshaft. which this reconstruction will reu- des possible will be the substitution be provided, with either automatic But surely a jockey pulley could of barges propelled by internal-

combustion engines for those drawn (ie., spring-loaded) or manual ad- pulley is a thing to be avoided if justment. Admittedly, a jockey possible, but I consider it to be

by horses. The work now in pro grem consists of walling and piling the banks and dredging the botton of the cannis, as well as the recon-preferable to such means of adjust- struction of numerous locks to 6 was naing. In this case, to ment as I found recently on a car able them to admit the larger craft. Ultimately, further improvements tighten the belt, one had first to will be carried out so that barges diamantle the lower pulley on the with a 14-ft, beam and a corres crankshaft by removing four die- pondingly greater carrying capacitytinctly inaccessible acrews, then can be accommodated. As indicatove several shims (guessing 'how ing the magnitude of the work it mangy from in front of the pulley in interesting to note that on the and fit them between its halves, and short stretch between Napton and tally replace the four screws after Knowle in Warwickshire it has been "lining-up" the four holes in eight necessary to reconstruct no less or ten abime and the two parts of than 31 locks, and that so wall did the pulley. This represented a good the eighteenth-centary engineers

half-hour's dirty work, bad enough know their work that it has only in the garage, but a horrible job been possible to reduce the original by the roadside, as I found to my number of the locks by oue. It cost-with rain falling the while I.. may also be noted that this is the On a subsequent occasion. I was first new work that has been done compelled to fit a new fan belt, the on the canal for over a hundred | old one having broken in two places years. That it has been undertaken and being irreparable. So the at such a time may be taken as an whole, business of dismantling the indication that those concerned be- | pulley and altaring the shims bad lieve that canal transport in this to be gono over again, with guess- country still has possibilities, which work once more se to how many the recent agreement between those shims ought to go between the controlling them and the railway halves of the pulley, and how many companies may help to stimulate.in front of it. By good luck I If it does so both parties, as well guessed just about right the first asthe public, will undoubtedly time; but it might have been other benefit-Engineering,

wise.

RAILWAY ORDER FROM CHINA.

New Ships Required

(Special Air Mail Service)

THE SHIMONOSEKI TUNNEL SCHEME

Expected To Materialise In Near Future

The plan to connect Shimonoseki. London, November 1. the extreme southern point of An order has been received by Japan's mainland, and Moji, Kyu- the Chinese Government Purchas-shu Island. by tunnel, is expected London for to inaterialise soon, as a military ing Commission in

The Premier, Viscount 4,000 tons of 60-lb. rails, which measure. should cover about 50 miles of the M. Saito, is reparted to have de- section of the Canton-Hankow; cided to submit this plan at the Railway to be built out of the meeting of the Traffic Commission Boxer Fund: also for construc- on November 11 and all govern tional machinery, "some

smallment officers concerned are reported bridges, and 40 goods trucks and to desire the early completion of passenger cars. The total order is the tunnel, the total expense for for £150.000. Other orders will which is estimated to be around

Y.30,000,000. follow as construction proceeds.

"Instructions have also been re- ceived from Nanking to obtain tenders in England for four ships of about 2,000 tons each with the ground that a suspensiör " of about 2,000 tons each with which bridge is helpless before "enemy

Another plan to erect a suspen- sion-bridge there was presented but it was opposed by the War Office

the Chinese Government intends bombers."United Press.

to

develop the coastal trade.

These ships also will be paid for

out of the British Boxer moneyKWANGTUNG & KIANGSI Reuter.

The programme of the Chin- ese Government for the use of the Boxer Fund was set forth in an article from our Correspondent in China in "The Timer'' of Oc-

·tober 20.

ENGLISH RAILWAY

CARRIAGES

Linked by New Highway

Under Construction

Naking, Nov. 18,The highway linking up the two provinces of Kiangai and Kwangtung is to be completed next month, according to the Kianga Provincial Depart- ment of Reconstruction. The only portion of the highway still under construction is from Meiling Hsuchow, Nov. 19-A consigu- (Kwangtung) to Kanchow (Kiang- ed by the Lung-Hai Railway has ment of 80 railway carriagee.order- | si),

The Dow Inter-Provincial high- arrived from England, and is being way, upon completion, will serve transhipped from Shanghai to the to facilitate through traffic between Chengchew office of the Railway the two provinces as well as bandit- Kuo Min:

suppression opérations.-Kuo Min.".

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