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"SHIPBUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE AND

ELECTRIC. WELDERS,

MECHANICAL AND

ELECTRICAL

ENGINEERS:

-DRY DOCK-

Length 787 Feet. Length on Blocks 750 Feet

OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

Salvage Tug "Taikoo WIRELESS CALL

V.P.G.N. 600 METERS,

BUTTERFIELD &

Depth on Centre of. SII (H.W.0.S.T.) 34 ft. 6 ins.

THREE SLIPWAYS.-

Capable of Handling Ships Up to 4,000 Tons Displacement

Electric Crane at Sex Wall. Capable of Lifting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Badins.

SWIRE, Agents, HONG KONG, CHINA & JAPAN.

TEL. ADDIES: "TAIXOODOCK, HONG KONG," TELEPHONE: 30211

CALL FLAG: "O" OVER "ANE, PENNANT.”

Shanks

&

CO

LTD

» BARRHEAD-SCOTLAND

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1933.

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

THE "GRID"” AIDS TEN YEARS TO

DEVELOPMENT

Electricity in Rural

Districts

DECIDE

Waterloo Bridge Being Improved

the

FIREPROOFING WITH TIMBER

Process by Steaming

ELECTRIC HEATING FOR HOT BEDS

Discovery Of Soil-Heating Cable Great Improvement

The idiosyncrasies of Nature and the demands of the public that

seems

and

ance of 0.5 ohm per foot, a stan dard length of 50 yards havingTMTMTM a loading of 700 watts 200

To conserve: volts to 250 volts. the heat generated in this way. the ground beneath the bed as well as the sides and the top light must be insulated. Lose" of heat to the ground can be check- ed by a bed of some 'porous insulating material, such as coke.. charcoal or ashes, the last being the most easily obtainable

cheapest. Side insulation is mainly necessary to counteract the effect of the wind and may take the form of framework of boards completely stirrounding the frame proper and also filled with ashes. Space can, however, be saved by the use of insulating boards. While the leakage heat from the glass cannot be when difficult, i avoided during the day.

the light must be allowed to

certain vegetable produce shall appear on the table with seasonal regularity have, since remote periods, led to the em- ployment in this and other coun An example of how the grid "

The Oxylene process of fireproof- tries of forcing methods such as frames can indirectly assist the electrical

Seven months ago the Londoning timber consiste essentially of heated glasshouses or development of an area, which County Council decided to corbel first submitting the wood to a placed over beds consisting of a otherwise it would have been dif-out and underpin Waterloo Bridge thorough steaming under high pres- mixture of dung and straw: Un- ficult, or even impossible, to supply at an estimated cost of 695,0001., sure in steel cylinders, so as to open til tonditions in the electricity economically, is provided by the and to accept a grant from the the pores and to vaporise the np. supply industry alter, it

the a probable that the large commer- operations of the Ringmer and Ministry of Transport of 75 por The steam is then replaced by District Electric. Supply Com-

vacaum, no that the air and rapo-elal grower will find it more pany, Limited. In 1930, this com-cent of this amount,

On July 26 it was announced that rised sap are withdrawn into a con-economical to generate the ne pany obtained an order to supply the Council were preparing to take denser. While still under vacuum cessary heat for his glasshouses electricity in a district covering action and that, tezders for an aqueous solution of phosphate of in a coke boiler and to transmit about 83 square miles of Bussex,

On the work would be invited as soon se ammonia and other anti-pyrene it by hot-water pipes, and extending from Westmeston: the necessary preliminaries had chemicals is next run into the other hand, where & hothouse is and Stanmer in the west to Lul-been settled, On Monday fast, an linders and is forced into the only required for a few months lington, and West Dean in the

official statement was issued, rei wood under hydraulic prèssuré. in the year, and still more where east, the northem and southern

construction and manage boundaries being roughly marked terating that tenders were to be in- After a definite interval, depend the

vited and giving some general paring on the properties of the tim- ment of a hot bed. Is by Broyleside and Asham, respecticulars to ene firms interested her, this pressure is cut off and the tedious and relatively expensive, there is already an opening for district is partly agricultural and partly residential to consider methods of executing solution is allowed to drain away.

the work. From this it appears The timber is then weathered and other and more up-to-date met- this The first step in in character, with two quite that Piers Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 7 (und dried for a time in the open air. hods

into hot-air direction was made when Sir portant Industrial undertakings

Stewart near Lewes. The diversity of the

and is finally run kilos, where the drying and har- Isaac Balfour and Mr. load is therefore considerable.

dening process is completed. The showed what could be done to theory of the action which occurs encourage propagation by genera when heat is applied is that the ting bottom heat electrically, while some ten years ago. Jacob- in Norway, began to treat Ben,

means on a

tively, e

The

The company obtain its supply of electricity by tapping the East- bourne-Newhaven 33-kV line of the at Board

Central Electricity Asham

SANITARYWARE

MODERN SANITARY EARTHENWARE APPLIANCES IN WHITE & COLOUR

THE JARDINE ENGINEERING CORPORATION, LTD,

14, PEDDER ST. HUNE KONG.

(Incorporated under the Companies" Ordinances of Hongkong)

SHAMEEN, CANTON,

SOLE ACENTS

For Constructural Work of Every

Description

Use Green Island Cement

TWO REFLEX TYPE BOTARY KILNS HAVING AN OVER ALL

LENGTH OF 264 FEET THESE KILNS ARE USED TO

MANUFACTURE GEBEN ISLAND CEMENT.

Issued by the

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO. LTD.

2ND FLOOK

EXCHANGE BUILDING

bering from the north abutment) are to be anderpinned, arches Nos. & 6 and 7 and Piera Nos, & and 6 are to be rebuilt, and the founda- tions of all the piers, except No 1

beds. by the same

scale. Birice then

commercial

in the Victoria Embankment Wall crystals formed on the outside of and No. 8 on the Lambeth fore-the wood by the treatment exclude shore, are to be given an effective the atmospheric oxygen and pre- bearing of not less than 3,000 sq. veat it from combining with the

not a little progress, has been ft at a level of not less than 35 ft. cellulose material in the wood, 80 below. Ordnance Datum. Further, that the latter is rendered fireproof made with this method in that the carriage way is to be widened The demonstration was given at and other Scandinavian countries by corbelling. This scheme of re the Market Bosworth works of the as well as in Germany, while in conditioning follows the neral | Timber.

more recent years a good deal of Fireproofing Company,

attention has been paid to its lines of the report by Messrs. Limited, who carry out the process. Readel, Palmer and Tritton, Two huts of identical dimensions, possibilities in both France and

in:

America. In this country interest though a certain freedom of action and both built of 6 in, by 1 is to be allowed to the successful tongued and grooved yellow deal in the subject has, however, been more spasmoale, though valuable contractor. The design of the cor- boards with suitable supports were belling out will be subject to the used, the only difference being that work has been done at Cheshunt by Dr. Bewley. In the Dear approval of the Royal Fine Arts the timber of one hut had been pre future the position is likely to be Commission. During the re-com-viously fireproofed by the Oxylene struction, the whole of the traffic process. Each hat contained model improved, however, by the recent introduction of a suitable soil will be carried by the existing tem- pieces of furniture. An equal num.

heating cable at a reasonable porary bridge, so that delay and her of yellow deal blocks were congestion ari, we fear, inevitable. placed in iron trays under each hut price, especially now that many There will also be some interference and were moistened with equal supply companies realise

this with the river traffic, as it will be quantities of petroleum, which were forms a means of obtaining a application of electricity necessary to close one or more of then simultaniously ignited. In useful, if not a very large, night the arches. While expressing gra- short time the untreated hut was

load. Progress may also be tification that something is at last well alight and within twelve stimulated by the fact that good to be done, we must recall that it minutes it was raveloped in flames.

manure is scarce and expensive, has taken the best part of ten years In twenty minutes it bad collapsed and that a hot bed made with to arrive at this stage, and even on to the fuel bed and in thirty It requires constant expert atten Dow we are not sure that the solu-minutes was completely destroyed. tion. tion is the wisest to adopt. That, Meanwhile, except for external however, is not altogether the fault blackening, the other but was en- of the London County Council, still tirely unaffected, and when the fuel less of the citizens of London, un tray was withdrawn at the end. of less it be that the latter might have 30 minutes it was found that no been more energetic in protecting damage or discoloration had occur what are, after all, their interesta. red to the interior or its contents.

THE ENGINEER IN RELATION TO

THE PUBLIC.

Mechanical Improvements Depend On His Efficiency

work if he could afford to pur- chase one, and if the roads were:

drive of | good enough to

Bzd on, said that it is for us and future generations to satisfy this ambi tion by reducing the cost of pro- duction.

Since the days when artificially sharpened flints replaced the natural product, the history' mankind has been one long re- cord of striving for increased efficiency. A desire for material progress, in fact, appears to be inherent in the human race, and

In attempting to visualise the those who would right our pre- directions in which production sent difficulties by a return to costs may be further reduced, it primitive processes are unlikely is necessary to consider the man- to be more successful than ner in which they have been Canute in his essay in tidal con- brought down to their prezent·

trol. This is fortunate for the

level. As stated by Mr. Engel- engineer, whose business it is to bach, the labour employed in the rater for the demand for im manufacture of cars from semi provements in mechanical ap- raw materials has been steadily pliances, and to whom the decreusing. The industry amenities of life are fargely due. essentially only à finishing one, There is no profession from and therefore the cost structure which the public expects a higher includes the purchase of semi- standard of performance or a thished material to which the more advanced outlook, and it

productive - labour in the factory has rarely been disappointed. No added, but the ratio of this more striking example of the labour cost to the material cost success

Engineereas decreased enormously in the with which have dealt with the persistent last few years. The credit for demand for improved perform this reduction must be shared ance could be cited than the between the designer and the motor vehicle, which has been

developed in little more than 1. Production engineer. The former thirty years from a crude piece has developed designa- that lend of mechanism to a machine themselves to cheap production, having an almost incredible per- and the latter, by elevating pro- formance when measured induction layouts to a science, and terms of dollar: efficiency. For by taking full advantage of each an outlay of less than 2001. it advance in operating technique, is now possible to buy a com has been instrumental in produc- fortable Saloon car which willing cars to these designs at an give many thousand miles of extremely low cost Incidentally. reliable service and embodying this intensive striving towards a number of refinements which low costs has been of the greatest. were not always found on vehl- benent to other branches of the cles at three or four times the engineering industry, since we Price a few year ago, At the are indebted to automobile engi présent time, there is a alight neers not only for such develop tendency for prices to stiffen, mests the enormous extension in Dut that this is only, regarded as the use of ball bearings, accurates temporary phenomena by tyinished gear wheels, the manufacturers 14 auggested by splined shaft, chromium plating, the very thoughful presidential and so on, but also for striking

of ma CRF advances the design tion of chine tools and in vari week processes. It is a con out that the that much of the pr baddy-neids in only

rendered

address; Engelbach Automo

eers

Wir

that

In the early attempts at elec- tric heating of beds, open-type high-temperature elements placed beneath a false bottom to the bed were used, but these have now been replaced by low-tem}- perature imits buried in the soil The wire may either be bare, în which case the operating pressure 'must not exceed 40 volts, or, better, it may be insulated and protected so as to resist corrosion and mechanical damage, when pressures up to 250 volts can be employed. A special cable made for this purpose by the General- Electric Company has a resist

EVERYTHING

of

reach the plants, it can be redu-- ted at night by using a covering of canvas sheet. Employing these methods and allowing for the fact that the experimental beds were smaller than those which would be employed in practice. it is reasonable to conclude that the energy consumption of a bed

be 20

per so Insulated would cent less than that of one not so constructed.-Engineering.

GENERATION OF ELECTRI- CITY IN GREAT BRITAIN

During the first eight months. of 1933, the total amount of elec tricity generated by authorised undertakers, according to ngures issued by the Electricity Commis- alon, Savor Court, Strand, W.C.2, was 8,329,000,000 units, as .com Dared with 7,718,000,000 units for the corresponding period of 1932 This represents increase of 611,000,000 units, or 7-9 per cent

Engineering.

D

THE FORTH ROAD BRIDGE At à meeting of the Kincardine Road Bridge Joint Committee, held at Stirling, on October 2, it was announced that the Ministry of Transport's decisión regarding the proposed Forth Road Bridge The Ministry had been received. stated that a grant of 75 per cent would be made, but-that it was not prepared to make any contribution during the present. financial year ending March, 1934.

duri Furthermore, contributions ing the succeeding year would be limited to 120,0001. The committee decided to recommend the -con- proceed tributing authorities to with the bridge and to approach the interested burghs for further contributions.

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Price with Rod

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