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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

ELECTRICAL POWER Development In China

Unit the present form of gov- ernment began in Nanking six years ago, practically nothing had been done, be sald, to regulate electricity supply. The National Reconstruction Commission had now, however, issued technical rules for Chinese,, electric supply utilities, these being mainly a blend of 'British, European and American practice. for the registration" of supply. companies. for indoor and out- door wiring and for dealing with the theft of electricity, had also been promulgated. Further, an statistical investigation

annual

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THE JARDINE ENGINEERING CORPORATION, LTD,

(Incorporated under the Companies' Ordinances of Hongkong)

14, PEDDER ST. HONG KON

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had been begun, and this would be increasingly useful as it be came more accurate. Generally speaking. the regulations had been sensibly framed with one eye on existing conditions "and the other on the future. But he could not help deploring the variation of 10 per cent. permitt~ ed in the supply voltage. Actual- ly. the variation was, frequently as much as 40 per cent.,, as the result of emphasis being laid on .. efficiency of generation and the neglect of distribution.

The "Commission were doing their ut- most to standardise the frequen- cy, at 50, and gradually, no doubt, the standard. for all classes of electrical apparatus would be tightened up. It was particularly should be desirable that better standards of insulation, present if only to reduce the heavy loss of life. Two or three, electrical fatalities per month were recorded by the Shanghai Municipal Council alone. Uni- for allowable form standards temperature rise in motors and generators would also be welcom- ed.

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It had often been stated that che solution of the world's ún- the employment problem. was economic development of China.. The result bad been such a con- centration by electrical manufact turers on the China marker that the prices obtainable were not only frequently unremunerative, bu; made local production uneco- nomic. The hydro-electric possi- bilities of the country had also been greatly exaggerated." Not more than 1.000 kW had as yet been developed,

what re- and was too remote from: mained load or distribution centres to" make its utilisation worth while This was particularly true of the Yangtsze Valley. Economic stag- nation must continue, except in Shanghai, Canton and Tsingtau, 01 uritian adequate system transport was produced, and this, in turn, waited on finance.

PLANT

CARRIED IN ONE HAND

IDEAL FOR MATSHEDS,

MOTOR LAUNCHES, and

small up-country Banga-

laws, etc., etc.

PYGMYLYTE

Uses only gallon of petrol and oil mixed per hour. Needs No Attention what- ever, weight complete 56-lbs.

VELOX STEAM GENERATOR

The development of steam boiler design in recent years has been remarkable both in respect of the great increases in working pressures and in the radical de- partures from orthodox construc- tional practice which have taken place.

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Our readers will remember the controversy excited in 1932 and 1833 by the proposals and claims put forward by Messrs. Brown, Boverl and Company for their Vel- ox steam generator, in which an evaporator of novel design is com- bined with a gas turbine operated by the products of combustion, this providing most of the power required to drive a turbo compres sor which delivers air to the com- bustion chamber at a pressure of about 20 lb. per square inch. The controversy, to which our corre- spondence columns bare volumin- ous testimony, centred round the statement that at any rate, in that type of Velox generator in which combustion took place in a settes of explosions-the heat contents of the steam delivered from the generator could under "ideal conditions actually exceed the calorific value of the füel con- sumed

With interest previously arous- ed in this way, it was naturally to be expected that the firsti pub- ilc announcem...t in this country of the actual performance of Velox generatora would be an oc- casion of great interest and the presentation of a paper on "The Velox Steam Generator," by Mr. M. G. 8. Swallow, before the North Western Branch of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, in Manchester, on March 27, came up to expectations in many re- spects, though the discussion was almost devoid of criticism. Can it be that this is to be taken as an acknowledgment of the sound- ness of the principles upon which the Velox boiler is designed? The audience was normal in numbers and representative. In its com- position, yet only one speaker re- ferred to the claim of "more than 100 per cent efficiency," and he did so only to regret that the ex- citement which he had anticipat- ed had not materialised. Perhaps it is as well that, instead of a debate on thermodynamic ab- stractions, the discussion on such a paper should centre as it did round the practical questions of serviceability, reliability, and the mechanical soundness of the plant. It was, however, disap- pointing in that the manufac- turers or users of large nigh-pres-- sure boilers were not represented in the debate.

The facts recorded in Mr. Swallow's paper, and the recep- tion It was given, all go to show that in the at present exceeding- ly active field of steam-generator design, in which numerous In- novations of great originality are being tried, the Velox böller is a competitor not to be despised. and its progress will be watched with interest whatever thermody- namle argument may suggest.

THE ENGINEERS IRON AND STEEL

IN CHARGE

Trade Reorganisation Conflicting Speeches At Annual Dinner

Almost exactly two years azó the Import Duties Advisory Com- mittee recommended the imposi- ́ ́tion of a duty of 33 1/3 per cept. on a wide range of iron and steel products. but stated in doing so that in their opinion this protec- ilon would not suffice to place the industry in a poaltion to play a proper part in the national economy, unless it was accont panied by a considerable measure of reorganisation. As a result a National Committee of the whole industry was set up, which, by "March, 1933, had succeeded in. turmulating and getting accepted' * scheme for correlating produe- tion and consumption. Among the suggestions made with this end in view was the establishment of an Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain, which would take over the work of the Nation-- ul Federation of Iron and Strel Manufacturers. Considerable di- fficulty was, however, experienced: in drafting the neccessary con- stitution, and when this, alter more-

one than

revison..

Was

to submitted

a meet- ing of the National Fe- deration of Iron and Steel Manu- facturers on February 23 of this year, it was only accepted "in- principle," a Committee being ap- pointed to prepare a final draft.. which was to take in account all suggestions that had already been ar might be received.

The annual dinner of the Ins- titution of Engineers in Charge. hold provided food for thought, in that the speeches to the toasts were somewhat conflicting. Since Sir Alfred Backer, who proposed the toasts of "The Institution," had referred last year to the sub- ject of Waterloo Bridge, now again to the fore as a result of the recent action of the august body of which he is a member, it was expected that he might again have something to say on this matter. He was, however. silent on the point and left re- ference to it to others, of the London County Council to the assured those Institution. He present that if they organised themselves effectively, the Counett would be only too willing to listen

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Lieut.-Colonel J. D. Restler, the president, spoke also on the subject of organisation, but

that brain stated constituted really our only na- tional asset, and that what was needed was the organisation of brain power to meet "foreign, competition and to prevent our brain power being turned by foreigners to our disadvantage. During his term of office he had been impressed by the man- ner in which members had 'work- ed actively together for the good of their institution and in a wider Beld, for the good of the country.

Benn Sir Ernest

C.B.E.,

power

who proposed the

toast

In- of "Success to our dustrial Future," considered that we were in danger of becoming over-organised. From every type of platform we were told that industry had falled add that the solution lay in rationalisation. organisation, subsidization, and other things denoted by the word planning, which really meant somebody messing about with our affairs. The old-time ideas had not failed. The nation, supposed to be so helpless, had put into the public purse since the war, no less than 25 thousand millions in rates and taxes alone, an ab- solutely unpreccedented perfor-" mance. Now they were liable to become pauperised, in the sense that persons to whom this term applied, were dependent upon public assistance from directors downwards. The country, he thought, had gone mad. having suddenly discovered, as it believed, that the way to get rich quick and enjoy life better was to pro-! duce less and make things more expensive.

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Mr. Charles Day, in response to the toast, said he assumed that the reply had been entrusted to htm because the future lay with the mechanical engineer. He. together with Mr. Alan E. Chorl- who spoke subsequently, ton, pleaded for a continuance of the individual effort which had meant so much in the past to our coun- try's prosperity. Mr. P., V. Hunter. replying for the guests, spoke of the days when an attempt was made to replace engineers in

As result it was ärranged to

Thursday.. hold a meeting on April, 19, at which resolutions providing for the adoption of the... new constitution and giving dir- ections to the new Executive Committee were to be proposed These directions lay down that. the Committee shall at once give earnest attention to measures for: obtaining the amillation of asso- clations, for promoting the max- Imum efficiency brought out the industry and for develop- Log the export trade. The Council of the Federation wil consist of twenty-nine representatives af" iron and steel makers and forty-one re- presentatives of affill ated associa- tions, but the real sut- bority

will be

in

the hands of the Executive Com-

mittee, already referred to, which will be given full authority to conduct the affairs of the Fede- ration and to act in its naine. Generally speaking, the objects of the Federation in matters of ge- neral policy as may be desirable to secure the orderly progress of the industry and to organise and regulate the disposal of import- ed iron and steel products and the promotion of the export trade. It is emphasised that in carrying out these and other less widespread objects the Federation will act on the governing prin ciple of the complete autonomy of each affiliated association, but whether this will weaken of strengthen the new body, time alone can show,

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