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MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA

Railways, Mining And Road Building

CANTON-HANKOW

RAILWAY

PROGRESS IN HUPEH

Plans For Improving Improving Means Of

Service

'Canton, Jan, 4.

Plans for improvement of the railway service on the southern section of the Canton-Hankow Ralway during the 24th year (1935) have been mapped out by the Railway Administration.

These include the construction of a railway workshop at Hal- chun, "northern Kwangtung, lay- ing of double tracks on the Hsi- chun-Wongsha section. renova- tion of Bhluchow' Station, com-

pletion of the telephone system along the line, and' inauguration of the Shiuchow-Chuchow (Hu- nan) Section during the year.

Despite the strenuous efforts of the "Railway Administration to improve the service, traffe on the section has not been as encourag- ing as was expected. According to Information from the Adminis- tration, the surplus for the past year (1934) totalled approximate- ly $1,300.000; this shows a de- crease of $300,000 as compared with the 22nd year (1933)- Kuo Min.

RAIL AND SEA-

TRAFFIC

Services Merged

Nanking, Dec. 29. Through freight traffic between the Pelping-Hankow Railway and the China Merchants. Steam Navigation Company and through passenger and freight arrange- ments between the Klaochow- Tsinan Railway and the C.M.BN. Co. will be simultaneously.. in- augurated on New Year's Day ac- cording to a message received"

nere.

between

Hankow will be the centre for the through service between the Pelping-Hankow Pallway and steamers of the CMS.N. Co, on the Yangtze River.

Through freight transportation the Kiaochow-Tainan Railway and the shipping, com- pany has been operated for some time. In order to increase the volume

business, through passenger service will be started on New Year's Day. The three now. China Merchants ships from England will be commissioned in the service and all important ports along the 'coast, including Tsingtao Lienyunkang, Shanghai, Swatow, and Canton will come under the arrangement. Kuo Min.

of

Communication

Nanking. Jan. 4.

Despite the fact that Hupeh was stricken by the combined scourges of drought, food and banditry. considerable progress was made in the reconstruction of the pro- vince during the past year (1934), particularly in the fields of high way construction, telephone in- stallation and shipping admin

stration.

Sponsored by the

(Honan)-Canton'.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935.

AND BUILDING

ENGINEERING AND

HIGHWAYS IN KIANGSI

ENGINEERING CONTRACTS

Stands Unrivalled In Country

Nanchang, Jan. 7. "Highway construction work in Klangsi province has made 'süch remarkable' progress, it stands un- rivalled by any other province in the country."

Such is the impression of Mr. R. Coursin,road expert from the League of Nations, who has arrived here from Sian, provincial capital of Shensi, after a tour in the North. west. He came here via Harlan and subsequently inspected the highways in this province as far as Changshu, in the west, and Fu- 'chow, in the east as well as in cen..

Nationaltrai Klangsi

Economic Council, the three na Mr. Coursin was the guest at (Kwangtung); "diriner of Mr. Kung Hsueh Sul (Honan)-Canton (Wwangtung), Provincial Commissioner of Re- Nanking-Szechuan and Loyang construction for Klangsi, låst even-- (Honan)-Shiuchow (Kwangtung), ing. Among those presnt. were which traverse Hupeh province, Messrs Hsiao Shun Chin, Director although not yet completed, are In an advanced stage.

A total of 28 highways linking up the various important cities and towns has been constructed In the province under the direc- tion of the Provincial Department“ of. Reconstruction. The total

of the Kiangsi branch of the

National Economic Council, and Eu Chia Shao, Director of the Provin- cial Highway Bureau Kuo-Min.

Some Recent Orders

THE CLYDE GET MORE ORDERS

The most interesting feature in connection with the shipbuilding industry of Scotland during the past month has been the placing. of a number of new contracts: Clyde buliders secured at least 15 orders, although come were for smaller craft the Forth booked

The English Electric Company, Limited, Stafford, have received two orders for öll-engine generat- ing plant. The first for the Kut Barrage. Iraq, comprises two of the firm's 3-K type Diesel engines, each developing 150 B.H.P, at 600 r.p.m. Each engine will be direct coupled to a 100-kW alternator. generating three-phase power at 440 volts and 50 cycles. The other order, which is in connection with the Assiut Dam reconstruction, Egypt. is for three 8-K type Dle- sel engines, each developing 300gures to date 54 vessels of 127, BHP-at 600 rpm. Each engine will be direct coupled to a 200-KW. 500-volt direct-current generator.

two, and the Dee two. These orders will help to all the gaps - caused by recent launches, and as there are prospects of some more orders coming along in the near future, the outlook for the indus- try is again much better. The output during the past month

Both orders include pumps and other equipment, and accessories.

Messrs. The Fretwell Heating Company, Limited, 301, Abbey House,

Victoria-street, London, 8.W.1, have secured an order for equipping the new Odeon Cinema at Guildford with heating and air-conditioning plant,

was confined to six vessels launched on the Clyde,, totalling 23,095 tons making the year's

958 tons for that district, 10 ves- sels of 8,559, tons for the Forth, one vessel of 1,250 tons for the Tay, and 12 vessels of 2,996 tons for the Dee and Moray Firth.

"Steam-Generator" design; the boller drums and steam receive ? are solid-forged with swaged ends.

MODERN SEWAGE

PUMPING

A Notable Installation Near London

Considerable Interest attaches to recent extensions having a capacity of 2,000,000 gallons of sewage per 24 hours at the Byegrove Road Sewage Works at Mitcham, near London, belang ing to the Wandle Valley Joint Sewerage Board. This embodies the latest scientific principles for the pumping of sewage, both, screened

and unscreened, by means of automatically controlled. motor driven centrifugal pumps.

The Wandle Valley Board deals with sewage from a number of urban districts in London which include Mitcham Merton, Mor- den, Beddington, and Wallington. The present extension is the second section of the work, ori- ginally decided upon in 1922, the "Arst section having been completed in 1925, with a capacity of 3,000,000 gallons per 24 hours. of

to the second section of the works.

*PUMPING STATION - In general the new plant com-" prising the second section," in- cludes screening plant a' com- plete sewage and sludge pumping station, sedimentation?: tanks, bacteria beds or percolating fl- ters, humus tanks and storm water tanks, as well as an exten- sion to the sewage sludge "press house. The sedimentation tanks it may be stated are 6 th number and have a total capacity of 1.334,000 gallons, about three times the normal dry weather re- quirements, while the sedimenta- tion is finished off in 6 secondary upward flow straining tanks of 134,000 gallons total capacity:

The new pump house has a main equipment of 6 Fullway electric driven automatically con- trolled centrifugal pumps.”“ of which 3 raise the crude sewage to

lift the storm water to the storm the sedimentation tanks, and 3

mileage is 2,463. kilometers and THE IRON ROAN plying four pulverised-fuel fred power station, a coal-storage, re- through screens provided with Stereophagus" pump this is

dally omnibus service covers an average distance of 6,000 kilo-

meters.

Extending Telephone Network..

With regard to telephone pro- gress, altogether 51 cities and towns along the various highways in the eastern, Western, central ́and northern parts of the pro- vince have been linked up by long-distance telephone. The to- tal telephone network embraces 2,520 kilometers. The installation of telephone lines in southern Eu- peh has also been completed, but due to destruction by the ban- dits it will take some time for repairs,

Great Improvements has also been made in shipping adminis- -tration-in-the province since the

Provincial Government took over": supervision of the private-owned

steamers with a view to safeguard- ing shipping. .In addition to the Wuchang-Hankow, Ferry service, and five other shipping lines, and 12 wharves operated by the Pro- vincial Government, a total of 90 private-owned motor boats, 57 steamers and 19 charcoal-burning boats are now under the direct control of the Provincial Depart ment of Reconstruction

Besides the 12 wharves operated by the Pronvincial Government, over 100 wharves have been open ed along the shipping routes, Over $,800 passengers utilise the ship-

daily and ping services

the monthly revenue ranges from "$70,000 to $100.000 Kuo Min.

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Experiments Being Carried Out

An Informal luncheon was given by Iron Paving, Ltd, in connection with their exhibit and demonstra tion at the Public Health Exhibi- tion. Mr. R. Hulme, the chair- man, pointed out the main ad- vantages of iron roads, and, with Major. F. Small, answered ques

tions,

The system referred to is of patented design and is known as the Tri-pedal Unit System Trian- gular blocks of cast iron make up

themselves a surface reminiscent the surface of the road, having

of a tyre tread and consisting of diamond-shaped studs. The ad-

vantages claimed by Mr. Hulme

for the surface are, non-skid” properties, "nonsplash" owing to the water draining away below the studs, no grit necessary since the road is already non-skid (grit

on a road blocks, the drainage aystem) no tar spraying, dustless, no maintenance, and practically everlasting.

Replying to a number of ques" tions, it was stated that there was little possibility of rust; allowance for expansion, was not necessary since the Iron was only exposed to the air on one side tramlines, for instance, willke railway lines, do not allow for expansion; the cost would be about 148 to 16s. per square yard of iron surfacing. which was a medium price com- pared with other road surfaces. It was also claimed that wear on tyres was not increased, that trai- fic vibration was reduced, and that snow and ice clear quicker from it than from other surfaces. Iron roads have been experiment ally laid in various parts of Lon-... don.

ENGINEERING FIRM'S CENTENARY

Messrs International Combus- tion, Limited, Aldwych House, Aldwych, London, W.C.2, are sup-

bollers in connection with the ex- tensions of North Wilford "B" Station of the Nottingham Cor- poration Electricity Supply. Each

boller has a normal continumus.

Messrs. Fraser, and "Chalmers Engineering Works of The Gener- al: Electric Company, Limited, Erith, Kent, have just secured an extensive contract for a complete.

claiming and shipping plant, and, handling equipment for general merchandise, in connection with the development of a new port for" the Chinese State Railways"in oran. The power station will house four steam turbo-alternate ors, each rated to develop a`nor- mal output of 500 kW. The capac-

evaporation of 175,000 lb. per hour, and a maximum continuous evaporation of 200,000 lb. per hour, the steam at the stop valve having a pressure of 625 lb. perity of the coal-handling plant is square inch, at a temperature of 800 deg. F. to 850 deg. F. and the feed temperature being 240 deg. #. The bollers are of the Lopulco

to be 400 tons per hour of run-of- mine coal, and of the stock pile 84,000 tons live storage, or 167,000 tons total storage.”

Ships And Their Engines

That of all inanimate things, the ship alone has been given other than a neuter gender in the Eng- lish language is more than a philological curiosity: it is con- tinual testimony to the position that she holds in the esteem and in the hearts of the inhabitants of these islands.

By the sea and on the sea we live, and If the day come when

our ships no more "slog their pa- tient way across the Bay, face typhoons in the China sea, or pick their course twixt Scylla and Carybdis" "then will the end be not far away, eg,

To the engineer, the ship is the steamer, or, in these oleiferous days, the motor ship, and while the history of the steamship is far from being the whole of the story of the navigation of the seas, that history covers many chapters full of romance and high endeavour,

chanisms represented a great ad- vance, and a vital step was taken when the idea of replacing the Dar by the paddle-wheel was con- celved.

Reference was made in the lec- ture to an illustration of a boat with a paddle-wheel operated by man power, published in Verona in 1471. The idea was not lost, and various designs carried the

matter down to 1894, when Savery. of the Savery engine, produced a design of his own.

The Paddle Wheel

The invention or the paddle wheel was one of those cardinal steps in the advancement of the arts of which the author is un="

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Byegrove Road is that all the operating the complete plant at

sewage is brought to the works both by high level and low level sewers and treated in sedimenta- tion tanks and percolating filters. The high level sewage is passed

mechanical raking gear, whilst the low level sewage is pumped to the necessary height direct with out screening by "Stereophagus" centrifugal pumps a production of the Pulsometer Engineering Co. Ltd. or Reading, who have sup plied all the pumps. This low level sewage with about 50% of the screened high level sewage is treated in the first section of the

works and the rest of the screen-

ed high level sewage passes to a pump well at the new pumping station from where the whole of the combined sewage is pumped

water tanks. In addition there are 2 vertical spindle centrifugal pumps for pumping sludge back to the sludge pressing house,

Further with regard vs ton

essentially a modified centrifugel, having an internal cutting knife, with a conical cast steel impeller, provided with scroll shaped blades revolving in a volute cas- ing. any large material in un screened sewage, works effluents or similar liquids, being cut up by the stationary knife, and the moving blades or the impeller, while the "Fullway" pumps take comparatively large quantities of sewage or other liquids contain- ing solid material when cutting of the latter is not considered an advantage.

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ever, the early paddle-wheel de- signers were in advance of their time, and it was necessary to wait for the invention of the mar steam engine for the paddle wheel to become an erective device.

Its story has been told by many, and in many ways, but in the tangled and Ill-record- èd chronicle of early trials, suc- cesses and fallures, there is yet. Like many before and after, how- much to investigate and elucidate The story was retold, with the literary grace of which he has a command, by Mr. Loughnan Pend- red in his Thomas Lowe Gray lecture, delivered, before the In- stitution of Mechanical Engineers Mr. Pendred made no daim for "the novelty of his matter, nor was the occasion one for the examina- tion and sifting of evidence, but thi many who heard the lecture will

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