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MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC

Nanking, May 24. The meeting of the Highway Communications Committee for the three provinces of Klangsu, Cheklang, and Antwet and the Municipalities of Nanking' and Greater Shanghal, convened by the Highway Bureau of the National E. onomic Council, closed yesterday after a three-day session.

It is understood that several Important resolutions relating to the improvement of highway traffic in the provinces and muni- cipalities concerned were decided upon...

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HUNAN GETS ROAD CON- TRUCTION LOẠN

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A loan of $600.000 bas obtained by the Hunan Provincial Government from the local, native banks on the security of $1.000.000 of the Hunan Provincial Recon- struction Lohn bonds, The sum will be used for road-construction In the province.

CHEKIANG-KIANGSI RAILWAY

The Cheklang-Klangsi Railway Administration is planning to ex- tend the line to Foochow, provin- of Fukien. ΣΤΟΥΠ cial capita! Shangjac, in eastern Kiangsi, in order to facilitate communications in south- and iransportation

Negotiations eastern Cheklang. are being conducted with

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Kuklen Provincial Governments. When arrangement are complet- eð. an engineering corps will be despatched to make surveys on the proposed rcute,

FACTORIES FOR DISABLED

SOLDIERS

The National Government has sanctioned the petition of the Ministry of War for the establish- ment of factories for disabled. soldiers In the provinces "of Kiangsi, Hunan, Honan, Hupeh. Anhui and Shensi. The expenses. totaling $300,000, will be defray- ed from the 2nd reserve fund of the National Budget, for the cur- rent fiscal year.

DOUBLE-TRACKING

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COMPLETED

Engineering work for double- tracking the Shanghál-Nanhsiang section of the Nanking-Shanghal Rallway Having been completed, it is announced by the Railway Administration that augmented rain service on the section will be inaugurated on May 1. In accor- dance with the instructions of the Ministry of relieve traffic conges- tion and provide better service for the public, work for, the doubletracking of the section: and.. Be- at

was started' last October. was completed In March. sides A special platform the North Station, Shanghal. stations have also been erected at Chungshan Road

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HIGHWAY NEARING

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In order to speed up the com- pletion of the Szechuan-Kulchow Highway so as to facilitate army communication

connection with the campaign against the "Communists, the Staff Corps of the Wuchang Military Headquar- ters to Szechuan has issued an order to the District Government.. or Pahslen that the section be- tween. Pahslen and Kiangchin þe completed and opened to traffic -before May 15, In the meantime, the Staff Corps has instructed Mr. Hu Chia-shao, Director of the provincial Highway Bureau of“ Klangs and several inspectors of the Highway to Pahsten te super- vise the construction work. The and section between Kiangchin Chikfangs fult of mountains and ' work is very laborious and dif- euit. In order tɔ 'overcome the difficulties, more workers are be- ing recruited to work on the sec- lon

LINKIANG-LIENHUATUNG

HIGHWAY COMPLETED

Omnibus service on the newly constructed highway between Liuklang and Lienhuatung, north- ern Klangs will be put into oper- ation on May 15, it is announced. by the Provincial Highway. Bur- cau. As this route leads to the Kuling (Lushanı summer resort, the service should be a great con- venience for tourists.

REDUCED RAILWAY

FREIGHT

The period of the enforcement of reduced rallway freight on coal, which is to expire on May 20. will be extended for another six months, in order to assist the development of the coal Industry. An order to this effect has been, issued by the Ministry of Ballways" to the various railway adminis- trations.

KANSU-SHENSI-SZECHUAN HIGHWAY

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In view of the recent successes of the Government troops oyer the Reds in Northern Szechuan and the consequent gradual pack- Acation of the area, work on the projected chuan Inter-Provincial Highway will be started early in Jaine, party of surveyors dispatched by the Highway Department of the National Economic Council has arrived at Stan to continue sur-. vey of the route of the highway which is expected to be complet- ed by the end of the month.

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(Shanghai). Chenju and Nanh- slang for the service. It is also learnt that the construction work on the projected railway between Soochow along the Nanking- Shanghai xe, and Kashing, on the Shanghai-Hanychow-Ningpo Railway, is proceeding and will be completed by the end of the year.

THE STEEL INDUSTRY

Rapid Progress Made

"Business in steel and related products is more plentiful, Deve- ipments during the past week have helped to stimulate ndence.

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Sheffield will benefit considerably by the placing of huge orders by Rusala for variety of equipment. In ad- dition, local works will supply the whole of the motors and a considerable tormage of steel in "connection with the 3,000,000%.

order placed by Brazil for the. "electrification of ita tallways. Shefeld Corporation are to give upt contracs valued at 30,000%, for electric switchboards, three 5,000- KVA reators, sixteen 800-KVA transformers, and four 15,000-KVA transformers. Further, the Cur-.. poration's Transport Department recommends the acceptance of the following tenders: Cargo Fleet Iron Company, Limited, 600 tuns high-manganese steel tram- way ralis, 500 tons, chromium steel tramway rails, and 500 pairs lip- section 'fiabplates; Coghlan Steel & Iron Company, Limited, '. 1,500 pairs Up-section Ashplates, and 1.200 sole plates; British Insulat- ed Cables, Limited, nearly 3,000 copper bonds of v afying lengths; Messta, Tbbotson Brothers and

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! HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1935.

ENGINEERING

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SHIPBUILDING COLOUR IN THE MACHINE

And Marine

Engineering

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Control Of Machine ToolsTM

At the Machine Tool and En- Exhibition, recently

held at Olympla, reference WES made to a system of colour-cop- trol of certain machine tools de- veloped by Messrs. Murray Col- our Controls, Limited, Wood-iane Chambers, Headingley, Leeds. As the

use of colour in simplifying control by substituting a practi

Dotation cally universal

for the complexities and variations of numerical systems is of wider ap- plication than the instance just cited and as, moreover, it origin- ated in a quite different field, some short account of its early use may fittingly preface one on- its employment in a particular direction. Though the use of col- our was first publicly demonstrat ed at the Machine Tool and En- gineering Exhibition, the system has been developed over a period of nearly twenty years. The in- ventor, Mr. Guy L. Murray, M.I- Mech E.,

For the Arst time, the upward tendency, manifest since the be- ginning of 1933, in the total ten-. nage of the merchant shippiny under construction in our ship- yards has suffered a slight check. It is shown in the recently-pub- lished quarterly shipbuilding Fe-gineering turns of Llody's Register of Ship- ping. which take into vessels of 100 tons gross and up- wards only, that the aggregate tonnage of the vessels under con- struction In Great Britain and Ireland on December 31 was 596,- 834, as compared with 604,296 tons on September 30, 1934, a de- cline of 7.482-tons. Nevertheless, the total for the last quarter of 1934 is 265,293 tons,

BÜ per or cent., greater than., that for De- cember, 1933 and exceeds the ag- gregate tonnage under construc- in the seven leading foreign ship- building contries. Moreover, #3.-. 428 tons of shipping were com- menced in this country during the last three months, and 206,527 ons were launched, an increase. as compared with the September quarter of 16.517 tons in the ship- ping commenced and of 23,105 tons in the tonnage launched. Another feature is that the ton- nage upon which work has been suspended is relatively small, amounting to only nine steamers making together 28,685 tons. It is to be 'hoped, however, that the resumption of work on these, nine vessels will not long be delayed. The aggregate tonnage of the merchant ships building in for- eign shipyards on December 31, . namely, 654,888, was about 52,000 tens less than that in hand on September 30, but it was never- theless. 229,000 tons greater that the figure for December, 1933. On the other hand," 109,460 tons of shipping were commenced abroad during the December quarter. this Agure representing a decline, as compared with the previous three months, of as much as 71,708 tons, The aggregate tonnage of the vessels launched. however, in-

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was at the beginning of that period concerned with mass production to fine limits by. unskilled and female labour, time "being lost and work spoiled by the difficulty of the tool-room personnel selecting rapidly the correct gauge or tool required by the operator. Proper identifca- tion was secured by attaching special coloured label sto the particular equipment required. These labels not only standard of workmanship and the limits of accuracy, and their useso success- fully combated the difficulties. that Mr. Murray was encouraged to give more thought to the sub- feet and to develop cerain other ideas in that connection.

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LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENT

It was apparent, however, that really large-scale experiment

creased from 133,375 in the Sep-was necessary further; progress tember quarter to 371,855 in the last three months of the year.

'SHIPBUILDING ABROAD Of shipbuilding countries abroad, Germany now takes the first place, with 139,511 tons of shipping under construction on December 31: France retains sec- ond place with 120,052 tons; while Japan falls to thirds place with the decreased total of 104,640

tons. Denmark is fourth with 78,630 tons, and Sweden fifth with 80,140 tons. The total horse po- ...wer of marine engines either un- der construction at the work or being installed · on board vessels, at the end of December, 1934, was 1,445,838. This was made up of 102,033 1h.p., the total for recipro- cating

steam engines. 646,601 shaft horse-power, the aggregate for steam turbines, and €97.204 1. the total, for oil engines. Great Britain and Ireland was responsible for 630,524 h.p., and headed the list of engine builders. France was scecond with 242,940 h.p.. Germany was third with 162, 996 h.p., Japan was fourth with 120,355 h.D., Sweden was fifth with 81,185 "h.p.. and Italy sixth with 80,700 h.p. The totals of all other countries were well below 70,000 h.p-

KUICHOW TO HAVE RADIO SERVICË

Company, Limited. "3 tons of Esh bolts, nuts and washers, and 15,000 anchor bolts, nuts and plates. Further, the Corporation' to place orders valued *5,000!, for tramway 'junctions with a number of other firms. Producers of bulk steel are re- sponsible for an output 50 per cent. greater than in 1913. The demand for basic steel billets has maintained. The call for arma- ments is well below normal. slight improvement is reported in fallway rolling stock require- ments. Activity is pronounced at works producing all kinds agricultural machinery parts and implements. In some instances, order books are so well-fled that additional shifts are being worked." There is no slackening in the de- mand for stainless steel. A heavy tonnage of this material leaves Sheffield weekly for various parts of the country. Motor-car and aircraft steel and parts steady media. The tool trades forge ahead. There is a record ing machines, and stainless-steel demand for hacksaws and blades, bollow-ware: from "Middlesex for twist drills, and fine-measuring tinned-iron wire and stainless- implements, Among the latest steel wire. from Vienna for ma inquifies in circulation are: from chine tools; and from Buenos" London for steel shuttles for Bew- Alres for manganese-steel sheets

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A consignment of radio sets and other equipment has arrived at Kulyang, the provincial capital of Kulchow. Nine engineers and operators have also arrived at Sungkan, northern Külyang, near the Szechuan border. They are be- ing despatched by the Ministry of Communications, in accordance with Instructions of General Chiang Kai-shek, President of the Military Affairs Commission, in- stal a radio service in this pro- vince so as to facilitate the ban- dit-suppression campaign in the 'South-west.

was to be made. There was 10 possibility of such an experiment being carried out in this country, but # fuftultuous circumstance enable it to be made eisewhere. Mr. Murray was, in 1927, invited to reorganise the railway work- shops of the Sudan Government Railways a position which sup- plled precisely the required conal- tions for a test as to the com- parative methods ofc olour and mathematical-symbol identifica- tion in industry. In the main workshops, at Atbara, there were that time over 1,500 work-

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people" of many nationalities, the major porticon being Soudanese, quite literate and, for the most part, utterly incapable of attach ing a preecise meaning. to Euro- pean letters and figures. Even supposing they had beena ble to read their native script. It was quite Impossible to translate European limit dimensions into ft, so that an unique opportunity was presented for trying out a system which rendered familiar- ity with a complex notation un- necessary. It should be made clear, at this point, that the pro- blem was not one of lack of man. ual skill. It is commau know- ledge that even primitive. Deoples are capable of very accurate work. and the turning of a pin to fit a particular bush is quite within the capacity of the skilled native workman. But when both pin and bush are to be made separ ately, to gauges within limits marked to certain thousandths of an inch, very close superivision i necessary to see that the proper gausage has been correctly select- ed. The difference, for instance. between 0.0003 and 0.0005 is difficult for an illiterate non- European to detect, without care," ful examination, as would be the minute, yet important, differences in the form of Chinese ideographs. to most educated Europeans.

tion with routine work. The re- sults were so encouraging that a much more complete system was developed. In actual practice it is quite simple, and the work in the Athara shops increased great- ly in accuracy, while errors were practically eliminated by its in- troduction. A marked saving of time was also effected. The some-.. what unexpected result of an in- crease in the Hte of the coloured ganges, compared with the old ones stamped with figures and leters, was also found, the men being more careful of the coloured gauges, no doubt from some psy- chological effect. In this connec tion. It may be stated that the use of grooves and recessed po- nels for the classification colours was found necessary in order to protect them for wear. Another effect. also of somewhat obscure origin, was found, in a greater readiness to undertake jobs pre- viously found irksome, and this. helped in the higher production rate which was the corollary of the saving in “ time, mentioned above. Naturally, the system cut out practically all clearical work, and made supervision caster, while the classification under colour ensured that all she, gauges got back to their correct places in

the gauge room after use.—

ENGINEERING EDUCATION

Council Formed

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A body, known as the Engineers" Council for

Deve- Professional lopment, has recently been form- ed in the United States for the" purpose of preparing a list of "ac- credited colleges," whose curricula la engineering subjects is sidered worthy of recognition. The participating institutions are, the American Society of Civil En- gineers, the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engin- eers. the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education and the National Coun- cil of State Boards of Engineer- ing Examiners, Six major curricu- lar, viz., chemical, civil, electrical,' mechanical, metallurgical and mining engineering will be "recog- nised and, though these may be either 01 undergraduate

TRAMWAY AND

BUS

now a

Simlarly, the number of passen. ger journeys fell from 2,835, 359,- 079 to 2.774,979.452 and the car- miles from 245,080,304 to 239,450,- 290. decreases of 2.13 per cent. and 2.3 per cent... respectively. The consumption of electricity' also declined slightly, in spite of an equally slight increase in the number of kilowatt-hours · used. per car-mile. In addition, 328 route miles, all electric traction, were operated by the London Passenger Transport Board and 1.002.922.192 jouneys originated on that system.

Once upon a time the tram- Motor omnibuses have.been sub- way load was a more important

stituted in Ave cases. trolley vehicles in one. and both trolley factor in the success of many Industrial undertaking than it is

vehicles and motor omnibuses in the last. All these figures are at present. With the increasing

exclusive of the undertakings now use of electricity for power and

merged in the London Passenger domestic purposes, It is

Transport Board. As a result, the very had third, and In 1931-32

route route mileage of the tram- was only responsible for SOTTIL

ways, fell from 1.532.93 in 1892-33 8.5 per cent. of the total con-

to 1.438.72 in 1933-34. Of the" sumption. It is perhmaps for latter figure. 1,423.88 milves were this reaso that electrical, en- worked electrically, 8.5 miles by gineers have been more, coin-steam and 6.58 miles by cable. placent than they might other- wise. have been at the replace- ment of trams by motor amnib- uses, though this conversion is to some extent set by the develop- ment of the trolley vehicle, which at least consumes électricity, even If it does not run on rails. The position with regard to the tram- way and the trolley vehicle in 1933-34 is set out in a return, en-" tite'd "Tramways and Light Rall- WAYS (Street and Road) and Trolley Vehicle Undertakings,' which has recentyl been publish- ed by HM." Stationery Office. From this it appears that the total number of trainways and light railways in operation fell from 159 In 1932-33 to 135 in 1933434. In th th case of 19 undertakings the place of the tram was taken by the motor büs, West Hartlepool the trolley-vehicle came on the scene, and the

disappearance of the other four undertakings was due to amalagmations. Tramway operation has also ceased on seven other undertakings, which are still included in the returns.

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As regards trolley vehicles thirty systems. were at work "and twenty-one other authorities possess powers to utilise this form of traction. The route-miles increased from 262.4 In 1932-33 to 312.98 in 1933-34. and the passengers carried from 194,182,398 to 227.083825. The from 1.83 kWh to 194 kWh. The Consumption per car-mile rose.. London Passenger Transport

*Board also "operated trolley

vehicles over 18 route-miles and carried 27.239.435 passengers by this means,

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In determining the suitablity of an institution for recognition," the qualifications of its staf the standard of 摩 instruction, both In engineer-" ing and cognate subjects, will be considered, together with the re- cords of past students, conditions of admission, degrees offered, size and finance. A necessary pre liminary will be a visit of inspec- tion by a joint committee of tea- chers and engineers. Such visits, as a first step towards accrediting, will only be taken on the invita- tion of the educational institution: concerned. In this connection..it is pointed out that the Engineers'-- Counel for Professional Develop- ment is merely authorised by its constituent organisation to pub- Esh a list of accredited colleges. It has no authority to impose any "restrictions upon the colleges, nor does it desire to do so. On the contrary. I afris at preserving the independence or actions of in- dividual institutions and thus The inital experiments were promoting the general advance-- carried out in the brass foundry ment of engineering. It wil with the object or Keeping separ- however, have the advantage of ate the risers, headings, and cut- substituting a single-accrediting tings from the different standard" body for the unco-ordinated me- mixtures, while tests of a more orthods of the past. Mr. G.T. Sea- less-elementary kind were made beary is the Becretary of the In order to ascertain what was' Council, the omices being at 29, the nature of the response of the West Thirty-Ninth-street, New native mind to colours in connec-

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