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Engineering Notes

RAILWAYS

Cold Storage Negotiations for a loan of $2,- 500,000 from a Shanghai banking group for institution of the cold storage system along the various Government railways are report- ed to be under way. According to the plans of the Nanking Ministry of Railways, cold storage plants will first be bulit for the four rail- way: Nanking-Shanghai, Shang- Tientsin- hal-Hangchow-Ningpo. Pukow and Peking-Mukden lines, The project w be extended to other rai ways later.

Line Opened

Train service on the Nanking- of the Nanking- Wuhu section Shaoan (Klangnan) Railway was initiated on April 21, when a train' of eight coaches arrived at Nan- king at 11 am, from Wuhu, cover- ing the distance in four hours. The train returned to Wuhu at 4.20 p.m. It is understood that the services on the section will be increased. Through transportation service with the Tientsin-Pukow and Nanking-Shanghai Rallways three will be inaugurated in months.

Lunghar Raliway,

The Lungha: Rallway in Shensi is now open to Welnan. The line. should reach the Western capital by the end of the year and a great space outside the North Wall is levelled for the new station.

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is said that the line is to be made to Hsienyang, where the impor- tant terry across the Wel River now is, that a bridge is to be built. across the river and that that will be the terminus for the Graet West Road. It is reported, too, that the railway will be extended first to the Han Valley en route far Szechuen.

Cheklang-Klangsi Railway Th, Cheklang-Klangsi Railway is planning to Administration

line to Foochow, extend the

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itate communications and trans- portation in south-eastern Che- being Negotia.ions are kjang. conducted with the Fúka Pro-

Vihen ar vincial Government rangements are completed, an en- gineering corps be dispatched to on the proposed make surveys Tut.e.

S.M.R. Enterprises. South Manchuria Railway will appropriate Y.200,000,000 for new enterprises in this fiscal year. This is the largest sum set aside in any one year. Y.47,000,000 is for or- dinary enterpr.se expenses, Y.145,- 000,000 for special enterprises, in- cluding railroad construction on contract for Manchukuo and im-

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provement of Manchukuoan rail- ways under the tentative manage- ment of the" company, and Y:8, 000,000 for investment in the Man- churia Chemical Industry Co. These funds are expected to be raised by means of debentures, calling in of unpaid shares, and by undivided profit to the amount of Y.54,000,000.

Faster Trains The twenty-nine heavy-duty steam locomotives formerly used the Hakone for haulage range, being on longer needed for this purpose, because of the use of e.ectric locomotives through the new Tanna Tunnel, the rallway to transfer authorities intend them to speed up trains on the Nagano-Naoetsu section of the Bhinetsu ine by from 10 to 15 per cent. Plans have also beer made to improve several other lines in After the vicinity of Tokyo. tracks are improved and bridges strengthened, streamline locomo- tives will be used on express trains between Osaka and Aomori," re- ducing the time from the present 21 hours to about 12 hours.

Siberian Railway Plans. Extensive plans for construction c a new East-West rallway syg-. t.m have been announced In Moscow, M. Andrew Andreyve, Commissar of Railways, also an- nounced that all sections of the Trans-Siberian Railway will be double-tracked as quickly as possi be. Further, it was stated a net- work of branch lines in the terri- tery north of Manchukuo will be built for the triple purpose of serving as feeders to the main line, to aid in the general industrializa- tion of the country, and to pro- vide a second line of transporta- tion in the event of the present eastern sections of the Trans- Siberian line becoming disabled.

New Shandi Railways The extension of the Chengtal Hallway from Ruise to Talku is being rapidly pushed to comple- ton, Bridging the Wụ Ma River is now the main obstacle to the completion of the line. It is re- ported that passenger service wil start, January 1 The Tung-pu

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Raliway in Shansi has been run- ning" between Taiyuan and Chich Hsu, a distance of over eighty Even- miles, since July 1 last.. tually the raliway will extend from Talung in the north to the extreme south-wesern corner of .. the province, across the Yellow River from Turiskuan. The trains travel only about ten miles per hour, due to the fact that the track is not yet ballasted. But, even so, they have already proved, quite a blessing.

COMMUNICATIONS

New Radlo Station. The Eurasia Aviation Corpora= tion is arranging to erect a radio the station at Shanchow, on southern bank of the Yellow River," near the Honan-Shens border, in order to report meteorological con- ditions for its air-lines to the north-wes

Radio Telephone The Manchuria Teiegraph "and is making Telephone Company plans to inaugurate a radio tele- phone service with the United. use the States. It is hoped to Hsinking Wireless Station as the central sending plant and to re- lay to America through Japan.

Station For Singapore.

wiress industry, The Brit.sh says a Singapore station, is ex pected to make considerable gains in the Far East as the result of a broadcasting station to be built there. Two British Companies- -the General Electric Co., Ltd.. and Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.-it 15 learned in to establish this Singapore, are station with municipal aid.

Long-Distance Telephone... Installation work on the section Chinklang- the projected Tsingkiangpu long-distance · tele- phone service, between, Yangchow and Kaoyu was completed on April 28. The entire. Ine was finished by the middle of May. It is an- nounced at the Kiangsu Provin- cial Department of Reconstruc- tion. In order that the long- distance tel.phone network for northern Klangsu may be ready at an early date, work on the taie- phone lines linking up the dis- tricts of Huatyin, Raichow, Hualan and Yencheng is a su bong ex- pedited,

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Highway Opened.

Work on the construction of the Tangshan-Fenglen Highway in the Luantung Area by the units of the Peace Preservation Corps under General Chao Lai 'having been completed, the new high- way has been opened to traffic. The highway is 50 11 in distance and 22 feet in width with dirt surface. The cost of construction of the road is $5.000 of which. $2,000 were appropriated by the Hopel Provincial Government, while the remaining sum was raised locally.

Steel Bridge at Ningpo A modern steel bridge is "under construction, to take the place of the Old Bridge of Boats at Ningpo. It will be remembered that Ning- po is siuated at the junction of two rivers. The city itself is con- nected by the New Bridge of Boats' which crosses over the Yuyao

the- River to the settlement on west, and with the east suburb by the Old Bridge of Boats, which crosses the Fenhwa branch of the river. It is the Old Bridge which is now to be replaced, "and the work, which started six months ago, in the hands of a foreign firm.

Wireless Phones For China. Plans for a domestic wireless telephone service as well as ce with foreign countries are in hand in China, Part of the machinery and equipment ordered from Eng- land totaling over 30 cases, re- cently arrived in Shanghai and. Chenju for.. Was transported to installation at the International Radio Station. The rest of the consignment was due by the end of the year. A service first will be installed to link up the more im- portant cities, such as Bhanghai, Nanking, Hankow, Tientsin and Paking, and it will be extended to other countries in March.

China's Communications The Chinese Ministry of Com- munications, has wasted no time in commencing negotiations with the International Settlement of Shanghai with a view to connect- ing China's long-distance" tele- phone links with the biggest port in China. The telephone interests in the city are reported to be in favour of the proposal

'Several ambitious projects which the Ministry expects to realize this year, have been outlined by Dr. Chu Chia-hua. Among these, the Minister made particular mention of the following:-Direct wireless communication with In- dia, Austrails, and Canada; radio tel phone service both within

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1935,

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

IRON AND STEEL MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA

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The approach of the holiday season usually causes a slackening of business in the iron and steel Industry, but this year it has had little effect, 80 far, or general activity, and in various branches further expansion has been noticeable. The output of pig iron has, in some cases, been scarcely adequate to satisfy the needs of consumers, while a con- siderable demand has been appar- ent for most classes o: "steel. There were 97 furnaces in blast at the close of June, the number as at the end of May, but the June 'output of pig iron fell to $29,300 tons, d'gainst 558.900 tons in the preceding month. This decline, however, was partly due the to the shorter month, and latest total compares favourably with the figure of 514,900 tons for June, 1934. Largely owing to the fewer working days in June, the output of steel ingots and castings revented a similar trend, the total being 770,000 tons, compared with 853,300 tons in May, 1935, and 757,500 tons in June, 1934. Ex- ports were lower both in volume and in value than in either the preceding month or the corres- ponding period last year, but the average per working higher than in May.

SMALL INCREASE..

Register shipbuilding Lloyd's returns for the quarter ended June revealed a small increase. compared with the preceding the tonuage three months, in under

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Great Britain and Ireland for the first time since September, 1934. The returns. which relate only to merchant

gross vessels of 100 tons and over, show that on June 30 the tonnage of vesse's building.

amounted In this country 560,321, against 555,815 tons at latest the end of March. The Agure, however, is lower than the aggregate of 587.142 tops at the end of June, 1934. The returns of the Chamber of Shipping show a sharp falling off in the amount of tonnage laid up at ports in Great Britain and Ireland to 250 vessels of 587.900 net tons on vessels of July 1, against, 322 705,699 net tons on April 1 and 421 vessels of 1,042,278 net tons on July 1. 1934: The downward movement in the volume of idle tonnage in this country has been continuous each quarter since the middle of 1933, except for a slight check at the end of last year.

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EXTENSION OF RAILWAY --

Out of the etsimated $15,000.000 required for the construction of the Slan-Paochi extension of the Lung-Hai Railway, in northwest. ern Shensi, a loan of $5,000,000 has bren secured by the Ministry of Railways from banks in Shang- hal, The balance of $10,000,000, for the purchase of materials, bas also been arranged for by the Ministry. Mr, Chien also stated that plans have been submitted for approval by the Ministry of Railways for the building of a Joint Station at Chengchow for the Lung-Hat and the Pelping- Hankow Railways.

BRANCH LINE

The proposal of the Klangsi Pro- vincial Government for the erec- tion of a branch line of the Che- kiang Kiangsi Railway running from Hokow, eastern Kianggi. northwards to Kingtehchen, the famous porcelain center in nor thern Klangs, has been referred to the Cheklang-Kiangsi Railway Administration for consideration. The projected branch line will be 108mlice in length A survey will be made by the Railway authorities shortly-

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China and with foreign countries; 'completion of a telephone service The linking up nine provinces. Ministry had purchased a number of 3 kilowatt transmitting sets, which would be installed in Tien- tsin and Tsingtao, enabling these places to send radiograms to Japan, the Philippines and An- nam, Successful tests at radio with telephone communication

been *Europe and America" bad

made, and, with the arrival of fur ther machinery from abroad, ar- rangements in this connection might be completed this summer. The Ministry proposed to erect radia telephone stations in Shang- hal, Canton, Tientsin and Han- kow, with Shanghal as the central poin..

FACTORY BUILDING="

COMPLETED

The construction of the build- Ing of the Central Machine Fac-. tory' in Shanghai under the Min- istry of Industries, which had been in 'progress for the past eight months was completed on August 27. According to Mr. Liu Wel-chi. vice-Minister of Industry, the establishment of 12 other large- scale machine factories is being planned by the Ministry.

HIGHWAY COMPLETED

Communications between Klangst and Fukien will be greatly facilitated by the opening of the Klangsi-Fukien Inter-provincial Highway in October. The line starts from Nanchang, provincial capital of Klangsi, passes through Linchwan, Nancheng and Lichwan In Klangsi; and Kwangtse. Sha- ovu, Kenyang, Shunchang, Yen- ping in Fukien and terminates at Foochow provincial capital of Fukien. With the exception of the Klenyang-Shaowu-Shunchang section in north-western. Fuklen, the Highway has already been completed.

LONG-DISTANCE TELE-

PHONE:

The time-limit for each call on the Kiangsu (as well as the Kiangsu-Cheklang inter-provin- cial). long-distance telephone lines, which at present is 5 min- utes, is shortened to three minutes from September 1. Charges will be based on the distance of the call

SIAN-CHENGTU AIRWAY

I is learnt that the projected Stan-Chengtu Airway can not be nlaugurated until the completion of the aerodrome at Hanchung, southern Shensi. To expedite the work of construction, Lieut.-Gen- eral Sun Wei-ju, Commander of the 38th Army, has assigned one company of soldiers to assist in the work.

RAILWAY TRIP SHORTENED

The railway trip between Pel- ping and Tientsin which at pre- sent takes three hours will be shortened to two hours-a reduc- tion or one-third-following the completion of adjustments of the track as well as improvement of roaded-bed on that section of the Peiping-Liaoning Railway. Trial runs will be made shortly.

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RECORD IN LINER CONSTRUCTION

A record in the construction of a liner has been achieved at a Lancashire shipyard. The new 24,000 toms Orient liner "Orion," wihch was completed last month by Vickers-Armstrongs, Lid, at Barrow-in-Furness,

only WELS faunched by the Duke of Glouces- from Australia, on ter, by radio December 7, 1934.

The "Orion" which is the fifth Orient liner built at Barrow since 1924, has a speed of 211 knots and is specially designed for cruises as well as the ordinary Australian' traffic, he has only one mast and one tunnel..

MUCH BUILDING IN LIVERPOOL

Two hundred, and eighty-nye plans for building extensions and alterations involving an expendi ture of about £1,000,000, were ap proved by the building plans, sub- committee of the Liverpool City Council during the first fortnight

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NEW INDUSTRIES

During the past month three manufacturing companies and an important transport un- der-taking have taken premises on the Trafford Park industrial estate adjoining Manchester Jas. Cranelly & Docks, Messrs. Sons are commencing the manu- facture of cork siabs and section- al pipe covering for the insula- tion of cold stores and other cork Products such as table mats, bath mats and sheep-y. Another com- pany, Messrs. M. Hackney and Co,, Ltd., are occupying extensive pre- mises where they will manufac- ture furniture of avery descrip- tion on a large scale. The third new company is a subsidiary of a London concern and is engaged in the compounding of rubber latex.

There are already over 200 firms, in widely diverse trades, establish- ed on the estate.

LOAN OBLIGATIONS

Nanking Sept 8.

A sum of $107,412.59 (equivalent to £3,000), towards the amortiza- loan obligations of tion of the the Nanking-Shanghai Railway Administration, has been remitted" to the British and Chinese Car- poration, it is learnt at the Minis- try of Railways.

The amount went towards pay- ment of the August Instalment due on account of purchase of railway supplies. Payment was made through the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corpora- tion.

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BUILDING SCHEME

The sum of £850,000 is invol-

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an important building scheme which is to be commenced shortly in the heart of Birming- ham.

The scheme includes the erec- tion of a cinema with a seating capacity of 3,000 while fronting to New Street, one of the city's main shopping streets, it is intended to to erect a large block of shops with offices and showrooms,

The rear of the site is to be de- Hveloped by the London, Midland & Scottish Railway Co. by the erec- tion of an extension to the Queen's Hotel consisting of banqueting rooms and seventy additional bed- rooms.

The site, which is at present occupied by King Edward's High School, was purchased for appro- ximately 242,000, the biggest sum ever paid for a site in the centre of Birmingham. It is anticipated that the whole or the building work will be completed in about

MORE FURNACES ACTIVE -

The Tees-side firm of ironmas- ters, Messrs. Gjers, Mills & Co., Ltd., have been carrying out re- pairs and improvements to two of their blast!urnaces, a proce- dure which involved closing their works and reducing the number.

The employed.

improvements have now been completed, and the résumption of the furnaces on hematite iron-making brings the number of big blastfurnaces active on, the North East Coast to 27~ nearly all of which have been mo dernised and given greatly in creased output.capacities ex com- pared with blastfurnaces of the War and early post-War periods.

RAIL-CAR ORDEKS

Leyland Malors, Ltd., of Ley- land, Lancashire have, received orders for two complete rail-car units for the Buenos Aires Pacific Railway Company, and for four similar units for another: Bouth

of July. The schemes includ› ex- - American Ral way, Cla" Mogyana

tensions to two large factoriei,

a welfare centre and nurses homes.

Two blocks of tenements and T20 houses are to be built by private, enterprise,

de Estradas De Ferro, Increasing activity in ai-metal hody build- Ing at the Leyland works necessit- ates the erec lon or another fac tory bay of some 8,000 ft, of door space.

THE EXHIBITION

At Radiolympia

The world's biggest wireless ex hibition was opened at Olympla, London on the 14th of August. This year's, show was the tenth the in the series organized by Radio Manufacturers' Association, and it was undoubtedly the most Impressive train every point view. It was not only the novelty and grandeur of the exhibits that made the show so popular an event; it was also the importance of the exhibition as revealing the astonishing progress made in one of Britain's youngest and most prosperous Industries.

All the appartus exhibited was entirely British, and the estimat- was ed value of the equipment £5,000,000. Two hundred British radio firms took part in the ex- hibition and more than five thousand receivers were open 16. inspection. Although no revolu- have tionary technical changes been made since fast year's ex- hibition, the show this year show- ed

technical consolidation and many improvements. During the past year the cost of wireless sets has been reduced by some Afteen.,, per cent, and in addition to this reduction in price there have been the numerius Improvements in

A construction of receivers. £10,000 theatre occupled "a por- tion of the 50.000 square feet of Boor space, and in this theatre the British Broadcasting Corpor- three performances ation gave daily. Among the novelties were machine that automatically made gramophone records of the the the spectators; voices of world's largest cycloramic screen. stretching across the entire width

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ELECTRICITY

Large-Scale Projects

Large-scale developments are projected for meeting the anti- démand for cipated growth in electricity in the north-west re- gion

At Kearsley, Lancashire, 18,500 tons of material have been ex- curated and 400,000 tons of con- crete and 110 tons of steel put into the foundations, on watch new plant, incuding, a 51,600 kw, tur- bo-alternator, is to be built and operated by the Lancashire Elect- ric Power Company. The cost of the plant, including buildings, etc., will amount to £680,000.

This plant will be brought into operation in August, 1938, at

which date the Kearsley station will be the largest generating sta- tion in Lancashire. By arrange ment with the Central Electricity Board yet another 51,600 kw, ma- chine will be installed by the win- ter of 1938.

Other schemes call for a 50,000 kw. turbo-generator for the Man- chester Corporation's Power Sta- tion, at Barton, a 30,000 kw, unit for the Stuart Street station De- ing to the same corporation, a new 50,000 kw. turbo-generator, and the Installation of some bollers at Clarence Dock, Liverpool, and a 30,000 kw. plant for the Staly: bridge, Electricity Board.

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