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FILE NAME: Engineering (ENG) DATE: 1931 June DOC#: ENG015 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Trade Journal Article [ E X C m ^ i U X G , J U L Y I'Z, 1S` 3J.] ENGINEERING: Jin illustrate Hrehlp JnurnaL VOL. CXXXIII--FROM JANUARY TO JUNE, 1932. i * A:ii-. _.ndj sd. Th 130 lb Ad in-1 Age-1 to volts,! 250-lb. | ! turbine' i.,. The i a pump-1 ,'as self-1 900-kw.l nstalled. ] plied byj sets of . output, on. In | iges h a d ! ig pumps lange, in indepen- f J popular Jj his drive , wever, i t ; >ump sets; e present] j turbine-] lecially if | ovementaj delivering ] a steam] instructed j f turbine-1 ump, a vertical! i n te r - I m p e n d t r --i- - Iu le rir G eorge umi-eii'-phasisc<l th e j i e u n s re alisatio n of th e in te r - 1 dependence of the tw o countries, and th e need th a t G reat B ritain should fu rth er extend her hm pire m arkets. X ot the least of the efforts being m ade tow ards th a t end .s . he said, the w ork of the two S tandards Associations, which for m any years had been studying each other's needs w ith a view to .,,r-iirin" a t a m ax im u m n a u c . . . ----' ^ n i i n n i cost X article or m aterial, which would sa tin y & -- ssstc-i. T he tn tu l a i\.t >( Iat. : r' ' J' - `1* v the tank restoration scheme is square mnes. which, as will be seen, is two-thirds of the area of the Presidency itself. LTp till the end of March, 1930, restoration works had been completed over an area of 83 137 sq. miles, and. in addition, works had been put in hand, or were about to he commenced, on a further 4.493 sq. miles of land. Consequently, some 85-49 per cent, of the total area comprised in ' -*-n ,,iv, bv March 31. 1930. The w.a'.'r RKEeOgluLlAalKt GioMnrsi f--o--b---t-h--e---A sbesto s I n d u str y . t - * _J -inYFlTTnlAti aircraft -.nuu.-u,. .ort a - '.a . _ aggregate to the motor cxcle and exile industries. Although there was still a net influx of workpeople into the industry, it was ou a smaller scale than in recent years, and it was insufficient to compensate the large increase in the number unemployed. The resulting figure of employment is lower than any year since 1924, and even allowing for the rapid technical advance in productive processes, indicates a_marked decline in production as compared with P rivate o h / o. -- production, pubhshed h y j b e ^ ^ M anufacturers a n d t o an d including 1929, 1930 and 1931, are given in lable 1 1 . Commonwealth G overnm enti t o assist in conduct of th e w ork of the Standards Association of A ustr aba Sir H enrv Barraclough stated th a t in th a t c o u n try th e re Were 500 e o m m ittees d e a h n g u ffh v a rio u s ^ t h e v C r e `scattered over a continent the size of Furone which was divided into six self-governm ttes Mr Le Maistre uttered a wamrng to British Table I I -- Output of Cars. 19-23 1924.. 1923.. 1926.. 71,396 1927 . .. 116,600 1928 .' 132,000 1929 ."' 153,500 1930 1931 * Year ending Septem ber 30. The p ro d u c tio n year of th e TMotor from October 1 to Septem ber 164,553 165,352 182,256* 171,052* 158,298* du^ ^ 8 employed TM ^ bl erson9 employed are to wear : prevalent, while the pe v last stipulation! that apparatus. If we reg because along' at the beginning of October ^ tlm ^,, S e t r f u f r c o ff^ prW uctio^ ?rC t\e r i i g h t basis of the W u J vit^te c o u n tr y t o see fo r th em selv es, if p o ssib le . l> com m end this advice to our m anufacturers. I rrigation W orks in M adras _ . The Presidency of Madras is essentially an agri ccuullttuurraall rreegciioun. 71 per ce^nt, oTf hiets tpootaplulaarteioanobfetmhge s s r s r > ; the neatest ingenuity to ^ j - t Viq*- feel so disposed. ", authorities is shown bx *55 eircumx e it, ahe:n th view is also held b\ tne [ fact that another j the1 la o{ Qr! n ' f \ eftt. ' Twrive m o n t h ir io t a ls , how ever, show , iQQi th-e decline lifts been p ro v in ce B 142.2b0 sq. miles and over 42 per cent, of this namelv, 39.260,000 acres, is under cultn ation a fair proportion of the remainder is forest land' The fertility of the soil is greatly increased by1irrigation, and "this has long been -cognised by the industrious Madrasi agncMtunst quarter of the sown area is system atic and does not, therefore, depend on t c ^ q u a c > of t h e m onsoons, ^ o r many y e ^ p a s t h r g e proportion of the irrigation wor annual hands of th e M adras G overnm ent and1 th e annua administration report of the Pu c rf the of la n d , re p re se n tin g 18 8 p e r ' S , vs cropped area, were irrigated by G overnm ent w orks th a t . T " BoCth aT 'r e g a r d th e m agnitude T rft C ;n d th e reccn f tm provem ent, these The regulations are Pllbhbbe4 , 93j No 114 0 . 1 Office, as Statutory Rules and Order*. 1931, Xo. ; at a price of 2d. net. INovember, 1931, it was not " P?38^ 1^ Th e B rothers H .w o s t ii recently Messrs. C arron C o m p a n y V ^ a ,tra c tiv e little p am p h lets published the eighth ot th eir ,, series. Tins m the - F am ous M en a n d C arro n " j v e J y H aw o rth , d e als w ith th e w o r k oI M >> m * * *a t C a rro n . ! ssrs& s ts >" * of the results J gf, 93 2 . ble Art h, >lcte tli.'ir ver, have Paddingno doubt railways o contend based his th a t conwhich are o form a restriction the main '.omin" or 4 a sim.de :r, will lie s m any of c it is also te into it -s at some v by other . in'future, tor coach, tion in this ves in this es a t suburst to start -uch as the ring suit. ice the days has, as in ring, been efficiency, At a recent jciation of nch of the M r. R . W- by a brief s of typical diosen were ips and an" ;ed out that 1885, was le driving a g steam at out tonse of SO-h.p-> n-tvpe coni' Again, ti t onmup OO spindle turbine placed well above the w ,,__ With regard to air supply plant, designers had been greatly assisted by the closer attention now given to the reduction of losses in intake shafts. &c. Formerly, these accounted for 50 per cent, of the total energy supplied to the fans. The reduction of such losses to a minimum was now-a-days of very great moment when installations on board might be required to supply 320,000 cub. ft. per minute against stokehold pressures of 31- to 4 in. e n g in e e r in g . 10 7 This total " W . - t a n t o S a 3 ,, " S :| THE engineering outlook. was Rs. 3,02.53.263 and the net revenue, after I O fficia JJI;rj7.T UE -^0T0R I sdustiot. Lde--d-u--c.tin0g working expenses, was' Rs. l1,,j3o6.._2o3,,o8o8o9. 1j buceotwvCeTenu tuhie private car inaduusitirfvy anu borne idea of the scale upon which the operations `vehicle industry. In Table I accordingly a general u ere earned on nill be gained when it is stated tsummary is given covering the group of industries iot*ThfTatTthneothireTrr'lti'iogo'aotat1il1o/,ln,e, n,w,g.ootwhrkl.oosfwthaes main 41 .4t 447 and branch mi*l1e_s_, s.ome e11an,1iaa8it0,*xj1 centred round the internal combustion ensrine. ^ miles of which were utilised for navigation as well Table I.-- A umber of Workpeople Employed. E ngineering Standardisation- in A ustralia \ T ! T irri?atiof Purposes ; the length of the distri-j n , T ! huting channels reached the large total of 10.320 Motors. Cycles and Aircraft.* _ ml Sv- Jailuar;v U - a i ult meeting f the !miles. A good deal of the report is naturally 1 British Standards Institution and the Standards ; devoted to particulars regarding the now well-known : Association of Australia, was held, the two parties ;Cauverv-Metur irrigation project. Work on the : Number Insured. Number Unem ployed. Number Employed Index 1923 = 100. --;g enng being assembled at the Board of 1 main dam at Metur is shown to be progressing satis- ., Trade, London^ and _at Science House, Sydney. 1factorily ; 310,000 tons of masonry had been placed in 1924 j respectively. On this side, the meeting was , position on the dam site during the year endum June Jjijji addressed by the Right Honourable Walter Runci- !30, 1930, and this had been increased to 429,000 tons I192? man, President of the Board of Trade, by Mr. Maurice j by the end of December, representing an average ,19^ Wilson, chairman of the British Standards Institu- iof 1.050 tons per working day. The line from Salem 11930 tion, and by Sir William Larke, chairman of the , on the South Indian Railway to Metur was opened 1931 191,30 203,340 214.340 224,040 232,860 234,830 245.410 247,140 251,320 10,108 16.145 14,100 21.609 ' 18,339 22,015 17,614 ' 40,647 57,462 175.722 187.195 200.740 , 202.431 214 531 ! 212.315 I 227.796 206,493 193.S5S 100 0 106 5 114 3 115 6 122'5 1 2 1 '1 129' 6 u r 5 lio- 3 Iron and Steel Industry Committee, while on the | in April, 1929, and materials are now c o n v e y e d ---- other, the speakers were Sir George Julius,- chair- |j direct t-o---M----e-t-u--r--D---a-m station. Tj-huue pp urojcjevci,t iiinicvliuuduecss |! * Figures _relate only to the month of Julv in each *vear. man of the Standards Association of Australia,. j| a hydro-electric power scheme, bbvy which it is hoped | explained in previous articles, the Ministry Henry Barraclough, dean of the F'aconulIt,ya- nof |Itno girepnre.ratfe. u3n0,n0o0n0-lh.,,p. c,,--ontinuousily- a-nll .th1.e_ year 1of Labour figures in respect of 1928 to 19.31 are not Engineering, Lmversity of Sydney, and Mr. C. Le round. The insertion into the dam of four rows of itrictly comparable with those for previous years, Maistre, Director of the BnrittKiskh Standards Institu 8-ft. 6-in. diameter pipes, for the purpose, was in that they leave out of account all workpeople tion, who is at present in Australia. Mr. Runciman begun in Xovember, 1930. We hope to deal with 65 years of age and over, and youths under 16. L Phited out that the development of standardisation this subject at length shortly. Another important Possibly, an addition of some 2,000 workpeople i_ ^ e various parts of the Empire, upon the basis portion of the work of the Department is in employed should be made on this account. The of close co-operation in establishing uniform standard connection with the restoration of the derelict tanks adjustment does not, however, affect materially :. specifications, would contribute to the growth of distributed over a wide area within the Presidency. the very decided recession shown in the above table. inter-imperial trade, while Sir George Julius The total area of land coming within the scope of Xone of this recession is probably allocable to the G emphasised the growing realisation of the inter- the tank restoration scheme is 102,500 square miles, aircraft industry, and a small amount only in the y dependence of the two countries, and the need that which, as Avill be seen, is two-thirds of the area of the aggregate to the motor cycle and cycle industries. Great Britain should further extend her Empire Presidency itself. Up till the end of March, 1930, Although there was still a net influx of workpeople markets. Xot the least of the efforts being made restoration works had been completed over an area into the industry, it was on a smaller scale than in towards that end was, he said, the work of the two of 83,137 sq. miles, and, in addition, works had been recent years, and it was insufficient to compensate . Standards Associations, which for many years had put in hand, or were about to be commenced, on a the large increase in the number unemployed. The been studying each other's needs with a view to further 4,493 sq, miles of land. "Consequently, resulting figure of employment is lower than any securing at a maximum efficiency and minimum cost some 85*49 per cent, of the total area comprised in year since 1924, and even allowing for the rapid the article or material, which would satisfy the the scheme had been dealt with by March 31. 1930. technical advance in productive processes, indicates user. Failure in this direction on the part of the a marked decline in production as compared with British manufacturer had resulted in the loss of R egulations for th e A sbestos I n d u s t r y . 1929. ' much possible trade in Australia while nrima rv produ- c-e-r-s -i-n the~ ^lVaWtVtVePAr. OcoUuUniiUtrJyI had equally lfcatiilieeud I TAh"ee HHoommee Secretary hhas wisseuedd i a ppaammpphhlleett ooff Private Cars.--The revised figures of private-car production, published by the Society of Motor to understand the markets in `the Mother CountTMry sectiioonn m<9 of ltbhe FFacttory andn Wv o"rkIs?hdoupsAt.rc-Vt', u1^90e1r, Manufacturers and Traders, Limited, in their and had, therefore, found it difficult to meet eom- petition from others. This position could only be three pages of which are concerned with the respon annual review for the years up to and including 1928, and the figures for the years ending September, rectified by a whole-hearted and co-operative survey sibilities of occupiers and one-half a page with the duties of persons employed, the remainder 1929, 1930 and 1931, are given in Table II. of imperial market requirements and manufacturing possibilities, SO that, as far as possible, those being taken up by familiar [lerambulatorv matter. 1 T able I I . - -Output of Cari. ^requirements could lx' met by products from dAislfsiuismeninogss, tthhaetre bisrenvoityobijsectimoonreto etfhfiesc.tiveIndteheadn, jI 11992234 ... ... 71,390 ... 11*5.000 1927 1928 .................. . 1 6 4 ,5 5 3 .................. . 1 6 5 ,3 5 2 1 9 2 5 ... . .. ll'g.OUO 1929 ................. . 182,25(5* '' ' 1 tVttl 17 1 0.52*