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New Trade Publications LOADING CHAIN—High strength with minimum weight is claimed for its loading chain in a leaflet by the American Chain Co. Inec., Bridgeport, Conn. Specifications are given. DIESEL ENGINES—Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp., Harrison, N. J., devotes a 44-page bulletin to its vertical four-cycle air-injection diesel engines. Copious illustrations supple- ment the description in the text and present numerous installations in varied use. Diagrams show details of various sizes. FORGINGS—A recent bulletin on forgings, Heppenstall Co., Pittsburgh, is devoted to information on acid open-hearth billets and miscellaneous heavy machine forge products. Sev- eral pages are devoted to useful tables of weights, equivalents and conver- sions and the catalog is well illus- trated. ACIDPROOF PIPE — American Manganese Steel Co., Southern Man- ganese Division, St. Louis, is distribut- ing a bulletin carrying test reports of its acid-resisting pipe and fittings, with suggestions as to economy In use of this material in various ways. Its use in buildings where acid waste is conveyed is especially recommended. LIFTING DEVICES—Ambold Ma- chine Tool Corp., 50 Church street, New York, features its junior double- acting hoist in a current bulletin, with some mention of its other electrical lifting devices with capacities up to 10 tons. The junior hoist is illustrated and described and its advantages stated. CONDENSATE PUMPS — Leaflets L20426 and L20447, covering both mo- tor-driven and turbine-driven conden- sate pumps, have been issued by the South Philadelphia Works of the Wes- tinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. Char- acteristic curves are given showing the effect of submerge to the capacity of the pumps. WASTE HEAT BOILERS — Foster Wheeler Corp., New York, has issued a bulletin describing its waste heat boil- ers, which are of a new type. It shows several designs, with illustrations of installations and details of construction. It is particularly applicable to internal combustion engines and to marine use. The bulletin is known as WB-30-2 and is available upon request. HEATING — American Blower Corp., Detroit, has issued a bulletin on its method of heating for floor, wall or ceiling mounting with high, medium or low pressure steam appli- cations. The method is described and various types of equipment are illus- trated, with their applications. Pip- - ing diagrams are provided and ample data are presented. MARINE CONDENSERS—Westing- house Electric & Mfg. Co., East Pitts- burgh, has issued Bulletin D.M.F. 5258 covering the company’s developments in condensing equipment for marine ap- plication, including single and two-pass condensers, propeller-type circulating pumps and air injectors. Illustrations include welding features employed in the manufacture of this equipment. GENERATING SETS—Bulletin No. 1902 covering Engberg marine gener- ating sets was recently issued by the Troy Engine & Machine Co., Troy, Pa. Chapters are devoted to the application and guarantee of these generating sets and to descriptions of the engine and generator. A number of illustrations are included, as well as drawings and tables, and the bulletin will be sent to anyone upon request. CLEANING COMPOUND—A booklet — on the various uses of Annite, an all- purpose cleaning compound, has been issued by the Quigley Co., Inc., 56 West Forty-fifth street, New York. A chart giving a partial list of the industries Annite serves is included. On _ board ship it is especially recommended for general cleaning, painted surfaces, en- gine room, oil tanks, uniforms, salt water baths and washing in sea water. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT—Gen- eral Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., has issued recent bulletins on the following products: Atomic-hydrogen are welding equipment, mechanical- drive turbines, semi-automatic re- duced-voltage starters, thermostats, selsyns, synchronous motors, automa- tic full-voltage controllers, oil circuit breakers, photo electric relays, air drawing-oven, textolite gears and CR 9504 operators. TRUCK-TYPE SWITCHGEAR— Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co., East Pittsburgh, Pa., has issued a ca its metal enclosed truck-type peste: gear, manually and electrically operat. ed, built for three-phase, 60-cycle sup. ply, 3000 amperes maximum and 15 000 - watts maximum. All high-voltage cir. cuits are enclosed, affording safety to the operator. Illustrations include half- tones and diagrams and a table is given of interrupting capacities and dimen. sions. INDUSTRIAL CONTROL—C BEA-606B issued by The Ga Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., is de- voted to representative lines of Indus- trial Control manufactured by the company, including data on the care and operation of control devices, wir- ing diagrams of standard controllers, push buttons and other accessories, Reference tables, list of publications and other useful information also are given. MARINE BATTERIES—The Electric Storage Battery Co., Philadelphia, has issued a new booklet under the title Exide Batteries for Commercial Vessels devoted to the need and uses of storage batteries on every kind of vessel in every type of service. The bulletin chronicles briefly the development of electricity aboard ship and contains much valuable information on marine battery equipment, which is well illus- trated. DIESEL ENGINES—The Busch-Sul- zer Bros.-Diesel Engine Co., St. Louis, has issued a bulletin on large diesels for public utilities. Special attention is called to the simplified design of 30- inch diameter cylinder fitted with solid injection, which is available in revers- sing marine diesels as well, and to the great reduction in space occupied in the new design of 3000 horsepower engine, which indicates the possibilities of large ‘diesel electric drive installations and diesel auxiliary units for large passen- ger liners. The bulletin is well illus- trated. ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS—Gen- eral Electric Co., Schenectady, N. Y., has just issued its biennial general catalog. This supersedes all previous catalogs except those relating to rail- way, mine-.and industrial supplies. It contains 1146 pages and is fully illus- trated. It is thumb-indexed in 16 sec- tions, generation, wire and cable, dis- tribution transformers, arresters and capacitors, voltage regulators, switch- ing equipment, switchgear, meters and instruments, lighting equipment, mo- tors, motor applications, industrial control transportation, industrial heating, miscellaneous and indexes. Business News for the Marine Trade Wilcox, Crittenden & Co., Middletown, Conn., manufacturers of marine hard- ware, have approved plans for power plant extensions. The Calcasieu Shipping Co. has been organized at Lake Charles, La. The officers are: George A. Partridge, presi- dent; Charles A. Bone and Adolph Marx, vice presidents; John A. Wasey, secretary; and George D. Neely, treas- urer. The Capiano & Post Corp. of Sea Cliff has changed its name to the Glen Cove Marine Salvaging Co., Glen Cove, L, I., N. Y. New capital has been enlisted and it is expected that the company will enlarge its operations considerably during the coming year. The Baltimore Towage & Lighterage Co., a new enterprise, recently pur- chased 10.open and covered lighters in 64 New York, and is about to begin opera- tions. The service is. to be confined to the harbor demands for lighterage movements of cargoes. An appropriation. of $1,000,000, in- cluded in the second deficiency bill, was passed by both houses of congress dur- ing February for a new appraisal ware- house for the United States customs of- fice at Baltimore. The new building will be equipped with proper elevators, ‘ inspection space, laboratories, platforms and runways. Work on the new struc- ture will probably begin by the end of this year. x : Dredging operations have started on the new pier development project of the New Orleans Dock Board on the Industrial Canal between Florida” Walk and Gentilly. The canal connects the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain. MARINE REVIEW—May, 1931 The projects will provide five new piers and four slips, the latter peing 1600 feet long, 350 feet wide and 30 feet deep. A warehouse with a shed on either side will be built on each pier. When completed the system will pro- vide docking facilities for forty vessels. The Freighting Corporation of Amer- ica has opened an office at 25 Bro street, Room 602, New York, to engase in the freight and chartering trade. Henry D. Mercer, who recently resigned as general manager and vice presiden of the Dyson Shipping Co., is president of the new company. D. F. Young, for- merly with Funch, Edye & Co. an thereafter with the Dyson Shipping Co. is secretary-treasurer. The chartering department will be in charge of William = rove formerly with Funch, Edye oO.