PRESS MACHINE
MAY REVOLUTIONISE industry. ‘ (United Presa Association.,~-By Electric Telegraph',-“Copyright,) LONDON, September 7, r The '‘Daily Mail” discloses the existence of the Humphries press machine, which is expected to revolutionise British industry by th e application of a pressure of unprecedented intensity and precision in stamping out, by a force of twelve thousand tons, multiply articles that formerly were made singly. Motor oar bodies, also compressed cereals as well as bricks, nails, and furniture formed from pulvei ized wood, are said to have been produced by the machine. Fifty thousand sterling- worth of world "patents cover the Humphries invention, which is said to be the result of seven years of secret experiment in a shed on a lonely moorland It is claimed that the machine makes better bricks at 40s per thousand than can be obtained/ at 60s i per thousand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1931, Page 5
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141PRESS MACHINE Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1931, Page 5
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