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Progress, Volume II, Issue 4, 1 February 1907, Page 147

ENGINES, MACHINERY, APPLIANCES,

ftc, WANTED AND FOR SALE.

T7OR SALE — Two Astronomical Telescopes. -L One 3^lll and one 6111. (Cook & Son). Apply to F. Hitchmgs, Sydenham Observatory

t 71 7 ANTED to sell two small Dynamos, one of » 6 amperes, the other 1 2. Both will work at any voltage up to 50. Apply to ' X," Progress Office.

DICTURE FRAMING executed in all the 1 latest and most up-to-date styles ; Antique Brown Stained Moulding a speciality. Write for our illustrated catalogue. R. & E. Tmgey & Co., Ltd., Wellington.

MOTOR CARS. HPHE GARAGE, 81 Manners St. Motor Cars -»- for Sale • Beeston Humber, 6J h.p , terms; new Covert chainless, any trial, Win ton Touring Car, 4 seat, £175. Cars cleaned and stabled from 2/6 per week. Nicholls, The •Garage, 81 Manners St., Wellington.

WALTER GEE & COMPANY— Manufacturers of Self-coiling Revolving Shutters and Venetian and Holland Blinds of every description. Factory • Quin St., off Dixon St., Wellington.

"PURCHASERS of real estate, either houses, ■t^ sections or farms, should apply to H. Ernest Leighton 9 Featherston St., or Hutt, who has the finest selection on the market.

WANTED KNOWN— AII Classes of ElectroPlating and Engraving executed at Chas. H. Williams & Sons, 85 Willis street, Wellington. We ar<> not experimenters but have been established over 30 years. Write for Price List.

WANTED — Everyone to know that they can have their old electroplate ware made equal to new ; Bedsteads relacquered, Fenders, Lamps, Screens, etc., antique coppered ; Bicycle and Coachbuilder's work, Nickel or Brass Plated , Electroplating of all descriptions executed at the Sterling Electro-Plating Co., 34 Lower Cuba street, Wellington.

A New Aerial Torpedo.

Of late there seems to have been a veritable epidemic of warlike inventions Major TJnge a Swedish officer, has invented (and has just tested at the Mama shooting-grounds near Stockholm, in the presence of Field-Marshal Leth) a new aerial torpedo. At the tests in question they w ere charged with 1 kilo 000 of cotton fulminate steeped 111 water. The torpedo-tube is only Im. 70 in length, and the entire apparatus weighs so little that one man can easily carry it under his arm. In spite of this the torpedo can make a hole fat the point of impact) of 2 m in depth by 2 m in diameter, ihe stones and turf being hurled to a distance of several hundred metres

Great English Bridge.

The King Edward bridge recently opened on the North-Eastern Railway at Newcastle-on-Tyne, is the greatest feat of Butish engineering since the Forth bridge was built It has been in course of construction for ovpr ii\ c years, and cost /300,000.

It is always better to take things as they come lian to attempt to catch them as they go

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