Extensive expansions have been made and improvements completed on the Dock within the past 18 months. The following are detatis of just a few of them:
A large tract of land to the west of the Docks has been acquired, which will give plenty of room for shipbuilding berths; the dry dock is being enlarged from 52 feet to feet thus enabling the largest steamers coming to Shanghai to dock; forty 20-ton and 10-ton cranes hav> been erected as part of the equ' ment for the machine shop which has lately been extended; in the same manner extensions have been made to the foundry, pattern shop; carpentering shop, moulding loft, ete.; and finally x new boiler shop has been built which is provided with new machines for drilling, punching, searing, flanging, and rolling plates. In connexion wish this, it might be mentioned that al! the machinery of the Dock is worked by electricity. Machinery for supplying compressed air for pneumatic drilling, riveting, and chipping. as well as an electric furnace has been installed. To make a long story short, every department of the plant has had its producing capacity doubled or trebled.
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