The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-09-23
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F0ftlana, Me-, TO Montreal. Que.
pipe line, designed to expedite
delivery Of crude oil to Canada
and 10 carry out provisions Of
Americas lend-lease aid to Brit
ain. The assemble line was start
Cd IN july is marked for conn
pletion October l, and is sched-
uled to start service December /.
all this yearl
The route was surveyed by
aerial photography, SO that adj
vantage could be taken of level
terrain and of notches through
the Green Mountains Of Yer
mont and White Mountains Of
New Hampshire. Six construc-
ton crews are working at once.
each building a section.
Eight pumping stations, To-
Gated at South Portland, Ray
mond, and North Waterford, Me-.
Gorham and Riverton, N. H..
West Birke VT. and Highwater
and ST. Cesaire. Que, will push
$4,000 barrels Of oil a day
through the line, eliminating a
Today tankship trip Of 1000
miles around Cape Breton. The
terminal and tank farm at Port
land will store $4,000 barrels of
crude. That is the equivalent of
100000 gallons of gasoline,
which is enough to keep 10000
motor vehicles going for full
year.
The section through which the
line passes is cold country in
winter, but by shipping the oil
along the route of the Gulf
Stream. which comes within
100 miles of Portland, and trans
ferring il rapidly into the under
ground pipe line, il, is expected
that the oil will keep slrnost as
warm and viii flow almost as
easily as in the 80 de, zee tenn
peratures in which it is loaded.
War Measure
Britain is solving simultan-
eously the problems of what to
do with outworn automobiles
and how to get tractors when
tractor manufacturers are maxi
ing munitions instead. The old
cars are converted to tractors
and put to work on various
farms.
The body is removed from the
car, a platform built on the
chassis and a tow-bar attached.
Chains are affixed to the rear
wheels, and the job is ready to
haul the pillow or harrow. Be
tween jobs the ex-pleasure car is
utilized as a farm truck.
Barges Upl
The old sea dogs who shipped
aboard the steamship Colonel
Drake might not recognize if,
but it's the same old oil-barge
they towed across the Atlantic
in 1905. Only this time the trail
er-tanker is cigar-shaped and 90
per cent submersible for protec-
ton from enemy submarines.
Inventors are inclined to be-
lieve that the new model will go
a long way toward supplment-
ing tanker service on Gulf-to-
Atlantic-coast routes. A full
sized barge, 400 feet long and 40
feet IN diameter would hold 100,-
600 barrels of high gravity gaso-
line, or 10000 barrels Of low
gravity oil, they point out 1t
would be visible at sea no more
than mile. fsaip
~ The novel design takes four
days for construction at cost of
around $300,000--about one-sev-
enth the cost of 100000 barrel
ship type tanker.
Aerial Commuter
Commuters are too busy usual
Iy catching the Sis to make his
tory. Recently an automobile
commuter did. Fed up with
bridge tolls and traffic he went
up in the air and says he's going
to stay there. He commutes by
plane now from Long Island to
his office in Newark, New Jersey
and says it's fast, convenient and
pleasant
Itinerary: Twenty-Five minu-
ties to La Guardia Field by mo-
tor vehicle; ten minutes by air
and another five to the factory
in the office jalopy.
Firecracker Hivefs
New "firecrackerp rivets which
explode into place can be in
stalled by one workman at the
rate of is to 20 a minute Made
of aluminium alloy, they con-
tain explosivego charges within
the shanks. AT the touch Of an
electric gun, the charge deto-a
mates, causing rivets to expand,
forming a blind" head and
setting the rivet.
The new rivets have been
particularly useful in the assemb-
ling of airplanes, where 10000
to 100000 rivets or more are
used for every plane.
Recent survey of the bureau
Of uaines revealed that motorists
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