THE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRIC HEATING SHOW.
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LECTRIC heating is being adopted
• 11 by most up-to-date manufacturers, one of the chief reasons for this being that with electrically operated heating plant no flues or chimneys are normally required and the apparatus can thus be placed in Its correct position, namely, in the line of production. It was with much interest that we attended an exhibition of plant of this type recently held by the British Electrical Development Association Incorporated, 15, Savoy Street, London, 'W.C.2, at the Poplar Borough Council's new electricity works.
Nearly every exhibit contained much of interest to those engaged in the cont024
mercial motor industry, particularly manufacturers. The Electric Furnace Co., Ltd., Automatic and Electric Furnaces, Ltd.. the British Resistor Co., Ltd., and the Leeds Electrical Construction Co., Ltd., were all exhibiting furnaces for the heat treatment of metals by the most modern methods. Rivet beaters were also displayed by numerous" manufacturers, especially efficient types of this class of plant being shown by Marryat and Place, 40, Hatton Garden, London, E.C.1, and the British Insulated Cables, Ltd., Prescot, Lancs.; the latter concern was also showing weldins appliances.
A concern, the products of which
appear to be of interest not only to manufacturers but to operators of commercial motors, is the Hotpoint Electric Appliance Co., Ltd., 24, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London, W.I. The most interesting feature of this company's exhibit was a range of unusually con
structed electric soldering irons. The most unorthodox of these was an iron fitted with a flexible handle comprising a strong coiled spring with rubber grip. This iron should be found to possess an advantage over other types in that it does not fatigue the wrist of the user so much as is the case with ordinary rigid tools of this type, thus making an improvement in the work.