YOUTH OP INDIA HAS WIDE FIELD IN ENGINEERING

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6849, 2 March 1929, Page 11

YOUTH OP INDIA HAS WIDE FIELD IN ENGINEERING

COLONEL KIRKHOPE SAYS MORE PRACTICAL TRAINING" IN EVERYDAY WORK IS NEEDED.. BOMBAY, Jan. 29. The almost limitless field of employment that exists in India for Indian youths who take up mechanical engineering as a profession was dwelt on by Colonel Kirkhope, chairman of the Northwest India Association of tho Institute of Mechanical Engineers at their annual meeting, held at Delhi recently. It is on the practical side that the Indian engineer generally fails,, Colonel Kirkhope said. Too much attention is given to the college workshop, not enough to training in everyday work on the full scale. , India, Colonel. Kirkhope observed;' is, an actual, but still more, a great potential producer of the materials which go to form railways. The rails are produced in India in quantities which are rapidly catching up with requirements. The fishplates, fish bolts arid nuts are also produced hero. The sleepers, tvhether steel or cost iron, are produced in India; tho sal sleepers and deodar sleepers with creosote to preserve them are all the products of tho forests arid factories of India. Ballast is plentiful in most places. Points and crossings, inter-locking gear, signal posts add electrical signalling apparatus ; are common manufactures of the country,

Bridges of practically all types and sizes are now made in India and largely of Indian steel, cast iron or cast stoel. At the present time the largest girders ever made in or for India are under construction in Calcutta. As regards wagons, everything can be furnished by India except the wheels. There aro workshops laid out for mass production, and, given a flow of orders over a period of years, these should rapidly compete with the world in price and quality. Coming to passenger carriages, Colonel Kirkhope said India draws from her own reserves everything, from tho raw material to the paints and varnishes, but tho supplies of some of the components are as yet inadequate. That is a matter Solely of increasing output.