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Queen's Engineering Works Magazine No. 6. Contains: - Photographs of CC Hawkins and of the river Ouse at Bedford - The Franco-British exhibition - Annual distribution of prizes to pupils and apprentices - A visit to Morocco and the Canary Islands by Rupert S Allen - Review of events in 1908 including orders for the new Dreadnought type of battleship, engines for ships for the Australian mail service, power and lighting station at Khartoum, engines and fans for the Brazilian, Argentinian and Russian navies, pumps for the Middle Docks, South Shields and the Corporation of Dundee. Have appointed gentleman to travel South Africa on the company's account. - Retirement of Mr C C Hawkins, chief of the electrical department. - Pupils and Apprentices section including pieces by J P Davidson (1904-7), P Woodland of Assam, India (1899-1903), G H Starr (1894-97), Douglas Neill Keith of South Nigeria (1904-7), J S Everard of New Zealand (1895-1899), T F Tebbutt of the Persian Gulf, Mr Colley applicant for the Allen prize, G B Slater of Japan (1898-1903). - Technical Instruction at The Queen's Engineering Works - Eternal Rome a lecture by W H Allen - Association of Past and Present Pupils - Notes on Engineering Work in China by George Paton - Steam Turbine Reminiscences - address by the chairman to the pupils - Activities at the Allen Institute including the Billiards tournament.

January 1909

From: 1909 To: 1909

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Paton, George,
Slater, G B,
Tebbutt, T F,
Everard, J S,
Keith, Douglas Neill,
Starr, George H,
Woodland, P,
Davidson, J P,
Hawkins, C C,
Allen, Rupert,
Allen, William Henry

trade & industry fairs, apprenticeship, civil ships, naval ships, billiards, engineering, India, Japan, Rome, Nigeria, Morocco, Canary Islands, Khartoum, South Africa, China, South Shields, Dundee, New Zealand, Persia