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Queen's Engineering Works Magazine No 9. Contents include: - Photograph of the Works Manager and Foremen. All named - Photograph of the rock garden at Bromham House - Editorial re period of prosperity but difficulties of labour troubles and railway strikes - Review of 1911 including: pictures and report on the new dynamo shop, picture of a boiler in the making, recent license for manufacture of diesel engines, completion of the machinery for the Olympic, which 'has now made several voyages', dock jobs progressing, large contract for condensing plant for India, improved knowledge with regard to fans, order for the pumping machinery and fan motors for the Cunard steamer Aquitania, work for the Austrian and Japanese navies and the Australian Royal Mail, work for the Far East, Kettering, Luton, Scotland, South Africa and the University of Toronto. - Report on the new metallurgical laboratory, with pictures - Report on the visit of the Junior Institution of Engineers - Photograph of 'some of the staff of the works' all named. - Pupils' and Apprentices' Section - letters from C E Radley (1905-06) in South America, J C Gibson (1905-09) with the London and North Western Railway company at Willesden, R W Gosney (1905-09) with the Eastern Produce and Estates Co ltd, Colombo, Ceylon, H E Reeves (1894-1898) with the Spanish Navy, D E D Row (1906-1911) at Edinbugh University, Herbert Rayner (1901-1905) in Argentina, James Mitchell (1901-1906) now in Assam, Cottrell D S V Powell (1904-1908) now in Vancouver, George V Tapper (1897-1903) now in Australia, Charles V Birch (1906-1909) with the Texas Company in Bombay and G B Slater (1898-1903) in Japan. - Article on the management, plant and organisation of work in the Machine Shop - Long service roll of honour to Charles Cant, James Anderson, Teddy Austin, Samuel Lingard and Richard Bliss with pictures of each. - Annual distribution of prizes to pupils and Apprentices - The Allen Annuity Fund - 'The Art of Mechanics as Applied by the Ancients' by W H Allen - Photograph of an aeroplane at the Pyramids of Cheops - Photograph of the annual dinner of past and present pupils' Association - Association of Past and Present Pupils - 'Some Notes on Steady Running of High Speed Rotors' by H Oxlin. - Drilling Machines by Alfred E Collinson - Social life and pastimes of the works including photographs of the winning team of the fitting shop miniature rifle club (all named) and 'the chairman bringing in turkeys from his farm at Bromham for the Christmas Whist Drive' - obituary for Henry Kingsley - 'The little brass plate' - 'The Motive Power Department of the Inter-borough Rapid Transit Co of New York City' by Edward L Walsh. - Conference on the Education and Training of engineers.

January 1912

From: 1912 To: 1912

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Radley, C E,
Gibson, J C,
Gosney, R W,
Reeves, H E,
Row, D E D,
Mitchell, James,
Rayner, Herbert,
Powell, Cottrell,
Tapper, George,
Birch, Charles,
Slater, G B,
Cant, Charles,
Anderson, James,
Austin, Teddy,
Lingard, Samuel,
Bliss, Richard,
Allen, William Henry,
Kingsley, Henry

general trade & industry, civil ships, naval ships, general railways, Texas Company, engineering, aeroplanes, shooting, Bromham House, Austria, Japan, Australia, Kettering, LUTON, Scotland, South Africa, Toronto, South America, Ceylon, Spain, Edinburgh, Argentina, India, British Columbia Vancouver, Bombay, Egypt, New York City