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Queen's Engineering Works magazine No. 17. Contents include: - Snapshots of the Boys Club - A view of the embankment - review of events in 1919 - return to pre-war business, agents in more countries, contracts for irrigation machinery for Egypt and India, condensing plants for Australia and Japan, as well as for several large power stations at home, dock pumping machinery, electric generating machinery for wireless stations for the Government etc. Taken up the construction of crude oil engines. 'With the closing down of the Aero dapartment it was necessary, much to our regret, to dispense with practically the whole of the women employed in the works'. - Obituaries for George R Henley and James Reid - Our New Secretary - Mr Robert Anderson - The Coaling of Ships by Capt E Vernon Hine - Picture of the river Ouse at Bedford and Bedford Bridge - Pupils' and Apprentices' demonstrator Mr P H S Kempton appointed following the resignation of Oswald Carlton Smith, who has entered into business with his brother Stanley at Luton - Allen County Apprenticeships 1919 - Impressions Received as the Attractiveness of an Engineering Career after visiting the Queen's Engineering Works by C J F Soper - Photograph of the winners of the Inter-shops junior football competition, 1918-19 Aero No 4 and Dynamo shop. - Boy welfare by C C Harris including picture of the gymnasium class - Civil and commercial flying by F A B Andrews, includes pictures of a Bristol Pullman - Queen's Engineering Works Recreation Club by Jos. Allen with pictures of a cricket match, a tennis match, bowls, punch and judy show and W H Allen addressing the children at the tea in celebration of the signing of the Peace Treaty - Personalia - Mr Bain and Mr George Pengelly leaving the company, marriages of Mr Hailstone, Mr Coltman and Mr Walter Woods - Annual dinner of the Association of past and present pupils - An Account of the work produced during the war with some observations upon its influence upon Post-War Activities by Richard Allen - Oil Fuel by W F A Ridler - Pupils' and Apprentices' Section: details of T F Tebbutt, W W Buckton, H C B Peck, H M Dunkerley, J R Boniface, C A C Vecqueray, A D Heard, C T Witt, Walter Hudson, H E Reeves, Clement J Flower, J A Royds, Thomas A E Blake, F W Strickland, J C S Davies, J G Vecquerary, C I Roddick, J A P Bax, George H Starr, W F Pattison, S D Canvin, O S Waymouth, F S Habell, S Carlton Smith, F G Matravers, George Tanner, T H Storey, Harold J Andrews, E C Bain, Norman Yarrow, G King Johnston, Bramwell D Grant in Persia, F H Hayward in Cairo, E Vernon Hine, C H D French in Alexandria, and Alfred E Collison - The Construction of Modern Rigid Airships by D E D Row (with details of the R31, 32, 33, 34 and 37) - Engineering Exhibitions of 1919 includes pictures of the stands at Olympia and Glasgow. - The Harnessing of the Tides by S A Couling

January 1920

From: 1920 To: 1920

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Henley, George,
Reid, James,
Anderson, Robert,
Hine, E V,
Kempton, P H S,
Smith, Oswald Carlton,
Smith, Stanley Carlton,
Bain, E C,
Pengelly, George,
Woods, Walter,
Tebbutt, T F,
Buckton, W W,
Peck, H C B,
Dunkerley, H M,
Boniface, J R,
Vecqueray, C A C,
Heard, A D,
Witt, C T,
Hudson, Walter,
Reeves, H E,
Flower, Clement J,
Royds, J A,
Blake, Thomas,
Stickland, F W,
Davies, J C S,
Vecqueray, James,
Roddick, C,
Bax, J A P,
Starr, George H,
Pattison, W F,
Canvin, Stanley D,
Waymouth, O S,
Habell, F S,
Matravers, F G,
Tanner, George,
Storey, T H,
Andrews, Harold J,
Yarrow, Norman,
Johnson, G King,
Grant, Bramwell,
Hayward, F H,
French, C H D,
Collison, Alfred E

military airships, civil airships, World War One, employment of women, sport, CHILDREN, football, Great Ouse, Bedford Bridge, photographs, gymnastics, aeroplanes, TRADE & INDUSTRY, BEDFORD, Egypt, India, Australia, Japan, LUTON, Persia, Cairo, Alexandria