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Queen's Engineering Works magazine No. 25 Contents include: - Photograph of memorial tablet to W H Allen - Review of 1927 - mostly about how changes in design are making manufacturing more difficult - Unveiling of the William Henry Allen memorial with picture - Annual distribution of prizes to pupils and apprentices - William Henry Allen memorial prize awarded to Hubert Faulkner - The Future of Engineering by H G Allen - Oil Engine progress during 1927 by L W Law - Queen's Works Junior Engineering Society including report of visit to Wootton Pillinge Works of the London Brick co & Forders Ltd - Engineering and Imagination - Notes on Engineering Sales Organisation by G A Neild - Erection of steam turbine driven generators for the Linoleum Co Ltd at Staines - Visitors the Queen's Engineering Works: Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association, Nottingham, Derby and Leicester Society of Engineers, Insititution of Automobile Engineers, Association of Managers of Sewage Disposal Works, Insitution of Naval Architects, The Fox Club and the Engineering Instruction Section Home Aircraft Depot, Henlow Camp. - A visit to some of the warehouses and docks of the Port of London Authority - A visit to South America by F A B Andrews - Steam Test Bay and Forwarding Departments outing - Garden Party at The Dene, Woburn Sands, home of Mr & Mrs Harold Allen, includes picture of village children dressed as playing cards for a display of 'Living Whist'. - Queen's Engineering Works Recreation Club includes reports on cricket, rugby, bowls, tennis, hockey, horticulture including report on an exhibition of fungi, entertainments, Christmas whist drive, the Allen Institute and thanks to the caterers. - Industrial Scotland - Association of past and present students' annual dinner - Pupils' and Apprentices' Section. Mentions: G V Doggett in Persia, R S Forbes, R G Attwood, W W Buckton, W D Farrington, G King Johnson, E T H Alexander, C T A Nealon, J W Boddy, B H McD Clark, E H L Foster, G J Tanner, W H C Coates, K Rowell, C C M Fullerton, C L Flood, J L Guyatt, E A Pickering, F W Strickland, O W Murray, A L Sanders, C E H Verity, J G St. G Shaw, W A J Sayer, R A S Thwaites and G W Davis. Obituary to H Edward Reeves. - Illustrations of machines installed at: Lostock Hall Spinning Co, Ltd Lancs, Electric Power Station, Aden, Canadian paper mill, Upwell drainage board, Wantage Electricity Works, Andover Electricity Works, Bloemfontein Municipality, South Africa, South Lancashire Tramways Co Ltd, Bournemouth Municipal Tramways, Oldham Empire Theatre of Varieties Ltd, Dublin United Tramways Co, Shanghai Water Works Co and a picture of a six cylinder 460 BHP diesel engine leaving the works for installation in a new motor ship building by the Fairfield Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Glasgow.

1928

From: 1927 To: 1928

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Allen, William Henry,
Faulkner, Hubert,
Allen, Harold Norman Gwynne,
Doggett, George Valentine,
Forbes, R S,
Attwood, R G,
Buckton, W W,
Farrington, W D,
Johnson, G King,
Alexander, Edward Thomas Howard,
Nealon, Cecil Thomas Albert,
Boddy, J W,
Clark, B H MacDonald,
Foster, E H,
Tanner, George,
Coates, W C,
Rowell, K.,
Fullerton, C C M,
Flood, C L,
Guyatt, J L,
Pickering, E A,
Strickland, F W,
Murray, O W,
Sanders, A L,
Verity, C E,
Shaw, J.,
Sayer, W A J,
Thwaites, R Alan S,
Davis, G W,
Reeves, H E

Queen's Works Junior Engineering Society, London Brick Company, Forder & Company, Linoleum Co Ltd, entertainment, cricket, bowls, Rugby Union, tennis, hockey, horticulture, fungi, Lostock Hall Spinning Co Ltd, electricity, tramways, water provision, Staines, South America, Woburn Sands The Dene, Scotland, Persia, Aden, Canada, Upwell, Wantage, Andover, South Africa, Bournemouth, Oldham, Dublin, Shanghai