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Queen's Engineering Works magazine No 31 Contents include: - Photograph of the new Allen exhibition hall at the Queen's Engineering Works, January 1934 - Review of 1933. 'there appears to be a hopeful sign of recovery in industry', 'able to re-commence in a small way the training of pupils and apprentices' - Message from the Duke of York, president of the Industrial Welfare Society re works magazines - British Association for the Advancement of Science - Obtituary to Colonel Percy Barby Crowe, director of the company and son-in-law of W H Allen - Past and present students association annual dinner - Our Home Organisation (short illustrated articles on the company's representatives): London and the South of England - some typical contracts and their origin with pictures of Engineer Captain H R Teed and Mr F A B Andrews: London Docks Branch by R J Hart: East Anglia - main propulsion for fishing vessels by J S Tait: Northamptonshire & Buckinghamshire by W G Smith: Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire by H B Clarke: The West of England by G B Slater: Birmingham and District by L W Law: Lancashire and Yorkshire by W S Baskerville includes picture of the Manchester Office Staff (all named), the opening of Nantwich Rural District reservoir, Old Roundwood colliery, Barrow Paper Mills, Bently colliery and the reservoir for Congleton rural district council: Liverpool District by RF M Jones: North-East coast by Charles Blow: South Wales by T G Bonnyman: Scotland by J A Morton: Northern Ireland by J L Bennett. Also includes pictures of the Shipping and Machinery Exhibition at Olympia, 1933. - Weather, Psychology and Oil Engines by Kenneth Allen - Metropolitan Water Board - Brixton Pumping Station by K A Sherwin - Visit home of Mr A C Webber from South Africa - History of my connection with Bedford by A Cyril Webber (special agent for Allen pumps in the South Africa gold industry beginning in 1907) - Reclaiming a Watery Waste in New Zealand - 50 years' progress in Marine work - The Tensometer testing machine - Transfer of Biddenham Departments to Queen's Works (with pictures) - The White-Metalling of Bearings - High Efficiency and Dependability of Conqueror Pumping Installations brings its merited success. (with lots of pictures of pumps on test and installed. - Obituary to Colonel Hubert Conrad Sparks - Pupils' and Apprentices' Section. Letters from A C Bowyer, A N G Norton, W Hudson, Edward W Hewlett, A L Sanders and A E Jackson. - Distribution of Prizes to Students with picture of George Fairburn Marsh. - Queen's Engineering Works Recreation Club. Reports re Christmas whist drive, catering section, Allen institute, library section, tennis, bowls, cricket, football, rugby, hockey and badminton. - Children's Day at Allen park

1934

From: 1933 To: 1934

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York, Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of,
Crowe, Percy Barby,
Teed, H R,
Andrews, F A B,
Hart, R J,
Tait, J S,
Smith, W G,
Clarke, H B,
Slater, G B,
Law, L W,
Baskerville, W S,
Jones, R F M,
Blow, Charles,
Bonnyman, T G,
Morton, J A,
Bennett, J L,
Webber, A Cyril,
Sparks, Hubert C,
Bowyer, A C,
Norton, A N G,
Hudson, W.,
Hewlett, Edward W,
Sanders, A L,
Jackson, A E,
Marsh, George Fairburn

general trade & industry, civil ships, water provision, coal mine, paper, MILLS, naval ships, pumps, metallurgy, Allen Park, whist, tennis, bowls, cricket, football, Rugby Union, hockey, badminton, London, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Birmingham, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Manchester, Congleton, Nantwich, Liverpool, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Brixton, South Africa, New Zealand, Biddenham Works