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Queen's Engineering Works magazine No. 36 Contents include: - Photograph of the Tower of Empire, Empire Exhibition, Scotland - Review of Events in 1938 - completion of pumping installations for the Iran oil fields, South Africa, and Sudan. - The British Association for the Advancement of Science - Past and present students association pupils' dinner - Progress in the Workshops - Staff Pension and Life Assurance Scheme - Auxiliary Machinery for the Mercantile marine - The City of a Thousand Trades - Birmingham - The Queen's Park Estate (formerly the site of the Biddenham works) - Natural History in an Engineering Works - Noise V - Duke of York's Camp, 1938 by C W Whitworth and W Goodchild - Only the best is good enough (an engine made in the London Allen works still going strong in Ireland] - Pupils' and Apprentices' section: E B Collingham, G H Davis, C W H Dew, J C Gibson in India, A G Gulliver, M M Hodson Mackenzie, C C Holland, W Hudson, P Kendall, H C R Mullens (telling story of excavation of the Wolseley Gyroscopic car', W F A Ridler, A Stanbridge, G R Swinnerton, R Alan Thwaites, J B Urquhart, W Valentine, W Assheton Johnstone in India. - A trip to Iran - The Outside Erector - Notes from Fatiss and Wad el Zaki - A R Chamberlain in South Africa - Safety Methods in the Works - New fire proof accommodation for the company's records - Allen Airless Injection Oil Engines - Internal Combustion engine transmission for small craft - Allen Engines in France - Allen Oil Engines installed at the new Union Goldfields, South Africa - The Second book of th acts of the envoys according to Yussuff (humorous article) - How the pump Department has spent the 57th year of its existence. - Water supply for the Metropolis - Some Notes on Unchokable Pump Design - Phantom Boreholes - Pipes - Unusual method of factory heating - Distribution of Prizes to the Young Engineers in the Works - Children's Tenth Annual Summer Fete - Golf - Queen's Engineering Works Recreation Club. Reports on Christmas Whist drive, catering, Allen institute, library, tennis, bowls, cricket, football, rugby, hockey, badminton, choral section. - Queen's Works Pensioners Entertained by Mr Richard W Allen - Obituaries for Alfred Spriggs, James Deag, William Butler, Edward Churchman, Charles Hixon, James Styles.

1939

From: 1938 To: 1939

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Collingham, E B,
Davis, G H,
Dew, C W H,
Gibson, J C,
Gulliver, A G,
Hodson-Mackenzie, M M,
Holland, C C,
Hudson, W.,
Kendall, P,
Mullens, H C R,
Ridler, W F A,
Stanbridge, A.,
Swinnerton, G R,
Thwaites, R Alan S,
Urquhart, J B,
Valentine, W,
Johnstone, W Assheton,
Chamberlain, A R,
Spriggs, Alfred,
Deag, James,
Butler, William,
Churchman, Edward,
Hixon, Charles,
Styles, James

general trade & industry, civil ships, naval ships, natural history, cars, HEALTH & SAFETY, records, pumps, water provision, fetes, golf, whist, tennis, bowls, cricket, football, Rugby Union, hockey, badminton, Queen's Works Choral Society, Scotland, Iran, South Africa, Sudan, Birmingham, Bedford Queen's Park, Biddenham Works, Ireland, India, France, London