521
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of
tons of Portland cement pass annually through our Inspector's hands, that the cement is employed in works of all descriptions and under conditions which test its quality in the most severely practical manner, and that complaints are almost unknown.
3. I further enclose a letter from the Consulting Engineer for the Tytam Waterworks, Sir Robert Rawlinson, which strongly supports our Inspector's conclusions.
4. The firm of Robins+ bears a high reputation among manufacturers of Portland cement. It has executed, for us, large indents in a completely satisfactory manner, and in point of fact Sir John Coode, whose Cement Specifications are of a strictness proportionate to the important part which this material plays in his marine works, entertains a high opinion of Robins' cement. We cannot believe that, in this particular instance, both our systems of Inspection and Robins' long established mode of conducting the manufacture of cement, should have failed to...
25th September