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THE BRITISH and Chinese CorporatION, LIMITED.
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Kowloon Railway Scheme as mentioned below are eminently qualified for the appointment and should command the confidence of all concerned including the Public who will be invited to
subscribe the Chinese Loan.
Their respective Firms are:-
Messrs. Sir John Wolfe Barry & Partners,
and
Messrs. Barry & Leslie.
The Survey Report and Estimates of the Canton Kowloon Railway made by Mr. P. T. Somerville Large, M. Inst. C. E. in 1899, were carried out under the instructions of Sir John Wolfe Barry and Mr. A. J. Barry who revised and reported thereon to the British and Chinese Corporation.
The Firm of Messrs. Sir John Wolfe Barry & Partners is so well known as to need no reference, but amongst many important enterprises in the East to which they are Consulting Engineers or Joint Consulting Engineers may be mentioned the Bengal Nagpur Railway, the Bombay Port Trust, the Shanghal Nanking Railway, and the Harbour Works at Chingwangtao in the North of China.
Messrs. Barry & Leslie have a very wide experience of works in the East and are Consulting Engineers or Joint Consulting Engineers to, amongst others, the Southern Punjab
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