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DO YOU REALIZE THAT

STEEL IS LIGHTER THAN WOOD

PER UNIT OF STRENGTH:

EMPIRE HALL OLYMPIA, LONDON

ETREL FRAME BY DORMAN LONG,

The relativa strength of steel and other materiala, per pound. of material--work done—is as follows:

STEEL

100

GRANITE

BRICK

79

86

LONGLEAN YELLOW, PINE CONCRETE

NOTE: The above ratios are based on compressive strength. Steel and longleaf yellow pine have tensile strength aqual to their compressive strength." "Granite, brick and concrete do, not possess any appreciable tensile strength.

With steel, less volume and weight of material is used less tonnage transported, handled and erected. The building weighs less, and lighter and loss expensive foundations are, needed.

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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

BRITISH STEEL FOR BRITISH SHIPS.

STEELMAKERS' SUBSIDY

TO SHIPBUILDERS."

Details of the sohoma propounded by the steelmakers to assist ship builders in the matter of prices can now be revealed, although they are unofficial. It may be said at the attituds of both the once that official bodies concerned namely the Steel Makers Association and

the Shipbuilding Employers Fo

NEW BRIDGES IN WALES.

BLAST-FURNACE ACCIDENT}}|

ENGINEERING IN THE MIDLANDS.

REDUCED ROAD

PROGRAMME"

represented:

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the possibilities with South America, Lord Ednam who was the principal, spenker, em phasized the friendly spirit, towards this country which exists in the southern continent as a result of the

explore! I hads. indressing trade | work

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ded for could possi started before March 31 last communication hna" been addressed to the Ministry urging the recon- sideration of their decision. In the oyent of the additional grant nöt

ing received, the County Council propose to delete from their pro. gra of the sche vate ba had

The new Great Western Railway bridge-on the Aberystwyth branch at Carmarthen has been completed

The gradual transformation of recent visit of the Prince of Wales, and brought into service,

some of the streets in?

and dbq with a number of prae- designed to carry the heaviest Joer the pressure of modern tr

:tical problems." At the comotives and treins likely to be

conference, which was requirements has been SCATTIO) employed in Great We

ited that tage further by the opening of the

PEREZ Farved cuseful purpose. Cockhurst lane Bridge, Loleshill Wai

Couns Constructed by the corporation, at a have decided

line traffic, enabling, trains of tho most modern type to be run rough to the popular Welsh water

ork the following locator by-pass (estimat Princethorpe by. 6000) Athers by-pass (£20,000); Weston by-pass (13,000) Council

widening Hatton-Hockley Heath rom their road (£70,000), Wolver by pass, in- eat of £35,000, the bridge takes the five-year programme

road worke cluding new bridge over River A§- Badeschemes representating total enti kor (£1,000) Anstey and Shilton place of a level crossing over tho

mated expenditure £291,500 un-by-pass, including widening mil were constructed at the Chepstow M.S, Iailway. When the Coven less n grant of 18 per cent over way bridge and new bridge over works of the Fairfield Shipbuild try to Nuneaton railway line was and above the norm grantis ing and Engineering Company, aro

cana) and road (£51, wideńs from 63ft, to 33ft, Din. long and constructed in 1850 the tres north

promised

Government Iting Birmingham-Warw road from vary from 17 to 32 tons in weight.

was inferred from a latter receiv Heronfield to Warw dd from the Ministry of Transport boundary (£105,000).

place. The new bridge is carried deration is still non-committal, o afx concrete-filled steel cylind both declining either to confirm orers. The girders employed, which to deny the soheme, for reasons which can be well understood; but in the nature of things an art rangement so

so important to two staple Brilish industries could not be long kept in the dark, and there is no longer any doubt that the ar: rangement has been effected. It may not yet bo officially in opera- tion, but in point of fact it has boon anticipated and acted upon by the shipbuilders with interest ing, results,

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tion of a new ferro-concrete road-

With

the early years of the present cen tury industrial development began and traffic increased. The outbreak of the War and the manufacturs ef munitions in the district made action imperative. As a temporary measure the Ministry of Munitions

As a preliminary to the construr of Foleshill station was rural i bridge over the River, Ely at Leck-character, and the level crossing with, Cardiff, at the joint expense caused little inconvenience. of the Cardiff City Council and the Glamorgan County Council, of the Board of Trade, so the man- the Mercantila Marine Department

agera for the Crown of foreshores, have called for objections within 21 days after which the Board of Trade will consider the applian It is well within knowledge that tion. The bridge is to be built a little while ago the Shipbuilding Leckwith bridge, a very narrow immediately south of the existing Employers' Federation. in the three arch structure which is to be course of its efforts to rationalize preserved as an anciont monument the industry and reduce costs of The new bridge. n one-arch struc production, approached the steal ture, will be 43ft wide between makers on the question of prices, parapets, and will give 7ft 4in. with the view of securing some re-headroom at high water of ordin- duction in British steel plates, and ary spring tides, sections, which were something like

River's Course Changed. £t a ton above the cost of import- In the course of their work of ed material" from the Continent. constructing a new bridge over the British shipbuilders, by arrangemouth of the River Clwyd at Rhyl, ment with the steelmakers, have for some years been using only British steel in the construction of their ships and had no desire to depart from that practice, but at the same time felt that they wero penalized in having to pay so much more than the price at which they could purchase foreign steel.

Cheap Continental Material.

provided a footbridge. Finally the cheme now carried through was scheme now

agreed upon, the Ministry of Tran- sport promising a grant of es per cent fowards the cost. In April, 128, the tender of Messre: Kelloy and Son, of Coventry, amounting to £21,034, for the construction of the bridge was accepted, and the

Messrs. Dorman, Long and Co. built a wooden temporary dam to control the flow of the river. The result has been to change the course work was started early in Novem- of the stream down the sandy fore-ber of that year. The difference shore, and to re-form in front of the town a beach previously de between the contract price and the stroyed by the river in its perio total cost of the scheme representa dical changes of course. The Rhyl expenditure on acquiring the neces- Urban Council are now.considering an offer from the company to ary land, road works, alterations |'strengthen › that dom and leave it to sewers, and compensation. The The steelmakers were in the diffi-standing, when the bridge works overall length of the bridge, which culty that they could not produce are completed,MEN 'steel at the price at which it is The operation of the No. 4 blast is of reinforced concrete construc dumped into this country from furnace at the Cardiff works of the tion, together with the approaches,, abroad; yet they had overy desire British (Guest-Keen- Baldwins) is 027ft. The width between the to retain their arrangement with Tron and Steal Company, which in the shipbuilders and to assist them May lost established a British ont parapets is 45ft, the carriageway in combating foreign competition put record, was unddenly interrupt being 20ft wide, and the two foot- in shipbuilding. To lower their Fed by a break-out, resulting paths TIC ein, wide. Four hundred official quotation for shipbuilding from metal destroying the brack steel was out of the question, since lining, at the bottom of the furnace and thirty tons of steel and 2,200 that would involve a lowering of and reaching the moist clay in the cubic yards of concrete have been prices all round, one price for foundations. Although n remark used. shipbuilders and another for other able spectacle was provided, the consumara being impossible. It was immense rod cloud which shot this ditheulty that prompted at 200ft into the sky being observed. first a megative response to the reover 20 miles away, no one was in presentations of the Shipbuilding jured. The reconstruction of the Employers Foderation, coupled, furnace is necessary. Fortunately. however, with an expression of the No. 2 furnace, which had been great regret that the state of the reconstructed, was ready to be put steel industry would not allow of into commission immediately, and the reduction asked for and a de so the loss of output will not be sire to continue the good under serious atanding which existed between the two bodies.

Members of the Institution of Municipal and County Enginers: The inatter however, was not a attending the annual conference lowed to end there. The steel-held at Barmouth had the oppor makers, anxious to meet the situntunity of seeing the havoa done by tion if it were at all possible, after the recent gales to the new sen do careful consideration evolved a fance works It was stated that scheme by which the shipbuilding besides damage to the sea wall and industry might be helped without other works about ten acres of the at the same time making an all council's land had been lost No round reduction in steel prices Government aid had been grant Briefly the scheme is this: the ed, and Barmouth alone was spent steelmakers have agreed to make ding £138,000 on sen defence works. levy on themselves, or, in other Groynes already constructed have words, on the stoel produced in this accumulatod a firm sandy beach in country, which is calculated to several parts, and it is hoped that raise a sum of £60,000, and this when the sabome has been complet fund is to be used as a subsidy to ed erosion will be stopped W shipbuilders using only British steal under the existing rebate Bytom

to have shown, no hesitation and have anticipated – they scheme. Assisting Competition.

lowering their quotations for n This sum is to be raised over the of lowen steel prices and partly

constraction, partly in expectat ensuing six months by a levy in in view of the reduced labour costs proportion to the deliveries of steel which are to come into operation by the stoolmakers and is to be early in October. The effect has handed to the Shipbuilding Em already boon marked Lover ployers Fedoration for use in as prices have appealed to ship? sisting builders to compete for or owners, and orders for five OF SIX ders which might otherwise.go ab cargo steamers have been placed road owing to the lower prices this month, while others are un- quoted by foreign shipbuilding derstood to be in cload negot Grms The steelmakers do not sektion and are expected to be ag to have any control over this fund nounced shortly

its administration and disburse The scheme is an honest attemp ment are left entirely at the dis to meet a difficult situation and pretion of the Shipbulding Em-appears to have every prospect ployers Federation on the simple being sucessful in attracting understanding that the fund is ablpbuilding orders and provi used for the specific purpose; in work alike for abipbuilders tended. All shipbuilders in steelmakers. The Great Britain and Ireland with tainly made a zaci the exception of a few small frme serves a reward, are now members of the Federa dustry is bion the scheme will in effect, in cer and gluda and cover the whole ship hit by building industry batspora TE

the dop It is believed that the Shipbuild-imposed subsi ing Employers Federation han

tall oficially to accept an

the scheme that body is dis

silent on the paint but the ship building firms themselves appear

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