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supplied between four and five thousand tons of high tension manganese
bronze propellers and propeller blades to the British fleet, H.M.S.
"Lion," " Queen Elizabeth," " Repulse " and "Renown" being
amongst those so fitted. For sustaining a heavy load, for marine,
railway, motor or engineering purposes, this firm prepares a strong
material in non-ferrous alloys and alloy products. Copper nails and
rivets form another item of the non-ferrous products. This firm is
proud of its position in respect to electric lighting of railway carriages;
it appears that the majority of the installations supplied 25 years ago
are still in service. We were somewhat dazzled with the variety of
goods, completed or in course of preparation, which we saw, but here
are some of them:—axle boxes and bearings, connecting and coupling
rod bushes, bronze slide valves, bronze carriage and wagon bearings,
bronze fire-box stays, alloys of white bronze phosphor tin and phosphor
copper, lubricators for locomotives, wagon brakes, combined hinge and
stanchion for wagons, cylinder cocks, train lighting installations and
accumulators, electric fittings, fans (bracket and roof), switches, axle
and dynamo pulleys, couplings, dynamo suspension links, hydraulically
controlled bulkhead doors, ships' windows and sidelights, bronze
castings, forgings and stampings, white bronze for lining up bearings
of marine engines, bilge and ballast pumps, various other pumps,
copper boat nails and rivets, every kind of ship fittings, binnacles,
lifebuoys, telegraph and steering apparatus, lamps, brass cabin fittings,
hose couplings, w.c's., etc.; valves and fittings for water supply,
hydrants, wing pumps, well and mine pumps, stop and bib cocks,
surface boxes, fittings for buildings such as branch pipes, folding
lavatories, flushing cisterns; steam fittings, such as gauges, whistles,
lubricators; ironwork for sewerage and sewage disposal, such as
manhole covers, step irons, penstocks, ejectors, fixed sprayers, etc.;
motor and aero engine castings, stampings, die castings and forgings
in non-ferrous alloys.
The management and clerical staff are housed in one large building
and the offices are well lit, ventilated and heated. After visiting the
same we went to the new building which is on the point of completion
and we say frankly that this is a splendid example of factory construction.
It is constructed of brick and concrete, and comprises three
floors with a staircase at either end; incidentally, one staircase is
reserved for the use of females employed therein. The whole of the