Author: No author.
Title: Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. 147. January to June, 1939.
Description: London; 1939; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a.: Great Lakes self-unloading steamer "George F. Rand", with double page enclosure with plans, fig. and ills.; the Renfrew foundries of Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox, with double page enclosure with ills.; quadruple-screw motor liner "Dominion Monarch" (constructed by Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend-on-Tyne), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the Wards Island sewage works of the city of New York, with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the Cunard White Star Liner "Mauretania" (Messrs. Cammell, Laird and Company, Birkenhead), with plans and fig. and double page enclosure; Bristol Beaufort military aeroplane, with ill.; Ebbw Vale Steel Works, Messrs. Richard Thomas and Company, with ills.; Farren-type aerodynamic balance for Messrs. Blackburn aircraft (constructed by Messrs. Cambridge Instrument Company, London), with double page enclosure with plans and ills.; H.M. aircraft-carrier "Ark Royal", with plans and fig.; the works of Messrs. Brush Coachwork, Limited, with ills.; the works of Messrs. David Brown tractors, Huddersfield, with ills.; fine-chemical factory for messrs. Boots pure drug company (Sir E. Owen Williams, consulting engineer, Westminster), with plans and ills.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XXVII, 792 pp. Former library copy. Leaves dampstained at lower parts, some of the double page enclosures stuck together. Paper over boards lacking. Boards a trifle loosening.

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