Author: No author.
Title: Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. 163. From January to June 1947.
Description: London; 1947; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 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.: blockhouse for V-2 rocket tests, with fig.; bridge repair work in Holland, with ills.; ships of the invasion fleet, with plans, fig. and ills.; British grid system in war time, with fig, tables, map and graphics; aircraft fuels and lubricants research (Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., Thornton-le-Moors, Cheshire), with ills.; army flood work in the South level fens, with ills.; the Schori powder pistol, with ills.; Lincoln bomber fitted with "Theseus" gas turbines, with ills.; the last of Brunel's wooden viaducts, with ills.; bomb-disposal equipment, with ills.; 560 pp. No index. Former library copy.

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