Author: MAW, W.H. & RAWORTH, B. Alfred eds.
Title: Engineering: An Illustrated Weekly Journal. Vol. CI [101] - From January to June, 1916.
Description: London, Offices for Advertisements and Publications, 1916. Hardcover. 4to. Ex-library, the odd scratch and a little rubbing to corners and covers, o/wise good (no markings to text). B/W photos & illus. Includes photos of the pivot pier of Glebe Island Bridge, Port Jackson, New South Wales, the hydro-electric power works at Lake Margaret, Tasmania, and of British projectile-making factories. Includes detailed illustrations of lift-locks, the Brazilian Submarine Depot Motorship Ceara, a heavy freight locomotive, the quadruple screw liner Lafayette, the Paris motor-buses in war service (the Schneider chassis and engine), the geared turbines of the federal liner Northumberland, the Peerless Motor truck, the electrification of the Manchester to Bury Section of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway etc. 636pp.

Keywords: engineering history 20th twentieth civil ship maritime train engine