Author: No author.
Title: Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. CXXV- from January to June 1928.
Description: London; 1929; 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.: the Danish motor train-ferry "Körsör", with ills.; the port of Boston, Tidewater terminal, with ills.; machinery of the twin-screw motorship "Greystoke Castle" (constructed by the North Eastern Marine Engineering Company, engineers, Wallsend-on-Tyne), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; extension of the Royal Edward dock at Avonmouth, with ills.; the Sydney Harbour Bridge (J.J.C. Bradfield, chief engineer), with fig.; 4-8-4 type locomotive for the Canadian National Railways (constructed by the Canadian locomotive company, KIngston, Ontario), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the post office tube railway, London (Mr. A.M. Sillar, consulting engineer Westminster), with ills.; the Carquinez Strait Cantilever Bridge, California, with ills.; the Napier-Lion series VII B., aero-engine for the Schneider Trophy Race (constructed by Messrs. D. Napier and Son, engineers, London), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the failure of the St. Francis dam, Los Angeles, California, with ills. and fig.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XXX, 822 pp. Former library copy. Leaves dampstained at lower parts, some of the double page enclosures stuck together. Cover slightly worn.

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