Author: No author.
Title: Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. CXXX- from July to December, 1930.
Description: London; 1930; 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.: exhibits at the Royal agricultural show at Manchester, with ills.; the equiptment of the Triest-Opicina funicular railway (Messrs. Theodore Bell and Company, engineers, Kriens-Lucerne), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the Kill van Kull Bridge, New York (Mr. O.H. Ammann, chief engineer of bridges, port of New York authority), with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; the Oakland-Alameda estuary tube, San Francisco Bay, with double page enclosure with plans and fig.; 2-6-2-type tank locomotive, London and North Eastern railway (Mr. H.N. Gresley, chief mechanical engineer), with fig.; pneumatic ash-removal wagon (constructed by Messrs. The Allen air appliance company, engineers, New York), with ills.; high-pressure compound locomotive for the Delaware and Hudson railroad, with ills.; erection of the main span hangers of Sydney Harbour Bridge (Dr. J.J.C. Bradfield, chief engineer, New South Wales government), with ills.; the Kiesselbach feed-water storage system, with ills.; subway construction methods, New York, with ills.; Bauer-Wach installation, s.s. "St. Clair", with ills., fig., and plans; the Scott-Paine racing motor boat (constructed by Messrs. the British Power Boat Company, engineers, Southampton), with ills.; extensive index; complete with one page and two page enclosures; XXVII, 822 pp. Former library copy. Leaves dampstained at lower parts, some of the double page enclosures stuck together. Cover a trifle worn.

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