. Factory and industrial management. HEATON S PATENT FLANGING MACHINE. JOHN HETHEKINGTUN 6>: SONS, LTD., MANCHESTER. der. This will necessarily cost more. Init it is not relatively more ex-pensive than the boilers built in lots, because the buyer gets (or thinksthat he gets) more for his money, which comes to the same thing com-mercially. But as regards a cheap boiler built for a cheap buyer, theman who purchases it will always regret his want of foresight. A modern boiler shop is far from its congener of half acentury ago, in that, for one thing, the methods of construction have
. Factory and industrial management. HEATON S PATENT FLANGING MACHINE. JOHN HETHEKINGTUN 6>: SONS, LTD., MANCHESTER. der. This will necessarily cost more. Init it is not relatively more ex-pensive than the boilers built in lots, because the buyer gets (or thinksthat he gets) more for his money, which comes to the same thing com-mercially. But as regards a cheap boiler built for a cheap buyer, theman who purchases it will always regret his want of foresight. A modern boiler shop is far from its congener of half acentury ago, in that, for one thing, the methods of construction havebeen greatly simplified and improved tools are in more general last have also reduced costs so much that an old-timer revisitingthe shop would stare in amazement at what is now possible. It is notgenerally known that a boiler of forty horse power can be made and THE ENGINEERING ELECTRICALLY DRIVEN SHEARING MACHINE. BECKER i: CO., LONDON. This machine is capable of shearing any length and width of plate, and is combined with amachine for cutting round, tee, or angle iron, and with a punching machine. shipped in about eight That is to say, if an order is put inby seven oclock in the morning it can be on the way to its destina-tion by three oclock of the same day, ready for steam when set. Thisboiler will be taken from the flat sheets, rolled to dimensions, all rivetsdriven, tubes set and rolled, and the work made water and steam-tightwithin the time named : Init it will be of the return-tubular type, whereno smith work or flanging is required. This is quick work, and I knowof one shop where it is done; doubtless there are others. The old-time boiler shop which contained nothing but a punchingIjrcss and a shear in more or less bad condition usually, (as to its blades,certainly,) and a few hand tools, would compare unfavorably with amodern shop of the sa
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