. Electrical news and engineering . sition on the engineer-ing staff of the Canadian General Electric Co., Ltd., isa gentleman of sound business experience and executiveability, who will doubtless perform his duties with creditto himself and profit to the company. The position of chief engineer is held by Mr. MazenRitchie, A. I. E. E., a graduate of the Royal MilitaryCollege, Kingston, who has had several years experi-ence with the larger companies both in England and onthis continent. The sales department will be in the hands of Mr. Ashworth, so well and favorably known to the elec-trica


. Electrical news and engineering . sition on the engineer-ing staff of the Canadian General Electric Co., Ltd., isa gentleman of sound business experience and executiveability, who will doubtless perform his duties with creditto himself and profit to the company. The position of chief engineer is held by Mr. MazenRitchie, A. I. E. E., a graduate of the Royal MilitaryCollege, Kingston, who has had several years experi-ence with the larger companies both in England and onthis continent. The sales department will be in the hands of Mr. Ashworth, so well and favorably known to the elec-trical public as having been on the agency staff of theC. G E. Co. since its inception, having only severed hisconnection to identifj himself with the new enterprise. We illustrate on this page a single phase alternatingcurrent dynamo which this company are now placing onthe Canadian market. It is of the inductor type, withstationary armature, and, it is claimed, combines all thequalities of durability, slow speed (that ot a 60 be-. RoTOR OK Warren ing only 720 r. p. m.), good regulation, and high effi-ciency. The manufacturers are the Warren ElectricCo., of Chicago, III., for whom the Ontario Electric andEngineenng Co. are acting as sole agents for are reported good, although the machine has beenbut a very few weeks before the public. The company are also sole agents for the Eddy Elec-tric Manufacturing Co., of Windsor, Conn., the wellknown makers of direct current machinery in all sizes. The fact of being in a position to place apparatus ofsuch high grade on the market, and having on its execu-tive and engineering staff, men, each a specialist in hisparticular line, augurs well for the success of the com-pany. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. C. L. F., Parry Sound, Ont., writes : 1 enclose threepieces of wire, viz., 18 iron, 18 and 16 coppermagnet, .American wire gauge. Will you please tellme what size they are in B. & S. gauge ? Answer. —American wire gaug


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