. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . essrs. A. Ransome and Co., Ltd., who, duringa number of years, had built up large works inChelsea and Battersea, decided upon removingthem into the country in 1901. After many siteshad been visited, the locale chosen was Newark-on-Trent. There, upon the outskirts of the town,close to the passenger station and with sidings inconnection with the Great Northern Railway,this firm erected an extensive and modernizedwo
. Garden cities in theory and practice; being an amplification of a paper on the potentialities of applied science in a garden city, read before Section F of the British Association . essrs. A. Ransome and Co., Ltd., who, duringa number of years, had built up large works inChelsea and Battersea, decided upon removingthem into the country in 1901. After many siteshad been visited, the locale chosen was Newark-on-Trent. There, upon the outskirts of the town,close to the passenger station and with sidings inconnection with the Great Northern Railway,this firm erected an extensive and modernizedworks, and inform me they are thoroughly pleasedand satisfied with the changed conditions theythere experience from the removal. As in thecase of those already mentioned, Messrs. Ransomehave set their offices well back, and have laid outthe space with a lawn planted with standard roses(see illustration) and a carriage sweep. and Co., Ltd., of Pimlico, have also builtworks at Newark, but they have not enabled meto present anything in connection with them tothe reader. The large and well-known firm of telegraphengineers, electric-lighting contractors, and sub- 376 A. Offices, with Works at rear, of the British Westinghouse , Trafford Park, Manchester. (! ?« .1 i ii ?? ?? mm ?? - - • - . .... .
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