. Canadian foundryman (1918). % and 11 ft. 8M> ins. wide. The Rockfield Works at La-chine, Que., cover about IT acresand are provided with foundry,pattern, machine and forge shopequipment suitable for generalengineering work. There is inaddition a testing laboratory forcentrifugal pumps, one of themost complete of its kind on thecontinent. The products of thisplant include hydraulic turbinesand governers, centrifugalpumps, hoisting engines, loggingmachinery, etc. The Stratford Works, covering7 acres, are specially equipped forthe manufacture of a completeline of flour mill, grain e
. Canadian foundryman (1918). % and 11 ft. 8M> ins. wide. The Rockfield Works at La-chine, Que., cover about IT acresand are provided with foundry,pattern, machine and forge shopequipment suitable for generalengineering work. There is inaddition a testing laboratory forcentrifugal pumps, one of themost complete of its kind on thecontinent. The products of thisplant include hydraulic turbinesand governers, centrifugalpumps, hoisting engines, loggingmachinery, etc. The Stratford Works, covering7 acres, are specially equipped forthe manufacture of a completeline of flour mill, grain elevatorpower transmission machinery,while the works at Bridgburg,covering 124 acres, are devoted tobridge and structural steel work. Ornamental Bronze and Iron The development of the use of orna-mental iron and bronze in the buildingsof Canada in recent years has kept pacewith the great improvement in the ar-chitectural features of the cities of thecountrv. In no other way has the ad- September, 1918. CAXADIAN FOUNDRYMA X 213. VIEW IN FOUNDRY OF THE ALLIS-CHALMERS DAVENPORT WORKS, TORONTO vancement of the country been so re-markably demonstrated as in the archi-tectural works which have been erectedin every city from coast to coast. Thedevelopment in culture and arts hasgone hand in hand with the expansionso noticeable in industry and trade. In the earlier years there were so fewof the better class buildings erected thatit was necessary to import many of theornamental features, no inducement be-ing offered for native manufacture. Thearchitectural bronze and iron works of the Canadian Allis-Chalmers is carriedon as a distinctly separate business sothat architects and contractors are an-abled to maintain a close connection withtheir own special productions and avoidthe possibility of confusion with otherbranches of the parent company. New workshops were recently erectedand the entire unit is self the office and estimating staff tothe draughting room the pattern sho
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