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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
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pes of certainsyndicates formed for the purpose of prospecting the hinterland ofLagos, long regarded as a future Eldorado, but the reports of theexperts who have examined the various concessions appear to beunanimous in declaring that, whatever advantages the country maypossess, gold is not among them. A few final words concerning the photographs with which this article is illustrated. Forthose descriptive of the country where are found most of the mines associated with thebanket formation, I am indebted to the camera which, in various and widely-sundered partsof the world, has often rendered me yeoman service; for the use of those representing opera-tions in what was once the realm of Kings Kwoifi Kari-Kari and Prempeh, my thanks are dueto the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation; while two are selected from many courteously placedat my disposal by the editor of West Africa, a journal much to be commended for its con-sistent championship of honest finance and fair dealing with the natives.
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X. > ^ V. y. o •: 5 ^ a r5 2 ■5 ? - -n -a o bo -5- o ii ra - -M 684 FEATURES OF CONTINENTAL LOCOMOTIVEBUILDING. By Charles R. King.Ill—SWISS, SAXON, RUSSIAN AND NORTH EUROPEAN TYPES. Mr. Kings review began in our June issue. The first portion dealt with the French com-pound locomotives, the fastest regular runners anywhere. The second described some char-acteristic Italian and Austro-Hungarian types. The article below concludes the discussion.—The Editors. THE representative of Swiss locomotive building at the ParisExposition of 1900 was the compound four-connected expressengine of the North Eastern Railway of Switzerland—a verysuccessful type employed in working the fast Swiss services, includingthe international trains over the line between Ziirich and Basel. Theengines were designed some two or three years ago by the Schwei-zerische Locomotiven and Maschinen-Fabrik of Winterthur to thegeneral conditions of Herrn. G. Haueter, chief engineer of mechanicalpower. They were

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