The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-05

A Tribute to Their Supremacy by an Eng
lish Engineering Publication.

A Tribute to Their Supremacy by an Eng
lish Engineering Publication.
Foreign engineering publications are de-
voting a great deal Of space to descriptions Of
American works and products. II is seldom,
however. that one finds so outspoken a tribute
to our industrial supremacy as that recently
printed In Engineering. as part of an article de-
scribinE the Victoria Works at Sheffield. The
article says:
Before Diminishing this subject we will VEN
ture to add a few words. even at the risk Of be-
coming tedious. and certainly Of saying some
thing which must prove unpleasant. We must
preface what we are about to say by stating
that Mr.. Laycock is an Englishman in fact. he
is a Yorkshireman, which a good many people
think Is the most English sort Of Englishman.
Although his inclination and sympathies are
entirely toward the country In which he was
born and brought up. he has been obliged to
go across the the Atlantic not only for nearly
all the special tools needed In his works. but
also for a great deal OF the material which
he uses. This is not from inclination
and. indeed. Mr.. Laycock constantly laments
the necessity Of spending money out OF his
own country. In regard to machine tools Of
the class used in these works there is no need
to say much to engineers: the lesson has been
too we'll rubbed in Of late by practical ex-
p%erience, The case OF the cock-making ma
chinery here described is a typical case in
lathes were used then the representative OF a
offered to design and supply special machinery,
guaranteeing a substantial saving on the old
mont depending, on the promise made being
carried out, This machinery was made n dde-
t tiTsr ed a met IroYsd abs snos s repres edfanSe on on
Messrs. Pratt and Whitney offered to go one
better. guaTanteeing a turthes eonsiderab:o
guarantee a condition OF the contract, and the
result has, been SO eminently satisfactory that
and. indeed. the American tools paid for them
selves in a very short space of time.
not have a chance. They were not only en-
couraged, but invited to compete but the most
shst So1 of e be 9H5sin Sssi from W WSf T small mall m bsan
standard for very many years past. That.
however. refers to machinery; in material Mr..
brass rod he uses comes from America, be;
S Snn1i3v il his Is S shsiaapedTI; and bsit. not tbs only ihe Of s sGGahl
ings. especially malleable, castings, are better
the deliveries are more regular, and when a
new par, is needed it can be obtained from
% SGfSSs sr ehe At es1taint R9 tSot eEI e wiIj Ss wba and ID
occurred than is the case If it is ordered in
There is one thing to be said in excuse
for British machine. toolmakers in this connec-
ton. and perhaps this will be best explained
months back the representative Of an Ameri-
can firm. celebrated as designers OF automatic
gestions before the principal OF a large firm OF
brass 6nishers in this country. AS a conse-
Quence the firm determined to remodel a part
OF their system OF production, substituting au-
tomato machines for the old primitive moth
settled, and. we believe. orders actually given.
when the matter came to the knowledge of the
workmen. who minated that il these ma
chimes were introduced they would go out in a
body. The firm did not care to enter on a con-
test with their men. and the orders were can
celled."