Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-23
their business was originally based on
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their business was originally based on
the work Of that night.
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If were at the head Of an American
manufacturing establishment would
be chary of showing my processes To
English visitors, especially to those Of
the same business who are looking for
points. Everywhere ! go | learn OF
Englihmen who are being sent to the
United States to study our workshops
machinery and methods. A year ago
Mr. Arthur Keen OF Guest, Keen q
Co., and Mr.. T. Windsor Richards. a
well known metallurgist, made a thor
ough study of the best American steel
plants. The works Of Guest, Keen q
Co. have been long noted as among the
best equipped In England but what Nj.
Keen saw led him TO change much OF
his machinery to American patterns.
/ know that a vast deal of American
shoemaking machinery is now being
introduced into the shoe shops of Lei
cestet and Other places English shoes
are being made after our patterns and
American leathor is imported that they
may be as Ike American shoes as pos
sble,
In q recent COPY of the London Mail
see hat the Wsardale Steel. Coal and
Coke company limited. another of the
biggest firms o. England. has decided
to remodel it's works on American lines
at the cost Of million and a quarter
dollars. They viii adapt our latest de.
tails in blast furnace construction ana
steel manulacture as they have learned
tlpnl he
"By these and other means y. com.
pany is confident and Il ,ill be = BILE
to hold It's own against any COMPETE
tlon, either at home or abroad.
ENGLISH PLANTS WITH AMERI-
CAN MACHINERY.
Another plant which has been mod
ernlzed is that Of Bolckow. Vaughan &
Co., but the modernlzng In this case
has been superintendent by an American
engineer and the total cost has been
more than two and one-half million
dollars.
The English railroads are sending
their engineers TO America to study our
railway methods and I understand
that commission of English factory
rlen will shortly go rom, Liverpool TO
the United States to make a careful
investigation Of our plants along spe-
clal lines
In a recent letter to the London
Times Mr.. j. Lawrence OF the house OF
commons writes long statement as to
the causes Of England's loss Of trade,
In which he gays that It Is largely ow-
Ing to the use Of Anticipated machin-
cry. He gives an instance in his own
factory saying that while on visit to
America he discovered that we had
more economical machines than his
own. and that when he returned he
broke and threw upon the scrap heap
tools which had originally cost $685.
600. His associates objeohed the time,
but they had since found he was right.
for owing to that change the company
has paid dividends amounting to over
sS,00Go00
BRITISH ENGINEERS WHO GRAD
UATE IN AMERICA.
Indeed, It Is fast beceming quite the
thing 10 send the graduates from the
technical schools herS@ 70 the United
States for practical training. This Is
what the British Westinghouse Co.
did with 50 young Englishmen whom
they are now using In their Manches-
ter works. They sent them TO Pitts
burg to learn Westinghouse methods,
and the managers say that when
so trained they become more efficient
than the Simon Pure American.
In a speech at Wolverhampton Lord
Rossbery recently mentioned how
certain factory had selected from the
public schools number OF young men
having some knowledge Of electricity
and engineering and, at It's own ex-
pense had sent them 10 America for
two years apprenticeship in our work
shops TO qualify them TO be superin-
tendents or foremen Of It's shops In
Tngiend.
In Short, the English factors are now
doing what the Japanese government |
has been doing for 20 years with hun
dreds OF It's promising young men; that /
,s, sending them abroad TO learn how
10 DO business The German manu- |
facturers have long been doing the