Show British 0 i s Factories acor eS for Purposes of War Turn c To Arts of I t N J j By 3 Si Sir Leo Chiozza 1 ill Money 1 one J JOoe t tOne I One Olio of the mot most celebrated tl r. r on practical economy In Ui I I T DON 0 Jan Inn 3 The Tho Tho turning o over r of or the tho British factories factorial from war to peace purposes S Is la yielding some exceedingly interesting examples of oC enterprise Wo We 0 Instinctively associate associate ate ate- tho the name of or Vickers with machine guns uns and other hl highly hl efficient Instruments instruments instruments ments of ot war Now a a. Vickers sewing machine has hns made its appearance in the shops nt at a aprice l price which indicates that Its Us manufacture manufacture manura-c- manura ture Is on ou economic lines It has several several sev sev- eral cral new and Ingenious features as aa on one would expect from tho the reputation of or it designers An oven moro more interesting interesting- Innovation on a a. largo scare sc Is tho the manufacture m of ot locomotives by tho Armstrong Armstron In a 11 shop which recently produced shells This is a l er very Important and Jon long long- needed addition I to Industries 5 The locomotive Industry as a separate trade trado curiously has not flourished Inthe in inthe inthe the country countr- which invented tho the loco loco- motive As In many manJo other things thinG's the British have havo left It to America to produce produce produce pro pro- duce locomotives on the tho grand rand scale The Baldwin works t s at nt Philadelphia could quote for tor prompt deliver delivery Great Greit Britain had no works of oC similar cell cali I ber 0 The Tho explanation is 15 an inter interests U j It HIles lies in the fact that that- the Brit railway companies havo have for the th is us part manufactured locomotives themselves Each company h hown has i iown own locomotive superintendents and own Ideas as to what a ou ought ht to be In tho the circumstances a great I is pendent standard locomotive In Ut could coul hardly hardly- bo be expected to arl arise there thero need be no too surprise thereto that there thero has hns not been creat created d in Bland E B Eland KB land any counterpart of the fats fame Philadelphia concern The Northern North Northe ern Railway company compan Is now pla pia I la orders with Mes Armstrong s sare are aiming at a big output The Tho multiplicity of ot types of ot loco lOa lives on British railways has bee no means an advantage to the nation nano Industry and tho the maintenance by separate railway company of oC a a. sep separ sepa staff stat of ot locomotive engineers i t draughtsmen is an Item of waste C CIe r 11 railway affairs Irs If Ie England over ever attains to a 1 pro p r railway unification wo two can zee see Ct cheaper locomotives through throng st stand stand lied production and through throng production work wore much more morer In the export market for |