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STEAM AND MACHINERY

MANAGEMENT

WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

WOOD-WORKING MACHINERY; its Rise, Progress, and Construction. With Hints on the Management of Saw Mills and the Economical Conversion of Timber. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 12s. 6d., cloth.

"The most comprehensive compendium of wood-working machinery we have seen. The author is a thorough master of his subject."-Building News.

SAW MILLS, THEIR ARRANGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT, AND THE ECONOMICAL CONVERSION OF TIMBER. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 10s. 6d., cloth.

"The size, shape, order, and disposition of saw-mills and the like are gone into in detail, and the course of the timber is traced from its reception to its delivery in its converted state. We could not desire a more complete or practical treatise.”—Builder.

STONE-WORKING MACHINERY, and the Rapid and Economical Conversion of Stone. With Hints on the Arrangement and Management of Stone Works. With numerous Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 9s., cloth.

CROSBY LOCKWOOD AND CO.,

7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LONDON, E.C.

MANAGEMENT

A GUIDE TO THE ARRANGEMENT AND ECONOMICAL MANAGEMENT OF MACHINERY

WITH

HINTS ON CONSTRUCTION AND SELECTION

BY

M. POWIS BALE, M.INST.M.E., A.M.INST.C.E.

AUTHOR OF

"WOODWORKING MACHINERY: ITS RISE, PROGRESS, AND CONSTRUCTION,"
SAW-MILLS: THEIR ARRANGEMENT AND MANAGEMENT,"
"STONEWORKING MACHINERY," "HOW TO MANAGE A STEAM ENGINE,"
ETC., ETC.

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Capio Yumen

LONDON

CROSBY LOCKWOOD AND CO.

7, STATIONERS' HALL COURT, LUDGATE HILL

1884

[All rights reserved.]

2. e. 2.

2 DECS 1

LONDON:

PRINTED BY J. S. VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED,

CITY ROAD.

PREFACE.

OWING to the great and increasing competition of the present day in every branch of manufacture, it cannot be denied that it becomes increasingly necessary to exercise every economy that will either lessen the cost of production or increase the efficiency of the plant employed. It must be admitted that a considerable loss often arises through inefficiently managed or badly arranged machinery; and this subject is now attracting a considerable amount of attention, with the result that many old manufactories have been remodelled and new ones built and arranged with appliances to reduce manual labour and the cost of production to the lowest possible limit.

It having been represented to the author that a portion of the matter contained in his recently published work, "Sawmills, their Arrangement and Management," might, with modifications, and by the addition of other chapters, be made more or less available to general machinery users, and be issued at a less cost than that work, the author has with this object in view especially written some fifty pages and issued the present book. The variety

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