Engineers and officials; an historical sketch of the progress of "health of towns works" (between 1838 and 1856) in London and the provinces with ... Lord Ebrington, Edwin Chadwick, C.B., F.O. W okumak kayıt olmadan

Engineers and officials; an historical sketch of the progress of "health of towns works" (between 1838 and 1856) in London and the provinces with ... Lord Ebrington, Edwin Chadwick, C.B., F.O. W

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...two manufactories of glazed drain and sewer pipes, tiles, ornamental bricks, and architectural ornaments, have been established on some beds of very superior clay, commonly called THE MEDWAY COMPETITION. 107 terra-cotta clay, near Aylesford, on the river Medway, the very place where the Romans manufactured some of their famous pottery. At the Aylesford and Burham Potteries--there being of course ample space--the best mechanical contrivances for grinding, mixing, and moulding the clay and sand, brought by short tramways from the adjacent pits, have been adopted. Under these circumstances, as might be expected, the Kentish potters, although they do not compete with the Lambeth Pottery in manufacturing vessels of the highly-burned, semi-vitrified quality necessary for distilling or holding boiling acids, can and do produce everything in the way of bricks, pipes, and tiles, glazed and unglazed, equal in strength and durability, and superior in form, to the Lambeth goods, and at least 10 per cent. cheaper. The first step of the Lambeth potters, when the Kentish wares were introduced into the London market, was to try to crush them by an underselling competition. For some time the public had the benefit of a reduction of 30 per cent. on the present prices; but the Kentish Potteries were backed by too large a capital to be so defeated. The next step was to form an association, which appears to have had a double object: to resist an order from the Metropolitan Sewers Commission for increasing the thickness of pipes used in sewers, and for raising by the power of combination their price generally. Some time previously the Commissioners of Sewers, annoyed by the repeated fracture of long lengths of thin or ill-burned pipe sewers, had adopted a resolu108 THE LAMBETH C...

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