Excerpt from The Society of Engineers (Incorporated): Transactions for 1923 Before the war the Speaker had been in practice for a number Of years as an inspecting engineer, dealing with a great variety of plant and materials and in those days it was a rare thing to find even the most elementary form of works inspection or check gauging. Now things had changed and there was no doubt that in the future every works should have such a department, carefully suited in functions and scope to the class of work turned out. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.