THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



"MULTOEUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVAXUE ONUS." — Ovid. 



THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE 



aEiltsi)ire ^rcfjafolosical anti Natural l^istors Societg, 



HELD AT SWINDON, 

 Tuesday/, Wednesday, and Thursday, IWi, Vith, and 18M SeptemheTf 



1873. 



PBESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 



Ambrose Lethbeidge Goddakd, Esq. 



r"^^^ ARLY in the day, a small party of Archseologists assembled 

 I i«^^ ^y appointment at the main entrance to the Great Western 

 Railway Works, where they were courteously received by Mr. 

 Carlton, the manager of the locomotive department, and conducted 

 over such of the more interesting works as the very limited time 

 at their command enabled them to visit : and here for two hours 

 their attention was engrossed, first by the wheel shop, where the 

 wheels of locomotives and carriages were made; and their notice 

 was directed to the working of an hydraulic machine j the manner 

 in which wheels and tires were tested ; the working of a travelling 

 crane, to lift six tons ; and the conversion of broad guage into narrow 

 guage wheels. Thence the party proceeded to the spring makers' shop, 

 where the construction of springs for locomotive engines, carriageSj 

 and waggons, and the manufacture of bolts were watched with great 

 interest. Passing on into the toiler shop and thence into the steam- 

 hammer shop, where those immense giants were in full play, and 

 thence to the chain makers' department, the visitors were conducted 

 to the enormous building filled with various machines, all in action, 

 and attended by 300 workmen, where the process of turning screws, 

 making bolts and nuts, and other similar operations were investigated. 



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