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representing something like 320,000 horse- 

 power each twice round of the clock. 



Here we have organisation brought to a 

 very high state of perfection, and there are 

 many who think that this kind of organisa- 

 tion is what is wanted in every industry, 

 and that all industries must work on the big 

 scale or not at all. Thus everything which 

 can be done by a machine is accomplished 

 in that fashion. The colliers, for instance, 

 which a few years ago would have been 

 unloaded laboriously by hand labour, are 

 discharged by machinery which is almost 

 human in its sagacity. 



Working steadily the mechanical unloaders 

 take out the coal from every nook and 

 cranny in the collier's hold, pass it along 

 to some splendid machinery which quickly 

 reduces it to a powder. The pulverised 

 fuel can then be fed to the boilers by 

 machinery which, in many respects, re- 

 sembles that which feeds the boilers of 

 an ocean liner with oil. There is no waste 

 with pulverised coal, and no clinker to clog 

 up the firebars. 



