476 Scientific Industries. 



(c) The Royal Carriage Department. The design, manufacture 

 and repair of gun carriages and mountings of all kinds are carried on 

 in this department, also the making of ammunition and forage 

 wagons, pontoon trains, ambulance wagons, and many other articles. 

 Woodworking plays an important part in the manufacture of these 

 various carriages and wagons ; but the increasing use of steel is 

 a very noticeable feature of late years. 



(d) The Building Works Department. The construction and 

 maintenance of all the Arsenal buildings is one part of the work of 

 this department, but it is also concerned in the manufacture and 

 supply of gas, and in the production of all the electric and hydraulic 

 power required in the Arsenal, large Central Stations having been 

 installed with the latest and most economical types of machinery. 



Owing to the large extent of ground covered by the Arsenal, the 

 extreme width and length being one and three miles respectively, 

 a complete railway system has been laid down for general transport 

 purposes. There are 15 miles of broad gauge railway, served by 

 19 locomotives, mostly of the four-wheel coupled type, and 300 

 wagons. In addition, there are 32 miles of narrow gauge railway, 

 40 steam and 5 oil locomotives and about 1,000 trucks. For the 

 convenience and quick transport of passengers, a railway service 

 has been instituted on the narrow-gauge lines, and there are ten 

 stopping places from end to end, and fourteen up and down trains 

 per day, run to time table. 



F. BRABY & Co., LTD., DEPTFOBD. 



This Deptford firm, well known in the commercial world as barge 

 builders and manufacturers of galvanised iron cisterns and tanks, 

 was established in 1839 at the Fitzroy Works, Euston Road, London. 

 The Deptford works were started in 1867 to take advantage of the 

 facilities for water transport offered by the Thames. That business 

 acumen was shown by the selection of the present site is evidenced 

 by the fact that an extension was necessary two years later. 



The employees number three to four hundred, and their welfare 

 is ever the consideration of the firm, as shown by the numerous clubs 

 which have been instituted for raising the moral tone and improving 

 the social conditions of the workers, and giving facilities for intel- 

 lectual development. A library, opened in 1870 with about 100 

 books, has now nearly 2,000 volumes of standard literature avail- 

 able for home reading or for use in the reading room. Lectures 

 and entertainments are arranged in the winter months, and excur- 

 sions in the summer to museums and other places of interest. Every 

 encouragement is given by the firm to the employees to take advan- 



