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One most important point is that purchasers can inspect the Fittings whilst being 

 made, satisfying themselves that everything is in accordance with the specification, in 

 respect of workmanship and material being of the very best, and of full size details. 

 In these shops are to be seen some fine stocks of Teak, Pitch Pine, &c., and here, 

 to ensure material for the particular part in hand being of the right kind, the wood is 

 specially selected for each job ; and in the case of teak tops particularly, wide planks 

 are used to ensure a minimum number of joints, which, however, when made as this 

 firm make them, in our opinion, cannot possibly open. When a job is conmienced the 



DELICATE INSTRUMENT SHOP. 



wood is first selected, care being taken to use nothing but well seasoned stuff; it is then 

 sawn to the desired lengths, put through the planing machine (one of which, a self-feeder, 

 will plane 18 inches wide and 6 inches thick); it is then machined according to what 

 part of the bench, &c., it is intended for, and fitted together, to form the desired piece 

 of furniture by men who, being always engaged on this class of work, are really experts 

 at it. 



A portion of the works has been set apart for the manufacture of the smaller class 

 of Woodwork, such as Electrical Machines, Balance Cases, Resistance Boxes, Gas 

 Analysis Apparatus, &c., &c. Machines for Sawing, Planing, Mortising, Tenoning, 

 Shooting, Sand-papering, Slotting, Grooving, Moulding, Surfacing, Turning, Thicknessing, 



