INDUSTRIES OFjYORK 



77 



Bread, Biscuit, Cake-making 

 Entertainments and Sport . 

 Glass Bottles . 

 Furniture, Upholstery 

 Bricks, Tiles, Fireclay Goods 

 Canal, River and other Transport 

 Tailoring, Dressmaking and Millinery 

 Tanning, Currying, Leather Dressing 



Total 

 ^ Other Industries 



Total Insured Workers 



237 

 218 



201 



183 

 164 

 149 



143 

 142 



26,391 

 1,649 



28,040 



XII. 



FEATURES OF ENGINEERING 

 INTEREST IN YORK AND DISTRICT 



BY 



H. R. LUPTON. 



York having been for centuries the most important city on the route 

 from the English capital to the Scottish Border, it is natural that in the 

 railway should now be centred her main features of engineering {interest . 

 Accordingly a brief description of the L. & N.E.R. carriage works, 

 signalling school and museum, all in York, will first be given, followed 

 by a short note on the permanent way to Darlington and some other 

 features which will be available for inspection by Section G (Engineering). 



Other local engineering features of interest are the Buckingham Works 

 of Messrs. Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Ltd. (the subject of a separate 

 notice), and of Messrs. Adams Hydraulics, Ltd., the power plant at 

 Messrs. Rowntree's and at Messrs. Terry's Chocolate Works, and the City 

 Electric Power Station. 



Going rather farther afield, the Section has arranged excursions to the 

 Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co. Ltd., of Darlington ; to the Blackburn 

 Aeroplane & Motor Co. Ltd., of Brough ; and in the Leeds district to the 

 Savile and Whitwood collieries of Messrs. Henry Briggs, Son & Co. Ltd. ; 



1 This group covers 44 industries represented by firms employing less than 1 00 

 operatives each. 



In York there are 1,202 firms, and more than half of these employ 20 workers 

 or less. Sixty-seven firms employ between 2 r and 50 operatives each ; fort>--three 

 firms from 51 to 250 operatives, and seven firms more than 250 operatives each. 



