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THE SPANISH GUNFACTORY AND ARSENAL 
OF TRUBIA. 
A REVIEW: 
BY 
LIEUT.-COLONEL J. C. DALTON, R.A. 
In Yol. XIII., No. 6, p. 204 of the “ Proceedings,” I described a visit 
which I paid to the gunfactory at Trubia in 1884. Since that date 
this establishment has much developed, and Spain can now fully hold 
her own with other European countries, as regards the manufacture of 
guns and munitions of war. 
Through the kindness of my friend Lieut.-Colonel Salvador Ordonez 
of the Spanish Artillery, I have been favoured with a copy of a pamph¬ 
let written by himself entitled “La Fabrica de Trubia en 1892,” which 
gives a brief historical notice of the factory from its foundation up to 
the present time, together with an explanatory plan of the works, and 
various tables showing the amount of money expended during the years 
1879-91 on the establishment, the productious duriug the same years, 
the materiel produced for the Navy, the machinery set up in the works 
at different times, the personnel and machinery as at present existing, 
and the amount of work which can be turned out in any one year to¬ 
gether with the cost of production. 
I do not propose to do more than review briefly the information con¬ 
tained in the pamphlet referred to, which is very clear and concise and 
ably drawn up. The only exception I can take to the work is that 
except on the title page and as a signature at the end of the book, the 
name of Ordonez never appears. This is due to the modesty of the 
talented author, for-it must be well known both in Spain and to many 
outside that much of the recent development of the gunfactory at 
Trubia is due to the energy and scientific acquirements of Colonel 
Ordonez who has invented and brought to perfection the coast defence 
guns and howitzers which bear his name, and which have been adopted 
into the Spanish service, some of which have already been described 
by me at various times in the pages of the “ Proceedings.” 
In the brief introduction to his pamphlet Colonel Ordonez claims for 
Trubia that at a moderate price it furnishes the State with all the most 
important Artillery materiel such as guns and their mountings, pro¬ 
jectiles and the principal stores ; and predicts further development and 
importance for their great industrial establishment, when its value to 
the state become still better known and appreciated. He remarks as 
an example of what has been done, that during the last 12 years, 1879- 
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