The Works Of Messrs. Schneider And Co.

__________ CONTENTS. _________ _____ PAGE XIII.—TYRE SHOPS. Historical.-—Arrangement of Present Plant.—Furnaces and Hammers.—Furnace Boilers.—Re-heating Furnaces.-— Crane.—Rolling Mills.—Annealing.—Hydraulic Plant.'— Testing Tyres.—Toiver for Tests.—Wrought-iron Chimney of Tyre Plant... _______________________ 52 to 56 XIV—THE ARMOUR-PLATE DEPARTMENT. Historical.—100-Ton Steam Hammer.—Re-heating Furnaces.— Crânes.—Hydraulic Armour-plate Shaping Presses.—Small Steam Hammers and Furnaces.—2000-Ton Forging Press. 3000-Ton Forging Press.—New Forging Press.—Dépôt and Annealing Furnace.—Cementing Furnaces.—Cementing Process.—Hardening Plant. — Tempering Plant for Armour- plates and Guns.,—Electric Travellers.—Ingot-preparing Shop and Tools.—Armour-plate Finishing Shop.—Planing and Finishing Armour-plates.—Drilling and Tapping.— Summary of Hammers, Presses, Furnaces, Crânes, and Machine Tools in Armour-plate Finishing Shop ... 57 to 72 XV .—ARMOUR-PLATES. History of Armour-plates.—Their Varions Methods of Manu- facture.—Messrs. Schneider’« Steel Plates.—The Harvey and Krupp Processes.—Table of Tests of a Few Plates manufactured by Messrs. Schneider and Co.—Tonnage of Plates manufactured by Messrs. Schneider and Co. 73 to 76 XVI .—THE ROLLING-MILL DEPARTMENT. Historical.—Present Rolling-Mill Shops.—Rolied Steel super- sedes Tron, and conséquent Changes in Plant.—Storage of Water. — Puddling Section. — Mechanical Puddling Furnaces.—Rolling-Mill Section.—Speed of Rolls.—Rail Manufacture.—Quantifies of Rails made.—Rolling Mills and Accessories.—Testing Laboratory.—Kinds of Tests made.-3000 Horse-Power Rolling-MillEngine.—Blooming Mill. — Shearing Machines. — Re-heating Furnaces. — Manipulation of Ingots. — Armour-plate Miil. — Method of Rolling Armour-plates. ■— Re-heating Furnace for Armour-plates and Ingots.—Travelling Crânes.—Shearing Machines. — Annealing of Armour-Plates.— Slieet Mills. Methods of Sheet Rolling.—Sheet Shearing Macliines.__ Close Annealing Plant for Sheets. —Storage of Sheets ready for Delivery _____________________ 77 to 91 XVII .—THE NEW PLATE MILL. Reasons for putting it down. —Description of Plant. —The Armour-plate, Ship, and BoUer-plate Miil ; its Dimensions. The Slabbing Mili.—Cooling Beds.—Shearing, Annealing, and Planishing__________________________ 92 to 94 XVIII .—THE CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT. Historical.—General Arrangement.—Divisions of the Depart- ment. — General Offices. — Foundries. — Smiths’ Shop.__ Boiler Shops.—Fitting and Erecting Shops. —Tool-niaking Shop.—Pattern Shop_____________________ 95 to 100 XIX .—EXAMPLES OF WORK EXECUTED IN THE CONSTRUCTION SHOPS. Marine Engines.—Engines of the “Labrador.”—Engines of the “Mogador.”—Engines of the “St. Laurent.”—Engines of the “Magenta.” — Marine Engines built by Messrs. Schneider and Co. from 1839 to 1898.-Engines of the “Alger.” —86-Ton Torpedo Boats.—Engines of the “Charles Martel.”—Engines of the Armoured Cruiser “ Chanzy.”—Locomotives—Number of Locomotives built by Messrs. Schneider and Co. since 1838.—Locomotives for the State Railways of France.—Stationary Engines.— Numbers built. —Wincling Engines.—High Speed Engines. ____________ —Rolling-Mill Engines.—Steam Draining Pumps.—Lifting and Forcing Pumps.—Factory Engines.—Compressée! Air Plant for the Cie. Parisienne de Fair Comprimé.— Miscellaneous Work done _________________ 101 t0 114 XX .—THE ELECTRIC CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT. General Description.—Division of Shops and Work.—Testing of Work.—The Central Lighting Station.—Electric Tram- ways built by Messrs. Schneider and Co.—Varions Electrical Work done.—Three-phase Motors.—Single-phase Transformers.—Three-phase Alternators.—Paris Electric Ijighting. Secteur de la Rive Gauche.—Electro-Chemistry and Electro-Metallurgy Dynamos.—800 Horse-power Dynamos.—Self-exciting 450 Horse-power Dynamos.— ' 500 Horse-power Dynamos.—700 Horse-power Alternators 115 to 124 XXL—SHIP AND BRIDGE-BUILDING DEPARTMENT, CHALON-SUR-SAÔNE. Historical.—Early Work done and Successive Developments.— Ships, Bridges, Buildings, and Genera] Work done.— Development in Motive-power and in Number of Workmen. —Abstract bf Shipbuilding Work in hånd.—Arrangement <>f Works. —Dépôt of Matefial. — Planishing Shop.— Moulding-room.— Punching and Boring. Shop.—Riveting. Machine-tool Shop. — Smiths’ Shop. — Shipyard. — Launching Slips.—Galvanising Plant.—Stafif and Offices. Bridges, Buildings, etc., Constructed.—Fribourg Viaduct. —Bridge over the El Cinca River.—Brest Swing Bridge.— Orival Bridge.—Bridge over the Chitfa.—Stadlau Bridge. A iaduet over the Malleco.—Bridge over the Borcea.__ Morand Bridge, over the Rhône at Lyons.—The Alexander III. Bridge.—Floating Bridges.—Military Bridges, General Marcille’s System. — Military Bridges, Colonel Pfund’s System for Field Service.—Infantry Bridges.—Bridges for all Corps of Military. —Channel Bridge.—Iron Buildings.— The Paris Railway Station of the Orleans Railway Company, 1869.—Santiago (Chili) Railway Station, 1897. —Halls for Exhibitions.—Machinery Hall of the Paris Exhibition of 1878. — Iron Buildings for Works and Factories.—Light Ironwork for Sheds.—Shipbuilding.__ Tugboats for Service on the Rhône.—Torpedo-boats — Hoisting Torpedo-boats.—Floating Docks.—Portable Pon- toons _________________________________ 125 to 158 XXII .—THE ORDNANCE AND FORTIFICATION DEPARTMENT. Historical.—Manufacture of Cast Guns in Creusot Works in 1792.—Early Processes of Manufacture.—De Reffye Guns and Mitrailleuses built by Messrs. Schneider and Co. in 1870.—Messrs. Schneider’s Experiments on Steel for Gun Construction. — Messrs. Schneider commence Gun Con- struction as a regulär Department of their business in 1875.—Their Manufacture of All-Steel Plates.__Their acquisition of the Havre Gun Works, which belonged to the Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée ... 159 to 164 XXIII .—THE GUN FACTORY AT CREUSOT. Historical. ^Description of Works.—Division of Shops.__ Machine Tools. — Electric Station.—Shrinking Pits.__ Combine of Creusot and Havre Gun Works ... 165 to 169 XXIV .—THE GUN FACTORY AT HAVRE. Historical.—Description of Works.—Division of Shops.— Machine Tools.—Means of Transport. — Lighting of Sh°Ps _________________________________“ 170 to 173 XXV .—THE PRO VING GROUNDS. The Villedieu Proving Ground, Creusot.—Hoc Proving Ground, Havre.—Harfleur Long-range Proving Ground ... 174 to 177 X _______________________________ ____________________________________