The Works Of Messrs. Schneider And Co.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. xvii Mounting, Naval, for 47-mm. Quick-Firing Gun, 224, PI. CXXXI. ,, „ for 57-mm. Quick-Firing Gun, PI. CXXVII. ,, ,, and Training Gear, for 65-mm. 50 Calibre Gun, PI. CXXV. ,, ,, for 65-mm. Quick-Firing Grun, 217, 225 ,, „ for 10-cm. Quick-Firing Gun, 218 ,, ,, for 10-cni., 80 Calibre, Quick-Firing Gun, 219, 220 ,, ,, for 10-cni. Gun, with Housing used as Brake Cylinder, PI. CXXIV. ,, ,, for 10-cm. Quick-Firing Gun, 226, PI. CXXXI. ,, ,, with Oscillating Slides, for 12-cm. Quick-Firing Gun, PI. CXXVI. ,, ,, for 12-cm., 45 Calibre, Quick-Firing Gun, 227, pi. cxxviir. ,, ,, for 12-cm., 50 Calibre, Quiok-FiringGun, PI.CXXX. ,, ,, Horizontal, for 14-cm. Gun, PI. CXXXII. ,, ,, for 14-cm. Quick-Firing Gun., 228 „ ,, for 14-cm., 45 Calibre, Quick-Firing Gun, PI. CXXXII. „ ,, for 15-cm. Gun, with Horizontal Slide, PI. CXXIV. „ ,, for 15-cm., 50-Calibre,Quick-FiringGun, PLCXXX. ,, ,, Central Pivoting, for 15-cm., 45-Calibre, Quick- Firing Gun, 228 „ ,, for 15-cm. 45-Calibre, Quick-Firing Gun, PI. OXXIX. ,, „ for 16-om. Quick-Firing Gun, PI. CXXIX. ,, ,, for 24-cm. Quick-Firing Gun, PI. CXXVII. Mountings for Mortars and Howitzers, 230, 231 Mouth of Blast Furnace, Details of Bell for Olosing, 24 Multitubular Boiler, Rotary Puddling Plant, 44 Naval Guns Manufactured at Creuset, 1792, PI. XCVI. New Plate Mill, Plan of, PI. XLVIII. < Jkleans Railway Station, 152 Paris Exhibition of 1878, Machinery Hall, 152 Patterns and Moulds for Bronze Guns, made at Creusot in 1792, 101 Pavilion, the Schneider, at the Paris Exhibition, PI. CLXIX., CLXX Percussion Fuse, 324 Perreuil Brick Works, Circular Kiln, 20 < „ Crushing Milh, PI. VIII. , , „ General View, 19 , , ,, Plan of, 19 Pfund Bridges, 149, 150 Pit, the Main Casting, Steel Works, 35, 36, PI. XXI. ,, Protected, for High Explosives and Bursting Shell Tests, 177 ,, for Tempering Shafts and Gun Tubes, 67 Plan and Elevation of Slab Mill, PI. XLIII. Plan of Allevard Iron Mines, 18 , , Armour-Plate Shop, PI. XXX. , , Blast-Furnaces and Coke Ovens, 22 „ Construction Shops, 96, 97 „ Creusot Gun Shops, PI. XCVII. „ ,, Works, PI. IV. ,, Electric Construction Department, 116 ,, Engineering and Sliipbuilding Yard, Chalon, 127 „ Havre Gun Shops, 171 ,, Mazenay Iron Mines, 17 ,, Montchanin Coal Mines, 16 „ New Plate Mill, PI. XLVIII. ,, Perreuil Brick Works, 19 „ Rolling-Mill Department, PI. XXXVII. „ Sheet Mills, PI. XLIII. „ Steel Works, General, PI. XVIII. „ Tyre Shops, 52 ,, Villedieu Proving Ground, PI. CVIII’ Plans of Decize Mines, 14 „ Hospital, Creusot, 16 Planing Machine for Armour-Plates, 70 ,, ,, Curved Armour-Plates, 71 Plate, Merchant, Annealing Furnace, PI. XLII. ,, Mill, the Armour, 87 Plate Mill, the New, General Plan of, PL XLVIII. Plate-Shaping Press, the 6000-Ton Hydraulic, 60, 61 Platform for Firing at Negative Angles, Havre, 176 Powders and Smokeless Explosives, 320 Pré Charpin Coal Washing and Screening Plant, Decize Coal Mines, PI. VI. I Press, Hydraulic Forging, the 2000-Ton, 63, ,, „ 3000-Ton, PI. XXXI., 64, 65 ,, Plate-Shaping, the 6000-Ton, 60, 61 Projectile Bands, Shop for Setting, 168 Protected Pit, for High Explosives and Bursting Shell Tests, 177 Proving Ground, the Villedieu, PI. CVIII. Puddling Furnaces, Mechanical, 80, PI. XXXVIII. ,, Rotary, PI. XXIII., 43, 44 Railway Batteries, 313 ,, Station, the Orleans, 152 ,, ,, Santiago, 152 „ Trucks for Transporting Heavy Guns, 175 Range of Siemens-Martin Furnaces, PI. XXII. Receiving Station, Electric, Decize, 15 Recoil Brake, Telescopic, Section of, 289 Reffye Gun and Mitrailleuse, 1870, 162 Re-Heating Furnaces for Slabs and Plates, PI. XLIV. Rhône Tugboats Built at Chalon, 155 Rifling a 24-cm. Gun, Creusot Gun Factory, PI. C Road Bridge over the El Cinca River, PI. LXXXII. Roll Housings, Details of, PI, XLV. ,, Stores, View of, PI. XLVII. Rolling Mill Buildings, South side of, 78 ,, ,, ,, Transverse Section of, 78 „ ,, Department, Plan of, PI. XXXVII. ,, >> Engine, 3000 Horse-Power, Transverse Section of, 82 „ „ „ Vertical, PI. LXVIII. ,, Mills. Gas-Fired Water-Tube Boilers, 79 ,, ,, Main Building, Interior View, PI. XXXVIII. Rotary Puddling Furnaces, PI. XXIII. 43, 44 “St. Laurent” Marine Engines, PI. LIV. St. Pierre and St. Paul pits, Headworks, PI. V. Sale of Creusot (A.D. 1253), Fac-similé of Deed of Sale, 1 Santiago (Chili) Railway Station, 152 Saw, Circular, for cutting Armour-Plates, 69 “ Schneiderite,” Destructive Effects of, PI. CLXVIII. Schools, Decize and Montchanin, PI. TI. Section of Schneider-Canet Guns, 192 Section5 of Standard Type of Blast Furnace, 23 Setting of Bands on Projectiles, Shop for, 168 Shearing Machines for cutting Sheets, PI. XLVI. Shears, Trimming, Details of, PI. XLV. Sheet Annealing, Furnaces and Boxes for, PI. XLVII. „ Mills, Plan of, PI. XLIII. „ Shearing Machines, PI. XLVI. Shell and Cartridge, 327 ,, Standard Types of, 327 ,, Steel Armour-Piercing, 327 Shelter for Test Firing of Guns, 176 Shipbuilding Yard, Chalon, 130 Shop for the Forges et Chantiers de la Mediterranée, 153 ,, Setting Projectile Bands, 168 Shrinkmg Jacket on 240-mm. Gun, 167 Siege Guns, made at Creusot, 1792, PI. XCVI. Siemens-Martin Furnaces, the 10-Ton, in Steel Foundry, PI. XX. ,, „ Range of, PI. XXII. ,, Steel Furnaces, the 35-Ton, 37 Slab Mill, Elevation and Plan, PI. XLIII. ,, and Plate Re-Heating Furnaces, PI. XLIV. Slag Granulating Plant, Blast-Furnaces, 26 Slipways and 1000-Ton Tugboat, Chalon, 129 Small Gun Parts Finishing Shop, Havre, PI. CVII. ,, Machine Tool Shop, Creusot Gun Factory, PI. CI., CI1T. Smokeless Explosives and Powders, 320 C