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September, 1910 consists of a long, deep belt, 9 in. thick, with an armored bulkhead at each end. This belt is 3 in. less in thickness than the maximum of the side armor of the Dreadnought battleships, but is 2 in. thicker than that of the armored cruis- ers Indefatigable and Invincible. From TAE Marine Revirw the foregoing description, it will be seen that the British Admiralty may claim that in the Lion they have made an en- ormous advance in all the essentials of an armored cruiser--speed, gun power, and protection--but at a cost of over two millions sterling, or, say, the price 351 of two first-class battleships of only a few years ago. The hull and propelling machinery of the Princess Royal, a sister ship to the Lion, is now under construction by Messrs.. Vickers, Sons & Maxim, Bar- row-in-Furness, A LARGE BLACKSMITH SHOP USING OIL FUEL EXCLUSIVELY A Modern Pacific Coast Plant and Its Unique Liquid Fuel Equipment and Shop System By Hotven A. Evans, Navat Constructor Unirep States Navy. Continued from August Issue. HE author not only believes in a_ thor- ough detail analysis of the work to be accomplished and careful consideration of the best methods for obtaining the results desired, but also realizes fully that it is impossible to obtain the maximum output from men _ unless they are well rewarded. It is a long step, however, from the con- ditions usually found to those which we know to be possible. It is more difficult to make radical changes in methods in government shops than in commercial shops, and it must be re- alized that the progress of scientific shop management is slow in commer- cial shops as well as in government establishments. There are a _ large number of shops of.various kinds un- der my supervision, and to obtain the best results in reasonable time would require the services of highly gaid ex- perts to work out the best organiza- tion in each shop. I felt that the time had not yet. come for such ex- perts, and that the haphazard go-as- you-please methods could be improved by myself and my assistants without interruption to the work of the de- partment under my charge. About five years ago I began this work, and one of the first steps was to get my assistants equally interested in the Fic. 18--HEAvy subject of scientific shop manage- ment. The effort was successful, and we have been able to take shop by shop, and make improvements, and note 'the good results obtained. In describing the system followed in the blacksmith shop, I wish to em- phasize that the improvements made are really but the first steps towards scientific management, and are mere- ly the introduction of a systematic and logical method of handling the work where none existed before. Un- fortunately the same conditions exist in the great majority of the jobbing smith shops throughout the country. The methods now employed in the shop under discussion are simple and can be used in almost any shop, but