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The Structural Engineer, Volume 9, Issue 2, 1931
The CHAIRMAN said they were extremely obliged to Mr. Travers Morgan for his very excellent lecture and the excellent slides he had shown. He would ask those present to express their thanks to the lecturer in the usual way.
SIR,-On reading through the article in your last issue of The Structural Engineer, I find that perhaps the good work done by Messrs. John Mowlem & Co., Ltd., on the substructure was not sufficiently brought out in the paper. I should, therefore, be glad if you could incorporate, say, in the discussion, the following:- “It is noteworthy to observe the excellent work executed by Messrs. John Mowlem & Co., Ltd., on the substructure portion of the building. In spite of very difficult conditions existing on the site, it being subject to tidal reaction, such good progress was made by the Contractors that the retaining wall was sufficiently completed, and the concrete foundations for the stanchions far enough advanced, to enable the erection of the steel frame to commence four months after the commencement of the work was made on the site.”
The object of the series of tests described in the following report was to obtain the value of the adhesion between mortar and brick. The results existing at the present date are fairly ancient and are given in Table No. 1.