The Actual Strength of Steel I-Beams

As announced in our last issue, the winner of the Brenforce Prize Competition 1933 (awarded through the generosity of the British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Company, Ltd.), is Mr. P. H. Johnson, a graduate of the Institution since 1926. Mr. Johnson, who is now 30, studied at the North Staffordshire Technical College, Stoke-on-Trent. At the end of his fifth year, he obtained a First Class Honours Certificate in mechanical engineering awarded by the City and Guilds Institute. He also obtained Honours Certificates in structural engineering and iron and steel manufacture, as well as the full technological certificate in mechanical engineering. He was apprenticed in general engineering at Robert Heath & Low Moor Limited, Stoke-on- Trent; in 1927, he went to Synthetic Ammonia Nitrates Limited (I.C.I.) in connection with the design and erection of their new factory at Stockton-on-Tees, and since 1929 he has been with the L.M. & S. Railway Company in the Divisional Engineers’ Office at Crewe. We take this opportunity of congratulating Mr. Johnson,on behalf of membersof the Institution, on his most recent success.

DR. VON EMPERGER, in his introductory remarks, said: It is an honour and a pleasure to have been invited by the President and Council of the Institution of Structural Engineers to address you. I have for many years followed the activities of the Institution, and remember with genuine delight my association with your former President, the late Lieut. Colonel Moncrieff. The reputation which your Institution enjoys abroad is great indeed, and I assure you that I have the keenest interest in all your work, especially the papers which appear in The Structural Engineer, a technical journal which is going from strength to strength. I shall thank you if you will express my appreciation to your President and to your Council for the invitation to speak here this evening. Oberbaurat Dr. Fritz Von Emperger

The PRESIDENT (Major A. H. S. Waters, V.C., D.S.O., M.C., M.Inst.C.E., etc.), introducing Major Moncrieff, said that he was already well known to some of the members personally, but he was known to the Institution as a whole, not only by reason of the services he had rendered as its representative in India, but also because he was the bearer of a name which in the Institution would ever be honoured and remembered with gratitude.