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Scott, W Basil
The Structural Engineer, Volume 3, Issue 6, 1925
THE re-building of Regent Street affords many interesting examples of steel construction. In many cases the irregularity of the site plan, the architectural designs to render the buildings artistic and attractive, and the internal arrangements desired by the owner, make it necessary to resort to considerable ingenuity in designing the steel framing, which has to carry the floors and the roof, the partition walls and some portion of outer walls as well. M.B. Buxton
No name is held in greater honour among engineers than that of John Smeaton, for he was one of the powerful and original personalities who, nearly a hundred years ago, created the profession of engineering. At the time when he first turned his attention to constructive design almost the only mechanical work of importance was executed by millwrights and others at labourers' wages. The educated classes eschewed mechanical callings, which were neither regarded as honourable or remunerative, and that Smeaton should have felt so strongly impelled to depart from the usual course and enter upon such a line of occupation must be attributed entirely to his innate love of construction. A. Trystan Edwards
Laxton & Lockwood's Builders Price Book. Price 7s. 6d. Kelly's Directories, Ltd. Two well known builders price books have joined forces and now appear in a single volume. Doubtless the amalgamation of the two books in one volume will have enabled the publishers to retain the best features of both, and provide a book which will be of the greatest value to all engaged in the practice of estimating for building work