METAL FITTINGS FOR SHIPS.
ELIMINATION OF WOOD. An authority on shipbuilding emphasises the fact that it is possible and practicable to fit ships ready for • sea without a particle of wood of any sort. Every part of the accommodation can be made, he says, in sheet iron, steel, or brass. Chests of drawers, sideboards, bookcases, washstands, folding lavatories, wmxlrobes. tables, chairs, bookshelves, 'toilet racks, berths —in fact, everything ! including ladders and stairs, can be made of sheet iron, and look very well indeed. Already the premier shipping companies are using fibrous plaster, with composition decorations —except the doors and windows. The wallings, ceilings, mouldings, beams —in fact, everything seen —is of composition work. Even the pillaring supports to the decks are covered with a composition imitating marble. For its huge ships the P. and O. Company is putting on one side, milons of feet of fancy wood, and replacing it with composition.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1921, Page 3
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152METAL FITTINGS FOR SHIPS. Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1921, Page 3
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