Discussion on "Specialised production¿diesel engine manufacture" at the Manchester Section of the Institution

MR. PUCKNELL (Section President) : We have listened this evening to what may be described as a mental tour of the author´s works, personally conducted by him, when he has described the chief processes, the plant and tools employed, and I would say that whilst we have had to go with Mr. Burriess in the spirit, he haa made the visit a very real one. It is a poor man, who, when visiting another works, cannot pick out something of value to himself, for application in his own factory, and I am sure many of us will have gathered points of particular interest this evening which may be applied to our own jobs. Diesel engine manufacture in general calls for extreme accuracy, as, apart from the production of certain particular details such as the fuel-pump and valve gear, which demand actual precision work, the designer is all the while struggling to obtain those elusive decimals of 1% efficiency which make the difference between obtaining or losing an order, and which are dependent upon the general high standard of manufacture in the shops