The water supply of barracks and cantonments / by G.K. Scott Moncrieff.

  • Moncrieff, G. K. Scott.
Date:
1896
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Credit: The water supply of barracks and cantonments / by G.K. Scott Moncrieff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    For pipes up to 6 inches diameter, Mr. Spencer (Globe 1 ube Works, Wednesbury) makes steel pipes with spigot and socket ends. This joint can be fixed by the workmen accustomed to the ordinary cast-iron pipes with spigot and socket joints. There is, therefore, less cost for freight (as the weight of steel pipes is much less than cast iron), and the loss by breakage is practi- cally nil as compared with cast-iron pipes. The steel pipes are usually made in lengths from 12 to 16 feet, so that fewer joints are required than in the ordinary cast iron in 9-foot lengths. As regards the steel, the Steel Pipe Company at Kirkcaldy ■consider that the best results are obtainable from the Siemens- Martin process. Bessemer steel is used in other places, and probably, for small diameters, is quite sufficiently good. ADDENDUM TO CHAPTER V. The following information, kindly supplied by Major Courtney, R.E., of the India Store Department, is likely to be of use in con- nection with the subject of pipes for waterworks :—