References
- Trans. Newcomen Soc., vol. 19 (1939), p.145 et seq. and vol. 20 (1940), p.29 et seq.
- op. cit., Vol 20, p.42. It may be noted that this part of the paper was given at the Institute of Marine Engineers on 17 January 1940; the Science Museum was closed during World War 2 although it did partially reopen for some months in 1940. It may also be noted that while this paper was actually delivered at a Meeting, the Society's Minutes show that most of the other papers in the volume were not read before Members. (I am greatly indebted to Dr. R. T. Smith for this information and also for the details of the two Members given at refs. 5 and 6 below).
- Ref. 2, p.42. These figures are cumulative totals to 1 January 1857 from Board of Trade returns. Presumably only a relatively small proportion of the total would have been scrapped or lost by 1857 since large scale building of steamships had started only a few years previously.
- ibid., p. 39.
- ibid., pp.42 & 43. The speaker was Francis Oliver Beckett, MIMechE (elected 11.11.1933; died 18.4.1951).
- ibid., p.43. The speaker was Conrad Payling Wright who was elected in 1925 and died only 14.10.1991, aged 95. A short biography is given in Bulletin No. 153, p.27. It will be noted from this that he obtained a PhD from Harvard in 1932 with a thesis on the "The Trans-Atlantic Packet Lines of New York 1817-1836".
- ibid., p. 41.
- ibid., p.43. The speaker was F. O. Beckett (See ref. 5 above).
- ibid., p. 36.
- ibid., p. 44.
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