Excerpt from On Illustrations of Progress in Materials for Shipbuilding and Engineering at the Royal Naval Exhibition

At the request of the Council, the following brief description has been prepared of the exhibits of "Materials Used in Ship and Engine Construction" at the Royal Naval Exhibition, which is about to close after a most successful season.

The Executive Committee of the Exhibition, in formulating their scheme, had two great difficulties to face - a very short time for preparation, and a very limited space in relation to the range and importance of the subjects to be illustrated. All that was possible, therefore, was to endeavour to proportion fairly the space available to the various sections; and in each section to secure as representative a collection of exhibits as could be got together in the time.

From the first it was desired to make the "Materials" Subdivision one which should illustrate the progress made during the last twenty years in the various branches of steel manufacture, so that the public might better appreciate the enormous influence which that progress has had upon the development of shipbuilding and marine engineering. Further, it was desired to give prominence to the history and present position of armour-plating for warships.

The sub-committee on "Materials," of which I acted as chairman, found the leading steel-makers in all parts of the country most desirous to co-operate in making this subdivision a success. And the result, under the unavoidable limitations of space and time above-mentioned, has been declared to be most satisfactory by experts, while it has proved of great interest to the public generally.

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