This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...of 60,000 lbs. per square inch, and be capable of being bent double when cold, so that the sides shall be in contact without showing any cracking or breaking of the fibre of the iron." Paper No. 1823.) "Light Scaffolding." By John Cundy, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E. In the autumn of 1878 the ironwork of the railway terminus at the New Central Station, Manchester, was sufficiently advanced to enable the contractors, Messrs. A. Handyside and Company, Limited, of Derby, to proceed with the roofing in. The sub-contract for this work having been entrusted to the Gloucester Wagon Company, Limited, and successfully carried out by the steam joinery works of that company, the Author, then the superintendent of that department, received instructions from the engineers of the Cheshire Lines...