The Industry's Trade and Technical Press
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SEVERAL men well known in the industry have, at various recent functions, particularly emphasized the value to our industry of its Trade and Technical Press. Some have described it as the best in any section of trade and industry.
Certainly, the relationship between those w ho control the various journals and their readers is usually most cordial, as is the feeling between the members of that Press. Our experience is that in every section of the industry, the representatives of this journal are treated as honoured friends, always willing to give or accept advice, as well as to join in the social gatherings amongst operators and in trade circles, which are somewhat characteristic of this normally cheerful and important section of the business community.
It is being increasingly recognized that we are not remote intellectuals concerned only with theory, but really form an essential part of a great organization.
Where we consider there is need for reproof or criticism, or when praise is called for, we are quite frank, and our readers are equally so. So far as possible, all views are given space, although. occasionally, we have to refuse opinions, etc., which, in our view, would be damaging to the industry as a whole—in other words, we do all that we can to hold a fair balance.
Many an idea formulated in our editorial office has been adopted in the industry or elsewhere. and to give two examples of those which occurred in connection with ourselves, during the war, we may mention our scheme for the bridging of large bomb craters in important thoroughfares, and the use of pressure pumps in waters below suction height, which were provided on so many bridges, etc., in London and elsewhere in order to combat the fire-bomb peril.