The specification of colour

✍ Scribed by Schofield, R. A.

• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 1939
• Weight: 247 KB
• Volume: 58
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0368-4075
• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.5000585203

✦ Synopsis

which constructional firnis design , supcrvisc crcction, buy plnnt from tlic spccinlist makcrs, givc gunrnntees, and opcrittc until thc gunrnntccs nrc ftilfillccl. 'l'hcy \vo~ild, in short, do cvcrything hut ninnuf:tcturc plnnt, and licrc thcy would depend upon thc plaut n!nnufncturers in tlic snnic way that coiistructioiinl firms do in othcr industrics. It would, of course, involro n new type of fin:tncinl structure .for thcai, for tlicy mould hnvc to finance the jobs whilst under construction nnd be :tblc to incur losscs when things did not turn out ns nnticipiitcd without disastcr to thcnisclws, niid without lctting down their clients. I n soinc nieitsurc, of coursc, this is the structurc of cxistiiig firnis i n Group 111, but tlicsc firnis usunlly oyn, or work vcry closcly with a liniitcd number of plniit ninnrrf:icturing works. Thc authors will suui up thcir iiuprcssioiis of tlic present scope of thc British chcniicnl plnnt industry in rclntion to the chcniicnl industry, :is follows :

(1) If thc chemical manufncturcr or tlic consultnnt rcquires n plant to bc manufncturcd to his own designs, drawings and spccification, lio will find no difficulty in gctting firins in Qrcnt J3ritnin t o supply his rcquircmcnts, thcsc boing gcncrnlly Group I firins.