RESIDING at the 48th, annual meeting of the British Corporation Register which was held at the head office in Glasgow on Wednesday, March 9, the Chairman, Mr. Gilbert J. Innes, in presenting the annual report described 1937 as a year of achievement, in which the tonnage built to the Society's class exceeded all previous records, The chairman in his speech sai The Society was now in the happy position of recording an output which surpassed any in its history total of 357,000 tons had not hitherto been approached and it exceeded the output of 1930 by something like 75 per cent.
The Society's shar in home construction was by no means negligible and included two of the largest merchant ships launch-clearly unwise to trust to tarpaulins alone for preventing hatch covers bein; hed ay or to securing tarpaulins by means of wedges of doubtful shape in cleats of doubtful strength.
The Committee considered that the time had come when 2 standard taper for wedges should be specified and cleats should be suited jed in Great Britain during 1957—the to that taper, and that all hatchways and "Cilicia",
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