During the recent visit of the Shah of Persia to England, he visited,
among other places, the great works of John Brown & Co., at Sheffield,
and witnessed the pressing of a propeller shaft for one of the large
ocean steamships. The operation is admirably illustrated in our
engraving, for which we are indebted to the _Illustrated London News_.
[Illustration: PROPELLER SHAFT BEING PRESSED AT MESSRS. JOHN BROWN &
CO.'S WORKS, SHEFFIELD.]
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