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emi.ip,vent should be ready in the early part of the following yeae
v/'rton’the full complement of 100 students will have been reached.
At the present time machinery, tools and other
workshop equipment arc. increasing in price and arc V/0RKI3H0P.'3
subject to considerable delay in delivery. 1 v/ould EQUIPMENT,
therefore advise tho fitting out of the new work­
shops at the earliest possible moment, even if some of the equip­
ment will not be needed immediately, a stock of modern tools and
nachinoB would have a considerable value to the Jtate apart from
its use in technical training, for there are no other Government
workshops in the Island where engineering and constructional work
could bo carried out on the scale that the public services may
demand in the near future.
The figures against the following items of works equipment
needed during the next two years are baoed on the most recent
prices of machinery and tools in Great Britain and they include
estimates of the cost of delivery in Bahrain. They are at best,
however, only an approximation, and the individual figures have
little meaning when studied without reference to the detailed
specifications of the items in question. They arc givon as a
guide, to the total expenditure likely to be required. All the
nachi?ics in the following lists are reckoned to be fitted with
self-contained electric motor drive.
Price
;.higinoerino^Sh!ye £
Twenty engineer’s vicoc, various sisos 30
Materials for constructing benches 2G
Fitting :>hop small equipment (hand tools
find various appliances) GO
Drills, files, taps, dies, milling cutters,
lathe tools, etc. 150
Measuring instruments and precision tools 75
Bench type grinding machine 10
Pillar type drilling machine 70
Six lathes (SH centres) with accessories 120
Two " (7« " ) " " 300
Two m (bench type, 4&" centres) with
accessories 120
Two electric hand drilling machines 30
Tool grinding machine, pedestal type with
largo double wheel 45
Small universal milling muchine 280
Shaping machine, 24" stroke 250
Machine hacksaw 85
Supplementary equipment, mainly for
industrial work
Two lathes (6” centres), of substantial
construction with gearbox transmission 320
Iladlal type drillin'.-; machine 250
Surface grinding machine 100
Special tools and appliances for motor
repair work 250

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