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The Royal Engineers Journal VOL. LXX. No. 1 MARCH, 1956 THE ROYAL ENGINEERS JOURNAL CONTENTS Lieut.-General Sir James Ronald Edmondston Charles, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. I Soil Stabilization with Cement . Lieut.-Colonel R. T. Weld 9 New Headquarters in Germany . Colonel H. Grattan 17 Persian Roads and Their Development in Aid of Russia Late Lieut.-Colonel A. J. R. Hill and Lieut.-Colonel G. W. Kirkland 51 Solar Heating for Married Quarters . Brigadier S. A. Stewart 68 The Farewell Address of Major-General G. Walker, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., February 1931 . 84 Book Reviews, Technical Notes, Correspondence . 86 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE INSTITUTION OF ROYAL ENGINEERS CHATHAM, KENT Telephone: Chatham 2669 if!--L-UL ---------- l^--- . -I---- ---- J. ----- INSTITUTION OF RE OFFICE COPY AGEN [AM DO NOT REMOVE . ._____________ CEM E N T A T IO N: for sealing water leakages, arresting settlement of structures, remedying deterioration of concrete or masonry works. G U N I T E: for reconditioning defective concrete struc- tures, encasing structural steelwork, lining tunnels, water reservoirs and other works. F O U N D A T IO N S: underpinning of damaged property presents little difficulty if FRA NVCOIS BORED PILES are used. COMPANY LIMITED- BENTLEY WORKS, DONCASTER TeU, ON S4177.4 ADVERTISEMENTS i KNOW-HOW IN CYPRUS At Dekhelia,Episkopi and Limassol remains to be done, we have com- in the island of Cyprus there is a big pleted a vast amount of work- and urgent job in hand: the con- within the scheduled times and to struction of permanent camps for the a high standard of workmanship British Forces in the Middle East. and materials -with a limited local Already there have risen fine labour force available. blocks of barracks, towns of com- Doing big jobs well, in minimum fortable married quarters, messes, time, is part of 'Know-how': offices, garages, workshops, clubs of the competence-won-through- and sports grounds of every des- experience we have been amassing cription. Forty miles of sewers, for three-quarters of a century all thirty miles of electricity ducts and over the world. Competence to over twenty miles of roads had to tackle any building or construc- be constructed. 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