Excerpt from Properties of British Standard Sections These Committees sat separately in the first instance and drew up independent lists of the proposed Standard Sections each list being designed to meet the requirements of the class of work with which the Committees were dealing. When these lists had been drawn up, joint meetings were held and a list arrived at, designed, as far as possible, to meet the combined requirements of all three Committees. The object the Engineering Standards Committee had in view was to include a sufficient number of sizes in the Standard Lists to ensure a satisfactory graduation for all practical pur poses, whilst at the same time reducing, as far as possible, thenumber of rolls which Steel Makers would find it necessary to keep. Certain sizes which, from a graduation point of View, should have found a place in the Standard Lists, were excluded as being little used in general practice. Others, again, were retained on account of their extensive use in this country, though their retention interfered with systematic graduation. Several sizes, which were in frequent use for some particular purpose, were excluded from the Standard Lists, as they were not in sufficiently general demand to warrant their inclusion, and it was felt that in any case a certain number of makers would continue to keep rolls for these sections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.