ABSTRACT

Any competent "close-up" of industry as it was towards the end of the interval between the two wars, is welcome as giving pointers to post-war goals. It is just such a study which the author provides. From a full mind and a full heart, he has written a book which ought to be widely read both by the industrialists, whom it more immediately concerns, and by the public, whose larger longterm interests it seeks to establish. At the age of 13 its author entered the service of the Canadian Pacific Railway as an apprentice in the locomotive department. He left that service as superintendent of freight-car shops, having in the interval closely watched and aided one of the greatest developments of modern industry. The opening-up of the Prairie Provinces in the nineties created a demand for freight cars in numbers which could not be turned out by the existing methods.