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Engineering Wonders
  Wills's Cigarettes - 1927
  Reprinted 1999 - Card Collectors Society

Notes:  Cards are approximately 1-3/8" x 2-5/8". Many thanks to Kyle
DeRoy for the original checklist!

No.   Title

(a) Bridge Construction

  1   Steel Caisson, Great Britain
  2   Lethbridge Viaduct, Canada
  3   Rolling Lift Bridge, USA
  4   Sydney Harbour Bridge, Australia
  5   Zambesi Bridge

(b) Canal Construction, etc.

  6   Bucket Dredger
  7   Giant Excevator, USA
  8   Lock, Panama Canal, Central America
  9   Lock, Panama Canal, Central America
 10   Electric Shovel, Canada

(c) Manufacture of Iron & Steel

 11   Slab Charger for Reheating Furnace
 12   Conveyor Bridge, U.S.A.
 13   Blast Furnace, Manchester
 14   Electric Furnace
 15   Electric Lifting Magnet, Great Britain
 16   Hydraulic Press, Great Britain
 17   Electric Unloader, U.S.A.

(d) Mining & Transport of Coal

 18   Electric Coal-cutter and Loader, U.S.A.
 19   Electric Dumper, U.S.A.

(e) Miscellaneous

 20   Gold-Dredger, U.S.A.
 21   Escalator, Great Britain
 22   Building a "Skyscraper," U.S.A.
 23   Strong-Room Door, U.S.A.
 24   Reflecting Telescope, British Columbia

(f) Power Plant, etc.

 25   Generating Station, Canada
 26   Electric Motor Driving a Reversing Mill, Great Britain
 27   Automatic Substation, Great Britain
 28   Steam Turbo-Generator, U.S.A.
 29   Electric Winding Engine, Yorkshire

(g) Harbours, Reservoirs, etc.

 30   Modern Aqueduct
 31   Great Dam, Assounan, Egypt
 32   Block-setting Crane, Great Britain
 33   Croton Dam and Spillway, U.S.A.
 34   Vaal River Barrage, S. Africa
 35   Great Dam, Lake Vyrnwy, Wales

(h) Shipbuilding, etc.

 36   Aircraft Carrier
 37   Revolving Floating Crane. Great Britain
 38   Floating Dock, Great Britain
 39   Framing a Liner
 40   Train Ferry, Canada

(k) Transport by Road, Rail, etc.

 41   Wetterhorn Aerial Railway, Switzerland
 42   Wrecking Crane, Great Britain
 43   Electric Locomotive, U.S.A.
 44   Hedjaz Railway, Arabia
 45   Ice Locomotive, Canada
 46   Road-making Motor, U.S.A.
 47   Rotary Snow-Plough, Canada
 48   Track-Layer, Canada
 49   Tunnel Construction by means of a "Shield," London
 50   Ligerwood Unloader, U.S.A.

©2001, 2002 Kyle DeRoy, Jeff Allender. Comments, updates, & corrections are welcomed!

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