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Architectural pottery : bricks, tiles, pipes, enamelled terra-cottas, ordinary and incrusted quarries, stoneware mosaics, faïences, and architectural stoneware (1900)

Lefêvre, Leon · London, Scott, Greenwood & Co. · leaf 207

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BRICKS. IcS7 When the bricks are made of fairly firm paste, other rows may be placed on the first, but the first must be sprinkled with sand, otherwise the bricks will stick together. l^^ach barrow takes from 30 to 50 bricks, according to their dimensions. The barrows may have one wheel or two. … Fig. 180. — Wooden Two-wheeled Barrow for transporting Fresh Bricks (Lacroix). Whenever the production is fairly large, it is advisable to substitute waggons for barrows. Rails of 0.40 or 0.50 metre gauge are laid down in the drying- sheds, and at the end of the shed a line of rails is placed, at…

Ceramics · Ceramics in architecture · Brickmaking · Tiles · Terra-cotta

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