Wood-work forms a large and important item in most of Scotts' ships, as many of them are for passenger service. We illustrate on Plate XLVI. one of the saw-mills. It is self-contained, having its own power plant, including a compound engine, having cylinders 15-1/4 in. and 27-1/2 in. in diameter by 44-in. stroke. There are four vertical saw frames, the largest having a 36-in. frame, six rollers, and two bogies to take in the heaviest logs. In addition, there are circular saws, ranging up to 6 ft. in diameter, a swing cross-cut saw, special planing, moulding, and turning machines to do heavy work, and saw-sharpeners, grindstones, punching machines and anvils to carry out all repairs and fettling of the blades, etc. There are also large steam-heated drying stoves, and a timber-drying yard of about three acres in extent. The overhead travelling cranes range up to 5 tons capacity, and the rails on which they run are extended on columns across the yard. The saw-mill is the largest and best-equipped in the district, and does the sawing and planing of timber for three of the largest shipbuilding yards, as well as the general work for two other firms. [Illustration: Plate XLVI. THE SAW MILL.] [Illustration: Plate XLVII. TWO VIEWS IN THE JOINER SHOPS.] The joiners' and cabinet-makers' shop, as we have already indicated, occupies two floors of a building 240 ft. long and 52 ft. wide; while the fourth floor is utilised for the French polishing work, as well as for storing the completed wood-work until the vessel is ready to receive it. Provision is also made in the same building for the model-making department, in which replicas of nearly all ships are produced, and, being works of art, because of their completeness, accuracy, and beauty, have earned high awards at many Exhibitions. In the joiners' shops, illustrated by two engravings on Plate XLVII., adjoining this page, there is a complete equipment of wood-working machines for sawing, turning, planing, moulding, sand-papering, mortising, boring, tenoning, dovetailing, dowelling and joining. These are electrically driven, and are grouped at three places in the length of the shop on each floor, with benches around them, so that the joiners do not require to carry their jobs any distance in order to have them machined. There is also in use in connection with the department a portable electric circular saw, which is specially useful for carpenters and joiners, etc., on board the ship in the dock. An electric deck-planer, of the lawnmower form, has proved serviceable in reducing enormously the most laborious task experienced by carpenters and joiners.