Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - Penarth Dock in 1874. . .

The origin of the following article is the periodical 'Engineering - An Illustrated Weekly Journal' [716] [717] published in London during 1874. Volume XVIII  covers the period from July to December of that year. This report of 14th August 1874 addresses the Institution of Mechanical Engineers visit to Penarth Dock and also includes references to developments at the Bute Docks, Cardiff.

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

In our article last week on the meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers at Cardiff, we stated - after giving a summary of the Tuesday morning's proceedings - that the afternoon was spent in a visit to the Bute and Penarth Docks. Of the Bute Docks we have already given an account in our abstract of Mr. McConnochie's paper, but regarding those at Penarth we may add a few words, while to explain the arrangement at Cardiff Harbour more clearly, we have prepared a map showing the whole of the docks on both the Cardiff and Penarth sides of the mouth of the River Taff.

The Port of Cardiff : This map we give (on page 120 of the present number) . . .

 . . . and in further explanation of it we may add that the New Roath Dock, which it is now proposed to construct - and for which, as we mentioned last week, parliamentary sanction has lately been obtained - will occupy a position to the east of the New Basin just completed. The Roath Dock will,as we have stated, have an area of 54 acres, one portion of it extending in a line with the New Basin, while the other will extend in a north-westerly direction from the eastern end of the first-named part. We may also supplement our remarks on the Bute Docks last week, by stating that during the visit to the New Basin on the Tuesday afternoon surprise was expressed by many of the visitors that no attempt had been made to balance the tables of the new hydraulic lifts.