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— le.e) i Le Father Time Inquired “How do you explain the remarkable fact that for smokestacks, winches, anchors and all exposed metal and wood work above and below the decks Dixon’s Silica- Graphite Paint lasts longer, and therefore costs less per year of service, than any other protective paint ?”’ Mother Nature R eplied: “Because Dixon’s Silica-Graphite Paint is not a mechanical mixture of the silicia and graphite. It is Nature’s mixture of the flake silica-graphite, mined only by the Dixon Company at an American Mine and used by them with the _ highest grade of pure, boiled linseed oil for over fifty years as their unrivalled paint film. The Dixon Company performs its part. It makes no secondary grade. It grinds the flakes to great fineness so that the film will be adhesive.”’ Send for Booklet No. 77-B Made in JERSEY CITY, N. J. by the JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1827 Der IAAT Zn ail ali “Having a PULL means having a friend in power who will act as a steam windlass for you.” The Providence” STEAM WINDLASS ~ (Compound Spur Gears) has another kind of pull, and plenty of it. It has 15 per cent more pull than the worm-geared types and at 50 per cent faster speed. You have been looking for just this combina- tion. Our price will please you, too. Write us today. AMERICAN ENGINEERING COMPANY SUCCESSORS TO AMERICAN SHIP WINDLASS CO. AND WILLIAMSON BROS. Co. MACHINISTS AND FOUNDERS PHILADELPHIA 15-312 Please mention THE Marine Review when writing to Advertisers s THe THE MARINE REVIEW December, 1916 4 Be 3 ; 4