FORGING A PROPELLER SHAFT.

During the recent visit of the Shah of Persia to England, he visited, among other places, the great works of John Brown & Co., at Sheffield, and witnessed the pressing of a propeller shaft for one of the large ocean steamships. The operation is admirably illustrated in our engraving, for which we are indebted to the Illustrated London News.

PROPELLER SHAFT BEING PRESSED AT MESSRS. JOHN BROWN & CO.'S WORKS, SHEFFIELD.