§ MR. FRASER-MACKINTOSHasked the Secretary to the Admiralty, Whether engines and boilers built and engined by private firms for the Navy, are guaranteed and upheld for six months, according to custom in orders for supplying merchant shipping; and, whether there will be any objection to laying upon the Table of the House a Return of the costs and expenditure on Engines and Boilers so supplied since 31st March 1880?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANSir, by a clause in the form of contract for machinery, contractors are held responsible for the efficiency of the machinery for a period of 12 months after it has been accepted, and any parts which may, during that period, be found defective, or showing symptoms of weakness, owing to faulty design, materials, or workmanship, must be removed, and others substituted for them at the contractors' expense. This condition is always enforced; and there have been no costs or expenditure on the part of the public, such as my hon. Friend suggests might be included in a Return.