Printed volume of technical information, tables, formulae, details of ships, dry docks, routes, weather patterns, cables arranged in 6 sections:
Section 1: Cable Ships, Gear, Buoys and Docks giving details of the Associated Companies' cable laying fleet, deep lading of the Associated Companies' ships, dimensions of dry docks along cable routes, dimensions of tanks in ships and stations, formulae for determining capacity of tanks, rates of paying out cables, paying out strain, cable tension, distances of cable buoys from ship, diagrams of cable buoys used.
Section 2: Cable Manufacture and Tables relating thereto including mechanical data of all types of cable, method of determining approximate weight of component parts of submarine cable. and for determing weight of submarine cables of varying diameters, cable sheathing, specification and galvanising test for cable sheathing wires, British legal standard wire gauge.
Section 3: Length and Copper Resistance of Laid Cables giving details for all cables belonging to the Associated Companies.
Section 4: Distance Tables giving navigable distances in nautical miles between important ports and cable stations.
Section 5: Maps of the Associated Companies' cable system, with maps showing cable communications of the World, the Eastern Telegraph Company's European system and its connections and maps of cables in the Greek Archipelago, Lower Egypt, Africa, India, Malay Archipelago, China, Australia and New Zealand.
Section 6: Wind and weather notes on cable routes, with current chart, giving seasonal weather details for the English Channel, Bay of Biscay and Mediterranean, West Coast of Africa, Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic Ocean, Red Sea and Indian Ocean, Australian Coasts and Australia to New Zealand, Eastern Archipelago, Philippine Island area, China, Eastern and Yellow Seas and Pacific Ocean.
