This stylised Art Deco relief is set around the central motif of a lightning bolt and cogwheel, which represent Electrical and Mechanical Engineering coming together. The ten figures on either side (all male!) hold engineering tools, including a drawing board and T-square, plans, books and a lathe. The tutors on either side are the only figures to break free from the upper frame of the relief, demonstrating authority, a device which Bloye borrows from Egyptian art.

The inscription at the base is from Tennyson’s poem Ulysses, exhorting eternally restless aspiration: ‘To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.’