Engineering 1937 Jul-Dec: Index: General

Note: This is a sub-section of Engineering 1937 Jul-Dec: Index

View 1937 Jul-Dec Volume

GENERAL INDEX

Abandoned Works and Adjusted Payments,
Abitibi Ca|yon, Ontario, Hydro-Electric Plant,
Abrasion Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 78
Abrasive/Casting-Cleaning Machines, Chilled- Shot/(Tilghman's Patent Sand Blast Co.)
Absorption and Extraction (Review), 447

Accidents :

Accidents to Gasholders, 612 Explosions. Boiler. See Boiler Explosions and PARAGRAPH INDEX ustrial Accidents, Home-Office Inspector’s Report, 101 chinery Failures, Report of British Engine Boiler and Electrical Insurance Co., Ltd., 687 le Damage to H.M. Destroyer “ Hunter,” 498*
lining Accidents from Electrical Plant, 347
Annual Report, 600
Railway Accident, Battersea Park, Report J on, 80
1936, Ministry of Transport’s Report on, 46
Swanley Junction, Report, 328
Road Accidents, Reduction of, 718
/ ? Shipping Accidents due to Hatchways, 84 1 — Loss of S.S. “ Starcrest,” 650
Accumulators, Electric. See Electric j- Hydraulic, Disadvantages of, 725 / Repairs to, 682*
?— Vehicles. See Motor Vehicle ; Motor Truck Accurate Recording Instrument Co., Liquido- meter Tank-Contents Gauge, 338; Distance-Reading Thermometer, 339*
Acetylene-Gas Plant, Booster for (C. S. Milne and Co., Ltd.), 313*
— Generator, Portable (Equipments, Ltd.),
336*
(Thorn and Hoddle, Ltd.), 333*
— Welding. See Welding
Acids, Rubber-Lined Appliances for, 559 Acklam Steel-Melting Shop, Middlesbrough, Hot-Metal Practice in, 351, 359*
Acoustic-Celotex, Properties and Applications of, 203*
Acoustical Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 644*
— Terms and Units, International, 183 Acoustics, International Conference, Paris, 183
— and Noise Investigations, 317, 699, 728
— Singing of Propellers, 170*
— Sound from Motor-Car Horns, 688
— Sound Transmission through Walls, 192 Activated Sludge. See Sewage
Adam, Flight-Lieut. M. J., High-Altitude Record Flight, 47, 596. See 280*, 320
Addiator, G.m.b.H., Combined Slide-Rule and Calciilator, 251
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address Admiralty. See Warships
Aerial Navigation. See Aeronautics
— I’ropellers. See Propellers under Aeronautics
— Ropeway. See Wire Ropeway
— Transport. See Aeronautics
Aero Brush Co., Ltd., Compressed-Air Painting Equipment, 311*
Aero Research, Ltd., Aerolite Synthetic Glue, 723
Aerodynamics, Aeronautics Aeronautical Society, Royal, Airscrew-Blade
Vibration, by Major B. C. Carter, 75; Associate-Fellowship and Associate-Membership Examinations, 343

Aeronautics :

Aero-Engine and Metallurgy, 292 — Exhibition, International, Milan, 579* Aerodrome and Airway Lighting, Specification, 134
— Dhiblian, Iraq, Refrigerating Plant, S19*, 678*
— Municipal, Construction of, 672 Aerodynamics (Review), 706
— Department, National Pliysical Laboratory, Work of, 131, 381*, 408*, 504* Aerofoils, Model, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 408
Aeronautical Research Committee, Report for 1935-36, 181; Reports of, 381
Aeroplanes, Breda, at Milan Aero Exhibition, 579*
— Development of, 546
— Dewoitine, 448 ; Passenger-Carrying, 133*
— Fiat, at Milan Aero Exhibition, 579*
— Landing Flaps for, Investigations on, 382, 410
— Model, Sir C. Parsons, 760*
— Stability of, National Physical Laboratory Investigations, 409*, 504*
— See also Seaplane (below)
Air Ministry, Aircraft and Aero-Engine Factories, 511*
— Kegistration Board, Work of, 575
— Survey Committee, Report, 24
— Transport in Canada, Statistics, 129 Aircraft and Aero-Engine Factories, Government, 511*
— Noise from, 170*, 317
Airship B. 101, Drag Tests of Models, 382* Autogiro, Cierva, National Physical Laboratory, Investigations on, 506
Drag Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 381*,
Engine, Aeroplane. Hercules, 553*
Bristol Pegasus,
dial, 280*
Bristol Pegasus Speed Supercharger, 180
Development of, 546
Development of Materials for, 292 Fiat, Particulars of, 579*
Investigations on Crankshafts for, 49* Silencers for. Investigations on, 645 Flutter in Aeroplanes, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 506 High-Altitude Flying Record, 47, 596 Record Flight, Problems of, 280*,320 Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Aeronautics, Syllabus, 411
Monoplane, Annular, Lee-Richards, 13
— Bristol-138 Single Seater. High-Altitude Flight with, 47, 282*, 596
— Heinkel He70, Drag Tests of Model of, 381*
— for High-Altitude Research (Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd.), 47, 282*, 596
Navigation, Aerial. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Noise from Aircraft, 170*, 317
Propellers, Aerial, Blade Vibration in, 75 Investigation of Noise from, 170* National Physical Investigations,505 Rolling of Aeroplanes, National Physical Investigations on, 409
Royal Air Force, Annual Display, Hendon, 17; High-Altitude Record Flight, 47, 596. See 280*, 320 ; Fire Fighting in, 379
— Aircraft Establishment, Investigation on Vibration of Airscrew Blades, 75 Seaplane Catapult Ship “Ostmark,” 109* Stability, Aeroplane.
(above)
Transatlantic Flights bv and “Clipper III,” 47
Wind Tunnel, High-Speed, National Physical Laboratory, 131
—r — Investigations, National Physical Laboratory, 131, 381*, 408
Wireless Apparatus for Aircraft. See Telegraphy, Wireless
World Altitude Records, 1909-37, 280. See 47, 596
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Aeroplanes. See AerGnavdics Age-Hardening of Aluminium Alloys, Investigations on, 156
Agricultural Hall. See Exhibition
— Machinery, Smithfield-Club Show, 660
— Motors. See Engines ; Motors ; Tractors
— Society, Royal, Wolverhampton Show, 31*
64*, 91*, 94
— Tractors, Tractors
Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of, Report on Operations under Land Drainage Act, 1930, 377
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ailsa Craig, Ltd., 35-h.p. Four-Cylinder Marine Petrol-Paraffin Engine, 302* ; Two-Cylinder Stationary Oil Engine, 302* ; 30- b.h.p. Three-Cylinder Diesel Engine, 648* Air, Compressed, See Compressed Air ; Pneumatic
Air Compressor, Double-Acting Two-Stage (Tilghman’s Patent Sand Blast Co., Ltd.), 367*
Fans and Blowers, Centrifugal (Review), 186
Horizontal Tramway-Type (Reavell and Co., Ltd.), 341*
200-cub. ft. I\[onoblo(5 (J. B. Lindley (1931), Ltd.), 309*
Oil-Driven (Crossley Brothers, Ltd.), 304* 167-cub. ft. Portable (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 534*
160-cub. ft. Portable (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 647*
107-cub. ft. Portable (Lead Wool Co. Ltd.), 533*
Single-Acting Single-Cylinder (Tilghman’s Patent Sand Blast Co., Ltd.,) 367* Three-Cylinder, Two-Stage (Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Works, Ltd.), 188* Traincar (Reavell and Co., Ltd.), 424* 78-cub. ft. Two-Stage (Holman Brothers, Ltd.), 567*
Two-Stage Intercooled (Reavell <fe Co., Ltd.), 341*
— Conditioning in Buildings, 319, 556*
and Keating of Buildings (Review), 197 Plant, Dhibban Aerodrome, Iraq, 619*, 678*
Plant, Queen’s Hotel Leeds, 575, 589*. See Addendum, 627
Unit (Carrier Weathermakers, Ltd.), 56* Ventilating and Heating, Principles of (Review), 262
— Exhauster, Single-Cylinder (Williams and
James), 301*
— Extraction of Krypton and Zenon from, 464*
— Filter, Protectovent (Voices, Ltd.), 334
— Force, Royal. See Aeronazdics
Air France, Compagnie, Dewoitine 338 Aeroplane, 133*
— Injector, National Physical Laboratory
Investigations on, 131
— Jets, Mechanics of, 601, 608, 667*. See
Erratum, 694
— Line Lubricator (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 567*
— Ministry.
— Pollution.
— Refractive Index of,
Laboratory Investigations on, 187
— Screws. See Propellers under Aeronautics
— Speed Indicators, Investigations on, 409
— Starter for Oil Engines (Williams and James)
301*
— Surveys, Progress in, 24
— See also Atmosphere Aircraft. See Aeronautics
— Iilstablishment, Royal. See Aeronautics Airey, W., and Sons (Leeds), Ltd., Queen’s Hotel,
Leeds, 575, 589*. See Addendum, 627 Airships. See Aeronautics
Alcock, J., Exhaust-Gas Conditioner for Diesel Locomotives, 452*, 564
Aidershot Army Vocational Training Centre, Closing of, 21; Demonstration by Students of, 103
Alexander, Dr. W. 0., on Effect of Heat Treatment of Copper-Nickel-Alurainium Alloys, 321
Algren, A. B., on Thermal Conductivity of Building Materials, 405
Alklum Storage Batteries, Ltd., Electric Batteries, 426
Allam, E. P., and Co., Ltd., Concrete Road Vibrating and Finishing Machine, 618*
Allcut, Prof. E. A., on Heat Insulation of Buildings and Structures, 405
Allen, J., and Sons (Oxford), Ltd., Self-Propelled Motor Scythe, 617* ; ^-cub. yd. Self-Propelled Shovel, 617* ; Sheepsfoot Roller,618 Allen, West and Co., Ltd., Control Equipment for
Electric Motors, Dalmarnock Power Station, 397
Allen, W. H., Sons and Co., Ltd., 550-kW Turbo- Generators, S.S. “ Orcades,” 227 ; 80-kW Geared Turbo-Generator, 308* ; Turbine- Driven Main Circulating Pump, 308*; Vertical-Spindle Electric Motor, 308*
Allgemeine ElektriziUts Gesellschaft, Electro- Magnetic Fret-Saw, 413*
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., Gyratory Sifting Machine, 298*
Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauges Alloys. See MeUillurgy; Microphotographs;
PARAGRAPH INDEX
Als-Thom Co., 4,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 261
Alternating Current. See Electric
— Stress. See Tests {Materials)
Alternators. See Generators, Electric; Turbo- Generators
Altex Vibrator for Concrete, 211* Alumina in Presence of Aluminium, Determination of, 395
Aluminium, Adherence to Glass, 721
— Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Bronze, Resistance to Corrosion-Fatigue, 50
— Crystals, Fatigue in, 47
— Wire, Tensile Properties of. Effect of Vibration of, 4*
— See also Metallurgy ; Metal-Price Diagrams “ America’s ” Cup Races, 183
American Foundry Equipment Co., Foundry- Sand Conditioning Machine, 753*
American Locomotive Co., 900-h.p. Supercharged Diesel-Electric Shunting motive, 439*. See Erratum, 570
— Society of Civil Engineers. See Engineers
of Naval Architects and Marine neers. See Naval Architects
— See also United States Ammonia Compressors, Refrigerating
Dhibban,Iraq, 619*, 678*
— Liquor Concentration Plant, Coventry Gas
Works, Tests with, 697
— Recovery Plant, Coke-Oven Plant, Cleve
land Iron Works, 36*, 118*
Analysis, Chemical, of Alumina in Presence of Aluminium, 395
of Magnesium Alloys, 155
— Mathematical, Elements of (Review), 477 Andrew, L. W., on Ignition of Gas by Cold
Catalyst, 697
Anemometer, Dines, Modification of, 161 Annealing. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Annual Publications. See LITERATURE INDEX
— and Reference Books, 107, 124. 174, 626,
683, 712, 746. See LITERATURE INDEX Anti-Friction Metals. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Antimony Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co.,
on Blast-Furnace Smelting
Ores, 350, 360
Appointments. See PARAGRAPH Apprenticeship. See Education Arbitration in Labour Disputes.
Labour Notes; PARAGRAPH INDEX Arc. See Welding Arch Roof, Corrugated-Trough, Dusseldorf
National Exhibition. 200*
Arches and Structures, C)ontinuous, Theory of (Review), 631
Architects, Naval. See Naval Architects Architectural Association, School of Planning and Research for National Development, Conference on, 749
Argentine Destroyers “ Misiones,” “ Buenos Aires,” “ Corrientes ” and “ Entre Rios,” Launch of, 375, 457
San Juan,” Launch of, 21
San Luis,” Launch of, 255
” Launch of, 543
Atlantic, Flljcbts Across. 47
— Liners. See Steamers
Atmospheric Pollution by Sulphur, Prevention of, 189*
— Pressure, Density and Temperature at
Various Heights, 280
Atom-Tracks Exhibition, Science Museum, 601 Atter, IL F., on Rivers-Pollution Prevention Problem, 58
Audley Engineering Co., Ltd., Kier Isolating Valve, 732*
Auld, D., and Sons, Ltd., Double-Action Safety Valve, 642*
Auld, Col. S. J. M., on Industrial Applications of Lubrication, 500, See 469, 476
Austin Motor Co., Ltd., Government Aircraft Factory, 511*
Australian Government, Report on Production of Oil from Coal, 748
Austria, Vienna Gasworks, Bdssner-Marischka Detoxification Process, 102
Autocollimators for Engineering Measurements, 166*
Autogenous Welding. See Welds and Welding Automatic Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Signalling. See Signalling
Automatic Telephone and Electric Co., Ltd., Electro-Matic System of Traflic Control, Piccadilly Circus, 569
~ Stokers. See Stokers
Automobile Engineers, Institution of. Work of Research Department, 103 ; Opening of New Headquarters, 319 : Data Sheet on Visibility from Drivers’ Seats of a Vehicle, 349; Presidential Address, by Major- General S. C. Peck, on Work of Institution, 432 : Annual Dinner, 460
— See Motor Cars
Autoscythe Mower (C. H. Pugh, Ltd,), 33* Auxetopbone, Invention by Sir C. A. Parsons, 760*
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine. See Marine
Aveling-Barford, Ltd., 4.ton Diesel-Engined Road Roller, 535* ; 2|-cub. yd. Tipping Hopper Dumper. 535*
Avery, W. L., the Late, 664
Avery, W and T., Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exliibition, 342
Aviation. See Aeronaidics
Axles, Lubrication of Bearings of, 437, 462
— Motor Car. See Motor Car Details
— and Wheels for 75-ton Twelve-Wheeled Road Trailer, 569*

BABBITT Metal. Composition of, 269
Babcock <fe Wilcox, Ltd., Boilers, S.S. “Or- cades,” 227 ; Combustion Chambers, Mechanical Stokers, and Piping, Dalmar- nock Power Station, 399* : Flue-Type Mechanical Stoker, 340*
Babcock and Wilcox, New York, Penstocks for Boulder Dam, Hydro-Electric Scheme,703*
Bachellery, A., on Electrification of Paris- Orleans and Midi Bailways, 702
Baftrey Henebique Construction Co., Ltd., Earl’s Court Exliibition Building, 245*
Bailey, Dr. R. W., on Flanged Pipe Joints for High Pressures and Temperatures, 364*, . 419*, 490*, 538*, 615*, 674*
Bally, Prof. F. G., on Education of Engineers, 299. See 290, 469. See LETTER, 353
Bainbridge, G. A., Hose Ramp for Fire Fighting, 410
Balancing Machine, Dynamic, with Direct- Measuring Attachment (C. Schenck G.m.b.H.), 122*
Balensi, J., Chambon Reservoir, River Isdre France, 167*, 219*, 391*
Ball Bearings. See Bearings
Ball, F. C., on Influence of Mineral Sulphates on Concrete, 605
Hardness Tests. See Hardness under Tests {Materials}
Ballona-Creek Model Investigations, United States Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 363*
Bamfords. Ltd., Horse-Drawn Mowing Machine, with Power Knife Drive, 91*
Band Conveyors. See Conreyorrs
— Saws. See Saws under Machine Tools
Bank of England Air-Conditioning Plant, 557 Bar Cutting-off Machine. See Machine Tools
Large Stone-Crusher,
Barnett, J., on Curvature and Super-Elevation on Roads, 580
Barometers, National Physical Laboratory Tests of, 210
Barothermograph for High-Altitude Flying,
Earrmgton-Ward, V. M., on Developments in Railway-Operating Practice, 657. See LETTER,743
Barrus, E. P.. Ltd., Walker-Turner Disc and Belt Sanding Machine, 241*
Bastian and Allen, Ltd., 10-20 kW Electric Boilers, 159; Thermal Storage Equipment, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building 423*, 473. See LETTER, 521
Bateman, E. H., on Solution of Completely- Redundant Portal Frames, 20. See LETTER “I. Analysis of Elastic Structures,’ 669*. See 289
Bateson, R. G., on Methods of Kiln Operation, 35 /
Bath Swimming, Brockwell Park, Filtration Plant at, 668*, 742*
Biitteries. See Electric
Vehicles ; Motor Tracks
Battersea Park, Southern Railway, Report on Accident at, 80
Power Station, Thermal Efficiency of, 318 • Extensions. 319 ’
Battleships. See Warships
Bay of Bengal, Effect of Storms in 407*
Beam,. Continuous, Solution bv Remainder Distribution, 289, 670*
— Earl’s Court Exhibition, 246*
Concrete, Investigations on, 450
Beam, Steel, Solution of Buckling Problems in, 02*, 116*, 184*. See LETTERS, 265, 323
Beard, E. H., Report on Strontium Minerals,159 Bearing, Journal, Sleeve-Type, Experiments in Lubrication of, 320, 325*
— Metals. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— National Physical Laboratory Investigations on,130
— Plates, Steel, for Rails, Si>eciflcation, 663
— Roller, Use in American Locomotives, 378
— Surfaces, Metal-Sprayed Surfaces for. 757
— Thrust and Journal, Design and Lubrication of, 436, 461, 468, 500. See Erratum, 571
— Use of Synthetic Plastics for, 145*
Beatty, P., on Generating and Heating Equipment at Pinewood Studios, Iver, 174. See LETTERS, 146, 239, 293
Beckton Gas Works, Retort House and Coke- Oven Governors at, 697
Bedwell, T. G., on Army Vocational Training Centre, Aidershot, 21
Belfast City, 70-Seater Trolley-’Bus, 549*
— and Stranraer, Wireless Telephone Link between, 292
Belgian State Marine Department, M.S. “ Prins Albert,” 411*
Bell, Dr. A. G., Edinburgh Memorial to, 631
Bell, Major H., Dahnarnock Power-Station Extensions, 397*
Bell, Sir J. P., the Late, 650
— Vibration of, 171*
Belt Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Driving, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 131
Bending Machine. See Machine Tools Bending Rolls, Plate. See Machine Tools Bennis Combustion, Ltd., Chain-Grate Stokers, Hammersmith Pumping Station, 710*
Bentall, E. H., and Co., Ltd., Agricultural Capper, 661
Benzole-Recovery Plant, Coke-Oven Plant, Cleveland Iron Works, 36*, 118*
Beresford. Lady, r. Driver, 249
Berlin Meeting, Superintendents of Experimental Tanks, 120
Berrisford Engineering Co., Ltd., Coal-Cleaning Plant, 621
Berths, Shipbuilding. C— Beryllium Bronze, Resistance Fatigue of, 50
Bessemer Basic-Steel Process, Christ, 1879-1937. 351
Bevan, E. V., on -Sewage and Pumping Stations, 672
Bibliography, International Organisation of, 441 Biggs, H. C., on Refractories-under-Load Test, 28
Bilham, E. G., on Weather and Water Supply, 671
Billericay Rural District Council v. Lawford, 35 Bins for Dustless Refuse Collection, 52 Binary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Binder, Tractor (Lanz Tractor Co., Ltd.), 661 Biological Association, Freshwater, of British Empire, Work of, 57
Birks, F. M., on Purging of Gas-Holders by Inert Gas, 697
Birmingham, British Foundry School, Annual Report, 371
Birmingham Electric Furnaces, Ltd., 500-kW and 330-kW Electric Furnaces, Darlington Forge, 451*
— Government Aircraft Factories at, 511*
Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., Carriages for Southern Railway, 10* ; 120-h.p. Oil-Engine Rail Car with Torque Converter, 390*
~ Southern Railroad, 900-h.p. Supercharged Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive, 439*. See Erratum, 570
— University, Researches on Copper-Nickel-
Aluminium Alloj's, 321 ; Investigation of Flux Distortion in Iron Testing, 380, 439* : Investigation of Pilot Injection in Oil Engine, 417*
Bisset, K., <fe Co., Combined Slide-Rule and Calculator, 251
Bits, Rock-Drill, Detachable, Report on, 241
Bituminous Materials, Road Construction. See Roads and Tar
Blackstone Co., Ltd.. 14-b.h.p. Oil Engine 647 ; Tractor Roller, 661
Blackwall Tunnel, Proposed Duplication of, 575 Blading, Turbine, Adjusting Block for (Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co., Ltd.), 370*
~ -- Monel-Metal (H. Wiggin tfe Co., Ltd.). 310 Blast I urnaces. See Furnaces
— Hole Drill, 12-in. Portable, Bucyrus-
Armstrong, 83*
Blau;.Knox, Ltd., 10-cub. ft. Road-Making Concrete Mixer, 533*
Blayden, H. E., on Influence of Carbonising Conditions on Coke Properties, 385*. See 365 ; on Experiments in Small-Scale Cupola, 730*. See 365
Block, Adjusting, for Turbine Blading (Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co., Ltd.), 370*
Blok, H., on Four-Ball Top Testing Apparatus for Lubricating Oils, 1*
Iflow-Pipe. See Welding ; Cutting
: Blowers, Fans and Compressors, Centrifugal (Review), 186
Board of Trade and Ships’ Hatchways, 84, 111 • Report of Tramp Shipping Administrative Committee, 288; Report on Survey of Industrial Development, 288; Annual Report, Boiler-Explosion Inquiries, 426 See also Overseas Trade Department Boat, Motor. See Motor Roat
— Ships’, in Rough Water, Model Tests on, 264 Submarine. See Warships
Boerlage, G. D., on Four-Ball Top Testing Apparatus for Lubricating Oils, 1*
Bogie, Driving, for 290-h.p. Oil-Engined Rail Car, 147*. See Adde,ndum, 230
— See also Trucks
I^oile^rs^ Babcock A Wilcox, S.S. “ Orcades.” Heat Insulation
“? Bari’s Court Exhibition
Building, 423*. See LETTER, 621
— (General Electric Co., Ltd ) 92* Use on Farms, 159
— Explosion Inquiries, Board of Trade
’ Annual Report, 426
Combined . Ltd.), 424
— Vertical Tubular (Maschinenfabrik Augs-
burg-Niirnberg), 58*
— Waste-Heat, Weston-super-Mare Gas Works,
624*
— Water-Tube, Sculcoates Power Station, 551
— White, Stoker-Fired, Hammersmith Pumping Station, 709*
— Yarrow, Dalmarnock Power Station, 398*
— See also Engines and Boilers in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Bolts for Flanges, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 77*
— Holding-Down, Foundation (Rawlplug Co., Ltd.), 662
— Holes in Flanges, Effect of, 364, 419* Books, Microphotographic Reproduction of,
432, 714
— New, Notes on, 134, 166, 191, 212, 240,
271, 329, 751. See LITERATURE INDEX
— Received, 12, 42, 72, 98, 124, 150, 178,
204, 230, 256, 284, 323, 344, 374, 402, 428, 456, 484, 514, 542, 570, 596, 626, 654, 684, 714, 744
Booster for Acetylene-Gas Plant (C. S. Milne Co., Ltd.), 313*
Booth, J., and Brothers, Ltd., 10-ton All-Welded Steam Travelling Crane, 540*
Boredom in Repetitive Work, 108 Borehole Drilling, Mud-Flush System of (Le
Grand, Sutcliff A Gell, Ltd.), 200 Boring Machines. See Machine Tools BOssner-Marischka Detoxification Process for Town Gas, 102
Bott, E.C., on Maximum Capacity of Chimneys, 27
Boulder Dam, United States, Automatic Sector- Sluice Spillways, 61*, 113*; Penstocks, 703*
Boundary Lubrication, 459, 547, 553 Bourgin, A., Chambon Reservoir, River Is^re, France, 167*, 219*, 391*
Bourne, J., and Founding of P. and 0. Co., 631, 693. See Erratum, 723
Boyden, C. J., on Predicting Night Temperatures, 162
Bracken Breaker, Horse-Drawn (Harrison McGregor and Co., Ltd.). 31*
Bradford, Dr. S. C., on International Organisation of Bibliography, 441
— Technical College, Prospectus, 150 ; Experi
ments on Sleeve-Bearing Lubrication, 320, 325*
Bradley, G. W. J., on Coke-Oven Industry, 629 Braithwaite and Co. (Engineers), Ltd., Roof Steelwork, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245*
Brake, Girling-Consolidated Power-Operated, for Trolley ’Bus, 550*
— Motor-Car. See Motor-Car Details
— See also Dynamcnneter
Braking, Emergency, on Winding Engines, Dynamic Rope Stresses in, 755*
— of High-Speed Trains, 657. See LETTER, 743 Brasses, <?', Transformation in, 382
— Deformation by Cold-Rolling, 382
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Wire, Tensile Properties of,
Vibration of, 4* Breakdowns. See Accidents Breaker, Bracken, Horse-Drawn McGregor and Co., Ltd.), 31*
— Concrete, Pneumatic (Broom Ltd.), 567*
— Road, Petrol-Opera ted (Winget. 11 1.), 619*
— Stone, Double Toggle-Jaw (Hadfle.tis, Ltd.), 566*
Breda, Ernesto, Society Italiana, Aeroplanes at Milan Aero Exhibition, 579*
Brian, J. M., on Corrosion of Tin-Plate Containers, 59
Bricks, Fire. See Firebricks: Refractory MaterUtls
— Road, Experimental, Experiences with, 581
— Thermal Conductivity of, 562
Brickworks, Stewartby, Electric Transfer Car at, 353*
Bridge-Bar, Turbulence, for Furnaces (Turbine Furnace Co., Ltd.), 312*
— Chien Tang River, 448*, 503*
— Foundations of. Researches on. 259
— Masnedsund, Denmark, 373*
— Movable. Design and Construction (Review), 185
— Rail and Road, over Chien Tang River South China, 448*, 503* ’
and Road, Storstrom, Denmark, 372*
— Road, Tests of, 450
-Wheel Impact from Motor Vehicles, National Laboratory Investigations, 130'
— Suspension, Menai Strait, Reconstruction
of, 651*
— Wandsworth, Reconstruction of, 129
— Waterloo, Reconstruction of, 129, 490 •
Government Grant for, 749 ’
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Bridges, F. W., <fe Sons, Engineering and Manne Exhibition, Olympia, 288, 301*, 333*, 349, 366*, 424*
Brierley Colliery, Accident in, 348
Bright, Sir C., the Late, 635
Brighton Corporation, 37,500-kW Brush- Ljungstrom Turbo-Alternator, 502
— Technical College, Calendar, 316
Brine, Calcium-ChlorRh, Thermal Conductivity of, 562
Brinell Tests. See hardness under Testa {Materials}
Briquetting of Fuel, 207
Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., Bristol Pegasus XVIII Aero Engiae with Two-Speed Supercharger, 180 ; Monoplane for High- Altitude Research, 282*; 1,300-h.p.
Bristol Hercules Aero Engine, 553*
— University, Faculty of Ingineering Prospectus, 240
Britannia Metal, Composition of, 269
— Steel-Melting Shop, Mildlesbrough, Hot-Metal Practice in, 351, 559*
British Aluminium Co., ltd.. Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exhibition, 310
British Association (Nottingham Meeting) :
Inaugural Proceedings, 2^9
Section G {Engineering}: Programme, 76 Reports of Discussion, 28J, 319, 351, 379 Presidential Address, by ^ir A. Gibb, on Research in Engineeiing, 295. See 287, 289
Analysis of Elastic Structuns by Methods of Deformation Eneigy and Remainder Distribution, by E. H. Bateman, 669*. See 28)
Education of Engineers, by Prof. F. G. Baily, 299. See 290. SeeLETTER, 353 Training of University Gnduites for Engineering Industry, by 'Dr. A. P. M. Fleming and Dr. W. Ja-kson, 469. See 290. See LETTER, 35£
Engineering Problems of River Trent Catchment Board, by W. H Haile, 291 Air-Conditioning, by Dr. O. Faber, 556*. See 319
Problems of the Altitude Reco.d Flight, by A. Swan, 280*. See 32o
Experiments in Sleeve-Bearing Lubrication, by Prof. H. W. Swift and Dr. H. L. Haslegrave, 325*. See320
Electrical Vibrations and their Apgication in Television, by Prof. E. V. Marchant, 330*. See 320
Cars for Road Safety, by L. H. Pcmeroy, 355. See 349, 351, 434
A Continuous Hardness Test, by E. G. Herbert, 495*. See 352
Note on the A.-C. Method in Permeibllity Testing, by Dr. L. G. A. Sims, 387*. See 379
Flux Distortion in Iron Testing, ly J. Greig and J. E. Parton, 439*. Se>, 380 Section A: [Mathematical and Phydcaf' Sciences}:
Presidential Address, by Dr. G. W. C. Kaye, on Noise and the Nation, 6')8, 728. See 317
British Association of Refrigeration, Presidea- tial Address, by Dr. E. Griffiths, on Progress in Refrigeration, 762
— Broadcasting Corporation, Stagshaw Trans
mitting Station, 454
— Cast-Iron Research Association, Annual
Report and Lunch, 539
— Columbia, Mineral Production Report, 209
— Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Asso
ciation, Annual Dinner, 546
British Engine, Boiler and Electrical Insurance Co., Ltd., Annual Report, 687
— Engineers’ Association, Co-operation
Modern Industry, by Lieut.-Col. Lord Gordon, 466; Public Expenditure, H. G. Williams, 575; The Coal Bill Affecting Industry, by W. A. Lee, 689
British Flettmann Drill Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Cardiff Engineering Exhibition, 621
— Foundry School, Birmingham, Annual
Report, 371
— Gas Federation, Annual Dinner, 546
British Holder Tractor, Ltd., 8-h.p. Agricultural Tractor, 660
“ British Honduras,” Motor Trawler, 711
— Iron and Steel Federation, Memorandum
on Scrap Shortage, 47 ; Scrap Campaign, 103; Letter on Scrap Campaign, 184; Statistics of Iron and Steel Industries, 741
— Isles, Phenological Observations in, 1935-36,
686
— Navy. See H.M. under Warships
— Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association,
Annual Report and Lunch, 18
British Oxygen Co., Ltd., Rightward Method of Oxy-Acetylene Welding, Experiments on, 84; Double-Headed Locomotive-Frame Cutting Machine, 333* ; Deep Cutting in Steel by Oxygen Jet, 682*
— Railways. See Radways
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Shipping. See Shipping
British Short-Circuit Testing Station, Ltd., Testing Station, Hebburn-on-Tyne, 479*
— Standards Institution. See Standards British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Circuit
Breakers, Southern Railway, Portsmouth Line, 10*; Apprentice-Parents’ Day at Willesden Works, 70 ; Low Oil-Content Circuit Breakers, 177* ; Diesel-Electric Alternating-Current Ship-Propulsion System, 200; Thyratron Voltage-Control Panel, 339*, 371; 10-kW Turbo-Generator, 339*, 371; Control Panel for Electric Motor-Driven Blowers, 371 ; Electric Transfer Car for Brickworks, 353*; Electro-Pneumatic Camshaft Control for Multi-Unit Operation, 400*; Lighting Equipment, Earl’s Court E.xhibition Building, 422* ; Electrical Equipment for Trolley-’Bus and Electric-Battery Vehicle Chassis, 549* ; High-Pressiu’e ILercury- Vapour Luminescent Lamps, 661
— Trade. See Trade
— Waterworks Association, London Meeting
Presidential Address by Sir W. Prescott, on Work of Association, 57 ; Inland Water Survey of Great Britain, by R. G. Hether- mgton, 57; Present-Day Aspects of Purification of London Water Supnlv, bv Lieut.-Col. C. H. H. Harold, .57; Work
of Freshwater Biological Association of British Empire, by Prof. P. A. Buxton, 57 ; Present Aspects of Rivers-Pollution Prevention Problem, by H. F. Atter, 58
— Wood-Preserving Association, Report on Preservative Treatment of Estate and Farm Timber, by R. C. B. Gardner, 389
British Xylonite Co., Ltd., Repairs to Hydraulic Accumulator, 682*
Broaching Machine. See Machine Tools
Brockwell Park Swimming Bath, Filtration Plant at, 668*, 742*
Bronzes, Resistance to Corrosion-Fatigue of, 50
Brook, G. B., on Determination of Alumina in Presence of Aluminium, 395
Broom and Wade, Ltd., Portable Pneumatically- Operated Shears, 51* ; 167-cub. ft. Portable Air Compressor, 534* ; Automatic Compressor-Control System, 534* ; AirLine Lubricator, 567* ; Pneumatic Concrete Breaker, 567* ; Pneumatic Drifter Drill, 567*
Brown, Boveri and Co., Ltd., Supercharger for 900-h.p. Six-Cylinder Diesel Engine, 439*. See Erratum, 570
Brown, D., and Sons (Hudd.), Ltd., Cutting of Double-Helical Pinions for Rolling-Mill Gears, 20* ; Vertical Motor-Driven Gear Unit, 728*
Brown, J., and Co., Ltd., Launch of Argentine Destroyer “ San Juan,” 21 ; Launch of Argentine Destroyer “ San Luis,” 255 ; La Mont Marine Water-Tube Boiler, 594*
Brown and Ward (Tools), Ltd., |-in. Motor-Driven Bar Automatic, 555*
Bruce Peebles and Co., Ltd., Rectifiers, Southern Railway, Portsmouth Line, 10*
Brush-Ljungstrom 37,500-kW Turbo-Generator, Southwick Power Station, 502
Bryce, Ltd., Fuel-Injection Equipment for Oil Engines, 312 ; Electrical Tachometer, 312*
Buchanan, J. G., on Hatchways, 84*, 110*
Bucket Conveyor. See Conveyor
Buckling Problems, Solution by Approximate Method, 62*. 116*, 184*. See LETTERS, 265, 323
Bucyrus-Erie Co., 12-in. Portable Bucyrus- Armstrong Blast-Hole Drill, 83*
Budgeting and Control, Flexible (Review), 737 ‘‘ Buenos Aires,” Argentine Destroyer, Launch of, 375
Pacific Railway, 120-h.p. Oil-Engined Bail Car with Torque Converter, 390*
Buggy, Marsh, for Swamp Lands, Gulf Oil Corporation, 270*
Buildings, Acoustics of. Investigations on, 645*
— Air-Conditioning in, 319, 556*
Conditioning and Heating (Review), 197
— Code, New York City, 235
— Construction. See also Ferro’Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Exhibition, Earl’s Court, London, 245*,
421*, 473*. See LETTER, 521
— Heat Insulation of, Research on, 405
— High, Encyclopaedia of Materials and Construction (Review), 198
Nine RockfeUer Plaza, New York, 396* in United States, 235
— Materials, Thermal Conductivity of, 405
— Prevention of Noise in, 318, 729
— Research Board, Annual Report, 449
Station, Investigations on Transmission of Air-Borne Sounds by Partitions, 192; Experiments on Foamed Blast-Furnace Slag, 366, 388, 450
— Steel-Framed, All-Welded, Waltham Cross,
712*
— Stone, Methods of Cleaning, 449
— Transmission and Abatement of Noise in,
318, 729
— Use of Cast Stone in, 719
— Wind Pressure on, Investigations on, 131
— of Working-Class Flats, Report, 529 Bukalski, A., on Effect of Vibrations on Tensile
Properties of Metals, 4*
Bull Motors, Ltd,, Motors, Electric, for Fans at Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 590*
Bunkers, Ferro-Concrete, Coke-Oven Plant, Cleveland Iron Works, 37*, 758*
Bunkering Plant for Trawlers, Fleetwood Docks, 253*
Bureau of Mines. See United States
— of Standards. Sse United States Burmeister and Wain, 500-ton Floating Crane,
373*
Burner, Cinder, Forced-Draught, 123*
— Gas, Investigations on, 576
— Oil Fuel. See Oil Fuel
— Pulverised-Coal, Investigations on, 659 Burrough, E. J., on Fuel Briquetting, 207 Buxton, Prof. P. A., on Freshwater Biological
Association of British Empire, 57
Buzzard, R. W., on Anodic Coating of Magnesium Alloys, 209

CABLES. See Wire Hopes and Electric
Cableway. See Wire Ropeway
Cadmium Coatings Electrodeposited, Thickness and Measurement of. .53*
Cady, Prof. W. G., Duddell Medal, Award to, 47
Caissons, Ferro-Concrete, Chien Tang-River Bridge, South China, 448*
Calcium-Chloride Brine, Thermal Conductivity of, 562
Calculator and Slide-Rule, Combined (Addiator G.rn.b.H.), 251
Calender for Rubber-Sheet Manufacture (Redfern’s Rubber Works), 5f0*
California, Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works, Inspection Car for Interior of Water Mains, 741*
Calorific Value of Gas, Standards for, 45
Cambering and Hardening Machine for Laminated Springs (S. Fox and Co., Ltd.), 149*
Cambridge, Cavendish Laboratory, 1,250-kV Electric Generator, 59*
Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd., Measuring Microscope, 163; Optical Projection Machine, 165 ; Cathode-Ray Oscillograph for Short-Circuit Tests, 479* ; Recording’ Apparatus for Torsional Damping, 652*
Camera, Rontgen-Ray, 586*
I Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., Launch of Argentine ! Destroyer “ Misiones,” 375 ; Launch of Argentine Destroyer “ Santa Cruz,” 543 Camp, Catterick, Dilute Sewage Treatment at, 577
Campenon-Bernard, Chambon Reservoir, River Ispre, Prance, 167*, 219*, 391*
Camshaft Control, Electro-Pneumatic, for
Multiple-Unit Operation British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd.), 400*
Canada, Engineering Institute of, Semi-Centennial Issue of Joifrnal, 70
Canada Iron Foundries, Ltd., Chapman Cone Valve, 172*
— Report on Mineral Production in British Columbia, 209
Canadian Air-Transport Statistics, 129
— Department of Mines, Report on Fuel Briquetting, 207
— National Railways, Lubricating Oils for, 468 Canal, Manchester Ship, 250’ton Floating Crane, 159*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cane-Sugar Factory, Machinery and Equipment of (Review), 90
Plant, Magnetic-Drum Separator for, 606 Canel, J., Chambon Reservoir, River Is^re, France, 167*, 219*, 391*
Cannel, Scottish, Low-Temperature Carbonisation of, 612
Canning, Food Investigation Board’s Investigations on, 208
— Practice and Control (Review), 738 Capacity. See Electric
” Capetown Castle,” M.S., Launch of, *373* Capital and Labour. See Labour and Labour Notes
Capron, A. J., the Late, 650
Capstan Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tools Car, Inspection, Electrically-Operated, for Interior of Water Mains, 741*
— Motor. See Motor Cars
— Rail. See Carriages, Railway
— Transfer, Electric, for Brickworks (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 353*
Carbon Dioxide, Specific Heat at High Temperature, 561*. See LETTERS, 604, 634
— Monoxide Detector for Detecting Gas Leaks, 612
Removal from Town Gas, Processes for, 102
— Use in Cupolas, Experiments on, 365, 731* Carbonising under Mechanical Pressure, Effect on Coke Properties, 365, 385*
— Plant, Coal and Oil, Erith, Tests of, 497 Carburettor for Oil Engine (Headen Keil Engineering Co., Ltd.), 93*
Carburisation. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Cardiff Engineering Exhibition, 591, 621 Careers of Engineers, Register of, 545 Cargo Steamers. See Steamers Carrene as Refrigerant, 762
Carriages, Railway, ‘‘ Coronation Train,” Lon- and North Eastern Railway, 40*
Coupled, Diesel-Driven (Society Anonima F.I.A.T.), 416*
Depot for Central London Railway, Extension, 230
290-h.p. Diesel-Engined, Swiss Federal Railways, 147*. See Addendum, 230
for ” East Anglian Express ” Train, 426* Electric, Southern Railway, 10*. See Erratum, 74
Great Western Railway, 344
Indian Railways, 16
Motor-Driven, for French Railways, 261 120-h.p. Oil-Engined, with Torque Converter, 390*
Carrier Weathermakers, Ltd., Air-Conditioning Unit, 56*
Carter, Major B. C., on Airscrew-Blade Vibration, 75
Case Hardening. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Casein Production for Artificial-Wool Manufacture, 673*
Cass Technical Institute, Calendar, 266;
Course in Chemical Engineering, 433
Cast Concrete Products Association, Annual Luncheon, 719 ; Cast Stone, by M. E. Webb, 719
— Crankshafts, Fatigue Investigations on, 49*
— Iron, Creep Properties at High Temperatures, 157
Damping Cap'^city of, 652*
Effects of Nickel in, 132
Graphite Refinement in, Researches on, 539
New York City Building Code for, 236 Research Association, British, Annual Report and Lunch, 539
Castings, Aluminium-AIloy, Shrinkage of, 156
— Malleable, Continuous Electric Annealing
Furnace for (Electric Furnace Co., U.S.A.), 218*
— Meehanite (International Meehanite Metal
Co., Ltd.), 307
— Steel (Kryn and Lahy (1928), Ltd.), 304 Catalogues, 29, 86, 112, 138, 244, 271, 300, 442, 472, 502, 584, 642, 702, 732. PARAGRAPH INDEX
Catalin, Ltd., Catalin Cast Phenolic Resin, 694*
Catalyst, Cold, Ignition of Gas by, 697
Catalytic Process for Sulphur Removal from Gas, 611
Catapult for Seaplane Ship ” Ostmark,” 110* Catchment Boards, Gauging of Rivers by, 749 and River Pollution, 546 River Trent, Engineering Problems of, 291 and Water Undertakings, 57 Work of, 377
Cathode-Ray Oscillograph, Hebburn-on-Tyne Short-Circuit Station, 479*
Tube, Low-Voltage, and its Applications (Review), 707
Catterick Camp, Dilute Sewage Treatment at, 577
Catterson-Smith, J. K., on Theory and Measurement of Positive and Negative Sequence (Components, 607*
Caulfield, T. H., on Ternary System FeO-AlgOi- SiO2, 28
C.A.V.-Bosch, Ltd., Gas-Exhausting Electric
Fan, 312* ; Motor-Boat Searchlight, 312* ; Battery Cut-ofF Switch, 443* Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, 1,250-kV
Electric Generator, 59*
Cavitation Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 239
—’ — by Sir C. A. Parsons, 695*
Ceilings, Sound-Proof, Investigations on, 646 — Suspended, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245*
Cells. See Electric
Celotex Co. of Great Britain, Ltd., Acoustic-
Celotex, 203*
Cements for Refractory Materials, Investigations on, 697
— See also Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX Centenary of Lit5ge School of Mines, 261 Centennial Exhibition, Wellington, N.Z., 601 Central Station. See Power Station Centrifugal Pumps. See Pampa Centrifuge, Ultra (Super-Centrifugal Engineers,
Ltd.), 305*
Ceylon Railways, Report on, 154
Chains, Power Transmission, Lubrication of, 501
— Wrought Iron, Menai Strait Bridge, 651* Chalmers, Dr. B., on Precision Extensometer
Measurements of Tin, 322
Chambers, W.-D., Intermittent Vertical, Weston-super-Mare Gas Works, 623*, 659
Chambon Reservoir; River Isdre, France, 167*, 219*, 391*
Change-Speed Gear. See Gear Channels, Estuary, and Embankments, 690 Chapman Cone Valve for Hydraulic Mains, 172* Charpy Notched-Bar Impact Tests, Value and
Application of, 520, 537
Charts for Flow in Pipelines, 135* Chase, H., on Pressure Die-Casting in Modern
Industry, 613*, 643*
Chassis, Motor Car. See Motor-Car Details Chauffage Gandillot, Dt^riaz System of Floor
Heating, 211
Chelmsford, Marconi School of 'Wireless Communication, 622*
Chelsea School of Metallurgy, Prospectus, 316 Chemical Analysis. See Analysis — Engineering, Applications of Rubber in, 445*, 559*
— Engineers, Education of, 433
Institution of, Associate-Membership Examinations, 572
— Examination of Electroplated Coatings, 56
— Industry, Society of : Harrogate Meeting, Presidential Address, by Lord Lever- hulme, on Chemistry and Research, 132 ; Trends in Chemical Science, by Prof. G. G. Henderson, 132; New Iron Alloys, by Dr. A. B. Everest, 132
— Plant, Use of Synthetic Plastics in, 201*
— Science, Trends in, 132 Chemistry, Absorption and Extraction (Review), 447
— Inorganic, Survey of Modern Developments (Review), 90
— and Research, 132
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Chien Tang River, South China, Rail and Road Bridge over, 448*, 503*
Chilow ki Light-Actuated Relay, 329*
Chimney Gases, Recovery of Sulphur Dioxide from. Processes for, 189*
— Maximum Capacity of, 27
— New York City Building Codes for, 237 China, South, Chien Tang-River Rail and Road Bridge, 448*, 503*
Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., Accumulators, 342
Christian! and Nielsen, Foundations and Piers, Storstrom Bridge, 372*
Chromador Steel, Use in Chien Tang-River Bridge, South China, 448*, 503*
Use in Storstrom Bridge, 373* Cinder-Recovery System for Boiler Plants (United Conveyor Corporation), 123*
Cinematograph. See Kinematograph Circulating Pumps. See Pumps City and Guilds Engine^'ring College, Report on
Careers of Graduates, 545
— of London College, Lectures on Iron and
Steel, 204
Civil Aerial Transport. See Aeronautics
— Engineering Works, Large-Scale, 519
— Engineers, American Society of, Symposium
on Flood Control in United States, 103 ; Passage of Turbid Water through Lake Mead, by N. C. Grover and C. S. Howard, 234
French Society of, British Section, Presidential Address, by W. T. Halcrow, on Large-Scale Civil-Engineering Works, 519
Civil Engineers, Institution of:
Presidential Address, by S. B. Donkin, on Generation and Distribution of Electricity, 517, 521*, 555*
Vernon-Harcourt Lecture, by Dr. B.
Cunningham, on Estuary Channels and Embankments, 690
New Series of Engineering Abstracts, 718 Civil Servants, Professional, Institution of, Annual Dinner, 631
Civilisation, Modern, and Engineering, 519 Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd., Boilers for Sculcoates Power Station, 551
Clay-Feeding Table with Gyral Variable-Speed Reduction Gear, 279*
— Fire. See EirebTtcks ; Eireclay; Pefractory
Materials
— Researches on Properties of, 259
Cleaning Plant, Coal (Berrisford Engineering Co., Ltd.), 621
Cleansing Machine, Street, 1,200-gall. (Scam- mell Lorries, Ltd.), 565*
— Services, Public, Cost of, Report, 262 Cleveland Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Iron Works, Middlesbrough, Coke-Oven and
By-Product Plant, 36*, 118*, 758*
— North Steel-Melting Shop, Middlesbrough,
Hot-Metal Practice in, 351, 413*
— and the Northern Counties, Notes from, 13,
43, 73, 99, 125, 151, 179, 205, 231, 257, 285 324, 345, 375, 403, 429, 457, 485, 615, 542*
571, 597, 627, 655, 684, 715, 745. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— South Steel-Melting Shop, Middlesbrough,
Hot-Metal Practice in, 351, 414*
Climate of Greenland, 161 _ See also Meteorological
Climax Kock Drill and Engineering \\ork3, Ltd., Three-Cylinder, Two-Stage Air Compressor, 188* , .
Clocks, High-Precision, at National Physical
Laboratory, 187 .
Clutch, Serrated-Eace, for Electric Control Gear for Motors, 482* .
Clyde Navigation Trust, Diesel-Electric lerry for, 661*
CO2. See Carlson Dioxide Coaches, Kailway. See Carriages
Coal and Allied Industries, Ltd., Carbonising
Plant, Tests of, 217
~ Bill as Affecting Industry, 689
— Cannel, Low-Temperature Carbonisation 01,
612
— Carbonisation Investigations, Fuel Kesearch
Board, 658 .
— Cleaning Plant (Berrisford Engineering Co.,
Ltd.), 621 . .
~ and Coke, Sampling and Analysis of. Specification, 516
— Its Constituents and Uses (Review), 51
— Distributor, Revolving, Cleveland Coke-Oven
Plant, 38*, 758*
— Dust, Briquetting of, 207 Explosion Investigations by
Mines Research Board, 761
— Economy. See Fuel
— Gas. See Gas
— Handling Plant, Coke-Oven
Product Plant, Cleveland, 37*, Plant, Dalmarnock Power Station, 397* Plant, Fleetwood Docks, 253*
— Loading Plant for Locomotives, Stranraer,
576*
— Measure Rocks, Classification, Nomencla
ture and Relative Strengths, Report, 471
— Mine. See also Colliery
— Mining Industry, Position of, 600
— Northumberland, Carbonisation under Pres
sure, 365, 385*
— and Oil Carbonising Plant, Erith, Tests, 497 Low-Temperature Carbonising Plant,
Coal and Allied Industries, Ltd., Tests, 217 Production from, Australian Report on, 748
— Preparation for Market, Investigations, 658
— Pulverised. See Pulver ised Coal
— Pulverising Plants, Safety Precautions with,
212
— Pusher, Steam, 4-2-6 Type “Coronation”
Locomotive, 70*
— Resources, Utilisation of, 460
— Welsh, Investigation on Gasification of, 658
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Coating, Anodic, of Magnesium Alloys, 209
— Electroplated, Thickness and Measurement
of 53*
— Galvanised, Thickness Tests, Specification,
268
— Tin, on Tin-Plate, Investigations on Poro
sity of, 640*, 700*
— Zinc, Testing of, 321
Cochrane and Sons, Ltd., Motor Trawler, “ British Honduras,” 711
Cochrane-Bly Co., Universal Milling and Shaping Machine, 583*
Cockerill, J. and Co., “ Prins Albert,” 411* Coefficient of Friction of Metal-Sprayed
Bearings, 757
Cofferdams, Chambon Reservoir, Isere, France, 168*
Cohen, G., Sons and Co., Ltd., Luncheon to further the Scrap Campaign, 103
Coke-Burning Appliances, Domestic, Use of, 630 —and Coal, Sampling and Analysis of, Specification, 516
— Consumption in Small-Scale Cupola, Experiments in, 365, 730*
— Handling Plant, Weston-super-Mare Gas Works, 623*, 659
— High-Volatile, Hydrogenation ci,611
— Oven and By-Product Plant, Cleveland Iron
Works, 36*, 118*, 758*
Industry, Position and Prospects, 629 Managers’ Association, Presidential Ad
dress, by G. W. J. Bradley, on Coke-Oven Industry, 629
Otto Regenerative Twin-Flue, 38* —? Production from Carbonisation of Coal and
Oil, 497
— Properties, Effect of Carbonising under
pressure on, 365, 385*
Coking Industry, By-Product, Position of, 629
— Low-Temperature, of Coal. See Coal
— Stoker. See Stoker
Cold Rolling of Tin-Antimony Alloys, Effect of, 270
of Two-Phase Alloys, Deformation by, 382
— Storage. See Pefrigeraiion
Coleman Foundry Equipment Co., Ltd.,
Cutting-off Machine for Risers, 424* Collars on Shafts, Effect on Fatigue Range, 89* Collector, Refuse, Container-Type (Dennis
Brothers, Ltd.), 565
with Gas De-Contamination Gear (Shel- voke and Drewry, Ltd.), 564*
— Sweepers, Sprinkling, and Hand-Controlled
(Lewin Road Sweepers, Ltd.), 649* College. See Education
Collet and Engelhard, Portable Horizontal
Shaping Machine, 467*
Collgraf Lubricating System (Trier Brothers, Ltd.), 425
Colliery, Brierley, Accident in, 348
— (Characteristics of Rocks in. Investigations on, 471
— Chief Inspector of Mines’ Report on. 600
— Electricity in. Report for 1936, 347
— Firedamp Investigations by Safety in Mines
Research Board, 761
— Lighting. See Safety Lamps
— Machinery, Use of in, 600
— Safety in Mines Research Board Report, 761
— Secretary for Mines’ Report on, 600
— Wharncliffe Woodmoor, Accident in, 347
— Winding. See Winding
(’olliery. See also Mines and Coal
Collisions. See Accidents
Colorado Itiver, Boulder Dam, Automatic Sector-Sluice Spillways, 61*, 113* ; Penstocks, 703*
Colorimetry, Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 691
(Columns for All-Welded Factory, Waltham Cross, 712*
— Ferro-Concrete, Earl’s Court Exhibition
Building, 246*
— Fractionating, of Keebush, 202*
— Steel, Solution of Buckling Problems in, 62*.
See LETTERS, 265, 323
— See also Struts
Colville Constructional Co., Ltd., Steelwork for All-Welded Factory, Waltham Cross, 712* Combined Stress. See under Tests {Materials) Combustion Chamber, Bailey Water-Wall Type, Dalmarnock Power Station, 399*
— Characteristics of Town Gas, 576
— Levels in Flame Gases, 531*
— in Oil Engines, Consideration of, 153, 265 Engines, Experiments on, 139*, 195*
— in Pulverised-Coal Flame Jets, 601, 608*,
667*. See ERRATUM, 694
~ See also T'uel; Gases
Commerce. See Trade. See also Industries and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Commercial Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Motor Cars. See Motor
Transport Exhibition, Earl’s Court, 507*, 548*, 587*
Commission, Boyal See Royal Commission Commonwealth. See Australia
Companies. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Comparator, Millionth, National Physical Laboratory, 165*
— Vertical (C.’Zeiss), 163*
Compass, Liquid Stabol (Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd.), 338*
— Spherical, Kelvin-White (Kelvin, Bottomley
and Baird, Ltd.), 338*
— Yacht (Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd.),
338*
Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives Compound Stress. See Tests {Materials) Compressed-Air Tools. See Machine Tools Compressor, Air. See Air Compressor Concrete Aggregates, Sulphate Crystallisation Test for, 581
— Breaker, Pneumatic (Broom and Wade, Ltd.),
567*
— Dam, Chambon Reservoir, Isdre, France,
167*, 219*, 391*
— Influence of Mineral Sulphates on, 605
— Light-Weight, Foamed Blast-Furnace Slag
for, 366, 388, 450
— Mixer, 10/7 cub. ft. Portable (R. H. Neal &
Co., Ltd.), 533*
7/5 cub. ft. Portable (Stothert and Pitt, Ltd.), 566*
10-cub. ft. Road-Making (Blaw-Knox. Ltd.), 533*
— Mixing Plant, Chambon Reservoir Dam,
Is^re, France, 219*
— Post Making Machine, with Vibrator (A.
Gaudin), 211*
— Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete
— Resistance to Freezing and Thawing, 581
— for Road Construction, 577
— Road Vibrating and Finishing Machine
(E. P. Allam and Co., Ltd.), 618*
— and Stone, Bonded, Shearing Tests of, 215, 242*, 261
— Tanks, Rubber Lining for, 446*
— Vibrated, Bond of, 581
Investigations on, 450
— Vibrator, Variable-Amplitude Electric (Liner
Concrete Machinery Co.), 535*
— Walls, Thermal Conductivity of. Researches
on, 405
— See also Ferro-Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Condensers for Refrigerating Plant, Dhibban Aerodrome, Iraq, 619*, 678*
— Surface, Delas Type, Dalmarnock Power
Station, 399
Condensing Plant, Work of Sir C.A. Parsons on 695 ’
Conditioner, Exhaust, Gas, for Diesel Locomotives (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 452* 564
Conductivity, Thermal, of Building Materials, 405
of Engineering Materials, National Physical Laboratory Investigations, 561*
of Pyrotenax Cable, 454
— See also Electric
Conference, International, on Acoustics, Paris, 183
on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. See Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, International Conference on
— on Technical Instruction of Farm Workers 660 ’
~ World Power, Future Arrangements for, 77 • Vienna, Meeting, Programme, 575
Congress, Engineering, International, Glasgow 1938, Provisional Programme, 683 ’
— International Railway, Paris. See Railway
Congress, International
~ Public-Works, Roads and Transport. See Public Works, Roads and Transport Congress
— World, on Universal Documentation, Paris
441 ’
Conservation of Coal. See Coal
Considere Construction Ltd., Foundations for Dalmarnock Power Station, 398*
Consolidated Brake and Engineering Co., Ltd. Girling-Consolidated Brake for Trollev- ’Bus, 550*
Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exhibition, 342 ; 160-cub. ft. Portable Air Compressor, 647*
Constable, Dr. J. E. R., on Noise Transmission along Water Pipes, 612*
Constructional Engineering Co., Ltd Core- Making Machine, 370* : Oil and Water Separator, 370
Container, Radium, Heavy Tungsten Alloy for 622*
Tests of, 587
Container, Railway, Developments in, 458
— Tin-Plate, Corrosion of, Report, 59
— Type Refuse Collector (Dennis Brothers,
Ltd.), 228*
Contorograph for Examination of Surfaces, 757 Contracts, 12, 42, 72, 98, 124, 178, 204, 230, 256, 284, 324, 344, 374, 403, 428, 456, 484, 514, 542, 570, 596, 626, 654, 684, 714, 744
— Defect and Maintenance Clauses in, 131 Control, Camshaft, Electro-Pneumatic, for
Multiple-Unit Operation (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 400*
— Desk for Electrical-Winding Equipment
(Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 592
— Equipment, Southern Railway, Portsmouth
Electric Line, 10*
— Gear, Automatic Sector-Sluice Spillway,
Boulder Dam, 114*
Electric, Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel* Works, 482*
Electro-Pneumatic, 1,200-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 23*
for 290-h.p. Oil-Engined Rail Car, 147*. See Addendum, 230
— Panel for Electric Motor-Driven Blowers
(British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 339*, 371
— Room, Hebburn-on-Tyne, Short-Circuit
Testing Station, 479*
— System, Automatic, for Air Compressor
(Broom and Wade, Ltd.)' 534*
for Electric Boilers, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 423*
— Valve, Hydraulic (H. Crowe Son) 680* Controllers, Electric Motor. See Motors, Electric
— Temperature and Humidity-Recording
(Short Mason, Ltd.), 338*
Conveyors, Bunkering Plant for Trawlers, Fleetwood Docks, 253*
—Coke-Oven Plant, Cleveland Iron Works, 37*, 758*
Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 589*
— for Dried Lanital Blocks, 673*
— Feeder for Threshing Machine (Marshall,
Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 65*
— Pneumatic, National Physical l^aboratory
Investigations on, 131
Cooke. R. G., on Five-Year Road Plan, 120 Cooking Equipment, Electric Trains, Southern Railway, 10
Cooler, Oil, Plate-Type (J. Gordon iV Co.. Ltd.), 371
Cooling Plant for Wine (Soci6t^ des Etablisse- ments Daubron), 172*
Cooper, Col. H. L., the Late, 160 Co-Operation in Industry, Advantages of, 466 Co-Partnership. See Labour
Cope, W. F., on Friction and Heat-Transmission Coefficients, 573. See LETTERS, 634*, 650, 711
Copper Alloys. See Brass; Bronze; and Alloys under Metallurgy
— Prices. See Metal-Brice Diagrams
— See Metallurgy
Copying Frame, Engineers’ (J. Halden A. Co., Ltd.), 337
— Machine, Photo- (J. Halden (V (’o., Ltd.),
336*
Core-Making Machine (Constructional Engineering Co., Ltd.), 370*
Coringa Port, India, Effect of Tidal Waves at, 407*
Cork Material for Vibration-Attenuating Supports, 298
“Coronation Scot,” Express Train, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 8*, 70*
— Train, London and North Eastern Railway,40* “ Corrientes,” Argentine Destroyer, Launch
of, 375
Corrit, G., Piers for Chien Tang-River Bridge, South China, 448*, 503*
Corrosion, Contact, Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 78
— Fatigue Investigations at National Physical
Laboratory, 49
of Steel, Effect of Discontinuities and Surface Conditions, 87*, 140*
— Metallic, Passivity and Protection (Review),
446
— of Propellers. See Propellers
— Tests of Electroplated Coatings, 53
— of Tin-Plate (Containers, Report, 59
— of Water Mains, Prevention of, 671
Couper, J. D. C., Reporton Ceylon Railways, 154 Coupling, Fluid, Vulcan-Sinclair, Scoop-Controlled (Hydraulic Coupling and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 367*
— Union, with Pi’essure-Filled .loint Ring
(Wills Pressure-Filled Joint Ring, Ltd ) 369*
— See also Clutch.
Covent Garden, London, Fruit Research Laboratory, 17
Coventry Gas Works, Ammonia-Liquor Concentration Plant, Tests with, 697
— Government Aircraft Factories at, 511*
Coverings, Non-Conducting. See Heat In- sulaticm
Crane, C. H., Earl’s Court Exhibition Building 245*, 421*, 473*. See LETTER, 521
— 500-ton Floating, for Erection of Storstrom
Bridge, 373*
— 250-ton Floating, for Lock-Gate Handling,
Manchester Ship Canal, 159*
— Portal, 720-ton, for Caisson Construction,
Chien Tang-Riyer Bridge, South China,503*
— Revolving, 12-ton Electrically-Operated,
for Seaplane Catapult Ship “ Ostmark ” 110*
— Runway, Overhead, Dusseldorf National
Exhibition, 200*
— Travelling, Steam, 10-ton, of Welded Con
struction (J. Booth Brothers, Ltd.), 540*
— See also Coal-Handling Plant; Gantry ('rankshafts, Fatigue Investigations on, 89*
— - with Metal-Sprayed Journals, Tests with,757
— Torsional Rigidity of, 275*. See LETTERS
711*, 743
< 'reep in 'Flanged Pipe Joints for High Pressures and Temperatures, 364, 539*, 615*, 674*
— Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 77*
— of Steel and Cast Iron at High Temperatures, 157
Cremer, H. W., on Education of (Uieinical Engineers, 433
(.'reosote for Timber Preservation, 390
Crofts (Engineers), Ltd., Automatic Infinitely- Variable Speed Gear for Textile Machinery, 106*
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., Exhibits at Cardiff Engineering Exhibition, 591
Crop Lifter, Harkness (A. Herbert-, Ltd.), 32*
Cross, W., tile Late, 483
Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 6-li.p. and 14-h.p. Single Cylinder Oil Engines, with Air (’ompressors, 304* ; 10-h.p. Oil-Driven Generator and Pumping Set, 308* ; llO-li.p. Pour-(^ylin- der Dircct-Peversing Diesel Engine, 604*
Crowe, H., ISL Son, Hydraulic Control Valve,680* Crude-Oil Engines. See Eni/ives, O'!!
Crusher, Gyrasphere (Pegson, Ltd.), 565*
Crystals, Single, Fatigue in, 47
(Crystalline Structure of Metals. See J/icro- Pholographs
Cultivator, Garden, Petrol-Driven (Kansome, Sims tfe Jefferies, Ltd.), 91*
— with Hydraulic Lift (Miller Wheels, Ltd.)92*
— Power-Lift (Stanliay, Ltd.), 32*
— 8-h.p. Tractor (C. H. Pugh, Ltd.), 33* Cunliffe r. Hampton-Wick Local Board, 131 Cunningham, Dr. B., on Estuary Channels and
Embankments, 690
Cupola, Balanced-Blast, Progress with, 540
— Small-Scale, Experiments in, 365, 73* Current, Electric. See Electric
Curtis, J., Sons. Coke-Fired Grass-Drving Plant, 96*
(hitler, S„ the Late, 740
Cutlift Mower, 31*
Cut-Offs, Kiver, Investigations at United States Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 193*, 249*, 273*
Cutting, Deep, in Steel by Oxygen Jet, 682*
— Machines, Oxygen-Jet, Triple-Head and
Twin-Head (Hancock Co, (Engineers), Ltd.), 307*
Oxygen, for Locomotive Frames (British Oxygen Co., Ltd.), 333*
— Off Machine. See Machine Toole
Cvi lone^ in Bav of Bengal, Effect on Harbours, 407*

DAGENHAM Works, Ford Motor Co., Ltd.,
Welded Klonne Waterless Gasholder, 492* ; Instruction Courses at, 572 Daimler Co., Ltd., Government Aircraft
Factory, 511
Dalinarnock Power-Station Extensions, 397* ;
Constant-Support Hangers for Pipe Lines in, 666
Dam, Boulder, United States, Automatic Sector-Sluice Spillways, 61*, 113*; Penstocks, 703*
— Earth-Filled, United States Waterways
Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 193*
— Gravitv, Chambon Reservoir, Is^re, France,
167*, 219*
Tangential Foundation Resistance of, Experiments on, 215*, 242*, 261
— Nowy Saez, Poland, 13
Damping, Torsional, Recording j^paratus for
(Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 652* Danish State Railways, Storstrom Railway and
Road Bridge, 372*
Dannatt, Dr. C., on Rapid Test for Thermal
Resistivity, 385*
Darlington Forge, Ltd., Heat-Treatment Department, 451*
Dashpot with Large Range of Damping, 409 * Daubron, Socidt^ des Etablissements, Cooling Plant for Wine, 172*
Davey, Paxman and Co. (Colchester), Ltd., 157- b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Oil Engine, 337* ; 250- b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Oil Engines, 661*
David, Prof. W. T., on Combustion Levels in
Flame Gases, 531* ; on Specific Heat of Gases, 604, 634. See 561*
Davidson, Col. J. R., Hammersmith Pumping
Station, 709*
Davis, R. F., on Mechanics of Flame and Air
Jets, 608*, 667*. See 601. See Erratum, 694
Davis, W., on Microphotographic Reproduction of Documents, 432, 714
Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd., Welding Manipulator, 311*
Dawson Joint for Steam Pipes (Stewarts and
Lloyds, Ltd.), 341
Dawson, Sir P., on Coal: the Next Step, 460 De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., Electric-
Discharge Workshop Lighting, 109*
Defect and Maintenance Clauses in Contracts.
132
Deformation Energy Method of Analysis of '
Elastic Structures, 289, 669*
Delft Engine-Testing Laboratory, Four-Ball
Top Testing Apparatus for Lubricating Oils, 1*
Demag, A.-G., Overhead Runway Crane, 200* ;
Exhibits at Cardiff Engineering Exhibition, 622
Demolition and Construction Co., Ltd., Factory for Pyrotenax, Ltd., 454
Denmark, Storstrbm Railway and Road Bridee 372* ’
Dennis Brothers, Ltd., Container-Type Refuse
Collector, 228* ; 500-gall. per minute
Petrol-Driven Trailer Pump, 548* ; Container-Type Refuse Collector, 565 ; Oil- Engined Forward-Control Chassis, 588* Denny Bracken Scythe, 33*
Densem, N. E., on Ferrous-Ferric Oxide Equilibrium in Glasses, 29
Densham, A. B., on Ignition of Gas by Cold
Catalyst, 697
D^riaz System of Floor Heating, 211
Derricks. See Cranes
Designing Machinery, Efficiency in, 76 Destroyers. See Warships
Detoxification of Town Gas, Processes for 102 Detritus Dump at Sewage Works, Elimination of, 672
Deutsche Luft Hansa A.-G., Seaplane Catapult
Ship, “ Ostmark,” 109*
Dimbleby, V., on Limestone for Manufacture of Colourless Glass, 29
Dines Anemometer, Modification of, 101
Dings Magnetic Sejiarator (’o.. Cross-Belt Magnetic Separator, 358*
Direction Kinding, Radiotelegraj)hic. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Directories. Seo LITERATURE INDEX Discontinuities, Effect on Failure under
Repeated Stress, 87*, 140*
Discussion on Lubrication and Lubricants. See Mechanical Engineers, Institution of
Disputes, Trades. See Labour
Distortion Factor in Magnetic Testing, 380, 439* Distributor, Coal, Revolving, Cleveland Coke- Oven, Plant, 38*, 758*
Dobbie, Mclnnes, Ltd., Feed-Water Regulator, 305* ; Tank-Depth Indicator, 300* ; Viscometer, 306
Docks, Fleetwood, Bunkering Plant for Trawlers, 253*
Documents, Microphotographic Reproduction of, 432, 714
Documentation, Universal, World Congress on. Paris, 441
Dodd, E., the Late, 710
Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd., Dual-Purpose Commercial Motor Vehicle, 9* ; 26-Seater, 73-b.h.p. Motor-Omnibus Chassis, 588*
Domestic Appliances, Use of Pressure Die- Castings in, 643*
— Use of Coke, 630
Dominion Wheel and Foundries, Ltd., t'hapman Cone Valve, 172*
Doncaster, Locomotive Weighing Machines, 80 Donkin, S. B., on Generation and Distribution of Electricity, 517, 521*, 555*
Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., Cleveland Iron Works, Coke-Oven and By-Product Plant, 36*, 118*, 758*; Hot-Metal Practice in Steel Works of, 351, 359*, 413*, 443* ; Storstrom Railway and Road Bridge, Denmark, 372* ; Chien Tang-River Bridge, South China, 448*, 503*
Dorman, W. H., and Co., Ltd., 60-70 h.p. Four- Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 368* ; 32 ')- h.p. Two-Cylinder Diesel Engine, 648*
Dortmunder Union Briickenbau A.-G., ('orrn- gated-Trough Arch Roof, 200*
Double Helical G. ars. See Gears.
Dougill, G., on Retort House and Exhauster Governing in Gas Works, 697
Douglas V. Rhyl District Urban Council, 35 Do\vn, F. J., the Late, 543
Drain Fittings, Enamelled-Fireclay, Specification, 99
Drainage Act, Land, 1930, Report on Operations under, 377
Draughting Table, Parallelogram (J. Halden and Co., Ltd.), 387
Drawings, Plans and Specifications, Ownership of, 247
Drier, Grass (Mobile Driers, Ltd.), 68*
— — Coke-Fired, (J. Curtis <fe Sons), 96* Drills and Drilling Machines. See Machine
! Tools
Drill Grinding Machine. See Grinding Machine under Machine Tools
Drive, Oscillatory, Mono-Piano Turner, Ltd.), 52*
Driver v. Lady Beresford, 249 Driving Chains. See Chains Drummond Brothers, Ltd.,
Capstan Lathe, 592*
Dry-Cleaning Industry, Risk
static Spark Discharge in, 692
Drying Machine, Steam-Heated, for Lanital Flocks, 673*
— Plant, Grass, Coke-Fired (J. Curtis and Sons),
96*
Grass (Mobile Driers, Ltd.), 68*
— of Timber in Kilns, Experiments on, 357
Ducharme, A., ”” "" ’
Crete, 211*
Duddell Medal Award to Prof. W. G. Cadv 47
Dugas, R., on tinent, 234
Dumper, 2|-cub. yd. Tipper Hopper (Aveling- Barford, Ltd.), 535*
Dunajec River, Poland, Nowy Saez Reservoir, 13
Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., Rubber-Lined Pipe for Hot Gases, 446*
Dunston B. Power Station, Thermal Efficiency of, 318
Dusseldorf National Exhibition, 198* Dust, Coal, Explosions of. See Coal Dust See also Pulverised Coal
— Industrial (Review), 51
Precipitator, Electrostatic (Pangborn Corporation), 388*
— Storms in Sudan, 162
Dynamos. See Generators, Electric; Turbo- Generators
Dynamometers for Use in Mines, 761 ~ See also Brake ; Torsion Meter
Dynatron, Production of Electrical Vibrations by, 320, 330*
Dys<ra, K. A., and Co,, Ltd., Adjustable-Reach
Trailer for Long Loads, 266* ; 75-ton
Twelve-Wheeled Low-Loading Road
Irailer, 568* : 30-cwt. Low-Loading
» 2,000-gan, Road-Rail Tank
Trailer, 587*

EALING Local Board v. Gooding, 249
Building, London, ’ 473*. See LETTER, 521 :
X ^’2^^ Exhibition at, 434 ; Commercial Motor-Transport Exhibition at, 507*, 548*,
Easycut Mower, 91*
Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Works, Electric Control Gear, 482*
Ebdy V. M’Gowan, 249
Lboiute Pump for Corrosive Liquids (Dexine, Ltd.), 559*
Echo Sounder, Magneto-Striction (Marconi International Marine Communication Co., Ltd.), 342*
Eckert und Ziegler G.m.b.H., Injection Mould- ing Machine for Plastics, 424
Economics, Industrial. See Labour
— and Political Science, London School of
Courses at, 178 ’
Economisers, Poster Gilled-Tube, Dalmarnock Power Station, 399*
— Marine, Poster-Wheeler, 342 Economy, Puel. See Fuel Eddy, H. P., the Late, 160
Edinburgh, Memorial to Dr. A. G. Bell, 631
— Princes Street Station, Resignalling of, 524 Edhngton, J B., and Co., Ltd., Self-Lock
Steerage Horse Hoe, 061
Education :
Architectural Association, School of Planning and Research for National Development, Conference on, 749
Army Vocational Training Centre, Aidershot, Closing of, 21; Demonstration bj^ Students at, 103.
Bradford Technical College, Prospectus, 150 Brighton Technical College, Calendar, 316 Bristol University, Paculty of Engineering Prospectus, 240
British Poundry School, Birmingham, Annual Report, 371
Chelsea School of Metallurgy, Prospectus, 316
Chemical Engineers, Education of, 433 Institution of, Associate Membership Examinations, 572
City and Guilds Engineering College, Report on Careers of Graduates of, 545 of London College, Lectures on Iron and Steel, 204
I araday House Old Students’ Association, Annual Dinner, 518
Pord Motor Co., Ltd., Dagenham, In- stniction Courses at. 572
Gas Engineers, Institution of. Report of Education Committee, 576
Hokkaido Imperial University, Calendar, i 178
Imperial College of Science and Tech- ? nology. Department of Aeronautics, Syllabus, 411
Iron and Steel Institute, Carnegie Research
Fund, 343
King’s College, London, Faculty of Engineering Prospectus, 266
Li^ge School of Mines, Centenary of, 261 London School of Economics, Courses at, 178
Manchester Municipal College of Technology Prospectus, 284
Marconi School of Wireless Communication, Chelmsford, 622*
Marine Engineers, Institute of, Associate-
Membership Examination, 240;
Lloyd’s Register Scholarship, 651 Northampton Polytechnic, London Prospectuses, 316 ; Prize Distribution, 690 Planning and Research for National Development, School of. Conference on, 749 Polytechnic, London, Studd Lecture on Personnel Problem in Industrial Concerns, by M. J. Railing, 128
Pulteney Evening Institute, Classes at. 343
Queen Mary College, London, Jubilee, 660 Royal Aeronautical Society, Associate- Fellowship and Associate-Membership Examinations, 343
“ CoUege, Glasgow, Calendar,
Sanitary Institute, Royal, Courses and
Examinations, 150; Syllabus of Courses, 626
Sheffield University, Lectures on Railway Electric Traction, 343
Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Calendar, 266 ; Course in Chemical Engineering, 433
South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines, Calendar, 284
Swansea University College, Departments of Engineering and Metallurgy, Prospectuses, 266
Training of Engineers, 290, 299, 469. See
LETTER,353
— School for Motor Drivers, London Mid
land and Scottish Railway, 106
— System of General Electric Co., Ltd.,128 Transport, Institute of, Graduate and
Associate-Membership Examinations. 240
University College, London, Faculty of Engineering Prospectus, 150
— Courses for Engineers, 290, 299, 469.
See LETTER, 353
West Hartlepool Technical College Prospectus, 284
Westminster Technical Institute, Courses at, 343
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Edwards, F. S., on 2,000-kV Impulse Generator, 222*
Edwards, F. J., Ltd., Combined Shearing and Punching Machine, 337*
Efficiency of Engines. See Engines
Etfluents, Industrial, and River Pollution, 58 Egan, A., L., on Dynamic Rope Stresses in Emergency Braking on Winders, 755*
Egypt, Economic Conditions in. Report, 348 Egyptian State Railways, Position of, 348 Ejector, Hydraulic, for Chien Tang-River Bridge Construction, 503*
Elastic Modulus of Building Materials, Determination of, 450

Electric :

Accumulators (Alkluin Storage Batteries, Ltd.), 426
— (Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd.), 342
— Cut-Off Switch (C.A.V.-Bosch, Ltd.), 443*
— Vehicles. See Motor Vehicle; Motor Truck Alternating-Current Machines, Performance and Design of (Review), 90
Method in Permeabilitv Testing, 379, 387*
for Ship Propulsion, 200 Alternator. See Generator and Turbo Arc Welding. See Welding
Battery Vehicles. See Motor-Vehicle ; Motor Truck
— See Accumulator (above)
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Dinner, 546
Cable-Box Basement Installation, 33-kV Switchgear, 177*
— National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 707
— Pyroteiiax (Pyrotenax, Ltd.), 454*
— Trailing, in Mines, Accidents from, 348
— Underground, for Power Transmission, 556
Capacitance Attenuator, 692 Cathode Rays. See Cathode
Cells, Standard, National Physical Laboratory, Investigations on, 691
Central Stations. See Power Stations Circuits, Three-Phase, CX)mputation of Positive and Negative Sequence Components of, 607*
Coils, Standard, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 691
Conductors, Investigation of Resistance of, 707
Cranes. See Cranes
Dielectrics, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 691
Dynamo. See Generator ; Turbo-Generator EleiTrical Apparatus, Non-Ignitable Boards for, Specification, 240
— Equipment for Diesel-Electric Ferry (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 661* for Inspection Car for Interior of Water Mains, 741*
for Trolley ’Bus (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 548*
for Trolley ’Bus and Electric- Battery Vehicle (British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd.), 549*
— Instruments Specification, 541
— Machines ; Induction Motors (Review), 158
— Machinery, Alternating-Current, Performance and Design of (Review), 90 for Mines at Cardiff Engineering Exhibition, 591
Use of Synthetic Plastics in, 145* — Research Association, Rapid Test for Thermal Resistivity, by Dr. C. Dannatt, 385*
Laboratories, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 722*
Electricity Commissioners, Statistics of Fuel Consumption and Units Generated, 318 ; Annual Report, 574
— Department, National Pliysical Laboratory, Work of, 691*, 707*
— in Mines, Report for 1936, 347
— Supply Commission of South Africa, Report of, 174
Electron Diffraction Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 586 Electroplating. See Electro
Electrostatic Spark Discharge, Risk of Explosion from, 691
Furnaces. See Furnaces Fuses, Specification, 591 Generating Stations. See Power Stations Generator. See Generator and Turbo High-Voltage Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 708
Laboratory, Metropolitan - Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., 2,000-kV Impulse Generator, 222*
Laboratory, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 722*
Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
Induction Motors. See Motors, Electric Insulating Materials, Rapid Test for Thermal Resistivity of, 385*
Solid, Specification, 240 Lamp Holder, Articulated (Mek-Elek, Ltd.), 312*
— Luminescent, High-Pressure Mercury- Vapour, 661
— Mercury Electric-Discharge, Use In Factories, 109*
— Tungsten-Filament, Specification, 179
— Work of Sir C. A. Parsons on, 696* Lighting Research by General Electric Co., Ltd., 523*
Locomotives. See Locomotives, Electric Machines. See Generators; Motors; Turbo Mains. See Cables (above)
Motors. See Motors, Electric Meters, Electricity, Specification, 531 Oil Switch. See Switchgear
Oscillator, Valve-Maintained, for Use in Radio Communication, 737
Oscillograph, Cathode-Ray, Hebburn-on- Tyne, Short-Circuit Station, 479* Photometer, Photo-Electric, Investiga- f.inna with 708
Electric—continued.
Power Stations. See Power Stations
— See Power Pyrometer. See Pyrometer Kailways. See liailways Rays. See Cathode ; Gamma ; Rdntgen Rectifier, Mercury-Arc, Factory for Manufacture of, Witton, 603*
Relay, Light-Actuated, Chilowski, 329* Resistance Welding. See Welding Resistivity of Copper-Nickel-Aluminium Alloys, 321
Rdntgen Rays. See Rontgen Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion Standards and Units, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 691
Storage Battery. See Accumulator (above) Street Railways. See Trarmvays Substation. See Substation
Surge Protection of Transmission Lines, Investigations on, 708
Switchgear. See Switchgear; Motors, Electric Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
Telephony. See Telephony Thyratron Stroboscope, 708*
Traction. SQQ Locomotives, Electric; Trolley 'Bus ; Railways ; Tramways Tramways. See Tramways Transformers. See Transformers Turbo-Generators. See Turbo-Generators Vibrations, Electrical, Applications in Television, 320, 330*
Voltage-Control Panel, Thyratron (British Thomson-Houston Co.,Ltd.), 339*, 371
— Three-Phase, Computation of Positive and Negative Sequence Components of, 607*
Water Heating, Sheathed-Wire Immersers for, 162
Welding. See Welding
Winding Gear. See Winding
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
— Telephony. See Telephony X-Rays. See Rbntgen Rays See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Electric Furnace Co. (U.S.A.), Continuous Electric Annealing Furnace, for Malleable Castings, 218*
Electrical Engineers, Institution of :
Annual Conversazione, 52
Overseas Members’ Conversazione, 76 Presidential Address, by Sir G. Lee, on Telephone and Telegraph Developments, 525
Electrification of Paris-Orleans and Midi Railways, by A. Bachellery, 702
Parsons Memorial Lecture on Scientific Activities of the Late Hon. Sir Charles A. Parsons, O.M., F.R.S., by Dr. G. Stoney, 632*, 695*, 759*
Electrical Industry Pension Scheme Report, 601 Electricity Commissioners. See under Electric Electrolytic Corrosion. See Corrosion Electromagnets, Ltd., Rotary-Drum Type
Separator, 336* ; Jig-Shaker Type Chute Separator, 336*
Electroplated Coatings Thickness and Measurement of, 53*
Electroplating, Nickel, of Steel, Effect on Fatigue Range, 140
Electroscopes, Gold-Leaf, for Radium Investigations, 587*
Elevators, New York City Building Code for, 237
— See also Lifts
Ellison, Capt. F. B., History of the Hay Railway, 762
Ellison, G., Ltd., Exhibits at Cardiff Engineering Exhibition, 592
Ellson, G., Electrification Work, Southern
Railway Portsmouth Line, 10* Embankments and Estuary Channels, 690 Emmons, W. J., on Sulphate Crystallisation
Test for Aggregates, 581 Employees. See Labour Employment. See Labour “ Endeavour 11,” Sailing Yacht, Design of, 183 Endurance Tests. See Alternating Stress under
Tests {Materials}
Engelund, Dr. A., Storstrom Railway and
Road Bridge, Denmark, 372* Engines, Aero. See Aeronautics
— Diesel. See Engines, Oil, Diesel; Marine
Propulsion ; Motorships
— Fire. See Fire Engines
— Gas, Erren (Erren Engineering Co., Ltd.),
108*
See also Producer; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Internal-Combustion, Application to Road
Transport and Aircraft, 546
Combustion, Combustion Levels in, 531* Combustion, Gastric Sickness caused by
Exhaust Gases from, 120 Combustion, Lubrication of Bearings of,
437, 461, 463, 467. See Erratum, 571 Combustion, “ Ring-Free ” Lubricating
Oil for, 427
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Car. See Engines, Petrol
— Oil, 46-b.h.p. (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 66* Adaptation of Erren System to, 108* Air Starter for (William and James), 301* Diesel, Early (F. Krupp), 714
Diesel, for Electric Power Stations, 522* Diesel, 110-h.p. Four-Cylinder, Direct-
Reversing (Crossley Brothers, Ltd.), 604* Diesel, Fuels for, 153, 265 Diesel, for Locomotives, Exhaust-Gas
Conditioner for, 452*, 564
Diesel, Marine, 8,500-h.p. Twelve- Cylinder Sulzer-Cockerill, M.S. Prins Albert,” 411
Diesel, 20-b.h.p., for Road Roller (Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd., 535 Diesel, 900-h.p. Six-Cylinder Supercharged (American Locomotive Co.), 439*. See Erratum, 570
Diesel, 30-b.h.p. Three-Cylinder (Ailsa Craig, Ltd.), 648*
Diesel, 32’5-b.h.p. Two-Cylinder (W. H. Dorman and Co., Ltd.), 648*
Diesel, 20-h.p. Two-Cyllnder Atomic
(Petters, Ltd.), 647*
Engines, Oil, Diesel, 1^-b.h.p. Two-Cylinder for Road Roller (Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 535
Diesel See also Motorships; Marine’ Propulsion
Experiments on Combustion in, 139*,. 195*
44-b.h.p. Eour-Cylinder (Victor Oil Engines (Coventry), Ltd.), 424
Fowler-Sanders, 661
Fuel Injection Equipment for (Bryce, Ltd.), 312
14-b.h.p. Horizontal (Blackstone and Co.,.
Ltd.), 647 Lubrication of Bearings of, 463, 468 Marine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 309* Marine, 60-70 h.p., Four-Cylinder (W. H.
Dorman and Co., Ltd.), 368*
Marine, 48-h.p., Four-Cylinder (Gleniffer- Engines, Ltd.), 335*
Marine, 37-11.p. Four-Cylinder (National Gas and Oil Engine Co., Ltd.), 302*
Marine, 380-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder, Motor- Trawler “ British Honduras,” 711
Marine, 102-b.h.p. Six-(^ylinder (L.
Gardner and Sons, Ltd.), 337*
Marine, 300-h.p. Six-Cylinder (Petter.?- Ltd.), 302*
Marine, 30-h.p. Three-Cylinder (Russell, Newbery and Co.), 303*
Marine, 24-h.p. Two-Cylinder (Gleniffer Engines, Ltd.), 335*
Marine, 16-h.p. Two-Cylinder (R.
Lister (Marine Sales), Ltd.), 309* Marine, 18-h.p. Two-Cylinder (R.
Lister (Marine Sales), Ltd.), 309* Marine, 20-h.p. Two-Cylinder (J. <fe
McLaren, Ltd.), 304*
Marine, Unsuitability for Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 528
Motor Omnibus, 110-b.h.p. Eight- Cylinder Horizontally- Opposed (T. S. Motors, Ltd.), 510*
Motor Vehicle, 85-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 550*
Motor Vehicle, 99-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder
(J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 507* Pilot Injection in, Experiments on, 417* 16-b.h.p. Single-Cylinder (Petters, Ltd.),.
34*
— - 6-h.p. Single-Cylinder, with Air Compres
sor (Crossley Brothers, Ltd.), 304*
14-h.p. Single-Cylinder, with Air Compressor (Crossley Bros., Ltd.), 304*
25-b.h.p. Single-Cylinder, Enclosed (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 535*
250-h.p. Six-Cylinder (Davey, Paxman' and Co., Ltd.), 661*
157-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder (Davey, Paxman
and Co. (Colchester), Ltd.), 337*
113-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder, for Generating Set (Mirrlees, Bickerton Day, Ltd.), 336*
290-h.p. Six-Cylinder, for Rail Car (Sulzer-
Bros.), 147*. See Addendum, 230
Submarine, 600-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder- (Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd.) 5*
Two-Cylinder (Ailsa Craig, Ltd.), 302* Use in Motor Vehicles, 748
Use in Public-Service Vehicles, 650 See also Tractors and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Petrol, Aeroplane. See Aeronautics
35-h.p., Four-Cylinder (Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd.), 692*
Industrial, 6-12 h.p. Four-Cylinder
(Morris Motors, Ltd.), 647*
Motor Car, 14-h.p. Four-Cylinder (Hillman Motor Car Co., Ltd.), 293*
Motor Car, American, Trends in Design, 689
Motor-Car, Tendencies in Design, 434 Motor Car, Tests of Cast Crankshafts, 49* Motor Vehicle, Six-Cylinder (Leyland
Motors, Ltd.), 509*
Paraffin, Marine, 35-h.p. Four-Cvlinder (Ailsa Craig, Ltd.), 302*
6-h.p. Single-Cylinder for Cultivator (Ransome, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 91*
5-h.p. Single-Cylinder with Reduction
Gear (Kryn Lahy (1928), Ltd.), 304* See also Aeronautics; Carburettors;
Motor Cars
— Steam, Lubrication of, 468
• Marine. See Marine Propulsion ; Turbines
— Winding. See Winding
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Engineers, Chartered, and Passport Regulations, 461
— College-Trained, Salaries of, 545
— Education. See Education
— German Circle, Position and Development
of German Power- Station Construction, by. Dr. R. Schult, 659
— Institutions. See Institutions
— Remuneration for Abandoned Works,
Decisions on, 35
— and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of,
James Watt Dinner, 433 ; Damage to H.M.S. “ Hunter,” by H. Stanley, 498* ; Effects of Viscosity on Wave-Making of Ships, by W. C. S. Wigley, 719
Engineering Abstracts, New Series of, 718
— Applications of Rubber in 445*, 559*
— Apprentices. See Pducatien
— Congress, International, Glasgow, 1938,
Provisional Programme, 683
— Contracts. See Ccn2tracts ; Legal
— Department, National Physical Laboratory,
Work of, 47*, 77*, 129
— Education. See Education
— Fundamentals, Handbook of (Review), 198
— Incomes in United States, Reports, 749
— Institute of Canada. See Canada, Engineer
ing Institute of
— Laboratories. See Laboratories; National
Physical
— and Marine Exhibition, Olympia, 288, 301*,
333*, 349, 366*, 424*
— Measurements, Application of Optics to, 162*
— and Modern Civilisation, 519
— Progress. Half-Century of, 717 and Scientific Research, 287, 295
— Societies. See institiitions
— Standards. See Standards Institution
— Structures, Analysis of (Review), 222
Engineering and I ransport, 433
-—Works. See Works
England and Wales. Rainfall and Water Supply, 671
Commissioner for Special Areas’ Report, 630
English Electric Co., Ltd., Control Equipment and Motors for Electric Carriages, Southern Railway, 10. See Erratam, 74 ; MultiOperator Electric Welding Equipment, 313* ; Portable Electric-Welding Equipment, 313* ; Electrical Equipment for Trolley ’Bus, 548*
English Electric Transport Co., Transport- Developments in Greece, 346
English Steel (’orporation, Ltd., 230-ton Steel Ingot, 403 ; Heat-Treatment Department, Darlington Forge, 451*
Engraving Machine, Sempuco, 424*
“ Entre Rios,” Argentine Destroyer, Launch, 375
Equipments, Ltd., Air-Driven Sander, 336*; Portable Acetylene Generator, 336*
Erith Carbonising Plant, National Coke and Oil Co., Ltd., Tests of, 497
Erosion of Propellers. See Propellers
Erren Engineering Co., Ltd., Demonstration with Erren Kngine, 108*
Escalators, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 475
--- New York City Building Code for, 237
Est Railway, Locomotive Performances on 676, 734*
Estuary Channels and Embankments, 690
Ether, Ltd., Indicating and Recording Pyrometer, 370*
Evans, D. L. C., on Graphic Integrator and Ditt’erentiator, 268*
Evans, E. A., on Tndu.stiial Applications of Lubrication, 500. See 460, 476
Evaporation, Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 563
Evajjorators for Refrigerating Plant, Dhibban Aerodrome, Iraq, 619*, 678*
Everest, Dr. A. B., on New Iron Alloys, 132
Everett, Edgeumbe and Co., Ltd,, Inductor- Type Speedometer for Electric Trains, 465*
Ewens, F. G., on Heat Insulation of Buildings and Structures, 405
Excavator, }-cuh. yd. Self-Propelled (J. Allen and Sons (Oxford), Ltd., 617*
— |/§-cub. yd. Universal (Ruston-Bucyrus,
Ltd.), 536*
Exhaust-Gas Conditioner for Diesel Locomotives (Hunsiet Engine Co., Ltd.), 452*,564
— Valves. See Valves
Exhauster, Air, Single-Cylinder (Williams and .Tames), 301*
— Gas, Coke-Oven Plant, Cleveland Iron
Works, .50, 119*
Exhibition, Atom-Tracks, Science Museum, 601
— Building, Earl’s Court, London, 245*, 421*,
473*. See LETTER, 521
— Cardiff Engineering, 591, 621
— Centennial, Wellington, N.Z., 601
— Commercial Motor Transport, Earl’s Court
507*, 548*, 587*
— Dusseldorf National, 198*
— Engineering and Marine, Olvmpia, 288, 301*,
333*. 349, 366*, 424*
Foundry Trades. See Engineering Marine Exhibit.ion
— International Aero, Milan, 579*
— Lubrication, Science Museum, South
sington, 477
— “Model Engineer,” 371
— Motor Car, Earl’s Court, 434 Car, New York National. 688
— Paris International Trade Fair, 171* Rolling Stock at, 261

FABER, A. W., Combined Slide-Rule and Calculator, 251
Faber, Dr. 0., on Air-Conditioning, 556* See 319 ; Air-Conditioning and Ventilating Ilant, Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 575, 589* See Addendum, (52.7
Fabric Bearings, Design and Lubrication of, 437, 461 ’
Factory Accidents. See Accidents
Aircraft and Aero-Engine, Government, 511*
— Board of Trade Statistics of, 288
( ane-Sugar, Machinery and Equipment of (Review), 90
— Control of Truck Traffic in, 132
— Gateshead, on ’Team-Valley Estate, 551 Management. See Works Mawigement in Special Areas, Progress with, 551, 630

Faraday House Old Students’ Association, Annual Dinner, 518
Farms, IJectric Boilers for, 159
— Klipstruit Sewage, Enclosed Percolation
Filters at, 672
— Machinery and Equipment (Review), 395
— Workers, Technical Instruction of, 660 Farming. See also Agriculture ; Tractors Faripiharson, «T. S., on Dust Storms in Sudan,
162
Fatigue of Crankshafts, 89*
— Industrial. See under Lab(rur
— Tests of Metals. See Alternating-Stress
under Tests {Materials}
Federation in Industry, Advantages of, 466 Feed Heating in Locomotives, 234
— Pumps. See Pumps
— Water Regulator (Dobbie, Mclnnes, Ltd.), 305*
Softener. See Water Softener
See also li’uZer
Feeder, (k)nveyor, for Threshing Machine (Marshall, Sons &Co.(Successors),Ltd.),65*
Felt, Hard, for Vibration-Attenuating Supports, 298
Fenner, J. H., Co., Ltd., Vee-Belt Drives in Air-Conditioning Plant, Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 575, 589*. See Addendum, Q'27
Ferguson Brothers (Port-Glasgow), Ltd., Diesel- Electric Ferry, 661*
Ferguson, Gen. H. B., United States Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 193*, 249*, 293*, 361
Ferretti Process for Artificial-Wool Manufacture, 673*
Ferro-Concrete Beams, Investigations on, 450 Bunkers, Coke-Oven Plant, Cleveland Iron Works, 37*, 758*
Caissons and Piers, Chien Tang-River Bridge. South China, 448*, 503*
Construction, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245*
New York City Building Code for, 237 Piling for Bridge Foundations, 606 Raft, Dalmarnock Power Station, 398* See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ferryboat. 1 )iesel-Electric, Clyde Na vigation Trust, 661*
F.I.A.T., Societh Anonima, Coupled Littorina Rail Car, 416*
F.l.A.T. Costruzioni Meccaniche Aerona- tiche S.A., Aeroplanes at Milan Aero Exhibition, 579*
Film Lubrication in Sleeve-Type Bearings, 320, 325*
— Lubrication, Theory of, 436, 461
— Studios, Iver Heath, Heating Equipment,
146, 174, 239, 293. See Erratum, 21
Filters for Air-Conditioning Plant, 557
— Air, Protectovent (Yokes, Ltd.), 334
— for Liquids (Metaftltration Co., Ltd.), 369*
— Lubricating-Oil (Metafiltration Co., Ltd.),
369*
— Oil-Coated, Air-Conditioning Plant, Queen's Hotel, Leeds, 590*
Metal-Pack (Yokes, Ltd.), 334*
Vacuum-Operated (Stream-Line Filters, Ltd.), 67*
— Percolation, Ventilation of, 672
Filtration of Lubricating Oils, Value of, 468
— Plant, Brockwell Park Swimming Bath,
668*, 742*
Finishing and Vibrating Machine, Concrete Road (E. P. Allam and Co., Ltd.), 618*
Finney, E. A., on Snow Control by Tree Planting, 581
Fire Brigade, Loudon, New Headquarters, 94
— Engine, 85-h.p. Petrol-Driven (Leyland
Motors, Ltd.), 508*
— Extinguishers, Portable, Specification, 345
— Fighting, Hose Ramp for, 410
in Royal Air Force, 379
— Hydrants, Underground, Specification, 745
— Resisting Materials, New York City Building
(’ode for, 237
Firebox Construction in Continental Locomotives, 234
Firebricks for Gas Works, Investigations on, 697
— See also Tefractory Materials
Fireclay Pipes, Glazed, Specification, 543 Firedamp. See Colliery
Firth, T., and J. Brown, Ltd., Steel for Repairs to Large Stone-Crusher, 265; 110-h.p.
Direct-Reversing Diesel Locomotive, 604*
Fischer-Tropsch Process, Investigations on, 658 ; Proposed Plant for Australia, 748
Fishenden, Dr. M., on Friction and Heat Transmission in Fluids, 650. See 573. See LETTERS, 634*, 711
Flame Gases, Combustion Levels and Latent Energies in, 531*
— Jets, Mechanics of, 601, 608*, 667*. See
Erratum, 694
Flanges for High-Pressure Steam-Pipe Joints, Investigations on, 364*, 419*, 490*, 538*, 615*, 674*
— Pipe-Testing (Lead Wool Co., Ltd.), 534* Flats for Working Class, Report, 529
Fleet. See Warships
Fleetwood Docks, Bunkering Plant for Trawlers, 253*
Fleming, Dr.A.P. M., on Training of University Graduates for Engineering Industry, 469. See 290, 299. See LETTER, 353
Fleming, R., on New York City Building Code, 235; on Nine Rockefeller Plaza, New York, 396*
Flensborg, H., Storstrom Railway and Road Bridge, Denmark, 372*
Flight. See Aeronautics
Floating Crane. See Crane , ,, , ,
Flood-Control Investigations, United States Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 3 93*, 249*, 273*, 361*
in United States, Problems of, 103 Prevention Schemes and Water Undertakings, 57
— on Ki ver Lee, Relief Scheme for, 090 Floodlights, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building,
422*
Floors, Ferro-Concrete, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245*
— Heating, D($riaz System of, 211 ,
— New York City Building Code for, 230 ?
— Noise Transmission Through, 318, 729 I
— Sound-Proof, Investigations on, 046 Flour-Milling, Fanless Purifier for (E. R. and F.
Turner, Ltd.), 738*
Flow Indicator (Telco Products, Ltd.), 306* in Pipes, Friction asd Heat-Transmission
Investigations, 573. See LETTERS, 634*, 650, 711
— in Pipelines, Charts and Slide Rule for, 135*
— Turbulent, Mechanics of (Review), 262 Flower, C., and others v. London and South Western Railway Co., 132
Fluid Friction. See Hydrodynamics; Ship Resistance
— Mechanics, Introduction to (Review), 73/ (Review), 737
Flumes, United States Waterways Experiment
Station, Vicksburg, 194*, 250* Flux Distortion in Iron Testing, 380, 439* Foamed Slag, Use for Light-Weight Concrete, 366, 388, 450
Food Investigation Board, Report on Corrosion of Tin-Plate Containers, 59; Annual Report, 208
Footpaths in Rural Ar^as, Experiments on, 7a0 Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Welded Klonne Waterless Gasholder, 492* ; Instruction Courses at Dagenham, 572
Foremanship, Modern (Review), 221 Forest Products Research Board, Report on
Methods of Kiln Operation, 357 ; Timber
Research and Utilisation Exhibition, 719 Forestry in Japan, 331
Forging Machines for Laminated Springs (S. Fox and Co., Ltd.), 149*
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools Formapex Miocarta, Properties aiidApplications
of, 144*
Foster Instrument Co., Ltd., Exhibits at
Engineering and Marine Exhibition, 424 Foster-Wheeler Marine Economiser, 392 Foundations, Boiler House, Dalinarnock
Power Station, 398*
— Bridge, in Bad Ground and under Water, 606
— Chambon Reservoir Dam, Is^re, France.
168*
— Coke-Oven and By-lToduct Plant, Cleveland
Iron Works, 36
— Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 246*
— Engineering and Soil Mechanics, Inter
national Conference on. See Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Internatumal Conference on
— Holding-Down Bolts (Rawlplug Co., Ltd.),
662
— New York City Building Code for, 237
— Pier Storstrdm Rail and Road Bridge, 372*
— Researches on Soil Mechanics for, 259
— Resistance, Tangential, of Gravity Dams,
215*, 242*, 261
— Weston-super-Mare Gas Works, 623* Foundry-Sand Conditioning Machine (American Foundry Equipraent Co.), 753*
— School, British, Annual Report, 371
— Trades Exhibition. See Engineering and
Marine Exhibition
— See also Castings ; Die Casting
Fowler, J., and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 40-kW Oil- Driven Generating Set, 94*
Fowler-Sanders Oil Engines at Smithfield Club Show, 661
Fox, S., and Co., Ltd., Spring-Making Plant, 148* Fractionating Column, of Keebush, 202* Fracture of Metals, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 47
Frames, Portal, Completely-Redundant, Solution of, 20, 70
Frameworks, Structural, Analysis of, 289, 669* France, Chambon Reservoir, River Is6re, 167*, 219*, 391*
— Locomotive Practice in, 234
— See also French
Frank, T. P., Headquarters for London Fire Brigade, 94
Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, Platform and Operating Gear for Earl’s Court Swimming Pool, 475* ; 1,000-b.h.p. Steam Turbine, 710*
Freezing Point of Palladium, Investigations on, 585*
French Institution of Civil Engineers. See Civil Engineers
— Railways, Locomotive Performances on,
676*, 733* ; Packing of Goods on, 171 ; Rail Cars for, 261
— State Railways, Lubricating Oils for, 468
— See also France
Freon as Refrigerant, 762 Freshwater Biological Association of British Empire, Work of, 57
Friction Coefficient on Road Surfaces, 580
— and Heat-Transmission Coefficients, Investigations on, 573, See LETTERS, 634*, 650, 711
— of Plastic Bearings, 145
Frictional Resistance of Ships. See Ship Resistance
Frodingham Ironworks, Tests on Blast- Furnace Smelting Lincolnshire Ores at, 350, 360
Frost, Damage to Buildings, Investigations on, 450
Froude Laboratory, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 238*, 261, 263
Froude, R. E., Experiments on Screw Propellers, 25*
Fruit Preservation, Food Investigation Board’s Investigations on, 208
— Research Laboratory, Covent Garden, London, 17
h'lioi Briquetting, Progress of, 207
— Consumption Tests of Studebaker Motor t!ar, 580
and Units Generated, British Power Stations, 318
for Diesel Engine, Specification, 153, 2(15 —• Industries, Need for Co-Ordination in, 4flo — Institute of. Presidential Address, by Sir I’. Dawson, on Coal ; The Next Step, 460 ; Annual Dinner, 460 : Melchett Lecture on the Study of Gases, l>y Dr. M. Travers, 400 — Liquid. See also OH Fuel
- Low-Temperature Carbonisation of Coal.
See Coal, Low-Temperature Carboninatioii
- Motor. See also Hemnle; Qae; Motor :
Producer
— Oil. See Oil Fuel
— Pump. See Pump
— Research Board, Tests of Carlionising
Plant of Coal and Allied Industries, Ltd.. 217 ; Test of Erith Carbonising Plant of National Coke and Oil Co., Ltd., 497 : Annual Report, 658
Station, Experiments on Low-Temperature Carbonisation of Scottish Cannel, 612
— See also Coal; Oil; Gan; Peat; Pul
verised, Coal
Fulham Power Station, Operating Results, 597
Furnace, Annealing, Oil-fired, for Boulder- Dam Penstock Pipes, 705*
- Blast, Smelting Lincolnshire Ores, Report,
350, 360
- Boiler, Overfire Air Jets in, 601, 609*. See
Erratum, 694
Turbulence Bridge Bar, 312*
See also Stoker
Electric, 192-kW for Annealing Aluminium Alloys (G. W. B. Electric Furnaces. Ltd.), 244*
Continuous, for Annealing Malleable Castings (Electric Furnace Co., U.S.A.), 218*
— — 500-kW and 330-kW, Heat-Treatment
Department, Darlington Forge, Ltd., 451*
— Gas-Fired, Heat-Treatment Department,
Darlington Forge, Ltd., 451*
Fired, for Spring Making (S. Fox A Co., Ltd.), 149*
— Industrial, Gas-Fired, 606
— Open-Hearth, Steel-Melting Shops, Dorman,
Long and Co., Ltd., 351, 359*, 413*, 443*
Hearth, Temperature of Liquid Steel in, 585
— See also Coke Ovens ; Cupolas
Fuses, Electric, Specification, 591

GALVANISED Coatings, Thickness Tests, Specification, 268
Gamma-Ray Ionisation Chamber and Electroscope, 587*
GandiUot, Chauffage, Deriaz System of Floor Heating, 211
Gantry, Travelling, Bunkering Plant for Trawlers, Fleetwood Docks, 253*
— See also Crane
Gap]>er, Agricultural (E. H. Bentall and Co., Ltd.), 661
Garbage, Biologic Digestion with Sewage Sludge, Report, 203
Gardner, L., and Sons, Ltd., 102-b.h.p. Six- Cylinder Oil Engine, 337*
Gardner, R. C. B., on Preservative Treatment of Estate Timber, 389
Gas, Acetylene. See Acetylene
— Appliances, Improvements in, 45 — Calorific Value of, Standards for, 45 — Carbon Dioxide. See Carbon Dioxide — Chimney, Recovery of Sulphur Dioxide from, Processes for, 189*
— and Coal Industries, Co-Ordination of, 460
— Coke-Oven. See Coke Oren
— for Commercial and Industrial Uses, 605
— De-Contamination Gear for Refuse Collector (Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd.), 664*
— Diffusion of, through Wood, Experiments on, 186
— Engine. See Engine, Gas
— Engineers, Institution of. Papers on Development within Industry, 45 ; Autumn Research Meeting, London; Report of Gas Education Committee, 576; Reports of Joint Research Committee: The Combustion Characteristics of Town Gas, 576 ; The Synthesis of Hydrocarbons, 610 ; Removal of Sulphur Compounds from Gas, by H. Boilings, W. K. Hutchison and Dr. R. H. Gritlith, 611 ; Report of Pipes Committee, Oil ; Report of Gasholder Committee, 612; Low-Temperature Carbonisation of Scottish Cannel, by J. Jamieson and Dr. J. G. King, 612 ; Pinging of Gasholders by Means of Inert Gas, by F. M. Birks, 697 ; Retort House and Exhauster Governing in Gas Works, by G. Dougill, 097 : Ignition of Gas by Cold Catalyst, by L. W. Andrew, A. B. Densham and E. W. Voice, 697 ; Report of Liquor Effluents and Ammonia Committee, 097 ; Report of Refractory Materials Joint Committee, 698 ; Report of Research Executive Committee, 698 ; Research in Gas Industry, by Sir H. Hartley, 098
— Exhausters, Coke-Oven Plant, Cleveland
Iron Works, 30*, 119*
— Exhausting Electric Fan (C.A.V.-Bosch,
Ltd.), 312*
— Fired Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Flame, Combustion Levels and Latent
Energies in, 531*
— and Gas Works. See also PARAORAPH
INDEX
, — at High Temperatures, Specific Heats of, 561*. See LETTERS, 604, 634
— Hydrocarbon, Thermal Changes in, 490
— Ignition of, by Cold Catalyst, 697
— Industry, Position and Development, 45, 546
— Inert, Purging of Gasholders by, 697
Gas Light and Coke Co., Gas Researches of, 576, 611, 097
Manufacturing Plant, Weston-super-Mare,
Petroleum Liquefied, 342
Pipes, Leakage from, 611
— I’roducer. gee Producer
— Compounds from, 611
- Wewl^g'^ste
f-- I“vesti-
~ loT“®'‘"’ ’*““**? detoxification Process, ~ Exhauster Governing
?caHon“102 d°®®"er-Marischka Detoxifi-
Z t^ew Plant, 623*, 659
n Carbon Dioiide ?
> Nitrogen’;
Gasholders, Accidents to, 612
— Purging of, by Inert Gas, 697
Gasification of Welsh Coal, Investigations on,
Engine, Petrol; Aercnmdics
* Exhaust 120 °t Engine
^'‘*^flm®qAu®*“'®®’z. -Automatic, for Boulder
V ™ Spillways, 61*, II3*
Gatohead, Ea.dories at Team-VaUey Estate, *^““M^hhie,^2n*^“^' Concrete-Post Making ‘^“"menu^^os'*^™’ ^tod-Gnst Measure- ^Ltd’)^°4‘’5^'^"^ (Eight Production Co., “ ’'^|Sp^®?*^’J“*^r^®’'°“eter for. National, rnysical Laboratory, 166*
Physical Laboratory Tests of, 187 I^essure, Schrader Hydraulic, 323*
— Projection Machines, National Physical Lalxiratory, 165* iny.Mcdi
<- Eiquidometer (Accurate Jlecoiding Instrument Co.), 338
Gauging Pit, United States Waterways r' Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 274* d-’ °ii Experiments with Model Screw Propellers, 25*
Gew-Cutting Machines. See dfucAine Tools ^/’“J’J^’delieul Pinions for Rolling .Mill Cutting of, 20* ’
Eubrication of, 501
Gears, Ltd.), ‘Pll*^ ^versing. See Iteversing Gear lufluitely-Variable, Automatic, for
LW^)’10^^'’’”"'”’’' (Engineers),
Steering. See Jfotor-Car Details Optical Projector for (E Leitz (Londonp, 313* '
24-h.p. Diesel-Engined Shunting Tractor, 38.3 °
iJ’°“’’’®P®®?> f°i' Pond Roller (Wallis and Steevens, Ltd.), 564*
— Unit, Motor-Driven, Vertical (D Brown A Sons (Hudd.), Ltd.), 728* *
-'^®’°®- ®®® i’^arine Propul-
Gearing Use of Eormapex Miocarta for, 144* Geary, W on Hot-Metal Practice on North- East Coast, 359*, 413*, 443*. See 351
Geddes, Sir B., the Late, 19
Geddes, J. W., the Late, 685
GeuerM Electric Co Ltd., Exhibits at Royal
’’ Electric Boiler, ’ dJ®®*’’ic-Discharge Workshop Light-
Systems of, 128; ^eathed-Wire Immersers for Water Heating, 162; Heavy-Current Truck- Cubicle Switchboard, 471*- Wemblev ^search Laboratories, 523*; Rectifier Ano^^fi99i‘*°"tu®‘’r-= Tungsten
?’ „E*®®*^’® Equipment for Diesel-Electric Berry, 661* : High-Pressnre
1,000-b.h.p. Steam Turbine, 710* *
General Motors Corporation, Die-Castin" Department, 614 ”
Generating Station. See Power Station
Gei^iatMT, Acetylene. See Acetglene
~ Electrm, 37 500-kW., Brush-Ljungstrom, Southwick Power Station, 502 ®
~ "LtdTw^’ damps,
Ealmarnock Power Station, oyy* * 1
7T^;^W, with Bowler-Sanders Oil Engine (Eeeds), Ltd.), 94*^
? sleTs^ Ltd.?'36i'®‘’‘'”'®'’P“‘*’'“
lo’S^ ^.Pdriveii (B. Perkins, Ltd.), 66* 60-kW Oil-Driven, Southall Service De- pot. Associated Equipment Co., Ltd 69* bbO-k'W, S.S. “ Orcades,” 227 ’
Birm^^692**°’'^’''®" (Eondon Electric
°P Shaft by Shrinkage, 243 dO.OOO-kW, Sciilcoates Power Station, 551 Work of Sir C. A. Parsons on, 632* See also Turbo-Generators
— Suction-Gas, French, 171
Gerard Extensometer (Williamson Manufac- turing Co., Ltd.), 306* ranuiac
German Power-Station Construction, Develon- ment in, 659 >=vciup
Gei^ny, Dusseldorf National Exhibition, 198*
— Engineering Research in, 295
— Buel Briquetting in, 207 |
1 _ pui L, 4dd
' Team-Valley Trading
?tX^t ’ Keconstruction of Menai btrait Bridge, 651*
Gibbon 2J. Pease, 248
M®-'-Engineer-
^*’^‘^Bridger3^2**^°’^®‘'’^°’” Railway and Road ^n^nth'f'h^®’ 9*"®’* Tang-River Bridge, South China, 448*, 504*
Bridges; Floors
S SSy-S ”'•'"
Copjoration, Dalinarnock Power- station Extensions, 397* “ ftoXnTl p'rolramme®
Thermal-Equilibrium Diagrams, 28
Widening of Covered Shipbuilding Berth at Wallsend, '^’“'‘Tertie^of^lS’’'’’ P™-
Oxide Equilibrium in, 29 Nature and Constitution of, 721 Production, Statistical Methods in, 721
~ Physical Laboratory
Investigations on, 691
Viscosity and Constitution, 721 rp u -^^u^^iJiiom-Coated, Uses of, 721
Society of, Glasgow Meeting : Ternary System FeO-AlgO -SiOg, by Prof. 9ft White and T. H. Caulfield,
rr ’/-t -^pAactonness-under-Load Test, by 5’ Examination
ot cords, Inhomogeneities and Surface
28 , Ferrous-Ferric Oxide Equilibrium in Classes with Some Practical Applications, by N. E. Densein and Prof. W. E. S Turner, 29; Proposed Specification for Limestone for Manufacture of Colourless Glass by V. Dirnbleby, 29 ; Sheffield Meeting . Compositions and Properties of Chief lypes of Commercial Glasses, by Prof G Adherence of Aluminium w G^ss and its Technical Applications, by ?' ^21 ; Statistical Expression
Output of Production Prof. J. A. de Artigas, •+\> Viscosity of Soda-Silica Glasses and Bearing on their Constitution, by Dr E Reston, 721; Nature of Glass, by J.’ E^ Stanwo^h, 721 ; Temperature Kelation- Bearing on Nature and Constitution of Glass, by Dr. E. Seddon, 721
— Toughened (Pilkington Brothers, Ltd.), 307 Glassware, Detection of Defects in, 28
— Volumetric, National Physical Laboratory Tests of, 210*
Glazing Machine, Electrostatic Dust Precini- tators for, 388*
Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd., Kinetic Air Valve for Water Main, 577*
Gleniffer Engines, Ltd., 24-h.p. Two-Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 335* ; 48-h.p. Four- Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 335*
<’lue. Synthetic, Aerolite (Aero Research, Etd.), Gold, Lieut.-Col, E., on Modification of Dines Anemometer, 161
Gooding V, Ealing Local Board, 249
I Plate-Type Oil-Cooler,
371 ; Hagan Steam Separator, 371
(xordon, Lieut.-Col. Lord Dudley, on Co-Oper- i ation in Modern Industry, 466 ! Gough, G. S., on Solution ofBuckling Problems 265. See 62*, 116*, 184. See LETTER;
Gough, Dr. H. J., on Properties and Testing of Lubricants, 553. See 460, 547
Government and Engineering Research, 287 295
— Railways. See liailways ’
— “ Shadow ” Aircraft and Aero-Engine Factories, 511*
; Governors, Retort House and Coke Oven Testing of, 697 ’
I Grab, Hay, King’s (Stanhay, Ltd.), 32 Grain Grader (Penney <& Porter (1932) Ltd ) 65*
Graphite, Acheson, Thermal Conductivity 563 •— Refinement in Cast Iron, Researches on. 539 Grass Drier (Mobile Driers, Ltd.), 68*
— Drying Plant, Coke-Fired (J. Curtis A Sons) 96* ’’
Grates. SQQ Furnace; Stoker Gravico Coke-Fired Boilers, 589 Gravity Determinations, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 187
Gray’s Ferro-Concrete, Ltd., Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245*
Grease for Lubrication, 476, 500, 55.5 Great Britain, Inland Water Survey of 57 Motor Industry of, 1937, Report, 747 Road Problem in, Aspects of. 15 See LETTER, 120
— Western Railway, Locomotive Frame-Cut
ting Machine, 333* ; Rolling Stock for, 344 ; Speedometer for Locomotives, 661 Greece, Ten-Years’ Development Plan for 135
— Transport Developments in, .346 ’
Green, E., and Son, Ltd., Foster-Wheeler Marine
Economiser, 342
Green, W. C., Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 575, 589 • See Addendum^ 627 ’
Greenland, Climate of, 161
Greensand, Lower, Water Supply from, around London, 671. See 200
Greenville Bends, Mississippi River, Model Experiments on, 193*, 249*, 273*
Greig, J., on Flux Distortion in Iron Testing 439*. See 380
^.^•’ “ Coronation " Train 40* • “ ? A Diinited " Train ’ 373 i
Grifflth®"lV"rt’’E™
S’ '? “ Teegie., In It,frlge„u„„,
&;•? “?• TM«.I G„n4- ‘’^S’ ’?"t
Range, 140* ^11®®* °a fatigue
^0°“"’ "o?‘«V ®S; 761
Lald^To*'’””’ 1®^ Swamp
Gurney, H., Dustless Refuse-CoUection System, ^“*^’490 *'®®1*”'® ®“ Appraisement of Lighting, ?Vurnf?e?‘244*’""'"“®®®’ -^""ealing Gear,^'277*^'308^^’'^’’’®'^Beeectrieal

““s&nfmi Italmarnock Power

2~Cle°velknd°'^r7*758““^ By-Product Plant, - - Coal’ PMl?^'’"°®'Ll’0"'®r Station, 397* P°t ’ Bleetwood Docks, 253*

623*^°65.} «ae Works,

Constant-Support for Hi,rh -iemperature Pipe Tinea 637* nnif* ll'i’*’'

Cadmium-Tin Jii°yHi’“°GW4?"- ; Harbo?rKT°"oi:-X“^r?iV"“^^^^

Process, 1879-1937^’35^'®’*®’"^“* '*'^407 ’ Damage caused by Storms,

Ha^.“^Z.Xll’tV7^r

Teste Sr,°3T2‘’°49|*’" Co“*to«oae HarSsC?:^^!f°te^;^^2i""^^

“ Cape- on"75r'’’ l^^P^-taental Road, Report ,

Harold, iieut -Col p tr TT -.*

Rondon Water Supply'’57" * '"^'t^eation of Harrwon, McGregor ife Co T td n 1

Breaker, 31* ^td.. Bracken '

’^“'*’197’ ®'’" "•’ °'‘ in Gas Industry, 1'

Gravico I

H«|g ) J

StenSa s,. Hawthorn, R. tfe w T eaiio A n„ for 1,200-hp Electric *Tn°'’®°‘ties Trials of H.M Destroyer'" ^3 i

Hay ftof if “f’^istanhay, Itd.^F’"’”

SiO2 2^’ BeO-AlgOs--

He^e^g'ei oR 762

Carburettor, 93* ’’ Heavy-Oil

Sort, C®>°“red Light for.

Health, Ministry of, Annual Report, 182 •

Report on Cost of Public-Cleansing Services, 262 ; Progress with Rural Water ’ Report on Construction of Flats for Working Class, 529

Heat^and^gectricitj^ Supply, Combined Plants — Engines. See ; Turbines

— and Friction Transmission Coefficients, In- LETTER, 634*, 650, 711 ’

Materials for Refrigerating Plant, 7~ Materials, Thermal Conductivity of, 562 hisulation of Buildings and Structures, 405 Radiation, National Physical Laboratory, Investigations on, 690

— Specific. See Specific Heat

Transfer through Walls, Researches on, 405

~ of Steels, National

1 nyscial Laboratory Investigation< on, 563 Treatment of Metals. See MetcUlurgy

See iraste Heat Feed-Water. See Feer/ Heater ^^311* Electric (Holden and Hunt),

— Water Electric, Sheathed-Wire Immersers for (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 162 (Rlyiew), i^g’J-Conditioning of Buildings of Buildings, Investigations on, 451

— Equipment, Iver Heath Film Studios. 146.

21

— Iloor, D^naz System of, 211

— Gas-Fired Boilers for, 605

— System Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 423*, 473. See LETTER, 521

Hotel, Leeds, 589* Ventilating and Air-Conditioning, Principles of (Review), 262

f’>"^otenax Cable Factory,454 Short-Circuit Testing Station, 479* Hegeman-Harris Co., Inc., Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245*, 421*. 473* See LETTER, 521 ’ ’

Sliding and Screw- . Cutting Lathe, 634*

Heinkel, E., Flugzeugwerke, G.m.b.H., Equin- SkCatapult Ship “ Ost-

Motor for Winch, 27* Helical Gears. See Gears HematRe Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Hems, H. R., on Gas for Commercial and Industrial Uses, 605 ’^®“so7euce,^i32 ’’’ “ Chemical

^’orce Display,!; Hensel, hr P. R., on Resistance Welding as Production Method, 552

Herbert, A., Ltd., Harkness Crop Lifter, 32* • Bracken and Thistle-Cutting Scythe, 33* ’ , .Measuring Instruments, 166 ’ Herb?rV*^-p^^ and Screw-Cutting Lathe,634* w Continuous Hardness Test

ir^ Hardness Fluctuations, 495*. See 352 Bygone Industries in, 106 77 Hay Railway, History of, 7Q2 Herzfeld, R on Generating and Heating Equipment at Pinewood Studios, Iver, 146. See LEXERS, 174, 239, 293; on Heating System ® Exhibition Building, 521 Hetherington, R G., on Inland Water Survej^ of Great Britain, 57

^*^^^154^’ Hating of Fuel for Oil Engine,

*”? 5SS“S'SS, t""-"*)

Measuring Machine. Projection Machines, 165* Autocollimator, 166 ’

Hille-Werke A.-G., Single and Multi-Spindle Boring Machine, 267* ^pniuie

Hillman Motor Car Co., Ltd. 9-8-h.p. Motor TT-1 car, 80 , 14-h.p. Touring Car, 293* Hilmor, Wid., Tube-Bending Machines, 308* History. Hundred-Year, of P. <& o. (Review), 631. See LETTER, 693. See Erratum, 723

— of Southern Railway (Review) 1.58

— SS. See under Warships

Hoists., See Cranes ; Derricks Hokkaido ^perial University, Calendar, 178

; Welder, 310* ;

I XT Two-Head Electric Rivet Heat r, 311*

Holder, Lamp Articulated (Mek-Elek Engin-

I eenng, Ltd.), 312*

Holes in Steel Shafts and Plates, Effect on latigue Range, 140* cw uu

Hollings, H., on Removal of Sulphur Com- pounds from Gas, 611

Holman Brothers, Ltd., 5-h.p. Reversible Air Winch, 27* ; 79-cnb. ft. Two-Stage Air Compressor, 567* ®

Holywell Railway Co. n. Stubbs, 35

Home Office, Report, Factories and Workshops 101, Memorandun on Safety Precautioiis in Coal-Pulverising Plants,

Horlicks, Ltd., Water Supply from Lower Greensand, 200 -i^ower

Horns, Motor-Car, Noise from. Report 688

Horseley Bridge and T. Piggott, Ltd., Welded XT Edonne Waterless Gasholder, 492*

(Tecalemit, Ltd.).656 ” 5 5SP Fighting, 410

— Rubber, Joint for, 446* Hotel Queen’s, Leeds, 575, 589*. See TT^ ’ -^i^’Conditioning at, 558

Impact Tester and Tensometer, 306* Abatement of Noise

Housing Ministry of Health Report on. 183

S»Pl™ ’c.Up,B.Thl,

Howard, C. S., on Passage of Turbid Water tlirough Lake Mead, 234 .

Hudson, J. W., on Welding in Oil-Tanker Construction, 431

Hushes V. Xicnny and Croft, Z4o_

Hull Corporation, Sculcoates Power-Station Extensions, 551, 597

Humidity and Temperature-lUcording Controller (Short and Mason, Ltd.), 338

Hunebeck, H., Corrugated-Irough Arch Roof,

Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd., ditioner for Diesel Locomotives^ 452 , 20-h.p. Diesel Locomotive, with Exhaust- Gas Conditioner and Spark Arrester, 564

Hunt, R. W., and Co., Chien lang-River Bridge, South China, 448*, 503* Mino

“ Hunter,” H.M. Destroyer, Damage by Mine Hunto,TH. on Effects of Welding on Ship Construction, 431

Hurst, B. L., Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 575, 589 . See Addenz/KW, 627 .

Husband, J., Prof., on Engineering and Modern Civilisation, 519

Hutchison, W. K., on Removal of Sulphur Compounds from Gas, 611 .

Hyde Park, London, Water-Sterilising Punt on Serpentine, 314*

Hydrants, Eire, Underground, Specification,745 Hydraulic Coupling and Engineering Co., Ltd., Scoop-Controlled

— Ejector for Chien Tang-River Bridge Con- Lifting Gear for Cultivator (Miller Wheels,

Ltd) 92*

— Machine Tools. See iVacAinc TooZs

— Machinery, High-Speed Reciprocating

Platform, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 474*

— Mains, Chapman Cone Valves, for, 1/2

— Power Plant. See Power Plant

— Press. See Press under Machine 1 ools

— Pressure Gauge, Schrader, 323*

— Turbines. See Turbines Hydraulics Laboratory.

ways Experiment Station, 193 ,249 ,273 , 361*

— (Review), 394 .

— See also Hydrodynamics; B ater Hydro-Aeroplane. See SeapZane under Aeronautics .. r*

Hydrocarbons, Synthesis of, Investigations on, AT n

Hydrochloric-Acid Plant, Synthetic Plastic Vessel 202*

Hydrodynamics, Mechanics of Turbulent Elow (Review), 262

— See also Ship Pesistance

Hydro-Electric Power Plant. See Power Plant Hydrogen, Use in Erren Engine, 1(^ Hydrogenation-Cracking of Tars, Report, 488

— of High-Volatile Coke, 611

Plant, Coal, for Australia, Proposal for, 748

— of Tar, Investigations on, 658 Hydrometers, National Physical Laboratory

Tests of, 210

ICEBREAKER, Russian, “Joseph Stalin,” Launch of, 257

Ice-Making Plant, Dhibban Aerodrome, Haq, 619*, 678*

— See also Rejrigeralion Ignition of Gas by Cold Catalyst, 697

Quality of Fuel and Effect on Combustion in

Oil Engines, 139*, 195* ,

Igranic Electric Co., Ltd., Electric ^ntrol Gear for Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Works, 482* Illinois University, Report on Biologic Digestion of Garbage with Sewage Sl^udge, ^3 Illumination Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 708

— Research Committee, Report on Cc^oured

Light for Motor-Car Headlights, 406 Laboratory, Wembley, General Electric Co., Ltd., 523*

— See also Light; Lighting ; and l^mps under

Electr I c

Impact Tests. See Tests {Materials}

— Wheel, on Bridge Spans, from. Motor

Vehicles, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 130

Imperial Airways, Ltd., Transatlantic Flight by ” Caledonia,” 47

Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Transparent Plastics, 202* ; Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exhibition, ^2 College of Science and Technology, Department of Aeronautics, Syllabus, 411

— H.M. Destroyer, Trials of, 43

— Institute, Report on Strontium Minerals, 159 Import Trade. See Trade

Impulse Turbines. See Turbines Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd., Gas-Eired Furnaces for Spring Making, 149*

• Lamps. See Lamps under Electric Incomes, Engineering, in United States, 749 India, Effect of Storms on Coast of, 407*

— Import Trade of, Report, 212

— Road and Rail Transport in, 17, 127

— Rubber. See Rubber

Indian Railway Board, Report, 1935-36, 16 Inquiry Committee, Report, 127 Indicator Diagrams, Compression-Ignition Oil Engine, 139*, 195*

Oil Engine with Pilot Injection 417*

— Flow (Telco Products, Ltd.), 306*

— Smoke, Industrial (Radiovisor Parent, Ltd.),

312*

— Speed, for Electric Trains, 46o*

— Tank-Depth (Dobbie, Mclnnes, Ltd.), 306* Induction Motor. See Motor, Electric Industrial Accidents. See Accidents

— Agreements and Disputes. See Labour

Labour Notes

— Concerns, Personnel Problem in, 128

— Development, Survey of, 288

— Dust (Review), 51

— Fatigue. See Labour

Industrial Furnaces. See Furnaces

— Management. See Works Management

— Notes. See Labour Notes under Labour

— Research. See lieseargh

— Unrest. See Labour

Industry, Co- Partnership in. See Labour

— Modern, Co-Operation in, 466

— and Scientillc Research, 287, 295

— See also Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Ingot, Steel, 230-ton, Casting of, 403 Injection, Pilot, in Oil Engine, Investigations

on, 417*

Injector, Air, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 131

Inland Navigation. See Canals ; Rivers, d e.

— Water Survey, Annual Report, 749 Survey of Great Britain, 57 Inspection Car, Electrically-Operated for Interior of Water Mains, 741*

Institute of Transport. See Transport

— See Institution

Institution, British Standards. See Standards

— Technical and Scientific. See Aeronautical

Society, Royal; Agricultural Society, Royal; Architectural Association; Automobile Rngineers, Institution of; British Association; British Association of Refrigeration; British Engineers' Association; British Qas Federation; British Iron and Steel Federation; British Waterworks Association; British Wood-Preserving Association; Canada, Enghieering Institute of; Cast Concrete Products Association; Chemical Engineers, Institulion of ; Chemical Industry, Society of; Civil Engineers, American Society of; Civil Engineers, French Society of; Civil Engineers, Institution of; Civil Servants, Professional, Institution of; Coke-Oven Managers' Association; Electrical Engineers, Institution of; Engineers' German Circle; Export, Institute of; Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of; Fuel, Institute of ; Gas Engineers, Institution of; Glass Technology, Society of; Iron and Steel Institute ; Junior Institution of Engineers; Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of; Marine Engineers, Institute of; Mechanical Engineers, Institution of; Metal Sprayers, Association of; Metals, Institute of; Meteorological Society, Royal; Motor Manufacturers ami Traders, Society of; Naval Architects, Institution of; Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, American Society of; Newcomen Society; Physical Society; Physics, Institute of; Railroads Association, American; Sanitary Institute, Royal; South Wales Institute of Engineers ; Structural Engineers, Institution of ; Timber Development Association; Transport, Institute of; Welding, Institute of; and i Whitworth Society.

Instruments, Electrical, Snecifleation, 541 |

— See also Aeronautics; Electric ?

Insulation. See Heat; Electric

Integrator and Differentiator, Graphic, D. L. C. Evans, 268*

Interferometer for Gauge Measurement, National Physical Laboratory, 166* Internal-Combustion Engines. See Aeronardics ;

Engines ; Motor Curs ; Tractors International Aero Exhibition, Milan, 579* International Combustion, Ltd., Ash-Handling Plant, Dalmarnock Power Station, 399*

— Conference on Acoustics, Paris, 183

on Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. See Sad Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, International Conference on

— Consultative Committee on Telephony, Work

of, 526

— Engineering Congress, Glasgow, 1938, Pro

visional Programme, 683

International Harvester Co. of Great Britain, Ltd.. Power-Driven Mowing Machine, 93* ; Self-Lift Mowing Machine, 93*

International Meehanite Metal Co., Ltd., Meehanite Castings, 307

— Organisation of Bibliography, 441

— Railway Congress, Paris. See Railway

Congress, Internatioiial, Paris

— Tin Research and Development Council,

Investigation on Porositv of Tin Coating on Tin-Plate, 640*, 700*

— Trade. See Trade Inventions. See Patents

Inventors, Awards to, Royal Commission on, Final Report, 601

loco Rubber and Waterproofing Co., Ltd., Synthetic Plastics for Engineering Works, 144*

Ionisation Chambers and Electroscopes for Radium Investigations, 587*

Ionosphere, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 736

Iraq. Dhibban Aerodrome Refrigerating Plant, 619*, 678*

Iron Alloys. See Metallurgy and Steel

— and Carbon, Alloys of (Review), 477

— Case-Hardening. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy

— Corrosion. See Corrosion

— Foundry. See Foundry

— Furnaces. See Furnaces

— Heat Treatment. See Metallurgy

— Magnetic Testing of. Flux Distortion in, 380, 439*

— Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast; Metallurgy

— Ore. See Ore

— Pig, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams

— Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills

— and Steel Industrial Research Council,

Report on Blast-Furnace, Smelting, Principally Lincolnshire Ores, 350, 360

Industries, Statistics of, 741

Iron and Steel Institute :
Carnegie Research Fund, 343

AidummMeeting, Middlesbrough:

Programme, 204

Inaugural Proceedings, 350

Nomination of Officers, 350

Reports of Discussions, 350, 365

Visits and Excursions, 351, 366

Iron and Steel—continued.

Report No. 18. Reports Upon Blast- Furnace Field Tests. I. An Investigation of Blast-Furnace Smelting, Principally Lincolnshire Ores at

Frodingham Ironworks, 360. See 350 Thomas-Gilchrist Basic Process, 1879-1937,

bv F. W. Harbord, 351

Hot-Metal Practice in Five Melting Shops on North-East Coast, by W. Geary, 359*, 413*, 443*. See 351

Experiments in Small-Scale Cupola, by

H. E. Blayden, W. Noble and Prot.

H. L. Riley, 730*. See 365 Influence of Carbonising Conditions on

Coke Properties. Part I. Mechanical

Pressure, bv H. E. Blayden, W. Noble and Prof. H. L. Riley, 385*. See 365 Report on Foamed Blast-Furnace Slag, by

Dr. T. W. Parker, 388. See 366 Experiments in Connection with Spraying of Steel, by R. R. Sillifant, 526* Experiments on Nitrogen-Hardening of

High-Chromium and Austenitic Steels, by^B. Jones, 581*

Variation In Thickness of Tin Coating of Tin-Plate and Its Effect on Porosity, by W. E. Hoare, 640*, 700* Iron and Steel Scrap Campaign, 47, 103, 184 See also PARAGRAPH INPEX

Works. See 'Worlds

— Tests. See Tests {Materials')

— Welding. See IFcZ Ung

— See also Cast Iron-, Steel; Pig Iron-, MeUil-

Ironwork, Structural. See Bridges ; Floors ; Columns ; Boofs ; Steelwork ; Structures

IsArc, River, France, Chambon Reservoir, 167 , 219* 391*

Isherwood, Sir J. W., the Late, 483

Italian State Railways, Coupled Littorina Rail Car, 416* . .

Italy, Artificial-Wool Manufacture in, 673* Iver Heath Film Studios, Electrical and Heating Equipment of, 146. See LETTERS, 174, 239, 293. See Erratum, 21

Izod Notched-Bar Impact Tests, Value and Application of, 519, 537

Bar Impact Test, Origin of, 537
JACK, Hauling, for Heavy Loads (Hadfields, Ltd.). 725*

Jacket Temperature in Oil Engine, Effect on Combustion, 139*, 195*

Jackson. Dr. W., on Training of University Graduates for Engineering Industry, 469. See 290, 299. See LETTER, 353

Jackson, T. M., on Welding in Oil-Tanker Construction, 431

Jafar, Dr. D., on Pilot Injection in Oil Engines, 417* .

Jamieson, J., on Low-Temperature Carbonisation of Scottish Cannel, 612

Japan, Forestry in, 331

Jeffcott, Dr. H. H., the Late, 19, 38*

Jenkins, H. C., the Late, 651

Jenkins, R., on Industries of Herefordshire in Bygone Times, 106

Jets, Flame and Air, Mechanics of, 601, 608*, 667*. See Erratum, 694

Johnson, B., and Son, Power-Operated Rammer, 619*

Joint, Dawson, for Steam Pipes (Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd.), 341

— Electrically-Welded, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 129

— Expansion, Chambon Reservoir Dam, Is6re, France, 220*

— Flanged, for High-Pressure Steam Pipes,

Investigations on, 364*, 419*, 490*, 538*, 615*, 674*

— Riveted, Repeated Stress Tests of, 142*

— for Rubber Hose, 446*

Joists, Steel, Solution of Buckling Problems in, 116*, 184*. See LETTERS, 265, 323

Jones, A. D., the Late, 435

Jones, B., on Nitrogen-Hardening of High- Chromium and Austenitic Steels, 581*

Jones, E. H. (Machine Tools), Ltd., Single- and Biulti-Spindle Boring Machines, 267*

“Joseph Stalin,” Russian Icebreaker, Launch of, 257

Journals. See Bearings

Junior Institution of Engineers, Presidential Address, by W. A. Tookey, on A Half-Century of Engineering Progress, 717
KAMPFNAGEL, A.-G., 12-ton Crane for Seaplane Catapult Ship “ Ostmark,” 110*

Kaye, Dr. G. W. C., on Noise and the Nation, 698, 728. See 317

Keebush, Properties and Applications of, 201*

Kelen, Dr. N., on Experiments on Tangential Foundation Resistance of Gravity Daras, 215*, 242*, 261

Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd., Kelvin- White Spherical Compass, 338* ; Yacht Compass, 338* ; Stabol Liquid Compass, 338*

Kensal-Green Gas Works, Sulphur-Removal Plant for Gas at, 611

Kent, G., Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exhibition, 424

Kenworthy, L., on Testing of Zinc Coatings, 321 Keppeler, Dr. G., on Composition and floper- ties of Commercial Glasses, 721

Kestner Evaporator and Engineering Co., Ltd., Keebush for Chemical flant, 201*

Keyways in Steel Shafts, Effect on Fatigue Range, 140*

Kier, Isolating Valve for (Audley Engineering Co., Ltd.), 732*

Kiln, Timber, Experiments with, 357

Kineina-Film Studios, Iver Heath, Jleafing Equipment, 140, 174, 239, 293. See Erratum^ 21

King, A. J., on Tests of Materials for Vibration- Attenuating Sujiports, 290*

King Dr J. G., on Low-Temperature Carbonisation of Scottish Cannel, 612

King’s College, London, Faculty of Engineering Prospectus, 200

King’s Hay Grab, 32

Kingston By-Pass Road, Behaviour of Surfaces of, 750 .

Kinzie, P. A., on Automatic Sector-Sluice Spillways at Boulder Dam, 01*, 113* ; Penstocks, 703*

Kirkpatrick, Sir C., and Partners, Foundations for Weston-super-Mare Ga.s Works, 023* Kitchen and Wade, Ltd., Horizontal Drilling and Tapping Machine, 138*

Klinger, R., Ltd., Exhibits at Cardiff Engineering Exhibition, 622

Klipstruit Sewage Farm, Enclosed Percolation Filters at, 672

Klonne Waterless Gasholder, Welded (Horseley Bridge and T. Piggott, Ltd.), 492*

Knock in Oil Engine, Elimination by Pilot Injection, 417*

Krauss-Maffei, 1,400-h.p. Diesel Iz)comotlve,261 Krupp, F., Early Diesel Engine, 714

Kryn <fe Lahy (1928), Ltd., Steel Castings, 304 ; 5-h.p. Petrol Engine with Reduction Gear. 304*

Krypton and Xenon, Industrial Manufacture of, 464*
LA MONT STEAM GENERATORS, LTD., La Mont Marine Boiler, 594*

Laboratories, Electrical Research, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 722*

— Froude, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 238*, 261, 263

— Fruit Research, Covent Garden, 37

— High-Voltage, Metropolitau-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., 2,000-kV Impulse Generator, 222*

— Hydraulics, United States Waterways Experiment Station, 193*, 249*, 273*, 361*

— Illumination-Research, Wembley, 623*

— Soils Research, United States Waterways

Experiment Station, 364*

— Testing in Highway Engineering, 677

— See also National Physical
Labour ;
Accidents to Young Workpeople, 101 Apprentice-Parents’ Day at Willesden Works, British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., 70

Army Vocational Training Centre, Aidershot, (Hosing of, 21; Demonstration by Students, 103

Fatigue and Boredom in Repetitive Work, Report, 308

Flats for Working Class, Building of, Report, 529

Indian Railway Subordinate Staff, 17 Industrial Accidents. See Accidents Labour Notes, 22, 39, 82, 95,121,146, 175, 214, 227, 252, 294, 315, 354, 384, 412, 438, 453, 481, 510, 551, 578, 593, 636, 664, 692, 724, 740. See PARA.GR.\PH INDEX

Legislation and Strikes, 46

Ministry of Labour Report on Profit- Sharing and Co-Partnership, 349

Modern Foremanship (Review), 221 Pension Scheme for Electrical Industry, Report, 601

Profit-Sharing and Co-Partnership, Report, 349

Railway Staff Census of, 349 Subordinate, Indian, 17

Skilled Labour for Industrial Concerns, 128 Special Areas, England, Wales and Scotland, Report on, 630

Strike Action, Value of, 46

Technical Instruction of Farm Workers, Conference on, 660

Trade-Union Deputation on Rural Water Supplies, 490

Training of Apprentices, 290, 299, 470. See LETTER, 353

— School for Motor Drivers, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 106

— System of General Electric (3o., Ltd., 128

Lacey, J. M., on Ocean Swells and Abnormal Tides, 406*

“ Lady Sylvia,” M.S., Trials of, 302 Lagging Materials. See Heat Insulation Lake Mead, Passage of Turbid Water through, 234

— Mentz, South Africa, Silt Deposited in, 238 Lambeth Borough, Brockwell Park Swimming

Bath, 668*, 742*

Lamps, Electric. See Electric

Lanark Fire Brigade, 85-h.p. Petrol-Driven Fire Engine (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 508*

Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto, Ltd., Electric Motors, Dalmarnock Power Station, 397, 399

Lancaster, H., and Co., Ltd., Silencer for Pneumatic Drill, 370*

Lanchester, Dr. F. W., on Gastric Sickness from Inhalation of Engine Exhaust, 120 ; on The Gas Engine and After, 546

Lanchester Motor Co., Ltd., 14-h.p. Touring Car Chassis, 502*

Land Drainage Act, 1930, Report on Operations under, 377

Langdon, J. N., on Fatigue and Boredom in Repetitive Work, 108

Lanital Yarn, Production from Casein, 673* Lanz Tractor Co., Ltd., Tractor Binder, 661 Latent Energy in Flame Gases, 531*

— Heat of Fusion of Metals, National Physical

Laboratory, Investigations on, 563

Lathes, See Machine Tools

Latil Industrial Vehicles, Ltd., 53-b.h.p. Four- Wheel Drive Tractor, 68*

Launches and Trial Trips, 12, 42, 72, 98, 150, 179, 204, 230, 256, 323, 344, 374, 403, 428, 466, 485, 543, 628, 654, 694, 724, 744

Law. SeeZcgraZ; Labour; Patents

Lawford Billericay Rural District Council, 35 Lawn Mower, 14-in. Atco (C. H. Pugh, Ltd.),33* Le Grand, Sutcliff and Gell, Ltd., Mud-Flush System of Borehole Drilling, 200

Lea, Dr. F. C., on Effect of Discontinuities and Sxxrface Conditions in Failure under Repeated Stress, 87*, 140*

Lead Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams

Lead Wool Co., Ltd., 107-cub, ft. Portable Air Compressor, 533* ; Pipe-Testing Flange, 534* ; Spigot-End Pipe Stopper, 534*

Leah, Prof. A. S., on Specific Heat of Gases, 604,634. See 561*

Least-Energy Method for Solution of Buckling Problems, 62*, 116*, 184*. See LETTERS, 265,323

Lee Conservancy Catchment Board, Proposed Flood-Relief Scheme, 690

Lee, Sir G., on Telephone and Telegraph Developments, 525

Lee, Howl and Co., Ltd., Non-Clogg Centrifugal Pump, 34*

Lee, W. A., on Coal Bill as Affecting Industry, 689

Lee-Richards Annular Monoplane, 13

Leeds, Memorial to Dr. S. Smiles, 690

— Queen’s Hotel, Description, 575, 589*. See

Addendum^ 627 ; Air-Conditioning at, 558

— University, Gas Researches at, 576, 610
Legal:
Abandoned Works and Adjusted ments, 34

Arbitration Act, 1934, Payment of under, 248

Coal Bill, Effect on Industry, 689 Defect and Maintenance Clauses in tracts, Decisions on, 131

Factories and Workshops Bill, 101 Labour Legislation. See Labour Land Drainage Act, 1930, Report on Operations under, 377

New Trade-Mark Law, 183

Ownership of Drawings, Plans and Specifications, 247

Public Health Act, 1936, and Water Supply, 490

See also PARAGRAPH INDEX

Legislation, Legal; Labour; Patents

Lemon, E. J. H., 12-ton Shock-Absorbing Goods Wagon, 213*

Leitz, E. (London), Projector for Gear Teeth, 313* ; Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exhibition, 313

Length, Standard of. National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 187

Lenny and Croft v. Hughes, 248

Letters to the Editor, 20, 70,120,146,174,239, 265,293,323,353,521,604,634*, 650,693, 711*,743

Levers, Optical, for Engineering Measurements, 165

Leverhulme, Lord, on Chemistry and Research, 132

Levine, Dr. C., on Charts and Slide Rule for Pipeline Calculations, 135*

Lewin Road Sweepers, Ltd., 120-cub. ft. Sprinkling Sweeper-Collector, 649* ; Hand-Controlled Sweeper-Collector, 649*

Leyland Motors, Ltd., Traction Unit for 120- h.p. Oil-Engined Rail Car with Torque Converter, 390*; Six-Wheeled Twin- Steered Goods Chassis, 508*; 85-h.p. Petrol-Driven Fire Engine, 508*; Six- Cylinder Petrol Engine, 509*

Libra film Apparatus for Microphotographic Reproduction of Documents, 714. See 432 Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of, Cambridge Conference: Programme, 124 ; Microphotographic Reproduction of Documents, by W. Davis, 432. See 714

Licensing Authorities for Goods Vehicles, Annual Report, 17

Li6ge School of Mines, Centenary of, 261

Lifts, Passenger, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 475

Lifter, Crop, Harkness (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 32* Lifting Gear, Hydraulic, for Cultivator (Miller Wheels, Ltd.), 92*

—• — New York City, Building Code for, 237 Light Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy

— Coloured, for Motor-Car Headlights, Report, 406

Light Production Co., Ltd., Fluid Gauge for Tanks, 425

Lighting, Aerodrome and Airway, Specification, 134

— Appraisement of, 490

— Electric-Discharge, De Havilland Aero-engine Factory, 109*

— Gas. See Gas

— Public, Photometry in, 605

— Road, and Motor-Car Traffic, 357

— Street, Research by General Electric Co., Ltd., 523*

— System, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 421*

— See also Lamps under Electric

Limestone for Manufacture of Colourless Glass, Proposed Specification for, 29

Limit Gauges. See Gauges

Lincolnshire Ores, Report on Blast-Furnace Smelting, 350, 360

Lind, P., Co., Ltd., Reconstruction of Waterloo Bridge, 129

Lindley, J. B. (1931), Ltd., 200-cub. ft. Monobloc Air Compressor, 309*

Lindner Jig-Boring Machine with Measuring Microscopes, 164

Liner Concrete Machinery Co., Variable-Amplitude Electric Concrete Vibrator, 535*

— See Steamers

Liquid Fuel. See OU Fuel. See also Benzol: Motor

— Viscosity of. See Viscosity

Lister, R. A., and Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Public Works, B/jad and Transport Exhibition, 647

Lister, R. A. (Marine Sales), Ltd., 18-h.p. Two^ Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 309* ; 16-h.p‘ Two-Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 309*

Literature, 50, 90,115,157,185.197, 221, 262, 394, 446, 477, 631, 706, 737. See LITERATURE INDEX

Lithgow Propeller Tunnel, National Physical Laboratory Investigations with, 239

Litigation, SeeLej/aZ,* Labour; Patents Littorina Rail Car, Coupled, Italian State Railways, 416*

Liverpool Refrigerating and Engineering Co., Ltd., Refrigerating Plant, Dhibban, Iraq, 619*, 678*

Lloyd’s Register, Annual Report, 574 Book. 107

Scholarship for Marine-Engineering Students, 651

and Ships’ Hatchways, 84

Statistics, Vessels under Construction, 77, 433

Load Factor, British Power Stations, 318

Lock Nut, Elastic (Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd.), 343*

Lockett, W. T., on Activated Sludge, 672 Locomotive, Coal-Loading Plant for, Stranraer, 576*

— Compound, French, 235

— 4-6-2 Type “Coronation” Class, London

Midland and Scottish Railway, 8*, 70*

— 4-6-2 Type for “ Coronation ” Train, London and North Eastern Railway, 40*

— Developments, Indian Railways, 16

— 20-h.p. Diesel-Driven, with Exhaust-Gas

Conditioner and Spark-Arrester (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 452*, 564*

— 1,400-h.p. Diesel-Driven (Krauss-Maffei-

M.A.N.), 261

— 8-12 h.p. Diesel-Engined (Motor Rail, Ltd.),

648*

— 16-20 h.p. Diesel-Engined (Ruston and Horns

by, Ltd.), 536*

— Diesel, Exhaust-Gas Conditioner for (Huns

let Engine Co., Ltd.), 452*, 564*

— 110-h.p., Direct-Reversing Diesel (R. Ste

phenson and Hawthorns, Ltd.), 604*

— for “ East Anglian ” Express Train, 426

— Electric, 4,000-h.p. (Als-Tliom Co.), 261 Paris-Orleans and Midi Railways, 702 1,200-h.p., for Natal Railway, 23*

— Frames, Oxygen Cutting Machine for (Great

Western Railway), 333*

— French, Performance of, 676*, 733*

— Great Western Railway, 344

Western Railway, Frame-Cutting Machine 333*

Western Railway, Speedometers for, 661

— Lubrication of Bearings of, 461, 463, 469

— No. 10000, London and North Eastern Rail

way, Reconstruction of, 682

— Practice on Continent, 234

— Progress in United States, 378 “Road. See Motor ; Tractor

— Signal-Repeating Devices in, 3

— 4-6-2 Type Streamlined, Paris-Orl^ans-Midi Railway, 677*

— Shunting, 9(:0-h.p. Supercharged Diesel-Electric (American Locomotive Co.), 439*. See Erratum, 570

— Superheating in, 234

— Testing Station, Rugby, 183

— Weighing Machines for, London and North Eastern Railway, 80*

“ for “ West Riding Limited ” Train, 373

— See also Railways in PARAGRAPH INDEX Loewe, Dr. F., on Climate of Greenland, 161 London Brick Co., Ltd., Electric Transfer Car

for Brickworks, 353*

— ’Bus Drivers’ and Conductors’ Strike, 46

— Chatham and Dover Railway Co. u. Sevenoaks, Maidstone and Tonbridge Railway Co., 132

— and Counties Coke Association, Coke-Fired

Grass-Drying Plant, 96*

— County Council, New Headquarters for Fire

Brigade, 94 ; Reconstruction of Waterloo and Wandsworth Bridges, 129, 490, 749; Duplication of Blackwall Tunnel, 575; Brockwell Park Swimming Bath, 668*, 742*

— Covent Garden Fruit-Research Laboratory,

17

— Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245*,

421*, 473*. See LETTER, 521

London Electric Firm, 17-kW Petrol-Driven Generating Set, 692*

— Greater, Water Supply from Lower Green

sand, 671. See 200

London Hydraulic Co. Ltd., Hydraulic Rams for Earl’s Court Swimming Pool, 474*

— King’s College, Faculty of Engineering

Prospectus, 266

— Midland and Scottish Railway, 4-6-2 Type

“Coronation” Locomotive, 8*, 70*;

Training School for Motor Drivers, 106; Locomotive-Testing Station, Rugby, 183; 12-ton Shock-Absorbing Goods Wagon, 213* ; Bunkering Plant tor Trawlers, Fleetwood, 253* ; Carriage Sheds, Stonebridge Park, 345; Resignalling Princes Street Station, Edinburgh, 524; Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 575, 589*. See Addendum, 627 ; Air- Conditioning Plant, Queen’s Hotel, 558; Locomotive-Coaling Plant, Stranraer, 576*

— and North Eastern Railway, “ Coronation ”

Train, 40* ; Locomotive-Weighing Machines at Doncaster, 80*; Horizontal Drilling and Tapping Machine, 138*; Locomotive-Testing Station, Rugby, 183 ; “West Riding Limited” Train, 373; “East Anglian” Express Train, 426*; High-Speed Trains on, 657- See LETTER, 743; Reconstruction of Locomotive No. 10,000,682

— Northampton Polytechnic, Prospectus, 316;

Prize Distribution, 690

— Passenger Transport Board, Strike of ’Bus

Drivers, 46; Central London Railway Extension, 229; Tunnels Beneath Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 246* ; Speedometers for Electric Trains, 465* ; Metadyne Control System for Direct-Current Traction, 472*; Annual Report, 518; Tramway and Trolley-’Bus Statistics, 749

London Power Co., Battersea Power Station, Thermal Efficiency of, 318; Battersea Power Station Extensions, 319

— Queen Mary College, Jubilee of, 660

—? Refuse Disposal in, 606

— School of Economics, Courses at, 178

— and South Western Railway Co. v. C. Elower and others, 132

— Traffic, Problem of, 599, 718

— Underground Railways. See Underground

— University College, Faculty of Engineering

Prospectus, 150

— Water Supply, Purification of, 57

Long, Dr. B., on Adherence of Aluminium to Glass, 721

Lorant and Co., Ltd., Drill-Point Thinning Machine, 337*; Twist-Drill Grinding Machine, 337

Lorries. See Motor Lorries ; Tractors

Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works, Inspection Car for Interior of Water Mains, 741*

Low, J. M., on Bridge Foundations in Bad Ground,606

Low-Temperature Carbonisation of Coal. See Coal

Lower Greensand, Water Supply from, Around London, 671. See 200

Lubricants, Properties and Testing of, 459, 547, 553

Lubricating Oils. See also Gils

Lubrication in Aeroplane Engines, 292

— Exhibition, Science Museum, South Kensington, 477

— Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 130

— of Locomotives, Investigations on, 378

— and Lubricants, General Discussion on. See Mechanical Engineers, Institution oj

— of Plastic Bearings, 145

— in Relation to Metal-Sprayed Surfaces, 757

— of Sleeve-Type Bearings, Experiments on, 320,325*

Lubricator, Air-Line (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 567*

— Valvespout, 14
MAC. See also Me

Macdonald, J. J., the Late, 322

Machine Shops. See ITorAs and Mac/ime Tools — Testing. See 2’esttn^ Machine and Tests {Materials}

Machine Tools :

Automatic, Bar, |-iii. Motor-Driven (Brown and Ward (Tools), Ltd.), 555*

Bending Machine,Pipe,Electrically-Driven (Major, Robinson and Co., Ltd.), 313* Tube (Hilmor, Ltd.), 308*

Boring Machines, Single- and MultiSpindle (Hille-Werke A.-G.), 267*

— and Turning Mill, 36-in. Duplex Turret

Head (G. Richards <fe Co., Ltd.), 332*

Broaching Machine, Hydraulic, with High- Speed Reciprocating Pump, 727*

Cutting-off Machine, Abrasive Wheel (Coleman Eoundry Equipment Co., Ltd.), 424*

Drilling in Mines, Detachable Rock-Drill Bits for, 241

— and Surfacing Practice (Review), 50

— and Tapping Machine, Horizontal (Kitchen and Wade, Ltd.), 138*

Drill, Blast-Hole, 12-in., Portable, Bucyrus-Armstrong, 83*

— Pneumatic, Drifter (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 567*

Silencer for (H. Lancaster and Co., Ltd.), 370*

Road, Reduction of Noise from, 317 Engraving Machine, Sempuco (Technical Machines and Accessories), 424*

Fret-Saw’, Electro-Magnetic (Allgemeine Elektriziiats Gesellschaft), 413*

Gear-Cutting Machine for Double-Helical Pinions (D. Brown and Sons (Hudd.), Ltd., 20*

Grinding Machine, Drill-Point Thinning (Lorant and Co., Ltd.), 337*

Pedestal (Grimston Electric Tools, Ltd.), 306*

Twist-Drill (Lorant Co., Ltd.), 337 Hydraulic Press. See Tress (below) Jig-Boring Machine with Measuring Microscopes (Lindner), 164

Machine with Measuring Microscopes (Soei6t6 Genevoise), 164*

Lathe, 7i-in. Centre, Capstan (Drummond Brothers, Ltd.), 592*

— 17-^-in. Sliding and Screw-Cutting (N.

Heid A.-G.), 634*

— See also Aritomatic (above) Limit Gauging. See Gauge Machine-Shop Management. See Works Management

— Tools, Application of High-Speed Reciprocating Pump to, 720, 725*

Element Dimensions, Specification, 205

Handwheels, Direction of Rotation of. Specification, 522

Light, Use of Pressure Die-Castings in, 643*

Lubricants for, 476, 501

at Masson Scott and Co.’s Works, 161* Precision, National Physical Laboratory Tests of, 187

— Work, Tolerances in. See Gauge Machining of Synthetic Plastics, 144 Milling and Shaping Machine, Universal (Cochrane-Bly Co.), 583*

Moulding Machines, Injection, for Plastics (Eckert und Ziegler G.m.b.H.), 424

Planing Machine, 40-ft. Plate-Edge, Babcock and Wilcox, 705*

for Wood, Single-Cutter-Block Four- Roller (Oliver Machinery Co.), 640*

Pneumatic Drills. See Trills (above) Press, Forging for Laminated Springs (S.

Eox and Co., Ltd.), 149*

Machine Tools—contrnuea.

Press, Hydraulic, High-Speed Reciprocating Pump for, 720, 725*

Plate-Bending, 3,000-ton, Babcock

and Wilcox, 705* -

for Rubber Manufacture (Redferns Rubber Works), 660*

Punching and Shearing Machine, Combined (F. J. Edwards, Ltd.), 337*

Rolls, 12-ft. 6-in. Plate-Bending, Babcock and Wilcox, 705* , .

Sanding Machine, Air-Driven (Equipments Ltd.), 336*

Disc and Belt (Walker-Turner Co., Inc ) 241*

Saw, Band, with Die-Cast Parts, 643* .

Fret-, Electro-Magnetic (AUgemeine Elektrizitats Gesellschaft), 413*

Shaping and Milling Machine, Universal (Cochrane-Bly Co.), 583*

— Machine, Portable Horizontal (CoUet and Engelhard), 467*

Spline (Ormerod Shapers, Ltd.), 750 Shearing Machine, Plate-Splitting, with Punch and Cropper (H. Pels and Lo., Ltd.), 334* zx, T

— and Punching Machine, Combined (r • •’ • Edwards, Ltd.), 337* , , ,,

Shears, Pneumatically-Operated, Portable (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 51*

Surfacing and Drilling Practice (Review),

Tapping and Drilling Machine, Horizontal (Kitchen and Wade, Ltd.), 138*

Thread-Milling Machine, Portable, for Pipes (C. Mingori), 211 .

Turning and Boring Mills* See Boning (above)

— Machines, Automatic. See Av-tomatic (above) . ,, , .

Woodworking Machinery, Planing Machine, Single-Cutter-Block Four-Roller (Oliver Machinery Co.), 640* , _

Sanding Machine, Disc and Belt (Walker-Turner Co., Inc.), 241*

See also PAKAGRAPH INPEX

Machine Works. See Machiw Tools Machinery, Efficiency in Designing, 76

— and Equipment of Cane-Sugar Factory

(Review), 90 .

— Use of Pressure Die-Castings in, 643 Maclean, Dr. M., the Late, 279

Macmillan Petroleum Corporation, Ring- Free ” Motor-Lubricating Oil, 427

Madras Harbour, Damage Caused by Storms to, 407

Magnesium and its Alloys, Booklet on, 529

— Alloys. See AU<yys under Metallurgy

— National Physical Laboratory Investigations in, 155

— Oxide, Use in Pyrotenax Cable, -^4 Magnetic-Drum Separator for Cane-Sugar Plant, 606 ., ... ,

— Separator, Chute-Type (Rapid Magnetting Machine Co., Ltd.), 338*

Cross-Belt (Dings Magnetic Separator Co-). 358* .

Rotary-Drum and Chute Types (Electromagnets, Ltd.), 336* .

— Testing, Alternating-Current Method m, 379 387*

of Iron, Flux Distortion in, 380, 439* Main, Electric. See Cables under EZecZnc

— Hydraulic. Chapman Cone Valve for, li2*

— Water, Corrosion of. Prevention of, 671 Electric Inspection Car for Interior of, 741*

Kinetic Air Valve for (Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd.), 577*

Submerged, Flexible (Siemens and Halske A.-G.), 723 . r, .. 4-

Maintenance and Defect Clauses in Contracts, 132

Major, Robinson and Co., Ltd., Electrically- Driven Pipe-Bending Machine, 313*

Malleable Castings, Continuous Electric Annealing Furnace for (Electric Furnace Co., U.S.A.), 218*

Mallory Alloys for Electrodes in Resistance Welding, 552

M.A.N. Vertical Tubular Boiler, 58* Management of Works. See Works Manage- merit

Manchester, Association of Engineers, Discussion on Notched-Bar Impact Testing, 205, 519, 537

— Municipal College of Technology Prospectus, 284

— Ship Canal, 250-ton Floating Crane, 159* Manholes, Post-Office, Leakage of Gas into, 611 Manufacture, Scientific Methods in. See

Works Management

— See also Trade

Mao, Dr. T. E. Chien Tang-River Bridge, South China, 448*, 503*

Marchant. Prof. E. W., on Electrical Vibrations and their Application in Television, 330*. See 320

Marconi, Marchese G., the Late, 105* Marconi International Marine Communication, Ltd., Magneto-Striction Echo Sounder, 342*

Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., Concentric Feeder Lines, Stagshaw Broadcasting Station, 454 ; School of Wireless Communication, Chelmsford, 622* ; Poldhu Memorial, 631

Mare Island Strait, Investigation on Tides, 361* Margary, I. D., on Phenological Observations in British Isles, 686

Marine Auxiliary Machinery, Auxiliary Oil Engines (R. A. Lister (Marine Sales), Ltd.), 309*

Machinery, 80-kW Geared Turbo-Generator (W. H. Allen, Sous and Co., Ltd.), 308* Machinery, 75-kW Emergency Generator Set (Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd.), 336*

Machinery, Orient Liner S.S. “ Orcades,” 227

Machinery, M.S. “ Prins Albert,” 411 Machinery, 10-h.p. Oil-Driven Generator and Pumping Set (Crossley Bros., Ltd.), 308*

Marine Auxiliary Machinery, Oil-Driven Generator, Compressor and Pumping Set (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 309*

Machinery, Turbine-Driven Circulating Pump (W. H. Alien, Sons (fe Co., Ltd.), 308*

— Boilers. See Boilers

— Engines. See Engines ; Turbines ; yjarine Propulsion

— Engineers, Institute of, Associate-Member

ship Examination, 240 ; Presidential Address, by Dr. S. J. Pigott, on Three-Score Years of Development in Marine Engineering, 319 ; Lloyd’s Register Scholarship, 651 and Naval Architects, American Society of. See Naval Architects

— and Engineering Exhibition, Olympia, 288, 301*, 333*, 349, 366*, 424*

— Engineering, Lloyd’s Statistics, 77, 433 Output in 1937, 745

Report of Lloyd’s Register, 574 Sixty Years’ Developments in, 319 Works. See Works

— Propulsion, Diesel-Electric Alternating-

Current System (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 200

500-h.p. Diesel-Electric Machinery for Clyde Ferry Boat, 661*

24,000-s.h.p. Geared Turbines, S.S. “ Or- cades ” 227

— — Machinery of Torpedo Craft, 49, 528 380-b.h.p. Oil Engine, Motor Trawler

British Honduras,” 711

Oil Fuel for. See Oil Fuel

Power Required to Maintain Speed in Rough Water, 263

17,000-h.p. Sulzer-Cockerill Diesel Engines, M.S. “ Prins Albert,” 411

Turbines, Steam, Introduction into Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 528

See also Engines; Turbines; Propellers ; Ship Resistance; Torsion Meters; and PARAGRAPH INDEX

— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine

Propulsion

Markets. See Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Marryat <fe Place, Ltd., Aluminium ’Bus-Bars for Generating and Heating Equipment, Iver Film Studios, 21

Marsh, E. C. J., on Thickness of Electroplated Coatings, 53*

— Buggy for Swamp Lands, Gulf Oil Corpora

tion, 270*

3Iarshail, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd., Tractor Fitted with Winch, 64* ; Conveyor Feeder for Threshing Machine, 65*; 24-h.p.

Diesel-Engined Shunting Tractor, 383* ; 9-ton Single-Cylinder Diesel-Engined Road Roller, 535*; 2J-ton Diesel-Engined Light-Duty Road Roller, 535*

Marston Valley Brick Co., Clay-Feeding Table with Spiral Reduction Gear, 279*

Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Niirnberg, Vertical Tubular Boiler, 58*; 1,400-h.p. Diesel Engine for Locomotive, 261

jMasnedsund Bridge, Denmark, 373*

Masson Scott and Co., Ltd., Paper-Pulp Refiner, 161*

Mast, Lattice, Steel, Stagshaw Broadcasting Station, 454

Materials, Strength of. See Stress and Tests {Materials}

— and their Testing, Joint Committee on,

Manchester Meeting : Programme, 205 ; Physical Meaning of Impact Tests, by Prof. R. V. Southwell, 519. See 537; Some Aspects of the Notched-Bar Test, Section I, Brief Review of Past Experiments in this Country: Section II, Experimental Exemplification of Several Features of the Test, by L. W. Schuster, 519. See 537 ; Development and Present Position of Continental Research on Notched-Bar Impact Test, by Dr. M. Moser, 519. See 537

— for Use at High Temneratures, National

Physical Laboratory Investigations, 156 Mathematical Analysis, Elements of (Review), 477

— Snack Bar (Review), 221 Mather, Prof. T., the Late, 19

Mathias, A. V., Electrical Plant, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 423*

Matthew and Yates, Ltd., Ventilating Fans, Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 590*

Maunsell, R. E. L., Rolling Stock, Southern Railway, Portsmouth Line, 10*

Mavor Coulson, Ltd., Coal-Handling Plant, Dalmarnock Power Station, 397* ; Locomotive Coaling Plant, Stranraer, 576*

Mawdsleys, Ltd., Motor Generator for ElectroDeposition, 368 ; Marine-Type Arc Welder, 368*

McAlpine, Sir R., and Sons, Ltd., Tunnels beneath Earl’s Court Exhibition Buildings, 246* M’Gow’an v. Ebdy, 249

McLaren, J. H., Ltd., 20-h.p. Two-Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 304*

Me. See also Mac

Mead, Lake, Passage of Turbid Water through, 234

Measurements, Engineering, Application of Optics to, 162*

— of Thickness of Electroplated Coatings, 53* Measuring Machines at National Physical

Laboratory, 187

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of:

General Discussion on Lubrication and Lubri* cants, 402, 436, 459, 461, 467, 476, 500, 547, 553. See Erratum, 571; Lubrication Exhibition, Science Museum, South Kensington, 477

Group I. Journal and Thrust Bearings : Report by Prof. H. W. Swift, 436. See 461 Report of Discussion, 461

Group II. Engine Lubrication:

Report on Internal-Combustion Engines, by H. R. Ricardo, 467. See 462. See Erratiim, 571

Report on Steam Engines, by W. A. Stanier, 468. See 462

Report of Discussion, 462. See Erratum, 571 I

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of— continued.

Group III. Industrial Applications:

Keport by Col. S. J. M. Auld and E. A. Evans, 500. See 476

Report of Discussion, 476

Group IV. Properties and Testing of Lxdtri- cants *

Report by Dr. H. .T. Gough, 553. See 547 Report of Discussion, 547

London Meetings^ Winter Session : Annual Dinner, 461

Presidential Address, by Sir J. E. I’liorny- croft, on Evolution of Torpedo Craft, 493, 528

Hawksley Lecture, by Dr. .E. W. Ranchester, on the Gas Engine and After, 546 Friction and Heat-Transmission Coefficients, by W. F. Cope, 573

Mechanics of Flame and Air Jets, by R. F. Davis, 608*, 667*. See 601. See Erratum, 694

Recent Developments in High-Speed Reciprocating Pumps, by F. H. Towler and J. M. Towler, 725*. See 720

North-Eastern Branch :

Annual Dinner, 571

North-Western Branch :

Annual Dinner, 660

Mechanical Lubricator. See Lubricator

— Stoker. See Stoker

— Traction on Roads. See Roads; Motor

Cars; Tractors

Mechanics, Fluid (Review), 737

Introduction to (Review), 737

— Soil, and Foundation Engineering, Inter

national Conference on. See Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, International Conference on

— Qt Turbulent Flow (Review), 262

— Use j^f Velocity Diagrams in, 734*

Medica’ Researcli Council, Report on Fatigue an,. Boredom In Repetitive Work, 108

Meehanite Castings (International Meehanite Metal Co., Ltd.), 307

Mek-Elek Engineering, Ltd., Articulated Lamp Holder, 312*

Melchett Lecture on Study of Gases, 490 Meldrum, J. W., the Late, 59

Memorial to Dr. A. G. Bell, Edinbm-gh, 681

— to Dr. S. Smiles, Leeds, 690

— at Poldhu Wireless Station, 631

Menai Strait Suspension Bridge, Reconstruction of, 651*

Mentz, Lake, South Africa, Siltation of, 233 Merchant Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding

— Ships. See Ships ; Steamers

Mercury-Arc Rectifier Works, Witton, 603*

— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Alerryweather and Sons, Ltd., Fire-Protection

Plant, 67

Metadyne System of Control for Direct-Current Traction, 472*

Metafiltration Co., Ltd., Filters for Liquids,369* Metallic Corrosion, Passivity and Protection (Review), 446

Metals for Aeroplane-Engine Construction, 292

— Anti-Friction. See Alloys under Metallurgy

— Bearing and Alloys (Review), 738

— Corrosion of. See Corrosion

— Damping Capacity of, 652*

— Fatigue of. See Tests {Materials}

— Filament Lamps. See Lamps under Electric

— Fracture of, National Physical Laboratory

Investigations on, 47

— Hardness Fluctuations in, Continuous Test

for, 352, 495*

~ at High Temperatures, National Physical Laboratorj" Investigations on, 77*

Metals, Institute of :

Autumn Meeting, Sheffi,eld:

Programme, 106

Inaugural Proceedings, 291

Nomination of Officers, 291 Reports of Discussions, 320, 382, 395 Visits and Excursions, 322, 396

Autumn Lecture on Metallurgy and the Aero Engine, by Dr. D. R. Pye, 292

Copper-Rich Nickel-Aluminium-Copper Alloys. Part I.—Effect of Heat Treatment on Hardness and Electrical Resistivity, by Dr. W. O. Alexander and Prof. D. Hanson, 321

Constitution of Nickel-Aluminium System, by Dr. W. O. Alexander and N. B Vaughan, 321

Methods of Testing Zinc Coatings, bv L. Kenworthy, 321

Mechanical Properties of Some Metals and Alloys Broken at Ultra-High Speeds, by D. W. Ginns, 322

Precision Extensometer Measurements of Tin, by Dr. B. Chalmers, 322

Deformation of Macrostructure of Some Two-Phase Alloys by Cold-Rolling, by Dr. H. A. Unckel, 382

Transformation in the Brasses, by Dr. 0. Sykes and H. Wilkinson, 382

Mechanical Properties of Tin-Rich Anti- mony-Cadmium-Tin Alloys, by Prof. D. Hanson and Dr. W. T. Pell- Walpole, 383

Determination of Alumina in Presence of Metallic Aluminium, by G. B. Brook and A. G. Waddington, 395

Constitution of Tin-Rich Antimony- Cadmium-Tin Alloys, by Prof. D Hanson and Dr. W. T. Pell-Walpole, 395

Metals, Latent Heat of Fusion of, Investiga- gations on, 563

— Manufacturing Industries, Resistance Welding in, 552

— Non-Ferrous, Research Association, British Annual Report and Lunch, 18

— Price Diagrams, 60*, 160*, 300*, 410* 530* 663*, 754* ’ ’

— Sp^rayers, Association of, Metal-Sprayed

Surfaces in Relation to Lubrication, bv H. Shaw, 757

— Spraying, Technique of, 527

Structure of. See Microphotographs

— Tensile Properties, Effect of Vibration on, 4*

Metals, Welding. See Welding

— See also Metallurgy ; Microphotographs Metallography. Seo Metals; Metallurgy;

Microphotographs
Metallurgy :
Aero-Engine Developments, 292

Alloys, Aluminium, for Die Castings, 013*, I 643* .

National Physical Laboratory Investigations, 15,5

Nickel, Constitution of, 321 —? Antiraony-Cadmium-Tin, Constitution of, 395

Cadmium-Tin, Mechanical Properties of, 383

— — 'Pin, Investigations on, 270

— Bearing-Metal (Review), 738

— Concise Handbook of (Review), 116 —- Copper-Nickel-Aluminium, Effect of Heat Treatment on, 321

— See also Brass ; Bronze, &c.

— Die-Casting, Composition and Properties of, 613

— Heat-Resisting, Thermal Conductivities of, 562*

— Iron and Carbon (Review), 477 National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 156

Nickel, Properties of, 132

— Alagnesium, Anodic Coating of, 209 Booklet on, 529

National Physical Laboratory investigations on, 155

— Nickel-Aluminium, Constitution of, 321

— ?— iron. Properties of, 132

— Tin-Antimony, Investigations on, 270

— Tungsten, Heavy (General Co., Ltd.), 622*

— Two-Phase, Deformation of. Rolling, 382

— Zinc for Die-Castings, 613*, Blast Eurnaces. See Furnaces Brass. See Brass Bronze. See Bronze Cast Iron. See Cast Iron Coke Ovens. See Coke Ovens I Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion

Foundry. See Foundry Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces I — Metallurgical. See Furnaces

Heat 'Treatment, Case-Hardening of I Steel, Effect on Fatigue Range, 140*

-Continuous, of Malleable Castings, 218*

[ Department, Darlington Forge, Ltd.,

451*

Electric Heating Process for Annealing Aluminium Alloys, 244*

of Sprayed-Steel Deposits, 527* Tempering Stresses in Spring Steels, I J 86*

Iron Manufacture. Sec Furnaces, Blast \ — Ore. See Ore

Metals. Tests of. See Tests (Materials) Metallurgical Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 155, 186* Metallurgy and Aeroplane-Engine Developments, 292

Nitrogen-Hardening of High-Chromium and Austenitic Steels, 581*

Pyrometers. See Pyrometers Refractories. See Refractory Materials ? Firebricks

Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills

Slag, Blast-Furnace, Foamed, Use for Idght-Weight Concrete, 366, 388, 450

Steel Furnaces. See Furnaces

— Manufacture in Shops of Dorman, Lon" and Co., Ltd., 351, 359*, 413*, 443* ’

Thomas-Gilclu’ist Basic Process 1879-1937, 351 xiotess, j

Tungsten and its Metallurgy, Properties and Applications (Review), 158 Welding. See Welding

See also Iron and Steel Institute ; Metals, 1‘^titute of; Microphotograpks : Foundry ; and PAKAGRAPH INDEX Metcalf, B. L., on Costs of Operating Electrical

Equipment in Mines, 347

Meteorological Society, Royal, Warm Winters in Western Greenland and Temperature See-Saw between Western Greenland and £«Europe, by Dr. F, Loewe, 161; Modifications of Float of Dines Anemo- I meter to Increase or Decrease the Range of } elocity, by Lieut,-Col. E, Gold, 161 • Method of Predicting Night Minimum femperatures, by C. J. Boyden, 162 • T Instability in Sudan, bv

J. b. rarquharson, 162 ; Theory of Hailstorm Formation, by Dr. T. E. W Schumann, 686; Report on Phenological British Isles from Decern- per, 193o, to November, 1936, bv I D Margary, 686 , -i. j .

Meteorology, Weather Elements (Review), 738 Meters, Noise, 699 ’’

— Rubber-lined, for Acids, 559*

— Sound, National Physical Laboratory

Investigations on, 644

— See also Electric

Metrology Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 187, 209*

Metropoliten-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Co AT 1 Carriages for Southern Railway 10* Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ud., 225-h.p. Electric Motors for Southern ^ilway, 10. ^eeErratum,Ii ?, 1,200-h n ' 23*“ 2° nno“vv°Tfor^atal Railways,’ TL+’C Generator, 222* • I

Materials for Vibration-Attenua- ’ Eectures on Railway

Systems at, 470; Metadyne 15 OOTWA 472*-

Stat?on^I^i Ei“Mormer, Sculcoates Power station, 551 ; Control Desk for Electrical- Winding Equipment, 592 j

Of Reservoirs, 57- -Hammersmith Pumping Station, 709* ’ |

Metropolitan. See also /Mdtjn

Michell, A. G. AL, Thrust Bearing, 437 Microphotographs, Carbon-Steel Sjirayed Deposits, 527*

— Case-JTardened Steel, 140*

— Electroplated (Joatings, 55*

— Heavy Tungsten Alloy, 622*

— Nitrided Iron and Steel, 582*

— Steel Tested under (Corrosion Conditions, Sft*

— Tin Coating on Tin-l’late, 642*, 700* Microphotographic Kej,roductions of Doc uments, 432, 714

Microscopes, Measuring, 162*

Microscopic Examination of Electroplated Coatings, 55*

Microstructure of Aletals. See Micropliotagra-pla Middlesbrough Steel-Melting Shops, Hot-Metal Practice in, 351. 350*, 413*. 443*

Milan, Artiflcial-Wool Factory, 673*

— International Aero Exhibition, 579* Milk, Artificial-Wool Production trom, 673* Miller Wheels, Ltd., Cultivator, with Hydraulic

Lift, 92*

Arming Machines. See Machine Tools

Mills, E., on Thickness of Electroplated Coatings, 53*

— Polling. See Rolling Mills

Alilne, C. S. and Co., Ltd., Booster for Acetylene- Gas Plant 313*

Mineral Oils. See Oils

— Production in British Columbia, Keport. 209

— See also Coal; Mining; Ores; and

PARAGRAPH INDEX

Alines, Chiel Inspector’s Keport, 600

— Coal. See Collieries

— Deep, Air-Conditioning in, 320

— Electricity in, Keport for 1936, 347

— Metal, Use of Detachable Bock-Drill Bits,

241

— Safety in, Research Board, Report on Coal-

Measure Rocks, Classification, Nomenclature and Relative Strengths, 471 ; Annual Report, 761

— Secretary for, Annual Report, 600

— Switch and Transformer Unit for (Switch

gear and Cowans, Ltd.), 442*

— United States Bureau of. Sec Cnited States

— Winding. See Winding

— See also Coal; Collieries; Winding; and

PARAGRAPH INDEX

Mingori, C., Portable Thread-Milling Machine for Pipes, 211

Alining. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Alinistry of Transport. See Transport Minnesota University, Researches on Thermal Conductivity of Building Materials, bj’ Prof. F. B. Rowley and A. B. Algren, 405

Mirrlees, Bickerton Day, Ltd., 75-kW Oil- Driven Emergency Generator Set, 336*

Alirrlees, Watson (fe Co., Ltd., Condenser for Dalmarnock Power Station, 399

Alirrors, Curved, AA^ork of Sir C. A. Parsons on, 759

“Alisiones,” Argentine Destroyer, Launch of, 375 Mississippi River, Control of Floods on, 103 Commission. Adeksburg Experiment Station, 193*, 249*, 273*, 361*

Mitchell Engineering Co., Ltd., Bunkering Plant for Trawlers, Fleetwood Docks, 253*

Mixers, Steel-AIelting Shops, Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., 351, 359, 413, 443

Alixing Afachines, Concrete. See Concrete Alobile Driers, I>td., Grass Drier, 68*

" Alodel Engineer ” Exhibition, 371

— Experiments. See Aeronautics; Ship

Resistance; Tank Experiments

— River Experiments, United States Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 193* 249*, 273*, 361*

— for Tidal Investigation, United States

Waterways Experiment Station, A^icks- burg, 361*

Mogden, Sewage Purification at, 672

Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exhibition, 309

Monkswell, Lord, on Railway Runs in France, 1937, 676*, 733*

Monobloc Air Compressor, 309*

Monoplane. See Aeronautics

Mono-Piano Oscillatory Drive (E. K. <fe F. Turner, Ltd.), 52*

Moon, S. H., Coke-Fired Grass-Drying Plant, 96*

Moore, H., on Factory-Truck Traffic Control, 112

Moreau, C. J., on Transmission of Air-Borne Sound by Composite Partitions, 192

Morgan, Sir B. H., the Late, 105

Morris Alotors, Ltd., 6-12 h.p. Four-Cylinder Petrol Engine, 647*

Morris, T. N., on Corrosion of Tin-Plate Containers, 59

Moser, Dr. Al., Continental Research on Notched-Bar Impact Test, 519. See 537

Motor, Air, Hele-Shaw-Beacham, for AVinch, 27*

— Boat Searchlight (C.A.V.-Bosch, Ltd.), 312*

— Cars, American, Trends in Design of. 689 Design for Road Safety, 34’9, 352, 355,

434

Design, Tendencies in, 434
Motor-Car Details :
Axles and Wheels of 75-ton 12-wheeled, Low-Loading Trailer, 568*

Brakes, Steering Gear .'jnd Independent Suspension, 356

Chassis, 26-Seater ’Bus (Dodge Bros (Britain), Ltd.), 588*

— Design for Road Safety, 352, 355, 434

— Forward-Control, Oil-Engined, 588*

— for Hillman 14-h.p. Touring Car, 293*

— 14-h.p. Lanchester Touring Car, 502*

— Motor-Lorry, 10-ton, Three-Axle (Asso- elated Equipment Co., Ltd.), 20*, 509*

Engines. See Engines, Petrol, Motor Car Headlights, Coloured Light for. Report, 406

Horus, Noise from, Report, 688 Independent AVheel Suspension, 434 Oil-Engine Forward-Control Chassis (Dennis Brothers, Ltd.), 588*

Six-Wheeled Chassis for Motor Omnibus (T.S. Alotors, Ltd.), 510*

Six-Wheeled Chassis, 6-ton (J. I. Thorny- croft (fe Co., Ltd.), 507*

Steering-Wheel Hubs and Heating Unit, Use of Pressure Die-Castings for, 614* Three-Axle Chassis, 10-ton (Associated Equipment Co., Ltd.), 20*, 509*

Twin-Steering Six-Wheeled Chassis (Ley- land Motors, Ltd.), 508*

Motor-Car, Engines. See Engines, Petrol Engineers. See Axtiomobile Engineers Exhibition, Earl’s Court, 434 Fuel. See Motor Fuel

Headlights, Coloured Light for, Report, 406

Hillman-Minx, 9-8-h.p., 80 Hillman Toiu-ing, 14-h.p., 293* Horns, Noise from, Report, 688 Lanchester Roadrider de Luxe, 14-h.p., 502*

at New York National Automobile Show, 688

Noises from, 357

Studebaker, Petrol Consumption and Tyre Wear Tests, 580

Use of Pressure Die-Castings in, 614* Visibility from Drivers’ Seats of, 349 See PARAGRAPH INPEX

— Carriages, Railway, See Carriages, Railway

— Coach, 20-Seater, Chassis for (J. I. Thornycroft Co., Ltd.), 507*

— Electric, for Collieries, 591 Control of (Review), 116

Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Works, Electric Control Gear for, 482*

Flameproof, Specification for, 194 Induction (Review), 158

Southern Railway Electric See Erratum, 74

!, 349; Commercial Transport Exhibition, 507*, 548*, Report on Motor Industry of Britain, 1937, 747

See Engines ;

Chassis for (Dodge Bros. (Britain), Ltd.), 588*

— Paraffin. See Engines, Petrol-Paraffi.n

— Petrol. See Aeronautics ; Engines, Petrol;

Motor Cars; Tractors

— Plough. See Tractors

— Punt, with Sterilising Equipment (J. 1.

Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 314*

Motor Rail, Ltd., 8-12 h.p. Diesel Locomotive, 648*

— Road Rollers. See Road Rollers

— Scythe, Self-Pronelled (J. Allen and Sons (Oxford), Ltd.), 617*

— Spirit. See Motor Fuel

— Torpedo Boats, Development of, 528

— Tractors. See Tractors

— Transport in Ceylon, 154 In Egypt, 348

Exhibition, Commercial, Earl’s Court, 507*, 548*, 587*

and Indian Railways, 17, 127

— Trawler “ British Honduras,” 711

— Truck, Electric, 2-ton Industrial Type

(Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 309* Traffic Control in Factories, 112

— Vehicle, Commercial, with Collapsible

Tank (Dodge Bros. (Britain), Ltd.), 9*

Electric-Battery, Chassis for (Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles, Ltd.), 549*

Goods, Annual Report of Licensing Authorities, 17

and London Traffic Problem, 599

Low-Iz)ading and Tank Trailers for (R. A. Dyson Co., Ltd.), 587*

Noise from, Investigations on, 317, 644, 700

Public-Service, Statistics, 659

30-h.p., for Refuse Containers (Dennis Bros., Ltd.), 228*

10-ton Three-Axle Chassis for ciated Equipment Co., Ltd.), 509*

Traffic in London, 518

Trailer, Adjustable-Reach for Loads (R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd.),

Trailer, 75-ton, 12-Wheeled, Low-Loading, 568*

Twin-Steering, Six-Wheeled Chassis for (Ivyland Motors, Ltd.), 508*

Use of Oil Engines in, 748

Visibility from Drivers’ Seats of, 349 Wheel Impact on Bridge Spans, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 130

— Wagons. See Motor Lorries ; Tractors Motorships Built, Report of Lloyd’s Register,

574

— “Capetown Castle,” Launch of, 373*

— Cross-Channel, “ Prins Albert,” 411*

— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 77,

433

— Diesel-Electric Ferry, Clyde Navigation

Trust, 661*

— “ Lady Sylvia,” Trials of, 302

— Oil-Tank, Welded Construction in, 431

Motorships, “ Ostmark,” with Seaplane Catapult, 109*

— Trawler, “ British Honduras,” 711

— See also Marine Propulsion

Moulding and Making of Plastics (Review). 115 Mouldswortb, Poplar Grove Pumping Station, Automatic Water-Softening Plant, 525*

Mount, Col., Report on Swanley Junction Railway Accident, 328

Mower, Autoscythe (C. H. Pugh, Ltd.), 33*

— Lawn, 14-in. Atco (C. H. Pugh, Ltd.), 33* Mowing Machine and Elevator, Combined,

Petrol-Driven (J. Wilder, Ltd.), 31*

Horse-Driven, with Power Knife Drive (Bamfords, Ltd.), 91*

Power-Driven (International Harvester Co. of Great Britain, Ltd.), 93*

Self-Lift (International Harvester Co. of Great Britain, Ltd.), 93*

Self-Propelled Motor Scythe (J. Allen and Sons (Oxford), Ltd., 617*

Moyer, Prof. R. A., on Petrol Consumption and Tyre Wear in Motor Vehicles, 580

Moyes, S. J., on Solution of Completely- Redundant Frames, 70. See LETTER, 20

Mud-Flush System of Borehole Drilling (Le Grand, Sutclilf and Gell, Ltd.), 200

Muller, Prof. J. W., Detoxification Process for Town Gas, 102

Multitubular Boilers. See Boilers

Munich, Deutsches Museum, Early Krupp Diesel Engine, 714

Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., Welding Electrodes, 311; All-Welded Factory, Waltham Cross, 712*

Museum, Deutsches, Munich, Early Krupp Diesel Engine, 714

— Royal Scottish Annual Report, 178

— Science, South Kensington, Lee-Richards

Annular Monoplane, 13 ; Annual Report, 60 ; Railway Centenary Exhibition, 107 ; Lubrication Exhibition, 477 ; Future of, 518; Atom-Tracks Exhibition, 601, Timber Research and Utilisation Exhibition, 719

Mysore, Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 457
NATAL Railways, 1,200-11.p. Electric Locomotive for, 23*

National Coke and Oil Co.. Ltd., Tests of Erith Carbonising Plant, 497

National Gas and Oil Engine Co., Ltd., 37-h.p. Four-Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 302*

— Physical Laboratory, Report on Work of,

18. 47*, 77*, 129, 155, 186*, 209*, 238* 261, 263, 381*, 408*, 504*, 561*, 585*, 644*. 690, 691*. 707*, 736. See LETTERS, 604, 634 ; Optical Projection Machines 165*: Millionth Comparator, 165* ; Autocollimating Telescope, 166* ; Interferometer for Gauge Measurement, 166*; Foundation and Growth of, 287, 295; Noise Investigations at, 317, 699, 728; Investigations on Magnesium and its Alloys, 529; Acoustical Laboratory, Experiments on Noise Transmission along Water Pipes, 612*

Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics

Naval Architects, Institution of :

Spring Meeting, London:

Results of Experiments on Model Screw Jh’opellers with Wide Blades, by R. W. L. Gawn, 25*

Hatchways, by J. G. Buchanan, 84*, 110* Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. American Society of, Recent Practice in Welding Large Oil Tankers, by J. W. Hudson and T. M. Jackson, 431 ; Effects of Welding in Ship Construction, by J. B. Hunter, 431

— Architecture. Design of Torpedo Craft, 528 See also Warships

— Construction. See also Warships

— Constructors, Roj^al Corps of. Training for, 290

— See also Warships

Navigation, Aerial. Sec Aeronaniivs

— Echo Sounder, Magneto-Striction (Alarconi

International Marine Communication Co. Ltd.), 342*

— Wireless Telegrai>hy in. See Telegraphy,

Wireless

Navvy. See Excavator Navy, Argentine, See Argentine under Warships

— British. See H.M. under Warships

— See also Naval; Warships; and PARA

GRAPH INDEX

Neal, R. H,, and Co., Ltd., Oil-Driven Trenching Machine, 68*; 10/7 cub. ft. Portable

Concrete Mixer, 533*

Needham, E. S., All-Welded Factory, Waltham Cross, 712*

Negretti Zambia, Exhaust-Gas Thermometer, 306*

NeLeSco Superheaters, 399* Ness, G., the Late, 710 Nevada Spillways, Boulder Dam, United States, 61*, 113*

New Jersey Zinc Co., Researches on Zinc Alloys, 613

— York City Building Code, 235 (3ty, Nine Rockefeller Plaza, 396* National Automobile Show, 688

— Zealand Centennial Exhibition, Wellington,

601

Newcomen Society, Summer Meeting, Hereford, 106 ; Annual Meeting, 762 : History of the Hay Railway, by Capt. F. B. Ellison, 762

Newspapers, Microphotographic Reproduction of, 432, 714

Nickel in Cast Iron, Effect of, 132

— Coatings, Electro-deposited, Thickness and

Measurement of, 53*

— Plating of Steel, Effect on Fatigue Range,

140 j

Nine Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, 396* I Nitrogen-Hardening of High-Chromium and I Austenitic Steels, 581*

— Use in Steel Spraying, 528* '

Noble, W., on Influence of Carbonising Conditions on Coke Properties, 385*. See 365 ; on Experiments in Small-Scale Cupola, 730*. See 365

Noise Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 644*

— Measurement, Analysis and Abatement of,

317, 698, 728

— from Motor Cars, Causes of, 357

— from Motor-Car Horns, Report, 688

— from Propellers, Causes of, 170*

— in Streets and Buildings, Problem of, 317,

698, 728

— Structure-Borne, Reduction by Vibration-

Attenuating Supports, 296*

— Transmission along Water Pipes, Reduction

of, 612*

Non-Clogg Centrifugal Pump, 34*

— Conducting Coverings. See Heat Insulation

— Ferrous Metals. See Metals ; Metallurgy Nord Railway, Locomotive Performances, 676 “ Normandie,” S.S., Atlantic Crossings by, 208 Norris Warming Co., Ltd., Ventilation System,

Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 473 North-Eastern Electric Supply Co., Dunston B

Power Station, Thermal Efficiency of, 318 North Eastern Trading Estates, Ltd., Team-

Valley Estate, Gateshead, 551

— Notes from, 13, 42, 72 (Erratum), 73, 99, 125,

151, 179, 205, 231, 257, 285, 324, 345, 375, 403, 429, 457, 484, 514, 543, 571, 597, 655, 685, 715, 745. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Northampton Polytechnic, London, Prospectuses, 316 ; Prize Distribution, 690

Northern Coke Research Committee, Investigation on Carbonising under Mechanical Pressure, 365, 385*; Experiments on Small-Scale Cupola, 365, 730*

Notched-Bar Tests. See Tests (Materials) Notes on New Book.s. See Books and LITERATURE INDEX

— See Cleveland; North; South-West; South Yorkshire ; Labour. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX

Nottingham Meeting, British Association. See British Association

Nowy Saez Dam, Poland, 13 Nut, Elastic Lock (Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd.). 343*
Obituary : (Moved to separate index)

Ocean Swells and Abnormal Tides, 406*

Offices, Air-Conditioning for, 556*

Ogden, W. M., on Design of Sewers, 671

Oil and Coal, Low-Temperature Carbonising Plant, Coal and Allied Industries, Ltd., Tests of, 217

— Cooler, Plate-Type (J. Gordon and Co., Ltd.), 371

— Diesel, Production from Coal and Oil, 497

— Engines. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars; Tractors

— Filter, Metal-Pack (Yokes, Ltd.), 334* Vacuum-Operated (Stream-Line Filters Ltd.), 67*

— Fuels for Burners, Specification, 265. See 153 for Diesel Engine, Specification, 153, 265

— as Hydraulic Medium, Advantages of, 728

— Light, Production from Tars, 488

— Lubricating, Effect of Water in, 130

Four-Ball Top Testing Apparatus for, 1* ? Investigations on Production of,, 658 for Railways, 468

’ ‘ Ring-Free,*’ for Internal-Combustion Engines, Tests of, 427

— Motors. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars ; Tractors

— Production from Coal in Australia, Report, 748

from Coal, Statistics, 600

— Recovery from Bearings, 463

— Switches. See Switchgear

— Tankers, Welded Construction in, 431

— Tractors. See Tractors

— Washing Process for Sulphur Removal from Gas, 611

— See also Lubrication ; Petroleum

Oiler, Valvespout (Parker-Hale, Ltd.), 14

Old Centralians, Report on Careers of Members 545

Oliver Iron Mining Co., Use of Detachable Rock-Drill Bits by, 241

Oliver Machinery Co., Single Cutter-Block Four- Roller Planing Machine, 640*

Olympia. See Exhibition Omnibus, Motor. See Motor OmniPus

— Trolley. See Trolley-'Pus

Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission Annual Report, 260

— Queenston Hydro-Electric Plant, Removal of Generator Shaft by Shrinkage, 243

Open-Hearth Furnace. See Furnace Opening Bridges. See Bridges

Optical Devices in Research and Industry, Conference on, Apjjlication of O|)tics to Engineering Measurements, by F. H. Rolt, 162*

— Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 690

-- Projection Machines, 165*

— Projectorfor Gear Teeth (E. Leitz (London)), 313*

— Pyrometers. See Pyrometers

— Qt Sir C. A. Parsons, 759

Optics, Application to Engineering Measurements, 162*

Optimeter (C. Zeiss), 165*

” Orcades,” S.S., Orient Liner, Description of, 224*

Ores, Iron, Lincolnshire, Report Furnace Smelting, 350, 360 Orient Steam Navigation Co.,

“ Orcades,” 224*

Orjonikidze Shipyard, Launch of Icebreaker “ Joseph Stalin,” 257

Ormerod Shapers, Ltd., Spline-Shaping Machine, 750*

Oscillations,Electric, Electric; Telegraphy, Wireless ; Telephony, Wireless

Oscillograph. See Electric Oscillogram of Short-Circuit Test of Explosion

Chamber of Circuit Breaker, 177* “ Ostmark,” Seaplane Catapult Ship, 109* Ovens, Coke. See Coke Ovens Overhead Cranes. See Cranes

— Lines, Power Transmission, in Great Britain,

556

Power Transmission, Ontario, 260 Power Transmission, Preservation of Wood Poles for, 29

Power Transmission, Surge Protection of, 708

Overseas Trade Department, Report on Economic and Commercial Conditions in Persian Gulf, 162 ; Survey of Import Trade of India, 212; Report on Economic and Commercial Conditions in Egypt, 348 Oxidation Tests for Lubricating Oil. 463, 551 Oxy-Acetylene Welding. See Welding Oxygen Jet. Deep Cutting in Steel by, 682*

— in Steel. Determination of, 186
PAINT, Pigments tor, Specification, 715

— and Plasters for Buildings, Investigations on, 450

Painting Equipment, Compressed-Air (Aero Brush Co., Ltd.), 311*

Palladium, Freezing Point of, Investigations on. 585*

Pan American Airways, Transatlantic Flight by “Clipper HI,” 47

Panels, Sheet-Metal. National Ph\’sical Ljibora- tory Investigations on, 129

Panghorn Corporation Electrostatic Bust Precipitator, 388*

Paper-Pulp Refiner (Masson Scott and Co., Ltd.). 161*

Paratfin Engines. See Rngines^ Pelrcl-Paraffiti Paris Exhibition, Rolling Stock at, 261

— International Conference on Acoustics, 183 Railway Congress. See Railway Congress Int^nuitwnal, Paris

Trade Fair, 171*. 211*

— Lyon-Mediterrande Railway, Locomotive

Performances on, 676

— Orleans and Midi Railway, Electrification of, 702

and Midi Railway, Locomotive Performances on, 676*, 733*

— World Congress on Universal Documentation, 441

Parker, Dr. T. W., on Foamed Blast-Furnace Slag, 388. . z:-,:::

Parker, W. C., Electrical Plant, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 423*

Parker-Hale, Ltd., Valvespout Oilers, 14 Parmantier, A., on Ijocomotive Practice on Continent, 234

Parsons, Sir C. A. Scientific Activities of, 632*, 695*, 759*

Parsons, C. A., .V Co.. Ltd., 50,n00-kW Turbo- Generators, Dalmarnoek Power Station, 399* ; 30,000-kW Turbo-Alternator, Sculcoates Power Station, 551 ; Electrical Research Lalwratories, Heaton, 722*

Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd., 35-h.p. Four- Cylinder Petrol Engine, 692*

Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Co., Ltd., Machinery for H.M.S. “Warspite,” 190. See Erratum, 255 ; Adjustable Block for Turbine Blading, 370*

— Memorial iTecture on Scientific Activities of

Sir A. Parsons, 632*, 695*, 759*

— - Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine

Propulsicn

Partitions, Composite, Transmission of Airborne Sounds by, 192

— Sound-Proof, for Buildings, Investigations on, 645*

Parton, J. E., on Flux Distortion in Iron Testing, 439* See 380

Passenger Trafiic by Ihiblic-Service Vehicles, Statistics, 659

Passport Regulationsand Chartered Engineers 461

Patent Record, 30*. 272*, 444*

— See also Trade Marks

Paterson, Dr. C. C., on Appraisement of Lighting, 490

Paulin, G. H., on Torsional Rigidity of Crankshafts, 711*. See 275*. See LETTER, 743

Pearce, Sir L., Battersea Power Station Extensions, 319

Pease v. Gibbon, 248 Pease, R., the Late, 494

Peat, Briquetting of, 208

Peck, Major-General S. C., on Work of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, 432

Pegson, Ltd., Gyrasphere Crusher, 565* Pell-Walpole, Dr. W. T., on Mechanical Properties of Antimony-Cadmiuin-Tin Alloys, 383; on Constitution of Antimony- Cadmium-Tin Alloys, 395

Pels, H., Co., Ltd., Plate-Splitting Shears Punch and Cropper, 334*

Pendulum for Determination of Gravitational Constant, 187

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Launch of S.S. “ Strathallan,” 402; Hundred-Year History (Review), 631. See LETTER, 693, See Erratum, 723 ; Trials of S.S. “ Stratheden,” 681*

Penney <fe Poiter (1932), Ltd., Grain Grader, 65* Pennsylvania State College, Report on Fuel Rating, 154

Pension Scheme for Electrical Industry, Report, 601

Penstocks, Boulder Dam Hydro-Electric Scheme. 703*

Perkins, E., Ltd., 30-kW Oil-Driven Generating Set, 66* : Oil-Driven Eordson Tractor, 66*, 94 ; 85-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Oil Engine for Vehicles, 550* ; Exhibits at Public Works, Road and Transport Exhibition, 647

Perkins, W. J., the Late, 19

Permeability Testing, Alternating-Current Method in, 379, 387*

Permutit Co., Ltd., Ground-Operated Chemical- Measitring Apparatus, 425* ; Automatic Water-Softening Plant, Mouldsworth, 525* Persian Gulf, Economic Conditions in. Report 162

Personal, 12, 42, 72, 98,124, 150, 178, 204, 230, 256, 284, 324, 344, 374, 402, 428, 456, 484, 514, 542, 570, 596, 626, 654, 684, 714, 744

Perspex, Properties and Application of, 202* Pestarini, J. M., Metadyne Control System for

Direct-Current Traction, 472*

Petrol Motors. See Aeronaiitics; Enffinch, Petrol; Motor Cars ; Tractors

— Tractors. See Tractors Petroleum Gas, Liquefied, 342

— Residues for Euel Briquetting, 208

— See also Oil; Engines, Oil

Petters, Ltd., 16-b.h.p. Single-Cylinder Oil Engine, 34* ; 300-h.p. Six-Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 302* ; 20-b.h.p. Two-Cylinder Atomic Diesel Engine, 647*

Pewter, Composition and Properties of, 269

Phenological Observations in British Isles 1935-36, 686

Philips Industrial, Ltd., Portable Unit for X-Ray Examinations, 340* ; Electric Arc Welders, 340

Philips Lamps, Ltd., 1,250-kV Electric Generator, 59*

Phillipson, J., and Co., Ltd., Direct-Measurement Dynamic Balancing Machine, 122*

Phosphor Bronze, Resistance to Corrosion- Eatigue of, 50

Photo-Copying Machine, Electric, Continuous Type (J. Halden <fe Co., Ltd.), 336*

Photographers* Association, I*rofessional, Exhibition of Photography in Commerce and Industry, 349

Photography in Commerce and Industry, Exlii- bition of, 349

Photometers at Research Laboratory, General Electric Co., Ltd., 523*

Photometry, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 708

— in Public lighting, 605 Photomicrographs. See Microi)hoto(jraphs Physical Laboratory. See National Physical

— Society, Duddell Medal Awarded to Prof. W. G. Cady, 47; Guthrie Lecture on Appraisement of Lighting, by Dr. C. C. Paterson, 490

Physics, Atom-Tracks, Science Museum, 601

— Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 561*, 585*, 644*, 690. Sec LETI’ERS, (504, 634

— Institute of. Annual Report, 81; Application of Optics to Engineering Measurements, by F. H. Rolt, 162*

— Ionosphere, National Physical I^aboratory

Investigations on, 736

— Lord Rutherford’s Contribution to, 487

— Modern, Survey of, 487

— Relativity Experiment at National Physical

Laboratory, 209*

— See also Physical Society and PARAGRAPH

INDEX

Piccadilly Circus, Electro-Matic System of Traffic Signals, 569

Pickling Tanks, Rubber Linings for, 446*

Piers, Ferro-Concrete, Chien Tang-River Bridge, South China, 448*, 503*

— Storstrdm Railway and Road Bridge, 372* Pig-Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Pigott,Dr. S. J., on Sixty Years’ Development

in Marine Engineering, 319

Piling for Bridge Foundations, 606

— Ferro-Concrete, for Foundation of Coke-

Oven Plant, Cleveland Iron Works, 36 Concrete, Foundation.s of Gas Plant, Weston-super-Mare, 623

— Timber, Chien Tang-River Bridge, South

Chine, 503*

Pilkington Brothers, Ltd., Toughened Glass and Glass Ih’oducts, 307

Pilot Injection in Oil Engine, Investigations on, 417*

Pinewood Studios, Ltd., Tver Heath, Electrical and Heating Equipment, 146. See LET- TERS, 174, 239, 293. See Erratum, 21 Pinions. See Gears

Pipes, Fireclay, Glazed, Specification, 543 —> Keebush, for Chemical Plant, 202*

— Lines. Flow in, Charts and Slide Rule for, 135*

Pipes, Lines, High-Temperature, Balanced Support of, 637*, 665*

Transportation of Solids Tlirough, Investigations on,363

— Pressure, Welded-Steel, Chambon Reservoir,

Is6re, Prance, 391*

— Rubber-Lined, for Hot Gases, 446*

— Steam. See Steam Pipes

— Stopper, Spigot-End (Lead Wool Co., Ltd.), 534*

— Testing Flange (Lead Wool Co., Ltd.), 534*

— Thread-Milling Machine for (C. Mingori), * 211

— Water Flow in, Friction and Heat-Transmission Investigations, 573. See LETTERS, 634*, 650, 711

Prevention of Corrosion in, 671 Reduction of Noise Transmission along, 612*

— Welded-Steel, for Penstocks, Boulder-Dam

Hydraulic Scheme, 703*

— Welding by Multi-Flame Method, 107*

— See also Tubes

Pipette, Mercury, Automatic, for Volumetric Glassware Testing, 210*

Pistol for Metal-Spraying, 526

Pistons for Aeroplane Engines, 292

— Ring Wear in Locomotives, 469

— Valve Ring, Adjustable (United States

Metallic Packing Co., Ltd.), 426

Pitch for Fuel Briquetting, 208 Pitting. See Corrosion

Plans, Specifications and Drawings, Ownership of, 247

Planing Machine. See Machine Tools

Plasters and Paints for Buildings, Investigations on,460

Plastics Injection Moulding Machine (Eckert und Ziegler G.m.b.H.), 424

— Making and Moulding of (Review), 115

— Synthetic, Manufacture, Properties and

Applications, 144*, 201*

Plate-Bending Rolls. See Machine Tools

— Edge Planing Machine. See Planing Ma

chine under Machine Tools

— Shearing Machine. See Machine Tools

— Steel, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Platform, Steel, for Swimming Pool, Earl’s

Court Exhibition Building, 474* Plating, Electro. See Electro Plough, Motor. See Tractor Pneumatic Tools. See Machine Tools

— See also Air Compressor

P. and O. See Peninsular <£- Oriental Poland Electric Traction in, 632

— Nowy Saez Reservoir, Dunajec River, 13 Poldhu Wireless-Station Memorial, 631 Poles, Wood, Ground-Line Preservation of, 29 Pollution, Atmospheric, by Sulphur, Prevention of, 189*

— River, Joint Advisory Committee on, Report, 546

— — Problem of, 58 Polytechnic. See Education

Pomeroy, L. H., on Cars for Road Safety, 355.

See 349, 351, 434 ; on Braking at High Speeds, 743. See 657

Poplar Grove Pumping Station, l^Iouldsworth, Automatic Water-Softening Plant, 525*

Porosity of Tin Coating on Tin-Plate, Investigations on, 640*, 700*

Portable Engine. See Engine

— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools Portal Frames, Completely-Redundant, Solution of, 20, 70

Post Office, British, Telephone and Telegraph Developments, 525

Engineers, Training of, 290

Manholes, Leakage of Gas into, 611 Wireless Telephone Link, Belfast and Stranraer, 292

Powdered Coal. See Pulverised Coal Powell-Brett, B., the Late, 98

Power Conference, World, Future Arrangements for. 77; Vienna Meeting, Programme, 575

— Gas. See Gas ; Engines Gas

— Plant, Hydro-Electric, Boulder Dam, Automatic Sector-Sluice Spillways, 61*, 113* : Penstocks, 703*

Hydro-Electric, British, Units Generated in,318

Hydro-Electric, Great Britain, 522* Hydro-Electric, Mysore, 457

Hydro-Electric, Ontario, Report on, 260 Hydro-Electric, Queenston, Removal of Generator Shaft by Shrinkage, 243

Hydro-Electric, River Romanche, France, 167*, 219*, 391*

See aho Power Stations ; Substations

— Press. See Machine Tools

for Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion :

Ship Resistance

— Station, Electric, Battersea, Thermal Efficiency, 318 ; Extensions, 319

Electric, British, Electricitj’’ Commissioners’ Report, 574

Electric, British, Progress in, 517, 521, .555*

Electric, Constant-Support Hangers for Pipe Lines in, 637*, 665*

Electric, Dalmarnock, Extensions, 397* Electric, Fuel Consumption and Units

Generated, 318

Electric, Fulham, Operating Results, 597 Electric. Low Oil-Content Circuit Breakers for, 177*

Electric, South African, Report, 174 Electric, Southwick, 37,500-kW Brush-

Ljungstroni Turbo-Alternator, 502 Electric, Sculcoates, Extensions, 551, 597 German, Developments in, 659 Steam (Review), 446

See also Poiver Plants ; Substations

— Supply, Electric, Coke-Oven Plant, Cleve

land Iron Works, 120

Electric, Cost in Great Britain, 517, 622*, 555* ’

Electric, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 421*

Electric, Electricity Commissioners’ Report, 574

Electric Generation and Distribution of 318, 517 521*, 555*

Electric, in Germany, 659 rower Supply, lile.'tric, Great Britain. Statls- _2‘SAW»^K11»‘ Studios, 146.

See LETTERS, 174, 239, 293. See Erratum, 21

Electric, Ontario, Report, 260 Electric, Paris-Orleans and Midi Rail- I'^SSic, South Africa, Statistics, 174 Electric, Southern Railway, Portsmouth Line 10*

Electric, Stagshaw Broadcasting Station,

— Tra^mission, Overhead Lines, in Great Britain, 556

Overhead Lines, Ontario, -60

Overhead Lines, Preservation of Wood Poles for, 29

Overhead Lines, Surge Protection of, 708 See also Gearinff; ^iar^ne Propvls^i Water. See Hydraulic; Power Planis^ Hudro-Plectric; Turbines, Hydraulic Precipitator, Dust, Electrostatic (Pangborn Corporation), 388*

Tar, Electrostatic, 36*, 119*

Prescott, Sir on Work of British Waterworks Association, 57

Preservation of Estate Timbers,Methods for, 390

— of Wood Poles at Ground Line, 29

Presidential Address to British Association (Engineering Section) by Sir A. Gibb, on Research in Engineering,295. See 287, 289 to British Association, Section A (Mathematical and Physical Sciences), by Dr. G. W. C. Kaye, on Noise and the Nation, 698, 728. See 317 .

to British Association of Refrigeration, by Dr. E. Gritliths, on Progress of Refrigeration, 762 ,

to British Waterworks Association, by Sir AV. Prescott, on Work of Association, 57 to British Section of French Society of Civil Engineers, by W. T. Halcrow, on Large-Scale Civil-Engineering Works, 519 to Coke Oven Alanagers’ Association, by G. W\ J. Bradley, on Coke-Oven Industry, 629

to Institute of Fuel, by Sir P. Dawson, on Coal: the Next Step, 460

to Institute of Marine Engineers, by Dr. S. J. Pigott, on Developments in Marine Engineering, 319

to Institute of Transport, by Sir A. Gibb, on Engineering and Transport, ^3

to Institution of Automobile Engineers, by Major-General S. C. Peck, on W ork of the Institution, 432 , o

to Institution of Civil Engineers, bj; S. B. Donkin, on Generation and Distribution of Electricity, 517, 521, 555*

to Institution of Electrical Engineers, b> Sir G. Lee, on Telephone and Telegraph Developments, 525

to Institution of Alechanical Engineers, bv Sir J. E. Thornycroft, on Evolution of Torpedo Craft, 493, 528 .

to Institution of Structural Engineers, by Prof. .1. Husband, on Engineering and Modern Civilisation, 519 .

to Junior Institution of Engineers, by W. A. Tookey, on Half-Century of Engineering Progress, 717 , _ i

— — to Society of Chemical Industry, by Lord Leverhulme, on Chemistry and Research, 132

Press. See Machine Tools

Pressure Pipes, Welded-Steel, Chambon Reservoir, Is^re, France, 391*

Preston, Dr. E., on Viscosity of Soda-Silica i Glasses. 721 . . -r.. '

Prices of Metals. See Metal-Pnce Diagrams Priest Furnaces, Ltd., Gas-Fired Furnaces, Darlington Forge, 451* .

Primary Battery. See Cell under ^ectric Pi’inces Street Station, Edinburgh, Resignalhng i ^24 14 11*

*‘ Prins Albert,” M.S., Cross-Channel, 411*

Procter, A. N., on Solution of Buckling Problems, 62*, 116*. 184*. See LETTERS, 265,

' 323

' Producers, Suction-Gas, French, 171

' — Gas Engine. See Engines, Gas

' Profit-Sharing. See Labour

Projection Machines, Optical, ^5 Projector, Optical, for Gear Teeth (E. Leitz (Ix)ndon)), 313*

Propellers, Aerial. SQQ Aeronautics

— Marine, Erosion of. Work of Sir G. A. Parsons on, 695*

Singing, Investigation of, 170* Tank Experiments on, 120 with WTde Blades, Model Experiments on, 25* , -r ,

— Model Experiments at Froude Laboratory, 238 .

Pi-opulsion of Shii)s. See Marine Propulsion ; Engines ; Turbines; Propellers ; Ship Resistance

Protectovent Air Filter, 334 Provo, Utah, Power Station, Constant-Support Hangers for Pipe Lines in, 666*

Prussian Experimental Institute for Hydraulic Engineering, Experiments on Tangential Foundation Resistance of Gravity Dams, 215*, 242*, 261

Prytherch, W. FL, on Magnesium and its Alloys, 529

Public Cleansing. Ministry of Health Report,182 Services, Cost of, Report, 262

— Expenditure, Grovth of, 575

— Lighting, Photometry in, 605 — Works Programme in Greece, 135

Public Works, Roads and Transport Congress :

Occurrence of Dilute Sewage and its Rational Treatment, by H. C. Shenton, 577

Materials Used in Modern Road Construction, by J. E. Swindlehurst, 577 Laboratory Testing in Highway Engineering, by F. C. West, 577

Mineral Sulphates and their Influence in Concrete Design and Construction, by F. C. Ball, 605

Public Works, Roads and I'ransport Congress -continued.

Photometry in Public Lfgliting, by C. H.

Woodward, 005 Gas for (’ommerclal

by H. R. Hems, 605

Road Tars, by W. J. Hadfield, 606 Reports of London Cleansing Advisory

Committee, by W. H. Tee, 606 Methods of Dealing with Bridge Foundations in Bad Ground or Under Water, by J. M. Low, 606

Town Planning and Water Supply, by G. H. Thistleton-Dyer, 671

Weather and Water Suj>i»ly, by E. G. Bilham, 671

Possibilities of Lower Greensand as Source of Water Supply for Greater London, by H. Dewey, 671

Some General Principles Involved in Corrosion of Water Mains and Services, by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon and Dr. F. Wormwell, 671

Design of Sewers, by W\ M. Ogden, 671 — of Sewage and Storm-Water Pumping

Stations, by E. V. Bevan and B. T. Rees, 672

Construction of Municii)al Aerodromes, by H. R. Reynolds, 672

Notes on Ventilation of Percolation Filters, by E. J. Hamlin and H. Wilson, 672

Ellmina^n of the Detitrus Dump, by C. Townsend, 672

Activated Sludge, by W. T. Lockett, 672 Public Works, Roads and Transport Exhibition,

Royal Agricultural Hall, 533*, 564*, 617*, 647*

Pugh, C. H.. Ltd., Autoscythe Mower, 33* ; 8-h.p. Tractor Cultivator, 33* ; 14-in.

Atco l4iwn Mower, 33*

Pulp, Paper, Refiner (Masson Scott and Co., Ltd.), 161*

Pulteney Evening Institute, Classes at, 343 Pulverised-Coal Burning, investigations on, 659 Flame Jets, Combustion in, 601, 608*, 667*. See Erratum, 694

— Fuel Plants, Safety Precautions with, 212 Pumps, Air. See Air Compressors

— Centrifugal, of Keebush, for Acids, 202* Non-Clogg, Petrol-Driven (I^ee, Howl <fc

Co., Ltd.), 34*

Turbine-Driven, Hammersmith Pumping Station, 710*

Worthington-Simpson, Brockwell Park Swimming Bath, 742*

— Circulating, for La Mont Jfarine-Typ©

Boiler, 595*

Turbine-Driven (W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Ltd.), 308*

— Ebonite, for Corrosive Liquids (Dexine

Ltd.), 559*

— Fuel, for Oil Engines, 153, 265

— Reciprocating, High-Speed Developments

in, 720, 725*

— Turbine, 500-gall. p.ra., Petrol-Driven, on

Trailer (Dennis Brothers, Ltd.). 548*

— Turbo-, Work of Sir C. A. Parsons on, 695*

— Two-Stage Turbine, for Fire Engine (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 508*

Pumping Station, Hammersmith, Metropolitan Water Board, 709*

Poplar Grove, Mouldsworth Automatic Water-Softening Plant, 525*

Sewage and Storm-Water, Design of, 672 Punt. Motor, with Sterilising Equipment (J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 314*

Purdie, Lumsden Co., Foundations for Covered Shipbuilding Berth, Wallsend,415* Purging of Gasholders by Inert Gas, 697 Pxu*ification of Sewage. See Sewage

— of Water. See Water

Purifier, Fanless, for Flour-Milling (E. R. tt F. Turner, Ltd.), 738*

Pye. Dr. D. R , on Metallurgy and the AeroEngine, 292

Pyrometer, Indicating and Recording (Ether, Ltd.), 370*

— Optical, Calibration of 585

Pvrotenax, Ltd., Pvrotenax Fireproof Cable 454*
QUAKER OATS. Factory, Use of Acoustic Celotex in, 203*

Queen's Hotel, Leeds, Description, 575, 589*. See Addendzim, 627 ; Air-Conditioning at, 558

— Mary College, London, Jubilee of, 660

S.S., Use of Acoustic-Celotex in, 203* ; Atlantic Crossings by, 208

Queenston Hydro-Electric Plant, Ontario, Removal of Generator Shaft by Shrinkage, 243 : Statistics of. 260

Quicksilver. See Mercury and Metal-Price Pia grama
R. and G. Fluid Gauge for Tanks, 425 Radiation Measurement, Standardisation of 586

Radio Communication Co., Ltd. ,Mast Radiator, Stagshaw Broadcasting Station, 454

— Department, National Physical Laboratory,

Work of, 736

Radiological Investigations of National Physical Laboratory, 586, 690

Radiotelegraphy. See also Telegraphy, Wireless Radiotelephony. See also Teleph(my, Wirelefis Radiovisor Parent, Ltd., Industrial Smoke

Indicator, 312*

Radium Container, Heavy Tungsten AUov for 622*

Tests of, 587

— National Physical Laboratory Investigations

on, 586*

Raft, Ferro-Concrete, Dalmarnock Power Station, 398*

Rail Cars. See Carriages, Paiheay

Rail and Road Transport in Ceylon, 154

~ Transport in India, 17, 127

Steel, Bearing Plates for, Specification, 663 Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams by Oxy-Acetylene Welding, 496

Railing M, on Personnel Problem in Industrial Concerns, 128

Railroads Association, American,Investigations on Steam Locomotives, 378

Elements of (Review), 737 Birmingham Southern, 900-h.p- Supercharged Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive, 439*. See Erratum, 570

— See also Railways Accidents o .5^ Piraeus Electric, Extension of, o4o

~ Indian, Report, 1935-36, 16

— Bridge. See Bridge

' Transport Returns for

1936, 176 ; Census of Staff on, 349

— Buenos Aires Pacific, 120-h.p. Oil-Engined Rail Car with Torque Converter, 390* Can^ian National, Lubricating Oils for, 468

— Carnage. See Carriage

Centena^ Exhibition, Science Jluseura, 107 — Ceylon, Report on, 154

Companies and Defect and Maintenance Clauses in Contracts, 132

Railway Congress, International, Paris :

II.—Locomotives and Railway Stock. Operation of Signals and Points, 3 Locomotive Practice on Continent, by A. Parmaiitier and R. Dugas, 234 Sectum I 11.~W or Icing,

Operation of Alain-Line and Light Railways, 3

Organisation of Goods Transport, 3 Section V,—Light Railways and CoUmial Railways.

Fixed Plant for Railway with Light Traffic, Plenary and Closing Meetings, 4 Visits and Excursions, 4 See also Vol. CXLIII

RaUway Containers, Developments in, 458 State, Storstrdm Railway and Road Bridge, 372*

- - Egyptian State, Position of, 348

— Electric, Metadyne System of Control of Direct-Current for, 472*

Traction, Lectures at Sheffield University, 343

Est, Locomotive Performances on, 676 734*

— Exhibit at Paris Exhibition 261

— French, Packing of Goods on, 171; Rail Cars for, 261; Locomotive Performances on, 676*, 733*

State, Lubricating Oils for, 468

— Great Western, Locomotive Frame-Cutting Machine, 333* ; RoUing Stock for, 344 • Speedometers for Locomotives, 661 ’

— Hay, Herefordshire, History of, 762 Itelian State, Coupled Littorina Rail Car, 416*

— Indian, Board’s Report for 1935-36, 16 Inquiry Committee, Report, 127

— with Light Traffic, Fixed Plant for, 4 — Locomotive. See Locomotive

- - London Midland Scottish, 4-6-2 Type

Coronation ** Locomotive, 8*, 70*’ Training School for Motor Drivers, 106 ’ Locomotive-Testing Station, Rugby, 183 ’ 12-ton Shock-Absorbing Goods Wagon’ 213*; Bunkering Plant for Trawlers, Fleetwood, 253* ; Carriage Sheds, Stone- ’ Resignalling Princes Street Station, Edinburgh, 524 ; Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, Air-Conditioning Plant, 558 • Description, 575, 589*. See Addendum, 627 ; Locomotive Coaling Plant, Stranraer, 576*

• - arid North Eastern, “Coronation”

Train, 40* : Locomotive Weighing Alachines at Doncaster, 80*; Horizontal Drilling and Tapping Machine, 138* • Locomotive-Testing Station, Rugby, 183 • “West Riding Limited” Train, 373- “East Anglian” Express Train, 426*’ High-Speed Trains on, 657. See LETTER 743 ; Reconstruction of Locomotive No’ 10000, 682

— Main-Line and Light, Operation of, 3

— Mania and its Aftermath, 1845-52 (Re

view), 197

— Motor Carriage. See Carriage

Natal, 1,200-h.p. Electric Locomotive for 23*

— Nord, Locomotive Performances on, 676 Operating Practice, Developments in, 657

See LETTER, 743

Organisation of Goods Transport on, 3

Paris-Lyon-AIediterrann^e, Locomotive Per- ormances on, 676

Orleans and Midi, Locomotive Perform- on, 676*, 733*

Orleans and Midi, Electrification of, 702 Rollingstock. See Carriages/ Locomotives • Wagons '

~ Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo, Bridge over Chien Tang River, 448*, 503*

— Signalling. See Signalling

-- South African, Electrification of, 174

— Southern, Electrification of Portsmouth

Line, 10*. See Erratum, 74 ; Report on Battersea Park Accident, 80 ; History of (Review), 158; Swanley Junction Accident, Report, 328

— Street. See Tramways

— Swiss Federal, 290-h.p. Diesel-Engined Rail

Cars, 147*. See Addendrcm, 230

— Train Brake. See Braking

— Tube. See Underground

— Wagons. See Wag^ms

— Warsaw Suburban, Electrification of, 632

— West London Extension, Tunnels beneath

Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245* ~~ See also Railroads and PARAGRAPH INDEX Rainfall and Water Supply, England and Wales, 671

Rammer, Power-Operated (B. Johnson <fe Son), 619*

Ramp, Hose, for Tire lighting, 410

Rand Water Board, South Africa, Annual Report, 750

“ Ranger,** Sailing Yacht, Design of, 183

Ransomes and Rapier, Xtd., Locomotive Weighing Machines, 80*

Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., Motor Garden Cultivator, 91*; 2-ton Industrial-Type Electric Truck 309*

Rapid Magnetting Machine Co., Ltd., Chute- Type Magnetic Separator, 338*; Magnetic-Drum Separator for Cane-Sugar PJaiit, 606

Rating of Fuel for Diesel Engines, 154

Rawlplug Co., Ltd., Foundation Holding-Down Bolts, 662

Raworth, A., Electrification of Southern Railway Portsmouth Line, 10*

Rays, Electric. See Cathode; Gamma; Runtgen Reavell and Co., Ltd., Two-Stage Intercooled Air Compressor, 341* ; Horizontal Tramway- Type Air Compressor, 341* ; Tramcar Air Compressor, 424*

Recorder, Electrolytic, for Echo Sounder (Marconi International Marine Communi- i cation Co., Ltd.), 343*

Recording Apparatus for Torsional Damping (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 652* Rectifier, Mercury-Arc, Factory for Manuiac- ture of, Witton, 603*

Redcar Steel-Melting Shop, Middlesbrough, Hot- Metal Practice in, 351, 443*

Redfern’s Rubber Works, Calenders and Presses for Rubber Manufacture, 560*

Redpath, Brown and Co., Ltd., Boiler House and Bunkers, Dalmarnock Power Station, 398*; Steelwork for Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 575, 589*. See Addendum, 627

Reduction Gears. See Gears

Rees, R. T., on Sewage and Storm-Water Pumping Stations, 672

Reference Books. See Annuals and LITERATURE INDEX

Refiner, Paper-Pulp (Masson Scott <fe Co., Ltd.), 161*

Refractive Index of Air, Rational Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 187

RefVactoriness-under-Load Test, 28

Refractory Materials for Gas Works, Investigations on,697

See also firebricks ; Fireclay

— Thermal Conductivity of, at High Tempera

tures, 562

Refrigerants, Viscosity of. Investigations on, 563*

Refrigerating Plant ior Air-Conditioning, 320, 556*

— — Dhibban Aerodrome, Iraq, 619*, 678* for Wine-Making, 172*

Refrigeration, Food Investigation Board’s Investigations on, 208

— Investigations at National Physical Labora

tory, 563

— Progress in, 762

Refuse, Biological Digestion with Sewage Sludge, Report, 203

— Collection, Cost of, 262

— Collector, Container-Type (Dennis Brothers,

Ltd.), 228*, 565

with Gas De-Contamination Gear (Shel- voke and Drewry, Ltd.), 564*

•— Disposal in London, 606

— Town, Dustless Collection System for, 52 Regenerator for Coke-Oven, 38*

Regulator, Feed-Water (Dobbie, Mclnnes, Ltd.), 305*

Reheating Furnace. See Furnace

Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete

Relativity Experiment at National Physical Laboratory, 209*

Relph, W., the Late, 21

I Remainder Distribution Method of Analysis of

! Elastic Structures, 289, 669*

I Repeated Stresses. See Alternating Stress under Tests {Materials)

Report, Aeronautical Research Committee, for 1935-36, 181

— Air Survey Committee, 24

— Annual, Administration of Road Fund, 718 - Board of Trade, Boiler-Explosion Inquiries, 426

British Cast-Iron Research Association, 539

British Engine, Boiler and Electrical Insurance Co., 687

British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, 18

Building Research Board, 449 —? — Chief Inspector for Mines, 600 Electricity Commissioners*, 574 Fuel Research Board, 658 —- — Home-Office Inspector’s, Factories and Workshops, 101

Inland-Water Survey Committee, 749 Institute of Physics, 81

Licensing of Goods Motor Vehicles, 17 Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 574 London Passenger Transport Board, 518

— — Ministry of Health, 182

National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 18, 47*, 77*, 129, 155, 186*, 209*, 238*, 261, 263, 381*,408*, 504*, 561*, 585*, 644*, 690, 691*, 707*, 736. See LETTERS, 604,634 Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, 260

— - Rand Water Board, South Africa, 750 Road Fund, Administration of, 718 Road Research Board, 16. See LETTER,

120

Royal Scottish Museum, 178

Safety in Mines Research Board, 761 Science Museum, South Kensington, 60 Secretary for Mines, 600

Traffic Commissioners’, 659

— - Tramway and Trolley-’Bus Financial and

Operating Statistics, 749

— Battersea Park Railw^ay Accident, 80

— Biologic Digestion of Garbage with Sewage

Sludge, 203

— Blast-Furnace Smelting, Principally Lincoln

shire Ores, 350, 360

— British Railway Returns for 1936, 176

— Ceylon Railw’ays, 154

— Coal-Measure Rocks, Classification, Nomen

clature and Relative Strengths, 471

Report, Co-Ordination of Work of Experimental Tanks, 120

— Coloured Light for Motor-Car Headlights, 406

Committee on Noise in Mechanicallj^ Propelled Vehicles, 688 . z., con

— Construction of Flats for Working Class, 529

— Corrosion of Tin-Plate Containers, 59

— Cost of Public-Cleansing Services, 262

— Detachable Rock-Drill Bit Practice, 241

— Economic Conditions in Egypt, 348 Conditions in Persian Gulf, 162

— Electricity in Mines, 1936, 347

Supply Commission of South Africa, 1/4

— Engineering Incomes in United States, 749

— Experimental Work on Roads, 750

— Fatigue and Boredom in Repetitive Work,

108 ,

— Final, Royal Commission on Awards to

Inventors, 601

— Fixation of Sulphur from Smelter Smoke,

189*

— Food Investigation Board, 208

— Fuel Briquetting, 207

— Import Trade of India, 212

— Indian Railway Board, 1935-36, 16

— — Railway Inquiry Committee, 127

— Methods of Kihi Operation, 357

— Mineral Production in British Columbia, 209

— Motor Industry of Great Britain, 1937, 747

— Oil Production from Coal in Australia, 748

— Operations under Land Drainage Act, 1930,

377

— Pension Scheme for Electrical Industry, 601

— Profit-Sharing and Co-Partnership, 349

— Railway Accidents, 1936, 46 Accident, Battersea Park, 80

Accident, Swanley Junction, 328

— River Pollution, Joint Advisory Committee,

, — Special Areas Commissioners’, for England, Wales and Scotland, 630

— Statistics of Iron and Steel Industries, 741

— Strontium Minerals, 159

— Survey of Industrial Development, 288

— Swanley Junction Railway Accident, 328

— Tramp Shipping Administrative Committee,

288

— See also Board of Trade

Research Association, British Cast Iron, Annual Report and Lunch, 539

British Non-Ferrous Metals, Annual Report and Lunch, 18

Electrical, Rapid Test for Thermal Resistivity, by Dr. C. Dannatt, 385*

— jioard. Building, Annual Report, 449

— — Forest Products, Report on Methods of

Kiln Operation, 357 ; Timber Research and Utilisation Exhibition, 719

Fuel, Tests of Carbonising Plant of Coal and Allied Industries, Ltd., 217;

I Test of Erith Carbonising Plant of National Coke and Oil Co., Ltd., 497 ; Annual Report, 658

Road, Annual Report, 16. See LETTER, 120

Safetv in Mines, Report on Coal-Measure Rocks,” Classification, Nomenclature and Relative Strengths, 471; Annual Report, 761

— Committee, Aeronautical, Report for 1935-

36, 181 ; Reports of, 381

? Illumination, Report on Coloured Light

for Motor-Car Headlights, 406

Institution of Gas Engineers, Work of, 576, 610, 697 .

Northern Coke, Investigation on Carbonising under Mechanical Pressure, 365, 385* ; Experiments on Small-Scale Cupola, 365, 730*

— Council, Iron and Steel Industrial, Report

on Blast Furnace Smelting Principally Lincolnshire Ores, 350, 360

Medical, Report on Fatigue and Boredom in Repetitive Work, 108

— Department, Institution of Automobile

Engineers, Work of, 103, 432

Scientific and Industrial, Fruit Research Laboratory, Covent Garden, 17 ; Work of, 287, 295 ; Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exhibition, 426; Report on Magnesium and its Alloys, 529

— in Engineering, History of, 287, 295

— by Food Investigation Board, 208

— Laboratories, Electrical, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 722*

Fruit, Covent Garden, London, 17

Wembley, General Electric Co., Ltd., 523*

— - Road, in United States, 580

— Station, Building, Investigations on Transmission of Air-Borne Sounds by Partitions, 192 : Experiments on Foamed Furnace Slag, 366, 388, 450

— Timber, and Utilisation Exhibition, Museum, 719

— Tin, and Development Cmincil,

ReyroUe, A,, and Co., Ltd., Switchgear, Dal- marnock Power Station, 399 ; Switchgear at Sculcoates Power Station, 551

Rhyl District Urban Council r. Douglas, 35

Ricardo, H. R., on Internal-Combustion Engine Lubrication, 467. See 462. See Erraiuni,, 571

Rich, T., on Chambon Reservoir, Isere, France, 167* 219* 391*

Richards, G-,, and Co., Ltd., 36-in. Duplex Turret Head Boring and Turning Mill, 332*

Richardson, Dr. E. G., on Singing propellers, 170

Richardsons Westgarth-Brown Boveri, Ltd., Turbine-Driven Gas Exhausters, 36*, 119* Rightward Method of Oxy-Acetylene Welding, Experiments on, 90

Rigid Airships. See Airships under Aeronautics

Rigidity, Torsional, of Shafts, 275*. See LETTERS, 711*, 743

Riley, Prof. H. L., on Influence of Carbonising Conditions on Coke Properties, 385*. See 365; on Experiments in Small-Scale Cupola, 730*. See 365

Ring, Piston-Valve, Adjustable (United States Metallic Packing Co., Ltd.), 426

See Piston Pings

Ripper, Prof. W., the Late, 200

River, Chien Tang, South China, Rail and Road Bridge over, 448*, 503*

— Colorado, Boulder Dam, Automatic Sector-

Sluice Spillways, 61*, 113* ; Penstocks, 703*

•— Control Investigations, United S^tes Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 193*, 249*, 273*, 361*

— Dunajec, Poland, Nowy Saez Reservoir, 13

— Inland-Water Survey Committee’s Annual

Report on, 749

— Isdre, France, Chambon Reservoir, 167*,

219*, 391*

— Lee, Floods on, Relief Scheme for, 690

— Mississippi, Control of Floods on, 103

— Pollution, Joint Advisory Committee on,

Report, 546

Prevention of, 58

— Romanche, Hydro-Electric Development,

167*, 219*, 391*

?— Thames and London Water Supply, 57 ; Reconstruction of Waterloo and Wandsworth Bridges over, 129, 490, 749 ; Abnormal Tide in, 407 ; Duplication of Blackwall Tunnel under, 575

I — Training Work and Catchment Boards, 378

i — Trent Catchment Board, Engineering Prob-

I lems of, 291

Rivet Heater, 16-kW Electric (Holden and Hunt), 311*

Riveted Joints, Repeated-Stress Tests of, 142

Rivett, Sir D., Report on Oil l^oduction from Coal in Australia, 748

Road Accidents. See Accidents

— Breaker, Petrol-Operated (Winget, Ltd.),

619*

— Brick, Experimental, Experiences with, 581

?— (-onstruction. Materials used in, 577

?— Curvature and Superelevation on, 580

— Drills, Penumatic, Reduction of Noise from,

317, 370*

Road Engines (fe Kerr (Haulage), Ltd., 75- ton Twelve-Wheeled Low-Loading Road Trailer, 568*

— Engineering, Laboratory Testing in, 577 Principles of (Review), 115

— Experimental, Work on, Report, 750

— Fund, Administration of, Annual Report,

718

— Improvements, Five-Year Plan for, 120. See

15

— Lay-Out and Construction of. Memorandum on, 15. See LETTER, 120

— Lighting and Motor-Car Traffic, 357

— Problem in Great Britain, Aspects of, 15.

See LETTER, 120

— and Rail Transport in Ceylon, 154

Transport in India, 17, 127

— Research Board, Annual Report, 16. See

LETTER,120

in United States, 580

— Roller, 4-ton Diesel-Engined (Aveling-

Barford, Ltd.), 535*

2|-ton Diesel-Engined (Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 535*

9-ton Diesel-Engined (Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 635*

2|-ton Petrol-Driven Four-Speed (Wallis and Steevens, Ltd.), 564*

— Safety, Motor-Car Design for, 349, 352, 355,

434

?— Slabs, Concrete, Investigations on, 450

•— Snow Control on, by Tree Planting, 581

— Surfaces, Friction Coefficient on, 580

— Thin Surfacing of, Experiments on, 133

— Traction, Railless Electric. See Trolley^' Bus

— Traffic Control Signals, Piccadilly Circus. 569 Control Signals, Specification for, 558

— Transport, Application of Internal Combustion Engine to, 546

in Ceylon, 154 in India, 17, 127

and Public-Works Congress. See Public Works, Hoads and Transport Congress

and Public Works Exhibition, Royal Agricultural Hall, 533*, 564*, 617*. 647*

— — Traffic Commissioners’ Reports, 659

— See also Tar

Roadless Traction,Ltd., 13'4-d.h.p. Tractor. 648*

Rocks, Coal-Measure. Classification. Nomenclature and Relative Strengths, Report on 471

— Drill Bits, Detachable, Report on, 241 Rockefeller Plaza, Nine, New York, 396* Rolls, Plate-Bending. See Machine Tools Rolled-Steel Sections, Standard Sizes for, 595 Roller Bearings. See Bearings

— Road. See Boad Roller

— Sheepsfoot (J. Allen and Sons (Oxford), Ltd.), 618

— Tractor (Blackstone Co., Ltd.), 661 Rolling, Col. B. I., the Late, 524

— Cold, of Two-Phase Alloys, Deformation by 382

— Mill Gear, Double-Helical Pinions for, 20* Use of Plastic Bearings in, 145*

Bolling of Siiips. bee Ships

— Stock for Great Western Kailway, 344 at Paris Exhibition, 261

“ See also Carriatjes ; Locomotives ; Wagons Bolt, E. H., on Application of Optics to JiJngineering Measurements, 162* llonianchc Biver, Hydro-Electric De\-elopment. 167*, 239*, 391*

Bdntgen-Bay Camera, 586*

Examination of Nitrided Steels. 582 Examination Plant, 300,000-voIt, for Boulder-Dam Penstocks, 705*

Examination, Portable Set for (Philips Industrial, Ltd.), 340*

Investigations at National Pliysical Laboratory, 586

Study of Strain in Metals, 48*

Boof for All-Welded Factory, Waltham Cross, 712*

“ Arch, Corrugated-Trough, Dusseldorf National Exhibition, 200*

— Steel, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245* Bootes Securities, Ltd. (Humbers), Government

Aircraft Factory, 511*

Bo])es, Wire. See Wire Hopes

Bopeway, Aerial. See Wire Ropeway

Botary Blowers. See Rlowers

— Engine. See Engine ; Aeronautics

— Pump. See Pump

Botherham Sewage Works, Dilute Sewage Treatment at, 577

Bover Co., Ltd., Government Aircraft Factory, 511

Bonand-Wetherill High-Intensity Magnetic Separator, 358*

Bowley, Prof. F. B., on Thermal Conductivity of Building Materials, 405

Boyal Aeronautical Society. See Aeronauticcd

— Agricultural Hall. See Exhibition

Society. See AgricnlUiral

— ('ommission on Awards to Inventors, Final

Beport, 601

Boyal Dutch Shell Co., Four-Ball Top Testing Apparatus for Lubricating Oils, 1* Meteorological Society. See Meteorological Sanitary Institute. See Sanitary

— Scottish Museum, Annual Beport, 178

J echnical College, Glasgow, Investigations on Thermal-Equilibrium Diagrams, 28 • Calendar, 343

Bubber, Applications in Engineering, 445*, 559*

— Sheet Manufacture, Calenders and Presses

for, 560*

— Synthetic (Beview), 706

— Use in Motor Cars, 689

— for Vibration-Attenuating Supix>rts, 298 Bugby Locomotive-Testing Station, 183 Bural Water Supply, Progress in, 57 Supplies, Provision for, 490

Bussell, Newbery and Co., 30-h.p. Three- Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 303*

Buss^an Icebreaker “ Joseph Stalin,” Launch, Busting. See Corrosion

Buston-Bucyrus, Ltd., 12-in. Portable Bucyrus- Armstrong Blast-Hole Drill, 83* ; i-cub. yd. Universal Excavator, 536*

Boston Hornsby, Ltd., Oil-Driven Generator, Compressor and Pumping Set, 309* • 25-b.h.p. Horizontal Enclosed Oil Engine^ 535* ; 16-20 h.p. Diesel-Engined Locomotive, 536* ; 380-b.h.p. Oil En^^ine

Motor Trawler ‘ ‘ British Honduras, ” 7"11 ’ Butherford, Lord, the Late, 461, 488*. See 487 Byde’s Scale, Legal Decisions on, 35

s.

SAFETY in Mines Besearch Board, Beport on Coal-Measure Bocks, Classification. Nomenclature and Belative Strengths, 471; Annual Beport, 761

dth Coal-Pulverising Plants,

Salt-Glazed Ware, Specification, 99

Sampling of Coal and Coke, Specification, 516 .. T Argentine Destroyer, Launch, 21

San Luis, ’ Argentine Destroyer, Launch 255 Sand^Kastrng^^Apparatus (H. G. (-omerfield, ~ Machine Foundry (American

Foundry Equipment Co.), 753*

Sanitary Institute, Boyal, Courses and Exami- a 150 ; Syllabus of Courses. 626

^^543 Destroyer, Launch,

Sarah Island Cut-Oif. River Mississippi, 251* Saturators for Ammonium-Sulphate Plant

SeTiir" I'-o.i Works’

Saunders, Dr. 0. A., on Friction and Heat Transmission in Fluids, 650. See 573 See LETTERS, 634*, 711

Saws. See Tools

Scammell, Ix)rries, Ltd., 102-b.h.p. 15-1 n inn Bigid Bight-Wheeled Lorrv, 549* ? 1 200-

(2 . ^I^eet-Cleansing Machine, 565* * ^^^D?nainip ,pi^®ct-Measurement

a«i Balancing Machine, 122*

A- Parsons

Scholarships. See

Schrader Hydraulic Pressure Gauge 323*

Tangentia^^lounLtion ^sisiance of Gravity Dams, 215*, 242*, ^’'^ConsmcUoA, 659 Power-Station

"'’™Vrmation,-6'^6 ®'“"Bar’T^st,^5i9“

Science Museum, South Kensington, Lee-

: Annual Hon i n?®? ’T ^’“.*way Centenary E.xhibi- non, 107 , Lubrication Exhibition, 477 •.' Atom-Tracks Exhibition, Exll’ibitton,^®^9‘’'‘’"^’' Utilisation

See Wor*s Manage-

— Besearch. See

Scientific Societies. Seo Institutions

Scolei, G. J., on 2,000-kV Impulse Generator, 222*

Scotland. Commissioner for Special Areas’ Report, 630

— Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders

in. See Engineers

Scott, M., and Co., Ltd., Paper-PuJu Refiner, 161*

Scottish Cannel, Low-Temperature Carbonisation of, 612

Scrap Campaign, Views on, 103,184

— Iron and Steel, Collection of, 47

Screens, Oscillatory, Mono-Piano Drive for (E. R. and F. Turner, Ltd.), 52*

Screenings, Sewage-Works, Treatment of, 672 Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Lathe, under Machine Tools

— l^opellers. See Propellers; Aeronautics Scrubbing Towers, Benzole Coke-Oven Plant,

Cleveland Iron Works, 36*, 119* Sculcoates Power-Station Extensions, 551,597 Scythe, Bracken and Thistle-Cutting (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 33*

— Motor, Self-Propelled (J. Allen and Sons

(Oxford), Ltd.), 617*

Sea Walls, Effect of Ocean Swells on, 406

Seaham Harbour, Carbonising Plant at, Tests of, 217

Seaplanes. See Aeronautics

Searchlight Generating Set, Self-Contained, 692*

— for Motor Boat (C.A.V.-Bosch, Ltd.), 312* Secondary Battery. See Accumulator under Electric; also Motor Vehicles; Motor Trucks

Seddon, Dr. E., on Examination of Defects in Glasses, 28; on Nature and Constitution of Glass, 721

Seger Cones, Standardisation of, 186

Semper, C., and Co., Engraving Machine, 424*

Separator, Magnetic, Chute Type (Electromagnets, Ltd.). 336*

Chute-Type (Rapid Magnetting Machine Co., Ltd.), 338*

Cross-Belt (Ding’s Magnetic Separator Co.), 358*

Drum, for Cane-Sugar Plant (Rapid Magnetting Machine Co., Ltd.), 606

Rotary-Drum Type (Electromagnets, Ltd.), 336*

— Oil and Water (Constructional Engineering Co., Ltd.), 370

— Steam, Hagan (J. Gordon and Co., Ltd.), 371 Serpentine, J>ondon, Water-Sterilising Punt, 314*

Service Aviation. See Aeronautics

Sevenoaks, Maidstone and Tonbridge Railway Co. V. London, Chatham Dover Railway Co., 132

Sewage, Dilute, Occurrence and Treatment of, 577

— Disposal, Jfinistry of Health Report, 182 and River Pollution, 58

— Farm, Klipstruit, Enclosed Percolation Filters at, 672

— Pumping Siation, Design of, 672

— Purification at Mogden, 672

— Sludge, Biologic Digestion of Garbage with, Report, 203

— Works Screenings, Treatment of, 672

— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX

Sewers, Design of, 671

“Shadow” Factories, Government 511

Shafts. Collars on, Effect on Fatigue Range 89

— Crank. See Crankshaft

— of Electric Generator, Removal by Shrink

age, 243

— Metal-Sprayed, Friction Tests with, 757

— Torsional Rigidity of, 275*. See LETTERS

711*, 743 ’

Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway, Bridge over Chien Tang River, 448*, 503*

Shaping Machine. See Machine Tools

Shaw, F., and Co., Ltd., Calenders for Rubber- Sheet Manufacture, 560*

Shaw, H., on Metal-Sprayed Surfaces in Relation to Lubrication, 757

Shear Tests. See Tests {Materials}

Shearing Machine. See Machine Tools

Sheds, Railway-Carriage, Stonebridge Park 345 5“ heet-Metal Structures, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 129

Sheffield University, Lectures on Railway Electric Traction, 343

ShelldVIex and B.P., Ltd., Liquefied Petroleum Gas, 342

Shelvoke and I^ewry, Ltd., Refuse Collector with Gas De-Contamination Gear, 564*

Shenton, H. C. H., on Treatment of Dilute Sewage, 577

Sherwood, J., Motor Vehicle for Dustless Refuse Collection, 52 j

Graphic Integrator and I Differentiator for, 268*

— Canal. SeeCawaZ j

— Coastal, Model Experiments on, 264 I

— "nder Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 77, '

— Diesel-Engined. See Motorships; Marine

Propulsion

— Electric Propulsion. See Marine Propuhion

— Hatchways for, 84*, lio*

^i^ration in, Investigations on, 264

— Merchant, Experiments at Froude Labora

tory, 238*, 261, 263

— Model Experiments. See Tank Expert^

ments and Ship Resistance

~ Motorships; Marine Propulsion

— Propellers. See Propellers

Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion ; Engines; Turbines; Propellers

Effects of Viscosity on Wave Making, 719

ra?ory^^2^4*^^^ National Physical Labo-

— to Waves, Investigations on, 263

S 1 Investigations on, 263

— Steel Hatch Covers for, 650

Wave-Making of. Effect of Viscosity on, 719

See also Marine ; Motorships ; Shipping ; and PARAGRAPH

Shipbuilders and Engineers in Scotland, Institution of. bee Engineers

Shipbuilding in 1937, 714, 744

— Berth, Covered, Wallsend, Widening of,

415*

— Damage to 7131. Deslroyer “Hunter,” 498*

— Hatchway Construction, 84*. 770*

— Naval. See Warships

— Report of Lloyd’s Register, .574

— Vessels under Construction, Llovd’s Statis

tics, 77, 433

— Welding Practice in, 431

— See also Steamers ; Natal; Warships; and

PAKAGRAPH INDEX

Shipping, Traiiij), Report of Adniinistrative Committee of, 288

— World, Report of Lloyd’s Register, 574 Shock Tests. See Impact Tests under Tests

{Materials}

Shop Management. See Warks Management Short and Mason, Ltd., Temperature and

Humidity-Recording Controller, 338*

— Circuit Testing Station, Hebhurn-on-Tyne,

479*

Shovel. See Excacator

Show. See Exhibition

Shrubs and Trees for Snow Control on Roads, 581

Shunting Tractor, Diesel-Engined, for Sunderland Corporation, 383*

Shuttering, Steel, Chambon Reservoir Dam, Isdre, Prance, 220*

Sickness, Gastric, from Inhalation of Engine Exhaust. 720

Siddall, R. J., Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245*, 421*. 473*. See LETTER, 521

Siemens Brothers Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Cardiff Engineering Exhibition, 621

Siemens und Halske A.-G., Flexible Under- Water Mains, 723

— Martin Furnaces. See Fnrnaves

Sifting Machine, Gyratory (AHis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.), 298*

Signals for Factory-Truck Traiftc Control, 112

— Railway, Automaticand Distant Operation, 3 for High-Speed Trains 657. See LETTER,

743

— — Princes Street Station, Edinburgh, 524 Repeating Devices in Locomotives, 3

— Road-Traffic Control, Specification for, 558 Traffic, Ijiectro-Matic System of, Piccadilly Circus, 569

“Sikh,” H.M. De.stroyer, Launch of, 715 Silencer for Pneumatic Drill (H. Lancaster Co., Ltd.), 370*

Silica Bricks. See Firebricks

Sillifant, R. R., on Spraying of Steel, 526* Silting of Reservoirs, Investigations on, 233 Silver, Effect on Magnesium Alloys, 7 55 Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd., Elastic Lock Nut, 343*

Simon-Carves, Ltd., Coke-Oven and By-Product Plant, Cleveland Iron Works, 178*, 758*

Sims, Dr. L. G. A., on A-C Method in meability Testing, 387*. See 379

Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Calendar, 266; Course in Chemical Engineering, 433

Skin Friction. See Friction ; Ship Resistance Smelter Smoke, Sulphur from, Fixation of, Report, 189*

Smelting Furnaces. See Furnaces

Smiles, Dr. S., Leeds Memorial to, 690

Smith, Engr.-Capt. E. C., on Founder of the P. (V O., 693. See 631. See Erratum^ 723

Smithfield Club Show, Agricultural Machinery at, 660

Smoke Indicator, Industrial (Radiovisor Parent, Ltd.), 312*

— Smelter, Sulphur from. Fixation of. Report.

189*

Snia Viscosa, Artificial-Wool Production Plant, 673*

Snow Control on Roads by Tree Planting, 581

Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., Seam-Welding Machine, 313* ; Spot-Welding Machine, 313*

Society I’Air Liquide, Extraction Plant for Krypton and Xenon, 464* ; Repair of Worn Rails by Oxy-Acetylene Welding, 496

— des Etablissements Daubron, Cooling Plant

for Wine, 172*

— Genevoise, Measuring Microscope, 163*;

Jig-Boring Machine with Measuring Microscopes, 164*

— Nationale de Construction A^ronautiques

du Midi, Dewoitine 338 Aeroplane, 133* Tubest, Chilowski Light Relay, 329*

Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. See Motor

— Technical and Scientific. See Institutions

— Trade. See Labour; Labour Notes; and

PARAGRAPH INDEX

Softener, Water. See Water Softener Soil, Engineering Properties of (Review), 707

— Erosion and its Control (Review), 185

— Mechanics and Foundation Engineering,

International Conference on. Proceedings (Review), 259

Research, United States Waterways Experiment Station, 364*

” Somali,” H.M. Destroyer, Launch of, 263

Somerfield, H. G., Ltd., Sand-Blasting Apparatus, 426*

Sounds, Air-Borne, Transmission by Composite Partitions, 192

Insulating Properties of Acoustic-Celotex, 203

— Investigations at National Physical Labora

tory, 644*

— Proofing of Buildings, 318, 729

— from Propellers, Investigations on, 170*

Sounder, Echo, Magneto-Striction (Marconi International Marine Communication Co., Ltd.), 342*

South Africa, Electricity Supply, Statistics, 174 Klipstruit Sewage Farm, Enclosed Percolation Filters at, 672

Lake Mentz, Silt deposited in, 233

Rand Water Board Annual Report, 750

— African Railways and Harbours Adminis

tration, 1,200-h.p. Electric Locomotives, 23* ; Electrification of, Lines, 174

— Kensington, Science Museum, Lee-Richards

Annular Monoplane, 13; Annual Report, 60; Railway Centenary Exhibition, 107 ; Lubrication Exhibition, 477; Future of, 518; Atom-'l’raekH Exliliiftion, 601; Timber Itesearcb and Utilisation Exhibition, 71 9

South Wales Eire J’roteetion Engineers, Lt<J., Hose Itainp, 410

institute of Engineers, Costs of Operating Electrical E^juipment in 5firics, by B. L. Metcalf ainl J. Hancock, 347 ; Cardili Engineering Exhlbitifni, 501, 621 and Monmouthshire School of Mines Calendar, 284

— West, Notes from, 12, 42, 73, 99, 125, 151,

179, 205, 231, 257, 285, 324, 344. 374, 402, 429, 456, 485, 514, 542, 570, 597,

626, 685, 714, 745. See PARAGRAPH INPEX

— Yorkshire, Notes from, 13, 43, 73, 99, 125,

161,179,205,231, 257, 285, 324, 345, 375. 402, 429, 450, 485, 515, 543. 570, 596.

627, 054, 685, 715, 744. .See PARAGRAPH INDEX

Southall Service Depot, Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., 68

Southern Kailway, Electrification of Portsmouth Line, 10*. See Erratum, 74 ; Report on Battersea Park Accident, 80 ; History of (Review), 158 ; Swanley Junction Accident, Report, 328

Southwell, Prof. R. V., on Training of Engineers, 353. See 290, 299, 469; on Physical Meaning of Impact Teste, 519. See 537

Southwick Power Station, 37,500-kW, Brush- Ljungstrbm Turbo-Alternator, 602

Spanner Thimble-Tube Boilers, Ltd., Spiralllo- Steddyiio Boiler, 424

Sparshatt, J. H., and Sons, Dual-Purpose Commercial Motor Vehicle, 9*

Special Areas, England, Wales A Scotland, Report on, 630

Specific Heats of Gases at High Temperatures, Investigations on, 561*. See LETTERS, 604,634

Specification.M, American Die-('asting Alloys.613

— Drawings and Plans, Ownersliip of, 247

— Standard. See Standards Spectrophotometry’ Investigations at National

Physical Laboratory, 691

Speed-Changing Gears. See Gears

— Indicator, Electrical Tachometer (Bryce,

Ltd.), 312*

— Reduction Gears. See Gears

Speedometers for Great Western Railway Locomotives, 661

— Inductor-Type (Everett, Edgcuinbe and Co.,

IJd.), 465*

Spelter Prices. See Metal-Price Dia(fram>< Spencer (Melksham), Ltd., Coke Conveyors, Queen’s Hotel Leeds, 589*

Spillwavs, Automatic Sector-Sluice, at Boulder Dam 61*, 113*

— Chambon Reservoir. Is^re, France, 393*

— Investigations, United States Experiment

Station, Vicksburg, 194*

Spiralflo-Steddyflo Boiler, 424 Spirit, Motor. See Motor Fuels Spraying of Steel, Experiments on, 526* on Shafts, Friction Tests, 757

Springs, Laminated, Plant for Making (s. Fox and Co., Ltd.), 148*

— Steels, National Physical Laboratory Inves

tigations on,186*

Stability of Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics

— of Ships. See Ships

Stabol Liquid Compass 338*

Stagshaw Broadcasting Station, 454 Stainless Steels. See Steel, Stainless Stanchions. See Columns; Struts Standards Institution, British, Si)ecittcai ion, Salt-Glazed AVare and Enainelled-Fireclay Drain Fittings, 99; Specification, Aerodrome and Airway Lighting, 134; Specification, Diesel-Engine Fuel, 153, 265; Specification, Tungsten-Filament J^amps, 179 ; Specification for Flameproof Motors, 194 ; Specification, Machine-Tool Element Dimensions, 295 ; Specification, Non-lg- nitable Boards for Electrical Purposes, 240 ; Specification, Solid Electrical Insulating Materials, 240; Specification, Struclural Steel in Buildings, 256 ; Specification, Oil Fuels for Burners, 265. See 153 ; Specification, Testing of Zinc Coatings on Galvanised Articles, 268 ; Grow’th of Institution, 295 ; Specification, Portable Fire Extinguishers, 345 ; Method for Determination of Viscosity of Liquids, 466 ; Specification, Sampling and Analysis of Coal and Coke, 516; Specification, Direction of Rot ation of Machine-Tool Hand W’heels, 522; Specification, Electricity Meters, 541; Specification, Oil Switches and Circuit Breakers, 542; Specification (dazed Fireclay Pipes, 543; Specification for Road-Traffi Control Signals, 558 ; Specification, Electric Fuses, 591; Specification, Underfeed Screw-Type Stokers, 627 ; Specification, Steel Bearing Plates for Rails, 663; Specification, Pigments for Paints, 715; Specification, Brinell-Hard- ness Testing, 744; Specification, Underground Fire Hydrants, 745; Code for Acceptance Tests for Steam Turbines, 753

— of Length, National Physical Laboratory

Investigation on, 187

Standard Motor Co., Ltd., Government Aircraft Factory, 511

— Sizes for Rolled-Steel Sections, 595

Standard Telephones and Cables, JJd.. Nine- Channel Ultra Short-Wave Radio Equipment, 292 ; Transmitter, Stagshaw Broadcasting Station, 454

— Thicknesses for Electroplated Coatings, 53

— U.S. Bureau of. See United States Stanhay, Ltd., Power-Lift Cultivator, 32*;

King’s Hay Grab, 32

Stanier, W. A., 4-6-2 Type “ Coronation ” Locomotive, 6*, 70* ; 12-ton Shock-Absorbing Goods Wagon, 213* ; Bunkering Plant for Trawlers, Fleetwood Docks, 253* ; Report on Steam Engine Lubrication, 468. See 462

Stanley, H., on Damage to H-M-S. “ Hunter?* 498*

Stanworth, J. E., on Nature of Glass, 721

“ Starcrest,” S.S., Loss of, 650

Starter, Air, for Oil Engines (Williams and James), 301*

State Railways. See Railways

Stations, Power. See Power Stations

— Princes Street, Edinburgh, Resignalling of,

524

Statistics, Application of, to Control of quality in Glass Production, 721

— Financial and Operating, Tramway and

Trolley-*Bus, 749

— of Iron and Steel Industries, 741

— See also Trade

Steam Boats. See Steamers

— Boilers. See Boilers

— Crane. See Crane

—? Engines. See Engines

— High-Pressure and Temperature, in German

Power Stations, 659

— Pipes. High-Temperature, Balanced Sup

port of, 637*, 665*

— — for High Pressures and Temperatures,

Flanged Joints for, 364*, 419*, 490*, 538*, 615*, 674*

— Power Stations (Review), 446

— Pressures in American Locomotives, 378 in Locomotives, 234

—? Separator, See Separator

— Superheater. See Superheater

— Thermodynamic Properties of (Review), 157

— Turbines. See Turbines

Steamers Built, Report of Lloyd’s Register, 574

— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 77,

433

— Electric Propulsion, See Marine Propulsion

— Geared Turbines for. See Marine Propulsion

— “ Joseph Stalin,” Launch of, 257

— ” Normandie,” Atlantic Crossings by, 208

— Oil-Tank, Welded Construction in, 431

— Orcades,” Description of, 224*

— E^ropulsion of. See Marine Propulsion;

Engines; Turbines ; Propellers

— ” Queen Mary,” Use of Acoustic-Celotex in,

203* ; Atlantic Crossings by, 208

— Resistance of. See Ship Resistance

— Rolling of. See Ships

— “ Starcrest,” Loss of, 650

— “ Strathallan,” Launch of, 402

— * Stratheden,” Trials of, 681*

— See also Engines; Marine Propulswn;

Shipbuilding; Shipping; Ships; Turbines; Warships; PARAGRAPH INDEX

Steamships. See Ships ; Steamers; Warships Steddyflo-Spiralflo Boiler, 424

Steels, Alloy, Heats of Transformation of, Investigations, 563

— Arch Roof, Dusseldorf National Exhibition,

200*

— Case-Hardening of. See Heat Treatment

under Metallurgy

— Castings (Kryn and Lahy (1928), Ltd.), 304

— CliTOmador, Usein Chien Tang-River Bridge,

South China, 448*, 503*

Use in Storstrom Bridge, 373*

— Chromium. See also Steely Stairdess

— Corrosion. See Corrosion

— Damping Capacity of. Recorder for, 652*

— Fatigue of. See also Alternating Stress

under Tests {Materials)

— Foundry. See Foundry

— Framed Building, All-Welded, Waltham

Cross, 712*

— Furnaces. See Furnaces

— Girders, Storstrdm Rail and Road Bridge,

372*

— Hard, Periodic Hardness Fluctuations in,

352,495*

— Hatch Covers in Ships, 84,110*

—? Heat-Resisting, Thermal Conductivity, 562* Treatment of. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy

— High-Chromium and Austenitic, Nitrogen-

Hardening of, 581*

— for High Temperatures, National Physical

Laboratory Investigations, 156

— Ingot, 230-ton, Casting of, 403

— Introduction into Marine Engineering, 319

— and Iron Hall, Dusseldorf National Exhibi

tion, 199*

— Liquid, in Open-Hearth Furnace, Tempera

ture of, 585

— Manufacture. See Metallurgy

— Melting Shops, Middlesbrough, Hot-Metal

Practice in, 351, 359*, 413*, 443*

— Microstructure of. See Micro-Photographs

— New York City Building Code for, 236

— Oxygen in, Determination of, 186

— Plates, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams

— Platform for Swimming Pool, Earl’s Court

Exhibition Building, 474*

— Production, 1936, 741

— Rails. See Rails; Metal-Price Diagrams

— Rolled Sections, Standard Sizes for, 595

— Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills

— Ropes. See Wire Ropes

— Shuttering, Chambon Reservoir Dam, Is6re,

France, 220*

— Sprayed Surfaces for Bearings, 757

— Spraying of. Experiments on, 526*

— Spring, National Physical Laboratory Inves

tigations on,186*

— Stainless, Nitrogen-Hardening of, 581* Resistance to Corrosion Fatigue, 50

— Stressed, Crystalline Structure Changes in,

48

— Stress Distribution in. See Stress; Tests

{Materials)

— Structural, in Buildings, Specification, 256 Investigations on, 450

- Structures, Analysis and Design (Review), 15-

Modern, Theory of (Review), 447

Solution of Buckling Problems in, 62*, 116*, 185*. See LETTERS, 265, 323

— Tests of. See Tests {Materials)

— for Warship Construction, 498

— Wire, Tensile Properties of, Effect of Vibra

tion on, 4*

— Works. See Works

Steering Gear. See Motor-Car Details

— in Flanged Pipe Joints for High-Pressure

Steam Pipes, 364*, 419*, 490*, 538*, 615*, 674*

— in High-Temperature Pipe Lines, 637*.

665*

— Repetitions. See Alternating Stress under

Tests {Materials)

— Rope, in Emergency Braking on Winding

Engines, 755*

— Statically Indeterminate, Elementary Trea

tise on (Review), 197

— Tempering, in Sjuing Steels, 186*

— Tensile, Behaviour of Tin under, 322 Strikes. See Labour ; Labour Notes Strong, R. A., on Fuel Briquetting, 207 Strontium Minerals, Report, 159

— its Production and Uses, 159

Structural Engineers, Institution of, Presidential Address on Engineering and Modern Civilisation, by Prof. J. Husband, 519

— Frameworks, Analysis of, 289, 669*

— Materials, Building Research Board’s In

vestigations on, 450

— Steel in Buildings, Specification, 256 New York City Building Code for, 236

— Steelwork. See also Steel

Structures and Arches, Continuous. Theory of (Review), 631

— Elastic, Analysis by Methods of Deforma

tion Energy and Remainder Distribution, 289, 669*

— Engineering, Analysis of (Review), 222

— Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete

— Heat Insulation of, Researches on, 405

— Steel, Analysis and Design of (Review), 157

Modern, Theory of (Review), 447 Solution of Buckling Problems in, 62*,

116*, 184*. See LETTERS, 265, 323

— Thin, Sheet-Metal, National Physical

Laboratory Investigations, 129 Struts, Loaded, Bending and Breaking of,

263 Stubbs V. Holywell Railway Co., 35 Studs for Flanges, National Physical Labora

tory Investigations on, 77* Studd Lecture on Personnel Problem in Industrial Concerns, 128

Studios, Film, Tver Heath, Heating Equipment, 146, 174, 239, 293. See Erratum^ 21 Submarine Boats. See Warships

— Telegraphs. See Telegraphs Substations, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building,

421*

— Paris-Orlkans and Midi Railways, 702

— Southern Railway, Portsmouth Line, 10* Suction-Gas Producer. See Producer Sudan, Dust Storms in, 162

Sugar-Cane, Factory, Machinery and Equipment of (Review), 90

Plant, Magnetic-Drum Separator for, 606

Suit, Pressure, for High-Altitude Flying, 282* Sulphate Crystallisation Test for Concrete Aggregates, 581

— Mineral, Influence on Concrete, 605 Sulphur Compounds, Removal from Gas, 611

— Dioxide, Recovery from Chimney Gases,

Processes for, 189*

— from Smelter Smoke, Fixation of, Report,

189*

Sulzer Brothers, 290-h.p. Six-Cylinder Oil Engine for Rail Car, 147*. See' Addendum., 230

Sulzer-Cockerill Diesel Engines, M.S. ” Prins Albert,” 411*

Summerfield, W., on Abandoned Works and Adjusted Payments, 34 ; on Defect and Maintenance Clauses in Contracts, 131 ; on Ownership of Drawings, Plans and Specifications, 247

Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Welding Machines at, 431

Sun-Vic Controls, Ltd., Vacuum Switch and , Surge Suppressor, 314*

Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., Trolley- ’Bus Chassis, 549* ; Electric-Battery Vehicle Chassis, 549*

Sunderland Corporation, 24-h.p. Diesel-Engined Shunting Tractor, 383*

Super-Centrifugal Engineers, Ltd., UltraCentrifuge, 305*

Supercharger for Bristol Aeroplane Engines, 282*

— for 900-h.p. Six-Cylinder Diesel Engine,

439*. See Erratum, 570

Superheater Co., Ltd., NeLeSco Superheaters, Dalmarnock Power Station, 399*

— Dalmarnock Power Station, 399*

— La Mont Forced-Circulation Boiler, 594*

— Locomotive. See Locomotive Superheating in Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, 528 Superston Bronze, Resistance to Corrosion-

Fatigue of, 50

Supports, Vibration-Attenuating, Tests of Materials for, 296*

Surface Condensers. See Condensers

— Conditions, Effect on Failure under Re

peated Stress, 87*, 140*

of Steel, Effect on Fatigue Strength, 49

— of Machine Elements, Characteristics, Con

figuration and Examination of (Review), 632

Surfacing of Roads, Experiments on, 750 Surrey County Council, Experiments with Thin Road Surfacings, 133

Surveys, Air, Progress in, 24

— Inland Water, of Great Britain, 57 Water, Annual Report, 749 Surveying Tapes, National Physical Laboratory

Tests of, 187

Surveyors* Remuneration for Abandoned Works, Decisions on, 35

Suspension Bridge, Menai Strait, Reconstruction of, 651*

Swamp Lands, Marsh Buggy for, 270*

Swan, A., on Problems of Altitude Record Flight, 280*. See 320

Swan. Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Launch of H.M. Destroyer “ Somali,” 263 ; Widening of Covered Shipbuilding Berth at Wallsend, 415* ; Launch of H.M. Destroyer “ Tartar,’* 485

Swansea University College, Departments of Engineering and Metallurgy, Prospectuses, 266

Swartzman, E., on Fuel Briquetting, 207 Swasey, Dr. A., the Late, 79 Sweeper-Collector, Hand-Controlled (Lewin

Road Sweepers, Ltd.), 649*

120-cub. ft. Sprinkling (Lewin Road Sweepers, Ltd., 649*

Swells, Ocean, and Abnormal Tides, 406*

Swift. Prof. H. W., on Experiments in Sleeve- Bearing Lubrication, 325*. See 320; Report on Journal and Thrust Bearing Lubrication, 436. See 461.

Swimming Bath, Brockwell Park, Filtration Plant at, 668*, 742*

— Pool, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building,

245*, 473*

Swindlehurst, J. E., on Material Used In Road Construction, 577

Swing Bridge. See Bridge

Swiss Federal Railways, 290-h.p. Diesel- Engined Rail Cars, 147*. See Addendum, 230

Swiss Locomotive Co., Bodies for 1,200-h.p. Electric Locomotives, 23

and Machine Works, 290-h.p. Oil-Engined Rail Car, 147*. See Addendum, 230

Switchgear, Circuit Breakers, Low Oil-Content for Large Power Stations, 177*

Breaker 22-kV, Tests of, 481

— for Collieries, 591

Switchgear <fe Cowans, Ltd., Switch and Transformer Unit for Mines, 442* ; Switchgear for Collieries, 591

— Dalmarnock Power Station, 399

— Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 421*

— 1,200-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 23*

— Oil Switches and Circuit Breakers, Specifica

tion, 512

— Sculcoates Power Station, 551

— Short-Circuit Testing Station, Hebburn-on-

Tyne, 479*

— Southern Railway, Portsmouth Line, 10*

— Switch, Battery Cut-off (C.A.V.-Bosch,

Ltd.), 443*

and Transformer Unit for Mines (Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd.), 442*

— Switchboard, Truck Cubicle, Heavy-Current

(General Electric Co., Ltd.), 471*

— for Testing Mercury-Arc Rectifiers, 604*

— Vacuum Switch and Surge Suppressor (Sun-

Vic Controls, Ltd.), 314*

Sykes, Dr. C., on Transformation in the /3 Brasses, 382

Sylat Hauling Jack, 725*

Symbols for Magnetic Testing, 379, 388

Synthetic Ammonia Nitrates, Ltd., Rubber- Lined Pipe for Hot Gases, 446*

Systems, Shop. See Works Management

TABLAST Abrasive Blasting Machine, 366 Tachometer. See Speed Indicator

Tank, Collapsible, on Commercial Motor Vehicle (Dodge Bros. (Britain), Ltd.), 9*

— Contents Gauge Liquidometer (Accurate

Becording Instrument Co.), 338

— Depth Indicator (Dobbie, Mclnnes, Ltd.),

306*

— Experimental, Co-Ordination of Work of, 120 Froude Laboratory, Work of, 238*, 261,

263

— Experiments, Screw Propellers with Wide

Blades, 25*

on Twin-Screw Ships, 238

See also Ship Resistance

— Fluid Gauge for (Light Production Co.,

Ltd.), 425

— Rubber Linings for, 445*, 559*

— Ships, Motor. See Motorships

— Steamers. See Steamers

— Tar-Liquor, Coke-Oven Plant, Cleveland

Iron Works, 36*, 119*

— Trailer, 2,000-gall., Road-Rail (R.A. Dyson

and Co., Ltd.), 587*

Tapes, Surveying, National Physical Lal>oratory Tests of, 187

Tars, Hydrogenation-Cracking of, Report, 488 of, Investigations on, 658

— Recovery Plant, Coke-Oven Plant, Cleveland

Iron Works, 36*, 118*

—- for Road Purposes, 606

Tarpaulins for Hatchways, 85*, 111*

Tarran Industries, Ltd., Civil Engineering Work, Sculcoates Power Station, Hull, 551, 597

“ Tartar,” H.M. Destroyer, Launch of, 485 Taxation and Motor Industry, 747

Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd., Optical Projection Macliine, 165

Teaching. See Educatio^i

Team-Valley Estate, Gateshead, Factories at, 551

Tecalemit, Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exhibition, 342 ; Automatic Hose Valve, 656

Technical Colleges and Education. See Educa - lion

— Institutions, Proportion of Junior Members,

717

— Machines and Accessories, Sempuco Engrav

ing Machine, 424*

— Societies. See Imtitntions and PARAGRAPH

INDEX

Tee, W. H., on London Cleansing, 606

Teeth Gear. See Gear

— Human, Rontgen-Ray Examination of, 586* Telco Products, Ltd., Flow Indicator, 306* Telegraphy, Developments in, 525

— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX

— Wireless, Investigations on Atmospherics,

736

Marconi School of Communication, 622* Memorial at Poldhu, 631

National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 736

Navigation, Direction Finding, Investigations on. 736

Stagshaw Broadcasting Station, 454 See also Radio

Telephony, Developments in, 525 International Consultative Committee ou. Work of, 526

?— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX

— Wireless, Investigations on Atmospherics,

736

Marconi School of Communication, 622*

• Memorial at Poldhu, 631

National Physical Laboratory Investigations on,736

Nine-Channel Ultra Short-Wave, Belfast and Stranraer, 292

Stagshaw Broadcasting Station, 454 See also Radio

Telescope, Autocollimating, National Physical Laboratory, 166*

— Work of Sir C. A. Parsons on, 759

Television, Application of Electrical Vibrations in, 320, 330*

Telford, J., Menai Strait Suspension Bridge, 651* Temperature and Humidity-Recording Controller (Short and Mason, Ltd.), 338*

— Measurement. See Pyrometry ; Thermometry

— Night, Predicting, 162

Tempering. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy

Tenders, 12, 42, 72, 98, 124, 350, 178, 204, 230, 256, 284, 323, 344, 374, 402, 428, 456, 484, 514, 542, 570, 596, 626, 654, 684, 714, 744

Tensile Tests. See Tests (Materials) Tensometer, Hounsfield (Tensometer, Ltd.), 306*

Tensometer, Ltd., Impact W'eld Tester, 306* ; Worm-Gear Tensometer, 306*; Gerard Extensometer. 306*

Ternary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy

— System FeO-AlaOa-SiOg, Investigation on, 28 Terrestrial Magnetism. See Magnetism Tests, Acceptance, for Steam Turbines, Code

for, 753

— Aeronautical. See Aeronautics

— Ammonia-Liquor Concentration Plant,

Coventry Gas Works, 697

— Blast-Furnace Smelting Lincolnshire Ores,

350, 360

— Carbonising Plant, Seaham Harbour, Coal

and Allied Industries, Ltd., 217

— Coke Carbonised under Mechanical Pressure,

365,385*

— Corrosion. See Corrosion

— Curtis-Hatherop Grass-Drying Plant, 97

— Deflection, of Pipe-Joint Flanges, 419*

— Electric Strength of Plastics, 146*

— Erith Carbonising Plant of National Coke

Oil Co., Ltd., 497

— Foamed-Slag Concretes, 366, 389, 450

— Fuel-Consumption, Studebaker Motor Cars,

580

— Gyral Variable-Speed Reduction Gear, 279*

— Hydraulic, Keebush Piping, 202

— Lubrication of Metal-Sprayed Surfaces, 757

— Magnetic. Sec Magnetic

Tests (Materials) :

Alternating-Stress Tests, Bronze under Corrosion Conditions, 50

Tests, Fatigue Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 47* Tests of Steel, Effect of Discontinuities and Surface Conditions on, 87*.140*

Tests, Steel Machined and Unmachined, 49

Creep Tests, Flanged Steam-Pipe Joints, 364, 538*, 615*, 674*

Steel Bolts for Flanges, 78*

— — of Steel and Cast Iron at High Temperatures, 157

Extensometer, Gerard (Williamson Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 306*

— Measurements on Tin, 322

Hardness Tests, Brinell, Specification, 744 Continuous, for Investigating Hardness Fluctuations, 352, 495*

High-Chromium and Austenitic Steels, 582*

Tin-Antimony Alloys, 270 Impact Test, Izod, Origin of, 537 Izod, Steel for Bolts, 78 Notched-Bar, Value and Application of. Discussion on, 205, 519, 537

Tension Ultra-High Speed, of Metals and Alloys, 322

Magnetic Tests. See Magnetic

Mechanical Testing of Metals and Alloys (Review), 50

Notched-Bar Impact Tests. See Impact I ests (above)

Repeated-Stress Tests of Steel, Effect of Discontinuities and Surface Conditions in, 87*, 140*

Shearing Tests, Bonded Concrete and Stone, 215*, 242*, 261

Stresses in Materials and Structures. See Stress

Tensile Tests, Magnesium Alloys, 155 Metals, under Vibration, 4* Steel for Flange Bolts, 78 Welded Joints, 130 Tensometer, Hounsfield (Tensometer,Ltd.), 306*

— Worm-Gear (Tensometer, Ltd.), 306* Tests, Mechanical, Formapex Miocarta, 144 — Piece for Triple-Tensile Stress, 595* Testing Machine for Continuous Hardness Tests, 352, 495*

Impact, Hounsfield (Tensometer, Ltd.), 306*

See also Testing

Tests, Materials for Vibration-Attenuating- Supports, 296*

— of Oil-Engined Fordson Tractor, 94

— Oxidation, for Lubricating Oil, 463, 554

— Pilot Injection in Oil Engines, 417*

— Pumping Plant, Hammersmith Pumping

Station, 710

— PjTTotenax Cable, 454*

— for Radium Containers. 587

— “Ring-Free ” Motor Lubricating Oils, 427

— Short Circuit, 22-kV Circuit-Breaker, 481

— Small-Scale Cupola, 365, 730*

— Sound-Absorbing, of Acoustic-Celotex, 203

— Sulphate Crystallisation, for Concrete Aggregates, 581

— 33-kV Switchgear, 177*

— Thickness, for Galvanised Coatings, 268

Testing Apparatus, Four-Ball Top, for Lubricating Oils, 1*

Thermal Resistivity, for Insulating Materials, 385*

— Laboratory, in Road Engineering, 577

See also National Physical

— of Lubricants, 459, 547, 553

Testing Machine for Continuous Hardness Tests, 352, 495*

Impact, Hounsfield (Tensometer, Ltd.), 306*

Izod Impact, Invention of, 537

for Materials for Vibration-Attenuating Supports, 297*

for Sleeve-Bearing Lubrication, Experiments, 320, 325*

See also Tests {Materials}

— Materials, Joint Committee on. See Mate

rials and their Testing, Joint Committee on

— Mechanical, Metals and Alloys (Review), 50

— Plant for Mercury-Arc Rectifiers, 604*

— Station, Locomotive, Rugby, 183

Short-Circuit, Hebburn-on-Tyne, 479*

— of Zinc Coatings, 321

— See also Tests {Materials}

Text Books. See LITERATURE INDEX

Textile Industry, Italian, Production of Lanital for, 673*

— Machinery, Automatic Infinitely-Variable

Speed Gear for (Crofts (Engineers), Ltd.), 106

Thames, River, and London Water Supply, 57 ; Reconstruction of Waterloo and Wandsworth Bridges over, 129, 490, 749 ; Abnormal Tides in, 407; Duplication of Blackwall Tunnel under, 575

Theatres, Air-Conditioning for, 556*

Thermal Conductivity of Building Materials, 405

of Engineering Materials, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 561*

of Pyrotenax Cable, 454

— Efficiency of Electric Power Stations, 318, 521

Fulham Power Station, 597

White Boiler, Hammersmith Pumping Station, 710

— Equilibrium Diagrams, Nickel-Aluminium

System, 321

— Insulation of Buildings and Structures, 405

— Radiation. See Heat Radiation

— Resistivity of Insulating Materials, Rapid

Test for, 385*

— Storage Equipment, Earl’s Court Exhibition

Building, 423*. See LETTER, 521

— Treatment, Metals. See Peat Treatment

under Metallurgy

Thermocouples, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 585

— See also Pyrometer

Thermodynamic Properties of Steam (Review), 357

Thermograph for High-Altitude Recording,283* Thermometer, Distance-Reading (Accurate Recording Instrument Co.), 339*

— Exhaust-Gas (Negretti and Zainbra), 306*

— See also Pyrornetar

Thermometry Investigations at National

Physical Laboratory, 585* Thermo-Plastic Materials, Production and

Application of, 202*

Thistleton-Dyer, G. H., on Town Planning and

Water Supply, 671

Thomas, E. G., the Late, 596 Thomas, R., <fc Co., Ltd., Electric Control Gear,

Ebbw Vale Iron and Steel Works, 482* Thomas-Gilchrist Basic Process, 1879-1937, 351 Thompson, J. (Wolverhampton), Ltd., Super-

Economic Boiler, 66*

Thorn and Hoddle, Ltd., Acetylene Generator, 333*

Thornton, Prof. W. M., Retirement of, 323 Thornycroft, Sir J. E., on Evolution of Torpedo

Craft, 493, 528

Thornycroft, J. I., and Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exhibition, 304 ; 6-ton Rigid Six-Wheeled Chassis for Motor Coach, 507* ; 99-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Oil Engine, 507*

Threshing Machine, Conveyor Feeder for (Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 65* Thrust Bearing. See Bearing

— of Propellers. See Propellers ; Aeronautics Thyratron, Production of Electrical Vibrations

by, 320, 330*

— Voltage-Control Panel (British Thomson-

Houston Co., Ltd.), 339*, 371

Tidal Investigations, United States Waterways

Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 361* Tides, Abnormal, and Ocean Swells, 406* Tilghman’s Patent Sand Blast Co., Ltd.,

Tablast Abrasive Blasting Machine, 366 ;

Two-Stage ^Vir Compressor, 367* ; SingleCylinder Air Compressor, 367*

Tillapaugh, H. W., on Petrol Consumption and

Tyre Wear in Motor Vehicles, 580

Tilting Gear, Swimming-Pool Platform, Earl’s

Court Exhibition Building,474*

Timber Development Association, Research and Utilisation Exhibition, 719

— Drying in Kilns, Experiments on, 357

— Estate, Preservative Treatment of, 389

— Piling, Chien Tang-River Bridge, South

China, 503*

— Production in Japan, 331

— Research and Utilisation Exhibition, Science

Museum, 719

Tin Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy

— Coating on Tin-Plate, Investigations on

Porosity of, 640*, 700*

— Extensometer Measurement of, 322

— Plate for Canning. Investigations on, 208 Containers, Corrosion of. Report, 59 Tin Coating on. Investigations on

Porosity of, 640*, 700*

— Research and Development Council, Inter

national, Investigation of Tin-Antimony

Alloys, 270 ; Investigation on Porosity of Tin Coating on Tin-Plate, 640*, 700*

— and Tin-Plate Prices. See Metal-Price

Diagrams

Tippler, Wagon, Bunkering Plant for Trawlers, Fleetwood Docks, 253*

Titanium, Effect on Aluminium Alloys, 156 Tolerances in Machine Work. See Gauges Tookey, W. A., on Half-Century of Engineering

Progress, 717

Tool Grinder. See Grinding under Machine Tools

— Machine. See Machine Tools

— Pneumatic. See Machine Tools Toothed Gar. See Gear

Top, Four-Ball, for Testing Lubricating Oils, 1* Toronto University, Research on Heat Insulation of Buildings and Structures, by Prof. E. A. Allcut and F. G. Ewens, 405

Torpedo Boats and Destroyers. Torque Converter, V'

Oil-Engined Rail Car, 390

— Meters. See Dynamometers ; Torsion Meters Torsion Meter, Sir C. A. Parsons’, 695*

See also Dynamometers

Torsional Damping, Recording Apparatus for (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 652*

— Rigidity of Shafts, 275*. See LETTERS,

711*, 743

Tottenham, Dustless Refuse-Collection System, 52

Tower., F. H., on High-Speed Reciprocating Pumps, 725*. See 720

— Scrubbing, Benzole Coke-Oven Plant, Cleve

land Iron Works, 36*, 119*

Towler, J. M., on High-Speed Reciprocating Pumps, 725*. See 720

Town Gas. See Gas

— Planning and Water Supply, 671

— Refuse, Dustless Collection System for, 52 Townsend, C. B., on Elimination of the Detritus

Dump, 672

Trackless Trolley System, Road Traction. See Trolley-Bus

Traction, Electric. See Railways; Trolley-Bus ; Tramways

Tractor, Agricultural, 13-4-d.h.p. (Roadless Traction, Ltd.), 648*

at Smithfield Club Show, 660 8-h.p. Two-Wheeled (C. H. Pugh, Ltd.), 33*

with Winch (Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 64*

— Fordson, with Heavy-Oil Carburettor

(Headen Keil Engineering Co.. Ltd.), 93* With “Leopard II” Oil Engine (F.

Perkins, Ltd.), 66*, 94

— 53-b.h.p. Four-Wheel Driven (Latil Industrial Vehicles, Ltd.), 68*

Tractors (London), Ltd., 4|-h.p. Agricultural Tractor, 660

— Shunting, 24-h.p. Diesel-Engined (Marshall,

Sons and Co., (Successors) Ltd.. 383*

— Users’ Association, Ltd., Conference on

Technical Instruction of Farm Workers. 660

Trade, Board of Trade Smvey of Industrial Development, 288

Trade Disputes. See Labour ; Labour NoUs

— Economic Conditions in Egypt, Report, 348 Conditions In I^ersian Gulf, Report, 162

— Exhibition. See Exhibition

— Gas-Coke Market, Position of, 629

— Import Trade of India, Report, 212

— Institute of Export, Appeal by, 519

— Iron and Steel, 1936, 741

— Mark Law, New, 183

— Motor Vehicle, 1937, 747

— Unions. See Labour; Labour Noles

— World, and British Tramp Shipping, 288 Traffic Commissioners’ Annual Reports, 659

— Motor Vehicle, in London, 518

— Problem in London, 599, 718

Trailer, Adjustable-Reach, for Long Loads (R. A. Dyson (fe Co., Ltd.), 206*

— Low-Loading, 30-cwt. (R. A. Dyson it Co.,

Ltd.), 587*

Loading Road, 75-ton Twelve-Wheeled (K. A, Dyson and Co., Ltd.), 568*

— Tank, 2,000-gan. Road-Rail (R. A. Dyson &

Co., Ltd.), 587*

Train, ‘‘Coronation,” London Eastern Railway, 40*

— Electric, Inductor-Type Speedometers for,

465*

Multiple-Unit, Electro-Pneumatic Camshaft Control for 400*

— Express, “Coronation Scot,” London

Midland ife Scottish Railway, 8*, 70*

“East Anglian,” London <fe North Eastern Railway, 426*

— High-speed, Braking of, 657. See LETTER,

743

— Services, Southern Railway, Portsmouth

Line, 11

— “West Riding Limited”, London it North

Eastern Railway, 373

— See also Railway

Train, J., and Co., Ltd., Foundations for Dal- marnock Power Station, 398*

Training. See Education

Tramway Cars, Air Compressors for (Reavell it Co., Ltd.), 341*, 424*

— and TrolIey-’Bus Financial and Operating

Statistics, 749

— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Transformers for Collieries, 591

— Screening of, Investigations on, 737

— 15,000-kVA, Sculcoates Power Station, 551

— 33-kV, Southern Railway, Portsmouth Line,

10*

— 75-kVA, and Switch Unit for Mines (Switch

gear <fe Cowans, Ltd.), 442*

Transmission, Electric, Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion

— Gear. See Gear ; Marine Propulsion

— Qi Power. See Marine Propulsion ; Power

Transmission

Transport, Aerial. See J eronautics

— Application of Internal-Combustion Engine

to, 546

— Developments in Greece, 346

— in Egypt, 348

— and Engineering, 433

— in Factories, Control of, 112

— Institute of, Graduate and A.ssociate-

Meinbership Examinations, 240 ; Presidential Address, by Sir A. Gibb, on Engineering and Transport, 433 ; Modern 1 levelopments in Railway- Operating Practice, by V. M. Barrington-Ward, 657. See LETTER, 743

— Ministry of. Memorandum on Lay-Out and

Construction of Roads, 15. See LETTER, 120 ; Report on Railway Accidents, 1936, 46 ; Experiments with Thin Road Surfacings, 133 ; British Railway Returns for 1986, 176 ; Report on Swanley Junction Railway Accident, 328 ; Annual Census of Railway Staff, 349; Tests of Road Bridges, 450 ; Reconstruction of Menai Strait Bridge, 651* ; Report on Administration of Road Fund, 718 ; Report on Experimental Work on Roads, 750

— Motor. See Road ; Motor

— Railway. See Railway

— Road. See Road; Motor; Trolley-"Bus and Public-Works Congress. See Public

Works, Roads and Transport Congress

and Public Works Exhibition, Royal Agricultural Hall, 533*, 564*, 617*, 647* Travelling Crane. See Crane

Travers, Dr. M., on Thermal Changes in Hydro- Carbon Gases, 490

Trawlers, Bunkering Plant for, Fleetwood Docks, 253*

— Motor, “ British Honduras,” 711

Trees and Shrubs for Snow Control on Roads. 581

Treforest, School of Mines Calendar, 284 Trenching Machine, Oil-Driven (R. H. Neal and Co., Ltd.), 68*

Trent, River, Catchment Board, Engineering Problems of, 291

Trials. See Tests

Trier Brothers, Ltd., Collgraf Lubricating System, 425

Trigonometry, Text Book of (Review), 262 ” Triton,” H.M. Submarine, Launch of, 428 Tritton, Sir S. B., the Late, 595

Trolley-’Bus Chassis (Associated Equipment Co., Ltd.), 548*

Chassis (Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles, Ltd.), 549*

Girling-Consolidated Power-Operated Brake for (Consolidated Brake and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 550*

and Tramway Financial and Operating Statistics, 749

Trucks, Railway See Wagons

— Traffic Control in Factories, 112

— See also Bogie

T. S. Motors, Ltd., 110-b.h.p. Oil-Engined Motor-Omnibus Chassis, 510*

Tube Railways. See Underground Railways

— Superheater, Failure of, 687

— See also Pipes

Tubest, Soci<$t6, Chilowski Light Relay, 329* Tungsten, Heavy, Alloy for Radium Containers, 587, 622*

— Lamps. See Lamps under Electric

— Treatise on its Metallurgy, Properties and

Applications (Review), 158

Tunnel, Blackwall, Proposed Duplication of, 575

— Construction, Problems, of, 519

— Diversion,Chambon Keservoir, Isdre, Prance,

168*

— Railway, under Earl’s Court Exhibition

Building, 245*

Tuplin, W. A., on Torsional Rigidity of Hliafts, 275*. See LETTERS, 711*, 743

Turbine Eurnaces, Ltd., Turbulence Bridge- Bar, 312*

— Hydraulic, Ontario Hydro-Klectrie Plants, 200

gee also Power Plant

— Pumps. See Pumps.

— Steam, Adjustable Block for Blading of

(Parsons Marino Steam Turbine Co., Ltd.), 370*

Blading for. See Blading

Code for Acceptance Tests of, 753

50,000-kW, Dalmarnock Power Station, 399*

1,000-b.h.p., Hammersmith Pumping Station, 710*

Marine, Geared. See Marine Propulsion 30,000-kW., Sculcoates Power Station, 551

Work of Sir C. A. Parsons on, 632* See also Turbo-Generators

— Steamers. See Steamers; Warships Turbo-Generator, 10-kW (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 339*, 371

37,500-k\V Brush-LJungstrdm Southwick Power Station!, 502

60,000-kW Dalmarnock Power Station, 399*

80-h.p. Geared (W .H. Allen, Sons and Co.,

Ltd.), 308*

Lubrication of Bearings of, 437

30,000-kW Sculcoates Power Station, 551 Work of Sir C. A. Parsons on, 632* Turbulence in Fluid Flow, Investigations on,

505

Turner, E. P., on Forestry in Japan, 331

Turner, E. R. and F., Ltd., Centenary of, 52 ;

Mono-Piano Oscillatory Dr’ve, 52*; Fanless Piirifler for Flour-Milling, 738* Turner, Prof. W. E. S., on Ferrous-Ferric

Oxide Equilibrium in Glasses, 29

Turning and Boring Mills. See Machine Tools

— See Machine Tools.

Tutin, Dr. J., on Steel Hatch Covers, 650 Twist-Drill Grinder. See Grinding Machine under Machine Tools

Tyre Wear Tests, Studebaker Motor Car, 580
UNCKEL, DR. H. A., on Deformation of Two- Phase Alloys by Cold-Rolling, 382

Underground Railways, London, Cential ' London Line, Extension of, 229; Meta-

I dyne Control System for Trains, 472* ;

Developments on, 518 ; the Underground I and London Traffic Problem, 599

“ Undine,” H.M. Submarine, Launch of, 428 Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co., Ltd., M.S ‘‘ Capetown Castle,” 373*

— Coupling with Pressure-Filled Joint Ring

(Wills Pressure-Filled Joint Ring, Ltd.), 369*

— Trade. See Labour; Labour Notes United Conveyor Corporation, Cinder-Recovery System for Boiler Plants, 123*

United Filters and Engineering, Ltd., Pumping and Filtration Plant, Brockwell Park Swimming Bath, 668*, 742*

— States Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder Dam,

Automatic Sector-Sluice SpiUways, 61*, 113* ; Penstocks, 703* ; Memorandum on Tangential Foundation Resistance of Gravity Dams, 215*, 242*, 261

Bureau of Mines, Report on Fixation of Sulphur from Smelter Smoke, 189* ; Report on Detachable Rock-Drill Bits, 241

Bureau of Standards, Report on Anodic Coating of Magnesium Alloys, 209

Department of Labour, Report on Annual Income in Engineering Profession, 749

, Engineering Research in, 295

Flood Control in, Problems of, 103

Highway Research Board : Gasoline Consumption, Tyre Wear and Coefficients of Friction on Various Road Surfaces, by Prof. R. A. Moyer and H. W. Tillapaugh, 580 ; Safe Side Friction Factors and Superelevation Design, by J. Barnett, 580 ; Snow Control by Tree Planting, by Prof. E. A. Finney, 581 ; Rejxjrt on Durability of Concrete as affected by the Cement, 581 ; Sulphate Crystallisation Test for Soundness of Aggregates, by W. J. Emmons, 581 ; Report on Experimental Brick Road, 581 ; Bond of Vibrated Concrete, by Prof. M. O. Withey, 581

Lake Mead, Passage of Turbid Water through, 234

Locomotive Progress in, 378

United States Metallic Packing Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering and Marine Exhibition, 426 ; Adjustable Piston-Valve Rings. 426

Pressure Die-Casting Industry in. 613* 643*

Railways. See Bailways ; Bailroads

Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 193*, 249*, 273*, 361*

Welded Ship Construction in, 431 See also America

United Steel Companies, Ltd., S. Fox and Co , Ltd., Spring-Making Plant, 148* ; Erodingham Ironworks, Tests on Blast-Furna«e Smelting Lincolnshire Ores, 350, 360

University, Birmingham, Researches on Copper- Nickel-Aluminium Alloys, 321; Investigation of Flux Distortion in Iron Testing, 380, 439* ; Investigation of Pilot Injection in Oil Engine, 417*

— ^‘>^40*^^’ Faculty of Engineering Prospectus,

— College, London, Faculty of Engineering

Prospectus, 150

— Hokkaido Imperial, Calendar, 178

— University, Illinois, Report on Biologic

Digestion of Garbage with Sewage Sludge, 203

— Leeds, Gas Researches at, 576, 610

— Minnesota, Researches on Thermal Conductivity of Building Materials, by Prof. P. B. Rowley and A. B. Algren, 405

— Sheifleld, Lectures on Railway Electric

Traction, 343

— Toronto, Research on Heat Insulation of

Buildings and Structures, by Prof. E. A. Allcut and P. G. Ewens, 405

— See also Education

Uplift in Gravity Dams, Investigation on, 242*, 261

Utah, Provo Power Station, Constant-Support Hangers for Pipe Lines in, 666*
VACUUM Technique (Review), 477

Valve, Air, Kinetic, for Water Mains (Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd.), 577*

— Balanced, Double-Beat (Wills Pressure-

Filled Joint Ring, Ltd.), 369*

— Butterfly, Chambon Reservoir, Is^re, Prance, 392*

— Cone, Chapman, for Hydraulic Mains, 172*

— Control, Hydraulic (H. Crowe and Son) 680*

— Exhaust, for Aeroplane Engines, 292

— Gears for Locomotives, 234

— for High-Speed Reciprocating Pumps, 726*

— Hose, Automatic (Tecalemit, Ltd.), 656

— Isolating, for Kiers (Audley Engineering

Co., Ltd.), 732*

— Safety, Double-Action (D. Auld and Sons,

Ltd.), 642*

— Steam, Adjustable Piston-Valve Rings for

(United States Metallic Packing Co., Ltd.), 426

Valvespout Oiler, 14

Van Norman, H. A., Inspection Car for Interior of Water Mains, 741*

Vapour Pressure of Refrigerating Brines, Investigations on, 564

Variable-Speed Gear. See Gear

Vats, Electroplating, Use of Moving Cathodes in, 54*

— for Storage of Casein, 673*

Vaughan, N. B., on Constitution of Nickel- Aluminium System, 321

Velocity Diagrams, Applications of, 734* Venner Time Switches, Ltd., Chilowski Light Relay, 329*

Ventilating, Heating and Air-Conditioning, Principles of (Review), 262

Ventilation of Buildings, Investigations on, 451

New York City Code for, 236

— of Percolation Filters, 672

— System, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building,

473

Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, 589*. See Addendum, 627

Vernon, Dr. W. H. J., on Corrosion of Water Mains, 671

Vernon-Harcourt Lecture on Estuary Channels and Embankments, 690

Vessel, Pressure, of Keebush, 202*

Viaduct. See Bridges

Vibrating and Finishing Machine, Concrete Road (E. P. Allam and Co., Ltd.), 618*

Vibrations of Airscrew Blades, 75

— Attenuating Supports, Tests of Materials

for, 296*

— of Metals, Effect on Tensile Properties, 4*

— of I^opellers, Noise Caused by, 170*

— of Ships’ Hulls, Investigations on, 264 Vibrator for Concrete, Altex Portable, 211 Variable-Amplitude Electric (Liner Concrete Machinery Co., Ltd.), 535*

Vibrators, Ltd., Variable-Amplitude Concrete Vibrator, 535*

Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., 600-b.h.p. Six- Cylinder Oil Engine for Submarine, 5* ; Boilers for H.M.S. “ Warspite,” 190. See Erratum, 255 ; Orient Liner ” Orcades,” 224* ; Launch of Argentine Destroyers ” Buenos Aires,” “ Corrientes,” and ” Entre Rios,” 375; Launch of S.S. ” Strathallan,” 402 ; Launch of H.M. Submarines “ Triton ” and ” Undine,” 428 ; Trials of S.S. ” Stratheden,” 681*

Vickers, D., the Late, 635

Vicksburg, United States Waterways Experiment Station, 193*, 249*, 273*, 361*

Victor Oil Engines (Coventry), Ltd., 44-b.h.p. Pour-Cylinder Oil Engine, 424

Vienna Gasworks, Bossner-Marischka Detoxification Process, 102

— Meeting, World Power Conference, 576 Visco Engineering Co., Ltd., Self-Cleaning

Oil-Coated Air Filters, 590*

Viscometer (Dobbie, Meinnes, Ltd.), 306 Viscosity of Liquids, Standard Method of Determination, 466

— of Lubricants, 459, 547, 554

— of Refrigerants, Investigations on, 563* Visibility from Drivers’ Seats of Motor Vehicles,

349

Voice, E. W., on Ignition of Gas by Cold Catalyst, 697

Yokes, Ltd,, Metal-Pack Oil Filter, 334*; J^otectovent Air Filter, 334

Vulcan-Sinclair Hydraulic Coupling, Scoop- Controlled, 367*
WADDINGTON, A. G., on Determination of Alumina in Presence of Aluminium, 395

Wagon, Goods, 12-ton Shock-Absorbing, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 213*

— for Indian Railways, 16

— Motor. See Motor Lorries; Tractors

— Railway, Great Western Railway, 344

— Tippler, Bunkering Plant for Trawlers,

Fleetwood Docks, 253*

Waite, H., Inspection Car for Interior of Water Mains, 741*

Wales, Fuel Briquetting in, 207

Walker-Turner Co., Inc., Disc and Belt Sanding Machine, 241* ; Band Saw, with Die-Cast Parts, G43*

Wallace and Tiernan, Ltd., Water-Sterilising Apparatus for Punt, 314*

Wallis and Steevens, Ltd., 2i-ton Petrol-Driven Four-Speed Road Roller, 564*

Walls, Noise Transmission through, 318, 729

— Sea, Effect of Ocean Swells on, 406

— Sound-Proof, Investigations on, 645* Transmission through, 192

— Thermal Conductivity of, Researches on, 405

Wallsend, Widening of Covered Shipbuilding Berth at, 415*

Waltham Cross, All-Welded Factory for Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., 712

Wandsworth Bridge, Reconstruction of, 129 Warsaw Suburban Railways, Electrification of, 632

— Technical High School, Investigations on

Tensile Properties of Metals Subjected to Vibration, 4*

Warships :

Argentine Destroyers “ Misiones,” ‘‘Buenos Aires,” ‘‘ Corrientes ” and “ Entre Rios,” Launch of, 375, 457

— — ” San Juan,” Launch of, 21 ” San Luis,” Launch of, 255 ” Santa Cruz,” Launch of, 543 H.M. Battleship ” Warspite,” Reconstruction of, 190*. See Erratum^ 255

— Destroyer “ Hunter,” Damage by Mine to, 498*

” Imperial,” Trials of, 43 ” Sikh,” Launch of, 715 ‘‘ Somali,” Launch of, 263 “ Tartar,” Launch of, 485 “Zulu,” Launch of, 411 — Submarines “ Triton ” and “ Undine,” Launch of, 428

Submarine Engine, Lightweight-Type, 600- b.h.p., Six-Cylinder (Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd.), 5*

Torpedo-Boat Destroyers, Machinery of, 493, 528

— Craft, Evolution of, 493, 528 See also Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX

“ Warspite,” H.M. Battleship, Reconstruction of, 190*. See Erratum^ 255

Waste-Heat Boiler, Weston-super-Mare Gas Works, 624*

Water Board, Metropolitan, Design of Reservoirs, 57 ; Hammersmith Pumping Station, 709*

Rand, South Africa, Annual Report, 750

— Filters. See Filters

— Flow in Pipes, Friction and Heat-Trans

mission Investigations, 573. See LETTERS, 634*, 650, 711

— Friction. See Friction ; Hydrodynamics;

Ship Resistance

— Feed, Heaters. See Feed Heaters

— Heaters Electric Sheathed-Wire Immersers

for (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 162

— Inland, Survey, of Great Britain, 57 Survey, Annual Report, 749

— Mains, Prevention of. Corrosion of, 671 Electric Inspection Car for Interior, 741* Kinetic Air Valve for (Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd.), 577*

Submerged, Flexible (Siemens and Halske A.-G.), 723

— Pipes, Reduction of Noise Transmission

along, 612*

— Power. See Hydraulic ; Power Plant; Tur

bine, Hydraulic

— Softening, Ground-Operated Chemical-

Measuring Apparatus for (Permutit Co., Ltd.), 425*

Plant, Automatic, Poplar Grove Pumping Station, Mouldsworth, 525*

— Sterili.sing Apparatus for Punt (Wallace &

Tiernan, Ltd.), 314*

— Supply, London, Purification of, 57

from Lower Greensand, 200

from Lower Greensand for Greater London, 671

Ministry of Health Report on, 182

and Rainfall, England and Wales, 671 and Town Planning, 671

Rural, Provision for, 490

— Survey, Inland, Annual Report, 749

Inland, of Great Britain, 57

— Tanks. See Tanks

— Treatment and Purification (Review), 447

— Tube Boiler. See Boiler

— Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic; Power

Plant

— Wheels. See Turbines, Hydraulic; Power

Plant

Waterloo Bridge, Reconstruction of, 129, 490 Reconstruction, Government Grant, 749 Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 193*, 249*, 273*, 361*

— See Rivers; Canals

Waterworks. See Water Supply and PARAGRAPH INDEX

Wave-Making Machine, United States Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, 362* Resistance of Ships. See Ship Resistance Wear of Cylinders in Internal-Combustion Engines, 467

— Piston Ring, in Locomotives, 469 Weather. See Meteorology

Webb, M. E., on Cast Stone, 719

Weighing Machines, Locomotive, London and North Eastern Railway, 80*

Weir, G. and J., Ltd., Turbine-Driven Circulating Pump for La Mont Boiler, 595*

— Inflow, United States Waterways Experi

ment Station, Vicksburg, 274*

Welded Construction for 10-ton Steam Crane, 540*

— Joints, National Physical Laboratory In

vestigations on, 129

New York City Building Code for, 237

— Klonne Waterless Gasholder at Dagenham.

492*

— Parts, Failure of, 687

Welders, Investigations on Protective Glasses for, 691

Welding, Application to Ship Construction, 575

— Electrodes for (Murex Welding Processes,

Ltd.), 311

— Equipment, Electric, Multi-Operator (Eng

lish Electric Go., Ltd.), 313*

— — Electric Portable (English Electric Co.,

Ltd.), 313*

— Exhibition. See Engineering and Marine

Exhibition

— Institute of, Annual Dinner, 379 ; Midland

Branch, Resistance-Welding Process in Metal-Manufacturing Industries, by Dr. E. R. Hensel, 552

— Machine, Electric-Arc, Marine Type (Mawds-

ley’s, Ltd.), 368*

Electric-Arc (Philips Industrial, Ltd.) 340

Electric, Seam (Soag Machine Tools, Ltd.), 313*

Electric, Spot (Soag Machine Tools,Ltd.), 313*

for Penstocks for Boulder Dam, for Ship Construction, 431 25-kVA Spot (Holden and Hunt),

— Manipulator, 30-ton (Davy and

Engineering Co., Ltd.), 311

— Oxy-Acetylene, for Reconditioning Rails, 496

Acetylene, Rightward Method of, Experiments on, 84

— of Pipes by Multi-Elame Method, 107*

— Practice in Ship Construction, 431

— Resistance, Use in Metal-Manufacturing Industries, 552

— in Warship Construction, Behaviour of, 498* Wellington, N.Z., Centennial Exhibition, 601 Welter, Prof. G., on Effect of Vibrations on

Tensile Properties of Metals, 4* Wembley, Research Laboratories, General Electric Co., Ltd., 523*

Werf Gusto, Ltd., 250-ton Floating Crane, 159* West Cheshire Water Board, Automatic Water-

Softening Plant, 525*

West, E. C., on Laboratory Testing in Highway Engineering, 577

— Hartlepool Technical College Prospectus, 284

— London Extension Railway, Tunnels beneath Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245*

— Riding, Limited Train, 373

Westminster City Council, Electro-matic System of Trallic Control, Piccadilly Circus, 569

— Technical Institute, Courses at, 343 Weston-super-Mare and District Gas Co., Gas-

Manufacturing and Coke-Handling Plant, 623*, 659

Wharncliffe Woodmoor Colliery, Accident in. 347

Wheelabrator Turn-Blast ” Machine, 367

Wheeler, E. P., Headquarters for London Fire Brigade, 94

Wheels and Axles for 75-ton Twelve-Wheeled Road Trailer, 569*

— Gear. See Gears

— Impact on Bridge Spans from Motor Vehicles, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 130

White, Dr. J., on Ternary System EeO-Al? O,- SO2, 28

White, J. S., and Co., Ltd., Boilers for Hammersmith Pumping Station, 709*

— Metal. See Alloys under Metallurgy Whitford, H. N., the Late, 684

Whitworth Society, Summer Meeting, Dover, 129

Wiggin, H., and Co., Ltd., Monel-Metal Turbine Blading, 310

Wigley, W. C. S., on Wave-Making of Ships, 719

Wilder, J., Ltd., Combined Mowing Machine and Elevator, 31*

Wilgedacht Exploration Co., Ltd., Heavy- Current Truck-Cubicle Switchboard, 471*

Wilkinson, H., on Transformation in the 6 Brasses, 382

Willesden Works, British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., “ Apprentice-Parents’ ” Day, 70

Williams, H. G., on Public Expenditure, 575

Williams and James, Air Starter for Oil Engines, 301* ; Single-Cylinder Air Exhauster, 301*

Williamson Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Gerard Extensometer, 306*

Willis, T. W., the Late, 324

Willment Brothers’ Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 245*

Wills Pressure-Filled Joint Ring, Ltd., Union Coupling, 369*; Double-Beat Balanced Valve, 369*

Wilson, H., on Ventilation of Percolation Filters,- 672

Wilson, J. H., on Anodic Coating of Magnesium Alloys, 209

Winch, Air, 5-h.p. Reversible (Holman Bros., Ltd.), 27*

— for Tractor (Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 64*

Wind Gusts, Diaphragm Gauge for Measurement of, 505*

— Motion, Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 504

— Pressure on Buildings, New York City Code for, 236

Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 131

— Resistance of Ships, Investigations on, 263

— Tunnels. See Aeronautics Windbreaks for Roads, 581

Windermere Laboratory of Biological Association, Work of, 57

Winding Engines, Dynamic Rope Stresses in Emergency Braking on, 755*

Wine-Making Plant, French, 172*

Winget, Ltd., Petrol-Operated Road Breaker, 619*

Winsor Axia Fans, Ltd., Axial-Flow Electrically-Driven Fan, 312*

Wire Ropes, Colliery, Investigations on, 761 Lubrication of, 476, 502

Winding Engine, Dynamic Stresses in Emergency Braking, 755*

— Ropeway, 150-ton, Boulder Dam, United States, 705*

Chambon Reservoir, Isdre, France, 219*

— Tensile Properties of, Effect of Vibration, 4*

Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy

— Telephony. See Telephony

Wiring, Electrical, Earl’s Court Exhibition Building, 421*

with PjT'otenax Cable, 454*

Withey, Prof. M. 0., on Bond of Vibrated Concrete, 581

Witton Rectifier Factory, General Electric Co., Ltd., 603*

?Wohler Tests. See Alternating Stress under Tests {Materials)

Wollaston, T. R., the Late

Wolverhampton Show, Royal Agricultural Society, 31*, 64*, 91*, 94

Wood, J. K., on Balanced Support of High-Temperature Pipe Lines, 637*, 665*

— Covers for Hatchways, 85*, 111*

— Diffusion of Gases through, Experiments, 186

— Poles, Ground-Line Preservation of, 29

— Preservation by Creosote, 389

Woodall-Duckham Vertical Retort and Oven Construction Co. (1920), Ltd., Gas and Coke Plant at Weston-super-Mare, 623*, 659

Woodward, C. H., on Photometry in Public Lighting, 605

Woodworking Machinery. See Machine Tools "Wool, Artificial, Manufacture in Italy, 673*

Working Class Flats, Building of, Report, 529

Workmen. See Labour
Works :
All-Welded Factory, Waltham Cross, Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., 712* Artificial-Wool Factory, Milan, 673* De Havilland’s Aero-Engine Factory, Electric-Discharge Lighting at, 109*

Electrical Research Laboratories, Heaton, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 722*

Government Aircraft and Aero-Engine Factories, 511*

Heat-Treatment Department, Darlington Forge, Ltd., 451*

Hebburn-on-Tyne Factory, Pyrotenax, ' Ltd., 454

Ipswich Works, E. R. and F. Turner, Ltd., 52*

Iron and Steel Works, Coke-Oven Plants at, 629

Works, Ebbw Vale, Electric Control Gear, 482*

Rectifier Factory, Witton. General Electric Co., Ltd., 603*

Shipbuilding Works, Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Widening of Shipbuilding Berth at, 415*

Southall Service Depot, Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., 68*

Spring Making Shops, Sheffield, S. Fox and Co., Ltd., 148*

Steel-Melting Shops, Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., Middlesbrough, 351, 359*, 413*, 443*

Wembley Research Laboratories, General Electric Co., Ltd., 523* Works, Abandoned, and Adjusted Payments, 34

— H.M. Office of, Water-Sterilising Punt, 314*

— Management, Budgeting and Control,

Flexible (Review), 737 Modern (Review), 394 Modern Foremanship (Review), 221 Workshops and Factories, Report of Home-

Office Inspector, 101

— Training, See Education

— See also Works ; Machine Tools

World Congress on Universal Documentation, Paris, 441

— Iron and Steel Production, 1936, 741

— Power Conference, Future Arrangements

for, 77 ; Vienna Meeting, Programme, 575 Wormwell, Dr. F., on Corrosion of Water Mains, 671

Worthington-Simpson, Ltd., Pumping Plant, Hammersmith Pumping Station. 710; Centrifugal Pumps, Brockwell Park Swimming Bath, 742*

Wrecks. See Accidents Wyatt, S., on Fatigue and Boredom in Repetitive Work, 108
X-RAYS. See R^ntgen Rags

Xenon and Krypton, Industrial Manufacture of, 464*
Y-ALLOY', National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 156

Yachts, “Ranger” and “Endeavour 11,” Design of, 183

Yarn, Lanital, Production from Casein, 673*

Yarrow and Co., Ltd., Boiler Plant, Dalmarnock Power Stations, 398*

Year Books. Sec LITERATURE INDEX Young’s Modulus. See Elastic Modulus

Yucatan Cut-off, River Mississippi, 273*
ZEISS, G., Vertical Comparator, 163* ; Opti- meter, 165*

Zeolite Water-Softening Plant, Automatic, Mouldsworth, 525*

Zinc Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy

— Coatings, inectrodeposited, Tliickness and Measurement of, 53*

Galvanised, Tests of Thickness, 268 Testing of, 321

— Prices. See Metal'Price Diagrams

“ Zulu,” H.M. Destroyer Launch of, 411
See Also
Loading...
Sources of Information

Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Engineering 1937 Jul-Dec: Index: General

See Also

Sources of Information