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GENERAL INDEX

A.T. Burner for Gas, Method of Use, 569
Abbey Mills Chemical Works, West Ham, Contact Sulphuric-Acid Plant, 518*
Aberdeen Broadcasting Station, 332
Ablett, F. B., on the Fairfield Yard, 598 — l^ize, Iron and Steel Institute, 255, 539

Accidents :

Collapse of All-Welded Bridge, Hasselt Belgium, 137. Se? LETTERS, 187, 360
Colliery Accidents, Safety in Mines Research Board’s Investigation, 719
Electrical Accidents and their Causes, Report on, 708
Explosions, Boiler. See Boiler Explosions and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Eye Injuries, Prevention of, Royal Eye Hospital Exhibition, 20
Fire at Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 739
Flames, Combustion, and Explosion of Gases (Review), 455
Industrial Accidents, Annual Report on, 193, 195
Mining Accidents, Annual Report, 620 from Electrical Plant, 367, 730
Railway Accidents, British, 1937, Report, 159
Castlecary, Report, 16 Charing Cross Underground, Report, 396 X
Oakley Junction, Report, 214 Rutherglen, Report, 256 Waterloo Tube, Report, 71 Road Accidents, 1926-1937, 435*
Wreck Returns, Lloyd’s Statistics, 132, 774
Accum, F. C., Centenary of, 96 Accumulators, Electric. See Electric Acetylene Welding. See Welding
Acoustics, Combination Tones in Sound and Light, 593
— Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 666
— Methods of Testing Materials, 652 Activated Sludge. See Sewage
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address Admiralty. See Warships
Aeration Test Burner for Gas, 569
Aerial Navigation. See Telegraphy, Wireless
— Propellers. See Propellers under Aeranaxdics
— Transport. See Aeronautics
Aerodynamics. See Aeronautics
Aeronautical Society, Royal, Use of Ijight Alloys in Aircraft Construction, by R. Le Coeuvre, 538 ; American Methods of Aircraft Production, by T. P. Wright, 689

Aeronautics :

Aerodynamics Department. National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 440*, 526*, 550*
Aerofoils in Cascade, Deflection of Air Currents by, 552*
— Model, National Physical Laboratory i
Investigations on, 442*, 526* /
Aeronautics, Handbook of (Review), 285/ Aeroplane, “Battle” Bombing (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 139* /
— Bombing, ‘ ‘ Hampden ” (Handley Page, Ltd.), 7*
— Design and Efficiency, Progress in, 472
— Passenger, Curtiss-Wright “20 ” (Curtiss-Wright Corporation), 748
Junkers ” Ju 90,” 487*. See 315*, 720*. See LETTER, 472
— Stability of. National Physical Laboratory Investigations, 527
— Vickers-Wellesley, Record Long-Distance Flight by, 77, 565
— See also Seaplane (below)
Air Ministry, Callender-Hamilton Unit- Construction Aeroplane Shed, 727*
— Raid Precaution Appliances at Public Works Exhibition, 581*
Precaution Decontamination Equipment (Transport Engineering). Lta., 643*
Precautions, Report of Institution of Structural Engineers, 669
Precautions and Sewage Undertakings, 750
Precautions and Water Supply, 625. See Erratu/in>i 656
-r- — Protection, Englneering Aspects, 594
Air Raid Protection Exhibits at Building Trades Exhibition, 529
Protection institute, Formation of, 82 ; Inaugural Meeting, 572 ; Planning of Shelters and Buildings for Air Raid Proteotion, by G. R. F. Nuttall, 572
Shelter Construction, Models of, 335,
420 Shelters, Problem of. 692 Warning Devices, Investigations on. 667
— Transport,* International, 109 Aircraft Cabins, Wind-Tunnel Tests of, 307 — Construction Metals, Corrosion-Fatigue Tests of, 63*
Use of Light Alloys in, 538 — Controls/National Physical Laboratory Experiments on, 528
— Design und Efficiency, Progress in, 472 — Effect of Wind Gusts on, 552
— Parts, Sheet-Metal, Drop-Stamping Plant* for, 52*
— Production, American Methods of, 689 — Vibration in. Investigation of, 256*, 283j285*
Airship Graf Zeppelin,” Description of, 751/
Autogiro, National Physical Laboratory InTestigations on, 552 Balloons, Kite. Stability of, 528 — Meteorological, Short - Wave Radio Tjansmitter for, 727
Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, United ^tes, 350
— Anation. See also Airships (above) Drarf Investigations at National Physical laboratory, 442*, 526*
Enfflne, Aeroplane, Bristol Perseus XIIc, Endurance Test of, 763
Gipsy Twelve (De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 48*
— 800-1,200 h.p., Junkers Jumo 211, 487*
— Oil, Junkers, Operating Experiences with, 315*. See LETTER, 472
— Power, Weight and Efficiency of, 80 — Progress in Design and Efficiency, 472
— 600-h.p. Six-Cylinder Jumo 205 C Type, 720*
— Vibration from, 256*, 285*
— Airship, 800-1,150 h.p. Twelve-Cylinder Daimler-Benz for “Graf Zeppelin,’ ’ 753*
Flutter in Aeroplanes, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 552 Flying Boat “ Cams-Potez 161,” Flying Model of, 103
Dornier, with Junkers Engine, 317*. See LETTER, 472
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Aeronautics, Syllabus, 374
Kite Balloons, Investigation of Stability of, 528
Mayo Composite Aircraft, Atlantic Flight by Seaplane “Mercury,” 137
Model Experiments on Aeroplanes and Seaplanes, 252
See also IFind Tunnel (below) Navigation, Aerial. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Noise from Aeroplanes, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 667 Propeller, Aerial, Induction Torsionmeter for Testing of, 71*
National Physical Laboratory, vestigations on, 552 Vibration of, 256*, 285* Royal Air Force, Expansion Scheme, 132 ; Development Flight, 77. 565 ; Defence Exercises, 194 ;
lian Wireless Reserve, 309 ; Record Long-Distance Flight, 565. See 77 — Aircraft Establishment, Vibrograph for
Aircraft, 285* ; Torsiograph for Aircraft, 286* ; Wind-Tunnel Tests on Design of Cabins, 307
School for Aircraft Apprentices, Cosford, 139
Seaplane, Long-Distance ‘ * Hamburg HA 139,” 720*
— “Mercury,” Mayo Composite Aircraft, Atlantic Flight by, 137 Ocean-Going, “ HA 139 ” with Junkers Engine, 3X7*, See LETTER, 472
Shed, Aeroplane, Transportable, Callender- Hamilton Unit-Construction, 727*
Society of British Aircraft Constructors' Scholarships, 42
Stability, Aeroplane. See Aeroplane (above) Surveying, Aerial, Stereo-Comparator for (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 320 Wind-Tunnel Experiments, Application of Dynamic Similarity to, 252
High-Speed, National Physical Laboratory, 196*
Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 440*
New, at National Physical Laboratory, 440
Tests of Aircraft Cabins, 307
Wings, Aeroplane, Design of, 472
— Surfaces, Metal, Effect of Rivets and Joints on Drag of, 526*
Wireless Apparatus for Aircraft. See Tele- graphy, Wireless
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Aeroplanes. See Aeronaidics Afforestation, Rainfall and Soil Erosion, 579, 638
African Cedars for Pencils, Report, 292 Age-Hardening, Aluminium Alloys, Investigations on, 236
Effect of High-Purity Aluminium, 568 Agricultural Development, Electricity in (Review), 640
— Engineers, British, Institution of, Inaugural
Meeting, 620
— Hall. See Exhibition
— Machinerv Exhibition, Paris, 26* at Smithfield Club Show, 681, 732*
— Motors. See Engines ; Motors ; Tractors
— Society, Royal, Cardiff Show, 29*, 65*, 93*
— Tractors. See Tractors
Agriculture, British, Electricity Supply for, 498, 607
• Use of Petroleum Fuels in, 608
— Egyptian, Power Supply for, 453
— Electricity Supply for, 499, 608
— French, Power Supply for, 499, 607
— See also Irrigation PARAGRAPH INDEX Ahmed, Dr. A. A., on Hydro-Electric Power
Developments on River Nile, 453
Air, Compressed. See Compressed Air ; Pneumatic
— Compressing Plant in Motor Lorry (Guy Motors, Ltd.), 583*
— Compressor Set, Automatic, Motor-Driven (Lacy-Hulbert and Co., Ltd.), 529*
with Integral Diesel-Engine Drive (Ingersoll-Rand Co., Ltd.), 732*
Single-Stage Twin-Crank (G. and J. Weir, Ltd.), 154*
Tests, 1,000-b.h.p. Vee-Belt Drive for (J. B. Lindley (1931), Ltd.), 140*. See Addendum, 191
Two-Stage, with Automatic Control (J. B. Lindley (1931), Ltd.), 760*
— Conditioned Rooms for Tropics, 132
— Conditioning, Heating and Ventilation, Fundamentals (Review), 167
in Summer and Winter (Review), 610
— Currents, Deflection by Cascade of Aerofoils, 552*
— Ducts, Pressure Losses In, Investigation of, 302
— Flow Meter, Velometer, (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 625
through Nests of Tubes, Experiments on, 605*, 665*, 723*
— Force, Royal, See Aeronautics
— Heater, Gas-Fired Mobile (Serck Radiators,
Ltdl). 513*
Gas-Fired (Perfecta Gas Thermostats, Ltd.), 513*
S.S. “Mauretania,” 122 Air Liquide, Soci 6t6,Reconditioning Worn Meta 1 Surfaces by Oxy-Acetylene Welding, 490
— Metering Nozzle, National Physical Labo
ratory Investigations on, 196
— Ministry. See Aeronautics
— Pollution. See Atmospheric Pollution;
Smoke Abatement
— Pump. See Air Co.mpressor
— Raid Precautions. See Aeronautics
— Refractive Index of, National Physical
Laboratory Investigations on, 267
— and Saturated Steam, Mixed, Temperature
and Pressure of, 674*
— Screws. See Propellers under Aeronautics
— Supply to Ship’s Boiler Room, Model Tests
on, 314*
Radial Drill with Pre-Selective Gear, 375*. See AddendAinii
Alexander, Dr. W. 0., on Copper-Rich Nickel- Alumiuium-Copper Alloys, 567
Alexandra Palace, London, Television Station, 565
— Pier Reconstruction, Montreal, 69*
Algae as Indicators of Water Conditions, 691 Alkali, &c., Works, Annual Report, 138
— Action on Refractories, 658
Allen, F. W., on Air-Raid Precautions and Sewage Undertakings, 750
Allen, R. W., on Use of Scale Models in Engineering, 243*, 313*. See 252. See LVrcriww, 284
Allen Road Machinery Corporation, Road- Maintenance Machine, 118*
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbines, 59*, 179*, 239*. 549*, 608*, 669*, 693* ; 16-b.h.p. Petrol-Driven Agricultural Tractor, 96; |-cub. yd. Hydraulic Loading Shovel, 403*
Allison, H., on Relief of Internal Stress in Castings, 230*
Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauges Gauging
Alloys. See Metallurgy ; Microphotographs ; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Alluvial Rivers, Control Problems of, 579, 638, 681*, 740, 754
Alternating Current. See under Electric
— Stress. See Tests {Materials}
Alternators. See Generators, Electric ; Turbo- Generators
Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— in Cast Iron, Effect of, 746
— Foil for Insulating Purposes, Investigations on, 596
— High-Purity, Effect on Age-Hardening, 568
— Industry, Market Control in (Review), 182
— Latent Heat of Fusion of, 594
— National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 236
— See also Metallurgy; Metal-Price Diagrams American Bridge Co., Thousand Islands Bridge
System and Blue Water International Bridge, 377*
— Methods of Aircraft Production, 689
— Navy. See United States under Warships American Rolling Mill Co., Ltd., Continuous
Strip Mill at, 580
— Society of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
for Testing Materials. See Testing
— Strip Mill, Development of, 520
— See also United States.
Ammonium Sulphate Manufacture, 138 Anchorage for Machines, Plastic Asbestos for (Philplug Products, Ltd.), 348*
Anderson, A., on Bituminous Surfaces of Roads, 664
Anderson, R. L., on Strip Mining of Bituminous Coal, 227*
Anglo-French Ultra-Short Wave Radio-Telephone Link, 761
Annealing. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Annual Publications. See LITERATURE INDEX
— and Reference Books, 69, 141.170, 187, 341, 686, 706, 762. See LITERATURE INDEX
Anthracite as Motor Fuel, 299
Anti-Friction Metals. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Antimony Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Mining in Yugoslavia, 685
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Apparatus, Scientific, Exhibition, Royal
Society Conversazione, 17
Appleby Frodingham Steel Co., Ltd., Hoesch Piling for Cofferdam, Waterloo Bridge, 588* Appointments. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Apprenticeship. See Education
Approach Spans, Balanced-Cantilever Bridge over Connecticut River, 553*, 676
Apsley Station, London Midland and Scottish &ilway, 402*
Aqueducts, Roman, Description of, 542
Arbitration in Labour Disputes. See Labour Notes; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Arc. Furnace; Welding
Arch Bridge, Ferro-Concrete, over River Thames, Waterloo, London, 587*
Settlement, Analysis of, 403*
— Span, Steel, Thousand Islands Bridge over St, Lawrence, 377*
Archimedes, Career and Work of, 541 Architects, Naval. See
Argentine Destroyer Bntre Rios, 392, 455
— Railways, 900-h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotives, 48 , ., -
— State Railways, Articulated Railcars for, 702* 756*
Armament Programme and Export Trade, 708,
— See also Warships
Armoured Ships. See Warships
Army, Science in, Exhibition, Science Museum, 621
— Vocational Training Centre, Aidershot,
Souvenir, 686 _
Arrol Sir W., and Co., Ltd., Gas Profiling Machine, 327* ; Electric-Welded Hydraulic Riveting Machine, 327
Arterial Roads. See Roads
Artus Milling -Cutter Spacers, 517
Asbestos, Plastic, for Machine Anchorage (Philplug Products, Ltd.), 348*
“ Ascaro,” Italian Destroyer, Launch of, 478
Asea Electric, Ltd., Sohwal Power Station, India, 768*
Ash Disposal at Power Stations, o90
Ashbridge, Sir N., on Development of Television, 565 , ,
Associated Equipment Co. Ltd., 90-h.p. Direct- Injection Oil Engine, 147* ; Refuse Collector and Decontaminator, 642* ; 78-bJi.p. Oil-Engined Shunting Locomotive, 772*
— Offices, Technical Committee, Schedule of
Examinations and Tests of W elded Drums, 256
Association, British. See British Associatwn
— Engineering. See Institutions
Aswan Dam, Egypt, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 453
Atco Motor Mowers, 643*
Atkinson, A., on Submerged Outlet Valves at Burrator Reservoir, 114
Atlantic Liner, Standard, 163
See also Steamers
— Oranje Line Service across, 539
Atlas Scraper and Engineering Co., Four-Wheeled Scraper Wagon, 629*
Atmospheric Pollution, Failure of Transformer owing to, 597 _
Ministry of Health Report, *-22
Report on Alkali Works, &c., 138
and Smoke Abatement, 280
by Sulphur, Prevention of, 499
—. — yee also Smoke Abatement
August’s Limited, Cement-Sand Preparation Plant, 430* ,
Austin Motor Co., Ltd., Longbridge Works, 48, 78
Australia, Direct Road Construction by Heat Treatment of Soil (Irvine Process), 39*
— Electricity Supply in Sydney, 133
— Queensland Department of Mines, Annual Report, 768
—. — Government Railways Annual Report, 4/
— South, Railways, Annual Report, 282 Auto-Arborex Spraying Outfit, 682
Automatic Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Stokers. See Stokers
Automobile Engineers, Institution of, Work of Research laboratories, 107 ; Annual Report of Research Committee, 397 ; Presidential Address, by P. C. Kidner, on Motor-Car Development, 481; Annual Dinner, 482
— See Motor Cars
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine. See Marine
Aveling-Barford, Ltd., Decontamination Plant, 582*
Avery, W. and T., Ltd., Industrial Visible Weigher and Totaliser, 327*
Aviation. See Aeronautics
Axles, Railwav, Failure of, 256
Motor-Carrying, for "Simplex” Bogie, 189*
— and Spring Assembly for 78-b.h.p. Oil-
Engined Shunting Locomotive, 772*.

B.S.A. TOOLS, LTD., Thread-Cutting Attachment for Automatic Screw Machines, 774*
Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., Explosion of Boiler Tube, 321; Boilers, Drag-Suction Dredger "Fu-Shing,” 496*, 579*, 639*; Boiler, Sohwal Power Station, India, 768
Backing Metal for Bearings, Investigations on, 235*, 295*. See LETTER, 299* See 611*.
Bacteriological and Chemical Control of Public Water Supply, 54
Bakelite, Ltd., Reinforcement of Wood with Synthetic Resin, 655
Ball Hardness Tests. See Hardness under Tests {Materials)
Ballantyne, W. H., on the International Conventions Relating to Industrial Property, 715
Ballistic Measurements in Incremental Magnetism, 326, 406*
of Rifles, 45
Balloons. See Aeronautics
Bamfords, Ltd., Grassland Harrow, 93* ; Per- tiliser Distributor, 93*
J^amlett, A. C., Ltd., Petrol-Driven Mowing Machine, 32*
Band Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Saws. See Saws under Machine Tools Bank Convergence In Tidal Estuaries, 61 Bars, Tidal and River Flow Problems, 165
— and Wire, Steel, for Concrete Reinforcement, Specification, 72
** Barbarigo,” Italian Submarine, I.aunch of, 199
Barber-Greene Co., Spiral-Feed Snow Loader, 200*
Barclay, W. R., the Late, 401
Barford, V. G., the Late, 426
“ Barlow,” H.M. Boom-Defence Vessel, Launch of, 277
“Barmouth,” H.M. Boom-Defence Vessel, Launch of, 475
Barometers, National Physical Laboratory, Investigations on, 298
Barron, J. R., on Air-Kaid Shelters, 692
Barrow Haematite Steel Co., Ltd., Cold-Metal Practice in Fixed Basic Furnaces, 119 Bary, C., on Electricity Supply in Small Commercial Market, 653
Bateson, R. G., on Nomogram Method of
Humidity Control, 57* Batteries. See Electric Battersea Power Station, Flue-Gas Washing at,
499
” Battle ’ ’ Bombing Aeroplane (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 139*
Battleships. See 'Warships Bauxite Mining in Yugoslavia, 685
Beard, J. R., on Design of Coal-Fired Power Stations, 690
Bearings, Ball and Roller, Applications of (Review), 611
— Diesel Engine Crankshaft, Effect of Whirl
in, 6, 21*
— for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, Boulder
Dam Power House, 550*
— Journal, National Physical Laboratory
Investigations on, 64*
— Metals. See Alloys under MetaU.urgy
— Motor-Car Engine, Investigation on Temperature, 107, 397
— Needle (Torrington Co.), 132
— Oscillating, Friction of, Report, 170
— Rubber, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 107
— Surfaces, Graphoid Layer on, 91*
— White-Metal, Investigation of Stresses in,
235*, 295*. See 611*. See LETTER, 299* Beaulieu Tide Mill, 446*
Beaver, H., on Industrial Planning, 566 Beckett, J. L., on Garages for Cleansing and
Transport Undertakings, 750
Bed Traction and Depths of Streams, 166 Beeny, H. H., on Cutting Fluids and Machine
Tools, 546. See Erratum^ 580
Belgium, Hasselt, Collapse of All-Welded
Bridge, 137. See LETTERS, 187,360 Bell, J. R., Method of River Training, 649 Beiliss, J,, the Late, 613
Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd., Turbo-Generators at Cathcart Works, Glasgow, 504*
Belt Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Drive, i,000-b.h.p., for Air Compressor
Tests (J. B. Lindley (1931), Ltd.), 140*. See J ddeiidumi 191
— Driving, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 108*
Bending Machine. See Machine loots
— Moments in Steam Turbine Rotors, 181*
— Vibration of Diesel-Engine Crankshaft, 6,21* Benford, Ltd., 10-cub. yd. per Hour Continuous Concrete Mixer, 313*
Bennett, Capt. J. G., on Co-operation in Coal Utilisation Research, 628; on Research and Small Consumers of Coal, 654 ; on Gas-Temperature Measurement, 683.
Bemson, L. E., On Relief of Internal Stress in Castings, 230*
Bent, Q., on Modern Rolling-Mill Practice in America, 580
Bentall, E. H., and Co., Ltd., Root-Crop Gapper. 31*
Beresford, J., and Son, Ltd., Trailer Petrol- Driven Fire-Fighting Pump, 528
Berk, F. W., and Co., Ltd., Contact Sulphuric- Acid Plant, 518*
Berry, H., Co., Ltd., Hvdraulic Draw-Bench, 713
Berthiez, C., the Late, 427
Berthold, Dr. R., on Magnetic and Electric Methods of Testing Materials, 652
Bethlehem Steel Co., Balanced-Cantilever
Bridge over Connecticut River, 553*, 676 Bicycles. See Cycles and Motor Cycles Biel-Meinisberg Railway, Switzerland, Electric
Railcar with “ Simplex” Bogie, 188* Binary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Binder, Tractor (Lanz Tractor Co., Ltd.), 96 Binnie, W. J. E., on Science and Engineering in Ancient Times, 541*
Biological Examination of Large Bodies of Water, 791
Biplanes. See Aeronautics Bird, A. J. G., on Air-Raid Precautions and
Water Supply, 625. See Erratum, 656 Bird, G., on Automatic Traffic Counter, 613* Birmingham, British Foundry School, Courses at, 255
— Corporation Electricity Supply, 48, 77 ;
Report on Failure of Electricity Supply, 697
— Gas Works, Hot-Patching of Retorts, 658 Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co.,
Ltd., Railway Carriages for London Underground Railways, 51*
— University, Investigations on Incremental
Magnetic Measurements, 406*
Bituminous Materials, Road Construction. See Roads and Tar
Black and Decker, Ltd., j-in. Portable Electric Drill, 748*
Blackwall Tunnel under River Thames, Duplication of, 680
Blaisse, B., on Measurement of Temperature in High-Pressure Containers, 683
Blake, E. H., the Late, 132 Blakeborough, J., and Sons, Ltd., Outlet Valves at Burra tor Reservoir, 114
Blast Furnaces. See Eurnaces
Blow-Pipe, Oxy-Coal Gas, Cement-Powder Spray Repairs of Gas Retorts, 658
Blower, Rotary, Zoller Type, for Two-Stroke Diesel Engine (Petters. Ltd.), 11*
Blue Water International Bridge over St. Clair River, 377*
Board of Education Summer School for Engineering Teachers, 107
— of Trade, Examinations for Engineers in Mercantile Marine, 42; Reports, Boiler
Explosion Inquiries, 147,321,450 ; Survey of Industrial Development, 164 ; Regulations for Examinations of Mercantile- irine Engineers, 309; Board of Trade and rine Engineers, 425 ; Report on Over- ts Trade of United Kingdom, Nationality ‘-'arrying Vessels, 679
Boarcof Trade. See also Overseas Trade ^irtment
Boat, /ing, gee Aeronautics
— Hig;peed, Model Experiments at National
I^^ical laboratory, 339
— Mote See Motor Boat
— Subnine. See Warships
Bober ^er, Germany, Deichow Hydro- Elec^ Plant, 36*
Boby, R.,td., Two-High Malt Mill, 330* Bogies foKrticulated Railcars for Argentine State tihvays, 703*, 756*
— for 4,4(h.h.n. Diesel-Electric Locomotive,
100*
— “Simple* for Electnc Traction (Brown,
Boveri Co.), 188*
— Welded, London Underground Railway Carriage 51
— See also n^lcs
Boiler, Babtk and Wilcox, Drag-Suction Dredger ‘^u-Shing,” 496», 579*, 639 & Wilco Explosion from, 321 <fe WilcoLgohwal Power Station, India, 768
— Blast-Eurnat Gas-Fired, Delray Power
Station, 20
— Clarence Docbower Station, Liverpool, 483
— Coverings. S Heat Insulation
— Explosion Incries, Board of Trade Re
ports, 147, 3i 450
— Feed Pump, e Pump
W^ater. See’gec? and Water
— Furnaces. See
— Gas-Temperature Measurement in, 684
— High-Pressure ai Temperature, 174, 451,
452. See LETIL, 505
— Locomotive, Amiean, Front-End Design
in, 136
Con-osion in, 3,
— Marine, Auxiliary,'.xplosion of, 321
— Plant for Power St^ons, 690
— Plate, Intercrystalli) Cracking of. Investigations on, 237
— for Power Stations, Ivelopment of, 173, 452
— 1,000-lb. pressure Lamont, Cathcart Works, G. and J. Weir, Ltd., 4*, 504* : Tests, 654 Room, Ship’s, Model '.sts on Air Supply to, 314*
— Steam (Review), 697
— Uptake, Model Tests i 314*
— Water-Tube, in United states Navy, 738
Welded, British Corpation Register of Shipping Rules for, li
— Yarrow, S.S. “Canton,’458 r- S.S. “ Mauretania,” 11 — S.S. “ Queen Elizabet” 383
— See also Engines and Boirs in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Bolts, Design of, 144*
Bombs, Damage Possible by, 94
Bombay, Baroda and Central I Ha Railway, Air
Compressor with Automat^Control, 760* Bombing Aeroplane. See ^roplane under Aeronautics
Bondy, O., on Collapse of All-'elded Bridge, Hasselt, Belgium, 187. Seer^ETTERS, 137, 360
Bonharn-Carter, Air Commodore', M., on Air- Raid Precautions and Wateisunply, 625. See Erratwm, 656
Books, New, Notes on, 57, 88, I5 175 205 226, 311, 342, 429, 484, 66. 776. See LITERATURE INDEX
~ Received, 12, 42, 72, 102, 132, 10, 190, 218, 246, 276, 304, 334, 364, 392, 42. 448, 476, 506, 534, 560, 588, 616, 646, 671 704, 734 762
Booster, Blast-Furnace Gas, Delry Power Station, 207*
Booth, H., the Late, 187 Boreholes. See Wells Boring Machine. See Machine Tools Borough Polytechnic, London, Work c, 734 Borries, Dr. B. von. Electron Microscop 474* Bosanquet, C. H., on Wall Effect i’ Gas-
Temperature Measurement, 683 Bottle Washing, Detergents for, 721 Boulder Dam, Model Experiments on SpiJvavs
Penstocks and Outlet Works, 15 ; ower House, 59*, 179*, 239*, 549*, 608*,‘,69* 693* ’
Bournemouth-London Railway Service, few Rolling Stock for, 177*
Bowen, W., on Temperature-Measuring Insru- ments, 684
Bowles, G., on Use of Coal at Sea, 214. See R5 Bown, C. H.,the Late, 219 Bracken Breaker, Double-Bar (Harrisci
McGregor and Co., Ltd.), 30* '
— Eradicator (W. Aitkenhead), 94*
Brackenbury, H. I., the Late, 427 Brackets, Propeller-Shaft, Strength of, 695* Bradford, Dr. S. C., on Mobilisation of Knowledge, 9. See LETTERS, 169, 342; on Documentation Congress at Oxford, 458 , See 389 ?\
— Techidcal College, Prospectus, 71 \
Bragg, Sir W., on Combination Tones in Sound
and Light, 593 ; on Molecular Basis of ' Strength of Materials, 593
Brake Blocks, Railway, Experiments on Friction of, 719
Tests of Coefficient of Friction of, Braking on American Freight Trains, 136 “ Regenerative, Japanese Electric Railwaj^s,
System, 4,400-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 100*
for London Underground Railway Carriages. 52
Brass Foundry. See Foundry Breakdowns. See Accidents Bressey, Sir C., on Roads and Traffic, 710 Brett’s Patent Lifter Co., Ltd., Drop Hammer for Sheet-Metal Aircraft Parts, 52*
Brewers’, Maltsters’, Distillers’ and Allied Traders’ Exhibition, Engineering Exhibits, 57 o I
^'i'Vebriclcs ; Refractory Mate-
Bricks, Pavements in United States, Developments in, 233
Bridge, All-Welded, Hasselt, Belgium, Collapse of, 137. See LETTERS, 187, 360
— Arch, Settlement Analysis of, 403*
— Balanced-Cantilever, over ConnecticutRivcr,
Erection of, 553*, 676
— Cantilever Span, Blue Water International
Bridge over St. Clair River, 377*
— Design, Reinforced Concrete (Review), 697
— Hardinge, over River Ganges, River Train
ing at, 650
— Lattice-Steel, for Blast-Furnace Pipe Line,
Delray Power Station, 207*
— for Pedestrians, Callender-Hamilton Unit-
Construction, Greenford, 342*
River Training in Connection with, 649
— San Francisco-Oakland Bay, Tests of
Riveted Joints, 773
— Sharpness, over River Severn, Wind-Pres
sure Observations on, 197
— Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River, 377*
— Waterloo, London, Reconstruction of, 687*
— Wind Pressure on, National Physical Laboratory Investigations, 552
— See also Aqueduct and PARAGRAPH INPEX Briggs, S., and Co., Ltd., Screw Filter Press, 687* Brighton Technical College, Calendar, 312 Brightside Foundry and Engineering Co., Ltd.,
8-in. Double Two-High Hot-Rolling Mill, 19*
Brinell Tests. See Hardnew under TesZs (MaZe- ziaZs)
Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., Endurance 'Test of Bristol Perseus XHc Aero Engine, 763
— Steam-Ship Owners’ Association, Annual Dinner, 679
Britain. See Great Britain
British Agriculture, Electricity Supply for, 498, 607
Use of Petroleum Fuels in, 608
— Aircraft Constructors, Society of. Scholar
ships, 42
British Association (Cambridge Meeting)
Double-Face Continuous nolucx, •
British and Irish Steam Packet Co., Experiments on Noise Eduction in Ships of, 766 — Iron and Steel Federation, Statistics of Iron and Steel Industries, 618
— Navy. See H.M. under Warships
— Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, Annual Report and Lunch, 28 ; Report on Nickel-Silver, Survey of Published Information, 259
— Railways. See Railways
— Sliipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Shipping. See Shipping
— Standards Institution. See Standards
— Steelwork Association, Air-Raid Shelter Construction, Models, 335, 420 ; Pamphlets on Steel for A.R.P. and Everyman Trench Shelters, 420
British Thermostat Co., Ltd., Automatic Expansion Valve for Refrigeration Plant, 311 *
British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Electro- Hydraulic Thrustor for Conveyor Installation, 25* ; Rugby Works, 48, 78; Exhibits at Glasgow Exhibition, 210* ; Mercury-Arc Rectifier Panels, 210* ; Vertical Plugging Ring-Main Equipment, 210*; Ignitron Loading Equipment for Traction Substations, 428*; Investigations on Noise from Transformers, 521* ; Capacitor Pilot-Motor, Single-Phase Three-Phase Conversion System, 531
— Trade. See Trade
— Waterworks Association, Plymouth Meeting, Presidential Address, by H. M. Medland, on Public Water Supply Problems,
113 ; Water Wastage, Causes, Detection and Prevention, by J. A. Rodwell, 114 ; The Dartmoor Catchments, by H. Worth,
114 ; Submerged Outlet Valves at Bur- rator Reservoir, by A. Atkinson, 114
— and World Shipping, Statistics of, 679 Broadley, J. B., Ltd., Explosion from Steam- Heated Spreading Machine, 450
Bromley-by-Bow, Tide Mills at Three Mills Distillery, 445*
Bronze Castings, Relief of Internal Stress in, 230*
Brookhirst Switchgear, Ltd., “Isofuse” Switch, 662* ; Cam-Operated Switch for Machine Tools, 749*
Brookrnan, R. S., Ltd., “ Hydraulectric ” Mortising Machine, 397* ; Automatic MultiSpindle Dovetailing Machine, 398*
Broom and Wade, Ltd., Pneumatic Chipping Hammer, 626
I Broughton Ferry and District Steam Laundry, Ltd., Everdur-Alloy Hot-Water Storage Tank, 160
Brown, Boveri and Co., Ltd., 300-kW. Generator for Diesel-Electric Locomotives, 48; Electrical Equipment, 4,400-b.h.p. Diesel- Electric Locomotive, 100*; “Simplex” Bogie for Electric Traction, 188* ; Control Gear for Diesel Railcar, 622, 630*
Brown, C. A. C., on Supply of Electricity for Agriculture, 607
Brown, D., and Sons (Hudd), Ltd., lOO-h.p. Radicon Worm-Reducing Gear, 655*
Brown, Prof. E. W., the Late, 160
Brown, J., and Co., Ltd., Launch of S.S. “Queen Elizabeth,” 381*, 425*, 646
Brown, R. D., on Engineers and the Body Politic, 452
Brown and Ward, Ltd., |-in. Four-Operation High-Speed Automatic Lathe, 714*
Bruce, Peebles and Co., Ltd., 130-h.p. Slip-Ring fnduption Motor. 625
Brushes, Carbon, for Electrical Machines, Specification, 436
Buchan, Dr. S., on Underground Water Supplies for County of London, 713
Buchi Syndicate, Superchargers for Marine Diesel Engines, 247
Buckton Vale Works, Stalybridge, Explosion of Cast-Iron Economiser, 147
imenos Aires, Ferrocarril Provincial, Service Results with 270-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric Railcars, 461
— Ayres Great Southern Railway, 900-h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotives, 48
Buffalo-Springfield Roller Co., Three-Axle Tandem Motor Road Roller, 56*
Buildings, Air-Raid Protection for, 569, 572, 594
— Club, International, London, 219
— Code, Uniform, for United States and
Canada, 385. See Addendum, 503
— Construction. See also Ferro-Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Hot-Air Heating of, 682
— Materials, Experiments on Freezing of. Report, 291
Thermal Conductivity of, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 595*
— Noise Abatement in. Investigations on, 667
— Research Board, Annual Report, 105
Station, Garston, Report on Stresses in
Reinforced-Concrete Piles, during Driving, 87 ; Investigations at, 105 ; Experiments on Freezing of Building Materials, 291; Investigations on Settlement Analysis of Engineering Structures, 310, 403*
— Steel-Frame, Settlement Analysis of, 403*
— Trades Exhibition, Olympia, 371*. 397*, 442*, 528*
Vibrations of, Records by Moving-Coil Vibrometer, 253, 263*
^Wind Pressure on, Investigations on, 197 IMkheads. See Water-Tight Subdivisum BuJlgrader with Adjustable Blade (Ruston- Bucyrus, Ltd.), 371*
jBureau of Mines. See United States
Bureau of Standards. See United States
Burma and India, Law Relating to Electrical Energy in (Review), 167
Burner, Blast-Furnace Gas, Delray Power. Station, 207*
— for Gas, Aeration Test, 569
Thermostatically-Controlled, Selas Type (T. Thorp and Co., Ltd.), 613*
— Oil Fuel. See Oil l^'uel
Burrator Reservoir, Submerged Outlet Valves at, 114
Burstall, Prof. A., on Mobilisation of Knowledge, 169. See LETTERS, 9, 842; on Engineering Curriculum, 530. See 249, 251, 260. See LETTER, 299
*Bus-Bar-Zone Protective System, Dualock, 329*
Business Administration for Engineers (Review), 167
— and Engineering, English in (Review), 640
— Management, Training for. Report, 189
— Problems, Some Modern (Review), 209 Buska, Dr. E., Electron Microscope, 474* Butadiene, Production of Synthetic Rubber
from, 564
Butane Tanks, Steel, Protection by Sprayed- Zinc Coating, 657*

CABLES. See Wire Ropes and Electric Cadoux, Etablissements, Durisol Plywood, 306 Cairns, Major T. Russell, on Shipping and Trade, 511
Calender Bowl, Resilient, Stresses in End Plate, 171*
California University, Investigation on Transportation of Sand in Pipe Lines, 158 “ Calipso,” Italian Torpedo Boat, Launch of, 219
t’alit Insulating Products (United Insulator Co., Ltd.), 598
Callender, Sir T. 0., the Late, 675
Callender’s Cable and Construction Co., Ltd.,.
Unit-Construction Footbridge, Western Avenue, Greenford, 342* ; Unit-Construction Transportable Aeroplane Shed, 727* Calliper Gauge, Continuous, Oemichen Automatic, 115*
Calorimeter, Gas, “ Thermeter ” Recording
(Cutler-Hammer, Inc.), 345*
Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd., Vibrograph for Aircraft, 285* ; Developments in the Design of Instruments by, 310, 317*
— Meeting, British Association. See British
ssociatio^i
Cammell Laird it Co., Ltd., Launch of H.M. Submarine “ Thetis,” 58 ; Launch of S.S. “Mauretania,” 121*, 163, 168* See Addendum, 218 ; I-aunch of II.M. Submarine “Trident,” 705
Campbell, D. F., on Electric Furnaces in European Steelworks, 539
Canada, Gas Industry in, Developments in, 109
— Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, Annual
Report, 164
-- Report, Mineral Wealth of British Columbia, 195
— Uniform Building Code for, 385. See Adde?i-
dum, 503
— and United States, New International
Bridges between, 377*
Canadian Bridge Co., Thousand Islands Bridge System, 377*
— Department of Mines, Report on Limestones
of Ontario, 305
— Engineering Standards Association. See
Standards
— Mineral Industry in 1937, Report, 373 Canal, Grand Union System, and Oranje Line
Transatlantic Service, 539
— Rhine-Main-Danube, 118*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cancelling Machine, Stamp, Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, 523*
Canfield, Dr. R. H., on Non-Destructive Examination of Steel, 141
(!annel Industry, Position of, 106 Canning of Food, Investigations on, 308 Cannon, Cast-Iron, Manufacture of, 632 Cantiere Navale Ansaldo, Banana-Carrying M.S., “Ramb I,” 216*
— Riuniti Dell, Adriatico, Banana-i.'arrjdng
M.S. Rarab IV,” 216* Cantilever Bridge. See Bridge “ Canton,” S.S., 458* Capacity. See Electric Capstan Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tools Carbon, Active, Pi’oduction from Bituminous
Coal, Report, 408
— Monoxide Discharge from Motor Vehicles,
300
— Monoxide and Hydrogen, Methane Synthesis from, 603
Carbonyl Process for Production of Pure Iron, 489
Cardiff, Ely Paper Works, Failure of a Blank Flange, 147
— Engineering Exhibition, 625
— Royal Agricultural Show, 29*, 65*, 93*
— University College, Experiments on Freezing of Building Materials, 291
Cargo Fleet Iron Co., Cold-Metal Practice in Fixed Basic Furnaces, 119
— Steamers. See Steamers
“ Carnarvon Castle,” M.S., Reconditioning, 88* Carpenter, Dr, C. C., the Late, 331
Carriages, Railway, Diesel-Driven, Articulated, for Argentine State Railways, 702*, 756* Diesel-Driven, Controls and Transmission for, 621, 630*
270-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric, Service Results, 461
Electric Railcar with “ Simplex ” Bogie,
(Brown, Boveri and Co.), 188* I
“Flying Scotsman” Trains, London and i
North Eastern Railway, 41*
for London-Harwich Service, 456* London Underground Railways, 51* Southern Railway, Bournemouth-London Service, 177*
Southern Railway, Portsmouth-Horsha Line, 20
Canon Company, History of, 247 ; Worm- Geared Electric Winch, 515*
Cars, Motor. See Motor Cars
— Rail. See Carriages^ Railway
Carter, Major B. C., on Vibration in Aircraft, 256*, 285*. See 283
Cartwright, K. St. G., on Dry Rot, 463 Casing for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, Boulder Dam Power House. 608*
Cass Technical Institute, Courses at, 312
Cassel Salt-Bath, Gas-Eired Furnace (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 152*
Cast Crankshaft, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 63
— Iron Castings, Specification, 13
and Ferodo, Coefficients of Friction, 282 High-Duty, Report on Research on, 742, 745*
“ Loded,” Properties of, 710
Pipes, Specification, 393
Pulley and Leather Belt, Coefficient of Friction, 108*
Relief of Internal Stress in, 230*
Research Association, British, Annual Report, 744 ; Annual Luncheon, 744 Straight Edges, Draft Specification, 114 Castings, Copper-Steel, Investigations on, 548, 581
— Internal Stress in, Relief of, 230*
— for Reduction Gearing, S.S. “ Queen Elizabeth,” 383*
— Steel, Manufacture by Thermoloys Process, 110
Castlecary Railway Accident, Report, 16
Catalogues, 89, 120, 148, 190, 218, 258, 292, 304, 352, 380, 391, 464, 548, 590 {Erratwm), 604, 633, 721,750. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope for Determining Airscrew Vibration, 288*
Oscillographs, Developments in, 318 Cavitation Investigations at National Pliysical Laboratory, 339, 370
Cawnpore, India, Imperial Institute of Sugar Technology, Experiments on Molasses for Road-Making Material, 321
Cedar, African, for Pencils, Report, 292
Ceiling Roses, Two and Three-Terminal, Specification, 647
Cells. See Electric
Cements, Chemistry of, Symposium on, 195
— Kilns, Dust and Gas Emission from, 138
— Sand Preparation Plant for Foundry (August's, Ltd.), 430*
— United States, Specifications for, 360
— See also Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX Centenary of F. C. Accum, 96
— of London and Birmingham Railway, 368, 594
— Dinner, London Midland Scottish Railway, 594. See 368
— of Dr. W. H. Maw, 739
-- of Sir W. H. Perkin, 650
— of T. Robinson and Son, Ltd., 246
Central Advisory Water Committee, Report, 77
— Electricity Board, Hams Hall Transformer
and Switching Station, 78; Report on Failure of Electricity Supply at Birmingham, 597
— Station. See Power Station-
Centrifugal, Electrically-Driven (Watson, Laidlaw and Co., Ltd.), 515*
— Pumps. Sec Pumps
Centrifuges for Drying Coal, 460
Ceylon Government Railway, Administrative Report, 368
Change-Speed Gear. See Gear ; Motor-Car Details
Channel, Experimental, Federal Hydraulic Laboratory, Zurich, 4*
Charcoal as Fuel for Producer-Gas Lorries, 654
— as Motor Fuel, 288, 299
Charing Cross Underground Railway Accident, Report, 396
Chase, H., on Die-Casting Practice in United States, 293*, 411*
Chatley, Dr. H., on River Flow Problems, 61, 165, 223, 241 ; Drag-Suction Dredger •• Fu-Shing,” 495*, 577*, 638* ; on River- Control Problems, 579, 638, 681*, 740, 754 ; on Engineering Aspects of Air-Raid Protection, 594 ; on Status, Qualifications and Remuneration of Engineers, 616
Clielmsford, Marconi College, Summer School, 275
Chelsea School of Metallurgy, Prospectus, 312 Chemical and Bacteriological Control of Public Water Supply, 54
— Congress, International, I.G. Farbenindus-
trie High-Pressure Hydrogenation Process, by M. Pier, 774
— Engineers, Institution of. Memorandum on
Training of Chemical Engineer, 618
Society of. Elimination of Sulphur from Flue Gases, by Dr. R. Lessing, 499 ; Perkin Memorial Lecture on Sir W. Perkin and Coal-Tar Dye Industry, by Dr. H. Levinstein, 651
— Industry, Measurement of Gas Temperatures
in, 684
— Research Laboratory, Teddington, Investigation on Corrosion of Coal-Tar Stills, 333, 396
— Works, Safety Rules for Use in, 276 Chemistry of Cements, Symposium on, 195
— of Combustion, 566
— of Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Research Board, Report for 1935-37, 395
— Rubber, Modern (Review), 92
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Chesterfield Tube Co., Ltd., Heavy Weldless- Steel Tube Plant, 713
Chilgrove, Sussex, Rainfall and Water Level at, 714
Chimney, Steel, Self-Supporting Cathcart Works, Glasgow, 414*
China, Soil Erosion and River Control in, 579, 638, 681*, 740, 754
Chinese Junks at Science Museum, 566 Chlorination of Public Water Supply, 54 Christopherson, D. G., on Relaxation Method for Solution of Poisson’s Equation, 251
Chromium in Cast-Iron, Effect of, 746
— Electro-Deposited, Structure of, 624
— Ore Mining in Yugoslavia, 685 Chronometers, National Physical Laboratory
Tests of, 298
Chuck. See Machine Tools
Churcher, B. G., on Magnetic and Electric Methods of Testing Materials, 652
“Circe,” Italian Torpedo Boat, Launch of, 219 Circular Saws. See Saws under Machine Tools Circulating Pumps. See Pumps
City and Guilds of London Institute, Annual Report, 364
Civil Aerial Transport. See Aeroiuiutics
Civil Engineers, Institution of :
Benevolent Fund Homes, Haywards Heath, 47
Code for Design and Construction of Rein- forced-Concrete Structures for Storage of Liquids, 289
Report on Deterioration of Structures in Seawater, 359
Presidential Address, by W. .1. E. Binnie, on Science and Engineering in Ancient Times, 541*
Principles of River-Training for Railway Bridges and their Application to Case of Hardinge Bridge over Lower Ganges at Sara, by Sir. R. R. Gales, 649
Sir Dugald Clerk Memorial Lecture, by W. A. Tookey, on Work of Sir D. Clerk, 730
Manchester and District Association : Engineers and the Body Politic, by R. 1). Brown, 452
Clarain, Investigations on, 485
Clarence Dock Power Station, Liverpool Corporation, Extension of, 488
Clarke-Jones, N., on Modern Portable Gas Producer, 738
Clays, Fire. See Firebricks ; Refractory Mate- rials
— Foundation, Settlement of Structures on,
310, 403*
Cleaning Plant for Grain, 572
Cleansing, Public, Ministry of Health Report, 222.
— Street, and Refuse Collection, Cost of,
Report, 483
— Vehicles, Municipal, Garages for, 750 Clerk, Memorial Lecture on Work of Sir D.
Clerk, 730
Cleveland Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— and the Northern Counties, 13, 43, 73, 103,
133, 161, 191, 219, 247, 277, 305, 335, 365, 393, 421, 449, 477, 507, 534, 561, 589, 617, 646, 677, 705, 735, 763. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Climatic Change and River-Control Problems, 638
See also Meteorological
Clocks, High-Precision, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 297
Club, Building, International, London, 219
Clutch, Friction, Dry, Multiple-Disc (Platt, Brothers and Co., Ltd.), 115*
Clyde, River, and Glasgow Harbour, 109 Coaches, Railway. See Carriages. Coachwork, Railway, Double End-Tenoning Machine (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 745* Coal, Bituminous, Destructive Distillation of, Investigations on, 485
Gasification of, in Water-Gas Generator, Experiments on, 603
I^oduction of Active Carbon from, Report, 408
Strip Mining in United States, 227*
— Channel, and Oil-Shale, Conference on, 46,106
— Consumption in Great Britain, 33 See also Trials
— Convention, National, Development of Producer-Gas Propulsion, by the Duke of Montrose, 654 ; What Research Can Do for the Small Consumer of Coal, by Capt. J. G. Bennett, 654; Practical Smoke Abatement with Solid Fuel, by A. Marsh, 654
— Crucible Swelling Test for. Specification, 473
— Cutting Machine, Explosion from, 367
— for Domestic Purposes, 682 Use of. Research and, 654
— Drying and Dewatering of, Report, 460
— Dust Explosion, Investigation by Safety in
Mines Research Board, 718
— ICeonomy. See Fuel Economy; Pulverised Coal
— Fired Power Stations, Design of, 690
— Fuel Research Board’s Investigations on, 765
— as Fuel for Ships, 165. See LETTER, 214
— Gas. See Qas
— Low-Temperature Carbonisation, Morgan
Rotary-Retort for. Tests of, 113*
— Mine. See Colliery
— Oil from, in Germany, 517, 775
— in Open Grates, Results Attained with, 717
— Production in Canada, 1937, 373
— for Production of Free-Burning Coke, 659
— Pulverised. See Pulverised Coal
— for Ship Propulsion, Report, 165. See
LETTER, 214
— Slurry, Flocculation Treatment of, 687*
— Survey, Work of, 765
— Tar Dye Industry and Sir W. H. Perkin, 651 and Its Products, Sampling of, Specification, 341
Stills, Corrosion of, Report, 333, 396
— Utilisation Council, National Coal Convention, 654
and Distribution in United States, 424 Research Association, British, Presidential Address, by Sir E. Williams, on Work of Association, 740
Research, Co-operation in, 628
— World Output of, 1937, 620
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Coatings, Zinc, Sprayed, for Steel-Surffice Protection, 657*
Cobb, J., Record with Railton Motor Car, 281, 397
Cobb, Prof. J. W., on Influence of Furnace Atmosphere on Scaling of Steel, 570
Cockburns, Ltd., Stop and Safety Valves for Boilers of S.S. “Mauretania,” 123. See Addendum, 218
Coefficient of Friction, Leather on Cast Iron, 108*
of Railway Brakes, 282
Coeuvre, R. Le, on Light Alloy.s in Aircraft Construction. 538
Cofferdam, Steel Sheet Piling, Waterloo-Bridge Reconstruction, 588*
Coke, Free-Burning, Production in Continuous Gas Retorts, 659
— as Motor Fuel, 299
— in Open Grates, Results Attained with, 717
— A Problem of Fuel Refinement (Review), 640
— Production of Methane from, 602 Coking, Low-Temperature, of Coal. See Coal Cold-Metal Practice in Fixed Basic Open-
Hearth Furnaces, 119
— Storage. See Refrigeration
Coldair Refrigerator for Optical Works, 655
Collecting Vehicle, Refuse, with Compressing Gear (J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 642* Refuse, Compression (Transport Engineering, Ltd.), 643*
Collector, Refuse, Bin-Tipping (Walker Brothers (Wigan), Ltd.), 642*
and Decontaminator (Associated Equipment Co., Ltd.), 642*
College. See Educatieni
Colliery, Chief Inspector of Mines’ Report, 620
— Electricity in, Report for, 1937, 367
— Firedamp Recorder for, 718
— Fushuu-Ryuho, Mukden, Tower-Type
Winding Plant, 671*
— Lighting. See Safety Lamps
— Safety in Mines Research Board Report, 718
— Secretary for Mines' Report on, 620
— Steel Safety Prop for (W. Svlvester, Ltd.),
625
— Use of Electricity in, 730
— Winding. See Winding
— See also Mines and Coal Collisions. See Accidents
Colloids in Effluents, Flocculation Treatment of, 687*
Colorado, Denver Sewage System, Self-Supporting Horizontal Pipe-Line Span, 465*
— River, Boulder Dam, Model Experiments on
Spillways, Penstocks, and Outlet Works, 15 ; Power House, 59*, 179*, 239*, 549*, 608*, 669*, 693*
Colorimeter, Six-Colour, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 669
Colvilles, Ltd., Cold-Metal Practice in Fixed Basic Furnaces, 119
Comb, Grass (R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd.), 67* Combined Stress, See under Tests {Materials) Combustion, Chemistry of, 566
— and Coal Utilisation Research, 628
— Flames and Explosions of Gases (Review), 455
— See also Fuel; Gases
Commercial Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Motor Cars. See Motor
Commerce. See Trade. See also Industries and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Commonwealth. See Axistralia
Companies. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Comparator, End-Gauge, High Sensitivity, J 83*
— Stereoscopic (Cambridge Instrument Co.,
Ltd.), 320
Compound Stress. See Tests {Materials) Compressed-Air Tools. See Machine Tools See also Pneumatic
— Gas Cylinders. See Gas Compressor,Air. See Air Compressor
Concrete, Foamed-Slag, Investigations on, 106
— Fresh, Vibration in. Apparatus for Measurement of, 232*
— Light-Weight, Thermal Conductivity of.
National Physical Investigations on, 595*
— Mixers at Building Trades Exhibition, 444 10-cub. yd. per hour Continuous (Benford, Ltd.), 313*
— Pavements, Use of Joints in, 664
— Piling, Reinforced (Review). 455
— Pipes, Hume Concussional-Spun (J. Ellis and Sons, Ltd.), 557*
— Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete
— for Road Construction, 435
— in Sea Water, Deterioration of, 360
— See also Ferro- Concrete and PARAGRAPH
INDEX
Condensers, Surface, Weir Regenerative, S S. “ Queen Elizabeth,” 383
(Jonductiyity of Metals, Thermal, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 594
Conference, International, of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. See Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, International Conference of, London
— on Oil-Shale and Cannel Coal, 46, 106
— Oxford, Association of Special Libraries and
Information Bureaux. See Libraries, Special, artd Information Rureaux, Association of
International Federation for Documentation, 50, 389, 707. See LETTER, 458
— World Power. See World Power Conference Congress, International Chemical. See Chemical Congress, International
Engineering, Glasgow. See Engineering Congress, International, Glasgow
Connecticut State Highway Commission, Erection of Balanced-Cantilever Bridge over Connecticut River, 553*, 676
Conservation of Coal. See Coal; Fuel
Consett Iron Co., Ltd., Hot-Metal Practice in Fixed Furnaces, 24
Constable, Hart and Co., Ltd., Apsley Railway Station, 402*
Consulting Engineers, Association of, Annual Dinner, 739
Contactor, Greenly Inductive Relay, 459* (Jontainer, Compressed-Gas, Welded, National Physical Laboratory Investigations, 64. 238
— Glass, Detergents for Washing of, 721
— High-Pressure, Measurement of Temperature
in, 683
— Refuse, Self-Sealing Dustless (Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd.), 643*
Continental Machine Specialities, Inc., Contour Sawing Machines, 83*
Contract Conditions, London County Council 74 -- 12, 42, 72, 102, 160, 190, 218, 246, 276, 304, 334, 364, 392, 420, 448, 476, 506, 534, 562, 588, 616, 646, 704, 734, 762
Control Board, Diagram, for Power Stations (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 328*
— Electro-Pneumatic, for 4,400-b.h.p. Diesel-
Electric Locomotive, 101*
Control Gear, Automatic, for Air Compressor
(J. B. Lindley (1931), Ltd.), 760*
Gears, 14-ft. Butterfly Valves, Boulder Bam Power House, 239*
— Lockheed, for H.M. Biesel-Bngmed Picket
Boat, 142* „
— Room, Brag-Suction Bredger Pu-Shing,
639*
— System for Biesel Kailcars, 621, 630*
1 Governor, 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic J ur-
bine, Boulder Bam Power House, 693*
— Works and Bams (Review), 182 .
Controllers, Electric Motor. See Adotors, EUclne
— Speed, for Motor Vehicles (R. A. Rothermel, Conratek, Contact Sulphuric-Acid Plant, 518* Conveying Machinery (^view), 91
Systems, Mount Pleasant Sorting Office,
London, 353*, 437*, 523*, 635*, 698* Conveyor Installation, Selective, Morris Engine
Works, Coventry, 25*
— Screw, for Continuous Concrete Mixer (Ben
ford, Ltd.), 313*
Cooch and Son, Hand-Operated Potato-Sorting Table, 94*
Cook, Major F. C., on Road Bevelopment in Great Britain, 378, 435*. See 281
Cook, H., on Relay System of Refuse Collection,
624 , „ .
Cook, S. S., on Sir Charles Parsons and Manne Propulsion, 680 .
Cooking Equipment, Train for London-Harwich Service, 456*
— Stoves, Swedish, 682
Coolers, Gas, Contact Sulphuric-Acid Plant, 518* Coombes, J. E. M., on Radio Interference
Caused by Trolley ’Buses, 252
Cooper, Pegler and Co., Ltd., Portable Power- Briven Spraying Outfit, 682
Cooper-Stewart Engineering Co., Ltd., Petrol-
Driven Shearing Machines, 67*
Copper Alloys. See Erome; Gunmetal; and Alloys under Metallurgy
— Atmospheric Corrosion of, 396
— in Cast Iron, Effect of, 746
— Bevelopment Association, Driving Tests of
Copper Earthing Electrodes, 456
— Mining in Lake District, 81
in Yugoslavia, 685
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Production in Canada, 1937, 373
— Steel Castings, Investigations on, 548, 581
— See also Metallurgy
Corbv Steel-Tube Plant, Electrical Equipment of, 469*
Cork, Elastic Properties of, 125
Cornwall, Quarry Plant at St. Austell, 596* Corrosion, Chemistry Research Board’s Investigations on, 395
— of Coal-Tar Stills, Report, 333, 396
— Fatigue Tests, Metals for Aircraft Construc
tion, 63*
— Fretting, National Physical Laboratory In
vestigations on, 63
— of Galvanised Iron Wire, Investigations on,
27, 54*
— of Iron and Steel in Sea Water, 360
— of Machine Tools, Investigation of, 546.
See ERRATUM, 580
— of Metals by Moorland Water, 114
— Prevention by Sprayed-Zinc Coating, 657*
— Products of Don, Radiological Examination
of, 624
Cosford, Staffordshire, School for Aircraft Apprentices, 139
Costs and Tariffs in Electricity Supply (Review), 640
Coste, M., on Combined Operation of Thermal and Water-Power Stations, 431*. See 350* Cotai Transmission Gear for Diesel Railcar, 622, 632
Cottrell Electrostatic Precipitator for Blast- Furnace Gas, Delray Power Station, 207*
Counter, Traffic, Automatic, 613*
Counting System for Road 'Traffic, 58 Countryside, Preservation of. Report on, 396 Coupling, Automatic, for London Underground Railway Carriages, 52
— Hydraulic, Vulcan-Sinclair, for Diesel Railcars, 622, 632
— See also Clutch
Coventry, Morris Engine Works, Selective Convenor Installation, 25*
Coverings, Non-Conducting. See Heat Insulation
Cracks, Magnetic and Electrical Methods of Detecting, 653
Cracking of Bearing Metals, Investigations of, 295*. See 235*, 611*. See LETTER, 299*
— Intercrystalline, of Boiler Plate, Investigations of, 237
Craftsmen, Supply and Training of, 98
Cranes at BuUding Trades Exhibition, 399*, 444
— “ Giraffe ” (Liner Concrete Machinerv Co.), 444
— 1-ton Mobile (T. C. Jones and Co., Ltd.), 399*
— Revolving, on Pontoon, Montreal Harbour Developments, 69*
— Wire Ropes for, Specification, 494
— See also Gantry ; Holsts
Crankshaft, Cast-Iron, Investigations on, 743 National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 63
— Design and Notch Eftect, 144*
— Diesel-Engine, Whirl of. Investigations of, 6, 21*
Creep Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 64, 237
Steel at 500 deg. C., 146*
Crisis, International, and Engineers, 423, 479. See 250, 395. See LETTERS, 457, 530 and Road Transport, 591
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., 168-h.p. Electric Motors, 51
Crosby, S. B., on Safety Regulations for United States Ships, 116
Cross-Channel Services from Passengers’ Viewpoint, 598
Croydon Polytechnic, Investigations on Mixture of Saturated Steam and Air, 674*
Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines^ Oil Cruisers. See Warships
Crusher, Stone (Goodwin, Barsby and Co., Ltd.), 597*
Crystals, Single, Magnetic Properties of, Investigations on, 326, 488*
Crystalline Structure of Metals. See Metallography ,• Micro photographs
Cudworth, J. K., on Dewatering and Drying of Coal, 460
Cultivator, 3-h.p. Petrol-Driven (Lloyds and Co. (Letchworth), Ltd.), 682
— with Photo-Electric Cell Control (A. Fertd),
26
Cunard White Star, Ltd., Liner “ Mauretania,” Launch of, 121*, 163, 168*. See Adden- dam, 218 ; S. S. ” Queen Mary,” Kecord Crossings, 223 ; Liner S.S. ” Queen Elizabeth,” Launch, 381*. 425*, 646
Cunningham, G., on Reduction of Industrial Accidents, 195
Current, Electric. See under Electric
— Tidal, in Estuaries, 165
Curtiss-Wright Corporation, Curtiss-Wright ” 20 ” Passenger Aeroplane, 748
Cuts, Dredged, in Rivers, Stability of, 754
Cutler-Hammer Inc., ” Thermeter ” Recording Gas Calorimeter, 345*
Cutter, Grass, Collector, Shanks’ (Harvest Saver <fe Implement Co., Ltd.), 65*
— Milling. See Milling under Machine Tools ('Utting Fluids, Functions of, 659*
Cycle, Motor. See Motor Cycle
— Screw Tlireads, Specification, 773 Cyder-Making Machinery, French, 26 Cylinders, Engine, High-Duty Cast Irons for,
742, 746*
— Gas. See Qas
— Torsion of, St. Venant’s Theory, 413
—? Wear in Motor Car Engines, Researches on, 107, 397
Cyclotron and Cyclotron Models, Exhibition of, [ 309
I Czechoslovakia, Masaryk Academy of Work, I Steam Ke.search at, 1, 34*

DA VINCI, Leonardo, Writings and Inventions of, 543
Dagenham, "Welded Waterless-Type Klonne Gasholder at, 129*
Daimler-Benz 800-1,150 h.p., Twelve-Cylinder Engine, ” Graf Zeppelin,” 754*
Dalrymple-Hay, Sir H., and W. T. Halcrow, Reconstruction of King’s Cross Underground Station, 265*, 296*, 386*. See Erratum, 444
Dalton’s Law and Pressure of Mixed Gases, 674* Dam, Aswan, Egypt, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 453
— Boulder, Colorado River, Model Experiments
on Spillways, Penstocks and Outlet Works, 15; Hydro-Electric Scheme, 59*, 179*, 239*, 549*, 608*, 669*, 693*
— and Control Works (Review), 182 Dampers, Vibration, for Aircraft, 258 for Ships, 347*
Danckaerts Woodworking Machinery, Ltd., Six- Cutter Planing and Moulding Machine, 397*
Danube-Main-Rhine Canal, 118*
Darlington Forge, Ltd., Castings for S.S. ” Mauretania,” 121*
Dartmoor Catchments and Water Supply, 114 Davey, H. J., on Collapse of All-Welded Bridge at Hasselt, Belgium, 360. See LETTERS, 137, 187
Davey, Paxman and Co. (Colchester), Ltd., 1,000- h.p. Sixteen-Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 111*
Davidson, Lieut.-Col. J. R., Metropolitan Water Board’s Laboratories, 502*
Davidson, Dr. W., on Results with Solid Fuels in Open Grates, 717
Davis, C. A., Self-Supporting Horizontal Pipe- Line Span, 465*
Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd., Vertical Billet-Piercing Press, 713
Dawson, Sir P., the Iiate, 401*
— Welded Joint for High-Pressure Steam Pipe, 505*
De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., Gipsy Twelve Aero Engine, 48* ; Drop-Stamping Plant for Sheet-Metal Aircraft Parts, 52*
De Leiris, H., on Strength of Materials in Relation to Shipbuilding, 6
Deacon, V. H., on Hot-Patching of Gas Retorts, 658
De-Aerator, ” Optimum,” Cathcart Works,G. and J. Weir, Ltd., 504*
Decks, Water-Tight. See Water-Tigld Subdivision,
Decontamination Equipment, A.R.P. (Transport Engineering, Ltd.), 643*
— Plant (Aveling-Barford, Ltd.), 582*
— Street, and Sewage Undertakings, 750 Decontaminator and Refuse Collector (Associated Equipment Co., Ltd.), 642*
Deep Navigation Colliery, Glamorgan, Electrical Accident at, 367
Deere and Co., Ltd., 8i-h.p. Lightweight ” John Deere ” Agricultural Tractor, 681, 732*
Deichow Peak-Load Hydro-Electric Station, 36* Delany, S., the Late, 506
Delray Power Station, Detroit, Blast-Furnace Gas-Fired Boilers, 207*
Delta Formation by River, 223
Demag, A.-G., Tower-Type Winding Plant, Fushun-Ryuho Colliery, 671*
Denver Sewage System, Colorado, Self-Supporting Horizontal Pipe-Line Span, 465*
Derby, Railway School of Transport, 126* Derricks. See Cranes
Designs, Patents and Trade Marks (Review), 455
Destroyers. See Warships
Detergents for Bottle Washing, 721
Detroit Edison Company, Blast-Furnace Gas- Fired Boilers at Delray Power Station, 207*
Deutsche Lufthansa A.-G., Operating Experiences with Junkers Aeroplane Engines, 315*. See LETTER, 472
— Zeppelin Reederei, Airship ‘‘ Graf Zeppelin,” 751*
Dewatering and Drying of Coal, Report, 460
d’Hareourt, M., on Combined Operation of Steam and Hydraulic Stations for Paris Electricity Supply, 350*. See 431*
Diagrams, Metal-Price. See Melal-Price Diagrams
Dick, J., on Tensile Stresses in a liearine Metal 299*. See 235*, 295*, (ill*
Die Blocks for Drop Forgings, Specification, 332 — Casting Equipment and Practice in the United States, 293*, 411*
! Machines, American, 293*, 411*
Diesel Engines. See Engines, Oil, Diesel: Marine Propiilsian.
Digester, Steam-Jacketed, Explosion of, 147
Digging Machine. See Excavator
Dilatometer for Experiments on Freezing of Building Materials, 291
Dloptra, Description of, 541*
Direction Finding, Kadiotelegraphic. Sec Telegraphy, Wireless
Directories. See LITBKATUKE INDEX Disputes, Trades. See Labour I)issipation and Frictional Fall in Rivers, 01 Distillation, Destructive, of Bituminous (’oal. Investigations on, 485
Distributor, Fertiliser (Bamfords, Ltd.), 93* District Heating by Steam, 279 Dock, Graving, Model Tests of Pump for, 245* — Southampton, Handbook on, 103 Documentation, International Federation for Oxford Conference, 50, 389, 707. LKMER, 458
Domestic Fires, Atmospheric Pollution by, 280 Results attained with Coke and Coal, — Heating, Advantages of Gas for, 750 Methods in Europe, 653* — Stoves, German, Design of, 683* — Use of Coal, Research on, 654 — Water, Methods of Charging for, 625 i^upply, Prevention of Waste, 114 Donald, G. H., on Wood and Charcoal as Motor Fuels, 288
Donkin, S. B., on Developments in Electrical Engineering, 80. See 136
Doors, Water-Tight. See Water-Tight Sub- division
Acoustic and General Methods of Non-Destructive Testing, 652 Dorman, Long, and Co., Ltd., Hot-Metal Practice in Fixed Furnaces, 24
Draft Tube for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, Boulder Dam Power House, 610*
Drag-Head for Drag-Suction Dredger “Fu- Shing,” 577*
Dra^v^Bench, Hydraulic Triple-Cylinder, (H Berry and Co., Ltd.), 713
Dredged Cuts in Rivers, Stability of, 754 Dredger, Drag-Suction, “ Fu-Shing ’* (F Schichau G.m.b.H.), 495*, 577*, 638* Drier, Grass, Rotary (Harvest Saver and Iinnle- ment Co., Ltd.), 65*
Drifter, Model Experiments at National Physical Laboratory, 338
“7 Steam, Tank and Sea Tests, 599*, 662* Drills ai^ Drilling Machines. See Machine Tools Drive, Belt, 1,000-b.h.p., for Air Compressor J?' (1931), Ltd,.), no*,
bee Addendum, 191
-- Friction, “ P.K.- Variable-Speed, 729* Die Blocks for, Specification,
— Stamping Plant for Sheet-Metal Aircraft
1 yts (De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 52*
— Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Drmn, Fusion-Welded, forLaMont Boiler, 414*
— Boiler, Solid-Forged with Riveted Ends, S S
Mauretania,’* 122
Co., Ltd., Positlve-Displace- ment Rotary Pump ,274*
of Tests and Examination Oi, z56
?«’neration of Static Electric Charges during, 713
— Dock. See Dock
— Rot in Wood, Prevention of, 463
Drying Chamber for Coated Welding Rods ^Spooner Dryer and Engineering Co,, Ltd.),
— and Dewatering of Coal, Report, 460
Son^loV'“‘’ Hydro-Electric
— of Wood, Investigations on, 310
^ankal Powc/eg^ of Me.-h-
R'gh-Speed Centrifugal
Bump, Suction Dredger “ Fu-Shing ”
329* Spe&t 762
^303’ R'ectrical Services, Specification,
“ Electrification
,.Valves, Lister, Dredger “Pu- Shing, 495*, 639*
KeVorcpH^T JH’ ““ and
Reinforced lubes, 412*, 467*
Duram, Investigations on, 485 Duralumin, Corrosion Fatigue Testq of aq*
ErS-ProVe^ctiw7panel-
Dur?s^ol^?n?^\^%7 ^^scription of, 744 nnfi^ A Spemal Plywood, 306
T\ 1 Pulverised Coal
Dykes, Flood, and River Control 681*
Turbo-

Earl s Court Motor Exhibition 481 511 P;QQ* AeciatlV/okX-
(H.
~ Research Board's
Investigations on, 105
— Magnetism. See Magnelism
East Medina Tide Mill, 446*
Eastwood, Dr. A. H., on A. T. Burner for Gas, 569
Eccles, G. O., on Moving-Coil Vibrometer, 263* See 253
Economics, Industrial. See Labour
— National, and British Shipbuilding, 33
— Railway. See Railway
Economiser, Cast-Iron, Explosion of, 147
— for 1,000-lb. pressure La Mont Boiler, 414*
Edges, Steel, Gas-Ciit, Investigations on Welding of, 521
Edgecombe, C. H., on Braking of Railwav Trains, 282
Edinburgh Gas Department, Experiments on Production of Free-Burning Coke, 659
Edmonds, Major H., Airship “ Graf Zeppelin,” 751*
Education :
Array Vocational Training Centre, Aidershot, Souvenir, 686
Board of Education, Sumraer School for Engineering Teachers, 107
— of Trade Examinations for Engineers in
Mercantile Marine, 42, 309, 425 Borough Polytechnic, London, 734 Braford Technical College, Prospectus, 71 Brighton Technical College, Calendar, 312 British Foundry School, Birmingham, Courses at, 255
Cass Technical Institute, Courses at, 312 Chelsea School of Metallurgy, Prospectus, 312
Chemical Engineers, Institution of, Memorandum on Training of Chemical Engineers, 618
City and Guilds of London Institute, Annual Report, 364
— of London College, Lectures on Iron and
Steel, 220
Edu^aUon and Training of Engineers, 509, Educational Institutions, Gifts to, 169 Engineering Public Relations Committee, Christmas Lectures for Young Peonle, 760
Hokkaido Imperial University, Japan, Calendar, 256
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, School of Highway Engineering, 276 ; Department of Aeronautics. Syllabus, 374
Iron and Steel Institute, Ablett Prize Paper, 255
King’s College, London, Faculty of Engineering Syllabus, 190; Lectures on Steam Boiler Plant, 506
London School of Economics, Department of Business Management, Report, 189 — University B.Sc. (Eng.) Examinations, 137
Manchester Education Authority, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Courses in Manchester, 275
— Municipal College of Teclmology Prospectus, 334
Marconi College, Chelmsford, Summer School at, 275
Marine Engineers, Institute of, Examination Data, 275
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of, Studentship and Associate-Membership Examinations, 670
Melbourne University Engineering School, Rebuilding of, 223
Mercantile-Marine Engineers, Regulations for Examinations, 42, 309, 425
National ” Safety First ” Association, Travelling Scholarship Essay, 570
Naval Architects, Institution of, Martell Scholarships, 570 ; Award of Scholarships, 677
Northampton Polytechnic, London, Prospectuses, 275 ; Lectures on ElectroDeposition, 706
Queen Mary College, London, Guild of Friends of, 169
Regent Street Polytechnic, London, Prize Distribution, 586
Royal Sanitary Institute, Courses in Sanitary Science, 255 ; Certificate Courses at, 584
— Technical College,' Glasgow, Calendar,
School for Aircraft Apprentices, Cosford Staffordshire, 139
— of Railway Transport, Derby, 126*
Sheffield University, Sir Robert Hadfield Metallurgical Laboratories, 362* • Lectures on Electric Traction, 444 Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Courses at, 312
Society of British Aircraft Constructors Particulars of Scholarships, 42
South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines Calendar, 374
College, Prospectuses,
Techracal Colleges of South Africa, Report, 248
J— Education and Mechanics’ Institutes, 98 irade Schools and Training of Craftsmen, 98
Transport Correspondence Course, 570
University College, London, Faculty of Engineering Prospectus, 71; Lectures on Geology, 506 ; Calendar, 570
— Engineering Students, Curriculum for, 249, 251, 260. See LETTERS, 299, 530 of London, B.Sc.(Eng.) Examinations, 137
West Hartlepool Institutes and Technical College, Prospectuses, 275
Westminster Techical Institute, Prospectus of Evening Classes, 255
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Edward, J., on Steam Drifters : Tank and Sea Tests, 699*, 662*
Eendenburg, D. C. F. van, the Late, 456
Efficiency of Boiler Plants. See Boiler Plants of Engines. See Engines; Trials
Effluents, Industrial, Application of Flocculation to, 687
Egan, A. L., on Vibration of Vertical Winding Ropes, 461*
Egerton, PTof. A. C. G., on Chemistry of Combustion, 566
Egypt, Hydro-Electric Developments in, 453 Egyptian Methods of Quarrying, 541
Elastic Properties of Materials for Vibration- Attenuating Supports, 124
Electric :
Accumulators, Train-Lighting, Specification, 491
Alternator. See Generator; Turbo-Generator Arc Eurnaces. See Furnace, Electric — Welding. See IFeWiwg
Battery. See Accumulator (above) British Electrical and Allied Manufac- turers’Association, Annual Dinner, 680
Brushes, Carbon, for Electrical Machines, Specification, 436
’Bus-Bar-Zone Protective Systems (A. Rey- rolle and Co., Ltd.), 329*
Cable Boxes, Bituminous Compounds for, Specification, 277
— in Mines, Accidents from, 367
— Sheathings, Specification, 284 Capacitance Measurements, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 711
Capacitor, Pilot-Motor, Single-Phase Three- Phase Conversion System (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 531 Cathode Rays. See Cathode
Ceiling Roses, Two- and Three-Terminal, Specification, 647
Cell, Photo-Electric for Cultivator Control (A, Eertd), 26
Central Electricity Board, Report on Failure of Electricity Supply at Birmingham, 597
— Stations. See Power Stations
Coils and Reactors, Air-Cored (Review), 771 Dielectrics, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 712
Ducts, Non-Metallic, for Electrical Services, Specification, 762
— Steel, for Electrical Services, Specification, 303
Dynamo. See Generator ; Turbo-Generator Earth Pits, Corby Steel-Tube Plant, 469* Earthing, Copper Electrodes for, Driving Tests of, 466
— Electrical Installations to Water Pipes, Report, 165
Electric Displays, Portable, Canadian Specification, 494
— Transmission Gear for Railcars, 622 Electrical Accidents and their Causes, 708 — Engineering Practice (Review), 770 Technical and Economic Developments in, 80, 136
— Instruments, Trend of Design in, 310, 317*
— Methods of Recording Vibrations, 288* of Testing Materials, 652
— Plant, Fescol Works, Holloway, 531 Electricity Commissioners’ Annual Renort, 510
— Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 711*, 725
— and Magnetism (Review), 455
— in Mines, Report for 1937, 367 Electrocardiograph, Portable, 319 Electrodes, Copper, for Earthing Purposes,
Driving Tests of, 456
— for Shipbuilding, Specification, 17
— Welding, Shanks for. Specification, 393 Electroplating. See Electro Electrotechnical Commission, International, International Electrotechnical Vocabulary, 684
Frequency Standard, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 711
— Standardisation, Birmingham Electricity Supply, 77
Furnaces. See Furnaces
Fuses, Cartridge, High-Rupturing Capacity (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 363
— Single-Phase Switch (Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd.), 402*
Galvanometer, Ballistic, for Iron Testing, 326,350*
Generating Stations. See Power Stations Generator. See Generator; Turbo-Generator High-Voltage Research at National Physical Laboratory, 712
Hotplates, Electric, Control Switch for (Sunvic Controls, Ltd.), 571*
Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
Ignitron Loading Equipment for Traction Substations (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 428*
Inductance Measurements, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 711 Induction Furnace. See Furnace — Motors. See Motors, Electric Insulating Materials, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 712 for Radio Work (United Insulator Co., Ltd.), 598
Lamp, Electric, Hand, with Gripping Tongs (British Central Electrical Co., Ltd.), 206*
— Hand,forCollieries, Experiments on, 718
— for Roads, Development in, 664
— for Road Lighting, 709
— Spot-Light for Welding Work (Philips Industrial (Philips Lamps, Ltd.)), 761
Lighting Equipment, Specifications, 219 Locomotives. See Locomotives, Electric Machines. See Generators; Motors; Turbo Mains. See Cables (above)
Mercury-Arc Rectifier Panels (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 210*
Meter, Electric, Washing Machines for Parts of, 544*. See Erratum, 589 Motors. See Motors, Elexitric Oil Switch. See Switchgea/r
Oscillator, Quartz-Ring, National Physical Laboratory, 712
Oscillographs, Electromagnetic and Cathode-Bay, Developments in. 317 Photo-Electric Apparatus, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 725
Photo-Electric Methods of Fineness Measurement of Powdered Materials, 494
Potentiometer, Alternating-Current, for Iron Testing, 326, 348*
— Measurements, Direct and Alternating Current (Review), 210
Power Stations. See Power Stations
— See Power
Pyrometer. See Pyrometer
— See also Thermocouple (below) Railways. See Pailways
Rays. See Cathode; Gamma; Pbrdgen Regulator, Transformer-Voltage (Metropo- litan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 625
Relay Contactor, Inductive, Greenly, 459* ROntgeu Rays. See Pdntgen
Rural Electrification in France, 202*
Signs, Incandescent Lamp, Canadian Specification, 494
Starters, Motor. See Motors^ Electric Static Electricity, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 712 Steel Manufacture. See Furnace, Electric Storage Battery. See Accumulator (above) Substation. See Substation
Switchgear. See Switchgear ; Motors, Electric
Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
Telephony. See Telephony
Thermocouples for Gas-Temperature Measurement, 683
— Standard, National Physical Laboratory, 553
— See also Pyrometer
Traction. See Locomotives, Electric;
Trolley *Bxis; Pailways
Transformers. See Transformers Turbo-Generators. See Turbo-Oeneratois Vacuum Tubes. See PQntgen Vibrometer, Moving-Coil, 253, 263* Voltage Standardisation in Electricity- Supply Industry, 621
— in Transformers, Investigations on, 251 Wattmeter, Reflecting, 318
Welding. See Welding
Winding Gear. See JViwding
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
— Telephony. See TelepJiony X-Rays. See POntgen Pays See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Electric-Arc Cutting and Welding Co., Preheated Electric Welds, 214
Electrical Engineers, Institution of :
Conversazione, 42
Summer Meeting, Birmingham, 48, 77 Discussion of Engineering Training in Relation to Present Conditions, 509
Electricity in Coal Mines, by R. Nelson, 730 Mersey and North Wales Centre :
Annual Dinner, 621
Electricians, Supervising, National Association of. See Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of
Electricity Commissioners. See under Electric Electro-Deposited Chromium, Structure of, 624
— Deposition, Lectures at Northampton Polytechnic, 706
Plant, Holloway Works, Fescol, Ltd., 530
Electrofeeder Boiler-Feed Pump, 154* Electro-Horticulture Equipment Co., Ltd., Soil Steriliser, 95* ; Liquid-Culture Tank, 06*
Electrolytic Corrosion. See Corrosion Electron-Diffraction Patterns of Graphoid
Layer on Bearing Surfaces, 91*
— Microscope (Siemens and Halske), 474* Elevators for Grain, 572
Ellis, J., and Sons, Ltd., Hume Concusslonal-Spun Concrete Pipes, 557*
Elutriators for Fineness Measurement of Powdered Materials, 493*
Ely Paper Works, Cardiff, Failure of a Blank Flange, 147
Embankments, Earth, Building Research Board’s Investigations on, 105
— River, near Bridges, 649
Emergency, National, and Engineers, 423, 479.
See 250, 395. See LETTERS, 457, 530 “ Emo,” Italian Submarine, Launch of, 199 Empire Exhibition, Glasgow, 152*, 210*, 327*, 513*. See also vol. cxlv
Employees. See Labour Employment. See Labour
Emulsion, Oil, for Cutting Tools, 546. See Erratum, 580
Endurance Tests. See Alternating Stress under Tests {Materials)
Energy Balance Sheet of Gas Engine, 137 Engines, Aero. See Aeronautics
— Diesel. See Engines, Oil, Diesel; Marine
Propulsion; Motorships
— Fire. See Fire Engines
— Gas, Energy Balance Sheet of, 137
Use for Marine Propulsion, 537. See
LETTER,616
Work of Sir D. Clerk on, 730
See also Producer; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Indicators. See Indicators
— Internal-Combustion (Review), 356 Combustion, Vol. I (Review), 183 Combustion, Developments in, 80 Combustion, Investigation on Bearing
Metals for, 235*, 295*. See LETTER, 299* See 611*.
Combustion, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 197
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Car. See Engines, Petrol
— Oil, Diesel, 310-h.p. Bight-Cylinder, Ganz-
Jendrassik, for Railcars, 703*
Diesel, 450-h.p. Eight-Cylinder, Harland- B. and W. for Locomotives, 48
Diesel, Four-Cylinder, for Air Compressor (Ingersoll-Rand Co., Ltd.), 732*
Diesel, Harland-B. and W., M.S. ” Durban Castle,” 744
Diesel, High-Speed Developments in, 80 Diesel, Marine, Buchi Superchargers for, 247
Engines, Oil, Diesel, Marine, 160-h.p. Eour- Cylinder, Petter “Atomic,” Royal Research Ship “ Research,” 226
Diesel, Marine, 140-b.h.p. Six-Cvliiider (J. I. Thornycroft Co. Ltd.), 141*
Diesel, Marine, 1,000-h.p. Sixteen-Cylin- der (Davey, Paxman and Co. (Colchester), Ltd.), in*
Diesel, Model Tests of Mountings for, 315 Diesel, for Railcar, Control of, 621, 630* Diesel, 2,200-h.h.p. Twelve-Cvlinder Double-Crankshaft (Sulzer Brothers^, Ltd ) 100* ’
Diesel, 12,500-b.h.p. Twelve-Cylinder Sulzer, M.S. “ Oranje,” 418*
Diesel, Two-Stroke Superscavenge, 125- b.h.p. Two-Cylinder (Petters, Ltd.), 10*
Diesel, Two-Stroke Superscavenge, 250- b.h.p. Four-Cylinder (Petters, Ltd.), 10* See 597*
Diesel, Whirl of Crankshafts of, 6, 21* Diesel. See also Motorships Morine Propulsion
— — Junkers, Fuel Consumption and Weight of, 315. Seo LETTER, 472
Marine, Double-Acting, Two-Stroke, Har- land-B. and Vii., M.S. “ Carnarvon Castle ” 89
Myine, Double-Acting Two-Stroke Har- land-B. and W., M.S. “ Warwick Castle,” 428
Marine, 3,600-b.h.p. Nine-Cylinder Fiat M.S. ” Ramb I,” 216*
Marine, 3,600-b.h.p. Seven-Cylinder Sulzer, M.S. “ Ramb IV,” 218*
Motor-’Bus, 90-h.p. Six-Cylinder Direct- Injection (Associated Equipment Co.. Ltd.), 147*
Priestman, Model of First, at Dull Museum, 598
5J-b.h.p. Single-Cylinder (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 29*
eko-P- Single-Cylinder (S. Turner, Ltd.), 599*
360-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder (Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd.), 515*
I'owler &, Co. (Leeds), Ltd.), 96*
“ Tractors and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Petrol, Aeroplane. See Aoronoutics
Air-Cooled (R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd.), 682
^^^"Cyliiider for Minneapolis- Moline Tractor, 681
10-20 h.p. Four-Cylinder, (Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd.), 129*
Marine 30-50 b.h.p. Four-Cvlinder (Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd.), 341*
Motor Car, American, Progress in, 700 Motor-Car, Four-Cylinder, 2,006 c c
Mercedes-Benz, 512
"Motor Car, Institution of Automobile Engineers’ Researches on, 107, 397
Motor-Car, Trend of Design in, 482 'Motor-Car, 14-h.p. Vauxhall, Design of,
Six-CyUnder (R<;o Motors, Ltd.), 32
X JI" o Single-Cylinder
(Petters, Ltd.), 30*
-^-b-h p Single-Cylinder (J. Fowler and Co.
(Leeds), Ltd.), 96*
Six-Cylinder, for Oliver Rowcrop ” 70 ” Agricultural Tractor, 682
/W P-Two-Cylinder, for Tractor (Deere and Co., Ltd.), 681, 732*
— — See also ; Motor Cars
Steam, Marine, 2,250-h.p. Triple-Expansion,
Drag-Suction Dredger “ Fu-Shing ” 639*
Triple-Expansion, for Steam
Drifters, Tests of 600*
Myine. See also jHanne Propulsion '
Turbines
— Winding. See Winding
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Engineers and the Body Politic, 452
— Business Administration for (Review) 167
— and Civic Afl'airs, 17
— and the Community, 249, 251, 260. See
LETTERS, 299, 530
^^J^^^^bjition to Public Health Services, 692
— Education. See Education
— Institutions. See Institutions
— and International Crisis, 423, 479. See 250
395. See LETTERS, 457, 630 *
— in Mercantile Marine, Board of Trade Ex
aminations. 42, 309, 425
— and Modern Civilisation, 33
— in Modern World, Discussion on, 538
— and National Service, 250, 395, 423 479
See LETTERS, 457, 530
— aiKl Shipbiulders in Scotland, Institution of
Presidential Address by A. C. Gardner’ 453; James Watt Dinner, 453 ; Industrial I lanning, by H. Beaver, 566; Steam Drifters: Tank and Sea Tests, bv J Edward and Dr. F. H, Todd, 599*, 662* ‘
— Society of. Engineering Aspects of Air-Raid
Protection, by Dr. H. Chatley and H.
Gutterldge, 594
— SUtiis, Qualifications and Remuneration of.
616
Engineering Apprentices. See Education
— and Business, English in (Review), 640
Ei^ineering Congress, Internationa], Glasgow : ’
Inaugural Proceedings, 32
Reports of Proceedings, 32, 80, 109
Presidential Address, by Lord Weir, on
Engineers and Modern Civilisation, 33
Building of Ships—a British Survey, bv Sir J. Lithgow, 33
Coal Consumption in Great Britain • a Review and a Forecast, by Sir R. Redmayne, 33
Some Recent Developments in the Iron and Steel Industry in Britain, by Dr A. McCance and T. W. Hand, 80
ieclmical and Economic Developments in Electrical Engineering, by S. B. Donkin, 80. See 136
Progress of the Internal-Combustion Engine during the last Twenty Years, by H. R. Ricardo, 80
Engineering Congress, International, Glasgow—continued.
Research on Materials and Modern Design, by Prof. A. Thum, 143*. See 80 International Air Transport, by Lord Sempill, 109
Municipal and Industrial Planning, by A. Lilienberg, 109
Electricity Generation and Distribution in Prance and other Countries, by E. Mercier, 201*. See 109, 135
Concerning Shipbuilding in Italy, by General G. Rota, 109
The River Clyde and the Harbour of Glasgow, by A. C. Gardner, 109
Recent Developments of the Gas Industry in Canada, by J. Keillor, 109
Central Station in One Man’s Lifetime, by
G. A. Orrok, 173*. See 110, 135, 452 Town and Country Planning in Relation
to Industry, by G. L. Pepler, 110 Gas Industry, Past, Present and Future, by
Sir D. Milne-Watson, 110
Engineering Contracts. See Contracts
—» Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 18, 62*, 107*, 151*, 196*
Engineering Designs, Ltd., Vonck High-Speed Writing Machine, 675
— Education. See Education
— Exhibition, Cardiff, 625
— General, Use of Scale Models in, 243*, 252,
313*. See Erratum, 284
— Industry, Need for Organisation of, 483
— Laboratories. See Laboratories; National Physical
— Law (Review), 183
— Public Relations Committee, Christmas Lectures for Young People, 760
— and Science in Ancient Times, 541*
— Science, Changing Outlook of, 249, 251, 260.
See LETTERS, 299, 530
— Structures, Settlement Analysis of, 310, 403*
— Societies. See Institutions
— Standards. See Standards Institution
— Works. See Works
English in Business and Engineering (Review), 640
English Electric Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Glasgow Exhibition, 210* ; 274-h.p. Flame-Proof Motor, 210*; Air-Break Star-Delta Starter, 211*
English Steel Corporation, Ltd., Hollow-Forged Boiler Drums, S.S. “ Mauretania,” 122 Enthalpy of Water and Steam, Determination of, 1*, 34*
” Entre Rios,” Argentine Destroyer, tion of, 392, 455
Eppelsheimer, D., on Development tinuous Strip Mills, 580
Eradicator, Bracken (W. Aitkenhead),
Escalators, King’s Cross Underground Station
Reconstruction, 265*, 296*, 386*. See Erratxim, 444
Esmond, W. G., on Safety Regulations for United States Ships, 116
Esthonian Oil-Shale Industry, 47 Estuaries, Tidal, Flow Problems in, 61,165, 223 Etablissement Vermorel, Agricultural Powder Dusting Apparatus, 26*
Etzel Hydro-Electric Plant, Tailrace Model, 149*
Europe, Domestic Heating Methods in, 653* European Steelworks, Electric Furnaces in, 539 Euston Station, Railwav Centenary Exhibition, 368. See 594
Evans, E., the Late, 312
Evans, H., on Specific Heat-Temperature Curves of Iron and Steels, 580
Evaporation from Moist Surfaces, Investigations on, 596
— Tests, Coal-Slurry Filter Cake, 688 Evaporator, Marine, Explosion of, 321 Everdur-Alloy Hot-Water Storage Tank, 160 Excavations, Timbering of, and Construction of
Main Sewers (Review), 168
Excavator, 5-cub. ft. Four-Purpose (Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd.), 442*
— ^cub. yd. Hydraulic Loading Shovel (Allis- “ Chalmers Manufacturing Co.), 403*
— 10-cub. ft. Multi-Purpose (T. Smith and Sons
(Rodley), Ltd.), 626*
— Shovelling and Loading Machine for Under
ground Work (British Conway Shovels, Ltd.), 545*
— for Strip Mining of Bituminous Coal, 229* Exchange, London Iron and Steel, Closing of,
758
Exhaust Gas. See Gas
— Steam Turbine. See Turbine, Steam
— Valves. See Valves.
Exhibition, Agricultural Machinery, Paris, 26* I
— Brewers’, Maltsters’, Distillers’ and Allied !
Traders’, Engineering Exhibits, 572
— Building Trades, Olympia, 371*, 397*, 442*,
528*
— Empire, Glasgow, 152*, 210*, 327*, 513*.
See also vol. cxlv
— Engineering, Cardiff, 625
— Eye-Protection, Royal Eye Hospital, 20
— Insulating Materials for Radio Work, 598
— Model ISngineer, 374
— Motor, Earl’s Court, 481, 511, 599*
— New York National Automobile, 700
— Professional Photographers’ Association, 368
— Public Health, Royal Agricultural Hall,
581*, 641*
— Railway Centenary, Euston Station, 368.
See 594
— Royal Agricultural Show, Cardiff, 29*, 65*,
93*
— Science in the Army, Science Museum, 621
— Scientific Apparatus, Roybal Society Conver
sazione, 17
— Smithfield Club Show, Royal Agricultural
Hall, 681, 732*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Experimental Tank. See Tank Ship Resistance Explosion, Boiler. See Boiler Explosion
— Colliery. See Accidents and Colliery
— Flames and Combustion of Gases (Review),
455
— Gaseous. See Accidents and Colliery Export, Institute of, Inauguration of Birmingham Branch, 538
Export Trade. See Trade; and Industries in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Extensometer for Experiments on Freezing.of Building Materials, 291
Extractor, Fume, for Welding Operations (Lincoln Electric Co., Ltd.), 159*
Eye, Human, Structure of, 221
— Injuries in Industry, Prevention of, 20

FACING Machine. See Machine Tools
Factor of Safety for Vertical Winding Ropes, 401*
Factory Accidents. See Accidents
— Act, 1937 (Review), 254
1937, Rest Periods during Working Hours, 9
— with Air-Raid Shelter, 572
— Heating by Steam from Central Station, 279
— Lighting in, Report, 650
— Management. See Works Management
— Opened, Closed or Extended, Report, 164
— and Towns, Garages in Relation to (Review), 168
— and Workshops, Home Office Inspector’s
Report, 193, 195
Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., “ Battle ” Bombing Monoplane, 139*
Fairfield Shipbuilding Yard, 598
Fall, Frictional, and Dissipation, in Rivers, 61 Fan, Centrifugal. Forced-Draught, Model Tests of, 245*, 252
— Forced- and Induced-Draught, for La Mont
Boiler, 416*
Faraday House Old Students’ Association, Annual Dinner, 539
Farbenindustrie, I.G., Hydrogenation Process, 774
Farming. See Agriculture ; Tractors Farnsworth, W. M., on American Electric-Furnace Practice, 539
Fatigue, Industrial. See under Labour
— Investigations at National Physical Labora
tory, 62
— Tests of Riveted Joints, 773
of Metals. See also Alternating Stress under Tests (Materials')
Federal Institute of Technology, Ziirich, Hydraulic Laboratory, 3*, 149*
Feed Pumps. See Pumps
— Water System for La Mont Boiler, 504* System, SS. “ Queen Elizabeth,” 383 Fellows, J. R., on Pressure Losses in Air Ducts,
302
Felt, Elastic Properties of, 125
Fence, Electrical, “Prime” (Harvest Saver <fe Implement Co., Ltd.), 66
Fdraud, L., on Power Supply for Agriculture in France, 607
Ferodo and Cast Iron, Coefficients of Friction, 282
Ferrocarril Provincial, Buenos Aires, Service Results with 270-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric Railcars, 461
Ferro-Concrete Air-Raid Shelter (“Twisteel” Reinforcement, Ltd.), 529
Arch Bridge over River Thames, Waterloo, London, 587*
Bars and Wire for, Specification, 72 Bridge Design (Review), 697
Building Research Board’s Investigations on,106
Building, Sound Transmission in. Investigations on, 668
Construction, Apsley Railway Station, 402*
Foundation Raft for Four-Lift Gasholder, Sheffield, 323
Piles, Stresses in during Driving, Report, 87
Piling (Review), 455
Pipes, Hume Concussional-Spun (J. Ellis and Sons, Ltd.), 558*
in Sea Water, Deterioration of, 360
Structures for Storage of Liquids, Code for Design, 289
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Fertd, A., Cultivator with Photo-Electric Cell Control, 26
Fertiliser Distributor (Bamfords. Ltd.), 93* Fescol, Ltd., Holloway Works, 530
File, Hand-Cut (J. Peace and Sons, Ltd.), 626 Films, Molecular, Production of, 710
Filters, Covered, Sewage Purification in, 692
— Gas, Contact Sulphuric-Acid Plant, 518*
— Paper, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 238
— Press, Hydraulic (S.H.Johnson &Co., Ltd.), 627*
Screw (S. Briggs and Co., Ltd.), 687* Filtration, Modern Methods of, 627*, 687*
Finch, Prof. G. I., on Graphoid Layer on Bearing Surfaces, 91*
Findlay, W. D. K., on Dry Rot, 463
Fineness of Powdered Materials, Measurement of, 492*
Fire Brigade, London, 100-ft. Turntable Ladder, 23*
— Domestic, Results attained with Coke and
Coal, 717
— Fighting Pump, Petrol-Driven, on Trailer
(J. Beresford and Son, Ltd.), 528
— in Gas Mains, Method of Extinguishing, 718
— Hydrants, Provision and Maintenance of, 54
— at Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 739
— Protection Panelling, Steel and Asbestos
(Durasteel Roofs, Ltd.), 529
Regulations for United States Ships, 116
— Pumping Vehicle, Emergency (Ford Motor
Co., Ltd.), 641*
— Service,London Auxiliary, Formation of. 17. 535
— in Spoil Banks, Investigation on, 138
Firebricks, Institution of Gas Engineers* Investigations on, 658
— See also Refractory Materials
Firedamp Explosions. See Accidents and Colliery
Fireproofing of Wood, Experiments on, 311 Fischer-Tropsch Hydrogenation Process, 517
Fish, Preservation of. Investigations on, 308
Fisheiideib Dr. M., on Errors in Gas-Temperature Measurement, 683
Fishleigh Rotary Cultivator Co., Ltd., Portable Winch for Use with Tractor, 94*
Fitting of Shafts in Doles. See Gauges
Fitzgerald, D. F. C., King's Cross Underground Station, Reconstruction, 265*, 296*, 386*. See Erratum, 444
Flames, Combustion, and Explosion of Gases (Review), 455
— Spectra, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 238
— Temperature, Measurement of, 683 Flange, Blank, Failure of, 147
Pipe, for High-Pressure and Temperature, National Physical Investigations on, 64 Fleet. See Warships
Fleming, Dr. A. P. M., on Engineering Training and Education, 509 ; on Magnetic and Electrical Methods ofTesting Materials, 652
Fleming, R., on Uniform Building Code, 385. i See Addendum, 5Q3
Flight. See AeronauG’cs
Flip in Rifle Barrels, Experiments on, 45 Floating Crane. See Crane
Flocculation of Industrial Elfluents, Cost of, 687
— Plant (Unifloc Reagents, Ltd.), 687*
Flood Dykes and River Control, 681 *
— in North India, 425
Floor, Heat Leakage tlirough, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 596
— Sound-Proof, Investigations on, 668
Flooring, Teak, Effect of Kiln-Seasoning Treatments on Wearing Qualities, 52
Flow of Compressible Fluid, Relaxation Applied to, 251
— Fluid, Passages, Scale-Model Experiments on, 313*
— through Nests of Tubes, Experiments on, 605*, 665*, 723*
— Problems of Rivers Whangpoo and Yangtse, 61, 165, 223, 241
— of Sand-Water Mixtures in Pipe Lines, Investigations on, 158
Flowmeter, Pipe, Flow past Plug in, 596 Flue Gases, Elimination of Sulphur from, 499 Fluid, Compressible, Flow of. Relaxation Applied to, 251
— Cutting, Functions of, 659*
for Machine Tools, Investigations on, 546. See Errattim, 580
— Flow Passages, Scale-Model Experiments on,
313*
— Friction. See Friction ; Ship Resistance
— Motion Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 196, 550
among Nests of Tubes, Experiments on, 605*, 665*, 723*
Fluidity of Allov Steel, Investigations on, 548, 581
Flying Boats. See Aeronautics
— Scotsman Trains, London and North Eastern Railway, 41*
Foil, Aluminium, for Insulating Purposes, Investigations on, 596
Fogg, A., on Friction of Oscillating Bearing, 170 Foley, Sir J., on the State and Marine Engineers, 425
Folsom, R. G., on Transportation of Sand in Pipe Lines, 158
Food Investigation Board, Annual Report, 308
— Preservation, Progress in, 308
Footbridge, Callender-Hamilton Unit-Construction, Western Avenue, Greenford, 342*
Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Welded Waterless-Type Klonne Gasholder, 129* ; Multi-Purpose Municipal Vehicle, 641* ; Emergency Fire- Pumping Vehicle, 641*
Forest Products Research Board, Report on Kiln-Seasoning Treatments of Teak, 52 ; Report on African Pencil Cedar, 292 ; Annual Report, 310 ; Report on Machinery I and Equipment for Bending Wood, 389 ; Report on Dry Rot in Wood, 463
— Rainfall and Soil Erosion, 579, 638
Forestry Tractors, 66*
Forging, Drop. See Drop Forging
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools Forster, Dr. F., on Acoustic and General Methods of Non-Destructive Testing, 652
Foster Instrument Co., Recording Pyrometer for 40-ton Annealing Furnace, 434
Foundation Company of Canada, Montreal Harbour Developments, 69*
— Raft, Ferro-Concrete, for Four-Lift Gas
holder, Sheffield, 323
— of Structures, Settlement Analysis, 310, 403*
Foundries, Brass and Iron, Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd., 9
— Cement-Sand Preparation Plant for gust’s, Ltd.), 430*
— Hadfield Metallurgical Laboratories,
field University, 363*
— Ironfounding in England, 1490-1890, 632
— Work. See also Die Casting
— See also Castings ; Moulding Fowler, Sir H., the Late, 484*
Fowler, J., and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Shallow-Well Pumping Unit, 96* ; 5-b.h.p. Single
Cylinder Petrol Engine, 96* ; 20-h.p. Two- Cylinder Oil Engine, 96*
Fox, M. L., on Speed and Curvature on Roads. 664
Foxwell, Dr. G. E., on Solid Fuel for Motor Transport, 299
Fractme of Metals, National Physical Laboratory, Investigations on, 62
Framework, Steel, Callender-Hamilton Unit- Construction Aeroplane Shed, 727*
France, Electrical Generation and Distribution in, 109, 136, 201*
— England Ultra-Short Wave Radio-Telephone
Link, 761
— Producer-Gas Lorries in, 654, 737
— Use of Wood and Charcoal as Motor Fuels
in, 288
— See also French
Frank, T. P., Waterloo Bridge Reconstruction, 587*
Freeboard, Ocean Waves, and Strength of Ships, 6
Freeborn Automatic Transmission System for Railcar, 622
French Agriculture, Power Supply for, 499, 607
French Railways, Electrification of, 755 Multiple-Unit J’rains on, 756
— See also Trance
Freon, National Physical Laboratory investigations on, 596
Frettage of Metals, National Physical Laboratory Investigation on, 63
Fretz-ivfoon Steel-Tube Plant, Corby, Electrical E(iui])nicnt for, 469*
Frichs Control System for Diesel Railcars, 630* Friction Clutch. See Clutch
— of Oscillating Bearing, Report, 170
— of Railway Brake Blocks, Experiments on,
719 , , ,
Frictional Coethcient, J.eather on Cast iron, 19S*
Fall and Dissipation in Rivers, 61
— Resistance of Ships. See Ship llesifilance Frisch. H., Vibratory Earth-Consolidating Machine, 562*
Frontinus on Roman Aqueducts, 542 Frost, Bursting of Water Pipes by, 625
— Resisting Properties of Building Materials,
Investigations on, 291
Froude Laboratory, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 338*, 370
Fruit Storage in Gas, Investigations on, 308 “ Fuciliere,” Italian Destroyer, Launch of, 478 Fuel Consumption, Junkers Heavy-oil Engines, 315, See LETTER, 472
— Institute of, Presidential Address, bj^ Lieut
Col. J. H. M. Greenly, on Fuel Problems. 482 ; Melchett Lecture on Destructive Distillation of Coal, by Prof. R. V. Wheeler, 485. See 482 ; Annual Dinner, 482 ; Symposium on Gas-Temperature MeasurementProgramme, 612; The Temperature of Gas : Its Meaning and Measurement, bv Captain J. G. Bennett and M. Pirani, 683 ; Errors in Gas-Temperature Measurement and their Calculation, by Dr. M. Fishenden and G. A. Saunders, 683 ; Wall Elfect in Gas-Temperature Measurement, by C. H. Bosanquet. 683 ; Measurement of Flame T’einperatures, by G. Ribaud, Y. Laure and H. Gaudry, 683 ; Theory and Application of the Suction Pyrometer, by A. Shack, 683 ; Optical Temperature Measurement of Luminous Hydrocarbon Flames, by G. Naeser, 683 ; Metallic Materials for Thermocouples, by A. Schultz, 683 ; Measurement of Temperature in High-Pressure Containers, by A. Michels and B. Blaisse, 683 ; Modified Aspirating Thermocouples for Gas Temperatures, bv B. M. Larsen, G. Siddall and K. Heindlhofer, 684 ; Errors in Gas-Temperature Measurement, by A. F. Webber, 684 ; Measurement of Gas Temperature in Glass Furnaces, by M. Parkin, 684 ; Gas- Temperature Measurement in Boilers, by W. R. Hawthorne, (584 ; Measurement of Gas I'emperatures in the Chemical Industry, by .1. C. Swallow. 684 ; Application of Temperature-Measuring Equipment to the Measurement of Gas Temperatures, by S. Matthews, 684; Temperature-Measuring Instruments, by W. Bowen, 684 ; Measurement of Temperature of Producer Gas, by M. W. Thring, 684 ; Modem Portable Gas Producer, by B. Goldman and N, Clarke- Jones, 738
— Liquid. See also Oil Fuel
— Low Temperature Carbonisation of Coal.
See Coaly Low-Temperature Carbonisation
— Motor, Positive-Displacement Meter for
(Tecalemit, Ltd.), 501*
Production by Fischer-Tropsch Hydrogenation Process, 517
Production by I. G. Farbenindustrie Hydrogenation Process, 774
Wood and Charcoal as, 288 See also Gas ; Motor ; Petrol; Producer
— Oil. See Oil Fuel
— Petroleum, Use in British Agriculture, 608
— Production and Utilisation, 482
— Pump. See Pump
— Research Board, Test of Morgan Rotary-
Retort Low-Temperature Carbonisation Plant, 113* ; Report on Production of Active Carbon from Bituminous Coal, 408 ; Report on Production of Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Phenols at Atmospheric Pressure, 464 ; Annual Report, 765
Station, Gas Investigations at, 603
— Smokeless. See Coaly Low-Temperature
Carbonisation
— Solid, for Motor Transport, Advantages, 299 Smoke Abatement with, 654
— See also Coal; Oil; Gas ; Pulverised Coal Fulham Power Station, Flue-Gas Washing at,
499
Fume Emission, Report on Alkali Works, 138
— Extractor for Welding Operations (Lincoln
Electric Co., Ltd.), 159*
— Sulphur, Atmospheric Pollution by, 280 Furnace, Annealing, 40-ton, Coal-Fired, for
Steel Castings (Stein and Atkinson, Ltd.), 434*
— Blast, Development of, 519. See 509 Gas, Use in Boilers, Delray Power
Station, 207*
— Boiler. See Stoker
— Electric, in American Steelworks, Practice with, 539
in European Steelworks, 539
Hood-Type, for Bright Annealing (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 576*
for Vacuum-Fusion Determination of Oxj gen in Steel, 238*
Wire-Wound Resistance, Control of Temperature in, 553
— Gas-Fired, Cassel Salt-Bath (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 152*
Fired Combustion Type (Selas Gas and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 214*
Fired, Heat Treatment (Lucas Furnaces, Ltd.), 156*
Fired, Muffle (Selas Gas and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 213*
— Glass, Measmement of Temperature in, 684
— for Heavy Weldless-Steel Tube Plant (^iest Furnaces, Ltd.), 713
— for Hot-Air Heating Systems, 682
— Lead-Melting, Portable (M. Sievert), 284
Fired, Tilting, with Preheated Air (Monometer Manufacturing Co., ltd.), 262*
— Open-Hearth, Acid, Steel-Melting Practice * in, 148
— Hearth, Basic, Fixed, Cold-Metal Practice in, 119
Hearth, Design and Control, 176
Hearth, Determination of Temperature of Steel in, 553
Hearth, Fixed, Hot-Metal Practice in, 24
— Technology, Modern (Review), 697
Fuses, Cartridge, High-Rupturing Capacity (General Electric Co., ltd.), 363
— Single-Phase Switch (Switchgear and Cowans, ltd.), 402*
“ Fu-Shing,” Drag-Suction Dredger (F. Schic- hau G.m.b.H.), 495*, 577*, 638*
Fushun-Ryuho Colliery, Mukden, Tower-Type Winding Plant, 671*

GAIBS, Sir R. R., on River Training in Connection with Bridges, 649
Gall. D. C., on Instruments for Measurement of Incremental Permeability, 348*. See 326
Galvanised Corrugated Sheets,Speciflcation, 320 — Iron Wire, Investigations on Corrosion of, 27, 54*
Galvanising and Metallised Zinc Coatings, 657 — Plant, Corby Steel-Tube Plant, 471* Galvanometers. See Electric
Gamma-Ray Methods of Testing Materials, 652 Ganges, River, Hardinge Bridge over, 650 Gantry for Reconstruction of Waterloo Bridge, 587*
— See also Cranes
Ganz and Co., ltd.. Transmission Goar for Diesel Railcar, 622, 632; Articulated Railcars for Argentine State Railways, 702*, 756*
Gapper, Root-Crop (E. H. Bentall and Co., ltd.), 31*
Garages for Cleansing and Transport Undertakings, 750
— in Relation to Factories and Towns (Re
view), 168
Gardner, A. U., on River Clyde and Glasgow Harbour, 109 ; on International Engineering Congress, 453
Garner, J. H., on Sewage Disposal and River Pollution, 749
Garreau, M., on Multiple-Unit Trains in France, 766
Garwood, Dr. F., on Automatic Traffic Counter, 613*
Gas, Blast-Furnace, Use in Boilers, Delray Power Station, 207*
— — Furnace, Utilisation of, 520
— Calorimeter, “ Thermeter ” Recording (Cutler-Hammer, Inc.), 345*
— Charcoal, for Motor Vehicles, 288
— Combustion, Flames and Explosion of (Review), 455
— Cylinders, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 64, 238
Steel, Effect of Gases on, 396
—- Department, Edinburgh, ISxperiments on Production of Free-Burning Coke, 659
— Engine. See Engine, Gas
— Engineers, Institution of, Papera on Gas- Manufacturing Methods, 75; Autumn Research Meeting: Report of Research Executive Committee, 569; Report of Joint Research Committee, Part III. Properties and Method of Use of Aeration Test Burner, 569 ; Report of Gas Works Safety Rules Committee, 569; Institution Gas Fellowship Report on Influence of Furnace Atmospheres on Scaling of Mild Steel at Temperatures from 1,200 deg. C. to 1,400 deg, C., 570 ; Report of Joint Research Committee on Investigation of Use of Oxygen and High Pressure in Gasification, Part III. Synthesis of Gaseous Hydrocarbons at High Pressures, 602 ; Report of Joint Research Committee on Complete Gasification of Coal and Methane Synthesis, 603 ; Report of Refractory Materials Joint Committee, 658 ; Hot Patching of Retorts by Blowpipe Spray Welding, by T. F. E. Rhead, S. K. Hawthorne anil V. H. Deacon, 658; Production of Free- burning Coke in Continuous Gas Retorts, by J. Jamieson and Dr. J. G. King, 659 ; Some Results attained with Solid Fuels used in Open Grates for Heating Living Rooms, by Dr. W. Davidson and Dr. H. Hartley, 717 ; Second Report of the Pipes Committee, 718 ; Report on Unaccounted- for Gas, 718
— Exhaust from Motor Vehicles, 300
— Fired Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Flue, Elimination of Sulphur from, 499 See also Fume
— and Gas Works. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Industry in Canada, Developments in, 109 Past, Present and Future, 110
— Ionisation of. See lonxsaiion
— Liquefied, National Physical Laboratory
Investigations on, 64
— Manufacturing Methods, Future Develop
ments, 75
— — Use of Cannel Coal in, 106
— Producer. See Producer
— Pipe, Wrought Iron, Specification for, 718
— under Pressure, Effect on Steel, 396
— Retorts, Hot-Patching by Blow-Pipe Ce
ment-Spray Welding, 658
— in Service of Public Health, 750
—- Specific Heats of. National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 197
— Temperature Measurement, Symposium on,
683
— Town, Aeration Test Burner for, 569
— Unaccounted-for, Method of Calculation, 718
— Welding. See 'Weldxng
— Wood, for Motor Vehicles, 288
— Works, Birmingham, Hot-Patching of Re
torts by Blow-Pipe Spray Welding, 658
Safety Bules, Institution of Gas Engineers’ Report on, 569
ticket, for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic
Boulder Ham Power House, 608*
Gauary, H., on Measurement of Flame Temperature, 683
Gauge, Calliper, Continuous, Oemichen Automatic, 115*
High-Sensitivity, Comparator for, 183* rns and Limits for Cylindrical Work, Questionnaire on, 137
7“ National Physical Laboratory, Tests of, 266* Gauging of Lathe Leadscrews, 632*
Outfits for Strip Mills (Cambridge Iiistru- ment Co,, Ltd.), 320*
Gayler, Dr. M. L. V,, on Constitution of Aluminium-Zinc Alloys, 567 ; on Charac- teristics of Copper-Aluminium Alloys, 568
Gear, Steering. See Steering and Motor-Car Details
Transmission, Diesel-Engined Railcars, Argentine State Railways, 703*
for Diesel Railcars, 621, 630*
“P.K.** Variable-Speed (W. Prym), 729^
Bightweight Agricultural Tractor, 681, 732*
78-b.h.p. Oil-Engined Shunting Locomotive, 772*
— “ Salerni Hydro-Kinetic, 268*, 482
Two-High Hot-Rolling Mill, 19*
— Worm-Reducing, lOO-h.p. Radicon (D.
Brown and Sons (Hudd), Ltd.), 655*
Geared Turbines, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
Gearing, Reduction, S.S. Castings for, 383*
— Wooden-Toothed, in Tide Mills, 445* Geary, W., on Hot-Metal Practice in Fixed
Furnaces, 24
Gebus Transmission Svstein for Railcars 622
General Electric Co., Ltd., Witton Works, 48, 78; 168-h.p. Electric Motors, 51; Exhibits at Glasgow Exhibition, 211* ; 5-h.p. 230-Volt Steelworks Motor, 212* • 170- h.p. Traction Motor, 212*; Shutter- Pattern Switch Sockets, 277; High- Rupturing Capacity Cartridge Fuses, 363 ; Spring-Closing Oil Circuit-Breakers, 406* • Hood-Type Electric Furnace for Bright ^nealing, 576* ; Refrigerator for Optical Works, 655
General Motors Corporation, Die-Casting Machines, 295*
Generating Set, 10-20-h.p. Petrol-Driven, with Stand-by Engine (Parsons Engineering Co Ltd.), 129*
— Station. See Power Statirm
Generator, Electric, 82,500-kVA, Boulder Dam Power House, 59*, 179*
50,000-kW, Clarence Dock Power Station, 483
24,000-kW, Deichow Hydro-Electric Plant, 36*
300 kW for Diesel-Electric Locomotives (Brown, Boveri <fe Co,, Ltd.), 48
1,250-kW for 4,400-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 100*
l|-kW Oil-Driven, for Lifeboats, 599* Ontario Hydro-Electric Plant, Rehabilitation after Damage by Ice, 203
800-kW, S.S. “ Mauretania,” 123 for Power Stations, Developments of, 173 2,200-kW, S.S, ” Queen Elizabeth,” 384 140-h.p. Steam-Driven, Anti-Vibration Mounting for, 185
See also Turbo-Oeneralors
— Steam (Review), 697
— Water-Gas, Gasification of Bituminous Coal
in. Experiments on, 603
Gendve, Prof, L. F. C, A., on Long-Distance Transmission of Steam, 279
Gent and Co., Ltd., Automatic Water-Level Indicator, 626
German Domestic Stoves, Design of, 683*
— Railways, Electric Power Supply for, 755 Germany, Deichow Peak-Load Hydro-Electric
Station, 36*
— Electric Power Supply in, 653
— Producer-Gas Lorries in, 654, 737
Gestra Steam Trap, Vaposcope Indicator for 691*
Gibb, Sir A., and Partners, Steam and Water Supply, Treforest Trading Estate, 97
Gibbons, J. F., on Gas Engines for Small Craft, 537. See LETTER, 616
Gibson, J., on Cold-Metal Practice in Fixed Basic Open-Hearth Furnaces, 119
Gilbert, C, L., on Petroleum Fuels for Agriculture in Great Britain, 608
Gilman, F, (B.S.T,), Ltd., Manufacture of Small Milling Cutters, 491*
Gilmour, H., on Production of Active Carbon from Bituminous Coal, 408
Gilsons, Messrs., Quarry Plant at St. Austell, 596*
” Giraffe” Crane, 444
Girders, Approach Spans, Balanced-Cantilever Bridge over Connecticut River, 553*, 676
— See also Bridges
Gjers, Mills and Co., Ltd., Middlesbrough, Failure of Blow-Down Pipe, 148
Glamorgan, Deep Navigation Colliery, Electrical Accident at, 367
Glasgow Empire Exhibition, 152*, 210*, 327*, 513*. See also Vol. cxlv
— Harbour and River Clyde, 109
— International Engineering Congress. See En
gineering Congress, lnternati(ynal, Glasgow
I Glasgow Royal Technical College Calendar, 374 Glass Containers, Detergents for Washing, 721 — Furnaces, Measurement of Temperature in, 684
— Homogeneity of, 721
— Materials, Exhibits at Building Trades Exhibition, 530
— Technology, Society of, Homogeneity of Glass, by F. J. Hurlbut, 721 ; Detergency and the Glass Container, by E. 0. Rounse- fell, 721
Glassware, Volumetric, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 299
Glazier, E. V. D., on Magnetic Testing of Rings and Small Transformer Cores, 573* Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd., Kilmarnock Works Extensions, 9*
Gogra, River, India, Irrigation-Pumping Plant, 768*
Gohin-Poulenc Producer-Gas Plant for Lorries, 654
Gohring, Dr. O., on Hot-Air Heating, 682
Gold Production in Canada, 1937, 373 Goldman, B., on Modern Portable Gas Producer, 738
Goodacre, E. J., on Air-Raid Shelters, 692
Goodwin, Barsby and Co., Ltd., Stone-Crushing and Screening Plant, 597*
Gordon, Lieut.-Col. Lord Dudley, on Engineering Industrial Organisation, 483
“ Gothic Star,” S.S., Explosion of Evaporator, 321
Gotz, Gebr., Double-Crank Plastic Moulding Press, 274*
Government Railways. See Railways
Governor Control System, 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, Boulder Dam Power House, 693*
Graaf, J. E. de, on X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Methods of Testing Materials, 652
”Graf Zeppelin,” German Airship, Description of, 751*
Grain Harvests of World, Transportation of, 571
— Law Vertical Hammer Mill for, 26
Grand Union Canal Co., Transport Service to America, 539
Graphoid Layer on Bearing Surfaces, 91*
Grass Comb (R. A. Lister and Go., Ltd.), 67* i —. Cutter Collector, Shanks’ (Harvest Saver <fe Implement Co., Ltd.), 65*
— Drier, Rotary (Harvest Saver and Implement Co., Ltd.), 65*
Grates, Open, Results with Solid Fuels in, 717
— See also Stoker
Gravesend Sewage Works, Experiments on Activated-Sludge Process, 692
Graving Dock. See Dock
Gravity Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Determinations, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 267
Greases, Lubricating : Their Manufacture and Use (Review), 610
— Multipoint Lubrication Battery for (Tecalemit, Ltd.), 227*. See Addendum, 272 Great Britain, Coal Consumption in, 33 Iron and Steel Industry of, Developments in, 80
I Motor Industry of, 1938, Report, 337
Road Development in, 281, 378, 435* —• — Search for Oil in, 593 Tide Mills in, 445*
Greatrex, F. B., on Transients in Transformers, 251
Greece and Rome, Science and Engineering in, 541
Green, E., and Son, Ltd., Economiser for La Mont Boiler, 414*
Green, J. R., on Relaxation Applied to Flow of
Compressible Fluid, 251
Greenford, Western Avenue, Callender-Hamilton Unit-Construction Footbridge, 342*
Greenly, H., Inductive Relay Contactor, 459*
Greenly, Lieut.-Col. J. H. M., on Fuel Problems, 482
Greig, J., on Harmonic Power in Iron Testing, 431*. See 326
Gresley, Sir H. N., ” Flying Scotsman ” Trains, 41* ; Train for London-Harwich Service, 456*
Griffith, Sir J. P., the Late, 512*
Grinding Machines. See Machine Tools Grit Emission, Report on Alkali Works, &c., 138
Grove, W. G., Balanced-Cantilever Bridge over Connecticut River, 553*, 676
Guide-Bunds for Rivers near Bridges, 649 — Spiral, and Carriages, for Gasholder, Sheffield, 367*
Gully Emptier with Monitor (Scamraell Lorries, Ltd.), 582*
Gunmetal Castings, Relief of Internal Stress in, 230*
Gunn, Dr. R., on Essential Elements in Naval Research, 141
Gunnery Instruction for Mercantile Marine Officers, 47
Gutteridge, H., on Engineering Aspects of Air- Raid Protection, 594
Guy Motors, Ltd., Motor Lorry with Air Compressing Plant, 583*
H.M.SS. See under Warships
Hack-Sawing Machine. See Machine Tools
Hadfield, Sir Robert, Metallurgical Laboratories, Sheffield University, 362*
Hadfields, Ltd., Manganese-Steel Rails for Newcastle-upon-Tyne Railway Junction, 584*
Halcrow, W. T., Reconstruction of King’s Cross Underground Station, 265*, 296*, 386*. See Erratum^ 444
Hall, S., Easton and Robertson, Metropolitan Water Board’s Laboratories, 502*
Hamburg-America M.S. ** San Francisco,” Wave Measurement Aboard, 6
— Heat Distribution Plant in, 279
Hamburger Flugzeugbau G.m.b.H., Long- Distance Seaplane ” Hamburg HA 139,” 720*
Hamilton and Sarnia Bridge Companies, Blue Water International Bridge, 377*
Hamlyn, W. H., Railway School of Transport, Derby, 126* ; Apsley Railway Station, 402*
Hammers. See Machine Tools
“Hampden,” Bombing Aeroplane (Handley Page, Ltd.), 7*
Hams Hall Power Station, Birmingham, Visit to 48, 77 ; Failure of Transformer at, 597 Hancock and Co. (Engineers), Ltd., “ PuUomax Shearing Machine for Sheet Metal, 625
Hand, T. W., on Developments in Iron and Steel Industry, 80
Handley Page, Ltd., “ Hampden ” Bombing Aeroplane, 7*
Handling Methods for Grain, 571
Hanson, Prof. D., on Tin-Rich Antimony-Tin Alloys, 568
Harbour, Glasgow, and River Clyde, 109
— Montreal, Developments, 69*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Harcourt, M. d’, on Combined Operation of Steam and Hydraulic Stations for Paris Electricity Supply, 350*. See 431*
Hardening Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurqy
Hardie-Tynes Manufacturing Co., 14-ft. Butterfly Valve.s, Boulder Dam Power House, 59*, 179*, 239*
Hardinge Bridge over River Ganges, 650 Hardness Tests. See Tests {Materials) Hardy, A. C., on Cross-Channel Services, 598 Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 900-h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotives, 48 ; Reconditioning of M.S. “ Carnarvon Castle,” 88* ; Gear-Wheel Centres, S.S. “Mauretania,” 121*, 169; Re-engining of M.S. “ Warwick Castle,” 428 : M.S. “ Durban Ca.etle,” 744 Harmonic Power in Iron Testing, 326, 431* “ Harpen I,” Motor Tug, Gas Engine of, 537 Harrison, McGregor and Co., Ltd., Double-Bar Bracken Breaker, 30* ; Tractor Expanding Rake, 30*
Harrow, Grassland (Bamfords, Ltd.), 93* Hartford Electric Light Co., Mercury-Vanour Plant, 175
Hartley, Sir C. A., and Training of Mississippi River, 651
Hartley, Dr. H., on Results with Solid Fuels In Open Grates, 717
Harvest Saver and Implement Co.,Ltd.,Rotary Grass Dryer, 65* ; Shanks’ Grass Cutter Collector, 65* ; Prime Electrical Fence, 66 Haseldine, J. F., on Public Water-Supply Problems, 53 ; on Water Charges, 625
Hasselt, Belgium, Collapse of All-Welded Bridge, 137. See LETTERS, 187, 360
Hatfield, Perrin and Partners, Investigation on Stresses in Welded Pipes, 289*
Haulage Investigations by Safety in Mines Research Board, 719
Hawksley Lecture on Development of Television, 565
Hawtayne, F. W. S., on Collapse of All-Welded Bridge, 137. See LETTERS, 187, 360 Hawthorn, R. and W., Leslie and Co., Ltd., Trials of H.M. Cruiser “ Manchester,” 191 ; Launch of H.M. Flotilla Leader “ Jervis,” 335; Launch of H.M. Flotilla Leader “Kelly,” 590
Hawthorne, S. K., on Hot-Patching of Gas Retorts, 658
Hawthorne, W. R., on Gas-Temperature Measurement in Boilers, 684
Hay, D., the Late, 568
Health Conditions in Tropics, Work on, 132
— Ministry of. Annual Report, 222 ; Report on
Preservation of Countryside, 396 ; Report on Refuse Collection and Street Cleansing, 483
— Research Board, Industrial, Annual Report.
655
— Services Congress, Public. See Public Health
Services Congress
Heat Distribution by Steam from Central Station, 279
— Driers for Coal, 460
— Engines. See Engines; Turbines; Aeronautics
— Insulating Materials, Thermal Conductivity of, 595
— Specific. See Specific Heat
— and Thermodynamics (Review), 166
— Transmission Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 197
Testing Apparatus for Insulating Materials, 595*
— Treatment Machine for Road Construction on Soils (L. R. H. Irvine), 39*
of Metals. See Metallurgy
Heater, Air, Gas-Fired (Perfecta Gas Thermostats, Ltd.), 513*
Gas-Fired Mobile (Serck Radiators, Ltd.), 513*
S.S. “ Mauretania,” 122
— Feed-Water. See Feed-Water Heating Curves, Alloys. See Metallurgy
— Domestic, Advantages of Gas for, 750 Results Obtained with Solid Fuels, 717
— by Hot Air, 682
— Methods, Domestic, In Europe, 653*
— Stoves for Burning Lignite, 653*
— Ventilating and Air Conditioning, Fundamentals (Review), 167
of Buildings, 691
Heaton, F. H., on Design of Sewage wSrks, 750 Hedin, T., on Licence Acts, for Swedish Power- Transmission Lines, 767
Height, L. H., Self-Supporting Horizontal Pipe-Line Span, 465*
Heindlhofer, K., on Aspirating Thermocouple for Gas Temperatures, 684
Helios Grease Lubricator, 204* Hematite Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Henschel und Sohn, G.m.b.H., 4,46o-b.h.p.
Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 100*
Hepburn, H. A., on Strength of Taper-Bore Thick End Plate, 171*
Herbert, A., Ltd., Electric Utility Machine Head, 312 ; Chasing Attachment for 5i-in. Centre Capstan Lathe, 485* ; Zeiss Toolmakers’ Microscope, 547* ; Investigations on Cutting Fluids for Machine Tools, 546. See Erratum, 580; Klopp High-Speed Hydraulic Shaping Machine, 675*
Hero of Alexandria, Writings of, 541
H6roult Arc Furnace in Steelworks, 540
'H’pTrp^hoff. Cant. N. G., tlie Late, 08 ,
Hertzog, E. S., on Dewatering and Drying of
Hevw^d, TH. H., on Mwonremont of FlnenoBB H,O£ ES'SrK". - A0«- Hl,gT
Squirrel-Cage Motor, 374
High-Temperature Tests
HlBliland Transport Co., Ltd., Gperawng Results with Producer-Gas Omnibus, 654
Highway Hngineering, Annuai Conference In Iliinois University. Use of Concrete Pavements, by F. V.
664 ; Trends in Design and Constructs of Suburban Thoroughfares, oy IL b. McCurdy, 664; Heavy Types of^ptt,u- minous Surfaces, by
_ Research Board, United States : Safety and ’^Speeds as Affecting Highway Hesign^y F Lavis, 663 ; Report on Antl-Skid wo perties of Road Surfaces 664 ; between Curvature and Speed, by M. Fox, 664; Seeing on the Highway, by K. M. Reid, 664
— See also Roads
Hill, E. L., the Late, 630 , „
History of Marine P^^nk fiSO
Memorial Lecture by S-
— of Naval Engineering in United States, 76^^ of South Yorkshire Iron Industry, 1698
Hoe Market-Garden (R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd.),
67*
Hoesch Steel Sheet Piling for Cofferdam, Waterloo Bridge, 588*
Hoists, Electric (Richmond and Chandler, Ltd.), 682
— See also Cranes „
Hokkaido Imperial University, Japan, taien
dar, 266
Holes, Fitting of Shafts in. See Gauges
Holliday and Greenwood, Railway School oi Transport, Derby, 126*
Holloway Works of Fescol, Ltd., 530 Holman Brothers, Ltd., .
Loading Rock from Mine Dump, 255
“ Holzapfel I,** M.S., Gas Engine of, 537
Home Office, Inspector’s Report,
Workshops, 193,196 ; Report on LlghtiM in Factories, 650; Report on Electrical Accidents and their Causes, 708
Hood, Dr. 0. P., on Smoke Abatement, -80
Hookins, L. C., on High-Pressure High-Tem- perature Steam Installations, 505. See 451
Hdrnell, Prof. P. G., the Late, 570
Hornibrook, F. B., on Vibrograph for Fresh Concrete, 232* ,
Horns, Motor, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 667 , • i
Horological Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 297 XT-
Horseley Bridge and T. Piggott, Ltd., Welded Waterless-Type Klonne Gasholder, Dagen-
Hot-Metal Practice in Fixed Open-Hearth Furnaces, 24
Hours of Labour. See Labour ,-r^ ,
House, The Evolving, Vol. Ill, Rational Design (Review), 284 . z-r^ • \ oca
Household Electric Refrigeration (Revmw), 366 — Heating, Fuels for, 663*, 682, 717, 750 Housing, Ministry of Health Report, 222 Howden, J., and Co., Ltd., Forced-and Induced- Draught Fans for La Mont Boiler, 416 Howe, W. L., on Gas in Service of Public Health, 750 . .. .
Hughes, E., on B.Sc.(Eng.) Examinations of London University, 137 ii
Hull Development Committee, Raw-Materials Survey, 137 „
— Museum, Model of First Priestman Oil Engine, 1887, 698
Humby, H. G., the Late, 426 Hume Concussional-Spun Concrete Pipes (J.
Ellis and Sons, Ltd.), 657*
Hume-Rothery, Dr. W., on Constitution of Magnesium-Rich Alloys, 667 ', on Liquidus and Solidus Curves of Magnesium Alloys, 567
Humidity Control, Nomogram Method of, 67* Humphreys, C. L. H., on Engineer s Contribution to Public Health Services, 692
Humphries, Sir H., the Late, 38
Hurlbut, F. .!.> on Homogeneity of Glass, /21_ Hurley, J., on Purification of Sewage in Covered Filters, 692
Hutchinson, A., the Late, 256 Hyderabad, Warangel Water Supp^ 448 Hydran Products, Ltd., “ Hydra ’ Oil Burner, 443*
Hydrants, Fire, Provision and Maintenance of, 54
Hydraulectric Mortising Machine, 397* Hydraulic Laboratory, Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, 3*, 149*
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Power Plant. See Power Plant Press. See Press under Machine Tools River Flow Problems, 61, 165, 223, 241 — Structures (Review), 264
— Transmission Systems for Diesel Railcars, 622,632 . „ ,
Turbines. See ; Power Plant — Use of Scale Models in, 252
Works, Use of Model Experirnents on, 16 See also Hydrodynamics ; Irrigation; Water Hydro-Aeropiane. See >SeapZane under Acro- nautics
Hydrocarbons, Aromatic, Production from Phenols, Experiments on, 464
— Gaseous, Synthesis at High Pressure, 662 Hydrodynamics. See Ship Posistance Hydro-Electric Power Plant. See Power Plant — Extractors, Electrically-Driven (Watson, Laidlaw andCo., Ltd.), 614
Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide, Methane Synthesis from, 603
— Fixation in Gas Manufacture, 76
— Gasification of Fuels in. Investigations on, 602
— Production, Lane Process of, 765 Hydrogenation of Coke, 602
— Process, Fischer-Tropsch, 517
— Process, I.G. Farbenindustrle, 774

I.G. FARBRKIXDUSTRIE High-Pressure Hydrogenation Process, 774
Ice Removal from Ontario Hydro-Electric Plant, 2ns
— See also Refrigeration
Ignitron Loading Equipment for Traction Substations (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 428*
Illinois University, Smoke, Dust and Air Pollution, by Dr. R. Mitchell, 280 ; In- ; vestigation on Pressure Losses in Air Ducts, 302 ; Lectures on Coal Utilization, 424 ; Annual Conference on Highway Engineering, 664 ; Experiments oh Friction of Railway Brake Shoes at High Speed and High Pressure, 719; Fatigue Tests of Riveted Joints, by W. M. WiLson and F. P. Thomas, 773
Illumination in Factories, Report, 650
— Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 725
— of Roads, Investigations on, 664
— See also Light; Lightwg; and Lamps under Electric
Imo Positive-Action Pump, 515*
Impact Stresses in Machine Parts, Absorption of, 144*
— Tests. See Tests {Materials}
— Wheel, from Motor Vehicles, National Physical Laboratory, Investigations on, 151
Impeller for Sewage Pump, Model Tests of, 244* Imperial Airways, Ltd., Atlantic Flight by Seaplane “Mercury,” 137; Endurance Test of Bristol Perseus XIIo Aero Engine, 763
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Cassel Salt- Bath Gas-Fired Furnace, 152*
— College of Science and Technology, London,
School of Highway Engineering, 276; Department of Aeronautics, Syllabus, 374 ; Experiments on Flow through Nests of Tubes, 605*, 665*, 723* i
Import Trade. See Trade
Incandescent Lamps. See Lamps under Electric * Indexing and Abstracting Technical Literature, 9. See LETTERS, 169, 342
India and Burma, Law Relating to Electrical Energy in (Review), 167
— Cawnpore, Imperial Institute of Sugar
Technology, Experiments on Molasses as Road-Making Material, 321
— Import Trade of, 1937-38, Survey of, 272
— North, Floods in, 42,5
— River Training in, 649
— Rubber. See Rubber
— Store Department, London, Annual Report, 621
— United Provinces, Electricity Supply Scheme for Irrigation Pumping, 768*
Water Supply in Warangel, Hyderabad, 448 Indian Railway Board, Annual Report, 76. See Addendiimt 134
Indicator, “ Vaposcope,” for Steam Traps (H. Richter), 691* I
— Water-Level, Automatic (Gent and Co., Ltd ) 626
Induction Furnaces. See Furnaces, Electric
— Motor. See Motor, Electric Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Agreements and Disputes. See Labour Notes
— Chemistry. See Chemistry
“ Development, Board of Trade Survey, 164
— Economics. See Labour
— Fatigue. See Labour
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Management. See Works Management
— and Municipal Planning, 109, 110
— Notes. See Labour Notes under Labour
— Planning, Problems of, 566
— Property, International Conventions Relating to, 715
— Research. See Research
Industries, Small, Supply of Energy for, 653*
— Training Engineering Graduates for, 249, 251, 260. See LETTERS, 299, 530
— See also Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Ingersoll-Rand Co., Ltd., Diesel-Driven Air
Compressor, 732*
Inglis, Prof. C. E., on Resonance in Relation to Mechanical Vibrations, 282; Vibration Damper for Ships, 347*
Inland Navigation. See Navigaticm : Canals * Rivers, <&c. '
Inoculation of Cast Irons, 743, 746* Institute of Transport. See Transport
— See Institutions
Institution, British Standards. See Standards
— Royal. See Royal Institution
Technical and Scientific. See Aeronautical Society, Royal; Agricultural Engineers, British, Institution of; Agricultural Society, Royal; Air-Raid Protection Institute (under Aeronautics}; Automobile Engi- ifeers. Institution of; British Aircraft Constructors, Society of; British Associa- X Engineers' Association '
British I oundrymen. Institute of ; Chemical Engineers, Institution of; Chemical Industry, Society of ; Civil Engineers, Institution of, Consulting Engineers, Association of • Electrical Engineers, Institution of; Engi- i^ers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of; Engineers, Society of; Export, Institute 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 • Engineers, American Society of Engineers, Institutwn o/- of; National Safety Iirst Association; Naval Archif.ccts Institutwnof; Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of; Naval Engineers,
American Society of; Newcomen Society; North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders; Nortaich Engineering Society ; Patent Agents. Chartered Institute of; Petroleum. Institute of; Boyal Institution; Boyal Society; Bubber Industry, Institution of; Sanitary Institute. Boyal; South Wales Institute of Engineers; Structural Engineers, Institution of; Supervising Electrical Engineers. Association of; Swedish Cement Association; Swedish Water-Power Association; Testing Materials, American Society for; Transport, Institute of; Water Engineers, Institution of; Welding, Institute of
Instruments for Measurement of Instrumental Permeability, 326, 348*
— Scientific, Trend of Design in, 310, 317*
— Thickness-Measuring, Electrical, for Metal
Walls, 715*
— See also Aeronautics; Electric Insulation. SeeHcer^; Electric
Insurance, Accident and Sickness, at Krupps, 1836-1936 (Review), 770
Intercrystalline Cracking of Boiler Plate, Investigations on, 237
Interferometer for Precise Measurement of Gauges, 266
Internal-Combustion Engines. See Aeronautics ; Engines; Motor Cars; Motor Boats : Tractors
International Air Transport, 109
— Building Club, London, 219
— (Chemical Congress. See Chemical Congress,
International
— Conference on Documentation, Oxford, 50, See LETTER, 458
Architects and Marine Engi- Naval Architects and Marine International Conference of.
Relating to Industrial Pro-
— Crisis and Engineers, 423,479. See 250, 395.
See LETTERS, 457, 530
and Road Transport, 591
— Electrotechnical Commission, International
Electrotechnical Vocabulary. 684
International Engineering Concessionaires, Ltd., Oemichen Automatic Continuous Calliper Gauge, 115* ; Greenly Inductive Relay, 459* Congress, Glasgow. See Engineering Congress. International. Glasgow
International Harvester Company of Great Britain, Ltd., 14-h.p. Paraffin Tractor, 31*
— Situation, Register of Engineers for National
Service, 395. See 250, 423. See LETTERS, 457, 479, 530
— Temperature Scale, National Physical Laboratory, Investigations on, 553
— Trade. See Trade
Inventions. See Patents Ionisation Chamber, Air-Wall. 623* i Iran, Economic and Commercial Conditions in, ; Report, 156
Iraq, Economic and Commercial Conditions in, Report, 250
Ireland, Northern, Transport Reorganisation in, Report, 651
Iron Alloys. See Metallurgy and Steel
— Commercially-Pure, Specific Heat-Temperature Curves of, 580
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Founding in England, 1490-1890, 632
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Heat Treatment. See Metallurgy
— Industry in South Yorkshire, 1698-1756, 760
— Magnetic Testing of, Harmonic Power in,
326, 431*
— Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast
— Pig, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Pure, Magnetic Properties of, Investigations on, 326, 488*
— Rolling Mills. SeeRoZ^iwy Mills
— and Steel Exchange, London, Closing of, 758 Industry, Development of, 519. See 509 Industry in Great Britain, Developments
in, 80
Industries, Statistics, 618

Iron and Steel Institute :

Ablett Prize, 255, 539 Spring Meeting (1938), London :
Atmospheric Corrosion of Galvanised Iron Wire and its Bearing on Specification Testing, by C. E. Richard®, 27, 54* See also vol. cxlv
Spring Meeting (1938), London : Symposium on Steel Making {Acid and Basic Open- Hearth Practice):
Hot-Metal Practice in Fixed Open-Hearth Furnaces, by W. Geary, 24
Cold-Metal Practice in Fixed Basic Open- Hearth Furnaces, by J. Gibson, 119
Acid Open-Hearth Steel-M:elting Practice, bj-^ T. M. Service, 148
Open-Hearth Furnace Design and Control, by R. J. Sarjant, 176
See also vol. cxlv
United States Meeting:
Programme, 199
Postponement of, 364
Autumn Meeting. London:
Programme, 420
Retiring Officers, 539
American Electric-Furnace Practice, by W. M. Farnsworth and E. R. Johnson. 539
Electric Furnaces in European Steelworks, by D. F. Campbell, 539
Specific Heat-Temperature Curves of Commercially-Pure Iron and Certain Plain- (>arbon Steels, by Dr. C. Sykes and H. Evans, 580
Modern Rolling-Mill Practice in America (Exclusive of Continuous Strip and Sheet Mills), by Q. Bent, 580
Development of Continuous Strip Mills, by D, Eppelsheimer, 580
Third Report of Steel-Castings Research Committee, 548. See 581.
Iron and Steel Works. See IForl-s
See also pARAORApn INDEX
— Tests. See Tests {Materials')
— in Water, Removal of, Investigations on, 396
— Welding. See iPeZdirtg
— Wrought, Decline in Manufacture of, 520
— See also Cast Iron; Steel; Pig Iron;
Metallurgy
Tronfounding in England, 1490-1890, 632
Ironwork, Structural. See Bridges; Steel; Structures
Irrigation in Egypt, Power Supply for, 453
— Pumping Plant, United Provinces in India.
768*
— See also PAKAORAPH INDEX
Irvine, L. R. H., Heat-Treatment Machine for Road Construction on Soils, 39*
Isofuse Switch, 062*
Ison, 11. C. K., on Corrosion of Coal-Tar Stills 333, 396
Italian Destroyers “ Puciliere and “ Ascaro,” Launcli ot', 478
— Mercantile Marine, Position of, 109
— Submarines “ Barbarigo *’ and “ Emo ”
Launch of, 199 ’
— Torpedo Boats “Circe” and “Calii>so,”
Launch of, 219
Italy, Northern, Rural Electricity Supply, 499
— Producer-Gas Lorries in, G.54
— Shipbuilding in, 109

JAKEMAN, C., Bearing, 170
James Cycle Co., ,
Industrial Truck, 292*
Jamieson, J., on Production of Free-Burninu Coke, 659
Janus,” H.M. Destroyer, Launch of, 598 Japan, Hokkaido Imperial University, Calendar 256 ’
Klectric Railways, Power Supply for,
Jaster, J., on Developments in BrickRoads, 233 Jenkins, R., on Copper Alining in Lake District .. , Ironfounding in England, 632
T Leader, Launch of, 335
Jet, Petrol, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 198
Jigs and Fixtures (Review), 771
Johnson, E. R., on American Electric-Furnace Practice, 539
Johnson Aletal Co., Ltd., Helios Grease Lubricator, 204* *
Johnson, S. H , and Co., Ltd., Hydraulic Filter X ress, 62 / *
Joints, Contraction and Expansion, in Concrete Roads, 664
— Dawson Welded, for High-Pressure Steam
Pipe, 505*
— Fillers for Brick Roads, 233 7- Riveted, Fatigue Tests of, 773
Jones, E. H. (Alachine Tools), Ltd., U.S. Multi- Purpose Al illing Machine, 576*
Jones, J. L. B., on Operating Experience with Engines, 472. See 315* J 899* Mobile Crane,
Journals. See Bearings Jugoslavia. See Yugoslavia
Aero •—211, 800-1,200-11.p. Aero Engine. 487* b'lJJin/T Experiments on, 45
Junior Institution of Engineers, Aleasurement of Alechanical Power, by Dr. C. V. Drv«- Qualifications and ^muneration ot Engineers, by Dr H ’ Presidential Address, by 7nnv« Roads and Trathc, 710
^t Science Aluseum, 566 Aeroplane Engines, LS” 47^^^"'*^*^® 315*. See
mid Motorenwerke A.-G..
Ju 90 Aeroplan , 487*
205 C, 600-h.p., Six-Cylinder Aero Engine, 720* ^.yiiuuci Aero
TAJT' ?A^*.3*^^'^’200-h.p., Aero Engine 487* i*^34^” of State for Steam,

KANSAS CITY BRIDGE CO., Piers for Blue I’^^e^i^^'tional Bridge, 377*
Mfr/conege“’169“'‘^
T’of the KPUV Canada, 109
KelsauV A. c'; on Xply‘IV’c^rtftsm^? 9T
gauging of Khanki Coal-Tar Paint for Steel Work •?/«
Kidman and Sorrs, Ltd., Apsley‘Say sf'tion, I*- C., on Motor-Car Develoumpnf
Bmissioiifroin 138 on Teak, Repor ’ 59
Notef i2Tl^l*"‘=“°" StrmctuFe“Bo^“e King, G. W., Ltd., Selective Conveyor Installfl
Kint? T?r’ Co^ventrT 25*
I^est^of l^ub?s?6O^?^"o1 °X"' King.ston-on:rhan;es®lower®S^ft7c^e'Kh^^39
” Klngswood,” S.S., Explosion of Auxiliary Boiler, 321
Kinzle, P. A., on 14-ft. Butterfly Valve, Boulder Dam Power House, 59*, 179*, 239*
Kirchner <fe Co. (London), Ltd., Petrol-Driven Chain Saw, 372*
Kitchen Car, London-Harwich Train, 456*
Kitchen and Wade, Ltd., 12-ft. Radial Drilling Machine, 81
Kitsons of Leeds, 1837-1937, History of, 338 Klement, V., the Late, 389
Klonne Gasholder, Welded Waterless-Type (Horseley Bridge and T. Piggott, Ltd.), 129*
Klopp, F., High-Speed Hydraulic Shaping Machine, 675*
Knight, H. E., Electrical Equipment, Corby Steel-Tube Plant, 469*
Knowledge. Mobilisation of, 9. See LETTERS, 169, 342
Kodak Ltd., Refrigerator for Optical Works, 655
Koster, Prof. W., on Acoustic and General Methods of Non-Destructive Testing, 652
Kratz, Prof. A. P., on Pressure Losses in Air Ducts, 302
Krupps* Accident and Sickness Insurance Schemes, 1836-1936 (Review), 770
Kryn and Lahy (1928), Ltd., 40-ton Annealing , Furnace for Steel Castings, 434*

LA MONT Boiler Installation, Cathcart Works, G. and J. Weir, Ltd., 414*, 504* ; Tests, 654
Lboratory, Froude, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 338*, 370
— Glassware, National Physical Laboratory, Investigations on, 299
— Metallurgical, Sir Robert Hadfield, Sheffield University, 362*
— Research, Forest Products, Report on Dry Rot in Wood, 463
Institution of Automobile Engineers, Work of, 107, 397
United States Naval, Electro-Magnetic Testing of Steel Plates, 141
— Road Research, Investigations by, 380, 435
— Water-Examination, Metropolitan Water Board, 602*
— See also National Physical

Labour:

Factory Act, 1937 (Review), 254
— and Workshops, Home Office Inspector’s Report, 193, 195
Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
—- Health Research Board’s Annual Report, 655
Krupps’ Accident and Sickness Insurance Schemes, 1836-1936 (Review), 770
Labour Notes, 8, 38, 81, 99, 127, 157, 186, 215, 242, 273, 301, 344, 361, 390,
417, 444, 473, 516, 543, 556, 586, 612, 656, 673, 701, 731, 759. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Protection of Workmen against Eye Injuries, 20
Rest Periods during Working Hours, 9
Trade Schools and Training of Craftsmen, 98
Lacy-Hulbert and Co., Ltd., Automatic Motor- Driven Air-Compressor Set, 529*
I/adder, Steel, 100-ft. Turntable, for London
Fire Brigade, 23*
Lagging Materials. See Heat Insulation
Laing Lecture on Molecular Basis of Strength of Materials, 593
Lakes, Nitrogen Balance of Water in, 691
— Windermere, Motor Launch “ Swan,” 72 Lamps, Electric. See Electric
Lanark, Earnock Colliery, Accident from Electric Cable in, 367
Lancashire Steel Corporation, Ltd., Hot-Metal
Practice in Fixed Furnaces, 24
Lancaster-Jones, E., on Evaluation of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, 707
Lanchester, Dr. F. W., on Energy Balance- Sheet of Gas Engine, 137 ; Seven-Figure Logarithmic Tables, 427
Lander, H. N. H., on Bacteriological and Chemical Control of Public Water Supply, 54
Lane Process of Hydrogen Production, 765 Langmuir, Dr. I., on Molecular Films, 710 Lanz Tractor Co., Ltd., Tractor Binder, 96 Larner-Johnson Water Valves, 114
Larsen, B. M., on Aspirating Thermocouple for
Gas Temperatures, 684
Latent Heat of Fusion of Aluminium, 594 Lathes. See Machine Tools
Latil Industrial Vehicles, Ltd., Producer-Gas Forestry Tractor, 66*
Launch, Motor. See Motor Boat
— and Trial Trips, 12, 52, 72, 102, 160, 218,
276, 304, 334, 364, 392, 448, 476, 506, 534, 589, 617, 705,734, 762
Laure, Y., on Measurement of Flame Temperature, 683
Laurel High-Pressure Mechanical Oil Pump, 777*
Laurence Scott and Electromotors, Ltd., Traction Motors for 900-h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotives, 48; Electric Motors and Winches, Drag-Suction Dredger ‘‘Pushing,” 497, 579*, 639
Lavis, F., on Safety and Speed and Road Design, 663
Law Vertical Hammer Mill, for Grain, 26*
— See Legal; Labour ; Patents
Lawson, W. and F,, Explosion of Steam-Jacketed Digester, 147
Le Grand, Sutcliff and Gell, Ltd., De-Mudding Borehole at Slough, 20
Lea, Prof. F. C.. on Torque Converter for Motor Cars, 268*. See 281, 482
Lead, Action of Water on, Investigations on, 396
— Melting Furnace, Portable (M. Sievert), 284
— Mining in Yugoslavia, 685
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Production in Canada, 1937, 373 Leadscrew, Lathe, Manufacture and Gauging of,
Leather Belta, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 108*
Lebanon and Syria, Economic Conditions in, Report, 604
Lee, Sir G., Mechanical Equipment, Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, Jjondon, 353*, 437*, 523*, 635*, 698*
Lee Guinness Hydro-Pulsator Co., Ltd., Car- Washing Pump with Pulsating Delivery, 288*
Leeds University, Gas Researches at, 569, 602

Legal ;

Engineering Law (Review), 183 Eactories Act, 1937, Requirements of, 193, 195
1937 (Review), 254 1937, Rest Periods during Working Hours, 9
Labour Legislation. See Labour
Law Relating to Electrical Energy in India and Burma (Review), 167
Legislation regarding British Roads, 379, 436
Licence Acts for Swedish Power-Transmission Lines, 767
Patent Law. See Pateuis United States Civil Aeronautics Act, 1938, 850
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Legislation. See Legal; Labour; Patents Leicester, Stoney Stenton, Concrete-Pipe
Works (J. Ellis <fe Sons, Ltd,), 567*
Length, Standard of. National Physical Laboratory Work on, 267
Leonardo da Vinci, Writings and Inventions of, 543
Lepper, G. W., on Search for Oil in Britain, 593
Lessing, Dr. R., on Elimination of Sulphur from Flue Gases, 499
Lester, H. H., on Non-Destructive Testing, 652 I^etters to the Editor, 9, 137, 169, 187, 214, 299*, 342, 457, 472, 505, 530, 598, 616
— Sorting Office, Mount Pleasant, London,
Mechanical Equipment at, 353*, 437*, 523*, 635*, 698*
Level, Universal (P. Philipp), 348
Levenger, M., the Late, 735
Levinstein, Dr. H., on Sir W. H. Perkin and Coal-Tar Dye Industry, 651
Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of, Oxford Conference, 50, 389. See LETTER, 458 ; Evaluation of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, by E. Lancaster- Jones, 707
Lifeboat, Motor, Stainless-Steel, Ship’s, (Meehans, Ltd.), 154*
li-kW Oil-Driven Electric Generator for, 699*
— Saving Equipment for United States Ships,
Rules for, 118
Safety at Sea and Ship Construction, 87
Light Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Intensity, Unit of, 725
— and Sound, Combination Tones in, 593
— Spot, for Welding Work (Philips Industrial
(Philips Lamps, Ltd.)), 761
— See also Spectrum
Lighting in Factories, Report, 650
— Gas. See Gas
— Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 725
— of Roads, Investigations on, 664
— Street, Power Supply for, 709
— System, Corby Steel-Tube Plant, 471*
— See also Lamps under Electric Lignite, Heating-Stoves Burning, 653*
Lilienberg, A., on Municipal and Industrial Planning, 109
Lime, Action on Refractories, 658 Limestones of Ontario, Report, 305
Limits and Fits for Cylindrical Work, Questionnaire on, 137
— Gauges. Gauges ; Gauging
Lincoln Electric Co., Ltd., Fume Extractor for Welding Operations, 159*
Lincoln, J. F., Arc-Welding Foundation, Competition Awards, 369
Lind, P., and Co., Ltd., Waterloo-Bridge Reconstruction, 687*
Lindley, J. Browett (1931), Ltd., 1,000-b.h.p. Vee-Belt Drive for Air Compressor Tests, 140*. See Addendum, 191 ; Air Compressor with Automatic Control, 760*
Liner Concrete Machinery Co., “Giraffe” Crane, 444
— See Steamers
Li quid-Culture Tank (Electro-Horticultural Equipment Co., Ltd.), 96*
— Fuel. See Oil Fuel. See also Motor ; Petrol
— Storage of, Code for Design of Ferro-
Concrete Structures for, 289
Lister Dumping Valves, Drag-Suction Dredger ‘•Fu-Shing,” 495*, 639*
Lister, R. A., <fe Co., Ltd., Grass Comb, 67* ; Market-Garden Hoe, 67* ; 1-h.p., to 16-h.p. Air-Cooled Petrol Engines, 682
Literature, 91, 166, 182, 209, 254, 283, 356, 455, 610, 640, 696, 769. See LITERATURE INDEX
— Technical, Indexing and Abstracting of, 9.
See LETTERS, 169, 342
Lithgow, Sir J., on Shipbuilding and National Economics, 33
— Propeller Tunnel, Froude Laboratory, Investigations with, 370
Litigation. See Legal; Labour Patents
Liverpool Corporation, Clarence Dock Power Station Extensions, 483
Livesey-Type Manholes for Gasholder, Sheffield, 357*
Lloyd, A. H., on Cutting Fluids and Machine ’ Tools, 646. See Erratum, 580
Lloyds and Co. (Letchworth), Ltd., Gang-Mower with Pneumatic Tyres, 644*; 3-h.p.
Petrol-Driven Cultivator, 682
Lloyd’s Register, Annual Report, 692 Book, 141
Statistics of Vessels under Construction, 77,453
Wreck Returns, 132, 774
Loader, Snow, Spiral-Feed (Barber-Greene Co.), 200*
Loading Machines for Strip Mining of Bituminous Coal, 229*
— and Shovelling Machine for Underground Work (British Conway Shovels, Ltd.), 645* Local Authorities. See Municipal
Lockheed Control for H.M. Diesel-Engined Picket Boat, 142*
Lockouts. See Labour ; Labour Notes Locomotive, Atlantic-Type, Conversion of, London and North Eastern Railway, 127
— Constructed by Kitson and Co., 838
— 900-h.p. Diesel-Electric, Buenos Ayres
Great Southern Railway, 48
— 4,400-b.h.p., Diesel-Electric, Roumanian State Railways, 100*
— Electric, for Japanese Railways, 709, 710
— Historic, Euston Station Exhibition, 369.
See 594
— on Indian Railway, 76. See Addendxi'int 134
— Operation in United States, 136
— Shunting, 78-b.h.p., Oil-Engined (Associated Equipment Co., Ltd.), 772*
— Steam (Review), 254
— See also Railways in PARAGRAPH INDEX Loded Cast Irons, Properties of, 710
Loewy Engineering Co., Ltd., Heavy Weldless- Steel Tube Plant, Chesterfield, 713
Lofgren, G., on Power-Transmission Problems, 767
Logarithmic Tables, Seven-Figure, Lanches- ter’s, 427
London, Alexandra Palace Television Station, 565
— Auxiliary Fire Service, Formation of, 17, 535
— and Birmingham Railway, Centenary of,
368, 594
— Bournemouth Service Southern Railway,
Rolling Stock for, 177*
— City of, College, Lectures on Iron and Steel,
220
— County. Underground Water Supplies, 713 Council, Contract Conditions, 74 ; Waterloo-Bridge Reconstruction, 587*; Development of South Bank of River Thames, 593 ; Duplication of Blackwall Tunnel, 680
— Fire Brigade, lOO-ft.’ Turntable Ladder, 23* Service, Auxiliary, Formation of, 17. 535
— Imperial College of Science and Technology,
School of Highway Engineering, 276; Department of Aeronautics, Syllabus, 374 ; Experiments on Flow through Nests of Tubes, 605*, 665*, 723*
— India Store Department, Annual Report, 621
— International Building Club, 219
— Iron and Steel Exchange, Closing of, 758
— King’s College, Faculty of Engineering,
Syllabus, 190 ; Lectures on Steam Boiler Plant, 506 ; Experiments on Flow through Nests of Tubes, 605*, 665*, 723*
— Midland and Scottish Railway, Lake Motor
Launch “ Swan,” 72 ; School of Transport, Derby, 126* ; Report on Oakley Junction Accident, 214; Trent Valley Junction Reconstruction, 22,5* ; Report on Ruther- glen Railway Accident, 256 ; Calculation of Train Running Times, 282 ; Apsley Station 402* ; Centenary Dinner, 594. See 368
— Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, Mechanical
Equipment of, 353*, 437*, 523*, 635*, 698*
— and North Eastern Railway, Report on
Castlecary Accident, 16; “Flying Scotsman ” Trains, 41* ; Record Speed of “Coronation” Train, 74; Conversion of Atlantic Type Locomotive, 127 ; Train for London-Harwich Service, 456* ; Relaying Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction, 584*
— Northampton Polytechnic, Prospectuses,
275 ; Investigations on Incremental Magnetic Measurements, 406*, 573* ; Lectures on Electro-Deposition, 706
— Passenger Transport Board, New Rolling
Stock for Underground Railways, 51* ; Waterloo Tube-Railway Accident, Report, 71; Reconstruction of King’s Cross Underground Station, 265*, 296*, 386*. See Erratum^ 444 ; Charing Cross Underground Railway Accident, Report, 396 ; Aidgate East Station Reconstruction, 531*; Annual Report, 564
— Port of, Annual Report, 251
— Queen Mary (College, Guild of Friends of, 169
— Regent-street Polytechnic, Prize Distribution, 586
— School of Economics, Department of Business Management, Report, 189
— Underground Railways. See Underground
— University B.Sc. (Eng.) Examinations, 137 College, Faculty of Engineering, Prospectus, 71; Lectures on Geology, 506; Calendar, 570
— Water Supply, Statistics and Examination
of, 502*
Longbridge “Shadow” Factory, Aeroplane Production at, 139*
— Works, Austin Motor Co., Ltd., 48, 78
Longitudinal Bulkheads. See Water-Tight Subdivision
Lorries. See Motor Lorries ; Tractors
Loser Vibration-Neutraliser for Ships, 347* Lovett, M., on Purification of Sewage in Covered Filters, 692
Low-Temperature Carbonisation of Coal. See Coal
— Wincobank, Sheffield, Four-Lift Spiral-
Guided Gasholder, 323*, 357*
Lubricant, Graphited, Action on Bearing Surface, 91*
Lubricating Greases : Their Manufacture and Use (Review), 610
— Oils. See Oils
Lubrication Battery, Multipoint, for Soft Grease (Tecalemit, Ltd.), 227* See Addeniuin^ 272
— National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 64*
— Research Committee, Report on Friction of
Oscillating Bearing, 170
— System for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine,
Boulder Dam Power House, 670*
Lubricator, Grease, Multi-Point High-Pressure (Wetzel und SclUosshauer), 204*
Lucas Furnaces, Ltd., Gas-Fired Heat-Treatment Furnace, 156*
Lucretius, Scientific Views of, 541
Luftschiffbau Zeppelin G.m.b.H., Airship “ Graf Zeppelin,” 751*
Lugt, G. J., on Whirl of Diesel-Engine Crankshafts, 21*. See 6
Luminous Intensity, Unit of, 72b
Lundberg, H. A., on Swedish Cooking Stoves, 682
Lurgi Process and Gas Manufacturing, 76 Lynde, G. G., the Late, 187
Lysaght, J., Ltd., Hot-Metal Practice in Fixed Furnaces, 24

MACADAM. See Roads and Tar
Mac. See also Me
Machine Design, Fundamentals (Review), 696 and Research on Materials, 143*
— Shops. See Works and Machine Tools
— Testing. See Testing Machines and Tests (Materials)

Machine Tools :

Bending Machines for Wood, 389 Boring and Facing Machine, 72-in. Horizontal (G. Richards and Co., Ltd.), 202* Chasing Attachment for 5^-in, Centre
Capstan Lathe (A.Herbert, Ltd.),485* Chucks, Magnetic, Manufacture of (J.
Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd.), 332 Cutting Properties of Magnesium Alloys, 170
— Tools, Action of, 659* Die-Casting Machines. See Die Casting Dovetailing Machine, Multi-Spindle, for
Wood (R. S. Brookman, Ltd.), 398* Draw-Bench, Triple-Cylinder, Hydraulic
(H. Berry and Co., Ltd.), 713 Drill, Electric, J-in. Portable (Black and Decker, Ltd.), 748* Drilling Machine,
Selective Gear fabrik Herman Addendum, 477 12-ft. Radial
Ltd.), 81 Facing and Boring Machine, 72-in. Hori
zontal (G. Richards and Co., Ltd.), 202* Grinding Practice (Review), 182 Hacksaw-Frame Manufacture (J. Neill &
Co, (Sheffield), Ltd.), 332*
Hammer, Chipping, Pneumatic (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 626
— Drop, for Sheet-Metal Aircraft Parts (Brett’s Patent Lifter Co., Ltd.), 52* Hydraulic Press. See Dress (below) Jigs and Fixtures (Review), 771
Lathe, 5J-in. Centre, Capstan, Chasing Attachment for (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 485* — Design of Bed for, 144*
— f-in. Four - Operation, Automatic
(Brown and Ward, Ltd.), 714*
— Leadscrews, ilanufacture and Gauging of, 632*
— with “ P.K.” Variable-Si)eed Friction
Drive, 730*
— “ Procedo,” Rotating Centre for (R.
Prozesky), 508
Limit Gauging. See Gauging
Machine Head, Utility, Electric (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 312
— Shop Management, Works Management
— Tool Anchorage, Plastic Asbestos for (Philplug Products, Ltd.), 348*
Cam-Operated Switch for (Brookhirst Switchgear, Ltd.), 749*
Cutting Fluids for. Investigations on, 546. See Erratum, 580
Functions of Cutting Fluids for, 659* — Work, Tolerances in. See Gauging Milling Cutters and Reamers, Specification, 304
Small, Manufacture of (F. Gilman (B.S.T.), Ltd.), 491*
Spacers “Artus ’’ (British Automotive and Chemical Industries, Ltd.)517 — Machine, Multi-Purpose (U.S. Tool Co., Inc.), 576*
Mortising Machine “ Hvdraulectric,” for Wood (R. S. Brookman, Ltd.), 397* for Wood (T. Robinson <fc Son, Ltd.), 400*
Moulding and Planing Machine, for Wood (Danckaerts Woodworking Machinery, Ltd.), 397*
Machine for Wood (J. Sagar and Co., Ltd.), 528*
Planing and Surfacing Machine for Wood (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 399 Pneumatic Hammers. See Hammers (above)
Press, Double-Crank, for Plastic Moulding (Gbtz, Gebr.), 274*
— Hydraulic, Vertical, Billet-Piercing (Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd.), 713
Profiling Macliine, Gas (Sir W. Arrol and Co., Ltd.), 327*
Riveting Machine, Hydraulic, Electric- Welded (Sir W. Arrol tfe Co., Ltd.), 327
Saw, Band, for Wood, Totally-Enclosed (T. Robinson Sons, Ltd.), 400* — Chain, Portable, Petrol-Driven, for timber (Kirchner and Co. (London), Ltd.), 372*
— Circular, 26-in. for Wood (Wilson Brothers (Leeds), Ltd.), 443*
— See also Hacksaw (above)
Salving Machines, Contour (Continental
Machine Specialities, Inc.), 83*
, Electro-Hydraulic Cross-Cut, for
Wood (Wadkin, Ltd.), 398*
Screw Thread-Cutting Attachment for Automatic Screw Machines (B.S.A. Tools, Ltd.), 774*
Shaping lHachine, High-Speed Hydraulic (F. Klopp), 675*
Shearing Machine “ Pullomax,” for Sheet Metal (Hancock Co. (Engineers), Ltd.), 625
Machine Tools—continued.
Shears, Cropping, for Two-High Hot- Rolling Mill, 20*
Surfacing and Planing Machine for Wood (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 399
Tenoning Machine, Electrically-Driven (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 259*
for Railway Coachwork (T. Robinson and Sou, Ltd.), 745*
Toolmakers* Microscope (C. Zeiss), 547* Woodworking Machinery, Bending Machinery for Wood, 389
at Building Trades Exhibition, 372*, 397*, 443*, 528*
Chain Saw, Portable Petrol-Driven (Kirchner and Co. (London), Ltd.), 372* 26-in. Circular-Saw Bench (Wilson Brothers (Leeds), Ltd.), 443*
Double End-Tenoning Machine for Railway Coachwork (T. Robinson Son, Ltd.), 745*
Dovetailing Machine, Automatic Multi-Spindle (R. S. Brookman, Ltd.), 398*
Mortising Machine “ Hydraulectric ** (R. S. Brookman, Ltd.), 397*
Mortising Machines (T. Robinson <fe Son, Ltd.), 400*
Planing and Moulding Machine, Pour-Cutter (J. Sagar and Co., Ltd.), 528*
Planing and Moulding Machine, Six- Cutter (Dauckaerts Woodworking Machinery, Ltd.), 397*
Planing and Surfacing Machine (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 399
Researches on the Machining of Wood, 310
Saw, Band, Totally-Enclosed (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 400*
Saw, Cross-Cut, Electro-Hydraulic (Wadkin, Ltd.), 398*
Tenoning Machine, Electrically - Driven (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.). 259*
See also PARAGRAPH INPEX
Aladison-Kipp Company, Die-Casting Machines, 294*
Magnesium Alloj^s. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Magnetic-Chuck Manufacture, J. Neill and Co (Sheffield), Ltd., 332*
^62^^^^^*^^ Apparatus, Philips-Suschyzki,
— Materials, Soft, Investigations on, 326, 488*
— Methods of Testing Materials, 652
Tests, Instruments for Measuring Incremental Permeability, 326, 348*
— Testing of Iron, Harmonic Power in, 326,431*
Rings and Small Transformer Cores, &7 o*
Magnetism and Electricity (Review), 455 Incremental, Ballistic Measurements in, 326, 406*
Main-Rhine-Danube Canal, 118*
Main, Electric. See Cables under Electric
— Gas, Extinguishing Fire in, 718
77 District Heating Systems, 280
Malt Mill, Two-High (R. Boby, Ltd.), 330* Man Power of Nation, Organisation of, 479.
See 250, 395, 423. See LETTERS, 457, 530 Management, The New (Review), 284
— of Works. See Works Management Manchester Education Authority, Mechanical
and Electrical Engineering Courses in Manchester, 275
— H.M. Cruiser, Trials of, 191
Municipal College of Technology, Prospectus, 334
Manchoukuo, Mukden, Tower-Type Winding Plant, Fushun-Ryuho Colliery, 671*
Manganese Bronze and Brass Co., Ltd., Cement- Sand Preparation Plant, 430*
Manhole, Livesey Type, for Gasholder. Shef- field, 357*
Manufacture, Scientific Methods in. See Works Management
— See also Trade
Marconi College, Chelmsford, Summer School at, 275
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, S.S. “Canton,”458 Machmery, M.S. “ Carnarvon Castle,” 89 ‘^^chinery, Drag-Suction Dredger “ Pushing,’* 497 579*, 639*
Machinery, S.S. “ Mauretania,” 123
-Machinery, Model Test of Mounting for Diesel Engine, 315
; Machinery, Vertical Geared Steam Turbine (G. and J. Weir, Ltd.), 153* "Machinery, Worm-Geared Electric Winch (Carron Co.), 515*
— Boilers. See Boilers
~ Engines ; Turbines : Marine
Pr<^ulsion
” Institute of, Examination Data.
275; Presidential Address, by Sir J Foley, on the State and the Marine Engmeer, 425 ; Gas Engines for Small C^aft, by J. 1. Gibbons, 537. See LETTER, 616 ; Herbert Akroyd Stuart Award, 686 ’ ^‘ I^ded” Cast Irons, by H. J. Young^ oJ-9 ’ Exi^nment in Noise Reduction in Ships, by R. S. Robinson, 766
and Naval Architects, American Society of. See Naval Architects
Z Naval Architects, International Conference of. See Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, International Conference ef, London
— Engineering, Influence of Admiralty and
Board of Trade on, 425
Lloyd’s Register Annual Report, 592 Lloyd’s Statistics, 77, 453
Output in 1938, 735, 763. See also vol. cxlvii
Regulations for United States Ships. 117 Trends in, 87
- Propulsion, Double-Acting, Two-Stroke. Harland-B. and W. Engines, M.S “Carnarvon Castle,” 89 I
Marine Propulsion, Geared Turbines, S.S. “ Mauretania,’* 121*, 169
Geared Turbines, S.S. “Queen Elizabeth,” 383
Harland-B. and W. Diesel Engines, M.S. ” Durban Castle,” 744
History of Naval Engineering in United States, 738
History of Steam Turbine for, 680
Investigation at Froude Laboratory, 338, 370
Machinery for United States Ships, Rules for, 117
Marine Engine Output for 1938, 735, 763. See also vol. cxlvii
7,200-b.h.p. Oil Engines, M.SS, “ Ramb I ” and “ Ramb IV,” 216*
Oil Fuel for. See Oil Fuel
160-b.h.p. Petter “Atomic” Diesel Engine,Royal Research Ship “ Research,”226 Report on Use of Coal for, 165. ~ LETTER,214
Ship Vibration from Machinery, 345*, 377
Single-Reduction Geared Turbines, “ Canton,” 458
Steam Machinery for Steam Drifters, 599*,662*
4,500-h.p. Triple-Expansion Engines, Drag-Suction Dredger “Fu-Sliing,” 495*. 579*, 639*
12,500-b.h.p, Twelve-Cylinder Sulzer- Diesel Engine, M.S. “ Oranje,” 418*
Types of Machinery in Use, 87
Use of Gas Engines for, 537. See LETTER, 616
Work of Sir Charles Parsons in, 680
See also Engines ; Turbines ; Propellers ; Ship Resistance ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine
Propulsion
Markets. See Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Markham Colliery, Derbyshire, Electrical Accident in, 367
Markischen Elektricitats A.-G., Deichow Hydro-Electric Plant, 36*
Marks, Lord, the Late, 400
Marsh, A., on Smoke Abatement with Solid Fuel, 654
Marshall, P., and Co., Ltd., Model Engineer Exhibition, 374
Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd., Threshing Machine on Pneumatic Tyres, 68*
Martin, A. E., Experiments on Flip in Rifles, 45 Masaryk Academy of Work, (Czechoslovakia, Steam Research at, 1*, 34*
Mason, C. A., on Noise from Transformers, 521* Mason, 0. C., on Trend of Instrument Design, 317*. See 310
Mason, J. H. H., Aldgat® East Station Reconstruction, 531*
Massif Central Hydro-Electric Plants and Paris Electricity Supply, 350*, 431*
Mast, Mooring, Mobile, for Airship “Graf Zeppelin,” 654*
Materials, Joint Committee on. Discussion on Non-Destructive Testing : Programme, 140, D61 ; Magnetic>nd Electrical Methods of Testing, by Dr. A. P. M. Fleming, B. G. Churcher and Dr. R. Berthold, 652; X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Methods of Testis?, by Dr. V. E. Pullin and J, E. de Graaf, 652 ; Acoustic and General Methods of Testing, by Dr. S. F. Dorey, Dr. F. Fdrster and Prof. W. KOster, 652; NonDestructive Testing, by H. H. Lester, R. L. Sandford and W. L. Mochel, 652
— and Modern Design, Research on, 80, 143*
— Strength of. See Stress and Tests (Mate
rials)
— and Structures, Vol. II (Review), 356 MaUriel T^Mphonique, Equipment for Anglo-
French Radio-Telephone Link, 761 Matter, Fine Structure of (Review), 209 Matthews, S., on Temperature-Measiu*ing Instruments, 684
“Mauretania,” Cunard Wliite Star Liner Launch of, 121*, 163,168*. See Addendum', 218
Maw, Dr. W. H., Centenary of, 739
Maybury Chair of Highway Engineering, 276 Mayo, Major R. H., Design of Mayo Composite Aircraft, 137
Maze, Sir F., Presentation of Model Chinese Junks to Science Museum, 566
McAra, A., Everdur-Alloy Hot-Water Storage Tank,160
McCauce, Dr. A., on Developments in Iron and Steel Industry, 80
McCurdy, B. C., on Design and Construction of Suburban Roads, 664
McDougall, D., on Production of Active Carbon from Bituminous Coal, 408
McKeown, Dr. J., on Bursting of Water Pines by Frost, 625
Measurement of Mechanical Power, Dr C V Drysdale on, 69*
Measuring Machines, National Physical Laboratory Tests of, 266
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of Discussion on New High-Temperature High-Pressme Stations, 451. See LETTER 505; Investigations on Welding of Flame-Cut Surfaces, 521
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of ;
Register of Engineers for National Service, 395. See 250, 423, 479. See LETTERS,.457, 530
Studentship and Associate-Membership Examinations, 570
Format of Proceedings, 739 London Meetings, Winter Sessi(m :
Long-Distance Transmission of Steam, bv Prof. L. F. C. A. Gen5ve, 279
Measurement of Fineness of Powdered Materials, by Dr. H. Heywood, 492*
Annual Dinner, 511
Presidential Address, by D. E. Roberts, on Development of Iron and Steel Industry, 519. See 509
Thomas Hawksley Lecture on Development of Television, by Sir N. Ashbridge, 565
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of— continued.
Control of Diesel Railcars, with Special Reference to Transmissions, by Major W. G. Wilson, 630*. See 621
Parsons Memorial Lecture, by S. S. Cook, on Sir Charles Parsons and Marine PropuJsion, 680
Measurement of Thickness of Metal Walls from One Surface only, by B. M. Thornton and Prof. W. M. Thornton, 715*
First Report of Research Committee on High-Duty Cast Dons, by J. G. Pearce, 745*. See 742
North Western Branch:
Annual Dinner, 680
Scottish Branch:
Progress in Aircraft Design and Efficiency, by Dr. N. A. V. Piercy, 472 Mechanical Flight. See Aeronautics — Lubricator. See Lubricator
— Power, Measurement of, 69*
— Stoker. See Stoker
— Traction on Roads. See Roads; Motor Cars ; Tractors
Mechanics, Hero’s Writings on, 542
— Quantum, Elements of (Review), 356 Meehans, Ltd., Stainless-Steel Ship’s Motor Lifeboat, 154*
Medland, H. M., on Public Water-Supply Problems, 113
Meijnen, D. H., on Petroleum Fuels for Agriculture in Great Britain, 608
Melbourne University Engineering School, Rebuilding of, 223
Melchett Lecture on Destructive Distillation of Coal, 485. See 482
MeLeSco. Superheater for La Mont Boiler,414* Melville, Dundas W’histon, Ltd., Apsley Railway Station, 402*
Mercantile Marine Engineers, Regulations for Examinations, 42, 309, 425
Mdreddes-Benz Colonial-Model Motor Car, 512 Merchant Navy, Ihigineors* Examinations, 42, 309, 425 ; Defence Course, 47
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Ships. See Ships ; Steamers ; Motorships Mercier, E., on Electrical Industry in France
and other Countries, 109, 135, 201*
Mercury-Arc Rectifier Panels (British Thomson Houston Co., Ltd.), 210*
— Prices. See MetaUPrice Diagrams
— Vapour Plant, Hartford Electric Light Co.,
175
Merrett, Prof. W. H., the Late, 568
Merritt, Chapman and Scott Corporation, Piers for Balanced Cantilever Bridge over Connecticut River, 553*, 676
Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., 100-ft. Turntable Ladder for London Fire Brigade, 23*
Merz-Price ’Bus-Bar-Zone Protective System, 329*
Metals, Anti-Friction. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue and Alternating
Stress under Tests (Materials)
— Filament Lamps. See Lamps under Electric
— Fracture of. National Physical Laboratory
Investigations on, 62.
Metals, Institute of :
United States Meeting:
Programme, 199
Postponement of, 364
Axdumn Meeting, London :
Programme, 420
Nomination of Officers, 566
Constitution of Magnesium-Rich Alloys in the Systems Aluminium-Magnesium, Gallium - Magnesium, Indium - Magnesium and Thallium-Magnesium, by Dr. W. Hume-Rothery and G. V. Raynor, 567
Factors Affecting the Liquidus, Solidus and Solid-Solubility Curves in Some Alloys of Magnesium, by Dr. W. Hurae-Rothery and G. V. Raynor, 567 Copper - Rich Nickel-Aluminium-Copper Alloys, Part IT. Constitution of Copper-Nickel-Rich Alloys, by Dr. W. O. Alexander, 567
Constitution of Aluminium-Zinc Alloys of High Purity : The Nature of the Thermal Change at 443 deg. C., by Dr.M. L V. Gayler and E. G. Sutherland, 567
Tarnishing of Silver and Silver Alloys, and its Prevention, by Dr. L. E. Price and Dr. G. J. Thomas, 567
Oxidation-Resistance in Copper Alloys, by Dr L. E. Price and Dr. G. J. Thomas, 567
Some Characteristics of Copper-Aluminium Alloys made from Aluminium of Very High Purity, by Dr. M. L. V. Gayler, 568
Study of Mechanical Properties of Tin- Rich Antimony-Tin Alloys, by Prof. D. Hanson and Dr. W. T. Pepl Walpole, 568
Metals, Non-Ferrous, British, Research Association, Annual Report and Lunch, 28; Report on “Nickel-Silver” Survey of Published Information, 259
— Pi’ice Diagram 58*, 158*, 300*, 436*, 543*,
686*, 758*
— and Rubber, Metalastik System of Bonding
391
— Structure of. See Metallography; Microphotographs
— Surfaces, Worn,Reconditioning by Oxy-Acetylene Welding (Socifetd I’Air Li guide), 490
— Walls, Thickness of, Measurement from One Surface only, 715*
— Welding. See Welding Work, Practical Sheet and Plate (Review), 92
— See also Metallography; Metallurgy;
Microphotographs of Metal and Rubber,
Metallizing Co. of America, Inc., Sprayed- i 1 Zinc Coatings for Steel Surfaces 6.57* |
Metallography, Ferrous, Nomenclature In, 281 — See also Metals; Metallurgy; Micro- photographs
— Laboratories, Sir Kobert Sheffield University, 362* Perrin ‘ ‘ Quick-Metallurgy ” Merits of, 540
Pyrometers. See Pyrometers Befractories. See Refractory Firebricks
Bolling Mills. See Rolling Mills Slags, Action on Refractories, 668 — Foamed, Use for Concrete, 106 Steel Furnaces. See f urnaces — Manufacture by Thermolovs .’Progress, 110
— Melting I’ractice, Acid Open-Hearth,148 Practice, Basic Open-Hearth, 24,119 Practice, Open-Hearth, Control in, 176
— Nou-Destructive Examination and Testing of. 141, 652
Thermoloys Process of Steelmaking, 110 Welding. See Welding
See also Iron and Steel Institute ; Metals, Institute of; Metallography ; Microphotographs ; Foundry; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Meteorological Balloons, Short-Wave Radio Transmitter for, 727
Meter, Air-Flow, Velometer (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 625
— Flow, National Laboratory Investigations on,196
— Positive-Displacement, for Motor Fuels
(Tecalemit, Ltd.), 501*
— Sound, National I?hysical Laboratory Investigation on, 666
— Venturi, Federal Hydraulic Laboratory, Zurich, 4*
— Visibility, for Roads, 664
— See also Electric
Methane, Action on Refractories, 658
— Accidents and Colliery
— Production by Hydrogenation of Coke, 602 Synthesis from Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, 603
Metrology Department, National Physical laboratory, End-Gauge Comparator of High Sensitivity, 183* ; Work of Department, 266*, 297
Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Co. Ltd., Railway Carriages for London Underground Railway, 51*
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd. • for Engineering Teachers^ 107 ; Tests of Materials for Vibration- Attenuating Supports, 124, 198* • Investigation on Relief of Internal Stress in Castings, 230*; Washing Machine for
. ^^ribits at CarditV Encineerine Exhibition, 625
Water Board, Water-Examination Laboratories, 502*
— See also London
Mey^, W. A., Ltd., Portable Lead-Melting Furnace, 284
BOntgen-Ray Examination of, 624
— Thermal Conductivity of, National Physical V ."UDoratory Investigations on, 595*, 624 Michels, A., on Measurement of Temperatures
in High-Pressure Containers, 683 ^^*^rophotographs, Cracks in Bearing Metals,
— with Electron Microscope, 475*
— of Galvanised Iron Wire, 27
— High-Duty Cast Irons, 746* Microscope, Electron (Siemens und Halske)
— Toolmakers’ (C. Zeiss), 547* Microstructure Diagram, Manne Clay, 404
— of Metals. See Metallography; Miero- Mid^^oTO^^^and Portland, Connecticut,
Balanced-Cantilever Bridge between, 553*, 676
Mill, Law Vertical Hammer, for Grain, 26*
— Malt, Two-High (R. Boby, Ltd.), 330
— Rolling. See Rolling Mills
— Tide, in Great Britain, 445*
Milling Machines and Cutters. 3ee MacJnne Tools Milne-Watson, Sir D., on Gas Industry, 110 Mines, Chief Inspector’s Report on, 620
— Coal. See Collieries r.
— Department, Report on Use of Coal for
Ship Propulsion, 165. See LETTER, 214
— Dump, “ Scrapehauler ” for Loading Bock
from (Holman Bros.. Ltd.), 255*
— Royal, History of, Society of, 81
— Safety in, Research Board, Annual Report, 718
— Secretary for. Annual Report, 620
— United States Bureau of. See viwUrt
States
— Winding. See Winding . j
See also CoflZ ,• CoUieries ; Mtmng; Hmd-
— ing; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Minftrala, British Columbia, Producticm OL 105
— Industry, Canadian, in 1937, Report, 373
— Oils. See Oils
— Resources, United States, Conservation of,
408
—See also Coal; Mining; and PARAGRAPH INDEX . , x o-.
Mining, Copper, in Lake District, 81
— Developments in Yugoslavia, 685
— Industry in Queensland, Report, 768
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ministry of Transport. See Transport Minneapolis-Moline Agricultural Tractor, oU- h.p., 681 O-.
Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd., 360-b.h.p. bix- Cylinder Oil Engine, 515*; Positive- Action Pump, 515* _ , , r con
Mississippi River, Control Probleins of, 58U, 638, 754 ; Early Training Works on, 651
Missouri Valley Bridge & 9?-’
Blue Water International Bridge, 377* .
Mitchell, D. R., on Smoke, Dust, and Air Pollution, 280
Mitchell Brothers, Son and Co., Recom
struction of King’s Cross Underground Station, 265*, 296*, 386*. See Erratxim, 444,
Mixing Machines, Concrete. See excrete Mochel, N. L,, on Non-Destructive Testing, 651 Model Aeroplane Shed, Wind-Pressure Tests on,727
— Engineer Exhibition, 374
— Experiments, Federal Hydraulic Labora
tory, Zurich, 3*, 149*
on River Training, 649
Spillways, Penstocks and Outlet Works at Boulder Dam, 15
Vienna Ship-Model Testing Tank, 575 See also Aerona.'aJtics ; Ship Resistance;
Tank Experiments .»
— Flying, of Flying Boat “ Cams-Potez 161,
103
— Scale, Use in General Engineering, 243*,
252,313*. See^rrfliww,284 _
— Steel Construction for
335 420
Modjeski, Masters and Case, national Bridge, 377*
Molasses as Road-Making ments on, 231 .
Molecular Basis of Strength of Materials, 593
— Films, Production of, 710
Molybdenum in Cast Iron, Effect of, 746 Mond, Sir R. L., the Late, 530
Monometer Manufacturing Co., Ltd.,lilting Oii- Fired Furnace with Preheated Air, 262*
Monoplane. See Aeraruiniics
Monsanto Chemical Company, Vanadium Catalyst for Sulphuric-Acid Manufacture, 518* Monsarrat andPratlev.Thov^and Islands Bndge System, 377* ; Blue Water International Bridge, 377* .
Montgomerie, Dr. J., on Trends in Shipbuilding, 84*
Montreal Harbour Developments, 69*
Montrose, Duke of, on Producer-Gas Propulsion, 654 .
Mooring Mast, Mobile, for Airship Graf Zeppelin,” 754* ,
“Moorland,” H.M, Boom-Workiug A#essel, Launch of, 671
Mordey, W. M., the Late, 38
Morgan Rotary-Retort Low-Temperature Carbonisation Plant, Tests, 113*
Morgan Smith Co., Pressure Regulators for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbines, 669* .
Morris Engine Works, Coventry, Selective Conveyor Installation, 26*
Mortimer, Dr. C. H., on Nitrogen, Balance of, in Large Bodies of Water, 691
Mortising Machines. See Machine Tools Morton, E., on Protection of Underground Water Supplies, 625
Motion and Time Study (Review) ,92
Motor Boat, 280-b.h.p., for H.M. Ships (J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 141*
— Launch, Lake, “ Swan,” 72
See also Motor Liieboai, MoU)r Tv^
— Car, American, Trends in Design, 700 Behaviour on Road Curves, 664
Colonial Model, Meretdfes-Benz, 512
Motor-Car Details :
Detail Design In American Motor Cars, 700 Engines. See Engines^ Petrol^ Motor Car Front-Wheel Drive and Four-Wheel Steering, Merc6d6s-Benz Colonial- Model Car, 512
Horns, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on Noise from, 667
Steering, Four-Wheel, Mercfedds-Benz Colonial Model Car, 612
Trend of Design in, 481. 511
Transmission Gear, Salerni Hydro-Kinetic, 268*, 482
Wind-Screen Wipers, Improvements of,482
Motor-Car Engines. See Engines^ Petrol
Engineers. See Automobile Engineers Exhibition, Earl’s Court, 481, 511, 699* Exhibition, New York National, 700 Fuels. See Motor Fu^ls
Investigations by Institution of Automobile Engineers, 107, 397
Merc6dds-Benz, Colonial Model, 512 Pump with Pulsating Delivery for Washing (Lee Guinness Hydro-Pulsator Co., Ltd.), 288*
Railton, 2,500-b.h.p., Record Speed with, 281,397
“ Thunderbolt,” Land Speed Record, 281, 397
Torque Converter for, 268*, 281, 482 Trend of Design of, 481, 511, 700
See also Motor Cycles ; and PARAGRAPH INPEX
— Carriages, Railway. See Carriages
— Cycles, Silencers for. National Physical
Laboratory Investigations on, 197, 667
— Electric, Air-Break Star-Delta Starter for
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 211*
in Coal Mines, 730
Corby Steel-Tube Plant. 469*
27|-h.p., Flame-Proof (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 210*
168-h.p., for Irondon Underground Railway Carriages, 51
130-h.p., Slip-Ring Induction (Bruce, Peebles <fe Co., Ltd.), 625
Squirrel-Cage, Low Starting-Current (Higgs Motors, Ltd.), 374* •
Starters and Controllers for, Specification, 648
5-h.p., 230-Volt, Steel Works (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 212*
4,000-kW, Tower-Type Winding Plant, Fushun-Ryuho Colliery, Mukden, 671*
Traction, for 4,400-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 101*
Traction, for 900-h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotives (Laurence Scott and Electromotors, Ltd.), 48
170-h.p. Traction (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 212*
Use in Mines, 367
— Exhibition, Earl’s Court, 481, 511, 599* New York National, 700
— Fuels, Positive-Displacement Meter for
(Tecalemit, Ltd.), 501*
Production by Fischer-Tropsch Hydrogenation Process, 517
Production by I. G. Farbenindustrie Hydrogenation Process, 774
Wood and Charcoal as, 288
— Generators, Corby Steel-Tube Plant, 469*
— Hydraulic, for 14-ft. Butterfly Valves, Boulder Dam Power House, 239*
— Industry of Great Britain, 1938, Report, 337
— Internal-Combustion. See Aeronautics ; Engines ; Motor Cars; Motor Boats; Tractors
— Launch. See Motor Boats
— Lifeboat, Stainless-Steel, Ship’s (Meehans, Ltd.), 154*
— Lorry with Air-Compressing Plant (Guy Motors, Ltd.), 683*
5|-ton,with Aluminium-Alloy Body, 143* Use of Producer Gas for, 654
— Manufacturers and Traders, Society of.
Report on Motor Industry of Great Britain, 1938, 337
— Marine. See Engines; Marine Propulsion;
Motorships
—»Omnibus, Producer-Gas Driven, Operating Results, 654
— Paraffin. See EnginesPetrol
— Petrol. See Aeronautics ; EnginesPetrol;
Motor Boats ; Motor Cars ; Tractors
— Plough. See Tractors
— Road Rollers. See Road Rollers
— Spirit. See Motor Fuel
— Tractors See Tractors
— Transport and Road Construction, 380,435*
— Truck, Industrial, 15-cwt. (James Cycle Co, Ltd.), 292*
— Tug ** Harpen I,” Gas Engines of, 537
— Vehicle, Air-Raid Precaution, with Trailer
Pump (Scammell Lorries, Ltd.), 582* Anthracite, Charcoal and Coke for, 299 Automatic Traffic Counting of, 613* 3-ton, with Cattle Truck (Reo Motors, Ltd.), 32*
Gas Producers for, 737
Municipal, Garages for, 750
Municipal, Multi-Purpose (Ford Motor Co., Ltd.), 641*
Noise from. National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 667
Skidding of, 435*
Speed Controller for (R. A. Rothermel, Ltd.), 127*
115-h.p., with 100-ft. Turntable Ladder, London Fire Brigade, 23*
Use of Wood and Charcoal for, 288 Wheels, Impact on Roads, National Physical Laboratory Investigations, 151
— Wagons. See Motor Lorries; Motor
Vehicles; Tractors
Motorship “ Carnarvon Castle,” Reconditioning of, 88*
— Classified, Lloyd’s Register Report, 592
— under Construction,Lloyd’s Statistics, 77,453
— Cross-Channel, Design of, 598
— “Durban Castle,” Description of, 744
— “ Holzapfel I,” Gas Engine of, 537
— Lost, Lloyd’s Statistics, 132, 774
— Oil-Tank, Classified, Lloyd’s Register
Report, 592
Tank, Trends in Design and Construction, 84*
— “ Oranje,” 12,500-b.h.p. Sulzer-Diesel Engine, 418*
— “ Ramb I ” and Ramb IV ” for Banana Carrying, 216*
— “ San Francisco,” Wave Measurement aboard, 6
— Vibration of, 346*
— “ Warwick Castle,” Re-engining of, 428
— See also Marine Propulsion Mott, Sir B., the Late, 331*
Moulds for Hume Concussional-Spun Concrete Pipes, 558*
Moulding Machine, Double-Face (British Insulated Cables, Ltd.), 212*
Wood. See Machine Tools
— Materials, Steel Castings Research Committee’s Investigations on, 548, 581
— See also Foundry
Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, London Mechanical Equipment of, 353*, 437*, 523*, C35*, 698*
Mounting, Anti-Vibration, for Generating Set (Silentbloc, Ltd.), 185
— for Diesel Engine, Model Tests of, 315 Mowing Machine, Gang, with Pneumatic Tyres
(Lloyds and Co. (Letchworth), Ltd.), 644*
Gang, Tractor-Drawn (H. Pattisson and Co., Ltd.), 584*
2-h.p. Petrol-Driven (A. C. Bamlett, Ltd.), 32*
Lawn, 28-in. Petrol-Driven (C. H. Pugh, Ltd.), 643*
36-iD. Petrol-Driven, with Trailer Seat (A. Shanks and Son, Ltd.), 584*
Moyes, S. J. E., on Deflection of Turbine Rotors, 181*
Muffle Eiunace, Gas-Fired (Selas Gas and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 213*
Muir, Prof. J., Experiments on Flip in Rifles, 45 Mukden, Manchoukuo, Tower-Type Winding
Plant, Fushun-Ryuho Colliery, 671* Multitubular Boilers. See Boilers Municipal Cleansing and Transport Vehicles,
Garages for, 750
— and Industrial Planning, 109,110
Museum, Hull, Model of Priestman Oil Engine, 598
— Science, South Kensington, Cyclotron and
Cyclotron Models, 309; Chinese Junks at, 566 ; Science in the Army Exhibition, 621
Mylius Gearbox for Diesel Railcar, 622, 631

“ NANTASKET,” S.S., Fire Tests on, 116 National Association of Supervising Electricians. See Supervising Electrical Engineers^ Association of
— Coal Convention. See Coal Cimvention,
National
National Fertilizers, Ltd., Double-Acting Dry Vacuum Pumps, 303*
— Physical Laboratory, Report on Work of 18, 62*, 107*, 151*, 196*, 236*, 266*, 297*, 338*, 370, 440*, 526*, 550*, 593*, 623*, 666*, 711* 725; Experiments on Friction of Oscillating Bearing,170; Metrology Department, End-Gauge Comparator of High Sensitivity, 183* ; Work with Association of Short-Circuit Testing Authorities, 511; Model Tests of Steam Drifters, 599*, 662* ; Tests on High-Duty Cast Irons, 742, 745*
— ” Safety First ” Association, Travelling
Scholarship Essay, 570
— Service, Register of Engineers for, 399.
See 250, 423. See LETTERS, 457, 479, 530 Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics
Naval Architects, Institution of :
Martell Scholarship, 570
Award of Scholarships, 677
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, International Conference of, London :
Reports of Discussions, 6 Experimental Methods to Determine the Strength of Materials in Relation to Shipbuilding, by H. De- Leiris, 6
Whirl of Diesel-Engine Crankshafts, by
G. J. Lugt and N. J. Visser, 21*. See 6 Ocean Waves, Freeboard, and Strength
of Ships, by Prof. G. Schiiadel, 6
Some Contributions to the Theory of Rolling, by Prof. Y. Watanabe, 6
Trends in Shipbuilding, by Dr. J. Montgomerie, 84*
Effect of New Safety Regulations in Senate Report No. 184 on Design of Merchant Ships, by Commdr.
H. L. Vickery, W\ G. Esmond, J. E. Schmeltzer and S. B. Crosby, 116
See also vol. cxlv
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of. Essential Elements of Naval Research, by Dr. R. Gunn, 141 ; NonDestructive Examination of Steel, by Dr. R, H. Canfield, 141
— Architecture, Design of Atlantic Liners, 163 Water-Tight Subdivision of Ships. See
'Water-Tight
See also Warships
— Construction. See also Warships
— Engineers, American Society of. Jubilee
Meeting of, 738
— Engineering inUnited States, History of, 738
— Research, Essential Elements in, 141
— See also Warships
Navigating Equipment, Drag-Suction Dredger
“ Fu-Shing,” 496
Navigation, Aerial. See Telegraphy^ Wireless
— Equipment, S.S. “ Queen Elizabeth,” 384 Navvy. See Excavator
Navy, British. See H.Af. under Warships
— Italian. See Italian under Warships
— United States. See United States under Warships
— See also Naval; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Neill, J., <fe Co. (Sheffield), Ltd., Manufacture of Hacksaw Frames and Magnetic Chucks, 332*
Nelson, R., on Electricity in Coal Mines, 730 Neon-Tube Radium Detector, 624*
Nests of Tubes, Resistance of Flow Through, 605*, 665*, 723*
Neutraliser, Vibration, for Ships, 347* New England, Rainfall and Run-ofT in, 54
— South Wales, Direct Road Construction by
Heat Treatment of Soils, 39*
— York National Automobile Show, 700 Pearl Street Power Station, 173
— Zealand Government Railways, Annual Report, 425
NewalLs Insulation Co., Ltd., Experiments on Noise Reduction in Ships, 766
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Kailway Junction, Relaying of, 584*
Newcomen Society, Summer Meeting in Lake District, 81 ; Society for Mines Royal and German Colony in Lake District, by R. Jenkins, 81 ; Ironfoundiug in England, 1490- 1890, Part I, by R. Jenkins, 632; The South Yorkshire Iron Industry, 760.
Newlands, A., the Late, 272
Newman, Render and Co., Ltd., Glandless Lubricated Parallel-Plug Valve, 155; Controlled-Ball Bowler Stop Valve, 165*
Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd., Four-Lift Spiral-Guided Gasholder, 323*, 357*
Nickel in Cast Iron, Effect of, 746
— Iron, Magnetic Properties of, Investigations on, 326, 488*
— Production in Canada, 1937, 373
— Silver, Survey of Published Information, 259 Nile, River, Hydro-Elecvric Developments on, 453
Nitrogen, Balance of, in Large Bodies of Water, 691
Noise, Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 666
— Reduction in Ships, Experiments on, 766
— Structure-Borne, Reduction by Vibration-
Attenuating Supports, 124,198*
— Suppression in Buildings, Exhibits at Building Trades Exhibition, 529
— from Transformers, Investigations on, 621* Nomenclature in Ferrous Metallography, 281 Nomogram Method of Humidity Control, 57* Non-Conducting Coverings. See Beat Insulation
— Ferrous Metals. See Metals; Metallurgy “ Normandie,” S.S., Vibration in, 347* North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and
Shipbuilders, Rear-Admiral G. H. Rock, U.S.N., made Honorary Fellow, 17; Presidential Address, by Major T. R. Cairns, on Shipping and Trade, 511; Andrew Laing Lecture on Molecular Basis of Stren^h of Materials, by Sir W. Bragg, 593 ; Symposium on Propellers, 619 North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Co., Driving Tests of Copper Earthing Electrodes, 456
— Notes from, 13, 43, 73, 103, 133, 161, 191, 219, 247, 277, 305, 335, 365,393, 421,449, 477, 507, 535, 561, 589, 616, 647,677,705, 735, 763. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Northampton Polytechnic, London, Prospectuses, 275 ; Investigations on Incremental Magnetic Measurements, 406*, 573* ; Lectures on Electro-Deposition, 706 Northern Countries in World Economy (Review), 92
Norwich Engineering Society, Annual Supper, 735
Notch Effect and Machine Design, 143 Notched-Bar Tests. See Tests {Materials} Notes on New Books. See Books and LITERATURE INDEX
— See Cleveland; North; South-West; South Yorkshire; Labour. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Nozzle, Air-Metering, National Physical Laboratory Investigation on, 196
Nuttall, E., and Co. (London), Ltd., Reconstruction of King’s Cross Underground Station, 265*. See Erratumi 444
Nuttall, G. R. F., on Shelters and Buildings for Air-Raid Protection, 572

OAKLEY Junction Railway Accident, Report, 214
Obert, (J. W., on Welding of Flame-Cut Surfaces, 521

Obituary : (moved to separate index)
O’Brien, M. P., on Transportation of Sand in Pipe Lines, 158
“ Ocean Rambler,” Steam Drifter, Tank and Sea Tests, 599*, 662*
“Ocean Reward,” Steam Drifter, Tank and Sea Tests, 599*, 662*
“ Ocean Vim,” Steam Drifter, Tank and Sea Tests, 599*, 662*
Ockenfels, F. H., “ Procedo ” Rotating Lathe Centres, 508
Oedometer for Testing of Clay, 405*
Oemichen Automatic Continuous Calliper Gauge, 115*
Oil in Britain, Search for, 593
— Burning Equipment, Fully Automatic, Specification, 365
Equipment, S.S. “Mauretania,” 122
— Diesel, Use in British Agriculture, 608
— Emulsion for Cutting Tools, 546. See Erratunii 580
— Engines. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars; Motw Boats ; Tractors
— Fuel Burner, “Hydra” (Hydran Products, Ltd.), 443*
Burning in American Locomotives, 136
— Lubricating, Four-Ball Top Testing-Apparatus for, 107
Production by Fischer-Tropsch Hydrogenation Process, 517
Production by I.G. Farbenindustrie Hydrogenation l^ocess, 774
— Motors. See Engines^ Oil; Motor Cars; Motor Boats ; Tractors
— Production from Coal, 1937, 620 from Coal in Germany, 517, 775
from Oil-Shale and Cannel Coal, 46, 106
— Pump, Laurel High-Pressure Mechanical, 777*
— Shale and Cannel Coal, Conference on, 46, 106
— Switches. See Switchgear
— Tankers Classified, Lloyd’s Register Report, 592
— — Trends in Design and Construction, 84*
— Tractors. See Tractors
— See also Lubrication : Petroleum
Old Centralians, Symposium on Engineers in the Modern World, 538
Olding, J., and Co., Ltd., Sj-h.p. Lightweight Agricultural Tractor, 681, 732*
Olier, A., 12-h.p. Diesel Agricultural Tractor for Vine Cidtivation, 26
Oliver Rowcrop Agricultural Tractor, 681
Olympia. See E:^ibition
Omnibus, Motor. See Motor Omnibus
— Trolley, See Trolley-'Bus
Ontario Hydro-Electric Plant, Rehabilitation after Damage by Ice, 203
Electric Power Commission, Annual Report, 164
— Report on Limestone Deposits, 305 Open-Hearth Furnace. See Furnace Optical Investigations at National Physical
Laboratory, 669
Optics, Hero’s Writings on, 542
— and Human Vision, 221
— Science of Seeing (Review), 640
Oranje Line, Transatlantic Shipping Service, 539
— M.S., 12,500-b.h.p., Sulzer-Diesel Engine,18* Orrok, G. A., on Development of Central
Stations, 173*. See 109, 135, 452 Oscillations, Electric. See Electric Oscillograph. See Electric
Oscilloscope for Determining Airscrew Vibration, 288*
Oued Beht River and Weir, Model of, 149*
Overhead Lines, Power Transmission, Electricity Commissioners’ Report, 510
— — Power Transmission in France and
England, 136, 201
Power Transmission, Ontario, Annual Report, 164
—• — Power Transmission, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 712
—? — Power-Transmission, in Sweden, Licence Acts for, 767
Overseas Trade and British Shipping, 679
Department, Reports on Economic and Commercial Conditions in Iran, 156: in Iraq, 250; in Syria and the Lebanon, 604
of United Kingdom, 1937, Nationality of Carrying Ships, 679
Oxford Conference, Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux. See Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of
— — International Federation for Docu
mentation, 50, 389, 707. See LETTER, 458
Oxidation-Resistance in Copper Alloys, 567 in Silver Alloys, 567
Oxlade, Capt, H. J. W., on International Crisis and Engineers, 457. See 250, 395, 423, 479. See LETTER, 530
Oxy-Acetylene Welding. See Welding
Oxygen, Gasification of Pulverised Coal with, under Pressure, 603
— in Steel, Vacuum-Fusion jilethod of Determination, 238*
Measuring Instruments, Developments in, 319*

P.K. Variable-Speed Friction Drive, 729*
Packet Sorting Office, Mount Pleasant, London, Mechanical Equipment at, 353*, 437*, 523* 635*, 698*
Paint, Coal Tar, for Iron and Steel Work, 276
— Moisture-Resisting Properties of, Tests of,
310
Painter Brothers, Ltd., Callender-Hamilton Unit-Construction Footbridge, 342*; Callender-Hamilton U nit-Construction Aeroplane Shed, 727*
Paladin Refuse Collector, 642*
Palmer, A. E., on Bacteriological and Chemical Control of Public Water Supply, 54
Palmer, S. J., on Stresses in Welded Pipes, 289*. See 310
Panel, Sheet-Metal, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 151
Panelling, Fire-Protection, Steel and Asbestos (Durasteel Roofs, Ltd.), 529
Paper, Filter, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 238
Paraffin Engines. See Engines, Petrol
— Tractors. See Tracifrrs
Parcels Sorting Office, Mount Pleasant, London, Mechanical Equipment at, 353*, 437*, 523*, 635*, 698*
Paris Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, 26*
— Electricity Supply, Combined Operation of
Steam and Hydraulic Stations for, 350*, 431*
Park Gate Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Hot-Metal Practice in Eixed Furnaces, 24
Parker, J. W., Blast-Furnace Gas-Fired Boilers, Delray Power Station, 207*
Parkin, M., on Measurement of Temperature in Glass Furnaces, 684
Parodi, H., on Electrification of French Railways, 765
Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd., 10-12 h.p., Petrol-Driven Generating Set with Standby Engine, 129* ; 30-50 b.h.p. Marine
Petrol Engine, 341*
— Memorial Lecture on Sir Charles Parsons
and Marine Propulsion, 680
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine
Propulsion
Partitions, Sound-Proof, Investigations on, 668
Parton, J. E., on Harmonic Power in Iron Testing, 431*. See 326; on Magnetic Testing of Rings and Small Transformer Cores, 573*
Passenger Aeroplane. See Aeroplane under Aeronautics
— Steamers. See Steamers
— Traffic, London Passenger Transport Board’s
Report, 564
Patent Agents, Chartered Institute of. Presidential Address, by W. H. Ballantyne, on the International Conventions Relating to Industrial Property, 715
— Designs and Trade Marks (Review), 455
— Industrial Conventions Relating to, 715
— Record, 90*, 178*, 234*, 322*, 410*, 634*,
722*, 778*
— See also Trade Marks
Pattern-Making Machines. See Machine Tools Pattisson, H., and Co., Ltd., Tractor and Gang Mower, 584*
Pavements, Brick, in United States, Developments in,233
Peace, J., and Sons, Ltd., Hand-Cut File, 626 Pearce, J. G., on High-Duty Cast Irons, 742, 745*
Pearl Street Power Station, New York, 173 Pearson, T. F., on Nickel-Silver, Survey of Published Information, 259
Pell-Walpole, Dr. W. T., on Tin-Rich Antimony-Tin Alloys, 568
Pembroke Tide Mill, 447* Pencils, African Cedar for. Report, 292 Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., S.S. “ Canton,” 458*
Penstocks, Boulder Dam, Model Experiments on, 15
— Welded Pipes for. Investigations on, 289 Pepler, G. L., on Town and Country Planning
in Relation to Industry, 110
Pgrfecta Gas Thermostats, Ltd., Gas-Fired Air Heater, 513*
Periodicals, Scientific and Technical, Evaluation of, 707
Perkin, Sir W. H., Centenary of, 650
Permanent Way, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction, Re-laying of, 584*
Trent Valley Junction, Reconstruction, 225*
Permeability, Incremental, Instruments Measurement of, 326, 348*
Perrin Steel Ih’ocess, Merits of, 540 Personal 12, 42, 72, 102, 132, 160,190, 246, 276, 304, 334, 364, 392, 420, 476, 506,534, 560,588,616,646,676, 734,762
Peter, Prof. M., Hydraulic Laboratory, Federal Institute of Technology, 3*, 149*
Petrol Jet, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 198
— Motors. See Aeronautics ,* Engines, Petrol ;
Motor Cars ; Motor Boats ; Tractors
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Use in British Agriculture, 608
Petroleum, Institute of, Conference on Oil- Shale and Cannel Coal, 46, 106 ; Cutting Fluids and Machine Tools, by A. H. Lloyd and H. H. Beeny, 546. See Erratum, 580 ; Conversazione, 593; Search for Oil in Britain, by G. W. Lepper, 593 ; Functions of Cutting Fluids, by Prof. H. W. Swift, ' 659* ; Annual Dinner, 711
— Science of (Review), 283, 769
— See also Oil; Paraffin ; Engines, Oil
Petters, Ltd., 125-b.h.p. and 250-b.h.p. Two- Stroke Superscavenge Diesel Engines, 10* ; li-3 b.h.p. Single-Cylinder Petrol-Paraffin Engine, 30*; Four-Cylinder, 160-b.h.p. Atomic Diesel Engine for M.S. “Research,” 226; 125-b.h.p. Two-Cylinder “ Super
scavenge ” Oil Engine, 597*
Phenols, Production of Aromatic Hydrocarbons from, 464
Philip and Son, Ltd., Royal Research M.S. “ Research,” 226
Philipp, P., Universal Level, 348
Philipps, C. D., on Reinforcement of Wood with Synthetic Resin, 655
Philips Industrial (Philips Lamps, Ltd.), Philips-Suschyzki Magnetic-Examination Apparatus, 626; Spot-Light for Welding Work, 761
Philplug Products, Ltd., Plastic Asbestos for Machine Anchorage, 348*
Photo-Electric Apparatus. National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 725
Methods of Fineness Measurement of Powdered Materials, 494
Photography, Commercial and InduatriaL Exhibition of, 368
Photometric Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 725
Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs Physical Laboratory. See National 'Physical Physics, Combination Tones in Sound and Light, 593
— Cyclotron and Cyclotron Models, Exhibi
tion of, 309
— Department, National Physical Laboratory
Work of, 553 594*, 623*, 666*
Physics, Electron Microscope (Siemens and Halske), 474*
— Ionisation Chamber, Air-Wall, 623*
— Matter, Fine Structure of (Review), 209
— Molecular Basis of Strength of Materials, 593
Filins, Production of, 710
— Temperature and Pressure of Mixed
Saturated Steam and Air, 674*
— Vision in Nature and aided by Science, 221
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Pier, Alexandra, Montreal Harbour, 69*
— Balanced-Cantilever Bridge over Connecticut River, 553*, 676
— for Blue Water International Bridge, 378*
— Ferro-Concrete, Waterloo-Bridge Reconstruction, 587*
Pier, M., on I. G. Farbenindustrie High- Pressure Hydrogenation Process, 774
Piercy, Dr. N. A. V., Progress in Aircraft Design and Efficiency, 472
Pig-Iron for Acid Open-Hearth Steel Melting, 148
for Fixed Basic Open-Hearth Furnaces, 120
Prices. See Metal-Price diagrams Pigman G. L., on Vibrograph for Fresh Concrete, 232*
Piles, Reinforced-Concrete, Stresses in during Driving, 87
Pilgrim Trust Lecture on Molecular Films, 710 Piling, Concrete, Reinforced (Review), 455
— Steel Sheet, Hoesch, for Cofferdam, Waterloo Bridge, 588*
Pinions. See Gears; Oeariiig; Marine Propulsion
Pipes, Cast-Iron, Specification, 393
— Concrete, Hume Concussional-Spun (J.
Ellis and Sons, Ltd.), 557*
— Gas, Wrought Iron, Specification for, 718
— Line, Blast-Furnace Gas, Delray Power Sta
tion, 207*
Sand Transportation in. Report, 158 Steam, Treforest Trading Estate,
Wales, 97 Welded Steel, Self-Supporting
zontal Span, 465*
— Sludge, Cast-Iron, Failure of, 148
— Steam. See Steam Pipes
— Suction, Drag-Suction Dredger
Shing,” 577*
— Water, Bursting by Frost, 625 Sound Insulation along. Investigation on, 667*
— Welded, with Internal Pressure and End
Thrust, Stresses in, 289*, 310
— See also Tubes
Plrani, M.. on Gas-Temperature Measurement,
683
Pirie, H. L., on Domestic Solid Fuels, 682 Piston for Junkers Heavy-Oil Engine, 33 0* Planing Machine. See Machine Tools Planning, Industrial and Municipal, 109,110 Problems of, 566
Plastic Asbestos for Machine Anchorage (Phil- plug Products, Ltd.), 348*
Plastics, Double-Crank Moulding Press for, 274*
— See also Resins
Plate, Boiler, Intercrystalline Cracking of,
Investigations on, 237
— Shearing Machine. See Machine Tools
— and Sheet Metal Work, Practical (Review),92
— Steel, Electro-Magnetic Testing of, 141, 652 Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Taper-Bore, Strength of, 171* Plating, Electro. See Electro
— Ship, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on,152*
Platt Brothers and Co., Ltd., Dry Multiple-Disc Clutch, 115*
Platte, River, Colorado, Self-Supporting Horizontal Pipe-line across, 465*
Plough, Motor. See Tractor Plywood, Durisol Special, 306
Pneumatic Tools. See Machine Tools
— Tyres, Behaviour on Roads, 592 Developments in, 563
— See also Air Compressor
Poisson’s Equation, Relaxation Method for
Solution of, 251
Polak Die-Casting Machines, 411*
Pollution, Atmospheric, Failure of Transformer owing to, 597
Ministry of Health Report, 222 Report on Alkali Works, etc., 138 and Smoke Abatement, 280 by Sulphur, Prevention of, 499
— River, and Sewage Disposal, 749
— of Water Supply, Prevention of, 114 Polytechnic. See Education
Pontoon with Revolving Crane, Montreal Harbour Developments, 69*
Poplar Borough Council, Collecting Vehicle with Compression Gear, 642*
Port of London, Annual Report, 251
— of Montreal, Developments, 69*
— of Rangoon, Annual Report, 767 Portable Engine. See Engine
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools Portland Cement. See Cement
— and Middletown, Connecticut, Balanced-Cantilever Bridge between, 553*, 676 Post Office, Mount Pleasant Sorting Office,
Mechanical Equipment at, 353*. 437* 523*, 635*, 698*
— Research Station, Investigations on Corrosion of Galvanised Iron Wire, 27, 54* Potato-Sorting Table, Hand-Operated (Cooch <fe Son), 94*
Potentiometer. See Electric
Powder Dusting Apparatus, Agricultural
(Etablissement Vermorel), 26* Powdered Coal . See Pulverised Coal
— Materials, Fineness of, Measurement of, 492* Power Conference, World. See World Power
Conference
— Hammer. See Hammer under Machine
Tools
— Harmonic, in Iron Testing, 326, 431*
— Mechanical, Measurement of, 69*
Plant, Hydro-Electric, Boulder Dam, 59*.
179*, 239*, 549*, 608*, 669*, 693* Hydro-Electric, French, 136, 201* Hydro-Electric, Massif-Central, France,
and Paris Electricity Supply, 350*, 431*
mentfl, Federal Ziirlch, 3*, 149* Hydro-Electric, port, 164 Hydro-Electric, after Damage by Ice, 203 Hydro-Electric, Peak-Load, Delchow, Germany, 36*
Hydro-Electric, on llhine-Main-Danube HydVo-Electric, on River Nile, 463 Hydro-Electric, in Sweden, 767
See also Power Stations ; Power Water ; Substatione
— Press. See Machine Tools
— for Ship Propulsion. See il/anne Propulsion ; Ship Resistance
— Station, Delray, Detroit, Blast-Furnace Gas-Fired Boilers, 207*
Diagram Control Board for (A. Reyrolle Co., Ltd.), 328*
Electric, American, High Pressures and Temperatures in, 451. Electric, Battersea, at. 499
Electric, Clarence Extensions to, 483 Electric, Coal-Fired, Design of, 690 Electric, in Egyj)t, 453
Electric, for Electric Railways, 709
— — Electric, Electricity Commissioners’ Report, 510
Electric, Fulham, Flue-Gas Washing at- 499
Electric, in France, 130, 201*
Electric, Hartford, Mercury-Vapour Plant, 176
! Electric, Hams Hall, Birmingham, 48,
77 ; Report of Failure at, 597
Electric, History of Developments in, 173*,452
Electric, Kingston-on-Thames, Fire at,739 Electric, Paris, (Combined Operation with Hydraulic Stations, 350*, 431*
Electric, South Africa, Report, 139 Electric, Steam Distribution from, 279 Electric, Stourport, 48, 78
Electric, Technical and Economic Developments in, 80, 136
Electric, “ Topping Plant ” for, 135, 174,451
Electric, United States, Thermal Efficiency of, 173, 452
See also Power Plants : Substaticms
— Supply, Electric, Aberdeen Broadcasting Station, 332
Electric, in Agricultural Development (Review), 640
Electric, Birmingham, 48, 77 Electric, Birmingham, Report on Failure of, 597
Electric, for British Agriculture, 498, 607 Electric, in Coal Mines, 730
Electric, Corby Steel-Tube Plant, 469 Electric, Costs and Tariffs (Review), 640 Electric, in Egypt, 453 Electric, for Electric Railways, 709 Electric, Electricity Commissioners’ port, 510
Electric, in France, 136, 201* Electric, for French Agriculture, 608
Electric, for French Railways, 755 Electric, for German Railways, 755 Electric, in Germany, 653 Electric, in India and Burma, Relating to (Review), 167
Electric, for Irrigation Pumping, India, 768*
I Electric, Kingston-on-Thames, Failure
of, 739
Electric, Ontario. Annual Report, 164 Electric, Paris, Combined Operation of Steam and Hydraulic Stations for, 350*, 431*
Presidential Address to British Association, Engineering Section, by Prof. R. V. Southwell, on Changing Outlook of Engineering »Science, 260. See 249,251. See LETTERS, 299,530
to British Coal Utilisation Research Association, by Sir E. Williams, on Work of Association, 740
to British Engineers’ Association, by Lieut.-Col. Lord Dudley Gordon, on Engineering Industrial Organisation, 483 to British Waterworks Association, by H. M. Medland, on Public Water-Supply Problems, 113
to Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, by W. H. Ballantyne, on the International Conventions Relating to Industrial Property, 715
to Institute of Fuel, by Lieut.-Col. J. H. M. Greenly, on Fuel Problems, 482
to Institute of Marine Engineers, by Sir J. Foley, on the State and the Marine Engineer, 425
to Institute of Transport, by G. S. Szlumper, on Transport, Comfort and Speed, 480
to Institution of Automobile Engineers, by P. C. Kidner, on Motor-Car Development, 481
to Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, by A. C. Gardner, on International Engineering Congress, 453 to Institution of Mechanical Engineers, by D. E. Roberts, on Development of Iron and Steel Industry, 519. See 509
to Institution of Water Engineers, by J. F. Haseldine, on Public Water Supply Problems, 53
to International Engineering Congress, by Lord Weir, on Engineers and Modern Civilisation, 33
to Junior Institution of Engineers, by Sir C. Bressey, on Roads and Traffic, 710 to North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, by Major T. R. Cairns, on Shipping and Trade, 511
Press. Filter, Hydraulic (S. H. Johnson and Co., Ltd.), 627*
Screw (S. Briggs and Co., Ltd.), 687*
— See also Machine Tools
Pressure Losses in Air Ducts, Investigation of, 302
— Recorder for Rolling Mill (Cambridge Instru
ment Co., Ltd.), 320*
— Regulator for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Tur- i
bine, Boulder Dam Power House, 669*
Price, Dr. L. E., on Tarnishing of Silver, 567; on Oxidation-Resistance in Copper Alloys, 567
Price, T. L., the Late, 559
— of Metals. See MetaUPrice Diagrams Priest Furnaces, Ltd., Furnace for Heavy
Weldless-Steel Tube Plant, 713
Priestman Brothers, Ltd., Model of Oil Engine o: 1887, 598
Primary Battery. See Cell under Electric Prime Electrically-Charged Fence, 66 Pringle, Col. Sir J. W., the Late, 98 Procedo Rotating Lathe Centre, 508 Producer-Gas Engine. See Engines, Gas for Fixed Basic Open-Hearth Furnaces, 120
for Motor Vehicles, 654, 737
Temperature, Measurement of, 684 Professional Men and National Emergency, 250.
See 395, 423. See LETTERS. 457, 479, 530
— Photographers’ Association Exhibition, 368 Profiling Machine. See Machine Tools Progress Industries, Ltd.. High-Pressure Mechanical Oil Pump, 777*
Proj), Steel Safety, for Mines (W. Sylvester, Ltd.), 625
Propane Gas, Use for Railway Signals, 709 Propellers, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Marine, Model Tests in Vienna Tank, 575 S.g;. “ Queen Elizabeth,” 383*
Science of Design of. Symposium on, 619 Ship Vibration from, 346*, 283, 377 for Steam Drifters, Model Tests of, 599*, 662
— Model Experiments at National Physical
Laboratory, 338, 370
— Shaft Brackets, Strength of,, 695* Propulsion of Ships. See Marine Propulsion; Engines ; Turbines; Propellers; Ship Resistance
Prozesky, R., ” Procedo ” Rotating Lathe Prym, W.,’“P.K.” Variable-Speed Friction
Drive, 729*
Public Cleansing, Ministry of Health Report, 222
— Health, Engineer’s Contribution to, 692 Exhibition, 681*, 641*
Gas in Service of, 750
Services Congress, London: The Relay System of Refuse Collection, by H. Cook, 624; Air-Raid Precautions and Water Supply, by Air Commodore J. M. Bonham- Carter and Colonel A. J. G. Bird, 625. See Erratum, 666; Water Charges, by J. F. Haseldine, 625 ; Protection of Underground Water Supply, with Special Reference to Town and Country Planning Act, by E. Morton, 625; Avoidance of Frost Bursting in Water Pipes, by Dr. J. McKeown, 625; Nitrogen Balance of Large Bodies of Water, by Dr. C. H. Mortimer, 691 ; Algae as Indicators of Water Conditions, by Dr. M. Rosenberg, 691; Methods of Heating and Ventilation of Buildings, by A. Richardson, 691; Problem of Air-Raid Shelters, by E. J. Goodacre and J. R. Barron, 692; Purification of Sewage in Covered Filters, by J* Hurley and M. Lovett, 692; Effect of Pressure on Rate of Oxidation of Sewage in Presence of Activated Sludge, by R. Hicks, 692; The Engineer’s Contribution to the Public Health Services, by C. L. H. Humphreys, 692; Sewage Disposal and River Pollution, by J. H. (Earner, 749; Air-Raid Precautions as Applied to Sewage Undertakings, by F. W. Allen, 750; Garage Accommodation for Cleansing and Transport Under
takings, by J. L. Beckett, 750; Gas in Service of Public Health, by W. L. Howe, 750; Design of Sewage Works for Town of about 20,000 Population, by F. H. Heaton, 750
Puddled Iron. See Iron
Pugh, C. H., Ltd., 28-in. Petrol-Driven Lawn Mower, 643*
Pullin, Dr. V. E., on X-Ray and Gamma-Ray
Methods of Testing Materials, 652 Pullomax Sheet-Metal Shearing Machine, 265 Pulverised Coal, Gasification of, with Oxygen under Pressure, 603
Pumps, Air. See Air Compressors
— Car-Washing, with Pulsating Delivery (Lee
Guinness Hydro-Pulsator Co., Ltd.), 288*
— Centrifugal, Deichow Hydro-Electric Plant,
36*
Dredging, Drag-Suction Dredger ‘'Pushing,” 496*, 677*
Federal Hydraulic Laboratory, Zurich, 5* Flow of Liquid through, 270*
High-Speed, Drag-Suction Dredger “ Pushing,” 579*
Model Tests of, 244*, 262
— Circulating, for 1,000-lb. LaMont Boiler 416*
— Peed, Electrically-Driven Multi-Stage (G. and J. Weir, Ltd.), 154*
for 1,000-lb. Pressure La Mont Boiler, 504*
— Fire-Pighting, Petrol-Driven, on Trailer (J. Beresford and Son, Ltd.), 628
— oil, Mechanical, High-Pressure (Progress Industries, Ltd.), 777*
— Positive-Action (Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd.), 615*
— Rotary, Positive Displacement (Drum Engineering Co., Ltd.), 274*
— Storage Hydro-Electric Plants, Germany, 36*
— Sulphuric-Acid, Contact Sulphuric-Acid Plant, 519*
— Trailer, Petrol-Driven (Scammell Lorries Ltd.), 582*
— Vacuum, Double-Acting Dry (Reavell and Co., Ltd.), 303*
Pumping Plant, Irrigation, United Provinces in India, 768*
S.S. ” Queen Elizabeth,” 383
— Set, Portable, Petrol-Driven (Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd.), 442*
— Station, Model of, 315*
— Unit, Shallow-Well, Petrol-Driven (J. Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd.), 96* Purification of Sewage. See Sewage
— of Water. See Water
Pyrometer, Recording, for 40-ton Annealing
Furnace (Foster Instrument Co.), 434
— Suction, Theory and Application of, 683
— See also Thermocouple under Electric

QUANTUM Mechanics, Elements of (Review), 357
Quarry Plant, St. Austell, Cornwall, 596*
Quarrying, Egyptian Methods of, 541*
“ Queen Elizabeth,” S.S., Launch of, 381*, 425*. 646
— Marv College, London, Guild of Friends of, 169
S.S., Record Crossings, 223
Queensland Department of Mines, Annual Report, 768
— Direct Road Construction by Heat Treatment of Soil (L. R. H. Irvine Process), 39*
— Government Railways, Annual Report, 47 Quicksilver. See Mercury and Metal-Price Diagrams
Quill-Drive on Simplex Bogie for Electric Traction, 189*
RABOMA-Maschinenfabrik Herman Schoering, Radial Drill with Pre-Selective Gear, 375* See Adde'l^dum,
Radial Drill. See Drill under Machine Tools Radiation Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 668
Radicon Worm-Reducing Gear, 655*
Radio Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 726
Radiological Examination of Metals, 653
— Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 623*
Radiotelegraphy. See also Telegraphy, Wireless
Radiotelephonv. See also Teleph&ny, Wireless Radium Detector Neon-Tube, 624*
— in Non-Destructive Testing, 652
Rail, Manganese-Steel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Railway Junction, 584*
— and Road Transport in Ceylon, 368
— Steel, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Railcars. See Carriages, Railway
Railton Motor Car, 2,500-b.h.p., Record Speed with, 281, 397
Railroad. See Railways Railway Accidents. See Accidents
— Argentine State, Articulated Railcars for, 702*,756*
Biel-Meinisberg, Switzerland, Electric Railcar with Simplex Bogie, 188*
— Board, Indian, Annual Report, 76. See
Addendum, 134
— Bombay, Baroda and Central India, Air
Compressor with Automatic Control, 760*
— Bridge. See Bridge
Buenos Aires Provincial, Service Results with
270-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric Railcars, 461 Ayres Great Southern, 900-h.p. Diesel-
Electric Locomotives, 48
— Carriage. See Carriage
— Ceylon Government, Administrative Report, 368
— Charges, Regulation of, 711
— Coachwork, Double End-Tenoning Machine
for (T. Robinson and Sons, Ltd.), 745*
— and Cross-Channel Services, 598
— Developments in Iran, 156
— Electric, Power Supply for, 709
— German, Electric Power Supply for, 755
— Japanese Electric, Power Supply for, 709
— London and Birmingham, Centenary of, 368,594
Midland and Scottish, Lake Motor Launch “ Swan,” 72 ; School of Transport, Derby, 126* ; Report on Oakley Junction Accident, 214 ; Trent Valley Junction Reconstruction, 225* ; Report on Rutherglen Accident, 256; Calculation of Train Running Times, 282 ' Apsley Station, 402* ; Centenary Dinner, 594. See 368
and North Eastern Report on Castlecary Accident, 16 ; ” Flying Scotsman ” Trains, 41* ; Record Speed of” Coronation Train,” 74; Conversion of Atlantic Type Locomotive, 127 ; Train for London-Harwich Service, 456* ; Re-laying Newcastle-upon- Tyne Junction, 584*
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Carriage. See Carriage
— New Zealand Government, Annual Report,
425
— Post Office, London, Mechanical Equipment
of, 698*
— Queensland Government, Annual Report, 47
— Rolling Stock. See Carriages; Locomo
tives ; Wagons
— Signalling. See Signalling
— Sleepers, Preservation Treatment of, Investi
gations on,310
— South African, Electricity Supply, 139;
Double End-Tenoning Machine for Coachwork, 745*
Australian, Annual Report, 223
— Southern, Electrification to Portsmouth via
Horsham, 20; Carriages for London- Bournemouth Service, 177*
— Swedish, Electrification of, 160
— Train Brake. See Brake
— Transport, School of, Derby, 126*
— Tube. See Underground'
— United States, Comfort and Speed in, 480
— Wagons. See Wagons
— World, Progress of Electrification, 202*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Rainfall, Afforestation and Soil Erosion, 579, 638
— and Floods in North India, 425
— and Run-off on Dartmoor, 114
— and Run-off in New England, 54
— and Water Level at Chilgrove, Sussex, 714 Baistrick, Dr. A., on South Yorkshire Iron
Industry, 760
Rake, Expanding, Tractor-Operated (Harrison, McGregor <fe Co., Ltd.), 30*
” Ramb I ” and ” Ramb IV,”M.SS.,for Banana Carrying, 216*
Rand Water Board, South Africa, Annual Report, 309
Randupson Cement-Sand Plant for Foundry, 430*
Rangoon, Port of, Annual Report, 767
Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., 5-cub. ft. Four- Purpose Excavator, 442*; Portable Petrol-Driven Pumping Set, 442*
Raw-Materials Survey, Hull Development Committee, 137
Raworth, A., Southern Railway Electrification to Portsmouth via Horsham, 20
Rayleigh, Lord, on Vision in Nature and Vision aided by Science, 221. See 251
Raynor, G. V., on Constitution of Magnesium- Rich Alloys, 567 ; on Liquidus and Solidus Curves of Magnesium Alloys, 567
Rays, Electric. See Cathode : Eontgen
— Gamma. See Gamma
Reagel,F. V., Jointsin Concrete Pavements, 664 Rearmament Programme and Export Trade, Maintenance of Balance between, 708
Reavell and Co., Ltd., Double-Acting Dry Vacuum Pump, 303*
Recorder, Temperature, for 40-ton Annealing Furnace (Foster Instrument Co.), 434 Recording Apparatus for Whirl of Diesel-Engine Crankshaft, 6, 21*
Rectifier Panels, Mercury-Arc (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 210*
Redmayne, Sir R., on Coal Consumption in Great Britain, 33
Reduction Gears. See Gears; Marine Propulsion ; Motor-Car Details
Reed-Prentice Corporation, Die-Casting Machines, 294*
Reference Books. See Annuals and LITERATURE INDEX
Refractive Index of Air, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 267
Refractories, Institution of Gas ’
Investigations on, 658
— National Physical Laboratory
tions on, 237
— Repair by Blow-Pipe Spraying,
— ^faterials. See also Pirebricks^ Refrigeration and Fish Preservation, 308
— Household Electric (Review), 356
— Plant, Automatic Expansion Valve for
(British Thermostat Co., Ltd.), 311*
— Practice, National Physical Laboratory
Investigations, 595
Refrigerator for Optical Works (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 655
Refuse-Collecting Vehicle with Compressing Gear CI- I- Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 642*
— Collection, Relay System of, 624
and Street Cleansing, Cost of. Report, 483 Vehicle, Compression (Transport Engineering, Ltd.), 543
— Collector, Bin-Tipping (Walker Brothers
(Wigan), Ltd.), 642*
and Decontaminator (Associated Equipment Co., Ltd.), 642*
— Container, Self-Sealing Dustless (Shelvoke &
Drewry, Ltd.), 643*
— Disposal Plant, Stockholm, 448 Regenerative Furnace. See Furnace Regent-street Polytechnic, London, Prize
Distribution, 586
Regia Azienda Monopolio Banane, M.SS. ” Ramb I ” and ” Ramb IV,” 216*
Register of Engineers for National Service, 395. See 250, 423. See LETTERS, 457 479, 580
Regulator, Pressure, for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, Boulder Ham Power House, 669*
— Transformer-Voltage (Metropolitan-Vickers
Electrical Co., Ltd.), 625
Reheating Furnace. See Furnace
Reid, K. M.., on Seeing on the Highway, 664
Reif, Dr. H., on Vienna Ship-Model Testing Tank,575
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Relaxation Applied to Flow of Compressible Fluid, 261
— Method for Solution of Poisson’s Equation, 251
Relay Contactor, Inductive, Greenly, 459*
— System of Refuse Collection, 624
Renault Transmission System for Railcars, 622
Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, Waterloo-Bridge Reconstruction, 587* ; Centenary Dinner, 740
Reo Motors, Ltd., 3-ton Motor Vehicle with Truck 32*
Repeated Stresses. See Alternating Stress under Tests {Materials}
Report, African Pencil Cedar, 292
— Annual, Alkali, Etc., Works, 138
British Cast Iron Research Association,744 British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, 28
— .— Building Research Board, 105
City and Guilds of London Institute, 364
Electricity Commissioners’, 510
Factories and Workshops, Home Office Inspector’s, 193, 195
Food Investigation Board, 308
Forest-Products Research Board, 310
Fuel Research Board, 765
India Store Department, London, 621
Industrial Health Research Board, 655
Ministry of Health, 222
National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 18, 62*, 107*, 151*, 196*, 236*, 266*, 297, 338*, 370, 440*, 526*, 550*, 694* 623*, 666*, 711*, 725
New Zealand Government Railways, 425
Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, 164
Port of London, 251
Port of Rangoon, 767
Progress of Rubber Technology, 563
Queensland Department of Mines, 768
Rand Water Board, South Africa, 309
Research Committee of Institution of Automobile Engineers, 397
Road Research Board, 592
Safety in Mines Research Board, 718
Secretary for Mines, 620
• South African Electricity Supply Commission, 139
South Australian Railways, 223
United States Bureau of Mines, 403
— Board of Trade, Boiler Explosion Inquiries, 147, 321, 450
of Trade, Survey of Industrial Development, 164
— British Railway Accidents, 1937, 159
— Cast Irons, High-Duty, 742, 745*
— Castlecary Railway Accident, 16
— Central Advisory Water Committee, 77
— Ceylon Government Railway, 368
— Charing Cross Underground Railway Accident, 396
— Chemistry Research Board, 1935-37, 395
— Coal for Ship Propulsion, 165. See LETTER, 214
— Corrosion of Coal-Tar Stills, 333, 396
— Department of Business Management,
London School of Economics, 189
— Deterioration of Structures in Sea Water, 359
— Dry Rot in Wood, 463
— Drying and Dewatering of Coal, 460
— Economic and Commercial Conditions in Iran, 156
and Commercial Conditions in Iraq, 250 Conditions in Syria and the Lebanon, 604
— Electrical Accidents and their Causes, 708
— Electricity in Mines, 1937, 367
— Freezing of Building Materials, Experiments on,291
— Friction of Oscillating Bearing, 170
— Gas Works Safety Rules, 569
— Import Trade of India, 1937-38, 272
— Institution of Mechanical Engineers Committee on High-Duty Cast Irons, 742, 745*
of Structural Engineers, on Air-Raid Precautions, 569
— Kiln-Seasoning Treatments on Teak, 52
— Lighting in Factories, 650
— Limestones of Ontario, 305
— Machinery and Equipment for Bending Wood, 389
— Minerals of British Columbia, 195
— Ministry of Transport, on Experimental Work on Roads, 684
— Motor Industry of Great Britain, 1938, 337
— Nickel-Silver, Survey of Published Information on, 259
— Oakley Junction Railway Accident, 214
— Preservation of Countryside, 396
— Production of Active Carbon from Bituminous Coal, 408
of Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Phenols, 464
— Refuse Collection and Street Cleansing, Cost of, 483
— Regulations for Earthing Electrical Installations to Water Pipes, 165
— Rutherglen Railway Accident, 256
— Steel-Castings Research Committee. 548. See 581
— Str.esses in Reinforced-Concrete Piles during Driving, 87
— Strip Mining of Bituminous Coal in United States 227*
— Technical Colleges of South Africa, 248
— Transport Reorganisation in Northern Ireland, 651
— Transportation of Sand in Pipe Lines, 158
— on Unaccounted-for Town Gas, 718
— Waterloo Tube-Railway Accident, 71
— See also Board of Trade
Republic Steel Corporation, Electric-Furnace Practice at, 540
“ Repulse," H.M. Battle Cruiser, Stresses in, 6
Research Association, British Coal Utilisation, Work of, 629; Presidential Address, by Sir B. Williams, on Work of Association, 740
Cast Iron, British, Annual Report, 744; Annual Luncheon, 744
Non-Ferrous Metals, British, Annual Report and Lunch, 28; Report on Nickel-Silver, Survey of Published Information, 259
— Board. Building, Annual Report, 105 Chemistry, Report for 1935-37, 395 Forest-Products, Report on Kiln-Seasoning Treatments of Teak, 52 ; Annual Report, 310 ; Report on African Pencil Cedar, 292 ; Report on Dry Rot in Wood, 463
Fuel, Test of Morgan Rotary-Retort, Low-Temperature Carbonisation Plant, 113; Report on Production of Active Carbon from Bituminous Coal, 408; Report on Production of Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Phenols at Atmospheric Pressure, 464; Annual Report, 765
Industrial Health Annual Report, 655 Road, Annual Report, 592 Safety in Mines, Annual Report, 718
— Coal Utilisation, Co-operation in, 628
— Committee of Institution of Automobile Engineers, Annual Report, 397. See 107 Institution of Mechanical Engineers, High-Duty Cast Iron, 742, 745*
Lubrication, Report on Friction of Oscillating Bearing, 170
Steel-Castings, Report, 548. See 581
— Department, Scientific and Industrial,
Report on Freezing of Certain Building Materials, 291; Report on Corrosion of Coal-Tar Stills, 333, 396; Report on Deterioration of Structures in Sea Water, 359 ; Exhibits at Building Trades Exhibition, 373; Report on Machinery and Equipment for Bending Wood, 389; Advisory Committee on Switchgear Testing, 511
— andDevelopment Council, Tin, International.
High-Speed Repeated-Impact Testing Machine, 611*. See 235*, 295*. See LETTER,299*
— Engineering, Policy of Universities towards, 249, 251, 260. See LETTERS, 299, 530
Royal Swedish Institute for. Symposium on Chemistry of Cements, 195
— High-Duty Cast Iron, Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Report on, 742, 745*
— Laboratory, Chemical, Teddington, Investigation on Corrosion of Coal-Tar Stills, 333, 396
Forest Products, Report on Dry Rot in Wood, 463
Hadfield Metallurgical, Sheffield University, 362*
Institution of Automobile Engineers, Work of, 107, 397
Road, Investigations by, 380, 435*; Automatic Traffic Counter, 613*
United States Naval, Electro-Magnetic Testing of Steel Plates, 141
— on Materials and Modern Design, 80, 143*
— Naval, Essential Elements in, 141
— Road, at National Physical Laboratory, 151
— Royal, M.S. “ Research,” 226
— and Small Consumers of Coal, 654
— Station, Building, Garston, Investigations
at, 105; Experiments on Freezing of Building Materials, 291; Investigations on Settlement Analysis of Engineering Structures, 310, 403*
Fuel, Gas Investigations at, 603
Post Office, Investigations on Corrosion of Galvanised Iron Wire, 27,. 54*
—• Work of Institution of Gas Engineers, 569, 602,658, 718
— See also National Physical Laboratory Reservoir, Burrator, Submerged Outlet Valves,
— Nitrogen Balance of Water in, 691
Resins, Synthetic, Radiological Examination, 624
Reinforcement of Wood with, 655
— Use in Tests of Materials, 289*, 310
— See also Plastics
Resistance, Air. See under Aeronautics
— of Flow through Nests of Tubes, Experiments on, 605*, 665*, 723*
— of Ships. _ See Ship Resistance
Resonance in Relation to Mechanical Vibrations, 282
Retort, Gas, Hot-Patching by Blow-Pipe Sprav Welding, 658
— for Oil-Shale Distillation, 46
— Rotary, Morgan, for Low-Temperature
Carbonisation, Test of, 113*
Reviews. See LITERATURE INDEX
Reyrolle, A., and Co., Ltd., Diagram Control Board for Power Stations, 328* ; 'Bus- Bar-Zone Protective Systems, 329*
Rhead, T. F. E., on Hot-Patching of Gas Retorts, 658
Rhine-Main-Danube Canal, 118*
Rib for Unit-Construction Aeroplane Shed, Tests, 728*
Ribaud, G., on Measurement of Plame Temperature, 683
Ricardo, H. R., on Progress of Internal- Combustion Engine, 80
Rice, H. B., on Metallized Zinc Coatings, 657* Richards, C. E., on Corrosion of Galvanised Iron Wire, 27, 54*
Richards, G., and Co., Ltd., 72-in. Horizontal Boring and Facing Machine, 202*
Richardson, A., on Heating and Ventilation of Buildings, 691
Richmond Chandler, Ltd., Electric Hoists, 682 Richter, H., By-Pass Valve for Steam Trap, 604* ; “ Vaposcope ” Indicator for Steam Traps, 691*
Rifles, Flip in. Experiments on, 45
Rigid Airships. See Airships under Aeronautics
Ring, Taper-Bore, Strength of, 171*
River Rober, Germany, Deichow Hydro- Electric Plant, 36*
— Clyde and Glasgow Harbour, 109
— Colorado, Boulder Dam Power House, 59*, 179*, 239*, 549*, 608*, 669*, 693*
— Thames, London, Waterloo Bridge over,
Reconstruction of, 587* ; Development of South Bank of, 593 ; Blackwall Tunnel under, Duplication of, 680
— Training in Connection with Bridges, 049
— Whangpoo and Yangtse, Flow Problems of, 61,165,223,241
Rivets, Mechanical Properties of, Investigations on,773
Riveted Joints, Fatigue Tests of, 773
Riveter. See Machine Tools
Road Accidents. See Accidents
— Bituminous Surfaces, Heavy Types, 664
— Brick,in United States, Developments in, 233
— Bridges, International, between Canada and
United States, 377*
— Concrete, Contraction and Expansion Joints in, 664
— Conferences in United States, 663
— Construction, Direct, by Heat Treatment of Soil, Irvine Machine for, 39*
— Curvature and Speed of Vehicles, 664
— Design for Safety and Speed, 663
— Development in Great Britain, 378, 435*. See 281
— Experimental Work on, Ministry of Transport’s Report, 684
— Lighting of. Investigations on, 664
— Maintenance Machine (Allen Road Machinery Corporation), 118*
— Making Material, Experiments on Molasses as, 321
— Maybury School of Highway Engineering, London,276
— and Rail Transport in Ceylon, 368
— Research Board, Annual Report, 592 Laboratory, Investigations by, 380, 435* ; Automatic Traffic Counter, 613*
National Physical Laboratory, 151
— Roller, Motor, Three-Axle Tandem (Buffalo-Springfield Roller Co.), 56*
6-ton, 18i-b.h.p., Oil-Engined (Wallis and Steevens, Ltd.), 29*
8-ton 28-b.h.p. Oil-Engined (Wallis and Steevens, Ltd.), 29*
— Suburban, Design and Construction of, 664
— Surfaces, Anti-Skid Properties of, 664 Experiments on, 685
and Skidding, Investigations on, 592
— Traction, Railless Electric. See Trolley 'Bus
— Traffic Counting System, 183
— and Traffic, Problems of, 710
— Transport, London Passenger Transport Board’s Report, 564
in Northern Ireland, Reorganisation, 651 Vehicles, Producer-Gas Driven, Operating Results, 654
in Wartime, Producer-Gas Plants for, 737
— See also Tar
Roberts, D. E., on Development of Iron and Steel Industry, 519. See 509
Robertson, V. A. M., Reconstruction of King’s Cross Underground Station, 265*, 296*, 386*. See Erratum, 444; Aidgate East Station Reconstruction, 531*
Robinson, P. J., Clarence Dock Power Station Extensions, 483
Robinson, R. S., on Noise Reduction in Ships, 766
Robinson and Steinman, Thousand Islands Bridge System, 377*
Robinson, T., and Son, Ltd., Centenary of, 246; Electrically-Driven Tenoning Machine, 259*; Planing and Surfacing Machine, 399; Mortising M:achine8, 400*; Totally- Enclosed Band Saw, 400* ; Double End- Tenoning Machine for Railway Coachwork, 745*
Rock, Broken, Loading by Scraper (Holman Brothers, Ltd.), 255*
Rock, Rear-Admiral G. H., U. S.N., on Engineers and Civic Affairs, 17
Rodridge Hall, Wingate, Morgan Rotary- Retort Low-Temperature Carbonisation Plant at, 113*
Rodwell, J. A., on Water Wastage: Causes, Detection and Prevention, 114
Rogers, J. S., on Vibrograph for Fresh Concrete, 232*
Roller, J., on Heating-Stoves to Burn Lignite, 653*
— Road. See Road Roller
Rolling Mills, Development of, 520 Hot, 8-in. Double Two-High (Brightside Foundry and Engineering Co., Ltd.) 19*
Practice in America, 580
Pressure Recorder for ( Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 320*
Strip-Gauging Indicator for (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 320*
— of Ships. See Ships
— Stock on Indian Railways, 76. See Addendum, 134
— — New Zealand Government Railways, 425 ~ ~ See also Carriages ; Locomotives ; Wagons Rolt, F. H., on End-Gauge Comparator of
High Sensitivity, 183*
Roman Aqueducts, Description of, 542
Rome and Greece, Science and Engineering in, ROntgen-Ray Examination of Alloys at National Physical Laboratory, 198
-Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 623*
Methods of Testing Materials, 652 Study of Strain in Metals, 62
Rooms, Air-Conditioned, for Tropics, 132
Root-Crop Gapper(E.H.Bentall<feCo.,Ltd.), 31* Ropes, Wire. See Wire Ropes
Roses, Ceiling, Two and Three-Terminal, Specification, 647
Rosenberg, Br. M., on Algee as Indicators of Water Conditions, 691
Ross Institute Industrial Advisory Committee, Work on Tropical Hygiene, 132
Rota, General G., on Shipbuilding in Italy, 109 Rotary Blowers. See Blowers
— Engine. See Engine ; Aeronautics
— Rump. See Pump
Rothermel, R. A., Ltd., Speed Controller for Motor Vehicles, 127*
Rotor, Steam Turbine, Deflection of, 181*
Roumanian State Railways, 4,400-b.h.p. Diesel- Electric Locomotive, 100*
Rounsefell, E. O., on Detergency and Glass Containers, 721
Royal Aeronautical Society. See Aeronautical
— Agricultural Hall. See Exhibition
— Eye Hospital, Eye-Protection Exhibition, 20

Royal Institution:

Conversazione, 566
Chemistry of Combustion, by Prof. A. C. G. Egerton, 566
Combination Tones in Sound and Light, by Sir W. Bragg, 593
Royal Sanitary Institute. See Sanitary
Royal Society :
Conversazione and Exhibition, 17 Pilgrim Trust Lecture, on Molecular Films,
by Dr. I. Langmuir, 710
Royal Swedish Institute for Engineering Research, Symposium on Chemistry of Cements, 195
— Technical College, Glasgow, Calendar, 374 Rubber Bearing, National Physical Laboratory
Investigations on, 107
— Chemistry, Modern (Review), 92
— Hose, Moulded, Specification, 276
— Industry, Institution of, Annual Report on
Progress of Rubber Technology, 563
— and Metal, Metalastik System of Bonding, 391*
— Sheet, Elastic Properties of, 125
— Synthetic, Production of, 564
— Technology, Progress of, Annual Report on, 563
Rubery, Owen and Co., Ltd., Weldless-Steel Tube Shop, Chesterfield Works, 713
Ruff Fluidity Test for Steel, 548, 581
Rugby Works, British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., 48, 78
Runner for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, Boulder Dam Power House, 549*
— for 24,000-kW Kaplan Turbines, Deichow
Hydro-Electric Plant, 36*
Rural Developments and Preservation of Countryside, 396
— Electrification in France, 202*, 499, 607 in Great Britain, 498, 607
Rusting. See Corrosion
Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 5i-b.h.p. SingleCylinder Oil Engine, 29*
Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd., Bullgrader with Adjustable Blade, 371*
Rutherglen Railway Accident, Report, 256
S.L.M. Gearbox for Diesel Railcars, 631 Sablon, J. L. du, on Electrification of French ’ Railways, 755
Safety^ Lamps, Electric, Colliery, Experiments,
— of Life at Sea. See Life-Saving; Water-
Tight Subdivision
— in Mines Research Board, Annual Report,718
— on Roads, Factors affecting, 435
— Regulations for United States Ships, 116
— Rules for Use in Chemical Works, 276
for Gas Works, Report on, 569
Sagar, J., and Co., Ltd., Four-Cutter Planing and Moulding Machine, 528*
Saint. See St.
Saklatvala, Sir N. B., the Late, 134
Sale, Tilney and Co., Ltd., 30-h.p. Minneapolis- Moline Agricultural Tractor, 681
Salerni Hydro-Kinetic Power Transmitter. 268*, 482
Salter, G., and Co., Ltd., Sand-Compression Testing Machine, 214*
Sambrook, K. H., on Petroleum Fuels for Agriculture in Great Britain, 608
** San Francisco,’* M.S., Wave Measurement on board, 6
Oakland Bay Bridge, Tests of Riveted Joints, 773
Sand, Cement, Preparation Plant for Foundry (August's, Ltd.), 430*
— *^214*^^^^^^ Tester (G. Salter and Co., Ltd.),
— Moulding, Steel-Castings Research Committee's Investigation on, 548, 581
Transportation in Pipe Lines, Investigations on, 158
Sandford, R. L., on Non-Destructive Testing, 652
Sanitary Institute, Royal, Courses in Sanitary Science, 255 ; Certificate Courses at, 584
Sanitation, Engineer’s Contribution to, 692 Sara, Hardinge Bridge at, 649
Sarj^t, Dr. R. J., on Open-Hearth Furnace Design and Control, 176
Saunders, O. A., on Errors in Gas-Temperature Measurement, 683
Saunders Valve Co., Ltd., "Straightway” Valve, 625
Sauveur, Prof. A., on Nomenclature in Ferrous Metallography, 281
Saville, C. M., on Rainfall and Run-off in New England, 54
Saws. See Machine Tools
Scaffolding, Metal, Exhibits at Building Trades Exhibition, 530
Scaling of Steel, Influence of Furnace Atmosphere on, 570
Scammell Lorries, Ltd., Gully Emptier with Monitor, 682* ; A.R.P. Unit with Trailer I^mp, 582*
Schack, A., on Suction Pyrometers, 688
Schichau, F., G.m.b.H., Drag-Snetion Dredger “Fu-Shing,” 495*, 577*, 638*
Schmeltzer, J. E., on Safety Regulations for United States Ships, 116
Schnadel, Prof. G., on Ocean Waves, Freeboard, and Strength of Ships, 6
Scholarships. See Education
Schrader, Prof. H. J., on Friction of Railway Brake Blocks, 719
Schultz, A., on Metallic Materials for Thermocouples, 683
Schultz Machine Co., Die-Casting Macliines, 293* Science in the Army, Exhibition of, Science Museum, 621
— and Engineering in Ancient Times, 541*
— Museum, South Kensington, Cyclotron and
Cyclotron Models, 309 ; Chinese Junks at, 566 ; Science In the Army Exhibition, 621
— of Seeing (Review), 640
Scientific Apparatus, Exhibition, Royal Society Conversazione, 17
— Instruments, Trend of Design in, 310, 317*
— Management. See Works Management
— Research. See Research
— Societies. See Institutions
— and Technical Periodicals, Evaluation of, 707
Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in. See Engitieers
Scott, Sir G. G., Waterloo-Bridge Reconstruction, 587*
Scott, W. H., the Late, 332
Scottish Oil-Shale Industry, Position in, 46, 106
Scrapehauler, for Loading Rock from Mine Dump (Holman Brothers, Ltd.), 255*
Scraper, Wagon, Four-Wheeled (Atlas Scraper and En^neering Co.), 629*
Screen, Travelling, for Experimental Channel, Federal Hydraulic Laboratory, Zurich, 5* Screening Plant, Stone (Goodwin, Barsby <fe Co., Ltd.), 597*
Screw-Cutting Machine. See Screw under Machine Tools
— Gauges, Tapered, Pitch-Testing Apparatus for, 266*
— Propellers. See Propellers ; Aeronautics
— Threads, Cycle, Specification, 773 Scroll-Case for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, Boulder Dam Power House, 608*
Sea Water, Deterioration of Structures in, 359 Seager, Dr. G. C., on Tensile Stresses in a Bearing Metal, 235*, 295*. See LETTER, 299*; on High-Speed Repeated-Impact Testing Machine, 611*
Seaplanes. See Aeronautics
Secondary Battery. See Accumulator under Electric
— Schools and Education. See Education Sedimentation Apparatus for Fineness Measurement of Powdered Materials, 494*
Seeing, Science of (Review), 640
Seizing Temperature of Bearings, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 64*
Selas Gas A Engineering Co., Ltd., Gas-Fired Muffle Furnace, 213*; Gas-Fired Combustion Type Furnace, 214*
Sempill, Lord, on International Air Transport, 109
Separator, Cyclone Type, for Blast-Furnace Gas, Delray Power Station, 207*
Serck Radiators, Ltd., Mobile Gas-Fired Air Heater, 513*
Service, T. M., on Acid Open-Hearth Steel Melting Practice, 148
— Aviation. See Aeronautics
Servo-motors, Wicket Gate, for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, Boulder Dam Power House, 610*
Set Square, “Trig-Angle,” Adjustable (A. G. Thornton, Ltd.), 365
Settlement Analysis of Engineering Stnictures, 310,403*
Severn, River, Sharpness Bridge over, Wind- Pressure Observations on, 197
Sewage Disposal, Ministry of Health Report, 222 and River Pollution, 749
— Effect of Pressure on Activated-Sludge
Process, 692
— Purification in Covered Filters, 692
— System, Denver, Colorado, Self-Supporting
Horizontal Pipe-Line Span, 465*
— Undertakings and Air-Raid Precautions, 750
— Works, Design of, 750
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Sewerage Pumping Plant, Model Tests of. 244*, 314
Sewers, Main, Construction of, including Timbering of Excavations (Review), 168
Shaft Brackets, Propeller, Strength of, 695*
— Crank. See Crankshaft
— Deformation of. Influence of Heat Treatment on, 145*
— High-Speed. Measurement of Torque in, 69*
and Holes, Fitting of. See Gauges ; Gangi/no
— for 115.000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine Boulder- Dam Power House, 550*
Shanks, A., and Son, Ltd., 36-in. Motor Mower with Trailer Seat, 584*
— Grass Cutter-Collector, 66*
Shaping Machine. See Machine Tools
Sharpness Bridge over River Severn, Wind- Pressure Observations on, 197
Shear Tests. See Tests {Materials}
Shearing Machines for Animals, Petrol-Driven (Cooper-Stewart Engineering Co., Ltd.), 67* Metal. See Machine Tools
Sheave, Welded, Tower-Type Winding Plant, Fushu-Ryuho Colliery, Mukden, 671* Shed, Aeroplane, Transportable, Callender- Hamilton Unit Construction, 727*
Sheepbridge Stokes Centrifugal Castings Co.. Ltd., * Loded” Cast Irons, 710
Sheet-Metal jUrcraft Parts, Drop-Stamping Plant for, 52*
- Structures, National Physical Laboratory, Investigations on, 151
Fla-te Metal Work, Practical (Review),
— Steel, Galvanised Corrugated, Specification,
Sheffield Gas Company, Four-Lift Spiral- Guided Gasholder, 323*, 357*
— University, Sir Robert Hadfield Metallurgical Laboratories, 362* ; Lectures on Electric Traction, 444
Shelter, Air-Raid, Reinforced-Concrete (‘'Twisteel Reinforcement, Ltd.), 629
Raid, Models of Steel Construction for,
Planning of, 572
Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., Self-Sealing Dustless Refuse Container, 643*
Ship’s Boiler Room, Air Supply to, Model Tests, 314*
— Canal. See Canal
— Cargo, Trends in Design and Construction, 84*
— Classified, Lloyd’s Register Report, 592
— Coal as Fuel for, 165. See LETTER, 214
— Coastal, Model Experiments at National Physical Laboratory 339
— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 77, 463
— Diesel-Engined. See Motorships; Marine Propulsion
— Hold, Experimental, Food Investigation Board’s Experiments in, 308
— Hull, Calculation of Natural Frequencies of, 347, 376*
— Lost, Lloyd’s Statistics, 132, 774
— Merchant, Experiments at National Physical Laboratory, 338*, 370
United States, Safety Regulations for, 116
— Model Experiments. See Tank Experiments and Ship Resistance , .
— Motor. See Motorships ; Marine Propulsion
— Noise Reduction in, Experiments on, 766
— Plating, National Physical Laboratory
Investigations on, 152*
— Propellers. See Propellers
— Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion;
Engines ; Turbines; Propellers
— Resistance, Experiments at National Physical Laboratory, 338
Model Tests, 253. See Erratum, 284 Vienna Ship-Model Testing Tank, 575
— Rolling of, Investigation on, 6
— in Rough Water, Model Experiments, 338
— Stability Regulations for United States Ships, 116
— Steam Drifters, Tank and Sea Tests, 599* , 662*
— Strength, Freeboard, and Ocean Wave Action, 6
— Stresses in. Experiments on, 6
— Twin-Screw, Model Experiments at National
Physical Laboratory, 340
— Vibration in. Causes and Cures, 283, 345* 375*
— Water-Tight Subdivision of. See Water-Tight
— Wave Resistance of , Investigations on, 338
— See also Marine; Motorships; Shipping;
Steamers; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipbuilders and Engineers, North-East Coast Institution of. See North-East Coast
in Scotland, Institution of. See Engi- tlCCTS
Shipbuilding in 1938, 734, 762. See also vol. cxlvii',
— British, and National Economics, 33
— Construction of S.S. “ Queen Elizabeth.”
381* 646
— Electrodes for. Specification, 17
— in Italy, 109
— Materials, Testing Research Applied to, 6
— S.S. “Mauretania,” 121*, 163, 168*. See
Addendum, 218
— Naval. See Warships
— Safety Regulations for United States Ships,
116
— Strength of Propeller-Shaft Brackets, 695* Test of Ships’ Plating, 152*
— Trends in Design and Construction, 84*
— Vessels under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics 77 453
— Water-Tight Subdivision. See Water-Tight
— See also Motorships; Steamers; Naval;
Warships and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipping, British, and Overseas Trade, 511, 679 and World Statistics of, 679
— Grain and Grain Transport, 571
— Industry, Position of, 33
— Lloyd’s Agister, Annual Report, 592 Register, Vessels under Construction, 77,
453
— Lost, Lloyd’s Statistics. 132, 774
— Service, Transatlantic, by Oranje Line, 539 Shock Tests. See Impact Tests under Tests
{Materials}
Shop Management. See Works Management Short Brothers (Rochester and London), Ltd., Mayo Composite Aircraft, 137
Shovel. See Excavator Show. See Exhibition.
Shropshire, Worcestershire Electric Power Co., Station, 48, 78
Siddall, G., on Aspirating Gas Temperatures, 684
Siemens and General Electric Railway Signal Co., Automatic Traffic Counter, 613*
Siemens und Halske, Electron Microscope, 474*
Siemens Schuckert-Werke, Electrical Equipment for Tower-Type Winding Plant, Mukden, 671*
— Martin Furnaces. See Furnaces
Sieves for Fineness Measurement of Powdered Materials, 492*
Sievert, M., Portable Lead-Melting Furnace, 284
Signs, Incandescent Lamp, Canadian Specification, 494
Signals, Railway, Use of Propane Gas for, 709 Silencers for Motor-Cycles, National Physical Investigations on, 197, 667
Silentbloc, Ltd., Vibration Mounting for Generating Set, 185
Silica Bricks. See Firebricks
Silicon Don, Magnetic Properties of, Investigation on, 326, 488*
— Steel, Use in Balanced-Cantilever Bridge
over Connecticut River, 553*, 676
Silos, Storage, for Grain, 572
Silt-Bearing Rivers, Control Problems of, 579, 638, 681*, 740, 754
Silver, Prevention of Tarnishing of, 567
Simmerstat Control Switch for Electric Hotplates, 571*
Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd., Factory with Air-Raid Shelter, 572
Simon-Carves, Ltd., Contact Sulphuric-Acid Plant, West Ham, 518*
Simons, W., and Co., Ltd., Launch of H.M. Boom-Defence Vessel “ Barlow,*’ 277; Launch of H.M. Boom-Defence Vessel ‘‘Barmouth,” 475; Launch of H.M. Boom-Working Vessel “ Moorland,” 671
Sims, Dr. L. G. A., on Ballistic Measurements in Incremental Magnetism, 406*. See 326
Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Courses at, 312
Skempton, A. W., on Settlement Analysis of . .^^g’^^eering Structures, 403*. See 310 Skidding on Roads, Investigations on, 592, 664
— Tests of Motor Vehicles, 435* Friction. See Aeronatdics; Friction; Ship Resistance
Slag. See Metallurgy
Sleepers, Railway, ri‘eservation Treatment of, Investigation on, 310
® gas Co., 1,102-ft. Borehole. 20
Sludge Pipe, Cast-Iron, Failure of, 148. See also Sewage
Slurry, Coal, Flocculation Treatment of, 687* 2^?Jting Furnaces. See F2irnaces Smith, Sir L. W., on Rearmament Programme and Export Trade, 708
Smith, S. Morgan, Co., Pressure Regulators {or 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbines, 669* bmith, T., on Rest during Working Hours, 9 Smith, T., and Clarke, Ltd., Exhibits at Cardiff Engineering Exhibition, 626
Smith, T., and Sons (Rodley), Ltd., 10-cub. ft. Multi-Purpose Excavator, 626*
Smith, W. A., Drag-Suction Dredger ”Fu- Shing,” 495*, 577*, 638*
Smithfield Club Show, Agricultural Machinery at, 681, 732*
Smoke Abatement and Atmospheric Pollution. 280
at Alkali Works, Report on, 138
with Solid Fuel, 654
Smokeless Fuel. See Coaly Low-Temperature Carbonisation
Snell, Sir J., the Late, 79*
Snow Loader, Spiral-Feed (Barber-Greene Co.), 200* '
Socidt^ I’Air Liquide, Reconditioning of Worn Mental Surfaces by Oxy-Acetylene Welding,
Society of Mines, Royal, History of, 81
— of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. See
Motor
J®*^^ical and Scientific. See Instituiions
— Trade. See Labour ; Labour Notes bohwal Power Station, United Provinces, India, 768*
Soil Erosion and River-Control Problems, 579. 638, 681*, 740, 754
— Mechanics, Building Research Board’s Investigations on, 105
Road Research Board’s Investigations, 592
— Road Construction by Heat Treatment of
Irvine Method, 39* ’
Soil Steriliser (Electro-Horticultural Equipment Co., Ltd.), 95*
Solutions, Colloidal. See CoUoids
‘‘ Somali,” H.M. Destroyer, Trials of, 734
Sorting Office, Packet and Letter, Mount Pleasant, London, Mechanical Equipment at, 353*, 437*, 523*, 635*, 698*
— Table, Potato, Hand-Operated (Cooch &
Son), 94*
Sound-Absorbing Materials, Exhibits at Building Trades Exhibition, 529
— Insulation along Water Pipes, Investigation
on, 667*
— Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 666
— and Light, Combination Tones in, 593 Souter, W. A., on British and World Shipping 679
South^^rica, Electric Power Supply, Report,
— — Electricity-Supply Commission, Annual Report, 139
Rand Water Board, Annual Report, 309
Technical Colleges of, Report, 248
— African Railways and Harbours Board
Electricity Supply, 139; Double End- Tenoning Machine for Railway Coachwork 745* ’
— Australian Railways, Annual Report, 223
— Kensington, Science Museum, Cyclotron
and Cyclotron Models, 309 ; Chinese Junks at,^566 : Science in the Army Exhibition,
— Wales, Iron and Steel Industry in, 519
and Monmouthshire School of Mines Calendar, 374 ' ’
Treforest Trading Estate, Steam and Water Supply, 97
— West, Notes from, 13, 43, 73, 103, 133, 161, 191, 219, 246, 277, 304. 335, 364, 393 421 449, 476, 507, 535, 560, 588, 617, 647 676, 704, 735, 763. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Yorkshire, Notes from, 13, 43, 73, 103, 133, 161, 191, 219, 247. 277, 305, 335, 365 393 420, 449, 476, 507, 535, 560, 589, 617, 647 676, 704, 734, 762. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Southampton Docks, Handbook on, 103
Southern Railway. Electrificationto Portsmouth via Horsham, 20 ; Carriages for London- Bournemouth Service, 177*
Southwell, Prof. R. V., on Changing Outlook of Engineering Science, 260. See 249 251, 299. See LETTER, 530
Sovex, Ltd., Twin-Band Riser Conveyor, 354* • Sorting Fittings, Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, 437*
Specific Heats of Gases, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 197
Specific Heat-Temperature Curves of Iron and Steel, 580
of Water and Steam, Determination of, 1*, 34*
Specifications, Standard. See Standards
— Testing of Galvan ised-Iron Wire, Bearing of
Corrosion on, 27, 54*
Spectra, Flame, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 238
Spectroscopy and Human Vision, 221 Speed-Changing Gears. See Gears; Gearing;
Marine Propulsion ; Motor-Car Details
— Controller for Motor Vehicles (R. A. Rothermel, Ltd.), 127*
— Record, Land, by Motor Car “ Thunderbolt,” 281, 397
— Reduction Gears. See Gears; Gearing;
Marine Propulsion; Motor-Car Details
— Regulation. See also Governor
— Trials. See Trials
Spelter Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Spillways, Boulder Dam, Model Experiments on, 15
Spinks, J., on Ballistic Measurements in Incremental Magnetism, 406*. See 326
Spinning Machine for Hume Concussional-Spun Concrete Pipes, 558*
Spirit, Motor. See Motor Fuel
Spoil Banks, Fires in, Investigation on, 138 Spooner Dryer and Engineering Co., Ltd., Drying Chamber for Coated W elding Rods, 613*
Spot-Light for Welding Work (Philips Industrial (Philips Lamps, Ltd.), 761
Spraying Apparatus, Agricultural, 26
— Outfit, Portable Power-Driven (Cooper,
Pegler and Co., Ltd.), 682
Spreading Machine, Steam-Heated, Explosion from, 450
St, Austell, Cornwall, Quarry Plant, 506*
St. Clair River, Blue Water International Bridge over, 377*
St. Lawrence River, Thousand Islands Bridge over, 377*
St. Osyth Tide MiU, 445*
St. Venant Theory of Torsion of Cylindrical Bodies, 413
Stabilimento Grand! Motor! Fiat, 3,600-b.h.p. Nine-Cylinder Oil Engines, M.S. “ Ramb I,” 216*
Stability of Aeroplanes. See Aeronaidics
— of Ships. See Ships
Stamp-Cancelling Machine, Mount-Pleasant Sorting Office, 523*
Stamping Hammers. See Maehine Tools Standard Atlantic Liner, 163
— Association, Canadian Engi.ieering, Specification for Portable Electric Displays and Incandescent Lamp Signs, 404
— Institution, British, Draft Specification,
Cast-Iron Straight Edges, 114 ; Specifications: Cast-Iron Castings, 13 ; Electrodes for Shipbuilding, 17 ; Steel Bars and Wire for Concrete Reinforcement, 72; Questionnaire on Limits and Fits for Cylindrical Work, 137 ; Specifications; Electric Lighting Equipments, 210; Moulded Rubber Hose, 276; Bituminous Compounds for Cable Boxes, 277 ; Electric Cable Sheathings, 284 ; Steel Ducts for Electrical Services, 303 ; Milling Cutters and Reamers, 304 ; Galvanised Corrugated Sheets, 320 ;
! Contactors, 321 ; Specification for Sampling of Coal Tar, 341 ; Code for Automatic Oil-Burning Equipment, 365; Specifications: Cast-Iron Pipes, 393; Shanks for Welding Electrodes, 393 ; Die Blocks for Drop Forgings, 332 ; Carbon Brushes for Electrical Machines, 436; Draft Specification: Toolmakers’ Straightedges, 448; Spejifications : Crucible Swelling Test for Coal, 473 ; Train-Lighting Accumulators, 491; Wire Ropes for Cranes, 494 ; Ceiling Roses, 647 ; Motor Starters and Controllers, 648; Wrought- Iron Gas Pipe, 718; Non-Metallic Ducts for Electrical Services, 762 ; Cycle Screw Threads, 773
— of Length, National Physical Laboratory
Work on, 267
Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., Transmitter for Aberdeen Broadcasting Station, 332 ; Equipment for Anglo-French Radio- Telephone Link, 761
— U.S. Bureau of. See Cnited States Starters, Motor. See Motors, Electric State Railways. See Railujays
Station, Aidgate East Underground, Reconstruction, 531*
— Apsley, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 402*
— Euston, Railway'’ Centenary Exhibition, 368. See 594
— Power. See Power Stations
— Underground, King’s Cross, Reconstruction of, 265*, 296*, 386*. See Erratum, 444
Statistics, Trade. See Trade
Steam Boats. See Steamers ; Steam Dredger ; Steam Drifter
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Consumption. See Trials; Coal Consumption
— Dredger “Fu-Shing” (F. Schichau, G.m.b.H.), 495*, 577*, 638*
— Drifters, Tank and Sea Tests, 599*, 662*
— Engines. See Engines
— Equation of State for, 1*, 34*
— (Generators (Review), 697
-— High Pressures and Temperatures of, in American Power Stations, 451. See LETTER, 505
Pressure and Temperature, for Power Stations, 600
— Long-Distance Transmission of, 279
— Pipes, High-Pressure, Cathcart Works, G. and J. Weir, Ltd., 505*
— Saturated, and Air, Mixed, Temperature and Pressure of, 674*
— Superheater. See Superheater
— Supply, Treforest Trading Estate, South Wales, 97
— Total Heat of, 451
— Trap, By-Pass Valve for (H. Richter), 604* **Vapo8COpe” Indicator, (H. Richter), 601*
Steam Trials. See Trials
— Turbines. See Turbines Steamer “ Canton,” 458*
— Classified, Lloyd’s Register Report, 592
— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 77,
453
— Cross-Channel, Design of, 598
J fT» ~
sion
— Gothic Star,” Explosion of Evaporator, 321
— Introduction of Steam Turbines into, 080
— **Kingswood,” Explosion of Auxiliary Boiler,
— Lost, Lloyd’s Statistics, 132, 774
— ** Mauretania,” Launch of, 121*, 163, 168*. See Addendum^ 218
— ** Nantasket,” Fire Tests on, 116
— ‘'Normandie,” Vibration in, 347*
— Oil-Tank, Trends in Design and Construction, 84*
— Propulsion of. See Marine Propulsion; Engines ; Turbines ; Propellers
— ” Queen Elizabeth,” Launch of, 381*, 425*, 646
— ” Queen Mary,” Record Crossings by, 223 — Resistance of. See Ship Resistance — Rolling of. See Ships, Rolling of — Stability of. See Ships, Stability of — Water-Tight Subdivision of. See Water-Tight — See also Engines; Marine Propulsion;
Shipbuilding ; Shipping : Ships ; Turbines ; Warships and PARAGRAPH INDEX Steamships. See Ships; Steamers; Steam Dredger ; Steam Drifter ;
Steels, Alloy, Fluidity of, Investigations on, 548, 581
— Arch Span, Thousand Islands Bridge over St. Lawrence, 377*
— Cast, Strength and Ductility during Cooling, 548, 581
— Castings, Relief of Internal Stress in, 230* Research Committee, Report, 548. See 581
Thermoloys Process for Manufacture of, 110
— Chimney, Self-Supporting, Cathcart Works, Glasgow, 414*
— Construction for Air-Raid Shelters, Models of, 335, 420
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue and Alternating Stress under Tests {Materials}
— Flame-Cut, Suitability for Welding, 621
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Frame Building, Settlement Analysis of,403*
— Framework, Callender-Hamilton Unit-Construction Aeroplane Shed, 727*
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— for High Temperatures, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 237
— Liquid, Determination of Temperature, 553 — Manufacture. See also Furnaces ; Metallurgy — Melting Plant, Development of, 520 Shops. American and European, Electric Furnaces in, 539
— Microstructure of. See Microphotographs; Metallography
— Nou-Destructive Examination of, 141, 651
— Oxygen in, Determination of, 238*
— Plain Carbon, Specific Heat-Temperature Curves of, 580
— Plates, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams — Rails. See Rails ; Metal-Price Diagrams — Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
— Ropes. See Wire Ropes
— Ruff Fluidity Test for, 548, 581
— Scaling of, Influence of Furnace Atmosphere on, 670
— Sheets, Galvanised Corrugated, Specification, 320
Piling, Hoesch, for Cofferdam, Waterloo Bridge, 588*
— for Shipbuilding, 85
— Silicon, Use in Balanced-Cantilever Bridge over Connecticut River, 553*, 676
— Specific Heat-Temperature Curves of, 580 — Stainless, for Post-Office Stay Wires, 55 — Stress Distribution in. See Stress; Tests {Materials)
— Strip, Continuous Rolling Mills for, (American RollingMill Company), 580
National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 63
— Structural, Working Stresses in, 386
— Surfaces, Protection by Sprayed-Zinc
Coatings, 657*
— Temperatures of Transformation of, 238
— Tests of. See Tests {Materials)
— Thermal Properties of, National Physical
Laboratory Investigations on, 594
— Tube Plant, Corby, Electrical Equipment of,
469*
Weldless Plant, Chesterfield Tube Co., Ltd., 713
— Wire for Hume Concussional-Spun Concrete
Pipes, 558*
Steering Gear for Ships, 87 See also Motor-Car Details
Stein and Atkinson, Ltd., 5-ton Rotary Furnace, 10* ; 40-ton Annealing Furnace for Steel Castings, 434*
Stephen, A., <fe Sons, Ltd., S.S. “ Canton,” 458* Stereo-Comparator (Cambridge Instrument Co., I Ltd.), 320
Steriliser, Soil (Electro-Horticultural Equipment Co., Ltd.), 95*
Stevens, W. C., on Machinery and Equipment for Bending Wood, 389
Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., Electrical Equipment of Corby Steel-Tube Plant, 409* ; High- Pressure Steam Pipes, La Mont Boiler, Cathcart Works, 505*
Stills, Coal-Tar, Corrosion of, Report, 333, 396 Stockholm, Refuse-Disposal Plant, 448 Stoker, Mechanical Babcock-Erith, Drag- Suction Dredger ” Fu-Shing,” 579*
Chain-Grate, for La Mont Boiler, 414* Operation in American Locomotives, 136 Stone-Crushing and Screening Plant, St. Austell, Cornwall, 596*
— Freezing of, Experiments on, 291 Stone, H. V., and Co., Welding Equipment for Erection of Klonne Gas-Holder, 131* stone, J., Co., Cooking, Heating and Venti' lating System, London-Harwich Train, 456* Stoney Stanton, Leicester, Concrete-Pipe Works (J. EUis and Sons, Ltd.), 557* Stop Valves. See Valves
Storage Battery. See Accumulator under Electric
— of Liquids, Code for Design of Reinforced-
Concrete Structures for, 289
— Silos for Grain, 572
Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., Concrete Materials
Weighing Hopper, 372*
Stourport Power Station, 48, 78
Stoves, Cooking, Swedish, 682
— Domestic, German, Design of, 683*
— Heating, for Burning Lignite, 653* Straightedges, Cast-Iron, Draft Specification, 114
— Toolmakers , Draft Specification for, 448 Straightway Gate-Type Valve, 625 Strain. See Stress
Streams, Bed Traction and Depth of, 166 Street Cleansing and Refuse Collection, Cost of, Report, 483
— Lighting Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 726
Power Supply for, 709
— See also Roads
Strength of Materials, Molecular Basis of, 593 See also Stress and Tests {Materials} Stress, Alternating and Combined. See Tests {Materials)
— in Built-Up and Reinforced Tubes, 413*,
467*
— in Clay Foundation, 404*
— Diagram for Gasholder Tank, Sheffield, 324*
— Fluctuating, and Machine Design, 145*
— Impact, in Machine Parts, Absolution of, 144*
— Internal, in Castings, Relief of, 230*
— in Propeller-Shaft Brackets, 696*
— in Reinforced-Concrete Piles During Driving.
Report, 87
— Repetitions. See Alternating Stress under Tests {Materials)
— in Self-Supporting Horizontal Pipe Line, 466
— in Ships, Experiments on, 6
— in Steel, and Crystalline Structure Changes
in, 62
— in Taper-Bore Thick End-Plate, 171*
— Tensile in Bearing Metal Cast on a Strip, . 235*, 295*. See LETTER, 299*. See 611*
— in Welded Pipes with Internal Pressure and
End Thrust, 289*, 310
— Working, in Structural Steel, 386 Strikes. See Labour ; Labour Notes Strip Mill, American, Development of, D. E.
Rob rtson, 520
— Mining of Bituminous Coal in the United States, 227*
— Steel, Continuous Rolling Mills for, 580 National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 63
Structural Engineers, Institution of. Report on Structural Problems in Air-Raid Precaution Work, 569; Yorkshire Branch, Plastics, by C. D. Philipps, 655
— Steel, Working Stresses in, 386
— Steelwork. See also Steel
Structure-Borne Noise, Reduction by Vibration-Attenuating Supports, 124, 198*
— Deterioration in Sea Water, Report, 359
— Engineering, Settlement Analysis of, 310
403* ’
JL^^J^^'Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
— Hydraulic (Review), 254
— and Materials, Vol. II (Review), 356
— Settlement of, Investigations on, 105
— Statically-Indeterminate, Theory of (Re
view), 167 '
Thin Sheet-Metal, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 151
Stuart, Herbert Akroyd, Award, Institute of
Marine Engineers, 686
Stussel, I)r., on Junkers Heavy-Oil Aero o 315*. See LETTER, 472
Subdivision of Ships. See Water-Tight Submarine Boats. See Warships ' Substation, Birmingham, Failure of Transformer in, 597
— Reduction of Noise from Transformers 521*
— 1 faction Ignitron Loading Equipment for
(British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 428* Suburban Roads, Design and Construction of
664 ’
Subways, King’s Cross Underground Station
Reconstruction, 265*, 296*, 386* Erratum, 444
Suction Dredger. See Dredger
Sugar Technology, Imperial Institute of ^^a'v-npore India, Experiments on Molasses for Road-Making Material, 321
Sulphur, Elimination from Flue Gases 499
— Fumes, Atmospheric Pollution by 280
— Malting and Burning Chambers, Contact
Sulphuric-Acid Plant, 518* Sulphuric-Acid Manufacture, 138
— ~ Plant, Contact (Simon-Carves, Ltd.), 518* Sulzer Brothers, Ltd., 4,400-b.h.p. Diesei-
Electric Locomotive, 100* ; 12 500-b h n Twelve-Cylinder Oil Engfne MI’ ‘ Oranje, 418*; 270-b.h.p. DiS
Electric Railcars, Service Results, 461 • Control Gear for Diesel Railcar, 630*
Sumner, L. G., Balanced-Cantilever Bridt^e over Connecticut River, 553*. 676
Sunderland Forge and Engineering Co Ltd 800-kW Turbo-Generators, S.S “ Mauretania.” 3 23 iu^uue
Sunvic Controls, Ltd., Control Switch for
Electric Hotplates, 571*
Superchargers,Buchi, for Marine Diesel Engines.
— for De Havilland Gypsy-Twelve Aero Engine, Superheater Co., Ltd., MeLeSco Superheater
for La Mont Boiler, 414* Pt^^neater
? E««ineer8, Association
ot. Presidential Address, by J. R Beard on Design of Coal-Fired Power StaHont
IKPV n"" horizontal Pipe-Line Span, 466* Surfaces, Bearing, Graphoid Layer on 91*
— Condensers. See Condensers
of. Investigations
Survey, Coal, Work of, 765
Surveying, Aerial, Stereo-Comparator for (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 320
— Instruments, Ancient, 541*
—• Tapes, National Physical Laboratory Tests of 267
Suspension Spans, Thousand Islands Bridge over St. Lawrence, 377*
Sussex, Chilgrove, Rainfall and Water Level at, 714
Sutherland, E. G., on Constitution of Alu- minium-Zinc Alloys, 567
Swallow, J. C., on Measurement of Gas Temperatures in Chemical Industry, 684
“ Swan,” Lake Motor Iiaunch, 72
Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Launch of H.M. Destroyer ” Janus,” 598 ; Trials of H.M. Destroyer ” Somali,” 734
Swansea University College, Prospectuses, 220 Swedish Cement Association, Symposium on Chemistry of Cements, 195
— Cooking Stoves, 682
— Railways, Electrification of, 160 I
— Water Power Association, Power Questions I
of the Day, by E. Upmark, 767 ; The Licence Acts, by T. Hedin, 767 ; General Points of View in Transmission Problems, by G. Lofgren, 767
Swift, Prof. H. W., on Functions of Cutting Fluids, 659*
Switches, Motor Starting. See Motors, Electric
Switchgear, Accidents to, 708
— 'Bus-Bar-Zone Protective Systems (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 329*
— Circuit-Breakers, Oil, Spring-Closing (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 406*
— for Coal Mines, 730
— Contactors, Specification, 321
— Control Switch for Electric Hotplates (Sunvic Controls, Ltd.), 571*
— Corby Steel-Tube Plant, 469*
Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd., Non-Automatic Oil Switches, 171*. See Erratum, 185* ;
Single-Phase Switch Fuse, 402*
— Diagram Control Board for Power Stations (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 328*
' — Hams Hall Transformer and Switching Station, 78
— Ring-Main Equipment, Vertical Plugging
(British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 210* ' — Short-Circuit Testing Authorities, Association of, 511
— Switch, Cam-Operated, for Machine Tools
(Brookhirst Switchgear, Ltd.), 749*
” Isofuse ” (Brookhirst Switchgear, Ltd.), 662*
Oil, Non-Automatic (Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd.), 171*. See Erratum, 185
Sockets, Shutter Pattern (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 277
Unit, Single-Phase, with High Rupturing- Capacity Fuse (Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd.), 402*
Switzerland, Biel-Meinisberg Railway, Electric Railcar with “Simplex” Bogie, 188*
— Federal Hydraulic Laboratory, Zurich, 3* 149*
Sydney, Australia, Electricity Supply in, 133 Sykes," Dr. C., on Specific Heat-Temperature Curves of Iron and Steels, 580
Sylvester, W., Ltd., Steel Safety Prop, 625 Synthetic Resins, Radiological Examination of, 624
Reinforcement of Wood with, 655
— Rubber, Production of, 564 Syria and the Lebanon, Economic Conditions in, Report, 604
Systems, Shop. See Szlumper, G. S., on
Speed, 480

TACHOTYPE High-Speed Writing Machine, 675
Tailrace Model, Etzel Hydro-Electric Plant, 149*
Tait, W. H., on High-Speed Repeated-Impact Testing Machine, 611*. See 235*, 295*. See LETTER, 299*
Tanks, Butane, Steel, Protection by Sprayed- Zinc Coating, 657*
— Experiments, Seaplane Models, 252
on Steam Drifters, 599*, 662*
— Experimental, Fronde Laboratory, Work of,
338*, 370
Increased Use of, 84
Rolling Experiments in, 6
Work of, 575
See also Ship Resistance
— for Flocculation Processes (Unifloc Reagents,
Ltd.), 687*
— Liquid-Culture (Electro-Horticultural Equipment Co., Ltd.), 96*
— Mild-Steel,for Four-Lift Gasholder, Sheflield, 323*
— Ships, Motor. See Motorships
— Steamers. See Steamers
— Storage, Hot-Water, Everdur-Alloy (A. McAra), 160
and Pressure, Federal Hydraulic Laboratory, Zurich, 3*, 349*
Tanvez, Hydraulic Cyder Press, 26
Tapes, Surveying, National Physical Laboratory Tests of, 267
Taper-Bore Thick End-Plate, Strength of, 171*
Tar, Coal, and Its Products, Sampling of. Specification, 341
— Hydrogenation-Cracking of, Fuel Research Board Investigation, 464
— Road, Experiments with, 685
— Stills, Corrosion of, Report, 333, 396
— Use on Roads, 435
Tariffs and Costs in Electricity Supply (Review), 640
Tarnishing of Silver, Prevention of, 567
Taylor, A. A., on Influence of Furnace Atmosphere on Scaling of Steel, 570
Taylor Brothers (Sandiacre), Ltd., Trent Valley Railwav Junction Reconstruction, 225*
Taylor, Dr. D., on Pressure of Mixture of Saturated Steam and Air, 674*
Taj lor. H. G., Driving Tests of Copper Earthing Electrodes, 456
Taylor, Dr. J. L., on Strength of Propellershaft Brackets, 695*
Teaching. See Educati&n
Teak, Kiln-Seasoning Treatments on, Report, 52 Tecalemit, Ltd., Multipoint Soft-Grease Lubrication Battery, 227*. See Addendum, 272 ; Positive-Displacement Meter for Motor Fuels, 501*
Technical College and Education. See Education
— Literature, Indexing and Abstracting of, 9.
See LETTERS, 169, 342
— and Scientillc Periodicals, Evaluation of, 707
— Societies. See Institutions and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Teeth, Gear. See Gear
Telegraphy, Wireless, Aberdeen Broadcasting Station, 332
Aerial Navigation, Direction-Finding Investigations, 726
National Physical Laboratory Investigation, 711*, 726
Royal Air Force, Wireless, Civilian Reserve, 309
Suppression of Interference from Trolley ’Buses, 252
See also Radio and Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Telephony, Wireless, Aberdeen Broadcasting Station, 332
Anglo-French Ultra-Short Wave Radio- Telephone Link, 761
National Physical Laboratory Invcstiga- , tions, 711*, 726
Royal Air Force, Wireless, Civilian Reserve, 309
Suppression of Interference from Trolley 'Buses, 252
See also Radio and Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Telescopes, Astronomical, and Human Vision,
222
Television, Development of, 565
— and Human Vision, 222 Temperature, Gas, Measurement of, Sympo
Slum on, 683
— Measurement. See also Pyrometry
— Recorder for 40-ton Annealing Furnace
(Foster Instrument Co.), 434
— Scale, International, National Physical
Laboratory Investigations on, 553 Tenders, 12, 42, 72, 102, 132,160, 190, 218, 246, 276, 304, 334, 364, 392, 420, 448, 476, 506, 534, 560, 588, 616, 646, 676, 704, 734 Tensile Tests. See Tests {Materials} Ternary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Terrestrial Magnetism. See Magnetism Terzagh, K. von, Work on Settlement of
Structures on Clay, 403* Tests, Aeronautical. See Aeronautics.
— Air Compressor, 1,000-b.h.p. Vee-Belt Drive
for (J. B. Lindley (1931), Ltd.), 140*. See Addendum, 191
— of Air-Metering Nozzles, 196
— for Cements, American, 360
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Crucible Swelling, for Coal, Speciftcatioh, 473
— Cutting Fluid, 660
— 90-h.p. Direct-Injection Six-Cylinder Oil
Engine, 147*
— Driving of Copper Earthing Electrodes, 456
— Evaporation, Coal-Slurry Filter Cake, 688
— and Examination of Welded Drums, Schedule of, 256
— Fatigue. See Tests {Materials}
— Fire, S.S. “ Nantasket,” 116
— 250-b.h.p. Four-Cylinder Two-Stroke Super scavenge Diesel Engine, 10*
— of Hume Concussional-Spun Concrete Pipes, 558*
— 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, Boulder Dam Power House, 694*
— Magnetic. See Magnetic

Tests (Materials) :

Alternating-Stress Tests at National Physical l^aboratory, 62
Tests of Riveted Joints, 773
Creep Tests at National Physical Laboratory, 64, 237
Steel at 500 deg. C., 146*
Fatigue Tests of Riveted Joints, 773 Hardness Tests, Brinell, Thermoloys Steel Castings, 110
Impact Tests, High-Duty Cast Irons, 742. 745*
Magnetic Tests. See Magnetic
Materials, Strength of, on Molecular Basis, 593
Non-Destructive Electrical, X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, Magnetic, and Acoustic Methods of Testing, 141, 652
Notched-Bar Impact Tests. See Impact Tests (above)
Shearing Test, Bonded Metal and Rubber. 391*
Stresses in Materials and Structures. See Stress
Tensile and Creep Tests, Steel at 500 deg. C., 146*
— Tests, Bonded Metal and Rubber, 391* Therraoloys Steel Castings, 310 Test, Hydraulic, Welded Pipes with Closed Ends, 289*, 310
— Mechanical, High-Duty Cast Irons, 742, 745*
Testing Machine, Calibration of, at National Physical Laboratory, 198 Repeated-Impact High-Speed, 613*.
See 235*, 295*. See LETTER, 299* Test, Model, of Centrifugal Pumps and Fans 243*, 252
— Morgan Rotary^'- Retort Low-Temperature
Carbonisation Plant, 113*
— Motor Car with Salerni Hvdro-Kinetic
Transmitter, 272
— Priming, of Fire-Fighting Pump, 528
— of Railway Brakes, 282
— of Rib for Unit-Construction Aeroplane Shed, 728*
— Ruff Fluidity, for Steel, 548, 581
— Strength of Ships’ Plates, 152*
— Tank and Sea, of Steam Drifters, 599*, 662*
Test of Thompson-La Mont Water-Tube Boiler 654 *
Testing Apparatus, Four-Ball Top, for Lubricating Oil, 107
Heat-Transmission, for Insulating Materials, 695*
for Lathe Leadscrews, 633* Pitch, for Tapered Screw Gauges, 260* — Electro-Magnetic, of Steel Plates, 141 — Laboratory. See Laboratory and National Physical
— Machines, Calibration of, at National
Physical Laboratory, 198 for Driving Belts, 108* Journal-Bearing, 64* -i^^peated-Impact High-Speed, 611*. See 235*, 295*. See LETTER, 299* Koad Research Laboratory, 380 Sand Compression (G. Salter and Co., Ltd.), 214*
See also Tests (Materials) — Magnetic. See Magnetic — Materials, American Society for, Nomenclature in Ferrous Metallography, by Prof. A. Sauveur, 281; Pamphlet on Cement, 360
-- Non-Destructive Methods of, 141, 651
— of Shipbuilding Materials, Research Applied to, 0 *
— Specification, of Galvanised Iron Wire Bearing of Corrosion on, 27, 54*
— Switchgear, Organisation of, 511 -- See also Tests {Materials); Trials Text Books. See LITERATURE INDEX Thames, River, London, Waterloo Bridge over Reconstruction of, 587* ; Development of South Bank of. 593 ; Blackwajf Tunnel under, Duplication of, 680
Therapeutic Radiological Treatment, Measurement of Dosage in, 623*
Thermal Efficiency of American Power Stations 173, 452
— Properties of Engineering Materials, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on 594*
Treatment, Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Thermeter Recording Gas Calorimeter, 345* iherino-Couple. See under Electric Ihiro- meter
Thermodynamics and Heat (Review), 166 Thermoloys, Ltd., Thermoloys Process for Manufacture of Steel Castings. 110
•‘Thetis,” H.M. Submarine, Launch of, 58 Ihickness-Measuring Instrument, Electrical for Metal Walls, 715*
‘‘Thistle,” H.M. Submarine, Launch of, 535 ihoinas, I. p., on Fatigue Te.sts of Riveted Joints, 773
Thomas, Dr. G. J., on I’arnisliing of Silver, 567 • on Oxidation-Resistance in Copper Alloys’ 564 ’
Thomas, R., and Co., Ltd., Hot-Metal Practice in Tixed Open-Hearth Furnaces, 24
JN., Experiments on Freezing of Building Materials, 291
J hompson, Prof. F. C., on Tensile Stresses in 235*, 295*. See LETTER, 299*. See 611* ’
Thompson, J., Water Tube Boilers. Ltd.. La Mont Boiler Installation, 414* 504* •
Tests, 654 ’ ’
Thoinps()n Manufacturing Co., Self-Supporting Horizontal Pipe-Line Span, 46^*
Thomson, I). H., on Rainfall and Water Level at Chilgrove, Sussex, 714
Thornton A G., Ltd., “Trig-Angle ” Adjustable Set Square, 365
Thornton, B M on Measurement of Thickness of Metal Walls, 715*
Thornton Professor W. M., on Measurement nu -thickness of Metal Walls, 715*
I’’ Hiesel-Engined
Royal Navy, 141* • hi^otar 642^"^ Compress-
^^^°7'A..3rnu ‘1’ Thennostaticallv-
Controlled Gas Burner, 613*
Thorson A W., Blast-Furnace Gas-Fired
Boilers, Delray Power Station, 207* RH’er ^^'vrence
Tlireads, Screw. See Sc?-ew
Mins’at^hs""^'- Ti.le
Threshing Machine on Pneumatic Tyres (Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 68* — —? Power Supply for, 499
Hiring, M W., on Measurement of Producer- rr, temperature, 684
Tlirottle Valve. See Valve
Selective Con- 'eyor Installation, 25*
Research on Materials and
TH! Problems in, 61, 165, 2*>3
Great Britain, 445*
Tie-Backs for Erection of Balanced-Cantilever TiiniSr ^nnecticut River, 555*. 676
Products Research Board’s
• ^^'^®®^ipation on, 52, 292, 310 389 463 Z S Deterioktioi’i of, L59 *
TITJI structure and Pi’operties (Review) *>54 of^Main^ and Construction
ot Main Sewers (Review). 168
Time and Motion Study (Review), 92 —Metallurgy
^national Council, Inter-
®^^sh-^peed Repeated-Impact
Jl^etal-Priee
Tochon, G., the Late, 645
Vibration in Ships, 345*
* J ’ ’ Qri Steam Drifters • Tn nk-
and Sea Tests, 599*, 662* ’
^°^"S.'227* Bituminous
See Gauges;
To-morrow’s War (Review), 770 lookey, W. A., on Works of Sir D Clerk 730 Tools, Machine. See Machine Toois
Tools, Pneumatic, See Machine Tools Toothed Gear. See Gear; Gearing ; Marine Propulsion
Top, Four-Ball, for Testing Lubricants, 107 Topi^ing Plant for Electric Power Stations, 135, 174, 451
Toronto University Engineering Society, Year Book, 277
Torpedo Boats and Destroyers. See Warships Torque Converter for Motor Cars, 268*, 281,482 Voith-Sinclair, for Railcars, 622, 632
— in High-Speed Shafts, Measurement of, 69*
— Meters. See Torsion Meters
Torrington Co., Needle Bearing, 132 Torsiographs for Aircraft, 286*
Torsion of Built-up and Reinforced Tubes, 412*, 467*
— Meter, Induction, for Air-Screw Testing, 71* Torsional Vibration in Aeroplane Engines,
257*, 285*
Totaliser and Weigher, Visible, Industrial (W. and T. Avery, Ltd.), 327*
Tower, Steel, for Winding Plant, Fushun-Ryuho Colliery, Mukden, 671*
Towns and Factories, Garages in Relation to (Review), 168
— Gas. See Gas
— Planning, Ministry of Health Report, 222 Trackless Trolley System, Road Traction. See
Trolley ’ Bits
Traction, Electric. See Railzvays ; Trolley 'Bits Tractor, Agricultural, 12-h.p. Diesel, for Vine Cultivation (A. Olier), 26
John Deere Model “L” (J. Olding and Co., Ltd.), 681, 732*
30-h.p. Minneapolis Moline, 681
Oliver Rowcrop “70 ’* (J. WallacC and Son, Ltd.), 682
14-h.p. Paraffin-Driven (International Harvester Co. of Great Britain, Ltd.), 31* 16-b.h.p. Petrol-Driven (Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.), 96
8.|-h.p. Petrol-Driven (Deere and Co., Ltd.), 681, 732*
— Binder (Lanz Tractor Co., Ltd.), 96
— Forestry, Four-Wheel Drive (Universal Power Drives, Ltd.), 66*
Producer-Gas Driven (Latil Industrial Vehicles, Ltd.), 66*
Trade Disputes. See Labour ; Laborer Notes
— Economic Conditions in Iran, Report, 156 Conditions in Iraq, Report, 250
Conditions in Syria and the Lebanon, 604
— Exhibition. See Exhibition
— Export, and Rearmament Programme, Maintenance of Balance Between, 708
— Import and Export of Grain, 571
Trade of India, 1937-38, Survey of, 272
— Marks, Patents and Designs (Review), 455
— Market (’ontrol in Aluminium Industry (Review), 182
— Mineral, of Yugoslavia, 685
— Modern Business Problems (Review), 209
— Motor-Car Imports and Exports, 337 Car, Position of, 481
— Overseas, and British Shipping, 679
of United Kingdom, 1937, Nationality of Carrying Ships, 679
— and Shipping, British, 511
— Schools and Training of Craftsmen, 98
— Unions. See Labour ; Laborer Notes Traffic Counter, Automatic, 613*
— Passenger, London Passenger Transport Board’s Report, 564
— Road, Counting System, 58
— and Roads, Problems of, 710
Trains, “Flying Scotsman,” London and North Eastern Railway, 41*
— Freight, American, Weight and Length, 136
— London and Harwich Service, 456*
— Multiple-Unit, in France, 756
— Relation of Comfort and Speed in, 480
— Running Times, Calculation of, 282
— See also Railway
Training, River, in Connection with Bridges, 649
— Works, Early, on Mississippi River, 651
— See Education
Transatlantic Liners, Oranje Line Service, 539
? Standard, 163
Transformer Cores, Small, Magnetic Testing of, 573*
— Failure owing to Dirt, 597
— Hams Hall Transformer and Switching
Station, 78
— Noise from, Investigations on, 521*
— Stampings, Incremental Magnetic Measurements of, 407*
— Substation, Reduction of Structure-Borne
Noise from, 199
— Transients in. Investigations on, 251
— Voltage Regulator (Metropolitan - Vickers
Electric Co., Ltd.), 625
Transmission, Gear. See Gear; Gearing ; Marine Propulsion ; Motor-Car Detteds
— of Power. See Marine Propulsion ; Power Transmission
— of Steam, Long-Distance, 279 Transport, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Correspondence Course, 570
Transport Engineering, Ltd., A.R.P. Decontamination Equipment, 643* ; Compression Refuse-Collection Vehicle, 643
— Institute of. Presidential Address, by G. S.
Szlumper, on Transport, Comfort and Speed, 480 ; Transporting the Grain Harvests of the World, by C. Bentham, 571 ; Cross-Channel Services from Passen- Gcr.s’ Viewpoint, by A. C. Hardy, 598
— and International Crisis, 591
— Ministry of, Report on Castlecary Railway
Accident, 16 ; Report on British Railway Accidents, 1937, 159 ; Report on Ruther- glen Railway Accident, 256 ; Footbridge over Western Avenue, Greenford, 342* ; Work of Roads Department of, 379, 435* ; Report on Charing Cross Underground Railway Accident, 396; Report on Experimental Work on Roads, 684; Regulation of Railway Charges, 711
— Motor. See Road ; Motor
— Railway. See RaiUvay
— Relation of Comfort and Speed in, 480
— Reorganisation in I^orthern Ireland, Report,
651
— Road. See Road : Motor
Transport Vehicles, Municipal, Garages for, 750 Transportation of Sand in Pipe Lines, Investigations on,158
Transporting Grain Harvests of World, 571 Transvaal Mines, “ Scrapehauler ’* for Loading Rock from Mine Dumps (Holman Bros., Ltd.), 255*
Transverse Bulkheads. See Water-Tight Sub- divisicn
Trap, Steam. See Steam Trap
Traulier Forestry Tractor, 66* Travelling Crane. See Crane
Tray Conveyor, Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, London, 524*
Treforest School of Mines, Calendar, 374
— Trading Estate, South Wales, Steam and
Water SupjUy at, 97
Trent Valley Railway Junction, Reconstruction, 225*
Trial, Dredging, Drag-Suction Dredger “Pushing,” 640
— Steam Drifters “Ocean Reward,” “Ocean
Rambler ” and “ Ocean Vim,” 599*, 662*
— See also Tests
“ Trident,” H.M. Submarine, Launch of, 705 Trig-Angle Adjustable Set-Square, 365 Triple-Expansion Engines. See EnginesSteam Trolley ’Buses, Suppression of Radio Interference from, 252
Tropics, Health Conditions in, Work on, 132 Truck, 15-cwt. Industrial, Petrol-Driven (James Cycle Co., Ltd.), 292*
— Railway. See Wageyns
— See also Bogie
Tubes, Built-Up and Reinforced, J’orsion of, 412*, 467*
— Nests of. Resistance of Plow Through, 605*, 665*, 723*
— Plant, Steel, Corbv, Electrical Equipment of, 469*
— Railways. See Underground Railways
— Weldless, Steel. Plant for Manufacture of, Chesterfield Tube Co., Ltd., 713
— Wells. See Wells
— See also Pipes
Tunnel as Air-Raid Shelter, 572
— Blackwall, under River Thames, Duplication of, 680
— King’s Cross Underground Station Reconstruction, 265*, 296*, 386*. See Erratum, 444
Tunnelling, Ancient Methods of, 542
Turbine, Hydraulic, 115,000-h.p. Boulder Dam Power House, 59*, 179*, 239*, 549*, 608*, 669*, 693*
24,000-kW Kaplan, Deichow Hydro- Electric Plant, 36*
in Swedish Power Stations, 767
See also Power Plant
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Steam, Cathcart Works, G. and J. Weir, Ltd., 504*
50,000-kW, Clarence Dock Power Station, 483
Deflection of Rotors of, 181*
— High Pressures and Temperatures in, 451. See LETTER, 505
Marine, Geared. See Marine Propulsion Use of Cast iron in, 743
-Vertical, Geared (G. <fc .1. Weir, Ltd.), 153* See also Turbo-Oenerators
— Steamers. See Steamers ; Warships “ Turbinia,” S.S., History of, 680 Turbo-Generators in British Power Stations,
510
Cathcart Works. G. and J. Weir, Ltd., 504* 50,000-kW, Clarence Dock Power Station, 483
Developments in, 80, 135
800-kW, “ Mauretania,” 123
for Power Stations, Size of, 690
2,200-kW, S.S. “ Queen Elizabeth,” 384 Turbulence in Fluid Plow,Investigations on,550 Turner, A., on End-Gauge Comparator of High Sensitivity, 183*
Turner, S., Ltd., 2-3 b.h.p. Single-Cylinder Oil Engine, 599*
Turning. See Machine Tools
Twisteel Reinfonjement, Ltd., Reinforced- Concrete Air-Raid Shelter, 529
Tyres, Pneumatic, Behaviour on Roads, 592 Developments in, 563
ditioned M.S. “Carnarvon Castle,’ M.S. “Warwick Castle,” 428; “Durban Castle,” 744
— Trade. See Labour ; Labour Notes Unit Superheater Pipe Line Co.,
Steam Pipe Line, Treforest Trading Estate, 97
United Filters <fe Engineering Co., Ltd., Water- Works, Treforest Trading Estate, 97
United Insulator Co., Ltd., Exhibition of Calit, 598
— Kingdom, Overseas Trade of, 1937, Nationality of Carrying Ships, 679
See also Great Britain ; England ; Anglo- etc.
— Provinces in India, Electricity Supply
Scheme for Irrigation Pumping, 768*
— States, Aircraft Production Methods in, 689 Bureau of Mines, Report on Strip
Mining of Bituminous Coal, 227* ; Circular on Smoke Abatement, 280 ; Annual Report, 403 ; Report on Dewatering and Drying of Coal, 460
United States, Bureau of Reclamation, Reports : on Model Studies of Spillways, Penstocks ' and Outlet Works at Boulder Dam, 15 ; Boulder Dam Power House, 59* 179*, 239*, 549*, 608*, 669*,
Bureau of Roads, Counting System, 183
Bureau of Standards,
Fresh Concrete, 232* and Canada, New International Bridges between, 377*
Civil Aeronautics Act, 1938, 350 Coal Utilisation and Distribution in, 424 Developments in Brick Roads in, 233 Die-Casting Equipment and Practice in, 293*, 411*
Locomotive Operation in, 136 Merchant Ships, Safety Regulations for, 116
Mineral Resources, Conservation of, 403 Naval Engineering in, History of, 738 Naval Research Laboratory, Electro- Magnetic Testing of Steel Plates, 141
Navy. See United States under Warships New England, Rainfall add Run-Off in, 45 Power Stations, Development of, 173*, 451
Railways, Comfort and Speed in, 480 Railways. See also Bailways Road Conferences in, 663 Rolling-Mill Practice in, 580 Smoke Abatement Measures in, 280 Soil Erosion and River Control in, 579, 638, 754
Specifications for Cement, 360 Steelworks,Electric-Furnace Practice,539 United States Tool Co., Inc., Multi-Purpose Milling Machine, 576*
Uniform Building Code for, 385. See Addendum, 503
See also America
Universal Power Drives, Ltd., Four-Wheel Drive Forestry Tractor, 66*
University, Birmingham, Investigations on Incremental Magnetic Measurements, 406*
— of California, Investigation on Transportation of Sand in Pipe Lines, 158
— College, Cardiff, Experiments on Freezing
of Building Materials, 291
London, Faculty of. Engineering Prospectus, 71 ; Lectures on Geology, 506 ; Calendar, 570
— Hokkaido Imperial, Calendar, 256
— Illinois, Smoke, Dust and Air Pollution, by
D. R. Mitchell, 280 ; Investigation on Pressure Losses in Air Ducts, 302 ; Lectures on Coal Utilisation, 424 ; Annual Conference on Highway Engineering, 664 ; Experiments on Friction of Railway Brake Shoes at High Speed and High Pressure, 719 ; Fatigue Tests of Riveted Joints, by W. M. Wilson and F. P. Thomas, 773
— Leeds, Gas Researches at, 569, 602
— of London, B.Sc. (Eng.), Examinations, 137
— Melbourne, Engineering School, Rebuilding
of, 223
— Sheffield, Sir Robert Hadfield Metallurgical
Laboratories, 362* ; Lectures on Electric Traction, 444
— Toronto, Engineering Society, Year Book,
277
— See also Education
Upmark, E., on Water Power in Sweden, 767 Uptake, Boiler, Model Tests of, 314*
V.
VACUUM Brake. See Brake
— Fusion Method for Determination of Oxvgen
in Steel, 238*
— Pump. See Pump
Valve, Butterfly, 14-ft. Boulder Dam Power House, 59*, 179*, 239*
— By-Pass, for Steam Traps (H. Richter), 604*
— Dumping, Lister, Drag-Suction Dredger
•• Ku-Shing,** 495*, 639*
— Expansion, Automatic, for Refrigeration
Plant (British Thermostat Co., Ltd.), 311*
— Gate-Type “ Straightway ” (Saunders Valve
Co., Ltd.), 625
— Outlet, Submerged, at Burrator Reservoir,
114
— Parallel-Plug, Glandless Lubricated (New
man, Hender and C'o., Ltd.), 155
— Stop, Controlled-Ball Bowler (Newman,
Hender Co., Ltd.), 155*
and Safety, Boilers, S.S. “Mauretania,” 123. See Addendum^ 218
— and A^alve Gear. See also Engines Vanadium Catalyst, Use in Sulphuric-Acid
Manufacture, 518*
Vaposcope Indicator for Steam Traps, 691* Variable-Speed Gear. See Gear; Motor-Car Details
Vauxhall Motor Car, Design of 14-h.p. Engine,
482
Velometer Air-Flow Meter, 625 Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Heating,
Fundamentals (Review), 167 Ventilation and Heating of Buildings, 691 Venturi Meter, Federal Hydraulic Laboratory,
Zurich, 4*
Vermorel Agricultural Powder-Dusting Apparatus, 26*
Vessels, Ftessure, Welded, British Corporation
Register of Shipping Rules for, 189 Welded, National Physical Laboratory
Investigations on, 64, 238 Viaduct. See Bridges Vibration in Aircraft, Investigations of, 256*, 283, 285*
— Attenuating Supports, Reduction of Struc
ture-Borne Noise by, 124,198*
— Bending, of Diesel Engine Crankshaft, 6, 21*
— of Buildings, Records by Moving-Coil
Vibrometer, 253, 263*
— in Fresh Concrete, Apparatus for Measure
ment of, 232*
— Mechanical, Resonance in Relation to, 282
— in Rifle Barrels, 45
— in Ships, Causes and Cures, 283, 345*, 375*
— Simple, Introduction to Study of (Review),
Vibration of Vertical Winding Ropes, 461*
Vibratory Earth-Consolidating Machine (II. Fisch), 562*
Vibrographs for Aircraft, 285*
— for Measurement of Vibration in Fresh
Concrete, 232*
Vibrometer, Moving-Coil, 253, 263*
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Lake Motor Launch “Swan,” 72; Vickers-Wellesley Aeroplane, Record Flight by, 77, 565; Completion of Argentine Destroyer “ Entre Rios,” 392, 455; Launch of H.M. Submarine “ Thistle,” 535
Vickery, Commdr, H. L., on Safety Regulations for United States Ships, 116
Vienna, Experimental Tank, Work of, 575
— Meeting, World Power Conference. See
World Power Conference
Vinci, Leonardo da, Writings and Inventions of, 543
Vision in Nature, and Aided by Science, 221
Visser, N. J., on Whirl of Diesel-Engine Crankshafts, 21*. See 6
Vitrain, Investigations on, 485
Vocabulary, Electrotechnical, International,6S4 Voith-Sinclair Torque Converter for Railcars, 622, 632
Vonck, C. H. C., High-Speed Writing Machine, 675
Vulcan-Sinclair Hydraulic Coupling for Diesel Railcars, 622, 632
I’ulcaiusation of Hard Rubber, Investigations in, 564
w.
WACKER Tide Mill, Cornwall. 447*
Wadkin, Ltd., Electro-Hydraulic Cross-Cut Sawing Machine, 398*
Wagemann, H., on Mobilisation of Knowledge, 342. See LETTERS, 9, 169
Wagons, Motor. See Motor Lorries ; Motor Vehicles: Tractors
— Railway, for Grain Transport, 571
— Scraper, Four-Wheeled (Atlas Scraper &
Engineering Co.), 629*
Wailes, R., on Tide Mills in Great Britain, 445* Walker Brothers (Wigan), Ltd., Bin-Tipping Refuse Collector, 642*
Wallace, J., and Son, Ltd., Oliver Rowcrop “ 70 ” Agricultural Tractor, 682
Wallace, W. K., Trent Valley Railway Junction Reconstruction, 225* ; Apsley Railway Station, 402*
W'allis, Dr. R. P., on Flow Through Nests of Tubes, 605*, 665*, 723*
W’allis and Steevens, 6-ton and 8-ton Oil- Engined Road Rollers, 29*
IVallsend Slipwaj" and Engineering Co., Ltd., Oil-Burning Equipment, S.S. “Mauretania,” 122
W’ar Office, Statement on Officers’ Emergency Reserve, 250. See 395, 423, 479. See LETTERS, 457, 530
— To-morrow’s (Review), 770 Warangel, Hyderabad, Water Supply in 448 Ward, W. A., the Late, 598
Warfare, Naval. See Warships
— Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics
Warships :
Admiralty and Marine Engineering, 425 Argentine Destroyer, “Entre Rios,” 392, 455
Aviation, Naval. See Aeronautics
H.M. Battle Cruiser “Repulse,” Stresses in, 6
— Boom-Defence Vessel “Barlow,” Launch of, 277
Defence Vessel “ Barmouth,” Launch of, 475
Working Vessel “ Moorland, ’’Launch of, 671
— Cruiser “ Manchester,” Trials of, 191
— Destroyer “ Janus,” Launch of, 598 “ Somali,” Trials of, 734
— FIotillaLeader “ Jervis,” Launch of,335 Leader “ Kelly,” Launch of, 590 — Royal Research M.S. “ Research,” 226 — Ships, Diesel-Engined Picket Boat for, 141*
Introduction of Steam Turbines into, 680
— Submarine “ Thetis,” Launch of, 58 “ Thistle,” Launch of, 535 “Trident,” Launch of, 70,5 Italian Destroyers “ Fuciliere ” and “Ascaro,” Launch of; 478
— Submarines “ Barbarigo ” and “ Emo,” Launch of, 199
— Torpedo Boats ‘ ‘ Circe ” and * ‘ Calipso,” Launcli of, 219
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronaidies
— Engineering in United States, History of, 738
— Researcli, Essential Elements in, 141 Royal Research M.S. “ Research,” 226 United States Warships, History of Engines, 138
See also Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX
“ Warwick Castle,” M.S., Re-Engining of, 428 Washing Machine for Electric Meter Parts (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 544*. See Erratum, 589
Watanabe, Prof. Y., on Theory of Rolling, 6 Watches, Stop, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 298
Water Board, Rand, South Africa, Annual Report, 309
— Committee, Central Advisory, Report, 77
— Domestic, Methods of Charging for, 625
— Engineers, Institution of. Presidential
Address, by J. F. Haseldine, on Public Water-Supply Problems, 53 ; Vagaries in Run-Dff from Catchment Areas in Southern New England, U.S.A., by C. M. Saville, 54 ; Bacteriological and Chemical Control of a Public Water Supply, by A. E. Palmer and H. N. H. Lander, 54 ; Underground Water Supply of County of London, by Dr. S. Buchan, 713 ; A 100 Years’ Record of Rainfall and Water Levels in Chalk at Chilgrove, West Sussex, by D, H. Thomson, 713
AV ater, Examination Laboratories, Metropolitan Water Board, 502*
— Friction. See Friction; Ship Resistance
— Gas. See Gas
— Heaters. See Feed VFaier
— Level and Rainfall at Chilgrove, Sussex,
714
— Nitrogen Balance of, 691
— Pipes, Earthing Electrical Installations to,
Report, 165
Sound Insulation Along, Investigations on, 667*
— Power. See Hydraulics ; Power Plant;
Power, Water; Turbine, Hydraulic
— Removal of Iron from, Investigations on, 396
— Supply, Air-Raid Precautions for, 625. See
Erratum, 656
Amount of Lead In, Investigations on, 396
London, Statistics and Examination of, 502*
Ministry of Health Report, 222
Pollution, Prevention of, 114
Public, Bacteriological and Chemical Control of, 54
Public, Problems in, 53, 113
Public, Purification of, 54
Rainfall and Run-Off in New England, 54 Treforest Trading Estate, South Wales,97 Underground, Control of, 77
Underground, for County of London, 713 Underground, Protection for, 625
— — in Warangel, Hyderabad, 448
See also Irrigation ; Wells
— Tanks. See Tanks
— Tight Subdivision of Ships, United States
Regulations, 116
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic ; Power
Plant
— Wastage ; Causes, Detection and Prevention
114
— Wheels. See Turbine, Hydraulic; Power
Plant
Waterloo Bridge, London, Reconstruction of, 587*
— Tube-Railway Accident, Report, 71 Waterways. Rivers; Canals Waterwheels in Tide Mills, 445* Waterworks Pumping Plant, Model Tests of,
244*, 252
— See also Water Supply and PARAQRA-PH
INDEX
Watson, Laidlaw <fe Co., Ltd., Hydro-Extractors, 514*
Wattmeters. See Electric
Wave-Making Resistance of Ships. See Ship ResisUince
— Ocean, Freeboard, and Strength of Ships, 6 Waygood-Otis, Ltd., Escalators, King’s Cross
Underground Station, 389*. See Erratum, 444
Wear, Cylinder, in Motor-Car Engines, Investigations on, 107, 397
Weather. See Meteorology
Webb, C. E., on Soft Magnetic Materials, 488*. See 326
AVebber, A. F., on Errors in Gas-Temperature Measurement, 684
Wechmann, Dr., on Electric Power Supply for German Railways, 755
AVeigher and Totaliser, Visible, Industrial (W. and T. Avery Ltd.), 327*
Weighing Hopper for Concrete Materials (Stothert and Pitt, Ltd.), 372*
AVeir, G. and J., Ltd., Vertical Geared Steam Turbine for Auxiliary Drives, 153*; Single-Stage Twin-Crank Air Compressor, 154*; Electrically-Driven Multi-Stage Feed Pump, 154* ; 1,000-lb. pressure La Mont Boiler Installation, 414*, 504* ; Tests, 654 ; Auxiliary Machinery for Drag-Suction Dredger “ Fu-Shing,”'579*, 639
Weir, Lord, on Engineers and Modern Civilisation, 33
— and River Oued Beht, Model of, 149*
Welds, Electric Preheated (Electric Arc Cutting and Welding Co.), 214
Welded Drums, Schedule of Tests and Examination of, 256
— Pipes with Internal Pressure and End
Thrust, Stresses in, 289*, 310
— Pressure A^'essels, British Corporation Regis
ter of Shipping Rules for, 189
Vessels, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 64, 238
— Waterless-Type Klonne Gasholder, Dagen
ham, 129* ?
Welden, E. C., Balanced-Cantilever Bridge over Connecticut River, 553*, 676
Welding Electrodes, Shanks for. Specification, 393
— of Flame-Cut Surfaces, Investigations on, 521
— Institute of, Annual Dinner, 539
— Lincoln Arc-Welding Competition Awards,
369
— Machine, Continuous Spot (British Insu
lated Cables, Ltd.), 213*
— Operations, Fume Extractor for (Lincoln
Electric Co., Ltd.), 159*
— Oxy-Acetylene, Brittleness Caused by, 137.
See LETTERS, 187, 360
^Vcetylene, Reconditioning of Worn Metal Surfaces by, 490
— Rods, Coated, Drying Chamber for (Spooner
Dryer and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 613*
— in Shipbuilding, Progress of, 86
— Spot, Spot-Light for (Philips Industrial
(Philips Lamp.s), Ltd.), 761
— in United States Ships, Tests for, 117
Well, Borehole in Lower Greensand, De- Mudding of (Le Grand, Sutcliff and Gell, Ltd.), 20
— Pumping Unit, Petrol-Driven (J. Fowler &
Co. (Leeds), Ltd.), 96*
Wellman Seaniless Steel-Tube Plant, Corby, Electrical Equipment for, 469*
West, A, C., on Pressure of Mixture of Saturated Steam and Air, 674*
— Ham, Abbey Mills Chemical Works, Contact
Sulphuric-Acid Plant, 518*
— Hartlepool Institutes and Technical College,
Prospectuses, 275
Western Avenue, Greenford, Callender-Hamilton-Unit Construction Footbridge, 342*
Western Pipe and Steel Co., Zinc-Sprayed Steel Butane Tanks, 657*
Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd., Greenly Inductive Relay, 459*
Westminster Technical Institute, Prospectus of Evening Classes, 255
Wettingen Hydro-Electric Plant, Model-Turbine Installation, 149*
Wetzel und Schlosshauer, Helios Grease Lubricator, 204*
Whangpoo Conservancy Board, Drag-Suction Dredger “Fu-Shing,” 495*, 577*, 638* —. River, Flow Problems of, 61, 165, 223, 241; Control Problems of, 741, 754
Wheels, Gear. See Gears; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
—• Impact from Motor Vehicles, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 151
— Railway, Steel, Effect of Braking on, 719 Wheeler, Prof. R. V., on Destructive Distillation of Coal, 485. See 482
Whirl of Diesel-Engine Crankshafts, Investigations of, 6, 21*
White, Dr. C. M., on Flow through Nests of Tubes, 605*, 665*, 723*
— Metal. See Alloys under Metallurgy Whitehouse, Sir G., the Late, 645
Whitmore, E. J., on Graphoid Layer on Bearing Surfaces, 91*
Wicket Gates for 115,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, Boulder Dam Power House, 608*
Wilcox, D. M., on Calculation of Train Running Times, 282
Williams, Sir E., on Work of British Coal Utilisation Research Association, 740
Williams, N., on International Crisis and Engineers, 530. See 250, 395, 423, 479. See LETTER, 457
Wilson Brothers (Leeds), Ltd., 26-in. Circular Saw Bench, 443*
— Gearbox for Diesel Railcars, 631
' Wilson, Major W. G., on Control of Diesel Railcars and Transmission Systems, 630*. See 621
Wilson, W. M., on Fatigue Tests of Riveted Joints, 773
Winch, 7’ ’ ' . " '
Girder, Drag- Suction Shing,” 498, 578*
Worm-Geared (Carron Co.), 515*
— Portable, for Use with Tractors (Fishleigh
Rotary Cultivator Co., Ltd.), 94*
Wincobank, Four-Lift Spiral-Guided Gasholder, 323*, 357*
Wind Gusts, Effect on Aircraft, Investigations on, 552
— Pressure on Aeroplane Shed, Experiments
on, 727
— — on Bridges, National Physical Labora
tory Investigations, 552
Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 197, 552
on Winding-Plant Tower, Mukden, 671 —Tunnels. See Aeronautics
Windermere, Lake, Motor Launch “ Swan,” 72 ; Biological Examination of Water, 691
Winding Idant, Tower-Type, Fusliuii-Kyuho Colliery, Mukden, 671*
— Ropes, Colliery, Investigations on, 719 Wire, Vertical Vibration of, 461* Windows, Heat Flow through, National
Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 596
Wingate, Rodridge Hall, Morgan Rotary- Retort Low-Temperature Carbonising Plant at, 113*
Winter, I. A., ll5,000-h.p. Turbines, Boulder Dam Power House, 549*, 608*, 669*, 693* Wire and Bars, Steel, for Concrete Reinforcement, Specification, 72
— Galvanised Iron, Investigations on Corrosion
of, 27, 54*
— Ropes, Colliery, Investigations on, 719 for Cranes, Specification, 494
Tie-Back, for Erection of Balanced- Cantilever Bridge over Connecticut River, 555*, 676
Winding, Vertical Vibration of, 46^
— Steel, for Hume Concussional-Spun
Concrete Pipes, 558*
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy :
— Telephony. See Telephony ; Radio Wisconsin Bridge <fe Iron Co., Blue
International Bridge, 377*
Witton Works, General Electric Co., 48, 78 Wohler’s Tests. See Alternating Stress and Fatigue under Tests {Materials}
Wolverhampton Sewage Works, Enclosed Aerated Filters at, 692
Wood-Bending, Machinery and Equipment for, 389
— Compressed, Durisol Plywood (Soci6t6 des
Etablissements Cadoux) 306
— Dry Rot in. Prevention of, 463
— as Motor Fuel, 288
— Preservation (Review), 209
— Reinforcement with Synthetic Resin, 655 Wood, J. W., on A.T. Burner for Gas, 569 Wood, R. G., on Corrosion of Coal-Tar Stills,
333, 396
— See also Forest Prodxf,cts
Woodbridge Tide Mill, 445
Woodward Governor Co., Governing Equipment for H5,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbines, 693*
Woodworking Machinery. See Machine Tools Works :
Abbey Mills Chemical Works, West Ham, Contact Sulphuric-Acid Plant, 518* Chemical Works, Safety Bules for, 276 Chesterfield Tube Co., Ltd., Heavy Weldless-Steel Tube Plant at, 713
Gas Works. See Qas Works Hacksaw-Frame and Magnetic-Chuck Shops, J. Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd., 332*
Holloway Works, Fescol, Ltd., 530 Industrial Diseases. See Labour Kilmarnock Works, Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd., Extensions to, 9*
Longbridge Works, Austin Motor Co., Ltd., 48, 78
Potters Marston Plant for Concrete-Pipe Construction, J. Ellis and Sons, Ltd., 557*
Rugby Works, British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., 48, 78
Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., Corby Steel- Tube Plant, 469*
Witton Works, General Electric Co., Ltd., 48, 78
Works Engineer, The (Review), 697
— Management, Business Administration for
Engineers (Review), 167
Modern Business Problems (Review), 209
Motion and Time Study (Review), 92 The New Management (Review), 284 Organisation of American Aircraft Works, 689
Principles of Rational Industrial Management (Review), 356
The Works Engineer (Review), 697 Workmen. See Labour
Workshops and Factories, Home Office Inspector’s Report, 193, 195
— Training. See Education
— See also Works ; Machine Tools
World and British Shipping, Statistics of, 679
— Economy, Northern Countries in (Review).
92
World Power Conference :
Sectional Meeting, Vienna: British Delegates, 190 Inaugural Proceedings, 369 Visits and Excursions, 369
Section A.—Supply of Energy for Agrv-uliure :
Reports of Proceedings, 453, 498, 607
Hydro-Electric Power Development on River Nile as Stepping Stone to Industrialisation of Egypt, by Dr. A. A. Ahmed, 453
Supply of Electricity for Agriculture, by
C. A. C. Brown, 607
Power Supply for Agriculture in France, by P. Prdaud and L. Fdraud, 607 Petroleum Fuels in Relation to Agriculture in Great Britain, by C. L. Gilbert,
D. H. Meijnen and K. H, Sambrook, 608
Section R. Supply of Energy for Small-Scale T'nd^t•
Reports of lioceedings, 653*, 682* Economics and Sales Problem of Electric Utility Service in Small Commercial Market, by J. Gaskill and C. BaiTy, 653
Hot-Air Heating, by Dr. O. GOhring, 682 Section C. Supply of Energy for Household Purposes:
Reports of Proceedings, 653*, 682*
Stoves for Bohemian Lignite, by J. Roler, 653*
Solid-Fuel Burning Appliances in Sweden, by H. A. Lundberg, 682
Domestic Solid Fuels, by H. L. Pirie, 682 Domestic Stoves in Germany, 683*
Section D. Supply of Energy for Street Lighting: Report of Proceedings, 709
Section E. Supply of Energy for Electric Railways :
Reports of Proceedings, 709, 755
Electric Traction and Regenerative Braking on Japanese Railways, by Z. Yamashlta, 709
Electric Traction in Germany, by Dr. Wechmann, 755
Electrification of French Railways, by H. Parodi and J. L. du Sablon, 755
Multiple-Train Units in France, by M. Garreau, 755
Worm Gear. See Qear ; Gearing Worn Metal Surfaces, Reconditioning by Oxy- Acetylene Welding
Worth, H., on Dartmoor Catchments, 114 Wrecks. See Accidents
Wright, A., and Co., Ltd., Aeration Test Burner for Gas, 569
Wright, T. P., on American Methods of Aircraft Production, 689
Writing Machine, High-Speed, Vonck (Engineering Designs, Ltd.), 675
Wrought Iron.

YASIA SHIT A,
on Japanese Railways, 709
Yangtse River, Flow Problems of, 61, 165, 223
241; Control Problems of, 580, 638, 740 Yarrow and Co., Ltd., Boilers for S.S. “Mauretania,” 121; Boilers for S.S. “Queen Elizabeth,” 383; Boilers for S.S. “Canton,” 458
Year Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Yellow River, Control Problems of, 579, 638, 681*
Yorkshire, South, Iron Industry in, 1698-1756, 750
Young, H. J., on “ Loded ” Cast Irons, 710 Yugoslavia, Mining Developments in, 685

ZEISS, C., Toolmakers’ Microscope, 547*
Zeppelin Airships. See Airships under Aeronautics
Zinc Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Coatings, Sprayed, for Steel-Surface Protection, 657*
— Mining in Yugoslavia, 685
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Production in Canada, 1937, 373 Zoller-Type Rotary BJower for Two-Stroke
Diesel Engine (Petters, Ltd.), 11*
Zurich, Federal Institute of Technology ' Hydraulic Laboratory, 3*. 149*

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