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GENERAL

AABACAS ENGINEERING CO., LTD., 3-ton Overhead Magnet Crane on Inclined Gantry, 758*
Aberpergwm Colliery, Pulverised-Fuel Plant, Results with, 232
Ablett, Capt. C. A., Prize for Paper on Steam Engineering at Port Kembla Steelworks, New South Wales, 554

Accidents :

Breach in Albert Canal, near Hasselt, Belgium, 779
Collapse of All-Welded Bridge, Hasselt, Belgium, Investigation of, 258*, 395*
Explosions in Oil Tanks, Prevention of, 376 Factory Accidents, Home-Office Pamphlet, 421
to Young Persons, 779
Failure of Electricity Supply, Blackpool District, Report, 596
— of Welded Bridges in Germany, 258
Fire at Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 73 ; Report on, 596
Industrial Accidents from Dangerous Machinery, Law Regarding, 641
— — to Young Persons, 779
Loss of French Submarine Ph6nix, 748 Mining Accidents, Causes and Prevention of, 15
Railway Accident, North Hendre, Report on,547
at Wishaw, Report on, 197
— Collision at York, Report on, 11 Sinking of H.M. Submarine “ Thetis,” 685 ; Tribunal Appointed, 716 Accumulators, Electric. See Electric
— Steam, Use for Peak-Load and Emergency Service, 43
— Vehicles. See Motor Vehicles Acetylene Welding. See Welding
Acheson, E. G., Ltd., Lubricant for Rubber Parts, 539
Adams, Professor H. C., on Model Tests of Rolling of Ships, 80
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address Administrative Personnel for Works, Training of, 503
Admiralty Inspection Department, Bragg Laboratory, Sheffield, 199* ; Spectrograph for Analysis of Metals, 104*, 385, 572*, 586, 605*
— See also Warships
Adwani, D. B., on Economic Results of Lloyd * Barrage, 162. See Erratum, 197
Aeraspray Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Petrol- Driven Portable Air Compressor, 207*
Aeration Tanks, Wards Island Sewage Works, 519*. See LETTER, 646
Aerial Navigation. See Aeronautics
— Propellers. See Propellers under Aeronautics
— Transport. See Aeronautics Aerodynamics.
Aeronautical Society, Royal, Garden Party at Great West Aerodrome, 595 ; Wright Lecture on Research in Problems of Flight, by G. W. Lewis, 694*. See 686

Aeronautics :

Aerodrome, Apapa, Nigeria, Construction of, 403
- 4-k\V Mobile Kloodiight for (General
Electric Co., Ltd.), 208*
Aerodynamic Balance, Farren-type (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.). 423*, 461*
- of Domestic Open Fires, 375
Aerofoils, Wake Behind, 695* Aeronautical Research Committee, Investigation on Fretting Corrosion, 281, 293*
Papers, German (Review), 627 Aeroplanes, Historic, at Science Museum, 631
— Long-Distance, Albatross (De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 89*
- Military, Bristol Beaufort, 723*
— Servicing Manual (Review), 119 ?— Stability of. Investigation on, 686, 696 — Structures, Metal (Review), 4
— See also Monoplane ; Seaplane (below)
Air Ministry, Pamphlet on Balloon Barrage Squadrons, 315 ; Exhibits at Royal Society’s Conversazione, 656
— Raid Precautions for Electricity Supply Undertakings, 773, 778
Aeronautics—continued.
Air Raid Precautions, Engineering Aspects of. 159
Precautions, Experimental Work on, 625, 645, 780
- Precautions for Hospitals, Booklet on, 76
— — Precautions, J^ighting System for Factories, 620
Precautions, Report of Institution of Structural Engineers, 266
—? — Protection Clothing-Storage Room, Thermostats for, 726
Protection, Concrete Deflectors for 197, 311
Protection, Durability Tests of Sandbags for, 658
Protection Handbook, Structural Defence, 717
Protection for Structures, Investigations on, 50, 288
Shelters, (xovernment Committee on, 441
Shelters, Home Office Circular on, 255
— — Shelters, Lighting System for, 382 Shelters for London, Suggestion for,
473
— — Shelters, Lord Privy Seal’s Conference Report, 504
Shelters, Steel for, 254 Shelters, Steel, Tests of, Shelters, Tunnel, at Works, 506*
— Travel, Comfort in, 315 Aircraft, British Corporation Shipping, Annual Report, 28^
— Carrier, H.M.S. “ Ark Royal,” 386*, 398
— Design (Review), 704
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 132
— Progress in Radio Equipment for, 537 Airport, Singapore, Construction of, 546 Balance, Aerodynamic, Farren-type (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 423*, 461*
Balloon-Barrage Squadrons, Air Ministry Pamphlet on, 315
Busk Studentship, Cambridge University, 557
Engine, Aeroplane, 50-h.p. Cirrus Midget (Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd.), 184*
420-h.p. De Havilland Gipsy, 91 Floodlight, Aerodrome, 4-kW. Mobile (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 208*
Flying Boat, Dornier Do 26, Transatlantic, 619*
Gliding and Soaring, Instruction in, 193 Gust Loads on Aeroplanes, Investigation of, 686, 696
Hangars, Aeroplane, H.M. Aircraft- Carrier “ Ark Royal,” 386*, 399
Monoplane, Westland Lysander Mark II, 529
Navigation, Aerial. See Telegraphy, U'ire- less
Propellers. Aerial, Vortex 'I’heory of, 765 Royal Air Force Reserve, Auxiliary, Formation of, 110; Progress in Radio Equipment for, 537
Seaplane Hulls, Anti-corrosion and Antifouling Paints for, 460, 542*
Stability, Aeroplane. See Aeroplane (above)
Struts, Aeroplane, Testing Machine for, 577*
Wind-Tunnel Equipment, Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., 423*, 461*
Equipment and Investigations in United States, 686, 694*
Experiments on Empire State Building Model, 191
Wireless Apparatus for Aircraft. See Telegraphy, Wireless
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics. Aetna Standard Engineering Co., Scrap-Balling Machine, 604*
Age-Hardening of Mild Steel, 585 See also Metallurgy
Agricultural Laud, Drainage of. 71
— Machinery, Improvements in, 349 Industry, Position and Prospet^ts, 347
— Motors. See Engines ; Tractors
— Society, Royal, Windsor Show, 767*
— Tractors. See Tractors
Agriculture, Mechanised Farming , and Production of Food, 349
— Need for Research in, 595, 655
Agriculture, and Soil Conservation in United
States, 31*, 85*, 239*
— See also Irrigation and PARAGRAPH INDEX Air, Compressed. See Compressed Air ; Pneumatic
— Compressing Plant, Wards Island Sewage
Works, New York, 457*
— Compressor, Axial, for Gas Turbine, 247*,256
— • - — Control Gear (Frankfurter Maschinenbau A.-G.), 218*
— Petrol - Driven, Portable (Aeraspray
Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 207*
Keciprocating, Oil-Free (Skoda Works), 276*
Rotary, for 100-h.p. .Jendrassik Combustion Turbine, 180*
Turbo, with Finned-Tube Intercooler (Escher Wvss Engineering Works, Ltd.), 308*
250-cub. ft. Two-Stage Monobloc (.1. B. Lindley (1931), Ltd.), 416*
See also Gas Compressor
— Conditioning in Industry, Researches on, 090*
— Cooling of Glass-Furnace Tank Blocks, 482
— Eliminator for Surface Condenser (Con
denser Service and Engineering Co., Inc.), 291*
— Filters, Wards Island Sewage Works, New York, 457*
— Force, Royal. See Aeronautics
— Heater, Hackney Power Station, 318* S.S. ’‘Mauretania,” 738*
— Ministry. See Aeronautics
— Raid Precautions. See Aeronautics
— Screws. See Propellers under Aeronautics Aircraft Carriers. See Aeronautics
?—? See Aeronautics
Aktiebolaget Atlas Diesel, Torsional-Vibration
Damper for Oil Engines, 558* Albatross Air Liner, 89* Albert Canal, Belgium, Breach near Hasselt, 779 Collapse of Hasselt All-Welded Bridge,
Investigation of, 258*, 395*
Alderson, W., on Planing, Shaping and Slotting Machines, 101, 111
Aidgate East Station, Hydraulic Buffer Stops, 35*
Alexander, Dr. W. O., on Annealing of Copper Alloys Containing Chromium, 305
Allen, Edgar <fe Co., Ltd., Rolls for Cold Rolling Steel Strip, 786
Allen, G. W., on Gas Industry in Canada. 697 Allen, .f., on Model Experiments on River Dee Estuary, 439
Allen. W. H., Sons A Co., Ltd., 600-kW Diesel- Driven Electric Generators, 499* Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauging Alloys. See Metallurgy; Microphotographs; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Alternating Current. See Electric
— Stress. See Tests {Materials}
Alternators. See Generators, Electric ; Turbo- Generators
Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Industry Exhibits, Swiss National Exhibition, 626
— Its History, Metallurgy and Uses (Review), 284
— Marine Corrosion of 542
— Powder for Prevention of Silicosis, Report, 732
— Production and Imports of, 522, 581
— Welding of, 708
— See also Metallurgy ; Metal-Price Diagrams Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries, Ltd., Use
of Anthracite Duff, 232
Ambrose, .1. C., Concrete Deflectors for Air- Raid Protection, 197, 311
America and Europe, Gas Industry in, 696 American Car and Foundry Co., Double-Deck Electric Rivet Heater, 121*
American Engineering Co., Taylor Water- Cooled Retort Stoker, 67*
American Mono Rail Co., Overhead Transporter Gear, 120*
See United States under Warskips Ship Building Co., Conversion of Lakes S.S. ” George F. Rand,” 80,
of Civil Engineers. See Civil
American Steamship Co., Great Lakes S.S. George F. Rand,” 80, 321*
— See also United States
Ammonia, By-Product, from Gas Works, 766
Amsterdam, North Power Station, Water Extraction from Steam Turbines, 417, 533
Analysis. Quantitative, of Metals by Spectrograph, 104. 199*, 385, 572*, 586, 605*
— and Sampling of Coal, Report, 323
Anchor Bolts, Expanding (Hoyt Metal Co. of Great Britain, Ltd.), 667*
— Screw, Rawlplug, 209
Andrew, L. W., on Comfort by Gas Heating, 737 Annealing. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Annual Publications. See LITERATURE INDEX
— and Reference Books, 21, 77, 128, 165, 197,
277, 382, 436, 468, 562, 592, 712. See LITERATURE INDEX
Ansells Brewery, Ltd., Electrically-Operated Beer-Rousing Equipment, 357*
Anthracite Duff for Steam Generation, 232* Anti-Friction Metals. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Antimony Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Apapa Aerodrome,Nigeria, Construction of, 403 Apparatus, Scientific, Exhibition, Institution of Civil Engineers’ Conversazione, 749 Exhibition, Physical Societv’s, 8*, 48*, 102*
Exhibition, Royal Society Conversazione, 656
Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co., Ltd., Rolling Plant for Sections, 586
Appointments. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Apprenticeship. See Education
Arbitration and Engineering Contracts, 140 Arc. See Furnace ; Welding
Architects, British, Royal Institute of. Road Architecture Exhibition, 282
— Naval. See Naval Architects
— Registration Council, Scholarships, 310
Argentine State Railways, Diesel-Engined Suburban Trains, 601*
” Ark Royal,” H.M. Aircraft-Carrier, 386*, 398 Armament Programme and Iron and Steel Industry, 254. See LETTER, 27.5
Armoured Ships. See Warships
Armouring Machine for Electric Cables (Sleeper (fe Hartley, Inc.), 231*
Armstrong, Dr. E. F., on History of Gas Industry, 718
Army Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics
Arnold, Dr. R., on Investigations on Singing Propellers, 594
Arpay, K., 100-h.p. Jendrassik Combustion Turbine, 186*
Arrol, Sir W., and Co., Ltd., Box Flap-Type Gate for Colombo Dry Dock, 549*
Arts, Royal Society of. Gliding and Soaring, by R. Kronfeld, 193 ; Improvements in Agricultural Machinery and their Bearing on Home Production of Food, by S. J. Wright, 349
Arterial Roads. See Roads
Asbestos-Cement Flue Pipes, Specification, 774
— Packing for Pipe Joints, Tests of, 409, 418* Asbridge, H. H., on Precision Grinding Machines, 101, 111
Ash, Fly, Uses for, 203
— Handling Plant for Loeffler Boilers, Brimsdown Power Station, 616*
— Pulverised-Coal, Utilisation of, 203
Aspdin, J., Invention of Portland Cement by, 758
Asphaltic Bitumen, Use for Protection of Groynes, 306
Associated Press Building, Rockefeller Centre, New York, 350*. See Erratum, 499
Association, British. See British Association
— Engineering. See Institutions
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Harbour District Railway, Tests of Pendulum- Suspension Bogie, 517*
Atkinson, LI. B., on History of Institution of Electrical Engineers, 719
Atlantic Liners. See Steamers
Atlas Diesel, A. B., Torsional-Vibration Damper for Oil Engines, 558*
Atomic Patterns of Metals, 788
Atomiser for Airless-Injection Engines (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 64*
— Variable-Capacity, Oil-Fuel, for Ships, 80 Audco High-Pressure Disc Valve, 544*
Audley Engineering Co., Ltd., High-Pressure Disc Valve, 544*
Augusts, Ltd., Moulding-Sand Mixing Plant, 361*
Austin, Minnesota, Municipal Light Plant, Tavlor Water-Cooled Retort Stoker, 67*
Austin Motor Co., Ltd., Tunnel Air-Raid Shelters at Longbridge Works, 506*
Australia. Annual Report, Queensland Rail- wavs. 473
— Brisbane, Report of Department of Works, Water Supply, and Sewerage, 595
Australian Iron and Steel, Ltd., Steam Engineering at Port Kembla Steelworks, 554 Auto-Collimator (Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd.), 104
Auto-Mower Engineering Co., Ltd., Petrol- Driven Mowing Machine with Verge- Cutting Attachment, 767*
Autogenous Welding. See Welding
Automatic Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
- Stokers. See Stok-ers
Automobile Engineering Congress, World, United States, Programme, 216
— Engineers, Institution of. Considerations Influencing Design of High-Speed Track Vehicles, by Dr. H. E. Merritt, 130; Cornfort in Road Travel, by S. Garcke, 315; Comfort in Rail Travel, by Lord Stamp, 315 ; Comfort in Air Travel, by Capt. E. W. Percival, 315 ; Noise Measurement and Analysis in Relation to Motor Vehicles, by Dr. G. W. C. Kaye and R. S. Dadson, 440 ; Piston-Ring Blow-By on High-Speed Petrol Engines, by C. G. Williams and H. A. Young, 693*, 723* ; Summer Meeting, Oxford, Programme, 757
— See Motor Cars
Automotive Products Co., Ltd., Lockheed Gates Booster for Motor-Vehicle Braking System, 661*
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine. See Marine
Avery, W. and T., Ltd., Testing Machine for Aeroplane Struts, 577*
Aviation. See Aeronautics
Axles, Locomotive, Driving, Experiments on Fatigue of, 130

BABCOCK and WILCOX, LTD., Coal-Pulvensing Mill, 175* ; Iron and Steel Foundries, Renfrew, 359* ; Tests of Welded Drums, 602, 637* ; Ash-Handling Plant for
Loeffler Boilers, 616* ; Oil-Fuel Installation, S.S. “ Llandovery Castle,” 681* ; Welded Chemical Plant, 705* ; Boiler Plant, Southwick Power-Station Extensions, 749. See 587*
Bailey, A., on Loss of Heat from Hot Pipe, 60* Baird and Tatlock (London). Ltd., ThermoRegulator, 48
Balance, Aerodynamic, Farren-type ((yambridge Instrument Co., Lt-d.), 423*, 461* Sheet, Energy, of Internal-Combustion
Engine, 347, 388*, 448. See Erratum, 411
Balfour, Beatty and Co., Ltd., Lochaber Water- Power Scheme, 329*, 391*
Ball Bearings. See Bearings
Ballast, Influence on Path of Railway Wheels, 200
Balloons. See Aeronautics
Bamag-Meguin A.-G., Thyssen-Lenze Tower Gas Purifiers, 765
Band Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Saws. See Saivs under Machine Tools Bars and Plates, Welded, Repeated-Stress, T/aafc An9* 6:^^*
Barco Manufacturing Co.. Swivelling Pipe Joint, 122*
Barker, Prof. E., on Impacts of Science on Society, 595, 655
Barker, F. G., on Spectrograph for Quantitative Analysis of Metals, 572*, 605*. See 586 and 104*, 199*, 385
Barkhausen Effect in Magnets. 596
Baroda, India, Irrigation Work in. 204 ; Water Supply in, 437
Barrage, Lloyd. India. Economic Results of, 162. See Erratum, 197
Barron, A., on Comfort by Gas Heating, 737 Barton Power Station, Tests of 200,000-lb. Simon-Carves Boiler, 141
Barvoys Coal-Cleaning Plant, Wingate Colliery ((jolliery Engineering, Ltd.), 639*
Basins. Measuring, St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, Minneapolis, 609*
Bateman, H. M., on Eliminating Iron from Molten Glass by Chlorides, 165
Bateson. R. G., on Kiln-Drying Schedules. 83 Bath, Barvoys, for Coal-Cleaning Plant.
Wingate Colliery, 639*
Batteries. See Electric
— A’ehicles. See Motor Vehicles Battleships. See Warships
Bauer. Dr. S. G., on Observation of Combustion Timing in Compression-Ignition Engines, 79* : Indicator for Internal- (’oml)ustion Engine. 750
Bauer and Schaurte, Eltas Copying Gauge, 352* Baum System of Electric Power Transmission, 227*. See LETTERS, 781
Baxter, G., on Purification of Water, 662 B.E.N. Patents, Ltd., “ Varispray ” Spray Gun, 485
Beams, Timber, Design Charts for, 651
Bean, A. S., on Principles and Value of Fuel Testing, 662*
Bearings, Aluminiuin-Tin Alloy for (Rolls- Royce, Ltd.), 789
— Ball and Roller, Use in Machine Tools, 101,
111,138*
— Metals. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Roller, in Paper-Making Machines, 383 Beauchamp, J. W., on Electricity-Supply
Tariffs, 472
Beaver Pipe Tools, Inc.. Pipe and Bolt Screwing Machine, 123*
Beeny, H. H., on Cutting Tools for Cast Iron, 789 See 780
Beer-Rousing Equipment, Electrically-Operated, Ansells Brewery, Ltd., 357*
Beeston Fax.dorv, Ericsson Telephones, Ltd., Colourdex Production-Control System, 689* — Fine-Chemical Factory, Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., 5*
Beit Suspension Bridge, Rhodesia, 625
Belgium, Albert Canal. Breach near Hasselt, 779
— (las Industry in, 696
— Hasselt, Collapse of All-Welded Bridge,
Investigation of, 258*, 395*
Belien, A., on Gas Industry in Belgium, 696
Bellingham and Stanley. Ltd., Monochromatic Illuminator. 104* ; Portable Projection Microscope. 306*
Beloit Suction Couch Roll, 263*
Belt Conveyors. See Conveyors
Bending Machine. See Machine Tools
— Moment Diagram for Turbine Rotor, 764*
— Tests. See Tests {Materials}
— Theory in Ship Bottom Structure, 79
Bennett, J. G., on Tests of Fuel-Using Installations, 411 ; on Principles of Gas- Producer Control, 545
Bennett, P. F., on Work of Federation of British Industries, 50,5
Bentonite Clay, Properties and Uses of, 679
Benzene Vapour, Detection Tests for, 711 “ Beograd,” Jugoslavian Destroyer, 69
Besco High-Duty Guillotine Shears, 185* Besler Boiler, 367*
Bessemer Medal, Award to J. Henderson, 554
— Process for Steel Castings, 756
Betteridge, Dr. W., on Nickel-Iron-Aluminium Permanent-Magnet Alloys, 632*
Bevel Gears. See Gears
Bicycles. See Cycles and Motor Cycles
Big Missouri Mine, British Columbia, Underground Mill, 149*
Big wood, J., and Son, Ltd., Straightening Machine for Rolled Sections, 50 ; Hopper- Type “Unicalor” Automatic Stoker, 179*; Slow-Combustion Stove, 179*; Tube- Straightening Machine, 211*
Bills of Quantities for Engineering Contracts, 107
Bins and Racks, Steel, for Storage, Specification, 530
Binary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Binder, Tractor (Harrison, McGregor <fe Co., Ltd.), 767*
Binger, W. D.. Wards Island Sewage Works, New York, 455*. 519*, 5S3*. See LETTER, 646
Binnie,W. J. E., on Gorge Dam. Hong Kong, 134 Binoc Thermometer Tube, 104*
Biplanes. See Aeronautics
Birmingham, British Industries Fair, 175*, 207*, 243*, 271*, 484*. 485*
— Hams Hall Power Station. Design and
Operation of, 313, 316
— University, Investigations on Ignition
(Quality of Diesel Fuels, 1* ; Engineering Society : Industrial Research as a Career, by H. Warren, 75 ; Investigation on Delay Period in Oil Engine, 552*
Bitumen, Asphaltic, Use for Protection of Groynes, 306
Bituminous Materials, Road Construction. See Roads
Black tfe Decker, Ltd., Portable Electric Shears, 183* : Two-Speed Electric Sander, 183* : -^-in. Portable Electric Drill, 577
Blackaby, J. H.. on Drainage and Ditching Equipment, 71
Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., 50-h.p, Cirrus Midget Aero-Engine. 184* ; Wind-Tunnel Equipment, 423*, 461*
Blackburn-Smith Manufacturing Co., Inc., Automatic Water Strainer, 292
Blackett. Prof. P. M. S., on Cosmic Rays, 534 Blackpool District, Electricity Breakdown in, Report, 596
Blading, Turbine, 37,500-kW. Brush-Ljung- strdm Turbo-Alternator, 588*
Blast from Bomb Explosions. Investigations on, 50, 216*, 288
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
Blayden. H. E., on Influence of Carbonising Conditions on Coke Properties, 587. See 654.
Bleichert-Transportanlagen G.m.b.H., Self- Propelling Elevator, 465* ; Portable Conveyors, 465*
Bloch. Dr. O., on the Photographic Emulsion, 594
Blocks, Building, Cottrell, Use of Pulverised Coal Ash for, 203
— Concrete, for Building Construction. See
Concrete
Blohm and Voss, Electrically-Operated Siren for Large Ships, 25*
Blow-By, Piston-Ring, on High-Speed Petrol Engines, Investigations on, 693*, 723*
— Pipe. See Welding ; Cutting
Blower, Centrifugal, Ingersoll-Rand, Wards Island Sewage Works, 457*
Board of Education Courses for Engineering Teachers in Technical Schools, 197
— of Trade. See Overseas Trade Department Boat, Flying. See under Aeronautics
— Motor. See Motor Boat
— Submarine. See Warships
Boddington, A. L., on Financial Aspects of Municipal Electricity Supply, 751. See 778
Bogie, Railway, Pendulum-Suspension, 517* Boiler, Besler, 367*
— Clarkson Thimble-Tube, M.S. “Dominion
Monarch,” 498*
— Drums, Arc-Welding Machine for (Metro
politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 28*
— Feed Pump. See Pump
Water Softening. See Water Softening
— Flue Gases, Utilisation of Carbon Dioxide in,
323
— Furnaces. See Stoker
— Hams Hall Power Station, Operating Re
sults, 313, 316
- High-Pressure, in Power Stations, 614*. 653.
See Errata, 712, 757
- Land, Ferrous Piping for. Specification, 77
— - Loeffler, 2.()00-lb. Pressure, Brimsdown
Power Station, 614*, 669*. See 653. See Errata, 712, 757
— Lopulco Bent-Tube Type, East Perth Power Station, 105*
— Operation, Chemistry Applied to, 289
— Plant, Babcock Wilcox, Southwick Power-
Station Extensions, 749. See 587*
— •• Porcupine,” Col. J. Stevens’, 505
— Prevention of Deposits in, 320
Boiler, Simon-Carves, Hackney Power Station, 317*. See Addendum^ 341
— 200,000-lb. Simon-Carves, Tests of, 141
— Velox, Gas-Turbine Driven Compressor for, 248
— Water-Tube, Portobello Power Station, 433*
— Yarrow, S.S. “ Mauretania,” 738*
— See also Engines and Boilers in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Bolivia, Guaqui-La Paz Railway, 33()-b.h.p. Diesel Locomotive, 324*. See Addendum, 413
Bolts, Anchor, Expanding (Hoyt Metal Co. of Great Britain, Ltd.), 667*
— Head Forging Machine (Kieserling und
Albrecht), 365*
— for Pipe Flanges, Investigations on, 409,
418*
— Screwing Machine. See Screwing Machine
under Machine Tools
Bomb Explosions, Effect on Engineering Works and Structures, 50, 216*, 288
Effect of, Investigations on, 786
Books, New, Notes on, 20, 56, 83,142, 204, 237, 357, 413, 598, 660, 742. See LITERATURE INDEX
— Received, 12, 40, 68, 96, 126, 156, 188, 220,
250, 278, 310, 372, 404, 436, 468, 500, 530, 560, 590, 620, 650, 682, 712, 744, 774
Boom, Structural Steel, Great Lakes S.S. ” George F. Rand,” 322*
Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., Fine-Chemical Factory, Beeston, 5*
Boow, J., on Annealing Sheet Glass in Sulphur Dioxide, 165
Bores, Accurate, Production by Boring, Grinding, Honing and Lapping, 101, 112, 201* Boreholes. See Wells
Boring Machine. See Machine Tools
Borough Polytechnic, London, Summer Courses on Noise, its Measurement and Elimination, 469
Boston, Massachusetts, Combustibles in Manholes, Report, 326
Bottcher und Gessner, Duplex Tenoning Machine, 428* ; Three-Drum Sanding Machine, 428*
Boulder Dam, Electric Power Transmission from, 34
Power Plant, Electrical Features of, 145*, 214*, 713
Boving and Co., Ltd., 52-in. and 36-in. Rotary Hydraulic Valves, 370*
Bowman, J., on Water-Supply Problems, 664 Box Flap-Type Gate, Dry Dock, Colombo, 549*
— Wooden and Fibre-Board, Testing of, 124* Brabant, M., on Gas Industry in Belgium, 696
Bradbury, E. E. G.. on Rolls for Cold Rolling of Steel, 786
Bradby’s Engineering Works, Ltd., Single
Cylinder industrial Petrol Engine, 786*'
Bradley, Dr. A. J., on X-Ray Investigation of
Cobalt-Aluminium Alloys, 332
Bragg, Prof. W. L., on Magnets, 595* : on
Atomic Patterns of Metals, 788. See 751
— Laboratory, Admiralty Inspection Department, Sheflield, 199* ; Spectrograph for Analysis of Metals, 104*. 385, 572*, 586, 605*
Brakes. Motor-Car. See Motor-Car Details Braiicepeth Coal-Pulverising Works, Willington, 755*
Brass Containing Bismuth, Spectrograms of, 573*
— Rod, Effect of Drawing on Hardnes.s of, 333
— Vapour Pressure of Zinc in, 331
Braun, F., A.-G., Horizontal and Vertical Plastics-Moulding Presses, 363*
Brazil, Economic and Commercial Conditions in, Report, 780
Breakdowns. See Accidents
Breast Box of Paper-Making Machine, 236*.
See Erratum, 279
Bremner, D. A., on Machinery Industry and
Export 'trade, 73
Bressey, Sir C.. on Bigger London or Better London,161
Bricks, Fire. See Firebricks; Refractory Materials
Bridge, All-Welded, Hasselt, Collapse of, Investigation 258*, 395*
— Callender-Hamilton Unit-Construction, Erection of, 734*
— Cantilever, Limiting Span of, 223
— Haiphong-Yunnan Fu Railway, 731*
— Hammersmith, Report on Explosion
Damage to, 530
— Highway, Practice in Great Britain, Lectures on, 197
— Limiting Span of, 223
— London, Laying Foundation Stone of, 258
— Piers, Settlement of Foundations of, 568
— Suspension, Rhodesia, Otto Beit, 625
— Waterloo, Approach, Traffic Scheme for, 534
— See also Viaduct; and PARAGRAPH INDEX Brightness Meter for Street-Lighting Investigation, 750
Brighton Corporation, Southwick Power-Station Extensions, 587*, 749
Brightside Foundry and Engineering Co., Ltd.
Heating and Ventilating System, Fine-
Chemical Factory, Beeston, 6* ; Heavy Ingot Mould, 605*
Brimsdown Power Station, 2,000-lb. Pressure Loeffler Boilers and Generating Plant, 614*, 669*. See 653. See Errata. 712, 757 Brisbane Department of Works, Water Supply and Sewerage, Annual Report, 595
Bristol Beaufort Military Aeroplane, 723*
— Gas Company, Distribution and Sales
Organisation of, 737 Britain. See Great Britain British Aluminium Co,, Ltd., Exhibits at
British Industries Fair, 209; Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 329*, 391*

British Association :

Division of Social and International Relation of Science:
Programme of Meetings, 224
Meeting in London, Programme, 595
Impacts of Science on Society, by Prof
E. Barker, 595, 655
How the Application of Science h) culture is impeded, by Sir 1). 595, 655
Meeting in Manchester, 712
Section 0 {Engineering}.
Dundee Meeting Papers, 283.
British Broadca.sting Corporation. Start and ClevedoTi 'fransmitting Stations,
— Chemical-Plant Manufacturers’ Association,
Annual Dinner, 503 ; Training for Management of Engineering and Cheml(;al Works, by H. Ward, 503, 72(5
— C’olumbia, Big Missouri Mine, Underground
Mill, 149*
— Commercial Gas Association, Coal Re
sources and Gas Industry, by Sir H. Hartley, 576
— Compressed Air Society, Annual Dinner, 255
— Corporation Register of Shipping and Aircraft, Annual Report, 283
— Electrical and Allied Industries Research
Association, Annual Report, 185 ; Annual Luncheon, 193
and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Report, 466
Development Association, Annual Luncheon, 345
— Engineers’ Association, Machinery Industry and Export Trade, by D. A. Bremner, 73
— Granite and Whinstone Federation,
Explosive Tests on Concrete Slabs, See LETTERS, 751, 781
— Industries Fair, Birmingham, 175*,
243*, 271*, 484*, 485*
Federation of. See Federation
— Iron and Steel Federation, Report on
Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, 544, 555 ; Report on Alloy Steels Research, 613, 663
- Navy. See H.M. under Warships
British Oxygen Co., Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 273
— Physical Laboratories, Electrical Viscosimeter, 103
— Railways. See Railways
— Refractories Research Association, Report
on Refractory Materials for Steelworks and i Blast Furnaces. 575, 612
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Shipping. See Shipping
— Standards Institution. See Standard.'^
British Thermostat Co., Ltd., Dry-Contact Relay, 184* : Teddington H.S. Humidistat. 245* : Control System for Air-Raid Protection Clothing Storage Room, 726
British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Flameproof Electro-Hj^draulic 'fhrustor, 84 : Exhibits at Physical Society’s Exhibition. 105 ; Alternating-Current Motors for Cranes. 205*. See Addendum, 250 ; Electric-Discharge Lamp Lighting Installation, 389* ; Electrical Equipment for Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 490* : Welding Manijnilator for Switchgear Work, 751* —1’rade. See Trude
Briton Ferry Steel Co.. Ltd.. T^se of Anthracite Duff by, 232
Bronx Grit and Screening Chamber, Wards Island Sewage Works, 456*
— Tunnel, Wards Island Sewage Works, 456*.
520*
Bronze, Effect of Work on Properties of, 333
Brookes (Oldbury), Ltd.. J 8-in. by i-in. Guillotine Shears. 243*
Broom dr Wade, Ltd.. Hydro-Pneumatic Squeeze Riveters, 513*
Brown, Boveri dr ('o.. Electrical Equipment for Bucket-Wheel Excavator, 63* ; Development of Gas Turbine by. 248*. 256 : Substation for Mount Pilatus Railway,579*
Brown, D., Sons (Hudd.). Ltd.. Rapid Production of Rolling-Mill Pinions, 152; Reduction Gear for 5,0()0-kW Steam Turbine, 538*
Brown. D., Tractors, Ltd., Huddersfield Works, 51*
Brown, J., on Principles and Value of Fuel Testing, 662*
Brown, O. F., on Resistance of Concrete to High. Explosives, 751. See 386*. See LETTER,781
Brownrigg, Rear-Admiral Sir D.
Late, 230 Bruck Silk Mills,
Duff* at, 232 Brush Coachwork, 76*
Brush Electrical
37.500-kW Brush-Ljungstrdm Turbo-Alternator, 587*, 749
Bubble Tower, Welded (Babcock and Wilcox Ltd.), 708*
Buchanan, .T. G., on National Pig-Iron Reserve 275. See 254
Buffer Stops, Hydraulic, Aidgate East Station, 35*
Building, Associated Press, Rockefeller Centre, New York, 350*. See Erratum. 499
— Blocks, Cottrell. Use of Pulverised-Coal Ash
for, 203
Construction, Concrete Blocks and Machines for. See Concrete
See also Ferro-Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Effects of Bomb Explosions on. Investigations on, 50, 216*, 288
— Empire State, New York, Wind-Pressure Investigations on, 191
— Ferro-Concrete, for Fine-Chemical Manufacture, Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., 5*
— Industrial, Floors for, 135
and the Iron and Steel Industry 254. See LETTER,275
— in London, Construction of (Review), 366
— Modern Principles of, Walls, Partitions and Chimneys (Review), 494
Research Station, Apparatus for Investigating Soil Mechanics, 749; Investigations on Air-Raid Precautions, 786
— Settlement on Clay, 567*
Bureau of Mines. See Vnited States
Expression of Power-Station Efficiency, 616*. See LETTERS, 679
Burners, Oil Fuel. See OU Fuel
Burness, T. P. N., on Production of Accurate
Bores, 201*. See 101, 112
’Bus Bars. See Electric
Business Organisations and Evacuation, 535 Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 557
Butler, H., on Mees of Machine Tools, 368. See 269
Byng, E. S., on Administrative Training for Chemical Engineers, 503

CABLES. See Wire Hopes and Electric
Cadbury Brothers, Ltd., Training and Education of Employees, 485
“ Cairudale,’* Royal Fleet Auxiliary Tanker, 410 Calculus (Review), 4
Callender’s Cable and Construction Co., Ltd., Erection of Unit-Construction Bridges, 734* Calverley, J. E., on Technical Aspects of Railway Electrification, 134
Calyx Core Drill for Shaft Sinking (Ingersoll- Rand Co.), 7*
Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd., Einthoven String Galvanometer, 8* ; “ Pot ” Vibration Galvanometer, 8; Aerodynamic Balance and Wind-Tunnel Equipment for Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., 423*, 461* ; Exhibits at Royal Society’s Conversazione, 657
— University, Observation of Combustion Timing in Compression-Ignition Engines, 79* ; Investigation of Lateral Oscillation of Railway Vehicles, 261* ; Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 557
Camera, Spectrographic, Oxford University, 334*
Camniell Laird A' Co., Ltd., H.M. Aircraft- Carrier “ Ark Royal,” 386*, 399 ; Launch of H.M. Battleship ” Prince of Wales,” 569* ; Launch of H.M. Submarine ” Taku,” 625 ; H.M. Submarine “Thetis,” Loss of, 685 ; Thetis Tribunal Appointed, 716; S.S. “Mauretania,” 701*, 738*, 769*
Campbell, D. S., on Underground Mill Excavation at Big Missouri Mine, 149*
Campbell, L. E., on the Modern Excursion Steamer, 79
Canada, Big Missouri Mine, British Columbia, Underground Mill, 149*
— Bruck Silk Mills, Use of Anthracite Duff’
at, 232
— Gas Industry in, 697
— Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engin
eers Summer Meeting, Programme, 230
— Mining in, 535
Canadian Department of Medical Research, Investigation of Prevention of Silicosis by Aluminium, 732
• of Mines, Report on Hydro-Electric
Progress, 74
(’anal, Albert, Belgium, Breach near Hasselt, 779
Collapse of Hasselt All-Welded Bridge, Investigations of, 258*, 395*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cane-Sugar Manufacture, Principles of (Review), 164
Cantilever Bridge. See Bridge
Capacity. See Electric
Capstan Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tools ' Carbon Dioxide in Boiler-Flue Gas, Utilisation , of, 323 '
Recorder (J. Gordon and Co., Ltd.), 211* Carderock, Maryland, David W. Taylor Model Basin, 80
Cargo, Damage at Sea, Investigations on, 79
—„ Steamers. See Steamers
Carnarvon Wireless Station, Dismantling of, 441
Carpenter, Sir H., Award of Institute of Metals' Medal, 304
(.'arriages, Railway, “ Coronation Scot ” Express Train, 38*
Developments in, 130
Diesel-Engined, Argentine State Railways, 601*
Electric, with Metadyne, 354*
Electric, Mount Pilatus Railway, 579* Lateral Oscillation of, Investigation on, 261*
Motor-Driven, Haiphong-Yunnan Fu Railway, 731*
Pendulum-Suspension Bogie for, 517* Carron Co., 10-h.p. Endless-Rope Haulage Gear, 178*
— Reservoir, Design and Construction of, 664 Cars, Motor. See Motor Cars
Cars, Rail. See Carriages, Railway
Carter, H. E., on Rainfall in Scotland, 664
Case, J., on Place of History in Engineering Education, 646. See 593
Casella, C. F., and Co., Ltd., Microphotometers, 49 ; Spectrograph for Oxford University Observatory, 267*, 334*
Cast Iron, Cutting Tools for, 789
Pipes, Pitting Corrosion of, 787*
Casting AiTangements for Steel Foundries, 495, 511*
— for Gear Blanks, Specification, 127
— Plant, Continuous, Renfrew Foundries, Babcock and WUcox., Ltd., 361*
— of Steel, Application of Durville Process to,
586
— Steel, History of, 756
Catalogues, 29, 56, 84, 113, 174, 327, 421, 485, 547, 577, 667, 729. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Caterpillar Tractor. See Tractor
Cathode-Ray Oscillographs at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 48
Catterson-Smith, R. M., Electric Furnace, 102
Cave-Browne-Cave, Wing-Commdr. T. R., on Coal as Fuel for Internal-Combustion Engines, 442
Cement Mill, Double-Helical Gear Unit for n'urbine Gears, Ltd.), 307*
— “ Roman,” History of, 757
— See also Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX Census of Production and Import Duties Act Inquiry (1935), Report, 623
Centenaries, Engineering, in 1939 ]7
— of Dr. L. Mond, 345
— of W. Murdoch, 718
Central Electricity Board, Proposed New yower Stations, 345; Annual Report, innJ Substation Circuit Breakers,
TT J ’ Altitude Towards Electricity-Supply Undertakings, 751, 778 ; Schemes for New Selected Stations, 779
— Register, Ministry of Labour’s, 471. See
99,154, 565, 717. See LETTER, 8
— Station. See Power Station Centrifugal Pumps. See Pumps Cerajnic Industries, Kiln Practice in, 524*
— Machinery, Investigations on Wear of Metals
in, 637
Working and Properties of Tin Bronzes, 333
Chain-Track Tractor. See Tractor
Chai^Seats, Wood, Forming Machine for (A.
Knoevenagel), 428*
Chambers, Grit, Wards Island Sewage Works, New York, 456*
— Vertical, Intermittent, Standard Test
Code for, 109
Sewer-Cleaning Machine,
Change-Speed Gear. See Gear
Channel Steamer, Stoker-Fired, for Southern Railway, 285*
and Stream Flow (Hydraulic Graphs and Tables) (Review), 524
Train-Ferry Steamer “Shepperton Ferry,” Mechanical-Firing Demonstration, 285*
Chart, Graphical, Construction, Manual of, 441 Chase, H., Die-Casting Plant, Mt. Vernon
Die-Casting Corporation, 527*
Chaseside Engineering Co., Ltd., 3-cub. yd. Dumper, 184*
Chassen-road Substation, Stretford, 750,000- kVA Circuit-Breaker, 709*
Chatley, Dr. H., on Birth of a Factory, 131 Chattock Gauge, with Optical Projector, for Wind-Tunnel, 424*
Chemicals, Electrolytically Manufactured, Production and Imports of, 522, 581
— Engineering, Welding in, 705*
—? Engineers, Administrative Training for. 503. 726 '
Institution of, Floors for Industrial Purposes, by R. Fitzmaurice and Dr.
F. M. Lea, 135; Annual Dinner, 225; Some^ Contributions of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering to Steam Generation, by G. W. Hewson and R. L. Rees, 289 ; Administrative Training for Chemical Engineers, by E. S. Byng, 503
— and Solvents, Specifications, 774
— Symbols and Abbreviations, Standard List
of, 70
Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Steam- Generation Problems, 289
— of Corrosion. See Conosio^i
— Institute of, Gluckstein Lecture on Re
search in Iron and Steel Industry, by Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 131
— See also PARAGRAPH INPEX
Chimney, Brick, for Portobello Power Station, 434*
China, Haiphong-Yunnan Fu Railway, 731* Chinese Engineering Apprentices, Federation of British Industries’ Scholarship Scheme, 131
Christophersen, H., on Uses of Rubber in Ship Construction, 80
Christy and Norris, Ltd., Swing-Beater Grinder, 176* ; Swing-Beater Pulveriser, 176*
Chuck. See Machine Tools
Churchill Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Grinding Machine for Machine-Tool Slideways, 537* Circulating Pumps. See Pumps
— Water System, Portobello Power Station,
435*
Cirrus Midget 50-h.p. Aero Engine, 184*
City and Guilds (Engineering) College Engineering Society, Vacation Apjjrenticeship Scheme, 17 ; Annual Dinner, 365
Civil Aerial Transport. See Aeronautics
— Defence Research Committee, Appointment
of, 591
— Engineers, American Society of. Wind
Forces on Tall Buildings, by J. C. Rathbun, 191

Civil Engineers, Institution of :

Formation of Road-Engineering Section, 45
Reports of Committee on Effects of Bomb Explosions on Engineering Works, 50, 288
Co-operation Between Civilian and Military Engineers, 99, 154. See 471, 565, 717. See LETTER, 8
The Conditions of Engineering Contracts, by E. J. Rimmer, 107, 139
Gorge Dam, Hong Kong, by W. J. E. Binnie and H. J. F. Gourlay, 134
Inauguration of Road-Engineering Section, 194
Vertical Path of Wheel Moving Along Railway Track, by Prof. C. E. Inglis, 200 Summer Meeting in United States and Canada, Programme, 230
Lateral Oscillation of Railway Vehicles, by Dr. R. D. Davies, 261*
Annual Dinner, 377 Investigation of Outer Approacli Channels to Port of Rangoon by Means of Tidal Models, by 0. Elsden, 439
Schemes of Improvement for Cheshire Dee : An Investigation by Means of Model Experiments, by J. Allen, 439
The Singapore Airport, by R. L. Nunn, 546 Forrest Lecture on Soil Mechanics, by Dr. K. von Terzaghi, 566*
Lectures on A.R.P. Work, 625, 645, 687 Experimental Work on Air-Raid cautions, by Dr. R. E. Stradling, See 625
Formation of Railway-Engineering tion, 717
Conversazione and Exhibition, 749 Conference on Engineering Education and Training, 777
Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd., Boilers for Portobello Power Station, 433* ; High-Speed Rotary Displacement Pump, 479*
— Extensometer, 656
Clarkson Thimble-Tube Boilers, M.S. ’‘Dominion Monarch,” 498*
Clay, Bentonite, Properties and Uses of, 679
— Fire. See Firebricks; Refractory Material
— Plants, Wearing Properties of Metals in.
Report, 637
— Soil Mechanics of, 567*
Cleaner, Vacuum, Portable Industrial (Spencer Turbine Co.), 119*
Cleaning Machine, Sewer, Manhattan Borough, New York, 687*
— Plant, Barvoys, for Coal, Wingate Colliery,
639*
Cleco Electric Industries, Ltd., Electric- Battery Vehicle with Aluminium-Alloy Chassis, 742
Clevedon Broadcast Transmitting Station, 752* Cleveland Iron Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— and the Northern Counties, Notes from, 12,
41, 68, 97, 127, 157, 188, 220, 251, 279, 311, 341, 373, 405, 437, 468, 501, 531, 561, 591, 621, 651, 683, 713, 745, 775. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Climate. See Meteorological
Clinch, W. N. C., 37,500-kW Brush-Ljungstrom Turbo-Alternator, 587*, 749
Clough, F. H., Telebrightness Meter, 750
COg. See Carbon Dioxide
Coaches, Railway. See Carnages
Coal, Brown, Bucket-Wheel Excavator for Mining, 63*
— Cleaning Plant, Barvoys, Wingate Colliery
(Colliery Engineering, Ltd.), 639*
— and Coke in Domestic Market, 411
— Coking and Non-Coking, Experiments on
Blending of, 587, 654
— as Fuel for Internal-Combustion Engines,
442, 473. See Erratum, 532
for Warships, 316
— Gas. See Gas
— Handling Plant, Brimsdown Power Station,
614* 673
Plant, Hams Hall Power Station, Operating Results, 313, 316
— Impurities in. Industrial Significance of, 411
— Industry in 1938, Statistics, 441
— Mine. See Colliery
— Pulverised. See Pulverised Coal
— Pulverising Works, Brancepeth, Willington,
755*
— Resources and Gas Industry, 576
— Sampling and Analysis of. Report, 323
Principles and Value of, 662*
and Testing of, 289
— in Ships, Behaviour of, 400
— Swelling, Behaviour in Coke Ovens, 344
— See also Fuel and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cockcroft, Prof. J. D., on Phenomena of Liquid Helium, 677*
Coders, Hot Strip, Ebbw Vale Steel Works. 491*
Coke and Coal in Domestic Market, 411
— Metallurgical, Conservation of Coals for, 587,
654
— Oven Managers’ Association, Dangerous
Swelling Pressures in Carbonisation Practice, by Dr. G. E. Foxwell, 344
— Production and Utilisation of (Review), 494
— Properties, Influence of Carbonising Conditions on, 587, 654
— Research Committee, Midland, Report, 729
Colbeck, E. W., on Nitrogen Additions to High-
Chromium Steels, 726*
Colby, M. R., on Care of Cargo at Sea, 79 Cold-Storage. See Refrigeration
Cole, E. K., Ltd., Air-Raid Shelter Lighting System, 382
Collectors, Grit, in Induced-Draught Fans, Brimsdown Power Station, 616. See Erratum, 757
College. See Education
Collet und Engelhard, Boring Machine with Stepless Gear, 300*
('Olliers, Self-Trimming, Design and Loading of, 400
Colliery Accidents, Causes and Prevention of, 15
— Analysis of Mine Dusts, Report, 113
— Cage Speed Recorder (Everett, Edgcumbe
and Co., Ltd.), 10*
, Colliery Engineering, Ltd., Barvoys Coal- Cleaning Plant, Wingate Colliery, 639*
I — Safety in, Improvements, 225
! in, Royal Commission’s Report, 15
? — Wingate Grange. Durham, Barvoys Coal- Cleaning Plant, 639*
— Winding. See Winding
— See also Mines and Coal
Collimator, Auto- (Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd.), 104
Collis, J., and Sons, Ltd., Oil-Hydraulic 5-ton Lifting Truck, 178*
Collisions. See Accidents
Colombo Port Commissioners, Dry Dock, 549* Colorado River, Boulder-Dam Power Plant, Electrical Features, 34, 145*, 214*, 713
Colourdex Control, Ltd., Colourdex Production- : Control System, 688*
Columbus College of Engineering, Ohio, Report on Wearing Properties of Metals in Clay Plants, 637
Columns, Ferro-Concrete, Fine-Chemical Factory, Beeston, 6*
Colvin, Lieut.-Comdr. 0. D., on Care of Cargo at Sea, 79
Colyer, J. F. H., the Late, 106
Combined Stress. See under Tests {Materials} Combustibles in Manholes in Boston, Massachusetts, Report, 326
Combustion Appliance Makers’ Association (Solid Fuel), Annual Lunch and Conference, 410
— Timing in Compression-Ignition Engines,
Observation of, 79*
— See also Fuel; Gases
Comfort by Gas Heating, 737
— in Travel, 315
Commerce. See Trade. See also Industries and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Commercial Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Motor Cars. See Motor
Commission, Royal. See Royal Commission Commonwealth. See Australia
Companies. See PARAGRAPH ENDEX Comparator. Judd Lewis, Examination of Spectrograms by, 573*
Compass, Electron {H. Hughes and Son, Ltd.). 103
Compound Stress. See Tests {Materials} Compressed-Air Operated Motors, 2|-h.p. to 7j-h.p. (Holman Brothers, Ltd.), 478* Society, British, Annual Dinner, 255 Tools. See Machine Tools
See also Pneumatic
— Gas Cylinders. See Gas
Compression Ratios for Internal-Combustion Engines, 474
Compressor, Air. See Air Compressor
Concrete Blocks for Walls, Precast, Speciflca- tion, 774
— Bomb Deflectors for Air-Raid Protection.
197, 311
— Construction (Review), 475
— Floors, Pneumatic Cores for (Pneumatic
Cores, Ltd.), 571*
— Footings, Under-Reamer for (Cramer and Co.),
84*
Concrete, Ltd., Demonstration of Concrete Deflectors for Air-Raid Protection, 197, 311
— Manual of United States Bureau of Re
clamation (Review), 119
— Mixer, 10/7 Cub. Yd. Trailer (Millar's Machinery Co., Ltd.), 628*
— Motorways of Germany, Construction of, Report, 569
Concrete Piling, Ltd., Cooling Tower for Hackney Power Station, 320
— Reinforced. See Perro-Concrete
— Road Construction, Machinery for. Report, 597
— Slabs, High-Explosive Tests on, 386*. See LETTERS. 751, 781
— Use of Pulverised-Fuel Ash in, 203
— See also Ferro-Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Condenser Service and Engineering Co., Inc.. Condenser with Air Eliminator and Inspection Ports, 291* ; Rupturing Safety Valve, 291* ; Universal Bevel Gear, 292*
— Surface, with Air Eliminator and Inspection
Ports (Condenser Service and Engineering Co., Inc.), 291*
for 37,400-kW Brush-Ljungstrom TurboAlternator, 588*
Hackney l^ower Station, 318*
— — S.S. “ Mauretania,” 770*
for 34,000-kW Steam Turbine, Brims- down Power Station, 670*
— — “Threshold” Treatment for Scale Prevention in, 293
Work of S. Hall on, 91
— See also Electric
Condensing Plant for 30,000-kW Steam ’Furbine, 115*
Conductivity, Thermal, of Liquid Helium, 677*
?— See also Electric
Conduits, Cable, Rapid Jointing System for (Pipe-Joint Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 445
Conference, Combustion Appliance Makers' Association (Solid Fuel), 410
— International, on Large High-Tension Systems, Paris, 656
Congress, International Foundry, London. See Foundry Congress, International, London
— World Automotive-Engineering United States, Programme, 26
Conn, J. F. C., on Marine Propeller-Blade Vibration, 594
Conservation of Coal. See Coal ; Fuel
Construction, Estimatesand Costs (Review), 366 Constructional-Engineering Industry, Position and Prospects, 393
Container Testing at Forest-Products Research Laboratory, 124*
Contorograph, Shaw, for Determining Smoothness of Bores, 203*
Contracts, 12, 40, 68, 96, 126, 156, 188, 220, 250, 278, 310, 340, 372, 404, 436, 468, 500, 530, 560, 590, 620, 650, 682, 712, 774
— Engineering, Conditions of, 107, 139
Control Apparatus, Boiler, Automatic, Hackney Power Station. 318. See Addendum, 341
— Boards, Electrical, Boulder-Dam Power
Plant, 215*
— - Equipment, Electrical, Wards Island Sewage Works, 584*
— - Gear for Compressors (Frankfurter Machinenbau A.-G.), 218*
35-ft. Vertical Boring and Turning Mill, 508*
— System for Loeffler Boilers, Brimsdown Power Station, 616, 672*
Controller, Liquid-Level, Automatic (Londex, Ltd.), 104
— Recorder, Process, Time-Cycle (Negretti and Zambra), 10*
— - Temperature (Mercoid Corporation), 290*
Conveying Plant in Foundries, 495, 511* Great Lakes S.S. ” George F. Rand,”
80,322*
Conveyor Belts, Lacing Machine for (J. H. Fenner and Co., Ltd.), 484*
— Gear for Self-Unloading Bulk-Cargo Vessels,
80,322*
— Idlers, Dust-Proof (Mavor and Coulson,
Ltd.), 539*
— Portable (Bleichert - Transportanlagen
G. m.b.H.), 465*
Cooch A. Son, Power-Driven Potato Sorter, 769* Coode, Wilson, Mitchell and Vaughan-Lee, Dry Dock, Colombo Harbour, 549*
Cook, Dr. M., on Effect of Drawing of Brass Rod, 333
Cooler, Oil, Marine-type (Spiral Tube and Components Co., Ltd.), 275*
Cooling, Air, of Glass-Furnace Tank Blocks, 482
— System for 30,000-kW Electric Generator,
117*
— Towers, Ferro-Concrete, Brimsdown Power Station, 670
Hackney Power Station, 320
Copper Alloys. See Brass; Bronze ; and Alloys under Metallurgy
Copper, Imports and Consumption of, 194
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Refining in Great Britain, 582
— See also Metallurgy
Copying Gauge, Eltas (Bauer Schaurte), 352*
Core Drill, Calyx, for Shaft Sinking (Ingersoll-Rand Co.), 7*
Making Department, Renfrew Foundries, Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 362*
— Pneumatic, for Concrete Floors (Pneumatic Cores, Ltd.), 571*
— Setting in Foundries, 512
Cornell-Dubilier Electric Corporation, Power-
Factor Corrector, 290*
* Coronation Scot,” Express Train, London
Midland and Scottish Railway, 38* Corrosion, Fretting, of Closely-Fitting Surfa(tes,
Investigation on, 281, 293*
- Intercrystalline, of Wrought-Aliiminiuni
Alloys, 332
- Marine, Protection against, 460, 542*
— - of Metals in Aqueous Solutions, Electrode
Potential Behaviour of (Review), 475
— Pitting, of Cast-Iron and Steel Pipes, 787*
— Prevention by Red-Lead Paints, 761* Resistance of High-Chromium Steels containing Nitrogen, 729
— Steam, in High-Temperature Plant, Investigations on, 25, 53*
Cosmic Rays, Investigation of, 534
Cossor, A. C., Ltd., Exhibits at Physical
Society’s Exhibition, 48
Costs and Estimates of Construction (Review), 366
Costain, R.., Ltd., Air-Raid Shelters, 473 Cottrell Building Blocks, Use of Pulverised-Coal
Ash for, 203
Coulomb’s Theorj’ of Earth Pressure, 566* Counter, Road Traffic, Portable Automatic, 477*
Coupling, Flexible, “Deli” (Demag A.-G.), 464*
— Johnson, for Repairs to Gas and Water Mains, 410*
Shaft, Flexible (Lovejoy Flexible Coupling Co.), 121* ®
Court, T. H., Gift of Instruments to Science Museum, 535
Cousin, G. R., Portobello Power Station Extensions, 443*
Crack Detector, Portable Magnetic (Metro- pplitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 406 Cracking of Welded Joints, Investigations on, 635
Craig, R. E., on Portable Automatic Traffic Counter, 477*
Cramb, A. C., on Advertising and Publicity, 773 Cramer and Co., Under-Reamer for Concrete Footings, 84*
Cramp, Prof. W., the Late, 506 Crane-Carrying Trailer (R. A. Dyson Co..
Ltd.), 742*
Electric, 40-ton, with 28-h.p. Alternating- Current Commutator Motor, 205*. See Addendum 250
— Jib, Bent, Structural Design of, 675*
— Mobile, 15-cwt. Electric (Greenwood and Batley, Ltd.), 271*
Overhead, 3-ton, Magnet, on Inclined 758^*^^^' Engineering Co., Ltd.),
Slewing Rollers of, Load Distribution on, 238*
— See also Coal-HaudUng Plant; Gantry :
Hoists ; Transporter
Crankshaft, Marine-Engine, Strength of, 563
— Roller-Bearing, Hirth, 154* CTeep^of^Flanged Bolts, Investigations on, 409,
^^y^st^o^tions, Steel for High-'I'emperature Steam, 25, 53*
— of Lead and its Alloys, 304
^^^^^ctories at High Temperatures, 482
— of Steel at High Temperatures, Researches
on, 346
— See also Tests {Materials)
<^risp, A. E., Emergency Repairs to Gas and I Water Mams, 410*
Critical Speed of Turbine Rotor, 763*
Crocker-Wheeler Electric Manufacturing Co
Polyspeed ” Electric Motor and Regulator, 65*
Croft, C. M., on Installation of Tower Gas Purifiers, 765
Croft, H., the Late, 501
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., llluniinated-Dial Ammeter, 9*; ’ ‘ Thermatrip ” Circuit-Breaker, 404
Cross A. W., on Self-Unloading Bulk-Cargo Vessels, 80; Obituary Notice, 80; on Great Lakes Steamer ” George F. Rand,” 321* ’
Croydon Gas Works, Tests of Static Vertical Retort, 736
Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil
Cruisers. See TParsA/ps
*’’^^^110* Gyratory (Hadfields, Ltd.),
Crystal Analysis, Rontgen-Ray Tube for (Philips Lamps, Ltd.), 103*
Crystalline Structure of Metals. See Metallo- graphy ; Micro-Photographs
Cumberland Mowers, Ltd., Portable Emergency I .. ^27*. See Erratum, 340
Cunard White Star Liner ‘ ‘ Mauretania,” 701*, 738*, 769*
Cupolas, Balanced-Blast, Renfrew Foundries Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 360* — Syphon Brick for, 495, 511*, 534 <’urd Nube Maschinenfabrik, Die-Sinking Machine, 352*
Current, Electric. See Electric
Curson, T., on Gauging in Machine-Tool Manu- facture, 112*. See 101, 111
Cuthbertson, J. W., on Elastic Properties of Anti-Friction Alloys, 305
Cutters, Milling. See Milling under J/acAmg Tools
~ ^768*^ (Harrison, McGregor and Co., Ltd.), Chitting Machine, Multi-Burner Oxygen Hancock and Co. (Engineers), Ltd., ib7* ’
T^^xygen, ^^iWersal, Hancock and Co (Engineers), Ltd., 178*
— Oxy-Acetylene Flame, and Flame Machining,
Cycle Industry, Position and Pros[>ect», 74, 87
— Motor. See Motor Cycle
Cylinder, Gas. See Gas
Wear in Internal-Combustion Engines, 163, 169*
Cylindrical Grinding Machine. See Gri-ndiriff Machine under Machine Tools

DADSON, R. S., on Noise from Motor Vehicles, 440
“Daily Mail” Ideal-Home Exhibition, Earl’s Court, 442
Dam, Boulder, Electric Power Transmission from, 84
— —- Power Plant, Electrical Features of, 145*
214*, 713
— Carron Reservoir, 664
— Design of (Review), 626
— Failure Due to Piping, 567*
— Gorge, Hong Kong, 134
— Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 329*, 391*
— for Soil Conservation, 239*
Damper, Torsional Vibration, for Oil Engines (Aktiebolaget Atlas Diesel), 558*
Dangerous Machinery and Claims for Damages, 641
Daniels, T. H. and J., Ltd., 50-75 ton Hydraulic Plastics-Moulding Press, 179*
Darwin’s, Ltd., Model of Hudd System of Automatic Train Control, 49
Davidson and Co., Ltd., Grit Collectors in Induced-Draught Fans, Brimsdown Power Station, 616. See Erratum, 757
Davies, Dr. R. D., on Lateral Oscillation of Railway Vehicles, 261*
Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd., Rolling- Mill Plant, Ebbw Vale Steelworks, 490*. See LETTER, 556 ; Four-High Cold Steel- Strip Mill, 781* ; 12,000-ton Forging Press, 781* ; 15,000-ton Bending Press, 781* de Berlhe, A. B., the Late, 719
De Croes, J., on Gas Industry in Belgium, 696
De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., Albatross Long-Distance Monoplane, 89*
De .Tuhasz, Prof. K. J., Pencil Indicator for Diesel Engines, 645*. See Erralutn, 712
Decauville Railcars, Haiphong-Yunnan Fu Railway, 731*
Dee Estuary, Tidal-Model Experiments, 439
Defence, Civil, Research Committee, Appointment of, 591
— and Electricity Supply, 45
— National, and Engineers, 99, 154, 471, 565,
717. See LETTER, 8
— — and Road Transport, 101
Work of Federation of British Industries, 505
Deflectors, Concrete, for Air-Raid Protection, 197, 311
Deli Flexible Coupling, 464*
Deloro Smelting and Refining Co., Ltd., StelliUd Shear Blades, 174*. See Addendum, 625
Delray Power Station, High-Temperature Steam Plant, Experiences with, 25, 53*
Demag A.-G., ‘ ‘ Deli ” Flexible Coupling, 464* ; 15-h.p. Diesel-Engined Locomotive, 465*
Dennis, Sir R., the Late, 621
Denny, J. .1., on Prevention of Silicosis bv Aluminium, 732
Denny, W., A Brothers, Ltd., Stoker-Fired Channel Steamer for Southern Railway. 285*; Cross-Channel M.S. “Royal Daffodil,” 655
Deny^ versus Lewis, Decision on, 641
Design Charts for Timber Beams, 651
Desoutter Brothers, Ltd., Portable Pneumatic Nibbier, 273*
Destroyers. See }Yarships
Detonation-Detecting Instrument for Internal- Combustion Engines (Mullard Wireless Service Co., Ltd.), 48
Detroit Edison Co., High-Temperature Steam Plant, Experiences with. 25, 53* ; Experiments on Use of Fly Ash, 203
Deutsche Lufthansa, Dornier Do 26 Transatlantic Flying Boat, 619*
Devereux, W. C., on Light-Alloy Ship Construction, 483. See 459
Diagrams, Indicator. See Indicator
— Metal-Price. See Metal-Price Diagrams Diamonds for Turning and Boring Tools,
Mounting of, 418*
Diaphragm of Gorge Dam, Hong Kong, 134
Die-Casting Plant, Mt. Vernon Die Casting Corporation, 527*
— Sinking Machine (Curd Nube Maschinen-
fabrik.), 352*
Diesel Engine Users’ Association, Annual Dinner, 161
See Engines, Oil, Diesel; Marine Propulsion
Digging Machine. See Excavator
Direction Finding, Radiotelegraphic. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX
Disc-Grinding Machine. See Grinding Machine under Machine Tools
— Rotating, Stresses in, under Elastic Condi
tions, Determination of, 241*
Disputes, Trade. See Labour
Ditch-Cleaning Machines, Cost of Operation 72 Divining Rod, Use of, 744
“ Dixie,” Excursion Steamer, Design of, 79 Dock, Dry, Colombo Harbour, 549*
— and Harbour Construction, Society of. Year
Book (Review), 4
Dome, Limiting Span of, 224
Domestic Electricity Supply in Liverpool, 720 778
— Gas Appliances, Improvements in, 576
— Heating, Electricity Supply for, 678, 778 by Gas, 737
— Open Fireplaces, Aerodynamics of, 375 Dominion Machinery Co., Ltd., Combined
Fret-Saw and Moulder, 179* ; Direct Motor-Driven Band Saw, 179* ; Chisel Mortiser, 180*
“ Dominion Monarch ” M. S., Shaw, Savill and Albion Co., Ltd., 185*, 433*, 496*
Donaldson, Capt. J. M., Brinwdown Power Station Extensions, 014*, 069*. See 653. See Errata, 712, 757
Donnan, Prof. (4. F., on Work of Dr. L. Mond. 345
Dorej^ Dr. S. E., on Strength of Marine-Engine Shafting, 503
Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., Welded Gear-Wheel Blanks, 541*; Otto Beit Suspension Bridge, Rhodesia, 625
Dornier-Werke G.m.b.H., Dornier Do 26 Transatlantic Flying Boat, 019*
Dorr Settling Tanks, Wards Island Sewage Works, 519*. See LETTER, 040
Dorz^e, P., on Gas Industry in Belgium, 090 Double-Helical Gears. See Gears
- Reduction Gears, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
Dowsing, Mystery of, 744
Doxford, W., and Sons, Ltd., 8,000-b.h.p. Five- Cylinder Oil Engines, M.S. “ Dominion Monarch,” 185, 433, 496*
Drainage of Agricultural Land, Equipment for, 71
— Land, and Soil Conservation, 239*
— and Water Supply in Hyderabad City, 501 Drawings for Engineering Contracts, 107
— Machines, Adjustable Head for (Mavitta
Drafting Machines, Ltd.), 275*
Drill, Calyx Core, for Shaft Sinking (Ingersoll- Rand Co.), 7*
— and Drilling Machines. See Machine Tools Drums, Boiler, Arc-Welding Machine for
(Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 28*
— for Loeffler Boilers, Brimsdown Power Station, 616*
— for imbricating Oils, Specification, 22
— Welded, Repeated-Stress Tests, 602, 637* Dry Dock. See Dock
Dryland, A., on Resistance of Coucjrete to High Explosives, 781. See 386*. See LETTER,751
Duddell Medal, Award to R. W. Paul, 377
Duddridge, G. K., on Effect of Drawing of Brass Rod, 333
Dumper, 3-cub. yd. (Chaseside Engineering Co., Ltd.), 184*
— 2i-cub. yd. 20-h.p. Diesel-Engined (Mar
shall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 599* Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., Toggle-Operated Rubber-Moulding Press, 658*
Duralumin, Intercrystalline Corrosion of, 332 Durham, Team-Valley Estate, Progress of, 44 Durville Rotary Process Applied to Casting of Steel, 586
J)ust, Coal. See Pulverised Coal
— Extractor for Grinding and Polishing Machines, IL II. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd., 289*
Dutch. See Holland
Dynamic.s of Flying. See Aeronautics
Dynamos. See Generators, Electric; Turbo- Generators
Dyson, Sir F., the Late, 645
Dyson, R. A., and Co., Ltd., Trailer for Carrying Cranes and Excavators, 742*
Power-Station Extensions, 433*. See _ 477
Edison Swan Electric Co., Ltd., Exhibition of
Electric Lamps, 502, 712

Education :

Architects’ Registration Council, Scholarships, 310
Board of Education Courses for Engineering Teachers in Technical Schools, 197
Borough Polytechnic, London, Summer Courses on Noise, its Measurement and Elimination, 469
Cambridge University, Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 557 '
Chinese Engineering Apprentices, Federation of British Industries’ Scholarship Scheme, 131
City and Guilds (Engineering) College Engineering Society, Vacation Apprenticeship Scheme, 17 ; Annual Dinner. 365
Education of Coal Utilisation Engineers, 410
Electrical Engineers, Institution of, Duddell, Ferranti, Swan and Thompson Scholarship, 286 ; Graduateship Examination, Change of Name to Associate Membership Examination, 744 Engineering Education and Training, Conference on, 777
History in Education, 593. See LETTER 646 ’
Imperial College of Science and Technology? Lectures on Soil Mechanics, 404
King’s College, London, Lectures on Highway-Bridge Practice in Great Britain, 197
Manchester Municipal College of Technology, Scholarships and Exhibitions, 500
Marine Engineers, Institute of, Lloyd’s Register Scholarship, 286
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Studentship Examination, 306
Structural Engineers, Institution of. Graduate and Associate-Membership Examinations, 197
Training and Education Schemes of Cadbury Brothers, Ltd., 485 — for Works Management, 503, 726 University College, London, Engineering Society, Annual Dinner, 315 — Training of Engineers, 777 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Edwards, Prof. C. A., on Strain Age-Hardening of Mild Steel, 585
Edwards, F. J,, Ltd., 73-in. Geared Undercrank Guillotine Shears, 185*
Efficiency of Boiler Plants. See Boiler Plants
— of Engines. See Engines
Effluents, Milk-Factory,' Treatment of, 748 Egan, A. L., on Reduction of Dynamic Stresses in Winding Ropes, 23*

Electric :

Accumulators and Batteries, Trade in, 196 — Post Office, 30-kW Mobile Charging Set for, 647*
Alarm, 'Three-Step, for Temperature and Pressure (Negretti and Zanibra), 10 Alternating-Current Circuits (Review), 524 Power Transmission, Future of, 33*, 117*, 227*. See LETTERS, 781 Rectification of (Review), 164 Alternator. See Generator and Turbo Ammeter, Illuminated-Dial (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 9* Arc Furnaces. See Furnace, Electric — Welding. See Welding Battery Vehicle. See Motor-Vehicle — See Accumvlator (above) Booster Current, Function of, in Ultra- Long Distance Power-Transmission Lines, 217*
British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, Annual Report 185 ; Annual Luncheon, 193 and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Report, 466
? 1 Development Association, Annual
Luncheon, 345
Busbars, 23-kV, Boulder Dam Power Plant, 214*
Cables, Armouring Machine for (Sleeper
and Hartley, Inc.), 231*
Jointing System for (lipe-Joint Manufacturing Co., Ltd ) 445
— Emergency Repair of, 773
— “11(1 Flexible Cords, Specification, 485 (.athode Rays. See Cathode Central Electricity Board, Proposed New Dower Stations, 345 ; Annual Report, 408; Lydney Substation Circuit Breakers, 709* ; Attitude Towards Electricity-Supply Undertakings, 751 « J Schemes for New Selected Stations, 779
~ Stations. See Power Stations
Circuits, Electric Power, Theory and Applications (Review), 366
Condenser, Micrometer (H. W. Sullivan, ijtci.), 103*
Dond^uc^tors, Gaseous Electrical (Review),
— Steel-Cored Copper, for Overhead transmission. Specification, 682 Cranes. See Cranes
Current, Booster, Function of in Ultra- Long Distance Power-Transmission Lines, 217*
Dynamo. See Cenerador; Turbo-Gene- rator
Electrical Apparatus Physical .Society’s Exhibition, 8*, 48*. 102*
~ ^tion'^lBo'* Accessories, Specifica-
~ ”Kew)°’764^'‘’°"°’’‘’“ of
^194^**^^"’ Prospects, 147,
~ Machinery and Apparatus, Terminal Markings for. Pamphlet on, 368 Exports, 147, 194 of, and Asso- wu f l^oblems (Review), 476 ® Statistics for
tudH, 17 ; Return of Engineering and Financial Statistics, 412 ; Report on Failure of Supply of Electricity at Kingston-on-Thames, 596, See 73 • Report on Electricity Breakdown at Blackpool, 596; Statistics of Fuel Con- Units Generated, 716 Technical (Review) 426 Electrode Potential Behaviour of Corrod- (Revimv),^475‘" Solutions
“Xts^o’f 705“'*®'^ Non-Coated,
Eurnaces. See jPurnffces
Galvanometer, Einthoven String (Cam-
— Co., Ltd.),%* meut c£ LtdT8^^‘‘“'’"‘*^®
Tinsley and Co.) Ge'Slr^ SKdtians
generator. See Gcweiotor and Tuzfco
Electric—continvied.
Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
Lamps, Discharge, Development and Production of Glasses for, 684
— Electric, Historical Exhibition of, 502, 712
— Incandescent, Trade in, 196
— for Railway Signalling, SpeciBcation, 530 Leakage Indicator (Everett, Edgcumbe
and Co., Ltd.), 10
Lighting Installation, Electric-Discharge Lamp (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 389*
— Set, Portable Emergency, Petrol- Driven (Cumberland Mowers, Ltd.), 327*. See Erratum, 340
— System for Air-Raid Shelters, 382 Lightning Arresters, Boulder-Dam Power Plant, 215*
Locomotives. See Locomotives, Electric Machines. See Generators ; Motors ; Turbo Mains. See Cables (above)
Metadyne, and its Application to Electric Traction, 354*
Meter, Frequency, Deflectional (Nalder Brothers and Thompson, Ltd.), 104
— and Instruments, Trade in, 196 Micrometer, Hot-Wire, for Aerodynamic
Balance, 463*
Motors. See Motors, Electric
Murray Loop Tests, Set for (Evershed and Vignoles. Ltd.), 48*
Oil Switch. See Switchgear.
Oscillographs, Cathode-Ray, at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 48
— Record of Circuit-Breaker Test, 339* Power-Factor Corrector (Cornell-Dubilier Electric Corporation), 290*
— Stations. See Power Stations
— See Power
Pyrometer. See Pyrometer Railways. See Railways Rays. See Cathode; Rontgen Rectification of Alternating Current (Review), 164
Rectifiers, Mercury-Arc, Mount Pilatus Railway, 579*
— 1,000-kW Pumpless Air-Cooled (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 208*
Belay, Dry-Contact (British Thermostat Co., Ltd.), 184*
Resistance-Temperature Curves of Iron and Steel, Discontinuities in, 674*
— Welding. See yielding Rdntgen Rays. See RGntgen Short-Circuit Testing Authorities, Association of. Formation, 687
Starters, Motor. See Motors, Electric Steel Manufacture. See Furnace, Electric Storage Battery. See Accumulator {above) Street Railways. See Tramivays Substation. See Substation Switchgear. See Switchgear; Motors, Electric
Tariffs for Electricity Supply, Construction ! of, 472 I
Telegraphy. See Telegraphy I
Telephony. See Telephony
Testing Equipment, 1,600-Volt Direct- I Current (Ferranti, Ltd.), 9 '
Thermocouple, Quick-Immersion, for Steelworks, 545, 556 I
Thermometer. See Thermometer '
Thermo-Regulator for Temperature Control, 48
Traction. See Locomotives, Electric; Trol~ ' ley 'Bus ; Railways; Tramways
Tramways. See Tramways Transformers. See Transformers Turbo-Generators. See Turbo-Generators Voltage Regulator, Automatic (Ward Leonard Electric Co.), 290*
(Londex, Ltd.), 104
— Spontaneous Fluctuation of (Review), 551
Welding. See Welding
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
— Telephony. See Telephony Wiring Regulations and Registration, Statutory, National Committee on. Report, 377
X-Rays. See Rbntgen Rays See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Electric Furnace Co., Ltd., 15-cwt. Steel- Melting Arc Furnace, 359*
Electrical Engineers, Institution of :
Thermal Power Plants for Peak-Load and Emergency Service, by H. S. Hvistendahl, 43
Annual Dinner, 194
Duddell, Ferranti, Swan, and Thompson Scholarships, 286
Design and Operation of Hams Hall Power Station, by F. W. Lawton, 316. See 313.
Metadyne and its Application to Electric Traction, by G. H. Fletcher and A. Tustin, 354*
State Tariff Regulation : Recent German Legislation Compared with British ’ Tendencies, by J. W. Beauchamp and R. Kaufmann, 472
Kelvin Lecture on Cosmic Rays, by Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, 534
Retirement of Secretary, P. F. Rowell, 682 Overseas Members* Conversazione, Institution Recollections, (History of Institution), by LI. B. Atkinson, 719 Graduateship Examination, Change of Name to Associate-Membership Examination, 744
Wireless Section:
Radio in Aviation: A General Survey with Special Reference to the Royal Air Force, by N. F. S. Hecht, 537 Electricians, Supervising, National Association of. See Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of
Electricity Commissioners. See under Electric Electro-Chemical and Electro-Metallurgical Industries, Electricity Costs in and Production, 521, 581, 642, 747
Production and Imports, 522, 581
Electrolysis of Sodium Sulphate, 174
Electrolytic Corrosion. See Corrosion
Electron Compass (H. Hughes and Son, Ltd.), 103
— Microscope, Field-Emission (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 656
— and Nuclear Physics (Review), 4
— Pencil, 750
Electronics, Fundamental, and Vacuum Tubes (Review), 704
Elevators for Foundry Sand, 495, 512
— Self-Propelling, Diesel-Engined (Bieichert-Transportanlagen G.m.b.H.), 465*
Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd., Exhibits at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 11 ; Combined COg and Oxygen Meter, 11* ; Direct-Reading Humidity Meter, 759*
Ellmore and McKeehan, Magnetic Iron Powder Patterns, 596*
Elsden, 0., Tidal-Model Experiments on Rangoon River, 439
Eltas Copying Gauge, 352*
Embankments, Stability of, 567*
Embrittlement of Tin at Elevated Temperatures, 332
Emerson, A., on Effect of Shape of Bow on Ship Resistance, 431
Emery Wheels. See Oiinding under Machine Tools
Empire State Building, New York, Wind- Pressure Investigations on, 191
Employees. See Labour
Employment. See Labour
Endurance Tests. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials}
Energy Balance Sheet of Internal-Combustion Engine, 347, 388*, 448*. See Erratum, 411
Engines, Aero. See Aeronautics
— Atmospheric, at New River Head, 259
— Diesel. See Engines, Oil, Diesel; Marine
Fropulsion ; Motorships
— Fire. See Fire Engines
— Gas, Energy Balance Sheet for, 347, 388*,
448*. See Erratum, 411
Fuels for, 442, 473. See Erratum, 532
See also Producer; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Indicators. See Indicators
— Internal-Combustion, Coal as Fuel for, 442,
473. See Erratum, 532
Combustion, Cylinder Wear in, 163, 169* Combustion, Detonation-Detecting and Measuring Instrument for, 48
Combustion, Energy Balance Sheet for, 347, 388*, 448*. See Erratum, 411
Combustion, Forces and Stresses in (Review), 397
Combustion. See also Turbines, Oas
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Car. See Engines, Petrol
— OU, Atomiser for (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.),
64*
Cylinder Wear in, 163, 169*
Delay Period in, Influence of Injection Timing on, 552*
Diesel (Review), 426
Diesel, Crankless (Sterling Engine Co.), 420*
Diesel, Ignition Quality of Fuels for, 1* Diesel, Marine, Energy Balance Sheet for, 347, 449*
Diesel, Marine, 160-h.p. Four-Cylinder, Non-Magnetic, R.R.S. “Research,” 412*
Diesel, 900-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder, M.S. “Dominion Monarch,” 499*
Diesel, Marine, 650-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder, M.S. “ Vecta,” 402*
Diesel, 6-h.p. Single-Cylinder (J. Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd.), 769*
Diesel, 20-h.p. Single-Cylinder (Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 450*
Diesel, Pencil Indicator for, 645*. See Erratum, 712
Diesel. See also Motorships; Marine Propulsion; Diesel Engine Users' Association
High-Speed, 80-b.h.p. Four-Cylinder (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 165*
Marine, 8,000-b.h.p. Five-Cylinder Dox- ford, M.S. “Dominion Monarch,” 185, 433, 496*
Marine, Reversing Gear for (L. Gardner and Sons, Ltd.), 634*
Marine, Strength of Shafting of, 563
Marine, 4,500-b.h.p. Twelve-Cylinder Sulzer-Type, M.S. “ Royal Daffodil,” 655
Observation of Combustion Timing in, 79*
for Peak-Load and Emergency Service, 43 Torsional-Vibration Damper for (Aktie- bolaget Atlas Diesel), 558*
See also Tractors and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Petrol, Aeroplane. See Aeronautics
Cylinder Wear in, 163, 169*
High-Speed, Piston-Ring Blow-By on, Investigation of, 693*, 723*
Industrial, Single-Cylinder (Bradby’s Engineering Works, Ltd.), 786*
Marine, for High-Speed Craft, 37, 82
Marine, 800-b.h.p. Twelve-Cylinder (Vlm- alert Co., Ltd.), 565*
Marine, 400-b.h.p. Twelve-Cylinder (Vim- alert Co., Ltd.), 565*
Motor-Car, Self-Adjusting Valve Tappets (Self-Adjusting Valve Tappets, Ltd.), 445*
5-h.p. Single-Cylinder (J. Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd.), 768*
Tractor, Manufacture of (D. Brown Tractors, Ltd.), 51*
See also Aeronautics ; Motor Cars
— Steam, Marine, Strength of Shafting of,
563
Marine. See also Marine Propulsion; Turbines, Short History of (Review), 256
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Engineers-in-Charge, Institution of, Annual Dinner, 504
— Civilian and Military, Co-operation between, 154. See 99, 471, 565, 717. See LETTER, 8
— Education. See Education
— Employment in Wartime, 8, 99, 154, 471, 565, 717
— Great (Review), 674
— Guild, Annual Meeting, 713
— Institutions. See Institutions
Engineer-in-Charge, and the National Defence Programme, 99, 154, 471, 565, 717. See LETTER, 8
— Openings for, in Royal Navy, 193, 717
— Professional, and Ministry of Labour’s Central Register, 471. See 99, 154, 565, 717. See LETTER, 8
— Resident, and Local Government Superannuation, Decision on, 659
— and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of,
Grant of Arms to, 536* ; Marine Propeller- Blade Vibration, by J. F. C. Conn, 594 ; Statistical and Experimental Investigations on ‘ ‘ Singing ” Propeller Problem, by Drs. J. F. Shannon and R.N. Arnold, 594
— Young, and Military Training, 565. See 99,
154, 471, 717. See LETTER, 8
Engineering and Allied Industries, Position and Prospects, 18, 45, 74, 87,132,147,194, 212, 269, 302, 347, 378, 393. See LETTER, 368
— Apprentices. See Education
— Centenaries in 1939, 17
— Chemical, Welding in, 705*
See also Chemical
— Contracts. See Contracts ; Legal
— Education. See Education
— Industry, Census of Production Statistics,
623
— Laboratories. See Laboratories; National
Physical
— Public-Relations Committee, Annual Report,
505
— Societies. See Instihdions
— Standards Institution. See Standards
Institution^ British
— Works. See Works
England, W. J., on Incidentals of Railway Electrification Schemes, 564
— and Wales, Commissioner for Special Areas
Report, 44
English Electric Co., Ltd., Air-Break Switch, 245*; 10,000-h.p. Turbo-Generators,
Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 392; 650-h.p. Six-Cylinder Diesel Engine, M.S. “Vecta,” 402*; 30,000-kW Turbo-Alternator, 435*
English Steel Corporation, Ltd., Heavy Ingot Mould, 605*
Erhardt und Sehmer, High-Speed Cold-Rolling Mill, 464*
Ericsson, J., Work on Screw Propulsion, 507 Ericsson Telephones, Ltd., Beeston Factory, Colourdex Production-Control System, 688* Erosion, Soil, in the United States of America, 31*, 85*, 239*
Erren, R. A., on New Injection System for Gas Engines, 473. See Erratum, 532
Escher, H., on Steam Engineering at Port Kembla Steelworks, 554
Escher Wyss Engineering Works, Ltd., Aerodynamic Testing of Hydraulic Turbines, 94* ; Turbo-Compressor with Finned- Tube Intercooler, 308*
Estimates and Costs of Construction (Review), 366
Estuaries, Tidal, Model Experiments on, 439 Ether, Ltd., Surface-Contact Pyrometer, 246* Europe and America, Gas Industry in Comparisons, 696
European Railways, Electrification on, 634 Evacuation and Business Organisations, 535 Everett, Edgcumbe <fe Co., Ltd., Colliery-Cage Speed Recorder, 10* ; Synclock Electric Motor, 10 ; Leakage Indicator, 10
Evers, G. V., on Tests and Specifications for Refractories, 482
Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., Set for Murray Loop Tests, 48* ; Paint-Testing Apparatus, 48* Ewing, Sir J. A., Work on Magnetism, 595* Excavation, Bock, for Underground Mill, Big Missouri Mine, British Columbia, 149*
Excavator, Bucket-Wheel, for Brown-Coal Mining (Liibecker Maschinenbau-Gesell- schaft), 63*
— Carrying^Trailerfor (R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd.),
742*
— Loading Shovel, i-cub. yd. Mobile (R. H.
Neal and Co., Ltd.), 210*
Exhibition, British Industries Fair, Birmingham, 175*, 207*, 243*, 271*, 484*, 485*
— Engineering, Institution of Civil Engineers’
Conversazione, 749
— History of Electric Lighting, 502, 712
— Ideal Home, Earl’s Court, 442
— of Inventions, 216
— Leipzig Fair, Engineering Exhibits, 300*,
351*, 363*, 427*, 464*. See Erratum, 569
— Machine-Tool, Olympia, 1940, Cancellation
of, 774
— New York, Power and Mechanical Engineer
ing, 65*, 119*, 290*. See Addendum, 276 York World’s Fair, British Exhibit of Glass and Scientific Instruments, 368
— Road and Town Planning, 282
— Royal Agricultural Show, Windsor, 767*
— Scientific Apparatus, Physical Society’s, 8,
48*, 102*
Apparatus, Royal Society Conversazione, I 656
— Swiss National, Zurich, 626
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Experimental Tank. See Tank ; Ship Models ; Ship Resistance
Explosions, Bomb, Effect on Engineering Works and Structures, 50, 216*, 288
— Colliery. See Accidents and Colliery
— in Oil Tanks, Prevention of, 376
Export Trade. See Trade ; and Industries in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Extensometer, Clarke, 656
— for Creep-Relaxation Testing Apparatus,482*
— Dial-Gauge Type (T. Mercer), 104* Extrusion of Aluminium Alloys, Behaviour
During, 333

FACTORY ACCIDENTS. See Accidents
— Accounts. See Costs ; Management
— Air-Conditioning in, Researches on, 690*
— Fine-Chemical, Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd.,
Beeston, 5*
Factory Heater, J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd., 179* Coke (Eagle Range and Grate Co., Ltd,), 280
Gas- and Coke-Fired (Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd.), 210*
Steam or Hot-Water (Spiral Tube and Components Co., Ltd.), 274*
— Heating Stove (Tangyes, Ltd.), 82*
— Lighting Installation, with Gas-Discharge
Lamps, 389*
System for Air-Raid Precautions, 620
— Management. See Works Management
— Planning of, 131
Fair. See Exhibition
Famo-Werke G.m.b.H., 42-h.p. Diesel-Engined Tractor, 465*. See Erratum, 569
Fan, Electrically-Driven, Wind-Tunnel Equipment, Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., 423*
— Forced and Induced-Draught, Brimsdown
Power Station, 616*. See Erratum, 757
— Ventilating, Engine-Room, S.S. “ Mauretania,” 771*
Fareso, J., Rotary Pump, 293*
Farming Conference, Oxford, Modern Drainage and Ditching Equipment, by S. J. Wright and J. H. Blackaby, 71
— See also- Agriculture ; Tractors
Fatigue, Industrial. See under Labour
— in Steel Plates with Riveted or Welded
Joints, 430, 451*, 513*
— in Welded Joints, Investigations on, 602*,
635*
— Tests of Metals. See also Fatigue under
Tests {Materials)
Federation of British Industries, Scholarship Scheme for Chinese Engineering Apprentices, 131 ; Industrial Delegation to Germany, 315 ; Presidential Address, by P. F. Bennett, on Work of Federation, 505 ; Views on Ministry of Supply Bill, 749 Feed-Heating System, High-Pressure Plant, Brimsdown Power Station, 670*
— Pumps. See Pumps
— Water Regulator and Alarm, Thermo-
Electric (Laidlaw, Drew and Co., Ltd.), 657* Treatment, Principles of, 320 Treatment, Chemistry Applied to, 289 See also Water
Fenner, J. H., and Co., Ltd., Lacing Machine for Conveyor Belts, 484*
Ferguson, Pailin, Ltd., Developments in Switchgear Design by, 337*, 401*
— Tractor Manufacture, D. Brown Tractors,
Ltd., 51*
Ferranti, Ltd., Low-Range Light Tester, 9* ; 1,500-Volt Direct-Current Testing Equipment, 9
Ferro-Alloys, Production and Imports, 522
— Concrete Building for Fine-Chemical Manu
facture, Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., 5* Cooling Towers, Brimsdown Power Station, 670
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Flat, 3,000-volt Direct-Current Electric Train, 629*
Fibre-Board Containers, Testing of, 124*
— Cores for Colliery Winding Ropes, Report, 233
Fiegehen, E. G., on Load Distribution upon Crane Slewing Rollers, 238* ; on Structural Design of Bent Crane Jib, 675*
Field, E. W., on Ball and Roller Bearings for Machine Tools, 138*. See 101, 111
Fieldner, A. C., on Sampling and Analysis of Coal, 323
Film Cooling Towers (1925), Ltd., Cooling Towers, Brimsdown Power Station, 670
Filters, Air, Wards Island Sewage Works, New York, 457*
— Oil (W. W. Nugent and Co.), 122*
Findlay, W. P. K., on Decay of Timber, 266 Finlayson, T. C., on Tests of Static Vertical Retort, 736
Finsbury Borough Council, Proposed Deep Air- Raid Shelter, 504
Fire at Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, 73, 596
— Pump, Trailer, 120-Gall. per Min. (Siegmund
Pumps (Great Britain), Ltd.), 453*
— Station, Fine-Chemical Factory, Boots
Pure Drug Co., Ltd., 6*
Firebricks, Tests and Specifications for, 482
— See also Rejractoip Materials
Fireplaces, Open, Domestic, Aerodynamics of, 375
Firth, T., and J. Brown, Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 210 ; Researches on Steel at High Temperatures, 346; Drums for Loeffler Boiler, 616*
Firth-Vickers Stainless Steels, Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 210
Fisher, S. H., on Acceleration of Railway Services, 16
Fitzmaurice, R., on Floors for Industrial Purposes, 135
Flame Cutting and Flame Machining Practice, 53 Flanges, Pipe, Research Committee, Second Report, 409, 418*, 479*
Flannery, Baggallay and Johnson, 50-ft. Sectional Motor Lighter, 143*
Flats, Toolmakers’, Draft Specification, 20
Fleet. See Warships
Fleisher, W. L., on Researches of American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, 690*
Fleming, R., on Associated Press Building, Rockefeller Centre, New York, 350*. See Erratum, 499
Fletcher, G. H., on the Metadyne, and its Application to Electric Traction, 354* Flight. See Aeronautics
Floodlight, Aerodrome, 4-kW Mobile (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 208*
Floors, Concrete, Pneumatic Cores for (Pneumatic Cores, Ltd.), 571*
— for Industrial Purposes, 135
Flow through Nests of Tubes, Models for Studying, 487*
— Stream and Channel (Hydraulic Graphs and Tables) (Review), 524
Flue-Gas, Utilisation of Carbon-Dioxide in, 323
— Pipes, Asbestos-Cement, Specification, 774 Fluid Flow through Nests of Tubes, 487*
— Friction. See Ship Resistance
Fluid Mechanics for Hydraulic Engineers (Review), 283
Flume, Experimental, St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, Minneapolis, 610* Fluorspar in Basic Open-Hearth Furnace, Influence of, 556
Fly Ash, Uses for, 203
Flying Boats. See under Aeronautics Food Investigation Board, Work of, 254 Footings, Concrete, Under-Reamer for (Cramer and Co.), 84*
Ford, Henry, Award of Watt Medal to, 717
Forest-Products Research Board, Kiln-Drying Schedules, 83 ; Container Testing, 124* ; Report on Decay of Timber and its Prevention, 266
Forging of Aluminium Alloys, Observations on,332
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools Foster Instrument Co., Ltd., Photo-Electric High-Speed Recording Pyrometer, 8*
Fouling of Ships, Protection against, 460, 542* Foundations and Soil Mechanics, 566* Foundry Congress, International, London: Programme, 45, 591; Inaugural Proceedings, 750 ; Presidential Address, by W. B. Lake, on History of Steel Castings, 756. See 750 : Edward Williams Lecture on the Atomic Pattern of Metals, by Prof. W. L. Bragg, 788. See 751 ; Cutting Tools for Cast Iron, by H. H. Beeny, 789. See 780 ; Pitting Corrosion of Steel and Cast- Iron Pipes, by Dr. L. Olsansky, 787*. See 780
— Iron and Steel, Renfrew, Babcock and Wilcox,
Ltd., 359*
— Production, Economic, Problem of, 495,
511*, 534
— Work. See also Die Casting
— See also Castings ; Moulding Fourdrinier Newsprint Machine, 265* Fowke, W. H., on Producer-Gas Road Vehicle,
442
Fowler, J., and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 5-h.p., SingleCylinder Petrol Engine, 768* ; 6-h.p.,
Single-Cylinder Diesel Engine, 769*
Fox, J., on Choice of Fuels and Kilns in Ceramic Industries, 524*
Foxwell, Dr. G. E., on Dangerous Swelling Pressures in Carbonisation Practice, 344
France, Electricity Supply Tariffs in, 472
— Gas Industry in, 697
— History of Steel Casting in, 756
— Windmills in the Nord, 355
— See also French
Frankfurter Maschinenbau A.-G. Air-Compressor Control Gear, 218*
Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, Strip Levellers, Flying Shears and Skin-Pass Milis, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 492*. See LETTER,556
Fraser-Smith, E. W. F., the Late, 478. See 505 Freeman, R., Otto Beit Suspension Bridge, Rhodesia, 625
French Railway Electrification, 634
— See also France
Frictional Resistance of Ships. See Ship Resistance
Froude Laboratory, Experiments on Effect of Shape of Ship’s Bow, 431 ; Model Experiments on Twin-Screw Propulsion, 431 Fuel for Agricultural Tractors, Consumption of, 349
— for Ceramic Industries, 524
— Consumption and Units Generated, British
Power Stations, 716
— Diesel, Ignition Quality of, Investigations
on, 1*
— Institute of, Anthracite Duff for Steam Generation, by E. B. Johnson, 232* ; Dangerous Swelling Pressures in Carbonisation Practice, by Dr. G. E. Foxwell, 344 ; Aerodynamics of Domestic Open Fires, by Prof. P. O. Rosin, 375 ; Factors Influencing the Choice of Fuels and Kilns in Ceramic Industries, by J. Fox, 524 ; Experiments on Blending of Coals, by Dr. J. G. King, 654. See 587 ; Fundamental Principles and Value of Fuel Testing, by A. S. Bean and J. Brown, 662*
— Liquid. See also Oil Fuel
— Motor. See also Gas ; Producer
— Oil. See Oil Fuel
— Pump. See Pump
— Research Station, Greenwich, Trials with
Anthracite Duff at, 232 ; Experiments on Swelling Pressures from Coal, 344; Experiments on Blending of Coals, 664. See 587
— Solid, for Internal-Combustion Engines, 442, 473. See Erratum, 532
— Testing, Principles and Value of, 662* Station, United States, Method of Sampling Coal at, 232
— Using Installations, Evaluation of Perfor
mance of, 411
— See also Coal; Oil; Gas ; Pulverised Coal Fuller Electrical and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.,
100-h.p. Variable-Speed Electric Motor, 423*
Fuller and McClintock, Wards Island Sewage Works, New York, 455*, 519*, 583*. See LETTER, 646
Funk, Dr. F., the Late, 93
Furnace, Blast, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 490* Refractory Materials for. Report, 575,5612
— Boiler. See Stoker
— Crucible, Laboratory (Sales Gas and Engineer
ing Co., Ltd.), 247*
— Electric (R. M. Catterson-Smith), 102 Arc, 3-ton and 15-cwt. Steel-Melting,
Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 359*
for Determination of Carbon in Steel,199* Resistance (0. Junker), 466*
for Steel Castings, History of, 756
— Gas-Fired, Bright-Annealing (Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd.), 210*
— Open-Hearth, Basic, Influence of Fluospar in, 556
Hearth, Refractory Materials for. Report. 575, 612
— Rotary, Pulverised-Fuel Fired, for Steel Castings, 756
— Salt-Bath (Selas Gas and Engineering Co. Ltd.), 247* ,
Furnace. See also Coke Ovens ; Cupolas
Fuse and Plug Boxes, Portable, Specification, 682
Fusion Welding. See Welding

GALVANOMETERS. See Electric
Gantry, Inclined, with 3-Ton Overhead Magnet Crane, 758*
— See also Crane
Ganz and Co., Diesel-Engined Trains for Argentine State Railways, 601*
Garcke, S., on Comfort in Road Travel, 315 Gardner, L., and Sons, Ltd., Marine-Motor Reversing Gear, 634*
Garner, R. P., on Nitrogen Additions to High- Chromium Steels, 726*
Gas Appliances, Domestic, Improvements in, 576
— Carbon Dioxide. See Carbon Dioxide
— Company, Bristol, Distribution and Sales
Organisation of, 737
— Compressed, Cylinders for, 474, 475. See
Erratum, 532
— Compressor, Rotary, or Vacuum Pump, for
Corrosive Gases (Nash Engineering Co.), 447*
— Dangerous, in Petroleum and Allied Industries, Symposium on, 376
— Domestic Heating by, 737
— Engine. ^QQEngine^ Oas
— Engineers, Institution of, Summer Meeting,
London : Programme, 650 ; Gas Industry Overseas, by M. Brabant, J. de Croes, P. Dorz6e, A. Belien, G. W. Allen, M. L. Stoss, Dr. F. Schuster, P. Hijdelaar, C. Rampone, J. Irminger, G. H. Hultman, W. Tobler and C. Paige, 696 ; Presidential Address, by R. Robertson, on Work of Institution, 717 ; Murdoch Memorial Lecture on History of Gas Industry, by Dr. E. F. Armstrong, 718 ; Test Installation of Static Vertical Retorts at Croydon Gas Works, by W. Grogono and T. C. Finlayson, 736; Formation of Gas Research Board, 736 ; Distribution and Sales Organisation, by N. S. Smith, 737 ; Non-Ferrous Metals and Gas Industry, by Dr. H. Moore and E. A. G. Liddiard, 737 ; Comfort by Gas Heating, by L. W. Andrew and A, Barron, 737 ; Installation of Tower Gas Purifiers, by C. M. Croft, 765 ; By-Product Ammonia, by P. Parrish, 766
— Examination of (Review), 704
— Fired Furnaces. See Furnaces
— as Fuel for Road Vehicles, 442, 473. See Erratum, 532
— and Gas Works. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Industry and Coal Resources, 576 in Europe and America, 696
in Great Britain, Report on (Review), 524 History of, 718
Non-Ferrous Metals in, 737
— Inflammable, in Manholes, Tests, 326
Gas Light and Coke Co., Gas-Fired Sand Bath, 247* ; Laboratory Crucible Furnace, 247*
— Mains in Bristol, System of, 737 Emergency Repairs to, 410*
— Manufacture and Distribution, Progress in,
576
— Producer. See Producer
— Research Board, Formation of, 736
— Retorts and Chambers, Standard Test Code
for, 109
— Town, for Internal-Combustion Engines, 473 Need for Removal of Sulphur from, 737 Thyssen-Lenze Tower Purifiers for
Wandsworth Gas Works, 765
— Toxic, in Industry, Detection of, 711
— Turbine. See Turbine
— Welding. See Welding
— Works, Blending of Coals for, 654 and By-Product Ammonia, 766
Croydon, Tests of Static Vertical Retort, 736
— See also Carbon Dioxide ; Hydrogen ; Ni
trogen ; Oxygen, etc.
Gaseous Electrical Conductors (Review), 257
— Explosions. See Accidents and Colliery Gasoline. See Engine, Petrol; Aeronautics Gate, Box, Flap-Type, Dry Dock at Colombo,
549*
— Surge-Chamber, Lochaber Water-Power
Scheme, 391*
Gatineau Power Co., 34,000-h.p. Hydraulic Turbine, 367
Gauge, Chattock, with Optical Projector, for Wind Tunnel, 424*
— Copying, Eltas (Bauer and Schaurte), 352*
— Pressure, Compound (D. Harcourt, Ltd.), 275
— Tester, Deadweight (G. Salter and Co., Ltd.), 274*
Gauging in Machine-Tool Manufacture, 101, 111, 112*
Gear, Bevel, Universal (Condenser Service and Engineering Co., Inc.), 292*
— Blanks, Castings for, Specification, 127
— Cutting Machines. See Machine Tools
— Precision, for Machine Tools, Production of, 101, 111, 137
— Reduction, Double-Helical, for 5,000-kW
Steam Turbine (D. Brown and Sons (Hudd.), Ltd.), 538*
— Reversing. See Reversing Gear
— Rolling-Mill Pinions, Rapid Production of (D. Brown and Sons (Hudd.), Ltd.), 152
— Speed-Increasing (F. Krupp A.-G.), 464*
— Teeth, Involute Helicoidal, Profiles of
Cutters or Abrasive Wheels for, 297*
— Unit, Double-Helical, for Cement Mill (Turbine Gears, Ltd.), 307*
— Wheel Blanks, Welded (Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd.), 541*
Geared Turbines, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
Gearing, Reduction, Double-Helical, “Mauretania,” 769
— Toothed, Calculations for (Review), 59 Gebbie, Sir F. St. J., the Late, 381
250,000-kVA Switchgear- Unit, Portable Aerodrome Floodlight, Electrical Equipment, Penrhyn
30,000-kW, 317*
Hams Hall
Results, 316 10,000-h.p.,
Scheme, 392 800-kW, S.S. “Mauretania,” 741*, 771* for Portable Emergency Lighting Set (Normand Electrical Co., Ltd.), 327*. See Erratum, 340
30,000-kW, - • • •’ “ 436*
37,500-kW, 749
30,000-kW, 115*
See also Txirbo-Oenerators Geology for Engineers (Review), 426 Geometry, Advanced Analytic (Review), 89
— Applied Descriptive (Review), 89 Geophysics, Applied, in Search for Minerals
(Review), 476
“George F. Rand,” Great Lakes S.S., Conveyor Unloading Gear in, 80 ; version to Self-Unloading, 321*
German Aeronautical-Research Papers view), 627
— Motor Roads, Concrete, Construction of.
Report, 569
Germany, Electricity Supply Tariffs in, 472
— Failure of Welded Bridges in, 258
— Federation of British Industries Delegation
to, 315, 606
— Gas Industry in, 697
— History of Steel Casting in, 756
Gibb, Sir A,, and Partners, Tidal-Model Experiments, Rangoon River, 439
Gibbons Brothers, Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 274
Gibbons, F., on Gas Engines for Marine Purposes, 473. See Erratum, 532
Gilman, F. (B.S.T.), Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 209
Girder Bridges, Callender-Hamilton Unit- j Construction, Erection of, 734*
— See also Beams ; Floors
Girdlestone <fe Co., Portable Petrol-Driven Pumping Set, 181* ; Motor-Driven Centrifugal Pump, 181* ; Motor-Driven Diaphragm Pump, 181*
” G.K.N. Ledloy ” Lead-Bearing Steels, 381
Glass Containers, Resistance to Thermal Shocks, 201
— for Discharge Lamps, Development and Production of, 684
— Furnace Tank Blocks, Air Cooling of, 482
— Molten, Eliminating Iron by Chlorides, 166
— and Scientific Instruments, British Exhibit
at New York World’s Fair, 368
— Seed, Boil and Blisters in, 201
— Sheet, Effect of Annealing in Sulphur
Dioxide, 165
— Soda-Lime-Silica, Influence of Basicity on
Colour of, 165
— Technology, Society of, Possibility of
Eliminating Iron from Molten Soda-Lime- Silica Glass by Action of Chlorides, by
H. M. Bateson and Prof. W. E. S. Turner, 165; Effect of Annealing in Sulphur Dioxide on Modulus of Rupture of Sneet Glass, by J. Beow and Prof. W. E. S. Turner, 165 ; Influence of Basicity on Colour of Soda-Lime-Silica Glasses Containing Iron Oxide or Manganese Oxide, by M. Manners, A. J. Holland and Prof. W. E. S. Turner, 165 ; Variation with Temperature Range of Resistance of Glass Containers to Thermal Shock, by D. Robertson, 201 ; Seed in Glass Melted In Tank Furnaces, by J. B. Murgatroyd, 201 ; Application of Specifications and Tests to Refractory Materials, by G. V. Evers, 482 ; Air Cooling of Tank Blocks, by Dr. W. M. Hampton, 482; Creep of Refractory Materials at High Temperatures and its Bearing on Performance of Glass House ' Pots, by Dr. J. H. Partridge, 482 ; Funda- j mental Principles of Producer Control, i by J. G. Bennett, 545 ; Development of I Special Glasses for Mercury and Sodium Discharge Lamps, by J. E. Stanworth, 684; Factory Production of Special Glasses for Discharge Lamps, by J. E. Stanworth and P. Station, 684
— Works, Greenford, Experiments on Wellman
Gas Producer, 546
Glauert Vortex Theory of Screw Propellers, 765 Gleeson, M. J., Ltd., Viaduct on Western Avenue, 255
Glendenning, Major S. E., on Employment of Engineers in War, 8. See 99,154,471, 565, 717
Glendinning, P. B., on Design and Construction of Carron Keservoir, 664
Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd., 52-In. and 36-in. Rotary Hydraulic Valves, 370* ; Valves for Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 391* ; Dowsing, 744
Godbert, A. L., on Analysis of Mine Dusts, 118 Gold and Silver Plant, Big Missouri Mine, British Columbia, 149*
Golden Arrow ’* Stoping Drill, 39
Goldie, Dr, A. H. R., on Rainfall in Scotland, 664
Goldstein Vortex Theory of Screw Propellers, 765
Goodall, Sir S. V., on H.M.S. “Ark Royal,” 386*. See 398
Gordon, J., and Co., Ltd., Carbon-DIoxide Recorder, 211*
Gorge Dam, Hong Kong, 134
Gough, Dr. H. J., on Fretting Corrosion of Closely-Fitting Surfaces, 293*. See 281
Gould, H. B., Electrical Equipment, Penrhyn Slate Quarry, 356*
Gourley, H. J. F., on Gorge Dam, Hong Kong, 134
Government Railways. See Railways
Governor Gear for 30,000-kW Steam Turbine, 58* 19,000-kW Turbo-Generator, Brimsdown Power Station, 669*
Grand Central Station, New York, 36-in. Borehole, 7*
Granite and Whinstone Federation, British, High-Explosive Tests on Concrete Slabs, 386*. See LETTERS, 751, 781
Graphical Chart Construction, Manual of, 441 Grates. See Stoker
Graving Dock. See Dock
Gray Lecture on High-Speed Craft and their Machinery, 37, 82
Great Britain, Gas Industry In, Report on (Review), 524
History of Steel Castings, in, 756
Location of Industry in, Report, 715
in Recovery (Review), 164
— Engineers (Review), 674
— Lakes Cargo Vessels, Self-Unloading Gear for, 80
S.S. “George F. Rand,” Conversion to Self-Unloading, 321*
— Western Railway, Report on Proposed
Electrification of Taunton to Penzance Line, 625
Greek Destroyers ” King George I ” and
“ Queen Olga,” 220
Greenford Glass Works, Experiments on Wellman Gas Producer, 545
Greenwich Fuel Research Station, Trials with Anthracite Duff at, 232 ; Experiments on Swelling Pressures from Coal, 344 ; Experiments on Blending of Coals, 654. See 587
— National Maritime Museum, Annual Report 72 ’
— Royal Naval College, Investigations on
Fatigue in Riveted and Welded Joints 430, 451*, 513*
Observatory, Annual Report, 779
Greenwood and Batley, Ltd., 24-ft. Portable Radial Planing Machine, 76* ; 15-cwt Electric Mobile Crane, 271*; Petrol- Operated Industrial Truck, 272*
Greenwood, Prof. J. N., on Creep of Lead, 304 Griffin and Tatlock, Ltd., Press for Metallurgical Specimen-Mounting, 48*
Griggs, A. R., on Dry Air Blast in Portable Gas Producers, 442
Grinder, Swing-Beater, for Disintegrating Soft Materials (Christy <fe Norris, Ltd.), 176*
Grinding Machines. See Machine Tools
Grit Arresters, Hams Hall Power Station, Experience with, 313
— Chambers, Wards Island Sewage Works New York, 456* *
— Collectors in Induced-Draught Fans, Brimsdown Power Station, 616. See Erratxim,
Grodzinski, P., on Mounting Diamonds for Tools, 418*
Grogan, J. D., on Intercrystalline Corrosion of Aluminium Alloys, 332
Grogono, W., on Tests of Static Vertical Retort,
Grove Regulator Co., Pressure-Loaded Reducing Valve, 367*
Groyne, Coastal, Scheveningen, Holland, Use of Asphaltic Bitumen on, 306
Grubb, ^r H., Parsons and Co., Solar Telescope 334* Observatory, 267*,
Guaqui-La Paz Railway, Bolivia, 330-b.h.p Diesel Locomotive, 324*. See Addendum,
Guards, Safety, for Machine Tools, 574* (B.E.N. Patents,
Gutteridge, H., on Birth of a Factory, 131

HACKNEY Power Station Extensions, 317* See Addendum, 341
Hadfield, Sir R., Exhibits at Royal Society’s Conversazione, 656 ; Heat and Corrosion- ResisUng Steel, Exhibits at Institution of TT Engineers’ Conversazione, 749
Hadfields, ^d., 12|-in. Gyratory Crusher, 110* Hahn und Kolb, Copying Lathe, 353*
Hahne, Dr. W. H. E., on Care of Cargo at Sea,
?'? ^’atigue in Riveted and
Welded Joints, 451*, 513*. See 430 Haiphong-Yunnan Fu Railway, 731* ^^* 655^ Science and Agriculture, 596,
Hall, S., Inventions of, 91
Hamer, P. on Principles of Feed-Water Treat- mGUv, 04^0
HamUton^Unit-Construction Bridges. Erection
Hammersmith Bridge, Damage to, Report, 530
Hampton, Dr. W. M., on Air Cooling of Tank Blocks, 482
Hams Hall Power Station, Design and Operation of, 313,316
Han^ck and Co. (Engineers), Ltd., Multi-Burner Oxygen Cutting Machine, 107* : Universal Oxygen Cutting Machine, 178*
Handling Plant, Ash, for Loeffler Boilers, Brims- down Power Station, 616*
Coal, Brimsdown Power Station, 614* 673 in Foundries, 495, 511*
Hanovia, Ltd., Ultra-Violet Irradiation Water Steriliser, 726
Harbour, Colombo, Dry Dock, 549*
— and Dock Construction, Society of. Yearbook (Review), 4
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Harcourt, D., Ltd., Compound Pressure Gauge, 27 5
Hardening Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Hargreaves, R., on Vapour Pressure of Zinc in Brasses, 331
Harland Engineering Co., Ltd., Electric Motors for Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 490
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Royal Fleet Auxiliary Tanker "Cairndale,” 410; Building of Umon-Castle Liners, 505 ; Oil-Fuel Installation, S.S. " Llandovery Castle,” 681*
Harley, S. J., on Forming of Screw Threads by Grinding, 171*. See 101, 112
Harrison, M., and Co., Ltd., Trailer for Carrying Cranes and Excavators, 742*
Harrison, McGregor and Co., Ltd., Tractor Binder 767* ; Thistle Cutter, 768*
-Hartex Maschinen- und Werkzeug-Fabrik Internal Grinding Machine, 351* ’
Hartley, Sir H., on Coal Resources and Gas Industry, 576
Harvey, G. A., and Co. (London), Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 275
Hasenclever Maschinenfabrik, A.-G., Electric ' Forging Machine, 365*
Hasselt, Belgium, Collapse of All-Welded I Bridge, Investigation of, 258*, 395*
— Breach of Albert Canal Near, 779 I
Hatfleld, Dr. W. H., on Research in Iron and : Steel Industry, 131; on Researches in I Steel Metallurgy, 346 ; on Methods of Hardening Metals, 656
Haulage Gear, 80-h.p. Electric, Penrhyn Slate Quarry, 356*
10-h,p. Endless-Rope (Carron Co.), 178*
Haworth, Dr. H. F., the Late, 745
Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Ltd., Launch of H M Cruiser "Naiad,” 198; Trials of H.M Flotilla-Leader "Jervis,” 591
Haynes, G. P., on New Fuel-Oil Burner, 80
Head, Wrightson and Co., Ltd., Scrap-Balling Machine, 604* ®
Health, Ministry of. Booklet on Precautions against Air-Raid Risks In Hospitals, 76 • Memorandum on Safe Administration of Water Undertakings, 161; New Water- Supply Bill, 473 ; Memorandum to Local Authorities on British Coastal Shipping, 565 ; Decision on Resident Engineers and Local Government Superannuation, 659 Heat-Balance Calculations for Marine Steam Plants,-80
of Kilns in Ceramic Industries, 525*
— Engines. See Engines; Turbines; Aeronautics
— Exchanger for 100-h.p. Jendrassik Combustion Turbine, 186*
— Loss from Hot Pipe In Air, 60*
— Treatment of Metals. See Metallurgy Heaters, Air, S.S. "Mauretania,” 738*
— Coke, for Factories (Eagle Range and Grate Co., Ltd.), 280
— for Factories (J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd.) 179* Gas- and Coke-Fired (Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd.), 210*
Steam or Hot-Water (Spiral Tube <fe Components Co., Ltd.), 274*
(Tangyes, Ltd.), 82*
— Feed-Water. See Feed Heater
— Rivet, Electric, Double-Deck- (American Car and Foundry Co.), 121*
— Ufflt (Spiral Tube and Components Co., Ltd.),
Workshop, Coke-Fired (Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd.), 210*
Workshop, Gas-Fired (Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd.), 210*
Hearing, Domestic, Electricity Supply for, 678,
by Gas, 737
— and^Power Plants, Pipe Work for (Review),
— and Pumping Unit, Oil-Fuel Installation,
S.S. "Llandovery Castle,” 681*
— and Ventilating Engineers, Institution of
New Headquarters, 45; Researches of American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, by W. L. FJeisher, 690* System, Fine-Chemical Factory, Beeston 6* ” ’
Hecht, H. K. S., on Radio in Aviation, 537 Heinemann, Gebr., Repetition Lathe, 302* Helical Gears. See Gears
Helium, Liquid, Phenomena of, 677* Heller, Gebr., Radial Drilling Machine with Stepless Gear, 300*
Hematite Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Henderson, Admiral Sir R. G. H., the Late 557 Henderson, J., Award of Be.^semer Medal to, 554 Hendre, North, Railway Accident, Report 547 Herbert, A., Ltd., Drilling and Threading Machines, 135* ; L.M.V. Live Centre for Tailstocks, 259*; Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 274; Electric Disc Grinding Machine, 769*
” Hermione,” H.M. Cruiser, Launch of, 621 Herschel, Sir W., Preservation of House of, 224 Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, Researches on, 346 ; Report on, 544, 555
Hewson, G. W., on Chemical Engineering in Steam Generation, 289
Hick, Hargreaves and Co., Ltd., Surface Condenser for Hackney Power Station, 318*
Higgs Motors, Ltd., Three-Phase Variable- Speed Commutator Motor, 286* ; Electrical Motors for Beer-Rousing Equipment, 357*
High-Temperature Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Highland Railway, History of (Review), 425
, •* • y 111 ±1 VrilOXl\X V C/ < Hllger, A., Ltd., Automatic Spectrograph, 104*.
See 199*, 572*, 605* ; Optical Parts for Spectrograph, 267*, 334*
Hill, C. T., Pendulum-Suspension Railway Bogie, 517*
Hilmor, Ltd., Portable Hydraulic Pipe-Bender, 180*
Hirshfeld, Dr. C. F., the Late, 536
Hirth, Dr. A., Built-Up Roller-Bearing Crankshaft, 154*
History of British Railways Down to 1830 (Review), 89
— of Cement, 757
— of Electric Lighting, Exhibition, 502, 712
— in Engineering Education, Place of, 593.
See LETTER, 646
— of Gas Industry, 718
— of Gas Turbine, 247*, 256
— of Highland Railway (Review), 425
— of Post-Office Engineering Department, 692
— of Ribble Navigation from Preston to the
Sea (Review), 397
— of Screw Propulsion, 505, 507
— Short, of Steam Engine (Review), 256
— of Steel Castings, 756 H.M.SS. See under Warships
Hodge, R. E., on Kiln-Drying Schedules, 83 Hodgson, G. H., High-Explosive Tests of
Concrete Slabs, 386*. See LETTERS, 751, 781 Holst, Electric, 90-h.p. Alternating-Current
Commutator Motor for, 205*. See Adden- dum^ 250
— See also Cranes ; Transporters Holes, Fitting of Shafts in. See Gatiging Holland, A. J., on Influence of Basicity on
Colour of Glasses, 165
— Gas Industry in, 697
— Scheveningen, Coastal Groyne, Use of
Asphaltic Bitumen in, 306
Holman Brothers, Ltd., Automatically-Rotated Stoping Drill, 39 ; Air-Operated Portable Grinding Wheel, 69 ; Three-Drum Scraper Loading Plant, 81* ; Air-Operated Hand Drill, 413* ; 2^ to 7i-h.p. Compressed-Air Motors, 478*
Holmes, W. C., and Co., Ltd., Thyssen-Lenze Tower Gas l?uriflers, 765
Holzwarth Gas Turbines, 248*
Home Office, Circular on Distribution of Air- Raid Shelters, 255 ; Pamphlet on Factory Accidents, 421
Homer, Dr. C. E., on Embrittlement of Tin at Elevated Temperatures, 332
Hong Kong, Gorge Dam, 134
Honours’ List, New Year’s, 17 ; King’s Birthday, 716
Hope’s Heating and Lighting, Ltd., Mechanical Stoker for Cylindrical Furnaces, 177* Hopkinsons, Ltd., Valves and Boiler Mountings, Hackney Power Station, 341. See 317 ; Boiler Fittings for Loeffler Boilers, 616*
Hoppers, Sand, for Foundries, 495, 512* ” Hornet ” Portable Electric Drill, 577 Horse Power, Effective, of Ships, Determination of, 458
Hospitals, Air-Raid Precautions for, 76 Howden, J., and Co. (Land), Ltd., Forced and Induced-Draught Fans for Loeffler Boiler, 616*. See Erratum, 7^7
Hoyois Washer for Coal-Cleaning Plant, Wingate Colliery, 640*
Hoyt Metal Co. of Great Britain, Ltd., Expanding Anchor Bolts, 667*
Hudd System of Automatic Train Control, Model of (Darwin’s, Ltd.), 49
Huddersfield Works, D. Brown Tractors, Ltd., 51*
Hughes, Dr. G., on Model Experiments on Twin-Screw Propulsion, 431 !
Hughes, H., A Son, Ltd., Electron Compass, 103 Hultman, G. H., on Gas Industry In Sweden, 698 Humidistat, Teddington H.S. (British Thermostat Co., Ltd.), 245*
Humidity Meter, Direct-Reading (Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd.), 759*
Hungarian Institute of Technology, Royal, Tests of 100-h.p. Jendrassik Combustion Turbine, 186*
Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd., 330-h.p. Diesel Locomotive, 324*. See Addendum, 413
Hutton, Prof. R. S., on Electro-Metallurgical and Electro-Chemical Industries, 521, 581, 642. See 747
Huwood Mining Machinery, Ltd., Factory- Lighting Installation, 389*
Hvistendahl, H. S., on Thermal Power Plants for Peak-Load and Emergency Service, 43 Hyderabad City, Water Supply and Drainage in, 561
Hydraulic Engineers, Fluid Mechanics for (Review), 283
— Laboratory, St, Anthony Falls, Minneapolis, 609*
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Power Plant. See Power Plant Press. See Press under Machine Tools
— Pumps. See Pump
— Structures Research, International Association for, Report, 787
Turbines. See Turbines ; Pelton Wheels ; Power Plant
— See also Hydrodynamics ; Irrigation ; Water Hydro-Aeroplane. See Seaplane under Aeronautics
Electric Power Plant. See Power Plant Hydrodynamics. See Ship Resistance Hydrogen as Fuel for Internal-Combustion Engines, 474
— Sulphide Removal from Gas by Tower Purifiers, 765

ICE. See Refrigeration
Ideal House Exhibition, “ Daily Mail,” Earl’s Court, 442
Idlers, Conveyor, Dust Proof (Mavor and Coulson, Ltd.), 539*
I. G. Farbenindustrie, A.G., Investigations on Temperature-Indicating Paints, 617
Ignition Quality of Diesel Fuels, Investigations on, 1*
Igranic Electric Co., Ltd., Starter for Squirrel- Cage Motors, 49*; Electrically-Heated Soldering Iron, 49
Illumination Section, Science Museum, South Kensington, 377
— See also Light; Lighting and Lamps under i
Electric
Illuminator, Monochromatic (Bellingham and Stanley, Ltd.), 104*
Impact Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 272
— College of Science and Technology, Lectures
on Soil Mechanics, 404
Import Duties Act Inquiry, 1936, and Census of Production, Report, 623
— Trade. See Trade
Impulse Turbines. See Turbines
Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd., Bright-Annealing Gas-Fired Furnace, 210*
— Lamps. See Lamps under Electric
India, Baroda, Irrigation Work in, 204 ; Water Supply in, 437
— Hyderabad City, Water Supply and Drainage in, 561
— Lloyd Barrage, Economic Results of, 162.
See Erratum, 197
— Rubber. See Rubber
— Shimsa Hydro-Electric Scheme, 36-in.
Rotary Hydraulic Valve, 370*
— United Kingdom Trade in, Conditions and Prospects, 160
Indian Trade, March-September, 1938. Survey,
of, 266 . V,
Indicator Diagrams, Gas and Oil Engines, 347, 388*, 448*
— for Internal-Combustion Engines, 750
— Lhpud-Level (Rochester Manufacturing Co.),
— Mechanical, Optical and Electrical (Review), 426
— Pencil, for Diesel Engines, 645*. See Erratum, 712
— Water-Level, Vitkovice Magnetic Type, for Loeffler Boilers, 616*
Indo-China, Haiphong-Yunnan Fu Railway, 731*
Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Chemistry. See Chemistry
— Development and Research, 253
— Fatigue. See Labour
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Management. See Works Management
— Notes. See Labour Notes under Labour
— Research. See Research
— Unrest. See Labour
Industries, British, Federation of. See Federation
— Location in Great Britain, Report, 715
— See also Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Ingersoll-Rand Co., Calyx Core Drill for Shaft Sinking, 7*
Inglis, Prof. C. E., on Vertical Path of Wheel on Railway Track, 200
Ingot Mould, Heavy (Brightside Foundrv and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 605*
— Steel, Heterogeneity of. Researches on, 346 ;
Report on, 544, 565
Injection Systems for Gas Engines, 474
— Timing in Oil Engine, Influence on Delay Period, 562*
Inland Navigation. See Rivers, etc,
— Water Survey Committee, Annual Report, 538
Inspection Ports for Surface Condenser (Condenser Service and Engineering Co., Inc.), 291*
Institute of Transport. See Transport
— See Institutions
Institution, British Standards. See Standards
— Royal. See Royal Institution
— Technical and Scientific. See Aeronautical Society, Royal; Agricultural Society, Royal; Architects, British, Royal Institrde of; Arts, Royal Society of; Automobile Engineers, Institution of ; British Association ; British Chemical-Plant Manufacturers' Association; British Engineers’ Association; British Iron and Steel Federation ; Chemical Engineers, Institulion of ; Chemistry, Institute of; Civil Engineers, American Society of; Civil Engineers, Institution of; Coke-Oven Managers* Association; Combustion Appliance Makers’ Association {Solid Fuel); Diesel Engine Users' Association; East Ham Oil and Colour Students' Association ; Electrical Engineers, Institution of; En- gineers-in-Charge, Institution of ; Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of ; Fuel, Institute of; Qas Engineers, Institution of; Glass Technology, Society of; Heating and Ventilating Engineers, Institution of; Iron and Steel Institute ; Junior Institution of Engineers ; Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of; Liverpool Engineering Society: Machine- Tool Trades Association (see under Machine Tools); Manchester Association of Engineers ; Marine Engineers, Institute of; Mechanical Engineers, American Society of ; Mechanical Engineers, Institution of; Metals, Institute of; Mining Engineers, Institution of; Mining and Metallurgy, Canadian Institution of; Mining and Metalhirgy, Institution of; Municipal Electrical Association, Incorporated ; Nar>al Architects, Institutio^i of ; Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of; Newcomen Society ; North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders; Patentees, Institute of; Petroleum, Insti- . tute of; Physical Society; Royal Institu- I tion; Royal Society; Royal Statistical ' Society ; Short-Circuit Testing Authorities, Association of; Steel Construction, American Institute of; Structural Engineers, Institution of; Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of ; Technical Institutions, Association of; Technical Institutions, Association of Principals of ; Transport, Institute of; TUcrfer Engineers, Institution of; Works Management Association
Instruments, Scientific, Gifts to Science Museum, 535
and Glass, British Exhibit at New York World’s Fair, 368
— See also Aeronautics ; Apparatus ; Electric Intensifier, Steam-Hydraulic, for 12,000-ton
Forging Press (Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd.), 781*
Intercooler, Finned-Tube, for Turbo-Compressor, 308*
Internal-Combustion Engines. See Aeronautics ; Engines; Motor Cars; Motor Boats; Tractors; Turbine, Qas
— Grinder. See Qrinder under Machine Tools International Association for Hydraulic Structures Research, Report, 787
International Combustion, Ltd., Boilers for East Perth Power Station, 105*
— Conference on Large High-Tension Systems, Paris, 656
— Foundry Congress, London. See Foundry
Congress, International, London
— Tin Research and Development Council,
Pamphlet on Soldering of Lead Pipes and Sheet Metals, 666
— Trade. See Trade
Inventions, Exhibition of, 216
— See also Patents
Irminger, J., on Gas Industry in Norway, 697
Iron Alloys. See Metallurgy and Steel
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Discontinuities in Resistance-Temperature
Curves of, 574*
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Heat Treatment. See Metallurgy
— Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast ; Metallurgy
— Ore. See Ore
— Pig, National Reserve of, 275. See 254 Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
— and Steel Industrial Research Council,
Report on Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, 544,555 ; Report on Refractory Materials for Steelworks and Blast Furnaces, 575, 612; Report on Alloy-Steels Research, 613, 663
Industry and Armaments Programme, 254. See LETTER, 276
Industry, Position and Prospects, 18 Industry, Research in, 131

Iron and Steel Institute :

Spring Meeting, London :
Programme, 381
Report of Council 554
Honorary Treasurer’s Report, 554 Bessemer Medal, Award to J. Henderson, 554
Carnegie Medals and Williams Prize, 554 Annual Dinner, 587
Reports of Discussions, 554, 585, 612 Carnegie Scholarship Award, 613
Ablett Prize Paper on “ Ten Years’ Development in Steam Engineering at Port Kembla Steelworks, N.S.W., Australia,” by H. Escher, 554
Eighth Report on Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, 544. See 555
Refining of Metal in Basic Open-Hearth Furnace. The Influence of Fluorspar on the Process, by W. B. Lawrie, 556
Study of Strain Age-Hardening of Mild Steel, by Prin. C. A. Edwards, H. N. Jones and B. Walters, 585
Strain-Ageing of Dead-Mild Steel Strip Used in Pressing of Automobile Bodies and Accessories, by Dr. J. W. Rodgers and H. A. Wainwright, * 585
Application of Spectrograph to Quantitative Analysis of Ferrous and Non- Ferrous Metals,-by F. G. Barker, 572*, 605*. See 586 and 104*, 199* 385
Application of Durville Rotary Process to Casting of Steel, by Dr. L. Northcott, * 586
Rolling of Sections at Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co., Ltd., by W. T. Wilson, * 587
Influence of Carbonising Conditions on Coke Properties : Part II.—The Effect of Pressure, Temperature, Rate of Heating and ” Soaking,” on Coke Strength, by H. E. Blayden, W. Noble and Prof. H. L. Riley, 687. See 654
First Report on Refractory Materials:— Steelworks Refractories and Blast- Furnace Refractories, 575. See 612
Second Report of Alloy-Steels Research Committee, 663. See 613
Discontinuities in Resistance-Temperature Curves of Commerclally-Pure Iron and Steel, by Drs. C. Sykes and F. W. Jones, 574*
Nickel-Iron-Aluminium Permanent-Magnet Alloys, by Dr. W. Betteridge, 632*
Effect of Nitrogen Additions and Heat Treatment on Properties of High- Chromium Steels, by E. W. Colbeck and R. P. Garner, 726*
Iron and Steel Works. See Works See also PARAGRAPH INPEX
— Tests. See Tests (Materials)
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Cast Iron; Steel; Pig Iron; Metallurgy
Ironwork, Structural. See Bridges; Floors ; Columns ; Boojs ; Steel; Structures
Irrigation, Indian, Economic Results of Lloyd Barrage, 162. See Erratum, 197
— Work in Baroda, India, 204
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Irwin, D. A., on Prevention of Silicosis by Aluminium, 732
Italian State Railway, 3,000-Volt Direct- Current Electric Train, 629*
Italy, Gas Industry in, 697
Ivor Power Specialty Co., Ltd., Electrically- Operated Soot Blower, 275*

JACKS, W., and CO., LTD., and National Pig-Iron Reserve, 275. See 254
Jackson, F., on Electricity in Relation to Public Services, 535
Jackson, H. S., the Late, 97
Jackson, J. S., on Applications of Asphaltic - Bitumen, 306
Japp, Sir H., the Late, 445*
Jendrassik, G., 100-h.p. Combustion Turbine, 186*
“ Jervis,” H.M. Flotilla-Leader, Trials of, 591 Jessen, T., Electrically-Operated Siren for I Large Ships, 25* I
Jessop, C. H., Fine-Chemical Factory, Beeston, 5*
Jib Bent for Crane, Structural Design of, 675* Johnson Coupling for Repairs to Gas and Water Mains, 410*
Johnson, E. B., on Anthracite Duff for Steam Generation, 232*
Johnston, J. <fe J., Portobello Power Station Extensions, 433*
Joint, Expansion, Pipe Line, Lochaber Water- Power Scheme, 392*
— Flanged, for Pipes, Investigations on, 409,
418*, 479*
— Pipe, for High-Temperature Steam, Experi
ences with, 26
Ring-Type Victaulic (Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd.), 183*
Swivelling (Barco Manufacturing Co.), 122*
— Riveted, Fatigue in. Investigations on, 430,
451*, 513*
— Welded, in Structural Steel, Fatigue in, 430,
451*, 515*
Jones, E. H. (Machine Tools), Ltd., Multi-Slide Automatic Forming Machine, 168* ; Dust Extractor for Grinding and Polishing Machines, 289* ; Coiled-Strip Feed Gear for Stamping Presses, 547*
Jones, Dr. F. W., on Resistance-Temperature > Curves of Iron and Steel, 574* t
Jones, H. N., on Strain Age-Hardening of Mild Steel, 585
Journals, See Bearings
J. P. Engineering Co., Ltd., Lawn Mower with Removable Cutter Unit, 184*
udd Lewis Comparator, Examination of Spectrograms by, 573*
Jugoslavian Destroyer “ Beograd,” 69
Junior Institution of Engineers, Annual Dinner, 255
Junkers’ Flugaeug-und Motorenwerke A.-G., Sheet-Metal Stretching Presses, 526*
Junker, 0., Electric-Resistance Furnace, 466*

KAUFMANN, R., on Electricity Supply Tariffs, 472
Kaye, Dr. G. W. C., on Noise from Motor Vehicles, 440
Kelvin Lecture on Cosmic Rays, 534
Kennedy, Sir A. M., the Late, 64
Kennedy, J. M., on A.R.P. in Relation to Electricity-Supply U ndertakings, 773. See 778
Kent, G., Ltd., Specific-Gravity Recorder for Liquids, 103* ; Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 271; ” Torrent ” Water Meter, 785*
” Khartoum,” H.M. Destroyer, Launch of, 156 Kieserling und Albrecht, Bolt-Head Forging Machine, 365*
Kilns for Burning Parker’s ” Roman ” Cement, 758
— Drying Schedules for Timber, Pamphlet on, 8^3
— Practice in Ceramic Industries, 524*
King’s Birthday Honours List, 716
— College, London, Lectures on Highway-Bridge Practice in Great Britain, 197
— Cross Underground Station, Reconstruction, 749
King, Dr. J. G,, on Experiments on Blending of Coals, 654. See 587
"King George I,” Greek Destroyer, 220
"King George V,” H.M. Battleship, Launch of, 257*
Kingston-on-Thames Power Station, Fire at, 73 ; Report on Fire, 596
Kirkstall Power Station, Leeds, 11-kV., 1,500,000-kVA. Switchgear, 401*
Knoevenagel, A,, Chair-Seat Forming Machine, 428*
Knowler, A. E., on Sound Transmission Nomogram, 110*
Koela Producer-Gas Plant Co., Ltd., Gas Producer for Road Vehicles, 631*
Kreitner, Dr. H., on Heave, Pitch and Resistance of Ships in Seaway, 458
Kronfeld, R., on Gliding and Soaring, 193 Kropp, P., Resistance Welding Machine, 364* Krupp, F., A.-G., Speed-Increasing Gear, 464*

LABORATORY, Bragg, Admiralty Inspection Department, Sheffield, 199*; Spectrograph for Analysis of Metals, 104*, 385, 572*, 586, 605*
— Forest-Products Research, Container Testing at, 124*
— Froude, Experiments on Effect of Shape of
Ship’s Bow, 431; Model Experiments on Twin-Screw Propulsion, 431
— Gas-Fired Sand-Bath and Crucible Furnace
(Selas Gas and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 247*
— Hydraulic, St. Anthony Falls, 609*
— See also National Physical

Labour :

Accidents to Adolescent Workers, 779
— to Employees from Dangerous Machinery, 641 '
Labour—continued.
Employment Statistics, Engineering and Allied Industries, 18, 45, 74, 87, 132, 147, 194, 212, 269, 302, 347, 378, 393
Industrial Accidents. See
Labour Notes, 22, 36, 78, 92, 123 153, 198, 217, 259, 285, 307, 336, 369, 414, 443 467, 510, 539. 570, 600, 630, 646, 679, 722, 754, 784. See PARAGRAPH INDEX _ ..
Location of Industry in Great Britain, Keport, 715
Ministry of Labour, Organisation ot Central Register for National Service, 471. See 99, 154, 565, 717. See LETTER 8
Physiological Effects of Atmospheric Conditions on Workpeople, 690*
Special Areas, England, Wales and Scotland, Report on, 44 ,v
Training and Education Schemes, Cadbury Brothers, Ltd., 485
Unemployment Statistics, Engineering and Allied Industries, 18, 45, 74, 87, 132, 147, 194, 212, 269, 302, 347, 378, 393
Labour, Ministry of, Organisation of Central Register for National Service, 471. See 99,154,565,717. See LETTER, 8
Lacing Machine for Conveyor Belts (J. U. Fenner and Co., Ltd.), 484*
Laggan Dam, Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 329*, 391* :
Laidlaw, Drew and Co., Ltd., Thermo-Electric Feed-Water Regulator and Alarm, 657*
Lake, W. B., on History of Steel Castings, /56. See 750
Lamb, H. C., Tests of 200,000-lb. Simon-Carves Boiler, 141; on Electricity Supply and Consumption, 678. See 778
Lamps, Electric. Electric .
Lanchester, Dr, F. W., on Tests of Steel Air- Raid Shelters, 216* ; on Span, 223. See LETTER, 259 ; on Energy Balance Sheet of Internal-Combustion Engine, 388*, 448*. See 347. See Erratum, 411
Land, Agricultural, Drainage of, Equipment for, 71
— Drainage and Soil Conservation, 239*
Lang, J. G., on Precision Gears for Machine Tools, 137. See 101, 111
Langley Field, United States, Wind-Tunnel Equipment and Investigations at, 686, 694*
Lantern, Uniway,” for Street Lighting (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 445*
Lathes. See Machine Tools
Launch, Motor. See Motor Eoat
— and Trial Trips, 12, 40, 68, 106, 126, 310, 372, 404, 436, 500, 560, 621, 651, 745, 775
Laurence Scott and Electromotors, Ltd., Electric Motors for Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 491*
Law. SeeEeffal; Patents
Lawn Mower, with Removable Cutter Unit (J. P. Engineering Co., Ltd.), 184*
See also Mowing Machine
Lawrence, A. L., the Late, 692
Lawrie, W. B., on Fluorspar In Basic Open- Hearth Practice, 556
Lawson, D., and Co., Ltd., Steel Split Pulley, 69 Lawton, F. W., on Hams Hall Power Station, 313 316
Le Grand, Sutcliff and Gell, Ltd., Tunnel Air-Raid Shelters, 506*
Lea, Dr. F. M., on Floors for Industrial Purposes, 135
Lead Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurffy
— Creep of, 304 ,
— Pipes and Sheet Metals, Pamphlet on Soldering of, 666
Specification, 682
Water Contamination by, Investigation of, 748
— Prices. See Metal-Price Eiafframs
Lectro-Shear Portable Shears, 183*
Ledloy ” Lead-Bearing Steels, 381
Lee Wilson Engineering Co., Bright-Annealing Furnace, 210*
Leeds, Kirstall Power Station, 11-kV,1,500,000- kVA Switchgear, 401*
— Seacroft, Water Wheel at, 91 Lefeaux, E., the Late, 373
Legal:
Conditions of Engineering Contracts, 107, 139
Law of Water Supply, 473
Legislation Regarding Noise from Motor Vehicles, 440
Lewis versus Deny^, Decision On, 641 |
Local-Government Superannuation Act, 1937, Position of Resident Engineers | Under, 659
Patent Law. See Patents .
Trade Marks and Their Protection (Review), 550 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Legislation. See Legal; Patents
Leipzig Fair, Engineering Exhibits, 300*, 361*, 363*, 427*, 464*. See Erratum, 569
Letters to the Editor, 8, 216*, 259, 275, 316, 368, 556, 597, 628, 646, 679, 751, 781
Letvin, S., on New Fuel-Oil Burner, 80
Level Indicator, Liquid (Rochester Manufacturing Co., Inc.), 292*
Lewin, W., Diary of, 258
Lewis versus Deny4, Decision on, 641
Lewis, G. W., on Research in Problems of Flight, 694*. See 686
Lewis, W. R., on Soldering of Lead Pipes and Sheet Metals, 666
Liberty Belle,” Excursion Steamer, Design of, 79
Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of, Annual Lunch, 535
— in Technical Institutions, Report, 314 Liddiard, 13. A. G., on Non-Ferrous Metals and , Gas Industry, 737
Light, Portable, for Aerodrome, 4-kW (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 208*
— Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy I
— Tester, Low-Range (Ferranti, Ltd.), 9* .
Lighter, Motor, 50-Ft. Sectional for Zambesi River, 143* 1
Lighting Gas. See Gas
— Installation,Electric-Discharge Lamp (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 380*
— of Nairobi Station (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 651
— Set, Portable, Emergency, Petrol-Driven
(Cumberland Mowers, Ltd.), 327*. See Erratum, 340
for Air-Raid Precautions (Metropolltan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 620
for Air-Raid Shelters, 382
— System, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 494 Street, Unidirectional (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 445*
— See also Lamps under Electric
Lightning. See Electric
Lignite Mining, Bucket-Wheel Excavator for, 63*
Limit Gauges. See Gauges ; Gauging
Lind, P., and Co., Ltd., Fine-Chemical Factory, Beeston, 5*
Lindley Extensometer with Mercer Dial Gauge, 104*
Lindley, J. B. (1931), Ltd., 250-Cub. Ft. Two- Stage Air Compressor, 415*
Lindner, H., Thread-Grinding Machine, with Optical Projector, 351*
Liners. See Steamers
Liquid Fuel. See Oil Fuel. See also Motor ; Petroleum
— Level Controller, Automatic (Londex, Ltd.), 104
Indicator (Rochester Manufacturing Co., Inc.), 292*
— Viscosity of. See Viscosity
Liquor-Concentration Plant for Gas-Liquor Treatment, 766
Lister Ridges for Soil Conservation, 87* Literature, 4, 59, 89,119,164, 256, 283,366, 397, 425, 475, 494, 524, 550, 626, 674, 703, 764. See LITERATURE INDEX
Litigation. See Legal; Patents
Liverpool and District, Electricity Supply in, 720, 778
— Engineering Society, Annual Dinner, 131
” Llandovery Castle,” S.S., Oil-Fuel Installation, 681*
Llanelly Steel Co. (1907), Ltd., Use of Anthracite Duff by, 232
Lloyd Barrage, India, Economic Results of, 162. See Erratum, 197
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Marine-Engineering Scholarship, 286
Statistics of Vessels Under Construction, 131, 441
Statistics, Vessels Launched, 167 L.M.V. Live Centre for Lathe Tailstocks, 259*
Loading Plant, Three-Drum Scraper (Holman Brothers, Ltd.), 81*
Local-Government Superannuation and Resident Engineers, Decision on, 659
Authorities. See also Municipal Location of Industry in Great Britain, 715 Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 329*, 391* Lockheed-Gates Booster for Motor-Vehicle Braking System, 661*
Locomotive, Combustion-Gas Turbines for, 249, 256
— Developments in, 130
— 15-h.p. Diesel-Engined (Demag A.-G.), 465*
— Diesel-Engined, Progress of, 130
— 330-b.h.p. Diesel, Guaqui-La Paz Railway,
Bolivia, 324*. See Addendum, 413
— 12,000-h.p. Electric, Swiss Federal Railways, 626
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 302
— Management; Cleaning-Driving-Maintenance (Review), 764
— Road. See Motor Vehicle; Tractor
— See also Railways in PARAGRAPH INDEX Loeffler Boilers, 2,000-lb. Pressure, Brimsdown
Power Station, 614*, 669*. See 653. See Errata, 712, 757
Loewe, A. G., Bench Drilling Machine with Stepless Drive, 301*
Londex, Ltd., Voltage Regulator, 104 ; Automatic Liquid-IiCvel Controller, 104
London Bridge, Laving Foundation Stone of, 258
— Buildings, Construction of (Review). 866
— County Council Contribution to British
Standards Institution, 127 ; Highway Policy of, 192 ; Jubilee Meeting, 345 ; Report on Damage to Hammersmith Bridge, 530 ; Traffic Scheme for Waterloo Bridge Approach, 534 ; The Council as Electrical Consumer, 535; Regulations for Oxy- Acetylene Welding, 666*
— Water Supply from Underground Sources
(Review), 674
— and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, Annual Report, 655
London Hydraulic Power Co., Tests of Emergency Repairs to Gas and Water Mains, 410* I
— International Foundry Congress. See j
Foundry Congress, International, London
— Midland and Scottish Railway, ‘ ‘ Coronation I
Scot ” Train, 38* ; Accident at Wishaw, Report, 197; Investigation of Lateral Oscillation of Railway Vehicles, 261*; Report on North Hendre Accident, 547
— and North Eastern Railway, Collision at York, Report on, 11
— Passenger Transport Board, Hydraulic
Buffer Stops at Aidgate-East Station, 35* ; Use of 300-ft. Rails, 266 ; Electric Trains with Metadyne, 354*; Reconstruction of King’s Cross Underground Station, 749
— Roads, Government Grants for, 255 Problems, 161
— Underground Railways. See Underground
— University College Engineering Society,
Annual Dinner, 315
College, Tidal-Model Experiments, Rangoon River, 439
Loney, Prof. S. L., the Late, 619
Longbridge Works, Tunnel Air-Raid Shelters, 506*
Longden, G., and Son, Ltd., Bragg Admiralty Laboratory, Sheffield, 199*
Longfield, C. M., on Future of Alternating- Current Power Transmission, 781. See 33*,117*, 227*. See LETTER, 781
Lorunt and Co., King and Dine Filing Afacli* I no, 240* ; Motor-Driven Filing Machine 246*
Lorries. See Motor VMclcn ; Tractorft Loughborough Works, Brush Coachwork, Ltd., 70*
Louis. Prof. IL, the Tjate, 257
Lovatt, W. H., the Late, 165
Lovejoy Flexible Coupling Co., Flexible Shaft Coupling, 121*
J>llbecker Maschinenbau Gc-sellschaft, Bucket- Wheel, Excavator for Brown-Coal Mining, 63*
Lubricant for Rubber Parts (E. G. Acheson, Ltd.), 539
Lubricatiug Olis. See also Gi7s
Lubrication and Cylinder Wear in Internal- Combustion Engines, 163, 169*
— System, Centralised (Tecalemlt, Ltd.), 69 Lydney Substation, 1,500,000-kVA. Oil Circuit-Breakers, 709*
Lyell, N. C., on Loss of Heat from Hot Pipe, 60*

MACBETH, C., Toggle-Operated Rubber-Moulding Press, 658*
Macdonald. Major J. A., on Coal, Suction-Gas and Modern Internal-Combustion Engino.s, 442
MacKenzie, K. D., the Late, 591
MacMillan, B. C., on Heat-Balance Calculations for Marine Steam Plants, 80
Mac. See also Me
Machine Members, Design of (Review), 89
— Shops. See and Machine Tools
— Testing. See Testing Machines and Tests
{MoAerials)
— Theory of (Review), 765

Machine Tools :

Bending Machines for Pipes (Schofield and Samson, Ltd.), 243*
Bevelling Machine for Ship-Frame Sections (Schiess-Defries), 287*
Boring, Grinding, Honing and Lapping of Precision Bores, 101, 112, 201*
— Machine with Stepless Great (Collet und Engelhard), 300*
— and Turning Mill, 35-ft. Vertical (G. Richards and Co., Ltd.), 508*
Chuck, Magnetic, with Adaptor (J. Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd.), 274*
Copying Attachments for Machine Tools, 852*
Cutter Block, Helical-Blade, for Wood Planing Machine (J. T. Pickles), 144* —• for Producing Involute Helicoidal Gear Teeth, Profiles of, 297*
Cutting Machine, Multi-Burner Oxygen (Hancock and Co. (Engineers), Ltd.), 107*
Oxygen, Universal (Hancock and Co.), (Engineers), Ltd.), 178*
Veneer (W. Ritter), 428*
— Oxy-Acetylene Flame, Practice of, 53
— Tools, Sintered-Carbide, for Cast Iron, 789
Die-Sinking Machine (Curd Nube Maschin- enfabrik), 352*
Drill, Hand, Air-Operated (Holman Brothers, Ltd.), 413*
— Pneumatic, Silencers for (Yokes, Ltd.), 556*
— Stoping, Automatically-Rotated (Holman Brothers, Ltd.), 39
— Twist, High-Speed, Tests of (Sheffield Twist Drill and Steel Co., Ltd.), 401. See Erratum^ 436
Drilling Machine, Bench, with Stepless Drive (Loewe, A.G.), 301*
Radial, Head for (Raboma Maschin- enfabrik), 302*
Radial, with Stepless Gear (Gebr. Heller), 300*
— and Threading Machines (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 135*
Edging and Bevelling Machine for Wood (F. Meyer und Schwabedissen), 427*
Filing Machine, Motor-Driven (Lorant and Co., Ltd.), 246*
Ring and Disc (Lorant and Co., Ltd.), 246*
Flame Cutting and Flame Machining, Practice of, 53
Forging Machine, Bolt-Head (Kieserling und Albrecht), 365*
Electric (Maschinenfabrik Hasen- clever A.-G.), 365*
Forming Machine, Chair-Seat (A. Eno- evenagel), 428*
Multi-Slide Automatic (U.S. Tool Co., Inc.), 168*
Frazing Machine (Voucher, Ltd.), 271*
Gear Teeth, Involute Helicoidal, Cutters and Wheels for Producing, 297*
Grinding, Honing, Lapping and Boring of
Precision Bores, 101, 112, 201*
— Machine, Disc, Electric (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 769*
Internal (Hartex Maschinen- und Werkzeug-Fabrik), 351*
for Machine Tool Slideways Churchill Machine Tool Co., Ltd.) 537* Precision, 101, 111
Safety Shields for (Weathershields, Ltd.), 574*
Thread, 103,112,171*
— Thread, with Optical Projector (H, Lindner), 351*
— and Polishing Machines, Dust Extractor
for (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.) 289*
— Wheel, Air-Operated, Portable (Holnaan
Brothers, Ltd.), 69
for Producing Involute Helicoidal Gear Teeth, Profiles of, 297*
for Screw-Thread Production, 101. 112, 171*
Honing, Lapping, Boring and Grinding of Precision Bores, 101, 112, 201*
Hydraulic Press. See Press (below)
Machine Tools—continued.
Lapping, Honing, Boring and Grinding of Precision Bores, 101, 112, 201*
— Lathe, Attachment for Automatic Operation of (Monarch Machine Tool Co.), 98
— Capstan and Turret, Spindle-Deflection Test of, 139*
— 5-in. Centre Tool-Room (Monarch
Machine Tool Co.), 598*
— 8-in. Centre Turret (Magdehurger Werk-
zeugmaschinenfabrik G.m.b.H.) 300*
— Copying (Hahn Kolb), 353*
— with Copying Attachment (Dr. Waldrich K. G. Werkzeugmaschlnen- fabrik), 353*
— Repetition (Gebr. Heinemann), 302*
— Tailstocks, L.M.V. Live Centre for (Skefko Ball Bearing Co., Ltd.), 259*
— Turret, with Push-Button Control (Pittier Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik), 301*
Limit Gauging. See Ganging Machine-Shop Management. See Works Management
— Tools at Huddersfield Works, D. Brown Tractors, Ltd., 51*
Industry, Position and Prospects, 269. See LETTER, 368
at Leipzig Fair, 300*, 351*, 363*, 427*
Manufacture, Gauging in, 101, 111, 112*
Multi-Spindle Automatic (Review), 284
Production of Precision Gears for, 101, 111, 137
— — Shorter Hardening Process for Beds
of, 382*
Trades Association Annual Dinner
345 ; on Prices of Machine Tools, 368.
See 269 ; Cancellation of Machine- Tool Exhibition, Olympia, 1940, 774 Use of Ball and Roller Bearings in,
101, 111, 138*
— Work, Tolerances in. See Ganging Milling Machine, Bench-Type (Marlew
Mill and Shaper Co.), 66* and Practice, 101, 111 for Turbo-Alternator Rotors (Schless-Defries), 351*
Mortising Machine, Chisel, for Wood (Dominion Machinery Co., Ltd.), 180* Nibbier, Pneumatic, Portable (Desoutter Brothers, Ltd.), 273*
Pipe-Bending Machine, Portable Hydraulic (Hilmor. Ltd.), 180* |
Machine, Portable (Schofield and Samson, Ltd.), 243*
Planing Machine, Plate-Edge, 26-Et.
(Schiess-Defries), 137*
Plate-Edge, 39 ft. 6 in., H. Smith and Co. (Possil), Ltd.), 665*
24-Ft. Portable, Radial (Greenwood and Batley, Ltd.), 76*
for Wood, Helical-Blade Cutter Block for, 144*
— Shaping and Slotting Machines and Practice, 101, 111
Pneumatic Drills. See Drills (above) Polishing and Grinding Machines, Dust
Extractor for (K. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.), 289*
Press, Bending, 15,000-ton Hydraulic (Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd.), 781
— Crank-Driven (Maschinenfabrik garten), 363*
— Double-Crank (Maschinenfabrik garten), 363*
— Forging, 12,000-ton Hydraulic and United Engineering Co., 781*
— Hand, Fin-Removing, for Die-Castings, 529*
— Hydraulic, Deep-Drawing (L. Schuler A.G.), 353*
Metallurgical Specimen-Mounting (Griffin and Tatlock, Ltd.), 48*
50-75 ton Plastics-Moulding (T. H.
and J. Daniels, Ltd.), 179*
Self-Contained Automatic (J. Mills and Co. (Llanidloes), Ltd.), 181*
for Stretching Sheet Metal (L. Schuler A.-G.), 526
for Zinc and Aluminium-Alloy Die Castings, 528*
— 60-ton Open-Front (Taylor and Challen, Ltd.), 207*
— Paper-Making, 265*, 324*
— Plastics-Moulding, Horizontal (F. Braun A.G.), 363*
Moulding, Vertical (F. Braun A.G.), 363*
— Stamping, Coiled-Strip Feed Gear for (U.S. Tool Co., Inc.), 547*
— Toggle-Operated for Rubber-Moulding (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 658* Riveters, Squeeze, Hydro-Pneumatic (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 513*
Sanding Machine, Two-Speed Electric (Black and Decker, Ltd.), 183*
Three-Drum (Bdttcher und Gessner), 428*
Saw, Band, Direct Motor-Driven, for Wood (Dominion Machinery Co., Ltd.), 179*
— Fret and Moulder, Combined, for Wood (Dominion Machinery Co., Ltd.), 179*
— Metal, Semi-Automatic (Voucher, Ltd.), 246*
Screwing Machine, Motor-Driven (Voucher, Ltd.), 208*
Pipe and Bolt (Beaver Pipe Tools, Inc.), 123*
Shaping Machine, Bench-Type (Marlew Mill and Shaper Co.), 66*
— Slotting and Planing Machines and Practice, 101, 111
Shear Blades, Stellited (Deloro Smelting and Refining Co., Ltd.), 174*. See Addendum i 625
— Flying, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 493*
— Guillotine, 18 in. by i in. (Brookes (Oldbury), Ltd.), 243*
Shear Guillotine, 73-in. Geared XJndercrank ("F. J. Edwards, Ltd.), 185*
— Portable Electric (Black and Decker Ltd.), 183*
Slitting Machine, Overhead (Midland Saw and Tool Co., Ltd.), 246*
Slotting Machine, Swivel-Ram (Ormerod Shapers, Ltd.), 113*
— Shaping and Planing Machine Practice, 101, 111
Straightening Machine for Rolled Sections (J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd.), 50
for Tubes (J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd.), 211*
Tenoning Machine, Duplex, for Wood (Bbttcher und Gessner), 428*
Threading and Drilling Machines (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 135*
Tool-Room Lathe. See LalJie (above) — Turning and Boring, Mounting Diamonds for, 418*
Tube-Straightening Machine (J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd.), 211*
Turning and Boring Mills. See Boring (above)
Turret Lathes. See Lathes (above) Upsetting Machine, Electric (Maschlnen- fabrik Hasenclever A.-G.), 365*
Woodworking Machinery, Chair - Seat Forming Machine, 428*
Cutter Block, Helical-Blade for Planing Machine (J. T. Pickles), 144*
Cutting Machine, Veneer (W. Ritter), 428*
Edging and Bevelling Machine for Veneer, 427*
Mortiser, Cliisel (Dominion Machinery Co., Ltd.), 180*
Sanding Machine, Three-Drum (Bott- cher und Gessner), 428*
Saw, Band, Direct Motor-Driven
(Dominion Machinery Co., Ltd.), 179* Saw, Fret, and Moulder Combined
(Dominion Machinery Co., Ltd.), 179* Tenoning Machine, Duplex (Bottcher und Gessner) 428* See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Machine-Tool Trades Association, Annual Dinner, 345 ; on Prices of Machine Tools, 368. See 269 ; Cancellation of Machine- Tool Exhibition, Olympia, 1940, 774
— Works. See Machine Tools
Machinery, Dangerous,and Claims for Damages, 641
— Imports and Exports, Statistics, 18, 45, 74, 87, 132, 147, 194, 212, 269, 302, 347, 378. 393. See LETTER, 368
— Industry and Export Trade 73 Macmillan, R. A., the Late, 651 Maddams, W. E., the Late, 295 Magdeburger Werkzeugmaschinenfabrik G.m.b.
H., 8-in. Centre Turret Lathe, 300* Magnesium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Production and Imports, 522, 581 Magnet Crane, 3-ton, on Inclined Gantry (Aabacas Engineering Co., Ltd.), 758*
— and Magnetisation, 595*
— Permanent, Nickel-Iron-Aluminlum Alloy for, 632*
Magnetic-Chuck Adaptor (J. Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd.), 274*
— Crack Detector, Portable (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 406
— Separator, Electro-Magnetic Percolator (Rapid Magnetting Machine Co., Ltd.), 179*
Mains, Electric. See Cables under Electric
— Gas, in Bristol, System of, 737
and Water, Emergency Repairs to, 410 * Management of Works. See Works Management
Manchester Association of Engineers, Some Technical Aspects of Railway Electrification, by J. E. Calverley, 134; Span, by Dr. F. W. Lanchester, 233. See LETTER, 259; Some Episodes in Life of the Association (Review), 627
— Barton Power House, Tests of 200,000-lb.
Simon-Carves Boiler, 141
— Municipal College of Technology, Scholar
ships and Exhibitions, 500
— University, Tidal-Model Experiments, Dee Estuary, 439
Manganese Bronze and Brass Co., Ltd., Propeller for S.S. “ Mauretania,” 770
Mangum Terrace for Soil Conservation, 85* Manhattan Borough, New York, Sewer-Cleaning Machine, 687*
— Tunnel, Wards Island Sewage Works, 456*, 520*
Manholes, Combustibles in, Boston, Massachusetts, Report, 326
— Ventilation of, Experiments on, 92 Manipulator, Welding, for Switchgear Work
(British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 751* Manners, M., on Influence of Basicity on Colour of Glasses, 165
Manufacture, Scientific Methods in. See Works Management
__ See Trade
Marbaix, G. E., Ltd., Surface-Roughness Measuring Instrument, 699*
Marconi-Ekco Instruments, Ltd., Exhibits at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 103
Marconi International Marine Communication Co., Ltd., Wireless Equipment, S.S. ” Mauretania,” 772*
Mardles, Dr. E. W. J., on Protection of Metal against Marine Corrosion and Fouling, 542*. See 460
Marelli and Co., Electrical Equipment for 3,000- volt Direct-Current Electric Train, 629*
Margate Corporation Water Undertaking, Emergency Repairs to Gas and Water Mains, 410*
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, H.M. Aircraft- Carrier ” Ark Royal,” 386, 398
Machinery, M.S. “ Dominion Monarch,” 433,496*
Machinery, S.S. “Mauretania,” 740*, 770*
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, Self-Unloading S.S. “ George F. Rand,” 322*
— Boilers. See Boilers
Engines. See Engines; Turbines; Marine Propulsion
— Engineers, Institute of, Jubilee Dinner, 283 : Lloyd’s Register Scholarship, 286
and Naval Architects, American Society of. See Naval Architects
— Engineering Construction, Welding in, 429 Industry, Position and Prospects, 378 Lloyd’s Statistics, 131, 167 Output in 1938, 12, 40
— Propulsion, Combustion-Gas Turbines for, 249,256
Determination of Effective Horse Power. 458
1,300-h.p. Diesel Engines. M.S. ** Vecta," with Voith-Schneider Propulsion, 402* 32,000-b.h.p. Doxford Oil Engines, M.S.
* Dominion Monarch,’* 185, 433, 496* First Twenty Years of Screw Propulsion. 505,507
Gas Engines for, 473
102,000-s.h.p. Geared Turbines, H.M. Aircraft-Carrier ** Ark Royal,’* ~~ ‘ ‘
Geared Turbines, S.S. ” 769*
Heat-Balance Calculations Plants, 80
160-h.p. Non-Magnetlc ' R.R.S. ” Research,” 412*
Oil Fuel for. See Oil Fuel 9,000-b.h.p. Sulzer-Type i
M.S. ” Royal Daffodil,” 655
See also Engines ; Txirbines; Propellers; Ship Resistance; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine Propulsion
Markets. See Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Markings, Terminal, for Electrical Machinery and Apparatus, 368
Marks, G. W., on Fixation of Sulphur from Smelter Smoke, 144
Marlew MUI and Shaper Co., Bench-Type Milling Machine, 66*; Bench-Type Shaping Machine, 66*
Marsh, H., the Late, 536
Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd., 20-h.p Diesel-Engine Unit, 450* ; 2i-cub. yd., 20-h.p. Diesel-Engined Dumper, 599*
Maryland, Carderock, David W, Taylor Model Basin, 80
Maschlnenfabrik Hasenclever A.G., Electric Forging Machine, 365*
— Oerlikon, Electrical Equipment for Carriages,
Mount Pilatus Railway, 580*
— Weingarten, Crank-Driven Press,
Double-Crank Press, 363*
Mast, Aerial, Clevedon Broadcasting Transmitting Station, 753*
Mastabar Belt-Fastener Co., Ltd., Machine for Conveyor Belts, 484*
Mastic, Asphaltic Bitumen, Use for Protection of Groynes, 306
Materials, Strength of. See Stress and Tests {Materials)
Mathematics, Calculus (Review), 4
— Geometry, Advanced Analytic (Review), 89 Applied Descriptive (Review), 89 Matterson, W. C. M., on Tunnelling in Ancient
Times, 259. See 223
Matthews, C. B., Concrete Deflectors for Air- Raid Protection, 197, 311
” Mauretania,” S.S., Description of, 701*. 738*, 769*
Mavitta Drafting Machines, Ltd., Adjustable Head for Drawing Machines, 275*
Mavor and Coulson, Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 247; Dust-Proof Conveyor Idler?, 539* ; Coal-Handling Plant, Brimsdown Power Station, 614*, 673
Mayne, J. E. 0., on Fibre Cores for CoUIerv Winding Ropes, 233
McClellan, L. N., on Electrical Features of Boulder-Dam Power Plant, 145*, 214*. See 713
McCutchan, A., on High-Temperature Steam Experience at Detroit, 25, 53*
McKay, G. H., on Mine Installation and Power Development at Big Missouri Mine, 149*
McKeehan and Ellmore, Magnetic Iron Powder Patterns, 596* Me. See also Mac
Measuring Instrument, Surface Roughness, Shaw Contorograph, 203*
Surface-Roughness (Physicists Research Co.), 699*
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of, High-Temperature Steam Experience at Detroit, by R. M. Vanduzer, Jr., and A. McCutchan, 25, 53* ; Progress in Railway Mechanical Engineering, by Prof. E G Young, 130 ; Possibilities of Utilisation of Pulverised-Coal Ash, by A. W. Thorson and J. S. Nelles, 203 ; Manual of Design for Time-Series Charts, 441
386, 398
Mauretania,*’ for Steam Oil Engine,

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of :

Associate-Membership Examination, Inclusion of Workshop Technology, 17
Appeal for Benevolent Fund, 100 Change in Format of Proceedings, 100 Retirement of Secretary, Brig.-Gen. M. Mowat, 101
Summer Meeting in United States and Canada, Programme, 230
Appointment of J. E. Montgomrey as Secretary, 347
London Meetings, Winter Session:
Gray Lecture on Development of High- Speed Craft and Its Machinery, by H. Scott-Paine, 37, 82
Cylinder-Bore Wear, by A. Taub. 169* See 163
Presentation of Prizes, 225 Annual Report, 225
Benevolent Fund, 226, 346 Election of Officers, 226 Combustion Gas Turbine, Its History, Development, and Prospects, by Dr. A, Meyer, 247*. See 256, See Errata, 286
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of— continued.
The Modern Paper-Making Machine, by W. H. Orr, 234*, 262*, 324*, 383*. See 226. See Errata, 279
Investigation of Fretting Corrosion of Closely-Fitting Surfaces, by Dr. G. A. Tomlinson, P. L. Thorpe and Dr. H. J. Gough, 293*. See 281
Some Principles of Modern Methods of Water Treatment for Steam Raising, by P. Hamer, 320
Energy Balance Sheet of Internal-Combustion Engine, by Dr. F. W. Lan- chester, 388*, 448*. See 347. See Erratum, 411
Second Report of Pipe-Flanges Research Committee, by H. J. Tapsell, 418*, 479*. See 409
Problem of Economic Foundry Production, by E. Ronceray, 511*. See 495, 534 Third Report of Welding Research Committee, 602*, 635*
Symposium on Machine Tool Practice: Synopsis of Papers, by Prof. D. Smith, 111.
See 101
Gauging in Machine-Tool Manufacture, by T. Curson, 112*. See 101, 111 Production of Precision Gears for Machine
Tools, by J. G. Lang, 137. See 101, 111 Use of Ball and Roller Bearings for Machine
Tools and Their Influence on Accuracy, by E. W. Field, 138*. See 101, 111 Planing, Shaping and Slotting Machines and Practice, by W. Alderson, 101, 111 Heavy Milling Machines and Practice,
J. L. Hall, 101, 111 Light Milling Machines and Practice,
I. N. Wright, 101, 111 Precision Grinding Machines, by H.
Asbridge, 101, 111 Forming of Screw Threads by Grinding, by
S. J. Harley, 171*. See 101, 112 Production of Accurate Bores by Fine
Boring, Grinding, Honing and Lapping, by T. P. N.
See 101, 112
Internal-Combustion Engine
Meeting:
Summary of Symposium
for Internal-Combustion Engines, by Wing-Comdr. T. R. Cave-Browne- Cave, 442
Present Position of Producer Gas Propulsion for Road Britain and on
Pirie, 442
Producer-Gas Road
Fowke, 442 Factors Influencing
Gas Producers, by B7 Monck, 442 Case for Dry Air Blast in Gas Producers for
Road Vehicles, by A. R. Griggs, 442 British Coals, Suction-Gas and Modern
Internal-Combustion Engines, by Major J. A. Macdonald, 442 Application of Town Gas as Fuel for Internal-Combustion Engines, by Dr. C. M. Walter, 473. See Erratum, 532 A New Injection System for Gas Engines,
by R. A. Erren, 473. See Erratum, 532 Gas Engines as Aid to Further Utilisation of Coal for Marine Purposes, by F. Gibbons, 473. See Erratum, 532
See also Koela Gas Producer for Road
Vehicles, 631*
Summer Meeting, London:
Programme, 620 Proceedings, 717 Award of James Watt International Medal to Henry Ford, 717
Unveiling of Portrait of James Watt, 717 Mechanical Engineering and Power Exhibition, New York, 65*, 119*, 290*. See Addendum, 276
— Flight. See Aeronautics
— Lubricator. See Lubi'ication
— Stoker. See Stoker
— Traction on Roads. See Roads; Motor
Cars ; Tractors
Mechanics, Fluid, for Hydraulic Engineers (Review), 283
Medical Research, Canadian Department of. Investigation of Prevention of Silicosis by Aluminium, 732
Meijer, Dr. W. M., on Extraction of Condensate from Expanding Steam, 416*. See 429, 533. See LETTER, 628
Meik and Halcrow, Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 329*, 391*
Melbourne University, Investigation of Creep of Lead, 304
Mercer, T., Dial-Gauge Type Extensometer, 104* Merchant Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Ships. See Ships; Steamers', Motorships Mercoid Corporation, Temperature Controller,
290*
Mercury-Arc Rectifiers, Mount Piiatus Railway, 579*
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Merritt, Dr. H. E., on Design of High-Speed Track Vehicles, 130
Merz and McLellan, Report on Proposed Electrification of Taunton to Penzance Line, 625
Metadyne, and its Application to Electric Traction, 354*
Metals, Anti-Friction. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Atomic Patterns of, 788
— in Clay Plants, Wearing Properties of,
Report, 837
— Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Fatigue of. See Eatigue and Alternating
Stress under Tests {Materials}
— Filament Lamps. See Lamps under Electric
Burness, 201*.
Group, Swansea
Transport in Great Continent, by H. L.
Vehicle, by W. H.
Design of Portable
Metals, Institute of :
May Lecture on the Photographic Emulsion and its Contribution to Science and Industry, by Dr. 0. Bloch, 594
Spring Meeting, London'.
Programme, 165
Report of Council, 304 Honorary Treasurer’s Report, 304 Election of Officers, 304
Institute of Metals Medal, Award to Sir H. Carpenter, 304
Reports of Discussions, 304, 331, 362 Types of Creep Curve Obtained with Lead and its Alloys, by Prof. J. N. Greenwood and H. W. Worner, 304
Annealing Characteristics and Solid- Solubility Limits of Copper and Copper Alloys Containing Chromium, by Dr. W. 0, Alexander, 305
Elastic Properties of Some Anti-Friction Alloys at Room and Elevated Temperatures, by J. W. Cuthbertson, 305
Vapour Pressure of Zinc in Brasses, by R. Hargreaves, 331
Influence of Static Stress and Heat Treatment in Intercrystalline Corrosion of Some Wrought Aluminium Alloys, by J. D. Grogan and R. J. Pleasance, 332
Embrittlement of Tin at Elevated Temperatures and in Relation to Impurities, by Dr. C. E. Homer and H. Plummer, 332
X-Ray Investigation of Cobalt-Aluminium Alloys, by Drs. A. J. Bradley and G. C. Seager, 332
Industrial Application of Spectrography in Non-Ferrous Metallurgical Industry, by F. Twyman, 384. See 362
Discussion on Effect of Work on Mechanical Properties of Non-Ferrous Metals: Some Observations on Forging of Strong Aluminium Alloys, by Prof, G. Sachs,
332
Comparison of Extrusion Properties of Some Aluminium Alloys, by C. E. Pearson, 333
Effect of Drawing on Hardness and Tensile Strength of Brass Rod, by Dr. M. Cook and G. K. Duddridge,
333
Effect of Composition and Constitution on Working and on Some Physical Properties of Tin Bronzes, by R. Chadwick, 333
Metals, Methods of Hardening, 656
— Non-Ferrous, Effect of Work on Properties
of, 332
Ferrous, in Gas Industry, 737
Ferrous, Spectrographic Analysis, 362, 384
Ferrous, Welding of, 708
— Price Diagrams, 20*, 171*, 260*, 421*, 540*,
698*.
— Quantitative Analysis by Spectrograph,
104*, 199*, 385, 572*, 586, 605*
— Rdntgen-Ray Analysis of, 788
— Structure of. See Microphotographs
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Metallurgy ; Microphotographs Metallography. See Metals; Metallurgy;
Microphotograph s
Metallurgy :
Alloy, Aluminium, for Die-Castings, 527 Extrusion Properties of, 333 Forging of, Observations on, 332 Magnesium, for Ship Construction, 459,483
Tin, for Bearings (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 789
Wrought, Intercrystalline Corrosion of. 332
— Anti-Friction, Elastic Properties of, 305
— Cobalt-Aluminium, X-Ray Investigation of, 832
— Copper, Containing Chromium, Annealing Characteristics and Solid-Solubility Limits of, 305
Tin-Phosphorus, for Strip, Specification, 650
See also Brass; Bronze, etc.
— Ferro-, Production and Imports of, 622
— Lead-Bearing “ G.K.N. Ledloy ” Steels, 381
Creep of, 304
— Nickel-Iron-Aluminium for Permanent Magnets, 632*
— R6ntgen-Ray Analysis of, 788
— Spectrographic Analysis of, 362, 384
— Steels, Research Committee’s Report, 613,663
— Tin, Embrittlement at Elevated Temperatures, 332
— Zinc, for Die-Castings, 627
Blast Furnaces, Furnaces
Bragg Laboratory, Admiralty Inspection Department, Sheffield, 199*. See 104*, 385, 672*, 586, 606*
Brass. See Brass
Bronze. See Bronze
Cast Iron. See Cast Iron
Coke Ovens. See Coke Ovens
Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion Ferro-Alloys, Production and Imports, 522 Foundry. See Foundry ; Moulding Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces — Metallurgical. See Furnaces
Heat Treatment of Electrically-Welded Tubes, 705*
Gas-Fired Bright-Annealing Furnace (Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd.), 210* Hardening of Metals, Methods of, 656 of High-Chromium Steels Containing Nitrogen, Effect of, 726*
of Nickel-Iron-Aluminium Permanent-Magnet Alloys, 632*
Shorter Hardening Process, Application to Machine-Tool Beds, 382*
Strain Age-Hardening of Mild Steel, 685
Iron Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast — Ore. See Ore
Lead-Bearing Steels, ** G. K. N. Ledloy/’ 881
Metals, Tests of. See Tests {Materials}
Metallurgical Industry, Non-Ferrous, Application of Spectrography in, 362, 384. See 104*, 199*, 572*, 586, 605*
— Specimen-Mounting Press (Griffin and Tatlock, Ltd.), 48*
Metallurgy, Introduction to (Review), 397 Pulverised Coal, Use in Metallurgy. See Pulverised Coal
Pyrometers. See Pyrometers Refractories. See Refractory Materials; Firebriclcs
Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills Steel Furnaces. See Furnaces — Metallurgy, Recent Researches in, 346 Stellite for Cutting Edges of Shears, 174*. See Addendum^ 625
Welding. See Welding
See also Iron and Steel Institute; Metals, Institute of; Microphotographs; Foundry; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Metallurgy and Mining, Institution of. See Mining
Meteorology, Effect of Winter Weather on Electricity Supply, 17
Meter, Brightness, for Street-Lighting Investigation, 750
— Combined Carbon-Dioxide and Oxygen
(Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd.), 11*
— Humidity, Direct-Reading (Elliott Brothers
(London), Ltd.), 759*
— Layer-Thickness (Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd.), 49*
— See also Electric and Water Meters
Methane Explosions. See Accidents and Col- liery
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Automatic Arc-Welding Machine for Boiler Drums, 28* ; Switchgear for East Perth Power Station, 106; Portable Magnetic Crack Detector, 406; Electrical Equipment, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 490*; Electrical Equipment for 85-ft. Vertical Boring and Turning Mill, 508* ; Lighting System for Air-Raid Precautions, 620; Electric Motors for Paper Mills, 648* ; 19,000-kW and 34,000-kW Turbo-Generators, Brlmsdown Power Station, 614*, 669*. See 653. See Errata, 712, 757; High-Tension Circuit Breakers, 709*
— See also London
Meyer, Dr. A., on Combustion Gas Turbine, 247*. See 256. See Errata, 286
Meyer, F., und Schwabedissen, Edging and Bevelling Machine for Wood, 427*
Michelin Railcars, Haiphong-Yunnan Fu Railway, 732*
Micro-Lead Products (Ericsson), Ltd., Manufacture and Properties of Highly-Dispersed Red-Lead Paints, 760*
Micromanometer, Ultra-Sensitive, 656 Micrometers, Draft Speciflcation for, 20 Microphotograph, Heat-Treated Welded Steel Tube, 705*
— High-Chromium Steel Containing Nitrogen,
— Red-Lead Paint, 760*
Microphotometers (C. F. Casella and Co., Ltd.), 49
— Photo-Electric, for Examination of Spectrograms, 606*
Microscope, Electron, Field-Emission (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 656
— Portable Projection (Bellingham and Stanley, Ltd.), 306*
Microstructure of Metals. See Microphotographs
Middlesex County Council, Viaduct on Western Avenue, 255
Midland Coke Research Committee, Report, 729
Midland Saw and Tool Co., Ltd., Overhead- Slitting Machine, 246*
Military Aeronautics. See Aeronauiics
— Training and Young Engineers, 565. See 99,154, 471, 717. See LETTER, 8
Milk-Factory Effluents, Treatment of, 748
Mill, Cement, Double-Helical Gear Unit for (Turbine Gears, Ltd.), 307*
— Paper, Electric Motors for (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 648*
— Rolling. See Rolling Mills
— Underground, at Big Missouri Mine, British
Columbia, 149*
Millar's Machinery Co., Ltd., 10/7 cub. yd. Trailer Concrete Mixer, 628*
Milling Machines and Cutters. See Machine Tools
Mills, E. A., Hackney Power Station Extensions, 317.* See Addendum, 341
Milla, J., <fe Co. (Llanidloes), Ltd., Self-Contained Automatic Hydraulic Press, 181*
Mills, J., Exors. of, Ltd., “ G.K.N. Ledloy ” Lead-Bearing Steels, 381
Millspaugh Vacuum Forming Machine, 384* Mine, Big Missouri, British Columbia, Underground Mill, 149*
— Coal. See Collieries
— Dust, Effect of Aluminium on “ Solubility ” of, 732
— Flameproof Electro-Hydraulic Thrustor for, 84
— United States Bureau of. See United Stales
— See also Coal; Collieries; Mining; Ores Winding and PARAGRAPH INDEX '
Mineral Aggregates, Sampling and Testing, Speciflcation, 447
— Oils. See Oils
— See also Coal; Mining; Ores ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mining Association of Great Britain, Statistics of Coal Industry, 441
— of Brown Coal, Bucket-Wheel Excavator for, 63*
— In Canada, 585
— Engineers, Institution of. Presidential
Adless, by Col. Sir F. R. Simpson, 225: Dinner, 225; Retirement of C. McDermid from Secretaryship. 692. See 628
— and Metallurgy, Canadian Institution of.
Underground MiU Excavation at Big Misso^ Mine, by D. S. Campbell, 149*; Mine Installation and Power Development at Big Missouri Mine, by 6. H. iSfcKay, 149*
Mining, Institution of, Annual Dinner, 535; Retirement of C. MoDermid from Secre- taryship, 628. See 692
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ministry of Transport. See ^™”’f‘”'4„draullc Minneapolis, St. Anthony Kalis Hydraulic Laboratory, 609* p, x
Minnesota, Austin Municipal Light Jlan^
MlssMppUUve^^St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic
I Laboratory, Minneapolis, 609 Missouri MlnejBritlsh Columbia, Underground Mitchell',’ K^H., on Design and Loading of Self-Trimming Colliers, 400 _
Mitchell Engineering, ^.OOO-lb. Preaaure
Loetiier Boilers for Brimsdown Power Station, 614*, 669*. See 653. See
Miti^n^%’. on Col. J. Stevens and his “ Porcupine ’* Boiler, 50^^, Mixing Machines, Concrete. See .
Model Domestic Open Fireplaces, Experiments -EmpUe^ltate BuUdlng, Wind-Pressure Investigations on, 191 .
~ Experiments on Lateral Oscillation of Railway Vehicles, 261*
Rangoon River and Dee Estuary, 439 See also Wind I’unneZ under Aeronautics ;
Shiv Resistance : Tank Experiwcrits
River, St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, Minneapolis, 609* r,
— for Studying Flow Through Nests of Tubes, 487*
— Tests of Rolling of Ships, 80 .
Monarch Machine Tool Co., Attachment for
Automatic Operation of ’
5-ln. Centre Tool-Room Lathe, 598* Monarch Manufacturing Works, Inc., Internal- Gear Type Fuel-Oil Pump, 483
Monck, B., on Design of Portable Gas Producers, 442 z.
Mond, Dr. L., Life and Work of, 345
Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., Test for Nickel-Clad Steel, 286*
Monoplane. See Aeronautxcs Dr. H., on Non-Ferrous Metals and Gas Industry, 737 x
Morland, E. L., on Electrical Development and Distribution, 720. See 778 -r., x j
Morris, H., Ltd., Continuous Casting Plant and Sand-Reconditioning Plant, 361*
Morris, J., on Critical Speed of Turbine Rotor, 763*
Morrison, W. M., Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 329*, 391*
Mortising Machines. See Machine Tools
Motor Boats, High-Speed, Design and Machinery of, 37, 82 _
Lighter, 50-ft. Sectional, for Zambesi River, 143*
Torpedo, for Philippines, 368 — Carriages, Railway. See Carriages

Motor Car Details :

Chassis, Aluminium-Alloy, for Electric- Battery Vehicle, 742
Engines. See Etigines^ Petrol^ Motor-Car Lockheed Gates Booster for Motor-Vehicle Braking System (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 661*
Motor-Car Engines. See Engines, Petrol
— — Engineers. See Automobile Engineers Fuels. See Fuels Imports into India, 265
^for Auxiliary Plant, Brimsdown Power
3,000-Volt Direct-Current 629
Motor-Vehicl, Dumper, 3 Cub. Yd. (Chaseslde i Engineering Co., Ltd.), 184*
Dumper, Cub. Yd. (Marshall, Sons and Co. (Successors), Ltd.), 599*
Electric Battery, with Aluinlnium-Alloy Chassis (Cleco Electric Industries, Ltd.). 74 Imports and Exports, 46
Noise from, Legislation Regarding, 440 Portable Gas Producers for, 442, 474. See Erratum, 532
Public Service, Traffic Commissioners Reports, 72
Motorships under Construction, Lloyds Statistics 131 441
— Cross-Channel '* Royal Daffodil,” 655
— ” Dominion Monarch,” Shaw Savill and Albion Co., Ltd., 185*, 433*, 496*
— Launched, Lloyds’ Statistics, 167
— Oil Tank, ” Cairndale,” Royal Fleet Auxiliary, 410
— Passenger, for Russian Rivers, 93
’ — Union Castle Mail Steamship Co., 505
— ” Vecta,” with Voith-Schneider Propulsion, 402*
— See also Marine Propulsion
Mouchel and Partners, Cooling Tower for Hackney Power Station, 320
Mould Conveyors in Foundries, 512
— Ingot, Heavy (Brightside Foundry and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 605*
— Steel-Ingot, Investigations on Failures of, 545
Moulding Machines, Renfrew Foundries, Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 359*
— Machines, Wood. See Machine Tools
— See also Foundry
Mount Pilatus Railway, Electrification of, 579*
— Vernon Die-Casting Corporation, Die-Casting Plant, 527*
Mower, Lawn, with Removable Cutter Unit (J. P. Engineering Co., Ltd.), 184*
Mowing Machine, Petrol-Driven, with Verge- Cutting Attachment (Auto-Mower Engineering Co., Ltd.), 767*
Rotary-Scythe (Power Specialties, Ltd.), 182*
Moyes, S. J. E., on Stresses in Rotating Discs under Elastic Conditions, 241* ; on Critical Speed of Turbine Rotor, 763*
Mullard Wireless Service Co., Ltd., Detonation- Detecting Instrument for Internal-Combustion Engines, 48
Multitubular Boilers. See Boilers
Municipal Electrical Association, Incorporated, Harrogate Meeting : Programme, 500 ; Presidential Address, by H. C. Lamb, on Electricity Supply and Consumption, 678. See 778 ; Aspects of Electrical Development and Distribution, by P. J. Robinson and E. L. Morland, 720. See 778 ; Financial Aspects of Municipal Electricity Supply, by A. L. Boddington, 751. See 778 ; Advertising and Publicity, by A. C. Cramb, 773 ; A.R.P. in Relation to Electricity-Supply Undertakings, by J. M. Kennedy, 773. See 778
— Electricity Undertakings, Financial Aspects
of, 751, 778
— Light Plant, Austin, Minnesota, Taylor
Water-Cooled Retort Stoker, 67*
— Tramways. See Tramways
Murdoch Lecture on History of Gas Industry, 718
Murgatroyd, J. B., on Seed in Glass Melted in Tank Furnaces, 201
Museum, National Maritime, Greenwich, Annual Report, 72
— Science, South Kensington, Illumination
Section, 377 ; Gifts of Scientific Instruments to, 535 ; Annual Report, 625, 627 ; Historic Aeroplanes at, 631
— United States National, Annual Report, 466

** NAIAD,” H.M. Cruiser, Launch of, 198
Nairobi Station, Lighting of (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 651
Nalder Brothers and Thompson, Ltd., Deflectional Frequency Meter, 104
Nash Engineering Co., Rotary Compressor or Vacuum Pump for Corrosive Gases, 447*
National Association of Supervising Electricians. See Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of
— Defence and Electricity Supply, 45
and Engineers, 99, 154, 471, 565, 717. See LETTER, 8
and Road Transport, 101
Work of Federation of British Industries for, 505
— Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Annual Report, 72
— Physical Laboratory, Investigation on Heat
Loss from Surface of Hot Pipe in Air, 60* ; Nomogram for Sound Transmission Through Partitions, 110* ; Switchgear Tests by, 110*, 254; Investigation on Fretting Corrosion of Closely-Fitting Surfaces, 281, 293* ; Investigations on Pipe Flanges, 409, 418*. 479*; Annual Report, 477 ; Investigations on Direct-Immersion Thermocouple for Liquid-Steel Temperature Determinations, 545, 556; Ultrasensitive Micromanometer, 656; Annual Inspection, 779
— Service, Professional Engineers and. 471.
See 99, 154, 565, 717. See LETTER, 8
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics

Naval Architects, Institution of :

Spring Meeting, London:
Programme, 350
Report of Council, 398
Election of Officers, 398
Presidential Address, by Lord Stonehavem on Shipbuilding Industry 398
Reports of Discussions, 398; 429, 45a Annual Dinner, 400
Naval Architects, Institution of—continued.
H.M.S. “ Ark Royal,” by Sir S. V. Goodall, 386*. See 398
Special Features in Design and Loading of Self-Trimming Colliers, by B. H. Mitchell, 400
Extraction of Condensate from Expanding Steam ; Its Effect upon Effciency of Ideal Heat Cycle and its Influence upon Selection of Initial Steam Conditions, by Dr. W. M. Meijer, 416*. See 429, 533. See LETTER, 628
Welding in Marine Engineering Construction, by H. N. Pemberton, 429
Fatigue in Structural Steel Plates with Riveted or Welded Joints, by Prof. B. P. Haigh and T. S. Robertson, 451*, 513*. See 430
Effect of Shape of Bow on Ship Resistance, Part II, by A. Emerson, 431
Model Experiments on Twin-Screw Propulsion, Part II, by Dr. G. Hughes, 431
New Method for Determining E.H.P. and its Application to Atlantic-Liner Design, by Lieut.-Col. C. Tennyson, 458
Heave, Pitch and Resistance of Ships in Seaway, by Dr. H. Kreltner, 458
All-Welded Hull Construction of H.M.S. ** Seagull,” by A. Nicholls, 459
Light-Alloy Ship Construction, by W. C. Devereux and Dr. E. V. Telfer, 483. See 459
Protection of Metal Surfaces Against Marine Corrosion and Fouling, by Dr. E. W. J. Mardles, 542.* See 460
Notes on Marine Corrosion and Paint, by H. E. Skinner, 460
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers’ Society of, New York, Old Plans of Historic Ships, by J. C. Wilson, 79 ; Care of Cargo at Sea : An Investigation of " Sweat ” and Other Air-Borne Cargo Damage, by Lieut.- Comdr. 0. D. Colvin, Dr. W. H. E. Hahne and M. R. Colby, 79; Bending Theory in Ship-Bottom Structure, by Lieut.-Comdr. H. A. Schade, 79; Modern Excursion Steamer, by L. E. Campbell, 79 ; Developments in Great Lakes Self-Unloading Bulk-Cargo Vessels, by A. W. Cross, 80, 321*; New Uses for Rubber in Ship Construction, by H. Christophersen, 80 ; Heat-Balance Calculations for Marine Steam Plants, by A, S. Thaeler and D. C. MacMillan, 80 ; New Fuel-Oil Burner, by G. P. Haynes and S. Letvin, 80 ; Use of Models in Study of Rolling of Ships, by Prof. H. C. Adams, 80 ; The David W. Taylor Model Basin, by Comdr. H. E. Saunders, 80
— Construction. See Warships
— Volunteer Reserve, Royal Engineers for,
717
— See also Warships
Navalium for Ship Construction, Properties of, 459, 483
Navigation, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Equipment, S.S. ” Mauretania,” 772
— Wireless Telegraphy in. See Telegraphy,
Wireless
Navvy. See Excavator
Navy, British. See H.M. under Warships
— French, Greek, etc. See under Warships
— United States. See United States under
Warships
— See also Naval; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Neal, E. E., on Statistical Control of Telephone Service, 136*
Neal, R. H., and Co., Ltd., I-cub. yd. Mobile Loading Shovel, 210*
Needham, E. S., on Hasselt Bridge Collapse, 395*. See 258*
Negretti and Zambra, Three-Step Alarm for Temperature and Pressure, 10; Time- Cycle Process Recorder Controller, 10*
Neill, J., and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd., Magnetic Chuck Adaptor, 274*
Nelles, J. S., on Utilisation of Pulverlsed-Coal Ash, 203
Nests of Tubes, Flow Through, Models for Studying, 487*
New Jersey Paper Mills, Pulverised-Fuel Plant, Results with, 232
— River Head, Atmospheric Engine at, 259
— South Wales, Port Kembla Steelworks,
Steam Engineering at, 554
— Year’s Honours List, 17
— York City, Wards Island Sewage Works, 455*, 519* 583*. See LETTER, 646
Empire State Building, Wind-Pressure Investigations on, 191
Grand Central Station, 36-ln. Borehole, 7* Manhattan Borough Sewer-Cleaning Machine, 687*
Port Authority, Annual Report, 473 Power and Mechanical Engineering Exhibition, 65*, 119*, 290*. See Adden- duruy 276
Rockefeller Centre, Associated Press Building, 350*. See Erratum, 499
World’s Fair, British Exhibit of Glass and Scientific Instruments, 368
— Zealand, Hydro-Electric Development in, Report on, 282
Waikaremoana Hydro-Electric Scheme, 52-in. Rotary Hydraulic Valve, 370*
Newcomen Society, Water Wheel at Seacroft, Leeds, by E. Kilburn Scott, 91 ; Inventions of S. Hall, by Engr.-Capt. E. C. Smith, 91 ; The Lewin Diary—A Link with Rennie, by Dr. H. W. Dickinson, 258 ; Atmospheric Engine at New River Head, by E. K. Scott, 259 ; Post Mills of the Nord, by R. Wailes and Major Webster, 355 ; First Twenty Years of Screw Propulsion, by Engr.-Capt. E. C. Smith, 507. See 505 ; Colonel Stevens and his ** Porcupine ’* Boiler, by C. W. Mitman, 505; Summer Meeting, Ipswich: Programme, 621; Proceedings, 709 ; Parker’s “Roman” Cement, by Dr. A. P. Thurston, 757
Newland, W. F., on Statistical Control of Telephone Service, 136*
Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd., Needle-Tube Economiser, 209* ; Needle-Tube Recuperator, 209* ; Gas-Fired Air Heater, 210* ; Coke-Fired Air Heater, 210*
Nicholls, A., on All-Welded Hull Construction of H.M.S. “ Seagull,” 459
Nichols Terrace for Soil Conservation, 85* Nickel-Clad Steel, Test of Bond, 286*
— United Kingdom Imports, 582
Nigeria Public-Works Department, Annual Report, 403
Nile, Upper, Training of (Review), 475 Nitrogen in High-Chromium Steels, Effect of, 726*
Nixon, J., the Late, 252
[W. Noble (2)|Noble, W.]], on Influence of Carbonising Conditions on Coke Properties, 587. See 654
Noise Measurement and Elimination, Summer Courses at Borough Polytechnic, 469
— ^^440 Vehicles, Legislation Regarding,
Nomogram for Sound Transmission Through Partitions, 110*
Non-Ferrous Metals. See Metals ; Metallurgy Nord, France, Windmills in, 355
Normand Electrical Co., Ltd., Electric Generator for Portable Lighting Set, 327*. See Erratum, 340
North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Obituary of E. W. F. Fraser- Smith, 478 : New Secretary, 505; Strength of Marine-Engine Shafting, by Dr. S. F. Dorey, 563
— of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Studentship Examination, 306
— Hendre Railway Accident, Report, 547
North Metropolitan Electric Power Supply Co., Brimsdown Power Station Extensions, 614*, 669*. See 653. See Errata, 712, 757
— Notes from, 13, 41, 69, 96, 127, 157, 189, 221, 250, 279, 311, 341, 373, 405, 437, 469, 501, 531, 561, 591, 621. 651, 683, 713, 745, 775. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Power Station, Amsterdam, Water Extraction from Steam Turbines at, 417, 533
— Wales, Penrhyn Slate Quarry, Electrical
Equipment of, 356*
Northcott, Dr. L., on Durville Process for Casting Steels, 586
Norway, Gas Industry in, 697
Norwich, Thorpe Power Station, 30,000-kW. Turbo-Generator, 57*, 115*
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
Nugent, W. W.. and Co., Oil Filter, 122*
"" Construction of Singapore

Obituary : (moved to separate index)
Observatory House, Slough, Preservation of, 224
— Oxford University, Solar Teleecope, 267*, 334*
— Royal, Greenwich, Annual Report, 779
Oerlikon, Maschinenfabrik, Electrical Equipment for Carriages, Mount Pilatus Railway, 680*
Oil Cooler, Marine-Type (Spiral Tube and Components Co., Ltd.), 275*
— Engines. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars; Motor Boats; Tractors
— Filter (W. W. Nugent and Co.), 122*
— Fuel Burner, S.S. ” Llandovery Castle,” 681* Burner, Variable-Capacity, 80
Diesel-Engine, Ignition Quality of, Investigations on, 1*
Installation, S.S. “Llandovery Castle,” 681*
Internal-Gear Type Pump (Monarch Manufacturing Works, Inc.), 483*
— Lubricating, Drums for, Specification, 22
— Motors. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars;
Motor Boats; Tractors
— Tanks, Purging of, 376
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Whale, Specification, 650
— See also Lubrication; Petroleum
Ohio, Columbus College of Engineering, Report on Wearing Properties of Metals in Clay Plants, 637 ,
Olsansky, Dr. L., on Pitting Corrosion of Cast- Iron and Steel Pipes, 787*. See 780
Olympia. See Exhibition
Omnibus, Motor. See Motor Omnibus
— Trolley. See
Open-Hearth Furnace. See FurrMce
Optical Apparatus, Physical Society’s Exhibition, 104* .
Optics, Spectrograph for Quantitative Analysis of Metals, 104*, 199*, 385, 572*, 586, 606*
Oram, Engr. Vice-Admiral Sir H. J., the Late, 657. See LETTER, 597
Ore, Iron, Production in United States, 667
Ormerod Shapers, Ltd., Swivel-Ram Slotting Machine, 113 , . , .
Orr, W. H., on Modern Paper-Making Machines, 234*, 262*, 324*, 383*. See 266. See Errata, 279 , T
Oscillations, Lateral, of Railway Vehicles, Investigation on, 261*
Oscillograph. See jBZednc .
Otto Beit Suspension Bridge, Rhodesia, 625 Ovens, Coke. See Cohe Ovens
Overhead Cranes. See Cranes
Lines, Power Transmission by Alternating Current, Economics of, 34*, 117*, 227*. See LETTERS, 781
Power Transmission, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 408
Power Transmission, Mount Pilatus Railway, 579*
Power Transmission, New Zealand, 282 Power Transmission, Steel-Cored Copper Conductors for, Specification, 682
Power Transmission, Ultra-Long Distance, 217* /j«o
Power Transmission, Value of Grid, 678, 778
Overseas Trade Department, Report on United Kingdom Trade in India, 1937-1938, 160; Survey of Indian Trade, 265 ; Report on Economic and Commercial Conditions in Brazil, 780 .
and Export Practice (Review), 284
Owen, H., Electrical Equipment, Penrhyn Slate Quarry, 356*
Owles, T. A., Dry Dock, Colombo Harbour, 549*
Oxford Farming Conference. See Farming Conference, Oxford
— Summer Meeting, Institution of AutomobUe Engineers, Programme, 757
University Observatory, Solar Telescope,
Oxley Engineering Co., Ltd., Electrically- Welded Storage Tanks, 707*
Oxy-Acetylene Cutting and Machining, Practice of, 53
Welding. See TFeWing
Oxygen in Steel, Determination of, 544, 55o

PACKING Material for Flanged Pipe Joints, Investigations on, 409, 418*
Paige, C., on Gas Industry in the United States, 698
Paint; Corrosion Resisting, for Hulls of Snips and Aircraft, 460, 542* r
— Red-Lead, Manufacture and Properties of, 760*
— Temperature-Indicating, 617 ,
— Testing Apparatus (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 48*
Painter Brothers, Ltd., Erection of Unit- Construction Bridges, 734*
Paper-Making Machines, 226, 234*, 262 , 324, 383*. See Errata, 279
Mills, Electric Motors for (Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co.,^ Ltd.), 648*
Paraffin Engines. See Eix^irwe, Oil
Paris, International Conference on Large Hlgn- Tension Systems, 656
Parker, J., Invention of “ Roman Cement by, 757
Parrish P., on By-Product Ammonia, 766
Sns, C.’ A., and Co., Ltd 30,000-kW Turbo- Generator, Norwich, 57*, 115* ; 25^000- kW Turbo-Generator, East Perth, 105 , 30,000-kW Turbo-Generator, Hackney, 318*
Parsons, Sir C., Work on Axial Air Compressors, 248, 256
— Turbines. Turbines, Steam; MarvrwPro- Partmonr^ Sound Transmission Through, Nomogram for, 110* , *
Partridge, Dr. J. H., on Creep of Refractories at High Temperatures, 482
Pask V A. 30,000-kW Turbo-Generator, Thorpe Power Station, 57*, 115*
Passenger Services, Railway, Acceleration of, 16
— Steamers. See Steamers
296*, 328*, 358*, 390* 422*, 454*, 486*. 518*, 548*, 578*, 608*’, 638*, 668*, 700*, 730*. 762*, 792*. See PATENT RECORD INDEX
— See also Trade Marks
Patentees, Institute of (Inc.), Exhibition of Inventions, 216 „
Paterson, C. C., Electron Pencil, 750
Pattern-Making Machines. See
Paul R W., Award of Duddell Medal to, 377
Peachey, G. W., on Air-Raid Shelters, ^3
Pearson, C. E., on Extrusion Properties of Aluminium Alloys, 332
Pelton Wheels, 10,000-h.p., Lochaber Water- Power Scheme, 392
Pemberton, H. N., on Welding in Manne- Engineering Construction, 429
Pencil, Electron, 750 • i
Penrhyn Slate Quarry, North Wales, Electncal Equipment of, 3.56*
Penzig, P., on Temperature-Indicating Paints, Perdval, Capt. B. W., on Comfort in Air Travel, Percolator, Electro-Magnetic (^pW Magnet- ting Machine Co., Ltd.), 179
Permanent Magnets. See Magnets
- Way Condition, Effect on Path of Wheels, Personal, 12, 40, Joo ’ }??’ cnn’ 530’
278, 310, 340, 372, 404 436, 468, 500, 530,
560 590, 620, 650, 682, 712, 744, 774 Personnel, Administrative, for Works, Training Perth,Vast,’Power Station, Western Australia, PestMinl Prof. J. M., Invention of Metadyne Petrol^Motors. See Aeronawfics ; En^nes, Pe
tr^; Motor Cars ; Motor Boats ; Trat:tors
Tractors. See Tractors
PetrXum .and Allied Industries, Dangerous
- IiSSe'"’of,^^Symposia™. JSS’
Gases in Petroleum and Allied Industries,
Technology, Annual Reviews (Review), 119
— See also Oil; Engines, Oil
Petters, Ltd., 160-M-. Non-Magnetic p,esel
Engine for R.R.S. Research, 412
Phenix, French Submarine, Loss of, 748 Philips Lamps, Ltd., Rontgen-Ray Tub Philipinne^^ D^fencT’Department, Motor Tor- Phosphor BroMe Sheet and Strip, Speciflca- Photogr"ammrtry, Aerial and Terrestrial
Engineering Applications of (^®yje\\), 70 Photographic Emulsion and Modern Photo Phoffiter’, ^^Photo-Electric, Multi-Range (General Electric Co., Ltd,) 105
ScQ and,iso MicrophotometeI' Photomicrographs. See
Physical Laboratory. See Physical
Laboratory . c* aft*
— Society, Exhibition of A
PaVl’ 3^7'?‘^^Vport3’ on ^Progress to
Measuring Instrument, 699
Physics, Cosmic Rays, Investigation o^ 534
— Electronics, Fundamental, and vacuum Tubes (Review), 704 .
— Nuclear and Electron (Review), 4
— Reports on Progress in
— Rontgen-Ray Investigations and Appllca tions (Review), 366 ,
— See also Physical Society and PARAGRAPH PhyrioFogTcal Effects of Atmospheric Condi- tions on Workpe^le, 690
Pickier, Continuous, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, PickllT’j. T., Helical-Blade Wood-Planer Cutter Block, 144*
Piers Bridge, Settlement of Foundations of, 568 Kercey, Ltd., “ Threshold ’ Treatment for Pig l®ron pTSX’M^tLPncc Biayraras ^®lTeservTkational 254 See LETTER, 275 Pilatus Railway, Electrification of, 579 Pile Foundations, Settlement of, 568 Pilsen, Skoda Works, Oil-Free Reciprocating
Air Compressor, 276* pipes^CasLIron^and Steel, Pitting Corrosion of, 7ft7* .r
-Earthenware, Rapid Jointing System for (Pipe-Joint Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 445
— Fhie^’AsbeUos-Cement, Speciflcarion, 774 Hot, Heat Loss from External Surface of, Plne^Joint Manufacturing Co., Ltd-, R^j^^ P Jointing System for Cable Conduits and Earthenware Pipes, 44o ,
Ring-Type Victaulic (Stewarts and ^S^rivelUng’^Barco Manufacturing Co.),
- Lead*and Sheet Metals, Pamphlet on Soldering of, 666
Z Z Water*^Contamination by. Investigation
- L?ne,*^Steel, Lochaber Water-Power Scheme,
391*
Welding of, 708
— Steam. See Steam
(R.- view), 494
Piping,^Ferrous, for Land Boilers, Specification, Pirie^^H. L., on Producer-Gas Propulsion for Road Transport, 442
Piston Pump for Oil-Free Air ^ompr^sor, 276
— Ring Blow-By on ®
gines, Investigation on,^693 , 723
-and Cylinder Wear, 163,170
Materials for Oil-Free Air Compressor, 276*
with Push-Button Control, 301 Planing Machine. See Machine on
Planning, Political and Economic, Report on Plaste Industry, Processes and Machinery in -MOTlSng^fte^stB CR- Stela
Press, 50-75 ton (T. H. and J- nameis, Plate^^'^and^Bara, Welded, Repeated-Stress — Edge^^Plaidn’g Machine. See Planing Ma- - Tools
Plates, Steel, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams -with Riveted or Welded Joints, Fatigue in, 430,451*, 513*
strip. Steel, Manufacture, Ebbw Vale •ni Works, 489*. See LETTER, 556
Platinum-Resistance Pyrometers. See Pyro- meters
Pleasance, R. J., on Intercrystalline Corrosion of Aluminium Alloys, 332
Plough, Motor. See Tractor
Plummer, H., on Embrittlement of Tin at Elevated Temperatures, 332
Pneumatic Cores, Ltd., Pneumatic Cores for Concrete Floors, 571*
Tools. See Machine Tools
Air; Air Compressor
Poles, Traction, Steel, Tubular, Specification, 590
Political and Economic Planning, Report on Location of Industry, 715
Pollution Research Board, Water, Annual Report, 748
Polyspeed ” Electric Motor and Regulator, 65*
Polytechnic. See Education
‘‘ ^rcuplne ” Boiler, Col. J. Stevens’, 505
Port, Colombo, Dry Dock, 549*
— Rembla Steelworks, New South Wales, bteam Engineering at, 554
— of New York Authority, Annual Report, 473
3.^ Rai^oon, Tidal-Model Experiments, 439 Portable Engine. See Engine
See Machine Tools
Portland Cement. See Cement
Portobello Power Station Extensions, 433*. See Erratum, <^17
Post Ofiice, British, Carnarvon Wireless Station, Dismantling of, 441; Exposition of Telephone System (Review), 495; 30-kW. Mobile Battery-Charging Set, 647* : His- Department, 692: Exhibits at Institution of Civil Engineers’ Conversazione, 749
I^otato Sorter, Power-Driven (Cooch and Son) 769*
Powdered Coal. See Pulverised Coal Consumption of, o7o, 778
— Factor Corrector (Cornell-Dubilier Electric
Corporation), 290*
See Oas ; Producers
— Heating Plants, Pipe Work for (Review), 494
Mechanical Engineering Exhibition,
— Plant, Hydro-Electric, Boulder Dam, Elec
trical Features of, 145*, 214*, 713 ^^y*iro-Electric, British, Units Generated,
Cost of Generation in,
-Hydro-Electric, Exhibits at Swiss National Exhibition, 626
-Hydro-Electric, Gatineau River, 34,000- h.p. Electric Generator, 367
Hydro-Electric, Lochaber, 329*, 391*
^gJ'‘^f<’-E^ectric, New Zealand, Report on, gy^o-EIectric, Progress in Canada, 74
“ ^7^’^<>:;51ectric, Shimsa, India, 36-ln. Rotary Hydraulic Valve, 370*
Sydro-Electric, United States Government, 65
” “ Waikaremoana, 52-in.
Rotary Hydraulic Valve, 370*
— See also Stations ; Substations
— Press._ See Machine Tools
~ ^^<^^i^^Propulsion ;
»°tary.Scythe Mowing
~ Precautions for.
A®=‘?!’dam, Water Extraction irom Steam Turbines at, 417 533
Barton, Tests of 200,000-lb Siraon-Carves Boiler, 141
— Electric, Brimsdown, 2,000-lb. Pressure Jo Generating Plant, 614*
? 2. Errata, 712, 757
"Electric, l^ritish, Fuel Consumption and Units Generated, 716
Proposals for New, 345 Electric, British, Schemes for, 148 779 ~24^*156 Turbines for,
Generation in, 521, 642,
High-Temperature Experiences with, 25, 53* Electric, East Perth, Australia, 105*
Expression of Efficiency of, 616*. See LETTERS, 679
to. 317*. ti^^oTsis^ire' Qp®™-
“ Ki^gston-on-Thames. Fire at.
73 ; Report on Fire, 596
ll-kv. 1.500.000- kVA Switchgear, 401* 75^^778^’ Financial Aspects of,
Electric, New Zealand, 282
-Electric, Plants for Peak-Load and Emergency Service, 43
Hortobello, Extensions to, 433*
See Erratum, 477
779^^^^“^’ Selected British, Schemes for, ®oy*^hwick, 37,500-kW. Brush- lurbo-Alternator, 587*, 749
Tnrb?p^’ ^^orpe Norwich, 30,000-kW.
Turbo-Generator, 57*, 115*
Electric, Trenton Channel, High-Tem- steam Plant, Experiences with,
United States Practice in, 65 Anthracite Duff in, 232* fro™’20^'’f Pulverised-Fuel
Practice, Chemistry Applied to, 289
Power Stations, Steam, Expression of Efficiency of, 616*. See LETTERS, 679
See also Pother Plants ; Substations
— Supply, Electric, Advertising and Publicity for, 773
Electric, Air-Raid Precautions for Electricity Undertakings, 773, 778
Electric, Alternating-Current Transmission, Future of, 33*, 317*, 227*. See LETTERS, 781
Electric, Blackpool District, Report on Failure of, 596
Electric, Central Electricity Board s Report, 408
Electric, Construction of Tariffs for, 472 Electric, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 494 Electric, Economic Principles of Distribution (Review), 764
Electric, Electricity Commissioners* Report, 412
Electric, for Electro-Metallurgical and Electro-Chemical Industries, 521, 581, 642, 747
Electric, Generation and Consumption, 678,778
Electric, Great Britain, Effect of Cold Weather on, 17
Electric, International High-Tension Conference, 656
Electric, Kingston-on-Thames, Failure of, 73, 596
Electric, Liverpool and District, 720, 778
Electric, Mount Pilatus Railway, 579*
Electric, Municipal, Financial Aspects of, 751, 778
Electric, and National Defence, 45 —. — Electric, New Zealand, Report on, 282 Electric, Penrhyn Slate Quarry, 356* Electric, Power Circuits, Theory and Application (Review), 366
( Electric, in Relation to Public Services, 535
Electric, Thermal Plants for Peak Loads, 43
Electric, Wards Island Sewage Works,583* Electric, in Wartime, 345
— Transmission, Overhead Lines, Economics
of Alternating-Current for, 34*, 117*, 227*. See LETTERS, 781.
Overhead Lines, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 408
Overhead Lines, Mount Pilatus Railway, 579*
Overhead Lines in New Zealand, 282 Overhead Lines, Steel-Cored. Copper
Conductors, Specification, 682
Overhead Lines, Ultra-Long Distance, 217*
Overhead Lines, Value of Grid, 678, 778 See also Gear; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
— Water. See Hydraulic; Power Plants,
Hydro-Electric; Pelton Wheels ; Turbines, Hydraulic
Presidential Address to Federation of British Industries, by P. F. Bennett, on Work of Federation, 505
to Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association, by H. C. Lamb, on Electricity i Supply and Consumption, 678. See 778 I to Institution of Gas Engineers, by R.
Robertson, on Work of the Institution, 717 to Institution of Mining Engineers, by
Col. Sir F. R. Simpson, on Safety in Coal Mines, 225
to Institution of Naval Architects, by Lord Stonehaven, on Shipbuilding Industry, 398
to Institution of Water Engineers, by J. Bowman, on Water-Supply Problems, 664
Press. See Machine Tools Preston, G. F., the Late, 197 Prices of Metals. See Metal Price Diagrams ** Prince of Wales,” H.M. Battleship, Launch of, 569*
” Princeton,” United States Steam Frigate, 508 Producer-Gas Engine. See Engines, Gas Portable, for Motor Vehicles, 442, 474.
See Erratum , 532
Principles of Control of, 545 for Road Vehicles (Koela Producer-Gas
Plant Co., Ltd.), 631*
Production, Census of, and Import Duties Act Inquiry (1935), Report, 623
— Control System (Colourdex Control, Ltd.),
688*
— Organisation, Science of (Review), 476 Profilometer (Physicists Research Co.), 699* Projection Microscope (Bellingham and Stanley,
Ltd.), 306*
— Slice Paper-Making Machine, 236*. See
Erratiim, 279
Proofing Process for Sandbags for Air-Raid
Protection, Value of, 658 Propellers, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Marine, Inventors of, 507 S.S. ” Mauretania,” 770
Shape of Blade Sections for, 594 ” Singing,” Investigations on, 594 Twin, Model Experiments on, 431 Voith-Schneider, M.S. ” Vecta,” 402* Vortex Theory of, 765 Propulsion of Ships. See Marine Propulsion;
Engines; Turbines; Propellers; Ship Resistance
Public Services, Electricity Supply in Relation to, 535
— Works Department, Nigeria, Annual Report,
403
Pulley, Split, Steel (D. Lawson and Co., Ltd.), 69 Pulverised Anthracite Duff for Steam Generation, Results with 232*
— Coal Ash, Utilisation of, 203
Fired Rotary Furnace for Steel Castings, 756
Plant, Brancepeth Works, Standard Pulverised Fuel Co., Ltd., 755*
— Fuel Plant, Hams Hall Power Station,
Operating Results, 313, 316
Pulveriser, Swing-Beater (Christy and Norris. Ltd.), 176*
Pulverising Mill for Coal (Babcock <fe Wilcox.
Ltd.), 175*
— Centrifugal, Aerodynamic Testing of, 93*
Motor-Driven (Girdlestone and Co.), 181* Rubber-Lined (Quimby Pump Co.), 122*.
See Addendum^ 276
Worthington, Wards Island Sewage Works, 457*
— Circulating, for Loeffler Boilers, 614*
— Diaphragm, Motor-Driven (Girdlestone and
Co.), 181*
— Fuel-Oil, Internal-Gear Type (Monarch
Manufacturing Works, Inc.), 483*
— Reciprocating, Wards Island Sewage Works,
519*
— Rotary Displacement, High-Speed (Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.), 479*
Fareso, 293*
— Trailer, 120-gaIl. per min. Petrol-Driven (Sigmund Pumps (Great Britain), Ltd.), 453*
— Vacuum, or Rotary Compressor for Corrosive Gases (Nash Engineering Co.), 447*
Pumping and Heating Unit, Oil-Fuel Installation, S.S. ” Llandovery Castle,” 681*
— Plant, High-Pressure, Brimsdown Power Station, 670*
S.S. ” Mauretania,” 741*, 770*
Wards Island Sewage Works, New York, 456*,519*, 583*
— Set, Petrol-Driven, Portable (Girdlestone and Co.), 181*
Purification of Sewage. See Sewage
— of Water. See Water
Purifiers, Tower, Thyssen-Lenze, Wandsworth Gas Works, 765
Purton, F., the Late, 530
Pusher, Slab, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 490* Fygmylyte Industrial Petrol Engine, 786*
Pyrometer, Recording, Photo-Electric, High-
Speed (Poster Instrument Co., Ltd.), 8*
— Schofield, Quick-Immersion, for Liquid-Steel
Temperature Determinations, 546, 556
— Surface-Contact (Ether, Ltd.), 246*

QUARRY, Slate, Penrhyn, North Wales, Electrical Equipment of, 356*
“ Queen Olga,” Greek Destroyer, 220
Queensland, Railway Commissioner’s Annual Report. 473
Quenching of Steel. See Heal Treatment under Metallurgy
Quicksilver. See Mercury and Metal Price Diagrams
Quimby Pump Co., Rubber-Lined Centrifugal Pump, 122*. See Adderuium^ 276
Quinones, M. A., on Performance of Centrifugal Pump Using Air, 94*

RABOMA Maschlnenfabrik, Head for Kadiai Drilling Machine, 302*
Racks and Bins, Steel, for Storage, Specification, 530
?— Toothed, for 3-ton Overhead Crane on Inclined Gantry, 758*
Radial Drill. See Drill under Machine Tools Radio Interference, Limits of. Specification, 682 Suppression for Trolley ’Buses and Tramways, Specification, 485
Radiotelegraphy. See also Telegraphy, 11'/reless Radio telephony. See also Telephony, Wireless Raft Foundations, Settlement of, 568
Rail and Road Central Conference, Formation of, 624
— Steel, Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
— 300-ft., Use by London Passenger Transport
Board, 266
— Vertical Path of Wheel Moving Along, 200 Railcars. See Carriages, Railway Railroads. See Railways
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
— Argentine State, Diesel-Engined Suburban
Trains, 601*
— Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Harbour Dis
trict, Tests of Pendulum-Suspension Bogie, 517*
— Bridge. See Bridge
— British, History of, Down to 1830 (Review),
89
and Rate Control, 73, 161
— Carriage. See Carriage
— Charges, Regulation of. Report, 624
— Collision at York, Report, 11
— Commissioner, Queensland, Annual Report,
473
— Electric, Application of Metadyne on, 354*
— Electrification in 1938,149
Incidental Problems in, 564
Technical Aspects of, 134
— and Emergency Road-Service Licen?e3, 72
— European, Electrification on, 634
— French, Electrification on, 634
— Great Western, Report on Proposed Electri
fication of Taunton to Penzance Line, 625
— Guaqui-La Paz, Bolivia, 330-b.h.p. Diesel
Locomotive, 324*. See Addendum, 413
— Haiphong-Yunnan Fu, 731*
— Highland, History of (Review), 425
— Italian State, 3,000-volt Direct-Current
Electric Train, 629*
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— London, Midland and Scottish, “Coronation
Scot ” Train, 38* ; Accident at Wishaw, Report, 197 ; Investigation of Lateral Oscillation of Railway Vehicles, 261*; Report on North Hendre Accident, 547
and North Eastern, Collision at York, Report on, 11
— Mechanical Engineering, Progress of, 130
— Motor Carriage. See Carriage
— Mount Pilatus, Electrification of, 579*
— Passenger Services, Acceleration of, 16
— and Road Transport, Rate Control, 73, 161
— Rolling Stock. See Carriages ; Locomotives
Railway Signalling. Seo SignalUng
Hnuthern Sfcoker-Kirerl Channel Steamer, *“ ^285^ ProWeniH in Kloctrlflcatlon of, 564
— Street.’ See2’rrtmW« .
Swiss Federal, 12,000-h.p. Electric J>oco-
— Track,'^Vertical Path of Wheel on, 200
— Travel, Comfort In. 315
— Tube. Seo Underground
— Underground. Seo
— United States. Engineering Progress on, 130
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Rainfall in Scotland, Records of, 084
and Soil Erosion in United States, 31», 8a*, 239*
Rainponc. C., on Gas Industry in Italy, 697 Rangoon River, Tidal-Model Experiments, 439 Ransome, E. C., the Late, 230
Ransomes and Rapier, LW...Hydraulic R^iffer Stops, Aidgate East Station. 35* ; Gates and Screens, Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 391*
Rapid Magnetting Machine Co., Ltd., Electro- Magnetic Percolator, 179*
Rate Control and British Railways, 73, 161
Rathbun, J. C., on Wind Forces on lall Building, 191 ,
Rawlplug Co., Ltd., Rawlplug Screw Anchors, 209
Rays, Cosmic, Investigation of, 534
— Electric. See Cathode ; Hnnigen
Reactors, Oil-Immersed, Rotherham Corporation, 602*
Reamer, Expansion, with Wimet Tips (A. C. Wickman, Ltd.), 184*
Rearmament and Engineering Industry, 18 Recorder, Carbon Dioxide (J. Gordon and Co., Ltd.), 211*
— Controller, Process Time-Cycle (Negrettl and
Zambia), 10* .
— Specific-Gravity, for Liquids (G. Kent, Ltd.),
103* ,
— Speed, Colliery-Cage (Everett, Edgcumbe and Co.. Ltd.), 10*
Rectifiers, Mercury-Arc, Mount Pilatus Railway, 579*
— 1,000-kW. Pumpless Air-Cooled (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 208*
Recuperator, Needle-Tube (Newton, Chambers and Co., Ltd.), 209*
Red Lead, Manufacture and Properties of, 760*
Redmayne, Sir R. A. S., on Coal as Fuel for Warships, 316
Redpath, Brown and Co., Ltd., Steelwork for Pottobello Power Station Extensions, 433* Reduction Gears. See Gears
Rees, R. L., on Chemical Engineering in Steam Generation, 289
Refractories, Creep of, at High Temperatures, 482
— Research Association, British, Report on
Refractory Materials for Steelworks and Blast Furnaces, 575, 612
— Tests and Specifications for, 482
— Materials for Steelworks and Blast Furnaces,
Report, 575, 612
See also Firebricks
Refrigerating Plant, S.S. “Mauretania,” 772
Refrigeration, Mechanical, Theory of (Review), 674
Refugee Scientists, National Appeal for, 193
Regulator, Automatic, for Turbo-Compressor, 309*
— Feed-Water, and Alarm, Thermo-Electric (Laidlaw, Drew and Co., Ltd.), 657*
Reheating Furnace. Seo Furnace
Reid, W., on Rolling-Mill Plant, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 556. See 490*
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
Relay, Dry-Contact (British Thermostat Co., Ltd.), 184*
Renfrew, Iron and Steel Foundries, Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 359*
Rennie, Sir J., Works of, 258
, Repeated Stresses. See Alternating Stress under
I Tests {Materials}
Report, Air-Raid Shelter Construction, 159 Raid Shelters, Lord Privy Seal's Conference, 504
— Alloy Steels Research Committee, 613, 663
— Analysis of Mine Dust, 113
— Annual, Brisbane Department of Works,
Water Supply and Sewerage, 595
British Corporation Register of Shipping and Aircraft, 283
British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, 185
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, 466
Central Electricity Board, 408
Electricity Commissioner’s, on Engineering and Financial Statistics, 412
Engineering Public-Relations Committee, 505
Inland Water Survey Committee, 538 London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, 655
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, 72
Port of New York Authority, 473 Public Works Department, Nigeria, 403 Queensland Railway Commissioner, 473 Road Fund Administration, 224 Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 779 Science Museum, South Kensington, 625, 627
Scientific and Industrial Research Department, 253
Traffic Commissioners’, 72
United States National Museum, 466 Water-Pollution Research Board, 748 — Census of Production and Import Duties Act Inquiry (1935), 623
— Combustibles in Manholes, Boston, Massachusetts, 326
— Concrete Road Con truction, German Motor Roads, 569
— Damage to Hammersmith Bridge, 530
— Decay of Timber and its Prevention, 266
— Economic and Commercial Conditions in Brazil, 780
— Electricity Breakdown in Blackpool District, 596
Supply in New Zealand, 282
Report, Ebctricity Supply Failure at Kingston- on-Thames Power Station, 596, See 73
— Fibre Cores for Colliery Winding Ropes, 233
— Fixation of Sulphur from Smelter Smoke,144
— on Gas Industry in Great Britain (Review), 524
— on Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, 544, 555
— Hydro-Electric Progress in Canada, 74
— Indian Trade, March-September, 1938, Survey of, 265. See 160
— International Association for Hydraulic Structures Research, 787
— Libraries in Technical Institutions, 314
— Location of Industry in Great Britain, 715
— Machinery for Concrete-Road Construction, 597
— Midland Coke Research Committee, 729
— North Hendre Railway Accident, 547
— Prevention of Silicosis by Metallic Aluminium, 732
— on Progress in Physics (Review), 551
— Railway Accident at Wishaw, 197 Collision at York, 11
— Refractory Materials for Steelworks and Blast Furnaces, 575, 612
— Regulation of Railway Charges, 624
— Royal Commission on Safety in Coal Mines, 15
— Sampling and Analysis of Coal, 323
— Sewage Purification Experiments, 476
— Special Areas Cemmissioners’, for England,
Wales and Scotland, 44
— Statutory Wiring Regulations, 377
— I’nited Kingdom Trade in India, Conditions
and Prospects, 160. See 265
— Ventilation of Manholes, 92
— Wearing Properties of Metals in Clay Plants,
637
— Welding Research Committee, Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, 602*, 635*
Research on Air-Conditioning in Industry, 690*
— Association, British Electrical and Allied
Industries, Annual Report, 185 ; Annual Luncheon, 193
— Board, Forest Products, Kiln-Drying Sche
dules, 83 ; Testing of Containers, 124* ; Report on Decay of Timber and its Prevention, 266
Gas. Formation of, 736 ' Safety in Mines, Report on Analysis of i
Mine Dusts, 113 ; Report on Fibre Cores j for Colliery Winding Ropes, 233 ’
Water-Pollution, Annual Report, 748 ;
— Committee, Aeronautical, Investigation
Fretting Corrosion, 281, 293* Alloy Steels, Report, 613, 663 Civil-Defence, Appointment of, 591 Coke, Midland, Report, 729 Pipe-Flanges, Institution of Mechanical
Engineers’, Second Report, 409, 418*, 479* Welding, of Institution of Mechanical
Engineers, Report, 602*, 635*
— Council, Iron and Steel, Industrial, Report
on Heterogeneity of Steel Ingots, 544, 555 ; Report on Refractory Materials for Steelworks and Blast Furnaces, 575, 612; Report on Alloy-Steel Research, 613, 663
— Department, Scientific and Industrial,
Annual Report, 253 ; Principles of Modern Building, Vol. I (Review), 494 ; Pamphlets on Methods of Detection of Sulphur . Dioxide and Benzene Vapour, 711 ; Work on Aggregates in Concrete, 751. See 386*. See LETTERS, 781
— Hydraulic Structures, International Association for, Report, 787
— Industrial, as a Career, 75
— in Iron and Steel Industry, 131. See also Research Council, Iron and Steel, Industrial
— Laboratory, Forest Products, Kiln-Drying
Schedules, 83 ; Container Testing at, 124* ; Work on Decay of Timber, 266
— Medical, Canadian Department of. Investi
gation of Prevention of Silicosis by Aluminium, 732
— Papers, German Aeronautical (Review), 627
— in Problems of Flight, 686, 694*
— Royal Research M.S., Non-Magnetic Diesel Engine for, 412*
— Station, Building, Apparatus for Investigating Soil Mechanics, 749 ; Investigations on Air-Raid Precautions, 786
Fuel, Trials with Anthracite Duff at, 232 ; Experiments on Swelling Pressures from Coal, 344 ; Experiments on Blending of Coals, 654. See 587
— Tin, International, and Development Coun
cil, Pamphlet on Soldering of Lead Pipes and Sheet Metals, 666
— See also National Physical Laboratory Reservoir, Carron, Design and Construction of,
664
— Lochaber Water Power Scheme, 329*, 391 *
— Silting of, in United States, 32* Resident Engineers and Local-Government
Superannuation, Decision on, 659 Resistance, Electric. See Electric
— of Ships. See Ship Resistance
— Welding. See Welding
Retort, Static Vertical, Croydon Gas Works,
Tests of, 736
— Horizontal, Standard Test Code for, 109 Reversing Gear for Marine Motors (L. Gardner
and Sons, Ltd.), 634* Reviews. See LITERATURE INDEX Reymer, S. E., on Portable Automatic Traffic
Counter, 477*
Reyrolle, A., and Co., Ltd., Switchgear for Hackney Power Station, 320 ; Flameproof Air-Break Switchgear, 446*
Rhodesia, Otto Beit Suspension Bridge, 625 Ribble Navigation from Preston to the Sea,
History of (Review), 397
Richards, G. and Co., Ltd., 35-ft. Vertical Boring and Turning Mill, 508*
Richardsons Westgarth, Brown, Boveri, Ltd., 30,000-kW. Steam Turbine and Condensers, 435*
Riffkin, Dr. J., on Ignition Quality of Diesel Fuels, 1* ; on Influence of Injection Timing on Delay Period in Oil Engines, 552* Riley, G, E., the Late, 531
Riley, Prof. H. L., on Influence of Carbonising Conditions on Coke Properties, 587. See 654
Riley Stoker Co., Ltd., Automatic Stoker for
Large Boilers, 178*
Rimmer, E., J., on Conditions of Engineering
Contracts, 107, 139
Rings, Piston. See Piston Rings
Rissik, H., on Future of Alternating-Current Power Transmission, 33*, 117*, 227*.
See LETTERS, 781
Ritter, W., Veneer-Cutting Machine, 428* River Carron, Reservoir on, 664
— Colorado, Boulder Dam Power Plant, Electrical Features, 145*, 214*, 713
— Dee Estuary, Tidal-Model Experiments, 439
— Mississippi, St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic
Laboratory, Minneapolis, 609*
— Model Laboratory, St. Anthony Falls
Hydraulic Laboratory, Minneapolis, 609
— Nile, Upper, Training of (Review), 475
— Rangoon, Tidal-Model Experiments, 439
— Ribble Navigation from Preston to Sea (Review), 397
— Russian, Passenger Motorships for, 93
— Shing Mung, Hong Kong, Gorge Dam on,,134
— Zambesi, Motor Lighter for, 143* ; Otto
Beit Suspension Bridge Over, 62.5
Rivet Heater, Electric, Double-Deck (American
Car and Foundry Co.), 121*
— Steel, Fatigue Tests of, 514*
Riveted Joints, Fatigue in, Investigations on, 430, 451*, 513*
Riveter, Pneumatic. See Machine Tools Road, Concrete, Machinery for Construction, Report, 597
— Fund, Administration of, Annual Report, 224
— Improvements in Middlesex, 255
— Locomotives. See Motor Vehicle ; Tractor !
— London, Government Grants for, 255
— Materials, Bituminous, Mechanical Testing of (Review), 765
— Motor, German, Concrete Construction, Report, 569 I
— Policy of London County Council, 192
— Problem in London, 161
— and Rail Central Conference, Formation of,
624 Transport, Rate Control, 73, 161
— and Town Planning Exhibition, 282
— Traction, Railless Electric. See Trolley
— Transport in Wartime, Plans for, 101
— Travel, Comfort in, 315 Roberts, L., the Late, 437
Robertson, A. H., on Fixation of Sulphur from Smelter Smoke, 144
Robertson, D., on Resistance of Glass Containers to Thermal Shocks, 201
Robertson, R., on Work of Institution of Gas Engineers, 717 .
Robertson, T. S., on Fatigue in Riveted or Welded Joints, 451*, 513*. See 430
Robinson, I. V., on Expression of Power- Station Efficiency, 679. See 616*
Robinson, P. J., on Electrical Development and Distribution, 720. See 778 .
Robson, W. D., on Prevention of Silicosis by Aluminium, 732
Rochester Manufacturing Co., Inc., Liquid- Level Indicator, 292*
Rockefeller Centre, New York, Associated Press Building, 350*. See Erratum, 499
Rockware Glass Co., Ltd., Experiments on ' Wellman Gas Producer, 545
Rodgers, Dr. J. W., on Strain-Ageing of Dead- Mild Steel Strip, 585
Rogers, Wilson and Co., Ltd., Toggle-Operated Rubber-Moulding Press, 658*
Roll, Suction, Couch, for Paper-Making Machines, 262* r /T
Rolled Sections, Straightening Machine for (J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd.), 50 i
Roller-Bearing Crankshaft, Hirth, 154* See also Bearings . .
— Slewing, of Cranes, Load Distribution on,
238*
Rolling, Cold, of Steel Strip, Rolls for, 786
— Mill, Cold, Four-High, for Steel Strip (Davy
and United Engineering Co., Ltd.), 781
Cold, High-Speed (Ehrhardt und Seh- mer) 464*
Pinions, Rapid Production of (D. Brown and Sons (Hudd.), Ltd.), 152
Plant, Ebbw Vale Steel Works. 490*
for Sections, Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co., Ltd., 586
— of Ships. See Ships
Stock Industry, Position and Prospects, 302 See also Carriages ; Locomotives Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Aluminium-Tin Bearing Metal, 789
“ Roman ” Cement, History of, 757
Ronceray, E., on Economic Foundry Production, 495, 511*, 534
Rontgen-Rav Analysis of Metals, 788
Investigations and Applications (Review), 366
Investigation of Cobalt-Aluminium Al- _-[^Tube^^for Crystal Analysis (Philips Rop^^wVndJa^ Reduction of Dynamic Stresses in, 23* '
— Wire. See Wire Ropes .
Rosin, Prof. P. O., on Aerodynamics of Domes-
Roskilt33®"v.*"on Electro - Metallurgical and Electro-Chemical Industries, 521, 581, 642. See 747
Rotary Blowers. See Blowers
Engine. See Engine; Aeronautics
Rorheram and Sons‘’ud., Exhibits at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 49
— Corporation, Oil-Immersed Reactors, 602* Rotodrill Hand Drill, 413 .
Rotor for 37,500-kW. Brush-Ljungstrom Turbo-Alternator, 589*
— for 30 000-kW. Electric Generator, 116*
f0P 82,500-kVA. Generator Boulder-Dam Power Plant, 145*
— High-Pressure and Low-Pressure, for 30,000- kW. Steam Turbine, 57*
— Steam-Turbine, Critical Speed of, 763
for Turbo-Alternators, Milling Machine for
(Schiess-Defries), 351*
Rotosythe Mowing Machine, 182*
Roughness, Surface, Measuring Instrument
(Physicists Research Co.), 699*
Measuring Instrument, Shaw Contoro- grapb, 203*
Royal Aeronautical Society. See Aeronautical
— Agricultural Society. See Agricultural
— Commission on Safety in Coal Mines, Report, 15
“ Royal Daffodil,” Cross-Channel M.S., 655
— Hungarian Institute of Technology, Tests of
100-h.p. Jendrassik Combustion Turbine, 186*

Royal Institution :

Bigger London or Better London, by Sir C.
Bressey, 161
Work of Dr. L. Mond, by Prof. F. G. Donnan, 345
Recent Researches in Steel Metallurgy, by
Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 346 Magnets, by Prof. W. L. Bragg, 595* Phenomena of Liquid Helium, by Prof. J. D. Cockcroft, 677*
Royal Naval College, Greenwich, Investigations on Fatigue in Riveted and Welded Joints, 430, 451*, 513*
— Navy. See Navy ; Warships
— Observatory, Greenwich, Annual Report, 779

Royal Society :

Conversazione for Society for Protection of Science and Learning, 193
— and Exhibition, 656
Royal Society of Arts. See Arts
— Statistical Society, Statistical Control of
Quality of Telephone Service, by W. F. Newland and B. E. Neal, 136*
Rubber Moulding, Toggle-Operated Press for (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 658*
— Parts, Lubricant for (E. G. Acheson, Ltd.),
539
— Uses in Ship Construction, 80
Rumford, Count, Improvement of Domestic Fireplaces by, 375
Russell, J., and Co., Ltd., A.R.P. Spray Fittings, 273*
Russian Rivers, Passenger Motorships for, 93 Rusting. See Corrosion
Ruston, Col. J. S,, the Late, 536
Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Atomiser for Airless- Injection Engines, 64* ; 80-b.h.p. Four- Cylinder High-Speed Oil Engine, 165*

SACHS, Prof. G., on Forging of Strong Aluminium Alloys, 332
Safety in Coal Mines, Improvements in, 225 Mines, Royal Commission's Report, 15
— in Mines Research Board, Report on Analysis of Mine Dusts, 113 ; Report on Fibre Cores for Colliery Winding Ropes, 233
—- in Oil Tanks, Procedure for, 376
—- Precautions for Water Undertakings, 161
— Shields for Machine Tools, 574* Saint. See St.
Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd., Layer- Thickness Meter, 49*
Salter, G., Co., Ltd., Deadweight Gauge Tester, 274*
Sampling and Analysis of Coal, Report, 323
—' of Coal, Principles and Value of, 662*
— and Testing Mineral Aggregates, Specification, 447
Sand Bath, Gas-Fired (Selas Gas and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 247*
— Preparation and Handling Plant in Foun
dries, 495, 511*
— Pressure and Lateral Supports, 566*
— Reconditioning and Mixing Plants, Renfrew
Foundries, Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 361*
— Tables for Paper-Making Machines, 235*
Sandbags for Air-Raid Protection, Durability Tests, 658
Sankey, J., and Sons, Ltd., 3-ton Overhead Magnet Crane on Inclined Gantry, 758*
Saunders, Comdr. H. E., on David W. Taylor Model Basin, 80
Sauveur, Prof. A., the Late, 136 .
Savage, J. L., Boulder Dam Power Plant, 145*, 214*. See 713
Saws. See Machine Tools
Scale in Boilers, Prevention of, 320
— Prevention, ” Threshold ” Treatment for, 293 Schade, Lieut.-Comdr. H. A., on Bending
Theory in Ship-Bottom Structure, 79
Scheveningen, Holland, Coastal Groyne, Use of Asphaltic Bitumen in, 306
Schiess-Defries, 26-ft, Plate-Edge-Planing Machine, 137* ; Milling Machine for TurboAlternator Rotors, 351* ; Bevelling Machine for Ship-Frame Sections, 287*
Schofield, Dr. F. H., Quick-Immersion Thermocouple for Steelworks, 545, 656
Schofield and Samson, Ltd., Portable Pipe- Bending Machines, 243*
Scholarships. See Education
Schuler, L., A.-G., Deep-Drawing Hydraulic Press, 353* ; Sheet-Metal Stretching
? Presses, 526*
I Schuster, Dr. F., on Gas Industry in Germany,
' 697
Schuster, L. W., on Fatigue Tests on Welded Joints, 635
Schweizerische Lokomotiv- und Maschlnen- fabrik. Carriage for Mount Pilatus Railway, 580*
Science, Impacts on Society, 224, 595, 655, 712
— and Learning, Society for Protection of.
National Appeal, 193
— Museum, South Kensington, Illumination
Section, 377; Gifts of Scientific Instruments to, 535 ; Annual Report, 625, 627 ; Historic Aeroplanes at, 631
Scientific Apparatus Exhibition, Institution of Civil Engineers Conversazione, 749
Exhibition, Physical Society’s, 8*, 48*, 102*
Scientific Apparatus Exhibition, Koyal Society Conversazione, 656
— Instruments, Gifts to Science Museum, 535
— Instruments and Glass, British Exhibit at
New York World’s Fair, 368
Manufacturers’ Association of Great Britain, Exhibit at New York World’s Fair, 368
— Management. See Works Management
— Research. See Research
— Societies. See Instit'utions
Scientists, Refugee, National Appeal for, 193 Scotland, Commissioner for Special Areas,
Report, 44
— Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in.
See Engineers
— Rainfall in, 1856-1938, Records of, 664 Scott, E. K., on Waterwheel at Seacroft, Leeds,
91 ; on Atmospheric Engine at New River Head, 259 .
Scott-Paine, H., on High-Speed Craft and Their Machinery, 37, 82 .
Scrap-Balling Machine (Head, Wrightson and Co., Ltd.), 604*
“ Scrapeloder,” Three-Drum, 81*
Screw Anchors, Rawlplug (Rawlplug Co., Ltd.),
209 ...
— Propellers. See Propellers ; Aeronautics
— Propulsion, First Twenty Years of, 505, 507 yee also Manne Propulsion
— Threads, Formation by Grinding, 101, 112,
171*
Pipe, Specification, 485
Screwing Machine. See Machine Tools
Sea Damage to Ships’ Cargoes, Investigation on,79 .
— Power and the Next War (Review), 283
— Structures, Protection against Corrosion of,
460, 542*
Seacroft, Leeds, Waterwheel at, 91
Seager, Dr. G. C., on X-Ray Investigation of Cobalt-Aluminium Alloys, 332
“ Seagull,” H.M. Mine-Sweeper, All-Welded Hull Construction in, 459
Seaplanes. See Aeronautics
Secondary Battery. See Accumulator under Electric ; also Motor Vehicles
Sections, Rolled, Straightening Machine for (J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd.), 50
Selas Gas and Engineering Co., Ltd., Gas-Fired Sand Bath, 247* ; Salt-Bath Furnace, 247* ; Laboratory Crucible Furnace, 247* Self-Adjusting Valve Tappets, Ltd., Valve Tappets for Petrol Engines, 445*
Selvey, W. M., on Expression of Power-Station Efficiency, 679. See 616*
Selvig, W. A., on Sampling and Analysis of Coal, 323
Semi-Portable Engine. See Engine
Senior, A., the Late, 278
Senior Economisers, Ltd., Economisers for Loeffler Boilers, 616*
Separators, Centrifugal, for Paper-Making, 235
— Water, for Steam Turbine, 417, 533
Service Aviation. See Aeronautics
Servo-Brake System for Heavy Road Vehicles, 661*
Settlement of Buildings on Clay, 567*
Settling Tanks, Dorr, Wards Island Sewage Works, 519*. See LETTER, 646
Sewage, Domestic, Dual-Filter System for, 748
— Purification, Experiments on. Report, 476
— Works, Wards Island, New York City, 455*, 519*, 583*. See LETTER, 646
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Sewer-Cleaning Machine, Manhattan Borough, New^ York, 687*
Sewerage, in Brisbane, Report, 595
Shackles for Lifting Purposes, Specification, 650
Shaft Coupling. See Coupling
— Crank. See Crankshaft
— and Holes, Fitting of. See Gauging
— Sinking, Calyx Core Drill for (Ingersoll-
Rand Co.), V*
Shafting, Marine-Engine, Strength of, 563
Shannon, Dr. J. F., Investigations on ” Singing ” Propellers, 594
Shaping Machine. See Machine Tools
Shaw Contorograph for Determining Smoothness of Bores, 203*
Shaw, Savin and Albion Co., Ltd., M.S. ” Dominion Monarch,” 185*, 433*, 496*
Shearing Machine. See Machine Tools
Sheet and Strip, Phosphor-Bronze, Specification, 650
Sheffield, Admiralty Inspection Department, Bragg Laboratory, 199* ; Spectrograph for Analysis of Metals, 104*, 385, 572*, 586, 605*
Sheffield Testing Works, Ltd., Tests of Highspeed Twist Drills, 401. See Erratum, 436
Sheffield Twist Drill and Steel Co., Ltd., Tests of High-Speed Twist Drills, 401. See Erratum, 436
Shelters, Air-Raid, Design of, 786
Raid, for Electricity-Supply Undertakings, 773
Raid, Government Committee on, 441 Raid, London, Provision of, 473
Raid, Lord Privy Seal’s Conference, Report, 504
Raid, Steel, Tests, 216*
Raid, Tunnel, Longbridge Works, 506* Raid, Types of, 159
” Shepperton Ferry,” Channel Train-Ferry Steamer, Mechanical - Firing Demonstration, 285*
Shields, Safety, for Machine Tools, 574*
Shimsa Hydro-Electric Scheme, India, 36-in. Rotary Hydraulic Valve, 370*'
Shing Mun River, Hong Kong, Gorge Dam on, 134
Ship-Bottom Structure, Bending Theory in, 79 — Bulk-Cargo, Self-Unloading Gear tor, 80, 321*
— Canal. See Canal
Cargo, Self-Unloading, for Great Lakes, 80, 321*
— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 131, 441
— Construction, Light-Alloy for, 459, 483 Uses for Rubber in, 80
— Corrosion and Fouling, Protection Against, 460, 542*
Ships, Determination of Effective Horse-Power’ 458
— Diesel-Engined. See Motorships ; Marine
Propulsion
— Historic, American, Old Plans of, 79
— Launched, Lloyd’s Statistics, 167 See also Launches
— Model Experiments. See Tank Experiments
and Ship Resistance
— Motor. See Motorships ; Marine Propulsion
— Prevention of Cargo Damage in, 79
— Propellers. See Propellers
— Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion ; En
gines ; Turbines ; Propellers
— Resistance, Effect of Shape of Bow on, 431 Heave and Pitch in Seaway, 458
— Rolling of, Model Tests of, 80
— in Seaway, Heave, Pitch and Resistance of,
458 *
— Siren, Electrically-Operated, 25*
— Twin-Screw, Model Experiments on, 431
— 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- 'ftCandVS
Shipbuilding in 1938, 13
— All-Welded Hull Construction, H.M.S.
“Seagull,” 459
— Bending Theory in Ship-Bottom Structure,79
— Conversion of Great Lakes S.S. “ George E.
Rand,” 80, 321* i
— Design of Excursion Steamers, 79 !
of Self-Trimming Colliers, 400 i
— Hull Design of High-Speed Craft, 37, 82 i
— Industry, Britishj in 1938, Lord Stonehaven
on, 398
British, Position of, 100
Census of Production Statistics, 623
Position and Prospects, 18, 378
— and Iron and Steel Industry, 254. See LETTER,275
— Light-Alloy for Ship Construction, 459, 483
— S.S. “Mauretania,” 701*, 738*, 769*
— Naval. See Warships
— Vessels under Construction, Lloyd’s Sta
tistics, 131. 441
Launched, Lloyd’s Statistics, 167
— Welded Construction on H.M. Aircraft-
Carrier ‘ ‘ Ark Royal,” 388*, 399
— See also Steamers ; Naval; Warships and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipping and Aircraft, British Corporation Register of. Annual Report, 283
— British, Government Aid for, 378, 407 Position and Future of, 100
Coastal, Use by Local Authorities, 565 Shock Tests. See impact Tests under Tests {Materials)
Shop Management. See TForArs Management
Short Brothers (Rochester and Bedford), Ltd., Testing Machine for Aeroplane Struts,577*
— Circuit Testing Authorities, Association of,
Formation, 687
Short and Mason, Ltd., “ Binoc ” Thermometer Tube, 104*
Shorter Process Co., Ltd., Hardening Process for Machine-Tool Beds, 382*
Shovel. See Excavator
Show. See Exhibition
Siemens Direct-Reading Humidity Meter, 759*
— Martin Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Process, Production of Steel Castings, 756 Siemens-Schuckertwerke A.-G., 3-ton Steel-
Melting Electric-Arc Furnace, 359* ; Spot- Welding Machine, 364*
Signiund Pumps (Great Britain), Ltd., 120-gall. per min. Petrol-Driven Trailer Pump, 453* Signalling, Railway, Electric Lamps for, Specification, 530
Silencers for Pneumatic Drills (Yokes, Ltd.), 556*
Silica Bricks. See Firebricks
Silicosis, Prevention by Metallic Aluminium, Report, 732
Silting of Reservoirs in United States, 32* Silver and Gold Plant, Big Missouri Mine, British Columbia, 149*
Simon-Carves, Ltd., Tests of 200,000-lb. Boiler, 141 ; Boilers for Hackney Power Station, 317*. See Addendum, 341
Simpson, Col. Sir F. R., on Safety in Coal Mines, 225
Singapore Airport, Construction of, 546
Siren, Electrically-Operated, for Large Ships, 25*
Skefko Ball Bearing Co., Ltd., L.M.V. Live Centre for Lathe Tailstocks, 259*
Skin Friction. See Ship Resistance
Skinner, H. E., on Marine Corrosion and Paint, 460
Skoda Works, Oil-Free Reciprocating Air Compressor, 276*
Slabs, Concrete, High-Explosive Tests on, 386*. See LETTERS, 751, 781
— Pusher, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 490*
Slate Quarry, Penrhyn, North Wales, Electrical Equipment of, 356*
Sleeper and Hartley, Inc., Electric-Cable Armouring Machine, 231*
Slewing Rollers of Cranes, Load Distribution on, 238*
Slopes, Stability of, Investigation of, 566* Slotting Machines. See Machine Tools Slough, Observatory House, Preservation of, 224 Sludge. See Sewage
Smelt, J. D., the Late, 506
Smelter Smoke, Fixation of Sulphur from. Report, 144
Smelting I’urnaces. See Fiirnaces
Smith, Prof. Dempster, on Machine-Tool . Practice, 111. See 101
Smith, Engr.-Capt. E. C., on Inventions of S. Hall, 91 ; on First Twenty Years of Screw Propulsion. 505, 507; on Engr.
. , Vice-Admiral SirH. J. Oram, 597. See 557 Smith, Sir F. P., Work on Screw Propulsion, 607 Smith, H., and Co. (Possil), Ltd., 39 ft. 6 in Plate-Edge Planing Machine, 665*
Smith, J. C., the Late, 781
Smith, N. S., on Gas Distribution and Sales, 737 Smoke, Smelter, Fixation of Sulphur from, 144
Societa Anoiiima K.I.A.T., 3,000-volt Direct- Current Electric Train, 629*
Societies, Technical and Scientific. See Insli- tutions
— Trade. See Labour ; Labour Notes
Sodium Metaphosphate, Use for Scale Prevention, 293
— Phosphate for Feed-Water Treatment, 320 — Sulphate, Electrolysis of, 174 Softener, Water. See Water Softener Soil Erosion and Conservation in United States. 31*, 85*, 239*
— ^749*'^"*'^^’ Investigation of,
Investigations on, 566*
Lectures on, 404
Solar Telescope, Oxford University Observatory, 267*, 334*
— See also Sun
Soldering Iron, Electrically-Heated (Igranlo Electric Co., Ltd.), 49
— of Lead Pipes and Sheet Metals, Pamphlet
on, 666
Solvents and Chemicals, Specifications, 774 Soot-Blower, Electrically-Operated (Ivor Power Specialty Co., Ltd.), 275*
Sorter, Potato, Power-Driven (Cooch and Son), 769* ’
Sound Transmission through Partitions, Homo- gram for, 110*
South Durham Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Pipe- 391* Lochaber Water-Power Scheme,
— Kensington, Science Museum, Illumination
Section, 377 ; Gifts of Scientific Instruments to, 535 ; Annual Report, 625, 627 • Historic Aeroplanes at, 631 ’
South Metropolitan Gas Co., Production of By-Product Ammonia, 766
— Treforest Trading Estate, Progress
— West, Notes from, 12, 40, 69, 96, 126 157
189, 221, 251, 278, 310, 340, 373, 404 437’ 469, 501, 531, 561, 590, 620, 651, 683, 713’ 745, 775, See PARAGRAPH INDEX ’
— Yorkshire, Notes from, 12, 40, 69 97 126
311. 341,’372’, 405,’ RIQ’ *5?^ 561, 591, 621, 650,
INDEX^^^’ PARAGRAPH
Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Co M.S. ‘ Vecta,” with Voith-Schneider Propulsion, 402*
Southern Railway, Stoker-Fired Channel Steamer, 285* ; Problems in Electrification of, 564 ’
Southwick Power Station, 37,500-kW Brush-. Ljungstrom Turbo-Alternator, 587*, 749 Span, Limits in Bridges and Domes, 223, See LETTER, 259
^^'^^Plant’ 639*^' Coal-Cleaning
Special Areas, England, Wales and Scotland Reports, 44
SpecWc-Gravity Recorder for Liquids fG Kent, Ltd.), 103* '
Specifications for Engineering Contracts, 107
— Standard See Standard
— and Tests for Refractories, 482 Spectrograph, Automatic (A. Hilger Ltd 1
104*. See 199*, 572*, 605*
University Obesrvatory, 267*,
— Analysis of Metals, 104*,
199*, 384, 572*, 586, 605* , I
— ^362 Metallurgical Industry,
Speed-Changing Gears. See Gears
— Recorder Colliery-Cage (Everett, Bdg-
cumbe and Co., Ltd.), 10*
Reduction Gears. See Gears Jvegulation. See
Diagrams I Turbine Co., Portable Industrial i Vacuum Cleaner, 119* 1
Water Power Scheme, 329* Spiral Tube and Components Co., Ltd., Unit f p’" ’ Marine-Type Oil Cooler, 275 *
Splines, Gauges for, 112*
A.R.P. (J. Russell and Co., Ltd.), ~ ” (B.E.N. Patents, Ltd.),
St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory Minneapolis, 609* ’
Borough Council, Metal-Clad a* , .“rritchgear Equipment, 337*
Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics
— 01 Ships. See Ships
^*“^of, ^o'3“726^''“®’ Training
P" Comfort in Rail Travel, 315 Stanchions. See GoZwwws
institution, British, Specification, I wires for Telegraph and Telephone Purposes, 14; Draft Specifications, MicroPlates" '‘20 • SnTcm®*’ ®nrface
TP®-®’ ’ Specifications : Drums for
: Methods of Testing of Chemical Symbols and Abbreviations, 70; Snecifleatinn Ferrous Piping foi Land Ss ^°7 1 rit* /®r Horizontal Retorts and Intermittent Vertical Chambers, 109 ? Specification, Castings for Gear Blanks’ y7 ; London County Council Contribu- tion to, 127 ; Specification, Electrical Ar.P?nn®®® und Accessories, 190 ? Pam- Teimin?! Recommendations for
Terminal Markings for Electrical Mach- = Specifications ;
Testing Mineral Aggregates, 447; Pipe Threads, 485 ; Cast Iron Surface Idates and Tables 485 • Pipe Fittings, 485; Radio-Interfer^ce Suppression for Trolley ’Buses and Tram- 48V ’ r!?i’ Switchgear,
rp B^les and Flexible Cords 485 Tensile Testing of Metals, 530;’ Steel Storage Bins and Racks, 530 ; EleS Lamps for Railway Signalling, 530 • Steel Tubular Traction Poles, 590 • Cak-lron Straightedges, 590; Shackles for Lifting
Purposes, 650; Whale Oil, 650 Ihos nho^Bronze Steel and Strip, 650 , Samp lin'r of (.’oal, Keinarks on, 662 ; Portable PUHC and Plug Boxes, 682 ; Ste®l-Corpd Copper Conductors for Overhead Irans- mikion, 682 ; Lead Pipes, 682 ; ^f
Kadio Interference, 682;
cheon, 748. See 683; Specifications . Chemicals and Solvents, 774; Precast Concrete Blocks for Walls, 774 ; Asbestos- Cement Blue Pipes, 774
Standard Pulverised Fuel Co., peth Coal-Pulverising Works 755*
Standard I’elephones (fe Cables, Ltd., Cathode-
Ray Oscillograph for Watchmakers, 48 Stanier; W. A., “ Coronation Scot Express Train, 38*
Stanworth, J. E., on Glasses for Mercury and Sodium-Discharge Lamps, 684
Start Point Broadcast Transmitting Station, 752*
Starters, Motor. See Motors, Electric State Railways. See Railways
Station, Aidgate-East, Hydraulic Buffer Stops, 35* „ .
King’s Cross Underground, Reconstruction, 749 ,
— Nairobi, Lighting of (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 651
Station, P., on Glasses for Discharge Lamps, 684
— Power. See Power Stations
Statistics, Trade. See Trade
Stator for 37,500-kW, Brush-Ljungstrom Turbo-Alternator, 589*
— for 30,000-kW Electric Generator, 116*
for 82,500-kVA Generator, Boulder Dam Power Plant, 145* .
— for 19,000-kW Turbo-Generator, Bruns-
down Power Station, 669*
Steam Boats. See Steamers
— Boilers. See
— Chest for 30,000-kW Steam Turbine, 58*
— Condenser. See Condenser
— Cycle and Power-Station Efficiency, 616*.
See LETTERS, 679
— Engines. See Engines , , ,
Engineering at Port Kembla Steelworks, New South Wales, 554
— Expanding, Extraction of Condensate from,
416*, 429, 533. See LETTER, 628
' — Generation, Anthracite Duff for, 232*
I Chemistry Applied to, 289
I — High-Pressure and Temperature, in Power Stations, 614*, 653, 669*. See Errata, 712, 767
— Pipes, High-Pressure, Brimsdown Power
Station, 614*
for High-Temperature Steam, Experiences with, 25, 63*
— Plant, High-Temperature, Operating Results, 26, 53*
— Separator. See Separator
— Superheater. See Superheater
— Trap, Thermostatic (Warren Webster and Co., Ltd.), 789*
— Turbines. See Turbines
Steamers, Atlantic Liners, Determination of Effective Horse Power, 458
— Channel, Stoker-Fired, for Southern Rail-
— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 131, 441
— Excursion, “Dixie” and “Liberty Belle, Design of, 79 . ^ » •
— Geared Turbines for. See Marirw Propulsion “ George F. Rand,” for Great Lakes, Belt- Conveyor Unloading Gear in, 80 ; Conversion to Self-Unloading, 321*
— Launched, Lloyd’s Statistics, 167 See also Lawncto
“Llandovery Castle,” Oil-Fuel Installation, 681* , T •
— “ Mauretania,” Cunard White Star Line, 701*, 738*, 769* . _
— Propulsion of. See Marine propulsion ;
Engines ; Turbines ; Propellers
— Resistance of. See Ship Resistance
— Rolling of. See Rolling of
Self-Trimming Colliers, Design and Loading of, 400
— Stability of. See Ships
— Train-Ferry, Channel, “ Shepperton Ferry, Mechanical-Firing Demonstration, 285*
— Union Castle Mail Steamship Co., 605
— See also Engines ; Marine Propulsion ; Shipbuilding ; Shipping; Ships; Turbines ; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Steamships. See Ships ; Steamers ; Warships Steels, Alloy, Research Committee’s Report, 613, 663
— Casting of, Application of Durville Process to, 586
History of, 756
— Construction, American Institute of, Wind- Pressure Experiments on Empire State Building, 191
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Discontinuities in Resistance-Temperature Curves of, 574*
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue and Alternating Stress under Tests {Materials}
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Heat Treatment of. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
— High-Chromium, Effect of Nitrogen and Heat Treatment on, 726*
Chromium. See also Steel, Stainless
— at High Temperatures, Researches on,
— for High-Temperature Steam Plant,
vestigations on, 25, 53*
— Ingots, Heterogeneity of. Report 544, 555
— Lead-Bearing, “ G. K. N. Ledloy,” perties of, 381
— Liquid, Determination of Temperature of, 544, 555
?— Manufacture.. See Furnace
— Metallurgy, Recent Researches in, 346
— Microstructure of. See Microphotographs
— Mild, Strain Age-Hardening of, 585
— Nickel-Clad, Tensile Test of Bond, 286*
— Pipes, Pitting Corrosion of, 787*
— Plates, Prices. See Metal Price Diagrams
Steel Plates, with Riveted nr Welded Joints, Fatigue in, 430, 451*, 513*
and Strip Maniifaet.ure, kbi>w \aie Steel Works, 480*. Sec hBTTEit, 556
— Kails. Sec Hails ; Mefald^rice lhagrams
— Kolliiig Mills. Sec Hollivg Milla
— Ropes.' See Wire Hope.a^
— Speetrocheinieal Analysis of, 574*, 60o .
See 104*. 199*, 385*, 586
— Stainless, for Ctieinical Plant, Properties
of, 707
— Stress Distribution in. See Stress ; 'lests
{Materials)
— Strip, Dead-Mild, Strain-Ageing of, 585 Rolls for Cold-Rolling of, 786
— Structures, Oxy-Acetylcne Welded, London
County Council’s Regulations, 606*
— Tests of. See Tests {Materials)
— Works. See Works
Stellite for Hot Shear Blades (Deloro Smelting and Refining Co., Ltd.), 174*. See Adden- dura,
Stephen, A., and Sons, Ltd., Launch of H.M. Cruiser “ Hermione,” 621
Steriliser, Water, Ultra-Violet Irradiation (Hanovla, Ltd.), 726
Sterling Engine Co., Crankless Diesel Engines, 420*
Sterne, L., and Co., Ltd., Refrigerating Plant, S.S. ” Mauretania,” 772
Stevens, Col. J., Porcupine Boiler, 505
Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., Ring-'J'ype Victaullc Pipe Joint, 183* ; High-Pressure Steam Pipes, Brimsdown Power Station, 614*
Stirlingshire and Falkirk Water Board, Carron Reservoir, 664
Stoker, Automatic, ** Unicalor ” Hopper-Type (J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd.), 179*
— Mechanical, Chain Grate, for Anthracite
Duff, Results with, 232*
Chain-Grate, Hackney Power Station, 318*
for Cylindrical Furnaces (Hope’s Heating and Lighting, Ltd.), 177*
j Retort Type (Riley Stoker Co., Ltd.), 178*
Taylor Retort, with Water-Cooled Tuyeres (American Engineering Co.), 67*
Stoking, Mechanical, for Cross - Channel Steamers, 285*
Stonehaven, Lord, on the British Shipbuilding Industry, 398
Stop Valves. See Valves
Storage Battery. See Accumulator under Electric}; Motor Vehicles
— Bins and Racks, Steel, Standard Specification, 530
Stoss, M. L., on Gas Industry in France, 697
Stoves for Factories (Newton, Chambers and Go., Ltd.), 210*
Coke-Heated (Eagle Range and Grate Co., Ltd.), 280
Heating (Tangyes, Ltd.), 82*
— Slow-Combustion (J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd.),
179*
Stradling, Dr. R. E., on Experimental Work on Air-Raid Precautions, 786. See 625, 645
Straightedges, Cast-Iron, Specification, 590 Straightening Machine. See Machine Tools Strain Age-Hardening of Mild Steel, 585
— Ageing of Dead-Mild Steel Strip, 585
— See also Stress
Strainers for Paper-Making Machinery, 235*
— Water, Automatic (Blackburn-Smith Manufacturing Co., Inc.), 292
Straits Settlement Government, Singapore Airport, 546
Straub, L. G., St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, Minneapolis, 609*
Stream and Channel Flow (Hydraulic Graphs and Tables) (Review), 524
Street-Lighting Investigation, Brightness Meter for, 750
System, Unidirectional (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 445*
— Railway. See Tramways
— See also Roads
Strength of Materials. See Stress and Tests {Materials)
Stresses in All-Welded Bridges, Investigations on, 258*, 395*
—? Alternating and Combined. See Tests {Materials)
— in Bent Crane Jib, 675*
— Dynamic, in Winding Ropes, Reduction of,
23*
— in Marine-Engine Shafting, 563
— Permissible, in Oxy-Acetylene and Electric-
Arc Welds, 666
— Repetitions. See Alternating Stress under
Tests {Materials)
— in Rotating Discs under Elastic Conditions,
Determination of, 241*
— Wind, on Empire State Building, New York,
191
Stretford and District Electricity Board, High- Tension Oil-Circuit Breakers, 709*
Strip-Cropping in United States, 33*
— and Plate, Steel, Manufacture, Ebbw Vale
Steel Works, 489*. See LETTER, 556
— and Sheet, Phosphor-Bronze, Specification.
650
— Steel, Dead-Mild, Strain-Ageing of, 585
Rolls for Cold-Rolling of, 786
Structural Defence, Air-Raid Protection Handbook, 717
— Design of Aeroplanes. See Aeroplanes under
Aeronautics
(Review), 164, 674
— Engineers, Institution of. Floors for Indus
trial Purposes, by R. Fitzmaurice, and Dr. F. M. Lea, 135 ; Graduate and Associate-Membership Examinations, 197; Report on Structural Problems in Air- Raid Precaution Work, 266; Annual Dinner, 315
— Steelwork. See Structures ; Steel Structures, Effects of Bomb Explosions, Investigations on, 50, 216*, 288, 786
— Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-C(mcrete
— Hydraulic, Research on, International Asso
ciation for. Report, 787
— Sea, Protection against Corrosion of, 460 542*
Structures, Steel, Oxy-Acetylene Welded, London County Council’s Regulations, 666*
Struts. See Columns
Stuffing-Box Materials for Oil-Free Air Compressor, 276*
Submarine Boats. See Warships
Subsidies for British Shipping, 378, 407
Substation, Chassen Road, Stretford, 760,000- kVA Circuit-Breaker, 709*
— Lydney,l,500,000-kVA Oil Circuit-Breakers, 709*
— Mount Pilatus Railway, 579*
Sugar, Cane, Principles of Manufacture (Review), 164
Sullivan, H. W., Ltd., Micrometer Condenser, 103*
Sulphur Compounds in Coal, 411
— Dioxide, Annealing Sheet Glass in, 165
— Detection Tests for, 711
— in Gas, Need for Removal of, 737
— from Smelter Smoke, Fixation of. Report,
144
Summerfield, W., on Dangerous Machinery and Claims for Damages, 641
Sun Oil Co., 5,300-kW Gas-Turbine Compressor Unit, 249*
— See also Solar
Sunvic Controls, Ltd., Hot-Wire Vacuum Switches, 49
Supercharging in Internal-Combustion Engines, 474
Superheaters, East Perth Power Station, 105
— Hackney Power Station, 318*
— for High-Temperature Steam, Experiences
with, 25, 53*
— for Loeffler Boiler, Brimsdown Power
Station, 614*
— S.S. “Mauretania,” 738*
— in Modern Power Plant (Review), 366
Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of. Electricity in Relation to Public Services, by F. Jackson, 535
Supply, Ministry of, Federation of British Industries’ Views on Bill for, 749
Surfaces, Closely-Fitting, Fretting Corrosion of, 281, 293*
— Condensers. See Condensers
— Grinding Machine. See Grirtding under
Machine Tools
—• Plates, Draft Specification, 20
and Tables, Cast-Iron, Specification, 485
— Roughness Measuring Instrument, Shaw
Contorograph, 203*
Measuring Instrument (Physicists Research Co.), 699*
Surge Chamber, Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 329*, 391*
Survey Committee, Inland Water, Annual Report, 538
Suspension Bridges, Limiting Span of, 223
Otto Beit, Rhodesia, 625
Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Launch of H.M. Destroyer “ Khartoum,” 156; M.S. “Dominion Monarch,” 185*, 433*, 496* ; Trials of H.M. Destroyer “Tartar,” 340
Swansea, Tir John North Power Station, Pulverised-Fuei Plant, Results with, 232
" Sweat ” Damage to Cargo at Sea, 79
Sweden, Gas Industry in, 698
Sweeping Gear for Settling Tanks, Wards Island Sewage Works, 519*
Swelling Pressures, Dangerous, in Carbonisation Practice, 344
Swiss Federal Railways, 12,000-h.p. Electric Locomotive, 626
— National Exhibition, Zurich, 626
— See also Switzerland
Switch, Air-Break (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 245*
— Hot-Wire Vacuum (Sunvic Controls, Ltd.),
49
— Motor Starting. See Motors, Electric I
Switchgear, Air-Break, Flameproof (A. Rey- I
rolle and Co., Ltd.), 446*
— Circuit Breakers, 2,000 and 4,000-Ampere, i
at Boulder Dam Power Plant, 147*, 216*
Breaker, 3-3kV (Ferguson, Pailin, Ltd.), 339*
Breakers, High-Tension, Boulder-Dam Power Plant, 147*, 216*
Breakers, High-Tension (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 709*
Breakers, Motor-Operated Spring-Closing Gear for (Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd.), 21*
Breakers, Mount Pilatus Railway, 679* Breaker ‘ ‘ Thermatrip ” (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 404
Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd., Motor-Operated Spring-Closing Gear for Circuit Breakers, 21*
— Design, Developments by Ferguson, Pailin,
Ltd., 337*, 401*
— East Perth Power Station, 106
— Electric Power, Specification, 485
— 11-kV, 1,500,000-kVA (Ferguson, Pailin,
Ltd.), 401*
— Gate-End, Automatic Flameproof (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 791*
— Hackney Power Station, 320
— Ha^book, Vol. I. Apparatus (Review),
— Portobello Power Station, 435
— Provision of National Reserve of, 773
— Reactors, Oil-Immersed (General Electric Co,, Ltd.), 602*
— Structures, Welding Manipulator for
(British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 751*
— Testing, Co-operative, 687
at National Physical Laboratory, 126, 254
— Unit, 11-kV 250,000-kVA (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 208*
— Wards Island Sewage Works, 683* Switzerland, Gas Industry in, 698
— Mount Pilatus Railway Electrification, 579*
— National Exhibition, Ztirich, 626
— See also Swiss
Sykes, Dr. C., on Resistance-Temperature Curves of Iron and Steel, 574*
Symbols, Chemical, and Abbreviations, Standard List of, 70
Syphon Brick for Cupola, 495, 511*, 534
— Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 330*

“ TAKU,” H.M. Submarine, Launch of, 625
Tangential Water Wheels. See Pelton Wheels
Tangyes, Ltd., Lactory-Heating Stove, 82*
Tank Blocks, Glass-Furnace, Air Cooling of, 482
— Experiments, Rolling of Ships, 80
Ship Resistance, Effect of Shape of Bow on, 431
on Twin-Screw Propulsion, 431
— Experimental, David W. Taylor Model
Basin, Carderock, Maryland, 80
See also Ship Resistance
— Military, High-Speed, Design of, 129
— Oil, Purging of, 376
— Settling and Aeration, Wards Island Sewage
Works, 519*. See LETTER, 646
— Ships, Motor. See Motorships
— Storage, Electrically-Welded (Oxley Engineering Co., Ltd.), 707*
Tannin, Treatment of Bo.ler Feed-Water with, 320
Tantalum, Welding of, 708
Tappets, Valve, Self-Adjusting (Self-Adjusting Valve Tappets, Ltd.), 445*
Tapsell, H. J., on Report of Pipe-Flanges Research Committee, 418*, 479*. See 409
Tareni Colliery Co., Use of Anthracite Duff at, 232
Tariffs for Electricity Supply, Construction of, 472
“ Tartar,” H.M. Destroyer, Trials of, 340 Taub, A., on Cylinder-Bore Wear, 169*.
See 163
Taylor, Major A. M., on Ultra-Long Distance Power Transmission, 217*
Taylor and Challen, Ltd., 60-ton Open-Front Press, 207*
Taylor, David W., Model Basin, Carderock, Maryland, 80
Taylor, Dr. J. L., on Vortex Theory of Screw Propellers, 765
— System of Electric Power Transmission, 229* Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd., Sighting Telescope and Collimator System, 104 ; AutoCollimator, 104
Taylor, W. H., East Perth Power Station, Western Australia, 105*
Teaching. See Education
Team Valley Estate, Durham, Progress of, 44 Tecalemit, Ltd., Centralised Lubrication System, 69 ; Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 247
Technical College and Education. See Education
— Institutions, Association of Principals of,
Report on Libraries in Technical Institutions, 314
Association of. Report on Libraries in Technical Institutions, 314
— Societies. See Institutions and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Teeth, Gear. See Gear
Tele brightness Meter, 750
Telegraph Apparatus, Trade in, 196
— Wires, Specification, 14
Telegraphy. See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Wireless, Dismantling of Carnarvon Station,
441
Progress in Aviation, 537
Trade in Apparatus for, 195
Transmitters, S.S. "Mauretania,” 772* See also Radio
Telephone Apparatus, Trade in, 196
— Service, 30-kW Mobile Charging Set for,
647*
Statistical Control of Quality of, 136*
— System, Auxiliary Apparatus for, 749
? Boulder-Dam Power Plant, 215
1 — Wires, Specification, 14
Telephony, Exposition of Telephone System of British Post Office (Review), 495
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Wireless, Dismantling of Carnarvon Station, 441
Progress in Aviation, 537
Start Point and Clevedon Transmitting Stations, 752*
Trade in Apparatus for, 195
Transmitters, S.S. "Mauretania,” 772* See also Radio
Telescope, Sighting, and Collimator System (Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd.), 104
— Solar, Oxford University Observatory, 267*,
334*
Teller, Dr. E. V., on Light-Alloy Ship Construction, 483. See 459
Temperature Controller (Mercoid Corporation), 290* ,
Entropy Diagram for Ideal Regenerative Cycle, 416*
— Indicating Paints, 517 . .
of Liquid Steel, Methods of Determimng, 544, 555
— Measurement. See also Pyrometry ; Thermometry
Tenders, 40, 96, 156, 188, 220, 250, 278, 310, 340, 372, 404, 436, 468, 500, 530, 560, 590,620,650,712,774
Tennyson, Lieut.-Col. C., on Determination of Effective Horse-Power, 458 ,
Tensile Tests. See Tests {Materials}
Terminal Markings for Electrical Machinery and Apparatus, 368
Ternary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Terracing and Soil Conservation in United States, 85*, 239*
Terzaghi, Dr. K. von, on Soil Mechanics, 566* Tests, Aeronautical. See Aeronautics — Bolted Flanged Joints, 409, 418*, 479*
— 3-3-kV Circuit-Breaker, 339*
— Coated and Non-Coated Welding Electrodes, 705
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Detection, for Sulphur Dioxide and Benzene Vapour, 711 .. _ .
— Durability of Sandbags for Air-Raid Protection, 658 . , -rrr X If •
Emergency Repairs to Gas and Water Mains, 410*
High-Explosive, on Concrete Slabs, 386*. See LETTERS, 751, 781
Tests, High-Speed Steel Twist Drills, 401.
See Erratum^ 436
— Ignition Quality of Diesel Fuels, 1*
— Inflammable Gases in Manholes, 326
—• 100-h.p. Jendrassik Combustion Turbine,
186*
— Magnetic. See Magnetic
Tests (Materials) :
Abrasion Tests, Self-Lubricating Materials for Air Compressor, 276*
Alternating-Stress Tests. See Fatigae^ Etc. (below)
Bending Tests, Anti-Friction Metals, 306 (Jreep-Relaxation Tests, Apparatus for, 481*
— Tests of All-Weld Electrode Metal, 637* of Bolt Steel, 409, 419*
Refractories at High Temperatures, 482
Steel for High-Temperature Steam, 25, 53*
Fatigue Tests, Locomotive Driving Axles, 130
Steel Plates with Riveted or Welded Joints, 430, 451*, 513*
Structural Steel, 430, 452*
on Welded Joints, 602*, 635* Impact Tests, Notched-Bar, on Bolt Steel, 409, 420
Magnetic Tests. See Magnetic Notched-Bar Impact Tests. See Impact Tests (above)
Repeated-Stress Tests, Welded Plates and Bars, 602*, 635*
Stresses in Materials and Structures. See Stress
Tensile Testing of Metals, Specification, 530
Tests, Flash-Welded Steel Tubes, 705*
— for Nickel-Clad Steel Bonding, 286*
Testing Machine for Aeroplane Struts (W. and T. Avery, Ltd.), 577*
Tests, Mechanical, “ G.K.N. Ledloy ” Lead-Bearing Steels, 381 Tests, Model, of Rolling of Ships, 80
— for Red-Lead Paint, 760*
— 200,000-lb. Simon-Carves Boiler, 141
— and Specifications for Refractories, 482
— Static Vertical Retort, Croydon Gas Works,
736
— Steel Air-Raid Shelters, 216*
— Switchgear, by National Physical Labora
tory, 126, 254
— of Variable-Capacity Oil Burner, 80 Tester, Gauge, Deadweight (G. Salter and Co.,
Ltd.), 274*
Testing, Aerodynamic, of Centrifugal Pumps and Hydraulic Turbines, 93*
— Apparatus, Creep-Relaxation, 481*
for Paints (Evershed and Vignoles,
Ltd.), 48*
— Fuel, Principles and Value of, 662*
— Laboratory. See also National Physical
— Machine for Aeroplane Struts (W. and T.
Avery, Ltd.), 577*
for Containers, Forest-Products Research Laboratory, 124*
See also Tests {Materials}
— Mechanical, of Bituminous Road Materials
(Review), 765
— Plant for Reducing Valves (Grove Regu
lator Co.), 367*
— Set for Tractor Engines, D. Brown Tractors,
Ltd., 52*
— Timber, Methods of. Specification, 47
— See also Tests {Materials}
Text Books. See LITERATURE INDEX Textile-Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects, 212
Thaeler, A. S., on Heat-Balance Calculations for Marine Steam Plants, 80
Thege, E., Torsional-Vibration Damper for
Oil Engines, 558*
Thermal Conductivity of Liquid Helium, 677*
— Efficiency, British Power Stations, 716 of Combustion Gas Turbine, 248*, 256 Hams Hall Power Station, 314, 316 High-Pressure Plant, Brimsdown Power
Station, 614, 653
Portobello Power Station,
Erratum y 4^77
— Treatment, Metals. See Heat
under Metallurgy
Thermatrip Circuit Breaker, 404 Thermocouple, Quick-Immersion,
works, 545, 556
— See also Pyrometer Thermodynamics, Effect of Extracting Con
densate from Expanding Steam, 416, 429, 533. See LETTER, 628
Thermometer, Tube, Binoo ” (Short and Mason, Ltd.), 104*
— See also Pyrometer
Thermoregulator (Baird and Tatlock (London),
Ltd.), 48
Thermostats for Air-Raid Protection Clothing Storage Room (British Thermostat Co., Ltd.), 726
“Thetis,” H.M. Submarine, Sinking of, 685;
Tribunal Appointed, 716
Thistle Cutter (Harrison, McGregor and Co., Ltd.), 768*
Thomas, R., and Co., Ltd., Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 489*. See LETTER, 556 ; Scrap- Balling Machine, 604*
Thompson, J. (Wolverhampton), Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 275 Thomson, A., Quimby Rubber-Lined Centrifugal Pump, 122*. See Addendum^ 276 Thornclifte-Baldurie Gas-Liquor Concentration Plant, 766
Thornton, H. M., the Late, 692
Thornycroft, J. I., and Co., Ltd., 50-ft. Sectional '
Motor Lighter for Zambesi River, 143* ;
Motor Torpedo Boat for Philippines, 368 ; M.S. “ Vecta,” with Voith-Schneider Propulsion, 402*
Thorpe, P. L., on Fretting Corrosion of Closely- Fitting Surfaces, 293*. See 281
Thorpe Power Station, Norwich, 30,000-kW Turbo-Generator, 57*, 115*
Thorson, A. W., on Utilisation of Pulveriaed-
Coal Ash, 203
Threads, Screw. See Screw
“ Threshold ” Treatment for Scale Prevention. 293
Thrust Block, Gorge Dam, Hong Kong, 134
— of Propellers. See Propellers ; Aeronautics
— Bings, Pipe-Line, Lochaber Water-Power
Scheme, 392*
Thrustor, Electro-Hydraulic Flameproof (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 84
Thurston, Dr. A. P., on Parker’s ‘’Roman’* Cement, 757
Thyssen - Lenze Tower Purifiers, Wandsworth Gas Works, 765
Tidal-Model Experiments, Dee Estuary, 439 Experiments, Rangoon River, 439.
Tilling-Stevens, Ltd., 30-kW Mobile Battery-Charging Set, 647*
Timber Beams, Design Charts for, 651
— Decay of, Report, 266
— Kiln-Dr5dng Schedules for, 83
—- Methods of Testing, Specification, 47
Tin Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Embrittlement of, at Elevated Tempera
tures, 332
— Plate Manufacture, Ebbw Vale Steel
Works, 489*. See LETTER, 556
— Research and Development Council, Inter
national, Pamphlet on Soldering of Lead Pipes and Sheet Metals, 666
— and Tin-Plate Prices. See MetaPPrice
diagrams
Tinning Equipment for Tin-Plate, Ebbw Vale Steel Works, 494
Tinsley, H., and Co., Taut-Suspension Galvanometer, 49*
Tipping Wagons, Motor. See Motor Vehicles
Tir John North Power Station, Swansea, Pulverised-Fuel Plant, Results with, 232
Tobler, W., on Gas Industry in Switzerland, 698
Tolerances in Machine Work. See Gauging
Tomlinson, Dr. G. A., on Fretting Corrosion of Closely-Fitting Surfaces, 293. See 281
Tools, Machine. See Machine Tools
— Pneumatic. See Machine Tools
— Room Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tools Toolmakers’ Flats, Draft Specification, 20 Toothed Gear. See Gear ; Gearing
Torpedo Boats and Destroyers. See Warships
Torrent ” Water Meter, 785*
Torsional-Vibration Damper for Oil Engines (Aktlebolaget Atlas Diesel), 558*
Tower, Bubble, Welded (Babcock and Wilcox, ltd.), 708*
— Cooling, Ferro-Concrete, Brimsdown Power Station, 670
Town Gas. See Gas
— and Road Planning Exhibition, 282
Toxic Gases in Industry, Detection of, 711
Trackless Trolley System, Road Traction. See
Trolley "Bus
Traction, Electric. SeeRailwa^/s; Trolley "Bus; Tramways
— Poles, Steel Tubular, Specification, 590 Tractor, Agricultural, Ferguson, Manufacture
of, 51*
Fuel Consumption of, 349
Increased Use of, 349
' Numbers in Use, 349
I —Binder (Harrison, McGregor Co., Ltd.), 767*
— Chain-Track, High-Speed, Design of, 129
— 42-h.p. Diesel-Engined (Famo-Werke
G.m.b.H.), 465*. See Erratum, 569
Trade, Agricultural-Machinery, Imports and Exports, 347
— Aircraft, Imports and Exports, 132
— Copper, Imports of, 194
— Disputes, See Labour ; Labour Notes
— Economic Conditions in Brazil, Report, 780
— Electrical Machinery, Imports and Exports,
147, 194
— Electro-Metallurgical and Electro-Chemical
Products, 521, 581, 642, 747
— Engineering and Allied, Position and Pros
pects, 18, 45, 74, 87, 132, 147, 194, 212, 269, 302, 347, 378, 393. See LETTER, 368
— Exhibition. See Exhibition
— Export, Machinery, 73
— Federation of British Industries Delegation to Germany, 315
— Indian, March-September, 1938, Survey of, 265
— Iron and Steel, 1938, 254. See LETTER, 276
— Locomotive, British and Foreign Exports, 302
— Machine Tools, Imports and Exports, 269. See LETTER, 368
— Machinery Imports and Exports, 18, 45, 74, 87, 132, 147, 194, 212, 269, 302, 347, 378, 393. See LETTER, 368
— Marine-Engine, British Exports, 380
— Marks and Their Protection (Review), 550
— Motor Cycle and Cycle, Imports and Exports, 74, 87
Vehicle, Imports and Exports, 46
— Overseas, and Export Practice (Review), 284
— Railway Rolling-Stock, 302
— Textile Machinery, Imports and Exports, 212
— Unions. See Labour ; Labour Notes
— United Kingdom, in India, Conditions and Prospects, Report, 160
Traffic Advisory Committee, London and Home Counties, Annual Report, 665
— Commissioners’ Annual Reports, 72
— Counter, Portable Automatic, 477*
Trailer for Carrying Cranes and Excavators (R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd.), 742
— for 120-gall. per min. Fire Pump (Sigmund
Pumps (Great Britain), Ltd.), 453*
Train Control, Automatic, Model of Hudd System, (Darwin’s, Ltd.), 49
— Electric, 3,000-volt Direct-Current, Italian State Railway, 629*
— Express, “ Coronation Scot,” London Midland and Scottish Railway, 38*
— Ferry Steamer, Channel, ” Shepperton Ferry,” Mechanical-Firing Demonstration, 285*
— Suburban, Diesel-Engined, Argentine State Railways, 601*
— See also Raihvay
Training. See Education
Tramways, Traffic Commissioners’ Reports, 72
— and Trolley-’Bus Statistics, 73
— Radio-Interference Suppression Specifica
tion, 485
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Transformers, 55,000-kVA, Boulder Dam Power Plant, 214*
— Engineering (Review), 524
— Provision of National Reserve of, 773
Transmission Gear. See Gear; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
— of Power. See Marine Propulsion ; Power
Transmission
Transport Advisory Council, Report on Regulation of Railway Charges, 024
— Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Institute of, Acceleration of Railway Ser
vices, by S. H. Fisher, 16 ; Some Incidentals of Railway Electrification Schemes, by W. J. England, 564
— Ministry of, Report on Railway Collision at
York, 11 ; Plans for Road Transport in Wartime, 101 ; Road Grants to London County Council, 192; Report, Railway Accident at Wishaw, 197 ; Report on Administrationof Road Fund, 224 ; Grants for London Roads, 255 ; Report on North Hendre Railway Accident, 547 ; Report on Concrete Construction of German Motor Roads, 569
— Motor. See Road ; Motor
— Railway. See Railway
— Road. See Road ; Motor; Tramway ;
Trolley ’ Hus
Transporter Gear, Overhead (American Mono Rail Cn.). 120*
Transvaal Chamber of Mines, Investigation on Effect of Aluminium on Solubility of Mine Dusts, 732
Trap, Steam. See Steam Trap
Travel by Road, Rail and Air, Comfort in, 315 Travelling Crane. See Crane
Treforest Trading Estate, South Wales, Progress of, 44
Treig Dam, Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 329*, 391
Trench-Digging Plant for Land Drainage, 72 Trenton Channel Power Station, High-Temperature Steam Plant, Experiences with, 26, 53*; Experiments in Use ofFly Ash, 203 “ Triad,” H.M. Submarine, Lxaunch of, 550 Trials. See Tests
Triple-Expansion Engines. SQQ Engines, Steam Trolley ’Buses, Traffic Commissioners’ Reports, 72
Radio-Interference Suppression, 485 and Tramway Statistics, 73 Traction Poles, Specification, 590
“ Truant,” H.M. Submarine, Launch of, 550
Truck, Hand, Lifting, 5-ton Oil-Hydraulic (J. Collis and Sons, Ltd.), 178*
— Handling, Platform, Hand-Operated (Yale
<fe Towne Manufacturing Co.), 123*
— Industrial, Petrol-Operated, with Elevating
Platform (Greenwood and Batley, Ltd.), 272*
— Lifting and Weighing, Hand-Operated (Yale
Towne Manufacturing Co.), 123*
— See also Bogie
Tubes, Boiler, S.S. ” Mauretania,” 738*
— Nests of. Flow through. Models for Study
ing, 487*
— Railways. See Underground Railways
— Steel, Electrically Welded, 705*
— Superheater, for High-Temperature Steam,
Experiences with, 25, 53*
— Wells. See Wells
— See also Pipes
Tumble Power Station, Use of Anthracite Duff at, 232
Tunnel Kilns in Ceramic Industries, 525*
— Lochaber Water Power Scheme, 329*, 391*
— Wards Island Sewage Works, New York,456* Tunnelling in Ancient Times, 223. See
LETTER, 259
Tuplin, W. A., on Cutters or Wheels for Producing Involute Helicoidal Gear Teeth,297* Turbine, Combustion, 100-h.p. Jendrassik, 186*
— Gas, History, Development and Prospects
of, 247*, 256. See Errata, 286
Turbine Gears, Ltd., Double-Helical Gear Unit for Cement Mill, 307*
— Hydraulic, Aerodynamic Testing of, 93* 34,000-h.p., Gatineau Power Co., 367
10,000-h,p. Pelton Wheel, Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 392
-Testing Laboratory for, St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic Laboratory, Minneapolis, 609*
See also Power Plant; Pelton Wheels
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Steam, Blading for. See Blading
- 19,000-kW and 34,000-kW, Brimsdown Power Station, 614*, 669*. See 653. See Errata, 712, 757
37,500-kW Brush-Ljungstrom, Southwick Power Station, 587*, 749
Critical Speeds of Rotors of, 763* ^determination of Stresses in Discs of, 241 *
5,000-kW, Double-Helical Reduction Gear for, 538*
-25,000-kW, East Perth Power Station, X VU *
^,000-kW, Hackney Power Station, 317* -Hams Hall Power Station, Operating Results, 316
' 10,000-kW for High-Temperature Steam. Experiences with, 25, 53
See Marine Propulsion 7?^ Peak-Load and Emergency Service, 43 30,000-kW Portobello Power Station,435* - 30,000-kW, Thorpe Power Station, 57*, 115*
See also Turbo-Generators
Extraction from, 416*. 429, 533 See LETTER, 628
Steamers. See Steamers ; Warships Turbo-Generators, 19,000-kW and 34,000-kW BrimsdoTO Power Station, 614*. 669*’ See 653. See Errata, 712, 757
?7.5OO-kW Brush Ljungstrom, Southwick Power Station, 587*, 749 ^^^*’^*d0-kW East Perth Power Station,
30,000-kW Hackney Power Station, 317*
Turbo-Generator, Hama Hall Power Station’
Operating Results, 316
?- 800-kW, S.S. •• Mauretania,” 741*, 771* 30,000-kW, Portobello Power Station, 435*
30,000-kW, Thorpe Power Station, 57*, 115*
Turner, F. G., on Concrete Construction on German Motor Roads, 569
Turner, Professor W, B. S., on Eliminating Iron from Molten Glass by Chlorides, 165 ; on Annealing Glass in Sulphur Dioxide, 165 ; on Influence of Basicity on Colour of Glasses, 165
Turning and Boring Mill. See Machine Tools — See Machine Tools
Turret Lathes. See Lathes under Mach ine Tools
Tustin, A., on the Metadyne, and its Application to Electric Traction, 354*
Twist Drill. See Drill under Machine Tools
Twyman, F., on Industrial Applications of Spectrography, 384. See 362
Tyre Coning and Lateral Oscillation of Railway Vehicles, 261*

UNDER-REAMER for Concrete Footings (Cramer and Co.), 84*
Underground Railway, London, Hydraulic Buffer Stops, Aidgate-East Station, 35* ; Use of 300-ft. Rails on, 266 ; Electric Trains with Metadyne, 354* ; Recon- ? struction of King’s-Cross Station, 749 Unemployment. See Labour
Unicalor Automatic Stoker, 179*
Union-Castle Mail Steamship Co., Ltd., Fleet of, 505; Oil-Fuel Installation, S.S. “ Llandovery Castle,” 681*
— Trade. See Labour ; Labour Notes Unionmelt Welding Process, 707 United Engineering and Foundry Co., Rolling- Mill Plant, Bbbw Vale Steel Works, 490*. See LETTER, 556
— States Bureau of Mines, Experiments on Ventilation of Manholes, 92 ; Report on Fixation of Sulphur from Smelter Smoke, 144 ; Report on Sampling and Analysis of Coal, 323 ; Report on Combustibles in Manholes in Boston, Massachusetts, 326 ; Statistics of Iron-Ore Production, 667
Bureau of Reclamation, Concrete Manual of (Review), 119 ; Boulder-Dam Power Plant, 34, 145*, 214*, 713
Die-Casting Practice in, 527*
Gas Industry in, 698
Government Hydro-Electric Plants, 65
— •— History of Steel Casting in, 756 Introduction of Screw Propulsion, 507 Institutions of Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Summer Meeting, Programme, 230
Long-Distance Electric Power Transmission in, 33. See LETTERS, 781
National Museum, Annual Report, 466 Navy Department, David W. Taylor Model Basin, 80
Navy. See also United States under Warships
Power-Station Practice, 65
Public Health Services, Reports on Sewage Purification, 476
Railways, Engineering Progress on, 130 Railways. See also Railways Soil-Conservation Service, Work of, 31*, 85* 239*
United States Tool Co. See U.S. Tool Co.
Visit of “ Coronation Scot ” Express Train to, 38*
Welding Experiences in, 65
Wind-Tunnel Equipment and Investigations in, 686, 694*
World Automotive-Engineering Congress, Programme, 216 1
See also America
United Steel CompEtaies, Ltd., Exhibits at
British Industries Fair, 275 i
University of Birmingham Engineering Society, Industrial Research as a Career, by H. Warren, 75 '
Investigation of Ignition Quality of | Diesel Fuels, 1* ; Investigation on Delay Period in Oil Engine, 552* 1
— Cambridge, Observation of Combustion
Timing in Compression-Ignition Engines, 1 79* ; Investigation of Lateral Oscillation of Railway Vehicles, 261* ; Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 557
— College, London, Engineering Society
1 Annual Dinner, 315
London, Tidal-Model Experiments, Rangoon River, 439
— Manchester, Tidal-Model Experiments, Dee
Estuary, 439
— Melbourne, Investigation of Creep of Lead,
304
— Minnesota, St. Anthony Falls Hydraulic
Laboratory, 609*
— Oxford, Observatory, Solar Telescope, 267*,
334*
— and Training of Engineers, 777
— See also Education
Uniway Lantern for Street Lighting (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 445*
U.S. Tool Co., Inc., Multi-Slide Automatic Forming Machine, 168*; Coiled-Strip Feed Gear for Stamping Presses, 547*

VACUUM Cleaner, Portable Industrial (Spencer Turbine Co.), 119*
— Pump. See Dump
Valve, Disc, High-Pressure (Audley Engineering Co., Ltd.), 544*
—? Pipe-Line, Lochaber Water-Power Scheme, 391*
Valve, Reducing, Pressure-loaded (Grove Regulator Co.), 367*
— Rotary Hydraulic, 52-ln. and 36-in., for
High Heads (Boving and Co., Ltd.), 370*
— Safety, Ri^pturing (Condenser Service and
Engineering Co., Inc.), 291*
Stop, Turbine, High-Pressure, Experiences with, 28
— Tappets, Self-Adjusting (Self-Adjusting
Valve Tappets, Ltd.), 445*
and Valve Gear. See also Engines
Van Dorn Electric Tools, Portable Electric Shears, 183* ; Two-Speed Electric Sandor, „ 183* ; A-in. Portable Electric Drill, 577
Vanduzer, R. M., Jr., on High-Temperature Steam Experience at Detroit, 25, 53* Vapour Pressure of Zinc in Brasses, 331 Variable-Speed Gear. See Gear Varispray Air-Spray Gun, 485*
Vaii^an Crane Co., Ltd., 40-ton Electric 205*. See Addendum, 250
Vecta,” M.S., with Voith-Schneider Propulsion, 402*
Vehic^^, Chain-Track, High-Speed, Design of. Public Service, Traffic Commissioners’ Reports, 72
Velox Boiler, Gas-Turbine Driven Compressor for, 248
Ventilating and Heating Engineers, Institution of. See Heating System, Fine-Chemical Factory, Beeston, 6*
Ventilation of Cargo Ships, 79
— of Manholes, Experiments on, 92
— System for 30,000-kW Turbo Generator, 117*
Vessels, Pressure, Welded, for Chemical Plant, 705*
— Welded, Investigations on, 602*, 635* Viaduct, Trestle, Haiphong-Yunnan Fu Railway, 731*
— on Western Avenue, Middlesex, 255
— See also Bridges
Vibration, Axial, of Marine-Engine Shafting, 564
— Damper, Torsional, for Oil Engines (Aktiebolaget Atlas Diesel), 558*
— of Marine-Propeller Blades, 594
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Launch of H.M. Battleship “ King George V,” 257* • LMnoh of H.M. Submarines “ Triad ” and Truant,” 550
Victaulic Co., Ltd., Emergency Repairs to Gas and Water Mains, 410*
— Ring-Type Pipe Joint, 183*
Vimalert Co Ltd., 400-b.h.p. and 800-b.h.p twelve-Cylinder Marine Petrol Engines,
Viscosimeter, Electrical (British Physical Laboratories), 103
Viscosity of Liquid Helium 677
Voith-Schneider Propulsion, M.S. “Vecta,"402* Silencers for Pneumatic Drills 056* ’
Vosper, Ltd., H.M. Torpedo Boat No. 22, 721* Motor-Driven Screwing Machine, 208 ; Semi-Automatic Metal Saw, 246* • Frazlng Machine, 271*

WAIKAREMOANA Hydro-Electric Scheme Va^e,^370*"'’’ hydraulic
Wailes, R., on Post Mills of the Nord, 35,5
Sstee?Strip,°58F^"“'^"®“" ^’^'fabJik "erkzeugmaschinen-
353*^’ Copying Attachment,
Wales, North, Penrhyn Slate Quarry Electrical Equipment of, 356*
Estate, Progress of, 44 ti’on”??^ Concrete Blocks for, Speciflea- ^288^^^'°" Bomb Explosions for, 50, Refining, Earth Pressiire on, 566* Railway, 731*
' TGISS; 4^7*^” through Nests of
Walter, Dr. C. M., on Town Gas for Internal-
Combustion Engines, 473. See Errofuin, Walter, R. F,, Boulder Dam Power Plant, 145* ^14*. See 34, 713 ^'^'*S1^585“ Age-Hardening of Mild AVandsworth and District Gas Co., Thyssen-
Lenze Tower Purifiers, 765 "yssen
^503^ 726 M’orks Management,
t’®®>opment3 in Red-Lead, ^"ISuTator 1'90*“° ^^‘°®atic Voltage
'^“WeleYs- St^aMr"^’^"^ 71l5nT9^*,«573r 14^
Warren, H., on Industrial Research as a Career,
Warships :
Investigations on Coal as Fuel for Warships, 316
Aviation, Naval. See Aeronautics Coal as Fuel for Warships, 316
“ Bh6nix,” Loss of 748 Greek Destroyers “ King George I ’’’and Ti Queen Olga,” 220
Boyal,” 386*, ~ ^ofyS?? “ I-'^unch
Wales,” Launch of, 569* CruisM Hermione,” Launch of, 621 — Naiad, Launch of, 198 Destj-oyer "Khartoum,” Launch of,
I
i — Power. See Hydraulic; Pelton Wheel; Power Plant; Turbine, Hydraulic
— Purification, Methods of, 664
— Steriliser, Ultra-Violet Irradiation (Hanovia,
Ltd.), 726
— Strainer, Automatic (Blackburn-Smith
Manufacturing Co., Inc.), 292
— Supply in Baroda, 437
in Brisbane, Report, 595
of County of London from Underground Sources (Review), 674
and Drainage in Hyderabad City, 561 Law of, 473
Problems, 664
See also Irrigation ; Wells
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic ; PeUon
Wheel; Power Plant
— Undertakings, Safety Precautions for, 161
— Wheel at Seacroft, Leeds, 91
See also PeUon Wheel; Turbine, Hydraulic ; Power Plant
Waterloo-Bridge Approach, Traffic Scheme for, 534
Waterways. See Rivers ; Canals Waterworks. See Water Siipply and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Watson, H. T., Ltd., Internal-Gear Type Fuel- Oil Pump, 483*
Watt, James, Unveiling of Portrait at Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 717
— Medal, Award to Henry Ford, 717 Wave-Making Resistance of Ships. See Ship
Resistance
Wear, Cylinder, in Internal-Combustion Engines, 163, 169*
Weather. See Meteorology
Weathershields, Ltd., Safety Machine Tools, 574*
Webster, Major, on Post Mills
866
Webster, Warren, and Co., Ltd., Steam Trap, 789*
Weighing and Lifting Truck (Yale and Towne Manufacturing Co.), 123*
— Mechanism for Aerodynamic Balance, 462* Weingarten Maschinenfabrik, (jrank-Driven
Press, 363* ; Double-Crank Press, 363*
Weir, G. and J., Ltd., Feed Pumps for High- Pressure Plant, Brimsdown Power Station, 671*
Welded Gear-Wheel Blanks (Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd.), 541*
— Joints in Structural Steel, Fatigue in, 430
451*, 515*
— Ship Coi^truction in H.M.S. ** Seagull,” 459
— Steel Bridge, Hasselt, Belgium, Collapse of,
Investigation of, 258*, 395*
Welding in Chemical Engineering, 705*
— Electrodes, Coated and Non-Coated, Tests
of, 705 ;
— Machine, Arc, for Boiler Drums (Metro-
politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 28*
Electric, Spot (Siemens-Schuckertwerke A.G.), 364*
Resistance (P. Kropp), 364*
— Manipulator for Switchgear Work (British
Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 751*
— in Marine-Engineering Construction, 429
— Oxy-Acetylene, London County Council’s
Regulations, 666*
— Process, Unionmelt, 707
— Research Committee of Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, Report, 602*, 635*
— of Tubes for Loeffler Boiler, 616
— in United States, Experiences with, 65
Well, Borehole, 36-in., Grand Central Station. New York, 7*
Wellworthy Piston Rings, Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 209 ; Aluminium- Tin Bearing Metals, 789
Western Australia, East Perth Power Station, 105*
— Avenue, Middlesex, Viaduct on, 255 Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd.,
Exhibits at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 48
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., 82,500-kVA Electric Generators, 145*, 713
Westland Lysander Mark II Monoplane, 529 Wheels, Gear. See Gears; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
— Grinding. See Gririding under Machine
Tools
— Vertical Path on Railway Track, 200 Whinstone and Granite Federation, British,
High-Explosive Tests on Concrete Slabs, ] 386*. See LETTERS, 751, 781
White Metal. See Alloys under Metallurgy Whiteford, D. S., the Late, 781
Wickman, A. C., Ltd., Expansion Reamer with Wimet Tips, 184*
Wigglesworth, F., the Late, 741
Wilkinson, G. W., on Wards Island Sewage Works, 646. See 455*, 519*, 583*
Willesden Paper and Canvas Works, Ltd., Tests of Proofed and Unproofed Sandbags, 658
Williams, C. G., on Piston-Ring Blow-By on High-Speed Petrol Engines, 693*, 723*
Williams, Sir E. 0., Ferro-Concrete Buildings for Fine-Chemical Manufacture, Beeston, 5*
— Lecture on Atomic Patterns of Metals, 788.
See 751
Willington, Brancepeth Coal-Pulverising Works, 755*
Wilson, J. C., on Old Plans of Historic Ships, 79
Wilson, W. T., on Rolling of Sections at
Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co., Ltd., 586 Wind Pressure on Bent Crane Jib, 676* on Empire State Building, Investigations
on, 191
— Tunnels, Aeronautics
Winding Ropes, Colliery, Fibre Cores for. Report, 233
Reduction of Dynamic Stresses in, 23* Windmills in the Nord, France, 355
Windows, Protection from Bomb Explosions for, 50, 288
Windsor Show, Royal Agricultural Society, 767* Wingate Coal Co., Ltd., Barvoys Coal-Cleaning Plant, 639*
Wire Cloth for Paper-Making Machine, 236*, 263*
— Ropes, Colliery, Fibre Cores for. Report,
233
Reduction of Dynamic Stresses in, 23*
— for Telegraph and Telephone Purposes,
Specification, 14
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy and Radio
— Telephony. See Telephony and Radio Wiring Regulations, Statutory, Report, 377 Wishaw, Railway Accident at. Report, 197 Wohler’s Tests. See Fatigae under Tests {Materials}
Wood, H., and Co., Ltd., Factory-Lighting Installation, 389*
Woodall-Duckham Circular Tunnel Kiln for Ceramics, 525*
Wooden Containers, Testing of, 124* Woodworking Machinery. See Machine Tools Workmen. See Labour
Works :
Brancepeth Coal-Pulverising Works, Willington, Standard Pulverised Fuel Co., Ltd., 755*
Works—continued.
Ebbw Vale Steel Works, R. Thomas and Co., Ltd., 489*. See LETTER, 556
Gas Works. See Qaa
Huddersfield Works, D. Brown Tractors, Ltd., 51*
Iron and Steel Foundries, Renfrew, Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 359*
Loughborough Works, Brush Coachwork, Ltd., 76*
Port- Kembla Steel Works, New South Wales, Steam Engineering at, 554
Steel Works Plant, Heavy (Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd.), 781*
Refractories for. Report, 575, 612
Wind-Tunnel Building, Blackburn Aircraft, Ltd., 423*, 461*
Works Management, Administrative Training for, 503, 726
Association, Birth of a Factory, by H. Gutteridge and Dr. H. Chat ley, 131 ; Dinner, 378
Colourdex Production-Control System, 689*
Production Organisation, Science of
(Review), 476
Workshop Training. See Education
— See Works ; Machine Tools
World Automotive-Engineering Congress, United States, Programme, 216
Worner, H. W., on Creep of Lead, 304 Wrecks. See Accidents
Wright, I. H., on Light Milling Machines and Practice, 101, 111
Wright Brothers, Early Wind-Tunnel Experiments, 686 ,694*
Wright, S. J., on Drainage and Ditching Equipment, 71 ; on Agricultural Machinery and Production of Food, 349
— Lecture on Research in Problems of Flight, 686, 694*

X-Rays. See RGntgen Rays

Yale and Towne Manufacturing Co., Platform Handling Trucks, 123* ; Weighing and Lifting Truck, 123*
Yarrow and Co., Ltd., Jugoslavian Destroyer “ Beograd,” 69 ; Greek Destroyers ” King George I ” and ” Queen Olga,” 220; Boilers, S.S. “ Mauretania,” 738*
Year Books. See Annuals and LITERATURE INDEX
“ Yeoman ” Tractor Binder, 767*
York, Railway Collision at, Report, 11
Young, Prof. E. G., on Progress in Railway Mechanical Engineering, 130
Young, H. A., on Piston-Ring Blow-By on High-Speed Petrol Engines, 693*, 723*
Yugoslavia. See Jugoslavia
Yunnan Eu-Haiphong Railway, 731*

ZAMBESI River, Motor Lighter for, 143* :
Otto Beit Suspension Bridge Over, 625 Zinc Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— in Brasses, Vapour Pressure of, 331
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Ziirich, Swiss National Exhibition, 626

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