Engineering 1939 Jul-Dec: Index: General

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GENERAL

ABBOT, C. G.,on Uti 241
Abrasive Papers and Accelerometer, Sprin gations on Concr

Accidents :

Accident Compen Compensation
— to Flying Boat Colliery Accidents
in Europe a Fires in Ant Safety in
Investigatio Electricity Suppl of, 389
Factory Aceiden Report, 232 Home Office Failures of Elect Lightning, 14
Fires in Anthracite 606
— at Borough Ma
— Protection of and Substatio
670*, 688*, 72 Flying Boat “ Calpi Industrial Accident 483
Launching Acclde
ite Mines, 606
Research Board’s port, 483
’ Supply Through
, London, 113 ric Power Stations 522*, 593*, 635*,
Accident to, 125 nine Office Report, o H.M. Aircraft- le,” 235*. See 231 Electrical Plant, motives, 364, 559 hting Restrictions,
Lloyd’s Statistics, narine “ Thetis,”
Motor Truck
Iding Buildings, 474
1 Physical Labora-
s), Ltd., Electric residential Address
2, 305, 331, 358.
ng of, Speciflca-
al Cadetships, 723 , Ltd., Automatic g Bars, 716* elders under Aeroeview), 632
e. Stressing of, mmittee, Annual ort on Possible Water Channel, ize of, 268*
1, Investigations u try, Pamphlet Ighting Restric- ration of Lights
Air-Raid Precautions Personnel, Portable Electric Lamp for, 541*
Precautions, Report and Control Centres, Lighting of, Specification, 470 Precautions, “ Rhythmatic ” Control Apparatus for Street Lighting, 182*
Precaution Signs, Specification, 638 Precautions Staff School, Courses at, 257
Precautions, Steel Helmets for, 49 Precautions for Windows, 618. See LETTER, 697
Precaution Work on London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 664
Shelter, Built-Up Cast-Iron (Federated Sales, Ltd.), 582
Shelters, Gas-Tight Doors for. Specification, 554
Shelters, Law Regarding, 602 Shelters, Lighting Specification, 554 Shelters, Occupancy Tests of, 335, 389*
Shelters, Public, in Westminster, 447 Shelters, Sectional-Arch Type, Tests of, 81
Shelters, Tests of Air Conditions in, 335, 389*
Shelters, Works of Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., 53*
— Services, Trans-Atlantic, Position of, 309, 541, 565, 594
— Transport, Economic Equipment for, 268*
Aircraft Carrier, H.M.S. “ Courageous,*’ Sinking of, 335
H.M.S. “ Formidable,” Launch of, 235*. See 231
— Fabrics, Porosity-Testing Apparatus for (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.) 634* — Industry, Census of Production Statistics, 4, 35, 66
in Sweden, 202
— Materials and Parts, Specification, 14 — Salvaging Lorry for United States Army Air Corps, 331
?—for Trans-Atlantic Services, 173, 309, 541, 565, 594
Atlantic Air Mail Service, Inauguration of Flying Boat “ Caribou,” 173
Balloons, Meteorological, Radio Transmitter and Instruments for, 644* British Aircraft Constructors, Society of, Scholarships, 108
British Overseas Airw^ays Corporation, Formation of, 233
Busk Studentship in Aeronautics at Cambridge University, 174
Cross-Channel Flight, First, 30th-Anni- versary Celebration, 112
Drag of Aircraft, Unaccounted, 403* See LETTERS, 536, 590
— Reduction in Aeroplanes, Investigations on,171
Engines, Aeroplane, Improvements in, 172 Fire-Fighting Equipment for Aircraft (Graviner Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 236*
Flight, Maximum Range of, 203*, 217* Flying Boat ” Calpurnia,” Accident to, 125 Entrance Lines, 298* — Future of, 278
Gliding Angle of Aeroplane for Maximum Range of Flight, 204*, 217*
Hangar, Aeroplane, Wind Pressure on, 205 Imperial Airways Atlantic, Ltd., Formation of, 233
Imperial Airways, Ltd., New Headquarters, London, 51; Empire Service, 203 Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment, Investigations at, 172
Navigation, Aerial. See also Telegraphy, Wireless
Propellers, Aerial, Spline Gauge for Measurement of Shafts and Bosses of, 251 Royal Air Force, Formation of Technical Branch, 174
— Aircraft Establishment, Investigations at, 172
Stability, Aeroplane. See Aeroplane (above)
Wind-Tunnel Experiments and Progress in Aeronautics, 172, 279
Experiments on Steam - Turbine Nozzles, 704*
Wireless Apparatus for Aircraft. See Telegraphy, Wireless
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
' Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics
Age Hardening of Aluminium Alloys, Investigations on,234
“ Aggra ” Roller Caliper Screw Gauge, 61*
Aggregates for Concrete Roads, 693
Agitator for Liquids (Les Ateliers R6unis), 82*
Agricultural Machinery, Growth in Use of, 47
— Motors. See Engines : Tractors
, — Society, Royal, Windsor Show, 8*, 37*, 47 71*
— Tractors. See Tractors
Agriculture, Canadian, Progress of, 152
— Ministry of, on Pood Production in War
Time, 333
— Steam Power for Ploughing, 416
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Air Compressor. Salient-Pole Synchronous Induction Motors for, 284*
Single-Stage, Double-Acting (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 526*
Two-Stage “ Unicylinder-Monobloc ” (J. B. Lindley (1931), Ltd.), 577*
— Conditions in Air-Raid Shelters, Tests of,
335, 389*
— Conditioning (Review), 708
, at Tottenham Works, Keith Blackman,
Ltd., 166*
— Exhausted by Mercury Diffusion Pump,
Weight and Volume of, 608*
— Flow in Mines, Development in Measure
ment of, 182*
— Force, Royal. See Aeronautics
— Infiltration in Heat-Insulating Materials,
Investigations on, 371*
— Pollution. See Atmospheric ; Smoke Abatement
— Pump. See Pump
— Raid Precautions. See Aeronautics
— Receivers, Fusion-Welded, Specification, 14
— Refractive Index of, National Physical
Laboratorj'’ Investigations, 276
— Screws. See Propellers under Aeronautics
— See also Atmospheric
Aircraft Carriers. See Aeronautics
— Establishment, Royal. See Aeronautics
— See Aeronautics
Akroyd-Stuart Early Oil Engine, 698* Albert Canal, Belgium, 375*, 431*, 489*, 574*, 657*
Aidgate East Station, Reconstruction of, 97*, 159* J Tension-Type Buffer-Stop at, 176
Alexander, G. H., Machinery, Ltd., Van Keuren Light-Wave Micrometer, 57; Contou i Metal-Sawing Machine, 729*
Alfa-Laval Co., Ltd., Rotary Self-Cleaning Filter for Liquids, 55* ; Purifying Equip- I ment for Lubricating Oil, 733*
I Alkali, Works, Annual Report, 262 All-American Canal, California, 225* Allcut, E. A., on Air Infiltration in Heat- Insulating Materials, 371*
Alleman, Mr., on Fatigue Tests of Wire, 154
Allen, W. H., Sons and Co., Ltd., Pumping Plant at Dunton, 22* ; Steam Turbines for Sugar-Beet Factory, 162*
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., All-Crop Harvester, 11*
Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauges Alloys. See Metallurgy; Microphotographs ; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Alston Limestone Co., Ltd., Electrification of Whinstone and Limestone Quarries, 85* Alternating Current. See Electric
— Stress. See Fatigue under Tests (Materials) Alternators. See Generators, Electric; Turbo-
Generators
Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Control Order for, 610
— Crystal, Stressed, X-Ray Examination, 144
— in Electrical Industry, Report, 51
— Information Bureau, Report on Aluminium in Electrical Industry, 51
— Industry, Documentation in, 301
— Machining of, 397*
— See also Metallurgy ; Metal-Price Diagrams Alumina Ware, Sintered, Injector Gas Burner for, 250*
Ambulance Trains, British, 537
American Foundrymen’s Association, searches on Moulding Sands, 56, 164 — Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Electrical E-ngineers
— Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Mechanical Engineers
of Naval Architects and Marine ;
I neers. See Naval Architects
for Testing Materials. See Testing — See also United States
Ammeter. See Meter under Electric
Amorosi, A. M., on Removal of Dissolved Gases from Water, 210
Anchorage, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 31*, 191*, 247*
Anderson, Dr. D., on Design of Bomb-Proof Shelters, 50
Anderson, G. A., on Machining of Aluminium and its Alloys, 397*
Andrew, Prof. J. H., on Work-Hardening of Steels, 646
Anemometers for Use in Mines, 182*
Angwin, Col. A. S., “ Transorma ” Letter- Sorting Machine at Brighton Post Office, 459*, 627*
Aniline Vapour, Detection of, Report on, 718 Annealing. See HeatTreatm.ent\n\^eTMetallurgy Annuals and Reference Books, 107, 207
{'Erratum, 257), 412, 690, 727. See LITERATURE INDEX
Anthracite Mines, Fires in. Investigation of, 606 Anti-Condensation Testing Apparatus, 221* Antimony Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Antwerp Harbour and Albert Canal, 375*, 431*, 576*
Apiezon Vacuum Pump for X-Ray Tube, 649* Appointments. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Apprenticeship. See Education
Approaches, Golden Gate Bridge, SanFrancisco, 3*, 403*
Arbitration in Labour Disputes. See Labour ; Labour Notes ; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Arc. See Electric : Furnace : Welding Architects, Naval. See Naval Architects Armaments, Air, Limitations of, 280
— Profits Duty, Representations on, 19 Armoiu'ed Ships. See Warships
Armstrong Whitworth Securities Co., Ltd., and Kadenacy System of Scavenging, 330. See 187*. See LETTERS, 207, 357*, 421, 589. See 378
Army, Release of Skilled Men,from, 533 Arocior for Transformers, 643
Arrester, Flame, for Diesel Engine, 311* Arterial Roads. See Poads
Arts, Royal Society of, Charcoal-Iron Industry, by H. G. .Tones, 590
Ash-Handling Plant, Longford Power Station, 8* Ashmore, Benson, Pease and Co., Ltd., Vertical- Shaft Lime Kilns, 133*
Ashworth and Parker, Ltd., 40-b.h.p. Back-Pressure Steam-Engine Generating Set, 428*
Ashworth, Ross and Co., Ltd., " Duros ’* Variable- Capacity Dial Weighing Machine, 551*
Asphaltic Paving Mixtures, Thermal Susceptibility of, 181
Association, British. See British Association
— Engineering. See Institutions
Ateliers R^unis, Agitator for Liquids, 82* Atkey, Sir A., on Work of British W’aterworks Association, 116
Atkinson, LI. B., the Late, 193*
Atlantic Air-Mail Service, Inauguration, 173
— Liners. See Steamers
— Ocean, Air Services Across, 309, 641, 565,594 Atmospheric Pollution, Annual Report, 28 Ministry of Health’s Report, 334
See also Smoke Abatement
Austin Motor Co.’s Foundries, Core-Shop ‘^^ontrol at, 23
Australia, Economic and Commercial Conditions in, Report, 224
— Mail Lorry with Wireless Transmitter, 305
— Standards Laboratory, National, 471
— Western, Annual Report of Mines Department, Inspection of Machinery Branch, 669
Australian-Canadian Commerce, Statistics, 500 Auto-Klean Strainers, Ltd., Automatic SelfCleaning Oil Strainer, 594*
Auto-Mower Engineering Co., Ltd., Self- Adjusting Winch on Tractor, 10*
Autogenous Welding. See Welds and Welding Automatic Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Stokers. See Stokers
Automatic Telephone and Electric Co., Ltd., “ Rhythmatic ” Control Apparatus, 182*
Automobile Engineers, Institution of. Work of Research Department, 81 ; Curtailment of Activities, 358 ; Instrumental Attack on Automobile Noises, by Dr. B. Foster, 614
— Engineering (Review), 700
— See al o Motor Cars
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine. See Marine Auxiliaire des Chemin de Fer et de I’lndustric, Zerhyd Water-Softening Ih*ocess, 105*
Aveling-Barford, Ltd., 2^-3 cub. yd. Dumper, 38*
Avery, W. and T., Ltd., Avery-Schenk Push-Pull Fatigue-Testing Machine, 379*. See Erratum^ 470
Aviation Corporates, Ltd., Convertible Spot and Seam Welder, 567*
— See Aeronautics
Axles, Fatigue Strength of, 154
Axleboxes, Locomotive, Deflection-Measuring Apparatus for, 635*

BACON, PROF. F., on Models for Study of Mechanism, 341*
Bailey, G. L., on Gas Unsoundness in Cast Metals, 74
Bailey, T. H., the Late, 135
Baker, Dr. G. S., on Rolling of Ships Under Way, 527
Balancing Diagrams, Wheel, Central Uruguay Railway Locomotives, 245*
— of Pacific Locomotives, 337, 364
Ball Bearings. See Bearings Hardness Tests. See Hardness under Tests {Materials}
Ballast on Indian Railway Tracks, 507
Balloons. See Aeronautics
Bamfords, Ltd., Potato Digger, 40*
Bamlett, A.C., Ltd., Tractor-Trailer Mower, 40*
Band Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Saws. See Saws under Machine Tools Banks, Clay, Slips in, 103*
Bardenheuer, Dr. P., on Relationship between Quality of Castings and the Melt, 164
Barfleld, E. P., the Late, 193
Barges on Albert Canal, Belgium, 376*, 431*, 489*, 657
Bargozzi, Dr. M., on Laws Governing Operation of Cupola, 104
Barlaston Power Station, Proposal for, 143
Barnes Drill Co., 76-ft. Stroke Horizontal Hydraulic Honing Machine, 117*
Barnsley-Warren House Coal Seam, Report, 237
Barometer for Meteorological Balloon, 644*
— National Physical Laboratory Investigations on,276
Barr and Stroud, Seven-Lens Camera, 150*: Stereoscope, 150 ; Thompson Automatic Plotting Machine, 151*
Barrage, Monsin, Albert Canal, Belgium, 489*
Barre, Prof. H. J., on Water-Vapour Permeability of Concrete, 180
Barrett and Hilp, Anchorages, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 3*, 31*, 191*, 247* Bars, Automatic Painting Machine for (Aera- spray Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 716* Barton Power Station, Institution of Elect) real Engineers’ Visit, 20
Bartram, V. G., on Canadian Technical and Industrial Progress, 162
Basins and Crucibles, Silica, Specification, 638
— Desilting, Imperial Dam, California, 225* Battersea Polytechnic, Course in Industrial
Metallurgy, 412
Battery Vehicles. See Motor Truck
Battleships. See Warships
Batwin Electric Motors, Ltd., Portable Petrol-Driven Centrifugal Pump, 487*
Bauer, Dr. S. G., on Ignition Lag in Compression-Ignition Engines, 368*
Baum System of Electric Power Transmission, 50
Beaches, Sea, Preservation of, 571*
“ Beacon Grange,” M.S., Model and Ship Trials, 277
Beams, Steel, Broad-Flanged (Office Techniques des Poutrelles i Tr6s Larges Ailes), 82
Bean, H. S., on Determination of Heating Value of Fuel Gases, 209
Bearing, Ball, for Electricity Meters, 179*, 413
— for Cement-Grinding Tube Mill, 681*
— Girder, Wandsworth Bridge, London, 708*
— Jewel, for Watt-Hour Meters (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 179*, 413
— Journal, Oscillating, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 206*
— Lead-Bronze, Booklet on, 134
— Metals. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Beeney, H. H., on Cutting Tools for Cast Iron, 104
” Belfast,” H.M. Cruiser, Completion of. 165* Belgium, Albert Canal, 375*, 431*, 489*, 574*, 657*
— High-Tension Substation Practice, 730*
Belt Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Track, for Caterpillar Carriage, 599*
Bends and Curves, Pipe, Air Flow in, 185*
Bensham Seam, Northumberland and Durham Coalfield, Report, 194
Bentall, E. H., and Co., Ltd., Post Driver, 74* ; Post Extractor, 74*
Beryllia, Electrically-Deposited, Protection of Silver by, 675
Bessemer Acid-Steel Process, Manufacture of Rimming Steel by, 482*
— Basic-Steel Process, Manufacture of Rimming Steel by, 569
Bethlehem Steel Co., Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 2*, 31*, 129*, 191*, 247*, 295*, 347*, 401*
Bicycles. See Cycles
Biggleswade Water Board, Dunton Pumping Station, 21*
Bilge Keels, Effect on Rolling of Ships, 527 Billingham Chemical Plant, Construction of, 505 Binary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Binnie, A. M., on Possible Form of High-Speed Water Channel, 272
Binnie, Deacon and Gourley, Dunton Pumping Station, 21*
Birkenhead, Discontinuance of Rock-Ferry Ferry Service, 17
Birmingham, Work of British Foundry School, 123
Bituminous Materials, Road Construction. See Roads
Blackburn, J., the Late, 661
Blackstone and Co., Ltd., Mobile 75-kVA Diesel- Engine Generating Set, 591*
Blairs. Ltd., Steam-Driven Reciprocating Vacuum Pump, 608* ; Barometric Condenser, 609*
Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces
Bleriot, L., First Cross-Channel Flight by, 112
Blocks, Parallel, Steel, Engineers’, Draft Specification, 536
Blow-Pipe. See Welding; Cutting ?
Blower, Exhaust-Driven, Biichi, for Diesel Engine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 410*
Blowing-Down, Continuous, for Locomotives,
Blue Anchor, Somerset, Sea Defences at, 573*
“ Bluebird II,’* Motor Boat, Record Speed with, 233
Board of Trade Order on Licensing of Machinery Imports, 509
See also Overseas Trade Deparlraent
Boat, Flying. See under Aeronautics
— Motor. See Motor Boat
— Submarine. See Warships
Bodmer, J. G., Engineer and Inventor, 617 Bogie, Pacific Locomotive, Design of, 336*, 364, 449, 476, 533, 559, 616
Bohringer, Gebr., G.m.b.H., Hydraulic Variable-Speed Gear, 439*
Boilers, Commercial Acceptance Tests for, Specification, 227
— for Electric Power Stations, 559, 579
— Electric, for Thermal-Storage Plant, 508
— Feed Pump. See Pump
Water Softening. See Water Softening Water. See Feed and Water
— Foster-Wheeler, S.S. “ Challenge,” 173
— Furnaces. See Stoker
— Locomotive, Central Uruguay Railway,
222*, 245*
Continuous Blowing-Down for, 194*
See also Loconwtive
— Photographic Study of Furnace of, 496
— Plate, Caustic Embrittlement of, Investigations on, 249
— Scavenger and Water Softener, ” Dejector ” (British Boiler Accessories, Ltd.), 273*
— Steel, Welded, Specification, 281
— ‘‘ Super-Economic,” Tottenham Works of Keith Blackman, Ltd., 167*
— Tosi-Steinmueller, for Viscose Factory, Rome, 663*
— Water-Tube, Lewis Portable (Danks of Netherton, Ltd.), 90*
Tube, Longford Power Station, 6* Tube, Oil-Fired ” Vapor-Clarkson ” (Gresham and Craven, Ltd.), 339*
— See also Engines and Boilers in PAKAGR.IPH INDEX
Bomb-Proof Shelters, Design of, 50 Shelters. See also Air-Baid Shelters under Aeronautics
; Bondi, Dr. F., on Defects in Electrically- Melted Chilled Rolls, 41
Bonnalie, A. F., on Economic Air-Line Equipment, 268*
“ Bonomi ” on Lubricants for Wire Ropes, 282. See 157*. See LETTERS, 450, 536
Books, New, Notes on, 272, 438, 662. See LITERATURE INDEX
— Received, 14, 44, 76, 108, 138, 168, 198, 228, 282, 358, 384, 412, 442, 470, 500, 528, 554, 582, 610, 638, 664, 690, 718
Boring Machine, Post-Hole, Mobile (Hughes-Keenan Co.), 25*
Borough Market, London, Fire at, 113
Bottle Glasses, Researches on, 60
Boulton and Paul, Ltd., Automatic Painting Machine for Long Bars, 716*
Bradford Technical College, Prospectus, 168 Bradshaw’s Railway Guide, Centenary of, 416 Brake, Gear, Central Uruguay Railway Locomotives, 216*
— System for Trolley ’Bus, 624
Braking System for 4,450-h.p. Electric Winding ' Engine, 42*
Brammer, A., on Electrical Regulations for Buildings, 50. See 18
Brand, C., and Son, Ltd., Bakerloo E.xtension to Finchley Road, 532
Brass, Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Free-Turning, Metallurgical Characteristics and ?Jachinability of, 327, 369, 485*
— Statically-Stressed, X-Ray Examination of, 144
Breakdowns. See Accidents Bricks, Fire. See Firebricks; Refractory Materials
Brick Wall, Disintegration of Face of, 180 Brickworks, Offensive Gases from 262 — Resistance to Rain Penetration of, 220 Bridges Over Albert Canal, Belgium, 659* —Calculations Practical, Use of Influence Lines in (Review), 278
— Callender - Hamilton Unit - (Construction, Courses in Erection of, 380
— Cantilever, Wandsworth, London, Reconstruction of, 707*
— Highway, Tests of, 221* —• Reinforced-(^oncrete (Review), 349
— Steel Calculation and Design (Review), 576 — Suspension, Golden (late, San Francisco, 1*, 31*, 129*, 191*, 247*, 295*, .347*, 401* — — Menai, Reconstruction of, 655*
— Waterloo, London,545*; Approach Scheme for, 81
— Welding in, Investigations on, 92
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Briggs Motor Bodies, Ltd., Salient-Pole Synchronous Induction Motor, 284*
Brighton Post Office, Letter-Sorting Machines at, 459*, 627*
— Technical College Calendar, 330 Brinell Tests. See Hardness under {Materials}
Bristol Tractors, Ltd., Unit Cultivator, Park and Golf-Course Tractor, 37*
— University, Faculty of Engineering, pectus, 76

British Association :

Social and International Relations of Science Dvdsion:
The Plastics Industry, by Dr. V. E. Yareley and E. G. Couzens, 91
British Association (Dundee Meeting) :
Inaugural Proceedings, 285, 287
Sectiori G.—Engineering: Programme, 81 Reports of Discussions, 288,
Erratum, 307 Presidential Address, bj' 11. E. on the Future of Flying, 278. 285, 288
University Engineering Courses, by Prof. W. Jackson, 292. See 288, 307. See Erratum, 367
Flow of Liquids Through Beds of (Iranular Solids, by W. B. Ward, 435*. See 288. See LETTEES, 530, 098*
Design of Roads, by Prof. R. G. H. Clements, 289*. See 309
Trans-Atlantic Air Services, by Major R. H. Mayo, 541, 565, 594. See 309 Mechanics of Towing Road Vehicles, by R. B. Matthews, 312*
Voith-Schneider System of Propulsion, by Capt. E. C. Goldsworthy, 315*
Simple Models for Study of Mechanism, by Prof. F. Bacon, 341*
Ignition Lag in Compression-Ignition Engines, by Dr. S. G. Bauer, 368*
Non-Linear Distortion in Iron Testing, by Dr. J. Grieg and E. Franklin, 395*
Inductor with Air-Gapped Magnetic Circuit, by E. V. D. Glazier, 406*
Air-Furnace .Melting for Blackheart Malleable Cast Iron, by H. G. Cochrane, 484*
Stressing of Rotating-Blade Aerofoils, by J. B. B. Owen, 511*
Section A.—Mathematical and Physical
Sciences:
Presidential Address, by R. S. Whipple, on Instruments in Science and Industry, 353, 379
Section L.—Edxicaiional Science : Report of Discussion, 324 Presidential Address, by Dr. A. P. M.
Fleming, on Education for Industry, 317. See 307, 324
Post-Advanced Education, by Prof. W. Jackson, 326. See 307, 325
Section M.—Agriculture :
Presidential Address, by Sir T. Middleton, on Food Production In War Time, 333
Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies:
Presidential Address, by Prof. B. L. Hawkins, on Local Scientiflc Societies and the Community, 308
British Boiler Accessories, Ltd., “Dejector’* Boiler Scavenger and Water Softener, 273*
— Cast Iron Research Association, Investiga
tion on Bonding Clays for Synthetic Moulding Sands, 23; Joint Committee on Vitreous Enamelling, 370; Booklet on Pig-Iron Grading Scheme, 439 ; Report on Hardness Testing of Chill-Cast Rolls, 664
British Cellophane, Ltd., and Glass for A.R.P. Purposes, 697. See 618
— Chambers of Commerce, Association of. Views on Compensation for War Damage to Property, 723
— Coal Utilisation Research Association,
Annual Report, 43. See 49
— Foundry School, Birmingham, Work of, 123
— Foundrymen, Institute of, International
Foundry Congress, London. See Foundry Congress, International
— Granite and Whinstonc Federation, Tests of
Resistance of Concrete to High Explosive, 419*
— Navy. See EM. under Warships
— Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association,
New Laboratories, 12*, 19
— Railways. See Railways
— Road Federation, Booklet on Road Statistics, 124 ; Scheme for National Motorways, 261
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Shipping. See Shipping
— Standards Institution. See Standards
— Sugar Corporation, Bury St. Edmunds
Factory Power Station, 162*
British Thermostat Co., Ltd., Duct and Immersion Thermostats, 429*
British Thomson Houston Co., Ltd., Willesden Apprentice Association, 24; 30,750-kW Turbo-Generators and Switchgear, Longford Power Station, 67* ; Welding of Non- Magnetic Steel in Switchgear Manufacture, 122*; Ignitron Control of Resistance- Welding Machines, 239* ; Variable-Speed Motors for Power-Station Auxiliaries, 303*; Electro-Hydraulic Thrustor for Small Power Applications, 479*
— Trade. See Trade
— Waterworks Association, Nottingham Meet
ing, Presidential Address, by Sir A. Atkey, on Work of the Association, 116 ; Burton Joyce Pumping Station, by B. W. Davies, 116 ; Geology and Water Supply in East Midlands, by Prof. H. H. Swdnnerton, 117 Briton Ferry, Rimming-Steel Manufacture at, 637
Broaching Machine. See Machine Tools 'QTQTCLQ, Briti h Chemical Standard Sample of, 392
Broom and Wade, Ltd., Smgle-Stage Double- Acting Air Compressor, 526*; Hose Coupling, with Automatic Cut-Off Valve 596*
Brown, Boveri Co., Ltd., Testing Apparatus for Gear-Wheel Material, 63*
Brown Brothers (Aircraft), Ltd., Roller Caliper Screw Gauge, 61*
Brown, D., and Sons (Hudd.), Ltd., Reduction Gear for 4,450-h.p. Electric Winding Engine, 41
Brown, D., Tractors, Ltd., 25-h.p. Petrol- Paraffln Tractor, 73*
Brownlie, D., on J. G. Bodmer, Engineer and Inventor, 617
Bruce Peebles and Co., Ltd., 80-kW Portable Electric Generator. 237*
Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Development of BruBh-Kocla iroaucfr Gas Plant, 536. See 446
Biichi Exhaust-Driven Blower for Diesel Engine (Kuston and Hornsby, UdJ, 410
Buck tk Hickman, Ltd., 'rorque-Meaaurlng Wrench, 215*
Buckling of Ships’ Deck Plating, 60J
Buffer Stop, Tcnsiui-Type, Aidgate East bt.i- tion, 176 . Kro
Buffing Gear of Loionmtives, 364 , 4M,
Building Byelaws, JtIdel, Illustrated (Review), 102
_ Commercial, Air-ltaid Precautions for-
— Construction. Bee also i'erro-Coiicrete and PARAGKAPll INDEK
Electrical Equipment of, Kegulations for, If*. See LETTER, 50 _
— Foundation Desiim, Pnncjpks of, 670
— Heating by E'Ctrical thermal-Storage
Plant (General IJectnc Co., Ltd ), , ()8
— Industry during War Tinie, Position ^of. aOa Materials, Protective \alue against X-Kajs,
435*
— Noise Reduction in, Keport, 474
Reduction in. National Physical Laboratory Investigations, 494
— and Plant, Emergency Uws, 546
Rpqearch Board, Annual Report, 219 , Ke port on Reduction of Noise in Buildings, 474 Wind Action on, 189
Bureau of Analysed Samples, Ltd., Samples of Chemical Standard Bronze and Cast Iron, 392
of Mines. See United States
Burettes, Specifloation, 125
Burls, C. M.. the late, 168
Burner, AeratiomTest, for Gas, 678
— Gas, Injector, for Sintered Alumina Ware,
250*
Burstall, Prof. A., on History in Engineering Education, 85 ,
Bursting Discs, Design and Manufacture of, 58* 88*
Burton Joyce Pumping Station, Nottingham, X X6
Bury St. Edmunds Sugar-Beet Factory, Power Station at, 162*
Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 174

C. AND M. WELDING CO., Welded Plate Girder, 350*
Cables. See Wire Hopes and Mcctnc
Cafferata and Co., Ltd., Gypsum-Rock Extracting Transporter, 617* _
Caisson, Pier, Goldcm Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 33* . .
Calaine, R., on Documentation in Swiss Administrations, 300
Calcium Carbide, Supply and Consumption of, 141, 561 , ,
Calculus, Complex Variable and Operational, with Technical Application (Review), 3/9
Calibrating Machine for Testing Carburettor Jets, 233
Calibration of Testing Machines and Extenso- nieters 145*
California, Imperial Dam and Desilting Works on Colorado River and All-American Canal, 225*
Callender-Hamilton. Unit Construction Bridge, Courses in Erection of, 380
Callipers, Vernier, Draft Specification, 124 Calorifiers, Specification, 690
" Calpurnia,” Flying Boat, Accident to, 125
Cambrian United Dairies, Ltd., Manufacture of Paper Cartoib for Milk Distribution, 687*
CambridgelnstniBient Co. Ltd., Magneto-Theodolite, 15; Thompson Comparator, 151; Fabric-Porosity Testing Apparatus, 634*
— University, Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 174 ; Investigations on Ignition , Lag in Compression-Ignition Engines, 368*
' Cambridgeshire, Parson Drove Woad Mill, I Model of, 689*
Camera for Aerial Surveying, Development of, 150*
— for Study of Furnace Combustion, 496
Cammell, Laird and Co., Ltd., Launch of H.M. Cruiser “ Dido,” 77
Campbell, Mr., on Selection of Aggregates for Concrete Road, 180
Campbell, Sir M , Record Speed with Motor Boat ” Bluebird II,” 233
Canada, Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, Annual Report, 260
— Water-Power Resources in. Report, 51 Canadian-Australian Commerce, Statistics, 500
— Technical and Industrial Progress, 152 Canal, Albert, Belgium, 375*, 431*, 489*, 574*,
657*
— All-American, California, 225*
— Panama, Additional Locks for, 287
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cane Lathing (Le Tissaroso), 83
Cantilever Bridge. See Bridge
Cantrill, Mr., on Selection of Aggregates for Concrete Reads, 180
Capstan Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tools Car, Motor. See Motor Car
Carbons for Arc Lamps, Supply of, 727
— “Bisulphide Vapour, Detection of, 122
— Deposition from Lubricating Oils, Investigation on,676*
— Monoxide, Combustion Characteristics of, 679
Carborundum Co., Ltd., Books on Grinding- Wheel Practice, 84
Carburettor Jets. National Physical Laboratory Calibrating Machine for, 233
Cardiff Docks, Centenary of, 362 Cargo Steamers. See Steamers “ Caribou,” Flving Boat, Transatlantic Flight of, 173
Carriages. Caterpillar, for Cranes and Excavators, 599*
— Railway, Buffet-Restaurant, London and North-Eastern Railway, 146*
Lighting of, in War Time, 389, 475. 539, I 612,615
('arriage, Kailway, Track-Recording, Great
Indian Peninsular Railway, 253*
Carriers, Log (Roadless Traction, Ltd.), 10* Cartons, Paper, for Milk Distribution, Manufacture of (Cambrian United Dairies, Ltd.), 687*
Case Hardening. See Heat Tnaiment under Metallurgy o- r i.
Cass Technical Institute. See Sir John Cass Cast Iron, Chemical Standard Sample of, 392 Cutting Tools for, 104
Hard-Alloy, for Resistance to Abrasion,
40
High-Duty and Alloy, Thermal Conductivity of, 26*, 41 X. r
High-Strength, Mechanical Properties of, 154
Malleable, Blackheart, Air-Furnace Melting for, 484* .
Malleable, Manufacture of Pipe Fittings
— — Malleable, Operation of Open-Hearth
Furnace for Melting of, 104 Nickel, Handbook on, 408 Pipes, Pitting Corrosion of, 105,145
— Research Association, British, Investigation on Bonding Clays for Synthetic Moulding Sands, 23 ; Joint Committee on Vitreous Enamelling, 370; Booklet on Pig-Iron Grading Scheme, 439 ; Report on Hardness Testing of Chill-Cast Rolls, 664 Castellini, A. P., High-Speed Drilling Machine for Small Holes, 478* .
Castings, Centrifugal, Development in Ger-
— Control of Solidification by Calculation, 163 Gas Unsoundness in, Effect of Melting
Conditions on, 74
Iron and Steel, Factors Affecting Quality of, 164
— Steel, Dry-Sand Practice for, 164 Modern Practice for, 164
— for Steelworks Plant, 24 Casualties, Shipping, in the War, 415 Catalogues, 61, 93,125,155,185,215,,243, 273,
339, 457, 487, 543, 569, 62o, 705. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Caterpillar Carriages for Cranes and Excavators, 599*
— Tractor. See Tractor
Catwalk, Wire Rope, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 295*
Caustic Embrittlement of Boiler Plate, Investigation of, 249 _ . . .
Cavitation, Investigation of, Experiments at National Physical Laboratory, 300
Cawley, F. B., on Manufacture of Rimming Steel at Workington, 482*
Ceag, Ltd., Portable Lamps for A.R.P. Purnoses 541*
Cellophane for A.R.P. Protection of Windows, 697. See 618 , _ , . x ex i
Cement-Grinding Tube Mill, Fabricated-Steel (E. Newell and Co., Ltd.), 681* ,
Industry, Portland, in United States,in 1938, Report on, 704 *
Kilns, Prevention of Dust from, 262
— See also Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX Census of Production, 1935, 4, 35, 66. bee Erratum, 93 _
Centenary of Ayr to Irvine Railway Line, 283
— of Baron de Prony, 83
— of Bradshaw’s Railway Guide, 416
— of Cardiff Docks, 362 . ..
— Celebrations, Thurston, Cornell University, 633. See 451*
— Manchester and Leeds Railway, 15
— of W. Murdock, 531
— of Railway in Nova Scotia, 373
— of Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., 363
— of W. Smith, 223
— of J. N. Tata, 472
— of R. H. Thurston, 451*. See 633
Central Electricity Board, Electricity Supply Tariffs, 361; Construction and of the Grid, 558, 568, 577* ; 30,000-kVA, 132/33-kV Mobile Transformer, 619*
— Register for Professional Persons, 416, 669
— Station. See Power Station
-- Uruguay Railway, Locomotive Reconstruction on, 221*, 245*
Centrifugal Pumps. See Pumps '
Ceramic Industry, Refractories for, Investiga-
Chains, Anchorage, Golden Gate Bridge, San
Francisco, 31* „
Steel, Reconstruction of Menai Suspension Bridge, 656*
— Track Tractor. See Tracfor
“ Challenge,” S.S., Machinery of, 173 Chambers of Commerce, British Association of, Views on Armaments Profits Duty, 19
Champion, G. T., 40-b.h.p. ^Back-fteasure Steam-Engine Generating Set 428*
Champion Reef Gold Mines of India, Md., 4,450-h.p. Electric Winding Engine, 41 , 84*
Change-Speed Gear. See Gear
Channels, Flow of Water Under Steep Gradients, in, 120*
— Water, High-Speed, Experiments on, 272 Charcoal-Iron Industrj;, QQ
— Manufacture in Portable Kilns, K^ort, 89 Charging Car, Coal, for Electrically-Operated ^ke-Oven Plant, 356*
— Machine, Electrically-Operated, for Annealing Furnace (Incandescent Heat Co., Lta.), 370*
Chartered Surveyors’ Institution, Examina-
Chatley, Dr. H., on Slips in Clay BankSj^lOS* ; on Vane-Wheel Eroder for Indian Rivers, 282, 479. See 264*. See LETTER, 421 , on Principles of Foundation Design,
Chemical Engineers, Institution of, Curtaib ment of Activities of, 452; Associate- Membership Examination, 470
Engineering Department, University College, London, Work at 19
— Industry, Society of, Presidential Address, by V. G. Bartram, on Canadian Technical and Industrial Progress, 152
Vacuum Service in, 607*
plant, Billingham, Construction of, 505
— Soluble, Effect on Concrete, 180 Chemistry, Applied, Thorpe’s Dictionary of,
Vol. in (Review), 102
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Chicago Subway, Welded-Steel Tunnel for, 508* Chimney Dust, Characteristics and Identification of, 115, 151
Chippings and Road Stone, Specification, 690 Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., Works of, 20
Chlorinated Phenyl for Transformers, 643 Chvorinov, N., on Control of Solidification of
Castings by Calculation, 163 Cinematograph Applied to Study of Furnace
Combustion, 496 Circulating Pumps, See Pumps City and Guilds of London Institute, Annual
Report, 723
— of London College,
Steel, 198
Civil Aerial Transport.
— Defence Act, 1939,
structional Work,
— Engineers, French
Gold Medal to W. T. Halcrow, 54

Civil Engineers, Institution of :

Conference on Education and Training, Design of Bomb-Proof Shelters, by Dr. Anderson, 50
Forthcoming Arrangements, 385
Future of “ Journal ” and ** Engineering Abstracts,” 505
Presidential Address, by Sir C. D. M. Hindley, on Duties of Institution in War-Time 551
Standard Steam Cycles, by J. F. Field, 643 Parsons Memorial Lecture, by Dr. H. L. Guy, on Some Researches on Steam- Turbine Nozzle Efficiency, 700*, 712* Civil Engineers of Ireland, Institution of,
Particulars of Kettle Premium and President’s Medal Papers, 528
— Engineering, Influence of J. Smeaton on,
473
Clamping Devices, Rapid-Assembly, for Tubes (*G. H. Gascoigne Co., Ltd.), 456*
Clarovan, Ltd., ” Surefiex ” Flexible Tube, 241*, 439
Clay Banks, Slips in, 103*
— Bonding, for Synthetic Moulding Sands, 23
— Fire. See Firebricks ; Fefractory Mater als Clayton-Wright, H., Ltd., Dickson All-Metal
Laminated Gasket, 540* ; Flexible Pipe Union, 646*
Cleansing, Public, Ministry of Health’s Report, 334
Clearing Machine Corporation, Crankless Power Presses, 481*
— Offices, Emergency Arrangements, 392 • Clements, Prof. R. G. H., on Design of Roads,
.289*. See 309
Cleveland Iron Prices. See MeiaFPrice D 'agrams
— and the Northern Counties, Notes from,
15, 45, 77, 108, 139, 169, 199, 229, 256, 283, 305, 331, 359, 413, 443, 471, 501, 529, 555, 583, 611, 639, 665, 691, 719. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Clocks, Development of, 355, 379 Cloth, Abrasive, Specification, 610
Clyne, R. W., on Theory of Impact Testing, 667 Coaches, Railway. See Carriages
Coal and British Fuel Position, 641
— Charging Car for Electrically-Operated
Coke-Oven Plant, 356*
’— Commercial Grades of, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Coalfield, 543
— Consumption. See Trials
— Dust Explosions, Investigations by Safety
in Mines Research Board, 286
— Economy. See Fziel; Pulverised Coal
— Gas. See Gas
— Handling, Characteristics of Dust from, 152 Plant, Longford Power Station, 5*
— Industry, Great Britain, Statistics, 261
— Low-Temperature Carbonisation, Report on
Narrow Brick Retorts, 652
— Mine. See Colliery
— Mining in Europe, Report, 419
— Oxidation Tests of, 606
— Pulverised. See Pulverised Coal
— Supplies in War Time, Arrangements for, 81
— LFtilisation Council, Annual Report, 49;
Curtailment of Activities, 392 Joint (Council, Formation of, 501
Research Association, British, Annual Report, 43
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Coalfield, Kempen, and Albert Canal, 375*, 433
— Northumberland and Durham, Bensham Seam, Report, 194
— Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, Analysis
of Commercial Grades of Coal, 543
— Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derby
shire, Report on Barnsley-Warren House Seam, 237
Coast and River Conservancy, 571*
Coates, W. A., on Force Trips on Circuit Breakers, 251*
Coatings, Protective, for Metals (Review), 159 Cobb, J., Record Speed with Railton Motor Car, 261
Cochrane, H. G., on Air-Furnace Melting for Blackheart Malleable Cast Iron, 484*
Cochrane, J., and Sons, Ltd., Aidgate-East Station Reconstruction, 99*, 159*
Cofferdam, Pier, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 33*
— Sheet-Steel, Wandsworth Bridge, London, 707*
Cohen, G., Sons and Co., Ltd., Dismantling of Cymmer Colliery, Porth, 607
Coke, First Use for Smelting, 590
— Oven Plant, Electrically-Operated (Woodall-
Duckham Co., Ltd.), 355*. See Erratum^ 413
— Research Committee, Northern, Annual
Report, 109
Coking Industry and British Fuel Position, 641
— Low-Temperature, of Coal. See Coal Collector, Current, for Trolley ’Bus, 624 College. See Education
Collieries, Air Flow in, Development in Measurement of, 182*
Collieries, Anthracite, Investigation of Fires in, 606
— Cymmer, Forth, South Wales, Dismantling
of, 607
— 25-h.p. Diesel Locomotive for Use in, 311*
— Electrical Inspector of Mines’ Report, 532
— Safety in Mines Research Board’s Report, 286 in. Royal Commission’s Report, 49
— Spoilbanks, Abatement of Fires in, 262
— Winding. See Winding
— See also Mines and Coal
Collins, Mr., on High-Strength Cast Iron, 154 Collisions. See Accidents
Colonial Broach Co., Vertical Broaching Machine, 55
Colorado River, Imperial Dam and Desilting Works, 225*
Colour-Matching Lamps, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 495
— Tubes, Hsemoglobinometer, Testing of, 495 Colson, C. H., the Late, 535
Combined Stress. See Fatigue Quests under Tests {Materials)
Combustion Characteristics of Town Gas and Its Constituents, 679*
— Furnace, Photographic Study of, 496
— See also Fuel; Oases
Commer Cars, Ltd., Luton Works Reorganisation, 265*
Commerce. See Trade. See also Itidustries and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Commercial Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Motor Cars. See Motor Commision, Royal. See Royal Commission Commonwealth. See Australia
Compacting, Wrapping and Spinning Machinery for Wire Cables, Golden Gate Bridge, 295*
Companies. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Comparator, Slip-Gauge, Pneumatic, at National Physical Laboratory, 251*
— Thompson, for Aerial Photographs, 150 Compensation, Workmen’s. See Labour Compound Stress. See Tests {Materials) Compounding of Alloys by Melting, 163 Compressed-Air Tools. See Machine Tools
— Gas Cylinders. See Gas
Compressor, Air. See Air Compressor Conciliation in Labour Disputes. See Labour;
Labour Notes; PARAGRAPH INDEX Concrete Aggregate Soundness, Testing of, 180
— Effects of Soluble Chemicals in, 180
— Foamed Blast-Furnace Slag for. Specification, 690
Slag, Investigations of, 219
— Mixer, 10-cub. ft. Portable (Stothert and Pitt, Ltd.), 209*
— Passage of Water Through, Measurement of,
180
— Piers, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco,
2*, 31*
— Piles, Stresses During Driving, Investigations, 220*
— Piling, Ltd., Cooling Towers for Longford
Power Station, 69
— Protective Value Against X-Rays, 435*
— Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete
— Resistance to High Explosive, Tests of, 419*
— Revetment, Albert Canal, Belgium, 575*
— Roads, Experimental Work on. Report, 693 Selection of Aggregates for, 180
— Water-Vapour Permeability of, 180
— See also Ferro-Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Condensation on Metallic Walls, Prevention of, 221*
Condensers, Barometric (Blairs, Ltd.), 609*
— Surface, Longford Power Station, 68* Conditioner, Exhaust-Gas, for Diesel Engine,
311*
Conductivity, Thermal, Copper-Alloy Castings for Applications, 163
of High-Duty and Alloy Cast Irons, 26* 41 of Industrial Alloys of Copper and of Nickel, 539
of Metals, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 434
— See also Electric
Conduits, Copper, and Fittings for Electrical Wiring, 227
Cones, Seger, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 250
Conference, International, on High-Tension Networks. See High-Tension Networks^ Internntio'nal Conference, Paris
— World Power, War-Time Arrangements, 530
— Zurich, International Federation of Docu
mentation. See Documentation y International Federation ofZilrich Conference Congress, International, for Applied Mechanics, Proceedings of (Review), 278
Foundry, London. See Fozindry Congress, International
Qi Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Liege, Programme, 176
Conservation of Coal. See Coal; Fuel Containers, Compressed-Gas, Welded, National
Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 205, 250
— Metal, for Food Products, Specification, 442 Continental Machines, Inc., Contour Metal-
Sawing Machine, 729*
Contracts, 44, 76, 108, 138, 168, 198, 228, 256, 282. 304, 442, 470, 500, 582, 718
— Frustrated, Law of, 97
Control Gauge, Pressure-Actuated, Electrical (G. Salter and Co., Ltd.), 214*
— Gear for Cement-Grinding Tube Mill, 682* |
and Industrial Instruments, Report on i
(Review), 710 j
— Ignitron, of Resistance-Welding Machines i
(British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 239*'
— Panel, Ignitron, for Spot-Welding Machine,
509* (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd.)
Thyratron, for Welder (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.) 382*
— System, Street Lighting, andc., Metrovick-
Ripplay, 21
for Trolley ’Bus, 624
Controllers for Sectional-Unit Electric Drive at Dartford Paper Mills, 196*
Converter, Forged-Steel, for Hydrogenation of Tars, 486
— Equaliser Set for 4,450-h.p. Electric Winding
Engine, 41*
Conveyors, Belt, for Gypsum-Rock Extracting Transporter, 519*
for “ Transorma ” Letter-Sorting Machine 459*, 627*
— for Electrically-Operated Coke-Oven Plant,
355*
Cook, Dr. M., on Free-Turning Brass, 327, 369 Cooke, Troughton Sims, Ltd., Tavistock Theodolites 149*
Cooling Curves, Alloys. See Metallurgy
— Towers, Design of, 242* Longford Power Station, 69
Copper Alloys. See Brass; Bro^ize; and Alloys under Metallurfiy
— in Brass, Effect on Machinability, 328
— Castings for Electrical and Thermal Con
ductivity Applications, 163
— Development Association, Booklet on I^ead-
Bronze Bearings, 134
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Reinforced, for Electrical Conductors, 263
— Statically-fStressed, X-Ray Examination of,
144
— Tubes, Capillary Joints for, Specification,
384
— See also Metallurgy
Copying Machines, Photo, Mereury-Vapour Lamp (B. J. Hall and Co., Ltd.), 393*
Corby, Manufacture of Rimming Steel by Bessemer Process, 569
' Core-Shop Control at Austin Motor Co.’s Foundries, 23
Corey, Mr., on Reaction Between Iron and Water, 209
, Cornell University, Thurston Centenary Celebrations, 633. See 451*
Corrosion, Fretting, National Physical Labora tory Investigation on, 144
— of Iron and Steel, American Report on, 154
— of Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys, American Report on, 154
— Pitting, of Cast-Iron and Steel Pipes, 105, 145
Cotterill, H. W. B., the Late, 256
Coupling, Flexible, for Cement-Grinding Tube Mill, 682*
— Hose, with Automatic Cut-Off Valve (Broom
and Wade, Ltd.), 596*
County of London Electric Supply Co., Ltd., Demonstration of “ Rhythmatic” Control Apparatus, 182*
— Surveyors’ Society, Scheme for National
Motorways, 261
“ Courageous,” H.M. Aircraft-Carrier, Sinking of, 33.5
Couzens, E. G., on Plastics Industry, 91 Coventry Corporation, Longford Pow'er Station, 5*, 67*
Coventry Machine Tool Works, Ltd., Combined Shell-Forging and Drawing Press, 136* Coverings, Non-Conducting. See Heat Insulation
Cracking, Intercrystalline, of Aluminium Alloys Investigations on, 234
Crafts, W., on Impact Tests of Steel at Low Temperature, 154
Cranes, Caterpillar Carriages for, 599*
— 10-ton Mobile, Petrol-Driven (L. Faucheux),
83*
— See also Dandling
Derricks
Crankshaft Materials,
on,144
Creep Investigations Laboratory, 145
on Steel at High Temperatures, 249
— of Lead and Lead-Alloys, Investigations on, 53
— Testing, Alternating-Current Bridge Thermostat, 95*
— See also Tests {Materials}
Creosote for Rot-Proofing of Sand Bags, 579 Critical Points Metals. See Metallurgy Crofts (Engineers), Ltd., Infinitely-Variable Speed Drive for Two Shafts, 116*
Crompton, Mrs. R. E. B., the Late, 646 Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., Electric Drive at Pottery Works, 93 ; Electric Generators for Sugar-Beet Factory, 162* ; 800-h.p. Auto-Synchronous Motor, 682*
Cross, H. W., on Application of Non-Condensing or Extraction Turbines, 271* ;
Crossley, A. C., the Late, 207
Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 82-b.h.p. and 165-b.h.p. Diesel Engines, 166*; 120-b.h.p. Six- Cylinder Diesel Engine, 237*; 125-b.h.p. Five-Cylinder Diesel Engines for Vane- Wheel Eroder 264*. See LETTERS, 282, 421, 479
Crucibles and Basins, Silica, Specification, 638 Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil Cruickshank, J., Ltd., Dough-Mixing and Kneading Machine, 153*
Cruisers. See Warships
Crumbles, Eastbourne. Groynes at, 571* Crystalline Structure of Metals. See Microphotographs
Crystallisation in Commercial Alloys, Process of, 163
Cultivator, Motor, -with Spray Pump (Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 74*
— Unit, Tractor-Driven (Bristol Tractors, Ltd.), 37*
Cupola, Laws Governing Operation of, 104
— Practice, Optimum Blast Volume for, 104
— Refractories, Selection and Testing of, 24 Current, Electric. See Electric
Cuttings on Albert Canal, Belgium, 377*, 431*, 489*, 574*
— and Welding, Nomenclature, Definitions and
Symbols for. Specification, 281
C.V.A. Jigs, Moulds and Tools, Ltd., Portable Hydraulic Table, 58* ; 3J-in. Centre Precision Capstan Lathe, 562*
Cycle Industry, Census of Production Statistics, 4, 35. 66
Cylinder, Gas. See Oas
— Internal-Combustion Engine, Heat Flow in, 463*, 547*, 603*, 682*
— Lead, for 1,000-kV X-Ray Tube, 623* Cymmer Colliery, Porth, South Wales, Dismantling of, 607
Czechoslovakia, Iron and Steel Industry of, 492 Czyzewski, Dr. N., on Optimum Blast Volume for Cupola Practice, 104

DADSWELL, DR. C. J., on Dry-Sand Practice for Steel Castings, 164
Dairy Sterilising Chest, Electric (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 40*
Dalrymple-Hay, Sir H. H., Bakcrloo Extension to Einchley Road, 532
Dam, Imperial, and Desilting Works, Colorado
Damage, War, to Property, Report on Compensation for, 644
Damper, Vibration, for Overhead Conductors, 390*
Damping Capacity of Metals, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 144
Daniels, T. H. and J.,500-ton Mould-Hobbing Press, 453*;. Three-Throw Vertical Hydraulic Pump, 539*
Danilotl, M., on Application of Dimensional Analysis to Stresses in Railway Tracks, 660 Danks of Netherton, Ltd., Lewis Portable Water-Tube BoUer, 90* ; Super-Economic Boilers, 167*
Dargan, W. H., on Photographic Study of Steam-Boiler Furnaces in Operation, 496 Dartford Paper Mills, Sectional-Unit Electric Drive at, 195*
Dassetto, G., on Erection and Calculation of , Anti-Vibratory Conductors, 264* I
Davey, Paxman and Co. (Colchester), Ltd., ! 265/400 b.h.p. Eight-Cylinder Marine Diesel Oil Engine, 323* ; 420/460 b.h.p. | Six-Cylinder Slarine Diesel Oil Engine, | 324* _ . i
Davies, B. W., on Burton Joyce Pumping ' Station, 116
Davies, J. V., the Late, 421 Davies, Dr. R. M., on
Springs, 113, 174 Davies, Dr. S. J., on Scavenging, 207. LETTERS 330, 357*, 421,589.
Davis, Dr. A. H., on Reduction of Noise in Buildings, 474
Davis, E., on Free-Turning Brass, 327, 369 Davis, Dr. H. N., on Engineering Education at Stevens Institute of Technology, 633
Dawson, W. J., on Organisation of Steel Foundry Research, 56. See 164
Day Lighting of Factory, Design for, 221* Deck Plating, Ships’, Buckling of, 605* Deformation Under Impact Testing, 667
— Temperature, in Internal-Combustion Engines, 603*
Dejector ” Boiler Scavenger and Water Softener (British Boiler Accessories, Ltd.), 273*
Demain, J., Pumping Plant, Spalding Waterworks, 514*
Dennv, W., and Brothers, Ltd., Motorship ‘‘Jet,” Vane-Wheel Eroder for Indian Rivers, 264*. See LETTER, 282, 421, 479 Deposits from Atmosphere, Identitication of Source of, 115, 151
Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Coalfield, Analysis of Commercial Grades of Coal, 543 Derricks, Erection, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 247*
-- See also Cranes
Desilting and Imperial Dam Works, Colorado River, 225*
Destroyers. See Warskips
Desuperheater for Non-Condensing or Extraction Tmbines, 271*
Detection of Aniline Vapom, Report on, 718 Detectors for Track-Recording Railway Car, 253*
Devereux, W. C., on Light-Alloy Melting Practice, 74
Devitrification of Glass in Tank Furnaces, 646 Dewhurst, F., Motor Fire Boat ” James Braidwood,” 653*
Dewhurst, P. C., Locomotive Reconstruction on Central Urugua5^ Railway, 221*, 245*
Diagrams, Indicator. See Indicator
— Metal-Price. See Metal-Price Diagrams Dial Gauges, Draft Specification, 148 Dickin, J. H., on Machining of Aluminium and
its Alloys, 397*
Dickson All-Metal Laminated Gasket (H. Clayton-Wright, Ltd.), 540*
” Dido,” H.M. Cruiser, Launch of, 77 Die-Casting, Pressure, of Zinc-Base and Aluminium-Base Alloys, 75
Diesel Engines. See Engines, Oil, Diesel; Marine Propulsion
Differential Gear. See Gear Digger, Potato (Bamfords, Ltd.), 40* Tractor-Driven (J. Olding and Co., Ltd.), 71*
Digging Machine. See Excavator
Dimbleby, V., on Weathering of Bottle Glasses, 60
Dimensional Analysis, Application to Stresses in Hailway Tracks, 660
Direction Finding, Radiotelegraphic. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX Discs, Bursting, Design and Manufacture, 58*, 88*
Distributor, Fertiliser (W. N. Nicholson A Sons), 40*
Dixon, Engr. Vice-Admiral Sir R. B., the Late, 146*
Docks, Cardiff, Centenary of, 362
Dockyard, Wilton-Fijenoord, Rotterdam, Reorganisation of Machine Shop at, 341*
Documentation, International Federation of, Zurich Conference ; National and International Co-operation in Research and Documentation, with Special Reference to Electrical Engineering, by W. Janick, 300 ; Documentation in Administration of Swiss Railways Postal Services, Telegraphs, Telephones and Customs, by E. Mathys, E. Rickli, C. Frachebourg and R. Calaine, 300; Documentation in Aluminium Industry, by E. Kockerhans, 301
Domestic Coke and Gas Fires, Refractories for. Investigations on, 724
— Electricity Supply, Tariffs and Charges for,
Domestic Heating and Fuel - RatioM^g Scheme, 335
Donaldson, Dr. J. W., on Thermal Conductivity of High-Duty and Alloy Cast Irons, 26*. See 41; on Thermal Conductivities of Alloys of Copper and of Nickel, 539
Doors, Gas-Tight, Hinge for, Specification, 654
— Water Tight, in Underground Railway
Tunnels, 389, 420, 695
Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd., Reconstruction of Menai Suspension Bridge, 655*
Dough-Kneading Machine, ” Vortex,” 153*
Dratiin, Mr., on High-Strength Cast Iron, 154 Drainage System for Embankment, Albert Canal, Belgium, 574*
Draw-Regulators for Electrically-Driven Paper- Making Machine, 197*
Drawgear for Pacific Locomotives, 364*, 616
Drifters, Model Experiments at National Physical Laboratory, 276
Drills and Drilling Machines. See Machine Tools
— Grinding Machine. See Grinding Machine
under Machine Tools
Driver, Post (E. H. Bentall and Co., Ltd.), 74* Driving Machine, Post-Hole, Mobile (Hughes- Keenan Co.), 25*
Ducts, Lock-Filling, Albert Canal, Belgium, 658*
Dumas, R., the Late, 618
Dumper, 2^-3 cub. yd. (Aveling-Barford, Ltd.), 38*
Dunagan, Prof. W. M., on Measuring Passage of Water through Concrete, 180
Dundee Meeting, British Association. See British Association
Dunton Pumping Station, Biggleswade Water Board, 21*
Durand, W. F., on Flow of Water in Channels Under Steep Gradients, 120*
Durham and Northumberland Coalfield, Ben- sham Seam, Report, 194
“ Duros ” Dial-Indicating Weighing Machine, 551*
Dust from Cement Kilns, Prevention of, 262
— Coal, Explosions of. See Coal Dust See also Pulverised Coal
— Deposited from Atmosphere, Identification
of Source of, 115, 151
Dynamics of Flying. See Aeronautics
Dynamos. See Generators^ Electric} Turbo- Generators
Dyson, R. A.,and Co-, Ltd., Portable Emergency 80-kW Diesel-Driven Generator Set, 237*

EARTH Pressure on Transmission-Tower Foundations, 310, 466*
East Asiatic Co., Ltd., M.S. “ Korea,’* 451 Eastbourne, Crumbles, Groynes at, 571* Eastwood, Dr. A. H., on Aeration-Test Burner for Gas, 678
Economics, Industrial. See Labour
— Railway. See Railway
Economiser, Gilled-Tube, Horizontal (E. Green and Son, Ltd.), 496*
Economy, Fuel. See Fxiel
Edgwick Twist-Drill Grinding Machine, 653 “ Edinburgh,” H.M. Cruiser, Trials of, 44

Education :

Apprentice Association, Willesden Works of British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., 24
— in Engineering Trades, 233
Battersea Polytechnic, Course in Industrial Metallurgy. 412
Bradford Technical College, Prospectus, 168
Brighton T#»chnical College, Calendar, 330 Bristol University, Faculty of Engineering, Prospectus, 76
British Aircraft Constructors, Society of. Scholarships, 108
Cambridge University, Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 174
Chartered Surveyors’ Institution, Examinations, 554
Chemical Engineers, Institution of, Associate-Membership Examination, 470
City and Guilds of London Institute, Annual Report, 723
— of London College, Lectures on Iron
and Steel, 198
Civil Engineers of Ireland, Institution of, Particulars of Kettle Premium and President’s Medal Papers, 528
Electrical Engineers, Institution of, Associate-Membership Examination, 358
Engineering Education, Present and Future, 669
and Training, Conference on, 18
— History in Education, 85
Foundry Education and Training in Great Britain, 123
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, War-time Arrangements at, 442
King’s College, London, Faculty of Engineering Syllabus of Courses, 44
Leeds University, Post-Graduate Course in Fuel and Refractory Materials, 138
Leyland Motors’ Day Continuation School, 165
Light Alloys, Wrought, Application to Ship Construction, Scholarship in, 44
Manchester Municipal College of Technology, Prospectus, 358
Naval Aichitects, Institution of, Scholarships in Application of Wrought Light-Alloys to Ship Construction, 44 ; Elgar Scholarship, 610
Post-Advanced Education, 307, 325, 326 Sanitary Institute, Royal, Examinations in Sanitary Science, 470
Royal, and Sanitary Inspectors’ Examination Joint Board, Examinations, 500
Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Calendar, 228
South Wales and Monmouthshire School of Mines, Calendar, 330
South-West Essex Technical College, Courses at, 670
Special Entry Naval Cadetships, 723
Structural Engineers, Institution of, Postponement of Examinations, 330; Graduateship and Associate-Membership Examinations, 500
Swansea University College, Engineering and Metallurgical Departments, Prospectuses, 76
Technical Education in War-Time, 585 Thurston’s Contributions to Engineering Education. 451*, 633
Training for Industry, 307, 317, 324 University College, London, Faculty of Engineering, Prospectus, 76; Reopening of Ramsay Laboratory, 528
— Engineering Courses, Views on, 288, 292, 307. See Erratum, 367
West Hartlepool Technical College, Prospectus, 282
Westminster Technical Institute, Prospectus, 256
Yorkshire Council for Further Education, Lecture Courses for Engineers, 330 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Edwards, F. <fc J., Ltd., Rotary Shearing Machine for Sheet Aletals, 543*
Edwards, W., <fe Co., Diffusion-Type Vacuum Pump, 608*
Efficiency of Engines. See Engines
Egan, J. J., on Impact Tests of Steel at Low Temperature, 154
Eichelberg, Prof. G., on Investigations on Combustion-Engine Problems, 463*, 547*, 603*, 682*
Elastic Modulus, Sonic Method of Determining, 181

Electric :

Accumulator Vehicles. See Motor Truck Alternating-Current Power Transmission, Future of, 50
Power Transmission, Principles of (Review), 246
Alternator. See Generator and Turbo Aluminium in Electrical Industry, 51 Ammeter, Alternating-Current, Link-Test (Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd.), 195*
Arc Furnaces. See Furnace, Elec.tr'c
— Lamp Carbons, War-Time Distribution of, 727
— Welding. See Welding
Battery Vehicles. See Motor Truck British Arc Lamp Carbon (War Emergency) Pool, Formation of, 727
Cable Design of, Progress in, 77
— and Gas and Water Mains in Roads, 48 ‘— High-Voltage, for the Grid, 558, 568
— Multi-Conductor, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 588 •
— Sheathing, Lead and Lead-Alloys for. Investigations on, 53
— in Underground Ducts, Current-Carrying Capacity of, 588
Central Electricity Board, Electricity Supply Tariffs, 361; Construction and Operation of the Grid, 558, 568, 577* ; 30,000-kVA, 132/33-kV Mobile Transformer, 619*
— Stations. See Power Stations Conductivity Applications, Copper-Alloy Castings for, 163
Conductors, Anti-Vibratory, Erection and Calculation of, 264*
— Overhead, Vibration of, 390*
— Reinforced-Copper, for Overhead Transmission lanes, 263
— Semi, and Metals (Review), 631 Conduits, Copper, and Fittings for Electrical Wiring, 227
Current Collector for Trolley ’Bus, 624 Dielectric Properties of Plastic Materials, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 587*
Distribution Boards, Specification, 470 Dynamo. See Generator ; Turbo-Generator Earth Connections, Resistance to Impulse Currents, 466*
Electrical Engineering Experiments— Theory and Practice (Review), 710
— Equipment of Buildings, Regulations for, 18. See LETTER, 50
of Ships, Rules for, 668
— Plant in Quarries, Regulations for, 137 Electricity Commissioners, North-West England and North-Wales Electricity Scheme, 113; Returns of Electricity Generated, 119 ; Decision on F^oposed Power Station at Barlaston, 143; Notification of Electricity-Supply Failures, 389; Annual Report, 586
— in Mines, Report for 1938, 532
— Undertakings and Breaking Up of Roads, 48
Electro-Acoustics (Review), 159. See Errata, 207
Frequency Standardisation in Electricity Supply, Cost of, 568
Furnaces. See Furnaces
Fuses, Specification, 138
Galvanometers, Development and Application of, 380
Generating Stations. See Power Stations Generator. See Generator and Turbo High-Voltage Research at National Physical Laboratory, 588
Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
Ignition for Internal-Combustion Engines. See Ignition
Ignitron Control Panel for Spot-Welding Machine (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 509*
of Resistance-Welding Machines 239*^^^^ Co., Ltd.),
Inductance Measurements at National Physical Laboratory, 587
^"ductor with Air-Gapped Magnetic Cir-
Insulating Materials, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 588
Electric—cont nued.
Insulation, New Materials for, 603
— Production of Mk-anite for, 301
— Test for Trolley ’Bus, 624
Lamp Caps and Lampholders, Architectural, Specilication, 228
— Colour-Matching, National Physical Laboratory Investigations, 495
— Discharge, Measurement of Luminous Flux from, 589
— Hand, for Air-Raid Precautions, Sjieci- flcation, 384
— Portable for A.R.P. Purposes (Ceag, Ltd.), 541*
— Tungsten-Filament, Specification, 442 Lighting Fittings, A.R.P.,Specification, 582 Lightning Protection for Overhead Lines 142
Locomotives. See Locomotives, Electric Machines. See Generators ; Motors; Turbo Magnetos. See Ignition
Mains. See Cables (above)
Meter, Am )er -, Link-Test Alternating- Current (Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd.), 195*
— Testing Station, Walkden, 20
— Watt-Hour, Jewel Bearings for, 179*, 4 J
Motors. See Motors, Electric Oil Switch. See Switchgear
Oscillators, Quartz-Ring, National Physical Laboratory, 588*
Oscillograms from Circuit Breakers. 670* Oscillograph Tests of Circuit Breakers, 71* Power Stations. See Power Stations
— See Power
Railways. See Railways Rays. See Rbntgen
Relay, Mercury-Switch (Londex, Ltd.). (‘>19 Resistance of Earth Connections to Impulse Currents, 466*
— Welding. See Welding Rontgen Rays. See Lbntgen Rural Electrification, Problems of, 587 in South Africa, 225
Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propxilsio7) Short-Circuit Control by Air-Blast Circuit Breakers. 522*
Steel Manufacture. See Metallurgy ; and Eumace, Electric
Street Railways. See Tramways Substation. See Substation Surge-Protective Devices, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 588
Switchgear. See Switchgear Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
Telephony. See Telephony
Thermometer. See Thermometer
Thermopiles, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 495 Thermostat, Alternating-Current Bridge, for Creep Testing, 95*
— Duct and Immersion (British Thermostat Co., Ltd.), 429*
Traction. See Locomotives, Electric ; Trolley Bus ; Railways ; Tramways Tramways. See tramways Transformers. See Transferrmers Turbo-Generators. See Turbo-Generators Voltage, Restriking, in Service and on Test, 521*
Welding. See Welding
Winding Gear. See Winding Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
— Telephony. See Telephony X-Rays. See Rbntgen Rays See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Electrical Engineers, American Institute of, MuJtiple-Grid Circuit Breakers for High- Voltage Service, by J. B. MacNeUl and A. W. Hill, 388

Electrical Engineers, Institution of :

Conversazione, 13
Regulations for Electrical Equipment of Buildings, 18. See LETTER, 60
Summer Meeting, Manchester, 20. See Addendum, 76
Scholarship Awards, 214 AssociaU-Membership Examination, 358 Electricity Supply Tariffs and Charges, bv
J. A. Sumner, 361 Forthcoming Arrangements, 384, 446 Members and Military Service, 476 Presidential Address, by J. Wright, on Construction and Operation of the Grid, 568, 577*. See 558
Design and Construction of Trolley ’Buse -;
. t>y G. F. Sinclair, 623
Fluid Filling-Media for Electrical Apparatus, by F. Meyer, 643
Regulations for Electrical Equipment of Ships, 668
Manufacture of Steel in Electric Furnace by A. Sieveking, 686 ’
History of Institution (Review), 722 Scottish Centre :
Chairman’s Address, by Prof. S, P. Smith, on Present and Future of Engineering Education, 669
South Midland Centre:
Chairman s Address, by H. Joseph, on Electricity and Civilisation, 559 Transmission Section:
Problems of Rural Electrification, bv TPI . - ^"^se, 587
Electrical Engine rs Supervising, Association
01. See Supervising Electrical Engineers Association of
— Engineering Experiments—Theory and
Practice (Review), 710
— Industry Census of Production Statistics,
4, 35,66. See 93
^ Research and Documentation in, 300
— Industry Aluminium in. Report, 51 Electricity Commissioners. See under Electric
^Work^f°*^58^*^^^^^^ Physical Laboratory, Electron Optics (Review), 102
Elgar Scholarship in Naval Architecture, 610 Embankments, Seepage Through, 435* See
LETTERS, 536, 698* -see
(innding under Machine
Empire State Building, New York, Wind Forces on, 189
Employees. See Labour
Employment. See Labour
Endurance Tests. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials'}
Engines, Aero. See Aeronautics
— Diesel. See Lngines, Oil^ Diesel; Marine |
Propwlsion; Motorships
— Fire. See Fire
— Gas. See Producer; and PARAGRAPH INDEX I
— Heat, Standard Cycles for, 612
— Indicators. See Indicators .
— Internal-Combustion, Investigations on, I
463*, 547*, 603*, 682*
Combustion, Kadenacy System of .Scav- ; enging in, 187*. See 378. See LETTERS, 207, 330, 357*, 421, 589
Combustion, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 233
Combustion, Phenomena of Exhaust from, 378. See 187*
See LETTERS, 207, 330, 357*, 421, 589
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Car. See Engines, Petrol
— Oil, 9i-b.h.p. Early Akroyd-Stuart, (Ruston
and Hornsby, Ltd.), 698*
Compression-Ignition, Ignition Lag in, 368*
Diesel, 82- and 165-b.h.p. (Crossley Brothers, Ltd.), 166*
Diesel, 1,200-b.h.p. Eight-Cylinder, for Locomotive (Sulzer Brothers), 597*
Diesel, 100-b.h.p. Five-Cylinder, for Cable Ploughing Unit (J. and H. McLaren, Ltd.), 11*
Diesel, 80-b.h.p. Four-Cylinder Opposed- Piston (Sulzer Brothers), 106* !
Diesel, 250-b.h.p., Four-Cylinder Superscavenge (Petters, Ltd.), 75* ,
Diesel, 240-b.h.p., “ Glenitfer D.C.V. 12,” ! Fire Float ” Nokk,” 468*
Diesel, i20-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder (Crossley i Brothers, Ltd.), 237* !
Diesel, 450-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 410*
Diesel, 115-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder, for Locomotive (National Gas and Oil Engine Co., Ltd.), 270*
Diesel, 120-b.h.p. Three-Cylinder, for Generator (Blackstone and Co., Ltd.), 591*
Diesel, Marine, 265/400-b.h.p. Eight- Cylinder (Davey, Paxman and Co. (Colchester), Ltd.), 323*
. Diesel, Marine, 160-b.h.p. Eight-Cylinder
” Gleniffer D.C. 8,” Fire Float ” Nokk,” 468*
Diesel, Marine, 24/30 b.h.p. Four-Cylinder (J. and H. McLaren, Ltd.), 323*
Diesel, Marine, 420/460-b.hm. Six- Cylinder (Davey, Paxman and Co. (Colchester), Ltd.), 324*
Diesel, Marine, 30-b.h.p. Three-Cyhnder (J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd), 322*
Diesel, Marine, 11/15-b.h.p. Two-
Cylinder (J. FowlerandCo. (Leeds), Ltd.), 323* Diesel, Petrol-Starting Device for (Famo- Werke G.m.b.H.), 569* Diesel, for Road Vehicles, 124 Diesel, Temperature Distribution in, 464*, 547*, 603*, 682*
— — Diesel. See also Motorships; Marine Propulsion
Marine, 100-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 625*
Marine, 12,500-b.h.p. Sulzer, M.S. ” Oranje,” 148
Marine, 180-b.h.p. Three-Cylinder Superscavenge ” (Petters, Ltd.), 397*
Marine, 10-b.h.p. Two-Cyhnder Hessel- man (J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 322*
24-b.h.p. Two-Cylinder, with Electric Generator (Gleniffer Engines, Ltd.), 457*
See also Tractors and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Petrol, Aeroplane. See Aeronautics
Carbon-Deposition from Lubricating Oils, Investigation on, 676*
Marine, 65/68-b.h.p. Eight-Cylinder Ford (J. S. White and Co., Ltd.), 323*
Marine, 75-b.h.p. Parsons-Ford V.S. (Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd.), 565*
Motor-Car, Institution of Automobile Engineers’ Researches on, 81
Motor Car for War Service, Manufacture of, 696*
110-h.p. Six-Cylinder Meadows Fire Boat ” James Braidwood,” 653*
See also Aeronautics; Carburettors; Motor Cars
— Steam, 40-b.h.p. Back-Pressure, for Genera
ting Set (Ashworth and Parker, Ltd.), 428* Marine. See Marine Propulsion
— Winding. See Winding
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Engineers’ Education. See Education
— Employment in War-Time, 669. See 476
— Institutions. See Institutions
— Production, Institution of. See Pwductwn and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of,
Forthcoming Arrangements, 385
— and Social and Economic Problems, 634 “ Engineering Abstracts,” Future of, 505
— Apprentices. See Education
— Contracts. See Contracts; Legal
— Department, National Physical Laboratory,
Alternating-Current Bridge Themostat for Creep Testing, 95* ; Work of Department, 144*, 205*, 233
— Education. See Education
— and Emergency Laws. 520, 546, 602
Industry, Census of Production Statistics, 4,35,66. See Erratum, 93
— Laboratories. See Laboratories; Natioiuil
— aM K?ne Exhibition, Olympia, 322*, 382*
— Societies. See Institutions _ .
Standards. See Institution
— Trades, Apprentices in, 233
— Usage of English Language in, 172
— Works. See Works . , .
English Electric Co., Ltd., Electrical Equipment for 350-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive, 52 ; Jewel Bearings for Watt- Hour Meters. 179*, 413; Alternating- Current Arc-Welding Machines, 382
English Language in Engineering Usage, 172
Entropy-Diagram for Internal-Combustion Engine, 682*
Equilibrium Diagrams, Alloys. See Metallurgy
Eroder, Vane-Wheel, M.S. Jet,” for Indian River, 264*. See LETTERS, 282, 421, 479
Ethylene, Combustion Characteristics of, 679
Eureka Mekaniske Verksted, Centrifugal Pumps for Motor Fire Float ” Nokk,” 468*
: Europe, Coal Mining in. Report, 419
— Iron and Steel Industries of, Report, 491,
573, 632
Evans, Dr. U. R., on Pitting Corrosion of Pipes, 145
Evaporators, Longford Power Station, 70*
Everest, Dr. A. B., on Specially-Hard Alloy Cast Irons, 40
Everett, H. A., on Carbon-Forming Characteristics of Lubricating Oils, 676*
Evershed, S., the Late, 366
Excavating Plant, Requisitioning by Ministry of Supply, 447
Excavation Work, Albert Canal, Belgium, 377*, 431*, 489*, 574*, 657*
Excavator , Caterpillar Carriages for, 599*
Exhaust of Internal-Combustion Engine, Phenomena of, 378. See 187*. See LETTERS, 207, 330, 357*, 421, 589
— Valves. See Valves
Exhibition, Engineering and Marine, Olympia, 322*, o^2*
Paris Fair, 82*
— Lighting for Factories in War Time, 559
— Machine-Tool, Postponement of, 113
— Royal Agricultural Show, Windsor, 8*, 37*,
47, 71*
— Water, International, Libge, 49
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Expansion Joint, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 191, 347*
Experimental Tank. See Tank; Ships; Ship Resistance
Explosions, Colliery. See Accidents and Colliery
— Hazards of Combustible Gases and Vapours, 606
— Pots for Circuit Breakers, 670*
Explosives, Effect on Concrete, 419*
— Supply During War (1914-18), 505
Export Trade. See Trade ; and hidustries in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Extensometer, Mirror-Type, Calibrating Apparatus for, 145*
Extractor, Post (E. H. BentaU and Co., Ltd.), 74*
— Vacuum, for Light Machine Swarf (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.), 511*

FABRIC-Porosity Testing Apparatus (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 634*
Factory Accidents. See Accidents
— Air-Raid Precautions for, 143
— Chief Inspectors’ Annual Report on, 232
— Day Lighting of. Design for, 221*
— Lighting During War Time, Exhibition of, 559
— Obscuration of Light in War Time, 173
— Sugar-Beet, Bury St. Edmunds, Power Station at, 162*
— Welfare Work in. See Labour
Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., J.td., Steelwork fer Aidgate-East Station Reconstruction, 99*, 159*
Famo-Werke G.m.b.H., Petrol-Starting Device for Diesel Engines, 569*
Fans, Boiler-House, Schrage Electric Motors for, 303*
—‘ Forced- and Induced-Draught, Longford Power Station, 8*
— Testing of. Specification, 227 Farming. See Agriculture ; Tractors Fatigue of Metals, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 144
— Tests of Metals. See also Fatigue under
Tests {Materials)
Faucheux, L., 10-ton Mobile Crane, 83*
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Co., S.S. “ Challenge,” 173
Federated Sales, Ltd., Built-up Cast-Iron Air- Raid Shelter, 582
Federation of British Industries, Views Armaments Profits Duty, 19 ; Views Export Trade in War Time, 723
Feed Pumps. See Pumps
— Water Heater for Non-Condensing
Extraction Turbines, 271*
I Softener. See Water Softener
System, Longford Power System, 69* Treatment for Locomotives, 194 See also Water Fence, Electrified, for Livestock (Harvest Saverand Implement Co., Ltd.), 72
Fender, Pier, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 33*
Fereday, H. J., the Late, 728
Ferrb-Concrete Bridges Over Albert Canal, 659* Bridges (Review), 349
Design, Essentials of (Review), 378
Construction, New Waterloo Bridge, 545* Foamed Blast-Furnace Slag for, Investigations on, 219 ; Specification, 690
Slabs for Roads, Investigations on, 220* Theory and Practice of (Review), 277 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Silicon, Supply of, 561
Fertiliser Distributor (W. N. Nicholson and Sons), 40*
Fiegehen, E. G., on Caterpillar Carriages for Cranes and Excavators, 599*
Field, J. F., on Standard Steam Cycles, 642 Film, Perforated, for Recording
Specification, 442
Filter, Rotary Self-Cleaning, for (Newcon Filters, Ltd.), 55*
Filtration Plant, Iron Removal, Pumping Station, 22
Finchley-Road Station Reconstruction, Welded Plate Girder, 350*
Finnegan, Mr., on Reaction Between Iron and Water, 209
Fire Brigade, London, Motor Fire Boat “ James Braidwood,” 653*
— Paris, lOO-fb. Turntable Fire Ladder, 87*
Tires, Coke and Gas, Domestic, Investigations on Refractories for, 724
— Extinguisliing bystem, Mulsifyre, 21. See
Addendum, 76
— Fighting Equipment for Aircraft (Graviner
Manulactuiing Co., Ltd.), 236*
— Float, Motor, “ Nokk,” 468*
— Precautions with Oil Circuit Breakers, 688*
— Protection of Electrical Installations, 729 Firebricks for Coke and Gas Fires, Investigations on, 724
— See also Refractory Materials
Firedamp Explosions. See Accidents and (Joliiery
Firth, Thos., and John Brown, Ltd., 200-ton Steel Forging, 725*
Fitch Recuperator Co., Silicon-Carbide Tube Recuperators for Industrial Furnaces, 319*
Flame Arrester for Diesel Engine, 311*
Flange , Pipe, National Physical Laboratory Investigation on, 145
— Locomotive-Wheel, Indian Railways, Forces
on, 535*, 560
Fleet. See Warships
Fleming, Dr. A. P. M., on Education for Industry, 317. See 307, 324
Fleming, R., on Wind Action on Buildings, 189 Fletcher, J. E., the Late, 673
Flight. See Aeronautics
Flood Prevention in London Tube Railways, 389, 420, 695
Floor , Prevention of Sound Transmission Through, 475
— Sound Transmission Through, National
Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 494 Flow of Air in Mines, Developments in Measurement of, 182*
— Diagrams, Heat, Steam-Turbine Plant,
275*
— Fluid, Between Banks of Tubes, 423*
— Liquid, Through Beds of Granular Solids,
435*. See LETTERS, 536, 698*
— of Molten Metal Through Mould Gates, 24,
91*
— in Pipes, National Phsyical Laboratory
Investigations on, 205
— of Steam Through Nozzles, Researches on,
700*, 712*
— of Water in Channels Under Steep Gradients,
120*
Flue Dust, Characteristics and Identification of, 115, 151
— Gas Treatment at Power Stations, 559, 579 Fluid Flow Between Banks of Tubes, 423*
— Friction. See Aeronazitics; Friction;
Hydrodynamics ; Ship Resistance
— Motion and Internal-Combustion Engine
Exhaust, 378. See 187*. See LETTERS, 207, 330, 357*, 421, 589
Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 205
— Pressure Fluctuations, Harmonic Analysis
of, 321*
Recording Equipment, Instantaneous, 127*
Flying Boats. See under Aeronautics
Fog, Definition and Causes of, 29
Folkestone, Sea Defences at East Cliff, 571* Food Products, Metal Containers for, Specification, 442
— Production in War Time, 333
Ford 65/68-b.h.p. Eight-Cylinder Petrol Marine Engine (J. S. White and Co., Ltd.), 323*
— 75-h.p. Eight-Cyiinder Petrol Marine Engine
(Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd.), 565*
Forest Products Research* Board, Report on Manufacture of Charcoal in Portable Kilns, 89 ; Report on Strength Tests of Structural Timbers, 124
Forging Press. See Press under Machine Tools
— Machined, Fatigue Strength of, 154
— Steel, 200-ton, Thos. Firth and John Brown,
Ltd., 725*
Formex for Electrical Insulation, 504 “Formidable," H.M. Aircraft-Carrier, Launch of, 235*. See 231
Fort Wayne and Deer Creek Transmission Line, Rapid-Reclosing Circuit Breakers on, 593* Foster, A., Finchley-Road Station Reconstruction, 350*
Foster, Dr. D. B., on Instrumental Attack on Automobile Noises, 614
Foundation Design, Principles of, 670
— Pier, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco,
3*, 31*
Wandsworth Bridge, London, 707*
— Transmission Tower, Stability, 310, 466* Founding, Iron and Steel, Radiography in, 164 Foundries, Austin Motor Co., Core-Shop
Control at, 23
Foundry Congress, International, London :
Reports of Discussions, 23, 40, 74,104,163 Bonding Clays and Properties of Synthetic Moulding Sands, by Dr. G. H. Piper, 23
Core-Shop Control, by J. J. Sheehan, 23 Selection and Testing of Cupola Refractories, by W. J. Rees, 24
Gating, with Special Reference to Optimum Flow Conditions in Molten Metal, by Dr. E. M. H. Lips, 91*. See 24
Some Castings for Steelworks Plant, by J. Roxburgh, 24
Position of Development of Centrifugal Castings in Germany, by W. A. Geisler, 40
Specially-Hard Alloy Cast Iron for Resistance to Abrasion, by M. M. Hallett and Dr. A. B. Everest, 40
Thermal Conductivity of High-Duty and Alloy Cast Irons, by Dr. J. W. Donaldson, 26*. See 41
Defects in Electrically-Melted Chilled Rolls, by Dr. F. Bondi, 41
Organisation and Development of Steel Foundry Research, by W. J. Dawson, 56. See 164
Effect of Melting Conditions on Light Alloys, by A. J. Murphy, S. A. E. Wells and R. J. M. Payne, 74
Effect of Melting Conditions on Gas Unsoundness in Metals, by G. L. Bailey, 74
Foundry Congress, International, London —continued.
Light-Alloy Melting Practice, by W. C. Devereux, 74
Influence of Kepcated Melting on Properties of Liglit Alloys, by Dr. J. Koritta and M. Hajek, 75
Pressure Die-Casting of Zinc-Base and Aluminium-Base Alloys, by Dr. A. G. Street, 75
Solution Ueat-Treatment of Aluminium Casting Alloys, by Dr. K. Irmann, 75
Cutting Tools for Cast Iron, by H. H. Beeney, 104 .
Laws Governing the Operation of the Cupola, by Dr. M. Bargozzi, 104
Optimum Blast Volume for Cupola Practice, by Dr. N. Czyzewski, 104
Design and Operation of Open-Hearth Furnace for Melting Malleable Cast Iron, by G. R. Shotton, 104
Manufacture of Malleable (’ast-Iron Pipe Fittings, by C. Zehnder, 104
Pitting Corrosion of Cast Iron and Steel Pipes, by Dr. L. Olsansky, 105
Foundry Education and Training in Great Britain, by J. G. Pearce, 123
Process of Crystallisation in Commercial Alloys, by \V. Patterson, 163
Compounding of Alloys, by Prof. J. Leonard, 163
General Principles Applicable to Compounding of Alloys by Melting, by Prof. A. Portevin, 163
Progress of Inverse Segregation in Chill- Cast Ingot. During Solidification, by Dr. J. A. Veto, 163
Control of Solidification of Castings by Calculation, by N. Chvorinov, 163
Copper and Copper-Alloy Castings for Electrical and Thermal Conductivity Application-, by H. J. Miller, 163
Radiography in Iron and Steel Founding, by F. W. Rowe, 164
Dry-Sand Practice for Steel Castings, by Dr. C. J. Dadswell and T. R. Walker, 164
Renaissance of Steel Casting and R61e of the Metallurgist, by F. A. Melmoth, 164
Relationship Between Quality of Iron and Steel Castings and Nature of Materials of Melt, by Dr. P. Bardenheuer, 164 Foundry Education and Training in Great Britain, 123
— School, British, Birmingham, Work of, 123
— Steel, Developnient and Organisation of
Research, 56, 164
— Work. See also Die Casting
— See also Castings ; Moulding
Fowler, J. and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 11/15 b.h.p. Two-Cylinder Marine Diesel Engine, 323* Frachebourg, C., on Documentation in Swiss Administrations, 300
France, Iron and Steel Industry of, 492
— Roads in, 289
— See also French
Frank, T. P., New Waterloo Bridge, 54'^, Wandsworth Bridge Reconstruction, 707*
Franklin, E., on Non-Linear Distortion in Iron Testing, 395*
Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, Coal- Handling Plant, Longford Power Station, 5*
French Institution of Civil Engineers. See Civil Engineers
— See also France
Frequency Standardisation in Electricity Supply, Cost of, 568
Fretting Corrosion, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 144
Friction, Fluid, and Heat Transfer, Analogy Between, 210*
and Heat Transmission, Relations Between, Investigations on, 205
Frictional Resistance of Ships. See Ship Resistance
Froude Laboratory, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 276*, 299; Experiments on Rolling of Ships Under Way, 527
Fuels, Alternative, for Motor Vehicles, 387, 557
— and Associated Products, Supply of, 561
— Consumption by Engineering Industries, 35
— Injection in Internal-Combustion Engines,
Investigation on, 683*
— Institute of, Future Arrangements, 863 ;
Melchett Lecture on Supply ol Explosives during War (1914-18) and Early History of Billingham, by H. A. Humphrey, 505
— Liquid. See Oil Fuel
— Low-Temperature Carbonisation of Coal.
See Coal, Lcnv-Temperature Carbonisation
— liUncheon Club, Presidential Address, by
Colonel W. A. Bristow, on Supply of Fuel and Associated Products, 561
— Motor. See also Gas; Motor; Petrol:
Producer
— Oil. See Oil Fuel
— Policy, British, in War and Peace, 641
— Pump. See Pump
— Rationing Scheme and Domestic Heating,
335
— Research Board, Report on Hydrogenation-
Cracking of Tars, 486 ; Report on Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Coalfield—Analysis of Commercial Grades of Coal, 543; Report on Narrow Brick Retorts, 652
— Smokeless. See Coal, LowTemperature
Carbonisaticm
— See also Coal; Oil; Gas; Pulverised Coal Fuidge, G. H., on Combustion Characteristics
of Town Gas, 679*
Fullerton, Hodgart and Barclay, Ltd., 4,450-h.p. Electric Winder for 6,556-ft. Shaft, 41*, 84*
Fume Emission, Report on Alkali Works, 262 Furnace Air, for Blackheart Malleable Cast Iron. 484*
— Boiler. See Stoker
— Combustion, Photographic Study of, 496
— Electric, Continuous-Roller Hearth, for
Bright Annealing (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 440*
1' urnaee, Electric, Electrically-Operated | Charging Machine for (Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd.), 370* . _ '
Gninewald Type, for Bright Annealing (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 440*
Heat-Treatment, for Light Alloys (Wild-Barfield Electric Furnaces, Ltd.), 636* Steel Manufacture in, 686
Fuel-Fired, Test Code for, Specification, 281
— Gas or Oil-Fired, Melting, with Preheated
Air (Monometer Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 325*
— Industrial, Sillcon-Carbide Tube Recupera
tors for (Fitch Recuperator Co., Ltd.), 319
— Open-Hearth, Basic, Manufacture of Rimming Steel in, 687
Hearth, for Melting Malleable Cast Iron, 104
— Refractories for, Investigations on, 724
— Tank, Glass-Melting, Devitrification in, 646
— See also Coke Ovens ; Cupolas
Fuses, Electric, Specification, 138 Fusion Welding. See Weldinff . ,
Fussv, Commdt. .T, de, on Submarine arfare in 1917 and 1939, 410

GALILEO'S “ Two New Sciences,” Tercentenary of, 524
Galvanometers. See Electric
Gamma Rays, Protective Value of Building Materials Against, 435*
Tests of Materials, 154
Gantry. See Crane
Gas, Aeration-Test Burners for, 678
— Appliances, Refractories for, Investigations on, 724
— and the British Fuel Position, 641
Carbon Monoxide. See Carbon Monoxide
— Combustible, Explosion Hazards of, 606
— Cylinders, Attack by Hydrogen Sulphide and Moisture, 669
National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 205, 250
— Dissolved in Water, Removal of, 210
— Engineers, Institution of, Curtailment of
Activities, 467 ; Research Meeting Papers, 644; Papers Prepared for Presentation at Cancelled Autumn Research Meeting: Aeration-Test Burner for Gas, by J. W. Wood and Dr. A. H. Eastwood, 678; Combustion Characteristics of Towm Gas and Its Constituents, by G. H. Fuidge, W. 0. Murch and B. Pleasaunce, 679*; Report of Refractory Materials Joint Committee, 724
— Fired Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Fuel, Determination of Heating Value of, 209
— and Gas Works. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Grid, West Yorkshire, 122
— Organic Sulphur in. Determination of, 209
— Producer. See Producer
— Specific Heat at High Temperature, Investigations on, 233
— in Steel, Determination of, Investigations on, 250
— Town, and Its Constituents, Combustion
Characteristics of, 679*
Use in Industries, 724
— Toxic, Methods of Detection of Aniline Vapour, 718
— Undertakings and Breaking Up of Roads, 48
— Unsoundness in Cast Metals, 74
— Use in Motor Vehicles, 387, 557
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Carbon Monoxide; Hydrogen; Nitrogen, Etc.
Gascoigne, G. H., Co., Ltd., Rapid-Assembly Clamping Devices, 456*
Gaseous Explosions. See Accidents and Colliery Gasholders, Action of Wind On, Investigations on, 205 ,
Gasket, Dickson All-Metal Laminated (H. Clayton-Wright, Ltd.), 540*
Gasoline. See Petrol; Engine, Petrol; Car- burettors; Aeronautics
Gates, Flood, Imperial Dam, California, 226* Prevention, in London Tube Railways, 389, 420, 695
— Lock, Albert Canal, Belgium, 658*
Gating of Moulds for Optimum Flow of Metals, 24, 91*
Gauge, Boiler-Water, Bi-Colour Projector for (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 419*
— Control, Pressure-Actuated, Electrical (G. Salter and Co., Ltd.), 214*
— Dial, Draft Specification, 148
Researches on, 725*
— for Dust Deposits from Atmosphere, 115,151
— National Physical Laboratory Tests of, 250*
— Rain, Directional, for Building Research,
219*
— Screw, Roller Caliper (Brown Brothers (Air
craft), Ltd.), 61*
— Spline, for Measurement of Airscrew Shafts
and Bosses, 251
Gear, Reduction, for Cement-Grinding Tube Mill, 682*
for 4,450-h.p. Electric Winding Engine (D. Bro^vn and Sons (Hudd.), Ltd.), 41
— Speed, Infinitely-Variable, for Two Shafts
(Crofts (Engineers), Ltd.), 116*
— Steering. See Steering
— Transmission, for Trolley ’Bus, 624
— Variable-Speed, Hydraulic (Gebr. Boh- ringer G.m.b.H.), 439*
— Wheel Material, Brown-Boveri Testing Apparatus for, 63*
Geared Turbines, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
Gelflier, W. A., on Development of Centrifugal Castings in Germany, 40
Genders, Dr. R., on Niobium-Iron Alloys, 514* General Electric Co., Ltd., Electric Dairj^ Sterilising Chest, 40* ; Electrification of Quarries of Alstone Limestone Co., Ltd., 85*; Sectional-Unit Electric Drive at Dartford Paper Mills, 195* ; Salient-Pole Synchronous Motor, 284*; Motors for Electrically-Operated Coke-Oven Plant, 366; Electric Furnaces for Bright Anneal-
wg, 440*; Electrical Thermal-Storage Plant, 508; Motor-Generator Sets for Steelworks, 670; Motors for Paper Carton- Making Plant, 687*
Generating Station. See Power Station
Generator, Electric, with 40-b.h.p. Back- Pressure Steam Engine (Ashworth and Parker, Ltd.), 428*
Edmunds Sugar-Beet Factory, 162*
and 2J-kW Diesel-Driven (K. 4. Lister and Co., Ltd.), 38*
-80-kW Diesel-Driven, Portable (R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd., 237*
-JS-kVA, Diesel-Driven, on Trailer (Blackstone and Co,, Ltd.), 591* '
85-kW and 50-kW. Diesel-Driven, Wallpaper Manufacturers, Ltd., 75* ^2^3 for X-Ray Tube,
Horse-Power, Specification, OKPo"'er Station, 67*
'EU^^S Ud’)®457“
EfeetTpitnt,26F®‘’
Cm” Ltd”) (General Electric
1,400-kW (F. Tosi), 663*
T' Turbo-Generaiars
to of W. Smith
Geology and Water Supply in East Midlands, ®®'*Vn,“46 of Centrifugal Castings
GifTord’s Mine, Mysore. India i aan K „ Gir 1 ^hiding Engine, 41*,’ 84* 'P'
’'^»"'’s"'orfh Bridge, London, ~ ^Stetiom 3^0*°" ^"‘®Wey-Road
~®l?rSn,’99^*,'f5t*’’'"' «*•«*>“ oiahA?!.®’?? ?' floors
Lathe^tsS* Multi-Tool
®’“’^’rouK®’ Transmission
~~HS"y"o"f.6°J’ Atmospheric
~ Test Data on, 210
Melting Tank Furnaces, Devitrification in, distribution of Temperature in, 60 S’rrface Tension of, 60
Organic and Inorganic, StnictnrA nf AAA Glass Technology, Society of Effects of Atmo
Green Glasses, bv R HAIIA nr i? TK, * and Prof. W. E S Turner ’fiO^' Transmission of Radiation Though Colom^ n're^e” ln%°eTn^ Glafses°'X'
wcrease m Temperature, by Dr A T ? W. E, S. Turner 60 •
Gtaes bv^M'Ma Molten Soda-Silica b»>2*£T'
- iSi.’lS'ii? b- T™;.'?*.”
?'Jta ..r
V„, NatS PKI
Glazier F V®’^ ^"'’estigations on, 276
Glenfield and Kennedy, Ltd Flood fafoc GlenWe? ^^O, 695 '
Generating Set' 457*^-
Engines
®bWen Valley Ochre and Oxide’(i^te) Ltd ?SXX££,’
Ud™ 8*: r"'’ »««(Brlelel Tractor.,
B<8ht VcMea,
o^j’-sSSs'Sr " “"??
O.y.r.„„t D.p.,t.ne.l,"tXn,e„., to,
See Railways
Winding
*"'"^,^54 ^°^'<-Brittleness Grates. See Furnacss ; Stoker
WanufacturiAg Co Ltd Gravltv^np?^*^'"^ Equipment’ 236* ’
”^’^”‘‘?n®i23'"’ ^°""‘try Education
~ "ZL MA? Steel Industrj’ of, 492 573
at M’’ar, 285
— North Road, Improvements on, 237
— Western Railway, Automatic Train Control
on, 587
Green, E., (fe Son, Ltd., Premier Diamond ** Horizontal Gilled-Tube Economiser, 496*
Gregory, G. F., Substations at Ilford, 140
Greig, Dr. J., on Non-Linear Distortion in Iron Testing, 395*
Gresham Craven, Ltd., " Vapor-CIarkson ” Automatic Oil-Fired Steam Generator, 339*
Gresley, Sir H. N., Buffet-Restaurant Railway Carriage, 146*
Grid, Construction and Operation of, 658, 568, 577*
Griffiths, R., on Causes of Roll-Marks on Tin- Plate, 425*
Grinding Machines. See Machine Toole Ground Pressure for Caterpillar Carriages, 600 Groynes for Coastal Protection, 571* Gunpowder. See Explosives
Guthrie, W. B., the Late, 499
Guy, Dr. H. L., on Steam-Turbine Nozzle Efficiency, 700*, 712*
Gypsum-Rock Extracting Transporter (Mavor (fe Coulson, Ltd.), 517*

HABART, H., on Impact Tests of Steel at Low Temperature, 154
Haemoglobinometer Colour Tubes, Testing of, 495
Hagondange Steelworks, Steel Poles for Overhead Lines, 82*
Hajek, M., on Influence of Repeated Remelting on Light Alloys, 75
Halcrow, W. T., Award of Medal of French ? Society of Civil Engineers to, 54; Work on Flood Gates for London Tube Railways, 389, 420, 695; Work on Bakorloo Extension to Finchley Road, 532
Hall, B. J., and Co., Ltd., Mercury-Vapour Lamp Photo-Copying Machines, 393*
Hall, J. and E., Ltd., Occupancy Tests of Air- Raid Shelters, 335
Hallade Railway Track Recorder, 253*
Track Recorder, Use on Indian Railways, 507, 533
Halle, R., on Distribution of Temperature in Molten Glasses, 60 ; on Devitrification in Tank Furnaces, 646
Hallett, M. M., on Specially-Hard Alloy Cast Irons, 40
Halske, J. G., Work of, 108
Handling, Coal, Characteristics of Dust from, 152
— Plant, Ash, Longford Power Station, 8* Coal, Longford Power Station, 5* Electrically-Operated, for Coke-Oven Plant, 355*
Handrail Standards, Polished Tubular (W. M. Winn, Ltd.), 444
Harbour, Antwerp, and Albert Canal, 376*, 431*, 576*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Hardening Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Hardesty, J. M., on Disintegration of Face of Brick Wall, 180
Hardness Scales, Table of Approximate Comparisons of, 442
— Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Conversion of S.S. ” Llanstephan Castle,” 14 ; H.M. Cruiser ” Belfast,” 165* ; Launch of H.M. Aircraft Carrier ” Formidable,” 235*. See 231
Harley-Mason, J. H., Aidgate-East Station Reconstruction, 97*, 159*
Harmer, O., the Late, 479
Harrison, R., on Niobium-Iron Alloys, 514*
Hartley Measured Mile, Report on, 497
Hartmann, I., on Coal Mining in Europe, 419
Harvest Saver and Implement Co., Ltd., Electrified Livestock Fence, 72*; Thatching Needle, 72*
Harvester, All-Crop (Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co.), 11*
Hatfield, Dr. W. H., on Resean^h in Steel Metallurgy, 567
Hawkins, Prof. H. L., on Local Scientific Societies and the Community, 308
Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Ltd., Trials of H.M. Flotilla Leader ” Kelly,” 257
Haymaking Machine (W. N. Nicholson and Sons), 40*
Health, Ministry of, Annual Report on Alkali, Etc., Works, 262 ; Annual Report, 334; Report on Restoration of Land Affected by Iron-Ore Working, 637
— Research Board, Industrial, Annual Report,
615
Heat Engines. See Engines; Turbines; Aeronautics
— Flow in Internal-Combustion Engine Cylin
der Walls and Pistons, 463*, 547*, 603*, 682*
Dia^ams of Steam-Turbine Plant, 275*
— Insulating Materials, Air Infiltration in,
Investigations on, 371*
Terms, Definitions of, 610
— Power (Review), 462
— Practical (Review), 576
— Specific. See SpeciJicHeat
— from the Sun, Utilisation of, 82*, 241
— Transfer and Fluid Friction, Analogy Be
tween, 210*
— Transmission and Fluid Friction, Investigations on Relations Between, 205
— Treatment of Metals. See Metallurgy Heater, Feed-Water. See Feed-Water Heater
— Fuel-Tank, for Motor Omnibus, 329*
— Water, Electric, Specification, 138
Heating Apparatus, Solar (La Thermlque Naturelle), 82*. See 241
— of Building by Electrical Thermal-Storage
Plant (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 508
— Curves, Alloys. See Metallurgy
— Domestic, and Fuel Rationing Scheme, 335
— System, Tottenham Works of Keith, Blackman, Ltd., 166*
?Hpimets Steel, tor In<lu8try, 49
Hemtite Prices See M^al-PnceD^g^^i^
Henderson, Prof Sir J. B., on
System of ’’30. See 1S7
378 See LETTERS, 207, 330, dandz , 589; on Phenomena of Exhaust from Internal-Combustion Engines, 378. bee
Herbert T’ Ltl, Plastic Injection Moulding
Machines 106*; ^in. Bar ElectroPneumatic Capstan Bathe 117 , A ii Electric Drilling Machine, 135 . M'111“K Machine with Swivelling ’
inn ton Tocgle-Tvpe Plastic-Moulding Press 409* • 500-ton Mould-Hobblng
Press’ 453*** High-Speed Light V®^tical MUling Machine! 499* ; Twist-Drill
H.«S'“K
on
Higglnsf Dn A. L., on Adjustment of Traverse High®™ AUors, Btd., Electric Heat-Treat- - T^^ptlture Sts®®*Sec Tests {Materials). tUandi-Tenslon Networks, International
Conference on, Paris :
Nuclear Physics and High Tensions, byProf, M. Joliot-Curie, 262
Reinforced Copper hv" C W
head Transmission Lines, by (x. w.
Erection and Calculation of ^nti^ltoa- tory Conductors, by G. DasseUo, 264
Report on Transmission-Tower Foundations, by M. Sariban, 310, 466*
Vibration of Overhead Conductors, by D. Zetterholm, 390* T.
Design of Transmission-Tower Foundations, by Mr. Grimmltt and Mr. Tuck, 466* , ,
Influence of Nature of Soil and Arrange- ments on Resistance of Earth Conductors to Impulse Currents, by u. Norinder and R. Nordell, 466*
Clearing of Short Circuit^ on Overhead Networks by Means of Ultra-Rapid Pneumatic Circuit Breakers, by H. Thommen, 522* . .
Fault Clearing with Rapid-Reclosing Circuit Breakers, by P. Sporn and 0. A. Muller, 593* .
with Rapid-Reclosing Circuit Breakers, by 0. Mayr, 635*
Circuit Breakers with Little or No Oil Content, by F. Kesselring, 670*
Fire Danger of Oil Circuit Breakers, by
G. Meiners, 688*
— Protection of Electrical Installations, by M. Laborde, 729
High-Tension Substation Layout, by »• Margoulies, 730*
Highgate to East Finchley Railway Electrifica* tlon, 19
Highways. See Roads
Hill, A. W., on Multiple-Grid Circuit Breakers, 388
Hill, Sir Rowland, Rotary Printing Press,. Science Museum, 203
Hill, W. R., the Late, 563
Bindley, Sir C. H. M., on Duties of Institution of Civil Engineers in War Time, 551
Hinges for Air-Raid Sh Iter Gas-Tight Doors,. Specification, 554
History, Place in Engineering Education, 85
H.M.SS. See under Warships
Hodgson, G. H., Tests of Resistance of Concrete to High Explosive, 419*
Hoffmann Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Testing Machine for Steel Balls, 180*, 413
Hoists. See Cranes; Transporters; Derric/cs
Holland, Dr. A. J., on Transmission of Radiation Through Bottle Glasses, 60
Holland Engineering Co. Ltd., Rotary Vacuum Pi.mp, 607
— See Netherlands
Hollister, Prof. S. C., on Three Hundred Years of Mechanics of Materials, 624 ; on Engineering Ilducation, 634
Holloway Brothers (London), Ltd., Wandsworth Bridge Reconstruction, 707*
Home Office, Annual Report, Chief Inspector of Factories, 232 ; Report on How Factory Accidents Happen, 483
Museum, Safety Exhibits at, 305
— Security, Ministry of, Memorandum on Preservatives for Sand-Bag Revetments, 679 ; Rules for Shop-Window Lighting, 723
Horger, Mr., on Fatigue Strength of Machined Forgings, 154
Horns, Motor, Noise Limit for, 112
Horseley Bridge and T. Piggott Co., Ltd., Water Tanks for Longford Power Station,. 70*
Hose Coupling with Automatic Cut-Off Valve (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 596*
Hospital, St. Bartholomew’s, 1,000-kV X-Ray Tube, 622*, 649*
Homs of Labour. See Labour
Housing (Emergency Powers) Act, 1939, 547
— Ministry of Heaith’’s Report, 334 Howden, J., and Co. (Land), Ltd., Fans for Longford Power Station, 8*
Hughes-Keenan Co., Post-Hole Driving and Boring Machines, 25*
Humphrey, H. A., on Supply of Explosives during War (1914-18), 505
Hungarian Technical University, Experiments on Harmonic Analysis of Pressure Fluctuations in Fluids, 321*
Hungary, Economic and Commercial Conditions in. Report, 304
— Iron and Steel Industry of, 633
Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd., 116 b.h.p. 3-ft. Gauge Diesel Locomotive, 270*; 25-h.p. Diesel Locomotive for Mining Work, 311* ; 78-h.p. Narrow-Gauge Oil-Engined Locomotive, 537*
Husqvarna Works, 250th Anniversary, 719
Hydraulics, Flow of Water in Channels under Steep Gradients, 120*
— See also Htjdrodynamics ; Water
- S“p..
Tx Turbines ; Power Plant
Hy^o-Electric Power Plant. 8'ee Power Plant (Review). 577
See also Ship Resistance ^^”?^^stion Characteristics of, 679
— Sulphide, Attack of Steel by, 669 Hydrogenation Cracking of Tars Renort Hydrometers, National PhysYoal L?Satorv
Investigations on, 276 ^anoratory

— See also Refrigeration
Ignition-Compression Engines, Ignitron Control Panel for Spot-Welding S;? Ltd ) Electrlf
" ^^Resistance-Welding Machines (British Tw J^®°^son-Houston Co., Ltd.), 239*
Electric Substations, 140 Investigation of Creep and
Tn ^^^eture of (>able Sheathing, 53 Illuimnation Investigations at National Physical Laboratory 689
^^*1 Lamps under
Impact Loads on Motor Vehicles, Investigations on, 234
Tests. See Tests {Materials) Headquarters.
?I,5. Accident to Flying Boat Calpu^ia, 125; Inauguration of “Caribou,” 173; Restric- ooQ Passenger Empire Air Services. A*? ’ ..Porjnation of Imperial Airways Atlantic, Ltd., and of British Overseas Airways Corporation, 233
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Regenerative Gas Producer, 440*
— College of Science and Technology, London
Investigations on Colliery Wire Ropes; l?®M ^50 : Investigation of
IJuid Flow between Banks of Tubes, 423* • Present Arrangements at. 442 ’
~~ 2^*^^^ Hesilting Works, Colorado River, Import Trade. See Trade
Incandescent Heat Co. Ltd., Electric Furnace- Charging Machine, 370*
~,^'amps. See Lamps under Eleefrie India General Navigation and Railway Co .. T’X , Vane-Wheel F-oder Motorship Jet.’264* See LFTTEHS. 282 421 479
— Government of Pa ific Locomotive (Committee Report, 336*, 364*. 417, 448 476 506*, 533*, 559,616
— Production of Mica in, 301
— Rubber. See Rubber
Indian Railways, Pacific Locomotive Com- .SSSSTsWA*
Indicator Diagram, Diesel Engine, 548* Induction Furnaces. See Furnace, Electric Inductor with Air-Gapped Magnetic Circuit, 406*
Accidents. See Accidents
Chemistry. See Chemistry
— Economics. See Latoitr
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
Research Board, Annual Report, 615
— Notes. See Labour Notes under Laftour
— Research. See Research
— Resources, Organisation of 643
— Welfare. See Labour
Industries, British Federation of. See Federation
Industry, Training for, 307, 317, 324
— See also Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Influence Lines : Their Practical Use in Bridge
Calculation (Review), 278
Inglis, Dr. N. P., on Design and Manufacture of Bursting Discs, 58*, 88*
Inland Navigation. See Canals ; Rivers, etc. institute of Transport. See Transport
— See /nsfi^M^wns
Standards. See Standards m Engineers. See Production
Technical and Scientific. See Agricultural Society, Royal; American Foundryme'n*s Association; Arts, Royal Society of; Automobile Engineers, Institution of; British Aircraft Constructors, Society of; British Association ; British Foundrymen, Institute of; British Road Federation; British Waterworks Association; Char- tered Surveyors* Institution; Chemical Engineers, Institution of; Chemical In- i^stry, Society of; Chemical Society; Civil Engineers, French Society of; Civil Engineers, Institution of; Civil Engineers of Ireland, Institution of ; Electrical Engineers, American Institute of; Electrical E'^ineers, Institution of; Engineers and ^ipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of; Fuel, Institute of; das Engineers, Institution of; Class Technology, Society of; Iron and Steel Institute; Machine Tool Trades Association (under Machine Tools) ; Manchester Association of Engineers * Marvchester Literary and Philosophical Society; Marine Engineers, Institute of; Mechanical Engineers, American Society of; Mechanical Engineers, Institution of; Metals, Institute of; Mining Engineers, Institution of; Mining and Metallurgy, Institution of; Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Society of; Naval Architects, Institution of ; Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of; Newcomen Society ; North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and^ Shipbuilders; Physical Society; Production Engineers, Institution of; Safety First Association, National; Sanitary Institute, Royal; Sheffield Metallurgical Association; Smithsonian Institution ; Structural Engineers, Institution of;
Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of; Testing Materials, American Society for; Transport, Institute of; Vitreous Enamellers, Institute of; Welding, Institute of; and Whitworth Society Instruments, Industrial, and Control Gear,
Report on (Review), 710
— in Science and Industry, 353, 379
— Surveying, British, Developments in, 149*
— See also Aeronautics ; Electric Insulation. See Heat; Electric Insurance Scheme, War Risks, 362 Intercrystalline Cracking of Aluminium Alloys,
Investigations on, 234
” Interested ” on Lubricants for Wire Ropes, 536. See 157*. See LETTERS, 282, 460 Interferometric Investigations at National
Physical Laboratory, 276
Internal-Combustion Engines. See Aeronautics; Engines; Motor Cars; Motor Boats; Tractors
International Combustion, Ltd., Mechanical Stokers, Longford Power Station, 6*
— Conference on High-Tension Networks. See
High-Tension Networks, International Conference, Paris
— Congress for Applied Mechanics, Proceedings of (Review), 278
of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Li6ge, Programme, 176
— Federation of Documentation, Zurich Conference. See Documentation, International Federation of, Zurich Conference
— Foundry Congress, London. See Foundry Congress, International
— Temperature Scale, National Physical
Laboratory Investigations on, 433
— Tin Research and Development Council, Report, 61
— Trade. See Trade
— Water Exhibition, Liege, 49 Inventions. See Patents
Irlam Steel Works, Lancashire Steel Corporation, Ltd., 21
Irmann, Dr. R., on Solution Heat-Treatment of Aluminium Casting Alloys, 75
Iron Alloys. See Metallurgy and Steel
— Case-Hardening. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Furnaces, See Furnaces
— Heat Treatment. See Metallurgy
— Industry, History of, 590
— Magnetic Testing of, Non-Linear Distortion in, 395*
— Malleable, Blackheart Air-Furnace Melting, 67; H. G. Cochrane, 484*
Investigations on, 154
— Ore. See Ore
— Oxides, Hydrated, Specification, 228
— Pig, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Removal Filtration Plant, Dunton Pumping
Station, 22
— Rolling Mills. See Bolls
— and Steel, Control Orders, 283, 363,532, 687 Import Licensing of, 695
Industries, Europe, Report, 491,573,632 Industry, Census of Production Statistics, 4, 35
Iron and Steel Institute:
Autumn Meeting, Cardiff:
Programme, 198
Cancellation of Meeting, 319
Papers Prepared for Cardiff Meeting :
Causes of Roll-Marks on Tin-Plate, by R. Griffiths, 425*
Tensional Effects of Torsional Overstrain in Mild Steel, by Prof. H. W. Swift, 453*
Manufacture of Rimming Steel at Workington by the Acid-Bessemer Process, by Dr. T. Swinden and F. B. Cawley, 482*
Niobium-Iron Alloys, by Dr. R. Genders and R. Harrison, 514*
Manufacture of Rimming Steel by Basic- Bessemer Process at Corby, by W. L. Kerlie, 569
General Survey of Practical Aspects of Rimming-Steel Manufacture, by J. Mitchell, 595
Manufacture of Rimming Steel at Briton Ferry, Using Cold Pig Iron and Scrap in Basic Open-Hearth Furnace, by J. S. Lewis, 687
Statutory Autumn Meeting, London :
Programme, 358
Proceedings, 615
War-Time Arrangements, 616 Nomination of Officers, 615 Carnegie Scholarship Awards, 615
Iron and Steel Scrap, Order for Control of, 587 Works. See Works
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Tests. See Tests {Materials}
— and Water, Reaction Between, 209
— Welding. See Welding
— Wrought, Specification, 304
— See also Cast Iron; Steel; Pig Iron;
Metallurgy
Ironfounders’ National Committee, Formation of, 447
Ironmongers and Early Engineering, 554 Ironwork, Structural. See Bridges ; Hoofs ;
Steel; Structures
Irving, B., the Late, 450
Italian Battleships under Construction, 482
— Fuels, Turbo-Electric Plant for, 663* Italy, Iron and Steel Industry of, 491, 673
— Motorways in, 289*

JACKSON, PROF. W., on University Engineering Courses, 292. See 288, 307. See Erratwniy 367 ; on Post-Advanced Education, 326. See 307, 326
“ James Braidwood,” High-Speed Motor Fire Boat, 653*
Janick, W., on Documentation in Electrical Engineering, 300
“ Janus,” H.M. Destroyer, Trials of, 215
Jeffrey, C. S., on Thermal Efficiency and Electricity Costs, 710
“Jet,” Motorship, Vane-Wheel Eroder for Indian Rivers, 264*. See LETTERS, 282, 421, 479
— Steam. See Nozzles
Jilk, L. T., on Determining Organic Sulphur in Gases, 209
Johansen, F. C., on Nomenclature of Stress Cycles, 618. See LETTER, 673
Joints, Capillary, for Copper Tubes, Specification, 384
— Expansion, Golden Gate Bridge, San Fran
cisco, 191, 347* I
Joliot-Curie, Prof. M., on Nuclear Physics and High Tensions, 262
Jones, E. H. (Machine Tools), Ltd., C.V.A. Portable Hydraulic Table, 58* ; Crankless Power Presses, 481* ; Vacuum Extractor for Light Machine Swarf, 511* ; 3|-in. Centre Precision Capstan Lathe, 662 *; Melbourne Sine Table, 590*
Jones, H. G., on Charcoal-Iron Industry, 590 Joseph, H., on Electricity and Civilisation, 559 Journals. See Bearings
Jugoslavia. See Yugoslavia
Julian, C. R., on Underground Mining at Rio Tinto, Spain, 731*

KADENACY System of Scavenging in Internal-Combustion Engines, 187*. See 378. See LETTERS, 207, 330, 357*, 421, 589
Kaller, G. H., on Carbon-Forming Characteristics of Lubricating Oils, 676*
KArmAn, T. von, on Analogy Between Fluid Friction and Heat Transfer, 210*
** Ke-Klamps ” for Tubes, 466*
Kearsley Power Station, 20
Keith, Blackman, Ltd., Tottenham Works, 166*
“ Kelly,” H.M. Flotilla Leader, Trials of, 257 Kempen Coalfield and Albert Canal, 375*, 433 Kenneford, A. S., on Laboratory Test for Machinability, 486*
Kent, G., Ltd., Indicating and Recording Plant, Dunton Pumping Plant, 22 ; Tests of Air Conditions in Air-Raid Shelters, 389* Kerlie, W. L., on Manufacture of Rimming Steel at Corby, 669
Keselsring, F., on Circuit Breakers with Small Oil Content, 670*
Keyboards for “ Transorma ” Letter-Sorting Machine, 459*, 627*
Kilns, Cement, Prevention of Dust Discharged from, 262
— Lime, Vertical-Shaft (Ashmore, Benson, Pease and Co., Ltd.), 133*
— Portable, Manufacture of Charcoal in, Report, 89
— Tunnel, Investigations on Refractories for, 724
Kinematograph. See Ciriematograph
King’s College, London, Faculty of Engineering, Syllabus of Courses, 44
King, E., the Late, 392
Koch, W. R., on Burst Test Data on Laminated Glass, 210
Kockerhans, E., on Documentation in Aluminium Industry, 301
“ Korea,” M.S., Trials of, 451
Koritta, Dr. J., on Influence of Repeated Remelting on Light Alloys, 75

LABORATORY, Froude, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 276*, 299 ; Experiments on Rolling of Ships under Way, 527
— National Standards, Australia, 471
— New, British Non-Ferrous Metals Research
Association, 12*, 19
— Ramsay Memorial, University College, Lon
don, Exhibition at, 19; Reopening in War Time, 528
— See also National Physical
Laborde, M., on Fire Protection of Electrical Installations, 729

Labour :

Apprentices in Engineering Trades, 233 Apprenticeship for Foundry Work, 123 Civilians Aboard Warships, Position of, 587, 592
Conditions in European and American Coal Mines, 419
Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Health Research Board, Report, 615
— Welfare. See Welfare (below) Labour Notes, 11, 54, 86, 118, 147, 178, 208, 238, 266, 280, 314, 340, 367, 394, 422, 452, 480, 510, 538, 564, 592, 620, 648, 674, 699, 728. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Merchant-Marine Personnel, Observations on, 721
Ministry of Labour and National Service, Central Register, 416 ; Supplementary Employment Register for Professional Persons, 669
Skilled Men, Release from Army, 533 Training for Industry, 307, 317, 324 Welfare, Industrial, Two Centuries of, The London (Quaker) Lead Company (Review), 159
Workmen’s Compensation and Emergency Law, 547
Lampholders and Lamp Caps, Architectural, Specification, 228
Lancashire Electric Power Co., Kearsley Power Station, 20 ; Walkden Testing Station, 20 Lancashire Steel Corporation, Ltd., Irlam Steel Works, 21
Lanchester, Dr. F. W., on Maximum Range of Flight, 203*, 217* ; on Flying-Boat Entrance Lines, 298* ; on Unaccounted Drag in Aircraft, 403*. See LETTERS, 536, 590 Lancing, Sea Defences at, 572*
Land Affected by Iron-Ore Working, Restoration of, Report, 637
Language, English, in Engineering Usage, 172 Latent Heat of Fusion of Refrigerants, Investigations on,434
Latham, E., on Coast and River Conservancy, 571*
Lathes. See Machine Tools Lathing, Cane (Le Tissaroso), 83
Launches and Trial Trips, 110,169,199, 257 Launching Accident to H.M. Aircraft-Carrier
“ Formidable,’* 235*. See 231 Law. See Legal; Labour; Patents Lea Recorder Co., Ltd., “ Uni-Meter ” Recording Mechanism on Mechanical Stokers, 372*
Lead Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— for Cable Sheathing, Creep and Fracture, 53
— Cold-Worked, X-Ray Examination of, 435
— Cylinder for 1,000-kV X-Ray Tube, 623*
— Effect on Machinability of Brass, 329, 369,
485*
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Production and Consumption in United States, 284
Leadbeater, A. W., on Measurement of Air Flow in Mines, 182*
Lee, A., and Sons, Ltd., Electric Furnaces for Bright Annealing, 440*
Leeds and Manchester Railway Centenary, 15
— University, Post-Graduate Course in Fuel
and Refractory Materials, 138 ; Aeration- Test Burner for Gas, by J. W. Wood and Dr. A. H. Eastwood, 678

Legal :

British Shipping Assistance Bill, il2 Emergency Law, 520, 546, 602 Frustrated Contracts, 97
Labour Legislation. See Labour Model Building Byelaws Illustrated (Review), 102
Patent Law. • See Patents
Restriction of Ribbon Development Act. 1935, Decisions under, 203
Stevens, Major C. H., versus Wimbledon Corporation, 694
Taxation of Motor Vehicles, 695
War Legislation and Patents and Trade Marks, Memorandum on, 441
Workmen’s Compensation. See Labour See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Legislation, Legal; Labour; Patents Lenses, Photographic, Interferometer, for
Testing, 495
Leonard, Prof. J., on Compounding of Alloys
163
Letters to the Editor, 50, 85,145, 207, 282, 330, 357*,421, 450, 479,536, 589,618, 673, 697*
— Sorting Machines at Brighton Post Office,
459*, 627*
Lewis, J. S., on Rimming-Steel Manufacture at Briton Ferry, 687
— Portable Single-Drum Water-Tube Boiler,
90*
Ley’s Malleable Castings Co., Ltd., Air- Furnaces for Blackheart Malleable Cast
Iron, 484* . „ , ,
Leyland Motors, Ltd., Day Continuation School,
165 ; Motor Omnibus for Riga Mumci- pality, 329*
Libraries and Documentation, 306 r— National Central, Emergency Arrangements, 473
Liege and Albert Canal, 376*, 431*, 489*
— International Congress of Naval Architects
and Marine Engineers, Programme, 176
— Water Exhibition, 49 Liege-Namur-Luxembourg COH Romsee Substation, 731*
Life Boat, Submersible TfaCtOr for, 8* Lifts, Electric (Review), 158 “ Liftall ” Post Extractor, 74*
Lifting Gear, Fatigue Investigations on, 144
— Tackle, Safe Operation of. Booklet on, 216 Light Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— See also Spectroscope
Lighting of A.R.P. Report and Control Centres,
Specification, 470
— of Air-Raid Shelters, Specification, 654
— Day, of Factory, Design for, 221*
— Fittings, A.R.P., Specification, 582
— Gas. See Oas
— Public, and Air-Raid Precautions, 335 in War Time, 363, 644
— of Railway Carriages in War Time, 389, 475
539, 612, 615
— Restrictions, Public, and Road Accidents,
475
— Service Bureau, Factory-Lighting Exhibition, 559
— of Shop Windows, Rules for, 723
— Street, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on,589
“ Rhythmatic ” Control Apparatus for, 182*
in War Time, 335, 363, 644
— System for Trolley ’Bus, 624
— of Trains in War Time, 389, 475, 539, 612, 615
— See also Lamps under Electric Lightning. See Electric
Lilly Overwinder for 4,450-h.p. Electric Winding Engine, 42*
Lime Deposits from Atmosphere, 28
— Kilns, Vertical Shaft (Ashmore, Benson,
Pease and Co., Ltd.), 133* Limit Gauges. See Gauges Linalux Co., Roms6e Substation, 731* Lincoln Electric Co., Ltd., Dual Continuous
Control Welder, 383*; Diesel-Engine Driven Welder, 383*
Lind, P., and Co., Ltd., New Waterloo Bridge, 545*
Lindley, J. B. (1931), Ltd., Two-Stage “ Uni- cylinder-Monobloc ” Air Compressor, 577* Linei’i. See5^/awer«
Link Belt Co., Caterpillar Carriage for Excavator, 599*
Lips, Dr. E. M. H., on Gating and Optimum Flow Conditions in Metals, 91*. See 24
Liquid Fuel. See Oil Fuel. See also Motor; Petrol
— Flow Through Beds of Granular Solids, 435*.
See LETTERS, 536, 698*
Lister, R. A., and Co., Ltd., li-kW. and 2|-kW. Diesel-Driven Lighting Sets, 38* ; Motor- Driven Domestic Pump, 39* ; Trailer for 75-kVA. Diesel-Driven Generating Set, 591*
Literature. 101, 158, 246, 277, 348, 378, 462, 576, 631, 708. See LITERATURE INDEX
Lithgow Propeller Tunnel, National Physical Laboratory Experiments with, 300
Litigation. See Legal; Labour; Patents Liverpool, Passenger Transport Services in, 143
— Water Supply of. Report, 213
” Llanstephan Castle,” S.S., Conversion from Coal to Oil-Burning, 14
Lloyd’s Register Book, 207 Rules for Electric Propelling Machinery and Electric Equipment, 668
Statistics, Vessels under Construction, 48 Statistics, Vessels Lost, 304, 691 Local Authorities. See Municipal
Locks, Additional, for Panama Canal, 287
— Albert Canal, Belgium, 431*, 489*, 575*,
657*
Locomotives on British Railways, 1938, 259
— Continuous Blowing-Down for, 194*
— 10-h.p. Diesel (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 10*
— 115-b.h.p. DiC'Cl, 3-ft. Gauge Diesel (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 270*
— 25-h.p. Diesel, for Mining Work (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 311*
— Disturbing Forces on, 365, 417, 448, 476
— Narrow-Gauge, 78-h.p. Oil-Engined (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 537*
— Pacific, Committee’s Report, 336*, 364*,
417, 448, 476, 506*, 533*, 559, 616
Design and Operation in India, 336* 364*, 417, 448, 476, 506*, 533*, 559, 616
— Running Department (Review), 247
— Shunting, 360-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 52*
— See also Raihvays in PARAGRAPH INDEX Log Carriers (Roadless Traction, Ltd.), 10*
’* Lolos ” Steam-Jacketed Automatic Oil Strainer, 594*
Londex, Ltd., Mercury-Switch Relay, 619 London, Borough Market, Fire at, 113
— County Council, Waterloo-Bridge Approach
Scheme, 81; New Waterloo Bridge, 545* ; Fire Boat ” James Braidwood,” 653* ; Wandsworth-Bridge Reconstruction, 707* mperial College of Science and Technology, ! Investigations on Colliery Wire Ropes, I 286. See LETTER, 450; Investigation of ! Fluid Flow Between Banks of Tubes, ' 423* ; Present Arrangements at, 442
— Midland Scottish Railway, 350-b.h.p.
Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive, 52* ; Centenary of Ayr to Irvine Line, 283 ; Air-Raid Precaution Work on, 664; Scrap-Metal Collection, 691
— and North Eastern Railway, Buffet-
Restaurant Carriage, 146*
— Northampton Polytechnic, Investigation on
Inductor with Air-Gapped Magnetic Circuit, 406*
— Passenger Transport Board, Highgate to
East Finchley Railway Electrification, 19 ; Aidgate-East Station Reconstruction, 97*, 159*; Tension-Type Buffer Stop at Aidgate-East Station, 176; Finchley- Road Station Reconstruction, 350* ; Flood Prevention in Tube Railways, 389, 420, 695 ; Noise-Reduction Experiments on Underground Trains, 494; Annual Report, 504; Bakerloo Extension to Finchley Road, 532 ; Design and Construction of Trolley ’Bus, 623
London Quaker Lead Co. (1692-1905), Industrial Welfare by, 159
— Underground Railways. See Underground
— University, New Investigations on Old
Combustion-Engine Problems, by Prof. G. Eichelberg, 463*, 547*, 603*, 682*
College, Ramsay Memorial Laboratory, Exhibition at, 19 ; Faculty of Engineering Prospectus, 76 ; Re-opening of Ram-
< say Laboratory in War Time, 528 Longford Power Station, Coventry, 5*, 67* Lorries. See Motor Lorries ; Tractors Loughborough College, Dial-Gauge Research at, 725*
Low-Temperature Carbonisation of Coal. See Coal
Lubricants for Wire Ropes, Protective Action of, 157*. See LETTERS, 282, 450, 536 Lubricating Oils. See Oils
Lubrication, Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 206*
— System for Cement-Grinding Tube Mill, 681* Luton Works, Commer Cars, Ltd., Reorganisation of, 265*
Lutoslawski, M., on Optimum Blast Volume for Cupola Practice, 104

MACKIE, R., the Late, 392
Macleod, Major-Gen. M. N., on Developments in British Surveying Instruments, 149*
Macnaghten, G. E. M., the Late, 45
MacNeill, J. B., on Multiple-Grid Circuit Breakers, 388
Mac. See also Me
Machine Shops. See under Machine Tools
— Testing. See Testing Machine and TesU {Materials)

Machine Tools :

Bases, Index, for Machine Tools (Sund- strand Machine Tool Co.), 451*
Broaching Machine, Vertical (Colonial Broach Co.), 55
Cutting Tools for Cast Iron, 104
for Copper Alloys, 352
Dial Gauges, Researches on, 725* Dividing Machine, Development of, 354 Dovetailing Machine, Two-Operator, for Wood(T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 621* Drilling Machine, Four-Spindle, AllElectric (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 135*
High-Speed, for Small Holes (A. P. . Castellini), 478*
Gear-Finishing Machine (Michigan Tool Co.), 675*
Grinding Machine, Twist-Drill (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 553*
— Wheel Practice, Books on (Carborundum Co., Ltd.), 84
Honing Machine, Hydraulic, 76-ft. Stroke, Horizontal (Barnes Drill Co.), 117*
Hydraulic Press. See Press (below) Lathes, Automatic, Multi-Tool (Gisholt Machine Co.), 580*
— |-in. Bar Capstan, Electro-Pneumatic (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 117*
— 3i-in. Centre Precision Capstan (C.V.A. Jigs, Moulds and Tools, Ltd.), 562*
— High-Speed Tools for, 342* Limit Gauging. See Gauges Machinability of Aluminium and its Alloys, 397*, 486
— of Copper Alloys, 351
— of Forged Steel, 486*
— of Free-Turning Brass, 327, 369, 485*
— Laboratory Test for, 485* Machine Shop, Wilton-Fijenoord Dockyard, Production Research at, 341*
— Tools, Import Licences for, 509.
Industry, Census of Production Statistics, 4, 66
Trades Association, Postponement of Machine-Tool Exhibition, 113
Wilton-Fijenoord Dockyard, Production Research at, 341*
— Work, Tolerances in. See Gauges Machining of Aluminium and its Alloys, 397*, 486
— of Free-Turning Brass, 327, 369, 485*
— Properties of Copper Alloys, 351 of Metals, Test for, 485*
Milling Machines, High-Speed Light Vertical (G. Gorton Machine Co.) 499* with Swivelling Head (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 177*
Moulding Machines for Plastics (Reed- Prentice Corporation), 106*
Press, Hydraulic, 500-ton Mould-Hobbing {T. H. and J. Daniels, Ltd.), 453*
— for Motor-Vehicle Manufacture, 697*
— Plastic-Moulding, 100-ton Toggle Type (F. J. Stokes Machine Co.), 409*
— Power, Crankless (Clearing Machine Corporation), 481*
Safe Operation of, Booklet on, 215
— Shell-Forging and Drawing Combined (Coventry Machine Toolworks, Ltd.), 136*
Roto-Shaving Machine, Vertical (National Broach (fe Machine Co.), 647*
Sawing Machine, Contour for Metals, (Continental Machines, Inc.), 729*
Shearing Machine, Rotary, for Sheet Metals (F. (fe J. Edwards, Ltd.), 543*
Table, Hydraulic, Portable (C.V.A. Jigs, Moulds and Tools, Ltd.), 58*
Woodworking Machinery, Dovetailing Machine, Two-Operator (T. Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 621*
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Machine Work. See Machine Tools Magnesium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Magnets, Permanent, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 588
Magnetic Testing of Iron, Non-Linear Distortion in, 395*
Magneto-Theodolite (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 150
Magnifier, Hand, Illuminated (S. W. Partington), 124*
Mail Services, Aerial. See Aeronautics Mains, Electric. See Cables under Electric
— Gas, Water and Electricity, in Roads, 48 Manchester Association of Engineers, Future
Arrangements, 413
— Corporation, Barton Power Station, 20
— and District, Post-Advanced Education in,
326
— and Leeds Railway Centenary, 15
— Literary and Philosophical Society, The
Plastics Industry, by Dr. V. E. Yarsley and E. G. Couzens, 91
— Municipal College of Technology, Prospec
tus, 358
Manchester Oil Refinery, Ltd., Works of, 20 Manholes, Combustible Gases in. Investigation of, 606
Manners, M., on Surface Tension of Molten Soda-Silica Glasses, 61
Manning of Merchant Ships, 721
Manson, Mr., on Effects of Soluble Chemicals on Concrete, 180
Manufactures. See Trade
Marbaix, G. E., Ltd., Vertical Broaching Machine, 55; 76-ft. Stroke Horizontal
Hydraulic Honing Machine, 117* ; Index Bases for Machine Tools, 451* ; Toothed- Gear Finishing Machine, 675*
Marchand-Andriessen.. Transorma Letter-Sorting Machine at Brighton Post Office, 459*, 627*
Margoulies, S., on High-Tension Substation Layout, 730*
Marin Tower, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 3*, 31*, 130*, 191*, 247*
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, Electrical Equipment, Rules for, 668
-Machinery, Oil-Purifying Equipment (Alfa-Laval Co. Ltd.) 733*
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Engines, Engines; Turbines; Marine
Prc^ulsion
— Engineers, Institute of, Associate-Member
ship Examination, 412
and Naval Architects, American Society of. See Naval Architects
I Marine Engineers and Naval Architects,
I International Congress of, Li6ge, Programme, 176
— and Engineering Exhibition, Olympia,
322* 382*
— Engineering Industry, Census of Production
Statistics, 4, 45
— Propulsion, 320-b.h.p. Diesel Engines, Motor
Fire Float “ Nokk,” 468*
125-b.h.p. Diesel Engine for Vane-Wheel Eroder, M.S. “Jet,” 264*. See LETTERS, 282 421 479
— — Electrical Propelling Machinery, Lloyd’s
Register Rules for, 668
2,760-b.h.p. Engines, H.M. Motor Torpedo Boat, No. 40 K, 146*
6,000 s.h.p. Geared Turbines, S.S. “ Challenge,” 173
— •—330-h.p. Petrol Engines, Fire Boat
” James Braidwood,” 653*
Power Consumption of Ships, Experiments for Estimating, 277
37,500-b.h.p. Sulzer Oil Engines, M.S. ” Oranje,” 148
Voith-Schneider System of, 315* Oil Fuel for. See Oil Fuel
See also Engines; Turbines; Propellers ; Ship Resistance; and PARAGH.^PH INDEX
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine
Propulsion
Markets. See Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Markson, A. A., on Photographic Study of Boiler Furnaces in Operation, 496
Marston, W. J., Longford Power Station Extensions, 5*, 67*
Mass, Standards of. National Physical lyaboratory Investigations on, 276
Materials, Mechanics of. Three Hundred Years of, 524
— Strength of. See Stress and Tests {Materials} Mathematics, Complex Variable and Operational Calculus, with Technical Applications (Review), 379
— Higher, with Applications to Science
Engineering (Review), 246
— Practical Shop (Review), 348 Mather and Platt, Ltd., Park Works, 21.
Addendum, 76
Mathys, E., on Documentation in Swiss ministrations, 300
Matthews, R. B., on Mechanics of Towing Road Vehicles, 312*
“ Mauritius,” H.M. Cruiser, Launch of, 115 Mavor and Coulson, Ltd., Gypsum-Rock Extracting Transporter, 517*
Mayer, H., on Cellophane for Protection of Glass Windows, 697. See 618
Mayne, J. E. O., on Protective Action of Lubricants for Wire Ropes, 157*. See LETTERS, 282, 450, 536
Mayo, Major R. H., on Trans-Atlantic Air Services, 541, 565, 594. See 309
Mayr, O., on Rapid-Reclosing Circuit Breakers for Fault Clearing, 635*
McAdam, Dr. D. J., Junr., on Theory of Impact Testing, 667
McCutcheon, D. M., on Radiographic Testing of Castings, 154
McDermet, J. R., on Removal of Dissolved Gases from Water, 210
McKenzie, B. S., the Late, 673
McKinney, Prof. D. S., on Equilibria in Dilute Water Solutions, 210
McLaren, J. and H., Ltd., Diesel Cable Ploughing and Cultivating Unit, 11*; 24/30 b.h.p. Four-Cylinder Marine Diesel Engine, 323*
Me. See also Mac
Measured Mile, Hartley, Report on, 497 ” Measurrench,” Williams, 215*
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of, Flow of Water in Channels under Steep Gradients, by W. F. Durand, 120*; Analogy Between Fluid Friction and Heat Transfer, by T. von K^rmandn, 210* ; Design of Cooling Towers, by G. R. Nance, 242* ; Economic Air-Line Equipment, by A. F. Bonnalie, 268* ; Improved System in Application of Non-Condensing or Extraction Turbines, by H. W. Cross and E. S. Wells, 271* ; Photographic Study of Steam-Boiler Furnaces in Operation, by A. A. Markson and W. H. Dargan, 496 ; Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 505
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of:
Design and Manufacture of Bursting Discs, by G. F. I^ake and Dr. N. P. Inglis, 58*, 88*
Identification of Source of Deposited Matter, by Dr. J. S. Owens, 115, 151
Photographic Study of Fluid Flow Between Banks of Tubes, by Dr. R. P. Wallis, 423*
Scottish Branch:
Production Research in its Application to Machine Shop of Dockyard, by Prof. G. Schlesinger, 341*
Mechanical Flight. See Aeronautics
— Lubricator. See Lubricator
— Stoker. See Stoker
— Traction on Roads. See Roads ; Motor Cars; Tractors
Mechanics, Applied, International Congress for, Proceedings of (Review), 278
— of Materials, Three Hundred Years of, 524
— of To^ving Road Vehicles, 312* Mechanism, Models for Study of, 341* Medway Towns and Southern Railway Electrification, 23
Meiners, G., on Fire Breakers, 688*
Melbourne Sine Table Tools), Ltd.), 590*
Melchett Lecture on During War (1914-18), 505
Meldahl, A., on Brown-Boveri Testing Apparatus for Gear-Wheel Material, 63*
Mellor, M. F. 0. de, on Track-Recording Car on Great Indian Peninsular Railway, 253*
Melmoth, F. A., on Renaissance of Steel Casting, 164
Melting Practice for Light Alloys, 74
Menai Suspension Bridge, Reconstruction, 655* Merchant Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Ships. See Ships ; Steamers; Motorships Mercury Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Production in 1938, 195
— Vapour Lamp Photo-Copying Machines (B. J. Hall and Co.. Ltd.), 393*
Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., 100-ft. Turntable Fire Ladder, 87*
Mersey, River, Ferry Service on, 17
Metals, Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Effect of Temperature on Properties of, 154
— Fatigue of. See Fatigi>e under Tests
(Materials)
— Filament Lamps. See Lamps under Klectric
Metals, Institute of;
Autumn Meeting, Glasgow:
Programme, 53 Cancellation of Meeting, 319
Papers Prepared for Glasgow Meeting :
Free-Turning Brass, by Dr. M. Cook and E. Davis, 327, 369
Machining Properties of Copper Alloys, by W. B. Sallitt, 351
Machining of Aluminium and its Alloys, by J. H. Dlckin and G. A. Anderson, 397*
Laboratory Test for Machinability, by A. S. Kenneford, 485*
Thermal Conductivities of Some Industrial Alloy.s of Copper and of Nickel, by Dr. J. W. Donaldson, 539
Protection of Silver by Electrolytic Deposition of Beryllia, by Dr. L. E. Price and Dr. G. J. Thomas, 675
Statutory Autumn Meeting. London :
Programme, 470 Proceedings, 586 Nomination of Officers, 586
Metal, Molten, Flow Through Mould Gates, 24, 91*
— Non-Ferrous, British Research Association,
New Laboratories, 12*, 19
— Price Diagrams, 29*, 165*, 293*
— Protective Coatings for (Review), 159
— Scrap, Collection, London Midland and
Scottish Railway, 691
— and Semi-Conductors (Review), 631
— Structure of. See Microphotographs
— Surface Finish of. National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 495
— Welding, See Welding
— See also Metallurgy ; Microphotographs Metallography. See Metallurgy ; Microphotographs
Metallurgical Association, ‘Sheffield. See Sheffield

Metallurgy :

Alloy, Aluminium-Base, Pressure Die- Casting of, 75
Casting, Solution Heat-Treatment of. 75
in Electrical Industry. 51 Machining of, 397*, 486
— ?— National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 234
Preheated-Air Melting Furnace for, 325*
Tin, Inverse Segregation during Solidification, 163
?— Commercial, Process of Crystallisation in, 163
— Compounding by Melting, Principles Applicable to, 163
— Copper, Castings for Electrical and Thermal Conductivity Applications, 163
Lead for Bearings, 134
Machining Properties of, 327, 361, 369,485*
—? — Thermal Conductivity of, 539 See also Drass; Drome, etc.
-- Lead, for Cable Sheathing, Creep and Fracture of, 53
— Light, Effect of Melting Conditions on, 74
Melting Practice for, 74
Properties of. Influence of Repeated Remeltings on, 75
?— Magnesium, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 234
— Monel Metal, Properties, Uses, etc.. Brochure on, 284
— Nickel, Thermal Conductivity of, 539 ; Iron, Handbook on, 408
— Niobium-Iron, Investigations on, 514*
— Zinc-Base, Pressure Die-Casting of, 75 Brass. See Drass
Bronze. See Dronze
Cast Iron. See Cast Iran
Coke Ovens. See Coke Ovens
Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion Critical Points of Steel, Determination of, 249
Foundry. See Foundry; Moulding •Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces — Metallurgical. See Furnaces
Gas Attack on Steel, 669
Heat-Treatment, Age-Hardening of Aluminium Alloys, Investigations on, 234
of Aluminium Casting Alloys, 75 Bright Annealing of Steel Strip,
Electric Furnaces for, 440*
Case-Hardening of Special Steels by Nitrogen, Booklet on, 640
of Light Alloys, Furnaces for (Wild- Barfield Electric Furnaces, Ltd.), 636*
Heating and Cooling Curves lor Steel, Determination of, 249
Iron Ore. See Ore
Metals, Tests of. See Tests (Materials) Metallurgical Department, National
Physical Laboratory, Work of, 234 249* ’
Refractories. See Refractory Materials Firebricks
Slag. Action on Refractories, 725
— Foamed, Use for Concrete, 219, 690
Metallurgy—continued.
Smelting Iron with Coke, History of, 590 Steel Furnaces. See Furnaces — Heating and Cooling Curves for, Determination of, 249
— Manufacture at Briton Ferry, 687
in Electric Furnace, 686
— Metallurgy, Research in, 567
— Rimming, Manufacture of, 595
Mamifacture by Acid Bessemer Process, 482*
Manufacture by Basic Bessemer Process, 569
— Work-Hardening of, Prof. J. H. Andrew’s New Theory, 646
Welding. See Welding
See also Iron and Steel Institute; Metals, Institute of; Microphotographs; Foundry; and PARAGRAPH INDEX Metallurgy and Mining, Institution of. See Mining
Meteorological Balloons, Radio Transmitter and Instruments for, 644*
Meter, Air-Flow, Recording, for Mines, 183* Flow, Thomas Type, 184
— Sound, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 494
— Void, for Railway Tracks, 507*
— See also Electric
Methane, Action on Refractories, 725
— Combustion Characteristics of, 679
— Explosions. See Accidents and Colliery Metrology Department, National Physical
Laboratory, Work of, 250*, 275
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Trafford Park Works, 20; 4,450-h.p.
Electric Winder for 6,556-ft. Shaft, 41*, 84* ; Instantaneous Fluid-Pressure Recording Equipment, 127*; Investigation on Measurement of Air Flow in Mines, 182* ; Paradyne Welder, 382* ; High-Power Spot Welder, 382* ; Thyratron Control Panel, 382* ; “ Thermae Arc-Welding Equipment, 469*; Spot- Welding Machines with Ignitron Control, 509*; 30,000-kVA., 132/33-kV. Mobile Transformer, 619*; 1,000-kV. X-Ray
Tube, 622*. 649*
— Water Board, Requisitioning of Excavating Plant, 447
— See also London
Meuse and Scheldt Rivers, Albert Canal Between, 375*, 431*, 489*, 574*, 657* Meyer, F., on Fluid Filling Media for Electrical Apparatus, 643
Mica, Impulse Electric Strength of, Investigations on,588
— Production in India, 301
— Thin, Measurement of, 276
Micanite Production in United States, 301 Michigan Tool Co., Toothed-Gear Finishing Machine, 675*
Micrometers, External, Specification, 638
— Light-Wave, Van Keuren (G. H. Alexander Machinery, Ltd.), 57
Microphotographs, Bearing Jewels, 180*
— Niobium-Iron Alloys, 514*
— Sheet Steel for Tin-Plate, 427*
Microscope, Development and Application or, 353
Microstructure of Metals. See Microphotographs Middleton, Sir T., on Food Production in War Midlands, East, Geology and Water Supply in, 117
Mile, Measured, Hartley, Report on, 497 Military Motor Transport. See Motor Milk Distribution, Paper Cartons for. Manufacture of (Cambrian United Dairies, Ltd.), 687 *
Mills* Paper, Dartford, Sectional-Unit Electric Drive at, 195* .
— Tube, Cement-Grinding, Fabricated-Steel (E. Newell and Co., Ltd.), 681*
Miller, H. J., on Copper and Copper-jUloy Castings for Electrical and Thermal Conductivity Applications, 163
Miller, Mr.-, on Effects of Soluble Chemicals on Concrete, 180 ,.
Milling Machines and Cutters. See
* Tools
Mines, Air Flow in, Development in Measurement of, 182*
— Coal. See Collieries
— Department, General Regulations for Quarries, 137 ; Coal-Industry Statistics, 281
25-h.p. Diesel Locomotive for Use in, 311*
— Electrical Inspector’s Annual Report, 532
— Safety in. Research Board, Investigation on Lubricants for Wire Ropes, 157*. See LETTERS, 282, 450, 536 ; Annual Report, 286
— United States Bureau of. See United States
— Winding, Winding
— ^QQ3\^oCoal; Collieries; Mining; Ores,
Winding and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mineral Oils. See Oils
— Production in Australia, 224 in Canada, 152
— See also Coal; Mining; Ores ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mining Engineers, Institution of, Summer Meeting, Sheffield, 19; Development in Measurement of Air Flow in by
R. Poole and A. W. Leadbeater, 182*
— and Metallurgy, Institution of, Underground
Mining at Rio Tinto, Spain, by C. K. Julian, 731*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ministry of Labour and National Service. See under Labour
— of Transport. See Transport
Mitchell, J., on Practical Aspects of Rimming- Steel Manufacture, 595
Mitchell Brothers, Sons and Co., Ltd., Aidgate-East Station Reconstruction, 99*, 159*
Mixer or Emulsifier for Liquids (Ateliers R6unis), 82*
Mixing and Kneading Machine for Dough (J. Cruickshank, Ltd.), 153*
— Machines, Concrete. See (^^nejeie.
Model Building Byelaws Illustrated (KeMe^^), 102
Model of Parson Drove Woad Mill, Cambridgeshire, 689*
— Simple, for Study of Mechanism, 341*
— Tests. See also Aeronautics; Ship Resistance; Tank Experiments
Modulus of Elasticity, Sonic Method of Determining, 181
Moisture, Attack of Steel by, 669
Monck, B., on Road and Rail Transport, 536. See 446
Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., Handbook on Nickel Cast Iron, 408
Monel Metal, Properties, Uses, Etc., Brochure on, 284
Monometer Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Pre- heated-Air Light-Alloy Melting Eurnaces, 325*
Monoplane. See Aeronautics
Monsin Island Entrance, Albert Canal, Belgium, 377*, 431*, 489*
Moore, Dr. H., on Glasses : Organic and Inorganic, 646
Morey, F. C., on Determination of Heating Value of Fuel Gases, 209
Morreau, C. J., on Reduction of Noise in Buildings, 474
Morris, H., Ltd., Adjustable Sling for Rolled- Steel Joists, 176*
Morrison, J. C., on Kadenacy System of Scavenging, 357*. See 187*, 378. See LETTERS, 207, 330, 421, 589
Morrison-Knudsen Co., Imperial Dam and Desilting Works on Colorado River, 225* Mortars, Effect of Freezing and Thaving, 180 Motor Boat “ Bluebird II,” Record Speed with, 233
Fire Boat “ James Braidwood,” 653* Fire Float ” Nokk,” 468* Life-Boat for Rhyl, 507
H.M. Motor Torpedo Boat No. 40K., 146*

Motor-Car Details :

Engines. See Engines, Petrol, Motor Car Horns, Noise Limit for, 112
Motor-Car Engines. See Engines, Petrol Engineers. See Automobile Engineers Fuels. See Motor Fuels in Great Britain, Statistics, 201 Industry and Production of Army Vehicles, 672
Military. See Motor Vehicles
Noise of, Investigations on, 614
Railton, 2,960-b.h.p., Record Speed with, 261
Research by Institution of Automobile Engineers, 81
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Electric, Alternating-Current, Variable-
Speed, for Power Station Auxiliaries, 303* 800-h.p., for Cement-Grinding Tube Mill (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 682*
for Electrically-Operated Coke-Oven Plant (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 355
Fractional Horse-Power, Specification, 384
Manufacture of, Tottenham Works, Keith Blackman, Ltd., 167*
for Paper Carton-Making Plant (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 687*
Salient-Pole Synchronous (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 284*
for Sectional-Unit Drive at Dartford Paper Mills, 195*
95-h.p., for Trolley ’Bus, 623
Use in Mines, 532
— Fire Boat “James Braidwood” (J. S. White and Co., Ltd.), 653*
Float “ Nokk,” 468*
— Fuel, Petrol-Rationing Scheme, 335
Production from Tars, Experiments on, 486
— Industry, Census of Production Statistics,
4, 35, 66
in Great Britain, 1938, Report, 201
— Internal-Combustion. See Acronautics ;
Engines; Motor Cars; Motor Boats; Tractors
— Launches. See Motor Boats
— Life-Boat, 32 ft., for Rhyl, 507
— Lorries, 3-ton and 15-c^^4., for War Service,
696*
See also Motor Vehicles
— Marine. See Engines; Marine Propulsion ; Motorships
— Manufacturers and Traders, Society of.
Annual Review Motor Industry of Great Britain, 1938, 201
— Omnibus, 96-b.h.p., for Riga Municipality (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 329*
— Petrol. See Aeronautics ; Engines, Petrol;
Motor Boats; Motor Cars ; Tractors
— Plough. See Tractors
— Spirit. See Motor Fuel
— Torpedo Boat, H.M.S. No. 40 K., 146*
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Truck, Tiering, 2-ton Battery-Operated
(Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 525*
— Vehicle, Aircraft-Salvaging Lorry for United
States Army Air Corps, 331
Alternative Fuels for, 387, 557
Australian Mail Lorry, Wireless Transmitter Equipment, 305
in Great Britain, Statistics, 201
Horse-Power Tax on, 695
Impact Loads on, Investigations on, 234 Noise from. National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 494
in United States and Great Britain, 124 for War Service, Manufacture of, 696* for War Service, Types of, 672, 673
— Wagons. See Motor Lorries; Motor
Vehicles; Tractors
Motorship “ Beacon Grange,” Model and Ship Trials, 277
— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 48
— “ Jet,” Vane-Wheel Eroder for Indian
Rivers, 264*. See LETTERS, 282, 421, 479
— “ Korea.” Trials of, 451
— Lost, Lloyd’s Statistics, 304, 691
— Manning of, 721
— See also Maritie Propulsion
Motorways, County Surveyors’ Society’s Scheme for, 261
Motorways, Design of, 289*, 309
Motorways, See also Eoads
Moulding Machines. See Machine Tools
— Sands, Synthetic, Bonding Clays for, 23
— See also Foundry
Moulds, Gating of, for Optimum Flow of Metals, 24, 91*
— for Rimming Steel, 596
Mowing Machine, Tractor-Trailer (A. C. Bamlett, Ltd.), 40*
Mowlem, J. H., and Co., Ltd., Bakerloo Extension to Finchley Road, 532
Mucklow, Dr. G. F., on Kadenacy System of Scavenging, 187*. See 378. See LETTERS, 207, 330, 357*, 421, 589.
Mulleneux, H. J., Track-Recording Car for Great Indian Peninsular Railway, 253*
Muller, C. A., on Fault Clearing with Rapid- Reclosing Circuit Breakers, 593*
Mullites, Natural and Artificial, X-Ray Examination of, 646
Mulsifyre Fire-Extinguishing System, 21. See Addendum, 76
Multitubular Boilers. See Boilers
Municipal Authorities and Breaking up of Roads, 48
— Tramways. See Tramways
Munitions Supplies, Organisation of, 362
Murch, W. 0., on Combustion Characteristics of Town Gas, 679*
Murdock, W., Centenary of, 531
Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., Petrol-Driven Welder, 384*; Two-Operator Transformer Welder, 384*
Murphy, A. J., on Effect of Melting Conditions on Light Alloys, 74
Museum, Home Office, Safety Exhibits at, 305
— Science, South Kensington, Rotary Printing Press, 203 ; Model of Parson Drove Woad Mill, 689*
Musquash River, Ragged Rapids Hydro-Electric Plant, 260
Myers, B., on Results of Freezing and Thawing Mortars, 180
Mysore, India, Gifford’s Mine, 4,450-h.p. Electric Winding Engine, 41*, 84*

NAKSKOV SHIPYARD, LTD.,
“ Korea,” 451
Nance, G. R., on Design of Cooling Towers, 242*
National Association of Supervising Electricians. See Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of
National Broach Machine Co., Vertical Roto- Shaving Machine, 647*
*— Central Library, Emergency Arrangements, 478
National Gas and Oil Engine Co., Ltd., 115-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Diesel Engine for Locomotive, 270*
— Physical Laboratory, Alternating-Current Bridge Thermostat for Bridge Testing, 95* ; Report on Work of, 143*, 205*, 233, 249*, 275*, 299, 433*, 494, 587*, 644*; New Wind Tunnels at, 172 ; Investigation on Attack of Steel by Hydrogen Sulphide and Moisture, 669
Naval Aeronautics.
Naval Architects,
Scholarship in Light-Alloys to Ship Construction, 44
Elgar Scholarship, 610
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, International Congress, Li6ge, Programme, 176 and Marine Engineers, Society of, Observations Regarding Merchant- Marine Personnel, by Prof. H. L. Seward, 721
Naval Architecture. See Warships
— Cadetships, Special-Entry, 723
— Construction. See Warships
— Warfare. See Warships
Navigation, Wireless Telegraphy in. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Navvy. See Excavator Navy, British. See H.M. under Warships

— Italian. See Italian under Warships

— See also Naval; Warships ; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Nederland N.V. Stoomvart
” Oranje,” 148* Nederlandische Scheepsbouw
” Oranje,” 148*
Needle, Thatching (Harvest Saver and Implement Co., Ltd.), 72*
Neifert, Mr., on Fatigue Tests of Machined Forgings, 154
Net, Safety, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 402*
Netherlands, Motorways in, 289*
Neutrality Act and Shipping, United States,533 New York, Empire State Building, Wind Forces on, 189
— Zealand Government Railways, Annual Report, 508
Newcomen Society, Future Arrangements, 472 ; Annual Report, 554; Presidential Address, by W. A. Young, on Thomas Newcomen, Ironmonger: The Contemporary Background, 554 ; Annual Meeting, 674 New'con Filters, Ltd., Rotary Self-Cleaning Filter, for Liquids, 55*
Newell, E., and Co., Ltd., Fabricated-Steel Cement-Grinding Tube Mill, 681*
Nicolson, W. N., and Sons, Fertiliser Distributor, 40* ; Haymaking Machine, 40*
” Nigeria,” H.M. Cruiser, Launch of, 77 Nitralloy, Ltd., Booklet on Nitriding of
Special Alloy Steels, 640
Noise in Buildings, Reduction of, Report, 474
— Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 494
— Limit for Motor Horns, 112
— of Motor Car, Investigations on, 614 ” Nokk,” Motor Fire Float, 468* Non-Conducting Coverings. See Heat Insulation
— Ferrous Metals. See Metals; Metallurgy
Norinder, H., on Resistance of Earth Conductors to Impulse Currents, 466* North-Jiast Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Annual Report, 475; Report on Hartley Measured Mile, 497; Rolling of Ships under Way ; Decrement of Roll due to Hull and Bilge Keels, by Dr. G. S. Baker, 527; Aeronautics and Ship Design, by Dr. J. L. Taylor, 651
— Notes from, 15, 45, 77, 109, 139, 169, 199,
229, 257, 283, 305, 333,359, 385, 443, 471, 501, 528, 555, 583, 611, 639, 665, 691, 719. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— West England and North-Wales Electricity Scheme, 113
Northampton Polytechnic, London, Investigation on Inductor with Air-Gapped Magnetic Circuit, 406*
Northamptonshire, Restoration of Land Affected by Ore Working, Report, 637 Northern Coke Research Committee, Annual Report, 109
Northey-Boyce Rotary Engineering Co., Ltd., Rotary Vacuum Pump, 608*
Northumberland and Durham Coalfield, Ben- sham Seam, Report, 194
Norway, Iron and Steel Industry of, 492, 573, 633
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
Nottingham, Burton Joyce Pumping Station, 116
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Coalfield, Analysis of Commercial Grades of Coal, 543 Nova Scotia, Railway Centenary 373
Nozzle, Steam-Turbine, Researches on Efficiency of. 700*, 712*
Nuclear Physics and High Tensions, 262
Nuts, Self-Locking, “Speed” (Simmonds Aerocessories Ltd.), 366*
— Wing, Specification, 281

OBERT, L., Sonic Method of Determining
Modulus of Elasticity, 381
Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Officers, Merchant-Navy, Recruitment of, 721
Oil and British Euel Position, 641
— for Circuit Breakers, Breadown Voltage of, 670*
— Crude and Refined, Imports of, 561
— Engines. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars ; Motor Boats ; Tractors
— Flexible Pipe Union for (H. Clayton-Wright, Ltd.), 646*
— Fuel Production from Tars, Experiments on, 486
Tank Heater for Motor Omnibus, 329*
— Lubricating, Carbon-Deposition from,
Investigation on, 676*
National Physical Laboratory Investigagations on, 206*
Purifying Equipment for (Alfa-Laval Co., Ltd.), 733*
Standard Classification of,
— Motors. See Engines, Oil;
Motor Boats ; Tractors
— Production in Canada, 152
— Refining at Manchester Oil Ltd., 20
— Strainer, Automatic Self-Cleaning (Auto-Klean Strainers, Ltd.), 594*
— Switches. See Switchgear
— Tractors. See Tractors
— for Transformers, 643
— See also Lubrication ; Petroleum
Olding, J., and Co., Ltd., John Deere Tractor, 71* ; Potato Digger, 71*
Olsanky, Dr. L., on Pitting Corrosion of Cast-Iron and Steel Pipes, 105
Olympia. See Exhibition Omnibus, Motor. See Motor Omnibus — Trolley. See Trolley-Bus
Ontario Hydro-Electric Pow'er Commission, Annual Report, 260
Open-Hearth Furnace. See Furnace Operating Machinery for Gypsum-Rock Extracting Transporter, 517*
Optical Instruments, Development of, 353
— Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 495
Optical Investigations of Sapphire Meter Jewels by Polarised Light, 179*
Optics, Electron (Review), 102
— Surveying Instruments, British, Developments in, 149*
** Oranje,’* M.S., Dutch Passenger Liner, 148*
Ore, Iron, Production in European Countries, 491, 573, 632
Restoration of Land Affected by Working, Report, 637
Oscillation of Pacific Locomotives, 364, 417, 448, 476, 559,616
— Electric. See Electric; Valves, Therwionic Oscillograms from Circuit Breakers, 670* Oscillograph. See Electric
Ovens, Coke. See Coke Ovens
Overhead Lines, Power Transmission, Air-Blast Circuit Breaker for, 636*
Power Transmission, Construction and Operation of the Grid, 558, 568, 577*
Power Transmission, Economics of Alternating Current for, 50
Power Transmission, Erection of Anti- Vibratory Conductors, 264*
Power Transmission, Eire Protection of, 729
Power Transmission, Lightning Protection for, 142
Power Transmission, Ontario, 261
Power Transmission, Pneumatic Rapid-
Closing Circuit Breakers for, 522*
Power Transmission, Rapid-Reclosing Circuit Breakers on, 593*
Power Transmission, Reinforced-Copper
Conductors for, 263
Power Transmission, Stability of Tower Foundations, 310, 466*
Power Transmission, Steel Poles for, 82* Power Transmission, for Trolley ’Bus, 624
Power Transmission, Use of Aluminium for, 51
Power Transmission, Vibration of Conductors, 890*
Overseas Trade Department, Reports on Economic and Commercial Conditions in Sweden, 202; in Australia, 224; in Turkey, 267 ; in Siam, 344 ; in Hungary, 804
Overstrain, Torsional, in Mild Steel, Tensional Effects of, 453*
Overwinder, Lilly, for 4,450-h.p. Electric Winding Engine, 42*
Owen, J. B. B., on Stressing of Rotating-Blade Aerofoils, 511*
Owens, Dr. J. S., on Identification of Source of Deposited Matter, 115, 151
^^^485^^^^^ Testing Machine,
— University, Engineering Laboratory, Experiments on High-Speed Water Channel, 272
Oxidation Tests of Coals, 606
Oxides, Hydrated, of Iron, Specification, 228
Oxy Acetylene Welding. See Welding

PACIFIC BRIDGE CO., Piers for Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 2*, 31*, 191*, 247* — Locomotive Committee Report, 336*, 364* 417, 448, 476, 506*, 533*, 559, 616
Paine, C. E., on Golden Gate Bridge, San FrancUco^ 1*, 31*, 129*, 191*, 247*, 295*,
Painting Machine, Automatic, for Long Bars (Aeraspray Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 716*
Panama Canal, Additional Locks for, 287
Paper, Abrasive, Specification, 610
— Distribution, Manufacture of (Cambrian United Dairies, Ltd.), 687*
— Mills, Dartford, Sectional-Unit Electric
Drive at, 195*
Paradyne Welding Machine, 382*
Paraffin Engines. See Engines, Oil
— Tractors. See Tractors
Parallel Blocks, Steel, Engineers’, Draft Specification, 536
Paris Fair, Engineering Exhibits at, 82*
— Fire Brigade, 100-ft. Turntable Fire Ladder, 87*
International Conference on High-Tension Networks. See High-Tension Netzvorks, Inlernatwnal Conference, Paris
Park and Golf-Course Tractor (Bristol Tractors, Ltd.), 37* ’
Parson Drove Woad Mill, Cambridgeshire, Model of, 689*
Parses, C. A., and Co., Ltd., Bi-Colour Boiler Water-Gauge Projector, 419*
Parsons Engineering Co., Ltd., 75-h.p. Eight- Cylinder Converted Ford Marine Petrol Engine, 565*
— Memorial Lecture on Steam-Turbine Nozzle Efficiency, 700*, 712*
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam: Marine Propulsion
I’artm^n, S. W., Illuminated Hand Magnifier,
Partridge, Dr. J. H., X-Ray Study of Mullites, D4O
Passenger Aeroplane. See Aerojylane under Aeronazitus
— Steamers. See Steamers
Patent Agents, Chartered Institute of, Memorandum on War Legislation and Patents and Trade Marks, 441
— Glazing Conference, Pamphlet on Obscura
tion of Light in Factories, 173
— Record, 30*, 62*, 94*, 126*, 156* 186*
216*, 244*, 274*, 294\ 320*, 346* 37^’ 400* 430*. 458*, 488*. 516*.' 544*; 570*’ 598*. 626*, 654*. 680*. 706*, 734* See PATENT RECOUD INDEX
— aM Trade Marks and War Legislation,
Memorandum on, 441
Pattern-Making Machines. See Machine Tools
Patterson. W.. on Crystallisation in Commercial Alloys. 163
Paving Mixtures, Asphaltic, Thermal Susceptibility of, 181
Paxman, Major W., the Late, 719
Payment of Labour. See Labour
Payne, K. J. M., on Effect of Melting cou- ditioiB on Light Alloys, 74
Pearce, J. G., on Foundry Education in Great Britain, 123
Pennsylvania State College, Investigation on Evaluation of Influence of Lubricating Oils on Carbon Deposition, by H. A. Everett and G. H. Kaller, 676*
Perkins, E., Ltd., 100-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Marine Oil Engine, 625*
I'cnnanent Magnets. See Magnets
— Wav, Indian Kailways, Action of Piscine
Locomotives on, 337, 364, 418, 448, 476, 506*, 533* ,
Recording Car, Great Indian Peninsular Railway, 253*
Permutit Co., Ltd., Iron-Removal Filtration Plant, Dunton Pumping Station, 22
Personal, 14, 44, 76, 108, 138, 168, 198, 228, 256, 282, 304, 330, 358, 384, 412, 442, 470 500, 528, 554, 582, 610, 638, 664, 690, 718
Peters, G. D., <fc Co., Ltd., Single-Operator Welder, 383*; Automatic Continuous- Feed Welding Head, 384*
Petrol Carburettors. See Carburettors
— Flexible Pipe Union for (H. Clayton-Wright, Ltd.), 646*
— High-Octane, Manufacture of, 561
— Motors. See Aeronautics; Engines, Petrol;
Motor Cars; Motor Eoats; Tractors
— Rationing Scheme, 335
— Tractors. See Tractors
Petroleum Products, Tests for, 209
— Technology, Annual Reviews of (Review),
462
— See also OiZ,' Engines, OU
Petters, Ltd., 250-b.h.p. Superseavenge Diesel Engine, 75* ; 180-b.h.p. Superscavenge
Marine Oil Engine, 397*
Phenyl, Chlorinated, for Transformers, 643
Philo, Twin Branch and Michigan City Transmission Line, Rapid-Reclosing Circuit Breakers on, 593*
Photo-Copying Machines, Mercury-Vapour Lamp (B. J. Hall and Co., Ltd.), 393*
Photographic Lenses, Interferometer, for Testing, 495
— Study of Fluid Flow Between Banks of
Tubes 423*
— Surveying Instruments, Aerial, Develop
ment of, 150*
Photometric investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 589
Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs Physical Laboratory. See National Physical
— Society, Young Oration, by Major-General
M. N. Macleod, on Some Recent Developments in British Surveying Instruments, 149*
Physics, Contemporary, Introduction to (Review), 576
— Department, National Physical Laboratory,
Work of, 433*, 494
— Electro-Acoustics (Review), 159. SeeL’m/fa,
207
— Electron Optic.s (Review), 102
— Modern Science, (Review), 632
— Nuclear Physics and High Tensions, 262
— Practical Heat, (Review), 576
— Semi-Conductors and Metals (Review), 631
— See also Physical Society and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Piera, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 2*, 31*, 191*, 247*
— Wandsworth Bridge, London, 707* Pig-Iron Grading Scheme, Booklet on, 439 Prices. See MetabPriee Diagrams Piles, Concrete, Stresses During Driving,
Investigations on, 220*
Pilkington Brothers, Demonstration of Uses of Glass in War Time, 618. See LETTER, 697 Pilot Balloons. See Aeronautics
Pipes, Cast-Iron and Steel, Pitting Corrosion of, 105,145
— Fittings, Malleable Cast-Iron, Manufacture of, 104
— Flow in, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on,205
— Union, Flexible (H. Clayton-Wright, Ltd.), 646*
— Water, Transmission of Sounds Along, Investigations on, 495
— See also Tubes
Piper, Dr. G. H., on Bonding Clays for Synthetic Moulding Sands, 23
Pistons, Internal-Combustion Engine, Heat Flow in, 463*, 547*, 603*, 682*
Pitting. See Corrosion
Plastics Industry, Scope of, 91
— Injection Moulding Machines (Reed-Prentice Corporation), 106*
— Materials, Dielectric Properties of, National
Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 587*
— Moulding Press for, 100-ton Toggle-Type
(F. J. Stokes Machine Co.), 409*
— Synthetic, for Insulation, 504
— Tests Methods for, 210
Plates, Boiler, Caustic Embrittlement of,Investigation of, 249
— Shearing Machine. See Machi/ne Tools
— Steel, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Plating, Ships’-Deck, Buckling of, 605* Pleasaunce, B., on Combustion Characteristics
of Town Gas, 579*
Ploen, W., Motor Fire Float “ Nokk,” 468* Plotting Machine, Automatic, Thompson, 151* Plough, Motor. Sec Tractor
— Pneumatically-Controlled (Stanhay, Ltd.),
73*
— Steam, Use in War Time, 416
— Two-Furrow Balance (Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 74*
Ploughing and Cultivating Machine, Cable, Diesel-Driven (J. H. McLaren, Ltd.), II* Pneumatic Tools. See Machine Tools
— See also Air Compressor
Poland, Iron and Steel Industry of, 491
Poles, Steel, for Overhead Lines (Hagondange Steelworks), 82*
Pollution, Atmospheric, Annual Report, 28 Ministry of Health Report, 334 Polytechnic. See Education
Poole, R., on Measurement of Air Flow in Mines, 182*
Electric, from, 262
Electric, Relation of Thermal to Electricity Costs, 710
Electric, South Africa, Operation, 225 Electric, Standard Steam Cycles for, 642 —• — Electric, Tottenham Works of Keith, Blackman, Ltd., 166*
Electric, Units of Measurement for, 710 —'— Electric, Variable-Speed Motors for Auxiliaries in, 303*
See also Power Plants; Substations
— Supply, Electric, Alternating-Current Trans
mission for, 50
Electric, Bury St. Edmunds Sugar-Beet Factory, 162*
Electric, and Civilisation, 569
Electric, Construction and Operation of the Grid, 558, 568, 577*
Electric, Consumption by Engineering Industries, 35
Electric, Costs in Relation to Thermal Efficiency, 710
Electric, Dartford Paper Mills, 195*
Electric, Electricity Commissioners’ Report, 586
Electric, Failures from Lightning, 142 Electric, Great Britain, Statistics, 119 Electric, North-West England and North-Wales Electricity Scheme, 113
Electric, Notification of Failures, 389 Electric, Ontario, Annual Report, 260 Electric, South Africa, Report, 225 Electric, for Steel-Melting Furnaces, 686 Electric, Stevens versus Wimbledon Corporation, 694
Electric, in Sweden, 202
Electric, Tariffs and Charges for, 361 Electric, Tottenham Works of Keith, Blackman, Ltd., 166*
Electric, and War-Time Finance, 669
— Transmission, Electric, by Alternating
Currents, Principles of (Review), 246
Overhead Lines, Air-Blast Circuit Breaker for, 636*
Overhead Lines, Construction and Operation of the Grid, 558, 568, 577*
Overhead Lines, Economics of Alternating Current for, 50
Overhead Lines, Erection of Anti- Vibratory Conductors, 264*
Overhead Lines, Fire Protection of, 729 Overhead Lines, Lightning Protection for, 142
Overhead Lines, Ontario, 261
Overhead Lines, Pneumatic Rapid- Closing Circuit Breakers for, 522*
Overhead Lines, Rapid-Reclosing Circuit Breakers on, 593*
Overhead Lines, Reinforced-Copper Conductors for, 263
Overhead Lines, Stability of Tower Foundations, 310, 466*
Overhead Lines, Steel Poles for, 82* Overhead Lines, for Trolley ’Bus, 626 Overhead Lines, Use of Aluminium, 51 Overhead Lines, Vibration of Conductors, 390*
See also Qears; Marine Propxdsion
— Water, in Canada, Report, 51, 152
See also Hydraulic; Power Plants,
Hydro-Electric; Turbines, Hydraulic Pozzolanas, Artificial, Investigations on, 219 “Premier Diamond” Horizontal Gllled-Tube Economiser, 496
Preservatives for Sand-Bag Revetments, 679 Presidential Address to British Association.
Agricultural Section, by Sir T. Middleton on Food Production in War 'J’ime, 333 to British Association, Engineering Section, by H. E. Winiperis, bn Future of Flying, 278. See 285, 288
to British Association, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Section, by K. S. Whipple, OU Instruments in Science and Industry, 353, 379
to British Waterworks Assocation, by
Sir A. Atkev, on Work of the Association,
to Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies of the British Association, by Prof. H. L. Hawkins, on Local Scientific Societies and the Community, 308
to Fuel Luncheon Club, by Col. W. A.
Bristow, on Supply of Fuel and As8ociate<l Products, 561
to the Institute of Transport, by T. E. Thomas, on Tributaries of Transport, 446. See LETTER, 536
to Institution of Civil J*:ngineer.s, by Sir
C. D. M. Bindley, on Duties of Institution in War Time, 551
to Institution of Electrical Engineers, by
J. Wright, on Construction and Operation of the Grid, 568, 577*. See 558
— — to Newcomen Society, by W. A. Young,
on Thomas Newcomen, Ironmonger: The Contemporary Background, 554
to Society of Chemical Industry, by V. G. Bartram, on Canadian Technical and Industrial Progress, 152
Press. See Machine Tools
Pressure Fluctuations in Fluids, Harmonic Analysis of, 321*
— Ground, for Caterpillar Carriages, 600
— Wind, on Buildings, 189
Preston, Dr. E., on Distribution of Temperature in Molten Glasses, 60
Preston, G. W., on Kcinforced Copper Conductors for Overhead Transmission Lines.
263
Price, Dr. L. E. on Protection of Silver by Beryllia, 675
— of Metals. See Metal-Price Diagrams Printing Press, Rotary, Science Museum, South
Kensington, 203
Producer Gas for Motor Vehicles, 387, 567 Regenerative (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 440*
Production, Census of, 1935. 4, 36, 66. See Erratum^ 93
— Engineers, Institution of, Report on Dia
Gauge and its Use, 725*
— Research in Machine Shop of Dockyard,
341*
Projector, Bl-Colour, for Boiler Water Gauge (C. A. Parsons tfe Co., Ltd.), 419*
Prony, Baron de. Centenary of, 83
Props, Pit, Safety in Mines Research Board’s Investigations, 286
Propellers, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Marine, and Aeronautical Research, 651 Model Experiments at National Physical
Laboratory, 277, 299
Singing, and Aeronautical Research, 651
— Voith-Schneider, Application of, 315* Property, Compensation for War Damage, 723
— Report on Compensation for W’^ar Damage
to, 644
Propulsion of Ships. See Maritie PropitUio^i: Engines; Tzirbvies; Propellers; Ship Pesistanee
Prosser, L. E., on Alternating-Current Bridge Thermostat for Creep Testing, 95* Public Cleansing, Ministry of Health’s Report 334
— Lighting and Air-Raid Precautions, 335 Restrictions and Road Accidents, 475 in War Time, 363
Pulsometer Engineering Co., Ltd., “ Geryk ” Type Rotary Vacuum Pump, 607*
Pulverised-Fuel' Firing, (Jliaracteristics of Dust from, 151
Pumps, Air. See Air Compressors.
— Borehole, Centrifugal, Burton Joyce Pump
ing Station, 116
— Borehole, Motor-Driven (W. H. Allen, Sons*
and Co., Ltd.), 22*
— Centrifugal, Motor Fire Float “ Nokk,” 468* Petrol-Driven, Portable (Batwin Electric
Motors, Ltd.), 487*
— Circulating-Water, Longford Power Station.
69*
— Domestic, Motor-Driven (R. A. Lister <fc Co., Ltd.), 39*
— Feed, Longford Power Station, 70*
— Fuel, for Internal-Combustion Engine, 683*
— Hydraulic, Three-Throw Vertical (T. H. and J. Daniels, Ltd.), 539*
— Tests, Specification, 227
— Turbine, Dennis, Motor Fire Boat “ James Braidw’ood,” 653*
— Vacuum, Apiezon Oil-Diffusion, 649*
Diffusion-Type (W. Edwards and Co.), 608*
Reciprocating, Steam-Driven (Blairs, Ltd.), 608*
Rotary, “ Geryk ” Type (Pulsometer Engineering Co,, Ltd.), 607*
Rotary (B.A. Holland Engineering Co., Ltd.), 607
Rotary (Northey-Boyce Rotary Engineering Co., Ltd.), 608*
Pumping Plant, Dunton, Biggleswade Water Board. 21*
Power-House, Variable-Speed Electri(‘ Motors for, 304*
? at Spalding Waterworks, 514*
— Station, Burton Joyce, Nottingham, 116 Dunton, Biggleswade Water Board, 21* Purification of Water. See Water
Purifying Equipment for Lubricating Oil (Alfa-Laval Co., Ltd.), 733*
Purse, F. W., on Problems of Rural Electrification, 587
Pushing Machine for Electrically-Operated Coke-Oven Plant, 356* '
Pyranol for Transformers, 643
Pyrometer. See Thermocouple
Pyroscope for Protection of Camera Lens, 497

QUARRIES of Alston Limestone Co., Ltd.,
Electrification of, 85*
— General Regulations for, 137
Quasi-Arc Co., Ltd., Electrodes for Welded Plate Girder, 350; Single-Operator Diesel-Driven Welder, 384* ; Triple-Frequency Transformer Welding Set, 384*
Quicksilver. See Mercury and Metat-Price Diagrams

RADIATION Experiments at National Physical -Laboratory, 495
— Transmission through Bottle Glasses, 60
Radio Department, National Physical Laboratory, Work of, 644*
— Interference Suppression, Specification, 125
Radiographic Tests of Materials, 154
Radiography in Iron and Steel Founding, 164
Radiological Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 434
Radiotelegraphy. See also Telegraphy, Wireless
Radiotelephony. See also Telephony, Wireless Radium for Therapeutic Purposes, Test of, 435 R^ts, Emergency, for Merchant Ships, 695 Ragged Rapids Hydro-Electric Plant, 260 Rails on Indian Railways, 338, 506*
— and Road Transport Problems, 446. See LETTER, 536
— Steel, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams Pvailton Motor Car, 2,960-b.h.p., Record Speed
with, 261
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
— Bridge. See Bridge
—- British, Accidents in 1938, Report, 80 Ambulance Trains, 537
Lighting of Trains on, 389, 475, 539, 612, 615
Returns of Capital, Traffic Receipts and Expenditure in 1938, 259
— Cairiage. See Carriage
— Central Uruguay, Locomotive Reconstruc
tion on, 221*, 245*
• — Great Indian Peninsular, Track-Recording Car, 253*
Western, Automatic Train Control on, 587
— Guide, Bradshaw’s, Centenary of, 416
— Indian, Pacific Locomotive Committee Re
port, 336*, 364*, 417, 448, 476, 506*, 533*, 659, 616
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— London Midland and Scottish, 350-b.h.p.
Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive, 62* ; Centenary of Ayr to Irvine Line, 283 ; Air- Raid Precaution Work on, 664; Scrap- Metal Collection, 691
and North Eastern, Buffet Restaurant Carriage, 146*
— Manchester and Leeds, Centenary, 15
— New Zealand Government, Annual Report,
508
— in Nova Scotia, Centenary of, 373
— Rolling Stock. See also Carriages ; Loco
motives
— South Australian Government, Annual Re
port, 287
— Southern, Medway-Towns Electrification
Scheme, 23; Effect of Borough Market Fire, 113
— Street. See Tramways
— Swiss Federal, Documentation in, 300;
1,200-b.h.p. Diesel Engine for Locomotive, 597*
— Tracks, Stresses in. Application of Dimen
sional Analysis to, 660
— Train Brake. See Brake
— Tube. See Underground
— Underground. See Underground
— Uruguay Central, Locomotive Reconstruc
tion on, 221*, 245*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Rain Gauge, Directional, for Building Research, 219*
Ramsay Memorial Laboratory, University College, London, Exhibition at, 19 ; War- Time Re-opening of, 528
Ramsden, J., Dividing Machine, 354
Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., Tension-Type Buffer Stop, Aidgate-East Station, 176; Caterpillar Carriage for Excavator, 599*
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., Two-Furrow Balance Plough, 74* ; Motor Cultivator with Spray Pump, 74* ; 2-ton Battery- Operated Tiering Truck, 525*
Rawalpindi,” H.M. Armed Merchant Cruiser, Sinking of, 615
Rays. See Gamma; BOntgen
Receivers, Air, Fusion-Welded, Specification, 14 Recording Equipment, Fluid-Pressure, Instantaneous, 127*
— Mechanism, Lea “ Uni-Meter,” on Mech
anical Stokers (Lea Recorder Co., Ltd.), 372* . . , .
Recuperators, Silicon-Carbide Tube, for Industrial Furnaces (Fitch Recuperator Co., Ltd.), 319*
Redditch Works, High Duty Alloys, Ltd., Electric Heat-Treatment Furnaces, 636
Reduction Gears, See Gears ; Marine Propulsion
Reed-Prentice Corporation, Plastic Injection Moulding Machines, 106*
Rees, W. J., on Selection and Testing of Cupola Refractories, 24
Reference Books. See Annuals
Refractive Index of Air, National Physical Laboratory Investigations, 276
Refractories, Cupola, Selection and Testing of, 24
— - Refractory Materials Joint Committee, Re
port, 724
Thermal Properties of. Investigations on, 434
—. — See also Firebricks
National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 250*
Refrigerants, Latent Heat of Fusion of, Investigations on 434
Kegenerative Furnace. See Furnace Kegister, Central, and Engineers, 416 bupplementary-Employment, for Profea- sional Persons, 668
Keheating Furnace. See Furnace Keinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete (Londex, Ltd.), 619
* Tritton, New Waterloo Bridge, 545*
Reputed Stresses. See Fatigue Tests under
-A-ccidents on British Railways in 1938, oU
• Aluminium in Electrical Industry, 51 Annual, Aeronautical Research Committee,
Alkali, Etc., Works, 262
Atmospheric Pollution, 28
7.British Coal Utilisation Research Association, 43. See 49
Research Board, 219* S- Inspector of Factories, 232 ^ity and Guilds of London Institute, 723 Coal Utilisation Council, 49. See 43 Inspector of Mines, 532 Commissioners’, 586
Experimental Work on Highways (Technical) Committee, 693
“Explosives Division, United States Bureau of Mines, 606
Industrial Health Research Board, 615 Passenger Transport Board, 504
Machinery Branch, Western Australia Mines Department, 669
Ministry of Health, 334
—- National Physical Laboratory, Work of 7-7 233, 249*, 275*, 299, 433*, 494,
U87*, 644*
S-®"" Zealand Government Railways, 508 Northern Coke Research Committee, 109 Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, 260
Mines Research Board, 286 Australian Government Railways, 287
Barnsley-Warren House Seam, 237
— on Breaking up of Streets by Statutory
Undertakers, 48
Capital, Traffic Receipts and Expenditure of British Railways in 1938, 259
— Charcoal Manufacture in Portable Kilns, 89
— Coal Mining in Europe, 419
— Commercial Grades of Coal, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Coalfield, 543
— Fracture of Cable Sheathing, 53
— Detection of Aniline Vapour, 718
— Dial Gauge and its Use, 725*
Economic and Commercial Conditions in Australia, 224
a-nd Commercial Conditions in Hungary 304
and Commercial Conditions in Siam, 344 Commercial Conditions in Sweden,
and Commercial Conditions in Turkey,267
— Hardness Testing, Scleroscope, of Chill-Cast Rolls, 664
Home Office, on How Factory Accidents Happen, 483
— Hydrogenation Cracking of Tars, 486
— on Industrial Instruments and Control Gear (Review), 710
International Tin Research and Development Council, 61
— Iron and Steel Industries of Europe, 491. 573, 632 ’
— Motor Industry in Great Britain. 1938, 201
— Narrow Brick Retorts at Fuel Research Station, 652
— Northumberland and Durham Coalfield Bensham Seam, 194
— Pacific Locomotive Committee, 336*, 364*, 417, 448, 476, 506*, 533*, 559, 616
— Portland Cement Industry in United States in 1938, 704
— Reduction of Noise in Buildings, 474 Refractory Materials Joint Committee, 724
— Committee, Institute of Welding,
Restoration of Land Affected by Iron-Ore Working, 637
— Royal Commission on Safety in Coal Mines 49
— on Shear Testing of Soils, 181
on Transmission-Tower Foundations, 310, 466*
— Water-Power Resources in Canada, 51
Supply of Liverpool, 213
— See also Board of Trade.
Research, Aeronautical, and Ship Design, 651 Association, Cast Iron, British, Investigation on Bonding Clays for Synthetic Moulding Sands, 23 ; Joint Committee on Vitreous Enamelling, 370; Booklet on Pig-Iron Grading Scheme, 439 ; Report on Hardness Testing of Chill-Cast Rolls, 664
Coal Utilisation, British, Annual Report, 43. See 49
Non-Ferrous Metals, British, New Laboratories, 12*, 19
— Board, Building, Annual Report, 219* ’
Report on Reduction of Noise in Buildings, 474
Forest Products, Report on Manufacture of Charcoal in Portable Kilns, 89 ; Report on^ Strength Tests of Structural Timbers,
Fuel, Report on Hydrogenation Clacking of Tars, 486 ; Report on Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Coalfield, Analysis of Commercial Grades of Coal, 543 ; Report on Narrow Brick Retorts, 652 Industrial Health, Annual Report, 615 j Safety in Mines, Investigation on Lubricants for Wire Ropes, 157*. See LETTERS, 282, 450, 536 ; Annual Report, 286
— Conimittee, Aeronautical, Annual Report,
1/1; Report on Possible Form of High- Speed Water Channel, 272; Work of Committee, 280
Institute of Welding, Second Report, 92 Northern Coke, Annual Report, 109
— Council, Advisory, Chemical Society, For
mation of, 476
Research Department, Institution of Automobile Engineers, Work of, 81
Scientific and Industrial, Annual Report on Atmospheric Pollution, 28; Leaflet on Detection of Carbon-Bisulphide Vapour, 122 ; Report on Northumberland and Durham Coalfield, the Bensham Seam, 194; Report on Barnsley-Warren House Seam, 237; Report on Detection of Aniline Vapour, 718 .
Woolwich, Experiments on Machinability of Metals, 485* ; Investigation of Niobium-Iron Alloys, 514*
— and Documentation in Electrical Engineer
ing, 300 .
— Laboratory, Forest Products, Report on
Manufacture of Charcoal in Portable Kilns, 89 ; Report on Strength Tests of Structural Timbers, 124
— Locomotive, Indian Railway Board, oo4 ,
559 ,
— Production, in Machine Shop of Dockyard,
341*
— Station, Fuel, Report on Hydrogenation
Cracking of Tars, 486 ; Report on Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire Coalfield, 543; Report on Narrow Brick Retorts, 652
Steel Foundry, Development and Organisation of, 56, 164
— in Steel Metallurgy, 567 ,
Tin, and Development Council, International, Report, 61
— See also /National Physical Laboratory
Resistance, Air. See Aeronautics
— Electric. See Electric
— of Ships. See Ship Resistance
— Welding. See Welding
Retorts, Brick, Narrow, for Low-Temperature Carbonisation, Report, 652
Revetment, Concrete, Albert Canal, Belgium, 575*
— Sand-Bag, Preservatives for, o79 Reviews. See LITERATURE INDEX Reynolds, 0., Work on Fluid Friction and Heat
Transfer, 210*
Reynolds Rolling Mills, Ltd., Electric Furnace- Charging Machine, 370*
“ Rhythmatic *’ Control Apparatus (Automatic Telephone and Electric Co., Ltd.), 182* . r
Ribbon Development Act, 193a, Restriction of, Decisions under, 203
Rice, G. S., on Coal Alining in Europe, 419
Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd., 350-b.n.p. Portable Geared Steam Turbine, with Condensing Plant, 705* . .
Rickli, E., on Documentation in Swiss Administrations, 300 „ ,,, ,
Rickrnansworth and Uxbridge Galley Abater
Co., Lewis Portable Water-Tube lioiler, 90 Riddle, H. G., the Late, 256 Riga Municipality, 96-b.h.p. Alotor Omnibus, 329*
Riley Stoker Co., Ltd., Industrial Robot Stoker with Lea “ Uni-Meter” Recording Mechanism, 372* . .,
Rimming Steel Manufacture by Acid Bessemer Process, 482*
Manufacture by Basic Bessemer Process,
569 . -rr XX.
Manufacture by Basic Open-Hearth Process at Briton Ferry, 687
Manufacture, Practical Aspects of, 59a Rio Tinto, Spain, Underground Mining at, 731 River Chicago, Welded-Steel Subway Beneath, 508*
— and Coast Conservancy, 571*
— Colorado, Imperial Dam and Desilting Works, 225*
— Alersey, Ferry Service on, 17
— Meuse and Scheldt, Albert Canal Between, 375*, 431*, 489*, 574*, 657* .
— Musquash, Ragged Rapids Hydro-Electric Plant, 260
Rivers Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., Motor Vessel ” Jet,” Vane-Wheel Eroder, 264*. See LETTERS, 282, 421, 479
— Thames, Waterloo Bridge, 81, 545* ;
Wandsworth Bridge, Reconstruction of, 707*
Road Accidents and Lighting Restrictions, 475 — Bituminous Surfacing of, Experimental Work on, 693
— Concrete, Selection of Aggregates for, 180
— Design of, 289*, 309
— Experimental Work on. Report, 693
— Ferro-Concrete Slabs for. Investigations on, 220* .
— Gas, Water and Electricity Mains in, 48
— Great North, Improvements on, 237
— Junctions, Lay-Out of, 291*
— Motor, County Surveyors’ Society s Scheme for, 261
— and Rail Transport Problems, 446. See LETTERS 536
— Restriction of Ribbon Development Act, 1935, 203 , . ,
— Statistics, British Road Federation s Booklet on, 124 .
— Stone and Chippings, Specification, 690
— Traction, Railless Electric. See Trolley 'Bus
— Traffic Signs, Specification, 610
— Warnings for Night Driving, 669 Roadless Traction, Ltd., Submersible Tractor for Lifeboats, 8* ; Half-Track Tractor, 9* ; Log Carriers, 10*
Roadway, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco ; 2*, 191*, 347*
— See also Motorways; Loads Robinson, T., and Son, Ltd., Two-Operator Dovetailing Machine, 621*
Roebling’s, J. A., Sons Co., Cable Wire for Golden Gate Suspension Bridge, 2*, 31*, 129, 191*, 295*
Rogers, Mr., on Effects of Soluble Chemicals on Concrete, 180
Rolls, Chill-Cast, Hardness Testing of. Report, 664
— Chilled, Electrically-Melted, Defects in, 41 — Marks on Tin-Plate, Causes of, 425* Rolling of Ships. See Ships
— Stock, New Zealand Government Railways, 508
See also Carriages : Locomotives
Rolling Systems for Tin-Plate Production, 425 * Rome, Steam Power Plant for Viscose Factory, 663*
Romse^e Substation, Lay Out of, 731* Rbntgen-Ray Examination in Iron and Steel Founding, 164
Examination of Mullites, 646
Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 144, 434*
Study of Strain in Metals, 144
Tests of Materials, 154
Tube, 1,000-kV. (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 622*, 649*
Roofs, Wind Pressure on, 190
Roofing, Zinc, Specification, 138
Rooksby, K. P., on X-Ray Study of Natural and Arthicial Mullites, 646
Ropes, Wire. See Wire Hopes
Rose, H. E., on Flow of Liquids Through Beds of Granular Material, 536. See 435*. See LETTER, 698*
Rosenberg Mekaniske Verksted A/S, Motor Fire Float “ Nokk,” 468*
Roskill, O. W., on Census of Production, 1935, 4, 35, 66. See Erratum, 93
Ross, A., and Co., Ltd., “Euros** Variable Capacity Eial Weighing Machine, 551*
Rotary, Blowers. See Blowers
— Engine, Engine ; Aeronautics
— Pump. See Pump
Rotterdam, Wilton-Fijenoord Dockyard, Reorganisation of Machine Shop at, 341*
Roumania, Iron and Steel Industry of, 491, 574 Rowe, F. W., on Radiography in Iron and
Steel Founding, 164
Roxburgh, J., on Castings for Steelworks Plant, 24
Royal Agricultural Society. See Agricultural
— Army Service Corps, Work of, 673
— Commission on Safety in Coal Mines, Report 49
— Hungarian Technical University, Experiments in Pressure Fluctuations in Fluids, 321*
Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., Centenary of, 363
— National Life-Boat Institution, Submersible
Tractor for Life-Boats, 8* ; 32-ft. Motor Life-Boat, 507
“ Royal Oak,” H.M. Battleship, Sinking of, 447
— Sanitary Institute. See Sanitary
— Society of Arts. See Arts
Rubber Products, Proposed Standards and Tests for, 210
— Synthetic, for Insulation, 503
Rm?al Electrification, Problems of, 587 in South Africa, 225
— Water Supply, Progress of, 334 Russia, Iron and Steel Industry of, 492, 573 Rusting. See Corrosion
Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd., Caterpillar Carriage for Excavator, 599*
Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 10-h.p. Diesel Locomotive, 10* ; 480-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Diesel Engine, 410*; Early 9J-b.h.p. Akroyd-Stuart Oil Engine, 698*

SADDLE, Cable, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 3*, 191*
— Chain, Menai Suspension Bridge Reconstruction, 657*
Safety in Coal Mines, Royal Commission’s Report, 49
— Committees in Factories, Value of, 232
— Exhibits at Home Office Museum, 305
— First Association, National, Booklet on Safe
Operation of Power Presses and Lifting Tackle, 215
— in Mines Research Board, Investigation on Lubricants for Wire Ropes, 157*. See LETTERS, 282, 450, 536 ; Annual Report, 286
— Net, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 402*
— Regulations for Quarries, 137 Saint. See St.
Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd., Link-Test Alternating-Current Ammeter, 195*
Sallitt, W. B., on Machining Properties of Copper Alloys, 351
Salter, G., and Co., Ltd., Pressure-Actuated Electrical Control Gauge, 214*
Salvage of Waste and Dormant Materials, 644 Sammons, H., on Kadenacy System of Scavenging, 330. See 187*. See 378. See LETTERS, 207, 330,357*, 421, 589.
Sams, B. J. G. B., on Continuous Blowing-Down for Locomotives, 194*
San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge, 1*, 31*. 129* 191*, 247*, 295*, 347*, 401*
Sand-Bag Revetments, Preservatives for, 579
— for Core-Making, 23
— Dry, for Steel Castings, 164
— Moulding, Synthetic, Use of Bonding Clays
for, 23
Testing of, 56, 164
Sanitary Institute, Royal, Examinations in Sanitary Science, 470 ; Sanitory Inspectors’ Examination Joint Board, Examinatons. 500
Sapphire Meter Jewels, Polarised Light Investigations on, 179*
Sariban, M., on Transmission-Tower Foundations, 310, 466*
Saws. See Machine Tools
Sayers, W. H., on Unaccounted Drag of Aircraft, 536. See 403*. See LETTER, 590
Scavenger, Boiler, and Water Softener, “ De- jector” (British Boiler Accessories, Ltd.). 273*
Scavenging in Internal-Combustion Engines. Kadenacy System of, 187*. See 378. See LETTERS, 207, 330, 357*, 421, 589.
Scheldt and Meuse Rivers, Albert Canal Between, 375*, 431*, 489*, 574*, 657*
Scherbins Control for Power-House Electric Motors, 303*
Schlesinger, Prof. G., on Production Research in Machine Shop of Dockyard, 341* ; on Dial Gauge and its Use, 725*
Scholarships. See Education
Schrage Electric Motors for Boiler-House Fans and Mechanical Stokers, 303*
Schwab, C. M., the Late, 338
Science, Modern (Review), 632
— Museum, South Kensington, Rotary Printing
Press, 203 ; Model of Parson Drove Woad Mill, 689*
Scientific Instruments, Development and Application of, 353, 379
— Research, See liesearch
— Societies, Local, and the Community, 308 See Institutions
Scleroscope Tests. See Hardness under Tests {Materials}
Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in. See Engineers
Scott, Sir A., the Late, 563
Scott, Sir G. G., New Waterloo Bridge, 545* Scott, R. L., the Late, 50
Scott’s Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd. Investigations on Thermal Conductivities of Higli-Duty and Alloy Cast Irons, 26*., See 41; Investigations in Alloys of Copper and Nickel, 539
Scrap-Metal Collection, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 691
Screens for Electrically-Operated Coke-Oven Plant, 356*
Screw Gauges, National Physical Laboratory, Tests of 251
— Propellers. See Propellers ; Aeronautics
— Threads, Whitworth, Revision of British
Standards for, 562
Sea Beaches, Preservation of, 571*
Seamen, Merchant-Navy, Recruitment of, 721 Secondary-Battery Vehicle. See Motor Truck Seepage through" Embankments, 435*. See LETTERS, 536, 698*
Seger Cones, National Physical Laboratory. Investigations on, 250
Segregation, Inverse, During Solidification in Aluminium-Tin Alloy, 163 I
Service Aviation. See Aeronautics '
Seward, Prof. H. L., on Merchant-Marine
Personnel, 721
Shaft, Crank. See Cranifsiiajt
Shear Tests. See Tests {Materials}
Shearing Machine. See Machine Tools
Sheeham, J. J., on Core-Shop Practice, 23 Sheet Steel for Tin-Plate, Rolling of, 425* Sheffield Metallurgical Association, Research in Steel Metallurgy, by Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 567 ; Work-Hardening of Steels, by Prof. J. H. Andrew, 646
Shell-Eorging and Drawing Press (Coventry Machine Tool Works, Ltd.), 136*
Shelter, Air-Raid, Built-up Cast-Iron (Federated Sales, Ltd.), 582
Raid, Lighting Specification, 554 Raid, Occupancy Tests of, 335, 389* Raid, Sectional-Arch Type, Tests of, 81 Raid, Tests of Air Conditions in, 335,389* Raid, in Westminster, 447
Raid, Works of Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., 53*
— Bomb-Proof, Design of, 50
Shield, Demolition, Tunnel-Arch, Aidgate- East Station Reconstruction, 99*
Ship Canal. See Canal
— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 48
— Coastal, Model Experiments at the National
Physical Laboratory, 300
— Design and Aeronautical Research, 651
— Diesel-Engined. See Motorships ; Marine
Propulsion
— Electric Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Electrical Equipment of, Rules for, 668
— Launching. See Launching
— Lost, Lloyd’s Statistics, 304, 691
— Merchant, Emergency Rafts for, 695
Experiments at National Physical Laboratory, 276*
Manning of, 721
— Model Experiments. See Tank Experiments;
and Ship Resistance
— Motor. See Motorships ; Marine Propulsion
— Propellers. See Propellers
— Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion; En
gines ; Turbines ; Propellers
— Resistance and Aeronautical, Research, 652
— ?— Experiments at National Physical Labo- , ratory, 300
— in Rough Water, Model Experiments on, 277
— Twin-Screw, Model Experiments at National
Physical Laboratory, 277
— under Way, Rolling of, 527
— 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 Engineers Shipbuilding, Buckling of Ships’ Deck Plating, 605*
?— Industry, Census of Production Statistics, 4, 35
— Naval. See Warships
— Structural Design and Aeronautical Research, 652
— in Sweden, 202
— Vessels under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 48
— Welding in, Investigations on, 92
— See also Steamers ; Naval; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipping, British, Government Assistance for, 112
— Losses in the War, 415
— Ministry of, Formation of, 445; Notice on Emergency Rafts for Merchant Ships, 695
— and Neutrality Act, United States, 533 Shock Tests. See Impact Tests under Tests
{Materials}
Shoe, Track, for Caterpillar Carriage, 599* i Shop-Window Lighting, Rules for, 723 j
Shore Scleroscope Tests. See Hardness under Tests {Materials}
Shoreham, Sea Walls at, 571*
Shotton, G. R., on Open-Hearth Furnace for Melting Malleable Cast Iron, 104
Shovel, Steam. See Excavator
Show. See Exhibition
Siam, Economic and Commercial Conditions in, Report, 344
Siemens-Martin Furnaces. See Furnaces Siemens-Schuckertwerke, Circuit Breakers with
Small Oil Content, 670*
Sieveking, A., on Manufacture of Steel in Electric Furnace, G86
Signs, Air-Raid Precaution, Specification, 638
! — Road-Trafiic, Specification, 610
' Silica Basins and Crucibles, Specification, 638
— Bricks. See Firebricks
Silicon Carbide Tube Recuperators for Industrial Furnaces (Fitch Recuperator Co.), 319*
— See abo Ferro silicon
Silt, Works for Removing, Colorado River, 225
Silver Protection by Electrolytic Deposition of Beryllia, 675
Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd., “ Speed ” Nut, 366*
Sinclair, G. F., on Design and Construction of Trolley ’Bus, 623
Sine Table, Melbourne (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools Ltd.), 590*
Sintered Alumina Ware, Injector Gas Burner for, 250*
Sir John Cass Technical Institute, Calendar, 228 Sisson, W., and Co., Ltd., Jubilee Booklet, 228 Skin Friction. See Aeronautics; Friction Hydrodynamics; Ship Hesistance
Slabs, Ferro-Concrete, for Roads, Investigations on, 220*
Slag. See Metallurgy
Sleepers on Indian Railways, 506, 533
Sling, Adjustable, for Rolled-Steel Joists (H. Morris, Ltd.), 176*
Slips in Clay Banks, 103*
Sraeaton, J., Influence on Engineering, 473 Smelting Furnaces. See Furnaces
Smith, Dr. F. D., on Kadenacy System of Scavenging, 421. See 187*, 378. See LETTERS, 207, 330, 357*, 589
Smith, Dr, R. B., Instantaneous Fluid-Pressure Recording Equipment, 127*
Smith, Prof. S. P., on Present and Future, Engineering Education, 669
Smith, W., Centenary of, 223
Smithsonian Institution, Utilisation of Heat from the Sun, by C. G. Abbot, 241
Smoke Abatement, Characteristics and Identification of Chimney and Flue Dusts, 115,151
Flue Gas Treatment at Power Stations, 262,559,579
Report on Alkali Works, 262
— Atmospheric Pollution by, 28
Snow. Sound-Deadening Qualities of, 495
Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. See Motor
?— Technical and Scientific. See Institutions
— Trade. See Labour ; Labour Notes Soda-Silica Glasses, Molten, Surface Tension of,
61
Softener, Water. See Water Softener
Soils, Electrical Resistance of, Investigations on, 466*
— Mechanics, Building Research Board’s In
vestigations, 221
and Foundation Design, 670
— Shear Testing of, Report on, 181
Solar Energy, Utilisation of, 241
— Heating Apparatus (La Thermique Natur-
elle), 82*
— See also Sun
Solids, Dissolved, in Water, Determination of, 210
— Granular, Flow of Liquid Through Beds of,
435*. See LETTERS, 536, 698*
Sonic Method of Determining Modulus of Elasticity, 181
Sorting Machines, Letter, at Brighton Post Office, 459*, 627*
Sound Investigations at National Physical Laboratory, 494
South Africa Electricity Supply Commission, Annual Report, 225
— Australian Government Railways, Annual
Report, 287
— Kensington, Science Museum, Rotary Print
ing Press, 203 ; Model of Parson Drove Woad Mill, 689*
South Metropolitan Electric Light and Power Co., Ltd., Electrical Thermal-Storage Plant, 508
South Metropolitan Gas Co., Investigation on Combustion Characteristics of Town Gas, by G. H. Fuidge, W. O. Murch, and B. Pleasaunce, 679*
— Wales, Cymmer Colliery, Forth, Dismantling
of, 607
and Monmouthshire School of Mines, Calendar, 330
— West Essex Technical College, Courses at,
670
Notes from, 15, 45, 77,109,139,169, 199, 228, 257, 283, 305, 331, 359, 385, 413, 443, 471, 501, 529, 555, 583, 611, 638, 665, 719. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Yorkshire, Notes from, 15, 45, 77, 109, 139,
169, 199, 229, 257, 331, 359, 385, 413, 443, 471, 501, 529, 554, 583, 611, 639, 665, 691, 719. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Southern Railway, Medway-Towns Electrification Scheme, 23; Effect of Borough- Market I'ire, 113
Spain, Iron and Steel Industry of, 492, 573, 632
— Rio Tinto, Underground Mining at, 731* Spalding Waterworks, Pumping Plant at, 514* Spans, Suspended, Golden Gate Bridge, San
Francisco, 191, 347*, 401*
Specific Heat of Gases at High Temperature, Investigations on, 233
Specifications, Standard. See Standards
Spectroscope, Development and Applications of, 354
Speed-Changing Gears. See Gears
— Nut, (Simmond’s Aeroc^'ssories Ltd.) 366*
— Record, Land, by Railton Motor Car, 261 Water, with Motor Boat “ Bluebird II,” 233
— Reduction Gears. See Gears
— Regulation. See Governor
Spelter Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
Spinning, Compacting and Wrapping Machinery for Wire Cables, Golden Gate Bridge, 295*
Spirit, Motor. See Motor Fuels
Spline Gauge, for Measurement of Airscrew Shafts.and Bosses, 251
Spoilbanks, Colliery, Abatement of Fires from 262
Sporn, P., on Fault Clearing with Rapid- Reclosing Circuit Breakers, 593*
Springs, Helical, Vibrations of, 113, 174
— Side-Control, Pacific Locomotives, 534*, 616 St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, 1,000-kV X-Ray
Tube, 622*, 649*
Stability of Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics
— of Ships. See Ships
Standards, Handrail, Polished Tubular (W. M.
i Winn, Ltd.), 444
— Institution, British, Specifications, Testing
' of Vegetable Adhesives, 14 ; Cold-Rolled Mild-Steel Strip, 14 ; Aircraft Materials and Parts, 14 ; Fusion-Welded Air Receivers, 14; Draft Specification, Vernier Calipers, 124; Specifications, Burettes, 125 ; Low-Voltage Transformer, 125 ; Radio-Interference Suppression, 125 ; Test for Toxicity of Wood Preservatives, 125 ; Electric Fuses, 138 ; Zinc Roofing, 138 ; Electric Water Heaters, 138; Draft Specification, Dial Gauges, 148 ; Specifications, Commercial Acceptance Tests for Steam Boilers, 227 ; Pump Tests, 227 ; Testing of Fans, 227 ; Copper Conduit and Fittings for Electrical Wiring, 227 ; Toolmakers’ Straightedges, 228; Architectural Lamp Caps and Lampholders, 228; Hydrated Oxides of Iron, 228 ; Nomenclature, Definitions and Symbols for Welding and Cutting, 281 ; Test Code for Fuel-Fired Furnaces, 281; Welded Steel Boilers, 281; Wing Nuts, 281; Wrought Iron, 304 ; Capillary Joints for Copper Tubes, 384; Fractional Horse- Power Motors and Generators, 384 ; Hand Lamps for Air-Raid Precautions, 384; Perforated Film for Recording Purposes, 442 ; Tungsten-Filament Electric Lamps, 442 ; Voltage-Operated Circuit Breakers, 442 ; Metal Containers for Food Products, 442; Table of Hardness Scales, 442 ; Distribution Boards, 470; Lighting of A.R.P. Report and Control Centres, 470; Draft Specification, Engineers’ Steel Parallel Blocks, 536; Specifications, Hinges for Gas-Tight Doors, 554; Lighting of Air-Raid Shelters, 554; Revision of Standards for Whitworth Screw Threads, 562; Specifications, A.R.P. Lighting Fittings, 582 ; Classification of Lubricating Oils, 582; Boad-Traftic Signs, 610; Nomenclature for Hardwoods and Softwoods, 610 ; Definition of Heat-Insulating Terms, 610 ; Abrasive Papers and Cloths, 610 ; Mining-Type Transformers, 610 ; Silica Basins and Crucibles, 638 ; Straightedges, 638 ; Surface Plates, 638 ; External Micrometers, 638; A.R.P. Signs, 638; Calorifiers, 690; Foamed Blast-Furnace Slag for Concrete Reinforcement, 690; Road Stone and Chippings, 690
— Laboratory, National, Australia, 471
— of Mass, National Physical Laboratory
Investigations on, 276
— Steam Cycles, 642
Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., Air-Raid Shelters at New Southgate Works, 53*
Stanhay, Ltd., Pneumatically-Controlled Plough, 73*
Stanier, W. A., 350-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive, 52*
Staniforth, T. A., Dunton Pumping Station, 21*
“ Start-O-Matic ” Generator, 38*
Starting Device, Petrol, for Diesel Engines (Famo-Werke G.m.b.H.), 569*
State Railways. See Railways
Station, Aidgate East, Reconstruction of, 97*, 159* ; Tension-Type Buffer Stop at, 176
— Finchley-Road, Reconstruction, Welded-
Plate Girder, 350*
— Power. See Power Stations Statistics, Trade. See Trade
Statutory Undertakers, Breaking up of Roads by. Report, 48
Stavanger, Motor Fire Float Nokk ” for, 468* Steam Boats. See Steamers
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Consumption. See Trials
— Condensation. See Cfmdensation
— Cycles, Standard, 642
— Engines. See Engines
— Flow through Nozzles. See Nozzles
— Superheater. See Superheater
— Trials. See Trials
— Turbines. See Turbines
Steamer, Cable-Laying “ Toyo Maru,” Voith- Schneider Propeller of, 317*
— “ Challenge,” Machinery of, 173
— under Constniction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 48
— Geared Turbines for. See Marine Propulsion
— Launching of. See Launching
— ” Llanstephan Castle,” Conversion from
Coal to Oil-Burning, 14
— Lost, Lloyd’s Statistics, 304, 691
— Manning of, 721
— Propulsion of. See Marine Propulsion
Engines ; Turbines ; Propellers
— Resistance of. See Ship Resistance
— Rolling of. See Ships
— Stability of. See Ships
— See also Engines; Marine Propulsion; Ship
building ; Shipping : Ships; Turbines; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Steamships. See Ships ; Steamers ; Warships Steel, Attack by Hydrogen Sulphide and Moisture, 669
— Beams, Broad-Flanged (Office Technique
des Poutrelles Tres Larges Ailes), 82
— Behaviour at High Temperatures, Investi
gations on, 249
— Bridges over Albert Canal, Belgium, 660* Case-Hardening of. See Heat Treatment
under Metallurgy
— Castings, Dry-Sand Practice for, 164
Modern Practice, 164
— Chains, Reconstruction of Menai Suspen
sion Bridge, 656*
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
Determination of Gases in, Investigations, 2 50
Fatigue of. See Fatigue Tests under Tests (Materials')
— Forged, Machinability of, 486*
— Steel Foundry. See Foundry
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Heat Treatment of. See Heat Treatment
under Metallurgy
— Heating and Cooling Curves for, Determina
tion of, 249
— Helmets for Industry, 49
— Impact Te-^ts at Low T mo'^'rature, 154
— and Iron, Control Orders for, 283, 363, 532,
587
Import Licensing of, 695
Industries of Europe, Keport, 491, 573,. 632
Scrap, Control Order for, 587
— Liquid, Determination of Temperature of,,
433
— Manufacture. See Metallurgy
— Microstructure of. See Microphotographs
— Mild, Bessemer and Open-Hearth, Analyses
of, 482
Tensional Effects of Torsional Overstrain in, 453*
— Non-Magnetic, Welding in Switchgear
Manufacture, 122*
— Pipes, Pitting Corrosion of, 105, 145
— Plates, Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Poles for Overhead Lines (Hagondange
Steelworks), 82*
— Rails. See Rails ; Metal-Price Diagrams
— Rimming, Manufacture by Acid-Bessemer
Process, 482*
Manufacture by Basic-Bessemer Process, 569
Manufacture at Briton Ferry, 687
Practical Aspects of Manufacture of, 595
— Ropes. See Wire Ropes
— Sheet, for Tin-Plate, Rolling of, 425*
— Stress Distribution in. See Stress ; Tests
{Materials)
— Strip, Cold-Rolled, Specification, 14
— Structural, for Golden Gate Bridge, San
Francisco, Tests of, 129
— Structures, Investigations on Welding, 92
— Tests of. See Tests (Materials)
— Thermal Properties of. National Physical.
Laboratory Investigations on, 434
— Wire for Reinforcing Copper Conductors, 263
— Work-Brittleness Test for, 154 Hardening of, 646 Steelworks Plant, Castings for, 24
— See Works
Steering Arrangements for Caterpillar Carriages, 601*
Stereoscope for Aerial Photographs, 150 Sterilising Chest, Electric, for Dairies, (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 40*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Thurston’s Work at, 633
Stevens, C. H. versus Wimbledon Corporation,. 694
Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., Manufacture of Rimming Steel by Basic-Bessemer i^ocess, 569
Stoker, Mechanical, Chain-Grate, Bodmer’s Invention of, 617
Longford Power Station, 6*
Riley, with Lea “ Uni-Meter ” Recording Mechanism, 372*
Schrage Electric Motors for, 303* Stokes, Machine Co., 100-ton Toggle-
Type Plastic-Moulding Press, 409*
Stone Industries (Review), 462
— Road, and Chippings, Specification, 690 Storage-Battery Vehicle. See Motor Truck
— Plant, Thermal, Electrical (General Elec
trical Co., Ltd.), 508
Storm System and Catwalks, Golden Gate Bridge, 295*
Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., 10-cub. ft. Portable Concrete Mixer, 209*
Straightedges, Steel, Rectangular, Specification, 638
— Toolmakers’, Specification, 228 Strain-Gauge Electromagnetic, for Locomotives, 535*
— See also Stress
Strainer, Oil, Automatic Self-Cleaning (Auto- Klean Strainers, Ltd.), 594*
Strauss, Dr. J. B., Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 1*, 31*, 129*, 191*, 247*, 295*. 347*, 401*
Street, Dr. A. G., on Pressure Die-Casting of Zinc-Base and Aluminium-Base Alloys, 7.5 Streets, Breaking up by Statutory Undertakers, Report on, 48
— Lighting, National Physical Laboratory
Investigations on, 589
** Rhythmatic ” Control Apparatus for, 182*
in War Time, 644
— Railway. See Tramways
— See also Roads
Strength of Materials. See Stress and Tests (Materials)
Stress, Alternating and Combined. See Fatigue under Tests (Materials)
— in Concrete Piles During Driving, Investiga
tions on, 220*
— Cycles, Nomenclature of, 618. See LETTER,
673
— in Diaphragms Dished by Pressure, 88*
— in Golden Gate Suspension Bridge, San
Francisco, 130*
— in Plate Girder Altered by Welding, 350*
— in Railway Tracks, 365
-Tracks, Application of Dimensional Analysis to, 660
Repetitions. See Fatigue Tests under Tests (Materials)
~ Strain Diagram, Tensile, for Mild Steel, 454*
— Temperature, in Internal-Combustion En
gines, 603*
— Wind, in Buildings, 189
Stressing of Rotating-Blade Aerofoils, 511* Strip, Steel, Cold-Rolled, Specification, 14 Structural Design of Aeroplanes. See Aeroplanes under Aeronautics
— Engineers, Institution of. Postponement of
Examinations, 330; Graduateship and' Associate-Membership Examinations, 500 • Resumption of Activities, 507
— Timbers, Strength Tests of, Report, 124 Structures, Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-Ccm-
crete
37,500 - b.h.p. “ Oranje,” Engine for Locomotive^ 597*
Summer, J. A., on Electricity Supply Tariffs and Charges, 361
Summerfield, W., on Erustrated Contracts, 97 ; on Emergency Law, 520, 546, 602
Summers, J., and Sons, Ltd., 700-h.p. Motor- Generator, 670
Sun, Utilisation of Heat from, 82*, 241
— See also Solar
Sundstrand Machine Tool Co., Index Bases for Machine Tools, 451*
Supercharger, Buchi-Type, for Diesel Engine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 410*
Superheaters, Longford Power Station, 8* Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of; Electrical Regulations for Buildings, 50. See 18 ; Curtailment of Activities, 443
Supply, Ministry of, Advisory Industrial Panel for, 113 ; Control of Iron and Steel Orders, 283, 363, 532 ; Control of Timber Supplies, 283, 389 ; Control of Prices and Distribution of Materials, 309 ; Appointment of Council of Supply, 362 ; Requisitioning of Excavating Plant, 447 ; Memorandum on Priority of Supplies for National Purposes, 477 ; Order for Control of Iron and Steel Scrap, 587 ; Order for Control of Aluminium, 610 ; Control Organisation, 613 ; Appointment of Regional Industrial Committees, 643 ; Circular on Salvage of Waste and Dormant Materials, 644; Tracked and Wheeled Vehicles for War Service, 672 ; Order for Import Licensing of Iron and Steel, 695
“ Sureflex ** Flexible Tube, 241*, 439 Surface Condensers. See Condensers
— Finish of Metals, National Physical Labora
tory Investigations on, 495
— Plates, High-Precision, Specification, 638 Surfacing of Roads, Experimental Work on,
693
Surveys, Traverse, Adjustment of, 218* Surveying Instruments, Developments, 149*, 354
— Tapes, National Physical Laboratory In
vestigations on, 275
Suspension Bridge, Golden Gate, San Francisco, 1*, 31*, 129*, 191*, 247*, 295*, 347*, 401*
Menai, Reconstruction of, 655*
Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., Trials of H.M.S. “ Edinburgh,” 44; Launch of H.M. Cruiser “ Mauritius,” 115 ; Trials of H.M. Destroyer “Janus,” 215
Swansea University College, Engineering and Metallurgical Departments Prospectuses,76 Swarf, Light Machine, Vacuum Extractor for (B. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.), 511* Sweden, 250th Anniversary of Husqvarna Works, 719
— Economic and Commercial Conditions in,
Report, 202
— Iron and Steel Industry of, 492, 573, 632 Swift, Prof. H. W., on Effects of Torsional
Overstrain in Mild Steel, 453*
Swinden, Dr. T., on Manufacture of Rimming Steel at Workington, 482*
Swinnerton, Prof. H. H., on Geology and Water Supply in East Midlands, 117
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Investigations on Internal-Combustion Engines, 463*, 547*, 603*, 682*
Railways, 1,200-b.h.p. Diesel Engine for Locomotive, 597*
Railways, Posts, Telephones, Telegraphs and Customs, Documentation in, 300
Switchgear, Circuit Breaker, Air-Blast, for Overhead Transmission Lines, 636*
Breaker, Air Blast, Pneumatically- Operated, 522*
Breaker Design, Economics of, 388
Breakers, Development of in Great Britain, 558, 568
Breakers, Force Trips on, 251*
Breakers with Small Oil Contents, 670* Breaker, Multiple-Grid, for High-Voltage Service, 388
Breakers, Oil, Fire Prevention with, 688* Breakers, Oscillograph Tests, Longford Power Station, 71*
Breaker, Rapid-Reclosing, Fault Clearing with, 593*, 635*
Breaker, Restriking Voltage in, 521* Breaker, Voltage-Operated, Specification, 442
Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd., Truck-Type Switchgear for Substations, 267*
— Installations, Fire Protection of, 729
— Longford Power Station, 70*
— Manufacture, Welding of Non-Magnetic
Steel in, 122*
— Mercury-Switch Relay (Londex, Ltd.), 619
— for Sectional-Unit Drive at Dartford Paper Mills, 197*
— Testing by Association of Short-Circuit
Testing Authorities, 588
Switchgear Testing Co., Ltd., Instantaneous Fluid-Pressure Recording Equipment, 127*
— Truck-Cubicle, for Substation (Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd.), 267*

TABLE, Hydraulic, Portable (C.V.A. Jigs, Moulds and Tools, Ltd.), 58*
Tangyes, Ltd., Pumping Plant, Spalding Waterworks, 514*
Tank Experiments, Work of Proude Laboratory, 276*, 299
on Rolling of Ships under Way, 527 See also Ship Resistance
— Peed-Water, Longford Power Station, 70* Tapes, Surveying, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on. 275
Tar Deposits from Atmosphere, 28 ; Identification of Source. 152
— Hydrogenation Cracking of. Report, 486 Tariffs and Charges for Electricity, 361
— Electricity, Two-Part, Legality of, 694 Tarnishing of Silver, Prevention by Electrolytic Deposition of Beryllia, 675
Tasmanian Transport Commission, Constitution of, 233
Tata, J. N., Centenary of, 472 Tavistock Theodolites, 149* Taxation of Motor Vehicles, 201, 695
Taylor, Major A. M., on Alternating-Current Power Transmission, 50
Taylor, Dr J. L., on Buckling of Ships’ Deck Plating, 605*; on Aeronautics and Ship Design, 651
Teaching. See Education
Technical College and Education. See Education
— Societies. See Institutions and PAKAGRAPH INDEX
Tee and Gale, Tottenham Works of Keith, Blackman, Ltd., 166*
Telegraphy, Wireless, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 644
Navigation, Marine and Aerial, Direc- tion-Ffnding Investigations, 644
Transmitter for Meteorological Balloon, 644*
See also Valves, Thermionic; Radio
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX Telephony, Wireless, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 644
See also Valves, Thermionic; Radio
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX Telescope, History and Development of, 353 Temperature, International Scale, National
Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 433
— Measurement. See Thermometer; Thermo
couple
Tenders, 14, 44, 76,108,138,168,198, 228, 256, 282, 304, 330, 384, 442,470,500,528, 554. 610, 638, 664, 690, 718
Tensile Tests. See Tests {Materials} Tercentenary of Galileo’s “ Two New Sciences,” 524
Ternary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Tests, Aeronautical. See Aeronautics
— Air Conditions in Air-Raid Shelters, 335, 389*
— of Bursting Discs, 60, 88*
— Commercial Acceptance, for Boilers, Speci
fication, 227
— Corrosion. See
— Destruction, of
221*
— of Dial Gauges,
— Ferro-Concrete Slabs for Roads, 220*
— Laboratory, Carbon Deposition from Lubrica 3
ting Oil, 676*
for Machinability of Metals, 485*
— Machinability of Free-Turning Brass, 327,
369, 485*
— Magnetic. See Magnetic
Tests (Materials) : *
Creep Tests, Alternating-Current Bridge Thermostat for, 95*
— See also Creep
Fatigue Tests, Avery-Schenk Push-Pull Testing Machine for, 379*. See Erratum, 470
of Machined Forgings, 154 of Metals, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 144
of Wire, 154 See also Fatigue
Hardness Scales, Table of Approximate Comparison of, 442
— Tests, Overstrained Mild Steel, 454* Vickers Diamond-Pyramid, Niobium-Iron Alloys, 514*
— Testing, Scleroscope, of Chill-Rolls, Report on, 664
Impact Testing, Theory of, 667
— Tests, Steel, at Low Temperature, 154 Magnetic Tests. See Magnetic Nomenclature of Stress Cycles, 618. See LETTER, 673
Notched-Bar Impact Tests. See Impact Tests (above).
Portable Calibrating Device for Testing Machines, 144
Shear-Stress-Strain Characteristics of Mild Steel, 453*
Strength Tests of Structural Timbers, Report, 124
Stresses in Materials and Structures. See Stress
Tensile Tests, Silver-Aluminium-Magne- sium Alloys, 234
Steels for Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 129
Torsionally-Overstrained Mild Steel, 453*
Test, Work-Brittleness, for Steel, 154 Testing Apparatus for Gear-Wheel Material (Brown-Boveri and Co., Ltd., 63*
See also Testing
— Machines, British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, ]2*
Fatigue, Avery-Schenk Push-Pull (W. and T. Avery, Ltd.), 379*. See Erratum, 470
Portable Calibrating Device for, 144 See also Testing
Tests, Occupancy of Air-Raid Shelters, 335, 389*
— Oscillograph, of Circuit Breakers, 71*
— Oxidation, of Coals, 606
— Pump, Specification, 227
Tests, Resistance of Concrete to High Explosive, 419*
— Sectional-Arch Type Air-Raid Shelters, 81
— Short-Circuit, Multiple-Grid Circuit Breakers,
388
— of Steam-Turbine Nozzles, 700*, 712*
— for Toxicity of Wood Preservatives, Speci
fication, 125
Testing Apparatus, Anti-Condensation, 221* Brown-Boveri, for Gear-Wheel Material, 63*
Fabric-Porosity (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 634*
Four-Ball, for Lubricating Oil, 206
— of Fans, Specification, 227
— Laboratory. See Laboratory; National
Physical.
— Machines, British Non-Ferrous Metals
Research Association, 12*
Fatigue, Avery-Schenck Push-Pull (W. and T. Avery, Ltd.), 379*. See Erratum, 470
Oxford-Airey Machinability, 485* Portable Calibrating Device for, 144 for Steel Balls (Hoffmann Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 180*, 413
See also Tests {Materials}
— Materials, American Society for, Atlantic
City Meeting. Papers and Reports, 154, 180, 209; Theory of Impact Testing: Influence of Temperature, Velocity of Deformation and Form of Specimen on Work of Deformation, by Dr. D. J. McAdam, Junr., and R. W. Clyne, 667 Methods of. Report, 154
— Shear, of Soils, Report on, 181
— Shop for War-Service Motor-Vehicle Engines,
697*
— Station, Electric Appliance and Meter,
Walkden, 20
— Switchgear, Association of Short-Circuit
Testing Authorities, 588
— of Vegetable Adhesives, Specification, 14
— See also Tests {Materials}; Trials Text Books. See LITERATURE INDEX Textiles, Electrical Properties of, 210 Thames, River, Waterloo Bridge over, 81,
545* ; Wandsworth Bridge over, Reconstruction, 707*
Thatching Needle (Harvest Saver and Implement Co., Ltd.), 72*
Theodolites, Developments', n, 149*, 354 “ Thermae ” Arc-Welding Equipment, 469 Thermal Conductivities of Industrial Alloys of Copper and of Nickel, 539
of High-Duty and Alloy Cast Irons, 26*, 41
— Efficiency of British Power Stations, 578* Relation to Electricity Costs, 710 and Standard Steam Cycles, 642 Tosi-Steinmueller Boiler, 663*
— Properties of Metals, National Physical
Laboratory Investigations on, 434
— Storage Plant, Electrical (General Electric
Co., Ltd.), 508
— Treatment, Metals. See Heat Treatment
under Metallurgy
Thermionic Valves. See Valves
Thermique Naturelle, Solar-Heating Apparatus, 82*
Thermocouples for Internal-Combustion Engine Investigations, 464*
Thermodynamics (Review), 631
— Standard Steam Cycles, 642 Thermometers, Development and Applications
of, 379
— Electrical, Development and Application of,
380
— for Meteorological Balloon, 645*
— See also Thermocouple
Thermostat, Alternating-Current, Bridge, for Creep Testing, 95*
— Duct and Immersion (British Thermostat
Co., Ltd.), 429*
“ Thetis,” H.M. Submarine, Inquiry on Loss of. 111
Thomas, Dr. G. J., on Protection of Silver by Beryllia, 675
Thomas, T. E., on Tributaries of Transport, 446. See LETTER, 536
— Type Air-Flow Meter, 184
Thommen, H., on Short-Circuit Control by Pneumatic Circuit Breakers, 522*
Thompson Automatic Plotting Machine, 151* —? Comparator for Aerial Photographs, 150 Thompson, Water-Tube Boilers, Ltd., Water-
Tube Boilers at Longford Power Station, 6* Thorpe’s Dictionary of Applied Chemistry,
Vol. Ill (Review), 102
Thornycroft, J. I., and Co., Ltd., 10-b.h.p. Two-Cylinder Hesselman Marine Oil Engine, 322*; 30-b.h.p. Three-Cylinder Marine Diesel Engine, 322*
Threads, Screw. See Screw
Thrustor, Electro-Hydraulic, fdr Small Power Applications (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 479*
Thurston, R. H., Centenary of, 451*; Centenary Celebrations, Cornell University, 633
Thyratron Control Panel for Welder, Metro- poIitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 382*
Timber, Nomenclature for Hardwoods and Softwoods, 610
— Structural, Strength Tests of, Report, 120
— Supply, Control Order for, 283, 389 Time-Keeping, Electrical, and the Grid, 578
— Measuring Instruments, 355, 379 Timperley Works, Wallpaper Manufacturers,
Ltd., Diesel-Engined Power Station, 75*
Tin Alloys, Causes of. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Plate, Roll-Marks on, 425*
— Research and Development Council, Inter
national, Report, 61
— and Tin-Plate Prices. See Metal-Price
Diagrams
Tissaroso, Le, Cane Lathing, 83
Tolerances in Machine Work. See Oaitges Tool Grinder. See Grinding under Machine Tools
— Machine. See Machine Tools
Toothed Gear. See Gear ; Marine Propulsion Toronto University, Research on Air Infiltration in Heat-Insulating Materials, 371*
Torpedo Boats and Destroyers. See Warships
Torque-Measuring Wrench (Buck A Hick man, Ltd.), 215* . ,
Torsional Overstrain in Mild Steel, lensional Effects of, 453* ,
Tosi, F., Steam Power Plant for Viscose Factory, Rome, 663*
Tottenham Works, Keith, Blackman, Ltd., 166* Towers, Cooling, Design of, 242* Longford Power Station, 69
— Steel, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
2*. 129*, 1919*, 247*, 347*, 401*
— Transmission, Stability of Foundations tor,
310, 466*
— Wind Pressure on, 190 .
Towing Road Vehicles, Mechanics of, 312 Town Gas. See Gas . r o
Toxicity of Wood Preservatives, Test for. Specification, 125 „ ...
“ Toyo Maru,’* Cable-Laying Steamer, Voith- Schneider Propeller, 317*
Track. Caterpillar, for Cranes and Excavators, 599*
— Railway, Stresses in, Application of Dimen
sional Analysis to, 660
Void Meter for, 507* .
— Recorder, Hallade, Use on Indian Railways,
507, 533 ,
— Recording Car, Great Indian Peninsular
Raihvay, 253* „
Trackless-Trolley System, Road Traction. See Trolley 'Bus
Traction. Electric. See Railways ; Tramways;
Trolley 'Bus
Tractor, Agricultural, John Deere (J. Olding and Co., Ltd.), 71*
Numbers Available, 333
— Half-Track (Roadless Traction, Ltd.), 9*
— Park and Golf-Course (Bristol Tractors,
Ltd ) 37*
— 25-h.p.’ Petrol-ParafRn (D. Brown Tractors,
Ltd.), 73*
— with Self-Adjusting Winch (Auto-Mower
Engineering Co., Ltd.), 10*
— Submersible, for lafe-Boats (Roadless Trac
tion, Ltd.), 8*
Trade, Canadian-Australian, Statistics, 500
— Economic Conditions in Australia, Report,
224
Conditions in Hungary, Report, 304 Conditions in Siam, Report, 344 Conditions in Sweden, Report, 202 Conditions in Turkey, Report, 267
— Exhibition. See Exhibition
— Export, in War Time, 723
— Imports of Calcium Carbide, 141 Licensing of Iron and Steel, 695
— Internal, Maintenance in War Time, 417
— Iron Exports and Imports, European Coun
tries, 493, 573, 633
— Machinery Imports, Licensing of, 509
— Marks and Patents and War Legislation,
Memorandum on, 441
— Unions. See Labour; Labour Notes Traffic on British Railways, 1938, 259
— London Passenger Transport Boards
Report, 504
— Road, Weights and Speeds of, 290
Trailer for 75-kVA. Diesel-Driven Generating
Set (R. A. Lister and Co., Ltd.), 591*
— Mechanics of Towing of, 332* Trains, Ambulance, British, 537
— Control, Automatic, Great Western Railway, 587
— in War Time, Lighting of, 389, 475, 539, 612,
615
— See also Railway Training. See Education Tramways, Liverpool, Extension of, 143
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Trans-Atlantic Air Services, Position of, 309, 541, 565, 594 . . ,
Transfer, Heat, and Fluid Friction, Analogy Between, 210*
Transformation Points, Metals. See Metallurgy
Transformer Design, Advances in, 558, 568
— Fire Precautions with, 688*
— Fluid Filling-Media for, 643
— Installations, Fire Protection of, 729
— Low-Voltage, Specification, 125
— Mining-Type, Specification, 610
— 30.000-kVA., 132/33-kV. Mobile (Metro-
politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 619
— Noise from, Investigations on, 494 ,
— for “Thermae” Arc-Welding Equipment
(Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 469
Welding Set, Two-Operator (Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.), 384* ,
Set, Triple Frequency (Quasi-Arc Co., Ltd.), 384* . .
Transmission, Electric, Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Gear. See Gear; Marine Propulsion
— of Power. See Marine Propulsion; Power
Transmission
“ Transorma ” Letter-Sorting Machine at Brighton Post Office, 459*, 627* Transport, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Commission, Tasmanian, Constitution of,233
— Institute of, Curtailment of Activities of, 330; Presidential Address, by T. E. I'homas, on Tributaries of Transport, 446. See LETTER, 536 .
— Ministry of. Report, Railway Accidents in 1938, 80 ; Decisions under Restriction of Ribbon Development Act, 1935, 203; Improvements of Great North Road, 237 ; Emergency Committees at Ports, 309; Training in Erection of Callender-Hamilton Unit-Construction Bridges, 380; Lighting of Trains in War Time, 389, 475, 539, 632, 615 ; Road Warnings for Night Driving, 669 ; Annual Report on Experimental Work on Roads, 693
— Motor. See Road; Motor
— Problems, Road and Rail, 446. See LETTER, 536
— Railway. See Railu'ay
— Road. See Road; Motor ; Trolley Bus
— Services, Passenger, Liverpool, 143
. hl War Time, 696
— in Sw’eden. 202
— W’^ater, Neglect of. 17
in Belgium, 375*, 431*, 489*, 574*
Transporter, Gypsum-Rock Extracting (Mavor and Coulson, Ltd.), 517*
Trash Racks, Desilting Works, Imperial Dam, California. 226*
Traveller, Erection, Menai Suspension Bridge Reconstruction, 655*
Treer, Dr. M. F., on Harmonic Analysis of Pressure Fluctuations in Fluid, 321*
Treforest, School of Mines, Calendar, 330 Trencham, H., on Restriking Voltage in Service and on Test, 521*
Trial, Tosi-Steinmueller Boiler with Arsa Pulverised Fuel, 663*
— See also Tests
Trolley ’Bus, Design and Construction, 623 Truck. See Bogie; Motor Truck
Tubes, Banks of, Fluid Flow Between, 423*
— Copper, Capillary Joints for. Specification,
384
— Flexible, “ Sureflex ” (Clarovan, Ltd.), 241*,
439
— Railways. See Underground Railways —• See also Pipes
Tudsbery, Dr. J. H. T., the Late, 416, 450* Tungsten Lamps. See Lamps under Electric Tunnel Reconstruction, Aidgate-East Station, 97*
— Welded-Steel, for Chicago Subway, 508* Turbine Gears, Ltd., Reduction Gear for
Cement-Grinding Tube Mill, 682*
— Hydraulic, in Canada, Total Horse Power of,
51
See also Power Plant
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Steam, 1,400-kW. Back Pressure (F. Tosi),
663*
at Bury St. Edmunds Sugar-Beet Factory, 162*
Heat-Flow Diagrams of, 275*
30,750-kW., Longford Power Station, 67* Marine, Geared. See Marine Propulsion Non-Condensing or Extraction, Application of, 271*
350-b.h.p. Portable Geared, with Condensing Plant (Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd.), 705* I
Researches on Nozzle Efficiency, 700*, 712*
Standard Cycles for, 642
See also Turbo-Generators
— Steamers. See Steamers; Warships Turbo-Generator, 1,400-kW. Back Pressure (F.
Tosi), 663*
30,750-kW., Longford Power Station, 67* Turkey, Economic and Commercial Condition of, Report, 267
Turner, Prof. W. E. S., on Weathering of Bottle Glasses, 60 ; on Distribution of Temperature in Molten Glasses, 60 ; on Transmission of Radiation Through Bottle Glasses, 60 ; on Surface Tension of Molten Soda- Silica Glasses, 61; on Devitrification in Tank Furnaces, 646
Turning. See Machine Tools
Turntable for 100-ft. Fire Ladder (Merryweather and Sons, Ltd.), 87*
“ Twinwaytrac” Plough, 74*
Twist-Drill Grinder. See Grinding Machine under Machine Tools
Tyres, Pneumatic, for Army Vehicles, 672

ULMER, R. C., on Dissolved Solids in Water, 210
Underground Openings, Combustible Gases in, Investigation of, 606
— Railways, London, Electrification of Highgate to East Finchley Line, 19 ; Accidents in 1938, 80 ; Aidgate-East Station Reconstruction, 97*, 159* ; Tension-Type Buffer Stop, Aidgate-East Station, 176 ; Finchley- Road Station Reconstruction, 350* ; Flood Prevention in, 389, 420, 695; Water- Tight Doors in Tunnels, 389, 420, 695; Noise-Reduction Experiments on, 494; London Passenger Transport Board’s Report, 504; Bakerloo Extension to Finchley Road, 532
“ Unicylinder Monobloc ” Air Compressor. 577*
” Uni-meter ” Recording Mechanism on Mechanical Stoker, 372*
Union, Pipe, Flexible (H. Clayton-Wright, Ltd.), 646*
— Trade. See Laboxir ; Labour Notes United Kingdom Gas Corporation, Ltd., West
Yorkshire Gas Grid, 122
— States Aircraft-Salvaging Lorry, 331
Bureau of Mines, Report on Production of Micanite, 301; Report on Coal Mining in Europe, 419; Report on Iron ani Steel Industries of Europe, 491, 573, 632; Annual Report of Explosives Division, 606 ; Report on Portland-Cement Industry in 1938,704
Bureau of Reclamation, Imperial Dam and Desilting Works on Colorado River, 225*
Engineering Education in, 633 I^ead Production and Consumption, 284 Maritime Commission, S.S. “ Challenge,” 173
Road System in, 289* Shipping and Neutrality Act, 533 See also America
United Steel Companies, Ltd., Manufacture of Rimming Steel by Acid Bessemer Process, 482*
University of Bristol, Faculty of Engineering Prospectus, 76
— Cambridge, Busk Studentship in Aero
nautics, 174 ; Investigation on Ignition Lag in Compression-Ignition Engines, 368*
— College, London, Ramsay Memorial Laboratory, Exhibition at, 19; Faculty of Engineering Prospectus, 76; War-Time Reopening of Ramsay Laboratory, 528
Swansea, Engineering and Metallurgical Departments’ Prospectuses, 76
University, Cornell, Thurston Centenary Celebrations, 633. See 451*
— Illinois, Investigation of Creep and Fracture of Cable Sheathing, 53
— Leeds, Post-Graduate Course in Fuel and
Refractory Materials, 138; Aeration-Test Burner for Gas, by J. W. Wood and Dr. A. H. Eastwood, 678
— London, New Investigations on Old Combustion Engine Problems, by Prof. G. Eichelberg, 463*, 547*, 603*, 682*
— Oxford, Engineering Laboratory, Experiments on High-Speed Water Channel, 272
— Toronto, Research on Air Infiltration in
Heat-Insulating Materials, 371*
— Upsala, Investigations on Resistance of Earth Connections, 466*
— See also Education Unsoundness, Gas, in Cast Metals, 74
Unwin, Prof. W. C., Life and Work of (Review), 101
Upper Atmosphere. See Atmosphere
Upsala University, Investigations on Resistance of Earth Connections, 466*
Uruguay, Locomotive Reconstruction in, 221*, 245*
Utah Construction Co., Imperial Dam and Desilting Works on Colorado River, 225

VACUUM Pump. See Pump
— Service in Chemical Industry, 607*
— Tube. See Rontgen Rays; Valves, Thermionic
Valves, Exhaust, Internal-Combustion Engine, Temperature Stresses and Deformation of, 604*
— Thermionic, Development and Application
of, 380
— and Valve Gear. See also Engines
Van Keuren Light-Wave Micrometer (G. H. Alexander Machinery, Ltd.), 57
Vane-Wheel Eroder, M.S. “Jet,” for Indian Rivers, 264*. See LETTERS, 282, 42], 479 “ Vapor-Clarkson ” Steam Generator (Gresham and Craven, Ltd.), 339*
Vapours, Combustible, Explosion Hazards of, 606
Variable-Speed Gear. See Gear Vehicles, Road, Mechanics of Towing, 312* Velometer for Measuring Air Flow in Mines, 183*
Ventilation System, Rio Tinto Mines, Spain, 733*
Vero, Dr. J. A., on Progress of Inverse Segregation During Solidification, 163
Vessels, Pressure, Welded, National Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 205
Vibrations of Helical Springs, 113, 174
— of Overhead Conductors, 390*
— of Ships’ Hulls and Propellers, Investiga
tions on,300
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Launch of H.M. Cruiser “ Nigeria,” 77
Vierendeel Type Bridges over Albert Canal, Belgium, 660*
Viscose Factory, Rome, Steam Power Plant for, 663*
Vitreous Enamellers, Institute of. Joint Committee on Vitreous Enamelling, 370
Void Meter for Railway Tracks, 507* Voith-Schneider System of Propulsion, Vokac, R., on Thermal Susceptibility phaltic Paving Mixtures, 181 “Vortex” Dough-Kneading Machine,

WAGONS, Motor. See Motor Lorries ; Motor Vehicles
Wailes, G., and Co., Ltd., Model of Parson Drove Woad Mill, 689*
Walkden Electric Appliance and Meter-Testing Station, 20
Walker, A. C., on Electrical Properties of Textiles, 210
Walker, T. R., on Dry-Sand Practice for Steel Castings, 164
Walkway, Wire-Rope, Menai Suspension Bridge Reconstruction, 656*
Wall, Brick, Disintegration of Face of, 180
— Metallic, Prevention of Condensation on,
221*
— Retaining, Albert Canal, Belgium, 489*, 657*
— Sea, Shoreham, 571*
— Sound Transmission Through, National
Physical Laboratory Investigations on, 494
Wallis, Dr. R. P., on Photographic Study of Fluid Flow Between Banks of Tubes, 423*
Wallpaper Manufacturers, Ltd., 250-b.h.p. Diesel-Engined Power Station, 75*
Walmsleys (Bury), Ltd., Reconstruction of Paper-Making Machine, Dartford Paper Mills, 195*
Walshaw, A. C., on Heat-Flow Diagrams of Steam-Turbine Plant, 275*
Wampler, Mr., on Fatigue Tests of Wire, 154 Wandsworth Bridge, London, Reconstruction of, 707*
War, 1914-18, Supply of Explosives During, 505
— Damage to Property, Compensation for,
644, 723
— Legislation and Patents and Trade Marks,
Memorandum on, 441
— Outbreak of, 285
— Risks Insurance Scheme, 363
— Service, Manufacture of Motor Vehicles for,
696*
Motor Vehicles, 672, 673, 696*
— Shipping Losses in, 413
— Time, Building Industry. Position of, 505 Coal Supplies in. Arrangements for, 81 Employment of Engineers and Professional Men, 669. See 476
Export Trade in, 723
Factory Lighting, Exhibition, 559
War Time Finance and Electric Power Supply, 669
Food Production in, 333
Lighting of Trains, 389, 475, 539, 612, 615
Maintenance of Internal Trade in, 417
Public Lighting in, 335, 363, 475, 644
Technical Education in, 585
Transport Services in, 696
Use of Steam Ploughing in, 416
Ward, W. H., on Flow of Liquid Through Beds of Granular Solids, 435*. See 288. See LETTERS, 536, 698*
Warfare, Naval. See Warships
— Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics
— Torpedo Boat No. 40 K, 146*
Italian Battleships under Construction, 482
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronardics
Submarine Warfare in 1917 and 1939, 410
See also Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Waste and Dormant Materials, Salvage of, 644 Water for Arc Extinction in Circuit Breakers, 670*
— Channel, High-Speed, Experiments on, 272
— Consumption of Engines. See Trials
— Dissolved Solids in. Determination of, 210
— Exhibition, International, L16ge, 49
, — Filters. See Filters
— Flow in Channels under Steep Gradients,
, 120*
( — Friction. See Friction; Uydrodynamics;
Ship Resistance
— Heaters, Electric, Specification, 138
• See also Feed-Water Heaters
— Heating Apparatus, Solar (La Thermique
Naturelle), 82*
— and Iron, Reaction Between, 209
— Power. See Hydraulic; Poiver Plant;
Power, Water ; Turbine^ Hydraulic
— Removal of Dissolved Gases from, 210
— Softener and Boiler Scavenger, ” Dejector ”
(British Boiler Accessories, Ltd.), 273*
— Softening Process, Zerhyd (L’Auxiliaire des
Chemins de Fer et de ITndustrie), 105*
— Solutions, Dilute, Calculation of Equilibria
in, 210
— Speed Record with Motor Boat ” Bluebird
II,” 233
— Supply and British Waterworks Association,
116
and Geology in East Midlands, 117
of Liverpool, Report, 213
Ministry of Health’s Report, 334
— Tanks, See Tanks
— Tight Doors in Underground Railway Tunnels, 389, 4^0, 695
— Transport, Neglect of, 17
— Tube Boiler. See JBoiler
— Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic; Power Plant
— Undertakings and Breaking up of Roads, 48
— Wheels. See Turbine, Hydraulic; Power Plant
Waterloo Bridge, Approach Scheme for, 81; Progress in Building, 545*
Waterways of Belgium, 375*, 431*, 489*, 574*, 657*
— See also Rivers ; Canals
Waterworks, Spalding, Pumping Plant at, 514*
— See also Water Supply and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Wattmeters. See Electric
Wear of Wire Ropes, Investigation on, 157*. See LETTERS, 282, 450, 536
Weathering of Bottle Glasses, Effect of Atmospheric Humidity on, 60
Weighing Machine, “Duros ” Variable-Capacity Dial-Indicating (A. Ross and Co., Ltd.), 551*
Weir, G. and J., Ltd., Feed Pumps, Longford Power Station, 70*
Welded Air Receivers, Specification, 14
— Steel Boilers, Specification, 281 Tunnel Section for Chicago Subway, 508* Welding Equipment, Arc, Alternating-Current
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 382
Arc, “Thermae” (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 469*
— of Cast Iron by Oxy-Acetylene Process
(Review), 349
— and Cutting, Nomenclature, Definitions and
Symbols for, Specification, 281
— Head, Automatic Continuous-Feed (G. D. Peters and Co., Ltd.), 384*
— Institute of. Second Report of Research Committee, 92
— Machine, Diesel-Engine Driven Electric Co., Ltd.), 383*
Diesel-Driven, Single-Operator Arc Co., Ltd.), 384*
with Dual Continuous Control Electric Co., Ltd.), 383*
Paradyne (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 382*
Petrol-Driven (Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.), 384*
• Plastic Arc, Single-Operator (G. D.
Peters and Co., Ltd.), 383*
Resistance, Ignitron Control of (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 239*
Spot, High-Power (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 382*
! Welding Machine, Spot, with Ignition Con" trol (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co? Ltd.), 509*
Spot and Seam, Convertible (Aviation Corporates, Ltd.), 567*
— of Non-Magnetlc Steel in Switchgear Manu
facture, 122*
— for Pressure Vessels, National Physical
Laboratory Investigations on, 206
— in Kailway-Station Keconstruction, 350*
— Set, Triple-Frequency Transformer (Quasi Arc Co., Ltd.), 384*
Two-Operator, Transformer (Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.), 384*
Welfare Work. See Labour
Wells, E. S., Jun., on Application of Non- Condensing or Extraction Turbines, 271*
Wells, S. A. E., on Effect of Melting Conditions on Light Alloys, 74
Werkspoor, “ Transonna ” Letter-Sorting Machine at Brighton Post Office, 459*, 627*
West Hartlepool Technical College, Prosj^ectus, 282
— Yorkshire Gas Grid, 122
Western Australia, Mines Department, Annual Keport of Inspection of Machinery Branch. 669
Westinghouse IBlectric <fe Manufacturing Co., Multiple-Grid Circuit Breakers, 388
Westminster, Public Air-Kaid Shelters in, 447
— Technical Institute, Prosi)ectu8, 256 Wheel-Balancing Diagrams, Central Uruguay
Kailway Locomotives, 245*
— Gear. See Gears
— Grinding. See Grinding under Machine
Tools
Wheeler, E. P., Wandsworth Bridge Kecon- struction, 707*
Wheeler, Prof. K. V., the Late, 507
Whipple, K. S., on Instruments in Science and Industry, 353, 379
White, J. S., and Co., Ltd., 65/68 b.h.p. Eight- Cylinder Ford Petrol Marine Engine, 323* : High-Speed Motor Fire Boat “James Braidwood,” 653*
Whitworth Society, Summer Meeting, Matlock, 164
Wiggin, H., <fe Co., Lttl., Brochure on Monel Metal, 284
Wild-Barfield Electric Furnaces, Ltd., Heat- Treatment Furnaces for Light Alloys, 636* Wilkinson, J., on Iron Smelting, 590 Williams, A. E., on Vacuum Service in Cliemical Industry, 607*
— ” Measurrench,” 215*
Williot Diagrams for Towers, Golden Gate
I Bridge, San Francisco, 130*
! Wills, W. and F., Ltd., Eroding Plant for M.S. “ Jet,” 264*. See LETTERS, 282, 421, 479 Wilton-Fijenoord Dockyard, Rotterdam, Reorganisation of Machine Shop at, 341*
Wimbledon Corporation versus Stevens, 694
Wiinperis, H. E., on Future of Flying, 278. See 285, 288
Winch, Self-Adjusting, on Tractor (AutoMower Engineering Co., Ltd.), 10*
Wind Action on Buildings, 189
— Pressure Investigations at National Physica
Laboratory, 205
— Stresses in Golden Gate Bridge, San Fran
cisco, 130*
— Tunnels. See Aeronautics
Winding Engine, 4,450-h.p. Electric, for 6,556-ft. Shaft (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 41*, 84*
Windows, Double, Noise-Reducing Qualities of, 475
— Lighting, Shop, Rules for, 723
— Protection for A.R.P. Purposes, 618. See
LETTER, 697
Windsor Show, Royal Agricultural Society, 8*, 37*, 47, 71*
Winn, W. M., Ltd., Polished Tubular Handrail Standards, 444
Winston Brothers Co., Imperial Dam and Desilting Works on Colorado River, 225* Wire, Fatigue Tests of, 154
— Ropes, Colliery, Investigations on, 286. Se(‘
LETTER, 450
— ?—Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, 2*.
31*, 129, 191*, 295*, 347*, 401*
Protective Action of Lubricants for. 157*. See LETTERS, 282, 450, 536
Walkway, Menai Suspension Bridge Reconstruction, 650*
— Steel, for Reinforcing Copper Conductors,
263
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy ; Iladio
— Telephony. See Telephony ; Jladio Wiring, Electrical, Copper Conduits and Fittings for, 227
Woad Mill, Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire, Model of, 689*
: Wohler’s Tests. See Fatigue Tests under Tests {Materials}
Wood, J. M., the Late, 115
Wood, J. W., on Aeration-Test Burner for Gas, 678
Wood Preservatives, Test for Toxicity of. Specification, 125
Wood, W. K., the Late, 115
Woods, V. S., the Landte, 392
Woodall-Duckham Vertical Retort and Oven Construction Co., Ltd., Electrically- Operated Coke-Oven Plant, 355*. See Erratum, 413
Woodworking Machinery. See Machine Tools Woolwich, Research Department, Experiments on Machinability of Metals, 485* ; Investigation of Niobium-Iron Alloys, 514*
Work-Hardening of Steels, 6’46
Work, Mr. on Work-Brittleness Test for Steel, 154
Workington Iron and Steel Co., Combined Shell Forging and Drawing Press, 136* ; Manufacture of Rimming Steel by Bessemer Process, 482*
Workmen. See Labour
Compensation. See LaLour
Works :
Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., Manchester, 20
Industrial Diseases. See Labour Works—continued.
Irlam Steel Works, Lancashire Steel Corporation, Ltd., 21
Luton Works, Commer Cars, Ltd., Reorganisation, 265*
Manchester Oil Refinery, Ltd., Barton, 20 Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Trafford Park, 20
New Southgate Works, Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., Air-Raid Shelters at, 53*
Park Works, Manchester, Mather and Platt, Ltd., 21. See Addendum^ 76
Tottenham Works, Keith, Blackman. Ltd., 166*
Welfare Movement in Works. See Labour Workshop Training. See Education — See Works ; Machine Tools
World Power Conference, War-Time Arrangements, 530
Worthington-Simpson, Ltd., Condensers for Lon^ord Power Station, 68*
Wrapping, Spinning and Compacting Machinery for Wire Cables, Golden Gate Bridge, 295*
Wrecks. See Accidents
Wrench, Torque-Measuring (Buck and Hickman, Ltd.), 215*
Wright, C. W., on Iron and Steel Industries of Europe, 491, 573, 632
Wright, J., on Construction and Operation of the Grid, 568, 577*. See 558
Wrought Iron. See Iron
Wuerpel, C. E., on Testing Concrete Aggregate Soundness, 180
Wyrostek, E. J., on Burst-Test Data on Laminated Glass, 210

X-RAYS. See Rdntgen Rays

YARSLEY, Dr. V. E., on Plastics Industry, 91 Year Books. See LITERATURE INDEX Yerzley, E., on Tests of Rubber, 210
Yorke, J. P., on Apprenticeship in Engineering Trades, 233
Yorkshire Council for Further Education, Lecture Courses for Engineers, 330
— Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Coalfield, Beport on Barnsley-Warren House Seam, 237
Young’s Modulus. See Elastic Modulus Young, Oration on Developments in British
Surveying Instruments, 149*
Young, W. A., on T. Newcomen, Ironmonger, 554
Yugoslavia, Iron and Steel Industry of, 491, 633

ZEHNDER, C., on Manufacture of Malleable Cast-Iron Pipe Fittings, 104
Zerhyd Water-Softening Process, L’Auxiliaire des Chemins de Per et de I’lndustrie, 105* Zetterholm, D., on Vibration of Overhead Conductors, 390*
Zinc Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Atmospheric Oxidation of. Investigations
on,435
— Prices. See Metal-Price Diagrams
— Roofing, Specification, 138
Zurich Conference, International Federation of Documentation. See Documentation, International Federation of, Zurich Conference
— Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,
Investigations on Internal-Combustion Engines, 463*, 547*, 603*, 682*

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