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ABELES, DR. P. W., on Tubular and Half Tubular Spun-Concrete Beams, 343*
Abrasives for Grinding Wheels, 17, 54*. See Erratum, 230
Acceleration Diagrams for Mechanisms, 213*

Accidents :

Aircraft Accidents, Prevention of, 107,139 Electrical Accidents, Protection against, 45, 66
Failure of Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 481* Industrial Accidents, Causes and Prevention, 432
Railway Accident, Aviemore, Report on, 197, 206
1939, Report, 153,171 Wembley, Report, 431 Road Accidents, June, 1940, 73 in War-Time, 273 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Acetylene Welding. See Welding
Acousti-Celotex Tiles, Sound Absorption by, 328
Acoustic Air-Jet Generator, Hartmann, 314
Acoustics (Review), 283
Activated Carbon, Production from Waste Wood, 504*
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address
Admiralty and Commissions in Naval Forces, 189
— R.N.V.R. Air-Branch Commissions, 393
— Temporary Commissions in Royal Navy, 493
— See also Warships
Aerial Navigation. See Aeronautics
— Propellers.
— Ropeway. See Wire Popeu'ay
— Transport. See Aeronautics
Aeronautical Society, Royal, Wright Memorial Lecture on Looking Forward: Prolegomena for a Detailed Study of Future of British Civil Aviation, by Dr. H. R. Cox, 97,105,139,199,207,225

Aeronautics :

Aeronautical Work of L. Hargrave, 5 Aeroplane, Early History of, 5 — Lost in “War, British and German, 32 133 293 453
Air Attacks on London, 212, 231, 275, 331 — Ministry and Civil Aviation, 97, 105, 139,199
— Observers and Colour Blindness, 513
— Photography Applied to Surveying (Review), 304
— Power, British and German, 32, 133, 293, 453
— Raid Damage to Glass, Protection against, 275
Damage, Insurance Scheme for, 212, 313, 493
Damage and Munitions Production, 392
Damage to Public Services, Prevention of, 377
Damage to University College Library, London, 313
Emergency Precautions in Factories, 253,272
and Industry, 253, 272
Physics of, 514*
PreCaution Purposes, Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Paints for, Specification, 308
Precautions for Users of Ammonia, 273
Shelters, Government Policy for, 374 Sirens, Maintenance of, 377 and Transport Problems, 352 Warnings in Factories, 377 Warnings, Revised Scheme for, 231 — Registration Board, Work of, 97, 107, 139
— War over Britain, 212, 231,275,331,453 Aircraft for Civil Aviation, 97, 105, 139, 199,225
— Production, Ministry of. Scrap Aluminium Campaign, 53
Civil Aviation, British, Future of, 97,105, 139,199,207, 225
Ice Formation on Aircraft, 139 Propeller, Aerial, Effective Pitch of, 183 Royal Air Force, Organisation of, 331 — Naval Volunteer Reserve Air Branch, Commissions in, 393
War in the Air, Review of, 133, 212, 231, 275, 293, 331, 453
Wind-Tunnel Experiments on Evaporation of Water from Saturated Surfaces, 238*, 278*. See Erratiim, 308 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics
African Metals Corporation, Ltd., Blast-Furnace Management, 299*, 315, 433. See 389
Age-Hardening, Strain, of Steels, Influence of Special Elements on, 434
Agricultural Engineering, Oxford University Institute of Research in, Report on Tractor Ploughing, 311. See LETTERS, 355, 397, 436
— Land, Drainage of, Government Aid for, 52
— —Mechanisation on, 311. See LETTERS, 355, 397, 436
— Motors. Tractors
— Tractors. See Tractors
Agriculture, Application of Electricity to, 466,487
— and Soil Erosion, 341*, 364*, 401*
— Uses of Coke in, 428
— See also Irrigation and PARAGRAPH INDEX Air, Compressed. See Pneumatic
— Compressor, Colliery, with Flameproof
Electric Motor, 86*
Double - Acting, Two - Stage (Worthington-Simpson, Ltd.), 27*
— Conditioning Primer, A. B. C. of Air Conditioning (Review), 462
in S.S. ** America,” 186
in Tobacco Factory, 425
— Force, Royal. See Aeronautics
— Jet, Acoustic Generator, Hartmann, 314
— Locks, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 162*
— Ministry. See Aeronautics
— Photography Applied to Surveying (Review), 304
— Pollution, Investigation of. Annual Report, 415
— Raid Precautions. See Aeronautics
— Screws. See Propellers under Aeronaiitics
— Velocities in Pneumatic Conveying Plants, 362*
Aircraft. See Aeronautics
Ajax Manufacturing Co., 8-in. Upsetting
Forging Machine, 467*
Albert Medal, Award to J. A. Milne, 37 Alcohol Production from Waste Wood, 503 Alexandria, Ancient Harbour of, 373, 395* Alexandria Water Co., Ltd., Experiments on
Water Clarifiers, 157*
Algebra, Advanced (Review), 144
Alkali Activation of Gas Coke, 127
Allen, Major G. W. G., the Late, 469 Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauges Alloys. See Metallurgy; Microphotographs; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Alternating Current. See Electric Alternators. See Generators^ Electric Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Castings, Surface Treatment of, 110
— Industry, French, 77
— Paint, Fire Hazards with, 88
— Scrap Campaign, 53
— as Substitute for Iron, 332, 345
Aluminium Union Ltd., Brochure on Surface
Treatment of Aluminium Castings, 110: Pamphlet on Porosity and Analagous Problems in Aluminium-Alloy Castings, 296
— See also Metallurgy
America, Central, Markets in, 294
— South. See South America
— Strategic Materials in, 450
— United States Liner, 145*, 178, 183*. See
151
— See also TJniled States
American Diesel Engines (Review), 143
— Navy. See United States under Warships
— Society of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. See Naval Architects
for Testing Materials. See Testing American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Statistics of World Telephones, 313
— See also United States
Ammeter. See Meter under Electric
Ammonia Users, Air-Raid Precautions for, 273
Amsler, A. J., and Co., 800-ton Hydraulic Testing Machine, 201*
Analysis, Dimensional, of Centrifugal Pumps,
Analysis, Symmetrical Component, of Unsym- metrical Polyphise Systems (Review), 283
Anglo-Turkish Trad; Agreements, 473
Annealing. See lie it Treatment under Metals lurgy
Annuals and Reference Books, 108, 168, 188, ATUKE INDEX
lurgy
508. See LITE:
Apparatus, Electrical 1, Design of (Review), 343 — High-Frequency, Appleton, W. A., th
Appointments. Sec
Restrictions on Use of, 194 i‘ Late, 437
PARAGRAPH INDEX Apprenticeship. Education
Approach RampF.
Maas, Rotterdam
— Span, Port Artl i
1*, 64*, 121* Arc. Furnace; Arcs, Curved, Temraate for Measuring, 263* Arch, Thin Circu1a4 Buckling of, 284* Architects, Naval.
Argentine, Imports ind Exports of, 33
Arkon Visible-Flo^ Indicator (AValker, Cros- weller and Co., Ltd.), 117*
Armoured Ships. Armstrong, J. C
toad Tunnel under River '246*
lur-Orange Bridge, Texas,
Welding
See Naval Architects
See Warships
lubley, Portable, Petrol- Driven Contin lous-Chain Saw, 447* estigations on, 435
Arsenic in Coal, Im
Arts, Royal Society of. Award of Albert Medal to J. A. Milne
Ash, A. E., the I..d .
I — Contents of Coal and Coal-Cleaning Policy,
37
53
19*, 39*
— Deposits with Bulverised-Fuel Firing, 79
Ash-Howard-Nedltes and Tanimen. Port,
Arthur-Oral I'4* Bridge. Texas, 1*. 64*, 121*
Askania Regulator for Coke-Oven Gas, with Flameproof Electric Motor, 85*
Askey, P. J., on ‘’reduction of Reactive Gas Coke by Altiifi Activation, 127
Asphalt, Use in Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterllam, 245*
Association, British. See British Association
— Engineering. Fee Institutions
— des Industries de Belgique, 800-ton i
Hydraulic Testing Machine, 201* Astronomy, Engineering Workers in, 492 Atlantic Air Travtl, 105,199, 225
— Liners. See Atmospheric P< >llution.
Annual Report, 415
Audibert, Prof, i., Award of Melchett Medal to, 513
Austen, A. E. W.
rent Testing Austin Bridge
Arthur-Oral] Austin Motor Co
ticeships, < Car on Tow]i Gas, 359
Australia, Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research, Aainual Report, 235
— Electricity Si ’
— Tung Oil Pro Autogenous Welling. Automatic Machpne Tools. Automobile En
SeeJyzips; Steamers i
Investigation of.
on High-Voltage Direct-Ciir- 175. See ADDENDUM, 209
Co., Substructure of Port ge Bridge, Texas, 1*, 64*, 121* U, Ltd., Engineering Appren- 6S; Performance of Austin
pply in Sydney, Report, 237 luction in, 387
See Welding
See Machine Tools 'ineers, Institution of, Annual Report of) Research Committee, 316; Research Avork of, 374
— See Motor Cars
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine. See Marine Aviation. See Aeronautics
Ayre, AV., on Leadership and Direction in Industry, 317, 339. See 332

BABCOCK AND WILCOX Boilers, S.S. ** America,” 183*
Bacher, G., G.B. System of Sheet-Steel Building, 16*
Bag, Gas, for Town-Gas Operated Vehicles, 339*,358*
— Sand, Rot-proofing of, 488
Bailey, R. AV., Theory of Creep, 24, 61, 104*, 134,164
Baird, J. L., System of Colour Television, 513
Baker, Dr. G. S., on Vibration Patterns of Propeller Blades, 484*, 518*
Ball, E. B., on Doodlebugs and Bulldozers, 175. See 112
Band Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Saws. See Saws under Machine Tools Barr, J., the Late, 494
Barrage across Thames, Views on, 326
Bars, Aluminium-Alloy, Specification, 368
” Bartolomeo Colleoni,” Italian Cruiser, Sinking of, 73
Basin, Settling, Alexandria Water Co., Ltd. 157*
— Stilling, Bonnet Carrd Spillway on Mississippi River, 422*
Bath, Salt, Corrosion of. Investigation on, 458* Furnace. See also Furnace Battleships. See Warships
Bayley, Capt. B. C., on Electricity Supply in Tobacco Factories, 425
Beam, Glass-Reinforced Concrete, Tests of, 225*, 264
— Saddle, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 161*
— Sjmn-Concrete, Tubular and Half-Tubular,
343*
— Structural Steelwork, Non-Axial Loads on, 81*
Beard, J. R., on Planning the Post-War World, 375, 416, 439. See 373, 391, 411
Bearings, Adhesion of White-Metal Linings in, Report, 250
— Tapered-Roller, for 36-in. Centre Tube-
Boring Lathe (British Timken, Ltd.), 107*. See Erratum, 128
Beecher, H. W., on Combustion of Waste-Wood Products, 474
Beilby, Sir G., Memorial Fund, 129 Belgian Exports to Brazil, 254
Belgium, Association of Industrialists in, 800-ton Hydraulic Testing Machine, 201*
— North-South Junction Railway, Brussels,
13*, 21*, 74*
Belt Conveyors. See Conveyors B. E. N. Patents, Ltd., Pneumatic Blow Gun, 78* ; Automatic Vacuum Relief Valve, 417*
Bending Moments in Locomotive Connecting
Rod, 119*. See LETTERS, 195, 376
— Rolls, Plate. See Machine Tools
— Tests. See Tests {Materials) Bennett, C. V., the Late, 437
Benzol House, Liquor Pumps in, with Flameproof Motor, 86*
Berger, L. B., on Use of Diesel Engines in Mines, 517
Bernal, Prof. D., on Physics of Air Raids, 514* Bex and Villars-Ch^sidres Railway, Electric
Railcar for, 6* Bicentenary of H. Cort, 452 Binary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Binns, A., on Port of London, 325*. See 333 Birmingham, Diamond-Cutting Factory at, 28 Bitumen and Fabric for Roof Glazing, Specification, 348
Bituminous Materials, Road Construction. See Roads
Black-out Hours, Obscuration of Glass in Large Buildings, 470
Blackwood, E. A., on Track Stress Research, 141*
Blaker, W. H., the Late, 255 Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces Blindness, Colour, and Air Observation, 513 Blow Gun, Pneumatic (B. E. N. Patents, Ltd.),
78*
B. M. B. Engineering Co., 6-h.p. and 3-h.p. Agricultural Tractors, 427*
Board of Education, Royal Scholarship and Studentship Examinations, 453
— Making by Mason Exploded-Wood Process,
502*
— of Trade, Statement on Limitation of
Home Trade, 433; Licences for the Supply of Machinery, 473
See also Overseas Trade Department Boats, Submarine. See Warships
Bogie for 275-h.p, Diesel Railcar for New Zealand, 365*
— for 30-ton Eight-Wheeled Transformer
Trailer, 87*
— for Electric Railcar, Bex and Villars-Ch^sidres
Railway, 6*
— See also Truclcs
Boiler Feed Water. See Feed and Water
— Forced-Circulation, 650,000 lb.
tion Engineering Co., Inc.), 394
— Furnace. See Furnace
— High-Pressure, in American Plants, 297
— House and Power Station (Review), 243
— Installation for Low Load-Factor Power Station, Orem, 328
— Operator’s Guide (Review), 283
— Plant, Utilisation of Waste-Wood Products in, 474
— Water-Tube, Physical Aspects of High-
Pressure Steam Generation in, 494
Tube, S.S. America,” 145*, 183*
Booth ^Substation, South African Railways 307* ’
Botteron, L. K._, on Measurement of Cylinder
Power of High-Speed Steam Locomotives, Bouts, T., the Late, 236
Bracing Systems for Large Sheets of Glass, 275 Bradby’s Engineering Works, Ltd., 300-Watt
Portable Electric Generating Set, 16* Bradley, R. F., on Anglo-Turkish Trade Agreements, 473
Braking System for Electric Railcar, 7* Brass Foundry. See Foundry
— Immerson Tinning of, 387 Brazil, Industrialisation of, 423 —Markets in, 233, 254
Breakdowns. See Accidents
Breakwaters of Ancient Harbours of Mediterranean, 395*, 418*, 438*
Bricks and Cement, War-Time Building Bulletin on, 368, 430, 495
— Effect of Cold Weather on Laying Operations, 495
Brickwork, Load-Bearing, Charts for Design of, 170
Bridges, North-South Junction Railway, Brussels, 14*, 21*, 74*
— Port Arthur-Orange, Texas, 1*, 64*, 121*
— Service, Bonnet Carr6 Spillway on Mississippi River, 422*
— Suspension, Tacoma Narrows, Failure of, 481*
— See also Viaduct; and PARAGRAPH INDEX Briquetting Press for Sawdust, 461*
British Association Screw Threads, Specification, 348
British Carbo Union, Ltd., Solvent-Recovery Plant, 497
— Cast Iron Research Association, Annual Report, 374
— Civil Aviation, Future of, 97, 105, 139, 199,207, 225
— Columbia, Ministry of Mines, Annual Report, 270 ; Timber Exports from, 287
— Electrical and Allied Industries Research
Association, Investigation on Measuring Warmth in Space Heating, 128; Report on High-Voltage Direct-Current Testing, by A. E. W. Austen. A. M. Thomas and S. Whitehead, 3 75. See Addendum, 209 ; Report on Electricity in Agriculture and Horticulture, by C. A. Cameron, 466, 487
— and German Air Power, Comparison, 32.133, 293, 453
— Industries, Federation of. See Federation
— Navy. See H.M. under Warships
— Railways. See Railways
— Rheologists’ Club, Formation of, 329;
Discussion on Rheology in Industry, 429 British Ropes, Ltd., Wire Ropes for Salvage of H.M.S. “Thetis,” 56*
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Shipping. See Shipping
— Shipowners and Government, War-Time
Financial Arrangements between. Memorandum on, 131
— Standards Institution. See Standards British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Flameproof Electric Motors, 85* ; Arc-Welded Structures for Machine Tools. 265* ; Equipment for Regenerative Working on South African Railways, 305* ; Transformers for Electric Furnaces, 504*
British Timken, Ltd., Tapered-Roller Bearings for 36-in, Centre Tube-Boring Lathe, 107*. See Erratum. 128
— Trade. See Trade
Brno University, Tests of Tubular Spun- Concrete Beams, 343*
Broadway Engineering Co., Ltd., “ Poly- matic Former ” Screw Machine, 287*
Brooks, A., on Evolution of Sugar-Cane Mill, 319 Brown-Firth Research Laboratories, Investigation on Non-Metallic Inclusions in Steel, 434
Brown Lenox and Co. (London), Ltd., Turner’s Patent Shock-Absorbing Socket, 319* Brown, P. S., the Late, 194
Brownlie, D., on Developments in Wood Technology, 461*, 502*
Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., Brush- Koela Gas Producer for MotorVehicles 304* Bubble Conditions in High-Pressure Water- Tube Boilers, 494.
Buckling of Thin Circular Arch, 284* Buildings, Air-Raid Damage to. Insurance
Scheme for, 212, 313, 493
— Construction, War-Time, Bulletins on, 25, 108, 188, 368, 396, 430, 495
See also Ferro-Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Control of, 273
— Daylight Illumination for Clerical Work in,
126
— Factory, Welded Rigid-Frame, 281*, 321*
See Addendum. 348
— Large, Obscuration of Glass in, 470
— Methods of Measuring Warmth in, 128
— Noise Reduction by Acousti-Celotex Tiles, 328
— Operations in Electrically-Supply Industry, Control of, 378
— Research Board, Annual Rej)ort, 111
Building Re«ear h Station, Watford, War- Time Building Bulletins, 25,108,188, 368, 396,430, 495; Pamphlet on Economical Use of Cement, 430
— Sheet-Steel, G. B. System, 16*
— Sound Transmission in (Review), 202
— Steel for. Restriction on Use of, 113
, — Supplies, War-Time, Official Publication, 473
! — War Damage Insurance for, 212, 313, 493 Bulkhead Construction, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 103*
— See also Wateftight
Bulldozers and Bullgraders, Earth-Moving, Improved (Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd.), 516
— and Doodlebugs, 112. See Erratum, 128..
See LETTER, 175
Burbidge, L., The Late, 483
Bureau of Mines. See United States
— of Standards. See United States
Burma, Annual Report, Port of Rangoon, 519 Butler, R., on Increasing Welding Output, 53 Buxton, M. B., the Late, 334

CABLES. See Wire Ropes and Electric
Cable way. See Wire Ropeway
Caisson, Compressed-Air, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 163*
— Pier, Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, 2*, 64* Calculus, Advanced (Review), 463
Calenders, Rubber, Guarding of, Report, 30 California, Redding Quarries, 9-Mile Conveyor Belt, 149
Calorific Value of Petrol and Town Gas, 337 of Waste-Wood Briquettes, 401* of Waste-Wood Products, 474
Cameron, C. A., on Electricity in Agriculture and Horticulture, 466, 487
Cameron, J. W., on Specific Speed of Pumps and Turbines, 115. See LETTERS, 77, 96, 137*, 175, 195, 256, 296, 376*, 454 Cans for Food Products, Specification, 148 Canada, Engineering Institute of, Hospitality for Engineers’ Children, 33 ; Grounding Practice in Electric Systems, with Particular Reference to Protection from Shock, by W. P. Dobson, 45, 66
— Mineral Wealth of British Columbia, 270
— Strategic Materials in, 450
— Timber Exports from British Columbia, 287
— War Industries in, Progress with, 175 Canadian Electrical Code, Earthing Regulations under, 45, 66
— Markets and United Kingdom Export
Trade, 313
— National Research Council, Hydraulics
Research Laboratory, Ottawa, 350
Canal, Coastal, Road and Rail Transport, Report on Co-ordination of, 91
— Investigations at Poona Irrigation and
Hydrodynamic Research Station, 404
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Cantilevers, Non-Axial Loads on, 82*
— Span, Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas,
1*, 64*, 121*
Cars, Motor. See Motor Cars I
— Rail. See Carriages, Railway I
(‘arbanalyzer (Fisher Scientific Co.), 138* Carbon, Activated, Production from Waste
Wood, 504*
— ill Steel-Bath Samples, Instrument for
Magnetic Determination of, 138*
Carburettor Parts, Washing Machine for (Dawson Brothers, Ltd.), 99
— for Town-Gas Operated Vehicles, 339*
Cargo Steamers. See Steamers
Carlyle Johnson Machine Co., Friction Clutches for Line Shafting, 286*
Carpenter, Sir H. C. H., the Late, 235
Carriage, Railway, 275-h.p. Diesel-Driven Railcar for New Zealand, 365*
Rail-Defect Detecting (Sperry Products, Inc.), 223*. See Erratum, 296
Electric Railcar for Bex and Villars- Chesidres Line, 6*
Case, A. H., the Late, 96
Casing, Steel, for Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 163*
Cast Iron Research Association, British, Annual Report, 374
Castings, Aluminium-Alloy, Problems of Porosity in, 296
Surface Treatment of, 110
— Carbon-Steel, Specification, 208
— Gunmetal, Specification, 148
— and Ingots, Leaded Gunmetal, Specification , 88
Castling, N. V., on Progress in Design of Mining Electrical Equipment. 518
Caswell versus Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries, Ltd., 114
Catalogues, Trade, for New Zealand, 115
— 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 180, 200, 260, 300.
360,400,460,480. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Celotex, Ltd., Acousti-Celotex Tiles for Sound Absorption, 328
Cement and Bricks, War-Time Building Bulletins on, 368, 430, 495
— Economical Use of, 430
— High-Alumina, Specification, 308
— Portland, Specification, 288
— See also Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX Cementite, Crystal Structure of, 435 Centenary of Admiral A. T. Mahan, 271
— of Civil-Engineering Professorship at Glasgow University, 253
— of Cunard Line, 32
— of Mirrlees, Watson Co., Ltd., 73 Central America, Markets in, 294
— Electricity Board, Investigations on
Lightning and Transmission Lines, 232 ; Schemes for 'War-Emergency Generating Stations, 273, 293; Policy and Work of, 411, 416,439
— Register of Engineers, 133
Central Service Co., Ltd., versis Greenwood, 84
— Station. See Power Station Centrifugal Pumps. See Pumps
Chain, Jig, Renold, 46*
Chamberlain, Dr. E. A. C., on Conversion of Petrol Vehicles to Operate on Town Gas, 337*, 358* ; on Corrosion of Steels by Molten Nitrates, 458*
Charts, Acceptance Test, for Machine Tools, 351, 354
Cheetham, G. A., on Organisation in Instrument Making, 495
Chemical Engineers, Institution of, Evaporation of Water from Saturated Surfaces, by Dr. R. W. Powell, 238*, 278*. See Erratum, 308
— Industry, Society of, Reports of Progress of Applied Chemistry, 4
— Society, American, Utilisation of Waste Lignin, by E. E. Harris, 190
— Structures of Synthetic Rubbers, 317, 335, 356
Chemistry, Applied, for Engineers (Review), 284 Reports of Progress of (Review), 4 Thorpe’s Dictionary of, Vol. IV (Review), 22
?— Boiler House and Power Station (Review), 243
— of Corrosion. See Corrosion
— New Dictionary of (Review), 483
•— of Synthetic-Rubber Production, 335, 356 — See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Chester , Corporation, Queensferry Power Station Scheme, Decision on, 113
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, Whip Stress in Locomotive Connecting Rod, 117*. See LETTERS, 195, 376
Chile, Trade of, 123,144
China, Primitive Iron Smelting in, 498 Chromium and Iron, Alloys of (Review), 44 Churchill, C., and Co., Ltd., 8-in. Upsetting Forging Machine, 467*
Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., Report on Machining with Single-Point Tools, 259*
City and Guilds of London Institute, Annual Report, 73
— and South London Railway, Jubilee of, 409 Civic Development and War Conditions, 251 Civil Aerial Transport. See Aeronautics
Civil Engineers, Institution of :
Design of Clarifiers for Waterworks, by
R. Walton and T. D. Key, 157* Report on Deterioration of Structures in
Sea Water, 177
Future Meeting Arrangements, 314 Presidential Address, by Sir L. H. Savile, on Ancient Harbours of the Mediterranean, 395*, 418*, 438*. See 373 Clarifiers for Waterworks, Design of, 157* Clark, Major R, G., the Late, 376
Clay Products Technical Bureau of Great Britain, Ltd., Charts for Design of Load- Bearing Brickwork, 170
Clayton, D., on Wear-Load Characteristic of Four-Ball Test of Lubricants, 216. See LETTERS, II5, 236*
Cleaning Dangerous Machinery, Legal Decisions on,114
— Processes for Coal, Objects of, 19*, 39* Clearing Machine Corporation, 1,500-ton Press
with Remote Control, 127*
Clerk, H. T., on the Carbanalyzer, 138* Cleveland and the Northern Counties, Notes from, 9, 29, 49, 69, 89, 109, 129, 149, 169, 189, 209, 229, 249, 269, 289, 309, 329, 349, 369, 389, 409, 429, 449, 469, 489, 509. See PARAGRAPH INDEX climate. See Meteorological
(Uougher, N. M., on Canada and United Kingdom Exports, 313
(‘hitch, Friction, for Line Shafting (Carlyle .Johnson Machine (‘o.), 286*
Coaches, Railway. See Carriages
Coal Carbonisation, Fuel Research Board Investigations on, 445
— Characteristicsand Pulverised-Coal Firing, 79
— (Cleaning, Policy of, 19*, 39*
— Economy. See Fuel; Pulverised Coal
— (xas. See Gas
•— Industry, Com])ensation Scheme for, 493
? Position of, 212
•— Investigations by Fuel Research Board, 435,445
— Mine. See Colliery
— Pulverised. See Pulverised Coal
— Resources, World Utilisation, 412,454*,479*
— Supplies for Winter, Arrangements for, 333
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Coastal, Canal, Road and Rail Transport, Report on Co-ordination of, 91
— Craft, Immobilisation, Admiralty Order, 52 Coke, Gasworks, Production by Alkali Activation, 127
— Investigations by Fuel Research Board,
435,445
— Modern Uses for, 428
— Oven Gas, Askania Regulator for, with
Electric Motor, 85*
— — Installations, Methane Supplies from, 456 Cold-Storage Accommodation, Port of London, 327*
Depots for Food, 453 See also Pefrigeration Coldair, Ltd., Refrigerator Unit for Low- Temperature Testing of Electric Cables,! 78 (‘ollector. Pantograph, for Electric Railcar, 7* College. See Education
Colliery, Diesel Haulage Engines in, Advantages and Disadvantages of, 517
— Electric Lighting Fittings, Specification, 288
— Electrical Equipment, Progress in Design
of, 518
—-Flameproof Bolted Gable Couplers, Specification, 308
Electric Motors for, 85*
Resistances for (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 257*
— Methane Production at, 456
—• Owners* Central Council and Scheme for Assistance for Coal Industry, 493
— Winding. See Winding
— See also Mines and Coal Collisions. See Accidents Colombia, Exports and Imports of, 294 Colour Blindness and Air Observation, 513
—- for Railway Signal Glasses, Specification, 88 —? Television, Baird System, 513
Columns, Ferro-Concrete, Fire Resistance of, Investigations on, ill
Combined Stress. See under Tests ( Materials} Combustion Engineering Co., Inc., 650,000-lb.
Forced-Circulation Boiler, 394
Combustion and Power, Hawksley Lecture on, 412, 413, 424*, 454*, 478*.
— in Pulverised-Coal Firing, 79
— of Town Gas in Petrol Engine, 337
— of Waste-Wood Briquettes, 461
Wood Products, 474
— See also Fuel; Gases
Commerce. See Trade. Also Industries and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Commercial Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Motor Cars. See Motor Commonwealth. See Australia Companies. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Comparator, Mechanical (Sigma Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 290*
Compensation Scheme for Coal Industry, 493 Compound Stress. See Tests {Materials) Compressed Air. See Pneumatic Compressor, Air. See Air Compressor
Concrete, Bonnet Carr6 Spillway, on Mississippi River, 421*, 465*
— Economical Use of Cement for, 430
— Effect of Cold Weather on Hardening, 495
— Glass Reinforcement for, 225*, 264
— Reinforced. See Ferro-Concrete
— and Steel-Framed Tunnel, North-South Junction Railway, Brussels, 13*, 21*, 74*
— Use of Slag for. 111
— Vibration of. Investigations on, 112
— See also Ferro-Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Condenser, Surface, S.S. “America,” 183* Conductors. See Electric
Conduits, Steel, and Fittings for Electrical Wiring, Specification, 208
Connecting Rod, Locomotive, Whip Stress in, 117*. See LETTERS, 195, 376
Conservation ofCoal. SeeCoaZ; Fuel (’ontainers for Food Product's, Specification, 148 Contracts. Government, Scheme for Costing on,491
Control Gear for 275-h.p. Diesel Railcars, 366*
— Orders, Iron and Steel, 37, 113, 378
Ministry of Supply. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— of Operations in Instrument Making, 495
— Panel for Regenerative Working on South African Railways; 306*
I — Remote, for 1,500-ton Press (High Duty Alloys, Ltd.), 127*
Controllers, Electric Motor. See Motors, Electric
— for 540 b.h.p. Direct-Reversing Marine Diesel Engine, 507*
Conveying, Pneumatic, in Theory and Practice, 361*
Conveyor, Belt, Portable, Petrol-Driven (Mavor and Coulson, Ltd.), 347*
9-Mile, Redding Quarries, California, 149 Copper Alloys. SQQ Brass; Gunmetal; and Alloys under Metallurgy
— Immersion Tinning of, 387
— Requisitioning of, 308
— Sheet, Cold-Rolled, Specification, 88
— See also Metallurgy
Corrodibility, Atmospheric, of Ferrous Materials, Accelerated Spray Test for, 433
Corrosion, Electrolytic, of Electric Cables, Prevention of, 493
— of Iron and Steel in Sea Water, 177
— Protection Value of Paints on Steel Surfaces, 390
— of Steels by Molten Nitrates, Investigation of, 458*
Cort, H., Bicentenary of, 452
Costing on Government Contracts, Scheme for, 491
Coupling. See Clutch Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, Working of, 204
Cox, E. S., on Whip Stress in Locomotive Main Rod, 195. See 117*. See LETTER, 376
Cox, Dr. H, R., on Future of Civil Aviation, 97, 105,139,199,207, 225
Craig, O., on Coal Characteristics and Pulverised-Coal Firing, 79
Crankshaft, Tocco Hardening Process for, 426* (haters, Produced by Aerial Bombs, 514* Craven Brothers (Manchester), Ltd., 36-iu. Centre Tube-Boring Lathe with Tapered- Roller Bearings, 107. See Erratum, 128
Crawford, Major H. E., on Scrap Iron and Steel, 35. See 31
Creditor and Debtor in War-Time, 204
Creep Investigations on Steel under Combined Tension and Torsion, 24*, 61*, 104*, 134*, 164
Creosoting, Pressure, of Timber, Specification, 208
Critchley, G. R., on Salvage of H.M.S. “Thetis,” 56*
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., 150-kW Portable Diesel-Driven Generator, 47*; Electrification of New Pralhad Mill, Bombay, 67
Croydon Sewage Works, Methane Production at, 456
Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil Cruisers. See Warships
Crystal Structure of Cementite, 435 of Metals. See also Micro-Photographs Cultivator, Tractor-Drawn, for Breaking uj) Land,401*
Cunard Line Centenary of, 32 ; Committee on Propulsion Machinery for “ Lusitania ” and “ Mauretania,” 511
Current, Electric. See Electric Cutters, Milling. See Milling under Machine Tools
Cylinders, Discharge of Gas into Atmosphere. 134*,154*, 181*
—r Liner Wear in Gas Engines, 216
I — Power of High-Speed Locomotives. Measure- I ment of, 285

DAGENHAM Sewage Works. Methane Production at, 456
Dall, A. H., on Grinding Action Theories, 17. See Erratum, 230
Dalrymple-Hay, Sir 11. H., the Late, 515*
Dams; Movable, Upper Mississippi Regulation Scheme, 41*
Damage, War, to Electricity Undertakings, 113 to Property, Insurance Scheme, 212, 313 493 to Property, Repair of, 93
Dangerous Machinery, Cleansing, Legal Decisions on, 114
Daniels, T. H., and J., Ltd., Portable Petrol- Driven Continuous Chain Saw, 447*
Dansie, A., the Late, 489
Davey, Paxman and Co., Ltd., 277-b.h.p. Six- Cylinder Diesel Engine for Locomotive,26*
Davidson, Prof. W. M-. on Whip Stress in Locomotive Main Rod, 117*. See LETTERS, 195’ 376 , . ox
Davis, R. E., on Non-Axial Loads on Structural Steelwork Beams, 81* ; on High- Pressure Steam Generation, 494
Dawson Brothers, Ltd., Washing Machines for Engines and Parts, 99* ,
DavliKht Illumination for Clerical Work, 126
Dean, E. S., on Fifty Years of Pressure Scavenging, 95*. See LETTERS, 115, 137, 156,195, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494, 514
Debtor and Creditor in War-Tin^, 204 Decontamination of Electrical Plant, Report, 174
Deerr, N.,on Evolution of Sugar-Cane Mill, 319 Delft Technical University, Investigations on Ventilation of Road Tunnel under River Maas, 246*
Denny, Sir A., Memorial to, 48
Denton, W., Ltd.,. 30-ton Eight-Wheeled Transformer Trailer, 87
Deposits, Atmospheric, Record of, 415 Depreciation of Machinery and W ar Taxation, 93
Destroyers. See Warships
Diagrams, Acceleration, for Mechanisms, 213
Diamond-Cutting Factory at Birmingham, 28
Diamond Motors (Wolverhampton), Ltd., Cutting and Welding Equipment Trailer, 197* .
Dickinson, Dr. H. W., on Bicentenary of Henry Cort, 452
Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Thorpe s, Vol. IV (Review), 22
— of Chemistry, New (Review), 483 Diesel Engines. See Engines, Oil, Diesel Digging Machine. See Excavator
Dimensional Analysis of Centrifugal Pumps, 311 Direct Current. See Electric
Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX Discharge of Gas from Vessel into Atmosphere, 134*, 154*, 181* .
Dished Ends and Stayed Surfaces (Review), 422 Disputes, Trade. See Labour
Diving Bell, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 162*
Dixon, E., the Late, 353*
Dobson, W. P., on Earthing Practice and Protection from Shock, 45, 66
Dock Construction, Improvements in, 327
— Glasgow, Committee of Inquiry on, 169
— London, History and Development of, 325 Dodkin. 0. H., on Field Checks of Salt-Velocity Method in Pipe Lines, 179* Domestic Electricity Supply, 433 Doodlebugs and Bulldozers, 112. See Erratum, 128. See LETTER, 175
Doors, Watertight. See Watertight Sub-dnm.
Dorman, Long <feCo., Ltd., Arc-Velded Structures for Machine Tools, 265*
Drafting, Technical (Review), 384
Drainage of Agricultural Land, Government Aid for, 52 -r . x. x • i # -
— Mains, “ Philplug ” Jointing Material for
(General Electric Co., Ltd.), 248*
Drawbar Hook, Wrought Iron, Failure of, 197 206
Dreller, L., on Electricity in United States Navy, 310
Drills and Drilling Machines. See Machine Tools X • «
Drying, Grass, Temperature Effects in, 7 Dublin Shipbuilding Yard, Reopening of, 313 Ducts, Ventilation, North-South Junction Railway Tunnels, Brussels, 21*
Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 103*, 246* .
Dugaresa Textile Mill, Yugoslavia, Spun- Tubular Beams for Floor, 345*
Dust Catchers, Centrifugal, S.S. “America, 183*
— Coal. See Pulverised Coal
Dutch Co-operative Building Society, Road Tunnel under River Maas, 101*, 161*, 244*
Dynamos. See Generators, Electric Dynamometer, :pendulum, for 800-ton Hydraulic Testing Machine, 201* .
Dyson, R. A., and Co., Ltd., 30-ton Eight- Wheeled Transformer Trailer, 87*

EARTH, Heat ce of, 412, 424*, 454* 478*
— Moving Equipment, Developments in, 516
Earthing Electrical Installations, Regulations for, 312
— Resistances, Liquid, Design of, 124*
Earthquake, Rumanian, 473 .
Economics, Applied, for Engineers (Review), 64
— Industrial. See Labour
— Railway. See Railway
in War, British and German, Comparison between, 512
Economy, Fuel. See Fuel
Education :
Aeronautics in Universities and Technical Colleges, 207
Austin Motor Co., Ltd., Engineering Apprenticeships at, 68
Board of Education, Royal Scholarship and Studentship Examinations, 453
City and Guilds of London Institute, Annual Report, 73
Engineers, Need for Wider Educational Curricula for, 492
Engineering Education in United States, Report, 472
Engineering Joint Examination Board, Examinations by, 374
Ford Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Scholarships at, 53
Glasgow University, Centenary of Civil Engineering Professorship at, 253
Manchester Municipal College of Technology, Prospectus, 188
Marine Engineers, Institute of, Associate- Membership and Graduate-Membership Examinations, 248; Studentship and Graduate-Membership Examinations, 413
Naval Architects, Institution of. Scholarships, 429
Professorial Qualifications, 472
Purdue University, Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering Building at, 129 Swansea, University College, Engineering and Metallurgy Prospectuses, 108
Training Facilities in War-Time, 71
— Procedure (Review), 4
Technical Colleges, War-Time Activities of, 192
Treforest School of Mines and Technology, Calendar, 228
West Hartlepool Technical College, Prospectus, 188
Wrought Light Alloys Development Association Scholarship, 444
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Edwards. Principal C. A., on Strain-Ageing Characteristics of Steels, 434
Edwards, J. E., Ltd., Hand-Lever Nibbling and Shearing Machines, 398*
Egerton, Prof. A. C. G., on Power and Combustion, 424*. 454*, 478*. See 412, 413
Egypt, Ancient Harbours of, 373, 395* Egyptian Trade Marks Act, 1939, 304
Eire, Electricity (Supply) Amendment Bill, 413 Supply Board, Annual Report, 113 .
Ejector, Molten-Salt, for Salt-Bath Furnaces (Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd.), 48
Elasticity and Photoelasticity (Review), 23

Electric :

Agriculture and Horticulture, Application of Electricity in, 466, 487
Alternating Current, Use in United States Navy, 310
Alternator. See Generator
Arc Furnaces. See Furnace, Electric
— Welding. See 'Welding
British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, Investigation on Measuring Warmth in Space Heating, 128 ; Report on High-Voltage Direct-Current Testing, by A. E. W. Austen, A. M. Thomas and S. White- head. 175. See Addendum, 209; Electricity in Agriculture and Horticulture by C. A. Cameron, 466, 487
Cable Couplers, Bolted Flameproof, Specification, 308
— for Electricity-Supply Undertakings, 51
— Low-Temperature Testing of, Refrigerating Unit for, 178
— Prevention of Corrosion of, 493
— Unarmoured, Use of, 153
Central Electricity Board, Investigations on Lightning and Transmission Lines, 232 ; Schemes for War-Emergency Generating Stations, 273, 293;
General Policy and Activities, 411, 416,439
— Stations. See Power Stations Conductors for Rural Electrification, 92 Currents, Effects on Human Body, 45 Direct-Currents, High-Voltage Testing with, 175. See Addendum, 209 Dynamo. See Generator
Earth-Leakage and Overcurrent Apparatus (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 15
Earthing Electrical Installations, Regulations for, 312
— Practice and Protection from Shock, 45, 66
— Resistances, Liquid, Design of, 124* Electrical Apparatus, Design (Review), 343 — Industry, Reservation of Workers, 473 and War Production, 413
— Installations, Earthing Practice, 45, 66. See 312
— Plant, Decontamination of. Report, 174 Export Trade in, 233
— Properties of Synthetic Rubbers, 356, 420
Electricity Applied to Marine Engineering (Review), 422
— Commissioners, Circular on Materials for Electricity-Supply Undertakings, 51; Decision on Queensferry Power Station Scheme, 113 ; War Damage to Electricity Undertakings, 113; Returns of Machine Tools in Power Stations. 133 ; Memorandum on Use of Unarmoured Cables, 153; Report on Decontamination of Electrical Plant, 174 ; Statistics of Electricity-Supply Undertakings, 313 ; Notification of Failures in Supply, 373; Control of Building Operations, Regulations, 378; Circular on Fire Risks at Substations, 393; General Policy and Activities, 411, 416, 439
Electrodes for Earthing, 312
— for Salt Velocity Measurements in Pipe
Lines, 179*
Electroplating. See Electro Furnaces. See Furnaces
Generating Stations. See Power Stations Generator. See Generator
High-Frequency Apparatus, Restrictions in Use of, 194
— Voltage Distribution in Rural Areas, 92 Testing Laboratory, Liverpool University, 473
Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
Impulse-Voltage Testing, Specification, 448 Insulation, High-Voltage Direct-Current Testing of, 175. See Addendum, 209
Insulator, Bushing, for Liquid Earthing Resistance, 124*
Electric—continued.
Inverter for Regenerative Working, South African Railways, 305*
Lamps, High-Power, Improved Construction of (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 90
— Tungsten-Filament, Specification, 148
Lighting Fittings, Flameproof, Specification, 288 . . -
— Installations in War-Time, Revised Specifications for, 133
Lightning, Power Dissipated by, 412, 425, 454
— and Transmission Lines, 232 Machines. See Generators; Motors Mains. See Cables (above)
Meters, Certification of, 33
— Recording, Specifications, 448
Mining Electrical Equipment, Progress in Design of, 518
Motors. See Motors, £:iectrzc Oil Switch. See Switchgear Overcurrent and Earth-Leakage Apparatus (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 15
Phase Shifter for Regenerative Working, South African Railways, 306*
Polyphase Systems, Unsymmetrical, Symmetrical Component Analysis of (Review), 283
Power. See Power
— Stations. See Power Stations Railways. See Pailways
Rectifiers for Regenerative Working, South African Railways, 305*
Resistance Welding. See BVZr/Wf/ Resistances, Earthing, Liquid, Design of, 124*
— Flameproof, for Mining Work (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 257*
Rural Electrification in Ontario, 126
in South Africa, 252
Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion Starters, Motor. See Motors, Electric Steel Manufacture. See Metallurgy Substation.
Switchgear. See Switchgear;
Electric Telegraphy. See Telegraphy Telephony. See Telephony Testing, High-Voltage Direct-Current, Report on, 175. See Addendum, 209
Traction. See Pailways
Transformers. See Transformers Welding. See Welding
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy; Radio
— Telephony. See Telephony; Radio Wiring Conduit and Fittings, Specification, 208
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Electric Furnace Co., Ltd., Tocco Process for Hardening Steel Surfaces, 426*
Electrical Engineers, Institution of :
Scheme for Engineering Training in War- Time, 72
Scholarship Awards, 89
High-Voltage Distribution in Rural Areas, by K. L. May, 92
Future Meeting Arrangements, 314
Presidential Address, by J. R. Beard, on Planning Post-War World, 375, 416, 439. See 373, 391. 411
Application of Electricity to Agriculture and Horticulture, by C. A. Cameron, 466,487
Benevolent Fund, Statement by J. R. Beard, 513
East-Midland Sub-Centre:
Chairman’s Address on Electricity-Supply in Tobacco Factories, by Capt. B. C. Bayley, 425
Mersey and North-Wales Centre :
Chairman’s Address on Electricity-Supply Industry, by J. E. Nelson, 433 North-Eastern Centre:
Address, by W. A. A. Burgess, on Electrical Industry and War Production, 413
Electrical Engineers, Supervising, Association of. See Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of
— Industry, Reservation of Workers in, 473 Electricity Commissioners. See under Electric Electro-Deposition of Iron on Fractured Test
Pieces, 379*
Electrolytic Corrosion. See Corrosion
Emery Wheels. See Grinding under Machine
Tools
Empire Air Routes, 106, 226 Employees. See Labour Employment. See Labour Ends, Dished, and Stayed Surfaces (Review), 422
Energy, Electrical and Mechanical, Transmission of, 373
Engine, Compression-Ignition High-Speed (Review), 483
— Diesel. See Engines, Oil, Riesel; Marine Propulsion; Motorships
— Fire. See Fire Engines
— Gas, Fifty Years of Pressure Scavenging in,
95*. See LETTERS, II5, 137, 156, 195, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494, 514
— — Cylinder Liner Wear, 216
See also Producer; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Indicators. See Indicators
— Internal-Combustion (Review), 64
Combustion, Discharge of Gas from I
Cylinder, 134*, 154*, 181* !
Combustion, Exhaust-Pipe Pressure Waves in, 301*
Combustion, Fifty Years of Pressure Scavenging in, 95*. See LETTERS, 115, 137, 156,195, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494, 514
Combustion, Gaseous Fuels for, 456 Combustion, Standardisation of, 175 Combustion, Manufacturers’ Association,
Scheme of Costing on Government Contracts, 491
Combustion, Washing Machine for (Dawson Brothers, Ltd.), 99*
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Car. See Engines, Petrol
Engine, Oil, Diesel, American (Review), 143 Diesel, 64-b.h.p. Four-Cylinder (Russell,
Newbery and Co., Ltd.). 366*
Diesel, Marine, Direct-Reversing, Six- Cylinder, 540 b.h.p. (Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd.), 505*
Diesel, Mirrlees, Two-Cylinder, Experiments on Operation with Pulverised Coal, 445
Diesel, 225-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Fowler- Sanders, 47* ,, , _
Diesel, 277-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder, Paxman-
Ricardo, 26* . , 17 1
Diesel, 275-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder, Vulcan-
Frichs, 365*
Diesel, Use in Mines, 517
Fifty Years of Pressure Scavenging in, 95*. See LETTERS, 115, 137, 156, 195, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494, 514
—.— See also Tractors and PARAGRAPH INPEX
— Petrol, Knock in, 479
Operation on Town Gas, 337*, 358* See also Carburettors; Motor Cars
— Pulverised Coal, Experiments with, 445
— Steam, Marine, Developments in, 511 Marine. See also Marine Propulsmn
Turbines
Reciprocating, High-Pressure, at Lockland, Ohio, 297
— See also PARAGRAPH INPEX Engineers, Central Register of, 133
— Education in Non-Professional Branches
of Science, 492
See also Education
— Institutions. See Institutions
— and Post-War World Problems, 375, 391, 411,416,439
— Production, Institution of. See Production
— Registration of, Ministry of Labour, 53
— and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of.
Presidential Address, by W. Ayre, on
Leadership and Direction in Industry, 317, 339. See 332; Dimensional Analysis of
Centrifugal Pumps, by Dr. G. C. McDonald, 371
Engineering Apprentices. See Education
— Contracts. See Contracts ; Legal
— Department, National Physical Laboratory,
Investigation on Creep under Combined
Tension and Torsion, 24*, 61*, 104*, 134*, 164
— Education. See Education
— Industry and the War, 191
— Laboratories. See Laboratories; National Physical
— Legal Aspects of (Review), 103
— Societies. See Institutions
— Standards. See Standards Institution English Electric Co., Ltd., Bodies for 275-h.p.
Diesel Railcars, 365*
Erosion, Soil, by Wind Action, 341*, 364*, 401* Escalators, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 103*, 246*
Evans, E. J., Investigation on Vibration Patterns of Propeller Blades, 484*, 518*
Evans, M. T., the Late, 376 Evaporating Plant, S.S. ” America,” 185* Evaporation of Water from Saturated Sur
faces, 238*, 278*. See Erratum, 308 Excavating Plant, Shock-Absorbing Coupling
for, 319*
Excavation Work, King George V Dock, London,326*
Excavator, Side Dragline Attachment for (Priestman Brothers, Ltd.), 247*
Exhaust-Pipe Pressure Waves, 301* Expansion Joints, Roadway, Port Arthur-
Orange Bridge, Texas, 122* Experimental Tank. See Tank ; Models “ Exploded-Wood ” Process, 502* Export, Institute of, Canada and United Kingdom Exports, by N. M. Clougher, 313; Anglo-Turkish Trade Agreements, by R. F. Bradley, 473
— Trade. See Trade and Industries in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Extraction of Oil by Solvents, 496*

FACTOR of Safety under Fluctuating Stress, 218*
Factory Accidents. See Accidents
— Accounts. See Costing
— Air-Raid Emergency Precautions in, 253, 272
— Building, Welded Rigid-Frame, 281*, 321*. See Addendum, 348
— Design, Single-Storey, War-Time Bulletin
on,396
— Diamond-Cutting, at Birmingham, 28
— Fire Precautions in. Fire Watchers Order, 1940, 249
— Glass in. Protection of, 433
— Heating Stove, Coke-Fired (Tangyes, Ltd.), 476*
— Lighting in War-Time, Departmental Committee’s Report, 152, 333. See 233, 377
— Safety-Line Marking Machine for (B.M.B.
Engineering Co.), 487*
— Sites and Electricity Supply, 93
— Tobacco, Electricity Supply in, 425
— War-Time Building, Bulletin on, 188, 396,
430,495
Time Lighting in, 152, 233, 333, 377 Failure of Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge, 481*
Fan, Forced-Draught, S.S. ” America,” 183*
— Ventilation, Road Tunnel under River
Maas, Rotterdam, 246* Farming. See Agriculture ; Tractors Farquharson, Prof. F. B., Experiments on
Models of Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 481 Fats, Solvent Extraction of, 496* Fatigue of Helical Springs, 36*
— Industrial. See under Labour
— and Static Failure, 218*
Federation of British Industries, Statement on Purchase Tax, 113
Feed-Water System, S.S. ” America,” 185* Treatment for High-Pressure Boilers, 297 See also Water
Ferro-Concrete Beams, Spun Tubular and Half-Tubular, 343*
Ferro-Concrete Columns, Tire Resistance of, Investigations on, 111
Construction, War-Time, Bulletins on. 25,396,430,495
Jetty, King George V Dock, London,
Spans, Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas, 2*, 64*, 121*
and Steel, Continuous Frames in, Automatic Design of (Review), 462
Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 101*, 161*, 244*
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ferrous Materials, Atmospheric Corrodibility of, Accelerated Spray Test for, 433
Filtration Plant, Water Supply of Salisbury S. Rhodesia, 257, 266
Finniecome, J. R., on Specific Speed of Pumps and Turbines, 195, 376*. See LETTERS, 77, 96, 115, 137*, 175,256,296,454; on Development of Kaplan Turbine, 381*. See Erratum. 408; on Characteristic Design Factors-for Pumps, 464*
Fire Hazards with Aluminium Paint, 88
— Ladder, 100-ft. Turntable (Merryweather and Sons, Ltd.), 155*
— Precautions in Factories, Fire Watchers Order, 1940, 249
— Protection in S.S. America,” 178,186*
— Resistance, Investigations by Building Research Board, 111 of Linoleum, Experiments on, 68
— Risks at Substations, 393
Fisher Scientific Co., Carbanalyzer, 138* Fishplates, Deflection and Stresses in. Research on,141*
Flame, Ignition and Combustion of Hydrocarbons, 456*, 478
— Propagation in Pulverised-Coal Firing, 79 Flats, Optical, Manufacture of (Optical Measuring Tools, Ltd.), 385*
Fleet. See Warships Flight. See Aeronautics
Flood Control on Mississippi River, Bonnet Carr6 Spillway, 421*, 465*
of Upper Mississippi, 41*
— Prevention in Shanghai, 213
Floors, Concrete, Economical Use of Cement for, 430
— Spun-Concrete Beams for, 343*
Flow Indicator, Visible, Arkon (Walker, Cros- weller and Co., Ltd.), 117*
— in Pipe Lines, Use of Salt Velocity Method,
179*
Fluids, Properties at High Pressures, and Design of High-Pressure Plant (Review), 383
— Terminal Speed of Particles Falling in, 441* Food Investigations in Australia, 235
— Ministry, Cold-Storage Depots, 453
— Waste, Coke for Drying of, 428
Ford Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Scholarships at, 53
Foremen and Supervisors, New Technique for (Review), 432
Forest-Products Research Laboratory, Researches on Machining of Abrasive Timber, 501*
Forestal Land, Timber and Railway Co., Ltd. versus Rickards, 454
Forging Press. See Press under Machine Tools
Foundations, Bonnet Carr6 Mississippi River, 422*
— Pier, Port Arthur-Orange
1*, 64*
— for Ventilation Building, under River Maas, Rotterdam, 163*
— for Welded Rigid-Frame Factory Building,
281*. See Addendum. 348
Foundry Practice, Non-Ferrous (Review), 203
— See also Castings
Fowler, J., and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 150-kW. Portable Diesel-Driven Generating Set, 47*
Fractures, Rail, Car for Detection, 223*. See' Erratum, 296
Frames, Continuous, in Steel and Reinforced Concrete, Automatic Design of (Review), 462
Framework. Steel, in War-Time Factory Design, 396
France, Ugine Steel Works, Experiments on Perrin Process of Steel Manufacture, 324, 357, 399, 414
— See also French
Franchimont, E., North-South Junction Railway, Brussels, 13*, 21*, 74*
French Aluminium Industry, 77
— See also France
Freon Refrigerating Plant, S.S. ‘'America” 186
Friction Clutch. See Clutch
Fuel and Allied Industries Guide, 48
— Consumption in Power Stations, 412, 454*, 479*
— Institute of, Coal-Cleaning Policy, by Dr. A. A. Hirst, 19*, 39*; Conversion of Petrol Vehicles to Operate on Low- Pressure Town Gas, by Dr. E. A. C. Chamberlain, 337*, 358* ; Some Thoughts on Coke, by W. Boon, 428 ; Award of Melchett Medal to Prof. E. Audibert, 513 ; Award of Students’ Medal and Prize, 513
— Liquid. See also Oil Fuel
?— Motor, Improvement of, 479 Use of Town Gas for, 337*, 358* Work of Gas Traction Development Committee, 456 , _ ,
See also Oas ; Motor ; Petrol; Producer ~ Oil. See Oil Fuel
— Pump. See Pump
— Research Board, Annual Report, 435, 445
— Solid, Analyses of, 454
— Waste Wood as, 461, 474 .
— See also Coal; Oil; Gas ; Pulverised Coal Furnace, Blast, South African, Management of,
299*, 315, 389,433
— Boiler, Design for Pulvensed-Fuel Firing, 79
— Electric-Arc and Resistance, Transformers
for (British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd.), 504*
— Iron-Smelting, Primitive, in the East, 498*
— Salt-Bath, Investigation on Corrosion of Bath, 458* . x z- zo Bath, Molten-Salt Ejector for, 48
Eurnace for Waste-Wood Products, 474
— See also Coke Ovens
Fusion Welding. See 'Welding

GALLIONS Impounding Station, Royal Albert Docks, London, 327*
Ganz and Co., Tests of Cast-Iron Skew Gears, 242
Garrard, C. J. 0., on Design of Liquid Earthing Resistances, 124*
Garton, F. L., on Wear-Load Characteristic of , Four-Ball Test of Lubricants, 115. See LETTERS, 216, 236* ;
Gas Bag, for Town-Gas Operated Vehicles, I 339*, 358* I
— Coke-Oven. See Coke Oven
— Conditioning Plant, Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd., 27*
— Discharge from Vessel into Atmosphere, 134*, 154*, 181*
— Engine. See Engine, Gas
— Engineers, Institution of, Production of Reactive Gas Coke by Alkali Activation, by H. H. Thomas and P. J. Askey, 127
— Explosive, Flameproof Apparatus for use in. See Colliery
— Fuels, Work of Gas Traction Development Committee on, 456
— and Gas Works. INDEX
— Kinetic Theory of, view), 363
Gas Light and Coke ,
Operation of Motor Vehicles on Town Gas, 338*,358*
— Liquified Petroleum, Use in United States, 220
— Natural, Resources and World’s Use of, 412, 454*, 479*
— Producer. See Producer
— Town, Operation of Petrol Vehicles on, 337*, 358* See 456
— Toxic, in Exhaust of Diesel Haulage Mine Engines, 517
Organic Halogens, in Industry, Method of Detection, 468
— Traction Development Committee, Interim Report, 456
— Water, Fuel Research Board’s Investigations on, 445
— Welding. See Welding
Gasoline. See Petrol; Engine, Petrol
Gates, Roller and Tainter, Upper Mississippi Regulation Scheme, 41*
Gauge, Dial, for Linear Measurements, Specification, 148
— for Low Values of Illumination, Specification, 368
— Screw-Thread, Tolerances for, Specification, 368,388
G. B. System of Sheet-Steel Building, 16* Gear-Cutting Machines. See Machine Tools Gear Grinding Co., Ltd., Orcutt Hydraulic Gear-Tooth Grinder, 204*
— Machine-Cut, Specification, 428
— Skew, Pressure on Teeth of, 221*, 241*
— Toothed, Surface Hardening Machine for (Shorter Process Co., Ltd.), 227*
— Transmission, for 275-h.p. Diesel Railcars, 366*
Geared Turbines, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
Gelson, W. E., on Track Stress Research, 141* General Electric Co., Ltd., Overcurrent and Earth-Leakage Apparatus, 15 ; Improved Construction for High-Power Electric Lamps, 90; Heavy-Duty Slip-Ring Motors, 107 ; Liquid Earthing Resistances, 124* ; “ Philplug” Jointing Material for Drainage and Water Mains, 248* ; Thermal Storage Plant, Poplar Town Hall, 288 Generating Station. See Power Station Generation and Transmission (Review), 203 Generator, Acoustic Air-Jet, Hartmann, 314 — Electric, 600-kW, S.S. “America,” 186* 150-kW Diesel-Driven, Portable (J. i Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd.), 47*
18,750-kVA, Orem Power Station, 328 300-Watt Petrol-Driven, Portable (Brad- by’s Engineering Works, Ltd.), 16*
German and British Air Power, Comparisons, 32, 133,293,453
— Economics, Review of, 512
— Exports to Brazil, 254
— Ships, British Cargoes in. Legal Decisions on,
454
— Trade with Chile and Peru, 123,144
[ Ghormley, Rear-Admiral R. L., on Work of
I Admiral A. T. Mahan, 271
, Gibbs and Cox, Inc., S.S. “America,” 146*,
’ 178,183*. See 151
Giffen, Dr. E., on Discharge of Gas from Vessel into Atmosphere, 134*, 154*, 181*; on Acceleration Diagrams for Mechanisms, 213*
Giles, G. W., on Non-Metallic Inclusions in Steel, 434
Girders. See Beams; Bridges; Floors
Glasgow Corporation Transport Department, Annual Report, 233
— Docks, Committee of Inquiry on, 169
— Royal Technical College, Experiments on
Grass Drying, 7
— University, Centenary of Engineering Professorship at, 253
Glassin Factories, Protection of, 433. See 275
— Flexible Substitutes for, 275
— Flying, Dangers from, 231, 275
— in Large Buildings, Obscuration of, 470
— Large Sheets, Protection against Air-Raid Damage, 275
— Reinforcement for Concrete, 225*, 264
— Signal, Railway, Colours for. Specification, 88
— Softening Point of, 448
— Strain Testing of. Standard Discs in, 448
— Technology, Society of. Softening Point of Glass, by Dr. J. T. Littleton, 448; Standard Discs in Strain Testing of Glass, by Dr. E. J. Gooding, 448
— Tiles, Impact Tests on, 66*
Glazing, Roof, Fabric-Bitumen for. Specification, 348
Gooding, Dr. E. J., on Standard Discs in Strain Testing of Glass, 448
Government and British Shipowners, War-time Financial Arrangements, Memorandum on,131
— Contracts, Scheme for Costing on, 491
— Control of Industry in War and Peace, 512 of Private Firms, 113
— Industrial Appointments, 291, 293
— Insurance Scheme for Air-Raid Damage, 212, 313, 493
— Railways. See Railways
Grain-Conveying Plants, Pneumatic, Tests of, 363*
Grass Drying, Temperature Effects in, 7
Grates. See Furnace
Great Britain, Export Trade. See Trade
Greece, Ancient Harbours of, 373, 418*
Greenwood versus Central Service Co., Ltd., 84
Griffin and Tatlock, Ltd., Carbanalyzer, 138*
Griffith, P., the Late, 354
Grinding Action Theories, 17, 54*. See Erratum, 230
— Machines. See Machine Tools
Guarding of Rubber Calenders, Report, 30
Guest, J. J., on Yield Surface in Combined Stress 261*
Guild, J., on Evaluating the Surface Finish of Metals, 44*
Gun, Blow, Pneumatic (B.E.N. Patents, Ltd.), 78*
Gunmetal Castings and Ingots, Leaded, Specification, 88
— Ingots and Castings, Specification, 148
Guppy, A. W., on Specific Speed of Pumps and Turbines, 256. See LETTERS, 77, 96,115, 137*, 175, 195, 296, 376*, 454

HABEL, O. W., on Machine Design and Motion Economy, 132
Hadfield, Sir R. A., the Late, 274*
Hague, Dr. B., on Template for Measuring Curved Arcs, 263*
Halogen Compounds, Organic, Toxic, Detection of, 468
Hamilton, J. H., Work on Pressure Scavenging, 95*. See LETTERS, 115, 137, 156, 195, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494, 514
Harbours, Ancient, in Mediterranean, 373, 395*, 418*, 438*
— Board, Wellington, New Zealand, Annual
Report, 100
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Hardening Metals. See Heal Treatment under Metallurgy
Hargrave, L., Aeronautical Work of, 5
Harker, G. F. H., on Late Sir J. J. Thomson, 256. See 193*
Harris, E. E., on Utilisation of Waste Lignin, 190
Harris, P., on Machining Abrasive Timber, 501* Hartmann, Prof. J., Acoustic Air-Jet Generator, 314
Hartwells, Ltd., Motor Vehicles with Brush- Koela Gas Producer, 304*
Harvey, R. J., 275-h.p. Diesel Railcars for New Zealand, 365*
Hatfield, Dr. W. H.,on Non-MetallicInclusions in Steel, 434
Hawkes, Prof. C. J., on Fifty Years of Pressure Scavenging, 195. See LETTERS, 95*, 115, 137, 156, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494, 514
Hawksley Lecture on Power and Combustion, 424*, 454*, 478*. See 412, 413
Health and Efficiency of Munition Workers (Review), 322
Heat Balance, Earth’s, 412, 424*, 454*, 478*
— Drop Method for Measuring Power of High-
Speed Locomotives, 285
— Engines. See Engines : Turbines
— Treatment of Metals. See Metallurgy Heater, Electric, Thermal-Storage Plant,
Poplar Town Hall, 288
— Feed-Water. See Eeed Water
Heating, Electric, and Electricity-Supply
. Undertakings, 12
— Space, Methods of Measuring Warmth, 128 Henry Ford Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Scholarships at, 53
Herbert, A., Ltd., Vertical Milling Machine with Fixed-Base Table, 486*
Hewitson versus St. Helens’ Colliery Co., 76 Hichens, W. L., the Late, 335*
High Duty Alloys, Ltd., Remote Control for 1,500-ton Press, 127*
— Frequency. See Electric
— Pressure Plant, Design of, and Properties of
Fluids at High Pressures (Review), 383
— Temperature Tests. See Tests {Materials) Highways. See Roads
Hirst, Dr. A. A., on Coal-Cleaning Policy, 19*, 39*
Hirvonen, E., on Automatic Step-Drilling of Deep Holes, 445*
History of Pressure Scavenging in Internal- Combustion Engines, 95*. See LETTERS, 115, 137, 156, 195, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494, 514
H. M.SS. See under Warships
Hog Fuel,” Combustion of, 474
Hoisting Machinery (Review), 44
Holland, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 101*, 161*, 244*
Holmside and South Moor Collieries, Ltd., Handbook on Witherite, 208
Home Office, Departmental Committee’s Report on Lighting in Factories, 152, 333 ; Order Restricting Use of High-Frequency Apparatus, 194
— Security, Ministry of. Fire Watchers Order,
1940, 249 ; Memorandum on Air-Raid Emergency Precautions in Factories, 272 ; Pamphlet on Air-Raid Precautions for Users of Ammonia, 273 ; Reports on Protection of Plate-Glass Windows; Bracing Systenys for Large Sheets of Glass; Flexible Substitutes for Glass, 275 ; Bulletin on SingleStorey War-Time Factory Design, 396; Bulletin on Obscuration of Glass in Large Buildings, 470
Honeywill and Stein, Ltd., Tests' of Glass-Re- inforced Concrete, 225, 264
Hook, Drawbar, Wrought Iron, Failure of, 197, 206
Hooper, Prof. L. J., on Salt Velocity Measurements of Flow in Pipes, 179*
Horticulture, Electricity in, 466, 487
Hose, Rubber, Fabric-Reinforced, Specification, 428
Hours of Labour. See Labour
Howard, W. W., Brothers and Co., Ltd. 'dersus I Kann, 454
Hull Electricity Supply Undertaking, Annual I Report, 174
Hulme, E. W., on Prehistoric and Primitive Iron Smelting, 498*
Human Body, Effect of Electric Current on, 45, 66
—Needs and Solar Energy, 412, 424*, 454*, 478*
Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd., 277-b.h.p. 0-8-0 Type Diesel Locomotive, 26*
Hunter, H., on Fifty Years of Pressure Scavenging, 115. See LETTERS, 95*, 137, 156,195, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494,514
Hydraulic and Irrigation Research Station, Poona, Experiments at, 403*
— Measurements, Manual for Engineers (Review), 323
— Power Plant. See Power Plant
— Research Laboratory, Ottawa, 350
— Turbines. See Turbines ; Power Plant
— See also Irrigation ; Water
Hydro-Electric Power Plant. See Power Plant Hydrocarbons, Catalytic Synthesis of, Investigations on,445
— Ignition and Combustion, 456*, 478 Hydrogenation Investigations by Fuel Research Board, 445

ILLUMINATION, Daylight, for Clerical Work, 126
— See also Light; Lighting and Lamps under Electric
Immersion Tinning of Copper and Brass, 388 Impact Tests. See Tests {Materials} Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Process for Rot-Proofing Sand Bags, 488
Import Trade. See Trade
Impounding Station, Gallions, Royal Albert Docks, London, 327*
Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd., Gas-Conditioning Plant, 27* ; Molten-Salt Ejector for Salt-Bath Furnaces, 48
— Lamps. See Lamps under Electric Inclusions, Non-Metallic, in Steel, Quantitative Evaluation of, 434
India, Irrigation Research in, Report, 403*
— Jamshedpur, Experiments on Perrin Process of Steel Manufacture, 324, 357, 399, 414
— Primitive Iron Smelting in, 498*
— Rubber, See Pubber
Indian Government, Report on Track Stress Research, 141*
Indicators for High-Speed Steam Locomotives, 285
— Visible-Flow, Arkon (Walker, Crosweller and
Co., Ltd.), 117*
Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Agreements and Disputes. See Labour
Labour Notes
— Chemistry. See Chemistry
— Economics. See Labour
— Fatigue. See Labour
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Notes. See Labour Notes under Labour
— Preparedness for War, 292
— Research. See Pesearch
Industries, British, Federation of. See Federation
— Leadership and Direction in, 317, 332, 339
— Post-War Planning, 375, 391, 411, 416, 439
— in War and Peace, Government Control, 512
— See also Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Ingots and Castings, Leaded Gunmetal,
Specification, 88
— Gunmetal, Specification, 148
Inland Navigation. See Canals; Pivers, etc. Institute. See Institutions
Institution, British Standards. See Standards
— of Production Engineers. See Production
— Royal. See Poyal Institution
— Technical, Future Meetings of, 314
and Scientific. See Aeronautical Society, Poyal: Arts, Poyal Society of; Automobile Engineers, Institution of; Canada, Engineering Institute of; Chemical Engineers, Institution of; Chemical Industry, Society of; Chemical Society, American; Civil Engineers, Institution of; Electrical Engineers, Institution of; Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of; Export, Institute of; Fuel, Institute of; Gas Engineers, Institution of; Glass Technology, Society of; Illuminating Engineering Society; Iron and Steel Institute ; Junior Institution of Engineers ; Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of; Manchester Association of Engineers; Marine Engineers, Institute of; Mechanical Engineers, American Society of; Mechanical Engineers, Institution of; Metals, Institute of: Mining Electrical Engineers, Association of; Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Institute of; Municipal and County Engineers, Institution of; Municipal Electrical Association, Incorporated; Naval Architects, Institution of; Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of; Newcomen Society; North- East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders; Production Engineers, Institution of; Psychology, Industrial, National Institute of; Poyal Institution; Poyal United Service Pistitution; Sheffield Metallurgical Association ; Sheffield Society of Engineers and Metallurgists ; Supervis- imj Electrical Engineers, Association of Wrought Light Alloys Development Association.
Instrument Jewels, Specification, 168
— for Magnetic Determination of Carbon in
Steel-Bath Samples, 138*
— Making, Organisation of, 495
— See also Aeronautics ; Electric Insulation. See Electric
Insurance Scheme for Air-Kaid Damage to Property, 212, 313, 493
Internal-Combustion Engines. See Engines; Motor Cars; Tractors
International Tin Research and Development Council, Report on Adhesion of White- Metal Linings in Bearings, 250 ; Immersion Tinning of Copper and Brass, 387 ; Tinning of Piston Rings, 410
— Trade. See Trade
Inventions. See Patents
Inventors in War-Time, 73
Iron Alloys. See Metalluriiy and Steel
— Atmospheric Corrodibility of, Accelerated Spray Test for, 433
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
•— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Heat Treatment. See Metallurgy
— Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast; Metallurgy
— Ore. See Ore
— Plating of Fractured Test Pieces, 379*
— Smelting, Primitive, in the East, 498*
— and Steel Control Orders, 37, 113, 378 Industry in Brazil, 234, 423
Iron and Steel Institute :
Autumn Meeting, Sheffield:
Luncheon, 414
Retiring Officers, 414 Reports of Discussions, 414, 433 Manufacture of Steel by Perrin Process, by B. Yaneske, 324, 357, 399. See 414
Practical Side of Blast Furnace Management, with Especial Reference to South African Conditions, by R. R. F. Walton, 299*, 315, 389. See 433 Accelerated Spray Test for Determination of Relative Atmospheric Corrodibility of Ferrous Materials, bj^ Dr. T. Swinden and W. W. Stevenson, 433
Non-Metallic Inclusions in Steel, Quantitative Evaluation—Part I, by Dr. W. H. Hatfield and G. W. Giles, 434
Influence of Some Special Elements upon Strain - Ageing and Yield - Point Characteristics of Low-Carbon Steels, by Principal C. A. Edwards, D. L. Phillips and H. N. Jones, 434
Crystal Structure of Cementite, by Dr. II. Lipson and N. J. Fetch, 435
Iron-Plating' of S})ecimens for Microscopical Examination, bj^ E. A. Jenkinson, 379*
Corrosion of Steels by Molten Nitrates, by P. Lloyd and Dr. E. A. C. Chamber- lain, 458*
Iron and Steel Scrap, National Survey, 393 I Scrap Salvage Campaign, 31. See ' LETTER, 35
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Tests. See Tests {Materials}
— Welding. See Welding
— Wrought, Work of H. Cort, 452
— See also Cast Iron ; Steel; Metallurgy
Ironwork, Structural. See Bridges; Boofs; Steelrcorlc; Structures
Irrigation Research in India, Report, 403*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Italian Cruiser “ Bartolomeo Colleoni,” Sinking of, 73
Italy, Ancient Harbours of, 373. 438*

JACKSON, PROF. D. C., on Present Status and Trends of Engineering Education, in United States, 472
Jackson, P., on Fifty Years of Pressure Scavenging, 265*, 436*. See LETTERS, 95*, 115,137,156,195, 355*, 494, 514
Jackson, Sir R. M., the Late. 475
Jacobs, A., North-South Junction Railway, Brussels, 13*, 21*, 74*
Jamshedpur, India, Experiments on Perrin Process of Steel Manufacture, 324, 357, 399,414
Japan, Primitive Iron Smelting in, 498
Jarvis, W. J., on Water Supply of Salisbury, S. Rhodesia, 257, 266
Jenkin, Dr. C. F., the Late, 174
Jenkinson, E. A., on Iron-Plating of Specimens for Microscopical Examination, 379*
Jennings, J., on Specific Speed of Pumps and Turbines, 77, 137, 175, 296, 454. See LETTERS, 96,115,137*, 175,195,256,376* Jennings, M., on Pneumatic Conveying in Theory and Practice, 361*
” Jervis Bay,” H.M. Armed Merchant Cruiser, Action of, 393
Jetty, Ferro-Concrete, King George V Dock, London, 325*
Jewels, Instrument, Specification, 168
Jig Chain, Renold, 46*
Johansen, F. C., on Specific Speed of PumjKs and Turbines, 96, 195. See LETTERS, 77, 115, 137*, 175, 195, 256, 296,376*, 454
Johnson, A. E., on Creep under (•ombined Tension and Torsion, 24*, 61*, 104*, 134*. 164
Johnson Machine Co., Friction Clutches for Line Shafting, 286*
Jointing Material, ” Philplug,” for Drainage and Water Mains (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 248
Joints, Expansion, Roadway, Port Arthur- Orange Bridge, Texas, 122*
— Pin, Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas, 65* Jones, E. H. (Machine Tools), Ltd., Application for Injunction against Ministry of Supply, 113; 1,500-ton Press with Remote Control, 127* ; Optical Circular Table, 166* ; ” Sigma ” Mechanical Comparator, 290* ; O.M.T. Optical Flats, 385*; ” Sigma” Precision Jig Drilling and Milling Machine, 410* ; O.M.T. Omtimeter, 477*
Jones, H. N., on Strain-Ageing Characteristics of Steels, 434
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation, Carbanalyzer, 138*
Jones, Sir W. B., on Managerial Service and
War Effort, 333
Jugoslavia. See Yugoslavia
Junior Institution of Engineers, Annual Re- ])ort, 413; Inaugural Meeting, 60th
Session, 493. See 402; Sheffield Section, Presidential Address, by Prof. H. W.
Swift, on Fatigue and Static Failure. 218*

KANN versus W. W. Howard lirothers and Co., Ltd., 454
Kanter, J. J., Theory of Creep, 24, 61,165
Kaplan Turbine, Development of, 381*. See Erratum, 408
Kastner, L. J., on Exhaust-Pipe Pressure Waves, 301*
Kearful, G. G., on Machine Design and Motion Economy, 132
Key, T. D., on Design of Clarifiers for Waterworks, 157*
Khadakvasla, India, Siphon Spillway, Model Experiments on, 403*
Kinetic Theory of Gases, Introduction to (Review), 363
King George V Dock, London, 325*
King versxis Electricity Commissioners ex parte Chester Corporation, 113
Kingston-upon-Hull Electricity Supply Undertaking, Annual Report, 174
Knock in Petrol Engines, 479
Koepke, C. A. on Power and Velocity Developed in Manual Work, 132
Kronenberg, Dr. M., on Machining with Single Point Tools, 259*

LABORATORY, Forest-Products ‘Research on Machining of Abrasive Timber, 501*
— High-Voltage Testing, Liverpool University,
473
! — Hydraulics Research, Ottawa, 350
j — Porcelain, Specification, 208
— Research, Brown-Firth, Investigation on
Non-Metallic Inclusions in Steel, 434
Institution of Automobile Engineers, Work of, 316, 374
— See also National Physical

Labour :

Emergency Labour Training, 451 Industrial Accidents. See Accidents Instrument Making, Organisation of Operators in, 495
Labour in Electricity-Supply Industry, 51
— and National Service, Ministry of,
Survey of Resources of Man Power, 13 ; Organisation of Man Power, 32 ; Central Register of Engineers, 53; Circular on Working Hours in Munition Factories, 93 ; Register of Engineering Labour, 133; Training for Munitions Production, 413 ; Safety First Pamphlets, 432; Order on Protection of Glass in Factories, 433 ; Emergency Training Schemes, 451
— Notes, 18, 38, 56, 78, 97, 116,138, 156, 177, 198, 218, 237, 258, 277, 298, 318, 337, 357, 378, 398, 417, 437, 457, 478, 498, 517. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— for South African Blast-Furnaces, 315
— Turnover, Causes and Effect of, 372 Munition Workers, Health and Efficiency of (Review), 322
Reservation of Workers in Electrical Industry, 473
Safe Access for Workmen, Legal Decisions on, 76
Training Courses at Technical Colleges, 192
— Facilities in War-Time, 71
— Industrial Workers, Pamphlet on, 273
— for Munitions Production, 413
— Procedure (Review), 4
Wages in Engineering Trades, 368 Working Hours in Munition Factories, 93 and Rest Periods in War-Time, 11, 72, 94. See LETTER, 77
Ladder, Fire, 100-ft. Turntable (Merryweather and Sons, Ltd.), 155*
Laing Lecture on Electrical and Mechanical Transmission of Energy, 373
Lamps, Electric. See Electric
Land, Agricultural, Drainage of, Government Aid for, 52
— Infertile, in India, Reclamation of, Experiments on, 405
— Mechanisation on, 311. See LETTERS, 355,
397, 436
— See also Soil
Lang, C. R., the Late, 476 Lathes. See Machine Tools Law. Legal; Labour; Patents
Legal:
British Cargo in German Ships, Decisions on, 454
Debtor and Creditor in War-Time, 204
Egyptian Trade Marks Act, 1939, 304
Electricity Supply and Legislation, 411, 416,439
Jones, E. H. (Machine Tools), Ltd. Application for Injunction against Ministry of Supply, 113
King versus Electricity Commissioners, ex parte Chester Corporation, 113
Labour Legislation. See Labour
Legal Aspects of Engineering (Review), 103
Permanence, Possible, of War-Time Emergency Legislation, 512
Recent Court Cases, 76, 84,114
Legal
Vessels (Innuobilisation) Order, 1940, 52 War Damage to Property Insurance Bill, 493. See 212, 313
I See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
' Legislation. Legal; Jjabour; Patents Lehel, V., on Pressures on Teeth of Skew Gears, 221*, 241*
Leland-Gilford Co., Automatic Step-Drilling j Machine for Deep Holes, 445*
Letters to the Editor, 35, 53, 77, 95*, 96*, 115, 137*, 156, 175, 195, 216, 236*, 256*. 296, 355*, 376*, 397, 436*, 494, 514
Level, Precision, for Engineering Workshops, Draft Specification. 18
Levelling Tower, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 161*
Leverhulme Research Fellowship Awards, 33
I. evy and Another versus Wodehouse, 84 Libraries, Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of. Fuel and Allied Industries Guide, 48
— University College, London, Destruction of. 313
I Liffy Hvdro-Electric Scheme, Progress with. 113
Light Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Light Production Co., Ltd., Tinning of Piston Rings, 410
— Traps, Ventilator, Specification, 208 Lighting, Artificial, under War Conditions, 194
— in Factories in War-Time, Departmental
Committee’s Report, 152, 333
— Industrial, in War-Time, 233, 370, 377
— Street, Emergency, Legal Decisions on, 84 War-Time, Specification, 8
— System, S.S. "America,” 187
Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 246*
— War-Time, in Factories, Shipyards and
Docks, 377
Time of Factories, 152, 194, 233, 333, 370, 377
— See also Illumination and J.amps under
Electric
Lightning. See Electric.
Lignin, Waste, Utilisation of, 190
Limit Gauges. See Gauges
Lincoln, J. A., Glass-Reinforced Concrete, 225*, 264
Lincoln, J. F., Arc Welding Foundation, Promotion of Welding Technique by, 53
Liners. See Ships ; Steamers
Lines, Road, Marking Machine for (B.M.B. Engineering Co.), 487*
Linoleum, Fire-Resistance of, Experiments, 68
— and Floorcloth Manufacturers’ Association,
Experiments on Fire-Resisting Qualities of Linoleum, 68
Lipson, Dr. H., on Crystal Structure of Cementite, 435
Liquid Fuel. See Oil Euel. See also Alcohol; Motor ; Petrol
Lister, Tractor-Drawn, for Breaking up Land. 401*
Literature, 4, 22, 43, 63, 103, 143, 202, 243, 283, 304, 322, 342, 363, 383, 402, 422, 462, 483, 502. See LITERATURE INDEX
Litigation. See Legal; Labour
Littleton, Dr. J. T., on Softening Point of Glass, 448
Liverpool Gas Co., Production of Reactive Gas-Coke by Alkali Activation, 127
— and Glasgow Salvage Association, Salvage
of H.M. Submarine "Thetis,” 56*
— University, High-Voltage Testing Labora
tory, 473
Lloyd, P., on Corrosion of Steels by Molten Nitrates, 458*
Local Authorities. See
Bock Entrance, King George V Dock, London. 325*
Tilbury Docks, 327*
— Upper Mississippi Regulation Scheme, 41* Lockland, Ohio, High-Pressure Reciprocating
Engine at, 297
Locomotive Connecting Rod, Whip Stress in, 117*. See LETTERS, 195, 576
277-b.h.p. Diesel-Engined (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 26*
— High-Speed, Measurement of Cylinder
Power of, 285
2? lDdia,n Railways, Stresses due to, 141*
Pneumatically-Operated Wind-Screen Wiper <M«tropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 406*
— See also Railways in PARAGRAPH INDEX Lodge, Sir O. J., the Late, 172*
London, Air Attacks on, 212, 231, 275, 331
TT Shelters, Policy Regarding’, 374 J™table Ladder, 155*
Midland and Scottish Railway, Report on Accident, 197, 206; Report on Wembley Derailment, 431
— Passenger Transport Board, Increases of
Fares on Systems of, 13; Review of Activities. 352; Improvement in Ser- vices, 373
— Port of. Dock Construction in 325*
— and South Eastern Area ’Board, War-
Time Work of, 392
— Underground Railways. See U/uZcrf/rownr/
— University College Library, Destruction of,
Lorant and Co., Ltd., Rotary Filing Machine 67* Lorries. See Motor Vehicles ’
Lubricants Four-Ball Test, Wear-Load Cha-
racteristic, 115. See LETTERS, 216, 236* bhiTsfer, 512’
M.
MAAS RIVER, Rotterdam, Road Tunnel under, 101*, 161*, 244* xuiinei
Maastunnel, N.V., Road Tunnel under River Maas, 101*, 161*, 244* ‘uei _nner
Macdonald, Lieut.-Col. A. C the T ate 11 n
Machine Design and Motion EconomV’ 132
Shops. See Machine Toolii ~'^TMa^e'riak)^ ^faehines and Tcs/s
Machine Tools :
Cutting T..O1H for Al.ruHive 'Jnnber, Researches on, 5(1’
Upsetting (Ajax ,.467*
(iear-Tooth ' Grinding Machine, OrniW Hydraulic ((iear (innding Co., lAd.), (iiind?ng Machine, (lear-’Pooth.
Hydraulic ((Jear Grinding Co., i-td-).
— Wheels and (Jrinding Action Theories,
17 54*. See Erratum, 230 _
Jig Drilling and Milling Machine Irecision (Sigma Manufacturing Co.), 410
— and Tool Design
1 nthe 36-in. Centre lubc-Bonng, ^'Rh " 'r’aiiered-ltoller Hearings (( raven Brothers (Manchester), Lt<L), 10/ • See Erra/ufn, 128
Limit (lauging. See Gauffe ruvirts
Machine Tools, Acceptance lest Charts for, 351, 354 .
Arc-Welded Fabrication of, 265* Design and Motion Economy, 1 3L in Generating Stations, Availability for Munition Work, 133
Ministry of Supply s Appeal for. 15,1 Mobilisation of, 191
for Munitions Manufacture, 13 Scheme for Redistribution, 373, 4 lo Work, Tolerances in. See Gamje Machining with Single-Point Tools, Investigation on,259*
Milling aiHl Drilling Machine, Precision for Jigs (Sigma Manntactiinng Df> )- jl", Machines, Sjiar-Boom, Horizontal (A. ( • Wickman, Ltd.), 386*
Vertical, with Fixed-Base T able. 486 Mobilisation of Machine Tools, 191 Nibbling and Shearing Machines, Hand- Lever (F. J. Edwards, Ltd.), 398
Press. Bending and Straightening, M elded Frame for (Dorman, Longand C’o.,Ltd.), 265*
--Forging, 8-in. Upsetting (Ajax Manufacturing Cd.), 467* .
High-Pressure, Screw-Compression, loi Sawdust Briquettes, 461*
1 500-ton Power, with Remote C ontrol ’(Clearing Machine Corporation), 127* Production Engineering, Jig and Tool Design (Review), 402
Punching Machine, Welded Traine for (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 265*
Reaming Machine, Welded Bases lor (British Thomson-Houston Co.. JXd.), 265*
Rolls, Plate-Bending, Welded Housings for (Dorman, Long and Co., Ltd.), 265* Routing Machine, Radial-Arm (Wadkin, Ltd.), 267* . ,,
Saw. Continuous-Chain Electrically- Driven, for Wood (J. T. Pickles), 217* Chain, Portable, Petrol-Driven, for Wood (T. H. and J. Daniels, Ltd.), 447* Screw Machine, Automatic, “ Polymatic Former” (Unit Machinery Co.), 287* Shearing and Nibbling Machines, Hand- Lever (F. J. Edwards, Ltd.), 398* Slotting Machine, 26-in. Stroke Heavy- Duty (Ormerod Shapers, Ltd.), 37* Welded Table for (Dorman, Long
and Co., Ltd.), 265*
Step-Drilling Machine for Deep Holes (Leland-Gifford Co.), 445*
Tools, Cutting, for Abrasive Timber, Researches on, 501*
— Single-Point, Machining with, Investigation on, 259*
Woodworking Machinery, Cutting Tools for Abrasive Timber, 501*
Press, Screw-Compression, for Sawdust Briquettes, 461*
Saw, Continuous-Chain Electrically- Driven (J. T. Pickles), 217*
Saw, Continuous-Chain, Portable, Petrol-Driven (T. H. and J. Daniels, Ltd.), 447*
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Machine Work. See Tools
Machinery, Dangerous, Cleansing, Legal Decisions on, 114
— Licences for Supply of, 473
— Vibration in (Review), 462 Mackay, J. V., the Late, 350 Mac. See also Me
Magnesium Alloys. See Alloys under Metab lurgy
Magnetic Determination of (,‘arbon in Steel, 138*
Mahan, Admiral A. T., Centenary of, 271
Mains, Electric. See Cables under Electric Managerial Service and War Effort, 333 Manchester Association of Engineers, Experiences in Organising the Design and Manufacture of Small Engineering Apparatus, by G. A. (heetham, 495
— Municipal College of Technology. Pros
pectus, 188
Manual Work, Power and Velocity Developed in, 132
Manufacture. See Trade
Marbaix, G. E., Pillar-Type Sensitive Drilling Machine, 38*
Marin, J., Theory of Creep, 24, 61, 104*, 165 Marine Auxiliary Machinery, S.S. ” America,” 146*, 183*
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Engines. See Engines ; Turbines ; Marine
Propulsion
— Engineers, Institute of, Associate-Membership and Graduate-Membership Examinations, 248; Studentship and Graduate- Membership Examinations, 413
and Naval Architects, American Society of. See Naval Architects
Marine Engineering, Electricity Applied to (Review). 422
Industry Leadership and Direction in, 317, 332, 339
— Propulsion, Electric Transmission in United
States Navy, 310
34,000-s.h.p. Geared Turbines,
“ America,” 145*, 183* Oil Fuel for. See Oil Fuel
Steam Turbines, Introduction in Large
Liners, 511
Triple-Expansion Steam Engines, High- Power, for Liners, 512
See also Engines ; Turbines ; Pronellers • and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Salvage. See Salvage
— Turbines. See TurbUx^s, Steam; Marine Propulsion
Markets. See Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Marking Machine, Road-Line (B.M.B. Engineering Co.), 487*
Marshall, P., on Mobilising Home Workshops, 35
Marshall, Dr. W. S., Tests of Glass-Reinforced Concrete, 225*, 264
Marshalling Yard, Vorst, North-South Junction Railway, Brussels, 74*
Mason, W. H., “Exploded-Wood” Process, 502*
Masonite Corporation, “ Exploded-Wood ” Process, 502*
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Researches on Stainless Steels Containing Silver, 8
Materials, Strategic, in America, 450
— Strength of. See Stress and Tests {Mate
rials}
Mathematics, Advanced Calculus (Review), 463
— Living (Review), 342
Mats, Rubber, for Electrical Purposes, Specification, 448
“Mauretania,” S.S., Adoption of Steam Turbines for, 512
Mavor and Coulson, Ltd., Petrol-Driven Portable Loading Belt Conveyors, 347*
Mavor, S., Memories of (Review), 43
May, K. L., on High-Voltage Distribution in Rural Areas, 92
McCullum versus Northumbrian Shipping Co., Ltd., 76
McDonald, Dr. G. G., on Specific Speed of Pumps and Turbines, 137*. See LETTERS, 77, 96,115,175,195, 256, 296, 376*, 454* ; on Dimensional Analysis of " Pumps, 371
McMahon, P. V., the Late, 236 Me. See also Mac
Mechanical Engineers, American Fatigue of Helical Springs, Tatnall, 36* ; Future Arrangements, 78, 153 ; Coal Characteristics and Pulverised- Coal Firing, by O. Craig, 79; Whip Stress in Locomotive Main Rod, by Prof. W. M. Davidson. 117*. See LETTERS, 195, 376; Machine Design and Motion Economy, by 0. W. Habel and G. G. Kearful, 132; Power and Velocity Developed in Manual Work, by C. A. Koepke and L. S. Whiston, 132 ; Salt Velocity Measurements at Low Velocities in Pipes, by Prof. L. J. Hooper, 179* ; Field Checks of Salt-Velocity Method, by 0. H. Dodkin, 179* ; Measurement of Cylinder Power of High-Speed Steam Locomotives, by L. K. Botteron, 285; Progress of Higher Pressures in Industrial Plant, by W. F. Ryan, 296 ; Appointment of Officers, 374 ; Automatic Step- Drilling of Deep Holes, by E. Hirvonen 445* ; Combustion of Waste-Wood Products, by H. W. Beecher and R. D. Watt, 474*

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of :

Scheme for Engineering Training in War- Time, 72
Future Meeting Arrangements, 314 Grant of Arms to, 397*. See 393 Lemdon Meetings, Winter Session
Presidential Address, by A. Binns, on the Port of London, 325*. See 333
James Watt Medal, Award to Prof. A. Stodola, 333
Discussion on Desirability of Acceptance Test Charts for Machine Tools, 354. See 351
Hawksley Lecture on Power and Combustion, by Prof. A. C. G. Egerton, 424*, 454*, 478*. See 412,413
Physical Aspects of Steam Generation at High Pressures and Problem of Steam Contamination, by R. F. Davis, 494
Mechanical Traction on Roads. See Roads; Motor Cars ; Tractors
Mechanisms, Acceleration Diagrams for, 213* Mediterranean, Ancient Harbours of, 373, 395*, 418*, 438*
Melchett Medal, Award to Prof. E. Audibert, 513
Memorial to Sir A. Denny, 48
Memories of People and Places (Review), 43 Merchant Ships. See Ships; Steamers;
Motorships . . .
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
Mercury Industry of United States, Statistics, 40
Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., 100-ft. Turntable Fire Ladder, 155*
Merz, Dr. C. H., the Late, 334* Metals, Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Filament Lamps. See Lamps under Electric Metals, Fatigue of. See Fatigue

Metals, Institute of :

Statutory Autumn Meeting, London, 349 Nomination of Officers, 349
Metal, Light, Possible Uses for, 332, 346
— Non-Ferrous, Scrap Recovery in United States, 330
— Scrap. See also Scrap
— Structure of. See Microphotographs
— Surface Finish of. Instrument for Evaluating, 44*
— Welding. See Welding
Metal. See also Metallurgy ; Microphotographs Metallography. See Metallurgy; Microphotographs
Metallurgists and Metallurgical Chemists, Sheffield Association of. See Sheffield

Metallurgy :

Alloys, Aluminium, Porosity in Castings, 296 Specification for Bars, 368 — Copper, Specification for Bars, 8 See also Brass ; Gunmetal, etc.
— Iron and Chromium (Review), 44
— Magnesium, Properties of, 346
— Tin, Adhesion to Supporting Shells in Bearings, Report on, 250
Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces Brass. See Brass
Cast Iron. See Cast Iron Coke Ovens. See Coke Ovens Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion Foundry. See Foundry Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces — Metallurgical. See Furnaces Heat Treatment, Strain Age-Hardening of Steels, Effect of Special Elements, 434 Surface-Hardening Machine (Shorter Process Co., Ltd.), 227*
Tocco Process, for Hardening Steel Surfaces, 426*
Iron Manufacture in Brazil, 234, 423 See also Furnaces, Blast — Ore. See Ore
— Smelting, Primitive, in the East, 498* Metals, Tests of. See Tests {Materials} Metallurgy, Brazilian National Council of, 424
Slag, Blast-Furnace, for Concrete, Investigations on. 111
Steel Manufacture in Brazil, 234, 423 by Perrin Process, Experiments on, 324, 357, 399,414
Use of Carbanalyzer in, 138* Welding. See Welding
See also Iron and Steel Institute; Metals, Institute of; Microphotographs ; Foundry; and PARAGRAPH INDEX Meteorology, Effect of Cold Weather on Concreting and Bricklaying, 495
of Weather on Electricity Supply, 12 Meters. See Electric
Methane Production for Motor Fuel, 456 and Utilisation (Review), 502
Methods, Materials and Men in Engineering Industry, 345
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Flameproof Resistances for Mining Work, 257* ; 250 - kVA Resistance - Welding
Machine, 336* ; Pneumatically-Operated Railway Wind-Screen Wipers, 406*; 2’5 kVA, Wire Butt-Welding Machine, 516*
— See also London
Micrometers, Internal, Draft Specification, 407 Microphotograph, Ground-Metal Surface and
Grinding (5hips, 54*. See Erratum, 230
— Iron-Plating of Fractured Test Pieces of
Steel, 379*
— Steel Corroded by Molten Nitrates, 458*
— Steel Test Pieces for Creep Investigation,24* Microstructure of Metals. See Microphotographs
Mid-Wessex Water Co., 150-kW Portable Diesel-Driven Generating Set, 47*
Middows, Ltd., versus Robertson, 454 Mill, Sugar-Cane, Evolution of, 319
— Textile, Dugaresa, Yugoslavia,
Tubular Beams for Floor, 345*
New Pralhad, Bombay, Electrification of, 67
Milling Machines and Cutters. See Machine Tools
Milne, J. A., Award of Albert Medal to, 37 Mineral Dressing, Principles of (Review), 324 .— Oils. See Oils
— Wealth of British Columbia, 270
— See also Coal; Mining; Ores; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mines, Coal. See Collieries
•— Department, Arrangements for Winter Coal Supplies, 333 ; Compensation Scheme for Coal Industry, 493
— Ministry of, British Columbia, Annual
Report, 270
— Safety in. Research Board, Experiments
on Fire Hazards with Aluminium Paint, 88
— United States Bureau of. See United
States
— Winding. See Winding
— See also Coal; Collieries; Mining; Ores ;
Winding : and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mining Diesel Haulage Engines, Advantages and Disadvantages of, 517
— Electrical Engineers, Association of. Progress in Design of Mining Electrical Equipment, by N. V. Castling, 518
Equipment, Progress in Design of, 518
— and Metallurgical Engineers, American
Institute of, The Carbanalyzer, by H. K. Work and H. T. Clerk, 138*
— and Metallurgy, Brazilian National Council
of, 424
Ministry of Labour and National Service See under Labour
— of Supply. See Supply
— of Transport. See Transport
Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd. Six-Cylinder, 540 b.h.p., Direct-Reversing Marine Diesel Engine, 505*
Mirrlees Watson Co., Ltd., Centenary, 73
Mississippi River, Bonnet Carr6 Spillway on, 421*, 465*
Upper, Regulation of, 41* Model Experiments on Clarifiers for Water Works, 157*
on Directional Stability of Ships, 275 at Irrigation and Hydrodynamic Research Station, Poona, 403*
Mississippi River, Bonnet Carre Spillway, 421, 465
Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 481 —.— Vibrating Flat-Blade Marine Propellers, 484*, 518*
See also Aeronautics; Tank Experiments
— Pumps and Turbines, Tests of, 371
Model Tests, Bonnet Carr6 Spillway on Mississippi River, 421, 465
Mogden Sewage Works, Methane Production at, 456
Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., Report on Stainless
Steels Containing Silver and Molybdenum,8 Monkhouse, E. W., the Late, 437
Montaup Electric Co., 650,000-lb. Forced-
Circulation Boiler, 394 Morgan, Sir C. L., the Late, 394* Morris Motors, Ltd., Chassis for Motor Vehicle
with Brush-Koela Gas Producer, 304*; Performance of Morris Motor Van on Town Gas, 359
Morrison, W. S., on Post Office in War-Time, 513 I Mortar, Use of Slag for. 111
Motion Economy and Machine Design, 132 Motor-Car Engines. See Engines, Petrol Engineers. See Automobile Engineers Petrol, Conversion to Operate on Town
Gas, 337*, 358*
Fuels. See Motor Fuels See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Carriages, Railway. See Carriages
— Electric, Flameproof, for Industrial Uses
(British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 85* New Pralhad Mill, Bombay, 67
Slip-Ring, Heavy-Duty (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 107
Starters and Controllers for, Specification, 388
— Fuel, Improvement of, 479
Use of Town Gas for, 337*, 358* Work of Gas Traction Development
Committee, 456
— Internal-Combustion. See Engines ; Motor
Cars ; Tractors
— Lorries.
— Marine.
— Petrol.
Tractors
— Plough. See Tractors
— Spirit. See Motor Fuel
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Vehicle, with Brush-Koela Producer, 304* Petrol, Conversion to Operate on Town
Gas, 337*, 358*
Motorships, Coastal, Immobilisation of, 52 Mowlem, J., and Co., Ltd., Experiments with
Shock-Absorbing Sockets, 319* Multitubular Boilers. See Boilers Municipal and County Engineers, Institution
of, Water Supply of Salisbury, S. Rhodesia, by W. J. Jarvis, 257, 266
— Electrical Association, Incorporated, Annual
General Meeting, Discussion on Problems in Electricity Supply, 12
Munition Factories, Working Hours in, 11, 72, 93, 94. See LETTER, 77
— Manufacture, Machine Tools for, 13
— Production and Air-Raid Damage, 392 in Canada, 175
and Mobilising Home Workshops, 35 Policy of Institution of Production Engineers, 48
Training for, 413, 451
and Working Hours, 11, 72, 93, 94. See LETTER.77
— Work of Technical Colleges, 192
— Workers, Health and Efficiency of (Review), 322
Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., Arc-Welded Fabrication of Machine Tools, 265*

NADAI, A., Theory of Creep, 24, 61,165 National Expenditure, Select Committee on,
Report, 153
National Gas and Oil Engine Co., Ltd., Notes
on Cylinder-Liner Wear in Gas Engines, 216
— Physical Laboratory, Investigation on
Creep under Combined Tension and Torsion, 24*, 61*, 104*, 134*, 164; Instrument for Evaluating Surface Finish of Metals, 44*; Tests of O.M.T. Optical Circular Table, 167* ; Experiments on Iron-Plating of Specimens for Microscopical Examination, 379* ; Investigation on Vibration Patterns of Propeller Blades, 484*, 518*
— Safety First Association, Work on Industrial Accidents, 432
Natural Gas Resources and World Utilisation, 412, 454*, 479*
Supplies in Great Britain, 456 Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics

Naval Architects, Institution of :

Scholarships in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. 429
Wrought Light Alloys Development Association, Scholarship, 444
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of. The United States Liner “ America,” by H. F. Norton and J. F. Nichols, 145*, 178, 183*. See 151
— Architecture, Watertight Subdivision of
Ships. See Watertight
See also Warships
— Construction. See Warships
— Warfare. See Warships Navigation, Aerial. See Aeronautics Navvy. See Excavator
Navy, British. See H.M. under Warships
— United States. See United States under
Warships
— See also Naval; Warships ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Neches River, Texas, Port Arthur-Orange Bridge over, 1*. 64*, 121*
Needles, Closing, Bonnet Carrd Spillway on Mississippi River, 422*, 465*
Nelson, J. E., on Electricity-Supply, 433 New Pralhad Mill, Bombay, Electrification, 67
— Zealand, Annual Report, Wellington
Harbour Board, 100
Government Railways, 275-h.p. Diesel Railcars, 365*
Railway Developments, 273 Trade Catalogues for, 115 Newall Engineering Co., Ltd., Optical Circular Table, 166*
Newcastle, South Africa, Blast-Furnace Man- agement at, 299*, 315, 433. See 389
Newcomen Society, Future Arrangements, 168 ; Evolution of Sugar-Cane Mill, by N. Deerr and A. Brooks, 319 ; Annual Report, 413 ; Bicentenary of Henry Cort, by Dr. H. W. Dickinson, 452 ; Prehistoric and Primitive Iron Smelting, by E. W. Hulme, 498*
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., S.S. “America,” 145*, 178, 183*. See 151 Nichols, J. F., on United States Liner “ America,” 145*, 178, 183*. See 151
Nile, River, Clarifiers for Water from, 157* Nitrates, Molten, Corrosion of Steels by, 458* Noise Reduction in Buildings by Acousti-
Non-Ferrous Metals. SeeMc/aZs; Metallurgy Nordstroms Linbaner, 28-Mile Aerial Ropeway, 309
Norrie, J., on Trade Catalogues for New Zealand, 115
North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Annual Report, 333; Presidential Address, by W. A. Woodeson, on Methods, Materials and Men, 345. See 332, 333 ; Laing Lecture on Foundations of Electrical and Mechanical Transmission of Energy, by Prof. W. M. Thornton, 373; Vibration Patterns of Propeller Blades, by Dr. G. S. Baker, 484*, 518* ; Parsons Lecture on Engining of Highly Powered Ships, by Sir S. J. Pigott, 511
North Eastern Electric Supply Co., Report on Decontaminating Electrical Plant, 174
— Notes from, 9, 29, 49, 69, 89, 109, 129,
149, 169, 189, 209, 229, 249, 269, 289, 309, 329, 349, 369, 389, 409, 429, 448, 469, 489, 509. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— South Junction Railway, Brussels, 13*, 21*,
74*
Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., Statement on Fire Hazards with Aluminium Paint, 88 ; Producer-Gas Driven Motor Car, 304*
Northumbrian Shipping Co., Ltd., versus McCullum, 76
Norton, H. F., on United States Liner “ America,” 145*, 178, 183*. See 151
Notes on New Books. See Books and RATURE INDEX
— See Cleveland; North; South-'West Yorkshire; Labour. See also GRAPH INDEX
Nuts and Bolts, Black, Specification, 208

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Octane Numbers of Hydrocarbons, 479
Odqvist, F. K., Theory of Creep, 24, 61, 104*, 164
Oerlikon Co., Electric Equipment for Swiss Railcars, 6*
Office of Works, Supply of Materials for Repairs to Buildings, 93
Ohio Crankshaft Co., Tocco Process for Hardening Steel Surfaces, 426*
— Lockland, High-Pressure Reciprocating Engine at, 297
Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil
— Fuel Consumption, 540 b.h.p., Direct-Reversing Marine Diesel Engine, 508* System, S.S. “ America,’* 185*
— Motors. See Engines, Oil.
— Production from Coal, Investigations on,445
— Resources and World Utilisation, 412, 454* 479*
— Solvent Extraction of, 496*
— Supplies, Germany’s Problems, 493
— Switches. See Switchgear
— Tung, Production in Australia, 387
— See also Lubricants; Petroleum
O.M.T. Optical Circular Table, 166*; Manufacture of Optical Flats, 385*; Omtimeter, 477*
Omtimeter, O.M.T. (Optical Measuring Tools, Ltd.), 477*
Onslow, D. V., on Measuring Warmth in Space Heating, 128
Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, Annual Report, 126
Optical Flats, Manufacture of (Optical Measuring Tools, Ltd.), 385*
Optical Measuring Tools, Ltd., Optical Circular Table, 166* ; Manufacture of Optical Flats, 385* ; Omtimeter, 477*
Orcutt Hydraulic Gear - Tooth Grinding Machine, 204*
Ore Deposits in Brazil, 423
— Iron, South African, Analyses of, 299 Orem Low Load-Factor Power Station, 328
Ormerod Shapers, Ltd., 26-in. Stroke Heavy- Duty Slotting Machine, 37*
Ostia, Ancient Harbours of, 373, 438*
Ottawa, Hydraulics Research Laboratory, 350 Ovens, Coke. See Coke Ovens
Overhead Lines, Power Transmission, Earthing Practice for, 45, 66
Power Transmission, Lightning Protection of, 232
Power Transmission in Ontario, 126 Power Transmission in Rural Areas, 92 Overseas Trade Department, Memoranda on Trade with South America, 33, 123, 144; Memorandum on Trading with Brazil, 254 Owners of Settlingstones Mines, Ltd., Handbook on Witherite, 208
Oxford University, Institute of Research in Agricultural Engineering, Report on Tractor Ploughing, 311. See LETTERS, 355, 397, 436
Oxy-Acetylene Welding. See Welding

PAIN, C., 150-kW Portable Diesel-Driven Generating Set, 47*
Paint, Aluminium, Fire Hazards with, 88
— Fluorescent and Phosphorescent for A.R.P. Purposes, Specification, 308
— Manufacture, Gas-Conditioning Plant for, 27*
— and Plaster, Investigations on, 112
— Road Traffic, Specification, 88
Painting of Steel, Surface Treatment Prior to, 390
Pantograph Collector for Electric Railcar, 7* Parallels, Steel, Engineers’, Specification, 148 Parsons Memorial Lecture, by Sir S. J. Pigott, on Engining of Highly Powdered Ships, 511
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam ; Marine
Propulsion
Particles Falling in Fluid, Terminal Speed of, 441*
Passenger Steamers, See Steamers
Patent Record, 20*, 40*, 60*, 80*. 100*, 120* 140*, 160*, 180*, 200*, 220*, 240*, 260* 280*, 300*, 320*, 340*, 360*, 380*, 400*, 420*, 440*, 460*, 480*, 500*, 520*. See PATENT RECORD INDEX
— See also Trade Marks
Pawley, R., the Late, 394
Payment of Labour. See Labour
Pearson, S., and Sons, Ltd., King George V Dock, London, 325*
Pendulum, Alignment, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 161*
Pennypacker, P. V., Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas, 1*, 64*, 121*
Penstocks, Measurement of Velocity Through, by Saline Solutions, 179*
Permanent Way, Strength and Stiffness of. Experiments on, 141*
Perrin, R. M. V., Steel Making Process, 324, 357, 399, 414
Personal, 8, 28, 48, 68, 88, 108, 128, 148, 168, 188, 208, 228, 248, 268, 288, 308, 328, 348, 368, 388, 408, 428, 448, 468, 488, 508 Peru, Trade of, 123, 144
Fetch, N. J., on Crystal Structure of Cementite, 435
Petrol Carburettors. See Carburettors
— Motors. See Engines, Petrol; Motor Cars ;
Tractors
—? Pump with Flameproof Electric Motor, 86*
— Tractors. See Tractors
Petroleum Gases, Liquefied, Use in United States, 220
— See also Oil; Engines, Oil
Pharos, Ancient Harbour of, 373, 395*
Phase Shifter for Regenerative Working, South African Railways, 306*
Philips Practical Welding Course (Review), Phillips, D. L., on Strain-Ageing Characteristics of Steels, 434
“ Philplug ” Jointing Material for Drainage and Water Mains, 248
Photoelasticity and Elasticity (Review), 23 Photography, Air, Applied to Surveying (Review), 304
Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs Physical Laboratory, National. See National Physical
Physico-Chemical Methods (Review), 63 Physics of Air Raids, 514*
— Acoustics (Review), 283
— Hartmann Acoustic Generator, 314
— High-Pressure Plant, Design of, and Pro
perties of Fluids at High Pressures (Review), 383
— Kinetic Theory of Gases, Introduction to
(Review), 363
— Physico-Chemical Methods (Review), 63
— Radioactivity and Transmutation of
Atoms (Review), 104
— Sound (Review), 243
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Pickles, J. T., Electrically-Driven Continuous- Chain Saw, 217*
Piers, Bonnet Carre Spillway on Mississippi River, 422*
— Gate, Upper Mississippi Regulation Scheme,
41*
— Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas, 1*, 64* Pigott, Sir S. J., on Engining of Highly
Powered Ships, 511
Pile Driver, Floating, Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas, 4*
Piling, Bonnet Carr6 Spillway on Mississippi River, 422*
— Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas, 2*, 64*
Piling, Road Tunnel under Biver Maas, Rotterdam, 244*
Pilkington Brothers, IXd.. Jinpacjt Tests of Glass Tiles, 66*; Tests of <41ass-Reinforced Concrete, 225*, 264
Pin Joint, Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas. 65*
Pinkney, Col. E. W. R., the Late, 354
Pipe, Exhaust, Pressure Waves in, 301*
— lanes, Measurement of Water Velocity by
Saline Injections, 179*
— for Pneumatic Grain-Conveying Plants, 362*
— See also Tubes
Piraeus, Ancient Harbour of, 373, 418*
Piston Rings, Tinning of (Light Production Co., Ltd.), 410
Planning the Post-War World. 375. 391, 411, 416,439
Plant Life and Solar Energy, 412, 425, 454*, 479*
Plaster and Paint, Investigations on, 112 Plastics, Industrial (Review), 342 Plate-Bending Rolls. See Machine Tools
— Shearing Machine. See Machine Tools Plating, Electro. See Electro
Player, J., <fe Sons, (Branch of Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd.), Electricity Supply in Factories of, 425
Plough, Motor. See Tractor
Ploughing, Tractor, Report on, 311. See LETTERS, 355, 397, 436
Pneumatic Blow Gun (B.E.N. Patents, Ltd.), 78*
— Conveying in Theory and Practice, 361* Plant, Air Velocities in, 362*
— Wind-Screen Wiper for Railways, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.). 406*
— See also Air Compressor
Pollard, R. E., on Surface Treatment of Steel
Prior to Painting, 390
Pollution, Atmospheric, Investigation of. Annual Report, 415
“ Polymatic Former ” Screw Machine, 287*
Polytechnic. See Education
Poona Irrigation and Hydrodynamic Research Station, Experiments at, 403*
Poplar Town Hall, Electric Thermal-Storage Plant, 288
Porcelain, Laboratory, Specification, 208 Porosity in Aluminium-Alloy Castings, Problems of, 296
Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas, 1*, 64*, 121 *
— of London, Dock Construction in, 325*
— of Rangoon Commissioners, Annual Report,
519
Portable Engine. See Engine
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools Porter, W. C.. on Surface Treatment of Steel
Prior to Painting, 390
Portland Cement. See Cement
Post Office Work in War-Time, 513
Potlatch Forests, Inc., Sawdust Briquetting Press, 461*
Powdered Coal. See Pulverised Coal
Powell, Dr. R. W., on Evaporation of Water from Saturated Surfaces, 238*, 278*. See Erratum, 308
Powell Duffryn Associated Collieries, Ltd., versus Caswell. 114
Power and Combustion, Hawksley Lecture on, 412, 413,424*, 454*, 478*
— Developed in Manual Work, 132
— Gas. See Cas : Engines, Gas ; Producers
— Plant, Hydro-Electric, Kaplan Turbines in,
381*. See Erratum, 408
Hydro-Electric, Lilley, Progress with,! 13 Hydro-Electric, Ontario. Annual Report, 126
Hydro-Electric, Sabia, South Africa, 252 Steam, Use of High Pressures in, 295 See also Power Stations ; Power, Water;
Substations
— Press. See Machine Tools
— for Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Station and Boiler House Chemistry
(Review), 243
Electric, Eire, Developments in, 113, 413 Electric, Low Load-Factor, at Orem, 328 Electric, Machine Tools in, 133 [ Electric, Montaup Electric Co.,650,OOO’lb.
Forced-Circulation Boiler, 394
Electric, South African. 252 Electric, Use of High-Pressure Steam in, 296
Electric, War Emergency, 273, 293 Industry, Early Days of (Review), 211 Queensferry, Decision on Proposal for, 113
See also Power Plants; Substations
— Supply, Electric, for Agriculture and Horti
culture, 466,487
Electric, in Brazil, 234
Electric, Certification of Meters for. 33 Electric, for Domestic Use, 433
Electric, Earthing Practice for, 45, 66 Electric, Effect of Weather on, 12
Electric, in Eire, Annual Report, 113 Electric, Eire, Developments in, 113, 413 Electric, Future of, 411, 416, 439
Electric, Generation and Transmission (Review), 203
Electric, and Government-Factory Sites, 93
Electric, High-Voltage, Distribution in Rural Areas, 92
Electric, King^ton-upon-Hull, Report,174 Electric, Materials for Supply Undertakings, 51
Electric, New Pralhad Mill, Bombay, 67 Electric, Notification of Failure of, 373 Electric, Progenitors of, 211
Electric, Scarborough, Report, 174
— — Electric, South Africa, Annual Report,252 Electric, Southern Rhodesia, Annual
Report, 453
Electric, Statistics of Undertakings, 313 Electric, in Sydney, Annual Report, 237 Electric, in Tobacco Factories, 425 Electric Undertakings, Control of Building Operations by, 378
Electric, in United States Navy, 310 Electric, War Damage to Undertakings. 113
Electric, War-Time Specifications for Installations, 133
and Ship- Ayre, on Industry,
- VM Engineers,
A.' BinnZ on Port of London, 325*.
See 333 , .
to North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, by W. A. Woodeson, on JIcthods, Materials and Men, 345. See 332, 333
to Sheffield Section of Junior Institution of Engineers, by Prof. H. W. Swift, on Fatigue and Static Failure, 218* Press. See Machine Tools Pressure Waves in Exhaust-Pipe^, 301 Preston, J. R., Thermal-Storage Plant, Poplar Town Hall, 288
Pretoria, South Africa, Blast-Furnace Management at, 299*, 315, 389, 433
Priestman Brothers, Ltd., Side Dragline Attachment for Excavators, 247*
Primitive Iron Smelting in the East, 498* Priority in War Production, 153
Producer, Gas, Brush-Koela, for Motor Vehicles, 304*
Engine. See Engines, Qas
Production Engineers, Institution of. Appointment of War Emergency Committee, 48 : Memorandum on Efficient Utilisation of Labour under War Conditions, 451
— Engineering : Jig and Tool Design (Review),
402
Propellers, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Marine, Effective Pitch of, 183 Singing, Investigations on, 484*, 518* Vibration Patterns of Blades, Investigations on, 484*, 518*
Property, War Damage Insurance for, 212, 313 493
Propulsion of Ships. See Marine Propulsion ; Engines; Turbines; Propellers; Ships Psychology, Industrial, National Institute of, Pamphlet on Training Industrial Workers, I 273
1 Public-Works Department, Shanghai, Annual ' Report, 213
j Puddled Iron. See Iron ' Puget Sound, Failure
Bridge, 481 *
Pulverised-Coal Firing istics, 79
Investigations by
435
Pumps, Air. See Air Compressors
— Centrifugal, Dimensional Analysis of, 371
— Characteristic Design Factors for, 464*
— Liquor, in Benzol House, with Flameproof
Motor, 86*
— Petrol, with Flameproof Electric Motor, 86*
— Specific Speed of, 77. See LETTERS, 96,
115, 137*, 175, 195, 256, 296, 376*, 454
— Stirrup, Specification, 88
— Three-Ram, High-Pressure (Worthington-
Simpson, Ltd.), 266*
Pumping Plant, S.S. “ America,” 184* Water Supply of Salisbury, S. Rhodesia, | 257, 266 I
— Station, King George V Dock, London, 326 ? Rand Water Board, 239, 253
Purdue University, Chemical and Metallurgical- Engineering Building at, 129
Purification of Water. See Water

QUARRIES, Redding, California, 9-Mile Conveyor Belt, 149
Quartz Optical Flats, Manufacture of (Optical Measuring Tools, Ltd.), 385*
Quasi Arc Co., Ltd., Welded Rigid-Frame Factory Building, 281*, 321*. See Addendum, 348
Queensferry Power Station Scheme, Decision on,113
Quicksilver. See Mercury

RADIAL Drill. See Drill under Machine Tools Radiation, Solar, Energy of, 412, 424*, 454*, 479*
Radio-Interference Suppression Devices, Specification, 168
— See also Telegraphy^ "Wireless; Telephony,
Wireless; Television
Radioactivity and Transmutation of Atoms (Review). 104
Rail-Defect Detecting Car (Sperry Products, Inc.), 223*. See Errainwi, 296
— Deflection and Stresses in, Research on, 141*
— Road, Canal and Coastal Goods Transport,
Report on Co-ordination of, 91 Railcars. See Carriages, Railway Railroads. See Raihcays Railway Accidents. See Accidents
Railway, Bex and VIllarft-f’hesidrcH, Electric Railcar. 6*
— J{rid«e. See Bridge
— British, Suggested Developments in, 471
— Carriage. See Carriage
— Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul Pacific,
Whip Stress in Connecting Kod of Locomotive, 117*. See LETTEKS, 195, .376
— City and South London, J’uhilce of, 409
— Electrification, Advantages of, 352 in South Africa, 252
— Fares Controversy, 172, 195
Increases in, 352
— Indian, Report on Track Stress Research. 141*
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— London Midland (fe Scottish, Report on Aviemore Accident, 197, 206 ; Report on Wembley Derailment, 431
— Motor Carriage. See Carriage
— Network Principles, (Review), 471
— New Zealand Government, Development of, 273 ; 275-h.p. Diesel Railcars, 365*
— North-South Junction, Brussels, 13*, 21*, 74*
— Rates Controversy, 172, 195 Increases in, 352
— Rolling Stock. See Carriages ; Locomotives; Wagons
— Signalling. See Signalling
— South African, Electrical Equipment for Regenerative Working on, 305*
— Train Brake. See Brake.
— Trinidad Government. 277-h.h.p. Diesel Locomotive, 26*
— Tube. See Underground
— Underground. See Underground
— United States, Rail-Defect Detecting Car for, 223*. See Erratum, 296
— Wagons. See Wagons
— See also PAKAGRAPH INPEX
Ramps, Approach, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 246*
Rand Water Board, South Africa, Annual Report, 239, 253
Rangoon, Port of, Annual Report of Commissioners, 519
Ratzersdorfer, Prof. J., on Buckling of Thin Circular Arch, 284*
Reconstruction Work under War Conditions, 251
Recording Apparatus for Rail-Defect Detecting (’ar, 223*.. See Erratum, 296
— Dynamometer. See Dynamometer
Rectifiers for Regenerative Working, South African Railways, 305*
Redding Quarries, California, 9-Mile Conveyor Belt, 149
Refrigerating Plant, Ereon, S.S. “ America,” 186
— Station, Royal Albert Dock, London, 327* Refrigeration and Food-Storage Depots, 453
— See also Cold Storage
Refrigerators, Electric, Domestic, Specihea- tion, 428
— Unit for Low-Temperature Testing of
Electric Cables (Coldair, Ltd.), 178
Registration of Engineers, Ministry of Labour’s, 53
— of Skilled Engineering Labour, 133 Regulator, Askania, for ('oke-Oven Gas, with
Flameproof Electric Motor, 85*
Reheating Furnace. See Furnace
Reid, A. T\,.the Late, 255
Reinforced Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete Remuneration of Labour. See Labour Renold Coventry Chain Co., Ltd., Renold Jig Chain, 46*
Report, Acceptance Test Charts for Machine Tools, 351, 354
— Adhesion of White-Metal Linings in Bear
ings, 250
; — Annual, British Cast-Iron Research Asso-
' cation, 374
; British Columbia Ministry of Mines, 270
Central Board of Irrigation, India, 403* City and Guilds of London Institute, 73 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Australia, 235
Eire Electricity Supply Board, 113 Fuel Research Board, 435, 445
Glasgow Corporation Transport Department, 233
Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution, 415
Ontario Hydi-o-Electric Commission, 126 Port of Rangoon Commissioners, 519 Rand Water Board, South Africa, 239, 253 Research Committee, Institution of Automobile Engineers, 316
Shanghai Public-Works Department, 213 South African Electricity Supply Commission, 252
Southern Rhodesia Electricity Supply Commission, 453
— Wellington Harbour Board, New Zealand, 100
— Aviemore Accident, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 197, 206
— Co-ordination of Goods Transport, 91
— Decontamination of Electrical Plant, 174
— Deterioration of Structures in Sea Water, 17
— Engineering Education in United States, 472
— Gas Traction Development Committee, 456
— Guarding of Rubber Calendars, 30
— High-Voltage Direct-Current Testing, 175.
See Addendum, 209
— Lighting in Factories in War-Time, 152,333
— Mercury Industry of United States, 40
— Method of Detection of Toxic Organic
Halogens in Industry, 468
— Railway Accidents, 1939, 153, 171
— Select Committee on National Expenditure,
153
— Synthetic Rubbers, Their (’ompositions,
Properties and Uses, 316, 335, 356, 419
— on Wembley Railway Accident, 431
— See also Board of Trade
Research, Aeronautical, and Civil Aviation, 199
— in Agricultural Engineering, Oxford University Institute of, Report on Tractor Ploughing, 311. See LETTERS, 355, 397, 436
— Association, British Cast-Iron, Annual
Report, 374
Research Association, British Electrical and Allied Industries, Investigation on Measuring Warmth in Space Heating, 128 ; Report on High-Voltage Direct-Current Testing, by A. E. W. Austen, A. M. Thomas and S. Whitehead, 175. See Ad^nduni, 209; Report on Electricity in Agriculture and Horticulture, by C. A. Cameron, 466, 487
— Board, Building, Annual Report, 111 Fuel, Annual Report, 435, 445
Safety in Mines, Experiments on Eire Hazards with Aluminium Paint, 88
Committee of Institution of Automobile Engineers, Annual Report, 316. See 374
— Council, Scientific and Industrial, Australian, Annual Report, 235
Department, Scientific and Industrial, War- Time Building Bulletins, 25, 108,188. 368, 396, 430, 495 ; Report on Daylight Illumination for Clerical Work, 126; Annual Report on Investigation of Atmospheric Pollution, 415 ; Report on Methods of Detection of Toxic Organic Halogens in Industry, 468 ; Researches on Machining Abrasive Timber, 501*
Fellowships, Leverhulme, Awards of, 33
— Irrigation, in India, Report, 403*
Laboratories, Brown-Firth, Investigation on Non-Metallic Inclusidns in Steel, 434
Forest-Products, Research on Machining of Abrasive Timber, 501*
Hydraulics, Ottawa, 350
Institution of Automobile Engineers, Work of, 374. See 316
— Station, Building, War-Time Building
Bulletins, 25, 108, 188, 368, 396, 430, 495 ; Pamphlet on Economical Use of Cement,
Tin and Development Council, International, Report on Adhesion of White- Metal Linings in Bearings, 250 ; Immersion Tinning of Copper and Brass, 387 ; Tinning of Piston Rings, 410
See also National Physical Laboratory Reservoirs, Rand Water Board, 239
— Silting of. Investigations on, 404*
Water Supply of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, 257, 266
Resistance, Electric. See Electric
— Welding. See Welding
Resonant Periods of Marine Propellers, 484*, 518*
Reviews. See LITERATURE INDEX
Rheolo^sts’ Club, British, Formation of, 329 Rheology in Industry, 429
Rhodesia, Southern, Electricity Supply, Annual ^Salisbury Water Supply, 257, 266 Soil Erosion by Wind Action in, 341 Richards, G. B., the Late, 318
Rickards versus Forestal Land, limber tV Railway Co., Ltd., 454
“ Rindis ” Universal Filing Machine, 67 Rings, Piston. See Piston Rings River Investigation at
Hydrodynamic Research Station, 406 Maas, Rotterdam, Road Tunnel under, 101 , 161* 244*
- Mississippi, Bonnet Carre Spillway on
421*, 465*
Regulation of Upper Reaches, 41
— Ne^esT Texas, Port Arthur-Orange Bridge over, 1*, 64*, 121*
Nile, Clarifiers for Water from, lo7
Road Accidents. See Ac^dents
— Construction in Shanghai, 213
— Line Marking* Machine (B.M.B. Engineer Mixtures,’ Bituminous, Examination of,
- J’S-“I
- ScSen’T.X.I.™ i ,.p
Land, 401*
— Traffic Paints, Specification, 88
Koadway, '^VeiTO^ Concrete Port Arthur- Orange Bridge, Texas, 122 c„bnuirine
Bobb, Dr. A. M., Salvage of H.M. Submarine “ Thetis,” 56*
Robertson versus Middows, Ltd., 454
Machine Tools cTn^eS of 3^ .
Rolling Stock. See Carnages, Loconwtives, Wagons ,
Roman Harbours, Ancient, 373, 43b Bond-Point Waterworks, Alexandria, Boo^ConstaJcUon in War-Time, Bulletin on. ^^stem Sheet-Steel Construction 16*
Z GiftingVpatolc-Bitumen for, Specification. 348
— Spun-Concrete Beams 097
— of War-Time Factories. Design of, 39i Bopes, Manila and Sisal, Specification, 168 wirp See Wire Ropes
Solvent Extraction of Oil, 496 Rot-Proofing of Sand Bags, 488 Rotary Engine. See Engine SoBEm, W" M".
101*, 161*, 244* Roumanian 'Pools
Routing Machine. Aeronautical
Aeronautical Society. See
— Albert Dock, London, 326
Royal Institution : „ n,
Physics of Air Baids, by Prof. D. er , 514*
_ United Vitution “nary °f
Admiral A. T. Mahan, by Bear Admiral B. L. Ghormley, 271 30
Rubber Calenders, Guarding of. Beport, 30
Rubber Hose, Fabric-Reinforced, Specification, 428
— Mats for Electrical Purposes, Specification, 448
— Synthetic, Composition, Properties and Uses, 316, 335, 356, 419
— Trade Conference, Report on Guarding of Calenders and Extruders, 30
Rumanian Earthquake, 473
Rural Areas, High-Voltage Distribution in, 92
— Electrification in Ontario, 126
in South Africa, 252
Russell, Newbery and Co., Ltd., 64-b.h.p. Four- Cylinder Diesel Engine, 366*
Rusting. See Corrosion
Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd., 6 cub. yd. and 8 cub. yd. Scrapers, 516
Ryan, W. F., on Progress of Higher Pressures in Industrial Plant, 296
“Rytecraft Safeti-Line” Road Marker, 487*

SABIA, South Africa, Hydro-Electric Power Plant, 252
Saddle Beams, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 161*
Safety First Association, National, Work on Industrial Accidents, 432 ; Posters and Pamphlets, 432
— of Life at Sea. See Watertight Subdivision
— Line Marking Machine for Roads and Factories (B.M.B. Engineering Co.), 487*
— in Mines Research Board, Experiments on
Fire Hazards with Aluminium Paint, 88 Saint. See St.
Salier, C. W., on Lawrence Hargrave and Aeronautics, 5
Saline Solutions, Measurement of Velocity in Pipe Lines by, 179*
Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, Water Supply of, 257, 266
Salt, Molten, Effect on Iron and Steel, 458* Ejector for Salt-Bath Furnace, 48
— Velocity Measurements in Pipe Lines, 179* Salvage Campaign, Views Regarding, 31. See
LETTER, 35
See also Scrap
— of H.M. Submarine ** Thetis,” 56*
Sams, J. G. B., on Mechanisation on Land, 355, 436. See 311. See LETTER, 397
Sand Bags, Rot-Proofing of, 488
—Falling in Fluid, Terminal Velocity of, 444*
— Injection under River Maas Road Tunnel,
Rotterdam, 161*
Savile, Sir L. H., on Ancient Harbours of Mediterranean, 395*, 418*, 438*. See 373 Saws. See Machine Tools
Sawdust Briquetting Press, 461*
Scarborough Electricity Supply Undertaking, Annual Report, 174
Scavenging, Pressure, in Internal-Combustion Engines, History of, 95*. See LETTERS, 115,137,156,195,256*, 355*, 436*,494, 514 Schnurmann, R., on Wear-Load Characteristic of Four-Ball Test of Lubricants, 236*. See LETTERS,115, 216
Scholarships. See Education
Schrenk, H. H., on Use of Diesel Engines in Mines, 517
Science, Non-Professional Branches and Engineers’ Education, 492
Scientific Advisory Committee, Appointment of, 291, 293
— Research. See Research
— Societies. See Institutions
Scotland, Institution of Engineers s builders in. See Engineers
Scott, Dr. A. W., on Temperature Grass Drying, 7
Scott, G., and Son (London), Ltd., Solvent Extraction of Oil, 496*
Scrap Aluminium Campaign, 53
— Campaign, Views Regarding, 31. See
LETTER, 35. See also 253
— Iron and Steel, National Survey of, 393
— Metals, New Campaign for Collection, 253.
See alm 31, 35
Recovery in the United States, 330
Scrapers, Earth-Moving, Four-Wheel, 6 cub., yd. and 8 cub. yd. (Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd.) 516
Screw Propellers. See Propellers; Aeronautics
— Threads, British Association, Specification,
348
Gauge Tolerances, Specification, 368, 388 Whitworth, Specification, 8
— Machine. See Machine Tools
Sea Power, Views of Admiral A. T. Mahan on, 271
— Water, Deterioration of Structures in.
Report, 177
Seismology. See Earthquake
Sensitive Drill. See Drill under Machine Tools Service Aviation. See Aeronautics
Sewage Works, Methane Production at, 456
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shafts, Combined Bending and Torsion in, 218
— Crank. See Crankshaft
Shanghai Public-Works Department, Annual Report, 213
Shearing Machine. See Machine^ Tools Sheet, Copper, Cold-Rolled, Specification, 88
— Steel Building, G. B. System of, 16* Sheffield Metallurgical Association. See Iron
and Steel Institute, Sheffield Meeting
— Society of Engineers and Metallurgists. See
Iron and Steel Institute, Sheffield Meeting Shelters, Air-Raid, Government Policy, 374 Ships, Atlantic Liners, Future of, 151
— Canal. See Canal
— under Construction in United States,
Statistics, 368
— Diesel-Engined. See Motorships
— Directional Stability of, 275
— Electric Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— German, British Cargo in. Legal Decisions on, 454
— Highly Powered, Engines for, 511
— Model Experiments. See Model; Tank Experiments
— Motor. See Motorships
— Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion; Engines; Turbines; Propellers
— Salvage of. See Salvage
— Sunk in War-Time, 105
— Transatlantic, Future of, 151
— Watertight Subdivision of. See Watertight
— 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, S.S. ‘‘America,” 145*. See 151
— at Dublin, History of, 313
— Employers’ Federation, Annual Meeting, 433
— Government Loans for, 131
— Industry, Leadership and Direction in, 317, 332, 339
— in United States, Statistics, 368
— Watertight Subdivision. See Watertight
— Yards, War-Time Lighting in, 377
— See also Steamers; Naval; Warships and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipping, British, and Government Financial Arrangements, 131
— Centenary of Cunard Line, 32
— Coastal, Goods Transport by, 91
— Merchant, Losses by Enemy Action, 453
— in War-Time, Position of, 105 Shipyard. See Shipbuilding Yard
Shock Tests. See Impact Tests under Tests {Materials}
Shorter Process Co., Ltd., Surface-Hardening Machine, 227*
Sigma Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Mechanical Comparator, 290* ; Precision Jig Drilling and Milling Machine, 410*
Signal Glasses, Railway, Colours for, Specification, 88
Silting of Reservoirs, Investigations on, 404* Siouf Waterworks, Alexandria, Clarifiers, 159* Siphon Spillway, Khadakvasla, India, Model Experiments on, 403*
Sirens, Air-Raid, Electrically-Operated ,Maintenance of, 377
Skew Gears. See Gear Slag. See Metallurgy
Sleepers, Indian Railways, Tests of, 142 Slotting Machines. See Machine Tools Smelting Furnaces. See Furnaces Smith, V., and Co. (Heating Engineers), Thermal- Storage Plant, Poplar Town Hall, 288 Societies, Trade. See Labour ; Labour Notes
— Technical and Scientific. See Institutions Socket, Shock-Absorbing, Turner’s, for Wire
Ropes (Brown Lenox and Co. (London), Ltd.), 319*
Soden, A. W., Glass-Reinforced Concrete, 225* 264
Soderberg, C. R., Theory of Creep, 24, 61, 104*, 165
Softener, Water. See Water Softener Soil Denudation in India, Investigations on, 405
— Erosion by Wind Action, 341*, 364*, 401* Solar Energy and Power Supply, 412, 424*,
454*, 478*
Solvent Extraction of Oil, 496* Soot, Pollution of Atmosphere by, 415 Sothern, J. W. M., the Late, 476 Sound (Review), 243
— Absorption by Acousti-Celotex Tiles, 328
— Transmission in Buildings (Review), 202
— Wave Production by Hartmann Acoustic Generator, 314
South Africa, Electricity Supply Commission, Annual Report, 252
Rand Water Board Annual Report, 239, 253
South African Iron and Steel Corporation, Ltd., Blast-Furnace Management, 299*, 315, 389, 433
Railways, Electrical Equipment for Regenerative Working, 305*
— America, Brazilian Imports and Exports, 233 254
— — British Trade with, 253, 423
Markets in, 123, 144
Trade of, 33
— East England, War-Emergency Generating
Station for, 273, 293
— West England and South Wales, War-
Emergency Generating Station for, 273, 293 Notes from, 9, 29, 49, 69, 89, 109, 149, 169, 229, 249, 269, 289, 309, 349, 369, 389, 409, 428, 449, 469, 509. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Yorkshire, 9, 29, 49, 69, 89, 109, 129,
169, 189, 209, 229, 249, 269, 289, 329, 349, 368, 389, 408, 429, 449, 489, 509. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Southern Rhodesia Electricity Supply Commission, Annual Report, 453
Salisbury Water Supply, 257, 266 Soil Erosion by Wind Action, 341 Spanish Handbook on British Industrial Practice, 93
Sparks, C. P., the Late, 475
Specifications, Standard. See Standards ; Standardisation
Speed-Changing Gears. See Gears; Marine Propulsion
Specific of Pumps and Turbines, 77. See LETTERS, 96, 115, 137*, 175, 195, 256, 296, 376*, 454
— Terminal, in Fluids, 441*
Sperry Products, Inc., Rail-Defect Detecting Car, 223*. See Erratum, 296
Sphere Falling in Fluid, Terminal Speed of, 441* Spillway, Siphon, Khadakvasla, India, Model Experiments on, 403*
Spinning Machine for Spun-Concrete Tubular Beams, 345*
Spirit, Motor. See Motor Fuel
Spoil-Moving Equipment, Developments in, 516 Spooner, H. J., the Late, 515
Springs, Helical, Fatigue of, 36* Spun-Concrete Beams, Tubular and HalfTubular, 343*
St. Helens’ Colliery Co., versus Hewitson, 76 Stability of Ships. See Ships
Standard Motor Car, Performance on Town I Gas, 360
Standards Institution, British, Specifications . War-Time Street Lighting, 8 ; Testing of Fusion Welds and Welded Joints, 8 ; Copper-AUoy Bars, 8 ; Screw Threads of Whitworth Form, 8; Stirrup Pumps, 88 : Colours for Railway Signal Glasses, 88; Road-Traffic Paints, 88;
Rolled Copper Sheet, 88 ; Leaded Gunmetal Castings and Ingots, 88 ; Engineers Steel Parallels, 148; Dial Gauges for Linear Measurements, 148; Gunmetal Ingots and Castings, 148; Tungsten- Filament Electric Lamps, 148 ; Tins ana Cans for Food Products, 148 ; Manila and Sisal Ropes, 168 ; Radio-Interference Suppression, 168; Instrument Jewels, 168; Ventilator Light Traps, 208, Pressure Creosoting of Timber, 208; Carbon-Steel Castings, 208 ; Black Bolts and Nuts, 208 ; Electrical Wiring Conduit and Fittings, 208; L^oratory Porcelain, 208 ; Standard of Protection against Incendiary Bombs, 228 ; Flameproof Electric Lighting Fittings, 288 ; Portland Cement, 288; High-Alumina Cement, 308 ; Bolted Flameproof Cable Couplers, 308; Fluorescent and Phosphorescent Paints for A.R.P. Purposes, 308 • Fabric-Bitumen Treatment for
Roof Glazing, 348 ; British Association Screw Threads, 348; Aluminium-Alloy Bars, 368 ; Gauges for Low Values of Illumination, 368 ; Screw-Thread Gauge 'Polerances, 368, 388; Motor Starters and Controllers, 388 ; Examination of Bituminous Road Mixtures, 388 ; Steel Tubes and Tubulars, 428 ; Machine-Cut Gears, ' 428; Domestic Electric Refrigerators, 428 ; Fabric-Reinforced Rub- . ber Hose, 428; Rubber Mats for Electrical
Purposes, 448 ; Recording Electricity Meters, 448 ; Impulse-Voltage Testing, 448, Oxy-Acetylene Welding, 468. Draft Specifications ; Engineers’ Precision Leye^, 18 ; Internal Micrometers, 407. Spamsh Handbook onBritlsh Industrial Practice, 93
— U.S. Bureau of. See United States Starters, Motor. See Motors, Electric State Railways. See Eailways Static Failure and Fatigue, 218*
Stations, North-South Junction Railway, Brussels, 14*, 21*, 74*
Power. See Power Stations
Statistics, Trade. See Trade .
Stayed Surfaces and Dished Ends (Review), Steam Boats. See Steamers
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Contamination, Problems of, 494
— Engines. See Engirws
— Generation, High Pressure, Physical As- pUgh-Pressure, Use in Industrial Plants, 296
— Turbines. See Turbins
Steamer “America, United States Linei, 145*, 178, 183*. See 151
— Coastal, Immobilisation of. 52
— Cunard Line, 32, 512 .
Electric Propulsion. See Marine Propulpon Geared Turbines for. See Marine Propulsion
— Highly Powered, Engines for, 511
Eusitania,” Adoption of Steam Turbines
Mauretania,” Adoption of Steam Turbines for, 512 .
— Propulsion of. See Marine Propulsion
Engines; Turbines; Propellers
Stability of. See Ships, Stability oj.
— Transatlantic, Future of. 151
Watertight Subdivision of. See If atertight
— “ Zelo,” Use in Salvage of H.M.S. “ Thetis,”
56*
— See also Engines; Marine Propulsion; Shipbuilding; Shipping; Ships, lur- bines ; Warships; PARAGRAPH INDEX Steamships. See Shvps ; Steamers; II arships Steel Atmospheric Corrodibility of, Acceleia- ted Spray Test for, 433
— for Building, Restriction on Use of, 113
Casing for Road Tunnel under River ]\taas, Rotterdam, 103*
— Chromium (Review), 44 See also Steel, Stainless Control Orders for, 37, 113, 278. See 293 Copper-Bearing, Use in Port Arthur-Orange
Bridge, Texas, 63
Corrosion. See Corrosion .
Creep of under Combined Tension and Torsion, 24*, 61*, 104*, 134*, 164
— Effect of Molten Nitrates on, Investigation
and Concrete Tunnel North-South
Junction Railway, Brussels, 13 , 21 , 74 — Framework inWar-Time Factory Design, 39b Furnaces. See Furnaces „ . , Heat Treatment of. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
— Industry of Brazil, 234, 423
— Manufacture. See Metallurgy
— Microstructure of. See Microphotographs Non-Metallic Inclusions in, Quantitatn e Evaluation, 344
— Rationing System for, 293. See also 113
— and Reinforced Concrete, Continuous Frames in. Automatic Design of (Review), 462
— Ropes. See Wire Popes
Scrap Campaign, \iews Regarding, 31. See LETTER, 35
National Survey of, 393
I New Campaign for Collection, 253. See
j also 31, 35 -
— Sheet, Building, G.B. System of, 16*
— Stainless, containing Silver and Molybdenum, Properties of, 8
Strain-Ageing Characteristics of, 434
Stress Distribution in. See Stress; Tests (Materials) .
— Supply for Electricity-Supply Undertakings, 51
— Surface Treatment Prior to Painting, 390 — Tests of. See Tests (Materials) Pieces, Fractured, Iron-Plating of, 379 Towers, Port Arthur Orange Bridge, Texas 2*, 64*,121*
Steelwork, Structural, Non-Axial Beams, 81*
Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, 64*, 121*
Stevenson, W. W., on Accelerated ....
for Determination of Corrodibility of Ferrous Materials, 433
Stilling Basin, Bonnet Carre Spillway on Mississippi River, 422*
Stirrup-Pumps, Specification, 88
Stodola, Prof. A., Award of Watt Medal to, 333 Storage, Cold. See Cold Storage
— of Coal, Investigations on, 435
Stove, Factory-Heating, Coke-Fired (Tangyes, Ltd.), 476*
Strain-Ageing Characteristics of Steels, Tn- fiuence of Special Elements on, 434
— See also Stress
Strategic Materials in America, 450
Street Lighting, Emergency, Legal Decisions, 84 War-Time, Specification, 8
— See also Roads
Strength of Materials. See Stress and Tests {Materials')
Stress, Alternating and Combined. See Tests {Materials)
— Fluctuating, Factor of Safety under, 218*
— in Helical Springs, 36*
— in Non-Axially-Loaded Beams, 81*
— Permissible, for Brickwork, 170
— Track, Research on Indian Railways,
Report on,141*
— in Welded Rigid-Frame Factory Building,
281*, 321*. See Addendum, 348
— Whip, in Locomotive Connecting Rod,
117*. See LETTERS, 195, 376
Structural Steelwork. See Steehvork Structures, Deterioration in Sea Water, Report, 177
— Ferro-Concrete. See Ferro-Concrete
— Welded Rigid-Frame, for Factory Building,
281*, 321*. See Addendum, 348
Subdivision of Ships. See Watertight Submarines. See Warships Substations, Fire Risks at, 393
— for Regenerative Working, South African Railways, 305*
Sugar-Cane Mill, Evolution of, 319
— Production from Waste Wood, 503 Sulphur, Pollution of Atmosphere by, 415 Summer Time, Extension of, 393 Summerfield, W., on Recent Court Cases, 76, 84,
114 ; on British Cargo in German Ships, 454 Sun. See Solar
Sunbeam Commercial Vehicles, Ltd., Orcutt Hydraulic Gear-Tooth Grinder, 204*
Supercharging in Internal-Combustion Engines, 95*. See LETTERS, 115, 137, 156, 195, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494, 514
Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of, Presidential Address, by H. W. Swann, on Electrical Work in War-Time, 377
Supervisors and Foremen, New Technique for (Review), 432
Supply, Ministry of. Review of Timber Supply Position, 13 ; Statement on Machine Tools for Munitions Manufacture, 13 ; Iron and Steel Control Orders, 37, 113, 378. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX ; Control of E. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd., 113 ; Appeal for Machine Tools, 153 ; New Scrap Cam- , paign, 253 ; Rationing System for Iron and Steel, 293 ; Requisitioning of Copper, 308; Scheme for Redistribution of Machine Tools, 373, 408 ; National Survey of Scrap Iron and Steel, 393 ; Operation of Scheme for Costing on Government Contracts, 491. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Surface Condensers. See Condensers
— Finish of Metals, Instrument for Evaluating, 44*
— Hardening Machine (Shorter Process Co.,
Ltd.), 227*
Process, Tocco (Electric Furnace Co., Ltd.), 426*
— Saturated, Evaporation of Water from,
238*, 278*. See Erratiim, 308
— Stayed, and Dished Ends (Review), 422 Surveying, Air Photography Applied to (Review), 304
Sutcliffe, Speakman and Co. Ltd., Solvent- Recovery Plant, 497*
Sutton Sewage Works, Methane Production, 456 Swann, H. W., on Electrical Work in War- Time, 377
Swansea University College, Engineering and Metallurgy Prospectuses, 108
Sweden, 28-Mile Aerial Ropeway in, 309 Swift, Prof. H. W., on Fatigue and Static Failure, 218*
S^nnden, Dr. T., on Accelerated Spray Test for ('Orrodibility of Ferrous Materials, 433 Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Electric Railcars for Bex and Villars-Chesidres Railway, 6*
Switches, Motor Starting. See Motors, Electric Switchgear, S.S. ” America,” 187*
— Circuit Breakers, Automatic Reclosing,
Operation of, 253
Breakers for Mining Equipment, Progress in Design of, 518
— for Regenerative Working, South African
Railways, 305*
— Tap-Changing Equipment Transformers for
Electric Furnaces, 504*
Sydney Electricity Supply, Annual Report, 237 “Sydney,” H.M. Australian Cruiser, Action against Italian Cruiser “ Bartolomeo Colleoni,” 73
Synthesis, Catalytic, of Hydrocarbons, 445

TABLE, Optical Circular, O.M.T. (Optical Measuring Tools, Ltd.), 166*
Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge, Failure of,
Tainter Gates, Upper Mississippi Regulation Scheme, 41*
Tangyes, Ltd., Coke-Fired Factory-Heating Stove, 476*
Tank Experiments, Washington, S.S. “ America,” 145*
See also Model
Tapsell, H. J., on Creep under Combined Ten- ! sion and Torsion, 24*, 61*, 104*, 134*, 164
Tar, Coke-Oven, Hydrogenation of, 445 Taranto, Fleet Air-Arm Attack on, 393 T’ata Iron <fe Steel Co., Ltd., Experiments on
Perrin Process of Steel Manufacture, 324, 357, 399, 414
Tatnall, R. R., on Fatigue of Helical Springs, 36*
Tanco Manufacturing Co., Pillar-Type Sensi- , tive Drilling Machine, 38*
Taxation, War, and Depreciation of Machinery, 93
Taylor, Dr. J. L., on Effective Pitch, 183 ; on Directional Stability of Ships, 275
Taylor, Fichter Steel Construction Co., Superstructure of Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas, 1*, 64*, 121*
Taylor, Rear-Admiral D. W., the Late, 115 Teaching. See Education
Teague, F., the Late, 176
Technical College and Education. See Educa‘ lion
— Societies. See Institutions and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Teeth, Gear. See Gear
Telegraphy, Wireless, Interference-Suppression Devices, Specification, 168
See also Radio ; Television
? — See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX Telephone Development, World, Statistics, 313
I Telephony, Wireless, Interference-Suppression Devices, Specification, 168
See also Radio ; Television
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX Television, Colour, Baird System, 513 Template for Measuring Curved Arcs, 263* Tenders, 9, 28, 48, 68, 88, 108, 128, 148, 189,
228, 248, 268, 288, 308, 328, 348, 388, 468, 488, 508
Tensile Tests. See Tests (Materials}
Terminal Speeds in Fluids, Calculations of, 441* Test, Accelerated Spray, for Corrodibility of Ferrous Materials, 433
— Aeronautical. See Aeronautics
— Charts, Acceptance, for Machine Tools, 351,
354
— of Cast-Iron Skew Gears, 242
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— 540 b.h.p., Direct-Reversing Marine Diesel
Engine, 508*
— for Electric Welding of Steel, 8
— Four-Ball, of Lubricants, Wear-Load Char
acteristic of, 115. See LETTERS, 216,236*
Tests (Materials) :
Bending Tests, Glass-Reinforced Concrete 225*, 264
Creep Tests, Steel under Combined Tension and Torsion, 24*, 61*, 104*, 134*, 164 Impact Tests, Glass-Reinforced Concrete, 225*, 264
Glass Tiles, 66* Magnetic Tests. See Magnetic Stresses in Materials and Structiu’es. See Stress
Test Pieces, Fractured, Iron-Plating for Microscopical Examination, 379*
— Tensile, of Synthetic Rubbers, 356 — for Welded Rigid-Frame Factory Building, 321*. See Addendum, 348 Testing Machine, Creep under Combined- Stress, 25*
800-ton Hydraulic (A. J. Amsler and Co.), 201*
Yield Surface in Combined Stress, 261* Test, Magnetic. See Magnetic
— Model. See Model; Tank Experiments
— Motor Vehicles Operated on Town Gas, 359
— O.M.T. Optical Circular Table, 167*
— of Pneumatic Grain-Conveying Plants, 363*
— of Tubular Spun-Concrete Beams, 343*
— Vibration Patterns of Propeller Blades,
484*, 518*
Testing with High-Voltage Direct Current, 175. See Addendiim, 209
— Impulse-Voltage, Specification, 448
— Laboratory, High-Voltage, Liverpool
University, 473
See also National Physical
— Low Temperature, of Electric Cables,
Refrigerator Unit for (Coldair, Ltd.), 178
— Machine, Creep, under Combined-Stress, 25* 800-ton Hydraulic (A. J. Amsler <fe Co.),
201*
See also I'ests (Materials).
— Materials, American Society for. Material
Standards in National Preparedness, by Lieut.-Col. W. C. Young, 292
— Strain, of Glass, Standard Discs in, 448
— See also Tests (Materials)
Texas, Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, 1*, 64*, 121* Text-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX ' Textile Mill, Dugaresa, Yugoslavia, Spun- Concrete Beams for Floor, 345*
New Pralhad, Electrification of, 67 Thames Barrage, Views on, 326
Thermal Efficiency, High-Pressure Steam Plants, United States, 297
— Storage Plant, Electric, Poplar Town Hall
(General Electric Co., Ltd.), 288
— Treatment, Metals. See Heat Treatment
under Metallurgy
Thermodynamics, Physical Aspects of High- Pressure Steam Generation, 494
“ Thetis,’’ H.M. Submarine, Salvage of, 56*
Thomas, A. M., on High-Voltage Direct- Current Testing, 175. See Addendiim, 209
Thomas, H. H., on Production of ReactiveGas Coke by Alkali Activation, 127
Thomson, Sir J. J., the Late, 193*. See LETTER, 256
Thornton, Prof. W. M., on Electrical and Mechanical Transmission of Energy, 373
Thorpe’s Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Vol. IV (Review), 22
Threads, Screw. See Screw
Tides, Power Dissipated by, 412, 425, 454* Tilbury Docks, Entrance Lock, 327* Tiles, Acousti-Celotex, Sound Absorption by, 328 I
— Glass, Impact Tests on, 66*
Timber, Abrasive, Machining of, 501*
— Australian, Research on, 235*
— Exports from British Columbia, 287
Timber, Pressure Creosoting of, Specification, 208
— Supply and Increased Prices, 32 Position of, 13
Tin Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— for Food Products, Specification, 148
— Plate Manufacture in United States, 189
— Research and Development Council, Inter
national, Report on Adhesion of White- Metal Linings in Bearings, 250 ; Immersion Tinning of Copper and Brass, 387 ; Tinning of Piston Rings, 410
Tinning, Immersion, of Copper and Brass, 387
— of Piston Rings (Light Production Co., Ltd.),
410
Tobacco Factories, Electricity Supply in, 425 Tocco Process for Hardening Steel Surfaces, 426*
Tolerances in Machine Work. See Ganges
Tookey, W. A., on Fifty Years of Pressure Scavenging, 137, 514. See LETTERS, 95*, 115, 156, 195, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494
Tools, Machine. See Machine Tools
— Single-Point, Machining with, 259* Toothed Gear. See Gear
Torpedo Boat Destroyers. See Warships Tower, Levelling, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 161*
— Steel, Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas,
2*, 64*, 121*
Town Gas. See Gas
— Planning and War Conditions, 212, 251
Toxic Gases in Exhaust of Diesel Haulage Mine Engines, 517
Organic Halogens, Method of Detection, 468
Track Stress Research on Indian Railways, Report on, 141*
Traction, Electric. See Railways
Tractors, Agricultural, 6-h.p. and 3-h.p. Petrol-Engined (B.M.B. Engineering Co.), 427*
— Ploughing, Report on, 311. See LETTERS,
355, 397, 436
Trade Agreements, Anglo-Turkish, 473
— British, with Argentina and Uruguay, 33
with Brazil, 254
with Chile and Peru, 123, 144
with South America, 253, 423
•— Catalogues for New Zealand, 115
— in Central America, 294
— Coal Export, Position of
— Disputes. See Labour; Labour Notes
— Export, with Canada, 313
Effect of Purchase Tax on, 113
Electrical Plant, 233
Group Organisations for, 191
Groups, Formation of. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Position of, 93
— Home, Limitation of, 433
— Import and Export, of Argentina, 33 and Export, of Brazil, 233, 254. 423 and Export, Chile and Peru, 123, 144 and Export, of Uruguay, 33
— Marks Act, 1939, Egyptian, 304
— Markets in Central America, 294 in Chile and Peru, 123, 144
— Scheme for Costing on Government Con
tracts, 491
— Timber, of British Columbia, 287
— Unions, Labour; Labour Notes
Trailer, Cutting and Welding Equipment (Diamond Motors (Wolverhampton), Ltd.), 197*
— 30-ton Eight-Wheeled, for Transformers
(R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd.), 87*
— for 150-kW Portable Diesel-Driven Generating Set, 47*
Train. See Railway
Training. See Education
Transformers for Electric Furnaces (British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd.), 504*
— for Regenerative Working, South African
Railways, 305*
Transmission, Electric, Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— of Energy, Electrical and Mechanical, 373
— Gear. See Gear; Marine Propulsion
— and Generation, Electric (Review), 203
— of Power. See Marine Propulsion ; Power Transmission
Transport, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Development in Brazil, 234
— Future Organisation of, 352
— Goods, Co-ordination of, 91
Ministry of, Report of Transport Advisory Council on Co-ordination of Goods Trans-
• port, 91 ; Appointment of Committee on Glasgow Docks, 169 ; Report on Railway Accidents, 1939, 153, 171 ; Proposed Increase in Railway Charges, 172, 195 • Report on Aviemore Railway Accident,197’ 206 ; Increase in Railway Fares, 352 ; Report on Wembley Railway Accident, 431
— Motor. See Road; Motor
— Public Vehicle in War-Time, 213
— Railway. See Railway
—• Road. See Road; Motor
Transverse Bulkheads. See Watertight Subdivision
Traps, Light, Ventilator, Specification, 208
Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., Ltd. versus Weaver, 76
Treforest School of Mines and Technology Calendar, 228
Trinidad Government Railways, 277-b h n Diesel Locomotive, 26*
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines, Steam Iroughton, H. J., on Public Vehicle Transport in War-Time, 213 *
Trucks, Railway. See Wagons
— See also Bogie
Tube Railways. See Underground- Railways
— and Tubulars, Steel, Specification, 428
— See also Pipes
Tung Oil Production in Australia, 387 Tungsten I^amps. See Lamps under Electric Tunnels, North-South Junction Railway Brussels, 13*, 21*, 74*
— Road, under River Maas, Rotterdam, 101*
161*, 244* ’
Turbii^s, Hydraulic, Dimensional Analysis, 371 Kaplan, Development of, 381*. See Erratum, 408
— •— See also Power Plant
Rumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
Turbines, Specific Speed of, 77. See LETTERS,
96,115, 137*, 175, 195, 256, 296.376*, 454
— Steam, Back-Pressure, in American Industrial Plants, 296
Calculations, Vapour (Charts and Tables for (Review), ^3
Marine, Geared. See Marine Propnhion
— Steamers. See Steamers; Warships Turkey, British Trade with, 473
Turner’s Shock-Absorbing Socket, 319* Turning. See Machine Tools
Tyre, Ancient Harbour of, 418*
UGINE Steel Works, France, Experiments on Perrin Process of Steel Manufacture at, 324, 357, 399, 414
Underground Railway, City and South Ix)n- don. Jubilee of, 409
— — London, Use as Air-Raid Shelters, 374 Union Bridge and Construction Co., Port Arthur-
Orange Bridge, Texas, 1*, 64*, 121*
— UTade. See Labour; Labour Notes
Unit Machinery Co., Automatic Screw Machine, 287*
United States Air Corps, Report on (Colour Blindness in Air Observers, 513
Bureau of Mines, Statistics of Mercury Industry of United States, 40 ; Report on Liquefied Petroleum Gases, 220; Statistics on Recovery of Scrap Non-Ferrous Metals, 330 ; Diesel Engines in Mines, 517
Bureau of Standards, Report on Synthetic Rubbers, Review of their Compositions, Properties and Uses, by L. A. Wood, 316. 335, 356, 419 : Investigation on Surface 'I'reatment of Steel Prior to Painting, by R. E. Pollard and W. C. Porter, 390
Engineer Department, Bonnet Carr<^ Spillway on Mississippi River, 421*, 465*
Engineering Education in. Report, 472 Industrial Plants, Use of High-Pressure Steam in, 296
Industrial Preparedness for War, 292
JJghtning Protection of Transmission Lines, in 232
United States Lines Co., S.S. “ America,” 145*, 178, 183*. See 151
National Electrical Safety (’ode, 312 Navy. See United States under Warships Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas, 1*, 64*, 121*
Railways, Rail-Defect Detecting Car for, 223*. See Erratum, 296
Railways. See also Railways
Ships under Construction, Statistics, 368
Soil Erosion by Wind Action in, 341*, 364*, 401*
Strategic Materials in, 450
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Failure, 481*
Tin-Plate Manufacture in, 189
Trade with Brazil, 254, 423
Trade with Chile and Peru, 123, 144
Upper Mississippi Regulation Scheme, 41* See also America
United Steel Companies, Ltd., Accelerated Spray Test for Atmospheric Corrodibility of Ferrous Materials, 433
University, Brno, Tests of Tubular Spun-Concrete Beams, 343*
— College Library, London, Destruction, 313 Swansea, Engineering and Metallurgy Prospectuses, 108
— Glasgow, Centenary of Engineering Professorship at, 253
— Liverpool, High-Voltage Testing Laboratory, 473
~ Ljubljana, Tests of Tubular Spun-Concrete Beams, 343*
— Oxford, Institute of Research in Agricultural Engineering, Report on Tractor Ploughing, 311. See LETTERS, 355, 397,436
— Purdue, Chemical and Metallurgical En
gineering Building at, 129
— Technical, Delft, Investigations on Ventilation of Road Tunnel under River Maas, 246*
— of Washington, Model Experiments, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 481
— See also Education
Upper Mississippi River, Regulation of, 41* Uruguay, Imports and Exports of, 33
Utah Power and Light Co., Orem Low Load- Factor Power Station, 328

VALVE, Filling, for Town-Gas Operated Vehicles, 359*
— Injection, for Salt-Velocity Measurement of
Flow in Pipes, 179*
— Vacuum-Relief, Automatic (B.E.N. Patents, Ltd.), 417*
— and Valve Gear., See also Engines
Van Bruggen, J. P., on Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 101*, 161*, 244*
Variable-Speed Gear. See Gear
Varnish Manufacture, Gas-Conditioning Plant for, 27*
Velocities, Terminal, in Fluids, 441*
Venezuela, Exports and Imports of, 294
Ventilation Plant, Road Tunnel under River Maas, Rotterdam, 103*, 246*
— System, S.S. “ America,” 186*
North-South Junction Railway Tunnels Brussels, 21*
Ventilator Light Traps, Specification, 208
Vernon, Dr. H. M., on Working Hours in War- Time, 77, 94. See 11, 72
Viaducts, North-South Junction Railway Brussels, 13*, 21*, 74*
— See also Bridges
Vibration of Concrete, Investigations on, 112
— of Helical Springs, 36*
— in Machinery (Review), 462
— Patterns of Propeller Blades, 484*, 518*
Vorst Marshalling Yard, North-South Junction Railway, Brussels, 74*
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., 275-h.p. Diesel Railcars for New Zealand, 365*

WADKIN, LTD., Radial-Arm Routing and Drilling Machines, 267*
Wages. See Labour
Wagons on Indian Railways, Stresses due to, 141*
— Motor. See Motor Vehicles
Walker, Crosweller and Co., Ltd., Arkon Visible- Flow Indicator, 117*
Wall, G. B., System of Sheet-Steel Construction for Buildings, 16*
Walls of War-Time Factories, Design of, 397
Walshaw, T. D., on Fifty Years of Pressure Scavenging, 95.* See LETTERS, 115, 137, 156, 195, 256*, 355*, 436*, 494, 514
Walton, R., on Design of Clarifiers for Waterworks, 157*
Walton, R. R. F., on Blast-Furnace Management in South Africa, 299*, 315. See 389,433
War, Air Attacks and Town Planning, 212, 251
— in the Air, British and German Losses of
Aircraft, 133, 293, 453
over Britain, 212, 231, 275, 331, 453
— and Appointment of Scientific Advisory
Committee, 291, 293
— Conditions and Civic Development, 251 Eflacient Utilisation of Labour, 451
— Damage to Electricity Undertakings, 113 Insurance of Property, 212, 313, 493 to Private Property, Repair of, 93
— Effects on Coal Industry, 213
— Effort and Managerial Service, 333
— Emergency Schemes for Power Stations, 273 293
— First Twelve Months of, 191
— Industrial Preparedness for, 292
— Industries in Canada, Progress with, 175
— Materials, Sources of, 450
— Organisation of Man Power for, 13, 32
— Planning of World After, 375, 391, 411, 416, 439
— Production and Electrical Industry, 413 Priority in, 153
— at Sea, 393
— Shipping Losses in, 453
— Taxation and Depreciation of Machinery, 93
— Time, Artificial Lighting in, 194
Assistance for Coal Industry, 493
Building Bulletins, 25, 108, 188, 368, 396,430, 495
Building Supplies, Official Publication on,473
Debtor and Creditor in, 204
Electrical Installations, Specifications for, 133
Electrical Work in, 377
Factory Design, Single-Storey, Bulletin on,396
Financial Arrangements between Government and British Shipowners, Memorandum on, 131
Germany’s Difficulties in Securing Oil Supplies, 493
Government Contracts, Scheme for Costing, 491
Industrial Lighting in, 152, 233, 333, 370 Inventors in, 73
Legislation, Possible Permanence of, 512
War-Time Lighting in Factories, 152, 233,333, 370
Position of Shipping in, 105
Public Vehicle Transport in, 213
Road Accidents in, 273
Transport Problems, 352
Work of Post Office, 513 Working Hours, 11,72,94. See LETTER, 77
Warfare, Naval. See Warships
— Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics Warmth, Methods of Measuring, 128

Warships :

Aviation, Naval. See Aeronautics Commissions in Naval Forces, 189,393,493 Empire Navies in Action, 73
Fleet Air-Arm Attack on Taranto, 393 H.M. Armed Merchant Cruiser “ Jervis Bay,” Action of, 393
— Cruiser “ Sydney,” Action against Italian Cruiser “ Bartolomeo Colleoni,” 73
— Destroyers, Transfer from United States, 192, 195, 233, 293
— Navy, Temporary Commissions in, 493. See 189, 393
— Submarine “ Thetis,” Salvage of, 56* Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Air
Branch, Commissions in, 393
United States Navy, Use of Electricity, 310 Destroyers, Transfer to H.M. Navy, 192,195,233,293
See also Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Washing Machines for Engines and Parts (Dawson Brothers, Ltd.), 99*
— Processes for Coal, Objects of, 19*, 39* Washington, Tank Experiments, S.S. “America,”
145*
— University, Model Experiments, Tacoma
Narrows Bridge, 481
Waste Food, Coke for Drying of, 428
— Wood Briquetting Plants, 461*
Products, Combustion of, 474
Water Board, Rand, South Africa, Annual Report, 239, 253
— Boiler, Constitution and Physical Properties
of, 494
— Evaporation from Saturated Surfaces, 238*,
278*. See Erratum, 308
— Filters. See Filters
— Gas. See Gas
— Heaters. See also Feed-Water
— Heating Installation, Electric, Poplar Town
Hall, 288
— Mains, “ Philplug ” Jointing Material for
(General Electric Co., Ltd.), 248*
— Power. See Hydraulic; Power Plant;
Power, Water ; Turbine, Hydraulic
— Supply of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, 257, 266
See also Irrigation
— Treatment by Alexandria Water Co., Ltd., 157*
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic ; Power Plant
— Wheels. See Turbine, Hydraulic; Power Plant
Watertight Bulkheads and Doors, S.S. “ America,” 146
Waterways. See Rivers; Canals
Waterworks, Design of Clarifiers for, 157*
— See also Water Supply and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Watt Medal, Award to Prof. A. Stodola, 333
Watt, R. D., on Combustion of Waste-Wood Products, 474
Wattmeters. See Meters under Electric
Watts, E. R., and Son, Ltd., Optical Circular Table, 166*
Waves, Pressure, in Exhaust-Pipes, 301*
Wear, Cylinder Liner, in Gas Engines, 216
— Load Characteristic of Four-Ball Test of
Lubricants, 115. See LETTERS, 216, 236* Weather. See Meteorology
Weaver versus Tredegar Iron and Coal Co., Ltd., 76
Weir, Bonnet Carr6 Spillway on Mississippi River, 422*, 465*
Welded Rigid-Frame Factory Building, 281*, 321*. See Addendum, 348
Welding Course, Philips Practical (Review), 502
— and Cutting Equipment Trailer (Diamond
Motors (Wolverhampton) Ltd.), 197*
— Electric-Arc, of Steel, Tests for, 8
— Increasing Output, 53
— Machine, Resistance, 250-kVA. (Metropoli-
tan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 336*
for Resistance Butt-Welding of Wire (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 516*
— Oxy-Acetylene, of Steel, Specification, 468 Wellington Harbour Board, New Zealand,
Annual Report, 100
West Hartlepool Technical College, Prospectus, 188
Weston, H.C.,on Industrial Lighting in War- Time, 370
Wheels, Gear. See Gears; Marine Propulsion
— Grinding. See Grinding under Machine Tools Whip Stress in Locomotive Main Rod, 117*.
See LETTERS, 195, 376
White Metal. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Whitehead, S., on High-Voltage Direct-Current Testing, 175. See Addendum, 209
Whitson, L. S., on Power and Velocity Developed in Manual Work, 132
Wickline, G. G., Port Arthur-Orange Bridge, Texas, 1*, 64*, 121*
Wickman, A. C., Ltd., Spar-Boom Horizontal Milling Machines, 386*
Williamson, E., the Late, 397
Wind Action, Soil Erosion by, 341*, 364*, 401*
— Power and Solar Energy, 425, 454*
— Pressure on Port Arthur-Orange Bridge,
Texas, 64
— Screen Wipers, Pneumatically-Operated,
for Railways (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 406*
— Tunnel. See Aeronautics
Windbreaks, Prevention of Soil Erosion, 401* Winding Ropes, Colliery, 800-ton Machine for Testing, 201*
Windows, Plate-Glass, Protection against Air- Raid Damage, 275
Wipers, Wind-Screen, Pneumatically-Operated, for Railways (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 406*
Wire Butt-Welding Machine (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 516*
— for Helical Springs, Properties of, 37*
— Ropes in Salvage of H.M.S. “ Thetis,” 56* Shock-Absorbing Socket for (Brown
Lenox and Co. (London), Ltd.), 319*
— Ropeway, 28-mile, in Sweden (Nordstrdms
Linbaner), 309 Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy •— Telephony. See Telephony Wiring, Electrical, Conduits and Fittings for.
Specification, 208
Witherite, Properties and Applications of. Handbook on, 208
Wodehouse versus Levy and Another, 84 Wolstenholme, G. E., the Late, 38, 53 Wood, Abrasive, Machining of, 501*
— Briquettes, Inc., Sawdust Briquetting
Press, 461*
— Fibres, Disruption in Mason Exploded-
Wood Process, 502*
Wood, L. A., on Synthetic Rubbers, Their Compositions, Properties and Uses, 316, 335, 356, 419
— Technology, Developments in, 461*, 502*
— Waste, Combustion of, 474
Production of Activated Carbon from, 504*
Woodeson, W. A., on Methods, Materials and Men, 345. See 332, 333
Woodworking Machinery. See Machine, Tools Work, H. K., on the Carbanalyzer, 138*
Workmen. See Labour Works and Buildings, Ministry of,
Reith’s Appointment to, 352 Priority Committee, Work of. Publication on War-Time Building plies, 473
Workshop Training. See Education
— See Machine Tools World, Post-War, Planning of, 375, 391, 411, 416, 439
— Shipping Losses due to War, 105
— Telephone Development, Statistics, 313 Worthington-Simpson, Ltd., Vertical Double-Acting Air Compressor, 27* ; High- Pressure Three-Ram Pump, 266*
Wright Lecture on Future of British Civil Aviation, 97, 105, 139, 199, 207, 225
Wright, S. J., on Mechanisation on Land, 397. See 311. See LETTERS, 355, 436
Wrought Light-Alloys Development Association Scholarship, 444

YANESKE, B., on Manufacture of Steel by Perrin Process, 324, 357, 399. See 414
Year Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Yeates, A. C., on Fifty Years of Pressure Scavenging, 156,355*, 494. See LETTERS, 95*, 115, 137, 195, 256*, 436*, 514
Yield Surface in Combined Stress, 261*
Young, Lieut.-Col. W. C., on Material Standards in National Preparedness, 292
Yugoslavia, Dugaresa Textile Mill, Spun-
Concrete Beams for Floor, 345*

“ ZELO,” S.S., Use in Salvage of H.M.S. “ Thetis,” 56*

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