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Engineering 1946 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs

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1946 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs
1946 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs

Note: This is a sub-section of Engineering 1946 Jan-Jun: Index

PARAGRAPHS.

Aeronautics :

  • Aeronautical Collection at Science Museum, Re-opening, 345
  • Aircraft Composite Construction, 296
  • Aircraft Engine and Carburettor Testing in Factories, 34
  • Anti Submarine School, 138
  • Boat, Plywood (Aero Research), 492
  • Busk Studentship, 442
  • Catering, Electrical, for Air Liners, 539 De Havilland Gazette, Resumption of, 74 Engine, Aero Jet, Manufacture in China, 466 Filters, Standard, “ Airpel,” 439
  • Flight, High-Speed, 58
  • Gray, Thomas, Memorial Trust Prizes, 587 “ Inter a via,” Swiss Aviation Magazine, 622 Journal of Royal Aeronautical Society, 80th Anniversary Number, 120
  • Ottawa, Research Facilities in, 550
  • Rootes Securities, Ltd., Progress of, Film, 412 Short Brothers, Transfer to Belfast, 563
  • Supply and Aircraft Production Ministries, Regional Controllers, 44
  • Turbines, Gas, for Aircraft Propulsion, 175 Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture, 139, 587, 600
  • “ Wings Over the World,” Magazine, 545

Agriculture :

  • “ Agricultural Engineering Record,” 56 Electricity Supply to Farms, 376, 383 Farm Machinery and Spare Parts, 367 Tractor, “ Atom,” Semi Crawler, Erratum, 35

Alloys. See Mining and Metallurgy

Appointments, Awards and Honours :

  • Albert Medal, 264
  • Bessemer Gold Medal, 347
  • Butterworth Award, 82
  • Constantine Award, 82
  • Gray Memorial Trust Prizes, 587
  • Herbert Jackson Prize, L.M.S.R., 175
  • Mining and Metallurgy, Institution of, Gold Medal, 489
  • Royal Aeronautical Society, Branch Prize and Usborne Prize, 395
  • Trasenster Medal, 346
  • United States Medal of Merit, Award, 209

Associations :

  • Alar, Ltd., 55
  • Electrical Association, Municipal, Incorporated, 162
  • Electrical Association for Women, 515 Filter Manufacturers, Associated, British Society of, 224
  • Ingenidurs Sortis de l’Ecole de Lifege, 346 Model Engineering Trade Association^ 87 Motor Agents, 33
  • Quality Control, Society for, 95 Reinforcement Steel Engineers’ Association, 514
  • Sheffield Metallurgical Association, 562
  • Tar Confederation, British, 167

Automobiles. See Motor Gars

Boilers. See Engines and Boilers

Bridges :

  • Dorman, Long & Co.’s Constructions, 370
  • Rhine Bridge, Baerle, Re-opened to Traffic, 246

Buildings and Building Construction :

  • Earth Pressure, Lectures on, 235
  • Factories, Government, Allocation of, 275
  • Glassworks Extensions for Factory Reequipment, 237
  • Plant and Buildings, Whiteley-Read, 538
  • Waverley Station, Edinburgh, Roof Restoration, 237
  • Yarn Factory, Nylon, 604

Catalogues. See Miscellaneous

Cement and Concrete :

  • China, Cement Plants for, 587
  • Portland Cement, Mechanical Analysis of, Erratum, 496

Chemistry. See Physics and Chemistry

Coal:

  • Cardiff, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611
  • Colliery Tub-Handling Equipment, 18 French Production, 226
  • Mining Machinery, Tapered Roller Bearings for, 508
  • Opencast Production, 259
  • Scottish Coal Trade, 11, 35, 59,107,131,155, 179, 203, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611
  • Sheffield, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611

Colleges. See Education

Companies :

Concrete. See Cement and Concrete

Cranes, Etc. :

  • Canada, British Lifts and Escalators Contract, 366. See Erro/wm, 394
  • Conveying and Lifting Equipment (Robson), 404

Docks. See Harbours

Education :

  • Anti-Submarine School, Joint, 138
  • Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 442 Cass, Sir John, Technical Institute, 611 Chemical Engineering, Bursaries in, 611 Crystallography, X-Ray, Summer School for, Cambridge, 581
  • Derby Society of Engineers, Chief Patron’s Prize, 30
  • Engineering Education, Advanced, in Manchester, 74
  • Lectures, Weld Testing in Holland, 56; High-Speed Flight, 58; Engineering Research, London University, 59 ; Chadwick Public, 68; Wilbur Wright, 139, 587, 600; Internal-Combustion Turbines, 159; Road Transport Vehicles, Electrical Equipment, 188; Earth Pressure, 235; Aslib, Special Librarianship, 418; Micro- Waves and Wave Guides, 419; Faraday, Atoms, Electrons and Engineers, 467 " Management in a Changing World,” 308 Metallurgical Education Committee, 29 Physics, Theoretical, Summer School on, Bristol University, 186
  • Scholarships, Royal Aeronautical Society, Coventry, 294; Institution of Electrical Engineers, 335,

Electricity :

  • Arc-Welding Equipment, Automatic, 299
  • Battersea Generating Stations, London Power Co., Addendum, 42
  • Cables and Equipment, Radio Frequency, 252
  • Cables, Paper-Insulated, 23
  • Carbon Electrode Brazing Unit, 195 Catering, Electrical, on Air Liners, 539 “ Cintel ” Photo-Electric Cells, 587 Crompton, Col., Pioneer and Prophet, 321 Degaussing Discussion, 295 Detarrers, Electro, Woodall-Duckham, 563 Electrical Engineers, Institution of, Scholarships, 335 ; Nominations to Council, 508
  • Electrical Equipment Exhibition, Bristol, 424 Electronic Devices and Road Safety, 346 Factory, Aircraft, for New Electrical Appliances, 525
  • Farms, Electricity Supply to, 376, 383 Furnaces, Electric (G.W.B.), 390 Generating Stations, New, England and Wales, 69
  • Generators and Motors, Harland, 295, 490; Electro Dynamic Construction Co., 354
  • Great Britain, Generating Statistics, 48, 95, 202,525, 586; Consumption per Head, 219 Lamps, Fluorescent, 40-Watt, Auxiliary Gear for, 151
  • Micro-Waves and Wave Guides, Lectures, 419 Micrometer, X Ray Gauging, 74 'Morar Hydro-Electric Scheme, 515
  • Motors (Higgs), 6
  • Motors, Closed Air Circuit, 561
  • Motor Units, Geared (English Electric Co.), 17 Neon Signs, Rotary Converters for, 370 New Zealand, Electricity Supply in, 360 Oil, Transformer, Discussion on, 298
  • Poles, Reinforced-Concrete, for Transmission Lines, 355
  • Radio Equipment, Marine, Exhibition, 418, 501
  • Radio, Power Equipment for (Catalogue), 316 Railways, British, Electrification, 367
  • Road Transport Vehicles, Electrical Equipment, 188
  • Selected Stations and the Grid Tariff, 523 Southampton Supply Undertaking, Jubilee, 500
  • “ Stabllistor,” Westinghouse, for-Alternating-Current Supply Voltages, 564
  • Supply Industry, Proposed Nationalisation, 515
  • Supply, Municipal, Control of, 162 Telephone Development, 376
  • Telephone System, G.W.R., in Central Wales, 88
  • Transmission Lines, Reinforced-Concrete Poles for, 355
  • Truck, Electric, Heavy-Duty, 596
  • United States, Medal of Merit Award, Telecommunication Services, 209 ; Electricity Consumption per Head, 219; Supply Figures, 535
  • Vacuum Cleaners, Electric, Australian Factory, 442
  • Voltages of Electricity Supplies, 370 Welds, X-Ray Examination of, 56 Welding, Arc, Accessories (Murex), 127
  • X-Ray Analysis Conference, 83
  • X-Ray Crystallography, Summer School for, Cambridge, 581

Engines and Boilers :

  • Boilers, All-Welded, in Canadian Locomotives, 216
  • Croydon Generating Station, Steam-Raising Plant, 509
  • Soot Blowers, Boiler, 123

Exhibitions :

  • Aeronautical Collection at Science Exhibition, Re-opening of, 345
  • Chemical Research, 443
  • Electrical Equipment, Bristol, 424
  • English Electric Co., War Activities, 155 German Aircraft, 127
  • Instruments, Precision, Coventry, 223; Scientific, Stockholm, 227
  • Marconi Exhibitions, 418, 501
  • Material-Handling Plant (Collis), 491
  • “ Model Engineer,” 586
  • Paris Trade Fair, 309
  • Prague International Fair, 345
  • Rubber, Metal-Bonded, 477
  • Shipbuilding and Marine, 1947, 570
  • Shipwrights’ Exhibition, 1947, 368

Gas :

  • Dust Separator, Aerotec, 251
  • Gasholders, Waterless, Catalogue, 465

Gas and Oil Engines :

  • Bearings for Internal-Combustion Engines, 390
  • Diesel Engines, British, for Icelandic Trawlers, 586
  • Diesel Engine Research in Germany, 228
  • Marine Oil Engines, High-Speed, 226 Turbines, Gas, for Aircraft Propulsion, 175 Turbine, Gas, Research, 340
  • Turbines, Internal-Combustion, Lectures on, 159
  • Turko-British Contract, 31
  • Union-Diesel Marine Engines, 103

Guns and Explosives :

  • German War-Gas Stocks, Destruction of, 21

Harbours, Docks, Piers, Etc. :

  • Garston Docks, 605
  • Swansea Docks Improvements, 153

Industries and Commerce :

  • Acoustics, Sound Equipment (Ardente), 65
  • Aluminium Foil Production in South Africa, 44
  • Anglo-Belgian Industrial Conversations, 26 Argentina, Trade Agreement with, 269 Aslib Conferences, Industrial Information Services, 274
  • British Industry, German Scientists and Technicians for, 312
  • Canada, Lifts, Etc., Contract, 366. See Erratum, 394
  • Canadian Mica-Mining Industry, 196
  • Controls, Benzole, 30 ; Bolts, Nuts, Etc., 611; Cadmium, 604 ; Diamond Wire-Drawing Dies, 81; Factories and Storage Premises, 130 ; Iron and Steel, 16; Machine Tools, 237; Nickel, 223 ; Aviation Petrol, 88; Textile Bags, 144
  • Crompton, Col., Pioneer and Prophet, 321
  • Dermatitis, Industrial, Methods of Preventing, 115
  • Engineering Outlook, Errata, 216
  • Export Credits Guarantee Department, 59 Factories, Government, Allocation of, 275 Factory Inspectorate. Personnel, 380 Factory, Nylon Yarn, Construction, 694 Films, Industrial, 562
  • Flour Mills, Steam and Electrically-Driven, Relative Efficiency, 546
  • Food Industry, Large Stainless-Steel Tubes for, 190
  • Gas-Turbine Research, 340
  • Germany, Industrial Reports on, 318
  • Glassworks Extensions, 237
  • Government Stores, Disposal of, 199
  • Luton Works, Fire at, 515
  • Machine Tools, Selling Centres, 619 Material-Handling Plant (Collis) Exhibition, 491
  • Metrology, Conference on, 251
  • Model Engineering Trade Association, 87 Motor-Car Factory, Australian, 449 Overseas Trade Department, Dissolution of, 322
  • Paint Manufacture, Developments in, 618 Paris Trade Fair, 309
  • Peat, Utilisation as Fuel, 561
  • Personal, 10, 34, 58, 82, 106, 130, 154, 178, 202, 226, 250, 274, 298, 322, 346, 370, 394, 418, 442, 466, 490, 514, 538, 562, 586, 610
  • Plant and Buildings (Whiteley-Read), 538
  • Production Efficiency Service, Birmingham, 587
  • Quality Control, Society for, 95 Refrigerating Machinery (Weir), 298 Road Rollers, Malayan Contract, 622 Rubber Mountings, Anti-Vibration, 600
  • Supply and Aircraft Production Ministries, Regional Controllers, 44
  • Swansea Steel-Sheet Industry, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 443, 467, 491, 515, 563, 611
  • Timber, West African, Importation of, 572
  • Transport, Road, Spurrier Lecture, Errata 331
  • Truck, Electric, Heavy-Duty, 596
  • Tubes, Brass and Copper, Prices, 587
  • " Ulster To-day,” 178
  • Vacuum Cleaners, Australian Factory, 442
  • War Activities of Industrial Firms, 141, 155, 185, 227, 352, 479, 490, 515, 534, 596
  • Works Management, “ Management in a Changing World,” 308

Institutions. See Technical Societies and Associations

Internal-Combustion Engines. See Gas and Oil Engines

Iron and Steel :

  • Beams, Broad Flange, Manufacture of (Cargo Fleet), 202
  • Bessemer Gold Medal Award, 347
  • Cleveland Basic Iron, 11, 35, 59, 83,107,131, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611
  • Cleveland Iron Markets, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611
  • Cleveland Manufactured Iron and Steel, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611
  • Essential Work Orders, Withdrawal of the Industry from, 298
  • Foundry Control Methods, 112
  • Foundrymen, British, Institute of, 571
  • Hematite and Low-Phosphorus Iron, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611
  • Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 227 Mains, Steel-Welded, Corrosion Cracking, 463 Middlesbrough Scr;ap, 35, 59, 83, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611
  • Prices, Chart of, 83
  • Rails, Steel, Life of, 254
  • Reinforcement Steel Engineers’ Association, 514
  • Scottish Iron and Steel Trade, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 203, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611
  • Sheffield Iron and Steel Trade, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611
  • Steel Production, Film on, 583
  • Swansea Steel-Sheet Industry, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 443, 467, 491, 515, 563, 611
  • Tubes, Stainless-Steel, for Food Industry, 190
  • Tubing, Steel, for Low-Temperature Work, 115
  • United Kingdom Production, 179, 618

Labour Questions. See Trade Societies

Literature. See LITERATURE INDEX

Locomotives. See Railways

Machine and Other Tools :

  • Bliss Presses, Manufacture in Sheffield, 383
  • Bolt Adaptors (Catalogue), 34
  • Copper-Tube Jointing Tools, 120
  • Dies and Tools, Cemented Tungsten Carbide (“ Prolite ”), 621
  • Dowel Pins, Precision (Jones & Shipman), 459, Drills, Portable, Filing Attachment for, 388 Drilling-Machine Spindles, “ Essex,” 525 Excavating Machinery, Ruston-Bucyrus, 563 Excavators, Ransomes & Rapier, 294, 539 Flypress Operation, Counter for, 520 Grinding Machines for Railway Shops, 388 Grinding, Precision (Churchill), 581 Hobbing Machine Specifications (D. Brown) 112
  • Inspection Equipment, “ Sigma,” 562
  • Jig Borer, Newall (E. H. Jones), 486
  • Knives, Machine (Catalogue), 465
  • Optimeter, Horizontal, O.M.T., 547
  • Pliers, Heavy-Pressure Toggle, 460
  • Precision Instrument Exhibition, Coventry, 223
  • Presses, Clearing, Rockwell, Manufacture in Newcastle, 82. See Erratum, 106
  • Selling Centres, 619
  • Splineshaft Grinding Machines (Churchill), 171
  • Tools, Machine, Government Surplus Disposal, 154, 501, 608
  • Workshop Precision Grinding, Russian Edition, Churchill Machine Tool Co., 581

Marine Engineering. See Engines and Boilers ; Ships and Shipbuilding

Mining and Metallurgy :

  • Aluminium Alloys, (Alar, Ltd.), 55, 587
  • Aluminium-Foil Production, South Africa, 44
  • Aluminium Laboratories, Ltd., Resumption of Research Work, 227
  • Aluminium, Standard Specifications for, 65 Burma, Lower, Tin and Wolfram Mining, 226 Canadian Mica-Mining Industry, 196 Cooler, Oil, Hee..an Type, 20
  • Copper-Tube Jointing, Simple Method, 120 Foundry Equipment (August’s, Ltd.), 482
  • Foundrymen, British, Institute of, 571
  • Furnace, Box-Type, for Heat Treatment, 296
  • Furnaces, Electric (G.W.B.), 390
  • Gold Medal Award, Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 489
  • Light-Metals Industry, United Kingdom, 569
  • Metallurgical Education Committee, 29
  • Rhodesia, Southern, Chromium-Ore Mining, 100
  • Thermostats, Adjustable, Heat-Treatment, 269
  • Tubing, Alloy-Steel, for Low-Temperature Work, 115

Miscellaneous :

  • Acoustics, Sound Equipment (Ardente), 65 Anglo-Belgian Industrial Conversations, 26 Argentina, Trade Agreement with, 269
  • Aslib Conferences: Planning, 274; Industrial Information, 274 ; Special Librarianship Lectures, 418
  • Belt Adaptors (Lindsay), 34
  • Calendars, 68, 76,114, 298, 486
  • Catalogues, 23, 34, 153, 167, 316, 354, 370, 388, 465, 537
  • Cooler, Heenan, New Type, 20
  • Crompton, Col., Pioneer and Prophet, 321 District Heating, 391
  • Dust Separator, “Aerotec” (Prat-Daniel), 251
  • “ Engineering Outlook,” Errata, 216
  • Factory Inspectorate Personnel, 3.80
  • Fans, “ Aeroto,” 202
  • Ferry Services Committee, 563
  • Films, Industrial, Sound, 562
  • Filters, Air (Catalogue), 167
  • Filters, Committee for Standardising, 224
  • Flour Mills, Steam and Electrically-Driven, Relative Efficiency, 546
  • Germany, Industrial, Reports on, 318 Glassworks Extensions, 237
  • Grate, Domestic, Radiator-Heating, 211 Health Congress, Blackpool, 506
  • Industry, British, German Scientists and Technicians for, 312
  • Kelvin, Lord, Film of Career, 501
  • Keynes, Lord, Nomination as F.R.S., 532 Knives, Machine (Heathcote), 465 Laboratory Apparatus, Publications on, 95
  • ? Luton Works, Fire at, 515
  • Mains, Welded Steel, Corrosion Cracking of, 463
  • Material-Handling Plant, Exhibition (Collis), 491
  • Metrology, Conference on, 251
  • Observatory, Greenwich, Transfer to Hurst- monceux, 414
  • Oil Coolers (Catalogue), 167
  • Oil, Transformer, Discussion on, 298
  • Paint Manufacture, Developments in, 618 Peat, Utilisation as Fuel, 561
  • Personal, 10; 34, 58, 82, 106, 130, 154, 178, 202, 226, 250, 274, 298, 322, 346, 370, 394, 418, 442, 466, 490, 514, 538, 562, 586, 610
  • Refrigerating Machinery (Weir), 298 Road Safety and Electronic Devices, 346 Rubber Mounting, Anti-Vibration, 600 Soil Mechanics, Practical Development, Errata, 346
  • Stores, Government, Disposal of, 199
  • Tar Confederation, British, 167
  • Timber, West African, Importation of, 572
  • Trasenster Medal, Award to Sir E. Appleton, 346
  • Truck, Electric, Heavy-Duty, 596
  • “ Ulster To-day,” 178
  • Vacuum Cleaners, Australian Factory for, 442 War Activities of Industrial Firms, 141,155, 185, 227, 352, 479, 490, 515, 534, 596

Motor Cars, Etc. :

  • Australian Motor-Car Factory, 449
  • Garage Equipment, 346
  • Motor Agents’ Association, Luncheon, 33
  • Road Transport, Commercial, Spurrier Lecture, Errata, 331
  • Rootes Securities, Ltd., Progress of, Film, 412
  • Tractor, “ Atom,” Semi-Crawler, Erratum, 35
  • Vehicle Repair Shops and Essential Works Orders, 178

Naval :

  • Anti-Submarine School, 138
  • Degaussing Discussion, 295
  • Oil-Engine Operation, 226

Obituary. See GENERAL INDEX

Oil. See Miscellaneous

Physics and Chemistry :

  • Atoms, Electrons and Engineers, Faraday Lecture on, 467
  • Atomic Energy, British Association of Chemists’ Lecture, 442
  • Chemical Research Exhibition, 443
  • Chemical Society, Centenary, 610
  • Crystallography, X-Ray, Summer School for, Cambridge, 581
  • Engineering, Chemical, Bursaries, 611
  • Kelvin, Lord, Film of Career, 501
  • Laboratory Apparatus, Publications on, 95
  • Micro-Waves and Wave Guides, Lectures, 419
  • Micrometer X-Ray Gauging for Sheet or Tube Material, 74
  • Spectroscopy, Industrial, Conference on, 539 Summer School on Theoretical Physics, 186 Transformer Oil, Discussion on, 298
  • X-Ray Analysis, Conference, 83

Power Plants. See Electricity

Power Transmission :

  • Gearboxes, Reduction (Catalogue), 537 Motor and Reduction Gear Unit (D. Brown), 460
  • Radicon Reducing Gears (D. Brown), 171
  • Roller Bearings, Tapered, for Mining Machinery, 508

Railways and Locomotives :

  • Canadian Locomotives in France', 131; Locomotives with All-Welded Boilers, 216
  • Dutch Railways, War Damage to, 537
  • Electrification of British Railways, 367
  • Great Western Railway, Telephone System in Central Wales, 88; Track Renewal Programme, 199 ; Oil-Burning Passenger Locomotive, 610
  • Grinding Machines for Railway Workshops, 388
  • Lamps, Signal, Tests, 462
  • London Midland and Scottish Railway, Herbert Jackson Prize, 175 ; Signal-Lamp Tests, 462
  • London and North Eastern Railway, Rebuilt 2-6-0 Locomotive, 33; Dunfermline Locomotive Depot,. .297
  • Model Railways, Trade Association Standards, 87
  • Rails, Steel, Life of, 254
  • Rhine Bridge, Baerle, Re-opened to Traffic, 246
  • Royal Train for South Africa, 586
  • South African Railway Earnings, 334, 587
  • Swedish Railway Electrification, 4
  • Wagon Bodies, Contracts for Home Railways, 250
  • Waverley Station, Edinburgh, Roof Restoration, 237

Ships and Shipbuilding :

  • Cross-Channel Ships, New, 380
  • Degaussing Discussion, 295
  • Exhibition, Shipbuilding and Marine, 1947, 570
  • Lloyd’s Register and British Corporation, Breakdown of Proposed Fusion, 414
  • Lloyd’s Register, Special Surveys, 88
  • Marconi Exhibitions, Marine Equipment, 418, 501
  • Refrigerating Machinery (Weir), 298 Scottish Industry, 11, 83, 299, 347, 395 Shipbuilding Conference, Mission to South America, 106
  • Shipwrights’ Exhibition, 1947, 368
  • Stabiliser, Ship, Retractable Fin (Denny), 132 Trawlers, Icelandic, British Diesel Engines for, 586

Societies. See Technical and Trade

Technical Societies :

  • Aeronautical Society, Royal, 120, 294, 395, 456
  • Arts, Royal Society of, 58, 264
  • Automobile Engineers, Institution of, 533
  • Chemical Engineers, Institution of, 103, 254
  • Civil Engineers, Institution of, Birmingham Association, 151
  • Electrical Engineers, Institution of, Installation Group, 232; Transmission Section, 466
  • Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of, 618
  • Fuel Luncheon Club, 26, 419, 546
  • Illuminating Engineering Society, 151 Industrial Administration, Institute of, 308 Iron and Steel Institute, 211, 227 Locomotive Engineers, Institution of, 250 Manchester Association of Engineers, 82 Marine Engineers, Institute of, 260 Maudslay Society, 419
  • Mechanical Engineers, Institution of, 159 Metals, Institute of, 65
  • Naval Architects, Institution of, 131, 618
  • North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, 449
  • North of England Institution of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 103
  • Permanent Way Institution, 254
  • Petroleum, Institute of, 298
  • Physics, Institute of, 68,114,186, 539 Production Engineers, Institution of, 394 Royal Society, 251, 532
  • Sanitary Institute, Royal, 506
  • Sheet and Strip Metal Users’ Technical Association, 562
  • Statistical Society, Royal, 58
  • Surveyors, Chartered, Royal Institution of, 522
  • Transport, Institute of, 88, 309, 547
  • Water Engineers, Institution of, 394
  • Welding, Institute of, 48, 56, 328

Telegraphy. See Electricity

Telephony. See Electricity

Tools. See Machine and Other Tools

Trade. See Coal; Industries.; Iron and Steel; Ships and Shipbuilding

Trade Societies, Etc. :

  • Absenteeism, 212
  • Agricultural Industry, Wages, 44, 164, 187, 212, 428, 452, 475, 620; Retention of Youths on Farms, 164
  • Arbitration, Compulsory, Abolition Question, 116
  • Belgium, Registration for Employment, 620 Brazil, Unionism and Government Employees, Decree, 428
  • Catering Wages Commission, Report, 356 Chemical Industry, Wages, 356, 380, 428 Clerical, etc., Workers’ Union,. Wage Fixing and State Intrusion, 404
  • Cost of Living. See Living, Cost of
  • Cotton Industry, Wages, 20, 187, 380, 524. Scarcity of Operatives, 260. Output and Employment Figures, 356
  • Delco-Remy & Hyatt, Ltd., Introduction of Five-Day Week, 524
  • Disabled Persons (Employment) Act, Quota Scheme, 20
  • Distributive and Allied Workers, Amalgamation, 475
  • Dock Industry, Port Employers and Unions, Wage Agreement, 44; Casual Labour Question, 620 ; Entrants on Register, 620 Electrical Industry, Electricity Supply, 20, 187 ; Trade Unions and Dilution, 140,452; Union Membership and Service-Trained Personnel, 308.; Electrical Contracting, Wages, 332
  • Electrical Trade Unions and Dilution, 140, 452
  • Electricity Supply, Manual Workers’ Wages, 20, 187
  • Employment and Unemployment Statistics, 92, 212, 283, 308, 380, 452, 475, 500, 572
  • Engineering Industry, Release from Provisions of Essential Work Orders, 140; Joint Trade Reconstruction Plans, 187; Clerical Staffs Section, 380; Joint Proposals for Wages, etc., of Women Members, 404, 452 Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, Hours of Work and Pay Charter, 404
  • Engineering Union, Amalgamated, New Wage Structure, 44, 92, 500; Term “ Engineer Officer,” 92; Membership and Benefit Data, 92, 187, 283, 380, 500, 572 ; Production and Exports Policy, 187; Plastics Workers’ Wages, 283 ; Man Power Budget, 283; True Form of Leadership for Labour Movement; 308; Engineering Unions, Amalgamation Question, 356,500; Flection of General Secretary, 380; Dual Membership with National Mineworkers’ Union, 404; Apprentices’ Conscription Views, 500; Women Apprentices Question, 500
  • Exports, Need for, 187, 572; Increase of, 595 Factory Legislation, Proposed Overhaul, 595 Federation, General, of Trade Unions, on Clear Thinking, 547; Motion and Time Study Investigation, 547; Need for Increased Exports, 572j Elimination of Non-Unionism, 595
  • Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Negotiating Machinery and Revised Wage Schedule Agreement with Employees, 452, 475
  • Foundry Workers, National Union of, 332 France, Holidays-with-Pay Legislation, 308 Gas Industry, Wages, 20; Working Conditions, 20
  • Hours of Work, Holidays in Food Trade, 44; Forty-Hour Week, 92, 332, 356, 380, 524; Overtime and Nightshift Case, 212; France, Holidays with Pay, 308 ; Russia, Restoration of Regular Holidays, 308; Hosiery Trade Hours, 356; Chemical Industry, 380, 428; Miners’ Holiday-Pay Rates, 380 ; Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, Proposed Charter, 404; Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Five-Day Week, 452; Motor Vehicle, etc., Trade,.Shorter Working Week, 475; Delco-Remy and Hyatt, Ltd., Five-Day Week, 524; Electricity Supply Industry, 524; Civil Engineering, Paid Statutory Holidays, 620; Agriculture, 620
  • Income Tax, Overtime Earnings, 380; P.A.Y.E., Re-examination of System, 380 India, Factories Act, Provisions for Holidays with Pay, 428; Strikes, 620
  • Industrial Court, New President, 20
  • Industry, General, Employers’ Readiness to Co-operate in Promoting Production, 260; Production Increases, 524; Nationalisation of Industries, 595
  • Iron and Steel Industry, Development Plan- ningfor,20,283 ; United States Steel Strike, 92 ; Metal Scrap Industry, Minimum Wage Figures, 595 ; Nationalisation, 620
  • Joint Trades Movement, Engineering, New Wage Structure, A.E.U. Report, 44, 500; Wages and Other Claims, 116, 164, 308, 332, 356; Plans for Reconstruction of Engineering Industry, 187, 283
  • Labour and National Service, Ministry of, Reports, 68, 92, 164, 260, 308, 35.6, 572; Average Earnings and Hours of Manual Workers, 260; Statistics of Employment and Unemployment, 92, 212,283, 308, 380, 452, 475, 500, 572
  • Labour Notes, 20, 44, 68, 92, 116, 140, 164 187, 212, 236, 260, 283, 308, 332, 356, 880, 404, 428, 452, 475, 500, 524, 547, 572, 595, 620
  • Labour Party, Parliamentary, and Internal Criticism, 212; Conference, 595
  • Living, Cost of, 20, 524, 572, 620
  • Local Authorities, Employees’ Wages and Conditions Scheme, 140; Rate-Equalising Proposals, 595
  • Man-Hour Production, 140, 236
  • " Man and Metal,” Iron and Steel Industry and Development Planning, 20, 283 ; Parliamentary Labour Party and Internal Criticism, 212; Wages Policy, 404
  • Man-Power Allocation, 236 Man-Power Budget, 283
  • Marine Engineers’ Association, Term " Engineer Officer,” 92
  • Mining Industry, National Union Holiday Claim, 20; 187 ; Coal Position Statement, 20; Coal Shortage, Menace to Industry, 68, 308; Twelve-Point Charter to Attract Recruits, 68, 187, 212, 332; Mining Association Plan for Recruitment, Education and Training, 68; Minister and Unofficial Strike Action, 92; Scheme for Supplementary Benefits under Insurance Bill, 140; Nationalisation Bill Amendments, 212; Coal Output, 212; Absenteeism, 212, 380; Miners, Employment Figures, 308, 380 ; Holiday Pay Rates, .380 ; Mineworkers’ Union, Dual Membership with A.E.U., 404; Mineworkers’ National Wage Policy, 547; Piecework, Suggested Elimination, 547; Unofficial Strikes and Impeded Production, 547; Nationalisation, 595
  • Motor Vehicle Retail, etc., Trade, Wage Increases and Hours of Work, 475
  • Omnibus Workers’ Wages, etc.; 44,164, 187, 236, 404, 428, 475, 500
  • P.A.Y.E. See Income Tax
  • Patternmakers’ Association, United, New Wage Structure for Engineering Industry, 44; Membership and Benefit Data, 44, 116, 236; Skill v. Mechanised Output in Foundry Industry, 116; Wages, 116, 236, 524; Dilution as Affecting Electrical Trades Union, 140; Metal Patternmaking Question, 236; Wages in Foundry Trade, 332; “ York Memo.” and Avoidance of Disputes, 404; Wages, Effect of Mechanisation on, 547
  • Plastics Workers’ Wages, 283
  • Production and Export Policy Question, 572 Railways, Railway Clerks and Nationalisation, 524
  • Russia, Demobilised Men, Resettlement Conditions, 236; Fourth Five-Year Plan, Preparation Proposals, 428
  • Schoolmasters, National Association of, Opposition to Equal Pay for Men and Women Teachers, 428
  • Shipbuilding Industry, Wages Anomaly, 332; Wage Agreement, 356 ; Forty-Hour Week, 524; Avoiding Disputes, 524
  • Shop Assistants’ Union, Wage Demands, 164; Early Closing, 332
  • Strikes, Minister on Unofficial Strike Action, 92 ; Illegality of, 236; Strikes and Export Drive, 283; Unofficial, Results of, 547; in British India, 620
  • Strike Statistics, 68,164, 260, 283, 356, 475, 572
  • Time and Motion Study, Investigations, 547 Trade Disputes, etc., Act, 116, 187, 236, 356 Trade Union Congress, 40-Hour Week Problem, Proposed Legislation, 92, 332, 380 ; on Abolition of Compulsory Arbitration, 116; on Promotion of Industrial Production, 260; on National Wages Policy Question, 332; Election of Officers, 404
  • Trade Unionists, Opposition to Employment of Non-Unionists, 428
  • Transport and General Workers’ Union, Proposed Road Haulage Nationalisation, 283 ; Planning of Transport, 283 ; Wages, 283 ; Chemical Section Wages, 380; International Federation of Transport Workers, Zurich Congress, 572
  • Unemployment Allowances, 212 Unemployment Fund, 140, 356 Unemployment Insurance Committee, Annual Report, 356
  • United States Steelworks, Employees’ Strike, 92; Labour Troubles, Wage Basis of, 116 ; Employment Figures, 140 ; Price Changes, 140; Workers’ Income Security Schemes, 500
  • Wages, Fluctuation of, 68, 164, 260
  • Wages, General Engineering Industry, New Wage Structure, 44; Mr. J. R. Scott on New Wage Structure, 92; State Regulation, 92, .236, 404; Wage Rates, War, General Level, 164; National Wages Policy Question, 332, 404; Current Year Increases, 356, 452; Increases in Various Industries, 547
  • Women Workers, Equal Pay Question, 404, 428; Engineering Industry and Wage Structure in Relation to Women, 452, 500, 595; Apprenticeship of Women in Engineering Industry, 500

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