Engineering 1947 Jan-Jun: Index: General

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GENERAL

Accidents :

Explosions, Boiler. See Boiler Explosions
“ Accra,” M.S., Launch of, 187
Accumulator Vehicles. See Motor Truck
Acetylene Welding. See Welding
Acids and Bases, Electronic Theory of (Review), 123
Acoustics for Architects (Review), 207
Adam, J. L., on Classification Standards and Longitudinal Strength, 343
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address
Adiabatic Processes and their Meaning, 40, 88, 112,139, 155, 196, 291, 340. See Erratum, 155
Adkins, B., on Amplidyne Regulating Systems, 543
Admiralty. See Warships
Aeraspray Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Light- Weight Air Compressor for Tropical Countries, 376*
Aerated Concrete Building Blocks, Specification, 522
Aerial Navigation. See Aeronautics — Transport. See Aeronautics Aerodynamics. See Aeronautics Aeronautical Society, Royal, Award of Medals, 411 : Discussion on Naval Aircraft, 435 ; Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference, Programme, 551

Aeronautics :

Aerial Navigation Aids, International Agreements on, 502 |
Aerodynamic Oscillations of Severn Highway Bridge, 554 i
Aeronautical Conference, Anglo-American, I Programme, 551
— Research in Australia, 42, 53, 89
Aeroplane, Bombing, Halifax, Delivery of Last (Handley Page, Ltd.), 31
” Lincoln,” with Theseus Gas Turbine, Tests of (Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd.), 283*
United States ** Consolidated-Vultee XB-36,” 427
— German, Use of Hydrogen Peroxide for Propulsion, 307
— High-Pressure Hydraulic Systems in, 39
— Lockheed “ Shooting Star,” Air-Speed Record, 551
— Pilotless, Rocket-Propelled, Tests, 362
— Tailless, Jet-Engined (Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.), 9
— ‘‘ Tudor I,” Defects in, 152
— Undercarriage Mechanisms, 39
— Wooden, Investigations in Australia, 89
— See also Flying Boat (below)
Air Raid Damage to British Grid System, 218, 225*, 249*
Damage to Electric Power Stations, 134
Unexploded Bombs, Disposal. 20*^ 44*
— Speed Record, American, 551
Aircraft Industry, Position and Prospects. 77
— Liquid De-Icing Equipment, 530
— Naval, Design, Equipment and Operation of, 435
— Servo Mechanisms in, 542
— “ Tudor I,” Defects in, 152
Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference, Programme, 551
Balloon Barrage, Damage to Grid System by, 218, 249
Bases for Civilian Plying Boats, Report, 527 Bombs, Aerial, Disposal, Research and Development Applied to, 20*, 44* Brake, Aerojdane Wheel, 39
British Overseas Airways Corporation, Engineering Training School, 497
Catapult, Electrical, for Aircraft (Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.), 198
Centrifuge, Human, for Studying Aircraft Personnel, Pennsylvania, 235
Civil Aircraft, British, Types of, 77
— Aviation, Flying Boats for, 87, 441*, 463*
Ministry of, Report on Bases for Civilian Flying Boats, 527
” Consolidated-Vultee XB-36,” United States Air Force, Bombing Aeroplane, 427
“Eagle,” 3,500-h.i)., 24-CyliDder Aero Engine (Rolls-Royce Ltd.), 102*, 380*
Engine, Aeroplane 3,500-h.p., 24-Cylinder “ Eagle ” (Rolls-Royce Ltd.), 102*, 380*
for Flying Boats, 464
Maintenance Works for, Schiphol, Holland, 519
Researches at Thornton-le-Moors Laboratory, 355*
“ Theseus,” Propeller-Turbine, Tests of (Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd.), 283* — Aircraft, Industry, Position and Prospects, 77
Engines, Aircraft Investigations in Australia, 42, 53
Jet Propulsion, de Havilland “ Ghost,’* 520*
Flying Boats, Civilian, Bases for, Report, 527
Developments in, 87, 441*, 462* Fuel and Lubricants, Aircraft, Researches at Thornton-lc-Moors Laboratory, 355*
Gas Turbine and Jet Propulsion, Research and Development, 87
“ Ghost *’ Jet-Propulsion Engine, 520* “ Halifax ” Bombing Aeroplane, Delivery of Last, 31
Hangar, Test, Maryland, United States, 235
Jet Propulsion and Gas Turbine, Researches on, 87
“Lincoln II ” Bomber with Theseus ” Gas-Turbine Engines, 283*
Lockheed ** Shooting Star *’ Aeroplane, Air-Speed Record, 551
Navigation Aids, Aerial and Marine, International Agreements on, 602
Royal Air Force and War-Time Telecommunications, 367, 379, 402, 441
“ Spray *’ Formation from Flying Boats, Experiments on, 463*
“ Theseus ” Propeller-Turbine Aero Engine, Tests of, 283*
“ Tudor I ” Civil Aircraft, Defects in, 152 Wind-Tunnel Investigations in Australia, 89
Research on Gas-Turbine Blading, 87
Supersonic, German, in United States, 102
— — Tests on Flying Boats, 443* See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics
Age-Hardening of Aluminium-Copper Alloys, Theory of, 281
Aggregates and Cement, Investigation on Deleterious Reactions Between, 377
Agreements, Labour. See Labour
Agricultural Machinery, Development, 177*. 202*
Industry, Position and Prospects, 16, 28. 184
— Tractors. See Tractors
Agriculture and Mechanical Engineering, 177*, 202*
— See also Irrigation and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Air Compressor, Light-Weight, for Tropical Countries (Aeraspray Manufacturing Co., ’ Ltd.), 376*
— Conditioning in Submarines, 319
— Consumption of Internal-Combustion Engines, Airbox Methods of Measurement, 345
— Entraining Concrete, Use of, 290
— Force, Royal. See Aeronautics
— Humidity of. Terms and Definitions, 214
— Pollution. See Smoke Abatement
— Raids. See Aeronautics
— Speed Record, Muroc, California, 551
— Supply and Combustion in Locomotive Boilers, 303, 352, 401. See LETSCERS, 412, 527
Airbox Method of Measuring Air Consumption of Internal-Combustion Engines, 345* Aircraft. See Aeronautics
Akers, Sir W., on Metallurgical Problems in Utilisation of Atomic Energy, 457
Alcomax for Permanent Magnets, 445*, 465* Alexander, A. M., the Late, 268
Allan, A., on Extinction of Arcs in Air-Blast Circuit Breakers, 70*
Allen, Prof. J., on Model Experiments for Harbours and Waterways, 435
Allen, J. F., on Open-Hearth Furnace Combustion Problems, 483
Allen, J., and Sons (Oxford), Ltd., Self-Propelled Motor Scythe, 449* ; Spray Pump, 460*
Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauges
Alloys. See Metallurgy; Microphotographs; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Alnico for Permanent Magnets, 445*, 465* Alternating Stress. See Fatigzie under Tests {Materials}
Alternators. See Generators^ Electric, Turbo- Generators
Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Development Association, Bulletin on Forming of Aluminium by Drop Stamp, 261
— in Magnesium Alloys, Determination by Electrical Resistivity, 416*
— See also Metallurgy
Amazon and Orinoco Rivers, Waterway Between, 421*
Amer, D. F., on Extinction of Arcs in Air- Blast Circuit Breakers, 70*
America, Domestic Heating in, Report, 86
— See also North America; South America; United States
American Inventors, List of, 133
— Navy, See United States under Warships
— Society of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers
— See also United States
Amplidyne Regulating Systems, 543
Amplifier, Direct-Current (H. Tinsley and Co., Ltd.), 318
Analyses, Aluminium in Magnesium Alloys, by Electrical Resistivity, 416*
— Microchemical, of Ferrous Alloys, 460 Anchoring Cable for Irrawaddy River Floating Bridge, 50*
Andrews, H. I., on Constant-Length Bar for Outdoor Use, 25*
Anemometer, Shielded Hot-Wire, for Measuring Low Speeds, 554
Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference, Programme, 551
Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd., 150-h.p. Transportable Hoist, 428*
Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd., M.S. “ Neverita,*’ 13
“ Anglon *’ Lathe for Non-Metallic Materials, 189*
Angwin, Col. Sir A, S., on Developments in World Communication, 173; on Tele- communieati ns in War, 367. See 243
Annealing. See (eat Treatment under Metallurgy
Annual Publicati - ns and Reference Books, 24, 180, 546. S( 5 LITERATURE INDEX
Anthology of Errors (Review), 423 Anti-Friction Me\ i Is. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Apparatus, Electrical, Protective Finishing for, 330
Resistivity, for Light-Alloy Analysis, 416*
— Scientific, Exhibition, Royal Society’s Conversazione, 481
Physical Society’s Exhibition, 316*, 341*, 364*
Apprenticeship. See Education Appointments. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Arc. See Furnace; Welding
Architects, Acoustics for (Review), 207
— British, Royal Institute of. Timber Research and Building Exhibition, 364
— Naval. See Naval Architects
Arditron ” Speed Lamp for Flashlight Photographs, 357*
Argentina, Engineering Notes from, 91, 210, 331, 450,531
Ark, Noah’s, Models of, 125, 165 Armament. See Giins; Warships Armour. See Warships. Also Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd., Jet-Engined Tail-less Aircraft, 9
Army Equipment, Electric Generators for, 545 '
— Flood Work in South Level Fens, 304*
— Signals Research and Development Establishment. Work on Centrimetre-Wave Communication Systems, 489*
— Stores and Equipment, Inspection of, 90,100
— Tanks, Control for Turrets, 494 Landing Ships for, 117,141,158* Mobility of, 242
— Use of Servo Mechanisms in Weapons, 494
— and War-Time Telecommimications, 367, 379, 402, 441
Arts, Royal Society of. Gas Turbines, by Sir C. Gibb and A. T. Bowden, 111
Arterial Roads. See Roads
Artillery, See Guns and PARAGRAPH INDEX Asphalt Grouting of Fissures at Great Falls Reservoir, 183
Association, British. See British Association
— Engineering. See Institutions !
Atkins, J. H. C., on Centrifugal Forces in Axial Flow Turbines, 458. See 205.* See LETTERS, 388, 505, 527
Atmospheric Pollution. See Smoke Abatement Atomic Energy for Heat and Power Production, 504
Metallurgical Problems in Utilisation of, 457
— Theory for Students of Metallurgy (Review), . 328
Atwood, G. H., 100-ton, 80-ft. Radius Floating Crane, 470*
Austin and Lang, Ltd., Heavy-Duty Running Centre for Turret Lathe, 405*
Austinlite, Ltd., 1-3-h.p. Petrol-Driven Generating Set, 426
Australia, Electric Supply in Sydney, Report, 111
— Munitions Supply Laboratories, Victoria,
M(5thod of Surfacing Torpedo Propeller Blades, 73*
Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Annual Report, 5, 42, 53, 89
Autogenous Welding. See Welds and Welding
Autometric Pumps, Ltd,, Rotary Displacement Pump, 448*
Automobiles. See Motor Cars
— Engineers, Institution of, Some Problems of Cylinder Bore Wear, by W. A. Robotham, 40, 392* ; Amalgamation with Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 339, 367
Automotive Products Co., Ltd., Lockheed Brakes with Two Leading Shoes, 378*
Auxiliary Machinery, Marine. See Marine Avery, W. <fe T., Ltd., Universal Testing Machine, 398* ; Cement-Testing Machine, 398*
Aviation. See Aeronautics
Axlebox, Welded Steel-Plate, 43*

BAILEY Bridge, Government Inspection of, 90 Bainbridge, C. A., on Adiabatic Processes, 196.
See LETTERS, 40, 88, 112, 139, 155, 291, 340. See Erratum^ 155
Baker, D. M., on Strain and Breakage Recorded on H.M.S. “ Vanguard,” on Launching, 436
Baker, R., on Ships of invasion Elect, 117*, 141*, 158* ; on Development of Landing Craft, 413
Balajiva, Dr. K., on Phosphorus Reaction in Basic Steelmaking Process, 483
Balancing Machine, Electronic (Reid and Sigrist, Ltd.), 56*
Baldwin-Auger System of Parking 187*
Ball Valve, ” Portsmouth ” Type, tion, 358
Ballast, Piling in, Formula for 156. TER,316
Ballistics and Dynamical Theory of Rocket I Weapons (Review), 516
Balloons. See Aeronautics
Band Conveyors. See Conveyors
Bankside Power Station, London, Controversy Concerning, 387, 435
Bar, Constant-Length, for Outdoor Use, 25* Bardgett, W. E., on Influence of Hardenability on Mechanical Properties of Steel, 438. See 415
Barge, Steel, Irrawaddy River Floating Bridge, 49*
Barometer for Aircraft (Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd.), 365
Barring Mechanism for Double-Reduction Gear, 32*
Bases and Acids, Electronic Theory (Review), 123
Basins, Lavatory, Metal, Specification, 238 Battery Vehicles. See Motor Truck Battleships. See Warships
Baulne and Leonard, 1,500-ft. Welded Continuous-Girder Bridge, 285
Beams on Elastic Foundation (Review), 123 Bearings, Bronze, Porous, Structure of, 530
— Investigations in Australia, 42, 53
— Metals. See Alloys under Metallurgy Beauchamp, J, W., the Late, 292 Beet-Harvesting Machinery, 202*
Bell, Alexander Graham, Centenary of. Commemoration, 173
Bell, J., on Data-Transmission Systems, 494 Belt Conveyors. See Conveyors
Benton Quarry Junction, Flat-Bottom Rails at, 55*
Bessemer Medal, Award to Sir W. J. Larke, 460
— Steel, Recent Improvements in, 209
Betatron Magnet System, Model of (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 364
Bicycles. See Cycles and Motor Cycles Bigwood, J., and Son, Ltd., Section-Straightening Machine, 448*; 35-ton Friction Screw Press 448*
Biles, R. W., the Late, 292
Binary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Binding Machines, Agricultural, Leading Features, 177
Birch, F. H., on Desirable Features of Protective Relays, 33
Birmingham, British Industries Fair, 373*, 397*, 424*, 448*. See Errata, 439 ; London Section, 517*
— Conference on Industry and Research, 291
— London Television Link, 518
— and Midland Counties, Preservation of Engineering Relics in. 111
— M.S., with Pneumatic Grain-Handling Plant, 210*
Blrt, R., on Law Relating to Electricity Supply, 651
Birthday Honours List, 503, 527 Bismuth, Embrittling Effect on Copper, 540 Bitumen Spraying by Flame Pistol, 298 Black, Hawthorn and Co., Old Industrial Locomotive for Newcastle Museum, 240
Blackburn Meadows Power Station, Sheffield, Explosion of Stirling Boiler, 541
Blading, Gas-Turbine, Austenitic Steel for, 533* Turbine, Researches on, 87
Blair, J. S., on Reinforcement of Branch Pieces, 63*
Blee, C. E., Leakage Correction at Great Falls Reservoir, 181*
Blocks, Building, Aerated Concrete, Specification, 522
Blockhouse for V-2 Rocket Tests, 31*
Board, Structural Insulating, Vapour-Resistant Coatings for (Review), 76
— of Trade, Industrial Organisation Bill, 109 ;
Ship-Repairing, 1939-1945, 282, 306 Boat, Flying. See Aeronautics
— Submarine. See Warships
Boiler Explosion, Accident at Blackburn Meadows Power Station, Sheffield, 541
— Feed Water. See Feed
—.Fire-Tube, “ Swirlyflo ” (Spanner Boilers Ltd.), 495*
— Firing with Gas-Turbine Combustion Chambers (Rolls-Royce Ltd.), 285*
— Furnaces. See Furnace Boilers, Gas-Fired, and Waste-Heat, Specification, 82
— High-Pressure, Automatic Control Applied to, 543
— Lancashire, Measurement of Smoke from, 62
— Locomotive, Heat Balances In, 303, 352, 401. See LETTERS, 412, 527 See also Locomotive
— Operation and Coal Utilisation Research, 7
— for Power Station Extensions, 267
— Stirling, Water-Tube, Explosion at Blackburn Meadows Power Station, Sheffield, 541
— Tubes, Corrosion Pits, Measurement, 229*
— Water-Tube, Circulation in. Expansion Theory of, 145*
Tube, Marine, Feed Distribution In, 41. See LETTER, 155
— Yarrow, S.S. “ Hineraoa,” 8
— See also Engines and Boilers in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Bolts, Nuts and Washers, Specification, 498
— Toggle (Rawlplug Co., Ltd.), 427 Bolton, Capt. E. A., the Late, 479
Bomb Damage to Grid System in War Time, 218, 225*, 249*
— Disposal, Research and Development Applied to, 20*, 44*
— German, Use of Hydrogen Peroxide in, 307
— Rocket, Ballistics and Dynamical Theory of
(Review), 516
V-2, Blockhouse for Tests, 31*
Bombing Aeroplane, See Aeroplane under Aeronaiitics
Bond, W. de la R., the Late, 391
Bonus System. See Labour
Books, New, Notes on, 48, 141, 204, 228, 321, 369, 420, 461, 512, 555. See LITERATURE INDEX
— Received, 10, 34, 58, 82, 106, 130, 168, 190, 214, 238, 262, 286, 310, 334, 358, 382, 406, 430, 452, 474, 498, 522, 546
Boring Machine. See Machine Tools
Bowden, A. T., on Gas Turbines, 111
Bowen, D. N., on Adiabatic Processes, 112. See LETTERS, 40, 88, 139, 155, 196, 291, 340. See Erratum, 155
Boydell, E., and Co., Ltd., 6 chb.-yd. Muir-Hill Dumpers, 374*. See Errata, 439
Bragg, X-Ray Spectrometer, Model of, 481 Brakes, Motor-Car. See Motor-Car Details
— Vacuum, Train, Leak Tester for, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 333*
Branch Pieces, Reinforcement of, 63*
Brass, High-Tensile, Wheels, Centrifugal Casting of, 556*
Brazil, Engineering Notes from, 91, 210, 331, 450. 532
— Orinoco-Casiqulare-Negro Waterway, 421* Brazos River, Natural-Gas Pipeline over, 97* Breakage Recorded during Launching of
H.M.S. “ Vanguard,” 436
Brennan, Dr. J. B., on Tensile Yield Strength of Steel, 337. See LETTER, 412
Bridge, Bailey, Government Inspection of, 90
— Continuous-Girder, 1,500-ft. Welded, St. Rose, Quebec, 286
— Irrawaddy River, on Ledo-Burma Road, 49*
— Ramp, for Tank Landing Ships, 158*
— Spillway, of Shasta Dam, California, 325*
— Suspension, Severn, Work on Oscillations Measurement, National Physical Laboratory, 554
— War-Damaged, in Holland, Repairs to, 1*
— See also Viaduct and PARAGRAPH INDEX Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., Tests of “Theseus “
Propeller-Turbine Aero-Engine, 283*
Britannia Works, Manchester, Muir Machine Tools, Ltd., Reconstruction of, 309*
British Association, Dundee Meeting, Programme, 479
— Broadcasting Corporation, Desire for Improvements in Television, 112 ; Development of Radio Communication, 379; 500-ft. Radiator Mast at Brookman’s Park, 495* ; London-Birmingham Television Link, 518
— Cast iron Research Association, Annual Report, 19
— Coal Utilisation Research Association, Presidential Address, by R. W. Foot, on Research on Coal Utilisation, 7
— Commonwealth Scientific Official Conference, London, Report on, 265
— Council, Annual Report, 87
— Electrical and Allied Industries Research
Association, Bomb Locator, 23* ; Committee on Electrical Equipment of Automotive Systems, 243 ; Annual Report, 299 and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Report, 339
Development Association, Report on Domestic Fuel Policy, 38
— Foundrymen, institute of, Discussion on Removal of Sulphur and Phosphorus from Pig Iron, 243 ; Nottingham Conference, Programme, 492
— Gas Council, Infra-Red Drying Oven, 397* ;
Oven Furnace with Permeable Lining, 397*
— Grid System. See Qrid
— Industries Fair, Birmingham, 373*, 397*, 424*, 448*. See Errata, 439; London Section, 517*
Federation of. See Eederation
British Insulated Callender’s. Cables, Ltd., 500-ft. Radiator Mast at Brookman’s Park, 495*
— Navy. See H.M. under Warships
— Overseas Airways Corporation, Engineering Training School, 497
British Pitometer Co., Ltd., “ Pitometer “ Ship’s Log, 259*
— Railways. See Railways
British Rototherm Co., Ltd., “ Rotostat ” Temperature Controller, 518
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Shipping. See Shipping
— Ship Repairing. See Ship Repairing
— Society for the History of Science, First Annual Meeting, 388
— Standards Institution. See Standards
— Steel Founders’ Association, Bulletin on Feeder Heads, 225
British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., TurboElectric Machinery for S.S. ** HInemoa,” 8; Jubilee Scholarships, 78; Silicone- Insulated Electric Motor, 342*; Mass Spectrometer Leak Detector, 342 ; Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 425 ; Mer- cury-Cadmlum Vapour Lamp, 482
— Trade. See Trade
Broadhurst, J. W., on Automatic Control In Chemical industry, 543
Broderick, F. C., on Automatic Control In Chemical industry, 543
Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd., 25-ton Press Brake, 424*
Bronze Bearings, Porous, Structure of, 630
Brookhirst S^tchgear, Ltd., Air-Break Contactor Starter for Textile Machinery, 331*
Brookman’s Park Transmitting Station, 500-ft. Radiator Mast, 495*
Brown, A. C. F., on Dynamic Yield Strength of Steel, 337. See LETTER, 412
Brown, D., and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd., Double-Reduction Gear with Barring Mechanism, 32* ; Reconstruction of Muir Machine Tools, Ltd., Britannia Works, Manchester, 309 ; Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 375* ; Topograph, 375*
Brown, D., Tractors, Ltd., 38-5-b.h.p. Petrol- • Engined Industrial Tractor, 57*
Brown, G. L., on Torpedo Propeller-Blade Surfacing, 73*
Brownfield, A. H., on Transition Curve Trigonometry, 112. See LETTERS, 40*, 88,139,155 Brunel, I. K., Wooden Railway Viaducts by, 126*
Building Blocks, Aerated-Concrete, Specification, 522
Building, Engineering and Mechanics, Ltd., Baldwin-Auger System of Parking Vehicles, 187*
— Fire Grading of, Report on, 164
— Research in Australia, 5, 90
Board, Report on Fire Grading of Buildings, 154
— and Timber Research Exhibition, 364 Burma-Ledo Road, Irrawaddy River Bridge on, 49*
Burner, Pulverised-Fuel, Development of, 501 Bushrod, C. J., on Iron in Magnesium-Base Alloys, 280

CABLE, Anchoring, for Irrawaddy River Floating Bridge, 50*
— See also Wire Ropes and Electric
Cadman Lecture on Progress in Petroleum Research, 479, 507, 619
Caisson, Floating, for Dry Dock at Le Havre, 544*
Calculating Machines, Recent and Prospective Developments (Review), 491
Calculus, Operational, Heaviside’s, Made Easy (Review), 183
Calcutta, Port of, 0-6-2 Shunting Locomotives for, 451*
(California, Spillway Bridge of Shasta Dam, 325* Callender-Hamilton Spans for Dutch Bridges, 2*
Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd., Measuring Microscope, 316* ; Measuring Machine, Universal, 317*; Stereo-(Comparator, 317* ; Measuring Instrument for Stellar Photographs, 482
Cameron, E. R., on Adiabatic Processes, 196, See LETTERS, 40, 88, 112, 139, 155, 291, 340. See Erratum^ 155
Cameron, W. G., on Developments in Steelmaking, 209
Canada, Domestic Heating in, 86
— Engineering Notes from, 235
— Hydro-Electric Progress in. Annual Report, 272
— St. Mary’s River irrigation Scheme, 235
Canadian Electrical Code and Provincial Legislation, 503
— Standards Association. Bee Standards Caney Fork River, Tennessee, Great Falls Dam on, 181*
“Capacitrol ** Temperature Controller, 426 Cars, Motor. See Motor Cars
— Rail. See Carriages, Railway
Carbides, Hard-Metal, Manufacture and User, 530
Carbon Dioxide in Flue Gases, Maximum Theoretical, 479. See LETTER, 553
Cargo Steamers. See Steamers
Carriage, Railway, Articulated Diesel-Driven Railcar for Italy, 320*
Dining, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 429
Fluorescent Lighting in,- 391
Railcar, Oerlikon ** Electrogyro,** 640* Retractable Collector-Shoe Gear for, 391 ? Carrington, A., on “ Engynes,” 340*. See LETTERS, 41,196, 244
Carter, A. D. S., on Centrifugal Force in Axial- Flow Turbines, 388. See 205*. See LETTERS, 458, 505, 627
Cartlidge, C., on Open-Hearth Furnace Combustion Problems, 483
Casiquiare-Orinoco-Negro Waterway, 421*
Cast Iron, Effect of Molybdenum in, 55 Graphite Formation in, 460 Impact Tests for, Specification, 430 Mode of Occurrence of Tellurium in, 461 Research Association, British, Annual Report, 19 '
Castings, Aluminium-Silicon Alloy, Cracking in, 245,369*
— Centrifugal, of Copper-Alloy Wheels, 556*
— Steel, Feeder Heads for, 225 Catalogues, 72, 251, 276, 310, 372, 418, 487, 495, 518, 555. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch Process, 30,54,79 Catapult, Electrical, for Aircraft (Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co.), 198
Caterpillar Tractor. See Tractor
Cathedral, St. Paul’s, and Bankside Power- Station Controversy, 387, 435
C.A.V., Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 426
Cayley, Sir G., Proposed Biography of, 196
Cement, Alr-Bntrainlng, Preparation of, 290
— and Aggregates, Investigation on Deleterious Reactions between, 377
— Grouting of Fissures at Great Falls Reservoir, 183
— Industry, Italian, Position of, 403
— Investigations In the United States, 427
— Manufacture, Use of Pulverised Fuel in, 601
— Mill, South Africa, Double Reduction Gear for, 32*
— Testing Machine (W. and T. Avery, Ltd.), 398*
— See also Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX Centenary of Alexander Graham Bell, Commemoration of, 173
— of T. A. Edison, 133
— Engineering, in 1947, 16. See LETTER, 41
— of Grant of Commissions to Naval Engineers, 233
— Industrial Exhibition, Warrington, 363
— of Institution of Mechanical Engineers. See

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of

— of King’s College Engineering Society, 196, 199, 224. See LETTER, 88
— of Smithsonian Institution (Review), 539 Central Electricity Board, Plant Shortages and
Load Shedding, 194,198* ; Power-Station Extensions, 267 ; Annual Report 361 Centrifugal Casting of Copper-Alloy Wheels, 556*
— Force In Axial-Flow Turbines, Effect of, 205*. See LETTERS, 388, 458, 505, 527
— Pumps. See Pumps
Ceramic Materials, Stress-Strain Relations In, 433
Chain of Pots, Use for Raising Water, 41. See LETTERS, 196, 244, 340*
Chance Brothers, Ltd., Heat-Resisting and
Heat-Absorbing Glass, 235 Change-Speed Gear. See Oear Charts, Control, in Factory Management (Review), 377
Chaseside Engineering Co., Ltd., Mechanical Shovel, 374*
Chatfield, Lord, on Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Industries, 259. See 244
Chatley, Dr. H., on “ Engynes,” 196. See LETTERS, 41, 244, 340*
Chatterton, Sir A., on Activities of Unwin Memorial Committee, 553 Chemical Analysis. See Analysis
— Engineers, Institution of. Luncheon, 315
— Industry, Automatic Control in, 543 High-Pressure Vesselsfor, Design of, 349* Italian, Position of, 403
— Produced from Oil, 619 from Petroleum, Plant for Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd,, 248
Chemistry, Acids and Bases, Electronic Theory of, 123
— of Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Phenol-Aldehyde Plastics, Monograph on (Review), 467
— Pure and Applied, international Congress of, London, Programme, 381
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Chepstow, Newcomen Society’s Summer Meeting at. Programme, 429 ; Proceedings, 503 Chile, Engineering Notes from, 91,332,450,532 Christie, J., the Late, 15
Christy and Norris, Ltd., Grinding Mill for Farm, 376* ; Heavy-Material Pulveriser, , 376*
Chromium Plating of Cylinders, Effect on Wear, 395
Chronometer, Counter, Mobile, Photo-Electric (Cinema Television, Ltd.), 617
Chubb, D. S., on Fuel Crisis, 173. See 153. See ' LETTER,220
Church, J. E., on Improved Accommodation for ' Cargo Vessels, 244, 271, 319
Cincinnati Milling Machines, Ltd., 4-in. Hydraulic Grinding Machine, 284*
Cinema Films, Scientific and Industrial, Catalogue of, 113. See 24
Cinema Television, Ltd., Mobile Photo-Electric Counter Chronometer, 517
Circular Saws. See Saws under Machine Tools Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, Expansion Theory of, 145*
City of London Electric Lighting Co., Ltd., Controversy over Bankside Power Station, 387, 435
Report on Reconstruction of, 526
Civil Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Engineers, Data Book for, Specifications and
Costs (Review), 257

Civil Engineers, Institution of :

Election of Members. 262, 334, 358, 382, 406, 430, 546
A New Piling Formula, by Dr. O. Faber, 156. See LETTER, 316
Forrest Lecture on Model Experiments in Relation to Harbours and Waterways, by Prof. J. Allen, 435
North Western Association;
University Education for Engineers, by R. J. Cornish, 280
Civil Engineering, Geology in, 329, 377
Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, Instrument for Measurement of Radiation Flux, 482
Clark, W. I)., on Corrosion of Phosphor Bronze, 280
Clay, Investigations in Australia, 5
— Pilingin,Formulafor, 156. See LETTER, 316
— Products, Stress-Strain Characteristics of, 433
Clayton Lecture on Nuclear Energy for Power Production, 504
Cleveland and Northern Counties, Notes from, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 169, 191, 215, 239, 263, 287, 311, 335, 359, 383, 407, 431, 453, 475, 499, 523, 547. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cloth Guider for Textile-Processing Machine (Ferranti, Ltd.), 341*
COg. See Carbon dioxide
Coaches, Railway. See Carriages
Coal Combustion in Locomotive Boilers, 303, 352,401. See LETTERS, 412, 527
— Consumption by Engineering Industries, 17
— — in Power Stations, 387
Coal Consumption, Statistics for Various Industries, 549
— Crisis and Electricity Supply, 194,198* Government Statement on, 153. See LETTERS, 173,220
— Dust Explosions, Investigations on, 314
— Economy and Gas and Electricity Efficiencies, 266
Since 1939, Reports on, 338
See also Fuel Fcanomy ; Pulverised Coal
— Gas. See Qas ’
— Mine. See Colliery
— Oil Production from, by Flscher-Tropsch Process, 30, 54, 79, 411
— Production Statistics, 549
— for Pulverised-Euel Firing, 501
— Pulverised. See Pulverised Friel
— Requirements, as Stated in Government Economic Survey, 171
— Seam, Thick, Staffordshire, History of, 111
— Situation and Domestic Electricity and Gas Restrictions, 267
— Supply for Power Stations in War Time, 218, 225
— Transport and Production, Government White Paper on, 85 by Railway, 388
— Utilisation Research Association, Presidential Address, by R. W. Foot, on Research on Coal Utilisation, 7
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Coatings, Vapour-Resistant, for Structural Insulating Board (Review), 76
Cobalt-Carbon Cast Iron, Graphite Formation in, 460 ,
Cochrane, J., and Sons, Ltd., Manchester- Sheffield Tunnel, 220
Cockcroft, Prof. J. D., on Nuclear Energy for Power Production, 504
Coke-Oven Gas, Operation of Open-Hearth Furnace with, 483
Collector, Dust, “ Pneumech ’* Automatic (H. R. Hutchings), 236*
— Shoe Gear, Retractable, for London Passenger Transport Board Railway Coach, 391* College. See Education
Collett, W. F., on Prevention of Water Pollution by Oil, 513*, 537*
Colliery, Oil-Engined Locomotives for, 219
— Safety in Mines Research Board, Report, 314
— See also Mines and Coal
Collis, J., and Sons, Ltd., “ MotaVeyor Belt Conveyor, 398* : 7i-ton Lifting Truck, 399*
Colombia, Engineering Notes from, 532
Colonial Office, Report on Colonial Research, 1945-46, 362
Colour Blindness in Industry, Report on, 172 Columbia River-Basin Landslides, Geological Investigations on, 377 . •
Combined Stress. See under Tests {Materials} Combustion and Explosion Processes in Gases (Review), 516
— Fuels and Furnaces (Review), 207
— in Locomotive Boilers, 303, 352, 401. See LETTERS 412 527
— in Open-Hearth Furnace, Investigation on, 483
— See also Fuel i Cases
“ Comet,*’ S.S., Engine of, 458*
Commerce. See Trade. See also Industries and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Commercial Aviation. See A.eronautics
— Motor Cars. See Motor Commonwealth. See Australia Companies. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Comparator, Horizontal (Cooke, Troughton and Simms, Ltd.), 448*
— Stereo (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.) 317*
Compass, Marine Gyroscopic (Sperry Gyroscope Co. Ltd.), 517*
Compressor, Air. See Air Compressor
Concrete, Aerated, for Building Blocks, Specification, 522
— Air-Entraining, Use of, 290
— Dam, Shasta, Spillway Bridge of, 325*
— Deterioration, Investigations on, 377
— Investigations in Australia, 5
— Reinforced, Course of Design (Review), 231
— Roads, Design and Construction of (Review), 4
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Condensers. See Electric,
Conductivity. See Electi'ic
Conduits in Spillway of Shasta Dam, 325* Conference, Anglo-American Aeronautical,
Programme, 551
— on Industry and Research, Birmingham, 291 ; — International, on Radio Aids to Marine ! Navigation, 315
— on National Productive Efficiency, 193
— Pulverised Fuel, Harrogate, 106, 404, 501, 503
— Scientific, Official, British Commonwealth, London, Report on, 265
— World Power, Reports on Fuel Economy Since 1939, 338
Congress, International Railway, Luct^rne, 551
— Pan-American, of Mining Engineering and
Geology ; Geology in Civil Engineering, by R. Rhoades, 329, 377
— of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Inter
national, London. Programme, 381 Conservation of Coal. See Coal; Fuel
“ Consolidated-Vultee XB 36 ” United States Air Force Bombing Aeroplane, 427
Constructional Engineering Industry, Position and Prospects, 293
Control, Automatic, Applied to High-Pressure Boilers, 543
in Chemical Industry, 543
— Charts in Factory Management (Review), 377
— Desk for 1,200-kV. Direct-Current Impulse-Testing Plant, 506*
— and Measurement, Application of Electronics to, 110
— Orders, Ministry of Supply. See Industnes
and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Process, Theoretical Foundations of, 542
— Rooms, Electricity-Distribution, National, in War Time, 251*
— Systems, Automatic, Basic Principles, 155
Controllers, Automatic, and Servo Mechanisms, Principles of, 494, 554
— Temperature, “ Capacitrol " (Ether, Ltd.), 425
Safety, “ Rotostat ’’ (British Kotothenn Co., Ltd.), 518
Contracts, 10, 34, 58, 82, 106, 190, 238, 262, 438, 452, 498, 522, 546
Conveyor, Belt, “ MotaVevor’’ Units. (J. Collis and Sons, Ltd.), 398*
Conway, H. G.,on Aeroplane Undercarriages,39
Cook, Sir F. C., the Late, 458
Cook, Dr. M., on Mechanism of Recrystallisation in Copper, 281 ; on Welding Copper 378
Cooke, Troughton and Simms, Ltd., Horizontal Comparator, 448* : Vickers Contour Projector, 448; Toolroom Microscope, 448*
Cooling Curves, Alloys. Sec Metallurgy
Copper Alloys. See Brass; Bronze; Gunmetal ; and Alloys under Metallurgy
— Conductors, Specification, 238
— Development Association, Annual Rejjort, 34
— Embrittling Effect of Bismuth on, 540
— Recrystallisation in, Kate and Mechanism of, 281
— Welding of. Influence of Impurities on, 378
— See also Metallurgy
Cornish, R. J., on University Education for Engineers, 289
Corrosion Investigations in Australia, 53
— of Magnesium Casting Alloys, Effect of Zinc on, 540
— Phosphor Bronze in Hot-Water Service, 280
— Pits in Boiler Tubes, Measurement of, 229* Costing, Marginal (Review), 401
Ccttrell, S. A., on Hot-Shortness of Aluminium- Silicon Alloys, 245
Cotton-Spinning Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects, 246, 2(58
Coventry Gauge <fe Tool Co., Ltd., High- Precision Thread-Grinding Machine, 104*
Cowburn, J. O., Leak Tester for Train Vacuum Brakes, 333*
Cox, G. M. L., on Sand-Cast Aluminium- Magnesium Alloys, 273*. See 245. See Errati^, 321
Cracking oT Aluminium-Silicon Alloys, Investigation of, 245, 369*
Crane, Floating, 100-ton, 80-ft. Radius (Dravo Corporation), 470*
— Gantry-Type Landing Ship of Invasion Fleet, 141*
— 3-ton Mobile (R. H. Neal it Co., Ltd.), 374*
— See also Hoists
Cranks and Slotted Links, Investigations on 277*, 301*
Crankshaft, Marine Oil-Engine, Torsional Vibration Stress in, 366, 509*
Crawter. F. W., the Late, 292
Creep in Magnesium-Cerium-Zirconium Alloys. 280, 485
Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil Crystalline Structure of Metals. See Microphotographs
Cuckow, F. W.,on Effect of Bismuth on Copper, 540
Cultivators, Mechanical, Main Features, 178* Curves, Vertical, for Roads (Review), 207 “ Cyc-Arc” Stud-Welding Machine, 234* Cycle, Use for Driving Machines During power Cuts, 166*
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 64
— Motor. See Motor Cycle Cylinder-Bore Wear in Motor-Car Engine , 40, 392*
— Compound, for High-Pressure Service. Design of, 349*

“DAFFODIL,’* S.S., Landing Sliin, Stern Chute, 119*
Dam Construction, Application of Geology to 329,377
— Shasta, California, Spillway Bridge of, 325* Dare Viaduct, Great Western Kailway.
Demolition of, 126*
Data-Transmission Systems, Principles of, 494
Davies, Prof. S. J., on King’s College Engineering Society, 1847-1947, 199, 224. See 195 See LETTER, 88
Davis, E., on Welding of Copper, 378
Davis, K. F., on Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 145*
Davits, Luffing, for Landing Craft, 119* Deformation, Elastic, of Piston Kings, 161* de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd., “ Ghost ’’ Jet-Propulsion Engine, 520*
De La Rue Gas Development, Ltd., Infra-Ked Gas-Fired Drying Oven, 397*
Destroyers. See Warships
Detector, Lamination (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 364*
— Pressure, Petch-Elliott (Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd.), 341*
Detonation in Explosives, Investigation in Australia on, 53
—? of High Explosives, Mechanical Theory, 98* Devlleg Machine Co., Precision Jig-Boring and Milling Machine, 167*
Diamond, E. L., on Locomotive Power at Speed,173, 241
Dickinson, Dr. H. W., on Machine Tools in 1847, 468
Diesel Engine Users Association, Recent Developments in Oil-Engine Lubrication by J. Dotchin, 87 ; Oil-Engined Locomotives for Mines, by F. J. Staddon, 219 • Annual Luncheon, 339 ; Visit to London and Thameshaven Oil Wharves, Ltd., 503 See Engities, Oil, Diesel; Marine Propulsion
Differential Gear. See Gear
Digging Machine. See Excavator
Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX
Discs, Gas-Turbine, Austenitic Steel for, 533* — Harrow, Production, 184
Discharge, Electric. See Electric
District Heating for City of London, Proposed. 526
Dix, J. C., on Centimetre-Wave Communication 1 Systems, 489* j
Dobson, A. F., on Application of Electrosmosls to Soil Drainage, 121*
Dock, Dry, at Le Havre, Floating Caisson for, 544*
for Shij) Repairing, 1939-1945, 282, 306
— Type Landing Ship “ Highway,” 141* Domestic Electricity and Gas Restrictions, 267
— Fuel Policy, Report on, 38
— Grates, Research on Design of, 7
— Heating in America, Report, 86 Dominion Bridge Co., Ltd., 1,500-ft. Welded
Continuous Girder Bridge, 285 Dordrecht Bridge Over River Maas, Repairs
to, 3* Dorey, Dr. S. F., on Torsional Vibrational
Stress in Oil-Engine See 366 Dotchin, J., on Oil-Engine Douch, Brig. E. H. J., on
Army, 494 Downing, A. C., Sensitive meter, 482
Drainage, Soil, Electrosmosis Applied to, 121* Dravo Corporation, 100-ton, 80-ft.-Radius Floating Crane, 470*
Drawing Paper, Specifleation, 10
Dredger, Early Horse-Operated, Model of, 208* Dredging Contractors, Federation of, Formation, 291
Drills, Agricultural, Features Required, 179 Drills and Drilling Machines. See Machine Tools
Drop Stamp for Forming of Aluminium, 251 Dry Dock. See Dock
Drying Oven, Infra-Red, Gas-Fired ( De La Rue Gas Development, Ltd.), 397*
Dufresne Engineering Co., Ltd., 1,500-ft.
Welded Continuous-Girder Bridge, 285 Dumpers, 41 and 6 cub.-yd. Muir Hill (E. Boydell and Co., Ltd.), 374*. See Errata, 439 Dundee Meeting of British Association, Programme, 479
Durham County Council, River Tyne Tunnels, 493*
Durham, Lleut.-Col. F. R., the Late, 292 Dust, Coal, Explosions of. See Coal Dust See also Pulverised Fziel
— Collector, ” Pncumech ” Automatic (H. R. Hutchings), 236*
Dutch. See Holland
Dynamic Yield Strength of Steel, Effect of Rate of Loading on, 337. See LETTER, 412 Dynamical Theory and Ballistics of Rocket Weapons (Review), 516
Dynamos. See Generators, Electric; Turbo- Generators

Education :

British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Jubilee Scholarships, 78
Chemical Engineers, Training of, 315
City and Guilds Engineering College, Old Students’ Association Dinner, 552; Foundation of Unwin Scholarship, 553
College of Aeronautics, Opening of, 77 Engineering Training School of British Overseas Airways Corporation, 497
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Summer School in “ Relaxation Methods,” 315
King’s College (London) Engineering Society, Centenary of, 195, 199, 224. See LETTER, 88
Management Subjects in Technical Colleges, Report on,434
Manchester University, Summer School in X-Ray Crystallography, 310
Ministry of Education, Regulations for Whitworth Scholarships, 385 ; Report on Education for Management, 434; Circular on Research in Technical Colleges, 478
Northampton Polytechnic, London, Lectures on Foundry Practice, 10 ; Lectures on Television Practice, 31
Preston Scholarships and Research Fellowships in Textile Technology, 405
ShelHeld University, Department of Chemistry, Staveley Laboratories, 339
Technical Colleges, Industrial Research in, Report on,478
— Institutions, Association of Teachers in. Annual Conference, 457
University Education for Engineers, 289
Unwin Scholarship at City and Guilds College, Foundation of, 553
Whitworth Scholarshii)s, Regulations for, 385 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Edwards, Sir L., on British Ship Repairing, 1939-1945, 282, 306
Edwards, W. S., the Late, 82
Edwards, W,, and Co., Ltd., Combined Sputterer and Evaporator, 517* ; “ Speedivac ”
Rotary Pump, 517*
Efficiency of Boiler Plants. See Boiler Plants
— of Engines. See Engines
— in Production,‘National Conference on, 193 Effluents, Trade, Disposal of, 456
Elder Dempster Lines, Ltd., Launch of M.S. ” Accra,” 187

Electric ;

Accumulator Vehicles. See Motor Truck Appliances, Electrical, Statistics of Production, 148
Alternator. See Generator and Turbo Arc Furnaces. See Furnace, Electric — Welding. See Welding Automotive Systems, Equipment for, 243 Battery Vehicles. See Motor Truck British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, Bomb Locator, 23* : Committee on Electrical Equipment of Automotive Systems, 243 ; Annual Report, 299
and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Annual Report, 339
Development Association, Report on Domestic Fuel Policy, 38
Cable versus Radio for Communication, 321 — Research by Electrical Research Association, 299
— Underground, Progress in Design of, 14 Canadian Electrical Code and Provincial Legislation, 503
Central Electricity Board, Plant Shortages and Load Shedding, 194,198* ; Power- Station Extensions, 267; Annual Report, 361 e
Condenser Bank for 1200-kV Impulse Generator, 506*
— 10,000-kVA Synchronous (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 151
Conductors Copper, Specification, 238 Discharge tlu'ough Gases, 363 Dynamo. See Generator ; Turbo-Generator Electric Filters (Review), 516
Electrical Equipment, Protective Finishing Processes for, 330
Electricity Commissioners, War Period Report of, 134 ; Returns of Electricity Generated, 354 ; Returns of Units Generated and Fuel Consumed, 387
— Supply Joint Committee, Report on Domestic Fuel Policy, 38
Electrode Holder, Arc-Welding (Mascol Products Co.), 201*
Electron, Celebration of Jubilee, 387 — Microscope, 50-kV (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 36,4 Electronic Balancing Machine (Reid Sigrist, Ltd.), 56*
— Repeater (Evershed and Vignolcs, Ltd.), 317*
— Servo and Regulator Systems, Industrial, 544 Simulators, 544
— Technique Applied in Industry, 110
— Theory, Acids and Basest Review), 123 Electronics, Introduction to (Review), 52 Electroplating. See Electro
Filti'rs, Electric ( Review), 516 Frequency Meter (Sangamo Weston, Ltd.), 366
— Beat, Oscillator (Milliard Wireless Service Co., Ltd.), 365
Furnaces. See Ficrnaces Fuses, Low- and Medium-Voltage, Specification, 358
Galvanometer, Sensitive Mirror, 482 Gases, Electrical Discharge Through, 363 Generating Stations. See Power Stations Generator. See Generator and Turbo Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
Ignition for Internal-Combustion Engines. See Ignition Magneto
Induction Motors. See Motors, Electric Instruments at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 317*, 341*, 364*
Insulating Materials, Moulded, Specification, 106
Insulation, Plastics for, 6 Lamp, Mercury-Cadmium Vapour, 482 Leak Detector, Vacuum Apparatus (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 342 Lighting Equipments (British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd.), 425
— Fluorescent, for Underground Railway Carriages, 391
Locomotives. See Locomotives Machines. See Generators ; Motors ; Turbo Magnetos. See Magnetos ; Ignition Mains. See Cables (above)
Meter, Frequency (Sangamo Weston, Ltd.), 366
Motors. See Motors, Electric Oil Switch. See Switchgear Oscillator, Beat-Frequency (Milliard Wireless Service Co., Ltd.), 365
Oscillograph for 1,200-kV Impulse Generator, 506*
Power. See Power
— Stations. See Power Stations Pyrometer. See Pyrometer [tailways. See Railways Rays. See X-Rays
Rectifier Equipment, Electroplating (Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co. Ltd.), 518
— Mercury-Arc, Phase-Doubled Twelve- Phase, 418*
— Xenon (Ferranti, Ltd.), 341 Regulators, Automatic, and Servo Mechanisms, 435
Relay, Protective, Desirable Features, 33 Resistivity of Light Alloys, Use for Their Analysis, 416*
Rontgen Rays. See X-Rays Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion Starters, Motor. See Motors, Electric Steel Manufacture. See Furnace, Electric Substation. See Substation
Surge Generator, 2-5 Million-Volt (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 308*
Switchgear. trie
Telegraphy. Telephony. Thermometer. See Thermometer Traction. See Locomotives, Electric; Railways
Transformers. See Transformers Turbo-Generators. See Turbo-Generators
Voltage Control, Automatic, of Generators, 642
Waves, Electromagnetic. See Telegraphy, Wireless
Welding. See Welding
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy; Hadar ; Radio ; Teleinsion
— Telephony. See Telephony ; Hadar ; Hadw; Telernsion See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Electric Furnace Co., Ltd., Induction-Heating Equipment, 426
Electric and Musical Industries Research, Ltd., Inve tigation on Infra-Red Equipment, 258

Electrical Engineers, Institution of :

Extinction of Arc in Air-Blast Circuit Breakers, by A. Allan and D. F. Amer, 70*
Indu trial Applications of Electronic Technique , by Dr. H. A. Thomas, 110
Research and Student Scholarships, 166
An Era of Outstanding Developments In World Communication, by Col. Sir A. S. Angwin, 173
Annual Dinner, 173
The British Grid System in War Time, by J. Hacking and J. D. Peattie, 225*, 249*. See 218
Comparisons between Gas and Electricity on the Basis of Coal Economy, by P. Schiller, 266
Faraday Lecture on Generation and Distribution of Electricity, 339
Kelvin Lecture on Electrical Discharge through Gases.by Prof. L. B. Loeb, 363 Annual Report, 411
Progress in Telephony and Telegraphy, by Dr. W. G. Radley, 402, 441
Benevolent Fund Annual Meeting, 457 Radiocow7nunication Convention: Programme, 219
Inaugural Proceedings, 243 Telecommunications in War, by Col. Sir A. S. Angwin, 367. See 243
Future Trends in Radio Communications, by Sir C. C. Paterson, 379
Installations Section :
Growing Importance of Plastics in Elec trical Industry, by Dr. G. Haefely, 6
Protective Finishing of Electrical Equipment, by F. Widnall and R. New- bound, 330
Electrical Installation in Viscose Rayon Factory, by C. F. Freeman and H. V. Mather, 470
Generating Plant for Military Equipment, by K. H. Tuson, 645
Measureme'ids Section:
Desirable Features of Protective Relays, by F. H. Birch and C. Ryder, 33
Electrical Technique Applied to Other Industries, by H. C. Turner and G. M. Tomlin, 110
Convention of Measurements Section on A.vio- malic Regulators and Servo Mechanisms :
Opening Proceedings, 435
Fundamental Principles of Automatic Regulators and Servo Mechanisms, by Dr. A. L. Whiteley, 494
Elements of Position Control, by Prof. K. A. Hayes, 494
Use of Servos in Army during Past War, by Brig. E. H. J. Douch, 494
Nature of Operators’ Response in Manual Control and its Implications for Controller Design, by Prof. A. Tustin, 494 Some Servo Mechanisms used by Royal Navy, by Comdr. J. 0. H. Gairdner, 494
Data-Transmission Systems, by J. Bell, 494 Naval Applications of Electrical Remote Positional Controllers, by W. E. C. Lanpert, 542
Use of Servo Mechanisms in Aircraft, by Prof. A. A. Hall, 542
Theoretical Foundations of Process Control, by G. H. Farrington, 542
Automatic Voltage Control of Generators, by C. Stewart, 542
Amplidyne Regulating Systems, by B. Adkins, 543
Automatic Control Applied to Modern High-Pressure Boilers, by LI. Young, 543
Automatic Control in Chemical Industry, by J. W. Broadhurst, F. C. Broderick, A.W. Foster, and G. H. Wheeldon, 543 Industrial Electronic Servo and Regulator Systems, by E. W. Forster and L. C. Ludbrook, 644
Electronic Servo Simulators, by F. C. Williams and F. J. U. Ritson, 644 Radio Section:
Radio versus Line of Communication Systems, by A. H. Mumford, 321 Transmission Section :
Desirable Features of Protective Relays, by F. H. Birch and C. Ryder, 33 Rugby Sub-Centre :
Phase-Doubled Twelve-Phase Rectifier, by J. C. Read, 418*
Electrical Engineers, Supervising, Association of. See Supervising Electrical Engineers, Associatio7i of
— Engineering Industry, Position and Prospects, 17, 27, 136,148
— Industry, Importance of Plastics in, 6 Electricity Commissioners. See under Electric — Nationalisation Bill, 1947, 61; Opposition of Companies, 87 ; Debate on, 135; Effect on Industry, 551
Electrochemical Society, New York, Co-Deposition of Tungsten and Nickel from Aqueous Ammoniacal Citrate Bath, by L. E. Vaaler and M. L. Holt, 384
Electrode Holder, Arc-Welding (Mascol Products Co.), 201*
Electrodeposition of Nickel-Tungsten Alloys, 384
“Electrogyro *’ Vehicle, Oerlikon, 540*
Electromagnetic-Energy, Conversion into Acoustic Energy, 482
— Waves. See Telegraphy, Wireless Electron, Jubilee of, 387
— Microscope, 50-kV (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 364
Electronic Balancing Machine (Reid and Sigrist, Ltd.), .56*
— in Industry (Review), 231
— Repeater (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 317*
— Servo and Regulator Systems, Industrial, 544
Simulators, 544
— Technique Applied in Industry, 110
— Theory of Acids and Bases (Review), 423 Electroplating as Finish for Electrical Equipment, 330
— Rectifier Equipment (Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd.), 518
Electrosmosis Applied to Soil Drainage,121* Elephant and Castle Development Scheme, 258 Elkan, R. M. L., on Engineering Professions and Institutions, 553. See 447, 525
Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd., Petch-Elliott Pressure Detector, 341*; Precision Voltage Transformer, 342*
Employees. See Labour Employment. See Labour
Emulsion, Oil, from Engineering Works, Treatment of, 513*, 537*
Enamelling, Vitreous, for Finish of Electrical Equipment, 330
End-Quench Hardenability Curves for Steel, 415,437
Endurance Tests. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials}
Engines, Aero. See Aeronautics
— Diesel. See Engines, Od, Diesel; Marine Propulsion; Motorships
— Fire. See Fire Engines
— Hydrogen Peroxide, Use in German Submarines, 307
— Internal-Combustion, Elastic Deformation of Piston Rings, 161*
Combustion, Measuring Air Consumption by Airbox Method, 345*
Combustion, Unscreened Magnetos for. Specification, 382
Combustion. See also Turbine, Gas
— Jet, Gas Turbine, Snow Clearance with, 285* See also Turbine, Gas
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Car. See Engines, Petrol
— Oil, Diesel, 200-h.p., for 100-ton Floating Crane 470*
Diesel, for Industrial Power, 386
Diesel, 300-h.p. Twelve-Cylinder, for Italian Railcar, 320
Diesel, Working Costs of, 124
Diesel. See also Motorships ; Marine Propulsion; Diesel Engine Users Association
100-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder, Gardner, 404* at London and Thameshaven Oil Wharves, Ltd., 503
Lubricating Oil for, 87
Marine, 4,700-b.h.p. Four-Cylinder Dox- ford, M.S. “Accra,” 187
Marine, Limits of Torsional Vibration Stress in Shafting, 366, 509*
300-b.h.p. Five-Cylinder, for Pneumatic Grain-Handling Plant, 210*
See also Tractors and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Petrol, Aeroplane. See Aeronautics
Motor Car, Cylinder-Bore Wear in, 40, 392*
See also Aeronautics ; Motor Cars
— Primitive, Origins of, 41. See LETTERS, 196,244,340*
— Steam, Cornish, in 1847, 480 Marine, of Bell’s “ Comet,” 458 Marine, Early Types of, 469
Marine. See, also Manne Propulsion; Turbines
Pumping, in 1847, 480 Stationary, in 1847, 480
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Engineers in Charge, Institution of, Annual Dinner, 387
— Education. See Education
— Institutions. See Institutions
— Production, Institution of. See Production
— Remuneration of, 477. See 525. See LETTERS, 552
— and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of,
Recent Developments in Steelmaking, by J. A. Kilby and W. G. Cameron, 209; Joint Meeting with Institution of Naval Architects : Ships of the Invasion Fleet and their Development, by R. Baker, 117*, 141*, 158*
— Status of, and Technical Institutions, 447, 525. See LETTERS, 552 «
Engineering Advisory Council, Work of, 18,294
— Apprentices. See Education
— Centenaries in 1947,15. See LETTER, 41
— a Century Ago, A Review, by Prof. S. J. Davies, 199. See LETTER, 88
— Education. See Education
— Industry. Position and Prospects, 16,27, 64, 77, 113, 136, 148, 174, 184, 220, 246, 268, 293. See Erratum, 116. See LETTER, 268
— Laboratories. See Laboratories ; National Physical
— Outlook, 16, 27, 64, 77, 113, 136, 148, 174, 184, 220, 246, 268, 293. See Erratum, 116. See LETTER, 268
— Professions and Institutions, 447, 525. See LETTERS, 552
— Reorganisation (Review), 279
— Responsibility, 525. See 447. See LETTERS, 552
— Societies. See Institutions
— Standards. See Standards Institution
— Works. See Works _
English Electric Co., Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 375; Automatic Stud
Eumuco (England), Ltd., Forging Machines, 448 ; Counter-Blow Hammers, 448 Evaporator and Sputterer, Combined (W. Edwards and Co. (London), Ltd.), 517* Everall Standard Through Bridge, Use in Holland, 3*
Everhart, Prof. J. 0., on Stress-Strain Relations in Ceramic Materials, 433
Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., Electronic Repeater, 317* ; Multiscope, 318
Excavation Work, Application of Electrosmosis to,121*
Excavator, Mechanical Shovel (Chaseside Engineering Co., Ltd.), 374*
Exhibition, British Industries Fair, 373*, 397* 424*, 448*, 517*. See Errata, 439
— International, London, Proposal for, 195
— Physical Society, Scientific Instruments, 316*, 341*, 364*
— Scientific Apparatus, Royal Society’s Conversazione, 481
— Ship Model, Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, 111,125,165,423
— Timber Research and Building, Forest Products Research Laboratory, 364
— Warrington Centenary Industrial, 363
— Welsh Industries Fair, London, 39
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Expansion Theory of Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 145* Experimental Tank. See Tank ; Ship Models Explosion, Boiler. See Boiler Explosion
— Colliery. See Coal-Dust Explosions
— and Combustion Processes in Gases (Review), 516
Explosives, Detonation in, Investigation in Australia on, 53
— High, Mechanical Theory of Detonation, 98*
— See also Quns and Explosives in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Export Trade. See Trade ; and Industries in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Extractor, Bomb-Fuse, Cord-Operated, 45*

FABER, DR. O., on New Piling Formula, 156. See LETTER, 316
Factory Accounts. See Costing; "iVorJcs Management
— Aircraft, Treatment of Oily Wastes from, 513*, 637*
— Diesel-Electric Generators for, 386
— Improvisations during Electric-Power Cuts, 166*
— Management. See Works Management
— Rayon, Electrical Installation in, 470
Fair, Trade. See lixhibition
Fairley, Dr. T., on Basic Open-Hearth Furnace Slags, 483
Fairmile Marine Co., Motor-Boat Construction by, 390
Faraday Lecture on Generation and Distribution of Electricity, 339
Farming. See Agriculture; Tractors
Farrington, G. H., on Theory of Process Control, 542
Fatigue Failure and Stress Concentration, 363
— Tests of Metals, See Fatigue under Tests {Materials}
Federation of British Industries, Birmingham Regional Conference on Industry and Research, 291 ; Conference on Research and Progress of Industry in Scotland, 315 ;
Report on Industrial Research in Technical Colleges, 478 ; Organisation of Industrial Research, by R. P. Russell, 503
— of Coated Macadam Industries, Annual Luncheon, 552
— of Dredging Contractors, Formation of, 291
Feed Distribution in Marine Water-Tube Boilers, 41. See LETTER, 165
Feeder Heads for Steel Castings, 225
Fens, South Level, Army Flood Work in, 304* Fennel, W., the Late, 244
Fenton, G., on Open-Hearth Furnace Combustion Problems, 483
Ferguson, H., Ltd., 23-h.p. Agricultural Tractor for Mounted Implements, 151*
Ferranti, Ltd., Cloth Guider, 341 ; Rectifiers, 341; Thunderstorm Recorders, 341 ; Yarn- Breakage Detector, 341 ; 5,000-kVA 132- kV On-Load Tap-Changing Gear, 398*; 1,200-kV Impulse Generator, and 400-kV Direct-Current Set, 506*
Ferro-Concrete. See Concrete, Reinforced, and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Films, Cinema, Scientific and Industrial, Catalogue of, 113. See 24
Filters, Electric (Review), 516
— Magnetic (Philips Lamps, Ltd.), 376* Finishing, Protective, for Electrical Equipment, 330
Fire Engine, Manual, Model of, 481
— Offices’ Committee, Report on Fire Grading of Buildings, 154
Fischer-Tropsch Process for Oil from Coal, Present and Future, 30, 54, 79, 411
Flame Spraying by Powder Pistol, 297* Flameproof Apparatus in Mines, Investigations on,314
Fleet. See Warships
Flight. See Aeronautics
Floating Crane. See Crane
— Dock. See Dock
Flood Work, Army, in South Level Fens, 304* Flooring, Pitch-Mastic, Specification, 382 Flotation Tanks for Oily Wastes from Engineering Works, 513*, 537*
Flow Meter (Negretti and Zambra, Ltd.), 364 Flue Gases, Maximum Theoretical 00-^ in, 479, 553
Fluid Friction. See Friction
— Motion in Water-Tube Boilers, 145* Flying Boats. See Aeronautics
Flywheel and Motor-Generator for Oerlikon “ Electrogyro ” Railcar, 540*
Foot, R. W., on Research on Coal Utilisation, 7 Forbes, Sir A., on Work of Iron and Steel Board, 363
Ford, H., the Late, 292, 313
Forest Products Research Laboratory, Timber Research and Building Exhibition, 364
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools Forrest Lecture on Model Experiments for Harbours and Waterways, 435
Forrester, P. G., on Adhesion of Tin Alloys to Steel, 322*. See 245
Forster, E. W., on Industrial Electronic Servo and Regulator Systems, 544
Foster, A. W., on Automatic Control in Chemical Industry, 543
Foster Instrument Co., Ltd., Electrical Resistance Thermometer Recorder, 364 ; Optical Pyrometer, 364
Foster-Smith, J., the Late, 113
Foundations, Elastic, Beams on (Review), 123 Foundry Practice, Lectures at Northampton Polytechnic, London, 10
— See also Castings; Moulding
Foundrymen, Institute of British. See British Fowler, J., and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Amalgamation with Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., 39 Fox, F. A., on Iron in Magnesium-Base Alloys, 280; on Effect of Zinc on Corrosion of Magnesium Casting Alloys, 540
Freeman, C. F., on Electrical Installation in Viscose Rayon Factory, 470
Freezing of Fuses of German Bombs, 46 Frequency Meter (Sangamo Weston, Ltd.), 366 —‘ Beat, Oscillator (Mullard Wireless St'rviee Co., Ltd.), 365
Friction Investigations in Australia, 42, 53
Fry, L. H., on Heat Balances in Locomotive Boilers, 303, 352, 401. See LETTERS, 412, 527
Fuel for Aircraft, Researches at Thornton-Ie- Moors Laboratory, 355*
— Combustion and Furnaces (Review), 207
— Consumption in Power Stations, 387
— Costs for Heavy-Oil Engines, 124
— Crisis and Electricity Supply, 194,198* Government Statement' on, 153. See LETTERS, 173, 220
—- Domestic, Policy, Report on, 38
— Economy since 1939, Reports on, 338
— Institute of, Pulverised Fuel Conference,
Harrogate, 106, 404, 501, 503 ; Annual Report, 411. Yorkshire Section ; Fischer- Tropsch Process, Present and Future, by Dr. C. C. Hall, 30, 54, 79. See 411
?— Liquid, and Petroleum Research, 479, 507, 519
— — Production by Fischer-Tropsch Process, 30, 54, 79, 411
See also Oil Fiiel
— Motor. See Motor
— Position in Italy, 403
— and Power, Ministry of. Advisory Council’s
Re)X)rt on Domestic Fuel Policy, 38; Powers under Electricity Nationalisation Bill, 61, 87 ; Electricity and Gas (Reduction of Consumption) Order, 112, 267, 386 ; Debate on Electricity Bill, 135 ; Statement on Fuel Crisis, 153, 194. Sec LETTERS, 173, 220 ; Coal Crisis and Electricity Supply, 194, 198* ; Fuel Elliciency Branch, Work of, 338 ; Organising Committee for Electricity Supply industry, 444 ; Statistics of Electricity Supply in London, 457 ; Statistics of Coal Production, Manpower, Consumption anrl Stocks, 549
— Research Station, Greenwich, Work on
Fischer-Tropsch Process, 30, 79 ; Report on Smoke and Its Measurement, 62
— Utilisation and Powell Duffryn Technical Services, Ltd., Iy5
— See also Coal; Oil; Gas; Pulverised Fuel Fuke, F. C., on Location of Power Stations, 196 Fulham Power Station, War Damage to, 218,
227
Fuses for German High-Explosive Bombs, Removal of, 21*, 44*
— Low-Voltage and Medium-Voltage, Specification, 358
Furnace Design and Coal-Utilisation Research 7
— Electric, Annealing, for Steel Strip in Coils, 92*
for Steelmaking, Recent Developments, 209
— Fuels and Combustion (Review), 207
— Open-Hearth, Basic, Slag Control for, 483 Hearth, Experimental, Investigation of
Combustion Problems in, 483
Hearth, Operation with Coke-Oven Gas, 483
Hearth, Recent Developments in Steelmaking, 209
— Oven, Gas-Fired, with Permeable Lining (Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd.), 397*

GAIRDNER, COMDR. J. O. H., on Servo Mechanisms in Royal Navy, 494
Galvanometers. See /fleetnc Gainlyn Viaduct, Great Western Railway,
Demolition of, 126*
Gantry, Landing Ship of Invasion Fleet, 141*
— See also Crane
Gardner, J. H. S., Statement that L. Gardner Sons, Ltd., are Independent of English Electric Co., Ltd., 268. See 222
Garvin, S. J., on Sintered Permanent Magnets, 445*, 465*
Gas Analyser, Ii.fra-Red (Sir H. Grubb, Parsons and Co.), 341*
— Appliances, Jointing Material for, Specification, 82 •
— Carbon Dioxide. See Carbon Dioxide
— Coke-Oven. See Coke Oven
— Domestic, Restrictions of, 112, 267, 386
— Electric Discharge in. See Electric
— and Electricity, f'omparison of Effieieneie.s, 266
— Explosion and Combustion Processes in (Review), 516
— Fired Furnaces. See Fumacea
— Flue, Maximum Theoretical ('Oe in, 479, 553
— and Gas Works. See also PAUAGRAPH INDEX
Gas, Natural, 1,265-Mile Butt-Welded Pipeline, United States, 97*
Gas, Petroleum, in Italy, Use of, 403
~ Supply, Order for Rationing, 112. See 267, 386
— Synthetic, for Fischer-Tropsch Process, 80, 54, 79, 411
— Turbine. See
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Carbon Dioxide; Hydrogen^ etc. Gasoline. See Engine^ Petrol; Aeronautics Gauge, Indicating, for Grinding Machines
(Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd.), 517*
— Resistance, Strain (H. Tinsley and Co., Ltd.), 318
— Strain, for Metals Under Torsional Over strain, 253*
— and Tool Makers’ Association Luncheon, 195 Gear, Double-Reduction, with Barring Mechanism (D. Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd.) 32*
— Teeth, Involute, Diagrams for Testing, 554 Geared Turbines, Marine, See Marine Propulsion
Gedye, N. G., the Late, 458
General Electric Co., Ltd., Whitehead Co.’s Annealing Plant for Steel Strip in Coils, 92*; 10,000-kVA Synchronous Condenser, 151 ; 2-5-Million Volt Surge Generator, 308*: Exhibits at Phvsical Society’s Exhibition, 365 ; Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 424; 5-kW High-Frequency Heating Equipment, 424* ; Demonstration of Conversion of Electromagnetic into Acoustic Energy, 482 : Work on Centimetre- Wave Communication Systems, 489* ; London-Birmingham Television Link, 518
— Engineering Industries, Position and Prospects, 16, 27, 293
Generating Set, 1-3-h.p. Petrol-Driven (Austin- lite, Ltd.), 426
— Station. See Power Station
: Generators, Diesel-Electric, for Factories, 386, 435
— Electric, Automatic Voltage Control, 542 5,120-kW, S.S. “ Hinemoa,” 8
1,200-kV Impulse, for Cable Testing (Ferranti, Ltd.), 506*
for Military Equipment, 545
for Oerlikon “ Electrogyro ” .Railcar, 540*
Portable, Petrol (Tarpen Engineering Co., Ltd.), 448*
for Power Station Extensions, 267
for Rayon Factory, 470 See also Turbo-Generators
— Surge, 2-5-Million Volt (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 308*
Geology in Civil Engineering, 329, 377
— and Mining Engineering, Pan-American
Congress of, Geology in Civil Engineering, 329, 377
German Developments in Powder Metallurgy, 530
— High-Explosive Bombs, Disposal of, 20*, 44*
— Supersonic Wind Tunnels in United States, 102
Germany, Fischer-Tropsch Process in, 30, 54, 79. See 411
— Use of Hydrogen Peroxide for Propulsive Power in, 307
of Pulverised Fuel in, 501
— Salzgitter Railway Cutting, Application of Electrosmosis to, 121*
Geyer, Dr. E. W., on Adiabatic Processes, 88. See LETTERS, 40, 112, 139, 155, 196, 291, 340. See Erratum, 155
“ Ghost ” Jet-Propulsion Aero Engine, 520*
Gibb, Sir C. D., on Looking Both Ways, 103, 127 : on Gas Turbines, 111 : on Life and Work of Sir C. A. Parsons, 528
Gibson, Sir J. W., the Late, 244
Girder, Lattice, for Irrawaddy River Floating Bridge, 49*
— Steel, for Spillway Bridge of Shasta Dam, 325*
— See also Beams ; Bridges
Girdlestone and Co., Diaphragm Pump for Corrosive Liquids, 400*
Glass, Heat-Resisting and Heat-Absorbing (Chance Brothers, Ltd.), 235
— Products, Stress-Strain Characteristics, 433
Glen, J., on Influence of Chemical Composition on Hardenability of Steel, 437. See 415
— Shira Hydro-Electric Scheme, 243
— Tarsan Hydro-Electric Scheme, 243
“ Glenroy,” S.S., Landing Ship, Infantry, 117* Gloss, Definition and Measurement of, 455 Gough, Dr. H. J., on Research and Development Applied to Bomb Disposal, 20*, 44* Government Economic Survey, 1947, 171
— Railways. See Railways
White Paper on Economic Conditions, 85 Governor, Centrifugal, with Flyweights of Distributed Mass, 232*
Grain-Handling Plant, Floating Pneumatic (H. Simon, Ltd.), 210*
Gramophone Co., Investigation on Infra-Red Equipment, 258
Grant, C. R.^., on Real Man Power, 316 Graphite Formation in Cast Iron, 460 Grates, Domestic, Research on Design of, 7
— See also Furnace Graving Dock. See Dock
Gray Lecture on Developments in Flying Boats, 87, 441*, 463*
Great Britain, Economic Position of, 103,127 Falls Reservoir, Leakage Correction at, 181*
— Western Railway, Demolition of Dare
Valley and Gamlyn Wooden Viaducts, 126* ; Gas-Turbine Locomotive for, 168 ; North Acton to Greenford Extension, 469 Greenfield, L. T., on Adhesion of Tin Alloys to Steel, 322*. See 245
Greenly, H., the Late, 197
Greenwich, Fuel Research Station, Work on Fischer-Tropsch Process, 30, 79 ; Report on Smoke and its Measurement, 62
Greenwood, H. W., on Modern Powder Metallurgy, 492
Gresley, Sir N., Locomotive Design, 1923-41, 243
Grid, National, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 362
Load on, 194, 198*
War Damage to, 124
Grid, National, in War Time, 2] 8, 225*, 249* Grinding Machines. See Machine Tools Ground-Water Lowering by Well-Point System, 121*
Grubb, Sir H., Parsons and Co., Infra-Red Gas Analyser, 341*
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd., Time Studies at Smethwick Works, 550
Guillan, Col. S. C., Appointment as Secretary, Institute of Metals, 457
Guns, Electric Power Supply for, 545
— See also Ballistics; Explosives^ and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Gunfire, Naval, Control of, 409
Gunirietal, Influence of Lead in Centrifugal Casting, 558*
— Wheels. Centrifugal Casting of, 556* Gunnery, Servo Mechanisms for, 494 Gunpowder. See Explosives
Gyroscopes, Use for Control of Naval Gunfire, 409
— “ Minor ” Marine (Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd.), 517*
— Rotors, Electronic Balancing Machine for (Reid and Sigrist, Ltd.), 56*

HACKING, J., on British Grid System in War Time, 225*, 249*. See 218 ; on Generation and Distribution of Electricity, 339
Haefely, Dr. G., on Plastics in Electrical Industry, 6
Halcrow, Sir W., and Partners, Manchester- Sheffield Tunnel, 220
“ Halifax ” Bombing Aeroplane, Delivery of Last, 31
Hall, Prof. A. A., on Servo Mechanisms in Aircraft, 542
Hall, Dr. C. C., on Fischer-Tropsch Process, Present and Future, 30, 54, 79 ; on Oil from Coal by Fischer-Tropsch Process, 411
Hall, J. A., on Temperatures of Liquid-Steel Streams, 461, 482
Hall, J. R., on Open-Hearth Furnace Combustion Problems, 483
Hallowes, A. P. C., on Effect of Bismuth on Copper, 540
Hammers. See Machine Tools Hammersmith, Road Planning in, 258 Hampson, H., on Adiabatic Processes, 88, 291. See LETTERS, 40, 112,139, 155, 196, 340. See Errativm, 155
Handley Page, Ltd., Delivery of Last Halifax Bomber, 31
Handling Plant, Grain, Floating Pneumatic (H. Simon, Ltd.), 210*
Hanstock, Dr. R. F., on X-Ray Method of Measuring Poisson’s Ratio, 68*
Happer, J. R., on Fuel Crisis, 220. See 153. See LETTER, 173
Harbours, Model Experiments on, 435
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Hardenability of Steel, Iron and Steel Institute Report on, 415, 437
Hardening of Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Harris, G. T., on Austenitic Steel for Gas Turbines, 533*
Harrison, Dr. V. G. W., on Definition and Measurement of Gloss, 455
Harrison’s Rotary Cultivator, 178*
Harrogate, Pulverised Fuel Conference, 106, 404, 501, 503
Harrows, Disc, Production of, 184
Hartles, R. J., on Centenary of King’s College Engineering Society, 88
Harvesting Machinery, Mechanical Features, 178*, 202*
Production of, 184
Hatfield Memorial Lecture on Steel for Use at Elevated Temperatures, 435
Haughton, Dr. and Mrs. J. L., Joint Award of Platinum Medal to, 197 ; Haughton, Dr. J. L., on History of Thermal-Equilibrium Diagrams, 197
Havre, Lc, Floating Caisson for, 544*
Hawksley Lecture on Research and Development Applied to Bomb Disposal, 20*, 44*
Hayes, Prof. K. A., on Elements of Position Control, 494
Heat Balances in Locomotive Boilers, 303, 352, 401. See LETTER?^, 412, 527
— Energy in Induction Motor, 268. See LETTER, 412*
— Engines, See Engines; Turbines; Aero-nautics
— Pump, Air Cycle, 267 at Norwich, 267
Thermodynamics of, 552*
— Treatment of Metals. See Metallurgy
— Transmission Through Insulated Walls,
Factors Affecting (Review), 52
in “ Swirlyfio ” Boiler Tubes, 495*
— Waste. See Waste Heat
Heating Curves, Alloys. See Metallurgy
— District, for City of London, Proposed, 526
— Domestic, in America, Report, 86 Coal, Gas and Electricity for, 38
— Equipment, 5-kW High-Frequency (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 424*
High-Frequency (Radio Heaters, Ltd.), 425* '
Induction (Electric Furnace Co., Ltd.), ; 426 I
Heaviside’s Operational Calculus Made Easy (Review), 183
Hedge Trimmer, Electric (Tarpen Engineering Co., Ltd.), 449*
Hencky’s Laws of Equilibrium, Application to Shaping Processes, 505
Henley’s, W. T., Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., 1,200-kV Direct-Current, Impulse Testing Plant, 506*
Herbert, A., Ltd., Profile-Grinding Machine with Optical Control, 80* • Precision Jig Boring and Milling Machine, 167* ; Heavy-Duty Automatic Turret Lathe, 332*; Edgwick Injection Moulding Machine, 400* ; Production Extruding Machine, 400*
High-Speed Steel Alloys, Ltd., Research on Molybdenum in Cast Iron, 55
— See Roads
” Hinemoa,” S.S., Turbo-Electric Drive for, 8 History of Science, British Society for, First Annual Meeting, 388
H.M.SS. See under Warships
Hobbs, A. T., on Engineering Professions and Institutions, 553. See 447, 525
Hodgson, J. E., on Sir George Cayley, 196
Hoff, Dr. E. A. W., on Torque Between Rolling Mill Spindles, 505
Hogg, C., on Prevention of Water Pollution by Oil, 513*, 537*
Hoist, 150-h.p. Transportable, Electrically- Operated (Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Ltd.), 428*
— See also Cranes
Hoisting Machinery for 100-ton 80-ft. Radius Floating Crane, 471*
Holden, Dr. C. H., on Reconstruction in City of London, 526
Holford, Prof. W. G., on Reconstruction in City of London, 526
Holland, W. R., the Late, 215
— Aircraft-Engine Maintenance in, 519
— War-Damaged Bridges in. Repairs to, 1* Holt, M. L., on Electrodeposition of Nickcl-Tungsten Alloys, 384
Holt, W. J., on Coastal Craft Design, 390 Honours List, King’s Birthday, 503, 527 New Year, 15, 39
Hook, Self-Closing, for Ships’ Davits, 119* Hot-Shortness of Aluminium-Silicon Alloys, 245, 369*
— Water Service, Corrosion of Phosphor-Bronze in, 280
Humidity of Air, Standard Terms and D(‘fini- tions, 214
Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd., 100-b.h.p. Oil-Engined Mining Locomotive, 404*; 0-6-2 Shunting Locomotive for Calcutta, 451*
Hutchings, H. R., Automatic Dust Collector, 236*
Hydraulic Power Plant. See Power Plant
— Pumps. See Pump
— Systems, Ultra High-Pressure, 39
— Turbines. See Power Plant
Hydraulics. See Irngation ; Water Hydro-Electric Power Plant. See Power Plant
Hydrogen Peroxide for Propulsive Power, 307
Hydrogenation of Coal in Germany, 30, 54, 79

IDAHO, Palisades Dam Site, Geological Investigations on,377
Ignition and Lighting Units for Motor Cycles, Specification, 430
Illuminating Engineering Society, Annual Dinner, 457
Illumination. See also Lighting ; and Lamps under Electric
Impact Tests. Sec Tests (Materials)
Imperial Chemical industries, Ltd., Research on Theory of Detonation of Explosives, 98* ; Design of High-Pressure Compound Cylinders, 349* ; Exliibits at Royal Society’s Conversazione, 482
— College of Science and Technology, Summer
School in lUdaxation Methods, 315
Import Trade. See Trade Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd., Gas-Eired Oven
! Eurnace with Permeable Lining, 397* India, National Metallurgical Laboratory for, 43
— Rubber. See Rubber
Industrial Agreements and Disputes. See Trade Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Chemistry. See Chemistry
— Furnaces. See Eurnaces
— Management. See Works Management
— Notes. See Labour Notes under Labour
— Organisation Bill, Purpose of, 109
— Research. See Research industries, British, Eederation of. See Federation
— Electronics in (Review), 231
— Government Economic Survey, 171
— and Research, Birmingham Conference, 291
— World of (Review), 376
— See also Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Induction Motor. See Motor, Electric Infra-Red Ray Equipment for Military Purposes, 258
Ing, W., on Syllabuses of Professional Institutions, 457
Injection in Aircraft Engines, Researches at Thornton-le-Moors Laboratory, 357
Inland Navigation. See Navigation ; Rivers, etc., Inspection, Mechanical (Review), 52
— of Munitions, 90, 100
Institute of Transport. See Transport
— See Institutions
Institution, British Standards. See Standards
~ Elections, 34, 58, 262, 286, 310, 334, 358, 382, 406, 430, 546
— and Engineering Professions, 447, 525. See LETTERS, 552
— of Production Engineers. See Production Technical and Scientific. See Aeronautical
Society, Royal; Architects, Rritish, Royal Institute of; Arts, Royal Society of; Automobile Engineers, Institution of; British Association; British Fou'^rymen, Institute of; Chemical Engineers, Institution of; Civil Engineers, Institution of; Diesel Engine Users Association ; Electrical Engineers, Institution of; Electrochemical Society, New York; Engineers in Charge, Institution of; Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of; Fuel, Institute of; Illuminating Engineering Society; iron and Steel Institute; Iron and Steel Institute, West of Scotland ; Junior Institution of Engineers; Locomotive Engineers, Institution of; London Association of Engineers ; Marine Engineers, Institute of; Maudslay Society ; Mechanical Engineers, American Society of; Mechanical Engineers, Institution of; Metals, Institute of; Mining Engineers, Institution of ; Municipal Electrical Association, Incorporated; ’
Naval Architects, Institution of; Newcomen Society; North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders; Petroleum, Institute of; Physical Society ; Production Engineers, Institution of; Royal Society ; Sheet and Strip Metal Vsers' Association; Smithsonian Institution; Structural Engineers, Institution of; Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of; Transport, Institute of ; Welding, Institute of Institutions, Technical, and Status of Engineers, 447, 525. See LETTERS, 552
Instrument, Corrosion-Pit Measurement, 229* Government Surplus, 315
— Optical, Investigations in Australia, 6
— Scientific, Physical Society’s Exhibition, 316*, 341*, 364*
— Telecommunication, Developments in, 367, 379, 402, 441
— See also Aeronautics; Electric Insulating Board, Structural, Vapour-Resistant
Coatings for (Review), 76 Insulation. See Heat; Electric Internal-Combustion Engines. See Aeronautics ;
Engines; Motor Cars; Tractors; Turbine, Gas
International Combustion, Ltd., Investigation of Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 145*
— Conferences on Aerial and Marine Navigation Aids, 315, 502
on Radio Aids to Marine Navigation, 315
— Congress of Pure and Applied Chemistry,
London, Programme, 381
— Exhibition, London, Proposal for, 195
— Railway Congr(‘ss, Lucerne, Prograninu', 551
— Trade. See Trade
Invasion Fleet, Ships of, and their Development, 117*, 141*, 158*
Inventions. Sec Patents Inventors, American, List of, 133 Iron Alloys. See Metallurgy and Steel
— Castings, General Shortage of, 16, 27, 114
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Heat Treatment. See Metallurgy
— in Magnesium-Base Alloys, Reduction of, 280
— Powders, Engineering, Properties of, 530
— Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
— in Sand-Cast Aluminium-Magnesium Alloy, Effect of, 245, 273*. Sec Erratum, 321
— and Steel Board, Work of, 363 Industry, British, Position of, 16 Industry, Italian, Position of, 403

Iron and Steel Institute :

Discussion on Removal of Sulphur and Phosphorus from Pig Iron, 243
Autumn Meeting, London, 1946 :
New Annealing Plant for Steel Strip in Coils at Whitehead iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Newport, Mon., by Dr. B. Jones and I. Jenkins, 92*
Symposium on Hardenability of Steel:
Report of Hardenability Sub-Committee, 415, 437
Reproducibility of Eiid-Quench Hardenability Curves, by Dr. W. Steven, 437. See 415
Influence of Chemical Composition on Hardenability, by J. Glen, 437. See 415
Prediction of Hardness and Transformation Ranges from End-Quench Hardenability Curves, by T. F. Russell, 438. See 415
Influence of Hardenability on Mechanical Properties, by W. E. Bardgett, 438. See 415
Symposium on Powder Metallurgy :
Programme, 474
Summary of Papers, 530
Annual General Meeting, 1947, London : Programme, 334
Hatfield Memorial Lecture, on Steel for Elevated Temperatures, by C. Sykes, 435
Eeport of Council, 460
Honorary Treasurer’s Keport, 460 Award of Bessemer and Other Medals, 460 Election of Officers, 460
Annual Dinner, 435
Keports of Discussions, 437, 460, 482, 505 Keport of Kolling Mill Kesearch Committee, 439, 505
Fluctuations and Distribution of .Torque between Kolling Mill Spindles, by Dr. E. A. W. Hoff, 505
Application to Shaping Processes of Hencky’s Laws of Equilibrium, by E. Siebel, 505
New Scheme for Microchemical Analysis of Ferrous Alloys, by E. J . Vaughan and C. Whalley, 460
Graphite Formation in Cast Irons and Nickel-Carbon and Cobalt-Carbon Alloys, by H. Morrogh and W. J. Williams, 460
Mode of Occurrence of Tellurium in Cast Iron, by H. Morrogh, 460
Photographic Investigation of Brightness Temperature of .Liquid-Steel Streams, by J. A. Hall, 461, 482
Symposium on Contamination of Platinum Thermocouples, 461, 482
Operation of Open-Hearth Furnaces with
Coke-Oven Gas, by D. Kilby, 483 Experimental Furnace for Investigation of
Open-Hearth Furnace Combustion Problems, by Dr. A. H. Leckie, J. F. Allen, G. Fenton, J. K. Hall and C. Cartlidge, 483
Slag Control and Investigation of Basic Open-Hearth Furnace Alloys, by Dr. T. Fairley, 483
Effect of Temperature on Phosphorus Keactions in Basic Steelmaking Process, by Drs. K. Balajiva and P. Vajragupta, 483
Iron and Steel Institute, West of Scotland, High Creep Strength Austenitic Steel for Gas Turbines, by D. A. Oliver and G. T. Harris, 533*
Sec also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Tests. See Tests {Materials')
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Cast Iron; Steel; Metallurgy Irrawaddy River Bridge on Ledo-Burma Road. 49*
Irrigation Scheme, St. Mary’s River, Canada, 235
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Italian Industry, Reconstruction of, 403
— Railway, Articulated Dicsel-Engincd Rail car for, 320*
Ivatt, H. G., 2-6-0 Freight and 2-6-2 Tank Locomotives, 128* ; Locomotives, 152*

JAGGER, J. G., on Heat Energy in Induction LETTER,268
Japanese Bombs, Disposal of, 47*
Jay, Dr. A. H., the Late, 197
Jenkins, I., on Annealing Plant for Steel Strin in Coils, 92*
Jennings, J., on Adiabatic Processes, 112 See LETTERS, 40, 88, 139, 155, 196, 291, 340. See Erratum, 155 : on Maximum CO? in Flue Gases, 553. See LETTER, 479
Jennings, P. H., on Hot-Shortness of Alumi- nium-Silicon Alloys, 369*. See 245
Jerricans, Manufacture and Inspection of, 100 Jet-Engined Tailless Aircraft (Sir W. G Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.), 9
— Propulsion Aero Engine, de Havilland “ Ghost,” 520*
Gas-Turbine, Researches on, 87
See also Turbine, Gas
Jointing Material for Gas Appliances, Specification, 82
Jominy Hardenability Tests for Steel, 415, 437
Jones, A. A., and Shipman, Ltd., Rotary Surface- Grinding Machine, 427*
Jones, Dr. B., on Annealing Plant for Steel Strip in Coils, 92*
Jones, E. H. (Machine Tools), Ltd., Hand- Turning ” Anglon Lathe for Non-Metallic Materials, 189* : Automatic Sorting and Tabulating Machine, 399*
Jones, Dr. W. D., on Flame Spraying hv Powder Pistol, 297*
Journals. See Bearings
Jubilee of Electron. Celebration of, 387
Jude, A. A., the Late, 292. See LETTERS, 341, 388
Junior Institution of Engineers, Presidential Address, by Major Gen. A. W. Sproull on Inspection, 90,100 ; Dinner, 363 ; Stevens Lecture on Synthc'sis of Oil from Coal l)v the Fischer-Tropsch Process, l)v Dr C (1 Hall, 411 J' J i. V. c.

Horse-Operated Dredger,
Kastner, L. J., on Airbox Method of Measuring
Air Consumption of Internal-Combustion Engines, 345*
Keighley Laboratories, Ltd., Effect of Molvb- denum in Cast Iron, 55
Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd., Barometer for Aircraft, 365
Lecture on Electrical Discharge through Gases 363
Slotted-Link Mechanisms, 5^2* Thermodynamics of Heat Kilby, D., on Operation of Open-Hearth Furnace with Coke-Oven Gas, 483 ^^^^^269 ’ ^developments in Steelmaking,
Kinematograph. See Cinematograph Kinetic Energy in Induction Motors, 268 See LETTER,412*
King Comdr F. J., on Feed Distribution in Marine Water-Tube Boiler, 155 See LETTER, 41
King’s College (London) Engineering Society Centenary of, 195, 199, 224. Set LETTER,’ Knowler, H., on Developments in Flying Boats 441*, 463*. See 87 ’
^^TORY, Clarendon, Instrument for
Measurement ot Radiation Flux 48‘^
— Forest Products Research, Timber Research
Building Exhibition, 364
- Shell-Mex
— See also National i^hysical

Labour :

Coal Mines, Manpower Statistics. 549
Employment in Engineering Industries, 174, 184 220, 246, 268, 293. See Errata, 116* See LETTER, 268
Employers and Employees, Economic
Incentives to Increased Production, 103,
LabourNotes, 20, 44, 68, 92,116 140 156 176, 200, 223, 248, 272, 296 320 3^4 ttn’ 53“^
556. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Manpower in Engineering Industries, Ki, 27, 64, 77, 113, 136, 148,174 184 220 246, 268, 293. See Erratum,’im ’ See’ LETTER, 268 ’
~ the Parasites, Drifters and Doers. 316
Manpower and Productive Efficiency, 193
Motion and Time Studies, General Federation of Trade Unions Report, 550
Wages in Engineering and Allied Industries, 28
Lambeth and Southwark Development Scheme. 258
Lamination Detector (Metropolitan-Vickers
Electrical Co., Ltd.), 364* Lamps, Electric. See Electric Lancashire Boiler. See Boiler Landing Craft, Development of, 413 for Invasion Fleet, 117*, 141*, 158* Landslides, Columbia-River Basin, Geological
Investigations on, 377
Langstone Harbour as Flying-Boat Base, 527 Lanpert, W. E. C., on Servo Mechanisms in Royal Navy, 542
Larke, Sir W. J., Award of Bessemer Medal to, 400
Lassettre, M., on Stress-Strain Relations in
Ceramic Materials, 433 Lathes. See Machine Tools Launch of M.S. ** Accra,” 187
— and Trial Trips, 10, 34, 58, 82, 106, 130, 190, 252, 262, 286, 358, 427, 452, 483, 511, 521, 547
— of H.M.S. “ Vanguard,” Strain and Breakage Recorded during, 436
Launching Gear, Boat, for Landing Craft, 119* Law. See Legal; Labour: Patents
Lawn Mower Motor for Driving Lathe During Power Cuts, 166*
Lawton, F. W., on Developments in Power-Station Practice, 551
Le Havre, Floating Caisson for, 544* Lead Alloys, See Alloys under Metallurgy
— in Gunmetal, Influence in Centrifugal Casting, 558*
Leak Detector, Mass Spectrometer (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 342
— Tester for Vacuum Brakes, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 333*
Leakage Correction at Great Falls Reservoir, 181*
Leckie, Dr. A. H., on Open-Hearth Furnace Combustion Problems, 483
Ledo-Burma Road, Irrawaddy River Bridge on, 49*
Lee, Dr. 0. R. J., on Centrifugal Casting of Copper-Alloy Wheels, 556*

Legal :

Electricity Nationalisation Bill, 1947, 61 ; Opposition of Companies, 87 ; Debate on, 135 ; Effect on Industry, 551
Industrial Organisation Bill, Purpose of, 109
Labour Legislation, See Labour
Railway Legislation in 1847, 480 Transport Bill, Debate on, 37 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Legislation, See Legal; Labour; Patents Length Bar, Constant for Outdoor Use, 25* Letters to the Editor, 15, 40*, 63*, 88,112,139, 155,173,196, 220, 244, 268, 291, 316, 340*, 388, 412*, 458, 479, 505, 527, 552*
Lever, E. H., on Developments in South Wales Steel Industry, 155
Light Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Lighting Equipments (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 425
— Fluorescent, for Underground Railway Carriages, 391
— and Ignition Units for Motor Cycles, Specification, 430
— See also Lamps under Electric
Limit Gauges. See Gauges
“Lincoln II ” Bomber with ” Theseus ” Gas- Turbine Engines, 283*
Linde Air Products Co., Butt-Welding of Natural Gas Pipeline, 97*
Liquid Fuel. See Oil Ptbel. See also Motor
Literature, 4, 26, 52, 76,123,183, 207, 231, 257, 279, 302, 328, 352, 376, 401, 423, 467, 491, 516, 539. See LITERATURE INDEX
Litigation, Legal; Labour
Lloyd, Dr. E. H., on X-Ray Method of Measuring Poissonon’s Ratio, 68*
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Statistics of Vessels under Construction, 88, 339 ; Exhibits at Shipwrights’ Exhibition, 125, 165; Investigation of Torsional Vibration in Marine Oil-Engine Shafting, 366, 509*
Local Authorities. See Municipal
Locator, Bomb, Electrical Research Association, 23*
Loch SlOy Hydro-Electric Scheme, Railway Work at, 484
Lockheed Brakes with Two Leading Shoes for Motor Cars, 378*
Lockheed “ Shooting Star ” Aeroplane, Air- Speed Record, 551
Lockspeiser, Sir B., on Tests of Rocket-Propelled Pilotless Aircraft, 363
Locomotive Boilers, Heat Balances in,.303,352, 401. See LETTERS, 412, 527
— Building Industry, Position and Prospects, 16, 27, 220. See LETTER, 268
— Design, 1923-41, London and North Eastern Railway, 243
— Diesel-Electric, for London Midland and Scottish Railway, 271
— 6,000-h.p., Diesel-Electric, Union Pacific Railroad, 63
— Engineers, institution of, London and North Eastern Railway Locomotives, 1923-41, by B. Spencer, 243
— 2-6-0 Freight, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 128*
— Gas-Turbine, with Electric Transmission, Great Western Railway, 168
— Oil Engined, for Mines, 219
— Old, Black, Hawthorn and Co., for Newcastle Museum, 240
— Operation on New Zealand Government Railways, 101
— Mining, 100-b.h.p. Oil-Engined (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 404*
— 4-6-0 “ Patriot ” Type, Rebuilt, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 152*
— Power Development at Speed, 173,241
— Pulverised Fuel for, 502
— 0-6-2 Shunting, for Calcutta (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 451*
— 2-6-2 Tank, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 128*
— See also Railways in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Loeb, Prof. L. B., on Electrical Discharge through Gases, 363
Log, Ship’s, “ Pitometer ” (British Pitometer Co., Ltd.), 259*
London Association of Engineers, Annual Festival, 219
— Birmingham Television Link, 518
— City, Report on Reconstruction, 526
— County Council, Report of Town-Planning Committee, 258
— Electric Power Supply in. Statistics, 457
— International Exhibition, Proposal for, 195
— King’s College Engineering Society, Centenary of, 195, 199, 224. See LETTER, 88 j
— Midland and Scottish Railway, Constant- j
Length Bar for Outdoor Use, 25* ; Welded Steel-Plate Axlebox, 43* ; 2-6-0 Freight Locomotive and 2-6-2 Tank Locomotive, 128*; Rebuilt Passenger Locomotives,. 152* ; Diesel-Electric Locomotives for, 271; Snow Clearance with Gas Turbines, 285* ; Leak Tester for Vacuum Brakes, 333* ; Improved Dining Cars, 429
— and North Eastern Railway, Flat-Bottom Rails at Benton Quarry Junction, 55* ; Manchester-Sheffield Tunnel, 220 ; Locomotive Design, 1923-41, 243 ; New Woodhead Tunnel, 312 ; Railway Work at Loch Sloy, 484
— Passenger Transport Board, Welded Rail
Joint, 201 ; Fluorescent Coach Lighting, 391; Retractable Collector-Shoe Gear, 391* ; 2,000-kW 12-Phase Rectifiers, 418*: North Acton to Greenford Extension, 469
— Plan and Bankside Power Station, 387, 435 London Power Co., Ltd., Annual Report, 195
— Section, British Industries Fair, 517*
— and Thameshaven Oil Wharves, Ltd., Oil Engines at, 503
— Underground Railways. See Underground and London Passenger Transport Board Lorries. See Motor Vehicles
Lubricants for Aircraft, Researches at Thorn- ton-le-Moors Laboratory, 355*
Lubrication and Cylinder-Bore Wear, 40, 392*
— Investigations in Australia, 42, 53
— See also Oils
Lucerne, International Railway Congress at, 551
Ludbrook, L. C., on Industrial Electronic Servo and Regulator Systems. 544
“Lunzer ” Precision Live Centre for Turret Lathes, 405*

MAAS, River, Repairs to Bridges over, 1* Macadam. See Roads
Mac. See also Me
Machine Shops. See Works and Machine Tools
— Testing. See Testing Machine and Tests {Materials}

Machine Tools :

Balancing Machine, Electronic (Reid and Sigrist, Ltd.), 56*
Boring Machines, Early Development, 468 Drilling Machines, Early Development, 468 Extruding Machine, Production (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 400* _
Forging Machine Ltd.), 448
Gauge and Tool Luncheon, 195
Grinding, Surface, Blades, 73*
— Machine for Butt-Welded Pipeline, 97* 4“in, Hydraulic (Cincinnati Milling Machines, Ltd.), 284*
Profile, with Optical Control (Modern Tool Works, Ltd.), 80
Surface, Rotary (A. A. Jones and Sliipman, Ltd.), 427*
Thread, High-Precision (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 104*
Hammer, Counter-Blow (Eumuco (England), Ltd.), 448
Jig Boring and Milling Machine, Precision -XDevlieg Machine Co.), 167*
Lathes, Early Develoj)ment of, 468
— Hand-Turning, “ Anglon,” for Non- Metallic Materials (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.), 189*
— Turret, Heavy-Duty Automatic (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 332*
Heavy-Duty, Running Centre for (Austin and Lang, Ltd.), 405*
Limit Gauging. See Gauge Machine-Shop Management. See Works Management
— Tools in 1847, 468
Advisory Council, Formation of, 114 Industry, Position and Prospects, 17, 27, 113
in H.M. Repair Ship “ Ranpura,” 414
Trades Association, Annual Luncheon, 315
— Work, Tolerances in. See Gauge Milling and Jig-Boring Machine, Precision (Devlieg Machine Co.), 167*
Planing Machines Early Development, 468 for Wood, Hand (Tarpen Engineering Co., Ltd.), 449*
Press, Automatic, for Sintered Permanent Magnets, 465*
— Brake, 25-ton (Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd.), 424*
— Electrically-Driven, for Hot Brass (Taylor and Challen, Ltd.), 424*
— 35-ton Friction Screw (J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd.), 448*
— Notching (Taylor and Challen, Ltd.), 424
Saw, Circular, Motor-Driven, for Wood (Mathews Brothers), 555*
Straightening Machine, Section (J. Bigwood and Son, Ltd.), 448
Surfacing Torpedo Propeller Blades, Method of, 73* ivroT-ir-n »»
Toolpost, Internal-Threading, Marlcj). (W. H. Marley and Co., Ltd.), 264
Turret Lathes. See Lathes (above) Woodworking Macliinery, Hand Moo(l- Planing Machine (Tarpen Engineering Co., Ltd.), 449*
Saw, Circular, Motor-Driven (Mathews Brothers), 555*
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Machines, Testing. See 2’estinff Machines and Tesfs {Materials}
— Work. See Machine Tools
Macrostructures of Centrifugally-Cast Copper- Alloy Wheels, 557*
Magnesium Alloys. See Alloys under MetaZZwOT
— in Aluminium Alloy, Determination by Electrical Resistivity, 416*
Magnets, permanent, Sintered, Manufacture ^and Properties of, 445*, 465*
System, Betatron, Model of (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 364
Magnetic Filters (Philips Lamps, Ltd.), 376*
— Powders and Products, 530
- properties of Various Materials, 445
Magneto, Unscreened, Specification, 382
Magnetometer, Mumetal, for Bomb indicating, 23*
Mains, Electric. See Cables under lilectrie
Malheur Syphon, Oregon, Geological investigations on,329 , ,,
Management of Works. See WorTcs Manage- ment
Manchester, Britannia Works of Muir Machine Tools, Ltd., Reconstruction of, 309*
Joint Research Council, Report on Conference on Research and Small Firms, 410
— Sheffield Railway Electrification, 220
University, Summer School in X-Ray Crystallography, 310 .
Manley, R. G., on Transition Curve Trigonometry, 88. See LETTERS, 40*, 112,139,155
Manning, W. R. D., on Design of Compound Cylinders for High-Pressure Service, 349*
Manufacture, Scientific Methods in. Sec IForfcs Management ov m
Maracaibo,” Oil Tanker, Landing Ship Tank, 143*
Marconi, 1935-1945, A War Record (Review), 4 Marginal Costing (Review), 401 ,
Marine Auxiliary Machinery, S.b. ‘
Machinery, Magnetic Filter for Oil (Philips Lamps, Ltd.), 376*
— Boilers. See Boilers
Engines. SQQ Engines; Turbines; Manne Propulsion
Engineers, Institute of. Election of Members, 58, 262, 334 ; Annual Dinner, 219 ; Annual Report, 291
— Engineering in 1847, 469
Collections at Science Museum, 458
industry, position and Prospects, 16, 28, 174 244 259
Models at Shipwrights’ Exhibition, 125, 165
— Navigation Aids, International Agreements
011,502. See 315
Radio Aids, International Conference, 315. See 502
Propulsion, Development of Gas Turbines for
9’400-b.h.p., Doxford Oil Engines, M.S. ” Accra,” 187
Machinery in 1847, 469 ,
Machinery for H.M. Corvettes and Ingates, 389
Propelling Machinery Constructed, 174
13,000-s.h.p. Turbo-Electric Machinery,
S. S.’” Hinemoa,” 8 .
See also Engines ; Turbines; Propellers; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Turbines. See Turbines, Steam ; Manne Propulsion
Markets. See Trade and PARAGU.XPH .
Markwick, A. H. D., on Ap}>lication of Elcctr- osmosisto Soil Drainage, 121*
Marley, W. H., and Co., Ltd.," Marlco Internal- Threading Toolpost, 264*
Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., Amalgamation with J. Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 39
Mascol products Co., Arc-Welding Electrode Holder, 201*
Mast, 500-ft. Radiator, at Brookman s Park, 495*
Materials, AdvancedMechanicsof(Review),352
— Strength of. See 5'Zressand Tests {Matenals} Mathematics, Trigonometry, Refresher for Technical Men (Review), 328
Transition Curve, 40*. See LETTERS, 88, 112, 139, 155
— Vector Operator j (Review), 377
Mather, H. V., on Electrical Installation in Viscose Rayon Factory, 470
Mathews Brothers, Circnilar Saw, Electrically Driven, 555*
“Matrix” Bench Tluead-Grinding Machine, 104*
Mattress, Brush-Wood, for Fen Flood Works, 306*
Maudslay Society, Annual Report and Luncheon, 411
May Lecture on Metallurgical Problems in Utilisation of Atomic Energy, 457
Mayer, Dr. S. E., on Iron in Magnesium-Base Alloys, 280
McKee, Capt. L., on Hydrogen Peroxide for Propulsive Power, 307
McLeod, R. C., on ffirst 10,000-kW, 3,000-
T. p.m. Turbo-Generator, 341. See 292. See LETTER, 388
McLintock, C. H., the Late, 82
McPherson, Sir T., the Late, 430
Me. See also Mac
Measuring Machine, Horizontal (E. R. Watts and Sons, Ltd.), 517*
Universal (Cambridge Instrument Co.. Ltd.), 317*
— Precision Methods at National Physical Laboratory, 554
Mechanics of Materials, Advanced (Review), 352
— Practical, for All (Review), 231
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of, Hydrogen Peroxide for Propulsive Power, by Capt. L. McKee, 307

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of :

Election of Members, 34, 58, 286, 310, 406 Report of Incorporated Benevolent Fund, 411
Presentation of Watt International Medal to Prof. S. P. Timoshenko, 363 Stress Concentration and Fatigue Failure, by Prof. S. P. Timoshenko, 363
Amalgamation with Institution of Automobile Engineers, 339, 367
London Meetings, Winter Session:
Hawksley Lecture on Research and Development Applied to Bomb Disposal, by Dr. H. J. Gough, 20*, 44* The Aeroplane Undercarriage, by H. G. Conway, 39
Development of Ultra High-Pressure Hydraulic Systems, by S. M. Parker, 39 Aircraft Wheel Brakes, by D. A. L. Robson, 39
X-Ray Method of Measuring Poisson’s Ratio, by Drs. R. F. Hanstock and E. H. Lloyd, 68*
Axial-Flow Gas Turbine for Jet Propulsion, by Dr. D. M. Smith, 87
Practical Aspects of Cascade Wind-Tunnel
Research, by K. W. Todd, 87 Development of Locomotive Power at
Speed, by E. L. Diamond, 173, 241 Loan of Portrait of G. Stephenson, 173 Nomination of Officers, 173 First Agricultural Lecture on Mechanical
Engineering and Agriculture, by S. J. Wright, 177*, 202*
Norwich Heat Pump, by J. A. Sumner, 267 Air-Cycle Heat Pump, by T. F. Thomas, 267
Annual Report, 267 Award of Prizes, 267 Election of Officers, 267 Airbox Method of Measuring Air Consumption of Internal-Combustion Engines, by L. J. Kastner, 345*
Gray Lecture on Recent Developments in Flying Boats, by H. Knowier, 441*, 463*. See 87
Centenary Celebrations:
Programme, 39, 475 History of Institution, 477 Inaugural Proceedings, 504 Thanksgiving Service in Westminster Abbey, 504
Reception at Science Museum, 504 Technical Sessions, 504, 528 Clayton Lecture on Possibilities of Nuclear
Energy for Heat and Power Production, by Prof. J. D. Cockcroft, 504 Parsons Lecture, on “ Parsons—the Man and His Work,” by Sir C. D. Gibb, 528 Unveiling of Portrait of Sir C. A. Parsons,
528
Banquet at Guildhall, 528 Dinner-Dance at Dorchester Hotel, 528 Supper-Dance at Connaught Rooms, 528 Exhibition of Relics of George Stephenson, 529
Visits to Works, 529
Applied Mechanics Group :
Basic Principles of Automatic Control
Systems, by Prof. A. Porter, 155 Tensile Yield Strength of Certain Steels under Suddenly Applied Loads, by Prof. F. V. Warnock and Dr. J. B. Brennan, 337. See LETTER, 412 Dynamic Yield Strength of Steel at Intermediate Rates of Loading, by A. C. F. Brown and R. Edmonds, 337. See, LETTER, 412
Aidomobile Division:
First Annual Dinner, 387 Chairman’s Address, by F. G. Woollard, 387
Mechanical Engineering and Agriculture, 177* 202*
Research Board, Appointment of, 479
— Inspection (Review), 52
— Parking of Vehicles, Baldwin-Auger System of, 187*
— Traction on Roads. See Loads; Motor Vehicles; Tractors
Merchant Ships. See Ships; Steamers; Motorships
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding Metals, Anti-Friction. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue under Tests {MateHals)

Metals, Institute of :

May Lecture on Metallurgical Problems Involved in Generation of Useful Power from Atomic Energy, by Sir W. Akers, 457
Annual Meeting, London :
Report of Council, 197
Honorary Treasurer’s Report, 197 Election of Officers, 197
Award of Platinum Medal Jointly to Er. J. L. and Mrs. Haughton, 197
Reports of Proceedings, 197, 245, 280 Annual Dinner, 246
Visits to Research Laboratories and Works, 281
History of Thermal Equilibrium Diagrams, by Dr. J. L. Haughton, 197
Hot-Shortness of Some Aiuminium-lron- Silicon Alloys of High Purity, by A. R. E. Singer and P. H. Jennings, 245
Annual Meeting^ London {continued}: '
Hot-Shortness of Aluminium-Silicon Alloys of Commercial Purity, by A. R. E. Singer and P. H. Jennings, 369*. See 245
properties of Aluminium-Silicon Alloys at Temperatures in Region of Solidus, by A. R. E. Singer and S. A. Cottrell, 245 Effect of Iron and Silicon Impurities on Tensile Properties and Heat-Treatment Characteristics of Sand-Cast Aluminium-10 per cent. Magnesium Alloy Test Bars, by Dr. R. T. Parker, G. M. L. Cox and A. N. Turner, 273*. See 245. See Erratum^ 321
Note on Selective Corrosion of Phosphor Bronze in Hot-Water Service, by W. D. Clark, 280
Some Factors in Reduction of Iron Content of Magnesium-Base Alloys, by F. A. Cox, C. J. Bushrod and Dr. S. E. Mayer, 280
Observations on Rate and Mechanism of Recrystallation in Copper, by Drs. M. Cook and T. L. Richards, 281 Theory of Age-Hardening of Aluminium- Copper Alloys, Based on Vacant Lattice Sites, by Dr. F. Rohner, 281 Influence of Composition on Adhesion of Tin-Base Bearing Alloys to Steel, by P. G. Forrester and L. T. Greenfield, 322*. See 245
Rapid Method for Analysis of Light Alloys, Based on Electrical Resistivity, by L. Rotherham and J. I. Morley, 418* Magnesium-Cerium-Zirconium Alloys, by A. J. Murphy and R. J. M. Payne, 485*. See 280
Special Meeting, London:
Resignation of Hon. Treasurer, 457 Appointment of Col. S. C. Guillan as Secretary, 457
Increase in Membership Subscriptions, 457 Mechanism of Embrittlement of Deoxidised Copper by Bismuth, by Dr. E. Voce and A. P. C. Hallowes, 540 Microstructure of Wrought Non-Arsenical Phosphorus-Deoxidised Copper Containing Bismuth, by T. H, Schofield and F. W. Cuckow, 540
Effect of Zinc on Corrosion of Some Magnesium Casting Alloys, by F. A. Fox, 540
Joint Meeting with Institute of "Welding: Welding of Copper and Copper-Rich Alloys, by Dr. M. Cook and E. Davis, 378
Paper for Written Discussion :
Centrifugal Casting of Copper-Alloy Wheels in Sand Moulds, by Dr. O. R. J. Lee and Dr. L. Northcott, 556*
Metal Powders, Preparation, Properties and Testing of, 530
Spraying by Flame Pistol, 297*
— Spraying for Finishing Electrical Equipment, 330
— Structure of. Sec Microphotographs
— under Torsional Overstrain, Length Changes in, 253*
— Welding. See Welding
— Working Machinery Industries, Position and
Prospects, 16,27,64, 77,113,136,148,174, 184, 220, 246, 268, 293. See Erratum, 116.

Metallurgy :

Alloys, Aluminium, Drop-Stamp Forming of, 251
for Flying-Boat Construction, 441*, 463*
Copper, Theory of Age-Hardening of, 281
Magnesium, Sand-Cast. Effect of Impurities in, 245, 273*. See Erratum^ 321
Silicon, Hot-Shortness in, 245, 369* — Bearing, Investigations in Australia, 43, 53
4'ln-Base, Adhesion to Steel, 245, 322*
— Copper-Rich, for Wheels, Centrifugal Casting of,556*
Welding of, 378
See also Brass; Bronze; Gunmetal; etc.
— Ferrous, Microchemical Analysis of, 460
— Light, Analysis, Based on Electrical Resistivity, 416*
— Magnesium, Wrought, Specification, 498 Base, Reduction of Iron in, 280 Cerium-Zirconium, Properties at High Temperature, 280, 485*
Effect of Zinc on Corrosion, 540
— Nickel-Tungsten, Electredeposition of, 384
— White-Metal, Influence of Composition on Adhesion to Steel, 245, 322*
Metal, Investigations in Australia, 43, 53
Brass. See Brass
Bronze. See Bronze
Cast Iron. See Cast Iron
Coke Ovens. See Coke Ovens
Copper, Embrittling Effect of Bismuth, 540 Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion Equilibrium Diagrams, Alloys, History, 197 Foundry. See Foundry ; Moulding Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces — Metallurgical. See Furnaces
Heat Treatment, Annealing Plant for Steel Strip in Coils, 92*
of Austenitic Steel for Gas Turbines, 533*
— ^jominy End-Quench Test for Steel Hardenability, 415, 437
of Magnesinm-Cerium - Zirconium Alloys, 280, 485*
of Sand-Cast Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, 245, 273*. See Frratum^ 321
Metals, Tests of. See Tests (Materials) Metallurgical Investigations in Australia, 53
Metallurgy Students, Atomic Theory for (Review), 328
National Metallurgical Laboratory for India, 43
Powder Metallurgy, Developments in, 492 Production of Sintered Permanent Magnets by, 445*, 405*
Symposium on, Report of, 474, 530 Pyrometers. See Pyrometers
Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
Slag Control for Basic Open-Hearth Purnaee, 483
Steel Furnaces. See Furnaces
Steelmaking Process, Basic, Phosphorus Reaction in, 483
— Recent Developments in, 209
Thermal Equilibrium Diagrams, History of, 197
Welding. See Welding
See also Iron and Steel Institute; Metals, Institute of ; Microphotographs ; Foundry ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Meter, Elow (Ncgretti Zambra, Ltd.), 364
— See also Flectric
Methane as Fuel in Italy, 403 Metrological investigations in Australia, 5 Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.,
Work on Gas Turbines for Aircraft Propulsion, 87; Wind-Tunnel Research on Gas-Turbine Blading, 87 ; Gas Turbine for Locomotive, 168 ; Particle-Recording Equipment, 364* ; Model of Betatron Magnet System, 364; 50-kV Electron
Microscope, 364; Lamination Detector, 364* ; Motor-Generator for Fluorescent Railway-Coach Lighting, 391
— See also London ?
Mexico, Engineering Notes from, 450 Microchemical Analyses of Ferrous Alloys, 460 Microphotographs, Aluminium Alloys, Un- sound, 417*
— Bearing Alloy Bonded to Steel, 322*
— of Centrifugally-Cast Copper-Alloy Wheels, 558*
— Magnesium-Cerium-Zirconium Alloys, 485*
— of Sand-Cast Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, 273*. See Frratum, 321
— of Sintered Alnico, 466*
Microscope, Electron, 50-kV (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 364
— Measuring (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 316*
— Toolroom (Cooke, Troughton and Simms, Ltd.), 448*
Microstructure of Metals. See Microphotographs
Middleton, A., Arc-Welding Electrode Holder, 201*
Midland Counties, Preservation of Engineering Relics in, 111
— Industries and Research, 291
Military Equipment, Electric Generators for, 545
— Motor Transport. See Motor
— Tanks, Controls for Turrets in, 494 Landing Sliips for, 117, 141, 158* Mobility of, 242
Mill, Cement, South Africa, Double-Reduction Gear for, 32*
— Grinding, for Farm Use (Christy and Norris, Ltd.), 376*
— Rolling. See Rolling Mills
Milles Iles River, Quebec, 1,500-ft. Welded
Continuous-Girder Bridge Across, 285
Milling Machines and Cutters. See Machine Tools
Millington, B. W., on Centrifugal Governors with Flyweights of Distributed Mass, 232* Jlines, Coal. See Collieries
— Oil-Engined Locomotives for, 219
— Safety in. Research Board, Annual Report, 314
— See also Coal; Collieries ; Mining ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Mineral Oils. See Oils
— Production in the United States, 235
— See also Coal; Mining; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Minikin, R. R., on New Piling Formula, 316. See 156
Mining Engineers, Institution of, Annual Report, 111; Summer Meeting, Edinburgh, 550, 551
— Engineering and Geology, Pan-American Congress of. Geology in Civil Engineering, by R. Rhoades, 329, 377
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Ministry of Supply. See Sttpply
— of Transport. See Transport
“ Minor ” Marine Gyroscope, 517* Model Determinations of Oscillations of Severn Highway Bridge, 554
— Experiments for Harbours and Waterw^ays, 435
— Ship, Exhibition of, Worsliipful Company
of Shipwrights, 111, 125, 165, 423
See also Aeronautics ; Tank Experiments
Modern Tool Works, Ltd., Protile-Grinding
Machine with Optical Control, 80* Moerdijk Rail and Road Bridges, Repairs to, 1* Molybdenum, Effect on Cast Iron, 55 Monkhouse, Lieut.-Col. S. E., the Late, 316 Mono Pumps, Ltd., Mining Rotary Pumps, 376* Mooring-Cable Arrangements, Irrawaddy River Floating Bridge, 50*
Morley, J. I., on Analysis of Light Alloys Based on Electrical Resistivity, 416*
Morrogh, H., on Graphite Formation in Cast Irons, 460 ; on Occurrence of Tellurium in Cast Iron, 460
Morton, W. H., the Late, 457 MotaVeyor Belt Conveyor, 398* Motion and Time Studies, General Federation of Trade Unions Report, 550

Motor-Car Details :

Brake Hydraulic, with Two Leading Shoes (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 378*
Engines. See Engines, Petrol, Motor Car
Motor-Car Engines. See Engines^ Petrol Engineers. See Automobile Engineers H. Ford’s Work on, 313 Fuels. See Motor Fuels Mechanical Parking of, 187* See also Motor Vehicles; Motor Cycles; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Carriages, Railway. See Carriages
— Cycles, Ignition and Lighting Units for,
Specification, 430 Industry, Position and Prospects, 16, 64
— Electric, Air-Break Contactor Starter for (Brookhirst Switchgear, Ltd.), 331*
Alternating-Current, Steel Frames for
(Westinghouse Electric Corporation), 101 6,500-kW, S.S. “ Hinenioa, ’ 8 Induction, Heat Energy and Kinetic
Energy in, 268. See LETTER, 412* Production of, 17, 114, 136 for Kayon Factory, 470 Silicone-insulated (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 342* Traction, Light-Weight, Southern Kailway, 439
— Fuels, Modern, Effect on Cylinder-Bore Wear, 40, 395
and Petroleum Kcseareh, 479, 507, 519 Synthetic Production in United States 427
— Generator for Fluorescent Kailway-Coach
Lighting (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 391
— Industry Kesearch Association, Annual Ke-port, 135; Length Changes in Metals under Torsional Overstrain, 253*
— Internal-Combustion. See Aero7iautic8;
Engines; Motorcars; Tractors
— Lorries. See Motor Vehicles
— Marine. See Engines; Marine Propulsion ; Motorships
— Paraffin. See Engines^ Oil
— petrol. See Aeroiiautics ; E^igineSt Petrol; Motor Cars; Tractors
— Spirit. See Motor Fu^il
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Transport, Military, Inspection of, 101
— Trucks, Battery-Driven (Tomlinson (Electric Vehicles), Ltd.), 450
Oil-Hydraulic, 7i-ton, for Lifting (J. Collis and Sons, Ltd.*), 399*
— Veliicle Industry, Position and Prospects,
16. 64. See Erratum, 116 Mechanical Parking of, 187* Mechanical Shovel (Chaseside Engineering Co., Ltd.), 374*
4| cub. yd. and 6 cub. yd., Muir-Hill Dumpers (E. Boydell (fc Co., Ltd.), 374*. See Errata, 439
Motorslup “ Accra,” Launch of, 187 i
— “ Birmingham,” with Pneumatic Grain-Handling Plant, 210*
— under Constuctioii, Lloyd’s Statistics, 88, 339. See 174 !
— Oil-Tanker ” Ncverita,” Ke port on Hogging and Sagging Tests, 13
— ” Virgo,” with Pneumatic Grain-Handling Plant, 210*
— See also Marine Propulsion
Mott, Hay and Anderson, Kiver Tyne Tunnels, 493*
Moulds, Sand, for Centrifugal Casting of Copper- Alloy Wheels, 556
Moulding Machine, Edgwick Injection for Plasties (A. Herbert, Ltd.), 400*
— Plastic, Specification, 106
— of Sintered Permanent Magnets, 445*, 465*
— See also Foundry
Mower, Motor, for Driving Lathe during Power Cuts, 166*
Muir-Hill Dumpers, G cub. yd., and 4^ cub. yd., 374.* See Errata, 439
Muir Machine Tools, Ltd., Keconstruction of Britannia Works, Manchester, 309
Mullard Wireless Service Co., Ltd., Squarewave Analyser, 365; Beat-P'requency Oscillator, 365
“Multi-Layer” Pressure Vessels, Stresses in, 349*
Muitiscope (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 318 Multitubular Boilers. See Boilers Mumford, A. H., on Kadio versus Line Communication Systems, 321
Municipal Electrical Association, Incorporated, Bomnemouth Meeting, Programme, 444; Preliminary Proceedings, 551; Presidential Address by J. Pickles on Future of Electricity-Supply Industry, 551; Kecent Developments in Power-Station Practice, by S'. W. Lawton, 551; Law Kelating to Electricity Supply, by K. Birt, 551 Munitions, Government Inspection of,' 90,100 Murex, Ltd., Work on Sintered Permanent Magnets, 445*, 465*
Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., Exhibits at British Industries Fair, 425
Murphy, A. J., on Magnesium-Cerium-Zirconium Alloys, 485*. See 280
Murray, F. T., on Transition Curve Trigonometry, 40*. See LETTERS, 88,112,139,155 Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Black, Haw'- thorn tt Co., Locomotive for, 240
— Science, South Kensington, Model of Early
Horse-Operated Dredger, 208* ; Marine- Engineering Collections at, 458* ; Model of Uranium Chain Reaction, 481

NATIONAL Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Work of, 203*
— Metallurgical Laboratory for India, 43
— Physical Laboratory, Wind-Tunnel Tests on
Plying Boats, 443* ; Exhibits at Royal Society’s Conversazione, 482 ; Activities of, 527, 554
— Productive Efficiency, Conference on, 193
Nationalisation of Electricity Supply Industry Bill, 1947, 01; Opposition of Companies, 87 ; Debate on, 135 ; Effect on Industry, 551
— of Industry in Italy, 403
Nationalisation of Inland Transport, Debate on Bill, 37
Natural Gas, 1,265-Mile Butt-Welded Pipeline for, United States, 97*
Industry and Kesearch, 479, 507, 519 Pipeline, Texas to New York, 235
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics

Naval Architects, Institution of :

Joint Meeting with Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
Ships of the Invasion Meet and their Development, by K. Baker, 117*, 141*, 158*
Spring Meeting:
Programme, 214
Annual Keport, 244 Election ot Council, 244 Annual Dinner, 244
Keports of Discussions, 244, 271, 319, 343, 306, 389, 413, 436
Presidential Address, by Lord Chatfield, on Shipbuilding ano Marine Engineering industries, 259. See 244
Improved Arrangements of Accommodation for Modern Cargo Vessels, by J. E. Church, 244, 271, 319
British Submarine Design during War, 1939-45, by A. J. Sims, 244, 319
Classification Standards and Longitudinal Strength, by J. L. Adam, 343
Corvettes and Irrigates, by A. W. Watson, 389
Coastal Force Design, by W. J. Holt, 389
Notes on Development of Landing Craft, by K. Baker, 413
Notes on uepot and Kepair Ships, by H. E. Skinner, 413
Kesiuuary stability, by Prof. C. W. Pro- haska, 436
Strain and Breakage Kecording on H.M.S. “Vanguard’' during Launclung, by D. M. Baker, 436
Limits of Torsional Vibration Stress in Marine Oil-Engine Shafting, by Dr. S. 1. Dorey, 509*. See 366
Naval Architecture. See also Warships
— Construction Models at Sliipwrigfiis* Exhibition, 125, 165
See also H arships
— Guns. See Guns
— Warfare. See Warships
— See also Warships
Navigation, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Aids, Aerial and Marine, Internationa
Agreements on, 502, See 315
— Manne, Kadio Aids to, international Conference on, 315. See 502
— “ Pitometer ” Slrip’s Log, 259*
— of Upper Oritoco, Improvement of, 421* Navvy. See i^xcavator
Navy, British.
— German, f
— United States. See United States Warships
— See also Naval; Warships; and (JKAPH INDEX
Neal, It. H., A Co., Ltd., 3-ton Mobile 374*
Negretti and Zambia, Ltd., Air-Operated Tem- ' jjerature Controller, 364* ; Mow Meter, 364 i Negro-Orinoco-Casiquiare Waterway, 421*
“ Neptune ’’ Amphibious Vehicles, Use in Flood Work, 306*
‘‘Neverita,” M.S. Iteport on Hogging and Sagging Tests, 13
New Mexico, Wliite-Sands Proving Ground,
Blockhouse for V-2 Itocket Tests, 31*
— Year Honours Lists, 15, 39
— York, Pearl Street Power Station, Origin, 134
— Zealand Government Kailways, Annual Report, 101 <
Newbound, It., on Protective Finishing of
Electrical Equipment, 330
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Museum, Black, Hawthorn and Co., Locomotive lor, 240
Newcomen Society, Appeal for Preservation of
Engineering Itelics in Midlands, 111; History oi Stattbrdshire Tluck Coal Seam, by E. T. Perrins, 111; Summer Meeting, Chepstow, Programme, 429 ; Proceedings, 603
Newuam, P. E., the Late, 531
Newport, Mon., Electric Annealing Plant for Steel Strip in Coils, 92*
Nickel-Carbon iron, Graphite Formation in, 460 Noah’s Ark, Models of, 125, 165
Non-Ferrous MetUls. See Metals ; Metallurgy North America, Engineering Notes from, 235, 427
— East Coast Institution of Engineers and
Slupbuilders, British Ship-Kepairing, 1939- 1945, by Sir L. Edwards, 282, 306 ; Election of Oificers, 382
— Notes from, 11, 35, 59, 83,107,131,169,191,
215, 263, 287, 311, 335, 359, 383, 407, 431, 453, 475, 499, 523, 547. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, Glen Shira and Glen Tarsan Schemes, 243
Hydro-Electric Board, Kailway Work at Loch Sloy, 484
Northampton Polytechnic, London, Lectures on I’oundry Practice, 10; Lectures on Television Practice, 31
Northcott, Dr. L., on Centrifugal Castings of Copper-Alloy Wheels, 556*
Northumberland County Council, Kiver Tyne Ttmnels, 493
Norwegian Flotilla Leader “ Oslo,” 332 Norwich Heat Pump, 267
Notched-Bar Tests. See Tests {Materials} Notes on New Books. See Books and LITERATURE INDEX
— See Cleveland ; North; South-West; Sotdh
Yorkshire ; Labour. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Nuclear Energy, Use foi Heat and Power Production, 504
Nuts, Washers and Bolts, Specification, 498

Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Oerlikon, Ateliers de Construction, “ Electrogyro ” Vehicle, 540*
Ohio State University, investigation of Stress- Strain Relations in Ceramic Materials, 433
Oil, Chemical Production from. Plant for Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd., 248
— from Coal by Fischer-Tropsch Process, 30, 54, 79, 411
— Engines. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars; Tractors
— from Engineering Works, Prevention of water Pollution by, 513*, 557*
— Industry, Progress of Research, 479, 507, 519
— Lubricating, for Aircraft Engines, Researches at Thornton-Ie-Moors Laboratory, 355*
Costs for Heavy-Oil Engines, 124
and Cylinder-Bore Wear, 40, 392* for Oil Engines, 87
— Motors. See Engines, Oil; Motor Vehicles; Tractors
— Tank Motorship “ Neverita,” Hogging and Sagging Tests, 13
— Production from Coal, by Fischer-Tropsch Process, 30, 54, 79, 411
— Switches. See Switchgear
— Tractors. See Tractors
— See also Lubrication ; Petroleum
Olander, H. C., Spillway Bridge of Shasta Dam, 325*
Old Centralians, Annual Dinner, 552
Oliver, D. A., on Austenitic Steel for Gas Turbines, 533*
Oosterbeek Bridge over River Rhine, Repairs to, 4*
Open-Hearth Furnace. See Furnace
Optical Instruments, Investigations in Australia, 6
Physical Society’s Exhibition, 316*, 341*, 364*
— Pyrometers. See Pyrometers
Ordnance. See Eallistics ; Explosives; Guns ; Warships
Oregon, Malheur Syphon, Geological Investigations on,329
Orinoco-Casiquiare-Negro Waterway, 421* Oscillations, Electric. See Electric Oscillograph. See Electric
“ Oslo,” Norwegian Flotilla Leader, 332
Ouse, River, Closing Breaches in Banks of, 304* Outlook, Engineering, 16, 27, 64, 77, 113, 136, 148, 174, 184, 220, 246, 268, 293. See Erratum, 116. See LETTER, 268
Oven, Drying, Infra-Red, Gas-Fired (De La Rue Gas Development, Ltd.), 397*
— Furnace, Gas-Fired, with Permeable Lining (Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd.), 397*
Overhead Lines, Power Transmission, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 362
Power Transmission, Grid System in War Time, 134, 218, 225*, 249*
Power Transmission, War Damage to, 134 Overstrain, Torsional, in Metals, Length Changes in, 253*
Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Instrument for Measurement of Radiation Flux, 482
Oxy-Acetylene Welding. See Welding

PAINTS for Finishing Electrical Equipment, 830
Painter Brothers, Ltd., Callender-Hamilton Bridge Units, 2* ; 500-ft. Radiator Mast at Brookman’s Park, 495*
Palestine Electric Corporation, 10,000-kVA Synchronous Condenser, 151
Palisades Earn Site, Idaho, Geological Investigations on, 377
Pan-American Congress of Mining Engineering and Geology. Geology in Civil Engineering, by R. Rhoades, 329, 377
Paper, Drawing, Specification, 10
Paraffin Engines. See Engines, Oil
Parker, Dr. R. T., on Sand-Cast Aluminium- Magnesium Alloys, 273*. See 245. See Erralum, 321
Parker, S. M., on Ultra High-Pressure Hydraulic System, 39
Parking, Mechanical, of Vehicles, Baldwin- Auger System, 187*
Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, Annual Luncheon, 135
Parsons, Sir C. A., Life and Work of, 528
Parsons, R. H., on Adiabatic Processes, 155. See LETTERS, 40, 88, 112, 139, 196, 291, 340. See Erratum, 15^ ; on Heat Balances for Locomotive Boilers, 412. See 303,352, 401. See LETTER, 527 ; on Maximum CO2 in Flue Gases, 479. See LETTER, 553
— Lecture on “ Parsons, the Man and his Work,” 528
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine Propulsion
Particle-Recording Equipment (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 364*
Patent Record, 24*, 48*, 72*, 96*, 120*, 144*, 160*, 180*, 204*, 228*, 252*, 276*, 300*, 324*, 348*, 372*, 396*, 420*, 444*, 488*, 512*, 536*. See PATENT RECORD INDEX
Paterson, Sir C. C., on Future Trends in Radio Communication, 379
Paterson, S., on High Explosives : Mechanical Theory of Detonation, 98*
Payne, R. J. M., on Magnesium-Cerium-Zirco- nium Alloys, 485*. See 280
Pearl Street Power Station, New York, Origin of, 134
Pease, H. M., the Late, 268
Peattie, J. D., on British Grid System in War Time, 225*, 249*. See 218
Permanent Magnets. See Magnets
Perrins, F. T., on Staffordshire Thick Coal Seam, 111
Personal, 10, 34, 58, 82,106,130,168,190, 214, 238, 262, 286, 310, 334, 358, 382, 406, 430, 452, 474, 498, 522, 546
Peru, Engineering Notes from, 91, 332
Petch-Elliott Pressure Detector, 341*
Petrol Motors. See Aeronautics ; Engines, Petrol; Motor Cars ; Praetors
— Tractors. See Praetors
petroleum, Institute of. Cadman Lecture on Progress in Petroleum Research, by R. P. Russell, 507, 519. See 479
— Research, Progress in, 479, 507, 519
— See also Oil; Engines, Oil
Pettet, A, E. J., on Prevention of Water Pollution by Oil, 513*, 537*
Phenol-Alaehyde Plastics, Monograph on (Review), 467
Philips Lamps, Ltd., Magnetic Filters, 376* Phosphor-Bronze, Corrosion in Hot-Water Service, 280
Wheels, Centrifugal Casting of, 556* Phosphorus Reaction in Basic Steelmaking Process, 483
— Removal from Pig Hon, 243
Photographs, Stellar, Measuring Instrument for, 482
Photographic Investigation of Temperature of Liquid Steel, 461, 482
Photometrical Investigations in Australia, 6 Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs Physical Chemistry. See chendstry
— Laboratory. See National Physical
— Investigations in Australia, 5, 42
— Society, Report on Defective Colour Vision
in industry, 172 ; Exhibition of Scientific Instruments, 316*, 341*, 364*
Physics, Atomic Theory for Students of Metallurgy (Review), 328
— Jubilee of Electron, 387
— Electronic Technique Applied in Industry, 110. See 231
Theory of Acids and Bases (Review), 123
— Electronics in Industry (Review), 231 Introduction to (Review), 52
— Infra-Red Equipment for Military Purposes, 258
— Radiations (Review), 26
— Theoretical, Relaxation Methods in (Review), 52
— See also Physical Society and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Pickles, J., on Future of Electricity-Supply Industry, 551
Pier, Timber, Irrawaddy River Floating Bridge, 49*
Pig Iron, Removal of Sulphur and Phosphorus from, 243
Piling Formula, New, 156. See LETTER, 316 pinions. See Gears;
Pipes, Reinforcement of Branch Pieces for, 63*
Pipeline, Butt-Welded, 1,265-Mile, for Natural Gas, Dnited States, 97*. See 235
— Natural Gas, Texas to New York, 235. See 235
Pistol, Powder, Flame Spraying by, 297* Pistons, Aircraft-Engine, Researches at Thorn- ton-le-Moors Laboratory, 355*
— Design, Effect on Cylinder-Bore Wear, 40, 394*
— Rings, Elastic Deformation of, 161*
— Surfaces, 360-Deg. Photographic Recording Apparatus for, 357*
Pitch-Mastic Flooring, Specifications, 382 Pitting. See Corrosion
Pivot, Central, for 100-ton 80-ft. Radius Floating Crane, 471*
planing Machine. See Machine Pools planning Proposal for London, 258 Plastic Mouldings, Specification, 106 Plastics in Electrical Industry, 6
Experimental, and Synthetic Resins (Review), 26
— Phenol-Aldehyde, Monograph on (Review), 467
— Spraying of by Flame Pistol, 299
Platform, Rotating, for 100-ton, 80-ft. Radius Floating Crane, 470*
Plating, Electro. See Electro
Platinum Medal, Joint Presentation to Dr. J. L. and Mrs. Haughton, 197
— Resistance Pyrometers. See Pyrometers Ploughs, Action of, 177*
— for Mounting on 23-h.p. Ferguson Agricultural Tractor, 151*
— Production of, 184
Plugs, Sparking, Fouling of, Experiments at Thornton-le-Moors Laboratory, 356*
Plymouth, Emergency Switchgear at, 250*
“Pneumech ” Automatic Dust Collector (H. R. Hutchings), 236*
Pochobradsky, Dr. B., on Adiabatic Processes, 40. See LETTERS, 88, 112, 139, 155, 196, 291, 340. See Erratum, 155 ; on Effect of Centrifugal Force in Axial-Flow Turbines, 205*. See LETTERS, 388, 458, 505, 527
Poisson’s Ration, X-Ray Method of Measuring, 68*
Pollution, Water, by Oil from Engineering Works, Prevention of, 513*, 537*
Research Board, Report of, 456 polytechnic. See Education
Pontoon, Steel, for Irrawaddy River Floating Bridge, 49*
Port of Calcutta, Shunting Locomotives for, 451*
Port Improvement in Brazil, 532
— of Le Havre, Floating Caisson for, 544*
Port Talbot Dry Dock Co., Ltd., Conversion of M.SS. “ Virgo ” and “ Birmingham ” for Grain Handling, 210
and Aberavon Chamber of Trade. Developments in South "Wales Steel Industry, by E. H. Lever, 155
Portable Engine. See Engine
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
Porter, Prof. A., on Basic Principles of Automatic-Control Systems, 155
Portland Cement. See (Jement
Post Office, War Work in Telecommunication, 367, 379, 402, 441; London-Birmingham Television Link, 518
Potato Diggers and Harvesters, 202*
— Planter (Transplanters (Robot), Ltd.), 450 Powder for Guns. See Explosives
— Metallurgy, Modern Developments in, 492 PeiniaEent-MagnetProduction,445*,465* Symposium on. Iron and Steel Institute’s Report, 474, 530
— Pistol, Flame Spraying by, 297* Powdered Coal. See Pulverised Coal
Powell Duffryn Technical Services, Ltd., Formation of, 195
Power Conference, World, Reports on Fuel Economy Since 1939, 338
— Hammer. See Hammer under Machine Tools
— Plants, Hydro-Electric, in Canada, Report on, 272
Hydro-Electric, Glen Shira and Glen Tarsan Schemes, 243-
Hydro-Electric, Great Falls, Leakage Correction at Reservoir, 181*
Hydro-Electric, in Italy, 403 Hydro-Electric, Loch Sloy, Railway Work at, 484
Hydro-Electric, 210,531
Improvisations Cuts, 166* See also Power
— Press. See Machine Tools
— Production, Atomic Energy for, 504
— Propulsive, Hydrogen Peroxide for, 307
— for Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Station, Electric, Bankside, London, Controversy Concerning, 387, 435
Electric, Blackburn Meadows, Explosion of Stirling Boiler, 541
Electric, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 361
Electric, Coal Crisis and Fuel Restrictions, 194, 198*, 267
Electric, Extensions to, 267
Electric, First in London and New York, 134
Electric, and Grid System in War Time, 218, 225*
Electric, Location of, 196
Electric, of London Power Co., Ltd., 195 Electric, and Nationalisation, 61, 87,135, 551
— — Electric, Use of Pulverised Fuel in, 501 Electric, Research on Coal Burning in, 7 Electric, Research by Electrical Research
Association, 299
Electric, Sydney, Extension to. 111 Electric, Units Generated and Fuel Consumed, 387
Electric, in War Period, Report of Electricity Commissioners, 134
Practice, Recent Developments, 551 See also Power Plants ; Substations
— Supply, Electric, from Atomic Energy, Metallurgical Problems in, 457
Electric, in Canada, Report on, 272
Electric, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 361
Electric, and Coal Crisis, 194, 198*
Electric, Domestic, Restrictions, 267. See 194,198*
Electric, Electricity Commissioners* Returns, 354
Electric, Extensions to Generating Plant, 267
Electric, and Fuel Restrictions, 194,198*, 267
Electric, Future of, 551
Electric and Gas, Comparison of Efficiencies, 266
Electric, Generation and Distribution, 339 j Electric, and Grid System in War Time, | 218, 225*, 249*
Electric, Improvisations during Cuts, 166*
Electric, Industrial, Diesel-Electric Generators for, 386
Electric, in Italy, 403
Electric, Law Relating to, 551
Electric, by London Power Co., Ltd., 195 Electric, in London, Statistics of, 457 Electric, for Military Equipment, 545 Electric, Nationalisation of, 61, 87, 135, 551
Electric, Order for Rationing, 112
Electric, Organising Committee for Industry, 444
Electric, for Rayon Factory, 470
Electric, in Sydney, Report, 111
Electric, Returns of Units Generated, 387 Electric, War-Period, Report of Electricity Commissioners, 134
— Transmission, Overhead Lines, Central
Electricity Board’s Report, 362
Overhead Lines, Grid System in War Time, 134, 218, 225*, 249*
Overhead Lines, War Damage to, 134 See also Gear; Marine Propulsion
— Water. See Hydraulic; Power Plants, Hydro-Electric
Presidential Address to Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions, by W. Ing, on Syllabuses of Professional Institutions, 457 to British Coal Utilisation Research Association, by R. W. Foot, on Research on Coal Utilisation, 7
to Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association, by J. Pickles, on Future of Electricity-Supply Industry, 551
Presidential Address to Institution of Naval Architects, by Lord Chatfield, on Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Industries, 259. See 244
to Institution of Production Engineers (North-Eastern Section), by Sir C. D. Gibb, on Looking to Management and Employees 103, 127
to Junior Institution of Engineers, by Major-Gen. A. W. Sproull, on inspection, 90, 100
Press. See Machine Tools
Pressure Detector, Petch-Elliott (Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd.), 341*
— Vessels, Built-up, Design of, 349*
Preston Scholarships and Research Fellowships in Textile Technology, 405
Printing and Allied Trades Research Association, Definition and Measurement of Gloss, by Dr. V. G. W. Harrison, 455
Process Control, Theoretical Foundations, 542 Production Control, Modern (Review), 231
— Efficiency, National, Conference on, 193
— Engineers, Institution of, North-Eastern
Section. Presidential Address, by Sir C. D. Gibb, on Looking to Management and Employees, 103, 127 ; Wolverhampton Section, Conference on National Productive Efficiency, 193
— Maintenance during Electric-Power Cuts, 166*
— and Transport of Coal, Government White Paper on, 85
Prohaska, Prof. C. W., on Residuary Stability of Ships, 436
Projector, Vickers Contour (Cooke, Troughton and Simms, Ltd.), 448
Propeller Blades, Torpedo, Method of Surfacing, 73*
— Singing, in Submarines, 319
Propulsion of Ships. See Marine Propulsion; Engines ; Turbines ; Propellers
Protective Finishing for Electrical Equipment, 330
Pulverised Fuel Conference, Harrogate, 106, 404, 501, 503
for Power Station in War Time, 227 Pulveriser for Heavy Materials (Christy and Norris, Ltd.), 376*
Pumps, Air. See Air Compressors
— Centrifugal, High - Capacity (Sigmund Pumps, Ltd.), 400*
— Diaphragm, for Corrosive Liquids (Girdlestone and Co.), 400*
— Heat, Air Cycle, at Norwich, 267
Thermodynamics of, 552*
— Primitive, Origin of, 41. See LETTERS, 196. 244,340*
— Rotary Displacement (Autometric Pumps, Ltd.), 448*
Mining (Mono Pumps, Ltd.), 376*
“ Speedivac ” (W. Edwards and Co. (London), Ltd.), 517*
— Spraying, Electrically-Driven (J. Allen and Sons (Oxford), Ltd.), 450*
— Vacuum for Pneumatic Grain-Handling Plant, 211*
Pyrometers for Liquid Steel, 5, 461, 482
— Optical (Foster Instrument Co., Ltd.), 364
— See also Thermocozzple

QUARTERMAINE, A. S., Demolition of Dare Valley Wooden Viaducts, 126*
Quebec Department of Public Works, 1,500-ft.
Welded Continuous-Girder Bridge, 285 Quenching of Steel. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy

RADAR, Electric Generator for, 545 Radiations (Review), 26
— Flux, Instrument for Measurement, 482 Radio Aids to Marine Navigation, International
Conference on, 315. See 502
— Communication by Centimetre-Wave Systems, 489*
Convention, 219, 243, 367, 379
Future Trends in, 379
Radio Heaters, Ltd., High-Frequency Heating Equipment, 425*
— Instrument Industry, Position and Prospects, 148
— versus Line for Communication Systems, 321
— Transmission, 500-ft. Radiator Mast at Brookman’s Park, 495*
— See also Telegraphy; 'Wireless; Telephony,
Wireless; Television; Radar
Radiophysical Researches in Australia, 89
Radley, Dr. W. G., on Progress in Telephony and Telegraphy, 402, 441
Rail, Flat-Bottom, at Benton Quarry Junction, L.N.E.R.,55*
— Joint, Welded, London Passenger Transport Board, 201
Railcars. See Carriages, Railway
Railroad, Union Pacific, 6,000-h.p. Diesel- Electric Locomotive, 63
— See also Railways
Railways, Argentine, British-Owned, Sale to Argentina, 210
Position of, 331
— Bridge. See Bridge
— British, Locomotives on, 220. See LETTER, 268
Position and Programmes, 217 and Transport Bill, 37
— Carriage. See Caniage
— Congress, International, Lucerne, programme, 551
— Cutting, Salzgitter, Application of Electrosmosis to, 121*
— Great Western, Demolition of Dare Valley and Gamlyn Wooden Viaducts, 126* ’; Gas-Turbine Locomotive for, 168 ; North Acton to Greenford Extension, 469
— Italian, Articulated Diesel Railcar for, 320
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
Railway, London Midland and Scottish, Con- s^a^t-Length Bar for Outdoor Use, 25* • Welded Steel-Plate Axlebox, 43* ; Rebuilt Passenger Locomotives, 152*; Diesel- Llectric Locomotives for, 271; Snow Clear- ; Leak Tester for Vacuum Brakes, 333*
North Eastern, Elat-Bottom Rails at Benton Quarry Junction, 55* ; Man- Chester-Sheffield Tunnel, 220 • Loco- 1923-41, 243; New 312; Railway Work at Loch Sloy, 484
-- Motor Carriage. See Camafze Government, Annual Report,
— Position in 1847, 480
— Noadway and Track (Review), 328
Rolling Stock. See Carnages; Locomotives ; Wagons ^439^^^^^* Bight-Weight Traction Motors,
— Train Brake. See Brake
— Transport of Coal by, 388
— Tube. See ; London Passenger Transport Board
— Underground. See CZnfe^rownd; London Passenger Transport Board Wagons. See Wagons
-- See also Railroads and PARAGRAPH INDEX Ram, Electrically-Operated, for Bomb-Fuse Removal, 44*
Ramp, Bridge, for Tank-Landing Ships, 158* Rand Water Board, Annual Report, 388
Ranpura,” H.M. Repair Ship, 414
Ravenstein Bridge Over River Maas, Repairs to, 4*
Rawlplug Co., Ltd., Toggle Bolts and Rawl- auchor, 426
Rays. See X’-Rays ; Infra-Red Rays Installation in, 470
Read, Brigadier E. E., Flood Work in South Level Fens, 304*
Phase-Doubled Twelve-Phase Rectiher, 418*
Bea^ing^Machines, Mechanical Features, 179*, Reclamation, Land, Application of Geology to, 329 ’
Recorder, Thunderstorm (Ferranti, Ltd ) 341 Recording Thermometer, Electrical Resistance (poster Instrument Co., Ltd.), 364
— Equipment, Particle (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 364*
Recrystallisation in Copper, Rate and Mechanism of, 281
Rectillers. See Electric Reduction Gears. See Gears Reference Books. See Annuals Regulating Systems, Amplidyne, 543 Regulators, Automatic, and Servo Mechanisms Principles of, 435, 494, 554
— Systems and Servos, Industrial Electronic. 544
Reheating Furnace. See Furnace
Reid Sigrist, Ltd., Electronic Balancing Machine, 56*
Reinforced Concrete. See Concrete
Relaxation Methods in Theoretical Physics (Review), 52
^lays. Protective, Desirable Features of, 33 Repeated Stresses, See Ealigue under Tests {Materials}
Repeater, Electronic (Evershed and Vignoles Ltd.), 317*
Report, Annual, Australian Council for Scien- title and Industrial Research, 5, 42, 53, 89 British Cast Iron Research Association, 19 British Council, 87
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, 339
Central Electricity Board, 361
Copper Development Association, 34
Hydro-Electric Progress in Canada, 272 Institute of Fuel, 411
Institution of Electrical Engineers, 411
Institution of Mining Engineers, 111
Maudslay Society, 411
Motor Industry Research Association, 135 New Zealand Government Railways 101 Rand Water Board, 388 ’ Safety in Mines Research Board, 314
— Bases for Civilian Flying Boats, 527
— Boiler Explosion Inquiry, Blackburn Meadows Power Station, 541
— on British Commonwealth Scientific Official
Conference, London, 265
— on Colonial Research, 1945-46, 362
— Defective Colour Vision in Industry 172
— Domestic Fuel Policy, 38 ’
Heating in America, 86
— Education for Management, Management
Subjects in Technical Colleges, 434
— Fire Grading of Buildings, 154
— on Fuel Economy since 1939, 338
— on Hardenability of Steel, Iron and Steel Institute, 415, 437
— Industrial Research in Technical Colleges 478 ’
— on Powder Metallurgy, Iron and Steel Institute, 530
— on Research and Small Firms, 410
— on Rolling Mill Research, Iron and Steel
Institute, 439, 505
— Smoke and Its Measurement, 62
^34 Electricity Commissioners,
— Water Pollution Research Board, 456
— See also Board of Trade Research, Aeronautical, National Expenditure,
— Aircraft Fuels and Lubricants, at Thornton- le-Moors, 355*
— Applied to Bomb Disposal, 20*, 44*
— Association, British Cast Iron, Annual Report, 19
British Coal Utilisation, Presidential Address, by R. w. Foot, on Research on Coal Utilisation, 7
British Electrical and Allied Industries, Bomb Locator, 23*; Committee on Electrical Equipment of Automotive Systems, 243 ; Annual Report, 299
Research Association, Motor Industry, Annual Report, 135 ; Length Changes in Metals Under Torsional Overstrain, 253*
Printing and Allied Trades, Definition and Measurement of Gloss, by Dr. V. G. W. Harrison, 455
— Board, Building, Report on Fire Grading of Buildings, 154
Mechanical Engineering, Appointment of, 479
Road, Application of Electrosmosis to Soil Drainage, 121*
Safety in Mines, Annual Report, 314 Water Pollution, Report of, 456
— on Coal Utilisation, 7
— Colonial, 1945-46, Report on, 362
— Co-operative, in British Commonwealth, 265
— Council, Manchester Joint, Report on Conference on Research and Small Firms, 410
— Department, Scientific and Industrial,
Appointment of Mechanical Engineering Research Board, 479
— for Engineering Industries, 19
— and Industry, Birmingham Conference, 291
— Industrial, Organisation of, 503 in Scotland, Conference on, 315 in Technical Colleges, Report, 478
— and Industry, X-Rays in (Review), 302
— Laboratory, Forest Products, Timber Research and Building Exhibition, 364
Thornton-le-Moors, Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., 355*
— Metallurgical, in India, 43
— Petroleum, Progress in, 479, 507, 519
— Rolling Mill, Iron and Steel Institute Report on, 439, 505
— Scientific and Industrial, Australian Council for, Annual Report, 5. 42, 53, 89
— and Small Firms, Report on, 410
— Station, Fuel, Greenwich, Work on Fischer-
Tropsch Process, 30, 79; Report on Smoke and Its Measurement, 62 ;
— Textile Machinery, at Helmshore, 269
— Timber, and Building Exhibition, 364
— Transonic and Supersonic, by Sir B. Lockspeiser, 363
— See also National Physical Laborato'i'y Reservoir, Great Falls, Leakage Correction, 181* Resins, Synthetic, and* Experimental Plastics (Review), 26
Resistance, Electric, Electric
— Pyrometer. See Pyrometer Reviews. See LITERATURE INDEX Rhine, River, Repairs to Bridges Over, 1*
Rhoades, R., on Geology in Civil Engineering, 329, 377
Richards, Dr. T. L., on Mechanism of Re-crystalisation in Copper, 281
Rickett’s Steam Cultivator, 178* Rings, Piston. See Piston Rings
Ritson, F. J. U., on Electronic Servo Simulators, 544
River Brazos, Natural Gas Pipeline Over, 97*
— Caney Fork, Tennessee, Great Falls Dam, 181*
— Dutch, Repairs to Bridges Over, 1*
— Irrawaddy Bridge on Ledo-Burma Road, 49*
— des Milles lies, Quebec, 1,500-ft. Welded
Continuous-Girder Bridge Across, 285
— Ouse, Closing Breaches in Banks of, 304*
— Sacramento, Spillway Bridge of Shasta Dam on,325*
— Severn Highway Bridge, Models for Measuring Oscillations, 554
— St. Mary, Canada, Irrigation Scheme, 235
— Thames, London, Plans for South Bank, 258
— Tyne, Vehicular, Pedestrian and Cyclist Tunnels Under, 493* »
— Uruguay, Salto Grande Hydro-Electric
Scheme, 210, 531
Roads, Concrete, Design and Construction of (Review), 4
— Construction with Air-Entraining Concrete, 290
— Federation of Coated Macadam Industries, Annual Luncheon, 552
— Haulage and Transport Bill, 37
— Ledo-Burma, Irrawaddy River Bridge, 49*
— Planning in Hammersmith, 258
— Research Board, Application of Electrosmosis to Soil Drainage, 121*
— Transport by New Zealand Government Railways, 101
— Vertical Curves for (Review), 207 Roadway and Track (Review), 328 Robinson, T., on First 10,000-kW 3,000-r.p.m.
Turbo-Generator, 388. See 292. See LETTER, 341
Robotham, W. A., on Cylinder-Bore Wear, 392* Robson, D. A. L., on Aircraft-Wheel Brakes, 39 Rocket Bombs, V-2, Disposal of, 47
— Tests, V-2, Blockhouse for, 31*
— Weapons, Ballistics and Dynamical Theory
of (Review), 516
Rohner, Dr. F., on Age-Hardening of Aluminium-Copper Alloys, 281
Roller Ring, for 100-ton, 80-ft. Radius Floating Crane, 470
Rolling Mill Research, Iron and Steel Institute Report on, 439, 505
Spindles, Fluctuations of Torque Between, 505
— Stock. See Carnages; Locomotives; Wagons Rolls-Royce Ltd., 3,500-h.p.,
“ Eagle Aero Engine, Gas-Turbine Combustion Boiler Firing, 285*
Rdntgen Rays. See X-Rays Ropes, Wire. See Wire Ropes Rotary Blowers. Sec Blowers ;

Royal Society :

Election of Fellows, 243
Election of Foreign Members, 396
Conversazione and Exhibition, 481
Royal Society of Arts. Sec Arts
Rubber, Synthetic, Production from Oil, 519 Spraying by Plame Pistol, 298*
Russell, R. P., on Organisation of Industrial Research, 503 ; on Progress in Petroleum Research, 507, 519. See 479
Russell, T. F., on Prediction of Hardness from Hardenability Curves for Steel, 438. See 415
Rusting. Sec Corrosion
Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 300-b.h.p. Five-Cylinder Oil Engine, 210*
Ryder, C., on Desirable Features of Protective Relays, 33

SACRAMENTO River, Spillway Bridge of Shasta Dam on, 325*
Safety in Mines Research Board, Annual Report, 314
Saint. See St.
Salto Grande Hydro-Electric Scheme, 210,531
Salzgitter Railway Cutting, Germany, Application of Electrosmosis to, 121*
Sams, J. G. B., on Transport of Coal by Railways, 388
Sand, Investigations in Australia, 5
— Moulds for Centrifugal Casting of Copper- Alloy Wheels, 556
— Piling in, Formula for, 150. See LETTER, 316
Sangamo Weston, Ltd., Exhibits at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 366
Saunders-Roe, Ltd., Development of Flying Boats, 87, 441*, 463*
Saws. See Machine Tools
Scales, Boxwood, Specification, 238
Schiller, P., on Electricity and Gas Efficiencies, Comparison Between, 266
Schiphol, Holland, Aircraft Engine Maintenance Works, 519
Schofield, T. H., on Effect of Bismuth on Copper, 540
Scholarships. See Education
Schoop, Dr. M. U., Work on Flame Spraying, 297*
Schori Powder Pistol for Flame Spraying, 297*
Schwarr, P., on Adiabatic Processes, 139. See LETTERS, 40, 88, 112, 155, 196, 291, 340. See Erratum, 155
Science, History of, British Society for. First Annual Meeting, 388
— Museum, South Kensington, Model of Early
Horse-Operated Dredger, 208* ; Marine- Engineering Collections at, 458* ; Model of Uranium Chain Reaction, 481
Scientific Apparatus Exhibition, Royal Society’s Conversazione, 481
— Equipment, Surplus Government, Availability of, 315
— Instruments, Physical Society’s Exhibition, 316*, 341*, 364*
— Management. See Works Management
— Official Conference, British Commonwealth, London, Report on, 265
— and Parliamentary Committee, Annual Luncheon, 135
— Research. See Pesearch
— Societies. See Institutions Scotland, Industrial Research in. Conference on,315
— Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in. See Engineers
— North, Hydro-Electric Schemes, 243
Hydro-Electric Board, Railway Work at Loch Sloy, 484
Screw Propellers. See Propellers
— Thread Grinding Machine, High-Precision (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 104*
Internal, “ Marlco ” Toolpostfor Cutting, 264*
— Tug Design (Review), 402
Scuttles, Ships’ Side, Specification, 522
Scythe, Motor-Driven (J. Allen and Sons (Oxford), Ltd.), 449*
Senior Economisers, Ltd., H-Tube Economiser Element, 399*; Connecting Bend for Economiser Elements, 399*
Service Aviation. See Aeronautics
Servo Mechanisms in Aircraft, 542
for Armament Control, Royal Navy, 494, 542
and Automatic Regulators, 435, 494, 554
— and Regulator Systems, Electronic Industrial, 544
— Simulators, Electronic, 544
Severn Highway Bridge, Models for Measuring Oscillations, 554
Sewage Disposal and Water Pollution Research Board, 456
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shaft, Crank. See Crankshaft
Shafting, Marine Oil-Engine, Torsional Vibration Stress in, 366, 509*
Shaping Processes, Application of Hcncky’s Laws of Equilibrium to, 505
Shasta Dam, California, Spillway Bridge of, 325*
Shearman, J., on Catalogue of Cinema Films, 113. See 24
Sheepbridge Coal and Iron Co., Ltd., 150-h.p. Transportable Hoist, 428*
Sheet and Strip Metal Users’ Association, Flame Spraying by Powder Pistol, by Dr. W. D. Jones, 297*
Sheffield, Blackburn Meadows Power Station, Explosion of Stirling Boiler, 541
— University, New Department of Chemistry, 339 ; Hatfield Memorial Lecture on Steel for Use at Elevated Temperatures, 435 ; Rolling-Mill Research at, 439, 505
Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., Chemical Plant and Research Laboratory at Thornton-le-Moors, 248, 355*
Shellac Spraying bv Flame Pistol, 298
Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Co., Ltd., Experimental Open-Hearth Furnace, 483
Ships, Cargo, Improved Accommodation for Crew, 244, 271, 319
Ships under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 88, 339. See 174
— Design, Classification Standards and Longitudinal Strength, 343 .
Diesel-Engined. See Motorships; Manne Propulsion ? .
Electric Propulsion. See lilanzie Propulsion
— of Invasion Pleet and their Development,
117*, 141*, 158*
— Lauiudung. See Launching
— Log, “Pitometer” (British Pitometer Co., Ltd.), 259* -
— Model Exhibition, Worshipful Company of
Shipwrights, 111, 125, 165, 423
Experiments. See Tank Experiments Motor. See Motorships; Marine Propulsion
— Propellers. See Propellers
Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion; Engines : Turbines; Propellers
— Repairing, British, 1939-1945, 282, 306
— Residuary Stability in, 436
— and Shipbuilding, Papers Read at Shipwright’s Exhibition (Review), 423
— Side Scuttles, Specification, 522 .
— See also Marine; Motorships; Shipping ;
Steamers; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipbreaking in United States, 235 Shipbuilders and Engineers, North-East Coast
Institution of. See North-East Coast in Scotland, Institution of. See Engineers Shipbuilding, Classification Standards and
Longitudinal Strength, 343
— 100-ton Floating Crane for, 470*
— Hogging and Sagging Tests, M.S. Neve-
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 16, 28, 174, 244, 259
— Iron, Early History of, 469
— Italian, Position of, 403
— Launch of M.S. ‘‘ Accra,” 187
and Trial Trips, 10, 34, 58, 82, 106, 130, 190, 252, 262, 286, 358, 427, 452, 483, 511, 521 547
— Models at Shipwrights’ Exhibition, 125, 165
— Naval. See Warships
— Residuary Stability in Ships, 436
— Screw-Tug Design (Review), 402
Ships of invasion Fleet and their Development, 117*, 141*, 158*
— and Ships, Papers Read at Shipwrights
Exhibition (Review), 423
— Ship-Repairing, 1939-1945, 282, 306
Vessels under Construction, Lloyd s Statistics, 88, 339. See 174
— Where Ships are Born : Sunderland, 1346- 1946 (Review), 328 .
— See also Steamers; Naval; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipping, Argentine, Purchase of Tonnage, 531
— Ship-Model Exhibition, Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, 111, 125, 165, 423
— United States, Scrapping of, 235 Shipwrights, Worshipful Company of, Ship Model Exhibition, 111, 125, 165, 423
Shock Tests. See Impact Tests under Tests {Materials)
Shop Management. See IForl's Management
Short Brothers, Ltd., Development of Flying Boats 441*
Shovel, Mechanical (Chascside Engineering Co., Ltd.), 374*
Show. See Exhibition
Siebel, E., on Application to Shaping Processes of Hencky’s Laws of Equilibrium, 505
Siemens-Martin Furnaces. See Purnaces
Sigmund Pumps, Ltd., Process Pump, 400* High Capacity Pump, 400*
Signalling, Infra-Red Ray Equipment for, 258
Silicon in Sand-Cast Aluminium-Magnesium Alloy, Effect of, 245, 273*. See Erratwm, 321
Simon, H., Ltd., Floating Pneumatic Grain- Handling Plant, 210* .
Sims, A. J., on British Submarine Design during War, 1939-45, 244, 319
Simulators, Electronic Servo, 544
Singer, A. R. E., on Hot-Shortness of Alumi- nium-Silicon Alloys, 369*. See 245
Sintered Components, Manufacture and Properties of, 530
Sintering of Permanent Magnet Alloys, 44o , 465*
Skinner, H. E., on Depot and Repair Ships, 413 Slag. See Metallurgy
Sleepers, Railway, Constant-Length Bar for 25*
— Timber, Investigations in Australia, 90 Slotted-Link Mechanisms, Investigations on,
277*, 301*
Sloy Hydro-Electric Scheme, Railway Work for, 484
Sludge. See Sewage
Smelting Furnaces. See Furnaces
Smith, A. E. M., on Molybdenum in Cast Iron, 55
Smith, C. H., on Fuel Crisis, 220. See 153. See LETTER, 173
Smith, Dr. D. M., on Axial-Flow Gas Turbine for Jet Propulsion, 87
Smith, Engr.-Capt. E. C., on A Naval Engineering Centenary, 233 ; on Marine Engineering in 1847, 469
Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1946 (Review), 539
Smoke Abatement and Domestic Fuel Policy,
— and its Measurement, Report, 62
Snow Clearance with Gas-Turbine Jet Engines, 285*
Societies, Technical and Scientific. See Institutions
— Trade. See Labour; Labour Notes; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Soil Drainage, Electrosmosis Applied to, 121*
— Investigations in Australia, 5
— Surface Lavers, Average Elastic Properties, Dynamic Method of Determining (Review), 207. See Erratum, 252
Sorting and Tabulating Machine, Automatic (E. H. Jones (Macliine Tools), Ltd.), 399*
South Africa, Cement Mill for, Double Reduction Gear, 32*
Rand Water Board, Annual Report, 388
South America, Engineering Notes from, 91 210, 331, 350. 531
Orinoco-Casiquiare-Negro Waterway, 421
— Kensington Science Museum, Model of Early
Horse-Operated Dredger, 208 ; Marine- Engineering Collections at, 458 * ; Model of Uranium Chain Kcaction, 481
— Level Fens, Army Flood Work in, 304*
— Wales Steel Industry, Developments in, 155
— West, Notes from, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 169, 191, 215, 239, 263, 287, 311, 335, 359, 383, 407, 431, 453, 475, 499, 523,547. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Yorkshire, Notes from, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131, 191, 239, 263, 287, 311, 335, 359, 383, 407, 453, 475, 499, 523, 547. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Southern Railway, Light-Weight Traction Motors, 439
Southery Gap, Fenlands, Closing of, 304* Southwark and Lambeth Development Scheme, 258
Spanner Boilers, Ltd., “ Swirlyflo ” Fire-Tube Boiler, 495*
Sparking Plugs, Fouling of. Experiments at Thornton-le-Moors Laboratory, 356*
Specifications, Standard. See Standard Spectrometer, X-Ray, Bragg, Model of, 481
— Changing Gears. See Gears; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
Speed, Air, Hot-Wire Anemometer for Indicating, 554
— Reduction Gears. See Gears “ Speedivac ’* Rotary Pump, 517*
Spencer, B., on London and North Eastern Railway Locomotive Design, 1923-41, 243
Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd., Marine Gyroscopic Compass, 517*
Spillway Bridge of Shasta Dam, California, 325* Spirit, Motor. See Motor Fuels
Spratt, H, P., on Early Horse-Operated Dredger, 208* ; on Marine-Engineering Collections at Science Museum, 458*
Spraying, Flame, by Powder Pistol, 297*
Metal, as Finish for Electrical Equipment, 330
Sproull, Major Gen. A. W., on Inspection, 90, 100
Sputterer and Evaporator, Combined (W. Edwards and Co. (London), Ltd.), 517*
Square-Wave Analyser (Milliard Wireless Services Co., Ltd.), 365
St. Mary’s River, Canada, Irrigation Scheme, 235
St. Paul’s Cathedral and Bankaide Power- Station Controversy, 387, 435
St. Rose, Quebec, 1,500-Ft. Welded Continuous-
Girder Bridge, 285 Stability of Ships. See Ships Staddon, F. J., on Oil-Engined Locomotives for
Mines, 219
Staffordshire Thick Coal Seam, History of, 111 Stamping Hammers and Presses. See Machine Tools
Standard Motor Co., Ltd., 23-h.p. Ferguson Tractor for Mounted Implements, 151*
— Specifications, British, 10, 82,106, 214, 238, 358, 382, 430, 498, 522
Standards Association, Canadian, Canadian Electrical Code, Fifth Edition, Part I, 503 — Institution, British, Specifications, Drawing
Paper, 10 ; Gas-Fired and Waste-Heat Boilers, 82 ; Jointing Material for Gas Appliances, 82 ; Plastic Mouldings, 106 ; Humidity of Air, 214 ; Nomenclature of Commercial Timbers, 214; Copper Conductors, 238 ; Boxwood Scales, 238 ; Metal Lavatory Wash Basins, 238; Electric Fuses, 358 ; “ Portsmouth ” Ball Valves, 358; Pitch-Ma->tic Flooring, 382; Unscreened Magnetos, 382; Ignition and Lighting Units for Motor Cycles, 430; Impact Test for Cast Iron, 430; Bolts, Nuts and Washers, 498; Wrought Magnesium Alloys, 498 ; Ships’ Side Scuttles, 522; Aerated-Concrete Building Blocks, 522 — United States Bureau of. See United States Starters, Motor. See Motors, Electric State Railways. See Railwags Stations, Power. See Power Stations Statistics, Trade. See Trade .
Staveley Coal and Iron Co., Ltd., Gift to Sheffield University, 339
Steam Boats. See Steamers ?— Boilers. See Boilers Consumption. See Coal Consumption — Cultivator, Rickett’s, 178* — Engines. See Engines Pressure in Locomotive Boilers, 241 — Raising, Research on Coal Burning for, 7 — Turbines. See Turbines steamer “ Comet.” Engine of, 458* under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 88, 339. See 174
“ Daffodil,” Landing Ship, Stern Chute, 119*
— Electric Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion — Geared Turbines for. See Marine Propulsion ~ “ Glenroy,” Landing Ship, Infantry, 117* Launching of. See Launching
— Oil Tank, ” Maracaibo,” Conversion as Tank-Landing Ship 143* .
— Propulsion of. See Marine Propulsion;
Engines; Turbines; Propellers — Stability of. See Ships, Stability oj — “ Thruster,” Tank-Landing Ship, 159* — See also Engines; Marine Propulsion;
Shipbuilding; Shipping; Ships; Turbines ; Warships; PARAGRAPH INDEX Steaming-Out and Trepanning Apparatus for
German Bomb Disposal, 45* .
Steamships. See Ships ; Steamers; Warships Steel, Adhesion of Tin-Base Bearing Alloy to, 245,322* . T
for Aircraft Engines, Australian Investigation on, 53
— Castings, Feeder Heads for, 225
— Chemical Composition of. Effect on Hardness, 415, 437 e -.cr
steel Company of Wales, Formation of, 15o — Corrosion. SQG Corrosion
Dynamic Yield Strength of, Effect of Rate of Loading on, 337. See LETTER, 412
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials}
steel, foundry. See Found)']/
— ruinaces. See Tumaces
— HaidenabUity of, Iron and Steel Institute Kenort on, 415» 437 , t
Heat Treatment of. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy . x -i.- rac
— Hiffh-Creep Strength Austenitic, for Gas Turbines, 533*
— Industry, Position of, 16
South Wales, Developments in, 1andand United States, Equipment for, 427
— Liquid, Photographic Investigation of Temperatures of, 461, 482
Temperature Measurement, Contamination of Platinum Thermocouples due to Oil, 461, 482
Manufacture. See
•— Microchemical Analyses of, 460
— Microstructure of. See Microphotographs Production in Great Britain, 363
Rails. SeeRai75
— Rolling Mills. See Jtolhng Mills Rones. See Wire Hopes
~ Stress Distribution in. See Stress: Tests
— St^^in*^Cons, Electric Annealing Plant, 92*
— Tests of. See Tests (Materials) for Use at Elevated Temperatures, 435
— works. See WorH x _ ^4-
Stellar photographs, Measuring Instrument, 482
Stelmar, I.td®, ‘‘Cyc-Arc " Stud-Welding Ma-
Stephenson, George, Loan of Portrait to Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 173, Exhibition of Relics of, 529
Stereo-Comparator (Cambridge Instrument Co., Stev^^Dr^W., on End-Quench Hardenability Curves for Steel, 437. See 415
Stewart, C., on Automatic Voltage Control of Generators, 542 mirlinc Boiler, Explosion at Blackbui Meadows Power Station, Sheffield, 541 Storsand, B., Oerlikon “ Electrogyro Vehicle, StrachS^ and Henshaw, Ltd., Wagon Tippler,
Straightening Machine. See Machine
Strain Gauge for Metals under Torsional Overstrain, 253* _
Resistance (H. Tinsley and Co., 318
— Recorded during Launching of H.M.b.
“ Vanguard,” 436
— See also Stress
Streets. See Roads , *
Strength of Materials. See Stress and Tests Stre^^^Alternating and Combined. See Tests
— in'Compound Cylinder for High-Pressure Service 349*^
— Concentration and Fatigue Failure, 363
— Repetitions. See Fatrgue under 2ests in^tol^due to Rapid Loading, 337. See Stoln^Rcfations in Ceramic Materials, 433
— Torsional Vibration, in Marine Oil-Engine
Shafting, 366, 509*
— in Welded Oil Tanker, 13
Strip, Steel, in Coils, Electric Annealing Plant for, 92* .
Structural Analysis (Review), 302
Engineers, Institution of, Election of Members, 262,286, 334 ,
— insulating Board, Vapour-Resistant Coatings for (Review), 76
Structures, Reinforced-Concrete. See Concrete, Stud^,^^ortable Electric Welding Machine for (Stelmar, Ltd.), 234* .
Submarine Boats. See Warshzps
SubXtions, National Grid, War Damage to.
225 249* Sugar-Beet Harvesting Maclunery, 202* Sulphur, Removal from Pig Iron, 243
Sulzer Brothers, Ltd., Reinforcement of Branch Sumner*^ AM on Norwich Heat Pump, 2^
Sunderland, 1346-1946, Where Ships are Born Super^onlc'and transonic Research, by Sir B. Supe?v?sVng^EleXical Engineers, Association of. Annual Dinner, 387 .
L^’TTR^’268^f inspection of Munitions 90. 100 ; Defects in ” Tudor i Aircraft, 152 , Tests of Bristol “ Theseus’’ Propeller- Turbine Aero Engine, 283* ;
Surplus Scientific Equipment, 315 . Te^ of Rocket-Propelled Pilotless Aircraft, 363 , Diesel-Electric Generators for looosUy, 386 ; Report on Hardenability of Steel, Surface Grinding Machine. See Grinding under . S^^lA^r^ Average Elastic Prop^ties of,
Dynamic Method of Determining (Review), 207. See Erraium, 252
Surge Generator, 2-5 Milllon-Volt (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 308 , -i-..
Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd.,
MS” Neverita,” 13 _ ,, r
Swift Prof H. W., on Elastic Deformation of
hstonRfngr; 161* ; on ungth Changes in Metals under Torsional Overstrain, -53 “ Swirlvflo ” Eire-Tube Boilers, 495* Switches, Motor Starting Se® Switchgear, Circuit-Breaker, Air-Blast, Bxtinc _2‘Breato"‘andntr*al Electricity Board’s
— s£l G??d, war Damage to, 225, 249*
— for Rayon Factory, 470 .
— Research, Electrical Research Association, Svdi?eV Electricity Supply in 1945, Report, Hl
Sykes,^Dr, C., on Steel for Use at Elevated SyplSn^S^alhem, Oregon, Geological Investigations on, 329

TABULATING and Sorting Machine, Automatic (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.), 399
Tank, Experimental, Work on H.M. Corvettes and Frigates, 389
Work on Motor Boats, 390
— Flotation, for Oily Wastes from Engineering Works, 513*, 537*
— Locomotives. See Locomotives
— Military, Controls for Turrets in, 494 Landing Ships for, 117, 141, 158* Mobility of, 242
— Ships, Motor. See Motorships
— Steamers. See Steamers
Tarpen Engineering Co., Ltd., Portable Petrol- Electric Genejrator, 448* ; Electric Hedge Trimmer, 449*; Electric Hand Wood Planer, 449*
Taylor Brothers (Sandiacre), Ltd., Benton- Quarry Junction Track, 55*
Taylor and Challen, Ltd., Press for Hot Brass, 424* ; Notching Press, 424
Taylor, Taylor and Hobson, Ltd., Indicating Gauge for Grinding Machines, 517*
Teaching. See Education
Technical Colleges, Industrial Research Report on, 478
and Education. See Education
— Institutions, Association of Teachers
Annual Conference, 457 and Status of Engineers, 447, 525. LETTERS, 552
— Societies, See Institutions and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Technological History of Midlands, Preservation of Relics in. 111
Teeth, Gear. See Gear
Telecommunication Equipment, Military, Inspection of, 101
— Investigations in Australia, 5
— in War Time, 367, 402, 441 Telegraphy, Radio versus Line or Cable, 321
— Recent Progress in, 402, 441
— in War Time, 367, 379, 402, 441
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Wireless, Centimetre-Wave Systems, 489* Measurement of Velocity of Electromagnetic Waves, 554
— — in War Time, 367, 379, 402, 441 See also Eadar ; Eadio; Television Telephone-Apparatus Industry, 149 Telephony, History and Development of, 173
— Radio versus Line or Cable, 321
— Recent Progress in, 402, 441
— in War Time, 367, 379, 402, 441
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Wireless, Centimetre-Wave Systems, 489*
Measurement of Velocity of Electromagnetic Waves, 554
500-ft. Radiator Mast at Brookman’s Park, 495*
in War Time, 367, 379, 402, 441 See also Eadar ; Eadio; Television Telescope, Auto-Collimating, for Precision
Measurements, 554
Television Link, London-Birmingham, 518
— Position of, 112
— Practice, Lectures at Northampton Polytechnic, London, 31
Tellurium in Cast Iron, Mode of Occurrence, 461 Temperature, Brightness, of Liquid Steel,
Investigation on, 461, 482
— Controller, Air-Operated (Negretti and Zambra, Ltd.), 364*
“ Capacitrol ” (Ether, Ltd.), 426
Safety, “ Rotostat ” (British Rototherm Co., Ltd.), 518
— Measurement. See Pyrometry; Thermometry
Tennessee Gas and Transmission Co., 1265- Mile Pipeline for Natural Gas, 97*
— Valley Authority, Leakage Correction at
Great Falls Reservoir, 181*
Tensile Tests. See Tests {Materials}
— Yield Strength ( f Steel, Effect of Rate of
Loading on, 337. See LETTER, 412 Ternary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Tests, Aeronautical. See Aeronautics
— Combustion, of Locomotive Boilers, 303, 352, 401. See LETTERS, 412, 527
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Hardenability, for Steel, 415, 437

Tests (Materials) :

Creep Tests, Austenitic Steels for Gas Turbine, 533*
Magnesium-Cerium-Zirconium Alloys, 280, 485
Fatigue Failure and Stress Concentration, 363
— Tests, Austenitic Steel for Gas Turbines, 535
— — Marine Oil Engine Shafting, 366, 509 Impact Tests, Austenitic Steel for Gas Turbines, 533
for Cast Iron, Specification, 430 of Steel, Investigation on, 337. Sec LETTER, 412
Mechanical Tests of Ceramic Materials 433 Notched-Bar Impact Tests. See Impact Tests (above)
Stresses in Materials and Structures. See Stress
Tensile Tests, Aluminium-Silicon Alloys at High Temperatures, 245
of Centrifugally-Cast Copper Alloys, 557
Magnesium-Cerium-Zirconium Alloys, 280, 485*
of Sand-Cast Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, 245, 273*. See Erratum^ 321
of Steel, Under Sudden Loads, 337. See LETTER, 412
Testing Machine for Cement (W. and T« Avery, Ltd.), 398*
Universal (W. and T. Avery, Ltd.), 397*
Torsion Tests of Metals, Length Changes During, 253*
Tests of Rocket-Propelled Pilotless Aircraft, 363
— of V-2 Rockets, Blockhouse for, 31*
— of Theseus ** Propeller Gas-Turbine Aero Engine (Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd.), 283* Tester, Leak, for Vacuum Brakes, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 333* Testing Laboratory, See National Physical
— Machines for Aircraft in Australia, 89 Universal (W. and T. Avery, Ltd.), 397* See also Tests {Materials}
— Plant, Aircraft Engine, at Thornton-le-Moors Laboratory, 355*
1,200-kV Direct-Current, Impulse (W. T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Co., Ltd.), 506*
— Plastic Mouldings, Specification, 106
— See also Tests {Materials)
Texas to West Virginia, Butt-Welded Pipeline for Natural Gas, 97*
Text-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX Textile-Fibre Investigations in Australia, 42
— Machinery, Air-Break Contactor Starter for (Brookhirst Switchgear, Ltd.), 331*
Industry, Position and Prospects, 16, 27, 246, 268
Textile Machinery Makers, Ltd., Preston Scholarships and Research Fellowships, 405
Thames, River, London, Plans for South Bank of, 258
Thameshaven, Visit of Diesel Engine Users Association to, 503
Thermal Efficiency of Power Stations, 387 of Steam Locomotive, 241
— Treatment, Metals. See Neat Treatment
under Metallurgy
Thermit Crucible for German-Bomb Disposal, 45*
Thermocouples, Platinum, Contamination of, 461, 482
— See also Pyrometer
Thermodynamics, Adiabatic Processes, 40, 88, 112,139,155,196, 291, 340. See Erratum, 155
— of Heat Pump, 552*
Thermometer, Recording, Electrical-Resistance (Foster Instrument Co., Ltd.), 364
— See also Pyrometer
Thermometry, Temperature-Measurement Research in Australia, 5
“ Theseus ” Propeller-Turbine Aero Engine, Tests of, 283*
Thiokol Synthetic Rubber, Spraying by Flame Pistol, 298*
Thomas, Dr. H. A., on Industrial Applications of Electronic Techniques, 110
Thomas, S., on Adiabatic Processes, 112. See LETTERS, 40, 88, 139, 155, 196, 291, 340. See Erratum, 155
Thomas, T. F., on Air-Cycle Heat Pump, 267 Thornton, B. M., on Measurement of Corrosion Pits in Boiler Tubes, 229* Thornton-le-Moors Plant for Production of Chemicals from Petroleum 248 ; Research Laboratory, Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., 355* Threads, Screw. See Screw
“Thruster,” S.S. Tank-Landing Ship. 159* Thunderstorm Recorder (Ferranti, Ltd.), 341 Timbers, Commercial, Nomenclature of, 214
— Investigations in Australia, 89
— Pier, Irrawaddy River Floating Bridge, 49*
— Research and Building Exliibition, 364
— Viaducts, Dare Valley and Gamlyn, Demolition of, 126*
Time and Motion Studies, General Federation of Trade Unions Report, 550
Timoshenko, Prof. S. P., Award of Watt fnternational Medal to, 363 ; on Stress Concentration and Fatigue Failure, 363
Tin Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Study Group, First Meeting, 302
Tinsley, H., and Co., Ltd., Resistance Strain Gauges, 318 ; Direct-Current Amplifier, 318
Tippler, Railway-Wagon (Strachan and Henshaw, Ltd.), 400
Tipping Wagons, Motor. See Motor Vehicles Todd, K. W., on Cascade Wind-Tunnel Research, 87
Tolerances in Machine Work. See Gauges Tomlin, G. M., on Electrical Technique Applied to Other Industries, 110
Tomlinson, G. E., on Leakage Correction at Great Falls Reservoir, 181*
Tomlinson (Electric Vehicles), Ltd., Battery Trucks and Vehicles, 450
Tookey, W. A., on Heavy-Oil Engine Working Costs, 124
Tools, Machine. See Machine Tools
Toothed Gear. See Gear
Topograph for Surface Finish (D. Brown A Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd.), 376*
Torpedo Boats and Destroyers. See Warships
— Propeller Blades, Surfacing of, 73*
Torque Between Rolling-Mill Spindles, Fluctuations of, 505
Torsion Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Torsional Overstrain in Metals, Length Changes in 253*
— Vibration in Marine Oil-Engine Shafting, 366, 509*
Tower, Steel, Irrawaddy River Floating Bridge, 49*
Town Gas. See Gas
Traction, Electric. See Pailways Tractor, Agricultural, Efficiency of, 177* 23-h.p., for Mounted Implements (H. Ferguson, Ltd.), 151*
Production of, 184
— Industrial, 38-5-b.h.p. Petrol-Engined (D. Brown Tractors, Ltd.), 57*
Trade Disputes. See Labour; and Trade Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Effluents, Disposal of, 456
— Engineering and Allied Industries, 16, 27, 64, 77, 113, 136, 148, 174, 184, 220, 246, 268, 293. See Errata, 116. See LETTER, 268
— Exhibition. See Exhibition
— Export, Boilers, Engines and Machinery, 295 Locomotive, 220. See LETTER, 268. Marine-Engineering, 174
Necessity for Increasing, 103,127 Shipbuilding, 174
Textile Machinery, 16, 146, 268
and Home, Cycles and Motor Cycles, 64 and Import, Agricultural Machinery, 184
Trade, Export and Import, Aircraft, 77 and Import, Electrical Engineering, 130, 148
and Import, Machine Tool, 113
— Government Economic Survey, 171 171
— Home and Export, Cycles and Motor Cycles, 04
— Motor Vehicle and Motor Cycles, 64
— South American, 91, 210, 331, 450, 531
— Steel Imports into Great Britain, 363
— United States, 235, 427
— Unions. SCQ Labour; and Trade Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Venezuelan, Prospects of, 267 Train. See Railway Training. See Education
Transformer Design and Operation (Review), 76
— 5,000-kVA 132-kV, On-Load Tap-Changing
Gear for (Ferranti, Ltd.), 398*
— for Rayon Factory, 470
— Static, Testing of (Review), 4
Transformer Steels, Ltd., Exhibits at Physical Society’s Exhibition, 365
— Voltage, Precision (Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd.), 342*
Transition Curve Trigonometry, 40*. See LETTERS, 88, 112, 139, 155
Transmission, Electric, Ship Propulsion. See
Marine Propulsion
— Gear. See Gear; Marine Propulsion
— of Power. See Marine Propulsion ; Potver Transmission
Transonic and Supersonic Research, by Sir B. Lockspeiser, 363
Transplanters (Robot), Ltd., Potato Planter, 450
Transport, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Bill, Debate on, 37
— Coal, and Production, Government White Paper on, 85 by Railway, 388
— Institute of. Annual Report, 39
— Ministry of, Report on Blackburn Meadows Power Station Boiler Explosion, 541
— Motor, See Road ; Motor
— Railway. See Railway
— Road. See7?oad; Motor Travelling Crane. See Crane
Trepanning and Steaming-Out Apparatus for
German-Bomb Disposal, 45* Trials. See Tests Trigonometry Refresher for Technical Men (Review), 328
— Transition Curve, 40*. See LETTERS, 88, 112, 139, 155
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines, Steam Trondhjem U-Boat Pen, Application of Electr- osmosis to, 121*
Tropics, Air Compressor for (Aeraspray Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 376*
Truck, 7i-ton, Oil-Hydraulic, for Lifting (J. Collis and Sons, Ltd.), 399*
Railway. See Wagons
Tubes, Boiler, Measurement of Corrosion Pits in,229*
Expansion Theory of Circulation in, 145* “ Swirlyflo ” Fire-Tube (Spanner Boilers, Ltd.), 495*
— Railways. See Underground Railways;
London Passenger Transport Board
— Reinforcement of Branch Pieces, 63*
— See also Pipes
“Tudor I “ Civil Aircraft, Defects in, 152
Tug, Screw, Design (Review), 402 Tungsten-Carbide Products, “ Wimet ’’ (A. C. Wickman, Ltd.), 400
Tunnel for Manchester-Sheffield Railway Electrification, 220
— Vehicular, Pedestrian and Cyclist, Under River Tyne, 493*
— woodhead, London and North Eastern Railway, 312
Turbine, Gas, for Aircraft, Researches at
Thornton-le-Moors Laboratory, 357 Alloys for (H. Wiggin and Co., Ltd.), 400* Axial Flow, for Jet Propulsion, 87 Development and Application, 111 Development for Naval Vessels, 135 Emergency Use for Boiler Firing (Rolls-Royce Ltd.), 285*
High-Creep Strength Austenitic Steel for, 533*
for Locomotive (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 168 Pulverised Fuel for, 502 Snow Clearance with, 285* “ Theseus ’’ Propeller-Turbine Aero Engine, 183*
— H ydraulic. See Power Plant
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Steam, Axial-Flow, Effect of Centrifugal
Force in, 205*. See LETTERS, 388,458, 505, 527
Blading for. See Blading Marine, Geared. See Marine Propulsion Parsons, Evolution of, 528
See also Turbo-Generators
— Steamers. See Steamers; Warships Turbo-Electric System, Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Generator, First 10,000-kW 3,000-r.p.m., 341. See 292. See LETTER, 388 '
5,120-kW, S.S. Hinemoa, 8 Production of, 136
Turner, A. N., on Sand-Cast Aluminium- Magneslum Alloys, 273*. See 245. See Errodum, 321
Turner, H. C., on Electrical Technique Applied to Other Industries, 110
Turner, J, H. W., on Engineering Professions and Institutions, 447. See 525. See LETTERS, 552
Turning. See Machine Tools Turret Lathes. See Lathes under Machine Tools
Tuson, K. H., on Generating Plant for Military Equipment, 545
Tustin, Prof. A., on Controller Design, 497
Tyne, River, Vehicular, Pedestrian and Cyclist
Tunnels unher, 493*

Unexploded Bomb Disposal, Research and Development Applied to, 20*, 44*
Union Pacific Railroad, 6,000-h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 63
Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand, Ltd., S.S. Hinemoa, 8*
— Trade. See Labour and 'Prade Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
United States Army Air Force, Air-Speed Record, 551
Army, Blockhouse for V-2 Rocket Tests, 31*
Army, 100-ton 80-ft. Radius Floating Crane, 470*
Army Corps of Engineei^i, Orinico-Casi- quiare-Negro Waterway Snrvey, 421* Bureau of Reclamation, Spillway Bridge of Shasta Dam, 325* ; Geological Work of, 329, 377
Domestic Heating in, 86
Engineering Notes from, 235, 427 Fischer-Tropsch Process in, 30, 79 German Supersonic Wind Tunnels in, 102 Great Falls Reservoir, Leakage Correction at, 181*
International Conference on Radio Aids to Marine Navigation, 315
Navy. See United States under Warships Organisation of Engineers in, 525 Petroleum Research in, 479, 507, 519 1,265-Mile Pipeline for Natural Gas, 97* Pipeline, Natural Gas, Texas to New York, 235
Use of Pulverised Fuel in, 501 Railways. See Bailways; Railroads Road Construction with Air-Entraining Concrete, 290
Ships for Invasion Fleet, 159* See also America
University Education for Engineers, 289
— Manchester, Summer School in X-Ray , Crystallography, 310
— Sheffield, New Department of Chemistry, 339 ; Hatfield Memorial Lecture on Steel for Use at Elevated Temperatures, 435 ; Rolling-Mill Research at, 439, 505
— See also Education
Unwin Memorial Fund, Work of Committee 553 :
Uranium Chain Reaction, Mechanical Model, 481
Uruguay, Engineering Notes from, 210, 331, 531
— River, Salto Grande Hydro-Electric Scheme, 210, 531

VI AND V2 Bombs, Disposal of, 47
V2 Rocket Tests, Blockhouse for, 31*
Vaaler, L. E., on Electrodeposition of Nickel- Tungsten Alloys, 384
Vacuum Apparatus, Mass Spectrometer Leak Detector, 342
Vacuum Brake. See Brake
— Pump. See Pump
Vajragupta, Dr. P., on Phosphorus Reaction in Basic Steelmaking Process, 483
Valve, Ball, “Portsmouth” Type, Specification, 358
— Gear for Locomotives, Development of, 241
— and Valve Gear. See also Engines “Vanguard,” H.M. Battleship, Strain and
Breakage Recorded during Launching, 436 Variable-Speed Gear. See Gear
Vaughan, E. J., on Microchemical Analyses of Ferrous Alloys, 460
Vector Operator j. (Review), 377
Venezuela, Engineering Aims and Prospects in, 207
Notes from, 450
— Orinoco-Casiquiare-Negro "Waterway, 421* Vessels, Pressure, Built-up, Design of, 349*
Viaducts, Wooden, Dare Valley and Gamlyn,
Great Western Railway, Demolition, 120*
— See also Bridges
Vibration, Torsional, in Marine Oil-Engine Shafting, 366, 509*
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Building of S.S. “ Hinemoa,”8* ; Launch of M.S. “Accra,” 187 ; Floating Caisson for Dry Dock, Le Havre, 544*
“ Virgo,” M.S., with Pneumatic Grain-Handling Plant, 210*
Vision, Colour, Defective, in Industry. Report on,172
Vitreous Enamelling for Finish of Electrical Equipment, 330
Vivien, A. C., on Dynamic Yield Strength of Steel. 412. See 337
Voce, Dr. E., on Effect of Bismuth on Copper, 540 ’
Vowles, H. P., on “Engynes,” 41. See LETTERS, 196, 244, 340*

WAGES. See Labour; PARAGRAPH INDEX Wagons, Motor. See Motor Vehicles; 'Praetors ~ Railway, Tippler for( Stracluyi tfe Henshaw Ltd.), 400
Wales, Steel Co. of. Formation of, 155
Wall, Dr. T. F., on Heat Energy and Kinetic Energy in Induction Motor, 268. See LETTER,412*
— Insulated, Heat Transmission through, Factors Aft'ecting (Review), 52
Walshaw, A. C., on Adiabatic Processes, 196. See LETTERS, 40, 88, 112, 139, 155, 291, 340. See Erraturn, 155 .
War-Damaged Bridges in Holland, Repairs, 1 Effect on Economic position of Engineering Firms, 103,127
Office, Inspection Department of, 90, 100
— Period, Rcportof Electricity Commissioners, 134
— Time, British Grid System in, 218, 225*, 249* .
Developments in Telecommunication, 367, 379, 402, 441
Ship-Repairing, 282, 306
Warfare, Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics
— Naval. See Warships
Warnock, Prof. F. V., on Tensile Yield Strength of Steel. 337. See LETTER, 412
Warrington Centenary Industrial Exhibition, 363

Warships :

Admiralty Research Establishment, Investigation on Infra-Red Equipment, 258
— Ship Welding Committee, Report on M.S. “ Neverita,” 13
— Signal Establishment, Work on Centimetre-Wave Communication Systems, 489*
— and War-Time Telecommunications, 367, 379, 402, 441
Armament Control, Servo-Mechanisms for, 494, 542
Aviation, Naval. See Aeronautics
British Submarine Design, 1939-45, 244, 319
German Submarine Design, 319
Hydrogen-Peroxide Engines in, 307 Guns and Gunfire, Naval. See Guns H.M. Battleship “ Vanguard,” Strain and Breakage Recorded during Launching, 436
— Corvettes and Frigates, Design of, 389
— Depot and Repair Ships, 414
— Frigates and Corvettes, Design of, 389 Motor Torpedo Boats and Motor Launches, Design of, 390
— Navy, Applications of Electrical Remote Positional Controllers, 494, 542
— Repair Ship ” Ranpura,” 414
«— Ships, Use of Servo Mechanisms in, 494, 542
— Submarines, Design, 1939-1945, 244,319 Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics
— Engineers, Centenary of Grant of . Commissions to, 233 I
Norwegian Flotilla Leader Oslo,” 332- | Ships of Invasion Fleet and their Development, 117*, 141*, 158*
— Repairing, 1939-1945, 282, 306 Submarines, British, Design, 1939-45, 244, 319
— German Design, 319
Hydrogen-Peroxidc Engines in, 307
— Pen, Trondhjem, Use of Electrosmosis in Construction of, 121*
— United States Design, 319
United States Navy, Electrical Catapult for Aircraft, 198
Navy, Test Hangar and ” Human Centrifuge,” 235
Submarine Design, 319
Warships, Development of Gas Turbines for, 135
— Models at Shipwrights’ Exhibition, 125, 165
Wash Basins, Metal, Specification, 238 Washers, Bolts and Nuts, Specification, 498 Waste-Heat Boilers, Specification, 82 Water-Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Board, Rand, Annual Report, 388
— Pollution by Oil from Engineering Works,
Prevention of, 513*, 537
Research Board, Report of, 456
— Power. See Hydraulic; Power Plant
— Raising by Chain of Pots, 41. See LETTERS, 196, 244, 340*
— Supply, Story of (Review), 279 See also Irrigation
— Tanks. See Tanks
— Turbines. See Power Plant
— Wheels, Primitive, Origin of, 41. See LETTERS, 196, 244, 340*
See Power JHant
Waterways, Model Experiments on, 435
— Orinoco-Casiquiare-Negro, 421*
— See Rivers
Waterworks Practice, Current (Review), 423
— See also Water Supply and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Watson, A. W., on Corvettes and Frigates, 389 Watt International Medal, Presentation tn Prof, S. P. Timoshenko, 363
Watts, E. R., and Son, Ltd., Improvisations during Electric-Power Cuts, 166* ; Horizontal Measuring Machine, 517*
Waves, Elet^tromagnetic. See Telegraphy, Wireless: Telephony, Wireless, hadar
Wax, production by Fischer-Tropsch Process, 30, 54, 79
Wear, Cylinder-Bore, in Motor-Car Engines, 40, 392*
Weinberg, S., on Feed Distribution in Marine Water-Tube Boiler, 41. See LETTER, 155 Welded Aluminium-Silicon Alloys, Cracking in, 245,369*
— Rail Joint, London Passenger Transport
Board, 201
— Tanker ‘‘ Neverita,” Hogging and Sagging Tests, 13
Welding, Arc, Electrode Holder for (Masco] l^roducts Co.), 201*
Equipment (Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.), 425
— institute of. Welding of Copper and Copper-
- Rich Alloys, by Dr. M. Cook and E. Davis, 378
— Machine, Stud, Automatic (English El(‘etric CO.. Ltd.), 375*
Welding Maclune, Stud, portable Electric (Stcl- mar, Ltd.), 234*
— Oxy-Acetylene, of Copper and Copper Alloys) 378
Acetylene, of Pipeline for Natural Gas, 97*
— Plant, Electric, Production of, 17, 136 Well-Point System, Ground-Water Lowering by, 121*
Welsh Industries Fair, London, 39
West Ham, 66-kV Emergency Substation, 250*
— of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute. See Iron and Steel , , ,,
— Virginia to Texas, Butt-Welded Pipeline for Natural Gas, 97* x.
Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd., Rectifier Equipment for Electroplating, 518
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Steel- Frame Alternating-Current Motors, 101 Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., Electric Catapult for Aircraft, 198
Whalley, C., on Microchemical Analyses Ferrous Alloys, 460
Wheels, Copper-Alloy, Centrifugal Casting 556*
— Gear. See Gears; Marine Propulsion Wheeldon, G. H., on Automatic Control Chemical industry, 543
White Metal. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, Block
house for V-2 Rocket Tests, 31*
Whitehead Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Annealing Plant for Steel Strip in Coils, 92* Whiteley, Dr. A. L., on Automatic Regulators
and Servo-Mechanisms, 435, 494 Whitworth Scholarships, Regulations for, 385 Wickman, A. C., Ltd., “ Wimet ” Tungsten-
Carbide Products, 400
Widnall, F., on Protective Finishing of Electrical Equipment, 330
Wiggin, H., and Co., Ltd., Alloys for Gas Turbines, 400
Willans, K. W., on Proposed Biography of P. W. Willans, 15
Williams, F. C., on Electronic Servo Simulators, 544
Williams, W. J., on Graphite Formation in Cast Irons, 460
“Wimet” Tungsten-Carbidc Products, 400 Winch, Electric, for Pneumatic Grain-Handling
Plant, 213* Wind Tunnels. See Aeronautics Wire Ropes, Colliery, investigations on, 314 Suspension Cables for Natural-Gas Pii)e- line, 97*
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy
— Telephony. See Telephony
Wissev Gap, Fenlands, Closing of, 304* Wohler’s Tests. See Fatigue under Tests
{Materials)
Wooden Viaducts, Dare Valley and Gamlyn,
Great Western Railway, Demolition, 126* Woodhead Tunnel, London and North Eastern Railway, 312
Woods, A. R. T., the Late, 174 Woodworking Machinery. See Machine Tools Woollard, F. G., on Automobile Industry, 387

Works :

Britannia Works, Manchester, Muir Machine Tools, Ltd., Reconstruction of, 309*
Engineering Works, Prevention of Water pollution by Oil from, 513*, 537*
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd., Smethwick Works, Time Studies at, 550
Testing Station, Gravesend, W. T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., 506*
Works Management, Conference on National Productive Efficiency, 193
Control Charts in Factory Management (Review), 377
Education for Management, Report 434 Engineering Reorganisation (Review), 279
incentives to Increased Production, 103, 127
Marginal Costing (Review), 401
Mechanical Inspection (Review), 52
Production Control, Modern (Review), 231
Report on Time and Motion Studies, 550 Workmen. See Labour
Workshop Training, See Education
— See Works ; Machine Tools
World of Industry (Review), 376
— Power Conference, Reports on Fuel Economy Since 1939, 338
Worm Gear. See Qear
Wright, S. J., on Mechanical Engineering and Agriculture, 177*, 202*

X-RAY Crystallography, Manchester University Summer School, 310
Method of Measuring Poisson’s Ratio 68*
in Research and Industry (Review), 302 Spectrometer, Bragg, Model of, 481

YARN-Breakage Detector (Ferranti, Ltd.), 341
Yarrow and Co., Ltd., Boilers for S.S. “ Hine- moa,” 8
Year Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Young, L., on Automatic Control Applied to High-Pressure Boilers, 543

ZINC Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Effect on Corrosion of Magnesium Alloys, 540
— Powder, Spraying by Plame Pistol, 297*

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