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ABBEYDALE Industrial Museum, Sheffield, 165*
Abstracting Scientific Information, Royal Society Conference on, 572, 615
Accelerometer, Recording, for Motor Vehicles, 335*

Accidents :

Electrical Accidents and Their Causes, Report on, 157
Machinery Failures, Report of British Engine Boiler and Electrical Insurance Co., Ltd.. 493
Accumulators, Electric. See Electric Acetylene Welding. See Welding
Ackermann, A. S. E., on Council Elections in Professional Institutions, 280. See LETTERS, 256, 328
A.C.-Sphinx Sparking Plug Co., Ltd., 1,440- b.h.p. Diesel-Engined Generating Plant, 465*
Action, Principle of, and Atomic Research, 73, 170
Adam Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Maxigrip ” Universal Clamp, 78*
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address Adhesion Unit for Mechanical-Horse Tractors, British Railways, 407*
Admiralty. See Warships
Aerial Navigation. See Aeronautics
— propellers. See Propellers under Aeronautics
— Transport. See Aeronautics
Aerodynamics. See Aeronautics
Aeronautical Society, Royal, Award of Medals, 375 ; Election of Officers, 491; Demonstration of Airfield Approach Lighting at Farnborough, 551; Wright Lecture on Size In Transport, by A. Gouge, 557, 599. See 543

Aeronautics :

Aerodrome, Aldermaston, Training Facilities at, 376
— Approach Lighting, Demonstration of, 551
— Size and Cost of, 543, 599 Aerodynamic Compressibility, Introduction to (Review), 221
Aerodynamics of Compressible Fluid (Review), 604
— Technical (Review), 387 Aeronautical Research in Australia, 161 at Cambridge University, 449 Aeroplane, Civil, Large, Efficiency of, 543, 557, 599
Transport, Type 170 (Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd.,) 297*
— de Havilland, D H 108, Closed-Circuit
Air-Speed Record by, 399
— de Havilland “ Vampire,*’ International
Altitude Record by, 160, 327
— German, Electrical Instruments in, 54
— Jet-Rocket, “ Skyrocket,” for United States Navy, 175*
— Training, Two-Seater (Avlons Fairey Co.) 379*
— See also Flying Boat (below) Air Raids, Bikini Island Atomic-Bomb Experiment, 330, 428*. See Erratum 394
Damage to Warship Machinery, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616
on German Oil Plants, Results of, 230 — Speed Record, International Closed- Circuit, 399
— Training Facilities at Aldermaston Aerodrome, 376
— Transport, Effect of Size in, 543, 557, 599
Aircraft, Centrifugal and Precision Steel Castings for, 481*
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 232
— Power Plant Engineering, 127* Airfield Approach Lighting, Demonstration of, 551
— See also Aerodromes (above) Altitude Record, International, by de
Havilland “ Vampire ” Fighter, 160, 327
Avlons Fairey Two-Seater Training Aeroplane, 379*
Bomb, Atomic, Bikini Island Experiment, 330, 428. ^See Erratum^ 394 Manufacture of, 426, 472 — Damage to Warship Machinery, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616
Bombing of German Oil Plants. Results of, ' 230 !
Bristol, Type 170, Civil Transport Aircraft, 297*
British Corporation Register of Shipping and Aircraft, Annual Report, 280 British European Airways Corporation, Annual Report, 15
British Overseas Airways Corporation, Engine-Repair Shops, Treforest, 22 ; Annual Report, 39
Engine, Aeroplane, “ Merlin,” Production During War, 127*
Precision Steel Castings for, 481* Repair Shops at Treforest, 22 Research in Australia, 161
Turbo-Jet, ” Ghost ” (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 160
— Aircraft, ” Mamba ” Gas-Turbine Propeller (Armstrong-Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 583*
— Installation, Self-Contained, for Aircraft, 127*
— Mountings, Static Test Rig for,' Rolls- Royce Ltd., 127*
Flight, Work of Wright Brothers on, 133 Flying Boat ” Seagull,” Alternating Current in, 390
SR45, Saunders-Roe, 87
” Ghost ” Turbo-Jet Engine, 160 Hangars, Bolted Connections in, 434* — Testing, for Aeroplane Engines, Rolls- Royce Ltd., 127*
Jet Propulsion Progress (Review), 435
— Rocket Aeroplane, ” Skyrocket,” for United States Navy, 175*
— Turbo, ” Ghost ” Aeroplane Engine (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 160
” Mamba” Gas-Turbine Propeller Aircraft Engine, 583*
” Merlin ” Aeroplane Engine, Production During War, 127*
Propeller Test Beds at Hatfield, de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd,, 332*. See Addendum, 427
Royal Aircraft Establishment, Demonstration of Airfield Approach Lighting, 551; Opening of Technical College at, 208
Saunders-Roe, SR45, Flying Boat, 87
” Seagull,” H.M. Flying Boat, Alternating Current in, 390
” Skyrocket ” Jet-Rocket Aeroplane, 175* ” SR 45 ” Flying Boats, 87
”Vampire” Fighter Aeroplane, International Altitude Record by, 160, 327
Vibrograph for Aircraft (Kelvin, Bottom- ley and Baird, Ltd.), 367
Wind-Tunnel Experiments with Ship Model, 402
Hucknall Aircraft Works, Rolls- Royce Ltd., 127*
Investigations in Australia, 161 Measurements on Air Forces on Oscillating Aerofoils, 617
Tests of Locomotive-Shed Roof, 199 Work on Aileron Reversal, 617 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics
Age and Engineers, 63. See LETTER, 112 Aggregate, Clinker, for Concrete, Specification, 418
Agricultural Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects, 99
— Motors. See Engines ; Tractors
— Tractors See Tractors
— of Tennessee Valley Authority, 158 Agriculture and Fisheries, Ministry of, Standard Frames for Farm Buildings, 211 ; River Boards Bill, 518
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ahmed, Dr. A. A., on Nile Control by Hydro- Electric Means, 577*
Air, Compressed. See Compressed Air
— Compressors, Diesel-Driven (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 68
for Gas Turbines, 111, 237*, 261* for ” Mamba ” Gas-Turbine Propeller Aircraft Engine, 583*
Plant, Floating, at Amsterdam, 68
for Spray-Painting, Petrol-Driven (H.E.C. Compressors and Engines, Ltd.), 463*
Two-Stage Three-Cylinder (A. Bullowa and Sons, Ltd.), 461*
— Conditioning and Ventilation (Review), 413
— Ducts, Lined, Attenuation of Sound in, 97*, 145*
— Heaters for Gas Turbines, 261*
— Pollution, Report on Alkali, etc.. Works, 278
— Raids. See Aeronautics
— Screws. See Propellers under Aeronautics
— Temperatures, High, Simulation by Hydrogen Admixtures, 508*
— See also Atmosphere
Aircraft. See Aeronautics
— Establishment, Royal. See Aeronautics Airways Training, Ltd., Training Facilities at
Aldermaston Aerodrome, 376
Allchin, W., and Co., Ltd., Steam Traction Engines, 529*
Alliance Machine Co., 450-ton Overhead Travelling Crane, 489*
Allied Nations, German Reparations to, 301. See LETTER, 376
Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauges Alloys. See Metallurgy; Microphoiographs; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Allt A’Mhoirneas Dam, Perthshire, 615 Allt-na-Lairige Hydro-Electric Scheme, 583 Alphen en Zonen, J. 0. van. Floating Compressed-Air Plant, 68
Alternating Current. See Electric
Alternating Stress. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials}
Alternators. See Generators^ Electric; Turbo- Generators
Altona and Kiel Railway, Early Kitson Locomotive for, 244*. See Erratum^ 298
Altoona, Pennsylvania, Locomotive Testing Plant, Tests of 4-4-4-4 Type Locomotive, 193*. See LETTER, 265
Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Cold Welding of, Method, 535*
— Development Association, Annual Report, 447
— for Power-Cable Sheathing, 404, 439*
— Rain-Water Goods, Specification, 418
— See also Metallurgy
America. See North America: South America : United States
American Arc-Welding Patents (Review), 76 American Bridge Co,, 450’ton Overhead Travelling Crane, 489*
I — Bureau of Shipping, Temporary Repairs to
I Tanker “ Markay,*’ 400
I American Gas and Electric Corporation, Testing Station for 500-kV Transmission Lines, 7*
— Navy. See United States under Warships
— Railroads, Association of, Report of Committee on Locomotive Construction, 181 American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Telephone Transmission-Rating by, 206
— See also United States Ammeter. See Meter under Electric Amsterdam, Floating Compressed-Air Plant, 68 Analyser, Differential (Review), 556
— Gas, Infra-Red (Sir H. Grubb, Parsons <fe Co.), 354*
Analysis of Steel, British Standard Methods of, 538
— Symmetrical Component, 184*
“ Andes,’* S.S., Reconditioning of, 87, 105* Andrews, Dr. H. I., on Mobile Locomotive- Testing Plant, 696*, 620*. See 399
Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Co., Ltd., War-Time Repairs to M.S. ** Standella,’* 70* ; Experimental Voyage of Oil Tanker “ Niso,” 175
Annealing. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Annuals and Reference Books, 9, 115, 247, 312, 343, 480. See LITERATURE INDEX
Antwerp, Invasion Ships Repair at, 329 Apparatus, Scientific, Physical Society's Exhibition, 354*, 366* Royal Society’s Exhibition of, 520 Appleton, Sir E., Award of Nobel Prize to, 303 Appointments. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Apprenticeship. See Education
Aqueduct, Delaware, Use of Diesel Locomotives in Tunnels of, 54*, 95,114
Arc. See Electric ; Welding
Arch Bridge, Highway, Testing of, 93*
— Model, for Engineering Training, 385* Architects, Naval. See Naval Architects
** Arcon ” Tropical Roof Construction, 223 Arctic, Use of Motor Vehicles in, 417 A.R.D. Sea-Water Spray Test for Steels, 619 Argentina, Engineering Notes from, 163, 498
— River Atuel, Bl Nihuil Dam on, 163 Armament Research Department Sea-Water
Spray Test for Steels, 619
— See Guns
Armengaud and Lemale’s Gas Turbine, 238* Armoured Ships. See Warships
Armstrong SIddeley Motors, Ltd., “ Mamba ” Gas-Turbine Propeller Aircraft Engine, 583*
Army Tank, Damaged, Work of R.E.M.E. on, 117*
Arresters, Lightning, for 500-kV Transmission- Line Testing Station, 7*
Art and Industrial Revolution (Review). 76 Revolution Exhibition, London, 231 ‘‘Artful,” H.M Submarine, Acceptance Tests, 235
Articulation Tests of Telephone Circuits, 206 Artillery. See Guns and PARAGRAPH INDEX Asphalt, Mastic, Damp-Proof Courses, Specification, 178
Asslut Barrage, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 277 Associated Locomotive Equipment, Ltd., Caprotti Valve Gear for Locomotive, 272* ; 635-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive, 416*
Association, British. See British Association
— Engineering. See Institutions
Aston, F. W., Work on Atomic Research, 26, 220*, 265*
Astronomy and Nuclear Theory, 218 Aswan Dam, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 277
A. T. Instruments, Ltd., Hand Tachometers, 438*
Atlantic Transport, Effect of Size on, 543, 557, 699
Atmospheres, Irrespirable, Breathing In (Review), 388
Atmospheric Pollution, Report on Alkali, etc., Works, 278
Atom and Its Energy (Review), 340
Atomic Bomb, Bikini Island Experiment and Warship Design, 330, 428*. See Erratum^ 394
Manufacture of, 426, 472
— Energy Commission, Production of Radioactive Isotopes^ 447
Atomic Energy Commission, United States,
Work of, 86 ; Liberation of Mesons, 327 as Source of Power, 330, 428*. See Erratum, 394
Story of, 25*, 73*, 121*, 169*, 217*, 265*, 313*, 361*, 424*, 472*. See Errata, 171, 427
— Theory of Combustion, 549*
Atuel River, Argentina, El NIhuil Dam on, 163 Austenite, Decomposition by Nucleation and GroyHh Processes, 497
Australia, Mica Production in, 379
— Victoria, Gift of Transit Circle to Royal Observatory, 111
Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research, Annual Report of Work, 161, 245 Automatic Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Signalling. See Signalling Automobiles. See Motor Cars
— Engineering, 43 Years’ Progress of, 39 Auxiliary Machinery, Marine. See Marine
Aveling-Barford, Ltd., 10-ton Diesel-Driven Road Roller, 487*
Avery, W. and T., Ltd., 150-ton Structure-
Testing Machines, 79* Aviation. See Aeronautics Avimo, Ltd., Oscillograph-Trace Recorder, 115 Avions Fairey Co., Two-Seater Training Aeroplane, 379*
Axford, V. H., on Engineering Units of Force, 592. See LETTERS, 40, 64, 88, 112, 280, 328, 352, 496, 544
Ayre Prize, North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Regulations, 448

BABCOCK-Johnson Boilers, S.S. “ Andes,” 88, 105
Bacon, N. H.,on Mouldsfor Steel Ingots,521 Bagnall, W. G., Ltd., 2-8-2 Type Locomotives, 369*
Bainbridge, J. R.,on Professional Salaries, 544. See 110. See LETTERS, 160,184, 208, 304, 352
Bainbridge and Jordan, Double-Focusing Mass Spectrograph, 265*
Bakelite Models, Application in Stress-Analysis Technique, 37
Baker, Dr. H. W., on Engineering Units of Force, 88, 328. See LETTERS, 40, 64, 112, 280, 352, 496, 544, 592
Baker, E. C., on Installation and Use of Instruments on Open-Hearth Furnaces, 474
Bakerloo Railway, Improvements on, 522* Baldwin Locomotive Works, 4-4-4-4 Type Passenger Locomotive, 193*. See LETTER, 255
Ball Bearings. See Bearings
— Hardness Tests. See Hardness under Tests
{Materials)
Ballistics Research in Australia, 245 Ballymena and Belfast Railway Centenary, 472 Bank Protection on River Mississippi by Flexible Concrete Mattresses, 337*
Bannister, Dr. F. K., on Sudden Discharge of Compressed Gas from Cylinder, 255
Bar, Circular, Effect of Impact Loading on, 409*
— Steel, 85-kVA Electric Heating Machine for
(Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 546*
Barge for Floating Compressed-Air Plant, 68 Barkla, C. G., Work on X-Rays, 121
Barr, W., on Brittle Fracture of American Ship Plates, 208*, 222*
Barrage, Assiut, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 277
— Esna, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 277
— Naga-Hamadi, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 277
— Nile, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 277
Barrows and Stewart, Steam Traction Engines, 529
Batteries. See Electric
Battleships. See Warships
Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicles of R.E.M.E., 120*
Beam, Reinforced-Concrete, for Locomotive Shed Roof, 200*
— and Stiffeners for Fishtoft Pre-Stressed Concrete Bridge, 608*
Beames, Major H. P. M., the Late, 257 Bearing, Ball and Roller, Manufacture, Importance in European Recovery, 85
and Roller, Production of, 31, 90, 317 and Roller, for Use in Gas Turbines, 617
— for Electrical Instruments, German Practice 54
— Michel and Plain Thrust, Lubrication of, 617
— Research in Australia, 245
— Roller, Timken, on British Locomotives, 272
— Surfaces, Use of Graphited Oil on, 505*
— Thrust, Lubrication of, 617
for Water-Turbine Driven Alternators, 357*
Beet-Sugar Industry, Beginning of, 378 Belfast and Ballymena Railway Centenary, 472 Belgium, Production per Man-Hour in, 642
Bell and Call Systems, Electric, Specification, 490
Bending Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Berger, L. B., on Diesel Engines Underground, 64*, 95, 114
Berkeley University, California, 220-ton Cyclotron, 315*, 426
Berlin, Electricity Supply in, 375
Bernstein, J., on Peeling of Whiteheart Malleable Cast Iron, 130, 343
Bessel Functions, Tables of (Review), 243
Bessemer Medal, Award to W. J, Dawson, 450 Betatron at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, 521 Betteridge, Dr, W., on Study of Inclusions in Steel by Micro-Radiography, 497
Bikini Atom-Bomb Experiment and Warship Design, 330, 428*. See Ermtww, 394
Binary Alloys. See Allcnfs under Meiallv/rgy Biplanes. See Aeronautics
Blrkin, M., on Council Elections in Professional Institutions 256. See LETTERS, 280, 328
Birmingham, British Industiies Fair, 437*, 461*, 485*, 509*
— Common Good Trust, Survey of Engineering Relics in Midlands, 494
— University, Mechanics of Locked-Coil Wire
Ropes, 578*, 601*
Bishop, E.. on Thermodynamical Aspects of Formation of Inclusions in Steel Weld Metal, 497
Blackburn Meadows Power Station, Sheffield, 91
Bland, D. R., on Roll Force and Torque In Cold Strip Rolling, 351
Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces
Blaw-Knox, Ltd., Land-Clearance Implements for“ Shervick ” Tractor, 513*
Blowing Engine, Cam-Operated, Mousehole, Sheffield, 167*
Boat, Flying. See Aeronautics
— Submarine. See Warships
Bogie for 50-ton Low-Loading Trailer, 224*
— See also Trucks
Bohr, N., Work on Atomic Research, 28, 73, 122. See Erratum, 171
Boiler, Babcock-Johnson, S.S. “Andes,” 88, 105
— Combustion Intensity in, 549
— Feed Water Softening. See Water Water. See Feed and Water
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Marine, Construction in Germany, 1939-45, 469
Water Treatment for, Specification, 610
— Plants, Heating Surfacesin, Corrosion of, 207 Manufacture, Statistics, 126
— Waste-Heat, for Open-Hearth Furnaces, 527
— Water-Tube, Thornycroft, S.S. “ El Malek Foad,” 152*
Tube, Twin-Screw Steamer “Commandant Quert^,” 618*
Tube, Yarrow, at Clyde’s Mill Power Station, 247
— See also Engines and Boilers in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Bolts for Connections in Structures, Strength of, 433*
— -in.. Report on Failure of, 493
Bolted Connections in Structures, Design of, 433*
Bomb, Atom, Bikini Island Experiment and Warship Design, 330, 428*. See Erratum, 394
— Atomic, Manufacture of, 426, 472
— Damage to German Oil Plants, 230
to Warship Machinery, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616
Bombing Aeroplane. See Aeroplane under Aeronautics
Bonny, Comdr. (E) A. D., on Effect of Non- Contact Explosions on Warship Machinery Design, 477*, 501*, 525*. See 352, 517. See LETTER, 616
Books, New, Notes on, 23, 72, 92,143,168,186, 212, 240, 288, 335, 360, 384, 408, 432, 455, 503, 527, 552, 623. See LITERATURE INDEX
— Received, 10, 34, 58„ 82, 106, 130, 154, 178, 202, 226, 250, 274, 298, 322, 346, 370, 394, 418, 442, 466, 490, 514, 538, 562, 586, 610
— Sizes and Dating of Books, Specification, 10 Borgquist, Dr. W., on High-Voltage Power Transmission in Sweden, 43
Boring Machine. See Machine Tools
Boron in Steel, Effect of, 12
Boundary Layer, Effect on Wave Resistance, 401
Bowden, J. S., on Peel in Malleable Cast Iron, 130, 343
Boyd, G. M., on Experimental Voyage of Oil Tanker “ Niso,” 175
Boydell, E., and Co., Ltd., f cub. yd. Petrol- Driven Loader, 510*
Brake Blocks, Railway, Temperature of, 21* 45*
— for Water-turbine Driven Alternators, 358
— Wheels for Windmills, 453*
— See also Dynamometer
Braking Tests of Motor Vehicles, 334*
— Units for Mobile Locomotive-Testins Plant 399, 596*, 620*
Brass Striations and Slip in, 328
Brazil, Engineering Notes from 163, 498
— Sao Paulo Railway, Electrification of, 441
Brazilian OU Pipeline, 498 Breakdowns. See Accidents Breathing in Irrespirable Atmospheres (Review), 388
Brenner, Dr. P., on Corrosion-Resistant Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, 365
Brewer, G., the Late, 226
Brickworks, Fluorine Emission from, Effects on Livestock, 278
Bridge, A. H., the Late, 275
— Bolted Connections, Design of, 433*
— Calculations, Practical Use of Influence Lines for (Review), 243
— Concrete, Pre-Stressed Cast-in-Situ, Fishtoft, 608*
— Road, Testing of, 93*
— See also Agueduct; and PARAGRAPH INDEX Brilliant, Ohio, Testing Station for 500’kV Transmission Lines, 7*
Brinell Tests. See Hardness under Tests {Materials)
Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., Civil Transport Aircraft, 297*
Bristol University, Summer School in Physics, 207, 484
Britain, Railways of, Past and Present (Review), 507
British Association, Officers for Brighton Meeting, 82
Brighton Meeting, Programme, 423 for Commercial and industrial Education, Conference on Industrial Co-operation, Report of, 134
British Broadcasting Corporation Frequency- Modulated Broadcast Transmitting Station, 303
— Bureau of Non-Ferrous Metal Statistics, Formation of, 375
— Cast-Iron Research Association, Experiments on Peeling of Malleable Cast Iron, 130, 343
— Corporation Register of Shipping and Aircraft, Annual Report, 280
— Electrical and Allied Industries Research
Association, Report on Transfer of Material, Temperature and Stability in Electric Welding Arc, 38; Investigation of Wind Power Generation, 112 ; Policy Under British Electricity Authority, 183 ; Reports on Rural Electrification, 375 ; Experimental Heat-Pump installation, 392*
and Allied Manufacturers* Association, Directions Concerning Alternating-Current Motors on Public-Supply Mains, 183 ; Annual Report, 423
— Electricity Authority, Appointment of
Officers, 82; Policy Regarding Electrical Research Association, 183; South Western Electricity Board, 226 ; Preservation of Historical Records by, 231; Appointments to Transmission and Generation Divisions, 274; Transfer of Electricity Undertakings to, 325 ; Interim Tariffs for Electricity, 327 ; Vesting Day Meeting, 346 ; Conference on Problems of, 375; Southern Electricity Board’s Area, 471; Adjustments of Electricity Tariffs, 471; Electricity Supply Breakdowns in Southern England, 519 ; 75-MVA Hydrogen-Cooled Alternators, 559*
British Engine Boiler and Electrical Insurance Co., Ltd., Technical Report for the Year 1938,493
British European Airways Corporation, Annual Report, 15
— Foundrymen, Institute of. Interrelation of
Engineering and Metallurgy, by Sir A. P. M. Fleming, 116; Annual Conference, Programme, 442
— Gas Council, Future of Gas Industry under
Nationalisation, 326
— Grid System, Metering Practice and Equipment on, 342
— Hydromechanics Research Association, Appointment of L. E. Prosser as Director, 147 British Industrial Plastics, Ltd., Tests of Cooling Water for Heat Insulation of Presses, 185
— Industries Fair, Birmingham, 437*, 461*, 485*,509*
Federation of. See Federation
Present Problems, Engineers’ Contribu- I tion to Solution, 567, 589 '
British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd., ' 30-kVA Flash Welding Machines, 439* |
Internal-Combustion Engine Research Association, Luncheon, 615
— Iron and Steel Federation, Exhibits at
British Industries Fair, 511
and Steel Research Association, Sketty Hall Laboratories, Swansea, 187* ; Metal- Flow Research Laboratories, 239; Research on Cold Rolling, 351 ; Laboratory Corrosion Test for Steels, 619
British Jeffrey-Diamond, Ltd., Jubilee Celebration, 490
—• Launderers Research Association, Decision on Liability for Rates, 135
— Navy. See H..M. under Warships
British Overseas Airways Corporation, Engine- Repair Shops, Treforest, 22; Annual Report, 39
— Ports and Canals, Future of, 422. See LETTER,520
— Railways, under Regime of Transport Act, 1947, 13, 18* ; Portable Water-Level Recorder, 58; Derby Locomotive Works, Apprentice-Training School, 102* ; Track Renewal in Polhill Tunnel, 162, 211*. See Addenda, 250, 299; Toton Marshalling Yard Improvements, 171 ; New Signalling System at York, 171; Reinforced-concrete Locomotive Sheds at Carlisle, Leicester and Chester, 199* ; Modified 4-6-0 Type Mixed- Traffic Locomotives, 272* ; Locomotive Exchanges on, 308; Renumbering of Locomotives, 329; 2-6-0 Type Freight Locomotive, 344* ; Conference of Locomotive Shed Masters, 390; 204-b.h.p.
Diesel-Engined Locomotive, 393; Illumination of King’s Cross Goods Yard, 403*; Adhesion Unit for Mechanical-Horse Tractors, 407* ; London Central-Line Extensions, 543 ; Centenary of Waterloo Station, 615
British Ropes, Ltd., Socket for Wire Rope 527*. See Erratum, 611
— Shipbuilding Research Association, Annual Report, 135
See also Shipbuilding
— Shipping. See Shipping
— Standards Institution. See Standards British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Mobile
Locomotive-Testing Plant, 399, 596*, 620* ; Air-Insulated Switchgear, 462* ; High-Voltage Contactor, 462* ; Formation of Glass Bulbs, Ltd., 468; Model of Betatron, 521
— Transport Commission, Powers of, 13, 18* ;
Policy for Future of London Passenger Transport, 350 ; Administration of Ports and Canals, 422. See LETTER, 520
— Trade. See Trade
Brittain, C. P., on Attenuation of Sound in Lined Air Ducts, 97*, 145*
Brittle Fracture in Mild-Steel Plates, Cambridge Conference:
Fracture of Metals : Theoretical Considerations, by Prof. N. F. Mott. 16*
Fundamental Physical and Metallurgical Aspects of Brittle Steel, by D. E. J. Offord, 53*
An American Point of View, by Lieut.- Comdr. E. M. MacCutcheon, 77*
Brittle Fracture of American Ship Plates, by W. Barr, 208*, 222*
Brittle Fracture in Mild-Steel Plates, by Dr. C. F. Tipper, 568*, 592*, 605*
Brookes (Oldbury), Ltd., Guillotine Shearing Machine, 487*
Broom and Wade, Ltd., Equipment for Floating Compressed-Air Plant, 68
Brown, Boveri <fe Co., 7,000-s.h.p. Marine Gas- Turbine Plant, 264*
Brown, C. A. C., on Application of Electricity to Horticulture, 151
Brown, D., and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd., DoubleHelical Reduction Gearing for M.S. ** Fulham Vin,’* 32* ; Testing Machine for Gear Materials and Lubricants, 438*; Centrifugal Steel Castings for Aircraft, 481*
Brown-Escher Wyss 6,000-s.h.p. Marine Gas- Turbine Plant, 264*
Brown, J., and Co., Ltd., Flexibility Tests of Marine Thrust Blocks, 382*, 405*
Brown and May, Ltd., Steam Traction Engines, 530*
Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., 400- h.p. Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive, 176*; 290-kW Electric Generator for
Locomotives, 416* ; Steam-Turbine Rotor, 438*
Buchner, G. E., Fishtoft Pre-Stressed Cast-in-Situ Concrete Bridge, 608*
Budd Co., “Silver Princess*’ Stainless-Steel Railway Carriage, Trial Run of, 43
Buildings, Fann, Standard Frames for, 211
— Materials Research In Australia, 161
— Multi-Occupied, Arrangements for Electricity-Supply Intake, Specification, 226
— Reinforced Concrete in, Structural Use of. Specification, 538
— Research Station, Testing of Highway Bridges, 93* ; Appointment of Honorary Observers, 495
— Sound Insulation in. Specification, 610
— Ventilation of, Specification, 154
— in War, Payment by Results in, 14
Bull, F. B., on Experimental Voyage of Oil Tanker ** Niso,” 175
Bullows, A., and Sons, Ltd., Two-Stage Three- Cylinder Air Compressor, 461*
Bureau of Mines. See United States
— of Non-Ferrous Metal Statistics, British, Formation of, 375
— of Standards. See United States Burners, Oil Fuel. See Oil Fuel Burntisland Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.,
“ Fulham VIII,’* 32*

CABLES. See Wire Ropes and Electric Caesium Chloride, Cube-Centred Lattice, 121* California, Berkeley University, 220-ton Cyclotron, 315*, 426
— University, Radiation Laboratory, Liberation of Mesons, 327
Callender-Hamilton Bridges, Bolted Connections in, 434*
“ Calutron,” Berkeley University, 315*, 426 Cambridge Conference on Brittle Fracture in Mild-Steel Plates. See Brittle Fracture in Mild-Steel Plates
— Instrument Co., Ltd., Wilson’s Cloud-
Chamber Apparatus, 217* ; Magnetic Oxygen Recorder, 367 ; Feed-Water Oxygen Recorder, 367
— University, Report on Department of Engineering, 449
Canadian Army, Use of Motor Vehicles in Arctic, 417
— Power-Supply Position, Annual Report, 182 Canals, British, Under Regime of Transport Act, 1947, 13
Transport on, 422. See LETTER, 520 Work of Inland Waterways Association, 543
— and Ports, British, Future of, 422. See LETTER, 520
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Capacitators, Installation and Maintenance of. Specification, 274
Capacity. See Electric
Capper, Pass and Son, Ltd., Awards in Metallurgy, 255
Caprotti Valve Gear for 4-6-0 Type Locomotive, British Railways, 272*
Capstan Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tools
Cars, Motor. See Motor Cars
Carbides in Iron-Carbon-Silicon Alloys and Cast Irons, 475
Carbon Monoxide from Diesel Engines Underground, 55, 95, 114
— Ring Liquid Seals (Flexibox, Ltd.), 438* Carburisation. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Cargo Steamers. See Steamers
Carlisle, Reinforced-Concrete Locomotive Shed at, 199
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Annual Report of Terrestrial Magnetism Department (Review), 52
Carriages, Railway, Production of, 148
“ Silver Princess ” Trial Run of, 43
Sleeping, Third-Class, London and North Eastern Railway, 44
Cartridge Starter, Coffman, for Engines (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 296*. Erratum 364
Case Hardening. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Cast Iron, Carbide Structure in. 475
— — Girder Road Bridges, Testing of, 93* Malleable, Whiteheart, Discussion on
Peeling of, 130, 343
Production of Nodular Graphite in, 475 Research Association, British, Experiments on Peeling of Malleable Cast Iron, 130, 343
Shafts, Meehanlte, 183, 229, 311*
in Ships, Damage by Non-Contact Explosions, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616 .
Castings, Die, Zinc-Alloy, Plating of (Review), 604
— Iron, Production Statistics, 20, 90, 318
— Malleable-Iron, Speciflcation, 34
— Steel, Carbon-Molybdenum, Speciflcation, 370
- Centrifugal and Precision, for Aircraft, 481*
Catalin, Use in Frozen-Stress Technique, 37 Catalogues, 48, 96, 140, 264, 284, 359, 383, 407, 456, 480, 528, 575, 600, 623. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Caussln, R., on Belgium's Contribution to Production per Man-hour,*’ 542
C.A.V., Ltd., 400-Watt Rotary Converter, 488* Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, Radio-Frequency Noise Measurement Apparatus, 520
Cellier-Blumenthal, J. B., Invention of Distilling Column, 378
Cement and Concrete Association, Aeroplane- Propeller Test Beds, Hatfleld, 332*. See Addendum, 427; Pre-Stressed Concrete Bridge, Fishtoft, 608*
— for Concrete Dams, Investigations on, 590
— Portland and High-Alumina, Specifications, 394
— See also Concrete and PARAGRAPH INDEX Centenary, Belfast and Ballymena Railway, 472
— of Elswick Works, Commemoration, 78
— Engineering, in 1948, 15
— of Baron R. von EOtvOs, 545. See 522
— of J. Laing and Son. Ltd., 495
— of Liverpool Municipal. Water-Supply System, 159
— of Waterloo Railway Station, 615
Central Electricity Board, Annual Report, 302
— Line, London Transport Executive, White
City Station, 8*, 609
Centrax Power Units, Ltd., Road Transport Gas Turbine, 461
Centrifugal Pumps. See Pumps
** Ceramicons ” Double-Cup and High-Power Condensers, 366*
Cerium, Use in Cast Irons, 475
Chain-Drive Phase Adjuster (Renold and Coventry Chain Co., Ltd.), 271*
Chalmers, Dr. B., on Young’s Modulus of Aluminium Alloys, 340; on Moduli of Aluminium Alloys in Tension and Compression, 340
Change-Speed Gear. See Gear
Charging Equipment for Open-Hearth Furnaces 499, 526
Charts, Control, Introduction to Statistical Quality Control (Review), 147
Chatfield, Lord, on Naval Policy, in Autobiography (Review), 61
Chemical Analysis. See Analysis
— Engineer and Civilisation, 390, 399
Institution of, Annual Report, 399; Luncheon, 399 ; Presidential Address, by H. W. Cremer, on Chemical Engineer and Civilisation, 390. See 399
— Industry, Statistical Methods in Research and Production (Review), 413
— Laboratory, Nelson Research Laboratories,
Stafford, 58
— Plant Reparations from Germany, 301. See LETTER, 376
— Production from Coal, 495
Chemistry, Applied, Thorpe’s Dictionary of, Vol. VIII (Review), 171
— of Combustion, 549
— Industrial, Research in Australia, 245
— Isotopes, Radioactive, Production at Harwell, 471
Radioactive, Production in United States, and Utilisation of, 447
— Organic (Review), 243
— Rubber, Modern (Review), 292
— Story of Atomic Energy, 25*, 73*, 121*, 169*, 217*, 265*, 313*, 361*, 424*, 472*. See Errata, 171, 427
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Cherwell, Lord, Work on Atomic Research, 170 Cheshire, Shotton, Raising Ground Level by Sand Pumping at, 241*
Chester, Reinforced-Concrete Locomotive Shed at, 199*
Chicago, Machine-Tool Exhibition, 91
Chile, Engineering Notes from, 498
Chisholm, A. J., on Surface Analysis with Plastic Replicas, 389*
Chislet Colliery, Kent, Fluorescent Lighting Installation at, 113
Christie, J., on Standardisation of Switchgear, 282, 307
Chromium Plating of Diesel-Engine Cylinders, 139
Chronotron Millisecond Meter (Electronic Instruments, Ltd.), 367
Chubb, D. S., on Professional Salaries, 304. See 110. See LETTERS, 160,184, 208, 352, 544
Churchill Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Crankpin
Grinding Machine, 9* ; Automatic Centre-
less Grinding Machine, 282* ; Automatic
Internal-Grinding Machine, 417*
Cinema-Television, Ltd., Exhibition of Electronic Instruments, 186
Civil Aviation. See Aeronautics
Civil Engineers, Institution of :
Ewing Medal, Award to Sir J. D. Cockcroft, 375
Election of Officers, 559
Civil Engineering in War, Payment by Results in, 14
Clamp, Earthing, Specification, 562
— Universal “Maxigrip” (Adam Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 78*
Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, Betatron at, 521
Clark, H. O., on Brake Wheels and Wallowers for Windmills, 453*
Clark, R. H., on Lesser-Known Traction Engines, 529*, 553*
Classiflcation, Universal Decimal, English Standard Edition, 610
Clayton Fellowships of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 351
— Lecture on Work of R.E.M.E. in War Time, 117*
Cleveland and Northern Counties, Notes from, 11, 35, 59, 83, 107, 131,155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611, See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Climatic Influences on Design of Vehicles for Export, 607
Clinker Aggregate for Concrete, Specification, 418
Clinometer, Precision, ** Microptic ’* (E. R. Watts and Son, Ltd.), 137*
Clock-Making Industry, Position in, 318 Cloud-Chamber Apparatus, Wilson’s (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 217*
Clyde Valley Electrical Power Co., Yarrow Boilers at Clyde’s Mill Power Station, 247
Coaches, Railway. See Carriages
Coal Consumption for Electricity Generation, 614
— Dust Explosions, Investigations on, 254
— Gas. See Oas
— Industry, Need of Mining Engineers, 591
— Machinery, Production of, 123
— Mine. See Colliery
— Oil and Chemical Production from, 495 Production from, in G^many, 230
— versus Oil for Ships, Economics of, 306, 414
— Output in 1947, 43
— Physics of Combustion of, 549
— Research at Leeds University, 423
— Supply for Argentina, 498
and Engineering Industries, 5, 29
— Tub Retarder for Automatic Decking Plant (Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd.), 437*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Coating Unit, High Vacuum (Metropolitan- Vlckers Electrical Co., Ltd,), 354*
Cockcroft, Sir J. D,, Award of Ewing Medal to, 375
Coff'man Cartridge Starter for Engines (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 296*. See Erratum, 364
Cohen, G., Sons and Co., Ltd., Punching and Shearing Machine, 510*
Coke Consumption for Electricity Generation, 614
— Oven Plants in Russia 141
Cole, Dr. B. N., on Simulation of High Air Temperatures by Hydrogen Admixtures, 508*
College. See Education
Colliery, Chislet, Kent, Fluorescent Lighting Installation at, 113
— Lighting, Flameproof Transformer Panel for (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 452
— Safety in Mines Research Board, Report, 254
— Spoilbank Fires, Control of, 278
— Winding. See Winding
— Wire Ropes, Locked-Coil, Mechanics of, 578*, 601*
— See also Mines and Coal
Collings, J., Steam Traction Engines, 530* Colombia, Engineering Notes from, 163 Colonies, Crown Agents for, Engineering Departments of, 255
Column, Reinforced-Concrete, for Locomotive Shed Roof, 200*
Combined Stress. See under Tests (Materials} Combustion Chamber of Gas Turbines, 111, 237*,261*

for “Mamba” Gas-Turbine Propeller Aircraft Engine, 583*

— Chemistry and Physics of, 549*
— See also Fuel; Gases
“ Commandant Quere,” Twin-Screw Turbine Passenger Steamer, 618*
Commer Cars, Ltd., 5- and 7-ton Motor Vehicle with Under-Floor Engine, 320*
Commerce. See Trade. See also Industries and Commerce in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Commercial Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Motor Cars. See Motor Commonwealth. See Australia Gompagnie G^n^rale Transatlantlque, Steamer,
“ Commandant Quer^/’ 618* Companies. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Comparator, Electronic, Cornelius (A. C. Wickman, Ltd.), 138*
— Gauge, Electro-Pneumatic (Sigma Instrument Co., Ltd.), 455*
— Screw-Thread, “0-Vee” (0-Vee Spring Gauges, Ltd.), 138
Component Analysis, Symmetrical, 184* Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives
— Polar and Non-Polar, 169
— Stress. See Tests (Materials)
Compressed Air from Cylinder, Wave Action Following Sudden Release, 255
— —’ Plant, Floating, at Amsterdam, 68 Compressor, Air. See Air Compressor Concrete Bridge, Pre-Stressed Cast-in-Situ at Fishtoft, 608*
— Clinker Aggregate for, Specification, 418 —? Dams, Cement for, Investigations on, 590
— Frame, Pre-Stressed, for 10,000-ton Hydraulic Testing Press, 441
— Mattresses, Flexible, for River Bank Protection, 337*
— Mixer, 3J^ cub. ft. (Stothert and Pitt, Ltd.), 129*
— Reinforced, Aeroplane Propeller Test Beds,
Hatfield, 332*. See Addendum, 427
In Buildings, Structural Use of. Specification, 538
Creep and Shrinkage in, 88
Locomotive Sheds at (jarlisle, Leicester and Chester, 199*
Model Bridge, Tests of, 95
— Research in Australia, 161
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Condensers. See Electric
Condensing Plant, 8.8. ” Andes,” 105
Conditioner, Exhaust-Gas, for Oil-Engined Mining Locomotive, 249*
Conference on Brittle Fracture in Mild-Steel Plates. See Brittle Fracture in Mild-Steel Plates
— International, on Large High-Tension Systems, Paris, 327, 592
on Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, London, 566
of Ship-Tank Superintendents, 543
— on ” Production per Man-hour,’* 542
— Royal Society, on Distribution of Scientific
Information, 572, 615
Congestion on Underground Railways, 448 Congress,International, on Large Dams, Stockholm, 590
Mechanical Engineering, Paris, Programme, 520
— Roads, Transport and Public Works, See Public Works
Connections, Bolted, in Structures, Design of, 433*
Conservation of Coal. See Coal; Fuel Consett Iron Co., Ltd., Open-Hearth Furnaces of, 47k
Constructional Engineering Industry, Position and Prospects, 316
Consulting Engineers, Association of, Annual Luncheon,544
Contactor, High-Voltage (British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd.), 462*
Continental Electrical Engineering Practice, 113
— Ports, Ship Repair Facilities at, 329 Contracts, 10, 346, 390, 418, 476, 490, 515, 563, 587, 611. See PARAGRAPH INDEX Control Board for Automatic Lift, Earl’s Court Station, 213*
— Centralised Ripple, on High-Voltage Net works, 309*
— Charts, Introduction to Statistical Quality Control (Review), 147
— of Nile by Hydro-Electric Means, 577*
— Orders, Ministry of Supply. See Industries and Commerce In PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Remote, ” Magslip ” (Mulrhead and Co., Ltd.), 366*
Controllers, Electric Motor. See Motors, Electric
— High-Acceleration, for Electric Traction (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 368*
Converter for High-Voltage Power Transmission in Sweden, 43
— Rotary, 400-Watt (C.A.V., Ltd.), 488* Conveying and Handling Machinery, Output of, 317
Cook, Dr. M., on Loads Involved in Metal- Strip Rolling, 304
Cooling, Hydrogen, for 75-MVA Alternator, 559*
— of Large Concrete Daras, 590
— Systems, Exhaust Gas, for Diesel Engines Under^ound, 54*, 95,114
Cope, F. B., on Professional Salaries, 160, See 110. See LETTERS, 184, 208, 304, 352, 544 Copper Alloys. See Brass; and Alloys under Metallurgy
— Cold Welding of. Method of, 535*
— Development Association, Exhibit at British
Industries Fair, 464
— for Electrical Purposes, Specification, 662
— See also Metallurgy
Coras lompair Eireann, Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive for, 416*
Cornelius Electronic Comparator, 138* Corona-Loss Measuring Equipment for 500-kV Transmission-Line Testing Station, 7*
Corrosion of Heating Surfaces in Boiler Plants, 207
— Tests, Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, 365 Standard, for Sheet Steel, 619 Cosmical Rays and Atomic Research, 362*
Cossor Radar, Ltd., Radar Equipment for Liverpool, 534*
Costs, Working, of Heavy-Oil Engines, Report on, 62
Council Elections in Professional Institutions, 256. See LETTERS, 280, 328
Counter, Electronic (Cinema-Television, Ltd.), 186
Coupling, Fluid, Scoop-Controlled, for Mining Locomotive, 248*
— Hydraulic, Vulcan-Sinclair, M.S. “ Fulham VIII,” 32*
Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd., Inclinable and Rotary Tables with Clinometer, 136* ; ” Matrix ” Twist-Drill Gauge, 137
Coverings, Non-Conducting. See Beat Insulation
Crack Arresters in Ships’ Structures, 77 Cracking in Aluminium-Iron-Silicon Alloys, 305
— Fatigue, in Marine Shafting, 286*, 310*
— and Fracture in Metals, 16*, 53*, 77*, 208* 222*, 568*, 592*, 605*
— of Welded Steels, Investigations on, 573*, 581
Cranes and Derricks for Ships, 306, 415
— 3- and 5-ton Electric, S.S. ” El Malek Foad,” 152*
— Magnet, for Open-Hearth Furnaces, 526
— 450-ton Overhead Travelling, for United States Navy Yard, 489*
— See also Gantry
Crankpin-Grinding Machine (Churchill Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 9*
Crankshaft Vibration in Motor-Car Engines, Indicator for, 334*
— 55-ton, for Doxford Marine Engine (W. Somers, Ltd.), 511
Craven Brothers (Manchester), Ltd., 6-ft. Boring and Turning Mill, 485*
Creep, Abnormal, in Carbon Steels, 496
— Properties of Molybdenum Steels, 496
— and Shrinkage in Reinforced Concrete, 88
— Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Cremer, H. W., on Chemical Engineer and Civilisation, 390. See 399
Crittall, R., and Co., Ltd., Industrial Radiant- Heating Systems, 403*
Croft, P. C., the Late, 304
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., High-Acceleration Controller for Electric Traction, 368*
Crookesj Sir W., Spinthariscope of, 217*
Crossley Brothers Ltd., 600-b.h.p. Marine Diesel Engine, 189* ; Early Gas Engines of. 647, 558
Crossness Sewage Pumping Station, Diesel Engines at, 568
Crowe, T. A., on Gas Turbine Applied to Marine Propulsion, 237*, 261*. See 111 ; on Mechanical Engineering on Shipboard, 591 Crown Agents for Colonies, Engineering Departments of, 255
Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines^ Oil Crystalline Materials, Fractures in, 16*
— Structure of Metals. See Metallography; MicTophotographs
Cunningham, Lord, on Shipbuilding Industry, 281
Current, Electric. See Electric
“ Curtaining ** Defect on Steel Ingots, 521
Curtis, C. G., Gas-Turbine Patents of. 111, 237* Cutter for Rectangular Holes (W. E. Sykes, Ltd.), 139*
Cyclotron, 220-ton, at Berkeley University, California, 315*, 426
Cylinder, Compressed Air from, Wave Action Following Sudden Release, 255
— Diesel-Engine, Porous-Chromium Hardening of, 189
D.8 Armoured Amphibian Tractor of R.E.M.E., 120*
Dam, Allt A'Mhoirneas, Perthshire, 615
— Aswan, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 277
— Concrete, Cement for, Investigations on, 590
— Construction by Tennessee Valley Authority. 168
— Bl Nihuil, on River Atuel, Argentina, 163
— G6nlssiat, River Rhone, France, 87
— Large, International Congress on, Stockholm, 690
— River Kile, and Water Control, 577*
— Vyrnwy, Liverpool Water Supply from, 169 Damp-Proof Courses, Mastic-Asphalt, Specification, 178
Damper, Torsional-Vibration, 183
Daniel, R. J., on Royal Navy and Nuclear Power, 428*. See 330. See Erratum, 394 Daniels, T. H, and J., 150-ton Hydraulic Press for Plastics, 509*
Daniloff, M., on Output and Eflacienoy of Gas Turbines, 448
Danish. See Denmark
Davey, Dr. N., on Testing of Highway Bridges 93*
Davey, Paxman <fe Co., Ltd., Steam Traction Engines, 531*
David, Prof. W. T., the Late, 520
Davies, J. W., on Radio-Valve Manufacture, 135
Davy-Faraday Exhibition, Paris, 447
Davy and United Engineering Co. Ltd., Apprentice Training Scheme, 467
Dawson, W. J., Award of Bessemer Medal to. 450
Decimal Classification, Universal, English Standard Edition, 610
Decking Plant, Automatic, Coal-Tub Retarder for (Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co.. Ltd,), 437*
Deformation of Metals by Cold Rolling, 351 de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., “ Ghost ** Turbo-Jet Engine-, 160; International Altitude Record by “Vampire” Fighter, 160, 327; Propeller Test Beds, Hatfield, 332*. See Addendum, 427 ; International Closed-Circuit Air-Speed Record, 399
Delaware Aqueduct Tunnels, Use of Diesel Locomotives in, 54*, 95, 114
Denfords Engineering Co., Ltd., Precision Capstan Lathe, 136 ; 4^ in. Screw-Cutting Lathe, 136; 5-ton Press, Electrically Operated, 136
Denmark, Invasion Ships Repair in, 329
Depth Charges, Anti-Submarine, 159
Derby Locomotive Works, Apprentice-Training School, 102*
Derricks and Cranes for Ships, 306, 415
Design This Day, of Engineering Structures (Review), 533
Destroyers. See Warships
Deuterium, Discovery of, 313*
Dewhurst, P. C., on Early Kitson Locomotive, 244*. See ERRATUM, 298
Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Thorpe’s, Vol. VIII (Review), 171
Die Castings, Zinc-AUoy, Plating of (Review), 604
— for Cold Welding of Metals, 535*
Diesel Engine Users Association, Report on Heavy-Oil Engine Working Costs, 62; Porous-Chromium Hardening of Diesel- Engine Cylinders, by C. D. B. Williams, 139; Annual Luncheon, 418; Visit to Pumping Station at Crossness, 568 See Engines, Oil, Diesel; Marine Propulsion
Differential Analyser (Review), 666
Digges, T. G., on Influence of Boron in Steel, 12 Directories. See LITERATURE INDEX
Disc Rim, Turbine, Estimation of Stresses in. 1*, 40*
Displacement Law of Radioactive Change. 26*, 73
Distillation, Invention of Rectifying Column. 378
District Heating, Application and Economics of, 373. See Erratum 895
Dock, Gladstone, Radar Equipment at, 534* Docking of Damaged Ships for Repairs, 69* Dodman, A., and Co., Steam Traction Engines, 532*
Domestic Electric Apparatus and Supply Restrictions on, 207
Appliances, Production of, 268
— Heating by Electricity, Economics of, 545
— Water Heating, Electric, Centralised Ripple Control for, 309*
Dominion of Canada, Water and Power Bureau, Annual Report, 182
Doncaster, C. M., the Late, 186 Doncaster, J. H., the Late, 92
Dorey, Dr. S. F., on Torsional-Fatigue Testing of Marine Shafting, 286*, 310*. See 183, 229
Double Helical Gears. See Gearing
— Reduction Gears, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
— Skin Defect on Steel Ingots, 521
Douglas Aircraft Corporation, “ Skyrocket ’* Jet-Rocket Aeroplane^ 175*
Drainage, Land, and River Boards Bill, 518
Draughting Machine, “ Perspector ** (Isometric Projections, Ltd.), 536*
Drawgear and Hydraulic Dynamometer for Mobile Locomotive-Testing Plant, 598*, 620*
Dredger, Sand-Pumping (Westminster Dredging Co., Ltd.), 241*
Drewry Car Co., Ltd., 204-h.p. Diesel Locomotive, 393
Drewry-Fund Merchant-Navy Scholarships, 274 Driving Chains. See Chains
Drum, Seamless, for Yarrow Boilers, 247
Dublin, Inchicore Works, 535-b.h.p. Diesel- Electric Shunting Locomotive, 416*
Ducts, Air, Lined, Attenuation of Sound in, 97*, 145*
Dudzinskl, N., on Young’s Modulus of Aluminium Alloys, 340
Duirae Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Electrical Radiant-Heating Equipment, 403*
Dunsheath, Dr. P., on Electricity and Everyman, 231
Duralumin, Cold Welding of, Method, 535* Dust, Coal, Explosions of. See Coal Dust
— and Grit Emission from Electric Power Stations, 278
Dynamos. See GerwratorSf Electric; Turbo- Generators
Dynamometer Car for Mobile Locomotive- Testing Plant, 399, 596*, 620* Recording Table, 598*, 620*
Dyson, B. H., on Practical Side of ** Production per Man-Hour,” 542
Dyson, R. A., and Co., Ltd., 50-ton Low-Loading Trailer, 224*

” E ” LEAD ALLOY, Pressure and Creep
Tests of, 347
Earl’s Court Station, Automatic Lifts at, 213* Earth’s Magnetism. See Magnetism
East Africa, Land-Clearance Equipment for, 513*
Eatough, C., on Cutting Tools and Machine-Tool Design, 189*. See 39 ‘
Eccles, J., on Problems in British Industry, 567, 589
Eccles, Lancashire, Electricity Supply In, 246 Economics, Industrial. See Labour
— Railway. See Railway Economiser for Yarrow Boiler, 247 Economy, Fuel. See Fuel Economy Eddington and Steevenson, Ltd., Steam Traction
Engines, 532*

Education :

Apprentice-Training Scheme, Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd., 467
Scheme, Enfield District Manufacturers’ Association, 327
Scheme, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 581
Scheme, S. Osborn <fe Co., Ltd., 572 School, Derby Locomotive Works, 102*
Bristol University, Summer School In Physics, 207, 484
British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education, Conference on Industrial Co-operation, Report, 134
Cambridge University, Report on Department of Engineering, 449
Chernical Engineers, Education of, 390,399
Clayton Fellowships of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 351
College Graduates in Industry, 541
Education, Ministry of. National Advisory Council on Education for Industry and Commerce, 159
— and Standards of Efficiency of Professional Engineers, 236
Pounders Company of London, Fellowship Awards, 359
Industry and Commerce, Education for, 159
Manchester College of Technology, Scheme for Co-operation in Electrical Laboratory Practice, 208
Merchant-Navy Scholarships, Drewry Fund, 274
Model Structures for Engineering Training, 385*
Mond Nickel Fellowships, Award of, 231 Pitlochry Hydro-Electric Training College, 159
Royal Aircraft Establishment Technical College, Opening of, 208
School of Gas-Turbine Technology, Lutterworth, 352
South-West Essex Technical College, Annual Report, 427
University Professors Visit to Works of United Steel Companies, Ltd., 474
Wigan and District Mining and Technical College, 90th Anniversary of, 587 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Edwards, F. J., Ltd., Nibbling and Shearing Machine, 509*
Efficiency of Boiler Plants. See Boiler
— of Engines. See jEnp-ines
Egypt, Aswan Dam and Nile Barrages, Hydro- Electric Schemes, 277
— Nile Control by Hydro-Electric Means, 577*
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity and Atomic Research, 25
Elastic Modulus of Aluminium Alloys, 340 Elections for Councils of Professional Institutions, 256. See LETTERS, 280, 328

Electric :

Accumulators, Battery Connectors for Electric Vehicles, Specification, 106 Production Statistics, 270
Alternating-Current Electrical Engineering (Review), 293
Frequency-Standardisation Statistics, 614
High-Voltage, Use in Sweden, 43 for Ships’ Auxiliaries, 214* Test Set (Everett, Edgcumbe and Co., Ltd.), 354*
Alternator. See Generator and Turbo Arc Welding. See Welding Battery. See Accumulator (above) Bell and Call Systems, Specification, 490 Betatron at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford, 521
British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, Report on Transfer of Material, Temperature and Stability in Electric Welding Arc, 38; Investigation of Wind-Power Generation, 112; Policy Under British Electricity Authority, 183 ; Reports on Rural Electrification, 375 ; Experimental Heat-Pump Installation, 392* and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Directions Concerning Alternating Current Motors on Public- Supply Mains, 183 ; Annual Report, 423
— Electricity Authority, Appointment of Officers, 82 ; Policy Regarding Electrical Research Association, 183; South Western Electricity Board, 226; Preservation of Historical Records by, 231 ; Appointments to Transmission and Generation Divisions, 274 ; Transfer of Electricity Undertakings to‘ 325 ; Interim Tariffs for Electricity^ 327 ; Vesting Day Meeting, 346 ; Conference on Problems of, 375 ; Southern Electricity Board’s Area, 471; Adjustments of Electricity Tariffs, 471; Electricity Supply Breakdowns in Southern England, 519; 75-MVA Hydrogen-Cooled Alternators, 559*
Cables for Alternating-Current Ships’ Auxiliaries, 214*
— Aluminium-Sheathed, and Cable Joints (Johnson and Phillips, Ltd.), 404, 439*
— Glands and Sealing Boxes, Specification, 226
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 293
— and Mains, Fault Localising and Testing (Review), 52
Capacitators, Installation and Maintenance of, Specification, 274
Central Electricity Board, Annual Report, 302
Circuits, Telephone, Modern Design, 206 Clamp, Earthing, Specification, 562 Condenser, Ceramic (Erie Resistor, Ltd.), 366*
Conductors, Copper, Specification, 562
— for High-Voltage Power Transmission in Sweden, 43
Contactor, High-Voltage (British Thomson- Houston Co, Ltd.), 462*
Converter, Rota y, 400-Watt (C.A.V., Ltd.), 488*
Cranes. See Cta les
Current, Alternating and Direct, High- Voltage, Use in Sweden, 43
Electrical Engineering (Review), 293 for Ships’ Auxiliaries, 214*
Statistics of Frequency Standardisation, 614
Test Set (Everett, Edgcumbe and Co., Ltd.), 354*
Direct Current, High-Voltage, Use In Sweden, 43
Dynamo. See Generator; Turbo-Generator Earthing, Faulty, Accidents with, 157 Electric Systems, Large, International Conference on, Paris, 327
Electrical Engineering Industry, Position and Prospects, 268, 293
— Equipments, Accidents with, 157 of Army Vehicles, Waterproofing, 118
— Instrument, Nervous System as, 423
— Laboratory Practice, Scheme for Cooperation in, Manchester College of Technology, 208
— Methods of Geophysical Prospecting, 522. See LETTER, 545
— Research at Cambridge University, 449 Electricity Commissioners, Returns of Units Generated, 1947, 87, 186, 298, 403 ; Effect of Electricity Act, 159; Restrictions on Electrical Development, 207 ; Returns of Engineering and Financial Statistics, for 1944-45, 614
— and Everyman, Faraday Lecture, 231 Electron-Volt, Introduction of, 219 Electronic Measuring and Recording Instruments Exhibition, 186
Electronics and Their Application in Industry and Research (Review), 99
Electroplating. See Electro
Export and Import Trade, Electrical Engineering, 126,268, 293
Fluorescent Lamps for Mines, Experiments with, 254
Frequency-Modulation Broadcast Transmitting at Wrotham, 303
— Standardisation, Statistics, 614 Furnaces. See Furnaces Generating Stations. See Power Stations Generator. See Generator and Turbo Gland, Gable, Specification, 226 High-Frequency Measuring Techniques Using Transmission Lines (Review), 435
— Voltage Equipment, Nelson Research Laboratories, Stafford, 56*
Power Transmission in Sweden, 43 Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
Induction Motors. See MotorSt Electric Instruments, Developments in Continental Practice, 54
Laboratory Practice, Scheme for Co-operation in, Manchester College of Technology, 208
Lamps, Fluorescent, in Collieries, 113, 254 Manufacture by General Electric Co., Ltd., 391*
— Production Statistics, 269 Lighting, Coal-Face, Flameproof, Transformer Panel for (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 452
— Fittings, Flameproof, Specification, 58 — Fluorescent, in Collieries, 113, 254
— Hundred Years of, Science Museum Exhibition, 447
— in Mines, Experiments in, 113,254 Lightning (Review), 556
— Arresters for 500-kV Transmission- Line Testing Station, 7* 1
Locomotives. See Locomotivest Electric Machines, Installation and Maintenance of, Specification, 274
— See also Generators ; Motors ; Turbo Mains. See Cables (above)
Meters, Developments in Continental Practice, 54
— Millisecond, Chronotron (Electronic Instruments, Ltd.), 367
Metering Practice on British Grid System, 342
Motors. See Motors, Electric
Northern Ireland, Joint Electricity Committee for, 207
Oil Switch. See Switchgear
Oscillations, Quartz-Controlled, Extensions to Centimetric Wavelengths, 617 Oscillograph-Trace Record (Avimo, Ltd.), 115
Plugs and Sockets, Flameproof, Specification, 586
Potentiometer, Inductive (Muirhead and Co., Ltd.), 366*
Power. See Power
— Stations. See Power Stations Pyrometer. See Pyrometer Railways. See Railways Rays, See X-Rays
Rectifiers, Installation and Maintenance of, Specification, 274
Ripple Control, Centralised, on High- Voltage Networks, 309*
Rdntgen Rays. See X-Rays Rural Electrification in Canada, Present Position, 182
in Great Britain, Reports on, 375 Sealing Boxes, Cable, Specification, 226 Sockets and Plugs, Flameproof, Specification, 586
South Western Electricity Board, 226 Stabiliser, Alternating-Current (H. Tinsley A Co., Ltd.), 367 I
Storage Battery. See Accumulator {above) Street Railways. See Tramways Substation. See Substation Switchgear.
Electric
Telegraphy. See Telegraphy Telephony. See Telephony Traction. See Locomotive
Railways; Tramways Tramways. See Tramways Transformers. See Transformers Transients, Recording of, 380 Turbo-Generators. See Ticrbo-Oenerators Welding. See Welding Winding Gear. See Winding Wire, Insulated Electric, Industry, position and Prospects, 293
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy; Radar; Radio
— Telephony. See Telephony; Radar; Radio See also PAKAGRAPH INDEX

Electrical Engineers, Institution of :

Faraday Medal, Award to Prof. M. L. E. Oliphant, 87, 423
Col. Sir T. F. PuTves and Admiral of the Fleet Sir J. H. D. Cunningham, Elected Honorary Members, 87, 423
Survey of Telephone Transmission-Rating, by L. C. Pocock, 206
Corrosion of Heating Surfaces In Boiler Plants, by J. R. Rylands and J. R. Jenkinson, 207
Faraday Lecture on Electricity and Everyman, by Dr. P. Bunsheath, 231 Standardisation of Switchgear, by B. E, Lambert and J. Christie, 282, 307
Design of Vertical-Shaft Water-Turbine Driven Alternators, by E. M. Johnson and C. P. Holder, 357*
Kelvin Lecture on the Nervous System as Electrical Instrument, by Dr. B. H. C. Matthews, 423
Associate-Membership Examination Requirements, 447
Report of Council, 471
Economic Utilisation of Electricity in Great Britain, by R. B. Giles, 545 Installations Section:
Application of Electricity to Horticulture, by C. A. Brown and E. W. Golding, 151
Measurements Section:
Discussion on What has Electrical Instrument Industry to Learn from Developments in Continental Practice, 54
Metering Practice on British Grid System, by F. Byrne, 342
Recording of Electrical and Optical Transients, by H. A. Prime and R. F. Saxe, 380
Transmission Section:
Recent Research and Development Work in Sweden on High-Voltage Alternating and Direct-Current Power Transmission, by Dr. W. Borgquist, 43
Oil Deterioration in Transformers and Switchgear, by H. Hurworth, 78
Centralised Ripple Control on High-Voltage Networks, by T. W. Ross and R. M. A. Smith, 309*
Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association, British. See under Electric
Electrical Engineers, Supervising, Association of. See Supervising, Electrical Engineers^ Association of
— Engineering, Alternating-current (Review), 293
Industry, Position and Prospects,268,293 Practice, Continental, 113
Electricity Commissioners. See under Electric Electron-Volt, Introduction of, 219
Electronic Instruments, Ltd., Chronotron Millisecond Meter, 367
— Stop Watch (Imperial Chemical Industries,
Ltd.), 521
Electronics and Their Application In Industry and Research (Review), 99
Electroplating of Porous Chromium on Diesel-
Engine Cylinders, 139
— of Tungsten Alloys, 372
— of Zinc-Alloy Die Castings (Review), 604 Elliott, M. A., on Diesel Engines Underground I 54*, 95,114 , ,
** El Malek road,” S.S., Khedlvial Mail Line, 152*
El Nihull Dam on River Atuel, Argentina, 163 Elswick Works, Centenary Commemoration, 78 Empire Stone Co., Ltd., Reinforced-Concrete
Locomotive Sheds, 199*
Employees. See Labour
Employment. See Laboitr
Endurance Tests. See Fatigue under Tests (Materials)
Energy, Applied, Elements of (Review), 387
— Dissipation from Railway Brake Blocks, 46*
— and Mass and Atomic Research, 25* Enfield Cycle Co., Ltd., 14-8 b.h.p. Two-Cylinder Diesel Engine, 485*
— District Manufacturers’ Association, Apprentice Training Scheme, 327
Engines, Aero. See Aeronautics
— Atomic, Power, Use for Marine Propulsion, 330, 431. See Erratum, 394
— Diesel. See Engines, Oil, Diesel; Marine Propulsion; Motorships
— Eire. See Fire Engines
— Gas, Combustion, Intensity in, 549
— Historical, in Midlands, 494
Work of J. H. Hamilton on, 547, 558 See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Hot-Air, Working Cycle of, ill, 247*
— Indicators. See Indicators
Internal-Combustion, Research Association, , British, Luncheon, 615 i
Combustion, Work of J. H. Hamilton on, 547, 558
Combustion. See also Turbines, Gas
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Car. See Engines, Petrol
— Oil, Diesel, Accidents in Starting of, 494 Diesel, 14‘8-b.h.p. Two-Cylinder (Enfield Cycle Co., Ltd.), 485*
Diesel, 1,440-b.h.p. Sixteen-Cyllnder
(General Motors Corporation), 465*
Diesel, 125-b.h.p. Horizontal, for Omnibus (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 561*
Diesel, for Locomotives, 181 Diesel, for Locomotives, Comparisons with Steam Locomotives, 613
Diesel, 535-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder for Locomotives (Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd.), 416*
Diesel, Marine, 600-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder (Crossley Brothers Ltd.), 189*
Diesel, Marine, 820-b.h.p. Twelve-Cylinder, M.S. ** Eulham VIII,*’ 32*
Diesel, 75-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder for Motor Vehicle (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 103*
Diesel, for Operation Underground, 54*, 95,114
Diesel, 400-b.h.p. Four-Cylinder Petter, for Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 176
Diesel, Porous-Chfomium Hardening of Cylinders of, 139
Diesel, 170-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder for “ Shervick ” Tractor, 513
Diesel, Underground, Exhaust-Gas Cooling Systems for, 54*, 95, 114
Diesel. See also Motorships; Marine Propulsion; Diesel Engine Users Association
Fuel for, Specification, 274 1,000-b.h.p. Six Cylinder, for Locomotive
(Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 248* Motor-Car, Testing of, 333* Single-Cylinder, Accident to, 493
— — 94-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder Portable (H. Meadows, Ltd.), 488*
Work of J. H. Hamilton on, 547, 558 Working Costs, Report on, 62
See also Tractors and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Petrol, Aeroplane. See Aeronautics Combustion Intensity in, 549
Marine, 25-h.p., with Coffman Cartridge Starter, 296. See Erratum, 364
Motor-Car, 50-b.h.p. Four-Cylinder (Rover Co., Ltd.), 512
Motor-Car, 109-b.h.p. Six-Cylinder (Com- mer Cars, Ltd.), 320*
Motor-Car, Developments of, 39
Motor-Car, Testing of, 333* See also Aeronautics
— Steam, with Annular Compound Cylinder,
for Traction Engine (Savages, Ltd.), 554* London-Built, Historic, Inquiry Regarding, 15
Marine. See Marine Propulsion; Turbines
Old, in Midlands, 494
Traction, Some Lesser-Known, 529*, 553* Work of P. Willans on, 255. ” 304
— Winding. See Winding
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Engineers-in-Charge, Institution Dinner, 520
— Education. See Education
— Effect of Advancing Years, 63. 112
— Guild, Objects of, 279 ; Annual Report, 472
— Institutions. See Institutions
— Production, Institution of. See Production
— professional, Appointments Bureau, Report for 1947, 183
Engineers’ Responsibilities in Industrial Pro-
— and^^Vpbmiders in Scotland, Institution of
Experimental Voyage of Oil TMkw ” Niso,” by G. M. Boyd, F. B. Bull and K. J. Pascoe, 175
Engineering Apprentices. See Education
— Centenaries in 1948,15
— Contracts. See Contracts
— Education. SGQ Education
and Industrial Science, Records and Research in (Review), 28 1 o*. <r
Industry Charter for Technical Staff in, no See LETTERS, 160, 184, 208, 304, 352, 544
and Export position, 255
position and Prospects, 5, 29, 65, oo, yy, 123,148,172,196, 232, 257, 268, 293, 316
Laboratories. See Laboratories ; National Phusicdl
— and Metallurgy, Interrelation l^^ween, 116
— Relics in Midlands, Report on, 494
Organisation and Methods (Review), 435
— Outlook, 5, 29, 65, 88,99,123,148,172,196, 232,257,268, 293,316
— Societies. See Institutions . .
Standards. See Standards Institution
— works. See Works , .
English Electric Co,, Ltd., Nelson Research Laboratories, 56*;
Paulo Railway, 441 ; 500-MVA ll-kV
Air-Blast Circuit Breaker, 487* ; Flexible Axle Drives for Mobile Locomotive-Testing Plant, 620*
Enticknap, M. A., the nf RO9
EbtvOs, Baron R. von. Torsion Balance of, 522.
Centenary of, 545 , ,
Erie Resistor, Ltd., Double-Cup and High- Powei ** Ceramicons,” 366*
Escher-Wyss Cycle for Gas Turbine, 261*
Escher Wyss-John Brown 6,000-s.h.p. Marine Gas-Turbine Plant, 264*
Eskdale and Ravenglass Railway, History oi, 15 Esna Barrage, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 277
Ether, Ltd., Heat Control and Measuring Equipment, 512
Europe, Invasion Period, Ship-Repairing and Shipyard Problems, 329
— Marshall Aid Plan for, 6,123
European Countries, German Reparations to, 301. See LETTER, 376
— Recovery, Importance of Ball and Rollef
Bearing Manufacture, 85
Everett, Edgcumbe and Co., Ltd., Alternating- Current Test Set, 354* ; Service Radio- Valve Tester, 355*
Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., Water-Flow Transmitter, 355* ; Pump-Control Unit, 355*
Ewing Medal, Award to Sir J. D. Cockcroft, 375
Exchanger, Heat, for Atomic Engines, 331, 431 Contra-Flow, Design of, 63
Exhibition, Art and Industrial Revolution, London, 231. See 76
— British Industries Fair, 437*, 461*, 485*, 509*
— Davy-Faraday, Paris, 447
— Electronic Measuring and Recording Instruments, 186
— Gauge and Tool, London, 110, 136*
— Hundred Years of Electric Lighting, Science Museum, 447
— Machine-Tool, Chicago, 91
Tool and Engineering, 1948, Plans for, 591
— Physical Society’s, 354*, 366*
— Scientific Apparatus, Royal Society’s, 520
— Society of Model and Experimental Engineers, 495
— Telecommunications Research Establishment, 519
— of Work of National Physical Laboratory, 617
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Experimental Tank. See Tank
Explosions, Coal Dust, Investigations on, 254
— Non-Contact, Effect on Warship Machinery, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616
Explosives Research in Australia, 245
Export Trade. See Trade: and Industries in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Extrusion, Single- and Multi-Hole, Effect on Aluminium-Alloy Bar, 328

FACTORY Accidents. See Accidents
— Effluents, Work by Water Pollution Research Board, 446
— Management. See Works Management
— for Manufacture of Fluorescent Electric Lamps (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 391*
— Radiant-Heating Systems for (R. Crittall and Co., Ltd.), 403*
Fair, Trade. See Exhibition
Fans, Forced and Induced Draught, S.S. “ Andes,” 106
Fan Makers Association, Ltd., Luncheon, 341
Faraday-Davy Exhibition, Paris, 447
— Lecture on Electricity and Everyman, 231
— Medal, Award to Prof. M. L. E. Oliphant 87, 423
Farm Buildings, Standard Frames for, 211
Farming. See Agriculture: Tractors Farnborough, Royal Aircraft Establishment Technical College, Opening of, 208
Fatigue Tests of Metals. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials}
Fault Localising and Testing on Electric Mains (Review), 52
Federation of British Industries, Report on Scientific and Technical Research in British Industry, 205; Dinner to Nobel Prizemen, 303
Feed Water, Oxygen Recorder for (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 367
Plant, S.S. ” Andes,” 105
Softener. See Water
Ferguson, Pailin, Ltd., 33-kV Duplicate ’Bus- Bar Metalclad Switchgear, 509*
Ferguson Tractor, Introduction and Development of, 99
Ferranti, Ltd., 1,000-kVA 33/11-kV Transformer and Tap Changer, 463* ; Jeans Seed Conditioner, 463*
Ferro-Concrete. See Concrete^ Reinforced^ and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Ferromagnetic Materials, New Developments in (Review), 388
Ferry, Road, Services, Report of Committee on, 615
Finding, W., Radio Communication on Middle- East Oil Pipeline, 163
Finish, Surface, Plastic Replicas for Determining, 188*, 389*
Fires in American Diesel-Electric Locomotives. 181
— Appliances for Ships, 566
— Colliery Spoilbank, Control of, 278 Firth of Forth, Tidal Model of, 447 Fischer-Tropsch Process in Germany During War, 230 Process in United States, 398
Fisher, W. A. P., on Frozen-Stress Technique, 37
Fisheries and River Boards Bill, 518
Fishtoft Pre-stressed Cast-in-Situ Concrete Bridge, 608*
Fission, Atomic, of Radio-Elements, 363 Fitting of Shafts In Holes. See Qaztges Fixtures and Jigs for Mass Production (Review), 339
Flame Arresters for Diesel Engines Underground, 55*
— Propagation and Combustion, 550
— Traps for Oil-Engined Mining Locomotive 249*
Flameproof Apparatus in Mines, Investigations on, 254
Flanges, Pipe, for Land Use, Specification, 10 Fleet. See Warships
Fleming, Sir A. P. M., on Interrelation of Engineering and Metallurgy, 116
Flere, W. A., on Future of British Ports and Canals, 422. See LETTER, 520
Flexibox, Ltd., Carbon-Ring Liquid Seals, 438* Flies from Sewage Filters, Control of, 446 Flight. See Aeronaxdics
Floating Compressed-Air Plant at Amsterdam, 68
Flood Control by Tennessee Valley Authority, 158
Flow of Boiling Water Through Nozzles, 136. See LETTER, 185
— of Metals Research Laboratories, British Iron and Steel Research Association, 239
— Through Standard Nozzles, Orifice Plates
and Venturi Tubes (Review), 507
— Transmitter, Water (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 355*
Fluid, Compressible, Aerodynamics of (Review), 604
— Mechanics (Review), 293
Engineering Applications of (Review), 364
of Turbomachinery (Review), 460 Fluorine Emission from Brickworks, Effects on Livestock, 278
Flying Boats. See Aeronautics
Foden, E., Steam Traction Engines, 532*
Forbes, Prof. R. J., oh Distillation ; Invention of Rectffying Column, 378
Force, Engineering Units of, 40. See LETTERS, 64, 88, 112, 280, 328, 352, 496, 544, 592 Ford, Dr. H., on Deformation of Metals by Cold Rolling, 351 ; on Roll Force and Torque in Cold Strip Rolling, 351
Forest Products Research in Australia, 161 Forged Shafts, Fatigue Tests of, 183, 229, 286*, 310*
Forging Press. See Press under MachineTools Forth, Firth of, Tidal Model of, 447 Foster Instrument Co., Ltd., Temperature- Control Instrument, 367
Foundry Work. See Die Casting
— See also Castings ; Moulds
Foundry men. Founders Company of London, Educational Fellowships, 359
— Institute of British. See British Fouracre, E. J., the Late, 307
Fowell and Son, Ltd., Steam Traction Engines, 532*
Fracture, Brittle, in Mild-Steel Plates, 16*, 53*, 77*, 208*, 222*, 568*, 592*, 605*
Frames, Standard, for Farm Buildings, 211 lYance, G^nissiat Dam, River Rhone, 87
— See also French
Francis Turbine. See Turbines, Hydraulic Freeman, Major J., on Production per Man- Hour and Nation, 542
French Association of Aeronautical Engineers, Aircraft Power Plant Engineering, by F. Nixon, 127*
Freyssinet Pre-Stressing Process for Fishtoft ' Concrete Bridge, 608*
Friction in Bolted Connections in Structures, 433*
Frozen-Stress Technique, Properties of Materials for, 37
Fuel Consumption of Heavy-Oil Engines, Report on, 62
— Crisis, Effect on Engineering Industries, 5,29 and Electricity Supply, 451
— Institute of. Annual Report, 399
— Liquid. See Oil Fuel
— Motor. See also Qas; Motor
— Oil. See Oil Fuel
— Physics of Combustion of, 549
— Position in Argentina and Brazil, 163, 498
— and Power, Ministry of, on Shortage of Electrical Generating Plant, 111; Nationalisation of Gas Industry, 111, 326; Electricity Act, 1947, 159; Restriction of Electricity Supply, 184, 231; Restrictions on Electric Development, 207; South-Western Electricity Board, 226; Report on Petroleum and Synthetic Oil Industry of Germany, 230 ; Statistics of Electricity Supply, 491
— Problem and Electricity Supply, 545
— Tanks for Export Vehicles, Design of, 607
— Technology, Elements of (Review), 267
— See also Coal; Oil; Qas
Fulham Corporation, Collier M.S. ‘'Fulham VIII,” 32*
Fulton, H. W., on Export Vehicle Design, 695, 607. See 591
— Blast, Japanese, Capacity and Reparations Question, 374
Practice in Russia, 141*
— Metallurgical, Sketty Hall Laboratories, Swansea, 187*
— Open-Hearth, Design, Construction and Repair of, 474
Hearth, Development of, 499, 526
Hearth, Instruments for Use With, 474
Hearth, Practice in Russia, 141
— See also Coke Ovens
Fyson, C. J. R., Steam Traction Engines, 532*

GALVANISING Plant, Sketty Hall Laboratories, Swansea, 187*
Gantries for 450-ton Overhead Travelling Crane, 489*
— See also Crane
Gardiner, H. W. B., on Radio-Valve Manufacture, 135
Gardner, Dr. E., Liberation of Mesons by, 327 Gas Analyser, Infra-Red (Sir H. Grubb, Parsons and Co.), 354*
— Engine. See Engine^ Oas
— Fired Furnaces. See Furnaces
— and Gas Works. See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Industry and Its Future, 326 Nationalisation of. 111, 326
— Lighting Units and Fittings, Specification, 490
— Physics of Combustion of, 549
— Ports for Open-Hearth Furnaces, Design of, 474
— Research at Leeds University, 423
— Toxic, from Diesel Engines Underground, 55, 95,114
— Turbine. See Turbine
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Carbon Monoxide; Hydrogen ; Nitrogen ; Oxygen^ etc.
Gasoline. See Engine^ Petrol; Aeronautics Gauge, Comparator, Electro-Pneumatic (Sigma Instrument Co., Ltd.), 455*
— Grinding (M.P.J. Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 139*
— Tapered-Plug and Screw, Work on at National Physical Laboratory, 617
— and Toolmakers’ Association, Gauge and Tool Exhibition, 110, 136*
— Twist-Drill “ Matrix ” (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 137*
Gear Box, Synchro-Self-Shifting, for Mining Locomotive, 248*
— Materials and Lubricants, Testing Machine for (D. Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd.), 438*
— Non-Circular Algebraic, Intermeshing Design of, 49*
— Reversing. See Reversing Gear
Geared Turbines, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
Gearing, Double-Helical Reduction, M.S. “Fulham VIII,” 32*
— Reduction, Epicyclic, for “Mamba” Gas-
Turbine Propeller Aircraft Engine, 583* General Electric Co., Ltd., Fluorescent Lighting in Colliery, 113; Radio-Communication Equipment for Middle-East Oil Pipeline, 163; Quantity Production of Loom Motors, 176* ; Manufacture of Fluorescent Electric Lamps, 391* ; Flameproof Transformer Panel for Coal-Face Lighting, 452 ; Infra-Red Oven for Plastic Materials, 462; Magnetic Sorting Bridge, 462; Formation of Glass Bulbs, Ltd., 468; Method of Cold Welding of Metals, 535*
General Motors Corporation, 1,440-b.h.p. Sixteen-Cylinder Diesel Oil Engine, 465* Generating Plant Manufacture, Statistics, 125
— Station. See Power Station
Generator, Electric, 1,000-kW (Elliot Co.), 466* Alternating-Current, for Ships’ Auxiliaries, 214*
S.S. “ Andes,” 106 47,000-kW, Aswan Dam Hydro-Electric Scheme, 278 190-kW, for Diesel-Electric Locomotive (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 176*
Gas Engines for Driving, 558 65,000-kW, G6nissiat Hydro-Electric Scheme, 87 75-MVA Hydrogen-Cooled (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 559* 3,200-kV Impulse, Nelson Research Laboratories, Stafford, 57* 290-kW for Locomotives (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 416* 50-MW, Neepsend Power Station, 91 60-MVA, Nelson Research Laboratories, Stafford, 56*
Ships’, Damage by Non-Contact Explosions, 479*, 502*, 517. See LETTER, 616 Vertical-Shaft Water-Turbine Driven, Design of, 367* See also Turbo-Generators
G6nlssiat Dam, River Rhone, France, 87 Geoffreys, W., on Missing Scrap, 304 Geological Survey Board, Annual Report, 231 Geophysical Prospecting for Minerals, 522. See LETTER, 545
German Electrical Instruments, Developments in, 54
— Oil Production During the War, 230
— Submarine Design and Production, 376 Germany, Ball and Roller Bearing Industry, 85
— Petroleum and Synthetic Oil Industry of, Report, 230
— Reparations from. Report on, 301. See LETTER, 376
— Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, 1939- 45, 469
“Ghost” Turbo-Jet Engine, 160
Gibbons, H. J., on J. H. Hamilton and His Work, 647, 558
Giles, R. B., on Economic Utilisation of Electricity, 545
Gillanders, A. T., the Late, 563
Girder, Cast-Iron, Road Bridges, Testing of, 93*
— See also Beams; Bridges
Girdlestone Pumps, Ltd., IJ-in. Electrically- Driven Centrifugal Pump, 488*
Glaciers and Snow, Role of, in Hydrology of Punjab Rivers (Review), 365
Gladstone Dock, Liverpool, Radar Equipment at, 534*
Glass Bulbs, Ltd., Formation of, 468
— Houses, Electric Heating of, 151
Glen, J., on Creep in Steels, 496
Glyptal, Use in Frozen-Stress Technique, 37
Golding, E. W., on Application of Electricity to Horticulture, 151
Gomm, W. H., on Radio-Valve Manufacture, 135
Goodge-Street Station, Automatic Lifts at, 213
Gouge, A., on Size in Transport, 557, 599. See 543
Gough, I. K., on Professional Salaries, 160. See 110. See LETTERS, 184, 208, 304, 352, 544
Government Departments and Professional Engineers, 235
— and Inventions, 421, 445
— Policy and Engineering Industries, 5, 29, 65, 88, 99,123,148,172,196, 232, 257, 268, 293, 316
— Railways. See Railways
Graduates in Industry (Review), 541 Graphical Representation of Strain Analysis, 457*
Graphite, Colloidal, in Assembly Lubrication, 505*
— Nodular, Production in Cast Irons, 475 Gravitational Methods of Geophysical Prospecting, 522. See LETTER, 545
Gray Lecture on Gas Turbine Applied to Marine Propulsion, 111, 237*, 261*
Great Malvern, Telecommunications Research Establishment, Exhibition of Work, 619
Grid System, British, Metering Practice on, 342 Grinding Machines. See Machine Tools
— Mills, Water-Driven, Sheffield District, 166* Grit and Dust Emission from Electric Power
Stations, 278
Grover, S. F., on Moduli of Aluminium Alloys in Tension and Compression, 340
Grubb, Sir H., Parsons and Co., Infra-Red Gas Analyser, 354 ; Apparatus for Figuring Optical Surfaces, 520
Gudgeon, F. G., the Late, 389
Guerrier, Comdr. H. S.,on Wireless Direction Finding, 136. See 76
Guild, Engineers’, Objects of, 279; Annual Report, 472
Gun, 6-pdr. Army, Work of R.E.M.E. on, 117*
— Barrel Investigations in Australia, 245
— 5-5-in. Medium Howitzers, Work of R.E.M.E. on, 117*
— Steel, Criterion of “Yield” in, 279
— See also Ballistics; Explosives ; Projectiles; and PARAGRAPH INDEX

HAFNIUM, Discovery of, 122
Hahn, 0., Work on Atomic Fission, 26
Hajnal-Konyl, Dr. K,, on Shrinkage and Creep in Reinforced Concrete, 88
Hamilton, A. M., on Bolted Connections In Structures, 433*
Hamilton, J. H., Work on Internal-Combustion Engine, 547, 558
Hammers, Tilt, in Sheffield District, 165* Handling and Conveying Machinery, Output of, 317
Hanford Works, Washington, of United States Atomic Energy Commission, 86
Hardening, Porous-Chromium, of Diesel-Engine Cylinders, 139
— of Metals. See Jleat Treatment under Metallurgy
Hardness, Static and Dynamic, Theory of, 289*
— Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Harker, G. F. H., on Engineering Units of Force, 88. See LETTERS, 40, 64,112, 280, 328, 352, 496, 544,592
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Reconditioning of S.S. “ Andes,” 87, 105* ; Oil Tanker Niso,” 175 ; Trade-Apprenticeship Scheme, 581 “ Harpagus,” Cargo Ship, War-Time Repairs to, 69*
Harrow-on-the-Hill Railway Station, Improvements at, 522*
Harvey and Williams, Ltd., Steam Traction Engines, 532
Harwell Research Establishment, Production of Radioactive Isotopes at, 471
Harworth Factory of Glass Bulbs Ltd., 468
Hatfield Lecture on Decomposition of Austenite in Steels, 497
Haulage Underground, Use of Diesel Locomotives for, 54*, 95, 114
Havelock, Prof. T. H., on Effect of Boundary Layer on Wave Resistance, 401
Hawarden Bridge Steelworks, Shotton, Cheshire, Extensions to, 241*
Hawksley, E. D., on Administration of Ports, 620. See 422
Haymills (Contractors), Ltd., White City Station, 8*, 609
Health, Ministry of, Annual Report on Alkali Etc., Works, 278
Heat Control and Measuring Equipment (Ether, Ltd.), 512
— Engines. See Engines; Turbines; Aero
nautics
— Exchanger for Atomic Energy, 331, 431 Contra-Flow, Design of, 63
for Gas Turbines, 111, 237*, 261*
— Insulation of Presses for Plastics, Cooling
Water for, 185
— Pumps (Review), 171
and Cooling of Presses for Plastics, 185 Installation, Experimental, Perlvale Laboratory, 392*
— Release in Combustion Equipment, 549
— Treatment of Metals. See Metallurgy
— Waste. See Waste Heat Heater, Feed-Water. See Feed-Water Heating, District, Application and Economics of, 373. See Erratum, 395
— Electricity, Economics of, 545
— Electric, of Glass Houses, 151
— Machine, 85-kVA, Electric, for Steel Bars ^Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co,, Ltd.),
— Radiant, Systems for Factories (R. Crittall <fe Co., Ltd.), 403*
— Surfaces in Boiler Plants, Corrosion of, 207 — and Ventilating Engineers, Institution of. Annual Dinner, 183
— Water, Domestic, Electric, Centralised Ripple Control for, 309*
H. E. C. Compressors and Engines, Ltd. Petrol-Driven Air Compressor for Spray- Painting, 463*
’’ Hedgehog” Projectiles, Anti-Submarine, 159 Helical Gears. See Gearing
Helmer, C. H., on Engineering Units of Force. ’’’
Observatory, Transfer of Melbourne Observatory Transit Circle to,
Hertz, H. R., Production of Electromagnetic Waves by, 520
Heywood, R. B., on Application of Photo- Elasticlty, 37
High Frequency. See Electric
— Temperature Tests. See Tests (Materials) Highways. See Roads
History of Gas Turbine, 111, 237*, 261* H.M.SS. See under Warships
Hoe, Single-Wheel, 1-h.p. Petrol-Driven (Wes- TT : Industries (Poole), Ltd.), 510*
Hoists. See Cranes ; Gantries ; Derricks
Holder, C. P., on Vertical-Shaft Water-Turbine Driven Alternators, 357*
Holes, Fitting of Shafts in. See Gauging “ (W. E. Sykes, Ltd.),
Holland and Hannen and Cubitts, Ltd., Rein- fbrced-Concrete Aeroplane Propeller Test , Hed^ Hatfield, 332*. See Addendum, ^21 Steam Traction Engines, Ooo*
Holtz, J. C., on Diesel Engines Underground 54*, 95, 114 *
Holzwarth's Gas Turbine, Developments of, 238*
Home Office, Report on Electrical Accidents and Their Causes, 157
Honours List, King’s Birthday, 567, 591 New Year, 15, 39
Horticulture, Application of Electricity to. 151 Hot-Shortness in Ternary Aluminium-Rich Alloys, 305
Hours of Labour. See Labour
Howard, J. and F., Ltd., Steam Traction Engines, 533
Howitzers. See Guns
HucknaU Aeroplane Test Establishment, Rolls-Royce Ltd., 127*
Hughes, H I., Reinforced-Concrete Aeroplane Propeller Test Beds, Hatfield, 332*. See Addendum, 427
Humfrey J. C. Slf., on Peeling of Malleable Cast Iron, 130, 343
Humphries, E., and Co., Ltd., Steam Traction Engines, 533*
Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd., 204-b.h.p Diesel Locomotive for Algeria, 223
^^^eV* ’’ War-Time Ship Repairs,
Hunter’s Point Navy Yard, San Francisco, 450-ton Overhead Travelling Crane, 489* Hurworth, H., on Oil Deterioration in Transformers and Switchgear, 78
Hydraulic Coupling and Engineering Co. Ltd M’S* “Fulham
VIII, 32*; Fluid Coupling and S.S S Powerfiow Gearbox, 248*
— Jack for Prestressing Cables in Fishtoft Concrete Bridge, 608*
— Power Plant. See Power Plant
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools
— Turbines. See Turbines; Power Plant Hydraulics. See Water
Hydro-Electric Power Plant. See Power Plant Hydrogen Admixtures, Simulation of High Air Temperatures by, 508*
— Cooling for 76-MVA Alternator, 559*
— Heavy, Discovery of, 313*
— In Steel, Embrittling Effect of, 582 Hydrogenation of Coal In United States, 398
Process for Oil Production in Germany During War, 230
Hydrology of Punjab Rivers, Role of Glaciers and Snow in (Review), 365
Hydromechanics Research Association, Appointment of L. E. Prosser as Director, 147
^^^Ltd^l27*^^^^^^^^ I'actory. Rolla-Royce Illun^nat^ng Engineering (Intermediate Grade), Illumination of King’s Cross Railway Goods Yard, 403*
— See also Ughting and Lamps under Electric impact Loading of Structures, Effects of 409*
— Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Development of Power Cartridges, 296. See Erratum, 364 ; Electronic Stop Watch, 521 Import Trade. See Trade
Vacuum, at National Physical Laboratory, 617
Impulse Turbines. See Turbines
** Inca ” Gears, Design of, 49*
Incandescent Lamps. See Lamps under Ktec^nc
Incentives in Industry, Need for, 109 Inchicoro Works, Dublin, 635-b.h.p. Diesel- Electric Shunting Locomotive, 416*
Inclusions in Steels, Examination of, 497 Indexing Scientific Information, Royal Society Conference on, 572, 615
India Rubber. See Rubber
Indicator, Electronic, for Motor-Car Engine
Testing, 333
Induction. See Electric Industrial Accidents. See Accidents Administration, Institute of, Annual General Meeting, 223
— Chemistry. See Chemistry
— Furnaces. See Eurnaces
Management. See PFOZAJS Management
— Research. See Research
— Revolution and Art (Review), 76 and Art Exldbition, London, 231 Industries, British, Federation of. See Ferferation
— Education for, British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education, Report on,134
— Graduates in (Review), 541
— Need for Incentives in, 109
and Research, Electronics and Their Application In (Review), 99
— See also Trade and FAEAGKAPH INDEX Influence Lines : Their Practical Use in Bridge Calculation (Review), 243
Information, Scientific, Distribution of, Royal Society Conference, 572, 615
Ingots, Steel, Moulds for, Investigations on, 521 Surface Defects on, 521 . Inland Navigation. SQQ Navigation; Canals, Rivers etCt
— Waterways Association. Work of,
British Transport on, 422. See LETTER, 520
Insecticides, Experimental Work at Sewage Treatment Plants, 446
Institute. See Institution
— of Transport. See Transport Institution, British Standards. See Standards of Production Engineers. See Prod^tiori Professional, Council Elections In, 256. see LETTERS, 280, 328
— Royal. See Disfitwtion
Technical and Scientific. See Aeronautical Society, Royal; American Railroads, Association of; British Associatwn; British Eoundrymen, Institute of; Chernical Engineers, Institution of; CivilEngineers, Institution of; Consulting Engineers, ciation of; Diesel Engine Users Association; Electrical Engineers, Institution of; Engineers-in-Charge, Institution gineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, Institution of; Erench Association of Aero-^ nautical Engineers; Euel, Institute oj; Beating and Ventilating Engineers, Institution of; Industrial Administration, Institute of; Iron and Steel Institute; ^nior Institution of Engineers ; Liverpool Engineering Society; London , Association of Engineers; Marine Engineers, Institute of; Maudslay Society; Mechanual Engineers, Institution of; Metals, Institute of, Metallurgists, Institution of; Min'^ig Engineers, Institution of; Mining ar^ Metallurgy, Institution of; Model and Experimental Engineers, Society of; Municipal Electrical Association, Incorporated; Eavai Architects, Institution of; Newcomen Society; North-East Coast institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders; Old Sheffieta Tools, Society for Preservation of; 1 etro- leum. Institute of; Physxcal Society; Physics, Institute of; Produdion Engineers, Institution of; Royal Society; Scientific Workers, Association of; Scottish Engineering Students" Association; Sheffield Metallurgical Association ; Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of; Transport, Institute of; Welding, International Institute of; Whitwo'Tth Society
Instruments, Electrical, Developments in Continental Practice, 54
Electronic, Measuring and Recording Exhibition, 186 ,
— Scientific, Industry, Position and Prospects, 317
Physical Society’s Exhibition, 354*, 366* — Strain and Deflection, for Sliips, 175 for Testing of Automobiles and Automobile Engines, 333*
— for Use in Controlling Temperature in Open- Hearth Furnaces, 474
— See also Aeronautics; Electric Insulation, Sound, in Buildings, Specification, 610
— See also Heat; Electric
Inter-Allied Reparation Agency, Report, 301 Interferometry, Length Measureinent by, 520 Internal-Combustion Engines. See Aeronautics ; Engines; Motor Cars; fractors. Turbine, Gas m
Grinder. See Grinder under Machine l oots International Conference on Large High-Tension Systems, Paris, 327, 592
of Safety of Life at Sea, 1948, London, ^of Slup-Tank Superintendents, 543 Congress on Large Dams, Stockholm, 590 — Institute of Welding, Formation of, 615 Mechanical Engineering Congress, Pans, Programme, 520
— Trade. SeQ Trade .
Invasion of Europe, Ship-Repairing and Shipyard Problems during, 329
Inventions, Development of. Bill, 421, 445
— See also Patents . .
Inverness-shire, Hydro-Electric Schemes for, 495
Iron Alloys. See Metallurgy and Steel
Case-Hardening. See Beat Treatment under
Castings, Production Statistics, 30, 90, 3io Corrosion. See Corrosion Furnaces. See E'urnaces
— Heat Treatment. See MeZaZZww
Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast; Metallurgy
— Ore. See Ore
Rolling Mills. See RoZZw Mills
— and Steel Industry, Japanese, Capacity and Reparations Question, 374
Industry in Russia, 141* Industry, United Kingdom, Position and
Prospects, 5, 29 ,
on Open-Hearth Melting Furnaces, by R. C. Baker, 474
Production of Nodular Graphite in Cast Irons, by H. Morrogh and W. J. Williams, 475
Carbides in Iron-Carbon-Silicon Alloys and Cast Irons, by D, Maries, 475
Abnormal Creep in Carbon Steels, by J. Glen, 496
Creep Properties of Molybdenum, Chro- mium-Molybdenum, and Molybdenum-Vanadium Steels, by J. Glen, 496
Micro-Examination of Eight Steels for Inclusions Sub-Committee, by Dr. J. H. Wliiteley, 497
Study of Segregations and Inclusions in Steel by Micro-Radiography, by Dr. W. Betteridge and R. S. Sharpe, 497
Some Thermodynamical Aspects of Formation of Inclusions in Mild-Steel Weld Metal, by Dr. E. C. Rollason and E. Bishop, 497
Hatfield Lecture on Decomposition of Austenite by Nucleation and Growth Processes, by Prof. R. F. Meld, 497
Comparison of Moulds of Standard Composition, by W. L. Kerlie, 521
Mould Weight/ingot Weight Ratio and its Relation to Mould Composition, by N. H. Bacon, 521
Ingot Surface Defects: Formation of “ Double Skin ” or “ Curtaining ” on Top-Poured Ingots, by P. Walker, 521
Meeting to Discuss Peeling in Malleable Iron :
Programme, 130 Proceedings, 343
Joint Meeting with British Iron and Steel Re- search Association:
First Report of Methods of Testing (Corrosion) Sub-Committee, 619
Iron and Steel Research Association, British, Metal-Flow Research Laboratories, 239 ; Research on Cold Rolling, 351; Laboratory Corrosion Test for Steels, 619
Research in Russia, 143
Works. See Works
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Tests. See Tests {Materials}
— Welding, See Welding
— See also Cast Iron ; Steel; Metalhirgy
Ironfounding Industry, Survey of, for 1947, 279 Ironwork, Structural. See Bridges; Roofs; Structures
Irvine, K. J., on Sulphide Penetration in Carburisation of Steel, 130, 343 ; on Peeling of Malleable Cast Iron, 130, 343
Isometric Projections, Ltd., ” Perspector ” Draughting Machine, 536*
Isotopes and Atomic Energy, 25, 220*, 313*, 361. See Ermiww, 427
— Radioactive, Production at Harwell, 471
Production and Utilisation of, 447
I.T.D., Ltd., ” Stacascoop ” Works Truck, 462*
Ivatt, H. G., Modified 4-6-0 Type Mixed-Traffic Locomotives, 272*; 2-6-0 Type Freight Locomotive, 344*

JACK, Hydraulic, for Pre-Stressing Cables in Fishtoft Concrete Bridge, 608*
Jackson, J. F. B., on Centrifugal and Precision Steel Castings for Aircraft, 481*
Jacob, F. C. J., on Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in Germany, 469
Japanese Industrial Reparations, Report, 374 Jeans-Ferranti Seed Conditioner, 463*
Jefi’rey, L. F., on Power-Plant Development in United States, 135
Jenkinson, J. R., on Corrosion of Heating Surfaces in Boiler Plants, 207
Jennings, J., on Engineering Umts of Force, 112. See LETTERS, 40, 64, 88, 280, 328, 352, 496, 544, 592
Jennings, Dr. P. H., on Constitution of Alu- minium-Iron-Silicon Alloys, 305 ; on Hot- Shortness in Ternary Aluminium-Rich Alloys, 305 I
Jet Propulsion Progress (Review), 435
— Rocket Aeroplane, “ Skyrocket,” for United States Navy, 175*
Jigs and Fixtures for Mass Production (Review), 339
Johnson, C. V., Eccles Electricity Supply, 246 Johnson, E. M., on Vertical-Shaft Water-Turbine Driven Alternators, 357*
Johnson and Phillips, Ltd,. Aluminium-Sheathed Power Cables and Cable Joints, 404, 439*
Johnson, W. E. P., on School of Gas-Turbine Technology, 352
Johnson, W. P., on Reparations in Kind, 376. See 301
Journals. See Bearings
Junior Institution of Engineers, Annual Dinner, 424 ; Stevens Lecture on Coal-Oil-Chemicals, by Dr. J. G. King, 495; Midland Section: Presidential Address of L. F. Jeffrey on Impressions of Power-Plant I Development in the United States, 135

KELVIN, BOTTOMLEY and BAIRD, LTD., Vibrograph, 367
Kelvin Lecture on Nervous System as Electrical Instrument, 423
Kent, Chislet Colliery, Fluorescent Lighting Installation at, 113
Kerlie, W. L., on Moulds for Steel Ingots, 521 Kestin, Dr. J., on Engineering Units of Force, 496. See LETTERS, 40, 64, 88,112,280,328, 352, 544, 592
Khedivial Mail Line, S.S. “ El Malek Foad,” 152*
Kiefer, P. W., on Railway Motive Power of Future, 613
Kiel and Altona Railway, Early Kitson Locomotive for, 244*. See Erratum^ 298
Kilns and Ovens, Pottery-Firing, Test Codes for, 106
Kineraatograph. See Cinematograph
King, Dr. A. J., on Attenuation of Sound in Lined Air Ducts, 97*, 145*
King, Dr. J. G., on Coal-Oil-Chemicals, 495 King’s Birthday Honours List, 567, 591
— Cross Railway Goods Yard, Illumination of, 403*
— Lynn, Historic Engineering Works at, 567
Kirkby, J. M., on Mechanical Features of Anti- Submarine Weapons, 159
Kitson and Co. Early Locomotive by, 244.* See Erratum^ 298

LABORATORY, Clarendon, Oxford, Betatron at, 621
— Commercial and College, United States Directory (Review), 206
— for Metal-Flow Research, British Iron and Steel Research Association, 239
— Perivale, Experimental Heat-Pump Installation, 392*
— Practice, Electrical, Scheme for Co-operation in, 208
— Radiation, California University, Liberation of Mesons, 327
— Research, Nelson, of English Electric Co. j Ltd., 56* I
Shell Refining and Marketing Co., Ltd,, ! Opening of, 519
— Sketty Hall, Swansea, British Iron and Steel Research Association, 187*
— Standard Corrosion Tests for Steels, 619
— Vacuum Pump (Pulsometer Engineering Co., Ltd.), 440*
— See also National Physical

Labour :

Apprentice-Training Scheme, Davy and United Engineering Co,, Ltd., 467
Scheme of Enfield District Manufacturers’ Association, 327
Scheme, Harland and Wolfe, Ltd., 581
Scheme, S. Osborn and Co., Ltd., 572 School, Derby Locomotive Works, 102*
Dock Labour and Economics of Ship Operation, 306, 415
Education of Workpeople for Industry, 134 Employment in Engineering Industries, 5, 29, 65, 88, 99, 123, 148, 172, 196, 232, 257, 268, 293,316
Industrial Accidents. See Accidents Labour in Ironfounding Industry in, 1947, 279
— Notes 20, 44, 68, 92, 116,140, 164, 188, 236, 260, 284, 308, 332, 356, 380, 404, 428, 452, 476, 500, 524, 548, 572, 596, 620. See PARAGRAPH INDEX
Need for Incentives, 109
Payment by Results in Building and Civil Engineering During the War, 14
** Production per Man-hour,” Conference on, 542
Wages in Engineering Industries, 5, 29, 65, 88, 99, 123, 148, 172, 196, 232, 257, 268, 293, 316
Lagging Materials. See Heat Insulation Laing, Sir James, (fe Sons, Ltd., War-Time Repairs to M.S. ” Vardefjell,” 69
Laing, John, and Son, Ltd., Centenary of, 495
Lakeman, E., on Council Elections in Professional Institutions, 328. See LETTERS, 256, 280
Lambert, D. E., on Standardisation of Switchgear, 282, 307
Lamble, Dr. J. H., on Experimental Method of Stress Analysis, 436*
Lamps, Electric. See Electric
Lancashire, Eccles, Electricity Supply in, 246 Land-Clearance Equipment for East Africa, 513*
— Drainage and River Boards Bill, 518 Larke, E. C., on Loads Involved in Metal Strip Rolling, 304
Lathes. See Machine Tools
Latin, Dr. A., on Pressure and Creep Tests on Lead Pipes, 341
Laue Photograph, Diffraction of X-Rays by Zinc Sulphide, 121*
Launches and Trial Trips, 10, 34,130, 164,178, 202, 236, 271, 308, 322, 345, 370, 394, 418, 455, 466, 504, 524, 538, 562, 607
Launderers Research Association, British, Decision on Liability for Bates, 135
Law. See Legal; Patents
Lattes, Dr. G. M. G., Liberation of Mesons by, 327
Lattice of Sodium Chloride and Caesium Chloride, 121*
Lawers, Perthshire, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 615 Lawrence, B. 0., Perfection of Cyclotron, 315* Layer, Boundary, Effect on Wave Resistance, 401
Lead Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Isotopes of, 28
— Pipes, Pressure and Creep Tests on, 341
Lead Sulphide Photo-Conductive Cell, Use for Pyrometric Measurements, 21*, 46*
Leder, P. L. J., on Weldability of Steels and New Weld-Cracking Tests, 573*, 682
Lee, C. E., on Eskdale Kailway, 15
Lee, Dr. 0. K. J., on Single- and Multi-Hole Extruded Aluminium-Alloy Bar, 328
Leeds University, Report of Coal-Gas and Fuel- Industries Department, 423

Legal:

British Launderers Research Association, Decision on Liability for Rates, 135
Development of Inventions Bill, 421, 445 Electricity Act, 1947,159, 325
Liverpool Waterworks Act, 1847, Centenary of, 159
River Boards Bill, Scope of, 518 Transport Act, 1947, Implementation of, 13,18*
See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Legislation. SeeZe^aZ; Labour; Patents Leicester, Reinforced-Concrete Locomotive Shed at, 199*
Lemale and Armengaud’s Gas Turbine, 238* Length Measurement by Interferometry, 520 Lennie, K. S., on Engineering Units of Force, 40. See LETTERS, 64, 88, 112, 280, 328, 352, 496, 544, 592
Letters to Editor, 15, 40, 63, 88, 112, 136, 160, 184*, 208, 255, 280, 304, 328, 352, 376, 400, 448, 496, 520, 544, 592, 616
Leuna Hydrogenation Oil Plant in Germany During War, 230
Leyland Motors, Ltd., 75-b,h.p. 6 to 7-ton Motor Vehicle, 103*; 125-b.h.p. Horizontal Diesel Engine for Omnibus, 561*
Library Services, Royal Society Conference on, 572, 615
— Universal Decimal Classification, English Standard Edition, 610
Lichtwitz, O., on Pythagorean Numbers, 112* Lickley, J. M., on Surface Analysis with Plastic Replicas, 389*
Life Saving, International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, London, 1948, 566
Lifeboats for Ships, 566
Lift, Automatic, in London Underground Railways, 213*. See Erratum, 346
— Hand-Power, Specification, 154 Light Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— See Spectrum
Lighting, Airfield Approach, Demonstration of, 551
— Coal-Face Flameproof, Transformer Panel for (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 452
— Gas, Units and Fittings for, Specification, 490
— in Mines, Experiments in, 113, 254
— Street, Centralised Ripple Control for, 309*
— See also Lamps under Electric Lightning. See Electric
Limit Gauges. See Gauges
Lindemann, F. A., Work on Atomic Research, 170
Line of Communication, Railway to Victory in the East (Review) 339
Liners. See Ships; Steamers
Linings of Air Ducts, Attenuation of Sound Along, 97*, 145*
Liquid Fuel. See Oil Fuel. See also Motw
— Seals, Carbon-Ring (Flexibox, Ltd.), 438*
— Viscosity of. See Viscosity
Literature, 4, 28, 52, 76, 99, 147, 171, 221, 243, 267, 292, 339, 364, 387, 413, 435, 460, 507, 533,556,581,604. See LITERATURE INDEX Litliium Nucleus, Fission of, 266*
Litigation. See Legal; Labour; Patents Littlebrook Power Station, 75-MVA Hydrogen- Cooled Alternator, 559*
Liverpool Engineering Society, Combustion, by Dr. R. P. Wallis, 549*
— Radar Navigational Aid for, 534*
— Waterworks Act, 1847, Centenary of, 159 Lloyd’s Register, Statistics of Vessels under
Construction 87, 423 ; Rules for Quality and Testing of Aluminium Alloys for Shipbuilding Purposes, 135; Spanish Com- . mittee, 164 ; Annual Summary of World Mercantile Shipbuilding, 207: Register Book,349
Load Indicating and Control Cabinet for 150- ton Structure-Testing Machine, 79*
Loader, ^-Cub. Yd. Muir-Hill, Petrol-Driven' (E. Boydell and Co., Ltd.), 510*
Loading, Impact, of Structures, Effects of, 409* Local Authorities. See Municipal
Loch Sloy, Extension Hydro-Electric Scheme. 683
Locomotive, 2-8-2 Type (W. G. Bagnall, Ltd.), 369*
— British Railways, Renumbering of, 329
— Building Industry, Position and Prospects. 148
— 204-b.h.p. Diesel, for Algeria (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 223
— Diesel-Electric, Use in United States, 181 Engined 204-h.p. (Vulcan Foundry, Ltd.), 393
Investigation on Operation Underground. 54*, 95, 114
— 3,000-h.p, Electric (English Electric Co.. Ltd.), 441
— Exchanges on British Railways, 308
— 4-6-2 Type Express Mixed-Traffic, London and North Eastern Railway, 161*
— Freight, 2-6-0 Type, British Railways, 344*
— Gas-Turbine, Possibilities of, 613
— Early Kitson, for Altona and Kiel Railway. 244*. See Erratum, 298
— Mining, 100-b.h.p. Oil-Engined (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 248*
— Modified 4-6-0 Type Mixed-Traffic, British Railways, 272*
— 4’4-4-4 Type Passenger, Pennsylvania Rail road, Tests of, 193*. See LETTER, 255
— Running Departments, Work of, 390
— Sheds, Reinforced-Concrete, at Carlisle,
Leicester and Chester, 199*
— Shunting, 400-h.p. Diesel-Electric (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 176*
— 535-b.h.p. Diesel-Electric, Inchicore Works, Dublin, 416*
Locomotive, Steam and Diesel, Comparison of Working Costs, 181
and Diesel-Electric Compared, 613
Turbine, Advantages of, 613
— Testing Plant Altoona, Pennsylvania, Tests of 4-4-4-4 Type Locomotive, 193*. See LETTER, 255
Plant, Mobile, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 399, 596*, 620*
— Works, Derby, Apprentice-Training School, 102*
— See also Railways in PARAGRAPH INDEX London, Art and Industrial Revolution Exhibition, 231. See 76
— Association of Engineers, Dinner, 471
— County Council, Crossness Sewage Pumping Station, 568
— Pounders Company, Fellowship Awards, 359
— Gauge and Tool Exhibition, 110, 136*
— International Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, 566
— Midland and Scottish Railway, Mobile
Locomotive-Testing Plant, 399, 596*, 620*
— and North Eastern Railway, Third-Class
Sleeping Car, 44; 4-6-2 Type Express Locomotive, 151* ; Illumination of King’s Cross Goods Yard, 403*
— Passenger Transport Board, Final Annual Report, 350
— Power Company, Work of, 279
— Transport, Executive, Central Line, White City Station, 8*, 609 ; Improvement Plans, 63 ; Congestion on Underground Railways, 448 ; Speed-Controlled Signalling and Sand-Trap Turn-Outs, 450* ; Metropolitan Line, Improvements to, 522* ; Central- Line Extensions, 543
— Underground Railways. See "Underground and London Transport Executive
Loom, Motors for. Quantity Production of (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 176*
Lorries. See Motor Vehicles; Tractors
Los Alamos Works, New Mexico, of United States Atomic Energy Commission, 86
Lubricants and Gear Materials, Testing Machine for (D. Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd.), 438*
Lubricating Oils. See Oils
Lubrication, Assembly, Colloidal Graphite in, 505*
— of Bearings for Water-Turbine Driven Alternators, 358*
— in Heavy-Oil Engines, Report on, 62
— of Michell and Plain Thrust Bearings, 617
— Research in Australia, 245
Lutterworth, School of Gas-Turbine Technology, 352

MACCUTCHEON, LIEUT.-COMDR. E. M., on Fracture of Mild-Steel Plates, 77*
MacGillivray, W., on Speed at Sea and Despatch in Port, 414. See 306
Mac. See also Me
Machine Shops. See Works and Machine Tools Testing. See Testing Machine and Tests {Materials}

Machine Tools :

Boring and Turning Mill, 6-ft. (Craven Brothers (Manchester), Ltd.), 485* Cutting Tools and Machine-Tool Design, 39, 189*
Grinding Dovetail Slideways (A. Scrivener, Ltd.), 392*
— Machine, Automatic Centreless (Churchill Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 282* Crankpin (Churchill Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 9*
Internal, Automatic (Churchill Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 417*
Hydraulic Press. See Press (below) Lathe, Precision Capstan (Denfords Engi- i neering Co., Ltd.), 136* i
— ” Preoptive ” Headstock for, 190* i
— 4|-in. Screw-Cutting (Denfords Engineering Co., Ltd.), 136
Limit Gauging. See Gauging
Machine Shop Management. See Works Management
— Tool Design and Modern Cutting Tools, 39, 189*
Designed by J. H. Hamilton, 559 and Engineering Exhibition, 1948, Plans for, 591
— — Exhibition, Chicago, 91 Industry, Position and Prospects, 30, 88
Reparations from Germany, 301. See LETTER, 376
— Work, Tolerances in. See Gauging Nibbling and Shearing Machine (F. J. Edwards, Ltd.), 509*
Press, 5-ton, Electrically-Operated (Denfords Engineering Co., Ltd.), 136
— Hydraulic, 150-ton, for Plastics (T. H. and J. Daniels, Ltd.), 509
for Plastics, Cooling Water for Heat Insulation of, Wo 10,000-ton, with Pre-Stressed Concrete Frame, 441*
Punching and Shearing Machine (G. Cohen, Sons and Co., Ltd.), 510* Shearing Machine,* Guillotine (Brookes (Oldbury), Ltd.), 487*
— and Nibbling Machine (F. J. Edwards, Ltd.), 509*
— and Punching Machine (G. Cohen, Sons and Co., Ltd.), 510*
Tools, Electric, Portable, Accidents with, 157
Turning and Boring Mills. See Boring (above) See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Machine Work. See Machine Tools Mackie, E., on Steel “ Rationalisation,” 185 Magnesium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
Magnet Cranes for Open-Hearth Furnaces, 526 — for Electrical Instruments, German Practice, 54
Magnetic Methods of Geophysical Prospecting, 622. See LETTER, 545
Magnetic Sorting Bridge (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 462
Magnetism, New Developments in Ferromagnetic Materials (Review), 388
— Terrestrial, Department of, Carnegie Insti
tution of Washington, Annual Report (Review), 52
Magnitogorsk Steel Plant, Russia, 141
” Magslip ** Remote Control (Muirhead and Co., Ltd.), 366*
Maguire, C. R., on Attenuation of Sound in Lined Air Ducts, 97*, 145*
Mains, Electric. See Cables under Electric
Malleable Cast Iron, Whiteheart, Discussion on Peeling of, 130, 343
“Mamba" Gas-Turbine Propeller Aircraft Engine, 583*
Management of Works. See Works Management
Manchester College of Technology, Scheme for Co-operation in Electrical Laboratory Practice, 208 ; Experimental Method of Stress Analysis, 436*
Mann and Charlesworth, Steam Traction Engines, 536*
Manufacture, Scientific Methods in. See Works Management
Marconi Instruments, Ltd., Meter, 464 Marine Auxiliary Machinery, Alternating Current for, 214*
Machinery, S.S. “ Andes,” 106
—• — Machinery, S.S. ” Commandant Quer6,” 618
Machinery, S.S. ” El Malek Foad,” 154 Machinery and Economics of Ship ' Operation, 306, 414
Machinery, Effect of Non-Contact Explosions on, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Engines, Engines ; Turbines; Marine Propulsion
— Engineers, Institute of. Longitudinal Vibration in Marine-Propeller Shafting, by C. P. Rigby, 381*, 405* ; Annual Report, 399
— Engineering in Germany, 1939-45, 469 Industry, Position and Prospects, 257 Recent Advances in, 591
— Propulsion, 1,640-b.h.p. Diesel Engines, M.S. ” Fulham VIII,” 32*
Gas Turbines for Naval Craft, 135 30,000-s.h.p. Geared Turbines, S.S. ” Andes,” 87, 105 5,400-s.h.p. Geared Turbines, S.S. ” Commandant Quer6,” 618
Geared-Turbines, Effect of Longitudinal Vibration on, 381*, 405* 8,000-s.h.p. Geared Turbines, S.S. ” El Malek Foad,” 152*
Machinery Production in Germany, 1939-45, 469
Machinery for Warships, 281
Nuclear Energy as Source of Power for, 330, 428*. See Erratum^ 394
Oil Fuel for. See Oil Fuel
Recent Advances in, 591
Types of Machinery and Fuel Costs, 306, 414
Types of Machinery, Lloyd’s Statistics, 349
Warship Macliinery, Effect of Non- Contact Explosions on, 352, 477*, 501*, 517,525*. See LETTER, 616
See also Engines ; Turbines; Propellers; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Turbines, See Turbines^ Steam; Marine Propulsion
” Markay,” Oil Tanker, Temporary Repairs,400 Markets. See Trade and PARAGRAPH INDEX Maries, D., on Carbides in Iron-Carbon-Silicon Alloys and Cast Irons, 475
Marshall, C. W., on Continental Engineering Practice, 113
Marshall, P., the Late, 376, 400
Marshall, Dr. P. R., on Temperature of Railway Brake Blocks, 21*, 45*
— Plan for Europe and Engineering Industries, 6, 123
Marshalling Yard, Toton, Improvements at, 171 Martin, P., Work on Open-Hearth Furnace, 499 Mass and Energy and Atomic Research, 25*
— Spectrograph, 220*, 265*
Mastic Asphalt, Damp-Proof Courses, Specification, 178 I
Materials, Strength of. See Tests {Materials) Mathematics, Vector Analysis, Symbolic Method of (Review), 460
Matheson, Prof. J. A. L., on Mechanics of Locked-Coil Wire Ropes, 578*, 601*
” Matrix ” Twist-Drill Gauge, 137*
Matthews, Dr. B. H. C., on Nervous System as Electrical Instrument, 423
Mattocks and Picks Specification, 370 Mattresses, Concrete, Flexible, for River Bank Protection, 337*
Maudslay Society, Annual Luncheon, 567 ” Maxigrip ” Universal Clamp, 78*
May Lecture on Search for Minerals by Physical Methods, 522. See LETTER, 645.
McCallum, J., on Pressure Distribution Over Model HuU, 402
McLean, D., on Striations: Metallographic. Evidence of Slip, 328; on Single- and Multi-Hole Extruded Aluminium-Alloy Bar, 328
Me. See also Mac
Meadows, H., Ltd., 94-b.h.p. Portable Oil- Driven power Plant, 488*
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of:
Benevolent Fund, Functions of, 63, 112; Annual Report, 423
Inaugiuation of Clayton Fellowships, 351, 399
Proposals for Increase in Subscriptions, 397. See LETTER, 400. See.En-aiw, 424
London Meetings^ Winter Session:
Measurement of Temperature of Sliding Surfaces, with Particular Reference to Railway Brake Blocks, by Drs. R. C. Parker and P. R. Marshall, 21*, 45*
London Meetings, Winter Session—cordinued. Basic Physical Properties Belied Upon in Frozen-Stress Technique, by W. A. P. Fisher, 37
Modern Application of Photo-Elasticity, by R. B. Heywood, 37
Clayton Lecture on Problems Encountered by R.E.M.E. in the Field, by • Major-Gen. Sir E, B. Rowcroft, 117* Some Recent Developments in Technique of Radio-Valve Manufacture, by J. W. Davies, H. W.'B. Gardiner and W. H. Gomm, 135
Mechanical Engineering Aspects of Naval Mining, by Dr. E. C. Wadlow, 159 Some Mechanical Features in Anti-Submarine Weapons, by J. M. Kirkby, 159 Nomination of Officers, 207
Presentation of Awards and Prizes, 207 Corrosion of Heating Surfaces in Boiler Plants, by J. R. Rylands and J. R. Jenkinson, 207
Gray Lecture on Gas Turbine as Applied to Marine Propulsion, by T. A. Crowe, 237*, 261*
Modern Cutting Tools and Machine Tool Design, by C. Eatough, 189*. See 39 Wave Action Following Sudden Release of Compressed Gas from Cylinder, by Drs. G. F. Mucklow and F. K. Bannister, 255
Annual Meeting, 303 Election of Officers, 303 District Heating, by A. Stubbs, 373. See Erratum, 395
Mobile Locomotive-Testing Plant, London Midland and Scottish Railway, by Dr. H. I. Andrews, 596*, 620*. See 399
Glasgow Summer Meeting:
Opening Proceedings, 616
Some Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering on Shipboard, by T. A. Crowe, 591, 616
Export Vehicle Design, by H. W. Fulton, 595, 607, 616. See 591
Dinner, 616
Visits and Excursions, 616
Applied Mechanics Croup : Design of Contra-Flow Heat Exchangers, by Prof. E. Schmidt, 63
Criterion of “ Yield ” in Gun Steels, by Prof. J. L. M. Morrison, 279
Plastic Stress-Strain Relations, by Dr. W. M. Shepherd, 279
Large-Scale Torsional-Fatigue Testing of Marine Shafting, by Dr. S. F. Dorey, 286*, 310*. See 183, 229
Researches into Deformation of Metals by Cold Bolling, by Dr. H. Ford, 351 Calculation of Boll Force and Torque in Cold-Strip Rolling with Tensions, by
D. R. Bland and Dr. H. Ford, 351
Automobile Division:
Chairman’s Address on 43 Years’ Progress of Automobile Engineering, by Capt. G. T. Smith-Clarke, 39
Notes on Test Methods and Some Instruments, by E. B. Stead, 333*
Export Vehicle Design, by H. W. Fulton, 595, 607. See 591
Paper for Written Discussion:
Factors Influencing Weldability of High- Tensile Alloy Steels, and New Weld- Cracking Test, by P. L. J. Leder, 573*, 582
Mechanical Engineering Congress, International, Paris, Programme, 520
Mechanics Course, Swiss Federal Polytechnic, Statics (Review), 604
— Fluid, Engineering Applications of (Review), 364 (Review), 293
of Turbomachinery (Review), 460
Mediterranean-Persian Gulf Oil Pipeline Radio-Communication Equipment for, 163
Meehanite Iron Shafts, 183,229, 311*
Mehl, Prof. R. F., on Decomposition of Austenite in Steels, 497
Melbourne Observatory, Transit Circle, Transfer to Royal Observatory, 111
Mennons, M. A. F., Gas-Turbine Patent, ill, 237*
Merchant-Navy Scholarships, Drewry Fund,274
— Ships. See Ships ; Steamers; Motorships
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
“Merlin” Aeroplane Engine, Production During War, 127*
Merrlngton, A. J., on Ship-Repairing during Invasion of Europe, 329
Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, Radar Equipment for Liverpool, 534*
Meson, Cosmical Ray Characteristics, 363*
— Laboratory Liberation of, 327 Mesothorium, Discovery of, 26
Metals, Cold Welding of, Methods, General Electric Co., Ltd., 535*
— Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Deformation by Cold Rolling, 351
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials)
— Flow Research Laboratories, British Iron and Steel Research Association, 239
— Fracture of. Theoretical Considerations, 16*, 53*, 77*, 208*, 222*, 568*, 592*, 605*
Metals, Institute of ;
Capper-Pass Awards in Metallurgy, 255 May Lecture on Search for Minerals by Physical Methods, by Prof, A. 0. Rankine, 622. See LETTER, 545
Annual General Meeting:
Programme, 202
Report of Council, 279, 328 Honorary Treasurer’s Report, 279, 328 Election of Officers, 279, 328 Platinum Medal, Award to R. C. Stanley, 279, 328, 548
Presidential Address, by Sir A. Smout, on Forty Years of the Institute of Metals, 285. See 279, 328
Reports of Discussions, 304, 328. 340, 365 Calculation of Loads Involved in Metal Strip Rolling, by Dr. M. Cook and
E. C. Larke, 304
Hot-Shortness of Some High-Purity Alloys in Systems Aluminium-Copper-Silicon and Aluminium-Magnesium-Silicon, by Drs. P. H. Jennings and A. R. E. Singer, and W. I. Pumphrey, 305 Consideration of Constitution of Alumin- ium-Iron-Silicon Alloy and Its Relation to Cracking Above the Solidus, by Dr. P. H. Jennings and W. I. Pumphrey, 305
Striations: Metallographic Evidence of Slip, by D. McLean, 328
Effect of Single- and Multi-Hole Die Extrusion on the Properties of Extruded Aluminium-Alloy Bar, by Dr. L. Northcott, D. McLean and Dr. O. R. J. Lee, 328
Young’s Modulus of Some Aluminium Alloys, by N. Dudzinski, J. R. Murray, B. W. Mott and Dr. B. Chalmers, 340 Moduli of Aluminium Alloys in Tension and Compression, by S. P. Grover, W. Munro and Dr. B. Chalmers, 340 Pressure and Creep Tests at Constant Hoop Stress on Lead and Alloy-“ E ” Pipes, by Dr. A. Latin, 341
Recent Developments in Corrosion-Resistant Aluminium-Magnesium Alloys, by Drs. P. Brenner and W. Roth, 365 Visits and Excursions, 365
Metals, Non-Ferrous, Exports and Imports, 319 Ferrous, Statistics, British Bureau of, Formation, 375
— Static and Dynamic Hardness of. Theory of, 289*
— Strip Rolling, Calculation of Loads, 304
— Structure of. See Microphotographs
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Metallurgy; Microphotographs Metallography. See Metals; Metallurgy;
Microphotographs
Metallurgical Association, Sheffield. See Sheffield
Metallurgists, Institution of. Annual Meeting, 592
Metallurgy and Mining, Institution of. See Mining

Metallurgy :

Alloy, Aluminium-Copper-Silicon, Hot- Shortness in, 305
Effect of Single- and Multi-Hole Extrusion on, 328
Iron-Silicon, Constitution of, 305 Magnesium, Corrosion-Resistant, 36 Magnesium-Silicon, Hot-Shortness in, 305
for Shipbuilding Purposes, Quality and Testing of, 135
Structural Design in, Handbook of (Review), 4
Young’s Modulus of, 340
— Copper, Wrought Products, Glossary of Terms, 178
See also BrasSy etc.
— Iron-Carbide-Siiicon, Carbides in, 475 Carbon with Boron, Properties of, 12 — Lead “ E,” Pressure and Creep Tests of, 341
— Nickel, Production and Uses of, 31
— Tungsten, Electrodeposition of, 372
— Zinc, Die Castings, Plating of (Review), 604
Wrought Products, Glossary of Terms, 178
Blast Furnaces, See Furnaces
Brass. See Brass
Capper-Pass Awards in Metallurgy, 255 Cast Iron. See Cast Iron
Chromium, Porous, Electroplating on Diesel-Engine Cylinders, 139
Coke Ovens. See Coke Ovens Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion
Flow of Metals Research Laboratories, Sheffield, 239
Foundry. See Foundry; Moulds Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces — Metallurgical. See Furnaces
Heat Treatment, Carburisation of Steel, Sulphide Penetration, 343
Definitions of, 58
of Steel Castings for Aircraft, 483*
Iron Making, Early, in Sheffield District, 165*
— Manufacture. See also FurnaceSy Blast
— Ore. See Ore
Metals, Tests of. See Tests {Materials) Metallurgical Industries, Charter- for Technical Staff in, 110. See LETTERS, 160, 184, 208, 304, 352, 544
— Progress, Influence of Institute of Metals on, 285. See 279, 328
— Research in Australia, 162, 245
Metallurgists, Institution of, Annual Meeting, 592
Metallurgy Department, Sketty Hall Laboratories, Swansea, 187*
— and Engineering, Interrelation Between, 116
Mond Nickel Fellowships, Award of, 231 Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills Steel Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Manufacture, Developments in, 499, 526 Welding. See Welding
See also Iron and Steel Institute; MetalSy Institute of; Microphotographs; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Meter, Millisecond, Chronotron (Electronic Instruments, Ltd.), 367
— i?H, Direct-Reading (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 464
— Smoke, for Motor-Vehicle Oil Engines, 333 «
— See also Flectric
Metering Practice on British Grid System, 342
Metric Values, Equivalent, Insertion in Scientific Papers, Proposal for, 115
Metropolitan Railway, Improvements on, 522* Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., 50-
MV Turbo-Alternator, 91; Investigation on Attenuation of Sound in Lined Air Ducts, 97*, 145* ; Gas Turbine of H.M. Motor Gunboat 2009, 135 ; 2,500-s.h.p. Marine Gas-Turbine Plant, 263 ; High- Vacuum Metal-Film Coating Unit, 354* ; Surface Analysis with Plastic Replicas, 389* ; Speed Control of Direct-Current Electric Motor, 464*; “ Turbovisory ”
Gear, 485*, Speed Recorder for Winding- Engine Tests 537 ; 85-kVA Electric Heating Machine for Steel Bars, 546* ; 75- MVA Hydrogen-Cooled Alternators, 559 —- See also London Mica Production in Australia, 379 Michel and Plain Thrust Bearings, Lubrication of, 617
Microphotograph of Cracks in Welded Low- Alloy Steel, 573*
— Craters in Turning Tools, 191*
— Welded Ship Plates, 208*, 222*, 594*, 605* Microphotography, Practical (Review), 581 ** Microptic ** Precision Clinometer, 137* Micro-Radiographical Examination of Inclusions in Steels, 497
Microstructure of Metals. See MicrophotO' graphs . .
Midland Engineering Co., Ltd., Gas Engines of, 547
— Engineering Relics in, Survey of, 494 Mihtary Motor Transport. See Motor Mills, Rolling. See Rolling Mills Mines, Coal. See Collieries
— Safety in. Research Board, Annual Report, 254
— Submarine, Damage to Warship Machinery
by 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616 Z.
Mechanical Engineering Aspects of, 159
— United States Bureau of. See United States
— Use of Diesel Locomotives in, 54*, 95,114
— Winding. See Winding
— See also Coal; Collieries; Mining ; Ores ; Winding ; and PARAGRAPH INDEX Mineral Oils. See Oils
— Search for by Physical Methods, 522. See LETTER, 545
— See also Coal; Mining; Ores;GRAPH INDEX ,
Mining Engineers, Institution of, Newcastle |
Meeting Programme, 444; Newcastle i Meeting Dinner, 591 j
Need of in Coal Industry, 591
— Machinery, Production of, 123
— and Metallurgy, Institution of, Capper-Pass Awards, 255; Medals and Awards, 599 ; Presidential Address on Activities of Institution, by S. E, Taylor, 622
— Naval, Damage to Warship Machinery by, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER,
— — Mechanical Engineering Aspects of, 159
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Ministry of Health. See Health
— of Labour and National Service. See under Labour
— of Supply. See Supply
— of Transport. See Transport
Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd., 820-b.h.p. Diesel Engines, M.S. “ Fulham Vlli, 32* ; 535-b.h.p. Diesel Engine for Locomotives, 416 ,
Mirrlees (Engineers), Ltd., Works for Mirrlees- Imo Pumps, 44
Mississippi River Commission, Flexible Concrete Mattresses for Bank Protection, 337 Mixing Machines,. Concrete. See Concrete Model Bridge, Reinforced-Concrete, Tests of, 95
— Experiments. See also Aeronautics Tank Experiments and Experimental Engineers, Society of, Exhibition by, 495
— Structures for Engineering Traimng, 385*
— Tidal, of Firth of Forth, 447 of River Wyre Estuary, 617
Modern Wheel Drive, Ltd., Reversing Gear for Marine Gas-Turbine Plants, 262
Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., Weld-Cracking Apparatus, 573*, 581
Fellowships, Award of, 231 Monoplane. See Aeronautics Monro, J. M., and Son, Propeller Test Beds at Hatfield, 332*. See Addendum, 427 Morrison, Prof. J. L. M., on Criterion of “ Yield ” in Gun Steel, 279
Morrogh, H., on Production of Nodular Graphite in Cast Irons, 475
Morse, Samuel, Work on Electric Telegraph, 565 Moseley, H. G. J., Work on Atomic Research, 28, 73, 122*, 361
Motion Study and Elimination of Waste Time, 542

Motor Car Details :

Chassis for 6- to 7-ton Motor Vehicle (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 103
for 7-ton Motor Vehicle with Under-Floor Engine, 320*
Engines. See Engines, Petrol, Motor Car Motor-Car Engines. See Engines, Petrol Engineering, 43 years’ Progress in, 39 for Export, Design of, 595, 607 Fuels. See Motor Fuels Gas Turbine for (Centrax Power Units, Ltd.), 461
Military. See Motor Vehicles
Testing, 333
See also Motor Vehicles and PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Electric, Accidents with, 157
Alternating-Current, on Public-Supply Mains, Directions on, 183
Alternating-Current, for Ships’ Auxiliaries, 214* 116-b.h.p., for Diesel-Electric Locomotive (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 176
Direct-Current, Speed Control of (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 464*
for Looms, Quantity Production of (General Electric Co., Ltd,), 176*
Motors, Electric, Production of, 30, 90
Report on Failure of, 494
Sliips*, Damage by Non-Contact Explosion, 479*. See LETTER, 616 1,500-h.p. Slip-Ring Induction, Nelson
Research Laboratories, Stafford, 56* Traction, for Diesel-Electric Locomotives, 181
Traction, 177-b.h.p., for Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 416*
Traction, High-Acceleration Controller for (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 368*
— Fuel Production in Germany During War, 230
— Hoe, 1-h.p. Petrol-Driven Single-Wheel
(Wessex Industries (Poole), Ltd.), 510*
— Internal-Combustion. See Aeronautics ;
Engines; Motor Cars; Tractors
— Lorries. See Motor Vehicles
— Marine. See Engines ; Marine Propulsion ;
Motorships
— Omnibus, Development of, 557 125-b.h.p. Horizontal Diesel Engine for (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 561* for London Transport Executive, 63
— Paraffin. See Engines, Oil
— Petrol, See Aeronautics ; Engines, Petrol; Motor Cars; Tractors
— Road Rollers. See Road Rollers
— Spirit. See Motor Fuel
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Vehicle, 75-b.h.p. 6- to 7-ton (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 103
Commercial, 5- and 7-ton, with Under-
Floor Engine (Commer Cars, Ltd.), 320* Electric, Battery Connectors for. Specification, 106
for Export, Design of, 595, 607 50-b.h.p. General-Purpose (Rover Co., Ltd.), 512
Industry, Position and Prospects, 196 of London Transport Executive, 350 of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 118 5-ton “ Snowmobiles,” Use in Arctic, 417 i?esting, 333*
Trailer, 50-ton Low-Loading (R. A. Dyson <fe Co., Ltd.), 224*
— Wagons. See Motor Vehicles; Tractors Motorships under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 87, 259, 423
— “ Fulham VIII,” Fulham Corporation’s Collier, 32*
— Launched in 1947, Lloyd’s Statistics, 207
— Launches and Trial Trips, 10, 34, 130, 164, 178, 202, 236, 271, 308, 322, 345, 370, 394, 418, 455, 466, 504, 524, 538, 562, 607
— Oil-Tank “ Pontfield,” War-Time Repairs
to, 69*
Tank
to, 70*
“ Vardefjell,” War-Time Repairs
See also Oil Tanker

NAGA-HAMADI Scheme, 277
National Coal _ Fluorescent Lighting in Collieries, 113
— Federation of Engineers’ Tool Manufacturers, Gauge and Tool Exhibition, 110, 136*
— Physical Laboratory, Tidal Model of Firth
of Forth, 447 ; Length Measurement by Interferometry, 520: “Open Day” Exhibition of work, 617
Nationalisation of British Transport, Commencement of New Regime, 13,18*
— of Electricity Supply Industry, 159,325, 590
— of Gas Industry, 111, 326
— of Inventions, 421, 445
Naval Aeronautics, See Aeronautics
Naval Architects, Institution of :
Revision of Membership Designations, 352
Spring Meeting, London: Programme, 250
Report of Council, 281 Election of Officers, 281
Presidential Address by Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham on Shipbuilding Industry, 281
Naval Architects, Institution of—continued^
Spring Meeting, London—continued.
Reports of Discussions, 306, 329, 352, 376’ 400
Annual Dinner, 306
Ship-Repairing and Shipyard Problems in Invasion of Europe, by A. J. Merrington,329
The Royal Navy and Nuclear Power, by R. J. Daniel, 428*. See 330. See Erratum, 394
German U-Boat Design and Production, by Const. Comdr. J. F. Starks, 352. 376
Temporary Hull Repairs to Tanker “ Mar- kay,” by A. Reid, 400
Calculations Illustrating Effect of Boundary Layer on Wave Resistance, by Prof. T. H. Havelock, 400
Small Model Experiments and Viscosity Effects, by R. T. Shiells, 402
An Examination of Pressure Distribution Over a Model Hull, by J. McCallum, 402
Speed at Sea and Despatch in Port, by W. MacGillivray, 414. See 306
Effect of Non-Contact Explosions on Warship Machinery Design, by Comdr. (E) A. D. Bonny, 477*, 501*, 525*. See 352. 517. See LETTER, 616
Naval Construction. See Warships
— Mining, Damage to Warship Machinery by, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616
Mechanical Engineering Aspects of, 159
— See also Warships
Navigation, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Improvements by Tennessee Valley Authority, 158
— Wireless Direction Finding (Review), 76. See LETTER, 136
Navigational Aid, Radar, for Liverpool, 534* Navy, British. See H.M. under Warships
— German. See German under Warships
— United States. See XJnited States under Warships
— See also Naval; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Neepsend Power Station, Sheffield, 50-MW Turbo-Generator at, 91
Negation, Discovery of, 313 Nelson Research Laboratories of English Electric CO., Ltd., 56*
Neptunium, Production of, 427
Nervous System as Electrical Instrument, 423 Networks, High-Voltage, Centralised Ripple Control for, 309*
Neutron, Discovery of, 313*
Newby, M. P., on Design of Open-Hearth Gas Ports, 474
Newcomen Society, Distillation; Invention of Rectifying Column, by Prof. R. J. Forbes, 378; Brake Wheels and Wallowers, by H. O. Clark and R. Wales, 453* ; Midland Branch: Survey of Engineering Relics in Midlands, 494 ; Sammer Meeting, Norfolk: programme, 441; Proceedings, King’s Lynn, 567
New Year Honours List, 15, 39
— York State, Delaware Aqueduct, Use of Diesel Locomotives on. 54*, 95,114
— Zealand Government 50-ton Low-Loading Trailer, 224*
Nickel Industry in 1947, 31
— Steels, Production and Uses of, 31
Nile Control Barrages, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 277,577*
Niraule, Sudan, Proposed Hydro-Electric Station, 577*
“ Niso,” Oil Tanker, Experimental Voyage, 175 Nitrogen Oxides from Diesel Engines Underground, 55, 95, 114
Nixon, F., on Aircraft Power plant Engineering, 127*
Nobel Prizes, Awards to Sir R. Robinson and Sir E. Appleton, 303
Nodular-Graphite Cast Irons, Production, 475 •‘Noflote” Control System for Electrically- Driven Pumps, 355*
Nomogram, Strain-Stress, 460*
Nomography, Elements of (Review), 364
Non-Ferrous Metals. SQQ Metals; Metallvrga
Norfolk, Steam-Engine Builders of (Review), 340
Normandy Beach, Army Vehicles Landing on, 120* ‘
Norris, H. W., on Professional Salaries, 184. See 110. See LETTERS, 160, 208, 304, 352, 544
North-East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, Some War-Time Ship Repairs, by E. J. Hunter, 69* ; Alternating- Current for Ships’ Auxiliaries, by A. N. Savage, 214* ; preservation of Birthplace of George Stephenson, 351. See 376, 400: Sir A. Ay re prize Regulations, 448
Engineering Bureau, Annual Report, 327 North, Notes From, 11, 35, 59, 83,107,131,155, 179, 203, 227, 251, 275, 299, 323, 347, 371, 395, 419, 443, 467, 491, 515, 539, 563, 587, 611. See PARAGR.iPH INDEX
— of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, Pitlochry
Training College, 159; Plant Extensions, 231; Inverness-shire Schemes, 495 ; Loch Sloy Extension and AUt-na-Lairige Schemes, 583 : Lawers Scheme, 615
— Wales, Engineering Industry in, 351 Northcott, Dr. L., on Single-and Multi-Hole Extruded Aluminium-Alloy Bar, 328
Northern Ireland, Joint Electricity Committee for, 207
Notched-Bar Tests. See Tests {Materials) Notes on New Books. See Books and LITERATURE INDEX
— See Cleveland; North; South-West; South Yorkshire; Labour, See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Nottingham University College, Stuart Lecture on J. H. Hamilton and His Work, by H. J. Gibbons,547, 558
Nozzles, Flow of Boiling Water Through, 136. See LETTER, 185
— Standard, Orifice Plates and Venturi Tubes, Flow Through (Review), 507
Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy, 25*, 7^, 121*, 169* 217*, 265*, 313*, 361*, 424*, 472*. See Errata, 171, 427
— power and Royal Navy, 330, 428*, See Erratum,r
Numbers. Pythagorean Applications of, 112*
Nuttall, E., Sons and Co. (London), Ltd., White City Station, 3*, 609

OAK RIDGE WORKS, Tennessee, of United States Atomic Energy Commission, 86
Obituary : (Moved to separate index)
Observatory, Royal, Heratmonceux, Transfer of Melbourne Observatory Transit Circle
Office Machinery, Output Statistics, 317 Oflbrd D. E. JM Fundamental Aspects of Brittle Steel, 53*
Ohio, Brilliant, Testing Station for 500-kV Transmission Lines, 7*
Oil, Boiler and Diesel, Comparative Costs, 414
— venus Coal for Ships, Economics of, 306, 414
— Deterioration in Transformers and Switch gear, 78
— Engines. See Engines^ Oilj MotOT Cars! QJr actors
— Fuel Burner, S.S. “ El Malek Foad,” 153* for Burners, Specification, 106
for Oil Engines, Specification, 274
— Geophysical Prospecting for, 522. See LETTER, 545
— Graphited, Use on Bearing Surfaces, 505* Lubricating, Consumption in Heavy-Oil
Engines, Report on, 62 Production in Germany, During War, 230
— Motors. See Engine, Oil; Motor Vehicles; Tractors
— Physics of Combustion of, 549
— Pipeline, Brazilian, 498
Persian Gulf-Mediterranean, Radio-Communication Equipment for, 163
— Production from Coal, 495 and Consumption in United States, 470 German, During War, 230
— Research Laboratories, Thornton-le-Moors, Opening of, 519
— Switches. See Suntchgear
— Synthetic, and Petroleum Industry of Germany, Report on, 230
Production in United States, 398
— Tanker “ Markay,” Temporary Repairs, 400 “ Niso,” Experimental Voyage of, 175 War-Time Repairs to, 69*
World’s, Lloyd’s Statistics, 349 See also Motorships, Oil-Tank
— Tractors. See Tractors
— See also Lubrication; Petroleum Oldham, Shaw Factory, Manufacture of Fluorescent Electric Lamps, 391*
Old Sheffield Tools, Society for Preservation of. Water Wheels of Sheffield, by A. Allison, 165*
Oliphant, Prof. M. L. E., Award of Faraday Medal to, 87, 423
Olson, C. A., the Late, 179
Olympia. See Exhibition Omnibus, Motor. See Motor Omnibus Open-Hearth Furnace. See Furnace Optical Measuring Tools, Ltd., 16-in. Rotary
Table with Optical Indicator, 138*
— Research in Australia, 246
— Surfaces, Apparatus for Figuring (Sir H. Grubb, Parsons and Co.), 520
— Transients, Recording of, 380 Ordnance. See Eallistics; Explosives ; Guns Ore-Dressing Plant in Russia, 141
— Iron, Survey of British Deposits, 231 Organic Chemistry. See Chemistry
Orifices, Flow of Boiling Water Through, 136. See LETTER, 185
— Plates, Standard Stozzles and Venturi Tubes, Flow Through (Review), 507
Ormsby, E. S., on Work of P. Willans, 255. See LETTER, 304
Orowan Theory of Hot and Cold Rolling, 351 Osborn, S., and Co., Ltd., Apprentice Training Scheme, 572
Oscillations, Electric. See Electric Oscillograph. See Electric
Oscilloscope, Universal (Cinema-Television, Ltd.), 186
Outlook, Engineering, 5, 29, 65, 88, 99, 123, 148,172, 196, 232, 257, 268, 293, 316 0-Vee Spring Gauges, Ltd., “ 0-Vee ” Screw- Thread Comparator, 138
Ovens, Coke. See Coke Ovens
Infra-Red, for Plastic Materials (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 462
— and Kilns, Pottery-Firing, Test Codes for, 106
Overhead Cranes. See Cranes Lines, Power Transmission, British Metering Practice on, 342
Power Transmission in Canada, Statistics, 182
Overhead Lines, Power Transmission, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 302
Power Transmission for, Centralised Ripple Control on, 309*
Power Transmission, Failure in Southern England, 519
Power Transmission, High-Voltage, in Sweden, 43
Power Transmission, Standardisation of Switchgear for, 282, 307
Power Transmission, 500-kV Testing Station for, 7*
Overseas Food Corporation, Land-Clearance Equipment for Bast Africa, 513*
Oxford-Circus Station, Automatic Lifts at, 213
— Clarendon Laboratory, Betatron at, 521 Oxidation of Oil in Transformers and Switchgear, 78
Oxy-Acetylene Welding. See Welding Oxygen Recorder for Feed Water (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 367
— Magnetic (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 367

PAINT, Ready Mixed, British Standard Colour
Card for, 586
Painting, Spray, Petrol-Driven Air Compressor for (H.E.C. Compressors and Engines, Ltd.), 463*
Pantograph, Isometric-Projecting (Isometric Projections, Ltd.), 536*
Papers, Scientific, Proposal for Insertion of Equivalent Metric Values in, 115 Paraflan Engines. See Engines, Oil
— Tractors. See Tractors
Paris, Davy-Faraday Exhibition, 447
— International Conference on Large High-Tension Systems, 327, 592
Mechanical Engineering, Congress, Paris, Programme, 520
— Public Works Laboratory, 10,000-ton Hydraulic Testing Press, 441*
Parker, Dr. R. C., on Temperature of Railway Brake Blocks, 21*, 45*
Parr, P., on the Future Engineer, 235
Parsons Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine Propulsion
Pascoe, K. J., on Experimental Voyage of Oil Tanker “ Niso,” 175
Passenger Traffic of London Passenger Transport Board, 350
Patents, Arc-Welding, American (Review), 76
— for Gas Engines, 547, 558
— Record, 24*, 72*, 96*, 120*, 144*, 192*, 216*, 240*, 312*, 336*, 360*, 384*, 408*, 432*, 456*, 480*, 504*, 528*, 552*, 576*, 600*, 623*. See PATENT RECORD INDEX
— See also Trade Marks
Paving, Concrete, Articulated, for Bank Protection, River Mississippi, 339*
Peeling of Whiteheart Malleable Cast Iron, Discussion on, 130, 343
“Penguins” 5-ton Motor Vehicles, Use in Arctic, 417
Pennsylvania Railroad, Tests of 4-4-4-4 Type Passenger Locomotive, 193*. See LETTER, 255
Peppercorn, A. H., 4-6-2 Type Express Locomotive, 151*
Periodic Law and Atomic Research, 25*, 121, 169*, 427
Perivale Laboratory, Experimental Heat-Pump
Installation, 392* Permanent Magnets. See Magnets
— Way Renewal in Polhill Tunnel, 162, 211*. See Addenda, 250, 299
Persian Gulf-Mediterranean Oil Pipeline, Radio
Communication Equipment for, 163 Personal, 10, 34, 58, 82,106,130,154,178, 202, 226, 250, 274, 298, 322, 346, 370 (See Erraturn, 419), 394, 418, 442, 466, 490, 514. 538, 562, 586, 610 ' i
“ Perspector ” Draughting Machine, 536* '
Petrol Motors. See Aeronautics; Engines,
Petrol; Motor Cars ; Tractors
— Tractors. See Tractors
Petroleum, Institute of, Formation of London Branch, 221
— and Synthetic Oil Industry of Germany, Report, 230
— See also Oil; Paraffin; Engines, Oil
Meter, Direct-Reading (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 464
Photo-Conductive Cell, Lead-Sulphide, Use for
Pyrometric Measurements, 21*, 45*
— Elasticity, Applications of, 37 Photograph, Laue, Diffraction of X-Rays by
Zinc Sulphide, 121* Photographic Surveying (Review), 4 Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs Photomicrography, Practical (Review), 581 Physical Department, Sketty Hall Laboratories, Swansea, 187*
— Investigations in Australia, 161, 245
— Laboratory. See National Physical
— Methods of Search for Minerals, 522. See T.'K’T’TWR
— Society’s Exhibition, 354*, 366*
Physics of Arc Welding, 38
— Atom and Its Energy (Review), 340
— of Combustion, 549*
— Institute of, Summer School in Physics, Bristol University, 207, 484 ; Annual Report, 519
— Laboratory, Nelson Research Laboratories, Stafford, 58
— Mesons, Liberation of, 327
— Nuclear, and Atomic-Power Engines, 330, 431. See Erratum, 394
— Story of Atomic Energy, 25*, 73*, 121*, 169*, 217*, 265*, 313*, 361*, 424*, 472*. See Errata, 171, 427
— Summer School in, Bristol University, 207, 484
— See also Physical Society, and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Picks and Mattocks, Specification, 370 Pier for 450-ton Overhead Travelling Crane, 489*
Pierson, R. K., the Late, 64 Pile, Atomic, Use for Marine Propulsion, 330, 431. See Erratum, 394
Pile, Uranium Construction of, 425
Pipe Flanges for Land Use, Specification, 10
— Lead and Alloy-“ E,” Pressure and Creep Tests of, 341
Pipeline, Oil, Brazilian, 498 Persian Gulf-Mediterranean, Radio-Communication Equipment for, 163
— Sand and Water, at Shotton, Cheshire, 241* Pitlochry Hydro-Electric Training College, 159 Pitting. See Corrosion
Planck, M. von, Work on Quantum Theory, 73, 170. See Erratum, 171
Plastic Flow in Gun Steel, Investigations on, 279
— Materials, Equipment for Preparation and Manufacture of (Review), 413
— Replicas for Determining Surface Finish, 188*, 389*
Plastics Manual (Review), 293
— Presses for, Use of Cooling Water for Heat Insulation of, 185
— Welding of (Review), 147
Plate, Flat, Loaded, Stress Analysis in, 436*
— Mild-Steel, Brittle Fractures in, 16*, 53*, 77*, 208*, 222*, 568*, 592*, 605*
— Shearing Machine. See Machine Tool^ Plating, Electro. See Electro
Platinum Medal, Award to R. C. Stanley, 279, 328, 548
Plessey Co., Ltd., Coffman Cartridge Engine Starter, 296*. See Erratum, 364
Ploughing, Steam Traction Engines for (Savages, Ltd.), 553*
Plug, Thermocouple, for Motor-Car Engine Testing, 333*
Plutonium, Production of, 426
Pneumatic. See Compressed Air ; Air Compressor
Pocock, L. C., on Survey of Telephone Transmission-Rating, 206
Polar and Non-Polar Compounds, 169 Polarised Light. See Photo-Elastic Polhill Tunnel, Track Renewal in, British Railways, 162, 211*. See Addenda, 250, 299
Pollution, Atmospheric, Report on Alkali, etc., Works, 278
— Research Board, Water, Annual Report, 446 Water, and River Boards Bill, 518
Polytechnic. See Education
“ Pont field,” M.S., War-Time Repairs to, 69* Pontoons for Sand and Water Pipeline, at Shotton, Cheshire, 241*
Ports and Canals, British, Future of, 422. See LETTER, 520
— Continental, Ship Repair Facilities at, 329
— Despatch in, and Speed at Sea, 306, 414
— Gas, for Open-Hearth Furnaces, Design of, 474
— United Kingdom, Shipping in, Report on Turn-Round of, 567
Portable Engine. See Engine
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools Portland Cement. See Cement Positron, Discovery of, 313 Potentiometer. See Electric
Pottery-Firing Ovens and Kilns, Test Codes for, 106
Poultney, E. C., on Tests of 4-4-4-4 Type Passenger Locomotive, 193*. See LETTER, 255
Powder for Guns. See Explosives Power Cartridges, Application of, 296*. See Erratum, 364
Power Jets (Research and Development), Ltd., Investigation on Stresses in Turbine-Disc Rims, 1*, 40* ; Acquisition of School of Gas Turbine Technology, 352
— Nuclear, and Royal Navy, 330, 428*. See Erratum, 394
— Plant, Hydro-Electric, in Argentina, 163
— — Hydro-Electric, Aswan Dam and Nile Barrages, 277
— Hydro-Electric, in Canada, Present Position, 182
Hydro-Electric, Del Valle River Scheme, Argentina, 498
_ — Hydro-Electric, Design of Alternators for, 357*
Hydro-Electric, G^nissiat, France, 87 Hydro-Electric, Inverness-shire Schemes, 495
Hydro-Electric, Japanese, Capacity and Reparations Question, 374
Hydro-Electric, Loch Sloy Extension and Allt-na-Lairige Schemes, 583
— — Hydro-Electric, for Nile Control, 577 Hydro-Electric, Scotland, Extensions to, 231, 495, 583, 615
— — Hydro-Electric, of Tennessee Valley Authority, 158
See also Power Stations; Power, Water; Substations
— Press. See Machine Tools
— Production from Atomic Energy, 86
— Station, Electric, in Berlin, 375
Electric, Central Electricity Board’s Report, 302
Electric, Clyde’s Mill, Yarrow Boilers at, 247
Electric, 1,440-b.h.p. Diesel-Driven Generating Plant, 465*
Electric, and District Heating, 373. See Erratum, 395
Electric, Effect of Electricity Act, 1947, 159
Electric, Engineering and Financial Statistics for 1944-45, 614
Electric, Grit and Dust Emission from, 278
Electric, Japanese, Capacity and Reparations Question, 374
Electric, Littlebrook, 75-MVA Hydrogen- Cooled Alternator, 559*
Electric, Plant Development in United States, 135
Electric, Production of Plant for, 125 Electric, of Sheffield Electric Light and Power Co., 91
Electric, Shortage of Generating Plant for. 111
Electric, Standardisation of Switchgear for, 282, 307
— — Electric, Vesting Date of British Electricity Authority, 325
Power Station. SGG sdio Power Plants; Sub~ staiiions
— Supply, Electric, Accidents with, 157 Electric, Adjustment of Tariffs, 471 Electric, Alternating-Current, for Ships Auxiliaries, 214* .
Electric, Application to Horticulture, 151 Electric, in Berlin, 375
Electric, and British Industry, 567, 589 Electric, in Canada, Present Position, 182 Electric, Central Electricity Board s Report, 302
Electric, Domestic, Restrictions on, 207 Electric, in Eccles, Lancashire, 246 Electric, Economic Utilisation of, 545 Electric, Effect of Electricity Act, 1947, 159
Electric, Electricity Commissioners Annual Report, 451 . .
Electric, Engineering and Financial Statistics for, 1944-45, 614
Electric, Every Day Applications of, 231 Electric, Failure in Southern England, 519
Electric, Intake Arrangements for Flats, Specification, 226
Electric, Interim Tariffs for, 327 Electric, International High-Tension Conference, Paris, 327, 592
Electric, in Inverness-shire, 495 Electric, Metering on Grid System, 342 Electric, Northern Ireland Joint Electricity Committee for, 207
Electric, Prices Control and Relaxation of Obligations Orders, 184, 231
Electric, Restriction of, 184, 231
— — Electric, Shortage of Generating Plant,
-Electric, Statistics of Units Generated, 87, 186, 298, 403, 491
Electric, by Tennessee Valley Authority, ^^lectric, Vesting Date of British Electricity Authority, 325
Electric, Work of London Power Co., 2/9
— Transmission, High-Voltage, in Sweden, 43 Overhead Lines, British Metering Practice on, 342
Overhead Lines, in Canada, St^istics, IJiZ Overhead Lines "
Board’s Report, 302 Overhead Lines,
Control on, 309 Overhead Lines, England, 519
Overhead Lines, Switchgear for, 282, 307
Overhead Lines, 500-kV Testing Station for, 7 . 7 •
See also Gearing; Marine Propulsion Water, Developments in Scotland, 231, 495, 583, 615
See also Power Plants, Hydro-Electric; Turbines, Hydraulic ,
Wind, Possibilities for Electricity Genera-
Preece, A., on Peeling of Malleable Cast Iron, 130, 343; on Sulphide Penetration in I Carburisation of Steel, 130, 343
Premier Gas Engine Co., Ltd., Work of J. H. Hamilton for, 547, 558
“ Preoptive ” Headstock for Lathe, 190* Presidential Address to Incorporated Municipal
Electrical Association, by J. Eccles, on Problems in British Industry, 567, 589 to Institute of Metals, by Sir A. Smout, on Forty Years of the Institute, 285. See 279, 328 . , .
to Institution of Chemical Engineers, by H. W. Cremer, on Chemical Engineer and Civilisation, 390, 399
to Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, by S. E. Taylor, on Work of Institution, 622 . X V
to Institution of Naval Architects, by Lord Cunningham, on Shipbuilding Industry, 281
to Iron and Steel Institute, by Sir A. McCance, on Development of Open- Hearth Furnace, 499, 526. See 450
to Midland Section, Junior Institution of Engineers, by L. F. Jeffrey, on Power- Plant Development in United States, 135 Press. See Machine Tools
Pressed Steel Co., ” Silver Princess ” Stainless-
Steel Railway Carriage, Trial Run of, 43 Pressure Distribution Over Ship-Model Hull, 402 in Soils, Report on (Review), 460 Vessels for Industry (Review), 388 Pre-Stressed Concrete Co., Ltd., Freyssinet
Pre-Stressing Process, Fishtoft Concrete Bridge, 608* .
Prime, H. A., on Recording of Electrical and Optical Transients, 380
Probst, A. E., on Peeling of Whiteheart Malleable Cast Iron, 130, 343
Production Engineers, Institution of, Wolverhampton Section : Conference on Production per Man-Hour. Importance of “Production per Man-Hour” to the Nation, by Major J. Freeman, 542; Belgium’s Contribution to ” Production per Man-Hour,” by R. Caussin, 542; Motion Study and Elimination of Waste Time, by
A. G. Shaw, 542; America’s Contribution to ” Production per Man-Hour,” by J. Y. Scott, 542 ; Practical Side of ” Production per Man-Hour,” in Production Shops, by B. H. Dyson, 542
and Research, Statistical Methods in (Review), 413
Professional Engineers’ Appointments Bureau, Report for 1947,183
Institutions, Council Elections in, 256. See LETTERS, 280, 328
Salaries in Engineering Industry, 110. See LETTERS, 160, 184, 208, 304, 352, 544
Projectiles, ” Hedgehog,” Anti-Submarine, 159 Props, Roof, for Mines, Experiments with, 254 Propellers, Aerial. See Aeronautics Marine, and Longitudinal Vibration of
Shafting, 381*, 405
Propulsion of Ships. See Marine Propulsion; Engines; Turbines; Propellers
Pros^r, L. E., Appointment a.s Director of British Hydromechanics Research Association, 147
Protactinium, Discovery of, 28
Proving Rings for 150-ton Structure-Testing Machine, 79*
Public Works Construction in Colombia, 163 Roads and Transport Congress, Testing ofHighway Bridges, by Dr. N. Davey, 93* Pulsometer Engineering Co., Ltd., Laboratory Vacuum Pump, 440
Pumps, Air. See Air Compressors
^®^^^^fugal, l|-in., Electrically-Driven (Girdlestone Pumps, Ltd.), 488*
— Electrically-Driven, Control Unit for (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 355*
— Heat (Review), 171
and Cooling of Presses for Plastics, 185 Experimental Installation. Perivale Laboratory, 392*
— Screw, Mirrlees-Irao, New Works for (Mirr- lees (Engineers), Ltd.), 44
— Vacuum, Laboratory (Pulsometer Engineering Co., Ltd.), 440
Pumphrey, W. I., on Constitution of Alumlnium-Iron-Silicon Alloys, 305; on Hot- Shortness in Ternary Aluminium-Rich Alloys, 305
Pumping, Sand, for Raising Ground Level, at Shotton, 241*
— Station, Electric, for Nile Control, 577*
“T Sewage, Crossness, Diesel Engines at, 568 Punjab Rivers, Role of Glaciers and Snow in Hydrology of (Review), 365 Purification of Water. See Water Pyrom^er, Lead-Sulphide Cell, Measurement of Tyre Temperatures with, 21*, 45* Pythagorean Numbers, Applications of, 112*

QUALITY Control, Statistical. Introduction to (Review), 147
Quantum Theory and Atomic Research. 73. 121 170. See Erratum, 121 *
Quasi-Arc Co., Ltd., 22-5-h.p. Oil-Engined Portable Welding Set, 511

RADAR Navigational Aid for Liverpool, 534* Radiant-Heating Systems for Factories fR Crittall and Co., Ltd.), 403
Radiation and Atomic Energy. 25* 73* 191* 169*, 217*. 265*, 313*, 3^*, 424*,’ 472*’ See Errata, 171. 427
Laboratory, California University, Liberation of Mesons, 327
Radio, British Broadcasting Corporation Frequency-Modulated Broadcast Transmitting Station, 303
— Communication Equipment for Middle-East Oil Pipeline (General Electric Co., Ltd.), it)o
— Frequency Noise, Measurement Apparatus for, 520
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 269
— Research in Australia, 246
— Valves, Letter Symbols, Specification, 322 Manufacture, Developments in, 135 -Tester (Everett, Edgcumbe and Co., Ltd.). 355* *
— Wireless Direction Finding (Review) 76 See LETTER, 136
— See also Radar
Radioactive Isotopes, Production at Harwell, Production in United States, 447 Radioactivity, from Atomic-Bomb Explosions 330, 428*. See Erratum, 394 ’
— and Atomic Research, 25*, 313* Radiothorium, Separation of, 26
Railroad, Pennsylvania, Tests of 4-4-4-4 Type Passenger Locomotive, 193*. See LETTER, 255 *
— See also Railways
Railway, Altona and Riel, Early Kitson Locomotive for, 244*. See Erratum, 298
— Bakerloo, Improvements on, 522*
— Belfast and Ballymena, Centenary of, 472
— Past and Present (Review), 507
Regime of Transport Act, 1947, 13, 18* : Portable Water-Level Recorder, 58 ; Derby Locomotive Works Apprentice-Training School, 102* ; Track Renewal in Polhfll Tunnel, 162, 211* See Addenda, 250, 299; New Signalling
System at York, 171 ; Toton Marshalling Yard Improvements, 171 ; Reinforced- Concrete Locomotive Sheds at Carlisle Leicester and Chester, 199* ; Modified htP Mixed-Traffic Locomotives. 272*; Locomotive Exchanges on, 308 • Renumbering of Locomotives, 329 : 2-6-0 Type Freight Locomotive, 344* ; Conference of Locomotive Shed Masters, 390 * 204-h.p. Diesel-Engined Locomotive, 393 Illumination of King’s Cross Goods Yard 403* ; Adhesion Unit for Mechanical- Horse Tractors, 407*; London Central-Line Extensions, 543 ; Centenary of Waterloo Station, 615
— Carriage. See Carriage
— Electric, High-Acceleration Controller for
(Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 868* Locomotive. See Locomotive
— London Midland and Scottish, Mobile Locomotive-Testing Plant, 399, 596*, 620* North Eastern, Third-Class Sleeping
Express Locomotive, i Illumination of King’s Cross Goods Yard, 403*
Passenger Transport Board, Final Annual Report, 350
— Metropolitan, Improvements on, 522* Motive Power, Comparisons between Types
OIj vXo
— Ravenglass and Eskdale, History of. 15 Rolling-Stock Industries, Position and
Prospects, 148
-Stock of London Passenger Transport uoara, woO
Railway Rolling Stock. See also Carriages ;
— Sao Paulo, Brazil, Electrification of, 441
— Signalling. See Signalling
— Sleeper Timber, Kesearch in Australia, 161
— Station, Waterloo, Centenary, 615
— Street. See Tramways
— Tanganyika Government, 2-8-2 Type Locomotives, 369*
— Train Brake. See Brake
— Transport, Development of, 557
— Tube, See Underground; London Transport Executive
— Tyres and Brake Blocks, Measurement of Temperatures Attained, 21*, 45*
— Underground. See Underground; London Transport Executive
United States, Main-Line Diesel Locomotives on 181
— to Victory In the East (Review), 339
— See also Railroads and PARAGRAPH INDEX Rain-Water Goods, Aluminium, Specification, 418
Rankine, Prof. A. 0., on Search for Minerals by Physical Methods, 522. See LETTER, 545
Rates on Premises of Research Associations,
Liability for, 135
Rationalisation of Steel, Effect on Industry, 185
Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, History of, 15 Rays. See X-Rays
Reactors at Nelson Research Laboratories, Stafford, 56
Reavell, Sir W., the Late, 424*
Records and Research in Engineering and Industrial Science (Review), 28
Recorder, Oscillograph-Trace (Avimo, Ltd.), 115
— Oxygen, for Feed Water (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 367
Magnetic (Cambridge Instrument Co., Ltd.), 367
— Speed, for Winding-Engine Tests (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 537
Water-Level, Portable, for Tanks, British Railways, 58
Recording Dynamometer. See Dynamometer Rectifiers. See Electric Reduction Gears. See Gears; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
Reference Books. See Annuals
Refrigerating Machinery, Electric, Production of, 270
Reheating Furnace. See Furnace
Reid, A., on Temporary Repairs to Tanker “Markay,” 400 Reinforced Concrete. See Concrete Reinhart, F. M., on Influence of Boron in Stee», 12
Relativity Theory and Atomic Research, 25 Renold and Coventry Chain Co., Ltd., Chain-
Drive Phase Adjuster, 271*
Reparation Agency, Inter-Allied, Report, 301. See LETTER, 376
Replicas, Plastic, for Determimng Surface Finish, 188*, 389*
Report, Annual, on Alkali, etc.. Works, 278 Aluminium Development Association, 447
Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 161, 245
British Corporation Register of Shipping and Aircraft, 280
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, 423
British European Airways Corporation, 15 British Overseas Airways Corporation, 39
British Shipbuilding Research Association, 135
Central Electricity Board, 302
Chamber of Shipping of United Kingdom, 210
Dominion of Canada, Water and Power Bureau, 182
Electricity Commissioners, 451
Engineers’ Guild, 472
Geological Survey Board, 231
Institute of Fuel, 399
Institute of Marine Engineers, 399 Institute of Physics, 519
Institution of Mechanical Engineers Benevolent Fund, 423
Final, London Passenger Transport Board, 350
London Power Company, 279
North-East Engineering Bureau, 327 Safety in Mines Research Board, 254 Sheffield Metallurgical Association, 533 South-West Essex Technical College, 427 Tennessee Valley Authority, 158
Terrestrial Magnetism Department, Carnegie Institution of Washington (Review), 52
Water Pollution Research Board, 446
— Aswan Dam and Nile Barrages, Hydro-Electric Schemes, 277
British Electrical and Allied Industries Research Association on Rural Electrification, 375
of British Engine Boiler and Electrical Insurance Co., Ltd., for 1938, 493
— Committee on Road-Ferry Services, 615 Electrical Accidents and Their Causes, 157
— Engineering Relics in Midlands, 494
— on German Ball- and Roller-Bearing Industry, 86
Heavy-Oil Engine Working Costs, 62
— Inter-Allied Reparation Agency, 301. See LETTER 376
on Japanese Industrial Reparations, 374
Locomotive Construction in United States, 181
Petroleum and Synthetic-Oil Industry of Germany, 230
Research on Fuel Industries at Leeds University, 423
Safety in Mines Research Board, 254
on Scientific and Technical Research in British Industry, 205
Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering in Germany, 1939-45, 469
— Turn-Round of Shipping In United Kingdom
Ports, B67
Research Association, British Cast Iron, Experiments on Peeling of Malleable Cast Iron, 130, 343
British Electrical and Allied Industries, Report on Transfer of Material, Temperature and Stability in Electric Welding Arc, 38; Position under British Electricity Authority, 183; Reports on Rural Electrification, 375 ; Experimental Heat-Pump Installation, 392*
British Internal-Combustion Engine, Luncheon, 615
British Iron and Steel, Sketty Hall Laboratories, Swansea, 187*; Metal- Flow Research Laboratories, Sheffield, 239; Research on Cold Rolling, 351; Laboratory Corrosion Test for Steels, 619
British Launderers, Decision on Liability for Rates, 135
British Shipbuilding, Annual Report, 135 Hydromechanics, Appointment of L. E. Prosser as Director, 147
Board, Safety in Mines, Annual Report, 254 Water Pollution, Annual Report, 446 Department, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical
Co., Ltd., Investigation on Attenuation of Sound in Air Ducts, 97*, 145*
Scientific and Industrial, Report on District Heating, 373. See Erratum, 396 ; Tidal Model of Firth of Forth, 447
Engineering, at Cambridge University, 449
— Establishment, Harwell, Production of
Radioactive Isotopes, at, 471
Fuel Industries, at Leeds University, Report on,423
and Industry, Electronics and Their Application in (Review), 99
— Iron and Steel, in Russia, 143
— Laboratories, Commercial and College, in United States (Review), 205
Nelson, of English Electric Co., Ltd., 56* of Shell Refining and Marketing Co., Ltd., Opening of, 519
and Production, Statistical Methods in (Review), 413
— and Records in Engineering and Industrial Science (Review), 28
Scientific and Industrial, Australian Council for. Annual Report, 161, 245
and Technical, in British Industries, Report on, 205
— Station, Building, Testing of Highway Bridges, 93* ; Appointment of Honorary Observers, 495
— Telecommunications, Establishment, Exhibition, 519
— Triaxial Shear, on Soils (Review), 460
— See also National Physical Laboratory Reservoir, Vyrnwy, Liverpool Water Supply from, 159
Resin, Powdered, Use for Stress Analysis, 436*
— Synthetic, Thermosetting, Use in “ Stress-Freezing” Technique, 37
Retarder, Coal-Tub, for Automatic Decking Plant (Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd.), 437*
Reversing Gear for Marine Gas-Turbine Plants, 262
Reviews. See LITERATURE INDEX Revolution, Industrial, and Art (Review), 76 Reyrolle, A., and Co., Ltd., 66-kV Small Oil Volume Circuit Breaker, 485
Rhenium, Discovery of, 122
Rhone, River, G6nissiat Dam, 87
Rigby, C. P., on Longitudinal Vibration in Marine-Propeller Shafting, 381*, 405
Rim, Turbine-Disc, Estimation of Stresses, in, 1*, 40
Ripple Control, Centralised, on High-Voltage Networks, 309
River Atuel, Argentina, El Nihuil Dam on, 163
— Boards Bill, Scope of, 518
— Inland Waterways Association, Work of, 543 Waterways, British, Transport on, 422. See LETTER, 520
— Mississippi, Bank Protection by Flexible Concrete Mattresses, 337
— Nile Control by Hydro-Electric Means, 577* Hydro-Electric Schemes on, 277
— Our (Review), 518
— Punjab, Role of Glaciers and Snow in Hydrology of (Review), 365
— Rhone, G6nissiat Dam, 87
— Tennessee, Work of Tennessee Valley Authority on, 158
— Wyre, Tidal Model of Estuary, 617
Road Bridges, Testing of, 93
— Ferry Services, Report of Committee on, 615
— Roller, 10-ton Diesel-Driven (Aveling-Barford, Ltd.), 487
— Surface, Effect on Motor Vehicle Design, 607
— Transport Effect of Size on, 543, 557
and Public Works Congress. See PwWic IForjfcs
under Regime of Transport Act, 1947, 13 Robinson, Sir R., Award of Nobel Prize to, 303
Rogers, G. F. C., on Estimation of Stresses in Turbine-Disc Rims, 1*, 40*
Roll, Steel, Plastic Replicas for Determining Surface Finish, 188*. See 389*
Rollason, Dr. E. C., on Thermodynamical Aspect of Formation of Inclusions in Steel Weld Metal, 497
Roller Bearings. See Bearings
— Road, See Road Roller
Rolling, Hot and Cold, Researches on, 351
— Metal Strip, Calculation of Loads Involved, 304
— Mills in Russia, 141
— Stock Industries, Position and Prospects, 148 of London Passenger Transport Board, 350
See also Carriages; Locomotives
Rolls-Royce Ltd., Self-Contained Aeroplane Power-Plant Works, 127* ; Hucknall and Ilkeston Establishments, 127*
ROntgen Rays, See X-Rays
Roof Construction, Tropical, *‘Arcon” (Taylor Woodrow Construction, Ltd.), 223
— Props for Mines, Experiments with, 254
— Reinforced-Concrete, for Locomotive Sheds, 199*
Ropes, Wire. See Wire Ropes
Ross, T. W., on Ripple Control on High-Voltage Networks, 309*
Rotary Engine. See Engine; Aeronautics
— Pump. SeePwm/>
Roth, Dr. W., on Corrosion-Resistant Alu- minium-Magnesium Alloys, 365
Rotor, Steam-Turbine (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 438*
— for Water-Turbine Driven Alternator, Design of, 357*
Rover Co., Ltd., 50-b.h.p. General-Purpose Motor Vehicle, 512*
Rowcroft, Major-Gen. Sir E. B., on Work of R.E.M.E. in War Time, 117*
Royal Aeronautical Society. See Aeronautical
— Aircraft Establishment. See Aeronautics
— Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Work of, 117*
Royal Mail Lines, Ltd., Reconditioning of S.S. ” Andes,” 87, 105*
— Observatory, Herstmonceux, Transfer of
Melbourne Observatory Transit Circle to, 111

Royal Society :

Election of Fellows, 303 Conversazione and Exhibition, 520 Election of Foreign Members, 539
Scientific Information Conference, 572, 615
Rubber Chemistry, Modern (Review), 292
Rural Electrification in Canada, Present Position, 182 in Great Britain, Reports on, 375
Russia, District Heating in, 373. See Erratum^ 395
— Iron and Steel Industry in, 141* Rusting. See Corrosion
Ruston-Bucyrus, Ltd., Radiant Heating at Lincoln Works of, 403*
Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 100-b.h.p. Oil- Engined Mining Locomotive, 248*
Rutherford, Lord, Work on Atomic Research, 26, 73*, 122, 218*,266
Rydberg Constant and Atomic Research, 75, 169
Rylands, J. R., on Corrosion of Heating Surfaces in Boiler Plants, 207

SAFETY of Life at Sea. See Life Saving
— in Mines Research Board, Annual Report, 254
Salaries, Professional, in Engineering Industry, 110. See LETTERS, 160,184, 208, 304, 352, 544
San Francisco, Hunter’s Point Navy Yard, 450-ton Overhead Travelling Crane, 489*
Sand Pumping for Raising Ground Level, at Shotton, 241*
— Trap Turn-Outs on London Underground Railways, 450*
Sao Paulo Railway, Brazil, Electrification of, 441
Saunders-Roe, Ltd., SR45 Flying Boats, 87 Savage, A. N., on Alternating-Current for
Ships* Auxiliaries, 214*
Savages, Ltd., Steam Traction Engines, 553* Saxe, R. F., on Recording of Electrical and Optical Transients, 380
Scavenging in Gas Engines, Work of J. H. Hamilton on, 547, 558
Schmidt, Prof. E., on Design of Contra-Flow Heat Exchangers, 63
Schnorkel for Submarines, Invention of, 376 Scholarships. See Education
Schrenk, H. H., on Diesel Engines Underground, 54*,95,114
Science, Industrial, and Engineering, Records and Research in (Review), 28
— Museum, South Kensington, F. W. Aston’s
Mass Spectrograph, 220* ; Hundred Years’ Electric Lighting Exhibition, 447
Scientific Apparatus Exhibition, Royal Society’s, 520
— Instrument Industry, Position and Prospects, 317
Physical Society’s Exhibition, 354*, 366*
— Management. See Works Management
— Papers, Insertion of Equivalent Metric Values in. Proposal for, 115
— Research. See Research
— Societies. See Institutions
— Workers, Association of, Charter for Technical Staff in Engineering and Metallurgical
Industries, 110. See LETTERS, 160, 184, 208, 304, 352, 544
Scientists, Responsibility to Community on Atomic Research, 473
Scleroscope Tests. See Hardness under Tests {Materials)
Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in. See Engineers
— Inverness-shire Water-Power Developments, 495
— Lawers Hydro-Electric Scheme, 615
— Loch Sloy Extension and Allt-na-Lairige Hydro-Electric Schemes, 583
— North, Hydro-Electric Board, Plant Extensions, 231, 495, 583,615
Scott, J. Y., on America’s Contribution to “ Production per Man-hour,” 542
Scott, Dr. R. A., on Attenuation of Sound in Lined Air Ducts, 97*, 145*
Scottish Engineering Students’ Association, Water-Tube Boilers, by E. G. Yarrow, 247
Scotts’ Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd., H.M. Submarine ” Artful,” 235
Scrap Steel, Uncollected, 304 Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tools
— Propellers. See Propellers ; Aeronautics Scrivener, A., Ltd., Grinding Dovetail Slideways of Machine Tools, 392*
Sea, Safety of Life at, International Conference on, 1948, London, 566
— Transport, Development of, 558
— Water Spray Test for Steels, 619
” Seagull,” H.M. Flying Boat, Alternating Current in, 390
Seals, Liquid, Carbon-Ring (Flexibox, Ltd.), 438*
Secondary Battery, See Accumnlator under Electric
Seed Conditioner, Jeans’ (Ferranti, Ltd.), 463* Seed, H. B., on Creep and Shrinkage In Reinforced Concrete, 88
Segregations in Steels, Micro-Radiographical Study of, 497
Seismic Method of Geophysical Prospecting, 522. See LETTER, 545
Service Aviation. See Aeronautics Servomechanisms, Theory of (Review^ 581 Sewage Discharge and River Boards Bill, 518
— Investigation by Water-Pollution Research Board, 446
— Pumping Station, Crossness, Diesel Engines at, 568
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX
Sewerage Design and Specification (Review), 533
Shaft Coupling. See Coupling
— Crank. See Crankshaft
— and Holes, Fitting of. See Gauges
Shafting, Marine-Propeller, Longitudinal Vibration in, 381*, 405*
— — Torsional-Fatigue Tests of, 183, 229, 286*, 310*
Shale, Oil Production from, in United States, 398
Sharpe, R. S., on Study of Inclusloas in Steel by Micro-Radiography, 497
Sharpley, G. R., the Late, 64
Shaw, A. G., and Motion Study and Elimination of Waste Time, 542
Shaw Factory, Oldham, Manufacture of Fluorescent Electric Lamps, 391*
Shear, Triaxial, on Soils Research (Review), 460 Shearing Machine. See Machine Tools Sheathing of Power Cables, Aluminium for, 404 Sheds, Locomotive, Reinforced-Concrete, at Crlislea, Leicester and Chester, 199*
Sheffield Electric Light and Power Co., Power Stations of, 91
— Industrial Museum, 165*
— Metal-Flow Research Laboratories, 239
— Metallurgical Association, Annual Report, 533
— University Research on Cold Rolling, 351
— Water Wheels, History of, 165*
Shell Refining and Marketing Co., Ltd., Opening of Thornton-le-Moors Research Laboratories, 519
Shepherd, Dr. W. M., on Plastic Stress-Strain Relations, 279
“ Shervick ” Tractor, with Tree-Felling and Stump-Removing Equipment, 513*
Shiells, R. T., on Small Model Experiments and Viscosity Effects, 402
Ship Canal. See Canal
— Cargo, Effect of Speed at Sea and Despatch in Port, 306, 414
— under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 87, 259, 423
— Diesel-Engined. See Motorships; Marine Propulsion
— Effect of Non-Contact Explosions on, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616
— Launched in 1947, Lloyd’s Statistics, 207
— Launches and Trial Trips, 10, 34, 130, 164, 178, 202, 236, 271, 308, 322, 345, 370, 394, 418, 455, 466, 504, 524, 538, 562, 607
— Model Experiments. See Tank Experiments
— Motor. See Motorships ; Marine Propulsion
— Propellers. See Propellers
— Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion; Engines; Turbines; Propellers
— Seagoing, Lloyd’s Statistics, 349
— Tank Superintendents, International Conference of, 543
— See also Marine ; Motorships ; Shipping ;
Steamers; Warships; and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipbuilders and Engineers, North-East Coast Institution of. See North-East Coast
in Scotland, Institution of. See Engineers Shipbuilding, Brittle Fractures in Ship Plates, 16*, 53*, 77*, 208*, 222*, 568*, 592*, 605* Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., War-Time Repairs to Cargo Ship “ Harpagus,” 70*
— Design and Economics of Ship Operation, 306, 414
— in Germany, 1939-45, 469
— Industry, Position and Prospects, 257 Problems of, 281
— M.S. “ Fulham VIII,” Fulham Corporation’s Collier, 32*
— Launches and Trial Trips, 10, 34, 130, 164, 178, 202, 236, 271, 308, 322, 345,370,394, 418, 455, 466, 504, 524, 538, 562, 607
— Naval. See Warships
— Purposes, Quality and Testing of Aluminium Alloys for, 135
— Research Association, British, Annual Report, 135
— Ship Repairs in Invasion of Europe, 329
— Spanish, Formation of Lloyd’s Register Committee for, 164
— Strain and Deflections in Ships, 175
— Temporary Repairs to Tanker ” Markay,” 400
— Vessels under Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 87, 259,423
Launched in 1947, Lloyd’s Statistics, 207
— War-Time Ship Repairs, 69*
— Yacht Construction, Practical (Review), 99
— Yard, Problems in Invasion of Europe, 329 —• See also Steamers; Naval; Warships PARAGRAPH INDEX
Shipping, British Corporation Register Annual Report, 280
Lloyd’s Statistics, Seagoing Vessels, Position of in 1947, 210
— Chamber of, of United Kingdom, Annual Report, 210
— Conference on Safety of Life at Sea, 566
— Effect of Speed at Sea and Despatch in Port, 306, 414
— Spanish, Formation of Lloyd’s Register ’ Committee for, 164
— in United Kingdom Ports, Report on Turn-Round of, 567
— World’s Seagoing Vessels, Lloyd’s Statistics, 349
Shipyard. See Shipbuilding Yard
Shock Tests. See Impact Tests under Tests {Materials)
Shock Wave, Damage to Ships’ Machinery by, 352, 477*, 501*, 517,525*. See LETTER, 616
Shop Management. See Works Management Shore Scleroscope Tests. See Hardness under Tests {Malerials}
Short and Harland, Ltd., 150-ton Structure- Testing Machine, 79*
Shotton, Cheshire, Raising Ground Level by Sand Pumping at, 241*
Show. See Exhibition
Shrinkage and Creep in Reinforced Concrete, 88 Sidgreaves, Sir A., the Late, 568 Siemens-Martin Furnaces. See Furnaces Siemens, Sir W., Work on Open-Hearth Furnace, 499
Sigma Instrument Co., Ltd., Electro-Pneumatic Comparator Gauge, 455*
Signalling, Speed-Controlled, on London Underground Railways, 450*
— System, Harrow-on-the-Hill Railway Station, 522* York Railway Station, 171
Silver, Dr. R. S., on Flow of Boiling Water Through Nozzles, 185. See LETTER, 136 “Silver Princess’’ Stainless-Steel Railway Carriage, Trial Run of, 43
Singer, Dr. A. R. E., on Hot-Shortness in Ternary Aluminium-Rich Alloys, 305
Sintering Plants Iron Ore, in Russia, 141 Sketty Hall Laboratories, Swansea, British Iron and Steel Research Association, 187* “Skyrocket’’ Jet-Rocket Aeroplane, 175* Sleeper, Timber, for Railways, Research in Australia, 161
Sliding Surfaces, Measurement of Temperature of, 21*, 45*
Sludge Deposits in Transformers and Switchgear, 78 '
— See also Sewage
Smelting Furnaces. See Furnaces
Smith, E. A., on Colloidal Graphite in Assembly Lubrication, 505*
Smith, Engr. Capt. E. C., on Baron R. von EOtvos, 545. See 522
Smith, R. M. A., on Ripple Control on High- Voltage Networks, 309*
Smith, S., the Late, 568
Smith-Clarke, Capt. G. T., on 43 Years’ Progress of Automobile Engineering, 39
Smoke Meter for Motor-Vehicle Oil Engines, 333* Smout, Sir A., on Forty Years of Institute Metals, 285. See 279, 328
Snow and Glaciers, Role of in Hydrology Punjab Rivers (Review), 365 “Snowmobiles’* 5-ton Motor Vehicles, Use Arctic, 417
Societies, Technical and Scientific. See Institutions
— Trade. See Labour; Labour Notes; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Socket for Wire Rope (British Ropes, Ltd.), 527*. See Erralum^ 611
Soddy, Dr. F., on Story of Atomic Energy, 25*, 73*,121*,169*,217*,265*,313*, 361*,424*, 472*. See Errata, 171, 427
Sodium Chloride, Face-Centred Cube Lattice of, 121*
Softener, Water. See Water
Soil, Shear Research and Pressure Distribution in (Review), 460
Solar Noise and Sunspot Activity, Research in Australia, 246
Standards Institution .British, Codes of Practice, On Structural Use of Reinforced Concrete in Buildings, 538 ; on Sound Insulation in Buildings, 610. Draft Codes, Bell and Call Systems, Electric, 490; Ventilation of Buildings, 154; Hand-Power Lifts, 154. Glossaries, Terms for Copper and Zinc- Alloy Wrought Products, 178; of Definitions for Weld Imperfections, 442. Publication, Universal Decimal Classification for Libraries, 610. Test Code, Pottery-Piring Ovens and Kilns, 106
British, Specifications, Book Sizes and Dating of Books, 10; Pipe Flanges for Land Use, 10 ; Mixing Valves for Hot and Cold Water, 34; Malleable-Iron Castings, 34; Definitions of Heat Treatment, 58; Flameproof Electric-Lighting Fittings, 58; Fuel Oils for Burners, 106; Battery Connectors for Electric Vehicles, 106 ; Mastic Asphalt Damp-Proof Courses and ranking, 178 • Cable-Glands and Sealing-Boxes, 226; Electricity Supply Intake Arrangements for Flats, 226; Installation and Maintenance of Electrical Machines, 274 ; Fuels for (Ml Engines, 274; Switchgear, 282: High- Carbon Bright Steel, 322; Hard-Drawn Steel Wire, 322; Letter Symbols for Electronic Valves,. 322; Carbon-Molyb- denum Steel Castings, 370; Picks and Mattocks, 370; Portland and High- Alumina Cements, 394; Clinker Aggregate for Concrete, 418; Aluminium Rain-Water Goods, 418; Annealed Steel Wire, 442; Gas-Lighting Units and Fittings, 490, Methods for Analysis of Steel, 538 Copper for Electrical Purposes, 562; Earthing Clamps, 562; Flameproof Plugs and Sockets, 586; Colours of Paints, 586; Treatment of Water for Marine Boilers, 610 and Performance Test for Protective Schemes on Sheet Steels, 619
— United States Bureau of. See Vmted States “Standella,” M.S., War-Time Repairs to, 70 Stanley, R. C., on Nickel Industry m 1947 31 ;
Award of Platinum Medal to, 279, 328, 548
Starks, Const. Comdr. J. F., on German U-Boat Design and Production, 376
Starter, Cartridge, Coffman, for Engines (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 296*. See Erraturn, 364
Motor. See Motors, Electric State Railways. Railways Statics, Record of Swiss Federal Polytechnic Mechanics Course (Review), 604
Statistical Methods in Research and Production (Review), 413 . .
— Quality Control, Introduction (Review), 147 Statistics, Trade. See Trade
Stations, Power. See Power SMions Railway, Harrow-on-the-HiU, Improvements at, 522* X r. X 1
White City, London Transport Central Line, 8*, 609
York, New Signalling System at, 171 stator for 60-MVA Alternator, Nelson Research Laboratories, Stafford, 56*
for 75-MVA Hydrogen-Cooled Alternator, 559*
for Water-Turbine Driven Alternators, 358 Stead, E. B., on Testing of Automobiles and Automobile Engines, 333*
Steam Boats. See Steamers
— Boilers, Boilers
— Consumption. See Coal Gonsitmphon
— Efficient Use of (Review), 507
— Engines. See Engines Builders of Norfolk (Review), 340 Flow Through Nozzles. See Nozzles — Superheater. See Superheater
— Turbines. See Turbines . .
Steamer “Andes,’* Reconditioning of, 87, 10and
— “Commandant Quer6,’* Twin-Screw Passen- Un^er Construction, Lloyd’s Statistics, 87,
— “^l^Malek Foad,” Khedivial.Mail Line, 152*
- Geared Turbines for. See Marine Pr^ulsion — Harpagus,” War-Time Repairs to, 69
- LauncVd in 1947, Lloyd’s Statistics 207
— Launches and Trial Trips, 10, 34, 130, 164, 178, 202, 236, 271, 308, 322, 345, 370, 394, 418, 455, 466, 504, 524, 538, 562, 607
— Oil Tank. See Oil Tankers . .
— Propulsion of. See Manne PropuZsion, Engines; Turbines; Propellers
Worlds, Seagoing, Lloyd s Stati^ics, 349
— See also Engines; Manne Propulsion; Shipbuilding; Shipping; ; 2 MZ-
bines; Warships; PARAGRAPH INDEX
Staamships. SeeSMjJs; SZeawezs; Warships Steel Allocation Scheme, Revised, Government Statement on. 111
— Analysis, Standard Methods of, 538
— Bars, 85-kVA Electric Heating Machine for (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 546*
— Boron in, Effect of, 12
— Bright. High-Carbon, Specification, 322 Carbon, Abnormal Creep lu, 496
Case-Hardening of. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy a
— Castings, Carbon-Molybdenum, Speciflca- -^Centrifugal and Precision, Aircraft, 481* Corrosion. See Corrosion . , T,T , Decomposition of Austenite in, by Nuclea- — FlwgM^^of. See Fatigue under Tests . (Materials)
Furnaces. See Furnaces
Gun Criterion of “ Yield ’’ in, 279
Heat Treatment of. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy ,
-ffiXTensile, Weldability of, Factors Influencing, 573*, 581
— Inclusions in, Investigation on, 497 — Industry, British, Prospects for 1948, 63 Manufacture. See Metallurgy
— Mkrostructure of. See Microphotographs Molybdenum, Chromium-Molybdenum, and Molybdenum-Vanadium, Creep in, 496 Output and Export Trade, ^5 x, Steel Peech and Tozer, Ltd., E^eriments in Gas Ports for Open-Hearth Furnaces, 474
steel Production in Argentina, 498
— “NHationalisation/’ Effect on Industry, 185
— Research in Australia, 162
— Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
— Ropes. See Wire Ropes
— Scrap, Uncollected, 304
— Sheet, Standard, Corrosion Test for Protective Schemes, 619
— Stress Distribution in. See Stress; Tests {Materials)
— Supplies and Engineering Industries, 5, 29, 65, 88, 99, 123, 148, 172, 196, 232, 257, 268, 293, 316
— Tests of. See Tests {Materials}
— Tube Roof Construction, “ Arcon ” (Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd.), 223
— Wire, Annealed, for Springs, Specification, 442
Hard-Drawn, Specification, 322
— Works. See Works
Stephenson, G., Preservation of Birthplace of, 351. See 376, 400
Stephenson Link Motion for 4-6-0 Type Locomotive, British Railways, 272* Stevens Lecture on Coal-Oil-Chemicals, 495 Stockholm, International Congress on Large Dams, 590
Storage Battery. See Accumulator under Electric
Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., cub. ft. Concrete j Mixer, 129* , Cranes, for S.S.
Strain Analysis, and Its Graphical Representation, 457* '
— See also Stress
Strand Underground Station, Automatic Lifts at, 213. See Erratum, 346
Street Lighting, Centralised Ripple Control for, 309*
— Railway. See Tramways
— See also Roads
Streetly Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Tests of Cooling Water for Heat Insulation of Presses, 185
Strength of Materials. See Stress and Tests {Materials)
Stress, Alternating and Combined. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials)
— Analysis, Experimental Method of, 436* by Breezing, 37
— in Bar Under Impact Loading, 409*
— in Bolted Connections in Structures, 433*
— and Fracture in Metals, 16*, 53*, 77*, 208*, 222*, 568*, 592*, 605
— in Highway Bridges, 94
— in Marine Shafting, 183, 229
— Repetitions. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials)
—Strain Relations, Plastic, 279
— in Turbine-Disc Rims, Estimation of, 1*, 40*
— in Welded Steel, 573*, 581
Striations : Metallographic Evidence of Slip, 328
Strip, Metal, Cold Welding of, 535
Rolling, Calculation of Loads Involved, 304
Structural Design in Aluminium Alloys, Handbook of (Review), 4
— Engineers, Institution of. Northern Counties Branch, The Future Engineer, by P. Farr, 235
— Use of Reinforced Concrete in Buildings, Specification, 538
Structures, Bolted Connections in, Design of, 433
— Impact Loading of, Effects of, 409
— Model, for Engineering Training, 385*
— Reinforced-Concrete. See Concrete, Reinforced
Struts. See Columns
Struthers, J. R., Neepsend Power Station Extensions, 91
Stuart Lecture on J. H. Hamilton and His Work, 547, 558
Stubbs, A., on District Heating, 373. See Erratum, 395
Stump-Removing Equipment for “ Shervick ” Tractor (Blaw-Knox, Ltd.), 513
Submarine Boats. See Warships
— Mines. See Mines
Substation, Standardisation of Switchgear for, 282,307
Suction Dredger. See Dredger
Sudan, Nimul^, Proposed Hydro-Electric Station, 577
Sugar Beet Industry, Beginning of, 378
Sulphide Penetration in Carburisation of Steel, 343
Sulzer Brothers, 7,500-s.h.p. Marine Gas-Turbine Plant, 264
Summers, J., <fe Sons, Ltd., Raising Ground Level by Sand Pumping at Shotton, 241* |
Sunspot Activity and Solar Noise, Research in Australia, 246
Superheater for Yarrow Boiler, 247
Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of, Continental Engineering Practice, by C. W. Marshall, 113 ; Annual Dinner, 351 Supply, Ministry of, and Engineering Industries, 5, 29, 65, 88, 99, 123, 148, 172, 196, 232, 257, 268, 293, 316 ; Order for Three Saunders-Roe SR45 Flying Boats, 87; Press Visit to South Wales, 184; Survey of Ironfounding Industry, for 1947, 279; International Altitude Record, Entry of “Vampire’* Figher Aeroplane, 327. See 160 ; Telecommunications Research Establishment, Exhibition of Work, 519
Surface Analysis with Plastic Replicas, Techniques of, 188*, 389*
— Finish, Plastic Replicas for Determining, 188*, 389*
— Grinding Machine. See Grinding under Machine Tools
— Sliding, Measurement of Temperatures of, 21*, 45
Surveying, Geophysical, Methods of, 522. See LETTER,545
— Photographic (Review), 4
Sutthery, C. P., the Late, 568
Swan, Capt. E. W., the Late, 351, 376, 400
Swan, Hunter, and Wigham Richardson, Ltd.,
War-Time Ship Repairs, 69*
Swansea, Sketty Hall Laboratories, British Iron and Steel Research Association, 187* Sweden, Ball and Roller Bearing Industry in, 85
— High-Voltage Power Transmission in, 43
Switchgear, Air-Insulated (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 462*
— for Alternating-Current Ships’ Auxiliaries, 214*
— Auto-Controller for Automatic Lifts, 213*
— Circuit Breaker, 66-kV Small Oil Volum (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 485*
Breaker, 500-MVA 11-kV Air-Blast (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 487*
— 33-kV Duplicate ’Bus-Bar Metalclad (Ferguson, Pailin, Ltd.), 509*
— Oil Deterioration in, 78
— Standardisation of, 282, 307
— Testing Plant, Nelson Research Laboratories, Stafford, 56*
Sykes, W. E., Ltd., Cutter for Rectangular Holes, 139*
Symbols, Standard, for Electronic Valves, 322
Symmetrical Component Analysis, 184*

TABLES of Bessel Functions (Review), 243
— Inclinable and Rotary with Clinometer (Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd.), 136*
— 16-in. Rotary with Optical Indicator (Optical Measuring Tools, Ltd.), 138*
Tabor, D., on Theory of Static and Dynamic Hardness, 289*
Tachometer. See Speed Indicator Taite, C. D., the Late, 136
Tanganyika Government Railways, 2-8-2 Type Locomotives, 369*
Tank, Army, Damaged, Work of R.E.M.E. on, 117*
— Experimental, International Conference of Superintendents of, 543
Ship-Model Experiments and Viscosity Effects, 402
Ship-Model Hull, Pressure Distribution Over, 402
— Fuel, for Export Vehicles, Design of, 607
— Portable Water-Level Recorder for, 58
— Ships, Motor. See Motorships ; Oil Tankers
— Steamers. See Steamers ; Oil Tankers Tanking, Mastic Asphalt for, Specification, 178 Tap Changer and Transformer, 1,000-kVA 33/11 kV (Ferranti, Ltd.), 463*
Tariff, Electricity Supply, Adjustment of, 471
— Interim, for Electricity Supply, 327 Taylor, S. E., on Work of Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, 622
Taylor Woodrow Construction, Ltd., “ Arcon ” Tropical Roof Construction, 223
Teaching. See Education
Technical College and Education. See Education
— Institutions, Plea for Reducing Multiplicity, of, 235
— Societies. See Institutions and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Telecommunications Research Establishment, Exhibition, 519
Telegraph Industry in United States, 1832-1866 (Review), 565
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX Telegraphy, Wireless, Wireless Direction Finding (Review), 76. See LETTER, 136
— — See also Radar ; Radio
Telephone Transmission-Rating, Survey of, 206
— See also Electricity in PARAGRAPH INDEX Telephony, Wireless. See Radar; Radio Temperatures, Air, High, Simulation by Hydrogen Admixtures, 508*
— Control Instrument (Foster Instrument Co., Ltd., 367
— Measurement. See Pyrometer
— of Railway Brake Blocks, 21*, 45* Temperley, Col. C., on Intermeshing Non-Circular Algebraic Gears, 49*
Tennessee Valley Authority, Annual Report of 158
Tensile Tests. See Tests {Materials}
Ternary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Terrestrial Magnetism. See Magnetism Tersons, Builders, Leicester, Reinforced-Con- crete Locomotive Shed, 199*
Tests, Aeronautical See Aeronautics
— Articulation, of Telephone Circuits, 206
— Beds, Reinforced-concrete, for Aeroplane Propellers, Hatfield, 332*. See Addendum^ 427
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Flexibility of Marine Thrust Blocks, 382*, 405*
— of Gas Engines, 547
— of Highway .Bridges, 93*
— of 75-MVA Hydrogen-Cooled Alternator, 560
— Insulation of Presses for Plastics, 185
— Load-Carrying Capacity of Colloidal Graphite, 506*
— Magnetic. See Magnetic

Tests (Materials):

Bending- and Compression-Test Unit, 150- ton Structure-Testing Machine, 79*
Creep Tests of Carbon and Molybdenum Steels, 496
Lead and Alloy-“ E ” Pipes, 341 Fatigue Tests, Torsional, Marine Shafting 183, 229, 286*, 310*
Hardness Tests, Brinell and Vickers, and Theory of Hardness, 289*
Shore Scleroscope, and Theory of TTftrHTipSiQ 9Q0*
Vickers’, of Mild-Steel Ship Plates, 570, 605
Impact Test, Mild Steel Ship Plates, 77*, 208*, 222*, 569*, 592*, 605*
Magnetic Tests. See Magnetic Notched-Bar Impact Tests. See Impact Tests (above)
Tensile Tests. See Tensile Tests (below)
Stress Determination, Optical. See PhotoElastic
— in Materials and Structures. See Stress
Tensile Notched-Bar Tests of Mild-Steel Ship Plates, 569*, 592*, 605*
— Tests of Mild-Steel Ship Plates, 209* Unit, 150-ton Structure-Testing Machine, 79*
Tests Mechanical, High-Tensile Steel Castings for Aircraft, 484*
of Locked-Coil Wire Ropes, 578*, 601*
Testing Departments, Sketty Hall Laboratories, Swansea, 187*
— Machine, 150-ton, for Structures (W. and T. Avery, Ltd.), 79*
Torsional-Fatigue, for Marine Shafting, 183, 229, 286*, 310*
— Press, 10,000-ton Hydraulic, with Pre- Stressed Concrete Frame, 441* Torsional-Fatigue Tests, Marine Shafting, 183, 229, 286*, 310*
Tests of 4-4-4-4 Type Passenger Locomotive, Pennsylvania Railroad, 193*. See LETTER, 255
— Pressure, of Lead and Alloy-“ E ” Pipes, 341
— Set, Alternating-Current (Everett, Edg-
cumbe and Co., Ltd.), 354*
— ‘Weld-Cracking, of High-Tensile Steels, 573*, 581
— Winding-Engine, Speed Recorder for (Metro-
politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 537
— of Yarrow Boilers, Clyde’s Mill Power Station, 247
Testing of Automobiles and Automobile Engines, 333*
— Departments, Sketty Hall Laboratories, Swansea, 187*
See also National Physical
— Machine, Dead-Weight, for Wire Ropes, 578*,601* .
for Gear Materials and Lubricants (D. Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd.), 438* for Measuring Temperature of Railway Brake Blocks, 21*, 45* 150-ton, for Structures (W. and T. Avery,. Ltd.), 79*
Torsional-Fatigue, for Marine Shafting, 183, 229, 286*, 310*
— Plant, High-Power Electrical, Nelson Re
search Laboratories, Stafford, 56*
Locomotive, Altoona, Pennsylvania, Tests of 4-4-4-4 Type Locomotive, 193* See LETTER, 255
Locomotive, Mobile, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 399, 596*, 620*
— Press, 10,000-ton Hydraulic, with Pre-Stressed Concrete Frame, 441*
— Station for 500-kV Transmission Lines, Brilliant, Ohio, 7*
— Torsional-Fatigue, of Marine Shafting, 183, 229, 286*,310,*
— See also Tests {Materials}
Text-Books. See LITERATURE INDEX Textile Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects, 172
— Research in Australia, 161, 246 Thermal Efficiency of Gas Engines, 547, 558 of Gas Turbines, 111, 237*, 261*
Yarrow Boilers at Clyde’s Mill Power Station, 247
— Treatment, Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Thermionic Valves. SeeFaZves; Radio Thermocouple Plug for Motor-Car Engine Testing, 333*
— See also Pyrometer
Thermodynamical Aspects of Formation of Inclusions in Steels, 497
Thermodynamics, Cycles for Gas Turbines, 111, 237*, 261*
— Efficiency of Gas Turbines, 448
— Elements of Applied Energy (Review), 387 Thermometer. See Pyrometer
Thomas, T. F., on Flow of Boiling Water
Through Nozzles, 136. See LETTER, 185 Thompson, Sir D’A. W., the Late, 616 Thomson, Sir J. J., Work on Atomic Research, 26, 74, 220
Thornton, D. L., on Impact Loading of Struc- . tures, 409*
Thornton-le-Moors Research Laboratories, Opening of, 519
Thornycroft, J. I., and Co., Ltd., S.S. “ El Malek Foad,” 152* ; Mail and Passenger Steamer “ Commandant Quer6,” 618*
Thorpe’s Dictionary of Applied Chemistry, Vol. VIII (Review), 171
“ Thorshovdi,” Oil Tanker, War-Time Repairs to, 69*
Thrust Bearing. See Bearing
— Blocks, Effect on Longitudinal Vibration of Shafting of, 381*, 405*
Tidal Model of Firth of Forth, 447 of River Wyre Estuary, 617 Tilt Hammers in Sheffield District, 165* Timber Research in Australia, 161 Timken Roller Bearing on British Locomotives, 272
Tin, World Production and Consumption, Statistics of, 129
Tinsley, H., and Co., Ltd., Alternating-Current Stabiliser, 367
Tipper, Dr. C. F., on Brittle Fracture of Mild- Steel Plates, 568*, 592*, 605*
Tolerances in Machine Work. See Gauges Tools, Cutting, and Machine-Tool Design, 39, 189*
— Machine. See Machine Tools
Toothed Gear. See Gear; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
Torque Meters. See Dynamometers
Torsion Balance, Use in Geophysical Prospecting, 522. See LETTER, 545
— Tests. See Tests {Materials} Torsionmeters. See Dynamometers Toton Marshalling Yard Improvements, 171 Towers for 450-ton Overhead Travelling Crane, 489*
Transmission, Bolted Connections in, 434* for 500-kV Transmission-Line Testing Station, 7
Towns, District Heating for, 373. See Erratum, 395
— Gas. See Gas
Track, Railway, Pre-Assembled, Plant for Laying in Polhill Tunnel, 162, 211*. See Addenda, 250, 299
Traction Dynamometer. See Dynamometer
— Electric. See Railways ; Tramway Tractors, Agricultural, Production of, 99
— Armoured Amphibian “ D.8 ” of R.E.M.E., 120*
Tractors (London), Ltd., 13-5-h.p. “Trusty- Steed ’’ Tractor, 510*
— Mechanical-Horse, Adhesion Unit for, British Railways, 407*
— “ Shervick,” with Tree-Eelling and Stump-Removing Equipment (Vickers-Arm- strongs Ltd.), 513
— 13• 5-b.h.p. “ Trusty-Steed ’’ (Tractors (London), Ltd.), 510*
Trade Disputes. See Trade Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
— Engineering and Allied Industries, 5, 29, 65, 88, 99, 123, 148, 172, 196, 232, 257, 268, 293, 316
— Exhibition. See Exhibition
— Export, Aircraft, 232, 319 Boilers and Boiler Plant, 126 and Engineering Industry, 255 General Engineering, 316
and Import, Agricultural Machinery, 99 and Import, Electrical Engineering, 126, 268,293
and Import, Machine-Tools, 88
Iron and Steel, 319
Marine Engineering, 259
Motor-Vehicle, 196
Railway Rolling Stock, 148 Shipbuilding, 259, 319 Textile Machinery, 172
— Motor Vehicle, Effect of Design on, 595, 607
— South American, with Europe and United States, 163, 498
— Unions. See Labour; and Trade Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Traffic, Passenger, of London Passenger Transport Board, 350
Trailer, 50-ton Low-Loading (R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd.), 224*
Train. See Railway
Training. See Education
Tramway, Electric, High-Acceleration Controller for (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 368*
— See also PARAGRAPH INDEX Transformers, Installation and Maintenance of Specification, 274
— Oil Deterioration in, 78 .
— Panel, Flameproof, for Coal-Face Lighting (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 452
— 1,000-kVA 33/11-kV, and Tap Changer

(Ferranti, Ltd.), 463*

' — Testing Plant, Nelson Research Laboratories, Stafford, 56* .
' — for 500-kV Transmission-Line Testing Station, 7* , _
Transients, Electrical and Optical, Recording of, 380
Transit Circle, Melbourne Observatory, Transfer to Royal Observatory, 111
Transmission Dynamometer. See Di/naino-
— Gear. See Gear; Gearing; Marine Rropusion , .
of Power. See Marine Propulsion; Power Transmission
Transmitter, Water-Flow (Evershed and \ ig- noles, Ltd.), 355*
Transport Act, 1947, Implementation ot, 13, 18*
— Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Institute of. Formation of Leicester Group, 131 ; Formation of Graduate and Student i Society in Western Section, Bristol, 154 ; Future of British Ports and Cauals, by j W. A. Flere, 422.
— Land, Sea and Air, 557, 599
— Ministry of. Power 1947, 13, 18*; _
Bridges, 93* ; Influence on British Shipping, 210 ; Drewry Fund Merchant-Navy Scholarships, 274 ; Report on Turn-Round of Shipping, 567 ; Report of Committee on Road Ferries, 615
— Motor. See Road; Motor
— Railway. See Railway
— Roads and Public Works Congress. See Public Works See Road; Motor
— Vehicles, Effect of Size in, 543, 557, 599 Travelling Crane. See Crane
Tree-Felling Equipment for “ Shervick ’’ Tractor (Blaw-Knox, Ltd.), 513*
Treforest, Aeroplane-Engine Repair Shops at, 22
Trial Trips and Launches, 10, 34,130,164,178, 202, 236, 271, 308, 322,345,370,394, 418, 455, 466, 504, 524, 538, 562, 607
__ also Tests
Tribophysics Division, Australian Research Department, Work of, 245
Truck, Industrial, ‘ ‘ Stacascoop “ (I.T.D., Ltd.), 462*
— See also Bogie “Trusty-Steed” 13-5-h.p. Tractor, 510*
Tube Railways. See Underground Railways; London Transport Executive
— See Pipes
Tungsten Carbide for Cutting Tools, 190 Tunnels, Delaware Aqueduct, Use of Diesel Locomotives in, 54*, 95,114
— Polhill, Track Renewal in, British Railways, 162, 211*. See Addenda, 250, 299
— Reinforced-Concrete, for Aeroplane Propeller Test Beds, Hatfield, 332.* See Agendum, 427
Tuplin, Dr. W. A., on Engineering Units of Force, 64. See LETTERS, 40, 88,112, 280, 328,352,496, 544, 592 ; onTestsof4-4’4,4 Passenger Locomotive, 255. See 193*
Turbine-Disc Rims, Estimation of Stresses in, 1*, 40*
— Gas, Applied to Marine Propulsion, 111, 237* 261*
Ball and Roller Bearings for Use in, 617 Combustion Intensity in, 549
for Locomotives, Possibilities, 613
Turbine, Gas, Output and Efficiency of, 448 Propeller Aircraft Engine, “Mamba,” 583*
Road Transport (Centrax Power Units, Ltd.), 461
School of Technology, Lutterworth, 352
— Hydraulic, 65,000-kW Francis, G6nissiat
Hydro-Electric Scheme, 87 65,000-h.p. Kaplan, Aswan Dam Hydro- Electric Scheme, 278
Sheffield Early Water Wheels, 165* See also Power Plant
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Steam, Locomotive, Advantages of, 613 Marine, Geared. See Marine Propulsion 50-MW, Neepsend Power Station, 91 Supervisory Equipment for (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 485* See also TurbO'Qenerators
— Steamers. See Steamers; Warships Turbo-Generators, Manufacture of, 126 50-MW, Neepsend Power Station, 91 Turbomachinery, Fluid Mechanics of (Review), 460
“ Turbovisory ” Gear (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 485*
Turn-Outs, Sand-Trap, on London Underground Railways, 450*
Turner, J. H. W., on Professional Salaries, 161. See 110. See LETTERS, 160,184, 208, 304, 352,544
Turning. See Machine Tools
— and Boring Mills. See Machine. Tools
Turntable, Railway, Reinforced-Concrete, Roof over, 200*
Tyre, Railway, Measurement of Surface Temperatures of, 21*, 45*

U-BOATS, German, Design and Production of, 376
Underground Haulage, Use of Diesel Locomotives for, 54*, 95, 114
— Railways, London, White City Station, 8*, 609 ; Improvement Plans for, 63 ; Automatic Lifts at, 213*. See Erratum, 346; Congestion of, 448 ; Speed-Controlled Signalling and Sand-Trap Turn-Outs, 450* ; Extensions to, 522*, 543
See also London Transport Executive Unions, Trade. See Trade Societies in PARAGRAPH INDEX
Units of Force, Engineering, 40. See LETTERS, 64, 88,112, 280, 328, 352, 496, 544, 592
United Kingdom Chamber of Shipping, Annual Report, 210
Ports, Shipping in. Report on Turn- Round of, 567
— States Atomic Energy Comnussion, Work
of, 86 ; Liberation of Mesons, 327
Bureau of Mines, Investigation on Operation of Diesel Engines Underground, by L. B. Berger, M. A. Elliott, J. C. Holtz and H. H. Schrenk, 54*, 95, 114 ; Statistics of World Production and Consumption of Tin, 129 ; Synthetic-Oil Production Research, 398
Bureau of Standards, Influence of Boron on Some Properties of Experimental and Commercial Steels, b5^ T. G. Digges and F. M, Reinhart, 12; Electro-deposition of Tungsten Alloys, 372
Commercial and College Laboratories in, (Review), 205
District Heating in, 373. See Erratum, 395
Flexible Concrete Mattresses for River Bank Protection, 337*
Navy. See United States under Warships Oil Production and Consumption in, 470 Power Plant Development in, 135
Production per Man-hour in, 542
Railways, Main-Line Diesel Locomotives on,181
Railways. See also Railways ; Railroads Shipping, Lloyd*s Statistics, 349
Telegraph Industry in, 1832-1866 (Review), 565
Tennessee Valley Authority’s Annual Report, 158
Uranium Piles in, 425, 472
Welded Ships, Fractures of Plates in, 77*, 208* See also America
United Steel Companies! Ltd., Visit to Works by Professors of Engineering, 474
Universal Decimal Classification, English Standard Edition, 610
University, Berkeley, California, 220-ton Cyclotron, 315*, 426
— Birmingham, Mechanics of Locked-Coil Wire Ropes, 578*, 601*
— Bristol, Summer School in Physics, 207, 484
— California, Radiation Laboratory, Liberation of Mesons 327
— Cambridge, Report on Department of Engineering, 449
— Graduates in Industry, 541
— Leeds, Report of Coal-Gas and Fuel-Industries Department, 423
— Professors of Engineering, Visit to United Steel Companies, Ltd., 474
— Sheffield, Research on Cold Rolling, 351
— See also Education
Uranium, Fission of, 363, 424, 427
Uruguay, Engineering Notes from, 163

VACUUM Impregnating Plant at National Physical Laboratory, 617
— Pump. See Pump
Valve, Electronic, Letter Symbols for, Specification, 322
— Gear for 4-6-0 Type Locomotive, British Railways, 272*
— Mixing, for Hot and Cold Water, Specification, 34
— Radio, Manufacture, Developments in, 135
Valve, Radio, Service Tester (Everett, Edgcumbe and Co., Ltd.), 355*
— and Valve Gear. See also Engines
“ Vanibac” Control System for Electric Traction, 368
“Vampire” Alternating-Current Test Set, (Everett, Edgcumbe and Co., Ltd.), 354*
— Fighter Aeroplane, International Altitude Record for, 327. See 160
Van der Horst Process for Chromium Plating Diesel-Engine Cylinders, 139
“ Vardefiell,” M.S., War-Time Repairs to, 69 Variable-Speed Gear. See Gear
Vector Analysis, Symbolic Method of (Review), 460
Vehicles, Armoured, Recovery of, by Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, 118*
Ventilating and Heating Engineers, Institution of. See Heating
Ventilation and Air Conditioning (Review), 413
— of Buildings, Specification, 154
— in Tunnels with Diesel Locomotives, 54*, 95, 114
— of Water-Turbine Driven Alternators, 358* Venturi Tubes, Orifice Plates and Standard
Nozzles, Flow Through (Review), 507
Vessels, Pressure, for Industry (Review), 388 Viaduct. See Bridges
Vibration, Crankshaft, in Motor-Car Engines, Indicator for, 334*
— Exciter, Torsional, 183, 286*
— Longitudinal, in Marine-Propeller Shafting, 381*, 405*
Vibrograph (Kelvin, Bottomley and Baird, Ltd.), 367
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., Commemoration of Centenary of Elswick Works, 78 : “ Sherrick ** Tractor with Tree-Felling and Stump-Removing Equipment, 513*
Victoria, Australia, Gift of Transit Circle to Royal Observatory, 111
Viscosity Effects in Small Ship-Model Experiments, 402
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., 204-h.p. Diesel Locomotive 393
Vulcan-Sinclair Coupling, M. S. “ Fulham VIII, ’* 32*
Vyrnwy Dam, Liverpool Water Supply from, 159

WADING Equipment for Army Vehicles, 118* Wadlow, Dr. E. C., on Mechanical Engineering
Aspects of Naval Mining, 169
Wages. SeeLaftowr; PARAGRAPH INDEX Wagons, Motor. See Motor Vehicles; Tractors Wailes, R., on Brake Wheels and Wallowers for
Windmills, 453*
Wales, Establishment of New Industries in, 184
— North, Engineering Industry in, 351 Walker, P., on Surface Defects on Steel Ingots, 521
Wall, Dr. T. F., on Symmetrical Component Analysis, 184*
Wallis, Dr. R. P., on Cumbustion, 549* Wallowers for Windmills, 453*
Walter, J., Portable Water-Level Recorder for Tanks, 58
Wantage Engineering Co., Ltd., Steam Traction Engines, 556* War, German Production During, 230
— Time Ship Repairs, 69* Warfare, Naval. See Warships
— Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics

Warships :

Admiralty Experiments on Brittle Steel, 53*
— Investigations on Marine Shafting, 183, 229, 286*, 310*
— Shock Committee, Work of, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616
Anti-Submarine Weapons, Mechanical Features of, 159
Aviation, Naval. See Aeronautics German Submarine Design and Production, 376
Invasion Fleet, Repair Organisation for, 329
H.M. Fleet, Changes in, 253
— Motor Gunboat 2009, Condition of Gas Turbines of, 135 ; Gas-Turbine Plant of, 263
— Navy Estimates, 253 and Nuclear Power, 330, 428*. See Erratum, 394
Peace-Time Policy for, 61 — Ships, Effect of Non-Contact Explosions on, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616
Longitudinal Vibration in Propeller Shafting of, 381*, 405*
?— Submarine “ Artful,” Acceptance Tests, 235
and German, Compared, 376
— Warship Building programme, 281 Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics — Construction, 1948-49, 260 in Germany, 1939-45, 469
— Mining, Mechanical Engineering Aspects of, 159
Submarines, British and German Compared, 376
— Mechanical Features of Weapons to Combat, 159
United States Navy, 2,500-s.h.p. Gas Turbine Plant for, 264*
Navy, Jet-Rocket Aeroplane for, 175*
Navy Yard, San Francisco, 450-ton Overhead Travelling Crane, 489*
Warship Design and Atomic Weapons, 330, 428*. See Erratum, 394
— Building Programme, 281 See also Naval in PARAGRAPH INDEX Waste-Heat Recovery from Open-Hearth Furnaces, 527
Watch, Stop, Electronic (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 521
Water, Boiling, Flow Through Nozzles, 136. See LETTER, 185
Water Cooling, for Heat Insulation of Presses for Plastics, 185
— Flow Transmitter (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 355*
—Heaters, Domestic, Centralised Ripple Control for, 309*
See also Feed- Water
— Heavy, Properties of, 314
— Level Recorder, Portable, for Tanks, British Railways, 58
— Pollution Research Board, Annual Report, 446 and River Boards Bill, 518
— Power. See Hydraulic; Power Plant; Power, Water ; Turbine, Hydraulic
— Supply System of Liverpool, Centenary, 159
— Tanks. See Tanks
— Treatment for Marine Boilers, Specification, 610
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic ; Power Plant
— Wheels of Sheffield, History of, 165*
See also Turbine, Hydraulic; Power Plant
Waterloo Railway Station, Centenary, 615 Waterproofing of Army Vehicles, 118* Waterways. See Rivers ; Canals ; Navigation Waterworks. See Water Supply and PARAGRAPH INDEX
Watkins, G., on London-Built Steam Engines, 15
Wattmeter. See Electric
Watts, E. R., and Son, Ltd., “ Microptic ” Precision Clinometer, 137*
Wave Action Following Sudden Release of Compressed Gas, 255
— Resistance and Ship Form, Effect of Boundary Layer on, 401
— Shock, Explosion Damage to Ships’ Machinery, 352, 477*, 501*, 517, 525*. See LETTER, 616
weapons, Anti-Submarine, Mechanical Features of, 159
Atomic, and Warship Design, 330, 428*. See Erratum, 394
Wear, Cylinder, Reduction by Porous Deposits of Hard Chromium, 139
Webster, G. R., on Peeling of Whiteheart Malleable Cast Iron, 130, 343
Weeks, W., and Son, Steam Traction Engines, 556*
Weld-Cracking Tests of High-Tensile Steels, 573*, 581
Weld Imperfections and Defects, Glossary of, 442
— Metal, Steel, Formation of Inclusions in, 497 Weldability of High-Tensile Steels, Factors Influencing, 573*, 581
Welded Shafts, Torsional-Fatigue Tests of, 183, 229 288*
— Ships, Brittle Fractures of Plates in, 16*, 53*, 77*, 208*, 222*, 568*, 592*, 605*
Welding, Arc, American Patents (Review), 76 Electric, Transfer of Material, Temperature and Stability in. Report on, 38
— Cold, of Metals, Method of. General Electric Co., Ltd., 535*
— Failures, Report on, 494
— International Institute of. Formation of, 615
— Machines, 30-kVA Flash (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 439*
— of Plastics (Review), 147
— Set, Portable, 22-5-h.p. Oil-Engined (Quasi Arc Co., Ltd.), 511
Wells Brothers, Gas Engines of, 547
Wessex Industries (Poole), Ltd., “ Wrigley ” 1-h.p. Petrol-Driven Single-Wheel Motor Hoe, 510*
West, A., Ltd., High-Acceleration Controller for Electric Traction, 368*
Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd., Coal- Tub Retarder for Automatic Decking Plant, 437* ; Signalling Equipment, Harrow-on-the-Hill, 522*
Westminster Dredging Co., Ltd., Raising Ground Level by Sand Pumping at Shotton, 241*
Wheels, Brake, for Windmills, 453*
— Gear. See Gears; Gearing; Marine Propulsion '
White City Station, London Transport Central Line, 8*, 609
Whitecross Co., Ltd., Mechanics of Locked-Coil Wire Ropes, 578*, 601*
Whiteley, Dr. J. H., on Micro-Examination of Inclusions in Steels, 497
Whittle, Air Commodore F., Government Award to, 543
Whitworth Society, Luncheon, 303 ; Summer Meeting, Bristol, 543
Wickman, A. C., Ltd., Electronic Comparator, 138*
Wigan and District Mining and Technical College, 90th Anniversary, 587
Wilkin, R. J., on Model Structures for Engineering Training, 385*
Willans, K. W., on Work of P. Willans, 304. See LETTER, 255; on Institution of Mechanical Engineers* Subscriptions, 400. See 397. See Erratum^ 424
Willans, P., Work on Steam Engine, 255. See LETTER, 304
Williams, C. D. B., on Porous-Chromium Hardening of Diesel-Engine Cylinders, 139
Williams, W. J., on Production of Nodular Graphite in Cast Irons, 475
Willis, A. II., on Analysis of Strain and Its Graphical Representation, 457*
Wilshaw, C. T., on Professional Salaries, 208, 352. See 110. See LETTERS, 160, 184, 304, 544
Wilson, C. T. R., Cloud-Chamber Apparatus, 217*
Wind Tunnels. See Aeronautics
— Use of, for Generation of Power, 112 Winding-Engine Tests, Speed Recorder for (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 537
Windley Brothers, Ltd., Square-Testing Stand, 138*
Windmill Brake Wheels and Wallowers, 453* Wire Ropes, Locked-Coil, Mechanics, 578*, 601* Pre-Stressed, Fishtoft Concrete Bridge, 608*
Socket for (British Ropes, Ltd.), 527*. s See Erratumy 611
— Steel, Annealed, for Springs, Specification, 442
Hard-Drawn, Specification, 322
Wireless Telegraphy. See Radar; Radio; Telegraphy
— Telephony. See Radar ; Radio ; Telephony Witham Fourth District Internal Drainage
Board, Fishtoft Pre-Stressed Concrete Bridge, 608*
Withers, J. G., on Engineering Units of Force, 88. See LETTERS, 40, 64, 112, 280, 328, 352, 496, 544, 592
Wolverhampton Conference on “ Production per Man-Hour,” 542
Workmen. See Labour
Wortley, Sheffield, Tilt Hammer at, 165*

Works :

Engineering Factories in North Wales, 351 See also Factories
Steelworks, British, Extensions to, 30 Works for Mirrlees-Imo Pumps (Mirrlees (Engineers), Ltd.), 44
Works, Management, Control Charts, Introduction to Statistical Quality Control (Review) 147
Engineering Organisation and Methods (Review), 435
Jigs and Fixtures for Mass Production (Review), 339
“ Production per Man-Hour ” Conference on,542
— Ministry of. Report on Payment by Results
in Building and Civil Engineering During the War, 14
Workshop Training. See Education
— See Works ; Machine Tools
World Oil Production and Consumption, 470 Wright Brothers, Work on Flight, 133
— Lecture on Size in Transport, 543, 557, 599 Wright, Orville, the Late, 133
Wrotham Transmitting Station, Frequency- Modulation at, 303
Wylam, Stephenson’s Birthplace at. Preservation of, 351. See 376, 400
Wyre, River, Tidal Model of Estuary, 617

X-RAYS and Atomic Research, 121

YACHT Construction, Practical (Review), 99 Yarrow, E. G., on Water-Tube Boilers, 247 Year Books. See LITERATURE INDEX
Yield in Gun Steel, Investigations on, 279 York Station, New Signalling System at, 171 Young, H. C., on Flow of Boiling Water
Through Nozzles, 136. See LETTER, 185
Young, R. H., on Engineering Units of Force, 352, 544. See LETTERS, 40, 64, 88, 112, 280, 328, 496, 592
Young’s Modulus. See Elastic Modulus

ZINC Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Sulphide, X-Ray Diffraction by, 121*

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Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

Engineering 1948 Jan-Jun: Index: General

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