Engineering 1957 Jul-Dec: Index

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“A/HAC ” Automatic Grinding Machine for Crankpins (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 742
Aamodt, R. L., on Direct Conversion Nuclear Energy into Electricity, 446
Abbreviations, Glossary of, 51
Abel, D., on New Deal for Over 4O’s, 448
Aberconway, Lord, Report on John Brown Group, 230
“ Aberdonian ” Bus and Coach Chassis (Albion Motors, Ltd.), 211 *
Aboriginal Tribal Songs, Australian, Recordings of, 782
Abrasion-Resisting Nitrile Rubbers, Properties and Uses of, by S. E. Bolam, 202*
Absenteeism, Dangers of. Remarks on, by Chairman of National Coal Board, 384
Abstracts Lists of Electrical Research Association, Note on, 563
— Technical, Hungarian, Note On, 657
Academic Books, Ltd., Publication Schedule, 657
Academic Press, New Journals of, 243
Academy of Sciences. See Russia Acceleration and Explosion Laboratory of Aircraft Equipment Division of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655
Accelerator, Electron, Cambridge, by Dr. R. S. Livingstone, Preliminary Notice of, 413
- Cambridge, Description of, 764
— French, 190*
— Proposal for new, 220
— Proton Linear, 50-MeV, for European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 285
“Accelerators ” for Softening and Sedimentation of Water at Hanningfield Waterworks, 509
— Synchrophasatron, 10-GeV, at Dubna, 484
— Van de Graaff, Authorised for Wisconsin University, 504
— See also Generators, Electrostatic; Synchrocyclotron; Synchrotron
Acceleration of Particles by Pinch, Effect Work on, by European Organisation for Nuclear Research, 284
Acceptance Tests for Steam-Generating Units, Code for, 521. See LETTER, 646
Accidents:
Accident Compensation. See Workmen’s Compensation under Labour
— Prevention, Device for Making Workers Safety Conscious, 544
in Troughed Belt Conveyors, by
A. A. Beckingsale (Booklet), 807
— Risk of Railway Trains at High Speed, Discussion in Parliament on, 31
Conveyors, Belt, Troughed, Accident Prevention in, by A. A. Beckingsale, 807
Domestic Electrical Appliances, Discussion in Parliament on, 93
Explosions, Causes, Prevention, Control and Suppression of, 39
Hammers, Hand, Chipping, of Accidents Caused by, 48*. See LETTER, 487
Lighting, Poor, Accident Risk due to, 660* Nuclear Reactor Accidents, 638 Winscale No. 1, Accident at, 505, 605, 635*. See also 482
Railway Accident, Edinburgh-Glasgow Express Train at Castlecary Station (1937), 598
-at Harrow (1952), 598
in 1956, Report to Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation on, 736 Risk of. Discussion in Parliament on, 31
at St. Johns, Lewisham, 767
Road Accidents, New Policy of United States Motor-Car Industry, 338 Tacoma Bridge, Failure of, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
Windscale Plutonium Plant, Accident at No. 1 Pile, 505, 605, 635*. See also 482
See also Accidents, Royal Society for the Prevention of; Explosions; Safety
Accidents, Royal Society for Prevention of, I.C.l. Codes and Regulations (Safety), 337; Accident Prevention in Troughed Belt Conveyors, by A. A. Beckingsale, 807
“Accountant ” Propeller-Turbine Transport Aircraft (Aviation Traders (Engineering), Ltd.), 292*
Accumulators, Electric. See Electric
— Vehicles. See Motor Vehicle; Motor Truck
Ace Distributors, Ltd., Cinema Films on Construction of Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station and Dounreay Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor, 476
Acetylene Welding. See Welding
Ackers, G. L., Note on Paper on Plumbing, 279
Acoustics Laboratory for Investigation of Noise Characteristics of Fans (Keith Blackman, Ltd.), 696*
— Underwater, Ultrasonic Range, by E. G. Richardson (Review), 118
Across the River, by R. Jocelyn (Review), 656
Acrow (Engineers), Annual Report, 326
Acrylic Fibre Plant of Courtaulds, Ltd., at Coventry, 424
Acrylonitrile, Effect in Nitrile Rubbers, 202* Activated Sludge. See Sewage
Acton Society Trust, Management Succession 736
Actuators, Electrical, Linear, Test Rig for Proving of, at Rotax, Ltd. (Steel Gauges, Ltd.), 618*
Ada (Halifax), Position and Prospects of, 337 Adams, G. K., on Ignition of Primary Explosives by Electric Discharges, 141
Adamson and Co., Ltd., Main Charging Compressors for 2.8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56
Adamson, D., Super-Economic Boiler with Laidlaw Drew Oil Firing Equipment for New Factory of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 282
Adapta Charts, Ltd., “ Movigraph ” Wall Charts (Trade Publication), 307; “ Rota- date ” Continuous Wall Chart, 829
Additive, Combustion, “Amber SSR 113,” for Fuel-Oils (Amber Chemical Co., Ltd.), 825
— Fuel, in Fight Against Corrosion, by Dr, B. J. Zaczek and Dr. R. Grindley, 825
— Metallic, in Combustion Zone for Reduction of Sulphur in Flue Gases, by W. J. Peck and Dr. B. J. Zaczek, 697*
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address Adhesive, Epoxy Resin, “Araldite ” (Aero Research, Ltd.), 520
— New Factory for Production and Packing of (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 282*
— Pressure-Sensitive, on “ Scotchrap ” Polyvinyl Chloride Tape (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 583
Administration of Modern Production, by Rt. Hon. The Earl of Halsbury, 38
Admiralty Civilian Employees, Reduction in Numbers, of. Discussion in Parliament on, 735
— Floating Dock for (Furness Shipbuilding Co.), 19
— Organisation Capacity, Inquiry into, 703
— See also Warships
Adorian, P., on Position and Prospects of Associated Television, 273
Advertisement on Birth of a Tin, 813 Advertising, British Rates and Data on. Vol. 2, Note on, 213
— Outside, New Government Regulations for Control of, 588
— Press, Expenditure on, 397
— in Russia, 356
— in Russia, Comparison with the West, 484
— Subliminal, Comment on, 800
Decision of United States Television Networks against Use of, 800
— — Techniques, Plain Words on, 386
— Television, for Engineers, by B. F. Maccabe, 685
Expenditure on, 397
Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and Development (AGARD), Note on, 83
A.E.I.-John Thompson Nuclear Energy Co., Ltd., Activities and Constitution of, 700. See also Berkeley Nuclear Power Station Aerial Navigation. See Aeronautics
— Propellers. See Propellers under Aeronautics
— Receiving Systems, by I. A. (Book), 498
— Systems for Study of Radio Galactic Background Radio Aperture Synthesis Technique at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, 185*
— Transport. See Aeronautics
Aero Research, Ltd., Cinema Film on “Redux” Bonding Process, 62; “Araldite ” Epoxy Resins for Tooling (Trade Publication), 499; Plastics Bonded to Steel, 520
Aerodynamics. See Aeronautics Aerojet-General Nucleonics, AGN-201 Nuclear
Reactor. Erratum, 29. See also Vol. 183
— See Aeronautics
Aeronautics:
“Accountant ” Propeller-Turbine Transport Aircraft (Aviation Traders (Engineering, Ltd.), 292*
Aerodynamic Components of Aircraft at High Speeds, by A. F. Donovan and H. R, Lawrence (Review), 720
— Factors in Aero-Engine Combustion Chambers, by W. G. E. Lewis and M. V. Herbert, 143*
—Heating, Effect on Aircraft, 408*
as Heat-Transfer Problem, 314
Aeronautical Conference, Anglo-American (Folkestone), Report of, 378*; List of Papers Presented, 379*; Hypersonic Research, 401*; Structures, Materials and Propulsion, 407*
— Engineers and Scientists, Possible Redundancy of, Discussion in Parliament on, 799
Aeronautical Engineering Review, 25 th Anniversary of American Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, 499
— Research, Cinema Film on, 821
— — Council, Special Volumes of Reports and Memoranda, 821
and Development, Advisory Group on. Note on, 83; North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Combustion Researches and Reviews, 1957 (Book), 279; Seventh General Assembly of. Preliminary Notice, 595
Aeronautical Research Discussion in Parliament on Difficulties of Transition Period, 767
Government Policy on, 737
— Sciences, American Institute of, 25th Anniversary, 499
and Controlled Flight, International Series of Monographs on (Pergamon Press), 755
— Sciences, International Council of. Formation of, 53
— Society, Royal: Symposium on High Altitude and Satellite Rockets, 98*; List of Papers Presented, 100; Discussion on High Altitude Research, 100; Exhibition of Rockets and Satellites, 101; Aircraft Hydraulics: Vol. 1. Hydraulic Systems. Vol. 2. Component Design, by H. G. Conway (Review), 180; 45th Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture on Advanced Education and Academic Research in Aeronautics, by Dr. C. B. Millikan, 430*; Techniques and Procedures in Supersonic Flight Testing, by R. P. Beamont, 718; Inaugural Lecture to Guided Flight Section on Guided Weapons and Aircraft—Some Differences in Design and Development, by J. E. Serby, 822*
Aeronautics, Advanced Education and Academic Research in, by Dr. C. B. Millikan, 430*
— Advances in, by W. H. Stephens, 465* 494*
— Classification for, by C. Wilson, 755
— Cranfield College of. See Cranfield College
— National Advisory Committee for. Model Experiments on VTOL and STOL Aircraft, 378*; Studies on Boundary Layer Control, 379 ; Method of Co-ordinate Indexing Based on Subject Classification of, 755
Aeroplane. See Aircraft (below) Air Force, Royal. See Royal (below) — League of the British Empire, 232 — Speed Records and Cruising Speeds of Airliners, Trend of, 465*
— Survival, Britain’s, by Sir R. Fedden (Book), Comment on, 225
— Terminal, Cromwell Curve, Construction of (Air Terminals, Ltd.), 127
in London, Discussion in Parliament on, 127
See also Airport (below)
— Traffic, Handling of Increased Volume of. Recommendations for, 232
— Transport Association, International, Desire by Airlines for Increase in Fares, 777; Economy Service over Transatlantic Routes, 813
British, Future of, 232
Cheaper Fares over Transatlantic Routes, 813
Industry, Comment on Position and Prospects of Independent Airlines, 809 Statistics, World, Note on, 403 Aircraft, Bomber, “ Bear,” Development of Propeller-Turbine Engine for, 117*
— “ Canberra,” Altitude Record Flight in, 295
— Carrier. See under Warships
— Civil, Airliner, “ Britannia,” Delays in Delivery to United States, 422
Airliner, “ Britannia,” Trans-World Airlines Order for, 216
Airliner, “ Britannia 312,” Weather Exploration Flights from Singapore, 727
Airliner, “ Canadair CL44,” Order for Propeller Equipment for (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 359
Airliner, “ Caravelle,” Order for, by Scandinavian Airlines System (Sud Aviation), 39
Airliner, “ Civil Victor ” Handley Page, Ltd.), 293
Airliner, “ Comet I,” Tests on Pressure Cabin, 727
Airliner, “ Comet 3 ” (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 292
Airliner, “ Comet 4,” Production Progress of (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 633
Airliner, “ Comet 4C,” Announcement of (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 633
Airliner, “ Convair,” “ Eland ” Turbo-Propeller Engines for (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 710
Airliner, “ Convair 340,” Conversion to “Eland” Propeller-Turbine Engines (D. Napier and Son, Ltd., and R.E.A.L. S.A. Transportes Aereos), 283*
Airliner, Ilushin II 18 “ Moskva,” 582
Airliners, Supersonic, 494*
Airliner, Trend of Air-Speed Records and Cruising Speeds of, 465*
Airliner, Tupolev “TullO,” 483* See Erratum, 582
Airliner, “ Vanguard ” (Vickers- Armstrongs, Ltd.), 293*
Discussion in Parliament on Production Prospects, 767
Aircraft, Civil, Doppler Navigator, Type AD.2300 for (Marconi’s Wireless Telgraph Co., Ltd.), 80
— Constructors, British, Society of. See British Aircraft Constructors
— D.C.3, Use in Geophysical Surveys, 281 — Effect of Aerodynamic Heating on, 408*
— Electrics Laboratories of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655*
— Establishment, Royal. See Royal (below)
— “ F.86 ’’ Leading-Edge Area-Suction and Jet-Blown Trailing Edge Flap Tests on, 379*
— Fighter, “ Hunter,” Indian Government Contract with Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., for Supply of, 359
Integrated Instrument-Flight System for, 261
“ P.I,” Single-Seat, Development of
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 123* -Supersonic All-Weather, “P. IB”
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 258*
— and Guided Weapons—Some Differences in Design and Development, by J. E. Serby, 822*
— High-Speed, Aerodynamic Components of, by A. F. Donovan and H. R. Lawrence (Review), 720
Speed, Measuring Optimum Cooling Flow Required by Radio Equipment in, 261
—• — Speed, Research Facilities for, at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford, 4
Speed, Simulating Kinetic Heating in (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), Ill*
— Hydraulics: Vol. 1. Hydraulic Systems. Vol. 2. Component Design, by H. G. Conway (Review), 180
— Industry, Analysis of, by Sir R. Fedden, Comment on, 225
Association of America, Aviation Facts and Figures (Annual Review), 213; Planes (Monthly Bulletin), Note on, 783
Development in. Comment on “ False Rate of,” 769
Discussion in Parliament on Government Interdepartmental Committee for Investigation into Future of, 799
Discussion in Parliament on Position and Prospects of, 767
Effect of Cuts in Research and Development in, 710
Effect on, of Government’s Decision to Use Guided Missiles for Defence Purposes, 620
? Engineers in. Need to be Increasingly Specialist and Non-Specialist, 769
French, Position and Prospects of, 809
“Jethete 151 ” High-Tensile Weldable Ferritic Stainless Steel for (Samuel Fox and Co., Ltd.), 358
Management in. Aspects of, 301 Materials Pioneered by, 358 Personnel Redundancies in, 767 Position and Prospects of, 359 Problems of, 773
in Scotland, Discussion in Parliament on, 799
Specialists in. Need for Greater Organisation and Supervision of, 769
— Interceptor, Mixed-Power, Experimental, “ SR 53 ” (Saunders-Roe, Ltd.), 350*
Mixed-Power Supersonic, “ SR 53,” Prototype (Saunders-Roe, Ltd.), 259*
Mixed-Power Supersonic “ S.R. 177 ” High-Altitude (Saunders-Roe, Ltd.), 537*. See also 517
— Materials, Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference on, 407*
Heat-Resistance of, 407*
— Military, Abandoned Projects, 799
— Model, Santos-Dumont, Presentation of, to Brazil Government, by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd., 232*
— Nuclear-Powered, Remarks on Prospects of, 604*
Powered, Russian, Reports Relating to, 732
Propulsion for. Position and Prospects of, 408*
Reactor, ARE, Details of, by A. M. Weinberg, 604*
— Pneumatic Emergency Services, “ R.E.S.5 ” “ Snap ” Air Bottle for (Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 17*
— Pressure-Cabins, Fail-Safe, 727
Cabin Windows, of Two-Panel Construction, 407*
— Propulsion, Anglo-American Aeronautical (Conference on, 407*
— Prototype, at Farnborough Show, 259* — Research, Supersonic, “F.D,2 ” (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 259*
Vertical Take-Off “S.C.I” (Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd.), 292, 494 — Separating at Airports, Long-Range Navigation System for, 63
Aircraft, STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing), Work on, by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 387*
— Structural Design, Effect of Differential Temperature Stress in, 408
— Structures, Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference on, 407*
Fail-Safe, 407*
?— Supersonic, Exports of, 517
— Testing, Instrumentation in, by C. N. Jaques (Review), 656
?—? Thermal Stresses in, by B. E. Gatewood (Review), 782
— Training, at Farnborough Show, 259
— Transport, at Farnborough Show, 259, 292*
Freighter or Car-Ferry, “ Freightercoach ” (W. G. Armsgrong Whitworth (Aircraft), Ltd.), 293*
“HDM.105” (F. G. Miles, Ltd.), 292*
? “ Jetstar,” Bristol “ Orpheus ” Turbojet Engine for (Lockheed Aircraft Corporation), 517
Long-Range, Research on Laminar Flow Applied to Ltd.), 293
Propeller-Turbine (Aviation Traders Ltd.), 292*
— ?—-Requirement Committee, Activities of, 831
?— Vertical Take-Off and Landing, Development, World-Wide, Chronology of, 213
Take-Off and Landing, “S.C.l” (Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd.), 292, 494
Take-off and Landing, Work on, by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 378*
Airfield Test Set, Operational (OATS), for “ Fireflash ” Air-to-Air Guided Weapon System, 251
Airframe Structures, Titanium (Douglas Aircraft Co.), 378*
? “ Fox 769 ” Steel for (Samuel Fox and Co., Ltd.), 358
Airlines, Desire for Increase in Fares, 111 — Independent, Position and Prospects of, 809
Airport, Elmdon, Future of, 159
?— London, Development Committee, Report of, 232
Railway Link, Statement in Parliament on, 159
— Long-Range Navigation System for Separating Aircraft at, 63
?— Needs of, in Jet Age, 478
— Rongotai, New Zealand, Microwave Radio Link for, 586*
— See also Air Terminal (above)
Altitude Record Flight in “ Canberra ” Aircraft, 295
“ Astro ” Satellite Navigation System, 486*
Astronautic Systems: Conquest of Space, Chart on (General Dynamics " poration), 802*
Astronautical Congress (Barcelona). Astronautical
Aviatiek, Netherlands Aeronautical nal. Note on, 595
Aviation Age Research and Development Technical Handbook, Note on, 213
— Directory, World, Note on, 119
— Facts and Figures (Annual Review), 213
— Needs of, in Coming Jet Age, Report on, 478. See LETTER, 646
?— Organisation, International Civil, Report on Needs of Aviation in Coming Jet Age, 478. See LETTER, 646
“ Bear ” Bomber Aircraft, Devlopment of Propeller-Turbine Engine for, 117*
Blind Flying Experimental Unit, Work of, at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford, 53
“ Bloodhound ” Surface-to-Air Guided Weapon System (Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., and Ferranti, Ltd.), 259*, 350*
Air Guided Weapon System, Guidance and Control Equipment for (Ferranti, Ltd.), 350
Air Guided Weapon System, Launcher for (M.L. Aviation Co., Ltd.), 350, See Erratum, 424 Boundary Layer. See Boundary Layer “ Bristol 192 ” Twin-Rotor Helicopeters, “ P992 ” Paper-Based Laminate for (Bakelite, Ltd.), 728*
Britain’s Air Survival, by Sir R. Fedden (Book), Comment on, 225
“ Britannia ” Airliner, Delays in Delivery to United States, 422
?—? — Trans-World Airlines Order for, 216 “Britannia 312” Airliner, Weather Exploration Flights from Singapore (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 727
“ Bumper-Wac ” Two-Stage High Altitude Research Missile, 430*
“ Canadair CL44 ” Airliner, Propeller Equipment for. Order for (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 359
“Canberra” Aircraft, Altitude Record Flight in, 295
“ Caravelle ” Twin-Jet Medium-Range Aircraft, Order for, by Scandinavian Airlines System (Sud Aviation), 39
“ Civil Victor ” Airliner (Handley Page, Ltd.), 293
Classification Schemes, 755
“ Comet 1 ” Airliner Pressure Cabins, Tests on, 727
“ Comet 3 ” Airliner (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 292
“ Comet 4 ” Airliners, Production Progress of (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 633
“ Comet 4C ” Airliner, Announcement of (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 633
“ Convair ” Airliner, “ Eland ” TurboPropeller Engines for (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 710
Aeronautics—continued
“ Convair 340 ” Airliners, Conversion to “ Eland ” Propeller-Turbine Engines (D. Napier and Son, Ltd., and R.E.A.L. S.A. Transportes Aereos), 283*
“ Corporal ” Long-Range Tactical Supersonic Guided Missile, 431
“ D.C.3 ” Aircraft, Use in Geophysical Surveys, 281
Delta Wing, Narrow, 495*
Doppler, Aircraft Navigation System, 261 * — Navigator, Type AD.2300, for Commercial Aircraft (Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 80
“ Double Scorpion ” Rocket Engine (D. Napier and Sons, Ltd.), 292*. See also 295
Drag Barrier, Conquest of, 465* Drop-Tanks, Aircraft, Asbestos-Reinforced Phenolic-Resin (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 89*
Dynamics, Solid and Fluid, Work of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories of California Institute of Technology on, 430*
Education, Advanced, and Academic Research in Aeronautics, by Dr. C. B. Millikan, 430*
“ Eland ” Propeller-Turbine Engines, Conversion of “ Convair ” Airliners to (D. Napier and Son, Ltd., and R.E.A.L. S.A. Transportes Aereos), 283*, 710
Engine, Aeroplane, Combusion Chambers, Aerodynamic Factors in, by W. G. E. Lewis and M. V. Herbert, 143*
Air Motor (Wade Engineering, Ltd.), 332
Gas-Turbine, 55-h.p., Solar Mercury “ YT-62,” for One-Man Helicopter (Solar Aircraft Co.), 310
for Helicopter Shaft Drives, “P.181” and “P.182” Centrifugal Gas-Turbine (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 292
Increase in Exports of, 710
Jet, Manual of, by E. Mangham and A. Peace (Book), 243
Jet, Measurement of Thrust of. Use of Electromagnetic Computer E.M.C. Mk. 1, 528*
Nuclear-Powered, 93
?—?—Propeller-Turbine, “Eland,” Conversion of “ Convair ” Airliners for (D. Napier and R.E.A.L. S.A. Transportes Aereos), 283*, 710
Propeller-Turbine, “ Proteus,” Developed for Marine Use (Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd.), 333*
Propeller-Turbine, “ Proteus 755,” Modified, for Monsoon Conditions, for “ Britannia 312 ” Airliner, 727
Propeller-Turbine, Russian, Development of, by Dipl. Ing. F. Brandner, I 16*
Review of New, 290*
Turbojet, “ Gyron Junior ” (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 290*
Turbojet, “Gyron Junior,” for “ S-R. 177 ” High Altitude Supersonic Mixed-Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 537*
Turbojet, “ Gyron Senior ” (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 290
Turbojet, “ Iroquois,” Agreement Between Orenda Engines Ltd. and Curtiss-Wright Corp., for Building of, 454
Turbojet, “ Iroquois,” for Avro Canada’s Arrow Supersonic Interceptor Aircraft (Orenda Engines, Ltd.), 291*
Turbojet, “Orenda,” Order from West German Air Force for, to Orenda Engines, Ltd., 454
Turbojet, “ Orpheus.” for Lockheed “ Jetstar ” Light Transpoft Aircraft (Bristol Engines, Ltd.), 517
Turbojet, “ Viper,” in Saunders-Roe “ SR 53 ” Experimental Interceptor Aircraft (Armstrong-Siddley Motors, Ltd.), 350
— — See also Turbines, Gas
Ramjet, “ Thor,” for “ Bloodhound ” Surface-to-Air Guided Weapon System (Bristol Engines, Ltd.), 350
— Rocket, “ Double Scorpion ” (D.
Napier and Sons, Ltd.), 292*. See also 295
Instability of Combustion in, 663 Liquid-Propellent, Combustion Chamber for, 101
“ Spectre ” (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 290*
“ Spectre ” Fully-Variable Thrust, for “ S-R. 177 ” High-Altitude Supersonic Mixed-Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 537*
“ Spectre ” in Saunders-Roe “ SR
53 ” Experimental Interceptor Aircraft (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 350
“ F.86 ” Aircraft, Leading Edge Area- Suction and Jet-Blown Trailing Edge Flap Tests on, 379*
Fail-Safe Aircraft Structures, 407* “F.D.2” Supersonic Research Aircraft (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 259*
“ Fireflash ” Air-to-Air Beam-Rider Guided Weapon (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 259*
— Air-to-Air Guided-Weapon System (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 250*
— Guided-Weapon System (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 349
“ Firestreak ” Air-to-Air Guided Weapon (de Havilland Aircraft 259*, 822*
— Guided-Weapon System and Components (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 349*
Flight, Controlled, and Aeronautical Sciences, International Series of
Aeronautics—continued
Monographs on (Pergamon Press), 755
Flight, High-Speed, Cinema Film on, 85
— Instrument System, Integrated, for Fighter Aircraft, 261
— Satellite, Effect on Human Beings, by Lt.-Col. J. P. Henry, 128
— Simulator, Electronic, TRIDAC, at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough), 468*
— Simulator. Helicopter (Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd.), 500*
— Testing, Supersonic, Techniques and Procedures in, by R. P. Beamont, 718 Flying, History of, by C. H. Gibbs-Smith, 279
— Platform, Hiller, 494*
“ Freightercoach ” Freighter or Car-Ferry Aircraft (W. G. Armstrong Whitworth (Aircraft), Ltd.), 293*
“ Gyron Junior ” Turbojet Engine for “ S-R. 177 ” High-Altitude Super sonic Mixed Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 537*
Turbojet Engine for Supersonic High-Altitude Interceptor and Tactical Aircraft (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 290*
“Gyron Senior” Supersonic Turbojet Engine (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 290
“HDM105” Transport Aircraft (F. G. Miles, Ltd.), 292*
Heat Barrier, Problems and Progress of, 466
Heating, Aerodynamic, Effect on Aircraft, 408
Helicopter, The, by J. Shapiro (Review), 118
— at Farnborough Show, 259
— Flight Simulator (Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd.), 500*
— One-Man, Solar Mercury “ YT-62 ” 55-h.p. Gas-Turbine Engine for (Solar Aircraft Co.), 310
— Shaft Drives, “ P181 ” and “P182” Centrifugal Gas-Turbine Engines for (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 292
-Twin-Rotor, “Bristol 192,” “ P992 ” Paper-Based Laminate for (Bakelite, Ltd.), 728*
— “ Whirlwind ” Mark VH, Anti-Sub
marine (Westland Aircraft, Ltd.,) 85 Hiller Flying Platform, 494*
History of Flying, by C. H. Gibbs-Smith, 279
Human Reactions in High-Speed Travel, 466
“ Hunter ” Fighter Aircraft, Indian Government Contract with Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., for Supply of, 359
Hydraulics, Aircraft: Vol. 1. Hydraulic Systems. Vol. 2 Component Design, by H. G. Conway (Review) 180
Hypersonic Research by United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 401 *
Instrument, Flight, Integrated System, for Fighter Aircraft, 261
Ilushin 11 18 “ Moskva” Airliner, 582 “Iroquois” Supersonic Turbojet Engine for Avro Canada’s Arrow Supersonic Interceptor Aircraft (Orenda Engines, Ltd.), 291 *
— 20,000 lb Thrust Supersonic Turbojet
Engine, Agreement between Orenda Engines, Ltd., and Curtiss-Wright Corp., for Building of, 454
Jet Age, Needs of Aviation in. Report on, 478. See LETTER, 646
— Flap Principle, 494*
— Propulsion Laboratory of California Institute of Technology, Development Work on Guided Missiles, 430*
“ Jetstar ” Light Transport Aircraft, Bristol “ Orpheus ” Turbojet Engines for (Lockheed Aircraft Corporation), 517
“ K ” Propeller-Turbine Aero Engine, 116*
Kinetic Heating at High-Flight Speeds, Test Rigs for, 467
“ Legs 1 and 2 ” of Hypersonic Wind- Tunnel Facility at California Institute of Technology, 430*
Lift Augmentation Systems, 494*
Lunar Flight, Dynamics of. Problems in, by V. A. Yegorov, 642
Problems of, 642*
— Trajectory, General Study of, 642 Missile, Anti-Aircraft, Homing, SemiActive, “ Thunderbird ” (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 350*
— Ballistic, Intercontinental, “ Titan,” Martin Co.’s New Division for Launching of, 678
— Guided, Development Progress of, 465
— for Guided-Weapon Homing Demon
stration at Farnborough Show (Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd.), 260*
Development Work on, at Jet Propulsion Laboratory of California Institute of Technology, 430*
Government’s Decision on Use for Defence Purposes, 620
Supersonic, Tactical, Long-Range, “ Corporal,” 431
“ WAC Corporal,” 430
— Ramjet-Propeller, 822*
— Recovery Techniques for, 822*
— Research, High-Altitude, Two-Stage, “ Bumper-WAC,” 430*
— Thermal Stresses in, by B. E. Gatewood (Review), 782
— See also Rockets (below) and Weapons, Guided (below)
Monographs on Aeronautical Sciencesand Controlled Flight, International Series of (Pergamon Press), 755
Moon Satellites, Accuracy of, by H. A. Lieske, 485
M-Wing, for Low Supersonic Speeds, 495*
Aeronautics—continued
Naval Air Department, Work of, at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford, 53 Navigating System, Long-Range, for Separating Aircraft at Airports, 63 Navigation, Satellite, “ Astro ” System, 486*
— System, Doppler, for Aircraft, 261* Navigator, Doppler, Type AD23OO, for Commercial Aircraft (Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 80
Nozzle, Hypersonic, Water-Cooled, Variable Mach Number. Test Section and Diffuser at California Institute of Technology 431
Nuclear Propulsion for Aircraft, Position and Prospects of, 408*
“ Orenda 14” Turbojet Aircraft Engines, Order from West German Air Force for, to Orenda Engines, Ltd., 454 “Orpheus” Turbojet Aeroplane Engine, for Lockheed “ Jetstar ” Light Transport Aircraft (Bristol Engines, Ltd.), 517
“ Pl ” Single-Seat Fighter Aircraft, Development of (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 123*
“PIB” Supersonic All-Weather Fighter Aircraft (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 259*
“Pl81 ” Centrifugal Gas-Turbine Engine for Helicopter Shaft Drives (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 292 “PI82” Centrifugal Gas-Turbine Engine for Helicopter Shaft Drives (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 292 Passenger Seat, Double, Aircraft, Glass- Fibre-Reinforced (Microcell, Ltd.), 89 Planes (Bulletin), Note on, 783 Platform, Flying, Hiller, 494* Pressure-Cabins, Aircraft, Fail-Safe, 727 Windows of Two-Panel Construction, for Aircraft, 407*
“ Private A ” Uncontrolled Solid-Propellent Rocket, 430
Projectile with Melting Metal Nose, Heat-Transfer Test in Pressurised Range, 401 *
Propeller Equipment for Turbine-Powered “Canadair CL44” Airliner (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 359
“ Proteus ” Turbo-Propeller Engine Developed for Marine Use (Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd.), 333*
“ Proteus 755 ” Engine, Modified, for Monsoon Conditions, for “ Britannia 312 ” Civil Airliner, 727 Ramjet-Propelled Missile, 822* — See also Engine, Aeroplane (above) Research, Academic, and Advanced Education in Aeronautics, by Dr.
C. B. Millikan, 430*
Rockets, Development Progress of, 465
— in Extra-Terrestrial Research, 227
— Flight, Study of, at Cranfield College of Aeronautics, 101
— High-Altitude and Satellites, Symposium on, 98*
— Models, Free-Flight, Use of, for Experimental Purposes, 468*
— Moon, Man-Carrying, Discussion 100 ? Russian Scientists’ Ideas on, 243
— Motor Propellents, Solid, Types and Behaviour of, 14
—?— Solid-Propellent, Body Components of, 15 *
Solid-Propellent, Charge Shape Solid-Propellent, by E. T, Smith, 14*
— with Mouse inside. Comment
Incident of, 768
— Performance, by L. R. Shepherd,
— Propulsion, Fuels for, 644*
— Russian, Experimental, Launching of, 482*
— and Satellites Exhibited at Cranfield
College of Aeronautics, 101 Re-entry and Recovery of, 100* 101*
— “ Skylark,” Upper-Atmosphere-Sound
ing, 99, 101
— Solid-Propellent, Uncontrolled, “ Private A," 430
— Upper-Atmosphere-Sounding, “ Skylark," Launching Tower for, 99*
— “ Veronique,” 101
— See also Missiles (above) and Weapons, Guided (below)
Royal Air Force, Work Study in, 175; Training of Boy Entrants, Social Factors in, by A, B. Cherns and K. W. Tilley, 384
— Aircraft Establishment (Aberporth), “ Zero Length ” Launcher for Missiles at, 350*
Establishment (Bedford): Opening of High-Speed Research Facilities, 4; Mach 2-8 Wind Tunnel, 52*; Airfield Activities, 53; Work of Blind Flying Experimental Unit, 53; Work of Naval Air Department, 53*; Mach 2-8 Wind Tunnel, Contractors for, 56* Establishment (Farnborough), Guided-Weapon Homing Demonstration at Farnborough Show, 260; Servo Systems Designed by, 260; Data Transmission System for Guided-Weapons Trials Devised by, 261; Measuring Optimum Cooling Flow Required by Radio Equipment in High-Speed Aircraft, 261; TRIDAC Electronic Flight Simulator at, 468*; Installation of DEUCE and TRIDAC Computers at, 623; Devel- lopment of Digital Difll'erential Analysers, 698*; Tests on “ Comet 1 ” Pressure Cabin, 727; Farnborough Show at. See British Constructors
— ?—? Establishment (Westcott)
bustion Chamber for Large Propellent Rocket Engine, 101 Satellites, Artificial, Uses of, 485 — Earth, Artificial, Determination of Lifetime of, by D. E. Okhotsimsky,
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
Aeronautics—continued
T. M. Eneev, and G. P. Taratinova, 582
Satellites, Earth, Energies Available 485*
Energy Requirements of, 484* Military Aspects of, 486 Placing in Orbit, by D. Okhotsimsky and T. M. Eneev,
for.
E.
643
Possible Uses in Communications, 486
Possible Uses in Navigation, 486 Practical Aspects of, 484*
Russian, Impact and Impulse of, 481 Russian, Launching of First, 456 Russian, Observation of. Discussion in Parliament on, 703
Sputnik, 481, 582, 644* Value of Accuracy, 485*
“ Vanguard,” Martin Co.’s New Division for Launching of, 678; Programme for, 678
— Flight, Effect on Human Beings, by Lt.-Col. J. P. Henry, 128
— Future Trends in, for Space Travel, 495*
— Moon, Accuracy of, by H. A. Lieske, 485
— Navigation System, “ Astro,” 486*
— Remarks by Academician P. 1. Kapitsa, 455
— Research on Applications of, 485
— Rocket, “ Vanguard,” 98*, 100*, 227
— and Rockets Exhibited at Cranfield
College of Aeronautics, 101
— Re-entry and Recovery of, 101*
— and Spaceflight, by E. Burgess (Book),
755
— Utilitarian Applications, 486
— “Vanguard,” Comparison with Russian
Satellite, 456
“S.C.l ” Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft (Short Bros. and Harland, Ltd.), 292, 494*
Scientists and Engineers, Possible Redundancy of, in Parliament on, 799
Scotland, Aircraft Industry in, in Parliament on, 799
“ Sea Slug ” Guided Weapon Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.), 349*
Seat, Passenger, Double, Aircraft, Glass- Fibre-Reinforced (Microcell, Ltd.), 89 Simulator, Flight, Electronic, TRIDAC, at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough), 468*
“ Skylark ” Rocket, Upper-Atmosphere- Sounding, 99, 101
— Upper-Atmosphere-Sounding Rocket, Launching Tower for, 99*
Solar Mercury “ YT-62 ” 55-h.p. Gas- Turbine Engine for One-Man Helicopter (Solar Aircraft Co.), 310
Space, Conquest of. Chart on, 802*
— Flight, 98. See also 128 Manned, Chart of Definition of Objectives in Achievement of (General Dynamics Corporation), 802*
Propulsion Systems, 802*
? Propulsion System, Atomic Pile
as, 802*
— — Propulsion System, Chemical Com
bustion as, 802*
and Satellites, by E. Burgess (Book), 755
— Russian Conquest of. Significance of. Remarks by Dr. K. Mendelssohn, 512
— Travel, Future Trends in, 495*
Realities of, by L. J. Carter (Review), 656
“ Spectre ” Fully-Variable Thrust Rocket Engine for “S-RI77” High-Altitude Supersonic Mixed-Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 537*
— Rocket Aero Engine (de Engine Co., Ltd.), 290*
Engine in Saunders-Roe Experimental Interceptor (de Havilland Engine Co.,
Sputnik, Impact and Impulse of, 481 Sputnik 1, Descent of, by C. H. Bosanquet, 582
Sputnik II, Possible Fuels for, 644* “ SR53 ” Experimental Mixed-Power Interceptor Aircraft (Saunders-Roe, Ltd.), 350*
— Supersonic Mixed-Power Interceptor Prototype Aircraft (Saunders-Roe, Ltd.), 259*
“S-RI77” High-Altitude Supersonic Mixed-Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft (Saunders-Roe, See also 517
STOL (Short Take-Off Aircraft, Advisory nautics, 378*
Supersonic Airliners, 494*
— Flight Testing, Techniques and Procedures in, by R. P. Beamont, 718
— Weapons System in “Pl ” Single-Seat Fighter Aircraft, 123
Tanks, Drop, Aircraft, Asbestos-Reinforced Phenolic-Resin (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 89*
Testing, Supersonic Flight, Techniques and Procedures in, by R. P. Beamont, 718
“ Thor ” Ramjet for “ Bloodhound ” Surface-to-Air Guided Weapon System (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 350
“ Thunderbird ” Semi-Active Homing Anti-Aircraft Missile (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 350*
“ Titan ” Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, Martin Co.’s New Division for Launching of, 678
TRIDAC Electronic Flight Simulator at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough), 468*
“ Tu 110” Propeller-Turbine Airliner, Tupolev, 483*. See Erratum, 582
Aeronautical, Discussion
Duscussion
(Sir W. G.
Havilland
“ SR53 ” Aircraft Ltd.), 350
Ltd.), 537*.
Work on. Committee
and Landing) by National : for Aero
Aeronautics—continued
Undercarriage Forgings, “ Fox 769 ’’ Steel for (Samuel Fox and Co., Ltd.), 358
United States Naval Ordnance, Research Work of, 401 *
“ Vanguard ’’ Airliner (Vickers-Arm- strongs, Ltd.), 293*
— Satellite, 98*, 100*, 227
— Satellite, Comparison with Russian Satellite, 456
— Satellite, Martin Co.’s New Division for Launching of, 678; Programme for, 678
“ Veronique’’ Sounding Rocket, 101 Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft, Work on, by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 378* Off and Landing Developments,
World-Wide, Chronology of, 213 Off and Landing Systems, 494* Off and Landing. See also Aircraft (above)
“ Viper ’’ Turbojet Engine in Saunders- Roe “ SR53 ’’ Experimental Interceptor Aircraft (Armstrong-Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 350
“ WAC Corporal ’’ Guided Missile, 430 Weapon, Guided, Air-to-Air, Beam-Rider, “ Fireflash ’’ (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 259*
Air-to-Air, de Havilland “ Firestreak ’’ (de Havilland Aircraft Co.,), Ltd.), 259*, 822*
and Aircraft, Some Differences in Design and Development, Serby, 822*
System
Ferranti),
424
See also
“ Whirlwind ’’
“ Bloodhound ”
259*, 350*. See
by J. E.
(Bristol-
Erratum,
Missiles (above)
Mark VII Anti-Submarine Helicopter (Westland Aircraft, Ltd.), 85
Wind Tunnels, Development Progress, 467 Facility, Hypersonic, at California Institute of Technology, “ Legs 1 and 2 ” of, 430*
Hypersonic, Force Measurements in, 401
Low-Speed, Closed-Circuit (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 19*
Mach 2-8, at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 52*; Description of, 53*; List of Contractors for, 56*
Supersonic, at Jet Propulsion Laboratory of California Institute of Technology, 431
Windows, Pressure-Cabin, Aircraft, Two-Panel Construction, 407*
Wing, Delta, Narrow, 495*
— Flutter, History of Classical, 662
— M-Shaped, for Low Supersonic Speeds, 495*
“ YT-62 ” 55-h.p. Gas-Turbine Engine, Solar Mercury, for One-Man Helicopter (Solar Aircraft Co.), 310 Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics
Africa, Capital for Development in, 454
— East, Rain-Making Experiments in, 223
— South. See South Africa
— Trade Unionism in. Trades Union Congress
Aid to, 160
— Uranium from. United Kingdom Atomic
Energy Authority’s Interest in, 413
Africans, Training of, in Engine Maintenance, 384
AGARD, Note on, 83 _
Agavox Telediction
Telephone (M. Age, Effects of, on
D. B. Bromley, AGN-201 Nuclear
See also Vol. 183 Agreements, Labour. See Labour Agricultural Equipment, Canadian Imports of,
from United Kingdom and United States, 778*
— and General-Purpose Engines, “ Four-99,”
and “ P4/192 ” (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 741
— Machinery Industry, Export Drive of, 81 Industry, Position and Prospects of, 104
— Motors. - - • ? - —
— Potential
on, 23
— Problems
Atomic Energy, Report on, 283
— Rheology, by G. W. Scott Blair and
M. Reiner (Book), 687
— Tractors. See Tractors
Agriculture and Free Trade Area, Dutch Views
on, 327
— See also Crops: Irrigation
“ Air is in the Air ” (Book): History, Products and Methods of Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd. 51
— Bottle, “ Snap,” “ R.E.S.5” for Aircraft
Pneumatic Emergency Services (Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 17*
— Charter, Statistics for Motor-Car Air Lift
to Europe, 27
— Cleaners and Filters (Trade Publication),
657
Oil-Bath Intake, Cycoil “ Type P ” (Trade Publication), 657
— Compressed. See Compressed Air; Pneu
matic
?— Compressors, Axial-Flow, Blade Vibration in, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
? Axial-Flow, for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel
at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 55*
Canadian Imports of, from United Kingdom and United States, 778*
for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Constantin (Engineering), Ltd.), 536*
Centrifugal, for Mark 'TE 300-kW Gas- Turbine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 315* Fan-Cooled, Oil-Free (Trade Publication), 821
for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford, 52*, 53* Oil-Flooded, Power Vane (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 300*
of
System for Dictation by and L. Haycraft, Ltd.), 67* Intellectual Processes, by 352, 389
Reactor. Erratum, 29.
See Engines: Motors; Tractors in Power Generation, Discussion
in. Economic Applications of
Air Compressors, Refrigerator, Sealed Rotary, “ Metre- Miser,” Manufacture of (General Motors, Ltd)' 829*
Rotary, Oil-Cooled High-Speed, Type OCR (Worthington-Simpson, Ltd.), 252*
? Rotary, Oil-Flooded (Worthington-
Simpson, Ltd.), 299
• Rotary, Oil-Flooded, Portable (Broom
and Wade, Ltd.), 299*
for Russian Propeller-Turbine Aero Engine, 116*
Single-Cylinder, Air-Cooled, Stationary (Holman Brothers, Ltd.), 300
Variable (Wade Engineering, Ltd.), 332 ?— Conditioner, Laboratory, Note on, 45
— Conditioning, by W. R. Woolrich and
W. R. Woolrich, Jr. (Review), 782
Climatic Influences as Basic Concept in, by T. H. Urdahl, 46
and Refrigeration, by R. C. Jordan and G. B. Priester (Book), 279
and Ventilator Systems, “ Auto-Roll ” Automatic Screen-Type Air Filter (Vokes, Ltd.), 333
Air Control Installations, Ltd., Blowers Fans (Trade Publication), 657; Dust Fume Control (Trade Publication), 657; Filters and Air Cleaners (Trade Publication), 657
“ Air-Controlled,” Cinema Film on Compressed-Air Equipment, 84
— Cooling Towers for Power Stations,
Examination of Possible Use of, 733
— Dryer, Unit-Type (Lightfoot Refrigeration
Co., Ltd.), 47
— Drying for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at
Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford, 52*
— Filters for Electric and Diesel-Electric
Locomotives (Trade Publication), 821
“ Fleetway ” (Trade Publication), 307 Glass Fibre (Trade Publication), 307 Renewable, Automatic, Roll-O-Matic (Trade Publication), 657
Screen-Type, Automatic, “ Auto-Roll,” for Air Conditioning and Ventilator Systems (Vokes, Ltd.), 333
— Force, Royal. See Royal under Aero
nautics
— Gauge, Automatic (Tolimit Gauges, Ltd.),
92*
— Heating Unit, “ Pak-a-way,” for Houses
(Package Heater Co.), 493*
— Hose Couplings, “ Instantair ” (Trade
Publication), 403
— League of the British Empire, 232; Com
ment on Government’s Decision to Use Guided Missiles for Defence Purposes, by Lord Weeks, 620
— Lift to Europe, Motor-Car, Statistics for, 27
— Motor for Aircraft (Wade Engineering,
Ltd.), 332
— Pollution, Investigation of (Book), 687 in Iron and Steel Industry (Book), 563 Air Pollution News, Bulletin of National
Smoke Abatement Society, 307
by Power Stations, Discussion in Parliament on, 127
Programme, Community, of. Note on, 437
See also Smoke Abatement
— Pump. See Pump
— Purifying System at Thames
Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 701
— Screws. See Propellers under
— Supplies, Pilot-Controlled Regulator for
(Shipston Engineering Co., Ltd.), 299*
— Terminal. See Aeronautics, and Airports
under Aeronautics
— Terminals, Ltd., Construction of Cromwell
Curve Air Terminal, 127
— Transport Association, Independent, British,
Annual Report, 809
Association, Internaiional, Desire by Airlines for Increase in Fares, 777; Economy Service over Transatlantic Routes, 813
See also Aeronautics
“ Airdale ” Open Fire with Reflector (Richard Baxendale and Ltd.), 811
Aircraft. See Aeronautics
— Carrier. See Warships
— Constructors, British, Society of.
British Aircraft Constructors
— Establishment, Royal. See Royal
Aeronautics
“ Airflex ” Dynamometer for Fluid-Coupling Drive (Crofts (Engineers), Ltd.), 265* Airframe. See Aeronautics
“ Airhydropump ” Portable Reciprocating Pump (Charles S. Madan and Co., Ltd.), 361*
Airport. See Aeronautics
Airslides for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Constantin (Engineers), Ltd.), 536*
Aiton and Co., Ltd., History of Pipe Making (Trade Publication), 213
Albert Medal of Royal Society of Arts Awarded to Sir C. Hinton, 61
“ Albion ” Baler (David Brown Group), 648* Albion Motors, Ltd. “Aberdonian ” Economical Motor Omnibus and Coach Chassis, 211*
Albright and Wilson, Ltd., Annual Report, 295; “ Kanigen ” Nickel-Phosphorus Plating Process, 358; “Kanigen” Corrosion- Resisting Electroplate (Trade Publication), 625
Alco Products, Inc., Locomotive Orders for India and Pakistan, 27; High-Temperature Pebble-Bed Nuclear Reactor, 29; Performance Test of APPR Nuclear Reactor, 285
Alcock, J. F., on Distribution of Heat Flow in High-Duty Internal-Combustion Engines, 58
“ Alcomax ” Semi-Columnar (Trade Publication), 531
“ Alexander,” 600 c.c. Miniature Motor-Car, Improvements to (Lloyd), 287*
Alfa-Laval Co., Ltd., “ Turbomatic ” Centrifuge for Clarifying Coolants, 586*
Algal Research, Promotion and Assistance of, 12
for
and
and
Publications
Foundry of
Aeronautics
Restrictor-
Sons,
See
under
Algeria, Mineral Resources in, 771*
— Oil Reserves, Exploration of, 770*, 771* Alginates, Applications of, to Foundry
Practice, 12
Algoma Steel Corp., Acquisition of Holding in, by Mannesmann A.G., 262
Algorithm, Simplex, by D. U. Greenwald (Book), 437
Alite Machines, Ltd., Machine for Marking Aluminium Containers, 648*
Alkali, etc,. Works, Annual Report on, 39 “ All Film Flow ” Packing, Model of Induced Draught Cooling lower with (Film Cooling Towers (1925), Ltd.), 332
Allan, Prof. R. G. D., on Reasons for Current Inflation, 650
Allen, W. G., and Son (Tipton), Ltd., Mine Car Tippler (Trade Publication), 148
Allerton, R. J., on Electric Floor Warming for London County Council Flats, 621
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., New Engineering Development and Research Laboratory Project, 295
Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauges Gauging
Alloys. See Metallurgy
“ Alnico ” Magnet, Use in Electromagnetic Computer for Indicating Horse-Power Continuously, 528*
Alpha Molykote Corp., “ Molykote ” Molybdenum Disulphide Lubricants (Trade Publication), 821
Alternating Current. See Electric
— Stress. See Fatigue under Tests (Materials} Alternators. See Generators, Electric; Turbo-
Generators
Altitude Record Flight in “ Canberra ” Aircraft, 295
“ Altoreg ” Self-Excited Compounded Alternator for Ship’s Supply (Laurence, Scott and Electromotors, Ltd.), 271* _
Alumina Sheath Thermometer for Temperatures up to 1,200 deg. C. (C.N.S. Instruments, Ltd.) 713*
Aluminium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— and Its Alloys, Brazing of (Bulletin), 279
— Bronze Die Castings (Trade Publications),
531
— Busbars, by H. B. Grainger and R. J.
Watkins, 744*
• Installations of, 747*, 748
in Titanium Melting Plant, 747*
— Containers, Marking Machine for (Alite
Machines, Ltd.), 648*
—? Development Association, Brazing of Aluminium and Its Alloys (Bulletin), 279; Aluminium in Packing (Book), 820
— Die-Casting, Furnaces for (Birlec-Morgan),
204*
— Electric Conductors on Overhead Trans
mission Lines, New Range of Accessories for (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 142*
— Extruded Section as Framework for Trans
parent Plastics Panel Lighting, 753*
— Foil Processing at Venesta, Ltd., 503* Rolling Mills for, at Venesta, Ltd., 502*
— in Packing (Book), 820
— Production, Comment on Supply and
Demand Position, 167
by “ Pechiney ” (Cie. de Produits Chemiques et Electrometallurgiques), 105*
— Project, Volta River, Discussion in Parlia
ment on Government Participation in Financing of, 735
— Reflector in Radio Telescope at Royal
Radar Establishment, 362*
-— Sheet, Decorative, “ Imprest ” (Trade Publication), 307
— in Shipbuilding (Book), 329*, 595
— in Shipbuilding, Exhibits at Engineering
Exhibition, 329*
— Trawler Hatch Cover, Welded (Northern
Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 329*
?— Tread Plate, Positive-Grip-Pattern (P-G-P) (British Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 457
— Welding of, in Chemical and Allied Indus
tries, by W. A. Gardner and T, J. Peake, 11
Amal, Ltd., “ 3 Jet Maximus ” Bunsen Burner for Use with Gases of High Calorific Value, 792
Amalgamated Engineering Union. See Engineering Union, Amalgamated, under Labour
Amber Chemical jCo., - • - ? •
Sulphur in “ Additives in Combustion Zone, “Amber SSR1I3” Combustion Additive for Fuel Oils, 825
Amber Oils, Ltd., Sulphloid Series of Cutting Oils, 73
“Amber SSR113” Combustion Additive for Fuel Oils (Amber Chemical Co., Ltd.), 825 “ Amer-Clone ’’ Dry Centrifugal Dust Collector (Trade Publication), 657
“ Amer-Jet ” Reverse-Jet Type Fabric Dust Collector (Trade Publication), 657
America. See North America; South America; United States: Latin America
American, Anglo-, Aeronautical Conference (Folkestone). See Aeronautical Conference under Aeronautics
Co-operation, Comment on, 609
— Association for the Advancement of
Science, Water for Industry, by J. B. Graham and M. F. Burrill (Book), 51
American Gilsonite Co., “ Gilsulate ’’ Insulation and Protection for Hot Underground Pipes, 316
— Industrial Hygiene Association. See
Hygiene Association
— Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, 25th
Anniversary, 499
of Chemical Engineers, Preliminary Announcement of 1958 Nuclear Congress, 219
of Physics. See Physics
— Inter-, Economic Conference (Buenos Aires), 338
American Machine and Foundry Co., Withdrawal from Agreement to Construct Nuclear Reactor for Rural Co-operative Power Association, 446; Pool-Type Nuclear Reactor for Greece, 732
— Navy. See United States under Warships
for Platinum-Resistance
Ltd., Reduction of Flue Gases by Metallic 697*;
American Northwest Passage, Soldered Food Cans for Expeditions in Search of, 386
— Nuclear Power Associates, Formation,
Constitution and Activities of, 764
Society, International Atom Week in New York, 219
American Ship Building Co., Position and Prospects of, 487
American Smelting and Refining Co., Report on Half-Year’s Earnings, 358
— Society for Engineering Education, Salaries
of Engineering Teachers in United States, 821
of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers, American Society of
of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. See Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, American Society of
? of Naval Engineers. See Naval Engineers, American Society of
for Testing Materials. See Testing Materials
American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Management Training Programme, 301
American Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., Explosion-Proof Motors (Newman Industries), 568
American Viscose Corp., Sintering of Fibres, 424
— Welding Society, Specification for Iron-
Powder Coated Welding Electrodes, 711
— Workers’ Fact Book, 320
— See also United States
A.M,F. Atomics, Inc., Withdrawal of Offer to Build German Nuclear Reactor, 606
A.M.F.-Mitchell, Model of 20-MW Nuclear Power Station for Rheinisch-Westfalische Elektrizitat, 124*; 10-kW Swimming
Pool Type Reactor, 124; Activities and Constitution of, 700
Amplifier, Microwave, Solid-State, for Radio Astronomy (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 59*
— Mozart “ HFIO ” (Pye, Ltd.), 317 Analysers, Digital, Differential, Development
of, at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough), 698*
— Network, Work on, at Electrical Research
Association Laboratories, 94*
— Sideband for Television Transmitters, Type
OA1241 (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 561 Analysis, Applied, by C. Lanczos (Review), 750
— Engineering Systems, by R. L. Sutherland,
Note on, 657
— of Indeterminate Structures, by J. C.
Grassie (Book), 687
— and Mechanics, Rational, Archive for.
Advance Notice, 625
— Spectroscopic, “ Type MS5 ” Mass Spec
trometer for (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 155
— of Standard Samples of Organic Products,
Application of Gas-Liquid Partition Chromatography to, 559
— Vacuum, Equipment (Wild-Barfield Elec
tric Furnaces, Ltd., and National Research Corp.), 18
— Vector, by L. Brand (Review), 754 Anderson, Sir D., on Engineering Education,
326
Andreae, Dr. E. P., Remarks on Position and Prospects ofW. Doxford and Sons, Ltd., 581 Andreev, K. K., on Initiation of Explosion by Shock, 141
Andrews, R. S., on Position and Prospects of Carrier Engineering, 772
Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference (Folkestone). See Aeronautical Conference under Aeronautics
Co-operation, Comment on, 609
— German Talks, Comment on, 752 Anglo-Overseas Transport Co., Services to
United States (Brochure), 464
Anglo-Swiss Screw Co., Ltd., Small Screw Threads (Trade Publication), 51
Angular Engineering Co., Ltd., Drafting Machine for Drawing Boards, 316
Angus, J. M., New Factory for Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd., at Blaydon-on-Tyne, 473* Animal Feeding Stuffs, Wagon for Bulk Delivery of, 95
Ankara, Long-Wave Broadcasting Station at. Contract for Re-organisation of, by Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., 397 Annacis Industrial Estate, Cinema Film Report on Progress of, 714
Annals of Physics, New Publication, 243 Annealing. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Annett, J., on Perceptual Organisation in Simple Skills, 384
Anodes, Cast Lead-Alloy, “ CX 3,” for Cathodic Protection (Cathodic Corrosion Control, Ltd.), 331*
— Zinc-Alloy, “ C-Sentry,” for Cathodic
Protection of Ships, Piers, etc. (Imperial Smelting Corp., Ltd.), 583
Anselm, G., Criticism of British Government’s Policy Towards Syria, 558
Antarctic, Exploiting the. Study of. During International Geophysical Year,
Anti-Corrosion Week, National, 230
?— Fouling Equipment, Ultrasonic, tor ” (Marconi International Communication Co., Ltd.), 300*
— Friction Metals. See Alloys under Metal
lurgy
Antimesonium and Mesonium, by B. Pontecorvo, 764
Aperture Synthesis Technique, Aerial for Study of Radio Stars and Background Radio Noise by, at Radio Astronomy Observatory,
Apex Construction Co., Ltd., Powder Tablet Press, 360*
A.P.E.X.C. All-Purpose Digital Computer, 339*; Magnetic Drum Store for, 339*
Apparatus, Laboratory (Trade Publication), 531
Applied Analysis, by C. Lanczos (Review), 754
— Mechanics, International Congress of. Note
on Proceedings of, 213
APPR Nuclear Reactor, Performance Test of, 285
Apprenticeship. See Education; Labour
226
“ Protec- Marine
Systems Galactic Mullard 185*
A.P.V.-Paramount, Ltd., Steel Castings for South of Scotland Nuclear Power Station, 217
Aquilon Nuclear Reactor, 189, 764
“ Araldite ” Epoxy Resin Adhesive (Aero Research, Ltd.), 520
Resins for Tooling (Trade Publication), 499
Arbitration in Labour Disputes. See Labour ARBOR Reactor Facility, Contract for, 413 Arc Heating as Space Flight Propulsion System, 802*
— in Inert Atmospheres and Vacuum, by W. E.
Kuhn (Book), 437
— Welding. See Welding
Arc. See also Electric; Eurnace; Welding Archaeological Society, Derbyshire, Engineering History of Derbyshire, by F. Nixon (Review), 242
Architects, Naval. See Naval Architects
— Royal Institute of British, Competition on
Building Trade Literature, 51
Architectural Applications of Vitreous Enamel, by B. Zick and by E. Mackasek, 106*
A.R.D. Adjustable-Range Diaphragm Relay for Liquid Level Control (Trade Publication), 499
Ardil Fibre Project, Rejection of, 390 ARE Nuclear
Weinberg, Reactor,
— — Reactor, Reactor, Argonarc Gas-Cutting Process, Demonstration
of (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 155*
— Spot-Welding, Demonstration of (British
Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 155
Argonne Boiling Reactor. See ARBOR
Argonne National Laboratory, Activities of. Experimental Boiling Water Re- 254; Borax IV Nuclear Reactor, Work on Decomposition of Boiling at, 254; Borax III Nuclear Reac- Core Assembly, 254;
. . . - - 255;
Privileges of Membership, 437. See LETTER, 520; Conference on Library Services in Technical Colleges, Preliminary Notice, 471; Conference on Library Services in Technical Colleges, 721 ; Aeronautical Group: A Method of Co- Ordinate Indexing Based on N.A.C.A. Subject Classification, by J. Rosser, 755; A New Classification for Aeronautics, by C. Wilson, 755
Asquith, W., Ltd., Horizontal
Boring Machine, 808*
Associated Automation, Ltd.,
Elliott Brothers, 517 Associated British Engineering,
Report, 168; Position and
422
Milling and
Merger with
Ltd., Annual Prospects of.
of Research Establishment on Winfrith Heath, 669; Discussion in Parliament on Transfer of Officers 671 ; Applications topes, 794
Atomic Energy Board,
South A frican
Commission, Australian. See Australian Atomic Energy Commission
Commission, Spanish, Test of Pool-type Research Nuclear Reactor for, 539
Commission, United States. See States
— — Data, Classification of. Comment Economic Applications of:
from Civil Service to, of Radioactive Iso-
South African. See
United
Reactor, Details of, by A. M. 604*
Dimensions and Data, 605 Results from, 605
Start-Up and Operation, 605
254*; actor. 254*; Water tor; Liquid-Metal Slurries, Processing Studies at, 255; Pyrometallurgical Processes Cycling Nuclear Fuels, 255;
Bed Calcination, 255; Studies
of 12'5-GeV Proton-Synchrotron, 255; Chemical Separation of Bromine of Iodine from Fission Products of Uranium, 235, 255; ARBOR Reactor Facility, 413; Twisted-Ribbon Nuclear Reactor Core Assemblies, 731; Use of Tritium as Radioactive Tracer, 794; EBR-1 Mark III Nuclear Reactor, 826
Arid Zone Development, Research Data for. Guide Book to, 198
Armament. See IVarships
Armand, L., at International Management Congress, 2
Armed Forces, Officers Retired Prematurely, Note on, 160
Poor Recruitment for, 768
Reorganisation of. Comment on, 130 Armfield Hydraulic Engineering Co., Ltd., lO-kW Water-Driven Direct-Current “ Micro-Set ” Generator for Remote Areas, 26*
Armour. See IVarships Armoured Ships. See IVarships Armstrong Cork Co., Ltd., Textile Spinning Cots Manufactured from Nitrile Rubber, 203*
Armstrong, G., on Off-Shore Boring, 136* Armstrong Shock Absorbers, Position and Prospects of, 549
Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd., “P.I81” and “P. 182” Centrifugal Gas-Turbine Engines for Helicopter Shaft Drives, 292; “Viper” Turbojet Engine in Saunders- Roe “ SR 53 ” Experimental Interceptor Aircraft, 350
Armstrong, W., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Armstrong Shock Absorbers, 549
Armstrong Whitworth, Sir W.
Ltd., “ Freightercoach ”
Car-Ferry Aircraft, 293*; Guided Weapon, 349* Army, British, Reorganisation
on, 130
— Exhibition of Royal Engineer Works
Services, 5*
A.R.O. Machinery Co., Ltd., Spot Welding Guns, 267*; “ Twinspot ” Welding Guns, 267*
Arterial Drainage Act, Effect of Development of Hydrology, 311
— Roads. See Roads
Artificer Apprentices, Service Period of. Discussion in Parliament on, 831
Artists’ Impressions in Engineering Design, 546 Arts Council of Great Britain, 12th Annual Report, 512; Government Subsidy, 512
— Relationship with Humanities, Science and
Technology, 776
— Royal Society of: Albert Medal Awarded
to Sir C. Hinton, 61
Arup, O., and Partners, Cluster Block of
Maisonettes at Bethnal Green, 753*
Asbestos, “ Caposite Amosite” (Trade Publication), 625
— Cement, Pressure-Moulded Rainwater, Soil
and Flue-Pipe Fitments of (Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 429
— Insulation, Sprayed, “ Silbestos,” for Roofs
(Trade Publication), 625
ASEA, Acquisition of Manufacturing Licences for Switchgear from, by Lee Guiness, 558 Asea Co., Interest in Medium-Temperature Nuclear Reactor, 731-732
Ash Discharge from Boilers and Precipitators at Meaford “ B ” Power Station, 501
— Power-Station, Sintering and Utilization of,
414
Ashlars in Anti-Corrosive Cement (Semtex, Ltd.), 584
Asia, Trade Unionism in. Trade Union Congress Aid to, 160
Aslib, Award by United States National Science Foundation for Research into Indexing and Information Retrieval Systems, 181; Note on Possible Misuse of
Work on Volatility- Work on for Re- Fluidised- on Design
G. (Aircraft), Freighter or “ Sea Slug ”
of, Comment
Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 295
Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers, Ltd., Couldon Low Cement Works, 535* Associated Scottish Life Offices, Pensions Problem (Pamphlet), 448
Associated Steels and Tools, Ltd., Quick- Action Vice, 17*
Associated Television, Position and Prospects of, 273
Association, British. See British Association
— of British Chambers of Commerce. See
Chambers of Commerce
— Engineering. See Institutions Assyrian Wooden Cubit, 419*
Aston Martin Lagonda, Ltd., Evolution of Sports Cars, 550
Astral Equipment, Position and Prospects of, 581
“ Astro ” Satellite Navigation System, 486* Astronautic Systems: Conquest of Space, Chart on (General Dynamics Corporation), 802*
Astronautical Congress, International (Barce- Determination of Lifetime of Satellite, by D. E. . . _ “ P.
Problems in Dynamics
Iona), Artificial Earth Okhotsimsky, T. M. Eneev, and G. Taratinova, 582;
of Lunar Flight, by V. A. Yegorov, 642; On Placing a Satellite in Orbit, by D. E. Okhotsimsky and T. M. Eneev, 643
Astronomy Observatory, Mullard Radio, 185*
— Radio, Note on, 37
Solid-State Micro-Wave Amplifier for (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 59*
— Research, Use of Earth Satellites for, 485 Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de
Charleroi (ACEC), Licence Agreement to Manufacture and Sell Nuclear Reactors Developed by Westinghouse Electrical International Co., 348
“ ATH8S ’’ Single-Cylinder Air-Cooled Stationary Air-Compressor (Holman Brothers, Ltd.), 300
Atkins, W. F., on Precision Comparator for Small Cylinders, 182*
Atlas Copco (Great Britain), Ltd., Hoist for Ship’s Engine Room Maintenance Work, 300; “ LBK3I ” Pneumatic Shearing
Machine, 300; “ LBV32 ’’ Corner Dnlling Machine, 300; Compressed-Air nique for Ice-Free Waterways, Compressed-Air Equipment (Trade cation), 657; Rock Blasting (Trade cation), 783
Atmosphere, Experimental Techniques for Measuring Properties of, 101
— Inert, Arcs in, by W. E. Kuhn (Book), 437
— Radio Waves Through, Experimental
Work on, 171
— See also Ionosphere; Troposphere Atmospheric Pollution. See Air Pollution:
Smoke Abatement
“ Atom 1957 ” Exhibition, 219
— H, Mu -mesic, and Deuterium, Cross-Sec
tions for Collisions Between, by Dr. 1. C. Percival and Dr. F. Haas, 475
— Mesonic, Counters for Radiation Measure
ment of, 254
— for Peace Award, to Prof. N. Bohr, 606
“ Atoms for Peace,” Nuclear-Powered Passenger and Cargo Ship, 569
— Week, International, in New York, 219
“ Atomat ” Thickness Gauge, Applications of. Cinema Film on (Baldwin Instrument Co., Ltd.), 158, 633
Atomenergi, A.B., Erratum, 29. See also Vol. 183
Atomic Energy Agency, International, First General Conference (Vienna), 475; Presentation of Research Reactor, Isotope Laboratory and Technical Library by United States, 475; Activities of, 475; Appointment of S. Cole as Director General, 506
Atomic Energy Authority, United Kingdom; Safety Administration in Atomic Energy, 28; Comment on Information Procedure of, 34; Annual Report, 156; Agreement to Co-operate with South African Atomic Energy Board, 157; Discussion in Parliament on Offer to Purchase Uranium Ores from Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasa- land, 157; Philips Electrical, Ltd., vs., on Fermi Patent, 220; Third Annual Report (1956 to 1957), 253*; Experimental Reactors, 253*; Agreement with Norwegian Institute for Atomic Energy on Halden Nuclear Reactor Project, 255; 75 ft. Length of Convoluted Stainless-Steel Hose for (Power Auxiliaries, Ltd.), 264; Appointment of Sir L. Owen as Managing Director of Industrial Group of, 347; Interest in Uranium from Africa, 413; Cinema Films on Construction of Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station and Dounreay Fast Breeder Reactor, 476; Transfer of Staff from Civil Service to, 480; Collaboration with Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., on Design of Tandem Electrostatic Generators, 504; Patents on Graphite Moderators, 506; Conference on Controlled Thermonuclear Research (Princeton University), 606; Committee of Enquiry to Investigate Accident at Windscale No. 1 Pile, 635; Patents on Design of Graphite Moderators 636*; Progress
Tech- 542; Publi- Publi-
on, 34 Power Generation and Industrial and Agricultural Problems, Report on, 283
Industry, Vacuum Techniques in, by Dr. H. Kronberger, 613
Literature, Guide to, 220
Norwegian Institute for. See Norwegian Institute for Atomic Energy
Peaceful Uses of, “ Atom 1957 ” Exhibition on, 219
Peaceful Uses of. Conference on (Geneva, 1958), Preliminary Announcement, 28, 218; Exhibition at, 669
Programme, Place of Metallurgical Development in, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 91 Research Establishment (Harwell), Conference on Thermonuclear Controlled Fusion Reactions, 29; “ Type 555 ”
Electronic Calculator for (British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd.), 125; ZETA Project for Study of Electrical Discharges in Gases, Course for Protective (Pilkington
Experimental Facility on Reactor-Core Fluxes and Lattice Dimensions and Arrangements, 285; Study of Shock Tube Plasmas at, 474; Neptune Nuclear Reactor Approaching Criticality, 475; Commencement of Operation of PLUTO Nuclear Reactor, 571; Description of Neptune Zero-Energy Nuclear Reactor at, 669; Reactor Courses at, 764; Metallic Slurry Systems as Nuclear Fuel Elements, 827; See also ZETA
Research Establishment (Winfrith Heath), Progress of, 669
Safety Administration in, 28
See also Nuclear
— Industrial Forum, United States. See
United States Atomic Industrial Forum
— Physics and Plasma, Conference on, 474*.
See Erratum, 506
— Pile as Space Flight Propulsion System,
802*
— Plant, Springfields, Pipework at (Mitchell
Engineering, Ltd.), 125
Atomic Power Construction, Ltd., Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd., to be Members of, 414; Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., as Member of, 414, 700; Activities and Constitution of, 700; Constitution and Resources of, 743
— — See also Nuclear
Station. See Nuclear Power Station
— Reactor. See Nuclear Reactor
— Review, 29*, 60*, 90, 124*, 156*, 188*,
217*, 253*, 283*, 318*, 347*, 380*. 412*, 444*, 474*, 504*, 538*, 569*, 604*, 635*, 668*, 698*, 730*, 763*, 792*, 826*
— Weapons Research Establishment (Alder-
maston). Study of High-Current Plasmas, 474*. See Erratum, 506; Neutron Emission in High-Current Gas Discharges, by H. A. B. Bodin and Dr. J. A. Reynolds, 538*
Atomics International, Work on Pyrometallurgical Processes for Re-Cycling Nuclear Fuels, 255; Commencement of Operation of OMRE Nuclear Reactor, 571
Atomium, Centrepiece of Brussels World Fair (1958), 514*
Attention, Role of, in Skill, with a Mechanical Analogy, by D. E. Broadbent, 384
Audio Frequency Staff Location System (Siemens Bros. and Co.. Ltd.), 67
Auditory Displays, Design Data on, 249 Audley Engineering Co., Trading Profits of, 487 Aurora, Ore-Processing Plant at, 327 Austin Motor Co., Ltd., in I.T.D., Ltd., 273 Australia, Balance of Payments in. Improvement in, 70
— Cloud-Seeding or Rainmaking Experiments
in, by W. Machlin, 365
?— Nuclear Power in, by Prof. J. P. Baxter, 318, 319
• Research Programme of, 318*
— Scientific Research in, 45
•— Trade Agreement with Japan, 81
— Uranium Deposits in, 348
from, for United Kingdom, 348 Australian Aboriginal Tribal Songs, Recordings of, 782
— Atomic Energy Commission, Activities of,
318; Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, 318*; External Research and Training Programme, 319; Uranium Mining, 319; Nuclear Power Programme 319
-— Engineers, Salaries, of. Survey on (Pamphlet), 809
Auto Diesels, Ltd., 250-h.p. STAD Gas Turbine for 175-kVA Crompton Parkinson Alternator, 296
“ Auto-Roll ” Automatic Screen-Type Air Filter for Air Conditioning and Ventilator Systems (Vokes, Ltd.), 333
Auto Union “ 600 " Motor Car, 519* “1000” Motor Car with 3-Cylinder Engine, 391
Autogenous Welding. See Welds; Welding Automated Production, Product Design for, by D. L. Johnston, 38
Automatic Equipment (Russian), 586*
— —? in Marketing Operations, Place of, by
J. Caesar, 27
— Factory, What Does it Mean? (Review), 470
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Production Lines for Tapered Roller
Bearings (British Timken, Ltd.), 664*
156; Radioactive Isotopes Executives, 220; Mock-up of Glass Viewing Window at Brothers, Ltd.), 269*; BICEP
AS
9
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
ix
Automatic Signalling. See Signalling
— Stokers. See Stokers
Automatic Telephone and Electric Co., Device for Making Workers Safety Conscious, 544; Magnetic Drum Director for Lee Green Automatic Telephone Exchange, 760*
— Train Control, Implementation of, by British
Railways, 598
Automation in Business and Industry, by E. M. Grabbe (Review), 470
?— Cost of, by F. T. Hunter, 38
— Its Demand on Management, by J. Buck
man, 704
— Discussion on, at Annual Conference of
Institution of Production Engineers, 38
on, at International Managerial Congress, 4
— Engineering, Remarks on Development of,
517
— Friend or Foe? by R. H. Macmillan (Re
view), 470
— Guide to Books on, by J. F. Coales, 470
— and Man, by L. Landon Goodman (Re
view), 471
— and Man, Report on Conference on
(Review), 470
— and Measuring Instrumentation, Inter
national Congress and Exhibition of (Interkama), (Dusseldorf), Preliminary Announcement, 273
— Its Purpose and Future, by Mr. Pyke (Re
view), 470
— in Russia, 443
— and Social Progress, by S. Lilley (Review),
470
— in Theory and Practice, by E. M. Hugh-
Jones (Review), 470
— and Transport, Address on, by Sir W.
Puckey, 682
—of Welding, Steps Towards, by F. Hirsch- mann, 715*
— What it Doss to Human Beings, by G.
Soule (Review), 470
Automobile Engineering, 286*, 348, 391*, 421, 476*, 518*, 572*, 580*, 674*, 729*
Rationalisation in, 357
— Manufacturers’ Association, New Policy
Against Road Accidents, 338
— See Motor Cars
Automotive Products Co., Ltd., Equipment for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 37; Note on House Magazine Precision, 181; “ Purolator ” Bulk Fuel Filter-Separator, 266*
“ Autopak ” Multi-Purpose Transformer (Rockweld, Ltd.), 267
“ Autoperspect ” Precision Drawing Apparatus, for True Perspectives (Autoperspective, Ltd.), 681*
Autoperspective, Ltd., “Autoperspect” Precision Drawing Apparatus for True Perspsctives, 681*
“ Autopoint ” Automatic Welding Head for Use with “ Autopak ” Transformer (Rockweld, Ltd.), 267
“ Autostrada of the Sun,” New Highway from Milan to Naples, 511
Avery, W. and T., Ltd., Vertical Single-Plane Dynamic Balancing Machine, 328*
Aviatiek, Netherlands Aeronautical Journal, Note on, 595
Aviation. See Aeronautics
Aviation Traders (Engineering), Ltd., “Accountant ” Propeller-Turbine Transport Aircraft, 292*
— Writers’ Association, Note on, 625
Avoca, Mineral Resources at, 488
“ AVP 16” Centrifugal Pump (Hamworthy Engineering, Ltd.), 334
Axle, Rear, Hypoid, Wear and Lubrication of, 423
Axleboxes on “ Talisman ” Trains of British Railways, Roller-Bearings for (British Timken, Ltd.), 88
Ayling Industries Group, Formation of Ayling Nuclear Equipment Co., 158
Ayling Nuclear Equipment Co., Formation of, 158
Ayr, Technical College at. Progress on, 191 Ayrton, Early Work on Television, 546* Azides, Inorganic, Structure and Stability of, by B. L. Evans, 140
BABCOCK, Dr. H. W., Work on Ruling of
Large Plane Gratings, 400
Babcock and Wilcox Co., Nuclear Propulsion
Plant for Merchant Ship, 699
Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., Level-Luffing Cranes for Beck and Pollitzer, Ltd., 87*; Model of 80-ft. Steam-Raising Tower or Heat Exchanger for Nuclear Power Stations at Calder Hall and Chapel-cross, 269*; Contract for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, 380*; Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, 412*; Transfer to, of Royal Ordnance Factory at Dalmuir, 549; 200,000-lb. Cyclone-Fired Boiler at Kynoch Works of Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 688* Baccalaureat Europeen, European School-
Leaving Certificate, 288
Baffles, Furnace (Combustion Equipment, Ltd.), 360
Bags, Polythene, “ Hypak Polysealer ” Sealing Machine for (Oppenheimer Casing Co. (U.K.), Ltd.), 107
Bagging Scales (Trade Publication), 149 Bagnall, W. G., Ltd., Industrial Diesel Locomotives (Trade Publication), 531
Bagrit, L., Remarks on Development of Automation Engineering, 517
Bailey, Miss H., on Women at Work, 736 Bailey Meters and Controls, Ltd., Strip Chart Telemeter Recorder (Trade Publication), 149; Strip Chart Temperature Recorder (Trade Publication), 307; Self-Contained Remote-Control Switch Unit (Trade Publication), 403
Bailey, Dr. R. W., the Late, 325
Bailey, Sir W. H., and Co., Ltd., Guide to Valve Practice (Trade Publication), 531
Baily’s Line-Yard (1844), 420*
Baird, John Logie, Early Work on Television, 547
Bakelite, Note on Use of Term, 595
Bakelite, Ltd., Production of Tools from Epoxide Resins, 404*; Plastics Review (Booklet), 595; “ P992 ” Paper-Based
Laminate for “ Bristol 192 ” Twin-Rotor Helicopters, 728*
Baker, Prof. J. F., on Engineering Education at Cambridge, 68
Balajiva, Dr. K., on Low-Temperature Properties of Welded Austenitic Steels, 11.
Balance, Force-on-a-Conductor (Trade Publication), 499
Balancing Machine, Dynamic, Single-Plane, Vertical (W. and T. ’ '
Dynamic (Trade
— Marine Propellers,
Hartog, 661
— Shaft, by Prof. J. P. den Hartog, 661
— Turbine Rotors, by Prof. J. P. den Hartog,
661
Baldwin Instrument Co., Ltd., Compressed- Air Equipment for Rejuvenating Old Machines, 88*; Cinema Film on Nucleonic Thickness Gauging, 158; Nucleonic Level Indicator, 176*; “Fluid Power” Pneumatic and Low-Pressure Hydraulic Equipment for Heavy-Duty Industrial Applications (Trade Publication), 307; Radio-Active Isotope Thickness Gauge in Aluminium Foil Rolling Mill of Venesta, Ltd., 503*; Cinema Film on Applications of “Atomat ” Thickness Gauge, 633; 8-Bank Solenoid-Controlled Pneumatic Packaged Unit for Control-Valve Systems, 712*
Baler, “ Albion” (David Brown Group), 648* Balfour, H., and Co., Ltd., Tower-Box Purifiers for Town Gas for Worcester Gas Works of West Midlands Gas Board, 183
Ball Bearings. See Bearings
Ball, F. A., on Low-Temperature Properties of Welded Austenitic Steels, 11.
Ballingarry Colliery, 488
Ballymena, Precast Prestressed Production Halls for Gallaher, Ltd., 733*
Band Strapping Machine, Automatic, for Home Markets (Package Sealing Co.), 397 Bank, Examination of Proposal for International Monetary Fund to Act as, 685 —Export-Import, Negotiation of Loans for India from, 427
— German, Reversion to Pre-War System, 7
— International for Reconstruction and
Development, Meeting of Directors, 390; Annual Meeting, 427; Mission Organised by. Report on Economic Development of Jordan (Review), 624
— of Montreal, Remarks on Canada’s Trade
Outlook by President of, 752
— Rate, Increase in, 390
Increase in. Effects of, 416
Increase in. Effect on Investment in Industry, 524
Increase in. Effect on Volume of Building, 576
— Station, “ Travolators ” at, 288
— World. See Bank, International
Bar, Cutter, in Grass Mowing Machines, Problems of, 369
Barcelona, International Astronautical Congress at. See Astronautical Congress Barclay, Curie, Store Single-Acting, Two- Stroke Turbo-Charged Diesel Engines for, 647
“ Barfitt ” Bulk Transporter Motor Vehicle (R. Murfitt, Ltd.), 357*
Bargaining, Collective, in the United States (Publication), 704
Barley Brook Foundry and Engineering Works, Portable Diesel-Electric Winding Engine for National Coal Board, 617*
Barlow, S., on Universal Beams and their Applications, 601
Barn Hay-Drying, “ Mow ” Process, 369 Barnes, Dr. R. S., on Structural Effects Solids of Nuclear Induced Gas, 90
Barrels and Drums, Handling Equipment for (Trade Publication), 17
Barrier, Traffic-Control (Trade Publication), 821
Barrus, E, P., (Concessionaires), Ltd., “ Porto- Power” Hydraulic Power Units (Trade Publication), 403
Bartlett, B. F.., on Mechanism of Decomposition of Silver Azide, 141
Barwell, Dr. F. T., on Wear of Metals, 423 Basingstoke, Railway Porters Folk-Dancing at. Comment on, 224. See LETTER, 229 Basrah Power Station, Steam Turbo-Generators and Auxiliaries for (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 397
Batchelor’s Peas Factory, Canning of Peas at, 387*
Bateman, E. H., on “ Propellant ” and Oxford English Dictionary, 453; on Substance and Shadow, 676
Bates and Bates, Ltd., Industrial Oscilloscope Type 0/05, 264; 8-Spot Rack Welding Machine, 268*
Battelle Memorial Institute, Nuclear Fuel Element Radiography, 61 ; Solvent Extraction Process for Production of High- Purity Thorium, 795
Battersby, A., on Management and Bad Writing, 228, 421. See LETTER, 325; on Outline of Work Study, Part 111, 709
Battersea College of Technology, Course on Concrete and Nuclear Radiation Shielding, 285
— Power Station, Utilisation of Ash, 414 Battery. See Electric
— Vehicles. See Motor Vehicles; Motor
Truck
Battleships. See IVarships Bauxite Resources in Western Europe, 105 Baxendale, R., and Sons, Ltd., “ Airdale ” Open
Fire with Restrictor-Reflector, 811
Baxter, Prof. J. P., on Nuclear Power in Australia, 318, 319
Avery, Ltd.), 328* Publication), 213
by Prof. J. P. den
in
Bayham, Ltd., “ R. and G ” Instruments, or Liquid-Level Control, 208
Beams, Composite, for Floor Construction (Mackey Bowley and Co., Ltd.), 600
— 1-, Model, Experiments on, 1 12* _ Plastic Yielding of, by A. “ ~
B. B. Hundy, 74*, 112*
— Reinforced-Concrete, Design
564*
— Ring, Reinforced-Concrete,
Bank Radio Telescope (W. Son, Ltd.), 35
— Universal, and their Applications, by S.
Barlow, 601
Beamont, R. P., on Techniques and Procedures in Supersonic Flight Testing, 718
“ Bear ” Bomber Aircraft, Development of Propellor-Turbine Engine for, 117*
Bearings, Ball, Canadian Imports of, from United Kingdom and United States, 778* at First State Ball-Bearing Factory (Russia), 442*
Precision, for Instrument Work (Trade Publication), 783
— Diesel-Engine, at Tin Research Institute, 205
— Engine, Wear and Lubrication of, 423
— for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (Hoff
mann Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 36
— Lubricants and Lubrication; A Digest of
1956 Literature, 471
— Motor-Car, at Tin Research Institute, 205
— “ Orkot ” (United Coke and Chemicals Co.,
Ltd.), 358
— Races, Floating Store for (EnimsL 587*
— Roller, for Axleboxes
Trains of British Timken, Ltd.), 88 Canadian Imports of. Kingdom and United States, 778* Tapered, Automatic Production Lines for (British Timkin, Ltd.), 664*
Trunnion, for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (Cooper Roller Bearings Co., Ltd.), 36*
— in Small Radial-Flow Turbo-Chargers, 532*
— Thrust, High-Pressure, Fixed Timing Plate
with, 780*
Beck and Pollitzer, Ltd., Level-Luffing Cranes for (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 87*
Beckingsale, A. A., on Accident Prevention in Troughed Belt Conveyors, 807
Becquerel, Early Work on Television, 546 Beggs, Dr. D. W., on Solar Magnetograph, 400 Behaviour Studies, Application of, in Design of Machines, by (?. B. Gibbs, 96
Belfast, New “ Systems ” Research Laboratories of Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., 600*
Belgian Congo Timber Pavilion at Brussels World Fair (1958), 516*
Uranium Ore from. Price of, 157
— Pavilions at Brussels World Fair (1958),
516*
Belgium, Gas Consumption in, 6 Bell, Russian, “ Tsar Kolokol,” 324* Bell Telephone Laboratories, “ Leprechaun ” High-Speed Miniature Digital Computer, 15* ; New Solid-State Microwave Amplifier for Radio Astronomy, 59*; Investigation of Underground Conduits for Electrical Work, by G. F. Weissmann, 115; Triglycine Sulphate Ferro-Electric Material, 235; “ Twistor ” Magnetic Memory Storage System for Computors, 824* Belmos Co., Ltd., Electric-Motor Starters (Trade Publication), 148
Belt Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Safety, for Motor Cars, Report on, 729*
— Transmission, Power, Plastic, Oil-Resistant,
“ Dixylon-Suplex ” (R. and J. Dick, Ltd.), 711
?— V-, Maintenance (Trade Publication), 149 B.E.N. Patents, Ltd., “ Instantair ” Air-Hose Couplings (Trade Publication), 403
Bending Machine. See Machine Tools
— Tests. See Tests (Materials)
— See also Full Plastic Moment Bennett, A. M., on Fires in Cargo Ships, 83 Benton and Stone, Ltd., Cinema Film, “ Air
Controlled,” on Compressed-Air Equipment, 84
Benzol, Hydro-Refining of, 205 BEPO Nuclear Reactor, 253* Berg, Dr. F., Remarks on Stability of Germany’s Price Structure, 608
Berkeley Coupe Motor Car, 519*
Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, Progress of, 28*; Visit of K. Uda to, 28; Lubricants for (Wakefield-Dick Industrial Oils, Ltd.), 158; Model of No. I Reactor at (John Thompson, Ltd.), 269; Construction Work, 366*; Civil Construction at, 504*; Heat Exchangers, 505; Reactor Pressure Vessel, 505*
Berkeley Nuclear Reactor, Heat Exchangers for (John Thompson, Ltd.), 505
Reactor, Pressure Vessels for (John Thompson, Ltd.), 505*
Berkley Mechanical Stokers, Steam Locomotives to be Fitted with, 136
Berlin, West, Industrial Diagnosis in, 135 Berry, M. M., on Machine Literature Searching, Note on, 783
Berths, Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding Bertrams, Hch., High-Temperature Heating System Using “ Dowtherm ” Heat Transfer Fluid, 775
Beryllia/Uranium System, Study of, in France, 189
Beryllium Canning for Nuclear Fuel Elements, 253
— Reactor, Ductility Problem of, by G. C.
Ellis, 90
Bethnal Green, Cluster Block of Maisonettes at, 753*
Betteridge, Dr. W., on Cracking and Rupture as Result of Creep, 423
Bevel Gears. See Gears
“ Bevex ” Plate-Bevelling Machine (H. Pels and Co., Ltd., 298
Beyer Peacock, Licensing Railway Maintenance burgh, 719
Beyer Peacock Railway Formation of, 719
P. Green and
Calculations,
for Jodrell J. Whittail &
on “ Talisman ” Railways (British
from United
Agreement
Corp., of
Equipment,
with Pitts-
Ltd.,
Bezels, Design of, 195*
Bhabha, Dr. H. J., at World Power Conference, 22*
“ Bianchina ” Motor Car (Fiat Motor Co.), 519 Bibliography on Ceramic Tools, 119
— on Cold Heading of Steel, Note on, 563
— on Computers, 755
— on Continuous Casting of Steel (1934-1957)
(Book), 687
?— on Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Reactor Theory, 817
— on Pumped Storage for
Power, 755
— of Research on Deuterium
Compounds, 336 Bicentenary, Telford T., 162* BICEP Experimental Facility on
Hydroelectric
and Tritium
Reactor-Core
Fluxes and Lattice Dimensions and Arrangements, 285
Bicycles. See Cycles: Motor Cycles
Bierrum and Partners, Ltd., Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Biggs, Dr. W. D., on Effects of Gases on Constitution and Properties of Ferritic Weld Metals, 73
Bilbow, T., New Substation at Charing Cross, 510*
Bill for Amending Registered Designs Act, 1949, 703
— for Extension to Workmen’s Compensation
Acts, 703
— for Implementing Gowers Committee Pro
posals, 703
?— for Improvements in Law Relating to Compensation for Compulsory Acquisition of Land, 703
— for Increasing Liabilities of Shipping Lines,
703
— See also Legal
Billet Moulds, Cleaning, in situ, Air-Motor Driven Rotating Brush for (Flexible Drives (Gilmans), Ltd.), 361*
Binary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy Binder for ENGINEERING, 83
Binnie, Deacon «&. Gourley, Hanningfield
Reservoir and Waterworks Scheme, 509
Biological Research, Use of Earth Satellites for, 486
“ Biographical Strip,” Publication of, by International Organisation for Standardization, 149
Biplanes. See Aeronautics
Bird, W. H., and Sons, Ltd., Reduction Gear
Units (Trade Publication), 783
Birlec, Ltd., TYPE EDF Mark 1 Electric Die- Casting Furnace for Aluminium, 204*; Position and Prospects of, 517; Development Programme, Furnace Designed for On-Load Top Charging, 521 *
Birley, R., Remarks on
for Universities, 832
Birmingham Exchange and Engineering Centre, Activities at Vienna International Autumn Fair, 558; Services of, 558
Birmingham Small Arms Co., Ltd., TurboCharger with 2: I Compression Ratio, 333*; Development of High-Efficiency Turbo-Charger, 432*; Position and Prospects of, 710
Bishop, Sir H., Remarks at Opening of Extensions to Electrical Engineering Department of Sheffield University, 95
Biskley Junction, Track Layout Alterations at, 766*
Bismuth Oxide in Thin Metallic Coatings, 781 “ Bison ” Gas Profiling Machine for Cutting
Steel up to 12-in. thick (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 269*
Bituminous Materials, Road Construction. See Roads: Tar
Bits, Tool-, Ground, High-Speed, “ Mo-Max” and “ Mo-Max Cobalt ” (Cleveland Twist Drill (G.B.), Ltd.), 634
Black and Decker, Ltd., Portable Electric Tools (Trade Publication), 657
Black, M., Remarks on Industrial Designers, 385
Blackburn and General Aircraft Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 359
Blackett, Prof. P. M. S., on Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, 294
Blackman, K., Ltd., “ Keno ” Hydro Rotor Filter, 335; PD/KB Dust Collector. 335; “ Tornado ” Four-Way Welding Fume Exhaust Unit, 335; Portable Fume Extraction Unit, 521*; Acoustics Laboratory for Investigation of Noise Characteristics of Fans, 696*
Blackstone Co., Ltd., Twin-Bank Diesel gines, 490*
Blades, Gas-Turbine, High-Temperature, hibit of, at Farnborough Show, 261
—? “ Nimonic 75,” for Stator of Mark 300-kW Gas Turbine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 315*
— “ Nimonic 90,” for Mark TE 300-kW Gas-
Turbine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 315*
— Steam-Turbine, Fatigue of, by Prof. J. B.
den Hartog, 662
— Turbine, for High-Pressure Turbo-Genera
tor (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 297
Kaplan, Machines for Production of, in Russia, 443*
Kaplan, Milling (LMZ Turbine Works), 323*
— Vibration in Axial Flow Compressors, by
Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
Blading, Turbine, Vibration of, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
Blaenau' J-festiniog, 300-MW Pumped-Water
Storage Installation at, 367*
Blair, A., the Late, 229*
Blakeman, L, T., Remarks on Management- Labour Relations at Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 544
Blanching and Washing Machine for Peas 388*
Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces
Blasting, Rock (Trade Publication), 783
Blaw Knox, Ltd., Crossing Towers for 132-kV
Circuit Line over River Ribble, 447 Bleachers Association, Ltd., Withdrawal of
Interest in Nyanza Textiles, Ltd., 682 “ Bleep,” Impact and Impulse of, 481
517; Electric Arc
Selection of Students
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Blencut ” Pneumatic Vibrator Rapping Machine (Blending Machine Co.), 712* Blending Machine Co., “ Blencut ” Pneumatic Vibrator Rapping Machine, 712* Blending System for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Constantin (Engineers), Ltd.), 536* Blocks, Concrete, for Building Construction. See Concrete
Blokhintsev, Academician D. I., on Nuclear Matter Fluctuation, 763
“ Bloodhound ” Guided Weapon System (Bristol-Ferranti), 259*, 350*. See
Erratum, 424
— •— Air Guided
and Control Ltd.), 350 Air Guided
for (M.L. Aviation Co., Ltd.), 350 Bloomer, Dr. N. T., on Limited-Life Design, 236*, 275*. See also 289; on Time Saving in Statistical Fatigue Experiments, 603* Blowers, Cast-Iron, “ Breeza ” (Trade Publication), 403
— and Fans (Trade Publication), 657
— Hot-Air, Industrial, “ Secomak ” Heater
Unit for (Service Electric Co., Ltd.), 270*
— Turbo. See Turbo-Blowers
B.M.W. “ 600 ” Motor Car, 391 *, 519* Bo-Bo Diesel Locomotive, “ Cushymount ” Anti-Vibration Mounting for Engines of (Metalastik, Ltd.), 266*
Boalloy of Congleton, Wagon for Bulk Delivery of Animal Feeding Stuffs, 95
Board of Trade, Statistics of Capital Spending by Industry, 104; Census of Production for 1958, 472
Boat Construction, Fibreglass (John Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 602*
— Hulls of, Glass-Reinforced Plastics for
(Whiffen and Sons, Ltd.), 89
— River, Hydroplane, “ Rocket,” 409*
— Submarine. See IVarships
Boby, W., and Co., Ltd., Plant for De-Salting Brackish Water for Drinking, for Tobruk, 468*
Bodin, Dr. H. A. B., on Neutron Emission in High-Current Discharges, 474*
Body Dimensions for Design of Equipment, 197*
— Structure and Movement, 197*
Bohr, Prof. N., Atoms of Peace Award, 606 Boilers, Acceptance Tests for, 521
— Availability Committee, Methods of Clean
ing Boilers (Bulletin), 786
— Circulation Theory, Plant for Study of, at
Cambridge University, 108*
Theory, Research into Fundamentals of, by R. W. Haywood, 108*
— Cleaning of. Methods of (Bulletin), 796
— Control Panels for New Oil Fuel System for
R.M.S. “ Queen Mary,” 458*
— Coverings. See Heat Insulation
— Cyclone-Fired, 200,000 lb, at Kynoch Work
of Metals Division of Imperial Chemica Industries, Ltd. (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 688*
— Design for 200-MW Turbo-Generator Set,
344
— Domestic, Oil-Fired, “ Potterton COA-43 ”
(Thomas De La Rue and Co., Ltd.), 684*
— Fittings (Trade Publication), 531
Valves, Pumps and Turnstiles (Trade Publication), 531
— Furnaces. See Furnace: Stoker
— for Goldington Power Station (Clark Chap
man), 249
— High-Pressure, Circulation in. Research on,
at Cambridge University, 108*
— LaMont (Trade Publication), 821
— Locomotive, See Locomotive
— Marine, Scotch, Corrosion of Mild Steel
Tubes in, 559
— at Meaford “ B ” Power Station, Ash Dis
charge from, 501
— Oil-Fired, Semi-Outdoor, at Ince Power
Station, 534*
— Packaged, “ Powermaster ” (Trade Publica
tion), 279
— Plant for Meaford “ B ” Power Station, 501 *
— and Power-Station Plant, Welding in, by
T. Carlile and Dr. H. Harris, 10
— Radiant Single-Drum Suspended Type, for
Meaford “ B ” Power Station, 501
— Steam, Hollow-Forged Drum (Thos. Firth
and John Brown, Ltd.), 329
— Super-Economic, Daniel Adamson, with
Laidlaw Drew Oil Firing Equipment for New Factory of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 282
— Water-Tube, “ Three-Element ” Water-
Level Control Scheme for (George Kent, Ltd.), 207
See also IVater-Tube Boilermakers' Association
Bolam, S. E., on Oil and Abrasion Resisting Nitrile Rubbers in Engineering, 202*
Bold Power Station, 30-MW Direct Water- Cooled Generator for, 344
Bolinders Co., Ltd., Marine Diesel Engines at Engineering Exhibition, 266
Bols, Maj.-Gen. E. L., on Amalgamation of Peto Scott Electrical Instruments, 772
Bolts and Nuts, Unified, Adoption of, by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 682
— Screwing Machine. See Screwing Machine
under Machine Tools
Bomb-Disposal Squads, Need for Officers for, by Lt.-Col. P. J. Hands, 70
Bombing Aeroplane. See Aircraft under Aeronautics
Bond and Crack Formation in Concrete, Symposium on (Stockholm), 122
Bonding Process, “ Redux,” Cinema Film on (Aero Research, Ltd.), 62
— Rubber to Metal, “ Durasolid ” Method
(Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres, Ltd.), 584 Bonser, F., and Co., Ltd., Three-Wheel Petrol- Driven General Purpose Truck, 214* Bonus System. See Labour
Books on Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Catalogue of, 721
— Engineering, Catalogues of, 83 ?— Engineering (Supplement), 371
— New, 16, 51, 119, 148, 243, 279, 337, 437,
498, 563, 595, 624, 657, 687, 755, 820
Weapon System, Guidance Equipment for (Ferranti,
Weapon System, Launcher
Books Published in Russia,NoteonType of, 213
— Reviews, 16, 50, 82, 118, 148, 180, 212, 242,
278, 306, 336, 370, 402, 436, 470, 498, 530, 562, 594, 624, 656, 686, 720, 754, 782, 820
— Second-Hand, Catalogue of, 119
— Used, Note on, 437
Boom, Welding, Internal Pipe, Incorporating Television Equipment (Quasi-Arc, Ltd.) 362*
Booth, Dr. A., on Computing in the Modern World, 339*
BORAX III Nuclear Reactor, Core Assembly of, 254; Work on Decomposition of Boiling Water, 254
BORAX IV Nuclear Reactor, Work on, 254 Bore Measuring Equipment (British Indicators, Ltd.), 13
Boreholes, Blind, Drilling of. Technique for, 762*
— Multiple, Trials on, at Newman Spinney,
763*
Borg-Warner, Ltd., One-Way Clutch, 469* Borg-Warner Torque Converter Transmission for Mercedes-Benz 300 Motor Car, Improvements in, 287*
Boring, Off-Shore, for Coal, 136*
— Machine, Soil, Rotary Head, Use of, for
Culvert, 85*
Boring Machine. See also Machine Tools
Boron in Iron and Steel, by R. A. Grange, F. J. Shortsleeve, D. C. Hilty, W. O. Binder, G. T. Motock, and C. M. Offenhauer (Book), 820
Boron 10, Separation from Natural Boron, 254 Borst, Prof. L. B., on Power from Sub-Critical Nuclear Reactors, 285
Bosanquet, C. H., on Descent of Sputnik I, 582 Bosch Fuel Injection for Mercedes-Benz 300 Motor Car, 286*
Boston Deep Sea Fisheries, Ltd., Motor Trawler “ Boston Vanguard,” 663*
“ Boston Vanguard,” Motor Trawler, 663*
Bottle, Air, “ Snap,” “ R.E.S.5,” for Aircraft Pneumatic Emergency Services (Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 17*
— Machine for Crating (Hambling Industries,
Ltd.),
Boulder
342 Boulton
Jaguar Cars, Ltd., 796*
Boulton, W., Ltd., Machinery for Ceramics, Chemical and Process Industries (Trade Publication), 307
Boundary Layer Control, Studies on, by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 379
Transition obtained in Pressurised Range, Shadowgraph of, 401*
— Problems, Two-Point, in Ordinary Differen
tial Equations, Numerical Solution of, by L. Fox (Review), 754
— Zone Factor in Arc Welding, by H.
Thomasson, 73
Boving and Co., Ltd., Francis Vertical Turbine Sets for Errochty Hydro-Electric Power Station, 139
Bowden, Dr. F. P., on Explosion in Solids, 140*; on Initiation of Explosion by Neutrons, a-Particles and Fission Products, 140
Bowman, Sir J., Remarks on Status and Policy of National Coal Board, 710
Bowyer, E. C., Remarks on Effect of Cuts in Research and Development in Aircraft Industry, 710
Box, Tin, Manufacture of, by J. W. Langton (Book), 337
Boy Scouts’ World Jubilee Jamboree, Engineering Exhibits at, 273
Boyle, Sir E., Remarks on Need for Co-operation between Industry and Those who Formulate Library Policy, 721
B.P.S. Machinery and Spares Co., Ltd., “ Maco- laepp " Lapping Products for Hand or Machine Operation, 503
Brabazon of Tara, Lord, Remarks on Validation of Aircraft 422
Braby, F., and Co., Machines with ment, 88*
Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, Contract for Reactor Components for (Talbot Stead Tube Co., Ltd.), 125
Brain, V. J. F., the Late, 229
Brake, Air-Operated, for Old Power Press (“ Jumbo ”), 88*
— Bicycle, Report on, by Road Research
Laboratory, 722. See LETTER, 740
— Disc, for Railway Passenger Vehicles, Trials
on, 541
— Dust in Railway Passenger Vehicles, 541
— Straight Air, for Diesel-Hydraulic Shunting
Locomotive (Westinghouse), 87*
— Vacuum, in Railway Rolling Stock, Com
ment on, 542
— See also Dynamometer
Braking System, Automatic Hydraulic, for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 37
Brancote Sewage Works, Dual-Fuel Vertical Naturally-Aspirated Diesel Engines, 3 KD Type (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 489
Brandner, Dipl. Ing. F., on Development of Russian Propeller Turbines, 116*
Bray, Prof. F. Sewell, on Managerial Effectiveness through Inter-Firm Comparisons and Government Statistics, 3
Bray, W. E., and Co., Ltd., “ Hydraclamp " Loader with Hydraulically-Operated Jaws, 425*
Brazil, British Exports to, 127
Brazing of Aluminium and its Alloys (Bulletin), 279
Breakdowns, See Accidents
Breeding Ratio in Nuclear Reactors, 817* “ Breeza ” Cast-Iron Blowers (Trade
tion), 403
Bremstrahlung Radiation, 612
Brewer, R. C., on Bibliography on Tools, 119
Bricks, in Anti-Corrosive Cement
Ltd.), 584
214*
Dam as Source of Low-Cost Power,
and Paul, Ltd., Reconstruction at
in Britain and America,
Ltd., Rejuvenating Old Compressed-Air Equip-
Publica-
Ceramic
(Semtex,
Bricks, Fire. See Firebricks; Refractory Materials
Bridge, Buildwas, 164*
— ?—? Suspension, 164*; Engineering Troubles
on, 31
— Craigellachie, 164*
— Crevasse, Portable, Built from Noral Sheet
and Sections (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 227*
— Dean, 164*
— Foot, St. James’s Park, Army in Loading
Tests on, 448
— London, Proposed, Telford’s Design for,
163*
— Menai Suspension, 163*
— Montford, 163*
— Ore, at Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles,
Ltd., 132*, 133*
— Potton Island, 5
— Railway, Constructional Work on, for
Electrification of Lines to Kent Coast 766*
— Road, Runcorn-Widnes (Dorman Long &
Co., Ltd.), 446
— Schering, Use in Testing of Capacitors at
Elizabeth Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 155*
— Tacoma, Failure of, by Prof. J. B. den
Hartog, 662
•— Tolls on New, Policy on, 127
— Tongueland, 164*
— See also Culvert
Bridges, F. W., and Sons, Ltd., Exhibition on Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Industries, Preliminary Announcement, 586
Briggs Motor Bodies, Ltd., Possibility of Further Dispute at, 544
“ Brimor ” High-Temperature Cements (Brochure) (Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd.), 181; (Trade Publication), 625
Brindle, D. I., on Full Plastic Moment, 645. See LETTERS, 677, 740
Bristol, Installation of TRACE Telephone Equipment at, 722*
“ Bristol 192 ” Twin-Rotor Helicopters, “ P992 ” Paper-Based Laminate for (Bakelite, Ltd.), 728*
Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., “ Marine Proteus ” Turbo-Propeller Engine, 333*; “Thor” Ramjet for “ Bloodhound ” Surface-to- Air Guided Weapon System, 350; “ Orpheus ” Turbojet Engine for Lockheed “ Jetstar ” Light Transport Aircraft, 517
Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., “ Bloodhound ” Surface-to-Air Guided Weapon System, 350*; Tests on Integrally Stiffened Panels, and Riveted and Bonded Skin-and- Stringer Contructions, 407*; Delays in Deliveries of “ Britannia ” Airliners to United States, 422
Bristol Aircraft, Ltd., Low-Speed Closed- Circuit Wind Tunnel, 19*; Asbestos- Reinforced Phenolic-Resin Aircraft Drop Tanks, 89*; “Honeycomb Sandwich” Resin-Impregnated Glass Cloth Partitioning Material, 358; Weather Exploration Flights from Singapore for “ Britannia 312 ” Long-Range Airliner, ITl
— Channel Ports, Discussion in Parliament on
Improvements to, 223
Bristol’s Instrument Co., Ltd., “ Bubbler ” Type Liquid-Level Instrument, 206*; Mercury-Manometer Type Differential- Pressure Liquid-Level Gauge, 207*
Britain’s Air Survival, by Sir R. Fedden (Book), Comment on, 225
— Relationship with Commonwealth Coun
tries, Discussion in Parliament on, 639
— See also United Kingdom
“ Britannia ” Airliner, Delays in Delivery to United States, 422
Trans-World Airlines Order for, 216 “Britannia 312” Long-Range Airliner,
Weather Exploration Flights from Singapore (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 727
Britannica Book of the Year (1957), Comment on, 51
British Air Transport, Future of, 232
— Aircraft Constructors, Society of; Annual
Flying Display and Exhibition at Farnborough, Outline of Exhibits, 259.* See also 257; Ministry of Supply’s Exhibits, 260*; Aero-Engines Exhibits at Farnborough, 290*; Transport Aircraft Exhibits at Farnborough, 292*; Guided Weapons at Farnborough Show, 349*; Effect of Cuts in Research and Development in Aircraft Industry, 710; Views on Expenditure for Research and Development, 773
British Aluminium Co., Ltd., Expansion Projects Overseas, 167; “ Imprest ” Decorative Aluminium Sheet (Trade Publication), 307; Positive-Grip Pattern (P-G-P) Aluminium Tread Plate, 457; Aluminium in Shipbuilding (Book), 595; Wrought Light- Alloy Material, 657
— Amateur Television Club, Activities of, 458
British Association—continued
Measurements of Physical Processes Underlying Cloud and Rain Formation, by R. J. Murgatroyd, 365
Cloud-Seeding or Rain-Making Experiments in Australia During Last Ten Years, by W. Machlin, 365
Perceptual Organisation in Simple Skills, by J. Annett, 384
Role of Attention in Skill, with a Mechanical Analogy, by D. E. Broadbent, 384
Social Factors in Training of Royal Air Force Boy Entrants, by A. B. Cherns and K. W. Tilley, 384
Experiments on Intelligence and Environment in Children, by Dr, S, Wiseman, 384
Economic Aspects of Land Use Patterns, by E. M. Fisher, 399
Idealism and Technical Assistance—Misgivings and Mistakings, by A. Dickson, 399
Solar Magnetograph, by Dr. D. W, Beggs and Dr. H, von Kliiber, 400
Percolation Processes, by J. M. Hammers- ley, 401
Section F {Economics):
Presidential Address on Balance of Payments Problem of European Free Trade Area, by Prof. J. E. Meade, 363 Section G (Engineering):
Rational Method for Estimating Flood Peaks, by J. C. E. Dooge, 311*, 374*
Engineering Heat-Transfer, by Prof. O. A. Saunders, 313*
Presidential Address on Engineering Education, by Sir D. Anderson, 326
Computing in the Modern World, by Dr. A. Booth, 339*
Energy and Power Supply, by Sir J. Eccles, 341*, 366*
Green Fodder Conservation, by C. Culpin, 368*
Engineering Factors in Food Processing and Canning, by Dr. J. Hawthorn, 386*
Equivalent Circuits and their Application to Induction Motors, by D. J. Row- ley, 405*
Survey of Developments in Telecommunication, by R. J. Halsey, 432*
Mining Development in Ireland, by M. A. Hogan, 488
Advances in Aeronautics, by W. Stephens, 465*, 494*
Crop Conservation Practice, by J. O’Callaghan, 566*
Dr.
H.
R.
British Association of Sewing Machine Manufacturers, Formation of, 233
?— Broadcasting Corporation; Discussion on Science without Experiment in Third Programme, 167; Kirk O’Shotts, Observations on Strength of Sound Transmission from, 172; Television Programmes on Stately Homes, 194; School Television Broadcasts, Comment on, 448; Television Service of, 548; Television Experiments, 621; Ultra-High-Frequency Television Transmitter at Crystal Palace, 718; Opening of Permanent Television Transmitting Station at Douglas, Isle of Man, 805; Opening of Permanent Medium- Powered Television Transmitting Station at Sandale, Cumberland, 805
— Bureau of Non-Ferrous Metal Statistics.
See Metal, Non-Ferrous
— Cast Iron Research Association. See Cast
Iron Research Association
— Chambers of Commerce, Association of.
See Chambers of Commerce
— Chemical Plant Manufacturers’ Association,
Exhibition on Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Industries, Preliminary Announcement, 586
— Coal Utilisation Research Association.
See Coal Utilisation
— Columbia, Centenary of Creation as
Crown Colony, 463
— Commonwealth Welding Conference. See
IVelding Conference
?— Council, Scientific Research in British Universities, 421. See also 371
?— Electrical Conference, Preliminary
Announcement, 515
British Electric Traction, Annual Report, 359
— Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Asso
ciation. See Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association Power Convention.
Power Convention
— Employers’ Confederation.
Confederation
— Engineers’ Association.
Association
See Electrical
See Employers'
See Engineers'
British Association:
Presidential Address, by Prof. P. M. S' Blackett, 294
Annual Meeting (1956):
Aerodynamic Factors in Aero-Engine Combustion Chambers, by W. G. E, Lewis and M. V. Herbert, 143*
Dublin Meeting:
Comment on, 257
Nuclear Fusion as Possible Source of Power, by J. D. Lawson, 347*
Containment Problem for Thermonuclear Reaction, by Sir G. Thomson, 347*
Some Recent Studies of Effects of Age on Intellectual Processes, by D. B, Bromley, 352, 389
Effectiveness of Group Wage Incentives in Railway Repair Works, by L, Buck, 352
European Common Market and British Industry, by H. H. Leisner, 354
Stages in Formation of Rain, by Dr. B. J. Mason, 365
— European Airways, London Air Terminals,
127
— Fair. See Exhibition
— Flame Research Committee. See Flame
Research Committee
British Geon, Ltd., Properties and Uses of “Hycar” Nitrile Rubbers, 202*; Vinyl Compounds and Synthetic Rubbers (Trade Publication), 625
British Hydrocarbon Chemicals, Building of New Synthetic Phenol Plant at Grangemouth, 806
— Independent Air Transport
See Air Transport Association British Indicators, Ltd., Bore
Equipment, 13 British Industrial Gases, Ltd.,
Regulator for Heating and Cutting Operations, 269
— Industries, Federation of. See Federation
— Institute of Management. See Management British Insulated Callender’s Cables, L.'.,
Coaxial Radio-Frequency Cables Insulated with Irradiated Polythene, 285; “ Nyvin ” Cable with P.V.C. Insulation, 424; P.T.F.E. Insulated Electrical Wire, 424; “ Tersil ” Silicone-Rubber Insulated Cable, 424; “ Uni-Efglas ” Cable with P.T.F.E. and Glass Insulation, 424; Ductless Shaped-Conductor Oil-Filled
Association.
Measuring
Single-Stage
Ltd.,
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Three-Core 33-kV Cable, 661; Decrease in Profits of, 743
British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd., Welded Steel Portal Structure for Overhead Collecting Wires for British Railways Alternating-Current Electrification, 383*; 132-kV Circuit Line over River Ribble, 447
— Insurance (Atomic
Recommendations Insurance, 28
— Internal-Combustion
turers’ Association.
Combustion, British Manufacturers' Association
— Interplanetary Society. See Interplanetary
Society, British
British Iron and Steel Federation. See Iron and Steel Federation
British LaBour Pump Co., Ltd., Type USL Self-Priming Pump for Operation in Confined Spaces, 334; “ UZ ” Rubber- Lined Pumps, 335
— and Latin American Chamber of Commerce,
Marketing Activities of, 216
?— Manufacturers of Petroleum Equipment. See Petroleum Equipment, British, Manufacturers of
British Manzel Oil Pump Co., High-Pressure Mechanical Lubricators, 335
British Motor Corp., Ltd., Adaptation of 7-ton Long-Wheelbase Chassis for Wagon for Bulk Delivery of Animal Feeding Stuffs, 95; Decision not to Bring Out New Models Annually, 338; Position and Prospects of, 614; Position and Prospects of, 678
— Museum Catalogue, 783
— National Committee for Non-Destructive
Testing, Formation of, 150
— Non-Ferrous Metals Federation. See
Metals, Non-Ferrous, Federation, British
— Nuclear Energy Conference. See Nuclear
Energy Conference, British
— Nucleonic Instruments. See Instruments British Olivetti, Ltd., Typewriter Production, 10
— Overseas Airways Corp., Survey of Pros
pects for Air Services between United Kingdom and South America, 27; London Air Terminals, 127; Annual Report, 359; Freight Carried from United States to United Kingdom (Statistics), 464
British Oxygen Co., Ltd., Computer-Controlled Flame-Cutting Machine, 84*
British Oxygen Gases, Ltd., Thyratron Electronic Control Unit for Flame- Cutting Machine, 84*; Cinema Film on Flame-Cleaning of Steelwork for Painting, 155; Demonstration of Flame-Cleaning Process and of New Welding and Gas- Cutting Techniques, 155*; “ Bison ” Gas Profiling Machine for Cutting Steel up to 12 in. thick, 269*; Portable Oxy-Acetylene Rivet-Heating Furnace, 397*; Automatic Computer-Controlled Flame-cutting Machine for Steel Plate, 774*
British Petroleum Co., Ltd., Note on Statistical Review of World Oil Industry, 17; Government’s Holding in, 63; Increase in Petroleum Chemicals Capacity at Grangemouth, 200; New Isle of Grain Refinery, 200; Interest in Shell Oil Co., of Palestine, 223; Oil-Tanker Terminal at Milford Haven, 231; Routing Round Cape of Good Hope of 20 Tankers, 390; Cinema Film “ Test Flight 263 ” on Aeronautical Research, 821; Cinema Film “Weekend at Le Mans 821
British Petroleum Tanker Co., Ltd., Decision to Lay Up Nine Medium-Sized Ships, 39; New Orders for Oil Tankers, 39
— Plastics Exhibition. See Plastics Exhibition British Polar Engines, Ltd., Two-Stroke
Direct-Reversing Marine Engines, Type M48M, for M.V. Susan Constant, 264
British Railways, Modernisation Plan, 7, 450*, 506*; Progress of Modernisation Plan, 72; “ Talisman ’’ Trains of, Roller-Bearings for Axleboxes on (British Timken, Ltd,), 88; Comment on North-South Travel Facilities, 96; Progress of Modernisation Programme, 134; Diesel-Electric Simulator for Training Purposes, 153*; Economic, Sociological and Philosophical Aspects of Modernisation Plan, 353; “ Curved-F’’ and “ G ’’ High-Speed Railway Switches, 383; Welded Steel Portal Structure for Overhead Collecting Wires for Alternating- Current Electrification of (British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd.), 383*; Eastern Region Training School for Diesel Train Drivers at Hadley Wood, 452; Two-Car Diesel Trains with 230 h.p. Engines for Eastern Region, 452*; Class A 1,000 h.p. Diesel-Electric Freight Locomotive in Service on London Midland Region, 452*; Prototype Problems in Modernisation Plan, 452; Derby Works Training School of London Midland Region, Extensions at, 453; Training for Operating and Maintaining Diesel Rail-Cars, 462. See also 453; Staff Training College at Derby, 462. See also 453; Facts and Figures (Booklet), 492; Modernisation Plans, by J. R. Pike, 492; Electrification Progress, 506*; Difficulty of Different Operational Voltages, 506*, 508*; Direct-Current
Rolling Stock, 507*; Multiple-Unit Train Equipment, 507; Type A and Type B Electric Locomotives, 507; Signalling and Telecommunications Circuits, 507; 660- Volt Direct-Current System of Southern Region, 507; Kent Coast Electrification Plans, 508*; 2,500-h.p. Electric Loco- motive.s for Boat Trains and Other Kent Coast Services, 508*; Rectifier System for Locomotives and Motor Coaches, 508; Equipment Ordered from Continent, 508; Civil-Engineering Work in Hand, 508; Flyovers and Flyunder under Construction, 508; Modernisation Plan—Carriages and Wagons, 540*. See LETTER, 804; Possible Effects of Cuts in Capital Investment on Modernisation Scheme of, 557;
Energy) Committee, on Nuclear Reactor
Engine Manufac- See Engine, Internai-
Signalling Modernisation, 598*; Plans for Automatic Time Control, 598; Civil- Engineering Work in Modernisation Plan, 599; Electronic Computer for Paybill Calculations at Swindon (Powers-Samas Accounting Machines, Ltd.), 617; “Hollerith 550 ” Electronic Computer at Derby (British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd.), 617; “ D600 ” Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive for (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 710, 773*. See LETTER, 773; First 1,250-h.p. Mixed-Traffic Diesel- Electric Locomotive for (Brush Traction, Ltd.), 727*; Design and Performance of and Contractors for Type I 800-h.p. Bo-Bo Main-Line Diesel-Electric Locomotive (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 759*; Progress of Plans for Electrification of Lines to Kent Coast, 766*; Adoption of Magneto-Inductive “ Warning ” Type Control System, 767. See also British Transport Commission
— Rates and Data, Vol. 2, Note on, 213 British Reinforced Concrete Engineering Co.,
Ltd., New Factory for Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd., at Blaydon-on-Tyne, 473* British Ropes, Ltd., Steel, P.V.C. and Nylon Ropes and Cords, 332; Wire-Rope Splicing (Trade Publication), 403
— Scientific Instrument Research Association,
See Scientific Instrument Research Association
British Sewing Machines, Ltd., Output of, 233
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
— Shipbuilding Research Association. See
Shipbuilding Research Association
— Shipping. See Shipping
— Standards Institution. See Standards
Institution
— Steel Castings Research Association. See
Steel Castings Research Association, British
— Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Sweden
Year Book 1956-57, 371
British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd., “ Hollerith 555 ” Punched-Card Electronic Calculator with Memory Drum, 19; “ Hec Type 1201 ” General Purpose Electronic Computer, 67*; “Type 555 ” Electronic Calculator for United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Harwell), 125; “ Hollerith 550 ” Electronic Computer for British Railways, at Derby, 617
British Thermostat Co., Annual Report, 262
British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., 12- 1-MW Rectifier Transformers for New Smelter of Canadian British Aluminium Co., Ltd., at Bale Comeau, 153; 20/30-MVA Transformers for Umtali Substation of Electricity Supply Commission in Southern Rhodesia, 215; Generating Sets for Goldington Power Station, 249; Portable Halogen Leak Detector, Type HMB, 328*; Diesel-Electric Portable Winding Engine for National Coal Board, 617*; New Turbine and Turbo-Generator Factory at Larne, 666*; 450-X Cinema Projector with Mazda XE/D 2-kW Xenon Lamp, 680*; Type 1 800-h.p. Bo-Bo Main-Line
Diesel-Electric Locomotive for British Railways, 759*; Horizontal Milling and Boring Machines for Larne Works of, 808* British Timken, Ltd., Roller-Bearings for Axleboxes on “ Talisman ” Trains of British Railways, 88; Exhibition of, 273; Automatic Production Lines for Tapered Roller Bearings, 664*
British Titan Products, Ltd., Development of Rutile Deposits in Sierra Leone, 93; Cinema Film on Titanium Pigment Story, 243
— Trade. See Trade
— Transport Commission, Annual Report, 7,
72; Trials of Two-Car Multiple-Unit Diesel Set, 117*; Report on Progress of Railway Modernisation Programme, 134; Inquiry into Purchasing Arrangements of, 134; Steam Locomotives to be Fitted with Berkley Mechanical Stokers, 136; Tests on “ Duke of Gloucester ” Locomotive, 136; Order for Diesel-Mechanical Rail- Cars of Tubular Construction Placed with Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., 152*; Discussion in Parliament on Closing of Merthyr Tydfil-Abergavenny Railway, 191; Decision to Provide Secretarial Services on Trains, 416; Possible Agreement with Locomotive Workers on Manning of Diesel Locomotives. 416; Modern Railway Travel Exhibition, 541. See also British Railways British Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., V-Belt Maintenance (Trade Publication), 149
— Waterworks Association. See
Association. British British Wedge Wire Co., Ltd.,
Conveyor Belt Guide, 120*
— Welding Research Association.
Research Association
Brittle Fracture of Mild Steel in
J. B. Hunt, 173* Brittleness in Prestressed Members, 245* Broaching Machine. See Machine Tools Broad, S. T., Remarks on Hertfordshire Technical Library Service, 721
Broadbent, D. E., on Role of Attention in Skill, with a Mechanical Analogy, 384 Broadcasting Station, Long-Wave, at Ankara, Contract for Re-organisation of, bv Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., 397
Brock, G., on More Steel or Better Concrete, 644. See LETTER, 805
Bromine, Chemical Separation of, from Fission Products of Uranium 235, 255 Bromley, D. B., on Effects of Age on Intellectual Processes, 352, 389
Bromley South Station, Re-arrangement of Platforms at, 766
Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd., Seven-Roll Plate-Levelling Machine, 298; Hand- Powered Press Brake, 298*; Tube Straightening Machine for Inconel Tubes, 619*
Bronze, Aluminium, Die Castings (Trade Publication), 531
Waterworks
“ Guidler ”
See Welding
Torsion, by
Bronze Rods, Continuous Casting of, at Tin Research Institute, 205
Brook Motors, Ltd., Manufacture of Electric Motors (Trade Publication), 213
Brook Tool Manufacturing Co., Position and Prospects of, 337
Brooke, H., Remarks on ings, 5 ,
Regrouping Progress,
Brookes, B. C,, on Training and Qualifications Needed for Technical Writing, 137, See LETTERS, 200, 228, 325, 421, 645, 676, 740 Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fluidised- Bed Calcination, 255; Cosmotron at. Device for Focusing Beams of Mesons Emitted from, 763*
Brooklyn, Polytechnic Institute of. List of “ Pibal ” Reports, 1948-57, 51
Broom, Dr. T., on Effects of Lattice Defects on Some Physical Properties of Metals, 793 Broom and Wade, Ltd., Portable Oil-Flooded Rotary Air Compressors, 299*
Brown-Boveri, A.G., et Cie, History and Activities of, 169; Subsidiaries of, 169; Market Outlook, 170
Brown, Boveri and Co., Development of Turbo-Charging by, by H. Herga and Dr. E. Jenny, 57
Brown-Boveri Exhaust Turbo-Supercharger for Mirrlees KSCDM Six-Cylinder Engine for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663
Brown, D., Corp., Tractor Orders from Finland, 464
Brown, D., Corp., Sales, Ltd., “ Varicon ” Stepless Speed Reducer, 469*
Brown, D., Group, Modified “ 2D ” Tractor for Use in Vineyards, 647*; Tractor Matching Equipment, 647*; “Albion” Baler, 648 *; Front-End Loader for “ 900 ” Tractor, 648*; “Hurricane” 648*; Rotary Tiller, 648*
Brown, D., Industries, Ltd,, Helical and Worm Gear Unit,
Brown, F. J., on Selling by Film, 676
Brown, J. (Clydebank), Ltd., Francis Vertical Turbine Sets for Errochty Hydro-Electric Power Station, 139
Brown, J,, Group, Position and Prospects of, 230; Acquisition of Costain—John Brown and of Westland Aircraft, 230
Brown, Dr. T. W. F., on Propulsion of Ships by Steam Turbine Machinery, 444*, 569*, 698*
Brown and Tawse Plant, Ltd., Hydraulically- Operated Mobile Crane (Trade Publication, 213
Brown, W. B. D., on Position and Prospects of Glacier Metal Co., Ltd., 72
Browne, E. H., Remarks on System of Management at Collieries, 363
Bruce, Lord, on Functions of Public Finance Corporations, 200
Bruel and Kjaer Audio-Frequency Spectrum Recorder, Use in Sound-Testing of Fans at Acoustic Laboratory of Keith Blackman, Ltd., 696
Brunel College of Technology, Acton, Opening of, 480
— Isambard Kingdom, Biography, by L. T. C.
Rolt (Review), 278
Brunner, H., on Effect of Grain-Boundary Sliding on Creep, 423
Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., Machines, Control Gear and Reduction Gear Equipment, for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 36; Alternating-Current Electric Generators for Delhi State Electricity Board, 120; Gas Turbines for Use with Free-Piston Gasifier, 296*
Brush Group, Single-Stage Turbo-Charger, 297; Member of Consortium for Construction of Shipyard in Cuba, 620; Activities in Middle East, 719
— Rotating, Air-Motor Driven, for Cleaning
Billet Moulds in situ (Flexible Drives (Gilmans), Ltd.), 361*
Brush Traction, Ltd., Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive, 426*; First 1,250-h.p. Mixed- Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotive for British Railways, 727*
Brussels, Road Improvements in, 516
— World Fair (1958), Preview, 514*
Bryan, G. J., on Energy Requirements for Ignition of Seven Solid Explosives, 141
Bryce Berger, Ltd., “ Speedlock ” Speed Governor Unit for Internal Combustion Engines, 266*
B.S. Developments, Paraffin Mist Collector, 618*
“ Bubbler ” Method of Level Control of Liquids in Open Vessels, 206*
Buck and Hickman, Ltd., “ Shadowmasta ” Tool-Room Projector, 742*
Buck, L., on Group Wage Incentives in Railway Repair Works, 352
Buckland, Dr. W. R., on Application of Statistics to Engine Performance Tests, 729 Buckman, J., on Automation—Its Demand on Management, 704
Budgetary and Costing System of G. Cohen, Sons and Co., Ltd., 326
Building Centre, Competition on Building Trade Literature, 51; Different Kinds of Lighting for Examination of Fabrics and Materials, 684
— and Civil Engineering Contractors, Overseas
Work, 383
— Construction, Concrete Blocks and Ma
chines for. See Concrete
See also Concrete, Reinforced
— Damage to, by Sonic Booms, Discussion in
Parliament on, 703
— Effect of Higher Bank Rate on Volume of,
576
— Electricity in, by A, L. Osborne, Note on,
811
— Exhibition, Working Model of Small-Bore
Oil-Fired Heating System at (Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd.), 493
— Factory, Increase in. Comment on, 40
— Farm, Research Station, Discussion
Parliament on Establishment of, 127
— Industry, Capital Expenditure in, 104 Position and Prospects of, 40
., Remarks on Advertising Hoard-
588; Remarks on Water Works
714
Building Materials, Canadian Market for. Report of Dollar Exports Council on, 81 “ Dohmseal ’’ Fire Retardant for (Dohm, Ltd.), 424*
— and Public Works, International Federation
of. Acceptance of Conditions of Contract for Works of Civil Engineering Construction, 383
— Reinforced-Concrete, in Place of Steel,
Discussion in Parliament on, 191
— Research Station, Note on Building Research
Station Digest, No. 100, 336
— Tall, in Big Cities, Discussion in Parliament
on, 127
— Trades Employers, United Kingdom,
National Federation of. Acceptance of Conditions of Contract for Works of Civil Engineering Construction, 383
— Trade Literature, Competition on, 51
?— Unions, demand for 40-Hour Week, 576
— Ventilation (Trade Publication), 17 Buildwas Bridge, 164*
Bulletin for Industry, 166; Comment on, 40 “ Bumper-Wac ’’ Two-Stage High Altitude Research Missile, 430*
Bunsen Burner, “ 3 Jet Maximus,” for Use with Gases of High Calorific Value (Amal, Ltd.), 792
Bureau des Echanges Culturels et Sejours i I'Etranger, Scheme for Cultural Exchanges for Children, 448
— of Mines. See United States
— of Standards. See United States
— of Technical Information. Bureaucracy, Plain Words on, Burgess, N. T., on Testing
Welds and Welders, 73
See Information
578
of Light-Alloy
Harvester,
Combined 265*
in
Burgoyne, J. H., on Crankcase Explosions in Marine Engines, 303
Burma, Export Trade to. Position and Prospects of, 709
— Overseas Economic Survey on, 709
— Pyidawtha Development Plan, 709 Burmeister and Wain, Two-Stroke Single-
Acting Turbo-Charged Crosshead Main Diesel Engines (Trade Publication), 821
Burn, A. H., on Chipping of Hand Hammers in Service, 48*. See LETTER, 487
Burner, Bunsen, “ 3 Jet Maximus,” for Use with Gases of High Calorific Value (Amal, Ltd.), 792
— Jet, Town-Gas, for Selective Local High-
Intensity Heating, 184*
Burness, J., and Sons, Ltd., Member of Consortium for Construction of Shipyard in Cuba, 620
Burness, T. P. N., on Position and Prospects of Ambrose Shardlow and Co., 72
Burrell, D. G., and Partners, Mobil Oil Co.’s New Technical Services Laboratories at Coryton, 583*
Bursting Discs for High-Pressure Systems, by A. Urbanski, 210*
— — (Trade Publication), 499
— Strength of Toughened Glass
P. L. Thorpe and D. Dawson,
Hydraulic
Discs, by
591*
Burton, R. A., Impact and Vibration, Note on, 657
Busbars. See Electric
Bush, Dr. V., Comment on Book Endless Horizons, by, 705; Proposals on Patents System in United States, 749
— Needle, “ Nadella ” (Trade Publication),
821
Business, Automation in, by E. M. Grabbe (Review), 470
— Charts, by T. G. Rose (Book), 657
?—Economist, Rise of the; Commercial Planning on a Systematic Basis, 810
?— Efficiency Exhibition, Exhibits at, 66*
— Electronic Data Processing for, by R, G.
Canning (Review), 470
— Executive, Successful, by L. Spencer, 399
— Forecasting, Aspects of, 810
— Smaller, Problems of, by A. C. Hazel, 463 “Butakon” Oil-Resisting High-Nitrile Rubbers
(Imperial Chemical Industries,
Butane Gas, Water Heaters for British Standard, 556
Butanol Production at Billingham Imperial Chemical Industries,
Butler, R, F., on Position and Prospects of Kirkstall Forge and Engineering, 390
“ Butyl ” for Lining of Chemical Plant (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 584
— Synthetic Rubber, Development of, 775 Buying Habits, Application of Motivation
Research to Study of, 558
— Stock, Policy for. Application of Digital
Computer to, 340*
B.X. Plastics, Ltd., “ Velbex ” Polyvinyl Chloride Coating for Bonding to Steel Sheet, 456. See LETTER, 520; “ Cobex” Rigid Vinyl Sheet for Chemical Plant, 583 Byron Business Machines, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 10
Bystram, M. C. T., on Ferrite-Controlled Stainless-Steel Welding Electrodes, 11
Bythway, A. S., on Machine Foundations, 70, 165. See also Vol. 183. See LETTERS, 103, 166
Ltd.), 358 Use with.
Works of
Ltd., 13
“ C757S ’’ F.I.A.T. Two-Stroke Crosshead Diesel Engine, by Dr. Ing. A. Gregoretti, 58
C-Sentry ’’ Zinc-Alloy Anodes for Cathodic Protection of Ships, Piers, etc. (Imperial Smelting Corp., Ltd.), 583
Cabala, Prof. L., Visit to United Kingdom to Study Atomic Energy, 158
Cables for Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station, Contract for, to W. T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., 158
— Coaxial Radio-Frequency, Insulated with
Irradiated Polythene (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 285
— Cross-Channel, Approval of, by Minister
of Power, 478
Channel, as Link for Power Supply Systems of France and Britain, 368
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
XV
— Radio-Frequency, “ Telecon,” Sockets, Joints and Terminations with (Trade Publication), 307
— Silicone-Rubber Insulated, “
(British Insulated Callender’s Ltd.), 424
— Submarine, Lightweight, for Transatlantic
Telephone Link Between Britain and Canada, 497*
— Telephone, Submarine, Repeater for.
Research on (Submarine Cables, Ltd.), 696
— Three-Core, Oil-Filled, Shaped-Conductor,
Ductless, 33-kV (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 661
-— Transatlantic, Between France and America, 597
— Transoceanic, Proving of. Hydraulic Rigs
for (English Steel Corp.), 497*
— “ Uni-Efglas,” with
Insulation (British Cables, Ltd.), 424
— Using Diolpates, “
manoid, Ltd.), 654* Cable and Wireless, Ltd., Activities of, 434
— See also Wire Ropes
CABMA Register, Note on, 273
Cachia, G. P., on Initiation of Explosives by Shock,142
Cadiergues, R., on Trends in Heating Systems in Europe, 47
Caesar, J., on the Place of Automatic Equipment in Marketing Operations, 27
Cairncross, Prof. A. K., on Investment Comparisons, 399
Calcination, Fluidised-Bed, Pilot-Plant Demonstration (Phillips Petroleum), 255
Calcium in Iron and Steel, by R. A. Grange, F. J. Shortsleeve, D. C. Hilty, W. O. Binder, G. T. Motock, and C. M. Offen- hauer (Book), 820
Calculating Machine, Electronic, Punched- Card, with Memory Drum, “ Hollerith 555 ” (British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd.), 19
Electronic, TRIDAC, Flight Simulator at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough), 468*
Electronic, “ Type 555,” for United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Harwell) (British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd.), 125
See also Computer
Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station, Reactors at, 253*; Model of 80-ft. Steam-Raising Tower for Heat Exchanger for (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 269*; Remarks on, by Sir C. Hinton, 290; Full-Way Valve for (Davey, Paxman and Co., Ltd.), 348; Model of at Levant Fair (Bari), 348; Cinema Film on Construction of, 476
Type of Nuclear Reactor, Problems in Design of Pressure Vessels for, by R. W. Lakin, 732
Caledonian Canal, 163*
“ Caledonian ” Express, Comment on Introduction to Summer Timetable, 96
Calico Printers Association, Ltd., Withdrawal of Interest in Nyanza Textiles, Ltd., 682 California Institute of Technology, Development Work of Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Guided Missiles, 430*; Work of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories on Problems in Solid and Fluid Dynamics, 430*
Call Chargers on GRACE Equipment for Telephone Exchanges, 722*
Callery Fuels, Inc., “ HlCal ” High-Energy Fuel, 679
Callow, F. E. (Engineers). Ltd., Milling Equipment for Dry Materials (Trade Publication), 783
Camborne and District, Memorials and Commemorations in, to Richard Trevithick, “The Cornish Giant,” 1771-1833, by J. F. Odgers (Review), 50
Cambridge 6 Billion Volt Electron Accelerator, by Dr. R. S. Livingstone, Preliminary Notice of, 413
— Electron Accelerator, Description of, 764
— Engineering Education at, by Prof. J. F.
Baker, 68
— Men, Contributions of, to Mechanical
Engineering, by G. B. R. Feilden, 68
— LIniversity, Research on Circulation in
High-Pressure Boilers, 108*; Report of Head of Department of Engineering, 149; Results of Questionnaire to Undergraduates at, 352
Camer, Television. See Television
Camp Bird, Ltd., Growth, Position and Prospects of, 678; Acquisition of Hampton A Sons, 678
Campbell, D. F., Remarks on Expansion Programme for Davy and United Engineering Co., 454
Campbell, J., Remarks on Government Policy on Wage Rates, 672
Cans, Food, Soldered, for Expeditions in Search of American Northwest Passage, 386
— Lead-Shielded, for Transporting Radio
active Isotopes (Savage and Parsons, Ltd.), 795
— Open-Top, Closing of, 387*
Canada, Building Materials Market, Report on, 81
— Chemical Institute of. Publication of
Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 149
Canada, Economic, Technical and Goodwill Mission to. Report, of 463
?— Emigration of British Engineers and Scientists to. Discussion in Parliament on, 735
of Engineers and Scientists to. Comment on, 641
— Engineering and Industrial Achievements in 1956, 119
— — Institute of. See Engineering Institute —?— Products in. Market Guide to, 778*
— Export Trade to. Comment on, 719 Trade to. Discussion in Parliament on,
831
— Foreign Trade, Annual Review of, 338
?— Imports from United Kingdom and United States, 778*
?—? Improving Export Trade with. Discussion in Parliament in, 639
— Inflation in. Note on, 752
— Marketing Methods for Trading with, 463
— National Research Council of. Note on
Reports of Division of Mechanical Engineering, 243
— Natural Gas Industry in. Survey of, 199
— Petroleum Industry in. Survey of, 199
— Proposal for Free Trade Arrangement with
United Kingdom, Comment on, 462
— Redundancy Trend in, 768
— Scientific and Technical Manpower in
(Review), 402
— Setting Up Business in, 399
— Telephone Statistics, 139
— Trade with. Discussion in Parliament on,
191
Outlook, 752
Slump Trend in, 768
— Transatlantic Telephone Link to. Light
weight Submarine Cable for, 497
— United Kingdom Trade, Attempts to
Increase, 463
— Vacation in, by Members of Oxford-Canada
Club, Comment on, 480.
— See also Canadian
“ Canadair CL 44 ” Airliner, Propeller Equipment for. Order for (de Haviiiand Propellers, Ltd.), 359
Canadian Association of British Manufacturers and Agencies, CABMA Register, Note on, 273
Canadian British Aluminium Co. Ltd. 12-1-MW Rectifier Transformers for Smelter at Baie Comeau (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 153
— Journal of Chemical Engineering, Take
Over of Canadian Journal of Technology, 149
— Journal of Technology, Taken Over by
Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 149
Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., New Liner to be Built by Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., 95
— Trade, Dependence on United States
Capital, 463
Mission to United Kingdom, 685, 719, 778, 813
and Television, Remarks on, by C. O. Stanley, 813
— Uranium Mines, Development of, 60
Mines, Power Supply for, 60
— See also Canada
Canal, Caledonian, 163*
— and Rivers, Regime Behaviour of, by T.
Blench (Review), 686
“ Canberra ” Aircraft, Altitude Record Flight in, 295
Canning Food, Engineering Factors in, by Dr. J. Hawthorne, 386*, 550. See
LETTER, 520
— Industry, Bryan Donkin, Credited Founder
of, 386
— Peas at Batchelor’s Peas Factory, 387* Capacitor, Oxide Film, Development of, at
Electrical Research Association, 94
— Power Paper, Manufacture of, at Elizabeth
Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 154* Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd., “ Caposite Amosite ” Asbestos (Trade Publication), 625
Cape of Good Hope, Routing of 20 Tankers Round, 390
Cape, J., Ltd., Now and Then (100th Number), 755
Capital, Dearth of, in Industry, 517
— for Development in Africa, 454
— Expenditure by Manufacturing Industry,
Increase in, 104
— Goods Industries, Depression of. 111
— Investment, Effect of Increase in Bank Rate
on,390
— ?— Lower Returns on, 682 See also Investment
— and Labour. See Labour
— Spending by Industry, Board of Trade
Statistics on, 104
— United States, Dependence of Canadian
Trade on, 463
“ Caposite Amosite ” Asbestos (Trade Publication), 625
Car, Mine, Tippler for (Trade Publication), 148 'Tipplers (Trade Publication), 531
— Motor. See Motor Cars
— Rail. See Carriages, Railway
“ Caravan,” Motor Car, Opel, 573*
“ Caravelle ” Twin-Jet Medium-Range Aircraft, Order for, by Scandinavian Airlines System (Sud Aviation), 39
Carbon Content of Steel, Cinema Film on, 457
— Moderator, Fluidised-Fuel Nuclear Reactor
with, 730
Carbonylation Plant for Butanol Production (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 13
Carburisation. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Card Clothing and Belting Co., Annual Report, 134
— Punched. See Punched Card
Career, Choosing a. Plain Words on, 610
— and Education Exhibition, National, Pre
liminary Announcement, 492
Cargoes, Shipping, Decline in, 168
Carlile, T., on Welding in Boilers and Power- Station Plant, 10
Carliss, O. S., on Stability of Fork-Lift Trucks, 819*
Carolina, Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactor Proposed for (Carolinas Virgina Nuclear Power Associates, Inc.), 413
Carolinas Virgina Nuclear Power Associates, Inc., Proposed Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactor for Carolina, 413
Carriages, Railway, Rail-Car, Diesel, British Railways Training of Men for Operation and Maintenance of, 462. See also 453
Railcar, Diesel, British Railways Programme for. Progress of, 72
Railcar, Diesel, Design Developments, 452
Railcar, Diesel-Mechanical Railcars of Tubular Construction (Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd.), 152*
•—? — Railcar, Diesel, with 150-h.p. Engines, for Crewe-Stoke-Derby Service, 452*
Railcar, Gearboxes, Automatic Control for (Self-Changing Gears, Ltd.), 265
?—? — Heating in, 541 -542
Modernisation Plans of British Railways, 540*
— ?— Motor, Rectifier System for, 508 Open-Plan, Prototypes of, 541 *
Standards of Design and Decor of, 541 *. See LETTER, 804
Two-Car Multiple Unit Diesel Set, Trials of, 117*
Carrier Engineering, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 558; Position and Prospects of, 772; Development of New Air Conditioning System, 772
Carron, W. J., Remarks on Inevitability of 40-Hour Week, 576
Carrozzeria Touring of Milan, Coachbuilding Activities of, 675*
Carruthers, J. H., and Co., Ltd., “ Flowmaster ” Vertical Centrifugal Pump, 334*
Cartel Bill, West German, 135
Carter, Prof. C. F., on Research—A Management Technique, 649, 813
Cartons, Handling, Hydraulic Clamping- Arms for Attachment to Normal Lift Truck for (Proctor and Gamble), 205
‘ Carvallo ” High-Speed Continuous Steriliser for Pea Canning, 388*
Cast-Iron Blowers, “ Breeza” (Trade tion), 403
and Granite Surface Plates for Out and Inspection, 537
Research on, at British Cast Iron Research Association, 107*
Research Association, British, Opening of New Melting Shop, 107*; Research Activities, 107*
See also Iron
Casting Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Continuous, of Bronze Rods at Tin Re
search Institute, 205
at Hammer and Sickle Metal Works, 616*
— — of Steel, Bibliography on (1934-1957)
(Book), 687
—? — Vacuum Chambers for Removal of Dissolved Gases in, at Hammer and Sickle Metal Works, 616
— Die. See Die Casting
— Gravity, and Laminating, for Production
of Press Tools from Epoxide Resins, 404*
Single-Stage, for Production of Press Tools from Epoxide Resins, 404
— Magnesium, Technology, by A. M. Brace
(Book), 625
— Manufacture of. Recent Developments in,
by J. L. Rice, R. W. Ruddle, and P. A. Russell, 748
— Meehanite, Body of “ Guidler ” Conveyor
Belt Guide, 120*
— Solidification of, by R. W. Ruddle (Book),
755
— Steel (Trade Publication), 625
Continuous, 132
for General Engineering Purposes, British Standard, 584
for South of Scotland Nuclear Power Station (A.P.V.-Paramount, Ltd.), 217
Vacuum-Melting Process for (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 358
— Titanium (Imperial Chemical Industries,
Ltd.), 552*
— Two-Stage, for Production of Press Tools
from Epoxide Resins, 404
— for Water Turbines (Trade Publication), 563 Castle Donington Power Station, Centrifugal
Pump with 75,000 Gallons per Minute Capacity for (Worthington-Simpson, Ltd.), 214*; Scaffolding Technique for Cooling Towers at (Mills Scaffold Co., Ltd.), 287 Castlecary Station, Railway Accident of Edinburgh-Glasgow Express Train at (1937), 598
Catalogue, British Diesel Engines, by D. S. D. Williams (Book), 755
— of British Museum, 783
— of Engineering Books, 83
— of journals in Microfilm Form, 371
— of Librairie Dunod, 499
— of Librairie Polytechnique Ch. Beranger, 149
— of Macmillan Co. (New York), 149
?— of Parker Gallery on Maps and Charts, 821
— of Reference Materials (Book), 17
— of Second-Hand Books, 119
— of Ship Models in Glasgow Art Gallery and
Museum (Review), 754
— See also Trade Publications
Catapult, Steam, at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford, 53
Catchment, Predicting Peak Rate of Run-Off from, 311
— Rainfall and Flood Discharges in, Self
Registering Rain and Flood Gauges in Observations of, by T. J. Mulvany, 375* Caterpillar Tractor Co., New Factory Under Construction at Glasgow, 542*
Cathedral, St. Basil, Moscow, 354*
Cathode Ray Oscilloscope, Introduction to, by H. Carter (Book), 148
— Tubes, Cold, on GRACE Equipment for
Telephone Exchanges, 722*
Cathodic Corrosion Control, Ltd., “ CX 3 ” Cast Lead-Alloy Anodes for Cathodic Protection, 331*
Cathodic Protection, “ CX 3 ” Cast Lead-Alloy Anodes for (Cathodic Corrosion Control, Ltd.), 331*
— — Ships, Piers, etc., Zinc-Alloy “ C-
Sentry ” Anodes for (Imperial Smelting Corp., Ltd.), 583
Cauldon Low Cement Works, Semi-Dry Process at, 535*; Description of, 535*. See LETTER, 582
C.A.V., Ltd., Water-Cooled “ U ” Size Injector Nozzle and Holder, 377*
Cavitation in Water Tunnel at Pennsylvania State University, 79*
CCITT. See Telephony, International Consultative Committee on
Cellulose, Phosphorylated, Use in Recovery of Thorium from Monazite Ore, 559
Cement, Asbestos, Pressure-Moulded Rainwater, Soil and Flue-Pipe Fitments of (Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 429
— and Concrete Association, Swedish, Sym
posium on Bond and Crack Formation in Reinforced Concrete (Stockholm), 122; Symposium on Concrete Shell Roof Construction (London), 122
— High-Temperature “ Brimor ” (Brochure)
(Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd.), 181; (Trade Publication), 625
— Making and Allied Machinery, Exports of,
from Various Countries, 302*
Machinery, Principal Manufacturing Companies, 302
Machinery, Production of, by F. L. Smidth and Co., A/S, 302*
— Market, Effect of Free Trade Area on, 302 Cement Marketing Co., Ltd., Cauldon Low
Cement Works. 535*
— Prices and Duties, 302
— Production Statistics for European Coun
tries, 302*
— Works, Cauldon Low, 535. See LETTER,
582
— See also Concrete
Cementation Co., Ltd., Work on Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 35*; Work on Kariba Hydro-Electric Project, 221*; Shaft Sinking and Driving of Galleries at Newman Spinney, 763*; Position and Prospects of, 806
Cementation (Muffelite), Ltd., Machine Foundations, 70, 165. See also Vol. 183. See LETTER, 103, 166
Census of Production for 1958, Requirements of, 472
Centenary of Creation of British Columbia as Crown Colony, 463
— Round Oak Steelworks, 86*
— of Siemens Regenerative Furnace, Note on,
489
— See also Bicentenary
Central Electricity Authority, Alternative Electricity Supplies, 93; Castle Donington Power Station, Centrifugal Pump with 75,000 Gallons per Minute Capacity for (Worthington-Simpson, Ltd.), 214*; Appointment of Sir C. Hinton as Head of Central Electricity Generating Board, 230; Forthcoming Retirement of Lord Citrine from Board of, 230; Proposal for Nuclear Power Station at Trawsfynydd, 255; Future Plans of, 343; Experiments in Underground Gasification of Coal, 367; 300-MW Pumped-Water Storage Installation at Blaenau Ffestiniog, 367*; Contract for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, 380*; Annual Report and Accounts, 414; Research in Connection with Clean Air Act, 414; Survey of Dust Deposition, 414; 132-kV Circuit Line Over River Ribble, 447; High-Voltage Power Interconnection with Electricite de France, 478; 240-MW Meaford “B” Power Station, 501*; Examination of Possible Use of Air-Cooling Towers for Power Stations, 733; Replacement of, by Electricity Council, 743; Achievements of, 743; Accident Prevention in Troughed Belt Conveyors, by A. A. Beckingsale (Booklet), 807. See also Power Stations
Generating Board, Appointment of Sir C. Hinton as Chairman, 220, 230; Organisation and Policy of, 743; Regional Directors Appointed, 743
— Office of Information. See Information,
Central Office of
— Technical institute T.N.O., Holland,^Plant
for De-Salting Brackish Water for ~ ing, for Tobruk, 468*
Centre d’Etudes et Recherches des bonages de France, Research on lurgical Coke from Lorraine Coals, 584 Centrifugal Pumps. See Pumps Centrifuge, Disc-Type, “ Nozlejector,” for High-Viscosity Fuel Oils (Sharpies Centrifuges, Ltd.), 330
— Exhibited at Engineering Exhibition, 330*
— Floating Drag, for Marine Service (Sharpies
Centrifuges, Ltd.), 330*
— “ Turbomatic,” for Clarifying Coolants
(Alfa-Laval Co., Ltd.), 586*
Centro Informazioni Studi Esperienze, Activities of, 787
Centromor (Warsaw), Earth-Boring “ Mole,” 120*
Ceramic and Hard-Facing Alloy Spraying, “ ThermoSpray ” Process for (Metallizing Equipment Co., Ltd.), 331*
— Heat-Exchangers, Proposal for, 220
— Industries, Machinery for (Trade Publica
tion), 307
— Low-Firing-Temperature, Development of,
by Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern), 552
— Nuclear Fuel, Thermal-Breeder Nuclear
Reactor with, 253
— ?—? Fuels, Trend in Development of, 253
— Tools, Bibliography on, 119
Cermet Fuel Elements for Nuclear Reactors, 827
— Nuclear Fuels, Trend in Development of,
253
CERN. See Nuclear Research, European Organisation for
Chain Conveyor, Drag, for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Constantin (Engineers), Ltd.), 536*
— Drives (Trade Publication), 149 Chambers of Commerce, British, Association
of. Report on European Free Trade Area, 462
— of Commerce, British-Swedish, in Sweden,
Year Book 1956-1957, 371
Chandos, Lord, on Position and Prospects of Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., 295; Laying of Foundation Stone of Ten-Year Development Programme of Birlec, Ltd., 517
Change-Speed Gear. See Gear Channel Cable, Approval of, by Minister
Power, 478 as Link for Power Supply Systems
France and Britain, 368
— Ports, New Motor Road to. Discussion
Parliament on, 671
Chantry, G. M., on Position and Prospects of
Tan Sad, Ltd., 772
Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station, Contract for Cables for, to W. T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., 158; Model of 80-ft. Steam-Raising Tower or Heat Exchanger for (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 269*; and Plutonium Plant, Model of, 269*
Chapelcross Nuclear Reactors, 253* Chapman, Dr. W. A. J., on Libraries in
Technical Colleges, 721
Charger, Battery, and Engine Heater, Combined, “ Peregrine ” (Trade Publication), 403
— Call, on GRACE Equipment for Telephone
Exchanges, 722*
Charging and Routing Equipment, Group (GRACE), for Telephone Exchanges, 722* Charing Cross, Substation Replacement_ at (Hackbridge and ” ' '
Ltd.), 510* Charrold, Ltd., Coal
with Automatic 146*
Charts, Business, by T. G. Rose (Book), 657
— of Definition of Objectives in the Achieve
ment of Manned Space Flight (General Dynamics Corporation), 802*
— and Maps, Catalogue of Parker Gallery on,
821
— Wall, Continuous, “ Rotadate ” (Adapta
Charts, Ltd., 829
“ Movigraph ” (Trade Publication), 307 Chartered Institute of Patent Agents. See Patent Agents, Chartered Institute of
Chassis, “ Aberdonian,” for Buses and Coaches (Albion Motors, Ltd.), 211 *
Chateau de Versailles, Sound Control Room at, 440*
Chatham Dockyard, Management Training Courses at, 831
Chatillon, Nuclear Research Centre of Commissariat a I’linergie Atomique, 189
Chatwin, T., and Co., Tools and Cutters (Trade Publication), 149
Chatwood Milner, Ltd., Launcher for Bristol- Ferranti “Bloodhound” Guided Missile, 424
Chemical and Allied Industries, Aluminium Welding in, by W. A. Gardner and T. J. Peake, 11
Plant, Titanium in. Exhibition on (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 107
— Analysis. See Analysis
— Combustion as Space Flight Propulsion
System, 802*
— Engineers, American Institute of. Prelimi
nary Announcement of 1958 Nuclear Congress, 219
Institution of. Conference on Organisation of Chemical Plant Construction Projects, Preliminary Announcement, 586; Problems in Design of Pressure Vessels for Calder Hall Type of Nuclear Reactor, by R. W. Lakin, 732
— Engineering, Canadian Journal of. Take
Over of Canadian Journal of Technology, 149
in Coal Industry, by F, W. Sharpley (Book), 755
— ?— Practice, Vol. 3, Solid Systems, by H. W.
Cremer and T. Davies (Review), 820
— Factories, Electrical Engineering in. Safety
in (Booklet), 337
— Industry, Capital Expenditure in, 104 Heavy, Welding Problems, by M. E.
Pool and Dr. P. T. Moore, I I
Machinery for (Trade Publication), 307 Measurement and Control in, by J.
Hengstenberg, B. Sturm, and O. Winkler (Review), 212
— — Petroleum, Expansion of, 806
Society of. Appointment of W. E. Dick as Editor of Chemistry and Industry, 30
?— — Welding of Nickel and High-Nickel Alloys for, by J. Hinde, 11
— Institute of Canada, Publication of Cana
dian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 149
— and Petroleum Engineering Industries,
Exhibition on, Preliminary Announcement, 586
— Plant, “ Butyl,” “ Hycar ” Ebonite and
“ Hypalon ” for Lining of (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 584
— — “ Cobex ” Rigid Vinyl Sheet for (BX
Plastics, Ltd.), 583
Construction Projects, Organisation of. Conference on. Preliminary Announcement, 586
Manufacturers’ Association, British Exhibition on Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Industries, Preliminary Announcement, 586
— Process Economics in Practice, by J. J,
Hur (Book), 437
Engineering, Applications of Fluid Mechanics and Head Transfer to, by J. M. Kay (Review), 594
— Processing Contracts, United States Atomic
Energy Commission, Conditions of, 125
— Production by “Pechiney” (Cie. de Pro
duits Chimiques et Electrometallugiques), 105
Chemical Research Laboratory (Teddington),
Work and Organisation of, 559; Recovery of Thorium from Monazite Ore, 559; Ion- Exchange Resin Membrane Process for Recovery of Uranium from Ore Leach Pulp, 559; Circulation Equipment for Studying Corrosion and its Prevention in Flowing Water, 559; Corrosion of Mild- Steel Tubes in Scotch Marine Boilers, 559; Work of Organic-Chemistry Section, 559 Chemistry of Corrosion. See Corrosion Chemistry and Industry, Appointment of W. E.
Dick as Editor of, 30
— The New, Note on Book on, 783
— Pure and Applied, International Union of.
International High Polymer Conference, Preliminary Notice, 327
Cheradame, R., Coal Science Lecture, and
Award of Coal Science Medal to, 584 Cherns, A. B., on Social Factors in Training
Royal Air Force Boy Entrants, 384 Children, Cultural Exchanges for, 448
— Intelligence and Environment in. Experi
ments on, by Dr. S. Wiseman, 384 Chillerton Down Television Transmitting
Station, Equipment for, 425 Chimpanzees, Exhibition of Paintings by, at
Institute of Contemporary Arts Gallery, Comment on, 416
China Clay, Cornish, Lithium in, 828
— Machine-Tool Exports to. Comment on, 231
— Need to Import Electric and Diesel Loco
motives, 262
— Technical and Diplomatic Mission from, 622
— Trade with. Position and Prospects of, 231 Chinon, EDF-I Nuclear Reactor to be Built
at, 190
Chipping of Hand Hammers in Service, by
A. H. Burn, 48*. See LETTER, 487 Chivers, W. E., and Sons, Ltd., Contract for
Construction of Main Buildings of Rutherford High Energy Laboratory for National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science 827
Chlorine Production by “ Pechiney ” (Cie. de Produits Chimiques et Electrometal- lurgiques), 106
Christopherson, Prof. D. G., on Economics, Sociology and Philosophy in Engineering, 353
Chromatography, Gas-Liquid Partition, Application to Analysis of Standard Samples of Organic Products, 559
Chromium and its Alloys, Metallurgy of, by M. J. Udy (Book), 148
Churchill, C., Position and Prospects of, 337 Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd,, New Factory at Blaydon-on-Tyne for Production of Gear Hobbing Machines, 473*
Churchman, Dr. A. T., on Structural Effects in
Solids of Nuclear Induced Gas, 90
Cie. de Produits Chemiques et Electrometal- lurgiques. See “ Pechiney ”
C. I.M.A., Preliminary Notice of International
Conference, 1959 (Germany), 818 Cinema Film. See Film
— Projector, 450-X, with Mazda XE D 2-kW
Xenon Lamp (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 680*
Circuit Breaker. See Switchgear
— Equivalent, Application to Induction
Motors, by D. J. Rowley, 405*
— Firing, Testing of, Photo-Electric “ Safety ”
Ohmmeter for (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 585*
— Industrial Electronics, by R. Kretzmann
(Book), 437
— Line, 132-kV, over River Ribble, 446*
— Printed, Techniques, Application to Design
of Microwave Components, by J. M. C. Dukes, 782
— Transmission, by E. M. Williams and J. B.
Woodford, Jr. (Book), 148
— See also under Electric Circulating Pumps. See Pumps Circulation Equipment for Study of Corrosion
and Its Prevention in Flowing Water, 559 Cisler, W. Lee, at World Power Conference, 21 * Citrine, Lord, Forthcoming Retirement from
Board of Central Electricity Authority, 230 Citroen Motor-Car Transmission Systems, 477
— Small Motor-Car Production by, 590 Citroen Cars, Ltd., “ DSI9 ” Motor-Car, 572* City of London, Earnings and Role of. Discussion on,752
Civil Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Engineers Diary, 1958, Collins (Book), 820
Civil Engineers, Institution of :
Exhibits at Conversazione, 12
Discussion of Non-Membership of George Stephenson, 102.* See LETTER, 165
Telford, Thomas, Eirst President, 102 Symposium on Flames and Industry, Preliminary Notice, 369
Change of Form in Proceedings, 40.3 Presidential Address by Sir A. Whitaker, Plea for Competitive Tendering in, 650
Symposium on Highway Needs of Great Britain :
Relative Priorities in Constructing New Roads and Improving Existing Thoroughfares, by J. Drake, 667
Enhanced Safety of Motorways, by Dr W. H. Glanville and Dr. R. J. Smeed, 667
Elimination of Long-Term Parker from Business and Shopping Areas, Remarks on, by R. Nicholas, 667 Conference on British Highway Problems: Discussion in Parliament on, 799
Graham Clark Lecture on Management and the Engineer, by Sir E. Smith, 776. See also 769
Civil Engineers of Ireland, Institution of. Se« Ireland, Civil Engineers of
— — Shortage of, 159
— Engineering and Building Contractors
Overseas Work, 383
— — Catalogue of I3ooks on, 721
Construction, Works of, Conditions of Contract for, 383
Civil Engineering Feature at Brussels World Fair (1958), 515*
Ghost of a Tangerine, by J. Tinclair (Book), Note on, 51
Industry, Oil-Industry’s Expansion Effects on, 231
in Military Installations, Exhibition on, 5*
Problems in Exploration of Sahara, 770* Telford’s Work in, 162*
•— — Work in British Railways Modernisation
Plan, 599
— Servants, Institution of Professional, Activi
ties of, by S. Mayne, 165
—? — Plain Words on Criticisms of, 578 Technical, Treasury’s Attitude to, by S.
Mayne, 256
— Service Commissioners, Annual Report, 64
— — Effect of Government Wage Policy on,
640
? Poor Recruitment for, 64
Transfer of Officers from, to United
Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Discussion in Parliament on, 671
?—? — Transfer of Staff to United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 480
“ Civil Victor ” Airliner (Handley Page, Ltd.), 293
Civilisation, Leading Article on, 161 Cladding, External, of Rolls, Shafts, Tubes and
Drums with Stainless Steel (Rose, Downs and Thompson, Ltd.), 358
Clamp, Magnetic Powder (Enims), 616 Clamping-Arms, Hydraulic, for Attachment to
Normal Lift Truck for Handling Cartons (Proctor and Gamble), 205
Clariflocculator, Dorr, for Gas Cleaning Plant for Rhodesian Iron and Steel Co. (Pty.), Ltd. (Head Wrightson and Co. S.A. (Pty.), Ltd.), 614
Clark Equipment Co., Interest in I.T.D., Ltd., 273
Clark, F., on Training of Welders, 73 Clark, Graham, Lecture on Management the Engineer, by Sir E. Smith, 776. also 769
Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd., Boilers
Goldington Power Station, 249; Underwater Light Fittings, 271 *
Class Maschinenfabrik, Gebr., Order for Perkins “ L.4 ” Diesel Engines, 646
Classification of Atomic Energy Data, Comment on, 34
— Subiect, National Advisory Council for
Aeronautics, Method of Co-ordinate Indexing Based on, by J. Rosser, 755
Clausen, H., on Control of Machine Tools, 550; on Design in Engineering, 708
Clay, Cornish China, Lithium in, 828
— Embankments, Study on Strength of, for
Hanningfield Waterworks Scheme (Soil Mechanics, Ltd.), 509
— Fire. See Refractory Materials
Clay, Sir H., on Using Consulting Engineers, 103
— Landslides in, by A. Collin (Review), 336
— Testing, Syllabus of, by T. A. Klinefelter
and H. P. Hamlin (Book), 657
Clayton, James, Lecture on Miniature Motor- Car Production, by D. Ing. D. Giacosa, 518
Clayton, James, Lecture on High-Pressure Hydraulic Power Transmissions, by Dr. H. Thoma. 779*
Clayton Safeguard, Ltd., “ Safeguard ” Wiring System (Trade Publication), 403
Clayton, Son and Co., Ltd., Demonstration of Jet Burners Applied to Lap Welding of High-Quality Large-Diameter Steel Tubing, 184
Clean Air Act, Application of, Coke-Burning Appliances Handbook on, 684
Act, Fuel Research Station to Assist in Administration of, 623
Act, Research in Connection with, by
Central Electricity Authority, 414 Council, Activities of, 191 Cleaners, Air (Trade Publication), 657
— Air, “ Cycoil Type P ” Oil-Bath Intake
(Trade Publication), 657 Cleaning Boilers, Methods of (Bulletin), 796
— Flame, Steelwork for Painting, Cinema Film
on, 155
— Hands in Works and Office, “ Kerocleanse ”
Creams for (Scientific Pharmacals, Ltd.), 602
— Plant, Gas, for Rhodesian Iron and Steel Co.
(Pty.), Ltd. (Head Wrightson and Co., S.A. (Pty.), Ltd.), 614
— Scheme for Industrial Operatives’ Overalls
(Sketchley Cleaners and Dyers), 620
Clerks in Local Government Offices, Proposal for Simplification of Grading System, 128 Cleveland Twist Drill (G.B.), Ltd., “ Mo-Max ” and “ Mo-Max Cobalt ” High-Speed Molybdenum Steel Ground Tool-Bits, 634
Climatic Influences as Basic Concept in Air Conditioning, by T. H. Urdahl, 46
— Laboratory of Aircraft Equipment Division
of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655
— Test Chamber, in Climatic Laboratory of
Aircraft Equipment Division of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655
— See also Meteorological
Climax Engine Manufacturing Co., Amalgama
tion with Waukesha Motor Co., 647 Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Works, Ltd.,
Sand Ramming (Trade Publication), 149; “ Maxam ” Pneumatic Valves and Cylinders (Trade Publication), 499
Clinker Breaker for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers), Ltd.), 536*
Clock for Iridium Decay Readings (Gamma
Rays, Ltd.), 270 ?— Speaking, Service, 435 Closing and Filling Machines for Food Can
ning, 387*, 388* Clothing, for Heat Protection, 345*
— Industry Development Council, Women’s
Measurements and Sizes (Report), 216 Cloud and Rain Formation, Physical Processes
Underlying, Measurements of, by R. J. Murgatroyd, 365
Cloud Seeding Experiments in Australia, by W. Machlin, 365
Cluster Block of Maisonettes at Bethnal Green, 753*
Clutch, Automatic, Hydrak, for Mercedes Motor Cars, 286*
— Fluid-Friction (Self-Changing Gears, Ltd.),
265
— Motor-Car, Centrifugal, Newton, Use of by
Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 573
Electromagnetic Powder (Smiths), 573*
?— One-Way (Borg-Warner, Ltd.), 469* Clydebank, Unemployment Statistics in, 63 C.N.S. Instruments, Ltd., Platinum-Resistance Thermometer for Temperatures up to 1,200° C., 713*
CO^. See Carbon Dioxide
Coach and Bus Chassis, “ Aberdonian ” (Albion Motors, Ltd.), 211 *
?— Railway. See Carriages
— “ Routemaster ” for London Transport
Executive Adaptation to Green Line Routes, 574*
Coachbuilding Industry in Italy, Expansion of, by G. Wilkins, 674*
Coal Board, National. See National Coal Board
— Delivery, Use of Bulk Lorry with Automatic
Bagging Plant at Rear (Charrold, Ltd.), 146*
— Dust Precipitators at National Coal Board’s
Phurnacite Plant at Aberaman (Simon- Carves, Ltd.), 1 3
— Gas. See Gas
— Gasification Plant in Russia, 410
of. Underground, for Electricity Generating Experiments, 367
—? Handling Plant for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Crushing and Screening Engineering, Ltd.), 536*
— Industry, Capital Investment in, by National
Coal Board, 63
— Industry, Chemical Engineering in, by
F, W. Sharpley (Book), 755
— Lorraine High-Swelling, Metallurgical Coke
from. Research on, 584
— Mine Roofs, “ Roofmaster ” Self-Advanc
ing Hydraulic-Powered Supports for (Dowty Mining Equipment, Ltd.), 178* See also Colliery
— Mining Industry, Achievements of, by J. E.
Ridley, 32
— —• Industry, Effects of Absenteeism on, 384 See also Off-Shore Boring
— Off-Shore Boring for, 136*
— Output of Member Firms of European Coal
and Steel Community, 6
— Prices, Increase in, 7
— Resources and Consumption of, 342*
— in Sahara, Production and Deposits, 770*
— Saved by Nationalised Gas and Electricity
Industries, 127
— Science Lecture of British Coal Utilisation
Research Association, by R. Cheradame, 584
• Medal Awarded to R. Cheradame, 584
— Supplies for Ince Power Station, 534* ?—? — Position and Prospects of, 199
— Tar Products, Hydro-Refining of, 205 Research Association, Hydro-Refining
of Coal-Tar Products, 205
— Transport by Pipeline, Experimental Project
in Ohio, 199
— Underground Gasification of, at Newman
Spinney, Work on, 761 *
— ?—? Gasification of. Recent Developments in,
by C, A. Masterman, 761*
— Utilisation Research Association, British:
Coal Science Lecture, by R. Cheradame, 584; Award of Coal Science Medal to R. Cheradame, 584
Coast Lines, Position and Prospects of, 454 Coastal Erosion, Application of Radioactive Isotopes to, 794
Coating, Anti-Friction, by “ Progreg ” Treatment (Progrega, Ltd.), 597
— Metallic, Apparatus for Production of
(Edwards High Vacuum, Ltd.), 781
?—? — Thin, Bismuth Oxide in, 781 Thin, Gold in, 781
— Molybdenum Disulphide Bonded, 645
— Tin, Recent Developments in, at Tin
Research Institute, 205
“ Cobex ” Rigid Vinyl Sheet for Chemical Plant (BX Plastics, Ltd.), 583
Coblans, H., on New Methods and Techniques for Communication of Knowledge, 83
Cockburns, Ltd., Industrial Valves (Trade Publication), 657
Cockcroft, Sir J., on Place of Metallurgical Development in Atomic Energy Programme, 91; on Use of Radioactive Isotopes, 413; on Need for Development of Faster Digital Computers, 557; on Welding in Nuclear Engineering, 584 Cockerill-Ougree Ironworks, S.A., Licence Agreement to Manufacture and Sell Nuclear Reactors Developed by Westinghouse Electrical International Co., 348 Codes of Practice, Standard. See Standards Cohen, C., on Budgetary and Costing System of George Cohen, Sons and Co., Ltd., 326 Cohen Committee on Prices, Productivity and Incomes, Comment on, 135, 193, 288 ; Recommendation on Meeting with, by Trades Union Congress, 800
Cohen, Sir E., Remarks on Need for More Precise Time Schedule on Tariff Disarmament, 557; Remarks on Negotiating Problems for Free Trade Area, 557
Cohen, G., 600 Group Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 337
Cohen, G., Sons and Co., Ltd., Annual Report, 326
Coils, Transformer, Winding of, at Metro- politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Wythenshawe, 795*
Coke-Burning Appliances Handbook, 684
— Metallurgical, from Lorraine Coals, Re
search on, 584
— Oven Production, Future Plans for, 131 at Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles, Ltd,,
133*
Cold Heading of Steel, Bibliography on. Note on, 563
All
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
Cole, E. K., Ltd., Radar Beam Set for “ Fireflash ” Air-to-Air Guided Weapon System, 252
Cole, S., Appointment as Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, 506
Coles, C. G., on Road Skidding Resistance, 286 Colgate, S. A., on Direct Conversion of Nuclear Energy into Electricity, 446*
Collars, Thrust, “ Orkot ” (United Coke and Chemicals Co., Ltd.), 358
Collective Bargaining in United States (Publication), 704
College. See Education Colliery, Ballingarry, 488
— Lighting. See Safety Lamps
— Management in, 363
— Managers, Training of, 363
— Mine Rescue Equipment, Diesel-Electric
Portable Winding Engine for National Coal Board, 617*
— in South Yorkshire, Report on Hungarian
Workers in, 352
— Winding. See Winding
— See also Mines; Coal
Colligan, G. K., on Hardening of Rail Ends, 10 Collins Civil Engineers Diary, 1958 (Book), 820 Collins, W. H. A., on Testing of New Engine Types to Assess Reliability, 729
Collis, J., and Sons, Ltd., “ Rola-Veyor ”
Gravity Conveyor (Trade Publication), 149 Collisions. See Accidents
Colloidal Graphite Lubricant, “ Voler Drylube A,” for “ Reductol ” Scheme for Enclosed Gears (Revol, Ltd.), 489
Cologne International Spring Fair, 1958, Preliminary Notice, of, 684
Colombia-Southern Chemicals Co., Development of Rutile Deposits in Sierra Leone, 93
Columbus Apparatus for Thermonuclear Research, 156*
Colonies, Government Aid to, 159
Colour of Dials, 248
— Effect on Human Performance for Engineer
ing Designers, 438*. See LETTER, 740
Colquhoun, B., and Partners, Member of Consortium for Construction of Shipyard in Cuba, 620
Columbium in Iron and Steel, by R. A. Grange, F. J. Shortsleeve, D. C. Hilty, W. O. Binder, G. T. Motock, and C. M. Offen- hauer (Book), 820
Colvilles, Ltd., Four-Year Expansion Programme, 104; Role in General Plan for Steel Industry, 130*; Erection of New Works at Ravenscraig, 130*; Description of Ravenscraig Works, 133*; List of Contractors Engaged on Ravenscraig Works, 133
Combustion Chambers, Aero-Engine, Aerodynamic Factors in, by W. G. E. Lewis and M. V. Herbert, 143*
for Liquid-Propellent Rocket Engine, 101 for Russian Propeller-Turbine Aero Engine, 116
— Engineering Association, Activities of, 496;
Conference at Harrogate, Preliminary Announcement, 496
Combustion Equipment, Ltd., Furnace Baffles, 360
— Instability of, in Rocket Engines, 663
— Researches and Reviews, 1957 (Book), 279
— See also Explosions; Fuel; Gases
“ Comet 1 ” Airliner Pressure Cabins, Tests on, 727
Comet 3 ” Airliner (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 292
Comet 4 ” Airliners, Production Progress of (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 633
Comet 4C,” Announcement of (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 633
it
It
Comitato Nazionale Richerche Nucleari, Activities of, 787
Commerce and Industry, British Fair of (Manchester), Discussion in Parliament on Exhibits for, 831
— See also Trade
Commercial Motor Cars. See Motor
— Planning on a Systematic Basis: Rise of the
Business Economist, 810
Commerzbank, 7
Commissariat I’^nergie Atomique, Administration of, 188; Research Activities, 189 Commission Internationale d’Eclairage (C.I.E.), Activities of, 580
— Royal. See Royal Commission
Committee of Public Accounts, Report on Increased Cost of Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 226
Commodity Prices, Index of Downward Trend, 363
Commonwealth, Consultation and Co-operation in (Booklet), 6
?— Countries, Britain’s Relationship with, Discussion in Parliament on, 639
— Failure to Supply Adequate Capital for
Development Schemes, 81
— Finance Ministers, Proposed Meeting in
Ottawa, 81
— Government Aid to, 159 Investments in, 159
— Investment in, by United Kingdom, White
Paper on, 166
— Prime Ministers’ Conference, Comment on,
6, 81
— Quotations on (Leaflet), 6
— Scientific and Industrial Research Organisa
tion, Annual Report, 45
— Welding Conference, British. See Welding
Conference
— See also Australia, etc.
Communication, Control and—A Management Concept of Cybernetics, by Miss J Woodward, 38
— Electrical, Theory of Networks in, by F. E.
Rogers (Review), 180. See LETTERS, 325, 357
— Equipment, Developments Survey, by R. J.
Halsey, 435
— Exhibits at Business Efficiency Exhibition,
66*
— Future Possible Developments, by R. J.
Halsey, 435
— Possible Uses of Earth Satellites in, 486
— in Russia, 356*
Communists in Key Positions of Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, 32
Company Directors, Effects of Profits Tax on, 768
Plea for Increase in Remuneration Limit, 768
Companies, Diversification in, 359
— Forecasts of Prospects of. Note on, 337
— Industrial, Financing of. Problem of, 517
— Mergers, Importance of, 614
— in the News, 262, 295, 326, 390, 422, 454,
487, 517, 549, 581, 614, 646, 678, 710, 743, 772, 806
— Profits. See Profits
Comparator for Automatic Measurement of Pitch Errors of Fir-Tree Root Serrations in Gas-Turbine Discs, by L. W. Nickols, 372*
— Precision, for Small Cylinders, by Dr. J. C.
Evans and W. F. Atkins, 182*
Compensation for Compulsory Acquisition of Land, Bill for Improvements in Law Relating to, 703
— Workmen’s. See Workmen's Compensation
under Labour
Competitions for Power Operators (F. Perkins), 622
— for Sake of Competition, Remarks on,
by Sir G. Nelson, 622
— Selling by. Comment on, 622
Components, Electronic, International Symposium on, 503
Composing Machine, Office (Vari-Typer, Ltd.), 66
Composite Beams for Floor Construction (Mackey Bowley and Co., Ltd.), 600
Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives
— Stress. See Tests {Materials}
“ Compound ” Water Consumption Meter for Measuring Water Flows (George Kent, Ltd.), 712
Compressed-Air Equipment (Trade Publication), 657
Equipment, Cinema Film on, 84
Equipment, Rejuvenating Old Machines with (F. Braby and Co., Ltd.), 88*
Equipment, Trends in, 299*
Lines, “ Micro-Fog ” Lubricator for (Shipston Engineering Co., Ltd.), 299*
Safety and Health Regulations on, 224 Technique for Ice Free Waterways, 542 Tools. See Machine Tools
See also Pneumatic
Compression Pressures of Medium- and High- Speed Diesel Engines, “ Diestester ” Attachment for Checking (Trade Publication), 563
— and Shear, Prestressing Against, 245* Compressor, Air. See Air Compressor Computers, Analogue, Basic Electronic Units
for (Solartron Electronic Group, Ltd.), 630 Consulting Service of Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., 697
“ — in Helicopter Flight Simulator, 500* See also Digital Differential Analyser
— Bibliography on, 755
— Controlled Flame-Cutting Machine for
Steel Plate, 774*
— Digital, All-Purpose, A.P.E.X.C., 339* AH Purpose, A.P.E.X.C., Magnetic
Drum Store for, 339*
Applications (Trade Publication), 531 Application to Calculation of Crystal Structure, 341
Application to Designing Transformers, 340*
Application to Stock Buying Policy, 340* Consulting Service of Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., 697
DEUCE, at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough) (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 623
Electronic, Translation of Language by, 339
High-Speed Miniature, “ Leprechaun ” (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 15*
Need for Development of Faster, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 557
Non-Numerical, Commercial, Engineering and Scientific Applications by Dr. A. Both, 339*
— Electromagnetic (E.M.C. Mk. 1), Use for
Indicating Horse-Power Continuously and Other Applications, 528*
— Electronic, for British Railways, at Swindon
(Powers-Samas Accounting Machines, Ltd.), 617
General-Purpose, (British Tabulating 67*
“ Hollerith 550,” at Derby (British Co., Ltd.), 617
Use of, by Post Parliament on, 63
“Hec Type 1201” Machine Co., Ltd.),
for British Railways, Tabulating Machine
Office, Discussion in
?—? “ Mercury,” Memory Storage System in, Ferrite Cores for (Ferranti, Ltd.). 824*
— System for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope
(Dunford and Elliott, Ltd.), 37
— “ Twistor ” Magnetic Memory Storage
System for (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 824*
— Use in Calculation of Natural Vibration
Frequencies, 662
Computing Methods, Modern (Book), 498 Concessions, Tax-Free, Comment on, 620 Conciliation in Labour Disputes. See Labour Concrete Association, Norwegian, Symposium on Concrete Shell Roof Construction, 122
— Gamma-Radiography of, 12
— and Nuclear Radiation Shielding, Course
on, at Battersea College of Technology, 285
— Polystyrene Shuttering for, 89
— Prestressed, Foundations, Vibration-Resis
tant, by Dr. A. J. King, 261, 677. See LETTER, 550
Pressure Vessels for G2 and G3 Nuclear Reactors, 217*
— Reinforced, for Cluster Block of Maison
ettes at Bethnal Green, 753*
Design Calculations for, by Dr, J. R. Lawrence, 564*, 805, See LETTER, 644*, 677*, 708*, 804
Concrete, Reinforced, Early History of, 121 in Place of Steel for Buildings, Discussion in Parliament on, 191
Ring Beam for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (W. J. Whitlall and Son, Ltd.), 35
— Shell Roof Construction, Symposium on
(London), 122
— Symposium on Bond and Crack Formation
in (Stockholm), 122
— Use in Construction of Berkeley Nuclear
Power Station, 504*
Condensers, Jet, Possible Use of in Place of Surface Condensers at Power Stations, 733
— Surface, Possible Replacement by Jet Con
densers at Power Stations, 733
Conductors, Copper, Double-Angle Section, Current-Rating Tests on, by T. L. Richards, 823*
— Electric, Aluminium, on Overhead Trans
mission Lines, New Range of Accessories for (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 142* Conduit, Electrical, Fittings and Accessories, Non-Metallic Rigid Polyvinyl Chloride (Ega Electric, Ltd.), 583
— Underground, for Electrical Work, Investi
gation of, by Bell Telephones, by G. F. Weissmann, 115
Confederation of Health Service Employees, Overtime Ban in Mental Hospitals, 320; See Health Service Employees
Conference, Anglo-American Aeronautical. See Aeronautical under Aeronautics
— Annual, American Industrial Hygiene
Association, 793
British Institute of Management (Bournemouth), 649
Fire Brigades’ Union, 32
? Institution of Heating and Ventilating
Engineers, 46
—? — Institution of Production Engineers. See Production Engineers
National Union of General and Municipal Workers, 32
of Non-Manual Workers, on Need for Legislation to Improve Office Conditions, 800
of Work Study Department of Engineering and Allied Employers’ West of England Association, 416
— Association of Public Lighting Engineers
(Torquay), Traffic Signal Controller at (Siemens and General Electric Railway Signal Co., Ltd.), 421
— British Commonwealth Welding. See
Welding Conference
Electrical, Preliminary Announcement of, 515
— on British Highway Problems, Discussion in
Parliament on, 799
— British Institute of
Management
Nuclear Energy, Institute of Fuel to
Management. See
613; Admittance of Membership of, 613 —? Commonwealth Prime Ministers’, Comment on, 6, 81
— on Controlled Thermonuclear Research
(Princeton University), 606
— Cost, North Midlands Regional, Remarks
on Need for Higher Machinery Productivity, by W. Coutts Donald, 588
— Cotton Board, Negotiating Problems for
Free Trade Area, by Sir E. Cohen, 557
— and Exhibitions, Forthcoming, 126, 274,
398, 683, 727, 812
—• on European Free Trade, Remarks on, by A. Lucas, 719
— Federation of British Industries’ Scottish
Council on Exports and Overseas Sales Promotion (Gleneagles), 492
— on Fusion Reactions, Thermonuclear Con
trolled, Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell), 29
— Home Universities, Criticisms on Selection
of Students for Universities, 832
— on Implications of Free Trade Area, 397
— Inter-American Economic (Buenos Aires),
338
— International Atomic Energy Agency, 475 High Polymer (Nottingham) Preliminary
Notice, 327
on Operational Research. See Research, Operational, International Conference on. on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. See Atomic Energy
on Radio-Isotopes (Paris), 319
— on Library Services in Technical Colleges,
471, 721
— on Lubrication and Wear, Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, Preliminary Notice, 305
— on Materials for Nuclear Engineering, 90
— National, Between Industry and Technical
Colleges, 576 British Institute of Management, 736 Purchasing Officers Association (Folkestone), Selling Railways Service, by J. R. Pike, 492
— on Nuclear Fuel Cycles, Preliminary Notice,
731
— on Nuclear Fuel Element Fabrication, 759*
— on Nuclear Reactor Safety (New York), 606
— on Organisation of Chemical Plant Con
struction Projects, Preliminary Announcement, 586
— of Organisations Whose Members are in
Health Service, 640
— on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
(Geneva, 1958), Preliminary Announcement, 29; Exhibition at, 669
— on Plasma and Atomic Physics, 474*.
See Erratum, 506
— on “Research: A Signpost to Better Management,” Preliminary Details, 133
— on Research—Signpost to Better Manage
ment, 649
— on Use of Radioactive Isotopes, 413
— Welding, British Commonwealth. See
Welding Conference, British Commonwealth
— of Women’s Engineering Society, Remarks
on, by Miss H. Bailey, 736
— World Power. See World Power Conference Congress for Cybernetics, First International,
Note on Transactions of, 783
— and Exhibition, International, of Measuring
Instrumentation and Automation (Inter-
kama) (Dusseldorf), Preliminary Announcement, 273
Congress, International, of Applied Mechanics. Applied Mechanics
Astronautical (Barcelona). See Astro- nautical
on Combustion Engines. See Engines^ Combustion
— of International Commission on Irrigation
and Drainage, 287
of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (Madrid, 1958), Preliminary Announcement, 53
Management (Paris), 2*. See also I Navigation, Remarks by H.R.H, Duke of Edinburgh at, 59
— of International Scientific Film Association
(Amsterdam), Review of, 619
— Note on Value of, 213
— Nuclear (1958), Preliminary Announce
ment, 219
— Trades Union. See Trades Union Congress
under Labour
Connector, Heavy-Duty, Using Patent Contacts (Modern Acoustics, Ltd.), 807* Conoco Somal Ltd. (United States), Oil Prospecting in Somaliland, 63
Conrad Electrical Co., Purchase of by Peto Scott Electrical Instruments, 772
Conservation of Green Fodder, by C. Culpin, 368*
Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd., Pneumatic Vibrator for Foundry Core Boxes, 120*; Multi-Spindle Rigs for Tightening Large Number of Nuts Simultaneously, 264*; Power Vane Oil- Flooded Air Compressors, 300*; “ Hi- cycle ” Electric Impact Wrench, 491* Constantin (Engineers), Ltd., Blending System Equipment for Works, 536*; for Cauldon 536*; Pumps,
Airslides and Pumping Cauldon Low Cement Drag Chain Conveyor Low Cement Works,
Compressors and Two-Way Valves for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 536*
Construction, 287, 350*, 383*, 414, 440*, 477*, 506*, 540*, 598*, 667, 732*, 766*, 796*
— Tubular-Steel, for New Factory of Dunlop
Rubber Co., Ltd., 282*
Constructors, Ltd., Steel Shelving at Slough Paint Warehouse of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 62*
Consulting Engineers, International Federation of. Acceptance of Conditions of Contract for Works of Civil Engineering Construction, 383
Use of, by Sir H. Clay, 103
Consumer Advisory Council, Discussion in Parliament on, 831
— Council of British Standards Institution, 493
— Goods, Boom in, 111
Need for Standards in, 493
— Public Power District
Nebraska, Nuclear at Hallam, 730 Contacts, Electrical
Ltd.), 807* Physics of, by
(Review), 242
— Personal, Comment on, 307
Containers, Aluminium, Marking Machine for (Alite Machines, Ltd.), 648*
— Battery, “ Im-Plast ” Raw Materials for
Producing Hard Rubber for (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 711
Containment Problem for Thermonuclear Reaction, by Sir G. Thomson, 347* Contemporary Arts, Institute of, Exhibition of Paintings by Two Chimpanzees at, Comment on, 416
Contracts, for Chemical Processing, Conditions of United States Atomic Energy Commission. 125
— Conditions of, for Works of Civil Engi
neering Construction, 383
Contracting Industries, Unemployment in. Discussion in Parliament on, 703
Contractors' Plant, Canadian Imports of, from
United Kingdom and United States, 778* Controls, Choice of, for Human Performance, 308*
— Circuit for Test Bed for Development and
Proving of Diesel Rail-Car Sets, 652*
— and Communication—A Management Con
cept of Cybernetics, by Miss J. Woodward, 38
— Design of, 196*
for Human Performance, 308*
— Desk for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope
(Dunford and Elliott, Ltd.), 37
— Display Relationship, 308
— Equipment, Automatic, for 200,000-lb.
Cyclone-Fired Boiler at Kynoch Works of Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. (George Kent, Ltd.), 689
— Gear for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope
(Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 36
— Information and, New Publication, 243
— of Machine Tools, Magnetic-Tape for
(Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 491
— and Measurement in Chemical Industry, by
J. Hengstenberg, B. Sturm and O. Winkler (Review), 212
Control Panels, Boiler,
System for R.M.S. “ Design of, 195* • for RACO (Rapid
Over) Diesel Electric Unit (J.
McLaren, Ltd.), 553* for Test Bed for Development and
Proving of Diesel Rail-Car Sets, 652*
— Rods, Nuclear-Reactor. See Nuclear
Reactor Control Rods
— System in Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactors,
636
— Unit, Electronic, Thyratron, for Flame-
Cutting Machine (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 84*
— Valve Systems, 8-Bank Solenoid-Controlled
Pneumatic Packaged Unit for (Baldwin Instrument Co., Ltd.), 712*
Controllable Pitch Propeller Co., Model of
of Columbus,
Power Plant, 75-MW,
(Modern Acoustics,
F. Llewellyn Jones
for New Oil Fuel
Queen Mary,” 458*
Automatic Change- and H
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
xxi
Lips de Schelde peller, 264
Controllers, Electric Electric
— Flow, Automatic,
lication), 307
— Level. See Level
— Traffic Signal, 421
“ Convair ” Airliner, “ Eland ” Turbo-Propeller Engines for (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 710
“ Convair 340 ” Airliners, Conversion to “ Eland ” Propeller-Turbine Engines (D. Napier and Son, Ltd., and R.E.A.L. S.A. Transportes Aereos), 283*
Convention on Corrosion (London). See Corrosion Convention
?— Electrical Power, British. See Electrica Power Convention
Conversion of Inch and Metric Sizes on Engineering Drawings, 149
Converter Tube, Image, Infra-Red at Mullard Research Laboratories, 464
Conveying Equipment, Shale, for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Hugh Wood and Co., Ltd.), 536*
Conveyor, Belt, Drive Pulley, Self-Contained (Crofts (Engineers), Ltd.), 265
Guide, “ Guidler ” (British Wedge Wire Co., Ltd.), 120*
Terylene-Polyvinyl Chloride, Lightweight Non-Inflammable, “ Rilflex ” (Rubber Improvement), Ltd.), 679*
Troughed, Accident Prevention in, by A. A. Beckingsale, 807
— for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Hepburn
Conveyor Co., Ltd.), 536*
— Chain-, System, Overhead, “ Stanrun,” at
Slough Paint Warehouse of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. King, Ltd.), 62*
—? Drag Chain for Cauldon Works (Constantin (Engineers), Ltd.), 536*
— Furnace, “ Humpback,” 51-kVA, for
Sintering Powder-Metals (Sintering and Brazing Furnaces, Ltd.), 331*
— Gravity, “ Rola-Veyor ” (Trade Pub
lication), 149
— Limestone, for Cauldon Low Cement
Works (Mavor and Coulson), 535*
— Mobile (Trade Publication), 499
—• Passenger, “ Travolators,” at Bank Station, 288
?— Slat-, at Slough Paint Warehouse of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. (New Conveyor Co., Ltd.), 62
— Three-Dimensional, Stubbe, Agreement
between Metalastik, Ltd., and F. Stubbe Maschinenfabrik for Manufacture of, 330* Conway Bridge, Engineering Troubles on, 31
— Suspension Bridge, 164*
Cook, C. B., on Initiation of Explosion in Solid Secondary Explosives, 140
Cooker, Solar, Russian, 354*
Coolant, Choice of, in Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactors, 636
— Clarifying, “ Turbomatic ” Centrifuge for
(Alfa-Laval Co., Ltd.), 586*
— Magnetic Separator for (Rapid Magnetic
Machines, Ltd.), 13*
Cooler, “Fuller” Double-Pass Grate-Type, for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Vickers- Armstrongs (Engineers), Ltd.), 536*
— for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Air
craft Establishment (Bedford), 54*, 56* Cooling, Effusion, Applications and Methods of, 314*
— Flow Required by Radio Equipment in
High-Speed Aircraft, Measuring Optimum, 261
— Hydrogen, Direct, of Rotor and Stator
Alternators (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 690*
— Towers Air-, for Power Stations, Exam
ination of Possible Use of, 733
? at Castle Donnington Power Station,
Scaffolding Technique for (Mills Scaffold Co., Ltd.,) 287
Induced-Draught, with “ All Film Flow ” Packing, Model of (Film Cooling Towers (1925), Ltd.), 332
Induced-Draught, for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56
Induced-Draught, for Rhodesian Iron and Steel Co. (Pty.), Ltd. (Head Wrightson Processes, Ltd.), 614
Packings, 332. See LETTERS, 520, 615, 676, 804
Cooper, J., on Communists in Key Positions of Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, 32
Cooper Roller Bearings Co., Ltd., Trunnion Roller Bearings for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 36*
Co-operative Electrical Research, Note on, 499
— Movement in United States, 768
— Selling, Discussion in Parliament on Promo
tion of, 831
— Societies, Position and Prospects of, 416 Co-Partnership. See Labour
Copper Conductors, Double-Angle Section, Current-Rating Tests on, by T. L. Richards, 823*
Copper/Copper Oxide Rectifiers, 565*
— Development Association, Current-Rating
Tests on Double-Angle Section Copper Conductors, 823*
— Industry, Uncertain Outlook for, 825
— Institute, Statistics of— Copper stocks, 552
— Prices, Impact of Fluctuations in, 772 Reduction, 363
Reduction, by Rhodesian Selection Trust, 12
—? — of. Trends in, 825
— Stocks, Statistics of, 552
— Tubes, Buried, British Standards Specifica
tions, 457
— Tubing and Fittings, Manufacture of
(Yorkshire Copper Works, Ltd.), 205
Copying Equipment, “ Unicop,” for “ Ravensburg ” Face Copying Lathe (Mortimer Engineering Co.), 681*
Corbett, R. H., and Co., Ltd., Fork Truck Attachments (Trade Publication), 563
Corby, Problem of Getting Balanced Community at, 512
Cord for Land-Measuring in Egypt, 419*
— Land-measuring Moon God with, 418*
— Nylon (British Ropes, Ltd.), 332
— Polyvinyl Chloride (British Ropes, Ltd.), 332
— Steel (British Ropes, Ltd.), 332
Core Boxes, Foundry, Pneumatic Vibrator for (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 120*
— Laminations, Transformer, Plates for, 795
— Making at Thames Foundry of Ford Motor
Co., Ltd., 701*
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory, A Decade of Research (Booklet), 595
Cornish China Clay, Lithium in, 828 Cornwallis, Lord, of Linton, on Position and Prospects of Albert E. Reed, 104
Coronet Cars, Ltd., Plastics-Bodied Three- Wheeled Open Motor Car, 146*
“ Corporal ” Long-Range Tactical Supersonic Guided Missile, 431
Correspondence, Training of Welding Technician and Engineer by, by R. M. Gooder- ham, 73
Corrosion, Anti-, Week, National, 230 —? Convention (London), 230; Fuel Additives in the Fight Against Corrosion, by Dr. B. J. Zaczek and Dr. R. Grindley, 825
— Exhibition (Royal Horticultural Society’s
Old Hall), 230, 583
—? Fuel Additives in Fight Against, by Dr. B. J. Zaczek and Dr. R. Grindley, 825
—? of Mild-Steel Tubes in Scotch Marine Boilers, 559
— in “ Nautilus ” Nuclear-Powered Sub
marine, 571
— and Its Prevention in Flowing Water,
Circulation Equipment for Study of, 559
— Resistant Paints, Zinc-Rich (Secomastic,
Ltd.), 583
Plastics Material, “ Keebush ” (Kestner Evaporator and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 583
Pressure Sensitive Tape, “ Lassovic PWG ” (Smith and Nephew, Ltd.), 583
Titanium Bi-Metal Plate and Tubes (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 583
— Study of, in Climatic Laboratory of Air
craft Equipment Division of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655
— by Sulphur in Flue Gases, Reduction of by
Metallic Additives in Combuition Zone, by W. J. Peck and Dr. B. J. Zaczek, 697*
— Tests. See Tests (Materials)
Cortelyou, E., on Bad Technical Writing, 645; Women Scientists and Engineers, 645
Cory Brothers, Extension of Oil-Storage Capacity, 390
Cosmic Particle, Helium Nucleus in, 220 Cosmotron, at Brookhaven, Device for Focusing Beams of Mesons Emitted from, 763*
Costs, Effect of Wage Increases on. Remarks on, by C. O. Stanley, 326
— Finding in Non-Ferrous Metals Industry
(Brochure), 457
— of Living in Germany, Increase in. Comment
on,832
— of-Living Index, Increase in, Comment on,
832
— of Nuclear Power Stations, 366
— and Works Accountants, Institute of.
North Midlands Regional Cost Conference: Remarks on Need for Higher Machinery Productivity, by W. Coutts Donald, 588 Costain, Sir R., on Position and Prospects of Richard Costain, Ltd., 71
Costain, R., Ltd., Annual Report, 71
Costain—John Brown, Ltd., Use of Rotary- Head Soil-Boring Machine, 85*; Acquisition by John Brown Group, 230
Costing and Budgetary System of G. Cohen, Sons and Co., Ltd., 326
— Methods in Russia, 460
Cotton Board Conference, Negotiating Problems for Free Trade Area, by Sir E. Cohen, 557
Cotton, T., Ltd., Painting of Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 37
Cottrell, Dr. A. H., on Point Defects and Mechanical Properties of Alloys and Metals at Low Temperatures, 793
Coulson, Prof. C. A., Chairman in British Broadcasting Corporation’s Discussion on Science without Experiment, 168
Council of British Manufacturers of Petroleum Equipment. See Petroleum Equipment, British Manufacturers of
— of Industrial Design. See Design, Industrial,
Council of
Counters, Design Data on, 247*
— Electronic Photocell, for Sacks of Fertiliser
(Electronic Machine Co., Ltd.), 209*
— for Measurement of Neutron Spectra, 254
— for Radiation Measurement of Mesonic
Atoms, 254
Coupe and Tidman, Ltd., Moulded Refractory Bricks for Type EDF Mark I Electric Die-Casting Furnace for Aluminium, 204 Couplings, Air-Hose, “ Instantair ” (Trade Publication), 403
— Flexible, Geared (Trade Publication), 657
— for 85-kW “ No-Break ” Alternator Set
Lister-Blackstone Group), 270*
— Magnetic, Use in Liquid-Level Control, 208
— See also Clutch
Courses in Middle Age, Plain Words on, 706 Court of Appeal’s Ruling on Night Watchman, 96
— of Law on German “ Second Breakfast,” 32 Court Line, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 678 Courtaulds, Ltd., Annual Report, 104;
Expansion in Artificial Textiles Production, 424; Man-Made Fibresand Engineers (Trade Publication), 625
Courtburn Positioners, Ltd., Automatic Welding Equipment for 20-Ton Cylindrical Vessels, 300
Cousins, F., Remarks on Government’s Intervention in Affairs of Industry, 832 Covent Garden Market Workers, Wage Dispute, 128
Covent Garden Market Workers, Strike of, 224 Coverings, Non-Conducting. See Heat Insulation
Covington, Dr. A. K., on Mass Transfer, 91 Cozens and Sutcliffe, Ltd., Work on Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 36
Crab Nebula, 34*
Crabtree, J. A., and Co., Ltd., Double-Pole Earth-Leakage Circuit-Breaker, 117*; Intermediate “ Lincoln ” Type Alternating Current Flush Switch, 684*
Crack and Bond Formation in Concrete, Symposium on (Stockholm), 122
?—? in Plate, Stresses in, by M. Rothman, 174*
— Propagation Test on Unstiffened Pressure
Cylinder, 407*
Cracking in Aircraft Pressure Cabins, Hoop Reinforcement for Limitation of, 727
— Creep, by Dr. W. Betteridge and A. W.
Franklin, 423
Metallography of, by Dr. D. McLean, 423
— Intercrystalline, during Creep, by B. J. Nield and Prof. A. G. Quarrell, 423
—? Stress-Corrosion, by W. D. Robertson (Book), 16
Craftsman, Portrait of, 428*
Craigellachie Bridge, 164*
Cranes, Level-Luffing, for Beck and Pollitzer, Ltd. (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 87*
— Mobile, Hydraulically Operated (Trade
Publication), 213
Crane Packing, Ltd., P.T.F. Seal for Type USL Self-Priming Pumps, 334
— 200-Ton Capacity, for Handling Completely
Wound Stators, at British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd.’s Larne Works, 666*
— See also Hoists
Cranfield College of Aeronautics, Study of Rocket Flight at, 101; Symposium on High Altitude and Satellite Rockets, 98*: List of Papers Presented, 100; Discussion on High-Altitude Research, 100; Exhibition of Rockets and Satellites, 101
Cranks, Design of, for Human Performance, 208*
Crankcase Explosions, by W. P. Mansfield, 303 in Marine Engines, by J. H. Burgoyne and D. M. Newitt, 303
Investigation into Factors Governing Selection of Protective Devices, by H. G. Freeston, J. D. Roberts, and A. Thomas, 303
— Oil-Mist Detector Unit, Photo-Electric, for
Diesel Engines, Graviner-B.S.R.A., 303* Crankpins, “ A HAC ” Automatic Grinding Machine for (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 742
— “ U HAC ” Automatic Grinding Machine
for (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 742*
Crankshaft Journals, “ U/HAC ” Automatic Grinding Machine for (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 742*
Crating Bottles, Machine for (Hambling Industries, Ltd.), 214*
Craven Bros. (Manchester), Ltd., High- Precision Screw-Thread Corrector Lathe, 537
Cravens Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Prototype Open-Plan Second-Class Railway Carriage, 541 *
Credit Squeeze, Effects of, 301
Creed and Co., Ltd., “ Model 75 ” Teleprinter, 66 Creed, F. G., the Late, 773
Creep, Cracking during, by Dr. W. Betteridge and A. W. Franklin, 423
during. Metallography of, by Dr. D. McLean, 423
— Effect of Grain-Boundary Sliding, by
H. Brunner and Prof. N. J. Grant, 423
of Grain-Boundary Sliding on, by Dr. D. McLean and M. H. Farmer, 423
— Intercrystalline Cracking during, by B. J.
Nield and Prof. A. G. Quarrell, 423
— Tests. See Tests (Materials)
“ Cresta ” Motor-Car (Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.), 572*
Crewe-Stoke-Derby Service, Diesel Railway Carriages, with 150 h.p. Engines for, 452*
Criticality in Chemical Plants, Definition of Term, 61
Crofts (Engineers), Ltd., “ Airflex ” Dynamometer for Fluid-Coupling Drive, 265*; “ Hydroflex ” Drive Incorporating Vane- Type Fluid Coupling, 265; Self-Contained Belt Conveyor Drive Pulley, 265
“ Cromp-Arc ” Lightweight Stud Welding Set (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 209*
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., Lightweight “Cromp-Arc” Stud Welding Set, 209*; Interest in I.T.D., Ltd., 273; Position and Prospects of, 743
Cromwell Curve Air Terminal, Construction of (Air Terminals, Ltd.), 127
Crop Conservation Practice, by J. R. O’Callaghan, 566*
— Green, Rotary Cutting and Loading
Machine for, 369
Crosby Valve and Engineering Co., Ltd., Masoneilan Variable-Displacement Liquid- Level Controllers, 209
Crose, M. J., Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Rotary-Head Soil-Boring Machine, 85*
Cross-Channel Cable as Link for Power Supply Systems of France and Britain, 368
Crowe, T. A., on Locomotive Orders, 773 Crowthorn Engineering Co., Ltd., Machine Tools (Trade Publication), 51
Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil Crushers for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 636 Crushing and Screening Engineering, Ltd., Coal Handling Plant for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 536*
Crystals, Ferrite, Methods of Producing at Mullard Research Laboratories, 464
— Ionic, Point Defects and Mechanical
Properties of, by Dr. P. L. Pratt, 792
— Lattice, Representation of, 723*
Crystal Palace Trade Fair Proposal, Discussion in Parliament on, 31
Ultra-High-Frequency Television Transmitter at, 718
— Structure, Calculation of. Application of
Digital Computer to, 341
Crystalline Hall in Government Pavilion at Brussels World Fair (1958), 515*
— Structure of Metals. See Micro-Photographs Cuba, Construction of Shipbuilding Yard in,
by British Consortium, 620
Cubit Rods, Royal, Egyptian, 419*
— Stone, Egyptian, 419*
—? Wooden, Assyrian, 419*
Egyptian, 419*
Culpin, C., on Green Fodder Conservation, 368*
Cultural Exchange for Children, Scheme for, 448
Culvert, Boring a. Use of Rotary-Head Soil- Boring Machine for, 85*
Use of Soil-Boring Machine at Staines, 85*
Cumulative Damage, Miner’s Law of, 237* due to Oscillating Stresses, 237* Cunard Steam Ship Co., Ltd., Government’s Voting Powers in, 159; New Oil-Fuel System for R.M.S. “ Queen Mary ” (John 1. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 458* Cunningham, Sir G., on Position and Prospects of Triplex Group, 390
Cupola, Hot-Blast, as Economic Unit, by J. Henderson, 85
Current, Electric. See Electric
Curtice, H., Reply to Plea for Reduction in Automobile Prices, 288
Curtiss-Wright Corp., Agreement with Orenda Engines, Ltd., for Building of “ Iroquois ” 20,000 lb. Thrust Supersonic Turbojet Engines, 454
“ Curved-F ” High-Speed Railway Switches for British Railways, 383
“ Cushymount ” Anti-Vibration Mounting for Bo-Bo Diesel Locomotive Engines (Metal- astik, Ltd.), 266*
Cutter Bar in Grass Mowing Machines, Problems of, 369
— Wire Rope, Portable (Tulloch Construction
Co., Ltd.), 13*
Cutting, Flame-, Fire Hazard of (Bulletin), 825
— Gas, Argonarc Process, Demonstration of
(British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 155* Linde Machine on Mobile Table, 472*
— and Heating Operations, Single-Stage
Regulator for (British Industrial Gases, Ltd.), 269
— and Loading Machine, Rotary, for Green
Crops, 369
— Oils, Sulphloid Series (Amber Oils, Ltd.), 73
— Steel up to 12 in. thick, “ Bison " Gas
Profiler Machine for (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 269*
“ ex 3 ” Cast Lead-Alloy Anodes for Cathodic Protection (Cathodic Corrosion Control, Ltd.), 331*
Cybernetics, International Congress on. Note on Transactions of, 783
—? Management Concept of Control and Communication, by Miss J. Woodward, 38
— Special Library List on, 17
Cycle Brakes, Report on, by Road Research Laboratory, 722. See LETTER, 740
—? Design of, 722. See LETTER, 740
— Dynamo Lighting Sets, Report on, by
Road Research Laboratory, 722
— Motor-Assisted, Tests on, by Road Research
Laboratory, Report on, 722
— Pedal, Tests on, by Road
Laboratory, Report on, 722
— Production Statistics of Raleigh
Ltd., No. 3 Factory, 524
— “ Reverse-Gear,” Note on, 17 Cyclic Pattern of Men and Their
Comment on, 801
Cyclone Furnace for 200,000-lb. Kynoch Works of Imperial Industries, Ltd. Ltd.), 689*
Cycoil “ Type P ” Oil-Bath Intake Air Cleaner (Trade Publication), 657
Cylinder, Diesel, Use in Free-Piston Gas Generator, 692*
— Engine, Wear and Lubrication of, 423
— Pneumatic, “ Maxam ” (Trade Publication),
499
— Ring-Stiffened, for Missile Structures, 430*
— Small, Precision Comparator for, by Dr.
J. C. Evans and W. F. Atkins, 182* Cylindrical Grinding Machine. See Grinding
Machine under Machine Tools
Cyprus, Sewage Disposal Works, 5
“ D600 ” Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive for British Railways (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 710, 773*. See LETTER, 773
Daily Herald, Publication of, by Odhams Press, Ltd., 160
Dalgleish, J., Remarks on Growth and Progress of Camp Bird, Ltd., 678
Dallow, Lambert and Co., Ltd., New Factory at Thurmaston, 477*
Dalmuir, Royal Ordnance Factory at. Transfer of, to Babcock and Wilcox, 549
Dam, Boulder, as Source of Low-Cost Power 342
— Dnieper, 342
— Kariba, Progress at, 221*
Damage to Buildings by Sonic Booms, Discussion in Parliament on, 703
— Cumulative, Miner’s Law of, 237*
due to Oscillating Stresses, 237*
Daniel, Dr. A. W. T., on Stress-Strain Characteristics of Granular Material, 45*
Daniel, Dr. G. H., at World Power Conference 23*
Danish Nuclear Reactor, D.R.3, 70-h.p.
Glandless Stainless-Steel Coolant Pumps for (Hayward Tyler and Co., Ltd.), 731
— See also Denmark
Darlington Railway Plant and Foundry Co., Ltd., Fabrication of Railway Track for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 35
Dartford to Purfleet Tunnel, Progress in Construction of, 799
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INDEX
Data Transmission System for Guided- Weapons Trials devised by Royal Aircraft Establishment, 261
“ Dauphine ” Motor-Car (Regie National Des Usines Renault), 476*, 589
Davey, Paxman and Co., Ltd., Annual Report, 168; Full-Way Valve for Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station, 348; RPHL and YHXL Series of Railway Diesel Engines (Trade Publication), 783
Davidson and Co., Ltd., Main and Auxiliary Fans for 200,000-lb. Cyclone Fired Boiler at Kynoch Works of Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 689 Davies, D. G., on Water Pollution, 739 Davison, C. St. C., on Origin of Foot-Measure, 418*
Davison Chemical Co., Plans for Production of High-Purity Silicon, 281
Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd., Strip Handling Equipment for Continuous Strip Annealing Plant at Velindre Works of Steel Co. of Wales, Ltd., 235; Expansion Programme for, 454
Daw, J. Ward, on Partnership and the Ideal Worker (Pamphlet), 32
Dawson, D., on Bursting Strength of Toughened Glass Discs, 591 *
Dawson McDonald and Dawson, Ltd., Fan- Cooled Oil-Free Air Compressor (Trade Publication), 821
Day, A., on Earnings and Role of City of London,752
“ D.C.3 ” Aircraft, Use in Geophysical Surveys, 281
DCTL Direct-Coupled Transistor Logic Circuitry in “ Leprechaun ” High-Speed Miniature Digital Computer, 15*
De-Acidifier for Fuel Oils (Sharpies Centrifuges, Ltd.), 330
Deakin, G. W,, on The Full Plastic Moment, 615. See LETTERS, 677, 740
Dean, B. C., on Selling by Cinema Film, 622 Dean Bridge, 164*
De-Bonding Rubber from Metal, Holmes- Andre Process (W. C. Holmes and Co., Ltd.), 679
de Breuvery, Father E. S., on Power for Underdeveloped Countries, 20
Decay Clock, Iridium (Gamma-Rays, Ltd.), 270
Decca “ Navigator ” and “ Deccometer ” Navigating Equipment for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663 Deccometer ” Navigating *'
“ Boston Vanguard ” (Decca), 663
Decimal Standards, Effect Area, 651
Decklights, Double-Glazed Polyester-Resin Moulded, “ Robertson Q-Deck ” 1
Publication), 531
Declaration of Common Purpose, by President Eisenhower and Rt. Hon. H. Macmillan, 545, 607
Declining Society, Leading Article on, 161 Defence, Expenditure on Research and Development for, 159
de Ferranti, Sir V., at World Power Conference, 23*; on Position and Prospects of Ferranti, Ltd., 168
Deflation in United States, Note on, 752 Degreasing of Metal by Trichlorethylene (Trade Publication), 625
de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., “ Firestreak ” Air-to-Air Guided Weapon, 259*, 822*; “Comet 3” Air Liner, 292; Announcement of “Comet 4C ” Airliner, 633; Production Progress of “ Comet 4 ” Airliners, 633; Strike at. Comment on 640 de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd., “ Gyron Junior ” Turbojet Engine, 290*; “Spectre” Rocket Engine, 290*; “Gyron Senior” Supersonic Turbojet Engine, 290 ;“Spectre” Rocket Engine in Saunders-Roe “ SR53 ” Experimental Interceptor Aircraft, 350; “ Gyron Junior” Turbojet Engine for “SR- 177 ” High-Altitude Supersonic Mixed- Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft, 537*; “Spectre” Fully-\ariable Thrust Rocket Engine for “ S-R 177”
Supersonic Mixed-Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft, 537* de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.,
Guided-Weapon System and Components, 349*; Order for Propeller Equipment for Turbine-Powered “ Canadair CL44 ” Airliner, 359
Dehydration of Meat, Apparatus for Studies of, 45
de la Rue, T., and Co., Ltd., Annual Report, 262; “Potterton COA-53 ” Oil-Fired Domestic Boiler, 684*
De Laval. See Laval; Turbine
Delhi State Electricity Board, Diesel Electric Generating Sets for (Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd., and Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 120
Deloro Stellite, Ltd., Uses of Stellite (Trade Publication), 149
Delta Wing, Narrow, 495*
Demag, A.G., Production of Mining Machinery and Equipment for Steelworks, 428*; Non-Ferrous Metal Plant, 428*; Market Problems, 428*; Range of Activities of, 429*; Foreign Agreements, 429
De-Misting of Gas Passing through Pipe, Gratings for (Knitted Mesh Manufacturing Co.), 151
den Hartog, Prof. J. P., Thomas Hawksley Lecture on Vibration: A Survey of Industrial Applications, 661
Denmark, Nuclear Reactor, Materials Testing, for (Head Wrightson Processes, Ltd.), 29
— See also Danish
Denny-Brown Ship Stabilisation System, 663 Density, Smoke, Detection and Recording
Equipment (Trade Publication), 403 Dentists, Remuneration of, Note on Royal
Commission on, 800
Derby-Crewe-Stoke Service, Diesel Railway Carriages with 150 h.p. Engines, for, 452*
— Works Training School, London Midland
Region of British Railways, 453, 462
Derbyshire Archaeological Society, Notes on the Engineering History of Derbyshire, by F. Nixon (Review), 242
— Engineering History of, by
(Review), 242
Derwent Valley Reservoir Project, in Parliament on, 127
De-Sa!ting Brackish Water for
Plant for, 468*
F. Nixon
Discussion
Drinking,
((
Equipment for Motor Trawler
of Free Trade
Glass-Reinforced , for Use in Roofs (Trade
High-Altitude
“ Firestreak ”
Desert, Sahara, Mineral Wealth of. Exploration of, 770
Design, 275*, 308*, 344*, 374*, 405*, 438*, 468*, 500*, 532*, 564*, 596*, 626*, 658*, 688, 722*, 756*, 784*, 814*
?— (Booklet) (Magnesium Elektron, Ltd.), Note on, 181
— Dynamic, Conditions for, 236*
— of Electronic Service Components and
Survey of Present and Future Developments, by G. W. A. Dummer, 503
— Engineering, Artists’ Impressions in, 546
— in Engineering, 650. See LETTER, 708
— of Equipment, Body Dimensions for, 197*
for Human Use, 195*
— Industrial, Council of. Management of
Design (Booklet), Comment on, 385; 12th Annual Report, 650
— Limited-Life, by Dr. J. A. Pope, B. K.
Foster, and Dr. N. T. Bloomer, 236*, 275*. See also 289
— of Machines, Application of Behaviour
Studies in, by C. B. Gibbs, 96
— Mechanical, for Electronics Production, by
J. M. Carroll (Review), 50
— Over-Insurance in, 289
— Product, for Automated Production, by D. L. Johnson, 38
Standardising, and Increasing Interchangeability, 427
— for Production in Russia, 411
— Registered, Act, 1949, Bill for Amending,
703
Definition of, 749
— in Russia, Criteria of, 411
— Ship, by L. Dunn, Comment on, 65
— in Structural Steel, by J. E. Lothers (Book),
625
Designers, Engineering, Data Performance for, by K. F. 194*, 247*, 308*, 344*, 438*. 453,740. See also 417
— Industrial, Remarks on, 385
— Soviet Engineer as, by E. P. Ward, 409* Designing to “ Fail Safe,” 276, 277
Desoutter Brothers, Ltd., Nut-Runners (Trade Publication), 149
De-superheating and Steam Pressure Reduction, “ Gordon ” Water-Spray for (Trade Publication), 499
“ DET 250 ” Diesel-Electric Powered Tractor, 324*
Detection and Measurement of Infra-Red Radiation, by R. A. Smith, F. E. Jones and R. P. Chasmar (Book), 437
DEUCE Electronic Digital Computer, Installation at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough), (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 623
Deuterium-Deuterium Fusion Reaction, 156
— Energy Content of, 29. See Erratum, 156
— High-Current Pinched Discharge in, 538*
— and Mu-mesic H Atoms, Cross-Sections for
Collisions Between, by Dr. 1. C. Percival and Dr. F. Haas, 475
— and Tritium Compounds, Bibliography of
Research on, 336
— Tritium Reaction, Reaction Rates for, 612* Deuterons, Displacing from Nuclei, Using
675-Me-V Protons, by M. G. Meshchery- akov and others, 763
Deutsche Bank, 7
?— Bundesbank, Exclusion of Export Drafts from Rediscount Facilities, 338
Deutz Diesel Engine, Air-Cooled, Type F1L612, for Generating Set (A. Kracko, Ltd.), 335
Development and Research, 280, 303*, 339*, 365*, 400*. 430*, 464*, 494*, 528*, 559*, 591*, 623*, 652*, 696*, 715*, 779*, 822* Budgeting for, 295 See also Research
Devonport Dockyard, Management Training Courses at, 831
Dewrance and Co., Ltd., Dewrance-Croft Lapping Machine for Maintenance of Valves, 333*; Monoway Valves for Pressures up to 3,000 lb. per . , ,
Small-Bore Steel Valves for Pressures up to 600 lb. per sq. in., 333
— Croft Lapping Machine for Maintenance
of Valves (Dewrance and Co., Ltd.), 333*
Dexta, Fordson, 32-h.p. Three-Cylinder Tractor (Ford Motor Co., Ltd.), 741 *
Dials, Colour of, 248
?— Design Data on, 247*
— Faces, Readability of, 247
— Pointers for. Arrangement of, 195*
for. Design of, 248
Diaphragm-Box Method of Level Control of Liquids in Open Vessels, 206*
— Bursting Discs, 210* Diary, Civil Engineers,
820
Dick, R. and J., Ltd., “ Resistant Plastic Belt, 711
Dick, W, E., Appointment as Editor of Chemistry and Industry, 30
Dickenson, J. H. S., Work on Creep and Creep Testing, 423
Dickinson, J., and Co., Ltd. Projection Drawing Board, 796
Dickson, A., on Idealism and Technical Assistance—Misgivings and Mistakings, 399
Dictaphone Co., Ltd., Four-Channel Magnetic “ Dictatape ” Speech Recording Machine, 67; Annual Report, 273; Servicing of Dictating Machines, 526
“ Dicta-Tape ” Four-Channel Magnetic Speech Recording Machine (Dictapone Co., Ltd.), 67
Dictating Machines, Servicing of (Dictaphone Co., Ltd.), 526
Dictation System, Emidicta Network (E.M.I. Sales and Service, Ltd.), 67
on Human H. Murrell, See LETTERS,
sq. in., 333;
1958, Collins (Book),
Dixylon-Suplex ” Oil- Power Transmission
Dictation by Telephone, Agavox Telediction System for (M. and L. Haycraft, Ltd.), 67* Dictionary of Nuclear Energy, 657
— Oxford English, Spelling of Propellent, by
E. H. Bateman
DIDO Nuclear Reactor, 29, 253*
Die Castings, Aluminium-Bronze (Trade Publication), 531
Furnace, Electric, Type EDF Mark 1, for Aluminium (Birlec-Morgan), 204* Pressure, Engineering Standards for (Brochure), 775
— Hard-Metal, Production from Soft Metal
Patterns, “ Model 473 ” Electro-Erosion Tool for, 411*
Diebold, J., Remarks at International Management Congress, 3; Work on Atitomation, 4 Diefenbaker, Rt. Hon. J. G., Remarks on United States Investments in Canada, 719 Diesel-Alternator Sets, 500-kW, for Hanning- field Waterworks Scheme, 509
— Drilling Units for Oilfields Operations
(Trade Publication), 149
— Engines. See Engines, Oil, Diesel; Marine
Propulsion
Car. See Carriages, Railway; Railway Train
“ Diestester ” Attachment for Checking Compression Pressures of Diesel Engines (Trade Publication), 563
Differential Pressure Transmitter, Diaphragm- Type, “ D P Cell ” (Foxboro-Yoxall, Ltd.), 207
Diffuser, Supersonic, for Mach 2-8 Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 55*
Diffusion and Point Defects in Metals and Alloys, by Dr. W. M. Lomer, 792
Digital Computer. See Computer
— Differential Analysers, Development of, at
Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough), 698*
Digging Machine. See Excavator
Dimmer, Lighting, Electronic (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 271*
DIMPLE Nuclear Reactor, 253*
Dinner, Annual British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Cancellation of, 418
— Formal, Plain Words on, 418
Diolpates, Cables Using, “Gulf” Range (Permanoid, Ltd.), 654*
Diphenyl Oxide, Use in “ Dowtherm ” Heat- Transfer Fluid, 775
— Use in “ Dowtherm ” Heat-Transfer Fluid,
775
Diploma in Technology, Comment on Educational Facilities for, 737
Discussion in Parliament, 671
Progress in Courses for, 800 Remarks on, by Sir W. Puckey, 64 Directors, Company, Effects of Profits Tax on, 768
Plea for Increase in Remuneration Limit, 768
— Electronic, for Lee Green Automatic Tele
phone Exchange, 760*
— Magnetic-Drum, for Lee Green Automatic
Telephone Exchange (Automatic Telephone and Electric Co., Ltd.), 760* Directory, Aviation, World, Note on, 119
— of Opportunities for School Leavers
(Booklet), 32
Disarmament Tariff, Need for More Precise Time Schedule, Remarks on, by Sir E. Cohen, 557
Discs, Bursting (Trade Publication), 499
— — for High-Pressure Hydraulic Systems,
by A. Urbanski, 210*
— Gas Turbine, Pitch Errors of Fir-Tree Root
Serrations in. Comparator for Automatic Measurement of. by L. W. Nickols, 372*
— Glass, Toughened, Bursting Strength of, by
P. L. Thorpe and D. Dawson, 591*
— Motor (Limit Engineering Group, Ltd.),
426*
— Turbine, Riveting Machine for Heating
and Upsetting Molybdenum-Steel Rivets into Counter-sunk Preparations on (Metro- politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 741* Discharge, Electric, Ignition of Primary Explosives by, by R. M, H. Wyatt, P. W. J. Moore, G. K. Adams, and J. F. Sumner, 142
— Gas, High-Current, Neutron Emission in,
538*
High-Temperature, Perhapsatron Device for Study of, 157*
ZETA Project for Study of, 156
— High-Current, Neutron Emission in, by
Dr. H. A. B. Bodin and Dr. J. A. Reynolds, 474*
— Pinched, High-Current, in Deuterium, 538* Discomfort in Lighting, Index of, 626 Disking Machines. See under Machine Tools Dispenser, “ Multimatic Prestic,” for Sticky
Labels (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 142*
Dispersions, Reclaim, New Factory for Production and Packing of (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 282*
Displays, Auditory, Design Data on, 249
— Tactual, Design Data on, 249
— Visual, Design Data on, 247* Disputes, Trades. Ssc Labour
Distillers Co., Ltd., Annual Report, 262; Position and Prospects of, 295; Bursting-Discs (Trade Publication), 499
Distilling Plant for Producing Pure Water from Sea Water (Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd.), 115
Distribution and Transport Factors in Cost of Power Generation, 23
Diversification in Companies, 359
— of Hawker Siddeley Group’s Activities, 646
— of Serck Radiators’ Interests, 487
“ Dixylon-Suplex ” Oil-Resistant Plastic Power Transmission Belt (R. and J. Dick, Ltd.), 711 D.K.W. Two-Cylinder Motor Car, 391 DMTR Nuclear Reactor, 253*
Dnieper Dam, 342 “Do-It-Yourself” Movement, 66, 493. See
LETTERS, 165, 453
Dobbie Mclnnes, Ltd., “ Teledep ” Mark II Instrument for Reading Liquid Levels Remotely (Trade Publication), 531
Dobson and Barlow, Ltd., Hot-Blast Cupola Operation, 85
Dobson, Sir R., Remarks on Achievements of Hawker Siddeley Group in Canada, 549
Dock, Floating, for Admiralty (Furness Shipbuilding Co.), 19
— Labour Board, National, Annual Report, 64 Dockyards, Management Problems at. Discussion in Parliament on, 831
Doctors Remuneration of. Note on Royal Commission on, 800
Document Reproduction and Selection, Manual on. Note on, 499
Documentation and Information Retrieval, by J. W. Perry and A. Kent, Note on, 783
— International Federation for. Manual on
Document Reproduction and Selection, Note on 499
Dohm Group, “ Warmlag ” Plastic Dough for Lagging Water Pipes, 811
Dohm, Ltd., “ Dohmseal ” Fire Retardant for Building Materials, 424*
“ Dohmseal ” Fire Retardant for Building Materials (Dohm, Ltd.), 424*
Dollar Exports Council, Report on Canadian Market for Building Materials, 81
— Wages and the, by Sir R, Hawtrey, 704 Domestic Electrical Appliances, Discussion in
Parliament on, 93
“ Domestic ” Monobloc Self-Priming Pump (Worthington-Simpson, Ltd.), 214*
Dominion Bridge of Canada, History and Growth of, HI
Dominion Steel and Coal Corp. (DOSCO), Acquisition of Controlling Interest in, by Hawker Siddeley Group in Canada, 549 Donald, W. Coutts, Remarks on Need for Higher Machinery Production, 588
Donkin, Bryan, Credited Founder of Canning Industry, 386
Dooge, J. C. L, on Rational Method for Estimating Flood Peaks, 311*, 374*
Doppler Aircraft Navigation System (Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 80, 261*
Dorman Long and Co., Ltd., Runcorn-Widnes Road Bridge, 446; Universal Mill for Rolling Sections with Broad Flanges, 601* Dorman, W. H., and Co., Ltd., “ L ” Series Diesel Engines, 297; “ 6QA ” Diesel
Engine, 297*; Position and Prospects of, 422
Dorr Clariflocculator for Gas Cleaning Plant for Rhodesian Iron and Steel Co. (Pty.), Ltd. (Head Wrightson and Co. S.A. (Pty.), Ltd.), 614
Dorset Light Industries, Ltd., Three-Way Pocket Level, 753*
“ Double Scorpion ” Rocket Engine (D. Napier and Sons, Ltd.), 292*. See also 295
Douglas (Isle of Man), Opening of Permanent Television Transmitting Station at, 805 Douglas Aircraft Co., Titanium Airframe Structures, 378*
Douglas Equipment, Ltd., Hydraulic Lift Gear for Connecting Semi-Trailers to “ Tugmaster ” Tractor, 680*
Dounreay Atomic Energy Establishment, Exhibition on Research at, 476. See also Dounreay Fast Breeder Reactor
— Fast Breeder Reactor, 253*; Model of at
Levant Fair (Bari), 348; Cinema Film on Construction of, 476; Progress on, 826*; Remarks on, by Dr. W. H. Zinn, 826* Dowsett Engineering Construction, Ltd., New Factory for Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd., at Blaydon-on-Tyne, 473*
“ Dowtherm ” Heat-Transfer Fluid for High- Temperature Heating System (Rose, Downs and Thompson, Ltd.), 775
Dowty Equipment, Ltd., “ Vardel ” High- Pressure Industrial Hydraulic Pump, 215* Dowty, Sir G., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Dowty Group, 517
Dowty Group, Position and Prospects of, 517, 558
Dowty Mining Equipment, Ltd., “ Roofmaster” Self-Advancing Hydraulic-Powered Supports for Coal-Mine Roofs, 178* Dowty Nucleonics, Expansion Potentialities, 517
Doxford, W., and Sons, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 422, 581
“ DP50 ” Mechanical Oil Lubricators at Wolvercote Paper Mill (Wakefield Dick Industrial Oils, Ltd.), 712*
“ D.R.3,” Danish Nuclear Reactor, 70-h.p. Glandless Stainless-Steel Coolant Pumps for (Hayward Tyler and Co., Ltd.), 731
Drafting Machine for Drawing Boards (Angular Engineering Co., Ltd.), 316
Drag Barrier, Conquest of, 465* Dragline, Walking, Projected, for Russia, 410 ? “W1400,” for Open-Cast Iron-Ore
Mining (Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd.), 122* Drainage, Arterial, in Ireland (1842-52), 311 Work of R. Manning on, 374
— and Irrigation, International Commission
on. See Irrigation and Drainage, International Commission on
— Work at Staines, 85*
Drake, J., on Relative Priorities in Respect of Constructing New Roads and Improving Existing Thoroughfares, 667
Drake and Lasdun, Cluster Block of Maisonettes at Bethnal Green, 753*
Draughtsmen, Engineering and Shipbuilding, Association of. See Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, Association of Dravo of Canada, Ltd., Launching of Pontoon by Rolling on Circular Yokes, 472* Drawing Apparatus, Precision, “ Autoper- spect,” for True Perspectives (Autoperspective, Ltd.), 681*
— Boards, Drafting Machine for
Engineering Co., Ltd.), 316 Projection (John Dickinson Ltd.), 796
— Engineering, Precise Conversion
and Metric Sizes on, 149
(Angular
and Co.,
of Inch
— Instrument and Measuring Rule on Head
less Statue of Gudea, Prince of Lagash, 418*
Drayton, H. C., Remarks on Diversification in British Electric Traction, 359
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Dresdner Bank, 7
Drever Co., Continuous Strip Annealing Plant at Velindre Works of Steel Co. of Wales, Ltd., 235*
Drills and Drilling Machines. See Machine Tools
Drill-Grinding Machine. See Grinding Machine under Machine Tools
Drilling of Blind Boreholes, Technique for, 762*
— Ultrasonic, Tool for Hard Brittle Materials
(Mullard, Ltd.), 332
?— Units, Diesel, for Oilfields Operations (Trade Publication), 149
Drive, “ Hydroflex,” Incorporating Vane-Type Fluid Coupling (Crofts (Engineers), Ltd.), 265
•— Variable-Speed, for Test-Plant (Trade Publication), 657
Drivers, of Diesel Railway Trains, British Railways Eastern Region Training School at Hadley Wood for, 452
Driving Chains. See Chains
Drop-Tanks, Aircraft, Asbestos-Reinforced Phenolic-Resin (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 89* Drucker, P., Work on Automation, 4.
Drums and Barrels, Handling Equipment for (Trade Publication), 17
— External Cladding of, with Stainless Steel
(Rose, Downs and Thompson, Ltd.), 358
— Steam-Boiler, Hollow-Forged (Thos. Firth
and John Brown, Ltd.), 329
Drummond-Asquith (Sales), Ltd., Horizontal Milling and Boring Machine, 808*
DRUPA International Fair, Print and Paper, 27
Dryer, Air, Unit-Type (Lightfoot Refrigeration Co., Ltd.!, 47
“ Drygalv ” Zinc-Rich Paint for Anti-Corrosive Priming (Drynamels, Ltd.), 583
Drying, Air, for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford, 52*
— of Grain, Practice, by J. R. Q’Callaghan,
566*
— of Grass, 369
— of Hay, Barn, “ Mow ” Process, 369 Drynamels, Ltd., “ Drygalv ” Zinc-Rich
Paint for Anti-Corrosive Priming, 583 Drysdale, W. S., on Qff-Shore Boring, 136* “ DS19 ” Motor Car (Citroen Cars, Ltd.), 572* “ Duax ” Two-Speed Drill, with Percussion Head for Conversion to Hammer Drill (Trend Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 556* Ductility Problem of Reactor Beryllium, by G. C. Ellis, 90
Ducting, P.V.C. (Trade Publication), 279 Dudley Port Works of General Electric Co., Ltd., for Manufacture of Motors and Generators for Railway Rolling Stock, 828*
Duff, Sir J., Appeal for Funds for Durham Colleges, 8*
Duke of Edinburgh, H.R.H., Remarks at International Navigation Congress, 59; Selected Speeches, 1948-1955 (Review), 595 ” Duke of Gloucester ” Locomotive, Tests on, 136
Dukes, J. M. C., on Application of Printed Circuit Techniques to Design of Microwave Components, 782
Dulrae, Ltd., “ Supa-Stor ” Thermal Storage Heater, 618
Dummer, G. W. A., on Design of Electronic Service Components and Survey of Present and Future Developments, 503
Dumper of 10 cub. yard Capacity, with Aluminium-Alloy Body (G. E. Neville and Sons, Ltd.), 713*
Dunedin Engineering Co., Ltd., “ Diestester ” Attachment for Checking Compression Pressures of Medium- and High-Speed Diesel Engines (Trade Publication), 563
Dunford and Elliott, Ltd., Control Desk and Computer System for Jodrell Bank Radio Tplp^f'nnp ^7
Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., “ Pneuride ” System of Pneumatic Suspension for Motor Vehicles, 179*; Oil Hose, 179;
“ Carpet-Type ” ings for Heavy Machinery (Trade Publication), 213; New Factory for Adhesives Emulsions and Compounds, 282*; “ Butyl,” “ Hycar ” Ebonite, and “ Hypalon,” for Lining of Chemical Plant, 584; Grant to Furniture Development Council for Research into Comfort of Upholstered Furniture, 684
Dunn, L., on Ship Design, 65
Dunod, Librairie, Catalogue of, 499 Dunworth, Dr. J. V., on Future of Nuclear Power, 730*
Duplex Suction Strainers, Cast Iron, “ Zwicky,” for New Qil Fuel System for R.M.S. “ Queen Mary,” 458*
Du Pont de Nemours, E.I., and Co., Silicon Production by, 281
“ Durasolid ” Method of Bonding Rubber to Metal (Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres, Ltd.), 584
Durgapur Steelworks, Supervisors for, India); University Graduates Training in United Kingdom as, 620
Durham, Industrial Qpportunities in (Booklet), 492
— Traffic Control by Television at, 179
— University, Expansion of Durham Colleges,
8*
“ Dusman ” Flue Dust Collector (Trade Publication), 657
Dust, Brake, in Railway Passenger Vehicles, 541
— Coal, Precipitators, at National Coal
Board’s Phurnacite Plant at Aberaman (Simon-Carves, Ltd.), 13
— Collection (Trade Publication), 279 Equipment, New Factory at Thurmaston
of Dallow, Lambert and Co., Ltd., 477*
— Collector, Centrifugal, Dry, “ Amer-Clone ”
(Trade Publication), 657
Fabric, Reverse-Jet Type, “ Amer-Jet ” (Trade Publication), 657
Flue, “ Dusman ” (Trade Publication) 657
Dust Collector, “ PD/KB ” (Keith Blackman Ltd.), 335
—? Control (Trade Publication), 657
Systems, “ Roto-Clone ” (Trade Publication), 657
— Deposition, Survey of, by Central Electri
city Authority, 414
— Gases, and Vapours, in Industry, Review on,
39
Dutch Shipbuilding Industry, Boom in, 39; Labour Shortage in, 39
— Views on Agriculture and Free Trade Area,
327
— See also Netherlands
“ Dynamatic ” Dynamometer, Heenan, 3,000 b.h.p. Capacity, for Development and Proving of Diesel Rail-Car Sets, 652*
Dynamic Balancing Machine, Single-Plane, Vertical (W. and T. Avery, Ltd.), 328*
Dynamics, Gas, Elements of, by H. Liepmann and A. Roshko (Review),
—? of Lunar Flight, Problems in, by V. Yegorov, 642
— and Mechanisms of Machinery, by H. H.
Mabie and F. W. Ocvirk (Review), 820
— Lighting Sets, Bicycle, Report on, by Road
Research Laboratory, 722
— See also Generators, Electric; Turbo-Gener
ators
Dynamometer, “ Airflex,” for Fluid-Coupling Drive (Crofts (Engineers), Ltd.), 265*
— Heenan “ Dynamatic,” 300 b.h.p. Capacity,
for Development and Proving of Diesel Rail-Car Sets, 652*
— Laboratory of Aircraft Equipment Division
of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655*
— See also Brake
EARLE, G. and T., Ltd., Cauldon Low
Cement Works, 535*
Earls Court, Ltd., Appointment of Peter Merchant, Ltd., as Caterers, 216
See also Exhibition Earth-Boring “ Mole ” (Centromor (Warsaw)),
120*
— Return, Single-Ware, Lloyd-Mandeno, 63 Earthquake. See Seismology
“ Easiclean ” Rotary Pump (Trade Publication), 149
East Africa. See Africa, East EBR-I Mark III Nuclear Reactor, 826 EBWR Nuclear Reactor, Performance of, 254 Eccles, Sir D., Awarded Honorary Fellowship
of British Institute of Management, 272 Eccles, Sir J., on Energy and Power Supply,
341*, 366*
Echo-Sounder, “ MS30,” for Open-Boat Fishing, 400*
— Sounding, Fish, “ White Line ” Recording
for, 400*
Techniques for Fishing Fleets (Kelvin and Hughes (Marine), Ltd.), 400*
Ecko Electronics, Ltd., Automatic-Indexing Rotary Table, 151 *
“ Eclipse ” Permanent Magnets for Television
Receivers (Trade Publication), 531 Economic Applications of Atomic Energy:
Power Generation and Industrial and Agricultural Problems, Report on, 283
— Commission for Europe, Annual Bulletin of
Gas Statistics for Europe, 6, 119
— Community, European. See European Com
mon Market
— Conference, Inter-American (Buenos Aires),
338
— Development Fund, Negotiation of Loans
from, for India, 427
— Development of Jordan, Report of Mission
Organised by International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (Review), 624
? and Science, by R. L. Meier (Review), 336
Theory, History and Policy, by G. M.
Meier and R. E. Baldwin (Book), 595
— Planning of Telecommunication Systems,
Interest and Inflation in, by R. Krzycz- kowski, 630
?—? Policy in Russia, 460
— Problems of Northern Ireland, 743 in United States, 216
— and Social Research, National Institute of.
Formation and Activities of, 810
— Survey, World (1956), 70
Economics, Chemical Process, in Practice, by
J. J. Hur (Book), 437
— Industrial. See Labour
— Lighting, Problem of, 578 ?—? Railway. See Railway
— Sociology and Philosophy in Engineering,
by Prof. D. G. Christopherson, 353 Economist, Business, Rise of the: Commercial
Planning on a Systematic Basis, 810 Economist Intelligence Unit, Handbook on
Possible Effects on British Manufacturing Industry of Free Trade Area, 719 Economy, British, Comment on, 40
— German, Position and Prospects of, 752
— National, Statistics Relating to, 799
— in Production Achieved by Variety Reduc
tion and Standardisation, by A, C. C. Moore, 427
Edern, Possible, Site for Nuclear Power
Station at, 255
EDF-1 Nuclear Reactor to be Built at Chinon, 190
Edjele, Oil Exploration at, 771 Edge-Trimming Machine. See under Machine
Tools
Edinburgh, Duke of, H.R.H., Remarks at International Navigation Congress, 59;
Selected Speeches 1948-1955 (Review), 595 Editors of Periodicals, Notes on Presentation
for. Draft British Standard, 471 Edmonton Borough Council, Call for Em
ployees to Join Trade Union Affiliated to Trades Union Council, 544
“ Edsel ” Motor Car (Ford Motor Co.), 357, 573*
Aeronautics, Advanced Education and Academic Research in, by Dr. C. B. Millikan, 430*
Air Force, Royal, Training of Boy Entrants, Social Factors in, by A. B. Cherns and K. W. Tilley, 384
Apprentices, Artificer, Service Period of. Discussion in Parliament on, 831
Apprenticeships, Electrical Contracting, Discussion in Parliament on, 735
— Training, Industrial Welfare Society
Course on, 672
Ayr, Technical College at. Progress on, 191 Baccalaureat Europeen, European School-
Leaving Certificate, 288
Battersea College of Technology, Course on Concrete and Nuclear Radiation Shielding, 285
British Railways Eastern Region Train! g School for Diesel Train Drivers at Hadley Wood, 452; Derby Works Training School of London Midland Region, Extensions at, 453; Training Men for Operating and Maintaining Diesel Rail-Cars, 462. See also 453 Brooklyn, Polytechnic Institute of. List of “ Pibal " Reports 1948-1957, 51
Brunel College of Technology, Acton, Opening of, 480
California Institute of Technology, Development Work of Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Guided Missiles, 430*; Work of Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories on Problems in Solid and Fluid Dynamcs, 430*
Cambridge, Engineering Education at, by Prof. J. F. Baker, 68
— Men, Contributionsof, to Mechanical Engineering, by G. B. R. Fielden, 68
— University, Report of Head of Depart
ment of Engineering, 149
Results of Questionnaire to Undergraduates at, 352
Careers and Education Exhibition, National, Preliminary Announcement, 492
Children, Cultural Exchanges for. Scheme for, 448
— Intelligence and Environment in.
Experiments on, by Dr. S. Wiseman, 384
Colliery Managers, Training of, 363
Concrete and Nuclear Radiation Shielding, Course on, at Battersea College of Technology, 285
Correspondence, Training Welding Technician and Engineer by, by R. M. Gooderham, 73
Courses in Middle Age, Plain Words on, 706
Cranfield College of Aeronautics, Study of Rocket Flight at, 101; Symposium on High Altitude and Satellite Rockets, 98*; List of Papers Presented, 100; Discussion on High-Altitude Research, 100; Exhibition of Rockets and Satellites, 101
Cultural Exchanges for Children, Scheme for, 448
Derby Works Training School, London Midland Region of British Railways, 453, 462
Diploma in Technology, Comment on Educational Facilities for, 737
— in Technology, Discussion in Parlia
ment on Causes for, 671
— in Technology, Progress in Courses
for, 800
?—? in Technology, Remarks on, by Sir W. Puckey, 64
Durham University, Expansion of Durham Colleges. 8*
Education, Advanced, and Academic Research in Aeronautics, by Dr. C. B. Millikan, 430*
— and Careers Exhibition, National,
Preliminary Announcement, 492
— Liberal, Ministry of Education Circular
on, 17
— Ministry of: Circular No. 323 on
Liberal Education, 17; Membership of Committee on Public Libraries in England and Wales, 371; Circular on Standards of Library Service in Technical Colleges, 721
— in Public and Grammar Schools,
Comparison of, by Dr. H. Johnson, 512
— System, Effect of Block Grant on, 639
— and Training of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers, 563
Electrical Contracting Apprenticeships, Discussions in Parliament on, 735
— Engineering (Career of), by R, W.
Steed (Book), 595
Scholarships in, 192
Engine Maintenance, Training of Africans in, 384
Engineers in India, Education and Training Projects, 224
— Russian, Education and Qualifications
of, 324, 325, 355, 441
— Steelworks, Sandwich Course for, 679 Engineering College, Royal Naval (H.M.S,
Thunderer), Discussion in Parliament on Future of, 93
by Sir D. Anderson, 326
American Society for. Salaries of Engineering Teachers in United States, 821
at Cambridge, by Prof. J. F. Baker, 68
in Russia, 324, 325, 355, 441
— and Scientific Education, Importance
of, 481
English for Technical Colleges, by A. R. Moon (Review), 306
Environment and Intelligence in Children, Experiments on, by Dr, S. Wiseman, 384
European Common Market, Course on, at Polytechnic (Regent Street), 147
— School-Leaving Certificate, 288
Exhibition, Education and Careers, National, Preliminary Announcement, 492
Expedition Training in Royal Navy, by Sub-Lt. M. K. Matthews, R.N., 706* Fan Engineering, Heating, Ventilating, Refrigeration and. National College for. Activities of, 39; Lectures on Environmental Hygiene, 431
Further Education, Science and Technology Graduates Undertaking, Discussion in Parliament on National Service Exemption for, 703
Girls, Technical Careers for. Discussion in Parliament on, 191
Graduates, Adjustment of, on Leaving College, by C. Markham, 4. See also Vol. 183
— in Industry, Report on, 479
— Need for Improved Appointments
Boards for, 384
— and Professional Engineer, by F.
Nixon, 479
— Science and Technology, Undertaking
Further Education, Discussion in Parliament on National Service Exemption for, 703
— Wasted, by Dr. E. P. Kelsall, 479 Grammar Schools, Education in. Comparison with Public Schools, by Dr. H. Johnson, 512
Heating, Ventilating, Refrigeration and Fan Engineering, National College for. Activities of, 39; Preliminary Notice of Lectures on Environmental Hygiene, 431
Imperial College of Science and Technology Inaugural Lectures (1955-56) (Book), 371
India, Engineers in. Education and Training Projects, 224
Indian University Graduates, Training in United Kingdom as Supervisors for Durgapur Steelworks, 620
Intelligence and Environment in Children, Experiments, by Dr. S. Wiseman, 384 Kilmarnock, Technical College at. Progress on, 191
Knowledge, New Methods and Techniques for Communication of, by H. Coblans, 83
Laboratory Apparatus, Educational (Trade Publication), 499
Learning, Subliminal, Plain Words on, 386 Lectures, Public, by Science Museum, Comment on, 448
Library as Educational Instrument, Remarks on, by Dr. J. Topping, 721 Lighting Courses for Engineers and Architects, 580
London University. See University College (below)
Sandwich
Engineers,
Management Courses, Comment i
— — in United States, 301
— Education for, by Prof.
Schwenkhagen, 2
— Project, Two-Day Course for 1
boys on, 128
?—? Summer Courses, Value of, 337
— Training Courses at Portsmouth,
Devonport and Chatham Dockyards, 831
Programme of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 301
Managers of Collieries, Training of, 363 Marine Engineers and Naval Architects,
Education and Training, Note on, 563 Marketing, Course on, at Polytechnic
(Regent Street), 147
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Note on General Catalogue Issue, 687
Mechanical Engineering (Career of), by R. W. Steed (Book), 595
Moscow University, 483* National College for Heating, Ventilating,
Refrigeration and Fan Engineering, Activities of, 39; Lectures on Environmental Hygiene, 431
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Education and Training, Note on, 563 —? Engineering College, Royal (H.M.S.
“ Thunderer ”), Discussion in Parliament on Future of, 93
Nuclear Power Engineering, Course on, at South East London Technical College, 29
— Reactor Courses at Atomic Energy
Research Establishment, 764 Overseas Scholarship Scheme of Federation of British Industries, 192 Pennsylvania State University, Performance Characteristics of 48-in. Water Tunnel at, by J. M. Robertson and
D. Ross, 76*
Photoelasticity, Methods of. Course in, at University College (London), 166 Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, List of “ Pibal ” Reports 1948-57, 51
— (Regent Street): Courses on European
Common Market, Marketing, and Restrictive Trade Practices, 147
Project Management, Two-Day Course for Schoolboys on, 128
Public Schools, Education in. Comparison with Grammar Schools, by Dr. H. Johnson, 512
Radiation, Nuclear, Shielding, Concrete and. Course on, at Battersea College of Technology, 285
Radioactive Isotopes Course for Executives at Harwell, 220
Railway Trains, Diesel, Drivers of, British Railways Eastern Region Training School at Hadley Wood for, 452
Refrigeration, Heating, Ventilating and Fan Engineering, National College for. Activities of, 39; Lectures on Environmental Hygiene, 431
Restrictive Trade Practices, Course on, at Polytechnic (Regent Street), 147
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
E d ucation—continued
Royal Naval Engineering College (H.M.S. “ Thunderer ”), Discussion in Parliament on Future of, 93
Russian Engineers, Education and Qualifications of, 324, 325, 355, 441
— Language, Study of, by Science and Technical Students, Discussion in Parliament on, 831
— Workers, Educational and Training Facilities for, 441
Sandwich Course for Steelworks Engineers, 679
Scholarships in Electrical Engineering, 192 — Scheme, Overseas, of Federation of
British Industries, 192, 736
School Leavers, Directory of Opportunities for (Booklet), 32
— Public and Grammar, Comparison of Education in, by Dr. H. Johnson, 512
— Television Broadcasts of British Broadcasting Corporation, Comment on, 448
— Welding Technology, 235, 584 Science Museum Public Lectures, Comment on, 448
— Royal Military College of, Investiga- gation on Wind Loading of Roofs, by J. D. Haddon, 559*
— and Technology, Advanced, Courses in.
Discussion in Parliament on, 671
Scientific Education, Need for Improvement in, 514
— and Engineering Education, Importance
of, 481
?— Knowledge and Scientific Manpower in United States, Organisation of. Comment on Dr. V. Bush’s Remarks on, 705
Scotland, Technical Colleges in. Salary Scales in, 93
— Technical Colleges at Kilmarnock and Ayr, Progress on, 191
Sheffield University, Opening of Extensions to Electrical Engineering Department, 95
Skill, Attention in. Role of, with a Mechanical Analogy, by D. E. Broadbent, 384
— Simple, Perceptual Organisation in, by J. Annett, 384
South-East Essex Technical College, Discussion in Parliament on Advanced Courses at, 159
London Technical College, Course on Nuclear Power Engineering, 29
Soviet Engineer. See Russian Engineer (above)
— Union, Training Technicians in, 119 Staff Training College of British Railways at Derby, 462. See also 453
Steelworks Engineers, Sandwich Course for, 679
Students, Exchange of, for Technical Experience, International Association for. Progress of, 640; Vacation Training (Handbook), 640
— National Union of. Do You Want to be a Journalist? (Booklet), 610. See LETTER, 676
— Technical, Part-Time, Figures for, 735 ?— for Universities, Selection of, 832 Sunderland Technical ~ “
Plans for, 63
Teachers, Engineering,
Salaries of, 821
— National Union of, tion and Careers liminary Announcement, 492
— Technology, in Scotland, Salary Scales of, 93
Teaching, Value of Modern Techniques and Facilities in, 448
Technical Colleges, Advanced, Comment on, 737
• Courses in Advanced Science and
Technology at, ment on, 671
— — English for,
(Review), 306
— —? Improvement
• and Industry,
Conference Between, 576
? at Kilmarnock and Ayr, Progress
on, 191
Libraries in (Circular), Note on, 721 Libraries in, by Dr. W. A. J.
Chapman, 721
Library Services in. Conference Preliminary Notice, 471
Library Services in. Conference
721
? New, Discussion in Parliament
Provision of, 735
Progress in Courses for Diploma in Technology at, 800
in Scotland, Salary Scales in, 93 Standards of Library Service in (Circular), 721
Status of, by Sir D. Anderson, 326 — Education, Liberal Element in. Remarks on, by Earl of Verulam, 721 National Conference on, 576 Need for Good Library Facilities in, 721
Need for Improvement in, 514 Progress Report on. Comment on, 544
— ?— Remarks on, by G. Lloyd, 480
in Russia, 441
Statistics on, 671
White Paper on, 721, 735 Technicians, Training of, in Soviet Union, 119
Technological Courses, Discussion in Parliament on, 799
Technology, Diploma in, Comment on Educational Facilities for, 737
•— Diploma in. Discussion in Parliament on Courses for, 671
— Diploma in. Progress in Courses for, 800
— Diploma in. Remarks on by Sir W. Puckey, 64
Television Broadcasts to Schools, by
Education—continued
British Broadcasting Corporation, Comment on, 448
“ Thunderer,” H.M.S. (Royal Naval Engineering College), Discussion in Parliament on Future of, 93
Time and Motion Study, Course on, 576 Training and Education of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 563
— for Hardship, by Sub-Lt. M. K. Matthews, R.N., 706*
— School at Merthyr Tydfil of Hoover, Ltd., 480
— Scientific Approach to, 96
— Vacation (Handbook), 640
?— of Workers within the Factory (Review), 436
Undergraduates at Cambridge University, Results of Questionnaire to, 352
United States, Management Courses in,
301
University Appointments Boards, Plea for Improved, 384
— British, Scientific Research in, 371.
See LETTER, 421
— College (London), Course in Methods of Photoelasticity, 166
— Selection of Students for, 832 Vacation Training (Handbook), 640 Ventilating, Heating, Refrigeration and
Fan Engineering, National College for. Activities of, 39; Lectures on Environmental Hygiene, 431
Welders, Education and Training of.
Papers on, 73
— Training of, by F. Clark, 73
Welding Education in Britain, by G.
Parsloe and R. E. G. Weddell, 73 and Training for, by H. McClymont and H. Hinxman, 73
— Engineer, Training by Correspondence, by R. M. Gooderham, 73
— Technician, Training by Correspondence, by R. M. Gooderham, 73
— Technology, School of, 235; Remarks
on, by Sir C. Lillicrap, 584
Workers, Training of, within the Factory (Review), 436
Youth, Need for Improved Technical and
Scientific Education, 514
— Recruitment and Vocational Guidance
of. Use of Cinema Films for, 480 Edwards High Vacuum, Ltd., Pumping Equipment for Processing Vessels for Manufacture of Paper Power Capacitors at Elizabeth Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 154; “ Speedivac ” High-Vacuum Pumps (Trade Publication), 279; Apparatus for Producing Metallic Coatings, 781
College,
Future
in United
States,
Educa-
National Exhibition, Pre-
Discussion in Parlia-
by A. R. Moon
in Morale in, 544 Second National
on.
on.
on
EFCO, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 454 Efficiency of Boiler Plants. See Boiler Plants
— of Engines. See Engines; Trials
Effusion Cooling, Applications and Methods of, 314*
Ega Electric, Ltd., Non-Metallic Rigid Polyvinyl Chloride Electrical Conduit Fittings and Accessories, 583
Egypt, Cord for Land Measuring, 419*
— Debt: Suez (Booklet), Note on, 595 Egyptian Royal Cubit Rods, 419*
— Stone Cubit, 419*
— Wooden Cubit, 419*
Eichelberger, R. J., on Initiation of Solid Explosives by Shock Waves and Impact, 142
Eisenhower, President, Declaration of Common Purpose with H. Macmillan, 545,607 “ EKG4 ” Mechanical Excavator, 354* “ Ekstrom ” Liquid Level Indicator (Rotameter Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 208*
ELI Nuclear Reactor, 189
EL2 Nuclear Reactor, 189
EL3 Nuclear Reactor, 189*
“ Eland ” Propeller-Turbine Engines for “ Convair ” Airliners (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 283*, 710
Elastic Scattering Matrix, for Two-Nucleon System, by L. Puzikov, R. Ryndin and Ya. Smorodinsky, 764 _
Elcontrol, Ltd., - - ? ?
Controller Liquids, Level Control,
Conductivity-Type Level for Electrically-Conductive 177*; Proximity Switch for 177
Electric:
Accumulator,
Industrial
(Oldham and Son, Ltd.), 179 Charger and Engine Heater, Com
bined, “ Peregrine ” (Trade Publication), 403
Containers, “ Im-Plast ” Raw Materials for Producing Hard Rubber for (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 711
Alternator. See Generator; Turbo Arc Furnaces. See Furnace
— Welding. See Welding Battery. See Accumulator (above)
— Vehicles. See Motor i'ehicle; Motor Truck
Busbars, Aluminium, by H. B. Grainger and R. J. Watkins, 744*
Installations of, 747*, 748 in Titanium Melting Plant, 747*
— Joints, Experimental, Accelerated Corrosion Tests on, Experimental,
on, 747 Cables. See Cables Capacitors, Power,
of, at Elizabeth
Phillips, Ltd., 154* Cathode Rays. See Cathode Circuit, Control, for Test Bed for Development and Proving of Diesel Railcar Engines, 652*
— Equivalent, Application to Induction Motors, by D. J. Rowley, 405*
— Line, 132-kV, over River Ribble, 446* — Printed, Techniques, Application to
Design of Microwave Components, by J. M. C, Dukes, 782
— Railway Signalling, in Modernisation Plan of British Railways, 507
Battery, Type TL6, for Television Equipment
746*
Short-Circuit Tests
Paper, Manufacture Works of Johnson &
Electric—continued
Circuit, Telecommunications, Avoidance of Inductive Effects in, 508
in Modernisation Plan of British
Railways, 507
— See also Circuit
Conductors, Copper, Double-Angle Section, Current-Rating Tests on, by T. L. Richards, 823*
— Semi-, Silicon (Texas Instruments, Ltd.), 491
Conduit, Electrical, Fittings and Accessories, Non-Metallic Rigid Polyvinyl Chloride (Ega Electric, Ltd.), 583
— Underground, for Electrical Work, Investigation of, by Bell Telephones, by G. F. Weissmann, 115
Connector, Heavy-Duty, Using Patent Contacts (Modern Acoustics, Ltd.), 807*
Contacts, Electrical (Modern Acoustics, Ltd.), 807*
— ?— Physics of, by F. Llewellyn Jones
(Review), 242
Cranes. See Cranes
Current-Rating Tests on Double-Angle Section Copper Conductors, by T. L. Richards, 523*
DCTL Direct-Coupled Transistor Logic Circuitry in “ Leprechaun ” High- Speed Miniature Digital Computer, 15*
Dimmer, Lighting, Electronic (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 271* Discharge. See Discharge
Domestic Electrical Appliances, Discussion in Parliament on, 93
Dynamo. See Generator; Turbo-Generator Earth Return, Single-Wire, Lloyd- Mandeno, 63
Electrics, Aircraft, Laboratories of
English Electric Co., Ltd., 655*
— Floor Warming for London County Council Flats, by R. J. Allerton, 621
— Log Interpretation, Fundamentals of, by M. R. J. Wyllie (Book), 498
— Power in Britain, 543 for Dudley Port Works of General
Electric Co., Ltd., 829*
— — Supply, Cross-Channel Cable as
Link for British and French, 368
— — Supply, Uninterrupted, Diesel-
Electric Control Unit, RACO, for (J. and H. McLaren, Ltd.), 553*
Supplies, Voltage-Stabilised, by F, A. Benson (Review), 306
— Siren (Service Electric Co., Ltd.), 469* — Traction Motors for Railway Rolling Stock, Manufacture of, at Dudley Works of General Electric Co,, Ltd., 828*
— Wiring, Work of National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting on, 46
Electrical Appliances, Domestic, cussion in Parliament on, 93 — Conduction of
Naphthadag for
Ltd.), 408
— Conduit Fittings
Non-Metallic Rigid Polyvinyl Chloride (Ega Electric, Ltd.), 583
— Contracting Apprenticeships, Discussion in Parliament on, 735
— Engineer. See Electrical Engineer
— Engineering. See Electrical Engineering
— Equipment, Alternating Current, for Foil Rolling Mills of Venesta, Ltd. (Laurence, Scott and Electromotors, Ltd.), 502*
at “ Systems ” Engineering Research Laboratories of Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., at Belfast, 600*
— Floor Warming, by J. W. Moule and W. M. Stevenson, 621*
— Goods, Canadian Imports of, from United Kingdom and United States, 778*
Industry, Productivity in. Statistics Relating to, 799
— Industry, Importance of Diversification in, 772
— Installation Contracting, National Inspection Council for. See Electrical Installation Contracting
Work on Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (F, H. Wheeler and Co., Ltd.), 37
— Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects of, 743
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 743 Convention, British. See Electrical Power Convention
— Properties of Nitrile Rubbers, 204 — Register, Garraway’s, Note on, 279 — Research Association. See Electrical Research Association
— Trades Union. See Labour Electricians, Power of, in Industry, 288 Electricity Board, Delhi State. See Delhi ?— in Building, by A. L. Osborne, Note on, 811
— Consumption of, in Great Britain, 414 Useful, of Highly Deveoped and Underdeveloped Country, 24*
— Direct Conversion of Nuclear Energy into, by S. A. Colgate and R. L. Aamodt, 446*
Production by Nuclear Fusion, 156 — Generating Board, Central. See Central Electricity Generating Board
Experiments, Underground Gasification of Coal for, 367
— Single-Wire Earth Return, Lloyd- Mandeno, 63
— from SRE Reactor Experiment, 157
— Supplies, Alternative, Discussion in Parliament on, 93
Industry, Developments, in, 343 Industry, Nationalised, Coal Saved by, 127
Systems
Authority and Electricite de France, High-Voltage Interconnection Between, 478
Dis-
Postage Stamps, (Harrison and Sons,
and Accessories,
of Central Electricity
Electric—continued
Electricity Supplies, System of Great Britain, Application of Nuclear Power to, 366
Electrification, Rural, in Northern Ireland, Progress of, 198
Electronic. See Electronic Electroplating. See Electro Electrostatic Generator, Principles, Construction and Operation of, 504
— — Tandem, Collaboration of United
Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., in Design of, 504
Ferro-Electric Material, Triglycine Sulphate (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 235
Furnaces. See Furnaces Garraway’s Electrical Register, 279 Generating Stations. See Power Stations Generator. See Generator; Turbo Hydro-Electric Power Plants. See Power Plants
— Furnace. See Furnace
Induction Motors. See Motors, Electric Insulation, of Electric Generator Windings, Automatic Machine for Binding, 410*
— Glass and P.T.F.E., for “ Uni-Efglas ” Electrical Cable (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 424
— Irradiated Polythene, for Co-axial Radio-Frequency Cables (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 285
— Mica, Automatic Machine for Making (Russian), 442*
— Polyvinyl Chloride, for “ Nyvin ” Electrical Cable (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 424
— P.T.F.E. for Electrical Wire (British Insulated Callender’s Cables,Ltd.), 424 — Winding Machine, Automatic (Electro- sila Factory, Leningrad), 587*
Insulator, “ Telecothene,” for Plugs and
Sockets (Trade Publication), 307
Joints for Use with “ Telecon ” Radio-
Frequency Cables (Trade Publication), 307
Lamps, Brightness Control of, 626
— Characteristics of Available Types, 627 — Development of, 626*
— Fluorescent, 100-Watt, 4-ft. long
(General Electric Co., Ltd.), 30* Tubular, Characteristics of, 627* — Mercury, Discharge, Characteristics of, 627*
Discharge, Colour-Corrected, Characteristics of, 627*
— Replacement of, 630
— Sodium-Discharge, Characteristics
627
— Tungsten-Filament, Characteristics 627*
— Xenon, 2-kW, Mazda XE/D,
of.
of,
for
450-X Cinema Projector (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 680*
— See also Light, Lighting (below)
Light Fittings, Underwater (Clarke Chapman and Co., Ltd.), 271*
— Spot, for Machines (Meiners Optical Devices, Ltd.), 49*
— See also Lamp (above); Lighting (below) Lighting, Calculation of Index of Discomfort in, 626
— Control in Son et Lumiere, 440*
— Controlling, 630
— Cost of, 627*
— Courses for Engineers and Architects,
580
•— Design, New Methods of, 627
— Developments in, 578*
— Different Kinds of, for Examination of Fabrics and Materials, at Centre, 684
— Dimmer, Electronic (General Co., Ltd.), 271*
— Dispersive Form of, 628
— for Dudley Port Works of
Electric Co., Ltd., 829* ?—? Economics, Problem of, 578 — Effect on Human Performance
Engineering Designers, 438*. LETTER, 740
— Engineers, Public, Association
Activities of, 580
— in Factories, Standards in, 578*
— Fittings, Choice of, 628 Mechanical Considerations, 628 — Flameproof, in Paint-Spraying Shop, 660*
— Fluorescent, Heating as Product of, in Factory Buildings, 659*
— Heat as Nuisance Product
— High-Pay, 628
— in Industry, Choice of
Available, 627
— Integration with Natural
Factory Buildings, 659*
— Inter-Relation with Advanced Production Methods, 660*
— Layouts and Systems, 628 — Maintenance, 630, 631
— Management, and Engineers, by W, Robinson, 578*, 626*, 658*. See LETTER, 708
— at New Factory for Churchill Gear
Machines, Ltd., at Blaydon-on-Tyne, 473*
— Operation of, 630
— Poor, Accident Risk due to, 660*
— and Production, Tests of, 660*
— in Railway Carriages, 511*
— of Roads, 708
— Service Bureau, Activities of, 580
— Set, Battery, Intrinsically-Safe (General Electric Co,, Ltd,), 15
Dynamo, Bicycle, Report on, by Road Research Laboratory, 722
— Street, Codes of Practice on, 580
— for “ Systems ” Engineering Research
Laboratories of Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd. at Belfast, 600*
— Translucent Plastics Panel (Luminated Ceilings, Ltd.), 753*
Building
Electric
General
of, 659
for
See
of.
Equipment
Lighting in
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INDEX
Electric—continued
Lighting. See also Lamp; Light (above) — See also Public Lighting Engineers Locomotives. See Locomotives, Electric Log, Electric, Fundamentals of Interpretation, by M. J. R. Wyllie (Book), 498 Machines. See Generators; Motors; Turbo Magnetos. See Magnetos Mains. See Cables
Motors. See Motors, Electric
Networks in Electrical Communication and Other Fields, Theory of, by F. E. Rogers (Review), 180. See LETTER, 325, 351
Ohmmeter, “ Safety,” Photo-Electric, for Testing Firing Circuits (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 585*
Oil Switch. See Switchgear Photoelectric Cell, Selenium, in “ Safety ” Ohmmeter (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 585*
— Devices, Treatise on, by W. Summer (Review), 370
— “ Safety ” Ohmmeter for Testing
Firing Circuits (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 585*
Photosensitors, by W. Summer (Review), 370
Plugs, Electrical, Comprehensive Range with Patent Contacts (Modern Acoustics, Ltd.), 807*
— for Use with “ Telecon ” Radio-
Frequency Cables (Trade Publication), 307
Power. See Electric; Electrical; Electricity (above); Power
— Stations. See Power Stations Printed Circuit Techniques, Application to Design of Microwave Components, by J. M. C. Dukes, 782
Railways. See Railways Rectifiers. See Rectifiers Relay Interlocking Signalbox at Frankfurt, 533*
— Stepping (Trade Publication), 307 Resistance Welding. See Welding Rolling Mills, Electric Driving of. See Rolling Mills
Rontgen Rays. See X-rays
Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion Sockets, Electrical, Comprehensive Range with Patent Contacts (Modern Acoustics, Ltd.), 807*
— for Use with “ Telecon ” Radio-
Frequency Cables (Trade Publication), 307
Starters, Motor. See Motors, Electric Steel Manufacture. See Metallurgy; Furnace
Storage Battery. See Accumulator (above) Substation.
Switchgear. Electric
Telegraphy. Telephony. Terminations for Use with “ Telecon ” Radio-Frequency Cables (Trade Publication), 307
Thermometer. See Thermometer Traction. See Locomotives, Electric; Railways
Transducer in “ MS30 ” Echo Sounder, 400*
Transformers. See Transformers Transistors. See Transistors Turbo-Generators. See Turbo-Generators Underground Conduits for Electrical Work, Investigation of, by Bell Telephones, by G. F. Weissmann, 115 Voltage Regulator for Armfield L.D.C. 10-kW Water-Driven Direct-Current “ Micro-Set ” Generator (Newton Brothers (Derby) Ltd.), 26
Voltage-Stabilised Supplies, by F. A. Benson (Review), 306
Waves, Electromagnetic. See Telegraphy Welding. See Welding
Winding Gear. See Winding Wiring System “ Safeguard ” (Trade Publication), 403
— Telegraphy. See Radar; Radio; Telegraphy; Television
— Telephony. See Radar; Radio; Telephony; Television
Electric Construction Co., Annual Report, 168
— See also under Electric
Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, British, Scholarships and Other Awards Available to British Students for Training in Electrical and Allied Engineering (Booklet), 192; Cancellation of Annual Dinner, 418
— Conference, British, Preliminary Announce
ment of, 515*
Electrical Engineers, Institution of: Summer Meeting at Manchester, 69 Electrical Floor Warming, by J. W. Moule and W. M. Stevenson, 621*
Heat Pump, by T. G. N. Haldane, 671 Graham Clark Lecture on Management and the Engineer, by Sir 776. See also 769
Electrical Engineers’ Exhibition, Concerning Form of, 27 Mining. See Mining Post Office, Institution of.
Office Electrical Engineers Supervising, Association of, W. E.
Highfield Shield, 220
— Engineering (Career of), by D. O. Bishop
(Book), 595
in Chemical Factories, Safety in (Booklet), 337
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 326, 743
Industry, Problems of Change in, 262 Scholarships in, 192
— Installation Contracting, National Inspec
tion Council for. Activities of, 46
— Power Convention, British (Eastbourne),
Exhibits at, 30; British, Using Consulting Engineers, by Sir H. Clay, 103. See also Vol. 183
See Substation
See Switchgear; Motors,
See Telegraphy
See Telephony
E. Smith,
Decisions
See Post
Electrical Remote Control Co., Ltd., Heavy- Duty Sequence Timer (Trade Publication), 213
— Research Association, Programme of Re
search at Laboratories of, 94*; Description of, 94*; Technical Reports of (Book), 371; 563; Co-operative Electrical Research, Note on, 499; Weekly Abstracts Lists, Note on, 563
— Trades Union. See under Labour
— See also under Electric
Electricians, Power of, in Industry, 288 Electricite de France, Tidal Power Scheme in Rance Estuary, 343*; High-Voltage Power Interconnection with Electricity Authority, 478
Electricity. See under Electric
Electricity Council, Replacement of Electricity Authority by, 743
“ Electro-Mist ” Oil Mist and Fume tator (Trade Publication), 657
Electrodes, Welding, See Welding Electrodes Electroflo Meters, Co., Ltd., Level Meters, 206* Electrolytic Corrosion. See Corrosion Electromagnetic Computer (E.M.C. Mk. 1), Use for Indicating Horse-Power Continuously and Other Applications, 528*
— Containment of Gas for Thermonuclear
Reactions, 612
— Flowmeters at British Scientific Instruments
Research Association, 781
— Pumping of Liquid Metals, by J. A. S.
Hilditch, 91
— Waves. See Electric; Telegraphy, Wireless Electron Accelerator, Cambridge, Description
of, 764
— Radiation Facility of Leybold-Hochvakuum
Anlagen, G.m.b.H., 124
Electronics, Basic Mathematics for, by F. M. Colebrook and J. W. Head (Book), 498
?— Caculator. See Calculator, Electronic
— Circuits, Industrial, by R. Kretzmann
(Book), 437
— Components, Design of, and Survey of
Present and Future Developments, by G. W. A. Dummer, 503
— Components, International Symposium on,
at Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern), Problems Affecting Design of Service Components, and Survey of Present and Future United Kingdom Developments, by G. W. A. Dummer, 503; Experimental Transformers for Operation at 500 deg. C., Exhibited at, 623*
— Computer. See Computer
— Control Unit, Thyratron, for Flame-
Cutting Machine (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 84*
— Data Processing for Business and Industry,
by R. G. Canning (Review), 470
— DirectorforLee Green Automatic Telephone
Exchange, 760*
— Engineer’s Reference Book, Note on, 821
—? Equipment for Measuring Instantaneous Speed of Road Vehicles (Venner Electronics, Ltd.), 729
— Flight Simulator, TRIDAC, at Royal Air
craft Establishment (Farnborough), 468* Electronic Machine Co., Ltd., Electronic Photocell Counter, 209*
— Photocell Counter, for Sacks of Fertiliser
(Electronic Machine Co.), 209*
— Regulator for Low-Voltage Generators
(Simms Motor Units, Ltd.), 314
— Tabulation (IBM United Kingdom, Ltd.), 66
— Telephone Exchanges, Possibilities of, 436
— Translators on GRACE Equipment for
Telephone Exchanges, 722*
— Units, Basic, for Analogue Computers
(Solartron Electronic Group, Ltd.), 630
— Group Growth in, 772
— Industry, Output Statistics, 526*
— Production, Mechanical Design for, by
J. M. Carroll (Review), 50
Electroplate, Corrosion-Resisting, “ Kanigen ” (Trade Publication), 625
Electrosila Factory (Russia), Automatic Machine for Making Mica Insulation, 442*; Automatic Insulation Winding Machine, 587*
Electrostatic Generator, Principles, Construction and Operation of, 504
Tandem, Collaboration of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co,, Ltd., in Design of, 504
Electrothermal Engineering, Ltd., Flexible Electric Heater, 183*; “Thermocord” Glass-Fibre Insulated Heating Cable, 522
“ Elektrom 12” Universal Spark Erosion Machine, 586*
“ Element 102,” Details of, 124
Elements Important in Nuclear Reactor Technology, Cross-Sections of, 724*
Elevating Trolley, Hand-Operated (Farrow and Jackson, Ltd.), 522*
Elipson Delivery Chambers in Son et Lumiere, 440*
Elizabeth II, H.M. Queen, Prorogation Speech at Opening of Parliament, 607 See also 639. Discussion in Parliament on, 639
Elizabeth Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., Manufacture of Paper Power Capacitors at, 154*
Elliott, B., and Co., Ltd., Milling Machines (Trade Publication), 17
Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd., Guidance and Control Equipment for Guided-Weapon Homing Demonstration at Farnborough Show, 260; to Join Atomic Power Construction Group, 414; Merger with Associated Automation, Ltd., 517; Low- Loss Microwave Link for Transmission of Radio Waves, 593
Ellis, C. B., on Preliminary Design for Aqueous Hornogeneous Nuclear Reactor Plant for Marine Propulsion, 700; on Fluidised-Fuel Nuclear Reactor for Nuclear Merchant Ships, 730*
Ellis, G. C., on Ductility Problem of Reactor Beryllium, 90
Ellis, J. R., on Transmission Wind-Up in Motor Vehicles Having Several Driven Wheels, 348
Central
Central
Precipi-
“ Elmas-Discut ” Filing Machine for Softer Materials (W. F. Johnson and Co. (London), Ltd.), 332
Elmdon Airport, Future of, 159
Elmeg Electro-Magnetic Presses (Press and Shear Co., Ltd.), 298
Elster, Early Work on Television, 546
“ EM27P ” Industrial Gas-Turbine (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 296*
Embrittlement, Stress-Corrosion, by W. D. Robertson (Book), 16
Emery Wheels. See Grinding, under Machine Tools
E.M.I. “ Emitron ” Electronic Television Camera, 548*
E.M.I. Sales and Service, Ltd., Emidicta Network Dictation System, 67; “ Minifon ” Miniature Wire Speech Recorder, 67*
Emidicta Network Dictation System (E.M.I. Sales and Service, Ltd.), 67
Emigration of British Engineers and Scientists,
Discussion in Parliament on, 735
— of Engineers and Scientists to Canada and
United States, Comment on, 641
— from Scotland, Problem of, 384
“ Emitron ” Electronic Television Camera (E.M.I.), 548*
Employees. See Labour
Employers’ Confederation, British, Statement on Trade Unions’ Campaign for 40-Hour Week, 608
— Liability. See Labour
— Share Purchase Plan of Rhodesian Selec
tion Trust, 32
Employment. See Labour Emulsions, Polimul, New Factory for Produc
tion and Packing of (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 282*
“ EN 900 ” Diesel Engine for Industrial or Marine Use (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 298
Enamel, Vitreous, Architectural Applications of, by B. Zick and by E. Mackasek, 106*
See also Fitreous Enamel Development Council
Endless Horizons (Book), by Dr. V. Bush, Comment on, 705
Endurance, Human, Technology’s Challenge to, by H. Gartmann (Review), 16
— Tests. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials) Eneev, T. M., on Determination of Lifetime of
Artificial Earth Satellite, 582
Energy and Man, Special Issue of Esso Magazine on. Note on, 687
— and Power Supply, by Sir J. Eccles, 341*,
366*
— Solar, Applications of, 341*
Engel, L., on Channelling of Small Saver’s
Money into Industry in United States, 512 Engines, Aero. See Aeronautics
— Combustion, International Congresson, Summary of Papers Presented at, 57*. See also Vol. 183
International Congress on, 1959 (Germany), on Diesel Engines and Gas-Turbines up to 1,500-h.p., Preliminary Notice, 818
— Cylinders, Wear and Lubrication of, 423
— Diesel. See Engine, Oil, Diesel; Marine
Propulsion; Motorships
— Fire. See Fire
— Free-Piston, Lubricant for, 139
— Heater and Battery Charger, Combined
“ Peregrine ” (Trade Publication), 403
— Internal-Combustion, British Manufac
turers’ Association, British Diesel Engine Catalogue, by D. S. D. Williams (Book), 755
Combustion, High-Duty, Distribution of Heat Flow in, by J. F. Alcock, J. V. B. Robson, and C. Mash, 58
Combustion, “ Speedlock ” Speed Governor Unit for (Bryce Berger, Ltd.), 266*
Combustion, Tariff on, 364
?— — Combustion. See also Turbines, Gas
— Locomotives. See Locomotives
— Maintenance, Training of Africans in, 384
— Marine, Crankcase Explosions in, by J. H.
Burgoyne and D. M. Newitt, 303
Direct-Reversing, Two-Stroke, Type M48M, for M.V. Susan Constant (British Polar Engines, Ltd.), 264
Turbo-Propeller, “ Marine Proteus ” (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 333*
— Motor Car. See Engines, Petrol
— Oil, Diesel, 0-350, for “ Aberdonian ” Bus
and Coach Chassis (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 211
Diesel, Air-Cooled, Manufacture of, by Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz, A.G., 364
Diesel, Air-Cooled, in RACO (Rapid Automatic Change-Over) Control Equipment (G. and H. McLaren, Ltd.), 553*
Diesel, Bearing.s for. At Tin Research Institute, 205
Diesel, Catalogue of British, by D. S. D. Williams (Book), 755
Diesel, Competition in Free Trade Area, 365
— ?—Diesel, up to 1,500-h.p., Congress on.
Preliminary Notice, 818
Diesel, Cylinder, Use in Free-Piston Gas Generator, 692*
Diesel, 3-Cylinder, A.M.528 Series (A, Kracko, Ltd.), 335
Diesel, 6-Cylinder, NM Series Horizontal or Vertical (National Gas and Oil Engine Co., Ltd.), 297*
Diesel, Dual-Fuel, Vertical, Naturally- Aspirated, 3 KD Type, for Brancote Sewage Works (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 489
Diesel, Fumes from. Discussion in Parliament on, 159
Diesel, “ EN 900,” for Industrial or Marine Use (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 298
— —Diesel, Export Trade of, from United
Kingdom and Germany, 364
Diesel, “ F ” Type (Trade Publication), 499
— — Diesel, Fault Tracing Maintenance and
Repair, by S. Abbey (Book), 821
Diesel, “ Four-99 ” 35-b.h.p. 4-Cylinder Agricultural and General-Purpose (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 471
Diesel, Gotaverken, by E. Johansson and L. G. Thulin, 57
Engines, Oil, Diesel, Japanese, by I. Yamashita , 57
Diesel, Japanese, by K, Okamura, 57 Diesel, “ L ” Series (W. H. Dorman and Co., Ltd.), 297
Diesel. “ L.4,” Perkins, Order for, by Gebr. Class Maschinenfabrik, 646
Diesel,M.A.N., Turbo-Charging System on, by Dr. Ing. E. Soerenson, 57
Diesel, M.A.N. Type for Main-Line Locomotives (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 297*
Diesel, Marine (Trade l^ublicatiori), 563 Diesel, Marine,
Type F1L6I2, for Generating Set (A. Kracko, Ltd.), 335
— — Diesel, Marine, at Engineering Exhibi
tion (Bolinders Co., ' '
Diesel, Marine, Six-Cylinder, Mirrlees KSCDM, in “ Boston Vanguard,” Motor Trawler, 663*
Diesel, Medium- and High-Speed, “ Diestester ” Attachment for Checking Compression Pressures of (Trade Publication), 563
Diesel, Mirrlees Type JVS 12T, for First .Mixed-Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotive for British Railways, 727*
Diesel, P3/144, Industrial Version of (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 267*
Diesel, “ P4/192 ” 50-5-b.h.p. 4-cylinder Agricultural and General-Purpose (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 471
Diesel, Paxman 16-Cylinder YHXL V-Type, in British Railways Type 1 Main- Line Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 760
Diesel, Photo-Electric Crankcase Oil- Mist Detector Unit for, Graviner- B.S.R.A., 303*
Diesel, Pressure-Charged, for Generating Sets for Delhi State Electricity Board (Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd.), 120
Diesel, “6QA ” (W. H. Dorman and Co., Ltd.), 297*
Diesel, for Rail-Car Sets, Test Beds for Development and Proving, Using Torque Converter Drive, 652*
— ?— Diesel, Railway, RK/V and RL Mark II
(Trade Publication), 783
Diesel, 12 RPHL Series 11, 562 h.p., for Diesel-Hydraulic Shunting Locomotive (Paxman), 87*
Diesel, Servicing Guide to, by A. J. K. Moss (Book), 687
Diesel, Supercharged Trunk-Piston Single Acting, “ 9UET ” (Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 57
Diesel, Supercharging of, 57*
— — Diesel, Theory and Construction of, by
F. Sass (Book), 243
Diesel," Tokyo ZC ” (Mitsubishi Nippon Industries, Ltd.), 57*
Diesel, Turbo-Charged, Agreement between Gebr. Stork and Co., N.S., and Swan Hunter for Manufacture of, 647 Diesel, Turbocharges for. Production of, by Brown Boveri, A.G., and Cie, 170.
Diesel, Twin-Bank (Blackstone and Co., Ltd.), 490*
Diesel, Two-Stroke Crosshead, F.I.A.T. “C757S ” by Dr. Ing. A. Gregoretti, 58 Diesel, Two-Stroke, Single-Acting Turbo- Charged, Crosshead Main (Trade Publication), 821
Diesel, 4YEL, 75 h.p., for Diesel-Hydraulic Shunting Locomotive (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 87*
Diesel. See also Motorships; Marine Propulsion
See also Tractors
— Performance Tests, Application of Statistics
to, by Dr. W. R. Buckland, 729
— Petrol See also Aeronautics; Motor Cars Aeroplane. See Aeronautics
Motor-Car, Air-Cooled Compared with Water-Cooled, 519
Motor-Car, Air-Cooled, for “ Fiat 500,” 95*
Motor-Car, Bearings for, at Tin Research Institute, 205
Motor-Car, 4-cylinder, 1,489 c.c., in Riley ” One-Point-Five ” Motor-Car, 580* Motor-Car, Two-Stroke Compared with Four-Stroke, 519
— Steam, Experimental, for College and
Student Use (Trade Publication), 821
Marine. See Marine Propulsion; Turbines Spilling, Unit Construction and Interchangeable Working Parts (Spillingwerk, G.m.b.H.), 84*
—? Testing, Equipment for, by H. Freeston, 729
— Types, New, Testing of, to Assess Relia
bility, by Lt.-Col. R. A. Lawrence and W. H. A. Collins, 729
— Winding. See Winding
Engineers, Adaptation to Technological
Change, Comment on, 673
— in Aircraft Industry, Need to be Increas
ingly Specialist and Non-Specialist, 769
— Association, British, Comparison of Per
formance of British Engineering Industry in Export Markets with Foreign tries, 422
— Australian, Salaries of. Survey on
phlet), 809
— Challenge to Professional Status of,
— Consulting. See Consulting
— Developing Social Awareness in, 83
— Education. See Education
— Emigration to Canada and United
Comment on, 641
Engineers’ Guild, Ltd., Comment on New Policy of, 97; Declaration of Policy of, by J. G. Orr, 165; Comment on “ Professional Union,” 544; Annual Report, 704
— and Human Relations, 192 —• in lndia,Educationand Training Projects,224 —• Institutions. See Institutions
— Junior Institution of. Summer Meeting in
Switzerland, 69
— and Man-Made Fibres (Trade Publication),
625
— and Management, by Sir E. Smith, 776.
See also 769
Air-Cooled, Deutz,
Ltd.), 266
Coun-
(Pam-
544
States
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Engineers, Management, Lighting and, by W. Robinson, 578*, 626*, 658*. See LETTER, 708
and Lighting: Current Design and Practice, by W. Robinson, 626*
— Merchants, Stockists and Distributors
Trade, Price Cutting in, 272
— Norwegian Society of. Symposium on
Concrete Shell Roof Construction, 122
— Professional, Comment on, 97
and Graduate, by F. Nixon, 479
— Royal, in Across the River, by R. Jocelyn
(Review), 656
Works Services, Exhibition of, at War Office, 5*
— Salaries of. Proposed Survey on, 97
— and Scientists, British, Emigration
Discussion in Parliament on, 735
— in Shipbuilding, Need for More, by Rt. Hon.
J. S. Maclay, 557
— Soviet, as Designer, by E. P. Ward, 409* Education and Qualifications of, 324, 325 Labour, Workshops and Technical Processes Available to, by E. P. Ward, 441 *
Management Methods of, by E. P. Ward, 460*
Quality of. Advance Note on, 261
— — Resource.s and Use of, 484
Summary of Characteristics, by E. P, Ward, 482*. See LETTER, 582
— in Soviet Factories and Research Qrganisa-
tions. Statistics of, 324*
Information Services, Education, Research, Reading Matter, and Communication, by E. P. Ward, 355*
— — Review of Environment, Status, Place in
Industry, and Tastes of, by E. P. Ward, 322. See also 321
— Steelworks, Sandwich Course for, 679
— Women as, 129. See LETTER, 645
— See also Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Pro
duction, Structural, etc.
ENGINEERING, Binder for, 83; H. H. Johnson, Former Editor of, 222*; Reproduction of, in Russia, 355; Improvements in Design to be Introduced in 1958, 709*; see also Engineering Information Service
— Apprentices. See Education: Labour
— Automation, Development of, 517
— Automobile. See Automobile
— and Allied Employers’ West of
Association, Annual Conference Study Department, 416
— Books, Catalogues of, 83 on, (Supplement) 371
— College, Royal Naval (H.M.S.
derer ”), Discussion in Parliament, 93
— Contracts. See Contracts; Legal ?— Contribution of Welding to, 317
— Design, Artists’ Impressions in, 546
in. Comment on, 650. See LETTER, 708
— Designers. See Designers
Engineering Diamonds, Ltd., Grinding Wheel Precision Dressing Slide Unit (Trade Publication), 403
— Economics, Sociology and Philosophy in,
by Prof. D. G. Christopherson, 353
—? Education. See Education
— Enrolment in United States, by N. N,
Barish (Review), 83
— Exhibition, Preliminary Announcement,
229; Prologue to, 263. See also 257, 289; Exhibits at, 264*, 296*, 315*, 328*;
Welding Exhibits at, 317; Dust-Free Grit Blasting Machine Exhibited at (Vacu- Blast, Ltd.), 396; Explosion-Proof Motors Exhibited at (Newman Industries), 568; See also 289
— Firms in Free Trade Area, 9*, 105*, 169,
233, 302*, 364, 428*, 525*, 589, 651
— Geology and Geotechnics, Principles of,
by D. P. Krynine and W. R. Judd (Review), 16
— Heat Transfer, Principles of, by W. H.
Giedt (Review), 594
— History of Derbyshire, by F. Nixon (Re
view), 242
— at Home, 493, 556*, 621*, 684*, 753*, 811*
— and Industrial Achievement in Canada
(1956), 119
— Industry, British, Comparison of Per
formance of, in Export Markets, with Foreign Countries, 422
Capital Expenditure in 104 Economic Planning in, 810 Effect of Increased Bank Rate on, 524 German, Slackening Pace of, 72 Heavy, in India, Report on, 167
Productivity in. Statistics Relating to, 799 ENGINEERING INFORMATION SERVICE, Use of Motivation Research in Market Surveys, 558
— Institute of Canada, Canada’s Engineering
and Industrial Achievements of 1956, 119; Recommencement of Transactions, 721
— Journal of General Motors, Note on, 563
— Laboratories. See Laboratories; National
Physical
— Maintenance, Handbook of, by L. C,
Morrow (Review), 370
— Marine, Welding and Nuclear Energy
Exhibition (Olympia). See Engineering Exhibition
— Materials, Machine Tools and Processes,
by W. Steeds (Book), 820
— Mathematics, by K. S. Miller (Review), 754
— Nuclear Power Impact on, 263
Propulsion and Traction Impact on, 263 Science Impact on, 263
— Numerical Methods in, by M. G. Salvador!
and M. L. Baron (Review), 754
— Origins of Television, 546*
— Process, Chemical and Mechanical, Appli
cations of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer to, by J. M. Kay (Review), 594
— Products in Canada, Market Guide to, 778* Canadian Imports of, from United
Kingdom and United States, 778*
— Safety Regulations in. Imperial Chemical
Industries, Ltd., Manuals on, 337
— and Scientific Education, Importance of, 481
— and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, Association
of. Involvement in Strike at de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., 640
— Societies. See Institutions
Engineering Society, Women’s, Remarks on Conference of, by Miss H. Bailey, 736
— Standards for Pressure Die Castings
(Brochure), 775
See also Standards Institution
— System, by H. H. Goode and R. E. Machol
(Review), 470
Analysis by, R. L. Sutherland, 657 Introduction to Design of Large-Scale Systems, by H. H. Goode and R. E, Machol (Review), 498
— Uses of Rubber, by A. T. McPherson and
A, Klemin (Book), 51
— Works. See IVorks
— See also Civil, Electrical, Mechanical,
Production, Structural, etc.
English Card Clothing Co., Annual Report, 134
— Channel, Oil Pollution in. Discussion in
Parliament on, 63
English Electric Co., Ltd., 20-MW Gas- Turbine-Driven Alternators for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford, 52*; Electrical Plant for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56; Development of “P. 1.” Single-Seat Fighter Aircraft, 123*; Supersonic Weapons System in “P.l” Single-Seat Fighter Aircraft, 123; Diesel Drilling Units for Oilfields Operations (Trade Publication), 149; Flame-Proof Electric Motors for Mining Conditions (Trade Publication), 149; P. IB Supersonic All-Weather Fighter Aircraft, 259*; Overseas Orders for Electric Locomotives, 262; Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 267; Altitude Record Flight in “Canberra” Aircraft, 295; “ EM27P ” Industrial Gas-Turbine, 296*; “ Thunderbird ” Semi-Active Homing Anti-Aircraft Missile, 350*; Contract for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, 380*; Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, 412*; Dual-Fuel Vertical Naturally-Aspirated Diesel Engines, 3 KD Type, for Brancote Sewage Works, 489; 20- MVA Transformer for Electric Arc Furnace, 521; DEUCE Electronic Digital Computer at Royal Aircraft Establishment (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 623; Aircraft, Electrics Laboratories of, 655*; Variable-Speed Drives for Test-Plant (Trade Publication), 657; Direct Hydrogen-Cooling of Rotor and Stator Alternators, 690; RK/V and RL Mark II Diesel Engines (Trade Publication), 783; 3,120-h.p. Electric Locomotives for Indian Railways, 806
English Electric-Babcock and Wilcox-Taylor Woodrow, Activities and Constitution of, 770
English Steel Corp., Ltd., Cinema Film “ Forgemasters in Steels ” on Large Steel Forgings, 584
— for Technical Colleges, by A. R. Moon
(Review), 306
Engraving Tool, Ultrasonic, for Hard Brittle Materials (Mullard, Ltd.), 332
Enims, Production Policy of, 411; Balancing Machine for Lathe Spindles, Model 9B725A, 586*; Balancing Machine for Workpieces, Model 9736A, 587*; Floating Store for Bearing Races, 587*; Grinding and Gear-Cutting Machines, 522*; Turret Lathes, 555*; High-Frequency and Ultrasonic Surface Hardening at, 616; Magnetic Powder Clamp, 616
Ensilage Methods in Netherlands, 568*
— Methods in Sweden, 568*
Ente Nazionale Indrocarburi, Nuclear Power Station for Italy, 699
E,N.V, Engineering Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 265
Environment and Intelligence in Children, Experiments on, by Dr, S. Wiseman, 384 Epoxide Resin. See Resin Epoxy Resin. See Resin
Equations, Differential, Ordinary, Two-Point Boundary Problems in Numerical Solution of, by L. Fox (Review), 754
Equipment, Design of. Body Dimensions for, 197*
Data on Human Performance for, by K. F. H. Murrell, 194*
— for Human Use, Design of, 195*
— and Plant, 263*, 296*, 328*, 360*, 396*, 425*, 458*, 490*, 521*, 553*, 585*, 617*, 647*, 680*, 712*, 741*, 774*, 807*
Equiverse ” Scale-Free Heating System (Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd.), 330*
Erhard, Dr., Efforts to End Inflation, 480; Programme for German Industry, 650
Erie Mining Co., Processing of Low-Grade Iron-Ore Deposits in Minnesota, 327
Erosion, Coastal, Application of Radioactive Isotopes to, 794
Errochty Hydro-Electric Power Station of North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, 139*
Escher Wyss Maschinenfabrik, A.G., Visit to, by Junior Institution of Engineers, 69 Espionage, Industrial, Comment on, 672 Essex Technical College, South-East. See South-East Essex
Esso Magazine, Note on Special Issue on Energy and Man, 687
Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., Factors in Siting of Oil Refineries, 134; Extensions at Fawley Refinery, 200; Plans for Oil Refinery and Oil Tanker Terminal at Milford Haven, 231; Consulting Home Heating Service; 556; Permanent Exhibition of Oil-Fired Central Heating and Hot-Water Systems, 556
Esso Research and Engineering Co., Development of Butyl Synthetic Rubber, 775
Estimating, Duplication of, Remarks on, by Sir G. Nelson, 622
Ethylene Polymers, Technology and Uses of, by A. Renfrew and P. Morgan (Review), 436
ETR Nuclear Reactor, Criticality Achieved, 475
Reactor, Possible Use of Plutonium, 475 Reactor, Short Description of, 475
Ets Neyrpic, Liquid Flow, Level and Pressure Measuring Instruments (Trade Publication), 279
Euco Tools, Ltd., “Holemaster” Equipment for Spacing Holes without Jig Borer, 150* Euratom. See European Atomic Energy Commission
Europe. Eastern, Qrders for British Firms from, 81
— Economic Commission for. Annual Bulletin
of Gas Statistics for Europe, 6, 119
— Freer Trade in (H.M.S.Q. Publication), 6
— Gas Statistics for, Annual Bulletin of, 6, 119
— Hand-Tool Markets, Competition for.
Remarks by H. C. Pease, 463
— Heating Systems in, by R. Cadiergues, 47
— Iron and Steel Industry in. Analysis of, by
Qrganisation for European Economic Cooperation, 399
— Motor-Car Air Lift to. Statistics for, 27
— Motorisation in. Prospect of, by Sir W.
Rootes, 147
— Nuclear Fuel Processing Plant Proposed for,
157
— United States of. Discussion on Concept of,
186
— Western, Bauxite Resources, 105
Exports of Motor-Cars and Motor- Vehicles from, 589*
Import Duties on Motor Cars in, 590* Motor-Car and Chassis Production, 589* Scientific and Technical Manpower in (Review), 402
European Atomic Energy Commission, Comment on Britain’s Non-Membership, 135. See LETTER, 229; France as Member of, 188; Need for Development of Nuclear Power in Countries Comprising, 777
— Coal and Steel Community, Output of
Member Firms, 6; Review of First Five Years of, 186; Organisation, 187*; High Authority’s Functions, 187; Adaptation of Steel Firms to, 188; Problems of Ore and Scrap, 188; Major Technical Developments of, 201; Sponsored Research of, 201; Social Policy of, 201; See also 199; Real Incomes of Workers in the Community (Leaflet), 256; Annual Investment Survey of, 777; Building Programmes of, 111; Handing Over of 10,000th Worker’s House, 111', Need for Nuclear Power in Countries of. 111
European Common Market and British Industry, by H. H. Leisner, 354
Market, British Industry’s Attitude to, 719
Market, Course on, at Polytechnic (Regent Street), 147
Market, Effects on Economic Planning, 810
— — Market, Effect on Free Trade Area, 363 Market, Effect of Harmonisation of
Wages on, 365
Market, France’s Position in, 231 Market, France’s Ratification of, 71 Market, Harmonisation of Wages and Working Conditions in, 6
Market, Italy’s Views on, 103
Market, Ratification by Italian Chamber of Deputies, 103
Market, Swiss Views on, 169
Market, Tariffs in, 652
— Economic Community. See European
Common Market
—? — Co-operation, Organisation for. See Organisation
-— Free Trade, Remarks on Conference on, by A. Lucas, 719
— — Trade. See also European Common
Market: Eree Trade Area
— Iron and Steel Community, Special Labour
Card for Obtaining Work in Foreign Member States, 320
and Steel Community, Potentialities of, 524
— Monetary Fund, Suggested Formation of,
363
— Organisation for Nuclear Research. See
Nuclear Research, European Organisation for
— School-Leaving Certificate, 288
— Trade, Likely Developments in, by T.
Vinell, 685
Evacuators, Howden-Lysholm Helical-Lobe Positive Displacement, for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56
Evans, B. L., on Structure and Stability of Inorganic Azides, 140
Evans, Dr, J, C., on Precision Comparator for Small Cylinders, 182*; on (Continuous Thickness Measuring of Thin, Soft Sheet and Film, 631 *
Evans, J. L, on Initiation of Condensed Explosives by Compression of Surrounding Clas, 141
Evans, M,, Awarded Prize by Industrial Art Committee of Federation of British Industries, 222
Evans Medical Supplies, Ltd., Moriarty (Inspector of Taxes) v., 743
Evaporation and Rainfall, Records and Measurement of, 311
Evaporative Condenser. See Condenser Evaporators, Sea-Water, “ Thermoflex ” Heating Element for (Trade Publication), 531
Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., “ Noflote ” Level Control, 178*; Float-Operated Level Alarm Switches, 208; Displacer-Type Liquid-Level Transmitter, 209
Excavator, Mechanical, “ EKG4,” 354* Exchange Control Acts, 159
— of Students for Technical Experience, Inter
national Association for. Progress of, 640; Vacation Training (Handbook), 640
Executive, Business, Successful, by L, Spencer, 399
— Life, Stresses and Strains of, by Dr, J. J.
O’Dwyer, 704
— Physical and Psychological Complaints of,
192
— “ Silver Cloud ” Motor Car Designed to
Meet Need of (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 416
Exemption from National Service for Science and Technology Graduates Undertaking Further Education, Discussion in Parliament on, 703
Exhaust-Gas Heating System for “ MAZ 530 ” 40-Ton Truck, 410*
— Steam Turbine. See Turbine, Steam
— Turbo-Supercharger, Brown Boveri, in
Mirrlees KSCDM Six-Cylinder Engine for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663 Exhibition, Accident Prevention, Automatic Telephone and Electric Co., 544
— “ Atom 1957,” 219
— Boy Scouts’ World Jubilee Jamboree, Engi
neering Exhibits at, 273
— British Fair of Industry and Commerce
(Manchester), Discussion in Parliament on Exhibits for, 831
Plastics, Exhibits at, 89*
— British Timken Show, 273
— Building, Working Model of Small-Bore
Qil-Fired Heating System at (Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd.), 493
— Business Efficiency, Exhibits at, 66*
— on Chemical and Pretroleum Engineering
Industries, Preliminary Announcement, 586
— Cologne International Spring Fair, 1958,
Preliminary Notice of, 684
— and Conferences, Forthcoming, 126, 274,
398, 527, 683, 812
— and Congress, International, of Measuring
Instrumentation and Automation (Inter- kama), (Diisseldorf), Preliminary Announcement, 273
— on Corrosion (Royal Horticultural Society’s
Qld Hall), 230, 583
— Crystal Palace Trade Fair, Proposal, Dis
cussion in Parliament on, 31
— Education and Careers, National, Pre
liminary Announcement, 492
— Electrical Engineers, Decision Concerning
Form of, 27
— Engineering. See Engineering Exhibition
— Frankfurt Motor Show, 391*
— for Geneva Conference on Peaceful Uses of
Atomic Energy, 669
— “ Het Atoom,” Nuclear Reactor Exhibits
at, 124*
— Industrial, Moscow, 323*, 324*, 356
— International Autumn Trade Fair, Vienna,
Activities of Birmingham Exchange and Engineering Centre at, 558
—? — Machine Tool, Report of Exhibition Committee on, 72
?—? — Trade Fair in Britain, Proposal for, 31
— Japanese International Trade Fair (Qsaka,
1958), 27
— Levant Fair (Bari), British Nuclear Power
Station Exhibits at, 348
— Qverseas Fairs, Representation at. Discus
sion in Parliament on, 31
— of Paintings by Two Chimpanzees at Insti
tute of Contemporary Arts Gallery, Comment on, 416
— Permanent, of Foreign Periodicals by
RUCH, Preliminary Notice of, 625
of Oil-Fired Central Heating and Hot- Water Systems at Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd., 556
— Poznan Fair, Orders for British Firms from,
81
— Professional Photography, Merit Award to
J. H. Jochimsen, 348
— Radio Show (Olympia), Exhibits at, 317
— Railway Travel, 541
— on Research at Dounreay, 476
— Rockets, at Cranfield College of Aeronau
tics, 101
— Royal Engineers Works Services, 5*
— Satellites, at Cranfield College of Aeronau
tics, 101
— Smithfield Show, Tractors Exhibited at, 741 *
— Society of British Aircraft Constructors.
See British Aircraft Constructors, Society of —? Telecommunications, Past, Present and Future, 593
— Titanium in Chemical and Allied Plant
(Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 107
— Trade Fairs and (Broadsheet), 27
— United States World Trade Fair (New
York), Note on, 719
— Vancouver Fair, Preliminary Notice, 463
— World Fair (1958), Brussels, Preview, 514* Expandite, Ltd., “ Metagalv ” Galvanising
Paint (Trade Publication), 279
Expeditions in Search of American Northwest Passage, Soldered Food Cans for, 386
— Training in Royal Navy, by Sub-Lt. M. K.
Matthews, R.N., 706*
Expenditure, Household, in 1953-54, Report of Enquiry into. Comment on, 577
— and Income, National (1957), 363 Experimental Tank. See Ship Models Explosion and Acceleration Laboratory of
Aircraft Equipment Division of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655
— Causes, Prevention, Control and Suppres
sion of, 39
— Crankcase: Investigation into Factors
Governing Selection of Protective Devices, by H. G. Freeston, J. D. Roberts and A. Thomas, 303
by W. P. Mansfield, 303
in Marine Engines, by J. H. Burgoyne and D. M. Newitt, 303
— Initiation of, by Light, by J. A. McAuslan,
141
—? — by Neutrons, a-Particles and Fission Products, by F. P. Bowden, 140
— Proof Motors (Newman Industries), 568
— by Shock, Initiation of, by K. K. Andreev,
141
— in Solids, Growth of, by A. D. YoR'e, 140 Initiation and Growth of. Discussion on,
at Royal Society, 140*
— ?— Secondary Explosives, Initiation of, by
G. B. Cook, 140
Explosives, Condensed, Initiation of, by Compression of Surrounding Gas, by J. 1. Evans and A. M. Yuill, 141
— Effect of Nuclear Radiation on, by J. V. R.
Kaufman, 141
— Initiation of, by Shock, by G. P. Cachia, and
E. G. Whitbread, 142
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Explosives, Liquid, Initiation of, by Shock, and Importance of Liquid Break-Up, by C. H. Johansson, et alia, 142
— Primary, Ignition of, by Electric Discharges,
by R. M. H. Wyatt, P. W. J. Moore, G. K. Adams and J. F. Sumner, 141
— Solid, Energy Requirements for Ignition of,
by G. J. Bryan and E. C. Noonan, 141 Initiation of, by Shock Waves and by
Impact, by C. W, Lampson and R. J. Eichelberger, 142
— — Secondary, Initiation of Explosion in, by
G. B. Cook , 140
Export Credits Guarantee Department, Appointment and Constitution of Independent Committee to Consider Suitability and Status of, 363
Export Guide of General Electric Co., Note on, 147
— Import Bank, Negotiation of Loans for
India from, 427
— Trade. See Trade
Extruded Section, Aluminium, as Frankework for Transparent Plastics Panel Lighting, 753*
Eyring, H., on Kinetic Problems of Fast Reactions, 142
F.86 ” Aircraft, Leading Edge Area-Suction and Jet-Blown Trailing Edge Flap Tests on, 379*
Faber, O., and Partners, Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Factory Accidents. See Accidents
— Acts, Safety Regulations in Shipbuilding,
223
— Automatic, What Does it Mean?, 470
— Buildings, Glass in. Criticism of, 658* Increase in. Comment on, 40
— — Integration of Natural and Artificial
Lighting in, 659*
— ?—? Monitor Roofs in, 658* Roof Glazing in, 658*
?—? — Roof Lights in, 658* Windows in. Criticism of, 658*
— Chemical, Electrical Engineering in. Safety
in (Booklet), 337
— Closing of. Comment on Informing Work
People of, 512
— under Construction for Caterpillar Tractor
Co. at Glasgow, 542*
?— of Dallow, Lambert and Co., Ltd., at Thur- maston, 477*
?— Electric Lighting Standards in, 578*
— Employment of Women in. See Women
under Labour
— Layout, Effect of Lighting on, by W. Robin
son, 658*
— Management. See Management
— Organisation in Russia, 324*, 460*
— Processes, Fogs and Mists from, 39
— Production Halls, Precast, Prestressed, at
Ballymena, for Gallaher, Ltd., 733*
— Russian, Organisation of, 441
— Setting Up in New Area, Problems of, 480
— Soviet, Engineers and Technicians in.
Statistics of, 324*, 460*
— Training of Workers Within the (Review),
436
— Welfare Work in. See Welfare under
Labour
“ Fail-Safe ” Aircraft Pressure-Cabins, 727
— Aircraft Structures, 407*
— Designing to, 276, 277, 289 Fair, Trade. See Exhibition
Fairclough, L., Ltd., Construction of Foundations of Runcorn-Widnes Road Bridge, 446
Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., “ Fireflash ” Air-to- Air Guided-Weapon System, 250*; “ Fireflash ” Air-to-Air Beam-Rider Guided Weapon, 259*; “F.D.2” Supersonic
Research Aircraft, 259*; “Fireflash” Guided Weapon System, 349; to Join Atomic Power Construction Group, 414; Photo-Electric “ Safety ” Ohmmeter for Testing Firing Circuits, 585*; Member of Atomic Power Constructions, Ltd., 700; Annual Report, 710
Fairhurst, H. S., and Son, New Bays at Superheater Co., Ltd., 602
Fans and Blowers (Trade Publication), 657
— Engineering, Heating, Ventilating Refrigera
tion and. National College for. Activities of, 39; Environmental Hvgiene, Lectures, 431
— Main and Auxiliary, for 200,000-lb.
Cyclone-Fired Boiler at Kynoch Works of Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Davidson and Co., Ltd.), 689
— Noise Characteristics of. Acoustics Labora
tory for Investigation of (Keith Blackman Ltd.), 696*
Farina, P., Expansion of Coachbuilding Facilities, 674*
Farm Buildings Research Station, Discussion in Parliament on Establishment of, 127
— Mechanization Handbook, by T. Hammond
(Book), 119
— See also Agriculture; Crops
Farmer, M. H., an Effect of Grain-Boundary Sliding on Creep, 423
Farmhouse, Polyethylene Film Wrapping for, 811*
Farming. See Agriculture; Tractors Farnborough Show. See British Aircraft Constructors
Farr, P. J., on Solid Petrol, 677
Farrer, L. W., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Villiers Engineering Co., 711
Farrow and Jackson, Ltd., Hand-Operated Elevating Trolley, 522*
Fatigue of Aluminium Alloy, 236*, 239*
— Experiments, Statistical, Time Saving in, by
Dr. N. T. Bloomer, 603*
— as Factor in Limited-Life Design, 236*
— Failure, Determination of Frequency-Dis
tribution Curves for, 275*
— of High-Temperature Steels, 236*
— Industrial, See under Labour
Fatigue Life, Safe, Weibull’s Method for Determining, 275*
— of Mild Steel, 236*
— of Steam-Turbine Blades, by Prof. J. B.
den Hartog, 662
?— Strength of Thermit Welded Railway Rails, by R. S. Loubser, 11
?— Tests. See Tests {Materials}
Fawcett-Finney, Ltd., Hydraulic Pumps and Presses, 299; Hydraulic Valve for Solenoid Operation, 299
Fawley Refinery, Extensions at, 200
“ F.D.2 ” Supersonic Research Aircraft (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 259*
Fedden, Sir R., on Britain’s Air Survival (Book), Comment on, 225
Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich). See Technology, Federal Institute of
Federation of British Industries, Overseas Scholarship Scheme, 192; Annual Report, 192; Award of Prize by Industrial Art Committee to M. Evans, 222; Report on European Free Trade Area, 462; Conference of Scottish Council of, on Exports and Overseas Sales Promotion (Gleneagles), 492; Pavilion at Brussels World Fair (1958), 515*; Education Com
mittee of. Second National Conference Between Industry and Technical Colleges, 576; Report on Taxation in Proposed Free Trade Area, 588; Comment on Overseas Scholarship Scheme of, 736; Recommendations on Patent Progress, 749
— for Documentation, International, Manual
on Document Reproduction and Selection, Note on, 499
— of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. See Rhodesia
— Pumps. See Pumps
Feed Support, Roll-Slide (Step Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 618*
Feeders for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Hepburn Conveyor Co., Ltd.), 536*
Feeding Stulfs, Animal, Wagon for Bulk Delivery of, 95
Feilden, G. B. R., on Contributions of Cambridge Men to Mechanical Engineering, 68 Felt, Glass, “ Versil,” Pipe Wrapping Material (Regina Glass Fibre, Ltd.), 584
Female Labour. See Women under Labour
Fenton, W. D. D., on Electricity from Owen Falls, 804
Ferguson “ Model 35 ” Tractor, Production of (Standard Motor Co., Ltd.), 8*
— “ Teramala ” Hydro-Kinetic Motor-Car
Dive, 573
Fermi Age Model of Neutrons Continuous Slowing-Down 814*
Fermi Patent, Philips Electrical, Ltd. vs. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on, 220
Ferranti, Ltd., Computer-Controlled Flame- Cutting Machine, 84*; Annual Report, 168; “Bloodhound” Surface-to-Air Guided Weapon System, 350*; Guidance and Control Equipment for “ Bloodhound ” Surface-to-Air Guided Weapon System, 350; Lightweight Transformers for Portable Tools, 362*; 75th Anniversary of Foundation of, 455; Digital Computer Applications (Trade Publication), 531; Automatic Computer-Controlled Flame-Cutting Machine for Steel Plate, 774*; Ferrite Cores as Memory Storage System in “ Mercury ” Computer, 824*
Ferrier, A., on Revolution on Landing Strip, 646
Ferrite Cores as Memory Storage System in “ Mercury ” Computer (Ferranti, Ltd.), 824*
— Single-Crystal, Production and Properties
of. Work on at Mullard Research Laboratories, 464
— and Transistors, Work on at Mullard Re
search Laboratories, 464
Ferro-Concrete. See Concrete, Reinforced
— Electric Materials, Study of, at Electrical
Research Association, 94
Material, Triglycine Sulphate (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 235
“ Ferromax ” Manual Welding Electrode for Mild Steel (Quasi-Arc, Ltd.), 457
Festival of Films in Service of Industry (Harrogate), Review of, 619
F. I.A.T. “ C757 S ” Two-Stroke Crosshead Diesel Engine, by Dr. Ing. A. Gregoretti, 58
“ Fiat 500 ” Motor Car, 95*, 519
Fiat Motor Co., Production of “ Fiat 500 ” Motor-Car at Mirafiori Sud Factory, 95*; Expansion into New Fields, 146; “ Vian- china ” Motor Car, 519*; Small Motor- Car Production by, 590
Fibres, Metal, Sintering of (American Viscose Corp), 424
— Metallurgy, 424
— Synthetic, Acrylic, Plant of Courtaulds,
Ltd., at Coventry, 424
— — Ardil Project, Rejection of, 390
and Engineers (Trade Publication), 625 Fibreglass, Ltd., Glass Fibre Air Filters (Trade Publication), 307
— Boat Construction (John 1. Thornycroft &
Co., Ltd.), 602*
Fibrous Material, Lightweight, for Spares Packaging (Resil Products, Ltd.), 397 Fielden Electronics, Ltd., “ Tektor J ” On/Off Leve 1 Controller, 177*
Fielding and Platt, Ltd., 4,500-ton Hydraulic Press for Heavy Steel Plate for Nuclear Pressure Vessels, 713*
Filing Machine. See Machine Tools
Filling and Closing Machines for Food Canning, 387*, 388*
Film Capacitor, Oxide, Development of, at Electrical Research Association, 94
— (Cinema) “ Air Controlled,” on Com
pressed Air Equipment, 84
Carbon Content of Steel, 457
Construction of Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station and Dounreay Fast Breeder Reactor, 476
Exhibited at International Scientific Film Association Congress (Amsterdam), 619 Flame-Cleaning of Steelwork for Painting, 155
Film (Cinema) “ Forgemasters in Steel,” on
Large Steel Forgings, 584
Forming of Metals (Shell-Mex and B.P.,
Ltd.), 806
Grain Structure of Steel, 457
Heat-Treatment of Steel, 457 —? — High-Speed Flight, 85
Hiroshima, 158
— •— Industrial Screen, New Journal on, 17 Manipulation of Corrosion and Heat-
Resisting Steels, 551
Nuclear Achievements, Soviet, 158
— —-Nucleonic Measurement, 158
Nucleonic Measurement (Baldwin Instrument Co., Ltd.), 633
Opportunity to Let (Annacis Industrial Estate), 714
Petroleum Films Bureau Service, 149_
— ?— “ Redux ” Bonding Process (Aero
search, Ltd.), 62
— — Scientific Eilm Review, 403 Selling by. Comment on, 622,
LETTER, 676
Soviet Nuclear Achievements, 158
— — Steel Metallography, 457 Test Flight 263, on Aeronautical
search, 821
Thickness Gauging, 158
?—? — Titanium Pigment Story, 243 Uses of, 619. See LETTER, 676
— — Weekend at Le Mans, on Motor Racing,
821
— ?— Where the “ Staybrite ” Steels are Made,
551
Year’s 16-mm. Films (Booklet), 403 for Youth Recruitment and Vocational
Guidance, Comment on Use of, 480 See also Festival of Films See also Scientific Film Association Film Cooling Towers (1925), Ltd., Cooling
Towers for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56; Model of Induced-Draught Cooling Tower with “ All Film Flow ” Packing, 332, 615. See LETTER, 676
— Metal, Thin, Research into, 781
— Oil, Sliding, High-Speed, Thin, Hydro
caloric Theory of, 780
— Polyester, “ Melinex ” (Imperial Chemical
Industries, Ltd.), 89*
— Tin, Soft, Continuous Thickness Measuring
of, by Dr. J. C. Evans, 1. G. Morgan, B. S. W. Mann, and F. C. P. Mason, 631*
Filters and Air Cleaners (Trade Publication), 657
— Air, for Electric and Diesel-Electric Loco
motives (Trade Publication), 821
“ Fleetway ” (Trade Publication), 307 Glass Fibre (Trade Publication), 307
— ?— Renewable, Automatic, Roll-O-Matic
(Trade Publication), 657
Screen-Type, Automatic, “ Auto-Roll,” for Air Conditioning and Ventilator Systems (Yokes, Ltd.), 333
?—? Exhibited at Engineering Exhibition, 333
— Oil, Self-Cleaning, “ Zwickleen ” (Zwicky,
Ltd.), 333
— Rotor, Hydro, “ Keno ” (Keith Blackman,
Ltd.), 335
— Separator, Bulk Fuel, “ Purolator ” (Auto
motive Products Co., Ltd.), 266*
?— Unit, Magnetic, for High-Pressure Oil System, 780*
Filtration System, Fuller’s Earth, for Rolling Oil Installation at Venesta, Ltd. (Paterson Engineering Co., Ltd.), 503*
Finance Corporation for Industry, Annual Report, 200
Public, Functions of, by Lord Bruce, 200 Finance, Local Government, White Paper on, 71
Financial Aspects of City of London, 752 Financial Times Analysis of Company Profit
Figures, 390
Financing of Industrial Companies, Problem of, 517
Finish in Russian Design, Standards of, 411 Finland, Tractors for, 464
Finlayson, T. C., on Position and Prospects of Woodall-Duckham, Ltd., 39
Finmeccanica, Constitution and Activities of, 682
Fire Brigades’ Union, Annual Conference, 32
— in Cargo Ships, by A. M. Bennett, 83
— Fighting, Hydraulic Turntable Ladder for
(Merryweather and Sons, Ltd.), 183*
— — Tenders of Auxiliary Eire Service,
Heavy-Duty Single-Stage Centrifugal Pump, Type FN5, for (Sigmund Pumps, Ltd.), 241*
— Hazard of Flame-Cutting and Welding,
(Bulletin), 825
— at Jaguar Cars, Ltd., Reconstruction after
796*
— Open, “ Airdale ” with Restrictor-Reflector
(Richard Baxendale and Sons, Ltd.), 811
— Precaution, Roof Venting as (Trade Publi
cation), 657
— Prevention at New Factory of Dunlop
Rubber Co., Ltd., 282
— Protection Association, Fire Hazard of
Cutting and Welding (Bulletin), 825
Bulletin on Flame Cutting and Welding, 825
— Retardant, “ Dohmseal,” for Building
Materials (Dohm, Ltd.), 424*
— Service, Auxiliary, Fire-Fighting Tenders
of, Heavy-Duty Single-Stage Centrifugal Pump, Type FN5, for (Sigmund Pumps, Ltd.), 241*
Firebricks. See Refractory Materials
“ Fireflash ” Air-to-Air Guided Weapon (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 250*, 259*, 349
“ Firestreak ” Air-to-Air Guided Weapon (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 259*
— Guided-Weapon System and Components
(de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 349*
— Guided-Weapon System, Launching Shoes
for, 349
Fireye Controls Co., Ltd., Flame-Failure Safeguard Equipment, 115
First State Ball Bearing Factory. See GPZ Firth, A. F., on Position and Prospects of Card
Clothing and Belting Co., 134
Firth Brown News; Note on, 119
Firth, T,, and J. Brown, Ltd., Forged 120-MW Steam-Turbine Rotor Shaft for Staythorpe “B” Power Station, 329*; Hollow- Forged Steam-Boiler Drum, 329
Firth-Vickers Stainless Steels, Ltd., F.V. 520 Hardenable and Weldable High-Tensile Stainless Steel, 551
Fischer, G., A.G,, Visit to, by Junior Institution of Engineers, 69; Castings for Water Turbines (Trade Publication), 563
Fish Authority, White, Report on Gas-Turbine Propulsion for Fishing Boats, 400
Fisher, E. M., on Economic Aspects of Land Use Patterns, 399
Fisher Governor Co., Ltd., Direct-Operated Ball-Float Level Controllers, 208*; Displacer-Type Pneumatic Liquid Level Con- troller/Transmitters, 209
Fisher and Ludlow, Comment on Strike at, 288 “ Fishgraph,” Marconi, for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663
Fishing Boats. See also Trawlers
— Fleets, Echo-Sounding Techniques for
(Kelvin and Hughes (Marine), Ltd.), 400*
— “ MS30 ” Echo-Sounder for Open-Boats,
400*
“ Fishscope ” for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663
Fison, Sir C., Remarks on Government’s Policy for Agriculture, 711
Fisons, Ltd., New Installation near Ammonia Plant at Shellhaven, 200; Electronic Photocell Counter (Electronic Machine Co., Ltd.), 209*; Manufacture of Insecticides, 711; Developments of, 711
Fission Factor, Fast, in Reactor Systems, 786* Fission, Nuclear. See Nuclear Fission Fistedis, S. H., on Vibration-Resistant Foundations, 550. See LETTER, 677
Fitting of Shafts in Holes. See Gauges
“ Fi-Vi ” Expanded Unplasticised Polyvinyl Chloride Sheet Laminated with Resin- Bonded Glass Fibres (Whiffen and Sons, Ltd.), 89
“ FL.4500 ” Battery-Operated Fork-Truck (Ransomes, Sims, and Jefferies, Ltd.), 331 Flame-Cleaning. See Cleaning
?— Cutting, Fire Hazard of (Bulletin), 825 Machine, Automatic Computer-Controlled, for Steel Plate, 774*
— Failure Safeguard Equipment (Fireye Con
trols Co., Ltd.), 115
— Furnace, Luminous, Control of Radiation
from, 314
— and Industry, Symposium on. Preliminary
Notice, 369
— Planer Head, “ Hancoplane ” (Hancock &
Co. (Engineers), Ltd.), 268
— Profiling by Automatic Computer-Con
trolled Flame-Cutting Machine, 774*
— Research Committee, British, Symposium
on Flames and Industry, Preliminary Notice, 369
Flameproof Tests in Acceleration and Explosion Laboratory of Aircraft Equipment Division of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655 Flange Stiffness in Plate Girder Design, by Dr. K. C. Rockey, 788*
Flash Testing of Capacitor Elements at Elizabeth Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 155*
Flats, London County Council, Electric Floor Warming for, by R. J. Allerton, 621
Fleck, Sir A., on Growth of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 40; Investigation of Accident at Windscale No. 1 Pile, 635 Fleet. See Warships
“ Fleetway ” Air Filter (Trade Publication), 307 Flexible Drives (Gilmans), Ltd., Air-Motor Driven Rotating Brush for Cleaning Billet Moulds in situ, 361*
Flight. See Aeronautics
Flintham, E., on Tests for Use in Approval of Welders, 73
Floating Construction Unit, “ Uniflote,” for Building Floating Platforms (Thomas Storey (Engineers), Ltd.), 350*
— Dock. See Dock
— Drag Centrifuge for Marine Service
(Sharpies Centrifuges, Ltd.), 330*
— Platforms, “ Uniflote ” Floating Construc
tion Unit for Building (Thomas Storey (Engineers), Ltd.), 350*
Flood Discharges and Rainfall in a Catchment, Self-Registering Rain and Flood Gauges in Observations of, by T. J. Mulvany, 375*
— Gauges, Self-Registering, in Observations
of Flood Discharges in a Catchment, by T. J. Mulvany, 375*
— Peaks, Estimating, Rational Method for,
by J. C. I, Dooge, 311*, 374*
— Run-Off's, Estimation of (1842-47), 312 Floor Construction, Composite Beams for
(Mackey Bowley and Co., Ltd.), 600
— Warming, Electric, for London County
Council Flats, by R. J. Allerton, 621
Electrical, by J. W. Moule and W. M. Stevenson, 621 *
System (Panelec (Great Britain), Ltd)., 621*
Flooring Material, “ Linotol ” (Springhill Products, Ltd.), 811
Florida Nuclear Power Group, Proposal for Nuclear Power Plant Fuelled with Natural Uranium, 217
“ Flostat ” Automatic Flow Controller (Trade Publication), 307
Flow Controller, Automatic, “ Flostat” (Trade Publication^ 307
— Heat, Distribution of, in High-Duty
Internal Combustion Engines, by J. F. Alcock, J. V. B. Robson, and C. Mash, 58 ?— Laminar, Applied to Long-Range Transport Aircraft, Research on (Handley Ltd.), 293
— and Mass Production, Principles
F. G. Woollard (Review), 470
“ Flowmaster ” Vertical Centrifugal (J. H. Carruthers and Co., Ltd.), 334*
Flowmeters, Electromagnetic, at British Scientific Research Assocation, 781
— Ultrasonic, at British Scientific Research
Association, 781
Flue Dust Collector, “ Dusman ” (Trade Publication), 657
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XXXV
Flue Gases,Reduction of Sulphur in,by Metallic Additives in Combustion Zone, by W. J. Peck, and Dr. B. J. Zaczek, 697*
— Pipe Fitments of Pressure-Moulded Asbes
tos Cement (Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 429
Fluid, Heat-Transfer, “ Dowtherm ” for High- Temperature Heating System (Rose, Downs and Thompson, Ltd.), 775
— Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Introduction
to, by J. M. Kay (Review), 594
“ Fluid Power ” Pneumatic and Low-Pressure Hydraulic Equipment for Heavy-Duty Industrial Applications (Trade Publication), 307
Fluidised-Bed Calcination, Pilot-Plant Demonstration (Phillips Petroleum), 255
Fluidrive Engineering Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 265
Fluorescent Lamps. See Lamps and Lighting under Electric
— Lighting. See Lamps and Lighting under
Electric
Fluorescers, Study of (Thomas Hedley and Co., Ltd.), 94
Fluorides as Nuclear Fuels, 604
Fluoroscopic and Radiographic Unit, 250-kV Constant-Potential (Mardoni Instruments, Ltd.), 107*
Flying, History of, by C. H. Gibbs-Smith, 279 Flyovers under Construction for British Railways, 508*
Flyunder under Construction for British Railways, 508
F.M.R., “ Tiger ” Motor Car, 519*
Fodder, Green, Conservation, by C. Culpin, 368*
Fog Chamber at Woolwich Arsenal, 39
— and Mists from Factory Processes, 39
— Research Unit, Work of, 39
Foil, Aluminium, Processing at Venesta, Ltd., 503*
Rolling Mills for, at Silvertown Works of Venesta, Ltd. (W. H. A. Robertson &, Co., Ltd.), 502*
Folk-Dancing of Railway Porters at stoke. Comment on, 224. See 229.
Folkes, J., on Position and Prospects
Folkes (Lye Forge), Ltd., 390
Basing- LETTER,
of John
Folkes, J. (Lye Forge), Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 390
Folland Aircraft, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 710
Follsain-Wycliffe Foundries, Ltd., “ Pulmac ” Fine Grinding Machine (Trade Publication), 403
Food Cans, Soldered, for Expeditions in Search of American Northwest Passage,
386
— Canning Industry, Use of Stainless Steel in,
387
— Industry, Hygiene in, 388 Refrigeration in, 388
— Irradiated, Symposium on (Cambridge),
475
“ Machinery, Canadian Imports of, from United Kingdom and United States, 778*
— Preservation, Principles of, 386*
— Processing and Canning, Engineering Fac
tors in, by Dr, J. Hawthorne, 386*, 550. See LETTER, 520
— Products, Mono “ Kwikleen K63 ”
gienic Pump for (Mono Pumps, Ltd.), 334*
— Quick-Frozen, 388
“ Science, 386
— Sterilisation by Radiation, 389
— See also Canning
Foot-Measure, Greek Olympic, 420* Origin of, by C. St. C. Davison, 418*
— Northern, for Measuring Land, 420 Footballers, Professional, Proposals for Reform of Remuneration of, 416
Footbridge, St. James’s Park, Army in Loading Tests on, 448
“ Force-on-a-Conductor ” Balance (Trade Publication), 499
Forces, Armed See Armed Forces
Ford, G. W. K., on Physics in Nuclear Reactor Design, 723*, 756*, 784*; on Physics in Nuclear Reactor Design: Summary of Elementary Nuclear Concepts, by G. W. K. Ford, 814*
Ford Motor Co., “ Edsel ” Motor Car, 357, 573*; Atoms for Peace Award, 606
Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects, 487; Management-Labour Relations at, 544; New Range of “ Thames Trader,” Commercial Motor Vehicles, 574*; “Mercury” Station Wagon, 573*; Use of Newton Centrifugal Motor-Car Clutch, 573; Description of Thames Foundry of, 701*; Fordson Dexta 32-h.p. Three- Cylinder Tractor, 741*
Ford-Ransome, Three-Ton, Two-Wheel Trailer for Use with Tractors, 214
Ford “ Taunus 17M ” Motor Car, 391*
Fordson Dexta 32-h.p. Three-Cylinder Tractor (Ford Motor Co., Ltd.), 741*
Foreign Office, Recruitment for, 192 Foremen and Rate Fixers at Harland
Ltd., Strike of, 320
Forgings, Airframe Structure and carriage, “ Fox 769 ” Steel for Fox and Co., Ltd.), 358
— Heavy, Exhibited at Engineering Exhibition,
329*
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools
— Steel, Large, Cinema Film “ Forgemasters
in Steel ” on, 584
Fork-Lift Truck. See Truck
Forman, A. N., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Hurst Nelson, 454
Forming of Metals, Cinema Film on (Shell- Mex and B.P., Ltd.), 806
Formula “ E ” for Preparation of Rusted Surfaces Prior to Painting (Plus-Gas Co., Ltd.), 583
— “ Four-Factor,” in Reactor Systems, 786* Fornallaz, P., on Work Simplification, 3
“ Fortrex 35A ” Welding Electrode for Welding Extra Thick Steel Plate (Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.), 235
Foster, B. F., on Limited-Life Design, 236*, 275*. See also 289
Hy-
and Wolff,
Under- (Samuel
Foster, G., on Universal Beams and Their Application, 601 *
Foster Transformers, Ltd., Low-Voltage Transformers, 17; Cast-in-Resin Trans- formers for Use with Portable Tools, 554*
Foster Wheeler Corp., Increase in Construction Price of Nuclear Power Plant at Mersey, Michigan, 446; Fluidised-Fuel Nuclear Reactor with Carbon Moderator, 730
Foundation of Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 35*
— Machine, by Dr. A. J. King, 103, 261, 677.
See also Vol. 183. See LETTERS, 70, 165, 166, 550
— Prestressed-Concrete, Vibration-Resistant,
by Dr. A. J. King, 261, 677. See LETTER, 550
Founding, Steel (Trade Publication), 625 Foundry Core Boxes, Pneumatic Vibrator for (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 120*
— Future Trends in, 748
“ Goggles, Report of Joint Advisory Committee on. Discussion in Parliament on, 703
— Practice, Applications of Alginates to, 12
— Shortage of Skilled Labour in, 748
— Steel, Gamma Radiography in: Layout of
Exposure Sites and Protective Measures, by G. M. Michie, 46*
— Thames, of Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Descrip
tion of, 701 *
<— Work. See also Die Casting
— See also Castings; Core; Moulding Foundrymen, British, Institute of:
Conference (Harrogate): Cupola as Economic Unit, son, 85
“ 4 C.V.” Motor-Car (Regie Usines Renault), 589
“ Four-99 ” 35-b.h.p. 4-Cylinder Agricultural and General-Purpose Diesel Engine (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 741
“ Four-Factor ” Formula in Reactor Systems, 786*
Fox 769 ” Steel for Undercarriage and Airframe-Structure Forgings (Samuel Fox &. Co., Ltd.), 358
Fox, S., and Co., Ltd., “ Fox 769 ” Steel for Undercarriage and Airframe-Structure Forgings, 358; “ Jethete 151” High-
Tensile Weldable Ferritic Stainless Steel for Aircraft Industry, 358
Foxboro-Yoxall, Ltd., Diaphragm-Box Liquid- Level Instrument,
Diaphragm-Type
Transmitter, 207; Manometer-Type ferential Pressure ' ‘ trollers, 207
Fracture, Brittle. See Brittle Fracture
Frames, Portal, Plastic Design of, by J. Heyman (Review), 148
France, Bauxite Resources, 105
— Bureau des Echanges Culturels et Sejours
I’Etranger, Scheme for Cultural Exchange for Children, 448
— in European Common Market, Position of,
231
— Index of Industrial Production in, 106
— Nuclear Energy in, Review of, 188*
— — Marine Propulsion in, 190 Reactors, 189
Reactors, G2 and G3, Details of, 217*
— Power Supply of, Cross-Channel Cable as
Link with British, 368
— Ratification of European Common Market,
71
— Trade Deficit, 105
— Uranium Concentrates in, Cost of Produc
tion of, 189
Ore Treatment Plant, 188*
Resources, 188
— See also French
Francis, F. C., on British Museum Catalogue, 783
Francis Turbine Sets, Vertical, at Errochty Hydro-Electric Power Station, 139
See also Turbines, Hydraulic
Frankfurt Motor Show, Review of, by G. Wilkins, 391*
— Relay Interlocking Signalbox at, 533*
Franklin, A. W., on Cracking and Rupture as Result of Creep, 423
Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, Crushers for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535
Frazer, W., Jnr., Remarks on Cable-Manufacturing Industry, 743
Free-Piston Gas Generators. See Gas Generators
Gasifiers. See Gasifiers
Free Trade Area and Agriculture, Dutch Views on, 327
•—Area, Appointment of R. Maudling to Supervise and Co-Ordinate Negotiations for, 198
Area, Balance of Payments Problem of, by Prof. J. E. Meade, 363
Area, British Industry’s Attitude to, 719 Area, British Iron and Steel Federation’s Views on, 524
Area, Diesel-Engine Competition in, 365 Area, Discussion in Parliament on. Proposals for, 831
Area, Effect on British Industry, 354 Area, Effect on Cement Market, 302 Area, Effect on Decimal Standards, 651
— —• Area, Effects on Economic Planning, 810 Area, Effect of European Common
Market on, 363
Area, Effect of Harmonisation of Wages on, 365
Area, Effect on Labour Costs and Availability of Manpower, 651
— — Area, Effect of Metric System, 651
Area, Effect on Motor-Car Industry, 590 Area, Effect on Standardisation of Units of Measurement, 651
Area, Engineering Firms in, 9*, 105*, 169, 233, 302*, 364, 428*, 525*, 589, 651
Area, Germany’s View on, 752
— — Area, Home Demands on, 651
Area, Implications of, Conference on, 397
Annual Hot-Blast- by J. Hender-
National Des
206*; “D/P Cell”
Differential Pressure
Liquid-Level Con-
Free Trade Area, Importance of Wages Harmonisation in Negotiations for, 557
Area, Industries Likely to Gain Suffer by, 198
— — Area, Meeting of Organisation
European Economic Co-operation on, Area, Negotiating Problems for, 1 marks by Sir E. Cohen, 557 Area and Netherlands, Note on, 327
— •—• Area, Obstacles to Progress of, 524 Area, Possible Effects on British Manufacturing Industry, Handbook on, 719
Area, Possible Effects on Renault Company, 589
Area, Possible Effect on Steel Industry, 588
— — Area, Prime Minister’s Views on, 71 Area Proposals on Imperial Preference,
Likely Impact of. Report on, 6
Area, Prospects for, 651 Area, Report on, by Trade Associations, 462
Area, Spain’s Position in 234 Area, Swiss Views on, 169 Area, Tariffs in, 652
— — Area, Taxation in. Report on, 588
Area, Transport Problems Associated with, 651
Arrangement between United Kingdom and Canada, Comment on Proposal for, 462
European, Remarks on Conference on, by A. Lucas, 719
Freeman, Fox and Partners, Radio Telescope for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation at Sydney, 45
Freeman, G. H., Remarks on Government Policy and Independent Airlines, 809
Freeston, H. G., on Selection of Protective Devices Against Crankcase Explosions, 303; on Equipment for Engine Testing, 729
Fregate ” Motor-Car (Regie National Des Usines Renault), 589
“ Freightercoach ” Freighter or Car-Ferry Aircraft (W. G. Armstrong Whitworth (Aircraft), Ltd.), 293*
French Accelerators, 190*
— Aircraft Industry, Position and Prospects
of, 809
— Industry, Competitive Strength of, 106
— Motor-Car Industry, Position and Prospects
of, by G. Wilkins, 476*
— Pavilion at Brussels World Fair (1958), 516* French, W. and C., Ltd., Hanningfield Reservoir
and Waterworks Scheme, 509
?— See also France
Friction Clutch. See Clutch
— “ Progreg ” Treatment for Reduction of
(Progrega, Ltd.), 597. See LETTER, 645 —• See also Oil Film
Friendly Societies, Annual Report of Chief Registrar of, 416
Frigidaire. See under General Motors, Ltd. Frost, Dr. B. R. T., on Wetting of Solids by Liquid Metals, 91
Frost, G. E., on Patent System in United States, 750
Froude, William, Papers of (Addition to), 279 Frozen Foods, 388
Fry’s (West of England), Acquisition of, by Lines Bros., 772
Fry’s Diecastings, Ltd., Aluminium Bronze Die Castings (Trade Publication), 531
Fuel Additives in Fight Against Corrosion, by Dr. B. J. Zaczek and Dr. R. Grindley. 825
— Efficiency, Industrial, Diary, Note on, 531 Service, National Industrial, Progress
Survey and Report and Advisory Service, 427
— Elements, Nuclear. See
Elements
— High-Energy, “ HiCal ”
Inc.), 679
— Injection, Bosch, for Mercedes-Benz “ 300 ”
Motor Car, 286*
— Institute of. Symposium on Flames and
Industry, Preliminary Notice, 369; Admittance to Membership of British Nuclear Energy Conference, 613
See Oil Fuel See also Benzol; Gas; Petrol See Nuclear Fuel
or
for
524
Re-
Accounts, 427;
Nuclear Fuel
(Callery Fuels,
— Liquid.
— Motor.
— Nuclear.
— Oil. See Oil Fuel
— Peat as, Experiments on, 159
— Pump. See Pump
— Research Station to be built at Stevenage,
623
— Saving in Industry. Progress in Govern
ment’s Campaign for, Discussion in Parliament on, 671
— Solid, Smokeless, Supply Position and Pros
pects, 191
— for Sputnik II, Possible, 644*
— See also Coal; Oil; Gas; Peat
Fujisawa, M., on Tests on 2,500 h.p. Type 2SC/IP/IRE Experimental Gas-Turbine, 58*
Fujita, H., on “ 9UET ” Supercharged Trunk- Piston Single-Acting Diesel Engine, 57
Full Plastic Moment, by A. N. Procter, 487, 677. See LETTER, 615, 645, 740
“ Fuller ” Double-Pass Grate-Type Cooler for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Vickers- Armstrongs (Engineers), Ltd.), 536*
Fuller Electric, Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 267
Fuller’s Earth Filtration System for Rolling Oil Installation at Venesta, Ltd. (Paterson Engineering Co., Ltd.), 503*
Fulmer Research Institute, Celebration of Tenth Anniversary, 111; Research and Development Work at. 111
Fume Control (Trade Publication), 657
— from Diesel Engines, Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 159
— Extraction Unit, Portable (Keith Blackman,
Ltd.), 521*
— and Oil Mist Precipitator, “ Electro-Mist ”
(Trade Publication), 657
— Welding, Exhaust Unit, Four-Way,
“ Tornado ” (Keith Blackman, Ltd.), 335 Fungicides Based on Tin Chemicals, Developments in, at Tin Research Institute, 205
Fungus Growth, Study of, in Climatic Laboratory of Aircraft Equipment Division of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655
Furnace, Annealing, Electric, Bogie-Hearth (Royce Electric Furnaces, Ltd.), 92*
Roller-Hearth, for Tubes, Installed at Serck Radiators, Ltd. (G.W.B. Furnaces, Ltd.), 150*
— Baffles (Combustion Equipment, Ltd.), 360
— Blast, Operation of. Technical Advances in,
132
Plant for Rhodesian Iron and Steel Co.
(Pty.), Ltd., Award of Contracts to Head Wrightson and Co. S.A. (Pty.), Ltd., 614 at Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles, Ltd., 133*
— Boiler, See Stoker
— Conveyor, “Humpback,” 51-kVA, for
Sintering Powder-Metals (Sintering and Brazing Furnaces, Ltd.), 331*
— Crucible, Oil-Fired, Basin Hydraulic-Tilting
for Aluminium Die-Casting (Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd.), 204*
?—? Cyclone, for 200,000-lb. Boiler at Kynoch , Works of Imperial Chemical Industries,
Ltd. (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 689*
— Electric Arc, Designed for On-load Top
Charging (Birlec, Ltd.), 521*
Die-Casting, Type EDF Mark I, for Aluminium (Birlec-Morgan), 204*
Flexible (Electrothermal Engineering, Ltd.), 183*
— Linings, Testing, Research and Develop
ment, by J. H. Chesters (Review), 212
— Open-Hearth, Gradall Machine for Dis
mantling, at Rotherham Works of Steel, Peech and Tozer, 215*
?— Pulverised-Fuel for Cauldon Low Cemen Works (Alfred Herbert, Ltd.), 535*
— Regenerative, Siemens, Centenary of, 489
— Rivet-Heating, Oxy-Acetylene, Portable
(British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 397*
— Vacuum, Electric Arc, Cold-Mould, Non- (Wild-Barfield and National
Consumable Electrode Electric Furnaces, Ltd., Research Corp.), 18*
Electric Arc, Skull-Type Electric Furnaces, Ltd., Research Corp.), 18*
Electric Induction, 50-lb. Electric Furnaces, Ltd., Research Corp.), 18*
— — Heat-Treatment (Wild-Barfield_Electric
Furnaces, Ltd., and National Corp.), 18
Metal-Melting (Wild-Barfield Furnaces, Ltd., and National Corp.), 18*
— See also Coke Ovens; Cupolas Furness Shipbuilding Co., Floating
Admiralty, 19
Furness Withy, Position and Prospects of, 454 Furniture Development Council, Note on Researches of, 119; Grant from Dunlop Rubber Co., for Research into Comfort of Upholstered Furniture, 684
— Laboratory (Trade Publication), 531
— Upholstered, Comfort of. Grant from
Dunlop Rubber Co. to Furniture Development Council for Research into, 684
Fusion-Energy Content of Seawater, Remarks on, by Dr. P. C. Thonemann, 29. See Erratum, 156
— Nuclear. See also Nuclear Fusion
— Reaction, Deuterium-Deuterium 156
Thermonuclear Controlled, Conference on, 29
— Reactors, Operation of, 156
— Research, Remarks on, by Dr. G. Suits, 29
— Thermonuclear, American Work on, 538 Projects, 156
“ — Research on. Review of, 538*
Russian Work on, 538
See also Thermonuclear Reactions
(Wild Barfield and National
(Wild-Barfield and National
Research
Electric Research
Dock for
“ G ” High-Speed Railway Switches for British Railways, 383
Gl Nuclear Reactor at Marcoule, 190*
G2 Nuclear Reactor at Marcoule, 190; Details of, 217*; Prestressed Concrete Pressure Vessel for, 217*
G3 Nuclear Reactor at Marcoule, 190; Details of, 217* ; Prestressed Concrete Pressure Vessel for, 217*
Gabriel, J. B. S., on Position and Prospects of Charles Churchill, 337
Gach Saran, Oil Industry Developments at, 620 “ Galbestos ”
Walls and Roofs (Trade Pulfiication),_531
Galitzine and Partners, Suez: ” - — -
(Booklet), Note on, 595
Gallaher, Ltd., Pre-Cast Prestress Production Halls at Ballymena, 733*
Galvanising Paint, “ Metagalv ” (Trade Publication), 279
Galvanometer, “ Scalamp,” for Checking Performance of Thermometer for Hypothermia (W. G. Pye and Co., Ltd.), 459
Gamage, L., Remarks on Industrial Designers, 385; Appointment as Chairman and Managing Director of General Electric Co., Ltd., 549
Gamma Radiography. See Radiography
— Ray Safety Precautions (Book), 16
Gamma-Rays, Ltd., Iridium Decay Clock, 270; Model ASS/51 Isotope Container for Industrial Radiography, 270*; Model ASS/54 Gamma-Radiography Machine, 270
“ Gamma Switch ” Level Control (Isotope Developments, Ltd.), 176*
Garbage Disposal in Germany, Comment on, 672
Gardner, W. A., on Welding of Aluminium in Chemical and Allied Industries, II
Garner, R. L., Remarks on Position and Prospects of International Finance Corporation, 462
Garraway’s Electrical Register, Note on, 279
Protected Steel Sheeting for
Egypt’s Debt
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INDEX
Gas Board, North Eastern (Leeds), Jet Town- Gas Burner for Selective Local High- Intensity Heating, 184*
West Midlands, Tower-Box Purifiers for Town Gas for Worcester Gas Works of (Henry Balfour and Co., Ltd.), 183
— Cleaning Plant for Rhodesian Iron and Steel
Co. (Pty.), Ltd,, Award of Contracts to Head Wrightson and Co, S.A. (Pty.), Ltd., 614
?— Coke-Oven. See Coke Oven
— Consumption of European Countries, 6
— Containment Problems for Thermonuclear
Reactions, 612
— Council, Coke Burning Appliances Hand
book, 684
— Cutting. See Cutting; Oxygen
— Discharges, High-Current, Neutron Emis
sion in, 538*
High Temperature, Perhapsatron Device for Study of, 157*
Pinch Effect in. Research Work on, 610* Thermonuclear Reaction by. Research Work on, 610*
— Dissolved, in Continuous Casting, Vacuum
Chambers for Removal of, at Hammer and Sickle Metal Works, 616
— Dynamics, Elements of, by H. W. Liepmann
and A. Roshko (Review), 370
— Effects of, on Constitution and Properties
of Ferritic Weld Metals, by Dr. W. D. Biggs, 73
— Electric Discharge in. See also Discharge
— Engineers, Institution of, Future of Nuclear
Power, by Dr. J. V. Dunworth, 730*
— Exhaust. See Exhaust
— Fired Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Flue, Reduction of Sulphur in, by Metallic
Additives in Combustion Zone, by W. J. Peck and Dr. B. J. Zaczek, 697*
— Generators, Free-Piston, Fundamentals of,
and Calculation of Design and Part-Load Performances and of Design Dimensions, by Dr. J. R. Singham, 692*
— Industry, Nationalised, Coal Saved by, 127
— Ionisation of. See Ionisation
— Liquid, Natural, Import from Venezuela,
552
Partition Chromatography, to Analysis of Standard Organic Products, 559
— Natural. See Natural Gas
— Nuclear-Induced, Structural
Application Samples
of
in Dr.
R. Koniger, and Dr.-Ing, W, Lindner (Book), 820
— Steering, See Steering
— Tooth Failures (Trade Publication), 149
— Train, Double-Reduction, Three-Layshaft
for Mark Te 300-kW Gas-Turbine (David Brown, Ltd.), 316*
— Transmission on CRL.4 “ Routemaster ”
Motor Omnibus for Green Line Routes, 574*
for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (Alfred Wiseman and Co., Ltd.), 36
— Unit, Combined Helical and Worm (David
Brown Industries, Ltd.), 265*
— Worm, by Prof. Dr. A. Schiebel, Prof. Dr.
R. Kdniger, and Dr.-Ing. W. Kindner (Book), 820
Gearboxes at Engineering Exhibition, 265
— Marine, Oil-Operated, “ Sequent ” Self
Changing Mechanism for (Self-Changing Gears, Ltd.), 266*
— Oil-Operated, Marine Epicycle Reverse and
Reverse (Trade Publication), 783
— Railcar, Automatic Control for (Self
Changing Gears, Ltd.), 265
— Two-Speed Constant-Mesh for Diesel-
Hydraulic Shunting Locomotive (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 87*
Geared Turbines, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
G.E.C.—Simon-Carves Atomic Energy Group, Model of Nuclear Power Station for South of Scotland Electricity Board at “ Het Atoom ” Exhibition, 124*; Permission to Proceed on South of Scotland Nuclear Power Station, 217; Activities and Constitution of, 700
Geitel, Early Work on Television, 547
General Dynamics Corp., Solid Homogeneous Nuclear Reactors to be Built by, 731; Convair Division, Chart of ~ Objectives in Achievement Space Flight, 802*
General Electric Co., Permit
Definition of of
Manned
Effects
Solids of, by Dr. R. S. Barnes and
A. T. Churchman, 90
— Passing through Pipe, Gratings for
moval of Mist or Moisture from (Knitted Mesh Manufacturing Co.), 151
— Permeability of Nitrile Rubbers to, 204*
— Statistics for Europe, Annual Bulletin of,
6, 119
— Town, Jet Burner for Selective Local High-
Intensity Heating, 184*
Tower-Box Purifiers for, for Worcester Gas Works of West Midlands Gas Board (Henry Balfour and Co., Ltd.), 183
— Turbine. See Turbine
— Vapours and Dust in Industry, Review on,
39
— Welding. See iVelding
— Works, Worcester, of West Midlands Gas
Board, Tower-Box Purifiers for Town Gas for (Henry Balfour and Co., Ltd.), 183
— See also Hydrogen: Oxygen, etc. Gasification of Coal, Plant for, in Russia, 410 Underground, for Electricity Generating
Experiments, 367
Underground, at Newman Spinney, Work on, 761 *
Underground, Recent Developments in, by C. A. Masterman, 761*
Gasifiers at Engineering Exhibition, 296*
— Free-Piston (National Gas and Oil
Co., Ltd.), 296* Piston, Turbine for Use with
Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), Gaskets Moulded from Nitrile Rubber, 203* Gasoline. See Petrol; Engine, Petrol: Aeronautics
Gauge, Air, Automatic (Tolimit Gauges, Ltd.) 92*
— Blocks, Metrology of. Symposium on
(Book), 243
— Level. See Level
— “ Pacitor,” for Liquid Level Measurement
(Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd.), 177
— Thickness. See Thickness
Gauging Bores, Equipment for (British Indicators, Ltd.), 13
— Machine, Pneumatic, for Continuous Thick
ness Measurement of Thin Sheet and Film, by Dr. J. C. Evans, 1. G. Morgan, B, S. W. Mann, and F. C. P. Mason, 631*
— Metrology and, by S. A. J. Parsons (Book),
119
Gawn, Dr, R. W. L., the Late, 101 GAZ M21 “ Volga ” Motor Car, 324* “Gazelle” Motor-Car (Singer Motors, Ltd.), 572*
Geach, Dr. G. A., on Mass Transfer, 91
Gears (Vol. Il), by Prof. Dr, A. Schiebel, Prof. Dr. R. Koniger and Dr.-Ing. W. Lindner (Book), 820
— Bevel, by Prof. Dr. A. Schiebel, Prof. Dr.
R. Kdniger, and Dr.-Ing. W. Lindner (Book), 820
-— Cutting Machines. See Machine Tools
— Enclosed, “ Reductol ” Lubricating Scheme
for (Revol, Ltd.), 489
— at Engineering Exhibition, 265
— Geometry of, by A, K. Thomas (Review),
721
— Hypoid Rear Axle, Wear and Lubrication of,
423
— Range Selection, Clutch-controlled for
Type V Drilling Machine (Alfred Herbert, Ltd.), 459*
— Reduction, Equipment, for Jodrell Bank
Radio Telescope (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 36
Units (Trade Publication), 783 Variable-Speed, “ Varicon ” (David
Brown Industries, Ltd.), 265*
?— Spur, by Prof. Dr. A. Schiebel, Prof. Dr.
Re
Engine
(Brush 296*
for Pool-type Research Reactor for Atomic Energy Commission, 539
General Electric Co., Ltd., Intrinsically-Safe Battery Lighting Set. 15; 100-Watt 4-ft. Long Fluorescent Lamps, 30*; Export Guide, Note on, 147; Annual Report, 168; Electronic Lighting Dimmer, 271*; Zero- Energy Nuclear Reactor Contract, 285* Periphonic Loudspeaker System, 317; Commencement of Work on Hunterston Nuclear Power Station, 319; Position and Prospects of, 326; Sales of Television Sets, 326; New Range of Electrical Unit Heaters of 3-kW to 20-kW to Overseas Specifications, 397; Resignation of Sir H. Railing as Chairman and Joint Managing Director, 549; Appointment of L. Gamage as Chairman and Managing Director, 549; Contract for Zero-Energy High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor for Winfrith Heath Atomic Energy Research Establishment, 669; “ Im-Plast ” Raw Materials for Producing Hard Rubber for Battery Containers, 711; Equipment for Initial Installation of GRACE Equipment at Bristol, 722*; Creep and Stress-Rupture Tests on Reactor Materials, 793*; Quarterly Export Guide of, 810; New Works at Dudley Port (Staffordshire) for Manufacture of Motors and Generators for Railway Rolling Stock, 828*
General Motors Corp., Decision to Import Vauxhall and Opel Cars from United Kingdom and West German Subsidiaries, 40 ; Lubricant for Free-Piston Engines, 139; Reply to Plea for Reduction in Prices, 288; Precision Ball Bearings for Instrument Work (Trade Publication), 783; Manufacture of “ MeterMiser ” Sealed Rotary Refrigerator Compressors by Frigidaire Division, 829*
General Motors Engineering Journal, Note on, 563
?—and Municipal Workers, National Union of. See under Labour
Generating Set, Electric, Alternating-Current, Crompton Parkinson, 175-kVA, 250-h.p. STAD Gas Turbine for (Auto Diesels, Ltd.), 296
Electric, Alternating-Current, Diesel, 500-kW, for Hanningfield Waterworks Scheme, 509
Electric, Alternating-Current, “ NoBreak,” 85 kW (Lister-Blackstone Group), 270*
— •— Electric, for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor
Trawler, 663
Electric, Diesel, for Delhi State Electricity Board (Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd., and Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 120
Electric, for Goldington Power Station (British Thomson-Houston, Ltd.), 249
Electric, for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 36
Mirrlees JVSII2, for Blind River Uranium Mines, 60
Electric, Multi-Purpose (Henry Meadows, Ltd.), 267*
Electric, Self-Contained (Piston Engine Co., Ltd.), 296
— Station. See Power Station
— Electric, Alternating-Current, for Delhi
State Electricity Board (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 120
Alternating-Current, Direct Hydrogen- Cooling of Rotor and Stator (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 690*
— — Alternating-Current, for Dual-Fuel Die
sel Engines at Brancote Sewage Works (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 489
Alternating-Current, Gas-Turbine Driven, 20-MW, for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 52*
Alternating-Current for Indicating Horse-Power Continuously, 528*
Alternating-Current, Salient-Pole, 400- Cycle (Trade Publication), 499
Test of
Spanish
Alternating-Current, Self-Excited, Compounded, “ Altoreg,” for Ship’s Supply (Laurence, Scott and Electrometers, Ltd.), 271*
Alternating-Current, Turbine-Driven, at Ince Power Station, 534*
Alternating-Current, Turbine-Driven, 6-5-MW, 6-6-kV, at Kynoch Works
of Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 689
Alternating-Current, Turbine-Driven, 11-8-kV, for Meaford “B” Power Station, 501*
— —Design for 200-MW Turbo-Generator
Set, 344
Direct-Current, Water-Driven, 10-kW, for Remote Areas (Armfield Hydraulic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 26*
Direct Water-Cooled, 30-MW, for Bold Power Station, 344
— Low-Voltage, Electronic Regulator for
(Simms Motor Units, Ltd.), 314
for Railway Rolling Stock, Manufacture of, at Dudley Works of General Electric Co., Ltd., 828*
?—? — Turbine-Driven, for “ Firestreak ”
Guided-Weapon System, 349
Turbine-Driven, at Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles, Ltd., 133
— — Windings, Automatic Machine for
Binding Insulation on to, 410*
See also Turbo-Generators
— Electrostatic, Principles, Construction and
Operation of, 504
Tandem, Collaboration of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., in Design of, 504
?— Gas. See Gas Generators
— Power, Proposed, for Satellite Navigation
System, 486*
— Tachometer, Low-Speed, “ M ” Series
(Smiths Industrial Instruments, Ltd.), 379 Geneva Conference on Peaceful Uses of
Atomic Energy, Exhibition in Connection with, 669
Geology and Geotechnics, Engineering, Principles of, by D. P. Krynine and W. R. Judd (Review), 16
— Research, Use of Earth Satellites for, 485 Geometry of Gears, by A. K. Thomas (Review),
721
Geomorphology Research, Use of Earth Satellites for, 485
Geophysical Surveys, Aerial, Progress of, 281
— Year, International, 98, 99, 101; Signifi
cance to Engineers, 226*; (Book), 243
Geophysics Handbook: No. 1, Seismology, by J. Wartnaby (Review), 530
— Research, Use of Earth Satellites for, 485 Georges-Picot, M., Remarks on Suez Canal
Co. Founders’ Shares, 422
Geosciences, Research, Use of Earth Satellites for, 485
Geotechnics, Geology and Engineering, Principles of, by D. P. Krynine and W. R. Judd (Review), 16
Geothermal Heat, Resources and Energy, Applications of, 342
German, Anglo-, Talks, Comment on, 752
— Banks, Reversion to Pre-War System, 7
— Diesel Engine Exports, 364*
— Economy, Position and Prospects of, 752
— Engineering Industries, Slackening Pace of,
72
— Federal Railway, Relay Interlocking Signal
box at Frankfurt, 533*
— Government, Formal Hearing Given to
Trade Unions, 512
—? Industry, Dr. Erhard’s Programme for, 650 Investments Abroad, 557
— Measuring-Instrumentation Industry, Exhi
bition of, 273
— Motor-Car Industry, Activities in, 286*
— Nuclear Reactor, Withdrawal of Offer to
Build, by A. M. F. Atomics, Inc., and
Mitchell Engineering, Ltd., 606
— Pavilion at Brussels World Fair (1958), 516*
— Radio Industry, Rapid Expansion of, 526
— Second Breakfast, Comment on, 32
— Steel Industry, Expansion Plans, 7
— Typewriter Industry, 10
— West, Cartel Bill, 135
— See also Germany
Germanium Junction Power Rectifier, RG504B
(Trade Publication), 307
— Rectifiers, 565*
Germany, British Exports to. Increase in, 714 —- East, Nuclear Reactor at Rossendorf, 348
— Economic Position and Prospects of, 752
— Exports of Radio, Radar and Television
Equipment, 526*
? of Steelworks Equipment, 428* Surplus, 338. See LETTER, 453
— Garbage Disposal in. Comment on, 672
?— Increase in Cost of Living, Comment on, 832
— Inflation in. Comment on, 480
— Management-Labour Relations in. Com
ment on, 650
— Materials Testing Nuclear Reactor for.
Contract for Co-operation in. Between Land-Nordrhein-Westfalen and Head Wrightson Processes, Ltd., 731
— Mitbestimmung System of Joint Manage
ment in, 272
— Sewing-Machine Industry in, 233
— Shortage of Technical Manpower in.
Report on (Review), 402*
— United States Investments in, 588
— Views of, on Free Trade Area, 752
— Wage Demands, Comment on, 608
— Wage Increases in. Comment on, 832
— Wage Payment Systems in, 809
—? West, Air Force, Order for Spare “ Orenda
14 ” Turbojet Engines and Parts to Orenda Engines, Ltd., 454
Gas Consumption in, 6 Nuclear Reactor, 475*
— See also German
Ghia, Expansion of Coachbuilding Facilities, 674*
Ghost of a Tangerine, by J. Tinclair (Book), Note on, 51
Giacosa, D. Ing. D., James Clayton Lecture to Institution of Mechanical Engineers on Miniature Motor Car Production, 518
Gibb, Sir A., and Partners, 240-MW Meaford “B” Power Station, 501*; Pre-Cast Prestressed Production Halls for Gallaher, Ltd., at Ballymena, 733*; Underground Gasification Newman Spinney, 762*
Gibb, Coyne, Sogei (Kariba) Kariba Project, 221
Gibbs, C. B., on New Skills for the Future, 96
Gibbs, W. D., on Position and Prospects of Ada (Halifax), 337
Giddings and Lewis Machine Tool Co., Magnetic-Tape Control of Machine Tools, 491
Giesler, C. F. R., Dynamic Balancing Machines (Trade Publication), 213
“ Gilsulate ” Insulation and Protection for Hot Underground Pipes (Morris Ashby, Ltd.), 316
Girder, Plate, Flange Stiffness and Web Plate Behaviour, by Dr, K. C. Rockey, 788*
— See also Beams: Bridges; Flocrs
Girls, Opportunities in Industry for, 129. See LETTER, 645
?—? Technical Careers for. Discussion in
Parliament on, 191
Girling, Ltd., Transfer of Business in Power- Assisted Steering to Hydrosteer, Ltd., 357
“ GKN ” Spark Machine (Guest Keen and Nettlefolds Group Research Laboratories), 47*
Glacier Metal Co., Ltd., Annual Report, 72; Comment on Personnel and Organisation Officer, 544
Glanville, Dr. W. H., on Speed on the Road and Related Effects, 286 ; on Enhanced Safety of Motorways, 667
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Catalogue of Ship Models in (Review), 754
Glass Cloth Partitioning Material, Resin- Impregnated, “ Honeycomb Sandwich ” (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 358
— Discs, Toughened, Bursting Strength of, by
P. L. Thorpe and D. Dawson, 591*
— Fabric Base for “ Mhoglass ” Heating
Element for Surface Area Heating (A. J. Kemp, Sons and Co., Ltd., and Hunting Percival, Ltd.), 431
— in Factory Buildings, Criticism of, 658*
— Felt, “ Versil,” Pipe Wrapping Material
(Regina Glass Fibre, Ltd.), 584
— Fibre Air Filters (Trade Publication), 307 Insulated " Thermocord ” Heating Cable
(Electrothermal Engineering, Ltd.), 522
Reinforced Aircraft Double Passenger Seat (Microcell, Ltd.), 89
Reinforced Hose-Ramp (Microcell, Ltd.), 89*
Reinforced Liquid Storage Tank (Microcell, Ltd.), 89
Reinforced Synthetic Resins, Spraying Process for (Metropolitan Plastics, Ltd.), 89
— Insulation for “ Uni-Efglas ” Cable (British
Insulated Callender's Cables, Ltd.), 424
— Molten, Level Indicators for, 176
Level Recorder/Controller (George Kent, Ltd.), 177
— Protective, fcr Viewing Windows (Pilkington
Brothers, Ltd.), 269*
—• — Viewing Window, at Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell), Mockup of (Pilkington Brothers, Ltd.), 269*
— Reinforced Plastics for Hulls of Boats
(Whiffen and Sons, Ltd.), 89
Plastics, by P. Morgan (Book), 687
— See also Glazing
Glazing, Roof, in Factory Buildings, 658*
—? See also Glass
Gleep Nuclear Reactor, 253*
Glossary of Initials, 51
Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., Order from British Transport Commission for Diesel-Mechanical Rail Cars of Tubular Construction, 152*; Position and Prospects of, 454
Glover, J., and Sons, Ltd., “ Stormor ” and " Ingold-Compactus ” Space-Saving Storage Systems (frade Publication), 149
Glover, W. T., and Co., Ltd,, Cables for New Sub-station at Charing (Zross, 510
Goggles, Foundry, Report of Joint Advisory Committee on. Discussion in Parliament on, 703
Goggomobil Four-Stroke Front-Drive Motor Car, 391
Goggomobil “ 600,” Motor Car, 519* Gold in Thin Metallic Coatings, 781 Goldington Power Station, 249
Gooderham, R. M., on Training Welding Technician and Engineer by Correspondence, 73
Goodger, A. H., on Testing Methods for Welding Control, 73
Gordon and Gotch, Ltd., “ Multimatic Prestic ” Dispenser for Sticky Labels, 142*
Gordon, J., and Co., Ltd., “ Gordon ” Water Spray De-superheater for Cooling Steam (Trade Publication), 499
Gosplan (State Planning Commission), Activities of, 460
Gdtaverken, A.B., Marine Diesel Engines at Engineering Exhibition, 266; Marine Diesel Engines (Trade Publication), 563
— Diesel Engine, by E. Johansson and L. G.
Thulin, 57
Gough, J. R. C., on Welding of Uranium, 793 Government Aid
Colonies, 159
— Campaign for Fuel-Saving in Industry,
Discussion in
Project fo
of Coal at
(Pvt.), Ltd.,
to Commonwealth and
Parliament on, 671
—? Factories, Redundancy at. Discussion in Parliament on, 31
— Grants to Local Authorities, Change in
System of, 71
—? Holding in British Petroleum Co., Ltd., 63
— Interdepartmental Committee for Investi
gation into Future of Aircraft Industry, Discussion in Parliament on, 799
— Intervention in Affairs of Industry, Remarks
on, by F. Cousins, 832
— Investments in Commonwealth, 159
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Government, Local. See Municipal
— Ministers, Growing Burden Upon, Dis
cusion in Parliament on, 639
— Pavilion at Brussels World Fair (1958), 515*
— Policy on Aeronautical Research, 773 on Wages and Profits, 607, 608
on Wages, Trade Unions’ Fight Against, 672
— Review of Inflation by New Council of, 135
— Service, Scientists and Technicians Em
ployed in, 127
— —-in United States, Staff Shortage in, 301
— Statistics, by Prof. F. Sewell Bray, 3
— Subsidy for Arts Council of Great Britain,
512
— Voting Powers in Cunard Steam Ship Co.,
Ltd., 159
— See also Municipal
Gowers Committee, Plea for Greater Implementation of Proposals of, 31
— — Proposals of. Bill for Implementing, 703 G.P.V. (General Purpose Test Vehicle), for
Guided Weapon Homing Demonstration at Farnborough Show, 26^0*
GPZ Ball-Bearing Factory, Russia, 441, 442, 443, 460, 461
Grace, W. R., and Co., Plans for Production of High-Purity Silicon, 281
Gradall Machine for Dismantling Open-Hearth Furnaces at Rotherham Works Peech and Tozer, 215*
Graduates, Adjustment of, on
College, by C. Markham, 4.
Vol. 183
— in Industry, Report on, 479
— Need for Improved Appointments Boards
for, 384
?—? and Professional Engineer, by F. Nixon, 479
— Science and Technology, Undertaking
Further Education, Discussion in Parliament on National Service Exemption for, 703
?— Scottish, for Scottish Industry, 191
— Wasted, by Dr. E. P. Kelsall, 479
Graham Clark Lecture on Management and the Engineer, by Sir E. Smith, 776. See also 769
Grain Boundary Sliding, Effect of Creep, by H. Brunner and Prof. N. J. Grant, 423
— — Sliding, Effect on Creep, by Dr. D.
McLean and M. H. Farmer, 423
— Drying Practice, by J. R. O’Callaghan, 566*
— Structure of Steel, Cinema Film on, 457 Grainger, H. B., on Aluminium Busbars, 744* Grammar Schools, Education in. Comparison
with Public Schools, by Dr. H. Johnson, 512
Grangemouth, Increase in Petroleum Chemicals Capacity at, 200
— Synthetic Phenol Plant at, for British
Hydrocarbon Chemicals, 806
Granite and Cast Iron Surface Plates for Marking Out and Inspection, 537
Grants, Government, to Local Authorities, Change in System of, 71
Grant, Prof. N. J., on Effect of Grain-Boundary Sliding on Creep, 423
Granular Material, Stress-Strain Characteristics of, by Dr. A. W. T, Daniel, 45*
Granulating Plant for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Polysius, Ltd.), 536*
Graphite Blocks for Moderators, Design of. Patents on, 636*
— Irradiation Effects on, by Dr. G. B.
Greenough, 90
— Moderators, Design of. Patents on, 636* Dimensional Instability of, 637* Fixing Overall Dimensions of, 637 Neutron Losses in, 637
Patents on, 506
Structure, Multiple Functions of, 636 Structure, Neutron Streaming in. Limitation of, 638
— — Structure, Stability of, 637*
— and Molten Sodium, Compatibility of,
under Various Conditions, Experiments on 730
— Wigner Growth in, 637
Grass Conservation, by J. R. O’Callaghan, 567*
— Drying, 369
— Mowing Machines, Problems
Bar in, 369
Grates. See Eurnace; Stoker Gratings, Plane, Large, Ruling of,
by Dr. H. W. Babcock, 400 Graviner-B.S.R.A. Photo-Electric
of Steel,
Leaving See also
of Cutter
Work on.
Crankcase Oil-Mist Detector Unit for Diesel Engines, 303*
Graviner Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Graviner- B.S.R.A. Photo-Electric Crankcase Oil- Mist Detector Unit for Diesel Engines, 303*
Gravity Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Neutralising, Possibility of, 228
Great Britain, Highway Needs of. Symposium on, 667
See also United Kingdom
“ Great Eastern,” Nuclear-Powered, Need for, 795
Greaves, F., on Overtime at Home, 453 Greece, Pool-Type Nuclear Reactor for (American Machine and Foundry Co.), 732
Greek Olympic Foot-Measure, 420*
Green, A. P., on Plastic Yielding of I-Beams, 74*, 112*
•— Fodder Conservation, by C. Culpin, 368* Greenough, Dr. G. B., on Irradiation Effects on Graphite, 90
Greenwich Observatory, Royal (Herstmonceux Castle), Northern Portion of Equatorial Group, 227*: Photographic-Zenith Tube, 227*
Greenwood, S., Mobil Oil Co.’s New Technical Services Laboratories at Coryton, 583*
Gregoretti, Dr. Ing. A., on F.I.A.T. “ C757 S ” Two-Stroke Crosshead Diesel Engine, 58 Grenoble Nuclear Research Centre of Commissariat a rEnergie Atomique, 190
Griffin and George, Ltd., “ Force-on-a-Conduc- tor ” Balance (Trade Publication), 499; “ Griffin Raybox ” Educational Laboratory Apparatus (Trade Publication), 499; Soil Mechanics Testing Apparatus (Trade
Publication), 499; Laboratory Apparatus and Furniture (Trade Publication), 531
“ Griffin Raybox ” Laboratory Apparatus (Trade Publication), 499
Griffith, E. N., on Position and Prospects of Rotary Hoes, Ltd., 104
Grinding Head, Welded Seam (Donald Ross and Partners, Ltd.), 268*
— Machines. See Machine Tools
Grindley, Dr. R., on Fuel Additives in the Fight Against Corrosion, 825
Grit-Blasting Machine, Dust-Free (Vacu-Blast, Ltd.), 396*
Groocock, J. M., on Effect of Gamma and Pile Irradiation on Thermal Decomposition and Thermal Detonation of a-Lead Azide, 141 Gross, R. E., on Nuclear-Powered Aircraft, 604*
Grosvenor-Laing (B.C.), Ltd., Development of Annacis Industrial Estate, 714
Group Relations, Psychological Factors in, by Dr. A. T. M. Wilson, 736
— Routing and Charging Equipment
(GRACE), for Telephone Exchanges, 722* Grubb Parsons, Sir H., and Co., Ltd., Tower for Testing Telescope Mirrors, 171*
Grundig, M., Output Statistics of, 526 Gudea, Prince of Lagash, Headless Statue of, 418*
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Laboratories, “ GKN ” 47*
Group Research Spark Machine,
Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratories of California Institute of Technology, Work on Problems in Solid and Fluid Dynamics, 430*
Guide Book to Research Data for Arid Zone Development, 198
— Conveyor-Belt, “ Guidler ” (British Wedge
Wire Co., Ltd.), 120*
“ Guidler ” Conveyor Belt Guide (British Wedge Wire Co., Ltd.), 120*
Gulf-Oil Investment in Sicily’s Oilfield, 777 Gulf Radiation, Ltd., Low Panel Radiator for Skirting Heating, 811
“Gulf” Range of Cables Using Diolpates (Permanoid, Ltd.), 654*
Gun, Helium, Two-Chamber, Developed by United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 401 *
— Power of Warships. See IVarships
— Spot Welding (A.R.O. Machinery Co.,
Ltd.), 267*
— Welding, “Twinspot” (A.R.O. Machinery
Co., Ltd.), 267*
— See also Explosives; Warships Gunboats. See IVarships
G.W.B. Furnaces, Ltd., Installation of Roller- Hearth Annealing Furnace for Tubes at Serck Radiators, Ltd., 150*; “Powermaster ” Packaged Boilers (Trade Publication), 279
“ Gyron Junior” Turbojet Engine for “ S-R 177” High-Altitude Supersonic Mixed- Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 537*
— — Turbojet Engine for Supersonic High-
Altitude Interceptor and Tactical Aircraft (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 290*
“ Gyron Senior ” Supersonic Turbojet Engine (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 290
HAAS, Dr. H., on Cross-Sections for Collisions Between Deuterium and Mu-mesic H Atoms, 475
Hackbridge and Hewittic Electric Co., Position and Prospects of, 262
Hacking, Sir J., at World Power Conference, 21*
Hadden, D., Remarks on Overseas Sales of W. H. Dorman, 422
Haddon, J. D., on Wind Loading on 559*; on Suction on Single-Slope 732*. See Erratum, 828
Hafnium, Separation from Zirconium, Hahn and Kolb “ Duax ”
Percussion Head Hammer Drill, 556*
Hailsham, Lord, Remarks on Government’s Deflationary Policy, 576
Hailsham Rural District Council, Discussions in Parliament on Water Supplies of, 31
Hajnal-Konyi, Dr. K., on More Steel or Better Concrete, 708. See LETTER, 805
Halcrow, Sir W., and Partners, Storey “ Uni- flote ” Landing Stage for Nkata Bay Port, 351*
Haldane, T, G, N., on The Heat Pump, 671
Halden Nuclear Reactor Proiect, Agreement Between United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and Norwegian Institute for Atomic Energy on, 255
Hale, George Ellery, Work on Zeeman Effect in Magnetic Fields, 400
Hall, G, W., Remarks on Enforced Rationalisation in Aircraft Industry, 710
Hall, Sir J. Hathorn, on Position and Prospects of Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co., Ltd., 71
Halif.m, Nebraska, Sodium-Cooled, Graphite- Moderated 75-MW Nuclear Reactor at, 730
Halogen Leak Detector, Portable, Type HMB (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.),328* Halsbury, Rt. Hon. The Earl of, on Administration of Modern Production, 38
Halsey, R. J., Survey of Developments in Telecommunication, 432*
Ham, R. K., on Effects of Lattice Defects on Some Physical Properties of Metals, 793
Hambling Industries, Ltd., Machine for Crating Bottles, 214*
Hammers, Hand, Chipping of, by A. H. Burn, 48*. See LETTER, 487
Hammer and Sickle Metal Works, 442, 443; Continuous Casting at, 616*; Vacuum Chambers for Removing Dissolved Gases in Continuous Casting, 616
Hammersley, J. M., on Percolation Processes, 401
Roofs,
Roofs,
, 60* Two-Speed Drill with for Conversion to
Hammond and Miles, Ltd., New Substation at Charing Cross, 510*
Hampton, R., Remarks on Position and Prospect of Union Steel and Manufacturing Co., 454
Hampton and Sons, Acquisition of, by Camp Bird, Ltd., 678
Hamworthy Engineering, Ltd., “ AVP 16 ” Centrifugal Pump, 334; Liquid Ring Primer for Pumps, 334; Screw Pumps, 334*
Hanbury-Williams, Sir J., on Position and Prospects of Courtaulds, Ltd., 104
Hancock and Co. (Engineers), Ltd., “ Hancoplane ” Flame Planer Head, 268
Hancock, F. (1939), Ltd., Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
“ Hancoplane ” Flame Planer Head (Hancock and Co. (Engineers), Ltd., 268
Hands, Cleaning of, in Works and Office, “ Kerocleanse ” Creams for (Scientific Pharmacals, Ltd.), 602
— Tool Markets of Europe, Remarks on
Competition for, by H. C. Pease, 463
— Use of. Plain Words on Declining Need for,
770
Handbook of British Refrigeration Material and Buyers’ Guide (1957) (Book), 371
— Coke-Burning Appliances, 684
— Farm Mechanisation, by T, Hammond
(Book), 119
— of Industrial Radiology, by W. J. Wiltshire
(Review), 242
— Maintenance Engineering, by L. C. Morrow
(Review), 370
— Polyester (1957), of Scott Bader and Co., Ltd.,
Note on, 243
— Technical, Aviation Age Research and
Development, Note on, 213
Handeck I Hydro-Electric Power Station, Visit to, by Junior Institution of Engineers, 69
— II Hydro-Electric Power Station, Visit to, by
Junior Institution of Engineers, 69 Handley Page, Ltd , “ Civil Victor ” Airliner,
293; Research on Laminar Flow Applied to Long-Range Transport Aircraft, 293 Handling Cartons, Hydraulic Clamping-Arms
for Attachment to Normal Lift Truck for (Proctor and Gamble), 205
— Coils of Steel Strip, Fork-Truck Attachment
for (Lansing Bagnall, Ltd.), 728
— Equipment for Drums and Barrels (Trade
Publication), 17
Remote, for Radioactive Formation of Ayling Nuclear Co. for, 158
Materials, Equipment
Use of New Types of Automatic Machines and, in Distribution of Petroleum Products, 27
— Materials, Equipment, by D. O. Haynes
(Review), 686
Hands, Lt.-Col. P. J., on Need of Officers for Bomb-Disposal Squads, 70
Handwheels, Design of, for Human Performance, 309*
Hanningfield Reservoir and Treatment Works, Completion of, 509
Hansen, R. E., on Distinguishable Ideals, 453 Hard-Facing Alloy and Ceramic Spraying,
“ ThermoSpray “ Process for (Metallizing Equipment Co., Ltd.), 331*
— Surfacing on Cylindrical Components, Use
of Lathe for, 472*
Hardening of Metals. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
— Surface, High-Frequency and Ultrasonic, at
Enims, 616
Hardship, Training for, by Sub-Lt. M. K. Matthews, R.N., 706*
Harland Engineering Co., Ltd., Submersible Pumps, 334
Harland, Prof. S. C., on Radiation Dangers, 828
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Strike of Foremen and Rate Fixers, 320
Harrap, G. G., and Co., Ltd., Note on General Reference List, 149
Harris, A. J., on High Structural Performance: Advanced Applications of Prestressing, 244*
Harris, Dr. H., on Welding in Boilers and Power Station Plant, 10
Harrison and Sons, Ltd., Naphthadag for Electrically Conductive Postage Stamps, 408 Harrow, Railway Accident at (1952), 598 Hartley, Sir H., at World Power Conference, 20*; on Power for Underdeveloped Countries, 20
Harvester, “ Hurricane ” (David Brown Group), 648*
Harvey Electronics, Ltd., Lightweight Servo Units, 554*
Hassi Messaoud, Oil Exploration at, 771 Hatch Cover, Welded Aluminium, for Trawlers
(Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 329* Hatfield, Roof Loss and Damage at, 732*.
See Erratum, 828
Hathaway, G. A., at World Power Conference, 22*
Hattrell, W. S., and Partners, Reconstruction at Jaguar Cars, Ltd., 796*
“ Hawk,” Motor-Car (Humber, Ltd.), 572* Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., Contract from Indian
Government for Supply of “ Hunter ” Fighter Aircraft, 359
Hawker Siddeley Group, Acquisition of Controlling Interest in Dominion Steel and Coal Corp. (DOSCO), 549; Position and Prospects of, 549, 646, 733; Expansion and Diversification of Activities, 646
Hawker Siddeley John Brown Nuclear Construction, Ltd., Formation of, 91; Activities and Constitution of, 700
Hawker Siddeley Nuclear Power Co., Ltd,, Activities and Constitution of, 700
Hawksley, T. and C., Hanningfield Reservoir and Waterworks Scheme, 509
Hawksley, Thomas, Lecture on Vibration: A Survey of Industrial Applications, by Prof. J. P. den Hartog, 661
Hawthorn, Dr, J., on Engineering Factors in Food Processing and Canning, 386*. See LETTER, 520; on Stainless Steel Development, 550
Hawtrey, Sir R., on Wages and the Dollar, 704
Hay-Drying, Barn, “ Mow ” Process, 369
— Making Machines, 369 on Tripods, 369
Haycraft, M. and L., Ltd., Agavox Telediction System for Dictation by Telephone, 67*
Hayfield, P. C. S., on Point Defects near the Surface of a Metal, 792
Hayward Tyler and Co,, Ltd., Glandless Circulating-Water Pump, 151*; Order from Head Wrightson Processes, Ltd., for Three 70-h.p. Glandless Stainless-Steel Coolant Pumps for Danish Nuclear Reactor D.R.3, 731
Hayward, R. W,, on Research into the Fundamentals of Boiler Circulation Theory, 108* Hazel, A. C,, on Problems of a Smaller Business, 463
“ HDM.105 ” Transport Aircraft (F. G. Miles, Ltd.), 292*
Head Wrightson and Co. S.A. (Pty.), Ltd., Contracts for Blast Furnace and Gas-Cleaning Plant for Rhodesian Iron and Steel Co. (Pty.), Ltd., 614
Head Wrightson Processes, Ltd., Contract for Danish Research Reactor, 29; HIFAR Nuclear Reactor for Australian Atomic Energy Commission, 318*; Commencement of Operation of PLUTO Nuclear Reactor, 571*; Induced-Draught Cooling Tower for Rhodesian Iron and Steel Co. (Pty.), Ltd., 614; Contract for Co-operation in Materials Testing Nuclear Reactor foi Germany, 731; Order for Three 70-h.p. Glandless Stainless-Steel Coolant Pumps for Danish Nuclear Reactor D.R.3, from Hayward Tyler and Co., Ltd., 731
Headland Engineering Developments, Ltd., Tapping Attachment for Plastics and Non- Ferrous Materials, 139
Health, Minister of. Veto on 3 per cent Pay Increase for National Health Service Staff, Conference of Protest Against, 640
— and Safety Regulations on Compressed Air,
224
— Service Employees, Confederation of. Over
time Ban in Mental Hospitals, 320
National, Conference of Organisations whose Members are in, 640
Staff, Overtime Cessation Action of, 672
— Welfare and Safety in Non-Industrial Em
ployment and Hours of Employment of Juveniles, Committee of Inquiry Into, Plea for Implementation of Recommendations of, 31
Heap and Digby, Hanningfield Reservoir and Waterworks Scheme, 509
Heap, J., and Co., Ltd., New Screwing Machine for Bolt or Pipe, 742*
Heat Barrier, Problems and Progress of, 466
— Effects on Railway Rails, Discussion in
Parliament on, 31
— Engines. See Engines;
nautics
— Exchangers, Air-Cooling,
in Power Stations, 733
for Berkeley Nuclear Thompson, Ltd.), 505
80-ft., for Calder Hall
Turbines; Aero-
Possible Use of.
Reactor (John
and Chapelcross Nuclear Power Stations, Model of (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 269*
— — Ceramic, Proposal for, 220
Tubes, Use of “ Integron ” Finned Tubing for, 61 *
— Flow Distribution in High-Duty Internal
Combustion Engines, by J. F. Alcock, J. V. B. Robson and C. Mash, 58
— Geothermal, Resources and Energy, Appli
cations of, 342
— Industrial, Measurement and Protection, for
Human Performance, 344*
— Insulation, Advantages of Structural Insula
tion in Space Heating, 138*
Asbestos, Sprayed, “ Silbestos,” for Roofs (Trade Publication), 625
Material, “ Warmlag ” Plastic Dough for Water Pipes (Dohm Group), 811
and Protection, “ Gilsulate,” for Hot Underground Pipes (Morris Ashby, Ltd.), 316
Structural, Advantages of, in Space Heating, 138*
— as Nuisance Product of Electric Lighting,
659
— Protection, Clothing for, 345*
- Pump, by T. G. N. Haldane, 671 Air-Cycle, for Space Heating, by K. H. Hunt, 818*
— — for Domestic and Shop Use (Heat Pump
and Refrigeration, Ltd.), 681
Effect of Purchase Tax on. Discussion in Parliament on, 671
Heating, by, by R. Cadiergues. 47 Heat Pump and Refrigeration, Ltd. Heat Pump for Domestic and Shop Use 681
— Radiant, Screening Methods, 345
— Resistant Materials for Aircraft, Problems
of, 407*
— Solar, Utilisation of, British Common
wealth Researches on, 831
— Transfer, Aerodynamic Heating as Problem
of, 314
— ?— Engineering, Principles of, by W. H,
Giedt (Review), 594
Engineering, Review of, by Prof. O. A. Saunders, 313*
Fluid, “ Dowtherm,” for High-Temperature Heating System (Rose, Downs and Thompson, Ltd.), 775
and Fluid Mechanics, Introduction to, by J. M. Kay (Review), 594
Material, “ Tube-in-Strip ” (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 551*
?— — in Nuclear Reactors, 313
Systems, Oil in (Trade Publication), 625 Test on Projectile with Melting Metal Nose in Pressurised Range, 401*
— Treatment of Metals. See Metallurgy Heater, Electric, Flexible (Electrothermal Engineering, Ltd.), 183*
— Engine, and Battery Charger, Combined,
“ Peregrine ” (Trade Publication), 403
— Oil-Fuel, Vertical, Fabricated Steel, Solid
Drawn Steel Hairpin Tube Type for New Oil-Fuel System for R.M.S. “ Queen
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957
INDEX
xli
Mary ” (John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 458*
Heater, Radiant, Exhibited 'at Electrical Power Convention (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 30
— Storage, Thermal, “ Supa-Stor ” (Dulrae,
Ltd.), 618
-— Unit, Electrical Unit, 3-kW to 20-kW, New Range of, to Qverseas Specifications (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 397
“ Secomak,” for Industrial Hot-Air Blowers (Service Electric Co., Ltd.), 270*
—? Water, Solar, of British Army, 5*
for Use with Butane Gas, British Standard, 556
Heating, Aerodynamic, Effect on Aircraft, 408* as Heat-Transfer Problem, 314
— Arc, as Space Flight Propulsion System,
802*
— Cable, “ Thermocord,” Glass-Fibre Insu
lated (Electrothermal Engineering, Ltd.), 522
— Central, Oil-Fired, Systems, Permanent
Exhibition of, at Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd.), 556
— and Cutting Operations, Single-Stage Regu
lator for (British Industrial Gases, Ltd.), 269
— Element, “ Mhoglass,” for Surface Area
Heating (A. J. Kemp, Sons and Co., Ltd., and Hunting Percival, Ltd.), 431
“ Thermoflex,” for Sea-Water Evaporators (Trade Publication), 531
— Floor. See Floor Heating
— by Heat Pumps, by R. Cadiergues, 47
— High-Intensity, Selective Local, Jet Town-
Gas Burner for, 184*
— Home, Consulting Service of, Esso Petro
leum Co., Ltd., 556
— Kinetic, in High-Speed Aircraft, Simulating
(Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), Ill*
— by Nuclear Energy, by R. Cadiergues, 47
—? Oil-Fired Units, for New Factory of Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd., at Blay- don-on-Tyne, 473*
— Ventilating, Refrigeration and Fan Engi-
neeting. National College for. Activities of, 39; Lectures on Environmental Hygiene, 431
— as Product of Fluorescent Lighting in
Factory Buildings, 659*
— in Railway Carriages, 541-542
— Solar, by R. Cadiergues, 47
?—? — Research on, 45
— Space, Advantages of Structural Insulation,
138*
Air-Cycle Heat Pump for, by K, H. Hunt, 818*
at Electrical Research Association Laboratories, 94
— Systems in Europe, by R. Cadiergues, 47 Exhaust-Gas, for “ Maz 530 ” 40-Ton
Truck, 410*
High-Temperature, “ Dowtherm ” Heat- Transfer Fluid for (Rose, Downs and Thompson, Ltd.), 775
Oil-Fired, Small-Bore, Working Model, at Building Exhibition (Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd.), 493
Scale-Free, “ Equiverse ” (Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd.), 330*
at Thames Foundry of Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 701
— Unit, Air, “ Pak-a-Way,” for Houses
(Package Heater Co.), 493*
Induction Low-Frequency, Use in Study of Boiler Circulation Theory at Cambridge University, 110*
— and Ventilating Engineers, Institution of.
Courses Leading to Membership of, 39; Annual Conference at Torquay. Climatic Influences as Basic Concept in Air Conditioning. By T. H. Urdahl, 46; Trends in Heating Systems in Europe. By R. Cadiergues, 47
Equipment for Dudley Port Works of General Electric Co., Ltd., 829*
Refrigeration and Fan Engineering, National College for. Activities of, 39; Preliminary Notice of Lectures on Environmental Hygiene, 431
Heavy Water, Research on, 254
“ Hec Type 1201 ” General Purpose Electronic Computer (British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd.), 67*
Hedley, T., and Co., Ltd., Work of New Laboratories of, at Longbenton, 94; Description of New Laboratories of, at Longbenton, 94; Research Activities and Expenditure at, 557
Heenan “Dynamatic” Dynamometer, 3,000 b.h.p. Capacity, for Development and Proving of Diesel Rail-Car Sets, 652*
Helical Gears. See Gear.^ Helicopter. See Aeronautics
Helium3, Thermal Diffusion Plant for Production of, 828
Helium Build-up in Nuclear Reactor Control Rods, 253
— Gun, Two-Chamber, Developed by United
States Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 401*
— Nucleus in Cosmic Particle, 220
— Coolant in Fluidised-Fuel Nuclear Reactor,
730
Hellefors Bruks A/B, “ Remko ” Magnetic Iron (Trade Publication), 625
Henderson, J., on Hot-Blast Cupola as Economic Unit, 85
Henley’s, W, T., Telegraph Works Co., Ltd., Contract for Cables for Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station, 158
Henry, Lt.-Col. J. P., on Effect of Satellite Flight on Human Beings, 128
Hepburn Conveyor Co., Ltd., Feeders and Conveyors for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 536*
Herbert, Sir A., the Late, Note on Life of, 160 Herbert, A., Ltd., “ Hylo ” Twin-Jaw Vices, 215*; Clutch-Controlled Gear Range Selection for Type V Drilling Machine, 459*; Pulverised Fuel Furnace for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Herbert, M. V., on Aerodynamic Factors in Aero-Engine Combustion Chambers, 143* Herga, H., on Development of Turbo-Charging by Brown, Boveri and Co., 57
Hertfordshire Technical Library Service, Remarks on, by S. R. Broad, 721
Hessian Bias Tubing, “ Quick-Wrap ” (Quick Wrap Tubing Co., Ltd.), 568
“ Het Atoom ” Exhibition, Nuclear Reactor Exhibits at, 124*
“ HiCal ” High-Energy Fuel (Callery Fuels, Inc.), 679
Hicks, D., on How Operational Research Helps Management, 649
Hicks, Dr. R., on Laterally-Loaded Plates: Moment Distribution around a Small Circular Hole, 175; on Reinforced Holes in Plates, 280*; on Supporting Skirts for Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessels, 285
“ Hicycle ” Electric Impact Wrench (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 491*
HIFAR Materials-Testing Nuclear Reactor, 318*
Higginbottom, E., on Management and Bad Writing, 325
Higgs and Hill, Ltd., Member of Consortium for Construction of Shipyard in Cuba, 620 High-Altitude Laboratory of Aircraft Equipment Division of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655*
Research, Discussion on, 100
and Satellite Rockets, Symposium on, 98
— Marnham Power Station, Design of 200-
MW Turbo Generator Set for, 344
— Polymer Conference, International (Not
tingham), Preliminary Notice, 327
— Temperatures, Behaviour of Prestressed
Structures at, 246*
High Voltage Engineering Corp., Electron Radiation Facility at Cologne, 124
Highfield, W. E., Shield Competition, 220 Highgate Woods Electronic Telephone Exchange, Proposed, 760
Highway, Milan-Naples, “ Autostrada of the Sun,” 511
— Needs of Great Britain, Symposium on, 667
— New, “ Autostrada of the Sun,” from Milan
to Naples, 511
— Problems, British Conference on. Discus
sion in Parliament on, 799
— See also Roads
Hilditch, J. A. S., on Electromagnetic Pumping of Liquid Metals, 91
“ Hildu ” Range of Screw Presses (Press and Shear Co., Ltd.), 298
Hill, E. J., Remarks on Trade Unions’ Fight Against Government’s Wage Policy, 672
Hill, L., Technical Group, National AntiCorrosion Week, 583; Corrosion Exhibition, 583
Hiller Flying Platform, 494*
Hilton, Dr. W. F., on Re-entry and Recovery of Vehicles from outside the Atmosphere, 101
Hinde, J., on Developments in Welding of Nickel and High-Nickel Alloys for Chemical Industry, 11
Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, Approval for, 28; Contract for, 380*; Control System, 380*; Reactors, 380*; Pressure Vessel, 381*; Steam-Raising Units, 381*; Further Details and Thermal Efficiency of, 382; Shielding, 412*; Gas Circulators, 412*; Gas Ducting, 412*; Charge and Discharge System, 412; Spent-Fuel- Element Handling, 412; Power Plant, 412; Steelwork for, 412
Hintermayer, Ing. F., at World Power Conference, 21 *, 23*
Hinton, Sir C., Awarded Albert Medal of Royal Society of Arts, 61; Appointment as Head of Central Electricity Generating Board, 220, 230; Remarks on Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station, 290; on Nuclear Propulsion of Ships, 698
Hinxman, H., on Education and Training for Welding, 73
Hire Purchase Credit, Effect on Consumer Goods Boom, 777
Hiroshima, Cinema Film on, 158 Hirschmann, F., on Steps Towards Automatic Welding, 715*
Hirst Electronic Ltd., Resistance Welding Machine with Indexing Head for Automatic Spot Welding, 87*
History of Engineering in Derbyshire, by F. Nixon (Review), 242
— of Flying, by C. H. Gibbs-Smith, 279
— of Patent Agency, 750
— of Pipe Making (Trade Publication), 213
— of Reinforced Concrete, 121
— of Singer Manufacturing Co., 233
—-of Technology. Vol. Il: Mediterranean
Civilisations and Middle Ages, by C Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. T. 1. Williams (Review), 82
— of Two Famous Locomotive
(Trade Publication), 213
Hives, Lord, Remarks on Diploma nology and Technical Colleges, 800
H.M.SS. See under iVarships
Hoare, P. V., on Technical Writing, 740 Hobbing Machines, Gear. See Gear under Machine Tools
Hobson, H. M., Ltd., Model 7 Master-Slave Manipulator, 335
Hodkinson, B., on Lettering Designs, 453 Hoffmann Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Bearings for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 36
Hogan, Dr. M. A., on Mining Development in Ireland, 488
Hoists, Chain, Electric, Portable, “ Munck ” (Trade Publication), 563
— Mine, with Hydrostatic Transmission, 781
— for Ship’s Engine Room Maintenance Work
(Atlas Copco (Great Britain), Ltd.), 300
— See also Cranes
Holes, Fitting of Shafts in. See Gauging
— in Plates, Reinforced, by Dr. R. Hicks, 280* —? Small Circular, Moment Distribution
Around, in Laterally-Located Plates, by Dr. R. Hicks, 175
— Spacing of, without Jig Borer, “ Hole
master ” Equipment for (Euco Tools, Ltd.) 150*
“ Holemaster ” Equipment for Spacing Holes without Jig Borer (Euco Tools, Ltd.), 150* Holland and Hannen and Cubitts, Ltd.,Two-Day Course on Project Management for Schoolboys, 128
— See also Dutch; Netherlands
“ Hollerith 550 ” Electronic Computer for British Railways at Derby (British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd.), 617
“ Hollerith 555 ” Punched-Card Electronic Calculator with Memory Drum (British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd.), 19
Holman Brothers, Ltd., “ ATH8S ” Single Cylinder Air-Cooled Stationary Air-Compressor, 300
Holmes, W. C., and Co., Ltd., Holmes-Andre Process for De-Bonding Rubber from Metal, 679
Holmes-Andre Process for De-Bonding Rubber from Metal (W. C. Holmes and Co., Ltd.), 679
Holroyd, J., and Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 265
Home, Engineering at, 493, 556*, 621*, 684*, 753*, 81 1 *
— Heating, Consulting Service of Esso Petro
leum Co., Ltd., 556
See also Heater, Heating
— Overtime at. See Do-it-Yourself
— Safety in, by J. E. Simon, 556
— Stately, Television Programmes on. Plain
Words on, 194. See LETTER, 261
— Universities Conference, Criticisms on
Selection of Students for Universities, 832 Homogeneous Reactor Experiment. See HRE “ Honeycomb Sandwich ” Resin-Impregnated
Glass Cloth Partitioning Material (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 358
— in Water Tunnel at Pennsylvania State
University, by J. M. Robertson and D. Ross, 76*
Hong Wong, at World Power Conference, 22* Hoop Reinforcement for Limitation of Cracking in Aircraft Pressure Cabins, 727
Hoover, Ltd., Paper on Men and Women behind Machines, 480; Training School at Merthyr Tydfil, 480.
Hoover (Washing Machines). Ltd., “ Hoover- matic ” Combined Washing Machine and Spin Dryer, 556*
“ Hoovermatic ” Combined Washing Machine and Spin Dryer (Hoover (Washing Machines), Ltd.), 556*
Hope, Henry, and Sons, Direct Delivery of Steel Windows to Holland, 464
Horizon Projector, in Helicopter Flight Simulator, 500*
“ Horizons,” House Magazine of A. V. Roe, Canada, Ltd., 181
Horne, Dr. M. R., on The Full Plastic Moment, 615. See LETTERS, 677, 740
“ Hornet ” 50-Watt Transmitter-Receiver for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler (Pye, Ltd.), 663
Horse-Power, Indicating Continuously, by J. Thillaimuthu, 528*
Horseley Bridge and Thomas Piggott Group, Annual Report, 326; Possible Acquisition of Meehans, Ltd., by, 326
Horwitch Smith and Co., Ltd., Ducting (Trade Publication), 279; Plastics Pipe Fittings (Trade Publication, 625
Hose, Air Couplings, “ Instantair ” (Trade Publication), 403
— Convoluted, Stainless Steel, 75-ft. Length of,
for United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Power Auxiliaries, Ltd.), 264
?— Flexible, Seamless, Metallic, “ Plessiflex ” (Power Auxiliaries, Ltd.), 264*
— Oil, Soft-Walled, X.L. Type (Dunlop
Rubber Co., Ltd.), 179
— Ramp, Glass-Fibre Reinforced (Microcell,
Ltd.), 89*
Hoskins, S. D., Remarks on Colour Prejudice in National Union of Railwaymen, 576 Hospital Board, Apology to Bus Driver, 448 Hounsfield, L. H., the Late, 421 Hours of Labour. See Labour
Houses, Air-Heating Unit, “ Pak-a-Way, ” for (Package Heater Co.), 493*
—? Magazine, “ Horizons,” of A, V. Roe, Canada, Ltd., 181
? “ Precision,” of Automotive Products Co., Ltd., 181
— Mortgages and Inflation, Remarks on, by
W.K. Logan, 128
Household Expenditure in 1953-54, Report of Enquiry into. Comment on, 577
Housing and Local Government, Ministry of. New Regulations for Better Control of Outside Advertising, 588
Howard, J. R., on Management, Lighting and Engineers, 708
Howden, J., and Co., Ltd., Trimming Compressors and Evacuators for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56
Howden-Lysholm Helical-Lobe Positive Displacement Evacuators, for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56
Howe, E, A., on Cooling Power Packings, 615, 804. See LETTER, 676
Howgego, J. R., on Full Plastic Moment, 645.
S^ee LETTERS, 677, 740
HRE-2 Reactor Experiment, Delay in, 157 HRT Nuclear Reactor, Disadvantages of, 604 “HSR Automat” Turret Tool Holder for
Centre Lathes (Insley Industrial Supply Co,, Ltd.), 680*
Hudson V. Ridge Co., Ltd., 832
Hughes, G. H., Ltd., Cinema Film on Compressed Air Equipment, 84
Hulls of Boats, Glass-Reinforced Plastics for (Whiffen and Sons, Ltd.), 89
— Forms, Underwater, Research on, 738*
— Models of Underwater Oil Tankers under
Test, 738*
Hulton Press, Ltd., Note on 1957 List, 149 Human Beings, What Automation Does to, by G. Soule (Review), 470
Human Use of, by N. Wiener (Review), 470
— Element, 32, 64, 96, 128, 160, 192, 224, 256,
288, 320, 352, 384, 416, 448, 479, 512, 544, 576, 608, 640, 672, 704, 736, 768, 800, 832
Human Endurance, Technology’s Challenge to, by H, Gartmann (Review), 16
— Performance, Data on, for Engineering
Designers, by K. F, H. Murrell, 194*, 247*, 308*, 344*, 438*. See LETTERS, 453, 740. See also 417
— Reactions in High-Speed Travel, 466
— Relations, Engineer’s Attitude to, 192 in Steel Industry, Pamphlet on, 608 Humanities, Relationship with Arts, Science
and Technology, 776
Humber, Ltd., “ Hawk ” Motor-Car, 572*
Humphreys and Glasgow, Ltd., Activities and Constitution of, 700; Pilot Plant for Underground Gasification of Coal, 762*
Hundy, B. B., on Plastic Yielding of I-Beams, 74*, 112*
Hungarian Technical Abstracts, Note on, 657
— Workers in South Yorkshire Collieries,
Report on, 352
Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd., 3 ft. 6 in. Gauge Diesel-Hydraulic Shunting Locomotive. 87*; “ Scootacar ” Enclosed Three-
Wheeled Scooter, 146*
Hunt, J. B., on Brittle Fracture of Mild Steel in Torsion, 173*
Hunt, K. H., on Air-Cycle Heat Pump for Space Heating, 818*
Hunt, R. J., on Position and Prospects of Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., 104
Hunter, F. T., on Cost of Automation, 38
“ Hunter ” Fighter Aircraft, Indian Government Contract with Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., for Supply of, 359
Hunter, G. (London), Ltd., Fork-Lift Truck with Forward Reach, 775*
Hunterston Nuclear Power Station of South of Scotland Electricity Board, 217; Commencement of Work on, 319
Hunting Percival, Ltd., “ Mhoglass ” Surface Area Heating Element, 431
Hurni, M. L., on Scientific Preparation for Decisions, 3
“ Hurricane ” Harvseter (David Brown Group), 648*
Hurseal, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 463; “ S ” Series of Ultra-Low Oil-Filled Electric Radiators, 811 *
Hurst Nelson, Position and Prospects of, 454 Husband and Co., Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 35*
Husband, H. C., on Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank, 5
“ Hycar ” Ebonite for Lining of Chemical Plant (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 584
— Nitrile Rubbers, Properties and Uses of
(British Geon, Ltd.), 202*; (Trade Publication), 625
Hyde Park Corner, Proposed Underpass for Relief of Traffic Congestion, 601
“ Hydraclamp ” Loader with Hydraulically- Operated Jaws (W. E. Bray and Co., Ltd.), 425*
Hydrak Automatic Clutch for Mercedes Motor Cars, 286*
“ Hydralite ” Jack, lOO-Ton Capacity (Tangyes, Ltd.), 329*
“ Hydrapak ” Hand Pump Unit for “ Hydralite ” Jack (Tangyes, Ltd.), 329*
Hydraulics, Aircraft: Vol. I. Systems. Vol. 2. Component H. G. Conway (Review), 180
— Crane. See Crane
— Equipment, Low-Pressure, and
Equipment “ Fluid-Power ” Duty Industrial Publication), 307
— Jaws, Mobile, “ Hydraclamp,” for Materials
Handling (W. E. Bray and Co., Ltd.), 425*
— Laboratory for Model Tests on River and
Estuary Configurations, at Institute of Technology (Stockholm), 377
— Lift Gear for Connecting Semi-Trailers to
“ Tugmaster ” Tractor (Douglas Equipment, Ltd.), 680*
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
— Power Plant. See Power Plant
Transmissions, High-Pressure, by Dr. H. Thoma, 779*
Units, “ PortoPower ” (Trade Publication), 403
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools
— Pump. See Pump
— Research in United States, 1957, Note on,
471
— Servo Control System for Mark TE 300-kW
Gas-Turbine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd,), 315*
— Systems, High-Pressure, Bursting Discs for,
by A. Urbanski, 210*
— Transmission Unit, Voith-North
for Diesel Locomotives (North Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 297
?—? Turbines. See Turbines
— Turntable Ladder for Firefighting
weather and Sons, Ltd.), 183*
— See also Hydrodynamics; Irrigation; IVater Hydrazine, Possible Fuel for Sputnik II, 644* Hydro-Electric Power. See Power
Power Plant. See Power Plant
— ?— Power Stations. See Power Stations
— Refining of Coal-Tar Products, 205 Hydrocaloric Theory of Thin High-Speed
Sliding Oil-Films, 780
Hydrocarbon Oils, Hydro-Refining of, 205 “ Hydroflex ” Drive Incorporating Vane-Type Fluid Coupling (Crofts (Engineers), Ltd.), 265
Hydrogen-Cooling, Direct, of Rotor and Stator Alternators (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 690*
— Production by “ Pechiney ” (Cie de Produits
Chimiques et Electrometallurgiques), 106
— Thermonuclear Reactions, 611
Hydrology, History and Development of, by J. C. 1. Dooge, 311*
Hydroplane River Boat, “ Rocket,” 409*
“ Hydroptic 6A ” Jig Boring and Milling Machine (Societe Genevoise d’Instruments de Physique), 361
Hydrostatic Motor-Car Drive, 572
— Power Transmission, Definition and Appli
cation, 779*
— Transmission Applications of,781
ENGINEERING, VOL, 184 (1957)
INDEX
Hydrostatic Transmission on Diesel Locomotive of Italian State Railways, 781
? Mine Hoist with, 781
Hydrosteer, Ltd., Transfer of Business of Girling, Ltd., in Power-Assisted Steering to, 357
Hygiene Association, Industrial, American, Disposal of Radioactive Wastes, by J. F. Newell, 793
— Environmental, Lectures on, 431
— in Food Industry, 388
— -- • - —
Hylite ” Titanium Alloys, Production of, by William Jessop and Sons, Ltd., 235
Hylite 15” Commercially Pure Titanium (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 775
Hylite 45 ” Aluminium-Vanadium-Titanium Alloy (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 775 Hylo ” Twin-Jaw Vices (Alfred Herbert, Ltd.), 215*
Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd., “ R.E.S.5 ” “ Snap ” Air Bottle for Aircraft Pneumatic Emergency Services, 17*; Air is in the Air (Book), 51
“ Hypak Polysealer ” Sealing Machine for Polythene Bags (Oppenheimer Casing Co. (U.K.), Ltd.), 107
“ Hypalon ” for Lining of Chemical Plant (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 584
Hypercircle in Mathematical Physics, by J. L. Synge (Book), 437
Hypersonic Research by United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory, 401*
Hypothermia, Three-Channel Recording Thermometer for (W. G. Pye and Co., Ltd.), 459
((
I-BEAMS, Model, Experiments on, 112*
Plastic Yielding of, by A. P. Green and
B. B. Hundy, 74*, 112*
IBM United Kingdom, Ltd., Electronic Tabulation, 66; Staff Location System, 67
Icebreaker Ship, Nuclear-Powered, “ Lenin ” 569; Launching of, 795
Ice-Free Waterways, Compressed Air Technique for, 542
Iceland, Royal Navy’s Expedition Training Course at, by Sub-Lt. M. K. Matthews, R.N., 706*
Ice. See also Refrigeration
Idealism and Technical Assistance—Misgivings and Mistakings, by A. Dickson, 399
Illuminating Engineering Society, Work on Lighting; 580; I.E.S. Code, 626
Illumination Calculation Methods, Development of, 626
— Distribution, Horizontal, from Side Win
dows, 658*
— Effect on Typesetting, 660*
— Variation of Tile Production with, 660*
— See also Light; Lighting; Lamps under
Electric
Ilmenite, Deposits of, in Allard Lake Area in Eastern Quebec, Mining of, 748
Ilushin II 18 “Moskva” Airliner, 582
Image Converter Tube, Infra-Red at Mullard Research Laboratories, 464
Impact, Initiation of Solid Explosives by, by
C. W. Lampson and R. J. Eichelberger, 142
— and Vibration, by R. A. Burton, Note on,
657
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Butanol Production at Billingham, 13; Annual Report, 40; Proposed Expansion on Severn-side, 40; “ Integron ” Finned
Tubing (Booklet), 61*; 1 Million Gallons Capacity Paint Warehouse at Slough, 62*; “ Melinex ” Polyester Film, 89*; Exhibition on Titanium in Chemical and Allied Plant, 107; PABX No. 3 Telephone Exchange at Billingham Division, 139; Transistor-Grade Silicon, Development of, 282; Safety Manuals “ I.C.I. Codes and Regulations (Safety),” 337; “ Buta- kon,” Oil-Resisting High-Nitrile Rubbers, 358; Rejection of Ardil Fibre Project, 390; Annual Report, 390; “ Tube-in-Strip ” Heat-Transfer Material, 551*; One-Inch Flanged Type “A” Saunders Valve-Body in Cast Titanium, 552*; Titanium Castings, 552*; Mould Release Agents (Trade Publication), 563; Decision to Combine Activities with Yorkshire Copper Works, Ltd., in Manufacture of Copper and Copper Alloy Tube and Plate, 581; New Heavy Organic Chemicals Division, 581; Corrosion-Resistant Titanium Bi-Metal Plate and Tubes, 583; Extension of Polyvinyl Chloride Capacity at Hillhouse, 590; Expansion of Polythene Plant at Wilton, 590; Metal Degreasing Trichlorethylene (Trade Publication), 625; Adoption of Unified Screw Threads and Unified Bolts and Nuts, 682; 200,000-lb. Cyclone- Fired Boiler at Kynoch Works of Metals Division (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 688*; Development of “ Kynal M38 ” Alu- minium-Magnesium-Silicon Alloy for Busbars, 744*; Titanium Production at, 748; Metal Sections (Trade Publication), 783
— College of Science and Technology,
Inaugural Lectures (1955-56) (Book), 371 •—Line Standard Yard, Kater’s (1842), 420*
— Preference, Free Trade Area Proposals on.
Likely Impact of. Report on, 6
Imperial Smelting Corp., New Zinc Smelting Process, 199; Zinc-Alloy “ C-Sentry ” anodes for Cathodic Protection of Ships, Piers, etc., 583
—• Standards of Length, British, Wall Tablets Defining, 418*
Imperial Typewriters, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 10
— Yard, Current, Construction of, in 1845, 420 “Im-Plast” Raw Materials for Producing
Hard Rubber for Battery Containers (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 711
Import Duties Act (1932), Tariff on Internal- Combustion Engines under, 364
on Cement in European Countries, 303* on Motor Cars in Western Europe, 590*
— Trade. See Trade
Impresit, Ltd., Work on Kariba Hydro- Electric Project, 221*
“ Imprest ” Decorative Aluminium Sheet (Trade Publication), 307
Impulse, House Qrgan of Mitchell Engineering, Ltd., 51; Note on, 213
— Turbines. See Turbines
Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd., Continuous Strip Annealing Plant at Velindre Works of Steel Co. of Wales, Ltd., 235*; “Equiverse” Scale-Free Heating System, 330*; Position and Prospects of, 454; Mobile Jacks at Port Talbot Works of Steel Co, of Wales, Ltd. Erratum, 246
— Lamps. See Lamps under Electric
Ince Power Station, 240-MW, Qpening and Description of, 534*
Incentives in Russian Industry, 461
— Wage, Group, Effectiveness of, in Railway
Repair Works, by L. Buck, 352
Inch and Metric Sizes, Precise Conversion of, on Engineering Drawings, 149
Income and Expenditure, National (1957), 363
— Higher, Trend Towards, 363
— Levels of. New Government Council to
Review, 135
— Prices, Productivity and. Council on,
135, 193, 288, 800
— Real, of Workers in the European Coal and
Steel Community (Leaflet), 256
— See also Salary
— See also Wage under Labour
Inconel Tubes, Straightening Machine for (Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd.), 619*
Incorporated Sales Managers’ Association. See Sales Managers’ Association
Independent Television Authority, Television Transmitter, Equipment for, 425
Service, Activities of, 548
Indestructible Paint Co., Ltd., New Bays at Superheater Co., Ltd., 602
Index of American Society for Testing Materials, Note on, 119, See LETTER, 488
— of Changes in Weekly Hours of Work 480
— of Commodity Prices, Downward Trend,
363
— Cost-of-Living, Increase in. Comment on,
832
— Discomfort in Lighting, Calculation of, 626 ?—.of Industrial Production in France, 106
— of Production, 301
— of Prices, Trends in, during 1952-56, 166 Indexing, Co-Ordinate, Method Based on
National Advisory Council for Aeronautics Subject Classification, by J. Rosser, 755
— and Information Retrieval Systems, Award
by United States National Science Foundation to Aslib for Research into, 181
— Mechanism for Comparator for Measuring
Pitch Errors of Fir-Tree Root Serrations in Gas-Turbine Discs, 373*
— Table. See Machine Tools
India, Deposits of Fissile and Fertile Materials, 60
— Difficulties of Five-Year Plan, 81
?— Engineers in. Education and Training Projects, 224
— Heavy Engineering Industry, Report on
Establishment of, 167
— Import Restrictions, 622
— Locomotive Qrders for, 27
— Need for Capital for Industrial Develop
ment, 81, 622
— Negotiation of Loans from Economic
Development Fund and Export-Import Bank, 427
-— Nuclear Materials Plants, 60
— Second Five-Year Plan, Need for Financial
Aid for, 338
— Thorium Deposits in, 60
— Uranium Reserves in, 60
— ZERLINA Nuclear Reactor, 60
Indian Government, Contract with Hawker Aircraft, Ltd., for Supply of “Hunter” Fighter Aircraft, 359
Indian Iron and Steel Corp., Contract to George Kent, Ltd., for Instrumentation at, 262
— Railways, 3,12O-h,p. Electric Locomotives
for (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 806
Indian Steelworks Construction Co., Ltd., Training of Indian University Graduates in United Kingdom as Supervisors for Durgapur Steelworks, 620
— University Graduates, Training in United
Kingdom as Supervisors for Durgapur Steelworks, 620
Indicators, Design of, 249
— Design Data on, 247*
— Fiducial, on Precision Comparator for
Small Cylinders, 182*
— Level, See Level
Induction. See Electric
— Furnaces. See Furnace, Electric
— Motor. See Motor, Electric
Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Agreements and Disputes.
— Chemistry. See Chemistry Industrial and Commercial
poration. Annual Report,
Industry, Bulletin, for. Comment on, 40
— and Commerce, British Fair of (Man
chester), Discussion in Parliament on Exhibits for, 831
— Co-Partnership in. See Labour
— Dearth of Capital in, 517
— Electronic Data Processing for, by R. G,
Canning (Review), 470
— and Flames, Symposium on. Preliminary
Notice, 369
— Graduates in. Report on, 479
— Labour Control of. See Labour
— and Press Relations, by P. Hayle (Review),
278. See also 258
— Problems of Progress in (Pamphlets), 608
— Reconstruction of (in Italy), Institute for,
682
.— Review on Gases, Vapour and Dust in, 39
— Selling to (Report), 81
“ Industry and Society,” Labour Party’s Policy Statement on Public Ownership, 103 ?—? and Technical Colleges, Second National Conference Between, 576
— Water for, by J, B, Graham and M.
Burrill (Book), 51
Inflation in Canada, Note on, 752
— Comment on, 193
— Discussion in Parliament on, 639 ?— Effect of New Factory Building on, 40 on United States Steel Prices, 552 ?— Fear of Further Outbreak of, 40
— in Germany, Comment on, 480 ?— Government’s Policy on, 576
— and House Mortgages, Remarks on,
W, K, Logan, 128
— and Investment, Comment on, 71
—? Plain Words on, 418
— Proposed New Council to Review, 135 ?—? Reasons for Current, by Prof, R, G.
Allan, 650
F.
by
D.
See Labour
Finance Cor-
200
— Co-Partnership Association. See Co-
Partnership Association, Industrial under Labour
— Court.
— Design. See Design
— Design, ~ '
Design (Booklet), Comment on, 385
— Disputes Tribunal. See under Labour
— Economics. See Labour
— Electronics Circuits, by R. Kretzmann
(Book), 437
— Fuel-Efficiency Diary, Note on, 531
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Management. See Management
— Qpportunities in Durham (Booklet), 492
— Research. See Research
— Screen, New Journal on Cinema Films, 17 Industry, Automation in, by E. M. Crabbe
(Review), 470
— British, Effect of Free Trade Area on, 354 and European Common Market, by
H. H. Leisner, 354
Federation of. See Federation
— Bulletin for, 166
See Labour
Council of. Management of
Inflationary Pressure, Measurement of Changes in, 640
Information, Central Office of; Consultation and Co-operation in Commonwealth (Booklet), 6; Quotations on Commonwealth (Leaflet), 6; Free Trade Area Proposals on Imperial Preference, 6
— and Control, New Publication, 243
— Facilities in Russia, 483
— Group, Technical, Committee of Presenta
tion of, 138
— Retrieval and Documentation, by J. W,
Perry and A, Kent, Note on, 783
— — Systems and Indexing, Award by United
States National Science Foundation to Aslib for Research into, 181
— Services, British, Discussion in Parliament
on, 671
Engineering, See Engineering Information Service
for Soviet Engineers, 355
— — Telephone, 435
United States. See United States
— Technical, Bureau of. Bibliography on
Computers, 755
— Withholding of. Control by, 34
Infra-Red Image Converter Tube at Mullard Research Laboratories, 464
Oven for Processing Small Articles and for Batch Production (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co,, Ltd,), 362
Radiation, See Radiation, Infra-Red Ingen-Housz, A. H,, Remarks on Centenary of Siemens Regenerative Furnace, 489
“ Ingold-Compactus ” Space-Saving Storage Equipment (Trade Publication), 149 Initials, Glossary of, 51
Injector Nozzle and Holder, “ U ” Size, Water-Cooled (C.A.V., Ltd,), 377*
— Surge, Saturn-Hivolt, Argon-Arc Welding
Unit (Saturn Industrial Gases, Ltd,), 330 Inland Navigation, See Canals: Rivers, etc. Innertkirchen Hydro-Electric Power Station, Visit to, by Junior Institution of Engineers, 69
Insley Industrial Supply Co., Ltd., “ HSR Automat ” Turret Tool Holder for Centre Lathes, 680*
Insley (London), Ltd., “ Nadella ” Needle Bushes (Trade Publication), 821
Inspection of Capacitors at Elizabeth Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd,, 154*
— Service, Welding (Trade Publication), 149
— and Training, Control of Weld Quality in
Steel by, by Dr, A. J. P. Tucker, 73 “Installed Level Indicator” (Isotope Developments, Ltd.), 176
“Instantair” Air-Hose Couplings (Trade Publication), 403
Institute, See Institutions, Technical and Scientific
Institution, British Standards, See Standards
— Technical and Scientific; Accidents, Royal
Society for the Prevention of; Aeronautical Sciences, American Institute of the: Aeronautical Society, Royal, under Aeronautics: Architects, Royal Institute of British; British Aircraft Constructors, Society of; Chemical Engineers, American Institute of: Chemical Engineers, Institution of: Chemical Industry, Society of; Civil Engineers, Institution of: Contemporary Arts, Institution of: Copper Institute: Cost and Works Accountants, Institute of: Economic and Social Research, National Institute of: Electrical Engineers, Institution of: Electrical Engineers, Supervising, Association of; Engineering Institute of Canada; Engineers, Junior Institution of: Engineering Society, Women's; Euel, Institute of: Fulmer Research Institute: Gas Engineers, Institution of; Heating and Ventilating Engineers, Institution of; Ireland, Civil Engineers of. Institution of; Iron and Steel Federation, British; Management, British Institute of: Marine Engineers, Institute of: Materials Handling, Institute of: Mechanical Engineers, American Society of; Mechanical Engineers, Institution of; Metallurgists, Institution of: Mining Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Association of; Mining and Mechanical Engineers, North of England, Institute of; Nava! Architects, Institution of; Naval Architects and Marine Engineers,
American Society of; Nava! Architects and Marine Engineers, Society of: Nuclear Research Institute, Joint: Operational Research Society: Patent Agents, Chartered Institute of; Patentees, Inst date of: Petroleum, Institute of; Physics, American, Institute of; Physics, Institute of; Post Office Electrical Engineers, Institution of: Production Engineers, Institution of; Public Lighting Engineers, Association of; Reconstruction of Industry (Italy), Institute for; Science, American Association for the Advancement of; Seaweed Research, Institute of; Standards Institution, British: Structural Engineers, Institution of; Technology, Federal Institute of (Zurich): Technology, Institute of (Stockholm); Testing Materials, American Society of; Transport, Institute of; Welding, Institute of
Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Activities of, 787
Instruments, British Nucleonic, 1957, List of Supply Sources, 125
— Cases, Design of, 195*
— for Checking Surface Level (Russian), 441*
— Design of Long-Scale, 249
— Drawing, and Measuring Rule, on Headless
Statue of Gudea, Prince of Lagash, 418*
— Flight, Integrated System, for Fighter
Aircraft, 261
— Manufacturers’ Association, Scientific,
British Nucleonic Instruments, 1957 (List of Supply Sources), 125; Appointment of H, A. Luss as Chairman of Nucleonics Group of, 158
?— for Measurement of Liquid Flow, Level, and Pressure (Trade Publication), 279
— Pacing, for Use in Tensile Testing of
Titanium, 395*
— Scientific. See Scientific Instruments
— “ Teledep ” Mark II, Symmetrical, for
Reading Liquid Levels Remotely (Trade Publication), 531
— See also Aeronautics; Electric Instrumentation in Acoustics Laboratory of
Keith Blackman, Ltd., 696
— Faults at Windscale No. I Pile, 636
— Measuring, and Automation, International
Congress and Exhibition of (Interkama) (Dusseldorf), Preliminary Announcement, 273
Industry, German, Exhibition of, 273 ?— in Testing Aircraft, by C. N. Jaques (Review), 656
Insulation. See Heat; Electric Insurance Act, National (1957), See National Insurance Act
— Nuclear Reactor, Recommendations on, 28
— Workmen’s. See Labour Integrals and Other
Tables of, by H, B, Dwight (BookJ, 499 “ Integron ” Finned ' ' _ '
(Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd,), 61* Intellectual Processes, Effects of Age on, by D. B, Bromley, 352, 389
Intelligence and Environment in Children, Experiments on, by Dr. S. Wiseman, 384 Inter-American Economic Conference (Buenos Aires), 338
— -— Symposium on Peaceful Application of
Nuclear Energy, See Nuclear Energy Interchangeability, Increasing, and Standardising Product Design, 427
Interferometer, Radio, Operation of Aerial Systems as, for Study of Radio Stars a Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, 185*
Intermediate Alternating Current Flush Switch, “ Lincoln ” Type (J. A, Crabtree and Co., Ltd.), 684*
Internal-Combustion Engines. See Aeronautics; Engines; Motor Cars: Motorships: Tractors: Turbine, Gas
International Air Transport Association. See Air Transport Association, International
International Alloys, Ltd., 25 Years of Progress, Note on Book on, 595
— Association for Exchange of Students for
Technical Experience. See Exchange of Students for Technical Experience
— Astronautical Congress. See Astronautica!
Congress
— Atom Week.
— Atomic Energy Agency.
Energy Agency
— Bank for Reconstruction and
See Bank, International
— Civil Aviation Organisation.
Organisation under Aeronautics
— Commission on Irrigation and Drainage.
See Irrigation and Drainage, International Commission on
— Conference on Operational Research. See
Research, Operational, International Conference on
— — on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy.
See Atomic Energy
— Congress of Applied Mechanics. See
Applied Mechanics
?—? — and Exhibition of Measuring Instru- mation and Automation (Interkama) (Dusseldorf), Preliminary Announcement, 273
— Council of the Aeronautical Sciences. See
Aeronautical Sciences
— Fair. See Exhibition
— Federation of Building and Public Works.
See Budding and Public Works
of Consulting Engineers. See Consulting Engineers
for Documentation. See Federation
— Finance Corporation, Position and Pros
pects of, 462
— Geophysical Year. See Geophysical International Harvester Co., of Great Britain,
42-b.h.p. Crawler Tractor, 741*
— High Polymer Conference. See High
Polymer
— Institute of Welding. See Welding, Inter
national Institute of
— Machine Tool Exhibition, Report of
Exhibition Committee on, 72
— Management Congress (Paris), 2*, See
also I
Mathematical Data,
Tubing (Booklet)
See Atom Week
See Atomic
Development.
See Aviation
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
xlv
International Monetary Fund. See Monetary Fund
International Nickel Co., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Nickel Industry, Expansion Programme of, 806
International Nickel Co. of Canada, Position and Prospects, 281
— Organisation for Standardisation.
Standardisation
— Patent Service. See Patent Service
— Radio Consultative Committee (C.C.I.R.),
Study of Colour Television Systems, 548
— Scientific Film Association. See Scientific
Film Association
— Solidarity Fund of International Con
federation of Free Trade Unions, 160
— Symposium on Electronic Components.
See Electronic Components, International Symposium on
International Synthetic Rubber Co., Ltd., New Plant near Fawley, 200
— Tin Council. See Tin Council, International
— Trade. See Trade
— Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
See Chemistry, Pure and Applied
Interpas Monthly Patent Data, Note on, 307 Interplanetary Society, British: Symposium on High Altitude and Satellite Rockets, 98*; List of Papers Presented, 100; Discussion on High Altitude Research, 100; Exhibition of Rockets and Satellites, 101; Publications and Services of, 783
Inventions for Industry, Ltd., Activities of, 751
— Patent of. Definition of, 749
— Protection of, by Patent System, 749.
See also 738
— in Russia, 410
— See also Patents
Inventors, Protection of, by Patent System, 749. See also 738
— in Russia, 410
Investment in Britain by United States, 524
— Capital, in Coal Industry, by National
Coal IJoard, 63
— — Cuts in, 557
Effect of Increase in Bank Rate on, 390 Lower Returns on, 682
— in Commonwealth, by United Kingdom
White Paper on, 166
— Comparison of United Kingdom and
Overseas, by Prof. A. K. Cairncross, 399
— Effect of Increased Bank Rate on, 524
— of German Industry, Foreign, 557
— Government, in Commonwealth, 159
— Increase in, 40
— in Industry, Discussion in Parliament on, 607
— and Inflation, Comment on, 71
— in Oil Industry, 620
— Overseas, in British Motor-Car Industry,
Discussion in Parliament on, 223
— Research as, by Dr. A. King, 649
— Small Saver’s, in Industry, in United
States, by L. Engel, 512
— Survey, Annual, of European Coal and
Steel Community, 111
?— United States, in Germany, 588
Iodine, Chemical Separation of, from Fission Products of Uranium 235, 255
Ion Acceleration as Space Flight Propulsion System, 802*
— Exchange Resin Membrane Process for
Recovery of Uranium from Ore Leach Pulp, 559
Ionisation, Sporadic E, Effect on Sound Wave Transmission, 172
Ionosphere, Work on Application of Determining Transmission Characteristics, 171 Ireland, Arterial Drainage in (1842-52), 311
— Civil Engineers of. Institution of: Observa
tions on Subjects Connected with Arterial Drainage, by R. "
Registering Rain Observations of Discharges in a Mulvany, 375*
— Mines Development Allowance in, 488
— Minerals Development Act in, 488
Exploration and Development in (Minerals Exploration and Development Co.), 488
— Mining Development in, by Dr. M. A.
Hogan, 488
Legislation in, 488
— Northern, Economic Problems of, 743
— Increased Industrial Output in, 743
Progress of Rural Electrification in, 198 ?— —? Unemployment in, 743
— Republic of. Television in, by C. O. Stanley,
168
IRCA Nuclear Reactor, Solid Homogeneous, 731
Iridium Decay Clock (Gamma-Rays, Ltd.), 270 Iron Alloys. See Metallurgy; Steel
— Corrosion.
— Foundry.
— Furnaces.
— Heat Treatment. See Metallurgy
— Industry. See also Iron and Steel
— Magnetic, “ Remko ” (Trade Publication),
625
— Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast; Metal
lurgy
— Nickel Magnetic Strip for Telephone
Systems, 497
— Ore. See Ore
Iron Ore Co., of Canada, Welcome (Employee Induction Booklet), 224; There’s a Future in Iron Ore (Booklet), 224
Iron-Powder Coated Welding Electrodes, American Specifications for, 711
Coated Welding Electrodes, Use of, in United States, by D. L. Mathias, 711
— Production, by G. R. Bashforth (Book), 16 Future Plans for, 131
— Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
— and Steel, Boron, Calcium, Columbium and
Zirconium in, by R. A. Grange, F. J. Shortsleeve, D. C. Hilty, W. O. Binder, G. T. Motock, and C. M. Offenhauer (Book), 820
Board, Second Periodic Review “ Deve- velopment in the Iron and Steel Industry,” 130
— — Community, European. See European
806;
Ltd.,
See
Manning, 375*; Self- and Flood Gauges in Rainfall and Flood Catchment, by T. J.
See Corrosion
See Foundry See Furnaces
Iron and Steel Federation, British, Steel Today : Who Owns the Steel Industry?! Pamphlet), 427; Cinema Films on Steel Metallography, 457; Views on Free Trade Area, 524; Sandwich Course for Steelworks Engineers, 679
Iron and Steel Industry, Air Pollution in (Book), 563
Industry, Capital Expenditure in, 104 Industry in Europe, Analysis of, by Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, 399
Industry, Review of Development in, 130 Industry, Technical Advances in, 132 Industry, Water Pollution in. Problems of Control of, 739
Iron and Steel Institute:
Air Pollution in Iron and Steel Industry (Book), 563
Bibliography of Continuous Casting of Steel (1934-57) (Book), 687
Co-operative Translation Service, 213 Autumn General Meeting:
Centenary of Siemens Regenerative Furnace, 489; Announcement of New Officers, 489
Iron and Steel Engineers Group: Problems in Control of Water in Iron and Steel Industry, Iron and Steel, Manufacture of.
Pollution
739
Vol. 1;
Iron Production, by G. R. Bashforth (Book), 16
— — Products, Duties to be Reduced on, 767 ? Research Association, British, Co-operative Translation Service, 213
Works. See Works
— Welding. See Welding
— See also Cast Iron; Steel; Metallurgy Ironwork, Structural. See Bridges: Floors:
Roofs: Steelwork; Structures
“ Iroquois ” Supersonic Turbojet Power Unit for Avro Canada’s Arrow Supersonic Interceptor Aircraft (Orenda “ Ltd.), 291*
— 20,000 lb. Thrust Supersonic Turbojet
Engine, Agreement Between Engines, Ltd., and Curtiss-Wright Corp., for Building of, 454
Irradiated Foods, Symposium on (Cambridge), 475
Irradiation, Destructive Effects of, 389*
— Effects on Graphite, by Dr. G. B.
Greenough, 90 on Polyethylene, 60* ?—? Food Preserved by, Svmposium on, 475
— Gamma and Pile, Effect on Thermal De
composition and Thermal Detonation of a-Lead Azide, by J. M. Groocock, 141
— See also Radiation
Irrigation and Drainage, International Commission on. Activities of, 287
•— Problems, Discussion in Parliament on, 93 ISCON. See Indian Steelworks Construction Co., Ltd.
Isle of Grain Refinery, New, 200
Isogai, M., on Tests on 2,500 h.p. Type 2SC/IP/IRE Experimental Gas-Turbine, 58*
Isotope Container for Industrial Radiography, Model ASS/51 (Gamma-Rays, Ltd.), 270* Tungsten, Model No. 43030 (Solus Schall, Ltd.), 270
Isotope Developments, Ltd., Switch ” Level Control, 176*; Level Indicator,” 176
Israel, Oil-Marketing Interests in, in Parliament on, 223
Italian Chamber of Deputies, Ratification of European Common Market, 103
Italian State Railways, Diesel Locomotive with Hydrostatic Transmission, 781
Italy, “ Autostrada of the Sun,” New Highway from Milan to Naples, 51 I
— Coachbuilding Industry in. Expansion of, by
G. Wilkins, 674*
— Gas Consumption in, 6
— Motor-Car Industry, Expansion of Coach
building Facilities, 674*
— Nationalisation in. Note on, 682
— Nuclear Power Station for, 699
Power Station for. Advisers for Site Selection, 787
Research in, 787
— Views on European Common Market, 103 I.T.D., Ltd., New Constitution of, 273
“ ITW ” Tractor, Diesel-Engined (Ransomes Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 331
Engines,
Orenda
“ Gamma “ Installed
Discussion
Jenkins, W. J., and Co., Ltd., SKB (Schuchter- mann and Kremer-Baum), Resonance Screens (Trade Publication), 563
Jenny, Dr. E., on Development of Turbo
Charging by Brown, Boveri and Co., 57
Jessop, W., and Sons, Ltd., Titanium-Melting Plant for Production of “ Hylite ” Titanium Alloys, 235; Vacuum-Melting Process for Steel Castings, 358; “ Hylite 15 ” Commercially Pure Titanium, 775; “Hylite 45 ” Aluminium-Vanadium-Titanium Alloy, 775
Jet Age, Needs of Aviation in. Report on, 478
— Condensers. See Condensers
Jet-Lube, Ltd., Lubricants (Trade Publication), 531
“ Jethete 151 ” High-Tensile Weldable Ferritic Stainless Steel for Aircraft Industry (Samuel Fox and Co., Ltd.), 358
“ Jetstar ” Light Transport Aircraft, Bristol “ Orpheus ” Turbojet Engines for (Lockhood Aircraft Corporation), 517
Jobson, J. E. V., Remarks on Falling Rate of Profit of Qualcast, Ltd., 487; Remarks on Fall in Profits of Qualcast, Ltd., 581
Jochimsen, J. H., Merit Award in Professional
Photography Exhibition, 348
Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 5; Descripti' n of, 34* • List of Firms Engaged on, 37; Increase in Cost of. Plain Words on, 226
Johansson, C. H., et alia, on Initiation of Liquid Explosives by Shock and Importance of Liquid Break-Up, 142
Johansson, E., on Gotaverken Diesel Engine, 57
John Sergeant Gas-Turbine Ship, Trials and Maiden Voyage of, by J. J. McMullen, 809 Johnson and Duckworth, Ltd., Tendering and
Deck Covering for “ Uniflote ” Landing Stage at Nkata Bay Port, 351*
Johnson, Dr. H., on Comparison of Education in Public and Grammar Schools, 512
Johnson, H. H., the Late, 166, 222*
Johnson, Matthey and Co., Ltd., Silicon Production, 282
Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., Manufacture of Paper Power Capacitors at Elizabeth Works, 154*; Interim Report, 734
Johnson, W, F., and Co. (London), Ltd., “Elmas- Discut ” Filing Machine for Softer Materials, 332
Johnston, D. L., on Product Design for Automated Production, 38
— Nuclear Marine Propulsion Panel, Forma
tion of, 307
— Nuclear Research Institute. See Nuclear
Research Institute
Joints for Use with “ Telecon ” Radio- Frequency Cables (Trade Publication), 307 Jointing Compound, “ Kynal,” Development of, 745*
— Technique for “ Kynal M38 ” Aluminium-
Magnesium-Silicon Alloy, 745*
Jomac, Ltd., Association with James North and Sons, 615
Jones, A. A., and Shipman, Ltd., Helix Grinding
Machine for Cutting Up to 35 Flutes, 807*
Jones, Dr. D. A., on Combining Two Types of
Power in Single Vehicle. 596*
Jones Sewing Machine Co., Output of, 233
Jones, W. H., and Sons, Ltd., Reconstruction at Jaguar Cars, Ltd., 796*
Jordan, Economic Development of. Report of Mission Organised by International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (Review), 624
Jost, H. P., on Friction Under Control, 645* Journal of Chemical Engineering, Canadian,
Take Over of Canadian Journal of Technology, 149
— of Joint Panel on Nuclear Marine
sion. Comment on, 821
— of Molecular Spectroscopy, New
tion, 243
— of Ship Research, Note on, 83
— of Technology, Canadian, Taken '
Propul-
Publica-
JACK, lOO-Ton Capacity, “ Hydralite ” (Tangyes, Ltd.), 329*
— at Engineering Exhibition, 329*
— Mobile, at Port Talbot Works of Steel Co
of Wales, Ltd. Erratum, 246
Jacking Points for Footings of Crossing Tower for 132-kV Line Over River Ribble, 446*
Jaguar Cars, Ltd., Rebuilding After Fire at, 796*
James Clayton Lecture on High-Pressure Hydraulic Power Transmissions, by Dr. H. Thoma, 779*
— •—Lecture on Miniature Motor-Car Pro
duction, by D. Ing. D. Giacosa, 518
James Watt Dinner, Engineer in Shipbuilding by Rt. Hon. J. S. Maclay, 557
Jansky, Work on Radio Astronomy, 37 “Janus” 4-Seater Miniature Motor Car, Redesign of (Zundapp), 287*
Japan, Motor-Car Industry in, 421
Vehicle Industry in, 421
- Nuclear Reactor Plans for, 606
Order for Oil Tankers by D, K. Ludwig, 487
— Sewing-Machine Industry in, 233
— Titanium Production in, 748
— Trade Agreement with Australia, 81
Japanese Diesel Engines, by I. Yamashila, 57 Engines, by K. Okamura, 57
?— International Trade Fair (Osaka, 1958), 27
J.C.J. Engineering, Boring Tool Holder (Trade Publication), 403
Over by Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 149
-— of Ultrasonic Research, New Publication, 243
?— See also Bearings
Journalist, Do You Want to Be a? (Booklet), 610. See LETTER, 676
Joysticks, Design of, for Human Performance, 310*
Judson, C. A., on Design and Development of Small Radial-Flow Turbo-Chargers, 532*
Jugoslavia. See Yugoslavia
“Jumbo” Power Press, Air Operated Brake for, 88*
Junior Institution of Engineers. See Engineers Juveniles, Emplovment of. Hours of, and Health, Welfare and Safety in NonIndustrial Emplovment, Committee of Inquiry into. Plea for Implementation of Recommendations of, 31
“ K ” Propeller-Turbine Aero Engine, 116*
“ Kanigen ” Corrosion-Resisting Electroplate (Trade Publication), 625
?— Nickel-Phosphorus Plating (Albright and Wilson (Manufacturing), Ltd., 358
Kapitsa, Academician P. I., Remarks on
Independence and Initiative and Productivity, 325; Remarks on Scientific- Technical Research, 356; Interviewed by E. P. Ward, 455
Kaplan Turbine Blades, Machines for Production of, in Russia, 443*
— — Blade, Milling (LMZ Turbine Works),
323*
for Kuibishev Scheme (LMZ), 410 Kardeli, E., at World Power Conference, 21*, 23*
Kariba Dam, Progress at, 221 *
— Hydro-Electric Project, 221 *
Karmdn Vortices in Failure of Tacoma Bridge, 662
— — Shed from Structures, Vibrations from,
by Prof. I. B. den Hartog, 662
Karmann Khia Volkswagen Saloon Motor Car, 391*
Kater’s Imperial Line Standard Yard (1842), 420*
— 36-in. Scale (1830-1831), 420*
Kaufman, J. V. R., on Effect of Nuclear Radiation on Explosives, 141
Kaufmann, H., Ltd., Fall in Profits of, 581; Proposed Merger with Qualcast, Ltd., 581
Kay, J. A. R., Remarks on Aircraft Companies, 773
“ Keebush ” Corrosion-Resistant Plastics Material (Kestner Evaporator and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 583
Kellett, E., on Design and Development of Small Radial-Flow Turbo-Chargers, 532* Kelly, Sir D., Remarks on Russia’s Activities in Industrial Espionage, 672
Kelsall, Dr. E. P., on Wasted Graduates. 479 Kelvin and Hughes (Marine), Ltd., Echo-’ Sounding Techniques for Fishing Fleets, 400*
Kelvingrove Museum, Catalogue of Ship Models in (Review), 754
Kemp, A. J.. Sons and Co., Ltd., “ Mhoglass ” Surface Area Heating Element, 431
Kennedy and Donkin, 132-kV Circuit Line Qver River Ribble, 447
“ Keno ” Hydro Rotor Filter (Keith Blackman, Ltd.), 335
Kent, A., on Documentation and Information Retrieval, Note on, 783; on Machine Literature Searching, Note on, 783
Kent Coast, Railway Electrification to. Progress of Plans for, 766*
Kent, G., Ltd., Level Recorder/Controller for Molten Glass, 177; Float-Qperated Electrical Level Transmitter, for Measurement of Variations of Water Level in Rivers, Reservoirs and Tanks, 207; “ Kux ” Range Differential-Pressure Level Controllers, 207; “Three-Element” Water-Level Control Scheme for Water- Tube Boilers, 207; Annual Report, 262; Contract for Instrumentation at Indian Iron and Steel Corp., 262; Showroom for Process Control and Measurement Instrumentation, 271; Automatic Control Equipment for 200,000-lb. Cyclone Fired Boiler at Kynoch Works of Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 689; “ Compound ” Water Con
sumption Meter for Measuring Water Flows, 712
“ Kerocleanse ” Creams for Cleaning Hands in Works and Qffice (Scientific Pharma- cals, Ltd.), 602
Kerry’s (Ultrasonics), Ltd., 2-kW Ultrasonic Drilling Machine, 299*; Ultrasonic Machining Process for Tapping Tungsten Carbide, 489*
Kestner Evaporator and Engineering Co., Ltd., “ Keebush ” Corrosion-Resistant Plastics Material, 583
Khalatnost—The Dressing-Gown Attitude, 802 Kilmarnock, Technical College at. Progress on, 191
Kiln, Rotary, for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers), Ltd.), 536*
Kinematics of Machines, by R. T. Hinkle (Review), 820
Kinematograph. See Cinema
Kinetic Heating at High-Flight Speeds, Test Rigs for, 467
in High-Speed Aircraft, Simulating (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), Ill*
— Problems of Fast Reactions, by R. B. Parlin
and H. Eyring, 142
King, Dr. A. J., on Noise and Vibration of Mechanisms and Machines, 103, 261, 677, See also Vol. 183. See LETTERS, 70, 165, 166, 550
King, Dr. A., on Research as an Investment, 649; Statement on Growth of Manufacturing Industry During Next Six Years, 772 King, E., Bolton, on Scientific Research in British Universities, 421
King, G. W., Ltd., “ Stanrun ” Overhead Chain-Conveyor System, at Slough Paint Warehouse of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 62*
Kirk o’ Shotts, British Broadcasting Corp. Television Station at. Observations on Strength of Sound Transmission from, 172 Kirkpatrick, Sir C., the Late, 295. See also LETTER, 357
Kirkstall Forge and Engineering, Position and Prospects of, 390
Kitemark Schemes, Discussion in Parliament on, 831
K. and L. Steelfounders and Engineers, Ltd., Steel Founding (Trade Publication), 625
Klinger, R., Ltd., Piston Valves, 335; “ RTA ” Level Gauge for Boiler Pressures up to 2,000 lb. per sq. in., 335
Klbckner-Humboldt-Deutz, A.G., Manufacture of Air-Cooled Diesel Engines, 364; Marine Diesel Engines at Engineering Exhibition, 335
Knitted Mesh Manufacturing Co., Gratings for Removal of Mist or Moisture from Gas Passing Through Pipe, 851
Knobs, Bar-Type, Design of, 249
— Design of, 249, 309*
“ Know-How,” Dispute in Case of Moriarty (Inspector of Taxes) v. Evans Medical Supplies, Ltd., 743
Knowledge, New Methods and Techniques for Communication of, by H, Coblans, 83
Koenig, Miss G., Sculpture of Machine Minders by, 428*
Kracko, A., Ltd., Marine Diesel Engines at Engineering Exhibition, 335
Kronberger, Dr. H., on Vacuum Techniques in Atomic Energy Industry, 613
Kropfmiihl, Reported Acquisition of Interest in, by Krupp, 29
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Krupp, F., Reported Acquisition of Interest in Kropf^rniihl, 29
Krzyczkowski, R., on Interest and Inflation in Economic Planning of Telecommunications Systems, 630
K.S.B. Export, G.m.b.H., Type LUV, Hermetically Sealed Circular Pump, 334’*
Kuibishev Scheme, Kaplan Turbines for (LMZ) 410
Kulka, W., on Cauldon Cement Works, 582
Kurze Uebersicht uber Standardwerke von internationaler Bedeutung, Note on, 531
Kuwait Oil Co., Plans for Second Oil Tanker Jetty at Kuwait, 231
— Tanker Jetty at. Plans for Second, 231
“ Kux ” Range of Differential-Pressure Level Controllers (George Kent, Ltd.), 207
“ Kynal ” Jointing Compound, Development of, 745’*
“ Kynal M38 ” Aluminium-Magnesium-Silicon Alloy, Development of, for Busbars (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 744’*
“ L ” Series Diesel Engines (W. H. Dorman and Co., Ltd.) 297
Labels, Sticky, “ Multimatic Prestic ” Dispenser for (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 142’*
Labelling of Consumer Goods, Note on, 493 Laboratory, Acceleration and Explosion, of Aircraft Equipment Division of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655
— Acoustics, for Investigation of Noise Char
acteristics of Fans (Keith Blackman, Ltd.), 696’*
•— Air-Conditioner, Note on, 45
— Aircraft Electrics, of English Electric Co.,
Ltd., 655’*
— Apparatus (Trade Publication), 531 Educational (Trade Publication), 499
— Climatic, of Aircraft Equipment Division
of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655
— Dynamometer, of Aircraft Equipment
Division of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655’*
— Electrical Research Association, Programme
of Research at, 94’*
— Environmental Test, for “ Fire-Flash ”
Air-to-Air Guided Weapon System, at Heston, 251’*
?—? Equipment (Trade Publication), 51
— Furniture (Trade Publication), 531
— High-Altitude, of Aircraft Equipment
Division of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655’*
?— Hydraulics, at Institute Stockholm, 377
— Road Research. See
Laboratory
?— Rutherford High Energy.
— Small-Particles, at Thurmaston Factory of
Dallow, Lambert and Co., Ltd., 477’*
— “ Systems ” Engineering Research, of Short
Brothers and Harland, Ltd., at Belfast, 600’*
— Technical Services, of Mobil Oil Co., Ltd.,
at Coryton, 583’*
— of Thomas Hedley and Co., Ltd., at Long-
benton, 94
— Vibration, of Aircraft Equipment Division
of Engish Electric Co., Ltd., 65.5
— See also National Physical
Labour:
Absenteeism, Dangers of. Remarks on, by Chairman of National Coal Board, 384
Admiralty Civilian Employees, Reduction in Numbers of. Discussion in Parliament on, 735
Aeronautical Engineers and Scientists, Possible Redundancy of. Discussion in Parliament on, 799
Africa, Trade Unionism in. Trade Union
Congress Aid to, 160
Aircraft Industry, Personnel Redundancies in, 767
American Workers’ Fact Book, 320 Arbitration in Industrial Disputes in
United States, 64
— Tribunals, Replacement of by Courts of
Inquiry, Parliamentary Discussion, 703 Asia, Trade Unionism in. Trade Union
Congress Aid to, 160
Automobile Workers Union, United, Plea for Reduction in Prices, 288
Briggs Motor Bodies, Ltd., Possibility of
Further Dispute at, 544
Building Trades Employers, United Kingdom, National Federation of. Acceptance of Conditions of Contract for Works of Civil Engineering Construction, 383
— Unions, Demand for 40-Hour Week,
576
Canada, Problem of Scientific and Technical Manpower in (Review), 402 — Redundancy Trend in, 768
Civil Service, Effect of Government Wage Policy on, 640
Clydebank, Unemployment Statistics in, 63 Coal Mines, South Yorkshire, Hungarian Workers in, 352
— Mining Industry, Effects of Absenteeism on, 384
Cohen Committee on Prices, Productivity and Incomes, 135, 193, 288, 800
Coloured Workers, Prejudices in National
Union of Railwaymen, 576 Communists in Key Positions of Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, 32
Contracting Industries, Unemployment in. Discussion in Parliament on, 703 Co-operative Movement in United States, 768
?— Societies, Position and Prospects of, 416 Co-Partnership Association, Industrial,
Partnership and the Ideal Workman, by J. Ward Daw (Pamphlet), 32 — Schemes, Discussion on, 63 of Rhodesian Selection Trust, 32
Ford Motor Co., Ltd.,
Labour Relations at. Foremen and Rate Fixers
Wolff, Ltd., Strike of. Foundry, Shortage of Skilled Labour in,
748
Free Trade Area, Effect on Labour Costs and Availability of Manpower, 651 Friendly Societies, Annual Report of
Chief Registrar of, 416
General and Municipal Workers, National
Union of. Annual Conference, 32 German Trade Unions, Formal Hearing
Given to, by German Government, 512
Germany, Management-Labour Relations in. Comment on, 650
— Shortage of Technical Manpower in.
Report on (Review), 402’*
— Wage Demands, Comment on, 608 Increases in. Comment on, 832 Payment Systems in, 809
Girls, Opportunities in Industry for, 129.
See LETTER, 645
Government Factories, Redundancy at. Discussion in Parliament on, 31 Group Relations, Psychological Factors in, by Dr. A. T. M. Wilson, 736
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Strike of Foremen and Rate Fixers, 320
Health Service Employees, Confederation of. Overtime Ban in Mental Hospitals, 320
Staff, Overtime Cessation Action Against Government’s Veto on 3 per cent Wage Increase for. Comment on, 672
Holidays, Longer, National Union of
Railwavmen’s Demand for, 576
Hours of Labour, Building Unions Demand for 40-Hour Week, 576
Demand for Shorter, 64 Forty-Hour Week, Demand for, 64
— —Forty-Hour Week, Trade Unions’
Campaign for, British Employers’ Confederation Statement on, 608 Increased, at Volkswagen, 650 of Juveniles, and Health, Welfare
and Safety in Non-Industrial Employment, Committee of Inquiry into. Pleas for Implementation of Recommendations of, 31
Longer, Trade Unions Fining of Men for Working, Discussion in Parliament on, 703
?—? —? Losses of. Through Strikes, 800
— — in Russia, 442
Shorter, National Union of Railwaymen’s Demand for, 576
Weekly, Index of Changes in, 480 Human Relations, Engineers’ Attitude to, 192
in Steel Industry, Pamphlet on, 608 Hungarian Workers in South Yorkshire
Coal Pits, 352
Incentives in Russian Industry, 461
— Wage Group, in Railway Repair
Works, by L. Buck, 352 Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Disputes Tribunal, Award of Wage
Increase to Provincial Busmen, 160 Tribunal, Strike of Motor Omnibus
Workers, 128
— Welfare. See Welfare (below)
“ Half-Pay on Proposals for Scheme, 448; Unions, Soviet Policies on. Publication on, 640
— in Russia, Organisation of, 441
— Shortage in Dutch Shipbuilding
dustry, 39
— United States Department of,
American Workers’ Fact Book,
Locomotive Workers, Possible Agreement with British Transport Commission on Manning of Diesel Locomotives, 416
Management, Joint, in Germany, Mitbestimmung System, 272
— Labour Relations, Comment on, 608 Relations in Germany, Comment on,
650
Manpower, Availability of. Effect of Free Trade Area on, 651
— Scientific and Technical, in Western
Europe, Canada, and United States, Problem of (Review), 402
— Study of War-Time Policy and Admin
istration, by H. D. M. Parker (Review), 720
— Technical, in Germany, Shortage of.
Report on (Review), 402’*
Masters, in Russian Factories, 441
Men, Materials and Machines, by J. E. Ridley, 32
— Steel and Technical Change (Pam
phlet), 608
Mental Nurses, Overtime Ban of, 320 Mineworkers, Demand for Forty-Hour Week, 64
Mitbestimmung, System of Joint Management in Germany, 272
Motor Omnibus Drivers, Provincial, Wage Increase of, 160
Workers, Provincial, Strike of, 128 Moulders, Shortage of Skilled, 748 Munitions Industries, Labour in, by P. Inman (Review), 720
National Insurance Act (1957), 192 Nationalisation in Italy, Note on, 682
— Labour Party Pamphlet “ Public
Enterprise” on, 103
Northern Ireland. Unemployment in, 743 Nurses, Mental, Overtime Ban of, 320 Office Conditions, Private Members’ Bill on, 800
Older People, Employment of. Attitudes of Companies to, 448
Overtime Ban of Mental Nurses, 320 Paperworkers’ Union, Proposed Amalgamation with National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants, 256 Partnership and the Ideal Worker, by J. Ward Daw (Pamphlet), 32 Pensions, Increase in. Under National Insurance Act (1957), 192
— Problem (Pamphlet), 448
— Retirement, Changes in, 224
— Scheme, National, Labour Party Pro
posals for, 448
— State, Principle of, 448
Peterlee, Difficulty in Finding Work at, 191 Piecework in Russia, 461, 484
Post Office Technical Workers Possible Arbitration on Pay Proposals for, 640
Prices, Plea by United Automobile Workers Union for Reduction in, 288
— Stability, Proposed Impartial Body on,
64
Printers, Operative, and Assistants, National Society of. Proposed Amalgamation with Paperworkers’ Union, 256
Printing Trade, Reorganisation of Trade Unions in, 160
“ Professional Union,” Comment on, 544 Railway Repair Works, Group Wage Incentives in, by L. Buck, 352
— Workers Wage Claim, Statement by P.
Thorneycroft on, 608
Railwaymen, National Union of. Claim for Wage Increase, Shorter Hours and Longer Holidays, 576; Special Meeting of Coloured Workers, 576
Rate Fixers and Foremen at Harland and Wolff, Ltd.. Strike of, 320
Re-deployment Programme of Ministry of Labour, Results of, 301
Redundancy of Aeronautical Engineers
Labour—continued and Scientists, Discussion in Parliament on, 799
Redundancy i n Aircraft Industry, 767
— Comment on, 224
— at Government Factories, Discussion
in Parliament on, 31
?—? Trend in Canada and United Ststes, 768 Retirement, Half-Pay at. Labour Party’s Proposal for, 352
Russia, Female Labour in, 484
— Hours of Labour in, 442
— Organisation of Labour in, 441
?— Piecework in, 484
Russian Industry, Welfare Facilities in, 461 — Trade Unions, Part Played by, 461 Scientists and Engineers, Aeronautical, Possible Redundancy of. Discussion in Parliament on, 799
Shift Working in Russia, 442 Value of, 588
Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, Confederation of. Communists in Key Positions of, 32
— Industry, Dutch, Labour Shortage in, 39
Soviet Policies on Labour Productivity and Trade Unions, Publication on, 640
Steelworks in Wales, Closure of, 767 Strike of Covent Garden Workers, 224
— at de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.,
Comment on, 640
— at Fisher and Ludlow, Comment on, 288 ?—? of Foremen and Rate Fixers
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 320
— as Industrial Weapon, Comment
800
— Losses of Working Hours through,
— Motor Omnibus Workers, Provincial, 128
Suggestion Schemes from Operatives, Comment on, 672
Executives and Technicians, Association of. Dispute on Negotiation Powers of, 320; Involvement in Strike at de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.. 640
Tinplate Workers, Effect of Closure of Old-Type Tin-Plate Works in South Wales on, 639, 767
Trade Unions in Africa and Asia, Trade Union Congress Aid to, 160
Trade Unions’ Campaign for 40-Hour Week, British Employers’ Confederation Statement on, 608
Congress; Aid to Trade Unions in Africa and Asia, 160; Comment on, 288; Acceptance of Labour Party’s “ Half Pay at Retirement ” Proposals, 352; Report of, 352; General Council’s Statement on Importance of Maintaining International Confidence in Sterling, 448; Annual Conference of Non-Manual Legislation to ditions, 800; Meeting with Wages, Prices Attitude to Economic Policy and Wage Negotiations, 800
Fight Against Government’s Wage Policy, 672
Fining of Men for Working Longer Hours, Discussion in Parliament on, 703
Free, International Confederation of. International Solidarity Fund of, 160
German, Formal Hearing Given to, by German Government, 512
and Labour Productivity by, Soviet Policies on. Publication on, 640
in Printing Trade, Reorganisation of, 160
Relations with Labour Party, 256 Russian, Part Played by, 461 Transport Salaried Staffs Association, Wage Claims, 320
— and General Workers’ Union, Strike of
Covent Garden Workers, 224
Tribunals, Arbitration, Replacement of by Courts of Inquiry, Discussion in Parliament on, 703
Unemployment in Clydebank, 63
— Comment on, 224
— in Contracting Industries, Discussion
in Parliament on, 703
— Insurance Benefit, Statistics on, 224
?— in Northern Ireland, 743
— Statistics, 96, 352; Comment on, 640; Trends of, 768
— in West Wales, 714
United States, Arbitration in Industrial Disputes in, 64
Department of Labour, 1 he American Workers’ Fact Book, 320
Problem of Scientific and Technical Manpower in (Review), 402
Redundancy Trend in, 768
Wages, Average, Comparison with Earnings, 320
— Cohen Committee on, 135, 193, 288, 800
— Civil Service, Effect of Government Wage Policy on, 640
— Claims, Attitude of Government to, Discussion in Parliament on, 639
— — Comment on Incidence of, 320 Impending, 416
Railway Workers, Statement by P. Thorneycroft on, 608
Transport Salaried Staffs Association, 320
— Contracts, Long-Term, Comment on, 672
— Demands, German, Comment on, 608 — Dispute, Covent Garden Market, 128 — Government Policy on. Trade Unions’ Fight Against, 672
— and the Dollar, by Sir R, Hawtrey, 704 — Harmonisation of. Effect on European
Common Market and Free Trade Area, 365
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Labour—continued
Wages, Harmonisation of, in European Common Market, 6
of. Importance in Free Trade Area Negotiations, 557
— Incentives, Group, in Railway Repair Works, by L. Buck, 352
— Increases, Effect on Costs, Remarks on, by C. O. Stanley, 326
? in Germany, Comment on, 832
Government Attitude Towards, 704 Government’s Policy on, 608
Motor Omnibus Drivers, Provincial, 160
National Union of Railwaymen’s Demand for, 576
— Negotiations, Trades Union Attitude to Economic Policy on, 800
?— Policy Abroad, by H. A. Turner, 320 Government, Remarks on, by Sir R. Hawtrey, 704
?— and Profits, Restraint on. Discussion in Parliament on, 607
— Proposals for Post Office Technical Workers, Possible Arbitration on, 640
— Proposed Impartial Body on, 64
— Rate Disputes in United States, 64
— Real, of Workers in the European Coal and Steel Community (Leaflet), 256
— Systems of Payment in Germany, 809 — Women’s, Discussion in Parliament on, 223
— See also Income; Salaries
Wales, Steelworks in. Closure of, 767 — Tinplate Works in. Closure of, 767 — West, Unemployment in, 714
Welfare Facilities in Russian Industry, 461 — Health and Safety in Non-Industrial Employment and Hours of Employment of Juveniles, Committee of Inquiry Into, Plea for Implementation of Recommendations of, 31
Women, Equal Pay for. Discussion in Parliament on, 223
— Opportunities in Industry for, 129. See LETTER, 645
— at Work, by Miss H. Bailey, 736
— Workers in Russia, 441
— See also Engineering Society, Women's Work Study in Mines, Comment on, 704 Workers in the European Coal and Steel Community, Real Wages of (Leaflet), 256
— Fact Book, American, 320
— Non-Manual, Annual Conference of: Need for Legislation to Office Conditions, 800
— Training of, within the (Review), 436
— White-Collar, Attracting Towns, 512
Working Conditions in European Common Market, Harmonisation of, 6
Workmen’s Compensation Acts,Extension to. Bill for, 703
— Compensation, Against Injury, Comment on Legal Case on, 832
— Partnership and the Ideal, by J. Ward Daw (Pamphlet), 32
Works, Closing of. Comment on Informing Work People of, 512
Improve
Factory
to New
Ladder, Hydraulic Turntable, for Fire- Fighting (Merryweather and Sons, Ltd.), 183*
Ladsirlac Information Publication, Note on, 83 Lagging Materials. See Heat Insulation Laidlaw Drew Oil Firing Equipment, for Daniel Adamson Super-Economic Boiler at. New Factory of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 282
Laing, J., and Son (Holdings), Ltd., Annual Report, 71
Laing, J., and Sons, Ltd., Mobil Oil Co.’s New Technical Services Laboratories at Cory- ton, 583*
Laing, W. K., on Position and Prospects of John Laing and Son (Holdings), Ltd., 71
Lakin, R. W., on Problems in Design of Pressure Vessels for Calder Hall Type of Nuclear Reactor, 732
Laminar Flow Applied to Long-Range Transport Aircraft, Research on (Handley Page, Ltd.), 293
Laminate, Paper-Based, “ P992,” for “ Bristol 192” Twin-Rotor Helicopters (Bakelite, Ltd.), 728*
Laminated Plastics Sheet, Large, Edge- Trimming Machine for (Wadkin, Ltd.), 361*
— Timber Construction, by E. Levin, 12
Laminating and Gravity Casting, for Production of Press Tools from Epoxide Resins, 404*
— Production of Press Tools from Epoxide
Resins by, 404*
Laminations, Transformer Core, Plates for, 795 LaMont Boilers (Trade Publication), 821 Lamont International Association, Ltd.,
LaMont Boilers (Trade Publication), 821
Lamp, The, House Magazine of Standard Oil Co., 243
?— Electric. See Electric
Lampson, C. W., on Initiation of Solid Explosives by Shock Waves and bv Impact, 142
Lamson Engineering Co., Ltd., Pneumatic- Tube System for Slough Paint Warehouse of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 62; Mobile Conveyors (Trade Publication), 499 Lancashire Dynamo and Crypto, Ltd., 10-kW Water-Driven Direct-Current “ MicroSet ” Generator, 26*; Geared Motor Units (Trade Publication), 499
Lancashire Dynamo Electronic Products, Ltd., Transistorised Capacity-Operated Level Control, 177*
Land, Compulsory Acquisition of. Compensation for. Bill for Improvements in Law Relating to, 703
Land-Nordrhein-Westfalen, Contract for Cooperation in Materials Testing Nuclear Reactor for Germany, 731
— Measurement of. Cord for, in Egypt, 419* -of. Cord for, Moon-God with, 418*
Land, Measurement of, Northern Foot 420
— Use Patterns, Economic Aspects of, E. M. Fisher, 399
Landing Stage, “ Uniflote,” for Nkata
for.
by
Bay Port (Thomas Storey (Engineers), Ltd.), 351*
Landscape Projector in Helicopter Flight Simulator, 500*
Landslides in Clays, by A, Collin (Review), 336 Langley Alloys, Ltd., Corrosion-Resistant Valves (Trade Publication), 531
Language Problem, Scientific and Technical Translating and Other Aspects of. Note on, 499
— Russian, Study by Science and Technical
Students, Discussion in Parliament on, 831
— Translation of, by Electronic Digital
Computer, 339
?—? — By Machine, Note on, 563 Mechanical, Note on, 563
Lansing Bagnall, Ltd., Fork-Truck Attachment for Handling Coils of Steel Strip, 728 Laplace Transformation, by W. T, Thomson (Review), 754
Lapping Machine. See Machine Tools
— Products, “ Macolaepp,” for Hand or
Machine Operation (B.P.S. Machinery and Spares Co., Ltd.), 503
Larne Works of British Thomson-Houston Co, Ltd., for Production of Turbines and Turbo-Generators, 666*
Laski, M., Remarks on Need for Informative Labelling of Domestic Goods, 493
“ Lassovic PWG ” Corrosion-Resistant Pressure-Sensitive Tape (Smith and Nephew, Ltd.), 583
Latex Compounds, New Factory for Production and Packing of (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 282*
Lathes. See Machine Tools
Latin-America, Industrial Expansion, Refusal of United States Government to Participate in, 338
Potential Markets of, 216
— American and British Chamber of Com
merce, Marketing Activities of, 216
Lattice, Crystal, Representation of, 723*
— Defects, Effects on Some Physical Pro
perties of Metals, by Dr, T, Broom and R. K. Ham, 793
— Dimensions and Arrangements, BICEP
Experimental Facility on, 285
Launcher for “ Bloodhound ” Surface-to-Air Guided Weapon System (M.L, Aviation Co., Ltd.), 350. See Erratum, 424
— “ Zero Length,” for Missiles, at Royal
Aircraft Establishment (Aberporth), 350* Launching of “ Lenin,” Russian Nuclear- Powered Icebreaker Vessel, 795
— of Pontoon by Rolling on Circular Yokes
(Dravo of Canada, Ltd,), 472*
— Ship, Statistics on, 93
?— Shoes for “ Firestreak ” Guided Weapon System, 349
?— Tower for “ Skylark ” Upper-Atmosphere- Sounding Rocket, 99*
Laundering, Study of Problems of (Thomas Hedley and Co,, Ltd.L 94
Laurence, Scott and Electromotors, Ltd., Annual Report, 168; Self-Excited “ Alto- reg ” Compounded Alternator for Ship’s Supply, 271*; “Trislot” Electric Induction Motors (Trade Publication), 403; 400-Cycle Salient-Pole Alternators (Trade Publication), 499; Electrical Equipment for Foil Rolling Mills at Venesta, Ltd,, 502*
Lauryl Aldehyde and Potassium Chlorate, Solid System of. Oxidation Induced by Ultrasonic Radiation on, by F, A, H, Rice and D. Levine, 142
Laval, De, Memorial Lecture (1957), Propulsion of Ships by Steam Turbine Machinery, by Dr. T. W. F. Brown, 444*, 569*, 698*
Law. See Legal; Labour; Patents
Lawrence, Dr. J. R., on More Steel or Better Concrete for Cheaper Designs, 564*, 805, See LETTER, 644*, 677*, 708*, 804
Lawrence, L., on Proposed Power Generator for Satellite Navigation System, 486*
Lawrence, Lt.-Col, R. A., on Testing of New Engine Types to Assess Reliability, 729 Lawson, J. D., on Nuclear Fusion as Possible Source of Power, 347*
.. .. Pneumatic Shearing Machine
Copco (Great Britain), Ltd.), 300 Corner Drilling Machine (Atlas (Great Britain), Ltd,), 300
“ LBK31 ” (Atlas
“ LBV32 ” Copco
Lead Azide, Alpha, Thermal Decomposition and Thermal Detonation of. Effect of Gamma and Pile Irradiation on, by J. M. Groocock, 141
— Price of, 363 Fall in, 12
Leak Detector, Halogen, Portable, Type HMB (British Thomson-Houston Co,, Ltd.), 328*
Learning, Subliminal, Plain Words on, 386 Lee Green Automatic Telephone Exchange, Electronic Director for, 760*
Lee Guiness, Acquisition of Manufacturing Licences for Switchgear from ASEA and Voigt Haeffner, 558
“ Legs 1 and 2 ” of Hypersonic Wind-Tunnel Facility at California Institute of Technology, 430*
Legal:
Arterial Drainage Act, Effect on Development of Hydrology, 311 for Amending Registered Designs Act, 1949, 703 for Extension to Workmen’s Compensation Acts, 703 for Implementing Gowers Committee Proposals, 703 for Improvements in Law Relating to Compensation for Compulsory Acquisition of Land, 703 for Increasing Liabilities of Shipping Lines, 703
Bill
Bill
Bill
Bill
Bill
Cartel Bill, West German, 135
Clean Air Act, Application of, Coke-
Legal—continued
Burning Appliances Handbook on, 684
Clean Air Act, Fuel Research Station to Assist in Administration of, 623
Act, Research in Connection with, by Central Electricity Authority, 414 Contracts for Chemical Processing, Conditions of United States Atomic Energy Commission, 125
— Conditions of, for Works of Civil Engineering Construction, 383
Court of Appeal’s Ruling on Night Watchman, 96
— of Inquiry, Replacement of Arbitration
Tribunals by. Discussion in Parliament on, 703
— of Law on German “ Second Breakfast,” 32
Designs, Registered, Act, 1949, Bill Amending, 703
Exchange Control Acts, 1593
Factories Acts, Safety Regulations Shipbuilding, 223
Hudson V. Ridge Co., Ltd., 832 Import Duties Act (1932), Tariff
Internal-Combustion Engines under, 364
Industrial Disputes Tribunal. See Labour
Labour Legislation. See Labour
Minerals Development Act in Ireland, 488
Mining Legislation in Ireland, 488
Moriarty (Inspector of Taxes) v. Evans Medical Supplies, Ltd,, 743
Nabarro, G., Bill on Structural Insulation of New Buildings, 138*
National Insurance Act (1957), 192 — Service Acts 1948-55 (Pamphlet), 96
Patent Law. See Patents
Philips Electrical, Ltd., v. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on Fermi Patent, 220
Private Members’ Bill on Office Conditions, 800
Radioactive Substances Act (1948), 46
Registered Designs Act, 1949, Bill for Amending, 703
Rent Act, Effect on Cost of Living, 832 Restrictive Practices Act, 1956, Course on, at Polytechnic (Regent Street), 147 Act, Possible Effects on Company Profits, by Sir H. Railing, 326 Shipowners’ Liability for Damages, Respect of Passengers, and Stowaways, Draft Conventions 735
Transport Act (1953), 7 Workmen’s Compensation. See Labour
in on on.
Legislation. See Legal; Labour; Patents
Leisner, H. H., on European Common Market and British Industry, 354
Le Mans Motor Car Race, Cinema Film on, 821
Length, British Imperial Standards of. Wall Tablets Defining, 418*
“ Lenin,” Quotation of, in Soviet Factories, 324*
— Russian Nuclear-Powered Icebreaker Vessel, Launching of, 795
Leo Computers, Ltd., Stand at Business Efficiency Exhibition, 67
“Leprechaun” High-Speed Miniature Digital Computer (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 15*
Letters to the Editor, 4, 70, 103, 165, 200, 228, 229, 261, 325, 357, 389, 421, 453, 487, 520, 550, 582, 615, 644, 676, 708, 740, 773, 804
— Plates, British Standard on, 755
Levant Fair (Bari), British Nuclear Power Station Exhibits at, 348
Level Alarm Switch, Float-Operated (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 208
— Buoy Liquid-Level Indicating Controller or Transmitter (Taylor, Short and Mason, Ltd.), 209*
— Control, Capacity-Operated, Transistorised (Lancashire Dynamo Electronic Products, Ltd.), 177*
“ Gamma Switch ” (Isotope Developments, Ltd.), 176*
Liquid, A.R.D. Adjustable-Range Diaphragm Relay for (Trade Publication), 499 of Liquids in Closed Tanks and Pressure Vessels, 207*
Liquid, Floatless (Meynell and Sons, Ltd.), 426
of Liquids in Open Vessels and Reservoirs, 206*
of Liquids, Use of Magnetic Couplings in, 208
?— — “ No-Flote ” (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 178*
— ?— Proximity Switch for (Elcontrol, Ltd.), 177
Solids, 176*
Techniques for “Difficult” Applications, 176*
— Controller, Conductivity-Type, for Elec-
trically-Conductive Liquids (Elcontrol, Ltd,), 177*
Differential-Pressure, “ Kux ” (George Kent, Ltd,), 207
Direct-Operated Ball-Float Governor Co., Ltd.), 208*
for Liquids, Manometer-Type (Foxboro-Yoxall,
ential-Pressure
207’*
for Liquids,
Range
(Fisher
Differ-
Ltd.),
Masoneilan Variable- Displacement (Crosby Valve and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 209
for Liquids (Sunvic Controls, Ltd.), 208
On/Off, “ Tektor J ” (Fielden Electronics, Ltd.), 177*
Transmitter for Liquids, Displacer-Type Pneumatic (Fisher Governor Co., Ltd.), 209
— Gauge for Liquids, Mercury-Manometer Type Differential-Pressure (Bristol’s Instrument Co., Ltd.), 207*
for Liquids, “ Pacitor ” (Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd.), 177
“ RTA,” for Boiler Pressures up to 2,000 lb. per sq. in. (Richard Klinger, Ltd.), 335
Level Indicating Controller or Transmitter for Liquids, Level-Buoy (Taylor, Short and Mason, Ltd.), 209*
— Indicator, Installed (Isotope Developments,
Ltd.), 176
for Liquids, “ Ekstrom ” (Rotameter Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 208*
for Molten Glass, 176
Nucleonic (Baldwin Instrument Co. Ltd.), 176*
— Liquid, Measuring Instruments (Trade Publication), 279
— “ Teledep ” Mark 11 Symmetrical Instrument for Reading Remotely (Trade Publication), 531
— Meters (Electroflo Meters Co., Ltd.), 206*
— Pocket, Three-Way (Dorset Light Industries, Ltd.), 753*
— Recorder/Controller for Molten Glass (George Kent, Ltd.), 177
?— Switch, Thermal, for Liquids (Teddington Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 209
— Transmitter, Electrical, Float-Operated, for
Remote Measurement of Water-Level in Rivers, Reservoirs and Tanks (George Kent, Ltd.), 207
— Transmitter for Liquids, Displacer-Type (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 209
— Water, in Rivers, Reservoirs and Tanks,
Remote Measurement of, Float-Operated Electrical Level Transmitter for (George Kent, Ltd.), 207
Levers, Design of, for Human Performance, 309*
Levin, E., on Laminated Timber Construction, 12
Levine, D., on Oxidation Induced by Ultrasonic Radiation of Solid System of Lauryl Aldehyde and Potassium Chlorate, 142
Levy, B., Plea for Improved University Appointments Boards, 384
Lewis, H. K., and Co., Ltd., Catalogue of Books on Civil and Mechanical Engineering, 721
Lewis, W. G. E., on Aerodynamic Factors in Aero-Engine Combustion Chambers, 143*
Lewisham, Railway Accident at St. Johns, 767 Leybold-Hochvakuum Anlagen, G.m.b.H., Electron Radiation Facility at Cologne, 124
Leyland Motors, Ltd., 0-350 Diesel Engine for “Aberdonian ” Bus and Coach Chassis, 211; “ EN900 ” Diesel Engine for
Industrial or Marine Use, 298; Training of Africans in Engine Maintenance, 384; CLR “ Routemaster ” Motor Omnibus, 574*
Liardet, G. E., on Position and Prospects of Simms Motor Units, 72, 549
Librarian, Special, Note on Best “ Type ” for, 531
Librairie Dunod, Catalogue of, 499
— Polytechnique Ch. Beranger, Catalogue of, 149
Library Advisory Council, Liverpool and District, Scientific, Industrial and Research, Ladsirlac Information Publication, Note on, 83
— Association, Special Library List on
Cybernetics, 17; Guide to Library Resources in West Midlands Area, 243; Mechanical Translation of Languages, Note on, 563; Note on Annual Meeting, 471
— Co-operation with Local Industry, Remarks on, by P. P. Love, 721
— as Educational Instrument, Remarks on, by Dr. J. Topping, 721
— Facilities in Technical Education, Need for Good, 721
— National Central, Decrease in Annual Return Figures, 687
Lending, for Science and Technology, LLU News, Comment on, 279
— Peterson Memorial, Note on, 657
— Policy, Need for Co-operation of Industry in Formulation of. Remarks on, by Sir E. Boyle, 721
— Public, in England and Wales, Committee on. Membership of, 371
— Resources in West Midlands Area, Guide to, 243
— Science, Books on Engineering (Supplement), 371
“ Friends of the Science Library,” Proposal for, 51
Need for Volumes of Periodicals, 51
— Services in Technical Colleges, Conference on, 471, 721
in Technical Colleges, Standards of (Circular), 721
Technical, Hertfordshire, Remarks on, by S. R. Broad, 721
— of South African Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research, Note on, 437
— Special, and Information Bureaux, Association of. See AsHh
— in Technical Colleges (Circular), Note on, 721
Colleges, by Dr. W. A. J. Chapman, 721 Presentation of, by United States, to
International Atomic Energy Agency, 475
— Trains in Sweden, 279
— Use of Printed Forms in, 687
Libyan Public Development and Stabilisation Agency, Plant for De-Salting Brackish Water for Drinking, in Tobruk, 468*
Liddle, R. S., on Sales Promotion of a Reduced Range of Products, 427
LIDO Nuclear Reactor, 253* l.ieske, H. A., on Accuracy of Moon Satellites, 485
Life Offices’ Association, Pensions Problem (Pamphlet), 448
— Rafts, Inflatable, on Passenger and Cargo
Vessels, Regulations on, 63
— Saving Apparatus on Merchant Ships,
Proposed Amendment to Provisions Relating to, 703
Lifeboat, 9-ton, Efforts of Capt. W. Westborg to Prove Unsinkable, 544
Lift Gear, Hydraulic, for Connecting Semi- Trailers to “Tugmaster” Tractor (Douglas Equipment, Ltd.), 680*
— Passenger, for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (Herbert Morris, Ltd.), 37
Light Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Initiation of Explosion by, by J. A. McAuslan, 141
See also Electric; Spectrum
Lightfoot Refrigeration Co., Ltd., Unit-Type Air Dryer, 47
Lighting. See Electric
Lillicrap, Sir C., on School of Welding Technology, 584
Limestone Conveyors for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Mavor and Coulson, Ltd.), 535*
Limit Engineering Group, Ltd., Disc Motor, 426*
— Gauges. See Gauges; Gauging
Limited-Life Design, by Dr. J. A. Pope, B. K. Foster and Dr. N. T. Bloomer, 236*, 275*. See also 289
Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co., ltd.. Annual Report, 71
“ Linatex ” Valves for Diaphragm Pumps (Trade Publication), 531
Lincoln Electric Co., Ltd., New Factory at Welwyn Garden City, 47; Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 267
“ Lincoln ” Type Intermediate Alternating Current Flush Switch (J. A. Crabtree and Co., Ltd.), 684*
Linde, First Refiigerating Machine, 389
— Oxygen-Cutting Machine on Mobile Table, 472*
Lines Brothers, Acquisition of New Companies, 772; Position and Prospects of, 772
Line Standard Yard, Imperial, Kater’s (1842), 420*
Lines, W., on Position and Prospects of Lines Bros., 772
— Yard, Baily’s (1844), 420*
Linear Programming: Simplex Algorithm, by D. U. Greenwald (Book), 437
Liner, New, to be Built by Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd., for Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., 95
— “ Queen Mary,” R.M.S., New Oil-Fuel
System for (John 1. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 458*
— See also Ships; Motorships
Linings for Furnaces, Testing, Research and Development, by J. H. Chesters (Review), 212
Link-Belt Co., Feared Flexible Couplings (Trade Publication), 657
Linnebach ” Principle in Projectors for Helicopter Flight Simulator, 500*
“ Linostone ” Hard-Wearing Decorative Wall Surface (Springhill Products, Ltd.), 811
*' Linotex ” Plaster-Like Resin Paint (Springhill Products, Ltd.), 811
“ Linotol ” Flooring Material (Springhill Products, Ltd.), 811
•— Resin Paints (Springhill Products, Ltd.), 811 Linotype and Machinery, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 678
Lips de Schelde Controllable-Pitch Propeller, Model of (Controllable Pitch Propeller Co.), 264
Liquids in Closed Tanks and Pressure Vessels, Level Control of, 207*
— Electrically-Conductive, Conductivity-Type
Level Controller for (Elcontrol, Ltd.), 177*
— Flow Measuring Instruments (Trade Pub
lication), 279
— Fuel. See 0/7 Fuel. See also Benzol; Paraffin
— Level Control. See Level
— in Open Vessels and Reservoirs, Level Control of, 206*
— Oxygen. See Oxygen
— Pressure Measuring Instruments (Trade Publication), 279
— Purification of (Trade Publication), 149
— Viscosity of. See Viscosity Lister-Blackstone Group, 85-kW, “ No-Break ” Alternator Set, 270*
Literature on Atomic Energy, Guide to, 220
— Russian, Build-Up of. Note on, 783 Scientific and Technological, English
Translations of. Collection of, at Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 735
— Searching, Machine, by J. W. Perry, A. Kent and M. M. Berry, Note on, 783
— Survey (Qn the Shelf), by F. H. Smith, 17, 51, 83, 119, 149, 181, 213, 243, 279, 307, 336, 371, 403, 437, 471, 499, 531, 563, 595, 625, 657, 687, 721, 755, 783, 810
— Technical, in Russia, 355 Lithium in Cornish China Clay, 828
— Determination of, in Micaceous and Siliceous Materials, 828
Litigation. See Legal; Labour: Patents Lives in Science, Note on Book on, 783 “ Livedrive ” Tractor (David Brown), 647 Liverpool and District Scientific, Industrial and Research Ladsirlac on, 83
Livingtsone, 6 Billion Preliminary Notice of, 413
Livock, F. R., on Review of British Institute of Management’s Work, 640
Lloyd “ Alexander ” 600 c.c. Miniature Motor- Car, 519*; Improvements to, 287*
Lloyd, G., Remarks on Scientific and Classical Studies, 480
Lloyd-Mandeno Single-Wire Earth Return, 63 Lloyd, Brig. T. I., Twilight of the Railways (Booklet), 667
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Orders for New Ships, 134
LLU News, Comment on, 279
LMFR Nuclear Reactor, Proposed, by American Nuclear Power Associates, 764 LMZ, Kaplan Turbines for Kuibishev Scheme, 410
— Turbine Factory, Russia, 441, 442, 443;
Milling Kaplan Turbine Blade at, 323* Loader, Front-End, for “ 900 ” Tractor (David Brown Group), 648*
— ’* Hydraclamp,” with Hydraulic Jaws (W. E. Bray and Co. Ltd.), 425*
— ” Telehoist,” for Sack Handling, on
“ Barfitt ” Bulk Transporter, 357*
Library Advisory Council, Information Publication, Note Dr. R. S., on Cambridge 1 Volt Electron Accelerator,
Loading and Cutting Machine, Rotary, for Green Crops, 369
Loans, Competition in, 427
Local Authorities. See Municipal
— Government. See Municipal
Locating Systems Personnel at Business Efficiency Exhibition, 67
Location System, Staff, Audio Frequency (Siemens Bros. and Co., Ltd.), 67
Loch Awe Hydro-Electric Project, 104
Lock Washers (Trade Publication), 149
Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Construction of Critical Assembly Facility at Palo Alto, California, 124;
Turbojet Engines for Transport Aircraft, 517
Locomotive and Allied Manufacturers Association, Exhibits at Boy Scouts’ World Jubilee Jamboree, 273
— Builders, History of Two Famous (Trade Publication), 213
— Diesel, by R. L. Aston (Review), 242
Bo-Bo, “ Cushymount ” Anti-Vibration Mounting for Engines of (Metalastik, Ltd.), 266*
— — British Railways Programme for. Progress of, 72
— — British Railways Training Scheme for
Drivers and Fitters, 462. See also 453
with Hydrostatic Transmission, on Italian State Railways, 781
for India and Pakistan (Alco Products, Inc.), 27
— — Industrial (Trade Publication), 351
Main-Line, Introduction in British Railways Modern'sation Plan, 451*
M.A.N. Type Engine for (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 297*
Manning of. Possible Agreement Between British Transport Commission and Locomotive Workers on, 416
Need of China to Import, 262
Prototype Problems, 452
— — for Rail-Car Sets, Test Bed for Development and Proving, Using Torque Converter Drive, 652*
RPHL and YHXL Series of Engines for (Trade Publication), 783
Shunting, 200 DE (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 459*
Shunting, Design Developments, 452
Shunting, Introduction in British Railways Modernisation Plan, 452*
Voith-North British Hydraulic Transmission Unit for (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 297
Electric, Air Filters for (Trade Publication), 821
Electric, British Railways Programme for. Progress of, 72
— ?— Electric Freight, Class A 1,000 h.p.. Service in London Midland Region British Railways, 452*
Electric, Main-Line, Bo-Bo, Type 800-h.p., for British Railways (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 759*
Electric, Mixed-Traffic, 1,250 h.p., for British Railways (Brush Traction, Ltd.), 727*
Electric, Shunting (Brush Traction, Ltd.), 426*
Electric Simulator for poses, 153*
Hydraulic, Main-Line, British Railways (North motive Co., Ltd.), 710, 773*. See LETTER, 773
Hydraulic, Orders for, by British Railways (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 710
Hydraulic, Shunting, 3 ft. 6 in. Gauge (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 87*
— Electric, Air Filters for (Trade Publication), 821
for Boat Trains and other Kent Coast Services, 508*
3,120-h.p., for Indian Railways (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 806
Need of China to Import,
— ?— Order by South African
from Metropolitan-Vickers (Pty.), Ltd., 147
Overseas Orders for (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 262
Rectifier System for, 508
in Russia, 354*
Type A and Type B, in British Railways Electrification Plans, 507
— Electrical Equipment for. Production of, by Brown Boveri, A.G., and Cie, 170
— Export Statistics of, 710
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 710
— Steam. “ Duke of Gloucester,” Tests on, 136 to be Fitted with Berkley Mechanical Stokers, 136
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 719
— Workers, Possible Agreement with British
Transport Commission on Manning of Diesel Locomotives, 416
Lodge Plugs, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 390
Log, Electric, Fundamentals of Interpretation of, by M. R. J. Wyllie (Book), 498
Logan, W. K., Remarks on Inflation and House Mortgages, 128
Lomer, W. M., on Point Defects and Diffusion in Metals and Alloys, 792
London, Air Terminals in, Discussion in Parliament on, 127
— Airport: Railway Link, Statement in Parliament on, 159; Development Committee, Report of, 232
— Bridge, Proposed, Telford’s Design for, 163*
— City of. Earnings and R61e of. Discussion on, 752
— County Council Flats, Electric Floor Warming for, by R. J. Allerton, 621
— Electricity Board, Proposal to Deliver Own Letters, 272
London Fan and Motor Co., “ Breeza ” Cast- Iron Blowers (Trade Publication), 403
— Hyde Park Corner, Proposed Underpass at, 601
Bristol “ Orpheus ” “ Jetstar ” Light in
of
Training Pur-
“ D600 ” for
British Loco-
262 Railways for. South Africa
London Omnibus Operatives, Rejection of Increased Wage Claim by London Transport Executive, 736
— Transport Executive, Report for 1956, 230; “ Travolators ” at Bank Station, 288; New Substation at Charing Cross for Power Supply to District, Northern and Bakerloo Lines, 510*; Adaptation of “ Routemaster ” CRL.4 Motor Omnibus to Green Line Routes, 574*; Rejection of Bus Workers’ Increased Pay Demand, 736; Automatic Signalling for Northern Line of Underground Railways, 819*
— Underground Railways. See London
Transport Executive
— University. See also University College (London)
Longmans, Green and Co., Ltd., Catalogue of Engineering Books, 83
Lorant and Co., Ltd., Power Quill (Trade Publication), 821
Lord, Sir L., on British Motor Corp. Decision not to Bring out new Models Annually, 338 Lorrain Coal, Metallurgical Coke from. Research on, 584
Lorries. See Motor Vehicles; Tractors Lost Time, Plain Words on, 802
Loubser, R. S., on Fatigue Strength of Thermit Welded Rails, 11
Loudspeakers in Stereophonic Sound Recording in Son et Lumiere, 440*
— System, Periphonic (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 317
Loughborough College of Technology, Sandwich Course for Steelworks Engineers, 679 Love, P. P., Remarks on Co-operation of Libraries with Local Industry, 721
Lovell, Prof. A. C. B., on Radio Telescope at Jodrell Bank, 5, 34*
Lowson, J. C., on Lighting and Colour, 740
Lubricants for Berkeley Nuclear Power Station (Wakefield-Dick Industrial Oils, Ltd.), 158
?— Effect on Wear of Metals, 423
— for Free-Piston Engines, 139
?—and Greases (Trade Publication), 531
— Lubrication and Bearings: A Digest of 1956 Literature, 471
— Molybdenum Disulphide, “ Molykote ” (Trade Publication), 821
Lubricating Equipment, “ Uni-Gun ” (Trade Publication), 149
— Scheme, “ Reductol,” for Enclosed Gears (Revol, Ltd.), 489
Lubrication of Engine Parts, 423
— Lubricants, and Bearings; A Digest of 1956 Literature, 471
— for Nuclear Power Stations, Contract for, by Wakefield-Dick Industrial Oils, Ltd., 794
— and Sealing for Small Radial-Flow Turbo Chargers, 532*
— System for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at
Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56
— and Wear, Conference on. Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, Preliminary Notice, 305
— See also OU Film
Lubricator for Compressed-Air Lines, “ MicroFog ” (Shipston Engineering Co., Ltd.), 299*
— Mechanical, High-Pressure (British Manzel Oil Pump Co.), 335
— Oil, Mechanical, “ DP50,” at Wolvercote Paper Mill (Wakefield Dick Industrial Oils, Ltd.), 712*
Lucas, A., Remarks on Conference on European Free Trade, 719
Lucas Heights Atomic Energy Establishment. See Australian Atomic Energy Commission
Lucas, J., Portrait of George Stephenson, 103
Lucas, J. (Industries), Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 678
Luce, H. R., at International Management Congress, 2
Ludwig, D. K., Remarks on Oil Companies’ Forecasts of Tanker Surplus, 454; Order in Japan for Oil Tankers, 487
Lumenated Ceilings, Ltd., Translucent Plastics Panel Lighting, 753*
Lunar Flight, Dynamics of. Problems in, by V. A. Yegorov, 642
— — Problems of, 642*
— Trajectory, General Study of, 642
— See also Moon
Luss, H. A., Appointment as Chairman o Nucleonics Group of Scientific Instrument Manufacturers Association, 158
Lutheran Building, Minneapolis, U.S.A., 106
Lynch, C., on Separation of Hafnium from Zirconium, 60*
Lyster, N. St. G., on Market Research as Background to Decision, 685
Supersonic Speeds, 495* Machine, 354*
M-WING for Low
" MAI ” Broaching Mac. See also Me MacCabe, B. F., on To Advertise on TV—or Not? 685
Machines, Complicated, Testing Reliability of, by Dr. G. Morris, 41*
— Design of. Application of Behaviour Studies
in, by C, B. Gibbs, 96
of. Consideration of Limitations and Capabilities of Operator in, 194*
— Kinematics of, by R. T. Hinkle (Review), 820
— Literature Searching, by J. W. Perry, A. Kent, and M. M. Berry, Note on, 783
— Man and. Plain Words on, 2 Materials and, by J. E. Ridley,52
— Mechanisms, Vibration and Noise' , by Dr. A. J. King, 70. Sec also Vol. 183
— Minders, Sculpture of, by Miss G. Koenig, 428*
— Old, Rejuvenating with Compressed-Air Equipment (F. Braby and Co., Ltd.), 88*
— Secondhand, New Premises at Peterborough for Handling (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 211
— Sewing. See Sewing Machines
— Shops. See Works; Machine Tools
?— Spot-Light (Meiners Optical Devices, Ltd.), 49*
— Testing. See Tests (Materials)
Machine Tools:
“ A/HAC ” Automatic Grinding Machine for Crankpins (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 742
Automatic Machine for Making Mica Insulation (Russian), 442*
Set-ups on (Book), 755 Balancing Machine for Lathe spindles. Model 9B725A (Enims), 586*
for Workpieces, Model 9736A (Enims), 587*
Band Strapping Machine, Automatic, for Home Markets (Package Sealing Co.), 397
Bending and Folding Machines (Press and Shear Co., Ltd,, 298
Bevelling Machine, Plate, “ Bevex ” (H. Pels and Co., Ltd.), 298
“ Bevex ” Plate-Bevelling Machine (H. Pels and Co., Ltd.), 298
Bolt Screwing Machine for (Joshua Heap and Co., Ltd.), 742*
Boring Machine, Fine, Heavy-Duty, Milnes (Rockwell Machine Tool Co., Ltd.). 491*
Horizontal, with Longitudinally Sliding Forward Head and Transverse-Sliding Table (Sverdlov), 554* Horizontal, Model LP-53 with Multi-Spindle Head (Sverdlov), 554* Horizontal, for Production of Kaplan Turbine Blades in Russia, 443* Model LP-32, for Cylinder for Diesel-Engine Cylinder (Sverdlov), 555*
Portable, Model LP-44 with ing Column (Sverdlov), 554* Vertical, at LMZ Factory, grad, 555*
Vertical, for Work on Large Alternator Stator Frames at British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd.’s Larne Works, 667
— and Milling Machine, Horizontal (William Asquith, Ltd.), 808*
— Tool Holder (Trade Publication), 403 Broaching Machine, “ MAI,” 354* Ceramic Tools, Bibliography on, 119 Clamp, Magnetic Powder (Enims), 616 Copying Equipment, “ Unicop,” for “ Ravensburg ” Face Copying Lathe (Mortimer Engineering Co.), 681* Cropping, Punching and Shearing Machines at Engineering Exhibition, 298* Cutters and Tools (Trade Publication), 149 Cutting Oils, Sulphloid Series (Amber Oils, Ltd.), 73
— Speeds, Machine Tool, in Various Countries, by A. Prokopovich, 442* Disking Machines, Automatic, with “ Maxim ” Units (Trade Publication), 499
Drills and Tools (Trade Publication), 531 — Twist (Trade Publication), 17
— Two-Speed, “ Duax,” with Percussion Head for Conversion to Hammer Drill (Trend Industrial Equipment, 556*
Drilling Heads with “ Maxam ” (Trade Publication), 499
— Machine, Corner “ LBV32’ ’
Liners
Blocks
Rotat-
Lenin-
Ltd.),
Units
(Atlas
Copco (Great Britain), Ltd.), 300
— — “ Pacera Maxam ” Power Feed for
(Trade Publication), 499
Type V, with Clutch-Controlled Gear Range Selection (Alfred Herbert, Ltd.), 459*
Ultrasonic, 2-kW (Kerry’s (Ultrasonics), Ltd.), 299*
— Tool for Hard Brittle Materials
(Mullard), 332
“ Duax ” Two-Speed Drill, with Percussion Head for Conversion to Hammer Drill (Trend Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 556*
Edge-Trimming Machine for Large Laminated Plastic Sheet (Wadkin, Ltd.), 361*
Electro-Erosion Tool, Model 473, for Producing Hard Metal Dies from Soft Metal Patterns, 411*
“ Elektrom 12” Universal Spark Erosion Machine, 586*
“ Elmas-Discut ” Filing Machine for Softer Materials (W. F. Johnson and Co. (London), Ltd.), 332
Elmeg Electro-Magnetic Presses (Press and Shear Co., Ltd.), 298
Engraving Tool, Ultrasonic, for Hard Brittle Materials (Mullard, Ltd.), 332 Filing Machine, “ Elmas-Discut,” for
Softer Materials (W. F. Johnson and Co, (London), Ltd.), 332 Flame-Cutting Machine, Automatic Computer-Controlled, for Steel Plate, 774* Machine, Computer Controlled
(Ferranti, Ltd,, and British Oxvgen Co., Ltd.), 84*
— Profiling by Automatic Computer-
Controlled Flame-Cutting Machine, 774*
Folding and Bending Machines (Press and Shear Co., Ltd.), 298
Gear-Cutting Machine, Semi-Automatic, Model 525 (Russian), 523*
Machine, Semi-Automatic, High Speed, Model 5P325 (Russian), 523*
— Hobbing Machine, Model 5312 (Russian), 523*
Machines, New Factory at Blaydon- on-Tyne, for Production of (Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd.), 473*
— Shaving Machine, Model 5A714 (Russian), 523*
Grinding, Automatic, in Tapered Roller Bearing Production at British Timken, Ltd., 665*, 666
— and Gear-Cutting Machines (Enims), 522*
Grinding Machine, Automatic, “A/HAC,” for Cranknins (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 742
Automatic, at British Timken, Ltd., 665*, 666
Automatic Cylindrical, Model 31536 (Russian), 523*
— ?— Automatic, “ U/HAC,” for Crankshaft Journals and Crankpins (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 742*
Cylindrical Centreless, Automatic, Model 3A182 (Russian), 522*
Cylindrical, Plunge, Model 3Shl53 (Russian), 522*
Fine, “ Pulmac ” (Trade Publication), 403
? Gear, Semi-Automatic, Model 584 (Russian), 523*
Gear, Semi-Automatic, Model 5872 (Russian), 523*
Helix, for Cutting up to 35 Flutes (A. A. Jones and Shipman, Ltd.), 807*
Laboratory Type (Trade Publication), 51
Profile, Automatic, for Production of Kaplan Turbine Blades in Russia, 443*
Universal Circular, Model 310 (Russian), 522*
— Wheel Precision Dressing Slide Unit (Trade Publication), 403
“ Hicycle ” Electric Impact Wrench (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 491*
“ Hildu ” Range of Screw Presses (Press and Shear Co., Ltd.), 298
“ Holemaster ” Equipment for Spacing Holes without Jig Borer (Euco Tools, Ltd.), 150*
Hydraulic Press. See Press (below)
“ Hydroptic 6A ” Jig Boring and Milling Machine (Societe Genevoise d’Instruments de Physique), 361
“ Hylo ” Twin-Jaw Vices (Alfred Herbert, Ltd.), 215*
Indexing Mechanism for Comparator for Measuring Pitch Errors for Fir-Tree Root Serrations in Gas-Turbine Discs, 373*
— Table, Rotary, Automatic (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 151*
Jig-Boring Machine, Precision, Model LP-87 (Sverdlov), 555*
and Milling Machine, “ Hydroptic 6A ” (Societe Genevoise d’Instruments de Physique), 361
Lapping Machine Maintenance of Valves, Dewrance Croft (Dewrance and Co., Ltd.), 333*
— Products, Hand and Machine, “ Maco- and
Machine Tools—continued
Machine Tools, Science Museum Display of. Plain Words on, 514 —?—Used and Rebuilt
tion), 17
— Work, Tolerance in.
“ Macolaepp ” Lapping
(Trade Publica-
See Gauging
Products (B.P.S.
Machinery and Spares Co., Ltd.), 503 Magnetic-Tape Control of Machine Tools
(Giddings and Lewis Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 491
Maxam ” Units, Automatic Disking Machines and Drilling Heads with (Trade Publication), 499
Milling and Boring Machine, Horizontal (William Asquith, Ltd.), 808*
— Head, Universal, for Horizontal Milling
and Boring Machine (William Asquith Ltd.), 808*
— and Jig Boring Machine, “ Hydroptic
6A ” (Societe Genevoise d’Instruments de Physique), 361
— Kaplan Turbine Blade (LMZ Turbine
Works), 323*
— Machines (Trade Publication), 17 Automatic Cycle, “ Victomatic ”
(Trade Publication), 17
• Copy, Model LP-16, for Cutting
Profiles in Large Automobile Pressings (Sverdlov), 555*
Milnes Heavy-Duty Fine^oring Machine (Rockwell
491 *
Nibbling and
Speed (H.
Machine Tool Co., Ltd.),
Machine Tools—continued
Vice, Quick-Action (Associated Steels and Tools, Ltd.), 17*
Vice, Twin-Jaw, “ Hylo ” (Alfred Herbert, Ltd.), 215*
“ Victomatic ” Automatic Cycle Milling Machine (Trade Publication), 17 Woodworking Machines (Trade Publication), 149
Work-Handling, Mechanised, on Machine- Tool (Book), 820
Wrench, Impact, Electric, “Hicycle” (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 491*
See also Machining
Management in Aircraft Industry, Aspects of, 301
— and Bad Writing, by 1. M. Slade and B. C.
Brookes, 137. See LETTERS, 200, 228, 325, 421, 676, 740
— Better, Research as Signpost to. National
Conference on, by British Institute of Management, Preliminary Details, 133
laepp ” (B.P.S. Machinery
Spares Co., Ltd.), 503 Lathes, Boring and Facing (Trade cation), 51
?— Centre (Trade Publication), 51 “HSR Automat” Turret Holder for (Insley Industrial Supply Co., Ltd.), 680*
Use in Hard Surfacing on Cylindrical Components. 472*
— Face Copying, “ Ravensburg,” (Mor
timer Engineering Co.), 681*
— Facing and Boring (Trade Publication),
51
— Screw-Thread Corrector, High-Precj-
sion (Craven Bros. (Manchester), Ltd.), 537
— Spindles, Balancing Machine for.
Model 9B725A (Enims), 586*
— Turret, Automatic, Model IP326
(Enims), 555*
— Turret Model 1365 (Enims), 555*
— Wood-Turning, Heavy-Duty (Wadkin,
Ltd.), 30*
— See also Automatic (above) “ LBK31 ”
(Atlas
300 “ LBV32 ”
(Atlas
300
Levelling
(Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd.), 298 Limit Gauging. See Gauging “MAI ” Broaching Machine, Machine Shop Management.
agement
— Tools (Trade Publication),
Automatic, at British Timken, Ltd., 664*
Canadian Imports of, from United Kingdom and United States, 778*
Control of, by H. Clausen, 550
Cutting Speeds, Average, in Various Countries, by A. Prokopovich, 442*
Design of, in Russia, 409*
Exhibition, International Report of Exhibition Committee on, 72
— ?— Export of, to China, Comment on,
231
of the Future, by D. Player and W. K. Temple, 38
• Industry, Position and Prospects of,
337
Industry, Trends in Orders and Deliveries, 359
Linking, into Automatic Flow Lines, Improvements Effected by, in Soviet Plants, 443*
Magnetic-Tape Control of (Giddings and Lewis Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 491
Mechanised Work-Handling on (Book), 820
Portable Electric (Trade Publication), 657
Power Requirement of. Measurement of, Use of Electromagnetic Computer E.M.C. Mk. I, 528*
Processes, and Engineering Materials, by W. Steeds (Book), 820
— — Research Establishment. See Enims Russian, 554*, 555*
Publi-
Tool
Pneumatic Shearing Machine Copco (Great Britain), Ltd.),
Cornet Drilling Machine Copco (Great Britain), Ltd.),
Machine, Plate, Seven-Roll
354*
See Man-
51
Shearing Machine, High- Pels and Co., Ltd.), 298* Nut-Runners (Trade Publication), 149 “ Pacera Maxam ” Power Feed for Drilling Machines (Trade Publication), 499
Percussion Head, “ Duax ” Two-Speed Drill with, for Conversion to Hammer Drill (Trend Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 556*
Plate Bevelling Machine “ Bevex ” (H. Pels and Co., Ltd.), 298
Pneumatic Drills. See Drills (above) Press, for Bench Mounting, 3-ton (Pilot Works, Ltd.), 299*
— Brake, Hand-Powered (Bronx Engi
neering Co., Ltd.), 298*
— Electro-Magnetic, Elmeg (Press &
Shear Co., Ltd.), 298
— Floor-Type, 12-ton (Pilot Works, Ltd.),
299*
— Hydraulic (Fawcett-Finney, Ltd.), 299 4,500-ton, for Heavy Steel Plate for
Nuclear Pressure Vessels (Fielding and Platt, Ltd.), 713*
— Powder Tablet (Apex Construction
Co., Ltd.), 360*
— Power, “ Jumbo,” Air-Operated Brake
for, 88*
— Screw, “ Hildu ” Range (Press and Shear
Co., Ltd.), 298
— Tools, Production of, from Epoxide
Resins, 404*
“ Pulmac ” Fine Grinding Machine (Trade Publication), 403
Punching Machine, Turret (Press and Shear Co., Ltd.), 298
— Shearing and Cropping Machines at
Engineering Exhibition, 298*
Quill, Power (Trade Publication), 821 “ Ravensburg ” Face Copying Lathe (Mortimer Engineering Co.), 681*
Reaming Machine, Horizontal, for Production of Kaplan Turbine Blades in Russia, 443*
Riveting Machine for Heating and Upsetting Molybdenum-Steel Rivets into Counter-sunk Preparations on Turbine Discs (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 741*
Screw Presses, “ Hildu ” Range Shear Co., Ltd.), 298
Screwing Machine for Bolt (Joshua Heap
Shaping Machine, tion), 51
Shearing Machine, (Atlas Copco 300
— and Nibbling Machine, High-Speed (H.
Pels and Co., Ltd.), 298*
— Punching and Cropping Machines at
Engineering Exhibition, 298*
Spark Erosion Machine, Universal, “ Elektrom 12,” 586*
Spinning, Use of, for Tapping into Thin- Walled Pipe (Mission Corp.), 117*
Straightening Machine for Inconel Tubes (Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd.), 619*
Strapping Machine, Band, Automatic, for Home Markets (Package Sealing Co.), 397
Tapping into Thin-Walled Pipe, Use of Spinning (Mission Appliance Corp.), 117*
Threading Machines (Trade Publication), 499
Tools, Ceramic, Bibliography on, 119
— and Cutters (Trade Publication), 149
?—? Holder Boring (Trade Publication), 403 Turret, “ HSR Automat,” for
Centre Lathes (Insley Industrial Supply Co., Ltd.), 680*
Tooling, “ Araldite ” Epoxy Resins for (Trade Publication), 499
Tube Straightening Machine for Inconel Tubes (Bronz Engineering Co., Ltd.), 619*
Turret Lathes. See Lathes (above)
“ U/HAC ” Automatic Grinding Machine for Crankshaft Journals and Crankpins (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 742* Ultrasonic Drilling Machine, 2-kW (Kerry’s (Ultrasonics), Ltd.), 299*
“ Unicop ” Copying Equipment for “ Ravensburg ” Face Copying Lathe (Mortimer Engineering Co.), 681*
Vacuum Forming Machines, “ VF12 ” and “VF18” for Shaping Thermoplastic Sheeting (M.L. Shelley and Partners, Ltd.). , 92*
(Press &
or Pipe 742*
and Co., Ltd.),
19-in. (Trade Publica-
Pneumatic, “ LBK3I ” (Great Britain, Ltd.),
Universal,
Appliance
Machines, Vibration and Noise of, by Dr. A. J King, 103, 261, 677. See also Vol. 183. See LETTERS, 70, 165, 166, 550
— Vice. See Tice under Machine Tools ?— Work. See Machine Tools
Machinery for Ceramics, Chemical and Process
Industries (Trade Publication), 307
— Heavy, Canadian Trade Mission’s Interest
in, 685
— Industry, Capital Expenditure in, 104
?—? Mechanisms and Dynamics of, by H. H.
Mabie and F. W. Ocvirk (Review), 820
— Productivity, Need for Higher, by W.
Coutts Donald, 588
— Russian Orders for, 356
Machining, Metal, by L. Doyle (Book), 119
— Ultrasonic, for Tapping Tungsten Carbide
(Kerry’s (Ultrasonics), Ltd.), 489* Machlin, W., on Cloud-Seeding or Rainmaking
Experiments in Australia, 365
Mackasek, E., on Architectural Applications of Vitreous Enamel, 106*
Mackay, D., Ltd., Steelwork for Radio-Star Aerial at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, 186*
Mackay Industrial Equipment, Ltd., “ Merton” High-Discharge Overloader, 459*
Mackey Bowley and Co., Ltd., Composite Beams for Floor Construction, 600
Mackley, E. N., and Co., Underwater Light Fittings, 271 *
Maclay, Rt. Hon. J. S., Remarks on Need for
More Engineers in Shipbuilding, 557 MacLeod, L, Remarks on Governments Policy on Wage Inflation, 608
MacMahon, John, Work on Hydrology, 312 Macmillan Co. (New York), Catalogues of, 149 Macmillan, Rt. Hon. H., Declaration of Common Purpose with President Eisenhower, 545; Remarks on Declaration of Common Purpose Between United States and Great Britain, 607
“ Macolaepp ” Lapping Products for Hand or Machine Operation (B.P.S. Machinery and Spares Co., Ltd.), 503
Madan, C. S., and Co., Ltd., “ Airhydropump ” Portable Reciprocating Pump, 361*
Magnesium Casting Technology, by A. W. Brace (Book), 625
Magnesium Elektron, Ltd., Design (Booklet), Note on, 181
Magnestat Regulation for Generating Sets for Goldington Power Station (British Thomson-Houston, Ltd.), 249
Magnet, “ Alnico,” Use in Electromagnetic Computer for Indicating Horse-Power Continuously, 528*
— Permanent, " Eclipse,” for Television Re
ceivers (Trade Publication), 531
— Yoke for 7-GeV Proton-Synchrotron, Con
tract for. Placed with J. Sankey and Son, Ltd., 504
Magnetic Couplings, Uss in Liquid Level Control, 208
— Drum Director for Lee Green Automatic
Telephone Exchange (Automatic Telephone and Electric Co., Ltd.), 760*
— Fields, Zeeman Effect in, Work on, by
George Ellery Hale, 400
— Filter Unit foi High Pressure Qil System,
780*
— Iron, “ Remko ” (Trade Publication), 625
— Memory Storage System, “ Twistor,” for
Computers (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 824*
— Powder Clamp (Enims), 616
— Separator for Coolant (Rapid Magnetic
Machines, Ltd.), 13*
— Strip, Nickel-Iron, for Telephone Systems,
497
— Tape for Control of Machine Tools (Minne
sota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 491
Magneto-Inductive “ Warning ” Type Railway Control, Approval of, 767
Magnetograph, Solar, by Dr. D. W. Beggs and Dr. H. von Kliiber, 400
Maiden and Co., Ltd., Threading Machines, 499 Maillet, P., on Power for Underdeveloped
Countries, 20 Mains, Electric. See Cables Maintenance Engineering Handbook, by L. C.
Morrow (Review), 370 Maisonettes, Cluster Block of, at Bethnal
Green, 753*
Malaya, Effect of Cuts in Tin Exports, 825
— Nuclear Weapons Study in. Comment on,
576
Malenkov, “ Banishment ” to Siberia of, 96 Mallatratt, H. H., Remarks on New Regula
tions for Outside Advertising, 588 M.A.N. Diesel Engines, Turbo-Charging
System on, by Dr. Ing. E. Soerenson, 57 M.A.N. Type Diesel Engine for Main-Line
Locomotives (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 297*
Man and Automation, by L. Landon Goodman (Review), 471
Report on Conference on (Review), 470
— and Energy, Special Issue of Esso Magazine
on. Note on, 687
— and Machine, Plain Words on, 2
— Machine Unit, Performance of, 194*
— Unlimited: Technology’s Challenge to
Human Endurance, by H. Gartmann (Review), 16
Management, 272, 301, 337, 363, 399, 427*. 460*, 492*, 524, 557, 588, 619, 649, 682, 714, 749, 776, 809
Management, British Institute of:
Selling to Industry (Report), 81; Subjects of Interest to Wives at Conference of, 162; Sales Training in Industry (Booklet), 256; Award of Honorary Fellowship of, to Sir D. Eccles, 272; A New Deal for Over 4O’s, by D. Abel, 448; Dearth of Capital in Industry, by J. N. Toot hill, 517; Outline of Work Study. Part HI: Work Measurement (Review), 562. See LETTER, 709; Value of, to Management (Brochure), 640
Seminar on Tariety Reduction and Standardisation in Manufacturing: Why Variety Reduction and Standardisation? by T. R. B. Sanders, 427; Production Economies Achieved by Variety Reduction and Standardisation, by A. C. ~ Promotion of Products, by Standardising Increasing Interchangeability, 427
National Conference on Research: A Signpost to Better Management (Bournemouth'): Preliminary Details, 133; Programme, 462; Review of Work of, by F. R. Livock, 640. See Erratum, 704; Opening Address on Who Pays for Research? by Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, 649; Research as an Investment, by Dr. A. King, 649; Research—a Management Technique, by Prof. C. F. Carter, 649; Exploiting the Results of Research, by A. Wormaid, 649; How Operational Research Helps Management, by D. Hicks, 649; To Advertise on TV—or Not? by B. F. MacCabe, 685; Market Research as Background to Decision, by M. St.G. Lyster, 685; Automation—Its Demand on Management, by H. Buckman, 704; Stresses and Strains of Executive Life, by Dr. J. J. O’Dwyer, 704; Psychological Factors in Group Relations, by Dr. A. T. M. Wilson, 736; Women at Work, by Miss H. Bailey, 736; Research—A Management Tech
nique, by Prof. C. F. Carter, 813 Management in Collieries, 363
— Concept of Cybernetics—Control and
Communication, by Miss J. Woodward, 38 ?— Congress, International (Paris), 2*. See also I
— Courses, Comment on, 2 in United States, 301
— Demand of Automation on, by J. Buckman
704
— Education for, by
hagen, 2
— and the Engineer,
See also 769
— Higher Control in,
371
— Industrial, Effective,
(Review), 530 ?— — Labour’s Share in.
— Joint, in Germany, Mitbestimmung System
272
— Labour Relations, Comment on, 608
? Relations at Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 544
Relations in Germany, Comment on, 650 ?— Lighting and Engineers, by W, Robinson, 578*, 626*, 658*
— Methods of Soviet Engineers, by E. P.
Ward, 460*
— New Concepts in. Plain Words on, 450
— Operational Research as Aid to, by D.
Hicks, 649
— Problems at H.M. Dockyards, Discussion
in Parliament on, 831
— Project, Two-Day Course for Schoolboys
on, 128
— Research as a Signpost to Better, Confer
ence on, 462, 649
as Technique of, by Prof. C. F. Carter, 813
— Sales, Fundamentals of; Battle of the Desk,
492
Management Selection, Ltd., Activities of, 479
— Size Effect of an Organisation, by Prof.
R. W. Revans, 33. See LETTER, 228
— Stresses and Strains of, by Dr. J. J. O’Dwyer,
704
— Succession, Report on, 736
— Summer Courses, Value of, 337
— Technique, Research as, by Prof. C. F.
Carter, 649
— Training Courses at Portsmouth, Devon-
port and Chatham Dockyards, 831
Programme of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 301
— Value of British Institute of Management
to (Brochure), 640
— See also Weekly Survey
Managers of Collieries, Training of, 363
— How to Become a Successful, by H. White-
head, Comment on, 272
?—• New Concepts in. Plain Words on, 450
— Selection of, for Industry, 479
— for Tomorrow, by Miss R. Stewart, 736 Managerial Significance of Research, by
H. J. Novy, 649
Manipulator, Master-Slave, Model 7 (H. M. Hobson, Ltd.), 335
Mann, B. S. W., on Continuous Thickness Measuring of Thin, Soft Sheet and Film, 631*
Mannesmann, A. G., Expansion Plans, 7; Annual Report, 262; Acquisition of Holding in Algoma Steel Corp., 262; Overseas Participations, 262
Manning, R., Report on Rainfall in Drumcliff District, 312; Work on Arterial Drainage, 374
C. Moore, 427; Sales a Reduced Range of
R. S. Liddle, 427;
Product Design and
Prof. H. F. Schwenk-
by
by
Sir E. Smith, 776.
T. G. Rose (Book),
by J. L. Lundy
See Labour
liv
INDEX
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Manometer, Aneroid, Instrument for Differential Pressure Ranges (Taylor, Short and Mason, Ltd.), 207
— Differential High-Pressure, Use in Study of
Boiler Circulation Theory at Cambridge University, 109*
— Type Liquid-Level Controllers, 207* Manpower, Technical, in Germany, Shortage
of. Report on (Review), 402*
— See also Labour
Mansfield, W. P., on Crankcase Explosions, 303 Manual Dexterity, Plain Words on Declining Need for, 770
Manufacture, Scientific Methods in. See Management
Manufacturers, National Union of. Report on European Free Trade Area, 462
Manufacturing Industry, Capital Expenditure in, 104
Maps and Charts, Catalogue of Parker Gallery on, 821
— of Oil Producing and Refining Countries, 371
— Service of Edward Stanford, Ltd., 783 Marchwood Power Station, Reduction of
Sulphur in Flue Gases by Metallic Additives in Combustion Zone, 697
Marconi “ Fishgraph ” for Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663
Marconi Baddow Research Laboratories, Glossary of Initials, 51
Marconi Instruments, Ltd., 250-kV Constant- Potential Fluoroscopic and Radiographic Unit for Non-Destructive Testing, 107*; Transportable Industrial X-Ray Apparatus, Type TF1593, 300*; Television Transmitter Sideband Analyser Type OAI24I, 561; Vacuum Tube Voltmeter, Type TF 1041 for 1,000 Mc/s, 681
Marconi International Marine Communication Co., Ltd., “Protector” Ultrasonic Anti-Fouling Equipment, 300*
Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd., Doppler Navigator, Type AD.2300. for Commercial Aircraft, 80; Contract for Reorganisation of Long-Wave Broadcasting Station at Ankara, 397; Television Transmitter for Independent Television Authority, 425; R.D.lOl Quartz Servo Oscillator, 496*; Orders Obtained in South Africa, 558; Television Transmitter Sideband Analyser Type OAI241;, 561; Duplicate High-Power Radar Equipments, Type S264, for Microwave Radio Link for Rongotai Airport, 586
Marcoule Plutonium Product.on Centre, 190* Marine Boilers. See Boilers
— Diesel Engines (Trade Publication), 563
•— Engines. See Engines: Turbines; Marine Propulsion
— Engineers, Institute of. Transactions of.
Education and Training of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 563; Trials and Maiden Voyage of Gas-Turbine Ship John Sergeant, by J. J. McMullen, 809 and Naval Architects, American Society of. See Naval Architects
and Naval Architects, Education and Training of, 563
— Propulsion, Boiling-Water Nuclear Reactor
for, 445
Heavy-Water Nuclear Reactor with Gas Cooling, for, 446*
Nuclear, in France, 190
Nuclear, Joint Panel, Formation of, 307 ?— — Nuclear, Joint Panel on. Journal of.
Comment on, 821
? Nuclear, Joint Panel, Nuclear Propul
sion of Ships, by Sir C. Hinton and R. V. Moore, 698
Nuclear Reactors for, by Dr. T. W. F. Brown, 444*, 569*, 698*
Nuclear. See also Nuclear Powered; Ships, Nuclear-Powered
Oil Fuel for. See also Oil Fuel
Organic-Moderated and Cooled Nuclear Reactor for, 445
Pressurised-Water Nuclear Reactor for, 445
by Steam Turbine Machinery, by Dr. T. W. F. Brown, 444*, 569*
See also Engines; Turbines; Propellers “ Marine Proteus ” Turbo-Propeller Engine (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 333*
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam: Marine
Propulsion
— Welding, Nuclear Energy, and Engineering
Exhibition. See Engineering
Mark TE 300-kW Gas-Turbine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 315*
Markets, Export, Performance of British Engineering Industry Compared with Foreign "
— Guide to
778*
?— Influence
— Research
M. St.G. Lyster, 685
— Research, Collective, by Prof. G. Taglia-
carne, 3
Selling to Industry. Report on, 81
Society, Statistical Sources for Market Research, 27
Statistical Sources for, 27
— See also Trade
Marketing, 27, 81, 147, 216, 273, 302*, 364*, 397, 428*, 463, 525*, 558, 589*, 622, 651, 685, 719, 778*, 813
— Course on, at Polytechnic (Regent Street),
147
— Methods in Canada, Recommendations on,
by Council of British Manufacturers Petroleum Equipment, 463
for Trading with Canada, 463
— Officers, Activities of, 216
— Oil, Interests in Israel, Discussion
Parliament on, 223
— Operations, Automatic Equipment
Place of, by J. Caesar, 27
Markham, C., on Adjustment of Engineering Graduate, 4
Marking Machine for Aluminium Containers (Alite Machines, Ltd.), 648*
“ Marlco ” Protractor Set for Cutting Tools (Trade Publication), 149
Marley, W. H., and Co., Ltd., “ Marlco ” Protractor Set for Cutting Tools (Trade Publication), 149; High-Pressure Hydraulic Power Pack with Norton High-Pressure Plunger Pump, 299
Marsh, F., on Off-Shore Boring, 136*
Marsh, S. W., on Machine Foundations, 166 Marshall, H. W. S., on Size Effect in Industrial
Organisations, 228
Martin Co., Baltimore, Creation of New Division to Expedite Arrangements for Launching “ Vanguard ” Earth Satellite and “ Titan ” Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, 678
Mary-Kathleen Uranium, Ltd., Contract for
Sale of Uranium to United Kingdom, 348 Maschinenfabrik Ravensburg, A.G., “ Ravens
burg ” Face Copying Lathe, 681* Mascot, Motor-Car, on Mercedes-Benz, 573* Mash, C., on Distribution of Heat Flow in
High-Duty Internal-Combustion Engines, 58
Mashgiz State Publishing House (Russia), 355 Mason, Dr. B. J., on Formation of Rain, 365 Mason, F. C. P., on Continuous Thickness
Measuring of Thin Soft Sheet and Film 631*
Masoneilan Variable-Displacement Liquid- Level Controllers (Crosby Valve and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 209
Mass and Flow Production, Principles of, by F, G. Wollard (Review), 470
•— Spectrometer, “ Type MS5 ” (Metropolitan-
Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 155
— Transfer, by Dr. A. K. Covington, Dr. G. A.
Geach, and Dr. A. A. Woolf, 91 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Note on General Catalogue Issue, 687 Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Offer to Purchase
Ordinary Stock of Standard Motor Co., Ltd., 104; Discussion in Parliament on Proposed Sale of Standard Motor Co., Ltd., to, 159; Breakdown of Merger with Standard Motor Co., Ltd., 678; “65” 50-5 h.p. 4-cylinder Tractor with Perkins Engine, 741; Tractors for Yugoslavia, 464 Masters, in Russian Factories, 441 Masterman, C. A., on Recent Developments in
Underground Gasification of Coal, 761* Materials, Aircraft, Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference on, 407*
Heat-Resistance of, 407*
— Handling at Dudley Port Works of General
Electric Co., Ltd., 828*
? Equipment, by D, O, Haynes (Review),
686
— —. “ Hydraclamp ” Mobile Hydraulic Jaws
for (W, E, Bray and Co,, Ltd,), 425*
— — Institute of. Rules, Aims and Projects of
(Booklet), 111
— Men, and Machines, by J, E, Ridley, 32 ^and Metals, 281, 316, 327, 358*, 392*,
423*, 456*, 488*, 551*, 583*, 616*, 679*, 711, 744*, 775, 825
— for Nuclear Engineering, Conference on, 90
— Pioneered by Aircraft Industry, 358
— Strength of. See Stress; Tests {Materials)
— Technology in Nuclear Energy, 60* Mathematical Data, Integrals and. Tables of,
by H. B, Dwight (Book), 499
— Model for Prototype Trials, by Dr. G.
Morris, 41*
— Notes, by C. F. G. MacDermott (Book), 337
— Physics, Hypercircle in, by J. L. Synge
(Book), 437
— Statistical Method, Monte Carlo, for Study
ing Physical Phenomena, 125
— Techiques of Operational Research (Re
view), 498
Mathematics, by A. T. Starr (Review), 754
— Engineering, by K. S. Miller (Review), 754
— for Radio and Electronics, by F. M. Cole
brook and J. W. Head (Book), 498
— See also Numerical
Mather and Platt, Ltd., Pea-Vining Machine, 387*
Mathias, D. L,, on Use of Iron-Powder Coated Welding Electrodes in United States, 711 Matthews, Sub-Lt, M. K., R.N,, on Training for Hardship, 706*
Maudling, R,, Appointment of, to Supervise and Co-ordinate Negotiations for Free Trade Area, 198
Mauritania, Mineral Resources in, 771* Mauritanian Iron Mines Co, (Miferma),
Exploration of Iron Prospects in Mauritania, 771
Mavor and Coulson, Ltd., Limestone Conveyors for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535* “Maxam ” Pneumatic Valves and Cylinders (Trade Publication), 499
— Units, Automatic Disking Machines and
Drilling Heads with (Trade Publication), 499
Maxwellian Thermal Spectra, and Nuclear Fission, 726*
May, Early Work on Television, 546
Mayne, S,, on Activities of Institution of Professional Civil Servants, 165; on Treasury’s Attitude to Technical Civil Servants, 256
“ MAZ 530 ” 40-Ton Truck Incorporating Exhaust-Gas Heating System, 410*
Mazda XE/D 2-kW Xenon Lamp for 450-X Cinema Projector (British Thomson- Houston Co,, Ltd,, 680*
McAlpine, Sir A,, and Son, Ltd., Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*; Pre-cast Prestressed Production Halls for Gallaher, Ltd., at Ballymena, 733*
McAuslan, J. A., on Initiation of Explosion by Light, 141
McCance, Sir, A., on Position and Prospects of Colvilles, Ltd., 104
McClymont, H., on Education and Training for Welding, 73
McKay Industrial Equipment, Ltd., Ancillaries for “ Merton ” Hydraulic Over- loader, 362
McLaren, A, C., on Optical and Electrical Properties of Silver Azide and their Relation to its Decomposition, 141
McLaren, J. and H., Ltd., RACO (Rapid Automatic Change-Over), Diesel Electric Unit, for Uninterrupted Power Supply, 553*; Reorganisation of Fabricating Shops, 634*; Steel Fabricating Service for Engineering Industry, 634*
McLean, Dr. D., on Effect of Grain-Boundary Sliding on Creep, 423; on Metallography of Cracking during Creep, 423; on Point Defects and Mechanical Properties of Metals and Alloys at High Temperatures, 793
McMullen, J. J., on Trials and Maiden Voyage of Gas-Turbine Ship John Sergeant, 809
Me, See also Mac
Mead and Phasey, Ltd., A.R.D. Adjustable- Range Diaphragm Relay for Liquid Level Control (Trade Publication), 499
Meade, Prof. J. E., on Balance of Payments Problem of European Free Trade Area, 363
Meadows, H., Ltd., Multi-Purpose Power Packs and Electric Generating Sets, 267*
Meaford “ B ” Power Station, 240-MV, Opening of, 501; Constructional Details, 501*; Generating Plant, 501 *; Electrical Arrangements, 501*; List of Principal Contractors, 501
Meakins, K. S., on Plastics Bonded to Steel, 520 Measure, Foot, Greek Olympic, 420* Origin of, by C. St.C. Davison, 418* Measurement and Control in Chemical Industry, by J. Hengstenberg, B. Sturm, and O. Winkler (Review), 212
— and Detection of Infra-Red Radiation, by
R. A. Smith, F. E. Jones and R. P. Chasmar (Book), 437
— Instrumentation and Process Control,
Showroom for (George Kent, Ltd.), 271
— Nucleonic, Cinema Film on (Baldwin
Instrument Co., Ltd.), 633
— of Physical Processes Underlying Cloud
and Rain Formation, by R. J. Murgatroyd, 365
— Units of. Standardisation of. Effect of Free
Trade Area, 651
Measuring Cord, Land, in Egypt, 419* Land, Moon-God with, 418*
— Instrumentation and Automation, Inter
national Congress and Exhibition of (Interkama), (Dusseldorf), Preliminary Announcement, 273
— Rod, Shell, 418*
— Rule and Drawing Instrument, on Headless
Statue of Gudea, Prince of Lagash, 418*
Meat, Dehydration of, Apparatus for Studies of, 45
Meccano Magazine, 514, 550
Mechanical Design for Electronics Production, by J. M. Carroll (Review), 50
— Engineers, American Society of: Research
into the Fundamentals of Boiler Circulation Theory, by R. W. Haywood, 108*; Bearings, Lubricants and Lubrication; A Digest of 1956 Literature, 471
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of:
Summer Meeting at Cambridge:
Opening Remarks, by Sir G. Nelson, 68 Engineering Education at Cambridge, by Prof J. F. Baker, 68
Some Contributions of Cambridge Men to Mechanical Engineering, by G. B. R. Feilden, 68
Research into the Fundamentals of Boiler Circulation Theory, by R. W. Haywood, 108*
Conference on Lubrication and Wear:
Preliminary Notice, 305
Presidential Address on Scope in Engineering Industry, by Sir G. Nelson, 513. See also 544, 622
James Clayton Lecture on Miniature Motor Car Production, by D.-Ing. D. Giacosa, 518
Symposium on Superchargers and Supercharging:
Design and Development of Small Radial-Flow Turbo-Chargers, by C. A Judson and E. Kellett, 532*
Vacuum Techniques in Atomic Energy Industry, by Dr. H. Kronberger, 613
Thomas Hawksley Lecture on Vibration: A Survey of Industrial Applications, by Prof. J. P. den Hartog, 661
Equipment for Engine Testing, Freeston, 729
Testing of New Engine Types to their Reliability, by Lt.-Col. Lawrence, and W. H. A. Collins, 729; Application of Statistics to Engine Performance Tests, by Dr. W. R. Buckland, 729
Recent Developments in Manufacture of Castings, by J. L. Rice, R. W. Ruddle, and P. A. Russell, 748
Graham Clark Lecture on Management and the Engineer, by Sir E. Smith, 776. See also 769
James Clayton Lecture on High-Pressure Hydraulic Power Transmissions, by Dr. H. Thoma, 779*
Automobile Division:
Transmission Wind-Up in Vehicles Having Several Driven Wheels, by W. Steeds, J. R. Ellis and Prof. J. L. Thomson. 348
Mechanical Engineers. See also Mining and Mechanical Engineers
— Engineering (Career of), by R. W. Steed
(Book), 595
Catalogue of Books on, 721 Contributions of Cambridge Men to, by G. B. R. Feilden, 68
Division of National Research Council of Canada, Note on Reports of, 243
Pavilion of, at Moscow Industrial Exhibition, 323*
— — (U.S.A.), Note on, 83
— Handling Equipment, Canadian Imports of,
from United Kingdom and United States, 778*
— Lubricator. See Lubricator
— Process Engineering, Applications of Fluid
Mechanics and Heat Transfer to, by J. M. Kay (Review), 594
— Properties and Point Defects of Ionic
Crystals, by Dr. P. L. Pratt, 792
and Point Defects of Metals and Alloys
at High Temperatures, by Dr. D. McLean, 793
Mechanical Properties and Point Defects of Metals and Alloys at Low Temperatures, by Dr. A. H. Cottrell, 793
— Stoker. See Stoker
Mechanics and Analysis, Rational, Archive for. Advance Notice, 625
— Applied. See Applied Mechanics Mechanisms and Dynamics of Machinery, by
H. H. Mabie and F. W. Oevirk (Review), 820
— and Machines, Vibration and Noise of, by
Dr. A. J. King, 103, 261, 677. See also Vol. 183. See LETTER, 70, 165, 166, 550 Mechanization, Farm, Handbook,
Hammond (Book), 119 Meehans, Ltd., Possible Acquisition
Horseley Bridge and Thomas Group, 326
Meddings, W. J., Ltd., Automatic
Machines with “ Maxam ” Units (Trade Publication), 499; Drilling Heads with “ Maxam ” Units (Trade Publication),499; “ Pacera Maxam ” Power Feed for Drilling Machines (Trade Publication), 499 Medical Profession, Dangers of Unprofessional Manner, 448
Mediterranean Civilisations and Middle Ages. Vol. II of History of Technology, by C. Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A, R. Hall and T. I. Williams (Review), 82
Meehanite Casting Body of “ Guidler ” Conveyor Belt Guide, 120*
Meetings, Notices of, 30, 95, 155, 220, 255, 285, 316, 351, 415, 447, 478, 511, 534, 575, 606, 638, 670, 702, 734, 765, 798, 830
Megator Pumps and Compressors, Ltd., Lightweight Fibrous Materials for Spares Packaging, 397
Meiners Optical Devices, Ltd., Machine Spot- Light, 49*
Melbourne University, Survey on Salaries of Australian Engineers (Pamphlet), 809 “ Melinex ” Polyester Film (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 89*
Men, Materials and Machines, by J. E. Ridley, 32
— Steel and Technical Change (Pamphlet), 608 Menai Suspension Bridge, 163*
Mendelssohn, Dr. K., Remarks on Significance of Russian Conquest of Space, 512
Mendip Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd., Radiation-Proof Windows, 795
Menken, J., the Late, 101
Menrow, Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 334
Mensforth, E., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Westland Group, 581
Mental Nurses, Overtime Ban of, 320 —Restlessness, Plain Words on, 802 Mercedes-Benz Motor Cars, Improvements to, 286*; Mascot, 573*
Merchant, P., Ltd., Appointment as Caterers to Earls Court, Ltd., 216
— Ships. See Ships; Motorships
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
“ Mercury ” Computer, Memory Storage
System in. Ferrite Cores for (Ferranti, Ltd.), 824*
Mercury Fulminate, Burning of Single Crystal of, 140*
“ Mercury,” Station Wagon (Ford Motor Co.), 573*
Mergers of Companies, Importance of, 614 Merlin Engineering Co., Ltd., Fuel-Oil Injection-Pump Tester for Small Factory or Garage, 246*
Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., Hydraulic Turntable Ladder for Firefighting, 183* Merthyr-Tydfil-Abergavenny Railway, Discussion in Parliament on Closing of, 191
“ Merton ” High-Discharge Overloader (Mackay Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 459*
— Hydraulic Overloader, Ancillaries for
(McKay Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 362 Merton Park Studios, Ltd., Cinema Films on Steel Metallography, 457
Merz and McLellan, Kariba Project, 221; 240-MW Meaford “ B ” Power Station, 501*
Mesabi Range, Ore-Processing Plant at Aurora, 327
Meshcheryakov, M, G., on Displacing Deuterons from Nuclei using 675-MeV Protons, 763
Mesonium and Antimesonium, by B. Pontecorvo, 764
Mesons, Emitted from Cosmotron, Device at Brookhaven for Focusing Beams of, 763* “ Metagalv ” Galvanising Paint (Trade Publication), 279
Metals and Alloys, Vacancies and Other Point Defects in. Symposium on, 792
— Behaviour at Elevated Temperatures (Re
view), 530
— Bonding of Rubber to, “ Durasolid ”
Method (Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres, Ltd.), 584
— Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Debonding from Rubber, Holmes-Andre
Process (W. C. Holmes and Co,, Ltd.), 679
— Degreasing by Trichlorethylene (Trade
Publication), 625
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue
Tests on. See Fatigue Tests under Tests (Materials)
— Films, Thin, Research into, 781
— Forming of. Cinema Film on (Shell-Mex
and B.P., Ltd.), 806
— at High Temperatures, Point Defects and
Mechanical Properties of, by Dr. D. McLean, 793
Metals, Institute of:
Autumn Meeting in Glasgow:
28th Autumn Lecture on Wear of Metals, by Dr. F. T. Barwell, 423
Effect of Grain^oundary Sliding on Creep, McLean and M. H.
Boundary Sliding on Brunner and Prof. N. J.
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
Iv
Metals, Institute of—continued
Cracking and Rupture as a Result of Creep, by Dr. W. Betteridge and A .W. Franklin, 423
Metallography of Cracking during Creep, by Dr. D. McLean, 423
Intercrystalline Cracking during Creep, by B. J. Nield and Prof. A. G. Quarrell, 423
Metallurgical Review, Quarterly Periodical, Note on, 499
Solidification of Castings, by R. W. Ruddle (Book), 755
Symposium on Vacancies and Other Point Defects in Metals and Alloys:
Point Defects Near the Surface of a Metal, by E. C. Williams and P. C. S. Hayfield, 792
Point Defects and Diffusion in Metals and Alloys, by Dr. W. M. Lomer, 792
Point Defects and Mechanical Properties of Ionic Crystals, by Dr. P. L. Pratt,
792
Point Defects and the Mechanical Properties of Metals and Alloys at Low Temperatures, by Dr. A. H. Cottrell,
793
Effects of Lattice Defects on Some Physical Properties of Metals, by Dr. T. Broom and R. K. Ham, 793
Point Defects and Mechanical Properties of Metals and Alloys at High Temperatures, by Dr. D. McLean, 793 Metals, Liquid, Electromagnetic Pumping of, by J. A. S. Hilditch, 91
Slurries, Work on, at Argonne National Laboratory, 255
Wetting of Solids by, by Dr. B. R. T. Frost, 91
— at Low Temperatures, Point Defects and
Mechanical Properties cf, by Dr. A. H. Cottrell, 793
— and Materials, 281, 316, 327, 358*, 392*,
423*, 456*, 488*, 551*, 583*, 616*, 679*, 711, 744*, 775, 825
— Molten, “ Mopump” Pumps for (Rhodes,
Brydon and Youatt, Ltd.), 522*
— in Motor Vehicles (Trade Publication), 821
— Non-Ferrous, Federation, British, Cost
Finding in Non-Ferrous Metals Industry (Brochure), 457
?—Ferrous, Industry, Cost Finding in (Brochure), 457
Ferrous, Industry, United States, Position and Prospects of, 358
-—? ?— Ferrous, Statistics, British Bureau of. Statistics of Copper Stocks, 552
•— Physical Properties of. Effects of Lattice Defects on, by Dr. T. Broom and R. K. Ham, 793
— and Pipe Line Endurance, Ltd., Welding
Inspection Service (Trade Publication), 149
— Point Defects and Diffusion in, by Dr.
W. M. Lomer, 792
— Spraying Pistol, “ Mark 33 ” (Metallisa
tion, Ltd.), 332*
— Structure of. See Metallography; Micro
photographs
— Tests cf. See Tests (Materials)
?— Vacancies and Other Point Defects in. Symposium on, 792
— Wear of, by Dr. F. T. Barwell, 423
— Welding. See IVelding
— See also Metallography; Metallurgy;
Microphotographs
Metalastik, Ltd., “ Cushymount ” AntiVibration Mounting for Bo-Bo Diesel Locomotive Engines, 266*; Agreement with Friederich Stubbe Maschinenfabrik, Three-
for Manufacture of Stubbe Dimensional Conveyor, 330*
Metallic Mouldable Paste, Industrial, lux “ (Trade Publication), 563
Metallisation, Ltd., “ Mark 33 ” Spraying Pistol, 332*
Metallizing Equipment Co., Ltd., “ ThermoSpray ” Ceramic and Hard-Facing Alloy Spraying Process and Equipment, 331*
Metallography of Cracking during Creep, 423
— Steel, Cinema Films on, 457
— See also Metals; Metallurgy; Microphoto
graphs
Metallurgical Progress—3 (Book), 624 Metallurgists, Institution of. Behaviour of Metals at Elevated Temperatures (Review), 530
“Meto-
Metal-
Metallurgy :
Alloy, Aluminium, Body on Dumper of 10 cub. yard Capacity (G. E. Neville and Sons, Ltd.), 713*
— ?— Brazing of (Bulletin), 279 Fatigue of, 236*, 239*
Magnesium-Silicon, “ Kynal M38,” Development of, for Busbars (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 744*
Plate, Wide, Production of, for Shipbuilding Purposes (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 329
Vanadium-Titanium, “ Hylite 45 ” (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 775 — Casting, High-Temperature, “ Nimo- cast ” (Henry Wiggin and Co., Ltd.), 327
— Hard-Facing, and Ceramic Spraying, “ThermoSpray Process for (Metallizing Equipment Co., Ltd.), 331*
— at High Temperatures, Point Defects
and Mechanical Properties of, by Dr. D. McLean, 793
— Lead, Cast, Anodes, “ CX 3,” for Cathodic Protection (Cathodic Corrosion Control, Ltd.), 331*
— Light, Mechanical Properties of, 236* Study of Precipitation Hardening at
Fulmer Research Institute, 111 Welds and Welders of. Testing of, by N. T. Burgess, 73
Wrought Material (Trade Publication), 657
— at Low Temperatures, Point Defects
and Mechanical Properties of, by Dr. A. H. Cottrell, 793
.— Nickel-Iron, Magnetic Strip for Telephone Systems, 497
Metallurgy—continued
Alloy, Nickel-Iron, Welding of, for Chemical Industry, Developments in, by J. Hinde, 11
— “ Nimocast,” High-Temperature Cast
ing (Henry Wiggin and Co., Ltd.), 327 ?— Oxidation-Resistant, Study of, at
Fulmer Research Institute, 111
— Point Defects and Diffusion in, by Dr. W. M. Lomer, 792
— Sodium-Potassium, as Coolant in Nuclear Reactors, 90
— “ Superston ” (J. Stone and Co. (Charl
ton), Ltd.), 583
?— Titanium-Aluminium-Manganese, Tensile Tests on, Control of Strain Rate in, by R. J. Parker, 392*
“ Hylite,” Production of, by William Jessop and Sons, Ltd., 235
“ Hylite ” Range, Additions to (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 775
— Vacancies and Other Point Defects in. Symposium on, 792
— Zinc, Anodes, “ C-Sentry,” for Cathodic Protection of Ships, Piers, etc. (Imperial Smelting Corp., Ltd.), 583 Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces
Boron in Iron and Steel, by R. A. Grange, F. J. Shortsleeve, D. C. Hilty, W. O. Binder, G. T. Motock, and ~ Offenhauer (Book), 820
Brass. See Brass Bronze. See Bronze Calcium in Iron and Steel, by Grange, F. J. Shortsleeve, Hilty, W. O. Binder, G. T. Motock, and C. M. Offenhauer (Book), 820 Carbon Content of Steel, Cinema Film on, 457
Cast Iron. See Iron Castings. See Castings Chromium and its Alloys, Metallurgy of, by M. J. Udy (Book), 148
Coal. See Coal Coke. See Coke —Ovens. See Coke Columbium in Iron Grange, F. J. Hilty, W. O. Binder, G. T. Motock, and C. M. Offenhauer (Book), 820 Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion Crystals, Ionic, Point Defects and Mechanical Properties of, by Dr. P. L. Pratt, 792
— Structure, Calculation of. Application of Digital Computer to, 341 Diffusion and Point Defects in Metals and Alloys, by Dr. W. M. Lomer, 792 Fibre Metallurgy, 424
Forming of Metals, Cinema Film on (Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd.), 806
Foundry. See Cores; Foundry: Moulding Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces — Metallurgical. See Furnaces Grain Structure of Steel, Cinema Film 457
Heat-Treatment, Annealing Furnace. Furnace
Annealing Plant, Continuous, Steel Strip at Velindre Works of Steel Co. of Wales, Ltd., 234*
Furnaces. See Furnaces Hardening of Rail Ends, Colligan, 10
Installations at British Ltd., 665
Precipitation Hardening, at Fulmer Research Institute, 111
of Steel Cinema Film on, 457 “ Hylite” Titanium Alloys, Production of, by William Jessop and Sons, Ltd., 235 “Hylite 15” Commercially Pure Titanium (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 775
“ Hylite 45 ” Aluminium-Vanadium- Titanium Alloy (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 775
Iron Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast — Ore. See Ore
“ Kynal M38 ” Aluminium-Magnesium- Silicon Alloy, Development of, for Busbars (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 744*
Lattice Defects, Effects on Some Physical Properties of Metals, by Dr. T. Broom and R. K. Ham, 793
Metallurgical Development, Place of, in Atomic Energy Programme, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 91
— Industry, Activities of “ Pechiney ” (Cie. de Produits Chemiques et Electrometallurgiques), 105* Metallurgical Review. Quarterly Periodical of Institute of Metals, Note on, 499 Nickel-Phosphorus Plating, “ Kanigen ” (Albright and Wilson (Manufacturing), Ltd.), 358
“ Nimocast ” High-Temperature Casting Alloys (Henry Wiggin and Co., Ltd.), 327
Noral Aluminium Alloy for 10 cub. yard Capacity Dumper (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 713*
Point Defects and Diffusion in Metals and Alloys, by Dr. W. M. Lomer, 792 and Mechanical Properties of Ionic Crystals, by Dr. P. L. Pratt, 792 and Mechanical Properties
C.
R.
D.
M.
A.
C.
Ovens
and Steel, by R. A. Shortsleeve, D. C.
on.
See
for
by G. K.
Timken,
Study of.
of Metals and Alloys at High Temperatures, by Dr. D. McLean, 793
and Mechanical Properties of Metals and Alloys at Low Temperatures, by Dr. A. H. Cottrell, 793
in Metals and Alloys, Symposium on, 792
Near the Surface of a Metal, by E. C. Williams and P. C. S. Hayfield, 792
Powder Metals, Sintering, 51-kVA “ Humpback ” Conveyor Furnace for (Sintering and Brazing Furnaces, Ltd.), 331*
Refractories. See Refractory Materials Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
Steel Furnaces. See Furnaces
Metallurgy—continued
Structure, Crystal, Calculation of, application of Digital Computer to, 341
?—? of Steel, by E, Gregory and E. N. Simons (Book), 687
“ Superston ” Alloys (J. Stone and Co. (Charlton), Ltd.), 583
Vacuum-Melting Process for Steel Castings (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 358
Wear of Metals, by Dr. F. T. Barwell, 423 Welding. See Welding
Zirconium in Iron and Steel, by R. A. Grange, F. J. Shortsleeve, D. C. Hilty, W. O. Binder, G. T. Motock, and C. M. Offenhauer (Book), 820
See also Iron and Steel Institute; Materials; Metals: Metals, Institute of; Metallography; Micro-photographs: Foundry: Meteorological Office, Report for 1956-57, 307
— Telephone Service, 435
Meteorology, Research, Use of Earth Satellites for, 485*
— Studies by Expedition Training Course in
Iceland, 707*
Meters. See Electric; Water Meters “MeterMiser” Sealed Rotary Refrigerator Compressors, Manufacture of (General Motors, Ltd.), 829*
Methane in Natural Gas, Exploitation of, in Scotland and North Staffordshire, 728
“ Metolux ” Industrial Metallic Mouldable Paste (Trade Publication), 563
Metric and Inch Sizes, Precise Conversion of, on Engineering Drawings, 149
-—System, Effect of Free Trade Area, 651 Metrology and Gauging, by S. A. J. Parsons (Book), 119
Metropolitan. See London
Metropolitan Plastics, Ltd., Spraying Process for Glass Fibre-Reinforced Synthetic Resins, 89
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Radiant Heater Exhibited at Electrical Power Convention, 30; Simulating Kinetic Heating in High-Speed Aircraft, 111*; “Type MS5 ” Mass Spectrometer, 155; ZETA Project for Study of Electrical Discharges in Gases, 156; 50-MeV Proton Linear Accelerator for European Organisation for Nuclear Research, 285; Infra- Red Oven for Processing Small Articles and for Batch Production, 362; Order for Steam Turbo-Generators and Auxiliaries for Power Station at Basrah, 397; Machine for Butt Welding Steel Pipes, 425*; Comparison of Employee Statistics and Recreational Facilities with Russia, 484; Collaboration with United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on Design of Tandem Electrostatic Generators, 504; 65-MW, 6-6-kV Back-Pressure TurboAlternator at Kynoch Works of Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 689; Riveting Machine for Heating and Upsetting Molybdenum-Steel Rivets into Countersunk Preparations on Turbine Discs, 741 *; New Works at Wythenshawe for Manufacture of Transformers, 795* Metropolitan-Vickers South Africa (Pty.), Ltd., Order for Electric Locomotives by South African Railways, 147
Meynell and Sons, Ltd., Floatless Liquid-Level Control, 426
M.G. Plastics, Ltd., “ Metolux ” Industrial Metallic Mouldable Paste (Trade Publication), 563
“Mhoglass” Resistance Material as Surface Area Heating Element (A. J. Kemp, Sons and Co., and Hunting Percival, Ltd.), 431
Mica Insulation, Automatic Machine for Making (Russian), 442*
Michelotti, Coachbuilding Activities of, 675 Michie, G. M., on Gamma Radiography in Steel Foundries, 46*
“ Micro-Fog ” Lubricator for Compressed-Air Lines (Shipston Engineering Co., Ltd.), 299*
“ Micro-Set ” Generator, Direct-Current, Water-Driven, 10-kW, for Remote Areas (Armfield Hydraulic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 26*
Microcell, Ltd., Glass-Fibre-Reinforced Aircraft Double Passenger Seat, 89; Glass- Fibre Reinforced Hose-Ramp, 89*; Glass-Fibre-Reinforced Liquid Storage Tank, 89
Microfilm, Journals in,Catalogue of, 371 Microfilming, Technique of, by G. W. W.
Stevens (Review), 181
Micrometer Head in Precision Comparator for Small Cylinders, 182*
— James Watt, 420*
Microphotography, by G. W. W. Stevens (Review), 181
Microstructure of Metals. See Metallography; M icrophotographs
Microwave Components, Application Printed Circuit Techniques to Design by J. M. C. Dukes, 782
— Link, Low-Loss, for Transmission
of
of,
of Radio Waves (Elliott Brothers (London), Ltd.), 593
Middle Ages, Mediterranean Civilisations and. Vol. II of History of Technology, by C. Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and T, 1. Williams (Review), 82
Middle Docks and Engineering Co., Ltd., Portable Oxy-Acetylene Rivet-Heating Furnace, 397*
— East, Activities of Brush Group in, 719 Trade Position of Britain in, 397 Middlesex, Population Movements in, 63 Midlands, West, Gas Board, Tower-Box Purifiers for Town Gas for Worcester Gas Works of (Henry Balfour and Co., Ltd.), 183 Guide to Library Resources in, 243 Milan-Naples, “ Autostrada of the Sun,” New Highway, 51 I
Mild Steel. See Steel
Miles, F. G., Ltd., “HDM.105” Transport Aircraft, 292*
Miles, J., and Partners (Bulawayo), Gas-Cleaning Plant for Rhodesian Iron and Steel Co. (Pty.), Ltd., 614
Milford Haven, Oil-Tanker Terminal at, 231 Milicevic, Ing. C., on Capital Available for Power for Underdeveloped Countries, 21 Military Aspects of Earth Satellites, 486
— College of Science, Royal. See Science
— Installations, Civil Engineering in. Exhibition on, 5*
Milk, Radioactive, in Windscale Area, 505 Mills, Pfeiffer, for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Millikan, Dr. C. B., on Advanced Education and Academic Research in Aeronautics, 430*
Milling Equipment for Dry Materials (Trade Publication), 783
— Machines and Cutters. See Machine Tools Mills Scaffold Co., Ltd., Work on Jodrell
Bank Radio Telescope, 36; Scaffolding Technique for Cooling Towers at Castle Donnington Power Station, 287
Mine Car Tipplers (Trade Publication), 148, 531
— Coal. See Coal Mines: Collieries
— Development Allowance in Ireland, 488
— Rescue Apparatus. See Colliery
— Roofs, Coal, “ Roofmaster ” Self-Advancing Hydraulic-Powered Supports for (Dowty Mining Equipment, Ltd.), 178*
— United States Bureau of. See United States
— Uranium, Canadian Development of, 60 Canadian, Power Supply for, 60
— Winding. See Winding
— Work Study in. Comment on, 704
— See also Coal: Collieries; Mining: Ores:
Winding
Miner’s Law of Cumulative Damage, 237* Mineral Composition and Ore Dressing at Avoca, 489
— Development Act in Ireland, 488
Minerals Exploration and Development Co., Minerals Exploration and Development in Ireland, 488
— Oils. See Oils
— Resources in Algeria, 771*
at Avoca, 488
Information Circular on Titanium Industry, 748
in Mauritania, 771 * in Morocco, 771 *
— Wealth of Sahara Desert, Exploration of, 770
— See also Coal: Mining: Ores
Mines, H., Ltd., Heavy-Duty Fine Boring Machine, 491 *
“ Minifon ” Miniature Wire Speech Recorder (E.M.I. Sales and Service, Ltd.), 67*
Mining, Coal. See also Off-Shore Boring
— Development in Ireland, by Dr. M. A.
Hogan, 488
-— Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Association of. Presidential Address on Men, Materials and Machines, by J. E. Ridley, 32.
— Engineers, Institution of; Summer Meeting at Newcastle: Off-Shore Boring, by W. S. Drysdale, F. Marsh, and G. Armstrong, 136*
— Equipment (Trade Publication), 403
Canadian Imports of, from United Kingdom and United States, 778*
— of Ilmenite Deposits in Allard Lake Area in Eastern Quebec, 748
— Iron-Ore, Open-Cast, “ W 1400” Walking
Dragline for (Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd.), 122*
— Legislation in Ireland, 488
— Machinery, Production of, by Demag, A.G., 428*
— and Mechanical Engineers, North of England Institute of. Recent Developments in Underground Gasification of Coal, by C. A. Masterman, 761*
— Uranium, Plans of Australian Atomic
Energy Commission, 319
— See also Mine
Ministers, Government, Growing Burden Upon, Discussion in Parliament on, 639
Ministry of Labour and National Service. See under Labour
— of Supply. See Supply
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Magnetic-Tape Tools, 491 ; Chloride Tape Adhesive, 583
— Processing of Low-Grade Iron-Ore Deposits in, 327
Mirrlees, Bickerton and Day, Ltd., “JVSI2” Generator Sets for Blind River Uranium Mines, 60; Pressure-Charged Diesel Engines for Generating Sets for Delhi State Electricity Board, 120; “Mirrlees Imo” Pressure Pumps for New Oil-Fuel System for R.M.S. “Queen Mary,” 458*; “ KSCDM ” Six-Cylinder Diesel Engine for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663*; Type JVS I2T Engine for First Mixed Traffic Diesel-Electric Locomotive for British Railways, 727*
Mirrors, Telescope, Tower for Testing (Sir H. Grubb Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 171*
Missile, Guided. See Aeronautics Mission Appliance Corp., Tapping into Thin- Walled Pipe by Spinning, 117*
— Technical and Diplomatic, from China, 622 Mists and Fogs from Factory Processes, 39
— Removal from Gas Passing Through Pipe,
Gratings for (Knitted Mesh Manufacturing Co.), 151
Mitbestimmung, System of Joint Management in Germany, 272
Mitchell Construction Co., Model of Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station and Plutonium Plant, 269*; Scaffolding Technique for Cooling Towers at Castle Donnington Power Station, 287
Mitchell, D. N., on More Steel or Better Concrete, 644. See LETTER, 805
Mitchell Engineering, Ltd., Impulse, House Organ of, 51; Hollow-Forged Steam- Boiler Drum (Thos. Firth and John Brown, Ltd.), 329; Withdrawal of Offer to Build German Nuclear Reactor, 606; Research Investigation on Underwater Oil Tankers, 738; See also A.M.F.-Mitchell
for Control of Machine “ Scotchrap” Polyvinyl with Pressure-Sensitive
Ivi
INDEX
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nuclear-Powered Submarine Oil Tanker, 738
Mitsubishi Nippon Heavy-Industries, Ltd., Tests on 2,500-h.p. Type 2SC/IP/IRE Experimental Gas Turbine, by M. Isogai, M. Fujisawa, and H, Yoshii, 58*
Mitsubishi Nippon Industries, Ltd., “ Tokyo ZC ” Marine Diesel Engine, 57*
Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd., “9(jET” Supercharged Trunk- Piston Single-Acting Diesel Engine, by H. Fujita, 57
Mitsui Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., 10,000 s.h.p, Closed-Cycle Marine Air Turbine, 59*
M.L. Aviation Co., Ltd., Launcher for “ Bloodhound ” Surface-to-Air Guided Weapon System, 250. See Erratum, 424
Mobil Oil Co., Ltd., Gear Tooth Failures (Trade Publication), 149; Technical Services Laboratories at Coryton, 593;* Oil in Heat-Transfer Systems (Trade Publication), 625
Model Aeroplane, Santos-Dumont, Presentation of, to Brazil Government, by Vickers- Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd., 232*
— of Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station at
Levant Fair (Bari), 348
— of Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station and
Plutonium Plant, 269*
— at Conversazione of Institution of Civil
Engineers, 12
— of Dounreay Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor
at Levant Fair (Bari), 348
— Engineer Exhibition, Note on, 288
— Experiments on VTOL and STOL Aircraft
by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 378*
— Heating System, Small-Bore Oil-Fired, 493
?— Hull, of Underwater Oil Tankers Under Test, 738*
-—I-Beams, Experiments on, 112*
— of Induced-Draught Cooling Tower with
“ All Film Flow ” Packing (Film Cooling Towers (1925), Ltd.), 332
— of Lips de Schelde Controllable-Pitch
Propeller (Controllable Pitch Propeller Co.), 264
— Mathematical, for Prototype Trials, by Dr,
G. Morris, 41*
— of Nuclear Power Station for Rheinisch-
Westfalische Elektrizitat (A.M.F.-Mitchell), 124*
— of Nuclear Power Station for Russia,
Projected, 200-MW, 668*
•— of Nuclear Power Station for South of Scotland Electricity Board at “ Het Atoom ” Exhibition, 124*
?— of Nuclear Reactor at Berkeley Power Station (John Thompson, Ltd.), 269
— of Nuclear Reactor in Ship’s Hull (Pame-
trada), 699*
— Reliability, and Poisson Distribution, Equi
valence of, 43
— Rocket, Free-Flight, Use of, for Experi
mental Purposes, 468*
— Ship, in Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum,
Catalogue of (Review), 754
of Underwater Oil Tankers Under Test, 738*
— of Steam-Raising Tower or Heat Exchanger
for Calder Hall and Chapelcross Nuclear Power Stations (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 269*
— Tests on River and Estuary Configurations,
at Institute of Technology Stockholm, 377
— for Wind-Loading Study on Roofs, 559*
— of Wind Tunnel, Mach 2-8, at Royal Air
craft Establishment (Bedford), 53*
Moderator, Carbon, Fluidised-Fuel Nuclear Reactor with, 730
— Graphite, Design of. Patents on, 636*
Dimensional Instability of, 637*
? Fixing Overall Dimensions of, 637
— ?— Neutron Losses in, 637
? Patents on, 506
Structure, Multiple Functions of, 636 Structure, Neutron Streaming in. Limitation of, 638
— — Structure, Stability of, 637*
Modern Acoustics, Ltd., Comprehensive Range of Electrical Plugs and Sockets with Patent Contacts, 807*
Modern Wheel Drive, Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 265; Marine Epicycle Reverse and Reverse Production Oil- Operated Gearboxes (Trade Publication), 783
Modular Concrete Co., Ltd., Cluster Block of Maisonettes at Bethnal Green, 753
Moisture Removal from Gas Passing Through Pipe, Gratings for (Knitted Mesh Manufacturing Co.), 151
-— Soil, Measurement of. Field Experience with Neutron-Scattering Method, by G. L, Stewart, and S. A. Taylor, 413
Moldex of Melbourne, Acquisition of, by Lines Bros., 772
“ Mole,” Earth-Boring (Centromor (Warsaw)), 120*
Molecular Spectroscopy, Journal of. New Publication, 243
Molybdenum Disulphide Bonded Coatings, 645 Lubricants, " Molykote ” (Trade Publication), 821
“ Molykote” Molybdenum Disulphide Lubricants (Trade Publication), 821
“ Mo-Max Cobalt ” High-Speed Ground Tool- Bits (Cleveland Twist Drill (G.B.), Ltd,), 634
“ Mo-Max” High Speed Ground Tool-Bits (Cleveland Twist Drill (G.B.), Ltd.), 634
Moment Distribution Around a Small Circular Hole in Laterally-Loaded Plates, by Dr, R. Hicks, 175
Monazite Ore, Recovery of Thorium from, 559 Monckton of Brenchley, Viscount, on Who Pays for Research? 649
Monetary Fund, European, Suggested Formation of, 363
International, Activities of, 71; Annual Meeting, 427; Examination of Proposal to Act as Bank, 685
Monitor Roofs in Factory Buildings, 658*
Monitoring Equipment in Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactors, 636
Monk, A,, and Co., Ltd,, New Bays at Superheater Co., Ltd., 602
Mono Group, Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 334
Mono Pumps, Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 334; “ Kwikleen K63 ” Hygienic Pump for Food Products, 334*
Monographs on Aeronautical Sciences and Controlled Flight, International Series of (Pergamon Press), 755
Monoplane, See Aeronautics
Monoway Valves for Pressures up to 3,000 lb, per sq. in. (Dewrance and Co., Ltd.), 333
Monsanto Chemicals, Ltd., New Plant Near Fawley, 200; Annual Report, 295; Decentralisation of Activities, 338
Monsanto Chemicals (Aust.), Ltd., Successful Suggestion Scheme, 672
Monte Carlo Mathematical-Statistical Method for Studying Physical Phenomena, 125 Montford Bridge, 163*
Montreal, Bank of. Remarks on Canada’s Trade Outlook by President of, 752
Moon-God with Double-Cubit Rod and a Land-Measuring Cord, 418*
— North-East Quadrant of, in Last Quarter,
643*
-— Reaching and Encircling, 642*
— Rocket, Man-Carrying, Discussion on, 100 Russian Scientists’ Ideas on, 243
— Satellites, Accuracy of, by H. A. Lieske, 485
— See also Lunar
Moore, A, C. C,, on Production Economies Achieved by Variety Reduction and Standardisation, 427
Moore, Dr. P. T., on Welding Problems in Heavy Chemical Industry, 11
Moore, P. W, J., on Ignition of Primary Explosives by Electric Discharges, 141
Moore, R. V., on Nuclear Propulsion of Ships, 698
“ Mopump ” Pumps for Molten Metals and Salts (Rhodes, Brydon and Youatt, Ltd.), 522*
Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd., Brimor High- Temperature Cements (Brochure), 181; Furnaces for Aluminium Die-Casting Trade, 204*; “Brimor” High-Temperature Cements (Trade Publication), 625
Morgan, 1. G., on Continuous Thickness Measuring of Thin, Soft Sheet and Film, 631*
Morgan, Gen, Sir W., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Gloucester Carriage, 454
Moriarty (Inspector of Taxes) v. Evans Medical Supplies, Ltd., 743
Morocco, Mineral Resources in, 771* Morphy-Richards, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 581
Morris Ashby, Ltd., “ Gilsulate ” Insulation and Protection for Hot Underground Pipes, 316
Morris, Dr. G., on Testing the Reliability of Complicated Machines, 41*
Morris, H., Ltd., Passenger Lifts for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 37
Morris Motors, Ltd., 37-h.p, Three-Cylinder “ Nuffield Universal Three ” Tractor, 741 * Mortgages, House, and Inflation, Remarks on, by W. K. Logan, 128
Mortimer Engineering Co., “ Ravensburg ” Face Copying Lathe, 681*
Moscow, Industrial Exhibition, 323*, 324*, 356*; Pavilion of Mechanical Engineering, 323*
— Panoramic View of, 323*
— St. Basil Cathedral, 354*
— University, 483*
Moss Gear Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 265
Motivation Research, Application to Study of Buying Habits, 558
Motor, Air, for Aircraft (Wade Engineering, Ltd.), 332
— Car Air Lift to Europe, Statistics for, 27
? Auto Union 600, 519*
Berkeley Coupe, 519*
“ Bianchina ” (Fiat Motor Co.), 519* B.M.W. “ 600,“ 391*; 519*
“ Caravan ” (Opel), 573*
and Chassis Production in Western Europe, 589*
• Citroen Transmission Systems, 477
Clutch, Centrifugal, Newton, Use of by Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 573
— Clutch, Electromagnetic Powder (Smiths), 573*
“ Cresta ” (Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.), 572* “4 C.V.” (Regie National des Usines Renault), 589
“ Dauphine ” (Regie National des Usines Renault), 589
“ Dauphine ” (Renault), 476*
Design Trends, by G, Wilkins, 572*
Drive, Hydro-Kinetic, “ Teramala ” (Ferguson), 573
Drive, Hydrostatic, 572
Drive, “ Transfluide ” (Renault), 573 “ DSI9” (Citroen Cars, Ltd.), 572* Edsel (Ford Group), 357, 573* —? — Engines, See Engines, Petrol
Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers Institution of, Automobile Division
? and Environment, by G, Wilkins, 286
Exports to United States, 831
Exports from Western Europe, 589* “ Fiat 500,” 519; Description of, 95* “ Fregate ” (Regie National Des Usines Renault), 589
Front-Drive, Four-Stroke, Goggomobil, 391
GAZ M21, “ Volga,” 324*
— — “ Gazelle ” (Singer Motors, Ltd.), 572* “ Goggomobil 600,” 519*
“ Hawk ” (Humber, Ltd,), 572*
Import Duties in Western Europe, 590* Industry, British, Qverseas Investment in. Discussion in Parliament on, 223
— ?— Industry, Effect of Free Trade Area on,
590
Industry, Export-Trade Statistics, 147 Industry, French, Position and Prospects of, by G. Wilkins, 476*
Motor Car Industry, German, Activities in, 286*
Industry, Italy, Expansion of Coachbuilding Facilities, 674*
Industry, Japan, 421 Industry, Prospects of, by Sir W, Rootes, 147
Industry, Rationalisation in, 357
— — Industry, United States, New Policy
Against Road Accidents, 338
Industry, See also Motor Industry; Motor- Pellicle Industry
?— — Lloyd 600 c.c., 2-cylinder, 519* Mascot on Mercedes Benz, 573*
? Mercedes-Benz, Improvements to, 286*
Mercedes-Benz 300, Improvements to,
286*
Miniature, by G. Wilkins, 518*
— — Miniature, “Alexander” 600 c.c...
Improvements to (Lloyd), 287*
— — Miniature, 4-Seater, “ Janus,” Improve
ments to (Zundapp), 287*
Miniature. See also Motor Car, Small Olympia Rekord, Improved Design of (Opel), 391*
Open, European, Decision to Import, by General Motor Corp., 40
“ Porsche 1600,” 391*
— — “ Prince,” (N.S.U.), 391*, 518*
Production by Regie National des
Usines Renault, 589*
?—— Racing, Le Mans, Cinema Film on, 821 Riley “Two-Point-Six” (British Motor
Corp.), 357
in Russia, Size of, 410
Safety Belts for. Report on, 729*
Saloon, Karmann Khia (Volkswagen), 391*
? Sedan, “ Tyopet Crown,” 421
Servicing Guide to, by A. J. K, Moss
(Book), 687
“ Silver Cloud,” to Meet Needs of Busy
Executive (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 416
Six-Cylinder (Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.), 477*
Small, Comparison of British Continental, 590
Small, “One-Point-Five” (Riley), Small, Production by Citroen Cars,
590
— ?— Small, Production by Fiat, 590 Small, Production by Volkswagen,
G.m.b.H,, 590
Small. See also Motor Car, Miniature
— ?—? Sports, Evolution of, 449. See LETTER,
550
“ Taunus 17M ” (Ford), 391*
with Three-Cylinder Engine, Auto-Union “ 1000,” 391
Three-Wheeled, Open, Plastics-Bodied
(Coronet Cars, Ltd.), 146* “ Tiger” (F.M.R.), 519*
— ?— Transmission, Automatic, Design Trends,
by G. Wilkins, 572*
Transmission, Development in France, 476*
Transmission, Semi-Automatic, “ Trans- fluide,” Control Gear for, 476*
Two-Stroke, Two-Cylinder, D.K.W,, 391 in United States, Trend to Smaller, 40
? Vauxhall, European, Decision to Import,
by General Motor Corp., 40
“ Velox,” Prototype of (Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.), 477*
“ Vespa,” 476, 518*
Volkswagen, Improvements to, 286 Zundapp Janus, 519*
— — See also Automobile Engineering: Motor
Vehicles; Motor Cycles
— Carriages, Railway. See Carriages
— Disc (Limit Engineering Group, Ltd.), 426*
— Electric, Alternating-Current, Coder, and
Main, for Foil Rolling Mills of Venesta, Ltd. (Laurence Scott and Electromotors, Ltd.), 502*
for Cauldon Low Cement Works, ^37
Controllers, for
Telescope (Brush
Co., Ltd,), 36
Explosion-Proof
568
Direct-Current, for Jodrell Telescope (Brush Electrical Co., Ltd.), 36
Flame-Proof, for Mining
(Trade Publication), 149
— —Geared Units (Trade Publication), 499
.—. — Induction, Application of Equivalent
Circuits to, by D. J. Rowley, 405*
Induction, Squirrel-Cage, Use in Glandless Circulating-Water Pump (Hayward Tyler and Co., Ltd.), 151*
—- — Induction, “ Trislot ” (Trade Publication), 403
Manufacture of (Trade Publication), 213 Starters for (Trade Publication), 148
— — Synchronous, for Air Compressors for
2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56
Traction, for Railway Rolling Stock, Manufacture of, at Dudley Works of General Electric Co,, Ltd., 828*
— Industry, Control of. Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 159
Position and Prospects of, 614
Research Association, Hydrostatic Motor-Car Drive, 572
See also Motor-Car Industry: Motor- Vehicle Industry
— Internal-Combusion. See Aeronautics:
Engines; Motor Cars: Tractors
— Lorries, See Motor Vehicles
Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Ltd., Society of. Standards of, 51
— Marine, See Engines: Marine Propulsion:
Motorships
— Omnibus and Coach Chassis, “ Aber
donian ” (Albion Motors, Ltd,), 211 * Combination of Battery-Electric and Petrol-Electric Power in, 597*
Driver, Hospital Board’s Apology to, 448 Drivers, Provincial, Wage Increase 160 Operatives, London, Rejection of Increased Wage Claim by London Transport Executive, 736
Motor Omnibus, “ Routemaster,” CRL.4, Adaptation for Green Line Routes, 574* Workers, Provincial, Strike of, 128
— Paraffin. See Engines, Oil
— Petrol. See Aeronautics: Engines, Petrol;
Motor Cars: Tractors
— Show, Frankfurt, Review of, by G, Wilkins,
391*
— Tractors, See Tractors
— Vehicles, Battery-Electric Combined (with
Petrol-Electric, by Dr. D, A. Jones, 596* British, Servicing Guide to. Vol. 4; Cars, Commercial Vehicles, Diesel Engines and Components, by A. J, K, Moss (Book), 687 of Power in, by
Commercial, “ Thames Trader,” New 10/12 and 15 cwt. Range (Ford Motor
Co., Ltd.), 574*
Components, Servicing Guide to, by A. J. K. Moss (Book), 687
Electronic Equipment for Measuring Instantaneous Speed of (Venner Electronics, Ltd.), 729
Industry, Japan, 421
Industry, Revival of Output in, 72
? Industry in Russia, 443
Industry. See also Motor-Car Industry: Motor Industry
? Lorry, Bulk-Transporter, “ Barfitt,” (R.
Murfitt, Ltd.), 357*
.—? — Lorry, Coal-Delivery, with Automatic Bagging Plant at Rear (Charrold, Ltd.), 146*
Metals in (Trade Publication), 821
Petrol-Electric Combined with Battery- Electric, by Dr. D. A. Jones, 596*
“ Pneuride ” System of Pneumatic Suspension for (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 179*
Production, Need for Amalgamation and Rationalisation in, 678
— ?— Production by Regie National des
Usines Renault, 589*
—?—with Several Driven Wheels, Transmission Wind-Up in, by W. Steeds, J, R. Ellis, and Prof. J. L. Thomson, 348
Station Wagon, “ Mercury ” (Ford Motor Co.), 573*
Truck, “ MAZ 530 ” 40-Ton, Incorporating Exhaust-Gas Heating System, 410*
Truck, Russian, Designed for Low Temperatures, 410*
Wagon for Bulk Delivery of Animal Feeding Stuffs, 95
—? Wagons, See Motor Vehicles: Tractors Motorisation in Europe, Prospect of, by Sir W. Rootes, 147
Motorships, “ Susan Constant,” Two-Stroke Direct Reversing Marine Engines, Type M48M, for, 264
— Trawler, “ Boston Vanguard,” 663*
— See also Marine Propulsion
Motorways, Enhanced Safety of, by Dr, W. H, Glanville and Dr. R. J. Smeed, 667
Mott, Hay and Anderson, Runcorn-Widnes Road Bridge, 446
Moulds, Billet, Cleaning in situ, Air-Motor Driven Rotating Brush for (Flexible Drives (Gilmans), Ltd.), 361*
— Release Agents (Trade Publication), 563 Moulders, Shortage of Skilled, 748
Moulding, Plastics, “ Radyne,” Radio-Frequency Preheaters for (Trade Publication), 307
— Pressure, of Rainwater, Soil and Flue-Pipe
Fitments of Asbestos Cement (Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 429
— See also Foundry
Moule, W. J., on Electrical Floor Warming, 621*
Mountford, Sir J., Remarks on Selection of Students for Universities, 832
Mountings, Anti-Vibration, “ Carpet-Type,” Studded and Ribbed, for Heavy Machinery (Trade Publication), 213
— ?— “ Cushymount,” for Bo-Bo Diesel
Locomotive Engines (Metalastik, Ltd.), 266*
— Engine, for “ Fiat 500” Motor-Car, 95*
— Machine, Anti-Vibration Pads for (Trade
Publication), 562
Mouse and Rocket Incident, Comment on, 768 “ Movigraph ” Wall Charts (Trade Publication), 307
“ Mow ” Process of Barn Hay-Drying, 369 Mowat, Col. Sir A. Law, on Position and Prospects of English Car Clothing Co., 134
Mowing Machines, Grass, Problems of Cutter Car in, 369
Mowlem, H., and Co., Ltd., Foundations for Rail Tracks for Radio-Star Aerial at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, 186*
Mowlem (Scotland), Ltd., New Factory of Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd., at Blay- don-on-Tyne, 473*
Mozart HFIO “ Amplifier” (Pye, Ltd.), 317 “ MS30 ” Echo-Sounder for Open Boat Fishing, 400*
Mukergie, P. C,, on Railways—Goal to Self Sufficiency, 338
Mullard Ltd., Radio Astronomy Observatory, 185*; Ultrasonic Engraving Tool for Engraving or Drilling Hard Brittle Materials, 332
Mullard Research Laboratories, Scope of Work at, 464; Infra-Red Image Converter Tube, 464; Development of Airborne Radar System, 464; Experiments on Travelling Wave Tubes, 464; Work on Solid-State Physics and Transistors and Ferrites, 464; Work on Production and Properties of Single-Crystal Ferrites, 464
“ Multimatic Prestic ” Dispenser for Sticky Labels (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd,), 152*
Mulvany, T, J., History and Work on Rational Method of Estimating Flood Peaks, 374; on Self-Registering Rain and Flood
Gauges in Observations of Rainfall and Flood Discharges in a Catchment, 375* Mulvany, William Thomas, Work on Drainage, 311
Mu-mesic H Atoms and Deuterium, Cross- Sections for Collisions Between, by Dr, 1. C. Percival and Dr. F. Haas, 475
“ Munck ” Portable Electric Chain Hoists (Trade Publication), 563
Municipal Authorities, Government Grants to. Change in System of, 71
— Government, Clerks in. Proposal for Sim
plification of Grading System, 128
Finance, White Paper on, 71
Munitions Industries, Labour in, by P. Inman (Review), 720
“ Muramatic ” Automatic Arc Welding Head (Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.), 267* Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., “ Fortrex 35A ” Welding Electrode for Welding Extra Thick Steel Plate, 235; “Muramatic ” Automatic Arc Welding Head, 267; Position and Prospects of, 359
Murfitt, R., Ltd., “ Barfitt ” Bulk Transport Vehicle, 357*
Murgatroyd, R. J., on Measurements of Physical Processes Underlying Cloud and Rain Formation, 365
Murrant, Sir E. H., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Furness Withy, 454
Murrell, K. F. H., on Human Performance for Engineering Designers, 194*, 247*, 308*, 344*, 438*. See LETTERS, 453, 740. See also 417
Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, Catalogue of Ship Models in (Review), 754
— British, Catalogue of, 783
— Kelvingrove, Catalogue of Ship Models in
(Review), 754
— Science: First Hundred Years (Review), 306 Machine-Tool Display at. Plain Words
on, 514
Public Lectures, Comment on, 448
Seismology, Geophysics Handbook No. I, by J. Wartnaby (Review), 530
Music, Effect in Office and Factory, 320
Myrdal, G., on Power for Underdeveloped Countries, 20; on Capital Available for Power for Underdeveloped Countries, 21
NABARRO, G., Bill on Structural Insulation of New Buildings, 138*
“ Nadella ” Needle Bushes (Trade Publication), 821
NALGO. See National and Local Government Officers' Association
Naphthas, Hydro-Refining of, 205 Naphthadag for Electrically Conductive
Postage Stamps, 408
Napier, D., and Son, Ltd., Formation of Napier Engines, Inc., in Washington, D.C., 232; Contract with R.E.A.L. S.A. Transportes Aereos for Conversion of “ Convair 340 ” Airliners to “Eland” Propeller-Turbine Engines, 283*; “Double Scorpion” Rocket Engine, 292*. See also 295; This is Napier, House Magazine, 531; “ Eland ” Turbo-Propeller Engines for “Convair” Airliners, 710
Napier Engines, Inc., Formation and Objects of, 232
Naples-Milan, “Autostrada of the Sun” New Highway, 51 I
Nash and Thompson, Ltd., E.M.C. Mk I Electromagnetic Computer, 528*
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. See Aeronautics, National Advisory Committee for under Aeronautics
— Anti-Corrosion Week, 230
— Book League, Literature Guide on History
of Flying, by C. H. Gibbs-Smith, 279
— Central Library, Decrease in Annual Return
Figures, 687
— Coal Board, Increase in Coal Prices, 7;
Coal Dust Precipitators at Phurnacite Plant at Aberaman (Simon-Carves, Ltd.), 13; Capital Investment in Coal Industry, 63; Off-Shore Boring for Coal, 136*; Position and Prospects of Coal Supplies, 199; Decline in Effort at Coal Face, 199; Training of Colliery Managers, 363; Experiments in Underground Gasification of Coal, 367; Chairman’s Remarks on Dangers of Absenteeism, 384; Diesel- Electric Portable Winding Engine for Mine Rescue Equipment, 617*; Comment on Status and Policy of, 710; Work on Underground Gasification of Coal, 671*
— College for Heating, Ventilating, Refrigera
tion and Fan Engineering. See Heating, Eent Hating, Refrigeration and Fan Engineering, National College for
National Company for Oil Exploration and Exploitation in Algeria, Activities of, 771
?— Council for Technological Awards. See Technological
— Dock Labour Board, Annual Report, 64
— Economy, Statistics Relating to, 799
— Federation of Building Trades Employers, Budding Trades
Co., Ltd., Free- 6-Cylinder NM Vertical Diesel Establishments (Book), 119; Precision Comparator for Small Cylinders, by Dr. J. C. Evans and W. F. Atkins, 182*; Comparator for Automatically Measuring Pitch Errors of Fir-tree Root Serrations in Gas-Turbine Discs, 374*; Modern Computing Methods (Book), 498; Tests on Bursting Strength of Glass Discs, by P. L. Thorpe and D. Dawson, 591*; Continuous Thickness Measuring of Thin, Soft Sheet and Film, by Dr. J. C. Evans, 1. G. Morgan, B. S. W. Mann, and F. C. P. Mason, 631*; Current-Rating Tests on Double-angle Section Copper Conductors, 823*
National Research Corp., Agreement with Wild-Barfield Electric Furnaces, Ltd., to Manufacture Vacuum-Melting and Vacuum Heat-Treatment and Analysing Equipment, 18*
Council of Canada. See Canada National Research Development Corporation, Activities of, 751
— Safety Congress, Address by J. E. Simon on
Safety in the Home, 556
— Service Acts, 1948-1955 (Pamphlet), 96 —? — Comment on Liability for, 96
—? — Exemption for Science and Technology Graduates Undertaking Further Education, Discussion in Parliament on, 703
— Smoke Abatement Society. See Smoke
Abatement Society
— Society of Operative Printers and Assistants.
See Printers, Operative, and Assistants, National Society of under Labour
National Telewriter (1955) Ltd., “ Telewriter” Teleprinter System, 66
— Union of General and Municipal Workers.
See Genera! and Municipal Workers, National Union of, under Labour
?—? — of Manufacturers. See Manufacturers,
National Union of _ _
of Students. - - ? . _.
tion Nationalisation in
— Labour Party
prise ” on, 103
Nationalised Industry, Increase in Salaries in, 96
NATSOPA. See Printers, Operative, and Assistants, National Society of, under Labour
Natural Gas, Exploitation of, in Scotland and North Staffordshire, 728
Industry in Canada, Survey of, 199 “ Nautilus ” Nuclear-Powered Submarine, Corrosion in, 571
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics
— Air Department, Work of, at Royal Aircraft
Establishment, Bedford, 53
Naval Architects, Institution of:
Summer Meeting at Bristol:
Ship Design, by L. Dunn, Comment on, 65 Papers of William Froude (Addition to), 279
Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, American Society of. Note on Journal of Ship Research, 83; Fluidised-Fuel Nuclear Reactors for Nuclear Merchant Ships, by C. B. Ellis, 730*
and Marine Engineers, Education and Training of, 563
— Architecture. See also Warships
— Construction. See also Warships
— Engineers, American Society of. Successful
Business Executive, by L. Spencer, 399
— Engineering College, Royal (H.M.S.
“ Thunderer ”), Discussion in Parliament on Future of, 93
— Ordnance Laboratory, United States. See
United States
— Research, Development and Production
Work at Royal Ordnance Factories, Discussion in Parliament on, 735
— Warfare. See Warships
— See also Warships
Navigating Equipment, “Navigator” and “ Deccometer ” for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler (Decca), 663
Navigation, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Congress, International, Remarks by
H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh at, 59
— Possible Uses of Earth Satellites in, 486*
— System for Aircraft, Doppler, 261*
Long-Range, for Separating Aircraft at Airports, 63
Navigator, Doppler, Type AD.2300, for Commercial Aircraft (Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 80
‘ Navigator,” Navigating Equipment for “Boston Vanguard” Motor Trawler (Decca), 663
Navvy. See Excavator
Navy, British. See H.M. under Warships
— Royal, Formation of Royal Naval Reserve,
800
Training for Hardship, by Sub.-Lt. M. K. Matthews, R.N., 706*
— United States. See United States and under
Warships
— See also Naval: Warships
Nebraska, Sodium-Cooled, Graphite-Moderated 75-MW Nuclear Reactor at Hallam, 730
Necchi, V., S.p.A., Manufacture of Sewing Machines in Free Trade Area, 233, 453
Needle Bushes, “Nadella” (Trade Publication), 821
Neelands, A. R., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Cementation Co., 806
Neill, J., and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd., “ Eclipse ” Permanent Magnets for Television Receivers (Trade Publication), 531*; Semi- Columnar “ Alcomax ” (Trade Publication), 531
Nelson, Sir G., Opening Remarks at Summer Meeting at Cambridge of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 68; Presidential Address to Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 513. See also 544, 622
Nelson, H. G., Remarks on Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, 382
Neptune Nuclear Reactor, Approaching Criticality, 475; Description of 669
— in Electrical Communication and
Fields, Theory of, by F. E. (Review), 180. See LETTERS, 325,
Neutron Continuous Slowing-Down, Fermi Age Model of, 814*
— Cycle in Infinite System, 756*
— Delayed, Emitters of. Work on, at Argonne
National Laboratory, 255
— Diffusion, 758*
— Emission in High Current Discharges, by
Dr. H. A. B. Bodin and Dr. J. A. Reynolds, 474*, 538*
— Energy, Variation of n with, 726*
— Flux, Meaning of, 756*
— Flux Spectra, 726*
— Losses in Graphite Moderator, 637
— Interactions; Mean Free Path, 756* with Nuclei, 756*
— Multiplication of, in Infinite System, 756*
— Nucleus Interactions, 724*
— Number Produced per Fission, 726*
— Physics of Homogeneous Graphite Research
Nuclear Reactor, 731
— Reactor Period of, 756*
— Scattering Method of Measuring Soil
Moisture, Field Experience with, by G. L. Stewart and S. A. Taylor, 413
— Slowing-Down of, 785*
— Source Tubes for Starting up Nuclear
Reactors (Talbot Stead Tube Co., Ltd.), 412
— Spectra, Counters for Measurement of, 254
— Streaming in Graphite Moderator Struc
ture, Limitation of, 638
— Structure of. Studies on, 764
Neville, G. E., and Sons, Ltd., Dumper of 10 cub. yard Capacity, with Aluminium- Alloy Body, 713*
Neville, J. C., Ltd., Roll Ruler for Drawing Parallel Lines, 818
New Conveyor Co., Ltd., Slat-Conveyor ai Slough, Paint Warehouse of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 62
New Zealand, Rongotai Airport, Microwave Radio Link for, 586*
Newall Group Sales, Ltd., Automatic-Indexing Rotary Table, 151*; New Premises at Peterborough for Handling Secondhand Machines, 211; “ U/HAC ” Automatic
Grinding Machine for Crankshaft Journals and Crankpins, 742*; “A/HAC” Automatic Grinding Machine for Crankpins, 742
Newalls Insulation Co., Ltd., Model of Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station and Plutonium Plant, 269*
Newell, J. F., on Disposal of Radioactive Wastes, 793
Newington, Railway Construction Work at, for Electrification of Lines to Kent Coast, 766*
Newitt, D. M., on Crankcase Explosions in Marine Engines, 303
Newman Industries, Explosion-Proof Motors, 568
Newman Spinney, Work on Underground Gasification of Coal at, 761*
Newton Brothers (Derby), Ltd., Voltage Regulator for Armfield L.D.C. lO-kW Water- Driven Direct-Current “ Micro-Set ” Generator, 26
Newton Centrifugal Motor Clutch, Use of, by Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 573
Newton Chambers and Co., Ltd., Hydro-Refining of Coal-Tar Products, 205
Newton Photographic Services, Ltd., Change of Trading Policy, 783
Ney, Dr. E., on Cosmic Particle, 220
Nicholas, R., Remarks on Elimination of Long-Term Parker from Business and Shopping Areas, 667
Nickel and Nigh-Nickel Alloys for Chemical Industry, Welding of, Developments in, by J. Hinde, 11
— Industry, Position of, 281, 806
— Iron Magnetic Strip for Telephone Systems,
497
— Phosphorus Plating, “ Kanigen ” (Albright
and Wilson (Manufacturing), Ltd.,) 358
— Prices, 806
Nickols, L. W., Comparator for Automatically Measuring Pitch Errors of Fir-Tree Root Serrations in Gas-Turbine Discs, 372*
Nield, B. J., on Intercrystalline Cracking during Creep, 423
Night Watchman, Court of Appeal’s Ruling on, 96
“ Nimocast” High-Temperature Casting Alloys (Henry Wiggin and Co., Ltd.), 327
“Nimonic 75” Blades for Stator of Mark TE 300-kW Gas Turbine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 315*
“Nimonic 90” Blades for Mark TE 300-kW Gas-Turbine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 315*
Nipkow, Early Work on Television, 546 Nissan Automobile Co., Motor Car Export Trade, 421
Nitrile Rubbers, “ Hycar,” Properties and Uses of (British Geon, Ltd.), 202*; (Trade Publication), 625
Oil and Abrasion-Resisting, Properties and Uses of, by S. E. Bolam, 202*
— — Oil Seals and Gaskets Moulded from,
203*
Permeability of, to Gases, 204*
Textile Spinning Cots Manufactured from (Armstrong Cork Co., Ltd.), 203*
Nixon, F., on Graduate and Professional Engineer, 479
Nkata Bay Port, “Uniflote” Landing Stage for (Thomas Storey (Engineers), Ltd.), 351*
NM Series 6-cylinder Horizontal or Vertical Diesel Engines (National Gas and Oil Engine Co., Ltd.), 297*
“ Noflote ” Level Control (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 178*
Noise Characteristics of Fans, Acoustics Laboratory for Investigation of (Keith Blackman, Ltd.), 696*
— Damaging Effect of, 346
— Effect on Communication, 346
on Efficiency, 346
— Generating Circuits in Helicopter Flight
Simulator, 501
•— Personal Protection Methods, 346
— and Vibration of Mechanisms and Machines,
by Dr. A. J. King, 103, 261, 677. See also Vol. 183. See LETTER, 70, 165, 166, 550 Non-Conducting Coverings. See Heat Insulation
— Destructive Testing, British National Com
mittee for. Formation of, 150
Testing, 250-kV Constant-Potential Fluoroscopic and Radiographic Unit for (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 107*
Testing, Physics of (Book), 595
— Ferrous Materials, Tapping Attachment for
(Headland Engineering Developments, Ltd.), 139
.— Ferrous Metals. See Metals; Metallurgy
— Industrial Employment, Health, Welfare
and Safety in, and Hours of Employment of Juveniles, Committee of Inquiry into. Plea for Implementation of Recommendations of, 31
Noonan, E. C., on Energy Requirements for Ignition of Seven Solid Explosives, 141
Noral Aluminium Alloy for 10 cub. yard Capacity Dumper (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 713*
— Sheet and Sections, Portable Crevasse
Bridge Built from (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 227*
Norcros, Ltd., Formation and Objectives of, 517
Nordberg Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Crushers for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535; “ Symons ” Screens for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
North American Aviation, Neutron Physics of Homogeneous Graphite Research Nuclear Reactor, 731
— Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Advisory
Group for Aeronautical Research and Development, Combustion Researches and Reviews, 1957 (Book), 279
North British Locomotive Co., Ltd., M.A.N. Type Diesel Engine for Main-Line Locomotives, 297*; Voith-North British Hydraulic Transmission Unit for Diesel Locomotives, 297; “ D600 ” Diesel-
Hydraulic Locomotive for British Railways, 710, 773. See LETTER, 773; Details of Current Orders for Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotives, 710; Position and Prospects of, 710
— Eastern Gas Board. See Gas Board
— of England Institute of Mining and Mech
anical Engineers. See Mining and Mechanical Engineers, North of England Institute of
North-Holland Publishing Co., White Dwarfs, Note on, 755
North, J., and Sons, Association with Jomac, Inc., 614
— of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. See
Scotland, North of
North Staffordshire. See Staffordshire
Northeast Airlines of America, Decision to Delay Reception of “ Britannia ” Aircraft, 422
Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., New Range of Accessories for Aluminium Electric Conductors on Overhead Transmission Lines, 142*; Portable Crevasse Bridge Built from Noral Sheet and Sections, 227*; Production of Wide Aluminium-Alloy Plate for Shipbuilding Purposes, 329; Welded Aluminium Trawler Hatch Cover, 329*
— Foot for Measuring Land, 420
— Ireland, Economic Problems of, 743 Increased Industrial Output in, 743 Progress of Rural Electrification in, 198 Unemployment in, 743
— Rhodesia. See Rhodesia
Norton High-Pressure Plunger Pump for High- Pressure Hydraulic Power Pack (W. H. Marley and Co., Ltd.), 299
Norwegian Concrete Association. See Concrete Association
— Institute for Atomic Energy, Agreement
with United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on Halden Nuclear Reactor Project, 255
— Society of Engineers. See Engineers, Nor
wegian Society of
Nostalgia, Plain Words on , 322
Notices of Meetings, 30, 95, 155, 220, 255, 285, 316, 351, 382, 415, 511, 534, 575, 606, 638, 670, 702, 734, 765, 798, 830
Nottingham University, Fatigue Tests on Mild Steel, 238*
Novy, H. J., on Managerial Significance of Research, 649
Now and Then, 100th Number of Journal, 755 Nozzle, Hypersonic, Water-Cooled, Variable Mach Number, Test Section and Diffuser at California Institute of Technology, 431 * —? Injector, and Holder, “ U ” Size, Water- Cooled (C.A.V., Ltd.), 377*
— Rings for Small Radial-Flow Turbo
Chargers, 532*
— Welding, Spatter Pick-Up on Silicone Com
pound for Obviating (Union Carbide International Co,), 472
“ Nozlejector ” Disc-Type Centrifuge for High- Viscosity Fuel Oils (Sharpies Centrifuges, Ltd.), 330
N.S.U. “ Prince ” Motor Car, 391*, 518* Nuclear Achievements, Russian, Cinema Film on, 158
— Congress (1958), Preliminary Announce
ment, 219
?— Energy in Britain, Survey, 700*
Conference, British, Admittance of Institute of Fuel to Membership of, 613 Dictionary of, 657
viii
INDEX
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Nuclear Energy, Direct Conversion into Electricity, Uranium Plasma Nuclear Reactor for, 446*
Engineering, Marine, and Welding Exhibition. See Engineering
in France, Review of, 188*
Heating by, by R. Cadiergues, 47
Inter-American Symposium on Peaceful Application of. Nature of Reactor Technology and Reactor Development, by A. M. Weinberg, 604*
Materials Technology in, 60*
Sources and Applications of, 366*
Trade Associations’ Conference, Exhibition for Geneva Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, 669
World, by T. Reis (Book), 563 See also Nuclear Power and Atomic
— Engineering, Broad Scope of, 263
•— — Materials for. Conference on, 90 Welding in, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 584
— Fission and Maxwellian Thermal Spectra,
726*
Number of Neutrons Produced by, 726* Phenomenon of, 724*
Prospects of. Comment on, 263
Reactions, Review of, 611
— Fuel Cartridges in Gas-Cooled Nuclear
Reactors, 636
Ceramic, 827
Ceramic, Thermal-Breeder Nuclear Reactor with, 253
Ceramic, Trend in Development of, 253 Cermet, Trend in Development of, 253 Charging and Discharging in Marine Nuclear Reactors, 699
Cycles, Conference on, Preliminary Notice, 731
Element
759*
Elements,
Elements
731
Fabrication, Conference on,
Metallic Slurry Systems, 827 Permitting Escape of Gases,
— — Elements, Radiography of, 61
Element, Ribbon-Type, Uranium-Zirco- nium Alloy, Cycling Tests on, 731
Elements, Safety Precautions in Processing, 61
Elements, Twisted-Ribbon, 731
Enriched, in American and Soviet Reactor Programmes, 414
Enrichment of, for Marine Propulsion, 444
Fluorides as, 604
Future Development in Use of, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 413
Processing Plant Proposed for Europe, 157
Re-Cycling, Pyrometallurgical Processes for. Work on, by Atomics International and Argonne National Laboratory, 255
Uranium-Plutonium Combination, for Heavy-Water-Moderated Reactor, 827
— Fusion, Cold, Comments on, 764
Direct Production of Electricity by, 156
— - — as Possible Source of Power, by J. D.
Lawson, 347*
Reactions, Review of, 611
Research Progress of Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation, 156
as Space Flight Propulsion System, 802* Nuclear Graphite, Ltd., Activities and Constitution of, 700
— Induced Gas, Structural Effects in Solids of,
by Dr. R. S. Barnes and Dr. A. T. Churchman, 90
— Marine Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion Propulsion Panel, Joint, Formation of,
307; Nuclear Propulsion of Ships, by Sir C. Hinton and R. V. Moore, 698; Journal of. Comment on, 821
— Materials, Transporting, Safety Limits for.
Proposed Regulations by United States Atomic Energy Commission, 794
— Matter Fluctuation, by Academician D. 1.
Blokhintsev, 763
— Physics, Bibliography on, 817
— Power, Application of, to Electricity Supply
System of Great Britain, 366
in Australia, by Prof. J. P. Baxter, 318, 319
Centrifugal Uranium Separation Process, 414
Engineering, Course on, at South-East London Technical College, 29
Future of, by Dr. J. V. Dunworth, 730*
— — Impact on Engineering, 263
Need for, in Countries of European Coal and Steel Community, 777
Organisations and Firms in United Kingdom Concerned with, 700*
Plant, for Carolina, Proposed (Carolinas Virgina Nuclear Power Associates, Inc.), 413
Nuclear Power Plant Co., Ltd., Nuclear Power Station for Italy, 699; Activities and Constitution of, 700
Plant Fuelled with Natural Uranium, Proposal for by Florida Nuclear Power Group, 217
Plant, Gas-Cooled, Graphite-Moderated, Natural-Uranium, 40-M\V, Proposed, for United States Atomic Energy Commission, 413
Plant, 75-MW, at Hallam, Nebraska, 730 Plant, Mersey, Michigan, Increase in Construction Price of, 446
Plants in Russia, Experimental (Projects 3, 4, 5 and 6), 283
Programme of Australia, 318, 319
Programme, Decrease in Investments in, 605
Programme, Discussion in Parliament on, 158
Programme of Russia, Discussion on, 668*
Projects in United States, 217 Russian Programme, 283,* 410
Station, Berkeley, Progress of, 28*; Visit of K. Uda to, 28; Lubricants for (Wakefield-Dick Industrial Oils, Ltd.), 158; Model of No. I Reactor at (John Thompson, Ltd.), 269; Construction Work, 366*; Civil Construction at, 504*; Heat
Exchangers, 505; Reactor Pressure Vessel, 505*
Nuclear Power Station, Bradwell, Contract for Reactor Components for (Talbot Stead Tube Co., Ltd.), 125
Stations, British Exhibits on, at Levant Fair (Bari), 348
Station, Calder Hall, Model of 80-ft. Steam-Raising Tower or Heat Exchanger for (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 269*; Remarks on, by Sjr C. Hinton, 290; ^11- Way Valve Ltd.), 348;
(Bari). 348;
of, 476 Station,
Cables for,
Works Co., Ltd., 158; Model of 80-ft. Steam-Raising Tower or Heat Exchanger for (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 269* Stations, Costs of, 367
Stations, Decrease in Investments in, 605 Stations, Discussion in Parliament on Number Required in Britain, 158
Station at Edern, Possible Site for, 255 Station Equipment at Engineering Exhibition, 269
Station, Hinkley Point, Approval for, 28; Contract for, 380*; Control System, 380*; Reactors, 380*; Pressure Vessel, 381*; Steam-Raising Units, 381*; Further Details and Thermal Efficiency of, 382; Shielding, 412*; Gas Circulators, 412*; Gas Ducting, 412*; Charge^and Discharge System, 412;
Element Handling, 412; 412; Steelwork for, 412 Station, Hunterston.
South of
Station for Italy, 699; Advisers for Site Selection, 787
Stations, Lubrication for, Contract for, by Wakefield-Dick Industrial Oils, Ltd., 794
Station and Plutonium Plant at Chapelcross, Model of, 269*
Station at Puerto Santa Maria (Spain), Plan for, 475
Station, 20-MW, for Rheinisch-West- falische Elektrizitat, Model of (A.M.F.- Mitchell), 124*
Stations in Russia (Projects 1 and 2), 283* Stations in Russia, Projected, Discussion on, 668*
Station, for Russia, 200-MW, Projected, Model of, 668*; Pressure Vessel for, 668*; Pressurised-Water Nuclear Reactor for, 669*
Station, Shielding for. Note on Design and Regulations of, 158
Stations, Siting of. Possible Effect of
Air-Cooling Towers, 732
Stations, Siting Problems, 367 Station for South of Scotland Electricity Board. See Scot laud. South of
Station at Trawsfynydd, Proposal for 255; Public Local Inquiry into, 764
Year Book, 1957-58, by W. W. Davidson
(Book), 119
— Powered Aero Engines, 93
Aircraft, Remarks on Prospects of, 604* Aircraft, Russian, Reports Relating to, 732
“ Great Eastern,” Need for, 795 Icebreaker Ship (Russian), 569
Icebreaker Vessel, “ Lenin,” Launching of, 795
Merchant Ship, Construction Contract, 700
Merchant Ships, Prospect of, 571 Oil Tanker. See Oil Tanker Passenger and Cargo Ship, “ Atoms for Peace,” 569
— Propulsion for Aircraft, Position and
Prospects of, 408*
Possibility of, for Underwater Oil Tanker, 739
of Ships, by Sir C. Hinton and R. V. Moore. 698
and Traction, Impact on Engineering, 263
— Radiation. See Radiation, Nuclear
217*
— Reactions and Cross-Sections, 724*
— Reactor Accidents, 482, 505, 605, 635*, 638 Aquilon, 189, 764
AGN-20I. Erratum, 29. See also Vol. 183
Airborne, for Study of Air and Ground Scatter of Radiation, 408*
Aircraft, ARE, Details of, by A. M.
Weinberg, 604*
APPR, Performance Test of, 285 ARBOR Facility, Contract for, 413 ARE, Details of, by A. M. Weinberg, 604*; Dimensions and Data, 605; Results from, 605; Start-Up and Operation, 605 BEPO, 253* Berkeley, Heat Exchangers for
Thompson, Ltd.), 505 Berkeley, Pressure Vessels for
Thompson, Ltd.), 505* No. 1, at Berkeley Nuclear
for (Davey, Paxman and Co., Model of, at Levant Fair Cinema Film on Construction
Chapelcross, Contract for to W. T. Henley’s Telegraph
Spent-Fuel-
Power Plant,
See Scotland,
(John
(John
Power Station, Model of (John Thompson, Ltd.), 269
Boiling-Water, Instability Arising in, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 663
Boiling-Water, for Marine Propulsion, 445
BORAX III, Core Assembly of, 254*; Work on Decomposition of Boiling Water, 254
BORAX IV. Work on, 254
Breeding Ratio in, 817*
Calder Hall, 253*
Calder Hall Type, Heat-Transfer in, 313 Calder Hall Type, Possible Purchase of, by S.E.N.N., 700
Calder Hall Type, Problems in Design of Pressure Vessels for, by R. W. Lakin, 732
Centrifugal Uranium Separation Process, 414
Ceramic-Fuelled, 827
Chapelcross, 253*
Control Rods, Helium Build-up in, 253
Nuclear Reactor Coolant-Moderator Combinations Proposed, 730
Core Assemblies, Twisted Ribbon, 731
Core Fluxes, BICEP Experimental Facility on, 285
Courses at Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell), 764
Critical Sizes of, 784*
Critical Size of. Improved Theories for, 814*
Danish, D.R.3, 70-h.p. Glandless Stainless-Steel Coolant Pumps for (Hayward Tyler and Co., Ltd.), 731
Design, Physics in, by G. W. K. Ford, 723*, 756*,784*
Design, Physics in; Summary of Elementary Nuclear Concepts, by G. W. K. Ford. 814*
DIDO, 29, 253*
DIMPLE, 253*
DMTR, 253*
Dounreay Fast Breeder, 253; Model of, at Levant Fair (Bari), 348; Progress on, 826; Remarks on, by Dr. W. H. Zinn, 826*
EBR-I Mark HI, 826
EBWR, Performance of, 254
EDF-1, to be Built at Chinon, 190
ELI, 189
EL2, 189
EL3, 189*
Enriched Fuels for American and Soviet, 414
— — Equipment Exhibits at Engineering
Exhibition, 269
ETR, Criticality Achieved, 475; Possible Use of Plutonium in, 475; Short Description of, 475
Exhibits at “ Het Atoom ” Exhibition, 124*
Fast Breeder, Dounreay, Cinema Film on Construction of, 476
Fast, Heat-Transfer in, 314
Fast, United States Programme, 826
• Fluid-Fuel, Postponed in Power Demon
stration Reactor Programme of United States Atomic Energy Commission, 157
Fluidised-Fuel, with Carbon Moderator,
730
Fluidised-Fuel, for Nuclear Merchant Ships, by C. B. Ellis, 730*
French, 189
Fuel Cans, Use of ” Integron ” Finned Tubing for, 61 *
Fused-Salt Fast-Breeder, 827
Fusion, Operation of, 156
Gl, at Marcoule, 190*
— — G2, at Marcoule, 190; Details of, 217*;
Prestressed Concrete Pressure Vessel for, 217*
G3, at Marcoule, 190; Details of, 217*; Gas-Cooled, Choice of Coolant in, 636 Gas-Cooled, Control System in, 636 Gas-Cooled, Graphite-Moderated, Proposed, for United States Atomic Energy Commission, 413
Gas-Cooled, Graphite-Moderated, Typical Characteristics of, 366*
Gas-Cooled, Heat-Transfer in, 313
? Gas-Cooled, High-Temperature, Zero-
Energy, for Winfrith Heath Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Contract for. Awarded to General Electric Co., Ltd., 669
Gas-Cooled, Monitoring Equipment in, 636
Gas-Cooled, Nuclear Fuel Cartridges in, 636
Gas-Cooled, Safety of, 636
Gas-Cooled, Size and Rating of, 253
Gas-Cooled, in United States, Proposals for, 605
Gas-Cooled, Uranium Combustion Temperature in, 636
Gas-Cooled, Wigner Release in, 636 German, Withdrawal of Offer to Build, by A.M.F. Atomics, Inc., and Mitchell Engineering, Ltd., 606
Gleep, 253*
• Graphite-Moderated, for Marine Propulsion, 444, 569*; Costs of, 570*
Heat-Transfer in, 313
Heavy-Water, with Gas Cooling, for Marine Propulsion, 446*; 570
Heavy-Water-Moderated, Fuelled with Uranium-Plutonium Combination, 827
for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, 380*; Details of, 412*
Homogeneous Graphite, Particle Size in,
731
HRE-2 Experiment, Delay in, 157
HRT, Disadvantages of, 604
Insurance, Recommendations on, 28
Intermittent Cooling in, 731
Japan, Plans for, 606
Licence Agreement Between Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi, S.A. Cockerill-Ougree Ironworks and Westinghouse Electrical International Co., for Manufacture and Sale of, 48
LIDO, 253*
Liquid-Coolant, Heat-Transfer in, 314 Liquid-Metal Cooled, 90
— — LMFR, Proposed, by American Nuclear
Power Associates, 764
Marine, Charging and Discharging of Nuclear Fuel in, 699
Marine, Problem of Xenon Poisoning in, 698
for Marine Propulsion, by Dr. T. W. F. Brown, 444*, 569*, 698*
Materials, Creep Tests on, 793*
Materials, Stress-Rupture Tests on, 793* Materials Testing, for Denmark (Head Wrightson Processes, Ltd.), 28
Materials Testing, for Germany, 731 Materials-Testing, HIFAR, 318*
Medium-Temperature, Asea Co.’s Interest in, 731-732
for Merchant Ships, 444*
Moderator, Graphite, Patents on, 506
Monokinetic. Physics of, 756*
Neptune, Approaching Criticality, 475
NERO, 253; Studies on, 254*
OMRE, Operation Commenced, 571
Nuclear Reactor Organic-Moderated and Cooled, for Marine Propulsion, 445
? Overseas Prospects of, 699, 700
Package, for Export Purposes, Discussion in Parliament on, 671
— — Pebble-Bed, High Temperature (Alco
Products, Inc.), 29
Physics: Monokinetic Reactor, 756* Plant, Aqueous Homogeneous, for
Marine Propulsion, Preliminary Design for, by C. B. Ellis, 700
— — PLUTO, 29, 253*; Operation Com
menced, 571
Pool-Type, for Greece (American Machine and Foundry Co.), 732
Pool-Type, Research, for Spanish Atomic Energy Commission, Permit for Test of, 539
Pressure Vessels of Prestressed Concrete, for G2 and G3 Projects, 217*
Pressure Vessel for Projected 420-MW Power Station for Russia, 668*
Pressure Vessel, Spheroidal, for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, 381*
Pressure Vessels, Supporting Skirts for, by Dr. R. Hicks, 285
Pressure Vessel for Projected 420-MW Nuclear Power Station for Russia, 668*
— — Pressurised-Water, for “ Atoms and
Peace ” Passenger and Cargo Ship, 569
— — Pressurised-Water,
Marine Propulsion, Pressurised-Water,
(Russian), 569 Pressurised-Water,
sion, 445, 569*; Costs of, 570* Pressurised-Water, for Oil Tanker, 444* Pressurised-Water. for Projected 200-
MW Nuclear Power Station for Russia, 669*
Pressurised-Water, 200-MW, Projected, for Russia, Layout of Coolant-Steam Circuit for, 669 *
Pressurised-Water, sion on Design of, Pressurised-Water, ality Reached, 732
Private, United States Atomic Energy Commission Conditions of Contracting with Operators of, 125
Project, Halden, Agreement Between United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and Norwegian Institute for Atomic Energy on, 255
Proposals for Improving Design and Operation of, 730*
Proserpine, 190 Pulsing, Plans for, by Joint Nuclear Research Institute, 669
PWR, at Shippingport, Progress of, 827* Range of Sizes of, 784*
Reflected: Multi-Group Theories Respecting, 817*
—- — Reflected: One-Group Theory, 816* Research, Homogeneous Graphite, Neutron Physics of, 731
Research, Presentation of, by States, to International Atomic Agency, 475
Research, Swimming-Pool-Type, (A.M.F.-Mitchell), 124
for Rural Co-operative Power Association, Withdrawal of American Machine and Foundry Co, from Construction Agreement, 446
in Russia, Power Projects, 668*
— ?— in Russia (Projects 1 to 6), 283*
—• — Safety Conference (New York), 606 Shielding and Containment for Marine Installations, 444*
Shielding Problems, Study of. Tower Facility for, 408*
Slowing-Down Problem, 785* Sodium-Cooled, Graphite-Moderated,
75-MW, at Hallam, Nebraska, 730
Solid, Homogeneous, to be Built by General Dynamics Corp., 731
Solid Homogeneous, REGA 10-30, 731 Solid Homogeneous, IRGA, 731 Solid Homogeneous, TRIGA, 731
SRE Experiment, Electrical Power from, 157
SRE, Experiment, Inauguration and Layout of, 730*
Starting up, Neutron-Source Tubes for (Talbot Stead Tube Co., Ltd.), 412
Sub-Critical, Power from, 285
— ?— Systems, Australian Research on, 318*
-— — Systems, Compact, for Military Use,
Studies on, by United States Atomic Energy Commission, 606
Technology, Cross-Sections of Elements Important in, 724*
Theory, Bibliography on, 817
Thermal-Breeder, with Ceramic Nuclear Fuel, 253
Thermal Stresses in, by B. E. Gatewood (Review), 782
— — Triton, 189
— — for Turkey, Adviser for, 787
Water-Cooled, for Carolina, Proposed (Carolinas Virgina Nuclear Power Associates, Inc.), 413
Water-Cooled, 2-MW, at Rossendorf, 348
West Germany, Short Description of, 475*
Windscale, 253* Windscale No. I, Accident at, 482, 505, 605, 635*
ZEPHYR, 253* ZERLINA, for India. 60 Zero-Energy, Contract for, to General
Electric Co., Ltd., 285
Zero-Energy, Neptune, at Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell), Description of, 669
ZETR, 253* ZEUS, 253* Zoe. 189 Nuclear Research, European Organisation for,
France as Member of, 188; Second Annual Report, 284*; Construction of 600-MeV Synchro-cyclotron and 25-GeV Proton Synchrotron on Meyrin site of, 284*;
Homogeneous, for 571 for Icebreaker Ship
for Marine Propul-
for Russia, Discus- 668*
Shippingport, Critic-
United Energy
10-kW
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
Work on Acceleration of Particles by Pinch Effect, 284; 50-MeV Proton Linear Accelerator for (Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 285
Nuclear Research Institute, Joint (Dubna), Organisation of, 669; Plans for Pulsing Reactor, 669; Nuclear Matter Fluctuation, by Academician D. 1. 763; Displacing Deuterons Using 675-MeV Protons, Meshscheryakov and others, nium and Antimesonium, by B. Pontecorvo, 764; Elastic Scattering Matrix for Two-Nucleon System, ? - -
R. Ryndin, and Ya. 764
in Italy, 787 Programme in Australia,
— — in Russia, 763
• “ Type 555 ” Electronic
(British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd.), 125
— Science, Impact on Engineering, 263
National Institute for Research in. Proposal for New Particle Accelerator, 220; Contract for Magnet Yoke for 7-GeV Proton-Synchrotron Placed with J. Sankey and Son, Ltd., 504; Appointment of Dr. T. G. Pickavance as Director of Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, 764; Contract to W. E. Chivers and Sons, Ltd., for Construction of Main Buildings of Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, 827
— Society, American. See American Nuclear
Society
— Standards, New Committee on, 219
— Weapons Study in Malaya, Comment on,
576
Nucleon System, Two-, Elastic Scattering Matrix for, by L. Puzikov, R. Ryndin, and Ya. Smorodinsky, 764
Nucleonic Instruments, British. See Instruments
— Measurement, Cinema Film on (Baldwin
Instrument Co., Ltd.), 633
Nucleus, Character of, 763
— Neutron Interactions, 724*
— Stability and Sizes of, 723*
‘ Nuffield Universal Three,” Three-Cylinder, 37-h.p. Tractor (Morris Motors, Ltd.), 741*
Numerals, Design of, 248*. See LETTER, 453 Numerical Methods in Engineering, by M. G.
Salvador! and M. L. Baron (Review), 754
— Solution of Two-Point Boundary Problems
in Ordinary Differential Equations, by L. Fox (Review), 754
Nurses, Mental, Overtime Ban of, 320 Nut-Runners (Trade Publication), 149
— Self-Locking, “ Philidas ” (Trade Publica
tion), 531
— Simultaneous Tightening of Large Number
of, Multi-Spindle Rigs for (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 264*
Nutting, Capt. A. R. S., on Position and Prospects of Coast Lines, 454
Nyanza Textiles, Ltd., Withdrawal of Interest in, by Calico Printers Association, Ltd., and Bleachers Association, Ltd., 682
Nyasaland. See Rhodesia and Nyasaland Nydquist and Holm A.B., Marine Diesel Engines at Engineering Exhibition, 266
Nylon Ropes and Cords (British Ropes, Ltd.), 332
“ Nyvin ” Cable with P.V.C. Insulation (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 424
Blokhintsev, from Nuclei by M. G. 763; Meso-
by L. Puzikov. Smorodinsky, 318*
Calculator for

OAK Ridge National Laboratory, Volatility- Processing Studies at, 255; Aircraft Reactor Experiment, 604*
OATS (Operational Airfield Test Set), for “ Fireflash ” Air-to-Air Guided Weapon System, 251

Obituary: - See Engineering 1957 Jul-Dec: Index: Obituaries

Observatory, Royal Greenwich (Herstmonceux Castle), Northern Portion of Equatorial Group, 227*; Photographic-Zenith Tube, 227*
O’Callaghan, J. R., on Crop Conservation Practice, 566*
OCC Separation Vessels for Heavy Media (Trade Publication), 821
Odhams Press Ltd., Publication of Daily Herald, 160
O'Dwyer, Dr. J. J., on Stresses and Strains of Executive Life, 704
Off-Shore Boring for Coal, 136*
Office Composing Machine (Vari-Typer, Ltd.), 66
— Conditions, Need for Legislation on, 800 Private Members’ Bill on, 800
— Equipment at Business Efficiency Exhibition, 66*
Canadian Imports of, from United Kingdom and United States, 778*
— Machinery Industry, Exports of, 200
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 200 Officers, Regular, Civilian Employment Problems of, 128
Prematurely-Retiring, Plain Words on Employment of, 674
— Retired Prematurely from Armed Forces, Note on, 160
Ohmmeter, “ Safety,” Photo-Electric, for Testing Firing Circuits (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 585
Oil Consumption in United Kingdom, Increase in, 390
— Contaminants in. Determination of. Application of Radioactive Isotopes to, 794
— Cutting, Sulphloid Series (Amber Oils, Ltd.), 73
— Engines. See Engines, Oil: Motor Cars: Motorships: Tractors
— Exploration at Hassi Messaoud, 771
— Films, Sliding, High-Speed, Thin, Hydrocaloric Theory of, 780
— Filters, Self-Cleaning “ Zwickleen ” (Zwicky, Ltd.), 333
— Fired Central Heating and Hot-Water Systems, Permanent Exhibition of at Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., 556
-— Firing Equipment, Laidlaw Drew, for Daniel Adamson Super-Economic Boiler at New Factory of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 282
— Fuel-, “Amber SSR113” Combustion
Additive for (Amber Chemical Co., Ltd.), 825
British Standards Specifications, 491
? De-Acidifier for (Sharpies Centrifuges, Ltd.), 330
— — Heaters, Vertical, Fabricated Steel,
Solid Drawn Steel Hairpin Tube Type for New Qil-Fuel Systern for R.M.S. “ Queen Mary ” (John 1. Ltd.), 458*
High-Viscosity, Type Centrifuge fuges, Ltd.), 330
Pumps (Trade Publication), 499
System, New, for R.M.S. “ Queen Mary ” (John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 458*
— in Heat-Transfer Systems (Trade Publication), 625
— Hose, Soft-Walled, X.L. Type
Rubber Co., Ltd.), 179
— Hydrocarbon, Hydro-Refining of,
— Industry, Expansion of. Effects
Engineering Industry, 231
Investments in, 62(5
Position and Prospects of, 620
World, Statistical Review of. Note on, 17 ?— Lubricators, Mechanical, “ DP50,” at
Wolvercote Paper Mill (Wakefield Dick Industrial Qils, Ltd.), 712*
— Marketing Interests in Israel, Discussion in
Parliament on, 223
— Mist Detector Unit, Crankcase, Photo-
Electric for Diesel Engines, CJraviner- B.S.R.A., 303*
— and Fume Precipitator, “Electro-Mist”
(Trade Publication), 657
— Motors. See Engines, Oil: Motor Vehicles
Motorships: Tractors
— Pollution in English Channel, Discussion,
in Parliament on, 63
— Producing and Refining Countries, Map of,
371
— Prospecting in Somaliland, by American
Firms, 63
— Refinery Expansion Plans, 200
and Qil-Tanker Terminal at Milford Haven, Plans for, 231
Siting of, 134
— Reserves, ' ' - • - -
771*
— Resistant
Uses of.
?— Resources, Energy and Applications of, 342*
— Rolling, Installation at Venesta, Ltd., 503*
— Seals Moulded from Nitrile Rubber, 203*
— Supplies for Ince Power Station, 534*
— Switches. See Switchgear
— System, High-Pressure, Magnetic Filter
Unit for, 780*
— Tanker Jetty at Kuwait, Plans
231
New Orders for British Tanker Co., Ltd., 39
Nuclear-Powered, by Dr. Brown, 444*, 569*, 698*
Nuclear-Powered, Comment Nuclear-Powered bility of, 739
Order by D. K. Ludwig in Japan, 487
— — Pressurised-Water Nuclear Reactor for,
444*
— — Routing Round Cape of Good Hope, 390
Submarine, Nuclear-Powered, Japanese,
738
-—• -— “ Stoney Point,” Pollution from, 63 Surplus of British Petroleum Tanker Co., Ltd., 39
Terminal and Oil Refinery at Milford Haven, Plans for, 231
Terminal at Punta Gorda, Plans for, 231 Underwater, Research Investigation on, 738
— ?— Underwater, Research on Propeller
Design for, 738
— Tractors. See Tractors
?—? Whip in Turbine Rotors, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
?— See also Lubrication: Petroleum
Oilfield Drilling Units, Diesel (Trade Publication), 149
Okamura, K., on Japanese Diesel Engines, 57 Okhotsimsky, D. E., on Determination of Lifetime of Artificial Earth
Older People, Employment of. Companies to, 448
Oldham and Son, Ltd., Type Battery for Industrial Television ment, 179
Olding, J., and Co., Appointment Dealer in United Kingdom Royce, 558
Oliphant, Prof. M., on Dangers Radiation, 319
Oliver Typewriter Manufacturing Position and Prospects of, 10
Olivetti, Ing. C., and C.S.p.A.,
Production, 9
“ Olympia Rekord ” Motor Car, Design of (Opel), 391 *
Olvmpia Werke A.G., Typewriter Production, 10
Omnibus, Motor. See Motor Omnibus
Thornycroft and Co.,
“ Nozlejector ” Disc- for (Sharpies Centri-
(Dunlop
205 on Civil-
Algerian Exploration of, 770*,
Nitrile Rubbers, Properties and by S. E. Bolam, 202*
for Second,
Petroleum
T. W. F.
on, 91
Underwater, Possi-
Satellite, 582 Attitudes of
TL6
24-Voll Equip-
as for
Official
Rolls-
of Nuclear
Co., Ltd.,
Typewriter
Improved
OMRE Nuclear Reactor, Operation Commenced, 571
Onassis, A., Remarks on World’s Capacity for Oil Tankers, 454
Oncology, Problems of. Note on, 531
“ One-Point-Five ” Small Motor-Car (Riley), 580*
Ontario, Setting Up Business in, 399 Opel “ Caravan ” Motor Car, 573*
— Motor Car, European, Decision to Import,
by General Motor Corp., 40
— “ Olympia Rekord ” Motor Car, Improved
Design, 391 *
Operations Research, Introduction to, by C. West Churchman, R. L. Ackoff and E. L. Arnoff (Review), 50
Operational Research as Aid to Management, by D. Hicks, 649
Discussion on, at International Managerial Congress, 3
?—?—International (Conference on (Oxford), 257
Society, Note on, 279
Statistical and Mathematical Techniques of (Review), 498
Oppenheimer Casing Co. (U.K.), Ltd., “ Hypak Pdlysealer ” Sealing Machine for Polythene Bags, 107
Opperman Gears, Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 265
Opperman, S. E., Ltd., Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 265
Optical Machine Tools, Ltd., Automatic- Indexing Rotary Table, 151 *
Optics, Physical, by R. A. Houstoun (Book), 437
Ordnance Factory, Royal, Dalmuir, Transfer to Babcock and Wilcox, 549
Royal, Discussion in Parliament on Naval Research, Development and Production Work at, 735
Royal, Redundancies at, 31
— Naval, United States. See United States
— See also Explosives: Warships
Ore Bridge at Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles, Ltd., 132*, 133*
— Dressing and Mineral Composition at
Avoca, 488
— Iron, Low-Grade, Processing in Minnesota,
327
Mining of, “ W1400 ” Walking Dragline for (Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd.), 122* Railway Wagons, Modernisation Plans of British Railways, 541
in Sahara, 771 *
— Leach Pulp, Recovery of Uranium from,
Ion-Exchange Resin Membrane Process for, 559
— Monazite, Recovery of Thorium from, 559
— Problems in European Coal
Community, 188
— Processing Plant at Aurora
Range, 327
— Sampling at Avoca, 489
— Uranium. See Uranium
“ Orenda 14 ” Turbojet Engines West German Air Force Order for, to Orenda Engines, Ltd., 454
Orenda Engines, Ltd., “ Iroquois ” Supersonic Turbojet Power Unit for Avro Canada’s Arrow Supersonic Interceptor Aircraft, 291*; Agreement with Curtiss-Wright Corp, to Build “ Iroquois ” 20,000 lb. Thrust Supersonic Turbojet Engines, 454; Order from West German Air Force for Spare ‘‘Orenda 14” Turbojet Engines and Parts, 454
Organic Chemistry. See Chemistry
— Products, Analysis of Standard Samples of.
Application of Gas-Liquid Partition Chromatography to, 559
Organisation for European Economic Cooperation, Iron and Steel Industry in Europe, 399; Problem of Scientific and Technical Manpower in Western Europe, Canada, and United States (Review), 402; European Productivity Agency, Training of Workers within the Factory (Review), 436; Meeting on Free Trade Area, 524
— Perceptual, in Simple Skills, by J. Annett, 384
— Size Effect of. Comment on, 33. See also LETTER, 228
“ Orkot ” Bearings and Thrust Collars (United Coke and Chemicals Co,, Ltd.), 358 Ornithology Studies by Expedition Training Course in Iceland, 707*
‘‘ Orpheus ” Turbojet Engine, Aeroplane, for ‘‘Jetstar” Light Transport Aircraft (Bristol Engines, Ltd.), 517
Orr, J. G., on Declaration of Policy by Engineers’ Guild, 165
Orthostyle, Ltd., Work on Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 36
Osborn, S. and Co., Ltd., Drills and Tools (Trade Publication), 531
Osborne, A. L., on Electricity in Building, Note on, 811
Oscillator, Servo, Quartz, RDlOl (Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co.), 496*
Oscilloscope, Cathode Ray, Introduction to, by H. Carter (Book), 148
— Industrial, Type 0/05 (Bates and Bates, Ltd.), 264
Ovens, Coke. See Coke Ovens
— Infra-Red, for Processing Small Articles
and for Batch Production (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 362
Over 4O’s, New Deal for, by D. Abel, 448
Overalls, Industrial Operatives’, Cleaning Scheme for (Sketchley Cleaners and Dyers), 620
Overhead Cranes.
Overloader, (Mackay 459*
— Hydraulic,
Mackay Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 362 Overseas Investment in British Motor-Car Industry, Discussion in Parliament on, 223
— Scholarship Scheme of Federation of
British Industries, 192
Overtime at Home. See Do-it-Yourself Owen, A. G. B., on Position and Prospects of Brook Tool Manufacturing Co., 337
Owen Falls, Hydro-Electric Scheme, 682. See LETTER, 804
Owen, Sir L., Appointment as Managing Director of Industrial Group of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 347 Oxford Canada Club, Vacation in Canada, Comment on, 480
— English Dictionary, Spelling of Propellent, by E. H. Bateman, 453
— Union Society, Committee for Inquiring
into Allegations of Improper Conduct by President of, 832
Oxidation Induced by Ultrasonic Radiation on Solid System of Lauryl Aldehyde and Potassium Chlorate, by F. A. H. Rice and D. Levine, 142
— Resistant Alloys, Study of, at Fulmer Research Institute, 111
Oxide Film Capacitor, Development of, at Electrical Research Association, 94 Oxy-Acetylene Rivet-Heating Eurnace, Portable (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 397* Welding. See Welding
Oxygen Cutting Machine, Linde, on Mobile Table, 472*
— Liquid, Possible Oxythene Injection
ide Tube and lication), 625
Euel for Sputnik II, 644* Moulded Polyvinyl ChlorPipe Fittings (Trade Pub-
Lighter Aircraft, Develop-
and Steel
in Mesabi
and Parts,
See Cranes
High-Discharge, Industrial Equipment,
“ Merton ” Ltd.),
“ Merton,” Ancillaries for.
“ P. 1 ” Single-Seat ment of (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 123*
‘‘P3/144” Diesel Engine, Industrial Version of (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 267*
“P4/192” 50-5-h.p. 4-<2ylinder Agricultural and General-Purpose Diesel Engine (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 741
“ P.181 ” Centrifugal Gas-Turbine Engines for Helicopter Shaft Drives (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 292
‘‘P.182” (Zientrifugal Gas-Turbine Engine for Helicopter Shaft Drives (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 292
“ P.992 ” Paper-Based Laminate for “ Bristol 192 ” Twin-Rotor Helicopters (Bakelite, Ltd.), 728*
“P. IB” Supersonic All-Weather Fighter Aircraft (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 259* PacAero Engineering Corp., Napier “ Eland ” Conversion of‘‘ Convair 340 ” Airliner for R.E.A.L. S.A. Transportes Aereos, 283* ** Pacera Maxam ” Power Feed for Drilling Machines (Trade Publication), 499
Pacing Instrument for Use in Tensile Testing of Titanium, 395*
‘‘ Pacitor ” Gauge for Liquid Level Measurement (Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd.), 177 Package Heater Co., “ Pak-a-Way ” AirHeating Unit for Houses, 493*
Package Sealing Co., Automatic Band Strapping Machine for Home Markets, 397
Packaging of Spares, Lightweight Fibrous Material for (Resil Products, Ltd.), 397 Packing, ” All Film Show,” Model of Induced Draught Cooling Tower with (Film Cooling Towers (1925), Ltd.), 332
— Aluminium in (Book), 820
— Cooling-Tower, 332. See LETTERS, 520,
615, 676, 804
Pads, Anti-Vibration, for Machine Mounting (Trade Publication), 562
Pagni, Ing. A., on Sewing Machines, 453
Paints, Corrosion-Resistant, Zinc-Rich (Seco- mastic, Ltd.), 583
— Galvanising, “ MetagaIv ” (Trade Pub
lication), 279
— Resin, “ Linotol ” (Springhill Products,
Ltd.), 811
Plaster-Like, “ Linotex ” (Springhill Products, Ltd.), 811
— Spraying Shop, Flameproof Lighting in,
660*
— Warehouse, I Million Gallons Capacity, of
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., at Slough, 62*
— Zinc-Rich, “ Drygaiv,” for Anti-Corrosive
Priming (Drynamels, Ltd.), 583
Painting of Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (Thomas Cotton, Ltd.), 37
— Protective, of Structural Steel, by F. Fancutt
and J. C. Hudson (Review), 148
— of Rusted Surfaces, Formula “ E ” for
Preparation of (Plus-Gas Co., Ltd.), 583
— Steelwork • -
Film on,
— by Two
Institute Comment on, 416
“ Pak-a-Way ” Air-Heating Unit for Houses (Package Heater Co.), 493*
Pakistan, Five-Year Plan of, 167
— Locomotive Orders for, 27
Palnut Co., Ltd., Lock Washers (Trade Publication), 149
Panelec (Great Britain), Ltd., Floor Warming System, 621 *
Panels, Control, Design of, 195*
Paper Power Capacitors, Manufacture of, at Elizabeth Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 154*
— and Print, International Fair. DRUPA, 27 Paperworkers’ Union. See under Labour Paraffin Engines. See Engines, Oil
— Mist Collector (B.S. Developments), 618*
— Tractors. See Tractors
Parallel Lines, Roll Ruler for Drawing (J. C. Neville, Ltd.), 818
Parker Gallery, Catalogue of Maps and Charts, 821
Parker, R. J., on Control of Strain Rate in Tensile Tests on Titanium and Titanium- Aluminium-Manganese Alloy, 392*
Parking in Business and Shopping Areas, Remarks on, by R. Nicholas, 667
Parkinson, A., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., 743
Parliament, In, 31, 63, 93, 127, 159, 191, 233, 607, 639, 671, 703, 735, 767, 799, 831
— Opening of. Queen’s Speech, 607, 639
for, Flame Cleaning of. Cinema 155
Chimpanzees, Exhibition at of Contemporary Arts Gallery,
lx
INDEX
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Parlianient, Prorogation Speech of H.M. Queen Elizabeth II, 607, 639
Parlin, R. B., on Kinetic Problems of Fast Reactions, 142
Parry, Capt. Sir E., Expeditions in Search of Northwest Passage, 386
Parsloe, G., on Welding Education in Britain, 73
Parsons, C. A., and Co., Ltd., Contract with Talbot Stead Tube Co., Ltd., for Reactor Components for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 125; Low-Pressure Turbine Shaft for 23-MW Turbo-Generator, 297*; Turbine Blades for High-Pressure Turbo- Generator, 297
Parsons, R. H., on George Stephenson and Institution of Civil Engineers, 102*, 165
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam: Marine
Propahion
Part, A. A., on Progress Report on Technical Education, 544
Particle, Cosmic, Helium Nucleus in, 220
— Fine, Equipment for Collection of, at
Thurmaston Factorv of Dallow, Lambert and Co., Ltd., 477*
— Size in Homogeneous Graphite Nuclear
Reactor, 731
— “ Strangeness ” in. Definition of, 764 Partitioning Material, Glass Cloth, Resin-
Impregnated, “ Honeycomb Sandwich ” (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 358
Partnership and the Ideal Worker, by J. Ward Daw (Pamphlet), 32
— in Industry (Pamphlet), 544
Passenger Aeroplanes. See Aircraft under Aeronautics
?— Seat, Double, Aircraft, Glass-Fibre-Reinforced (Microcell, Ltd.), 89
Paste, Mouldable, Metallic, Industrial, “ Metolux ” (Trade Publication), 56,3 Patents Act (1957), 738, 749
— Agency as a Career, 749
Profession of. History of, 750
— Agents, Activities of, 749
Chartered Institute of. History and Activities of, 750, 751
— — Need for Better Recruitment for, 749 Work of, 750
?— Application Procedure, 750
?— Delays in Acceptance of. Discussion on, 749 Patent Data. Interpas Monthly, Note on, 307
— as Exports, by Col. T. W. Vigers, 751
?— Fermi, Philips Electrical, Ltd., v. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on, 220
— Foreign Protection, 750
— on Graphite Moderators, 506, 636*
— of Invention, Definition of, 749
— Law and Practice of. Evolution of, 750
— Office, Activities of, 749, 751
— Organisations Concerned with, 751
— Service, International,
Patents Data, 307
— System, Description of, Federation of British
mendations on 749
in United States, 749
in United States, by C. E. Frost, 750 in United States, Proposals by Dr. V. Bush on, 749
— See also Trade Marks
Patentees, Institute of. Aims and Objects of, 751 Paterson Engineering Co., Ltd., Fuller’s
Earth Filtration System for Rolling Oil Installation at Venesta, Ltd., 503*; Equipment for Hanningfield Reservoir and Waterworks Scheme, 509
Patterson, V. A., the Late, 390
Paul, K. S. (Molybdenum Disulphide), Ltd., Molybdenum Disulphide Bonded Coatings, 645
Paxman I2RPHL Series II, 562 h.p. Diesel Engine, for Diesel-Hydraulic Shunting Locomotive, 87*
Paxman 16-Cylinder YHXL V-Tvpe Diesel Engine in British Railways Type 1 Main- Line Diesel-Electric Locomotive, 760
Payments, Balance of. Problem of European Free Trade Area, by Prof. J. E. Meade, 363 “ PD/KB ” Dust Collector (Keith Blackman, Ltd.), 335
Pea Blanching and Washing Machine, 388*
— Canning of, at Batchelor’s Peas Factory,
387*
— Vining Machine (Mather and Platt, Ltd.),
387*
Peake, T. J., on Welding of Aluminium in Chemical and Allied Industries, 11
Pease, H. C., Remarks on Competition for Hand-Tool Markets of Europe, 463
Peat as Fuel, Experiments on, 159
— Resources, Energy and Applications of, 342
— in Russia, Occurrence and Uses of, 409
“ Pechiney ” (Cie. de Produits Chimiques et Electrometallurgiques), Activities of, 105*; Aluminium Production, 105*; Bauxite Developments, 105; Chemicals Production, 105; Interest in Petroleum Chemicals Industry, 106
Pechiney, Use of Silicon Refining Process of, by Davison Chemical Co., 281
Peck, W. J., on Reduction of Sulphur in Flue Gases by Metallic Additives in Combustion Zone, 697*
Pedals, Design of, for Human Performance, 310*
Pegson, Ltd., 4-in. Multi-Stage Pump for High Pressure Heads, 30*; Vibrating Screens (Trade Publication), 531; OCC Separation Vessels for Heavy Media (Trade Publication), 821
Pels, H., and Co., Ltd., Combined High-Speed Shearing and Nibbling Machine, 289*; “ Bevex ” Plate-Bevelling Machine, 298
Pena Copper Mines, Ltd., Proposed Acquisition of Peto Scott Electrical Instruments, 772
Penguin Books, Note on Publications of, 149 Pennsylvania State University, Performance Characteristics of 48-Inch Water Tunnel at, by J. M. Robertson and D. Ross, 76* Pensions, Increase in, under National Insurance Act (1957), 192
— Problem (Pamphlet), 448
— Retirement, Changes in, 224
Interpas Monthly
749. See also 738 Industries' Recom-
Pensions Scheme, National, Labour Party Proposals for, 448
— State, Principle of, 448
Pentaborane, Possible Fuel for Sputnik II, 644* Pentolite, Cast, Underwater Gap Initiation of, by C. H. Winning, 142
Penwortham—Quernmore, 132-kV Qverhead Line, 446*
Percival, Dr. I. C., on Cross-Sections for Collisions Between Deuterium and Mu- mesic H Atoms, 475
Percolation Processes, by J. M. Hammersley, 401
Percussion Head. See Machine Tools Perdio, Ltd., Miniature Radio, 317 “ Peregrine ” Combined Engine Heater and Battery Charger (Trade Publication), 403 Pergamon Press, International Series of Monographs on Aeronautical Sciences and Controlled Flight, 755
Perhapsatron Device for Study of High- Temperature Gas Discharges, 157*
Periodica Polytechnica, New Journal, Note on, 721
Periodicals, Foreign, Permanent Exhibition of, by RUCH, Preliminary Notice of, 625
— Presentation of. Draft British Standard, 471 Periphonic Loudspeaker System (General
Electric Co., Ltd.), 317
Perkins, F,, Ltd., Publicity Activities of, 135; Industrial 'Version of P3/I44 Diesel Engine, 267*; Export Trade of Diesel Engines in Germany, 364; Engines for Ferguson Tractors for Yugoslavia, 464; Competitions for Power Qperators, 622; Qrder from Gebr. Class Maschinenfabrik, for “L.4” Diesel Engines, 646; 4-
Cylinder Engine in “65” Tractor by Massey-Harris-Ferguson, 741; “ Four-99” 35-b.h.p. 4-Cy!inder Agricultural and General-Purpose Diesel Engine, “P4/192” 50-5-h.p. 4-Cylinder Agri
cultural and General-Purpose Engine, 741; New Division to Develop and Introduce New Products, 813
“ Perks,” Comment on, 420
Permanent Magnets. See Magnets
Permanoid, Ltd., “Gulf” Range of Cables Using Diolpates, 654*. See LETTER, 708 Permutit Co., Ltd., Mixed-Bed System of Water Treatment for Goldington Power Station, 249; Portable Water-Treatment Plant, 249
Perry, Early Work on Television, 546*
Perry, J. F., Remarks on Fall in Profits of H. Kaufmann, Ltd., 581
Perry, J. W., on Documentation and Information Retrieval, Note on, 783; on Machine Literature Searching, Note on, 783
Personnel Locating Systems at Business Efficiency Exhibition, 67
— and Qrganisation Officer for Glacier Metal
Co., Ltd., Comment on, 544
Perspectives, True “ Autoperspect ” Precision Drawing Apparatus for (Autoperspective, Ltd.), 681*
Peterlee, Difficulty in Finding Work at, 191 Peterson Memorial Library, Note on, 657 Peto Scott Electrical Instruments, Purchase of Conrad Electrical Co., 772; Proposed Acquisition of, by Pena Copper Mines, Ltd., 772
Petrol in Solid Form, 616*. See LETTER, 677
— Motors. See Aeronautics: Engines, Petrol;
.Motor Cars: Motorships: Tractors
— Tractors. See Tractors
Petroleum and Chemical Engineering Industries, Exhibition on. Preliminary Announcement, 586
Petroleum Chemicals, Carbon Content of, 806 ?—? — Industry, Interest of “ Pechiney ” (Cie, de Produits Chimiques et Electro-metal- lurgiques), in, 106
Industry, Increased Production in, 200 Industry, Expansion of, 806
— Equipment, British Manufacturers of.
Council of. Report of Economic, Technical and Goodwill Mission to Canada, 463; Recommendations on Marketing Methods in Canada, 463; Exhibition on on Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Industries, Preliminary Notice, 586
— Films Bureau, Note on Cinema Film
Service, 149
— Industry in Canada, Survey of, 199
— Information Bureau, Map of Qil-Producing
and Refining Countries, 371
— Institute of. The Place of Automatic
Equipment in Marketing Operations, by J. Caesar, 27
— Products, Use of New Types of Automatic
Machines and Handling Equioment in Distribution of, 27
— See also Oil: Paraffin: Engines, Oil Petrushka, Russian Puppet, 483*
Pfeiffer Mills for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Pfenninger, H., on Maintenance and Operation of Gas-Turbines, 58
P.H.l. Engineering, Ltd., Cauldon Low Cement Works, 582
Phenol, Synthetic, Building of New Plant for, at Grangemouth, by British Hydrocarbon Chemicals, 806
“ Philidas ” Self-Locking Nuts (Trade Publication), 531
Philips Electrical, Ltd., v. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on Fermi Patent, 220
Philips’ Gloeilampenfabrieken, N.V., History, Activities, Divisions and Sales of, 525; Overseas Expansion, 526
Philips, Hon. J. P., Remarks on Fluctuations in Shipping Freight Markets, 678
Philips-Phonographische Industrie, N.V., Activities of, 525
Philips-Roxane Pharmaceutisch-Chemische Industrie “ Duphar ” N.V., Activities of 525
Phillips, G. G., Appointment to Board of Birmingham Small Arms Co., 710
Phillips Petroleum, Demonstration of Fluidised- Bed Calcination Pilot-Plant, 255
Philosophy, Economics and Sociology in
Diesel
Engineering, by Prof. D. G. Christopherson, 353
Phoenix-Rheinrohr, Expansion Plans, 7 Photo-Electric Cell, PG40B (Trade Publication), 307
— ?—Devices, Treatise on, by W. Summer
(Review), 370
Photocells, Balanced, in Graviner-B.S.R.A. Photo-Electric Crankcase Qil-Mist Detector Unit for Diesel Engines, 304*
— Electronic, Counter, for Sacks of Fertiliser
(Electronic Machine Co.), 209*
Photoelasticity, Methods of. Course University College (London), 166
Photographic Services, Technical and mercial (Trade Publication), 17
?— Transistors, Use in Automatic Air (Tolimit Gauges, Ltd.), 92*
— Zenith Tube at Royal Greenwich
vatory, 227*
Photography Exhibition, Professional, Award to J. H. Jochimsen, 348
Pipe, Underground, Hot, “ Gilsulate ” tion and Protection for (Morris Ltd.), 316
— Water, Lagging of, “ Warmlag ”
Dough for (Dohm Group), 81 I
in, at
Com-
Gauge
Obser-
Merit
Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs Photon Drive as Space Flight Propulsion System, 802*
Photosensitors, by W. Summer (Review), 370 Physical Chemistry. See Chemistry
— Laboratory. See National Physical
— Society, Conference on Materials for
Nuclear Engineering: Structural Effects in Solids of Nuclear Induced Gas, by Dr. R. S. Barnes and Dr. A. T. Churchman, 90: The Physical Properties and Alloying Behaviour of Plutonium Metal, by Dr. M. B. Waldron, 90; The Ductility Problem of Reactor Beryllium, by G. C. Ellis, 90; Irradiation Effects on Graphite, by Dr. G. B. Greenough, 90; The Wetting of Solids by Liquid Metals, by Dr. B. R. T. Frost, 91; The Electromagnetic Pumping of Liquid Metals, by J. A. S. Hilditch, 91; Mass Transfer, by Dr. A. K. Covington, Dr. G. A. Geach and Dr. A. A. Woolf, 91; The Place of Metallurgical Development in the Atomic Energy Programme, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 91; Conference on Plasma and Atomic Physics: Neutron Emission in High Current Discharges, by Dr. H. A. B. Bodin and Dr. J. A. Reynolds, 474*; Shock Tube Plasmas at Harwell, 474; Cross-Sections for Collisions between Deuterium and Mu-mesic H Atoms, by Dr. I. C. Percival and Dr. F. Haas, 475. See Erratum, 506; Report on Semiconductors (Book), 498
Physics, by S. G. Starling and A. J. Woodall (Book), 243
— American Institute of. Handbook of
(Book), 499
— Annals of. New Publication, 243
— Atomic, and Plasma, Conference on, 474*
See Erratum, 506
?— Contemporary, by C. F. Von Weizsacker and J. Juilfs (Review), 82
-—? of Electrical Contacts, by F.
Jones (Review), 242
— Institute of. Handbook of
Radiology, by W. J. Wiltshire 242; Conference on Nuclear Fuel Cycles, Preliminary Notice, 731
— Mathematical, Hypercircle in, by J. L.
Synge (Book), 437
— of Monokinetic Nuclear Reactor, 756*
— Neutron, of Homogeneous Graphite Re
search Nuclear Reactor, 731
— of Non-Destructive Testing (Book), 595 •— Nuclear, Bibliography on, 817
— in Nuclear Reactor Design, by G. W. K.
Ford, 723*. 756*, 784*
— in Nuclear Reactor Design: Summary of
Elementary Nuclear Concepts, by G. W. K. Ford, 814*
— Problems, Vavilov Institute of. Activities of,
455
— Solid-State, Work on at Mullard Research
Laboratories, 464
— of Solids, Study of, 254
— See also Physical Society Pianola-Type Rolls in Automatic Signalling for
Northern Line of Underground Railways of London Transport, 819*
“ Pibal ” Reports 1948-57, List of, 51 Pickavance, Dr. T. G., Appointment as
Director of Rutherford High Energy Laboratory of National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, 764
Pickering, Dr. W. H., on Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 431
Piecework. See Labour
Piercy, Lord, on Difficulties of Raising Cash for Expansion, 200
Pigment, Titanium, Story of. Cinema Film on, 243
Pike, J. R., on Selling Railways Service, 492 Piles for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 35 Pilkington Brothers, Ltd., Radiation-Proof
Windows, 220: Mock-up of Protective Glass Viewing Window at Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell), 269*; Protective Glass Viewing Windows, 269*; Closure of Subsidiary at Ashdowns, 390 Pilot Works, Ltd., 3-ton Press for Bench
Mounting, 299*; I2-ton Floor-Type Press, 299*
Pinched Discharge, High-Current, in Deuterium, 538*
Ping, W. H. Wentworth, on Stainless Steel Development, 520. See LETTER, 550
Pinions. See Gears: Gearing: Marine Propulsion
Pipe Fittings, Plastics (Trade Publication), 625
— Flue-, Fitments of Pressure-Moulded
Asbestos Cement (Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 429
— Internal Welding Boom Incorporating
Television Equipment (Quasi-Arc, Ltd,), 362*
— Making, History of (Trade Publication), 213 ?— Screwing Machine for (Joshua Heap and Co.,
Ltd.), 742*
— Steel, Machine for Butt Welding of
(Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 425*
— Thin-Walled, Tapping into. Use of Spinning
(Mission Appliance Corp.), 117*
Llewellyn
Industrial (Review),
Insula- Ashby,
Plastic
— Wrapping Material, “ Versil ” Glass Felt
(Regina Glass Fibre, Ltd.), 584
— See also Tubes
Pipeline, Coal Transport by. Experimental Project in Ohio, 199
— from Port Harcourt to Oloibiri, 158 Pipework at Springfields Atomic Plant
(Mitchell Engineering, Ltd.), 125
Pistol, Metal-Spraying, “ Mark 33 ” (Metallisation, Ltd.), 332*
— “ ThermoSpray,” for Ceramic and Hard-
Facing Alloy Spraying (Metallizing Equipment Co., Ltd.), 331*
Piston Engine Co., Ltd., Self-Contained Generating Set, 296
— Free. See Gas Generator: Gasifier
Pitch Errors of Fir-Tree Root Serrations in Gas Turbine Discs, Comparator for Automatic Measurement of, by L. W. Nickols, 372*
Pitting. See Corrosion Plain Words, 2, 34, 66, 98, 130, 162, 194, 226,
258, 290, 322, 354, 386, 418, 450, 482, 514, 546, 578, 610, 642, 674, 706, 738, 770, 802
Plan-Sifter, Laboratory Type (Trade Publication), 51
Planer Head, Flame, “ Hancoplane ” (Hancock and Co. (Engineers), Ltd.), 268
Planes (Bulletin), Note on, 783 Planet Earth, The, Note on Book on, 783 Planetarium for London, 440
Planning, Commercial, on a Systematic Basis;
Rise of the Business Economist, 810 Plant and Equipment, 263*, 296*, 328*, 360*,
396*, 425*, 458*, 490*, 521*, 553*, 585*, 617*, 647*, 680*, 712*, 741*, 774*, 807*
— Life, Note on Book on, 783
Plasma and Atomic Physics, Conference on, 474*. See Erratum, 506
— High-Current, Study of, at Atomic Weapons
Research Establishment (Aldermaston), 474*. See Erratum, 506
— Instabilities in Thermonuclear Reactions,
828
— Shock Tube, Study of, at Atomic Energy
Research Establishment (Harwell), 474
Plastic Design of Portal Frames, by J. Heyman (Review), 148
— Moment, Full, by A. N. Procter, 487*, 677.
See LETTERS, 615, 645, 740
— Yielding of I-Beams, by A. P. Green and
B. B. Hundy, 74*, 112*
Plasticisers, Effects in Polyvinyl Chloride, 654* Plastics Bonded to Steel Sheet, “ Stelvetite ”
(John Summers and Sons, Ltd.), 456. See LETTER, 520
— Developing for Higher Temperatures, 654*.
See LETTER, 708
— Dough, “ Warmlag,” for Lagging Water
Pipes (Dohm Group), 811
— Engineers, Inc., Society of. Quality (^ontrol
for Plastics Engineers, by '
(Book), 625 Quality Control for, by
(Book), 625
— Exhibition, British, Exhibits
— Exports of, 590
— Glass-Reinforced, by P. Morgan (Book), 687
— Increase in Sales of, 590
— Industry, Foreign Competition of, 590 Position and Prospects of, 262, 590
— Material, Corrosion-Resistant, “ Keebush ”
(Kestner Evaporator and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 583
— Moulding, “ Radyne,” Radio-Frequency
Preheaters for (Trade Publication), 307
— Panel Lighting, Translucent (Luminated
Ceilings, Ltd.), 753*
-— Partitioning Material, “ Honeycomb Sandwich ” (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 358
— Pipe Fittings (Trade Publication), 625
— Power Transmission Belt, Qil-Resistant,
“ Dixylon-Suplex ” (R. and J. Dick, Ltd.), 711
— Review, Note on, 595
— Sheet, Laminated, Large, Edge-Trimming
Machine for (Wadkin, Ltd.), 361*
— Tapping Attachment for (Headland Engi
neering Developments, Ltd.), 139
— See also Resins
Plate, Aluminium-Alloy, Wide, Production of, for Shipbuilding Purposes (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 329
— Crack in. Stresses in, by M. Rothman, 174*
— Girder. See Girder
-— Holes in. Reinforced, by Dr. R. Hicks, 280*
— Laterally-Loaded: Moment Distribution
Around a Small Circular Hole, by Dr. R. Hicks, 175
?— Steel, Automatic Computer-Controlled
Flame-Cutting Machine for, 774*
— Steel, Extra Thick, Welding of, “ Fortrex
35A ” Welding Electrode for (Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.), 235
?— Surface, Cast Iron and Granite for Marking Gut and Inspection, 537
— Titanium Bi-Metal, Corrosion-Resistant
(Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 583
— for Transformer Core Laminations, 795
— Web, Behaviour in Plate Girder Design, by
Dr. K. C. Rockey, 788*
Platforms, Floating, “ Unifiote ” Floating Construction Unit for Building (Thomas Storey (Engineers), Ltd.), 350*
— Flying, Hiller, 494*
Plating, Chemical, Nickel-Phosphorus, “ Kani- gen ” (Albright and Wilson (Manufacturing), Ltd.), 358
— See also Electroplating Platinum-Resistance Thermometer for Temperatures up to 1,200° C (C.N.S. Instruments), Ltd.), 713*
Platon, G. A., Ltd., “ Flostat ” Automatic Flow Controller (Trade Publication), 307
Platt Brothers and Co., Grders from Polish Government, 81
Platt, E. H. W., on Nuclear “ Great Eastern,” 795
player, D., on Machine Tools of the Future, 38
L. M. Debing
L. M. Debing
at, 89*
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
Plenty and Son, Ltd., “ Easiclean ” Rotary Pump (Trade Publication), 149*; Oil- Fuel Pumps (Trade Publication), 499
Plessey Co., Ltd., Receivers for “ Fireflash ” Air-to-Air Guided Weapon System, 252; Open-Construction Transformer for Operation at 500° C., 623; Trading Profits of, 772
“ Plessiflex ” Metallic Seamless Flexible Hose (Power Auxiliaries, Ltd.), 264*
Plowright Brothers, Ltd., Mine Car and Tub Tipplers (Trade Publication), 531
Plugs, Electrical, Comprehensive Range with Patent Contacts (Modern Acoustics, Ltd.), 807*
?— for Use with “ Telecon ” Radio-Frequency Cables (Trade Publication), 307
Plumbing, Paper on, by G. L. Ackers, Note on, 279
Plus-Gas Co., Ltd., Formula “ E ” for Preparation of Rusted Surfaces Prior to Painting, 583
PLUTO Nuclear Reactor, 29, 253*
Reactor, Operation Commenced, 571 Plutonium in ETR Nuclear Reactor, Possible use of, 475
— Metal, Physical Properties and Alloying
Behaviour of, by Dr. M. B. Waldron, 90
— Plant and Nuclear Power Station at Chapel
cross, Model of, 269*
? Windscale, Shut-Down of No. 1 Reactor,
505, 605, 635*. See also 482
— Prices of, 218
to be Paid by United States Atomic
Energy Commission, 125
— Production Centre at Marcoule, 190*
— Re-Cycling of. Possibility of, by Sir J.
Cockcroft, 413
— Uranium Combination Fuel for Heavy-
Water-Moderated Reactor, 827
Plywood, Manufacture and Uses of (Booklet), 679
Pneumatic Emergency Services, Aircraft, “ R.E.S. 5 ” “ Snap ” Air Bottle for (Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 17*
— Equipment, “ Maxam ” Cylinders and
Valves (Trade Publication), 499
Tools for (Trade Publication), 531 Trends in, 299*
— Gauging Machine for Continuous Thick
ness Measurement of Thin Sheet and Film, by Dr. J. C. Evans, 1. G. Morgan, B. S. W. Mann and F. C. P. Mason, 631 *
— and Low-Pressure Hydraulic Equipment,
“ Fluid-Power,” for Heavy-Duty Industrial Applications (Trade Publication), 307
— Packaged Unit, 8-Bank Solenoid Controlled,
for Control-Valve Systems (Baldwin Instrument Co., Ltd.), 712*
— Suspension for Motor Vehicles, “ Pneuride ”
System of (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 179*
— Tools. See Machine Tools
— Vibrator for Foundry Core Boxes (Con
solidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 120*
?— See also Compressed Air: Air Compressor “ Pneuride ” System of Pneumatic Suspension for Motor Vehicles (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 179*
Point Defects in Metal and Alloys. See Metallurgy
Pointers of Dials, Arrangement of, 195 Design of, 248
Poisoning, Xenon, Problem of, in Marine Nuclear Reactors, 698
Poisson Distribution, Reliability Model and Equivalence of, 43
Polak, Prof. F. L., on Problem of Maintaining Continuous and Full Employment, 3
Polimul Emulsions, New Factory for Production and Packing of (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 282*
Polish Government, Orders for Platt Brothers and Co., from, 81
Political and Economic Planning, Report on Graduates in Industry, 479
Planning, Trade Fairs and Exhibitions (Breadsheet), 27
Pollution, Oil, in English Channel, Discussion in Parliament, on, 63
Polyester Film, “ Melinex ” (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 89*
— Handbook (1957), of Scett Bader and Co.,
Ltd., Note on, 243
— Resin, Transformers Cast in, for Use with
Portable Tools (Foster Transformers, Ltd.), 554*
Polyethylene, Effect of Irradiation on, 60*
— Film Wrapping for Poorly Insulated Farm
house, 81 1 *
Polymers, Ethylene, Technology and Uses of, Renfrew and P. Morgan (Review),
by A.
436
— High. See High Polymer
Polysius, Ltd., Granulating Plant for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 536*
Polystyrene Shuttering for Concrete, 89 Polytechnic. See Education
Polythene Bags, “ Hypak Polysealer ” Sealing Machine for (Oppenheimer Casing Co. (U.K.), Ltd.), 107
— Capacity, Expansion of, 590
— Irradiated, as Cable Material (Wandleside
Cable Works, Ltd.), 30
— — Insulation for Coaxial Radio-Frequency
Cables (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 285
for Sheath of Research Repeater for Submarine Telephone Cables, 696
— Tape, Irradiated, Report on, by Tube In
vestments, Ltd., 60*
— Technology and Uses of Ethylene Polymers,
by A. Renfrew and P. Morgan (Review), 436
— Tubing for Cold-Water Services, Illustrated
Guide by Ministry of Works, 13
Polyvinyl Chloride Capacity, Expansion of, 590 Coating, “ Velbex,” for Bonding to Steel Sheet (B.X. Plastics, Ltd.), 456. See LETTER, 520
Ducting (Trade Publication), 279
Effects of Plasticisers in, 654*
Electrical Conduit Fittings and Accessories, Non-Metallic, Rigid (Ega Electric, Ltd.), 583
Polyvinyl Chloride Insulation for “ Nyvin ” Cable (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 424
— •— Ropes and Cords (British Ropes, Ltd.),
332
Sheet, “ Fi-Vi ” Expanded Unplasticised, Laminated with Resin-Bonded Glass Fibres (Whiffen and Sons, Ltd.), 89
Tape, “ Scotchrap,” with Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 583
Terylene Lightweight Non-Inflammable Conveyor Belt, “ Rilflex ” (Rubber Improvement, Ltd.), 679*
?— Materials, Properties, Processing Conditions and Applications (Trade Publication), 625
Pontecorvo, B., on Mesonium and Antimeso- nium, 764
Pool, M, E., on Welding Problems in Heavy Chemical Industry, 11
Pope, Dr. J. A., on Limited-Life Design, 236*, 275. See also 289
Population Movements in Middlesex, 63
— Trends, Influence on Markets, 256 Pordes, H., Catalogue of Second-Hand books,
119
“ Porsche 1600 ” Motor Car, 391 *
Ports of Bristol Channel, Discussion in Parliament on Improvements to, 223
— Channel, New Motor Road to, 671
— South Wales, Improvements in, 93, 223 Portable Engine. See Engine
— Machine Tools. See Machine Tools Portal Frames, Plastic Design of, by J. Heyman
(Review), 148
— Structure, Steel, Welded, for Overhead
Collecting Wires for British Railways Alternating-Current Electrification (British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd.), 383*
Portland Cement. See Cement
“ PortoPower ” Hydraulic Power Units (Trade Publication), 403
Portrait of Craftsman, 428*
Portsmouth Dockyard, Management Training
Courses at, 831
Positioners, Welding, at Engineering Exhibition (Courtburn Positioners, Ltd.), 330
Positioning Machine, Bench-Mounted, “ Twin- ner-Aronson ” (Donald Ross and Partners, Ltd.), 268
Post Office Electrical Engineers, Institution of. Exhibition on Telecommunications, Past, Present and Future, 593
Engineering Research Station, Dollis Hill, Open Day at, 497*
Technical Workers, Possible Arbitration on Pay Proposals for, 640
Use of Electronic Computer, Discussion in Parliament on, 63
Postage Stamps, Electrically Conductive, 408 Potassium Chlorate, Lauryl Aldehyde and.
Solid System of. Oxidation Induced by Ultrasonic Radiation on, by F. A. H. Rice and D. Levine, 142
Potatoes, Heat Removal by Natural Convection, 568
— Storage, by J. R. O’Callaghan, 567* Potentiometer, Linear, Multi-Tap (Salford
Electrical Instruments, Ltd.), 426*
Potter, R. B., on Position and Prospects of Simon-Carves, Ltd., 39
“ Potterton COA-53 ” Oil-Fired Domestic Boiler (Thomas De La Rue and Co., Ltd.), 684*
Potton Island Bridge, 5
Powder, Iron, Coated Welding Electrodes, Use of, in United States, by D. L. Mathias, 71 1
— Tablet Press (Apex Construction Co., Ltd.),
360*
Powell and Co., Handling Equipment for Drums and Barrels (Trade Publication), 17
Powell Duffryn, Ltd., Annual Report, 359 Powell Duffryn Group, Extension of Oil Storage Capacity at Cory Brothers, 390
Power Auxiliaries, Ltd., 75 ft Length of Stainless Steel Convoluted Hose for United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 264; “ Plessillex ” Metallic Seamless Flexible Hose, 264*
— Combining Two Types in Single Vehicle,
by Dr. D. A. Jones, 596*
— Conference, World. See World Power
Conference
— and Energy Supply, by Sir J. Eccles, 341*,
366*
— as a Factor of Development of Under
developed Countries. See World Power Conference
Power Frequency Heating, Ltd., “ Peregrine ” Combined Engine Heater and Battery Charger (Trade Publication), 403
— Gas. See Gas
— Generation, Agricultural Potential in, 23 Area Integration, 24
Character and Volume of Energy Resources, 22
Character and Volume of General Resources, 23
Choice of Energy Source, 25*
Choice of Plant, 25
Concentration of Requirements, 24 Distribution Problems, 25 Integration of Demands, 24 Nature of Requirements, 24 Planning, 25
Prospect of Growth, 24
Technical Skill in, 23
Transport and Distribution in, 23
— Generator, Proposed, for Satellite Naviga
tion System, 486*
— Hydro-Electric, Pumped Storage for. Biblio
graphy on, 755
— Measurement, Use of Electromagnetic Com
puter E.M.C. Mk. I, 528*
— Minister of. Approval of Cross-Channel
Cable, 478
— Operators, Competitions for (F. Perkins),
622
— Packs, Electric, Multi-Purpose (Henry
Meadows, Ltd.), 267*
Hydraulic, High-Pressure, with Norton High-Pressure Plunger Pump (W. H. Marley and Co., Ltd.), 299
Power Plants, Siting of, 25
See also Power Stations: Substations
— Press. See Machine Tools
— Requirement of Machine Tools and General
Machinery, Measurement of. Use of Electromagnetic Computer E.M.C. Mk. I, 528*
— from Sea-Water, Prospect of, 610
— Stations, British, Plans for Future, 414
Electric, Air-Cooling Towers for. Examination of Possible Use of, 733
Electric, Air Pollution by. Discussion in Parliament on, 127
Electric, Basrah, Steam Turbo-Generators and Auxiliaries for (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 397
—? — Electric, Battersea, Utilization of Ash, 414
Electric, Bold, 30-MW Direct Water- Cooled Generator for, 344
Electric, Castle Donnington, Centrifugal Pump with 75,000 Gallons per Minute Capacity for( Worthington-Simpson, Lid.), 214*; Scaffolding Technique for Cooling Towers at (Mills Scaffold Co. Ltd.), 287
Electric, Goldington, 249
Electric, High Marnham, Design of 200-MW Turbo-Generator Set for, 344
^Electric, Ince, 240-MW, Opening and of Contractors
Description of 534*; List for, 534
Electric, Marchwood,
Sulphur in Flue Gases by tives in Combustion Zone, Electric, Meaford “ B,” 240-MW, Open
ing of, 501 ; Constructional Details, 501*; Generating Plant, 501*; Electrical Arrangements, 501*; List of Principal Contractors, 501
Electric, Staythorpe “ B,” Forged 120- MW Steam-Turbine Rotor Shaft for (T. Firth and J. Brown, Ltd.), 329*
— — Electric, in Underground Coal Gasifica
tion Project, 762
Hydro-Electric, Kariba Project, 221* Hydro-Electric, Loch Awe Project, 104 Hydro-Electric, of North of Scotland
Hydro-Electric Board, at Errochty, 139* Hydro-Electric, Owen Falls Project, 682.
See LETTER, 804
Hydro-Electric, Switzerland, Visits to, by Junior Institution of Engineers, 69
Plant, Boilers and. Welding in, by T.
Carlile and Dr. H. Harris, 10
—? — Plant at Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles, Ltd., 133
Willington “A,” 13-8-kW, I 10-MVA Alternator under Test at, with Diiect
Hydrogen Cooling of Rotor and Stator (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 690
See also Power Plants: Substations
?—? Survey, Capital Available for. Discussion on, 21
Geographical Factors, Discussion on, 21
— Transmission, Electric, Overhead Lines,
New Range of Accessories for Aluminium Electric Conductors on (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 142*
Equipment at Engineering
265*
Hydraulic, High Pressure,
Thoma, 779*
Hydrostatic, Definition and
779*
Overhead Lines, 132-kV Circuit, over River Ribble, 446*
— — Overhead Wires for British Railways
Alternating-Current Electrification,
Welded Steel Portal Structure for (British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd.), 383*
See also Gearing: Marine Propulsion
— Units, Hydraulic, “PortoPower” (Trade
Publication), 403
Portable, “ Twinner,” for Rotating Components (Donald Ross and Partners, Ltd.), 268
— Vane Oil-Flooded Rotary Air Compressor
(Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 300*
— Water. See Hydraulic: Power Station,
Hydro-Electric: Turbines, Hydraulic “Powermaster” Packaged Boilers (Trade Publication), 279
Powers-Samas Accounting Machines (Sales), Ltd., Samastronic Tabulator, High-Speed Printer in, 66*; Electronic Comouter for British Railways, at Swindon, 617
Poznan Fair, Orders for British Firms Obtained at, 81
Practice, Codes of. Ministry of Works. See Standards
Prain, Sir R., Remarks on Trend of Copper Prices, 825
Pratt, Dr. P. L., on Point Defects and Mechanical Properties of Ionic Crystals, 792 Precipitation Hardening. See Heat-Treatment under Metallurgy
Precipitators, Coal Dust, at National Coal Board’s Phurnacite Plant at Aberaman (Simon-Carves, Ltd.), 13
— at Meaford “ B ” Power Station, Ash Dis
charge from, 501
— Oil Mist and Fume, “Electro-Mist”
(Trade Publication), 657
Precision Components (Barnet), Ltd., Work- Holding Trays (Trade Publication), 783
“ Precision,” House Magazine of Automotive Products Co., Ltd., Note on, 181
Precision Rubbers, Ltd., “ Prescolastik ” Silicone Rubbers, 358
Preheaters, Radio-Frequency, “ Radyne,” for Plastics Moulding (Trade Publication), 307 Prentice-Hall, Catalogue of Engineering Books, 83
“ Prescolastik ” Silicon Rubbers (Precision Rubbers, Ltd)., 358
Preservation of Food, Principles of, 386*
Presidential Address to Association of Mining Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on Men, Materials and Machines, by J. E. Ridley, 32
to British Association on Engineering Education,by Sir D, Anderson ,326
Reduction of Metallic Addi- 697
Exhibition,
by Dr. H.
Application,
Presidential Address to British Association on Gap Between Wealth and Poverty, by Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, 294
to Economic Section of British Association on Balance of Payments Problem of European Free Trade Area, by “ - - -
Meade, 363
?—? — to Institution on Duplication Nelson, 622
to Institution
of Mechanical of Tendering,
of Mechanical
Prof. J. E.
Engineers by Sir G.
Engineers on Scope in Engineering Industry, by Sir G. Nelson, 513. See also 544
to Institution of Structural Engineers on Structural Engineering and Research, by Sir A. Pugsley, 509
Press. See Machine Tools
— Brake. See Machine Tools
?— Relations and Industry, by P. Hayle (Review), 278. See also 258
Press and Shear Co., Ltd., Elmeg Electro-Magnetic Presses, 298; Folding and Bending Machines, 298; “ Hildu ” Range of Screw Presses, 298; Turret Punching Machine, 298
Pressed Steel Co., Position and Prospects of, 72 Pressure-Cabins, Aircraft, Fail-Safe, 727 Windows of Two-Panel Construction, for Aircraft, 407*
Pressure Piling Co. (Northern), Ltd., 132-kV Circuit Line over River Ribble, 447
— Transmitter, Differential, Diaphragm-Type,
“ D/P Cell ” (Foxboro-Yoxall, Ltd.), 207
— Vessels for Berkeley Nuclear Reactor (John
Thompson, Ltd.), 505*
for Calder Hall Type of Nuclear Reactor, Problems in Design of, by R. W. Lakin,732 Level Control of Liquids in, 207
Nuclear Reactor. See Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessels
Preston, K. H., Remarks on Textile Machinery Industry, 135
Prestressed Concrete. See Concrete, Prestressed
— Members, Design and Construction of, 246* Prestressing Against Compression, 245*
— Principles and Advanced Applications of,
by A. J. Harris, 244*
Prestwich, J. A., Industries, Ltd., Acquisition of, by Villiers Engineering Co., 711
Prices, Cohen Committee on, 135, 193, 288, 800
— Commodity, Index of. Downward Trend,
363
-— of Copper, Impact of Fluctuations in, 772 Reduction of, 12
— Cutting in Engineers’ Merchants, Stockists
and Distributors Trade, 272
— Index Trends during 1952-56, 166
— Lead, Fall in, 12
— Nickel, 806
— Plea by United Automobile Workers Union
for Reduction in, 288
— Raw Materials, Trend of, 281
— Stability, Proposed Impartial Body on, 64
— Zinc, Fall in, 12
— of Commodities. See also under name of
specific commodity
Prime Minister’s Conference, Commonwealth, Comment on, 6, 81
Primer, Liquid-Ring, for Pumps (Hamworthy Engineering, Ltd.), 334
“ Prince ” Motor Car (N.S.U.), 391 *, 518* Print and Paper, International Fair, DRUPA, 27
Printed Circuit Techniques, Application to Design of Microwave Components, by J. M. C. Dukes, 782
Printers, Operative, and Assistants, National Society of. Proposed Amalgamation with Paperworkers’ Union, 256
Printing Machine, High-Speed, in Samastronic Tabulator (Powers-Samas Accounting Machines (Sales), Ltd.), 66*
— Machinery, Effect of Government’s Credit
Restrictions on, 678
— Trade, Reorganisation of Trades Unions in,
160
“ Private A ” Uncontrolled Solid-Propellent Rocket, 430
— Enterprise in United Kingdom, Statistics
on, 103
— Members’ Bill on Office Conditions, 800 Process Control and Measurement Instrumentation, Showroom for (George Kent, Ltd.), 271
? System Design, Introduction to, by
A. J. Young (Review), 470
— Engineering, Chemical and Mechanical,
Applications of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer to, by J. M. Kay (Review), 594 Process Industries, Machinery for (Trade Publication), 307
— Timer, Synchronous, Flush-Mounting, Self
Resetting, “ Rodene ” (D. Robinson and Co.), 585*
Processing Data, Electronic, for Business and Industry, by R. G. Canning (Review), 470'
— Food, Engineering Factors in, by Dr. J.
Hawthorne, 486*, 550, See LETTER, 520 Procrastination, Plain Words on, 802 Proctor, A. N., on Full Plastic Moment, 487*, 677. See LETTERS, 615, 645, 740
Proctor and Gamble, Hydraulic Clamping- Arms for Attachment to Normal Lift Truck for Handling Cartons, 205
Product Design for Automated Production, by D. L. Johnston, 38
— Reduced Range of. Sales Promotion of,
by R. S. Liddle, 427
Standardising, and Increasing Interchangeability, 427
Production, 282*, 317, 372*, 404*, 441*, 472*, ‘ ?? 701*,
502, 535*, 566*, 602*, 631*, 664, 728*, 761 *, 795*, 828*
— Automated, Product Design for, by
Johnston, 38
— Census of, for 1958, 472
— Cohen Committee on. Recommended
ing with Trades Union Congress, 800
D. L.
Meet-
Production Enj^ineers, Institution of; Annual Conference:
Comment on Paper by Prof. R. W. Revans, 33
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Production Engineers, Institution of— continued
Control and Communicaton—A Management Concept of Cybernetics, by Miss J. Woodward, 38
Administration of Modern Production, by Rt. Hon. The Earl of Halsbury, 38
Cost of Automation, by F. T. Hunter, 38
Machine Tools of the Future, by D. Player and W. K. Temple, 38
Product Design for Automated Production, By D. L. Johnston, 38
What New Skillswill the Future Demand? by C. B. Biggs, 96
Automatic Factory: What Does it Mean? (Review), 470
Production. General Increase in, 40
— Halls, Precast, Prestressed, at Ballymena
for Gallaher, Ltd., 733*
— Index of, 301
— Industrial, Index of, in France, 106
— Mass and Flow, Principles of, by F. G.
Woollard (Review), 470
— Modern, Administration of, by Rt. Hon.
The Earl of Halsbury, 38
Productivity, Cohen Committee on, 135, 193, 288, 800
— Effect of Lighting on, by W. Robinson, 658*
— in Electrical Goods Industry, Statistics
Relating to, 799
•— in Engineering, Statistics Relating to, 799
— Machinery, Need for Higher, by W. Coutts
Donald, 588
— in Shipbuilding Industry, Statistics Relating
to, 799
Professional Conduct, Importance of, 448
— Photography Exhibition, Merit Award to
J. H. Jochimsen, 348
— Union, Comment on, 544
Profiling Machine, Gas, “ Bison,” for Cutting Steel up to 12-in. thick (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 269*
Profit Figures, Company, Analysis of, 390
— Forecasts of, Note on, 337
— of Industrial Companies, 272
— Industrial, Trend of, 517
— Reduced Rate of Increase in, 682
— Sharing Schemes, Discussion in Parliament
on, 63
•— Sharing. See also Co-operative; Co-partnership under Labour
— Tax, Effects on Company Directors, 768
— Trading, Analysis of, for 1957, 517
— and Wages, Restraint on. Discussion in
Parliament on, 607
Programming, Linear: Simplex Algorithm, by D. U. Greenwald (Book), 437
“ Progreg ” Treatment for Reduction of Friction (Progrega, Ltd.), 597
Progrega, Ltd., “ Progreg ” Treatment for Reduction of Friction, 597
Project Management, Two-Day Course for Schoolboys on, 128
Projectile with Melting Metal Nose, Heat- Transfer Test in Pressurised Range, 401* Projection Drawing Board (John Dickinson and Co., Ltd.), 796
Projector, Cinema, 450-X, with Mazda XE/D 2-kW Xenon Lamp (British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd.), 680*
— Horizon, in Helicopter Flight Simulator,
500*
— Landscape, in Helicopter Flight Simulator,
500*
— Tool-Room, “ Shadowmasta VMP” (Wat
son, Manasty and Co., Ltd.), 742*
Prokopovich, A., Average Machine-Tool Cutting Speeds in Various Countries, 442* Proof Stress of Annealed Commercially-Pure Titanium Sheet, Influence of Speed of Testing on, 393*
of Annealed Titanium-Aluminium-Man- ganese Rod, Influence of Speed of Testing on, 393*
Propellants, Rocket. See Rocket under Aeronautics
— Spelling of, by E. H. Bateman, 453 Propellent, Spelling of, by E. H. Bateman, 453 Propellers, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Controllable-Pitch, Lips de Schelde, Model
of (Controllable Pitch Propeller Co.), 264
— Marine, Balancing, by Prof. J. P. den
Hartog, 661
for Underwater Oil Tankers, Research on Design of, 738
Singing, Vibration Problem of, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
Property Mortgages and Inflation, Remarks on, by W. K. Logan, 128
Propulsion, Aircraft, Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference on, 407*
— of Ships. See Marine Propulsion; Engines;
Turbines; Propellers
Proserpine Nuclear Reactor. 190 “Protector” Ultrasonic Anti-Fouling Equipment (Marconi International Marine Communication Co., Ltd.), 300*
“ Proteus ” Turbo-Propeller Engine for Marine Use (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 333*
“ Proteus 755 ” Engine, Modified, for Monsoon Conditions, for “Britannia 312” Civil Airliner, 727
Protons, Structure of, Studies to be Undertaken on, 764
— Synchrotron. See Synchrotron
Protractor Set for Cutting Tools, “ Marlco ” (Trade Publication), 149
Proximity Switch for Level Control (Elcontrol, Ltd.), 177
Pryce, R., on Britain and Euratom, 229 Psychological Factors in Group Relations, by Dr. A. T. M. Wilson, 736
Psychology, Applied, Review of Advances, by C. B. Gibbs, 96
P.T.F. Seal for Type USL Self-Priming Pumps (Crane Packing, Ltd.), 334
P.T.F.E. Insulated Electrical Wire, 424 P.T.F.E. Insulation for “ Uni-Efglas ” Cable (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 424
“ Public Enterprise,” Labour Party Pamphlet on Nationalisation, 103
— Lighting Engineers, Association, Conference
at Torquay: Traffic Signal Controller at
(Siemens and General Electric Railway Signal Co., Ltd.), 421; Activities of, 580 Public Schools, Education in, Comparison with
Grammar Schools, by Dr. H. Johnson, 512
— Service in United Stales, Appeal of, 301 Publications of the Community Air Pollution
Programme, Note on, 437
— Technical, Production of, by Studio Irwin
Technical, Ltd., 273
— Technical, in Russia, 355
— Trade, 16, 51, 148, 213, 279, 307, 403, 498,
531, 562, 625, 657, 783, 820
Publicity Activities of F. Perkins, Ltd., 135 Puckey, Sir W., on Diploma in Technology, 64; Remarks on Transport and Automation, 682
Puerto Santa Maria (Spain), Plan for Nuclear Power Station at, 475
Pugsley, Sir A., on Structural Engineering and Research, 509
Pulley, Drive, Self-Contained Belt Conveyor (Crofts (Engineers), Ltd.), 265
Pullin, R. B., and Co., Ltd., Traffic Control Barrier (Trade Publication), 821
“Pulmac ” Fine Grinding Machine (Trade Publication), 403
Pulse-Code Modulation (PCM), Development Possibilities, 435
Pulsometer Engineering Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 422; Purchase of Self-Priming Pump and Engineering Co., 422
Pumps, Air. See also Air Compressors
— for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Con
stantin (Engineering), Ltd,), 536*
— Centrifugal, “ AVP 16 ” (Hamworthy Engin
eering, Ltd.), 334
with 75,000 Gallon per Minute Capacity, for Central Electricity Authority’s Castle Donington Power Station (Worthington- Simpson, Ltd.), 214*
Single-Stage, Heavy-Duty, Type FN5, for Fire-Fighting Tenders of Auxiliary Fire Service (Sigmund Pumps, Ltd.), 241*
Vertical, “Flowmaster” Marine Cargo (J. H. Carruthers and Co., Ltd.), 334*
— Circular, Hermetically Sealed, Type LUV
(K.S.B. Export. G.m.b.H.), 334*
— Circulating-Water, Glandless (Hayward
Tyler &Co.. Ltd.), 151*
— Coolant, Stainless-Steel. Glandless, 70-h.p.,
for Danish Nuclear Reactor D.R.3 (Hayward Tyler and Co., Ltd.), 731
— Diaphragm, Hand-Operated and Motor-
Driven, for Corrosive and Abrasive Liquids and Slurries (Trade Publication), 531
“ Linatex ” Valves for (Trade Publication), 531
— Exhibited at Engineering Exhibition, 334* _ „ . . . ..
Hydralite ” Jack (Tangyes, Ltd.), 329*
— Heat, Air-Cycle, for Space Heating, by
K. H. Hunt, 818*
for Domestic and Shop Use (Heat Pump and Refrigeration, Ltd.), 681
Effect of Purchase Tax on. Discussion in Parliament on, 671
by T. G. N. Haldane, 671
— High-Vacuum, “ Speedivac ” (Trade Publi
cation), 279
— Hydraulic (Fawcett-Finney, Ltd.), 299 High-Pressure Industrial, “ Vardel ”
(Dowty Equipment. Ltd.), 215*
— Hygienic, “ Kwikleen K63,” for Food
Products (Mono Pumps, Ltd.), 334*
— Injection, Fuel-Oil, Tester for, for Small
Factory or Garage (Merlin Engineering Co., Ltd.), 246*
— Liquid Ring Primer for (Hamworthy
Engineering, Ltd.), 334
— Multi-Stage, 4-in., for High Pressure Heads
(Pegson, Ltd.), 30*
— “ No-Flote ” Level Control for (Evershed
and Vignoles, Ltd.), 178*
— Oil-Fuel (Trade Publication), 499
— Plunger, High-Pressure, Norton, for High-
Pressure Hydraulic Power Pack (W. H. Marley and Co., Ltd.), 299
— Pressure, “ Mirrlees Imo,” for New Oil
Fuel System for R.M.S. “ Queen Mary,” 458*
— Reciprocating, Portable, “ Airhydropump ”
(Charles S. Madan and Co., Ltd.), 361*
— Rotary, “ Easiclean ” (Trade Publication),
149
— Rubber-Lined, “U Z ” (British LaBour
Pump Co., Ltd.), 335
— Screw (Hamworthy Engineering, Ltd.), 334*
— Self-Priming, “ Domestic ” Monobloc
(Worthington-Simpson, Ltd.), 214*
— Self-Priming, USL, for Confined Spaces
(British LaBour Pump Co., Ltd.), 334
— Submersible (Harland Engineering Co., Ltd.)
334
— Valves, Boiler Fittings and Turnstiles
(Trade Publication), 531
Pumped Storage for Hydroelectric Power, Bibliography on, 755
— Water Storage Installation, 300-MW, al
Blaenau Ffestiniog, 367*
Storage, Resources and Applications of, 367
Pumping, Electromagnetic, of Liquid Metals, by J. A. S. Hilditch, 91
— Equipment for Cauldon Low Cement
Works (Constantin (Engineers), Ltd.), 535* for Processing Vessels for Manufacture of Paper Power Capacitors at Elizabeth Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd. (Edwards High Vacuum, Ltd.), 154
Punches, Use of, on Powder Tablet Press of Apex Construction Co., Ltd., 360*
Punched-Card Electronic Calculator, “ Hollerith 555,” with Memory Drum (British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd.), 19
Equipment at Business Efficiency Exhibition, 67
— Tape Typewriter, Electronic (Remington
Rand), 681
Punta Gorda, Plans for Oil Tanker Terminal at, 231
Puppet, Russian, “ Petrushka,” 483* Purchase Tax, Effect on Heat Pump, Discussion in Parliament on, 671
Purchasing Officers’ Association, National Conference of (Folkestone), Selling Railways Service, by J. R. Pike, 492
Purfleet to Dartford Tunnel, Progress in Construction of, 799
Purification of Liquids (Trade Publication), 149
— of Sewage. See Sewage
— of Water. See Water
Purifiers, Tower-Box, for Town Gas for Worcester Gas Works of West Midlands Gas Board (Henry Balfour and Co., Ltd.), 183
“Purolator ” Bulk Fuel Filter-Separator (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 266*
Push-Buttons, Design of, for Human Performance, 310*
Pusikov, L., on Elastic Scattering Matrix for Two-Nucleon System, 764
P.V.C. See Polyvinyl Chloride
PWR Nuclear Reactor, Pressurised-Water, Homogeneous, for Marine Propulsion, 571 Reactor at Shippingport, Progress of, 827*
Pye “ Hornet ” 50-Watt Transmitter-Receiver for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663
Pye, Ltd., Battery-Operated Industrial Television Equipment, 179; Mozart “ HFIO ” Amplifier, 317; Effect of Wage Increases on Costs, 326
Pye (Ireland) Ltd., Chairman’s Speech to Shareholders of, 168
Pye ** PTC 724 ” Two-Channel V.H.F. Transmitter Receiver for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663
Pye, W. G., and Co., Ltd., Three-Channel Recording Thermometer for Hypothermia, 459
Pyidawtha (Burmese Development Plan), 709 Pyrochlore Discoveries in Nyasaland, 831 Pyrometallurgical Processes for Re-Cycling Nuclear Fuels, Work on, by Atomics International and Argonne National Labortory, 255
6QA ” Diesel Engine (W. H. Dorman and Co., Ltd.), 297*
Qualcast, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 487; Fall in Profits of, 581; Proposed Merger with H. Kaufmann, Ltd., 581
Quality Control for Plastics Engineers by, L. M. Debing (Book), 625
Quarrell. Prof. A. G., on Intercrystallien Cracking During Creep, 423
Quartz Servo Oscillator, RD. 101 (Marconis’ Wireless Telegraph Co.). 496*
Quasi-Arc, Ltd., Internal Pipe Welding Boom Incorporating Television Equipment, 362*; “ Ferromax ” Manual Welding Electrode for Mild Steel, 457
Queen Elizabeth II. H.M.. Prorogation Speech at Opening of Parliament, 607, 639
“ Queen Mary,” R.M.S., New Oil-Fuel System for (John 1. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.), 458*
Quenching of Steel. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Quernmore-Penwortham, 132-kV Overhead Line, 446*
“Quick-Wrap” Hessian Bias Tubing (Quick Wrap Tubing Co., Ltd.), 568
Quick Wrap Tubing Co., Ltd., “ Quick-Wrap ” Hessian Bias Tubing, 568
Quicksilver. See Mercury
Quig, A. J., Appointment to Board of Birmingham Small Arms Co., 710
Quill, Power (Trade Publication), 821
“ R. and G.” Instruments, Use for Liquid- Level Control (Bayham, Ltd.), 208
Races, Bearing, Floating Store for (Enims), 587*
RACO (Rapid Automatic Change-Over) Diesel Electric Unit for Uninterrupted Power Supply (J. and H. McLaren, Ltd.), 553*
Radar Beam Set for “ Fireflash ” Air-to-Air Guided Weapon System, 252
— Equipment, Export Trade of United
Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands, 526* High-Power. Duplicate, Type S264A, for Microwave Radio Link for Rongotai Airport (Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 586
Radar Establishment, Royal (Malvern), Radio Telescope for Extra-Terrestrial (Observations and Micro-Wave Propagation Studies, 362*; International Symposium on Electronic Components: Problems Affecting Design of Service Components, and Survey of Present and Future United Kingdom Developments, by G. W. A. Dummer, 503; Development of Low-Firing-Temperature Ceramic, 552; Experimental Transformers for Operation at 500” C., Exhibited at International Symposium on Electronic Components held at, 623*; Transformer Wound with Glass-Insulated Nickel- Plated Copper Wire Interleaved with Glass Cloth for Operation at 500” C., 623*
— System, Airborne, Development of at
Mullard Research Laboratories, 464
Radial Drill. See Drill under Machine Tools Radiation, Bremstrahlung, 612
— Control of, from Luminous Furnace
Flames, 314
— Dangers of, by Prof. S. C. Harland, 828
— Effects of, 158
— Electron, Facility, of Leybold-Hochvakuum
Anlagen, G.m.b.H., 124
— Food Sterilisation by, 389
— Infra-Red, Measurement and Detection of,
by R. A. Smith, F. E. Jones and R. P. Chasmar (Book), 437
— Ionising, Code of Regulations on, 219
Radiation, Measurement of Mesonic Atoms, Counters for, 254
— Nuclear, Airborne Reactor for Study of,
408*
Dangers of, by Prof. M. Oliphant, 319 Effect of, on Explosives, by J. V. R. Kaufman, 141
Shielding, Concrete and. Course on, at Battersea College of Technology, 285
— Proof Windows (Mendip Chemical Engi
neering Co., Ltd.), 795
Windows (Pilkington Brothers, Ltd.), 220
— Resins as Protection Against, 220
— Solar, Use for Research Experiments,
Discussion in Parliament on, 735
— Sources, Application in Industry, 263
— Standards, New Work on, 125
— Ultrasonic, on a Solid System of Lauryl
Aldehyde and Potassium Chlorate, Oxidation Induced by, by F. A. H. Rice and D. Levine, 142
— See also Irradiation
Radiators, Electric, Oil-Filled, Ultra-Low, “S” Series (Hurseal, Ltd.), 811*
— Panel, for Skirting Heating (Gulf Radiators,
Ltd.), 811
— for Transformer, Mild-Steel. Erratum, 283 Radio Astronomy, Note on, 37
— Basic Mathematics for, by F. M. Colebrook
and J. W. Head (Book), 498
Observatory, Mullard, 185*
— Consultative Committee, International
(C.C.LR.), Study of Colour Television Systems, 548
— Engineers, Shortage of, 159
— Equipment, Export Trade of United
Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands, 526*
in High-Speed Aircraft, Measuring Optimum Cooling Flow Required by, 261
— Frequency Allocation, New Committee, 63 Radio Heaters, Ltd., “ Radyne ” Radio-
Frequency Preheaters for Plastics Moulding (Trade Publication), 307
— Industry, German, Rapid Expansion of, 526 Output Statistics, 526*
Shortage of Engineers in, 159; Position and Prospects of, 326
— Interferometer, Operation of Aerial Systems
as, for Study of Radio Stars at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, 185*
— in Internal Telephone Network, 434
— Isotopes, International Conference on
(Paris), 319
— Miniature (Perdio, Ltd.), 317
— Research Station, Work of, 171
— Show (Olympia), Exhibits at, 317
— Telephone, Very High-Frequency, Develop
ments Survey, by R. J. Halsey, 432
— Telescope. See Telescope, Radio
— Wartime Developments, 432
— Waves Through Atmosphere, Experimental
Work on, 171
Low-Loss Microwave Link mission of (Elliott Brothers Ltd.), 593
— See also Telegraphy: Telephone;
Radar
Radioactive Isotopes, Application Erosion, 794
Application to Determination of Contaminants in Oils, 794
Course for Executives at Harwell, 220 Laboratory, Presentation of, by United States, to International Atomic Energy Agency, 475
Process Applications, 794
Thickness Gauge in Aluminium Foil Rolling Mill of Venesta, Ltd. (Baldwin Instrument Co., Ltd.), 503*
Transporting Cans and Lead Shielding (Savage and Parsons, Ltd.), 795
United States, Minimum Costs for, 475* Uses of, 263
Use of, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 413
— Materials, Remote Handling Equipment for.
Formation of Ayling Nuclear Equipment Co., for, 158
Safety Precautions Relating to, 46*
— Substances Act (1948), 46
— Tracer, Tritium as, 794
— Wastes, Disposal of, by J. F. Newell, 793 Radiochemical Centre (Amersham), Extension
to, 571
Radiographic and Fluoroscopic Unit, 250-kV Constant-Potential (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 107*
Radiography, Gamma-, of Concrete, 12
Machine, Model ASS/54 (Gamma-Rays, Ltd.), 270*
of Nuclear Fuel Elerrients, 61
of Pipeline from ~
Oioibiri, 158
in Steel Foundries; Sites and Protective Michie, 46*
— Industrial, Isotope Container for. Model
ASS/51 (Gamma-Rays, Ltd.), 270*
— of Nuclear Fuel Elements, 61
Radiology, Industrial, Handbook of, by W. J. Wiltshire (Review), 242
Radiovisor Parent, Ltd., Smoke Density Detection and Recording Equipment (Trade Publication), 403
Radway Green Royal Ordnance Factory, Redundancy at, 31
“ Radyne ” Radio-Frequency Preheaters for Plastics Moulding (Trade Publication), 307 Raeburn, Sir H., Painting of Thomas Telford, 163*
Rafts, Life-, Inflatable, on Passenger and Cargo Vessels, Regulations on, 63
Rail Charges, Discussion in Parliament on, 223 Rail, La Vie du. Note on, 448
— See Railway, Rails
Railcars. See Carriages, Railway
— Diesel. See Carriages, Railway
Railing, Sir H., on Position and Prospects of General Electric Co., Ltd., 168. 326; Relinquishment of Position as Chairman and Joint Managing Director of General Electric Co., Ltd., 549
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
— Bridge, See Bridge
?—? British. See British Railways
Railway, “ Caledonian ” Express, Comment on Introduction to Summer Timetable, 96
— Carriage. See Carriage
— Control, Magneto-Inductive “ Warning ”
Type, Approval of, 767
— Diesel-Electric Simulator for Training
Purposes, 153*
— Electrification, Progress in, 799
Progress of Plans for Lines to Kent Coast, 766*
See also British Railways
?— German Federal, Relay Interlocking Signalbox at Frankfurt, 533*
— Indian, 3,120-h.p. Electric Locomotives for
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 806
Goal to Self Sufficiency, by P. C. Muker- gie, 338
— Italian State, Diesel Locomotive with
Hydrostatic Transmission, 781
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— London Airport to Central London,
Statement in Parliament on, 159
Railway Maintenance Corp, of Pittsburgh, Licensing Agreement with Beyer Peacock, 719
— Merthyr Tydfil-Abergavenny, Discussion in
Parliament on Closing of, 191
?— Modernisation Plan, Progress in, 799
See also British Railways
?— Motor Carriage. See Carriage
— Officials, Directory of, and Year Book
1957-1958 (Book), 563
— Porters at Basingstoke, Folk-Dancing of.
Comment on, 224. See LETTER, 229
— Possible Conversion to Trunk Roads,
Comment on Proposal for, 667
— Rails, Heat Effects on. Discussion in
Parliament on, 31
Ends, Hardening of, by G. K. Colligan, 10
Joints, Welding of, by K. C. Sood, 1 I Safety and. Discussion in Parliament on, 31
Thermit Welded, Fatigue Strength of, by R. S. Loubser, 11
— Repair Works, Group Wage Incentives in,
by L. Buck, 352
— Rollingstock, British Railways, Modernisa
tion of, 72
Stock, Cleaning and Servicing of. Modernisation Plans of British Railways, 541
Stock, Electric Traction Motors, for. Manufacture of, at Dudley Works of General Electric Co., Ltd., 828*
Stock, Modernisation Plans of British Railways, 540*
Stock, New, for Electrification Plans for Lines to Kent Coast, 766*
Stock. See also Carriages: Locomotives: Wagons
— Service, Selling, by J. R. Pike, 492
— Signalling. See Signalling
— South African, Order for Electric Loco
motives from Metropolitan-Vickers South Africa (Pty.), Ltd.), 147; Order for Electric Locomotives to English Electric Co., Ltd., 262
— Speeds and Safety Risks, Discussion in
Parliament on, 31
— Station, St. Pancras, Power Signalling at, 534
— Track, Fabrication of, for Jodrell Bank
Radio Telescope (Darlington Railway Plant and Foundry Co., Ltd.), 35
for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (Thos. W. Ward, Ltd.), 35
Maintenance, Use of Welding for, by E. A. Whitelock, I I
— Train, Automatic Control, Plans for, by
British Railways, 598
— — Brake. See Brake
Diesel, Drivers of, British Railways Eastern Region Training School at Hadley Wood for, 452
— — Diesel, Lightweight, Introduction in
British Railways Modernisation Plan, 450*
Diesel, Two-Car, with 230 h.p. Engine for Eastern Region of British Railways, 452*
Diesel. See also Carriages, Railway Library, in Sweden, 279
Multiple-Unit, Equipment for, 507
Secretarial Services on, 416
— Travel Exhibition of British Transport
Commission, 541
— Tube. See London Transport Executive
— Twilight of (Booklet), by Brig. T. 1. Lloyd,
667
— Wagons. See Wagons
— Workers’ Wage Claim, Statement by P.
Thorneycroft on, 608
Rain and Cloud Formation, Physical Processes Underlying, Measurements of, by R. J. Murgatroyd, 365
— Formation of, by Dr. B. J. Mason, 365
— Gauges, Self-Registering, in Observations of
Rainfall and in a Catchment, by T. J. Mulvany, 375*
Rainfall and Flood Discharges in a Catchment, Self-Registering Rain and Flood Gauges in Observations of, by T. J. Mulvany, 375*
— Records and Measurement of, 311
Rainham, Railway Construction Work at, for Electrification of Lines to Kent Coast, 766*
Rainmaking, Artificial, Progress in. Symposium on, 365
— Experiments in Australia, by W. Machlin, 365
in East Africa, 223
Rainwater Fitments of Pressure-Moulded Asbestos Cement (Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 429
Raleigh Industries, Ltd., Production Statistics of New No. 3 Factory of, 524; Fall in Trading Profits, 647
Ralston, W., Ltd., Technical and Commercial Photographic Services (Trade Publication), 17
Rance Estuary Tidal Power Scheme, 343*
Randrup, M., Altitude Record in “ Canberra ” Aircraft, 295
Ransome and Marles, Position of, 549
Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., “ W1400” Walking Dragline for Open-Case Iron-Ore Mining, 122*
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., Annual Report, 104; Diesel-Engined “ ITW ” Tractor, 331; “ FL.4500 ” Battery-Operated Fork-Truck, 331; “ T4 ” Electric Tractor with Towing Capacity of 10 Tons Gross, 331
Rapid Automatic Change-Over (RACO) Diesel Electric Unit for Uninterrupted Power Supply (J. and H. McLaren, Ltd.), 553*
Rapid Magnetic Machines, Ltd., Magnetic Separator for Coolant, 13*
Rapping Machine, Pneumatic Vibrator, “ Blen- cut ” (Blending Machine Co.), 712*
Rate Fixers, and Foremen, at Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Strike of, 320
Rational Method for Estimating Flood Peaks, by J. C. 1. Dooge, 374*
Rationalisation in Automobile Engineering, 357 “ Ravensburg ” Face Copying Lathe (Mortimer Engineering Co.), 681 *
Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles, Ltd., Description of, 130*, 133*; List of Contractors Engaged on, 133
Raw Materials and Free Trade Area, Dutch Views on, 327
Price Trends of, 281
Rawson, Sir S., on Position and Prospects of Wickman, Ltd., 337
Rays. See Cathode Rays; X-Rays —? Gamma. See Gamma-Rays
— X. See X-Rays
Reactions, Chemical. See Chemistry
— Fast, Kinetic Problems of, by R. B. Parlin and H. Eyring, 142
— Thermonuclear. See Thermonuclear and Nuclear Fusion: ZETA Reactor, Ltd., Formation of, 169
— Nuclear. See Nuclear Reactor
R.E.A.L. S.A. Transportes Aereos, Contract with D. Napier and Son, Ltd., for Conversion of “ Convair 340 ” Airliners to “ Eland ” Propeller-Turbine Engines, 283
Reay, C. W. A., on More Steel or Better Concrete, 644. See LETTER, 805
Receivers for “ Fireflash ” Air-to-Air Guided Weapon System (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 252
Receiving-Aerial Systems, by 1. A. Davidson (Book), 498
Reclaim Dispersions, New Factory for Production and Packing of (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 282*
Reconnaissance, Industrial, Comment on, 672
Reconstruction of Industry (in Italy), Institute for, 682
Records Exhibits at Business Exhibition, 67*
Recorder, Level. See Level
— Spectrum, Audio-Frequency,
Kjaer, Use in Sound-Testing
Acoustics Laboratory of Keith Blackman, Ltd., 696.
— Telemeter, Strip Chart (Trade Publication), 149
— Temperature, Strip Chart (Trade Publication), 307
Recordings of Australian Aboriginal Tribal Songs, 782
— Dynamometer. See Dynamometer
— Machines, Speech, at Business Efficiency Exhibition, 67*
— Stereophonic Sound, Role in Son et Lumiere 440*
— “ White Line,” for Fish Echo-Sounding, 400*
Rectifiers, Copper/Copper Oxide, 565*
— Germanium, 565*
— Germanium junction Power, RG504B (Trade Publication), 307
— History and Development of (Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd.), 565*
— Low-Power Silicon Junction (Trade Publication), 307
— Selenium, 565*
— Sets, 1,500-kW, for New Substation at
Charing Cross (Hackbridge and Hewittic Electric Co., Ltd.), 510*
— Silicon (Texas Instruments, Ltd.), 491
— System for Locomotives and Motor Coaches of British Railways, 508
— Use of Semi-Conductors in, 565*
Re-Deployment Programme of Ministry of Labour, Results of, 301
Redpath Brown, Ltd., Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Reduction Gears. See Gears: Marine Propulsion
“ Reductol ” Lubricating Scheme for Enclosed Gears (Revol, Ltd.), 489
” Redux ” IJonding Process, Cinema Film on (Aero Research, Ltd.), 62
Reed, A. E., Annual Report, 104
Reference Materials, Catalogue of (Book), 17
Refining, Hydro, of Coal-Tar Products, 205
Reflector, Aluminium, in Radio Telescope at Royal Radar Establishment, 362*
Refractory Bricks, Moulded, for Type EDF Mark I Electric Die-Casting Furnace for Aluminium (Coupe and Tidman, Ltd.), 204
— Steelplant: Testing, Research and Development, by J. H. Chesters (Review), 212
Refrigerating Machine, First (Linde), 389 Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, by R. C.
Jordan and G. B. Priester (Book), 279
— in Food Industry, 388
— Heating, Ventilating and Fan Engineering,
National College for. Activities of, 39
— Material, British, Handbook of (Book), 371
Refrigerator Compressors, “MeterMiser”
Sealed Rotary, Manufacture of (General Motors Ltd.), 829*
REG A 10-30 Nuclear Reactor, Solid Homogeneous, 731
Regenerative Furnace. See Furnace Reheating Furnace. See Furnace
R6gie National Des Usines Renault. See Renault
R6gime Behaviour of Canals and Rivers, by T. Blench (Review), 686
Regina Glass Fibre, Ltd., “ Versil ” Glass Felt Pipe Wrapping Material, 584
Registers on GRACE Equipment for Telephone Exchanges, 722*
Registered Designs Act, 1949, Bill for Amending, 703
l5efinition of, 749
— Trade Mark, Definition of, 749
Regulator for Air Supplies, Pilot-Controlled (Shipston Engineering Co., Ltd.), 299*
?—? Electronic, for Low-Voltage Generators (Simms Motor Units, Ltd.), 314
— Single-Stage, for Heating and Cutting
Operations (British Industrial Gases, Ltd.), 269
— Voltage, for Armfield L.D.C. 10-kW
Water-Driven Direct-Current “ MicroSet” Generator (Newton Brothers (Derby), Ltd.), 26
Reinforced Concrete. See Concrete Reinhausen Stahlwerke, Expansion Plans, 7
Relay, Calibrated, with Magnetic Lock (Smiths Industrial Instruments, Ltd.), 270*
— Diaphragm, Adjustable-Range, A.R.D., for
Liquid Level Control (Trade Publication), 499
— Interlocking Signalbox at Frankfurt, 533*
— Stepping (Trade Publication), 307 Reliability Model and Poisson Distribution, Equivalence of, 43
Remington Rand, Ltd., Electronic Punch Paper Tape Typewriter, 681
“ Remko ” Magnetic Iron (Trade Publication), 625
Renault, “ Dauphine ” Motor Car, 476*, 589; “ Transfluide ” Semi-Automatic Motor- Car Transmission, Control Gear for, 476*, 573
Renault, R6gie Nationale des Usines, Position and Prospects of, 487; Motor-Car and Motor Vehicle Production by, 589*; Possible Effects of Free Trade Area on, 589; “ Fregate ” Motor Car, 589;
“4C.V.” Motor-Car, 589*; “Dauphine ” Motor Car, 476, 589
Renault, “ Vespa ” Motor Car, 476
Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, 240-MW Ince Power Station, 534*
Renold Chains, Ltd., Chain Drives (Trade Publication), 149
Rent Act, Effect on Cost of Living, 832
Renton, D., Remarks on Gas Coke Supplies, 684
Repeaters, Audio-Frequency, 434*
— for Research on Submarine Telephone Cables (Submarine Cables, Ltd.), 696
Report. American Smelting and Refining Co., 358
— Annual, Acrow (Engineers), 326 Ada (Halifax), 337
Albright and Wilson, Ltd., 295 Alkali, etc.. Works, 39
American Ship Building Co., 487
Associated British Engineering, Ltd., 422, 168
Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., 295
Atomic Energy Authority, United Kingdom, 156
Birmingham Small Arms Co., 710
— — Blackburn and General Aircraft Co., Ltd., 359
British Electric Traction, 359
— —British Independent Air Transport Association, 809
British Motor Corporation, 614, 678
British Overseas Airways Corp., 359
British Standards Institution, 181
British Thermostat Co., 262
British Transport Commission, 7, 72
Brook Tool Manufacturing Co., 337
Camp Bird, Ltd., 678
Card Clothing and Belting Co., 134
Carrier Engineering, 558, 772
Cementation Co., 806
Central Electricity Authority, 414
Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies, 416
—- — Churchill, C., 337
Civil Service Commissioners, 64
— — Cohen, G., 600 Group, Ltd., 337
Cohen, G., Sons and Co., Ltd., 326
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, 45
Costain, R., Ltd., 71
Council of Industrial Design, 650
Court Line, Ltd., 678
Courtaulds, Ltd., 104
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., 743
Davey, Paxman and Co., 168
de la Rue, T., and Co., 262
Dictaphone Co., 273
Distillers Co., 295, 262 Dorman, W. H., 422 Dowty Group, 558
Doxford, W., and Sons, Ltd., 422, 581 Electric Construction Co., 168
Engineers’ Guild, Ltd., 704 English Card Clothing Co., 134 European Organisation for Nuclear Research, 284*
Fairey Aviation Co., 710
Federation of British Industries, 192 Ferranti, Ltd., 168 Finance Corporation for Industry, Folkes, J. (Lye Forge), Ltd., 390 Folland Aircraft, 710
General Electric Co., Ltd., 168, 326 Glacier Metal Co., Ltd., 72 Hackbridge and Hewittic Electric Co., Hawker Siddeley Group in Canada, Hedley, Thomas, 557
Horseley Bridge and Thomas Piggott Group, 326
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 40, 390
Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation, 200
International Finance Corporation, 462 Kaufmann, H., Ltd., 581
Kent, G., Ltd., 262
Kirkstall Forge and Engineering, 390 Laing, J., and Son (Holdings), Ltd., 71 Laurence, Scott and Electromotors, 168 Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co., Ltd., 71
Linotype and Machinery, Ltd., 678 Lodge Plugs, Ltd., 390
London Transport Executive, 230
Report, Annual, Lucas, J. (Industries), 678 Mannesmann, A.G., 262 Ministry of Labour, 301
Monsanto Chemicals, Ltd., 295
Morphy-Richards, Ltd., 581
Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., 359 National Council for Technological Awards, Comment on, 737
National Dock Labour Board, 64
National Industrial Fuel Efficiency Service, 427
Powell Duffryn, Ltd., 359 Pressed Steel Co., 72
— — Qualcast, Ltd., 487, 581
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., 104
?—? — Reed, A. E., 104
Renault, Regie Nationale des Usines, 487
?—? — Rootes Group, 678
Rotary Hoes, Ltd., 104
Rover Co., Ltd., 678
Scottish Cables (South Africa), Ltd., 743
Scottish Machine Tool Corp., 337
Serck Radiators, 487
Shardlow, A., and Co., 72
Simms Motor Units, 72
Simon-Carves, Ltd., 39
Smith, S., and Sons, 678
Somers, W., Ltd., 454
—? — Standard Motor Co., 614, 678
Steel Co. of Wales, Ltd., 806
.—. — Summers, J., and Sons, Ltd., 806
Sunderland Shipbuilding, Dry Docks and Engineering Co., Ltd., 581
Telecommunication and Manufacturing Association (T.E.M.A.), 139
Thorn Electrical Industries, 359
— —? Triplex Group, 390
Tube Investments, Ltd., 614, 647
— — Union Carbide and Carbon Corp., 157
—? — Union Steel and Manufacturing Co., 454
— — United Kingdom Atomic Energy Author
ity, 253
Villiers Engineering Co., 711
Walmsley (Bury), Ltd., 678
— —-Wellington Tube Works, Ltd., 454, 614 Westland Group, 581
Wickman, Ltd., 337
—? — Winget, Ltd., 422
— — Woodall-Duckham, Ltd., 39
— Arts Council of Great Britain, 512
— British Insurance (Atomic Energy) Com
mittee, on Recommendations on Nuclear Reactor Insurance, 28
— — Transport Commission, on Progress of
Railway Modernisation Programme, 134
— — Transport Commission, on Tests
“ Duke of Gloucester ” Locomotive,
— — of Scientific and Industrial Research.
Scientific and Industrial Research
— of Division of Mechanical Engineering of
National Research Council of Canada, Note on. 243
— Dollar Exports Council, on Canadian
Market for Building Materials, 81
— Economic Applications of Atomic Energy;
Power Generation and Industrial and Agricultural Problems, 283
— — Technical and Goodwill Mission to
Canada, 463
— Electrical Research Association (Book), 371
— of Enquiry into Household Expenditure in
1953-54, Comment on, 577
— on European Free Trade Area by Trade
Associations, 462
— of Exhibition Committee on International
Machine Tool Exhibition, 72
—? Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 487
— Gowers Committee, Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 31
— on Graduates in Industry, 479
— Institute of Seaweed Research, 12
— International Civil Aviation Organisation,
on Needs of Aviation in Coming Jet Age, 478. See LETTER, 646
— Iron and Steel Board, “ Development in
the Iron and Steel Industry,” 130
— Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 743
— of Joint Advisory Committee on Foundry
Goggles, Discussion in Parliament on, 703
— of London Airport Development Com
mittee, 232
— Meteorological Office, Note on, 307
— to Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation
on Railway Accidents in 1956, 736
— of Mission Organised by International Bank
for Reconstruction and Development on Economic Development of Jordan (Review), 624
— on Needs of Aviation in Coming Jet Age, 478
— Organisation for European Economic
Co-operation. See Organisation
— “Pibal,” 1948-57, List of, 51
— on Safety Belts for Motor Cars, 729*
— on Semiconductors (Book), 498
— on Shortage of Technical Manpower in
Germany (Review), 402*
— Storey Mission to Canada, 463
— on Taxation in Proposed Free Trade Area,
588
— Technical, of Electrical Research Asso
ciation (Book), 563
— on Tests of Pedal
Assisted Bicycles Laboratory, 722
— Trades Union Congress (Blackpool), 352
— United States Atomic Energy Commission,
254*
— on Women’s Measurements and Sizes, 216
— See also Board of Trade
Research, Academic, and Advanced Education in Aeronautics, by Dr. C. B. Millikan, 430*
— Aeronautical, Council for. See Aero
nautical Research Council under Aeronautics
Discussion in Parliament on of Transition Period, 767
Government Policy on, 773
— Association, British, Cast Iron.
Iron Research Association
British Coal Utilisation.
Utilisation
British Shipbuilding, See Shipbuilding Research Association
British Welding. See Welding Research Association, British
Ixiv
INDEX
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957
Research Association, Electrical. See Electrical Research Association
Motor Industry. See Motor Industry
Scientific Instrument. See Scientific Instrument Research Association
—- — Steel Castings, British. See Steel Castings Research Association, British
?— on Cast Iron at British Cast Iron Research Association, 107*
— Council of Canada. See Canada
— Decade of, at Cornell Aeronautical
Laboratory (Booklet), 595
— on Deuterium and Tritium Compounds,
Bibliography of, 336
-—and Development, 280, 303*, 339*, 365*, 400*. 430*, 464*. 494*, 528*, 559*, 591*, 623*, 652*, 696*. 715*, 779*, 822*
Budget, United States, for 1956, 1957 and 1958, 752
Budgeting for, 295
Corporation, National.
See National
Revans, Prof. R. W., on Size Effect of an Organisation, 33
Reviews, Book, 15, 50, 82, 118, 148, 180, 212, 242, 278, 306, 336, 370, 402, 436, 470, 530, 562, 594, 624, 656, 687, 720, 754, 782, 808
Reviewer, on Theory of Networks, 357
Revol, Ltd., “ Reductol ” Lubricating Scheme for Enclosed Gears, 489
Reynolds, Dr. J. A., on Neutron Emission in High-Current Discharges, 474*, 538* Reynolds Metals Group (of America), Agreement with Tube Investments, Ltd., to Combine Interests and Activities in Aluminium Industry in United Kingdom, 457; Association with Tube Investments, Ltd., 647
Reynolds Metals and T.I. Aluminium, Ltd., Formation of, 457
Rheinisch-Westfalische
20-MW Nuclear (A.M.F.-Mitchell),
Elektrizitat, Model of Power Station for 124*
Research Development Corporation
in United States, Expenditure on, 752
— Economic and Social, National Institute of.
See Economic and Social Research, National Institute of
— Establishments, Direction of (Book), 119
— Experiments, Use of Solar Radiation for.
Discussion in Parliament on, 735
— Exploiting Results of, by A. Wormaid, 649
— High-Altitude, Discussion on, 100
— Hydraulic, in United States, 1957, Note
on, 471
— Hypersonic, by United States Naval
Ordnance Laboratory, 401* “ See Fulmer
See Nuclear Research
— Institute, Fulmer. Nuclear, Joint. Institute
? Tin. See Tin Research Institute
— as an Investment, by Dr. A. King, 649
. —Laboratory, Road. See Road Research
Laboratory
— A Management Technique, by Prof. C. F. Carter, 649, 813
— Managerial Significance of, by H. J. Novy, 649
— Motivation, Application to Study of Buying Habits, 558
— Naval, Development and Production Work at Royal Ordnance Factories, Discussion in Parliament on, 735
— Nuclear. See Nuclear Research European Organisation for. See Nuclear Research, European Organisation for
— in Nuclear Science, Natonal Institute for.
See Nuclear Science, Natio'inal Institute for Research in
— Operations, Introduction to. by C. West Churchman, R. L. Ackoff and E. L Arnoff (Review), 50
— Operational. See Operational Research
— Organisation, Planning in. Comment 544
Soviet, Engineers and Technicians Statistics of, 324*
— in Russia, 483
— Scientific, in Australia, 45 in British Universities, 371, LETTER, 421
— Seaweed, Institute of. See Seaweed Research, Institute of
— Services in Russia, 355
— Ship, Journal of. Note on, 83
— A Signpost to Better Management, National Conference on, by British Institute of Management, Preliminary Details, 133, 462, 649
— Station, Farm Buildings. See Farm Buildings
Fuel. See Fuel Research Station Radio. See Radio Research Station
— and Structural Engineering, by Sir A.
Pugsley, 509
— Thermonuclear, Controlled, Conference on, (Princeton University), 606
— Ultrasonic, Journal of. New Publication, 243
— Who Pays for? by Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, 649
— See also National Physical Laboratory Reserve Mining Co., Processing of Low-Grade Iron-Ore Deposits in Minnesota, 327
Reservoir, Derwent Valley, Discussion in Parliament on Projected, 127
— Hanningfield, and Treatment Works, Completion of, 509
— Level Control of Liquids in, 206*
— Water Level in, Float-Operated Electrical Level Transmitter for Remote Measurement of (George Kent, Ltd.), 207
Resil Products, Ltd., Lightweight Fibrous Material for Spares Packaging, 397
Resins, Epoxide, Production of Press Tools from, 404*
— Epoxy, Adhesive, “ Araldite ” (Aero Research, Ltd.), 520
— Epoxy, “ Araldite,” for Tooling (Trade Publication), 499
— Paints, “ Linotol ” (Springhill Products, Ltd.), 811
Plaster-Like, “ Linotex ” (Springhill Products, Ltd.), 811
—? Polyester, Transformed Cast in, for Use with Portable Tools (Foster Transformers, Ltd.), 554*
— as Protection against Radiation, 220
— Synthetic, Glass-Fibre Reinforced, Spraying Process for (Metropolitan Plastics, Ltd.), 89
Resistance Welding. See Welding Resonance Escape “
Systems, 786*
Restrictive Practices Polytechnic (Regent Street), 147
Act, Possible Effects on Company Profits, by Sir H. Railing, 326
— Trade Practices, Course on, at Polytechnic (Regent Street), 147
Retirement, Half-Pay at. Labour Party’s Proposal for, 352
Reuter, Dr.-Ing., F. H. H., on Slackening Pace of German Engineering Industries, 72 Reuther, W., Plea for Reduction in Automobile Prices, 288
on.
in.
See
Probability in Reactor
Act, 1956, Course on, at
Rheology, Agricultural, by G. W. Scott Blair and M. Reiner (Bock), 687
Rhodes, Brydon and Youett, Ltd., “ Mopump ” Pumps for Molten Metals and Salts, 522* Rhodesia, Northern, Aerial Geophysical Survey of, 281
Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Federation of. Uranium Ores from. Discussion in Parliament on Offer of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to Purchase, 157; Kariba Hydro-Electric Project, 221*; Industrial Power Requirements, 221; Discoveries of Thorium, Titanium and Pyrochlore. 831
— Southern, Aerial Geophysical Survey of,
281
Umtali Substation of Electricity Supply Commission in, 20/30 MVA Transformers for (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 215
Rhodesian Iron and Steel Co. (Pty.), Ltd., Expansion Programme of, 614
— Selection Trust, Reduction of Sellin.g Price
of Copper, 12; Scheme for Senior Employees to Become Shareholders, 32 Ribble, River, 132-kV Circuit Line over, 446* Rice, F, A, H., on Oxidation Induced by Ultrasonic Radiation on Solid System of Lauryl Aldehyde and Potassium Chlorate, 142
Rice, J, L,, on Recent Developments in Manufacture of Castings, 748
Richards, T, L,, on Current-Rating Tests on Double-Angle Section Copper Conductors, 823*
Richardson Scale Co,, Bagging Scales (Trade Publication), 149
Richardsons Westgarth and Co,, Ltd,, Distilling Plant for Producing Pure Water from Sea Water, 115
Ridley, J, E,, on Men, Materials and Machines, 32
Rigs, Multi-Spindle, for Tightening Large Number of Nuts Simultaneously (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co,, Ltd.), 264* Riggall, H., on Position and Prospects of Davey, Paxman and Co., 168
Riley, F,, on Technical Journals Young, 550
Riley “ One-Point-Five ” Motor Car Motor Corp.), 580*
Riley “ Two-Point-Six ” Motor Car
Motor Corp.), 357
for the
(British
(British
“ Rilflex ” Terylene-Polyvinyl Chloride Lightweight Non-Inflammable Conveyor Belt (Rubber Improvement, Ltd.), 679*
Rings, Nozzle, for Small Radial-Flow TurboChargers, 532*
Ritson, Prof, J. A, S,, the Late, 516
River, Across the, by R. Jocelyn (Review), 656
— Boat, “ Rocket ” Hydroplane, 409*
— and Canals, Regime Behaviour of, by
T, Blench (Review), 686
— Model Tests, Laboratory for, at Institute
of Technology, Stockholm, 377
— Pollution, Problems of, in Iron and Steel
Industry, 739
— Ribble, 132-kV Circuit Line Over, 446*
— Volta Aluminium Project, Discussion in
Parliament on Government Participation in Financing of, 735
— Water Level in, Float-Operated Electrical
Level Transmitter for Remote Measurement of (George Kent, Ltd.), 207
Rivet-Heating Furnace, Oxy-Acetylene, Portable (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 397*
— Molybdenum-Steel, Machine for Heating
and Upsetting, into Countersunk Preparations on Turbine Discs (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co,, Ltd,), 741*
Riveting Machine for Molybdenum-Steel Rivets (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co,, Ltd.), 741*
Road Accidents, New Policy of United States Motor-Car Industry, 338
See also Accidents
— Bridge, Runcorn-Widnes (Dorman
Co., Ltd.), 446
?— Construction, Effects of Cuts in Investment on, 557
New Programme of, 98
Shortage of Civil Engineers for,
Long &
Capital
159
— Designers, Foreign, Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 159
— Elevated Construction of, in Road Improve
ments in Brussels, 516
— Improvements in Brussels, 516
— Lighting, by J, R, Howard, 708
?— Markings, Discussion in Parliament New Forms of, 735
— New, to Channel Ports, Discussion
Parliament on, 671
— — Construction of, and Improvement
on
in
of
Existing Thoroughfares, Relative Priorities in, by J. Drake, 667
?— Research Laboratory, Work on New Road Signs, 127; Report on Tests of Pedal Cycles and Motor-Assisted Bicycles, 722
— Safety, Lighting in, by J. R, Howard, 708 ?— Signs, Discussion in Parliament on New
Ideas on, 127
— Skidding Resistance, 286
— Speed on the, and Related Effects, by
Dr. W. H. Glanville, 286
Road Traffic Congestion at Hyde Park Corner, Proposed Underpass for Relief of, 601
— Trunk, Possible Conversion of Railways to.
Comment on Proposal for, 667
— See also Highways
Robert-Houdin, P., Introduction of Son et Lumiere, 440
Roberts, Sir A., Remarks on Labour Party’s “ Half-Pay at Retirement ” Proposals, 352 Roberts, D., on Welding of Uranium, 793 Roberts, J.
Devices
303 Roberts, Sir
Prospects of Wellman Engineering Corp., 454
Roberts, R. R., on Welding Austenitic Steels for Gas-Turbine Rotors, 11
Robertson, J., and Sons, Trawl Winch for
“ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663* Robertson, J. M., on Performance Characteristics of 48-Inch Water Tunnel at Pennsylvania State University, 76*
Robertson Thain, Ltd., Building Ventilation (Trade Publication), 17; “ R.D. Stypol ” Glass-Reinforced Resin Transparent Corrugated Sheeting, 531; Double-Glazed Glass - Reinforced Polyester - Resin
Moulded Decklights for Use in “ Robertson Q-Deck ” Roofs (Trade Publication), 531; “ Galbestos ” Protected Steel Sheeting for Walls and Roofs (Trade Publication), 531; Roof Design Practice (Trade Publication), 657
Robertson, W. H. A., and Co., Ltd., Two-High Rolling Mills for Silvertown Works of Venesta, Ltd., 502*
Robinson, D., and Co., Stepping Relay (Trade Publication), 307; “ Rodene ” Self
Resetting Flush-Mounting Synchronous Process Timer, 585*
Robinson, T., and Son, Ltd., Laboratory
Equipment (Trade Publication), 51
Robinson, W., on Management, Lighting and Engineers, 578*, 626*, 658*. See
LETTER, 708
“ Robotyper ” Copy Attachment for Electric Typewriters (Royal Typewriters), 66
Robson, J. V. B., on Distribution of Heat Flow in High-Duty Internal-Combustion Engines, 58
Robson, L. W., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Associated British Engineering, Ltd., 168, 422
Rock Blasting (Trade Publication), 783 “ Rocket ” Hydroplane River Boat, 409*
— See Aeronautics
— Engine.
nautics
— Motors.
— Satellite. Rockey, Dr.
788*
Rockweld, Ltd., “ Autopak ” Multi-Purpose Transformer and “ Autopoint ” Automatic Welding Head, 267
Rockwell Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Milnes Heavy-Duty Fine Boring Machine, 491* Rocol, Ltd., Broadening Product Knowledge of Overseas Agents, 147
Rods, Bronze, Continuous Casting of, at Tin Research Institute, 205
— Cubit, Royal, Egyptian, 419*
— Double-Cubit, Moon-God with, 418*
— Measuring, Shell, 418*
“ Rodene ” Self-Resetting Flush-Mounting Synchronous Process Timer (D. Robinson and Co.), 585*
Roe, A. V., Canada, Ltd., “ Horizons,” House Magazine, 181
Rogers, F. E., on Theory of Networks, 325 Rogers, G. T., on Optical and Electrical Properties of Silver Azide and Their Relation to its Decomposition, 141
“ Role-Veyor ” Gravity Conveyor (Trade Publication). 149
Roll-O-Matic Automatic Renewable Air Filter (Trade Publication), 657
Rolls, External Cladding of, with Stainless Steel (Rose, Downs and Thompson, Ltd.), 358
Roll Ruler for Drawing Parallel Lines (J. C. Neville, Ltd.), 818
Roller Bearings. See Bearing.s
Rolling Mills for Aluminium Foil, at Silver- town Works of Venesta, Ltd. (W. H. A. Robertson and Co., Ltd.), 502*
Drive Motors and Switchgear for Foil Rolling Mill of Venesta, Ltd. (Laurence, Scott and Electromotors, Ltd.), 502*
Universal, for Broad Flange Beams, at Dorman Long, 601*
— Motion Problems, Demonstration of, 12
— Oil Installation at Venesta, Ltd., 503* Rolls-Royce Bulletin, Note on, 147
Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Sales Promotion in United States, 338; “ Silver Cloud ” Motor Car to Meet Needs of Busy Executive, 416; Appointment of Jack Olding and Co. as Official Dealer in United Kingdom, 558; Neptune Zero-Energy Nuclear Reactor, 669
Rongotai Airport, New Zealand, Microwave Radio Link for, 586*
Roofs, Coal-Mine, “ Roofmaster ” SelfAdvancing Hydraulic-Powered Supports for (Dowty Mining Equipment, Ltd.), 178*
— Construction, Concrete Shell, Symposium
on (London), 122
Shell, Concrete, Symposium on, 122 •— Design Practice (Trade Publication), 657
— “ Galbestos ” Protected Steel Sheeting for
(Trade Publication), 531
— Glazing in Factory Buildings, 658*
— at Jaguar Cars, Ltd., Reconstruction of,
797*
?— Lights in Factory Buildings, 658* ?— Monitor, in Factory Buildings, 658*
— Pitched, Uninsulated, Materials for Cover
ing (Trade Publication), 657
— “ Robertson Q-Deck,” Double-Glazed
Glass - Reinforced Polyester - Resin
Moulded Decklights for Use in (Trade Publication), 531
D., on Selection of Protective Against Crankcase Explosions,
P. G^, Remarks on Position and Smith Owen
See Engine, Rocket, under /lero-
See Engine under Aeronautics
See Aeronautics
K. C., on Plate Girder Design,
Roofs, Shell, Timber, Multiple-Leaf, for New Workshop of Royal Wilton Carpet Co., 121*
— “ Silbestos ” Sprayed Asbestos Insulation
for (Trade Publication), 625
— Single-Slope, Suction on, by J. D. Haddon,
732*. See Erratum, 828
— Venting as Fire Precaution (Trade Pub
lication), 657
— Wind Loading on, by J. D. Haddon, 559* Loading on. Plain Words on, 642
“ Roofmaster ” Self-Advancing Hydraulic- Powered Supports for Coal-Mine Roofs (Dowty Mining Equipment, Ltd.), 178* Rootes Group, Position and Prospects of, 678 Rootes, Sir W., on Prospect of Motorisation in Europe, 147
Ropes, Nylon (British Ropes, Ltd.), 332
— Polyvinyl Chloride (British Ropes, Ltd.), 332
— Steel (British Ropes, Ltd.), 332
— Wire. See iFire Rope
Rose, Downs and Thompson, Ltd., External Cladding of Rolls, Shafts, Tubes and Drums with Stainless Steel, 358; High- Temperature “ Dowtherm ” Heat Transfer Fluid, 775 Rosen, M. W., on Re-Entry of “ Vanguard ” Satellite, 100*; on Accuracy of Earth Satellites, 485
Ross, D., on Performance Characteristics of 48-Inch Water Tunnel at Pennsylvania State University, 76*
Ross, D., and “ ? " ~
Aronson ” Machine,
Power Unit for Rotating Components, 268; Welded Seam Grinding Head, 268* Ross, Sir H. J., on Annual Report of Distillers Co., 262; on Activities of Distillers Co., 295
Rossendorf, 2-MW Water-Cooled Nuclear Reactor at, 348
Rosser, J., on a Method of Co-Ordinate Indexing Based on N.A.C.A. Subject Classification, 755
“ Rotadate ” Continuous Wall Chart (Adapta Charts, Ltd.), 829
Rotameter Manufacturing Co., Ltd., “ Ekstrom ” Liquid-Level Indicator, 208* Rotary Hose, Ltd., Annual Report, 104
— Tiller (David Brown Group2, 648* Rotax, Ltd., Test Rig for
Electrical Actuators at Ltd.), 618*
Rotherham Works of Steel, Gradall Machine for Dismantling Open- Hearth Furnaces at, 215*
Rothman, M., on Stresses in Plate Containing Crack, 174*
“ Roto-Clone ” Dust Control Systems (Trade Publication), 657
Rotors, Gas-Turbine, Welding Austenitic Steels for, by R. R. Roberts, 11
— Shaft, Forged, for 120-MW Steam Turbine
for Staythorpe “ B ” Power Station (Thos. Firth and John Brown, Ltd.), 329*
— and Stator Alternators, Direct Hydrogen-
Cooling of (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 690*
— Turbine, Balancing, by Prof. J. P. den
Hartog, 661
Oil Whip in, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
Rotterdam Drydock Co., Labour Shortage at, 39
Round Oak Steelworks, History, Development and Modernisation of, 86*
“Routemaster” CRL4, Motor Omnibus, Adaptation for Green Line Routes, 574* Routing and Charging Equipment, Group (GRACE), for Telephone Exchanges, 722* Rover Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 678 Rowcroft, Major-General Sir E. B., on Technical Writing as a Profession, 200
Rowley, D. J., on Equivalent Circuits and their Application to Induction Motors, 405*
Roy, General, 42-in. Standard Scale, 420* Royal Aeronautical Society. See Aeronautical Society
Royal Air Force. See Royal under Aeronautics
— Aircraft Establishment. See Aeronautics
— Commission, on Doctors’ and Dentists’
Remuneration, Note on, 800
— Dutch-Shell Group, Celebration of
Years of Progress by, 119
— Engineers, in Across the River, by
Jocelyn (Review), 656
— Engineer Works Services, Exhibition
at War Office, 5*
— Greenwich Observatory (Herstmonceaux
Castle), Northern Portion of Equatorial Group, 227*; Photographic-Zenith Tube, 227*
— Institute
Architects
— Institution, Speed on the Road and Related
Effects, by Dr. W. H. Glanville, 286
— Military College of Science. See Science
— Naval Engineering College (H.M.S. “ Thun
derer ”), Discussion in Parliament on. Future of, 93
— Ordnance Factories. See Ordnance
Factories
Royal Radar Establishment. See Radar Establishment
Heating System Using
Partners, Ltd., “ Twinner- Bench-Mounted Positioning 268; “Twinner” Portable
Proving Linear (Steel Gauges,
Peech and Tozer,
50
R.
of.
of British Architects. See
Royal Society:
Discussion on Initiation and Growth of Explosion in Solids, 140*
Royal Society of Arts. See Arts
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, See Accidents, Royal Society for Prevention of
Royal Typewriters, “ Robotyper ” Copy Attachment for Electric Typewriters, 66 — Wilton Carpet Co., Multiple-Leaf Timber Shell Roof for New Workshop, 121*
Royce Electric Furnaces, Ltd., Bogie-Hearth Electric Annealing Furnace, 92*
Ruark, Dr., Remarks on Thermonuclear Fusion, 156
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INDEX
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Rubber, Bonding of, to Metal, “ Durasolid ” Method (Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres, Ltd.), 584
— De-Bonding from Metal, Holmes-Andre
Process (W. C. Holmes and Co., Ltd.), 679
— Engineering Uses of, by A. T. McPherson
and A. Klemin (Book), 51
— Hard, for Battery Containers, “ Implast ”
Raw Materials for Producing (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 711
Rubber Improvement, Ltd., “ Rilflex ” Tery- lene-Polyvinyl Chloride Lightweight Non- Inflammable Conveyor Belt, 679*
?— Lined Pump, “ UZ ” (British LaBour Pump Co., Ltd.), 335
— Nitrile, “Hycar” (Trade Publication), 625 “ Hycar,” Properties and Uses of
(British Geon, Ltd.), 202*
Oil and Abrasion-Resisting, Properties and Uses of, by S. E. Bolam, 202*
Oil Seals and Gaskets Moulded from, 203*
?— — Permeability of, to Gases, 204*
? Textile Spinning Cots Manufactured
from (Armstrong Cork Co., Ltd.), 203*
— Oil-Resisting, High-Nitrile, “ Butakon ”
(Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 358
— Price of, 363
?— Silicone, “ Prescolastik ” (Precision Rubbers, Ltd.), 358
— Synthetic, Butyl, Development of, 775 “ Hycar” (Trade Publication), 625 Imports of, 167
Supply and Demand Position, 167
— Technology, Recent Progress in, 711 RUCH, Permanent Exhibition of Foreign
Periodicals, Preliminary Notice of, 625 Ruddle, R. W., on Recent Developments in Manufacture of Castings, 748
Rule, Measuring, and Drawing Instrument, on Headless Statue of Gudea, Prince of Lagash, 418*
Ruler, Roll, for Drawing Parallel Lines (J. C. Neville, Ltd.), 818
Runcorn-Widnes Road Bridge (Dorman Long and Co., Ltd.), 446
Rural Co-operative Power Association, Withdrawal of American Machine and Foundry Co. from Agreement to Construct Nuclear Reactor for, 446
— Electrification in Northern Ireland, Progress
of, 198
— Water Supplies, Discussion in Parliament
on, 31
Russell, Newbery and Co., Ltd., “ F ” Type Diesel Engines (Trade Publication), 499 Russell, P. A., on Recent Developments in Manufacture of Castings, 748
Russia, Academy of Sciences, Application of Solar Energy, 354* ; Activities of, 355, 356; Universal Spark Erosion Machine “ Elek- trom 12,” 586*
— Activities in Industrial Espionage, 672
— Advertising in, 356
in. Comparison with the West, 484
— Application of New Techniques in, 483
— Automation in, 443
— Books Published in. Note on Type of, 213
— Coal-Gasification Plant in, 410
— Communications in, 356*
— Costing Methods in, 460
— Design Criteria in, 411
of Machine Tools in, 409*
— — for Production in, 411
— Economic Policy in, 460
— Electric Locomotive in, 354*
— Engineers in. See Soviet Engineers
— Engineering Education in, 441
— Factory Organisation in, 441 *, 460
— Female Labour in, 484
— Finish in. Standards of, 411
— Hours of Labour in, 442
— Industrial Progress, Comment on, 609
— Information Facilities in, 483
— Inventors, and Inventions in, 410
— Machine Tools, 554*, 555*
— Management Methods in, 460
— Materials in. Availability and Uses, 409, 410
— Motor Cars in. Size of, 410 Vehicle Industry in, 443
— New Methods and Techniques, 616
— Nuclear Achievements of. Cinema Film
on, 158
Power in. Plans for, 283*
?— ?— Power Plants in (Projects, 3, 4, 5 and 6), 283
Power Programme, 410, 668*
Power Programme, Use of Enriched Fuels, 414
Power Stations in (Projects 1 and 2), 283* Power Station in, Projected, Discussion on, 668*
— — Power Station for, 200-MW, Projected,
Model of, 668*
— ?— Reactor, Pressurised-Water, 200-MW,
projected, for. Layout of Coolant-Steam Circuit for, 669*
Powered Aircraft, Reports Relating to, 732
Reactor Power Projects in, 668*
Reactor Pressure Vessel for Projected 420-MW Nuclear Power Station for, 668* Reactors, Pressurised-Water, for. Discussion on Design of, 668*
Reactor, Pressurised-Water, for Projected 200-MW Nuclear Power Station for, 669*
Research in, 763
— Organisation of Labour in, 441
— Peat in. Occurrence and Uses of, 409
— Piecework in, 484
— Research in, 483
Services in, 355
— Science and Technology in. Remarks by
Academician P. 1. Kapitsa on, 455
— Technical Education in, 441 Progress in, 482*
— Walking Dragline, Projected, for, 410
?—? Women Workers in, 441
— Workshops in, 442
— See also Moscow: Russian: Soviet Russian Bell, “ Tsar Kolokol,” 324*
— Conquest of Space, Significance of,
Remarks by Dr. K. Mendelssohn, 512
Russian Earth Satellite, Observation of. Dis
cussion in Parliament on, 703
— Engineers. See Soviet Engineers
?— Grinding and Gear-Cutting Machines, 522*
— Industry, Design for Production in, 411 Incentives in, 461
Organisation of, 460
• Welfare Facilities in, 461
— Language Study by Science and Technical
Students, Discussion in Parliament on, 831 •— Literature, Build-Up of. Note on, 783
— Nuclear - Powered Icebreaker Vessel,
“ Lenin,” Launching of, 795
— Orders for Machinery, 356
— Pavilion at Brussels World Fair (1958), 516*
— People, Tastes of, 325
— Propeller Turbines, Development of, by
Dipl. Ing. F. Brandner, 116*
— Puppet, Petruskha, 483*
— Rocket, Experimental, Launching of, 482*
— Scientific and Technological Literature,
English Translations of. Collection of, at Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 735
— Scientists’ Ideas on Moon Rocket, 243
— Solar Cooker, 354*
?— Supremacy in World Trade, 545
— Trade Unions, Part Played by, 461
— Tyre Factory at Dnepropetrovsk, British
Equipment for, 356
— Workers, Educational and Training Facil
ities for, 441
— See also Russia: Soviet
Rust Prevention by Painting of Structural Steel, by F. Fancutt and j. C. Hudson (Review), 148
Rusted Surfaces, Formula “ E ” for Preparation of. Prior to Painting (Plus-Gas Co., Ltd.), 583
Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 4YEL 75 h.p. Diesel Engine, for Diesel-Hydraulic Shunting Locomotive, 87*; Mark “ TE ” 300-kW Gas-Turbine, 315*, 333*; “ 200DE ”
Diesel Shunting Locomotive, 459*; Export Trade in Middle East, 558
Rustyfa, Ltd., Russian Orders for Machinery, 356
Rutherford High Energy Laboratory of National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, Appointment of Dr. T. G. Pickavance as Director of, 764; Contract to W. E. Chivers and Sons, Ltd., for Con struction of Main Buildings of, 827
Rutile Deposits in Sierra Leone, Development of, 93
Ryan Aeronautical Co., Chronology World-Wide VTOL Development, 213 Ryndin, R., on Elastic Scattering Matrix Two-Nucleon System, 764

SACK Handling, Loader, “ Telehoist,” “ Barfitt ” Bulk Transporter, 357*
Sackey, E. A., at World Power Conference, 21
Saclay, Nuclear Research Centre of Commissariat d r Energie Atomique, 189*
“ Safeguard ” Wiring System (Trade Publication), 403
Safety Administration in Atomic Energy, 28
— Belts, for Motor Cars, Report on, 729*
— Congress, National, Address by J. E, Simon on Safety in the Home, 556
— Device for Making Workers Conscious of (Automatic Telephone and Electric Co.), 544
— in Electric Wiring, Work of National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting, 46
— in Electrical Engineering in Chemical
Factories (Booklet), 337
— Flame-Failure Safeguard Equipment (Fireye Controls Co., Ltd.), I 15
— of Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactors, 636
— and Health Regulations on Compressed Air, 224
— Health, Welfare and, in Non-Industrial Employment and Hours of Employment of Juveniles, Committee of Inquiry Into, Plea for Implementation of Recommendations of, 31
— in the Home, by J. E. Simon, 556
— Lighting Set, Battery-Operated (General Electric Co,, Ltd.), 15
— Limits for Transporting Nuclear Materials
Proposed Regulations by United States Atomic Energy Commission, 794
— Measures, Gamma Radiography, in Steel Foundries, by G. M. Michie, 46*
— of Motorways, Enhanced, by Dr. W. H. Glanville and Dr. R. J. Smeed, 667
— Nuclear Reactor, Conference on (New York), 606
“ Safety ” Ohmmeter, Photo-electric, for Testing Firing Circuits (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.;, 585*_
— Precautions in Elements, 61
Relating to X-Ray and
— Railway Rails
ment on, 31
Speeds and. Discussion in on, 31
— Regulations in Engineering,
Processing
Nuclear Fuel
Radioactive Gamma-Ray and. Discussion
Materials, 46* (Book), 16 in Parlia-
Parliament
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Manuals on, 337
in Shipbuilding, 223
— Road, Lighting in, by J. R Howard, 708. Sahara, Basic Investment Needs for, 772
— Coal in. Production and Deposits, 770*
— Iron Ore in, 771 *
— Mineral Wealth of. Exploration of, 770 Saharan Oil Exploration and Exploitation Co.,
Activities of, 771
Saint. See St.
Salaries of Australian Engineers, Survey on (Pamphlet), 809
?— Claims, Attitude of Government to.
Discussion in Parliament on, 639
— Directors’, Plea for Increase in Limit to, 768
— Engineers’, Proposed Survey on, 97
— of Engineering Teachers in United States, 821
Salaries in Nationalised Industry, Increase, 96
— Scales in Technical Colleges in Scotland, 93
— See also Income, and Wages under Labour Sales Management, Fundamentals of; Battle of the Desk, 492
— Managers’ Association, Incorporated, Con
ference on Implications of Free Trade Area, 397; The Battle of the Desk: One of the Fundamentals of Sales Management, 492; Annual General Meeting _of, 719; Remarks on Conference Free Trade, by A. Lucas, Effect of European Free
of, 719
— Promotion, Overseas, and
ference on, 492
of a Reduced Range of Products, by R. S. Liddle, 427
in United States by Rolls-Royce, Ltd., 338
— Training in Industry (Booklet), 256
— See also Selling
Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd., Multi-Tap Linear Potentiometer, 426*
Salts, Molten, “ Mopump ” Pumps for (Rhodes, Brydon and Youatt, Ltd.), 522* Samastronic Tabulator, High-Speed Printer in (Powers-Samas Accounting Machines (Sales), Ltd.), 66*
Samples, Standard: Catalogue of Reference Materials (Book), 17
Sampler, Scientific, by R. Stevens, H. F. Hamacher and A. A. Smith (Book), 371 Sampling Ore at Avoca, 489
— Work, by R. E. Heiland and W. J.
Richardson (Review), 562
Sand Ramming (Trade Publication), 149 Sandale, Cumberland, Opening of Permanent Medium-Powered Television Transmitting Station at, 805
Sanders, R. Y., on Power for Underdeveloped Countries, 20
Sanders, T. R. B., on Variety Reduction and Standardisation in Manufacturing, 427
Sandwich Course for Steelworks Engineers, 679 Sangster, J. Y., Remarks on Need for Balanced Company Boards, 710
Sankey, J., and Sons, Ltd., Contract for Magnet Yoke for 7-GeV Proton-Synchrotron, 504 Santos-Dumont Model Aeroplane, Presentation of, to Brazil Government by Vickers- Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd., 232*
Sarmiento, General J., Visit to United Kingdom to Study Atomic Energy, 158 Satellite. See under Aeronautics
— Rockets. See Rockets under Aeronautics Saturn-Hivolt Surge Injector, Argon-Arc
Welding Unit (Saturn Industrial Gases Ltd.), 330
Saturn Industrial Gases, Ltd., Saturn-Hivolt Surge Injector, Argon-Arc Welding Unit, 330
Saunders, Prof. O. A., Review of Engineering Heat-Transfer, 313*
Saunders-Roe, Ltd., “ SR53 ” Supersonic Mixed-Power Interceptor Prototype Aircraft, 259; " SR53 ” Experimental Mixed- Power Interceptor Aircraft, 350*; “SR 177” High-Altitude Supersonic Mixed-Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft, 537*. also 517; Research on Underwater Forms, 738*
Saunders-Roe (Anglesey), Ltd., Welded minium Trawler Hatch Cover, 329*
Saunders Valve Co., Ltd., Type “A” Valve Body in Cast Titanium, 552*
Sauvy, A., at World Power Conference, 22* Savage and Parsons, Ltd., Radioactive-Isotope Transporting Cans and Lead Shielding, 795
“S.C.I ” Vertical Take-Off and Landing Research Aircraft (Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd.), 292, 494*
Scaffolding Technique for Cooling Towers at Castle Donington Power Station (Mills Scaffold Co., Ltd.), 287
— Tubular, for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope
(Mills Scaffold Co., Ltd.), 36
“ Scalamp ” Galvanometer, for Checking Performance of Thermometer for Hypothermia (W. G. Pye and Co., Ltd.). 459
Scales, Bagging (Trade Publication), 149
— Kater’s 36-in. (1830-1831), 420*
— Marks, Design of, 248*
— Standard, 42-in., General Roy, 420* Scandinavian Airlines System, Order for
“ Caravelle ” Twin-Jet Medium-Range Aircraft (Sud Aviation), 39
Scatter in Troposphere, Experimental Work on, 172
Scattering Matrix, Elastic, for Two-Nucleon System, by L. Puzikov, R. Ryndin and Ya. Smorodinsky, 764
Scavenging Pumps. See Pumps, Air
Schering Bridge, Use in Testing of Capacitors at Elizabeth Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 155*
Schmid, H., “ HSR Automat ” Turret Tool Holder for Centre Lathes, 680*
Scholarships. See Education
School Leavers, Directory of Opportunities for (Booklet), 32
— Television Broadcasts of British Broad
casting Corporation, Comment on, 448 Schuchtermann and Kremer-Baum Resonance Screens (Trade Publication), 563
Schwenkhagen, Prof. H. F., on Management Courses, 2
Sciaky Electric Welding Machines, Ltd., Air- Operated Spot-Welding Machines, 268; Foot-Operated Spot-Welding Machine, 268
Sciences, Aeronautical, and Controlled Flight, International Series of Monographs on (Pergamon Press), 755
International Council of the. See Aeronautical Sciences
— American Association for the Advancement
of. Water for Industry, by J. B. Graham and M. F. Burrill (Book), 51
— and Economic Development, by R. L,
Meier (Review), 336
— without Experiment, British Broadcasting
Corp.’s, Discussion on, in Third Programme, 167
on European 719
Trade on Task
Exports, Con
See
Hull
Alu-
Science, Food, 386
— Library, Books on Engineering (Supple
ment), 371
“ Friends of the Science Library,” Proposal for, 51
Need for Volumes of Periodicals, 51
— Museum; First Hundred Years (Review),
306
Public Lectures, Comment on, 448 Machine-Tool Display at. Plain Words on, 514
? Seismology, Geophysics Handbook
No. I. by J. Wartnaby (Review), 530
— Nuclear, National Institute for Research in.
See Nuclear Science, National Institute for Research in
— Relationship with Arts, Humanities and
Technology, 776
— Royal Military College of. Investigation on
Wind Loading of Roofs, by J. D. Haddon, 559*
— and Technology, Advanced, Courses in.
Discussion in Parliament on, 671
in Russia, Remarks on, by Academician P. I. Kapitsa, 455
Scientific Education, Need for Improvement in, 514
— and Engineering Education, Importance
of, 481
?— Film Association, International, Review of Congress at Amsterdam, 619; Scientific Film Review, Note on, 625
Review, Note on, 403, 625 See also Film {Cinema)
— and Industrial Research, Department of;
Report of Advisory Council, 305; Replacement of Advisory Council by Research Council, 305; Scientific Research in British Universities, 371. See LETTER, 421; Plant for De-Salting Brackish Water for Drinking, for Tobruk, 468*; Problems of Progress in Industry: Men. Steel and Technical Change (Pamphlet), 608; Investigation of Air Pollution (Book), 687; Comprehensive Colletion of English Language Translations of Russian Scientific and Technological Literature, 735; Managers for Tomorrow, by Miss R. Stewart, 736, See also under Specific Departments of
Research Organisation, Commonwealth. See Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Research, South African Council for. Note on Library of. 437
— Instruments, Canadian Imports of, from
United Kingdom and United States, 778* Manufacturers’ Association. See Instrument Manufacturers
Research Association, British, Need for Development of Faster Digital Computers, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 557; Open Days, 781; Research into Thin Metal Films, 781; Ultrasonic and Electromagnetic Flowmeters, 781
—- — See also Instruments
— Knowledge, International, Pooling of.
Discussion in Parliament on, 671
and Scientific Manpower in United States, Organisation of. Comment on Dr. V. Bush’s Remarks on, 705
•— Management. See Management
— Manpower and Scientific Knowledge in
United States, Organisation of. Comment on Dr. V. Bush’s Remarks on, 705
Scientific Pharmacals, Ltd., “ Kerocleanse ” Creams for Cleaning Hands in Works and Offices, 602
— Research. See Research
— Sampler, by R. Stevens, H. F. Hamacher
and A. A. Smith (Book), 371
— Societies. See Institutions
— and Technical Manpower in ’
Europe, Canada, and United Problem of (Review), 402
Translating and Other Aspects Language Problem, Note on. 499
Scientists, Emigration to Canada and States, Comment on, 641
— Employed in Government Service,
sion in Parliament on, 127
— and Engineers, Aeronautical, Possible
Redundancy of. Discussion in Parliament on, 799
British, Emigration of. Discussion in Parliament on, 735
“ Scootacar ” Enclosed Three-Wheeled Scooter (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 146*
Scooter, Three-Wheeled, Enclosed, “ Scootacar ” (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 146*
“ Scotchrap ” Polyvinyl Chloride Tape with Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 583 Scotland, Aircraft Industry in. Discussion in Parliament on, 799
— Emigration from. Problem of. Concern
Regarding, 384
— Exploitation of Natural Gas in, 728
— North of, Hydro-Electric Board, Loch Awe
Hydro-Electric Project, 104; Errochty Hydro-Electric Power Station, 139*
— South of. Electricity Board, Model of
Nuclear Power Station for, at " Het Atoom ” Exhibition, 124*; Nuclear Power Station at Hunterston, 217; Steel Castings for Hunterston Nuclear Power Station (.4.P.V.-Paramount, Ltd.), 217; Hunterston Nuclear Power Station, Commencement of Work on, 319
—?—Nuclear Power Station, Steel Castings for (A.P.V.-Paramount, Ltd.), 217
— Technical Colleges at Kilmarnock and Ayr,
Progress on, 191
Technical Colleges in. Salary Scales in, 93 Scott Bader and Co., Ltd., Polyester Handbook (1957), Note on, 243
Scottish Cables (South Africa), Ltd., Annual Report, 743
— Graduates for Scottish Industry, 191
— Industry, Scottish Graduates for, 191 Scottish Machine Tool Corp., Position and
Prospects of, 337
Scrap Problems in European Coal and Steel Community, 188
Western States,
of the
United
Discus-
Ixvl
INDEX
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Screens, Resonance, SKB (Schiichtermann and Kremer-Baum) (Trade Publication), 563
— “ Symons.” for Cauldon Low Cement
Works (Stothert and Pitt, Ltd.). 535*
— Vibrating (Trade Publication), 531 Screw-Cutting Lathe. See Lathe under
Machine Tools
— Presses, “ Hildu ” Range (Press and Shear
Co., Ltd.), 298
— Propellers. See Propellers: Aeronautics
— Threads, Small (Trade Publication), 51 Standards for Federal Services (1957),
755
Unified, Adoption of, by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 682
Screwing Machine. See Machine Tools Sculpture of Machine Minders, by Miss
G. Koenig, 428*
— Opportunities for, in Factories, 428
“ Sea Slug ” Guided Weapon (Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.), 349*
— Water, Distilling Plant for Producing Pure
Water from (Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd.), 115
Fusion-Energy Content of. Remarks on by Dr. P. C. Thonemann, 29. See Erratum, 156
Power From, Prospect of, 610 Seal, Inflatable, for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 55
— Oil, Moulded from Nitrile Rubber, 203*
— P.T.F., for Type USL Self-Priming Pumps
(Crane Packing, Ltd.), 334
•— Shaft, for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal
Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56 Sealing and Lubrication for Small Radial-Flow
Turbo-Chargers, 532*
— Machine, “ Hypak Polysealer,” for Poly
thene Bags (Oppenheimer Casing Co. (U.K.), Ltd.), 107
Seat, Passenger, Double, Aircraft, Glass-Fibre-
Reinforced (Microcell, Ltd.), 89 Seating, Design Considerations for, 197* Seaway, St. Lawrence, Note on Papers on, 821 Seaweed Research, Institute of. Report of, 12 “ Secomak ” Healer Unit for Industrial Hot-
Air Blowers (Service Electric Co., Ltd.), 270*
Secomastic, Ltd., Zinc-Rich Corrosion- Resistant Paints, 583
“ Second Breakfast,” German, Comment on, 32 Secretarial Services on Trains, 416 Sections, Metal (Trade Publication), 783
— Noral, Portable Crevasse Bridge Built from
(Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 227*
— Rolled, Broad-Flange, Universal Mill for,
at Dorman Long’s Lackenby Works, 601* SEICHIME (Ste. d’Exploitations et d'Interets
Chimiques et Meiallurgiques), Activities of, 106
Seismology, Geophysics Handbook No. 1, by J. Wartnaby (Review), 530
Selenium Photo-Cell in Photo-Electric “Safety” Ohmmeter (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 585*
— Rectifiers, 565*
Self-Changing Gears, Ltd., Automatic Control for Railcar Gearboxes, 265; Fluid- Friction Clutch, 265; “Sequent” SelfChanging Mechanism for Oil-Operated Marine Gearboxes, 266*
Self-Priming Pump and Engineering Co., Purchase by Pulsometer Engineering, Ltd., 422 Selling by Cinema Film, Comment on, 622. See LETTER, 676
— by Competition, Comment on, 622
— Co-operative, Discussion on, 831
— to Industry (Report), 81
—? Railways Service, by J. R. Pike, 492
— See also Sales
Semi-Conductors, Ltd., Transistor Factory at Swindon, 509
Report on (Book), 498
Theory and Practice, by G. Goudet and G. Meuleau (Review), 498
Use in Rectifiers, 565* Semtex, Ltd., Bricks, Tiles, and Ashlars in
Anti-Corrosive Cement, 584
Senior, E. W., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Ransome and Maries, 549
S.E.N.N., Possible Purchase of Calder Hall Type Nuclear Reactor, 700
Separation Vessels, OCC, for
(Trade Publication), 821
Separator, Filter, Bulk Fuel, (Automotive Products Co., nuj.
— Magnetic, for Coolant (Rapid Magnetic
Machines, Ltd.), 13*
Sequence Timer, Heavy-Duty (Trade Publication), 213
“ Sequent ” Self-Changing Mechanism for Oil- Operated Marine Gearboxes (Self-Changing Gears, Ltd.), 266*
Serby, J. E., on Guided Weapons and Aircraft —Some Differences in Design and Development, 822
Serck Radiators, Ltd., Installation of Roller- Hearth Annealing Furnace for Tubes at (G. W. B. Furnaces, Ltd.), 150*
Diversification of, 487
Serrations, Fir-Tree Root, Pilch Errors of, in Gas-Turbine Discs, Comparator for Automatic Measurement of, by L. W. Nickols, 372*
Service Aviation. See Aeronautics
Service Electric Co., Ltd., “ Secomak ” Heater Unit for Industrial Hot-Air Blowers, 270*; Electric Siren, 469*
Services. SQQ Armed Forces
Servicing Guide to British Motor Vehicles, Vol 4: Cars, Commercial Vehicles, Diesel Engines and Components, by A. J. K. Moss (Book), 687
Servo Control System, Hydraulic, for Mark TD 300-kW Gas-Turbine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 315*
— Oscillator, Quartz, RD. 101 (Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co.), 496*
— Systems Designed by Royal Aircraft
Establishment, 260
— Units, Lightweight (Harvey Electronics, Ltd.), 554*
Heavy Media
“ Purolator ” Ltd.), 266*
Im-
Severn-side, Proposed Expansion on, by perial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 40
Sewage Disposal Schemes, Discussion in liament on, 93
Works, Cyprus, 5
— Plants, Liquid-Level Control in, 206
— Works, Brancote, Dual-Fuel Vertical
Naturally Aspirated Diesel Engines, 3 KD Type (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 489
Sewing Machines, Exports of, 233
Imports of, 233
Industry, Statistics of, 233
Manufacture of, by Vittorio Necchi, S.p.A., 233, 453
Manufacturers, British Association of. Formation of, 233
Production Statistics, 233
“ Shadowmasta VMP ” Tool-Room Projector (Watson, Manasty and Co., Ltd.), 742*
Shaft Balancing, by Prof. J. P. den Hartog, 661
— Coupling. See Coupling
— Crank. See Crankshaft
— Dynamometer. See Dynamometer
— External Cladding of, with Stainless Steel
(Rose, Downs and Thompson, Ltd.), 358
— Holes, Fitting of. See Gauges: Gauging
— Rotor, Forged, for 120-MW Steam Turbine
for Staythorpe “ B ” Power Station (Thos. Firth and John Brown, Ltd.), 329*
— Seals for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Rcyal
Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56
— Ship’s, Longitudinal and Torsional Vibra
tion of, 661-662
— Turbine, Low-Pressure, for 23-MW Turbo-
Generator (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 297*
Shale Conveying Equipment for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Hugh Wood and Co., Ltd.), 535*
Shaping Machine. See Machine Tools Shardlow, A., and Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 72; Amalgamated Engineering Union’s Action Against Employees of, 608 Share Purchase Plan, Employers’, of Rhodesian Selection Trust, 32
Sharp, D., on Position and Prospects of Scottish Marine Tool Corp., 337
Sharpies Centrifuges, Ltd., Purification of Liquids (Trade Publication), 149; De- Acidifier for Fuel Oils, 330; Floating Drag Centrifuge for Marine Service, 330*; “ Nozlejector ” Disc-Type Centrifuge for High-Visccsity Fuel Oils, 330
Shear and Compression, Prestressing Against, 245*
— Diaphragm Bursting Discs, 210*
— Loading Effects in I-Beams, by A. P. Green
and B. B. Hundy, 74*. 112*
— Pin Bursting Discs, 210*
Relief Mechanism for Bursting Discs, 210*
— Plug Bursting Discs, 210*
Shearing Machine. See Machine Shedden, J. W., on Bend Test as
Weld Metal Quality, 73
Sheet, Aluminium, Decorative,
(Trade Publication), 307
Par-
Tools
Criterion of
“ Imprest ”
— Laminated Plastics, Large, Edge Trimming
Machine for (Wadkin, Ltd.), 361*
— Noral. Portable Crevasse Bridge Built from
(Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 227*
— Polyvinyl Chloride, “ Fi-Vi ” Expanded
Unplasticised, Laminated with Resin- Bonded Glass Fibres (Whiffen and Sons, Ltd.), 98
— Soft, Thin, Continuous Thickness Measur
ing of, by Dr. J. C. Evans, I. G. Morgan, B. S. W. Mann, and F. C. P. Mason, 631*
— Spaced, Metal, “ Space Welding ” Tech
nique for Joining (Union Carbide International Co.), 728*
— Steel, Markets for, 806
— and Strip Steel Supplies, Plans for Expansion
of, 127
— Vinyl, Rigid, “ Cobex,” for Chemical Plant
(BX Plastics, Ltd.), 583
Sheeting ” Galbestos ” Protected Steel, for Walls and Roofs (Trade Publication), 531
— Thermoplastic, “VF12” and “VF18”
Small Vacuum Forming Machines for Shaping (M. L. Shelley and Partners, Ltd.), 92*
— Transparent Corrugated, “ R.D.
Glass-Reinforced Resin (Trade tion), 531
Sheffield City Libraries, Bibliography Heading of Steel, Note on, 563
Stypol ’ Publica-
on Cold
— Interchange Organisation, Review of Pro
gress (1956-7), 279
Sheffield, J., on Position Horseley Bridge and Group, 326
Sheffield, J. V., Remarks
Norcros, Ltd., 517
and Prospects of
Thomas Piggott
on Objectives of
Sheffield Twist Drill and Steel Co., Ltd., Twist Drills (Trade Publication), 17
— University, Opening of Extensions to Elec
trical Engineering Department, 95
Shelf, On the (Literature Survey), by F. H. Smith, 17, 51, 83, 119, 149, 181, 213, 243, 279, 307, 336, 371, 403, 437, 471,499, 531, 563, 595, 625, 657, 687, 721, 755, 783, 821 Shells. See Projectiles
Shell Film Unit, Cinema Film on High-Speed Flight, 85
Shell Magazine, Celebration of 50 years of Progress by the Royal Dutch-Shell Group, 119
— Measuring Rod, 418*
Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., Working Model of Small-Bore Oil-Fired Heating System at Building Exhibition, 493 ; Cinema Film “ Forming of Metals,” 806
Shell Oil Co., Palestine, Discontinuance of Operations in Israel, 223
Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd., Lubricant for Free- Piston Engines, 139; Extensions at Shellhaven and Stanlow Refineries, 200; Interest in Shell Oil Co. of Palestine, 223; Plans for Oil Tanker Terminal at Punta Gorda, 231
Shell Petroleum (Nigeria), Ltd., Pipeline from Port Harcourt to Oloibiri, 158
— Roof. See Roof
Shelley, M. L., and Partners, Ltd., Small Vacuum Forming Machines, “ VF12 ” and “ VF18,** for Shaping Thermoplastic Sheeting, 92* Shelley, R. A., on llushin II “ Moskva ” Aircraft, 582
Shellhaven Refinery, Extensions at, 200 Shelving, Steel, at Slough Paint Warehouse of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 62* Shepherd, L. R., on Rocket Performance, 485 Sherwood Project on Thermonuclear Reaction, 156
Shielding for Nuclear Power Station, Note on Design and Regulations of, 158
Shift Working in Russia, 442
Ship Canal. See Canal
— Cargo, Fires in, by A. M. Bennett, 83
— Design, by L. Dunn, Comment on, 65
— Diesel-Engined.
Propulsion
— Electric Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Gas-Turbine, John Sergeant, Trials and
Maiden Voyage of, by J. J. McMullen, 809
— Launching. See Launching
— Life-Raft, Inflatable, for. Regulations on,
63
— Merchant, Launchings of, 93
Life-Saving Apparatus on. Proposed Amendment to Provisions Reltiang to, 703 Nuclear, Fluidised-Fuel Nuclear Reactors for, by C. B. Ellis, 730*
Nuclear-Powered, Construction Contract, 700
Nuclear-Powered, 569, 571 Nuclear Reactors for, 444*
— Models in Glasgow Art Gallery and
Museum, Catalogue of (Review), 754
of Underwater Oil Tankers under Test, 738*
— Motor. See Motorships; Marine Propul
sion
— New, Orders for, 134
— Nuclear-Powered, Icebreaker (Russian), 569 Powered, Need for “ Great Eastern,” 795 Propulsion of, by Sir C. Hinton and
R. V. Moore, 698
— Propellers. See Propellers
— Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion ;
Engines: Turbines: Propellers
— Repairing, Safety Regulations in, 223
— Research, Journal of. Note on, 83
— Stabilisation System, Denny Brown, 663
— See also Liners: Marine: Motorships;
Oil-Tankers: Shipping: Trawlers; Warships
Shipbuilding, Aluminium in (Book), 595 in. Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 329*
?—Compendium, British, 1957 (Book), 279
— and Engineering Draughtsmen, Association
of. See Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, Association of
— Industry, Capital Expenditure in, 104 Dutch, Boom in, 39
Dutch, Labour Shortage in, 39 Position and Prospects of, 134 Productivity in, Statistics Relating to, 799
— Need for More Engineers in, by Rt. Hon.
J. S. Maclay, 557
—? Research Association, British, Graviner-
B. S.R.A. Photo-Electric Crankcase Oil- Mist Detector Unit for Diesel Engines, 303*; Corrosion of Mild-Steel Tubes in Scotch Marine Boilers, 559
— Safety Regulations in, 223
— Steel Supplies for, Improved Position of, 93
— Wide Aluminium-Alloy Plate for (Northern
Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 329
— Yard, Cuba, Construction of, by British
Consortium. 620
Safety Regulations in, 223
— See also Naval: Warships
Shipowners’ Liability for Damages in Respect of Passengers, and on Stowaways, Draft Conventions on, 735
Shipping Cargoes, Decline in, 168
— Charges, Discussion in Parliament on, 223
— Freight Markets, Fluctuations in. Remarks
by Hon. J. P. Philips, 678
— Lines. Liabilities of. Bill for Increasing, 703
— Lloyd’s Register of. See Lloyd's
— Position and Prospects of, 168
Shippingport Pressurised-Water Nuclear Reactor, Criticality Reached, 732
— PWR Nuclear Reactor at. Progress of, 827* Shipston Engineering Co., Ltd., Compressed-
Air Equipment, 299; “Micro-Fog” Lubricator for Compressed-Air Lines, 299*; Pilot-Controlled Air Supply Regulator, 299*
Shipyard. See Shipbuilding Yard.
Shock, Initiation of Explosion by, by K. K. Andreev, 141
of Explosives by, by G. P. Cachia and E. G. Whitbread, 142
— — of Liquid Explosives by, and Importance
of Liquid Break-Up, by C. H. Johansson, et alia, 142
— Tube Plasmas, Study of, at Atomic Energy
Research Establishment (Harwell), 474
— Waves, Initiation of Solid Explosives by, by
C. W. Lampson and R. J. Eichelberger, 142 Shoo Management. See Management Shopper's Guide, Note on, 493
Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., Missile for Guided-Weapon Homing Demonstration at Farnborough Show, 260*; “S.C.l” Vertical Take-Off Research Aircraft, 292; “ S.C. 1 ” Vertical Take-Off and Landing Aircraft, 494*; Helicopter Flight Simulator, 500*; Progress of Research and Development in Northern Ireland, 549; New “ Systems ” Engineering Research Laboratories at Belfast, 600*; Digital and Analogue Computer Service, 697; Discussion in Parliament on Future of, 799
Short-Circuit Tests on Experimental Busbar Joints, 747
Shortlands Junction, Track Layout Alterations at, 766*
Show. See Exhibition
Shuttering, Polystyrene, for Concrete, 89 Siberia, “ Banishment ” of Mr. Malenkov to, 96
See Motorships: Marine
Sicily, Benefits of Self-Government in. 111
— Industrial Development of. 111
— Investment of Gulf-Oil in, 777
Sidcup Film Units, Cinema Film on Nucleonic Thickness Gauging, 158
Siemens Bros. and Co., Ltd., Audio Frequency Staff Location System, 67
Siemens and General Electric Railway Signal Co., Ltd., Traffic Signal Controller, 421
Siemens and Halske, A.G., Relay Interlocking Signalbox at Frankfurt, 533*
— Regenerative Furnace, Centenary of, 489 Sierra Leone, Development of Rutile Deposits
in, 93
Sigma Spot-Welding Equipment for “ Space- Welding ” of Metal Sheets, 728*
Sigmund Pumps, Ltd., Type FN5 Heavy-Duty Single-Stage Centrifugal Pump, for Fire- Fighting Tenders of Auxiliary Fire Service, 241*
Signal Controller. Traffic, 421
Signalbox, Relay Interlocking, at Frankfurt, 533*
— St. Pancras, Power Signalling at, 534 Signalling, Railway, Automatic, for Northern
Line of Underground Railways of London Transport, 819*
Automatic Train Control, Implementation of, by British Railways, 598
— ?— Circuits in Modernisation Plan of Brit
ish Railways, 507
Modernisation of, by British Railways, 598*
Power, at St. Pancras Railway Station,534 Signalbox, Relay Interlocking, at Frankfurt, 533*
Signalboxes at St. Pancras Railway Station, 534
Silage Making Equipment, 369
“ Silbestos ” Sprayed Asbestos Insulation for Roofs (Trade Publication), 625
Silicon, High-Purity, Companies Producing, 281
Purity, Plans for Production Davison Chemical Co., 281
— — Purity, Plans for Production
W. R. Grace and Co., 281
— Junction Low Power Rectifier
Publication), 307
— Production by Du Pont, 281 by Johnson Matthey, 282 by Sylvania Electric Products Corp., 282
— Rectifiers, 565*
— Semi-Conductors (Texas Instruments, Ltd.),
491
— Transistor-Grade, Development of, by
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 282
— Transistors and Rectifiers (Texas Instru
ments, Ltd.), 491
Silicone Compound for Obviating Spatter Pick-Up on Welding Nozzles (Union Carbide International Co.), 472
— as Mould-Release Agents (Trade Publica
tion), 563
— Rubber Insulated Cable, “ Tersil ” (British
Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 424 “ Prescolastik ” (Precision Rubbers, Ltd.), 358
Silver Azide, Decomposition of, 140
Mechanism of. Decomposition of, by B. E. Bartlett, F. C. Tompkins and D. A. Young, 141
Optical and Electrical Properties of, and their Relation to its Decomposition, by A. C. McLaren and G. T. Rogers, 141 Silver City Airways, Statistics for Motor-Car Air Lift to Europe, 27
“ Silver Cloud ” Motor Car to Meet Needs of Busy Executive (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 416 SUvertown Works of Venesta, Ltd., Rolling Mills for Foil at (W. H..A. Robertson and Co., Ltd.), 502*
Simmonds Aerocessories, Ltd., “ Pacitor ” Gauge for Liquid Level Measurement, 177 Simms Motor Units, Position and Prospects of, 72, 549; Electronic Regulator for Low- Voltage Generators, 314
Simon-Carves, Ltd., Coal Dust Precipitators at National Coal Board's Phurnacite Plant at Aberaman, 13; Annual Report, 39
Simon, H. (Holdings), History and Development of, 614; Position and Prospects of, 614
Simon Handling Engineers, Activities of, 614 Simon, J. E., Address to National Safety Congress on Safety in the Home, 556
Simplex Algorithm, Explanation of, by D. U. Greenwald (Book), 437
Simplex Piling, Ltd., Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Simplification of Work, by P. Fornallaz, 3 Simpson Fawcett and Co., Acquisition of, by Lines Bros., 772
Simulator, Diesel-Electric, for Training Purposes on British Railways, 153*
— Flight, Electronic, TRIDAC, at Royal Air
craft Establishment (Farnborough), 468* Singapore, Weather Exploration Flights from, for “Britannia 312” Long-Range Civil Aircraft (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 727 Singer Manufacturing Co., History of, 233 Singer Motors, Ltd., “ Gazelle ” Motor-Car, 572*
Singer Sewing Machine Co., Ltd., Growth of, 233
Singham, Dr. J. R., on Free-Piston Gas Generators, 692*
Sinter Plant for Power-Station Ash, 414 Sintering and Brazing Furnaces, Ltd., 5l-kVA “ Humpback ” Conveyor Furnace for Sintering Powder-Metals, 331*
— of Metal Fibres (American Viscose Corp.),
424
— of Powder-Metals, 51-kVA “Humpback”
Conveyor Furnace for (Sintering and Brazing Furnaces, Ltd.), 331*
SINTO. See Sheffield Interchange Organisa~ tion
Siren, Electric (Service Electric Co., Ltd.), 469* Sisson, W., and Co., Ltd., Experimental Steam Engines for College and Student Use (Trade Publication), 821
“65” 50-5 h.p. 4-cylinder Tractor with
Perkins Engine (Massey-Harris-Ferguson), 741
of, by
of, by
(Trade
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
INDEX
Ixvii
Size Effect of an Organisation, by Prof. R. W.
Revans, 33. See LETTER, 228
SKB (Schiichtermann and Kremer-Baum) Resonance Screens (Trade Publication), 563
Sketchley Cleaners and Dyers, Cleaning Scheme for Industrial Operatives’ Overalls, 620
Skidding, Road, Resistance, 286 Skill, Attention in. Role of, with Mechanical
Analogy, by D. R. Broadbent, 384 •— New, for the Future, by C. B. Gibbs, 96
— Simple, Perceptual Organisation in, by J.
Annett, 384
Skvortsov, Dr. S., at World Power Conference, 24*
Skyhi, Ltd., Power-Operated Adjustable- Height Work-Banch, 619
“ Skylark ” Rocket, Upper-Atmosphere-
Sounding, 99, 101
— Upper - Atmosphere - Sounding Rocket,
Launching Tower for, 99*
Slade, 1. M., on Training and Qualifications Needed for Technical Writing, 137. See
LETTERS, 200, 228, 325, 421, 645, 676, 740 Slides, Surfacing, for Horizontal Boring and
Milling Machine (William Asquith, Ltd.), 808*
Sludge. See also Sewage
Sluice gates, “ No-Flote ” Level Control for (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 178*
Slurries, Liquid-Metal, Work on, at Argonne
National Laboratory, 255
— Systems, Metallic, as Nuclear Fuel Ele
ments, 827
Smeed, Dr. R. J., on Enhanced Safety of Motorways, 667
Smelting Furnaces. See Furnaces
Smidth, F. L., and Co. A/S, History and Qrgani- sation of, 302*; Production of Cement- Making Machinery, 302*
Smiles, Samuel, on George Stephenson, 102* Smith, A. A., on Position and Prospects of
Pressed Steel Co., 72
Smith, Sir E., Graham Clark Lecture on Management and the Engineer, 776. See also 769
Smith, E. T. B., on Solid-Propellent Rocket Motors, 14*
Smith, F. H., Qn the Shelf (Literature Survey), 17, 51, 83, 119, 149, 181, 213, 243, 279, 307, 336, 371, 403, 437, 471, 499, 531, 563, 595, 625, 657, 687, 721, 755, 783, 810; on Qn the Platform, 229 ; on the Late Sir Cyril Kirkpatrick, 357; on Bicycle Design, 740
Smith, Sir H. Wilson, Remarks on Diversification in Powell Duffryn, Ltd., 359; on Extension of Oil-Storage Capacity at Cory Brothers, 390; Remarks on Position and Prospects of Sunderland Shipbuilding Dry Docks and Engineering Co., Ltd., 581
Smith, J. (Builders), Ltd., New Factory of
Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 282 Smith and Nephew, Ltd., “ Lassovic PWG ”
Corrosion-Resistant Pressure-Sensitive Tape, 583
Smith, S., and Sons, Position and Prospects of, 678
Smithfield Show, Tractors Exhibited at, 741* Smiths Electromagnetic Powder Motor-Car
Clutch, 573*
Smiths Industrial Instruments, Ltd., Calibrated Relay with Magnetic Lock, 270*; “ M ” Series Low-Speed Tachometer Generator, 379
Smoke Abatement Society, National, AirPollution News (Bulletin), 307
?— Density Detection and Recording Equipment (Trade Publication), 403
Smorodinsky, Ya., on Elastic Scattering Matrix for Two-Nucleon System, 764
Smout, Sir A., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Murex Welding Processes, Ltd., 359
“ Snap ” Air Bottle, “ R.E.S.5,” for Aircraft Pneumatic Emergency Services (Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 17*
S.N.C.F., Cultural Exchanges for Children of Personnel of, 448
Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., Used and Re-Built Machine Tools (Trade Publication), 17 Social and Economic Research, National Institute of. See Economic and Social Research, National Institute of
— Factors in Training of Royal Air
Boy Entrants, by A. B. Cherns and Tilley, 384
— Progress, Automation and, by S.
(Review), 470
— Security in United States (Publication), 704 Society d’Exploitations et d’Interets Chimiques
et Metallurgiques (SEICHIME), Activities of, 106
— Genevoise d’Instruments de Physique,
“ Hydroptic 6A ” Jig Boring and Milling Machine, 361
— Industriale General de Mechanique Ap-
pliquee. Lubricant for Free-Piston Engines, 139
Societies, Technical and Scientific. See Institutions
— Trade. See Labour
Sociology, Philosophy and Economics in Engineering, by Prof. D. G. Christopherson* 353
Sockets, Electrical, Comprehensive Range with Patent Contacts (Modern Acoustics, Ltd.), 807*
— for Use with “ Telecon ” Radio-Frequency
Cables (Trade Publication), 307
Sodium as Coolant in Nuclear Reactors, 90
— Molten, and Graphite, Compatability of,
under Various Conditions, Experiments on, 730
— Potassium Alloy as Coolant in Nuclear
Reactors, 90
Niobate Crystals, Study of, at Electrical Research Association, 94
— Reactor Experiment. See SRE Soerenson, Dr.-lng. E., on Turbo-charging
Systems used on M.A.N. Diesel Engines, 57 Soil-Boring Machine, Rotary-Head, Use of, for Culvert, 85*
— Fitments of Pressure-Moulded Asbestos
Cement (Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 429
Soil Mechanics, Ltd., Study on Strength of
Clay Embankments for Hanningfield Waterworks Scheme, 509
Landslides in Clays, by A. Collin (Review), 336
Testing Apparatus (Trade Publication), 499
— Moisture, Measurement of. Field Experi
ence with Neutron-Scattering Method, by G. L. Stewart and S. A. Taylor, 413
— Properties in Triaxial Test, Measurement of,
by A. W. Bishop and D. J. Henkel (Review), 624
?— Stress-Strain Laws of, by Dr. A. W. T. Daniel, 45*
Solar Aircraft Co., Solar Mercury “ YT-62 ” 55-h.p. Gas-Turbine Engine for One-Man Helicopter, 310
Solar Cooker, Russian, 354*
— Energy, Applications of, 341*
Heating by, by R. Cadiergues, 47
— Heat, Utilisation of, British Common
wealth Researches on, 831
— Heating, Research on, 45
— Magnetograph, by Dr. D. W. Beggs and
Dr. H. von Kluber, 400
— Mercury “ YT-62 ” 55-h.p. Gas-Turbine
Engine for One-Man Helicopter (Solar Aircraft Co.) , 310
— Radiation, Use for Research Experiments,
Discussion in Parliament on, 735
— System, Gravitational Potential Energy of,
495*
Research, Use of Earth Satellites for, 486
— Water-Heater of British Army, 5*
— See also Sun
Solartron Electronic Group, Ltd., Sales Prospects of, 463; Basic Electronic Units for Analogue Computers, 630
Solenoid-Controlled Pneumatic Packaged Unit, 8-Bank, for Control-valve Systems (Baldwin Instrument Co., Ltd.), 712*
Solids, Explosion in. Growth of, by A. D. Yoffe, 140
— Initiation and Growth of Explosion in. Dis
cussion on, at Royal Society, 140*
— Level Control of, 176*
?—? Physics of. Study of, 254
— Systems in Chemical Engineering Practice,
by H. W. Cremer and T. Davies (Review), 820
— Wetting of, by Liquid Metals, by Dr.
B. R. T. Frost, 91
Solidification of Castings, by R. W. Ruddle (Book), 755
Solus-Schall, Ltd., Gamma-Radiography of Pipeline from Port Harcourt to Oloibiri, 158; Model No. 43030 Tungsten Isotope Container, 270
Somaliland, Oil Prospecting in, by American Firms, 63
Somers, F., Remarks on Position and Prospects of W. Somers, Ltd., 454
Somers, W., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 454; Developments in Mechanical Handling Equipment, 558
Son et Lumiere Technique, Elipson Delivery
Chambers in, 440*
Role of Stereophonic Sound Recording in, 440*
Sonic Booms, Damage to Buildings by. Discussion in Parliament on, 703
Sood, K. C., on Welding of Rail Joints, I I Sound, Approaching the Speed of (Cinema Film), 85
— Recording, Stereophonic, Role in Son et
Lumiere, 440*
— Reproduction Equipment at Radio Show,
317
— Technical Aspects of. Vol. II. Ultrasonic
Range, Underwater Acoustics, by E. G. Richardson (Review), 118
South African Atomic Energy Board, Agreement to Co-operate with United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 157
Council for Scientific and Industrial
Research, Note on Library of, 437
Railways, Order for Electric Locomotives from Metropolitan-Vickers South Africa (Pty.), Ltd., 147; Order for Electric Locomotives to English Electric Co., Ltd., 262
— America, Orders for Marconi from, 558 Prospects for Air Services between
United Kingdom and. Survey of, by
British Overseas Airways Corp., 27
— East Essex Technical College, Discussion in
Parliament on Advanced Courses at, 159
— East London Technical College, Course on
Nuclear Power Engineering, 29 South-Essex Waterworks Co., Hanningfield
Reservoir and Treatment Works, 509
South Scotland. See Scotland South Wales. See Wales, South Southend Waterworks Co., Hanningfield
Reservoir and Treatment Works, 509 Southern Rhodesia. See Rhodesia Soviet Central Scientific Research Institute for
Technology and Engineering, 355, 356; “UP-200 ” Fatigue-Testing Machine, 587*; Flux-Bath Welding Process for Carbon and Alloy Steels, 616*
— Engineer as Designer, by E. P. Ward, 409* Education and Qualifications of, 324, 325 How Good Are, by E. P. Ward, 261,
322*. See also 321; 355*, 409*, 441*, 460*, 482*. See LETTER, 582
— — Information Services, Education, Re
search, Reading Matter, and Communiac- cation, by E. P. Ward, 355*
—• — Labour, Workshops and Technical Pro" cesses Available to, by E. P. Ward, 441 * Management Methods of, by E. P.
Ward, 460*
Resources and Use of, 484
Review of Environment, Status, Place in Industry, and Tastes of, by E. P. Ward, 322. See also 321
— — Characteristics of, by E. P. Ward, 482*
— Factories and Research Organisations, Engi
neers and Technicians in. Statistics of, 324*
— Life, Engineering in, 322
— Plant: Testing and Automatic Equipment,
586*
Soviet Policies on Labour Productivity and Trade Unions, Publication on, 640
— Satellite, Impact and Impulse of, 481
— Society, Remarks on, by E. P. Ward, 482*
— Union, Training Technicians in, 119 Space Flight.
—? Heating. See Heating
— Welding.
Spain, Nuclear Power Station at Puerto Santa Maria, Plan for, 475
— Position in Free Trade Area, 234
Spares, Packaging of. Lightweight Fibrous Material for (Resil Products, Ltd.), 397
Spark Machine, “ GKN ” (Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Group Research Laboratories), 47*
Sparks, J. G., Remarks on Possible Further Dispute at Briggs Motor Bodies, 544
Sparks, Dr. W. J., on Development of Butyl Synthetic Rubber, 775
Spatter Pick-Up on Welding Nozzles, Silicone Compound for Obviating (Union Carbide International Co.), 472
Speaking Clock Service, 435
Specialists in Aircraft Industry, Need for Better Organisation and Supervision, 769
Specifications, American, for Iron-Powder Coated Welding Electrodes 711
— Standard. See Standards; Standardisation Spectra, Neutron, Countei
of, 254
? Flux, 726*
— Thermal, Maxwellian and
726*
“ Spectra ” Rocket Engine Engine Co., Ltd.), 290*; “ SR 53 ” Experimental craft (de Havilland Engine Co.. Ltd.), 350; for “ S-R. 177 ” High-Altitude Supersonic Mixed-Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft (de Havilland Engine Co.. Ltd.), 537*
Spectrometer, Mass, “Type MS5 ” (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 155
Spectroscopy, Molecular, Journal of. New Publication, 243
Spectrum Recorder, Audio-Frequency, Bruel and Kjae', Use in Sound-Testing of Fans at Acoii'.tics Laboratory of Keith Blackman, Ltd., 696
Speech Recorder, Wire, Miniature, “ Minifon ” (E.M.I. Sales and Service, Ltd.), 67*
— Recording Machines at Business Efficiency
Exhibition, 67*
Machine, Magnetic, Four Channel, “ Dicta-Tape ” (Dictaphone Co., Ltd.), 67
— Selected (1948-1955), by H.R.H. Duke of
Edinburgh (Review), 595
Speed-Changing Gears. See Gears: Gearing: Marine Propulsion: Motor-Car Details
— Governor Unit, “ Speedlock,” for Internal
Combustion Engines (Bryce Berger, Ltd.), 266*
— Measurement of Road Vehicles, Electronic
Equipment for (Venner Electronics, Ltd.), 729
— Reducer, Stepless, “ Varicon ” (David
Brown Corp. Sales, Ltd.), 469*
— Reduction Gears. See Gears: Gearing;
Marine Propulsion: Motor-Car Details
— on the Road and Related Effects, by Dr.
W. H. Glanville, 286
“ Speedivac ” High Vacuum Pumps (Trade Publication), 279
“ Speedlock ” Speed Governor Unit for Internal Combustion Engines (Bryce Berger, Ltd.), 266*
Spencer, L., on Successful Business Executive, 399
Spilling Steam Engine, Unit Construction and Interchangeable Working Parts (Spilling- werk, G.m.b.H.), 84*
Spillingwerk, G.m.b.H., Spilling Steam Engine, Unit Construction and Interchangeable Working Parts, 84*
Spillmann, Dr.-Ing. W., on Developments in Closed-Cycle Gas-Turbines, 59*
Spin Drying Machine and Washing Machine, Combined, “ Hoovermatic ” (Hoover (Washing Machines), Ltd.), 556*
Spinning, Use of, for Tapping into Thin-Walled Pipe (Mission Appliance Corp.), 117*
“ Sporadic E,” Worldwide Occurrence of, by E. K. Smith (Review), 212
Sporadic E Ionisation, Effect on Sound Wave Transmission, 172
Spot-Light, Machine (Meiners Optical Devices, Ltd.), 49*
Sprayed Insulations, Ltd., “ Silbestos ” Sprayed Asbestos Insulation for Roofs (Trade Publication), 625
Spraying, Metal, “ Mark 33 ” Pistol for (Metallisation, Ltd.), 332*
— Process for Glass Fibre-Reinforced Syn
thetic Resins (Metropolitan Plastics, Ltd.), 89
— “ ThermoSpray ” Process for Ceramics and
Hard-Facing Alloys (Metallizing Equipment Co., Ltd.), 331*
Spring Steel, Torsion-Fatigue Tests on, 237* Springfields Atomic Plant, Pipework at (Mitchell Engineering, Ltd.), 125
Springhill Products, Ltd., “ Linostone ” Hard- Wearing Decorative Wall Surface, 811
Spur Gearing. See Gears; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
Sputnik, Impact and Impulse of, 481
Sputnik I, Descent of, by C. H. Bosanquet, 582 Sputnik II, Possible Fuels for, 644*
Spying, Industrial, Comment on, 672
“SR 53” Experimental Mixed-Power Interceptor Aircraft (Saunders-Rce, Ltd.), 259*, 350*
“ S-R. 177 ” High-Altitude Supersonic Mixed- Power Naval Interceptor Aircraft (Saunders-Roe, Ltd.), 537*. See also 517 SRE Reactor Experiment, Electrical Power from, 157
SRE Nuclear Reactor Experiment, Inauguration and Layout of, 730*
St. Basil Cathedral, Moscow, 354*
St. James’s Park, Army in Loading Tests on Footbridge in, 448
St. Johns, Lewisham, Railway Accident at, 767 St, Lawrence Seaway, Note on Papers on, 821
St. Mary Cray, Re-Arrangement of Platforms at, 766
St. Pancras Railway Station, Power Signalling at, 534
Stabilisation System, Ship, Denny Brown, 663 Stabiliser Equipment, New, for R.M.S. “Queen Mary,” 458*
Stability and Structure of Inorganic Azides, by
B. L. Evans, 140
STAD 250-h.p. Gas Turbine for 175-kVA Crompton Parkinson Alternator (Auto Diesels, Ltd.), 296
Staff Location System, Audio Frequency (Siemens Bros. and Co., Ltd.), 67
System (IBM United Kingdom, Ltd.), 67 Staffordshire, North, Exploitation of Natural Gas in, 728
Staging, Lightweight, Youngman, in Use at Wythenshawe Transformer Factory of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., 795*
Staines, Drainage Work at, 85* Stainless Steel. See Steel, Stainless Stamps, Postage, Electrically Conductive, 408 Standards in Consumer Goods, Need for, 493
— Engineering, for Pressure Die Castings
(Brochure). 775
— Institution, British, Seminar on Variety,
Reduction and Standardisation in Manufacturing. See Management, British Institute of'. Committee of, 138*; Annual Report, 181; Consumer Council, 493; Consumer Advisory Council, Lack of Co-operation by Manufacturers, Discussion in Parliament on, 831
British, Specifications: Tests for Use in Approval of Welders, 73; Tests for Industrial Crawler and Wheel Tractors, 120; Precise Conversion of Inch and Metric Sizes on Engineering Drawings, 149; Buried Copper Tubes, 457; Notes on Presentation for Editors of Periodicals (Draft), 471; Oil-Fuels, 491; Acceptance Tests for Steam Generating LInits, 521. See LETTER, 646; Cast Iron and Granite Surface Plates for Marking Out and Inspection, 537; Water Heaters for Use with Butane Gas, 556; Lamps and Lighting Equipment, 580; Steel Castings for General Engineering Determination
C. G.S. Units Address List Plates, 755
Standard Motor Co., Ltd., Production of Ferguson " Model 35 ” Tractor, 8*; Offer by Massey-Harris-Ferguson to Purchase Ordinary Stock, 104; Discussion in Parliament on Proposed Sale of, to Massey- Harris Ferguson, 159; Position and Prospects of, 614, 678; Breakdown of Merger with Massey-Harris-Ferguson, 678
— Nuclear, New Committee on, 219 Standard Oil Co., Note on The Lamp (House
Magazine) and 75th Anniversary, 243
— Radiation, New Works on, 125
— Samples: Catalogue of Reference Materials
(Book), 17
— — of Organic Products, Analysis of. Ap
plication of Gas-Liquid Partition Chromatography to, 559
— Screw-Thread, for Federal Services (1957),
755
— of Society of Motor Manufacturers and
Traders, Ltd., 51
Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., Low- Power Silicon Junction Rectifiers (Trade Publication), 307; PG40B Photo-Electric Cell (Trade Publication), 307; RG50B Germanium Junction Power Rectifier (Trade Publication), 307; Single- and Three-Phase Transformers (Trade Publication), 307; Transatlantic Cable Between France and America, 597
—? United States Bureau of. See United States Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. (United States), Oil Prospecting in Somaliland, 63
— Yard (1742), 420*
Standardisation, International Organisation for, “ Biographical Strip,” 149; New Committee on Nuclear Energy, 219; Note on Plenary Session at Harrogate, 307
— of Units of Measurement, Effect of Free
Trade Area, 651
— and Variety Reduction, Production Econo
mies Achieved by, by A. C. C. Moore, 427
— and Variety Reduction in Manufacturing,
by T. R. B. Sanders, 427
Standardising Product Design and Increasing Interchangeability, 427
Stanford, E., Ltd., Map Service, 783
Stanley, C. O., on Television in Republic of Ireland, 168; on Effect of Wage Increases on Costs, 326; Remarks on Television and Canadian Trade, 813
Stanley Hammer Factory, New, at Ecclesfield, 464
Stanlow Refinery, Extensions at, 200 Stanovnik, J., on Power for Underdeveloped
Countries, 20; at World Power Conference, 24*
“ Stanrun ” Overhead Chain-Conveyor System at Slough Paint Warehouse of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. (George W. King, Ltd.), 62*
Stars, Radio, and Galactic Background Radio Noise, Aerial Systems for Study of, by Aperture Synthesis Techniques at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, 185* Starters, Motor. See Motors, Electric State Pensions, Principle of, 448
Stately Homes, Television Programmes on. Plain Words on, 194. See LETTER, 261 Stations, Power. See Power Stations Statistical Fatigue Experiments, Time Saving in, by Dr. N. T. Bloomer, 603*
— Mathematical Method, Monte Carlo, for
Studying Physical Phenomena, 125
— Methods, Application to Limited-Life
Design, 236,* 275*
— Review of World Oil Industry, Note on, 17
— Sources for Market Reseach, 27
— Techniques of Operational Research,
(Review) 498
Statistics, Application of, to Engine Perform- and Tests, by Dr. W. R, Buckland, 729
— of Copper Stocks, 552
?— Gas, for Europe, Annual Bulletin of, 6 -— Government, by Prof. F. S. Sewell Bray, 3
— Trade. See Trade
Stators, Handling Completely Wound 200-Ton
Capacity Crane for, at British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd.’s Larne Works, 666*
— and Rotor Alternators, Direct Hydrogen-
Cooling of (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 690*
Statue of Gudea, Prince of Lagash, 418* “ Staybrite ” Steels, Where They are Made,
Cinema Film on, 551
Staythorpe “ B ” Power Station, Forged 120-MW Steam-Turbine Rotor Shaft for (Thos. Firth and John Brown, Ltd.), 329* Steam Boilers. See Boilers
— Engines. See Engines
— Flow through Nozzles. See Nozzles
— Generating Units, Acceptance Tests for, 521.
See LETTER, 646
— Pressure Reduction and De-superheating,
Gordon ” Water-Spray for (Trade Publication), 499
— Raising Plant at Ince Power Station, 534* Tower, 80-ft., for Calder Hall and
Chapelcross Nuclear Power Stations, Model of (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 269* Units for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power
Station, 381 *
— Shovel. See Excavator
— Turbines. See Turbines
Steamers. See Engines; Marine Propulsion;
Shipbuilding; Shipping: Ships Steamships. See Ships: Warships Stedall and Co., Ltd., “ Metolux ” Industrial
Metallic Mouldable Paste (Trade Publication), 563
Stedeford, Sir L, Remarks on Position and Prospects of Tube Investments, 614, 647
Steeds, W., on Transmission Wind-Up in Motor Vehicles having Several Driven Wheels, 348
Steels, Austenitic, for Gas-Turbine Rotors, Welding of. by R. R. Roberts, 11
Welded, Low-Temperature Properties of, by F. A. Ball and Dr. K. Balajiva, 11
— in Buildings, Reinforced Concrete in Place
of. Discussion in Parliament on, 191
— Castings for General Engineering Purposes,
British Standard, 584
Research Association, British, Research on applications of Alginates to Foundry Practice, 12
for South of Scotland Nuclear Power Station (A.P.V.-Paramount, Ltd.), 217
Vacuum-Melting Process for (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 358
— Chromium. See Steel, Stainless
— Cold Heading of. Bibliography on. Note on,
563
Steel Company of Wales, Ltd., Continuous Annealing Plant for Steel Strip at Velindre Works of, 234*; Diesel-Electric Shunting Locomotive (Brush Traction, Ltd.), 426*; Position and Prospects of, 806; Advertisement on Birth of a Tin, 813
— Continuous Casting of. Bibliography on
(1934-1957) (Book), 687
— Corrosion of. See Corrosion
Resisting, Manipulation of, Cinema Film on, 551
— Fabrications, Welded (J. and H. McLaren,
Ltd.), 634*
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue: Fatigue Tests
under Tests (Materials)
— Firms, Adaptation of, to European Coal
and Steel Community, 188
— Forgemasters in. Cinema Film on Large
Steel Forgings, 584
— Forgings, Large, Cinema Film “ Forge
masters in Steel ” on, 584
— Founding (Trade Publication), 625
— Foundry. See Foundry
— “ Fox 769,” for Undercarriage and Air
frame-Structure Forgings (Samuel Fox and Co., Ltd.), 358
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
Steel Gauges, Ltd., Test Rig for Proving Linear Electrical Actuators at Rotax, Ltd., 618*
— Heat-Resisting, Manipulation of. Cinema
Film on, 551
— Heat Treatment of. See Heat Treatment
under Metallurgy
— High-Temperature, Fatigue of, 236*
— Industry, German, Expansion Plans, 7 Human Relations in Pamphlet on, 608 Ownership of (Pamphlet), 427
Position and Prospects of, 588, 752 Possible Effects of Free Trade Area on, 588
Review of, 130
See also Iron and Steel
— Low-Alloy Silicon-Aluminium, Study of,
at Fulmer Research Institute, 111
— Manufacture. See Metallurgy
— Melting Shop at Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles, Ltd., 133
of, Siemens Regenerative Furnace for. Centenary of, 489
— Men, and Technical Change (Pamphlet), 608
— Metallography, Cinema Films on, 457
— Microstructure of. See Microphotographs; Metallography
— Mild, Fatigue of, 236* Fatigue Tests on, 238*
“ Ferromax ” Manual Welding Electrode for (Quasi-Arc, Ltd.), 457
in Torsion, Brittle Fracture of, by J. B. Hunt, 173*
— —Tubes, Corrosion of, in Scotch Marine
Boilers, 559
— Molybdenum, Rivets, Machine for Heating and Upsetting, into Countersunk Preparations on Turbine Discs (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 741*
— National Plan for Future Supplies of, 130
— Output of Member Firms in European Coal and Steel Community, 6
Steel, Peech and Tozer, Gradall Machine for Dismantling Open-Hearth Furnaces at Rotherham Works, 215*
Continuous Annealing Velindre Works of Steel Ltd., 234*
— Structural, Design in, by
(Book), 625
Protective Painting of, by F. Fancutt and J. C. Hudson (Review), 148
— Structure of, by E. Gregory and E, N.
Simons (Book), 687
— Supply and Demand of, 130
for Shipbuilding, Improved Position of, 93
Strip and Sheet, Plans for Expansion of, 127
— Tariffs, Decrease in, 588
— Tests of. See Tests (Materials)
— Today: Who Owns the Steel Industry?
(Pamphlet), 427
— Tubing. See Tubing
— Weld Quality in. Control of, by Training
and Inspection, by Dr, A. J. P. Tucker, 73
— Works. See IVorks
— See also Iron and Steel
Steelwork, Flame-Cleaning of, for Painting, Cinema Film on, 155
— for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station
(United Steel Structural Co,, Ltd.), 412
— Industry, Structural, Position and Prospects
of, 326
Steelworks. See Works
Steering. Power-Assisted, Transfer of Business in, from Girling, Ltd., to Hydrosteer, Ltd., 357
Steinbock, G.m.b.H., Fork-Lift Truck with Forward Reach, 775*
Stellarator Apparatus for Thermonuclear Research, 156*
Stellite, Uses of (Trade Publication), 149 “ Stelvetite,” Plastics Bonded to Steel Sheet (John Summers and Sons, Ltd.), 456. See LETTER, 520
Step Industrial Equipment, Ltd., Roll-Slide Feed Support, 618*
Stephens, W. H., on Advances in Aeronautics, 465*, 494*
Stephenson, George, Discussion on his Nori- Membership of Institution of Civil Engineers, 102*. See LETTER, 165. See also 98; Portrait of, by John Lucas, 103
Stephenson, R., and Hawthorn, Ltd., Orders for Diesel-Electric Locomotives from Malaya, India, and Argentina, 710
Stereophonic Sound Recording, Role in Son et Lumiere, 440*
Sterilisation of Foods by Radiation, 389 Steriliser, Continuous Pressure, High-Speed, “ Carvallo,” for Pea Canning, 388* Sterling, Maintining International Confidence in. Statement by General Council of Trades Union Congress on, 448
Stevenage, Fuel Research Station to be built at, 623
Stevens Institute of Technology, Studies on Effects of Music in Offices, 320
Stevenson, W. M., on Electrical Floor Warming, 621 *
Stevinson Hardy and Co., Position and Prospects of, 390
Stewart, G. L., on Neutron-Scattering Method of Measuring Soil Moisture, 413
Stewart, Miss R., on Managers for Tomorrow, 736
Stewart-Warner, Ltd., “ Uni-Gun ” Lubricating Equipment (Trade Publication), 149 Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., Arrangement with John Summers and Sons for Supply of Hot- Rolled Strip, 281
Stiffness, Flange, in Plate Girder Design, by Dr. K. C. Rockey, 788*
Stock, A. L., on Position and Prospects of Lodge Plugs, 390
— Buying Policy, Application of Digital Computer to, 340*
Stoke-Derby-Crewe Service, Diesel Railway Carriages with 150 h.p. Engines, for, 452*
Stokers, Mechanical, Berkley, Steam Locomotives to be Fitted with, 136
Stokes, R. R., the Late, 168
STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) Aircraft, Work on, by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 378*
Stomach Ulcers and Business Executive, 192 Stone Cubit, Egyptian, 419*
Stone, J., and Co. (Charlton), Ltd., “ Superstcn ” Alloys, 583
“ Stoney Point ” Oil Tanker, Pollution from, 63 Stop Valves. See Valves
— Watches, Use in Mines, Comment on, 704 Storage Battery. See Accumulator under
Electric Motor Vehicles: Motor Trucks
— Equipment, Space-Saving, “ Ingold-Com-
pactus ” (Trade Publication), 149
— of Potatoes, Indoor and Outdoor, by J. R.
O’Callaghan, 567*
— Pumped, for Hydroelectric Power, Biblio
graphy on, 755
— System, Space-Saving, “ Stormor ” (Trade
Publication), 149
Store, Floating, for Bearing Races (Enims), 587 Storey Mission to Canada, Report of, 463 Storey, T. (Engineers), Ltd., “ Uniflote ” Floating Construction Unit for Building Floating Platforms, 350*
Stork, Gebr., and Co., N.S., Agreement with Swan Hunter for Manufacture Single-Acting, Two-Stroke, Charged Diesel Engine, 647
Stork Single-Acting Two-Stroke Charged Diesel Engine, Agreement be- between Gebr. Stork and Co., N.S., and Swan Hunter for Manufacture of, 647
“ Stormor ” Space-Saving Storage System (Trade Publication), 149
Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., “ Symons ” Screens for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Straightening Machine. See Machine Tools Strain Gauges, Use in Testing Bursting Strength of Glass Discs, 592*
— Rate in Tensile Tests on Titanium and
Titanium-Aluminium-Manganese Alloy, Control of, by R. J. Parker, 392*
— and Stresses of Executive Life, by Dr. J. J.
O’Dwyer, 704
— See also Stress
Strainers, Suction, Duplex, Cast “ Zwicky,” for New Oil Fuel System R.M.S. “ Queen Mary,” 458*
“ Strangeness ” in Particles, Definition of, Strapping Machine, Band, Automatic, Home Markets (Package Sealing Co.),
Street Lighting, Codes of Practice on, 580
— See Roads
Strength of Materials. See Stress: Tests (Materials)
Stress, Alternating and Combined. See Tests (Materials)
— Corrosion Cracking and Embrittlement, by
W. H. Robertson (Book), 16
— Differential Temperature, Effect in Aircraft
Design, 408
— Oscillating, Cumulative Damage due to,
237*
— in Plate Containing Crack, by M. Rothman,
174*
— Proof, of Annealed Commercially-Pure
Titanium Sheet, Influence of Speed of Testing on, 393*
of Annealed Titanium-Aluminium- Manganese Rod, Influence of Speed of Testing on, 393*
— Raisers, Importance of, in Design, 237*
— in Reinforced Concrete, Design Calculations
for. by Dr. J. R. Lawrence, 564*, 805. See LETTERS, 644*, 677*, 708*, 804
— Repetitions. See Fatigue Tests under Tests
(Materials)
— Rupture, in Small Radial-Flow Turbo
Chargers, 532*
Tests. See Tests (Materials)
— Strain Characteristics of Granular Material,
by Dr. A. W. T. Daniel, 45*
of Executive Life, by Dr. J. J. Q’Dywer, 704
— in Structures. See also Strain Meters
— Tensile, in Glass Discs under Pressure, 592*
— Thermal: With Applications to Airplanes,
Missiles, Turbines and Nuclear Reactors, by B. E. Gatewood (Review), 782
Strike. See Labour
Strip, Magnetic, Nickel-Iron, for Telephone Systems, 497
— and Sheet Steel Supplies, Plans for Expan
sion of, 127
— Steel, Coils of, Fork-Truck Attachment for
Handling of (Lansing Bagnall, Ltd.), 728
Continuous Annealing Plant for, at Velindre Works of Steel Co. of Wales, Ltd., 234*
Structural Engineering and Research, by Sir A. Pugsley, 509
— Engineers, Institution of. Presidential
Address on Structural Engineering and Research, by Sir A. Pugsley, 509; Universal Beams and their Applications, by S. Barlow and G. Foster, 601 *
— Insulation, Advantages of, in Space Heating,
138*
Association, 138*
— Steel. See Steel
— Steelwork. See Steelwork
Structures, Aircraft, Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference on, 407*
?— Complex, Determination of Probability of Failure of, 276*
— Crystal, Calculation of. Application of
Digital Computer to, 341
— Indeterminate, Analysis of, by J. C. Grassie
(Book), 687
— Karman Vortices Shed from, Vibrations
from, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
— Prestressed, by A. J. Harris, 244*
Behaviour at High-Temperatures, 246*
— Reinforced-Concrete. See Concrete, Rein
forced
— and Stability of Inorganic Azides, by B. L.
Evans, 140
?— of Steel, by E. Grebory and E. N. Simons (Book), 687
Stubbe, F., Maschinenfabrik, Agreement with Metalastik, Ltd., for Manufacture of Stubbe Three-Dimensional Conveyor, 330*
Students. See Education
Studio Irwin Technical Ltd., Production o Technical Publications, 273
Sturtevant Engineering Co., Ltd., “ Fleetway ” Air Filter (Trade Publication), 307
“ Stypol, R.D.,” Glass-Reinforced Resin Transparent Corrugated Sheeting (Trade Publication), 531
Subliminal Advertising, Comment on, 800 Decision of United States Television
Networks against Use of, 800 Submarine Boats. See Warships
— Cables. See Cables
Submarine Cables, Ltd., Transatlantic Cable
between France and America, 597; Repeater for Research on Submarine Telephone Cables, 696
— Telegraphs. See Telegraphs
Substation Replacement at Charing Cross (Hackbridge and Hewittic Electric Co., Ltd.), 510*
— Umtali, of Electricity Supply Commission
in Southern Rhodesia, 20/30 MVA Transformers for (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 215
Suction Strainers, Duplex, Cast Iron, “ Zwicky,” for New Oil Fuel System for R.M.S. “ Queen Mary,” 458*
Sud Aviation, Order for “Caravelle” Aircraft by Scandinavian Airlines Systern, 39; Sales Campaign on “ Caravelle ” Aircraft, 39
Suez Canal Co., Reorganisation Aims, 422 Crisis, Effects on British Companies and
Industry, 390
— Egypt’s Debt (Booklet), Note on, 595 Suggestion Schemes from Operatives, Comment on, 672
Suits, Dr. G., Remarks on Fusion Research, 29 Sulphloid Series of Cutting Oils (Amber Oils,
Ltd.), 73
Sulphur in Flue Gases, Reduction of, by Metallic Additives in Combustion Zone, by W. J. Peck and Dr. B. J. Zaczek, 297*
Sulzer, A., A.G., Visit to, by Junior Institution of Engineers, 69
Summers, J., and Sons, Supply of Hot-Rolled Strip to Stewards and Lloyds, Ltd., 281; “ Stelvetite,” Plastics Bonded to Steel Sheet, 456. See LETTER, 520; Position and Prospects of, 806
Sumner, J. F., on Ignition of Primary Explosives by Electric Discharges, 141
Sun, Comment on Possible Change in Energy Qutput of, 158
— See also Solar
Sunderland Shipbuilding Dry Docks and Engineering Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 581
— Technical College, Future Plans for, 63 Sunvic Controls, Ltd., Liquid-Level Controller,
208*
“ Supa-Stor ” Thermal Storage Water (Dulrae, Ltd.), 618
Supercharger. See also Turbo Supercharging of Diesel Engines, 57* Superheater Co., Ltd., Open Day for Inspection of New Bays at, 602
— Manufacture of, at Superheater Co., Ltd.,
602
Supersonic Diffuser for Mach 2-8 Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 55*
— Flight Testing, Techniques and Procedures
in, by R. P. Beamont, 718
— Weapons System in “ P. 1 ” Single-Seat Fighter Aircraft, 123
Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians, Association of. Dispute on Negotiation Powers of, 320; Involvement in Strike at de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., 640
Supply, Ministry of. Exhibits at Society of " ’ Farn-
Swedish Industry, Need for Closer Association with Industries of Other European Countries, 685
— State Power Board, Report on Safety Belts for Motor Cars, 729*
Swinton, A. A, Campbell, Early Work on Television, 547
Switchgear, for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 573
— Circuit-Breaker, Double-Pole Earth-Leakage (J. A. Crabtree and Co,, Ltd.), 117* Breakers, Oil, for Meaford “ B ” Power Station, 501
Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd., High-Tension Switchgear for New Substation at Charing Cross, 510*
— Direct-Current, 630-Volt, for New Sub
station at Charing Cross (Bertram Thomas (Engineers), Ltd., 510*
-— High-Tension, for New Substation at Charing Cross (Switchgear and Cowans, Ltd.), 510*
— Principles, by P. H. G. Crane (Review), 118 ?— Production of, by Brown Boveri, A.G., and Cie, 170
— Switch, Flush, Intermediate “ Lincoln ”
Type Alternating-Current (J. A. Crabtree and Co., Ltd.), 684*
Level Alarm, Float-Operated (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 208
Light-Sensitive, Operation and Use of, 630
Proximity, for Level Control (Elcontrol, Ltd.), 177
Railway, High-Speed, “ Curved-F ” and “ G,” for British Railways, 383
: Remote-Control, Self-Contained (Trade Publication), 403
Thermal, for Liquid-Level Control (Teddington Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 209
Switzerland, Engineering Industry of, 169
-— Telephone Statistics, 139
— Views on European Common Market and Free Trade Area, 169
Swynnerton Royal Ordnance Factory, Redundancy at, 31
Syllabus of Clay Testing, by T. A. Klinefelter and H. P. Hamlin (Book), 657
Sylvania Electric Products Corp., Silicon Production, 282
Sylvester, E. Q., Remarks on Prospects of American Ship Building Co., 487
“ Symons ” Screens for Cauldon Low Cement Works (Stothert and Pitt, Ltd.), 535*
Synchro-cyclotron, 600-MeV, of European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Construction of, on Meyrin Site, 284
Synchrophasatron, 10-GeV, at Dubna, 484
Synchrotron, Proton, under Construction at Saclay Nuclear Research Centre of Commissariat A I’Energie Atomique, 190* 25-GeV, of European Organisation Nuclear Research, Construction of, Meyrin Site, 284*
? 7-GeV, Magnet Yoke for. Contract
Placed with J. Sankey and Son, Ltd.,
7-GeV, Proposed at Harwell, 220 12 5 GeV, Studies on Design of, a Argonne National Laboratory, 255
— Spiral-Ridge, Note on, 764 Synthetic Resins. See Resins Systems, Engineering, Analysis,
Sutherland, Note on, 657
by H. H. Goode, and R. (Review), 470
Introduction to Design of Systems, by H. H. Goode Machol (Review), 498
Research Laboratories of Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., at Belfast, 600*
— Large-Scale, Design of. Introduction to, by
H. H. Goode and R. E. Machol (Review), 498

“ T4 ” Electric Tractor with 10-Tons Gross Towing Capacity (Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 331
Tables of Integrals and Other Mathematical Data, by H. B. Dwight (Book), 499
— “ Transveyor,” for “ Rola-Veyor ” Gravity
Conveyor (Trade Publication), 149
Tablet, Powder, Press (Apex Construction Co., Ltd.), 360*
— Wall, Defining British Imperial Standards of Length, 418*
Tabulation, Electronic (IBM United Kingdom, Ltd.), 66
Tabulator, Samastronic, High-Speed Printer in (Powers-Samas Accounting Machines (Sales), Ltd.), 66*
Tachometer Generator, Low-Speed, “ M ” Series (Smiths Industrial Instruments, Ltd.), 379
Tacoma Bridge, Failure of, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
Tactual Displays, Design Data on, 249 Tagliacarne, Prof. G., on Collective Market Research, 3
Talbot Stead Tube Co., Ltd., Contract from C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., for Reactor Components for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 125; Nuclear Energy Exhibits at Engineering Exhibition, 269; Neutron- Source Tubes for Starting up Nuclear Reactors, 412
“ Talisman ” Trains of British Railways, Roller-Bearings for Axleboxes on (British Timken, Ltd.), 88
“Talymin” Electrical Gauging Head for Comparator for Measuring Pitch Errors of Fir-Tree Root Serrations in Gas- Turbine Discs (Taylor-Hobson), 373*
Tan Sad, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 772
Tangyes, Ltd., lOO-Ton Capacity “ Hydralite” Jack, 329*; “ Hydrapak ” Pump Unit for “ Hydralite” Jack, 329*
Tanks, Closed, Level Control of Liquids in, 207*
— Drop, Aircraft, Asbestos-Reinforced Phenolic-Resin (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 89*
Tanks, Liquid Storage, Glass-Fibre-Reinforced (Microcell, Ltd.), 89
?— Ships, Motor. See Motorships: Oil Tankers
— Steamers. See OU Tankers
?—? Water Level in, Float-Dperated Electrical Level Transmitter for Remote Measurement of (G. Kent, Ltd.), 207
Tape, Polythene, Irradiated, Report on, by Tube Investments, Ltd., 60*
— Polyvinyl Chloride, “ Scotchrap,” with
Pressure-Sensitive Adhesive (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 583
— Pressure-Sensitive, Corrosion-Resistant,
“ Lassovic PWG ” (Smith and Nephew, Ltd.), 583
— Punched, Typewriter, Electronic (Reming
ton Rand), 681
— Recorder Exhibits at Canadian Institution
of Radio Engineers at Toronto (Winston Electronics), 464
Tapping Attachment for Plastics and Non- Ferrous Materials (Headland Engineering Developments, Ltd.), 139
— into Thin-Walled Pipe, Use of Spinning
(Mission Appliance Corp.), 117*
— Tungsten Carbide, Ultrasonic Machining
Process for (Kerry’s (Ultrasonics), Ltd.), 489*
Tar, Coal-, Products, Hydro-Refining of, 205 Taratinova, G. P., on Determination of Lifetime of Artificial Earth Satellite, 582
Tariff Disarmament, Need for More Precise Time Schedule, Remarks on, by Sir E. Cohen, 557
— in European Common Market, 652
— in Free Trade Area, 652
— on Internal-Combustion Engines, 364
— on Steel, Decrease in, 588
“ Taunus 17M ” Motor Car (Ford), 391*
Tax, Profits, Effects on Company Directors, 768 Taxation in Proposed Free Trade Area, Report on, 588
Taylor, S. A., on Neutron-Scattering Method of Measuring Soil Moisture, 413
Taylor-Hobson “ Talymin ” Electrical Gauging Head for Comparator for Measuring Pitch Errors of Fir-Tree Root Serrations in Gas-Turbine Discs, 373*
Taylor, Short and Mason, Ltd., Aneroid- Manometer Instrument for Differential Pressure Ranges, 207
Taylor-Stoker Co., Ltd., “ Munck ” Portable Electric Chain Hoists (Trade Publication), 563
Taylor-Woodrow, Ltd., Pipeline from Port Harcourt to Qloibiri, 158
Taylor Woodrow (Building Exports), Ltd., New Factory of Lincoln Electric Co., Ltd., at Welwyn Garden City, 47
Taylor Woodrow Group, Hinckley Point Nuclear Power Station, 380*, 412* “ TE ” 300-kW Gas-Turbine (Ruston
Hornsby, Ltd.), 333*
Teachers. See Education Teaching. See Education
Technical Assistance and Idealism—Misgivings and Mistakings, by A. Dickson, 399
?— Change, Men, Steel and (Pamphlet), 608
— College and Education. See Education
— Departments in Industry, Staffing and
Organisation of. Comment on, 544
— Information, Bureau of. See Information
— Manpower in Germany, Shortage of.
Report on (Review), 402*
— and Scientific Manpower in Western
Europe, Canada, and United States, Problem of (Review), 402
Translating and Other Aspects of the Language Problem, Note on, 499
— Societies. See Institutions
— Writing, Training and Qualifications Needed
for, by I. M. Slade and B. C. Brookes, 137. See LETTERS, 200, 228, 325, 421, 645, 676, 740
Technicians Employed in Government Service, 127
— in Soviet Factories and Research Organ
isations, Statistics of, 324*
— Training of, in Soviet Union, 119
Techno Commercial, Ltd., Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Technological Awards, National Council for. Comment on Annual Report of, 737; Work of, 800
— Courses, Discussion in Parliament on, 799 Technologists, Output per Unit of Population,
513
Technology, Canadian Journal of. Taken Over by Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, 149
— Challenge to Human Endurance, by H.
Gartmann (Review), 16
— Diploma in. Comment on Educational
Facilities for, 737
Discussion in Parliament on Courses for, o71
Progress in Courses for, 800
Remarks on by Sir W. Puckey, 64
— Federal Institute of (Zurich), The Develop
ment of Russian Propeller Turbines, by Dipl. Ing. F. Brandner, 116*
— Hall of, in Government Pavilion at Brussels
World Fair (1958), 515*
— History of. Vol. II: Mediterranean Civil
isations and Middle Ages, by C. Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and T. 1. Williams (Review), 82
— Institute of (Stockholm), River Model
Laboratory, 377
— Relationship with Humanities, Arts and
Science, 776
Tedder, Lord, on Purchase of Qrdinary Stock of Standard Motor Co., Ltd., by Massey- Harris-Ferguson, 104
Teddington Industrial Equipment, Ltd., Thermal Liquid-Level Switch, 209
Teeth, Gear. See Gear
“ Tektor J ” On/Off Level Controller (Fielden Electronics, Ltd.), 177*
Telecommunications Circuits, Avoidance of Inductive Effects in, 508
in Modernisation Plat of British Railways, 507
Telecommunications Engineering and facturingAssociation (T.E.M.A.), Report, 139
— Glossary of Initials, 51
— Negative Feedback, Discovery and
432
Manu- Annual
Use of,
— Past, Present and Future, Exhibition on, 593
— Progress of, 139
— Survey of Developments in, by R. J.
Halsey, 432*
— Systems, Economic Planning of. Interest
and Inflation in, by R. Krzyezkowski, 630 “ Telecon ” Helical Membrane Cables for Radio-Frequency Application (Trade Publication), 307
— Radio-Frequency Cables, Plugs, Sockets,
Joints and Terminations for Use with (Trade Publication), 307
“ Telecothene ” Insulant for Plugs and Sockets (Trade Publication), 307
“ Teledep ” Mark II Instrument for Reading Liquid Levels Remotely (Trade Publication), 531
Telediction System, Agavox, for Dictation by
Telephone (M. and L. Haycraft, Ltd.), 67* Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co., “ Telecon ” Helical Membrane
Ltd.,
Cables for Radio-Frequency Application (Trade Publication), 307; Plugs, Sockets, Joints ~
“ Telecon ”
(Trade Publication), 307; “ Telecothene Insulant for Plugs and Sockets (Trade Publication), 307
Telegraphy, Developments Survey, by R. J. Halsey, 432*
— Wireless. See also Valves: Radar: Radio:
Television
“ Telehoist ” Loader for Sack Handling on “ Barfitt ” Bulk Transporter, 357*
Telemeter Strip Chart Recorder (Trade Publication), 149
Telephone Cables, Submarine, Repeater for
Research on (Submarine Cables, Ltd.), 696
— Circuits, Growth of, 433*
— Dictation by, Agavox Telediction System
for (M. and L. Haycraft, Ltd.), 67*
“ ~ Survey, by
and Terminations for Use with
Radio-Frequency Cables
-— Equipment, Developments
R. J. Halsey, 435 -— Exchange, Automatic, Lee tronic Director for, 760* Automatic, Progress and
of, 760* Developments Survey, by R. J. Halsey
432, 433
— ?— Electronic, Exhibit of, 497
Electronic, Highgate Woods, Proposed,
760
Electronic, Possibilities of, 436 Group Routing and Charging Equipment (GRACE), for, 722*
PABX No. 3, at Billingham Division of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 139 -— Growth of Number of, 433*
— Information Services, 435
— Link, Transatlantic, between Britain and
Canada, Lightweight Submarine Cable for, 497*
— Network, Internal, Radio in, 434
— Progress, 139
— Radio, Very High-Frequency, Develop
ments Survey, by R. J. Halsey, 432
— Service, “ Hands Free,” 436 ?— Statistics, 139
— Systems, Nickel-Iron Magnetic Strip for, 497
— Terminal Equipment, 435*
Telephony, Inland Trunk Circuits, Developments Survey, by R. J. Halsey, 433
— International Circuits, Developments Sur
vey, by R. J. Halsey, 434
Consultative Committee on, 433
— Submarine, Developments Survey,
R. J. Halsey, 432, 434
— Trans-Oceanic, Developments Survey,
R. J. Halsey, 432
— Trunk Operating, Developments Survey, by
R. J. Halsey, 435
— Wireless. See also Valves: Radar: Radio:
Television
Teleprinter, Inventor of, 773
— “ Model 75 ” (Creed and Co., Ltd.), 66
— Systems Exhibited at Business Efficiency
Exhibition, 66
— ?— “ Telewriter ” (National Telewriter
(1955), Ltd.), 66
Telescope Mirrors, Tower for Testing (Sir H.
Grubb Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 171*
— Radio, Comparison with Optical, 37
for Commonwealth Scientific and Indus
trial Research Organisation at Sydney, 45 for Extra-Terrestrial Observations and
Micro-Wave Propagation Studies at Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern), 362*
at Jodrell Bank, 5 Jodrell Bank, Description of, 34* Jodrell Bank, Increase in Cost of, Plain
Words on, 226
? Jodrell Bank, List of Firms Engaged on,
37
? Note on Types of,
— Wire, at Mullard
Observatory, 185* Television Advertising
B. F. Maccabe, 685 Expenditure on, 397
— Broadcasts to Schools by British Broad
casting Corporation, Comment on, 448
— Camera, Development of, 548*
Electronic, “ Emitron ” (E.M.I.), 548*
— and Canadian Trade, Remarks on, by
C. O, Stanley, 813
— Club, British Amateur, Activities of, 548
— Colour, Progress of, 548
— Commercial, Position and Prospects of, 273
— Engineering Origins of, 546*
— Equipment, Export Trade
Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands, 526*
? Industrial, Battery-Operated (Pye, Ltd.),
179
in Internal Pipe Welding Boom (QuasiArc, Ltd.), 362*
— Experiments by British Broadcasting Cor
poration, 621
Green, Elec-
Developments
by
by
37
Radio Astronomy
for Engineers, by
of United
Television Industry, Position and Prospects of, 326
— Programmes on Stately Homes, Plain
Words on, 194. See LETTER, 261
— Receivers, “ Eclipse ” Permanent Magnets
for (Trade Publication), 531
— in Republic of Ireland, by C. Q. Stanley, 168
— Service of British Broadcasting Corp., 548
— Independent, Activities of, 548
— Society, Activities of, 548
— Station, British Broadcasting Corp., at
Kirk O’Shotts, Observations on Strength of Sound Transmission from, 172
— Traffic Control by, at Durham, 179
— Transmission, Development of, 548*
— Transmitter at Chillerton Down, Equip
ment for, 425
— ?—for Independent Television Authority
(Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 425
— — Sideband Analyser Type OA1241 (Mar
coni Instruments, Ltd.), 561
Ultra-High-Frequency, at Crystal Palace, 718
— Transmitting Station at Douglas, Isle of
Man, Opening of, 805
Station at Sandale, Cumberland, Opening of, 805
— Ultra-High-Frequency, Trend in, 718
— United States, Decision Against Use of
Subliminal Advertising, 800
“ Telewriter ” Teleprinter System (National Telewriter (1955), Ltd., 66
Telex Service, Growth of, 434
Telford, Thomas, First President of Institution of Civil Engineers, 102; Bicentenary and Work of, 162*; Painting of, by Sir H. Raeburn, 163*
T.E.M.A. See Telecommunication Engineering and Manufacturing Association
Temperature Control Gear, Automatic, for Type EDF Mark I Electric Die-Casting Furnace for Aluminium, 204
— Elevated, Behaviour of Metals at (Review),
530
— Recorder, Strip Chart (Trade Publication),
307
Temple, W. K., on Machine Tools Future, 38
Tenders, Duplication of. Remarks Sir G, Nelson, 622
Tendering, Competitive, Plea for, A. Whitaker, 650
of
on,
by
the
by
Sir
on
Tennessee Valley Authority, Bibliography Pumped Storage for Hydroelectric Power, 755
Tensile Stress in Glass Discs under Pressure, 592*
— Tests. See Tests (Materials)
Tensometer, Ltd., Note on, 421
“ Teramala ” Hydro-Kinetic Motor-Car Drive (Ferguson), 573
Terminations for Use with " Telecon ” Radio- Frequency Cables (Trade Publication), 307
Ternary Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy “ Tersil ” Silicone-Rubber Insulated Cable
(British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 424
Terylene-Polyvinyl Chloride Lightweight Non- Inflammable Conveyor Belt, “ Rilflex ” (Rubber Improvement, Ltd.), 679*
Tests, Acceptance, for Boilers, 521. See LETTER. 646
?—? Aeronautical. See Aeronautics
— Current-Rating, on Double-Angle Section
Copper Conductors, by T. L. Richards, 823*
— for Development and Proving of Diesel
Rail-Car Sets, 652*
— on ?? Duke of Gloucester ” Locomotive, 136
— Engine Performance, Application of Statis
tics to, by Dr. W. R. Buckland, 729
— for Industrial Crawler and Wheel Tractors,
120
— of Lighting and Production, 660*
Tests (Materials):
Bending Test as Criterion of Weld Metal Quality, by J. W. Shedden, 73
Bursting Strength of Glass Discs, by P. L. Thorpe and D. Dawson, 591*
Concrete, Gamma-Radiography of, 12 Corrosion Tests, Accelerated, on Experimental Busbar Joints, 746*
Crack Propagation Test on Unstiffened Pressure Cylinder, 407*
Creep Tests on Nuclear-Reactor Materials, 793*
?—? Testing Apparatus for Use on Metals and Alloys in Gaseous Atmospheres, at High Temperatures and Pressures, 794*
Fatigue Tests, Determination of Frequency-Distribution Curves by, 275* in Limited-Life Design, 237* on Mild Steel, 238*
Results, Distribution of, 240*
Statistical, Time Saving in, by Dr. N. T. Bloomer, 603*
at Various Stress Levels, 239* Fatigue Testing Machine, “UP-200” (Russian), 587*
Refractories, Steelplant: Testing, Research and Development, by J. H. Chesters (Review), 212
Soil Mechanics Testing Apparatus (Trade Publication), 499
Stresses in Materials and Structures. See Stress
— Rupture Tests on Nuclear-Reactor Materials, 793*
Tensile Tests on Titanium and Titanium- Con- R. J.
Aluminium-Manganese Alloy, trol of Strain Rate in, by Parker, 392*
Torsion-Fatigue Tests on Spring 237*
Weldability Tests on Uranium, 793 See also Non-Destructive Testing
Steel,
Tests of Pedal Cycles and Motor-Assisted Bicycles by Road Research Laboratory, Report on, 722
— Plant, Variable-Speed Drives for (Trade Publication), 657
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Test Rig for Proving Linear Electrical Actuators at Rotax,Ltd.(Steel Gauges, Ltd.),618*
— on 2,500 h.p. Type 2SC/IP/1RE Experi
mental Gas-Turbine (Mitsubishi Nippon Heavy-Industries, Ltd.), 58*
Tester, for Fuel-Oil Injection Pump, for Small Factory or Garage (Merlin Engineering Co., Ltd.), 246*
Testing Aircraft, Instrumentation in, by C. N. Jaques (Review), 656
— Apparatus for Soil Mechanics (Trade
Publication), 499
— of Capacitors at Elizabeth Works of
Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 154*
— Clay, Syllabus of, by T. A. Klinefelter and
H. P. Hamlin (Book), 657
— of Electric Traction Motors and Generators
for Railway Rolling Stock at Dudley Port Works of General Electric Co., Ltd., 828*
— of Engines, Equipment for, by H. Freeston,
729
— Equipment (Russian), 586*
— Flash, of Capacitor Elements at Elizabeth
Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 155*
— Laboratory. See also National Physical See also Tests {Materials}
— Materials, American Society for. Note on
Publications of, 119. See LETTER, 488
— of New Engine Types to Assess Reliability,
by Lt.-Col. R. A. Lawrence and W. H. A. Collins, 729
— Non-Destructive. See Non-Destructive
Testing
— the Reliability of Complicated Machines,
by Dr, G. Morris, 41*
— Supersonic Flight, Techniques and Pro
cedures in, by R. P. Beamont, 718
— See also Tests {Materials}; Trials
Texas Atomic Energy Research Foundation, Research Programme on Nuclear Fusion, 156
Texas Instruments, Ltd., Silicon Semi- Conductors, 491
Textiles, Artificial, Expansion in Production of, by Courtaulds, Ltd., 424
— Industry, Uganda, Withdrawal of Interest
in, of Calico Printers Association, Ltd., and Bleachers Association, Ltd., 682
— Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects
of, 134
— Spinning Cots Manufactured from Nitrile Rubber (Armstrong Cork Co., Ltd.), 203* Thames Foundry of Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Description of, 701*
“Thames Trader” Commercial Motor Vehicles, New 10/12 and 15 cwt. Range of (Ford Motor Co., Ltd.), 574*
Thermal. See Heat
— Treatment, Metals.
under Metallurgy
Thermionic Valves. See Telephony; Radio
Thermit Welded Rails, by R. S. Loubser, 11
See Heat Treatment
Vaives: Telegraphy;
Fatigue Strength of,
“ Thermocord ” Glass-Fibre Insulated Heating Cable (Electrothermal Engineering, Ltd.), 522*
Thermocouples, Differential Triple-Point, Use in Study of Boiler Circulation Theory at Cambridge University, 110*
Thermodynamics, by F. P. Durham (Review), 594
— by V, M. Faires (Review), 594
— Elementary, by V. M. Faires (Review), 594
— Engineering, by C. O. Mackey, W. N. Barnard, and F. O. Ellenwood (Review), 594
Thermoflex ” Heating Element for Sea-Water Evaporators (Trade Publication), 531
Thermometer, Platinum-Resistance, for Temperatures up to 1,200° C. (C.N.S. Instruments, Ltd.), 713*
— Three-Channel Recording, for Hypothermia
(W. G. Pye and Co., Ltd.), 459
Thermonuclear Fusion, American Work, 538 Research on. Review of, 538* Russian Work on, 538
— Projects, 156
— Reactions, 538 Containment Problem for,
Thomson, 347*
Controlled, Review of, by Ware, 610*
?—? — Gas-Containment Problems Information Exchange
by
Sir
G.
Dr.
A.
A.
, 612 Between United Kingdom and United States, 827 Pinch Effect in, by J. L. Tuck et al,, 538 —' — Plasma Instabilities in, 828
Possible, 347* Sherwood Project on, 156 See also Discharges; Fusion;
charges; Pinch Effect; Hydrogen Nuclear Fusion; ZETA
— Research, Colombus Apparatus
Controlled, Conference on (Princeton
University), 606
? Stellarator Apparatus for,
See also ZETA “ThermoSpray” Ceramic and
Alloy Spraying Process Equipment Co., Ltd.), 331* Thermotank, Ltd., Formation of International
Products Division, 338
Thickness Gauge, “ Atomat,” Applications of. Cinema Film on (Baldwin Instrument Co., Ltd.), 633
• “ Atomat,” Cinema Film on, 158
Radio-Active Isotope, in Aluminium Foil Rolling Mill of Venesta, Ltd. (Baldwin Instrument Co., Ltd.), 503*
— Measuring, Continuous, of Thin, Soft
Sheet and Film, by Dr. J. C. Evans, I. G. Morgan, B. S. W. Mann and F. C. P. Mason, 631*
Thillaimuthu, J., on Indicating Horse-Power Continuously, 528*
Thoma, Dr. H., James Clayton Lecture on High-Pressure Power Transmissions, 779* Thomas, A., on Selection of Protective Devices Against Crankcase Explosions, 303
Thomas, B. (Engineers), Ltd., 630-Volt Direct- Current Switchgear for New Substation at Charing Cross, 510*
Thomas Hawkesley Lecture on Vibration: A Survey of Industrial Applications by Prof. J. P. den Hartog, 661
for, on, 1
Gas Dis^ Reaction;
for, 156*
156*
Hard-Facing
(Metallizing
Thomas, Sir M., on Position and of Monsanto Chemicals, 295
Thomas, R., and Baldwins, Ltd.,
Prospects
T\_jiia3, R., and Baldwins, Ltd., Extension Plans, 131; Closure of Two Steelworks Near Swansea, 714; Controversy on Location in Wales of New Integrated Steelworks of, 714
Thomasson, H., on Boundary-Zone Factor in Arc Welding, 73
Thompson, J., Ltd., Model of No. 1 Reactor at Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, 269; Heat Exchangers for Berkeley Nuclear Reactor, 505; Pressure Vessels for Berkeley Nuclear Reactor, 505*. See also A.E.L— John Thompson
Thompson, J. F., on Position and Prospects of International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., 28!
Thomson, Sir G., on Containment Problem for Thermonuclear Reaction, 347*; Work on Thermonuclear Reactions, 610
Thomson, Prof. J. L., on Transmission Wind- Up in Motor Vehicles having Several Driven Wheels, 348
Thonemann, Dr. P. C., Remarks on Fusion- Energy Content of Seawater, 29. See Erratum, 156
Thor ” Ramjet for “ Bloodhound ” Surface- to-Air Guided Weapon System (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 350
Thorium Deposits, in India, 60
— Discoveries in Nyasaland, 831
— High-Purity, Solvent Extraction Process for
Production of, at Battelle Memorial Institute, 795
— Recovery from Monazite Ore, 559
— Re-Cycling of, Possibility of, by Sir
J. Cockcroft, 413
— Resources, 366
Thorn Electrical Industries, Ltd., Annual Report, 359
Thorn, J., Remarks on Diversification in Thorn Electrical Industries, Ltd., 359 Thorneycroft, P., Remarks on Inflation, 576; on Government’s Policy on Wages and Profits, 607, 608; Statement on Railway Workers’ Wage Claim, 608
Thornton, E. P., on More Steel or Better Concrete, 804. See LETTER, 805
Thornycroft, Sir J., Remarks on Anticipated Fall in Sales of John I. Thornycroft and Co. Ltd., 614
Thornycroft, J. I., and Co., Ltd., New Oil-Fuel System for R.M.S. “ Queen Mary,” 458*; Fibreglass Boat Construction, 602*; Position and Prospects of, 614
Thorpe, P. L., on Bursting Strength of Toughened Glass Discs, 591*
Threads, Screw. See Screw
“ 3 Jet Maximus ” Bunsen Burner for Use with Gases of High Calorific Value (Amal, Ltd.), 792
Thrust Bearing. See Bearing
— Collars, “ Orkot ” (United Coke and Chemi
cals Co., Ltd.), 358
— of Jet Engines, Measurement of, use of
Electromagnetic Computer EMC. Mk. I, 529*
— of Propellers. See Propellers; Aeronautics Thulin, L. G., on Gotaverken Diesel Engine, 57 “ Thunderbird ” Semi-Active Homing Anti-
Aircraft Missile (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 350*
“ Thunderer,” H.M.S. (Royal Naval Engineering College), Discussion in Parliament on Future of, 93
Thyratron Electronic Control Unit for Flame Cutting Machine (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 84*
TI Nuclear Engineering, Ltd., Formation and Activities of, 124
Tidal Power Scheme in Rance Estuary, 343* Sources and Applications of, 343*
“ Tiger ” Motor Car (F.M.R.), 519*
Tiles in Anti-Corrosive Cement (Semtex, Ltd.), 584
— Production, Variation of, with Illumination,
660*
Tiller, Rotary (David Brown Group), 648*
Tilley, K. W., on Social Factors in Training Royal Air Force Boy Entrants, 384
Timber Construction, Laminated, by E. Levin, 12
Timber Development Association, Interim Report on Laminated Timber Construction, by E. Levin, 12; Timber Roofs, 121*; Booklet on Manufacture and Uses of Plywood, 679
— Shell Roof, Multiple-Leaf, for Royal Wilton
Carpet Co.’s New Workshop, 121*
Time and Motion Study, Course on, 576
Timer, Process, Synchronous, Flush-Mounting, Self-Resetting, “ Rodene ” (D. Robinson and Co., Ltd.), 585*
— Sequence, Heavy-Duty (Trade Publication),
213
Timing Plate, Fixed, with High-Pressure Lubricated Thrust-Bearing, 780*
Tin, Birth of a. Advertisement on, 813
— Box Manufacture, by J. W. Langton
(Book), 337
— Chemicals, Fungicides Based on. Develop
ments in, at Tin Research Institute, 205
— Coatings, Recent Developments in, at Tin
Research Institute, 205
— Council, International, Decrease in Exports
of Tin, 825
— Exports of. Decrease in, 825
?— Prices, 363
— Research Institute, Demonstration of Work
of, at 25th Anniversary, 205
Tinclair, J., Ghost of a Tangerine (Book,) 51
Tinplate Industry, Welsh, Discussion in Parliament on, 639
— Workers, Effect of Closure of Old-Type
Tin-Plate Works in South Wales on, 639
— Works in Wales, Closure of, 714, 767 Tippler, Mine Cars (Trade Publication), 148 Car and Tub (Trade Publication), 531 “Titan” Intercontinental Ballistic Missile,
Martin Co.’s New Division for Launching of, 678
Titanium Airframe Structures (Douglas Aircraft Co.), 378*
— Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
(t
Titanium Bi-Metal Plate and Tubes, Corrosion- Resistant (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 583
— Cast, One-Inch Flanged Type “A” Saunders
Valve Body in (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 552*
— Castings (Imperial Chemical Industries,
Ltd.), 552*
— in Chemical and Allied Plant, Exhibition on
(Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 107
— Commercially Pure, “ Hylite 15” (William
Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 775
— Discoveries in Nyasaland, 831
— Industry, Mineral Resources Information
Circular on, 748
— Melting Plant, Aluminium Busbars in, 747* Plant for Production of “ Hylite ”
Titanium Alloys (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 235
“ Pigment Story, Cinema Film on, 243 ?— Production at Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 748
in Japan, 748
?—• — in United Kingdom, 748 in United States, 748
World, Statistics of, 748
— Tensile Tests on, Control of Strain Rate in,
by R. J. Parker, 392*
Tito, President, of Yugoslavia, at World Power Conference, 20*
Tobruk, Plant for De-Salting Brackish Water for Drinking, to be Installed in, 468* “Tokyo ZC ” Marine Diesel Engine (Mitsubishi Nippon Industries, Ltd.), 57* Tolerances in Machine Work. See Gauges; Gauging
Tolimit Gauges, Ltd., Automatic Air Gauge, 92*
Tolls on New Bridges and Tunnels, Policy on, 127
Tomato and Cucumber Marketing Board, Disciplinary Action Against Members Failing to Make Annual Return, 160
Tompkins, F. C., on Mechanism of Decomposition of Silver Azide, 141
Toms, A. H., on Technical Writing, 676. See LETTER, 740
Tongueland Bridge, 164*
Tool Bits, High-Speed Ground, “ Mo-Max ” and “ Mo-Max Cobalt ” (Cleveland Twist Drill (G.B.), Ltd.), 634
— Ceramic, Bibliography on, 119
— Cutting,
(Trade
— Electric,
— Grinder.
— Hand, Markets of Europe, Remarks on
Competition for, by H. C. Pease, 463
— Holder. See Machine Tools
— Machine. See Machine Tools
— Pneumatic. See Machine Tools
— for Pneumatic Equipment (Trade Publica
tion), 531
— Room Projector, “ Shadowmasta VMP
(Watson, Manasty and Co., Ltd.), 742*
Tooling, “ Araldite ” Epoxy Resins for (Trade Publication), 499
Toothed Gear. See Gear; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
Foothill, J. N., Remarks on Dearth of Capital in Industry, 517
Topping, Dr. J., Remarks on Library as Educational Instrument, 721
‘ Tornado ” Four-Way Welding Fume Exhaust Unit (Keith Blackman, Ltd.), 335 Tornadoes in Britain, 230
T ororo Exploration Co., Constitution of, 682 Torque Converter Drive, in Test Bed for Development and Proving of Diesel- Rail-Car Engines, 652*
— Meters. See Dynamometers
Torsion, Brittle Fracture of Mild Steel in, by J. B. Hunt, 173*
— Fatigue Tests. See Tests {Materials}
— Tests. See Tests {Materials} Torsionmeters. See Dynamometers Tottenham, Dr. H., on More Steel or Better
Concrete, 677. See LETTER, 805
Tow, D. J., on Cooling Tower Packings, 520, 676. See LETTER, 615, 804
Towers, Air-Cooling, for Power Stations, Examination of Possible Use of, 733
— Box Purifiers for Town Gas for Worcester
Gas Works of West Midlands Gas Board (Henry Balfour and Co., Ltd.), 183
— Cooling, Induced-Draught, with “ All Film
Flow ” Packing, Model of (Film Cooling Towers (1925), Ltd.), 332
Induced-Draught, for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56
Packings for, 332. See LETTERS, 520, 615, 676, 804
— 240-ft. High Double-Circuit Crossing, for
132-kV Line Over River Ribble, 446*
— Steam-Raising, 80-ft. for Calder Hall and
Chapelcross Nuclear Power Stations, Model of (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 269*
— for Testing Telescope Mirrors (Sir H*
Grubb Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 171*
Town and Country Planning Association, Comment on Slow Dispersal to New Towns, 134
— Gas. See Gas
— New, Attracting White-Collar Workers to,
512
Slow Progress of. Comment on, 134 Townsend, L. W., on Developing Plastics for Higher Temperatures, 708
Toy Manufacturing Industry, Position and Prospects of, 772
Traction, Electric. See Railways Tractor, Crawler, 42-b.h.p. (International Harvester Co. of Great Britain), 741*
Industrial, Tests for, 120
— 4-Cylinder, 50-5-h.p., “65,” with Perkins
Engine (Massey-Harris Ferguson), 741
— “ 2D,” Modified, for Use in Vineyards
David Brown Group), 647*
— Diesel-Electric Powered, DET 250, 324*
— Electric, “ T4,” with 10-Ton Gross
Towing Capacity (Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 331
— Exhibited at Smithfield Show, 741*
Marlco ” Protractor Set for Publication), 149
Portable (Trade Publication), 657 See Grinding under Machine Tools
Tractor, Ferguson “ Model 35,” Production of (Standard Motor Co., Ltd.), 8*
— for Finland (David Brown), 464
— “900,” Front-End Loader for (David
(Brown Group), 648*
— “ ITW,” Diesei-Engined (Ransomes, Sims
and Jefferies, Ltd.), 331
— “ Livedrive ” (David Brown), 647
— Matching Equipment (David Brown Group),
647*
— Three-Cylinder, 32-h.p., Fordson Dexta
(Ford Motor Co., Ltd.), 741*
— 37-h.p., Three-Cylinder, “ Nuffield Univer
sal Three ” (Morris Motors, Ltd.), 741 *
— Three-Ton, Two-Wheel Trailer for Use with
(Ford-Ransome), 214
— “ Tugmaster,” Hydraulic Lift Gear for
Connecting Semi-Trailers to (Douglas Equipment, Ltd.), 680
— Wheel, Tests for, 120
— for Yugoslavia (Massey-Harris-Ferguson),
464
Trade Agreement Between Australia and Japan, 81
— Board of. Statistics of Capital Spending
by Industry, 104; Census for 1958, 472
— with Canada, Discussion in
191
— Canadian Dependence on
Capital, 463
Outlook for, 752
Present Decline in, 768
— with China, Position and Prospects of, 231
— Deficit in France, 105
— Disputes. See Labour
— European, Likely Developments in, by T.
Vinell, 685
— Exhibition. See Exhibition
— Export, Aeroplane Engines. Increase in, 710 Agricultural Machinery, Increases in, 81 Anglo-American, Restrictions on, 223 to Australia, 70
— — with Brazil, 127
to Burma, Position and Prospects of, 709 to Canada, 463, 719, 778*
to Canada, Discussion in Parliament on, 191, 639, 831
to Canada, Mission Mission
to Canada, Television and, Remarks on, by C. O. Stanley, 813
Canadian, Annual Review of, 338 of Cement-Making and Allied Machinery, from Various Countries, 302*
Changes in Pattern of, 622
to China, Position and Prospects of, Diesel Engines, 364
Engineering Industry, Comparison tween Britain and Foreign Countries,
Forecasting of. Factors Involved in, German, Surplus of, 338. See LETTER, 453
to Germany, Increase in, 714
Guide, of General Electric Co., Ltd., 810 Heat Pump, Effect of Purchase Tax on, Discussion in Parliament on, 671
Locomotives Statistics of, 710 Machine Tools, to China, 231 to Middle East, 397
to Middle East, Activities of Brush Group, 719
Motor-Car Industry, 147
Motor Cars, from Japan, 421 Motor Cars to United States, 831 Motor-Cars and Motor Vehicles, from Western Europe, 589*
Need to Assess Prospects of, 147 Non-Ferrous Metal Plant, 428* Office Machinery, 200
and Overseas Sales Promotion, Conference on, 492
Package Atomic Reactors, 671
Patents, by Col. T. W. Vigers, 751 Plastics, 590
— — Position and Prospects of, 40
—? — Radio, Radar and Television Equipment, of United Kingdom, Germany, and Netherlands, 526*
Sewing Machines, 233
Steam Locomotives, Statistics of, 710 Steelworks Equipment, 428* Steelworks Equipment, German, 428* Supersonic Aircraft, 517
Tin, Decrease in, 825
Typewriters, from Principal European Countries, 9*
to United States, 70
of United States, Criticism of, 216
Urgent Need of, 216
See also Markets; Marketing
— Fairs and Exhibitions (Broadsheet), 27
— Freer, in Europe (H.M.S.O. Publication), 6
— Import, Anglo-American, Restrictions on,
223
from Canada, Discussion in Parliament on, 191
Canadian, Annual Review of, 338 Duties on Cement in European Countries, 303*
Duties on Motor Cars in Western Europe, 590*
Indian, Restrictions on, 622
•— — Natural Liquid Gas from Venezuela, 552 Sewing Machines, 233
Synthetic Rubber, 167 Typewriters, 9*, 10*
— Literature, Building, Competition on, 51
— Mark, Registered, Definition of, 749
— Mission to United Kingdom, Canadian,
685, 719, 778, 813
— Publications, 16, 51, 148, 213, 279, 307, 403,
498, 531, 562, 625, 657, 783, 821
— Restrictions Imposed by United Kingdom
and United States, 223
— Unions. See Labour
— United States, Present Decline in, 768
— World, Dangers of Russian Supremacy in,
545
New Era in, by T. Vinell, 685 Traffic Congestion at Hyde Park Corner, Proposed Underpass for Relief of, 601
— Control Barrier (Trade Publication), 821
by Television at Durham, 179
of Production
Parliament on,
United States
on.
See Trade
231
Be-
422
810
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lx>i
Traffic Guides, Discussion in Parliament on
New Forms of, 735
— Signal Controller, 421
Trailer, Two-Wheel, Three-Ton, for Use with
Tractors (Ford-Ransome), 214 Trains, See Railway
Training. See Education
Trans-World Airlines, Qrder Placed for “ Britannia ” Air-Liners, 216
Transatlantic Telephone Line Between Britain and Canada, Lightweight Submarine Cable for, 497*
Transducer in “MS30” Echo Sounder, 400* “ Transfluide ” Motor-Car Drive (Renault), 573
— Semi-Automatic Motor-Car Transmission,
Control Gear for, 476*
Transformation, Laplace, by W. T. Thomson (Review), 754
Transformer Cast-in-Resin for Use with Portable Tools (Foster Transformers, Ltd.), 554*
— Coils, Winding of, at Metropolitan-Vickers
Electrical Co., Ltd., Wythenshawe, 795* ?— Core Laminations, Plates for, 795
— Designing, Application of Digital Compu
ter to, 340*
— 20-MVA, for Electric Arc Furnace (English
Electric Co., Ltd.), 521
— Experimental, for Dperation at 500° C.,
Exhibited at International Symposium on Electronic Components held at Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern), 623*
— Lightweight, for Portable Tools (Ferranti,
Ltd.), 362*
— Low-Voltage (Trade Publication), 17
— Manufacture of, at New Works of Metro
politan-Vickers Electrical Co., at Wythenshawe, 795*
— 72-MVA 11 8/132-kV, for Meaford “B”
Power Station, 501
— Multi-Purpose, “ Autopak ” (Rockweld
Ltd.), 267
— Qpen-Construction, for Qperation
500° C. (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 623
— Rectifier, 12-l-MW, for New
Canadian British Aluminium at Bale Comeau (British
Houston Co., Ltd.), 153
— Single-Phase, Air-Cooled, 50-kVA, for Use
with Riveting Machine for Heating and Upsetting Molybdenum-Steel Rivets into Countersunk Preparations on Turbine Blades (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 741*
— Single- and Three-Phase (Trade Publica
tion), 307
— Testing at Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical
Co., Ltd., Wythenshawe, 795
— 20/30 MVA, for Umtali Substation of
Electricity Supply Commission in Southern Rhodesia (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 215
Transformers (Watford), Ltd., Mild-Steel Radiator for Transformer. Erratum, 283
— Wound with Glass-Insulated Nickel-Plated
Copper Wire Interleaved with Glass Cloth for Operation at 500° C. (Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern)), 623*
Transistors, Factory for Production of, at
Swindon (Semi-Conductors, Ltd.), 509
— and Ferrites, Work on at Mullard Research
Laboratories, 464
— Logic Circuitry in “ Leprechaun ” High-
Speed Miniature Digital Computer, 15*
— Photo-, Use in Automatic Air Gauge
(Tolimit Gauges, Ltd.), 92*
— Silicon (Texas Instruments, Ltd.), 491 Translating, Scientific and Technical, and
other Aspects of the Language Problem, 499
Translations, English, of Russian Scientific and Technological Literature, Collection of, at Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 735
— of Language by Electronic Digital Com
puter, 339
Mechanical, Note on, 563
— Service, Co-Qperative, of Iron and Steel
Institute, 213
Translators, on GRACE Equipment for Telephone Exchanges, 722*
Transmission, Automatic, Motor-Car, Design Trends, by G. Wilkins, 572*
— Belt, Power, Plastic, Qil-Resistant, “ Dixy-
lon-Suplex ” (R. and J. Dick, Ltd.), 711
— Circuits, by E. M. Williams and J. B,
Woodford, Jr. (Book), 148
— Data, System for Guided-Weapons Trials
Devised by Royal Aircraft Establishment, 261
— Dynamometer. See Dynamometer
— Electric, Ship Propulsion. See Marine
Propulsion
— at Engineering Exhibition, 265
— Gear. See Gear; Gearing; Marine Propul
sion
— Hydrostatic, Applications of, 781
? on Diesel Locomotive of Italian State
Railway, 781 Mine Hoist with, 781
— Motor-Car, Citroen Systems, 477
— — Development in France, 476* Hydrostatic Drive, 572
— ?—Semi-Automatic, “Transfluide,” Con
trol Gear for, 476*
See also Motor-Car
— Power, Equipment at Engineering Exhibi
tion, 265*
Hydraulic, High-Pressure, by Dr. H. Thoma, 779*
— — Hydrostatic, Definition and Application,
779*
— Torque Converter,
Mercedes-Benz 300 ments in, 287*
— Unit, High-Pressure,
Qutput, 781 *
Hydraulic, Voith-North British, for Diesel Locomotives (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 297
— Wind-Up in Motor Vehicles Having Several
Driven Wheels, by W, Steeds, J. R. Ellis, and Prof. J. L. Thomson, 348
at
of
Smelter Co., Ltd., Thomson-
Borg-Warner, for Motor Car, Improve-
for Acceptable Noise
Transmitter-Receiver, 50-Watt, “ Hornet,” for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler (Pye, Ltd.), 663
Transmitter-Receiver, V.H.F., Two-Channel, “ PTC 724,” for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler (Pye, Ltd.), 663
— Television, for Independent Television
Authority (Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 425
Sideband Analyser Type QAI241 (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 561
See also Television Transport Act (1953), 7
— Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Association, Air, International. See Air
Transport Association, International
— and Automation, Address on, by Sir W.
Puckey, 682
— Commission, British. See British Transport
Commission
— and Distribution Factors in Cost of Power
Generation, 23
— Facilities for British Thomson-Houston Co.,
Ltd.’s Larne Works, 667*
— and General Workers’ Union, Strike of
Covent Garden Workers, 224
—? Institute of. Address on Transport and Automation, by Sir W. Puckey, 682
— Motor. See Road: Motor
— of Nuclear Materials, Safety Limits for.
Proposed Regulations by United States Atomic Energy Commission, 794
— Problems Associated with Free Trade Area,
651
— Public, Combination of Battery-Electric and
Petrol-Electric Power in, 597*
— Railway. See Railway
?— Road. See Road: Motor
— Salaried Staffs Association, Wage Claims,
320
— Water, International Navigation Congress,
59
“Transveyor” Table for “ Rola-Veyor ” Gravity Conveyor (Trade Publication), 149 Travelling Crane. See Crane
Traversing Unit, Automatic, for Welding, 170* “ Travolators ” at Bank Station, 288
Trawlers, Gas-Turbine Propulsion for. Setback in Development of, 400
— Hatch Cover, Welded Aluminium (Northern
Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 329*
Trawsfynydd, Nuclear Power Station at. Public Local Inquiry into, 764
— Proposal for Nuclear Power Station at, 255 Trays, Work-Holding (Trade Publication), 783 Tread, Plate, Aluminium, Positive-Grip-
Pattern (P-G-P) (British Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 457
Treasury’s Attitude to Technical Civil Servants, by S. Mayne, 256
Trend Industrial Equipment, Ltd., “ Duax ” Two-Speed Drill with Percussion Head for Conversion to Hammer Drill, 556*
Trevithick, Richard, “ The Cornish Giant,” 1771-1833. Memorials and Commemorations in Camborne and District, by J. F. Qdgers (Review), 50
Trials, Prototype, Mathematical Model for, by Dr. G. Morris, 41*
— of Two-Car Multiple-Unit Diesel Set by
British Transport Commission, 117*
— See also Tests
Trichlorethylene, Metal Degreasing by (Trade Publication), 625
TRIDAC Electronic Flight Simulator at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough), 468*
TRIGA Nuclear Reactor, Solid Homogeneous, 731
Triglycine Sulphate Ferro-Electric Material (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 235
Triple-Expansion Engines. See Engines, Steam Triplex Group, Position and Prospects of, 390 Tripods, Hay-Making on, 369
“Trislot” Electric Induction Motors (Trade Publication), 403
Tritium and Deuterium Compounds, Bibliography of Research on, 336
Reaction, Reaction Rates for, 612*
— as Radioactive Tracer, 794 Triton Nuclear Reactor, 189
Trolley, Elevating, Hand-Qperated (Farrow and Jackson, Ltd.), 522*
Troposphere, Scatter in. Experimental Work on, 172
Truck, Battery-Qperated Qil or Petrol-Driven. See Motor Truck: Motor Vehicle
— Fork, Attachments (Trade Publication), 563 Attachment, for Handling Coils of Steel
Strip (Lansing Bagnall, Ltd.), 728
Battery-Qperated, “ FL.4500 ” (Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 331
Lift, with Forward Reach (Steinbock G.m.b.H.), 775*
Lift, Stability of, by O. S. Carliss, 819* Lift, Hydraulic Clamping-Arms for
Attachment to, for Handling Cartons (Proctor and Gamble), 205
— Railway. See Wagons
— Three-Wheel, General Purpose, Petrol-
Driven (F. Bonser and Co., Ltd.), 214*
“ Tsar Kolokol,” Russian Bell, 324*
TSNITMASH. See Soviet Central Research Institute for Technology and Machine Budding
“Tu 110” Airliner, 483*. See Erratum, 582 Tub, Mine, Tipplers (Trade Publication), 531 Tubes, External Cladding of, with Stainless Steel (Rose, Downs and Thompson, Ltd.), 358
— Image Converter, Infra-Red at Mullard
Research Laboratories, 464
Tube Investments, Ltd., Report on Irradiated Polythene Tape, 60*; Formation and Activities of Subsidiary Company, TI Nuclear Engineering, Ltd., 124; Agreement with Reynolds Metals Group to Combine Interests and Activities in Aluminium Industry in United Kingdom, 457; Position and Prospects of, 614, 647; Association with Reynolds Metal of America, 647; Metals in Motor Vehicles (Trade Publication), 821
— Mild Steel, Corrosion of, in Scotch Marine
Boilers, 559
Tube Neutron-Source, for Starting up Nuclear Reactors (Talbot Stead Tube Co., Ltd.), 412
— Railways. See London Transport Execu
tive
— Straightening Machine for Inconel Tubes
(Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd.), 619*
“ Tube-in-Strip ” Heat-Transfer Material (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 551 *
— Titanium, Bi-Metal, Corrosion-Resistant
(Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 583
— Travelling-Wave, Experiments on, at Mul-
lard Research Laboratories, 464
— See also Pipes
Tubewrights, Ltd., New Factory of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 282
Tubing, Copper, and Fittings, Manufacture of (Yorkshire Copper Works, Ltd.), 205
— Finned, “ Integron ” (Booklet) (Imperial
Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 61*
— Hessian, Bias, “ Quick-Wrap ” (Quick
Wrap Tubing Co., Ltd.), 568
— Polythene, for Cold-Water Services, Illus
trated Guide, by Ministry of Works, 13
— Steel, Large-Diameter, High-Quality, Lap
Welding of. Demonstration of Jet Burners Applied to, by Clayton, Son and Co., Ltd., 184
Tubular Construction Diesel-Mechanical Rail Cars, British Transport Commission Qrder for. Placed with Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., 152*
— Steel Construction for New Factory of
Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 282*
Tuck, J. L., et al., “ Pinch Effect in Thermonuclear Reactions,” 538
Tucker, Dr. A. J. P., on Control of Weld Quality in Steel by Training and Inspection, 73
Tudor Safety Glass Co., Ltd., Tests on Bursting Strength of Glass Discs, by P. L. Thorpe and D. Dawson, 591*
“Tugmaster” Tractor, Hydraulic Lift Gear for Connecting Semi-Trailers to (Douglas Equipment, Ltd.), 680*
“ Tul 10 ” Airliner, Tupolev, 483*
Tulloch Construction Co., Ltd., Portable Wire Rope Cutter, 13*
Tummel-Garry Hydro-Electric Scheme, 139* Tungsten Carbide, Tapping, Ultrasonic Machining Process for (Kerry’s (Ultrasonics), Ltd.), 489*
— Isotope Container, Model No. 43030
(Solus-Schall, Ltd.), 270
— Lamps. See Lamps under Electric
— Ore. See also Wolfram
Tunnels, Construction of, in Road Improvements in Brussels, 516
— Purfleet to Dartfcrd, Progress in Construc
tion, 799
— Tolls on New, Policy on, 127
— Water, 48-in., at Pennsylvania State
University, Performance Characteristics of, by J. M. Robertson and D. Ross, 76*
Tupolev “ Tu 110” Propeller-Turbine Airliner, 483*
Turbine, Air, Marine, Closed-Cycle, 10,000 s.h.p. (Mitsui Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.), 59*
— Axial-Flow, Three-Stage, for Mark TE
300-kW Gas-Turbine (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 315*
— Blading for. See Blades: Blading
— Design for 200-MW Generating Set, 344
— Discs, Riveting Machine for Heating and
Upsetting Molybdenum-Steel Rivets into Counter-sunk Preparations on (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 741*
— Francis, for Driving Armfield L.D.C.
lO-kW Water-Driven Direct-Current “ Micro-Set ” Generator, 26
— Gas, Application of High Temperature
Materials to. Survey of, by G. Lucas and J. F. Pollock (Book), 563
Auxiliary, Fitted to Russian Propeller- Turbine Aero Engine, 116*
Blades, High-Temperature, Exhibit of, at Farnborough Air Display, 261
Centrifugal, “P.18I” and “P.I82” Engines for Helicopter Shaft Drives (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 292
Closed-Cycle, Developments in, by Dr. Ing. W. Spillmann 59*
—? — Up to 1,500-h.p., Congress on. Preliminary Notice, 818
Discs, Pitch Errors of Fir-Tree Root Serrations in. Comparator for Automatic Measurement of, by L. W. Nickols, 372* 55 h.p. Engine, Solar Mercury “ YT-62, ” for Qne-Man Helicopter (Solar Aircraft Co.), 310
Industrial, “ EM 27P ” (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 296*
Japanese, by ’ ' ' and H. Yoshii,
Maintenance Pfenninger, 58
300-kW, Mark TE (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd.), 315*, 333*
Materials. Survey of High-Temperature Materials and Application to Gas Turbine, by G. Lucas and J. F. Pollock (Book), 563
Production of, by Brown Boveri, A. G., and Cie, 169
Propulsion for Trawlers, Setback in Development of, 400
Rotors, Welding Austenitic Steels, for, by R. R. Roberts, 11
Ship, John Sergeant, Trials and Maiden Voyage of, by J. J. McMullen, 809
STAD, 250-h.p., for 175-kV Crompton Parkinson Alternator (Auto Diesels, Ltd.), 296
for Use with Free-Piston Gasifier (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 296*
See also Engines under Aeronautics Turbine Gears (1931), Ltd., Development and Activities of, 614
— Hydraulic. See Power Plant
— Kaplan, for Kuibishev Scheme (LMZ), 410
— Manufacture by British Thomson-Houston
Co., Ltd., at Larne, 666*
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
M. Isogai, M. Fujisawa, 58*
and Operation, by H-
Turbine Rotors, Balancing, by Prof. J. P. den Hartog, 661
Oil Whip in, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
— Sets, Vertical, Francis, at Errochty Hydro-
Electric Power Station, 139
— Shaft, Low-Pressure, for 23-MW Turbo-
Generator (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 297*
— Steam, Blading for. See Blades: Blading 120-MW, Forged Rotor Shaft, for Staythorpe “ B ” Power Station (Thos. Firth and John Brown, Ltd.), 329*
Machinery, Marine Propulsion by, by by Dr. T. W. F. Brown. 444*, 569*, 698*
Marine, Geared. See Marine Propulsion Two-Cylinder Combined Impulse-Reaction Type, 60-MW, for Meaford “ B ” Power Station, 501
See also Turbo-Generators
?— Thermal Stresses in, by B. E. Gatewood (Review), 782
— Water, Castings for (Trade Publication), 563 See Generator, Electric, Turbine- Driven Turbo-Blowers at Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles, Ltd., 133
— Charger with 2 ; 1 Compression Ratio
(Birmingham Small Arms Co., Ltd.), 333*
— ?—? for Diesel Engines, Production of, by
Brown Boveri, A.G., and Cie, 170
— — for Engines of Approx. 150 h.p. (Wade
Engineering, Ltd.), 332
High-Efficiency, Development of (Birmingham Small Arms Co., Ltd.), 532*
Radial-Flow, Small, Design and Development of, by C. A. Judson and E. 532*
— ?—? Single-Stage (Brush Group), 297
— Charging, Development of,
Boveri and Co., by H. Herga Jenny, 57
?—? — System on M.A.N. Diesel Dr.-Ing. E. Soerenson, 57
— Electric System, Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Generator, High-Pressure, Turbine Blades for (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 297
23-MW, Low Pressure Turbine Shaft for, 297*
— — Manufacture of, by British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., at Larne, 666*
Set, 200-MW, 3,000-r.p.m., Design of, 344
— — Steam, and Auxiliaries, for Power
Station at Basrah (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 397
—? — Supercharger, Exhaust, Brown Boveri, in Mirrlees KSCDM Six-Cylinder Engine for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler, 663
“Turbomatic” Centrifuge for Clarifying Coolants (Alfa-Laval Co., Ltd.), 586* Turkey, Nuclear Reactor for. Adviser for, 787 Turkish Radio Administration, Re-organisa- tion of Long-Wave Broadcasting Station at Ankara, 397
Turner, D. W., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Wellington Tube Works, Ltd., 454, 614
Turner, E., Comments on Prospects of Aircraft Industry, 359
Turner, H. A., on Wage Policy Abroad, 320 Turning. See Machine Tools
— and Boring Mills. See Machine Tools Turnstiles, Valves, Boiler Fittings and Pumps
(Trade Publication), 531
Turntable Ladder, Hydraulic, for Fire-Fighting (Merryweather and Sons, Ltd.), 183* Turret Lathes.
Tools
Twilight of the T. I. Lloyd,
“ Twinner " Portable Power Unit for Components (Donald Ross and Ltd.), 268
“ Twinner-Aronson ” Bench-Mounted Positioning Machine (Donald Ross and Partners, Ltd.), 268
“Twinspot” Welding Guns (A.R.O. Machinery Co., Ltd.), 267*
Twist Drill. See Drill under Machine Tools “ Twistor ” Magnetic Memory Storage System for Computers (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 824*
“ Tyopet Crown ” Sedan Motor Car, 421 Tyota Jidosha Kogyo Co., Motor-Car Export Trade, 421
“ Type MS5 ” Mass Spectrometer (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 155
Typesetting, Effect of Illumination on, 660* Typewriter, Electric, “ Robotyper ” Copy Attachment for (Royal Typewriters), 66
— Exports of, from Principal European
Countries, 9*
— Industry, British, 10*
German, 10
— Production (Ing. C. Olivetti and C.S.p.A.), 5
(Olympia Werke A.G.), 10
— Punch Paper Tape, Electronic (Remington
Rand), 681
Tyre Factory, Russian, at Dnepropetrovsk, British Equipment for, 356
— Pneumatic, for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 37
Tyson, R. C., Remarks on Inflation and United States Steel, 552

“ U/HAC” Automatic Grinding Machine fo'^ Crankshaft Journals and Crankpins (Newall Group Sales, Ltd.), 742*
Ucko, E., on Chipping of Hand Hammers in Service, 487
Uda, K., Visit to Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, 28
“ 9L)ET ” Supercharged Trunk-Piston Single- Acting Diesel Engine (Mitsubishi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd.,) 57
Uganda Electricity Board, Hydro-Electric Scheme at Owen Falls, 682. See LETTER, 804
Uganda, Industrial Development in, 682
— Textile Industry, Withdrawal of Interest in,
of Calico Printers Association, Ltd., and Bleachers Association, Ltd., 682
— Wolfram Deposits in. Renewal of Contracts for, 191
Ulcers, Stomach, and Business Executive, 192 Ultra-High-Frequency Television, Trend in, 718
Ultrasonic Anti-Fouling Equipment, tector ” (Marconi International Communication Co., Ltd.), 300*
— Drilling Machine, 2-kW (Kerry’s
sonics), Ltd.), 299*
— Engraving Tool for Engraving or
Hard Brittle Materials (Mullard, Ltd.), 332
— Flowmeters at British Scientific Instruments
Research Association, 781*
— and High-Frequency Surface Hardening at
Enims, 616
— Machining Process for Tapping Tungsten
Carbide (Kerry’s (Ultrasonics), Ltd.), 489*
— Radiation on a Solid System of Lauryl
Aldehyde and Potassium Chlorate, Oxidation Induced by, by F. A. H. Rice and D. Levine, 142
— Range, Underwater Acoustics, by E. G.
Richardson (Review), 118
— Research, Journal of, New Publication, 243 Ulyatt, H., Comment on Action of Employees
of Ambrose Shardlow, Ltd., 608
Umtali Substation of Electricity Supply Commission in Southern Rhodesia, 20/30 MVA Transformers for (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 215
Undercarriage. See Aeronautics
Underdeveloped Countries, Power as a Factor of Development of. See World Power Conference
— Nations, Comparison with Industrial
Nations, by Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, 294 Economic, Sociological and Philosophical Aspects of Technical Development of, 353
Undergraduates at Cambridge University, Results of Questionnaire to, 352.
— See also Education
Underground Conduits for Electrical Work, Investigation of, at Bell Telephones, by G. F. Weissmann, 115
— Gasification of Coal at Newman Spinney,
Work on, 761 *
of Coal, Recent Developments in, by C. A. Masterman, 761*
— Railways. See London Transport Executive Underpass at Hyde Park Corner, Proposed, 601
— Proposed, at Hyde Park Corner, for Relief
of Traffic Congestion, 601
Underwater Acoustics, Ultrasonic Range, by E G. Richardson (Review), 118
— Gap Initiation of Cast Pentolite, by C. H.
Winning, 142
— Hull Forms, Research on, 738* Unemployment. See Labour
UNESCO. See United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation
“ Unicop ” Copying Equipment for “ Ravensburg ” Face Copying Lathe (Mortimer Engineering Co.), 681*
“ Uni-Efglas ” Cable with P.T.F.E. and Glass Insulation (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 424
Unified Bolts and Nuts, Adoption of, by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 682
" Imperial ment, 198; International Conference on Radio-Isotopes (Paris), 319; Conference on Use of Radioactive Isotopes: Use of Radioactive-Isotopes, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 413; Scientific and Technical Translating and Other Aspects of the Language Problem, Note on, 499
United Nations, Report by Economic and Social Council on Economic Applications of Atomic Energy: Power Generation and Industrial and Agricultural Problems, 283 World Economic Survey (1956), 70 — States, Air Conditioning in, by T. H. Urdahl, 46
Air Force, “ Titan ” Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, Martin Co.’s New Division for Launching of, 678
Anglo-Overseas Transport Co. Services to (Brochure), 464
Arbitration in Industrial Disputes in, 64 Atomic Energy Commission, Conditions of Contracting with Operators of Private Nuclear Reactors, 125; Prices to be Paid for Plutonium, 125; Fluid-Fuel Reactors Postponed in Power Demonstration Reactor Programme, 157; Technical Publications and Services (Booklet), 158; Guide to Atomic Energy Literature, 220; 22nd Semi-Annual Report, 254*; Facility for Studying Nuclear Reactor Shielding Problems, 408*; Proposal for 40-MW Natural Uranium, Gas-Cooled, Graphite- Moderated Nuclear Power Plant, 413; Permit to General Electric Co. for Test of Pool-Type Research Reactor for Spanish Atomic Energy Commission, 539; Commencement of Operation of OMRE Nuclear Reactor, 571; Conference on Controlled Thermonuclear Research (Princeton University), 606; Proposals for Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactor, 605; Studies on Compact Nuclear-Reactor Systems for Military Use, 606; Nuclear Power Plant, 75-MW, at Hallam, 730; Safety Limits for Transporting Nuclear Materials, 794
Atomic Industrial Forum, International Atom Week in New York, 219
Bureau of Mines, Syllabus of Clay Testing, by T. A. Klinefelter and H. P. Hamlin (Book), 657
— — Bureau of Standards, Standard Samples:
Catalogue of Reference Materials (Book), 17; New Work on Radiation Standards, 125; Worldwide Occurrence of “ Sporadic E,” by E. K. Smith (Review), 212; Symposium on Metrology of Gauge Blocks (Book), 243; Bibliography of Research on Deuterium and Tritium Compounds, 336
? Collective Bargaining in (Publication),
704
Consumer Goods Boom in, 777 Co-operative Movement in, 768 Deflation in. Note on, 752
Department of Commerce, Screw-Thread Standards for Federal Services (1957), 755 Department of Labour, The American Workers’ Fact Book, 320
Dependence of Canadian Trade on Capital from, 463
Economic Problems in, 216
Emigration of Engineers and Scientists to. Comment on, 641; Discussion in Parliament on, 735
Engineering Enrolment in, by N. N.
Barish (Review), 83
Exports to Canada, 778*
Export Trade, Criticism of, 216
• Fast-Reactor Programme, 826
? Federal Research and Development
Budget, 1956, 1957 and 1958, 752
Government Service in. Staff Shortage in, 301
Hydraulic Research in, in 1957, Note on, 471
Industrial Activity, Position and Prospects of, 588
Information Service, Publication on Soviet Policies on Labour Productivity and Trade Unions, 640
Investment in Britain, 524
Investments in Germany, 588
? Investment, Small Saver's, Channelling
into Industry, by L. Engel, 512
— — Iron-Powder Coated Welding Electrodes
in, by D. L. Mathias, 711
Management Courses in, 301 Minimum Costs for Radioactive Isotopes, 475*
Motor-Car Exports to, 831
Motor-Car Industry, New Policy Against Road Accidents, 338
— — Motor Cars in. Trend to Smaller, 40 National Science Foundation, Award to
Aslib for Research into Indexing and Information Retrieval Systems, 181
Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Free- Flight Scale-Model Tests in Pressurised Firing Ranges Under Controlled Atmospheric Conditions, 401*; Two-Chamber Helium Gun, 401*; Research Work of, 401*
Navy “ Vanguard ” Earth Satellite, Martin Co.’s New Division for Launching of, 678; Programme for, 678
Navy. See also United States under Warships
Non-Ferrous Metal Industry, Position and Prospects of,
Nuclear Power Programme, Use of Enriched Fuels, 414
Nuclear Power Projects, 217
? Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier, 285 Organisation of Scientific Manpower and Scientific Knowledge in. Comment on Dr. V. Bush’s Remarks on, 705
Patent System in, 749; by C. E. Frost, 750; Proposals by Dr. V. Bush on, 749
Proposals by Dr. V. Bush on, 749 Pavilion at Brussels World Fair (1958), 516*
Public Service in, Appeal of, 301
Redundancy Trend in, 768
United States, Research and Development, in. Expenditure on, 752
United States Rubber Co., Research Programme, 581
Sales Promotion in, by Rolls Royce, Ltd., 338
Scientific and Technical Manpower in (Review), 402
Sewing-Machine Industry in, 233 Social Security in (Publication), 704 Society of Naval Architects and Marine
Engineers, Preliminary Design for Aqueous Homogeneous Nuclear Reactor Plant for Marine Propulsion, by C. B. Ellis, 700 United States Steel Corp., Processing of Low-
Grade Iron-Ore Deposits in Minnesota, 327; Effect of Wage Increases on Steel Prices, 552
Steel Prices, Effect of Inflation on, 552 Telephone Statistics, 139
Television Networks, Decision Against Use of Subliminal Advertising, 800
Titanium Production in, 748 Trade Slump Trend in, 768 Trade with United Kingdom, Restrictions on, 223
Uranium Allocation, 218 Wife-Screening in, 162 World Trade Fair (New York), Note on, 719
See also America: American
United Steel Companies, Ltd., *‘W1400” Walking Dragline for Open-Cast Iron-Ore Mining (Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd.), 122* United Steel Structural Co., Ltd., Steel for
Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 35*; Steelwork for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, 412
“ Uniterm ” Fittings for Aluminium Electric Conductors on Overhead Transmission Lines (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 142
Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Pressure-Moulded Rainwater, Soil and Flue-Pipe Fitments of Asbestos Cement, 429
— Grinding Machine. See Grinding Machine
under Machine Tools
Universe, The, Note on Book on, 783 University Appointments Boards, Pleas for
Improved, 384
— British, Scientific Research in, 371. See
LETTER, 421
— College (London), Course in Methods
Photoelasticity, 166
— Microfilms, Catalogue of Journals
Microfilm Form, 371
Upper Atmosphere. See Atmosphere Uranium from Africa, United Kingdom
Atomic Energy Authority’s Interest in, 413
— Allocation for United States, 218
— from Australia, for United Kingdom, 348
— Beryllia System, Study of, in France, 189
— Combustion Temperature in Gas-Cooled
Nuclear Reactors, 636
— Cost of Production of Concentrates in
France, 189
— Deposits in Australia, 348
— Enriched, in American and Soviet Reactor
Programmes, 414
— Fuel Elements, Excessive Temperature Rise
of, at Windscale Plutonium Plant, 505
•— Metal Plant (India), 60
— Mines, Canadian, Development of, 60 Canadian, Power Supply for, 60
— Mining Plans of Australian Atomic Energy
Commission, 319
— Ore from Belgian Congo, Price of, 157 from Federation of Rhodesia and
Nyasaland, Discussion in Parliament on Offer of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority to Purchase, 157
Treatment Plant of France, 188*
— Plasma Nuclear Reactor for Direct Conver
sion of Nuclear Energy, 446*
— Plutonium Combination Fuel for Heavy-
Water-Moderated Reactor, 827
— Production by Union Carbide and Carbon
Corporation, 157
— Recovery from Ore Leach Pulp, Ion-
Exchange Resin Membrane Process for, 559
— Reserves in India, 60
— Resources, 366 of France, 188
— Separation Process, Centrifugal, 414
— Weldability Tests on, 793
— Welding of, by J. R. C. Gough and D.
Roberts, 793
— Zirconium Alloy Ribbon-Type Nuclear
Fuel Element, Cycling Tests on, 731
Uranium 235, Chemical Separation of Bromine or Iodine from Fission Products of, 255 Enrichment of, 444
Urbanski, A., on Bursting Discs for High- Pressure Hydraulic Systems, 210*
Urdahl, T. H., on Climatic Influences as Basic Concept in Air Conditioning, 46
Urwick, L., a Bibliography, Note on, 181
Urwick, L. F., at International Management Congress, 2
USK Self-Priming Pump for Confined Spaces (British LaBour Pump Co., Ltd.), 334
“ U Z ” Rubber-Lined Pumps (British LaBour Pump Co., Ltd.), 335
V-BELT Maintenance (Trade-Publication), 149 Vacancies and Other Point Defects in Metals and Alloys, Symposium on, 792
Vacation Training (Handbook), 640
Vacu-Blast, Ltd., Dust-Free Grit-Blasting Machine, 396*
Vacu-Lug Traction Tyres, Ltd., “ Durasolid ” Method of Bonding Rubber to Metal, 584 Vacuum Analysis Equipment (Wild-Barfield Electric Furnaces, Ltd., and National Research Corp.), 18
— Arcs in, by W. E. Kuhn (Book), 437
— Brake. See Brake
Vacuum Chambers for Removing Dissolved Gases in Continuous Casting at Hammer and Sickle Metal Works, 616
— Forming Machines, “ VF12 ” and “ VFI8,”
for Shaping Thermoplastic Sheeting (M. L. Shelley and Partners, Ltd.), 92*
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Melting Process for Steel Castings (William
Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 358
— Pump. See Pump
— Techniques in Atomic Energy Industry, by
Dr. H. Kronberger, 613
— Technology, Fourth National Symposium
on. Preliminary Notice, 413
— Tube. See X-Rays; Telegraphy: Tele
phony: Valves
Valve Body in Cast Titanium, One-Inch Flanged, Saunders, Type “ A ” (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 552*
— Boiler Fittings, Pumps and Turnstiles
(Trade Publication), 531
— Control, Systems, 8-Bank Solenoid-Con
trolled Pneumatic Packaged Unit for (Baldwin Instrument Co., Ltd.), 712*
— Corrosion-Resistant (Trade Publication),
531
— Diaphragm (Trade Publication), 149
— Exhibited at Engineering Exhibition, 333*
— Full-Way, for Calder Hall Nuclear Power
Station (Davey, Paxman and Co., Ltd.), 348
— Guide to (Trade Publication), 531
— Hydraulic, for Solenoid Operation (Fawcett-
Finney, Ltd.), 299
— Industrial (Trade Publication), 657
— “ Linatex,” for Diaphragm Pumps (Trade
Publication), 531
— Maintenance of, Dewrance-Croft Lapping
Machine for (Dewrance and Co., Ltd.), 333*
— Monoway, for Pressures up to 3,000 lb. per
sq. in. (Dewrance and Co., Ltd.), 333
— “ No-Flote ” Level Control for (Evershed &
Vignoles, Ltd.), 178*
— Piston (Richard Klinger, Ltd.), 335
— Pneumatic, “ Maxam ” (Trade Publication),
499
— Pressure Control (Zwicky, Ltd.), 333*
— Small-Bore, Steel, for Pressures up to 600 lb.
per sq. in. (Dewrance and Co., Ltd.), 333
— Thyratron, for Control of Electronic Light
ing Dimmer (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 271*
— Two-Way, for Cauldon Low Cement Works
(Constantin (Engineering), Ltd.), 536*
— and Valve Gear. See also Engines Vans. See Motor Vehicles
Van de Graaff Accelerator Authorised for University of Wisconsin, 504
Vancouver Annacis Industrial Estate, Development of, 714
— Fair, Preliminary Notice, 463
“ Vanguard ” Airliner (Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd.), 293*
“ Vanguard ” Satellite, 98*, 100*, 227 Comparison with Russian Satellite, 456 Martin Co.’s New Division for Launching of, 678; Programme for. 678
Vapours, Gases and Dust in Industry, Review on, 39
Vardel ” High-Pressure Industrial Hydraulic Pump (Dowty Equipment, Ltd.), 215*
Variable-Speed Gear. See Gears “ Varicon ” Stepless Speed Reducer (David Brown Corp. Sales, Ltd.), 469*
— Variable-Speed Reducer (David Brown
Industries, Ltd.), 265*
Variety Reduction and Standardisation, Production Economies Achieved by, by A. C. C. Moore, 427
and Standardisation in Manufacturing, by T. R. B. Sanders, 427
Vari-Typer, Ltd., Office Composing Machine, 66
Vauxhall Motor Car, European, Decision to Import, by General Motor Corp., 40
Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Six-Cylinder Motor Car, 477*; Prototype of “ Velox ” Motor Car, 477*; “ Cresta ” Motor-Car, 572*
Vavilov Institute of Physics Problems, Activities of, 455
Vector Analysis, by L. Brand (Review), 754 “ Velbex ” Polyvinyl Chloride Coating for Bonding to Steel Sheet (B.X. Plastics, Ltd.), 456. See LETTER, 520
Velindre Works of Steel Co. of Wales, Ltd., Continuous Annealing Plant for Steel Strip at, 234*
“ Velox ” Motor Car, Prototype of (Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.), 477*
Venesta, Ltd., New Rolling Mills for Aluminium Foil at Silvertown Works (W. H. A. Robertson and Co., Ltd.), 502*
Venezuela, Import of Natural Liquid Gas from, 552
Venner Electronics, Ltd., Electronic Equipment for Measuring Instantaneous Speed of Road Vehicles, 729
Ventilating and Heating Engineers, Institution of. See Heating
— Heating, Refrigeration and Fan Engineering,
National College for. Activities of, 39, 431
— See also Heating and Ventilating Ventilation of Acoustics Laboratory of Keith
Blackman, Ltd., 696*
— Building (Trade Publication), 17
— System at Thames Foundry of Ford Motor
Co., Ltd., 701
Ventilator and Air Conditioning Systems, “ Auto-Roll ” Automatic Screen-Type Air Filter for (Vokes, Ltd.), 333
Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, Dictionary of Nuclear Energy, 657
Verein Deutscher Maschinenbau-Anstalten, E.V., Report on Shortage of Technical Manpower in Germany (Review), 402*
Verneuil Process for Producing Ferrite SingleCrystals, 464
“ Veronique ” Rocket, 101
Versailles, Chateau de, Sound Control Room at, 440*
“ Versil ” Glass Felt Pipe Wrapping Material (Regina Glass Fibre, Ltd.), 584
Vertical Take-Off and Landing Systems. See under Aeronautics
Vertol Aircraft Corporation, Note on Peterson Memorial Library, 657
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Verulam, Earl of. Remarks on Liberal Element in Technical Education, 721
“ Vespa ” Motor Car, 476, 518*
Vessels, Cylindrical, 20-Ton, Automatic Welding Equipment for (Courtburn Positioners, Ltd.), 330
— Open, Level Control of Liquids in, 206*
— Pressure. See Pressure Vessels “VF12,” Vacuum Forming Machine, Small,
for Shaping Thermoplastic Sheeting (M. L. Shelley and Partners, Ltd.), 92*
“VFI8,” Vacuum Forming Machine, Small, for Shaping Thermoplastic Sheeting (M. L. Shelley and Partners, Ltd.), 92*
Viaduct. See Bridges
Vibrating Screens (Trade Publication), 531 Vibration, Anti-, Pads for Machine Mounting (Trade Publication), 562
— Blade, in Axial-Flow Compressors, by Prof.
J. B. den Hartog, 662
— Forced, Examples of, by Prof. J. P. den
Hartog, 661
— Frequencies, Natural, Use of Computer in
Calculation of, 662
— and Impact, by R. A, Burton, Note on, 657
— from Kirmdn Vortices Shed from Struc
tures, by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
— Laboratory of Aircraft Equipment Division
of English Electric Co., Ltd., 655
— Longitudinal and Torsional, of Ships,
Shafts, 661-662
— and Noise of Mechanisms and Machines,
by Dr. A. J. King, 103, 261,677. See also Vol. 183. See LETTERS, 70, 165, 166, 550
— Problem of Singing Marine Propellers,
by Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
— Self-Excited, Examples of, by Prof. J. P. den
Hartog, 661
— in Small Radial-Flow Turbo-Chargers, 532*
— Survey of Industrial Applications, by Prof.
J. P. den Hartog, 661
— Torsional, and its Practical Solution, by
Prof. J. B. den Hartog, 662
— of Turbine Blading, by Prof. J. B. den
Hartog, 662
Vibrator, Pneumatic, “ Blencut ” Rapping Machine (Blending Machine Co.), 712* for Foundry Core Boxes (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 120*
Vice. See Machine Tools
Vick, W. D., Ltd., Spot Welder (Trade Publication), 51
Vickers-Armstrongs, Ltd,, New Liner to be Built for Canadian Pacific Steamships, Ltd., 95; “Vanguard” Airliner, 293*
Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd., Presentation of Santos-Dumont Model Aeroplane to Brazil Government, 232*
Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers), Ltd., “Fuller” Double-Pass Grate-Type Cooler and Clinker Breaker for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 536*; Rotary Kiln for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 536*
Vickers-Armstrongs (Tractors), Ltd., Depot for Distribution of Crawler Tractors at Annacis Industrial Estate, 714
Vickers Nuclear Engineering, Ltd., Neptune Zero-Energy Nuclear Reactor, 669; Activities and Constitution of, 700
“ Victomatic ” Automatic Cycle Milling Machine (Trade Publication), 17
Vie du Rail, La, Note on, 448
Vienna International Autumn Trade Fair, Activities of Birmingham Exchange and Engineering Centre at, 558
Vigers, Col. T. W., on Patents as Exports, 751 Villiers Engineering Co., Acquisition of J. A. Prestwich Industries, Ltd., 711; Position and Prospects of, 711
Vinell, T., on New Era in World Trade, 685 Vineyards, Modified “ 2D ” Tractor for Use in (D. Brown Group), 647*
Vining Machine for Peas (Mather and Platt, Ltd.), 387*
Vinter, Academician A. V., at World Power Conference, 22*
Vinyl Sheet, Rigid, “ Cobex,” for Chemical Plant (BX Plastics, Ltd.), 583
“ Viper ” Turbojet Engine in Saunders-Roe “ SR 53 ” Experimental Interceptor Aircraft (Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd.), 350
Visco Engineering Co., Ltd., Dust Collection (Trade Publication), 279
Viscose-Staple Plant of Courtaulds, Ltd., at Grimsby, 424
Viscosity of Liquids in C.G.S. Units, Determination of, British Standard (Book), 687 Visual Displays, Design Data on, 247 Vitreous Enamel Development Council, Lecture on Architectural Applications of Vitreous Enamel, by B. Zick, and by E. Mackasek, 106*
See also Enamel
Voith-North British Hydraulic Transmission Unit for Diesel Locomotives (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 297
Vokes, Ltd., “ Auto-Roll ” Automatic Screen- Type Air Filter, for Air Conditioning and Ventilator Systems, 333; Air Filters for Electric and Diesel-Electric Locomotives (Trade Publication), 821
Volatility-Processing Studies at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, 255 “ Voler Drylube A ” Solid “ Reductol ” Scheme for (Revol, Ltd.), 489
“ Voler Reductol ” Liquid “ Reductol ” Scheme for (Revol, Ltd.), 489
“ Volga ” Motor Car, GAZ M21, 324*
Voigt Haeffner, Acquisition of Manufacturing Licences for Switchgear from, by Lee Guiness, 558
Volkswagen, G.m.b.H., Motor Car Improvements, 286; Karmann Khia Saloon Motor Car, 391*; Small Motor-Car Production by, 590; Agreement Between Workers and Management for Longer Working Hours, 650
Volta River Aluminium Project, Discussion in Parliament on Government Participation in Financing of, 735
Voltage-Stabilised Supplies, by F. A. Benson (Review), 306
Voltmeter, Vacuum Tube, for 1,000 Mc/s (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 681
von Kliiber, Dr. H., on Solar Magnetograph, 400
Vosper, Ltd., Motor Trawler “ Boston Vanguard,” 663*
VTOL (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) Aircraft, Work on, by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, 378*
— Development, World-Wide Chronology of,
213
— Model, Delta-Wing “ Tail-Sitter ” Jet-
Propelled, 378*
— Systems, 494*
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., History of Two Famous Locomotive Builders (Trade Publication), 213*; Major Re-Organisation of, 262; 3,120-h.p. Electric Locomotives for Indian Railways, 806
Vulcascot (Great Britain), Ltd., Anti-Vibration Pads for Machine Mounting (Trade Publication), 562
“ Warmlag ” Plastic Dough for Lagging Water Pipes (Dohm Group), 811
Warships:
Aircraft Carrier, Nuclear Powered, for
United States, 285
Aviation, Naval. See Aeronautics Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics United States Submarine “ Nautilus,”
Corrosion in, 571
See also Nava!
Lubricant for Enclosed Gears
Lubricant for Enclosed Gears
“W1400” Walking Dragline for Open-Cast Iron-Ore Mining (Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd.), 122*
“ WAC Corporal ” Guided Missile, 430
Wade Engineering, Ltd., Air Motor for Aircraft, 332; Turbo-Charger for Engines of Approx. 150 h.p., 332; Variable AirCompressor, 332
Wade, W. (Whaley Bridge), Ltd., Erection of Control Building for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 37
Wadkin, Ltd., Heavy-Duty Wood-Turning Lathe, 30*; Woodworking Machines (Trade Publication), 149; Edge-Trimming Machine for Large Laminated Plastics Sheet, 361*
Wages. See Labour
Wagons, Motor. See Motor Vehicles; Tractors
— Railway, Iron-Ore, Modernisation Plans
of British Railways, 541
? Modernisation Plans of British Railways,
540*
Wagon Repairs, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 455
Wailes, R., on George Stephenson and Institution of Civil Engineers, 165
Wakefield-Dick Industrial Oils, Ltd., Lubricants, for Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, 158; “ DP50 ” Mechanical Oil Lubricators at Wolvercote Paper Mill, 712*; Contract for Lubrication for Nuclear Power Stations, 794
Walden, B., Committee for Inquiring into Allegations of Improper Conduct by, 832 Waldron, Dr. M. B., on Physical Properties and Alloying Behaviour of Plutonium Metal, 90
Wales, North, Trawsfynydd, Nuclear Power Station at. Local Public Inquiry into, 764 ?— South, Ports of. Discussion in Parliament on Improvements to, 93, 223
Tinplate Industry in. Discussion in Parliament on, 639
— Steelworks in. Closure of, 767
— Tinplate Works in. Closure of, 767
— West, Depression Over, Comment on, 714 Unemployment in, 714
Walker Bros. (Wigan), Ltd., Diesel-Electric Portable Winding Engine for National Coal Board, 617*
Walker, J. E., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Linotype and Machinery, Ltd., 678
Walking Dragline, Projected, for Russia, 410 Wall Chart, Continuous, “ Rotadate ” (Adapta Charts, Ltd.), 829
“ Movigraph ” (Trade Publication), 307
— “ Galbestos ” Protected Steel Sheeting for
(Trade Publication), 531
— Surface, Decorative, Hard-Wearing, “ Lino-
stone ” (Springhill Products, Ltd.), 811
?—? Tablets Defining British Imperial Standards of Length, 418*
— Uninsulated, Materials for Covering (Trade
Publication), 657
Wallace, W., on Spirit of Partnership in Industry, 544
Wallsend Slipway and Engineering Co., Manufacture of Stork Single-Acting, Two- Stroke, Turbo-Charged Diesel Engine, 647 Walmsley (Bury), Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 678
Wandleside Cable Works, Ltd., Irradiated Polythene as Cable Material, 30
War Office, Exhibition of Royal Engineer Works Services, 5*
Ward, E. P., on Quality of Russian Engineers (Advance Note), 261; on Soviet Engineers, 322*. See also 321; on Information Services, Education, Research, Reading Matter and Communication of Soviet Engineer, 355*; on Soviet Engineer as Designer, 409*; Labour, Workshops and Technical Processes Available to Soviet Engineers, 441*; Interview with Academician P. 1. Kapitsa, 455; on How Soviet Engineer Practises Management, 460*; on Summary of Characteristics of Soviet Engineers, 482*. See LETTER, 582
Ward, J., Acquisition of, by Lines Bros., 772 Ward-Leonard Controls for Horizontal Boring and Milling Machine (William Asquith, Ltd.), 808
Ward, R., and Partners, Ltd., New Factory of Lincoln Electric Co., Ltd., at Welwyn Garden City, 47
Ward, T. W., Ltd., Railway Track for JodreP Bank Radio Telescope, 35
Ware, Dr. A. A., on Controlled Thermonuclear Reactions, 610*
Warehouse, Paint, 1 Million Gallons Capacity, of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., at Slough, 62*
Warfare, Naval. See Warships
— Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics
Washers, Lock (Trade Publication), 149 Washing and Blanching Machine for Peas, 388*
— Machine and Spin Dryer Combined,
“ Hoovermatic ” (Hoover Washing) Machines), Ltd.), 556*
Wastes, Radioactive, Disposal of, by J. F. Newell, 793
Watchman, Night, Court of Appeal’s Ruling on, 96
Water, Boiling, Decomposition of. Work of Argonne National Laboratory on, 254
•— Brackish, De-Salting for Drinking, Plant for, 468*
— Cold-, Services, Polythene Tubing for.
Illustrated Guide, by Ministry of Works, 13
— Conservation, Discussion in Parliament on,
93
— Consumption Meter, “ Compound,” for
Measuring Water Flows (George Kent, Ltd.), 712
— — in United Kingdom, Increase in, 714
— Driven, Direct-Current “ Micro-Set ” Gen
erator, 10-kW, for Remote Areas (Armfield Hydraulic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 26*
— Economics, Discussion in Parliament on, 93
— Filters. See Filters
— Flowing, Corrosion and its Prevention in.
Circulation Equipment for. Study of, 559
— Heater, Solar, of British Army, 5*
? for Use with Butane Gas, British Stan
dard, 556
— Heavy, Research on, 254
— Hot, Systems, Oil-Fired, Exhibition of at
Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., 556
— for Industry, by J. B. Graham and M. F.
Burrill (Book), 51
— Industry, Need for Rationalisation of, 714
— Level Control Scheme, “ Three-Element,”
for Water-Tube Boilers (George Kent, Ltd.), 207
in Rivers, Reservoirs and Tanks, Remote Measurement of, Float-Operated Electrical Level Transmitter for (George Kent, Ltd.), 207
— Pipes, Lagging of, “ Warmlag ” Plastic
Dough for (Dohm Group), 811
— Pollution, by D. G. Davies, 739
in Iron and Steel Industry, Problems in Control of, 739
— Power. See also Hydraulic; Power Plant;
Power, Water; Turbine, IHdraulic
— Pumped, Storage Installation, 300-MW,
at Blaenau Ffestiniog, 367*
Storage, Resources and Applications of, 367
— Pure, Distilling Plant for Producing, from
Sea Water (Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd.), 115
— Resources, Energy and Applications of, 342*
— Sea. See Sea Water
— Softening and Sedimentation, “ Accelera
tors ” for, at Hanningfield Waterworks, 509
— Spray De-Superheater, “ Gordon,” for
Cooling Steam (Trade Publication), 499
— Supplies of Hailsham Rural District Coun
cil, Discussion in Parliament on, 31
for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Bedford, 52*
in Rural Areas, Discussion in Parliament on, 31
in South Essex, 509
See also Irrigation
— Tanks. See Tanks
— Transport, International Navigation Con
gress, 59
— Treatment, Mixed-Bed System of, for Gold-
ington Power Station (Permutit Co., Ltd.), 249
Plant, Portable (Permutit Co., Ltd.), 249
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
Boilermakers’ Association, Research on Circulation in High-Pressure Boilers at Cambridge University, 108*; Membership of, 110
— Tunnel, 48-in., at Pennsylvania State
University, Performance Characteristics of, by J. M. Robertson and D. Ross, 76* — See Turbines, Hydraulic; Power
— Turbines.
Plant
— Wheels.
Plant
Waterhammer Analysis,
(Review), 402 Waterways, Ice-Free, Use
for, 542
— See also Rivers; Canals
Waterworks Association, British, Remarks on Water Works Regrouping Progress, by H. Brooke, 714
— Need for Rationalisation of, 714
-— Regrouping Progress, Remarks on, by
H. Brooke, 714
— See also Water Supply
Wales, Ltd., Cluster Block of Maisonettes at
Bethnal Green, 753*
Watkins, R. J., on Aluminium Busbars, 744* Watson, Manasty and Co., Ltd., “ Shadowmasta
VMP ” Tool-Room Projector, 742*
Watt, James, Micrometer, 420*; Dinner, Engineer in Shipbuilding, by Rt. Hon. J. S. Maclay, 557
Waukesha Motor Co., Arrangements for Amalgamation with Climax Engine Manufacturing Co., 647
Waves, Electromagnetic. See Telegraphy, Telephony; Electric
— Radio, Through Atmosphere, Experimental
Work on, 171
Low-Loss Microwave Link for Transmission of (Elliott Brothers (London), Lt !.), 593
See Turbine,
Hydraulic; Power
by J. Parmakian
of Compressed Air
Waves, Travelling, Tubes, Experiments on, at
Mullard Research Laboratories, 464
— See also Microwave
Wealth and Poverty, Gap Between, by Prof. P. M. S. Blackett, 294
Weapons, Guided, by E. Burgess (Book), 243 Air-to-Air, “ Fireflash ” System (Fairey
Aviation Co., Ltd.), 250*
Exhibited at Farnborough Show, 349 at Farnborough Show, 259* “ Fireflash ” System (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 349
“ Firestreak,” System and Components (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 349*
General-Purpose Test Vehicle (G.P.V.) for Homing Demonstration at Farnborough Show, 260*
Homing Demonstration, at Farnborough Show,260
“ Sea Slug ” (Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.), 349*
Surface-to-Air, “ Bloodhound ” System (Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., and Ferranti, Ltd.), 350*
? Systems, at Farnborough Air Display,
259*
See also Missiles and Rockets under Aeronautics
— System, Supersonic, in “ P. 1 ” Single-Seat
Fighter Aircraft, 123
Wear, Definition of, 423
— of Engine Parts, 423
— and Lubrication, Conference on. Institution
of Mechanical Engineers, Preliminary Notice, 305
— of Metals, by Dr. F. T. Barwell, 423 Weather. See Meteorology Weather-Foil Heating Systems, Ltd., Oil-Fired
Heating Units for New Factory of Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd., at Blaydon-on- Tyne, 473*
Web Plate Behaviour in Plate Girder Design, by Dr. K. C. Rockey, 788*
Weddell, R. E. G., on Welding Education in Britain, 73
Weekly Survey, 6, 39, 71, 103 134, 166, 198, 230, 272, 301, 524, 551, 588, 620, 650, 682, 714, 752, 777, 809
Weeks, Lord, Comment on Government’s Decision to Use Guided Missiles for Defence Purposes, 620
Weibull’s Method for Determining Safe Fatigue Life, 275*
Weighbatching Plant, Winget, Use in Construction of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, 505
Weighing, Bagging Scales (Trade Publication), 149
Weights, Lifted without Mechanical Aid, Limits of, 197*
Weinberg, A. M., on Reactor Technology and Reactor Development, 604*
Weir, G. and J., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 422; Resignation of J. Young from Board of, 422; “Thermoflex” Heating Element for Sea-Water Evaporating (Trade Publication), 531
Weissmann, G. F., on Underground Conduits for Electrical Work, 115
Welch, T., on Plastic Theory of Bending, 740 Welds, Defective or Puckered, Avoidance of, 170*
— Light Alloys, Testing of, by N. T. Burgess,
73
— Metals, Ferritic, Effects of Gases on
Constitution and Properties of, by Dr. W. D. Biggs, 73
Quality, Bend Test as Criterion of, by J. W. Shedden, 73
— Quality Control of. Papers on, 73
in Steel, Control of, by Training and Inspection, by Dr. A. J. P. Tucker, 73
Weldability Tests on Uranium, 793 Welded Aluminium Trawler Hatch Cover (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 329*
— Austenitic Steels, Low-Temperature Pro
perties of, by F. A. Ball and Dr. K. Balajiva, 11
— Rails, Thermit, Fatigue Strength of, by
R. S. Loubser, 11
— Steel Fabrications (J. and H. McLaren,
Ltd.), 634*
Portal Structure for Overhead Collecting Wires for British Railways Alternating- Current Electrification (British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co.,
Welders, Education and Training on, 73
— of Light Alloys, Testing of,
Burgess, 73
?— Spot (Trade Publication), 51
— Tests for Use in Approval of, by E. Flint
ham, 73
— Training of, by F. Clark, 73
Welding of Aluminium in Chemical and Allied Industries, by W. A. Gardner and T. J. Peake, 11
— Arc, Automatic Length Control, 716* Boundary-Zone Factor in, by H.
Thomasson, 73
Inert-Gas, with Filler Wire, Automation of, by F. Hirschmann, 715*
— Austenitic Steels for Gas-Turbine
by R. R. Roberts, 11
?— Automatic, Steps Towards, by F. mann, 715*
?— — Traversing Unit for, 170*
— Automation of. Steps Towards,
Hirschmann, 715*
— in Boilers and Power-Station Plant, by
T, Carlile and Dr. H. Harris, 10
— Boom, Pipe, Internal, Incorporating Tele
vision Equipment (Quasi-Arc, Ltd.), 362*
— Butt, of Steel Pipes, Machine for (Metro-
politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 425* Welding Conference, British Commonwealth:
Welding in Boilers and Power-Station Plant, by T. Carlile and Dr. H. Harris, 10; Hardening of Rail Ends, by G. K, Colligan, 10; Fatigue Strength of Thermit Welded Rails, by R. S. Loubser, 11; Use of Welding for Track Maintenance, by E. A. Whitelock, 11; Welding of Rail Joints, by K. C. Sood, 11; Welding of Aluminium in Chemical and Allied
Ltd.), 383* of. Papers
by N. T.
Rotors,
Hirsch-
by F.
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I:’
Industries, by W. A, Gardner and T. J. Peake, 11; Developments in Welding of Nickel and High-Nickel Alloys for Chemical Industry, by J. Hinde, 11; Selected Welding Problems in Heavy Chemical Industry, by M. E. Pool and Dr. P. T. Moore, 11; Low-Temperature Properties of Welded Austenitic Steels, by F. A. Ball and Dr. K. Balajiva, 11; Welding Austenitic Steels for Gas-Turbine Rotors, by R. R. Roberts, 11; Application and Performance of Ferrite-Controlled Stainless-Steel Electrodes, by M. C. T. Bystram, 11; Present Position of Testing Methods for Welding Control, by A. H. Goodger, 73; Control of Weld Quality in Steel by Training and Inspection, by A, J. P, Tucker, 73; Effects of Gases on Constitution and Properties of Ferritic Weld Metals, by Dr. W. D. Biggs, 73; Bend Test as a Criterion of Weld-Metal Quality, by J. W. Shedden, 73; Boundary- Zone Factor in Arc Welding, by H. Thomasson, 73; Testing of Light-Alloy Welds and Welders, by N. T. Burgess, 73; Some Thoughts on Training of Welders, by F. Clark, 73; Education and Training for Welding, by H. McClymont and H. Hinxman, 73; Welding Education in Britain—The Road Ahead, by G. Parsloe and R. E. G. Weddell, 73; Training the Welding Technician and Engineer by Correspondence, by R. M. Gooderham, 73; Tests for Use in Approval of Welders, by E. Flintham, 73
Welding, Contribution of, to Engineering, 317
— Control, Testing Methods for, by A. H.
Goodger, 73
— Education in Britain, by G. Parsloe and
R. E. G. Weddell, 73
and Training for, by H. McClymont, and H. Hinxman, 73
— Electrodes, Automatic Feeding Mechanism,
616*
“ Fortrex 35A,” for Welding Extra Thick Steel Plate (Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.), 235
Iron-Powder Coated, American Specifications for, 711
— — Iron-Powder Coated, Use of, in United
States, by D. L. Mathias, 711
Manual, “ Ferromax,” for Mild Steel (Quasi-Arc, Ltd.), 457
Stainless-Steel, Ferrite-Controlled, Application and Performance, by M. C. T. Bystram, 11
— Engineer, Role of, in Industry, 317
Training by Correspondence, by R. M. Gooderham, 73
— Engineering, Marine and Nuclear Energy
Exhibition. See Engineering
— Equipment, Automatic, for 20-Ton Cylin
drical Vessels (Courtburn Positioners, Ltd.), 330
— Extra Thick Steel Plate, “ Fortrex 35A ”
Welding Electrode for (Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.), 235
—’ Fire Hazard of (Bulletin), 825
— Fume Exhaust Unit, Four-Way, “Tornado,”
(Keith Blackman, Ltd.), 335
— Gas-Roller for Making Steel Tube from
Plate (Clayton, Son and Co., Ltd.), 184*
Machinery Co.,
Welding, Spot, Argonarc, Demonstration of (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 155
Automatic, Resistance-Welding Machine with Indexing Head for (Hirst Electronic, Ltd.), 87*
— Submerged-Arc, on Cylindrical Com
ponents, Use of Lathe for, 472*
— Technician, Training by Correspondence,
by R. M. Gooderham, 73
— Technology, School of, 235; Remarks on,
by Sir C. Lillicrap, 584
— Unit, Argon-Arc, Surge Injector, Saturn-
Hivolt (Saturn Industrial Gases, Ltd.), 330
— of Uranium, by J. R. C. Gough and D. Roberts, 793
— Use of, for Railway Track
by E. A. Whitelock, 11
Welfare Society, Industrial, Apprenticeship Training at
— Work. See Labour
Wellington Tube Works, Ltd.,
Maintenance,
Course on
Brighton, 672
— Guns, Spot (A. R. O.
Ltd.), 267*
“Twinspot” (A.R.O. Ltd.), 267*
— Head. Arc, Automatic,
Machinery Co.,
“ Muramatic
(Murex Welding Processes, Ltd.), 267* for Use with “ Autopak ” Transformer,
Automatic, “ Autopoint ” (Rockweld, Ltd.), 267
— Inspection Service (Trade Publication), 149 ?— Institute of, School of Welding Technology.
235; Activities of, 317; Annual Dinner, 584; Remarks on Welding in Nuclear Engineering, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 584; Remarks on School of Welding Technology, by Sir C. Lillicrap, 584; British Commonwealth Welding Conference. See Welding Conference
— International Institute of. Activities of, 215
— Lap, of High-Quality Large-Diameter
Steel Tubing, Demonstration of Jet Burners Applied to, by Clayton, Son and Co., Ltd., 184
— Machine, Arc, Automatic, 717*
Equipment and Accessories at Engineering Exhibition, 317
Resistance, with Indexing Head, for Automatic Spot Welding (Hirst Electronic, Ltd.), 87*
Spot, Air-Operated (Sciaky Electric Welding Machines, Ltd.), 268
Spot, Foot-Operated (Sciaky Electric Welding Machines, Ltd.), 268
8-Spot Rack (Bates and Bates, Ltd.), 268*
— Metallic Arc, on Jodrell Bank Radio
Telescope (Orthostyle, Ltd.), 36
— of Nickel and High-Nickel Alloys for
Chemical Industry, Developments in, by J. Hinde, 11
— Nozzles, Spatter Pick-Up on. Silicone
Compound for Obviating (Union Carbide International Co.). 472
— in Nuclear Engineering, by Sir J. Cockcroft,
584
•— Positioners at Engineering Exhibition
(Courtburn’Positioners, Ltd.), 330
— Problems in Heavy Chemical Industry, by
M. E. Pool and Dr. P. T. Moore, 11
— Process, Flux-Bath, for Carbon and Alloy
Steels (TsNIITMash), 616*
— of Rail Joints, by K. C. Sood, 11
— Research Association, British, X-Ray and
Gamma-Ray Safety Precautions (Book), 16; Work of New Metallurgcal Laboratories at Abington Hall, 170*; Illustrated Guides to Welding Processes, Methods and Designs, 317
— Set, Lightweight, for Stud Welding,
“ Cromp-Arc ” (Crompton Parkinson, Ltd.), 209*
— Space, Technique for Joining Spaced Metal
Sheets (Union Carbide International Co.), 728*
Position and Prospects of, 454; Position and Prospects of, 614
Wellman Smith Owen Engineering Corp., Expansion Programme, 454
West, A., and Co., Ltd., Armchair Control Unit for Level-Luffing Cranes for Beck and Pollitzer, Ltd., 87*
— German. See German, West
— Midlands. See Midlands Gas Boards. See Midlands
Westall, B. C., on Annual Report of Thomas de la Rue and Co., 262
Westborg, Capt. W., Efforts to
Lifeboat Unsinkable. 544 Westinghouse Brake and Signal
Mining Equipment (Trade
403; Position and Prospects of, 455; Open Day and Demonstration of Rectifiers at Chippenham Works, 565*
Westinghouse Electrical International Co., Licence Agreement with Ateliers de Constructions Electriques de Charleroi and S. A. Cockerill-Ougr^e Ironworks for Manufacture and Sale of Nuclear Reactors, 346
Westland Aircraft. Ltd., “ Whirlwind ” Mark VII Anti-Submarine Helicopter, 85; Acquisition by John Brown Group, 230
Westland Group, Position and Prospects of, 581
Weston, G., on Code for Acceptance Tests for Steam-Generating Units, 646
Wetting of Solids by Liquid Metals, by Dr. B. R. T. Frost, 91
Wheels, Gear. See Gears:
Propulsion
— Grinding. See Grinding
Tools
Wheeler, F. H., and Co.,
Installation Work on Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 37
Whessoe, Ltd., Tunnel Shell and Main Air Cooler for 2-8 Mach Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 56; 4,500-ton Hydraulic Press for Heavy Steel Plate for Nuclear Pressure Vessels, 713*
Whiffen and Sons, Ltd., “ Fi-Vi ” Expanded Unplasticised Polyvinyl Chloride Sheet Laminated with Resin-Bonded Glass Fibres, 89; Glass-Reinforced Plastics for Hulls of Boats, 89
“Whirlwind” Mark VII Anti-Submarine Helicopter (Westland Aircraft, Ltd.), 85 Whitaker, Sir A., on Competitive Tendering, 650
Whitbread, E. G., on Initiation of Explosives by Shock, 142
Whitby Industrial Commission, Sales Literature on Ontario, 399
White Dwarfs, Note on, 755
— Lines as Traffic Guides, Discussion in
Parliament on New Forms of, 735
— Paper on Local Government Finance, 71 on Officers Retiring Prematurely from
Armed Forces. 160
on United Kingdom’s Investment in Commonwealth, 166
on Technical Education, 721, 735 Whitehead, H., on How to Become a Successful Manager, Comment on, 272
Whitehouse Industries, Ltd., “ Philidas ” Self-Locking Nuts (Trade Publication), 531
Whitelock, E. A., on Use of Welding for Railway Track Maintenance, 11
Whiting Corp., Mobile Lifting Jacks at Port Talbot Works of Steel Co. of Wales, Ltd. Erratum, 246
Whittail, W. J., and Son, Ltd., Reinforced- Concrete Ring Beam for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 35
Whitworth Society, Summer Meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 70
Wickman, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 337 Widnes-Runcorn Road Bridge (Dorman Long and Co., Ltd.), 446
Wife-Screening, Plain Words on, 162
Wiggin, H., and Co., Ltd., “ Nimocast ” High- Temperature Casting Alloys, 327
Wigner Effect, Phenomenon of, 635
— Growth in Graphite, 637
— Release in Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactors,
636
— ?— at Windscale No. 1 Pile, 635
Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture on Advanced Education and Academic Research in Aeronautics, by Dr, C. B. Millikan, 430* Wild-Barfield Electric Furnaces, Ltd., Agreement with National Research Corp, to Manufacture Vacuum-Melting and Vacuum Heat-Treatment and Analysing Equipment, 18*
Wilkins, G., on Automobiles and Environment, 286; on Frankfurt Motor Show, 391*; on French Motor-Car Industry. 476*; on Miniature Motor Cars, 518*; Design Trends at Recent Motor Shows, 572*; on Expansion of Coachbuilding Industry in Italy, 674*
Wilkinson Rubber Linatex, Ltd., Hand- Operated and Motor-Driven Diaphragm Pumps for Corrosive and Abrasive Liquids and Slurries (Trade Publication), 531
Prove 9-ton
Co., Ltd.,
Publication),
Gearing; Marine
under Machine
Ltd., Electrical
Williams, Dr. D., on Failure of Aircraft Pressure-Cabins, 727
Williams, E. C., on Point Defects Near the Surface of a Metal, 792
Willington “A” Power Station, 13-8-kV, IIO-MVA Alternator Under Test at, with Direct Hydrogen-Cooling of Rotor and Stator (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 690
Willment Brothers, Ltd., Drainage Work at Staines, 85*
Willmott, F. B., See LETTER, Britain, 261
Wilson, Dr. A. Factors in Group Relations, 736
Wilson, C., on New Classification for Aeronautics, 755
Wilson, C. E., on Nuclear-Powered Aircraft, 604*
Wilson, G. A., on Publications of American Society for Testing Materials, 488
Wilson, L., on Information Services, 520. See also 513
Wilson, Major W. G., the Late, 38
Wimpey, G., and Co., Ltd., New Factory of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 282; Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*; Wythenshawe Works of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., 796*
Winch, Trawl, for “ Boston Vanguard ” Motor Trawler (J. Robertson and Sons), 663*
Wind Loading on Roofs, by J. D. Haddon, 559*
on Roofs, Plain Words on, 642
— Power, Sources and Applications of, 342
— Suction on Single-Slope Roofs, by J. D.
Haddon, 732*. See Erratum, 828
— Tunnel Experiments on Wind Loading of
Roofs, by J. D. Haddon, 559*
See also Aeronautics
Winding Engine, Portable, Diesel-Electric, for National Coal Board, 617*
— Machine, Insulation, Automatic (Electrosila
Factory, Leningrad), 587*
Windows in Factory Buildings, Criticism of, 658*
— Pressure-Cabin, Aircraft, of Two-Panel
Construction, 407*
— Radiation-Proof (Mendip Chemical Engi
neering Co., Ltd.), 795
Proof (Pilkington Brothers, Ltd.), 220
— Steel, for Holland (Henry Hope and Sons),
464
— Viewing, Protective Glass, at Atomic
Energy Research Establishment (Harwell), Mock-up of (Pilkington Brothers, Ltd.), 269*
Windscale, Incident at, Plain Words on, 482
— Nuclear Reactors, 253*
— Plutonium Factory, Accident at No. I
Pile, 635*
— Plutonium Plant, Shut-Down of No. 1
Reactor, 505. See also 482; Accident at. Board of Inquiry on, 605
Winfrith Heath, Progress of Atomic Energy Research Establishment at, 669
Winget, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 422
— Weighbatching Plant, Use in Construction
of Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, 505
Winning, C. H., on Underwater Gap Initiation of Cast Pentolite, 142
Winston Electronics, Tape Recorder Exhibits at Canadian Institution of Radio Engineers at Toronto, 464
Wire Ropes and Cords (British Ropes, Ltd.), 332
Cutter, Portable (Tulloch Construction Co., Ltd.), 13*
Splicing (Trade Publication), 403
— Telescope at Mullard Radio Astronomy
Observatory, 185*
Wireless Telegraphy. See Telegraphy: Radio; Radar; Television
Wiring, Electric. See Electric Wiring under Electric
— System, “Safeguard” (Trade Publication),
403
Wisconsin University, Van de Graaff Accelerator Authorised for, 504
Wiseman, A., and Co., Ltd., Transmission Gears for Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope, 36
Wiseman, Dr. S., on Experiments on Intelligence and Environment in Children, 384 Wohler’s Tests. See {Materials)
Wolfram Deposits in Contracts for, 191
— See also Tungsten Wolvercote Paper Mill,
Oil Lubricators at (Wakefield Dick Industrial Oils, Ltd.), 712*
Women as Engineers, 129. See LETTER, 645
— Engineering Society. See Engineering
Society, Women's
— Measurements and Sizes (Report), 216
— Opportunities in Industry for, 129
— Workers. See Labour
Wong, Hong, at World Power Conference, 22* Wood, H., and Co., Ltd., Shale Conveying Equipment for Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Wood, J., on Earnings and Role of City of London, 752
Wood, J., and Sons, Ltd., Diesel-Electric Portable Winding Engine for National Coal Board, 617*
— Resources, Energy and Applications of, 342 Woodall-Duckham, Ltd., Annual Report, 39 Wooden Cubit, Assyrian, 419*
Egyptian, 419*
Woodhead, C. E., on 132-kV Circuit Line over River Ribble, 447
Woodward, J., on Control and Communication—A Management Concept of Cybernetics, 38
Woodworking Machinery. See Machine Tools Woolf, Dr. A. A., on Mass Transfer, 91 Woolwich Arsenal, Fog Chamber at, 39 Worcester Gas Works of West Midlands Gas Board, Tower-Box Purifiers for Town Gas for (Henry Balfour and Co., Ltd.), 183
Work-Bench, Adjustable-Height, Power-Operated (Skyhi, Ltd.), 619
on Overtime at Home, 165. 453; on Stately Homes of
T. M., on Psychological
Fatigue under Tests
Uganda, Renewal of
“ DP50 ” Mechanical
Work Handling, Mechanised, on Machine Tool (Book), 820
— Holding Trays (Trade Publication), 783
— Measurement. Part III of Outline of Work
Study (Review), 562. See LETTER, 709
— Sampling, by R. E. Heiland
Richardson (Review), 562
— Simplification, by P. Fornallaz,
— Study, Advantages of, 416
Department of Engineering
Employers’ West of England Association, Annual Conference, 416
in Mines, Comment on, 704
Outline of. Part III: Work Measurement (Review), 562. See LETTER, 709
in Royal Air Force, 175 Workmen. See Labour
— Compensation. See Labour
and W. J.
and Allied
Works:
Blaydon-on-Tyne Works of Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd., 473*
Cauldon Low Cement Works, Semi-Dry Process at, 535*; Description of, 535*. See LETTER, 582
Cement Works, Cauldon Low, 535. See LETTER, 582
Dudley Port Works of General Electric Co., Ltd., for Manufacture of Motors and Generators for Railway Rolling Stock, 828*
Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., New Factory for Adhesives, Emulsions and Compounds, 282*
Elizabeth Works of Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., Manufacture of Paper Power Capacitors at, 154*
Engineering Works, Employment of Women. See Labour
Gasworks, See Gasworks
Larne Works of British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., for Production of Turbines and Turbo-Generators, 666*
Railway Repair Works, Group Wage Incentives in, by L. Buck, 352
Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles, Ltd., Description of, 130*, 133*; List of Contractors Engaged on, 133
Rotherham Works of Steel, Peech and Tozer, Gradall Machine for Dismantling Open-Hearth Furnaces at, 215*
Round Oak Steelworks, History, Development and Modernisation of, 86*
Silvertown Works of Venesta, Ltd., Rolling Mills for Foil at (W. H. A. Robertson and Co., Ltd.), 502*
Steel, Peech and Tozer, Gradall Machine for Dismantling Open-Hearth Furnaces at Rotherham Works, 215*
Steelworks, Colvilles, Ltd., Four-Year Expansion Programme, 104
— Durgapur, Supervisors for, Indian University Graduates Training in United Kingdom as, 620
— Engineers, Sandwich Course for, 679
— Equipment, Exports of, 428* • Germany, Exports of, 428*
— — for. Production of, by Demag,
A. G., 428*
— Integrated, New, of Richard Thomas and Baldwins, Ltd., in Wales, Controversy on Location of, 714
— Ravenscraig Works of Colvilles, Ltd., Description of, 130*, 133*; List of Contractors Engaged on, 133
— of Richard Thomas and Baldwins, Ltd.,
Near Swansea, Closure of, 714
— Round Oak, History, Development and Modernisation of, 86*
— in Wales, Closure of, 767
Thames Foundry of Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Description of, 701*
Tinplate Works, Closure of, in West Wales, 714
in Wales, Closure of, 767
Velindre Works of Steel Co. of Wales, Ltd., Continuous Annealing Plant for Steel Strip at, 234*
Welfare Movement in Works. See Labour Worcester Gas Works of West Midlands Gas Board, Tower-Box Purifiers for Town Gas for (Henry Balfour and Co., Ltd.), 183
Works, Closing of. Comment on Informing Work People of, 582
Wythenshawe Works of Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Manufacture of Transformers at, 795*
Works Alkali, etc.. Annual Report, 39
— Closing of. Comment on Informing Work
People of, 512
— Ministry of: Technical Notes No. 2 on
Polythene Tubing for Cold-Water Services, 13; Army in Loading Tests on St. James’s Park Footbridge, 448; Codes of Practice. See Standards
Workshop Exercises, General, Part 1. by H, Rollins and A. E, Bell (Book), 687
— in Russia, 442
— Training. See Education
— See also Works; Machine Tools
World Air Transport Statistics, Note on, 403
— Aviation Directory. See Aviation Directory
— Bank. See Bank, International
— Economic Survey (1956), 70
— Power Conference: Eleventh Sectional Meet
ing in Belgrade on Power as a Factor of Development of Underdeveloped Countries: Discussion Based on Papers Presented at, 20*; List of Papers Presented at, 20*; List of Papers Presented at, 25-26
Resources, 341*
— Titanium Production, Statistics of, 748
— Trade, Dangers of Russian Supremacy in,
545
New Era in, by T. Vinell, 685 Worldwide Occurrence of “ Sporadic E,” by
E. K. Smith (Review), 212 Worm Gear. See Gear; Gearing Wormaid, A., on Exploiting search, 649
Worthington-Simpson, Ltd., Monobloc Self-Priming Activities of, 231; Re-Equipment and
Results of Re-
“ Domestic ” Pump, 214*;
ENGINEERING, VOL. 184 (1957)
Expansion of, 231; Type OCR Oil- Cooled High-Speed Rotary Air Compressors, 252*; Oil-Flooded Rotary Air Compressor, 299; Position and Prospects of, 422
Wrench, Impact, Electric, “ Hicycle ” (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd.), 491*
Wright Anderson and Co., Ltd., Cauldon Low Cement Works, 535*
Wright, Wilbur, Memorial Lecture on Advanced Education and Academic Research in Aeronautics, by Dr. C. B. Millikan, 430* Writing, Technical, Training and Qualifications Needed for, by 1. M. Slade and B. C. Brooks, 137. See LETTERS, 200, 228, 325, 421, 645, 676, 740
Wrought Light-Alloy Material (Trade Publication), 657
Wyatt, R. M. H., on Ignition of Primary Explosives by Electric Discharges, 141
Wyer, J. L., on Evolution of Sports Cars, 550
Wynn (Valves), Ltd., Diaphragm Valves (Trade Publication), 149
Wythenshawe Works of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Manufacture of Transformers at, 715*
X-RAY Apparatus, Industrial, Transportable, Type TF1593 (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 300*
Safety Precautions (Book), 16
Xenon 135, Formation of, and Effect on Nuclear Reactor, 698
Xenon Poisoning, Problem of, in Marine Nuclear Reactors, 698
Yamashila, L, on Japanese Diesel Engines, 57 Yard-Bar, Standard (1497-1659), 420*
— Imperial, Current, Construction of, in 1845,
420
— Line, Baily’s (1844), 420*
— Standard, Rater’s Imperial Line (1842), 420* Royal Society’s (1742), 420*
Yearbook and Directory of Railway Officials 1957-1958 (Book), 563
— Nuclear Power, 1957-58, by W. Davidson
(Book), 119
Yegorov, V. A., on Problems in Dynamics of Lunar Flight, 642
Yielding, Plastic, of I-Beams, by A. P. Green and B. B. Hundy, 74*, 112*
Yoffe, A. D., on Growth of Explosion in Solids, 140
Yorkshire Copper Works, Ltd., Manufacture of Copper Tubing and Fittings, 205; Decision to Combine Activities with Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., in Manufacture of Copper and Copper Alloy Tube and Plate, 581
— South, Collieries in. Report on Hungarian
Workers in, 352
Yoshii, H., on Test? on 2,500 h.p. Type 2SC/1P/IRE Experimental Gas-Turbine, 58*
Young, D. A., on Mechanism of Decomposition of Silver Azide, 141
Young, Sir J. Reid, Appointment to Board Birmingham Small Arms Co., 710
Youngman Lightweight Staging in Use at Wythenshawe Transformer Factory of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., 795*
Youth, Need for Improved Technical and Scientific Education, 514
— Recruitment and Vocational Guidance of. Use of Cinema Films for, 480
“ YT-62 ” 55-h.p. Gas-Turbine Engine, Solar Mercury, for One-Man Helicopter (Solar Aircraft Co.), 310
Yugoslavia, President Tito of, at World Power Conference, 20*
—? Tractors for, 464
Yuill, A. M., on Initiation of Condensed Explosives by Compression of Surrounding Gas, 141
Yuni Tekhnik (Young Technician), 514. See LETTER, 550

ZACZEK, Dr., B. J., on Reduction of Sulphur in Flue Gases by Metallic Additives in Combustion Zone, 697*; on Use of Fuel Additives in the Fight against Corrosion, 825
Zeeman Effect in Magnetic Fields, Work on, by George Ellery Hale, 400
Zentralstelle der Luftfahrtdokumentation, Index of Early German Research Publications Available in Microfilm or Photocopy Form, 279
ZEPHYR Nuclear Reactor, 253*
ZERLINA Nuclear Reactor for India, 60
ZETA (Zero Energy Thermal Apparatus), 156; Progress on, 828
ZETR Nuclear Reactor, 253*
ZEUS Nuclear Reactor, 253*
Zick, B., on Architectural Applications of Vitreous Enamel, 106*
ZIL Motor Factory, Russia, 410, 441*, 442, 443, 461*, 483
Zinc Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Die Casters Association, Engineering Stan
dards for Pressure Die Castings (Brochure), 775
— Price of, 363
Fall in, 12
— Rich Corrosion-Resistant Paints (Secomastic, Ltd.), 583
Paint, “ Dryjah ”, for Anti-Corrosive Primary (Drynamels, Ltd.), 583
— Smelting Process, New, Development by Imperial Smelting Corp., 199
Zinkiewicz, W., Inventor of Earth-Boring Mele, 120*
Zinn, Dr. W. H., Remarks on Dounreay Fast- Breeder Reactor, 826*
Zirconium, Separation of Hafnium from, 60*
— in Iron and Steel, by R. A. Grange, F. J. Shortsleeve, D. C. Hilty, W. O. Binder, G. T. Motock, and C. M. Offenhauer (Book), 820
— Uranium Alloy Ribbon-Type Nuclear Fuel Element, Cycling Tests on, 731
ZLD. See Zentralstelle der Luftfahrtdokumentation
Zo6 Nuclear Reactor, 189
Zundapp, “ Janus ” Four-Seater Miniature Motor Car, 287*, 519*
Zwicky, Ltd., Pressure Control Valve, 333*;
“ Zwikleen ” Self-Cleaning Oil Filters, 333; Cast Iron Duplex Suction Strainers for New Oil Fuel System for R.M.S. “ Queen Mary,” 458*
“ Zwikleen ” Self-Cleaning Oil Filters (Zwicky, Ltd.), 333

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