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ABBOTT, DR. W., on Fully Educated Engineer, Note on, 633
A.B.C.D. (Atomic, Bacteriological and Chemical Defence) in H.M. Aircraft Carrier “ Victorious ” 94
Abegg, K., on Research into Improvement of Resistance to Ageing of Stator Insulation of Large Alternators, 821
Aberdeen-Ballater Branch Line, Battery Railcars for, 627*
— Trawlers, Discussion in Parliament on Steam v. Diesel Power for, 423
A. B. Metal Products, Ltd., ” Fireball ” Plastics Television Turret Tuner, 704*. See LETTER, 740
Abrams, Dr. M., on Function of Advertising, 353
Abrasion Machine for Simulating Wear of Timber Floors, 32*
Abrasive Belt Machine. See Machine Tools
— Cleaning Cabinet, Mechanical, Tilghman, at Bilston Foundries New Domestic Bath Plant, 638*
— Products (Trade Publication), 762
Absenteeism. See Labour
Absorbing Materials, Foamed (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 400
Absorptiometer, Gamma, by A. Whittaker, 590
Absorption Column, Nitric-Acid, Welded Stainless-Steel, at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478
Abstracts on Radiation Chemistry, 366
— Railway Engineering, Note on, 347
— Research, Service of American Institute of Industrial Engineers Inc., 309
— Spectrochemical, by E. H. S. van Someren and F. Lachman, Note on, 585
— Statistics on, 347
A.C. Cars, Ltd., Rail-Buses for Light Traffic on British Railways’ Rural Lines, 316*
Academy, National, of Sciences. See Russia Acceleration, Coriolis, by J. Pidduck, 420*. See LETTERS, 483, 548
Accelerator, Linear, 4 MeV (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 748*
4 MeV, for Research Station of British Petroleum, Ltd., 174
— Particle, 50 GeV, at Leningrad Institute of
Electro-Physical Equipment, 270
High-Energy, Position and Prospects of, by Dr. T. G. Pickavance, 15*
— See also Cyclotron: Synchrocyclotron: Synchrotron
Accelerometer, Linear, Type LA2 (J. Langham Thompson, Ltd.), 373
Access Equipment, Ltd., “ Tallescope ” Extendable Tower Staging, 519*
Accidents:
Accident Compensation. See Workmen's Compensation under Labour
— in Engineering, Moral Aspects of, 97
— Prevention Committee of British Iron and Steel Federation, Progress of, 267 Legal Responsibility, by P. W. Cole, 304
Atomic Industrial Accidents, Harvard Law School Study of, 303
Brittle Fracture of Ships, Survey, 497* Cement Industry, Accident Prevention in, 816
Chalk River Reactor, Fire of Uranium Fuel Rod at, 749
Collision Course Prediction by Doppler Radar, Mathematic Analysis of, by
H. R. Whitfield and C. M. Cade, 467 Dam Construction in Dolomites, Fatal Accidents in, 97
Dolomites, Dam Construction in. Fatal Accidents in, 97
Human Factor (in Accident Prevention), by Dr. S. Laner, 267
Motor Vehicles, Effect of Inspection, 370* Munich Air Crash, Discussion in ment on, 390
NRX Nuclear Reactor Accident, C. Gibb, 527 Nuclear Fuel Rod, Fire of, at River, 749
Railway Accidents, Reduction of, by Automatic Train Control, Discussion in Parliament on, 336
Road Accidents, Statistics on, 370
Ships, Damage and Accidents to, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Reports on, 241 * Steel Industry, Accident Prevention in, 267 Windscale Accident, 366
•— ?— Findings of Committee of Inquiry on, 75
Plain Words on, 66 by D. D. Walker, 527 See also Explosions
Accles and Pollock, Ltd., Burst-Slug-Detection Installation for Hunterston Nuclear Power Station, 77; Tubular Sections (Trade Publication), 213; Tubing for Nuclear Energy Plants, 396*; Helically-Gilled Tubing for Heat Exchangers, 400; Tubular Electrodes for Cathode Ray Tubes, 400 Accountancy, Micro-Recording in, 155 Accounting Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects of, 647
Accumulators, Electric. See Electric
— Steam, Ruths, for High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd. (Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd.), 469*
Accumulators, Vehicles. See Motor Vehicle: Motor Truck
Acetate, Cellulose, Waterproof Tape, “ Sello- tape ” (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
ACF Industries, Inc., R2 Reactor for Swedish Atomic Research Station, 589* 749; MIT Research Reactor, 590
Acheson Colloids, Ltd., ” Dag ” Colloidal Graphite for Postage Stamps Paper, 62
Acid, Mineral, Concentrated, “ Valithene ” Polyethylene-Lined Rubber Hose for Conveyance of (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 580
— Pickling Tanks for Large Steel Castings (David Brown Industries, Ltd.), 281*
Acoustical Instruments (Dynacord), 471 Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica, Note on, 57 Activated Sludge. See Sewage
” Active ” 2,000 h.p. Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive for Western Region (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 316*
A.C.V. Sales, Ltd., Spare Parts Charts (Trade Publication), 659
Adapta Charts, Ltd., “ Gripson ” System for Permanent or Temporary Marking, 519
“ Addi-V.J.” Molybdenum Disulphide Additive (Senol, Ltd.), 401
Addison Electric Co., Ltd., Cable Capacitance Monitor (Trade Publication), 119
Additive, Fuel Oil, ” Amber SSR 511” (Amber Chemical Co., Ltd.), 761
— Molybdenum Disulphide, “ Addi-V.J.”
(Senol Ltd.), 401
Address, Presidential. See Presidential Address
ADFR Nuclear Reactor Project, Dust-Fuelled, 807*
Adhesion of White-Metal Bearing Linings, Swinging Galvanometer for Inspection of (Brush Group, Ltd.), 276
Adhesive Bonding of Metals, Bibliography on. Note on, 91
— Tape, Colour-Printed, ” Sellotape ” (Gor
don and Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
Adhesive Tapes, Ltd., “ Sellotape ” Self- Adhesive Tapes and Labels, 192*
Administration, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Review of, by Earl of Halsbury, 663
Administrators and Scientists, Differences of Opinion on Research Expenditure, 738
Admiralty Employees, Statistics on, 272
— Materials Laboratory, Work on Seawater
Evaporators, 253
— Seawater Evaporator Compound (Geigy
Co., Ltd.), 253
— Signal and Radar Establishment, Glass
Fibre Cloth Impregnated with Colloidal Graphite for Matched Terminations, 400; Silicon-Silicon Carbide Refractive Materials for Matched Termination, 400
— See also Warships
ADP. See Automatic Data Processing Advertisements, Classified, Plain Words on, 450
— at Gatwick Airport, Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 809
Advertising Association, Formation of Consumer Advisory Committee, 273
— of Consultants, Comment on, 176
— of Engineering Products, 353. See LETTER,
387
— Function of, by Dr. M. Abrams, 353 of. Comment on, 353
— by Lord Heyworth, 823
— Motivation Research in,
(Review), 659
— Press, Comment on, 353.
in United States, 357
— in Technical Journals in
Change in, 337
— Television, of Engineering
— by Unilever, Remarks by
on, 546
— in United States, Statistics on, 337
AEG. See Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesell- schaft
A.E.I.-John Thompson Nuclear Energy Co., Ltd., Head Office of, 16; Tender Invited for Nuclear Power Station for Japan, 270; Constitution and Activities of, 618*
A.E.I. Lamp and Lighting Co., Ltd., Standard Watershed and Anti-Corrosion Watershed Fluorescent Lamp Fittings for Humid Atmospheres, 4
Aerial, ” Globemaster Minibeam,” with Beamed Transmission and Reception on Three Wavebands (Pander Radio Co., Ltd.), 64*
— Navigation. See Aeronautics
— Radar, at Calshot Signal Station, 157*
— Surveying, ” Auscor ” Automatic Electronic
Scanning Correlator for (Photographic Survey Corp.), 607
— Transport. See Aeronautics Aerodynamics. See Aeronautics
Aeronautics:
707 Intercontinental Aircraft for Non-Stop Transoceanic Operations (Boeing Airplane Co.), 37
707 Jet Stratoliner Long-Range Aircraft for Trans-Continental Operations (Boeing Airplane Co.), 37
720 Intermediate-Range Jet Airliner (Boeing Airplane Co.), 37
Aerial Surveying, “ Auscor ” Automatic Electronic Scanning Correlator for (Photographic Survey Corp.), 607
Aerodynamic Considerations Influencing Yacht Design, 6*
Aeronautics—continued
Aerodynamic Heating, Bibliography on, 535 — Magneto, by Dr. W. R. Sears. 534
— Research, Technical Reports on, 283 Aeronautic Age. Manufacturing in, by B. K. Bucey, 95. See also 67
Aeronautical Engineering Index 1956, 823
— Research, Government’s Financial Contribution to, 609
— Sciences, Institute of. Aeronautical Index 1956, 823
— Society, Royal; Ram-Jets, by R. P. Probert, 24*; Application of Theory of Stability in Structural Design, by H. L. Cox, 287; Presidential Address on Britain’s Stake in Field of Supersonic Civil Travel, by Sir G. Edwards, 380*; British Commonwealth Lecture on Why Airlines are Hard to Please, by
B. S. Shenstone, 427; Guided Weapons and Aeronautics, by Dr. R. Cockburn, 567; Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture on Automatic Flight—The British Story, by Dr. G. W. H. Gardner, 664
Aeronautics and Guided Weapons, by Dr. R. Cockburn, 567
— National Advisory Committee for. Annual Report, Note on, 409
A^ronautiques, Journees Internationales des Sciences, Post War Development of Axial Compressor in Great Britain, by Prof. A. D. S. Carter, 124
—• Recherches, L’Office National d’Etudes et de. Catalogue of Publications of. 347 Aeroplane Directory of British Aviation (Book), 700
— See also Aircraft: Flying Boat: Helicopter (below)
Aerotecnica, English Title-Abstract
Cards in, 473
Air Data Computer, Miniature, for Aircraft (Elliott Bros. (London), Ltd.), 373
— Force Royal. See Royal (below)
— Traffic Control and Aircraft Designers, Comment on Co-operation Between, 259
Control, New Radar Stations for, 803 Control
Processing (Kelvin &
— Transport Discussion in Parliament on Transatlantic Passenger Fares, 390
Civil, Supersonic, Britain’s Stake in, by Sir G. Edwards, 380*
?—• — Fares, Transatlantic, Discussion in Parlament on, 390
of Machines and Spares, Development of. Since 1946, 242
Modernisation Plan for, 803
— Travel Speed, and Industrialisation and Population, 380*
Airborne Doppler Navigation Equipment, by G. E. Beck and T. G. Thorne, 466
Aircraft Ancillaries Manufacture, Diversification Activities of Aircraft Firms in, 601
— Anti-Submarine, Position and Prospects of, 598
— Approaches and Landings, Automatic, Developments in, at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 664
— Bomber, ” Valiant,” Refuelling in Flight, 477*
“ Valiant,” ” Super Sprite ” Rocket Engines for (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
„ — “ Victor,” Constant-Thrust Version of “ Spectre ” Rocket Engine as Assisted Take-Off Unit for (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
“ Vulcan,” Constant-Thrust Version of “ Spectre ” Rocket Engine as Assisted Take-Off Unit for (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
— Carrier-Based Aircraft, Discussion in Parliament on, 777
— Civil, Airliner, ” Britannia,” Authorisation of Capital Expenditure by British Overseas Airways Corp., 390
Airliner, “ Britannia,” Performance During First Year in Service, 239
Airliner, “ Comet II,” Government Purchase of. Discussion in Parliament on, 300
Airliner, “ Comet 4,” Development and Description of (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 554*
? Airliner, “ Comet 4b ” (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 554
Airliner, ” Comet 4c ” (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 554
Airliner, Jet, Bristol 200 ” (Bristol/ Hawker-Siddeley Group), 103*
Airliner, Jet, for British European Airways, 240
Airliner, Jet, for British European Airways, Controversy on, 79
Airliner, Jet, ” DHI2I,” for British Overseas Airways Corp, (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 337
— ?—• Airliner, Jet, ” DH 121,” Negotiations with British European Airways on, 239 Airliner, Jet, Hawker-Bristol, Progress of, 137
Airliner, Jet, 707 Intercontinental for Non-Stop Transoceanic Operations (Boeing Airplane Co.), 37
Aeronautics—continued
Aircraft Civil Airliner. Jet, Intermediate- Range, 207 ' Boeing Airplane Co.), 37 Airliner, Jet, Position and Prospects of, 599
Airliner, Jet, ” VCIO,” for British Overseas Airways Corp. (Vickers- Armstrongs Aircraft, Ltd.), 103*
Airliner, ” Local Service Viscount.” for Local-Service Operation on North American Continent (Vickers-Arm- strongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 253
Airliner, Propeller-Turbine, ” Electra”
(Lockheed Aircraft Corp.), 37*
Airliner, Vertical Take-Off and Landing, “ Rotodyne ” (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 750*
Airliner, “ Viscount,” “ Dart ” Propeller-Turbine Engine in (Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 379
Airliner, ” Viscount,” Operators Conference (Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft)> Ltd.), 782*
Converting to Production of, 602 Multi-Purpose, Position and Prospects of, 599
Passenger Transport, Position and Prospects of, 599
Position and Prospects of, 596, 599 Selling, Experiences of Vickers- Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd., 602
Transport and Freighting, Position and Prospects of, 599
— Companies, Policy and Action Review, 594*
—• Constructors, Society of British, Statement on Selling Aircraft Overseas, 755
— Crop-Spraying, ” Workmaster ” (Auster Aircraft, Ltd.), 357*
— Designers and Air Traffic Control, Cooperation Between, Comment on, 259
— Dynamic Instability of, by Y. Rocard (Review), 535
— Engineers, Society of Licensed, Guide to Aircraft Maintenance Engineers' Licence Examinations (Book), 252; Proposals on Improved Airworthiness Standards, 291
— Establishment, Royal. See Roj'aZ(below) — Exports of, 87*
on Credit, Discussion in Parliament on, 624
Value of, 596
— Fighter, ” ”
— Fire Extinguisher Flexible Metallic Auxiliaries, Ltd.), •
— under Flight or
“ Midas ” System
Recording of Outputs of ducers in (Mervyn Instruments), 373 •—• Flow Past, “ Area Rule ” for, 698 — Ice Warning Set for (Sangamo Weston, Ltd.), 455
— Industry, Adjustment to New Product Policy, 602
60 Ampere Bridging Make Relay for (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 294*
Ballistic Missile Production Prospects in, 597
British, Review of Manufacturing Practice in, by S. G. Burnard, 95
Civil Aircraft Production, Converting to, 602
Civil, Position and Prospects of, 596, 599
— — Consortia and Groups in, 597, 598 Diversification in, 595*, 600*, 601*,
603*, 681
? by J. Dudley North, 594 Effect of Astronautics on, 141
— — Effect of White Paper Report on
Defence, on, 577
— —• Employee Statistics of, 596*
Employment in, Discussion in Parliament on, 809
Employment in. Position and Prospects of, 86
Government’s Future Policy for, Comment on. 609. See also 624 Government Support for, 597* Inquiry, Report of ENGINEERING, 593*. See also 577, 609
Mergers in, 624 Military Projects of, 598 New Materials for, 141 —- — Nuclear Power Groups in, 595 Policy and Action Review, 594* Position and Prospects of, 86*, 141, 239, 617
Problems of, by Sir R. Verdon Smith,
594
Reaction to Current Situation, 598 Technical Personnel in, 595, 596* Unemployment in. Plain Words on 130
Work in Hand, 602
— Light Interceptor, Position and Prospects of, 598
— Long-Range-Striking, Blackburn ” N.A. 39,” Discussion in Parliament on, 624 Range, for Trans-Continental Operations, 707 Jet Stratoliner (Boeing Airplane Co.), 37*
— Maintenance Engineers’ Licence Examinations, Guide to (Book), 252
and Overhaul, Proposals for Improved Standards of, 291
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Aeronautlcs—continued
Aircraft Maintenance, Aluminium Plate Production for, at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 410*
— Military, Position and Prospects of, 598 Servicing and Maintenance of, Discussion in Parliament on, 208
— Miniature Air Data Computer for (Elliott Bros. (London), Ltd.), 373 Multi-Role, Position and Prospects of, 598
— Naval Strike, NA.39 (Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd.), 631*
— Noise, Discussion in Parliament on, 300
— Nuclear-Powered, 268*
— ?— Weapon Bearing, Discussion in
Parliament on, 423
— Propulsion, Nuclear Reactors in, 268*
— Reconnaissance, Position and Prospects of, 598
— Seats, Backward-Facing, Discussion in Parliament on, 390
— — Economy (Aircraft Furnishings,
Ltd.), 646*
— Selling Overseas, Statement by Society of British Aircraft Constructors on, 755
— Short Take-Off and Land, Position and Prospects of, 598
— Speed Prediction, by Sir G. Edwards, 597*
— Strike and Ground-Attack, Position and Prospects of, 598
— Supersonic Interceptor, Order Position of, 87
Aeronautics—continued
“ Conway ” Turbo-Jet Engine (Rolls- Royce, Ltd.), 487*; for Vickers “VCIO” Jet Airliners (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 103*
Crane, Helicopter, for Beacon at Gatwick Airport, 735*
“ Dart ” Propeller-Turbine Engine, Adoption for New Aircraft Designs (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 254, 379
— Propeller-Turbine Engines in Vickers Viscount Airliners (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.) 379
“DH121” Jet with British 239
— — Transport
Airliner,
European
Aircraft
“ SR177,”
— Target, Position and Prospects of, 598
— Trainer, Position and Prospects of, 598
— Transport and Freighting (Military), Position and Prospects of, 598
Jet, “ DH121,” for British Overseas Airways Corp, (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 337
Jet, Nuclear Power Plant for, 269* for Royal Air Force, Discussion in Parliament on, 656
— Vertical Take-Off and Land, Position and Prospects of, 598, 599, 600
Take-Off and Landing, “ Rotodyne ” Airliner (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd,), 680, 750*
— Workers, United States, Wage Increase for, 816
— World’s, Jane’s, by L. Bridgman (Review), 211
Airline Service, Civil, Between London and Moscow, Anglo-Soviet Air Pact on, 68
— Why They are Hard to Please, by B. S. Shenstone, 427
Airport, Croydon, Closure of, 272
?— Gatwick, Advertisements at. Discussion in Parliament on, 809
Beacon at, Helicopter Crane for, 735*
Development of, 652*
Discussion in Parliament on, 809
— Launceston, Tasmania, Rubberised Bitumen for Sealing Airstrips at,
— London, Millbourn Committee Developments at. Acceptance Recommendations of, 552
Traffic at. Statistics on, 464 Transport to, from Central London, Discussions in Parliament on, 809
— •— Wing Hanger of British Overseas Airways Corp, at, 665*
Airstrips, Sealing of, at Launceston Airport, Tasmania, Rubberised Bitumen for, 441
Airworthiness Developments on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556
Altitude, High, Test Plant for Ram-Jet Engines (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 436*, 468*
Anglo-Soviet Air Pact on Civil-Airline Service Between London and Moscow, 68
“ Area Rule ” for Flow Past Aircraft, 698 “ Artouste ” Gas Turbine, Manufacture l?y Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd., 667*
Astronautics, Effect on Aircraft Industry, 141
Atlas ” Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (Convair-Astronautics), 298* Automatic Pilot, Smith SEP2, on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556 Aviation Age (American Journal), Note on, 375
— British, Aeroplane Directory of (Book), 700
?— Directory, World, Note on, 27
— Spirit, Production of, Refinery of British Ltd., 350*
A viation Week, Survey Papers Read, 409
Avon ” Jet Engines for “ Comet 4 ” Airliner (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 556*
Bristol 200 ” Jet Airliner (Bristol/ Hawker-Siddeley Group), 103*
Britannia ” Airliner, Authorisation of Capital Expenditure by British Overseas Airways Corp., 390
Performance During First Year in Service, 239
Civil Travel, Supersonic, Britain’s Stake in, by Sir G. Edwards, 380*
“ Comet II ” Airliner, Government Purchase of. Discussion in Parliament on, 300
“ Comet 4 ” Airliner, Development and Description of (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 554*
“ Comet 4b ” Airliner (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 554
“ Comet 4c ” Airliner (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 554
“ Conway ” By-Pass Engine Pods, Test- House for, at Hucknall Flight Test Establishment of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., 789*
441 for of
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Negotiations Airways on.
for British
Overseas Airways Corp, (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 337
Doppler, C. W., Navigation Equipment, Low-Power, by J. E. Clegg and J. W. Crompton, 466
— Navigation, by J. E. Clegg and T. G. Thorne, 466
Equipment, Airborne, by G. E. Beck and T. G. Thorne, 466
“ Eland ” Gas-Turbine Engine for “Westminster ” Helicopter (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 751*
— N.E1.6 Propeller Turbine Aero-Engine, and Son,
(D. Napier
at Isle of Grain Petroleum Co.,
of Quality of
Type Tests on Ltd.), 572
— Propeller-Turbine Engine for
dyne” Airliner Ltd.), 750*
“ Electra ” Propeller-Turbine (Lockheed Aircraft Corp.), 37*
Engine, Aeroplane, By-Pass, “ Conway,” Test-House for Pods of (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 789*
Gas-Turbine, “ Eland,” for “ Westminster ” Helicopter (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 751*
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 603*
— — Jet, “ Avon,” for “ Comet 4 ” Air
liner, 556*
Jet Propulsion, Back Files of, 181 Manufacture Problems of Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 604
Propeller-Turbine, “ Dart,” Adoption for New Aircraft Design (Rolls- Royce, Ltd.), 379
— ?— Propeller-Turbine, “ Dart,” in Vick
ers Viscount Airliners (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 254, 379
Propeller-Turbine, Development Position and Prospects, 604*
Propeller-Turbine, “ Eland,” for “ Rotodyne ” Airliner (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 750*
Propeller-Turbine, N.EL6“ Eland,” Type Tests on (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 572
—- ?— Propeller-Turbine, “ Orion ” (Bristol Aero Engines, Ltd.), 239
Propeller-Turbine, “ Orion,” Manufacturing Problems of (Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd.), 604
Ram-Jet. See Engine, Ram-Jet (below)
Thrust Platforms for Measurement of Installed Thrust of (Alltools, Ltd.), 30*
— •— Training Aid Kits (Rolls-Royce,
Ltd.), 517*
— — Turbojet, “ Conway ” (Rolls-Royce,
Ltd.), 487*
— — Turbojet,
VCIO Jet Ltd.), 103* Turbojet, and Prospects, 603*
Turbojet, “ Olympus,” Manufacture Problems (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 604
Free-Turbine, “ Gazelle,” on Turbine-Powered Helicopter Ground Rig (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 61*
Gas-Turbine, “ Gazelle Junior ” (D. Napier and Sons, Ltd.), 228
See also Turbines, Gas
— Ram-Jets, by R. P. Probert, 24*
— ?— Jet Combustion Chamber, Catas
trophic Failure of, 25*
— ?— Jet, High-Altitude Test Plant for
(Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 436*, 468*
Jet, Nuclear-Propelled, Research on, 399
Jet, Systems Missiles, 269*
— — Jet, “ Thor ”
Ltd.), 436
Jet Systems,
“ Explorer ” Satellite, 263*, 264
? Erosion Gauges and Skin Tempera
ture Thermometers in, 164
? Temperature Information from, 404
“ Explorer 1 ” Satellite, 462*
“ Explorer 2 ” Satellite, 462*
Fire Extinguisher Systems, Aircraft, Fireproof Flexible Metallic Hose for (Power Auxiliaries, Ltd.), 484
— Precautions in “ Comet 4 ” Airliner,
557
— Tunnel Tests on “ Comet 4 ” Power
Plant (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 557*
Flight, Automatic, the British Story, by Dr. G. W. H. Gardner, 664
— Data, Instruments for, at Physical
Society Exhibition, Preview of, 373
— Deck, Angled, on H.M. Aircraft
Carrier “ Victorious,” 94*
— Guided, and Rockets, Leonardo da
Vinci Lecture on, 460
— High-Speed, Cinema Film on (Shell
Film Unit), 380, 473
— Instrumentation in Prototype of“ Roto
dyne ” Airliner (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 750*
— System, Smiths, on “ Comet 4 ”
Airliner, 556
Flying Boat, Nuclear Power Plant for, 269*
(D. Napier
“ Roto-
& Son,
Airliner
“ Conway,” for Vickers Airliners (Rolls-Royce,
Development Position
for Nuclear-Powered
(Bristol Aero-Engines,
Project Pluto on, 399
Aeronautics—continued
“Gazelle” Free-Turbine Engines on Turbine-Powered Helicopter Ground Rig (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 61*
Guidance of Rockets, Principles of, by
L. H. Bedford, 460
Hangar, Wing, of British Overseas Airways Corp, at London Airport, 665* Helicopter Construction, Advances in.
Discussion in Parliament on, 680
— Crane for Beacon at Gatwick Airport, 735*
— Fairey “ Rotodyne,” Government Support for, 680
— Folding, One-Man, “ Rotorcycle ” (Hiller Helicopters), 645*
— Gas Turbines, Boost System for, by Dr. A. W. Morley, 159
— Ground Rig, Turbine-Powered (Bristol Aircraft, Ltd.), 61*
— Landing Facilities on River Thames, Discussion in Parliament on, 496
— “Ultra-Light,” “Palouste” Gas Tur
bine for (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 667*
— “ Westminster ” (Westland Aircraft,
Ltd.), 751*
— See also “ Rotodyne ” Heliport at Battersea, Inquiry into Application for, 642
“ Hunter ” Fighter Aircraft, Orders, 87 Hydraulic Systems on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556
Ice Warning Set for Aircraft (Sanganio Weston, Ltd.), 455
Instrument Landing System for Aircraft at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 664
Instrumentation, Flight, in “ Rotodyne ” Airliner tion Co., Ltd.), 750* Intercontinental Aircraft,
Prototype of (Fairey Avia-
“ 707,” for Non-Stop Transoceanic Operations (Boeing Airplane Co.), 37 Intermediate-Range Jet Airliner, “ 720” (Boeing Airplane Co.), 37
Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, by L. Bridgman (Review), 211
Jet Propulsion, Back Files of, 181 Jet Stratoliner Long-range Aircraft “ 707,” for Trans-Continental Operations (Boeing Airplane Co.), 37
“Jupiter C/Explorer 1” Satellite, Guidance Mechanism, 331
Rocket for Artificial Satellites, K. W. Gatland on, 263*
Landing System, Instrument, for Aircraft, at Royal Aeronautical Establishment (Bedford), 664
“ Local Service Viscount ” Airliner for Local-Service Operation on North American Continent (Vickers-Arm- strongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 253
Magneto-Aerodynamics, by Dr. W. R. Sears, 534
Manufacturing in the Aeronautic Age, by B. K. Bucey, 95. See also 67
— Practice—A Review of British Aircraft Industry, by S. G. Burnard, 95
Meteoric Hazards to Space Flight, by Dr. H. N. Langton, 164
Missiles, Ballistic, British Aircraft Industry’s Production Prospects, 597
Design Demands of, by Dr. R. Cqckburn, 567
Solid-Propellant, Develop- 153
of, by Dr. G. W. H. Gard-
Fleet,
ment of,
— Evolution
ner, 460
— Guidance
331
— Guided, and Artificial Satellites, by
K. W. Gatland, 262*
on Destroyers, Discussion in Parliament on, 777
— Intercontinental Ballistic, “ Atlas ”
(Convair-Astronautics), 298*
— Large, Problems of Handling, by F. R.
Forbes Taylor, 517
— Nuclear-Powered, Turbojet and Ram
jet Systems for, 269*
— “ Redstone,” 262, 264
— and Rockets, Canadian, 1958 Annual,
Note on, 823
— Rockets, and Space Travel, by W. Ley
(Review), 282
— Workers, United States, Wage Increase
for, 816
— See also Rockets; Satellites; Weapons
(below)
“ N.A.39 ” Naval Strike Aircraft (Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd.), 624, 631*
Navigation, Aeronautical, Radio Aids
by C. Williams, 466
— Doppler, by J. E. Clegg and T.
Thorne, 466
— Equipment, Airborne, Doppler,
G. E. Beck and T. G. Thorne, 466 Low-Power, C.W. Doppler,
and Contol of Long-Range,
to.
G.
by
.by
J. E. Clegg and J. W. Crompton, 466 — Systems, Inertial, “ MIG ” Gyroscope
for (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 691* Nuclear Power Groups in Aircraft Industry, 595
“ Olympus ” Turbojet Aero-Engine, Manufacture Problems (Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd.), 604
“ Orbiter ” Artificial Satellite, 263* “ Orion ” Supercharged Propeller-Turbine
Aero-Engine (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 239, 604
“ Palas ” Gas Turbine, Manufacture by Blackburn and General Aircraft, 667* “ Palouste ” Gas Turbine, Manufacture by Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd., 667*
Pilot, Automatic, Smith SEP2, on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556
“ Polaris ” Solid-Propellant Fleet Ballistic Missile, 153
“ Proteus ” Compressors for High-Altitude Test Plant for Ram-Jet Engines (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 437*, 468*
Aeronautics—continued
Ram-Jet. See Engine, Ram-Jet (above) Refuelling of “ Valiant ” Bomber in Flight, 477*
Research, Aeronautical, Government’s Financial Contribution to, 609 Rockets for Artificial Satellites, by K. W.
Gatland, 262*
— Borne Saturable Inductor Magnetometer (Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough)), 373
— Engine, “ Spectre,” Constant-Thrust Version, for Handley Page “ Victor ” Bomber and Avro “ Vulcan ” Bomber (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276 “ Super Sprite,” for Vickers-Arm- strongs “ Valiant ” Bomber (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
— Excited Vibration Tests on Phoenix Tower, 246
— Fuels and Rocket Motors, by Prof. A. D. Baxter, 460
Solid, High-Energy, Development of (Callery Chemical (7o.), 74
— Guidance of. Principles of, by L. H. Bedford, 460
— and Guided Flight, Leonardo da Vinci
Lecture on, 460
— High-Altitude Research, “ Viking II,” 462*
— Ion, for Space Propulsion, 269*
— “ Jupiter,” 263*, 264
“ Jupiter C,” Fuel for, 331
— Launching Vehicle, “ Vanguard TV-4,” 462*
— and Missiles, Canadian, 1958 Annual,
Note on, 823
— Missiles and Space Travel, by W. Ley (Review), 282
— Motor Development in British Aircraft Industry, 599
— — and Rocket Fuels, by Prof. A. D.
Baxter, 460
— Nuclear-Powered, 269*
— Nuclear-Propelled, Research on, 399 — Propellents, Boron-Containing, 264 Boron-Containing, “ Hydyne,” 331 — Propulsion, Project Rover on, 399
— “ Skylark ” (Gassiot), 519
Progress with, at Woomera, 126
— “ Vanguard,” Guidance Mechanism,
331
and Test Satellite in Orbit, 462*
— “ Viking,” 262
— See also Missiles (above); Satellites (below); Weapons (below)
“ Rotodyne ” Vertical Take-Off and Landing Airliner (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 680, 750*
“ Rotorcycle” One-Man Folding Helicopter (Hiller Helicopters), 645*
Royal Aeronautical Society. See Aeronautical Society (above)
— Air Force, Discussion in Parliament on Transport Aircraft for, 656
— Aircraft Establishment, “ Skylark ”
Rocket at Woomera, 126 Establishment (Bedford), ducer System for Checking Power-(5perated Flexible Plates of Wind Tunnel at Electric Co., Ltd.), 25*; ments in Automatic Aircraft Approaches and Landings, 664; Instrument Landing System, 664
— — Establishment (Farnborough), Ap
paratus for Study of Materials at High Temperatures, 373; Rocket-Borne Saturable-Inductor Magnetometer, 373; Wavemeters for, for Range l-40kMc/s (Wayne Kerr Laboratories, Ltd.), 390; Replica Technique for Measurement of Local Strain under Static Loading, 726*
Runway at Gatwick Airport, 653* Polythene Membrane for, 655*
— Lighting at Gatwick Airport, 653 Satellites, Artificial, Guidance and Control of Long-Range, by G. A. Whitfield, 331
— British, Prof. Lovell’s Plea for, 738
— Design Demands of, by Dr. R. Cockburn, 567
— Earth, Beacons for Long Range Navigation Aid, 467
— Earth, British Programme for. Discussion in Parliament on, 809
— “ Explorer,” 263, 264
Erosion Gauges and Skin Temperature Thermometers in, 164
Temperature Information from, 404
— “ Explorer 1”, 462*
— “ Explorer 2,” 462*
— “Jupiter C/Explorer I,” Guidance
Mechanism, 331
— “ Orbiter,” 263*
— Project, by K. W. Gatland (Review), 409
— “ Sputnik 1,” 462*
— “ Sputnik 2,” 462*
— “ Sputnik III,” Description of, by
K. W. Gatland, 722*
— Test, and “ Vanguard ” Rocket in Orbit, 462*
— United States Projects, 262*
— “ Vanguard,” 263*
— “ Vanguard,” Signal for Cutting Rib
bon at Opening of Texas Instruments Inc. New Plant, 818
— “ Vanguard TV-4,” 462*
— See also Missiles and Rockets (above); Weapons (below)
Seats, Aircraft, Backward-Facing, Discussion in Parliament on, 390
Economy (Aircraft Furnishings, Ltd.), 646*
“ Skylark ” Rocket (Gassiot), 519 Progress with, at Woomera, 126 Smith SEP2 Automatic Pilot on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556
Smiths Flight System on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556
Space Flight, Meteoric Hazards to, by Dr. N. H. Langton, 164
Trans- Strain in Throat- (General Develop-
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Aeronaut! cs—continued
Space Travel, Rockets, Missiles and, by W. Ley (Review), 282
“ Spectre ” Rocket Engine, Constant- Thrust Version, as Assisted Take-Off Units for Handley Page “ Victor ” Bomber and Avro “ Vulcan ” Bomber (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
Speed of Aircraft, Prediction of, by Sir G. Edwards, 597*
“ Sputnik I ” Satellite, 462* “ Sputnik 2 ” Satellite, 462*
Sputnik III,” Description of, by K, W. Gatland, 722*
SR 177” Supersonic Interceptor Aircraft, Order Position of, 87
Super Sprite ” Rocket Engine for Vickers-Armstrongs “ Valiant ” Bomber (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
Supersonic Civil Travel, Britain’s Stake in, by Sir G. Edwards, 380*
— Wind Tunnels, Closed Circuit Television in. Lighting Fittings for use with (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 805 Taxiways at Gatwick Airport, 653* Test Plant, High-Altitude, for Ram-Jet Engines (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 436*, 468*
Thor ” Ram-Jet Engines (Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd.), 436
if
Thrust Meter, Airborne (Alltools, Ltd.), 30*
Training Aid Kits for Aero-Engine Schools (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 517*
Transonic Speed Problems, Cinema Film on (Shell), 380
Turbojet Systems for Nuclear-Powered Missiles, 269*
Turbomeca Range of Gas Turbines (Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd.), 667*
Turmo ” Gas Turbine, Manufacture by Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd.), 667*
Ultra-Light ” Helicopter, “ Palouste ” Gas Turbine for (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 667*
United States Aircraft Workers, Wage Increase for, 816
Missile Workers, Wage Increase for, 816
“ Valiant ” Bomber, Refuelling in Flight, 477*
“Vanguard” Artificial Satellite, 263*
— Rocket, Guidance Mechanism, 331 and Test Satellite in Orbit, 462*
— Satellite Signal for Cutting Ribbon at Opening of Texas Instruments Inc., Plant, 818
“ Vanguard TV-4 ” Rocket Launching Vehicle, 462*
? Satellite, 462*
“ VCIO” Jet Airliners for British Overseas Airways Corp. (Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 103*
“ Victor ” Bomber, Handley Page, Constant-Thrust Version of “ Spectre ” Rocket Engine as Assisted Take-Off Unit for (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
“Viking” Rocket, 262
“ Viking II ” High-Altitude Research Rocket, 462*
“ Viscount ” Airliner, “ Dart ” Propeller- Turbine Engine in (Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 379
— Airliner, Operators Conference (Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 782*
“ Vulcan ” Bomber, Avro, Constant- Thrust Version of “ Spectre ” Rocket Engine as Assisted Take-Off Unit for (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276 Weapons, Guided, and Aeronautics, by Dr. R. Cockburn, 567
Alternating-Current Electrical Power Packs for (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 727*
Position and Prospects of, 599 See also Missiles; Rockets; Satellites (above)
“ Westminster ” Helicopter (Westland Aircraft, Ltd.), 751*
Wind Tunnels, Model Motor Car Tests in, at Motor Industry Research Association, 772
— — at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), Transducer System for Checking Strain in Power-Operated Flexible Throat Plates of (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 25*
Supersonic, Closed-Circuit Television in. Lighting Fittings for Use with (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 805
Tests on Wind Loading of Structures, 697
Wing Hangar of British Overseas Airways Corp, at London Airport, 665*
“ Workmaster ” Crop-Spraying Aircraft (Auster Aircraft, Ltd.), 357* Aeroplanes. See Aeronautics
Aerotecnica, L\ English Title-Abstract Cards in, 473
Aetna Standard Engineering Rolling-Mill for ~ Ltd., 669*
Africa, Development ment on, 423
— East, Engineering
657*
— Russian Economic Aid to, 81
— South. See South Africa
— South of the Sahara, Commission for Tech
nical Co-operation in. Membership of, 368 of the Sahara, Foundation for Mutual Assistance in. Inauguration and Progress of, 368, 423
?— Training for Operation and Maintenance of Engineering Plant and Products, 657*
— West, Investment in, Federation of British
Industries Report on, 482
African Development, Bank for, Discussion in Parliament on, 423
it
((
Eagle Works
Co.,
of
Assel Tubes,
in, Discussion
Educational
in
Parlia-
Facilities,
African, East, Posts and Telegraphs Administration, Apprenticeship and Training Schemes of, 657
Railways and Harbour Administration, Apprenticeship and Training Schemes of, 657*
— Investment Fund, Discussion in Parliament
on, 423
African Marine and Engineering Co., Appren- ticeshin Scheme of, 657
Africans, Training for Operation and Maintenance, by A. AIbu, 657*
Age, Old, Mental Health in. Problems of, by Prof. M. Roth, 816
Ageing of Stator Insulation of Large Alternators, Research into Improvement of Resistance to, by K. Abegg, C. Caflisch, and F. Knapp, 821
Agency, Personnel, Central, by M. S. Levy, 259 Aggression, Submission or Escape, Human Reactions, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 429*
AGIP Nucleare, Collaboration with Nuclear Power Plant Co., Ltd., in Construction of Nuclear Power Stations in Italy, 619
AGR Nuclear Recator, Fuel Costs in, 398; Progress of, 398
Agreements, Labour. See Labour
Agricultural Engineers’ Association, President’s Remarks on Position and Prospects of Agricultural Machinery Industry, 611
Institution of British, Conference on Work Study, 267; Educational Activities, 611
Training of, 611
— Engineering Association, Ltd., Coloured
Reproductions of Agricultural Tractors and Machinery at Brussels Fair, 487
National College of, Establishment of, 611
— Machinery, Coloured Reproductions of, at
Brussels Fair (Agricultural Engineering Association, Ltd.), 487
Exports of, 50*
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 50*, 611
Industry, Research and Development in, by J. M. Chambers, 611
Influence on Farm Organisation, by R. Paterson, 563
Research Expenditure, Discussion in Parliament on, 272 _
— Motors.
— Research
233
— Tractors.
Agriculture, Work Study, 267
— Diversification Activities of Aircraft Firms
in, 601
—• Indian, Importance of Engineers in, 514
— Iron and Steel in, Cinema Film on, 211
— Work Study in, 267
— See also Farm; Irrigation
A.I.O.P.-B^rard, “ Vapormatic ” Stepless Starter for Slip-Ring Motors, 359*
Air Channels, Silencing, by Dr. A. J. King, 29*
— Cleaning Panels, “ Rotonamic ” (Intermit,
Ltd.), 326*
— Compressed. See Compressed Air; Pneu
matic
— Compressors, Axial, Post-War Develop
ment of, in Great Britain, by Prof. A. D. S. Carter, 124
Blades, Measuring Stresses in, on Test Bed and in Flight, by D. A. Drew, 125
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 207 “ Proteus,” for High-Altitude Test Plant for Ram-Jet Engines (Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd.), 437*, 468*
Rotary (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 260* Rotary, Industrial Uses of, by J. Hodge, 671
See also Gas Compressor
— Conditioner, “ Tropical,” for Hot Coun
tries with High Humidities (Temperature, Ltd.), 672*
— Conditioning in Beryllium Laboratory, 499* Climatic Influences as Basic Concept in,
by T. H. Urdahl, 352
Equipment, Railway Carriage, for Poland (J. Stone), 755
of Lloyd’s New Building, 274*
and Mechanical Ventilation in Buildings, British Standard Code of Practice for, 704 System for Motor-Cars (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.). 489*
in United States, 352
in United States Chamber of Commerce, 352
? See also Ventilation
— Content of Hydraulic Oil, Instrument for
Measuring (F. W. Baggett and Co., Ltd.), 59
— Control Valves at High-Altitude Ram-Jet
Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 468*
— Data Computer, Miniature, for Aircraft
(Elliott Bros. (London), Ltd.), 373
— Density, Influence on Level of Radio
Electric Interferences Caused by H. V. Lines, by R. Bartenstein and J. Meyer de Stadelhofen, 822
— Ducts, Rock-Wool-Lined, Attenuation
Curves for, by Dr. A. J. King, 29*
— Force, Royal. See Royal under Aeronau
tics
— Gauge, Bench Model (Teddington Indus
trial Equipment, Ltd.), 646*
— Gauging, by C. J. Tanner, 671
— —Applications (Thomas Mercer Air
Gauges, Ltd.), 220*
— League of the British Empire, Space Travel
Conference at Royal Festival Hall, Preliminary Notice, 4()5
— Mandrels for Checking Bores (Thomas
Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 221*
— Motor, Cam-Piston, for High Temperatures
(AiResearch Manufacturing Co.), 572*
— Pollution, “ Holmes-Catco ” Oxidation
Process for Combating (Trade Publication), 57
— — by M. W, Thring (Book), 503
Poor Results of Campaign Against, 137 See also^C/eaz? Air;^Smoke
See Engines; Motors; Tractors Co-operation in Commonwealth,
See Tractors
Association of. Conference on
Air Probes for Checking Hole Diameters (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 221
— Properties and Constituents of, 639
— Pump. See Pump
— Purifying System in Ford Thames Foundry;
732*
— Separators, “ Standard ” and “ Whirlwind”,
for Particle Grading (Trade Publication), 534
— and Steam Systems of High-Altitude Ram
jet Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 468*
Air Tankers Link, Ltd., Bi-Directional Electro- Magnetic Clutch for Use as Low-Inertia High-Torque Servo Drive, 550*
— See also Atmosphere
—• Force, Royal. See Royal under Aeronautics Airborne Service Equipment,
Nylon Hangar or Shelter,
Aircraft. See Aeronautics
— Carriers. See Aeronautics
— Establishment, Royal. See
Establishment under Aeronautics
Aircraft Furnishings, Ltd., Economy Aircraft Seats, 646*
Aircraft Manufacturing Co., Negotiations with British European Airways on de Havilland “ DH 121 ” Jet Airliner, 239; Formation of, 598
AiResearch Manufacturing Co., Cam-Piston Air Motor for High Temperatures, 572*
Airflow in Ship Superstructure Design, 697 Airscrew Co. and Jicwood, Ltd., Developments in Industrial Fans, 681
Airstrips, Sealing of, at Launceston Airport, Tasmania, Rubberised Bitumen for, 441
Airworthiness Developments on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556
Akroyd, T. N. W., on Laboratory Testing in Soil Engineering, 291; on Accelerated Curing Tests on Concrete, 666*. See LETTER, 771
Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Conversion of Double-Bottomed Cargo Ship for Carriage of Liquid Methane, 241 Alar, Ltd., Melting Practice for Aluminium Castings (Trade Publication), 90
Alarm Repeater System, National Emergency, 183
Albion Motors, Ltd., “ Water Buffalo ” Crawler Tractor for Marsh Country, 168* AIbu, A., on Training Africans for Operation and Maintenance, 657*
ALCO Products Inc., New Developments of, 461
Alcock, Dr. J. F., on Typing Mathematical Manuscripts, 356. See LETTER, 515
Alcohol Danger to Drivers, 816
“Alf” Self-Propelled, Self-Steering Truck (Hunting Engineering, Ltd.), 797*
Algeria, Testing of Wind-Driven Generating Plant (Enfield Cables, Ltd.), 297*
Algerie, Service des Etudes Generales et Recherches, Electricite et Gaz d’. Testing of Enfield-Andreau Wind-Driven Generating Plant, 297*
Allen, H., on Testing Atmospheres in Enclosed Spaces, 690
Allen, W. H., Sons and Co., Ltd., “Proteus” Gas Turbines for Patrol Boat H.M.S. “ Brave Borderer,” 63; Axial Flow Circulating Pumps for Heat-Treatment Furnace at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 41 I *
Allen West and Co., Position and Prospects of, 774
Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft, Position and Prospects of, 553
“Alliance” Sectional Materials (Trade Publication), 27
Allowances in Machine Work. See Gauges; Gauging
Alloys, See Metallurgy
Alltools, Ltd., Thrust Platforms for Measurement of Installed Aero-Engine Thrust, 30*; Airborne Thrust Meter, 30* “ Alnor ” Dewpoint Meter (Electrical ance Furnace Co., Ltd.), 422*
Alperstein, M., on Mist Injection in Engines, 30
Alpha Molykote Corp., Lubricants Publication), 57
— Particle Energies, Gridded Ionisation
Chamber for Measurement of, 143
Alternating Current. See Electric
— Stress. See Fatigue; Fatigue Tests under
Tests {Materials}
Alternators. See Generators^ Electric; Turbo- Generators
Altitude, High, Test Plant for Ram-Jet Engines (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 436*, 468*
AIuminium-Alloy. See Alloy, Aluminium, under Metallurgy
— Bronze, “ Hidurax,” Valves (Trade Publica
tion), 57
— as Canning Material, 648
— Castings, Chromate Oxidisation Process for
(Woods of Colchester, Ltd.), 127
Melting Practice for (Trade Publication), 90
— Characteristics of, of Importance in Packag
ing, by E. E. Spillett and E. Elliott, 783
— Cladding for Recessed Sliding Doors of
Wing Hangar at London Airport (Northern Aluminium Co,, Ltd.), 665*
Aluminium Co. of Canada, Ltd., Cinema Film on Laying of Aluminium Water Pipes on Canadian Oil Field, 401
— Construction Sheets, “ Kingstrand,” Dis
tribution in Canada (Coseley Engineering Co., Ltd.), 658
— Containers. “ Lacon ” (Light Alloy Con
struction Co., Ltd.), 328*
— Corrugated Sheeting, Thin-Gauge, Shallow-
Troughed (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 179
— Development Association, Soldering Alumi
nium (Book), 213; Symposium on Aluminium as a Packaging Material; Characteristics of Aluminium of Importance in Packaging, by E. E. Spillett and E, Elliott, 783
— Differential Annealing of, for Strengthening
Deep-Drawn Containers (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 149*
Ltd., Portable 167*
Royal Aircraft
Resist-
Diesel
(Trade
Aluminium Dome of London Planetarium, 393
— Evaporation of. Refractory Vapour Source
for (Edwards High Vacuum, Ltd.), 400
— Foil for Heat Insulation in Houses. 128
— for Heat Insulation in Fabrics (Deering,
Milliken and Co. Inc.), 128
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 617
in United ~ •
of, 395
— Ingot, 5,000
Pavilion at
— Jibs for Cranes on Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty
on River Thames (Head Wrightson Aluminium, Ltd.), 48*
Aluminium Laboratories, Ltd., Research Bulletin, Note on, 535
— Light Reflector Material, “ Alux ” (Veritys,
Ltd.), 544
Aluminium, Ltd., Volta River Scheme, 482; Annual Report of, 617
— Plate, Extra-Wide (Northern Aluminium
Co., Ltd.), 281*
Larger and Thicker, New Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., at Roger- stone for Production of, 410*
— Oxide, Vaporisation Process of, 639
Vapour Pressure at 1,000® to 1,350® C, 639
— as Packaging Material, Symposium on, 783
— Prices, Position and Prospects of, 20
— Sheet, Corrugated, “ Rigidal,” for Pember
ton Integral Caravan, 608
— Smelter Plant of Canadian-British Alumi
nium Co., at Baie Comeau, 255
— Soldering (Book), 213
— Torus for ZETA, 776
Aluminium Union, Ltd., Cinema Film on Laying of Aluminium Water Pipes on Canadian Oil Field. 401
— Water Pipes, Laying of, on Canadian Oil
Field, Cinema Film “ Put this in Your Pipe ” on (Aluminium Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 40!
• Tanks for Caltex Oil Tankers (Windshields of Worcester, Ltd.), 645
— Welding, High-Speed, Cinema Film of
(Aluminium Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 401
Aluminium Wire and Cable Co., Ltd., “ Awco ” Saddle Tap for Overhead Conductors, 70* “ Alux,” Aluminium Light Reflector Material (Veritys, Ltd.), 544
Alvarez, Dr. L., Work on Cold Fusion, 431 Amal. Ltd., Carburettors, Fuel Pumps and Gas Equipment (Trade Publication), 119 Amalgamated Electric Corp., Floodlights for Niagara Falls, 230*
Amalgamated Engineering Union. See Engineering under Labour
Amateur Radio, British, in Past Decade, by E. A. Matthews, 320
— Television, Activities of, 320
“ Amazon ” Saloon Motor Car (Volvo). 435 Amber Chemical Co., Ltd., “ Amber SSR 511” Fuel Oil Additive, 761; “Amber SSR 513 ” Diesel Fuel Additive, 761
“Amber SSR 513” Diesel Fuel Additive (Amber Chemical Co., Ltd.), 761
“ Amber SSR 511” Fuel Oil Additive (Amber Chemical Co., Ltd.), 761
America. See North America; South America; United States
American Associations, Encyclopaedia of. Note on, 27, 181
— Falls, Floodlights for, 230*
— Federation of Labour and Congress of
Industrial Organisations, Views on United States Recession, 747
— Foundrymen’s Society, Activities and New
Divisions of, 345
American Gas and Electric Service Corp., East Central-Florida West Coast Group Nuclear Power Plant Project, 77
— Industries in Scotland. 322
— Institute of Chemical Engineers. See
Chemical Engineers
— Institute of Industrial Engineers, Inc. See
Engineers, Industrial, American Institute of
American Motors, Manufacture of Smaller Motor Cars, 178; “ Rambler American ” Motor Car, 178
— National Television System Committee,
Colour Television System, Adaptation for Use in Britain, 832
— Navy. See Warships
— Nuclear Power Exhibits at Brussels Fair, 521 American Optical Co., “ Todd-AO ” Filming
and Projection Technique at Dominion Theatre (London), 548*
— Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 521
— Physical Society. See Physical Society
— Railroad Scene, Current, by H. R. Gomer-
sall, 226
— Scientific, Cumulative Index to Journal, 823
— Shipbuilding Industry, Position and Pros
pects of, 247
— Society for Engineering Education. See
Engineering Education under Education of Mechanical Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers, American Society of
for Testing Materials. See Testing American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Transatlantic Submarine Telephone Cables between America and France, 115
— Woods, Encyclopaedia of. Note on Revised
Edition of, 633
— See also United States
Americans, Originality in, 778
— Scepticism in, 778
— Talking to, by E. P. Ward, 712*, 744*, 778*,
824*. See also 705
— Wealth of, 779
Amis, K., I Like it Here, Comment on, 161 Ammeter Box, Type DOC.71 Starter with (British Thomson-Houston Ltd.), 806*
Ammonia, Detection of, 690
— Liquor Production at Manvers Colliery Coke-Oven Plant, 509
— for Neutralisation of Phosphoric
Form Ammonium Phosphate at Agricultural Industries Fertiliser 506*
— for Production of Concentrated Complete
Fertiliser at Leith Docks Factory of Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., 506
States, Position and Prospects
lb, Rectangular, in Canadian Brussels Fair, 522*
Fitted
Co.,
Main
Acid to Scottish Factory,
Al
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Ammonia, Sulphate of. Production at Manvers
Main Colliery Coke-Oven Plant, 509 Ammonium Phosphate as By-Product in Fertiliser Manufacture at Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., 508
Formation of, by Ammonia Neutralisation of Phosphoric Acid at Scottish Agricultural Industries Fertiliser Factory, 506
— Sulphate for Production of Concentrated Complete Fertiliser at Leith Docks Factory of Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., 506
Amory, Rt. Hon. D. Heathcoat, Remarks at European Industrial Conference, 307; on Investment for Industrial Expansion, 739; see also Budget
Ampex Corp., Magnetic Tape Recorder for Dynamic Data of Laboratory Standard (Trade Publication), 213; “Ampex Faxtape ” Magnetic Tape Recorder for Photographs, 358*
“ Ampex Faxtape ” Magnetic Tape Recorder for Photographs (Ampex Corp.), 358*
Amphibian Vehicles, “ Weasel,” for British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Studebaker), 372*
Amplification in Electrolyte, Transistor Action, 696*
— Microwave, using an Unstable Electron
Beam in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields, D. J. Harris, 725
— Parametric, of Space Charge Waves, by
A. A. Ashkin, T. J. Bridges, W. H. Lousell, and C. F. Quate, 725
Amplifiers, A. F., Transistor, by D. D. Jones and R. A. Holbourne (Review), 443
?— for Attachment to 45 ft Radio Telescope at Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern), 699*
— Equipment for “ Todd-AO ” Filming Pro
cess (Rank Precision Industries, Ltd,), 549
— High-Quality, Low-Cost, by P. J. Baxandall,
768
— Molecular, Development of, at Royal Radar
Establishment (Malvern), 699*
— Parametric, Microwave, and Converters,
by G. Wade and H. Heffner, 724
— Parametric, Using Lower-Frequency Pump
ing, by K. K. N. Chang and S. Bloom, 724
— Pre-, Magnetic, Gaumont Kalee for
“ Todd-AQ ” Filming Process (Rank
Precision Industries, Ltd.), 549
— in Solid-Flow Detector Probe, 101*
Amsler, A. J., and Co., " Torsator ” Torsion- Fatigue Testing Machine Incorporating High-Frequency “ Vibrophore ” Photoelectric Control Device, 786*
Analysis, Chemical, Symposium on Instrumentation in (Capenhurst), 590
— Complete, of Aluminium Alloys, Production
Contol (Juantometer for, 576
— Control, of Aluminium Alloys and Copper
Alloys using Self-Recording Spectrometers, by M. Milbourn and J. A. F. Gidley, 576
— Instruments, by E. Duncombe, J. Bishop, A. N, Hamer and C, D. Reid, 590
— of Trace Components in Gases, by A. B.
Davies and J. M. Donaldson, 590
•—Volumetric, Kolthoff’s, Note on, 251 Anamorphic Lenses for Projection of Cinema Films (J. D. Moller Qptische Werke G.m.b.H.), 384
Anchorages of Prestressed Concrete, 735 Anderson Committee on Road Signs for
Motorways, Discussion in Parliament on, 809
Anderson. Sir A. I., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 395
Andre Rubber-and-Steel Laminated Bearings for Pelham Road Bridge, 815*
Angle Coupling, Shaft, “ Lineta Uni-Joint ” (Standage Power Couplings. Ltd.), 197*
— Staging for “ Skylark ” Rocket at Factory Equipment Exhibition (Chevron Structural Units, Ltd.), 519
— Transducer, Electromagnetic, Vernier Resolver (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 94
Anglin-Atlas, Ltd., Aluminium Smelter Plant at Bale Comeau. 255
Anglo Great Lakes Corp., Ltd., Nuclear- Energy Activities, 619*
Anglo-Italian Atomic Energy Agreement, Ratification of, 684
Anglo-Soviet Air Pact on Civil-Airline Service Between London and Moscow, 68
Angula Engineering Co., Ltd., Parallel Motion Drafting Machine, 646*
Angus, Robert W., Medal, Institution, by Engineering Institute of Canada, 347
Annealing. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Anode and Positive, by G. H. C. Nicholls, 419*. See LETTERS, 484, 547, 611
Antarctic Expedition, Commonwealth, Massey-
Ferguson “ TE 20 ” Tractors on, 740
— Trans-, British Commonwealth Expedition, Equipment of, 372*
— Uranium in, 684
Antarctica, International Control of. Discussion in Parliament on, 272
Anti-Attrition Metal Co., Acquisition by Beyer Peacock and Co., 681
Anti-Corrosion Watershed Fluorescent Lamp Fittings for Humid Atmospheres (A.E.l. Lamp and Lighting Co., Ltd.), 4
Anti-Freeze Solutions, Borax as Corrosion Inhibitor in. Research on (Borax Consolidated, Ltd.), 783
Anxiety and Escape, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 561*
Apparatus for Measuring Resolution o Cathode Ray Tubes (Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern)), 389
Applicator, Irradiation, for the Eye (National Research Development Corp.), 396
Applied Dynamics Course, Postgraduate, at Edinburgh University, 706
-— Mechanics. See Mechanics
— Research Laboratories, Production Control Quantometer for Complete Analysis of Aluminium Alloys, 576
Appointments, New, Comment on, 65 APPR Nuclear Reactor, Fuels for, 649
Appraisals, Reappraisal of, by P. R. Kelly, 825 Apprenticeship. See Education: Labour
A.P.V. Co., Ltd., Storage Tanks for Trial Shipment of Liquid Methane, 242
Aqueous Metal-Treatment Baths, Elimination of Fumes and Steam from, “ Serseal ” Layer Process for (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 306
Arad, N., on Nuclear Reactors for Distillation of Sea-Water, 628*
Arbitration in Labour Disputes. See Labour Arc. See Electric; Furnace; Welding
— Lamp. See Lamp under Electric
— Welding. See Welding
Architects, Naval. See Naval Architects
— Royal Institute of British, Building for
Atomic Energy, by Sir J. Clockcroft, 42 Archives, French National, Storage of Documents, 291
Ardic, Orders for Auster “ Workmaster ” Crop-Spraying Aircraft, 357*
“ Area Rule ” for Flow Past Aircraft, 698 Argentine, £l-million Order for Aveling-
Barford from, 147
— Resumption of British Overseas Airways
Corp. Operations to, 390
Argonaut Welding of Noral Plate at Roger- stone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 411
Argonne National Laboratory, Design Studies for 12-5 GeV Zero-Gradient Proton Synchrotron, 42*; Facilities for Handling and Fabrication of Plutonium, 590; Atomic Age “ Tools ” at Brussels Fair, 620; Increased Power from EBWR Reactor, 650
Arisman, G., on Company Analysis, 514 “ Arista ” Thermostatically-Controlled Infra-
Red Cooker (I.C.G., Ltd.), 320
ARL. See Applied Research Laboratories Armament Research and Development Establishment, Computing and Data Handling Equipment, 373
— See also Warships
Armature Insulated with Silicone-Bonded
Glass Mica in Traction Motors, 819*
— Reversal Mercury-Arc Converter Con
nections (English Electric Co,, Ltd.), 701*
— Reversing Switches for Mercury-Arc Con
verters (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701* Armco-Finsider, Formation for Construction of Tube Works, 579
Armed Forces, Airborne, “ Harrier ” Folding Motor Car for (Hunting Percival Aircraft), 18*
Recruitment Figures for, 752
See also Officers
Armour Dust Fuelled Reactor Concept (ADFR), by D. Krucoff and F. Narin, 807*
— Plate, Impact of Projectile on. Photographs
of, 217*
— See also Warships
Armoured Ships. See Warships
Armstrong, F. H., on Timbers for Flooring, 32 Armstrong Siddeley Motors, Ltd., Policy and
Action of, 594; Diversification Activities of, 601; Merger with, Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 624
Army Catering Corps, Difficulty in Recruiting for, 560
— Cooks, Comment on, 560
Arnold, E., Ltd., Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Publications, 585
“ Aro-Broomwade ” Pistol- or Lever-Controlled Pneumatic Drill (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 168*
Pneumatic Hoist (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 168*, 615*
Range of Lightweight Pneumatic Tools (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 168*
Arsenic Trisulphide, Optical Components in (Barr and Stroud, Ltd.), 400
Arsenide, Indium, Semi-Conductor (Metro- politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 400
Art, Culture and Science, Minister of. Discussion in Parliament on, 809
— in Engineering, by H. Clausen, 791*
Arthur D. Little Research Institute. See Little, A.D.
“ Artouste ” Gas Turbine, Manufacture by Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd., 667*
Arts, Royal Society of; Trueman Wood Lecture on Nuclear Power Costs, by Sir
C. Hinton, 398
“A.S.A.” Roller Chain Drives at Brussels Fair (Renolds Chains, Ltd.), 487
“Asbestolux ” Insulation Board (Cape Building Products, Ltd.), 486
Asbestos Cement Materials for Thermal Insulation of Buildings (Trade Publication), 534
— Coatings, Sprayed, “ Limpet ” (Turners Asbestos Cement Co., Ltd.), 472
— Friction Material, Woven, Ferodo ZA.l (Ferodo, Ltd.), 23
— Sheet (Marinite, Ltd.), 486
— Textiles Production at Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ltd., Development Project for, at Hindley Green, 412*
— Thermosetting Moulding Materials, Resin- ated, “ Durestos,” Production at Hindley Green Works of Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ltd., 412
ASEA, Annual Report, 770; Activities of, 770 Ashen, F. C., Opening Address at Conference on Fuel Efficiency in Melting and Thermal Treatment of Metals, 536
Ashford Locomotive Works of British Railways, Newcomen Society’s Visit to, 818
Ashkin, A. A., on Parametric Amplification of Space Charge Waves, 725
Ashmore, Dr. A., Work on Cold Fusion, 109; on Catalysed Fusion Reactor, 430; on Gamma-Rays from Muon Catalysed Fusion of Hydrogen and Deuterium, 431* on Theoretical Nuclear Physics, 649; Biographical Note, 649
Ashmore, Benson, Pease and Co., Ltd., Blast Furnace Division of Power-Gas Corp., Ltd., 296; Stainless-Steel Nitric-Acid Absorption Column at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478*; Blast-Furnace for Indian Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., 510
Ashton-Young Engineering Development Co., Ltd., “ Ballard ” Avc-Welding Machine 454*
Asia, Russian Economic Aid to, 81 ?— South-East, Aid to Training and Research
Facilities in, under Technical Cooperation Scheme, 706
— Soviet Central, Economic Policy in, 35 Aslib, Scientific and Technical Translation
Conference, 283, 473; Formation of
Electronics Group, 347
Aslib Directory, 1958, Note on, Asquith Machine Tool Corp.,
Prospects of, 296, 461 Asquith, R., on Position and
Asquith Machine Tool Corp., 461 Assel Rolling-Mill for Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd. (Aetna Standard Engineering Co.), 669*
Associated Automation, Ltd., Pay-on-Answer Coin Box,800*
Associated Commercial Vehicles, Activities and Prospects of, 271
Associated Electrical Industries, Position and Prospects of, 367; Investment in, 395; Reorganisation of, 496; Order Position of, 496; Two-Year Course for Officers for Employment in Electrical Engineering Industry, 560; Issue of Debenture Stock, 774; Position and Prospects of, 774
Associated Electrical Industries Research Laboratory (Aidermaston); Results of “ Sceptre 111 ” Gas-Discharge Apparatus, 184*; Thermonuclear Research at, 184* Associated Engineering Holdings, Ltd,, Position and Prospects of, 207
Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., Order for 250 Double-Decker Buses for Persia, 86 Associated Ethyl Co., Ltd., 18,400 High Power Germanium Rectifier Set at Ellesmere Port Plant of (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 358*; Test-Bed Equipment for Motor Cars (Heenan and Froude, Ltd.), 434*
Associated Motor Cycles, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 296
Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers, Position and Prospects of, 774
Associations, American, Encyclopaedia of. Note on, 27, 181
— British. See British Association
— for Consumer Research, Ltd. See Con
sumer Research
— Engineering. See Institutions
“Atalanta ” Receiver for “ Globespan ” Transmitters in Radiotelegraph Service on “ Mauretania,” 253
Atkins, W. S., and Partners, Spring Clips for Fixing Rails for Gantry Cranes, 702*; Pelham Road Bridge, 814*; Sincil Dyke Project at Lincoln, 815*
Atkinson, R., and Partners, Pelham Road
Bridge, 814*
“Atlanta ” Domestic Bath Production at Bilston Foundries, 637*
Atlantic, North. See North Atlantic
— See also Transatlantic
“Atlas ” Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (Convair-Astronautics), 298*
Atlas Copco (Great Britain), Ltd., “ Lion ” Rock Drill for Use with Air Pusher Leg, 421*; Compressed-Air Operated Loading Machine, 421 *
Atmospheres in Enclosed Spaces, Testing of, by H. Allen, 690
— Pollution. See Air Pollution; Clean Air;
Smoke
Atom Motor Car Project at Geneva Motor Show, 435
— for Peace Exhibition (Geneva), Preliminary
Notice, 337; Participation of Scientific Instrument Manufacturers Association of Great Britain, 16
Atomenergi, AB, RO Nuclear Reactor for Swedish Atomic Research Station, 589; Work on Swedish Atomic Research Station, 589*
Atomic Age “ Tools ” at Brussels Fair (Argonne National Laboratory), 620
— Bacteriological and Chemical Defence. See
A. B.C.D.
— Clock in Swiss Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522
— Defence. See A.B.C. D.
— Energy Agency, International, Offers
Received for Atomic Energy Programmes, 238; Report of Vienna Meetings, 238
Agreement between Britain and Japan, 808
Agreement with Italy, Ratification of, 684 ? Authority, United Kingdom, Organ
isation of. White Paper on, 13; Appointment of Lord Citrine as Part-Time Member, 77; Announcement on Current State of Research on Thermonuclear Reactions, 109; Appointment of W. R. J. Cook as Full-Time Member of, 144; Alterations in Structure of, 144; Consideration of Further Nuclear Power Plant at Chapel Cross, 174; Conference on Nuclear Reactor Progress (Harwell), 206; New Appointments, 206; Appointment of Dr. H. Kronberger as Director of Research and Development of Industrial Group, 238; Change of London Address, 238; Nuclear Scientists’ Salary Negotiations, 304; Abstracts on Radiation Chemistry, 366; Growth of, 385; Lines of Advance in Reactor Designs, 398; Nickel Plating Using Nickel Carbonyl, 401; Purchase of Durley Hall Hotel, Bournemouth, as Staff Hostel, 459; Nuclear Energy Exhibits at Brussels Fair, 487; Guide to Documents of, 527; Symposium on Instrumentation in Chemical Analysis (Capenhurst), 590; Appointment of Atomic Safety Committee of, 650; Uranium Purchase Agreement through Combined Development Agency, 656; New Appointments in Industrial Group, 748. See also under specific projects and research establishments
British Co-operation with Western Europe on, 552
Building for, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 42
Canada, Ltd., Fire of Rod at Chalk River
Australian, Investigation
European Contract Co., for
Diversification Activities of Firms in, 601
Exhibition at Symposium on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (Sydney, 1958), 44 Exhibition, United Nations (Geneva), 333
Health in, 75
Industry, Guide to, 620
Insurance Conference, International (London), Report of, 334
Norwegian Institute for, Boiling-Water Reactor Project, 76
—? —? Peaceful Uses of. Agreement between United Kingdom and Italy on, 43
Peaceful Uses of. International Conference on, 1958 (Geneva), Provisional Agenda for, 16; Preliminary Arrangements, 332; United Kingdom Delegation, 333; Preliminary Notice, 749; British Space at Exhibition, 808
— — Peaceful Uses of. Symposium on (Sydney, 1958), Preliminary Notice, 44 Progress in Peaceful Uses of, Semi- Annual Report of United States Atomic Energy Commission, 399
Research Establishment (Harwell), Thermonuclear Experiments on ZETA, 43; Radioactive Isotope Course for Directors, 77; High-Activity Handling Building, 109*; Gain and Phase Shift of Diverging Reactor, 143; Smaller Prototype Installations for Thermonuclear Research, 186*; Conference on Nuclear Reactor Progress, 206; 100 MW Two-Zone Aqueous
Homogeneous Breeder Reactor, 237*; Loop Tests on Nuclear Reactors, 301-302*; HAZEL Nuclear Reactor Critical, 432; Description of HAZEL Nuclear Reactor, 432; Reactor School Course, 495. See also under ZETA and specific projects Research Establishment (Winfrith Heath), Experimental Reactor using Ceramic Fuel, 41; Homogeneous Aqueous Reactor Project, 76; HTGC Nuclear Reactor, 302, 365; Durley Hall Hotel, Bournemouth, as Staff Hostel, 459
Research, Vacuum Technique in, by A. H. Turnbull, 495*
Safety in, 75
— Engineering Abroad, Russian Publication
on, 57
Safety in. Report on, 158
?— Industrial Accidents, Harvard Law School Study of, 303
Forum. See United States Atomic Industrial Forum
— Industry, 1958-1968, Growth Survey of, 620
— and Molecular Generators, by Dr. K. W.
Stevens, 724
Atomic Power Constructions, Ltd., Activities of, 399; Arrangement of Proposed Nuclear Power Station of, 399*; Constitution and Activities of, 618*; Agreement with Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., for Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessels and for Cranes for Erection Purposes, 684
Atomic Power Development Associates, Inc., EFFBR Nuclear Reactor, 718*
Dollar Loans for, 578
—? Radiation. See Nuclear; Radiation
— Research Station, Swedish (Studsvik), Work
on RO, R1 and R2 Nuclear Reactors, 589*; R2 Research Reactor for, 749
— Review, 14*, 41*, 76*, 108*, 142*. 172*,
204*, 236*, 268*, 301*, 33 2*. 365*, 396*, 430*, 457*, 494*, 525*, 558*, 589*, 618*, 648, 682*, 717*, 748*, 775*, 807*
— Safety Committee of United Kingdom
Atomic Energy Authority, Appointment of, 650
— Wastes, Comment on, 366
— Weapons Research Establishment (Aider
maston), Neutron Emission in High Current Gas Discharges, by Dr. H. A. B. Bodin and Dr. J. A. Reynolds, 108; Equipment for Deposition of Nickel by Thermal Decomposition of Nickel Carbonyl, 396
See also Weapons
— See also Nuclear
Atomiser, Rotary, “ Micronair,” for “ Workmaster ” Crop-Spraying Aircraft (Britten- Norman, Ltd.), 357*
Atomium at Brussels Fair, 456*
Atomnaya Energia za Rubezhom, Note on, 57 Atritors for Pulverising and Drying Coal at Lutterworth Works of Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 166*
Attache, Scientific, for British Embassy in Moscow, Discussion in Parliament on, 680 Attenuation Curves for Rock-Wool-Lined Air Ducts, by Dr. A. J. King, 29*
Audibility at Lectures, Plain Words on, 770
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
as Power Supply Apparatus, 334
— and New Zealand
Advancement of Analysis in the Elastic-Plastic Range, Floating Body Analogy, by R. J. P. Garden, 573
— Post Office, “ Standard ” Transistorised
Rural Carrier Telephone System for (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 804 Austria, Relationship with European Coal and Steel Community, 35
Austrian Mineral Oil Organisation, Suspension Pipe-Bridge over River Danube for Conveyance of Natural Gas, 49, 378
— Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 456* Authoritarian Barriers to Communication, by
Z. M. T, Tarkowski, 721*
— Personality, Characteristics of, 721* Authority, Barriers Between People at Different
Levels of, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 721*
Authors’ Tendency to Quote Statistics, Comment on, 251
Authorship, Technical (Pamphlet), 762 Autoclaves at Kuwait Brick Works, 188* Autogenous Welding. See Welds; Welding Automatic Camera-Microscope, “ Ultraphot II ” (Carl Zeiss), 805*
— Control of Machine Tools, by D. T. N.
Williamson, 478
of Powered Trolleys and Trucks, Guidance System for (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 488
of Railways, Plain Words on, 386
of Underground Trains, Plain Words cn, 386
See also Control
— Cycle Mechanism for Wet Belt Grinding
Machine (Taylor Tools and Supplies, Ltd.) 169*
— Data Processing, Course on, 2
Processing Course in London by John Diebold, 424
Processing, Programming, 426
Processing, Sources of Information and Advice on, 426
Processing, Thoughts on, 424
Processing in United States, 780
Processing. See also Data
— Dip-Soldering Machine for Printed Circuits
(Signals Research and Development Establishment), 489
— Electronic Scanning Correlator, “ Auscor,”
for Stereo-Images (Photographic Survey Corp.), 607
— Gauge Control in Strip Rolling Mills, by
Dr. R. B. Sims, 575
— Machine for Manufacture of Railway
Sleepers (Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 678*
Tools. See Machine Tools
— Packaging in Cellophane or Polythene-
Coated Cellulose Film, 790
— Pilot, Smith SEP2, on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner,
556
— Radiosonde Telemetering Equipment (Rank
Cintel, Ltd.), 543*
— Signalling. See Signalling
Automatic Telephone and Electric Co., Ltd., Portable Serviceability Telephone Tester, 133
Subscriber, for Locating Call Failures, 153
— Train Control, Discussion in Parliament on,
175, 336
Control, Plain Words on, 386 Control, Recent Trends in, 342
Control System, Development by British Railways, 313*
— Transmissions under Developmental Motor
Industries Research Association, 772
— Vending Machines, Exhibition of. Pre
liminary Notice, 790
Automation Base, “ Compass ” Mark VII, for Fountain Pen Barrel Machine (Bristol Repetition, Ltd.), 805*
— British Group for Engineering Applications
of. Formation, Officers and Activities of, 290, 319
— and Computation, British Conference on.
Formation, Officers and Activities of British Group for Engineering Applications of Automation, 290
— Effect on Management in United States, 824
— Exhibition. See Instruments, Electronics
and Automation Exhibition
— Instrumentation and Electronics, Confer
ence on, Preliminary Notice, 471
— Numerical and Computers, by Dr. A. D.
Booth, 684
— Studies at Cambridge University Engi
neering Department, 404
?— Training for, by J. Diebold, 38*
Automobiles. See Motor Cars
— Engineering, 18*, 82*, 178*, 265*, 294*,
371*, 434*, 489*, 516*, 644*, 722*
— Workers, United. See under Labour Automotive Engineers, Society of: National
Diesel Engine Meeting (Cleveland)'. Mist Injection in Diesel Engines, by M. Alperstein, W. B. Swim, and P. H. Schweitzer, 30; Checklist of Publications and Meetings Papers, Note on, 573
Automotive Products Co., Ltd., Electro- hydraulic Control for Dampers and Boilers at Goldington Power Station, 36
Auto-Spot, Leopard, Lightweight Portable Spot-Welding Machine (Portable Welders, Ltd.), 68*
Aveling-Barford Group, New 20 Cub. Yard Capacity Heavy-Duty Dumper, 80; Annual Report, 80; £l-million Order from Argentina, 147
Aviation. See Aeronautics
Avica Equipment, Ltd., High-Precision Seamless Bellows and Bellows-Assemblies, 709* “ Avon ” Jet Engines for “ Comet 4 ” Airliner (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 556*
Avro “ Vulcan ” Bomber, Constant-Thrust Version of “ Spectre ” Rocket Engine as Assisted Take-Off Unit for (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
“ Awco ” Saddle Tap for Overhead Conductors (Aluminium Wire and Cable Co., Ltd.), 70* Awnings, Ships’, Noral “ Industrial ” Corrugated Aluminium-Alloy Sheets for (Trade Publication), 27
Axial Flow Circulating Pumps for Heat- Treatment Furnace at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd. (W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Ltd.), 411*
Axle Changing for Railway Wheel-Gauge Changing in Spain, 799
— “ Collinge ” (Kirkstall Forge Co.), 475*
— Housing, Rear, Automobile, Heavy-Duty
Air Gauging Rig for Inspection of (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 222*
— “ Mail ” (Kirkstall Forge Co.), 475*
— Railway, History of, 476
— and Wheel, History of, by J. T. Emmerton,
474*
— or Wheel: Which Should Turn ? by J. T.
Emmerton, 474*
Axleboxes, History of, 476*
Ayers, K. B., on Tests on Struts in Elastic and Plastic Ranges, 88*
Ayr, Technical College for. Discussion in Parliament on, 144
BABBS, E. R., and SONS, New Chemical Engineering Laboratories for Manchester College of Science and Technology, 764*
Babcock and Wilcox Co., LMFRE Nuclear Reactor, 302, 332
Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., Work of, in Nuclear- Energy Field, 16; Order to Hayward Tyler for Glandless Circulating Pumps for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station Heat Exchanger Circuits, 270; High- Pressure Water Loop Equipment for Testing Fuel Elements in DIDO Nuclear Reactor, 302*; Molybdenum Steel Test Cell for High-Altitude Test Plant for Ram-Jet Engines at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 437*; Nuclear-Energy Activities, 619*; Position and Prospects of, 647; Agreement with Atomic Power Constructions, Ltd., for Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessels and Cranes for Erection Purposes, 684
Backward-Facing Aircraft Seats, Discussion in Parliament on, 390
Bacteriological Defence. See A.B.C.D.
Bad Mixer, Case of the, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 11*
Criticism of, 177
Badings, H., on “ Electronic Music,” 160*
Baffles, Refrigerated, for High-Vacuum Diffusion Pumps (Edwards High-Vacuum, Ltd.), 310*
Baggett, F. W., and Co. Ltd., Instrument for Measuring Air Content of Hydraulic Oil, 59 Baghdad Pact Nuclear Training Centre, Activities of, 238; Appointment of H. A. C. McKay as Director of, 238
“ Bahco ” Portable Wet Cyclone for Dust Extraction (Trade Publication), 534
Bale Comeau, Aluminium Smelter Plant of Canadian-British Aluminium Co., 255
Bailey Meters and Controls, Ltd., Detector Probe for Conveyor System Carrying Solids, 101*
Bailey, S. B., on Supporting Research Associations, 515. See LETTER, 579
Bailey, Sir W. H., and Co., Ltd., “ Telicator ” Visual Flow Indicators, 453*
Bakelite, Ltd., “ Vyback DVB 229 ” Semi- Rigid Transparent Sheet for Use in Making Machine Guards, Protective Screens and Windows, 149*; Epoxide- Resin Brush-Setting Cement for Paint- Brush Manufacture, 211; “Warerite” Wallboard, 384
Baker, E. J., on Position and Prospects of E. J. Baker and Co. (Dorking), 335
Baker, E. J., and Co, (Dorking), Position and Prospects of, 335
Baker, Prof. H. Wright, on Determining Friction Coefficient for Moulded and Laminated Brake-Lining Materials, 785*
Baker, R., Submarine Project Appointment, 399
Baker, R. G., Device for Tensioning Conveyor Belts, 102*
Balancers, Spring-Type, for “ Aro-Broom- wade ” Range of Pneumatic Tools, 168
Balancing Machine, Dynamic (Trade Publication), 659
Balfour, Sir J., Remarks on British Site at Brussels Fair, 456
Baling Heavy Steel Scrap at Colvilles, Ltd., Triple-Compression Press for (Fielding and Platt, Ltd.), 261*
Ball Bearings. See Bearings
— for Bearings, High-Temperature Lubricant
Tests on, 661 *
— for Bearings, Structurel Conditions in, by
1. Berz, K. F. Hale, and C. Wainwright, 151*
— Foam-Rubber, Circulation in Condenser
Tubes, 828*
— Forming, Wire, Single Blow Press for (Trade
Publication), 409
— Hardness Tests, See Hardness under Tests
(Materials)
— Mills, Coal Pulverisation, at Tilbury Power
Station (John Thompson, Ltd.), 792*
Internal Mechanics of, by H. E. Rose and R. M. E. Sullivan (Book), 375
— Valve, Domestic, New (National Research
Development Corp.), 768
“ Ballard ” Arc-Welding Machine (Slough Metals, Ltd.), 454*
Ballard, W. E., on History, Work and Aims of Institution of Metallurgists, 761
Ballater-Aberdeen Branch Line, Battery Railcars for, 627*
Ballet Music “ Cain and Abel,” Electronic Production of, 160*
Band Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Saws. See Saws under Machine Tools
Bank for African Development, Discussion in Parliament on, 423
— Annual Reviews of. Comment on, 171
?—? Flood, Earthen, Research on Stability of, 350
— International, for Reconstruction and
Development: Comment on Possibility of Handling Loans for Under-Developed Countries, 2; Loans to India by, 98; Loans to Sterling Area, 387; Possible Role in Dollar Loans for Atomic Power, 578; Position and Activities of, 771
— Rate, Effect on Increase in. 111
?— Review of Position and Prospects of. 111
— Trade Unionism in. Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 524
Banker, United Kingdom as World, 529
Bars, Iron, Transporting of, Saurer Motor Truck for, 435
— Macalloy, in Bridges for Double-Track
Railway on North Eastern Region, 441*
— and Tube Straightening Machine (Trade
Publication), 347
— Turning Machine. See Machine Tools Barash, M., on Jigs and Fixtures from Standard
Sets of Parts, 829*
Barham Downs Windmill, Visit to, 818
Barker, H. P., remarks on New Techniques of Gas Making, 523
Barlow, H. C., on Instrument for Measuring Gas Content of Aluminium Alloys During Melting and Casting, 576
Barlow-Whitney, Ltd., Electric Batch-Type Oven, Type E.150, 325*; Forced-Circulation Electric Batch-Type Oven, Type E.300 H.A.F., 325*
Barna, Dr. T., on Investment Policy in United Kingdom and Western Germany, 106
Barony Power Station, Washery Slurry for Fuel Supply at, 159
Barr and Stroud, Ltd., Optical Components in Arsenic Trisulphide, 400
Barriers, Authoritarian, to Communication, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 721*
— Lifting, for Level-Crossings, 811* Bartenstein, R., on Influence of Air Density
on Level of Radio-Electric Interferences Caused by H.V. Lines, 822; on New Investigation on Interference Levels at 400 kV Research Station in Mannheim- Rheinau, 822
Bartram and Sons, Ltd., Reconstruction of Sunderland Shipyard for Prefabrication, 140*
Base, Automation, “ Compass ” Mark VII, for Fountain Pen Barrel Machine (Bristol Repetition, Ltd.), 805*
Base, G. D., on Transmission Length in Prestressed Concrete, 736
Basra Petroleum Co., Ltd., Crawler Tractor for (Albion Motors, Ltd.),
Bateman, E. H,, on Engineers and the Guild, 324. See LETTER, 356; on Coriolis Acceleration, 483. See LETTER, 548
Bath, Domestic, New Manufacturing Plant at Bilston Foundries, 637*
— Metal-Treatment, Aqueous, Elimination of
Fumes and Steam from, “ Serseal ” Layer Process for (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 306
— “ Perspex ” (Thermo-Plastics, Ltd.), 128 Battelle Memorial Institute, Nuclear Reactor
Physics Division at, 303
Institute, E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 715
?— Research Reactor as Source of Neutrons and Gamma-Rays for Evaluating Effects of Radiation, 432
Batteries. See Electric
— Vehicles. See Motor Vehicles; Motor
Truck
Battleships. See Warships
Baumbach, H. L., on Microscale Preparation and Micrometallurgy of Plutonium Metal, 457
Baxandall, P. J., on Low-Cost High-Quality Amplifier, 768
Baxter, Prof. A. D., on Some Applications of Nuclear Power, 268*; on Rocket Motors and Rocket Fuels, 460
Beacons, Earth Satellite, for Long Range Navigation Aid, 467
— at Gatwick Airport, Helicopter Crane for,
735*
Beale, Sir S. R., on Position and Prospects of Worthington Simpson, Ltd., 647
Beams, Concrete, Pretressed, in Flexure, Ultimate Strength of, 735
Prestressed, Strain Compatibility Condition of, by Prof. H. Riisch, 735
— and Dial Indicator Equipment for Measure
ment of Surface Plate Deflections under Load (Rubert and Co., Ltd.), 742*
— Edge, Stiffening Effects of, on Right Slab
Bridge, by J. A. N. Lee, 539*. See LETTER, 612
Beams, Mild Steel, Overstrained, Stress Distribution in, by K. Farnell, 788*
— Testing Machine for Lloyds British Testing
Co., Ltd. (J. Samuel White and Co., Ltd.), 484*
BEAMA. See Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association, British
Bearings, Ball, Design “ Piracy ” in, 81 Failure of, High-Temperature Lubricant
Tests in Study of, by D. Scott, 660* Miniature (Trade Publication), 27 “ Molytone 265 and 320 ” Lubricants for (Rocol, Ltd.), 242
Pollard’s, Case of Copying by Japanese Firms, 433
Steel, Structural Conditions in. Tests of, by 1. Berz, K. F. Hale, and C, Wainright, 151*
— at Brussels Fair (British Timken, Ltd.), 487
— Cross-Roll, Slewing Ring for Excavators
(Priestman Bros., Ltd.), 613*
— Laminated, Rubber-and-Steel, Andre, for
Pelham Road Bridge, 815*
— Linings, White-Metal, Adhesion of. Swing
ing Galvanometer for Inspection of (Brush Group, Ltd.), 276
— Materials, “ Dry ” “ DU,” “ DQ,” and
“ DM ” (Glacier Metal Co., Ltd.), 761
— Needle (Trade Publication), 659
— Oil Resonance in, by Dr. F. Orbeck, 343*
— Roller, “ Molytone 265 and 320 ” Lubri
cants for (Rocol, Ltd.), 242
Precision Taper (Trade Publication), 347
— Sleeve, Performance Study by '
Commonwealth Scientific and
Research Organisation, 345 Running-in Characteristics,
Davis, 345
Testing Machine for, by A. J. Davis and T. V. Krok, 345
?— Thin-Walled, Air Gauge for Checking Diameters of (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 221*
— Tubes, Hot-Rolled, Manufacture at Eagle
Works of Tubes, Ltd., 668*
Beaver, Sir H., Presidential Address to Federation of British Industries, 482; Presidential Address on Science and the State to Institution of Chemical Engineers, 578; Remarks on Output of Chemical Engineers, 616; Committee for Study of Metric System, 707
Beck, G. E., on Airborne Doppler Navigation Equipment, 466
Bedford, L. H., on Principles of Guidance of Rockets, 460
Bedingfield, D. L.. on Power Dividing Transmissions, 123*
Behaviour Research, Applications of, by R.
Likert and S. P. Hayes, Jnr. (Review), 585 Bekoma Boehringer, K. G., “ Uma ” Facing and Centring Machine, 805*
Belfast Harbour Commissioners, New Deep-
Water Wharf at Belfast, 625
Belfils, G., on Report on Work of Study
Committee on Generation, 821 Belgian Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522 Bell, C., on Practical Training of Engineers, 580 Bell, C. W., on Position and Prospects of Bell’s
Asbestos and Engineering (Holdings), Ltd., 681
Bell, E. B., on Strip-Thickness Measurement by
Beta and Gamma Absorption, 575
Bell Telephone Laboratories, Vernier Resolver Electromagnetic Angle Transducer, 94; Transistor Action at Semi-conductor- Electrolyte Interface, by J. F. Dewaid, 696*; Four-Region Switching Diode, 787; High-Speed Silicon Computer Diode, 787 Bellows and Bellows-Assernblies,
High-Precision (Avica
709*
— Expansion, in Ducting
Ram-Jet Test Plant
Engines, Ltd., 469* Bell’s Asbestos and Engineering (Holdings),
Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 681 Belmos Co., Ltd., Gate End Box (Trade
Publication), 119
Belt, Abrasive. See Abrasive under Machine Tools
— Conveyor, Tensioning, Baker Device for,
102*
— Conveyors. See Conveyors
— Drive Automatic Transmission for Motor
Cars, 265*
Belting, Conveyor, Exhibits at Mechanical Handling Exhibition, 615*
Flanged, “ Corruband ” (C. H. Johnson (Machinery) Ltd.), 614*
Bending Machine. See Machine Tools
— Pipe, Techniques in Aircraft Production, 95
?—- of Pre-Twisted Turbine Blades; Effect of Inclination of Longitudinal Fibres, by Dr. W. Carnegie, 605*
Benjamin Electric, Lighting Equipment at Gatwick Airport, 653
Bentley Colliery, Dismissals at, due to Absenteeism, 235
Bentley Motor Cars, Air Conditioning System for (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 489*
Benzole, Crude, Production at Manvers Main Colliery Coke-Oven Plant, 509*
— Refinery at Manvers Main Colliery Coke-
Oven Plant, 510*
BEPO Nuclear Reactors, Wigner Release in, 366, 399*
Berditchevski, G., on Mechanisation in Production of Factory-Made Units and Problem of Transmission Length in Pretensioned Concrete, 736
Berg-Warner, Ltd., Automatic Transmissions (Trade Publication), 27
Bergstrom, L. R,, on Investigation of Dielectric Strength of Compressed Air in Air-Blast Circuit-Breakers, 821
Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, Heat Exchanger for (John Thompson, Ltd.), 527* Berliet T.lOO Motor Truck, 435
Beryllium in Air, Maximum Permissible Concentrations of, 501
— as Canning Material, 648
— Canning, Nuclear Plant Using, for Wind
scale Atomic Energy Station, 365
ENGINEERING, VOL. IKS (1958)
Beryllium Handling, Glove Box for, 500*
— Laboratory at Atomic Energy Division of
General Electric Co., Ltd., 364
— Machining, Laboratory Machine Shop for,
500*
— Metallurgy and Fabrication of. Laboratory
for Study of, by Dr. R. Raine and P. P. Starling, 499*
— Properties of, 396
of, as Fuel-Canning Material for Gas- Cooled Nuclear Reactors, 364
— Sources and Cost of, 364
— Welding of. Laboratory for, 501
Berz, L, on Tests of Structural Conditions in Steel Bearing-Balls, 151*
Beta Absorption, Strip-Thickness Measurement by, by E. B. Bell, 575
— Ray Source, 396
Betatron Installation, Industrial, in Czechoslovakian Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 521
Bettenson, E. M., on Computers at Newcastle, 292
Bevel Gears. See Gears
Beyer, Peacock and Co., Annual Report of, 681 Beyer Peacock (Hymeck), Ltd., Formation of, 681
Biazzi Process of Nitro-Glycerine Production, Remote Control of. Use of Television in, at Ardeer Factory of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 101*
Bibliography on Adhesive Bonding of Metals, Note on, 91
— on Aerodynamic Heating, 535
— on Channel Tunnel, by H. Smith, Note on,
443
— of Hydraulic Analogies, by R. A.
Bryant, 309
— on <2)utput Pattern in Repetitive Tasks, Bicentenary, Fawcett Preston and Co., Ltd,, Bicycles. See Cycles and Motor Cycles “ Big Ben,” Centenary of, 17 Bill. See Legal
Billets, Gas-Fired Rotary Hearth Furnace for, at Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd. (Salem Engineering Co., Ltd.), 668*
— Two-Roll Piercing Mill, Mannesmann Type,
for, at Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd. (Head Wrightson Machine Co., Ltd,), 668* Bilston Foundries, New Domestic Bath Manufacturing Plant at Batman’s Hill, 637* Biochemical Engineering, by R. Steel (Review), 823
Biological Effects of Radiation, by Dr. F. G. Spear, 573
Biram, M. B., on Safety of Plutonium Storage, 495
Birch, J, A., on Lord Chandos’s Suggestion for Regular Annual Wage Increases, 44; on Inflation, 176; Remarks at European Industrial (Conference, 307; on Wage Restraint in Trade Unions, 493
Birfield Group, Position and Prospects of, 496 Birlec, Ltd,, Mains-Frequency Coreless Induction Furnace for Production of Alloy Steel at Inca Steel Co., Ltd., 421*; Survey of Canadian Market, 658
Birmingham Canal Navigations, Steam Engine of 1777, 643
— Engineering Centre, Stand at Brussels Fair,
457
— and Five Counties Architectural Associa
tion, Exhibition of Samples of New Building Materials, Preliminary Announcement, 320
— London Motorway, Construction of, 441 Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co.,
Ltd., Gyreacta Transmission Tests, 564
— Pied Pipers of, by Sir R. Watson-Watt
(Review), 250
Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., Order for 1,550 h.p. Diesel-Electric Locomotives for British Railways Southern Region Kent Coast Lines. 127; Rail Coaches for South African Railway, 344*
Birmingham Small Arms Co., Ltd., Closure of Tool Factory at Cardiff, 300
Birnstingl, D. W., on Alternator Winding Resistance Measured under Load, 317*
Birstall Carpet Co., Ltd., New Automatic Hank-Dyeing Machine at, 54
Birthday Honours List, 772
Bisby, H,, on Monitoring of Radioactive Process Streams by Own Emission, 590
Bishop, J., on Analysis Instruments, 590 Bismuth-Thoria Slurries, Study on, 332 Bisset, K,, and Co., Ltd., “ Stoktrol ” Continuous Stock Record Machine, 255
Bit, Diamond, Performance in Limestone and Dolomite, by M, J. Gallagher and A. Long, 536
Performance in Sandstone, by A. Long, 536
Bitumen, Rubberised, for Sealing Airstrips Launceston Airport, Tasmania, 441
B. and K. Laboratories Ltd,, International Instrument Show, Exhibits at, 471
Black, A, and C., Year Book of Technical Education and Careers in Industry, 823
Black-Clawson Hydra-Pulpers at New Board Mill of Colthrop Board and Paper Mills, Ltd., 764
Blackburn and General Aircraft Co., Ltd,, Policy and Action of, 594; Diversification Activities of, 595, 601; “ N.A. 39 ” Long- Range-Striking Aircraft, Discussion in Parliament on, 624; “ NA.39 ” Naval Strike Aircraft, 631*; “ Turbomeca ”
Range of Gas-Turbines, 667*
Blackett, Prof., on Capital Loans to Under- Developed Countries, 2
Blackman, K., Ltd., “ T.2500 ” Dust Extractor ” with “ Snap Action ” Mechanical Shaking Gear, 709*
Blackmore, W. E., Civil Engineering Slide- Chart for Hydraulics and Reinforced Concrete, 63*
Blackwell’s Catalogue of Books on Nuclear Engineering, 659
Blades, Compressor, Measuring Stresses in, by
D. A. Drew, 125
— Steam-Turbine, Broached Root Forms of.
Gauging Device for Measuring (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd,), 222
Turbine, Use of Titanium for, 28
Blades, Turbine, Pre-Twisted, Bending of. Effect of Inclination of Longitudinal Fibres, by Dr. W. Carnegie, 605*
Stress Measurement in, on Test Bed and in Flight, by D. A. Drew, 125
Blaenau Ffestiniog, Pumped Storage Scheme at, 399, 491*
Blaker, C., Remarks on Economic Position of Far Eastern Countries, 427
Blanchard, A., on Lacq Gas Field, Its Problems and Potentialities, 670
Blast Furnace. See Furnace Gas. See Gas Blaw-Knox Co., Recovery of High-Purity
Sulphur, 536
Blazers as Uniform for Executives, Comment on, 685
“ Bleuet ” Butane Burning Blowlamp (Pneumatic Tent Co., Ltd.), 192*
Bliss, E. W. (England), Ltd., Deep-Throat
Presses (Trade Publication), 730 Blocks, Clamping, Adjustable (Trade Publica
tion), 409
Bloom, S., on Parametric Amplifier using Lower-Frequency Pumping, 724
Blough, R. M., on United States Steel Corp., 427, 584
Blower, A. L., on Position and Prospects of Guy Motors, Ltd., 79
Blowlamp, Butane-Burning, “ Bleuet ” (Pneumatic Tent Co., Ltd.), 192*
Blowpipe. See Welding: Cutting
“ Blue Flash ” Masonry Drills (John M.
Perkins and Smith, Ltd.), 224
“ Blue Hawk ” Flooring Tiles with Hard Wood Surface and Resin Bonded Sand Base (British Plaster Board (Manufacturing) Ltd.), 64*
Blyth “ B ” Power Station, 275 MW TurboAlternators for (English Electric Co,, Ltd.), 330*
Board, Insulation, “ Asbestolux ” (Cape Building Products, Ltd.), 486
— Machine at New Board Mill of Colthrop
Board and Paper Mills, Ltd, (Walmsleys 765*
?—? Mill, New, of Colthrop Board and Paper Mills, Ltd., at Thatcham, 764*
— of Trade, Role in Consumer Protection,
240; Activities in Trade Fairs, 337; Nuclear Energy Exhibits at Brussels Fair 487; Nuclear Power Developments Overseas (Circular), 573 ; see also Export Credits Guarantee Department
Boat Builders’ National Federation. See Ship and Boat
— Flying. See Flying Boat under Aeronautics
— Show, Exhibits at, 63
— Small Power, Engines for, by P. N. Barnard
(Book), 585
— Submarine. See Warships —? See also Dinghy; Yacht
Bodin, Dr. H. A. B., on Neutron Emission in High Current Gas Discharges, 108
Body, Buoyant, Motion of, by Dr. R. A. Collacott, 760*
— Metallic, Contact of; Effect of Tangential
Force, by J. S. Courtney-Pratt and E. Eisner, 182*
Body. R., on Demand for Design Consultants, 784
Boeing Airplane Co.,“707” Intercontinental Jet Airliner for Non-stop Transoceanic Operations, 37; “707” Jet Stratoliner
Long-Range Aircraft for Trans-Continental Operations, 37* ; “720” Intermediate- Range Jet Airliner, 37
Boerlage Four-Ball Lubricant-Testing Machine Incorporating Induction Heater, 660* Bogolyubov, Academician N. N., Theory of Superconductivity, 43
Bohemia, Model of Hydro-Electric Installation (Orlik) at Brussels Fair, 521
Boiler Casings, Leaks in. Detection of (Lister- Todd Engineering Co., Ltd.), 166
— Coal-Fired, at Tilbury Power Station, 792
— Controlled-Circulation, for 275 MW Turbo
Alternators (Yarrow and Co., Ltd.), 330*
— Economic, Paxman Double-Pass, at Lutter
worth Works of Alfred Herbert, Ltd., Pulverised Fuel for, 166*
— Feed Water. See Feed; Water
— Furnace Inspection Platform at Wakefield
“ B ” Power Station (Foster Wheeler, Ltd., and Non-Corrosive Metal Products, Ltd.), 169*
— at Goldington Power Station, Electro-
hydraulic Control for (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 36
— House Equipment at Kuwait Sand-Lime
Brick Works (Edwin Danks and Co., Ltd.), 189*
— Lancashire-Type, at Kuwait Sand-Lime
Brick Works, 106, 189
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Making Industry, Position and Prospects of,
367, 647
— Marine and Nuclear, Extended Heat-
Exchange Surface for, by R. E, Zoller, 286
— Nuclear and Marine, Extended Heat Ex
change Surface fetr, by R. E. Zoller, 286
— Oil-Fired, La Mont, at Paignton Valve
Factory of Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., 349
Fired, at Tilbury Power Station, 792
— Plant at Isle of Grain Refinery, 795*
at Manvers Main Colliery Coke-Oven
Plant, 510*
Service (Trade Publication), 730
— Shells for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station
(Head, Wrightson and Co., Ltd.), 399
— Shell-Type, Oil Burners on. Automatic
Regulation of, Photo-Transistor Pressure Controller for (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial), Ltd.), 551
— Sinuflo Economic, for High-Altitude Ram-
Jet Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd. (Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd.), 469*
— at Tilbury Power Station (John Thompson,
Ltd.), 792
— for Thorpe Marsh Power Station (Inter
national Combustion, Ltd.), 287*, 587*
— Unit, Corner Tube, for High-Pressure Hot
Water and Process Systems (Edwin Danks and Co. (Oldbury), Ltd.), 519
Boiler, Vertical, Cochran, at Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd. Fertiliser Factory, 508
Bolkhovitinov, V., on Aims of Yuni Tekhnik (Soviet Journal), 3
Bolt-Screwing Machine. See Screwing Machine under Machine Tools
Bomb Calorimeter, Isothermal (Griffin and George, Ltd.), 389*
for Stored Energy Measurements on Graphite Samples, 697
Bombing Aeroplane. See Aircraft under Aeronautics
Bond Minicar, Mark E (Sharp’s Commercials, Ltd.), 179
— Scooter (Sharp’s Commercials, Ltd.), 179 Bonding, Adhesive, of Metals, Bibliography
on. Note on, 91
— Rubber-to-Metal, Tests for, by F. H.
Edwards, 150
Bondre, N, G., on Accelerated Curing Tests on Concrete, 243*, 451. See LETTERS, 324, 355, 419, 666*, 771
Bone-Wheeler Medal, Presentation to A. M. Freedman, 612
Books, Information, of Educational Supply Association, 730
— New, 26, 56, 90, 181, 213, 252, 309, 347,
375, 503, 585, 700, 730, 793, 823
— Reviews, 26, 56, 90, 118, 154, 180, 212, 250,
282, 308*, 346, 374, 408, 442, 473, 502, 535, 585, 659, 700, 730, 762, 793, 823
— Scientific and Technical, Trade Reference
List of (Chapman and Hall), 823
— Year, of Technical Education and Careers
in Industry (A. and C. Black), 823
Booker Bros., McConnell Group, Purchase of Duncan Stewart and Co., 207
Bookshelves, Display at Phoenix Gallery, 375 Boost Systems for Helicopter Gas Turbines, by Dr. A. W. Morley, 159
Booth, Dr. A. D., on Computers and Numerical Automation, 684
“Booth” Diesel-Hydraulic Twin Bogie Railway Crane (Clyde Crane and Booth, Ltd.), 504
Borax Consolidated, Ltd., Metallic Borides, 211; Research on Borax as Corrosion Inhibitor in Anti-Freeze Soludons, 783
— as Corrosion Inhibitor in Anti-Freeze Solu
tions, Research on (Borax Consolidated, Ltd.), 783
— (Decahydrate), “ 20 Mule Team,” for Anti-
Freeze Solutions (Borax Consolidated, Ltd.), 783
— (Pentahydrate), “ Neobor,” for Anti-Freeze
Solutions (Borax Consolidated, Ltd.), 783 Bores, Air Mandrels for Checking (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 221*
— Gauging of Right-Angle “ Microjet ”
Plunger Unit for (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 220*
Borides, Metallic (Borax Consolidated, Ltd.), 211
Boring, Precision, Developments in, by C. L. David, 543
— Machine. See Machine Tools
Boron in Rocket Propellents, 264
“ Boss,” the Plain Words on, 354
Bottle Printing Machine, “ SPS Rotascreen ” (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 486
Boulton Paul Aircraft Ltd., Policy and Action of, 594; Diversification Activities of, 601
Boulton and Watt, Steam Engine of 1777, 643 Bowater Paper Corp., Ltd., Note on Bowater Papers, House Magazine, 503
Bowater Papers, House Magazine of Bowater Paper (Dorp., Ltd., Note on, 503
Bowes Committee Inquiry on Inland Waterways, Discussion on Parliament on, 300
Bowhill Power Station, UseofCoalSlurryat,707 Bowles, C. V., on Sea-Defence Works, 259.
See LETTERS, 323, 388
Bowmakers, Ltd., Annual Report, 194
Boxes, Stacking of (Trade Publication), 119
Boyd, G. M., Welded Ship Construction— Records of Common Fractures and their Causes, 241*; on Brittle Fracture in Welded Ships, 497*
Boyd, Dr. R. F. L., on High-Altitude Research in International Geophysical Year, 126
Boydell, E., and Co., Ltd., “ Muir-Hill ” Heavy Duty Diesel-Powered Hydraulically- Operated Tractor Shovel, 583*
Boyle, Sir E., Remarks on Wastage of Girls with Ability to become Engineers and Scientists, 616
BP Trading, Ltd., Isle of Grain Refinery, 796* Brabazon, Lord, Remarks on Associated Commercial Vehicles, 271
Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, Carbon Dioxide Filters for (Mancuna Engineering, Ltd.), 110; Progress at, 399; “Goliath” Heavy Duty Crane at Site of, 439*; Heat Exchangers for (Head Wrightson and Co., Ltd.), 495; Transport of Heat Exchanger by Sea, 717*; Design and Construction of Heat Exchangers for, 718*
Bragg, Sir L., Appointment as Advisor on Frequency Allocation to Postmaster General, 153; on Gem Stones, 211
“ Brainstorming,” Comment on, 824
Brakes (Trade Publication), 27
— Designs, Manufacture of Sintered Metal
Facings on (Ferodo Ltd.), 626
— Lining Materials, Moulded and Laminated,
Determining Friction Coefficient for, by Prof, H. Wright Baker, 785*
Materials, Testing Machine for, 785*
— — Production at Turner Bros. Asbestos
Co., Ltd., Development Project for, at Hindley Green, 412*
Torque-Time Graphs of, 785*
— Railway, Conversion Scheme, Discussion in
Parliament on, 591
— Shoes, Re-Lined, for Motor Cars, Sales and
Publicity Scheme by Girling, Ltd., 433
— Testing of Motor Vehicles, Methods and
Equipment, 370*
— See also Dynamometer
Brancker Memorial Lecture on Air Transport, tjy Air Commodore W, E. G. Mann, 259
Brand, C., and Son, Ltd., Concrete Railway Tunnel at Potters Bar, 248; New Deep- Wafer Wharf at Belfast, 625
Brass, " Kunial ” (Trade Publication), 57
— Plate and Sheet Industry. Problems of, 239 Brazil, Resumption of British Overseas Airways Corp. Operations to, 390
Breakdowns. See Accidents
Brebner, J. H., on Railway Renaissance, 61 1 Brenner, O., on German Trade Unions, 280 Brewer, R. C., on Turning with Ceramic and Sintered Oxide Tools, 543
Brick Crusher at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works (F. L. Smidth and Co., Ltd.), 188
—-Crushing Strength in Wet Condition 190*
— Making Plant at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick
Works (Sutcliffe Speakman and Co., Ltd.), 189*
— Presses, Duplex “ Emperor,” at Kuwait
Sand-Lime Brick Works (Sutcliffe Speakman and Co., Ltd.), 190
at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 106
— Sand-Lime, Production at Kuwait Sand-
Lime Brick-Works, 104*, 188*
— Stacking of, at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick
Works, 190*
— Testing, at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works,
190
— Works, Kuwait Sand-Lime, Formation and
Activities of, 104*; Brick Production at, 188*
Bridge, Clifton, Prestressed-Concrete, Over River Trent, 349*
— Continuous Plate Girder, Oak Street,
Vancouver, 48
— Direct-Current, in Dynamic Calibration of
Fatigue Testing Machines, 693*
— for Double-Track Railway on British Rail
ways North-Eastern Region, 440*
— Forth Road, Progress of, 116
— in London, Centenary of Development of, 17
— Oak Street, Vancouver, Opening of, 48
— Pelham Road, Lincoln, Replacement of
Level Crossing by, 813*
— Pipe, Suspension, Over River Danube, for
Conveyance of Natural Gas, 49*, 378
— Right Slab, Stiffening Effects of Edge Beams
on, by J. A. N. Lee, 539*. See LETTER, 612
— Steel, Military, Weight-Saving in, by A. E.
Long, 735
— Suspension, Dynamic Instability of, by Y.
Rocard (Review), 535
— See also Culvert: Viaduct
Bridges, T. J., on Parametric Amplification of Space Charge Waves, 725
Briggs, W., and Sons, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 207
Bright, A. W., Work on Producing Plasmas at Imperial College, 43
Brightside Foundry and Engineering Co., IO|-in. Double-Duo Precision Rolling Mill at Sanderson Brothers and Newbould, Ltd., 126*
Brinell Tests.
(Materials)
“ Bristol 200 ”
British Association :
Dublin Meeting:
Section G (Engineering):
Stiffening Effects of Edge Beams on Right Slab Bridge, by J. A, N. Lee, 539*. See LETTER, 612
Farm Organisation; Influence of Machinery Developments, by R. Paterson, 563
Committee on Metric System, 707
British Battleships, by G. Parkes (Review), 408 — Broadcasting Corp., Crystal Palace Television Tower (British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd.), 246* ; Free Medical Checks for Executives, 267; Wage Increase for Clerical Workers, 329; Television Centre at Wood Lane, 362*; LOW Power Television Stations for Swin- gate and Folkestone, 448; Stereophonic Broadcasts During Radio Record Week, 576; Experimental Low Power Satellite Television Station in Kent for, 680; Radiophonic Workshop at Maida Vale Studios, 736*; Field Trials on NTSC Colour Television System, 832
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
British Ceramic Research Association. See Ceramic Research Association
— Chemical Manufacturers, Association of.
See Chemical Manufacturers^ British, Association of
— Coal Utilisation Research Association.
See Coal Utilisation Research Association
— Coke Research Association. See Coke
Research Association
— Columbia Lumber Manufacturers’ Associa
tion, Housing Trends (Booklet), 512
and Vancouver Island, Circuit in Submarine Power Cable Line Between, Contract for, to British Insulated Callender’s Cables, 115
— Commonwealth. See Commonwealth Scientific Office, See Commonwealth
— Compressed Air Society. See Compressed
Air Society, British
— Computer Society. See Computer Society,
British
— Conference on Automation and Computa
tion. See Automation and Computation
— Consolidated Foundry Plant Manufacturers,
Formation of, 514
— Cotton Industries’ Research Association.
See Cotton Industries' Research Association, British
— Council of Churches, Church and Industry
(Pamphlet), 493
— Deep Drawing Research Group. See
Deep Drawing Research Group, British
— Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Asso
ciation. See Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association, British
Conference (Brussels). See Electrical Development Association. See Electrical Development Association
Power Convention. See Electrical Power Convention under Electric
— Employers’ Confederation. See Employers'
Confederation
— European Airways, Interest in Short-
Medium Range Jet Aircraft, 45; Controversy on Contract for Jet Airliner, 79; Negotiations on “ DH 121 ” Jet Airliner with Aircraft Manufacturing Co., 239; Negotiations for Jet Airliner, 240; Order for 24 Short-Haul ‘ DH 121 ” Jet Airliner, 337; Position and Prospects of, 584; Economy Aircraft Seats (Aircraft Furnishings, Ltd.), 646*
— Group for Engineering Applications of
Automation. See Automation
— Hydromechanics Research Association.
See Hydromechanics Research Association, British
— Industries Fair, Failure of, 3; Discussion
in Parliament on Future of, 175
Federation of. See Federation
—- Institute of Management. See Management
— Instrument Manufacturers’ C.A.M. See
Instrument Manufacturers' C.A.M.
British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Contract for Circuit in Submarine Cable Line Between Vancouver
and British Columbia, 115; Order from Uganda Electricity Board for Distribution Lines Between Nityana and Kenya Border, 115; Position and Prospects of, 743; Cables for Radio and Television Relay System at Hawick, 800; Radio and Television Relay System at Hawick, 800
British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd., Crystal Palace Television Tower, 246*; Cinema Film, “The Phoenix Tower,” 246; Rocket-Excited Vibration Tests on Phoenix Tower, 246*
— Interplanetary Society. See Interplanetary
Society, British
— Iron and Steel Federation. See Iron and
Steel Federation
— Iron and Steel Research Association. See
Iron and Steel Research Association, British
— Jute Trade Federal Council. See Jute
— Lampblown Scientific Glassware Manu
facturers’ Association. See Lampblown
British MonoRail Ltd., Automatic Mechanical Handling by Overhead Monorail System, 614
British Motor Corp., Ltd., Annual Report, 79; Production and Export Statistics, 83; Position and Prospects of, 85, 86; Remarks by Mr. Feather on Strike at, 265
Trades Association. See Motor Trades Association, British
— Navy. See Naval; Navy; Warships
— Nuclear Energy Conference. See Nuclear
Energy Conference
British Nylon Spinners, Ltd., Nylon Buyers’ Guide (Trade Publication), 730
— Overseas Airways Corp., “VCIO” Jet
Airliners for (Vickers-Armstrongs Aircraft, Ltd.), 103*; Performance of Bristol “Britannia” Airliner During First Year in Service, 239; Authorisation of Capital Expenditure on “Britannia” Airliner, 390; Resumption of Operations to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile, 390; Overtime Ban and Redundancy in, 528; Estimated Deficit for Financial Year 1957-58, 547; Position and Prospects of, 547; Economy Aircraft Seats (Aircraft Furnishings, Ltd.), 646; Discussion in Parliament on South American Route of, 656; Wing Hangar at London Airport, 665*
British Overseas Fairs, Ltd., Activities of, 755 Mining Association.
elation
British Oxygen Co., Ltd., polies and Restrictive sion on, 423
British Oxygen Gases, Ltd., Tungsten Electrodes for Argon Arc Welding Process, 211
British Petroleum Co., Ltd., Orders for New Tankers, 85; 4 MeV Linear Accelerator for Research Station of, at Sunbury-on- Thames, 174; Expansion of Sales and Purchase of Marketing Interests of Sarom and Garrone Companies in Italy, 271; Expansion at Isle of Grain Refinery, 350*; Activities and Expenditure of, 584*; Order for 10,000 Gallon “ YorkshireV’ Super Fuellers, 709; Isle of Grain Oil Refinery of. Plant Expansion and Description of Processes at, 794*
British Plaster Board (Manufacturing) Ltd., “ Blue Hawk ” Flooring Tiles with Hard Wood Surface and Resin Bonded Sand Base, 64*
•—? Productivity Council. See Productivity
— Railways, Effect of Modernization Plan on
Locomotive Building Industry, 51*; Diesel Locomotives in Modernisation Plan, 127; Order to Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., for 1,550 h.p, Diesel-Electric Locomotives for Southern Region Kent Coast Lines, 127; Trials on V.H.F. Radio Link Between Train and Telephone Exchange, 158; New Method of Assessing Riding of Vehicles and Some Results Obtained, by J. C. Loach, 186. See LETTERS, 227, 259, 387; Television Train on Scottish Region, 209; Concrete Mixing Train for Main Line Electrification Projects, 245; Concrete Rings for Railway Tunnel Linings at Potters Bar, 248*; Development of Automatic Train Control System, 313*; “Active” 2,000 h.p. Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive for Western Region (North British Locomotive Co.), 316*; Rail Buses for Light Traffic on Rural Lines (A.C. Cars, Ltd.), 316*; Increased Efficiency of Freight Traffic, 322; Contracting Difficulties for Signalling Installations, 336; Discussion in Parliament on Automatic Train Control, 336; Progress in Modernisation Programme, 354; Three Bridges for Double-Track Railway on North-Eastern Region, 440*; “ Deltic ” Diesel-Electric Locomotives for, 450; Modernisation Plan, Discussion in Parliament on Progress of, 524; Order for “ Deltic ” Diesel-Electric Locomotives, 524; Comment on Modernisation Scheme and Railway Workers’ Wages, 545, 547. See LETTERS, 580, 611; Comment on “ Renaissance ” in, 545, 547. See LETTERS, 580, 611; 2,000 h.p. Diesel-Electric
Locomotives for Eastern Region (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 607; Battery Railcars for Aberdeen-Ballater Branch Line, 627*; Economy Measures of, 803; Discussion in Parliament on Economy Measures for, 809; Withdrawal of Uneconomic Services, 809; Newcomen Society’s Visit to Ashford Locomotive Works, 818. See also British Transport Commission
British Refrasil Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Brussels Fair, 487
British Ropes Ltd., “ Superloop ” Wire-Rope Eye, 327*; Annual Report, 711
British Ropeway Engineering, Ltd., Model of Dudley Zoo Chairlift, 615
— Safety Council. See Safety Council
— Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding
Research Association. See Shipbuilding Research Association, British
— Shipping. See Shipping
British Small Arms. See B.S.A.
— Standards Institution. See Standards
British Straddle Carrier Co., Ltd., “ Steelmaster ” and “Timberwolf” Straddle Carriers (Trade Publication), 534
British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd., Expansion of Activities of, 171; Joint Activities with General Electric Co., Ltd., 171
British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Aluminium Smelter Plant at Baie Comeau, 255; 18,400 kW High Power Germanium Rectifier Set at Ellesmere Port Plant of Associated Ethyl Co., Ltd., 358*; Electromagnetic Pumps, 396*; “ Escort” Marine Radar Equipment, 485; Pumping/Gener- ator Sets for Pumped-Storage Scheme at Blaenau-Ffestiniog, 491; Jet Activities, 594; Type DOC.71 Fitted with Ammeter Box, 806*
British Timken, Ltd., Bearings at Fair, 487; Annual Report, 617; and Prospects of, 810
— Trade. See Trade
— Transport Commission, Proposal
Measures, Diesel and Discussion Economy
Tanks for Large Steel Castings, Automotive Gearboxes, 422
Brown, J., and Co., Windmill at Costa Orkney, for Parallel Operation Alternating-Current Network, 688*
Brown, J. Guthrie, Hydro-Electric Engineering Practice, Note on, 119
Brown, J., Ltd. See also Constructors John Brown, Ltd.
Brown, Dr. T. W. F., on Propulsion of Ships by Steam Turbine Machinery, 28
Brown and Tawse, History of, 213
Brown, Air Cmdr. V., on Diesel Crankcase Explosions, 676
Brown, W., on Position and Prospects of Glacier Metal, 810
Brown, W. R., on Power-Gas Corp., Ltd., 296 Bruel and Kjaer, Stylus-Type Precision Surface Roughness Meter, 471
Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., “ Multiplex ” Signalling and Remote Control System, 454; Vibration Meter, 454
Brush Group, Ltd., Swinging Galvanometer for Inspection of Adhesion of White-Metal Bearing Linings, 276
— Holder, Giambonini, with Pressure
(Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd.), 261*
— Paint, Manufacture, Epoxide-Resin
Setting Cement for (Bakelite, Ltd.),
— Setting Cement, Epoxide-Resin, for
Brush Manufacture (Bakelite, Ltd.), 211
— Welders’, “ TT ” (Rockweld, Ltd.), 645 Brussels Exhibition. See Brussels Universal
and International Exhibition
— Fair. See Brussels Universal and Interna
tional Exhibition
— Steel Cartel, Price Cuts of, 536
— Universal and International Exhibition:
Nuclear Energy Exhibits at, 174; Progress at, 209; ZETA Model for, 303; Discussion in Parliament on Area of British Section, 336; British Government Pavilion at, 456*; British Industries Pavilion at, 456*; Preview of, 456*; British Exhibits at, 487; International Hall of Science, 520*; Argonne National Laboratory Display of Atomic Age “ Tools ” at, 620
Bryant, R. A. A., Bibliography of Hydraulic Analogues, 309
B.S.A. “AIO” 650 c.c. Air-Cooled Engine for “ Harrier ” Folding Motor Car for Airborne Forces, 18*
B.S.A. “Superland” Reamers (Trade Publication), 347
Bucey, B. K., on Manufacturing in the Aeronautic Age, 95. See also 67
Buck, C., on Fabrication and Processing of Nuclear Fuel Elements, 526
Buckling of Plate Girder Webs, by Dr. K. C.
Rockey, 312
Budget, Capital Goods Prospect in, 515
— Comment on Difficulties of, 321
— Recommendations of Manufacturers’ Asso
ciations, 419
of Trades Union Congress to Chancellor of Exchequer' 235
Buell (1952), Ltd., “ Microlector Van Tonger- en ” Dust-Collection and Fly-Ash Elimination System (Trade Publication), 57
Buffing Machine, Pneumatic Control for (A. Schrader’s Son), 804*
“ Bug-Eye ” Lens in Camera for “ Todd-AO ” Filming Process, 549*
Building for Atomic Energy by Sir J. Cockcroft, 42
— Cambridge Laboratory Extensions for
Engineering Department, 275*
— Centre, Exhibition of Samples of New
Building Materials, Preliminary Announcement, 320
— Concrete (Trade Publication), 213
— Construction, Applied: A First Year
Course, by A. Medlycott (Book), 309 See also Concrete, Reinforced
—• Diversification Activities of Aircraft Firms in, 601
—• Economies: Cost Planning, Building
Research Station Digest on, 768
Building of Factories, Position and Prospects of, 80
—? Floor-Heated, Tests on, at Electrical Research Association Laboratory, 736
— at Gatwick Airport, 652*
— Industrial, Investment Restrictions Eased
for, 802
— Industry, Labour Position and Prospects in,
75
Position and Prospects of, 80, 116, 483; Unemployment in, 483
—- Lloyd’s New, 274*
— Materials, New, Exhibition of Samples of,
320
and Structures Report, 416* —• Mechanical Ventilation and Air Conditioning in, British Standard Code of Practice for, 704
— Paints, Colours for, British Standards
Specification for, 256
— for Radioactive Chemical Installations, 42
— Research Division of National Research
Council of Canada, Window Testing, 128 • Station, Window Cracking Due to Rust Formation on Frame, 96; Digest on Colour Patterns, 256; Research into Durability of Concrete Structures, Design of Multi-Storey Steel-Frames with Rigid Joints, Stresses in Tunnel Linings and Stability of Earthen Flood Banks, 350; Digest on Building Economies: Cost Planning, 768; New Domestic Ball Valve, 768
— Television Centre of British Broadcasting
Corporation at Wood Lane, 362*
— Thermal Insulation of. Using Asbestos
Cement Materials (Trade Publication), 534 —• Workers, Wage Claim of, 75, 493 Bulgin, D., on Testing of Antistatic and Conductive Rubber, 150
Bulkhead Lighting Fittings, “ Duolacent ” Range (Heyes and Co., Ltd.), 4
Bullet Passing Through Strip of Glass, Photographs of, 215*
Through Wooden Plank, Photographs of, 216*
Bullock, W. O., and Sons, Ltd., Self-Reversing Tapping Attachment for Plastics and Non-Ferrous Metals (Trade Publication), 534
Bungalows, Transportable, Timber Frame, “ New Trend ” (Stephenson Developments (Huddersfield), Ltd.), 416*
Bunker, G. M., on Position and Prospects of Martin Co., 523
Buoyant Body, Motion of, by Dr, R. A. Colla- cott, 760*
Burchfield, R. W., on New Words for Oxford English Dictionary, 163
Bureau of Mines. See United States
— of Standards. See United States Burgess Products Co.. Ltd., “ V3 ” Miniature
Micro-Switch, 359*
Burkhardt, L. C., on Magnetic Measurement of Plasma Confinement in Stabilised Linear-Pinch, 185*; Confinement Phenomena and Neutron Production in Linear Stabilised Pinch, 186* Burn-Up in Nuclear Reactor. Definition of, 629 Burnard, S. G., on Manufacturing Practice— A Review of British Aircraft Industry, 95 Burndept, Ltd., Digital Valve Voltmeter, 389 Burners, Gas (Trade Publication). 119
— Oil, on Shell-Type Boilers. Automatic Regu
lation of, Photo-Transistor Pressure Controller for (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial) Ltd.), 55!
Burnerd, F., and Co., Ltd.. New Collet with Dimensional Flexibility, 4*
Burning Patterns on to Glassware, Gas-Heated Furnace for (Stewart Gill and Co., Ltd.), 357*
Burst Cartridge Detector Gear, Testing and Calibration of, at Calder Hall “A” Station, 172
— Slug Detection Gear, Test on, 110
• Detection Installation for Hunterston
Nuclear Power Station (Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 77
Burstlein Coal-Preparation Process for Coking, 22
Burton, C. A., on Modern Developments in Resistance Welding, 505
Burton, Griffiths and Co., Ltd., B.S.A. “ Superland ” Reamers (Trade Publication), 347; Universal Tool Head (Trade Publication), 347; “Westwood” Automatic Recessing Head, with Integral Micrometer Adjustment for Depth of Cut (Trade Publication) 659; Jig Boring, Grinding and Measuring Machine, 742*
Burtonwood Engineering, Sale of Oil Seals in United States, 147
Busemann, F., on Results of Full-Scale Stability Tests on British 132 kV Grid System, 404
Bushings, Condenser, 132 kV, Laboratory and Field Tests on, by J. L. Douglas and A. W. Stannett, 405
Business Lady, Plain Words on Advertisement for, 546
Butane Burning Blowlamp, “ Bleuet ” (Pneumatic Tent Co., Ltd.), 192*
Butcher, Dr. P. N., on Theory of Three-Level Paramagnetic Masers, 725; on Travelling- Wave Solid-State Masers, 725
Butex Process for Industrial Separation of Plutonium from Nuclear Fuels, Development of, by C. M. Nicholls, 204*, 236
— Solvent Extraction Process, 205
“ Butter Dumping,” Comment on, 588 Butterfly Valves (Trade Publication), 534 Butterley Co., Steelwork for Pelham Road Bridge, 814*
Butterworth and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., Zirconium, 57
Buyers’ Guide (Machinery Publishing Co. Ltd.), 57
BWR Nuclear Reactor, Project of Norwegian Institute for Atomic Energy, 76
By-Pass, St. Albans, Construction of, 441 By-Product Recovery at Manvers Main Colliery Coke-Oven Plant, 509*
Byles, W. H., on Impact Extrusion of Steel, 306*
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
“C.21 ” RADYNE 31 kW Induction Heater for ZETA (Radio Heaters, Ltd.), 206
Cabinets, Sealed, for Radar (Morfax, Ltd.), 731*
Cables, Air-Spaced (Trade Publication), 27
— Capacitance Monitor (Trade Publication),
119
— Direct-Current, Discussions on, at CIGRE,
822
?— Flat, Pressure, for Submarine Installation, by J. S. Mollerhoj, C. T. W. Sutton and
A. M. Morgan, 822
— High-Voltage, Discussions on, at CIGRE,
822
— Industry, Foreign Competition Intensified,
115
Position and Prospects of, 114*
— Insulation with Plastics, 822
— Line, Power, Submarine, between Vancouver
Island and British Columbia, Contract for Circuit in, to British Insulated Callender’s Cables, 115
— Plastics-Insulated, for A.C. and D.C.
Transmission, by R. C. Mildner and
E. D. Humphries, 822
— Power, for High and Extra High Voltages,
with Composite Insulation of Synthetic High Polymer Materials and Oils, Contribution to Development of, by J. C. de Vos and J. Vermeer, 822
Submarine, Technical Development in Japan, by K. Ikeda, 822
with Water Cooling, for Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (Canada Wire and Cable Co.), 30
?— for Radio and Television Relay System at Hawick (British Insulated Callender’s Cables, Ltd.), 800
-— Rubber-Covered, Insulation and Sheaths of. New Specification and Performance Requirements of, 159
— Ship, New, for Post Office, 680
Use of H.M.S. “Gorgon” as. Centenary of, 17
?— Submarine, Discussions on, at CIGRE, 822
— Tacking Gun (Industrial Staplers, Ltd.),
544*
— Telegraph, Exports of, 114*
— Telephone, Exports of, 114*
Submarine, Transatlantic, Between America and France (American Telephone and Telegraph Co.), 115
— See also Electric; Power Transmission;
ITire Ropes
Cable and Wireless, Ltd., Transatlantic Submarine Telephone Cable Project, 115
Cabling, Ring Main, for Gatwick Airport (Crompton Parkinson), 653
Cade, C, M., on Mathematical Collision Course Prediction Radar, 467
Cadmium in Gas-Cooled Nuclear
Caesium or Cobalt Radiographic Container, Russian, 446*
— or Iridium Radiographic Container, Russian
445*
— 137 as Radioactive Source for Gamma
Radiography, 446*
?— Radiographic Unit, 445*
Caffisch, C., on Research into Improvement of Resistance to Ageing of Stator Insulation of Large Alternators, 821
“ Cain and Abel ” Ballet Music, Electronic Production of, 160*
Cairncross, Prof., on Capital Loans to Under- Developed Countries, 2
Calcium Plumbate Paint, Rust-Inhibiting, “ Rustodian,” Cinema Film on (Associated Lead Manufacturers, Ltd.), 242
Calder Hall Nuclear Power Station; Safety Measures at. Report on, 158; Commissioning and Qperation of “A” Station, by H. G. Davey, 172*; Design ofHeat Exchangers for, 286; Third Reactor Critical, 365
Calder Operation School, Progress of, 206 Calendar of Events of Engineering Institutions and Professional Bodies, 409
Calibration, Dynamic, of Fatigue-Testing Machines, by T. M. Dowell, 693*
California University, Proton-Proton Scattering Experiments at, 649
Call Unit, Staff, “ Selectacall ” (Westrex Co., Ltd.), 519
Callery Chemical Co., Development of High- Energy Solid Rocket Fuel, 74
Calorimeter, Bomb, Isothermal (Griffin and George, Ltd.), 389*
for Stored Energy Measurements on Graphite Samples, 697
Calow, Th., and Co., Bar Turning Machines (Trade Publication), 309; Bar and Tube Straightening Machines (Trade Publication), 347; Bar Pointing Machine (Trade Publication), 503; Screwing and Bar Skimming Machines (Trade Publication), 534; Tube Parting and Chamfering Machine (Trade Publication), 534
Calshot Castle, Signal Station at, 156* Calshot Signal Station, New Installation o Radar and Very-High-Frequency Telephony, 156*
Caltex Oil Tankers, Aluminium Water Tanks for (Windshields of Worcester, Ltd.), 645 Caltex Services, Ltd., Tidal Model for Southampton Water, 198*
Camack, W. G., on Evaporatively Cooled Reactor (ECR), 808*
Cambridge, Massachusetts, E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 716*
— University, Predicament of W. Fletcher at,
161; Laboratory Extensions in Engineering Department, 275*; Computing Room at, 276; Fatigue Laboratory at, 276*; Mechanics of Machines Laboratory at, 276; Post-Graduate Course in Control Engineering at, 276; Research Laboratory at, 276; Work of Engineering Department, 404; Extensions to Laboratory of Engineering Department, 404; Trust for New College at, 642
Camera, Cine, High-Speed, Employing Image Sampling Methods (J. Langham-Thompson, Ltd.), 214*
— Colour, for Mobile Medical Colour
Television Unit (Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 773*
— Continuous-Flow, for Micro-Recording, 155
— for Cranz-Schardin System of High-Speed
Photography, 214*
— Drum, Torque Indication by, on “ Tor
sator ” Torsion-Fatigue Testing Machine (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 787*
— for High-Speed Photography, 214*
— High-Speed, Shutter Systems on, 215
— Microscope, Automatic, “ Ultraphot II ”
(Carl Zeiss), 805*
— with Nipkov Disc as Scanning Element,
214*
— Television, Hand, “ Peepie Creepie ”
(Compagnie Generale de Telegraphic Sans Fils), 453*
— for “ Todd-AO ” Filming Process, Cammell-Laird and Co. (Shipbuilders
neers), Ltd., Expansion Plans Nuclear-Energy Activities, 619*
Canada, Capital Investment Sources
— Economic Prospects of. Royal Commission
on, Gordon Report of, Comment on, 482, 675
— Engineering Institute of. Institution of
Robert W. Angus Medal, 347
— Exports to. Statistics on, 529
— National Research Council of. See Reserch
Council, National (Canada)
— NRU Nuclear Reactor, Criticality Qbtained,
44
— 1957 Number of Engineering Journal, 762
— QITer to International Atomic Energy
Agency, 238
— Oil Industry Development in, 802
— Sales Missions to, 209
?—? Shortage of Engineers and Scientists in, 146
— Steel Industry, Position and Prospects of,
738
— Trade with. Campaign for Increases in, 337
— •— with. Comment on, 513 with. Progress on, 658 Mission, Resume of, 23
—? —? Mission to Britain, Report of. Comment on, 513
—? — Mission Mission facturers’
with Scotland, Discussion in Parliament on, 144
Unions in, 739
— United States Investments in. Position and
Prospects of, 802
— Uranium-Qre Production in, 494
Canada Wire and Cable Co., Power Cables with Water Cooling, 30
Canadian Applied Research, Ltd., Brochure, Note on, 573
Canadian-British Aluminium Co., Aluminium Smelter Plant at Baie Comeau, 255
— Congress of Labour, Amalgamation with
Trades and Labour Congress of Canada to Form Canadian Labour Congress,
739
— (Horseshoe) Falls, Floodlights for, 230*
— Labour Congress, Formation of, 739
— Missiles and Rockets 1958 Annual, Note
on, 823
— Qil Field, Cinema Film “ Put this in Your
Pipe ” on Laying of Aluminium Water Pipes on (Aluminium Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 401
Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corp., Transatlantic Submarine Telephone Cable Project, 115
— Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522
— Steelwork (Trade Publication), 181
Canal System, Hirakud Project for Orissa, 413* Canning Material, Aluminium as, 648
Beryllium as, 648
Magnesium as, 648 Zirconium as, 648
— of Uranium, Finned Tube Sections for
(Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 396*
Cantilever Cranes. See Crane
Canvey Island Marine Terminal for Acceptance of Trial Shipment of Liquid Methane, 241
Capacitance Monitor, Cable (Trade Publication), 119
Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 681
Cape Building Products, Ltd., “Asbestolux ” Insulation Board, 486
Capital Goods Industries, Recession Possibility in, 162
Prospect in Budget, 515
— Requirements of Nationalised Industries,
Discussion in Parliament on, 208
— See also Investments
Capricorn, Plain Words by, 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
Capstan Lathe. See Lathe under Machine Tools
Cars, Motor. See Motor Cars
— Rail. See Carriages, Railway
Caravan, Light-Alloy, Integral (Pemberton
Caravans, Ltd.), 608*
— as Mobile Showrooms, 209
— Units for Exhibition of Equipment for
Marine and Industrial Applications (Kelvin Hughes), 755
Carbon Arc Lamps for Floodlighting of Niagara Falls (Savage and Parsons, Ltd.), 231*
— Black, Fibreglass Fabric Tubes for Filtering
Gases in Manufacture of, 255
— Dioxide Filters for Bradwell Nuclear
Power Station (Mancuna Engineering, Ltd.), 110
Fire Precaution System for Beryllium Laboratory, 500
— ?— as Heat-Exchanger Fluid, 286*
?— — Liquid, Bulk Storage at Chapel Cross Nuclear Power Station, 749
— •— See also Osborn CO^
— Monoxide, Detection with Palladium-
Chloride Saturated Paper Waddings, 690
Carbonyl, Nickel, Use in Nickel Plating, 401
Carburettors (Trade Publication), 119
Card Dust Extraction, “ Shirley ” Pressure Point System in. Commercial Production of, 54
— Punched, for Control of Jig Boring Machine,
Device for Producing, 709*
Cardiff, Experimental Electrical Pavement
Heating Installation at, 416
— Youth Employment Committee, Annual
Report, Discussion in Parliament on, 272; Report on, by T. A. Pritchard, 278* Careers. See under Education
Carew Cheriton, Site for Nuclear Power Plant at, 174
Cargo Preference Systems, Discussion in
Parliament on, 423
— Steamers. See Ships; Steamers
— Vessels. See Ships
Carling, Sir E. Rock, on Hazards of Peaceful
Uses of Nuclear Energy, 366
Carlisle, S. S., on Control of Steel-Strip Quality, 575
Carnegie, Dr. W., on Bending of Pre-Twisted
Turbine Blades; Effect of Inclination of Longitudinal Fibres, 605*
Carpentier, L., on Report on Work of Study
Committee on Generation, 821
Carr Committee on Recruitment and Training of Young Workers in Industry, Discussion in Parliament on, 272; Report on, by T. A. Pritchard, 278*; Recommendation of National Apprenticeship Council, 524; Discussion in Parliament on, 591 Carriage for Ladies, Loose-Wheeled, 474*
— Railway, Air-Conditioning Equipment for
Poland (J. Stone), 755
— — French, “ Pendulum,” for Taking
Curves at High Speed, 124*
Integral Tubular Anti-Telescopic, for South African Railways (Metropolitan- Cammell Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd.), 344*
—?— with Load-Carrying Bodies, 345* Output Position and Prospects of, 51* Passengers’ Fatigue in. New Method of
Assessing, 186
" Precopendulum,” for Taking Curves at High Speeds, 124*
Railcar, Battery, for Aberceen-Ballater
Branch Line, 627*
Railcars, Multiple-Purpose Diesel of Ulster Transport Authority, for Passenger or Freight Service, 72*
Railcar Progress (Trade Publication), 27 Vibration Effects, by J. C. Loach, 186,
See LETTERS, 227, 259, 387
Carriers, Straddle, “ Steelmaster ” and ?‘Timberwolf” (Trade Publication), 534 Carson, W., and Sons, Ltd., Colour Displays and Aids to Colour Selection, 224
Cart with Loose Wheels Shown in Luttrell Psalter, 474*
Cartel, Shipping, Comment on, 323
Carter, Prof. A. D. S., on Post-War Development of Axial Compressor in Great Britain, 124
Carter Gears, Ltd., Hydraulic Variable-Speed Gears (Trade Publication), 27
Carter, Dr. T. C., on Radiation Injury, 97 Cartoons, “ Oiling the Wheels of Industry,” by Peter Kneebone, 81
“ Cascade ” Spin Drier (General Motors, Ltd, (Frigidaire Division)), 448
Casella, W. F., and Co., Ltd., ‘‘Alnor ” Dewpoint Meter. 422*
Cash. P. W., on Aspects of Main Transirussion System Development in England and Wales. 822
Casson. W., on Results of Full-Scale Stability Tests on British 132 kV Grid System, 404 Cast Metals, Typical Microstructures of, by
G. Lambert (Book), 91
Castings, Aluminium, Chromate Oxidisation Process for (Woods of Colchester, Ltd.), 127
Melting Practice for (Trade Publication), 90
— Continuous, of Steel, Junghans System of,
293*
— Die (Trade Publication), 27
Precision, " Mercast ” Process for
Frozen Mercury Patterns for (Sankey- Telcon, Ltd.), 797*
— Industry, Light, in Falkirk, Depression in,
144
— Investment (Trade Publication), 57
— Light-Alloy (Trade Publication), 90
— Magnesium-Alloy “ Elektron ” (Trade Pub
lication), 90
— and Melting of Aluminium Alloys, Instru
ment for Measuring Gas Content During, by Dr. C. E. Ransley, D. E. J. Talbot and
H. C. Barlow, 576
— Non-Ferrous, Quality Control in. Metal
lurgical Aspects of (Book), 347
— Production Procedure at Ford Thames
Foundry, 733*
— Steel, Large, Acid Pickling Tanks for
(David Brown Industries, Ltd.), 281* Precision, Foundry for (Qsborn Precision Castings, Ltd.), 829*
Castle, Calshot, Signal Station at, 156* Catalogue of Books on Nuclear Engineering,
Blackwell’s, 659
— of Dover Publications, Note on, 700
— of Lewis’s Medical, Scientific and Technical
Lending Library, 155
— McGraw-Hill, Note on, 633
— of L’Office National d’Etudes et de
Recherches Aeronautiques, 347
— Publishers’, Spring Glut of. Comment on,
409
— of Scientific and Technical Publications
(Edward Arnold). 585
?— of Shell Films (Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd.), 793
— See also Trade Publications
Catalysed Fusion Reactor, by A. Ashmore, 430 Catalysis in Practice, by C. H. Collier (Book), 213
Catalytic Cracker at Isle of Grain Refinery, 794*
— Plant at Romford for Transformation of
Liquid Methane, 242
Catamaran, Design and Evolution of, 8*
Catamaran, “Shearwater III ” (G. Prout), 63 Catapults, Steam, on H.M. Aircraft Carrier “ Victorious,” 94*
Catch, Door, Two-Lever, “ Weaver ” (Thomas Crompton and Sons, Ltd.), 128*
Catering Corps, Army, Difficulty in Recruiting for, 560
“ Caterpillar 977 ” Mechanical Shovel, at Steel Co. of Wales, 219*
Caterpillar Tractor Co., Position and Prospects of, 335
Cathedral, Gloucester, “ Designed Appearance ” Lighting in, 566*
Cathery Chemical Co., Boron-Containing Rocket Propellents, 264
Cathode-Ray Tube, Flat, for Monochrome and Colour Television, by Dr. D. Gabor, Dr. P. R. Stuart and P. G. Kalman, 620* Tubes, Resolution of. Apparatus for Measuring (Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern)), 389
Tubes, Tubular Electrodes for (Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 400
Tube, Type KR3, for Use at 3kMc/s (Twentieth Century Electronics, Ltd.), 389*
Tube, Type VCRX434, for Single Shot and Transient Recording Work (Rank- Cintel, Ltd.), 389
“ Cats Eyes.” Reflectors for Motor Omnibus Identification on Electronic Scanning Indicator System of London Transport Executive, 58*
C. A.V., Ltd., Type DPA Rotary Fuel Pump, for “ Four-99 ” Diesel Engine for Motor Cars, 538
CEAN. See Centre d'Etudes pour les Applications de PEnergie Nudeaire
Ceiling Cracks, “ Gyproc Cove ” Fire- Protective CJypsum Core for Concealing (Gyproc Products, L.td.), 224
Cell, Hydrogen Fuel, Exhibit at Brussels Fair, 521
— Infra-Red, Type P.C.2I (Plessey Co.,
Ltd.), 400
— Load, fo"" Test-House for “ Conway ”
By-Pass Engine Pods (Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd.), 789*
— Photoelectric, in “ Vibrophore ” Control
Device on “ Torsator ” Torsion-Fatigue Testing Machine (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 787*
Cellophane, Automatic Packaging in, 790 Cellulose Acetate Film, Dyed, “ Cinemoid,” for Floodlights for Niagara Falls, 232* Waterproof Tape, “ Sellotape ” (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
—? Film, Polythene-Coated, Automatic Packaging in, 790
— Tissue Filters (Intermit, Ltd.), 326* Cement (Trade Publication), 213
—- Asbestos, Materials, for Thermal Insulation of Buildings (Trade Publication), 534
— Brush-Setting, Epoxide-Resin, for Paint-
Brush Manufacture (Bakelite, Ltd.), 211
— Ciment Fondu (Trade Publication), 309
— Industry, Accident Prevention in, 816
— Makers’ Federation, Annual Report of
Accident Prevention Committee, 816
— Marketing Board, Aluminium Smelter
Plant at Baie Comeau, 255
— Portland, Coated with Water Repellent,
“ Pectacrete ” (Rugby Portland Cement Co.), 149
Revised British Standards for, 472
— Silos, Mobile (Road Machines (Drayton),
Ltd.), 414*
— See also Concrete
Cementation Co., Pumped-Storage Scheme at Blaenau-Ffestiniog, 491*
Centenary of “ Big Ben,” 17
— of Birth of J. J. Thomson, 10
— of Channel Tunnel First Project, 17
—? of Development of Bridges in London, 17
— of Developments in Dock Construction, 17
— of Developments in Lighthouses, 17
— Diesel, R., Birth of, 17
— Engineering, of 1958, 17
— Fawcett Preston and Co., Ltd., 743
— of Freeman, Fox and Partners, 13. See
LETTER, 35
— of French
17
— of French
— of French
17
— of French Ironclad Warship, “ Normandie,”
17
— of “ Gorgon ” Cable Ship, 17
— of “ Great Eastern,” Launching, 17
— King’s College (London) Engineering
Society, by W. Q. Skeat (Book), 347
?— of “ Ma Robert ” Launch 17
— of Mercer, T., Ltd., as Manufacturers of
Marine Chronometers and Precision Clocks, 220
— Railway, 17
— of Rudolf Diesel, Booklet on, 573
— Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 45
— Seaward, J., 17
?— Siemens-Martin, Note on, 100
— of Transatlantic Telegraph Communica
tion, 17
— of Walter Winans’s “Cigar Ship,” 17
— See also Bicentenary
Central Bureau of Educational Visits and Exchanges. See Educational Tisits and Exchanges, Central Bureau of
— Electricity Authority, Generating Plant
Statistics for 1957, 46*; Position and Prospects of Electrical Industry, 55*; Position and Prospects of Nuclear Power Programme, 55; Cuts in Electricity Supply Expansion Programme, 127; United Kingdom, Wind-Driven Alternator for Algeria, 297*; Policy of Large Single Generators, 330*; Committee on Administration of, 367; Survey of Domestic Consumers of Electricity, 483
Generating Board, Appointment of L. Rotherham to 44; Planned Financial Expenditure for 1958-59, 127; Public
Inquiry on Proposed Nuclear Power Station in North Wales, 238; Appointment of J. C. Duckworth as Chief
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Research and Development 270; Construction Programme 550 MW Generating Set at Marsh, 287; Proposal for Nuclear Power Station at Lake Trawsfynnydd, 490*; Efficiency as Priority, 546; Problem of Low Average Load Factor, 546; National Control System for Grid, 766*; Grid Control Areas, 766*. See also under specific Power Stations and Nuclear Power Stations
— Heating. See Heating
— Office of Information. See Information,
Central Office of
Central Wagon Co., Position and Prospects of, 296
— Waterways, Irrigation and
Commission, Scheme for Across Mahanadi River, 413
Centralube, Ltd., “Multiminor” 100*
Centre d’Etudes pour les Applications de I’Energie Nucleaire, Graphite-Moderated Nuclear Reactor for. 590*
“ Centri-Vite” Centering Adjustment for Lathes (Trade Publication), 730
Centrifugal Pumps. See Pumps Centrifuges, Pressure (Sharpies Centrifuges, Ltd.), 452
Centring Attachment, “ Centri-Vite,” for Lathes (Trade Publication), 730
— Machine. See Machine Tools
“ Cerametallic ” Friction Materials (Ferodo, Ltd.), 626
Ceramic Nuclear Fuels, Experiments on, 42 Fuel for Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactors, 41*
— Research Association, British, Work of, 737
— and Sintered Oxide Tools, Turning with, by
R. C. Brewer, 543
Cerium-Thorium System, by R. T. Weiner, Dr. W. E. Freeth and Prof. G. V. Raynor, 459
Cermets, of Silicon and Uranium Dioxide, 42. See Erratum, 77
CERN. See Nuclear Research, European Organisation for
Certificates, Educational, Scottish and English, Discussion in Parliament on, 144
Ceylon, Aid to. Under Technical Co-operation Scheme, 706
— Economic Position of, 427
•— Offer to International Atomic Energy Agency, 238
CF/E Series Electrolysers for Sterilisation of Water (Paterson Engineering Co., Ltd.), 22 Chain Drives at Brussels Fair (Renolds Chains, Ltd.), 487
Roller, “A.S.A.” at Brussels Fair (Renolds Chains, Ltd.), 487
— Transmission, Roller, at Brussels Fair
(Renolds Chains, Ltd.), 487
Chairs, Performance Tests on, 256
Chairlift, Dudley Zoo, Model of (British Ropeway Engineering, Ltd.), 615
Chairmen and Committees, by Sir R. Watson- Watt (Extract from Three Steps to Victory), 282
Chalk River Radioactive Pilot Plant, 206 Reactor, Fire of Uranium Fuel Rod at, 749
Challen, W. B., the Late, 228
Chamber of Shipping of United Kingdom, Annual Report, 323
Chambers, Prof. G. H., on University Education in Marine Engineering, 75
Chambers, J. M., on Research and Development in Agricultural Machinery Industry, 611
Chandos, Lord, Suggestion for Regular Annual Wage Increases, 44; Views on Prospects for 1958, 79; on Reorganisation of Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd., 496; Remarks on Labour Costs, 651
Chang, K. K. N., on Parametric Amplifier Using Lower-Frequency Pumping, 724
Chang, W. S. C., on Travelling-Wave Solid- State Masers, 725
Change-Speed Gear. See Gear
Changing Rooms in Beryllium Laboratory, 499*
Channels in Irrigation Works, by S. Leliavsky (Review), 308
— Tunnel, Bibliography on, by H. Smith,
Note on, 443
Centenary of First Project for, 17 Channel Tunnel Co., Annual Report and Activities of, 774
Concrete Ring Method as Possibility for, 249
Position and Prospects of, 774
Revival of Interest in, 116
• by H. Slater and C. Barnett (Review), 502
Works at Folkestone Warren, 818 Chapel Cross, Nuclear Power Plant at, 174 Nuclear Power Station, Bulk Storage of Liquid Carbon Dioxide at, 749; Equipment and Contractors for, 749
Chapman and Hall, Trade Reference List of Scientific and Technical Books, 823
Chappel, J. T., on Position of Petaling Tin, Ltd., 335
Chariots, Egyptian, 474*
— Roman, 474
Charlesby, Prof. A., on Uses of Nuclear Radiation, 648; Biographical Note, 649
Charlton, T. M., on Approximations to Material Properties in Plastic Theory of Structures, 734
Charlton, Weddle and Co., Ltd., Marine Pipe Work (Trade Publication), 21
Charpy Test as Brittle Fracture Test, 498 Charts, Fuel-Saving, by W. Goldstern (Book), 57
— Recording Unit, High-Frequency, “ Mingo-
graf 230B” (Sierex, Ltd.), 551
— Spare Parts (Trade Publication), 659
Chase Manhattan Bank, E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 714
Chassis, Electronics (Trade Publication), 181 Chatter, Machine-Tool, by Dr. W. Fishwick and Dr. S. A. Tobias, 568*
Chaiwood-Milner, Ltd., Group Activities and Diversification of, 584
Checklist of Publications and Meetings Papers of Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., Note on, 573
Chelsea Flower Show, Electrical Development Association Exhibits at, 672
Chemical Analysis. See Analysis
— Defence. See A.B.C.D.
Chemical Engineers, American Institute of: Nuclear Engineering and Science Conference: The Design Basis for Containment Sphere for Dresden Nuclear Reactor, by G. Sage, 775*; Civil Engineering Aspects of Dresden Nuclear Reactor, by
J. E. Love, C. S. Darrow and B. R. Randolph, 775*; Planning the Start-Up of Dresden Nuclear Reactor, by K. T. Perkins and H. K. Hoyt, 776
Institution of: Symposium on Recent Developments in Industrial Low-Temperature Gas Separation (London}’. Oxygen- Producing Plants, by M. A. Dubs, 74; Survey on Output of Chemical Engineers, 428»; Presidential Address on Science and the State, by Sir H. Beaver, 578; Symposium on Nuclear Energy. See Nuclear Energy Conference
Output of, Remarks by Sir H. Beaver on, 616
• Output of, Survey on, 428
Thermodynamics for, by H. C. Weber and H. T. Meissner (Book), 252
— Engineering Laboratories, New, at Man
chester College of Science and Technology, Description and Opening of, 763*
Process, Analogue Computer for (E.M.L Electronics, Ltd.), 373
European Federation of. See European Federation
— and Food Drying (Trade Publication), 503 —? Industry Nationalisation Threat, 464 Position and Prospects of, 461 Chemical and Insulating Co., Ltd., Exhibits at
Brussels Fair, 487
— Literature Retrieval, Progress Report in,
473
— Machining Methods in Aircraft Production,
95
— Manufacturers, British, Association of:
Work Study Conference {Harrogate}: Work Study in Design of Chemical Processing Plant, by A. L. Marsden, 83; Use of Models in Design and Construction of Chemical Plant, by E. H. Salisbury, 83
— Milling in Aircraft Production, 95
•— Physico Effects of Pressure, by S. D. Hamann (Review), 212
— Plant, Design and Construction of. Use of
Models in, by E. H. Salisbury, 83
? Design and Operation of. Nuclear
Criticality Factor in, by C. M. Nicholls and A. H. C. P. Gillieson, 204, 236*
— Processing Circuit for Two-Zone Aqueous
Homogeneous Reactor, 237*
— Reaction Engineering, European Federa
tion of Chemical Engineering (Book), 585
— Structure of High Polymers and their
Physical Behaviour, by Sir H. W. Melville, 281
Chemistry of Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Industrial, Salters’ Institute of. See Salters'
Institute
— Lectures to School Children in, 816
— Radiation, Abstracts on, 366
— of Shippingport Nuclear Power Station, 684 Cherry, (2., on Human Communication, 33 Cherry Garden Waterworks of Folkestone &
District Water Co., Visit to, 818
Chesterfield, Smiths of: a History of Griffin Foundry, Brampton, 1775-1833, by P. Robinson (Review), 90
Chesterman, J., and Co., Ltd., Stabilised Height Gauge, 708
Chevron Structural Units, Ltd., Angle Staging for “ Skylark ” Rocket at Factory Equipment Exhibition, 519; Rack, Arrester Gate, for Oil Drums, 519
Chicago University, Work on Plutonium at, 457 Children, Competition for, of David Brown Group, 235
•— Literature in Russia, 155
— and their Reading Habits, Survey of, by
W. H. Smith and Son, Ltd., 91
Chile, Inflation in. Comment on 643
— Resumption of British Overseas Airways
Corp. Operations to, 390
Chimney Stacks, Rust Protection of, “ Glos- tack ” Coating Material for (Corrosion, Ltd.), 23
China, Tractor Imports by, 51
— Trade with. Effect of Embargoes, 423 Chinese Railway Engineers, Technical Mission
to British Locomotive Industry, 588
Chisholm, A. W. J., on Review of Basic Research on Machining of Metals, 542
Chorlton, A., on Aspects of Main Transmission System Development in England and Wales, 822
Chromate Oxidisation Process for Aluminium Castings (Woods of Colchester, Ltd.), 127 Chromatography, Gas, by G. Iveson, 590 “ Chronistat ” Electrolytic Time Indicator, 576 Chrysler Corp., Perkins “ P6 ” and “ R6 ” Diesel Engines for Trucks of, 588
Chuck. See Machine Tools
Churches, British Council of. Church and Industry (Pamphlet), 493
— and Industry (Pamphlet), 493
Church, J. K., on Specification of Tool Shape and Grinding of Cutting Tools, 542
Churchill, C., and Co., Ltd., “ Vertimax ”
Vertical-Chucking Lathe (Trade Publication), 309
Churchill-Cleveland Gear Hobbing Machine, “S.I418” (Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd.), 5*
Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd., “S.1418” Churchill-Cleveland Gear Hobbing Machine, 5*
Cibie Motor-Vehicle Lamp Testing, 371* Ciechowski, F., on Underwater Oil Tankers, 67 “ Cigar Ship,” Walter Winans’s, Centenary of, 17
CIGRE. See Eletrique under Electric
Ciment Fondu Cement (Trade Publication), 309 Cine-Micrographs, 214
— Microscope, 214
— Systems, High-Speed, 214*
Cinemas, Closure of, 45
— Film. See Film {Cinema}
“ Cinemoid,” a Dyed Cellulose Acetate Film for Floodlights for Niagara Falls, 232*
Circuit Apparatus, Electronic, for Instructional Purposes (Philco (Great Britain), Ltd.), 789*
— Breaker. See Switchgear
— Printed, Automatic Dip-Soldering Machine
for (Signals Research and Development Establishment), 489
?—• —• Etching Machine for (Lares S.R.L.). 471 Panels, “ Flowsolder ” Unit for Continuous Soldering of (Fry’s Metals Foundries, Ltd.), 575
— Wood Pole, 200 kV, Interference Studies on,
by J. R. Leslie and D. E. Jones, 822
Circular Saws. See Saws under Machine Tools Circulating Pumps. See Pumps
Citizens’ Advice Notes, Note on, 409
Citrine, Lord, Appointment to United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 77
Citroen Four-Wheel Drive 2 CV Motor Car for Personnel Transport in Sahara, 435
City and Guilds College, Course on Engineering Aspects of Lubrication, 29
City and Guilds of London Institute, Iron and Steel Operatives’ Course, 146; Technical Authorship (Pamphlet), 762
Civil Aviation. See Aeronautics
— Engineers, Danish, Institution of. Activities
of, 139
Data Book for. Vol. II: Specifications and Costs, by E. E. Seelye (Book), 91
Civil Engineers, Institution of :
Telford Story, 57 Scholarships in Civil Engineering, 67 Conservation of Natural Resources (Book) 91
George Stephenson’s Non-Membership of. See LETTER, 291. See also Vol. 184
Railway Engineering Abstracts, Note on, 347
James Forrest Lecture on Further Development of U.K. Nuclear Power Programme, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 334. 397
Civil Engineering Scholarship Trust, 720 Commonwealth Tour of President and Secretary, 738
Civil Engineers. See also Soci^t^ des Ingenieurs Civils de France
— Engineering Aspects of Dresden Nuclear
Reactor, by J. E. Love, C. S. Darrow, and
B. R. Randolph, 775*
Career of, by K. L. Nash (Book), 181 Contractors, Federation of: Scholarships in Civil Engineering, 67; Civil Engineering Scholarship Trust, 720
Diversification Activities of Aircraft Firms in, 601
in Hydro-Electric Engineering Practice, by J, G. Brown (Review), 154
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 116, 207, 647
Plant, Output and Export Statistics, 117* Scholarships in, 67, 720
Scholarship Trust, Scholarship Scheme of, 720
Slide-Chart for Hydraulics and Reinforced Concrete (Kosine Ltd.),
— Estimates, Comment on, 259
— Servants, Admiralty, Statistics on, Institution of Professional,
against Vacancy of Post of General of Works, 203; Nuclear Scientists’ Salary Negotiations, 304; Annual Report of, 428; Engineers’ Salaries, by S. Mayne, 675-676. See LETTER, 707
— Service Arbritration Tribunal, 203
Ex-Officers’ Entry without Exami-nation, 651
Cladding, Aluminium, for Recessed Sliding Doors of Wing Hangar at London Airport (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 665*
“ Clage ” Instantaneous Electric Water Heater (I.C.G., Ltd.), 320*
‘ Clam ” Magnetic Metering Transformer (Smith Hobson, Ltd.), 454*
Clamping Blocks, Adjustable (Trade Publication), 409
— - Hydraulic (Trade Publication), 534 Clapham, J. C. R., on “ Economic Life ” of
Machinery, 66
Clare Collets, Ltd., Routing Cutter, 260; “ G ” Size Chuck for Use on Large Milling and Boring Machines, 708
Clark, A. G., on Position and Prospects of Plessey Co., Ltd., 171
Clark, B. L., and Partners, Sliding Doors with Tail Enclosure Apertures in Wing Hangar at London Airport, 665*
Clark, D., on Siting of Power Stations, 173
Clark, H. A. M,, on Stereophonic Recording on Gramophone Discs, 448
Clark, R., on Demineralisation of Water by Ion Exchange, 338; on Uranium Recovery by Ion Exchange, 459
Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd., Annual Report of, 367; “Goliath” Crane for Site of Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 439*; Model of Electrically Driven DoubleDrum Pit Winding Gear, 457*
Clarkson (Engineers), Position and Prospects of, 553; Formation of Clarkson Italiana,
S.p.A., 553
Clarkson, F. H., on Position and Prospects of Clarkson (Engineers). 553
Clarkson Italiana, S.p.A., Formation of, 553
Class “A” Motor Lifeboats Equipped with Permanent “ Salvare ” Wireless Installations, on “ Mauretania,” 253
— Consciousness in Promotion, 329
— Distinction at University, 162
Classified Advertisements, Plain Words on, 450 Claus-Homer Gerdes, “ Clage ” Instantaneous Electric Water Heater, 320*
Clausen, H., on Mr. Fox at the Drawing Board, 35; on Gear Train with no Backlash, 99; on Engineering Design: Learning by Doing, 158; on Engineering Design—-the Background and Basis of Contemporary Life, 791*
Clay Contact Plant at Isle of Grain Refinery, 795*
Claydon, D. G. W., on Instrumentation in Ultrasonic Flaw Detection, 575
Clean Air Act, 1956, Implementation of, 226 Cleaners, Metal, Alkaline, “ Grisiron ” (Trade Publication), 90
Cleaning Condenser Tubes Continuously with Foam-Rubber Balls (Ludwig Taproggs), 828*
— Gas, Plant (Trade Publication), 57
— Plant at Shellhaven, for Oil-Refinery Gases
for Romford, 222
Ultrasonic, with Vacuum Technique (Electro-Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 485
Cleanser, Skin, “ Swarfega ” Waterless in Portable Washing Equipment (Deb Chemical Proprietaries, Ltd.), 95
Clearing Machine Corp., American 600-ton Automatic Hydraulic Scrap Cutting Shear, 741 *
Cleaver Brooks Co., Water Distillation Plant at Gibraltar, 674
Cleaver-Hume Press, Ltd., Glossary on Conference Terminology, 119
Clegg, J. E., on Doppler Navigation, 466; on Low-Power C.W. Doppler Navigation Equipment, 466
Clerical and Secretarial Workers, Reasons for Job Changing, 592
— Work, Practical Application of Electronic
Computers and Data Processing Machines to (Book), 823
“ Clerk Gyreacta ” Transmission System (Gyreacta Transmissions, Ltd.), 564* Clerks, Study of Work of, 176
Cleveland Ditcher for Laying Pipeline from Shellhaven to Romford, 223*
Cliff Lift at Folkestone, Visit to, 818
Clifton Bridge, Prestressed Concrete, over River Trent, 349*
Clifton Precision Products Co., Vernier Resolver Electromagnetic Angle Transducer, 94
Climatic Influences as Basic Concept in Conditioning, by T. H. Urdahl, 352
Climatology, Domestic, Research on. National Research Council (Canada),
Climax 1,500 c.c. Engine in Willment Racing Car, 82*
Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Works, Ltd., Pneumatic Equipment (Trade Publication), 27; “Woodpecker” Air/Hydraulic Drill Unit, 327*; “Maxam” Pneumatic Units for Fountain Pen Barrel Machine, 805*
Clips, Spring, G.K.N. Types 1 and 2. for Fixing Rails for Gantry Cranes (Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd.), 702*
Clipper Travel, Magazine of Pan American World Airways, Note on, 633
Clock, Atomic, in Swiss Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522
— “ Big Ben,” Centenary of, 17
— Export Statistics, 116*
— Output Statistics, 116*
“ Clorocel ” Equipment (CF/E Series Electrolysers), for Sterilisation of Water (Paterson Engineering Co., Ltd.), 22
“ Closegang ” Flush Switch-Boxes and Wiring Accessories (J. A. Crabtree and Co., Ltd.), 480*
Cloth, Glass Fibre, Impregnated with Colloidal Graphite for Matched Terminations, 400
Clothing, Treatment of, in Beryllium Laboratory, 499*
Clutch Designs, Manufacture of Sintered Metal Facings for (Ferodo Ltd.), 626
— Electromagnetic, Bi-Directional, for Use as
Low-Inertia High-Torque Servo Drive (Air Trainers Link. Ltd.), 550*
Clyde, Crane and Booth, Ltd., “ Goliath ” Crane for Site of Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 439*; Twin Bogie “Booth” Diesel- Hydraulic Railway Crane, 504*
Clyde Crane and Engineering Co., Cranes for Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 48*
Clyde Iron Works, Scottish Coking Coals Used at. Coking Properties of, by W. Eland, Jr., and Dr. V. Giedroyc, 179
— New Graving Dock for, 130 CO2. See Carbon Dioxide
Coaches, Railway. See Carriages
— Wheel Arrangements on, History of, 475* Coal Board, National. See National Coal
Board
—? Burning Conversions in Industry, Discussion in Parliament on, 423
?—• Coking, Scottish, Used at Clyde Iron Works, Properties of, by W. Eland, Jr., V. Giedroyc, 179
Gasification of. Research on, at Research Station, 533*
10
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Coal Industry, Absenteeism in. Scheme of North West Area to Combat, 139
Effect of Atomic Development on, 423 Employment in, 423
German, Action of European Coal and Steel Community Against, 195
Nationalisation of. Comment on Achievements of, 208
Position and Prospects of, 54* Proposed Capital Investment in, 515
— — Threat of Unemployment in, 391 Wage Position and Prospects in, 107
? See also Coal Mining Industry
— Low-Grade, Gas Production from, Parting
ton Gas Works for, 326
Grade, Slagging Gasifier Process for, at Solihull Research Station, 533*
— Mine. See Colliery
— Miners, Wage Claims of. Comment on, 267
— Mining Economics: Organisation and
Management, by J. Sinclair (Review), 180 Industry, Dismissals due to Absenteeism in, 235
Industry, Effect of Power Loaders on, 55
— ?— Industry, Position and Prospects of,
54*, 66, 194
Industry. See also Coal Industry
— •— Machinery, Exports of, 55*
Machinery, Production Statistics, 55*
?— Prices of. Position and Prospects of, 66
t Relation with Size, 322
-— Pulverisation Ball Mills at Tilbury Power Station (John Thompsopi Ltd.), 792*
— Pulverising in Duplex Crusher at Lutter
worth Works of Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 166 •— Run-of-Mine, Lurgi Gasifier Process at Solihull Research Station, 533
-— Slurry, for Bowhill Power Station 707
for Power Stations, 707
?— Small, Comment on Use and Storage of, 769
— Stocks, Glut of. Comment on, 385
— Supply Position, 66
— Utilisation Research Association, British,
Work of, 737
— Wagons, History of, 476*
— See also European Coal and Steel
Conununity
Coast Survey Service, United States, Annual Report of, 802
Coastal Erosion, Plain Words on, 418
Coats, Metal Insulated Linings for (Deering, Milliken and Co. Inc.), 128
Coates, R. C., on Tests on Struts in Elastic and Plastic Ranges, 88*
Coatings, Asbestos, Sprayed, “ Limpet ” (Turners Asbestos Cement Co., Ltd.), 472
— Material, “ Giostack,” for Rust Protection
of Chimney Stacks (Corrosion, Ltd.), 23
•— Protective, Strippable, “ Mastrip ” (Croda Ltd.), 384
— Tin, on Steel, Non-Contact Thickness Mea
surement of X-Ray Fluorescence Method for (Newton Victor, Ltd.), 575
Cobalt or Caesium Radiographic Container, Russian, 446*
— Container for Underwater Radiography,
446*
— 60 as Radioactive Source for Gamma Radio
graphy, 446*
— Radiographic Equipment, Russian, 446* Unit with Remote-Control Metering
Apparatus, 446*
— Therapy Unit, Newton Victor “ Orbitron ”
(Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.) 360*
Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd., Ruths Steam Accumulators for High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 469*; Sinuflo Economic Boilers for High- Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant, at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 469*
Cochran Vertical Boilers at Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Fertiliser Factory, 508
Cockburn, Dr. R., on Guided Weapons and Aeronautics, 567; on Microwaves in Science and Technology, 723
Cockcroft, Sir J., on Building for Atomic Energy, 42; on Results Obtained with ZETA, 173; Remarks on Fission Reactors and Thermonuclear Experiments, 225; on Further Development of U.K. Nuclear Power Programme, 334, 397; Nuclear Energy—Power of the Future, 650
Codes of Practice, Standard. See Standards
Cohen Committee on Prices, Productivity and Incomes, First Report of, 257; Trade Unions’ Reaction to, 304; Recommendations on Arbitration, 329; Trades Union Congress Views on. Comment on, 329; Chairman’s Reply to Critics of First Report of, 460
Cohen, G., 600 Group Ltd., Jones KLIO-IO Fast Travel Lorry-Mounted 26-Ton Crane, 615
Coil Spring Federation Research Organisation, Proposed Book on Specifications on Spring and Spring Material, 213
— Winders (Trade Publication), 181
Coiled Rod, Malmedie Straightening and Cutting Machine for (Stuart Davis, Ltd.), 485*
Coin Box, “ Pay-on-Answer,” for Subscriber Trunk Dialling System (Associated Automation, Ltd.), 800*
Coke Association, London and Home Counties, Degree Day Service, 322
— Blends for Test-Oven Experiments, Plastometer Measurements on, by Dr. D. W. Gillings and W. Lawson, 211
?— Handling at Manvers Main Colliery Coke- Oven Plant, 509
•— from High-Volatile Coals, Shatter Strength of, by Dr. D. W. Gillings and W. Lawson, 211
— Oven Plant at Manvers Main Colliery, Resonstruction and Development Scheme at (Simon-Carves, Ltd.), 509*
— Production at Manvers Main Colliery Coke- Oven Plant, 509
— Research Association, British, Isothermal Bomb Calorimeter, 389*
Coking Coals, Scottish, Used at Clyde Iron Works, Coking Properties of, by W, Eland, Jr,, and Dr. V. Giedroyc, 179
Coking Properties of Scottish Coking Coals Used at Clyde Iron Works, by W. Eland, Jr., and Dr. V. Giedroyc, 179
Cole, P, W., on Legal Responsibility for Accidents, 304
Cold-Formed Sections, Applications of, by Dr, R, M, Kenedi and W. Shearer Smith, 734
— Roll Forming Practice in United States, by
W. G. Kirkland, 734
Coles Diesel-Electric Mobile Cranes (Steels Engineering Products Ltd,), 615
— Mobile Cranes (Steels Engineering Pro
ducts, Ltd,), 679*
Colgate, S, A,, on Neutron Production in Linear Deuterium Pinches, 186
“ Colgrout ” in Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 48*
Collacott, Dr, R. A., on Motion of a Buoyant Body, 760*
Collective Price Fixing, Comment on Practice of, 419
Collectors, “Grit” (Trade Publication), 347 College, See Education
Collet, New, with Dimensional Flexibility (F, Burnerd and Co., Ltd.), 4*
Colliers, Ocean-Going, Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames for, 47*
Colliery, Bentley, Dismissals at, due to Absenteeism, 235
— Equipment (Trade Publication), 90
— Fire, “ Foam-Plug ” Technique for, Ameri
can Test of, 22
— Manvers Main, Coke-Oven Plant, Recon
struction and Development Scheme at, 509*
— See also Mines and Coal
— Winding, See Winding
Collimator, Magnetic, for New Flat Cathode- Ray, 623*
“ Collinge ” Axle (Kirkstall Forge Co.), 475* Collins Engineers Diary, 1958 (Book), 26 Collisions. See Accidents
Collman, H. A., on Mechanical and Materials Handling Convention, 755
Colombo Plan, Progress of, 706
Colon, Free Zone of. Rapid Growth of, 355 Colonial Development Corporation, Overseas Resources Development Bill, 98
Colorado University, Cyclotron for Nuclear Physics Laboratory, 432
Colours for Building and Decorative Paints, British Standards Specification for, 256
— Cameras for Mobile Medical Colour
Television Unit (Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 773*
— Classification, Munsell System of, 256
— Displays and Aids to Colour Selection
(Walter Carson and Sons, Ltd.), 224
—? Floodlighting of Niagara Falls, 231*
— Patterns, Building Research Station Digest
on, 256
— Printed “ Sellotape ” Adhesive Tape
(Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
— Television. See Television
Colthrop Board and Paper Mills, Ltd,, New Board Mill at Thatcham, 764*
“Columbus S-4'’ Straight-Tube Gas-Discharge Apparatus, 186*
“ Columbus ” Straight-Tube Gas-Discharge Apparatus, Papers on Work on, 185*
Column, Absorption, Nitric-Acid, Welded Stainless-Steel, at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478*
— Struts in Elastic and Plastic Ranges, Tests
on, by K. B. Ayers and R. C. Coates, 88*
Colvilles, Ltd., Trading Profits of, 13; Position and Prospects of, 171; Triple-Compression Press for Baling Heavy Steel Scrap at “ ‘ Ltd.), 261*. See also
Commonwealth Engineering Conference (Australia), World Tour, 290
— Learned Societies in. List of, 233
— Lecture
Please, by B. S. Shenstone, 427
— Nuclear Energy Research Co-operation
within, 233
— Promotion of Sciences in, 233
— Research Organisations in, List of, 233
— Scientific Office, British, Activities of, 233
— Standards Agreements with, 798 Organisations in, List of, 233
— Tour of Presidents and Secretaries of
Major Institutions, 738
— Trade Conference, Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 272
Discussion in Parliament on, 368 with. Prospects of Increasing, 175
— See also Australia, etc.
Communication, Authoritarian Barriers to, by Z. M. T, Tarkowski, 721*
— Channels of, in Face-to-Face Conversation,
177
— Dependence of, on Shared
B. C. Brookes, 33
— in Engineering and Science,
— Human, by C. Cherry, 33
— of Laboratory Staff with
Report on, 720
— with Moving Trains, “ Railophone ” Audio
Frequency Inductive System for, 158
— in Oilfields, Improvement of, 482
— Remote, “ Simple ” Supervisory System for
(Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd,), 455*
Communist Trade Committee of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, Embargo Regulations of, 418
Community Nuclear Research Centre of Euratom, 76
Commutator Brush Holder with Finger, Giambonini (Morgan Co., Ltd.), 261*
— Motor, Automatic Undercutting
lating Segments of. Electronic Attachment for Machine for Electronics, Ltd.), 388
Compacts, Powder, Cracking in, by W. M. Long, 254
Compagnie Generale de Telegraphic Sans Fil, “ Peepie Creepie ” Television Hand Camera, 453*
“ Com-Pak ” Single-Anode Rectifier Electric Locomotives (General Co., Ltd.), 699
Company Analysis as O.E.E.C. Project, 514
— in the News, 13, 45. 79, 111, 137,
on Why Airlines are Hard
to
Experience, by
Problem of, 33
Management,
Pressure Crucible
of Insu-
Dividing
(E.M.I.
for Electric
Research
171, 207, 239, 271, 296, 335, 367, 395, 427, 461, 496, 523, 553, 584, 617, 647, 681, 710. 743, 774, 810
— Planning and Control, European Pro
ductivity Agency Seminars on, 514
Comparative National Products and Price Levels, by M. Gilbert, 280
Comparator, Electronic, Tests on Bearing- Balls, 151*, 152*
— Gauging, Electronic, “ Magna-Gage ”
(Southern Instruments Industrial Division), 708
“ Compass ” Mark VII Automation Base for “ . - - . Machine (Bristol
Computer, Electronic, Use in Steelworks for Production Control, 552
— Equipment, Geodetic, New Developments
in, 802
— “ Ferroxcube ” Cores for (Mullard, Ltd.),
373
— Information Stores for (Plessey Co., Ltd.),
373
— and Numerical Automation, by Dr. A. D. Booth, 684
— “Pegasus” at King’s College (Newcastle upon Tyne), 292
— Programme for Calculation of Stresses in
Three-Dimensional Multi-Anchor Pipe Systems (Ferranti, Ltd.), 125
— Society, British, Note on Computer
Bulletin of, 91
— Storage Element Production at Towcester
Factory of Plessey Co., Ltd,, 799
— for Train Scheduling, 342*
— Training for, by J, Diebold, 38*
— See also Data Processing
Computing Equipment (Armament Research and Development Establishment), 373
— Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects
of, 647
— Relays, Pneumatic, “ Consotrol ” (Foxboro-
Yoxall, Ltd,), 165*
— Room at Cambridge University, 276
— Systems, Digital, Basic Unit for Con
struction of (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co,, Ltd.), 373
— See also Data Processing
Conciliation in Labour Disputes. See Labour Concrete, Accelerated Curing Tests on, by
T. N. W. Akroyd, 666*
Curing Tests on, by N. N. B. Ordman and N. G. Bondre, 243*, 451. See LETTERS, 324, 355, 419, 666*, 771
— Beams, Prestressed, in Flexure, Ultimate
Strength of, 735
Prestressed, Strain Compatibility Condition of, by Prof. H. Rusch, 735
— Building (Trade Publication), 213
— at Elevated Temperatures, Studies of, 639
— Jetty, Pre-Cast, on River Thames, for
Ocean-Going Colliers, 47*
Concrete, Ltd., Pre-Cast Concrete Units (Trade Publication), 181
— Maturity Law for, 244*.
— Mixing Train for British Railways
Line Electrification Projects, 245
— Prestressed, Clifton Bridge
Trent, 349*
Congress on, 735 Torsional Strength of, by
Cowan, 735 Transmission Length in, by
E. H. Ratz, M. M. Holinjanski and V. M. Kolner, 736
— Pretensioned, Mechanisation in Production
of Factory-Made Units and Problem of Transmission Length in, by G. Berdit- chevski, A. Svetov and B. Sklyar, 736
— Reinforced, by J.
(Book), 181 Culvert, for River
Airport, 655* and Hydraulics,
See LETTER, 324
Main
over
Prof.
G. D.
River
H. J.
Base,
McHardy Young
Mole at Gatwick
(Fielding and Platt, Clyde Iron Works
Combine Harvesters, F. Perkins for, 46.
Combined Development Agency, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Uranium Purchase Agreement through, 656
Combustion Chamber for Gas-Turbine Alternator Set for Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Co., Ltd. (Richardsons Westgarth (Hartlepool), Ltd.), 196*
Ram-Jet, Catastrophic Failure of, 25* — See also Fuel; Gases
“ Comet 11 ” Airliner, Government Purchase of. Discussion in Parliament on, 300
Comet 4 ” Airliner, Development and Description of (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 554*
“ Comet
Co.,
“ Comet
Co.,
Diesel Engines
See LETTER, 131
Agency,
Energy
of
Aircraft
4b ” Airliner (de Havilland Ltd.), 554* 4c ” Airliner (de Havilland Ltd.). 554
“ Comet,” Roll-on, Roll-off Vehicle 271
Commer Trucks, Price Reduction by Rootes Group, 433
Commerce, Department of. United States. See United States
— in Engineering, by H. Clausen, 791*
— See also Trade
Commercial Motor Cars. See Motor Commission, Royal. See Royal Commission
— for Technical Co-operation in Africa South
of the Sahara, Membership of, 368
Committees and Chairmen, by Sir R. Watson- Watt (Extract from Three Steps to Victory), 282
— for Economic Development (United States),
15th Anniversary of, 147
Commodity Prices, World, Reactions to Fall in, 81
— Trade, Note on, 706
Commonwealth, Agricultural Research Cooperation in, 233
— Antarctic Expedition, Massey-Ferguson
“ TE 20 ” Tractors on, 740
Commonwealth, British (Europa Publications), 700
Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Equipment of, 372*
Commonwealth Calling, Canadian Trade Section, 337
Commonwealth Edison Co., Dresden Nuclear Power Station, 775*
Aircraft
Carrier,
Fountain Pen Barrel Repetition, Ltd.), 805* Compensation, Workmen’s. Competition for Children
Group, 235
— and Monopolies, Plain Words on, 322 Compound Locomotives. See Locomotives Compressed Air in Air-Blast Circuit-Breakers,
Dielectric Strength of. Investigation of, by L. R. Bergstrom and W. Pucher, 821
Control for “ Booth ” Diesel-Hydraulic Railway Crane (Clyde Crane and Booth, Ltd.), 504*
Control Equipment of Maxam Group, Cinema Film on, 741
Driven Turbo-Alternator Power Packs for Guided Weapons (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 727*
Equipment Industry, Slowdown of Expansion, in, 523
Improving Productivity by Use of. Conference on, 671
Operated Equipment, by N. P. Watts, 671 Society, British, Annual Report, 523 Systems, Fire and Explosion Hazards in, by A. C, Smith, and Dr, A. Thomas, 671 Tools. See Machine Tools
User’s Experience, by J. Smedley and W. G. Wood, 671
See also Pneumatic
Compressor, Air. See Air Compressor
Computation Centre, International, Provisional, Establishment and Purpose of, 80,3
— See also Automation and Computation Computer, Air Data, Miniature, for Aircraft
(Elliott Bros. (London), Ltd,), 373
— Analogue, at Cambridge University, 276 for Chemical Engineering Process
(E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 373
for Diesel and Electric Train Schedules, 803
— Automatic, at Cambridge University
Engineering Department, 404
— Bulletin of British Computer Society,
Note on, 91
— Conditional Probability, Development of,
698*
— Digital, High-Speed, SEAC,
of, 640
—? — Magnetic Memory Planes Co., Ltd.), 799
“ Pegasus,” for Heaton C. A. - - ~
Ltd.), 254
—? — Production Position and Prospects, 115
— Diode, Silicon, High-Speed (Bell Telephone
Laboratories), 787
— Diversification Activities of Aircraft Firms ' -In, 601*
— Electronic, and Data Processing Machines,
Practical Application to Clerical Work (Book), 823
See Labour of David Brown
Application
for (Plessey
Works of
Parsons and Co., Ltd. (Ferranti,
Civil Engineering Slide-Chart for, (Kosine, Ltd.), 63*
Porte Cochere, at Savoy Hotel, 49* Stairways, for Pelham Road Bridge, 815
— Rings for Railway Tunnel Linings, 248*
— Structures, Research on Durability of, 350
— Units, Precast (Trade Publication), 181
— Use at Fertiliser Factory of Scottish Agri
cultural Industries, Ltd., at Leith Docks, 508
— Vibrator, Immersion-Poker, Very-High-
Frequency “ Multibrator,” (C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd.), 613*
— “ Vibroto ” Electric Hand Drill for
(Rawlplug Co., Ltd.), 455*
— Walls, Powder-Lance for Cutting (Union
Carbide Corp.), 191*
— See also Cement
Condenser-Bushings, 132 kV, Laboratory and Field Tests on, by J. L. Douglas and A. W. Stannett, 405
— Tubes, Cleaning Continuously with Foam
Rubber Balls (Ludwig Taprogge), 828*
“ Conductitest ” Eddy-Current Instrument, 576 Conductivity Gauge, Hot-Wire, “ Katharometer,” 576
Conductors, Electrical, International Standards Sizes (Book), 585
— Overhead, “ Awco ” Saddle Tap for
(Aluminium Wire and Cable Co,, Ltd,), 70*
— Semi. See Semi-Conductors
Cone and Cylinder Integrator (Kelvin and Hughes Ltd.), 389*
— Four-Roll Initial Pinch Type Bending
Machine for (Bronx Engineering Co,, Ltd.), 260*
Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions. See Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions under Labour Conference, Amalgamated Engineering Union, Youth Section (Bournemouth), 428
— Annual, Association of Supervising Elec
trical Engineers (Hastings), Troubles in Electrical Engineering Industry, by G. H. Parker, 658
Electrical Trades Union (Morecambe), Report on, 685
on High Energy Nuclear Physics (Geneva), 77
of National Union of Teachers (Scarborough), 493
— British Electrical (Brussels), Nuclear Energy
—Power of the Future, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 650
— British Institute of Management (Harrogate),
on Management Development, Comment on, 10
?— Campaign for Reducing Number of, 27, 283. See LETTER, 67
—-Commonwealth Trade, Discussion in Parliament on, 272
—? Conflict or Co-operation, for Foremen and Shop Stewards, 304
— on Economic and Social Problems of Free
Trade Area (London), 195
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Conference, European Industrial (London), Report of, 307
— and Exhibitions, Forthcoming, 148, 277,
406, 532, 692, 831
—• on Fluid Mechanics, Fifth Midwestern, Proceedings of (Book), 347
—? on Fuel Efficiency in Melting and Thermal Treatment of Metals, 536
— on Fuel Research (London), Second
Specialist, Report of (Book), 375
— on Implication of Nuclear Development for
Management (Eastbourne), 459
—? on Improving Productivity by Use of Compressed Air, 671
—? at Instruments, Electronics and Automation Exhibition, 471, 684
—? on Insurance of Nuclear Reactors, 303
— International, on High Energy Physics,
Preliminary Notice, 432
Labour, Report of, 44
— — on Management Education and Training
(Baden-Baden), Preliminary Notice, 131 on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. See Atomic Energy, Peaceful Uses of. International Conference on
on Radioisotopes in Scientific Research, 527
Conference Internationale des Grandes Reseaux Eletrique a Haute Tension, 821 Conference, Labour, International (Geneva), Maritime Session of. Discussion in Parliament on, 777
— on Laws of the Sea, Proposed Question on
Flags of Convenience at, 390
— on Management Development: Foreman
ship as Step to Higher Management, by W. W. Ferguson, 210
— on Metallurgical and Engineering Aspects
of Weight-Saving in Steel Structures, 734 •— on Modern Technological Education for Industry, Report on, 409
— Nuclear Engineering and Science, of
American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 775
Engineering and Science (Chicago), 807* Energy, British, 236*
Energy, Federation of British Industries (Eastbourne), 529
for Fringe Industries, 110
— — Reactor Progress (Harwell), 206
— Production, of Institution of Production
Engineers, 685
— Reduction in Number of. Campaign for,
27, 283. See LETTER, 67
— Retail Management (Eastbourne), Address
by G. Duttweiler, 337
— on Scientific and Technical Translation,
283, 473
?— Space Travel, Royal Festival Hall, Preliminary Notice, 405
— on Standards (London), Report of, 798
— on Technology of Engineering Manu
facture, 478, 505
— Terminology, Glossary on (Cleaver-Hume
Press, Ltd.), 119
—? on Thermo-Nuclear Fusion, Joint United States-United Kingdom (Washington), 173
— of “ Viscount ” Airliner Operators (Vickers-
Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 782*
— on Wages and Production (Harrogate), 210
— Work Study (Harrogate), 83
Congress, Annual, National Union of General and Municipal Workers, 752
— International, on Vacuum Techniques
(Nemur), Preliminary Notice, 409
— Nuclear (Italy), 1958, Preliminary Notice,
270
— on Prestressed Concrete, 735
— United States, Library of. Price List, 793 “ Conibins ” Nesting-Type Aluminium Containers (Light Alloy Construction Co., Ltd.), 328*
Conical Refiners at New Board Mill of Colthrop Board and Paper Mills, Ltd. (Walmsley), 764
Conservation of Natural Resources (Book), 91 Conservative Society, Inns of Court, a Giant’s Strength, Pamphlet on Trade Unions, 784 Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd., Pneumatic Hosepipe Assembly Device, 167*; Manufacturing Unit in India, 207 Consortia in Aircraft Industry, 597, 598 Consortium in Industry, Comment on, 514 “ Consotrol ” Pneumatic Computing Relays (Foxboro-Yoxall, Ltd.), 165*
Constable and Co., Ltd., Spring Book List, 473 Constock Liquid Methane Corp, of America, Contract with Gas Council for Shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas, 241*
Construction, 46, 80, 191*, 222*, 243*, 274*, 349*, 413*, 439*, 625*, 665*, 734*, 763* —? and Design of Chemical Plant, Use of Models in, by E. H. Salisbury, 83
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 483 Unemployment in, 483
— New, in United States, 746* Constructional Engineering Industry, Position
and Prospects of, 115*
Constructors John Brown, Ltd., New House Journal of, 147; Establishment of Research and Development Station at Leatherhead, 153
“Consul” Long Range Radio Navigation System, 467
Consultants, Advertising of. Comment on, 176 Consultants Bureau, Inc., Express Contents of Soviet Journals, 730
— Design, Demand for, by R. Body, 784 Consulting Engineers, Association of: Scholarships in Civil Engineering, 67; Annual Dinner, 258; Civil Engineering Scholarship Trust, 720
Consumer Advisory Committee, Formation of by Advertising Association, 273
— Disenchantment in United States Recession,
747
— Domestic, of Electricity,
— Durable Goods, United
745*
— Goods, Frankfurt Fair
Dr. Erhard at, 433
Survey of, 483 States Output of,
of. Remarks by
— Protection Services of British Standards
Institution, 240
Consumer Research, Ltd,, Association for: Tests on Electric Kettles, 32; Tests on Electric Tools, 192
— Trends of Interest to Engineering Industry,
66
Contact Materials, Photographic, “ Criterion ” (Trade Publication), 309
— of Metallic Bodies: Effect of Tangential
Force, by J. S, Courtney-Pratt and E, Eisner, 182*
Containers, Aluminium, “ Lacon ” (Light Alloy Construction Co., Ltd.), 328*
— Cobalt, for Underwater Radiography, 446*
— Collapsible, “ Retemba ” (Warwick Pro
duction Co., Ltd.), 133*
— Deep-Drawn, Strengthening of. Differential
Annealing of Aluminium for (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 149*
— Radiographic, Cobalt or Caesium, Russian,
446*
“ GUP50,” 446*
Iridium Iridium Containment Reactor, 775*
for Yankee Atomic Electric Plant, 807* Contamination, Radioactive, of Water and Sewage, Course on, 334
Contemporary Exhibitions, Ltd., Exhibition of Automatic Vending Machines, 790
Continental Equipment Co., Butterfly Valves (Trade Publication), 534
— Steel Prices, Cuts in, 536
Contracts, Engineering, Remarks by H. Molson on, 647
Contracting Engineering Plant, Output and Export Statistics, 117*
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 647 Contractors, Civil Engineering, Federation of.
See Civil Engineering Contractors, Federation of
Control Analysis of Aluminium Alloys and Copper Alloys Using Self-Recording Spectrometers, by M. Milbourn and J. A. F. Gidley, 576
— Automatic Gauge, in Strip Rolling Mills, by
Dr. R. B. Sims, 575
of Machine Tools, by D. T. N. Williamson, 478
of Powered Trolleys and Trucks, Guidance System for (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 488
of Railways. See Automatic Train Control
?—? ?— of Underground Trains, Plain Words on, 386
— of Back-Pressure Steam Turbines by Speed
and Pressure Systems (VEB Turbinen- fabrik), 606*
— for Boiler Feed Water Supplies (Trade
Publication), 309
— Desk at Ardeer Factory of Imperial
Chemical Industries, Ltd., for Production of Nitro-Glycerine by Remote Control, 101*
— Device, Photoelectric, High-Frequency,
“ Vibrophore,” for “ Torsator ” Torsion- Fatigue Testing Machine (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 786*
— Electric (Trade Publication), 181
for Conveyors (Manufacturers’ Equipment Co., Ltd.), 614*
— Engineering, by Sir H. Hartley, 674
Instrument Technology in. Place of, by Sir H. Hartley, 698
Post-Graduate Course at Cambridge University, 276
— Equipment, Compressed-Air, of Maxam
Group, Cinema Film on, 741
Traction, for Battery Railcars for Aberdeen-Ballater Line (Siemens-Schuck- ert (Great Britain), Ltd.), 627
— of Finance and Costs, by W. R. Spencer, 145
— Fluid (Trade Publication), I 19
and Measurement, Transmitting Rotameters for (Rotameter Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 551
— Gas (Trade Publication), 119
— of Hiring Order, Impact on Radio Rentals,
Ltd., 242
-— Information and. New Journal, Note on, 585
— and Instrumentation of Nuclear Reactors,
Course at Harwell Reactor School, 749
— of Jig Boring Machine, Punched Cards for.
Device for Producing, 709*
•— of Large Motors by Mercury-Arc Converters, (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701*
— Machine-Tool, High-Precision Measuring
System for (Mullard, Ltd.), 488
?— Mechanism, Servo, for Tidal Model for Southampton Water, 201*
— and Monitoring System, Central, for
Gil Storage and Distribution Installation (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 551
— in Motor Vehicles, Criticism of Layout of, 82 ?— Panels, Stabilised (Kingston Control Systems, Ltd.), 708*
— and Planning, Company, European Produc
tivity Agency Seminars on, 514
?—? Pneumatic, for Buffing Machine (A.
Schrader’s Son), 804*
— Process, Dynamic, by Sir H. Hartley, 698 in Non-Ferrous Metals Production,
Advances in Inspection Techniques as Aids to. Symposium on, 575
— of Production Engineering, by J. W.
Walker, 145
in Steelworks, Use of Electronic Computers for, 552
— Remote, of Nitro-Glycerine Production by
Biazzi Process, Use of Television in, at Ardeer Factory of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 101*
Servo Mechanisms for (Tully Engineering Co., Ltd.), 820
— ?— and Signalling System, “ Multiplex ”
(Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 454
— Rod Calibration for Calder Hall “ A ”
Station, 172*
— Room of Mobile Medical Colour Television
Unit (Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 773*
or Caesium, or Thulium, Sphere for Design Basis for, by
Russian, Russian, Dresden
445*
445* Nuclear G. Sage,
Control Rotor, “ Rotormatic,” for “ Rotorcycle ” Qne-Man Folding Helicopter (Hiller Helicopters), 645*
— of Steel-Strip Quality, by S. S. Carlisle and
J. H. Wilson, 575
— System, Hoist, Twin-Motor, on 7.^ Ton
Qverhead Travelling Crane (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 615*
National, for Grid, 766*
—? — Punched-Tape, for Machine Tools (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 31*
? Sequence, for Transfer Machines (Mul-
lard, Ltd.), 488
— of Tilbury Power Station, 792*
—? Tower at Gatwick Airport (Gilbert-Ash, Ltd.), 653*
— Unit, Gyroscopic, for Stabilising Equip
ment for Small Ships (Muirhead), 122*
for Machine-Tool Automatic Co-Ordinate Setting Equipment tronics, Ltd.), 488*
Controllers, Electric Motor. Electric
— Pressure, Photo-Transistor,
(Ekco Elec-
See Motors,
for Automatic Regulation of Oil Burners on Shell-Type Boilers (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial), Ltd.), 551
— Process, Electronic, Three-Term, Mark IV
(Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 551*
— Sequence, for Capstan Lathe (Nickols
Automatics, Ltd.), 765*
— Temperature, Photo-Transistor, Three-Posi
tion (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial), Ltd.), 551
Convair-Astronautics, “ Atlas ” Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, 298*
Convair. See also General Dynamics Corp. Convention, Annual, Institute of Radio Engineers, 562
— and Exhibition of Northern Division of
Institution of Electronics (Manchester), Preliminary Notice, 740
— International, on Microwave Valves, 723,
724
— Materials Handling, Preliminary Announce
ment, 582*
— on Radio Aids to Aeronautical and Marine
Navigation, 466
Conversation, Face-to-Face, Channels of Communication in, 177
Conversions, Coal-Oil Burning, in Industry, Discussion in Parliament on, 423
— of Old Houses to Flats, Grants for, 448*
— Sets for Installing “ Four-99 ” Diesel
Engine in Motor Cars (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 538
for Petrol Engines to Run on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (J. and S. Carburettor Co.), 37
Converter, Frequency, for Concrete Vibrator (C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd.), 614*
— Mercury-Arc, Control of Large Motors
by (English Electric Co., Ltd,), 701*
•— and Microwave Parametric Amplifiers, by G, Wade and H. Heffner, 724
— Thermionic, for Direct Conversion of Heat
to Electricity (General Electric Co.), 89
Conveyancer Fork Trucks Ltd.. 2-ton Capacity Yard Truck with Torque Converter Drive, 582*
Conveyor Belts, Tensioning, Baker Device for, 102*
— Belting Exhibits at Mechanical Handling
Exhibition, 615*
Flanged, “ Corruband ” (C, (Machinery), Ltd.), 614*
— Chain, “ Redler,” at Kuwait
Brick Works, 188
— Drive, Built-in, “ Thorite ”
Works, Ltd,), 453*
•—? Electronic Control for (Manufacturers Equipment Co,, Ltd.), 614*
— Flexible Fold-Belt, “ Serpentix ” (Mitchell
Engineering, Ltd.), 615
— in Glassware Manufacture at Quickfit &
Quartz, Ltd., 381 *
?— at Manvers Main Colliery Coke-Qven Plant, 509
— at New Car Production Factory at Vauxhall
Motors, Ltd., 634*
— for Raw Materials at Scottish Agricultural
Industries Fertiliser Factory, 506*
— at Rog^rstone Plant of Northern Alumin- Engineering
H. Johnson
Sand-Lime
(T. and T.
Re-
ium Co., Ltd. (Albert Mann
Co., Ltd.), 412
— Sub-Circuit, Fully Automatic
Jenner, Ltd.), 614
— System, Automatic Routing
Ward, Ltd.), 614
• Carrying Solids, Detector
(A, &
(Thos.
C.
W.
for
Probe (Bailey Meters and Controls, Ltd.), 101* “ Conway ” By-Pass Engine Pods, Test-House for, at Hucknall Flight Test Establishment of Rolls-Royce, Ltd., 789*
— — Engine (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.). 487
Engines for Vickers “VCIO” Jet Airliners (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 103*
Conway, H. G., Committee on Practical Training of Mechanical Engineers, 492. See also 481, 514; on Metric System for Britain, 798
Cook, A, F., on Railway Coach Vibrations, 259. See LETTER, 387
— Army, Comment on, 560
Cook, R, N., on Research on Sintered Qxides for Cutting Tools, 817*
Cook, W. R. J., Appointment as Full-Time Member of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 144
Cooke, B,, on Sealing by O-Rings, 388* Cooke-Yarborough, E, H., on Nuclear Radiation Damage to Electronic Components, 142
Cooker, Infra-Red, Thermostatically-Controlled, “ Arista ” (LC.G., Ltd.), 320
Cooking the Electric Way (Brochure), 640 Cookson, C., Remarks on Nationalisation of Steel Industry, 271
Coolant, Qil Mist (Trade Publication), 309 Cooling-Tower for Homogeneous Nuclear
Reactor, Preliminary Design, 303 Packings, by D. J. Tow, 99. See LETTER, 131. See also Vol. 184.
— Water, Power Cables with, for Hydro-
Electric Power Commission of Qntario, 30
Cooling-Water System at Isle of Grain finery, 795*
Cooper, J., Remarks on Wage Claims Policies, 752
Cooper, L. A., on Scuffing, 355-356 Co-operative Movement, Report of Commission on, 592
Coppee Co., Ltd., Apparatus for Ammonia at Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Fertiliser Factory, 507
Copper Alloys. See Brass; and Alloys under Metallurgy
— Clad Dome of London Planetarium, 393*
— Development Association, Introduction to
Copper (Booklet), 74; Small-Bore Central Heating, 111; Activities of, 239
— Eddy-Current Testing of. Use of Search-
Coil Apparatus for, by N. B. Harvey, 576
—? European Demand for. Remarks by R. H. Glover on 395
— Fabricating Industry, Position and Pros
pects of. 111
— Industry, United States, Position and Pros
pects of, 395
— Introduction to (Booklet), 74
— Moulds at Demag Continuous Casting
Plant, 293*
— Pipe in Small-Bore Central Heating, 111
— Prices, Position and Prospects of, 20
— Stress-Strain Curves for. Derived from
Dilation and Torsion Experiments, 759*
— Tubes, Pressure-Dilation Experiments on,
759*
— Usage, 111
Copperad Ltd., “ Wallstrip ” Heating Elements for Skirting Heating, 480*
Copying of British Products by Foreign Firms, 433
Corby Ion-Exchange Process for Effluent Water, 338
Cores for Computers, “ Ferroxcube ” (Mullard Ltd.), 373
— Making Equipment at Ford Thames
Foundry, 733*
Coriolis Acceleration, by J. Pidduck, 420*. See LETTERS, 483, 548
Corn Mills, Water-Driven, Visit to, 818 Corona Discharge, Effect of Transmissicn Voltage, 822
Coronary Thrombosis, Liability of Business Executives to, 361
Correlator, Scanning, Electronic, Automatic, “ Auscor,” for Stereo-Images (Photographic Survey Corp.), 607
Corroglaze, Ltd., Non-Combustible Corrugated Roof Lighting Material, 197
Corrosion, Anti-, Liquids, “ Foscote ” (Trade Publication), 27
— and Flaw Detector, “ Introview,” for Metal
Tubes of Low Magnetic Permeability (Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd.), 550*
— Inhibitor, Borax as, in Anti-Freeze Solutions
Research on (Borax Consolidated, Ltd.), 783
Corrosion, Ltd., “Giostack ” Coating Material for Rust Protection of Chimney Stacks, 23
?—? Underground, by M. Romanoff (Review), 90
— and Wear Handbook for Water-Cooled
Nuclear Reactors, by D. J. DePaul (Book), 823
“ Corruband,” Flanged Conveyor Belting (C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd.), 614* Corrugated Aluminium Sheet, “ Rigidal,” for Pemberton Integral Caravan, 608*
Sheeting, Shallow-Troughed, Thin-Gauge (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 179
Cory. W., and Son, Ltd., Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 48*; Aluminium- Alloy Crane Jibs (Head Wrightson Aluminium, Ltd.), 158*
Coseley Engineering Co., Ltd., Distribution of “ Kingstrand ” Aluminium Construction Sheets in Canada, 658
Costs, Capital, Effect on Productivity, 386
•— Control of, by W. R. Spencer, 145
— Labour, Effect on Productivity, 386
— of Living, Increases in Germany, 163
— of Machinery Maintenance, 66
— Planning: Building Economies, Building
Research Station Digest on, 768
— and Specifications for Civil Engineers, by
E. E. Seelye (Book), 91
Costain Concrete Co., Ltd., Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 47*
Costain, Sir R., on Profit Increases of Richard Costain, Ltd., 647
Costain, R., Ltd., Annual Report, 647 Costing Practice in General Galvanising, Manual of, 338
Cotton Board Colour Design and Style Centre, Design Library of, 57
Exhibit at National Industrial Textiles Trade Fair, 536
—Industry, Redundancy Plan for Lancashire Mill Employees, 460
Research Association, British, Commercial Production of “ Shirley ” Pressure Point System in Card Dust Extraction 54; Work of, 737
?—? Mill Conversion to Chemical Engineering Building for Manchester College of Science and Technology, 763 *
Council of Industrial Design. See Design, Industrial, Council of
— on Prices, Productivity and Incomes. See
Cohen Committee
— for Scientific and Industrial Research. See
Scientific and Industrial Research, Council for
Counters (Trade Publication), 119
— Neutron, “TV70I FN2/12,” for ZETA
(Solus Electronic Tubes, Ltd.), 206
— Scintillation, Directional (Labgear, Ltd.),
396
Counting with the Fingers, by M. P. Varshney, 739-740*. See LETTER, 803*
Coupling, Fluidrive, in Shunting Locomotive Manufactured by John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 102
— Magnetic, Particle, for Industrial Drives
(S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd.), 582*
and
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Coupling, Particle, Torque-Transmission, for Industrial Drives (S. Smith and Sons (England) Ltd.), 630*
— Shaft Angle, “ Lineta Uni-Joint ” (Standage
Power Couplings, Ltd.), 197*
— See also Clutch
“ Couronne,” French Ironclad Warship, Centenary of, 17
Courtburn Positioners, Ltd., Welding Manipulators (Trade Publication), 762
Courtier, G. B., on Assessment of Environmental Hazard of Nuclear Energy, 366
Courtney-Pratt, J. S., on Contact of Metallic Bodies: Effect of Tangential Force, 182*
Cousins, F., Action in Omnibus Workers’ Dispute, 428; in London Bus Strike, 720; in Strike of London Motor Omnibus Workers, 752, 816
Courts, J. W,, on Man and His Physical World, Note on, 659
Coventry Climax Engines, Ltd., “ FPF ” 4-Cylinder Motor Car Engine for Lotus 15 Sports Racing Motor Car, 516; “ Universal ” Fork-Lift Trucks, 582*
Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 296
Coverings, Non-Conducting. See Heat Insulation
Cowan, Prof. H. J., on Torsional Strength of Prestressed Concrete, 735
Cowie, R. J., on Factors Affecting Performance of Drills and Taps, 542
Cox, H. L., on Application of Theory of Stability in Structural Design, 287
CR 150 Receiver for “Globespan” Transmitters in Radiotelegraph Service on “ Mauretania,” 253
Grabble Corn Mill, Visit to, 818
Crabtree, J. A., and Co., Ltd., “Closegang” Flush Switch-Boxes and Wiring Accessories, 480*
Cracks, Wall and Ceiling, “ Gyproc Cove ” Fire-Protective Gypsum Core for Concealing (Gyproc Products, Ltd,), 224 Cracking in Powder Compacts, by W. M, Long 254*
— Thermal, Underground, of Crude Oil,
Research on, at Royal Dutch Shell Laboratories, 771
— Window, Due to Rust Formation on Frame
96
Crafts, Rural, of Kent, 818
Craftsmanship, Engineering,Hundred Years of, by R. E, Waterhouse (Review), 408
Craftsmen, British, Plain Words on Unique Abilities of, 610. See LETTER, 675
— Demise of Versatile, Plain Words on, 226 Crago, W. A., on Motion of Yacht Through
Air and Water, 6*. See LETTERS, 68, 99, 195; on Model Tests on Nuclear-Powered Submarine Oil Tanker, 470*
Craig Stores (Aberdeen), Ltd., Fleet Rebuilding Scheme, 423
Crancher, D. W., on Materials for Marine Superheater Tubes, 211
Crane, Boom, Truck-Mounted, 100-ft., “ NCK 304 ” (Newton Chambers and Co., Ltd.), 4* ?— for Erection Purposes, Agreement Between Atomic Power Constructions, Ltd. and Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., for, 684
— Fast Travel Lorry-Mounted 26-Ton, Jones
KLlO-10 (George Cohen 600 Group Ltd.), 615
— Heavy Duty, “ Goliath,” at Site of Bradwell
Nuclear Power Station, 439*
— Helicopter, for Beacon at Gatwick Airport,
735*
— Jibs, Aluminium-Alloy, for William Cory and Son (Head Wrightson Aluminium Ltd.), 158*
— 10/10, Lorry-Mounted, at Steel Co. of
Wales (Jones K. and L. Cranes), 219
— Mobile, Coles (Steels Engineering Products, Ltd.), 679*
? Diesel-Electric, Coles (Steels Engineering
Products, Ltd.), 615
Jones KLlO-6 (K and L Steelfounders and Engineers, Ltd.), 37*
12-ton, Neal, with Grab or Magnet Equipment at Steel Co. of Wales, 219
— — Standard, Fast, “ Rapier 4 ” (Ransomes
and Rapier, Ltd.), 615
— ?— in Television Centre Construction for
British Broadcasting Corporation at Wood Lane, 363*
— Overhead, Travelling (Trade Publication) 659
— for Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River
Thames (Clyde Crane and Engineering Co.) 48*
— Railway, Twin Bogie, Diesel-Hydraulic, “ Booth ” (Clyde Crane and Booth, Ltd.), 504*
— Self-Propelled, Mobile, Coles (Steels Engineering Products, Ltd.), 679*
— Shunting Locomotive, Mobile, Coles (Steels Engineering Products, Ltd.), 679*
— Travelling, 71 Ton, Twin-Motor Hoist Control System on (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 615*
?—? Truck-Mounted, Mobile, Coles (Steels Engineering Products, Ltd.), 679*
— See also Gantry: Hoists: Transporters Crankcase Explosions in Diesel Engines, Discussion in Parliament on, 552
in Diesel Engines, Photo-electric Automatic Device for Warning of, 591. See LETTER, 676
Crankshaft, Torsion-Fatigue Testing on “ Tor- sator ” Torsion-Fatigue Testing Machine (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 787*
Cranz-Schardin System of High-Speed Photography, 214*
Crates, Stacking of (Trade Publication), 119 Cream, Freezing of, 340
Credit Restrictions Relaxed for Unemployment Areas, 528
Creep Tests. See under Tests (Material) Crime in Youth, Effect of Wealth and Poverty, 391
“Criterion” Photographic Contact Materials, (Trade Publication), 309
Criticality, Nuclear—a Novel Factor in the Design and Operation of Chemical Plants, by C. M. Nicholls and A. H. C. P. Gillieson, 204
Criticism and Plain Speaking, by Z. M. T.
Tarkowski, 177
Croda, Ltd., “ Mastrip” Strippable Protective
Coating, 384
Cromack, J. C., on Travelling Wave Solid-State Masers, 725
Crompton, J. W.,on Low-Power C. W. Doppler
Navigation Equipment, 466
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., Electrical Installations on Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 48*; Price Reductions on Alternating-Current Electric Motors, 433; Price Reductions on Electrical Motors and Machinery, 588; Ring Main Cabling for Gatwick Airport, 653
Crompton, T., and Sons, Ltd., “ Weaver ” Two-
Lever Door Catch, 128*
Crone and Taylor, 70-ft. High Stackers at
Steel Co. of Wales, 219
Croning Process. See Moulding, Shell Crooks, R. N., Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works 104*, 188*
Crop Culture (Aerial), Ltd., Orders for Auster “ Workmaster ” Crop-Spraying Aircraft, 357*
— Spraying Aircraft, “ Workmaster ” (Auster
Aircraft, Ltd.), 357*
Crosby Valve and Engineering Co., Ltd., Mason- eilan Type 107 108 Diaphragm (Operated Control Valve for Small Flows, 102 Cross-Channel Passenger Ships, Machinery for, by E. L. Denny, 121
— Country Vehicle, “ D.L. 4x4 Pathfinder,”
for Oil-Field Exploration or Desert Conditions (Douglas Equipment, Ltd.), 165*
— Roll Bearing Slewing Ring for Excavators
(Priestman Bros., Ltd.), 613*
Crossfields, J., and Sons, Ltd., Contract for New Chemicals Buildings at Warrington Factory to Matthew Hall, 207
Crowe, T. A., on Orders for New Locomotives, 617
Crowther, J., on Labour Absence and Turnover, 44; on Ultrasonic Testing in Manufacture of Aluminium Alloys and other Non-Ferrous Materials, 575
Crowtnorn Engineering Co., Ltd., Crank-Type
Shaping Machine (Trade Publication), 213 Croydon Airport, Closure of, 272 Crozier, J. D., and Partners, Ltd., Power Station for New Thatcham Board Mill of Colthrop Board and Paper Mills, Ltd., 764
Crucible Forms in Molybdenum Spinnings, (Murex, Ltd.), 400
Crude-Oil Engines. See Engines, Oil Cruisers. See IVarships
Crush Hour Travel in Central London, Report on, 528
Crusher, Brick, at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick- Works (F. L. Smidth and Co., Ltd.), 188
— Duplex, Coal Pulverising in, at Lutterworth
Works of Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 166
Crushing Ore (Trade Publication), 119 Crusilite Electric Furnace Element (Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd.), 457
Crypton Motor-Vehicle Lamp Testing, 371
Crystals, Dendritic, Formation of, Icebox for Study of, 311
Crystal Palace Television Tower (British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd.), 246*
— — Television Transmitter, Colour Tele
vision Tests at, 832
— Puller, Silicon (Services Electronics Research
Laboratory),400
Crystalline Structure of Metals. See Metallography; Micro-Photographs
Csaki, F., on Asynchronous Running of Turbo-Generators, 821
Csepel Machine Tool Factory, Newman Industries, Ltd., as Selling Agents in United Kingdom, 770
Cube Test for Portland Cement, 472
Culture, Science and Art, Minister of. Discussion in Parliament on, 809
Culvert, Reinforced-Concrete, for River Mole at Gatwick Airport, 655*
— Sincil Dyke at Lincoln, 815*
Cummins Engine, Inc., Position and Prospects of, 523
Cunard Steam-Ship Co., Ltd., Denny-Brown Stabilisers in Liner “ Queen Mary,” 386
Cupolas at Bilston Foundries New Domestic Bath Plant, 638
— Water-Cooled, Hot-Blast, Coke-Fired, at Ford Thames Foundry, 733*
Currency, India’s Shortage of, 427
Current Density Indicator, Portable (Trade Publication), 119
— Electric. See Electric
?— Meter for Tidal Model for Southampton Water, 201
— and Tide Equipment, New Developments in,
802
Currie, Sir W., Views on Future of Shipping Industry, 553
Curtiss-Wright Co., Ultrasonic Test Equipment at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 412*
Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Act, First Order Under, 67
Cuthbertson, J. R., on Financial and Investment Aspects of Nuclear Energy, Including Home and Overseas Markets, 527. See also 529
Cutters, Milling. See Milling under Machine Tools
Cutting, Flame, by G. Sims-Davies, 505
— of Metals in Aircraft Production, 95
— Process, Mechanics of, by H. LI. D. Pugh, 542
Cutting-off Machine. See Machine Tools
C. V.A. Jigs, Moulds and Tools, Ltd., Kearney and Trecker Milling Machine with Punched- Tape Control System (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 31*
Cycles, Defects in, 370
•— Heat-Engine. See Engine, Heat
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 115*
— Motor. See Motor Cycle
— ?— Assisted, Defects in, 370
Cyclone, Wet, Portable, “ Bahco,” for Dust Extraction (Trade Publication), 534
Cyclotron for Nuclear Physics Laboratory of Colorado University, 432
— Resonance, Fast-Wave Interactions with
Electron Film at, by A. Karp, 725
Cylinder and Cone Integrator (Kelvin and Hughes, Ltd.), 389*
— Dilation of, Under Internal Pressure,
Influence of Strain Hardening on, by Dr.
E. Voce, 756*
— Thick Hollow, Warming-up Stresses in,
by M. J. Hillier, 343
— Unit, Basic, “ Pneulang ” Range of Cylin
ders for (Lang Pneumatic Ltd.), 324*
Cylindrical Grinding Machine. See Grinding Machine under Machine Tools
“ Cytac ” Long Range Radio Navigation System, 467
Czechoslovak Mathematical Journal, Note on, 730
Czechoslovakia, Import Trade Statistics, 465
— Trading Opportunities in, 465 Czechoslovakian Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 521*
“ 3D ” True-Perspective Drawing-Board (Mavitta Drafting Machines, Ltd.), 71
“ DAE 600 ” Motor Car (Van Doorne), 265*
D. A.G., Activities of, for German Office Workers, 195
“ Dag ” Colloidal Graphite for Postage Stamps Paper (Acheson Colloids, Ltd.), 62
Daily Express Boat Show (Olympia), 63 Daimler-Benz, Mercedes-Benz Three-Axle Truck, LP333, 772*
Dale Electric, Ltd., Drayton Diesel Engines for Generating Sets, 408
Dam Construction in Dolomites, Fatal Accidents in, 97
— Hirakud Project for Orissa, 413*
— in Irrigation Works, by S. Leliavsky
(Review), 308*
— Kariba, Discharge and Flooding of River
Zambesi into, 625*
— Owen Falls, Resources of, 514
Dampers at Goldington Power Station, Electro- hydraulic Control for (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 36
Damping in Machine-Tool Foundations, Flexible Support for, 568*
Danger, Human Reactions to, 561*
— Human Reactions to, by Z. M. T. Tarkow-
ski, 429*
— Money, Comment on Policy of, 97 Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials,
by N. 1. Sax (Book), 347
Danish Civil Engineers, Institution of, Activities of, 139
— See also Denmark
Danks, E., and Co., Ltd., Boiler House Equipment at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 189*
Danks, E., and Co. (Oldbury), Ltd., Corner Tube Boiler Unit for High-Pressure Hot Water and Process Systems, 519
Danube, River, Suspension Pipe-Bridge Across, for Conveyance of Natural Gas, 49*
Dao-lee, Dr. Tsung, Use of Work of, in Unified Field Theory, 303
Dark Adaptation in Vehicle Design, 82
Darlington Group Stand at Brussels Fair, 487 Darlington Insulation Co., Ltd., Exhibits at Brussels Fair, 487
Darrieus Direct-Current Windmill for Parallel Operation with Three-Phase Alternating- Current, 687*
Darrow, C. S., on Civil Engineering Aspects of Dresden Nuclear Reactor, 775*
“ Dart ” Propeller-Turbine Engine, Adoption for New Aircraft Designs (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 379
Turbine Engines in Vickers “ Viscount ” Airliners (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 379
“Dart 506 “ Propeller Turbines, 1,540 h.p., for “ Local-Service Viscount ’’ Airliner (Rolls-Royce), 254
Dartford-Purfleet Tunnel, Progress of, 175; Tolls for, 175
Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., Kingfield Wire and Rod Works of, 830*
Darwins, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 584 Data, Air, Computer, Miniature, for Aircraft (Elliott Bros. (London), Ltd.), 373
— Book for Civil Engineers. Vol. Il: Speci
fications and Costs, by E. E. Seelye (Book), 91
— Flight, Instruments for, at Physical Society
Exhibition, Preview of, 373
— Handling Equipment (Armament Research
and Development Establishment), 373
— Processing, Automatic, Course in London
by John Diebold, 424
Automatic, Programming, 426
Automatic, Sources of Information and Advice on, 426
Automatic, Thoughts on, 424
Automatic, in United States, 780
Automatic. See also Automatic
Machines and Electronic Computers, Practical Application to Clerical Work (Book), 823
Training for, by J. Diebold, 38*
— Recording, Magnetic Tape for, by Dr. C. D.
Mee, 310
— Sheets, Availability and Use of. Note on, 181 “ Dauphine ” Motor Car, Sales in United
States (Renault), 178
Davey, H. G., on Commissioning and Operation of Calder Hall “A” Nuclear Power Station, 172*
Davey, Paxman and Co., Ltd., Diesel Locomotives (Trade Publication), 27
David, C. L., on Developments in Precision Boring, 543
David, W., and Son, Ltd., “ Isopon ” Glass- Fibre Reinforced Filler, 472
Davies, A. B., on Determination of Trace Components in Gases, 590
Davies, H., and Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 496
Davies, H. M., on X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry, 590
Davies, P., on Engineering History of Folkestone, 818
da Vinci, Leonardo, Lecture on Rockets and Guided Flight, 460
Davis, A. J., on Sleeve Bearings, 345 Davis, N., on Aluminium Industry, 617 Davis, S., Ltd., Surface-Grinding Machines (Trade Publication), 213; Malmedie Straightening and (Cutting Machine for Coiled Rod, 485*
Davy and United Engineering Co., Ltd., Load Cells for Test-House for “ Conway ” By-Pass Engine Pods, 789
Dawbarn, G., Television Centre of British Broadcasting Corporation at Wood Lane, 363*
“ DCX ” Thermonuclear Research Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 618 Dean, Sir J., on Position and Prospects of Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co., Ltd., 584
Deb Chemical Proprietaries, Ltd., Portable Washing Equipment without Water, 95 de Bruyn, J. W., on “ Electronic Music,” 160* Decahydrate, Borax, “ 20 Muel Team,” for Anti-Freeze Solutions (Borax Consolidated, Ltd.), 783
Decelerometers for Braking Measurements on Motor Vehicles, 370*
Decentralisation and Participation in United States, 781
Deck, Flight, Angled, on H.M. Aircraft Carrier “ Victorious,” 94*
Deckel, F., Jig Boring, Grinding and Measuring Machine, 742*
Decontamination of Beryllium Laboratory, 501 Decorative and Marine Section of New Paints Laboratory of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 817
— Paints, Colours for, British Standards
Specification for, 256
“ Decorplast ” Finish for Holoplast “ 80 ” Structural Panels (Holoplast, Ltd.), 46
“ Dectra ” Long Range Radio Navigation System, 467
Deep brawing Research Group, British, Formation and Functions of, 587
Deere, J., and Co., Lundell Forage Harvester, 518*
Deering, Milliken and Co., Inc., Metal Insulated Linings for Coats, 128
Defectoscopy in U.S.S.R.,445
Defence, Co-operation in North Atlantic Council, 624
— Policy in Nuclear Era, Problem of Responsi
bility for Decision on, 642
of United States, President Eisenhower's Speech on, 66
— Report On, White Paper, 624
on. White Paper, Effect on Aircraft Industry, 577
Deflationary Policy in United States, 354 Deflections, Plate, Surface, Measurement under Load, Beam and Dial Indicator Equipment for (Rubert and Co., Ltd.), 742*
— in Right Slab Bridge, 539*
Defum CWC 80 Horizontal Boring Machine, 731*
Degassing of Transformer Oil, Mobile Plant for (Manchester Oil Refinery, Ltd.), 5* de Gaulle, Gen., Effect on French Industry, 739 Degenhardt and Co., Ltd., “Ultraphot 11” Automatic Camera-Microscope, 805*
Degree Courses at Technical Colleges, Closure of. Discussion in Parliament on, 524
“ Degree Day Service ” of London and Home Counties Coke Association, and Gas Council, 322
de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd., Negotiations on “ DH 121 ” Jet Airliner with British European Airways, 239; Jet Airliner for British European Airways, 240; Government Purchase of “ Comet II ” Airliners, 300; Order for 24 “ DH121 ” Jet Transport Aircraft for British Overseas Airways Corp., 337; Development of “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 554* ; “ Comet 4b ” Airliner,
554; “Comet 4c” Airliner, 554; Policy and Action of, 594; Position and Prospects of, 617
de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd., Some Applications of Nuclear Power, by Prof. C. D. Baxter and G. E. Preece, 268*; Constant- Thrust Version of “ Spectre ” Rocket Engine as Assisted Take-Off Units for Handley Page “ Victor ” Bomber and Avro “ Vulcan ” Bomber, 276; “ Super Sprite ” Rocket Engine for Vickers- Armstrongs “Valiant” Bomber, 276; Loop Tests on Nuclear Reactors, 301*; Policy and Action of, 594; Nuclear Power Activities, 595, 619*
de Havilland Holdings, Ltd. Diversification Activities of, 601
Havilland Propellers, Ltd., High-Bay Lighting Installation at (Holophane, Ltd.), 80*; Wind-Driven Generating Plant, 297*; Diversification of, 595; Alternating-Current Electrical Power Packs for Guided Weapons, 727*
Dehydration of Transformer Oil, Mobile Plant for (Manchester Oil Refinery, Ltd.), 5*
Delapena and Son, Ltd., Vertical Honing Machine, 36*
de Laval Memorial Lecture. See Laval, de. Memorial Lecture
Delay Line, Torsional Wave, Spiral Coiled N. Thurston and L. M.
ENGINEERING, VOL, 185 (1958)
Denbighshire Technical College, Study Projects, by D. C. Morgan, 323-324
Dendritic Crystals, Formation of, Icebox for Study of, 311
Denmark, Engineers’ Education and Training in, 139
— Licentiatus Technicss, New Degree, 139
— See also Danish
Denny-Brown Saunders-Roe Stabilising Equipment for Small Ships, 122*
Stabilisers in Liner “ Queen Mary,” 386 Denny, E. L., on Machinery for Cross-Channel Passenger Ships, 121*
Denny, W., Brothers, Ltd., Stabilising Equipment for Small Ships, 122*: Financing of Modernisation and Reorganisation Scheme, 137
Densitometer, Smoke (Trade Publication), 181 Density, Air, Influence on Level of RadioElectric Interferences Caused by H.V. Lines, by R. Bartenstein and J. Meyer de Stadelhofen, 822
— Meter, Transmitting, for Clean Liquids
(Rotameter Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 551*
Dent’s Everyman’s Encyclopaedia, 409
Dentists’ and Doctors’ Remuneration, Royal Commission on, 528
Denyer, G. E., on Mathematical Manuscripts, 515-516
d'Erlanger, L., on Channel Tunnel Co., 774 Dermatitis, Nickel, Discussion in Parliament on Incidence of, 368
Descaling and Softening Lines at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills (Wellman Smith Owen Engineering Corp. Ltd.), 633
Desch, Dr. C. H., the Late, 804*
Desert Conditions, “ D.L. 4x4 Pathfinder” Cross-Country Vehicle for (Douglas Equipment, Ltd.), 165*
Design, 28, 62*, 92*, 120*, 158*, 253, 284*, 311*, 340* 376*, 407*, 444*, 474*, 504*, 538*, 566*, 605*, 627*, 667*, 701*, 727*, 766*, 791*, 820*
— of Chemical Processing Plant, Work Study
in, by A. L. Marsden, 83
— and Construction of Chemical Plant, Use of
Models in, by E. H. Salisbury, 83
— Consultants, Demand for, by R. Body, 784 Engineering, Federation of, Contemporary Pattern of Industrial Development, 323
Relationship with Industry, 323
—? Electrical, by H. Clausen, 791
— Engineering—Background and Basis of
Contemporary Life, by H. Clausen, 791*
Learning by Doing, by H. Clausen, 158,
— Finality in, Remarks by Sir G. Edwards on
287
Design Index, Note on, 535, 730
— Industrial, Council of, Note on Design
Index, 535, 730
— in Industry, Discussion by Federation of
Engineering Design Consultants, 323
— Library of Cotton Board Colour Design and
Style Centre, 57
— Machine-Tool, by H. Clausen, 791
— in Manufacture, Protection of. New Mea
sures Required for. 624
— “ Piracy ” Charges Against Japan, 81
— Structural, Application of Theory of Sta
bility in, by H. L. Cox, 287
Influence on Brittle Fracture in Ships, 498
— Vehicle, Human Limitations in, by R. A.
McFarland, 82
“ Designed Appearance ” Lighting in Gloucester Cathedral, 566*
Designers, Electronic, Handbook, by R. W. Landee, D. C. Davis, and A. P. Albrecht (Book), 823
— Engineering, Institution of: Lord West
wood Memorial Lecture on Engineering Design—Background and Basis of Contemporary Life, by H. Clausen, 791 *
— Need to Collaborate with Production De
partment, 226
Designing Equipment for Human Use, Course on, 226
Desoutter Bros., Ltd., Pneumatic Tools (Trade Publication), 181; Outline Drawings of Standard Die Sets for Draughtsmen, 691* Destroyers. See Warships
Detection Gear, Burst Slug, Tests on, 110
Detector, Hot-Wire, for Combustible Gases, 690
— Probe for Conveyor System Carrying Solids
(Bailey Meters and Controls, Ltd.), 101*
Detroit, E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 715
Detroit Edison Co., EFFBR Nuclear Reactor Project, 719*
Deuterium, Definition of, 142
— and Hydrogen, Muon-Catalysed Fusion of,
431*
—? as Nuclear Fuel, 109
Deuteron, Definition of, 142
Development and Resources Corp., Electric Power Project in Iran, 271; E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 714; Activities of, 780
de Vos, J. C., on Contribution to Development of Power Cables for High and Extra High Voltages with Composite Insulation of Synthetic High Polymer Materials and Oils, 822
Dewaid, J. F., on Transistor Action at Semi- conductor-Electrolyte Interface, 696*
Dewey, G. C., and Co., Inc., Formation of Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 16
Dewpoint Meter, ” Alnor ” (Electrical Resistance Furnace Co., Ltd.), 422*
Dexion, Ltd., “Speedframe” Studs for Framework Assembly, 191*
“ Dexta ” Tractor, Machine Tools for Production of (Ford Motor Co., Ltd.), 31 *
Dexter Generating Sets with Drayton Diesel Engines (Dale Electric, Ltd.), 408
“DH121” Jet Airliner, Negotiations with British European Airways on, 239
— Jet Transport Aircraft for British Overseas
Airways Corp, (de Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd.), 337
Dial and Beam Indicator Equipment for Measurement of Surface Plate Deflections under Load (Rubert and Co., Ltd.), 742* Dialects, Research into, 203
Diamond-Bit Performance in Limestone and Dolomite, by M. J. Gallagher and A. E. Long,536
Performance in Sandstone, by A. E. Long,536
— Dressing Tool, Indexing, “ Unidex,” for
Grinding Wheels (Trade Publication), 347 Diaphragm Valves (Trade Publication), 57 Diary, Engineer’s, Collins, 1958 (Book), 26 Dibben, Maj. C. R., on Diversification London Aluminium Co., 810
Dickinson, R. W., on Sampling from Radioactive Process Streams, 590
Dictionary of Conference Terminology (Cleaver-Hume Press, Ltd.), 119
— Foreign and National, Russian Publishing
House of, 119
— Oxford English, New Werds for, 119. See
LETTER, 163
DIDO Nuclear Reactor, 398
Reactor, High-Pressure Water Loop Equipment for Testing Fuel Elements in (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 302*
Die Casting, Precision, “ Mercast ” Process for Frozen Mercury Patterns for (Sankey- Telcon, Ltd.), 797*
— Sets, Standard, Outline Drawings of, for
Draughtsmen (Desoutter Bros. Ltd.), 691 * Diebold, J., Work on Automatic Data Processing, 2 ; on Training for Computers, 38*; Course on Automatic Data Processing in London, 424; Interview with E. P. Ward, 714
Diesel Engines. See Engines, Oil, Diesel: Marine Propulsion
— Engine Users Association, Governing of
Diesel Engines, by R. A. Fuller, 627
— Fuel Additive, “Amber SSR 513 ” (Amber
Chemical Co., Ltd.), 761
— Hydraulic Twin Bogie Railway Crane,
“ Booth ” (Clyde Crane and Booth, Ltd.), 504*
— Oil, Fumes from. Discussion in Parliament
on, 300
Diesel, Rudolf, Centenary of Birth, and Life of, 17; Centenary of. Booklet on, 573
Diester-Type Synthetic Lubricant, High-Temperature Tests on, 660*
Differential Gear. See Gear
Digging, Hoeing, Weeding, Mowing and Hedge Cutting, “ Gardenmaster 34 ” Multi-Purpose Machine for (Landmaster, Ltd.), 352*
Digging Machine. See Excavator
Digital Valve Voltmeter (Burndept, Ltd.), 389
— Voltmeter (Ferranti, Ltd.), 389
(Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 389
Type TM728 (Solatron Electronics, Ltd.), 389*
Dilation of Cylinders under Internal Pressure, Influence of Strain Hardening on, by Dr.
E. Voce, 756*
—- Experiments, Stress-Strain Curves for Steel and Copper Derived from, 759*
— Pressure Experiments on Copper Tubes,
759*
Dinghies, Construction Costs of, 9*
“ Dinkum Digger Major” Trench Excavator, Hydraulic Power Grab for (Whitlock Bros., Ltd.), 613*
Diode, Computer, Silicon, High-Speed (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 787
— Switching, Four-Region (Bell Telephone
Laboratories), 787
Dip-Soldering Machine, Automatic, for Printed Circuits (Signals Research and Development Establishment), 489
Diploma in Technology, Remarks on, by Lord Hives, 193
Direct Rolling Process for Continuous Production of Strip, by D. K. Worn, 472
Directors, Institute of, Course on Radioactive Isotopes, 77; Understanding Labour Relations (Pamphlet), 460
— Radioactive Isotopes Course for, 77 Directory, Aslib, 1958, Note on, 793
— of British Rubber Manufacturers and Pro
ducts (Book), 503
— of Mechanical Engineering Equipment for
Foundries, Workshops,etc.,by M. Coyaud (Book), 309
— of Opportunities for Graduates (1958), by
C. Labovitch (Book), 309
— of World Aviation, Note on, 27
Disc-Seal Construction Xenon-Filled Triode Thyratron, Type XR1-6400A (Mullard, Ltd.), 806
Discharge Gas, Apparatus, Homopolar Generator as Power Supply for, at Australian National University, 334
High Current, Neutron Emission in, by Dr. H. A. B. Bodin and Dr. J. A. Reynolds, 108
See also Columbus Perhapsatron S.3 ”; “ Sceptre Iir\ ZETA, etc.
Discovery, Official Publication of University of Melbourne, Note on, 251
“ Discut ” Filling Machine (Stanley Works (G.B.), Ltd.), 518*
Dishes in Molybdenum Spinnings (Murex, Ltd.), 400
Disintegrator ” Machine for Removing Broken Taps or Drills (Marbaix Industries, Ltd.), 580*
Disney, H. V., New appointment in Industrial Group of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 748
Disputes, Trades. See Labour
Distillation and Evaporating Plant for Sea Water (G. and J. Weir), 674
— of Fresh Water from Sea Water, Costs and
Developments in, 674
— Plants, Sea-Water, by Dr. S. Silver, 530*
— of Sea-Water, Economy of, 629*
— of Sea-Water, Nuc.ear Reactors for, by
I. Vilentchuk and N. Arad, 628*
— Unit, Crude-Oil, at Isle of Grain Refinery,
794*
— Water, Nuclear Energy for, Cost of, 674 Plant at Gibraltar for, 674
— See also Evaporating, Evaporation
Distillers Co., Ltd., Liquid Carbon Dioxide Bulk Storage at Chapel Cross Nuclear Power Station, 749
Distillers Group Exhibits at Brussels Fair, 487 Distortion, Heat, Effects in Impulse Steam Turbines, 121 *
Distribution of Industry Act, 1945, Bill Amending, 528
?—? — Act, Tyneside Assistance under, Discussion in Parliament on, 680
— Lines. See Power Transmission Disturbance Recorder, Oscillographic (Ferranti, Ltd.), 359
Diversification in Aircraft Industry, 595*, 600* 601*, 603*, 681
— Chatwood-Milner, Ltd., 584
— Policy of Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., 681
— in United States, 781
Dividing Attachment, Electronic, for Machine for Automatic Undercutting of Insulating Segments of Motor Commutators (E.M.l Electronics, Ltd.), 388
— Tables (Trade Publication), 730
D. l.Y. Movement. See Do It Yourself Movement
“D.L. 4x4 Pathfinder” Cross Country Vehicle for Oil-Field Exploration or Desert Conditions (Douglas Equipment, Ltd.), 165*
DM ” ” Dry ” Bearing Material (Glacier Metal Co., Ltd.), 761
DM Raydist Navigation Equipment, 802 DMTR Nuclear Reactor. See Dounreay Materials Testing Reactor
Do-It-Yourself Kits, Popularity of, 273 Yourself Movement, Tools, Materials and Accessories for, Practical Householder Exhibition on, 224
Dock Areas, Large, Electrical Installations in, by M. Rundle, 260
— Construction, Centenaries of Developments
in, 17
— Dry, on Tyneside, Discussion in Parliament
on, 680
— Graving, New, for Clyde, 130
— and Harbour Engineering, Vol. 1, by H. F.
Cornick (Review), 762
— Labour Board, National, Discussion
Parliament on Manpower Usage, 272 Position, 329
— London, Growth of Electricity in, 260
— Strike, London, 685
London, Breakdown in Negotiations, 752
— Tilbury, Site Laboratory for Accelerated-
Strength Tests for Concrete, 243
— Workers, Wage Claim of, 235
” Dock-o-matic ” Loading Ramp (Wayne Tank and Pump Co., Ltd.), 574*
Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration, Royal Commission on, 528
Documents, Storage of, in French National Archives, 291
— of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Author
ity, Guide to, 527
Documentation Centre, International (Sweden), Micro Library, Note on, 535
— Information Systems in, 473
Dohm Group, “ Electran ” Transformer Plug, 384*
Doig Advertising, Ltd., Advertising Exports, by D. J. WoodrofF, 387
Dollar Exports Council, Action Resulting from Resume of Canadian Trade Mission, 23; Tour of Canada by Delegation of, 513
— Loans for Atomic Power, 578 Dolomite, Diamond-Bit Performance in, by
M. J. Gallagher and A. E. Long, 536
Dolomites, Dam Construction in. Fatal Accidents in , 97
Dome of London Planetarium, 393*
Domestic Ball Valve, New (National Research Development Corp.), 768
— Climatology, Research on, by National
Research Council (Canada), 768
— Consumers of Electricity, Survey of, 483
— Electrical Equipment, Output, Position and
Prospects of, 114*
— Goods, Statistics on, 66
Dominion Bridge Co., Ltd., Canadian Steelwork (Trade Publication), 181
Dominion Theatre (London), “ Todd-AO ” Filming and Projection Technique at, 548* Donald, Prof. M. B., on Separating Materials by Electrostatic Charges, 125
Donaldson, J. M., on Determination of Trace Components in Gases, 590
Donkin, B., on Difficulties of Consulting Engineers, 258
Door Catch, Two-Lever, ” Weaver ” (Thomas Crompton and Sons, Ltd.), 128*
— Sliding, Recessed, for Wing Hanger at
London Airport, 665*
Doppler, C. W., Navigation Equipment, Low- Power, by J. E. Clegg and J. W. Crompton 466
Doppler Effect, Definition of, 142
Proposals for Generating High Frequency Electromagnetic Waves Using, by R. B. R. Shersby-Harvie, 725
— Navigation, by J. E. Clegg and T. G. Thorne,
466
Equipment, Airborne, by G. E. Beck and
T. G. Thorne, 466
— Radar, Collision Course Prediction by.
Mathematic Analysis of, by H. R. Whitfield and C. N. Cade, 467
— Systemfor Satellite and MissileGuidance,331 Dorman Long and Co., Ltd., Annual Report, 79;
Bridges for Double-Track Railway on North Eastern Region, 441*; Annual Report, 771
Dorman, W. H., and Co., Ltd., Diesel Engine Exchange Service (Trade Publication), 27; Sales Visit to Canada, 209
Dorr-Oliver Inc., Plant for Neutralisation of Phosphoric Acid at Scottish Agricultural Industries Ltd. Fertiliser Factory, 507
Dos Passos, John, E. P. Ward’s Visit to Home of, 716*
Doucette, E. L, on Two-Terminal, Passive Semiconductor Component, 562*
Douglas Aircraft Co., Technical Reports on Aerodynamic Research, 283; E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 715
Douglas Equipment, Ltd., “ D.L. 4x4 Pathfinder ” Cross-Country Vehicle for Oil- Field Exploration or Desert Conditions 165*
Douglas, J. L., on Laboratory and Field Tests on l32kV Condenser-Bushings, 405
Douglas (Kingswood), Ltd., Scooter Manufacture, 187
Douglas of Kirtleside, Lord, Remarks on “DH121” Jet Transport Aircraft for British Overseas Airways Corporation, 337 D’Oultremont, T., on Sources of European Publications, 163
Dounreay Atomic Energy Establishment, Organisational Problems of, 13. See also Dounreay Fast Breeder Reactor; Dounreay Materials Testing Reactor
— Fast Breeder Reactor, 526; Progress of, 206
— Materials Testing Reactor, Fuel Cycle of,
458*; Uranium Purification Plant and Recovery Section of, 458*; Operation Commenced, 748
Dover Harbour Board, Newcomen Society’s Visit to, 818
Dover Publications, Catalogue of, Note on, 700 Dowell, T. M., on Dynamic Calibration of Fatigue-Testing Machines, 693*
D.P. Battery Co., Ltd., Kathanode Batteries for Traction Vehicles (Trade Publication), 730 “ DQ ” ” Dry ” Bearing Material (Glacier
Metal Co., Ltd.), 761
Drafting Machine, Parallel Motion (Angula Engineering Co., Ltd.), 646*
— Table (E. N. Mason and Sons, Ltd.), 62
Drainage Pipework in Dwellings: Hydraulic Design and Performance, by A. F. E. Wise, 288*
— Problems at Gatwick Airport, 655*
Drake and Gorham, Ltd., “ Designed Appearance ” Lighting in Gloucester Cathedral, 566*
Draughts, Theory of, 369
Draughtsmen, Demand Position of, 784
— Outline Drawings of Standard Die Sets for
(Desoutter Bros., Ltd.), 691*
— Redundancy at Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd.,
391
Dravo Corp., Position and Prospects of, 681 Drawing-Board, True-Perspective, ” 3D ” (Mavitta Drafting Machines, Ltd.), 71
— Deep, Research Group, British, Formation
and Functions of, 587
— Offices, Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., Re
dundancy at, 391
Engineering, in New Chemical Engineering Laboratories at Manchester College of Science and Technology, 764*
Material Manufacturers’ and Dealers’ Association, Instruments, Electronics and Automation Exhibition, 488*
— Outline, of Standard Die Sets for Draughts
men (Desoutter Brothers, Ltd.), 691* Drayton-Armstrong Steam Traps (Trade Publication), 309
Drayton Diesels, Ltd., Types 34 and 35 Lightweight Uniflow Diesel Engines, 407*
Drayton Regulator and Instrument Co., Ltd., Drayton-Armstrong Steam Traps (Trade Publication), 309
Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Description of Reactor for, 775*; Containment Sphere, 775*; Construction, 775*; SelfRegulation and Control, 776; Site Plan, 776*
Reactor, Civil Engineering Aspects of, by J. E. Love, C. S. Darrow, and B. R. Randolph, 775*
Reactor, Containment Sphere for. Design Basis of, by G. Sage, 775*
?—? — Reactor, Planning Start-Up of, by K, T Perkins and H. K. Hoyt, 776
Dressing Tool, Diamond, Indexing, “ Unidex,” for Grinding Wheels (Trade Publication), 347
Drew, D. A., on Developments in Methods of Measuring Stresses in Compressor and Turbine Blades on Test Bed and in Flight 125
Drier, Spin. “ Cascade ” (General Motors, Ltd. (Frigidaire Division)), 448
— See also Dryer
Drills, Broken, ” Disintegrator ” Machine for Removing (Marbaix Industries, Ltd.), 580*
— Chuck. See Machine Tools
— and Drilling Machines. See also Machine
Tools
— Factors Affecting Performance of, by R. J.
Cowie and J. O. M. Pegler, 542
— Masonry, ” Blue Flash ” (John M. Perkins
and Smith, Ltd.), 224
Drilling Fluid, Oilwell, in Venezuelan Oil Fields, Tanks for Transporting (Bristowes Machinery Ltd.), 581*
— of Support Plates for Pressure Vessel for
EFFBR Nuclear Reactor, 719*
Drives, Chain, at Brussels Fair (Renolds Chains, Ltd.), 487
Roller, ” A.S.A.,” at Brussels Fair (Renolds Chains, Ltd.), 487
— Conveyor, Built-In, ” Thorite ” (T. and T.
Works, Ltd.), 453*
— Industrial, Magnetic Particle Coupling for
(S. Smith and Sons (England) Ltd.), 582* Magnetic-Particle Torque-Transmission Coupling for (S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd.), 630
— Motor, Electronic Variable Speed (Electro
power Gears, Ltd.), 581*
Mechanical Variable Speed, Embodying Brottby System (Electropower Gears, Ltd.), 581*
— Rolling-Mill, Control by Mercury-Arc Con
verters (English Electric Co., Ltd,), 701*
— Servo, High-Torque, Low-Inertia, Bi-
Directional Electromagnetic Clutch for Use as (Air Trainers Link, Ltd.), 550*
— Torque Converter, for 2 ton Capacity Yard
Truck (Conveyancer Fork Trucks, Ltd.), 582*
— in Turbo-Charged Diesel Engine for Heavy
Duty Dumper (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 165
— Variable Speed, Lancashire-Nevlin “ Vario-
nic ” (Trade Publication), 181
Drivers, Alcohol Danger to, 816
— Women, Favourable Report on, 139 Driving Chains. See Chains
Drop-Forging Hammers. See Hammers under Machine Tools
ENGINEERING, VOL, l«5 (1958,
386
Power Station, Site Proposed Output of, 776 Ltd., Price Reductions . , _ . “ Valithene ” Polyethy
lene-lined Rubber Hose for Conveyance of Concentrated Mineral Acids, 580; Palletised Tyre Stores at Fort Dunlop and Coventry, 796*
Dunworth, Dr. J. V., on Nuclear Propulsion, 14 “ Duolacent ” Range of Bulkhead Lighting Fittings (Hayes and Co., Ltd.), 4
Duplex Crusher, Coal Pulverising in, at Lutterworth Works of Albert Herbert, Ld., 166
— “ Emperor ” Brick Presses at Kuwait
Sand-Lime Brick Works (Sutcliffe Speakman and Co., Ltd.), 190
du Pont de Nemours E. L, and Co., Ltd. E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 715; Elastomers Research Laboratory at Hemel Hempstead, 770; Neoprene Plant in Northern Ireland, 770; Organisation of, 781*; Decentralised Objectives, Policy of, 825
Durable Goods, Sales in United States, 745* United States Inventories for, 746* “ Duraglas ” Glass-Fibre Material Production at Hindley Green Works of Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ltd., 412
Duralumin, Resistance to Meteoric Particles, 164
— Tube, Struts of. Tests on, in Elastic and
Plastic Ranges, 88*
“ Duramat ” Glass-Fabric Mats Production at Hindley Green Works of Turner Bros, Asbestos Co., Ltd., 412
“ Durestos ” Resinated Asbestos Thermosetting Moulding Materials Production at Hindley Green Works of Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ltd., 412
Durham University, “ Pegasus ” Computer, by E. M. Bettenson, 292
Durley Hall Hotel, Bournemouth, Purchase by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Athority as Staff Hostel, 459
Dust, Coal. See Coal, Pulverised
— Collection and Control Plant (Trade Publi
cation), 57
— and Fly-Ash Elimination, Microlector Van Tongeren System (Trade Publication), 57
— Collectors with Fibreglass Filtering Material
for Carbon Black Plant of Philblack Ltd. (Tilghman’s, Ltd.), 255*
Hopper and Bin Discharges, “ Dustex ” Vacuum Valve for (Mancuna Engineering, Ltd.), 646*
— Extraction, “ Bahco ” Portable Wet Cyclone
for (Trade Publication), 534
Card, “ Shirley ” Pressure Point System in. Commercial Production of, 54
— Extractor, “ T.2500,” with “ Snap-Action ”
Mechanical Shaking Gear (Keith Blackman, Ltd.), 709*
“ Favorit ” Filter Process for Recovery of (Trade Publication), 309
-— Fuelled Reactor Concept, Armour (ADFR), by D. Krucoff and F. Narin, 807*
Dustex ” Vacuum Valve for Dust Collector Hopper and Bin Discharger (Mancuna Engineering, Ltd.), 646*
Dutch Pavilion at Brussels Fair, Wavemaking Installations in, 522*
— See also Holland
Duttweiler, G., Address to Retail Management Conference (Eastbourne), 337
Dwellings, Drainage Pipework in; Hydraulic Design and Performance, by A. F. E. Wise, 288*
Dyeing Machine, Hank, Automatic, at Birstall Carpet Co., Ltd. (Longclose Engineering Co., Ltd.), 54
Dyestuffs Industry in India, Development of, by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 147
Dyke, Sincil, Culvert, at Lincoln, 815* Dynacord, Acoustical Instruments, 471 Dynamic Calibration of Fatigue-Testing
Machines, by T. M. Dowell, 693*
•— Instability: Automobiles, Aircraft, Suspension Bridges, by Y. Rocard (Review), 535 Dynamics, App'ied, Postgraduate Course at Edinburgh University, 706
— for Engineers, by F. P. Beer and E. Russell
(Review), 26
Dynamos. See Generators, Electric; Turbo- Gener^/tcrs
Dynamometer, “ E.l.” (Heenan and Froude, Ltd.), 677
?— See also Brake
Dyson and Nalson, Air Vice, 485*
Dyson, R. A. and Co., Ltd.: Trailers for Tanks for Transporting Oil-well Drilling Fluid in Venezuelan Oilfields, 581*
EARLE, Sir G., on Position and Prospects of Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers, 774
Earth is a Battlefield, Cinema Film, 211
— Moving Machinery Industry, Position and
Prospects of, 116
— •— Plant, Development and Testing, by
Minister of Supply, 368
— Pressures and Retaining Walls, by W. C.
Huntington (Book), 213 Earthen Flood Banks, Stability of. Research on, 350
Earthquake-Resistant Nuclear Reactor, 270 East African Railways and Harbour Administration. See African, East, Railways and Harbour Administration
— Central Nuclear Group, Proposal for
Heavy-Water Gas-Cooled Nuclear Power Plant, n
— Grinstead to Lewes Railway Train Services,
Proposal to Withdraw, 240
EBWR Nuclear Reactor, Operating Experience, 143
Reactor at Argonne National Laboratory, Increased Power from, 650
Eccles, Sir D., on Trade Fairs and Exhibitions, 337
Eckersley, H., on Research on Sintered Oxides for Cutting Tools, 817*
Ecko Electronics, Ltd., Gamma-Ray Back- Scatter Gauge for Measurement of Steel Thickness, 396
“ Eclipse ” Magnetic Chuck (James Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd.), 324*
Economic Affairs, Institute of. Hire Purchase in a Free Society (Booklet), 194
— Aid Programme of United States, President
Eisenhower’s Speech on, 66
Russian, to Asia, Africa and Middle East, 81
— Boilers, Paxman Double-Pass, at Lutter
worth Works of Alfred Herbert, Ltd., Pulverised Fuel for, 166*
Sinuflo, for High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd. (Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd.), 469*
— Bulletin for Europe, 210
— — for Europe, Comment on, 35
— Climate of United States, by E. P. Ward,
745*
— Commission for Europe. See Europe
— Development, Committee for (United
States), 15th Anniversary of, 147
— Difficulties of Germany, 163
— and Industrial Position and Prospects of
Poland, 210
“ Economic Life ” of Machinery, by J. C. R. Clapham, 66
— Policy in Soviet Central Asia, 35
—? Position of Far Eastern Countries, 427
— ?—in United States, Labor's Economic
Review on, 803
— Problems of United States, 147
— Prospects, Canada’s, Royal Commission
on, Gordon Report of. Comment on, 482
— Report, Overseas, on Klein and Saks’
Work in Chile, 643
— Research by United States Trade Unions,
391
— or Social Situation in Management, 685
— Survey, Comment on, 450
Overseas; Iran, Comment on, 99 —? — Overseas: Nigeria, 98
Economics of Coal Mining; Organisation and Management, by J. Sinclair (Review), 180
— Committee of Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research, 591
?— in Hydro-Electric Engineering Practice, by J. G. Brown and J. Hunter (Review), 154 •— Industrial. See Labour
— Railway. See Railway
?—? of Translation, by F. Liebesny, 473
ECR Nuclear Reactor, Evaporatively Cooled, 808*
Eddy-Current Instrument, “ Conductitest,” 576 Testing of Copper and Its Alloys, Use of Search-Coil Apparatus for, by N. B, Harvey, 576
EDF 1 Nuclear Reactor for France, Proposed, 366
EDF 2, Nuclear Reactor for France, Proposed, 366
Edinburgh University, Applied Dynamics Course, Postgraduate, at, 706
Education:
Africa, East, Engineering Educational Facilities, 657*
— Training for Operation and Maintenance of Engineering Plant and Products, 657*
African Marine and Engineering Co., Apprenticeship Scheme of, 657* Agricultural Engineers, Training of, 611 — Engineering, National College of. Establishment of, 611
Applied Dynamics Course, Postgraduate, at Edinburgh University, 706
Apprentices, Carr Committee on, 278* — Training of. Discussion in Parliament on, 591
— Training of, in Iron and Steel Industry, 146
Apprenticeships, Carr Committee on, 278 — Certificates of, 280
— Council, National, Recommendations by Carr Committee, 524
?— Group Scheme of Engineering Industries Association, EIAGA, 279
— Scheme of African Marine and Engineering Co., 657
Education—continued
Apprenticeship Scheme in Foreign Countries, Discussion in Parliament on, 524 — Study of, by Engineering and Allied Employers’ Federation and Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation, 280 of, by Lady G. Williams, 278 — Trade-Union Views on, 279
— and Training Schemes of East African Posts and Telegraphs Administration, 657
Schemes of East African Railways and Harbour Administration, 657* Associated Electrical Industries, Two- Year Course for Officers for Employment in Electrical Engineering Industry, 560
Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell), Reactor School Course, 495
Automatic Data Processing, Course on, 2 Processing Course in London by John Diebold, 424
Automation, Training for, by J. Diebold, 38*
Ayr, Technical College for. Discussion in Parliament on, 144
Baghdad Pact Nuclear Training Centre, Activities of, 238; Appointment of H. A. C. McKay as Director of, 238 Boyle, Sir E., Views on Scientific Training, 329
Bristol University, Industrial Training for Older Workers, by D. G. Entwistle, 707
British Iron and Steel Federation. See Iron and Steel Federation
British United Traction, Ltd., Instruction School in Madras, 273
Building Construction, Applied: A First Year Course, by A, Medlycott (Book), 309
Calder Operation School, Progress of, 206 Cambridge University, Predicament of W. Fletcher at, 162; Laboratory Extensions in Engineering Department, 275*; Computin.^ Room at, 276; Fatigue Laboratory at, 276*; Mechanics of Machines Laboratory at, 276; Post-Graduate Course in Control Engineering at, 276; Research Laboratory at, 276; Work of Engineering Department, 404; Extensions to Laboratory of Engineering Department, 404; Trust for New College at, 642
Careers, Idealism and Experience in. Comment on, 290
— in Industry and Technical Education,
Year Book of (A. and C. Black), 823
— for Young People, Annual Guide to,
361
Carr Committee, Recommendation of National Apprenticeship Council, 524 on Recruitment and Training of Young Workers in Industry, 272, 278* Report on Training of Apprentices, Discussion in Parliament on, 591
Certificates, Educational, Scottish and English, Discussion in Parliament on, 144
Chemistry, Lectures to School Children in, 816
Children’s Literature in Russia, 155 ?— and Their Reading Habits, Survey of, by W. H. Smith and Son, Ltd., 91
Circuit Apparatus, Electronic, for Instructional Purposes (Philco (Great Britain), Ltd.), 789*
City and Guilds College, Course on Engineering Aspects of Lubrication, 29
City and Guilds of London Institute Iron and Steel Operatives’ Course, 146
Civil Engineering, Career of, by K. L. Nash (Book), 181
Scholarships in, 67, 720
?—? — Scholarship Trust, Scholarship Scheme of. 720
Colorado University, Cyclotron for Nuclear Physics Laboratory, 432 Computer Training, by J. Diebold, 38* Control Engineering Post-Graduate Course at Cambridge University, 276
— and Instrumentation of Nuclear Re
actors, Course at Harwell Reactor School, 749
Conway, H. G., Committee on Practical Training of Mechanical 492. See also 481, 514
Data Processing, Automatic, London by John Diebold,
Degree Courses at Technical Colleges, Closure of. Discussion in Parliament on, 524
Denbighshire Technical College, Study Projects, by D. C. Morgan, 323, 324 Denmark, Engineers’ Education and Training in, 139
— Licentiatus Technices, New Degree, 139 Designing Equipment for Human Use, Course on, 226
Diploma in Technology, Remarks on, by Lord Hives, 193
Directors, Radioactive Isotopes Course for, 77
Directory of Opportunities for Graduates (1958), by C. Labovitch (Book), 309 Durham University, “ Pegasus ” Computer, 292
Dynamics, Applied, Post-Graduate Course at Edinburgh University, 706
Edinburgh University, Applied Dynamics Course, Post-Graduate, at, 706
Education, Long Term Investment in, by W. Hatton, 685
— Technological, for Industry, Report on Conference on, 409
— as Top Priority, Comment on, 685
?— in United States, by E. P. Ward, 825* Educational Certificates, Scottish and English, Discussion in Parliament on, 144
— Visits and Exchanges, Central Bureau of. Activities of, 235
Education continued
Educational and Welfare Amenities of General Electric Co. (U.S.), 579 Educationalists and Industrialists, Nede for Co-operation, 193
EIAGA, Group Apprenticeship Scheme of Engineering Industries Association, 279
Electrical Engineering Industry, Twjj-Year Course for Employment of in, 560
Electronic Circuit Apparatus for tional Purposes (Philco Britain), Ltd.), 789*
Engineers, Education and Training in Denmark, 139
— Fully Educated, by Dr. W. Abbott, Note on, 633
— Practical Training of, 579; Plain Words on, 514. See LETTERS, 579, 580
— Training of. Adaptation to Needs of Intercommunication, 33
of. Comment on, 481. See LETTERS, 547, 611
Engineering and Allied Employers’ West of England Association, Course on Designing Equipment for Human Use, 226
— Design: Learning by Doing, by H. Clausen, 158
— Education, American Society for, Plan for Engineering Teachers to Take Up Fundamental Research, 391
in India, 514
Plain Words on, 802
— Educational Facilities in East Africa, 657*
— Industries Association, Group Apprenticeship Scheme, 279
— Scholarships, Announcement of New, 227
English Electric Co., Ltd., Industrial Fellowships Scheme, 227; Scholarships of, 227
European Coal and Steel Community, Scholarships of, 217
Faraday House Engineering College, Appointment of New Board of Governors and Future Policy of, 560 Fellowships, Industrial, Scheme of English Electric Co., Ltd., 227
— of Wilmot Breeden Group, 428 Foreign Exchange Visits for Young
People, 235
Foremen Training i
Steel Industry, 1 Fuel Technology,
H. McNeil, 612 Gailey and Roberts, Ltd.,
Training School in Nairobi, 657 General Electric Co. (U.S.), Educational and Welfare Amenities of, 579 Graduates, Opportunities for, Directory of (1958), by C. Labovitch (Book), 309 — Students and Research Workers, Notes on Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Grants for, 107 Grants, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, for Graduate Students and Research Workers, Notes on, 107
— Increased for Parents of State Scholars and Students at Teacher Training Colleges, 752
— for Pre-Service Training at Technical
Training Colleges, 208
— in Technical Teaching, 304
Guest Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd., Scholarships of, 227
Guest Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands), Ltd., Operator Training in Screw Division of, by E. D. Simmons, 753* Gyroscope, Instructional (Plint and Partners, Ltd.), 132*
Harvard Business School, Activities of, 824*
— University, Principles of Engineering Education at, 826*; Faculty of Applied Sciences, 826; Graduate School of Business Administration, 826
Harwell Isotope School, Course for Business Men, 366
?— Reactor School, Course on Control and Instrumentation of Nuclear Reactors at, 749; Course at, 808
Human Use, Designing Equipment for, Course on, 226
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Readership and Post-Graduate Bursaries in Structural Steelwork, 139; Uranium Graphite Exponential Assembly at 394*; Post-Graduate Course on Nuclear Power at, by Prof. J. M. Kay, 394*, 579, 580. See LETTER, 483. See also 399 India, Engineering Education in, 514 Industry and Universities, Need for Closer Co-operation, 75
Instrumentation and Control of Nuclear Reactors, Course at Harwell Reactor School, 749
Investment, Long Term, in Education, by W. Hatton, 685
Iron and Steel Federation, British, Training (Magazine), 235
Industry, Courses for Managers in, 146
— — Industry, Foremen Training Courses
in, 146
Industry, Training of Apprentices in, 146
Industry, Training in. Magazine of British Iron and Steel Federation on, 235
Industry, Training in. Survey of, 146 Operatives’ Course of City and Guilds of London Institute, 146 Johnson, C. H. (Machinery), Ltd., Group Apprenticeship Scheme, 279*
Kilmarnock, Technical College for, Discussion in Parliament on, 144
King’s College (London), Engineering Society, 1847-1957, by W. O. Skeat (Book), 347
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Education—continued
King’s College (Newcastle upon Tyne), “ Pegasus ” Computer at, 292
Laboratories, Science, School, Discussion in Parliament on, 524
Language Courses, Russian, at Universities, Discussion in Parliament on, 680
Leeds University, Research into Dialects, 203
Licentiatus Technices, New Degree in Denmark, 139
Literature, Children’s, in Russia, 155 Liverpool University, Nuclear Engineering Course, 174
London University. See Imperial College: King’s College; Queen Mary College; University College
Lubrication, Engineering Aspects of, Course on, 29
— Fluid-Film, Theory of, 29
— Thin-Film, Theory of, 29
Management Education and Training, International Conference on (Baden- Baden), Preliminary Notice, 131
Managers, Courses for, in Iron and Steel Industry, 146
Manchester College of Science and Technology, New Chemical Engineering Laboratories, Description and Opening of, 763*
Marine Engineering, University Education in, by Prof. G. H. Chambers, 75
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Report of President of, 91; Sloan Fellowship Programme at, 283; Summer School on Principles of Radioisotope Utilisation, 459; Principles of Education at, 827*; Department of Nuclear Engineering, 827
Mathematics, Advanced, for Technical Students, by H. V. Lowry and H. A. Hayden (Book), 213
Maudslay Scholarships and Prizes, 227
Mechanical Engineers, Practical Training of. Report on, 492. See also 481, 514
Melbourne University, Discovery, Official Publication of. Note on, 251
Mining Association, British Overseas, Scholarships of, 816
— Engineers, Training of, by A. W. S. Schumann, 75
Nairobi Technical College, Facilities at, 657
Netherlands, Training Courses and Research in Small-Scale Industry, 145
Nuclear Energy Agency, European, Training Courses on Nuclear Energy, 749
Training Courses on, 749
— Engineering Course, Liverpool University, 174
— Power Engineering, Course in, at Bristol 808
Post-Graduate Course at Imperial College (London), by Prof. J. M. Kay, 394*. See LETTERS, 483, 579. See also 399
Undergraduate Training in, by N. S. Grassam, 483. See LETTER, 579
— Reactors, Control and Instrumentation of. Course at Harwell Reactor School, 749
Course at Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell), 495
Training, at Brussels Fair, 521
— Training Centre, Baghdad Pact, Activities of, 238; Appointment of H. A.C. McKay as Director of, 238
Nucleonics, Applied, Course in, at Queen Mary College, 270
Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology, Nuclear Power Plant for Remote Location and Long Operation, 432
Office Executives, Courses for, 176
Officers’ Association, Course for Employment in Electrical Engineering Industry, 560
Older Workers, Industrial Training for, by D. G. Entwisle, 707
Operator Training in Screw Division of Guest Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands), Ltd., by E. D. Simmons, 753*
Oxford University, Readership at. Sponsored by Institute of Transport, 176;
Financial Offer towards Cost of New College, 616
Philco (Great Britain), Ltd., Electronic Circuit Apparatus for Instructional Purposes, 789*
Pre-Service Training at Technical Training Colleges, Grants for. Discussion in Parliament on, 208
Queen Mary College, Applied Nucleonics Course, 270; Accelerated Curing Tests on Concrete, by J. W. H. King, 324
adioactive Isotopes, Course on, for Directors, 77
Radioisotopes Course for Business Men, 366
— Utilisation, Principles of. Summer School on, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 459
Reading Habits, School Children and Their, Survey of, by W. H. Smith and Son, Ltd., 91
Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Apprenticeship Scheme of, 279*
Russia, Children’s Literature in, 155
— Exchanging Teachers with, 175
Russian Language Courses at Universities, Discussion in Parliament 680
Sales Training Cinema Films, 81
Salters’ Exhibitions, 816
— Institute of Industrial Chemistry, Lectures to School Children in Chemistry, 816
Sandwich Courses, Financially Assisted, 592
Scholarships of British Overseas Mining Association, 816
— in Civil Engineering, 67, 720
Education—continued
Scholarships Education, Dr. G. M. Trevelyan’s Scheme, 10
— Engineering, Announcement of New, 227
— of English Electric Co., Ltd., 227
— of European Coal and Steel Com
munity, 217
— of Guest Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd., 227
— and Prizes, Maudslay, 227
— Vickers-Armstrong, 45. See LETTER, 292
— Vickers, Ltd., 45. See LETTER, 292
— See also Fellowship (above) School Children and Their Reading Habits, Survey of, by W. H. Smith and Son, Ltd., 91
— Leavers, Employment of, Carr Committee on, 278
— Science Laboratories, Discussion in Parliament on, 524
Science Laboratories, School, Discussion in Parliament on, 524
Scientific Education in United States, by Dean Harrison, 827
— Training and Clear Thinking, Views on, 329
Scientists, Training of. Adaptation to Needs of Intercommunication, 33
Scotland, Technical Colleges in. Discussion in Parliament on, 144
— Technical Education in. Discussion in Parliament on, 496
— Technological Education in. Discussion in Parliament on, 144
Scottish Educational Certificates, Discussion in Parliament on, 144
Selling, Art of. Course on, 209 of. Course at Caxton Hall, 433 Sloan Fellowship Programme at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 283 Slough Metals, Ltd., Group Apprenticeship Scheme, 279*
Southampton University, Tidal Model for Southampton Water at, 198; Undergraduate Training in Nuclear Power, by N. S. Grassam, 483, 484
Steelwork, Structural, Readership and Post-graduate Bursaries in, at Imperial College of Science and Technology, 139
Structural Steelwork, Readership and Post- Graduate Bursaries in, at Imperial College of Science and Technology, 139
Students, Graduate, and Research Workers, Notes on Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Grants for, 107
— Technical, Advanced Mathematics for, by H. V, Lowry and H. A. Hayden (Book), 213
Study Abroad, Unesco Publication, 57
— Projects, by D. C. Morgan, 323 Swansea, University College of. Inaugural Lecture on Communication of Ideas, by Prof. R. H. Macmillan, 375 Teachers, Engineering, Plan for Fundamental Research by, 391
— Exchanging with Russia, 175 ?— National ' - "
Careers Annual 493
— Pensions, Comment on, 685 —- Salaries in United States, 825
— Shortage of. Note on, 107 of, in United States, 825
?—• in Technical Colleges, Supply of, 203 Institutions, Association of. Presidential Address on Long Term Investment in Education, by W, Hatton, 685
?—? Technical, Training of. Comment on, 304
— Training Colleges, Increased Grants for Parents of State Scholars and Students at, 752
Teaching, Technical, Position and Prospects of, 304
Technical Colleges, Alkali Inspectorate Districts, Discussion in Parliament on, 208
Degree Courses, Closure of. Discussion in Parliament on, 524
Nairobi, Facilities at, 657
?— — in Scotland, Discussion in Parliament on, 144
Teachers in. Supply of, 203
Wastage from 279
— Education and Careers in Industry, Year Book of (A, and C. Black), 823 Comment on Problems of, 193 •—?— Need for Flexible Structure, 193 for Production Engineers, by Lord Hives, Comment on, 193
in Scotland, Discussion in Parliament on, 496
— — Teen-Age Bulge and, 616
— Students, Advanced Mathematics for, by H. V. Lowry and H. A. Hayden (Book), 213
— Teacher Training Colleges, Increased Vacancies at. Comment on, 304
—? Training School of Gailey and Roberts, Ltd,, in Nairobi, 657
Technological Awards, National Council for, 193
— Education for Industry, Modern, Report on Conference on, 409
in Scotland, Discussion in Parliament on, 144
Technology, Diploma in. Remarks on, by Lord Hives, 193
Television, Influence of. Note on, 155 Town and Country Planning Summer School (Oxford), Future Pattern of Surface Transport, by A, J. White, 227 Training Aid Kits for Aero-Engine Schools (Rolls-Royce, Ltd,), 517*
— Courses in Small-Scale Industry in Netherlands, 145
— Operator, in Screw Division of Guest Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands), Ltd., by E. D. Simmons, 753*
Education—continued
Training for Skill, Carr Committee Report on, 524
Trevelyan, Dr. G. M., Scholarship Education Scheme, 10
United States, Education in, by E. P. Ward, 825*
Universities, Admission Standards, Discussion in Parliament on, 656
— Need for More, Discussion in Parliament on, 777
— Research in United States, 826
— Russian Language Courses at. Discussion in Parliament on, 680
— College (London), Course on Radioactive Contamination of Water and Sewage, 334
— College (Swansea), Inaugural Lecture on Communication of Ideas, by Prof. R. H. Macmillan, 375
— Education in Marine Engineering, by Prof. G. H. Chambers, 75
— and Industry, Need for Closer Cooperation, 75
— Need for More Places at. Discussion in Parliament on, 656
— Places at. Discussion in Parliament on Shortage of, 524
— Plain Words on Class Distinction at, 162
— Pppulation, Proportion of Faculties,
496
— See also under specific Universities and Colleges
Upper Yardmen Scheme of Royal Navy, Revised Plans for Entry and Training Under, 493
Vickers-Armstrongs Scholarships, 45.
LETTER, 292
Vickers Scholarship Awards, 45.
LETTER, 292
Welfare Society, Industrial, Courses Office Executives, 176
Wilmot Breeden Group, Fellowships
428
See
See
for
of,
Young People in Industry, Recruitment and Training, 272, 278*
Union of. Annual Guide to for Yougn People, 361; Conference (Scarborough),
Educational Supply Association, Ltd,, Information Books of, 730
Edwards Alto Vuoto A.p. A., Formation of, 611 Edwards, F, H,, on Low-Temperature Tests on
Rubbers, 113; on Tests for Rubber-to- Metal Bonding, 150
Edwards, Sir G., Remarks on Finality in Design, 287; Presidential Address to Royal Aeronautical Society on Britain’s Stake in Field of Supersonic Civil Travel, 380*; on Aircraft Speed Prediction, 597*
Edwards High-Vacuum, Ltd., Refrigerated Baffles for High-Vacuum Diffusion Pumps, 310*; Vacuum Pumps, 397; Refractory Vapour Source for Evaporation of Aluminium, 400; Opening of New Factory in Milan, 611
Efoo-Upton Graphite-Electrode Salt-Bath Furnaces, 167*
EFFBR Nuclear Reactor Vessel, Description of, 718*
Effluent, Trade, in Western Germany (Book), 181
— Water, Corby Ion-Exchange Process for, 338 Egbert, P. T., Remarks on New Developments
of ALC() Products Inc., 461 Egyptian Chariots, 474* “ E.l,” Dynamometer (Heenan and Froude,
Ltd,), 677*
ElAGA, Group Apprenticeship Scheme of Engineering Industries Association, 279 “ Eimco 105 ” Mechanical Shovel at Steel Co, of Wales, 218*
Eisenhower, President, State of the Union Message to Congress, 66
Eisner, E,, on Contact of Metallic Bodies;
Effect of Tangential Force, 182*
Ekco Electronics, Ltd,, Control Unit for Machine-Tool Automatic Co-ordinate Setting Equipment, 488*
EL3 Nuclear Reactor at Centre D’Etudes Nucleaires, France, 399
“ Eland ” Gas-Turbine Engine for “ Westminster ” Helicopter (D. Napier and Son, Ltd,), 751*
— N.EI.6 Propeller Turbine Aero-Engine,
Type Tests on (D. Napier and Son, Ltd,), 572
— Propeller-Turbine Engine for “ Rotodyne ”
Airliner (D, Napier and Son, Ltd.), 750* Eland, W., Jr., on Coking Properties of
Scottish Coking Coals Used at Clyde Iron Works, 179
Elastic-Plastic Range, Structural Analysis in. Floating Body Analogy, by R. J. P. Garden, 573*
— Range, Tests on Struts in, by K. B. Ayers
and R. C. Coates, 88*
Elastomers Research Laboratory at Hemel Hempstead (E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.), 770
— Semi-Cured Silicone, Insulation for Traction
Motors, 819*
“ Electra ” Propeller-Turbine Airliner (Lockheed Aircraft Corp.), 37*
“ Electran ” Transformer Plug (Dohm Group), 384*
Electric—continued
Armature Reversing Switches for Mercury Arc Converters (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701*
Battery. See Accumulator (above)
— Vehicles. See Motor Vehicle; Motor Truck
Bridge, Direct-Current, in Dynamic Calibration of Fatigue Testing Machines, 693*
Cables. See Cables
Cathode Rays. See Cathode Cells. See Cells
Circuit. See Circuit
Coil Winders (Trade Publication), 181 Condenser-Bushings, 132 kV, Laboratory and Field Tests on, by J. L. Douglas and A, W, Stannett, 405
Conductors, Electrical, International Standards Sizes (Book), 585
— Overhead, “ Awco ” Saddle Tap for (Aluminium Wire and Cable Co,, Ltd.), 70*
— Semi See Semi-Conductors
Controls, Electric (Trade Publication), 181 Converters, Mercury-Arc, Control of Large Motors by (English Electric Co., Ltd,), 701*
Corona Discharge, Effect of Transmission Voltage, 822
Cranes. See Cranes
Diode, Computer, Silicon, High-Speed (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 787
— Switching, Four-Region (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 787
Discharges. See Discharges Distribution Lines. See Power Transmission
Domestic Electrical Equipment, Qutput Position and Prospects of, 114* Dynamo. See Generator; Turbo-Generator Electric Controls (Trade Publication), 181 — Kitchen Planning (Brochure), 640 — and Magnetic Fields in Unified Field Theory, 290
Electric Power, Eee Electricity (below); and Power
— Rail Traction, See Locomotives; Railways
— Way of Cooking (Brochure), 640 Electrical Accessories (Trade Publication), 181
— Appliances, Discussion in Parliament on “ Kite Mark ” Scheme for, 656
Domestic, Qutput Statistics, 114* Safety of. Joint Committee of Electrical Development Association and British Standards Association on, 656
?— Conductors, International Standards Sizes (Book), 585
— Conference, British (Brussels), Nuclear Energy—Power of the Future, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 650
— Contract Workers, Wage Increase for, 784
— Design, by H. Clausen, 791
— Distribution System, Factory (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 360
— Domestic Appliances, Government Policy on, 137
— Engineers Exhibition (London), Exhibits at, 454*
Mining, See Mining Electrical Engineers
— Engineering in Hydro-Electric Engineering Practice, by J. G. Brown and P. L. Blackstone (Review), 154
? Industry,
of, 419
?— — Industry,
of, 774
Industry, Parker, 658
Industry,
Progress
Position
Troubles
and Prospects
and Prospects
in, by G. H.
Two-Year Course for Employment of Officers in, 560
Electrical Engineering U.S.S.R.. English Translation of Papers in Russian Journal Elektrichestvo, 61
— Equipment on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner,
557
?—? — Diversification Activities of Aircraft Firms in, 601
? Heavy, General Electric Co. (U.S.),
Plea for Increased Restrictions on Import of, 529
— — Imports to United States, General
Electric Co, (U.S.) Support for Task Force on, 790
Importation of Foreign-Built, by United States, 658
Manufacturing Industry, Position and Prospects of, 367
for Oil Terminal at Puerto Miranda, Orders for, 755
— Field Theory of Prof. W. Heisenberg,
303
— Goods and Apparatus, Light, Exports
of, 114*
— Industry’s Financial Contribution to
“ by Viscount
Electric:
Accumulator Battery, Kathanode, for Traction Vehicles (Trade Publication), 730
Alternating Current Systems, Air-Blast Circuit-Breakers for, Short-Circuit Testing of. Rules Governing (Book), 585
Alternator. See Generator and Turbo Ammeter. See Ammeter
Anode and Positive, by G. H. C. Nicholls, 419*. See LETTERS, 484, 547, 611
Arc Furnaces. See Furnace, Electric Arc Welding. See Welding
Armature Insulated with Silicone-Bonded Glass Mica in Traction Motors, 819* — Reversal Mercury-Arc Converter Connections (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701*
Research, Remarks
Hailsham, 641 Heavy, Position and
55* Light, Position and
114*
— Installation in Large Dock Areas, by
M. Rundle, 260
— Journal Red Book; Electricity Under
takings of World 1957-58 (Book), 585
— Machinery, Price Reductions by
Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., 588
— Plant and Machinery, Exports of, 55* and Machinery, Production Statistics, 55*
Manufacturing Industry, Position and Prospects of, 367
— Power Convention, British, Develop
ment of Nuclear Energy for Electricity Supply in Great Britain, by Sir C. Hinton, 808*
Packs, Alt^isqating-Current, for Guided Weapons (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 727*
See also Power
Prospects of.
Prospects of,
16
ENGINEERING. VOL. 185 (1958)
Electric—continued
Electrical Prospecting, by P. Lasfargues (Book), 252
— Test, High-Frequency, for Surface Condition of Bearing-Balls, 151*, 152*
— Trades Union. See Labour
— Weighing (Trade Publication), 181 Electricity Board, Uganda, Annual Report of, 514
— Consumption, Domestic, Survey of, 483 — Direct Conversion mionic Converter trie Co.), 89
— Direct Conversion
Energy to. Possibility of, 173
— Domestic Consumers of. Survey of, 483 — Generated by a Nuclear Power Plant, Cost of, 630*
— Greenhouse Heating by, 672
— in Hospitals, Theme of Electrical
Engineers’ Exhibition, 359
— Industry, Committee on Administration of, 367
Co-operation with Gas Industry, 368 Proposed Capital Investment in, 515
— in London Docks, Growth of, 260 — Meters, External, Experiment at West
Thurrock. 416
— Supply and Consumption in Uganda, 99
in Great Britain, Development of Nuclear Energy for, by Sir C. Hinton, 808*
Expansion Programme, Cuts in, 127 Garcke’s Manual of (1956-57) (Book), 27
Industry, Efficiency of. Discussion in Parliament on, 208
Industry, Generating Plant Statistics for 1957, 46*
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 54*, 127
Industry, Problem of Low Load Factory in, 546
? Industry, Review of Developments
in. 419
Rural, Position of, 127
— Undertakings of the World, 1957-58; Electrical Journal Red Book (Book), 585
— See also Central Electricity Authority; Central Electricity Generating Board
Electrification of Farm Buildings, Discussion in Parliament on, 390
— of Railways, Faraday Lecture, by G. H.
Fletcher (Delivered by R. Ledger), 226
— Rural, Discussion in Parliament on, 390 Electronics. See Electronic; Electronics Electroplating. See Electro
Eletrique a Haute Tension, Conference Internationale des Grandes Reseaux: Group 34 on Teletransmission, 821; Group 12 on Transformers, 821; Group 11 on Generators, 821; Group 13 on Circuit Breakers, 821; Group 21 on High Voltage Cables, and Special Aspects of Direct-Current Cables, 822; Groups 40 and 42 on Transmission of Supplies at Voltages above 220 kV, 822
Excitron, “ Com-Pak,” for Electric Locomotives (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 699
Field Reversal Mercury-Arc Converter Connections (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701
Floodlights for Niagara Falls, by T. G. Proctor and H. F. Stephenson, 230* Frequency Allocation, Appointment of Sir L. Bragg as Adviser to Postmaster Gene'al on, 153
Furnace? See Furnaces
Galvanometer, Swinging, for Inspection of Adhesion of White-Metal Bearing Linings (Brush Group, Ltd.), 276
Generating Stations. See Power Stations Generator. See Generator and Turbo Grid Control Areas, 766*
Centres, 766*
? Networks, British, Modernisation
of, by P. F. Gunning and M. Kaufmann, 821
Rooms, 767*
— National Control System for, 766*
— System, British 132 kV, Results of Full-Scale Stability Tests on, by F. Busemann and W. Casson, 404
Tests, Large-Scale, Organisation for, by F. H. Last, E. Mills, and N. D. Norris, 404
Ignitrons for Electric Locomotives, 699 Impedance Tester for Checking Electrical Installations in Buildings (Ferranti, Ltd.), 359
Induction Furnace. See Furnace — Motors. See Motors, Electric Insulating Segments of Motor Commutators, Electronic Dividing Attachment for Machine for Automatic Undercutting of (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 388
Insulation, Composite, of Synthetic High Polymer Materials and Oils, Contribution to Development of Power Cables for High and Extra High Voltages with, by J. C. de Vos and J. Vermeer, 822
— Plastics, for Cables, by R. C. Mildner and E. D. Humphries, 822
?— Resin-Impregnated Densified Laminate, Permali, for ZETA, — of Rubber-Covered Cables, Specification for Composition and Performance Requirements of, 159
?— Silicone, for Traction Motors, 819* -— Stator, of Large Alternators, Research into Improvement of Resistance to Ageing of, by K. Abegg, C. Caflisch, and F. Knapp, 821
— Tester for Telephone Lines, 153 Interference. See Interference Kettles, Electric, Tests on, 32
of Heat to, Ther- for (General Elec-
of Thermonuclear
Wood
333
New
Electric—continued
Lamp, Arc, “ High Power,” Mole Richardson Gaumont-Kalee Type 490, for “ Todd-AO ” Projectors (Rank Precision Industries, Ltd.), 549
— Carbon Arc, for Floodlighting of Niagara Falls (Savage and Parsons, Ltd.), 231*
— Fluorescent (Trade Publication), 309 Standard Watershed and
Corrosion Watershed Fittings, for Humid Atmospheres (A.E.l. Lamp and Lighting Co., Ltd.), 4
— MBF/U 1,000 Watt, in High-Bay Lighting Installation at de Havilland Propellers, Ltd. (Holophane, Ltd.), 80*
— Motor-Vehicle, Equipment and Methods for Measurement of, 371* — Reflector, Pressed-Glass,
Weatherproof Fittings for (Philips Electrical, Ltd.), 512
— Switch-Start, Watertight Fluorescent Fittings for (Philips Electrical, Ltd.), 512
— See also Lights and Lighting (below) Lights, Bulkhead, “ Duolacent ” Range (Heyes and Co., Ltd.), 4
— Indicator, and Fittings (Trade Publication), 27
— Reflector Material, Aluminium, “Alux” (Veritys, Ltd.), 544
— Tunnels, High-Intensity, for Visual Examination of Cars at Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., 636*
— See also Lamps (above) and Lighting (below)
Lighting, “ Designed Appearance,” in Gloucester Cathedral, 566*
— Equipment at Gatwick Airport, 653 — Fittings, Flameproof and Weatherproof (Trade Publication), 534
for Use with Closed-Circuit Television in Nuclear Reactors and Supersonic Wind Tunnels (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 805
— High-Bay, at de Havilland Propellers, Ltd. (Holophane, Ltd.), 80*
— Material, Roof, Corrugated, NonCombustible (C/orroglaze, Ltd.), 197 — for Pelham Road Bridge (Engineering and Lighting Equipment Co.), 815 — Plastics in. Exhibition, 472
— Runway, at Gatwick Airport, 653 — See also Lamps and Lights (above) Load Factor in Electricity Supply Industry, Problem of Low, 546 Locomotives. See Locomotives, Electric Machines. See Generators; Motors: Turbo Main, Ring, Cabling, for Gatwick Airport (Crompton Parkinson), 635
Unit, Non-Extensible, NX (Johnson and Philips, Ltd.), 455*
— Stabilisers, Alternating -Current (Trade Publication), 181
— See also Cables
MBF/U 1,000-Watt Lamps in High-Bay Lighting Installation at de Havilland Propellers, Ltd. (Holophane, Ltd.), 80*
Mercury-Arc Converters, Control of Large Motors by (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701*
Microwaves, See Microwaves Motors. See Motors, Electric Networks, Control, British, Grid, Modernisation of, by P. F. Gunning and M. Kaufmann, 821
— Passive, Synthesis, by J. E. Storer (Book), 793
Oil Switch. See Switchgear
Plug, Transformer, “ Electran ” (Dohm Group), 384*
Positive and Anode, by G. H. C. Nicholls, 419*. See LETTERS, 484, 547, 611 Power. See Power
— Stations. See Power Stations and Nuclear Power Stations
Printed-Circuit Panels, “ Flowsolder ” Unit for Continuous Soldering of (Fry’s Metal Foundries, Ltd.), 575 Rail Traction, Electric. See Locomotives, Railways
Railways. See Railways Rays. See Cathode Rays; X-Rays Rectifier. See Rectifier
Red Book, Electrical Journal; Electricity Undertakings of World 1957-58 (Book), 585
Relays. See Relays
Resistance of Alternator-Windings Measured Under Load, by D. W, Birnstingl, 317*
— Welding. See Welding Ring Main. See Main (above) Rbntgen Rays. See X-Rays Semi-Conductors. See Conductors Ship Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion Short-Circuit Testing of Air-Blast Circuit- Breakers for Alternating Current Systems, (Book), 585
Stabilisers, Mains, Alternating-Current (Trade Publication), 181
Starters, Motor. See Motors, Electric; Starters
Stator Insulation of Large Alternators, Research into Improvement of Resistance to Ageing of, by K. Abegg, C. Caflisch, and F. Knapp, 821
Steel Manufacture. See Metallurgy; and Furnace, Electric
Storage Battery. See Accumulator (above) Switchgear. See Switchgear: Motors, Electric
Telephony. See Telephony Teletransmission, Discussions on, at CIGRE, 821
Thyratron, Triode, Xenon-Filled, Type XRI-6400A, of Disc-Seal Construction (Mullard, Ltd.), 806
Traction. See Locomotives, Electric; Railways
Transformers. See Transformers
Anti-
150 Watt,
Electric—continued
Triode Thyratron, Xenon-Filled, Type XR1-6400A, of Disc-Seal Construction (Mullard, Ltd.), 806
Turbo-Generators. See Turbo-Generators Voltmeter. See Foltmeter
Waves, Electromagnetic. See Waves. See also Microwaves; Telegraphy; Wireless
Weighing, Electrical (Trade Publication) 181
Welding. See Welding Winders, Coil (Trade Publication), Winding Gear. See Wireless Telegraphy.
Television
— Telephony. See Telephony; Radio: Television
Wiring Accessories for “ Closegang ” Switch-Boxes (J. A. Crabtree and Co., Ltd.), 480*
Electric Resistance Furnace Co., Ltd., “Alnor ” Dewpoint Meter, 422*; Baking Furnace at Kingfield Wire and Rod Works of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., 830*; 350 kW Spheroidising Furnace at Kingfield Wire and Rod Works of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., 830*
Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association, British, Advice on Standard Screw Thread, 323; Annual Report, 419; Power for Progress Exhibit at Brussels Fair, 456; Annual Report, 465; Instruments, Electronics and Automation Exhibition, 488*; Catalogue of (Book), 585
— Contract Workers, Wage Increase for, 784
— Development Association, British, Bro
chures on. Electric Kitchen Planning, and Cooking the Electric Way, 640; Committee on Safety of Electrical Appliances, 656; Greenhouse Heating by Electricity, 672; Exhibits at Chelsea Flower Show, 672
— Engineers’ Exhibition, Preview of, 359*
Winding See Radar;
181
Radio;
Radar;
Electrical Engineers, Institutio.i of:
Supply Section:
Planning and Construction of Thermal Generating Stations, Pimpaneau, 80
New by J.
Power
Application of Nuclear Energy to Production by, T. R. Puzey, 270
Faraday Lecture on Electrification of Railways, by G. H. Fletcher (Delivered by R. Ledger), 226
Kelvin Lecture on Chemical Structure of High Polymers and their Physical Behaviour, by Sir H. W. Melville, 281
Laboratory and Field Tests on l32kV Condenser-Bushings, by J. L. Douglas and A. W. Stannett, 405
Magnetic Tape for Date Recording, by Dr. C. D. Mee, 310
Organisation for Large-Scale Grid System Tests, by F. H. Last, E. Mills, and N. D. Norris, 404
President’s Comments on Manpower, 289 Results of Full-Scale Stability Tests on British 132 kV Grid System, by F. Busemann and W. Casson, 404 Radio and Telecommunications Section:
Stereophonic Recording on Gramophone Discs, by H. A. M. Clark, 448
Convention on Radio Aids to Aeronautical and Marine Navigation:
Airborne Doppler Navigation Equipment, by G. E. Beck and T. G. Thorne, 466
Combination of Inertial Navigation and Radio Aids, by A. Stratton, 466
Doppler Navigation, by J. E. Clegg and T. G. Thorne, 466
Low-Power C. W. Doppler Navigation Equipment, by J. E. Clegg and J. W. Crompton, 466
Mathematic Analysis of Collision Course Prediction by Doppler Radar, by H. R. Whitfield and C. M. Cade, 467 New Cathode-Ray Tube for Monochrome and Colour Television, by Dr. D. Gabor, Dr. P. R. Stuart and P. G. Kalman, 620*
Review of Radio Aids to Aeronautical and Marine Navigation, by C. Williams, 466
Survey of Long Range Radio Navigation Aids, by J. C. Farmer. 467
Survey of Recent Developments in Marine Radar, by A. L. P. Milwright, 466 International Convention on Microwave Ta Ives:
Atomic and Molecular Generators, by Dr. K. W. Stevens, 724
Fast-Wave Interactions with an Electron Film at Cyclotron Resonance, by A. Karp, 725
Microwave Amplification Using an Unstable Electron Beam in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields, by D. J. Harris, 725
Microwave Parametric Amplifiers and Converters, by G. Wade and H. Heffner, 724
Microwaves in Science and Technology, by Dr. R. Cockburn, 723
Parametric Amplification of Space Charge Waves, by A. Ashkin, T. J. Bridges, W. H. Lousell, and C. F. Quate, 725
Parametric Amplifier Using Lower- Frequency Pumping, by K. K. N. Chang and S. Bloom, 724
Some Proposals for Generating High Frequency Electromagnetic Waves Using the Doppler Effect, by R. B. R. Shersby-Harvie, 725
Theory of Three-Level Paramagnetic Masers, by Dr. P. N. Butcher, 725
Travelling-Wave Solid-State Masers, by A. E. Siegman, Dr. P. N. Butcher, J. C. Cromack, and W. S. C. Chang, 725
Commonwealth Tour of President and Secretary, 738
Electrica Engineers, Supervising, Association of. See Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of
— Engineering. See Electric
— Manufacturers’ Association, National,
Views on United States Importation of Foreign-Built Electrical Equipment, 658
— Research Association, Technical Reports of
(Book), 91 ; Technical Reports of (Book), 309; Annual Luncheon: Remarks by Viscount Hailsham on Financial Contribution of Electrical Industry to Research, 641; Work on Windmills, 689; Technical Reports of (Book), 730; Annual Report, 736; Heating Research at, 736
Electrical Resistance Furnace Co., Ltd., Graphite-Electrode Salt-Bath Furnaces, 167*
— Trades Union. See Labour Electricity. See Electric
— Board, South of Scotland. See Scotland,
South of
— Council, Survey of Domestic Consumers of
Electricity, 483; Capital Outlay for 1958-9, 515
Electrification. See Electric
Electro-Air Gauge for Rapid Routine Inspec- Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.),
tions (Thomas 222*
Electro-Chemical Technochemie with Vacuum Technique, 485
Electrodes, Tubular, for Cathode Ray Tubes (Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 400
— Tungsten, for Argon Arc Welding Process (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 211 Electrodialysis Process for Treatment of Brackish Water into Fresh Water, Orange Free State Plant for, 674
Electro-Hydraulic Control for Boilers and Dampers at Goldington Power Station (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 36
Electrolyte-Semiconductor Interface, Transistor Action at, by J. F. Dewaid, 696*
Electrolytic Time Indicator, " Chronistat,” 576 Electromagnetic Angle Transducer, Vernier Resolver (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 94 ' Low-
(Air
Engineering Co., Ltd., Ultrasonic Cleaning Plant
— Clutch, Bi-Directional, for Use as
Inertia High-Torque Servo Drive Trainers Link, Ltd.), 550*
— Pumps (British Thomson-Houston
Ltd.), 396*
— Separator, Heavy-Element, Mark
” Hermes,” Vacuum System for, 495*
?— Waves. See Wave.s
Electro-Magnetism and Relativity, by E. G. Cullwick (Review), 473
Electron Beam, Unstable, in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields, Microwave Amplification Using, by D. J. Harris, 725
— Film, Fast-Wave Interactions with, at
Cyclotron Resonance, by A. Karp, 725
— Heisenberg Equation for, 334
— Irradiation by, 748*
Electronic Circuit Apparatus for Instructional Purposes (Philco (Great Britain), Ltd.),. 789*
— Comparator Tests on Bearing-Balls, 151*,
152*
— Components, International Symposium on.
See Radar Establishment
Nuclear Radiation Damage to, by E. H. Cooke-Yarborough, 142
— Conveyor Control (Manufacturers Equip
ment Co., Ltd.), 614*
— Designers’ Handbook,
D. C. Davis, and A.
823
— Dividing Attachment
Automatic Undercutting of Insulating Segments of Motor Commutators (E.M.l. Electronics, Ltd.), 388
— Engineer’s Reference Book, by L. E. C.
Hughes (Book), 585
— Engineering Association. See Radio Com
munication and Electronic Engineering Association
— Equipment, Government Sales of, 337
?— Gauging Comparator, “ Magna-Gage ” (Southern Instruments Industrial Division) 708
— Multiplex Telemetering System for Grid
Control System, 767*
“ Electronic Music ” by H. Badings and J. W, de Bruyn, 160*
— Process Controller, Three-Term, Mark IV
(Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 551*
?— Recorder for Four Ring Balance Meters
(Hagan Corp. (Canada), Ltd.), 517
— Recording Apparatus, Vision, 512*
?— Scanning Correlator, Automatic, “ Auscor,” for Stereo-Images (Photographic Survey Corp.), 607
Indicator, Motor Omnibus (London Transport Executive), 58*
— Variable Speed Motor Drive (Electropower
Gears, Ltd.), 581*
Electronics, Automation and Instrumentation, Conference on. Preliminary Notice, 471
— Chassis (Trade Publication), 181
— Diversification of Aircraft Firms in, 601
— Exhibition. See Instruments, Electronics
and Automation Exhibition
— Group of Aslib, Formation of, 347
— Industrial, Elementary Principles and Appli
cations, by A. W. Kramer (Book), 793
— Industry, Activities of, 239
-—? — Government’s Responsibilities for Future of, 337
?—? — Position and Prospects of, 115
— Institution of. Exhibition and Convention
of Northern Division (Manchester), Preliminary Notice, 740
— in the Office: Practical Application of
Electronic Computers and Data Processing Machines to Clerical Work (Book), 823
— in Russia, Review of, 482 Electroplating on Nickel and Nickel Alloys,
by Sellers and Sanborn, 730
— Nickel, Using Nickel Carbonyl, 401 Electropower Gears Ltd., Mechanical Variable
Speed Motor Drive Embodying Brottby System, 581*; Electronic Variable Speed Motor Drive, 581*
Co.,
II
by R. W. Landee,
P. Albrecht (Book),
for Machine for
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Electro-Refining of Nickel, New Process for (International Nickel Co. of Ltd.), 536
Elektrichestvo, Russian Journal, Translation of Papers in, 61
“ Elektron ” Magnesium Alloy
(Trade Publication), 90 Elema-Schdnander, “ Mingograf 23OB ” High- Frequency Chart Recording Unit, 551 Element, Electric Furnace, “ Crusilite ” (Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd.), 457
— Gauging (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.),
220*
— Heating, for Skirting Heating, “ Wallstrip ’
(Copperad Ltd.), 480*
Eletrique a Haute Tension, Conference Internationale des Grandes Reseaux. See Electric
Ellesmere Port Plant of Associated Ethyl Co., Ltd., 18,400 High Power Germanium Rectifier Set at (British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 358*
Elliott Bros. (London), Ltd., Electrical Weighing (Trade Publication), 181; Miniature Air Data Computer for Aircraft, 373
Elliott, Cox and Partners, New Board Mill at Thatcham for Colthrop Board and Paper Mills, Ltd., 764*
Elliott, E., on Characteristics of Aluminium of Importance in Packaging, 783
Ellis, J. W., and Co., New Domestic Bath Manufacturing Plant of Bilston Foundries, 638*
Elton, H. J., on Three-Dimensional Tape- Controlled Inspection System, 478
El-tronics Inc., Humidity Sensing Element, 471 “EM/2” Class Electric Locomotives for Indian Railways (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 70
Embargoes. See Trade Embargoes
Embassy, British, in Moscow, Scientific Attache for. Discussion in Parliament on, 680
Emergency Alarm Repeater System, National, 183
Emery Wheels. See Grinding under Machine Tools
E.M.I., Ltd., Development of Machine-Tool Controls, 137
E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd., Punched-Tape Control System for Machine Tools, 31*; Analogue Computer for Chemical Engineering Process, 373; Electronic Dividing Attachment for Machine for Automatic Undercutting of Insulating Segments of Motor Commutators, 388; Measuring Oscilloscope. 390; Guidance System for Automatic Control of Powered Trolleys and Trucks, 488
Emigration of Engineers, 139
and Scientists, Discussion in Parliament on, 552
? Statistics and Discussion on, 100
Emmerton, J. T., on Wheel or Axle: Which Should Turn?, 474*
“ Emperor ” Duplex Brick Presses at Kuwait Sand-Lime I3rick Works (SutclifF Speakman and Co., Ltd.), 190
Employees, See Labour
Employers’ Confederation, British, Views on Future of Industrial Disputes Tribunal, 139; Request on Wages Rates Agreed in Collective Bargaining, 329
— Federation, Engineering, Rejection of
National Joint Council by, 685
Shipbuilding, Rejection of National Joint Council by, 685
— Liability. See Labour
— Ruthless, Plain Words on, 450 Employment. See Labour
Enamelling Process for Domestic Baths at Bilston Foundries New Plant, 638*
Enchiridion, House Magazine of Firth-Vickers Stainless Steels, Ltd., Comment on, 573
Encyclopaedia of American Associations, Note on,27, 181
— of American Woods, Note on Revised
Edition of, 633
— Everyman’s, Dents, Note on, 409
“ Endia ” Grinding Wheel Dressing Fixture (Engineering Diamonds, Ltd.), 516*
Endurance Tests. See Fatigue under Tests {Materials)
Energy Policy for European Iron and Steel Community, Preparation of, 706
Enfield-Andreau Experimental Wind-Driven Generator (Enfield Cables, Ltd.), 297*
Enfield Cables, Ltd., Wind-Driven Generating Plant, 297*
— Windmill (Algeria), 688*
Engelhard Industries, Publication on History and Growth of, 529
Engines, Aero. See Aeronautics
— Compound, “ Nomad,” Power Dividing
Transmission for, 123
— “ Dart,” Propeller-Turbine, in “ Viscount ”
Airliner (Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 379
— Diesel. See Engines, Oil, Diesel: Marine
Propulsion
— Dual-Fuel, for Oil or Gas (Trade Publica
tion), 534
— Gas or Oil, Dual-Fuel (Trade Publication),
534
— Heat, Cycles, with Variable Specific Heat,
by E. Jurek (Book), 27
— Internal Combustion, for College Labora
tories, Testing Equipment for (Trade Publication), 27
Combustion. See also Turbines, Gas
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Marine, for Small Power Craft, by P. N,
Barnard (Book), 585
— Mctor Car. See Engines, Petrol
— Oil, Diesel, in Aberdeen Trawlers, Discus
sion in Parliament on, 423
• Diesel, Air-Cooled (R. A. Lister and Co.,
Ltd.), 806*
? Diesel, Centenary of Birth of Designer
of, 17
Diesel, Crankcase Explosions in. Discussion in Parliament on, 552
Diesel, Crankcase Explosions, Photoelectric Warning Device for, 591. See LETTER, 676
Canada,
English
Castings
Engines, Oil, Diesel, EN 900 V6, in Shunting Locomotive Manufactured by John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd. (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 102
Diesel, Exchange Service (Trade Publication), 27
Diesel, “ Four-99,” for Motor Vehicles (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 538*
Diesel, Fumes from. Studies on, 300 Diesel, Governing of, by R. A. Fuller, 627 Diesel, High-Speed, “ P.6 ” for “ D.L.
4x4 Pathfinder ” Cross Country Vehicle (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 165*
Diesel, Horizontal and Vertical, NM (Trade Publication), 534
? Diesel, for KLIO-6 Jones Mobile Crane
(F. Perkins, Ltd.), 37*
— — Diesel, Lightweight, Uniflow, Types 34
and 35 (Drayton Diesels, Ltd.), 407*
Diesel, Mist Injection in, by M. Alper- stein, W. B. Swim, and P. H. Schweitzer, 30
Diesel, “ P6 ” and “ R6,” for Chrysler Corp. Trucks (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 588
Diesel, Production Discontinued at Leeds Works of J. and H. McLaren, Ltd., 546
Diesel, Six-Cylinder Horizontal Direct- Injection, Fitted with Holset TurboChargers, for Ulster Transport Authority Railcars (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 73*
- Diesel, for Tractors
Harvesters (F. Perkins, LETTER 131
Diesel, Turbo-Charged,
and Combine
Ltd.), 46. See
300 b.h.p., for Heavy-Duty Dumper (Rolls Royce, Ltd.), 165
Diesel. See also Marine Propulsion: Diesel Engine Users Association
Fuel Gauges for Testing of (Plint and Partners, Ltd.), 422*
or Gas, Dual-Fuel (Trade Publication), 534
Works, Modernisation of, at Petters, Ltd., 382*
See also Tractors
— Petrol, Aeroplane. See Aeronautics
Air-Cooled, “ AIO,” for “Harrier” Folding Motor Car for Airborne Forces, 18*
Conversion Sets for Running on Liquefied Petroleum Gas (J. and S. Carburettor Co.), 37
Fuel Gauges for Testing of (Plint and Partners, Ltd.), 422*
Motor Car, Climax 1,500 c.c., in Will- ment Racing Car, 82*
Motor Car, Coventry Climax FPF 4 Cylinder, for Lotus 15 Sports Racing Motor Car, 516
See also Aeronautics: Motor Cars
— Steam, in Aberdeen Trawlers, Discussion in
Parliament on, 423
Boulton and Watt (1777), 643
? Marine. See also Marine Propulsion:
Turbines
— Winding. See Winding
Engineers in Britain, Plea for Single Representative Body of, by Sir A. Whitaker, 738
— Consulting. See Consulting
— Council for Professional Development,
Activities of, 267
?— Definition of, 503 of. Plain Words on, 802
— Diary, Collins, 1958 (Book), 26
— Distribution in British Industry, Discussion
in Parliament on, 552
— Education and Training of. See Education
— Emigration of, 139
of. Discussion in Parliament on, 552 of. Statistics and Discussion on, 100
— Fully Educated, by Dr. W. Abbott, Note on,
633
Engineers’ Guild, Ltd., Memorandum on Taxation Problems in Engineering Profession, 139; Survey of Remuneration of Professional Engineers, 162; Engineers’ Guild and the Profession, by J. G. Orr, 227, 356. See LETTERS, 324; New Drive for Unity in Engineering Profession, 528; Engineers’ Salaries, by J. G. Orr, 643, 707. See LETTER, 675
— in Indian Industry and Agriculture, Import
ance of, 514
— Industrial, American Institute of, Inc.,
Research Abstracts Service of, 309
— Institutions. See Institutions
of (Australia), Library of, Note on, 585 of (India), Activities of, 514
— Junior Institution of. Maudslay Scholar
ships and Prizes, 227; British Amateur Radio in Past Decade, by E. A. Matthews, 320
—? and Management, Presidential Address by S. Winstanley, 784
— Military Service Deferment for. Discussion
in Parliament on, 272
?— Practical Training of. Plain Words on, 514. See LETTERS, 579, 580
— Professional, Remuneration of. Survey of,
162
— Reference Book,
Hughes (Book),
— Salary of, by J.
LETTER, 675
— Salesman, Remarks on, by R. S. Falk, 81
— and Scientists, Employment in Research and
Development, 355
— ?— Supply and Demand of. Comment on,
289
World Scarcity of. Review of, 146
— and Shipbuilders, North East Coast Institu
tion of. Extended Heat Exchange Surface for Marine and Nuclear Boilers, by R. E. Zoller, 286
in Scotland, Institution of: Welded Ship Construction—Records of Common Fractures and their Causes, by H. R. Gibbs and G. M. Boyd, 241*
— Society of. Presidential Address on Deminer
alisation of Water by Ion Exchange, by R. Clark, 338; Presidential Address on Uranium Recovery by Ion Exchange, by R. Clark, 459
Electronic, by L. E. C,
585
G. Orr, 643, 707. See
t Needs
Engineers, Training of. Adaptation of Intercommunication, 33
of. Comment on, 481. See 547, 611
— Year-Book for 1958, Kempe’s,
Prockter and B. W. Pendred (Book), 585
— See also Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Pro
duction, Structural, etc.
ENGINEERING, Comment on Fresh Developments in Design of, 1; Aircraft-Industry Inquiry, Report of, 593*. See also 577, 609
— and Allied Employers’ National Federation,
Study of Apprenticeship by, 280.
— and Allied Employers’ West of England
Association, Course on Designing Equipment for Human Use, 226
— Apprentices. See Education:
— Atomic, Safety in, Report on,
— Centenaries of 1958, 17
— Conference, Commonwealth
World Tour, 290
?— Contracts. See Contracts: Legal
— Craftsmanship, Hundred Years of, by R. E.
Waterhouse (Review), 408
— Design. See Design
— Designers. See Designers
Engineering Diamonds, Ltd., “Endia ” Grinding Wheel Dressing Fixture, 516*
?— Distributors, Association of. Remarks on Price Reduction, by R. F. Hatto, 209
— Dock and Harbour, Vol. 1, by H. F.
Cornick (Review), 762
— Drawing Office in New Chemical Engineer
ing Laboratories at Manchester College of Science and Technology, 764*
— Education. See Education
— Employers’ Federation, Rejection
National Joint Council by, 680, 685
— Firms, Small, Management Control of. See
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of
— Four Aspects of, 791*
— History in Kent, 818
— at Home, 32*, 64*, 96*, 128*
224, 256, 288*, 320*, 352*, 448, 480*, 512*, 544*, 576, 672*, 704*, 736*, 768, 800*,
— Human, by E. J. McCormick (Review), 375 Engineering and Industrial Corp, of Luxern-
bourg, Prayon Type Plant for Phosphoric Acid Production at Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Fertiliser Factory, 506*
— Industries Association, Group Apprentice
ship Scheme, 279; Recommendations of, 419
— Industry, British, at Brussels Exhibition, 209 Careers for Women in, 304
Consumer Trends of Interest to, 66
Employment Statistics, 21
Export Trade of, Position and Prospects of, 19*
General, Position and Prospects of, 115* Investment in. Easing of Restrictions on, 802
National Joint Industrial Council for. Rejection of, 680, 685
Position and Prospects of, 19*, 50*, 84*, 114*,321
Price Reductions in, 209
Selling in, 658
Shorter Working Week, Meeting on, 428 Unemployment in, 624
in Western Europe, Statistics on, 739
— Institute of Canada, Institution of Robert
W. Angus Medal, 347; Report of Council, 762; Canada 1957 Number of Engineering Journal, 762
Calendar of Events of, 409
— Insurance, by R. H. Procter (Review), 118
— Intercommunication in, 33 Engineering Journal, Canada 1957 Number of,
762
Engineering and Lighting Equipment Co., Lighting for Pelham Road Bridge, 815
— Laboratories. See Laboratorirs: Nationa
Physical
?— Manufacture, Quality in, by F. Nixon, 417 Technology of. Conference on, 478, 505 ?— Materials Handbook, by C. L. Mantell (Book), 700
Science of, by J. E. Goldman (Book), 181
— and Medical Professions, Plain Words on, 98
— Metallurgy, Part I: Applied Physical
Metallurgy, by R. A. Higgins (Book), 181
— Metrology Association, Progress and
Activities of, 387
— Moral Problems in, 97
— Practice, Hydro-Electric (Vols. 1-111), by
J. Guthrie Brown (Review), 154
Hydro-Electric, by J. Guthrie Brown, Note on, 119
— Products, General, Exports of, 116* —? — Television Advertising of, 209
— Profession, Taxation Problems in,
andum on, 139
— Progress and Oil
(Book), 91
— Research Institute,
Fifth Midwestern Mechanics (Book), 347
— Safety as Moral Aspect in, 97
— Scholarships, Announcement of New, 227
— Societies. See Institutions
Library Figures for 1956/7, 443
— Society, King’s College (London), 1847-
1957, by W. O. Skeat (Book,) 347
— Specialisation in. Adaptation to Needs of
Intercommunication, 33
— Standards. See Standards
— Structures, Brittle Behaviour of, by E. R.
Parker (Review), 56
— Union, Amalgamated, See under Labour
— Works, See Works
— See also Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Pro
duction, Structural, etc.
English Channel Tunnel, Bibliography on, 443 Tunnel, Centenary of First Project for, 17 Tunnel, Concrete Ring Method 249 Tunnel, Position and Prospects of, 774 -Tunnel, Revival of Interest in, 116 Tunnel, by H. Slater and C. Barnett Tunnel Works at Folkestone Warren, 818 English Electric Co., Ltd., “EM/2” Class Electric Locomotives for Indian Railways, 70; Moving Iron Switchboard Instru-
LETTERS,
by C. E.
Labour
158
(Australia),
160*,
384*, 608*, 832
Industry, by
of
192*,
416*,
640*,
Memor-
G. Sell
of the
Proceedings
Conference on Fluid
ments. Rotary Synchroscopes and Portable Current Density_ Indicator_ (Trade Publication), 119;
Welding Equipment Type (Trade Publication), 119; Multi-OperatorWelding Equipment (Trade Publication), 119; Welding Transformers (Trade Publication), 119; 500 h.p., 500 volt Direct-Current Motor for Rolling-Mill Drive at Sanderson Brothers and Newbould, Ltd., 127; Industrial Fellowships Scheme, 227; Scholarships of, 227; Aluminium Smelter Plant at Bale Comeau, 255; “ Groovees ” Welding Electrodes for Grooving, Gouging and Piercing, 281; Wind-Driven Generating Plant, 297*; 275 MW Turbo-Alternators for Blyth “ B ” Power Station, 330*; Position and Prospects of Group, 335; Position and Prospects of, 367; New Orders of, 367; Sub-Station at Brussels Fair, 487; Pumps and Francis Turbines for Pumped-Storage Scheme at Blaenau-Ffestiniog, 491 ; Policy and Action in Aircraft Industry, 595; Diversification Activities of, 601; 2,000 h.p. Diesel Electric Locomotives for Eastern Region of British Railways, 607*; “ MIG ” Gyroscope for Inertial Navigational Systems, 691*; Control of Large Motors by Mercury-Arc Converters, 701* English Electric-Babcock and Wilcox-Taylor Woodrow Group, Tender Invited for Nuclear Power Station for Japan, 270; Atomic Power Group, Model of Nuclear Power Station at Hinkley Point at Brussels Fair, 487; Constitution and Activities of, 618. See also Hinkley Point
English Electric Group, “ Deltic ” Diesel- Electric Locomotives for British Railways 450
— Language, Function of, by Prof. B. Pattison,
33
E.N.I. See Ente Nazionale Jndrocarburi Enrico Fermi Fast Breeder Reactor.
EFFBR Ente Nazionale Indrocarburi, Activities
111; Oil Concessions of. 111 Entropy, Excess, in Glass, 640 Entwisle, D. G., on Industrial Training
Older People, 707
Entz, T., Freighter to be Prototype for Nuclear- Powered Vessel, 459
E.N.V. Engineering Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 743
“ Epikote ” Resin Tools (Trade Publication), 762
Epoxide-Resin Brush-Setting Cement for Paint- Brush Manufacture, 211
Epoxy Resin Glass Cloth (Permali, Ltd.), 211
— Resins: Their Application and Techno
logy, by H. Lee and K. Neville (Book), 57 Vacuum Tank for 7 GeV Proton Synchrotron for National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, 776
Equation, Heisenberg, for Nuclear Particles, 334
“ Equator,” Thermonuclear Studies in, 238 Equilibrium Diagrams of Nuclear Engineering
Alloys, 458
Equipment and Plant 4*, 36*, 68*. 100*, 132*, 165*, 196*, 228*. 260*, 292*, 324*, 357*, 388*, 421*, 452,* 484*, 516*. 548*, 580*, 613*, 645*. 677*, 709*. 740*, 773*, 804* “ Equiverse ” Scale-Free Heating System in Direct-Fired Furnace (Trade Publication), 90
Ergonomics: Human Factors in [Fork, Machine Control and Equipment Design, New Publication of Ergonomics Research Society, 57. See LETTER, 195
— in Motor-Vehicle Design, 82
— Research Society, Ergonomics: Human
Factors in Work, Machine Control and Equipment Design, New Publication, 57 Erhard, Dr., Remarks at Frankfurt Fair of Consumer Goods, 433
Ericsson Telephones Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 584
Erni, Hans, Paintings, “ Portrait of an Age,” 588
Erosion, Coastal, Plain Words on, 418
— Gauges in “ Explorer ” Satellite, 164 Erroll, F. J., on Electrical Aids to Nation’s
Health, 454; on Position and Prospects of Compressed Air Equipment Industry, 523; Remarks at Conference on Standards, 798
Error-Sensing Device, “ Gaugemeter,” 575 Escape, Aggression, or Submission, Human
Reactions, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 429*
— and Anxiety, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 561 * “ Escort ” Marine Radar Equipment (British
Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 485 Esso Magazine, Note on, 633
Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., Expansion Plans at Milford Haven, 111; Lapping and Grinding Machine for Large Valves (Rockwell Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 518*
Estate Car. See Motor Car
Etching Machine for Printed Circuits (Lares S.R.I.), 471
Ethyl-Cellulose Self-Adhesive Labels (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
Self-Adhesive Tape for Moisture Resistant Sealing (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 192* ETR Nuclear Reactor (AEC), Full Power Operation of, 748
Etzel, Dr., on Raising Defence Costs in Germany, 676
“ Euclid S.7 ” Scraper at Steel Co. of Wales, 219*
Euratom. See European Atomic Energy Commission
Eurochemic, Formation and Proposed Activities of, 76; Authorised Capital of, 76; First Meeting of, 206; United Kingdom Assistance for, 366
Europa Publications, The British Commonwealth, Note on, 700
Europe, Eastern, Electric Power Position in, 610
Machinery Markets in, 755 Sales to, 755
— Economic Bulletin for, 210 Bu letin for. Comment on, 35
Portable Rectifier
LWD.35O Three-Phase
See
of.
for
18
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Europe. Economic Commission for, Quarterly Bulletin of Steel Statistics, 34; Economic Bulletin for Europe, Comment on, 35; Economic Bulletin for Europe, 210; 13th Session of (Geneva), 451; Report on Electric Power Situation in Europe in 1956, 451 ; Report on Electric Power Exchanges in Central and South Eastern Europe, 610
— Electric Power Exchanges in Central and
South Eastern, Report on, 610
Power Situation in, in 1956, Report on, 451
-— Freer Trade in. Problems of (Pamphlet), 803
— Need for Oil, Report by Oil Committee of
Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, 131
— Oil Pipelines under Consideration in 233 Refinery Capacity Expansion in, 233
— Oilfields of. Position and Prospects of, 451
— Population and Production in. Data on, 336
— Uranium-Ore Production in, 494
— Western, Atomic Energy Co-operation with
Britain, 552
Engineering
739
European Atomic stitution and Co-operation with Other Euroi^ean Commissions, 130; Discussion on British Observers at. Co-operation with, 552
— Coal and Steel Community,
G.A.T.T., 34; Relationship of Austria and Switzerland to, 35; Report on Energy Needs of, 76; Co-operation with Other European Commissions, 130; New Powers of High Authority, 195; Scholarships of, 217; Discussion in Parliament on British Observers at, 336; Report of Meeting in London, 803; Position and Prospects of, 803
— Common Market, British Observers at.
Discussion in Parliament on, 336
Market, Effect on Agricultural Machinery Industry, 51
Market, Effect on Steel Industry, 643 Market, Effect on Textile Machinery Industry, 54
Market, Effect on Rotterdam Trade and Europoort, 803
France’s Activities in, 739 France’s Attitude to, 107 Precautions Against Dumping
Industries in, Statistics on,
Energy Commission, Con- Proposed Activities of, 76;
in Parliament
336; British
Report on, by
Market, Market, Market,
in, 67
Market, Switzerland’s Relation with, 707 Market. See also European Economic Community
European Company for the Chemical Processing of Irradiated Fuel. See Eurochemic
— Demand for Copper, Remarks by R. H.
Glover on, 395
— Economic Community, Statistical Data on
Possible Impact of, 3j ~ Other European Members’ Views
Prospects, 387. Common Market
— Federation of Chemical Engineering, Meet
ing on Chemical Reaction Engineering (Book), 585
— Free Trade Area. See Free Trade Area
— Industrial Conference (London), Report of,
307
— Investments, Statistics on, 280
— Iron and Steel Community, Preparation of
Energy Policy for, 706
European Nuclear Energy Agency. Nuclear Energy Agency, European
— Organisation for Nuclear Research.
Nuclear Research
— Productivity Agency, Activities for
131; Seminars on Company Planning and Control, 514-515
Europium 152 as Radioactive Source for Gamma Radiography, 446*
Europoort Harbour Plan at Rotterdam, Progress of, 802
Eurotron. See Synchrotron, Proton, 25 GeV, of CERN
Eutectoid Reaction in Plutonium-Rich Alloys, by S. T, Konobeevsky, 459
Evans, B. B.. on New Specification for Composition and Performance Requirements of Insulation and Sheaths of Rubber Covered Cable, 159
Evaporating and Distillation Plant for Sea Water (G. and J. Weir), 674
Evaporation of Aluminium, Refractory Vapour Source for (Edwards High Vacuum, Ltd.), 400
— - Plant, Sea-Water (G. and J. Weir, Ltd.), 530* Evaporator, Flash, Continuous High-Output,
for Producing High-Purity Distilled Water from Sea Water (Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd.), 70*
•— Seawater, Admiralty Compound for (Geigy Co., Ltd.), 253
Heat-Transfer in, 253
? Tests on, with Dropwise Promoters, 253
— See also Distillation : Sea Water
“ Everac ” Hydrostatic Chuck (Ingetral, Ltd.), 328*
“ Everlube ” Dry Film Lubricant (Trade Publication), 27
Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd., Servo-Driven Optical Gauge for Control of Strip Width in Hot Rolling Mills, 382*; Mark IV Three-Term Electronic Process Controller, 551 *
Everyman’s Encyclopaedia, Dent’s, 409 Excavators, Cross-Roll Bearing Slewing Ring for (Priestman Bros., Ltd.), 613*
?— “ Gradall,” at Steel Co. of Wales, 219
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 116
— Trench, “ Dinkum Digger Major,” Hydrau
lic Power Grab for (Whitlock Bros., Ltd.), 613*
Excitron, “ Com-Pak,” for Electric Locomotives (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 699
Executives, Blazers as Uniform for. Comment on, 685
— and Professional Register of Ministry of
Labour and National Service, 560
Exhaust-Steam Turbine. See Turbine, Steam
— Valves. See Valves
Co-operation with Commissions, 130; on Free Trade Area See also European
See
See
1958,
Exhibitions, Atomic Energy, at Symposium on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (Sydney, 1958), 44
Energy, United Nations (Geneva), 333
— Atoms for Peace (Geneva), Participation of
Scientific Instrument Manufacturers Association of Great Britain, 16; Preliminary Notice, 337
?— of Automatic Vending Machines, Preliminary Notice, 790
— Boat Show, Exhibits at, 63
— British Industries Fair, Failure of, 3; Dis
cussion in Parliament on Future of, 175 Trade Fair at Lisbon, 755
— Brussels Universal and International Fair.
See Brussels
— Chelsea Flower Show, Electrical Develop
ment Association Exhibits at, 672
— of Company Records of Fawcett Preston &
Co., Ltd., 743
— and Conferences, Forthcoming, 148, 277,
406, 532, 692, 831
— and Convention of Northern Division of
Institution of Electronics (Manchester), Preliminary Notice, 740
— Eccles, Sir D., Statement on, 337
— Electrical Engineers, Preview of, 359*;
Exhibits at, 454*
— Facilities in United Kingdom, Investigation
of, 147
— Factory Equipment, Exhibits at, 486*, 519 —- Fairs, General, Lack of Support for, 3
— Frankfurt Fair of Consumer Goods, Re
marks by Dr. Erhard at, 433
— Geneva Motor Show, Private Motor Car
Exhibits at, 435
— Hardware Trades Fair, Exhibits at, 320
— Ideal Home, Powered Tools at, 352*
— Importance to British Industry, 658
— Industrial, Moscow, Preview of, 790
— Instruments,
Conference Exhibits at,
— International
471
on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (Geneva), 333
— Leipzig Fair. See Leipzig Fair
— Lisbon, British Trade Fair at, 755
— Mallett, H. R., Remarks on, 337
— Mechanical Handling, Exhibits at, 582*,
613*
— Mechanical and Materials Handling Con
vention, Report on, 755
— Napier, D.. and Son, Ltd., 710*
— Nuclear, at Glasgow, 110
— Paris Fair, Note on, 658
— of Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy (Geneva)
British Space at, 808
— Peking Trade Fair (British), Discussion in
Parliament on, 680
— Physical Society, Preview of, 373; Exhibits
at, 389*; Exhibits for Nuclear Energy Industry, 396*
— Plastics in Lighting, 472
— Poznan Fair, United Construction Machin
ery Co., Ltd., at, 755; British Companies at, 790
— Practical Householder, at Earls Court, Pre
liminary Notice, 224
— of Samples of New Building Materials, Pre
liminary .Announcement, 320
— Specialised, Exhibitions’ Advisory ’Com
mittee’s View on, 337
?— on Telford Story, Review of, 57
— Textiles Trade Fair, National Industrial, 536
— United States World Trade Fair, Survey of,
209
— Working Models at, 658
Existence and Science, by Rev. A. Richardson, Comment on, I
Exosphere, Temperature Information on, 404
Expansion Bellows in Ducting at High Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd., 469*
Expedition, British Commonwealth TransAntarctic, Equipment of, 372*
Expenditure and Income, National (1952-57), Preliminary Estimates of. Comment on 450
— on Plant and Equipment in United States,
744*
— Research,
lists and
“ Explorer ” 263*
? Erosion Gauges and
Thermometers in, 164
Temperature Informal
“ Explorer 1 ” Satellite, 462*
“ Explorer 2 ” Satellite, 462*
Explosion, Boiler. See Boiler Explosion
— Colliery. See Accidents and Colliery
— Crankcase, in Diesel Engines, Discussion in
Parliament on, 552
in Diesel Engines, Photoelectric Automatic Device for Warning of, 591. See LETTER, 676
— Gas or Vapour, Flame Arresters for, by
K. N. Palmer, 438
— Hazards in Compressed Air Systems, by
A. C. Smith and Dr. A. Thomas, 671
— of Mercury Fulminate, Photograph of, 217*
— Nuclear, for Peaceful Purposes, Project
Plowshare on, 399
Subterranean, “ Rainier,” at Nevada Test Site, 399*
— Venting System, Graviner, for Test Cell at
High-Altitude Test Plant for Jam-Jet Engines at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 438 Explosives Production, Use of Television in, 101*
Exponential Pile (Ydin), 749*
Export Credits Guarantee Department, Activities of, 130; Report for 1957, 130
— Prices of Sawn Softwood, 338
— Trade. See Trade
Express Contents of Soviet Journals (Consultants Bureau, Inc.), 730
Extraction, Solvent, Processing Methods, Work on, at Dounreay, 495
— System, Solvent, Multicomponent, Com
putation of Performance of, by J. T. Wood and J. A. Williams, 236
“ Extraplay ” Magnetic Recording Tape (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486
Extrusion, Impact, of Steel, by W. 306*
— Pipe Bending Machine, 95
Eye, Irradiation Applicator for Research Development Corp.),
H. Byles,
(National
396
Electronics and Automation, at. Preliminary Notice, 471; 549*
Instrument Show, Exhibits at.
Differences of Opinion of Scien-
Administrators on. 738 Satellites, by
K. W. Gatland,
Skin Temperature
ion from, 404
FABER, O., and Partners, Lloyd’s New Building, 274*
Fabrics, Heat Insulation in. Aluminium for (Deering, Milliken and Co., Inc.), 128 Fabrications, Steel (Trade Publication), 90 Facing Machine. See Machine Tools Facsimiles, Transmitting of, over Telephone, “ Hellfax ” Transviewer for (K. S. Paul, Ltd.), 229*
Factor of Safety, Definition of, 417
Factories, Building of. Position and Prospects of, 80
— Electrical Distribution System (General
Electric Co., Ltd.), 360
— Employment of Women in. See Women
under Labour
— Equipment Exhibition, Exhibits at, 486*,
519.
— Management. See Management
— Project in Northern Ireland of Tolimit
Gauges,
— Welfare
Labour Fair, Trade. Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour, Ltd.,
Tests on “ Magnaspin ” Spinning Machine for Worsted and Synthetics, 54
Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., Jet Airliner for British European Airways, 240; Programme Controlled Three-Dimensional Milling Machine, 549*; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer, 550: Policy and Action of, 594; Diversification of, 595; Diversification Activities of, 601 ; “ Palouste ” Gas Turbine for “UltraLight” Helicopter, 667*; “ Rotodyne ” Vertical Take-Off and Landing Airliner, 680, 750*
Fairhurst, H. S., and Son, New Chemical Engineering Laboratories for Manchester College of Science and Technology, 764* Falk, R. S., Remarks on Engineer-Salesman by, 81
Falkirk, Depression in Light Castings Industry, 144
— Need for New Trades in, 144 “Far-Air” Viscous Impingement Filters
(Intermit, Ltd.), 326*
“ Far-Air Roll-Kleen ” Filter (Intermit, Ltd.), 326*
Far Eastern Countries, Economic Position of, 427
Faraday House Engineering College, Appointment of New Board of Governors and Future Policy of, 560
— Lecture on Electrification of Railways, by
G. H. Fletcher (Delivered by R. Ledger), 226
Farbman, G. H., on American Commercial Nuclear Power Station Development, 808 Farm Buildings, Electrification of. Discussion in Parliament on, 390
— General Layout of, 563
— Management, Work Study in. Conference
on, 267
— Organisation: Influence of Machinery
Developments, by R. Paterson, 563
Farmer, J. C., on Survey of Long Range Radio Navigation Aids, 467
Farming, Power, Machines for, by A. A. Stone and H. E. Gulvin (Book), 56
— See also Agriculture; Tractors
Farnell, K., on Piecemeal Yielding of Mild Steel, 92*; on Stress Distribution in Overstrained Mild Steel Beams, 788*
Farr Co., “ Far-Air ” Viscous Impingement Filters and “ Rotonamic ” Air and Gas- Cleaning Panels, 326*
Farradane, J., on Institute of Information Scientists, 3
Fatigue Laboratory at Cambridge University, 276*
— Passenger, in Railway Coaches, New
Method of Assessing, 186
— Tests of Metals. See Fatigue under Tests
(Materials)
— Thermal, Resistance of Steels to, 698
— Torsion, Testing Machine, “ Torsator,”
Incorporating High-Frequency “ Vibro- phore ” Photo Electric Control Device (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 786*
“ Favorit ” Filter Process for Recovery of Dust and Fumes (Trade Publication), 309 Fawcett, J. R., on Pressure Sealing by O-Rings, 314*. See LETTER, 388*
Fawcett Preston and Co., Ltd., 200th Anniversary of, 743
Feather, V. G. H., on Strike at British Motor Corp., Ltd., 265
Federation of British Industries, Nuclear Conference for Fringe Industries, 110; Investigation into Exhibition Facilities in United Kingdom, 147; Trade Effluent and Water Supplies in Western Germany (Book), 181; Activities at Brussels Exhibition, 209; Selected British Technical Journals (Booklet), Note on, 213; Committee on Nationalisation of Manufacturing Industry, 258; Tax Recommendations to Chancellor of Exchequer, 419; Results of Inquiry into Industrial Trends, 433; Fighting Inflation (Pamphlet), 450; Conference on Implication of Nuclear Development for Management (Eastbourne), 459; Presidential Address, by Sir H. Beaver, 482; Report on Investment in West Africa, 482; Conference on Nuclear Energy, 525; Conference on Nuclear Energy (Eastbourne), Forecast of Nuclear Power Plant Exports, by J. R. Cuthbertson and J.
Ltd., 395
Work in. See Welfare under
See Exhibition Lawson Combe
Broderick, 529; British Trade Fair at Lisbon, 755; Inquiry on Present Trend.s in British Industry, 801
Federation of British Rubber and Allied Manufacturers. See Rubber and Allied Manufacturers
— of Civil Engineering Contractors. See Civil
Engineering Contractors, Federation of
— of Engineering Design Consultants. See
Engineering Design
— Internationale de la Precontraite, Congress
on Prestressed Concrete, 735
— of West Indies. See West Indies, Federation
of
Feed Pumps. See Pumps
— Water Supplies, Boiler, Controls for (Trade
Publication), 309
See also Boiler: Water
Feedback in Human Relationship, Plain Words on, 322
Loops Operating in Human Behaviour: Anxiety, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 561* Feedwater. See Feed Water
Fellow of Royal Society, Position of Abbreviation of, after Name, 659
Fellowships, Industrial, Scheme of English Electric Co., Ltd., 227
— of Wilmot Breeden Group, 428
Female Labour. See Labour
Fenner, J. H., Group, Annual Report, 111 Ferguson Tractors for British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Standard Motor Co., Ltd.), 372
Ferguson, W. W., on Foremanship as Step to Higher Management, 210
Ferodo, Ltd., ZA.I Woven Asbestos Friction Material, 23; Brakes (Trade Publication), 27; Manufacture of Sintered Metal Facings for Clutch and Brake Designs, 626; “ Cerametallic ” Friction Materials, 626
Ferranti, Ltd., Computer Programme for Calculation of Stresses in Three-Dimensional Multi-Anchor Pipe Systems, 125; “ Pegasus ” Digital Computer at Heaton Works of C. A, Parsons and Co., Ltd., 254; Impedance Tester for Checking Electrical Installations in Buildings, 359; Oscillographic Disturbance Recorder, 359; Digital Voltmeter, 389; Price Reductions on Silicon Rectifiers, 433; Programme Controlled Three-Dimensional Milling Machine, 549*
Ferrite Core Production at Towcester Factory of Plessey Co., Ltd., 799
Ferro-Concrete. See Concrete, Reinforced Fertiliser, Complete, Concentrated, Factory of Scottish Agricultural Industries at Leith Docks for, 506*
ffolliott, Col. C. N., Bridges on St. Albans By-Pass, 441
Fibres, Man-Made, by R. W. Moncrieff, Note on, 27
— Longitudinal, Effect of Inclination of, on
Bending of Pre-Twisted Turbine Blades, by Dr. W. Carnegie, 605*
Fibreglass Fabric Tubes for Filtering Gases in Manufacture of Carbon Black, 255*
Field Reversal Mercury-Arc Converter Connections (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701
— Theory, Unified, Prof. Heisenberg’s Work
on, 290, 303
Fielden Electronics, Ltd., “ Tektor Major,” Capacity-Operated Level Controller for Liquid or Granular Materials, 228*
Fielding and Platt, Ltd., Hydraulic Pumps (Trade Publication), 27; Triple-Compression Press for Baling Heavy Steel Scrap at Colvilles, Ltd., 261*
Files, Worn, Reclaiming Method, 95
Filing and Bandsawing Machine (Trade Publication), 659
— of Micro-Film, by M. Gauntlett, 155
Filler, Glass-Fibre Reinforced, “ Isopon ” (W. David and Son, Ltd.), 472
Fillets, Cold Rolling of, at Motor Industry Research Association, 772
Film, Cellulose Acetate, Dyed, “ Cinemoid,” for Floodlights for Niagara Falls, 232* Polythene-Coated, Automatic Packaging in, 790
— (Cinema), Anamorphic Lenses for Projec
tion of (J. D. Moller Optische Werke G.m.b.H.), 384
Catalogue of (Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd.), 793
Compressed-Air Control Equipment (Maxam), 741
Earth is a Battlefield, 211
Functions of Cinema Film (Film House Productions, Ltd.), 117
on High-Speed Aluminium Welding (Aluminium Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 401
on High Speed Flight (Shell Film Unit), 473
Horizons Unbounded, Plain Words on, 674
? on “ Hydulignum ” Resin-Impregnated
Densified Plywood (Hordern Richmond, Ltd.), 23
Man, Friend of Man, Double-Reel Technique in, 736
Micro-, Symposium on, 155
Salesreels of Sidcup Film Unit, 760 “ The Phoenix Tower ” (British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd. 246
on Problems of Transonic Speed (Shell), 380
“ Put this in Your Pipe ” on Laying of Aluminium Water Pipes on Canadian Oil Field (Aluminium Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 401
— — on “ Rustodian ” Rust-Inhibiting Cal
cium Plumbate Paint (Associated Lead Manufacturers, Ltd.), 242
Sales Training, 81
as Tool for Engineer, by D. P. C. Thackeray, 214*
on Tour of Sheffield Works of Thomas Firth and John Brown Ltd., 338
• on Work Study—Its Application to
Team Work, 338
Film Cooling Towers (1925), Ltd,, Cooling Power Packings, 131. See also Vol. 184
— Di-Electric (Hilger and Watts, Ltd.), 400
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Film Gate with Three Adjacent Apertures on Rapid Processing Photographic Projector for Air-Traffic-Control Radar Problems (Kelvin and Hughes, Ltd.), 310
Film House Productions, Ltd., Cinema Film on “ Presenting Film House Productions,” IP: Activities of, 117
— Lubricant, Dry, “ Everlube ” (Trade Publi
cation), 27
— Fctentiometers, Oxide and Metal (G. V.
Planer, Ltd.), 400
— Producers Guild, Cinema Film Earth is a
Battlefield, 211
— Semi-Reflector (Hilger and Watts, Ltd.), 400 Filming and Projection Technique, “ Todd-
AO,” at Dominion Theatre (London), 548* Filters, Carbon Dioxide, for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station (Mancuna Engineering, Ltd.), 110
— Cellulose Tissue (Intermit Ltd.), 326*
— “ Far-Air Roll-Kleen ” (Intermit Ltd.), 326*
— Process, “ Favorit,” for Recovery of Dust
and Fumes (Trade Publication), 309
— Viscous Impingement, “ Far-Air ” (Inter
mit, Ltd.), 326*
Filtering of Gases, Fibreglass Fabric Tubes for, in Manufacture of Carbon Black, 255* Filtration of Transformer Oil, Mobile Plant for (Manchester Oil Refinery, Ltd.), 5*
Finance, Control of, by W. R. Spencer, 145
— in Engineering, by H. Clausen, 791 * Financial and Investment Aspects of Nuclear
Energy including Home and Overseas Markets, by J. R. Cuthbertson and J. Brodrick, 527. See also 529
Financial Times Analysis of Industrial Profits, 810
Survey of Mobile Shop Development, 271 Financing World Trade, by Sir O. Franks, 171 Fingers, Counting with, by M. P. Varshney, 739-740*. See LETTER, 803*
Finishing Section in Paints Laboratory of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 817
Finland, Exponential Pile for (Ydin), 749* Finned Tube Sections for Canning of Uranium (Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 396*
FIP Congress on Prestressed Concrete, 735 Fire, Colliery, “ Foam-Plug ” Technique for, American Test of, 22
?— Extinguisher Systems, Aircraft, Fireproof Flexible Metallic Hose for (Power Auxiliaries, Ltd.), 484
— Hazards in Compressed Air Systems, by
A. C. Smith and Dr. A. Thomas, 671
— of Nuclear Fuel Rod at Chalk River, 749
— Precaution, Carbon-Dioxide System for, in
Beryllium Laboratory, 500
? in “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 557
at Television Centre of British Broadcasting Corporation at Wood Lane, 363
— Research Station, Flame Arresters for Gas
or Vapour Explosions, by K. N. Palmer, 438
— Resistant Fluids, Water-Base, “ Mobil
Nyvac,” for Hydraulic Systems (Mobil Oil Co., Ltd.), 149
— Tunnel Tests on “ Comet 4 ” Power Plant
(Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 557*
— Underfloor Air-Feed, “ Redfyre Bacboiler ”
(Newton Chambers and Co., Ltd.), 384 “ Fireball ” Plastics Television Turret Tuner (A.B. Metal Products, Ltd.), 704*. See LETTER, 740
Firms, Engineering, Small, Management Control of. See Mechanical Engineers, Institution of
Firth, T., and John Brown, Annual Report, 79; Cinema Film on Tour of Sheffield Works, 338
Firth-Vickers Stainless Steels, Ltd., House Magazine Enchiridion, Comment on, 573; Modifications at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills for Wide Stainless Steel Strip, 632* Fisher Governor Co., Ltd., Butterfly Valves (Trade Publication), 534
Fisher, H. R., on Industrial Production and Steel Consumption. 386
Fisher and Ludlow, Ltd., ” Flexiroll ” Troughing Idler System, 615*
Fishwick, Dr. W., on Machine-Tool Chatter, 568*
Fitting of Shafts in Holes. See Gauges Fitzmaurice, R., Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 104*, 188*
Fixtures and Jigs from Standard Sets of Parts, by Dr. W. B. Heginbotham, M. Barash and Dr. P. L. B. Oxley, 829*
Flags of Convenience, Discussion in Parliament on, 175
? Mr. Felly’s Remarks on, 579
for Shipping, Discussion in Parliament on, 390
Flame Arresters for Gas or Vapour Explosions, by K. N. Palmer, 438
— Cutting, by G. Sims-Davies, 505
?—? Hot, Investigation of, 639
— Initiation, 639
— Spectrophotometer for Determination of
Metals in Solution (Unicam Instruments, Ltd.), 550*
— Spectroscopy of, by A. G. Gaydon (Review),
118
Flameproof and Weatherproof Lighting Fittings (Trade Publication), 534
“ Flammability,” Remarks on Use of, 119 Flats. Conversion of Old Houses to. Grants for, 448*
Flaw and Corrosion Detector, “ Introview,” for Metal Tubes of Low Magnetic Permeability (Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd.), 550*
— Detection, Ultrasonic, Instrumentation in,
by D. G. W. Claydon, 575
— in Tubes, Inspection for, by J. B. C. Robin
son and L. T. Perriam, 575
Fleck. Sir A., on Committee of Inquiry on Windscale Accident, 66. 75; on Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., in India, 147; on Position and Prospects of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 681
Fleck Committee of Inquiry on Windscale Accident, 66, 75
Fleet. See Warships
Flemming, Sir G., Remarks at Annual Luncheon of Institution of Metallurgists, 761
Fletcher, G. H., on Electrification of Railways, 226
Fletcher, P. T., New Appointment in Industrial Group of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 748
Fletcher, W., Plain Words on Predicament of, 162
Flexible Plastic Reactor (FPR), Design for, 303
— Support for Damping in Machine-Tool
Foundations, 568*
“ Flexiroll ” Troughing Idler System (Fisher and Ludlow, Ltd.), 615*
Flight. See Aeronautics
—? Deck, Angled, on H.M. Aircraft Carrier “ Victorious,” 94*
Flight Refuelling, Ltd., Refuelling of “ Valiant” Bomber in Flight, 477*
Floating Body Range of Structural Analysis in Elastic-Plastic Range, by R. J. P. Garden, 573*
Flood Banks, Earthen, Stability of. Research on, 350
— Control, Irrigation and Power Generation
in Orissa State, India, Hirakud Project for, 413*
— Irrigation Pumps (Trade Publication), 534 Flooding of Kariba Dam by River Zambesi,
625*
Floodlights for Niagara Falls, by T. G. Proctor and H. F. Stephenson, 230*
— Platform at Niagara Falls, 231*
Floor Covering, Non-Slip, “ Safety-Walk Wetordry ” (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486*
— Heating Tests at Electrical Research Asso
ciation Laboratory, 736
— Timber, Abrasion Machine for Simulating
Wear of, 32*
Flooring Tiles, “ Blue Hawk,” with Hard Wood Surface and Resin Bonded Sand Base (British Plaster Board (Manufacturing), Ltd.), 64*
— Timbers for, by F. H. Armstrong, 32 Florida West Coast Nuclear Group, Proposal
for Heavy-Water Gas-Cooled Nuclear Power Plant, 77
Flour Milling, “ Pneu-roll ” Rollermill, Type MEm, for (Trade Publication), 213
Flow, “ Area Rule ” for Aircraft, 698
— Hypersonic, Studies at National Physical
Laboratory, 697*
— Indicators, Visual, “ Telicator ” (Sir W. H.
Bailey and Co., ltd.), 453*
— Meters, Heat, Development of, at Electrical
Research Association Laboratory, 736
Flower Show, Chelsea, Electrical Development Association Exhibits at, 672
“ Flowsolder ” Unit for Continuous Soldering of Printed-Circuit Panels (Fry’s .Metal Foundries, Ltd.), 575
Fluid Controls (Trade Publication), 119
— Drilling, Oilwell, in Venezuelan Oil Fields,
Tanks for Transporting (Bristowes Machinery, Ltd.), 581 *
— Fire-Resistant, Water-Base, “ Mobil
Nyvac,” for Hydraulic Systems (Mobil Oil Co., Ltd.), 149
— for Heat Exchangers, 286*
— Hydraulic, “ FR80,” for Detecting Leaks in
Boiler Casings (Shell, Ltd.), 166
— Instrument for Measuring Air Content of
_ - - - • 59
Transmitting Manufactur-
Ford Motor Co. (U.S.), “ Thunderbird ”
Coupe and Convertible Four-Seater Motor Car, 178*
Foreign Exchange, India’s Shortage of, 427 Visits for Young People, 235
Foreman. See Labour
Forest Products Research Laboratory, Abrasion Machine for Simulating Wear of Timber Floors, 32*
Forge. The, New House Journal of Brockhouse Group of Companies, 251
Forging Hammers. See Hammer under Machine Tools
— Precision, for Aircraft Production, 95
— Press. See Press under Machine Tools
— Steel (Trade Publication), 90
Form ani^ Thread Rolling, by D. H. Seymour and
Formed
Dr.
734
Forming, Cold-Roll, Practice in United States, by W. G. Kirkland, 734
— Techniques in Aircraft Production, 95 Formsprag Co., Manufacture of Sprag Clutches
by Renold Chains, Ltd., 70*
Forrest, James, Lecture on Further Developments in Nuclear Power, by Sir J, Cockcroft, Preliminary Notice, 334
Lecture on Further Development of U.K. Nuclear Power Programme, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 397
Fortescue, Dr. P., on Gas-Turbine Regenerator Performance, 284*
Forth Road Bridge, Progress of, 116
“ Foscote ” Anti-Corrosion Liquids (Trade Publication), 27
“ Fossetts,” A Record of Two Centuries of Engineering (Pamphlet), Note on, 743
Foster Wheeler, Ltd., Boiler Furnace Inspection Platform at Wakefield Station, 169*
Foundations, Machine-Tool, Effect bility on Chatter, 568*
— for Mutual Assistance in Africa
the Sahara. See Africa
Foundries, Director of Mechanical Engineering Equioment for, by M. Coyaud (Book), 309
— for Domestic Bath Production at Bilston
Foundries, 637
— Griffin, Bramjjton, 1885-1833, History of: P, Robinson
F. M. Lomas, 543
Sections, Cold, Applications of, by R. M. Kenedi and W. Shearer Smith,
B Power
of Flexi-
South of
Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, Appointment of P. N. Millar as General Manager of, 365
Fraser, W. L., on Position and Prospects of Thomas Tilling Ltd., 617. See Erratum, 681; on Position and Prospects of Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 647
Free Trade Area, British Attitude to, 130 Area, British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers’ Association Report on, 465
Area, Currency and International Clearing Aspect of, 195
—• — Area, Economic and Social Problems of. Conference on (London), 195
— — Area, Effect Industry, 51
Area, Effect 53*
Area, Effect
on Agricultural Machinery
on Machine Tool Industry,
Trade and
(F. W. Baggett and Co., Ltd.),
— Measurement and Control,
Rotameters for (Rotameter ing Co., Ltd.), 551
— Mechanics for Engineers, by
(Review), 535
Proceedings of Fifth Midwestern Conference on (Book), 347
Fluids. Physics of. New American Journal, 375 Fluidrive Coupling in Shunting Locomotive
Manufactured by John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 102
Fluidrive Engineering Co., Position and Prospects of, 367
Fluorescence, X-Ray, Method for Non-Contact Measurement ofThickness of Tin Coatings on Steel (Newton Victor. Ltd.), 575
Fluorescent Fittings, Watertight, for Switch-
Start Lamps (Philips Electrical, Ltd.), 512 Fly-Ash Elimination and Dust-Collection,
“ Microlector Van Tongeren System ” (Trade Publication), 57
Flying Boats. See Aeronautics
Flywheel, Gyreacta, in Gyreacta Transmission System, 564*
“ Foam-Plug ” Technique for Colliery Fire, American Test of, 22
Foamed Absorbing Materials (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 400
Fodens, Ltd., Heavy-Duty End-Tip Dumper, 165*; Dump Truck at Steel Co. of Wales, 219
Foil, Aluminium, for Heat Insulation Houses, 128
Folkestone, Cliff Lift at. Visit to, 818 Folkestone and District Water Co., Visit
Cherry Garden Waterworks of, 818; Visit to Lower Standen Waterworks of, 818
— Engineering History of, by P. Davies, 818
— Low Power Television Station for, 448
— Warren, Engineering Works at, 818 Folland Aircraft, Ltd., Diversification Activities of. 601
Fontaine, L., on Building and Controlling a Management Team, 145
Food and Chemical Drying (Trade Publication), 503
Forage Harvester (Lundell (Great Britain), Ltd.), 518*
in Farm Organisation, 563 Forces. See Armed Forces
Force, Tangential, Effect of, on Contact of Metallic Bodies, by J. S. Courtney-Pratt and E, Eisner, 182*
Forced Labour, Convention for Abolition of, 44
Ford, G, W. K., Review of Papers on Nuclear Fuel Processing, 204
Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Machine Tools for “ Dexta ” Tractor Production, 31*; Position and Prospects of. 85, 86, 461;
Building and Equipping of New Thames Foundry, 732*
P. S. Barna
in
to
Smiths of Chesterfield, by (Review), 90
— Plant Manufacturers, British
Formation of, 514
—? for Precision Steel Castings cision Castings, Ltd.), 829*
— Thames, of Ford Motor Co., Ltd., Building
and Equipping of, 732*
— See also Castings; Moulding
— Work. See Die Casting
Foundrymen, British, Institute of. Typical Microstructures of Cast Metals, by G, Lambert (Book), 91
— Society, American, Activities and New
Divisions of, 345
Fountain Pen Barrel Machine, “ Compass ” Mark VII Automation Base for (Bristol Repetition, Ltd.), 805*
Barrel Machine, “ Maxam ” Pneumatic Units for (Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 805*
“ Four-99 ” Diesel Engine for Motor Vehicles IF, Perkins, Ltd.), 538*
Fowler, J., and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., 0-4-0 176 b.h.p. Diesel Shunting Locomotive. 102*
Fox, S., and Co., Ltd.. Modifications at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills for Wide Stainle‘'s Steel Strip, 632*
Foxboro-Yoxall, Ltd., “ Consotrol ” Pneumatic Computing Relays, 165;* Pressure- Reducing Valves for Steam Accumulators for High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 469
“ FR80 ” Hydraulic Fluid for Detecting Leaks in Boiler Casings (Shell, Ltd.), 166
Fracture, Brittle, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Survey on, 497*
Tests for Ship Stee', 498
? in Welded Ships, by J. Hodgson and
G. M. Boyd, 497*
?— in Welded Ship Construction, and their Causes, by H. R. Gibbs and G. M. Boyd, 241 *
Fragmentation, Psychic, Phenomenon of, 721, 722
Frames, Steel, Multi-Storey, with Rigid Joints, Design of. Research on, 350
— Window, Cracking of Windows due to
Rusting of, 96
Framework Assembly, for (Dexion, Ltd.),
France, Attitude to Free Trade Area, 163
— Centre D’Etudes Nucleaires, EL3 Nuclear
Reactor at, 399
— EDF I Nuclear Reactor for. Proposed, 366
— EDF 2 Nuclear Reactor for. Proposed, 365
— Effect of Gen, de Gaulle on Industry, 739
— and European Common Market, 107
— and Free Trade Area, 99, 107
— Imports of Silicones from. Additional Duty
on, 67
— Industrial Achievements of, 739
— Nuclear Power Stations Proposed for, 366
— Plutonium Output in, 527
— Power Stations in. Planning and Construc
tion of, by J. Pimpaneau, 80
— Strike of Public Transport Employees in, 460
— Thermonuclear Studies in, 238
— Thermonuclear Work in, 174
— and United States, Transatlantic Submarine
Telephone Cables between (American Telephone and Telegraph Co.), 115
— Uranium-Ore Production in. 494
— Views on Free Tr^de Area, 387, 610
— See also French; Societe des Ingenieurs
Civils de France
Francis Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic Frankfurt Fair of Consumer Goods, Remarks by Dr. Erhard at, 433
Franklin, W. W., the Late, 36
Franks, Sir O., Financing World Trade, 171
Consolidated,
(Osborn Pre-
“ Speedframe ” Studs 191*
on Rotterdam
Europoort, 803 Area, Effect
Industry, 54 Area, France’s Area, France’s
610
Area, Possible Effects on Steel Prices, 378 Area, Progress of, 610
Area, Progress of. Discussion in Parliament on, 680
Area, Prospect of Deadlock in, 787 Area, Remarks at European Industrial Conference on, 307
Area, Statistical Data on Possible Impact of, 2
Area, Switzerland’s Relation with, 707 Area, Trade Union Views on, 307 —? — Area, United Kingdom’s Attitude to, 99 European Industrial Conference on, 307
— Zone of Colon, Rapid Growth of, 355 Freedman, A. M., Presentation of Bone-
Wheeler Medal to, 612
Freeman, Fox and Partners, Centenary of, 13. See LETTER, 35; Pumped-Storage Scheme at Blaenau-Ffestiniog, 492*
Freeth, Dr. W. E., on Thorium-Cerium System, 459
Freight Rates, Shipping, Fluctuation in, 395
— Shipping, Discussion in Parliament on
Decrease in, 680
Freighter Vessel, Nuclear-Powered, German, 459
French Motor-Car Industry, Statistics on, 295
— National Archives, Storage of Documents,
291
— Railways, Electric Train Sets for Steep
Gradients, 627*
“ Pendulum ” Carriage for Taking Curves at High Speed, 124*
—? Shipbuilding Industry, Position and Prospects of, 247
French, W. T., and Son, Ltd., Lawn Sprinkler With Three-Arm Revolving Head, 320; Variable Nozzle Syringe, 320
— See also France
Frequency Allocation, Appointment of Sir 1.. Bragg as Adviser to Postmaster General on, 153
— Converter for Concrete Vibrator (C, H.
Johnson (Machinery) Ltd.), 614*
Friction Clutch. See Clutch
— Coefficient for Moulded
Brake-Lining Materials, Prof. H. - •
— Materials,
626
Woven
Ltd.), 23
— of Prestressed Concrete, 735
Fried, S., on Microscale Preparation and Micrometallurgy of Plutonium Metal, 457 Frigates. See Warships
Frigidaire. See Genera! Motors, Ltd.
“ Fromo Plas N ” High-Tensile, High-Impact Strength Plastics Sheeting (Wallington Wester and Co., Ltd.), 761
F,R.S., Position of. After Name, 659
Fry’s Diecastings, Ltd., Die Castings (Trade Publication), 27
Fry’s Metal Foundries, Ltd., “ Flowsolder ” Unit for Continuous Soldering of Printed- Circuit Panels, 575
Fuel Cell, Hydrogen, at Brussels Fair, 521
— Consumption, Changing Trends in, 194
?— Economics of Buses, by A. T. Wilford, 644
— Efficiency in Melting and Thermal Treat
ment of Metals, Conference on, 536
Service, Industrial, National, Boiler Plant Service (Trade Publication), 70; Activities and Progress of, 162
Fuel Furnaces, Ltd., Heat-Treatment Equipment at Kingfield Wire and Rod Works of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., 830*
— Gauges, for Testing of Oil and Petrol
Engines (Plint and Partners, Ltd.), 422*
— for Heating Installations, Comment on
“ Degree Days,” 322
— Institute of. Shatter Strength of Cokes from
High Volatile Coals: Use of Plastometer Measurements on Blends for Test-Oven Experiments, by Dr. D. W. Gillings and W. Lawson, 211; Melchett Lecture on Nuclear Power Development, by Sir C, Hinton, 270; Formation of new Groups, 612; Annual Luncheon, 612; Presentation of Bone-Wheeler Medal to A. M. Freedman, 612; Education in Fuel Technology, by H. McNeil, 612; Lacq Gas Field, Its Problems and Potentialities by A. Blanchard, 670; W. M. Thornton Lecture on Developments in the Use of Coal, by A. H. A. Wynn, 769
— Liquid. See OU Fuel
— Markets, Saturation of. Comment on, 271
— Nuclear. See Nuclear Fuel
— Oil. See OU, Fuel
Burners on Shell-Type Boilers, Automatic Regulation (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial), Ltd., 551
— and Power Requirements, World’s, and
Nuclear Energy, by E. F. Schumacher, 527
— and Power Resources of United Kingdom,
Discussion in Parliament on, 208
on Textile
Machinery
739
Activities in.
Views on, 99, 107, 163,
and Laminated Determining, by 785*
Wright Baker,
“ Cerametallic,” (Ferodo Ltd.),
Asbestos, Eerodo ZA.I (Ferodo,
A3
20
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185
Paxman Double-Pass Works
Fuel, Pulverised, for Economic Boilers at Lutterworth of Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 166*
— Pump. See Pump
— Research, Conference on (London),
Specialist, Report of (Book), 375
— Rocket, Boron-Containing 264
“ Hydyne,” 331
and Rocket Motors, Baxter, 460
Solid, High-Energy, (Callery Chemical Co.),
by Prof.
Second
A.
D.
Development
74
of
57
— Saving Charts, by W. Goldstern (Book),
— Supplies at Barony Power Station, Washery
Slurry for, 159
— Technologv, Education in, by H. McNeil,
612
— See also Coa! Oil: Gas; Pulverised Coal Fuellers, Super, 3,000 Gallon, “Yorkshire,”
for British Petroleum Co., Ltd., 709 Fuller, R. A., on “ Governing of Diesel Engines,” 627
Fumes, Diesel-Engine, Studies on, 300
— Elimination of, from Aqueous Metal-
Treatment Baths, “ Serseal ” Layer Process for (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 306
— “ Favorit ” Filter Process for Recovery of
(Trade Publication), 309
— Smoke, from Marchwood Power Station,
624
Funnel Smoke, Descent of. Design in Relation to, by A. D. Third, 253
Furfural Plant Operation at
Refinery, 795*
Superstructure E. Ower, and
Isle of Grain
Furnace, Baking, at Kingfield Wire and Rod Works of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd. (Electric Resistance Furnace Co., Ltd.), 830*
— Blast, for Indian Iron and Steel Co., Ltd.
(Ashmore, Benson, Pease and Co.), 510 “Michigan 175A” Mechanical Shovel for Handling Iron Ore in, at Steel Co. of Wales, 218*
— Boiler, Inspection Platform at Wakefield B
Power Station (Foster Wheeler, Ltd., and Non-Corrosive Metal Products, Ltd.), 169*
— Direct-Fired, “ Equiverse ”
Heating System in (Trade tion), 90
— Electric, for Annealing of
Galvanising, General, Manual of Costing Practice, 338
Manual of Good Practice, 338
— Hot-Dip, Industry, Modern Trends in, 338
— Industry, Productivity in. Manuals on, 338 Galvanometers. See Electric
Gambin and Cie, Milling Machines (Trade Publication), 503
Games, Theory of: Tool for Operational Research, by Dr. S. Vaida, 369*
Garnet Products, Ltd., Precision Taper Roller Bearings (Trade Publication), 347
Gamma Absorptiometer, by A. Whittaker, 590 ?— Absorption, Strip-Thickness Measurement by, by E. B. Bell, 575
— Radiography, Comparison of British and
Soviet Equipment, 444*
— Ray Back-Scatter Gauge, for Measurement
of Steel Thickness (Ecko Electronics, Ltd.), 396
for Evaluating Effects of Radiation, Research Nuclear Reactor as Source of, 432
? from Muon Catalysed Fusion of Hydro
gen and Deuterium, by A. Ashmore, R. Nordhagen, K. Strauch, and B. M. Townes 431*
— Spectrometry for Analysing Complex
Samples, by E. N. Jenkins, 590
Gantry Cranes, Fixing Rails for, “ Fully- Hard ” and “ Fully-Soft ” Methods, 702*
— See also Crane
Garcke’s Manual of Electricity Supply (1956- 57) (Book), 27
Garden, R. J. P., on Structural Analysis in Elastic-Plastic Range, Floating Body Analogy, 573*
“Gardenmaster 34” Multi-Purpose Machine for Digging, Hoeing, Weeding, Mowing and Hedge Cutting (Landmaster, Ltd.), 352*
Gardiner ” Vacuum Oven for Precise Measurements (Griffin and George, Ltd.), 292*
Scale-Free Publica-
Industrial Glassware at Quickfit and Quartz, l.td. (Shelley Electric Furnaces, Ltd.), 381* Arc, for Melting Titanium Ingots at, Kynoch Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. (W. C. Heraeus G.m.b.H.), 574*
? Box-Type (Trade Publication), 27
Induction, Mains-Frequency Coreless, for Production of Alloy Steel at Inca Steel Co., Ltd. (Birlec, Ltd.), 421*
— Element, Electric, “ Crusilite ” (Morgan
Crucible Co., Ltd.), 457
— Gas-Heated, for Burning Patterns on to
Glassware (Stewart Gill and Co., Ltd.), 357*
— Heat Treatment, Hydrogen Bell Type
(Royce Electric Furnaces, Ltd.), 452* Treatment, for Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd, (Stordy Engineering, Ltd.), 410*
— Hydrogen Bell, for Heat Treatment (Royce
Electric Furnaces, Ltd.), 452*
— Open-Hearth, “ Eimco 105 ” Mechanical
Shovel for Clearing Slag Pockets of, at Steel Co. of Wales, 218*
— Reheating, Conversion to Oil Firing (Spear
and Jackson, Ltd.), 581
— Rotary Hearth, Gas-Fired, for Billets at
Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd. (Salem Engineering Co., Ltd,), 668*
•— Salt-Bath, Graphite-Electrode (Efco-Upton) 167*
— Spheroidising, 350 kW, at Kingfield Wire
and Rod Works of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., 830*
?— Sun-Powered, Discussion in Parliament on 240
— Town Gas-Fired, at Eagle Works of Tubes,
Ltd. (Priest), 669
— Vacuum, for Titanium Melting, at William
Jessop and Sons, Ltd., 187*
— See also Cupolas
Furniture Development Council, Performance Tests on Domestic Furniture, 256
— Domestic, British Standards, Specification
for, 256
Performance Tests on, 256
Fusarc Automatic Welding Machines for Welding of Stainless-Steel Nitric-Acid Absorption Column at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478* Fusion, Cold, Experiments on, at Liverpool University, 431*
-— Nuclear. See Nuclear Fusion; Thermonuclear
Fyson, C. J. R., and Son, Scalper for Removing Oversize Material, 615*
GABOR. Dr. D., on New Flat Cathode-Ray Tube for Monochrome and Colour Television, 620*
Gailey and Roberts, Ltd., Technical Training School in Nairobi, 657
Gale Research Co., Encyclopaedia of American Associations, 181
Gallagher, M. J., on Diamond-Bit Performance in Limestone and Dolomite, 536
Galley, R.. on The Marcoule Plutonium Plant, 204, 236
Galleywood and Start Point, Tropospheric Scatter Transmitting and Receiving Link between (Marconi’s Wireless and Telegraph Co.. Ltd.), 703*
Galliers-Pratt, G. K., Remarks on Future of
Machine Tool Industry, 239
Galvanisers, Hot Dip, Association, Productivity Service, 338; Cinema Film “Work Study—Its Application to Team Work,” 338
Gardner, Dr. G. W. H., on Evolution of Missiles, 460; on Automatic Flight— the British Story, 664
Garrone Co., Purchase of Marketing Interests by British Petroleum Co., Ltd., 271 Garton, J. W., on Position of Hoffmann Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 617
Gas Appliances, Government Policy on, 137
— Blast-Furnace, Cleaning of. Research
Electrical Precipitators for (Trade Publication), 57
— Board, North Thames. See North Thames
North Western. See North Western Gas
Board.
Scottish See Scottish
? South-Eastern. See South Eastern
— — West Midlands. See West Midlands
— Burners (Trade Publication), 119
?— Chromatography, by G. Iveson, 590
— Cleaning Panels, “ Rotonamic ” (Intermit,
Ltd.), 326*
Plant (Trade Publication), 57
— Coke-Oven. See Coke Oven
— Combustible, Hot-Wire Detector for, 690
— Compressor for Gas-Turbine Alternator Set
for Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Co., Ltd. (Richardsons Westgarth (Hartlepool), Ltd.), 196*
?— Content of Aluminium Alloys during Melting and Casting, Instrument for Measuring, by Dr. C. E. Ransley, D. E. J. Talbot, and H. C. Barlow, 576
— Controls (Trade Publication), 119
— Council, Contract with Constock Liquid
Methane Corp, of America for Shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas, 241*; Degree Day Service, 322; Committee on Administration of, 367; Capital Outlay in 1957-8, 515; Solihull Research Station for Research on Complete Gasification of Coal, 533*
?— Discharge Apparatus, Homopolar Generator as Power Supply for, at Australian National University, 334
? High Current, Neutron Emission in, by
H. A. B. Bodin and Dr. J. A. Reynolds, 108 See also ‘ Columbus”; “ Perhapsatron S.3”: ‘‘Sceptre IH”; ZETA, etc.
?— Engine. See Engine, Gas
— Equipment (Trade Publication), 119
— Explosions, Flame Arresters for, by K. N.
Palmer, 438
— Field, Lacq, Its Problems and Potentialities,
by A. Blanchard. 670
— Filtering of, in Manufacture of Carbon
Black, Fibreglass Fabric Tubes for, 255
— Fired Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Handling Equipment at Manvers Main
Colliery Coke-Oven Plant, 510
— Heated Furnace for Burning Patterns on to
Glassware (Stewart Gill and Co., Ltd.), 357*
— Industry, Committee on Administration of,
367
Co-operation with Electricity Industry,
368
Proposed Capital Investment in, 515
— Ionisation of. See Ionisation
— Making, New Techniques of. Remarks on,
by H. P. Barker, 523
— Natural. See Natural Gas
— Non-Corrosive, Diaphragm Valves for Handling (Trade Publication), 57
— Oil-Refinery, from Shellhaven, Use of, in North Thames Gas Board Installation at Romford, 222*
?— Petroleum. Liquefied, for Petrol Engines, Conversion Sets for (J. and S. Carburettor Co.), 37
— Production from Oil or Low-Grade Coal, Partington Gas Works for, 326
— Resources and Distribution in Scotland, 117
— Temperatures, Instrument for Sensing, 639
— Trace Components in. Determination of, by A. B. Davies and J. M. Donaldson, 590 —-Turbine. See Turbine
— Waste, from Isle of Grain Refinery, Agreement between South-Eastern Gas Board and British Petroleum Co., Ltd., for use of, 350
— Welding. See Welding
— Works, Partington, for Gas Production from Oil or Low-Grade Coal, 326
Gas. See also Acetylene; Carbon Dioxide; Carbon Monoxide: Hydrogen; Nitrogen; Oxygen, etc.
Gascoigne, G. H,, Co., Ltd., Ratchet Spanner for use with “ Kee Klamp ” System of Tubular Construction, 37
Gasification, Complete, of Coal, Research on, at Solihull Research Station, 533*
— of Crude and Heavy Oils by Hydrogenation
at Solihull Research Stajion, 534*
— of Fluidised Coal, at ;
Station, 533*
— Plant, Complete, Lurgi, I
Westfield, Fife, 401
— Pressure, of Distillate
Research Station, 534*
Gasifier, Coal, High-Pressure, for Scottish Gas Board, 809
High-Pressure, Work on, 809
— Lurgi, Process, for Run-of-Mine Coal at
Solihull Research Station, 533
— Slagging, Process, for Low-Grade Coal at
Solihull Research Station, 533*
Gasoline. See Petrol: Engine, Petrol: Carburettors: Aeronautics
Gass, Sir N., on Activities and Expenditure of British Petroleum Co., Ltd., 584
Gassiot Rocket “ Skylark,” 519
Gate End Bo.x (Trade Publication), 119 Gatland, K. W., on Development of Artificial Satellites, 262*; on Sputnik 111, 722*
GATT. See Tariffs and Trade, General Agreement on
Gatwick Airport, Development of, 652*; Beacon at. Helicopter Crane for, 735*; Advertisements at, Discussion in Parliament on, 809;
Gauge, Air, Bench Model (Teddington Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 646*
— Back-Scatter, Gamma-Ray, for Measure
ment of Steel Thickness (Ecko Electronics, Ltd.), 396
— Conductivity, Hot-Wire, “ Katharometer,”
576
— Control,
by Dr.
— Erosion,
— Fuel, for Testing of Oil and Petrol Engines
(Plint and Partners, Ltd.), 422*
— Height, Stabilised (James Chesterman &
Co., Ltd.), 708
— Railway Wheel, Changing by Axle Changing
in Spain, 799
— Ring and Plug (Trade Publication), 534
— Servo-Driven Optical, for Control of Strip
Width in Hot Rolling Mills (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 382*
“ Gaugemeter ” Error-Sensin.g Device, 575 Gauging, Air, by C. J. Tanner, 671
Applications of (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 220*
— Comparator, Electronic, “ Magna-Gage ”
(Southern Instruments Industrial Division) 708
— Elements (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges,
Ltd.), 220*
Gaumont-Kalee Magnetic Pre-Amplifiers for “ Todd-AO ” Filming Process (Rank Precision Industries, Ltd.), 549
Gauntlett, M., on Handling, Filing, and Indexing of Micro-Film, 155
“ Gazelle ” Free-Turbine Engines on Turbine- Powered Helicopter Ground Rig (D. Napier and Son Ltd.), 61 *
“Gazelle Junior” Gas-Turbine Aero-Engine (D. Napier and Sons, Ltd.), 228
Gear-Cutting Machines. See Machine Tools
Gear Grinding Co., Ltd., “ Orcutt ” Form Grinding Machine for Internal Helical Gears, 710*
— Helical, Internal, “ Orcutt ” Form Grinding for (Gear Grinding Co., Ltd.),
Solihull Research
High Pressure, for
Oils at Solihull
Automatic, in Strip Rolling Mills,
R. B. Sims, 575
in “Explorer” Satellite, 164
Machine 710*
— Hydraulic,
tion), 27
-— Making at •— Steering.
-— Tester, Rolling, No. 4 (J. Goulder and Sons, Ltd.), 741*
— Testing Instrument (David Brown Com
panies, Ltd.), 197*
— Trains with no Backlash (John Thompson
Ordnance Co.), 69*. See LETTER, 99
— Wheels, Helix Angle of. Lead Measuring
Machine for Checking (J. Goulder and Sons, Ltd.), 678*
Gearboxes, Automatic, Motor Omnibuses with. Orders for (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 86
— Automotive (David Brown Industries, Ltd.),
422
— Compound Epicyclic, Pneumatically Con
trolled, Four-Speed, “ SE4,” in Shunting Locomotive Manufactured by John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd. (Self-Changing Gears, Ltd.), 102
— Epicyclic, Four-Speed, for Diesel Railcars
for Ulster Transport Authority (SelfChanging Gears, Ltd.), 73
Reversing, for Diesel Railcars for Ulster Transport Authority (Self-Changing Gears, Ltd.), 73*
— Five-Speed, in Willment Racing Car. 82*
— Primary, in Diesel-Hydraulic Railway Crane
(Clyde Crane and Booth, Ltd.), 5O4*
— Testing of, Test-Bed Equipment for, a
Jaguar Cars, Ltd. (Heenan and Froude, Ltd.), 434*
Geared Turbines, Marine. See Marine Propulsion
Gearing for Gas-Turbine Alternator Set for Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Co. Ltd. (Richardsons, Westgarth (Hartlepool), Ltd.), 196*
G.E.C.—Simon-Carves Atomic Energy Group, Tender Invited for Nuclear Power Station for Japan, 270; Constitution and Activities of, 618*
Geigy Co., Ltd., Admiralty Seawater Evaporator Compound, 253
Gel Tankers (London), Investigations into Nuclear-Powered Submarine Tankers, 16, 85
Gem Stones, by Sir L. Bragg, 211
Variable-Speed (Trade Publica-
Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., 635 See Steeiinf;
Genachte, Dr. P., Interview with E. P.
714 General
See
on
General
War J,
Agreement on TarilTs and
Tariffs ami Trade, General Afireenient
Trade.
Dynamics Corp., Marine Gas-Cooled Reactor (MGCR), 174; see also Convair General Electric Co., Ltd., Transducer System for Checking Strain in Power-Operated Flexible Throat Plates of Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 25*; 30 MW NTR Pressurised Light-
Water Research Reactor Project at Valle- citos Atomic Laboratory, 77; 5 MW
Nuclear Power Plant at Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory, 77*; 3 MW Open Pool
Nuclear Reactor for Spain, 77; Thermionic Converter for Direct Conversion of Heat to Electricity, 89; Tests on Burst Slug Detection Gear, 110; Joint Activities with British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd., 171; Transistors (Trade Publication), 181; Stereophonic Sound Equipment, 224; HTGC Nuclear Reactor for Atomic Energy Establishment (Winfrith Heath), 302; Cooling of Electric Generators, 330*; Study on Thoria-Bismuth Slurries, 332; Factory Electrical Distribution System, 360; Extension of Research and Development Facilities of Atomic Energy Division 364*; Beryllium Laboratory at Atomic Energy Division, 364; Nuclear Reactor Model at Atomic Energy Division, 365*; Research at Atomic Energy Division, 365; Research on Permeability of Graphite Sleeves, 365; Appointment of R. N. Millar as General Manager of Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, 365; Appointment of Dt. K. J. Wootton as Manager of ? "
HTGC Heath, Remote Materials, Alternator for
Heating Scheme at National Physical Laboratory, 408; “ Designed Appear
ance ” Lighting in Gloucester Cathedral, 566*; G.E.C. Export Guide on Export Prospects, 588; Lighting Equipment for Gatwick Airport, 653; “ Com-Pak ”
Single-Anode Rectifier for Electric Locomotives, 699; Direct-to-Line Reversing Starters, 740; Lighting Fittings for use with Closed-Circuit Television in Nuclear Reactors and Supersonic Wind Tunnels, 805; Small Induction Motors, 806
General Electric Co. (U.S.), Guidance System for “ Atlas ” InterContinental Ballistic Missile, 298*; Conversion of Tanker for Nuclear Power, 459; Reviews of Russian Technology, 483; Plea for Increased Restrictions on Import of Heavy Electrical Equipment, 529; Educational and Welfare Amenities of, 579; Construction of 30MW (Thermal) Pressurised-Water Reactor at Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory, 590; E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 714; Dresden Nuclear Power Station, 775*; Administrative Organisation of, 781*; Decentralisation in, 781; Employee Shareholding in, 781; Support for Task Force on Imports of Electrical Equipment to United States, 790; Manpower Statistics, 824
General Motors, Ltd. (Frigidaire Division), “ Cascade Spin Drier,” 448
General Motors Corp., Reports on Plans for Small Car, 578
General Motors Technical Center, E. P, Ward’s Visit to, 715*
General Nuclear Engineering Corp., East Central-Florida West Coast Group Nuclear Power Plant Project, 77
General Post Office. See Post Office Generating High Frequency Electromagnetic Waves using the Doppler Effect, Proposals for, by R. B. R. Shersby-Harvie, 725
— Set, Electric, Alternating Current, 550 MW,
at Thorpe Marsh, Boiler for (International Combustion, Ltd.), 287*
Electric, Dexter, with Drayton Diesel Engines (Dale Electric, Ltd.), 408
— Station. See Power Station
Generation, Report on Work of Study Committee on, by G. Belfils, A. Wust, and L. Carpentier, 821
Generators, Atomic and Molecular, by Dr. K. W. Stevens, 724
— Electric, Alternating-Current, Gas-Turbine,
for Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Co., Ltd. (Richardsons Westgarth (Hartlepool), Ltd.), 196*
Alternating-Current, Large, Stator Insulation of. Research into Improvement of Resistance to Ageing of, by K. Abegg, C. Caflisch, and F. Knapp, 821
Alternating-Current, Low-Speed, High- Frequency, Hydraulically-Driven, for Guided Weapons (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 729
Alternating-Current, Overhung (R. A. Lister and Co,, Ltd.), 773*
Alternating-Current, Slave, for Guided Weapons (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 729
Alternating-Current, at Tilbury Power Station, 792*
Alternating-Current, Winding Resistance Measured under Load, by D. W, Birn- stingl, 317*
Discussions on, at CIGRE, 821 45 MW, Stability Studies on, 404 Wind-Driven. See Wind See also Turbo-Generators
— Homopolar, as Power Supply for Gas-
Discharge Apparatus at Australian National University, 334
— Pumping Sets for Pumped-Storage Scheme
at Blaenau-Ffestiniog (British Thomson- Houston), 491
—• Signal, XT.314, for Measuring Performance of Receivers (W. H. Sanders (Electronics), Ltd.), 390
— Solar, Model of, at Brussels Fair, 521
— — Silicon (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 400*
Atomic Energy Division, 365; Nuclear Reactor at Winfrith 365; Power Manipulator for Handling of Radioactive or Toxic 397*; Back-Pressure Turbo- Integrated Power and
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Generators, Steam, Packaged (J, Stone and Co. (Deptford), Ltd.), 519
Geneva Motor Show, Private Motor Car Exhibits at, 435
Geodetic Computer Equipment, New Developments in, 802
Geometry of the Job, by W. Heigh, Note on, 309
Geophysical Year, International, High-Altitude Research in, by Dr. R. F. L. Boyd, 126
German Coal Industry, Action of European Coal and Steel Community Against, 195
— Demination of Swiss Motor Vehicle
Markets, 435
-— Industrial Workers, Shorter Working Week for, 676
?— National Income, Distribution of, 280
— Nuclear-Powered Freighter Vessel, 459
— Shipbuilding Industry, Position and Pros
pects of, 248
— Steel Industry, Wages Dispute, Settlement
of, 536
— Steelworkers’ Union Call for Strike in Ruhr,
460
Germanium Rectifier Set, High Power, 18,400 kW, at Ellesmere Port Plant of Associated Ethyl Co,, Ltd, (British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd.), 358*
Germany, Cost-of-Living Increases in, 163
— Economic Difficulties of, 163
— Effect on Engineering Industries of United
Kingdom, 19
•— Labour difficulties in, 163
— Nuclear Power Station for. Tentative Qrder,
270
— Nuclear Reactors for Merchant Ships,
Committee for Study of, 459
— Shorter Working Hours in, 280
— Strikes in, 163
— Tractor Industry in, 50
— Trade Union Demand in, 280
— “ White Collar Workers,” Salaries of, 195
— West, Investments in. Comparison with
United Kingdom, 106
Nuclear-Energy Programme of, 16
Trade Effluent and Water Supplies in (Book), 181
Gerwick, B. C., on Use of Pretensioning Strands Laid to a Profile, 736
“ Getabout ” Motor Car (Gill), 435
Ghana Trade Mission, 482
Giambonini Commutator Brush Holder with Pressure Finger (Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd.), 261*
Giant’s Strength, Inns of Court Conservative Society Pamphlet on Trade Unions, 784 Gibb, Sir A., the Late, 132*
Gibb, Sir A., and Partners, Tilbury Power
Station, 792*
Gibb, Sir C,, on Position and Prospects of A. Reyrolle and Co., 523; Remarks at Conference on Nuclear Energy, 525; Remarks on Metallurgy in Reactor Development, 526; on NRX Nuclear Reactor Accident, 527; Chairman of Committee on Government Employment of Research Scientists, 680. See also 675; on Position and Prospects of C. A. Parsons, 774
Gibbs, H. R., on Welded Ship Construction— Records of Common Fractures and their Causes. 241*
Gibraltar, Water Distillation Plant at, 674
Gibson, Dr. A., Biographical Note, 649; on Nuclear Fusion Power, 649
Gidley, G. A. F., on Control Analysis of Aluminium Alloys and Copper Alloys using Self-Recording Spectrometers, 576
Giedroyc, Dr. V., on Coking Properties of Scottish Coking Coals Used at Clyde Iron Works, 179
Giesler, C. F. R., Ltd., Portable Strobo- Tachometer, 169*; Dynamic Balancing Machine (Trade Publication), 659
Gilbert-Ash, Ltd., Control Tower at Gatwick Airport, 653*
Gilbert, M., on Comparative National Products and Price Levels, 280
Gilkes, G., and Gordon, Ltd., Flood Irrigation Pumps (Trade Publication), 534
Gilkicker Tide Generator for Tidal Model for Southampton Water, 198*, 200*
Gill “ Getabout ” Motor Car, 435
Gill, Stewart and Co., Ltd., Gas-Heated Furnace for Burning Patterns on to Glassware, 357* Gillieson, A. H. C. P., on Nuclear Criticality in Design and Qperation of Chemical Plants, 204, 236*
Gillings, Dr, D, W., on Shatter Strength of Cokes from High-Volatile Coals; Use of Plastometer Measurements on Blends for Test-Qven Experiments, 211
Gimpel, G., on The Windmill To-day, 686* “ Gipsy ” Light 4-Wheel Drive Utility Vehicle (Austin Motor Co., Ltd.), 294*
Girder Bridge, Continuous Plate, Qak Street, Vancouver, 48
— Continuous, for Pelham Road Bridge, 814*
— Plate, Design and Buckling of Webs, by
Dr. K. C. Rockey, 312
— See also Beams; Bridges: Floors
Girls with Ability to Become Engineers and Scientists, Remarks on Wastage of, by Sir E. Boyle, 616
Girling. Ltd., Sales and Publicity Scheme on Importance of Using Genuine Motor-Car Parts, 433
Glacier Metal Co., Ltd., “ DU,” “ DQ,” and “DM” “Dry” Bearing Materials, 761; Position and Prospects of, 810
Glands, Sealing, Spring-Backed, Allowing for Casing Distortion in Steam Turbines, 121*
Glasgow, Nuclear Exhibition at, 110
— Royal College of Science and Technology,
Nuclear Exhibition at, 110
Glass, Excess Entropy in, 640
— Fabric Mats, “ Duramat,” Production at
Hindley Green Works of Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ltd., 412
— Fibre Cloth Impregnated with Colloidal
Graphite for Matched Terminations, 400
— ?—Flat Sheet, Pressed (Permali, Ltd.), 211
— ?— Material, “ Duraglas,” Production at
Hindley Green Works of Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ltd., 412
Glass, Fibre, Reinforced Filler, “ Isopon ” (W. David and Son, Ltd.), 472
Reinforced Plastics for Hulls, 63
Reinforced Polyvinyl Sheeting, “ Plasto- glass ” (Storey Bros. and Co., Ltd.), 670
?— Insulation Blocks, Hollow, “ Insulight ” (Pilkington Brothers, Ltd.), 486
— Mica Insulation in Traction Motors, 819*
— Molecular Structure of, 639
— Patterns on. Printing Machine for (Rejafix,
Ltd.), 357*
— Reaction to Mechanical Vibrations, 640 Glass, W., on Position and Prospects of
Johnson and Phillips, 743
Glassiness, Vitron for Study of, 639
Glassware, Burning Patterns on to, Gas- Heated Furnace for (Stewart Gill and Co., Ltd.), 357
— Industrial, Production at Quickfit and Quartz,
Ltd., 381*
— Laboratory, Production at Quickfit &
(Quartz, Ltd., 381*
— Scientific, Production at Stone Factory of
Quickfit and Quartz, Ltd., 381
Globe Pneumatic Engineering Co,, Ltd., 3-ton Pneumatic Winch, 740
“ Globemaster Minibeam ” Aerial with Beamed Transmission and Reception on Three Wavebands (Panda Radio Co., Ltd.), 64* “ Globespan ” Transmitters with “ Atalanta ” and CR 150 Receivers for Radiotelegraph Service on “ Mauretania,” 253
“ Gloire ” French Ironclad Warship, Centenary of, 17
Glossary on Conference Terminology (Cleaver- Hume Press, Ltd.), 119
— of Terms in Nuclear Science and Tech
nology, Note on, 119
— of Thermonuclear Terms, 142
“ Giostack ” Coating Material for Rust Protection of Chimney Stacks (Corrosion, Ltd.), 23
Gloster Aircraft Co., Policy and Action of, 594 Gloucester Cathedral, “ Designed Appearance” Lighting in, 566*
Glove Boxes, Air-Conditioned, in Beryllium Laboratory, 500*
Glover, R. H., Remarks on European Demand for Copper, 395
Godber, Lord, on Activities and Expenditure of Shell Transport and Trading Co., 584
Godfrey, G. B., on Application of Tubes to Structures, 734
Gold, Flow and Price of. Comment on, 770
— Position in United States, 770
Golden Jubilee Spring Meeting of Institute of Metals, Preliminary Notice, 401
Goldington Power Station, Electro-Hydraulic Control for Boilers and Dampers at (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 36
Goldmann, H. M., Sales Training Courses, 209 “ Goliath ” Heavy Duty Crane at Site of Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 439*
Golton, C. F., on J. Alfred Pratt and Co, (1928), Ltd., 296
Gomersall, H. R., on Current American Rail- Road Scene, 226
Goodger, A. H., on Weld Inspection, 505
Goodyear Pumps, Ltd., General-Purpose Lightweight Pump, 133*
Gordon Commission on Canadian Economy, Comment on, 675
Gordon, Lord Dudley, Remarks on Hadfields Group, 271
Gordon and Gotch, Ltd., “ Sellotape ” Self- Adhesive Tapes and Labels, 192*; “ SPS Rotascreen ” Bottle Printing Machine, 486
Gordon, J., and Co., Ltd., Controls for Boiler Feed-Water Supplies (Trade Publication), 309
Gordon Report of Royal Commission on Canada’s Economic Prospects, Comment on, 482
Gordon-Smith, R., on S. Smith and Sons, 46
Gouging, “ Groovees ” Welding Electrodes for (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 281
Goulder, H., and Sons, Ltd., Lead Measuring Machine for Checking Helix Angle of Gear Wheels, 678*; No. 4 Rolling Gear Tester, 741*
Governing of Diesel Engines, by R, A. Fuller, 627
Government Aid for South-West Wales, Discussion in Parliament on, 464
— Expenditure, Comment on Civil Estimates,
259
— Future Policy for Aircraft Industry, Com
ment on, 609, See also 624
— to-Government Sales, Remarks on, by A,
Jones, 337
— Growth in United States, 781
?— and Industry, Survey on Relationship of, 258
— Policy on Unemployment, 300, 304
— Price-Reduction Campaign, 209
— Rejection of Request by Transport and
General Workers’ Union for Committee of Inquiry into Dispute with London Transport Executive, 176
— Research, by Earl of Halsbury, 663. See
also 641
— Restrictive Policies, Plea for Relaxation of,
by Sir T. Williamson, 752
— Role in Scientific and Industrial Research,
464
— Support for Aircraft Industry, 597*
?— Wage Policy of, 21
Grab, Hydraulic Power, for “ Dinkum Digger Major ” Excavator (Whitlock Bros., Ltd.), 613*
Gracious Living, Comment on, I
“ Gradall ” Excavator at Steel Co. of Wales, 219
Grading, Particle. “ Standard ” and “ Whirlwind ” Air Separators for (Trade Publication), 534
Graduates, Qpportunities for. Directory of (1958), by C, Labovitch (Book), 309
— Students and Research Workers, Notes on
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Grants for, 107
Grain Silos (Trade Pubication), 659
Grainger, L., on New Reactor Materials, 526 Gramophone Discs, Stereophonic Recording on, by H, A. M, Clark, 448
Grants for Conversion of Qld Houses to Flats, 448*
— Department of Scientific and Industrial
Research, for Graduate Students and Research Workers, Notes on, 107
Grant, Dr. P. J., on the Wigner Effect, 120*
— for Pre-Service Training at Technical Train
ing Colleges, 208
Grant Production Co., Photo-Projector for Photo-Litho Plates, 147
— in Technical Teaching, 304
— See also Education
Grantham, V. A., Remarks on Shortage of Foreign Exchange in India, 427
Granular Materials, “ Tektor Major ” Level Controller for (Fielder Electronics, Ltd.), 228*
Graphite, Colloidal. “ Dag,” for Postage Stamps Paper (Acheson Colloids, Ltd.), 62
Glass Fibre Cloth Impregnated with, for Matched Terminations, 400
— Electrode Salt-Bath Furnaces (Efco-Upton),
167*
— Irradiated, Annealing of, 121
— Irradiation Effect on Properties of, 120*
— Lubricant, High-Temperature Tests on, 661 *
— Moderators for Nuclear Reactors, Wigner
Effect in Design of, by Dr. P. ,1. Grant, 120*
— Penetration of Liquid Sodium into. Studies
on, by General Electric Co,, Ltd., 365
— Sleeves, Permeability of. Research on, by
General Electric Co., Ltd., 365
— Stored Energy Measurements on Windscale
Samples, 697
— Superheating Nuclear Reactor, Design
Study of, 302
Grassam, N. S., on Undergraduate Training in Nuclear Power, 483-484. See LETTER, 579 Grates. See Furnace
Graviner Explosion-Venting System for Test Cell at High-Altitude Test Plant for Ram- Jet Engines at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 438
Graviner Manufacturing Co., Ltd.. Diesel Crankcase Explosions, by Air Cmdr. V. Brown, 676
Graving Dock. See Dock
Gravitational Field Theory of Prof. W. Heisenberg, 303
Gray, A., on Instrumentation in Nuclear Reactors, 143*
Gray, D. E., on Man and His Physical World, Note on, 659
Gray, Thomas Lowe, Lecture on Machinery for Cross-Channel Passenger Ships, by
E. L. Denny. 121*
Grease Cups, “ Molvtone 265 ” Lubricant for (Roeol, Ltd.), 242
?— Guns, Hand-Operated, Wanner (Trade Publication), 730
— High-Temperature Tests on, 661*
— Lithium-Base, High-Temperature Tests on.
661*
— Silicone, High-Temperature Tests on, 661*
— Ultra-Soft. “ Molytone 380,” for High
Speeds of Over 10,000 r.p.m. (Roeol, Ltd.), 242
“ Great Eastern,” Launching of. Centenary of, 17
Great Harbour. Greenock, Formation of Inchgreen Investigating Co. to Examine, 130
Green. D. C. Lycett, on Position and Prospects of Senior Economisers, Ltd., 647
“ Green Grit ” Wheel for Sharpening Tungsten- Carbide-Tipped Drills at Home (John M. Perkins and Smith, Ltd.), 224
Green, Sir J., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Thomas Firth and John Brown, 79
Green, W. L., on Future of American Shipbuilding Industry. 247
Greene, S.. Probable Leader of National Union of Railwaymen, 176
Greenhouse Heating by Electricity, 672
Greenock Great Harbour, Formation of Inchgreen Investigating Co. to Examine, 130
— Unemployment in, 386
Greenwait, C. H., on Financial Reward, 824 Gregerson, A., on Oil in Sicily, 35-36 Grenfell, Commander H. F. P., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Messina (Transvaal) Development Co., Ltd., 496 Greshams Transformers, Ltd., Transformers for Gatwick Airport, 653
Grid Control Areas, 766*
Centres, 766*
Networks, British, Modernisation of, by P. F. Gunning and M. Kaufmann, 821
— ?—? Rooms, 767*
— National Control System for, 766*
—System, British l32kV, Results of Full- Scale Stability Tests on, by F. Busemann and W. Casson, 404
Tests, Large-Scale, Organisation for, by
F. H. Last, E. Mills and N. D. Norris, 404 Gridded Ionisation Chamber for Measurement
of Alpha Particle Energies, 143
Griffin Foundry, Brampton, 1775-1833, History of; Smiths of Chesterfield, by P. Robinson (Review), 90
Griffiti and George, Ltd., “ Gardiner ” Vacuum Oven for Precise Measurements, 292*; Isothermal Bomb Calorimeter, 389*
Grime, G.. on Compulsory Annual Examination of Road Vehicles, 370*
Grinding of Cutting Tools, and Specification of Tool Shape, by D. A. Wight and J. K. Church, 542
— Fluid. “ Solvac 48 ” (Trade Publication), 90
— Joint, of Scientific Glassware at Quickfit &
Quartz, Ltd., 381 *
— Machines. See Machine Tools
— Wheels. See Machine Tools
“ Gripson ” System for Permanent or Temporary Marking (Adapta Charts. Ltd.), 519 “ Grisiron ” Alkaline Metal Cleaners (Trade Publication), 90
Grit Collectors (Trade Publication), 347
— Screens (Trade Publication), 347
— Settling Tanks (Trade Publication), 347
— Washing Tanks (Trade Publication), 347
“ Groovees ” Welding Electrodes for Grooving, Gouging and Piercing (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 281
Grooving, “ Groovees ” Welding Electrodes for (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 281
?— Tool. See under Machine Tools
Gross, Dr. N., on Modern Developments in Arc Welding, 505
Grouting of Prestressed Concrete, 735
Grubb Parsons, Sir H., Ltd., “ Pegasus ” Digital Computer for Qptical Calculations for, 254
Guards, Machine, “ Vyback DVB229 ” Semi- Rigid Transparent Sheet for Use in Production of (Bakelite, Ltd.), 149*
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Group, Position and Prospects of, 743
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd., Scholarships of, 227; Spring Clips for Fixing Rails for Gantry Cranes, 702*
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands), Ltd., Qperator Training in Screw Division of, by E. D. Simmons, 753*
Guidance System for Automatic Control of Powered Trolleys and Trucks (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 488
Guildford and District Productivity Association, Ideas at Work (Pamphlet), 592
Gulf Coast Oilfields, Shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas from, to United Kingdom, 241*
Gulf-Oil Corp., Investments in Sicily, 35. See also Vol. 184; Reduced Output and Prices, 271
Gun. Cable Tacking (Industrial Staplers, Ltd.), 544*
— See also Ballistics; Projectiles
Gunning, P. F., on Modernisation of British Grid Control Networks, 821
“ GUP50 ” Radiographic Container, 446*
Guy Motors, Ltd., Annual Report, 79
“ G-V ” Thermal Relays (Trade Publication), 213
G.W.B. Furnaces, Ltd., Box-Type Electric Furnaces (Trade Publication), 27
Gwinn, R. P., on Basic Materials in Education, 825
“ Gyproc Cove ” Fire-Protective Gypsum Core for Concealing Wall and Ceiling Cracks (Gyproc Products, Ltd.), 224
Gyproc Products, Ltd., “ Gyproc Cove ” Fire- Protective Gypsum Core for Concealing Wall and Ceiling Cracks, 224
Gypsum as By-Product in Fertiliser Manufacture at Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., 508
— Core, Fire-Protective, “ Gyproc Cove,” for
Concealing Wall and Ceiling Cracks (Gyproc Products, Ltd.), 224
Gyreacta Flywheel in Gyreacta Transmission System, 564*
— Transmission, Data for Designing, 564* Gyreacta Transmissions, Ltd., “ Clerk
Gyreacta ” Transmission System, 564*
Gyros, “ Molytone 380 ” Lubricant for (Roeol, Ltd.), 242
— Response Test Console (Solartron Elec
tronic Group, Ltd.), 373
Gyroscope, Instructional (Plint and Partners, Ltd.), 132*
— “MIG,” for Inertial Navigation Systems
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 691*
Gyroscopic Control Unit, for Stabilising Equipment for Small Ships (Muirhead). 122*
HADEN, G. N., and Sons, New Chemical Engineering Laboratories for Manchester College of Science and Technology, 764* Hadfield Group, Annual Report and Special Steel Problems, 271
Hadfields, Ltd., Qre Crushing (Trade Publication), 119
Hagan Corp. (Canada). Ltd., Electronic Recorder for Four Ring Balance Meters, 517
Hagerman, D. C., on Neutron Production in High-Power Pinch Apparatus, 186
Hagerty, .)., Interview with E. P. Ward, 715 Hagevap LP Treatment in Sea-Water Evaporator, 71
Hailsham, Viscount, Remarks on Electrical Industry’s Financial Contribution to Research, 641
Haines, H. R., on Plutonium-Iron System, 459 Halcrow, Sir W., and Partners, Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 47*; Concrete Railway Tunnel Linings at Potters Bar, 248*
Hale, K. F., on Tests of Structural in Steel Bearing-Balls, 151*
Haley, L. B., Sliding Doors Enclosure Apertures in Wing London Airport. 665*
Haley, Sir W., on Pool of Serious Attention, 449
Hall, E. N., on Position and Prospects of Hall Engineering Industries, 584
Hall Engineering Industries, Position and Prospects of, 584
Hall Harding, Ltd., “ Alliance ” Sectional Materials (Trade Publication), 27
Hall, J. E. (Electrical Engineers), Ltd,, “ Proxicon ” Mark III Capacitance-Type Remote Level Controller, 677*
Hall, Sir J. Hathorn, on Position and Prospects of Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co., 774
Hall, M., Ltd., New Chemicals Buildings for Jcseph Crossfields and Sons, Ltd., 207
— of Science, International, at Brussels Fair, 520*
Halmshaw, R., on Recent Advances in Radiographic Techniques, 576
Halogen Detector for from Shellhaven to
Halsbury, Earl of, on National Research Corp,, 340; on Government Research, 663. See also 641
Hamer, A. N., on Analysis Instruments, 590 Hammers, See Machine Toots
22
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Hampton, Capt. T. A., Inventors’ Information Service, 704
Hams Hall “ C ” Power Station, Opening and Description of, 729*
Hanbox ” Aluminium Containers (I. ight Alloy Construction Co., Ltd.), 328*
Hancock, E. W., Paper on Human Relations in Industry: Men, Women and Work, by L. Wright, 685
Handbook, Corrosion and Wear, for Water- Cooled Nuclear Reactors, by DePaul (Book), 823
— Electronic Designers’, by R. W.
D, C. Davies and A. P. Albrecht 823
?— Engineering Materials, by C. (Book), 700
— Plastics Materials, by A.
(Book), 91
— of Standards for the British
Industry, 375
— Transistor Engineering, by H. E. Marrows
(Review), 442
— Welding, Part I; Basic Principles and Data,
by A. L. Phillips (Review), 282
Handley Page “ Victor ” Bomber, Constant- Thrust Version of “ Spectre ” Rocket Engine as Assisted Take-Off Unit for (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 27^
Handling, Bulk, Loading Shovel for, Wheel-Drive, “ Mastiff” (Mathew 582*
— Coke, at Manvers Main Colliery
Oven Plant, 509
— Gas, Equipment, at Manvers Main Colliery
Coke-Oven Plant, 510
— Heavy Parts in Machine Shops, “ TPS
MachinLoder ” for (Trucks and Pallets (Stackers), Ltd.), 581*
— of Microfilm, by M. Gauntlett, 155
— of Radioactive Materials, New Building
for, at Harwell, 109*
— Raw Materials at Leith Docks Factory for
Concentrated Complete Fertiliser of Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., 506*
— Remote, of Radioactive Isotopes, 444*
— Remote, of Radioactive or Toxic Materials,
Power Manipulator for (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 397*
— Work, for Multi-Spindle Automatics
(Trade Publication), 409
— See also Mechanical Handling: Materials
Handling
Hangar Arrangement in H.M. Aircraft Carrier “ Victorious,” 94
— Installation in Maintenance Area at
Gatwick Airport (Transair, Ltd.), 654*
— Nylon, Portable (Airborne Service Equip
ment, Ltd.), 167*
Hank-Dyeing Machine, Automatic, at Birstall Carpet Co., Ltd. (Longclose Engineering Co., Ltd.), ? ?
Hanover Fair, HAR Nuclear
Heath, 76
Harbour Administration, East African. See African. East
— Board, Dover, Newcomen Society’s Visit to,
818
— and Dock Engineering, Vol. 1, by H. F.
Cornick (Review), 762
?— Great, Greenock, Formation of Inchgreen Investigating Co. to Examine, 130
— Plan, Europoort, at Rotterdam, Progress
of, 802
— Yarmouth, Scouring in, Elimination of, 625 Hardening, Precipitation, of Stainless Steels
17-7 PH, 639
— Strain. See Strain Hardening Hardness Tests. See Tests (Materials} Hardware, Increasing Application of Plastics
to, 320
— Trades Fair, Exhibits at, 320
Harland Engineering Co., Ltd., New Water Turbine Shop at Alloa, 670*
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Laboratory Extensions at Cambridge University, 275*; New Deep-Water Wharf at Belfast, 625
Harley, Sir S. J., on Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd., 296
Harper, L., on Position and Prospects of Agricultural Machinery Industry, 611
Harris, D. J., on Microwave Amplification Using Unstable Electron Beam in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields, 725
Harris, J. C., on Ultrasonic Testing in Manufacture of Aluminium Alloys, and Other Non-Ferrous Materials, 575
Harrison, Dean, on Scientific Education in United States, 827
Hartley, Sir H., on Control Engineering, 674; on Place of Instrument Technology in Control Engineering, 698
Harvard Business School, E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 716; Activities of, 824*
Harvard Law School, Study of Atomic Industrial Accidents, 303
Harvard University, Three-Level Solid-State Maser, 125; Icebox for Study of Formation of Dendritic Crystals, 311; E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 716*; Principles of Engineering Education at, 826*; Faculty of Applied Sciences, 826; Graduate School of Business Administration, 826
Harvester, Forage (Lundell (Great Britain) Ltd.), 518*
in Farm Organisation, 563
Harvey, N. B., on Use of Search-Coil Apparatus for Eddy-Current Testing of Copper and its Alloys, 576
Harwald Group Thinkometer, 825
Harwell Isotope School, Course for Business Men, 366
— Reactor School, Course on Control and
Instrumentation of Nuclear Reactors at, 749; Course at, 808
Hatfield Technical College, Symposium on Micro-Texts and Micro-Recording, 155
Hatto, R. F., Remarks on Price Reduction, 209 Hatton, W., on Long Term Investment in Education, 685
Hawker-Siddeley Group, Formation of New Company with Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., 45; Agreements with Bristol Aero
D. J.
Lanclee, (Book),
L. Mantell
B. Glanvill
Automobile
Four-
Bros.),
Coke-
54
Comment on Exhibits at, 673 Reactor Project at Winfrith
plane Co., Ltd., 79; “Hunter” Fighter Aircraft, Order Position of, 87; “ Bristol 200 ” Jet Airliner, 103*; Progress of Jet Airliner, 137; Policy and Action of, 594; Diversification of, 595, 598, 601
Hawker Siddeley-John Brown Nuclear Construction, Ltd., Constitution and Activities of, 618
Hawker Siddeley Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., Nuclear-Energy Activities, 619*
Hawkins Bros. Holdings (Gosport), Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 207
Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Ltd., Expansion Plans of, 84*
Hay, Comparison with Silage, 563
Hayward Tyler, Order for Glandless Circulating Pumps for Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station Heat Exchanger Circuits, 270
HAZEL Nuclear Reactor, Criticality Obtained, 432; Description of, 432
Head Covering, Protective, for Women, Case of, in Midlands, 176
Head Wrightson Aluminium, Ltd., Aluminium Jibs for Cranes on Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 48*; Aluminium- Alloy Crane Jibs for William Cory and Son, 158*
Head, Wrightson and Co., Ltd., Boiler Shells for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 399; Heat Exchangers for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 495; Transport by Sea of Heat Exchanger for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 717*; Design and Construction of Heat Exchangers for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 718*; Equipment for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 718*; Head Wrightson Iron and Steel Works Engineering Ltd., Gas-Cleaning Plant (Trade Publication), 57
Head Wrightson Machine Co., Ltd., Pneumatic Hammer Type Centring Machine at Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd., 668; Mannesmann Type Two-Roll Mill for Initial Piercing of Billets at Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd., 668*; Sinking Mill for Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd., 669
Head Wrightson Processes, Ltd., HI FAR Nuclear Reactor, 558*
Health in Atomic Energy Field, 75
— Hazards of Radioactivity, Discussion in
Parliament on, 423
— Mental, in Old Age, Problems of, by Prof.
M. Roth, 816
— Ministry of: Operating Theatre Suites
(Review), 308*
— Royal Society of. Hazards of Peaceful
Uses of Nuclear Energy, by Sir E. Rock Carling, 366; Assessment of Environmental Hazard of Nuclear Energy, by G. B. Courtier, 366; Public-Health Considerations, in Nuclear Energy, by Dr. W. H. P. Minto, 366; Problems of Mental Health in Old M. Roth, 816
Heat, Direct Conversion Thermionic Converter Electric Co.), 89
?— Distortion Effects in Turbines, 121 *
-— Engines. See Engines;
nautics
— Exchange Surface, Extended, for Marine
and Nuclear Boilers, by R. E. Zoller, 286
— Exchangers (Trade Publication), 90
for Berkeley Nuclear Power Station (John Thompson, Ltd.), 527*
? for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station
(Head Wrightson and Co.. Ltd.), 495
? for Bradwell Nuclear Power
Design and Construction, 718*
?—•—for Bradwell Nuclear Power Transport by Sea, 717*
Circuits of Hinkley Power Station, Glandless Pumps for (Hayward Tyler), 270
Helically-Gilled Tubing for (Accles and Pollock, Ltd ), 400
Heat Exchangers, Ltd., Heat Exchangers (Trade Publication), 90
Nuclear-Reactor Gas-Turbine, Performance cf, by Dr. P. Fortescue and D. V. Wordsworth, 284*
Processor and Dryer, “ Holo-Flite ” (Trade Publication), 409
? Tubes, Helical Extended Surface for, 365
— Flow Meters, Development at Electrical
Research Association Laboratory, 736
— Insulation Blocks, Hollow Glass, “ Insu-
light ” (Pilkington Brothers, Ltd.). 486
Board, “ Asbestolux ” (Cape Building Products, Ltd.), 486
? of Buildings, Using Asbestos Cement
Materials (Trade Publication), 534
in Fabrics, Aluminium for (Deering, Milliken and Co., Inc.), 128
? in Houses, Aluminium Foil for, 128
? in Houses, Possible Materials and
Methods for, 128
— Sinks, Linde Synthetic Sapphire for (Union
Carbide International Co.), 817*
?— Specific. See Specific Heat
— Transfer, Hypersonic Shock Tube for, 697* in Seawater Evaporators, 253
— Treatment Furnaces. See Furnaces of Metals. See Metallurgy Heaters Convector, Electric, Test on, 192
— Electrical Storage, for High-Altitude Ram-
Jet Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd. (Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd.), 468*
— Induction (Trade Publication), 181
— ?—Incorporated in Boerlage Four-Ball
Lubricant-Testing Machine, 660*
3J kW, Radyne “C2I,” for ZETA (Radio Heaters, Ltd.), 206
?— Space, Oil, “ Pagoda ” (F. and T. Leat, Ltd.), 320
— for Vehicles on British Commonwealth
Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 372*
— Water, Instantaneous, Electric, “ Clage ”
(I.C.G., Ltd.), 320*
Heating, Aerodynamic, Bibliography on, 535 ?— Appliances, Domestic, Government Policy on, 137
Age, by Prof.
to Electricity, for (General
Impulse Steam
Turbines: Aero-
Station,
Station,
Heating, Central, Oil-Fired, by A. B. Pritchard (Book), 27
Small-Bore, Copper Pipe in. III
?— Element, Skirting, with Gilled Tubing (Tomlinsons, Ltd.), 640*
for Skirting Heating, ‘ Wallstrip ” (Copperad, Ltd.), 480*
— Equipment Display (Hope’s Heating &
Engineering, Ltd.), 96
?— Floor, Tests at Electrical Research Association Laboratory, 736
— Greenhouse, by Electricity, 672
— Installations, Degree Day Service for, 322
— Pavement, Electrical, Experimental Instal
lation at Cardiff, 416
— and Power Scheme, Integrated, Using
Back-Pressure Turbo-Alternator, at National Physical Laboratory (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 408
— Skirting, Heating Elements with Gilled
Tubing for (Tomlinsons, Ltd.), 640*
— ?— “ Wallstrip ” Heating Elements
(Copperad, Ltd.), 480*
— System in Ford Thames Foundry, 732* Scale-Free, “ Equiverse,” in Direct-
Fired Furnace (Trade Publication), 90 “ Sigmix ” Mixing Valves for Hot Water for (Sigmund Pumps, Ltd.), 672*
— Unit, Infra-Red Projector (Metropolitan-
Vickers, Ltd ), 645
— and Ventilating Engineers, Institution of:
Climatic Influences as Basic Concept in Air Conditioning, by T. H. Urdahl, 352 Research Council, Annual Report, 418 Heavy Water, Availability and Cost of, 398 Circuit in HIFAR Nuclear Reactor, 559* for Gas-Cooled Reactor System, Position and Prospects of, 398
Hedgecutting, Digging, Hoeing, Weeding and Mowing, “Gardenmaster 34” Multi- Purpose Machine for (Landmaster, Ltd.), 352*
Heenan and Froude, Ltd. “ Heenatone ” Programme Control Unit for Repeated Cycle Operations, 359*; Test-Bed Equipment
Ethyl Co., Ltd., 434*; Test-Bed Equipment for Testing of Gearboxes at Jaguar Cars, Ltd., 434*; “ E.l.” Dynamometer, 677*; Test-House at Hucknall Flight Test Establishment for “ Conway ” By-Pass Engine Pods, 789*
“ Heenatone ” Programme Control Unit for Repeated Cycle Operations (Heenan and Froude, Ltd.), 359*
Heffner, H., on Microwave Parametric Amplifiers and Converters, 724
Heginbotham, Dr. W. B., on Jigs and Fixtures from Standard Sets of Parts, 829*
Heigh, W., Geometry of the Job, Note on, 309 Height Gauge, Stabilised (James Chesternvun and Co., Ltd.), 708
Heinemann, New Windmill Series Paperbacks, Note on, 473
Heisenberg Equation for Nuclear Particles, 334 Heisenberg, Prof. W., Unified Field Theory, 290. 303; Equation for Nuclear Particles, 334
Helical Gears. See Gears
Helicopter Gas Turbines, Boost Systems for, by Dr. A. W. Morley, 159
Helicopter Sales, Ltd., “ Rotorcycle ” One Man Folding Helicopter, 645*
— See also Aeronautics
Heliport. See Aeronautics
Helium as Heat-Exchange Fluid, 286*
— in Nuclear Power Plant Utilising High-
Temperature Gas-Cooled Power Pile as Energy Source, 302
Helix Angle of Gear-Wheels, Lead Measuring Goulder &
for
for Motor Cars at Associated
Point
Nuclear Circulating
Machine for Checking (J.
Sons, Ltd.), 678*
“ Hellfax ” Transceiver for Facsimiles over Telephone Ltd.), 229*
Hemp, Prof. W. S., on Design of Air Frames, 287
Henderson, M., on Motion of a Yacht, 195
Hendry, A. W., on Stiffening Effects of Bridge Beams, 612
Henly, H. G., on Position and Prospects of Henlys, Ltd., 335
Hennessy, Sir P., Views on Prospects of Motor-Vehicle Industry, 79; on Position and Prospects of Ford Motor Co., 461
Henry, J. J., and Co., Conversion of Double- Bottomed Cargo Ship for Carriage of Liquid Methane, 241
Heraeus, W. C., G.m.b.H., Electric-Arc Furnace for Melting Titanium Ingots at Kynoch Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 574*
Herbert, A., Ltd., Pulverised Fuel for Paxman Double-Pass Economic Boilers at Lutterworth Works, 166*
Herman Pneumatic Co., Double-Station Moulding Machines for New Domestic Bath Plant at Bilston Foundries, 637* “Hermes” Mark 11 Heavy-Element Electromagnetic Separator, Vacuum System for, 495*
Hey, L, on Henry Simons (Holdings), 711
Heyes and Co., Ltd., “ Duolacent ” Range of Bulkhead Lighting Fittings, 4
Heyworth, Lord, Remarks on Advertising of Unilever, 546; on Advertising, 823
“ Hi-Dri ” Paper Towelling (Kimberly- Clark, Ltd.), 742
“ Hiduminium R.R.58 ” Aluminium-Alloy Clad Sheet (Trade Publication), 57
“ Hidurax ” Aluminium Bronze Valves (Trade Publication), 57
HIFAR Nuclear Reactor, Fuel Sample Testing Programme for, 42
Reactor, Description of, 558*
Reactor, Divergency Test for, 558
Reactor, Operation Commenced, 558* Higgs and Hill, Ltd., Television Centre of British Broadcasting Corporation at Wood Lane, 363*
High-Altitude Research in International Geophysical Year, by Dr. R. F. L. Boyd, 126
Transmitting (K. S. Paul,
High Duty Alloys, Ltd. R.R.58” Aluminium-Alloy (Trade Publication), 57
— Polymer. See Polymer
— Power Arc Lamp, Mole
Hiduminium Clad Sheet
Richardson Gaumont-Kalee Type 490, for “Todd-AfJ” Projectors (Rank Precision Industries, Ltd.), 549
— Temperatures, Materials at. Apparatus for
Study of (Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough)), 373
— Vacuum Industry, New Groupings in, 611 Highways. See Poods
Hilger and Watts, Ltd., Semi-Reflector and Di-Electric Films, 400; Position and Prospects of, 427; Triple Medium Spectrograph for Metallurgical Analysis, 505
Hill, E., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Birfield Group, 496
Hiller Helicopters, “Rotorcycle” One-Man Folding Helicopter, 645*
Hillier, M. J., on Warming-up Stresses in Thick Hollow Cylinders, 343
Hillman “Husky” Motor Car, New Version of, 83
Hindley Green, Development Project of Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ltd., foi Production of Asbestos Textiles and Brake Linings, 412*
Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station, Glandless Circulating Pumps for Heat Exchanger Circuits of (Hayward Tyler), 270; Design of Heat Exchangers for, 286; Summary of Design Data for, 332*; Model at Brussels Fair, 487
Hinton, Sir C., on Nuclear Power Development, 270; on Nuclear Power Costs, 398; on Cluster Nuclear Fuel Elements, 808*; on Development of Nuclear Energy for Electricity Supply in Great Britain, 808* Hirakud Project in Orissa State, India, for Flood Control, Irrigation and Power Generation, 413*
Hire of Motor Cars in United States, 273
— Purchase in a Free Society (Booklet), 194 for Laboratory Equipment, Possibility
of, 675
of Machinery, 675
Position and Statistics on, 194 for Research, Possibility of, 675 Hiring Order, Control of. Impact on Radio Rentals, Ltd., 242
Historical and Poetical Imagination, Need for Development of, I
History of Axleboxes, 476*
— of British Iron and Steel Industry, by
H. R. Schubert (Review), 374
?— of Brown and Tawse, 213
— of Coal Wagons, 476*
— of Englehard Industries, Publication of, 529 ?— Engineering, in Kent, 818
— of Griffin Foundry, Brampton, 1775-1833; Smiths of Chesterfield, by P. Robinson
(Review), 90
— of Kestner Evaporator and Engineering Co.
Ltd., 816
— of Level-Crossings in Great Britain, 811*
— of Mechanics, by R. Dugas (Review), 730
— of Mine Trucks, 476*
— of Napier, D., and Son, Ltd., 710*
— of Rails, 476
— of P.ail Track Wagonways. 476
— of Railway Axles, 476
— of Railway Wheels, 476
— of Technology. Vol. HI: From Renaissance
to Industrial Revolution, by C. Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and T. 1. Williams (Review), 346
— of Trucks, 476
— of Wagons, 476
— of Wheel and Axle, by J. T. Emmerton, 474* Hitachi, Ltd., Transformers for Transmission
Line in Iran, 271
Hives, Lord, Remarks on Diploma in Technology, 193; on Technical Education for Production Engineers, Comment on, 193 H.M.SS. See under IVarships
Hoare, P. V., on Technical Writing. See LETTER, 3. See also Vol. 184. On Workshop Psychology, 579
Hobbing Machines, Gear. See Gear under Machine Tools
Hoberman, M., “ Chronistat ” Electrolytic Time Indicator, 576
Hobrough, G. L., on “ Auscor ” Automatic Electronic Scanning Correlator for Stereoimages, 607
Hochrainer, A., on Report on Work of Study Committee on Circuit-Breakers, 821
Hodge, J., on Industrial Uses of Rotary Air Compressors, 671
Hodgson, J., on Brittle Fracture in Welded Ships, 497*
Hoeing, Weeding, Mowing, Hedgecutting and Digging, “ Gardenmaster 34 ” Multi- Purpose Machine for (Landmaster, Ltd.), 352*
Hoffmann Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Annual Report, 617
Hogg, S. R... on Associated Motor Cycles. Ltd., 296
Hoist Control System, Twin-Motor, on 7J Ton Overhead Traveling Crane (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 615*
— Pneumatic, “ Aro-Broomwade ” (Broom &
Wade, Ltd.), 168* 615*
— See also Cranes; Gantries; Transporters Hole Diameters, Air Probes for Checking
(Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 221
— Fitting of Shafts in. See Gauging
“ Hole-and-Hill ” Throttle Valve of Hydraulic Motor for Guided Weapons, 728*
Holford, Sir W., Television Centre of British Broadcasting Corporation at Wood Lane, 363*
Holinjanski, M. M., on Transmission Length in Prestressed Concrete, 736
Holland, Passenger Transport System in, 227
— See also Dutch
Holloway Brothers (London), Ltd., Pre-cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 47*; Bridges for Double-Track Railway on North Eastern Region, 441*
Holman Bros., Ltd., General-Purpose Lightweight Pump, 133*
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Holman Group, Cinema Film on Compressed- Air Control Equipment of Maxam Group, 741
“ Holmes-Catco ” Oxidation Process for Combating Atmospheric Pollution (Trade Publication), 57
Holmes-Elex Electrical Precipitators (Trade Publication), 309
Holmes, W. C., and Co., Ltd., Dust-Collection and Control Plant (Trade Publication), 57; “ Holmes-Catco ” Process for Combating Atmospheric Pollution (Trade Publication), 57; Holmes-Elex Electrical Precipitators (Trade Publication), 309; “ Holo-Flite ” Processor, Heat Exchanger and Dryer (Trade Publication), 409
“ Holo-Flite ” Processor, Heat Exchanger and Dryer (Trade Publication), 409
Holophane, Ltd., High-Bay Lighting Installation at de Havilland Propellers, Ltd., 80*; Lighting Equipment for Gatwick Airport, 653
Holoplast, Ltd., “80” Structural Panel for Movable Walls, 46
Holset Turbo-Chargers for Leyland Six- Cylinder Horizontal Direct-Injection Diesel Engines for Ulster Transport Authority Railcars, 73*
Holst and Co., Ltd., Power Station Thatcham Board Mill of Board and Paper Mills, Ltd., 764
Holt, J. V. H., on Measurement
Human Engineering, by E. J. McCormick
(Review), 375
— Factor (in Accident Prevention),
Laner, 267
— Limitations and Vehicle Design,
McFarland, 82
— Race, Comment on Concern for,
by Dr. S.
by R, A.
161
or
for New Colthrop
Pump
of Efficiencies by Thermometry, 501 Home, Engineering at, 32*, 64*, 96*, ? " ? 192*, 224, 256, 288*, 320*,
416*, 448, 480*, 512*, 544*, 576, 640*, 672*, 704*, 736*, 768, 800*,
128*,
352*,
160*,
384*, 608*, 832
— Power Equipment, “ Quartermaster ” Range
(Wolf Electric Tools, Ltd.), 224
Homeopathic Reasoning, in Industry, Plain Words on, 130
Homeostasis, Phenomenon of, 561
Hommel Werke, Precision Length-Measuring Machines, 229*
Homopolar Generator as Power Supply for Gas-Discharge Apparatus at Australian National University, 334
Honeywell-Brown, Ltd., High-Precision Gyroscopes for Inertial Navigation Systems 691*
Honours List, Birthday, 772 Plain Words on, 34
Honsaker, J., on Neutrons from Stabilised Toroidal Pinch, 186*
Hooper, F. G., on Perkins Engines, 131
Hoover, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 367 Hope’s Heating and Engineering, Ltd., Heating Equipment Display, 96; Automatic Pressure-Jet Oil-Burners, 96*
Hoppers, Loading, for Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames (Tees-Side Bridge and Engineering Works, Ltd.), 48*
Hordern Richmond, Ltd., Cinema Film on “ Hydulignum ” Resin-Impregnated Densified Plywood, 23
Horizons Unbounded, Cinema Film, Plain Words on, 674
Horne, Dr. M. R., on Approximations to Material Properties in Plastic Theory of Structures, 734
Horror, Use as Ingredient of Persuasion, Comment on, 428
Horseshoe Falls, Canadian, Floodlighting for, 230*
Hose, Metallic, Flexible, Fireproof, for Aircraft Fire Extinguisher Systems (Power Auxiliaries, Ltd.), 484
— Rubber, Polyethylene-lined, “ Valithene,”
for Conveyance of Concentrated Mineral Acids (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 580
Hosepipe Assembly Device, Pneumatic (Consolidated Tool Co., Ltd.), 167*
Hospital Building Bulletin on Operating Theatre Suites (Review), 308*
— Electricity in, Theme of Electrical Engi
neers Exhibition, 359
Hot Dip Galvanisers Association, Productivity Service, 338; Cinema Film “ Work Study —Its Application to Team Work,” 338
Galvanising Industry, Modern Trends in, 338
— Metal Receivers at Ford Thames Foundry,
733*
— Wire Detector for Combustible Gases, 690 Hours of Labour. See Labour
Houses, Conversion of Old, to Flats, Grants for, 448*
— Heat Insulation in . Aluminium Foil for, 128 Insulation in. Possible Materials
Methods for, 128
— Indoor Climate of, Research on.
National Research Council (Canada), Household Goods, Statistics on, 66 Householder, Practical, Exhibition at Earls Court, Preliminary Notice, 224
Housing Trends (Booklet), 512
Howe, E. A., on Cooling Tower Packings, 131. See LETTER, 99. See also Vol. 184
Hoyt, H. K., on Planning the Start-Up of Dresden Nuclear Reactor, 776
HRE-2 Nuclear Reactor, Description of Project, 143
? Reactor, Operation Commenced, 143 HTGC Nuclear Reactor for Atomic Energy Establishment (Winfrith Heath) (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 302
— — Reactor, at Winfrith Heath, 365
Hull Forms, Underwater, Model Tests on, for Nuclear-Powered Submarine Oil Tanker, 470*
— Glass-Fibre Reinforced Plastics, 63 ?— Yacht, Design Considerations, 7*
Hulton Achievement Award to ZETA Team, 650
Human Behaviour, Feed-Back Loops Operating in: Anxiety, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 561*
— Communication, by C. Cherry, 33 —? Element, 10, 44, 75,
235, 267, 304, 329, 492, 528, 560, 592, 752, 784, 816
— Reactions: Aggression, Submission
Escape, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 429* to Danger, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 429*
— Relations in Industry, by D. M. Sinclair, 361 in Industry, E. W. Hancock Paper on
Men, Women and Work, by L. Wright, 685 in Industry, Ministry of Labour Booklet on, 235
Management of. Psychological Processes Involved in, 177
— — Stress and Strain in, by Z. M. T.
Tarkowski, 305*
— Relationship, Feedback in, Plain Words on,
322
— Use, Designing Equipment for. Course on,
226
Humidity-Sensing Element (El-tronics Inc.), 471
Humour, Modern, Treasury of, by M. Lupton, Note on, 27
Humphreys and Glasgow, Ltd., Transforming Plant for Oil-Refinery Gases at Romford, 223; Partington Gas Works for Gas Production from Oil or Low-Grade Coal, 326; Lurgi High-Pressure Complete- Gasification Plant for Westfield, Fife, 401; Nuclear-Energy Activities, 619*
Humphreys, R., on Accelerated Curing Tests on Concrete, 355
Humphries, E. D., on Plastic Insulated Cables for A.C. and D.C. Transmission, 822
Hungarian Machine Tools, Newman Industries, Ltd., United Kingdom Selling Agents for, 770
?—? Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522
Hungary, Export of Rolling Mills to, Discussion in Parliament on, 624
Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd., “Yardmaster” Industrial Shunting Locomotive, 677*
Hunter, Sir E., Remarks on Position and
Prospects of Dorman L.ong, 79 Hunter, E. - • •
Swan, Group, “ Hunter ”
of, 87 Hunterston
Slug-Detection Installation for (Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 77; Feed Pumps for (G. and J. Weir, Ltd.), 270; Research Relating to, by General Electric Co., Ltd., 364*; Fuel Charging and Discharging from Below, 365
Hunting Engineering, Ltd., “Alf” Self-
Propelled, Self-Steering Truck, 797*
Hunting Percival Aircraft, Ltd., “ Harrier ” Folding Motor Car for Airborne Forces, 18*; Jet Airliner for British European Airways, 240
Hurst Castle Spit, Sea-Defence Works at, by C. V. Bowles, 259; by W J. Reid, 323; by Commander D. H. Macmillan, 388
Hurst Nelson and Co., Proposed Merger with
Charles Roberts and Co., 296
— Tide Generator for Tidal Model for South
ampton Water, 198*,
“ Husky ” Motor Car,
(Hillman), 83
Hutton, Prof. R. S., on
Hydro-Electric Engineering Practice, by J. G. Brown, Note on 119; (Review). 154 Power Commission of Ontario, Power Cables with Water Cooling, 30
— — Power Plant. See Power Plant ; Power
Station
Hydrodynamic Considerations Influencing Yacht Design, 6*
Hydrogen Bell Furnace for Heat Treatment (Royce Electric Furnaces, Ltd.), 452*
— Cooling of Electric Generating Plant, 330*
— and Deuterium, Muon-Catalysed Fusion of,
431*
— Fuel Cell Exhibit at Brussels Fair, 521
— Heavy, Definition of, 142
— Ions, Definition of, 142
— Isotopes, Fusion of, by mu-mesons, 109
— Plasma Production in, at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 43
— Production Process at Partington Gas
Works (Texaco Development Corp.), 326
— Sulphide, Lead Acetate Paper for Detection
of, 690
— Super-Heavy, as Nuclear Fuel, 109 Hydrogenation of Coal at Solihull Research
Station, 534
— Gasification of Crude and Heavy Oils by,
at Solihull Research Station, 534* Hydromechanics Research Association, British, Work on Hydraulic Transport of Solids, 591
Hydulignum ’’ Resin-Impregnated Densified Plywood, Cinema Film on (Hordern Richmond, Ltd.), 23
Hydyne ’’ Rocket Propellent (North American Aviation Inc.), 331
Hylite ’’ Titanium Alloys, Development Supplies of (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 627
Hypalon, Properties of, 770
Hypersonic Flow Studies at National Physical Laboratory, 697* _
—Shock Tube
for Heat*Transfer Study, 697*
and
by
768
107, 139, 176,
361, 391, 428,
616, 650, 684,
203,
460,
720,
J., on Position and Prospects of Hunter and Wigham Richardson 553
Fighter Aircraft, Order Position
Nuclear Power Station, Burst-
200*
New Version of
Institute of Metals: Some Recollections and Reflections, 626 Hydra-Pulpers at New Board Mill of Colthrop Board and Paper Mills, Ltd. (Black- Clawson), 764
Hydration, Lime, at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 106
Hydraulic Analogies, Bibliography of, by R. A. A. Bryant, 309
— Clamping (Trade Publication), 534
— Crane. See Crane
— Design and Irrigation. Vol. 2: Irrigation
Works, by S. Leliavsky (Review), 308
and Performance of Drainage Pipework in Dwellings, by A. F. E. Wise, 288*
— Fluid, “ FR80,” Shell, for Detecting Leaks
in Boiler Casings, 166
—? Machine Tools’ See Machine Tools
— Mining of Coal, 769
— Motors for Guided Weapons, 728*
— Oil, Instrument for Measuring Air Content
of (F. W. Baggett and Co., Ltd.), 59
•— Power Grab for “ Dinkum Digger Major ” Trench Excavator (Whitlock Bros., Ltd.), 613*
Plant. See Power Plant
— Pumps. See Pumps
— Scrap Cutting Shear, Automatic, 600-ton,
American ((Clearing Machine Corp.), 741*
— Systems on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556 “ Mobil Nyvac ” Water-Base Fire-
Resistant Fluids for (Mobil Oil Co., Ltd.), 149
— Transmissions, L. E. H., for “ Booth ”
Diesel-Hydraulic Crane (Leeds Engi-’ neering and Hydraulic Co., Ltd.), 505
Equipment, High-Efficiency (N. J. Tatham and Co., Ltd.), 379*
?— Transport of Solids, Work on, by British Hydromechanics Research Association, 591
— Turbines. See Turbines; Power Plant
— Valve Body, Checking Position of Cut-Off
Lands Within, Air Gauge for (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 221*
— See also Oil Hydraulic
— and Reinforced Concrete, Civil Engineering
Slide-Chart for (Kosine, Ltd.), 63*
— Research Station, Study of Length of
Viaduct over River Trent for London to Yorkshire Motorway, 46; Pneumatic Tide Generation Method, 200; Current Meter for Tidal Model for Southampton Water, 201; Pneumatic-Tyred Trailer for, 292; Model Study on Clifton Bridge over River Trent, 350, Scouring in Yarmouth Harbour, 625
— See also Irrigation; Water
Hydro-Electric Board, North of Scotland. See Scotland, North of
by Kingsley Amis, Comment
I Like it Here, on, 161
LB.M. United Prospects of, 647
Ice Warning Set for Aircraft (Sangamo Weston Ltd.), 455
— See also Refrigeration
Icebox for Study of Formation of Dendritic Crystals, 311
I.C.G., Ltd., “ Clage ’’ Water Heater, 320*; Statically-Controlled 320
Ideal Home Exhibition, 352*
Idler, Troughing, System, and Ludlow, Ltd.), 615*
Ignitrons for Electric Locomotives, 699
Igranic Electric Co., Ltd., Electric Controls (Trade Publication), 181; Agreement with Remploy for Assembly of Switches and Heavy-Duty Oil-Tight Control Units, 816
Ikeda, K., on Technical Development of Submarine Power Cables in Japan, 822
Ilford, Ltd., Special Films and Processing Solutions for Rapid Processing Photographic Projector for Air-Traffic-Control Radar Problems, 310
Illinois Testing Laboratories, Inc., “Alnor” Dewpoint Meter, 422*
Illuminating Engineering Publishing Co., Ltd., Fluorescent Lamps (Trade Publication), 309
Illumination. See Light; Lighting; and Lamps under Electric
Immersion-Poker, Very-High-Frequency Concrete Vibrator, “ Multibrator,” (C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd.), 613*
Immigrants, Professional, for United States, 493
— to United Kingdom, Statistics on, 100 Impact Extrusion of Steel, by W.
306*
— Influence on Brittle Fracture in —Tests. See Tests (Materials} Impedance Tester for Checking
Installations in Buildings Ltd.), 359
Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., “ Kunial ” Brass (Trade Publication), 57; Use of Work Study and Models in Design and Construction of Chemical Plant, 83; “ Kynal ’’ Light-Alloy Lorry Body Sections (Trade Publication), 90; Use of Television in Remote Control of Nitro- Glycerine Production, by Biazzi Process at Ardeer Factory, 101*; Proposed Merger of Yorkshire Copper Works with Metals Division, 111; Production of “Perspex,” 128; Activities in India, 147; Statistical Methods in Research and Production, by O. L. Davies (Review), 212; Formation of Yorkshire Imperial Metals, Ltd., 239. See Erratum, 292; “ Serseal ” Layer Process for Elimination of Fumes and Steam from Aqueous Metal-Treatment Baths, 306; Factory Project in Northern Ireland for Spinning of Terylene Polyester Fibre, 395; Profitsand Dividend of, 461; Exhibition, “ Plastics in Lighting,” 472; Welded Stainless-Steel Nitric-Acid Absorption Column at Wilton Works, 478*; Exhibits at Brussels Fair, 487; Measurement of Pump Efficiencies by Thermometry at Billingham, 501; Economic and Industrial Developments, 553; Electric-Arc Furnace for Melting Titanium Ingots at Kynoch Works (W. C. Hareaus G.m.b.H.), 574*; New Employee Profit- Sharing System at, 651; Position and Prospects of, 681; New Paint Laboratory for Technical Service to Customers, 817
— College of Science and Technology,
Work on producing Plasmas, by A. W. Bright and K. Ramanathan, 43; Reader-
Kingdom, Ltd., Position and
Instantaneous Electric ‘‘ Arista ” Thermo- Infra-Red Cooker,
Powered Tools at.
“ Flexiroll ” (Fisher
H. Byles,
Ships, 498
Electrical
(Ferranti,
ship and Postgraduate Bursaries in Structural Steelwork, 139; Uranium Graphite Exponential Assembly at, 394*; Postgraduate Course on Nuclear Power at, by Prof. J. M. Kay, 394*, 579-580. See LETTER, 483. See also 399’
Imperial Preference in Trade with Australia, 98 Import Trade. See Trade
Inaugural Lecture on Communication of Ideas, by Prof. R. H. MacMillan, 375
Inca Steel Co., Ltd., Mains-Frequency Coreless Induction Furnace for Alloy Steels at (Birlec, Ltd.), 421 *
Incandescent Heat Co., Ltd., “ Equiverse ” Scale-Free Healing System in Direct- Fired Furnace (Trade Publication), 90; Electrical Storage Heater for High- Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant, at Bristol Aero Engines, Ltd., 468*
Inch/Pound System, Conversion Standards for, 798
System v. Metric System, 798
Inchgreen Investigating Co., Formation to Examine Great Harbour, Greenock, 130 Incomes, Cohen Committee on. See Cohen Committee
— and Expenditure, National (1952-57),
Preliminary Estimates, Comment on, 450
— Prices, and Productivity, Cohen Council on.
See Cohen Committee
— Tax in Britain, Note on, 163
— ?— Payers’ Society, Activities and Recom
mendations of, 163
—• Trends in United States, 747*
— See also Salary; Wages (under Labour} Incorporated Sales Managers' Association.
See Sales Managers' Association^ porated
Index, Aeronautical Engineering, 1956,
— Cumulative, to Scientific American,
— Design, Note on, 730
—? of Industrial Production, Stability of, 162 Production in United States, 745*
— Retail Prices, 433
•—? — Price, United States, 746*
— United States Naval Research Laboratory,
730
— Wage, 433
Indexers, Society of. Note on The Indexer, 700 Indexer, The, Note on, 700
Indexing Diamond Dressing Tool, “ Unidex,” for Grinding Wheels (Trade Publication) 347
— of Micro-Film, by M. Gauntlett, 155
India, Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd., Manufacturing Unit in, 207
— Dyestuffs Industry in. Development of,
by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 147
— Economic Position of, 427
—? Engineering Education in, 514
— Foreign Investments and Loans, 98
— Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.’s acti
vities in, 147
— Institution of Engineers in, 514
— Nuclear Reactor Projects, 270
— Orissa State, Hirakud Project for Flood
Control, Irrigation and Power Generation, 413*
— Planning Problems in, 98
— Second Five-Year Plan, Position and
Prospects of, 610
— Shortage of Currency, 427
— Shortage of Foreign Exchange, 427
—? United States Aid for, 147
Indian Industry and Agriculture, Importance of Engineers in, 514
Surveys of, by B. S. Rao (Review), 374 Indian Iron and Steel Co.. Ltd., Blast-Furnace for (Ashmore, Benson, Pease and Co.), 510
— State Railways, Electrification of. Assist
ance by S.N.C.F. in, 2; “EM 2” Class Electric Locomotives for (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 70; Tests on Brake-Lining Materials, 785*
Indicating Device, Safe-Load, for Cranes, 679 Indicator, Current Density, Portable (Trade Publication), 119
— Electronic Scanning, Motor Omnibus,
(London Transport Executive), 58*
— Equipment, Beam and Dial, for Measure
ment of Surface Plate Deflections under Load (Rubert and Co., Ltd.), 742*
— Flow, Visual, “ Telicator ’’ (Sir W. H.
Bailey and Co., Ltd.), 453*
— Time, Electrolytic, “ Chronistat,” 576 Indium Arsenide Semi-Conductor (Metro-
politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 400 Induction Furnaces. See Furnace, Electric —• Motor. See Motor, Electric
Industrial Accidents. See Accidents
— Agreements and Disputes. See Labour
— Design. See Design
— Digest, United States, Notes on First
Issue of, 762
— Disputes Tribunal. See Disputes under
Labour
— Equipment, Caravan Units for Exhibition
of (Kelvin Hughes), 755
— Expansion, Investment for, by D. Heathcote
Amory, 739
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Materials, Dangerous Properties of, by
N. I. Sax (Book), 347
— Reconstruction, Institute for. Nationalisa
tion Activities in Italy, 451
— Revolution, From Renaissance to. Vol.
Ill of History of Technology, by C. Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and T. 1. Williams (Review), 346
Industrial Staplers, Ltd., Cable Tacking Gun, 544*
— Trends, Results of Inquiry Into, 433 Industrial Trucks, Ltd., “Stepmaster’’ Hand
Truck, 486*
— Welfare Society. See Welfare Society under
Labour
Industrialists and Educationalists, Co-operation, 193
Industries, British Federation of. eration
— — Present Trends in. Federation
Industries’ Inquiry on, 801
— Careers in, and Technical Education,
Year Book of (A. and C. Black), 823
— and Church (Pamphlet), 493
Incor-
823
823
Need for
See Fed-
of British
24
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 0958)
Industry Co-partnership in. See Labour
— in Engineering, by H. Clausen, 791*
— French, Effect of Gen. de Gaulle on, 739
— Human Relations in, E, W. Hancock,
Paper on: Men, Women and Work, by L. Wright, 685
— Indian, Importance of Engineers in, 514 Surveys of, by B. S. Rao (Review), 374
— Manufacturing, Federation of British
Industries Committee on Nationalisation of, 258
— Modern Technological Education for.
Report on Conference on, 409
— Research for. Report on Research Asso
ciations, Comment on, 737
— Role of, in Financing Research, 641
— Science in. Discussion in Parliament on,
464
— Small-Scale, in Netherlands, Training and
Research in, 145
— and Universities, Need for Closer Co-opera
tion, 75
Inert-Layer Process, “ Serseal,” for Elimination of Fumes and Steam from Aqueous Metal-Treatment Baths(Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 306
Inertial Navigation and Radio Aids, Combination of, by A. Stratton, 466 Inflammability, Note on Use of Word, 119 Inflation in Chile, Comment on, 643
— Fighting (Pamphlet), by Federation of
British Industries, 450
— Remarks by Sir H. Beaver on, 482
— Trade Unions’ Views on, 176
— and Wage Demands, Disagreement on, 235 Information Books of Educational Supply
Association, Ltd., 730
— Central Office of. Promotion of Sciences in
Commonwealth, 233
Information and Control, New Journal, Note on, 585
— News-Sheet of Islington Public Libraries,
Comment on, 700
— Sampling, Rotary Switch for (Vactric
(Control Equipment), Ltd.), 488*
— Scientists, Institute of, by J. Farradane, 3;
Formation and Aim of, 131
— Service for Inventors, 704
and Port Operation for Southampton Water, 156*
— Stores for Computers (Plessey Co., Ltd.),
373
— Systems in Documentation, 473 Infra-Red Cell, Type P.C.21 (Plessey Co.,
Ltd.), 400
Projector Heating Unit, Mobile (Metro- politan-Vickers, Ltd.), 645
Radiation Entrance Windows, Lmde Synthetic Sapphire for (Union Carbide International Co), 817*
— — Thermostatically-Controlled Cooker,
“Arista” (I.C.G., Ltd.), 320
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Conversion of Tanker to Nuclear Power, 459
Ingot, Aluminium, 5,000 lb.. Rectangular, in Canadian Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522*
— Titanium, Melting of, Electric-Arc Furnace
for, at Kynoch Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. (W. C. Heraeus, G.m.b.H.), 574*
Injectors, Gas (Trade Publication), 119
Inland Navigation. See Canals: Rivers; etc.
— Waterways, Bowes Committee Inquiry,
Discussion in Parliament on, 300
Inns of Court Conservative Society, A Giant’s Strength, Pamphlet on Trade Unions, 784 Insley Industrial Supply Co., Ltd., Adjustable Clamping Blocks (Trade Publication), 409; “ Centri-Vite ” Centring Attachment for Lathes, (Trade Publication), 730
“ Inspectascope ” for Inspection of Internal Surfaces (Vision Engineering, Ltd.), 742 Inspection of High-Pressure Regulators, 690 —-of Internal Surfaces, “ Inspectascope” for (Vision Engineering, Ltd.), 742
— Legislation for Nuclear Reactors, 238
— of Motor Vehicles, 370*
— Platform, Boiler Furnace, at Wakefield
B Power Station (Foster Wheeler, Ltd., and Non-Corrosive Metal Products, Ltd.), 169*
— Routine, Rapid, Electro-Air Gauge for
(Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 222
— Scope and Quality of. Criticism of, 387
— System, Three-Dimensional Tape-Con
trolled, by H. .1. Elton, 478
— Techniques as Aids to Process Control in
Non-Ferrous Metals Production, Advances in. Symposium on, 575
— of Tubes for Flaws and Variations in
Thickness, by J. B. C. Robinson and L. T. Perriam, 575
— Weld, by A. H. Goodger, 505
— See also under specific inspection methods Inspectors, Training and Qualifications of.
Criticism of, 387
Instability, Dynamic: Automobiles, Aircraft Suspension Bridges, by Y. Rocard (Review), 535
Institute. See Institutions
Institution, British Standards. See Standards —? Rates of. Discussion in Parliament on, 552 — Royal. See Royal Institution
— Technical and Scientific; Aeronautical Sciences, Institute of (under Aeronautics); Aeronautical Society, Royal (under Aeronautics): Agricultural Engineers' Association; Agricultural Engineers, Institution of British; Aircraft Constructors, Society of British (under Aeronautics); Aircraft Engineers, Society of Licensed; American Associations: American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Architects, Royal Institute of British: Arts, Royal Society of; Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science; Automotive Engineers, Inc., Society of; Chemical Engineers, American Institute of; Chemical Engineers, Institution of; Civil Engineers, Institution of; Institution of Professional; Society, British; Association of; Institution of; Institution of;
Civil Servants, Computer Consulting Engineers, Danish Civil Engineers, Designers, Engineering, Directors, Institute of;
Economic Affairs, Institute of; Electrical Development Association, British: Electrical Engineers, Institution of; Electronics, Institution f_ American Institute of, Inc Institution Institution , .
Institution of; Engineers and Shipbuilders, North East Coast Institution; of; Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, of; Engineers, Society of; Distributors, Association of; Education, American Society Education),^ Engineering Canada;
tion; Engineering Research Institute: Foundrymen, British, Institute of; Foundrymen's .Society, American; Fuel, Institute of; Health, Royal Society of; Jleating and Ventilating Engineers, Institution of; Indexers, Society of; Institute for;
Institute of;
British; Iron and Steel Institute, IFest of Scotland; King's College (London) Engineering Society; Legal Studies, Advanced, Institute of; Locomotive Engineers, Institution of; Management, British Institute of: Marine Engineers, Institute of; Mechanical Engineers, American Society of; Mechanical Engineers, Institution of; Medical Research, National Institute for; Metals, Institute of; Metallurgists, Institution of; Mining Association, Overseas; Mining Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Association of; comen Society; Patentees and Inventors, Institute of; Pergamon Institute; Personnel Management, Institute of; Petroleum Institute of; Physical Society; Physical Society, American: Physics, Institute of; Production Engineers, Institution of; Production Engineering Research Association: Professional Civil Servants, Institution of; Radio Engineers, Institute of; Sales Managers' Association, Incorporated; Short-Circuit Testing Authorities, Inc.. Association of; Scientific Statistical Engineers, Electrical „
Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians, Association of; Testing Materials, American Society for; Transport, Institute of; (Yelfare Society, Industrial (under Labour
Instruments, Acoustical (Dynacord), 471
— Analysis, by E. Duncombe, J. Bishop,
A. N. Hamer and C. D. Reid, 590
— for Angular Disturbances of Motor Omni
buses (Flint and Partners, Ltd.), 564
— Diversification Activities of Aircraft Firms
in. 601
— Eddy-Current, “ Conductitest,” 576
— Electronics and Automation Exhibition,
Exhibits at, 488*, 549*; Conference at: Computers and Numerical Automation, by Dr. A. D. Booth, 684
— for Flight Data at Physical Society Exhibi
tion, Preview of, 373
— for Gear-Testing (David Brown Companies,
Ltd.), 197*
?—? Industry, Marketing Activities of, 755 —? Landing System for Aircraft at Royal
Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 664
— Manufacturers C.A.M., British, Instru
ments Electronics and Automation Exhibition, 488*
— for Measuring Gas Content of Aluminium
Alloys during Melting and Casting, by Dr. C. E. Ransley, D. E. J. Talbot, and H. C. Barlow, 576
— for Measuring Neutron Flux in Nuclear
Reactors, 143*
— Panel at Ardeer Factory of Imperial
Chemical Industries, Ltd., for Production of Nitro-Glycerine by Remote Control, 101 *
Instrument Screw Co., Ltd., " Rosan ” Press- Nut for Sheet Metal, 580*
—? for Sensing Gas Temperatures, 639
— Show, International, Exhibits at, 471
— Switchboard, Moving-Iron (Trade Publica
tion), 119
— Technology in Control Engineering, Place
of, by Sir H. Hartley, 698
Society of. Presidential .Address on Place of Instrument Technology in Control Engineering, by Sir H. Hartley, 698
— for Testing pH Meters (A. M. Lock and Co.,
Ltd.), 405
— Transformers (Trade Publication), 659
— See also Aeronautics: Electric Instrumentation in Chemical Analysis, Symposium on (Capenhurst). 590
— and Control of Nuclear Reactors, Course
at Harwell Reactor School, 749
— Electronics and Automation, Conference
on. Preliminary Notice, 471
— Flight, in Prototype of “ Rotodyne ” Air
liner (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 750*
— in Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
Work, by J. S. Doolittle (Review), 26
— in Nuclear Reactors, by G. W. McKeith
and A. Gray, 143*
Reactor, by M. V. Needham, 527
— in Ultrasonic Flaw Detection, by D. G. W.
Claydon, 575
Insulating Segments of Motor Commutators, Electronic Dividing Attachment for Machine for Automatic Undercutting of (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 388
Insulation. See Heat; Electric
“ Insulight ” Hollow Glass Insulation Blocks (Pilkington Brothers, Ltd.), 486
Insurance, Atomic Energy, International Conference on (London), Report of, 334
— Comment on Need
Coverage, 131
— Companies’ Views
sions, 592
— Engineering, by R.
118
of: Engineers.
./Ct / t Industrial, Enftineers, Engineers,
of (Australia);
of (India); Engineers, Junior
Institution Engineering Engineering for (under Institute of Engineering Metrology Assoeia- Engineering
Industrial Reconstruction, Information Scientists, Interplanetary Society,
British
New-
Testing Authorities, Inc., South Africa, Associated anti Technical Societies of; Society, Royal: Structural Institution of; Supervising Engineers, Association of;
for More and Wider
of Occupational Pen-
El. Procter (Review),
Insurance, National, Increase in. Mine workers'
Wage Claims due to, 139
— of Nuclear Reactors, 278, 334 Reactors, Conferences on, 303
— of Sales, 465
— Workmens’, See Labour
Integral, Ltd., “ Everac ” Hydrostatic Chuck, 328*
Integrator, Cone and Cylinder (Kelvin and Hughes, Ltd.), 389*
Intercommunication in Engineering and Science, Problem of, 33
Intercontinental Aircraft for Non-stop Transoceanic Operations, 707 (Boeing Airplane Co.), 37
Inteference Levels, New Investigations on, at 400 kV Research Station in Mannheim- Rheinau, by R. Bartenstein, 822
— Radio-Electric, Caused by H.V. Lines,
Influence of Air Density on Level of, by R. Bartenstein and J. Meyer de Stadelhofen, 822
— Studies on 200 kV Wood Pole Circuits, by
j. R. Leslie and D. E. Jones, 822
Interfrigo Meat Wagons, with Electrical Ventilation, for Through Conveyance to Continent, 704
Intermediate-Range Jet Airliner, 720 (Boeing Ajrplane Co.), 37
Intermit, Ltd., Cellulose Tissue Filters, 326*; “ Far-Air ” Viscous Impingement Filters and “ Rotonamic ” Air and Gas-Cleaning Roll-Kleen ”
Panels, 326*; “Far-Air Filter, 326*
Internal-Combustion Engines. nautics; Engines; Motor Boats, Tractors; Turbine, Gas
See AeroCars; Motor
— Surfaces, Inspection of, “ Inspectascope ”
for (Vision Engineering, Ltd.), 742
International Air Transport Association. See Air Transport Association, International under Aeronautics
International Alloys, Ltd., Aluminium-Alloy Production (Trade Publication), 57
— Atomic Energy Agency. See Atomic
Energy Agency, International
— Atomic Energy Insurance Conference.
See Atomic Energy Insurance Conference, International
— Bank. See Bank, International International Business Machines, E. P. Ward’s
Visit to, 714, 780; Job Extension Policy at, 824
International Combustion, Ltd., Boilers for 550 MW Turbo-Generating Set for Thorpe Marsh Power Station (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 287*, 587*
International Combustion Africa, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 496
— Computation Centre. See Computation
Centre
— Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic
Energy. See Atomic Energy, Peaceful Cses of. International Conference on International Construction
Furnace for Indian Iron
510
— Documentation Centre
Documentation Centre, International
— Exhibition on Peaceful Uses of Atomic
Energy. See Exhibition, International, on Peaceful Use.s of Atomic Energy
— Geophysical Year. See Geophysical Year,
International
— Labour Conference. Organisation. International Nickel
617
International Nickel Annual Report Electro-Refining of Nickel, 536; Recovery of High-Purity Sulphur, 536
— Standards Organisation. See Standards
Organisation
for Rubber Testing. See Rubber Testing
— Symposium on Electronic Components. See Radar Establishment
— Tin Council. See Tin Council
Interplanetary Society, British, High-Altitude Research in International Geophysical Year, by Dr. R. F. L. Boyd, 126; Meteoric Hazards to Space Flight, by Dr. N. H. Langton, 164; Back Files of Journal of, 181; Guidance and Control of Long- Range Vehicles, by G. A. Whitfield, 331; Problems of Handling Large Missiles, by F. R. Forbes Taylor, 517
Interscience, Progress Report Literature Retrieval, and Systems in Documentation,
Into Thin Air, by Dr. E. W. Still, Note on, 535
“ Introview ” Flaw and Corrosion Detector for Metal Tubes of Low Magnetic Permeability (Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd.), 550* Inventions of 1858, 17
— Sources of, by J. Jewkes, D. Sawers and
R. Stillerman, Comment on, 129
— See also Patents
Inventors’ Information Service, 704
— See also Patentees
Inventories for Durable and Non-Durable Goods in United States, 746*
Investments Abroad, United States, President Eisenhower’s Speech on, 66
— Adaptation to World Trade, by Dr. T.
Barna, 106
— in Associated Electrical Industries, 395
—? in Australia, American, 3
British, 3
— Boom, Effect on Overtime and Productivity,
203
— British, in South America, Comment on
810
—? and Budget, 514
— in Canada by United States, Position and
Prospects of, 802
— Capital, in Coal, Gas and Electricity
Industries, White Paper on, 515
— Capital, Sources in Canada, 802
— Castings. See Castings
— Easing of Restrictions on, 802
— European, Statistics on, 280
Co., Ltd., Blast- and Steel Co., Ltd.,
(Sweden). See
See Labour
See Labour
Co., Annual Report of.
Co., of Canada, Ltd., 427; New Process for
in Chemical Information 473
Investments and Financial Aspects of Nuclear Energy, Including Home and Overseas Markets, by j. R. Cuthbertson and J. Brodrick, 527. Sec also 529
— Fund, African, Discussion in Parliament
on,423
— in Germany (West), Comparison with
United Kingdom, 106
— for Industrial Expansion, by D. Heathcorf
Amory, 739
— Long-Term, in Education, by W. Hatton,
685
— in Manufacturing Industry, 194
?— by National Coal Board of £661 million, 423
— in Nigeria, 98
— Policies, Foreign, by L. K. Macy, 588
— in Scotland, by American Companies, 322
— Trade Unions, in Government Stock and
other Holdings, 616
— Trends in Machine Tool Industry, 53*
— in United Kingdom, Comparison with
West Germany, 106
— in United States, Position and Prospects of,
746
— United States, Statistics on, 280
— in West Africa, Federation of British
Industries Report on, 482
Investor, Small Saver as, 784
“ Invincible,” French Ironclad Warship, Centenary of, 17
Ion Exchange, Demineralisation of Water by, 338
Process, Corby, for Effluent Water, 338 Uranium Recovery, by by R. Clark, 459
— Hydrogen, Definition of, 142
— Rocket for Space Propulsion, 269* Ionisation Chamber, Gridded, for Measurement of Alpha Particle Energies, 14.3
Ionosphere, Temperature Information on, 404 Iran, Development Programme by Development and Resources Corp., 271
— Imports from United Kingdom, Position
and Prospects of, 99
— Overseas Economic Survey on. Comment
— on, 99
— Position and Prospects of Industrial
Development in, 99
—? Seven-Year Plan, Second State of, 99 Ireland, Northern. See Northern Ireland I.R.I. See Industrial Reconstruction, Institute for
Iridium or Caesium Radiographic Container, Russian, 445*
— Radiographic Unit, 445*
— or Thulium Radiographic Container
Russian, 445*
Iridium 192 as Radioactive Source for Gamma Radiography, 446*
Iron in Agriculture, Cinema Film on, 211
— Bars, Transporting of, Saurer Motor Truck
for, 435
— Manufacture. See Furnaces, Blast: Metal
lurgy
— Ore. See Ore
— Plutonium System, by P. G. Mardon,
H. R. Haines, J. H. Pearce and Dr. M. B. Waldron, 459
— and Steel Board, Discussion in Parlia
ment on Progress of Annual Report of 336; Comment on Development Reports, 387
Federation, British, Estimate of Output for 1958, 34; Survey of Training in the Iron and Steel Industry, 146; Film, Earth is a Battlefield, 211;
(Magazine), 235; Progress of Prevention Committee, 267;
at Brussels Fair, 487; Annual Report, 547; Circular on Expansion and Efficiency in Steel, 823
Industry. British, History of, by H. R. Schubert (Review), 374
Industry, Courses for Managers in, 146
Industry, Development Plans, 34
?—?— Industry, Foremen Training Courses in, 146
Industry, Raw Material Supplies and Future Developments of, by C. " Wheeler, 626
Industry, Training of Apprentices 146
Industry, Training in. Magazine British Iron and Steel Federation, 235
— — Industry, Training in. Survey of, 146
Cinema Training Accident Exhibits
R.
in,
of
Iron and Steel Institute:
Siemens-Martin Centenary, Note on, 100 Co-operative Translation Service, 281 Presidential Address on Raw Material Supplies and Future Development of Iron and Steel Industry, by C. R. Wheeler, 626
Powder Metallurgy Joint Group:
Continuous Production of Strip by Direct Rolling Process, by D. K. Worn, 472
Iron and Steel Institute, West of Scotland: Coking Properties of Scottish Coking Coals Used at Clyde Iron Works, by W. Eland, Jr., and Dr. V. Giedroyc, 179; Conference on Metallurgical and Engineering Aspects of IVeight-Saving in Steel Structures: Approximations to Material
Properties in Plastic Theory of Structures, by Dr. M. R. Horne and T. M. Charlton, 734; Applications of Cold-Formed Sections, by Dr. R. M. Kenedi and W. Shearer Smith, 734; Cold-Roll Forming Practice in United States, by W. G. Kirkland, 734; Application of Low-Alloy High-Tensile Steel, by 1. M. Mackenzie, 734; Structural Uses of Welded High-Tensile Steel, by G. Roberts, 734; Application of Tubes to Structures, by G. B. Godfrey, 734; Weight-Saving in Military Steel Bridges, by A. E. Long, 735
Labour Costs, Discussion in Parliament on, 300
Operatives’ Course of City and Guilds of London Institute, 146
Research Association, British, Co-operative Translation Service, 281; Evershed Servo-Driven Optical Gauge for Control of Strip Width in Hot Rolling Mills,
ENGINEERING. VOL. 185 (1958)
382*; Use of Electronic Computers in
Steelworks for Production Control, 552 Scrap, Imports, Statistics on, 240 Works. See Works
— See also Cast Iron; Steel; Metallurgy Ironwork, Structural. See Bridges; Steelwork; Structures
Irradiation Applicator for the Eye (National Research Development Corp.), 396
— Changes in Graphite Moderators due to,
120*
— by Electrons, 748*
— Laboratory at Barton Works of Metro-
politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., 748*
— Polymerisation by, 648
— by X-Rays, 748*
— See also Radiation
Irrigation, Flood Control and Power Generation in Orissa State, India, Hirakud Project for, 413*
and Hydraulic Design. Vol. 2: Irrigation
Works, by S. Leliavsky (Review), 308
— Pumps. Flood (Trade Publication), 534 Irritability, Mechanism of, 721
Irritation, in Authoritarian Personality, 721* Isle of Grain Oil Refinery of British Petroleum
Co., Ltd., Plant Expansion and Description of Processes at, 350*, 794*
Islington Public Libraries, Information News-
Sheet, Comment on, 700
“ Isopon ” Glass-Fibre Reinforced Filler (W. David and Son, Ltd.), 472
Isothermal Bomb Calorimeter (Griffin and George, Ltd.), 389*
Israel-Nigerian Construction Co., Formation of, 99
Italy, Agreement with United Kingdom for Co-operation in Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, 43
— Atomic Energy Agreement with. Ratifica
tion of, 684
— Nationalisation in, 451
— Nuclear Power Station, 200 MW Proposed
for, 619
Power Stations in. Collaboration between AGIP Nuclear and Nuclear Power Plant Co., Ltd., in Construction of, 619
Power Stations Programme, 619 Reactor for, Proposed, 619 Iveson, G., on Gas Chromatography, 590 Izod Test as Brittle Fracture Test, 498
JACK, Prof. D. T., on Wages and Production, 210
Jaguar Cars, Ltd., Test-Bed Equipment for Testing Gearboxes (Heenan and Froude, Ltd.), 434*; Position and Prospects of, 711
James Forrest Lecture on Further Developments in U.K. Nuclear Power, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 334, 397
James, Sir J., Remarks
Steel Industry, 271
Jane’s All the World’s man (Review), 211
Jane’s Fighting Ships, Blackman (Review), 252
Janes, E., Port Cochere, at Savoy Hotel, 49* “ Janko ” Oil Tanker, Fracture of, 497
Japan, Atomic Energy Agreement with Britain, 808
— Design “ Piracy,” Charges Against, 81
— Nuclear Power Station, Tenders Invited for,
270
— Submarine Power Cables, Development in,
by K. Ikeda, 822
— Thermonuclear Studies in, 238
Japanese Firms, Case of Copying Pollard Bearings, 433
— Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522
Jarvis, J., and Sons, New Chemical Engineering Laboratories for Manchester College of Science and Technology, 764*
Jenkins, E. N., on Gamma Spectrometry for Analysing Complex Samples, 590
Jenner, A. and Co., Ltd., Fully Automatic Sub-Circuit Conveyor, 614
Jennings, R. R., and Partners, New Chemical Engineering Laboratories for Manchester College of Science and Technology, 764* Jenolizing Co., Ltd., Chromate Oxidisation Process for Aluminium Castings, 127
Jessop, W., and Sons, Ltd., Vacuum Melting Process for Titanium and Zirconium, 187*; “ Hylite ” Titanium Alloys, Development Supplies of, 627; Welding Titanium Alloys (Trade Publication), 730
Jets, Gas (Trade Publication), 119
Jet Propulsion, Back Files of, 181
— Stratoliner Long-Range Aircraft for Trans-
Continental Operations, 707 (Boeing Airplane Co.), 37*
Jetties, Oil-Tanker, at Isle of Grain Refinery, 796*
— Pre-Cast Concrete, on River Thames, for
Ocean-going Colliers, 47*
Jevons, S., Tool Co., Oil Mist Coolant (Trade Publication), 309
Jewkes, J., Sources of
on, 129
Jibs, Aluminium, for Concrete Jetty on Wrightson Aluminium, Ltd.), 48*
— Crane, Aluminium-Alloy, for William Cory
& Son (Head Wrightson Aluminium, Ltd.), 158*
Jig Boring Machine. See Boring Machine under Machine Tools
— and Fixtures from Standard Sets of Parts,
by Dr. W. B. Heginbotham, M. Barash, and Dr. P. L. B. Oxley, 829*
Job Changing in Secretarial and Fields, Reasons for, 592
— Extension Policy at International
Machines, 824
Johnson-Bauer, Drum Motors, for band ”
Johnson,
Apprenticeship Scheme, 279*; “ Johnson- Vilver ” Industrial Lifting Platform, 583; “ Multibrator ” Very-High-Frequency Im-
on Nationalisation of
Aircraft, by L. Bridg-
1957-58, by R. V. B.
Invention, Comment
Cranes on Pre-Cast
River Thames (Head
Cleric ’
Business
“ Corru-
Flanged Conveyor Belting, 615
C. H. (Machinery), Ltd., Group
mersion-Poker Concrete Vibrator, 613*; “ Corruband ” Flanged Conveyor Belting, 614*; Frequency Converter for Concrete Vibrator, 614*
Johnson Matthey and Co., Ltd., Mallory 1000 Machinable Tungsten-Base Alloy, 400
Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., NX Non-Extensible Ring Main Unit, 455*; Position and Prospects of, 743
“ Johnson-Vilver ” Industrial Lifting Platform (C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd.), 583
Joint Grinding of Scientific Glassware at Quickfit and Quartz, Ltd., 381*
— Industrial Council, National, for Engi
neering Industry, Rejection of, 680 685,
Council, National, for Shipbuilding Industry, Rejection of, 680 685,
— Nuclear Research Institute (Dubna). See
Nuclear Research Institute
— Rigid, Design of Multi-Storey Steel Frames
with. Research on, 350
Jones, A., Remarks on Government-to- Government Sales, 337
Jones, A. A., and Shipman, Ltd., Model 1012 Crushform Precision Grinding Machine, 100; 72 in Spline Grinding Machine, 292*; Position and Prospects of, 553; Dividing Tables (Trade Publication), 730
Jones, A. R., on Operating Essentials of Pressurised-Water Reactors, 172
Jones, D. E., on Interference Studies on 200 kV Wood Pole Circuits, 822
Jones, F., on Sampling from Radioactive Process Streams, 590
Jones, J. G., Salesmanship and Sales Management, Note on, 658
Jones KLlO-6 Mobile Crane (K and L Steelfounders and Engineers, Ltd.), 37*
?— KLlO-10 Fast Travel Lorry-Mounted 26-Ton Crane (George Cohen 600 Group, Ltd.), 615
— K. and L. Cranes, Lorry-Mounted 10/10
Crane at Steel Co. of Wales, 219
Jones, T. C. and Co., Ltd., Television Centre of British Broadcasting Corporation at Wood Lane, 363*
Jones, Sir W. Benton, Remarks on Position and Prospects of Steel Industry, 79
Journal of British Interplanetary Society, Back Files of, 181
— Nukleonik, Scientific, German, New, 620
— Scientific, Russian, Availability of, 496
— Soviet, Express Contents of (Consultants
Bureau, Inc.), 730
— Soviet, Express Contents of. Note on, 700
— Soviet, Yuni Tekhnik, Aims of, by V.
Bolkhovitinov, 4
— Technical, Advertising in, in United States,
Change in, 337
— Technical, British, Selected (Booklet),
Note on, 213
— See also Bearings
Journees Internationales des Sciences Aero- nautiques, Post War Development Axial Compressor in Great Britain, Prof. A. D. S. Carter, 124
Joy Manufacturing Co., Annual Report,
of
by
juy iviitiiuiciviui 111^ v_u., rtiiiiuai iwpvii, 111
J. and S. Carburettor Co., Conversion Sets for Petrol Engine to Run on Liquefied Petroleum Gas, 37
Jugoslavia. See Yugoslavia
Jukes, J. A., on Exporting Nuclear Reactors, 15 Junghans, S., System of Continuous Casting of Steel, 293*
Junior Institution of Engineers. See Engineers, Junior Institution of
“ Jupiter C ” Rocket, iruel for, 331 “Jupiter” Rocket, 263*, 264
Jute Industry in Dundee, 786. See LETTER, 451 — Trade Federal Council, British, Dundee Jute Industry, by R. D. Marshall, 451
Kempe’s Engineer’s Year Book for 1958, by C. E. Prockter and B. W. Pendred (Book), 585
Kendall and Gent, Ltd., Annual Report, 137 Kenedi, Dr. R. M., on Applications of Cold- Formed Sections, 734
Kennedy and Donkin, Pumped-Storage Scheme at Blaenau-Ffestiniog, 492*
Kent, Engineering History in, 818
Kent-Moore Motor-Vehicle Lamp Testing, 371*
— Rural Crafts of, 818
Kestner Evaporator and Engineering Co., Ltd., Food and Chemical Drying (Trade Publication), 503; Mechanical Stirrer for Mercury Freezing Tank, 797*; History of, 816
Kestner, P., Friendship with J. A. Reavell, 816 Kettles, Electric, Tests on, 32
Kier, J. L., and Co., Ltd., 5-25 MW Nuclear Power Stations, 41; ?4uclear-Energy Activities, 619*
Killian, Dr. J. R., Remarks at Opening of New Plant of Texas Instruments Inc., 818 Kilmarnock, Technical College for. Discussion in Parliament on, 144
Kiln, Lime, for Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 106*
Natural-Gas Fired, for Kuwait Sand- Lime Brick Works, 188*
Kilpatrick, J., and Sons, Ltd., Sub-Station at Brussels Fair, 487
Kimberly-Clark, Ltd., “ Hi-Dri ” Paper Towelling, 742
Kine Engineering Co., Ltd., Jig Boring Machine, 544
King, Dr. A. J., on Attenuation Curves for Rock-Wool-Lined Air Ducts, 29*
King, H., on Fatigue-Testing Machine for Hot Sheet, 402*
King, J. W. H., on Accelerated Curing Tests on Concrete, 324, 771. See LETTER, 451
King, W. D., on Position and Prospects of Radiation, Ltd., 523
Kingfield Wire and Rod Works of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., 830*
King’s College (London), Engineering Society, 1847-1957, by W. O. Skeat (Book), 347
King’s College (Newcastle upon Tyne), “ Pegasus ” Computer at, 292
Kingston Control Systems, Ltd., Stabilised Control Panels, 708*
“ Kingstrand ” Aluminium Construction Sheets, Distribution in Canada (Coseley Engineering Co., Ltd.), 658
Kinnear and Gordon, Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Factory for Concentrated Complete Fertiliser at Leith Docks, 508 Kirgizia, Soviet Economic Planning in, 35 Kirk, P. L., on Microscale Preparation and Micrometallurgy of Plutonium Metal, 457 Kirkland, W. G., Cold-Roll Forming Practice in United States, 734
Kirkstall Forge Co., “ Mail ” Axle, “ Collinge ” Axle, 475*
Kitchen Planning, Electric (Brochure), “ Kite Mark ” Quality Standard of Standards Institution, 240
475*;
640
British
Coun-
Labgear, Ltd., Directional Scintillation ter, 396
Laboratory, Admiralty Materials. Admiralty Materials Laboratory
— Beryllium, at Atomic Energy Division of
General Electric Co., Ltd., 364
?—? Chemical Engineering, New, at Manchester College of Science and Technology, Description and Opening of, 763*
— Elastomers Research, at Hemel Hempstead
(E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.), 770
— Engineering Department of Cambridge
University, Extensions to, 404
— Equipment, Hire Purchase for, Possibility
of. 675
— Extensions in Cambridge University Engi
neering Department, 275*
— Fatigue, at Cambridge University, 276*
— and Field Tests on 132 kV Condenser-
Bushings, by J. L. Douglas and A. W. Stannett, 405
— Glassware Production at Quickfit and Quartz,
Ltd., 381*
•— Irradiation, at Barton Works of Metro- poIitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., 748*
— Mechanical Engineering, by J. S. Doolittle
(Review), 26
— for Mechanical Engineering, Teaching,
Planning of, Aide-Memoire on, 642
— Mechanics of Machines, at Cambridge
University, 276
— Nava! Research, United States. See United
States Naval Research Laboratory
— Nuclear Research, of C. A. Parsons and Co.,
Ltd., 399
— Paint, of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.,
for Technical Service to Customers, 817
•—? Research, at Cambridge University, 276
— Science, School, Discussion in Parliament
on, 524
— Site, at Tilbury Docks, for Accelerated-
Strength Tests for Concrete, 243
— Stair, Communication with Management
Report on, 720
— Strength of Materials, in New Chemical
Engineering Laboratories at Manchester College of Science and Technology, 763*
— for Studying a Dangerous Material, by Dr.
T. Raine and P. P. Starling, 499*
— Testing and Research, for Materials and o/
/or
See
Structures, Union of. See Union Testing and Research Laboratories Metals and Materials
— Testing in Soil Engineering, by T. N.
Akroyd (Review), 252. See LETTER,
— See also National Physical
w.
291
KALMAN, P. G., on New Flat Cathode-Ray Tube for Monochrome and Colour Television, 620*
Kapp, Dr. Gisbert, Development of “ Railophone ” Audio-Frequency Inductive System, 158
Kariba Dam, Discharge and Flooding of River Zambesi into, 625*
Karp, A., on Fast-Wave Interactions with Electron Film at Cyclotron Resonance, 725 Karr, J., on Neutrons from Stabilised Toroidal
Pinch, 186*
Karrier Trucks, Price Reduction by Rootes
Group, 433
Kathanode Batteries for Traction Vehicles
(Trade Publication), 730
“ Katharometer” Hot-Wire Conductivity Gauge, 576
Kaufmann, M., on Modernisation of British Grid Control Networks. 821
Kay, Prof. J. M., on nology, 14; on graduate Course (London), 394*, 483. See also 399
Nuclear-Reactor Tech- Nuclear Power, Post- at Imperial College 579-580. See LETTER,
Kearney and Trecker Milling Machine, Application of Punched-Tape Control System to (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 31*
Keating, A., on Position and Prospects of
Prestige, Ltd., 367
“ Kee Klamp ” System of Tubular Construction, Ratchet Spanner for Use with (George H. Gasgoigne Co., Ltd.), 37 Keen, E. D., on Design of Air Frames, 297 Kelly, P. R., on Reappraisal of Appraisals, 825 Kelsall, Dr. E. P., on A Theoretical Setting for
Study and Treatment of Strikes, 361 Kelvin, Lord, 50th Anniversary of Death of, 10 Kelvin Hughes, Caravan Units for Marine and
Industrial Applications, 755
Kelvin and Hughes, Ltd., Rapid Processing Photographic Projector for Air-Trafific-
Control Radar Problems, 310; Cone and Cylinder Integrator, 389*
Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial) Ltd., Three- Position Photo-Transistor Temperature
Controller, 551 Photo-Transistor Pressure Controller for Automatic Regulation of Oil Burners on Shell-Type Boilers, 551
Scheme for Electrical Appliances, Discussion in Parliament on, 656
KLIO-IO, Jones, Fast Travel Lorry-Mounted 26-Ton Crane (George Cohen 600 Group, Ltd.), 615
KLlO-6 Jones Mobile Crane (K and L Steelfounders and Engineers, Ltd.), 37*
K and L Steelfounders and Engineers, Ltd., KLlO-6 Jones Mobile Crane, 37*
Klaxon Horn for London Underground, 203 Klein and Saks, Work on Economic Problems in Chile, 643
Knapp, F., on Research into Improvement of Resistance to Ageing of Stator Insulation of Large Alternators, 821
Kneebone, P., Cartoons on “ Oiling the Wheels of Industry,” 81
Knolls Atomic Energy Laboratory, Design for Flexible Plastic Reactor, 303
Knollys, Lord, Remarks at European Industrial Conference, 307; Review of Vickers Group Activities, 647
Kolner, V. M., on Transmission Length in Prestressed Concrete, 736
KoltholT’s Volumetric Analysis, Note on, 251 Konobeevsky, S. T., on Eutectoid Reaction in Plutonium-Rich Alloys, 459
Kosine, Ltd., Civil Engineering Slide-Chart for Hydraulics and Reinforced Concrete, 63* Kovacs, P. C., on Asynchronous Running of Turbo-Generators, 821
Kraus Reprint Corp., Back Files of Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, and Jet Propulsion, 181
Kroch, H. J., on A.B. Metal Products. Ltd., 740 Krok, T. V., on Sleeve Bearings, 345 Kronberger, Dr. H., Appointment as Director of Research and Development of Industrial Group of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 238
Krucoff, D., on Armour Dust Fuelled Reactor Concept (ADFR), 807*
Krupps, Discussion in Parliament on Deconcentration of Armament Monopoly, 624 Kubicek, R., Remarks on Export Opportunities in Czechoslovakia, 465
“ Kunial ” Brass (Trade Publication), 57 Kurchatov, Academician I. V., on Soviet Work on Thermonuclear Reactors, on Thermonuclear Reactions, 431
Kuwait, Climate of, 105
— Limestone Deposit at, 104*
— Rainfall of, 105
— Sand Deposits, 104
— Sand-Lime Brick Works, Formation Activities, 104*; Brick Production,
Kynal ” Aluminium-Alloy Motor Vehicle Body Sections (Trade Publication), 90
303;
««
and
188*
LABELS, Acetate, “ Sellotape ” (Gordon &
Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
— Ethyl-Cellulose, Self-Adhesive (Gordon &
Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
Labour:
Absence and Turnover, by J. Crowther, 44
Absenteeism in Coal Mining Industry, Dismissals Due to, 235
— of Miners, Discussion in Parliament
on, 208
— of Mineworkers, Scheme to Combat,
139
Admiralty Employees. Statistics on, 272 Agency, Personnel, Central, by M. S. Levy, 259
Aircraft Industry, Employee Statistics of, 596*; Employment in. Discussion in Parliament on, 809
Employment in, Position and Prospects of, 86
Unemployment in, Plain Words on, 130
— Workers, United States, Wage Increase for, 816
American Federation of Labour and Congress of Industrial Organisations, Views on United States Recession, 747
Apprentices, Carr Committee on, 278*
— Engineering, Wage Dispute of, 428 Apprenticeships, Carr Committee on, 278 — Certificates of, 280
— Difficulties in Changing System of, 203
— Schemes in Foreign Countries, Discussion in Parliament on, 524
— Study of, by Engineering and Allied Employers' Federaticn and Shipbuilding Employers' Federation, 280 of, by Lady G. Williams, 278
— Trade-Union Views on. 279 Arbitration, Cohen Report Recommendations on, 329
— Compulsory, for Strikes in Australia, 10
— Difficulties of, 203
— Results Morally Binding, 493
— Tribunal on Wage Claim of National Union of Mineworkers, Reaction to 720
on Wage Claim of Post Office Engineering Union, 203
— for United States Motor-Car Industry,
651
Arbitrators, Quandary of, 329
Australia, Strikes in. Compulsory Arbitration for, 10
Automobile Workers, United, New-Style Profit-Sharing Proposals, 107; Proposals for Uniform Wage Scales, 107; New Claims for Redundant Workers, 107
- - — Union, United, Activity in Price
Policy of United States Motor-Car Industry, 273
Banks, Trade Unionism in. Discussion in Parliament on. 524
Bentley Colliery, Dismissals at. Due to Absenteeism, 235
Birch, A., on Lord Chandos’s Suggestion for Regular Annual Wage Increases 44
Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., Redundancy at Drawing Offices, 391
British Broadcasting Corporation, Wage Increase for Clerical Workers of, 329
British Motor Corp., Ltd., Remarks by Mr. Feather on Strike at, 265
— Railways, Economy Measures for, 809 Bronx Zoo, New York, Strike of Maintenance Workers at, 784
Building Industry, Labour Position and Prospects in, 75
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Labour— coi:tii:ued
Building Industry, Unemployment in, 483
— Workers, Wage Claim of, 75 Wage Demand, 493
Canada, Trade Unions in, 739
Canadian Congress of Labour, Formation of, 739; Amalgamation with Trades and Labour Congress of Canada to Form Canadian Labour Congress, 739 Carr Committee on Recruitment and Training of Young Workers in Industry, 272, 278*
Chemical Industry Nationalisation Threat, 464
Class Consciousness in Promotion, 329 Coal Industry, Employment in, 423 Nationalisation of. Comment on Achievements of, 208
?— ?— Threat of Unemployment in, 391 Wage Position and Prospects in, 107 ?— Miners, Wage Claims of. Comment on, 267
— Mining Industry, Dismissals Due to Absenteeism in, 235
Cohen Committee on Prices, Productivity and Incomes, First Report of, 257; Trade Union Congress Views on. Comment on, 329;
Reply to Critics of First Report of, 460
— Report, Recommendations on Arbitration, 329
Trade Unions’ Reaction to, 304 Colliery, Bentley, Dismissals at. Due to Absenteeism, 235
Committee of Inquiry into Transport and General Workers’ Union Dispute with London “
Government for, 176
Compensation for
Tube Investments, Ltd., 107 Construction Industry, Unemployment in, 483
Co-operative Movement, Report of Commission on, 592
Costs, Capital, Eflect on Productivity, 386 ?— Labour, Effect on Productivity, 386 Cotton Industry, Redundancy Plan for Lancashire Mill Employees, 460
Cousins, F., Action in Omnibus Workers’ Dispute, 428; in Strike of London Motor Omnibus Workers, 720, 752, 816
D.A,G,, Activities of, for German Office Workers, 195
Disputes Tribunal, Industrial, 139
Dock Labour Board, National, Discussion in Parliament on Manpower Usage, 272
Position, 329
Uneconomic Use of. Discussion in Parliament on, 272
— Strike, London, 685, 752
— Workers, Wage Claim of, 235 Draughtsmen, Redundancy at Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., 391
Drawing Offices, Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., Redundancy at, 391
Dundee, Unemployment in, 386 Economic Research by United States Trade Unions, 391
Electrical Contract Workers, Wage Increase for, 784
— Trades Union, Annual Conference (Morecambe), Report on, 685
Union, Dispute with National Federated Electrical Association on Trainees, 203
Employee Shareholding in General Electric Co, (U.S.), 781
Employers’ Confederation, British, Request on Wage Rate,s Agreed in Collective Bargaining, 329
? British, Views on Future of Indus
trial Disputes Tribunal, 139
— Federation, Engineering, Rejection of National Joint Ccuncil by, 680, 685 Shipbuilding, Rejection of National Joint Council by, 680, 685
— Ruthless, Plain Words on, 450 Employment in Aircraft Industry, Discussion in Parliament on, 809
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 86
— Changes at Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., Ill
— in Coal Industry, 423
— Engineers and Scientists, Supply and Demand, Comment on, 289
— Policies, Positive, Ministry of Labour Booklet on, 235
— Statistics in Metal Manufacturing and Engineering Industry, 21
— Tendencies, Discussion in Parliament on, 300
— in United States, Position of, 747 Engineering Industry, Employment Statistics, 21
National Joint Industrial Council for. Rejection of, 680, 685
? Shorter Working Week, Meeting
on, 428
Unemployment in, 624
in Western Europe, Statistics on, 739 — Union, Amalgamated, Expulsion of Member Refusing to Conform to Wage Restriction Agreement, 107; Youth Section Conference (Bournemouth), 428; Endorsement of New Wage Demand, 592
Europe, Western, Engineering Industries in. Statistics on, 739
Feather, V. G. H., on Strike at British Motor Corp., Ltd,, 265
Forced Labour, Convention for Abolition of, 44
Foreman, Conference on Conflict or Co-operation for, 304
?— Club of Remington Rand, Ltd,, 720 — Promotion of. Class Consciousness as Stumbling Block, 329
— Training Courses in Iron and Steel Industry, 146
Chairman’s
Transport Executive, Rejection of Request
Redundant Workers at
Labour—continued
Foremanship as Step to Higher Manage-
- 210
Transport
ment, by W. W. Ferguson, France, Strike of Public
Employees in, 460
General Electric Co. (U.S.)
Shareholding in, 781
— and Municipal Workers,
Employee
National Union of. Support for Dock Workers’ Wage Claim, 235; Annua! Ctfngress: Remarks on Wage Claims and Policies, by J. Cooper, 752; Plea for Relaxation of Government’s Restrictive Policies, by Sir T. Williamson, 752
German Industrial Workers, Shorter Working Week for, 676
— Steel Industry, Wages, Dispute, Settle
ment of, 536
— Steelworkers’ Union Call for Strike
in Ruhr, 460
Germany, Labour Difficulties in, 163
— Strikes in, 163
— Trade Union Demands in, 280
— “ White Collar Workers,” Salaries of,
195
Girls with Ability to become Engineers and Scientists, Remarks on Wastage of, by Sir E. Boyle, 616
Government Rejection of Request by Transport and General Workers’ Union for Committee of Inquiry into Dispute with London Transport Executive, 176
Greenock, Unemployment in, 786
Hours of Labour, Demand for Shorter Working Week by Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, 616
in Engineering Industry, Meeting on Shorter, 428
Four-Day Week in United States, Discussion on, 10
Lost, Statistics on, 240
— — Overtime, Decline in, due to Increas
ed Productivity, 203
? Position and Prospects of, 21
— —Saturday Working in Mines, 300 Shorter, for German Industrial
Workers, 676
Shorter, in Germany, 280 ? Staggering of. Discussions in Parliament on Report on, 524
Staggering of. Report on, 528 Human Relations, See Human Industrial Accidents, See Accidents
— Welfare, See Welfare (below)
— Workers, German, Shorter Working
Week for, 676
Inflation and Wage Demands, Disagreement on, 235
Insurance, National, Increase in. Mineworkers’ Wage Claim Due to, 139
Investments, Trade Unions, in Government Stock and Other Holdings, 616 Iron and Steel Labour Costs, Discussion in Parliament on, 300
Italy, Nationalisation in, 451 Job Changing in Secretarial and Clerical
Fields, Reasons for, 592
Joint Council, National, Rejection of, by Engineering and Shipbuilding Employers’ Federations, 680, 685
Juvenile Employment, Discussion in Parliament on, 272
Labor's Economic Review on Economic Position in United States, 803
Labour Absence and Turnover, by J, Crowther, 44
— Canadian Congress of. Amalgamation
with Trades and Labour Congress of Canada to Form Canadian Labour Congress, 739
— Conference, International, Report of,
44; Maritime Session of. Discussion in Parliament on. 111
— Congress, Canadian, Formation of, 739
— Costs, Effect on Productivity, 386 Iron and Steel, Discussion
Parliament on, 300
Remarks by Lord Chandos on,
— Difificulties in Germany, 163
— Force, United States, Total
Unemployed, 744*
— Forced, Convention for Abolition of,
44
— Management Relations at Shipyard of
Bartram and Sons, Ltd,, 141
— and National Service, Ministry of.
Booklet on Positive Employment Policies, 235; Careers for Women in Engineering Industry (Booklet), 304; Professional and Executive Register of, 560
— Office, International, Discussion in
Parliament on Freedom of Association Among Workpeople, 656
— Party Disagreement with Trades Union
Congress on Economic Policy, 235
National Superannuation Scheme, 139
Views on Propaganda against Renationalisation of Steel Industry, 162
— Relations, Understanding (Pamphlet),
460
— and Trades Congress of Canada
Amalgamation with Canadian Congress of Labour to form Canadian Labour Congress, 739
— Troubles in Motor Industry, 86 Locomotives, Diesel, Manning of. Negotiations Between Railway Unions and British Transport Commission on, 10
— Electric, Manning of. Negotiations
between Railway Unions and British Transport Commission on, 10
— Engineers and Firemen, Associated
Society of. Negotiations with British Transport Commission and National Union of Railwaymen on Manning of Diesel and Electric Locomotives, 10 London Transport Executive, Dispute with Transport and General Workers’ Union, Government Rejection of
Request for Committee of Inquiry into, 176; Award of 4.i per cent to Bus Workers on Central London Routes, 361; Dispute with Transport and General Workers’ Union on Omnibu.s Workers’ Wage Claims, 428; Rejection of London Tube Workers’ Wage Claim, 560; Strike of London Motor Omnibus Workers, 685; Motor Omnibus Workers’ Strike, Jack Solomons’ Offer in, 720; Strike of Motor Omnibus Workers, 752 Macmillan, Rt. Hon. H., Remarks on
Wages and Prices, 560
McLaren, J. and H., Ltd., Redundancy at, 547
Maintenance Workers at New York Bronx Zoo, Strike of, 784
Maritime Session of International Labour Conference (Geneva), Discussion in Parliament on. 111
Men, Women and Work, by L. Wright, 685 Merchant Seamen, Unemployment of, 391 Metal Manufacturing Industry, Employment Statistics, 21
Mines, Saturday Working in Parliament on, 300 Miners, Absenteeism of.
Parliament on, 208
— Coal, Wage Claims of,
in, Discussion
Discussion in
267
in
651
and
— Concessionary Coal for. Discussion in
Parliament on, 208
— Wage Claims of. Comment on, 418 Mine workers. Absenteeism of, 235
— of. Scheme to Combat, 139
— National Union of. Wage Negotiations
with National Coal Board, 107; Wage Claim Due to National Insurance Increase, 139; Plea for Unemployment Measures, 391; National Coal Board’s Economy Programme, Agreement to, 460; Securities of, 616; Reaction to Results of Arbitration Tribunal on Wage Claim of, 720 Missile Workers, United States, Wage Increase for, 816
Monkeys as Strike Pickets, 784
Monopoly and Redundancy, Comment on, 528
Mothers at Work, Problems of, 752 Motor-Car Industry, Time v. Piece Rates in, 329
Industry, United States, Arbitration for, 651
— Industry, Labour Troubles in, 86 United States, Profit-Sharing
Proposals by United Automobile Workers, 107
United States, Scheme of W. Reuther for New Wage Terms in, 720
— Omnibus Workers, London, Strike of,
616, 651, 685, 720, 752, 816
Workers, London Transport, Award of 43 per cent for Central London Routes, 361
Workers, London, Wage Claim Rejected, 75
Workers’ Wage Claims, Dispute of London Transport Executive and Transport and General Workers’ Union on, 428
Nationalisation of Coal Industry, 208
— Effect on Installation of Automatic
Train Control, 336
— in Italy, 451
— of Manufacturing Industry, 258
— of Steel Industry, Opposition to, 271
— of Stewarts and Lloyds, 34
— Survey, New York Herald-Tribune, 258 —Threat to Chemical Industry, 464
Naval Shore Establishments, Redundancies at, 258
New York Bronz Zoo, Strike of Maknten- ance Workers at, 784
Northern Ireland, Unemployment in 336, 361, 395, 560, 616
Nuclear Scientists, Salary Increase Negotiations, 304
Office Workers in Germany, Salaries of, 195
Older Workers, Industrial Training for, by D. G. Entwisle, 707
Operator Training in Screw Division of Guest Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands), Ltd., by E. D. Simmons. 753*
Overtime, Effect of Increased Productitivy on, 203
Payment by Results, Trend Away From, 592
Pensions Schemes, Occupational, Survey of, 651
— Transferability of. Comment on, 752 Personnel Agency, Central, by M. S. Levy,
259
Piecework Rates in Motor Industry, 329 Post Office Engineering Union, Arbitration on Wage Claim of, 203
Prices, Plan for Linking to Wages and Productivity 391
— and Wages, Remarks on, by Rt. Hon.
H. Macmillan, 560
Production and Wages, Conference on (Harrogate), 210
Productivity, Plan for Linking to Prices and Wages, 391
Profit-Sharing Proposals, New-Style, by United Automobile Workers, 107 System for Employees at Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 651
Promotion, Effect of Class Consciousness on, 329
Public Transport Employees, Strike of, in France, 460
Rail Strike, Prospectsof, Comment on, 616 Railways, Economy Measures for, 809
— Operatives, Wage Claims of, 418
— Workers, Dispute of, 616 ?—- ?— Wage Demand, 528
Wage Dispute Settlement, Comment on, 651
— — Wage Increases for. Comment on
Effect of Economies by British Railways, 545, 547
— ?— Wages, Tribunal on, 493
Labour—continued
Railwaymen, National Union of. Negotiations with British Transport Commission and Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen on Manning of Diesel and Electric Locomotives, 10; S, Greene as Probable Leader of, 176
Rank Organisation, Redundancy at Pinewood Studios, 44
Recession and Unemployment, Trend of, 10
Redundancy at Bristol Aeroplane Co., Ltd., Drawing Offices, 391
—• at J. and H. McLaren, Ltd., 547
— and Monopoly, Comment on, 528
— at Naval Shore Establishments, 258
— Plan for Cotton Textiles Industry, 460
— at Rank Organisation Pinewood
Studios, 44
Redundant Workers, New Claims for, by United Automobile Workers, 107 at Tube Investments, Ltd,, Compensation for, 107
Remington Rand, Ltd., Foremen’s Club of, 720
Restrictive Practices in Shipbuilding Industry, Discussion in Parliament on, 591
Ruhr, Strike in, German Steelworkers’ Union Call for, 460
Saturday Working in Coal Mines, Discussion in Parliament on, 300
Scotland, Unemployment in, 361, 386, 524, 560
Seamen, Merchant, Unemployment of, 391 Ship-Repairing Industry, Unemployment in, 528
Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation, Rejection of National Joint Council by, 680, 685
—and Engineering Unions, Confederation of. Revival of Full Employment Committee of Tyne and Blyth District of, 528; Proposed Claim for Higher Wages and Demand for Shorter Working Week, 616
— Industry, National Joint Industrial Council for. Rejection of, 680, 685
— ?— Restrictive Practices in. Discussion
in Parliament on, 591
Unemployment in, 528
Shipping Industry, Unemployment in, 391 — Labour Aspects, Conference on. 111 Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, IJnion of, Easter Delegate Conference of, 493
— Stewards, Conference on Conflict or Co-operation for, 304
Short Brothers and Harland, Ltd., Employment Changes at. 111
Staggering of Working Hours, Report on. 528
Standard Motor Co., Ltd., Strike of Maintenance Men, at, 329
Steel Industry, German, Wages Dispute Settlement of, 536
Nationalisation, Opposition to, 271 Steelworkers’ Union, German, Call for Strike in Ruhr, 460
Strikes in Australia, Compulsory Arbitration for, 10
— British Motor Corp., Ltd., Remarks by Mr. Feather on, 265
— Dock, London, Breakdown in Negotiations, 752
— in Germany, 163
— Industrial Disputes Tribunal, Future of, 139
— at London Docks, 685
— of London Motor Omnibus Workers,
616, 651, 685, 720
— of Maintenance Workers at New York
Bronx Zoo, 784
— of Motor Omnibus Workers, London,
616, 651, 685, 720, 752, 816
— Pickets, Monkeys as, 784
— of Public Transport Employees in
France, 460
— Rail, Prospects of. Comment on, 616
— in Ruhr, German Steelworkers’ Union
Call for, 460
— a Theoretical Setting for Study and
Treatment of, by Dr. E. P. Kelsall, 361
— Working Hours Lost due to, 240 Superannuation Scheme, National, of Labour Party, 139
Teachers, National Union of. Annual Guide to Careers for Young People, 361
Textiles Industry, Redundancy Plan for Lancashire Mill Employees, 460 Time Rates in Motor Industry, 329 Trades and Labour Congress of Canada Amalgamation with Canadian Congress of Labour to Form Canadian Labour Congress, 739
— Unions in Canada, 739 Congress, Discussion with Cohen
Council, 75; Views on Future of Industrial Disputes Tribunal, 139; Budget Recommendations to Chancellor of Exchequer, 235; Disagreement with Labour Party on Economic Policy, 235; Reaction to Cohen Report, 304; Views on Free Trade Area, 307; Views on Cohen Report, Comment on, 329; Statement on Strike of London Omnibus Workers, 616
French, Attitude to Free Trade Area and European Common Market 107
German, Demands of, 280 Growth in United States, 781
Inns of Court Conservative Society Pamphlet on, 784
Investments in Government Stock and other Holdings, 616
Need for Members to Save for Retirement, 139
Relations with Industry, Conference on Conflict or Co-operation, 304 United States, Economic Research by, 391
Trades Unions, United States, Views on Economic Position in, 803
Views on Apprenticeship, 279 Views on Free Trade Area, 307 Wage Restraint in, by Mr. Birch, 493 — Unionism in Banks, Discussion in Parliament on , 524
Transport Employees, Public, Strike of, in France, 460
— and General Workers’ Union, Dead lock on Wage Claim with London Transport Executive. 75; Government Rejection of Request by, for Committee of Inquiry into Dispute with London Transport Executive, 176; Support for Dock Workers’ Wage Claim, 235; ~
London Transport
Omnibus Workers’ Wage Claims, 428; Jack Solomons’ Offer in Bus Strike, 720
Tribunal on Railway Workers’ Wages, 493 Tube Investments, Ltd., Compensation for Redundant Workers, 107
— Workers, London, Wage Claim of. Rejection by London Transport Executive, 560
Turnover and Absence, by J. Crowther, 44 Tyneside, Unemployment on, 680 Underground Workers’ Wage Claim Rejected, 560
Unemployed Craftsmen in Wales, 208 Unemployment in Aircraft Industry, Plain Words on, 130
— Areas, Credit Restrictions Relaxed for 528
— in Building and Construction Industry, 483
— in Coal Industry, Threat of, 391 — Discussion in Parliament on, 272
— in Engineering Industry, 624
— Government Measures for Relief for 560 Policy on, 300, 304
— of Merchant Seamen, 391
— in Northern Ireland, Discussion in Parliament on, 336
— in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 361
— and Recession, Trend of, 10 ?— in Scotland, 386, 524
—• in Ship-Repairing Industry, 528
— in Shipbuilding Industry, 528
— in South-West Wales, 464 — Statistics on, 304, 560, 616 for Northern Ireland, 395
— on Tyneside, 680
— in United States, 361, 744*
— in United States, Effect on Deflationary
Policy, 354
— in Wales, 300
United States Aircraft Workers, Wage Increase for, 816
Employment in, Position of, 747 Four-Day Week in, Discussion O5i 10
Labour's Economic Review on Economic Position in, 803
Labour Force, Total and Unemployed, 744*
Missile Workers, Wage Increase for, 816
Motor-Car Industry, Arbitration for, 651
Motor Industry, Profit-Sharing Proposals by United Automobile Workers, 107
-— — Motor Industry, Scheme of W. Reuther for New Wage Terms in, 720 Trade Unions, Economic Research by, 391
Trade-Union Growth, 781
Trade Unions’ Views on Economic Position in , 803
Unemployment in, 361
Unemployment in. Effect on Deflationary Policy, 354
Wage Claims, Arbitration in, 203 Building Workers’, 75
Coal Miners’, Comment on, 267 Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, 616
Dock Workers, 235 Forthcoming, 22 London Bus Workers’, Rejection of, 75
London Tube Workers’, Rejection by London Transport Executive, 560 of Miners, Comment on, 418
— - - Mineworkers’, due to National
Insurance Increase, 139
of National Union of Mineworkers, Reaction to Arbitration Tribunal on, 720
Omnibus Workers’, Dispute of London Transport Executive and Transport and General Workers’ Union on, 428
— - — Policy of, by Prof. D. T. Jack, 210 and Policies, Remarks by J, Cooper
on, 752
— ?— Post Office Engineering Union, 203 of Railway Operatives, Comment
on, 418
— Costs, Sir R. Shone and H. R. Fisher
on, 386
— Demand, Building Workers’, 493 and Inflation, Disagreement on, 235 Railway
— Dispute of
428
German of Dispute, 536
Railway Workers’, Comment on Settlement of, 651
-— Earning Occupations for Prisoners, 651
— Increase for Aircraft Workers in United
States, 816
Amalgamated Engineering Union’s Endorsement of Demand for, 592 British Broadcasting Corporation Clerical Workers, 329
for Electrical Contract Workers, 784
Dispute with Executive on
Workers’, 528
Engineering Apprentices,
Steel Industry, Settlement
Labour—continued
Wage Claims, London Transport Workers on Central London Bus Routes, 361 for Missile Workers in United States, 816
— — for Railway Workers, Comment on
Effect of Economies by British Railways, 545, 547
Regular Annual, Lord Chandos’s Suggestion, 44
— Index, 433
— Mineworkers, Position and Prospects of, 107
— Plan for Linking to Prices and Productivity, 391
— Policy, Government’s, 21 by Prof. D. T. Jack, 210 by Sir R. Snedden, 210 —• Position and Prospects of, 21
— and Prices, Remarks on, by Rt. Hon.
H. Macmillan, 560
— and Production, Conference on (Harro
gate), 210
— Railway Workers’, Tribunal on, 493
— Restraint in Trade Unions, by Mr. Birch, 493
— Terms in United States Motor Industry, New, Scheme of W. Reuther for, 720
— See also Income; Salary
Wales, Craftsmen Registered as Unemployed, 208
?— South-West, Unemployment in, 464
— Unemployment in, 300, 361, 560 Welfare and Educational Amenities of General Electric Co. (U.S.), 579
— Society, Industrial, Courses for Office Executives, 176; Conference on Conflict cr Co-operation for Foremen and Shop Stewards, 304; Survey on Job Changing in Secretarial and Clerical Fields, 592
Williamson, Sir T., on Lord Chandos’s Suggestion for Regular Annual Wage Increases, 44
Women in Engineering Industry, Careers for, 304
?— of Great Britain, National Council of, Problems of Women at Work, 752
— in Industry, Comment on Problem of,
176
?— Married, at Work, Problems of, 752
— Men, and Work, by L. Wright, 685
— Protective Head Covering for. Case of, in Midlands, 176
— as Reserve of Scientific and Technical
Skill, 146
Work, Men,
685
Workpeople,
Among,
International Labour Office Survey on, 656
Youth Employment Committee, Cardiff', Annual Report, Discussion in Parliament on, 272; Report on, by T. A. Pritchard, 278*
Executive of Ministry of Labour, on Careers for Girls and Women, 304
— Section of Amalgamated Engineering Union, Conference of (Bournemouth), 428
Zoo, Bronx, New York, Strike of Maintenance Workers at, 784
“ Lacon ” Aluminium Containers (Light Alloy Construction Co., Ltd.), 328*
La Cour Direct-Current Windmills for Local Power Supply, 687*
Lacq Gas Field, Its Problems and Potentialities, by A. Blanchard, 670
Lacroix, J., on Teletransmission, Energie Electrique du Maroc, 821
Lady, Business, Plain Words on Advertisement for, 546
— of Social Standing, Plain Words on Adver
tisement for, 546
Ladybird Appliances, Ltd., Unit for Conversion of Roller Lawnmowers to Power Operation, 320
Lafarge Aluminous Cement Co., Ltd., Cement (Trade Publication). 213; Ciment Fondu Cement (Trade Publication), 309
Lagging Materials. See Heat Insulation Laing, J., and Son, £15-million Contract for Road Building, 207; London-Birmingham Motorway, 441
Lake Stwian in Pumped-Storage Scheme at Blaenau-Ffestiniog, 491 *
— Trawsfynnydd, Proposed Site for Nuclear
Power Station, 490*
Laminate, Wood, Densified, Resin-Impregnated, Insulation, Permali, for ZETA, 333
Laminated and Moulded Brake-Lining Materials, Determining Friction Coefficient for, by Prof. H. Wright Baker, 785*
La Mont Oil-Fired Boilers at Paignton Valve Factory of Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., 349
Lamps, Electric. See Electric
Lampblown Scientific Glassware Manufacturers’ Association, British, Instruments Electronics and Automation Exhibition 488*
Lancashire Dynamo Electronic Products, Ltd., Smoke Densitometer and Alarm (Trade Publication), 181
Lancashire Dynamo Electronics, Ltd., “ Transi- dyne ” Transistorised Ward-Leonard Set, 455*
Lancashire Dynamo Group, Position and Prospects of, 774
Lancashire Dynamo Nevlin, Ltd., Switchboards (Trade Publication), 119; Lanca- shire-Nevlin “ Varionic ” Variable Speed Drive (Trade Publication), 181
Lancashire-Nevlin “ Varionic ” Variable Speed Drive (Trade Publication), 181
Lancashire Steel Corp., Ltd., Trading Results, 34
Lancaster, M. W. H., on Position and Prospects of Allen West and Co., 774
Lance, Powder, for Cutting Heavy Concrete Walls (Union Carbide Corp.), 191*
Landing. See Aeronautics
Women and, by L. Wright,
Freedom of Association Discussion in Parliament on
Landmaster, Ltd., “ Gardenmaster 34 ' Multi- Purpose Machine for Digging, Hoeing, Weeding, Mowing, Hedge Cutting, 352*
Laner, Dr. S., on Human Factor (in Accident Prevention), 267
Lang Pneumatic Ltd., “ Pneulang ” Basic Cylinder Unit, Range of Cylinders for 324*
“ Langalloy ” 20v Alloy Valves (Trade Publication), 57
Langham-Thompson, J., Ltd., High-Speed Cine Camera Employing Image Sampling Methods, 214*; Linear Type LA2, 373
Langley Alloys, Ltd., Alloy Publication), 57
Langley, J., and Co., Ltd., New way Station at Gatwick Airport, 654*
Langton, Dr. N. H., on Meteoric Hazards to Space Flight, 164
Language Courses, Russian, at Discussion in Parliament on,
— Engineering, Problems of, 33
— English, Function of, by Prof.
33
— Scientific, Problems of, 33
Lansing Bagnall, Ltd., Hand-Propelled Fork- Lift Truck for Confined Spaces, 229*; Pneumatic-Tyred Trailer for Hydraulics Research Station, 292
Lares, S. R. L., Etching Machine for Printed Circuits, 471
Larmuth and Bulmer, Sales Tours of Canada by F. M. Larmuth, 209
Last, F. H., on Organisation for Large-Scale Grid System Tests, 404
Latham, G. H., on Position of Whitehead Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., 335
Lathes. See Machine Tools
Launceston Airport, Tasmania, Rubberised Bitumen for Sealing Airstrips at, 441
Launch, Motor. See Motor Boat
Launching of “ Great Eastern,” Centenary of, 17
Laurence, R. A., on Plain Words in Patents, 67 Laurence, Scott and Electromotors, Ltd., Motor Stock List (Trade Publication), 90; Position and Prospects of, 774
Laval, de, Memorial Lecture, on Propulsion of Ships by Steam Turbine Machinery, by Dr. T. W. F. Brown, 28
Lavatory Services in Long-Distance Railway Trains, Discussion in Parliament on, 390
Law. See Legal; Labour; Patents
Lawn Sprinkler, With Three-arm Revolving Head (W. T. French and Son, Ltd.), 320 Lawnmowers, Roller, Unit for Conversion to Power Operation (Ladybird Appliances, Ltd.), 320
Laws Relay for Electrical Power Packs for Guided Weapons, 728*
— of the Sea, Conference on. Proposed Question on Flags of Convenience at, 390 Lawson, W., on Shatter Strength of Cokes from High-Volatile Coals: Use of Plastometer Measurements on Blends Experiments, 211
Layer Process, “ Serseal,” for
Accelerometer
Valves (Trade
Work on Rail-
Universities,
680
B. Pattison,
for Test-Oven
Elimination of
Fumes and Steam from Aqueous Metal Treatment Baths (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 306
Lead Acetate Paper for Detection of Hydrogen Sulphide, 690
— Measuring Machine for Checking Helix
Angle of Gear Wheels (J. Goulder and Sons, Ltd.), 678*
— Prices, Position and Prospects of, 20
— Production in United States, 20
Leaks in Boiler Casings, Detection of (Lister- Todd Engineering Co., Ltd.), 166
— in Pipeline from Shellhaven to Romford,
Halogen Detector for Locating, 223*
Learned Societies within Commonwealth, List of, 233
Leat, F. and T., Ltd., “ Pagoda ” Oil Space Heater, 320
Lectures, Audibility at. Plain Words on, 770 Ledger, R., on Electrification of Railways, by
G. H. Fletcher, 226
Lee, Dr. E., Appointment as Deputy Director, National Physical Laboratory, 291
Lee Guinness, Ltd., “ Vapormatic ” Stepless Starter for Slip-Ring Motor, 359*
Lee, J. A. N., on Stiffening Effects of Edge Beams on Right Slab Bridge, 539*. See LETTER, 612
Lee-McCall Post-Tensioning on Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 47*
Lee, W., Remarks on Nationalisation of Steel Industry, 271
Leeds Engineering and Hydraulic Co., Ltd., L.E.H. Hydraulic Transmission for “ Booth ” Diesel-Hydraulic Crane, 505
Leeds University, Research into Dialects, 203
Legal:
Accident Prevention, Legal Responsibility, by P. W. Cole, 304
Bill Amending Distribution of Industry Act, 1945, 528
Clean Air Act, 1956, Implementation of, 226
Contracts. See Contracts
Control of Hiring Order, Impact on
Radio Rentals, Ltd., 242
Customs Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Act, First Order Under, 67
Distribution of Industry Act, 1945, Bill Amending, 528
Act, Tyneside Assistance under. Discussion in Parliament on, 680
Harvard Law School, Study of Atomic
Industrial Accidents, 303 Labour Legislation. See Labour Laws of the Sea, Conference on. Proposed Question on Flags of Convenience at, 390
Legal Studies, Advanced, Institute of. Annual Report, 443
Level-Crossings in Great Britain: History, the Law Today and Future Practice, 811*
Merchandise Marks Acts, 240
Nuclear Reactors, Inspection Legislation,
238
Le^al—continued
Nuclear Reactors, Licensing Legislation, 238
Overseas Resources Development Bill, 98 Patent Law. See Patents
Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, (1955), 552
Reciprocal Trade Act (United States), 827 Restrictive Practices Act, Case of British Motor Trades Association District Scheme Agreement Under, 368
Act, Remarks by H. Smith on, 711 Court, First and Subsequent Cases of, 465
and Monopolies Commission. See Monopolies
— Trade Practices Act, Progress Made Under, 418
Thermal Insulation Act, 80
Workmen's Compensation. See Labour
Legislation. See Legal; Labour; Patents
L.E.H. Hydraulic Transmission for “ Booth ” Diesel-Hydraulic Crane (Leeds Engineering and Hydraulic Co., Ltd.), 505
Leipzig Fair, British Representation at, 175
— Spring Fair, Note on, 465
Leith Docks, Factory of Scottish Agricultural Industries for Concentrated Complete Fertiliser at, 506
Length-Measuring Machines, Precision (Rubert and Co., Ltd.), 229*
Leningrad Institute of Electro-Physical Equipment, 50 GeV Particle Accelerator, 270
Lenses, Anamorphic, for Projection of Cinema Films (J. D. Moller Optische Werke G.m.b.H.), 384
Lens, “ Bug-Eye,” in Camera for “ Todd-AO ” Filming Process, 549*
Leonardo da Vinci Lecture on Rockets and Guided Flight, 460
“ Leopard Auto-Spot ” Lightweight Portable Spot-Welding Machine (Portable Welders. Ltd.), 68*
Leopard,” H.M. Anti-Aircraft Frigate, Discussion in Parliament on Construction of, 240
“ Leopard S.70,” Heavy Duty Spot Welding Machine (Portable Welders, Ltd.), 68
“Leopard S.lOO” Heavy Duty Spot Welding Machine (Portable Welders, Ltd.), 68
Leppert, G., on Evaporatively Cooled Reactor (ECR), 808*
Leslie, J. R., on Interference Studies on 200 kV Wood Pole Circuits, 822
“ Lesto ” One-Hand Cutting Tool (Trend Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 544*
Letters to the Euitor, 3, 35, 67*, 99, 131, 163, 195, 227, 259, 291, 323, 355, 387*, 419*, 451*, 483, 515, 547, 579, 611*, 643, 666*, 675, 707, 739*, 771, 803*
— Facing Machine, Post Office, 62*
Level Controller, Capacity-Operated, “ Tektor Major ’’ for Liquids or Granular Materials (Fielden Electronics, Ltd.), 228*
Remote, Capacitance-Type, “ Proxicon ” Mark III (J. Edward Hall (Electrical Engineers), Ltd.). 677*
— Crossings in Great Britain: History, the
Law Today and Future Practice, 811* “ Half-Barrier” Installation al, 812* • Lifting Barriers for, 811 *
in Lincoln, Replacement of, by Pelham Road Bridge, 813*
Protection: Report by Officers of Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and British Transport Commission, 812
Levy, M. S., on Super-Agency, 259
Lewes to East Grinstead Railway Train Services, Proposal to Withdraw, 240
Lewis, A. W., on Handsaws and Sawing (Booklet), 448
Lewis, H. K., and Co., Ltd., Catalogue of Lewis’s Medical Scientific and Technical Lending Library, 155
Lewis’s Medical, Scientific and Technical Lending Library, Catalogue of, 155
Leybold-Hochvakuum-Anlagen, G.m.b.H.,
Cross-Licensing Agreement with National Research Corp., 611
Leyland Motors, Ltd., Six-Cylinder Horizontal Direct-Injection Diesel Engines Fitted with Holset Turbo-Chargers for Ulster Transport Authority Railcars, 73*; Order for Buses with Fully Automatic Gearboxes, 86; EN 900 V6 Diesel Engine in Shunting Locomotive Manufactured by John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd.), 102*; Trading Profits, 271
Library Association, Bibliography on Channel Tunnel, by H. Smith, Note on, 443; Report on Availability of Theses, 633; Library Resources in West Midlands, 793
— Audio-Visual Aids for, 155
— Central, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Reading
List on Management, 573
—• Design, of Cotton Board Colour Design and Style Centre, 57
— Engineering Societies’,Figuresfor 1956/7,443
— of Institution of Engineers (Australia), Note
on, 585
— Islington Public, Information News-Sheet,
Comment on, 700
— Lending, Lewis’s Medical, Scientific and
Technical, Catalogue of, 155
— Micro, of International Documentation
Centre (Sweden), Note on, 535
— Public, Manchester, Note on Annual
Report, 21 3
— Resources in West Midlands, 793
— Service of National Research Council,
Ottawa, 585
— Special, and Information Bureaux, Associa
tion. See Aslib
— United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation Bulletin for. Note on, 700
— of United States Congress, Price List, 793
— by Lord Verulam, Note on, 409 Licensed Aircraft Engineers, Society of. See
Aircraft Engineers, Society of Licensed, under Aeronautics
Licensing Legislation, Nuclear Reactors, 238 Licentiatus Technices, New -E>egree in Denmark, 139
?tiMhMM
28
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Liebesny, F., on Economics of Translation, 473 Lifeboats, Motor, Class “A,” Equipped with Permanent “ Salvare ” Wireless Installations on “ Mauretania,” 253
Lift, Cliff', at Folkestone, Visit to, 818
— Development of. Plain Words on, 386 Lifting Barriers for Level-Crossings, 811* Lifting Equipment, Ltd., Overhead Travelling
Cranes (Trade Publication), 659
— Platform, Industrial, “ Johnson-Vilver ”
(C. H. Johnson (Machinery) Ltd.), 583
Light Alloy Construction Co., Ltd., “ Lacon ” Aluminium Containers, 328*
Lighthouses, Centenary of Developments in, 17 Lime Hydration at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 106
— Kiln for Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works,
106*
— Production Unit at Kuwait Sand-Lime
Brick Works, 104*
at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 188* ?— Sand Bricks, Production at Kuwait Sand- Lime Brick Works, 104*, 188*
Limestone Deposit at Kuwait, 104*
— Diamond-Bit Performance in, by M. J.
Gallagher and A. E. Long, 536
Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co., Position and Prospects of, 774
“ Limpet ’“ Sprayed Asbestos Coatings (Turners Asbestos Cement Co., Ltd.), 472 Lincoln,” H.M. Aircraft-Detection Vessel, Discussion in Parliament on Construction of, 240
Lincoln, Level Crossing in, Replacement of, by Pelham Road Bridge, 813*
— St. Mary’s Link Road at. Construction of,
815*
Lind, P, and Co., Ltd., Concrete Building (Trade Publication), 213
Linde Synthetic Sapphire for Infra-Red Radiation Entrance Windows and Heat Sinks (Union Carbide International Co., 817*
Lindley, A. L. G., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Nuclear Power Stations and Industry, 365; Remarks on Building of Nuclear Power Stations, 385
L ine Spectrum, Definition of, 142
Linear Accelerometer. See Accelerometer Liner, Cargo, Steam Turbine Propulsion Machinery for, 28
— “ Queen Mary,” Denny-Brown Stabilisers
in, 386
— Steam Turbine Propulsion Machinery for,
28
— See also Ships
“ Lineta Uni-Joint ” Shaft Angle Coupling (Standage Power Couplings, Ltd.), 197*
Linguistic Problems, Mechanical Resolution of, by Booth, Brandwood and on,585
Linings, Bearing, White-Metal, Swinging Galvanometer for (Brush Group Ltd.), 276
— Brake, Production at Turner Bros. Asbestos
Co., Ltd., Development Project for, at Hindley Green, 412*
— for Coats, Metal Insulated (Deering, Milli
ken and Co. Inc.), 128
— Railway Tunnel, Concrete Rings for, 248*
— Tunnel, Stresses in. Research on, 350 Link-Belt Co., Ltd., Grit-Washing and Settling
Tanks, Collectors and Screens (Trade Publication) 347; “ Uniffow ” Settling
Tank for Removal of Solids (Trade Publication), 659
“ Lion ” Rock Drill for Use with Air Pusher Leg (Atlas Copco (Great Britain), Ltd.), 421*
Liquids, Clean, Transmitting Density Meter for (Rotameter Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 551*
— Level Controller, Capacity-Operated,
“ Tektor Major ” (Fielden Electronics, Ltd.), 228*
— Non-Corrosive, Diaphragm Valves for
Handling) Trade Publication), 57
— Spray Dryer for (Trade Publications), 503 Lisbon, British Trade Fair at, 755
Lister, R. A., and Co., Ltd., Overhung Alternator, 773*; Air-Cooled Diesel Engines, 806*
Lister, R. D., on Compulsory Annual Examination of Road Vehicles, 370*
Lister-Todd Engineering Co,. Ltd., Detection of Leaks in Boiler Casings, 166
Literature, Chemical, Retrieval, Progress Report in, 473
— Children’s, in Russia, 155
— Physics, Russian, Translation of. Note on,
213
— Russian, Scientific, Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 208
Scientific, Translation of, 208
-— Survey (On the Shelf), by F. H. Smith, 27, 57, 91, 119, 155, 181, 213, 251, 283, 309, 347, 375, 409, 443, 473, 503, 535, 573, 585, 633, 659, 700, 730, 762, 793, 823
— Technical, Soviet, Translations of. United
States Department of Commerce Scheme for, 375
Lithgows, Expansion Plans of, 84 Lithium-Base Grease, High-Temperature Tests on, 661 *
Little, A. D., Inc., E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 716; Research Institute, Progress and Activities of, 774
Littler, Dr. D. J., on Nuclear Reactor Systems, 525
Liverpool University, Work on Cold Fusion, 109; Nuclear Engineering Course, 174; Gamma-Rays from Muon Catalysed Fusion of Hydrogan and Deuterium by A. Ashmore, R. Nordhagen, K. Strauch, and D. N. Townes, 431*
Lloyd, Brig. T. L, on Railway Renaissance, 580 Lloyds Bank, Ltd., Annual Report of, 171 Lloyds British Testing Co., Ltd., Beam Testing Machine at (J. Samuel White and Co., Ltd.) 484*
Lloyd’s, Corporation of. Description of New Building, 274*
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, Rules and Regulations for Construction and Classification of Steel Ships (1957) (Review), 180; Analysis and Indexing of Report.s on
Cleave, Note
Adhesion of, Inspection of
Damage and Accidents to Ships, 241*; Survey of Brittle Fracture, 497*; Steel Rules of, 498; Annual Report and Activities of, 579
LMFR Nuclear Reactors, Sodium Loop for Research on, 589*
Reactor System, 302*
LMFRE Nuclear Reactor System, 332
?—??—Reactor for United States Atomic Energy Commission (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 302
Loach, J. C., on New Method of Assessing Riding of Vehicles and Some Results Obtained, 186, 227-228, 387-388. See LETTER, 259
Load Cells for Test-House for “ Conway ” (Davy and United 789
for Right Slab
By-Pass Engine Pods
Engineering Co., Ltd.),
— Deflection Relationship
Bridge, 541 *
— Factor in Electricity
Problem of Low, 546
— Measurements by Strain-Gauge Weighbar
in Dynamic Calibration of Fatigue-Testing Machines, 693*
Loaders, Power, Effect on Coal Mining Industry, 55
Loading Machine, Compressed-Air Operated (Atlas Copco (Great Britain), Ltd.), 421*
— Mechanism of Increasing Stiffness, by
E. Spencer, 60*
— Ramp, ‘‘ Dock-o-matic ” (Wayne Tank &
Pump Co., Ltd.), 574*
— in Right Slab Bridge, 539*
?— Shovel for Bulk Handling, Four-Wheel
Drive, ‘‘ Mastiff” (Mathew Bros.), 582*
— Static, Measurement of Local Strain under,
by Replica Technique, 726* Loans, Dollar, for Atomic Power, Local Authorities. See Municipal “ Local-Service Viscount ” Airliner
Service Operation on North
Continent (Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 253
Lock, A. M., and Co., Ltd., Instrument for Testing pH Meters, 405
Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Use of Shock Waves in Nuclear Fusion Reaction, 43; “ Polaris ” Solid-Propellent Fleet Ballistic Missile, 153
Lockwood, J. F., Remarks on Machine-Tool Controls, 137
Locomotive and Allied Manufacturers’ Association, Invitation to Chinese Railway Engineers to Visit British Locomotive Industry, 588
— Building Industry, Decline in, 461
— — Industry, Position and Prospects of, 51*
— Development Committee Bituminous Coal
Research Inc., Annual Report, 690; Research and Operating Tests on Gas- Turbine Locomotives, 690
— Diesel (Trade Publication), 27
in British Railways Modernisation
Plan, 127
— ?— Manning of. Negotiations between
Railway Unions and British Transport Commission on, 10
• Production Statistics, 51*
Recent Trends in, by R. S. Wignall, 340*
? Shunting, 0-4-0 176 b.h.p. (John Fowler
and Co. (Leeds), Ltd.), 102*
Electric, 1,550 h.p., for British Railways Southern Region Kent Coast Lines, Order for, to Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., 127
• Electric, “ Deltic,” for British Railways,
450, 524
Electric, 2,000 h.p., for Eastern Region of British Railways (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 607*
— — Electric, Production Statistics, 51* Electric, Recent Trends in, 341* Hydraulic, 2,000 h.p., “ Active,” for
Western Region (North British Locomotive Co., Ltd.), 316*
— Electric, “ Com-Pak ” Single-Anode Recti
fier for (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 699
? Direct-Current, Recent Trends in, 342
” " ’ Railways
Supply Industry,
578
for Local- American
“ EM 2 ” Class, for Indian
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 70
Manning of. Negotiations
Railway Unions and British Commission on, 10
— Engineers and Firemen, Associated Society
of. See Labour
— — Institution of. New Method of Assessing
Riding of Vehicles and Some Results Obtained, by J. C. Loach, 186. LETTERS, 227, 259, 387
— Exports of, 51 *
— Flywheel, for Surface Shunting, 123
— Gas-Turbine, Recent Trends in, by
Wignail, 340*
? Turbine, Research and Operating
on, 690
— Industry, British, Technical Mission
Chinese Railway Engineers to, 588
— ?— Position and Prospects of, 617
— Rectifiers in, 341
— Rotary Converter, Recent Trends in, 342
— Shunting, Industrial, “ Yardmaster ” (Hun-
slet Engine Co., Ltd.), 677*
— — Mobile Cranes, Coles (Steels Engineering
Products, Ltd.), 679*
— Steam, Production Statistics, 51*
— Works, Ashford, of British Railways,
Newcomen Society’s Visit to, 818
Loewy Engineering Co., Ltd., Stretcher for Stress Relieving at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 411*; Two-High Rolling-Mill for Skin-Passing of Stainless Steel Strip at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills, 633
Lofthouse, E., on Nuclear Fuel Processing in Homogeneous Aqueous Reactors, 204, 236 Lomas, F. M., on Thread and Form Rolling, 543
Londex, Ltd., Relays and Controls (Trade Publication), 119
London Airport, Millbourn Committee for Developments at. Acceptance of Recommendations of, 552
Traffic at. Statistics on, 464
between Transport
See
R. S.
Tests
of
London Airport, Transport to, from Central London, Discussion in Parliament on, 809 Wing Hangar of British Overseas Airways Corp, at, 665*
London Aluminium Co., Diversification in, 810
— to Birmingham Motorway, Construction
of, 441
London Brick Co., Position and Prospects of, 774
— Bridges, Centenary of Development of, 17
— Central, Crush Hour Travel in. Report
on, 528
— Docks, Growth of Electricity in, 260
— and Home Counties Coke Association,
Degree Day Service, 322
— and Moscow, Civil Airline Service between,
Anglo-Soviet Air Pact on, 68
— Planetarium Co., Ltd., London Planetarium,
392*
— Telephone Network, Automatic Aids for,
153
— Transport Executive, Motor Omnibus
Electronic Scanning Indicator, 58*; Chairman’s Appeal to Bus Workers to Attract Public, 75; Rejection of Bus Workers Wage Claim, 75; Dispute with Transport and General Workers’ Union, Government Rejection of Request for Committee of Inquiry into, 176; Work on Stresses in Tunnel Linings, 350; Award of 4J per cent to Bus Workers on Central London Routes, 361; Plain Words on Automatic Control of Underground Trains, 386; Dispute with Transport and General Workers’ Union on Omnibus Workers’ Wage Claims, 428; Rejection of London Tube Workers’ Wage Claim, 560; Problem of Peak and Off-Peak Motor Omnibus Passenger Services, by G. Wilkins, 644; Strike of Motor Omnibus Workers, 651; Strike of London Motor Omnibus Workers, 685; Motor Omnibus Workers’ Strike, Jack Solomons’ Offer in. 720; Strike of Motor Omnibus Workers, 752; End of Strike of Motor Omnibus Workers, 816; Silicone Insulation in Traction Motors for Rolling Stock of, 819*
— Underground Railways. See U nderground
and London Transport Executive
— University. See Imperial College: King's
College; Queen Mary College: University College
?— to-Yorkshire Motorway, Discussion in Parliament on, 656
Motorway, Study of Length of Viaduct over River Trent for, at Hydraulics Research Station, 46
Long, A. E., on Diamond-Bit Performance in Limestone and Dolomite, 536; Diamond- Bit Performance in Sandstone, 536; Weight-Saving in Military Steel Bridges, 735
Long, J. V. T., on Teachers’ Salaries, 493 Long, W. M., on Cracking in Powder Compacts, 254*
Longclose Engineering Co., Ltd., New Automatic Hank-Dyeing Machine at Birstall Carpet Co., Ltd., 54
Loops, Test, Handling at Harwell, 109 on Nuclear Reactors, 301 *
Loran Chains for Long Range Radio Navigation Aids, 467
Lorant Engineers (London), Ltd., “ Suhner ” Electric Hand Grinding and Drilling Machines (Trade Publication), 534
Lord, Sir L., on Position and Prospects of British Motor Corp., Ltd., 79
Lord Sempill Paper on Manufacturing in the Aeronautic Age, by B. K. Bucey, 95. See also 67
Lord Westwood Memorial Lecture on Engineering Design—the Background and Basis of Contemporary Life, by H. Clausen, 791 *
Lorries. See Motor Vehicles: Tractors
Lotus 15 Sports Racing Motor Car for 1-5 or 2-2 Litre Engine, 516*
Loudspeaker Equipment for “ Todd-AO ” Filming Process (Rank Precision Industries, Ltd.), 549
Lousell, W. H., on Parametric Amplification of Space Charge Waves, 725
Lovberg, R. H., on Magnetic Meesurement of Plasma Confinement in Partially Stabilised Linear-Pinch, 185*; New Confinement Phenomena and Neutron Production in Linear Stabilised Pinch, 186*
Love, J. E., on Civil Engineering Aspects of Dresden Nuclear Reactor, 775*
Lovell, Prof. A. C. B., Plea for British Earth Satellite, 738
Lower Standen Waterworks of Folkestone and District Water Co., Visit to, 818
LTR Nuclear Reactor, Comparison with Shippingport Nuclear Reactor for Sea- Water Distillation, 628*
Lubricants (Trade Publication), 57
— Dry Film, “ Everlube ” (Trade Publication)
27
— Graphite, High-Temperature Tests on, 661 *
— Molybdenum Disulphide, High-Tempera
ture Tests on, 661 *
— “ Molytone 265, 320 and 380,” for Bearings
(Roeol, Ltd.), 242
— Silicone, High-Temperature Tests on, 661*
— Synthetic, Diester-Type, High-Temperature
Tests on, 660*
— Tests on, at Higher Temperatures, by
D. Scott, 660*
— Testing Machine, Four-Ball, Boerlage,
Incorporating Induction Heater, 660*
Lubricating Oils, Selling of. Cartoons on, 81
— Oils. See also Oils
Lubrication, Cartoons on, by Peter Kneebone, 81
— Engineering Aspects of. Course on, 29
— Fluid-Film, Theory of, 29
— of Sleeve Bearings, 345
— Thin-Film, Theory of, 29
Lubricators, Automatic, “ Molytone 320 ” Lubricant for (Roeol, Ltd.), 242
-— Micro-Fog, Mist Generator for Diesel Engine Injection ( G. A. Norgren), 30
— ‘‘Multiminor” (Centralube, Ltd.), 100*
Lucas, J., Ltd., Annual Statement of, 46; Motor-Vehicle Lamp Testing, 371
Lucus Heights. See Atomic Enerffy Commission, Australian
Lundell (Great Britain), Ltd., Forage vester, 518*
Lurgi Gasifier Process for Run-of-Mine at Solihull Research Station, 533
— High-Pressure Complete-Gasification for Westfield, Fife, 401
Har-
Coal
Plant
Luttrell Psalter Showing Cart with Loose Wheels, 474*
Lykkegaard Co., Direct-Current Windmills for Local Supply, 688*
Lyons, C., Ltd., Alternating-Current Mains Stabilisers (Trade Publication), 181
Lyons, Sir W., on Jaguar Cars, Ltd., 71 I
“ MA ROBERT,” Launch for Livingstone’s
Expedition, Centenary of, 17 Macadam. See Roads Macalloy Bars in Bridges for Double-Track
Railway on North Eastern Region, 441* for Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River
Thames, 47*
Macfarlane, Dr. W. A., Report to National
Industrial Fuel Efficiency Service, 163 Machine for Automatic Manufacture of
Railway Sleepers (Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 678*
— Automatic Vending, Exhibition of. Pre
liminary Notice, 790
— Elements, Fabrication Practice for by
R. M. Watts, 505
— Guards, “ Vyback DVB229 ”
Transparent Sheet for Use of (Bakelite, Ltd.), 149*
— Mechanics of. Laboratory
University, 276
— Metadyne, for Traction
in
at
Semi-Rigid Production
Cambridge
Control, Re
winding with Silicone Insulation, 820
— for Power Farming, by A. A. Stone and
H. E. Gulvin (Book), 56
— Shops. See Works and Machine Tools
Machine Tools:
Abrasive Belt Machine (Taylor Tools and Supplies, Ltd.), 678*
‘‘ Aro-Broomwade ” Pistol- or Lever- Controlled Pneumatic Drill (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 168*
— ?— Range of Lightweight Pneumatic
Tools (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 168* Automatic Machines, Medium-Batch Production on (Trade Publication), 730 ?— Multi-Spindle, Work Handling for (Trade Publication), 409
Bar Pointing Machine (Trade Publication), 503
— Skimming Machines (Trade Publication), 534
— Turning Machines (Trade Publication), 309
Bending Machine, Pipe, Extrusion, 95 Plate, Four-Roll Initial Pinch Type, for Cones (Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd.), 260*
Boring, Grinding and Measuring Machine, Jig (F. Deckel), 742*
— Machine, Horizontal, Defum CWC80, 731 *
— ?— Horizontal, WD200, in Czecho
slovakian Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 521*
Jig, Device for Producing Punched Cards for Control of, 709*
Jig (Kine Engineering Co., Ltd.), 544 —? — Large, “ G ” Size Chuck for Use on (Clare-Collets, Ltd.), 708
Buffing Machine, Pneumatic Control (A. Schrader’s Son), 804*
“ Centri-Vite ” Centring Attachment Lathes (Trade Publication), 730
Centring Attachment, “ Centri-Vite,” Lathes (Trade Publication), 730
for
foi
for
— and Facing Machine, “ Uma ” (Mor
timer Engineering Co.), 805*
— Machine, Pneumatic Hammer Type, at Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd. (Head Wrightson Machine Co., Ltd.), 668 Chamfering and Tube Parting Machine (Trade Publication), 534
Chatter, Machine-Tool, by Dr. W. Fishwick, and Dr. S. A. Tobias, 568* Chuck, “ G ” Size, for Use on Large Milling and Boring Machines (Clare- Collets, Ltd.), 708
— Hydrostatic, “ Everac ” (Integral, Ltd.), 328*
— Magnetic, “ Eclipse ” (James Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd.), 324*
— for Use with New Collet with Dimen
sional Flexibility, 4
Churchill-Cleveland Gear Hobbing Machine, “ S1418 ” (Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd.), 5*
Collet, New, with Dimensional Flexibility (F. Burnerd and Co., Ltd.), 4*
Cutting Machine, Routing (Clare-Collets, Ltd.), 260
— and Strengthening Machine, Malmedie,
for Coiled Rod (Stuart Davis, Ltd.), 485*
Defum CWC80 Horizontal Boring Machine, 731 *
“ Discut ” Filing Machine (Stanley Works (G.B.), Ltd.), 518*
“ Disintegrator ” Machine for Removing Broken Taps or Drills (Marbaix Industries, Ltd.), 580*
Dividing Tables (Trade Publication), 730 Drills, Factors Affecting Performance of, by R. J. Cowie and J. O. M. Pegler, 542
— Hind, Electric, for Concrete, “Vibroto” (Rawlplug Co., Ltd.), 455*
— Pneumatic, Pistol- or Lever-Controlled, “ Aro-Broomwade ” (Broom and Wade Ltd.), 168*
— Radial. Increased Capacity for Production of, at Frederick Town and Sons Ltd., 31*
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Machine Tools—continued
Drills, Rock, “ Lion,” for Use with Air Pusher Leg (Atlas Copco (Great Britain), Ltd.), 421*
?—? Unit, Air/Hydraulic, “ Woodpecker ” (Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Works, Ltd.), 327*
Drilling Machines, Electric, Hand, “ Suhner ” Range (Trade Publication), 534
Drilling Machines, Radial Arm (Wolf Electric Tools, Ltd.), 640*
? Radial, Vibration Damping Experi
ments on 569*
— and Piercing Machine for Hard Metal (Marbaix Industries, Ltd.), 580*
Eclipse ” Magnetic Chuck (James Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd.), 324*
Endia ” Grinding Wheel Dressing Fixture (Engineering Diamonds, Ltd.) 516*
Everac ” Hydrostatic Chuck (Integral, Ltd.), 328*
((
((
Extrusion Pipe Bending Machine, 95 Facing and Centring Machine, “ Uma ” (Mortimer Engineering Co.), 805*
Filing Machine, “ Discut ” (Stanley Works (G.B.), Ltd.), 518*
Gear Cutting Machines (Trade Publication), 181
— Hobbing Machine, Churchill-Cleveland, “S1418” (Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd.), 5*
Grinding, Boring and Measuring Machine, Jig (F. Deckel), 742*
— Fluid, “ Solvac 68 ” (Trade Publication), 90
— and Lapping Machine for Large Valves at Esso Petroleum Co. (Rockwell Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 518*
?—? Machine, Form, “ Orcutt,” for Internal Helical Gears (Gear Grinding Co., Ltd.), 710*
— — Hand, Electric, “ Suhner ” (Trade Publication), 534
Precision, Crushform, Model 1012 (A. A. Jones and Shipman, Ltd.), 100 Spline, 72 in. (A. A. Jones and Shipman, Ltd.), 292*
— — Surface (Trade Publication), 213 for Tungsten-Carbide Tipped Tools,
Wickman-Niven Bench-Type (Trade Publication), 730
Wet, Abrasive Belt, Murray-Way, at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills, 633* ?—? — Wet Belt, Automatic-Cycle Mechanism for (Taylor Tools and Supplies, Ltd.), 169*
— Wheel Dressing Fixture “ Endia ” (Engineering Diamonds, Ltd.), 516* “ Unidex ” Indexing Diamond Dressing Tool for (Trade Publication), 347
Grooving Salter
Hammers, Publication), 309
Honing Machine, Vertical (Delapena and Son, Ltd.), 36*
Hydraulic Press. See Press (below) Jig Boring Machine. See Boring Machine (above)
— Vibrating, for Positioning Ferrite Cores at Towcester Factory of Plessey Co., Ltd., 799*
Kearney and Trecker Milling Machine, Application of Punched-Tape Control System to (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 31*
Lapping and Grinding Machine for Large Valves at Esso Petroleum Co. (Rockwell Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 518*
Lathe, Automatic, for Producing Precision Machine Parts, in Swiss Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522
— Capstan, Sequence Controller for (Nickoils Automatics, Ltd.), 765* Small, “OA,” “OB,” and “ OC ” (Murad Developments, Ltd.), 168
— “ Centri-Vite ” Centring Attachment for (Trade Publication), 730
— Copying (Trade Publication), 119
— Vertical-Chucking, “ Vertimax ”) Trade Publication), 309
?— See also Automatic (above) Limit Gauging. See Gauging “ Lion ” Rock Drill for Use with Air Pusher Leg (Atlas Copco (Great Britain), Ltd.), 421 *
Machine Guards, “ Vyback DVB229 ” Semi-Rigid Transparent Sheet for Use in Production of (Bakelite, Ltd.), 149
— Shop for Beryllium, 500*
Handling Heavy Parts in, “ TPS MachinLoder ” for (Trucks and Pallets (Stackers), Ltd.), 581*
Management. See Management
— Tools (Trade Publication), 181
— ?— Automatic Control of, by D. T. N. Williamson, 478
Automatic Co-Ordinate Setting Equipment, Control Unit for (Ekco Electronics, Ltd.), 488*
? Chatter, by Dr. W. Fishwick and
Dr. S. A. Tobias, 568*
Controls, Development of, 137 Control, High-Precision Measuring System for (Mullard, Ltd.), 488
Design, by H. Clausen, 791 for “ Dexta ” Tractor Production (Ford Motor Co., Ltd.), 31 *
Discussion in Parliament on Sales of, 175
Exports of, 53*, 770
Foundations, Effect of Flexibility on Chatter, 568*
Hungarian, Newman Industries, Ltd., United Kingdom Selling Agents for, 770
— — Imports of, 144, 770
Industry, Decline in. Discussion in Parliament on, 175
Industry, Investment Trends in 53*
Machine Tools—continued
Machine Tools Industry, Position and Prospects of, 52*, 137, 239, 461, 770
— — Industry, Russian Competition in,
53
— — Industry, Statement by Machine
Tool Trades Association, 291
Order Figures for, 802
Performance Testing of, by Prof. H. Opitz, 542
Production Statistics, 52*
— —? Programmed Control of, in Aircraft
Production, 95
Punched-Tape Control System for (E.M.I. Electron cs, Ltd.), 31*
Reconditioned (Trade Publication), 762
Trades Association, Statement on British Machine Tool Industry, 291
— Work, Tolerance in. See Gauging Measuring, Boring and Grinding Machine, Jig (F. Deckel), 742*
Milling Machines (Trade Publication), 503 Kearney and Trecker, Application of Punched-Tape Control System to (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 31*
Large, “ G ” Size Chuck for Use on (Clare-Collets, Ltd.), 708
Three-Dimensional, Programme- Controlled (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd., and Ferranti, Ltd.), 549*
Vertical, Three-Dimensional, Operating from Magnetic Tape in Russian Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 521*
Vertical, with Transparent Protecting Enclosure for Beryllium, 500* Nut-Runner, Modification of “ Aro- Broomwade ” Pneumatic Drill as (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 168
“ OA ” Small Capstan Lathes Developments, Ltd.), 168
“ OB ” Small Capstan Lathes Developments, Ltd.), 168
“ OC ” Small Capstan Lathes Developments, Ltd.), 168
Machine Tools—continued
Tools, Electric, Tests on, 192
— Head, Universal (Trade Publication), 347
— Pneumatic (Trade Publication), 181 Lightweight,” Aro-Broomwade ”
Range (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 168 — Power, Hand-Held (Trade Publication), 409
— Single-Point, Developments in, by Dr. E. M. Trent, 542
— Tungsten-Carbide Tipped, Wickman- Niven Bench-Type Grinding Machine for (Trade Publication), 730
Transfer Machines, Sequence Control
System for (Mullard, Ltd.), 488 at Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., 635* “ Truarc ” Grooving Tool (Geo. Salter &
Co., Ltd), 328*
Tube Parting and Chamfering Machine
(Trade Publication), 534
Turning, Developments in, by Dr. E. M. Trent, 542
— Machines, Bar (Trade Publication), 309 Turret Lathes. See Lathes (above)
“ Vertimax ” Vertical-Chucking Lathe
(Trade Publication), 309
“ Vibroto ” Electric Hand Drill for
Concrete (Rawlplug Co., Ltd.), 455* Vice, Air (Dyson and Nalson), 485* Wadkin L. C. Routing Machine, 731* “Westwood” Automatic Recessing Head with Integral Micrometer Adjustment for Depth of Cut (Trade Publication), 659
“ Woodpecker ” Air/Hydraulic Drill Unit (Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Works, Ltd.), 327*
Tool, “ Truarc ” (George and Co., Ltd.), 328*
Power, Pneumatic (Trade
“ Orcutt ” Form Grinding Machine for Internal Helical Gears (Gear Grinding Co., Ltd.), 710*
“ Par-a-matic,” Adaptation of “ Aro- Broomwade ” Pneumatic Drill and Screwdriver, 168
Piercing and Drilling Machine for Hard Metal (Marvaix Industries, Ltd.), 580*
Pipe-Bending Machine, Extrusion, 95 Planing Machines, Swift Summerskill, for Frederick Town and Sons, Ltd., 31
Plate Bending Machine, Four-Roll Initial Pinch Type, for Cones (Bronx Engineering Co., Ltd.), 260*
— Saw at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd. (Wadkin, Ltd.), 411*
Pneumatic Drills, See Drills (above) —? Hammers. See Hammers (above) — Tools (Trade Publication), 181 Lightweight, “ Aro-IJroomwade ” Range (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 168* Power Tools, Hand-Held (Trade Publication), 409
Presses, Deep-Throat (Trade Publication), 730
— Forging, Precision, for Aircraft Production, 95
— Hydraulic, for Compacting Granular Titanium for Electrodes, at William Jessop and Sons, Ltd., 187*
Recessing Head, Automatic, “ West wood,” with Integral Micrometer Adjustment for Depth of Cut (Trade Publication), 659
Routing Machine, Wadkin L. C., 731* “ S. 1418 ” Churchill-Cleveland Gear Hob- bing Machine (Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd.), 5*
Sales of Machine Tools, Discussion in Parliament on, 175
Saw, Plate, at Rogerstone Plant of. Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd. (Wadkin, Ltd.), 411*
Sawing, Band, and Filing Machine (Trade Publication), 659
Screw Division of Guest, Keen and Nettle folds (Midlands), Ltd., Operator Training in, by E. D. Simmons, 753* Screwdriver, Modification of “ Aro- Broomwade ” Pneumatic Drill as (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 168
Screwing Machines (Trade Publication), 534
See also Tapping and Threading (below)
Shaping Machine, Crank-Type (Trade Publication), 213
Shear, Scrap Cutting, Hydraulic, Automatic, 600-ton, American (Clearing Machine Corp.), 741*
Skimming Machines, Bar (Trade Publication), 534
Straightening and Cutting_ Malmedie, for Coiled Davis, Ltd.), 485*
— Machine, for Bar and Publication), 347
Surface-Grinding Machines lication), 213
Swift Summerskill Planing Machines for Frederick Town and Sons, Ltd., 31 Tapping Attachment, Self-Reversing, for Plastics and Non-Ferrous Metals (Trade Publication), 534
— See also Screwing (above) and Threading (below)
Threading Machine (Trade Publication), 730
— See also Screwing and Tapping (above) Tools, Ceramic and Sintered Oxide, Turning with, by R. C. Brewer, 543
— Cutting, One-Hand, “ Lesto ” (Trend Industrial Equipment, Ltd.), 544*
Sintered Oxides for. Research on, by H. Eckersley and R. N. Cook, 817*
Specification of Tool Shape and Grinding of, by D. A. Wight and J. K. Church, 542
Machine, Rod (Stuart
Tube (Trade
(Trade Pub-
Machine Vice. See Vice under Machine Tools
— Work. See Machine Tools
Machinery, “ Economic Life ” of, by J. C. R. Clapham, 66
— Exports by Air from Great Britain, by A. J.
Weight, 242
— Hire Purchase of, 675
— Imports, Statistics on, 272
— Maintenance of. Costs of, 66
— Markets in Eastern Europe, 755
— Office. See Office Machinery
— and Plant, Investment Restrictions Eased
for, 802
Machinery Publishing Co., Ltd., Buyers’ Guide, 57
Machining in Aircraft Production, 95
— of Metals, Review of Basic Research on,
by A. W. J. Chisholm, 542
— Methods, Chemical, in Aircraft Production,
95
“ MachinLoder, TPS,” for Handling Heavy Parts in Machine Shops (Trucks and Pallets (Stackers), Ltd.), 581*
Mackay, Dr. A. L., on Organisation and Availability of Technical Translation, 473 Mackenzie, 1. M., on Application of Low- Alloy High-Tensile Steel, 734
Macmillan, D. H., on Sea Defence Works, 388 Macmillan, Rt. Hon. H., Remarks on Wages and Prices, 560; on Economics of Nuclear Ships, 748; on Trade Barriers, 790
Macmillan, Prof. R. H., on Communication of Ideas, 375; on Mechanism-Efficiency Nomograms, 378*
Macy, L. K., on Foreign Investment Policies, 588
Mac. See also Me
Mad, American Magazine, Comment on, 716 Madame Tussaud’s, Ltd., Sponsorship of London Planetarium, 392*
“Magister” Photo-Transistor Relays (Metro- politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 551
“ Magna ” Domestic Bath Production at Bilston Foundries, 637
“ Magna-Gage ” Electronic Gauging Comparator (Southern Instruments Industrial Division), 708
“ Magnaspin ” Spinning Machine for Worsted and Synthetics, Tests on (Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour, Ltd.), 54
Magnel-BIaton System of Prestressing for Clifton Bridge Over River Trent, 349*
Magnesium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— as Canning Material, 648
Magnets, Permanent, Platinum-Alloy (Johnson Matthey and Co., Ltd.), 400
Magnetic Chuck, “ Eclipse ” (James Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd.), 324*
Magnetic Devices, Ltd., Relays for Starting Small Motors, 327*
—- and Electric Fields, Crossed, Unstable Electron Beam in, Microwave Amplification using, by D. J. Harris, 725
— Fields, Rotating, Spinning Test on Bearing-
Balls, by 151*
— ?— Theory of Prof. W. Heisenberg, 303 in Unified Field Theory, 290
— Measurement of Plasma Confinement
Partially Stabilised Linear-Pinch, L. C. Burkhardt, R. H. Lovberg, and J. Phillips, 185*
in
by
A.
— Memory Planes for Digital Computers,
(Plessy Co., Ltd.), 799*
— Metering Transformer, “ Clam ” (Smith
Hobson, Ltd.), 454*
— Particle Coupling for Industrial Drives
(S. Smith and Sons (England) Ltd.), 582* Torque-Transmission Coupling for Industrial Drives (S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd.), 630*
— Pre-Amplifiers, Gaumont Kalee for “ Todd-
AO ” Filming Process (Rank Precision Industries, Ltd.), 549
— Recording Equipment at Calshot
Station, 157*
Tape, “ Extraplay ” (Minnesota and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486
— Resonance Spectrometer, Nuclear
Aviation Co., Ltd.), 550
Signal
Mining
(Fairey
— Resonance Spectrometer, Nuclear (Mullard,
Ltd.), 550*
— Tape for Data Recording, by Dr. C. D.
Mee, 310
— Dual-Track, Stereophonic Recordings
on, 224
Magnetic Tape Recorder, “Ampex Faxtape,” for Photographs (Ampex Corp.), 358* , Recorder for Dynamic Data of Laboratory Standard (Trade Publication), 213 Recorders for Radiophonic Workshop at Maida Vale Studios of British Broadcasting Corp., 736*
— ?—-for Recording Television Pictures, 512* Vertical Three-Dimensional Milling
Machine Operating from, in Russian Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 521*
Magnetism. See also Electro-Magnet ism Magneto-Aerodynamics by Dr. W. R. Sears, 534
Magnetometer, Saturable-Inductor, Rocket- Borne (Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough)), 373
“ Magnificent,” H.M. Aircraft Carrier, Sale of. Discussion in Parliament on, 524
Magnox Brace for Nuclear Fuel Element at Calder Hall, 173*
Mahanadi River in Orissa, Plan for Development of, 413
Maiden and Co., Ltd., Threading Machine (Trade Publication), 730
“ Mail ” Axle (Kirkstall Forge Co.), 475* Mains, Electric. See Electric and Cables
— (Minimax) Theorem of Theory of Games,
369
Maintenance Costs of Machinery, 66
-—? and Operation Training for Africans, by A. Albu, 657*
— Workers at New York Bronx Zoo, Strike
of, 784
Malaya, Economic Position of, 427
Mallet, Sir V., on Position of Skefko Ball Bearings, 617
Mallett, H. R., Remarks on Trade Fairs, 337 Mallory 1,000 Machinable Tungsten-Base Alloy (Johnson Matthey and Co. Ltd.,), 400
Malmedie Straightening and Cutting Machine for Coiled Rod (Stuart Davis, Ltd.), 485* Malta, Attitude to British Government’s Policy on, 45
Man, Friend of Man, Cinema Film, Double- Reel Technique in, 736
— and His Physical World, by D. E. Gray
and J. W. Coutts, Note on, 659
Management, 19*, 50* 83* 114*, 145, 210, 278*, 307, 369*. See also Weekly Survey
— British Institute of. Course on Automatic
Data Processing, 2; Conference on Management Development (Harrogate): Comment on, 10; Foremanship as Step to Higher Management, by W. W. Ferguson, 210; Selection of Managers, by A. Brown, 259; Course on the Art of Selling, 209; Conference on Work Study in Farm Management, 267; Retail Management Conference (Eastbourne), 337
?— in Coal Mining, by J. Sinclair (Review), 180 ?—? Communication with Laboratory Staff, Report on, 720
— Conference, Retail (Eastbourne), Address
by G. Duttweiler, 337
— Control of Small Engineering Firms. See
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of
— Development, Conference of British Insti
tute of Management (Harrogate), 10, 210,259
— Education and Training, International
Conference on (Baden-Baden), Preliminary Notice, 131
— Engineer and, by S. Winstanley, 784
— Farm, Work Study in. Conference on, 267
— Higher, Foremanship as Step to, by W. W.
Ferguson, 210
— of Human Relations, Psychological
Processes involved in, 177
— Industrial Implication of Nuclear Devel
opment for. Conference on (Eastbourne), 459
-— Labour Relations at Shipyard of Bartram and Sons, 140
— Personnel, Institute of. See Personnel
Management
?— Plain Words on Problems of the “ Boss,” 354
?— Qualifications for, by M. Shalit, 675
— Reading List on, 573
?— Sales, and Salesmanship, by J. G. Jones, Note on, 658
Management Selection, Ltd., Activities of, 176
— Social or Economic Situation in, 685
— Stress and Strain in, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski,
305*
— Team, Building and Controlling, by
L. Fontaine, 145
— in United States, Effect of Automation
on, 824
States, by E. P. Ward, 824*
Managers, Courses for, in Iron and Steel Industry, 146
?—? Selection of, by A. Brown, 259 and Training of, by Lt.-Col. L. Urwick, 176
Manchester College of Science and Technology, New Chemical Engineering Laboratories, Description and Opening of, 763*; Tests on Brake-Lining Materials, 785*
Manchester Oil Refinery Ltd., Mobile Plant for Conditioning Transformer Oil, 5*
?— Public Libraries, Note on Annual Report, 213
Manchester Ship Canal Co., Activities and Prospects of, 461
— Statistical Society, High Interest Rates, by
Prof. Hicks, 354
Mancuna Engineering, Ltd., Carbon Dioxide Filters for Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 110; “ Dustex ” Vacuum Valve for Dust Collector Hopper and Bin Discharges, 646*
Mandrels, Air, for Checking Bores (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 221*
Manipulators, Master-Slave, Savage and Parsons, for High-Activity Handling at Harwell, 109
— Power, for Remote
active or Toxic Electric Co., Ltd.),
— Servo, “ Mechanical
ally-Controlled Master-Slave at Brussels Fair, 620
— Welding (Trade Publication) 762
Handling of RadioMaterials (General 397*
Hands,” Electronic-
30
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Manley, C. G., on Reactor Fuel Reprocessing, 495
Mann, A., Engineering Co., Ltd., Conveyors at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 412
Mann, G., and Co., Ltd., Anniversary of, 395 Mann, Air Commodore W. E. G., on Air Transport, 259
Mannesmann Type Two-Roll Mill for Initial Piercing of Billets at Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd. (Head Wrightson Machine Co., Ltd.), 668*
Mannheim-Rheinau, 400 kV Research Station in. New Investigation on Interference Levels at, by R. Bartenstein, 822
Manuals on Productivity in Galvanising Industry, 338
Manufacture, Designs in. Protection of. New Measures Required for, 624
— Engineering, Technology of. Conference
on, 505
Manufacturers’ Equipment Co,, Ltd., Activities of. 111; Electronic Conveyor Control, 614*
Manufacturing Activity in Australia, Survey of. Comment on, 98
— in the Aeronautic Age, by B. K. Bucey, 95.
See also 67
— Industry, Inquiry by Federation of British
Industries, 433
Investments in. 194
Nationalisation of. Federation of British Industries Committee on, 258
— Practice—A Review of British Aircraft
Industry, by S. G. Burnard, 95
Manuscripts, Mathematical, Typing of, by Dr. J, F. Alcock, 356. See LETTER, 515
Manvers Main Colliery Coke-Oven Plant, Reconstruction and Development Scheme at, 509*
Marbaix Industries, Ltd., “Disintegrator” Machine for Removing Broken Taps or Drills, 580*
Marchwood Power Station, Smoke Fumes from, 624
Marconi HX/HR 80 Radio Telephony Equipment at Calshot Signal Station, 157*
Marconi Instruments, Ltd., Type TFI597 110 kVp Portable Industrial X-Ray Equipment, 422*
Marconi’s Wireless and Telegraph Co., Ltd., Tropospheric Scatter Transmitting and Receiving Link_ Between Start Point and Medical
818
“ Vanguard,” Position and
Galleywood, 703*; Mobile Colour Television Unit, 773*
Marcoule Plutonium Plant, by R. 204, 236
Mardon, P. G., on Plutonium-Iron 459
Margin of Safety, Definition of, 417
Marine Boilers. See Boilers
— and Decorative Section of New Paints
Laboratory of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 817
— Engines. See Engines; Turbines; Marine
Propulsion
— Engineers, Institute of. Materials for
Marine Superheater Tubes, by D. W. Cruncher, 211; Superstructure Design in Relation to Descent of Funnel Smoke, by E. Ower, and A. D. Third, 253
and Naval Architects, American Society of. See Naval Architects
— Engineering, University Education in, by
Prof. G. H. Chambers, 75
— Equipment, Caravan Units for Exhibition
(Kelvin Hughes), 755
— Navigation, Radio Aids to, by C. Williams,
466
— Propulsion, Aberdeen Trawlers, Discussion
in Parliament on Steam vs. Diesel, 423
Equipment in H.M. Aircraft Carrier “ Victorious,” 94
Machinery for Cross-Channel Passenger Ships, by E. L. Denny, 121*
Nuclear, 270*
Nuclear, Position and Prospects of, 85 Nuclear Power Plant for
Engineering, Ltd.), 399
Nuclear. See also MGCR Reactor; Warships
See also Engines; Turbines
— Radar Equipment, “ Escort ”
Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 485
Survey of Recent Developments in, by A. L. P. Milwright, 466
— Superheater Tubes, Materials 1
D. W. Cruncher, 211
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam;
Propulsion
Marinite, Ltd., Asbestos Sheet, 486 Maritime Session of International
Conference (Geneva), Discussion liament on, 777
Markets for Machinery in Eastern Europe, 755
— Overseas, Co-operative Selling by Engin
eering Companies in, 755
— Report, Scanning the Provinces, 790
— See also Trade
Marketing, 23, 81, 147, 209, 242, 273, 337, 433, 465, 529, 588, 658, 755, 790
— Activities of Instrument Industry, 755
— Motivation Research
(Review), 659
Marking, Permanent “ Gripson ” System Ltd.), 519
Marks and Spencer, Ltd., Price Reductions, 209, 210, 433
Marley, W. H., and Co., Ltd., Thread-Measuring Parallels for Use with Micrometer (Trade Publication), 213
Marples, J. A. C., on Plutonium-Thorium System, 458
Marriner, R. S., on Standard Indenting Hardness Testing Machine, 339*
Marsden, A. L., on Work Study in Design of Chemical Processing Plant, 83
Marsh Country, “ Water Buffalo ” Crawler Tractor for (Albion Motors, Ltd.), 168* Marshall, R. D., on Dundee Jute Industry, 451
Marshall Sons and Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 171; New Products of, 171; Water Distillation Plant, at Gibraltar, 674
Galley,
System,
(Mitchell
Nuclear
(British
for, by
Marine
Labour in Par-
in, by H. Henry
or Temporary, for (Adapta Charts,
Marston Hall, Martin, Visit to, Martin Co. (of Baltimore),
Launching Rocket, 463;
Prospects of, 523 Martin, W., on Position and
Hawkins Bros. Holdings (Gosport), Ltd., 207
Martonair, Ltd., Ten-Port Selector Valve, 804* Maser, Development of, at Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern), 699*
— Paramagnetic, Three-Level, Theory of, by
Dr. P. N. Butcher, 725
— Solid-State, Three-Level, at Harvard
University, 125
— Solid-State, Travelling-Wave, by A. E.
Siegman, Dr. P. N. Butcher, J. C. Cromack, and W. S. C. Chang, 725
Masheder, H., on Training of Engineers, 547. See LETTER, 611
Mason, E. N., and Sons, Ltd., Drafting Table, 62; “Criterion” Photographic Contact Materials (Trade Publication), 309
Mason, F. C. P., on Standard Indenting Hardness Testing Machine, 339*
Masoneilan Type 107/108 Diaphragm Operated Control Valve for Small Flows (Crosby Valve and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 102
Masonry Drills, “ Blue Flash ” (John M. Perkins and Smith, Ltd.), 224
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Production of “? Report of Fellowship School on
Utilisation, 459; Heavy Water Cooled and Moderated Research Reactor, 590; E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 716; Principles of Education at, 827*; Department of Nuclear Engineering, 827
Massey, B. and S., Ltd., Pneumatic Power
Hammers (Trade Publication), 309 Massey-Ferguson “ TE 20 ” Tractors on Commonwealth Antarctic Expedition, 740 Masters, Major F. H.,the Late, 164* “ Mastiff” Four-Wheel-Drive Loading Shovel for Bulk Handling (Mathew Bros.), 582* “ Mastrip ” Strippable Protective Coating
(Croda Ltd.), 384
Mats Glass-Fabric, “ Duramat,” Production at Hindley Green Works of Turner Bros., Asbestos Co., Ltd., 412
Matematica, Instituto Nazionale di Alta, Establishment of Provisional International Computation Centre, 803
Materials, 22, 74, 113, 149*, 179, 211, 281*, 338, 400*, 472, 536, 587, 670, 761, 785*, 817*
— Centre, Data Sheet Service of, 181
— Diversification Activities of Aircraft
in, 601
— Engineering, Handbook of, by C. L.
Mantell (Book), 700
Science of, by J. E. Goldman (Book), 181
— Handling Convention, Preliminary An
nouncement, 582*
Equipment (Wood, Pritchett and Partners, Ltd.), 261
See also Handling; Mechanical Handling
— Industrial, Dangerous Properties of, by
N. I. Sax (Book), 347
— Strength of. See Stress and Tests {Mat
erials)
Mathematical Journal, Czechoslovak, Note on, 730
?— Manuscripts, Typing, by Dr. J. F. Alcock, 356. See LETTER, 515
Mathematics, Advanced, for Technical Students, by H. V. Lowry and H. A, Hayden (Book), 213
— Bulletin of I. R. Maxwell and Co., Ltd., 57 Mather, J. C., on New Orders for Shipping,
810
Mather, J. W., on Neutron Production in High-Power Pinch Apparatus, 186 Mather and Platt, Ltd., Multi-Stage Centrifugal
Pumps at Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Efficiency Measurement by Thermometry, 501
Mathew Bros., “Mastiff” Four-Wheel-Drive Loading Shovel for Bulk Handling, 582* Matrix Assembly for Ferrite Cores at Tow- cester Factory of Plessey Co., Ltd., 799 Matthews, E. A., on British Amateur Radio in Past Decade, 320
Maturity Law for Concrete, 244*. See LETTER, 324
Maudslay Scholarships and Prizes, 227
— Society, Maudslay Scholarships and Prizes,
227
Mavitta Drafting Machines, Ltd., “ 3D ” True-Perspective Drawing-Board, 71 Maxam, A Measure of. Cinema Film on
Compressed Air Equipment, 741
“ Maxam ” Pneumatic Equipment, Control Gear for (Trade Publication), 27
Units for Fountain Pen Barrel Machine (Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 805*
Maxwell, Col. A. T. , on Position and Prospects of Office-Machinery Industry, 647
Maxwell, 1. R., and Co., Ltd., Mathematics, Bulletin of, 57
Mayne, S., on Engineers’ Salaries, 675-676. See LETTER, 707
MBF/U 1,000-Watt Lamps in High-Bay Lighting Installation at de Havilland Propellers, Ltd. (Holophane, Ltd.), 80* McAlpine, Sir A. and Son, Ltd., High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd., 470*; New Domestic Bath Manufacturing Plant of Bilston Foundries, 638*; Development of Gatwick Airport, 653*; Isle of Grain Refinery, 796*
McAlpine, Sir R., and Sons (Canada), Ltd., Aluminium Smelter Plant at Bale Comeau, 255
McCance, Sir A., Remarks on Nationalisation of Steel Industry, 271
McCone, J., Appointed United States Atomic Energy Commissioner, 808
McCurd, W. B., on Position and Prospects of Opperman Gears (Holdings), 743
Prospects of
Plasma in Hydrogen, 43; President of, 91; Sloan Programme, 282; Summer Principles of Radioisotope
241*,
626*,
Firms
McFadzean, W. H., on Position and Prospects of British Insulated Callender's Cables, 743
McFarland, R. A., on Human Limitations and Vehicle Design, 82
McGeoch, W., and Co., Ltd., Indicator Lights and Fittings (Trade Publication), 27
McGraw Hill Catalogue, Note on, 633 McKay, H. A. C., Appointment as Director of Baghdad Pact Nuclear Training Centre. 238
McKeith, G. W., on Instrumentation in Nuclear Reactors, 143*
McLaren, J. and H., Ltd., End of Diesel-Engine Production at Leeds Works of, 546; Redundancy at, 547
McLeod, A., the Late, 68
McNeil, H., on Education in Fuel Technology, 612
McQueen, A. H., on Training of Engineers, 611
Me. See also Mac
Mealing, Sir K. W., Remarks on Shortage of Currency in India, 427
Measuring Equipment for 75 kMc/s (Mullard, Ltd.), 390
— Machine, Lead, for Checking Helix Angle
of Gear Wheels (J. Goulder and Sons, Ltd.), 678*
— Oscilloscope (E.M.I., Electronics, Ltd.), 390 ?—-Performance of Receivers, XT. 314 Signal
Generators for (W. H. Sanders (Electronics), Ltd.), 390
— Resolution of Cathode Ray Tubes, Appara
tus for (Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern)), 389
— System, High-Precision, for Machine-Tool
Control (Mullard, Ltd.), 488
Meat Wagons, Interfrigo, with Electrical Ventilation, for Through Conveyance to Continent, 704
Mechanical Engineers, American Society of. Annual Report, 195, 309; Research
Projects of, 195; Note on Mechanical Engineerin!', Journal of, 762
Mechanical Engineers, Institution of :
Design and Development of Four Light- Weight High-Speed Marine Gas Turbines for Electric Generator Drive, by A. W. Pope, 93*
Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture on Machinery for Cross-Channel Passenger Ships, by E. L. Denny, 121*
Developments in Methods of Measuring Stresses in Compressor and Turbine Blades on Test Bed and in Flight, by D. A. Drew, 125
Management Control of Small Engineering Firms:
Building and Controlling a Management Team, by L. Fontaine, 145
Control of Production Engineering, by J. W. Walker, 145
Control of Finance and Costs, by W. R. Spencer, 145
Sleeve Bearings, by A. J. Davis and T. V. Krok,345
Exemption from Payment of Rates, 355 Quality in Engineering Manufacture, by F. Nixon, 417
Leonardo da Vinci Lecture on Rockets and Guided Flight, by Dr. G. W. H Gardner, Prof. A. D. Baxter, and L. H. Bedford, 460
Report on Practical Training, 492. See also 481, 514
Conference on Technology of Engineering Manufacture:
Automatic Control of Machine Tools, by D. T. N. Williamson, 478
Three-Dimensional Tape-Controlled Inspection System, by H. J. Elton, 478
Modern Developments in Resistance Welding, by C. A. Burton, 505
Modern Developments in Arc Welding, by Dr. N. Gross, 505
Flame Cutting, by G. Sims-Davies, 505 Fabrication Practice for Machine Elements, by R. M. Watts, 505
Weld Inspection, by A. H. Goodger, 505 Mechanics of Cutting Process, by H. LI. D. Pugh, 542
Review of Basic Research on Machining of Metals, by A. W. J. Chisholm, 542 Specification of Tool Shape and Grinding of Cutting Tools, by D. A, Wight and J. K. Church, 542
Developments in Turning and SinglePoint Tools, with Particular Reference to Developments in Cutting Tool Materials, by Dr. E. M. Trent, 542
Factors Affecting Performance of Drills and Taps, by R. J. Cowie and J. O. M. Pegler, 542
Performance Testing of Machine Tools, by Prof. H. Opitz, 542
Turning with Ceramic and Sintered Oxide Tools, by R. C. Brewer, 543 Developments in Precision Boring, C. L. David, 543
Developments in Broaching, by F. Robinson, 543
Thread and Form Rolling, by D. Seymour and F. M. Lomas, 543
Mechanical Engineers in Hydro-Electric Engineering Practice, by J. G. Brown and P. L. Blackstone (Review), 154
Mechanical Engineering, Journal of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Note on, 762
Laboratory, by J. S. Doolittle (Review), 26
Research Laboratory, Instrument for Measuring Air Content of Hydraulic Oil (F. W. Baggett and Co., Ltd.), 59; Dynamic Calibration of Fatigue - Testing Machines, by T. M. Dowell, 693*
Teaching Laboratories, Planning of, Aide-Memoire on, 642
— Handling, Automatic, by Overhead Mono-
rail System (British MonoRail, Ltd.), 614 Equipment, Output and Export Statistics, 117*
Equipment (Wood, Pritchett and Partners, Ltd.), 261
Exhibition, Exhibits at, 582*, 613* See also Handling; Materials Handling
— and Materials Handling Convention,
Report on, 755
— Resolution of Linguistic Problems,
Booth, Brandwood and Cleave, Note 585
Mechanics, Applied, by R. C. Stephens, J. J. Ward (Review), 56
— of Cutting Process, by H. LI. D. Pugh,
by
on.
and
542
by
C.
H.
Aide-Memoire on Planning of Mechanical Engineering Teaching Laboratories, 642
Commonwealth Tour of President and Secretary, 738
Summer Meeting in Cardiff, 801 Automobile Division:
Compulsory Annual Examination of Road Vehicles, by G. Grime and R, D. Lister, 370*
Mechanical Engineers, Mining. See Mining Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
Practical Training of. Report on, 492. See also 481, 514
— Engineering, Diversification Activities of
Aircraft Firms in, 601
Equipment for Foundries, Workshops, etc.. Directory of, by M. Coyaud (Book), 309
— for Engineers; Statics and Dynamics, by
F. P. Beer and E. Russell (Review), 26
— Engineering, by A. Higdon and W. B.
Stiles (Review), 26
— Fluid, for Engineers, by P.S, Barna (Review),
535
Proceedings of Fifth Midwestern Conference on (Book), 347
— History of, by R. Dugas (Revievv), 730
— Internal, of Ball, Tube and
by H. E. Rose and R. M. (Book), 375
— of Machines Laboratory at
University, 276
— by H. Weiler (Review), 56
Mechanisation in Production of Factory-made Units and Problem of Transmission Length in Pretensioned Concrete, by G. Berditchevski, A. Svetov, and B. Sklyar, 736
Mechanism-Efficiency Nomograms, by R. H. Macmillan, 378*
Medal, Bone-Wheeler, Presentation to A. M. Freedman, 612
— Robert W. Angus, Institution by Engineer
ing Institute of Canada, 347
Medical Checks for British Broadcasting Corp. Executives, 267
— Colour Television Unit, Mobile (Marconi’s
Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 773*
— and Engineering Professions, Plain Words
on, 98
— Lending Library, Lewis’s, Catalogue of, 155
— Research Council, Investigation on Health
Hazards of Radioactivity, 423
National Institute of, Beta-Ray Source, 396
Medicine, Radioactive Isotopes in, 648
Mee, Dr. C. D., on Magnetic Tape for Data Recording, 310
Meetings, Notices of, 12, 40, 78, 112, 138, 170, 202, 234, 266, 319, 351, 383, 415, 447, 479, 511, 537, 565, 583, 636, 671, 699, 729, 754, 797
— Papers and Publications of Society
Automotive Engineers, Inc., Note Checklist of, 573
M.E.K. De-Waxing Installation at Isle Grain Refinery, 795*
Melamine Glass Cloth (Permali, Ltd.), 211 Melbourne University, Discovery, Official Publication of. Note on, 251
Melchett Lecture on Nuclear Power Development, by Sir C. Hinton, 270
Melting Practice for Aluminium Castings (Trade Publication), 90
-— and Thermal Treatment of Metals, Fuel Efficiency in. Conference on, 536
Melville, Sir H. W., on Chemical Structure of High Polymers and their Physical Behaviour, 281
Memory Planes, Magnetic, for Digital Computers (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 799*
Men, Women and Work, by L. Wright, 685 Mental Health in Old Age, Problems of, by Prof. M. Roth, 816
Mercantile Marine, British, Position and Outlook of, 323
“ Mercast ” Process for Frozen Mercury Patterns for Precision Die Casting (Sankey- Telcon, Ltd.), 797*
Mercedes-Benz Three-Axle Truck, LP333 (Daimler-Benz), 772*
Mercer, T., Air Gauges, Ltd., Air Gauging Applications, 220*
Mercer, T., Ltd., Centenary as Manufacturers of Marine Chronometers and Precision Clocks, 220
Mercer, T. G., on Micro-Texts and MicroRecording, 155
Merchandise Marks Acts, 240 Merchant Navy, See Navy, Merchant
— Seamen, Unemployment of, 391
— Ships. See Ships; Steamers
— Shipbuilidng. See Shipbuilding
Mercia Enterprises, Ltd., “ G-V ” Thermal Relays (Trade Publication), 213; Abrasive Products (Trade Publication), 762
Mercury-Arc Converters, Control of Large Motors by (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701*
— Frozen, Patterns, for Precision Die Casting,
“ Mercast ” Process for (Sankey-Telcon, Ltd.), 797*
— Fulminate, Explosion of. Photograph of,
217*
Mercury Truck Co., Tractor for Trailers at Hydraulics Research Station, 292
Meredith, Jim, Bad Mixer, Case of the, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 11 *
Merton Engineering Co., New Power Shovel with Brockhouse Torque Converter Transmission, 613*
Rod Mills,
E. Sullivan
Cambridge
of
on
of
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Mervyn Instruments, “ Midas ” System for Simultaneous Recording of Outputs of Seven Transducers in Aircraft under Flight or Trials Conditions, 373
Merz and McLellan, Tilbury Power Station, 792* Mesons, Heisenberg Equation for, 334
— mu-. Fusion of Hydrogen Isotopes by, 109
Messina (Transvaal) Development Co., Ltd., Annual Report, 496
Metaalbuizenfabriek Mij Excelsior (Schiedam), Closure of, 579
Metadyne Machines for Traction Control, Rewinding with Silicone Insulation, 820
Metals, Adhesive Bonding of, Bibliography on. Note on, 91
?— Cast, Typical Microstructures of, by G. Lambert (Book), 91
— Cleaners, Alkaline, “ Grisiron ” (Trade
Publication), 90
— Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Cutting of, in Aircraft Production, 95
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue
Tests on. See Fatigue Tests under Tests {Materials)
— Film Potentiometers (G. V. Planer, Ltd.),
400
— Fuel, Efficiency in Melting and Thermal
Treatment of, Conference on, 536
Metal Industries, Ltd., Metal Products (Trade Publication), 309
Metals, Institute of :
Metallurgical Aspect of Control of Quality in Non-Ferrous Castings ( Book), 347 Plutonium-Thorium System, by Dr. D. M. Poole, Dr. G. K. Williamson and J. A. C. Marples, 458
Plutonium-Iron System, by P. G. Mardon, H. R. Haines, J. H. Pearce, and Dr.
M. B. Waldron, 459
Thorium-Cerium System, by R. T. Weiner, Dr. W. E. Freeth and Prof. G. V. Raynor, 459
Conference on Fuel Efficiency in Melting and Thermal Treatment of Metals, 536 Opening Address by F. C. Ashen, 536 Symposium on Advances Inspection Techniques as Aids to Process Control in Non- Ferrous Metals Production:
Automatic Gauge Control in Strip Rolling Mills, by Dr. R. B. Sims, 575 Strip-Thickness Measurement by Beta and Gamma Absorption, by E. B. Bell, 575 Control of Steel-Strip Quality, by S. S. Carlisle and J. H. Wilson, 575
Ultrasonic Testing in Manufacture of Aluminium Alloys and other Non- Ferrous Materials, by J. G. Harris and J. Crowther, 575
Instrumentation in Ultrasonic Flaw Detection, by D. G. W. Claydon, 575
Inspection of Tubes for Flaws and Variations in Thickness, by J. B. C. Robinson and L. T. Perriam, 575
Use of Search-Coil Apparatus for Eddy- Current Testing of Copper and Its Alloys, by N. B. Harvey, 576 Instrument for Measuring Gas Content of Aluminium Alloys during Melting and Casting, by Dr. C. E. Ransley, D. E. J. Talbot and H. C. Barlow, 576 Control Analysis of Aluminium Alloys and Copper Alloys using Self-Recording Spectrometers, by M. Milbourn and J. A. F. Gidiey, 576
Recent Advances in Radiographic Techniques, by R. Halmshaw, 576 Golden Jubilee Spring Meeting:
Preliminary Notice, 401
Annual May Lecture on Fifty Years Metallurgical Science, by Prof. A. Quarrell, 587
Golden Jubilee Lecture on Institute
Metals: Some Recollections and
Reflections, by Prof. R. S. Hutton, 626
Metal Insulated Linings for Coats (Deering, Milliken and Co., Inc.), 128
— Machining of. Review of Basic Research on,
by A. W. J. Chisholm, 542
— Manufacturing Industry, Employment Sta
tistics, 21
and Materials, 22, 74, 113, 149*, 179, 211, 241*, 281*, 338, 4C0*, 472, 536, 587, 626, 670, 761*, 785*, 817*
— Non-Ferrous Industries, Position and Pros
pects of, 810
• Ferrous, Production of, Process Control
In. Advances in Inspection Techniques as Aids to. Symposium on, 575
— Plastic Paste, “ Metolux” (M.G. Plastics
Sales), 670
— Powder, Cold-Rolled Strip from, 472
— Products (Trade Publication), 309
— to-Rubber Bonding, Tests for, by F. H.
Edwards, 150
— Sheet, “ Rosan Press-Nut for (Instrument
Screw Co., Ltd.), 580*
Work (Part I) Geometry and Pattern Development, by R. G. Blackburn and J. Cassidy (Book), 91
-— in Solution, Flame Spectrophotometer for Determination of (Unicam Instruments, Ltd.), 550*
— Spraying Process, Schori, for Pelham Road
Bridge, 815*
— Treatment Baths, Aqueous, Elimination of
Fumes and Steam from, “ Serseal ” Layer Process for (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 306
— Structure of. See Microphotography
— Welding, See Welding
— See also Metallurgy; Microphotography Metallic Bodies, Contact of: Effect of Tangential Force, by J. S. Courtney-Pratt and E. Eisner, 182*
— Hose, Flexible, Fireproof, for Aircraft Fire
Extinguisher Systems (Power Auxiliaries, Ltd.), 484
Metallography. See Metals; Metallurgy; Microphotography
Metallurgists, Institution of: Annual I uncheon: Presidential Address on History, Work and Aims of Institution of Metallurgists, by W. E. Ballard 761
Metallurgy:
Alloys, Aluminium, Complete Analysis of, Production Control Quantometer for, 576
Control Analysis of, using Self- Recording Spectrometers, by M. Milbourn and J. A. F. Gidiey, 576 ——Crane Jibs, for William Cory and Son (Head Wrightson Aluminium, Ltd.), 158*
Gas Content During Melting and Casting, Instrument for Measuring, by Dr. C. E. Ransley, D. E. J, Talbot and H. C. Barlow, 576
Clad Sheet, “ Hiduminium R.R.58 “ (Trade Publication), 57
— — High-Tensile, for “ Globemaster Minibeam ” Aerial (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 64*
Integral Caravan (Pemberton Caravans. Ltd ). 608*
“ Kynal,” Motor Vehicle Body Sections (Trade Publication), 90
Larger and Thicker Plates, New Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.,at Rogerstone for 410*
Noral “ Industrial ” Corrugated Sheets for Ships’ Awnings (Trade Publication), 27
Production (Trade Publication), 57 Sealed Cabinets for Radar (Morfax, Ltd.), 731*
Tank, with Three-Point Suspension for Bulk Liquid Transporters (Thompson Brothers (Bilston), Ltd.), 317*
Ultrasonic Testing in Manufacture of, by J. C. Harris and J. Crowther, 575
— Copper, Control Analysis of, Using Self-Recording Spectrometers, by M. Milbourn and J. A. F. Gidiey, 576 Eddy-Current Testing of. Use of Search-Coil Apparatus for, by N. B. Harvey, 576
See also Brass; Bronze, etc.
— Light-, Castings (Trade Publication), 90 Containers, “ Lacon ” (Light Alloy Construction Co., Ltd.), 328*
Lorry Body Sections,
(Trade Publication), 90 — Magnesium, Castings, “
(Trade Publication), 90
— Nickel, Electroplating on, and Sanborn, 730
Valves (Trade Publication), 57 — Nuclear Engineering, Equilibrium Diagrams of, 458
— Platinum, Permanent Magnets (Johnson Matthey and Co., Ltd.), 400
— Plutonium-Rich, Eutectoid Reaction in, by S. T. Konobeevsky, 459
— Titanium, Annealed, Behaviour in Tension, 639
“ Hylile,” Development Supplies of (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 627 Welding (Trade Publication), 730 — Tungsten-Base, Machinable, Mallory
1000 (Johnson Matthey and Co., Ltd.), 400
— Bronze, “ Hidurax, ” Valves (Trade Publication), 57
Beryllium, Metallurgy and Fabrication of, Laboratory for Study of, by Dr. T. Raine and P. P. Starling, 499*
Blast Furnaces. See Furnaces Brass. See Brass Bronze. See Bronze Cast Iron. See Iron
Corrosion of Metals. See Corrosion Duralumin, Resistance to Meteoric Particles, 164
Engineering Metallurgy. Part 1: Applied Physical Metallurgy, by R. A. Higgins (Book), 181
Equilibrium Diagrams of Nuclear Engineering Alloys, 458
Eutectoid Reaction in Plutonium-Rich
Alloys, by S. T. Konobeevsky, 459 Foundry. See Foundry; Moulding Furnaces, Electric. See Furnaces — Metallurgical. See Furnaces Heat-Treatment, Annealing of Aluminium for Strengthening Deep Drawn Containers, 149*
Annealing, Differential, of Aluminium for Strengthening Deep-Drawn Containers (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 149*
Annealing of Industrial Glassware at Quickfit and Quartz, Ltd., 381*
Annealing of Irradiated Graphite, 121
— Equipment at Kingfield Wire and Rod Works of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., 830*
Furnaces. See Furnaces Hydrogen Bell Furnace for (Royce
Electric Furnaces, Ltd.), 452* and Melting of Metals, Fuel Efficiency in. Conference on, 536
Precipitation Hardening of Stainless Steels 17-7 PH, 639
Hylite ” Titanium Alloys, Development Supplies of (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 627
“ Kunial ” Brass (Trade Publication), 57 Mallory 1000 Machinable Tungsten-Base Alloy (Johnson Matthey 400
Metals, Tests of. See Tests {Materials) Metallurgical Analysis, Triple Medium
Spectrograph for (Hilger and Watts, Ltd.), 505
— Aspects of Control of Quality in Non- Ferrous Castings (Book), 347
— Science, Fifty Years of, by Prof. A. G. Quarrel!, 587
Metallurgy and Fabrication of Beryllium, Laboratory for Study of, by Dr. T. Raine and P. P. Starling, 499*
— in Nuclear Energy, by L. M. Wyatt, 648 — Non-Ferrous, 1908-1958, Survey of, 626 — Physical, Applied, by R. A. Higgins
(Book), 181
— in Reactor Development, Remarks on, by Sir C. Gibb, 526
Metallurgy—continued
Metallurgy in Russia, Review of, 482
Micrometallurgy and Microscale Preparation of Plutonium Metal, by S. Fried, E. F. Westrum, H. L. Baumbach, and
P. L. Kirk, 457
Noral Plate, Argonaut Welding of, at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 411
Plutonium Metal, Microscale Preparation and Micrometallurgy of, by S. Fried, E. F. Westrum, H. L. Baumbach, and P. L. Kirk, 457
Refractories. See Refractory Materials Rolling Mills. See Rollin}^ Mills Sintered Metal Facings for Clutch and Brake Designs, Manufacture of (Ferodo, Ltd.), 626
Spheroidising Furnace. See Furnace Steel Furnaces. See Furnaces
Strain Hardening, Influence on Dilation of Cylinders under Internal Pressure, by Dr. E. Voce, 756*
Welding. See Welding
Zircaloy 2, Properties of, 396
See also Iron and Steel Institute; Metals, Institute of ; Metallurgists, Institution of; Microphotography', Foundry', Microstructures
Metalworking, Plate and Sheet (Trade Publication), 503
Meteoric Hazards to Space Flight, by Dr.
N. H. Langton, 164
Meter, Current, for Tidal Model for Southampton Water, 201
— Density, Transmitting, for Clean Liquids
(Rotameter Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 551 *
— Dewpoint, “ Alnor ” (Electrical Resistance
Furnace Co., Ltd.), 422*
— Electricity, External, Experiment at West
Thurrock, 416
— Four Ring Balance, Electronic Recorder for
(Hagan Corp. (Canda), Ltd.), 517
— Heat Flow, Development of, at Electrical
Research Association Laboratory, 736
— pH, Testing of. Instrument for (A. M. Lock
and Co., Ltd.), 405
— Surface Roughness, Stylus-Type Precision
(Bruel and Kjaer), 471
— Telephone, Private, for Subscribers on
Subscriber Trunk Dialling System (Smiths Industrial Instrument Division), 800*
— Vibration (Brush Electrical Engineering
Co., Ltd.), 454
Metering Transformer, Magnetic, “ Clam ” (Smith Hobson Ltd.), 454*
Metolux Metal-Plastic Paste (M.G. Plastics Sales), 670
Metric System for Britain, by H. G. Conway, 798
Committee for Study of, 707 Conversion Standards for, 798 V5. Inch/Pound System, 798
Metrology Association, Engineering. See Engineering Metrology Association
Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd., Integral Tubular Anti-Telescopic Electric Railway Coaches for South Africa, 344*
Metropolitan-Vickers, Ltd., Mobile Infra-Red Projector Unit, 645
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd., Cooling of Electric Generators, 330*; Structural Insulation in ZETA, 333; Electrical Equipment for Coaches for South African Railway, 344*; Newton Victor “ Orbitron ” Cobalt Therapy Unit, 360*; Basic Unit for Construction of Digital Computing Systems, 373; Digital Voltmeter, 389; Oil-Diffusion Vacuum Pump, 397; Indium Arsenide Semi-Conductor, 400; Exhibits at Brussels Fair, 457*; Mass Spectrograph, 457 *; Laboratory for Study of Beryllium, 499*; Central Monitoring and Control System for Oil Storage and Distribution Installation, 551; Magister ” Photo-Transistor Relays, 551; Twin- Motor Hoist Control System on 7| Ton Overhead Travelling Crane, 615*; Irradiation Laboratory at Barton Works of, 748*; 4 MeV Linear Accelerator, 748*
— Water Board, Annual Report, 191
— See also London
Meyer, H., on Report on Work of Study Committee on Circuit-Breakers, 821
Meyer de Stadelhofen, J., on Influence of Air Density on Level of Radio-Electric Interferences Caused by H.V. Lines, 822
Meynell and Sons, Ltd., “ Rayon-Patent ” Glandless Stop Valve, 358*
M.G. Plastics Sales, “ Meterolux ” Metal- Plastic Paste, 670
MGCR Nuclear Reactor, Contract for (General Dynamics Corp.), 174
“ Michigan I75A ” Mechanical Shovel at Steel Co. of Wales, 218*, 219*
Micro-Film, Handling, Filing and Indexing of, by M. Gauntlett, 155
— Fog Lubricator Mist Generator for Diesel
Engine Injection (G. A. Norgren), 30
— Library of International Documentation
Centre (Sweden), Note on, 535
Micrographs, Cine, 214
“ Microjet ” Plunger Units for Air Gauges (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 220*
“ Microlector Van Tongeren *’ Dust-Collection and Fly-Ash Elimination System (Trade Publication), 57
Micrometallurgy and Microscale Preparation of Plutonium Metal, by S. Fried, E. F. Westrum, H. L. Baumbach, and P. L. Kirk, 457
Micrometer, Thread-Measuring Parallels for Use with (Trade Publication), 213
“ Micronair Rotary Atomiser for “ Workmaster ” Crop-Spraying Aircraft (Britten- Norman, Ltd.), 357*
Microphones for Speakers, Plain Words on, 770 Micro-Photography Co., United States Naval Research Laboratory Indexes, 730
Microphotography in Glaxo Laboratories, by A. J. Brockbank, 155
Micro-Recording and Micro-Texts, Symposium on, 155
Microscope, Camera, Automatic, “ Ultraphot II ” (Carl Zeiss), 805*
— Cine, 214
Microstructures, Typical, of Cast Metals, by G. Lambert (Book), 91
— of Metals. See also Microphotography Micro-Texts and Micro-Recording, Symposium on, 155
Microwaves. See also Waves
— Amplification by Stimulated Emission of
Radiation. See Maser
using an Unstable Electron Beam in Crossed Electric and Magnetic Fields, by D. J. Harris, 725
— Parametric Amplifiers and Converters by G.
Wade and H. Heffner, 724
— in Science and Technology, by Dr. R. Cock
burn, 723
— Valves, International Convention on, 723
724
“ Midas ” System for Simultaneous Recording of Outputs of Seven Transducers in Aircraft under Flight or Trials Conditions (Mervyn Instruments), 373
Middle East, Opportunities in, Remarks by J. K. Vaughan-Morgan, 259
Russian Economic Aid to, 81
Trade, Advisory Council on, 273. See also 259
Midland Saw and Tool Co., Ltd., Bandsawing and Filing Machine (Trade Publication), 659
Midlands Electricity Board, Electric Furnace for Annealing of Industrial Glassware at Quickfit and Quartz, Ltd., 381*
Library Resources in, 793
Midwest Research Institute, National Emergency Alarm Repeater System 183
— West, Gas Board. See West
“ MIG ” Gyroscope for Inertial Navigation Systems (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 691 * Migration Board, Overseas, Third Report of, Comment on, 100
Milbourne, M., on Control Analysis of Aluminium Alloys and Copper Alloys using Self-Recording Spectrometers, 576
Mild Steel. See Steel, Mild
Mildner, R. C., on Plastic Insulated Cables for A.C. and D.C. Transmission, 822
Miles, F. G., Ltd., Policy and Action of, 594; Diversification Activities of, 601
Milford Haven, Expansion Plans of Esso Petroleum Co., Ltd., at, 111
Milford, M., on Anode and Positive, 547-548. See LETTER, 611
Military Engineering Experimental Establishment, Work of, 368
— Research, North Atlantic Council Co-opera
tion on, 624
— Service, Deferment for Engineers, Discus
sion in Parliament on 272
— Steel Bridges, Weight-Saving in, by A. E.
Long, 735
Milk, Freezing of, 340
Mills, Corn, Water-Driven, Visit to, 818
— Rolling. See Rolling Mill
Millar, R. N., Appointment as General Manager of Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, 365
Millbourn Committee for Developments at London Airport, Acceptance of Recommendations of, 552
Miller, J., and Partners, Ltd., Clifton Bridge over River Trent, 350*
Milling, Chemical, in Aircraft Production, 95
— Flour, “ Pneu-roll ” Rollermill, Type MEm,
for (Trade Publication), 213
— Machines and Cutters. See Machine Tools Mills, E., on Organisation for Large-Scale
Grid System Tests, 404
Mills, Lord, on Public Investment, 258
Milne, J. A., Remarks on Shipbuilding Industry, 247
Milwright, A. L. P., on Survey of Recent Developments in Marine Radar, 466
Mines, Saturday Working in, Discussion in Parliament on,300
— Trucks, History of, 476*
— United States Bureau of. See United States
— Winder Control by Mercury-Arc Converter
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 702
— See also Coal; Collieries; Mining; Ores;
Winding
Miners, Coal, Wage Claims of, 267
— Wage Claims of, Comment on, 418
Mineral Acids, Concentrated, “ Valithene ” Polyethylene-Lined Rubber Hose for Conveyance of (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 580
— Electrostatic Separation of, 125
— Oils. See Oils
— See also Coal; Mining; Ores Mineworkers, Absenteeism of, 235
— ?— of, Scheme to Combat, 139
— National Union of. See Labour
“ Mingograf 230B ” High-Frequency Chart Recording Unit (Sierex, Ltd.), 551
Miniature Bearings, Ltd., Miniature Ball Bearings (Trade Publication), 27
Minicar, Bond, Mark E (Sharp’s Commercials, Ltd.), 179
Mining Association, British Overseas, Scholarships of, 816
— Coal, Economics of: Organisation and
Management, by J. Sinclair (Review), 180
— Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Asso
ciation of: Presidential Address on Engineer and Management, by S. Winstanley, 784
— Engineers, Training of, by A. W. S. Schu
mann, 75
— Equipment (Trade Publication), 90, 659
— Hydraulic, of Coal, 769
Minister of Culture, Science and Art, Discussion in Parliament on, 809
Ministry of. See Health; Labour (under Labour); Supply; Transport; etc.
Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co., High- Precision Gyroscopes for Inertial Naviga tion Systems, 691 *
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd., 880 Filament Type Packaging Tapes, 486; “ Extraplay ” Magnetic Recording Tape, 486; “Safety-Walk Wetordry ” Non-Slip Floor Covering, 486*; “ Scotchlite “
Reflecting Material for Road Signs, 486
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‘ Minor 1000 ” Motor Car, Sales in America, 178
Minto, Dr. W. H. P., on Public Health Considerations in Nuclear Energy, 366
Mist Generator, Micro-Fog Lubricator, for Diesel Engine Injection (G. A. Norgren), 30
— Oil, Coolant (Trade Publication), 309 Mitchell-A.M.F., Nuclear-Energy Activities,
619*
Mitchell Engineering, Ltd., Nuclear Power Plant for Marine Propulsion, 399; Model Tests on Underwater Hull Forms for Nuclear-Powered Submarine Oil Tanker, 470*; “ Serpentix ” Flexible Fold-Belt
Conveyor, 615
Mitchell, F. G., on Nuclear-Powered Submarine Oil Tanker, 470*
Mitchell, K. W., on Fatigue-Testing Machine for Hot Sheet, 402*
Mixer, Bad, Case of the, by Z. M. T. Tarkow- ski, 11 *
M.K. Electric, Ltd., Electrical Accessories (Trade Publication), 181
“ Mooil Nyvac ” Water-Base Fire-Resistant Fluids for Hydraulic Systems (Mobil Oil Co., Ltd.), 149
Mobil Oil Co., Ltd., “ Solvac 68” Grinding Fluid (Trade Publication), 90; “ Mobil Nyvac ” Water-Base Fire-Resistant Fluids for Hydraulic Systems, 149
Mobile Medical Colour Television Unit (Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 773*
— Shops, Development of, 271
Mockford, F. S., on Government’s Refusal to Grant Export Licence for Supply of Mercantile Marine Radar Equipment to Soviet, 239
Model of Dudley Zoo Chairlift (British Ropeway Engineering, Ltd.), 615
— of Electrically Driven Double-Drum Pit
Winding Gear (Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.), 457*
Model Engineer, Sixtieth-Anniversary of. Plain Words on, 578
— Engineering, Plain
LETTER, 611
— Experiments. See
periments
— of Hydro-Electric
Monopoly and Antitrust Sub-Committee of Senate, Investigation into United States Motor-Car Industry Price Policy, 273
— and Competition, Plain Words on, 322
— and Redundancy, Comment on, 528
— and Restrictive Practices Commission,
Report on British Oxygen Co., Ltd., 423
— in United States, 781
Monorail Overhead System for Automatic Mechanical Handling (British MonoRail, Ltd.), 614
— System, Proposed, to London Airport, 809 “ Monoveyor ” Transporter (Road Machines
(Drayton), Ltd.), 613*
Monsanto Chemicals, Position and Prospects of, 461
— Contact Process for Sulphuric Acid Pro
duction at Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Fertiliser Factory, 5C6*
Moore, H. R., on Position and Prospects of Associated Engineering Holdings, Ltd., 207
Moore, R. V., New Appointment in Industrial Group of United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, 748
Moore, Sir T., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Building Industry, 80
Moral Aspect in Engineering, Safety as, 97
— Problems in Engineering, 97
Morfax, Ltd., Fabrication of Sliding Doors with Tail Enclosure Apertures in Wing Hanger at London Airport, 665*; Sealed Cabinets for Radar, 731*
Morgan, A. M., on Flat Pressure Cable for Submarine Installation, 822
Morgan Crucible Co., Ltd., Commutator Brush Holder Finger, 261*; “ Crusilite ” nace Element, 457
Motor-Car Industry, United States, Price Policy of. Investigation into, by Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Sub-Committee, 273
Industry. See also Motor Industry Military. See Motor Vehicles
—? — Model, Tests in Wind Tunnels at Motor Industry Research Association, 772
Morris “ Minor 1000,” Sales in America, 178
Parking, Need for
Parts, Importance Sales and Publicity Ltd., on, 433
Private, Exhibits Show, 435
Restrictions on, 227 of Using Genuine, Scheme of Girling,
at Geneva Motor
Words on,
Aeronautics:
578. See
Tank Ex
at Orlik,
Installation
Bohemia, at Brussels Fair, 521
— Motor Car, Tests in Wind Tunnels at Motor
Industry Research Association, 772
— of Nuclear Power Stations at Brussels Fair,
487, 520*
—? of Nuclear Power Station at Hinkley Point at Brussels Fair, 487
Reactor, at Atomic Energy Division of General Electric Co., Ltd., 365*
? Reactors at Brussels Fair, 521*
— Plaster, for Loading Tests for Right Slab
Bridge, 541 *
— of Solar Generator at Brussels Fair, 521
— Study on Clifton Bridge over River Trent at
Hydraulics Research Station,
— Tests on Underwater Hull
Nuclear-Powered Submarine 470* on Yacht “ Sceptre,” 8*
— Tidal, for Southampton Water, at South
ampton University, 198*. See 259, 323, 388
—? of 550 MW Turbo-Generating Thorpe Marsh Power Station Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 587*
— Use of, in the Design and Construction of
Chemical Plant, by E. H. Salisbury, 83
— Working, at Exhibitions, 658
— Yacht, Tests at Saunders-Roe, Ltd., 9 —? ZETA, for Brussels Fair, 303
Moderators, Graphite, for Nuclear Reactors, Wigner Effect in Design of, by Dr. P. J. Grant, 120*
Moisture, “ Parovent ” Vents for Escape of. From Below Impervious Roof Layers (Paramount Asphalte, Ltd.), 519*
Mole Richardson Gaumont-Kalee Type 490 “ High Power ” Arc Lamp for “ Todd- AO ” Projectors (Rank Precision Industries, Ltd.), 549
Molecular Amplifiers, Development of, at Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern), 699*
— and Atomic Generators, by Dr. K. W.
Stevens, 724
Molecular Physics, New Journal, Note on, 27 ?— Structure of Glasses, 639 _
Moller, J. D., Optische
Anamorphic Lenses Cinema Films, 384 Mellerhei, J. S., on Flat
Submarine Installation, 822 Molson, H., Remarks on Engineering Contracts, 647
Molybdenum Disulphide Additive, “ Addi- V.J.” (Senol, Ltd.), 401
?— — Lubricant, High-Temperature Tests on. 661*
— Properties of, 396
— Spinnings, Dishes and Crucible Forms in
(Murex, Ltd.), 400
— Steel Test Cell for High-Altitude Test Plant
for Ram-Jet Engines at Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd. (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 437*
‘ ‘Molytone 265 ” Lubricant for General Grease Cups and Ball and Roller Bearings (Rocol, Ltd.), 242
“ Molytone 320 ” Lubricant for Pressure Systems. Automatic Lubricators and Ball and Roller Bearings (-Rocol, Ltd.), 242
“ Molytone 380 ” Ultra-Soft Grease for High- Speeds, for Precision Work, Instruments. Servo Motors and Gyros (Rocal, l.td.), 242 Capacitance (Trade Publica-
350
Forms for Oil Tanker,
LETTERS,
Set for (C. A.
Werke G.m.b.H.,
for Projection of
Pressure Cable for
Monitor, Cable tion), 119
Monitoring and
Oil Storage (Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 551
— of Radioactive Process Streams by Own Emission, by H. Bisby, 590
Monkeys as Strike Pickets, 784 Monoplane. See Aeronautics
Control System, Central, for and Distribution Installation
Giambonini with Pressure Electric Fur-
Morgan, D. C., on Study Projects, 323-324 Morgan, H. D., Concrete Railway Tunnel Linings at Potters Bar, 248*
Morley, Dr. A. W., on Boost Systems for Helicopter Gas Turbines, 159
Morris, F. C., on Position and Prospects of A. A. Jones and Shipman, 553
Morris “ Minor 1,000 ” Motor Car, Sales in America, 178
Morse, Sir A., on Annual Report of Bowmakers, Ltd., 194
Mortality, Occupational, Comment on Statistics on, 361
Mortimer Engineering Co., “ Uma ” Facing and Centring Machine, 805*
Moscow, British Embassy in. Scientific Attache for. Discussion in Parliament on, 680
?—? Industrial Exhibition, Preview of, 790 —? and London, Civil Airline Service between, Anglo-Soviet Air Pact on, 68
Mosley, F. C., on Position and Prospects of Kendall and Gent, Ltd., 137
Moteres Rolls-Royce S.A., New Subsidiary Company of Rolls-Royce in South America, 810
Mothers at Work, Problems of, 752 Motherwell Bridge and Engineering Co., Ltd., Isle of Grain Refinery, 796*
Motion of a Buoyant Body, by Dr. R. A. Collacott, 760*
Motivation Research: Its Practice and Uses for Advertising, Marketing and Other Business Purposes, by H. Henry (Review), 659
Motor, Air, Cam-Piston, for High Temperatures (AiResearch Manufacturing Co.), 572*
— Boat, Launch for Livingstone’s Expedition,
“ Ma Robert,” Centenary of, 17
?— Cars, Air-Conditioning System for (Rolls- Royce, Ltd.), 489*
Atom, Project at Geneva Motor Show, 435
with Belt-Drive Automatic Transmission, 265*
?— — Body Building, and Trimming at Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., 634*
Compulsory Annual Inspection of 10- Year Old or More, 370*
2 CV, Four-Wheel Drive, for Personnel Transport in Sahara (Citroen), 435
?—?— “ DAF600 ” (Van Doorne Ilrbs.), 265* Dealers, Position and Prospects of, 335 Design, Human Limitations in, by R. A. McFarland, 82
Diesel-Engine, “ Four-99 ” for (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 538*
Dynamic Instability of, by Y. Rocard (Review), 535
Engines. See Automobile Engineering; Engines, Petrol
— — Engineers. See Mechanical Engineers,
Institution of. Automobile Division
Engineering. See also Automobile Engineering
Estate Car, “ Victor ” (Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.), 295*
Exports of, 295
Exports, Position and Prospects of, 79, 83 Factory, New, at Vauxhall Motors, Ltd. 634*
—? — Folding, “ Harrier,” for Airborne
Forces (Hunting Percival Aircraft), 18* Gearboxes, Test-Bed Equipment for, at Jaguar Cars, Ltd. (Heenan and Froude, Ltd.), 434*
“ Getabout ” (Gill), 435
Hire in United States, 273
— ?—? “ Husky,” New Version of (Hillman), 83 Imports to United States, 178
Industry, Exports of, 578
Industry, French, Statistics on, 295
— — Industry, Output Statistics, 578
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 79 Industry, Production Recovery and Prospects of, 335
Industry, Time w. Piece Rates in, 329 Industry, United States, 178
Industry, United States, Arbitration for, 651
Industry, United States, Position and Prospects of, 578
Industry, United States, Price Policy of. Activity of United Automobile Workers’ Union in, 273
Production Statistics, 85*
Racing, First Six-Cylinder (Napier), 710* Racing, Willment, by G. Wilkins, 82* “ Rambler American ” (American Motors), 178
Rear-Axle Housing, Heavy-Duty Air Gauging Rig for Inspection of (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 222*
Renault “ Dauphine,” Sales in United States, 178
Saloon, “ Amazon ” (Volvo), 435
Show, Geneva, Exhibits at, 435
Small, General Motors, Reports on, 578
Small, in United States, Position and Prospects of, 675
Smaller, Manufacture of, by American Motors, 178
Sports Racing, Lotus 15, for 1-5 or 2-2 litre Engine, 516*
Sports, “ Sprite ” (Austin Healey), 644* Test-Bed Equipment for, at Associated Ethyl Co., Ltd. (Heenan and Froude, Ltd.), 434*
— ?— “ Thunderbird ” Coupe and Convertible
Four-Seater (Ford), 178*
Volkswagen, Sales in United States, 178
— ?— See also Automobile Engineering; Motor
Vehicles
— Carriages, Railway. See Carriages
— Cycles, Noise of. Discussion in Parliament
on,240
— Electric, Alternating-Current, Price Reduc
tions by Crompton Parkinson, 433
Alternating-Current, Stock List (Trade Publication), 90
Commutator, Automatic Undercutting of Insulating Segments of. Electronic Dividing Attachment for Machine for (E.M.l. Electronics, Ltd.), 388
— — Control by Mercury-Arc Converters
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701*
Direct-Current, 500 h.p., 500-volt, for Rolling-Mill Drive at Sanderson Brothers and Newbould, Ltd. (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 127
Drum, for “ Corruband ” Flanged Conveyor Belting (Johnson-Bauer), 615
Induction, Single-Phase, for Farmers (Newman Industries, Ltd.), 325*
Induction, Small (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 806
Price Reductions by Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., 588
Slip-Ring, “ Vapormatic ” Stepless Starter for (Lee Guinness Ltd.), 359*
Small, Relays for Starting (Magnetic Devices, Ltd.), 327*
Starters for. See also Starters
Traction, Control by Metadyne Machine, 820
— — Traction, for London Underground
Rolling Stock, Silicone Insulation in, 819*
— Hydraulic, for Guided Weapons, 728*
— Industry, Labour Troubles in, 86
Research Association, Work of, 737; Activities of, 772
• Standards for. Handbook on, 375
Statistics on, 295
United States, Profit-Sharing Proposals by United Automobile Workers, 107
United States, Scheme of W. Reuther for New Wage Terms in, 720
•—? — See also Motor-Car Industry
— Internal-Combustion. See Aeronautics;
Engines: Motor Cars; Motor Boats; Tractors
— Launches. See Motor Boats
— Lorries. See Motor Vehicles
Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Ltd., Society of, Handbook of Standards for the British Automobile Industry, 375
— Marine. See Engines; Marine Propulsion
— Omnibuses, with Automatic Gearboxes,
Orders for (Leyland Motors, Ltd.), 86
Double-Deck, Pitch and Roll Measurements on, 564*
— ?— Electronic Scanning Indicator (London
Transport Executive), 58*
Fuel Economics of, by A. T. Wilford, 644 London Transport, Problem of Peak and Ofif-Peak Passenger Services, by G. Wilkins, 644
for Persia (Associated Equipment Co., Ltd.), 86
Routes, Rural, Economic Problems of, by G. Wilkins, 644
Workers, London Transport, Award of 4i per cent for Central London Routes, 361
Workers, London Transport, Strike of, 616, 651, 685, 720, 752, 816
Workers’ Wage Claims, Dispute of London Transport Executive and Transport and General Workers’ Union on, 428
— Paraffin. See Engines, Oil
— Petrol. See Aeronautics; Engines, Petrol;
Motor Boats; Motor Cars; Tractors
— Servo, “ Molytone 380 ” Lubricant for
(Rocol, Ltd.), 242
Size 07 (Smiths Aircraft Instruments, Ltd.), 708
— Spirit, Platformer for Naphtha Conversion
to, at Isle of Grain Refinery, 794*
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Trades Association, British, Dispute on
Distribution Scheme Agreement of, 368
— Trucks. See Motor Vehicles; Trucks
— Vehicle Body Sections, Light-Alloy “Kynal”
(Trade Publication), 90
Motor Vehicle Brake Testing, 370*
Bulk Liquid Transporters, Aluminium Alloy Tank with Three-Point Suspension for (Thompson Bros. (Bilston), Ltd.), 317* Carrier, Roll-on Roll-off, “ Comet,” 271 Commercial, at Geneva Motor Show, 435 Commercial, Production Statistics, 85* Commercial, Use of Roads by. Investigation by Ministry of Transport on, 354 — — Compulsory Annual Inspection of lO-Year Old or More, 370*
Cross-Country, “ D.L. 4x4 Pathfinder,” for Oilfield Exploration or Desert Conditions (Douglas Equipment, Ltd.), 165*
Design, Human Limitations in, by R. A. McFarland, 82
Exports of, 86
Industry, Position and Prospects of, 79 85*, 271
Lamp Testing, 371*
Body Sections, Light-Alloy ” (Trade Publication), 90 Markets, German Domination
— — Lorry
“ Kynal
— —- Swiss
of, 435
in Switzerland, Statistics on, 295
— -—? Truck, Berliet T. 100, 435
Trucks, Chrysler Corp., “ P6 ” and “ R6 ” ITiesel Engines for (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 588
Truck, Saurer, for Transporting Iron Bars, 435
Truck, Three-Axle, Mercedes-Benz LP333 (Daimler Benz), 772*
Trucks. See also Trucks
Utility, Light, 4-Wheel Drive, “ Gipsy ” (Austin Motor Co., Ltd.), 294*
— Wagons. See Motor Vehicles; Tractors Motorists, Advanced, Institute of. First
Bulletin of, 139
— Women, Favourable Report on, 139 Motorway, London-Birmingham, Construction of, 441
— London-to-Yorkshire, Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 656
to Yorkshire, Study of Length of Viaduct over River Trent for, at Hydraulics Research Station, 46
— Preston, Road Signs for. Discussion in
Parliament on, 809
— Road Signs for, Anderson Committee on,
809
Mott, Prof. N. F., Remarks at Physical Society Exhibition,
Mouchel, L. G., and Partners, “ C ” Power Station, 729*
Moulds, Copper, at Demag Casting Plant, 293*
Moulded and Laminated Brake-Lining Materials, Determining Friction Coefficent for, by Prof. H. Wright Baker, 785*
Moulding Lines at Ford Thames Foundry, 733*
— Machines, Double-Station, for New Domes
tic Bath Plant at Bilston Foundries (Herman Pneumatic Co.), 637*
— Materials, Thermosetting, Resinated Asbes
tos “ Durestos,” Production at Hindley Green Works of Turner Brothers Asbestos Co., Ltd., 412
— Plant at Bilston Foundries New Domestic
Bath Plant, 637*
— Shell, for Precision Steel Castings (Osborn
Precision Castings, Ltd.), 830*
— See also Foundry
Mountain Building, New Theory of. Note on, 181
Mountings, Anti-Vibration, Test Rig for, 697* Mowers, Lawn, Roller Unit for Conversion to Power Operation (Ladybird Appliances, Ltd.), 320
Mowing, Hedgecutting, Digging, Hoeing and Weeding, “Gardenmaster 34” Multi- Purpose Machine for (Landmaster, Ltd.), 352*
Mowlem, J., Lloyd’s New Building, 274* “ Muir-Hill ” Heavy-Duty Diesel-Powered Hydraulically-Operated Tractor Shovel (E. Boydell and Co., Ltd.), 583*
Muirhead Gyroscopic Control Unit for Stabilising Equipment for Small Ships, 122*
“ 20 Mule Team ” Borax (Decahydrate) for Anti-Freeze Solutions (Borax Consolidated, Ltd.), 783
Mullard, Ltd., “ Ferroxcube ” Cores for Computers, 373; Measuring Equipment for 75 kMc/s, 390; High-Precision Measuring System for Machine Tool Control, 488; Sequence Control System for Transfer Machines, 488; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer, 550*; Xenon-Filled Triode Thyratron, Type XR1-6400A, of Disc-Seal Construction, 806
“ Multibrator ” Very-High-Frequency Immersion-Poker Concrete Vibrator (C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd.), 613*
“ Multiflash ” Process for Producing Fresh Water from Sea-Water (G. and J. Weir, Ltd.), 530*
“ Multiminor ” Lubricator (Centralube, Ltd.), 100*
“ Multiplex ” Signalling and Remote Control System (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 454
mu-Mesons, Fusion of Hydrogen Isotopes by, 109
Munich Air Crash, Discussion in Parliament on, 390
Municipal Workers, National Union of General and. See General under Labour Munsell System of Colour Classification, 256 Muon Catalysed Fusion of Hydrogen and Deuterium, 431 *
— in Nuclear Fusion, 430*
— See also mu-mesons
MUR6 Universal Oscillograph for MultiChannel Recording (Southern Instruments Oscillograph Division), 485*
Murad Developments, Ltd., “ OA,” “OB,” and “ OC ” Small Capstan Lathes, 168
Murdock, Dr. L. J., Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 104* , 188*
Opening of
388
Hams Hall
Continuous
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Murex, Ltd., Dishes and Crucible Forms in
Molybdenum Spinnings, 400
Muriate of Potash for Production of Concentrated Complete Fertiliser at Leith Docks Factory of Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., 506
Murray-Way Abrasive Belt Wet Grinding Machines at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills, 633*
Music, Ballet, “ Cain and Abel,” Electronic Production of, 160*
— Electronic, by H. Badings and J. W. de Bruyn, 160*
Myers, F., Ltd., Parts and Spares Service Store for Construction of London- Birmingham Motorway, 441
N.A.30 Naval Strike Aircraft (Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd.), 631*
N.A.39 Long-Range Striking Aircraft, Discussion in Parliament on (Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd.), 631*
Nairobi Technical College, Facilities at, 657 Naphtha Conversion to Motor Spirit, Platformer for, at Isle of Grain Refinery, 794* Napier, D., and Son, Ltd., Investment Castings (Trade Publication), 57; “Gazelle” Free-Turbine Engines on Turbine-Powered Helicopter Ground Rig, 61*; “Gazelle Junior” Gas-Turbine Aero-Engine, 228; Type Tests on N.EI.6 “ Eland ” Propeller- Turbine Aero-Engine, 572; 150th Anniversary and History of, 710; First Six- Cylinder Racing . .
Propeller-Turbine Engines for “ Roto- dyne ” Airliner, »»
Turbine Engine Helicopter, 751*
Narin, F., on Armour Dust Concept (ADFR), 807*
National Academy of Sciences. See Sciences, National Academy of
— Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. See
Aeronautics
~ Association of Port Employers, See Fort Employers
— Broadcasting Corp., E. P. Ward’s Visit to,
716
— Coal Board, Position and Prospects
of Coal Mining Industry, 54*; Position and Prospects of Coal Industry, 67; Coal Prices Policy, 67; Rejection of Claim for Shorter Week and Sickness Pay Scheme for Mine Workers, 107; Flywheel Locomotive for Surface Shunting, 123; Production Position and Prospects of Coal Industry, 194; Revision of Prices, 271; Pricing Coal by Size, Comment on, 322; Plea for Unemployment Measures by National Union of Mineworkers, 391; £661 Million Investment by, 423; Programme “Investing in Coal,” 423; Agreement of National Union of Mineworkers to Economy Programme of, 460; Reconstruction and Development Scheme at Manvers Main Colliery Coke-Oven Plant, 509*; Approved Expenditure for 1958, 515; Economic Problems of, 643; Views on Small Coal, 769
— College of Agricultural Engineering. See
Agricultural Engineering, National College of
— Council ol Social Service, See
Service
for Technological Awards, 193
— — of Women of Great Britain. See
under Labour
— Dock Labour Board, Manpower
Discussion in Parliament on, 272
— Electrical Manufacturers’ Association. See
Electrical Manufacturers Association
— Emergency Alarm Repeater System, 183
— Federated Electrical Association. See
Electrical Association under Labour
National Gas and Oil Engine Co., Ltd., DualFuel Engines for Oil or Gas (Trade Publication), 534; NM Horizontal and Vertical Diesel Engines (Trade Publication), 534
?— Gas Turbine Establishment. See Gas Turbine Establishment, National
?— Income and Expenditure (1952-57) Preliminary Estimates, Comment on, 450
— Industrial Fuel Efficiency Service. See
Fuel Efficiency Service
Textiles Trade Fair. See Textiles Trade Fair, National Industrial
— Institute of Medical Research. See Medical
Research, National Institute of
— Joint Industrial Council. See Joint Industrial
Council
— Physical Laboratory, Back-Pressure Turbo
Alternator for Integrated Power and Heating Scheme at (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 408; Reorganisation of, 291; Appointment of Dr. E. Lee as Deputy Director, 291; Standard Indenting Hardness Testing Machine, by R. S. Marriner and F. C. P. Mason, 339*; Work Exhibited at Open Days, 697*; Reorganisation of Electricity, Metrology and Physics Divisions, 697; Measurement of Stored Energy in Graphite Samples from Windscale Atomic Pile, Using Bomb Calorimeter, 697; Testing Effectiveness of Anti-Vibration Mountings, 697*; Work of Aerodynamics Division, 697; Wind- Tunnel Tests on Static Wind Loading on Structures, 697; Airflow in Design of Ships’ Superstructures, 697; Hypersonic Flow Studies, 697; Hypersonic Shock Tube for Studying Heat Transfer, 697*; Work of Metallurgy Division, 698*; “ Area Rule ” for Flow Past Aircraft, 698
— Products and Price Levels, Comparison of
European and United States, 280
-— Research Corp., Cross-Licensing Agreement with Leybold-Hochvakuum-Anlagen G.m.b.H., 611; E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 716 Council (Canada). See Research Council, National {Canada}
Car, 710*; “Eland”
750*;
for
" Eland ” Gas- “ Westminster ”
Fuelled Reactor
Social
Women
Usage,
National Research and Development Corp., Review of Projects of, 340; Irradiation Applicator for the Eye, 396; New Domestic Ball Valve, 768
•— Science Foundation, Survey of Research and Development by, 355
— Television System Committee, American,
Colour Television System, Adaptation for Use in Britain, 832
— Union of General and Municipal Workers.
See General under Labour
of Mineworkers. See Mineworkers under Labour
of Teachers. See Teachers Nationalisation of Coal Industry, 208
— Effect on Installation of Automatic Train
Control, 336
— in Italy, 451
— of Manufacturing Industry, 258
— of Steel Industry, Opposition to, 271
— Stewarts and Lloyds, 34
— Survey, New York Herald-Tribune, 258
— Threat to Chemical Industry, 464
— See also Re-Nationalisation
Nationalised Industries, Capital Requirements of, Discussion in Parliament on, 208
NATO. See North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Natural-Gas Firing of Boiler and Kilns at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 188*
Liquefied, Shipment of, from Gulf Coast Oilfields to United Kingdom, 241* Main, High-Pressure, over River Danube, Suspension Pipe-Bridge, 378
Search for and Exploitation of in O.E.E.C. Area, 451
Suspension Pipe-Bridge for Conveyance of, over River Danube, 49*
Use in Kuwait Brick Works, 105
— Resources, Conservation of (Book), 91
“ Nautilus” v.h.f. Transmitter/Receiver Combined Simplex-Duplex Radiotelephone Equipment on “ Mauretania,” 253
Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics
Naval Architects, Institution of :
Brittle Fracture in Welded Ships, by J. Hodgson and G. M. Boyd, 497*
Naval Architecture. See Warships
— Construction. See Warships
?— Research Laboratory, United States. See United States Naval Research Laboratory
— Shipbuilding, Discussion in Parliament on,
272
— Shore Establishments, Closing of, Comment
on, 258
Support, Re-Designing of. 111
— Warfare. See Warships
— See also Warships
“ Navarho ” Long Range Radio Navigation System, 467
Navigation, Aeronautical, Radio Aids to, by C. Williams, 466
— Aids, Radio, Long Range, Survey of, by
J. C. Farmer, 467
— Doppler, by J. E. Clegg and T. G. Thorne,
466
— Equipment, Airborne, Doppler, by G. E.
Beck and T. G. Thorne, 466
DM Raydist, 802
Low-Power, C. W. Doppler, by J. E. Clegg and J. W. Crompton, 466
— Inertial, and Radio Aids, Combination of,
by A. Stratton, 466
— Marine, Radio Aids to, by C. Williams, 466
— Systems, Inertial, “ MIG ” Gyroscope for,
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 691*
Radar, in Solent and Southampton Water, 157*
Navigational Aids at Gatwick Airport, 653* Navvy. See Excavator
Navy, British. See also Warships
— Estimates, Discussion in House of Lords
on. 111
— Merchant, Career in, Plain Words on, 674
— Royal, Government’s Policy on, 777
Revised Plans for Entry and Training under Upper Yardman Scheme of, 493
— Tear Test, 498
— United States. See United States and
Warships
— See also Naval; Warships
“NCK 304 ” Truck-Mounted 100-ft. Boom Crane (Newton Chambers and Co., Ltd.), 4*
Neal 12-ton Mobile Crane with Grab or Magnet Equipment at Steel Co. of Wales, 219
NEAR. See National Emergency Alarm Repeater System
Needham, M. V., on Nuclear Reactor Instrumentation, 527
Needle Bearings (Trade Publication), 659
Needle Bearings, Ltd., Needle Bearings (Trade Publication), 659
Negrelti, G. A., on Position and Prospects of Negretti and Zambra, Ltd., 427
Negretti and Zambra, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 427
Neill, J., and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd., “Eclipse” Magnetic Chuck, 324*
“ Nelbest DDOF/30 ” Flame-Proof Starter for Small Motors in Dangerous Sites (W. and H. Nelson, Ltd.), 741*
Nelson, Sir G., Views on Prospects of Electrical Engineering Industry, 79; Position and Prospects of English Electric Co., Ltd., 367
Nelson, W. and H,, Ltd., “ Nelbest DDOF/30 ” Flameproof Starter for Small Motors in Dangerous Sites, 741*
Neobor ” Borax (Pentahydrate), for Anti- Freeze Solutions (Borax Consolidated, Ltd.), 783
Neoprene Plant in Northern Ireland (E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co.), 770
— Properties of, 770
NERO Nuclear Reactor, 398
Netherlands, Training Courses and Research in Small-Scale Industry, 145
— Universities Foundation for International
Co-operation, Training Courses and Research on Small-Scale Industry, 145
— See also Rotterdam
Networks, Control, British Grid, Modernisation of, by P. F. Gunning and M. Kaufmann, 821
— Passive, Synthesis, by J. E. Storer (Book),
793
Neutrino Exhibit at Brussels Fair, 520
— Existence Postulated by Prof. W. Pauli, 334
— Theory, Two-Component, Consolidation
of, 650
Neutron Counter, “ TV701 FN2/I2,” for
ZETA (Solus Electronic Tubes, Ltd.), 206
— Emission in High Current Gas Discharges,
by Dr. H. A. B. Bodin, and ” Reynolds, 108
in Thermonuclear Reactions,
— for Evaluating
Research Nuclear
432
— Flux, Instruments
Nuclear Reactors, Measurement at Calder Hall 172
— Heisenberg Equation for, 334
— Interaction with Protons, Theoretical
Description of, by A. Ashmore, 649
— Production in High-Power Pinch Apparatus,
by D. C. Hagerman and J. W. Mather, 186
— —? in Linear Deuterium Pinches, by S.
A. Colgate, R. V. Pyle and others, 186 and New Confinement Phenomena in
Linear Stabilised Pinch, by L. C. Burkhardt and R. H. Lovberg, 186*
— Spectra from ZETA, Measurement of.
Note on, 776
— from Stabilised Toroidal Pinch, by J.
Honsaker, H. Karr, J. Osher, J. Phillips and J. Tuck, 186*
— Thermonuclear, Definition of, 142
Nevada Test Site, “ Rainier ” Subterranean Nuclear Explosion at, 399*
New Towns, Effect on Peak Travel Problems, 227
New Trend ” Timber Frame Bungalows (Stephenson (Huddersfield), Ltd.), 416*
— Windmill Series Paperbacks
Note on, 473 New York Bronx Zoo, Strike of Maintenance
Workers at, 784
New York Herald-Tribune, Survey on Government and Industry Relationship, 258
New York Shipbuilding Corp., “Savannah” Nuclear-Powered Merchant Ship, 459 New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science. See Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
“ Butter Dumping,” Views on, 588 Financial and Economic Troubles of, 529 Import Controls in, 81
Newage (Manchester), Ltd.,Testing Equipment for Internal Combustion Engines for College Laboratories (Trade Publication), 27
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central Library, Reading List on Management, 573
Newcomen Society, Summer Meeting in Folkestone, 818
Newman, B., on Ruston and Hornsby Centenary, 45
Newman Industries, Ltd., Single-Phase Induction Motor for Farmers, 325*; Selling Agents in United Kingdom for Hungarian Machine Tools, 770
Newnham Motor-Vehicle Lamp Testing, 371 News-Sheet, Information, of Islington Public
Libraries, Comment on, 700 Newton Chambers and Co., Ltd.,
Truck-Mounted 100-ft.
“ Redfyre Bacboiler ” Air-Feed Fire, 384 Newton, G., on Position
Effects of
Reactor as
ti
Dr. J. A.
108 Radiation, Source of.
for Measuring, in 143*
Transportable
Developments
(Heinemann),
Boom with
NCK 304 ” Crane, 4*; Underfloor
and Prospects of Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd., 681
Newton Victor, Ltd., X-Ray Fluorescence Method for Non-Contact Measurement of Thickness of Tin Coatings on Steel, 575 Newton Victor “ Orbitron ” Cobalt Therapy Unit (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 360*
Niagara Falls, Floodlights for, by T. G. Proctor and H. F. Stephenson, 230*
Illumination Board, Floodlights for Niagara Falls, 230*
Niarchos, S., Views on Future of Shipping Industry, 553
Nicholls, C. M., on Development of Butrex Process for Industrial Separation of Plutonium from Nuclear Fuels, 204*; on Nuclear Criticality—A Novel Factor in the Design and Operation of Chemical Plants, 204; on Butex Process for Industrial Separation of Plutonium from Nuclear Reactor Fuels, 236; on Nuclear Criticality in Design and Operation of Chemical Plants, 236*
Nicholls, G. H. C., on Anode and Positive, 419-420*. See LETTERS, 484, 547, 611
Nickel Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Carbonyl, Deposition of Nickel by Thermal
Decomposition of, Equipment for, 396 use in Nickel Plating, 401
— Deposition of, by Thermal Decomposition
of Nickel Carbonyl, Equipment for, 396
— Dermatitis, Discussion in Parliament on
Incidence of, 368
Nickel, E. C., Construction Co., Tunnel for Nuclear Explosions at Nevada, 399*
— Electroplating on, by Sellers and Sanborn,
730
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 21, 179
— New Process for Electro-Refining of
(International Nickel Co., of Canada, Ltd.), 536
— Over-Supply of, 617
— Plating using Nickel Carbonyl, 401
— Prices, Position and Prospects of, 21
— Supplies for Civilian Consumption.
Remarks by J. F. Thompson on, 427
Nickols Automatics, Ltd., Sequence Controller for Capstan Lathe, 765*
Nickols, L, on Model Engineering, 611 N.I.F.E.S., See Fuel Efficiency Service Nigeria, Attempts to Obtain Foreign Investment, 99
— Development Plans for, 98
Nigeria, Export Trade of, 98
— Import 'I’rade of, 98
— Investment in, 98
— Overseas Economic Survey, 98
Nigerian-Israel Construction Co., Formation of, 99
Ning-yang, Dr. Chen, Use of Work of, in Unified Field Theory, 303
Niobium, Properties of, 396
Nipkov Disc as Scanning Element, Camera with, 214*
Nitric-Acid Absorption Column, Welded Stainless-Steel, at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478* Nitrogen as Heat-Exchanger Fluid, 286*
— Liquid, Refrigerator, Portable (Union
Carbide International Co.), 197*
Nitro-Glycerine Production by Biazzi Process, Remote Control of. Use of Television in, at Ardeer Factory of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 101*
Nixon, F., on (Quality in Engineering Manufacture, 417
NM Horizontal and Vertical Diesel Engines (Trade Publication), 534
Noise, Aircraft, Discussion in Parliament on, 300
— Investigations at Mot Industries Research
Association, 772
— of Motor Cycles, Discussion in Parliament
on, 240
— in Residential Areas, Comment on, 560
— Suppressors on “ Avon ” Jet Engines for
“ Comet 4 ” Airliner (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 555*
“ Nomad ” Compound Engine, Power Dividing Transmission for, 123
Nomograms, Mechanism-Efficiency, by R. H. Macmillan, 378*
Non-Conducting Coverings. See Heat Insulation
— Corrosive Metal Products, Ltd., Boiler
Furnace Inspection Platform at Wakefield B Power Station, 169*
— Destructive Testing, Radioactive Isotopes
as Sources of (jamma Radiation in, 444*
Testing Techniques of Vickers-Arm- strongs (Aircraft), Ltd., 782*
— Durable Goods, Sales in United States, 745* Goods, United States, Inventories for,
746*
— Ferrous Castings, Quality Control in,
Metallurgical Aspects of (Book), 347 Metals. See Metals: Metallurgy Noral “ Industrial ” Corrugated Aluminium- Alloy Sheets for Ships’ Awnings (Trade Publication), 27
?— Plate, Argonaut Welding of, at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 411
Nordhagen, Dr. R., Work on Cold Fusion, 109; on " ”,
Catalysed Fusion of Hydrogen and Deuterium, 431 *
Norgren, G. A., Micro-Fog Lubricator Mist Generator for Diesel Engine Injection, 30 Normalair, Ltd., Into Thin Air, by Dr. E. W. Still, Note on, 535
“ Normandie ” French Ironclad Warship, Centenary of, 17
Norris, N. D., on Organisation for Large- Scale Grid System Tests, 404
North America, Engineers’ Council for Professional Development, Activities of, 267 “ Local-Service Viscount ” Airliner for Local-Service Operation on (Vickers- Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 253
North American Aviation, Inc., Propulsion Equipment for “ Atlas ” Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, 298*; “ Hydyne ”
Rocket Propellent, 331
— Atlantic Council Co-operation on Military
Research in, 624
Treaty Organisation, Embargo Regulations of Communist Trade Committee of, 418; Nomination of Sir S. Zuckerman on Science Council, 175; British Government’s Support for Scientific and Technical Education, 175
North British Locomotive Co., Ltd., “ Active ” 2,000 h.p. Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive for Western Region, 316*; Position and Prospects of 617
— East Coast Institution of Engineers and
Shipbuilders. See Engineers and Shipbuilders
North, J. Dudley, on Aircraft Industry, 594
— of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. See
Scotland, North of, Hydro-Electric Board
— Thames Gas Board Installation at Romford,
Use of Oil-Refinery Gases from Shellhaven, 222*; Liquefied Gas for, 241 *
— Western Gas Board, Partington Gas Works
for Gas Production from Grade Coal, 326
Northcliffe Newspaper Group,
Provinces (Market Report), Northern Aluminium Co.,
“ Industrial ” Corrugated
Alloy Sheets for Ships’ Awnings (Trade Publication), 27; High-Tensile Aluminium Alloys for “ Cilobemaster Minibeam ” Aerial, 64*; Differential Annealing of Aluminium Drawn Containers.
Shallow-Troughed Aluminium corrugated Sheeting, 179; Extra-Wide Aluminium Plate, 281*; Expansion Plans, 395; New Plant at Rogerstone for Production of Larger and Tnicker Plates in Aluminium and Alloys, 410*; Aluminium Cladding for Recessed Sliding Doors of Wing Hanger at London Airport, 665*
— Ireland Development Council, Campaign
to Attract Industry to Northern Ireland, 395
Factory Project of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., for Spinning of Terylene Polyester Fibre, 395
Factory Project of Tolimit Gauges, Ltd., in, 395
Unemployment in, 336, 361, 395, 560, 616
Gamma-Rays from Muon
Oil or Low-
Scanning the
790
Ltd., Noral Aluminium-
for Strengthening Deep-
149*; Thin-Gauge
34
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Northern Ireland, Unemployment statistics, 395
Northern States Power Co., Contract with United States Atomic Energy Commission for Nuclear Power Plant, 16
Northfield, H. J., on Electromagnetic Pumps, 452
Norway, Offer to International Atomic Energy Agency, 238
— Shortage of Engineers and Scientists in,
146
Norwegian Institute for Atomic Energy, Boiling-Water Reactor Project, 76
Notices of Meetings, 12, 40, 78, 112, 138, 202, 234, 266, 319, 351, 383, 415, 479, 511, 537, 565, 583, 636, 671, 729, 754, 797
Noughts and Crosses, Tlieory of, 369
Nozzle, Blowing, Slotted, for Transonic Tests at High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 468*
N.R.C. Equipment Corp., Cross-Licensing Agreement with Leybold-Hochvakuum- Anlagen, G.m.b.H., 611
NRU Nuclear ~ _ . . ..
44
NRX Nuclear Gibb, 527 NTR Nuclear
Laboratory of General Electric Co., 590 NTR Pressurised Light-Water Nuclear Reactor Research Project of General Electric Co. at Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory, 77 NTSC. See National Television System Committee
Nuclear Boilers, Extended Heat Exchange Surface for, by R. E. Zoller, 286
— Conference for Fringe Industries, 110
— Congress (Italy), 1958, Preliminary Notice,
270
—- Criticality—A Novel Factor in the Design and Operation of Chemical Plants, by C. M. Nicholls and A. H. C. P. Gillieson, 204
• in Design and Operation of Chemical
Plants, by C. M. Nicholls, and A. H. C. P. Gillieson, 236*
— Detonations for Peaceful Purposes, Project
Plowshare on, 399
— Development, Industrial Implication for
Management, Conference on (Eastbourne), 459
— Dilemma, Comment on, 449
•— Energy Agency, European, Progress, Organisation and Activities of, 76; Formal Establishment of, 206; Training Courses on Nuclear Energy, 749
American Papers on, 174
Application to Power Production, by T. R. Puzey, 270
170,
447,
699,
Reactor, Criticality Obtained,
Reactor Accident by Sir C.
Reactor at Vallecitos Atomic
Nuclear Energy Conference, British:
Symposium on Nuclear Energy:
Development of the Butex Process for Industrial Separation of Plutonium from Nuclear Reactor Fuels, by C. M. Nicholls, 204, 236
Fission Product Disposal, by K. Sadding- ton, 204, 236
Nuclear Criticality—A Novel Factor in the Design and Operation of Chemical Plants, by C. M. Nicholls and A. H. C. P. Gillieson, 204, 236
Fuel Processing in Homogeneous Aqueous Reactors, by 1. Wells and E. Lofthouse, 204, 236
Computation of th'’ Performance of a Multi-component Solvent Extraction System. The Separation of Uranium and Plutonium from Fission Products by Tributyl Phosphate, by J. T. Wood and J. A. Williams, 204, 236
The Marcoule Plutonium Plant, by R. Galley, 204, 236
Summary of Papers, by G. W. K. Ford, 236
Nuclear Energy, Conference of Federation of British Industries (Eastbourne), 525; Forecast of Nuclear Power Plant Exports, by J. R. Cuthbertson and J. Broderick, 529
— ?— for Electricity Supply in Great Britain,
Development of, by Sir C. Hinton, 808* Environmental Hazard of. Assessment of, by G. B. Courtier, 366
Exhibits at Brussels Fair, 174, 487
Exhibits at Physical Society Exhibition, 396*
Financial and Investment Aspects of. Including Home and Overseas Markets, by J. R. Cuthbertson and J. Broderick, 527. See also 529
? by Fusion, Costs of, 142
Future of. Symposium on, 14
Industrial Challenge of: Research, Uses, Social Problems (Report of Conference on), 366
Peaceful Uses of, Hazards of, by Sir E. Rock Carling, 366
Plants, Tubing for (Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 396*
Power of the Future, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 650
Programme of West Germany, 16 Public-Health Considerations in, by Dr. W. H. P. Minto, 366
Research wealth, 233
Research Engaged in,
Safety in, 366
—? — Symposium on, 204*, 236*
Training Courses on, 749 for Water Distillation, Cost of, 674 and World’s Fuel and Power Requirements, by E. F. Schumacher, 527
— Engineering Alloys, Equilibrium Diagrams
of, 458
Blackwell’s Catalogue of Books on, 659 Calculations, “ Pegasus ” Digital Computer for, use of by Nuclear Power Plant Co., Ltd., 254
Course, Liverpool University, 174
Co-operation in Common-
and Production, Groups 619*
Nuclear Engineering, Ltd., Pentatron System for Remote Operation of Radioactive Isotopes, 444*; Radiographic Equipment, 444*
and Science Conference of American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Chicago), 775; Details of Yankee Atomic Electric Plant, 807*; Armour Dust Fuelled Reactor Concept (ADFR), by D. Krucoff and F. Narin, 807*; Evaporatively Cooled Reactor (ECR), by W. G. Camack and G. Leppert, 808*; American Commercial Nuclear Power Station Development, by G. H. Farbman, 808
— Era, Defence Policy in. Problem of Responsibility for Decisions on, 642
— Exhibition at Glasgow, 110
— Explosion, Subterranean, “ Rainier,” at Nevada Test Site, 399*
— Fission and Fusion, Second Thoughts on,
238
Product Detection System, 143*
Product Disposal, by K. Saddington, 294, 236*
Products, Separation of Uranium and Plutonium from, by Tributyl Phosphate, by J. T. Wood and J. A. Williams, 204, 236
— Fuels, by L. M. Wyatt, 648
Alternatives to Deuterium, 109
Arrangement in Shippingport Nuclear Power Station, 683*
— ?— Canning, Extended Surfaces for, 396* Ceramic, Experiments on, 42
Ceramic, for Gas-Cooled Reactors, 41* Charging and Discharging from Below at Hunterston Nuclear Power Station, 365
Dusts for ADFR Nuclear Reactor, 807* ?—? — Elements, Cluster, by Sir C. Hinton, 808* Element (Zosts in A(jR Nuclear Reactor, 398
Elements, Fabrication and Processing of, by C. Buck, 526
Elements, High-Pressure Water Loop Equipment for Testing (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 302*
Element Life, Factors Influencing, 398 Element, Magnox Brace for, at Calder Hall, 172*
Element Support for Calder Hall No. 1 Reactor, 172*
Elements, Temperature Gradient in. Effect of Cluster on, 808*
Fluid. Prospects of, 649
? Industrial Separation of Plutonium from,
Butex Process for, by C. M. Nicholls, 204, 236
Oxides as, 648
?—? — Processing in Homogeneous Aqueous Reactors, by 1. Wells and E. Lofthouse, 204, 236
Processing, Review of Papers on, by G. W. K. Ford, 204
— ?— Reprocessing, by C. G. Manly, 495 Rod, Fire of, at Chalk River, 749 Sample Testing Programme for HIFAR,
42
See also under specific fuels
— Fusion, Cold, Catalysed Fusion
on Basis of, 430*
Cold, Work on, at Liverpool sity, 109
Costs of, 142 Criteria for, 108 and Fission, Second Thoughts
? Muon-Catalysed,
Deuterium, 431 *
? Power, by Dr. A. Gibson, 649
Reaction, United States Approaches to, 43
Reaction, Use of Shock Waves, 43 Second Thoughts on, 238 See also Thermonuclear Nuclear Graphite Ltd., Nuclear-Energy Activities, 619*
— Industry, 1957, American Papers on, 174
— Magnetic Resonance Spectrometer (Fairey
Aviation Co., Ltd.), 550
Resonance Spectrometer (Mullard, Ltd.), 550*
— Particles, Heisenberg Equation for, 334
— Physics, High Energy, Eighth Annual
Conference on (Geneva), 77
Theoretical, by A. Ashmore, 649
— Plant using Beryllium-Canning for
scale Atomic Energy Station, 365
— Power, Achievements, Discussion in
ment on. 208
Consortia, British, 618* Costs, by Sir C. Hinton, 398 Development, by Sir C. Developments Overseas —? ?— Engineering, Course in,
Exhibits, American, at
520* Exhibits, Russian, at Brussels Fair, 520* Fission and Fusion, Comment on, 225 Further Developments in, by Sir J.
Cockcroft, Preliminary Notice, 334 • Groups in Aircraft Industry, 595
Industry, Underloading Probable in, 365
? Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Activities
in, 579
Plant at Chapel Cross, 174 Plant, Circulating Fuel-Type Package
Homogeneous Nuclear Reactor for, 303 Nuclear Power Plant Co., Ltd., “Pegasus” Digital Computer for Nuclear Engineering Calculations at, 254; Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 399; Model of Nuclear Power Station at Brussels Fair, 487; Constitution and Activities of, 618*; Collaboration with AGIP Nuclear in Construction of Nuclear Power Stations in Italy, 619; Design and Construction of Nuclear-Powered Ships, 620 ?— •— Plant, Electricity Generated by. Cost of, 630*
Plants, Exports Forecast, 529, 385
? Plant for Flying Boat, 269*
Plant, Gas-Cooled, Heavy-Water, Proposal for, by East Central Nuclear Group and Florida West Coast Nuclear Group .H
Nuclear Power Plant for Marine Propulsion (Mitchell Engineering, Ltd.), 399
Plant, 5 MW, at General Electric Co., Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory, 77*
Plant for Jet Transport Aircraft, 269* Plant for Remote Location and Long
Operation (Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology), 432
Plant, Site at Carew Cheriton for, 174 Plant, United States Atomic Energy
Commission Contract with Northern States Power Co., for, 16
Plant Utilising High-Temperature Gas-
Cooled Power Pile as Energy Source, 302 Postgraduate Course at Imperial College
(London), by Prof. J. M. Kay, 394*, 579-580, See LETTER, 483. See also 399 Programme, Cuts in, 385 Programme, Delay in, 650 Programme, Further Development
by Sir J. Cockcroft, 397
Programme, Position and Prospects
55, 365
Some Applications of, 301
— ?—-Some Applications of, by Prof. A.
Baxter and G. E. Preece, 268*
of,
of,
D.
Reactor
Univer-
on, 238
of Hydrogen and
Wind-
Parlia-
270
Hinton,
(Circular), 573 at Bristol, 808 Brussels Fair,
— ?—? Station of Atomic Power Construction,
Ltd., 399*
Station, Berkeley, Heat Exchanger for (John Thompson, Ltd.), 527*
Station, IJradwell, Carbon Dioxide Filters for (Mancuna Engineering, Ltd.), 110
? Station, Bradwell, Progress at, 399 Station, Bradwell, “ Goliath ” Heavy Duty Crane at Site of, 439*
Station, Bradwell, Heat Exchangers for (Head Wrightson and Co., Ltd.), 495 Station, Bradwell, Design and Construction of Heat Exchangers for, 718*
Station, Bradwell, Transport of Heat Exchanger by Sea, 717*
Station, Calder Hall “ A ” Commissioning and Operation of, by H. G. Davey, 172*
Station, Calder Hall, Design of Heat Exchanger for, 286
Station, Calder Hall, Third Reactor Critical, 365
Station, Chapel Cross, Bulk Storage of Liquid Carbon Dioxide at, 749
Station, Chapel Cross, Equipment and Contractors for, 749
Station, Construction and Operating Costs, 527
Stations, Design and Development Problems, 385
Station, Dresden, Description of Reactor for, 775*; Containment Sphere, 775*; Construction, 775*; Self-Regulation and Control, 776; Site Plan, 776*
Station, Dungeness, Site Selected for, 776; Proposed Output of, 776
— — Stations, Exports and Home Planning of, 365
Stations, in France, Proposed, 366 Station, Germany, Tentative Order for 270
Station, Hinkley Point, Glandless Circulating Pumps for Heat Exchanger Circuits of (Hayward Tyler), 270
Station, Hinkley Point, Design of Heat Exchangers for, 286
Station, Hinkley Point, Summary of Design Data for, 332*
Station at Hinkley Point, Model at Brussels Fair, 487
Station, Hunterston, Burst-Slug-Detection Installation for (Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 77
Station, Hunterston, Feed Pumps for (G. and J, Weir, Ltd.), 270
Station, Hunterston, Research Relating to, by General Electrical Co., Ltd., 364*
Stations, Increased Output of, 365, 397 Stations. India, Projects for, 270
Stations in Italy, Collaboration between Nuclear Power Plant Co.. Ltd., and AGIP Nucleare in Construction of, 619
Stations, Italy, Plans for, 619
Station, 200 MW, for Italy, Proposed, 619
Station, Japan, Tenders Invited for, 270 Stations, 5-25 MW (Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., and J. L. Kier and Co., Ltd.), 41
Stations, Models of, at Brussels Fair. 487 Station, Model of, at Brussels Fair (Nuclear Power Plant Co.), 487
Station, 400 MW, Model of, at Brussels Fair, 521*
Stations, Plutonium from Purposes, 808*
Station, Public Inquiry on Central Electricity Genera i Build in North Wales, 23 ;
for Defence
Proposal by
?> rr
Board to
Station, Shippingport. See port.
Stations, Siting of, 172, 173 Station, Suffolk, Discussion
ment on Site for, 368
Shipping-
in Parlia-
Station, Trawsfynydd, Decision Awaited on, 399
Station at TrawsfynydJ, Propoials for, 365, 490*
Stations in United States, Development of, 808
Undergraduate Training in, by N. S. Grassam, 483. See LETTER, 579
Units, “ Packaged,” 526 for Wales, Proposals for, 490*
— Powered Aircraft, 268* Cargo Ships, Submarine. Discussion in
Parliament on, 591
— — Freighter Vessel, German, 459 Merchant Ship, “ Savannah,” 459 Missiles, Turbojet and Ram-Jet Systems
for, 269*
Ships, Anglo-American Exchanges on, 459 Ship, British, Note on, 366
Ships, Design and Construction of, by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, and Nuclear Power Plant Co., 620
?— — Ships, Economics of, H. Macmillan, 748 Ships, Safety of. Discussion in Parliament on, 524
Nuclear Powered Submarine. See Warships- Tanker in United States, Contracts for Conversion, 459
— Propulsion of Atmospheric and Space
Vehicles, Research on, 399
Marine Applications, 270* Marine, Position and Prospects of, 85 Position and Prospects of, by Dr. J. V. Dunworth, 14
See also Marine Propulsion; Warships
— Radiation Damage to Electronic Com
ponents, by E. H. Cooke-Yarborough, 142 Uses of, by Prof. A. Charlesby, 648
— Reactor, ADFR Project, Dust Fuelled, 807* AGR, Fuel Costs in, 398
AGR, Progress of, 398 in Aircraft Propulsion, 268* APPR, Fuels for, 649 BEPO, Wigner Release in, 366, 399* Boiling-Water, Scope of, 14 Breeder, Flattened Core V5. Uniformly Loaded Core for, 303
Breeder, Two-Zone Aqueous Homogeneous, at Atomic Energy P esearch Establishment (Harwell), 237*
Breeding Systems Based on T lorium- Uranium 233 Cycle, 42
Burn-Up in. Definition of, 629
BWR, Project of Norwegian Institute for Atomic Energy, 76
Calder Hall No. I, of “A ’ Station, Commissioning and Operation of, 172 Catalysed Fusion, by A. Ashmore, 430
— — Chalk River, Fire of Uranium Fuel Rod
at, 749
Closed-Circuit Television in. Lighting Fittings for use with (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 805
with Closed-Cycle Gas Turbines, 41* Closed-Cycle, Gas-Turbine Plant for Marine Propulsion or Power Generation, 270*
Control and Instrumentation of. Course at Harwell Reactor School, 749
Core Design and Cooling in Aircraft, 269*
— -— Core, Flattened V5. Uniformly Loaded,
303
— — Core, Wire-Cloth, 303
Course at Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Harwell), 495
Data Service of G. C. Dewey and Co., Inc., 16
Design Trends, 398 Development, Metallurgy in, by
Gibb, 526 Development Projects in United 808
DIDO, 398 DIDO, High-Pressure Water
Sir C.
States
Loop Equipment for Testing Fuel Elements in (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 302*
for Distillation of Sea-Water, by 1. Vilentchuk, and N. Arad, 628*
Diverging, Control of, 143
DMTR. See Dounreay Materials Testing Reactor
Dresden. See Dresden
Dual-Cycle Boiling-Water, for Dresden Nuclear Power Station, 775*
Earthquake-Resistant, 270
EBWR, at Argonne National Laboratory, Increased Power from 650
EBWR, Operating Experience, 143
Economics of, 526
ECR, 808*
— ?— EDF 1, for France, Proposed, 366 EDF 2, for France Proposed, 366
EFFBR, Vessel for. Description of, 718*
— ?— EL3, at Centre d’Etudes Nucleaires,
France, 399
ETR (AEC), Full Power Operation of, 748
Evaporatively Cooled, 808*
— ?— Exporting, Position and Prospects of, by
J. A. Jukes, 15
Fast Breeder, Dounreay, Progress of, 206
— ?— Fast-Breeder, Scope of, 14
Fast Breeder, Wire Cloth Core for, Proposal for, 303
Fission and Fusion, Comment on, 225
Flexible Plastic, Design for, 303
Fuels for. See Nuclear Fuels
Fuel Recovery and Reprocessing, 495 Gas-Cooled, Cadmium in, 302
Gas-Cooled, using Ceramic Fuels, 41* Gas-Cooled, Design of Heat Exchangers for, 286
Gas-cooled, Development of, 301 *
— — Gas-Cooled Graphite-Moderated,
velopment on, 398
Gas-Cooled, Graphite-Moderated, Italy, Proposed, 619
Gas-Cooled, Graphite-Moderated tural-Uranium, Scope of, 14
Gas-Cooled, Heavy-Water Moderated, Position and Prospects of, 398
Gas-Cooled, High-Temperature, Investigation by Australian Atomic Energy Commission, 41
Gas-Cooled, Temperature Coefficient of, 302
Graphite-Moderated, for Centre d’Etudes pour les Applications de I’Energie Nucleaire, 590*
Graphite Moderators for, Wigner Effect in Design of, by Dr. P. J. Grant, 120*
Graphite Superheating, Design Study of, 302
HAR, Project at Winfrith Heath, 76 Heavy-Water-Moderated, Gas-Cooled, Proposed by East Central-Florida West Coast Group, H
Heavy-Water Moderated, HIFAR, Description of, 558*
HIFAR, Description of, 558*
HIFAR, Divergency Test for, 558
HIFAR, Operation Commenced, 558* High-Temperature, Studies on, 41* Homogeneous Aqueous, Fuel Processing in, by I. Wells and E. Lofthouse, 204, 236
Homogeneous, Circulating Fuel-Type Package, Preliminary Design for 10 MW Nuclear Power Plant, 303
De-
for
Na-
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Nuclear Reactor, Homogeneous, Cooling- Tower for. Preliminary Design, 303
Homogeneous, Proposed, for Pennsylvania Power and Light Co., 366
HRE-2, Description of Project, 143
• HRE-2, Operation Commenced, 143
HTGC, for Atomic Energy Establishment (Winfrith Heath) (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 302
• HTGC, at Winfrith Heath, 365
? Hunterston, Fuel Charging and Dis
charging from Below, 365
? India, Projects for, 270
Inspection Legislation, 238
Instrumentation in, by G. W. McKeith and A. Gray, 143*
Instrumentation, by M. V. Needham, 527 Insurance of, 238, 334
—? —? Insurance of. Conferences on, 303 Licensing Legislation, 238 Liquid-Metal-Fuel Systems, 332 Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Inspection of, 579
LMFR, Sodium Loop for Research on, 589*
LMFRE, for United States Atomic Energy Commission (Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd.), 302
Loop Tests on, 301 *
— — LTR, Comparison with Shippingport Nuclear Reactor for Sea-Water Distillation, 628*
Materials, New, by L. Grainger, 526 Materials-Testing, Dounreay. See Dounreay
for Merchant Ships, Committee for Study of in Germany, 459
MGCR, Contract for (General Dynamics Corp.), 174
Model at Atomic Energy Division of General Electric Co., Ltd., 365*
Models of, at Brussels Fair, 521*
3 MW Open Pool, for Spain (General Electric Co.), 77
Natural-Uranium Gas-Cooled Graphite- Moderated, for France, Proposed, 366 NERO, 398
NRU, Criticality Obtained, 44
NRX, Accident, by Sir C. Gibb, 527 NTR, at Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory of General Electric Co., 590
Operation by Rolls-Royce, Ltd., 173 Organic-Liquid Moderated, Scope of, 14 ORR, in Operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 590
Physics Division at Battelle Institute, 303 Pressure Vessels, Agreement between Atomic Power Constructions, Ltd., and Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., for, 684
— — Pressurised-Water, Fuels for, 649 Pressurised-Water, Operating Essentials
and Restrictions of, by R. L. Witzke and A. R. Jones, 172
Pressurised-Water, Scope of, 14
? Pressurised-Water, for Yankee Atomic Electric Plant, 807*
Progress, Conference on (Harwell), 206 R 1, for Swedish Atomic Research Station (Studsvik), Work on, 589
R-2, for Sweden, 749
R 2, for Swedish Atomic Research
Station (Studsvik), Work on, 589*
Research at General Electric Co., 365 Research, Heavy-Water Cooled and Moderated, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 590
? Research, NTR Pressurised Light-Water
Project of General Electric Co. at Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory, 77
Research, as Source of Neutrons and Gamma-Rays for Evaluating Effects of Radiation, 432
RO, for Swedish Atomic Research Station (Studsvik), Work on, 589
for Ship Propulsion, Position and Prospects of, 85
Shippingport, Comparison with LTR Nuclear Reactor for Sea-Water Distillation, 628*
Shippingport, Inauguration, Costs and Description of, 682*; Design Philosophy, 682*; Fuel Arrangement, 683*; Thermal Design, 683*; Steam System, 683* Safety Precautions, 683; Radiation Reporting Methods, 684*; Chemistry of, 684; Radioactive Waste Disposal, 684
Superheater, Proposed, 303
? System, Development of a, 301 *
System, Development of. Remarks on, by Sir E. Plowden, 525
System, LMFR, 302*
Systems, Review of Types, by Dr. D. J. Littler, 525
Technology, by Prof. J. M. Kay, 14
?— — Technology, Quarterly Review of United
States Atomic Energy Commission, 334 Thermonuclear, See Thermonuclear Training, at Brussels Fair, 521
— — United States, 77*
VHT, Gas-Turbine Regenerator Design for, by Dr. P. Fortescue and D. V. Wordsworth, 284*
Water-cooled, Corrosion and Wear Handbook for, by D. J. DePaul (Book) 823
See also Thermonuclear Reactor
See also ZETA
?— Research Centre, Community, of Euratom, 76
European Organisation for, Appointment of Dr. H. W. Melville and Sir J. Cockcroft as United Kingdom Delegates to, 16; United Kingdom Financial Contribution to, 16; Staff Recruitment for, 16; Election of Officers, 76; Progress on Accelerators, 76; Eighth Annual Conference on High Energy Nuclear Physics (Geneva), 76; Conference on High-Energy Physics, Preliminary Notice, 432
Institute, Joint (Dubna), Studies on
10 GeV Proton Synchrotron, 43*
Laboratory of C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 399
Nuclear Review Newsletter, Note on, 730
— Rocket, 269*
— Science, National Institute for Research in.
Proton Synchrotron for Rutherford Laboratory, 42*
Research in. National Institute for. Epoxy Resin Vacuum Tank for 7 GeV Proton Synchrotron for, 776
—? — and Technology, Glossary of Terms in. Note on, 119
— Scientists, Negotiations for Salary Increases
304
— Training Centre, Baghdad, Activities of, 238
Centre, Baghdad Pact, Appointment of
H. A. C. McKay as Director of, 238
— Weapon Bearing Aircraft, Discussion in
Parliament on, 423
Comment on Dilemma of, 449
• Tests, Qbservation Programme for, 749
— See also Atomic
Nucleons, Interaction of. Theoretical Description of, by A. Ashmore, 649
Nucleonics, Applied, Course in, at Queen Mary College, 270
N.U.F.F.I.C. See Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Co-operation
Nuffield, Viscount, Paper “Technical Education for Production Engineers,” by Lord Hives, Comment on, 193
Nukleonik, German Scientific Journal, New, 620
Numbering of Pages, Note on Qmission of, 119 Numerical Automation, Computers and, by Dr. A. D. Booth, 684
Nut, Press, for Sheet Metal, “ Rosan ” (Instrument Screw Co., Ltd.), 580*
— Runner, Modification of “ Aro-Broomwade ” Pneumatic Drills as (Broom and Wade, Ltd.), 168
Nutting, A. R. S., on Position and Prospects of Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., 137
Nylon Buyers’ Guide (Trade Publication), 730
— Hangar or Shelter, Portable (Airborne
Service Equipment, Ltd.), 167*

Q-RINGS, Pressure Sealing by, by J. R. Fawcett, 314*. See LETTER, 388*
“ OA ” Small Capstan Lathes (Murad Developments, Ltd.) 168
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORR Nuclear Reactor in Operation, 590; “ DCX ”
Thermonuclear Research Project, 618 School of Reactor Technology, Nuclear Power Plant for Remote Location and Long Operation, 432
— Street Bridge, Vancouver, Opening of, 48
“ OB ” Small Capstan Lathes (Murad Developments, Ltd.), 168

Obituary - See Engineering 1958 Jan-Jun: Index: Obituaries

“ OC ” Small Capstan Lathes (Murad Developments, Ltd.), 168
Occupational Mortality, Comment on Statistics on,361
O.E.E.C., See Organisation for European Economic Co-operation
Oerlikon Ltd., Electrical Equipment for Flywheel Locomotive, for Surface Shunting, 123
Office, Electronics in: Practical Application of Electronic Computers and Data Processing Machines to Clerical Work (Book), 823
— Executives, Courses for, 176
— Machinery Industry, Position and Prospects of, 115, 647
Office Management Association, Ltd., Report on Quality Control in Office, 674; Electronicsin the Office: Application of Electronic Computers and Data Processing Machines to Clerical Work (Book), 823
— Quality Control in. Report on, 674
?— Workers in Germany, Salaries of, 195 Study of, 176
Officers’ Association, Course for Employment in Electrical Engineering Industry, 560
— Ex-, Entry to Civil Service without Exanunation, 651
— Two-Year Course for Employment in
Electrical Industry, 560
Offset-Litho Plates, Photo-Projector for (Grant Production Co.), 147
Oil Burners, Automatic Pressure-Jet (Hope’s Heating and Engineering, Ltd.), 96*
on Shell-Type Boilers, Automatic Regulation of, Photo-Transistor Pressure Controller for (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial), Ltd.), 551
— Burning Conversions in Industry, Discus
sion in Parliament on, 423
— Concessions of Ente Nazionale Indrocar-
buri, 111
— Crude, Distillation Unit at Isle of Grain
Refinery, 794*
Gasification of, by Hydrogenation Solihull Research Station, 534*
Search for and Exploitation of
Q.E.E.C. Area, 451
Underground Thermal Cracking of. Research on, at Royal Dutch Shell Laboratories, 771
— Diesel, Fumes from. Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 300
— Distillate, Pressure Gasification of, at
Solihull Research Station, 534
— Drums, Arrester Gate Rack for (Chevron
Structural Units Ltd.), 519
Oil E ngines. See Engines, Oil; Motor Cars; Motor Boats; Tractors
— Europe’s Need for. Report by Oil Commit
tee of Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, 131
?— Field Exploration, “ D.L. 4x4 Pathfinder ” Cross-Country Vehicle for (Douglas Equipment, Ltd.), 165*
— Fired Boilers, La Mont, Paignton Valve
Factory of Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., 349
Boilers, at Tilbury Power Station, 792 ?—? Firing, Conversion of Reheating Furnaces to (Spear and Jackson, Ltd.), 581
— Fuel, Additive, “ Amber SSR 511” (Amber
Chemical Co., Ltd.), 761
Consumption by Marine Steam-Turbine Machinery, 28
Diesel, Additive, “Amber SSR 513” (Amber Chemical Co., Ltd.), 761
— Gas Production from, Partington Gas
Works for, 326
-— Guns, Twin Pump, Reilang (Trade Publication), 730
— Heavy, Gasification of, by Hydrogenation
at Solihull Research Station, 534*
— Hydraulic Control of Back-Pressure Steam
Turbines (VEB Turbinenfabrik), 606* Instrument for Measuring Air Content of (F. W. Baggett and Co., Ltd.), 59
•— Imports in British Ships, Statistics on, 591
— Industry, Canada, Development of, 802
•— — Engineering Progress and, by G. Sell (Book), 91
Market Situation of, 271
Position and Prospects of, 111, 584, 711
— Investments in Sicily, 35
?— Lubricating, Production at Isle of Grain Refinery, 795*
? Selling of. Cartoons on, 81
— Mist Coolant (Trade Publication), 309
?— Motors. See Engines, Oil; Motor Vehicles; Motor Boats; Tractors
?— Output Statistics, 111
— Pipeline. See Pipeline, Oil
— Plant and Equipment Industry, Position and
Prospects of, 55
— Prices, Decline in, 546
?— Refinery, Capacity Expansion in Europe, 233
Gases from Shellhaven, Use of, in North Thames Gas Board Installation at Romford, 222*
Isle of Grain, Expansion of British Petroleum Co., Ltd., at, 350*; of British Petroleum Co., Ltd., Plant Expansion and Description of Processes at, 794*
— Removal of Wax from, at Isle of Grain
Refinery, 795*
— Resonance in Bearings, by Dr. F. Orbeck,
343*
— Seals, Sale of, in United States, by Burton
wood Engineering 147
— Space Heater, “ Pagoda ” (F. and T. Leat,
Ltd.), 320
— Storage and Distribution Installation, Cen
tral Monitoring and Control System for (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 551
— Switches. See Switchgear
— and Synthetic High Polymer Materials,
Composite Insulation of. Contribution to Development of Power Cables for High and Extra High Voltages with, by J. C. de Vos and J. Vermeer, 822
— Tankers, Building Position and Prospects,
46
?— — Caltex, Aluminium Water Tanks for (Windshields of Worcester, Ltd.), 645
Clyde Graving Dock for, 130
under Construction, Statistics on, 706 Construction in United Kingdom, 84* Fractures in Riveted and Welded, 497 ? “ Janko,” Fracture of, 497
Jetties at Isle of Grain Refinery, 796* Large, Berthing Plans for, 85
Large, Comment on Policy of, 85 Nuclear-Powered, in United States, Contracts for Conversion, 459
Qrders, British Petroleum, Co., Ltd.,85
?—? — “ Qsthav,” Fracture of, 497
Policy, Discussion in Parliament on, 591 Steam Turbine Propulsion Machinery for, 28
Submarine, Nuclear-Powered, Investigations into, by Gel Tankers, 85
Submarine, Nuclear-Powered, Model Tests on Underwater Hull Forms for, 470*
Submarine, Position and Prospects of, 85 Submarine,Nuclear-Powered, Preliminary
Study of, by Gel Tankers, 16
? Underwater, 67. See also Vol 184
Washings, Disposal at Isle of Grain Refinery, 796
— Terminal at Puerto Miranda, Qrders for
Electrical Equipment for, 755
— Tractors. See Tractors
— Transformer, Mobile Plant for Conditioning
of (Manchester Oil Refinery, Ltd.), 5*
?— See also Lubrication; Petroleum; Refinery Oilfield, Canadian, Cinema Film “ Put this in Your Pipe ” on Laying of Aluminium Water Pipes on (Aluminium Co. of Canada Ltd.), 401
— Communications in. Improvement of, 482
— of Europe, Position and Prospects of, 451
“ Oiling the Wheels of Industry,” Cartoons by Peter Kneebone, 81
Oilwell Drilling Fluid in Venezuelan Oil Fields, Tanks for Transporting (Bristowes Machinery, Ltd.), 581 *
Old Age, Mental Health in. Problems of, by Prof. M. Roth, 816
Old, C. L., on Vickers Scholarship, 292
Older Workers, Industrial Training for, by D. G. Entwisle, 707
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., Boron-Con- taining Rocket Propellants, 264
“ Olympus ” Turbojet Aero-Engines, Manufacture Problems (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 604
“ Omega ” Radio Navigation System, 467 Omnibus, Motor. See Motor Omnibus
Onia-Gegi Catalytic Process for Transformation of Liquid Methane into Gas, 242
Operation of Transforming Plant for Oil-Refinery Gas at Romford, 222
Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Commission, Power Cables with Water Cooling, 30
Open-Hearth Furnace. See Furnace
Operating Theatre Suites, Hospital Building Bulletin on (Review), 308*
Operation and Maintenance Training for Africans, by A. AIbu, 657*
Operational Research, Theory of Games as Tool for, by Dr. S. Vajda, 369*
Operator Training in Screw Division of Guest Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands), Ltd., by E. D. Simmons, 753*
Opitz, Prof. H., on Performance Testing of Machine Tools, 542
Opperman Gears (Holdings), Position and Prospects of, 743
Optical Alignment Survey of Pressure Vessel for EFFBR Nuclear Reactor, 719*
— Calculations for Sir Howard Grubb Parsons,
Ltd., “Pegasus” Digital Computer for, 254
?— Components in Arsenic Trisulphide (Barr and Stroud, Ltd.), 400
— Exhibit, High-Precision, in Hungarian
Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522
— Projector in Interchangeable-Head Machine
(F. Deckel), 742*
Orange Free State, Plant for Treatment of Brackish Water to Fresh Water by Electrodialysis Process, 674
Orbeck, Dr. F., on Oil Resonance in Bearings, 343*
“ Orbiter,” Artificial Satellite, K. W. Gatland on,263*
“ Orbitron,” Newton Victor Cobalt Therapy Unit (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 360*
“ Orcutt ” Form Grinding Machine for Internal Helical Gears (Gear Grinding Co., Ltd.), 710*
Ordman, N. N. B., on Accelerated Curing Tests on Concrete, 243*, 451. See LETTERS, 324, 355, 419, 666*, 771
Ordnance Factories, Discussion in Parliament on Disposal of Redundant, 423
— ?— Poole, Closure of, Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 300
Ore Carriers, Steam Turbine Propulsion Machinery for, 28
— Crushing (Trade Publication), 119
?— Iron, Imports, Fall in Price of, 386 “ Michigan 175A” Mechanical Shovel for Handling of, in Blast-Furnace at Steel Co. of Wales, 218*
Organisation for European Economic Cooperation, Network of Intra-European Trade, 3; Study on Construction of Hydro-Electric Power Stations, 49; Formation and Activities of Petroleum Industry Emergency Group, 131; Britain’s Participation in, 366; Industrial Challenge of Nuclear Energy: Research, Uses, and Social Problems (Report of Conference on), 366; Data on Population and Production in Europe, 336; Search for and Exploitation of Crude Oil and Natural Gas in O.E.E.C. Area, 451; See also Nuclear Energy Agency, European; European Productivity Agency
— and Management in Coal Mining, by J.
Sinclair (Review), 180
Organisational Review, P. R. Kelly’s Procedure on, 825
Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 395
“ Orion ” Supercharged Propeller-Turbine Aero-Engine, Manufacturing Problems (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 604
Orissa State, India, Hirakud Project, for Flood Control, Irrigation and Power Generation, 413*
Orr, J. G., on Engineers’ Guild and the Profession, 227, 356. See LETTERS, 324; on Engineers’ Salaries, 643, 707-708. See LETTER,675
ORR Nuclear Reactor in Operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 590
Osaka University, Thermonuclear Studies, 238 Osborn CO2 Block Process for Precision Steel Castings (Osborn Precision Castings, Ltd.), 830*
Osborn Precision Castings, Ltd., Foundry for Precision Steel Castings, 829*
Osborn-Shaw Process for Precision Steel Castings (Osborn Precision Castings, Ltd.), 830*
Oscillograph, Universal, MUR6, for MultiChannel Recording (Southern Instruments Oscillograph Division), 485*
Oscillographic Disturbance Recorder (Ferranti, Ltd.), 359
Oscilloscope in Dynamic Calibration of Fatigue Testing Machines, 693*
— Measuring (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 390
— at Physical Society Exhibition, 389* Osher, J., on Neutrons from Stabilised Toroidal
Pinch, 186*
“ Osthav ” Oil Tanker, Fracture of, 497
Output Pattern in Repetitive Tasks, Bibliography on,535
Oven for Controlled Accelerated-Curing Tests for Concrete, 243*
— Electric Batch-Type, Type E. 150 (Barlow-
Whitney, Ltd.), 325*
— Forced-Circulation, Electric Batch-Type,
Type E.300 H.A.F. (Barlow-Whitney, Ltd.), 325*
— Vacuum, “ Gardiner,” for Precise Measure
ments (Griffin and George, Ltd.), 292*
Overhead Cranes. See Cranes
Overseas Economic Report, on Klein and Saks’ Work in Chile, 643
Surveys: Iran, Comment on, 99
Surveys: Nigeria, 98
— Migration Board, Third Report of. Com
ment on, 100
?— Nuclear Power Developments (Circular), 573
?— Resources Development Bill, 98
Overtime, Effect of Increased Productivity on, 203
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958
Owen Falls Dam, Resources of, 514
Hydro-Electric Power Station, Progress of, 99
Ower, E., on Superstructure Design in Relation to Descent of Funnel Smoke, 253
Oxford English Dictionary, New Words for, 119. See LETTER, 163
Oxford University, Readership at. Sponsored by Institute of Transport, 176; Financial Offer towards Cost of New College, 616
Oxidation Process, “ Holmes-Catco,” for Combating Atmospheric Pollution (Trade Publication), 57
— of Propane, Modes of, 639
Oxide Film Potentiometers (G. V. Planer, Ltd.),
400
— as Nuclear Fuel, 648
— Sintered, and Ceramic Tools, Turning with,
by R. C. Brewer, 543
for Cutting Tools, Research on, by H. Eckersley and R. N. Cook, 817*
— Vanadium, High-Grade (Union Carbide,
Ltd.), 316
Oxidisation, Chromate, Process for Aluminium Castings (Woods of Colchester, Ltd.), 127 Oxley, Dr. P. L. B., on Jigs and Fixtures from Standard Sets of Parts, 829*
Oxy-Acetylene Welding. See iPelding Oxygen-Producing Plants, by M. A. Dubs, 74
“P6 ” Diesel Engines for Chrysler Corp. Trucks (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 588
“ P.6.” High-Speed Diesel Engine for “ D.L. 4x4 Pathfinder ” Cross-Country Vehicle (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 165*
Pacific Gas and Electric Co., 5 MW Nuclear Power Plant at Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory of General Electric Co., 77 *; Generating Plant at Morrow Bay for Water Distillation, 674
Packaging, Aluminium, Characteristics of Importance in, by E. E. Spillett and E. Elliott, 783
— Automatic, in Cellophane or Polythene-
Coated Cellulose Film, 790
— Material, Aluminium as. Symposium on,
783
?— Tapes, 880 Filament Type (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486
— Transparent, 790
Packings, Cooling-Tower, by D. J. Tow, 99. See LETTER, 131. See also Vol. 184
Pages, Numbering of. Note on Omission of, 119 Paget, R., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Hubert Davies and Co., Ltd., 496
“ Pagoda ” Oil Space Heater (F. and T. Leat, Ltd.), 320
Paignton Valve Factory of Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., 348*
Paint-Brush Manufacture, Epoxide-Resin Brush-Setting Cement for (Bakelite, Ltd.), 211
?— Calcium Plumbate, Rust-Inhibiting, “ Rus- todian ” Cinema Film on (Associated Lead Manufacturers, Ltd.),242
— Laboratory of Imperial Chemical Indus
tries, Ltd., for Technical Service to Customers, 817
— Shop at Vauxhall Motors Ltd., 634*
— Stripper, Electric (Skarsten Manufacturing
Co., Ltd.), 224
Painter Brothers, Ltd., Crystal Palace Television Tower, 246*
Paintings by Hans Erni, “ Portrait of an Age,” 588
Pakistan, Economic Position of, 427
“ Palas ” Gas Turbine, Manufacture by Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd., 667* Palladium-Chloride Saturated Waddings, Detection of Carbon Monoxide with, 690
Pallets, Tubular Post, of Welded Construction, for Tyre Storage at Fort Dunlop and Coventry Stores of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 796*
Palletised Tyre Stores of Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd., at Fort Dunlop and Coventry, 796* Palmer, K. N., on Flame Arresters for Gas or Vapour Explosions, 438
“ Palouste ” Gas Turbine, Manufacture by Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd., 667* Pametrada Steam Turbine, Sealing Glands for Casing Distortion in, 121
— Work of, 737
Pamphonic Reproducers, Ltd., Stereophonic System for Disc Records, 576
Pan American World Airways Magazine Clipper Travel, Note on, 633
Panda Radio Co., Ltd.. “ Globemaster Minibeam ” Aerial with Beamed Transmission and Reception on Three Wavebands, 64* Panels, Air and Gas-Cleaning, “ Rotonamic ” (Intermit, Ltd.), 326*
— Control, Stabilised (Kingston Control Systems, Ltd.), 708*
— Printed-Circuit, “ Flowsolder ” Unit for Continuous Soldering of, 575
— Structural, for Moveable Walls, “ 80 ” (Holoplast Ltd.), 46
Paper, Lead Acetate, for Detection of Hydrogen Sulphide, 690
— Towelling, “ Hi-Dri ” (Kimberley-Clark, Ltd.), 742
— Trade, Competition in, and Publicity Campaign of Spicers, Ltd., 465
Paperbacks, New Windmill Series (Heinemann), Note on, 473
Paraffin Engines. See Engines, Oil
— Tractors. See Tractors
Parallels, Thread-Measuring, for Use with a Micrometer (Trade Publication), 213
Paramagnetic Masers, Three-Level, Theory of, by Dr. P. N. Butcher, 725
“ Par-a-matic,” Adaptation of “ Aro-Broomwade ” Pneumatic Drill and Screwdriver, 168
Paramount Asphalte, Ltd., “ Parovent ” Vents for Escape of Moisture from Below Impervious Roof Layers, 519*
Paris Fair, Note on, 658
Park Royal Vehicles, Ltd., Rail-Buses for Light Traffic on Rural Lines, 316*
Parker, G. H., on Troubles in Electrical Engineering industry, 658
Parking, Motor Car, Need for Restrictions on, 227
Parkinson Cowan, Ltd., Activities and Position and Prospects of, 523
Parliament, In, 144, 175, 208, 240, 272, 300, 336, 368, 390, 423, 464, 496, 524, 552, 591, 624, 656, 680, 777, 809
Parolle Electrical Plant Co., Ltd., Isle of Grain Refinery, 796*
“ Parovent ” Vents for Escape of Moisture from Below Impervious Roof Layers (Paramount Asphalte, Ltd.), 519*
Parrish, A., on Implementation of British Standards, 798
Parsons, C. A., and Co., Ltd., “Pegasus” Digital Computer for Heaton Works, 254; Nuclear Research Laboratory, 399; 550 MW Turbo-Generating Set for Thorpe Marsh Power Station, 586* See Erratum, 767; Position and Prospects of, 774
Parsons R. H., on George Stephenson and Institution of Civil Engineers. See LETTER, 291. See also Vol. 184
— Turbines. See Turbines, Steam; Marine Propulsion
Particle, Alpha, Energies, Gridded Ionisation Chamber for Measurement of, 143
— Coupling, Magnetic, for Industrial Drives (S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd.), 582*
— Grading, Air Separators, “ Standard ” and
“ Whirlwind ” for (Trade Publication), 534 Partington Gas Works for Gas Production from Oil or Low-Grade Coal, 326
Pascoe, Sir J., on Position and Prospects of British Timken, 810
Passenger Aeroplane. See Aircra/t under Aeronautics
— Fatigue in Railway Coaches, New Method of Assessing, 186
— Movement at Gatwick Airport, 654*
— Steamers. See l iners; Ships; Steamers Passive Network Synthesis, by J. E. Storer (Book), 793
Paste, Metal-Plastic, “ Metolux ” (M.G.
Plastics Sales), 670
Patents of 1858, 17
— Infringement of, Japanese Government’s Action Against, 81
— Plain Words on, 67. See also Vol. 184
— Searching, Mechanisation of, 640
Patentees and Inventors, Institute of. Activities of, 163
Paterson Engineering Co., Ltd., “ Clorocel ” Equipment (CF/E Series Electrolysers) for Sterilisation of Water, 22
Paterson, R., on Farm Organisation: Influence of Machinery Developments, 563
“ Pathfinder, D.L. 4x4” Cross-Country Vehicle for Oil-field Exploration or Desert Conditions (Douglas Equipment, Ltd.), 165*
Patrol Boat, Fast, Brave Class, H.M.S. “ Brave Borderer” (Vosper, Ltd.), 63
Patterns, Burning on to Glassware, Gas- Heated Furnace for (Stewart Gill and Co., Ltd.), 357*
—- Frozen Mercury, for Precision Die Casting, “ Mercast ” Process for (Sankey-Telcon, Ltd.), 797*
— on Glass, Printing Machine for (Rejafix, Ltd.), 357*
—? Output, in Repetitive Tasks, Bibliography on, 535
Pattison, Prof. B., on the Function of English, 33
Paul, K. S., Ltd., “Hellfax” Transceiver for Transmitting Facsimiles over Telephone, 229*
Pauli, Prof. W., Work on Neutrino, 334 Paulssen, Dr., on German Trade Unions, 280 Pavement Heating Installation, Electrical, Experimental, at Cardiff, 416
Paxman Double-Pass Economic Boilers at Lutterworth Works of Alfred Herbert, Ltd., Pulverised Fuel for, 166*
“ Pay-on-Answer ” Coin Box for Subscriber Trunk Dialling System (Associated Automation, Ltd.), 800*
Payment by Results, Trend Away From, 592 Peacemakers, Unknown, Appreciation of, 706 Peacock, K. S., on Position and Prospects of Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Group, 743
Peak Trailers, Ltd., Trailing-Link Independent Suspension Unit for Pemberton Light- Alloy Caravan, 608
Pearce, J. H., on Plutonium-Iron System, 459
Pease, R. S., on ZETA Experiments, 134* “ Pectacrete ” Portland Cement Coated with Water Repellent (Rugby Portland Cement Co.), 149
“ Peepie Creepie ” Television Hand Camera (Compagnie Generale de Telegraphic Sans Fil), 453*
“ Pegasus ” Computer at King’s College (Newcastle upon Tyne), 292
Programme for Calculation of Stresses in Three-Dimensional Multi-Anchor Pipe Systems (Ferranti, Ltd.), 125
— Digital Computer for Heaton Works of
C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd. (Ferranti, Ltd.), 254
Pegden Brothers, Visit to Yard of, 818
Pegler, J. O. M., on Factors Affecting Performance of Drills and Taps, 542
Peking, Trade Fair at (British), Discussion in Parliament on, 680
Pelham Road Bridge, Lincoln, Replacement of Level Crossing by, 813*
Pellini Explosion Bulge Test, 498
Pelly, K. R., on Annual Report of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 579
Pemberton Caravans, Ltd., Integral Light- Alloy Caravan, 608*
Pen, Fountain, Barrel, Machine for, “ Compass ” Mark VII Automation Base for (Bristol Repetition, Ltd.), 805*
Barrel, Machine for, “ Maxam ” Pneumatic Units for (Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 805*
“ Pendulum ” Railway Carriage for Taking Curves at High Speed, 124*
Penfold, E. J., on Stacking of Small Coal, 769
Peninsular and Oriental Co., Cinema Film, Horizons Unbounded, 674
Pennsylvania Power and Light Co., Proposed Homogeneous Nuclear Reactor for, 366
Penrose, Dr. C., the Late, 676
Pensions, Occupational, Insurance Companies’ Views of, 592
— Schemes, Occupational, Survey of, 651
— Teachers, Comment on, 685
— Transferability of. Comment on, 752 Pentahydrate, Borax, “ Neobor,” for Anti-
Freeze Solutions (Borax Consolidated, Ltd,), 783
Pentatron System for Remote Operation of Radioactive Isotopes (Nuclear Engineering, Ltd.), 444*
PEP. See Political and Economic Planning
Pergamon Institute, Electrical Engineering U.S.S.R., English Translation of Papers in Russian Journal Elektrichestvo, 61
“ Perhapsatron S-3 ” Toroidal Gas-Discharge Apparatus, Work on, 186
Periodicals, List of Current, in U.S.S.R. during 1952-57, 503
Perkins, F., Ltd., Diesel Engine for KLlO-6 Jones Mobile Crane, 37*; Diesel Engines for Combines and Tractors, 46. See LETTER, 131; “ P.6 ” High-Sneed Diesel Engine for “ D.L. 4x4 Pathfinder ” Cross-Country Vehicle, 165*; “jFour-99” Diesel Engine for Motor Vehicles, 538*; “ P6 ” and “ R6 ” Diesel Engines for Chrysler Corp. Trucks, 588; Position and Prospects of, 711
Perkins, J. M., and Smith, Ltd., “ Blue Flash ” Masonry Drills, 224; “Green Grit” Wheel for Sharpening Tungsten-Carbide- Tipped Drills at Home, 224
Perkins, K. T., on Planning the Start-Up of Dresden Nuclear Reactor, 776
Permali, Ltd., Presses for Production of Glass- Fibre Flat Sheet, 211; Resin-Impregnated Densified Wood Laminate Insulation for ZETA, 333
Permanent Magnets. See Magnets Permeability of Graphite Sleeves, Research on, by General Electric Co., Ltd., 365
Peroxide Precipitation Process for Two-Zone Aqueous Homogeneous Reactor, 237*
Perriam, L. T., on Inspection of Tubes for Flaws and Variations in Thickness, 575
Perrin, J. F., on Anode and Positive, 484, 611-612. See LETTER, 547
Perring-Thoms, P.,on Position and Prospects of Radio Rentals, Ltd., 242
Persia, Motor Omnibuses for (Associated Equipment, Ltd.), 86
— Position and Prospects of Industrial Development in, 99
Personality Theory, Case of the Bad Mixer, 11 * Personnel Agency, Central, by M. S. Levy, 259
— Management, Institute of. Conference on Wages and Production (Harrogate), 210 “ Perspex ” Bath (Thermo-Plastics, Ltd.), 128
— Windows in “ Getabout ” Motor Car (Gill), 435
Pest-Control Research, Advances in, by R. L. Metcalf, Note on, 27
Petaling Tin, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 335
Peters, G. D., and Co., Position and Prospects of, 617
Petrofina, Annual Report, 711
Petrol Engines. See Aeronautics; Engines, Petrol: Motor Cars; Motor Boats; Tractors
— Motors. See Aeronautics; Engines, Petrol;
Motor Cars; Motor Boats; Tractors
— Tractors. See Tractors
Petroleum Equipment, Decrease in Orders for, 546
— Gas, Liquefied, for Petrol Engines, Conversion Sets for (J. and S. Carburettor Co.), 37
— Industry Emergency Group, Formation and Activities of, 131
— Institute of. Engineering Progress and Oil Industry, by G. Sell (Book), 91; Fuel Economics of Buses, by A. T. Wilford, 644
— Products, Consumption Statistics, 771 Industry, Position and Prospects of, 711
— See also Oil; Paraffin; Refinery; Engines, Oil
Petters, Ltd., Modernisation of Oil-Engine Works, 382*
pH Meters, Testing of. Instrument for (A. M. Lock and Co., Ltd.), 405
Phenolic Resin Glass Cloth (Permali, Ltd.), 211
Philblack, Ltd., Installation at Extended Carbon Black Plant of Two Dust Collectors with Fibreglass Filtering Material, 255*
Philco (Great Britain), Ltd., Electronic Circuit Apparatus for Instructional Purposes, 789*
Philips Co., Projector for “ Todd-AO ” Filming Process, 549
Philips Electrical, Ltd., Weatherproof Fittings for 150 watt Pressed-Glass Reflector Lamps, 512; Stroboscopic X-Ray Examination of Critical Components of Vibrating Assembly, 551
Philips’ Gloeilampenfabrieken, N.V., Growth and Expansion of Activities of, 171
Philips Group, N.V., Position and Prospects of, 743
Phillips, J., on Neutrons from Stabilised Toroidal Pinch, 186*
Phillips, J. A., on Magnetic Measurement of Plasma Confinement in a Partially Stabilised Linear-Pinch, 185*
Phoenix Gallery, Display of Bookshelves at, 375
Phoenix-Rheinrohr A.G., Position and Prospects of, 584
— Tower, Rocket-Excited Vibration Tests on, 246*
The (Cinema Film) (British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd.), 246
Phosphate Rock for Production of Concentrated Complete Fertiliser at Leith Docks Factory of Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., 506
Phosphating Process, “ SPC,” for Steel Sheet (Walterisation Co., Ltd.), 338
for AirProblems (Kelvin
Photographic Survey Corp., “ Auscor ” Automatic Electronic Scanning Correlator for Stereo-Images, 607
Photography, High-Speed, A Tool for Engineer, by D. P. C. Thackeray, 214*
— High-Speed, Cranz-Schardin System, 214*
— High-Speed, Literature on, 216 Photomicrographs. See Microphotographs
Photo-Projector for Photo-Litho Plates (Grant Production Co.), 147
Photo-Transistor Pressure Controller for Automatic Regulation of Oil Burners on Shell- Type Boilers (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial), Ltd.), 551
Relays, “Magister” (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 551
Temperature Controller, Three-Position (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial), Ltd.), 551 Physical Chemistry. See Chemistry
— Laboratory. See National Physical
— Metallurgy. See Metallurgy, Physical under Metallurgy
— Society, Symposium on Recent Developments
in Industrial Low-Temperature Gas Separation (London): Oxygen-Producing Plants, by M. A. Dubs, 74; Exhibition Preview, 373; Remarks at Opening of Exhibition, by Prof. N. F. Mott, 388-389; Exhibition Exhibits, 389*; Exhibition Exhibits for Nuclear-Energy Industry, 396*; GammaRays from Muon Catalysed Fusion of Hydrogen and Deuterium, by A. Ashmore,
R. Nordhagen, K. Strauch and B. Townes, 431 *
American, Transistor Action Semiconductor-Electrolyte Interface, J. F. Dewaid, 696*
— World, Man and His, by D, E. Gray
J. W. Coutts, Note on, 659
Physico-Chemical Effects of Pressure, by S. D. Hamann (Review), 212
Physics, American Institute of. Physics of Fluids (New Journal), 375
Physics of Fluids, New American Journal, 375
— High Energy, International Conference on.
Preliminary Notice, 432
— Institute of. Pressure in Vacuum Systems, by (Review), 502; Publishing of, 155
— Literature, Russian, Translation of. Note on, 213
— Molecular, New Journal, Note on, 27
— Nuclear, High Energy, Eigth Annual Conference on (Geneva), Tl
Reactor, Division, at Battelle Institute, 303
— See also Physical Society
PlCC. See Computation Centre, International, Provisional
Pickavance, Dr. T. G., on High-Energy Particle Accelerators, 15*; on Proton Synchrotron for Rutherford Laboratory, 42*
Pickling Tanks, Acid, for Large Steel Castings (David Brown Industries, Ltd.), 281
Pictures, Television, Magnetic Tape for Recording, 512*
Pidduck, J., on Coriolis Acceleration, 420*. See LETTERS, 483, 548
Piecework. See Labour
Pied Pipers of Birmingham, by Sir R. Watson- Watt (Review), 250
Pier at Gatwick Airport, 654*
Piercing, “ Groovees ” Welding Electrodes for (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 281
Pile, Exponential (Ydin), 749
Pilkington Brothers, Ltd., “ Insulight ” Hollow Glass Insulation Blocks, 486
Pilot, Automatic, Smith SEP2, on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556
— Plants for New Chemical Engineering
Laboratories at Manchester College of Science and Technology, 764*
Pimpaneau, J., on Planning and Construction of New Thermal Generating Stations, 80
Pinions. See Gears; Gearing; Marine Propulsion
Pipe Bending Machine, Extrusion, 95
Techniques in Aircraft Production, 95
— Bridge, Suspension, over River Danube, for
Conveyance of Natural Gas, 49*
Suspension, over River Danube for High- Pressure Natural-Gas Main, 378
— Copper, in Small-Bore Central Heating, 111
— Put this in Your, Cinema Film on Laying of
Aluminium Water Pipes on Canadian Oil Field (Aluminium Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 401
— Systems, Multi-Anchor, Three-Dimensional,
Calculation of Stresses in. Computer Programme for (Ferranti, Ltd.), 125
— Water, Aluminium, Laying of, on Canadian
Oil Field, Cinema Film “ Put this in Your Pipe ” (Aluminium Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 401
— See also Tubes
Pipelines, Oil, in Europe, 233
— — from Wilhelmshaven to Rhine-Ruhr Area, 233
— from Shellhaven to Romford, for Oil-Refinery Gases, 222*
Pipework, Drainage, in Dwellings: Hydraulic Design and Performance, by A. F. E. Wise, 288*
— Marine (Trade Publication), 27
“ Piracy ” of Designs, Charges Against Japan, 81
Pit Winding Gear, Double-Drum, Electrically Driven, Model of (Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.), 457*
Pitch and Roll Measurements on Double-Deck Bus, 564*
Pitting. See Corrosion
Plain Speaking and Criticism, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 177
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 Planes, Magnetic Memory, for Digital Computers (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 799*
Planer, G. V., Ltd., Oxide and Metal Film Potentiometers, 400
Planetarium in London, Opening of. Description of, 392*
Planing Machine. See Machine Tools
Planning and Control, Company, European Productivity Agency Seminars on, 514
Plant and Equipment, 4*, 36*, 69*, 100*, 132*, 165*, 196*, 228*, 260*, 293*, 324*, 357*, 388*, 421*, 452*, 484*, 516, 548*, 580*, 613*, 645*, 677*, 709*, 740*, 773*, 804 ?— — United States Expenditure on, 744*
— and Machinery, Investment Restrictions
Eased for, 802
— See also Equipment and Plant
Plasma Confinement in Partially Stabilised Linear-Pinch, Magnetic Measurement of, by L. C. Burkhardt, R. H. Lovberg and J. A. Phillips, 185*
— Production in Hydrogen at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 43
— Temperature of, by A. E. Ruark, 431 Plaster Model for Loading Tests for Right Slab Bridge, 541 *
Plastic Elastic Range, Structural Analysis in. Floating Body Analogy, by R. J. P. Garden, 573*
— Range, Tests on Struts in, by K. B. Ayers and R. C. Coates, 88*
— Theory for Multi-Storey Frame in Laboratory Extensions at Cambridge University, 275*
of Structures, Approximations to
Material Properties in, by Dr, M. R. Horne and T. M. Charlton, 734
Plastics Applications Series, Reinhold, No. 1; Polyethylene, by T. O. J. Kresser (Book), 700
— Compound in Aircraft Production, Danger of. Discussion in Parliament on, 624
— Concise Guide to, by H. R. Simonds (Book), 700
— Diversification Activities of Aircraft Firms in, 601
— Film, Thin, Continuous Thickness Recording by Air-Gauging Techniques (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 221*
— Glass-Fibre Reinforced, for Hulls, 63
— Increasing Application to Hardware, 320
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 21
— Insulated Cables for A.C. and ~ ~ mission, by R. C. Mildner Humphries, 822
— Insulation of Cables, 822
— in Lighting, Exhibition, 472
— Materials Handbook, by A. (Book), 91
— Metal Paste, “ Metolux ” (M.G. Plastics Sales), 670
— Prices, Position and Prospects of, 21
— Sheeting, High-Impact Strength, High-Tensile, “ Fromo Plas N ” (Wallington Wester and Co., Ltd.), 761
— Television Turret Tuner, “ Fireball ” (A. B. Metal Products, Ltd.), 704*. See LETTER, 740
— Tools (Trade Publication), 762
“ Plastoglass ” Polyvinyl Sheeting Reinforced with Glass-Fibre (Storey Brothers and Co., Ltd.), 670
Plastometer Measurements on Coke Blends for Test-Oven Experiments, by Dr. D. W. Gillings and W. Lawson, 211
Plates, Aluminium and Aluminium Alloy, Larger and Thicker, New Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., at Rogerstone for Production of, 410*
Extra-Wide (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 281*
?— Bending Machine. See Machine Tools
— Deflections, Surface, Measurement under
Load, Beam and Dial Indicator Equipment for (Rubert and Co., Ltd.), 742*
— Girder Bridge, Continuous, Oak Street,
Vancouver, 48
Design, by Dr. K. C. Rockey, 312
— Noral, Argonaut Welding of, at Rogerstone
Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 411
— Photo-Litho, Photo-Projector for (Grant Production Co.), 147
— Rolling of, by E. C. Larke (Book), 56
— Saw. See Machine Tools
— and Sheet Metalworking (Trade Publication), 503
Platform, Inspection, Boiler Furnace, at Wakefield B Power Station (Foster Wheeler, Ltd., and Non-Corrosive Metal Products, Ltd.), 169*
-— Lifting, Industrial, “ Johnson-Vilver ” (C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd.), 583
Platformer for Naphtha Conversion to Motor Spirit at Isle of Grain Refinery, 794* Plating, Electro. See Electro
Platinum-A Hoy. See Alloys under Metallurgy Plessey Co., Ltd., Extended Activities, of, 171;
60 Ampere Bridging Make Relay for Aircraft Industry, 294*; Information Stores for Computers, 373; Foamed Absorbing Materials, 400 ; Type P.C.21 Infra-Red Cell, 400; Silicon Solar Generator, 400*; Production of Magnetic Memory Planes and Stores for Digital Computers, at Towcester Factory, 799*
D.C. Trans-
and E. D.
B. Glanvill
Plint and Partners, Ltd., Instructional Gyroscope, 132*; Fuel Gauges for Testing of Oil and Petrol Engines, 422*; Instrument for Angular Disturbances of Motor Omnibuses, 564
Plowden, Sir E., on World Requirements of Uranium, 110; Remarks at Conference on Nuclear Energy, 525
Plowman, J. M., on Accelerated Curing Tests on Concrete, 419
Plowman’s Law for Maturity of Concrete, 245*
Plowright Brothers, Ltd., Colliery Equipment (Trade Publication), 90
Plowshare, Project on Nuclear Detonations for Peaceful Purposes, 399
Plug and Ring Gauges (Trade Publication), 534
— Transformer, “ Electran ” (Dohm Group), 384*
Plunger Units, “ Microjet,” for Air Gauges (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 220*
“ Plus Fabric ” Stationery, Publicity Campaign for, Spicers, Ltd., 465
Pluto, Project on Ram-Jet Systems, 399 Plutonium, Butex Process for Industrial Separation from Nuclear Reactor Fuels, by C. M. Nicholls, 236
— Handling and Fabrication Facilities at
Argonne National Laboratory, 590
— Industrial Separation from_Nuclear Fuels,
Development of Butex C. M. Nicholls, 204*
— Iron System, by P. G. Haines, J. H. Pearce Waldron, 459
— Metal, Microscale Preparation and Micrometallurgy of, by S. Fried, E. F. Westrum, H. L. Baumbach, and P. L. Kirk, 457
— from Nuclear Power Stations for Defence Purposes, 808
— Output in France, 527
— Oxide as Nuclear Fuel, 648
— Plant, Marcoule, by R. Galley, 204, 236
— Reprocessing Plants for, 495
— Rich Alloys, Eutectoid Reaction in, by S. T. Konobeevsky, 459
— Separation from Fission Products Tributyl Phosphate, by J. T. Wood J. A. Williams, 236
from Nuclear Fission Products by butyl Phosphate, by J. T. Wood and J. A. Williams, 204
from Unused Uranium, 495
?— Storage, Safety of, by M. B. Biram and K. T. Spinney, 495
— Thorium System, by Dr. D. M. Poole, Dr. G. K. Williamson and J. A. C. Marples, 458
— Work on, at Chicago University, 457 Plywood, Densified, Resin-Impregnated,
“ Hydulignum,” Cinema Film on (Hordern Richmond, Ltd.), 23
“ Pneulang ” Basic Cylinder Unit, Range of Cylinders for (Lang Pneumatic, Ltd.), 324*
Pneulec, Ltd., New Domestic Bath Manufacturing Plant of Bilston Foundries, 638*
Pneumatic Computing Relays, “ Consotrol ” (Foxborough-Yoxall, Ltd.), 165*
— Control for Buffing Machine (A Schrader’s Son), 804*
— Equipment, “ Maxam,” Control Gear for (Trade Publication), 27
— Hoist, “ Aro-Broomwade ” (Broom & Wade, Ltd.), 168*, 615*
— Hosepipe Assembly Device (Consolidated
Pneumatic Tool Co., Ltd^), 167*
— Power Hammers (Trade "
Unit with Variety (Tornado), 352*
Pneumatic Tent Co., Ltd., Burning Blowlamp, 192*
— Tools. See Machine Tools
— Tyred Trailer for Hydraulics Research Station, 292
— Units, “ Maxam,” for Fountain Pen Barrel Machine (Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 805*
— Winch, 3-ton (Globe Pneumatic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 740
— See also Compressed Air; Air Compressor
“ Pneu-Roll ” Rollermill, Type MEm, for Flour Milling (Trade Publication), 213
Poetical and Historical Imagination, Need for Development of, 1
Poisoning, Xenon, 629
Poland, Economic and Industrial Position and Prospects of, 210
— Railway Carriage Air Conditioning Equipment for (J. Stone), 755
“ Polaris ” Solid-Propellant Fleet Ballistic Missile, 153
Political and Economic Planning, Debate on Sterling (Broadsheet), 529
Planning, Problems of ~ . Europe (Pamphlet), 803
Pollard Bearings, Ltd., Case Design “Piracy,” 81; Canada, 209; Case of Copying by Japanese Firms, 433; Medium-Batch Production on Automatic Machines (Trade Publication), 730
Pollution, Railway Track, Discussion Parliament on, 390
Polyester Fibre, Terylene, Spinning Northern Ireland Factory Project Imperial Chemical Industries for, 395
— Resin Glass Cloth (Permali, Ltd.), 211 Polyethylene Cable Insulation, 822
— Lined Rubber Hose, “ Valithene,” for Conveyance of Concentrated Mineral Acids, (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 580
— Reinhold Plastics Applications Series No. 1, by T. O. J. Kresser (Book), 700
Polymers, High, Chemical Structure and Physical Behaviour of, by Sir H. W. E. Melville, 281
Synthetic, and Oils, Composite Insulation of, (Contribution to Development of Power Cables for High and Extra High Voltages with, by J. C. de Vos and J. Vermeer, 822
Polymerisation by Irradiation, 648 Polymethyl Methacrylate. See “ Perspex ” Polytechnic. See Education
Polythene-Coated Cellulose Film, Automatic Packaging in, 790
— Membrane in Runway Construction at Gatwick Airport, 655
Polyvinyl Sheeting Reinforced with Glass- Fibre, “ Plastoglass ” (Storey Bros. and Co., Ltd.), 670
Pool of Serious Attention, Views on Nuclear Dilemma, 449
Poole, Dr. D. M., on Plutonium-Thorium System, 458
Poole Ordnance Factory, Closure of. Discussion in Parliament on, 300
Pope, A. W., on Design and Development of Four Light-Weight High-Speed Marine Gas Turbines for Electric Generator Drive, 93*
Population in Europe, Data on, 336
— Speed and Industrialisation, 380*
Port Employers, National Association of. Wage Claim by Dock Workers, 235
— of London Authority, 7-Hour Site Test on
Concrete, 243*, 451. See LETTERS, 324, 355, 419, 666*, 771
— Operation and Information Service for Southampton Water, 156*
— Rotterdam Europoort Plan, 802
Portable Machine Tools. See Machine Tools
Portable Welders, Ltd., Leopard Auto-Spot Lightweight Portable Spot Welding Machine, 68*; Leopard “ S.70 ” Heavy- duty Spot-Welding Machine, 68; Leopard “S.lOO” Heavy-duty Spot Welding Machine, 68
Portal, Viscount, on Aluminium Industry, 617 Porte Cochere, Reinforced Concrete, at Savoy Hotel, 49*
Portland Cement. See Cement
“ Portrait of an Age,” Paintings by Hans Erni, 588
Posford, Pavry and Partners, Bridges for DoubleTrack Railway on North Eastern Region, 441*
Positive and Anode, by G. H. C. Nicholls, 419*. See LETTERS, 484, 547, 611
Post Office, Australian, “ Standard ” Transistorised Rural Carrier Telephone System for (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 804
Engineering Union. See under Labour General, 203
General, Automatic Aids for London Telephone Network, 153
Letter Facing Machine, 62* ? New Cable Ship for, 680
? Subscriber Trunk Dialling System, 800*
Telephones, Plain Words on, 482 Postage Stamps Paper, “ Dag ” Colloidal
Graphite for (Acheson Colloids, Ltd.), 62 Poster, Horror, on Scrapping Worn and Damaged Hand Tools, 428
Posts and Telegraphs Administration (East African), Apprenticeship and Training Schemes of, 657
Potash, Muriate of, for Production of Concentrated Complete Fertiliser at Leith Docks Factory of Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., 506
Potentiometers, Oxide and Metal Film (G. V. Planer, Ltd.), 400
Potter, R. B., on Simon-Carves, 711
Potters Bar, Concrete Rings for Railway Tunnel Linings at, 248*
Poverty, Effect on Crime in Youth, 391
Powder Compacts, Cracking in, by W. M. Long, 254*
?— Lance for Cutting Heavy Concrete Walls (Union Carbide Corp.), 191*
— Metal, Cold-Rolled Strip from, 472
Power Auxiliaries, Ltd., Fireproof Flexible Metallic Hose for Aircraft Fire Extinguisher Systems, 484
— Electric, Development Programme in Iran,
271
Exchanges in Central and South Eastern Europe, Report on, 610..
•—?— Position in Eastern Europe, 610 Shortage in Uganda, 99
? Situation in Europe in 1956, Report on,
451
See also Electricity under Electric
— Equipment, Home, “ Quartermaster ”
Range (Wolf Electric Tools, Ltd.), 224
— and Fuel Requirements, World’s, and
Nuclear Energy, by E. F. Schumacher, 527
— Gas. See Gas: Engines, Gas
Power-Gas Corp., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 296; “ Favorit ” Filter Process for
Recovery of Dust and Fumes (Trade Publication), 309
— Generation, Flood Control and Irrigation
in Orissa State, India, Hirakud Project for, 413*
— Hammer. See Hammer under Machine
Tools
— and Heating Scheme, Integrated, Using
Back-Pressure Turbo-Alternator, at the National Physical Laboratory (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 408
Power Jacks, Ltd., Hydraulic Clamping (Trade Publication), 534
— Loaders, Effect on Coal Mining Industry,
55
— Packs, Electrical, Alternating-Current, for
Guided Weapons (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 727*
Power Petroleum Co., Booklet on Centenary of Rudolf Diesel, 573
— Plant, Hydro-Electric Installation at Orlik,
Bohemia, Model of, at Brussels Fair, 521 Hydro-Electric, ~ 490*
? Hydro-Electric,
struction of, 49
? Hydro-Electric.
— ?— at Manvers Main Colliery Coke-Oven
Plant, 510
? See also Power Stations; Power, fPater
— Policy, Comment on, 385
?— Press. See Press under Machine Tools
?— for Progress Exhibit of British Electrical and Allied Manufacturing Industry, at Brussels Fair, 456
at Lake Trawsfynnydd,
Mechanisation in, Con-
See also Hydro-Electric
Power Reactor Development Co., EFFBR Nuclear Reactor Project, 719*
— Resources of United Kingdom, Discussiou
in Parliament on, 208
— Station, Electric, Barony, Washery Slurry
for Fuel Supplies at, 159
Electric, Blyth “ B,” 275 MW Tcrbo- Alternators for (English Electric Co., Lt d. 330*
Electric, Bowhill, Use of Coal Slurry at, 707
— ?—? Electric, Control System for, 767* Electric, in France, Planning and Construction of, by J. Pimpaneau, 80
Electric, Goldington, Electro-hydraulic Control for Boilers and Dampers at (Automotive Products Co., Ltd.), 36
Electric, Hams Hall “ C,” Opening and Description of, 729*
Electric, Marchwood, Smoke Fumes from, 624
Electric, New Plant for 1957, 46
Electric, Siting of. Amenity Problems, 173
Electric, Skelton Grange “ A,” 587. See Erratum, 767
Electric, Slurry Burning in, 707
Electric, Thorpe Marsh, 550 MW, Turbo-Generating Set for (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 586*. See Erratum, ICl Electric, Tilbury, Opening and Description of, 792*
Hirakud Project for Orissa, 413*
Hydro-Electric, Mechanisation in Construction of, 49
Hydro-Electric, Owen Falls, Progress of, 99
Electric, Wakefield “ B,” Boiler Furnace Inspection Platform at (Foster Wheeler, Ltd. and Non-Corrosive Metal Products, Ltd.), 169*
— ?—? for New Board Mill of Colthrop
Board and Paper Mills, Ltd., 765
Siting of, by D. Clark, 173
See also Nuclear Power Station, Power
Plants
— Supply for Rail Traction, 341*
— Tools, Hand-Held (Trade Publication), 409
— Transmission, Distribution Lines between
Nityana and Kenya Border, Order by Uganda Electricity Board for, to British Insulated Callender’s Cables, 115
? Lines, High-Voltage, Influence of Air
Density on Level of Radio-Electric Interferences Caused by, by R. Bartenstein and J. Meyer de Stadelhofen, 822
Lines, Iran, 271
System, Main, Development in England and Wales, Aspects of, by P. W. Cash and A. Chorlton, 822
— •— at Voltages Above 220 kV, 822 ?— — See also Drives; Gearing:
Propulsion; Transmission
— Unit, Pneumatic, with Variety of
ments (Tornado), 352*
— Water. See Hydraulic; Power
Hydro-Electric: Turbines, Hydraulic
Poznan International Fair, Exhibition by United Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., at, 755; British Companies at, 790
Practical Householder Exhibition at Earls Court, Preliminary Notice, 224
Practice, Codes of. Ministry of Works. See Standards
Pragmatism in United States, 778
Prat-Daniel (Stanmore), Ltd., “ Bahco ” Portable Wet Cyclone for Dust Extraction (Trade Publication), 534
Pratt, D., on Tractors in the Antarctic, 740 Pratt, F. and Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 239
Pratt, J. A., and Co (1928), Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 296
Prayon Type Plant for Phosphoric Acid Manufacture at Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Fertiliser Factory (Engineering and Industrial Corp, of Luxembourg), 506*
Pre-Amplifiers, Magnetic, Gaumont Kalee for “ Todd-AO ” Filming Process (Rank Precision Industries, Ltd.), 549
Precipitation, Electrostatic (Trade Publication), 181
— Hardening Stainless Steels, 17-7 PH, 639
— Process, Peroxide, for Two-Zone Aqueous
Homogeneous Reactor, 237*
Precipitators, Electrical, Holmes-Elex (Trade Publication), 309
? Research, for Cleaning Blast-Furnace
Gases (Trade Publication), 57
Precision Engineering, Diversification Activities of Aircraft Firms in, 601
“ Precopendulum ” Railway Carriage for Taking Curves at High Speeds, 124*
Preece, G. E., on Some Applications of Nuclear Power, 268*
Prentice, R. E., on Supporting Research Associations, 579
Presidential Address to Association of Mining Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on Engineer and Management, by S, Win- stanley, 784
to Association of Teachers in Technical Institutions, on Long Term Investment in Education, by W. Hatton 685
-— — to Federation of British Industries, by Sir H. Beaver, 482
on History, Work and Aims of Institution of Metallurgists, by W. E. Ballard, 761
— ?— to the Institution of Chemical Engineers
on Science and the State, by Sir H. Beaver, 578
to Iron and Steel Institute on Raw Material Supplies and Future Development of Iron and Steel Industry, by C. R. Wheeler, 626
to Royal Aeronautical Society on Britain’s Stake in Field of Supersonic Civil Travel, by Sjr G, Edwards, 380*
to Society Recovery by 459
— — to Society
on Place of Instrument Technology in Control Engineering, by Sir H. Hartley, 698
Marine
Attach-
Pkints,
of Engineers on Uranium
Ion Exchange, by R. Clark,
of Instrument Technology
38
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Press Advertising, Comment on, 353
in United States, 337
— Brick, Duplex “ Emperor,” at Kuwait
Sand-Lime Brick Works (Sutclifl'e Speakman and Co., Ltd.), 190
at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 106
— at New Car Production Factory of Vauxhall
Motors, Ltd., 634*
— Nut for Sheet Metal, “ Rosan ” (Instru
ment Screw Co., Ltd.), 580*
— for Production of Glass-Fibre Flat Sheet
(Permali, Ltd.), 211
— Single Blow, for Wire Ball Forming (Trade
Publication), 409
— Triple-Compression, for Baling Heavy
Steel Scrap at Colvilles, Ltd. (Fielding and Platt, Ltd.), 261*
— See also Machine Tools
Press, W., and Son, Ltd., Laying of Pipeline to Romford for Oil-Refinery Gas, 222
Pressure Centrifuges (Sharpies Centrifuges, Ltd.), 452
—? Control for Back-Pressure Steam Turbines, 606*
— Controller, Photo-Transistor, for Auto
matic Regulation of Oil Burners on Shell- Type Boilers (Kelvin and Hughes trial), Ltd.), 551
— Dilation Experiments on Copper
759*
— Earth, and Retaining Walls, by
Huntington (Book), 213
-— Gasification of Distillate Oils at Research Station, 534
?— Internal, Dilation of Cylinders Influence of Strain Hardening Dr. E. Voce, 756*
— Measurement in Vacuum Systems, by J. H.
Leek (Review), 502
— Physico-Chemical Effects of, by S. D.
Hamann (Review), 212
— Sealing, by O-Rings, by J. R. Fawcett, 314*
See LETTER, 388*
— Switches (Delta Technical Services, Ltd.),
454*
— Systems, “ Molytone
(Roeol, Ltd.), 242
?— Vessel for EFFBR Description of, 718*
?—? — Nuclear Reactor,
Atomic Power Constructions, Ltd., and Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., for, 684 Prestige, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 367 Preston, K., on Position and Prospects of
J. Stone and Co. (Holdings), Ltd., 810
Preston Motorway, Road Signs for. Discussion in Parliament on, 809
Prestressed Concrete. See Concrete, Prestressed
Prestressing, Magnel-Blaton System, for Clifton Bridge over River Trent, 349*
Pretensioning Strands Laid to a Profile, Use of, by B. C. Gerwick, 736
Price Fixing, Collective, Comment on Practice of, 419
— Index, Retail, 433
Retail, United States, 746*
— Levels, Comparison of European and
United States, 280
—? List, Library of United States Congress, 793
— Plan for Linking to Wages and Productivity,
391
— Policy of United States Motor-Car Industry,
Activity of United Automobile Union in, 273
-of United States Motor-Car Industry, Investigation into, by Senate and Monopoly Sub-Committee, 273
— Position and Prospects of, 194
— Productivity and Income, Council on.
See Cohen Committee
and Incomes, Council on. Discussion with Trades Union Congress, 75
—? Raw-Material, Position and Prospects of, 20
—-Reduction Campaign, Government, 209
—? — Campaign, Marks and Spencer, Ltd., 209, 210, 433
by Engineering Companies, Comment on,433
in Engineering Industry, 209, 588 Remarks on, by R. F. Hatto, 209 in United States, 209
— in United States as Guide to Economic
Situation, 747
— and Wages, Remarks on, by Rt. Hon.
H. Macmillan, 560
—- World Commodity, Reactions to Fall in, 81 Priest Furnace, Town Gas-Fired, at Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd., 669
Priestman Bros., Ltd., Cross-Roll Bearing Slewing Ring for Excavators, 613*
Printed Circuits, Automatic Dip-Soldering Machine for (Signals Research and Development Establishment), 489
Etching
471
Panels, tinuous Foundries, Ltd.), 575
Printing Blocks, Positive, Engraved, “ Zinco ” for Patterns on Glass ,357*
— Machine, Bottle, “ SPS Rotascreen ”
(Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 486
for Patterns on Glass (Rejafix, Ltd.), 357*
Rotary Offset, Anniversary of (George and Co., Ltd.), 395 Wage-Earning
(Indus-
Tubes,
W, C.
Solihull
under, on, by
320 ” Lubricant for
Nuclear Reactor,
Agreement between
Machine for
“ Flowsolder ”
Soldering of
Workers’
Antitrust
(Lares S.R.L.),
Unit for Con- (Fry’s Metal
Mann Prisoners, 651 Probability
Occupations for.
Its Applications,
1, by W. Feller
Theory and Introduction to. Vol. (Book), 823
Probes, Air, for Checking Hole Diameters
(Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 221
— Detector, for Conveyor System Carrying Solids (Bailey Meters and Controls, Ltd.), 101*
Probert, R. P., on Ram-Jets, 24*
Process Control, Dynamic, by Sir H. Hartley, 698
in Non-Ferrous Metals Production, Advances in Inspection Techniques as Aids to. Symposium on, 575
Process Controller, Electronic, Three-Term, Mark IV (Evershed and Vignoles, Ltd.), 551 * ?— Streams, Radioactive, Monitoring by Qwn Emission, by H. Bisby, 590
— — Radioactive, Sampling from, by R. W.
Dickinson and F. Jones, 590
— Systems, Corner Tube Boiler Unit for
(Edwin Danks and Co. (Oldbury), Ltd.), 519 Processor, Heat Exchanger and Dryer, “ Holo- Flite ” (Trade Publication), 409
Proctor, T. G., on Floodlights for Niagara Falls, 230*
Producer-Gas Engine. See Engines, Gas
Products, National, and Price Levels, Comparison of European and United States, 280
Production, 31*, 95, 127*, 187*, 218*, 254*, 276*, 306*, 348*, 381*, 410*, 478*, 505, 542, 574*, 632*, 668*, 690*, 731*, 764*, 794*, 828*
— Conference of Institution of Production
Engineers, 685
— Control Quantometer for Complete Analysis
of Aluminium Alloys, 576
in Steelworks, Use of Electronic Computers for, 552
Production Engineers, Institution of:
Conference on Problems of Aircraft Production (Southampton):
Lord Sempill Paper on Manufacturing in the Aeronautic Age, by B. K. Bucey, 95. See also 67
Manufacturing Practice—A Review of British Aircraft Industry, by S. G. Burnard, 95
Viscount Nuffield Paper on “ Technical Education for Production Engineers,” by Lord Hives, Comment on, 193
Coventry Section:
Impact Extrusion of Steel, by W. H. Byles, 306*
Calendar of Events of Engineering Institutions and Professional Bodies, 409
Bibliography on Output Pattern Repetitive Tasks, 535
Cornwall Section:
Conference on Improving Productivity Use of Compressed Air: Air Operated Equipment, by N.
Watts ,671
Air Gauging, by C. J. Tanner, 671 User’s Experience, by J. Smedley and W. G. Wood, 671
Industrial Uses of Rotary Compressors, by J. Hodge, 671
Fire and Explosion Hazards in Compressed Air Systems, by A. C. Smith and Dr. A. Thomas, 671 Third Production Conference (Olympia):
E. W. Hancock Paper on Human Relations in Industry: Men, Women and Work, by L. Wright, 685
Conference on Standards, Report of, 798 Midland Section:
Research on Sintered Oxides Tools, by H. Eckersley Cook,817*
Production Engineers, Technical
in
P.
for Cutting
and R. N.
Education
for. Viscount Nuffield Paper, by Lord Hives, Comment on, 193
— Engineering, Control of, by J. W. Walker,
145
Research Association, Discussion in
Parliament on Small Number of Firms Affiliated to, 464. See LETTERS, 515, 579
— in Europe per Head of Population, 336
— Industrial, Index of. Stability of, 162
Position and Prospects of, 738
and Steel Consumption, by Sir R.
Shone and H. R. Fisher, 386 United States, Index of, 745*
— and Research, Statistical Methods in, by
O. L. Davies (Review), 212
— and Wages, Conference on (Harrogate),
210
Productivity Association, Guildford and
District, Ideas at Work (Pamphlet), 591 ?— Cohen Committee on. See Cohen Committee
— Council, British Cinema Film on Work
Study—Its Application to Team Work, 338
— Effect of Labour Costs and Capital Costs,
386
— in Galvanising Industry, Manuals on, 338
— Improving, by Use of Compressed Air,
Conference on, 671
— Increased, Effect on Overtime, 203
— Plan for Linking to Prices and Wages, 391
— Position and Prospects of, 194
— Prices and Incomes, Council on. See
Cohen Committee
— Stimulant, Suggestion Schemes as, 592 Professions, Full Employment in. Comment
on, 528
Professional Bodies, Calendar of Events of, 490
— and Executive Register of Ministry of
Labour and National Service, 560 Profile, Pretensioning Strands Laid to. Use of, by B. C. Gerwick, 736
Profits, Industrial, Einancial Times’ Analysis of, 810
— Sharing. See Labour
— in 1957, Statistics on, 79
— in 1958, Prospects of, 79
Programme Control Unit, “ Heenatone,” for Repeated Cycle Operations (Heenan and Froude, Ltd.), 359*
Progress, Power for. Exhibit of British Electrical and Allied Manufacturing Industry at Brussels Fair, 456*
Project Plowshare on Nuclear Detonations for
Peaceful Purposes, 399
?— Pluto on Ram-Jet Systems, 399
— Rover on Rocket Propulsion, 399
•—Satellite, by K. W. Gatland (Review), 409 Projectile in Flight, Photograph of, 215*, 217*
— Impact of, on Armour Plate, Photographs
of, 217*
Projection and Filming Technique, “ Todd- AO,” at Dominion Theatre (London), 548*
?— Room for “ Todd-AO ” Apparatus at Dominion Theatre (London) (Sound Control, Ltd.), 548*
Projector Heating Unit, Infra-Red, Mobile (Metropolitan Vickers, Ltd.), 645
— Optical, in Interchangeable-Head Machine
(F. Deckel), 742*
— Photo-, for Photo-Litho Plates (Grant
Production Co.), 147
— Photographic, Rapid Processing, for Air-
Traflic-Control Radar Problems (Kelvin and Hughes, Ltd.), 310
— for “ Todd-AO ” Filming Process (Philips
Co.), 549
— Zeiss, in London Planetarium, 392* Promotion, Comment on, 65
— Effect of Class Consciousness on, 329 Propane, De-Asphalting Operation at Isle of
Grain Refinery, 795*
— Oxidation of. Modes of, 639 Property-Owning Democracy of Small Savers,
Comment on, 784
Propulsion of Ships. See Marine Propulsion; Engines; Turbines
Prospecting, Electrical, by P. Lasfargues (Book), 252
Protective Coating. See Coalings
— Head Covering for Women, Case of, in
Midlands, 176
“Proteus” Compressors for High-Altitude Test Plant for Ram-Jet Engines (Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 437*, 468*
Protons, Heisenberg Equation for, 334
— Interaction with Neutrons, Theoretical
Description of, by A. Ashmore, 649
— Proton Scattering Experiments at Calif
ornia University, 649
— Synchrotron. See Synchrotron
Prout, G., “Shearwater 111” Catamaran, 63 Provinces, Scanning the (Market Report), 790 Provisional International Computation Centre. See Computation Centre
“ Proxicon ” Mark III Capacitance-Type Remote Level Controller (J. Edward Hall (Electrical Engineers), Ltd.), 677*
Psychic Fragmentation, Phenomenon of, 721, 722
Psychological Processes Involved in Management of Human Relations 177
Psychology of Bad Mixer, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 11 *
— Workshop, by P. V. Hoare, 579
Public Transport Employees, Strike of, in France, 460
Publications and Meetings Papers of Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc., Checklist of, 573
— Trade, 26, 56, 90, 119, 181, 213,
409, 503, 534, 659, 730, 762
Publicity Campaign for “ Plus Stationery (Spicers, Ltd.), 465
— Children’s Competition by David Brown
Group, 235
— and Sales Scheme on Importance of Using
Genuine Girling Motor-Car Parts, 433 Publishers’ Catalogues, Spring Glut of. Comment on, 409
Publishing House, Russian, of Foreign and National Dictionaries, 119
Pucher, W., on Investigation of Dielectric Strength of Compressed Air in Air-Blast Circuit-Breakers, 821
Puerto Miranda, Oil Terminal at. Orders for Electrical Equipment for, 755
Pugh, H. LI. D., on Mechanics of Cutting Process 542
“ Pull-Jack ” Tool for Sealing Tubeless Tyres (Rotolift Sales Co., Ltd.), 678
Puller, Crystal, Silicon (Services Electronics Research Laboratory), 400
Pulpers Hydra-, at New Board Mill of Colthrop Board and Paper Mills, Ltd. (Black-Clawson), 764
“ Pulse-Echo ” Flaw Detection Method, 575 Pulverised Fuel for Paxman Double-Pass Economic Boilers at Lutterworth Works of Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 166*
Pulverising Coal in Duplex Crusher at Lutterworth Works of Alfred Herbert, Ltd., 166 Pumps, Air. See Air Compressors
— Centrifugal and Axial Flow, Theory,
Design and Application, by A. J. Stepanoff (Book), 700
— Circulating, Axial Flow, for Heat Treat
ment Furnace at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd. (W. H. Allen, Sons and Co., Ltd.), 411*
— Diffusion, High-Vacuum, Refrigerated
Baffles for (Edwards High-Vacuum, Ltd.), 310*
— Efficiencies, Measurement by Thermo
metry, by J. V. H. Holt, 501
-— Electromagnetic British (Thomson-Houston) Co., Ltd.), 396*
for Liquid Metals, by H. J. Northfield, 452
— Feed, for Hunterston Nuclear Power
Station (G. and J. Weir, Ltd.), 270
— Fixed Capacity, in High Efficiency Hydraulic
Transmission (N. J. Tatham and Co., Ltd.), 379*
— Flood Irrigation (Trade Publication), 534
?— Fuel (Trade Publication), 119
?— — for High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 470*
Rotary, Type DPA, for Perkins “ Four- 99 ” Motor-Car Diesel Engine (C.A V.), 538
— Glandless Circulating, for Hinkley Point
Nuclear Power Station Heat Exchanger Circuits (Hayward Tyler), 270
— Hydraulic (Trade Publication), 27
— at Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.,
Efficiency Measurement by Thermometry, 501
— Lightweight, General-Purpose (Goodyear
Pumps, Ltd.), 133*
— for Pumped-Storage Scheme at Blaenau-
Ffestiniog (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 491
-— Vacuum (Edwards High-Vacuum, Ltd.), 397
Oil-Difflusion (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 397
— Variable Delivery, in High Efficiency
Hydraulic Transmission (N. J. Tatham and Co., Ltd.), 379*
Pump-House, Cooling Water, at Isle of Grain Refinery, 795*
Pumped Storage Scheme at Blaenau Ffestiniog 399,491*
Pumping/Generator Sets for Pumped-Storage Scheme at Blaenau-Ffestiniog (British Thomson-Houston), 491
Punched Cards for Control of Jig Boring Machine, Device for Producing, 709
— Tape Control System for Machine Tools (E.M.l. Electronics, Ltd.), 31*
“ Purex ” Solvent Extraction Process, 205
Purfleet-Dartford Tunnel, Progress of, 175; Tolls for, 175
“ Put this in Your Pipe,” Cinema Film on Laying of Aluminium Water Pipes on Canadian Qil Field (Aluminium Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 401
Putty, Silicone, at Brussels Fair, 521
Puzey, T. R., on Application of Nuclear Energy to Power Production, 270
PWR Nuclear Reactor for Yankee Atomic Electric Plant, 807*
Reactor. See also Nuclear Reactors
Pye, Ltd., Stereophonic System for Disc Records, 576
Pye Records, Ltd., Stereophonic Disc Records, 576
Pye Telecommunications, Ltd., “Ranger” Heavy-Duty Mobile Radio, 453
Pyle, R. V., on Neutron Production in Linear Deuterium Pinches, 186
Note on
309, 347,
Fabric ”
QUALITY Control in Non-Ferrous Castings, Metallurgical Aspects of (Book), 347
in Office, Report on, 674
— in Engineering Manufacture, by F. Nixon,
417
— Labels and Certificates, Discussion in
Parliament on, 240
— Standard, “ Kitemark,” of British Stand
ards Institution, 240
— of Work, Comment on, 417
Quantometer, Production Control, for Complete Analysis of Aluminium Alloys, 576
Quarrell, Prof. A. G., on Fifty Years of Metallurgical Science, 587
“ Quartermaster ” Range of Home Power Equipment (Wolf Electric Tools, Ltd.), 224
Quasi-Arc, Ltd., Equipment for Welding of Stainless-Steel Nitric-Acid Absorption Column at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478*
Quate, C. F., on Parametric Amplification of Space Charge Waves, 725
Queen Mary College (London), Research on Accelerated-Strength Test for Concrete, 243*; Applied Nucleonics Course, 270; Accelerated Curing Tests on Concrete , by Prof. J. W. H. King, 324, 771. See LETTER, 451. See also Concrete
“ Queen Mary ”, R.M.S., Denny-Brown Stabilisers in, 386
Quenching of Steel. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Quick, H. and J., Expansion Plans of, 335
Quick, T. W., on Position and Prospects of H. and J. Quick, Ltd., 335
Quickfit and Quartz, Ltd., Scientific Glassware Production at Stone Factory, 381*
Quicksilver. See Mercury
RO
Nuclear Reactor for Swedish Atomic
Research Station (Studsvik), Work on, 589 Nuclear Reactor for Swedish Atomic
Research Station (Studsvik), Work on, 589 Nuclear Reactor for Swedish Atomic
Research Station (Studsvik), Work on,
589*
Research Reactor for Swedish Atomic Research Station at Studsvik, 749
R1
R2
R-2
“ R6 ” Diesel Engines for Chrysler Corp. Trucks (F. Perkins, Ltd.), 588
Rack, Arrester Gate, for Oil Drums (Chevron Structural Units, Ltd.), 519
Radar Aerial at Calshot Signal Station, 157*
— Air-Traffic-Control, Rapid Processing
Photographic Projector for. Problems in (Kelvin and Hughes, Ltd.), 310
— Compulsory Training for Ships’ Officers,
Discussion in Parliament on, 300
—? Doppler, Collision Course Prediction by. Mathematics Analysis of, by H. R. Whitfield and C. M. Cade, 467
— Equipment in H.M, Aircraft Carrier
“ Victorious,” 94
Marine, “Escort” (British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd.), 485
Mercantile Marine, Government’s Refusal to Grant Export Licence for Supply to Russia, Remarks on, by F. S. Mockford, 239
“ Radiolocator IV ” Incorporating Display Unit and Radar Track Indicator on “ Mauretania,” 253
— Establishment, Royal (Malvern), Inter
national Symposium on Electronic Components: Nuclear Radiation Damage to Electronic Components, by E. H. Cooke- Yarborough, 142; Apparatus for Measuring Resolution of Cathode Ray Tubes, 389; Amplifier for Attachment to 45-ft. Radio Telescope, 699*
— at Gatwick Airport, 653*
— Marine, Survey of Recent Developments in,
by A. L. P. Milwright, 466
— New Installation of, at Calshot Signal
Station, 156*
— for Satellite and Missile Guidance, 331
?—Sealed Cabinets for (Morfax, Ltd.), 731*
— Stations, New, for Air Traffic Control, 803 Radial Drill. See Drill under Machine Tools Radiation, Biological Effects of, by Dr.
F. G. Spear, 573
— Chemistry, Abstracts on, 366
— Infra-Red, Entrance Windows, Linde
Synthetic Sapphire for (Union Carbide International Co.), 817*
?— Injury, Dr. T. C. Carter on, 97
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Radiation, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 52 3
— Neutrons and Gamma-Rays for Evaluating
Effects of. Research Nuclear Reactor as Source of, 432
— Nuclear, Damage to Electronic Com
ponents, by E. H. Cooke-Yarborough, 142 Uses of, by Prof. A. Charlesby, 648
— Reporting Methods at Shippingport Nuclear
Power Station, 683*
?—from Sun, Research Problems of, 126 Radio Aids to Aeronautical and Marine Navigation, by C. Williams, 466
?—? — and Inertial Navigation, Combination of, by A. Stratton, 466
— Amateur, British, in Past Decade, by
E. A. Matthews, 320
— Communication and Electronic Engineering
Association, Annual Report, 239; Instruments, Electronics and Automation Exhibition, 488*
Radio Corp, of America, Agreement with Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., 137; E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 716
— Engineers, Institute of: Annual Convention:
Two-Terminal, Passive Semiconductor Component, by R. M. Warner, Jr., H. A. Stone, and E. 1. Doucette, 562*; Spiral Coiled Wire Torsional Wave Delay Line, by R. N. Thurston and L. M. Tornillo, 562
Radio Heaters, Ltd., Induction Heaters (Trade Publication), 181; Radyne “ C21 ” 3I-kW Induction Heater for ZETA, 206
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 114* ?— Mesh Long Range Navigation System, 467
— Mobile, Heavy-Duty, “ Ranger ” (Pye
Telecommunications, Ltd.), 453
— Navigation Aids, Long Range, Survey of,
by J. C. Farmer, 467
— Record Week, Stereophonic Broadcasts
during, by British Broadcasting Corporation, 576
Radio Rentals, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 242
— Sextant Long Range Navigation System, 467
— Telescope. See Telescope
?— and Television Relay System at Hawick (Relay Systems (Hawick), Ltd.), 800
— See also Telegraphy, Wireless; Telephony,
Wireless, Television: Radar; Valves; Thermionic
Radioactive Analysis in United States Nuclear Weapon Tests, 749
— Chemical Installations, Buildings for, 42
— Contamination, Discussion in Parliament
on, 423
of Water and Sewage, Course on, 334
— Isotopes, Course on, for Directors, 77 -in Medicine, 647
?—? — Remote Handling of, 444*
Remote Operation of, Pentatron System (Nuclear Engineering, Ltd.), 444*
?— — as Sources of Gamma Radiation in Non-Destructive Testing, 444*
?— — Uses of, by Prof. A. Charlesby, 648
— ?— See also Radioisotopes
— Materials Handling, New Building for,
at Harwell. 109*
?—? — Power Manipulator for Remote Handling of (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 397*
Transport of. Discussion in Parliament on, 496
— Pilot Plant at Chalk River, 206
— Process Streams, Monitoring by Own
Emission, by H. Bisby, 590
? Streams, Sampling from, by R. W.
Dickinson and F. Jones, 590
— Sources in Use in Britain and Russia, 445*
— Unit, Cobalt, with Remote-Control Meter
ing Apparatus, 446*
— Wastes, Comment on, 366
? Disposal at Shippingport Nuclear Power
Station, 684
Disposal at Yankee Atomic Electric Plant, 807
Radioactivity, Health Hazards of. Discussion in Parliament on, 423
Radio-Electric Interferences Caused by H.V Lines, Influence of Air Density on Level of, by R. Bartenstein and J. Meyer de Stadelhofen, 822
Radiographic Container, Caesium or Iridium, Russian, 445*
— ?—? Cobalt or Caesium, Russian, 446*
— — “ GUP50,” 446*
Iridium or Thulium, Russian, 445*
— Equipment, Cobalt, Russian, 446*
(Nuclear Engineering, Ltd.), 444*
— Techniques, Recent Advances in,
R. Halmshaw, 576
by
— Testing Methods of Vickers-Armstrongs
(Aircraft), Ltd., 782*
— Unit, Caesium, 445*
Iridium, 445* for Thulium 170, 445*
Radiography, Gamma, Comparison of British and Soviet Equipment, 444*
— Simultaneous, of Several Items, 444*
— Underwater, Cobalt Container for, 446* Radioisotopes Course for Business Men, 366
— Reprocessing Plants for, 495
— in Scientific Research, UNESCO Inter
national Conference on, 527
— Uses of. Discussion in Parliament on, 552
— Utilisation, Principles of. Summer School
on, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 459
— See also Radioactive Isotopes
“ Radiolocator IV ” Radar Equipment Incorporating Display Unit and Radar Track Indicator on “ Mauretania,” 253
Radiophonic Sound Production at Maida Vale Studios of British Broadcasting Corp., 736*
— Workshop at Maida Vale Studios of British
Broadcasting Corp., 736*
Radiosone Telemetering Equipment, Automatic (Rank Cintel, Ltd.), 543*
Radiotelegraph Service on “ Mauretania,” “ Globespan ” Transmitters with “Ata- lanta ” and CRI50 Receivers for, 253 Radiotelephone Equipment, Combined Simplex-Duplex v.h.f. Transmitter/Re- ceiver, “ Nautilus,” on “ Mauretania,” 253
Radon as Radioactive Source or Gamma Radiography, 446*
Radyne “ C21 ” 3|-kW Induction Heater for ZETA (Radio Heaters, Ltd.), 206
Rail-Buses for Light Traffic on British Railways’ Rural Lines (A.C. Cars, Ltd.), 316*
— Eixing, for Gantry Cranes, “ Fullv-Hard ”
and “ Eully-Soft ” Methods, 702*
— History of, 476
— Mono-, System, Proposed, to London
Airport, 809
— Stress Calculation in, by C. Storey, 311*
— Track Wagonways, History of, 476 Railcars. See Carriages, Railway
“ Railophone ” Audio-Frequency Inductive System for Communication with Moving Trains, 158
Railroad, American, Current Scene, by H. R. Gomersall, 226
Railway Accidents. See Accidents
— Automatic Control of. Plain Words on, 386
? Train Control, Discussion in Parliament
on, 175, 336
Train Control, 313*, 342
— Axles, History of, 476
— Brake Conversion Scheme, Discussion in
Parliament on, 591
— Bridge. See Bridge
— Carriage. See Carriage
— Centenaries, 17
— Conversion League, Railway Renaissance,
by Brig. T. I. Lloyd, 580
— Crane, Twin Bogies, Diesel-Hydraulic,
“ Booth ” (Clyde Crane and Booth, Ltd.), 504*
— Double-Track, Bridges for, on British Rail
ways North Eastern Region, 440*
— Electric Traction in. Recent Trends of, by
R. S. Wignail, 340*
— Electrification of, Faraday Lecture, by
G. H, Fletcher (Delivered by R, Ledger), 226
— Engineering Abstracts, Note on, 347
— Freight Traffic, Increased Efficiency in, 322
— French, Electric Train Sets for Steep
Gradients, 627*
“ Pendulum ” Carriage for Taking Curves at High Speed, 124*
— and Harbour Administration, East African,
See African, East
— Indian, Electrification of. Assistance by
S. N.C.F, in, 2
“ EM/2 ” Class Electric Locomotives for (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 70
State, Tests on Brake-Lining Materials, 785*
-Level-Crossings in Great Britain: History, the Law To-day and Future Practice, 811 *
— Lightweight, Electric Traction for. Recent
Trends in, by R. S. Wignail, 340*
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Motor Carriage. See Carriage
— Operatives, Wage Claims of. Comment on,
418
— Rails, Recent Trends in, 342
— Rolling Stock, Exports of, 51 *
— — Stock
of. 51*, Stock.
Wagons
— Romney,
comen Society’s Visit to, 818
— Signalling. See Signalling
— Sleepers, Automatic Machine for Manu
facture of (Thomas Robinson and Son, Ltd.), 678*
— South Africa, Electric Coaches for (Metro-
politan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd.), 344*
— Station at Gatwick Airport, New Work on
(James Langley and Co., Ltd.), 654*
— Track Pollution, Discussion in Parliament
on, 390
Recent Trends in, 342
— Train Automatic Control, 313*, 342, 386 —• — Automatic Control of. Discussion in
Parliament on, 175, 336 Brake. See Brake Concrete Mixing, for British Railways
Main Line Electrification Projects, 245 Concrete Mixing, for Producing Concrete as it Travels, for Main Line Electrification Projects, British Railways, 245
Diesel, Analogue Computer for Scheduling, 803
Electric, Analogue Computer for Scheduling, 803
Freight, Modernisation of, 322
? Freight, Need for Faster, 227
Long-Distance, Lavatory Services in.
Discussion in Parliament on, 390
Moving, Communication with, “ Railophone ” Audio-Frequency Inductive System for, 158
Performance Calculation, Recent Trends in, 342*
Scheduling, Recent Trends in, 342*
? Services, Lewes to East Grinstead,
Proposal to Withdraw, 240
—? — Sets, Electric, for Steep Gradients on French Railways, 627*
“ Super Chief,” E. P. Ward on, 715* with Television, on Scottish Section of British Railways, 209
V.H.F. Radio Link with Telephone Exchange, Trials on, 158
— Tube. See Underground; London Transport
Executive
— Tunnel Linings, Concrete Rings for, 248*
— Ulster. See Ulster Transport Authority
— Underground. See Underground; London
Transport Executive
— Wagons. See Wagons
-—? Wheel-Gauge Changing by Axle Changing in Spain, 799
History of, 476
?— Workers, Dispute of, 616 Wage Demand, 528
— ?— Wage Dispute Settlement, Comment on,
651
— — Wage Increases for. Comment on Effect
of Economies by British Railways, 545, 547 Wages, Tribunal on, 493
— See also Railroads
Railwaymen, National Union of. See Labour
Industry, Position and Prospects 617
See also Carriages; Locomotives;
Hythe and Dymchurch, New-
Raine, Dr. T., on Laboratory for Studying a Dangerous Material, 499*
Rainier ” Subterranean Nuclear Explosion at Nevada Test Site, 399*
Ram-Jet Engines. See Engines under Aeronautics
Ramanathan, K., Work on Producing Plasmas at Imperial College, 43
“ Rambler American ” Motor Car (American Motors), 178
Ramp, Loading, “ Dock-o-matic ” (Wayne Tank and Pump Co., Ltd.), 574*
Randolph, B. R., on Civil Engineering Aspects of Dresden Nuclear Reactor, 775*
“ Ranger ” Heavy-Duty Mobile Radio (Pye Telecommunications, Ltd.), 453
Rank-Cintel, Ltd., Type VCRX434 Cathode Ray Tube for Single Shot and Transient Recording Work, 389; Automatic Radiosone Telemetering Equipment, 543*
Rank Organisation, Reduncancy at Pinewood Studios, 44
Rank Precision Industries, Ltd., Gaumont- Kalee Magnetic Pre-Amplifiers for “ Todd- AO ” Filming Process, 549; Amplifier and Loudspeaker Equipment for “ Todd-AO ” Filming Process, 549; Mole Richardson Gaumont-Kalee Type 490 “ High Power ” Arc Lamp for ” Todd-AO ” Projectors, 549 Ransley, Dr. C. E., on Instrument for Measuring Gas Content of Aluminium Alloys during Melting and Casting, 576 Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd., “Rapier 4” Fast Standard Mobile Crane, 615
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., 4,000 lb. Fork-Lift Truck with Dual Speed Motor, 582*
“ Rapier 4 ” Fast Standard Mobile Crane (Ransomes and Rapier, Ltd.), 615
Rates, Exemption of Institution of Mechanical Engineers from Payment of, 355
— of Institutions, Discussion in Parliament on,
552
Rating and Valuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (1955), 552
Ratz, E. H., on Transmission Length in Prestressed Concrete, 736
Raw Materials, Conveyor for, at Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Fertiliser Factory, 506*
in Engineering Industries, Position and Prospects of, 20
Price Trends, 194
? Purchases of United States, Cuts in, 10 Supplies and Future Developments of Iron and Steel Industry, by C. R. Wheeler, 626
Rawle, A. H., on Counting with Fingers, 803 Rawlplug Company Ltd., “ Vibroto ” Electric Hand Drill for Concrete, 455*
Rawson, Sir S., Remarks on International Standards, 798
Rays. See Beta Rays; Cathode Rays; Gamma Rays; X-Rays
Raydist, DM, Navigation Equipment, 802 Raynor, Prof. G. V., on Thorium-Cerium System, 459
“ Rayon-Patent ” Glandless Stop Valve (Meynell and Sons, Ltd.), 358*
R.C.E.E.A., Remarks by A. Jones on Govem- ment-to-Government Sales, 337
Reactivity, Excess, of No. I Reactor of Calder Hall "A” Station, 172
Readett, G. A., on Technical Translators, 473 Reading Habits, School Children and. Survey of, by W. H. Smith and Son,
— List on Management, 573 Reading, Lady, Remarks on
Work, 752
Reamers, B.S.A. “Superland” lication), 347
Reavell, J. A., Biographical Note, 816 Receivers, “Atalanta ” and CR150, for “ Globespan ” Transmitters in Radiotelegraph Service on “ Mauretania.” 253
— Measuring Performance of XT314 Signal
Generators for (W. H. Sanders (Electronics), Ltd.), 390
— Transistor, Portable, 192
— Transmitter, Combined Simplex-Duplex
v.h.f. Radiotelephone Equipment,” Nautilus,” on “ Mauretania,” 25.3
Receiving Station, Radio Telephony, at Calshot Signal Station, 157*
Recessing Head, Automatic, “ Westwood,” with Integral Micrometer Adjustment for Depth of Cut (Trade Publication), 659
Recession and Unemployment, Trend of, 10
— United States. See United States
Reciprocal Trade Act (United States), 827 Records, Disc, Stereophonic (Pye Records, Ltd.), 576
— Week, Radio, Stereophonic Broadcasts
during, by British Broadcasting Corporation, 576
Recorder, Electronic, for Four Ring Balance Meters (Hagan Corp. (Canada), Ltd.), 517
— “ Midas,” for Simultaneous Recording of
Outputs of Seven Transducers in Aircraft under Flight or Trials Conditions (Mervyn Instruments), 373
Recording Apparatus, Vision Electronic, 512*
— Equipment, Magnetic, at Calshot Signal
Station, 157*
— Micro-, Symposium on, 155
— Multi-Cihannel, MUR Universal Oscillo
graph for (Southern Instruments Oscillograph Division), 485*
— Stereophonic, on Dual-Track Magnetic
Tapes, 224
? on Gramophone Discs, by H. A. M.
Clark, 448
— Tape, Magnetic, “ Extraplay ” (Minnesota
Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486
— Unit, Chart, High-Frequency, “ Mingograf
230B ” (Sierex, Ltd.), 551
Recovery Section for Uranium for Dounreay Materials Testing Reactor, 458*
Recruitment for Armed Forces, Figures for, 752 Rectifiers in Locomotives and Railway SubStations, by R. S. Wignall, 341*
— Set, Germanium, High Power, 18,400 kW,
at Ellesmere Port Plant of Associated Ethyl Co., Ltd. (British Thomson- Houston Co., Ltd.), 358*
(<
Ltd., 91
Mothers at
(Trade Pub-
Rectifiers, Silicon,Price Reductions by Ferranti Ltd., 433
(Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 455
— Single-Anode, “ Com-Pak,” for Electric
Locomotives (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 699
Red Book, Electrical Journal: Electricity Undertakings of World, 1957-58 (Book), 585
“ Redfyre Bacboiler ” with Underfloor AirFeed Fire (Newton Ltd.), 384
Redheugh Iron and Steel
Ltd., Sub-Contract Generating Plant Erection, 297*
“ Redler ” Chain Conveyor at Kuwait Sand- Lime Brick Works, 188
“ Redox ” Solvent Extraction Process, 205
Redpath, Brown and Co., Ltd., Aluminium Smelter Plant at Baie Comeau, 255
“ Redstone ” Missile, 262, 264
Reduction Gears. See Gears; Marine Propulsion
Reference Book, Electronic Engineer’s, by L. E. C. Hughes (Book), 585
— List, Trade, of Scientific and Technical
Books (Chapman and Hall), 823
Refiners, Conical, at New Board Mill of Colthrop Board and Paper Mills, Ltd. (Walmsley), 764
Refinery, Oil. See Oil Refinery
— Sugar, Workers, Technology for, by
O. Lyle (Book), 213
Refining, Electro, of Nickel, New Process for (International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 536
Reflecting Material, “ Scotchlite,” for Road Signs (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486
Reflectors, “ Cats Eyes,” for Motor Omnibus Scanning Transport
Chambers and Co.,
Company (1936),
for Wind-Driven
Identification on Indicator System Executive, 58* ?— Light, Material,
(Veritys, Ltd.), 544
Refractive Materials, Silicon-Silicon Carbide, for Matched Termination, 400
Refractory Materials, Behaviour at High Temperatures, 639
— Vapour Source for minium (Edwards 400
Refrigerated Baffles for High-Vacuum Diffusion Pumps (Edwards High-Vacuum, Ltd.), 310*
Refrigerators, Industrial (Trade Publication), 347
— Industry, Output Position and Prospects of, 115*
— Portable, Liquid-Nitrogen (Union Carbide International Co.), 197*
Refuelling of “ Valiant ” Bomber in Flight, 477*
Regenerator, Gas-Turbine, Performance of, by Dr. P. Fortescue and D. V. Wordsworth, 284*
Register, Professional and Executive, of Ministry of Labour and National Service, 560
Regulating System for Gas-Turbine Alternator Set for Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Co., Ltd. (Richardsons Westgarth (Hartlepool), Ltd.), 196
Regulators, High-Pressure, Inspection of, 690 Reheating Furnaces. See Furnaces
Reid, C. D., on Analysis Instruments, 590 Reid, W. J., on Sea Defence Works, 323
Reilang Twin Pump Oil Guns (Trade Publication), 730
Reinforced Concrete. See Concrete
Reinhold Plastics Applications Series, No. 1: Polyethylene, by T. O. J. Kresser (Book), 700
Rejafix, Ltd., Printing Machine for Patterns on Glass, 357*
Relays (Trade Publication), 119
— Bridging Make, 60 Ampere, for Aircraft Industry (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 294*
— Computing, Pneumatic, “ Consotrol ” (Foxboro-Yoxall, Ltd.), 165*
— Laws, for Electrical Power Packs for Guided Weapons, 728*
— Photo-Transistor, “ Magister ” (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 551
— for Starting Small Motors (Magnetic Devices, Ltd.), 327*
Relay Systems (Hawick), Ltd., Radio and Television Relay System at Hawick, 800
Radio and Television, at Hawick (Relay Systems (Hawick), Ltd.), 800
— Thermal, “ G-V ” (Trade Publication), 213 “ Reliance ” Emergency Transmitter on
“ Mauretania,” 253
Religion in Industry, Pamphlet on, 493 Remington Rand, Ltd., Foremen’s Club of, 720 Remote Communication, “ Simple ” Supervisory System for (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 455*
— Control of Nitro-Glycerine Production by Biazzi Process, Use of Television in, at Ardeer Factory of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 101*
Servo Mechanisms for (Tully Engineering Co., Ltd.), 820*
and Signalling System, “ Multiplex ” (Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 454
— Level Controller, Capacitance-Type, “ Proxicon ” Mark HI (J. Edward Hall (Electrical Engineers), Ltd.), CTl*
Remploy Agreement with Igranic Electric Co., for Assembly of Switches and Heavy-Duty Oil-Tight Control Units, 816
Renaissance to Industrial Revolution. Vol. Ill of History of Technology, by C. Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and T, I. Williams (Review), 346
Re-Nationalisation of Steel Industry, Prospective, Propaganda Against, 162
Renault “ Dauphine ” Motor Car Sales' in United States, 177
Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, Isle of Grain Refinery, 796*
Electronic of London
Aluminium,
Evaporation of Alu- High Vacuum, Ltd.),
Renolds Chains, Ltd., Formsprag Sprag Clutches, 70*; Roller Transmission Chains, Chain Drives, and “ A.S..4.” Roller Chain Drives at Brussels Fair, 487
Renting, Television, Boom in, 242
Repeater, Telephone, Two-Way, Submerged (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 487
Repetitive Tasks, Output Pattern in. Bibliography on,535
Replica Technique for Measurement of Local Strain under Static Loading, 726*
Report, Annual, of Accident Prevention Committee of Cement Makers’ Federation, 816
and Activities of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 579
Aeronautics, National Advisory Committee for. Note on, 409
ALCO Products, Inc., 461
Allen West and Co., 774
Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft,553 Aluminium, Ltd., 617
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 195, 309
Arthur D. Little Research Institute, 774 ASEA, 770
Asquith Machine Tool Corp., 296 Associated Commercial Vehicles, 271 Associated Electrical Industries, 367, 395, 496
? Associated Engineering Holdings, Ltd.,
207
Associated Pvlotor Cycle^, Ltd., 296 Manu-
British British British British
British Ropes, Ltd., 711
British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd., 171
—? — British Timken, Ltd., 617, 810 J. Brockhouse and Co., Ltd., 171 Broom and Wade, Ltd., 207 Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd., 681 Cardiff Youth Employment Committee, Discussion in Parliament on, 272; Report on, by T. A. Pritchard, 278*
Caterpillar Tractor Co., 335 Central Wagon Co., 296
Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, 323
Channel Tunnel Co., 774
? of Chief Inspector of Factories for 1956,
158
— — Civil Servants, Institution of Profes
sional, 428
Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd., 367
Colvilles, Ltd., 171
Costain, R., Ltd., 647
Coventry Gauge and Tool Co., Ltd., 296 Cummins Engine, Inc., 523
Darwins, Ltd., 584
David Brown Corporation, Ltd., 207 Davies, H., and Co., Ltd., 496
Dorman Long and Co., Ltd., 79, 771 Dravo Corp., 681
? Electrical Research Association Laboratory, 736
English Electric Co., Ltd., 335, 367 ?— — E.N.V. Engineering Co., Ltd., 743 Ericsson Telephones, Ltd., 584 Fenner, J. H., Group, 111 Firth, T., and John Brown, 79 Fluidrive Engineering Co., 367 Ford Motor Company, 461
Glacier Metal, 810
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Group, 743 Guy Motors, Ltd., 79
Hadfield Group, 271
Hall Engineering Industries, 584
Hawkins Bros. Holdings Ltd., 207
Heating and Ventilating Council, 418
Henry, S. (Holdings), 711 Hilger and Watts, Ltd., 427 Hoffmann Manufacturing Co. Hoover, Ltd., 367
. Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 553
International Nickel Co., of Canada, 427, 617
?—? — Jaguar Cars, Ltd., 711 Johnson and Phillips, 743 Joy Manufacturing Co., 111 Kendall and Gent, Ltd., 137 Lancashire Dynamo Group, 774 Lancashire Steel Corp., Ltd., 34 Laurence, Scott and Electromotors, 774 Legal Studies, Advanced, Institute of, 443 Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co., 774
Lloyds Bank, Ltd., 171
Locomotive Development Committee Bituminous Coal Research Inc., 690
London Brick Co., 774
Lucas, J., 46
Manchester Public Libraries, 213
— ?— Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., 171
Martin Co., 523
Messina (Transvaal) Development Co., Ltd., 496
? Metropolitan Water Board, 191 of Monsanto Chemicals, 461 National Research and Development Corp., 340
Negretti and Zambra, Ltd., 427
Opperman Gears (Holdings), 743
Orient Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., 395 of Parkinson Cowan, Ltd., 523
Parsons, C. A., 774 Perkins, F., Ltd., 711 Petaling Tin, Ltd., 335
Report, Annual, Petrofina, 711 Philips, N. V., Group, 743 Phoenix-Rheinrohr A.G., 584 Plessey Co., Ltd., 171
— — Power-Gas Corp., Ltd., 296
Pratt. J. A., and Co. (1928), Ltd., 296 Prestige, Ltd., 367
of Radio Communication and Electronic Engineering Association, 239
Radio Rentals, Ltd., 242 Rolls-Royce, Ltd., 711 Royal Mail Lines, 810
Shell Transport and Trading Co., 584 Simon-Carves, 711
Simon’s, H., Turbine Gears, 743
Skefko Ball Bearings, 617 Smith, S., and Sons, 46
South Durham Steel and Iron Co., Ltd., 79 Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., 34, 771
Stone, J., and Co. (Holdings), Ltd., 810 Summers J., and Sons, Ltd., 171
Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Group. 553
— — Switchgear and Cowans, 774 Taylor Woodrow, 647
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co., Ltd., 584
Uganda Electricity Board, 514
United States Coast Survey Service, 802 United States National Bureau Standards, 639
United States Steel Corp., 427, 584 United Steel Companies, Ltd., 79 Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., 523 Vickers Group, 647
Weir, G. and J., Ltd., 647 Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd., 137
White, J. Samuel, and Co., Ltd., 247 Whitehead Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., 335 Wimpey, G., 647
Worthington Simpson, Ltd., 647
— on Availability of Theses, 633
— Board of Trade. See Board of Trade
— of the Canadian Trade Mission to Britain.
Comment on, 513
— Carr Committee on Training for Skill, 524
— of Committee of Inquiry into Coal Dis
tribution Costs in Great Britain, 769
— on Conference on Modern Technological
Education for Industry, 409
— of Council of Engineering Institute of
Canada, 762
— of Council on Prices, Productivity and
Income Comment, on, 257
— on Defence, White Paper, 624
— on Defence, White Paper, Effect on Aircraft
Industry, 577
— Economic, Overseas, on Klein and Saks’
Work in Chile, 643
— on Electric Power Exchanges in Central and
South Eastern Europe, 610
— on Electric Power Situation in Europe in
1956, 451
— of ENGINEERING Inquiry into British Air
craft Industry, 593*. See also 577, 609
— European Iron and Steel Community, 706
— of Exhibitions’ Advisory Committee,
Government’s Attitude to, 337
— Gordon, of Royal Commission on Canada’s
Economic Prospects, Comment on, 482
— International Labour Conference, 44
— of Iron and Steel Board, Comment on, 387
— by Laboratory Apparatus and Optical
Sections’ Public Information Committee of Scientific Apparatus Makers’ Association of Chicago on Laboratory Staff Communication with Management, 720
— on Level-Crossing Protection by Officers
of Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and British Transport Commission, 812
— Lloyds’ Register of Shipping, on Damage
and Accidents to Ships, 241*
— Market, Scanning the Provinces, 790
— Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 91
— Monopolies and Restrictive Practices
Commission on British Oxygen Co., Ltd., 423
— to National Industrial Fuel Efficiency
Service, by Dr. W. A. MacFarlane, 163
•— Organisation for European Economic Co-operation. See Organisation
— on Practical Training of Mechanical
Engineers, 492. See also 481, 514
— Progress, in Chemical Literature Retrieval,
473
—? on Quality Control in Office, 674
— on Research Associations, Research for
Industry, Comment on, 737
— Semi-Annual, United States Atomic Energy
Commission, Progress in Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, 399
— on Staggering of Working Hours, Discus
sion in Parliament on, 524
— Technical, on Aerodynamic Research, 283
— on Tentative Design Standards for Resist
ance Formed Welds in Mild Steel, 503
— Third, of Oversea Migration Board, Com
ment on, 100
— of Trials of British Railways with V.H.F. Radio Link Between Train and Telephone
Exchange, 158
— See also Royal Commission; White Paper Research, Aeronautical, Government’s Financial Contribution to, 609
— Association, British Cotton Industries’.
See Cotton Industries' Research Association, British
?— ?— British Hydromechanics. See Hydromechanics Research Association, British
of British Rubber Manufacturers. See Rubber Manufacturers, British, Research Association of
British Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding Research Association, British
Ceramic. See Ceramic elation, 737
— ?— Coal Utilisation. See
Research Association
Cotton Industry. See Research Association
Electrical. See Electrical Research Association
Research Association, Iron and Steel, British. See Iron and Steel Research Association Motor Industry. See Motor Industry Research Association
Policy of, 641
— ?— Production Engineering. See Production
Engineering Research Association
Report on. Research for Industry, Comment on, 737
— — Shipbuilding. See Shipbuilding Research
Association
— ?— Support for, by S. B. Bailey, 515
— Behaviour, Applications of, by R. Likert
and S. P. Hayes, Jnr. (Review), 585
— Bulletin of Aluminium Laboratories, Ltd.,
Note on, 535
?— on Complete Gasification of Coal at Solihull Research Station, 533*
— Council, Heating and Ventilating. See
Heating
National (Canada), Building Research Division, Window Testing, 128; Activities of, 309; Library Service of, 585; Research on Domestic Climatology, 768
?— and Development, 24*, 58*, 88*, 125, 151*, 182*, 214*, 310*, 339*, 373, 402*, 436*, 466, 497*, 533*, 562*, 639, 660*, 693*, 722*, 756*, 786*, 819*
in Agricultural Machinery Industry, by J. M. Chambers, 611
Employment of Engineers and Scientists in, 355
Station at Leatherhead, Establishment of, by Constructors John Brown, Ltd., 153
— — Survey of, by National Science Founda
tion, 355
— Electrical Industry’s Financial Contribution
to. Remarks by Viscount Hailsham, 641
— Ergonomics, Society, Ergonomics: Human
Factors in Work, Machine Control and Equipment Design, New Publication, 57
— Expenditure, Differences of Opinion of
Scientists and Administrators on, 738
— Financing of. Role of Industry in, 641
— Fundamental, by Engineering Teachers,
Plan for, 391
— Government, by Earl of Halsbury, 663.
See also 641
— High-Altitude, in International Geophysical
Year, by Dr. R. F. L. Boyd, 126
— Hire Purchase for. Possibility of, 675
— for Industry, Report on Research Associa
tions, Comment on, 737
— Institute, Engineering. See Engineering
Research Institute
— Laboratory at Cambridge University, 276
— Motivation; Its Practice and Uses for Ad
vertising, Marketing and Other Business Purposes, by H. Henry (Review), 659
— Operational. See Operational Research
— Organisation, Coil Spring Federation. See
Coil Spring Federation Research Organisation
Within Commonwealth, List of, 233
— and Production, Statistical Methods in, by
O. L. Davies (Review), 212
— Scientific, Discussion in Parliament on, 464 and Industrial, Government’s Role in,464
— Scientists, Government-Employment of.
Committee on, 680. See also 675
— in Small-Scale Industry in Netherlands, 145
— State Influence on, by Sir H. Beaver, 578
— Station, 400 kV, in Mannheim-Rheinau,
New Investigation on Interference Levels at, by R. Bartenstein, 822
—• — Solihull, Research on Complete Gasification of Coal, 533*
— University, in United States, 826
— Workers and Graduate Students, Notes on
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Grants for, 107
— See also National Physical Laboratory Reservoir, Hirakud Project for Orissa, 413* Resin, “ Epikote,” Tools (Trade Publication),
762
— Epoxide, Brush-Setting Cement for Paint
Brush Manufacture (Bakelite, Ltd.), 211
— Epoxy, Glass Cloth (Permali, Ltd.), 211
?—? — Their Applications and Technology, by H. Lee and K. Neville (Book), 57
— ?—? Vacuum Tank for 7 GeV Proton Synch
rotron for National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, 776
— Impregnated Densified Plywood, “ Hydulig-
num,” Cinema Film on (Hordern Richmond, Ltd.), 23
— ?— Densified Wood Laminate Insulation,
Permali, for ZETA, 333
—-Phenolic, Glass Cloth (Permali, Ltd.), 211
— Polyester, Glass Cloth (Permali, Ltd.), 211
— Silicone. See Silicone
Resistance, Electric. See Electric
— Welding. See Welding
Resolution of Cathode Ray Tubes, Apparatus for Measuring (Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern)), 389
Resolver, Vernier, Electromagnetic Angle Transducer (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 94
Resources, Natural, Conservation of (Book), 91 Restriction Scheme, International, 706
Restrictive Policies, Government’s, Plea for Relaxation of, by Sir T. Williamson, 752
— Practices Act, Case of British Motor Trades
Association District Scheme Agreement Under, 368
? Act, Remarks by H. Smith on, 711
Court, First and Subsequent Cases of, 465
? and Monopolies Commission. See Monopolies
in Shipbuilding Industry, Discussion in Parliament on, 591
— Trade Practices Act, Progress Made Under,
418
Retail Management Conference (Eastbourne), Address by G. Duttweiler, 337
— Price Index, 433
Index, United States, 746*
Retaining Walls, Earth Pressures and, by W. C. Huntington (Book), 213
“ Retemba ” Collapsible Container (Warwick Production Co., Ltd.), 133*
Reuther, W., Scheme for New Wage Terms! n United States Motor Industry, 720
Reviews, Book, 26, 56, 90, 118, 154, 180, 212, 250, 282, 308*, 346, 374, 408, 442, 473, 502, 535, 585, 659, 700, 730, 762, 793, 823
Revo Electric, Lighting Equipment for Gatwick Airport, 653
Revolution, Industrial, from Renaissance to. Vol. Ill of History of Technology, by C. Singer, E. H. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and T. I. Williams (Review), 346
Reynolds, Dr. J. A., on Neutron Emission in High Current Gas Discharges, 108
Reyrolle, A., and Co., Ltd., “ Pegasus ” Digital Computer for Design of Switchgear at (Ferranti, Ltd.), 254; Position and Prospects of, 523
Rhine-Ruhr Area, Oil Pipeline to, from Wilhelmshaven, 233
Rice, G. G., Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 104*, 188*
Richard, J. D., on Coriolis Acceleration, 548
Richardson, Rev. A., on Science and Existence. Comment on, 1
Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd., Continuous High-Output Flash Evaporator for Producing High-Purity Distilled Water from Sea Water, 70*
Richardsons Westgarth (Hartlepool), Ltd., Gas-Turbine Alternator Set for Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Co., Ltd., 196*
Richter, W., on Distribution of German National Income, 280
Rickover, Rear-Admiral H. G., on America’s Educational Weaknesses, 825
“ Rigidal ” Corrugated Aluminium Sheet for Pemberton Integral Caravan, 608
Rigidity, Influence on Brittle Fracture in Ships, 497
RILEM. See Union of Testing and Research Laboratories for Metals and Materials Riley, V., the Late, 228
Rings, Concrete, for Railway Tunnel Linings, 248*
— Main Cabling for Gatwick Airport (Cromp
ton Parkinson), 653
Unit, Non-Extensible, NX (Johnson and Phillips Ltd.), 455*
— O-, Pressure Sealing by, by J. R. Fawcett,
314*. See LETTER, J88*
— and Plug Gauges (Trade Publication), 534
— Slewing, Cross-Roll Bearing, for Excavators
(Priestman Bros., Ltd.), 613*
River Danube, Suspension Pipe-Bridge Across, for Conveyance of Natural Gas, 49*
— Mahanadi in Orissa, Plan for Development
of, 413
— Thames, Helicopter Landing Facilities on.
Discussion in Parliament on, 496
Heliport on. Application for, 642
Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on, for Ocean- Going Colliers, 47*
— Trent, Prestressed Concrete Clifton Bridge
Over, 349*
Study of Length of Viaduct over, for London to Yorkshire Motorway, at Hydraulics Research Station, 46
— Volta, Scheme, 482
— Zambesi, Flooding of Kariba Dam by, 625* Riveted Ships, Fractures in, 497*
Road Accidents, Statistics on, 370
— Bridge, Pelham, Lincoln, Replacement of
Level Crossing by, 813*
— Construction Machinery Industry, Position
and Prospects of, 116
Programme, 116
— Elevated, at Gatwick Airport, 654*
— Link, St. Mary’s, at Lincoln, Construction
of, 815*
Road Machines (Drayton), Ltd., Mobile Cement Silos, 414*; “ Monoveyor ”
Transporter, 613*
— Research Laboratory, Work on Motor-
Vehicle Inspection, 370*
— Signs for Motorways, Anderson Committee
on. Discussion in Parliament on, 809
Revision of. Discussion in Parliament on, 175
“ Scotchlite ” Reflecting Material for (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486
— Transport, Survey by Ministry of Transport,
354
— Trunk, Position and Prospects of Construc
tion Programme, 738
— Use of, by Commercial Motor Vehicles,
Investigation by Ministry of Transport on, 354
— See also By-Pass: Motorway
Robb, W. M., Machinery Markets in Eastern Europe, 755
Robert W. Angus Medal, Institution by Engineering Institute of Canada, 347
Roberts, C., and Co., Proposed Merger with Hurst Nelson and Co., 296
Roberts, G., on Structural Uses of Welded High-Tensile Steel, 734
Roberts, Sir L., on Activities and Prospects of Manchester Ship Canal Co., 461
Robertson, Sir H., lelevision Centre of British Broadcasting Corporation at Wood Lane, 363*
Robertson, V. A. M., on Difficulties of Consulting Engineers, 258
Robinson, F. C., on Developments in Broaching, 543
Robinson, J. B. C., on Inspection of Tubes for Flaws and Variations in Thickness, 575
Robinson, T., and Son, Ltd., “ Pneu-roll ”
Rollermill, Type MEm, for Flour Milling (Trade Publication), 213; Machine for Automatic Manufacture of Railway Sleepers, 678*
Rock Drill, “ Lion,” for use with Air Pusher Leg (Atlas Copco (Great Britain), Ltd.), 421*
— Wool-Lined Air Ducts, Attenuation Curves
for, by Dr. A. J. King, 29*
Rockey, Ur. K. C., on Web Buckling and Plate Girder Design, 312
Rockweld, Ltd., “ TT ” Welders’ Brush, 645
Rockwell Machine Tool Co., Ltd., Lapping and Grinding Machine for Large Valves at Esso Petroleum Co., 518*; American 600-ton Automatic Hydraulic Scrap Cutting Shear, 741 *
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Rocol, Ltd., “ Molytone 265, 320, and 380 ” Greases for Bearings, 242
Rod, Coiled, Malmedie Straightening and Cutting Machine for (Stuart Davis, Ltd.), 485*
— Mills, Internal Mechanics of, by H. E. Rose
and R. M. E, Sullivan (Book), 375
—- Works, Kingfield, of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., 830*
Rogerstone, New Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., at, for Production of Larger and Thicker Plates in Aluminium and Alloys, 410*
Roll Forming, Cold, Practice in United States, by W. G. Kirkland, 734
— and Pitch Measurements on Double-Deck
Bus, 564*
Rolled Steel Products, Prospects for, 171 Roller Bearings. See Bearings
— Chain Drives, “ A.S.A.,” at Brussels
(Renolds Chains, Ltd.), 487
— Transmission Chains at Brussels
(Renolds Chains, Ltd.), 487
Rollermill, “ Pneu-roll,” Type MEm, Flour Milling (Trade Publication), 213
Fair
Fair
for
Rolling, Cold, of Fillets, at Motor Industry Research Association, 772
— Form and Thread, by D. H. Seymour and
F. M. Lomas, 543
— Gear Tester, No. 4 (J. G. Goulder and Sons,
Ltd.), 741*
— Mill, Assel, for Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd.
(Aetna Standard Engineering Co.), 669
Cold, Sendzimir 2R40, at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills, 633
Double-Duo, lOJ-in. Precision, at Sanderson Brothers and Newbould, Ltd., 126* Drives, Control by Mercury-Arc Converters (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701* Export to Hungary, Discussion in Parliament on, 624
Hot, Steckel Type, at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills, 632*
Shepcote Lane, for Wide Stainless Steel Strip, Modifications at, 632*
Sinking, for Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd. (Head Wrightson Machine Co.), 669
Strip, Automatic Gauge Control in, by Dr. R. B. Sims, 575
? Strip, Proposed, Discussion in Parlia
ment on Site for (Richard Thomas and Baldwins, Ltd., 464
Two-High, for Skin-Passing of Stainless Steel Strip at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills (Loewy Engineering Co., Ltd.), 633
Two-Roll, Mannesmann Type, for Initial Piercing of Billets at Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd. (Head Wrightson Machine Co., Ltd.), 668*
— Process, Direct, for Continuous Production
of Strip, by D. K. Worn, 472
— of Strip, Sheet and Plate, by E.
(Book), 56
Rolls-Royce, Ltd., “ Conway ” Engines for Vickers “ VCIO ”
Rotherham, L,, Appointment to Central Electricity Generating Board, 44
Roto-Finish, Ltd., “ Grisiron ” Alkaline Metal Cleaners (Trade Publication), 90
“ Rotodyne ” Vertical Take-off and Landing Airliner(Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 750*; Government Support for, 680
Rotol, Ltd., Conference of “ Viscount” Airliner Qperators, 782*
Rotolift Sales Co., Ltd., “ Pull-Jack ” Tool for Sealing Tubeless Tyres, 678
“ Rotonamic ” Air and Gas-Cleaning Panels (Intermit, Ltd.), 326*
Rotor, Control, “ Rotormatic,” for “ Rotorcycle ” Qne-Man Folding Helicopter (Hiller Helicopters), 645*
— Vertical, Whirling of. Influence of Qfl
Resonance in Bearings, by Dr. F. Orbeck, 343*
“ Rotorcycle ” Qne-Man Folding Helicopter (Hiller Helicopters),
“ Rotormatic ” Control cycle ” Qne-Man (Hiller Helicopters), Rotterdam, Europoort Progress of, 802
Routiner Unit for Transducer System for Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 26*
Rover, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 85 Rover Project on Rocket Propulsion, 399 Royal Aeronautical Society. See Aeronautical Society under Aeronautics
— Air Force. See Aeronautics
— Aircraft Establishment. See under Aero
nautics
— Commission on Canada’s Economic Pros
pects, Gordon Report of. Comment on, 482
on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration, 528
Survey of Remuneration of Professional Engineers, 162
Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Orders Placed in United Kingdom by, 482
Shell Laboratories, Research on Underground Thermal Cracking of Crude Oil, 771
— Festival Hall, Space Travel Conference at.
Preliminary Notice, 405
— Institute of British Architects. See Archi
tects
— Institution, London, Gem Stones, by Sir
L. Bragg, 211
— Mail Lines, Annual Report of, 810
— Ordnance Factories. See Ordnance
— Radar Establishment. See Radar
645*
Rotor, for “ Rotor- Folding Helicopter 645*
Harbour Plan at.
Royal Society:
Fellow of. Ruling of Position of. After Name, 659
C. Larke
Turbojet Jet Air
liners, 103*; 300 b.h.p. Turbo-Charged Diesel Engine for Heavy-Duty Dumper, 165; Operation of Nuclear Reactor, 173; Power Plant for Jet Airliner for British European Airways, 240; 1,540-h.p. “Dart 506” Propeller Turbine Engines for “Local-Service Viscount” Airlnc, 254; Apprenticeship Scheme of, 279*; “ Dart ” Propeller-Turbine Engine Adoption for New Aircraft Designs, 379; “Dart” Propeller-Turbine Engines in Vickers “Viscount” Airliners, 379; Quality in Engineering Manufacture, by F. Nixon. 417; “Conway” By-Pass Turbo-Jet Engine, 487*; Air Conditioning System for Motor Cars, 489*; Training Aid Kits for Aero-Engine Schools, 517*; “ Avon ” Jet Engines for “ Comet 4 ’’Airliner, 556*; Fire-Tunnel Tests on “ Comet 4 ” Power Plants, 557*; Policy and Action of, 594; Diversification Activities of, 601; Position and Prospects of, 711; Conference of “Viscount” Airliner Operators, 782*; Test-House at Hucknall Flight Test Establishment for “ Conway ” By-Pass Engine Pods, 789*; New Subsidiary Company, Moteres Rolls-Royce S.A., in South America, 810
Roman Chariots, 474
Romford, Catalytic Plant at, for Transformation of Liquid Methane, 242
—? North Thames Gas Board Installation at, Use of Oil-Refinery Gases from Shellhaven, 222*
Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, Newcomen Society’s Visit to, 818
Roofs, Factory, Modernisation at Petters, Ltd., 382*
— Layers, Impervious, “ Parovent ” Vents for
Escape of Moisture from Below (Paramount Asphalte, Ltd.), 519*
— Lighting Material, Corrugated, Non
Combustible (Corroglaze, Ltd.), 197
— Structures, Wind Loading, Wind Tunnel
Tests on, 697
— Trusses, Fabricated Tubular Steel (Trade
Publication), 503
Rootes, B., Views on Position and Prospects of Motor Car Industry, 79
Rootes Group, Price Reduction on Commer and Karrier Trucks, 433
Rootes, Sir W., on Canadian Trade Mission to Britain, 513; Remarks on Trade Delegation in Canada, 658
Rope, Wire, Eye, “ Superloop ” (British Ropes Ltd.), 327*
“ Rosan ” Press-Nut for Sheet Metal (Instrument Screw Co., Ltd.), 580*
Rosner, C., and Associates, “ Portrait of an Age,” Paintings by H. Erni, 588
Rotameter Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Transmitting Density Meter for Clean Liquids, 551*; Transmitting Rotameter; for Fluid Measurement and Control, 551
— Transmitting, for Fluid Measurement and
Control (Rotameter Mtnu acturing Co., Ltd.), 551
Roth, Prof. M., on Problems of Mental Health in Qld Age, 816
Royal Society of Arts. See Arts
of Health. See Health, Royal Society of
— Statistical Society. See Statistical Society Royce Electric Furnaces, Hydrogen Bell
Furnace for Heat Treatment, 452*
Ruark, A. E., on Temperature of Plasmas, 431 Rubber and Allied Manufacturers, British, Federation of. Directory of British Rubber Manufacturers and Products (Book), 503
— Antistatic, Testing, by D. Bulgin, 150
— Brittleness Tests on, at Low Temperatures,
113
— Conductive, Testing, by D. Bulgin, 150
— Engineering, Shape Factors and Functions
in. by A. R. Payne (Book), 503
— Foam, Balls, Circulation in Condenser
Tubes, 828*
— Hose, Polyethylene-lined, “ Valithene.” for
Conveyance of Concentrated Mineral Acids (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 580
— Industry, Synthetic, Development in United
Kingdom, 770
— Low-Temperature Tests on, by F. H.
Edwards, 113
— Manufacturers, British, Research Associa
tion of. Dynamic Properties of Vulcanised Rubber: 5, Shape Factors and Functions in Rubber Engineering, by A. R. Payne (Book), 503
and Products, British, Directory (Book), 503
— to-Metal Bonding, Tests for, by F.
Edwards, 150
—and-Steel Laminated Bearings, Andre, Pelham Road Bridge, 815*
Riisch, Prof. H., on Strain Compatibility Condition of Prestressed Concrete Beams, 735 Russia, Academy of Sciences, National, Magneto-Aerodynamics, by Dr. W. R. Sears, 534
?—Children’s Literature in, 155
— Electronics in. Review of, 482
— Exchanging Teachers with, 175
— List of Current Periodicals During 1952-57,
503
— Mercantile Marine Radar Equipment for.
Government’s Refusal to Grant Export Licence for. Remarks on, by F. S. Mockford, 239
— Metallurgy in. Review of, 482
— Offer to International Atomic Energy
Agency, 238
— Particle Accelerator, 50 GeV, at Leningrad
Institute of Electro-Physical Equipment, 270
?—? Radioactive Sources in, 445*
— Shortage of Engineers and Scientists in, 146
— Thermonuclear Experiments in, 43
— Trade with. Effect of Embargoes, 423
— Uranium Extraction from Sea-Water in, 494
— See also Moscow
Russian Cinema Film on Man, Friend of Man, Double-Reel Technique in, 736
— Cobalt Radiographic Equipment, 446*
— Competition in Machine Tool Industry, 53* ?—? Economic Aid to Asia, Africa and Middle
East, 81
— Gamma Radiographic Equipment, Com
parison with British, 444*
— Journal Elektrichestvo, English Translation
of, 61
?—? Language Course at Universities, Discussion in Parliament on, 680
— Nuclear Power Exhibits at Brussels Fair, 521
— Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 521*
— Physics Literature, Translation of. Note on,
213
— Publishing House of Foreign and National
Dictionaries, 119
— Research, Translation of. Duplication of.
Comment on, 27
— Sales of Commodities and Capital Equip
ment on World Market, 610
?—? Scientific Journals, Availability of, 496 Literature, Discussion in Parliament on, 208
Literature, Translation of, 208
— Submarines, Threat of. Discussion in
Parliament on, 777
— Technology, Reviews of, 483 Rust-Inhibiting Calcium Plumbate Paint,
“ Rustodian,” Cinema Film on (Associated Lead Manufacturers, Ltd.), 242
— Protection, “ Giostack ” Coating Material
(Corrosion, Ltd.), 23
— Window Cracking due to Formation of, on
Frames, 96
“ Rustodian ” Rust-Inhibiting Calcium Plumbate Paint, Cinema Film on (Associated Lead Manufacturers, Ltd.), 242
Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 5-25 MW Nuclear Power Stations, 41; Centenary of, 45; Nuclear-Energy Activities, 619*
Rustyfa, Ltd., Award of Further Contracts, 433 Rutherford Laboratory of National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, Proton Synchrotron for, 42*
Ruths Steam Accumulators for High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd. Ltd.), 469*
(Cochran and Co., Annan,
Heavy Duty Spot Welding
of
H.
for
— Stiffness Tests on, at Low Temperatures, 113
— Technical Committee on. See Standards
Organisation, International, Technical Committee on Rubber
— Testing, International Standards for, 150 International Standards for. Meeting at
Zurich: Low-Temperature Tests on Rubbers, by F. H. Edwards, 113
— Tracks on “ Water Buffalo ” Crawler
Tractor for Marsh Country (Albion Motors, Ltd.), 168*
— Transitions in, at Low Temperatures, 113
— Vulcanised, Dynamic Properties of; 5,
Shape Factors and Functions in Rubber Engineering, by A. R. Payne (Book), 503 Rubberised Bitumen for Sealing Airstrips at Launceston Airport, Tasmania, 441
Rubert and Co., Ltd., Precision Length-Measuring Machines, 229*; Beam and Dial Indicator Equipment for Measurement of Surface Plate Deflections under Load, 742* Rugby Portland Cement Co., “ Pectacrete ” Portland Cement Coated with Repellent, 149
Ruhr-Rhine Area, Oil Pipeline to, Wilhelmshaven, 233
— Strike in, German Steelworkers’
Call for, 460
Rundle, M., on Electrical Installations in Large Dock Areas, 260
Runner Vane Shapes of Turbomachines, Design Method, by L. Young, 376*
Runway at Gatwick Airport, 653* Airport, Polythene Membrane for, 655*
— Lighting at Gatwick Airport, 653* Rural Crafts of Kent, 818
— Electricity Supply, Position of, 127
— Electrification, Discussion in Parliament on,
390
Water
from
Union
S.70 “ Leopard ”
Machine (Portable Welders, Ltd.), 68 S.lOO “Leopard” Heavy Duty Spot Welding Machine (Portable Welders, Ltd.), 68 “S.I4I8” Churchill-Cleveland Gear Hobbing
Machine (Churchill Gear Machines, Ltd.), 5*
Saddington, K., on Nuclear Fission Product Disposal, 204, 236*
Saddle Tap, “ Awco,” for Overhead Conductors (Aluminium Wire and Cable Co., Ltd.), 70*
Safe-Load Indicating Device for Cranes, 679 Safety Aspects of Compressed Air Systems, 671
— Atomic, Committee of United Kingdom
Atomic Energy Authority, Appointment of, 650
?—? in Atomic Energy Field, 75
?— — Engineering, Report on, 158
— Council, British, Horror Poster on Scrap
ping Worn and Damaged Hand Tools, 428
— Dangerous Properties of Industrial
Materials, by N.I. Sax (Book), 347
— of Electrical Appliances, Joint Committee
of Electrical Development Association and British Standards Association on, 656
— in Explosives Production, Use of Television
in, 101*
— Factor of. Definition of, 417
— Margin of. Definition of, 417
— Measures at Calder Hall, Report on, 158
— as Moral Aspect of Engineering, 97
— in Motor Vehicles, Effect of Inspection,
370*
— in Nuclear Energy, 366
— of Nuclear Powered Ships, Discussion in
Parliament on, 524
— of Plutonium Storage, by M. B. Biram and
K. T. Spinney, 495
— Precautions at High-Altitude Test Plant for
Ram-Jet Engines at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 437*
? Legal Aspects of, by P. W. Cole, 304
in Shippingport Nuclear Power Station, 683
“ Safety Walk Wetordry ” Non-Slip Floor Covering (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486*
— See also Radiation
Sage, G., on Design Basis of Containment Sphere for Dresden Nuclear Reactor, 775*
Sahara, Africa South of. Commission for Technical Co-operation in. Membership of, 368; Foundation for Mutual Assistance in, 368, 423
— Four-Wheel Drive 2 CV Motor Car for
Personnel Transport in (Citroen), 435 Sails, Developments in, 9 Sailing, Mechanics of,
99, 195 Saint. See St. Salary, Engineers', by
See LETTER, 675
— of Nuclear Scientists, Negotiations for
Increased, 304
— of Professional Engineers, Survey of, 162
•— Teachers’, Discussion at Annual Conference of National Union of Teachers (Scarborough), 493
in United States, 825
— See also Income; Wage (under Labour) Sales to Eastern Europe, 755
?—Government-to-Government, Remarks on, by A. Jones, 337
— Insurance of, 465
— of Machine Tools, Discussion in Parliament
on, 175
— Management and Salesmanship, by J. G.
Jones, Note on, 658
?— Managers’ Association, Incorporated,
Cinema Films on How to Sell Quality and Overcoming Objections, 81
— Missions to Canada, 209
— and Publicity Scheme on Importance of
Using Genuine Girling Motor-Car Parts, 433
— Russian, of Commodities and Capital
Equipment on World Market, 610
— Training Cinema Films, 81
Salem Engineering Co., Ltd., Gas-Fired
Rotary Hearth Furnace for Billets at Eagle Works of Tubes, Ltd., 668*
Salesman-Engineer, Remarks on, by R. S. Falk, 81
?— Midget, March of the (Automatic Packaging), 790
Salesmanship and Sales Management, by J. G. Jones, Note on, 658
Salesreels, 16 mm Cinema Films of Sidcup Film Unit, 790
Salford Electrical Instruments, Ltd., Transducer System for Checking Strain in Power-Operated Flexible Throat Plates of Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 25*; Tests on Burst Slug Detection Gear, 110
Salisbury, E. H., on Use of Models in Design and Construction of Chemical Plant, 83 Salt-Bath Furnaces, - •
Upton), 167* Salter, G., and Co., ’
Tool, 328* Salters’ Exhibition, 1 Salters’ Institute i
6*. See LETTERS, 48,
J. G. Orr, 643, 707.
Graphite-Electrode (Efco-
Ltd., “ Truarc ” Grooving
816
of Industrial Chemistry, Lectures to School Children in Chemistry, 816
“ Salvare ” Wireless Installations for Class “A” Motor Lifeboats on “ Mauretania,” 253
Sampling, Information, Rotary Switch for (Vactric (Control Equipment), Ltd.), 488*
— from Radioactive Process Streams, by
R. W. Dickinson and F. Jones, 590
— Work, by R. M. Barnes (Review), 346 Sanborn. See Sellers
Sands, Calcareous, Experiments with, for Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 104*
— Deposit, Pure, at Kuwait, 104
—? Lime Bricks, Production at Kuwait Sand- Lime Brick Works, 104*, 188*
— Supply and Storage of, at Kuwait Sand-
Lime Brick Works, 188*
Sanders, W. H. (Electronics), Ltd., XT.314 Signal Generators for Measuring Performance of Receivers, 390
Sanderson Brothers and Newbould, Ltd., lOj-in. Double-Duo Precision Rolling Mill at, 126*
Sandstone, Diamond-Bit Performance in, by A. E. Long, 536
Sandwich Constructions, Structural, Symposium on (Review), 700
— Courses, Financially Assisted, 592
Sangamo Weston, Ltd., Ice Warning Set for Aircraft, 455
Sankey-Telcon, Ltd., “ Mercast ” Process for Frozen Mercury Patterns for Die Casting, 797*
Sapphire, Synthetic, Linde, for Radiation Entrance Windows Sinks (Union Carbide International Co.), 817*
Sara, H. J., on Tidal Model for Southampton University, 199
Sarom Co., Purchase of Marketing Interests by British Petroleum Co., Ltd., 271
Satellite. See Aeronautics
— Transmitter for Television Station al
Folkestone, 448
Saunders-Roe (Anglesey), Ltd., Stabilising Equipment for Small Ships, 122*; Contracts for 10,000 Gallon “Yorkshire” Fuellers, 709
Saunders-Roe, Ltd., Yacht Model Tests at, 9; “SR177” Supersonic Interceptor Aircraft, Order Position of, 87; Model Tests on Underwater Hull Forms for Nuclear- Powered Submarine Oil Tanker, 470*; Diversification Activities of, 601
Saurer Motor Truck for Transporting Iron Bars, 435
Savage and Parsons, Ltd., Master-Slave Manipulators for High-Activity Handling at Harwell, 109; Carbon Arc Lamps for Floodlighting of Niagara Falls, 231*
“ Savannah,” Nucler-Powered Merchant Ship, 459
Saver, Small, as Shareholder, 784
Savoy Hotel, Porte Cochere for, 49*
Saws, Hand, and Sawing, by A. W. Lewis (Booklet), 448
— See also Machine Tools
Sawers, D., Sources of Invention, Comment on, 129
Sawing and Handsaws, by A. W, Lewis (Booklet), 448
Precisio
Infra-Red and Heat
42
ENGINEERING, \OL. 185 (1958)
Scale Prevention in Sea-Water Evaporators, 71 Scalper for Removing Oversize Material (C. J. R. Fyson and Son), 615*
Scanning Correlator, Electronic, Automatic, “ Auscor,” for Stereo-Images (Photographic Survey Corp.), 607
— Indicator, Electronic, Motor Omnibus
(London Transport Executive), 58*
— the Provinces (Market Report), 790 Scavenging Pumps. See Pumps, Air
“ Sceptre ” Yacht, Model Tests on, 8* “ Sceptre 111 ” Gas-Discharge Apparatus, Results Obtained with, at Associated Electrical Industries Research Laboratory (Aldermaston), 184*
Schenck Fatigue-Testing Machine, Dynamic Calibration of, 695*
Schneider-Type Torque Converter for Diesel Railcars for Ulster Transport Authority (Self-Changing Gears, Ltd.), 73*
Schoeller-Bleckmann, Proposed Tube Works, 579
Scholarship. See under Education
School Children and their Reading Habits, Survey of, by W. H. Smith and Son, Ltd., 91
- of, Carr Committee
— Leavers, Employment
on, 278
— Science Laboratories,
ment on, 524
Schori Metal Spraying Road Bridge, 815*
Schrader’s, A., Son, Pneumatic Control for Buffing Machine, 804*
Schulz, W. R. P., “ Arista ” Thermostatically- Controlled Infra-Red Cooker, 320
Schumacher, E. F., on Nuclear Energy and World’s Fuel and Power Requirements, 527 Schuman, R., Remarks at European Industrial Conference, 307
Schumann, A. W. S., on Training of Mining Engineers, 75
Schweitzer, P. H., on Mist Injection in Diesel Engines, 30
Sciaky Bros., Inc., Report on Tentative Design Standards for Resistance Formed Welds in Mild Steel, 503
Science, Advancement of, Australian and New Zealand Association for. See Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science
— Culture and Art, Minister of. Discussion in
Parliament on, 809
-— in Engineering, by H. Clausen, 791*
— of Engineering Materials, by J. E. Goldman
(Book), 181
— and Existence, by Rev. A. Richardson,
Comment on, 1
—- Foundation, National.
Science Foundation
— in Industry, Discussion in Parliament on,
464
— Intercommunication in, 33
— International Hall of ,at Brussels Fair, 520*
— Laboratories, School, Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 524
— Metallurgical, Fifty Years of, by Prof. A. G.
Quarrell, 587
—? National Academy of. See Russia
— Promotion of, in Commonwealth, 233
— Specialisation in. Adaptation to Needs of
Intercommunication, 33
— and the State, Presidential Address on, to
Institution of Chemical Engineers, by Sir H. Beaver, 578
Scientific American, Cumulative Index to, 823 -— Apparatus Makers Association of Chicago, Report by. Laboratory Apparatus and Optical Sections’ Public Information Committee on Laboratory Staff Communication with Management, 720
— Attache for British Embassy in Moscow,
Discussion in Parliament on, 680
— and Industrial Research, Council for.
Economics Committee of, 591
? Research, Department of: Notes on
Grant for Graduate Students and Research Workers, 107; Drainage Pipework in Dwellings; Hydraulic Design and Performance, by A. F. E. Wise, 288*; Reorganisation of Divisions, 291; Photoelectric Warning Device for Crankcase Explosions in Diesel Engines, 591; Review of Administration, by Earl of Halsbury, 663; Advisory Council as Administrative Body, 664; Work of Research Associations of, 737
Research, Government’s Role in, 464 -— Instrument Manufacturers Association of
Great Britain, Participation in Atoms for Peace Exhibition (Geneva), 16; Trade Mission to Canada of, 273; Trade Team for Canada, 337; Instruments, Electronics and Automation Exhibition, 488*; Follow-Up of Trade Mission to Canada, 658; Export Trade Promotion Activities, 755
— Journals, Russian, Availability of, 496
?— Lending Library, Lewis’s, Catalogue of, 155
— Management. See Management
— Office, British Commonwealth. See Com
monwealth Scientific Office, British
— Research, Discussion in Parliament on, 464 Radioisotopes in, UNESCO International Conference on, 527
See also Research
— Societies. See Institutions
— and Technical Books, Trade Reference List
of (Chapman and Hall), 823
Publications, Catalogue of (Edward Arnold), 585
Translation, Conference on, 473
— Training and Clear Thinking, 329 Scientists and Administrators, Differences of
Opinion on Research Expenditure, 738
— Distribution in British Industry, Discussion
in Parliament on, 552
— Emigration of. Discussion in Parliament on,
552
— and Engineers, Employment in Research
and Development, 355
Supply and Demand, Comment on, 289 World Scarcity of. Review of, 146
— Nuclear. See Nuclear
— Research, Government Employment of.
Committee on, 680. See also 675
Discussion in Parlia-
Process for Pelham
See National
Scientists, Training of. Adaptation to Needs ot Inter-communication, 33
Scooter, Bond (Sharp’s Commercials, Ltd.), 179
— Manufacture and Popularity of, 187
“ Scotchlite ” Reflecting Material for Road Signs (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486
Scotence Works, Grain Silos (Trade Publication), 659
Scotland, American Industries in, 322
— East of. Gas Grid Project, 117
?— Export Trade with Canada, Discussion in Parliament on, 144
— Gas Resources and Distribution in, 117
— Investment in, by American Companies, 322
— North of, Hydro-Electric Board, Discussion
in Parliament on Financing of Schemes of, 368 Discussion in Parliament on Accounts of, 552
— Smoke Control Areas in. Discussion in
Parliament on, 144
— Smokeless Zones in. Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 144
— South of. Electricity Board, Discussion in
Parliament on Accounts of, 552
Electricity Board, Generating Plant Statistics for 1957, 46
— Technical College in. Discussion in Parlia
ment on, 144
Education in. Discussion in Parliament on, 496
— Technological Education in. Discussion in
Parliament on, 144
— Unemployment in, 361, 386, 524, 560
— West of. Gas Grid Project, 117
of. Iron and Steel Institute. See Iron and Steel Institute, IVest of Scotland
Scott, D., on Tests on Lubricants at Higher Temperatures, 660*
Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Factory for Concentrated Complete Fertiliser at Leith Docks, 506*
Scottish Aviation, Ltd., Diversification Activities of, 601
— Coking Coals Used at Clyde Iron Works,
Coking Properties of, by W. Eland, Jr., and Dr. V. Giedroyc, 179
— Educational Certificates, Discussion in Par
liament on, 144
— Gas Board. Gas for Scotland (Booklet),
117; West of Scotland Grid, 117; East of Scotland Grid, 117; High-Pressure Coal Gasifier for, 809
Scouring in Yarmouth Harbour. Elimination of, 625
Scrap Cutting Shear, Hydraulic, Automatic, 600-ton, American (Clearing Machine Corp.), 741*
?— Iron and Steel Imports, Statistics on, 240
— Steel, Heavy, Baling of, at Colvilles, Ltd.,
Triple-Compression Press for (Fielding and Platt, Ltd.), 261*
Scraper, “ Euclid S.7 ” at Steel Co. of Wales, 219*
Screens, Grit (Trade Publication),347
— Protective, “ Vyback DVB 229 ” Semi-Rigid
Transparent Sheet for Use in Production of (Bakelite, Ltd.), 149*
Screening Plant at Manvers Main Colliery Coke Oven Plant, 509
Screw Division of Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands), Ltd., Operator Training in, Ijy E. D. Simmons, 753*
— Threads, Standard Unified, Comment on,
323
Screwdriver, Modification of wade ” Pneumatic Wade, Ltd.), 168
Screwing Machine. See
Scuffing, Hypothesis for Cooper, 355
Sea Defence Works, by Macmillan, 388
Works at Hurst Castle, by C. V. Bowles, 259
Works, by W. J. Reid, 323
— Laws of. Conference on. Proposed Question
on Flags of Convenience at, 390
— Water Distillation, Economy of, 629*
Distillation of Fresh Water from. Costs and Developments in, 674
? Distillation of. Nuclear Reactors for, by 1. Vilentchuk and N. Arad, 628*
Distillation Plants, by Dr. R. S. Silver, 530*
Evaporating and Distillation Plant for (G. and J. Weir), 674
Evaporation Plant (G. and J. Weir, Ltd.), 530*
— — Evaporators. See also Evaporators, Sea
water
Fresh Water Production from. Cost of, 531
High-Purity Distilled Water from. Continuous High-Output Flash Evaporator for Production of (Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd.), 70*
— — “ Multiflash ” Process for Producing
Fresh Water from, 530*
Power from, by Dr. P. C. Thonemann, 109
Russian Process for Uranium Extraction from, 494
SEAC High-Speed Digital Computer, Application of, 640
Seal,Disc-,Construction of Xenon-Filled Triode Thyratron, Type XR1-6400A of (Mullard, Ltd.), 806
— Oil, Sale of, in United States, by Burton
wood Engineering, 147
Sealing of Airstrips at Launceston Airport, Tasmania, Rubberised Bitumen for, 441
— Glands, Spring-Backed, Allowing for Cas
ing Distortion in Steam Turbines, 121*
— Pressure, by O-Rings, by J. R. Fawcett,
314*. See LETTER, 388*
— Tubeless Tyres, “ Pull-Jack ” Tool for
(Rotolift Sales Co., Ltd.), 678
Seamen, Merchant, Unemployment of, 391
Search-Coil Apparatus, Use for the Eddy- Current Testing of Copper and its Alloys, by N. B. Harvey, 576
Drill as
Machine Solution
Aro-Broom-
(Broom &
Tools
of, by L. A.
Commander D. H.
Sears, Dr. W. R., on Magneto-Aerodynamics, 534
S.E.A.S. Windmills at Bogo and Gedser, Denmark, for Parallel Operation with Alternating-Current Network, 689*
Seats, Aircraft, Backward-Facing, Discussion in Parliament on, 390
Economy (Aircraft Furnishings, Ltd.), 646*
Seaward, J., Centenary of Death of, 17 Secretarial and Clerical Workers, Reasons for Job Changin,g 592
Sections, Cold-Formed, Applications of, by Dr. R. M. Kenedi and W. Shearer Smith, 734
Sectional Materials, “ Alliance ” (Trade Publication), 27
Seismology. See also Earthquake Selby, D. W., on British Engineers, 291-292 Selecta Power Tools, Ltd., Hand-Held
Tools (Trade Publication), 409
“ Selectacall ” Individual Staff Call (Westrex Co., Ltd.), 519
Selector Valve, Ten-Port (Martonair, 804*
Selenium Recovery from Sulphur Residue, 536 Self-Changing Gears, Ltd., Railcar Progress (Trade Publication), 27; Schneider-Type Torque Converter for Diesel Railcars for Ulster Transport Authority, 73*; Reversing Epicyclic Gearbox for Diesel Railcars for Ulster Transport Authority, 73*; Four-Speed Epicyclic Gearbox for Diesel Railcars for Ulster Transport Authority, 73*; Four-Speed Epicyclic Gearbox for Diesel Railcars for Ulster Transport Authority, 73; “ SE4 ” Four-Speed Pneumatically Controlled Compound Epicyclic Gearbox in Shunting Locomotive Manufactured by John ~ “
Ltd., 102
Sellers and Sanborn on Electroplating on Nickel and Nickel
Selling Aircraft
Power
Unit
Ltd.),
Fowler and Co. (Leeds),
Alloys, 730
Overseas, Statement by Society of British Aircraft Constructott on, 755
— Art of. Course on, 209
of. Course at Caxton Hall, 433
— Automatic, Exhibition of Machines for, 790
— Civil Aircraft, Experience of (Vickers-
Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 602
— Co-operative, in Overseas Markets by
Engineering Companies, 755
— Effect of Increase in Competition on, 81
— in Engineering Industry, 658
— Lubricating Oils, Cartoons on, 81
— See also Vending
“ Sellotape ” Cellulose Acetate Waterproof Tape (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
— Colour-Printed Adhesive Tape (Gordon &
Gotch, Ltd.), 192
— Vinyl Tape (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), Semi-Conductor Component, Passive,
Terminal, by R. M. Warner, Jr., Stone and E. I. Doucette, 562* Devices Manufacture, Texas Instruments
Inc. New Plant for, 818
Electrolyte Interface, Transistor Action at, by J. F. Dewaid, 696*
Fast-Switching (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 787
Indium Arsenide (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 400
Introduction to, by W. C. Dunlap, Jnr. (Review), 442
Semi-conductors, Ltd., Formation and Activities of, 114
Progress in. Vol. 2, by A. F. Gibson, 442 Sempill, Lord, Paper on Manufacturing in the
Aeronautic Age, by B. K. Bucey, 95. See also 67
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Sub-Committee, Investigation into United States Motor-Car Industry Price Policy, 273
Sendzimir 2R40 Cold Rolling Mill at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills, 633
Senior Economisers, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 647
Senol, Ltd., “ Addi-V.J.” Molybdenum Disulphide Additive, 401
Sentinels (Shrewsbury), Ltd., Mechanical Parts for Flywheel Locomotive for Surface Shunting, 123
Separation, Electrostatic, of Minerals, 125 Separators, Air, “ Standard ” and “ Whirlwind,” for Particle Grading (Trade Publication), 534
— Electromagnetic, Heavy-Element, Mark II,
“ Hermes,” Vacuum System for, 495*
Sequence Control System for Transfer Machines (Mullard, Ltd.), 488
— Controller for Capstan Lathe (Nickols Auto
matics, Ltd.), 765*
Serendipity, Comment on, 129 Serious Attention, Pool of. Views on Nuclear
Dilemma, 449
“ Serpentix,” Flexible Fold-Belt Conveyor (Mitchell Engineering, Ltd.), 615
“ Serseal ” Layer Process for Elimination of Fumes and Steam from Aqueous Metal- Treatment Baths (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 306
Service Aviation. See Aeronautics
Services Electronics Research Laboratory, Silicon Crystal Puller, 400
Servo Control Mechanism for Tidal Model Southampton Water, 201*
— Drive, High-Torque, Low-Inertia,
Directional Electromagnetic Clutch Use as (Air Trainers Link, Ltd.), 550*
— Manipulator “ Mechanical Hands,” Elec
tronically-Controlled Master-Slave, at Brussels Fair, 620
— Mechanisms, Diversification Activities of
Aircraft Firms in, 601
for Remote Control (Tully Engineering Co., Ltd.), 820*
— Motors, “ Molytone 380 ” Lubricant for
(Rocol, Ltd.), 242
Size 07 (Smiths Aircraft Instruments, Ltd.), 708
Setting Equipment, Automatic, Co-Ordinate, Machine-Tool, Control Unit for (Ekco Electronics, Ltd.), 488*
192*
Two- H. A.
for
Bi-
for
Settling Tanks, Grit (Trade Publication), 347 “ Unitlow,” for Removal of Solids (Trade Publication), 659
Sewage Disposal in Railway Trains, Discussion in Parliament on, 390
— and Water, Radioactive Contamination of.
Course on, 334
Sextant, Radio, Long Range Navigation System, 467
Seymour, D. H., on Thread and Form Rolling, 543
Shaft Coupling, See Coupling
— Crank. See Crankshaft
— Dynomometer. See Dynamometer and
Torsionmeter
— Gas Turbine, Critical Speed of: Effect of
Turbine Casing Flexibility, by A. W. Pope, 93*
— and Holes, Fitting of. See Gauges: Gauging Shalit, M., on Qualifications for Management,
675
Shandon Electronics, Ltd., Electronics Chasis (Trade Publication), 181
Shaping Machine. See Machine Tools Shareholder, Small Savers as.
Sharp, G. G., Conversion Nuclear Power, 459
Sharpies Centrifuges, Ltd., fuges, 452
Sharp’s Commercials, Ltd.,
784
of Tanker for
Pressure Centri-
Bond Minicar Mark E, 179; Bond Scooter, 179
Shavers, Dry, Electrical, Output Position and Prospects of, 114
Shear, Scrap Cutting, Hydraulic, Automatic, 600-ton American (Clearing Machine Corp.), 741*
— Strength of Prestressed Concrete Beams, 735 “ Shearwater III,” Catamaran (G. Prout), 63 Sheaths of Rubber-Covered Cables, New
Specification for Composition and Performance Requirements of, 1 59
Sheet, Aluminium - Clad “ Hiduminium R.R.58 ” (Trade Publication), 57
Corrugated, “ Rigidal,” for Pemberton Integral Caravan, 608
— Asbestos (Marinite, Ltd.), 486
— Construction, Aluminum, “ Kingstrand,”
Distribution in Canada (Coseley Engineering Co., Ltd.), 658
?— Hot, Fatigue-Testing Machine for, by K. W. Mitchell and H. King, 402*
— Metal, “ Rosan ” Press-Nut for (Instrument
Screw Co., Ltd.), 580*
— -—Work (Part 1) Geometry and Pattern
Development, by R. G. Blackburn and J. Cassidy (Book), 91
— and Plate Metalworking (Trade Publica
tion), 503
— Rolling of, by E. C. Larke (Book), 56
— Steel. See Steel Sheet
— Transparent, Semi-Rigid, “ Vyback DVB
229,” for Use in Making Machine Guards, Protective Screens and Windows (Bakelite, Ltd.), 149*
Sheeting, Aluminium, Corrugated, Shallow- Troughed, Thin-Gauge (Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.), 179
— Plastics, High-Impact Strength, High-
Tensile, “ Fromo Plas N ” (Wallington Wester and Co., Ltd.), 761
— Polyvinyl, Reinforced with Glass-Fibre
“ Plastoglass ” (Storey Bros. and Co., Ltd.), 670
Sheffield Works of Thos. Firth and John Brown Ltd., Cinema Film on Tour of, 338
Sheldon, Dr. H., on Company Analysis, 514 Shelf, On the, by F. H. Smith, 27, 57, 91, 119, 155, 181, 213, 251, 283, 309, 347, 375, 409, 443, 473, 503, 535, 573, 585, 633, 659, 700, 730, 762, 793, 823
Shell Chemical Co., Ltd., Plastic Tools (Trade Publication), 762
— Film Unit, Cinema Film on High Speed
Flight, 473
— “ FR80 ” Hydraulic Fluid for Detecting
Leaks in Boiler Casings, 166
Shell Mex and B.P., Cartoons “ Oiling the Wheels of Industry,” by Peter Kneebone, 81
— Moulding. See Moulding
Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd., Tanks for Transporting Oilwell Drilling Fluid in Venezuelan Oil Fields, 581*;Orders for Electrical Equipment for Oil Terminal at Puerto Miranda, 755; Catalogue of Shell Films, 793
Shell Transport and Trading Co., Activities and Expenditure of, 584
Shell of Venezuela, Reduction in Oil Prices, 271 Shelley Electric Furnaces, Ltd,, Electric Furnace for Annealing of Industrial Glassware at Quickfit and Quartz, Ltd., 381*
Shellhaven, Oil-Refinery Gases from. Use in North Thames Gas Board Installation at Romford, 222*
Shelter, Nylon, Portable (Airborne Service Equipment, Ltd.), 167*
Shelton Iron, Steel and Coal Co., Ltd., Gas- Turbine Alternator Set for (Richardsons Westgarth (Hartlepool), Ltd.), 196*
Shenstone, B. S., on Why Airlines are Hard to Please, 427
Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills for Wide Stainless Steel Strip, Modifications at, 632*
Sherbourne Engineering Ltd., Fabricated Tubular Steel Roof Trusses (Trade Publication), 503
Shersby-Harvie, R. B. R., on Proposals for Generating High Frequency Electromagnetic Waves using the Doppler Effect, 725
Sherwood Project of Thermonuclear Fusion Research, 618
Ships’ Awnings, Noral “ Industrial ” Corrugated Aluminium-Alloy Sheets for (Trade Publication), 27
— and Boat Builders’ National Federation,
Boat Show at Qlympia, 63
— Cable, New, for Post Qffice, 680
— — Use of H.M.S. “ Gorgon ” as. Centenary
of, 17
— Canal. See Canal; Navigation, Inland
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
43
Ships, Cargo, Double-Bottomed, Conversion of, for Carrying Liquid Methane, 241
Nuclear-Powered, Submarine, Discussion in Parliament on, 591
— ?— Vessels, Underwater, Discussion in Par
liament on, 552
•— Cigar, Walter Winans’s, Centenary of, 17
— Colliers, Ocean-Going, Pre-Cast Concrete
Jetty on River Thames for, 47*
— Construction, Welded, Records of Common
Fractures and their Causes, by H. R. Gibbs and G. M. Boyd, 241*
— Damage and Accidents to, Lloyds Register
of Shipping Reports on, 241*
— Diesel-Engined. See Marine Propulsion
?— Electric Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion ?— Fighting, Jane’s, 1957-58, by R. V. B. Blackman (Review), 252
— Launching. See Launching
— Liner, “ Mauretania,” High-Power Trans
mitters and Radar Equipment Installations on, 253
“Queen Mary,” R.M.S., Denny-Brown Stabilisers for, 386
— Merchant, Freighter, Nuclear-Powered,
German, 459
— ?— Nuclear-Powered, “ Savannah,” 459 Nuclear Reactors for. Committee for
Study of in Germany, 459
Registration Transfers, 240
? Sales Overseas, 240
Statistics on, 591
— Motor. See Marine Propulsion
Powered, Anglo-American Exchanges on, 459
— ?— Powered, British, Note on, 366
? Powered, Design and Construction of,
by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson and Nuclear Power Plant Co., 620
Powered, Economics of, by H. Macmillan, 748
Powered, Safety of. Discussion in Parliament on, 524
— Officers, Compulsory Training in Radar,
Discussion in Parliament on, 300
— Passenger, Cross-Channel, Machinery for,
by E. L. Denny, 121*
— Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion;
Engines; Nuclear Turbines
— Repairing Industry, Unemployment in,
528
?— Riveted, Fractures in, 497*
— Small, Stabilising Equipment for (Denny-
Brown Saunders-Roe), 122*
?— Stabilisers, Denny-Brown, in Liner “ Queen Mary,” 386
— Steel, Construction and Classification of,
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Rules for (1957), (Review), 180
— ?— Requirements and Regulations for, 498 -— Structure Committee, Brittle Behaviour of
Engineering Structures, by E. R. Parker (Review), 56
•— Superstructures Design, Airflow Studies for, 697
?— Tramp, Work Available for, 137
— Welded, Brittle Fracture in, by J. Hodgson
and G. M. Boyd, 497*
— See also Launch; Liners; Marine; Shipping;
Steamers; Warships; Yacht
Shipbuilders and Engineers, North East Coast Institution of. See Engineers and Shipbuilders
— and Engineers in Scotland, Institution of.
See Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland Shipbuilding, Aluminium Plate Production for, at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 410*
— Employers’ Federation, Study of Appren
ticeship by, 280; Rejection of National Joint Council by, 685
?— and Engineering Unions, Confederation of. See Labour
— Industry, American, Position and Prospects
of, 247
Expansion Plans of, 84
• French, Position and Prospects of, 247
German, Position and Prospects of, 248
? National Joint Industrial Council for.
Rejection of, 680
Order Position in, 591
Position and Prospects of, 13, 46, 84*, 137, 247
Restrictive Practices in. Discussion in Parliament on, 591
Unemployment in, 528
—, Merchant, in United Kingdom, 84*
— Naval. See Warships
— Prefabrication in, at Bartram and Sons,
Ltd., 140*
— Research Association, British, Super
structure Design in Relation to Descent of Funnel Smoke, by E. Ower, and A. D. Third, 253; Photoelectric Warning ~ for Crankcase Explosions in Engines, 591. See LETTER, 676; of, 737
— World, 84*
— Yard, New Ideas at Bartram &
Ltd., 140*
— See also Steamers; Naval; Warships Shipping Cartel, Comment on, 323
World Shipping
System, 683*; Safety Precautions, 683; Radiation Reporting Methods, 684; Chemistry of, 684; Radioactive Waste Disposal, 684
Reactor, Comparison with LTR Nuclear Reactor for Sea-Water Distillation, 628* Shipyard. See Shipbuilding Yard
“ Shirley ” Pressure Point System in Card Dust Extraction, Commercial Production of, 54
Shock Tests. See Impact Tests under Tests (Materials)
?— Waves, Use in Nuclear Fusion Reaction, 43 Shockcrete Products, Ltd., Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 47*
Shone, Sir R., on Industrial Production and Steel Consumption, 386
Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers, Union of. See Labour
— Management. See Management
— Mobile, Development of, 271
Shopper's Guide, Publication of British Standards Institution, 175, 240
Shore Support, Naval, Re-Designing of, 777 Short Bros. and Harland, Ltd., Diversification
Activities of, 601; Employment Changes at. Hl; Discussion in Parliament on Position of, 809
Short-Circuit Testing of Air-Blast Circuit- Breakers for Alternating Current Systems, Rules Governing (Book), 585
Testing Authorities, Association of, Inc., Rules Governing Short-Circuit Testing of Air-Blast Circuit-Breakers for Alternating Current Systems (Book), 585 Shovel, Loading, for Bulk Handling, Four-
Wheel-Drive, “ Mastiff” (Mathew Bros.), 582*
— Mechanical, “ Caterpillar 977,” at Steel Co.
of Wales, 219*
“ Eimco 105,” at Steel Co. of Wales, 218* “ Michigan 175A,” at Steel Co. of
Wales, 218*
— Power, with Brockhouse Torque Converter
Transmission (Merton Engineering Co.), 613*
— Tractor, Diesel-Powered Hydraulically-
Operated, Heavy-Duty, “ Muir-Hill ” (E. Boydell and Co., Ltd.), 583*
Show. See Exhibition Showrooms, Mobile, Growing Use of, 209 Shunting, Surface, Flywheel Locomotive for, 123
Shutters, High-Speed, for High-Speed Camera Systems, 215
— Image Converter, for High-Speed
Systems, 215
Sicily, Investment of Gulf-Oil in, 35.
Vol. 184 Sidcup Film Unit, Salesreels, 16 mm
Films, 790
Camera
See also
Cinema
Sidgwick, J., on Motion of a Yacht, 68 Siebdruckgerate Von Holzschuher KG.,
“ SPS Rotascreen ” Bottle Printing Machine, 486
Siegman, A. E., on Travelling-Wave Solid- State Masers, 725
Siemens-Martin Centenary, Note on, 100 Siemens-Schuckert (Great Britain), Ltd.,
Traction Control Equipment for Battery Railcars for Aberdeen-Ballater Line, 627 High- 551 (Trade
Machines
Device Diesel Work
Sons,
— Chamber of. Report on
Prospects, 323
— Flags of Convenience,
Parliament on, 175, 390.
— Freights, Discussion in
Decrease in, 680
Rates, Fluctuation in, 395
— Industry, Depression in, 45
Position and Prospects of, 137, 323, 553 Slump in, 810
Unemployment in, 391
?— Labour Aspects, Conference on, 777
— Laid-Up, Statistics on, 45
— Lloyd’s Register of. See Lloyd's Register
of Shipping
?— New Orders for, by J. C. Mather, 810
— United Kingdom Chamber of. Study of
Fluctuating Freight Rates, 395
— See also Cargo
Shippingport Nuclear Power Station, Inauguration, Costs, and Description of, 682*;
Design Philosophy, 682*; Fuel Arrangement, 683*; Thermal Design, 683*; Steam
Discussion in
See also 579 Parliament on
Sierex, Ltd., “ Mingograf 230B ” Frequency Chart Recording Unit,
Sieves, Grading, Electrically-Driven Publication), 27
“ Sigmix ” Mixing Valves for Hot Heating Systems (Sigmund Pumps, Ltd.), 672*
Sigmund Pumps, Ltd., “ Sigmix ” Mixing Valves for Hot Water Heating Systems, 672*
Signs, Road, “ Scotchlite ” Reflecting Material for (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486
Signal Generators, XT314, for Measuring Performance of Receivers (W. H. Sanders (Electronics), Ltd.), 390
— Research and Development Establishment,
Automatic Dip-Soldering Machine for Printed Circuits, 489
— Station, Calshot, New Installation of Radar
and Very-High-Frequency Telephony, 156*
Signalling between Power Stations and Grid Control Centre, 767*
— Railway, Contracting Difficulties, Dis
cussion in Parliament on, 336
Electric, Recent Trends in, by R. S. Wignail, 342*
— and Remote Control System, “ Multiplex ”
(Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 454
Silage, Comparison with Hay, 563
Silencers, Design of. Attenuation Curves for, 29*
— for Tip Jet Propulsion Unit of “ Roto-
dyne ” Airliner, 750*
Silencing Air Channels, by Dr. A. J. King, 29* Silicon in Cermets, 42. See Erratum, 77
— Computer Diode, High-Speed (Bell Tele
phone Laboratories), 787
—- Crystal Puller (Services Electronics Research Laboratory, 400
— Diode Cubicle (Standard Telephones &
Cables, Ltd.), 455
— Rectifiers (Standard Telephones and Cables,
Ltd.), 455
— — Price Reductions by Ferranti, Ltd., 433
— Silicon Carbide Refractive Materials for
Matched Termination, 400
— Solar Generator (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 400*
— Transistors Production at Texas Instrument
Co. (Bedford), 114
Silicones, Additional Duty on Imports from France, 67
— Bonded Glass Mica, Armature Insulated
with, in Traction Motors, 819*
— Grease, High-Temperature Tests on, 661*
— Insulation in Traction Motors for Rolling
Stock of London Transport, 819*
— Lubricant, High-Temperature Tests on, 661*
— Putty at Brussels Fair, 521
— Varnishes for Insulation in Metadyne
Machine, 820
Water
Silos, Cement, Mobile (Road
(Drayton), Ltd.), 414*
— Grain (Trade Publication), 659 Silver, Dr. R. S., on World’s Water Demands, 530*
SIMA. See Scientific Instrument turers' Association of Great Britain
Simmons, E. D., on Operator Training in Screw Division of Guest Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands), Ltd., 753*
Simon-Carves, Ltd., Plant for Neutralisation of Phosphoric Acid at Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Fertiliser Factory, 507; Reconstruction and Development Scheme at Manvers Main Colliery Coke- Oven Plant, 509*; Annual Report, 711 Simon, H. (Holdings), Annual Reports, 711 Simon’s, H., Turbine Gears, Position and Prospects of, 743
“ Simple ” Supervisory System for Remote Communication (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 455*
Sims, Dr. R. B., on Automatic Gauge Control in Strip Rolling Mills, 575
Sims-Davies, G., on Flame Cutting, 505 Sincil Dyke Culvert at Lincoln, 815* Sinclair, D. M., on Human Relations Industry, 361
Sinclair, H., on Position and Prospects Fluidrive Engineering Co., 367
Sintered Oxide and Ceramic Tools, Turning with, by R. C. Brewer, 543
for Cutting Tools, Research on, by H. Eckersley and R. N. Cook, 817* Sinuflo Economic Boilers for High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd. (Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd.), 469*
Skarsten Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Electric Paint Stripper, 224
Skefko Ball Bearings, Annual Report, 617
Skelton Grange “A” Power Station, 587. See Erratum, 767
Skin Cleanser, “ Swarfega ” Waterless, in Portable Washing Equipment (Deb Chemical Proprietaries, Ltd.), 95
— Passing of Stainless Steel Strip, Two-High
Rolling Mill for, at Shepcote Lane Rolling-Mills (Loewy Engineering Co., Ltd.), 633
— Temperature Thermometers in “ Explorer ”
Satellite, 164
Skirting Heating Element with Gilled Tubing (Tomlinsons, Ltd.), 640*
“ Wallstrip ” Heating Elements for (Copperad, Ltd.), 480*
Sklyar, B., on Mechanisation in Production of Factory-Made Units and Problem of Transmission Length in Pretensioned Concrete, 736
“ Skylark ” Rocket (Gassiot), 519
Progress with, at Woomera, 126 Slag Pockets of Open-Hearth Furnace, “ Eimco 105 ” Mechanical Shovel for Clearing, at Steel Co. of Wales, 218* Slagging Gasifier Process for Low-Grade Coal at Solihull Research Station, 533*
Slave Alternator, for Power Pack for Guided Weapons (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 729
Sleeve Bearings, Running-in Characteristics, by A. J. Davis, 345
Testing Machine for, by A. J. Davis and T. V. Krok, 345
— Graphite, Permeability of. Research on, by
General Electric Co., Ltd., 365
Slewing Ring, Cross-Roll Bearing, vators (Priestman Bros., Ltd.),
Slide-Chart, Civil Engineering, for and Reinforced Concrete (Kosine, Ltd.), 63*
Sloan Fellowship Programme at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 283
Slough Metals, Ltd., Group Apprenticeship Scheme, 279*; “Ballard” Arc-Welding Machine, 454*
Sludge. See Sewage
Slug, Burst, Detection Gear, Tests on, 110
Sluices in Irrigation Works, by S. Leliavsky (Review), 308
Slurry, Coal, for Bowhill Power Station, 707 for Power Stations, 707
— Spray Dryer for (Trade Publication), 503
— Thoria-Bismuth, Study on, 332
— Washery, for Fuel Supplies at Barony
Power Station, 159
Small Engineering Firms, Management Control of. See Mechanical Engineers, Institution of
— Scale Industry, in Netherlands, Training and
Research in, 145
Smedley, J., on a User’s Experience of Compressed Air, 671
Smelter Plant, for Aluminium, of Canadian- British Aluminium Co., at Bale Comeau, 255
Smelting Furnaces. See Furnaces
Smidth, F. L., and Co., Ltd., Brick Crusher at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 188; Direct-Current Windmills for Local Supply, 688*, 689
Smith, A. C., on Fire and Explosion Hazards in Compressed Air Systems, 671
Smith, F, H., on On the Shelf, 27, 57, 91, 119, 155, 181, 213, 251, 283, 309, 347, 375, 409, 443, 473, 503, 535, 573, 585, 633, 659, 700, 730, 762, 793, 823
Smith, H., Bibliography on Channel Tunnel, Note on, 443; on British Ropes, Ltd., 711 Smith Hobson, Ltd., “ Clam ” Magnetic Metering Transformer, 454*; Instrument Transformers (Trade Publication), 659
Smith, Kline and French Laboratories, Ltd., Mobile Medical Colour Television Unit, 773*
Smith, S. Morgan, Co., Windmifl for Parallel Operation on ' works, 688*
Smith, S., and Sons Statement of. Coupling for Magnetic-Particle Coupling for Industrial Drives, 630*
Increasing
Manufac-
in
of
for Exca- 613* Hydraulic
Alternating-Current Net-
(England), Ltd., Annual 46; Magnetic Particle Industrial Drives, 582*; Torque-Transmission
Smith SEP2 Automatic Pilot on “ Comet 4 ’’ Airliner, 556
Smith, Col. T. E., on Position and Prospects of Shipbuilding and Shipping Industries, 137
Smith, Sir R. Verdon, on Problems of Aircraft Industry, 594
Smith, W. H., and Son, Ltd., Survey of School Children and their Reading Habits, 91
Smith, W. Shearer, on Applications of Cold- Formed Sections, 734
Smiths Aircraft Instruments, Ltd., Size G7 Servo Motor, 708; Demonstration Aircraft Tour of Europe, 790
Smiths of Chesterfield: History of Griffin Foundry, Brampton, 1775-1833, by P. Robinson (Review), 90
Smith’s Dock Co., Position and Prospects of, 137
Smiths Flight System on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556
Smiths Industrial Instrument Division, Private Telephone Meters for Subscribers on Subscriber Trunk Dialling System, 800* Smoke Alarm (Trade Publication), 181
— Control Areas in Scotland, Discussion in Parliament on, 144
?—? Densitometer (Trade Publication), 181
— Fumes from Marchwood Power Station, 624
— Funnel, Descent of. Superstructure Design in Relation to, ’ _
Third, 253
— Pollution, Poor Against, 137
Smokeless Powder.
— Zones in Scotland, Discussion in Parliament
on, 144
S.N.C.F., Assistance in Electrification of Indian Railways, 2
Snedden, Sir R., on Wages and Production, 210 “ Sno-Cat ” Vehicles for British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Tucker Corp.), 372*
Snow, F. S., and Partners, Development of Gatwick Airport, 653*
Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., Machine Tools (Trade Publication), 181; Reconditioned Machine Tools (Trade Publication), 762
Social or Economic Situation in Management, 685
— Service, National Council of. Citizens
Advice Notes, Note on, 409
Societa Anonima Elletrificazione S.p.A. of Milan, Contract in Iran, 271
Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France, Planning and Construction of New Thermal Generating Stations, by J. Pimpaneau, 80
Societies, Technical Institutions
— Trade. See Labour
Sodium Hypochlorite Water, 22
— Liquid, Penetration
on, by General Electric Co., Ltd., 365
— Loop Facility at Lucas Heights, 589* Sofrerail, Work on Indian Railways, 2 Softwood, Sawn, Export Prices of, 338
Soil Engineering, Laboratory Testing in, by T. N. W. Akroyd (Review), 252. See LETTER, 291
— Testing Machine, Loading Mechanism of
Increasing Stiffness, 60*
Soiltest, Inc., Electrically-Driven Grading Sieves (Trade Publication), 27
Solar Energy Research, Discussion in Parliament on, 240
— Generator, Model of, at Brussels Fair, 521 Silicon (Plessey Co., Ltd.), 400*
— Spectrum, Difficulties in Observing,
— See also Sun
Solartron Electronic Group, Ltd., Response Test Console, 373; Voltmeter Type TM728, 389*
Soldering Aluminium (Book), 213
— Continuous, of
“ Flowsolder ” Unit for Foundries, Ltd.), 575
— Dip, Automatic Machine,
Circuits (Signals Research ment Establishment), 489
Solent, Radar Navigation System in, 157*
Solids, Conveyor System Carrying, Detector Probe for (Bailey Meters and Controls, Ltd.), 101*
— Hydraulic Transport of. Work on, by
British Hydromechanics Research Association, 591
— Removal of, “ Uniflow ” Settling Tank for
(Trade Publication), 659
— in Suspension (Trade Publication), 503 Solihull Research Station, Research on
Complete Gasification of Coal, 533*
Solomons, J., Qffer in London Bus Strike, 720
Solus Electronic Tubes, Ltd., “ TV70I FN2/12” Neutron Counter for ZETA, 206
“ Solvac 68 ” Grinding Fluid (Trade Publication), 90
Solvent Extraction Processes, 204*
Processing Methods, Work on, al Dounreay, 495
• System, Multi-Component, Computation of Performance of, by J. T. Wood and J. A. Williams, 204, 236
— Storage Tanks, Testing of, 690
— Vapours, Detection of, 690
Sopwith, Sir T., Remarks on British European Airways Contract for Jet Airliner, 79
Sound Attenuations in Rock-Wool-Lined Air Ducts, 29*
Sound Control, Ltd., Projection Room for “ Todd-AQ ” Apparatus at Dominion Theatre (London), 548*
— Radiophonic
Studios of 736*
— Stereophonic,
Electric Co., Ltd.), 224
South Africa, Associated Scientific and Technical Societies of. Uranium in South Africa, 1946-1956, Vols. 1 and 11 (Review), 118
Industrial Development in, 496
Offer to International Atomic Energy Agency, 238
by E. Ower and A. D.
Results of Campaign
See Explosives
and
for
into
Scientific. See
Sterilisation of
Graphite, Studies
Printed-Circuit
(Fry’s
126
Gyro Digital
Panels, Metal
Printed
for and Develop-
Production at Maida Vale British Broadcasting Corp.,
Equipment for (General
44
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (I958>
South Africa, Uranium in, 1946-1956, Vols. I and II (Review), 118
Uranium-Ore Production in, 494
Uranium Purchases from, 656
— African Railways, Integral Tubular Anti-
Telescopic Electric Coaches for (Metro- politan-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Co., Ltd.), 344*
— America, British Investments in. Comment
on, 810
Rolls-Royce New Subsidiary Company, Moteres Rolls-Royce S.A., in, 810
— American Route of British Qverseas Air
ways Corp., Discussion in Parliament on, 656
South Durham Steel and Iron Co., Ltd., Trading Profits of, 13; Annual Report, 79
— East Zealand Electricity Supply Company.
See S.E.A.S.
South-Eastern Gas Board, Agreement with British Petroleum Co., Ltd., to Take Waste Gases from Isle of Grain Refinery, 350; Gas-Heated Furnace for Burning Patterns on to Glassware (Stewart Gill and Co., Ltd.), 357*
— of Scotland Electricity Board. See Scotland,
South of
Southampton University, Tidal Model for Southampton Water at, 198*. See LETTERS, 259, 323, 388; Undergraduate Training in Nuclear Power, by N. S. Grassam, 483-484
— Water, Calshot Signal Station at. New
Installation of Radar and Very-High- Frequency Telephony, 156*
— -— Tidal Model for, at Southampton
University, 198*. See LETTERS, 259, 323, 388
Southern Instruments Industrial Division, “ Magna-Gage ” Electronic Gauging Comparator, 708
Qscillograph Division, MUR6 Universal Oscillograph for Multi-Channel Recording, 485*
Soviet Central Asia, Economic Policy in, 35
Soviet Journals, Express Contents of (Consultants Bureau, Inc.), 700, 730
Soviet Journal, Yuni Tehnik, Aims of, by V. Bolkhovitinov, 4
— Technical Literature, Translations of,
United States Department of Commerce Scheme for, 375
— Work on Thermonuclear Reactors,
Academician I. V. Kurchatov, 303
— See also Anglo-Soviet; Russia: Russian Space Travel Conference at Royal Festival
Hall, Preliminary Notice, 405
Spain, 3 MW Open Pool Nuclear Reactor for (General Electric Co.), 77
— Railway Wheel-Gauge Changing by Axle
Changing in, 799
Spanner, Ratchet, for Use with “ Kee Klamp ” System of Tubular Construction (George H. Gasgoigne Co., Ltd.), 37
Spare Parts Charts (Trade Publication), 659
Spares, Export of, by Air from Great Britain, by A. J. Weight, 242
— Service Store for London-Birmingham
Motorway (Fred Myers, Ltd.), 441
“ SPC ” Phosphating Process for (Walterisation Co., Ltd.), 338
Speakers, Microphones for. Plain
770
Spear, Dr. F. G., on Biological Radiation, 573
Spear and Jackson, Ltd., Conversion of Reheating Furnaces to Oil Firing, 581
Specialisation in Engineering and Science, Adaptation to Needs of Intercommunication, 33
Specific Heat, Variable, Examination of. Cycles Considering, by E. Jurek (Book), 27
Specifications and Costs for Civil Engineers, by E. E. Seelye (Book), 91
— on Springs and Spring Materials, Proposed
Book on, 213
— Standard. See Standards: Standardisation Spectra, Neutron, from ZETA, Measurement
of. Note on, 776
“ Spectre ” Rocket Engine, Constant-Thrust Version, as Assisted Take-Off Units for Handley Page “ Victor ” Bomber and Avro “ Vulcan ” Bomber (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
Spectrochemical Abstracts, by E. H. S. van Someren and F. Lachman, Note on, 585
Spectrograph, Mass (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 457*
— Triple Medium, for Metallurgical Analysis
(Hilger and Watts, Ltd.), 505
Spectrometer, Resonance, Magnetic, Nuclear (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 550
Magnetic, Nuclear (Mullard, Ltd.), 550* -— Self-Recording, for Control Analysis of Aluminium Alloys and Copper Alloys, by M. Milbourn and J. A. F. Gidley, 576
Spectrometry, Gamma, for Analysing Complex Samples, by E. N. Jenkins, 590
— X-ray Fluorescence, by H. M. Davies, 590 Spectrophotometer, Flame, for Determination
of Metals in Solution (Unicam Instruments, Ltd.), 550*
Spectroscope, Emission, Direct-Reading, by R. P. Thorne, 590
Spectroscopy of Flames, by A. G. Gaydon (Review), 118
Spectrum, Line, Definition of, 142
— Solar, Difficulties in Observing, 126
Speculation and Suez Crisis, Views of A. W. Tuke on, 111
Speeckaert, G. P., on Joint Conferences, 67 Speed, Air-Travel, and Industrialisation and Population, 380*
?—Critical, of Gas-Turbine Shaft: Effect of Turbine Casing Flexibility, by A. W. Pope, 93*
?— Reduction Gears. See Gears: Gearing; Marine Propulsion; Motor-Car Details
— Regulation System for Back-Pressure Steam
Turbines, 606*
See also Governing; Governor
“ Speedframe ” Studs for Framework Assembly (Dexion, Ltd.), 191*
by
Steel Sheet
Words on,
Effects of
Spence, B., and Partners, Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Factory for Concentrated Complete Fertiliser at Leith Docks, 508 Spencer, E., on Loading Mechanism of Increasing Stiffness, 60*
Spencer, W. R., on Control of Finance and Costs, 145
Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd., “Introview” Flaw and Corrosion Detector for Metal Tubes of Low Magnetic Permeability, 550* Spheroidising Furnace. See Furnace
Spicers, Ltd., Publicity Campaign for “ Plus Fabric ” Stationery, 465
Spillett, E. E., on Characteristics of Aluminium of Importance in Packaging, 783
Spin Drier, “ Cascade ” (General Motors, Ltd. (Frigidaire Division)), 448
Spinney, K. T., on Safety of Plutonium Storage, 495
Spinning Machine for Worsted and Synthetics, “ Magnaspin,” Tests on (Fairbairn Law- son Combe Barbour, Ltd.), 54
— Test on Bearing-Balls by Rotating Magnetic
Fields, 151*
Spinnings, Molybdenum, Dishes and Crucible Forms in (Murex, Ltd.), 400
Sprag Clutches, Formsprag (Renold Chains, Ltd.), 70*
Spray Dryer for Liquids, Slurries and Solids in Suspension (Trade Publication), 503
— Phosphate Cold. See “ SPC ” Process Sprayed Asbestos Coatings, “ Limpet ”
(Turners Asbestos Cement Co., Ltd.), 472 Spraying, Metal, Schorl Process, for
Road Bridge, 815*
Spring Clips, G.K.N. Types 1 and Fixing Rails for Gantry Cranes Keen and Nettlefolds, Ltd.), 702*
— Materials, Specifications on. Proposed
Book on, 213
— Coil, See Coil Spring
— Specifications on. Proposed Book on, 213 Sprinkler, Lawn, With Three-Arm Revolving
Head (W. T. French and Son, Ltd.), 320
“ Sprite ” Sports Car (Austin Healey), 644* “ SPS Rotascreen ” Bottle Printing Machine (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 486
Spur Gearing. See Gears: Gearing: Marine Propulsion
“ Sputnik 1 ” Satellite, 462* “ Sputnik 2 ” Satellite, 462* “Sputnik 111,” Description of, by K. W.
Gatland, 722*
“SR177” Supersonic Interceptor Aircraft, Order Position of, 87
St. Albans By-Pass, Construction of, 441
St, Mary’s Link Road at Lincoln, Construction of, 815*
Stabilisers, Mains, Alternating-Current (Trade Publication), 181
Stability of Ships. See Ships
— in Structural Design, Theory of. Application
of Theory of, by H. L. Cox, 287
— Tests on British 132 kV Grid System, Full-
Scale, Results of, by F, Busemann and W. Casson, 404
Stacks, Chimney, Rust Protection of, “ Glo- stack ” Coating Material for (Corrosion, Ltd.), 23
Stackers, 70 ft. High, at Steel Co. of (Crone and Taylor), 219
Stacking Bricks at Kuwait Sand-Lime Works, 190*
— Crates or Boxes (Trade Publication), Staff Call Unit, “ Selectacall ” (Westrex Co,,
Ltd.), 519
Staggering of Working Hours, Report on, 524, 528
Staging, Angle, for “ Skylark ” Rocket at Factory Equipment Exhibition (Chevron Structural Units, Ltd.), 519
— Tower, Extendable, “ Tallescope ” (Access
Equipment, Ltd.), 519*
Stainless Steel. See Steel
Stairways, Reinforced Concrete, for Pelham Road Bridge, 815
Stamps, Postage, Paper, “ Dag ” Colloidal Graphite for (Acheson Colloids, Ltd.), 62 Stamping Hammers and Presses. See Machine Tools
Stanchions. See Columns
Standage Power Couplings, Ltd., “ Lineta Uni-Joint ” Shaft Angle Coupling, 197* Standards Agreements with Commonwealth, 798
“ Standard ” Air Separators for Particle Grading (Trade Publication), 534
— for the British Automobile Industry,
Handbook on, 375
— Conference on (London), Report of, 798
— in Export Trade, 798
— Institution, British, Remarks on Use of
“Flammability,” 119; Discussion in Parliament on Shopper's Guide, 175; Consumer Protection Services of, 240; Discussion on Shopper's Guide, 240; “Kitemark” Quality Standard of, 240; Note on B.S.I. News, 347; International “ A Series ” Stationery for, 503; Note on Yearbook, 535; Committee on Safety of Electrical Appliances, 656; Discussion in Parliament on “ Kite Mark ” Scheme for Electrical Appliances, 656; Report of Conference on Standards, 798
British, Specifications: Composition and Performance Requirements for Insulation and Sheaths of Rubber-Covered Cables, 159; Colours for Building and Decorative Paints, 256; Domestic Furniture, 256; Portland Cement, 472; Mechanical Ventilation and Air Conditioning in Buildings, 704; Surface Plate Deflections, 742*; Implementation of. Discussion on, 798; Conversion Factors and Tables for Metric System, 798; and Metric ings, 798
— International,
(Book), 585
Remarks by Sir S. Rawson on, 798 for Rubber Testing, See Rubber Testing Standard Motor Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 85; Strike of Maintenance Men at, 329; Activities in France, 335;
Pelham
2, for (Guest,
Wales
Brick
119
Precise Conversion of Inch Sizes in Engineering Draw
Electrical Conductor Sizes
Ferguson Tractors for British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 372
— Organisations within Commonwealth, List
of, 233
International, Technical Committee on Rubber, Meeting at Zurich: Tests for Rubber-to-Metal Bonding, by F. H. Edwards, 150; Testing of Antistatic and Conductive Rubber, by D. Bulgin, 150; Recommendations on Screw Threads, 323; Triennial Meeting at Harrogate, 707
— Quality, “ Kitemark,” of British Standards
Institution, 240, 656
?—for Rubber Testing, International, 150
— Specifications, British. See Standards
Institution, British, Specifications
Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., Deep- Water Amplifiers for Transatlantic Submarine Telephone Cable Projects, 115; Paignton Valve Factory of, 348*; Silicon Rectifiers, 455; “Simple” Supervisory System for Remote Communication, 455 *; Submerged Two-Way Telephone Repeater, 487; “Standard” Transistorised Rural Carrier Telephone System for Australian Post Office, 804
— in Trade, Importance of, 798
“ Standard ” Transistorised Rural Carrier Telephone System for Australian Post Office (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 804
— United States Bureau of. See United States Standard Watershed Fluorescent Lamp Fittings
for Humid Atmospheres (A.E.I. Lamp and Lighting Co., Ltd.), 4
Standardisation, International Organisation for. Co-operative Work with, 798; Metric and Inch Systems Recommendations, 798
— of Screw Threads, Comment on, 323 Stanhope Machine Tools, Ltd., Milling
Machines (Trade Publication), 503
Stanley Works (G.B.), Ltd., “ Discut” Filing Machine, 518*
Stannett, A. W., on Laboratory and Field Tests on 132 kV Condenser-Bushings, 405 Starling, P. P,, on Laboratory for Studying a Dangerous Material, 499*
Start Point and Galleywood, Tropospheric Scatter Transmitting and Receiving Link between (Marconi’s Wireless and Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 703*
Starter, Flame-Proof, “ Nelbest DDQF/30,” for Small Motors in Dangerous Sites (W. and H. Nelson, Ltd.), 741*
— Gas-Turbine, “ Turbomeca ” Range (Black
burn and General Aircraft, Ltd.), 667*
— Motor. See also Motors, Electric
— Reversing, Direct-to-Line (General Electric
Co,, Ltd.), 740
?— Stepless, “ Vapormatic,” for Slip-Ring Motors (Lee Guinness, Ltd.), 359*
— Type DOC71, Fitted with Ammeter Box
(British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd.), 806*
State and Science, Presidential Address on, to Institution of Chemical Engineers, by Sir H, Beaver, 578
Statics for Engineers, by F. P. Beer and E. Russell (Review), 26
Stations, Power. See Nuclear Power Stations; Power Stations
Stationery, International “A Series,” for British Standards Institution, 503
?— “ Plus Fabric,” Publicity Campaign for Spicers, Ltd., 465
Statistical Methods in Research and Production, by O. L. Davies (Review), 212
— Society, Manchester. See Manchester
Statistical Society, 354
Royal, Note on Activities of, 181; Industrial Production and Steel Consumption, by Sir R. Shone and H. R. Fisher, 386 Statistics, Authors’ Tendency to Quote, 251 •— Steel, Quarterly Bulletin of Economic Commission for Europe, 34
— Trade. See Trade
Stator Insulation of Large Alternators, Research into Improvement of Resistance to Ageing of, by K. Abegg, C. Caffisch and F. Knapp, 821
“ Staymec No. 1 ” Welding Electrodes for Welding of Stainless-Steel Nitric-Acid Absorption Column at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478* S.T.D. System. See Subscriber Trunk Dialling Steam Accumulators, Ruths, for High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd. (Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd.), 469*
— and Air Systems of High-Altitude Ram-Jet
Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 468*
— Boats. See Steamers
— Boilers. See Boilers
— Elimination of, from Aqueous Metal-
Treatment Baths, “ Serseal ” Layer Process for (Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd.), 306
— Engines. See Engines
— Generation Plant at Manvers Main Colliery
Coke-Oven Plant, 510*
— Generator. See Generator
— Plant Industry, Position and Prospects of,
647
— Raising Plant, Exports of, 55*
Plant at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 188*
Plant, Production Statistics, 55*
— Reducing Valves at Manvers Main Colliery
Coke-Oven Plant, 510
— Shovel. See Excavator
— System in Shippingport Nuclear Power
Station, 683*
— Traps, Drayton-Armstrong (Trade Publica
tion), 309
— Turbines. See Turbines
Steamers, Cross-Channel, Steam-Turbine Propulsion Machinery for, 28
— Electric Propulsion. See Marine Propulsion
— Propulsion of. See Marine Propulsion;
Engines; Turbines
— Stability of. See Ships, Stability of
— See also Engines; Liners; Marine Propulsion;
Shipbuilding; Shipping; Ships
Steamship, “ Great Eastern,” Launching of. Centenary of, 17
— See also Liners: Ships: Steamers: Warships Steckel Type Hot Rolling Mill at Shepcote
Lane Rolling Mills, 632*
Stedall Machine Tool Co., “ Everlube ” Dry Film Lubricant (Trade Publication), 27 Steel in Agriculture, Cinema Film on, 211
— Alloy, Mains-Frequency Coreless Induction
Furnace for, at Inca Steel Co., Ltd. (Birlec, Ltd.), 421 *
— Bearing-Balls, Structural Conditions
Tests of, by 1. Berz, K. F. Hale C. Wainwright, 151*
— Bridges, Military, Weight-Saving in,
A. E. Long, 735
— Castings, Large, Acid Pickling Tanks
(David Brown Industries, Ltd.), 281*
in, and
by
for
Precision, Foundry for (Osborn Precision Castings, Ltd.), 829*
— Chromium. See also Steel, Stainless
Steel Co. of Wales, Ltd., Use of Scrapers, Mechanical Shovels and Excavators, 218*; Work of Mobile and Civil Engineering Plant Department at, 218; Evershed Servo-Driven Optical Gauge for Control of Strip Width in Hot-Rolling Mills at, 382*
•— Consumption and Industrial Production, by Sir R. Shone and H. R. Fisher, 386
— Continuous Casting of, Junghans System
of, 293*
— Corrosion of. See Corrosion
— Deliveries for 1957, 34
— Expansion and Efficiency in. Circular on,
823
— Exports, Position and Prospects of, 643
— Fatigue of. See Fatigue
— Forgings and Fabrications (Trade Pub
lication), 90
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Frames, Multi-Storey, with Rigid Joints,
Design of. Research on, 350
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
?— Heat Treatment of. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
— High-Tensile, Low-Alloy, Application of,
by 1. M. Mackenzie, 734
— — Tensile, Welded, Structural Uses of, by
G. Roberts, 734
— Impact Extrusion of, by W. H. Byles, 306*
— Industry, Accident Prevention in, 267 of Canada, Position and Prospects
of, 738
Development Plans, 34
— — Effect of European Common Market on,
643
— — German, Wages Dispute, Settlement of,
536
Nationalisation, Opposition to, 271 Output Position and Prospects of, 771 Position and Prospects of, 13, 547, 643 Prospective Re-Nationalisation of. Propaganda Against, 162
United States, Comment on Recession in, 335
— and Iron Scrap, Imports, Statistics on, 240
— Microstructure of. See Microphotography
— Mild, Beams, Overstrained, Stress Dis
tribution in, by K. Farnell, 788*
Piecemeal Yielding of, by K. Farnell, 92 Resistance Formed Welds in. Tentative Design Standards for. Report on, 503
— Molybdenum, Test Cell for High-Altitude
~ ? Ram-Jet Engines at Bristol
Ltd. (Babcock and Wilcox,
Test Plant for
Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 437*
— Open-Hearth,
for, 536
?—? Prices, Continental, Cuts in, 536
of. Continental and United Kingdom, 536
Position and Prospects of, 20
Possibility of Cut in, 386
Possible Effects of Free Trade Area on, 387
— Products, Rolled, Prospects for, 171
— Rails. See Rails
— Rolling Mills. See Rolling Mills
— Ropes. See Wire Ropes
— and-Rubber Laminated Bearings, Andre, for
Pelham Road Bridge, 815*
— Rules of Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, 498
— Scrap, Heavy, Baling of, at Colvilles, Ltd.,
Triple-Compression Press for (Fielding and Platt, Ltd.), 261*
— Sheet, “SPC” Phosphating Process for
(Walterisation Co., Ltd.), 338
— Ship, Requirements and Regulations for,
498
— Special, Problems of Falling Demand, 271
— Stainless, Nitric-Acid Absorption Column,
Welded, at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478*
— — 17-7 PH, Precipitation-Hardening, 639
— — Valves (Trade Publication), 57
— Statistics, Quarterly Bulletin of Economic
Commission for Europe, 34
— Stress Distribution in. See Stress: Tests
(Materials)
— — Strain Curves for. Derived from Dilation
and Torsion Experiments, 759*
— Strip Quality, Control of, by S. S. Carlisle
and J. H. Wilson, 575
Stainless, Production at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills, 632*
— Structures (Trade Publication), 181
— Tests of. See Tests (Materials)
— Tin Coatings on, Non-Contact Thickness
Measurement of, X-Ray Fluorescence Method for (Newton Victor, Ltd,), 575
— Tool, Balls, High-Temperature Lubricant
Tests on, 661*
— Tube Industry, Position and Prospects of,
579
— Works. See Works
— See also European Coai and Steel Coni-
munitv
Steelmaster ” Straddle Carriers (Trade Publication), 534
Steels Engineering Products, Ltd., Lundell Forage Harvester, 518*; Coles Diesel- Electric Mobile Cranes, 615; Coles Mobile Cranes, 679*
United Kingdom Prices
ENGINEERING, VOL.
185 (1958)
45
Steelwork for Buildings (James Austin and Ltd.), 655*
— Canadian (Trade Publication), 181
— for Pelham Road Bridge (Butterley Co.),
814*
— Structural, Readership and Postgraduate Bursaries in, at Imperial College of Science and Technology, 139
Steelworkers’ Union, German, Call for Strike in Ruhr, 460
Steelworks. See Works
Steering for “ D.L. 4x4 Pathfinder ” CrossCountry Vehicle, 165*
— Play, Methods and Equipment for Measurement of, 371 *
— Power Assisted, for Heavy-Duty Dumper, 165
Stellarators, Thermonuclear Experiments on, 618
Step Industrial Equipment, Ltd., Wanner Hand-Operated Grease Guns (Trade Publication), 730; Reilang Twin Pump Oil Guns (Trade Publication), 730
Stephenson Developments (Huddersfield), Ltd., “ New Trend ” Timber Frame Transportable Bungalows, 416*
Stephenson, George, Non-Membership of Institution of Civil Engineers. See LETTER, 291. See also Vol. 184
Stephenson, H. F., on Floodlights for Niagara Falls, 230*
“ Stepmaster ” Hand Truck (Industrial Trucks Ltd.), 486*
Stereophonic Broadcasts during Radio Record Week by British Broadcasting Corporation, 576
— Disc Records (Pye Records, Ltd.), 576
— Recordings on Dual-Track Magnetic Tapes, 224
— ?—on Gramophone Discs, by H. A. M.
Clark, 448
— Sound Equipment (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 224
?— System for Disc Records (Pamphonic Reproducers, Ltd.), 576
for Disc Records (Pye, Ltd.), 576 Sterilisation of Water, “ Clorocel ” Equipment (CF/E Series Electrolysers) for (Paterson Engineering Co., Ltd.), 22
Sterling Area, Loans from Britain and World Bank, 387
— Debate on (Broadsheet), 529
Stern and Bell, Ltd., Steel Forgings and Fabrications (Trade Publication), 90
Stevens, Dr. K. W., on Atomic and Molecular Generators, 724
Steward, S. F., on Position and Prospects of Lancashire Dynamo Group, 774
Steward, W., and Co., Ltd., Silver Jubilee, 395 Stewart, A. G., Remarks on Stewarts and Lloyds Attitude towards Nationalisation, 34; Remarks on Nationalisation of Steel Industry, 271; Remarks at Annual Luncheon of Institution of Metallurgists, 761
Stewart, D., and Co., Purchase of, by Booker Bros., 207
Stewart Gill and Co., Ltd., Gas-Heated Furnace for Burning Patterns on to Glassware, 357* Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd., Annual Review, 34; Propaganda Against Re-Nationalisation of Steel Industry, 162; Pipes and Sheathing for Oil-Refinery Gas Pipeline to Romford, 222; Decline in Oil-Industry Orders, 546; Annual Report, 771
Stiffening Effects of Edge Beams on Right Slab Bridge, by J. A. N. Lee, 539*. See LETTER, 612
Stiffness, Loading Mechanism of Increasing, by E. Spencer, 60*
— Tests on Rubbers at Low Temperatures, 113 Still, Dr. E. W., Into Thin Air, Note on, 535 Stillerman, R., Sources of Invention, Comment on, 129
Stirrer, Mechanical, for Mercury Freezing Tank (Kestner Evaporator and Engineering Co.), 797*
Stock Exchange, Trade Unions’ Activities on, 616
— Record Machine, Continuous, “ Stoktrol ”
(K. Bisset and Co., Ltd.), 255
Stockyards, “ Euclid S7 ” Scraper
Steel Co. of Wales, 219*
“ Stoktrol ” Continuous Stock
Machine (K. Bisset and Co., Ltd.), Stones, Gem, by Sir L. Bragg, 211
at Gatwick Airport Sons (Dewsbury),
for, at
Record
255
Stone, G. N., on Siting of Nuclear Power Stations, 172, 173
Stone, H. A., on Two-Terminal, Passive Semiconductor Component, 562*
Stone, J., Railway Carriage Air-Conditioning Equipment for Poland, 755
Stone, J., and Co. (Charlton), Ltd., Light-Alloy Castings (Trade Publication), 90
Stone, J., and Co. (Deptford), Ltd., Packaged Steam Generator, 519
Stone, J., and Co. (Holdings), Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 810
Stop Valves. See Falves
Storage Battery. See Accumulator under Electric; Motor yehicles; Motor Trucks
?— Element, Computer, Production at Tow- cester Factory of Plessey Co., Ltd., 799
— Pumped, Scheme at Blaenau Ffestiniog, 399
— Tanks, Oil, at Isle of Grain Refinery, 796* Solvent, Testing of, 690
Stordy Engineering, Ltd., Heat-Treatment Furnace for Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 410*
Stores, Tyre, Palletised, of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd , at Fort Dunlop and Coventry, 796*
Storey Bros. and Co., Ltd., “ Plastoglass ” Polyvinyl Sheeting Reinforced with Glass- Fibre, 670
Storey, C., on Calculating Stresses in Rails, 311*
Straddle Carriers, “ Steelmaster ” and “ Timberwolf ” (Trade Publication), 534 Straightening Machines. See Machine Tools Strain Compatibility Condition of Prestressed Concrete Beams, by Prof. H. Riisch, 735
Strain Gauge, Electrical Resistance, for Fatigue-
Testing Machine Calibration, 693*
Weighbar, Load Measurements by, in
Dynamic Calibration of Fatigue-Testing Machines, 693*
— Hardening Function for Cylinders under Internal Pressure, 756*
Influence on Dilation of Cylinders under
Internal Pressure, by Dr. E. Voce, 756* Loading
— Local, Measurement under Static by Replica Technique, 726*
— See also Stress
Strands, Pretensioning, Laid to a Use of, by B. C. Gerwick, 736
Stratton, A., on Combination of Navigation and Radio Aids, 466
Strauch, Prof. K., Work on Cold Fusion, 109; on Gamma-Rays from Muon Catalysed Fusion of Hydrogen and Deuterium, 431 * Streets. See Roads
Strength of Materials. See Stress and Tests (Materials)
Stress, Alternating and Combined. See Tests (Materials)
— Analysis on Railway Coaches with Load-
Carrying Bodies, 345*
— in Compressor and Turbine Blades,
Measuring on Test Bed and in Flight, by D. A. Drew, 125
— Distribution in Overstrained Mild Steel
Beams, by K. Farnell, 788*
— Externally Applied, Influence on Brittle
Fracture in Ships, 498
— in Rails, Calculation of, by C. Storey, 311*
— Relieving, Stretcher for, at Rogerstone
Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd. (Loewy Engineering, Ltd.), 411*
— Repetitions. See Fatigue
— Reversal Problems, Theory of Yielding of
Mild Steel in, 92*
— Strain Curves for Steel and Copper Derived
from Dilation and Torsion Experiments, 759*
— and Strain in Human Relations, by Z, M. T.
Tarkowski, 305*
— in Three-Dimensional Multi-Anchor Pipe
Systems, Calculations of. Computer Programme for (Ferranti, Ltd.), 125
— in Tunnel Linings, Research on, 350
?— Warming-up, in Thick Hollow Cylinders, by M. J. Hillier, 343
Stretcher for Stress Relieving at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd. (Loewy Engineering, Ltd.), 411*
Strikes. See Labour
Strip, Continuous Production of, by Direct Rolling Process, by D. K. Worn, 472
-— Rolling of, by E. C. Larke (Book), 56
— •— Mills, Automatic Gauge Control in, by
Dr. R. B. Sims, 575
Mill, Steel, Proposed, Discussion in Parliament on Site for (Richard Thomas and Baldwins Ltd.), 464
— Stainless Steel, Production at Shepcote
Lane Rolling Mills, 632*
— Steel, Quality Control of, by S. S, Carlisle
and J. H. Wilson, 575
?— Thickness Measurement by Beta and Gamma Absorption, by E. B. Bell, 575 Strobo-Tachometer, Portable (C. F. R. Giesler, Ltd.), 169*
Stroboscopic X-Ray Examination of Critical Components of Vibrating Assembly (Philips Electrical, Ltd.), 551
Structural Analysis in the Elastic-Plastic Range, Floating Body Analogy, by R. J. P. Garden, 573*
— Conditions in Steel Bearing-Balls, Tests of,
by 1. Berz, K. F. Hale, and C. Wainwright, 151*
— Design, Application of Theory of Stability
in, by H. L. Cox, 287
— Engineers, Institution of, Web Buckling and
Plate Girder Design, by Dr. K. C. Rockey, 312
— Sandwich Constructions, Symposium on
(Review), 700
— Steelwork. See Steelwork
— Uses of Welded High-Tensile Steel, by G.
Roberts, 734
Structures, Application of Tubes to, by G. B. Godfrey, 734
— Concrete, Research on Durability of, 350
— Engineering, Brittle Behaviour of, by
E. R. Parker (Review), 56
— Observation of. Symposium on, Vol. I:
Opening Speeches, General Report, Discussion. Vol. II: Papers (Book), 91 ?— Plastic Theory of. Approximations to Material Properties in, by Dr. M. R. Horne and T. M. Charlton, 734
— Reinforced-Concrete. See Concrete, Rein
forced
— Steel (Trade Publication), 181
— Wind Loading, Wind Tunnel Tests on, 697 Struts. See Columns
Stuart, Dr. P. R., on New Flat Cathode-Ray Tube for Monochrome and Colour Television, 620*
Stiibbe (Germany), “ Serpentix ” Flexible Fold-Belt Conveyor, 615
Studs, “ Speedframe,” for Framework Assembly (Dexion, Ltd.), 191*
Studebaker “ Weasel ” Amphibian Vehicles for British Commonwealth Trans-Antarc- tic Expedition, 372*
Students, Graduate, and Research Workers, Notes on Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Grants for, 107
— Technical, Advanced Mathematics for, by
H. V. Lowry and H. A. Hayden (Book), 213
Study Abroad, Unesco Publication, 57
— Projects, by D. C. Morgan, 323
Sturtevant Engineering Co., Ltd., Electrostatic Precipitation (Trade Publication), 181; “ Standard ” and “ Whirlwind ” Air Separators for Particle Grading (Trade Publication), 534
Stwlan, Lake, in Pumped-Storage Scheme at Blaenau-Ffestiniog, 491*
Stylus-Type Precision Surface Roughness Meter (Bruel and Kjaer), 471
Profile,
Inertial
Sub-Station at Brussels Fair (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 487
Submarine Boats. See Oil Tanker; Warships — Cables. See Cables
Submarine Cables, Ltd., Transatlantic Submarine Telephone Cables between America and France, 115
— Telegraphs. See Telegraphs
— Telephone Cable. See Telephone Cable Submission, Aggression or Escape, Human Reactions, by Z. M. T. Tarkowski, 429* Submissiveness in Authoritarian Barriers to Communication, 721*
Subscriber Trunk Dialling System, 800* Subsidies in Industry, Comment on, 418 Sudlow, A, E., and Co., New Chemical Engineering Laboratories for Manchester College of Science and Technology, 764* Suez Crisis and Speculation, Views of A. W. Tuke on, 111
Suffolk Nuclear Power Station, Discussion in Parliament on Site for, 368
Sugar Refinery Workers, Technology for, by O. Lyle (Book), 213
Suggestion Schemes as Productivity Stimulant, 592
“ Suhner ” Electric Hand Grinding and Drilling Machines (Trade Publication), 534 Sulphate of Ammonia, Production at Manvers Main Colliery Coke-Oven Plant, 509
Sulphur Dioxide Extraction Plant at Isle of Grain Refinery, 794*
— High-Purity, Recovery of (International
Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 536
— for Production of Concentrated Complete
Fertiliser at Leith Docks Factory of Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., 506 Sulphuric Acid Production by Monsanto Contact Process at Scottish Agricultural Industries Ltd., Fertiliser Factory, 506* Summers, J., and Sons, Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 171
Summers, R. F., on Outlook for Rolled Steel Products, 171
Sun-Powered Furnaces, Discussion in Parliament on, 240
— Radiation from, Research Problems of, 126
— See also Solar
“ Super Chief” Railway Train, E. P. Ward on, 715*
“ Super Sprite ” Rocket Engine for Vickers- Armstrongs “ Valiant ” Bomber (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
Superannuation Scheme, National, of Labour Party, 139
Superconductivity, Theory of, by Academician N. N. Bogolyubov, 43
Superheater Nuclear Reactor, Proposed, 303
— Tubes, Marine, Materials for, by D. W.
Crancher, 211
“ Superland ” Reamers, B.S.A. (Trade Publication), 347
“ Superloop ” Wire-Rope Eye (British Ropes, Ltd.), 327*
Supersonic Wind Tunnels, Closed-Circuit Television in. Lighting, Fittings for Use with (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 805
Superstition, Plain Words on, 194 Superstructure Design in Relation to Descent of Funnel Smoke, by E. Ower, and A. D. Third, 253
— Ship, Airflow in Design of, 697
Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of. Electrical Installations in Large Dock Areas, by M. Rundle, 260; Prevention of Accidents: Legal Responsibility, by P. W. Cole, 304; Electrical Engineers Exhibition, 454*; Annual Conference (Hastings), Troubles in Electrical Engineering Industry, by G. H. Parker, 658
Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians, Association of. Plan for Linking Wages to Prices and Productivity, 391
— System for Remote Communication,
“ Simple ” (Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd.), 455*
Supply, Minister of, on Development and Testing of Earth-Moving Plant, 368; Remarks on Government’s Future Policy for Aircraft Industry, 609. See also 624
— Ministry of. Purchase of “Comet II”
liner. Discussion in Parliament on. Stand at Instruments, Electronics Automation Exhibition, 549*
Surface Condensers. See Condensers
— Condition of Bearing-Balls, High-Frequency
Electrical Test for,
— Grinding Machine.
Machine Tools
— Internal, Inspection
for (Vision Engineering, Ltd.), 742*
— Plate Deflections, Measurement Under
Load, Beam and Dial Indicator Equipment for (Rubert and Co., Ltd.), 742*
— Roughness Meter, Stylus-Type Precision
(Bruel and Kjaer), 471
Surveys of Indian Industries, by B. S. Rao (Review), 374
Surveying, Aerial, “ Auscor ” Automatic Electronic Scanning Correlator for (Photographic Survey Corp), 607
Suspension Bridges, Dynamic Instability of, by Y. Rocard (Review), 535
— Pipe-Bridge Over River Danube for Con
veyance of Natural Gas, 49*
Bridge Over River Danube for High- Pressure Natural-Gas Main, 378
— Unit, Independent, Trailing-Link, for
Pemberton Light-Alloy Caravan (Peak Trailers, Ltd.), 608
Sutcliffe Speakman and Co., Ltd., Brick-Making Plant at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 189*; Duplex “Emperor” Brick Presses at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 190
Sutherland, R. O., on Activities of Institute of Patentees and Inventors, 163
Sutton, C. T. W., on Flat Pressure Cable for Submarine Installation, 822
Svetov, A., on Mechanisation in Production of Factory Made Units and Problem of Transmission Length in Pretensioned Concrete, 736
Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Group, Position and Prospects of, 553; Design
and Construction of Nuclear-Powered Ships, 620
Swansea, University College of, Inaugural Lecture on Communication of Ideas, by Prof. R. H. Macmillan, 375
“ Swarfega ” Waterless Skin Cleanser in Portable Washing Equipment (Deb Chemical Proprietaries, Ltd.), 95
Sweden, Thermonuclear Work in, 174 Swedish Atomic Research Station.
Atomic Research Station, Swedish
Swift Summerskill Planing Machines Frederick Town and Sons, Ltd., 31
Swim, W. B., on Mist Injection in Diesel gines, 30
See
for
En-
Swinburne, Sir J., Hundredth Birthday (Biographical Note), 267; the Late, 420* Swingate, Low Power Television Station for, 448
Swiss Motor Vehicle Markets, German Domination of, 435
— Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522
Switches, Motor-Starting. Sec Motors, Electric; Starters: Switchgear
Switchboard Instruments, Moving-Iron (Trade Publication), 119
— (Trade Publication), 119
Switchgear, Circuit-Breakers, Air-Blast, for Alternating Current Systems, Short- Circuit Testing of. Rules Governing (Book), 585
Breakers, Air-Blast, Compressed Air in. Dielectric Strength of. Investigation of, by L. R. Bergstrom and W. Pucher, 821
Breakers, Discussions on, at CIGRE, 821 Breakers, Report on Work of Study Committee on, by H. Meyer, 821
Switchgear and Cowans, Position and Prospects of, 774
— for Gatwick Airport (Yorkshire Switchgear),
653
— “ Pegasus ” Digital Computer for Design of,
at A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 254
?— Switch, Armature Reversing, for Mercury- Arc Converters (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 701*
Micro, Miniature, “ V3 ” Products Co., Ltd.), 359*
(Burgess
Pressure (Delta Technical Services, Ltd.), 454*
? Rotary, for Information Sampling
(Vactric (Control Equipment), Ltd.), 488*
— Switchboxes and Wiring Accessories,
“ Closegang ” (J. A. Crabtree and Co., Ltd.), 480*
— for Tilbury Power Station, 792* Switzerland, Motor Vehicles in. Statistics on,
295
— Relation With European Common Market,
707
with Free Trade Area, 707
— Relationship with European Coal and Steel
Community, 35
— Shortage of Engineers and Scientists in, 146
— Tariff Negotiations with General Agreement
on Tariffs and Trade, 707
Synchrocyclotron, 600 MeV, of CERN, Progress on, 76
Synchrofazatron at Joint Nuclear Research Institute (Dubna), Studies on, 43*
Synchroscopes, Rotary (Trade Publication), 119
Synchrotron,
Progress on, 76
7 GeV, Epoxy Resin Vacuum Tank for, for National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, 776
10 GeV, at Joint Nuclear Research Institute (Dubna), Studies on, 43*
12'5 GeV Zero-Gradient, at Argonne National Laboratory, 42*
for Rutherford Laboratory of National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, 42*
Synthetic Textiles, “ Magnaspin ” Spinning Machine for. Tests on (Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour, Ltd.), 54
Syringe, Variable Nozzle (W. T. French and Son, Ltd.), 320
Proton, 25 GeV, of CERN,
Air-
300;
and
151*, 152*
See Grinding under
of, “ Inspectascope ”
TABLES of Normal Degree Days, 323
Tacking Gun, Cable (Industrial Staplers, Ltd.), 544*
Tadzhikistan, Soviet Economic Planning in, 35 Talbot, D. Chetwynd, Remarks on Position and Prospects of South Durham Steel and Iron Co., Ltd., 79
Talbot, D. E. J., on Instrument for Measuring Gas Content of Aluminium Alloys during Melting and Casting, 576
“ Tallescope ” Extendable Tower Staging (Access Equipment, Ltd.), 519*
Tangential Force, Effect of, on Contact of Metallic Bodies, by J. S. Courtney-Pratt and E. Eisner, 182*
Tanks, Acid Pickling, for Large Steel Castings (David Brown Industries, Ltd.), 281*
— Aluminium-Alloy, with Three-Point Sus
pension, for Bulk Liquid Transporters (Thompson Bros. (Bilston), Ltd.), 317*
— Grit Settling (Trade Publication), 347
— ?— Washing (Trade Publication), 347
— Landing Craft, Future of. Discussion in
Parliament on, 524
— Settling, “ Uniflow,” for Removal of Solids
(Trade Publication), 659
— Storage, Oil, at Isle of Grain Refinery, 796* Solvent, Testing of, 690
for Trial Shipment of Liquid Methane, 241
— for Tidal Model for Southampton Water,
201*
— for Transporting Oilwell Drilling Fluid in
Venezuelan Oil Fields (Bristowes Machinery, Ltd.), 581*
— Water, Aluminium, for Caltex Oil Tankers
(Windshields of Worcester, Ltd.), 645
— Vacuum, Epoxy Resin, for 7 GeV Proton
Synchrotron for National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, 77
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
for
Removing (Marbaix Industries, Ltd.), 580*
— Factors Affecting Performance of, by R. J.
Cowie and J. O. M. Pegler, 542
— Spray Mixing, “ Unatap,” Price Reduction
by Walker Croswell, 433
Tape, Adhesive, Colour-Printed, “ Sellotape ” (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
— Controlled Inspection System, Three-
Dimensional, by H. J. Elton, 478
— Ethyl-Cellulose, Self-Adhesive, for Moisture
Resistant Sealing (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
— Magnetic, for Data Recording, by Dr. C. D.
Mee, 310
Dual-Track, Stereophonic Recordings on, 224
? for Recording Television Pictures, 512*
Vertical Three-Dimensional Milling Machine Operating from, in Russian Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 521*
-— Packaging, 880 Filament Type (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486
— Punched, Control System for Machine
Tools (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 31*
— Recorder, Magnetic, “ Ampex Faxtape,”
for Photographs (Ampex Corp.), 358*
— — Magnetic, for Dynamic Data of Labora
tory Standard (Trade Publication), 213 Magnetic, for Radiophonic Workshop at Maida Vale Studios of British Broadcasting Corp., 736*
— Recording, Magnetic, “ Extraplay ” (Minne
sota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Ltd.), 486
— Vinyl, “ Sellotape ” No. 12 (Gordon &
Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
— Waterproof, Cellulose Acetate, “ Sellotape”
(Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
Tapping Machine. See Machine Tools Taprogge, L., Cleaning Condenser Tubes Con
tinuously with Foam-Rubber Balls, 828* Tar, Crude, Production at Manvers Main
Colliery Coke-Oven Plant, 509
Tariff Negotiations between Switzerland and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, 707
— Reductions, United States, Prospects of, 827
— and Trade, General Agreement on. Report
on European Coal and Steel Community, 34; Tariff Negotiations between Switzerland and,707
— United States, Policy of, 3
Tarkowski, Z. M. T., on the Case of the Bad Mixer, 11*; on Criticism and Plain Speaking, 177; on Stress and Strain in
Human Relations, 305*; on “ Feedback Principle ” in Human Relationship,
Comment on, 322; on Human Reactions: Aggression, Submission or Escape, 429*; on Anxiety and Escape, 561 *; on Authoritarian Barriers to Communication, 721* Tarmac Civil Engineering, Ltd., St. Albans
By-Pass, 441
Tarmac, Ltd., Work at Gatwick Airport, 655*; Pelham Road Bridge, 814*; Sincil Dyke Project at Lincoln, 815*
Tatham, N. J., and Co., Ltd., High-Efficiency
Hydraulic Transmission Equipment, 379* Tax Recommendations to Chancellor of
Exchequer by Federation of British Industries, 419
Taxation, Corrupting Effect of High, 75
?— Problems in Engineering Profession, Memorandum on, by Engineers’ Guild, Ltd., 139
Taxiways at Gatwick Airport, 653*
Taylor, F., on Position and Prospects of
Taylor Woodrow, 647
Taylor, F. R. Forbes, on Problems of Handling
Large Missiles, 517
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, Life and Work of, by L. F. Urwick (Book), 347
Taylor, G., and Son (Engineers), Ltd., Plug and
Ring Gauges (Trade Publication), 534 Taylor Tools and Supplies, Ltd., Automatic-
Cycle Mechanisms for Wet Belt Grinding Machine, 169*; Abrasive Belt Machine, 678*
Taylor Woodrow, Annual Report, 647
Taylor Woodrow Construction, Ltd., New
Board Mill at Thatcham for Colthrop
Board and Paper Mills, Ltd., 764* Teachers. See Education
Teaching. See Education
Team Work, Application of Work Study to.
Cinema Film on, 338
Technical Authorship (Pamphlet), 762 Technical Contents, Note on, 659
— Co-operation Scheme, Aid to Ceylon Under,
706
Scheme, Aid to Training and Research
Facilities in South-East Asia under, 706
— College and Education. See Education
— Journals, Advertising in, in United States,
Change in, 337
British, Selected (Booklet), Note on, 213
— Lending Library, Lewis’s, Catalogue of, 155
— and Scientific Books, Trade Reference List
of (Chapman and Hall), 823
? Translation, Conference on, 473
— Societies. See Institutions
— Students, Advanced Mathematics for, by
H. V. Lowry and H. A. Hayden (Book), 213
— Writing, by A. H. Toms, 3. See also Vol.
184
Bad, Note on, 119
Improvements Society, Note on Activities of, 119
Technochemie, Ultrasonic Cleaning Plant with Vacuum Technique, 485
Technocratic Tyranny, Plain Words on Fear of, 2
Technological Awards, National Council for, 193
— Education for Industry, Modern, Report on
Conference on, 409
Technology, Diploma in. Remarks on, by Lord Hives, 193
— of Engineering Manufacture, Conference on
505
— History of. Vol. Ill: From Renaissance
to Industrial Revolution, by C. Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and T. 1. Williams (Review), 346
— Russian, Reviews of, 483
Teddington Industrial Equipment, Ltd., Bench Model Air Gauge, 646*
Tee-Side Bridge and Engineering Works, Ltd., Loading Hoppers for Pre-Cast Concrete Jetty on River Thames, 48*; “ Goliath ” Crane for Site of Bradwell Nuclear Power Station, 439*
Teeth, Gear. See Gear
“ Tektor Major,” Capacity-Operated Level Controller for Liquids or Granular Materials (Fielden Electronics, Ltd.), 228* Telecommunications Industry, Activities of, 239
— Introductory Textbook for Engineering
Students, by W. Fraser (Book), 793
— Technical Committee on National Grid
Control System, 766*
Telegraph Cables, Exports of, 114*
— Communication, Trans-Atlantic, Centenary
of, 17
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co., Ltd., Air-Spaces Cables (Trade Publication), 27; Position and Prospects of, 584 Telegraphs and Posts Administration (East African), Apprenticeship and Training Schemes of, 657
Telegraphy, Wireless. See Valves, Thermionic; Radar; Radio; Television
Telemetering, Electronic Multiplex System, for Grid Control System, Id*
— Equipment, Radiosone, Automatic (Rank
(Sintel, Ltd.), 543*
— for National Grid Control System, 766* Telephone Cables, Exports of, 114
Submarine, Transatlantic, Between America and France (American Telephone and Telegraph Co.), 115
— Call Failures, Automatic Telephone Sub
scriber Device for Locating, 153
— Exchange, V.H.F. Radio Link with Railway
Train, Trials on, 158
— Handset, Private Subscriber, for Subscriber
Trunk Dialling System, 800*
— Line Insulation Tester, 153
— Meter for Private Subscribers on Subscriber
Trunk Dialling System (Smiths Industrial Instrument Division), 800*
— for National Grid Control System, 766*
— Network, London, Automatic Aids for, 153
— Pay-on-Answer Coin Box for Subscriber
Trunk Dialling System (Associated Automation, Ltd.), 800*
— Plain Words on, 482
— Repeater, Two-Way, Submerged (Standard
Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 487
— Subscriber, Automatic, for Locating Call
Failures, 153
— Trunk Dialling System, 800*
— System, Rural Carrier, Transistorised,
“ Standard,” for Australian Post Office (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 804
— Tester, Automatic, on Installation, 153 Serviceability, Portable (Automatic Telephone and Electronic Co., Ltd.), 133
— Transmitting Facsimiles Over, “ Hellfax ”
Transceiver for (K. S. Paul, Ltd.), 229*
Telephony, Very-High-Frequency, New Installation of, at Calshot Signal Station, 156*
— Wireless. See also Valves; Radar; Radio;
Television
Telescope, How to Make A, Note on Book on, 251
?— Radio, 45 ft.. Amplifier for Attachment to, at Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern), 699*
Teletransmission, Discussions on, at CIGRE, 821
— Energie Electrique du Maroc, by J. Lacroix,
821
Television Advertising of Engineering Products, 209
— Amateur, Activities of, 320
— Centre of British Broadcasting Corporation
at Wood Lane, 362*
?— Closed-Circuit, in Nuclear Reactors and Supersonic Wind Tunnels, Lighting Fittings for Use with (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 805
— Colour, Amateur, Experiments in, 320
— ?— NTSC System, British Broadcasting
Corp. Field Trials on, 832
— Frame with Own Illumination for, 32
— Hand Camera, “ Peepie Creepie ” (Com-
pagnie Generale de Telegraphic Sans Fils), 453*
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 114*
— Influence of, Note on, 155
— Monochrome and Colour, New Flat
Cathode-Ray Tube for, by Dr. D. Gabor, Dr. P. R. Stuart and P. G. Kalman, 620*
— Pictures, Magnetic Tape for Recording, 512*
— and Radio Relay System at Hawick (Relay
Systems (Hawick), Ltd.), 800
— Renting, Boom in, 242
— Stations, Low Power, for Swingate and
Folkestone, 448
Satellite, Low Power, Experimental, in Kent, for British Broadcasting ~ tion, 680
— Three-Dimensional, as Atomic
Brussels Fair, 620
— Tower, Crystal Palace (British
Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd.), 246*
— Train on Scottish Region of British Rail
ways, 209
— Transmitter, Crystal Palace, Colour Tele
vision Tests at, 832
— Turret Tuner, Plastics, “ Fireball ” (A. B.
Metal Products, Ltd.), 704*. See LETTER, 740
— Unit, Colour, Medical, Mobile (Marconi’s
Wireless Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 773*
— Use in Remote Control of Nitro-Glycerine Production by Biazzi Process at Ardeer Factory of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 101*
Telford Story, Review of Exhibition on, 57
Telford, Thomas, by L. T. C. Roll (Review), 793
“ Telicator ” Visual Flow Indicators (Sir W. H. Bailey and Co., Ltd.), 453*
Temperature Coefficient of Gas-Cooled Nuclear Reactors, 302
•— Controller, Photo-Transistor, Three-Position (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial), Ltd.), 551
— Gas, Instrument for Sensing, 639
— Gradient in Nuclear Fuel Elements, Effect
of Cluster on, 808*
— High, Materials at. Apparatus for Study of
(Royal Aircraft Establishment (Farn- Ijorough)), 373
— Influence of Brittle Fracture in Ships, 497 Temperature, Ltd., “ Tropical ” Air Conditioner for Hot Countries with High Humidities, 672*
— Measurement. See Pyrometry; Thermo
metry
— of Plasmas, by A. E. Ruark, 431 Tempering. See Heat Treatment under Metallurgy
Temple Ewell Corn Mill, 818
Tennessee Valley Authority, Re-formation as Development and Resources Corp., 271 Tensile Tests. See Tests (Materials)
Tensioning Conveyor Belts, Baker Device for, 102*
Terminal Building at Gatwick Airport, 653*, 654*, 655*
Terminations, Matched, Glass Fibre Cloth Impregnated with Colloidal Graphite for, 400
Silicon-Silicon Carbide Refractive Materials for, 400
Terylene Polyester Fibre, Spinning of. Northern Ireland Factory Project of Imperial Chemical Industries for, 395
Test-Bed Equipment for Motor Cars at Associated Ethyl Co., Ltd. (Heenan and Froude, Ltd.), 434*
Equipment for Testing Gearboxes at Jaguar Cars, Ltd. (Heenan and Froude, Ltd.), 434*
— Cell, Molybdenum Steel, for High-Altitude Ram-Jet Engines at Bristol Ltd. (Babcock and Wilcox,
Response (Solartron Elec-
Tests (Materials):
Bearing-Balls, Non-Destructive Tests on, 151*
Brake-Lining Materials, Testing Machine for, 785*
Bricks, Testing, at Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 190
Brittle-Fracture Tests on Ship Steel, 498 Brittleness Tests on Rubbers at Low Temperatures, 113
Charpy Test as Brittle Fracture Test, 498
Concrete, Accelerated Curing Tests on, by N. N. B. Ordman and N. G. Bondre, 243*, 451. See LETTERS, 324, 355, 419, 666*, 771
Electrical Test, High-Frequency, for Surface Condition of Bearing-Balls, 151*, 152*
Fatigue Tests on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556 — Testing Machines, Dynamic Calibration of, by T. M. Dowell, 693*
Machine for Hot Sheet, by K. W. Mitchell and H. King, 402*
Machines in New Laboratory at Cambridge University, 276*
— — Machine, Schenck, Dynamic Calibration of, 695
— Torsion, Testing Machine, “ Torsator,” Incorporating High - Frequency “ Vibrophore ” Photoelectric Control Device (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 786*
Hardness Testing Machine, Standard Indenting, at National Physical Laboratory, by R. S. Marriner and F. C. P. Mason, 339*
Impact Tests as Brittle Fracture Tests, 498 Izod Test as Brittle Fracture Test, 498 Lubricants, Tests on, at Higher Temperatures, by D. Scott, 660*
Magnetic Tests. See Magnetic
Materials, Strength of. Laboratory, in New Chemical Engineering Laboratories at Manchester College of Science and Technology, 763*
Navy Tear Test, 498
Non-Destructive Tests on Steel Bearing- Balls, 151*
Notched-13ar Impact Tests. See Impact Tests (above)
Pellini Explosion Bulge Test, 498
Radiographic Testing Methods of Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd., 782*
Rubber, Antistatic, by D. Bulgin, 150
— Conductive, by D. Bulgin, 150
— International Standards for, by F. H. Edwards, 150
Tests (Materials) —continued Rubber-to-Metal Bonding, by F. H.
Edwards, 150
— Testing International Standards for, 113 Ship Steel Brittle-Fracture Tests, 498 Spinning Test on Bearing-Balls by Rotating Magnetic Fields, 151*
Strength of Materials Laboratory in New Chemical Engineering Laboratories at Manchester College of Science and Technology, 763*
— Shear, of Prestressed Concrete Beams, 735
— Torsional, of Prestressed Concrete, by Prof. H. J. Cowan, 735
— Ultimate, of Prestressed Concrete Beams in Flexure, 735
Stresses in Materials and Structures. See Stress
Struts in Elastic and Plastic Ranges, Tests on, by K. B. Ayers and R. C. Coates, 88*
Testing Machine, Torsion-Fatigue, “ Torsator,” Incorporating High-Frequency “ Vibrophore ” Photoelectric Control Device (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 786*
Tipper Notched Tensile Test, 498
“ Torsator ” Torsion-Fatigue Testing Machine Incorporating High-Frequency “ Vibrophore ” Photoelectric Control Device (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 786*
Torsion-Fatigue Testing Machine, “ Torsator,” Incorporating High-Frequency “ Vibrophore ” Control Device (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 786*
Ultrasonic Inspection and Testing. See Ultrasonic
van der Veen Slow Notched Bend Test, 498 X-Ray Diffraction.
Diffraction
Inspection and X-Ray
Tests, Magnetic. See Magnetic
— Model. See Model
— on NTSC System of Colour Television by
British Broadcasting Corp., 832
— Plant, High-Altitude, for Ram-Jet Engines
(Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd.), 436*, 468*
— Rig for Anti-Vibration Mountings, 697*
— Stability, Full-Scale, on British 132 kV Grid
System, Results of, by F. Busemann and W. Casson, 404
— Yacht Model, at Saunders-Roe, Ltd., 9
— on “ Yeoman ”5-5 Metre Yacht, 7*
Tester, Gear, Rolling, No. 4 (J. Goulder and Sons, Ltd.), 741 *
— Telephone, New Devices for London Tele
phone Network, 153
— — Serviceability, Portable (Automatic Tele
phone and Electric Co., Ltd.), 133
Testing Atmospheres in Enclosed Spaces, by H. Allen, 690
— Eddy-Current, of Copper and its Alloys,
Use of Search-Coil Apparatus for, by N. B. Harvey, 576
— Equipment for Internal Combustion Engines
for College Laboratories (Trade Publication), 27
— Gearboxes, Test-Bed Equipment ^or, at
Jaguar Cars, - _ .
Ltd.), 434*
— Instrument for
panics, Ltd.),
— Laboratory, in Soil Engineering, by T. N. W.
Akroyd (Review), 252. See LETTER, 291 See also National Physical
— Machine for Brake-Lining Materials, 785* Loading Mechanism of Increasing Stiffness by E. Spencer, 60*
? Lubricant, Four-Ball, Boerlage, Incorporating Induction Heater, 660*
for Sleeve Bearings, by A. J. Davis, and T. V. Krok, 345
?Torsion-Fatigue, “Torsator,” Incorporating High-Frequency “Vibrophore” Photoelectric Control Device (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 786*
See also Tests (Materials)
—? Materials, American Society for. Symposium on Structural Sandwich Constructions (Review), 700
— of Oil and Petrol Engines, Fuel Gauges for
(Plint and Partners, Ltd.), 422*
— pH Meters, Instrument for (A. M. Lock &
Co., Ltd.), 405
— Short-Circuit, of Air-Blast Circuit-Breakers
for Alternating Current Systems, Rules Governing (Book), 585
— in Soil Engineering, by T. N. W. Akroyd
(Review), 252
— of Solvent Storage Tanks, 690
— Specimens of Unknown Strength: Loading
Mechanism of Increasing Stiffness by E. Spencer, 60*
— of Windows by Building Reserach Division
of National Research Council of Canada, 128
— See also Tests (Materials)
Texaco Development Corp., Hydrogen Production Process at Partington Gas Works, 326
Texas Instrument Co. (Bedford), Production of Silicon Transistors at, 114
Texas Instruments Inc., New Plant for Making Transistors and Semi-Conductor Devices, 818
Textiles, Asbestos, Production, at Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ltd., Development Project for, at Hindley Green, 412*
— Industry, Redundancy Plan for Lancashire
Mill Employees, 460
— Machine Industry, Position and Prospects
of, 137
— Machinery, Exports of, 54*
— — Industry, Position and Prospects of, 53* Industry, Technological Developments
in, 54
Production Statistics, 54*
— Trade Fair, National Industrial, 536
Thackeray, D. P. C., on High-Speed Photography; A Tool for Engineer, 214*
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
of Heat
Co.), 89
— Valves.
graphy. Radio Thermo-Plastics, Ltd., “Perspex” Bath, 128 Thermodynamics for Chemical Engineers, by
H. C. Weber and H. T. Meissner (Book), 252
Thermometers, Skin Temperature, in “ Explorer ” Satellite, 164
Thermometry, Measurement of Pump Efficiencies by, by J. V. H. Holt, 501
Thermonuclear Apparatus, Smaller-Scale, 184* ?—? Energy, Direct Conversion to Electricity,
Possibility of, 173
— Experiments at Harwell, 43
— ?— in Russia, 43
on Stellarators, 618
— Fusion. See also ZETA in France, Work on, 174
-Joint United States-United Kingdom
Conference on (Washington), 173 Recognition of, 108 Research, Sherwood Project of, 618 ?— ?—-in Sweden, Work on, 174
— Neutrons, Definition of, 142
— Power, Position and Prospects of, 225
— Reactions, by Academician 1. V. Kurchatov,
431
— — Costs of Power from, 142
Definition of, 142
First Steps in Controlling, 135*
• Neutron Emission in, 108
Research on. Announcement on Current State of, by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and United States Atomic Energy Commission, 109
in ZETA, Comment on Degree of, 650 See also ZETA
— Reactors, Design Possibilities, 173 ? Position and Prospects of, 225 Requirments of, by Academician 1.
Kurchatov, 431
Small Scale, Possibility of, 174 Soviet Work on, by Academician 1. V.
Kurchatov, 303
— Research, American, 185*
— •— at Associated Electrical Industries Re
search Laboratory (Aldermaston), 184* ?—?—-Initial Work on, 184*
Project, “ DCX,” at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, 618
— Studies in “ Equator,” 238
in France, 238
in Japan, 238
Osaka University, 238
— Terms, Glossary of, 142
— See also Gas Discharge, Nuclear Reactors,
Thermonuclear
Theses, Availability of. Report on, 633 Thickness Measurement, Non-Contact, < f Tin
Coatings on Steel, X-Ray Fluorescence Method for (Newton Victor, Ltd.), 575 Steel, Gamma-Ray Back-Scatter Gauge for(Ecko Electronics, Ltd.), 396 Strip, by Beta and Gamma Absorption, by E. B. Bell, 575
— of Tubes, Inspection for Variations in, by
J. B. C. Robinson and L. T. Perriam, 575 Thinking, Group, Comment on, 824 -— Scientific Training and, 329 Thinkometer, Harwald Group, 825
Third, A. D., on Superstructure Design in Relation to Descent of Funnel Smoke, 253 Thomas, Dr. A., on Fire and Explosion
Hazards in Compressed Air Systems, 671 Thomas Lowe Gray Lecture on Machinery for
Cross-Channel Passenger Ships, by E. L. Denny, 121*
Thomas, Sir M., on Position and Prospects of Monsanto Chemicals, 461
Thomas, R., and Baldwins, Ltd., Expansion Plans of, 13; Discussion in Parliament on Site for Proposed Steel Strip Rolling Mill, 464
Thompson Bros. (Bilston), Ltd., Aluminium Alloy Tank with Three-Point Suspension for Bulk Liquid Transporters, 317*; Contracts for 10,000 Gallon “Yorkshire” Fuellers, 709
Thompson, Dr. J. F., on Nickel Industry, 179; on Nickel Supplies for Civilian Consumption, 427; on Annual Report of International Nickel Co., 617
Thompson, J., Ltd., Heat Exchanger for Berkeley Nuclear Power Station, 527*; Coal Pulverisation Ball Mills at Tilbury Power Station, 792*
Thompson, J., Ordnance Co., Gear Trains with no Backlash, 69*. See LETTER, 99 Thompson-Schwab, F., on Position and Prospects of Darwins Ltd., 584
Thomson, J. J. Centenary of Birth of, 10 Thomson, William.
Thonemann, Dr. P.
water, 109
“ Thor ” Ram-Jet Engines, Ltd.), 436
Thoria-Bismuth Slurries, Study on, 332 — Slurry and Core Solution Take-Off for
Two-Zone Aqueous Homogeneous Reactor, 236*
“ Thorite ” Built-In Conveyor Drive (T. and T. Works, Ltd.), 453*
Thorium-Cerium System, by R. T. Weiner, Dr. W. E. Freeth and Prof. G. V. Raynor, 459
— Deposits, 494
— Export Restrictions on, 494
— Oxide as Nuclear Fuel, 648
— Plutonium System, by Dr. D.
Dr. G. K. Williamson and Marples, 458
— Uranium 233 Cycle in Breeding Reactor
Systems, 42
Thorne, R. P., on Direct-Reading Emission- Spectroscope, 590
Thorne, T. G., on Airborne Doppler Navigation Equipment, 466; on Doppler Navigation, 466
Thornton, W. M., Lecture on Developments in the Use of Coal, by A. H. A. Wynn, 769
Thorpe Marsh Power Station, 550 MW Generating Set at. Boiler for (International Combustion, Ltd.), 287*; 550 MW Turbo-Generating Set for (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 586*. See Erratum, 767
Thoughts on Automatic Data Processing, 424
Thread and Form Rolling, by D. H. Seymour and F. M. Lomas, 543
— Measuring Parallels for Use with Micro
meter (Trade Publication), 213
— Screw. See Screw
Three Steps to Victory, by Sir R. Watson- Watt; (Review), 250; Extract on Committees and Chairman from, 282
Thrombosis, Coronary, Liability of Business Executives to, 361
Throttle Valve, “ Hole-and-Hill,” of Hydraulic Motor for Guided Weapons, 728*
Thrust Meter, Airborne (Alltools, Ltd.), 30*
— Platforms for Measurement of Installed
Aero-Engine Thrust (Alltools, Ltd.), 30*
— Reversers for Rolls-Royce “ Avon ” Jet
Engines on “ Comet 4 ” Airliner, 556
Thulium or Iridium Radiographic Container, Russian, 445*
Thulium 170 as Radioactive Source for Gamma Radiography, 446*
Radiographic Unit for, 445*
“ Thunderbird ” Coupe and Convertible Four- Seater Motor Car (Ford), 178*
Thurston, R. N., on Spiral Coiled Wire Torsional Wave Delay Line, 562
Thyratron, Triode, Xenon-Filled, Type XRI- 6400A, of Disc-Seal Construction (Mul- lard, Ltd.), 806
Thyssen, A., Steel Combine, Production Cuts in, 536
Tidal Model for Southampton Water at Southampton University, 198.* See LETTERS, 259, 323, 388
Tide and Current Equipment, New Developments in, 802
?— Generators for Tidal Model for Southampton Water, 198*, 200*
“Tiger” H.M. Cruiser, Discussion in Parliament on, 777
Tilbury Docks Site Laboratory for Accelerated-Strength Tests for Concrete, 243
— Power Station, Opening and Description of,
792*
Tiles, Flooring, “ Blue Hawk,” with Hard Wood Surface and Resin-Bonded Sand Base (British Plaster Board (Manufacturing), Ltd.), 64*
Tilghman’s, Ltd., Dust Collectors with Fibreglass Filtering Material for Carbon Black Plant at Philblack, Ltd., 255*; Tilghman Mechanical Abrasive Cleaning Cabinet at Bilston Foundries New Domestic Bath Plant, 638*
Tilling, T., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 617. See Erratum, 681
Timber Floors, Wear of. Abrasion Machine for Simulating, 32*
— for Flooring, by F. H. Armstrong, 32
— Frame Transportable Bungalows, “ New
Trend ” (Stephenson Developments (Huddersfield), Ltd.), 416*
— Houses (Booklet), 512
— Imports, Position and Prospects of, 338
— Market, Position and Prospects, 338
— Prices, Increases in, 338
— See also Wood
“Timberwolf” Straddle Carriers (Trade Publication), 534
Time Indicator, Electrolytic, “ Chronistat,” 576 Timers (Trade Publication), 119
Tin Coatings on Steel, Non-Contact Thickness Measurement of, X-Ray Fluorescence Method for (Newton Victor, Ltd.), 575
— Council, International, Review of Restric
tive Practices and World Prices, 335
— Prices, Position and Prospects of, 20 Tinplate Works, Wales, Closure of, 208 Tipper Notched Tensile Test, 498
Tipping Gear for Heavy Duty Dumper, 165 Titanium Alloys. See Alloys under Metallurgy
— Commercially Pure, Annealed, Behaviour in
Tension, 639
— Development Supplies of (William Jessop &
Sons, Ltd.), 627
— Ingots, Melting of, Electric-Arc Furnace
for, at Kynoch Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. (W. C. Heraeus G.m.b.H.), 574*
— Use for Steam-Turbine Blades, 28
— Vacuum Melting Process for (William
Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 187*
Tobias, Dr. S. A., on Machine-Tool Chatter, 568*
“ Todd-AO ” nique at
Tolerances in
Gauging
Tolimit Gauges, Ltd., Factory Project in Northern Ireland, 395
Tolls for Dartford-Purfleet Tunnel, Discussion in Parliament on, 175
Tomlinsons, Ltd., Skirting Heating Element with Gilled Tubing, 640*
Toms, A. H., on Technical Writing, 3
Toner, E., Designer of Instructional Gyroscope, 132*
Tools, Ceramic and Sintered Oxide, Turning with, by R. C. Brewer, 543
— Cutting, Materials for. Developments in,
by Dr. E. M. Trent,
— — One-Hand, “ Lesto ” (Trend Industrial
Equipment), 544*
Sintered Oxides for. Research on, by H. Eckersley and R. N. Cook, 817*
Specification of Tool Shape and Grinding of, by D. A. Wight and J. K. Church, 542
— Grinder. See Grinding under Machine Tool
— Hand, Worn and Damaged, Horror Poster
on Scrapping of, 428
— Machine. See Machine Tools
— Plastic (Trade Publication), 762
— Pneumatic. See Machine Tools
— for Sealing Tubeless Tyres, “ Pull-Jack ”
(Rotolift Sales Co., Ltd.), 678
— Shape Specification, and Grinding of
Cutting Tools, by D. A. Wight and J. K. Church, 542
— Single-Point, Developments in, by Dr.
E. M. Trent, 542
— Steel. See Steel
— Tungsten-Carbide Tipped, Wickman-Niven
Bench-Type Grinding Machine for (Trade Publication), 730
Tornado, Pneumatic Power Unit with Variety of Attachments, 352*
Tornillo, L. M., on Spiral Coiled Wire Torsional Wave Delay Line, 562
Torque Converter Drive for 2 ton Capacity Yard Truck (Conveyancer Fork Trucks, Ltd.), 582*
— ?—? Schneider-Type, for Diesel Railcars for
Ulster Transport Authority (Self-Changing Gears, Ltd.), 73*
Transmission, Brockhouse, for Power Shovel (Merton Engineering Co.), 613*
— Indication by Drum Camera on “ Torsator ”
Torsion-Fatigue Testing Machine (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 787*
— Meters. See Dynamometers
— Time Graphs of Brake-Linings, 785*
— Transmission Coupling, Magnetic-Particle,
for Industrial Drives (S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd.), 630*
“ Torsator ” Torsion-Fatigue Testing Machine Incorporating High-Frequency “ Vibro- phore ” Photoelectric Control Device (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 786*
Torsion Experiments, Stress-Strain Curves for Steel and Copper Derived from, 759*
— Fatigue Testing Machine, “ Torsator,”
Incorporating High-Frequency “ Vibro- phore ” Photoelectric Control Device (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 786*
•— Tests. See Tests {Materials)
Torsional Strength of Prestressed Concrete, by Prof. H. J. Cowan, 735
Torsionmeters. See Dynamometers
Tour of Sheffield Works of Thos. Firth and John Brown, Ltd., Cinema Film on, 338
Tow, D. J., on Cooling Power Packings, 99-100. See LETTER, 131. See also Vol. 184
Towelling, Paper, “Hi-Dri” (Kimberly-Clark, Ltd.), 742
Tower, Control, at Gatwick Airport (Gilbert- Ash, Ltd.), 653*
— Cooling, for Homogeneous Nuclear Reac
tor, Preliminary Design, 303
Packings for, by D. J. Tow, 99. See LETTER, 131. See also Vol. 184
— Phoenix (Cinema Film) (British Insulated
Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd.), 246
Rocket-Excited Vibration Tests on, 246*
— Staging, Extendable, “ Tallescope” (Access
Equipment, Ltd.), 519*
— Television, Crystal Palace (British Insulated
Callender’s Construction Co., Ltd.), 246* Town and Country Planning Association, Views on Administration of New Towns, 611
Planning Summer School (Oxford), Future Pattern of Surface Transport, by A. J. White, 227
Town, F., and Sons, Ltd., Increased Capacity for Radial-Drill Production at, 31*
— Gas. See Gas
— New, Future and Administration of, 611 Townes, B. M., on Gamma-Rays from Muon
Catalysed Fusion of Hydrogen and Deuterium, 431 *
Toxic Materials, Power Manipulator for Remote Handling of (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 397*
“ TPS MachinLoder ” for Handling Heavy Parts in Machine Shops (Trucks and Pallets (Stackers), Ltd.), 581*
Trace Components in Gases, Determination of, by A. B. Davies and J. M. Donaldson, 590 Traction Control Equipment for Battery Railcars for Aberdeen-Ballater Line (Siemens- Schuckert (Great Britain) Ltd.), 627
— Electric. See Railways
Tractors, Agricultural, Coloured Reproductions of, at Brussels Fair (Agricultural Engineering Association, Ltd.), 487
— Crawler, Development and Testing of, by
Minister of Supply, 368
“ Water Buffalo,” for Marsh Country (Albion Motors, Ltd.), 168*
— “ Dexta,” Machine Tools for Production
of (Ford Motor Co., Ltd.), 31 *
— Diesel Engines of F. Perkins for, 46. See
LETTER, 131
-— Exports of, 50*
— Ferguson, for British Commonwealth
Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Standard Motor Co., Ltd.), 372
— Imports by China, 51
— Industry in Germany, 50
?— and Machinery, Agricultural, Coloured Reproductions of, at Brussels Fair (Agricultural Engineering Association, Ltd.), 487
— Massey-Ferguson “ TE 20,” on Common
wealth Antarctic Expedition, 740
— Shovel, Diesel-Powered Hydraulically-Oper
ated, Heavy-Duty, “ Muir-Hill ” (E.
Boydell and Co., Ltd.), 583*
— Side-Boom, for Laying Pipeline from
Shellhaven to Romford, 223*
Tractors, for Trailers at Hydraulics Research Station (Mercury Truck Co.), 292
Trade Barriers, Remarks by Rt. Hon. H. Macmillan on, 790
— Board of. Role in Consumer Protection,
240; Activities in Trade Fairs, 337; Nuclear Energy Exhibits at Brussels Fair, 487; Nuclear Power Developments Overseas (Circular), 573; see also Export Credits Guarantee Department
— with Canada, Campaign for Increases in, 337 Comment on, 513
— with China, Effect of Embargoes, 423
— Commonwealth Conference, Discussion in
Parliament on, 272
Discussion in Parliament on, 368
— with Commonwealth, Prospects of Increas
ing, 175
— Disputes. See Labour
— Effluent in Western Germany (Book), 181
— Embargoes, Effect on Soviet and Chinese
Trade, Discussion in Parliament on, 423
Regulations of Communist Trade Committee of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 418
— Exhibition. See Exhibition
— Export, Agricultural Machinery, 50*
Aircraft, 87*, 596
Aircraft on Credit, Discussion in Parliament on, 624
to Australia, Imperial Preference in, 98 CaWes, 114*
to ~
337
to to
to
Civil Engineering Plant, 117*
Clocks, 116*
Coal-Mining Machinery, 55*
Contracting Engineering Plant, 117* Cycles, 115*
Czechoslovakia, Opportunities for, 465 Electrical Goods and Apparatus, 114* Electrical Plant and Machinery, 55* Engineering Industries, Position and Prospects of, 19*
French Motor-Car Industry, 295 General Engineering Products, 116* -to Iran, Position and Prospects of, 99 Licence for Supply of Mercantile Marine Radar Equipment to Russia, Remarks on Government Refusal to Grant, by F, S. Mockford, 239
Locomotives, 51*
Machine Tools, 53*, 770
Machinery, Effect on Development of Air Transport, to and from Great Britain Since 1946, 242
-Mechanical Handling Equipment, 117* ? Motor Cars, 295, 578
Motor-Cars, Position and Prospects of, 79, 83
Motor Vehicles, 86
of Nigeria, 98
? to Nigeria, 98
Nuclear Power Plants, 385
Nuclear Power Plants, Forecast of, 529
— Nuclear Power Stations, Remarks on, 365
Nuclear-Reactors, Position and Prospects of, by J. A. Jukes, 15
Office Machinery, 115*
? Position and Prospects of, 130, 354, 588
Railway Rolling Stock, 51*
Rolling Mills to Hungary, Discussion in Parliament on, 624
? of Scotland, with Canada, Discussion in
Parliament on, 144
•—? — Standards in, 798
Statistics on, 515
Steam-Raising Plant, 55*
? Steel, Position and Prospects of, 643
Telegraph Cables, 114*
Telephone Cables, 114*
Textile Machinery, 54*
Tractors, 50*
to United States, Statistics on, 529
Watches, 116*
— Fair. See under Exhibition
Trade Fairs and Promotions, Ltd., National Industrial Textiles Trade Fair, 536
— Free, Comment on, 790
— Freer, in Europe, Problems of (Pamphlet),
803
— Gap, Statistics on, 515
— Import Controls in Australia, Further
Restrictions Possible, 81
Controls in New Zealand, 81
Electrical Equipment, Foreign-Built, in United States, 658
? Electrical Equipment in United States,
790
Heavy Electrical Equipment, to United States, Plea for Restrictions on, 529
Iron Ore, Fall in Price of, 386 Machine Tools, 144, 770
• Machinery, Statistics on, 272
Motor Cars, to United States, 178
— — of Nigeria, 98
Position and Prospects of, 130
Scrap Iron and Steel, Statistics on, 240 Silicones from France, Additional Duty on, 67
Statistics on, 515
Timber, Position and Prospects of, 338 United States, of Heavy Electrical Equipment, Plea for Restrictions on, 529
— and Labour Congress of Canada, Amalga
mation with Canadian Congress of Labour to Form Canadian Labour Congress, 739
— Middle East, Advisory Council on, 273,
See also 259
?—? Mission to Canada, Comment on, 675
to Canada of Scientific Instrument Manufacturers’ Association, 273
Canadian, to Britain, Report of. Comment on, 513
Canadian, Resume of, 23
from Ghana, 482
— Publications, 26, 56, 90, 119, 181, 213, 309,
347, 409, 503, 534, 659, 730, 762
— Reference List of Scientific and Technical
Books (Chapman and Hall), 823
— with Russia, Effect of Embargoes, 423
— Russian, Sales of Commodities and Capital
Equipment on World Market, 610
48
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Trade, Standards in. Importance of, 798
— Unions. See Labour
— World, Adaptation of Investments to, by
Dr. T. Barna, 106
Financing of, by Sir O. Franks, 171
— See also General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade
Trailer, Pneumatic-Tyred, for Hydraulics Research Station, 292
— for Tanks for Transporting Oilwell Drilling
Fluid in Venezuelan Oilfields (R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd.), 581*
Trailing-Link Independent Suspension Unit for Pemberton Light-Alloy Caravan (Peak Trailers, Ltd.), 608
Train. See Railway Train
Training, Magazine of British Iron and Steel Federation, 235
— See also Education
Tramp Ships, Work Available for, 137
Transair, Ltd., Hangar and Administrative Installation in Maintenance Area at Gatwick Airport, 654*
Trans-Antarctic Expedition, British Commonwealth, Equipment of, 372*
Transatlantic Air Transport Fares, Discussion in Parliament on, 390
— Telegraph Communication. Centenary of, 17
— Telephone Cable. See Telephone Cable Transceiver, “ Hellfax,” for Transmitting
Facsimiles over Telephone (K. S. Paul, Ltd.), 229*
Transducer, Angle, Electromagnetic, Vernier Resolver (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 94
— Displacement and Load (Vibro-Meter
Ltd.), 471
— Spherometer-Type Low-Range Mechanical
Displacement, for Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford), 25*
— System for Checking Strain in Power-
Operated Flexible Throat Plates of Wind Tunnel at Royal Aircraft Establishment (Bedford) (General Electric Co., Ltd.), 25* Transfer Machine. See Machine Tools
Transformation, of Liquid Methane into Gas, Onia-Gegi Catalytic Process for, at Romford, 242
Transformers, Discussions on, at CIGRE, 821
— for Gatwick Airport (Greshams), 653
— Instrument (Trade Publication), 659
— Metering, Magnetic, “ Clam ” (Smith
Hobson, Ltd.), 454*
— Oil, Mobile Plant for Conditioning o
(Manchester Oil Refinery, Ltd.), 5*
— Plug, “ Electran ” (Dohm Group), 384*
— Variable-Coupling, Reluctance-Type, Ver
nier Angle Resolver (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 94
— Welding (Trade Publication), 119
Transforming Plant at Romford, for Oil- Refinery Gas, 222
“ Transidyne ” Transistorised Ward-Leonard Set (Lancashire Dynamo Electronics, Ltd.), 455*
Transistors (Trade Publication), 181
— Action at Semiconductor-Electrolyte Inter
face, by J. F. Dewaid, 696*
— A.F. Amplifiers, by D. D. Jones and R. A.
Hilbourne (Review), 443
— Circuits and Applications, by J. M. Carroll
(Review), 442
— ?— for Digital Computing Systems (Metro-
politan-Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 373
Engineering, by R. F. Shea (Review), 442 Introduction to, by E. H. Cooke-Yarborough (Review), 443
and Servicing, by B. R. A. Bettridge (Review), 443
— Engineering Reference Handbook, by H. E.
Marrows (Review), 442
— Fundamental Principles of, by J. Evans
(Review), 442
— Junction, Theory, Introduction to, by R. D.
Middlebrook (Review), 442
— Manufacture, Texas Instruments Inc. New
Plant for, 818
— for “ Peepie Creepie ” Television Hand
Camera, 453*
— Photo-, Pressure Controller for Automatic
Regulation of Oil Burners on Shell Type Boilers (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial), Ltd.), 551
Relays, “ Magister ” (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co., Ltd.), 551
Temperature Controller, Three-Position (Kelvin and Hughes (Industrial), Ltd.), 551
— Receiver, Portable, 192
— Review of Publications on, 442
— Silicon, Production at Texas Instrument Co.
(Bedford), 114
Transistorised Rural Carrier Telephone System, “ Standard,” for Australian Post Office (Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd.), 804
— Ward-Leonard Set, “ Transidyne ” (Lanca
shire Dynamo Electronics, Ltd.), 455*
Transitions in Rubber at Low Temperatures, 113
Translation, Economics of, by F. Liebesny, 473
— English, of Papers in Russian Journal
Elektrichestvo, 61
— Mechanical Resolution of Linguistic Pro
blems, by Booth, Brandwood and Cleave, Note on, 585
— of Russian Physics Literature, Note on, 213 Scientific Literature, 208
— Scientific and Technical, Conference on.
Preliminary Notice, 283
— Service of Iron and Steel Institute, 281 Note on, 213
?— of Soviet Technical Literature, United States Department of Commerce Scheme for, 375
— Technical, Organisation and Availability of,
by Dr. A. L. Mackay, 473
by G. A. Readett, 473
Transmissions, Automatic (Trade Publication), 27
under Development at Motor Industries Research Association, 772
— Equipment, Hydraulic, High-Efficiency
(N. J. Tatham and Co., Ltd.), 379*
— Gear. See Gear; Gearing; Marine Pro
pulsion
Transmissions, Gyreacta, Data for Designing 564*
— Hydraulic, L.E.H., for “ Booth ” Diesel-
Hydraulic Crane (Leeds Engineering and Hydraulic Co., Ltd.), 505
— Length in Prestressed Concrete, by G. D.
Base, E. H. Ratz, M. M. Holinjanski, and V. M. Kolner, 736
in Pretensioned Concrete, Problem of, and Mechanisation in Production of Factory-Made Units, by G. Berditchevski, A. Svetov and B. Sklyar, 736
— Motor-Car Belt-Drive Automatic, 265*
— of Power. See Marine Propulsion; Power
Transmission
— Power Dividing, by D. L. Bedingfield, 123*
— Regenerative, 340
— System, “ Clerk Gyreacta ” (Gyreacta
Transmissions, Ltd.), 564*
in Diesel Shunting Locomotive (John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd.), 102
in Willment Racing Car, 82*
— Three-Path, Geared, 123*
— Torque Converter, Brockhouse, for Power
Shovel (Merton Engineering Co.), 613*
— See also Cables; Coupling; Drive; Power
Transmission
Transmitter, Emergency, “ Reliance,” on " Mauretania,” 253
— “ Globespan,” with “ Atalanta ” and
CR 150 Receivers for Radiotelegraph Service on “ Mauretania,” 253
— Receiver, Combined Simplex-Duplex v.h.f.
Radiotelephone Equipment, “ Nautilus,” on “ Mauretania,” 253
— “ Satellite,” for Television Station at
Folkestone, 448
Transmitting and Receiving Link, Tropospheric Scatter, between Start Point and Galleywood (Marconi’s Wireless and Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 703*
— Rotameters for Fluid Measurement and
Control (Rotameter Manufacturing Co Ltd.), 551
— Station, Radio Telephony, at Calshot Signal
Station, 157*
— Station, Television, Crystal Palace, Colour
Tests at, 832
Transparent Sheet, Semi-Rigid, DVB 229,” for use in making Guards, Protective Screens and (Bakelite, Ltd.), 149*
Transport, Aerial. See Aeronautics
— Aircraft. See Aircraft under Aeronautics
?—and Civil Aviation, Ministry of: Investigation on Use of Roads by Commercial Motor Vehicles by, 354; Report on Crush Hour Travel in Central Report on Level-Crossing
— Diversification Activities of
in, 601
— Efficiency Improvements in,
— Employees, Public, Strike of, in France, 460
— and General Workers Union. See Labour
— Hydraulic, of Solids, Work on, by British
Hydromechanics Research Association, 591
— Institute of: Readership at Oxford Univer
sity Sponsored by, 176; Brancker Memorial Lecture on Air Transport, by Air Commodore W. E. G. Mann, 259; Human Relations in Industry, by D. M. Sinclair, 361
— Motor. See Road; Motor
— Passenger, System in Holland, 227
— of Radioactive Materials, Discussion in
Parliament on, 496
— Railway. See Railway
— Readership in, at Oxford University, 176
— Road. See Road; Motor
— Surface, Future Pattern of, by A. J. White,
227
Transporter “ Monoveyor ” (Road Machines (Drayton), Ltd.), 613*
Traps, Steam, Drayton-Armstrong (Trade Publication), 309
Travel, Crush Hour, in Central London, Report on, 528
— Foreign, for Young People, 235
Travers, R. Morgan, and Partners, Clifton Bridge over River Trent, 350*; London Planetarium, 393*
Trawlers, Aberdeen, Discussion in Parliament on Steam V5. Diesel Power for, 423
Trawsfynnydd, Proposed Nuclear Power Station at, 365
— Nuclear Power Station, Decision Awaited
on, 399
— Lake, Proposed Site for Nuclear Power
Station, 490*
— Proposal for Nuclear Power Station at, 490* Treasury of Modern Humour, by M. Lupton,
Note on, 27
Trench Excavator, “ Dinkum Digger Major ” Hydraulic Power Grab for (Whitlock Bros., Ltd.), 613*
Trend Industrial Equipment, Ltd., “ Lesto ” One-Hand Cutting Tool, 544*
Trent, Dr. E. M., on Developments in Turning and Single-Point Tools with Particular Reference to Developments in Cutting Tool Materials, 542
Trent, River, Prestressed Concrete Clifton Bridge over, 349*
— ?— Study of Length of Viaduct over for
London to Yorkshire Motorway at Hydraulics Research Station, 46
Trevelyan, Dr. G. M., Scholarship Education Scheme, 10
Trials, Field on NTSC System of Colour Television by British Broadcasting Corp., 832
— See also Tests
Tributyl Phosphate, Separation of Uranium and Plutonium from Nuclear Fission Products by, by J. T. Wood and J. A. Williams, 204, 236
“ Tridraulic ” Bandsawing and Filing Machine (Trade Publication), 659
Triode Thyratron, Xenon-Filled, Type XRl- 6400A, of Disc-Seal Construction (Mullard Ltd.), 806
Tritium, Definition of, 142
— as Nuclear Fuel, 109
Trolleys, Powered, Guidance System for Automatic Control of (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd. 488
“ Vyback Machine Windows
London, 528; Protection, 812 Aircraft Firms
803
“ Tropical ” Air Conditioner for Hot Countries with High Humidities (Temperature, Ltd.), 672*
Tropospheric Scatter Transmitting and Receiving Link between Start Point and Galleywood (Marconi’s Wireless and Telegraph Co., Ltd.), 703*
Troughing Idler System, “ Flexiroll ” (Fisher and Ludlow, Ltd.), 615*
“ Truarc ” Grooving Tool (Geo. Salter and Co., Ltd.), 328*
Truck, Battery-operated, Oil or Petrol-Driven. See Motor Vehicle
— Dump, Foden, at Steel Co. of Wales, 219
— Fork-Lift, with Dual Speed Motor (Ran
somes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd.), 582*
Lift, Hand-Propelled, for Confined Spaces (Lansing Bagnall, Ltd.), 229*
Lift 16 ft Reach, at Fort Dunlop Tyre Store of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 796*
? Lift, “ Universal ” (Coventry Climax
Engines, Ltd.), 582*
— Hand, “ Stepmaster ” (Industrial Trucks,
Ltd.), 486*
— History of, 476
— Mine, History of, 476*
Trucks and Pallets (Stackers), Ltd., “ TPS MachinLoder ” for Handling Heavy Parts in Machine Shops, 581*
— Powered, Guidance System for Automatic
Control of (E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd.), 488
— Railway. See Wagons
— Self-Steering, Self-Propelled, “ Alf ” (Hunt
ing Engineering, Ltd.), 797*
— Yard, 2 ton Capacity, with Torque Conver
ter Drive ((Conveyancer Fork Trucks, Ltd.), 582*
— See also Motor Vehicles
Trueman Wood Lecture on Nuclear Power Costs, by Sir C. Hinton, 398
T. and T. Works, Ltd., “Thorite” Built-In Conveyor Drive, 453*
Tubes, Application to Structures, by G. B. Godfrey, 734
?— and Bar Straightening Machine (Trade Publication), 347
— Bearing, Hot-Rolled, Manufacture at Eagle
Works of Tubes, Ltd., 668*
?— Cathode Ray, Apparatus for Measuring Resolution of (Royal Radar Establishment (Malvern)), 389
Ray, Flat, for Monochrome and Colour Television, by Dr. D. Gabor, Dr. P. R. Stuart and P. G. Kalman, 620*
Ray, Tubular Electrodes for (Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 400
Ray, Type KR3, for Use at 3 kMc/s (Twentieth Century Electronics, Ltd.), 389*
? Ray, Type VCRX434, for Single Shot
and Transient Recording Work (Rank- Cintel, Ltd.), 389
— Condenser, Cleaning Continuously with
Foam-Rubber Balls (Ludwig Taprogge), 828*
-— Copper, Pressure-Dilation Experiments on, 759*
— Duralumin, Struts of. Tests on, in Elastic
and Plastic Ranges, 88*
— Fibreglass Fabric, for Filtering Gases in
Manufacture of Carbon Black, 255*
— Finned, Sections, for Canning of Uranium
(Accles and Pollock, Ltd.)_^ 396*
— Heat-Exchanger, Helical "
for, 365
— Industry, Steel, Position
579
— Inspection of, for Flaws
Thickness, by J. B. ' L. T. Perriam, 575
Tube Investments, Ltd., Compensation for Redundant Workers, 107
Tubes, Ltd., Manufacture of Hot-Rolled Bearing Tubes at Eagle Works, 668*
— Metal, of Low Magnetic Permeability,
“ Introview ” Flaw and Corrosion Detector for (Sperry Gyroscope Co., Ltd.), 550* ?—? Mills, Internal Mechanics of, by H. E. Rose and R. M. E. Sullivan (Book), 375
— Railways. See Underground Railways:
London Transport Executive
— Superheater, Marine, Materials for, by
D. W. Crancher, 211
— Workers, London, Wage Claim of. Rejec
tion by London Transport Executive, 560
— Works, Proposals for New, 579
— See also Pipes, Tubing
Tubing, Gilled, in Skirting Heating Element (Tomlinsons, Ltd.), 640*
— Helically-Gilled, for Heat Exchangers
(Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 400
— for Nuclear Energy Plants (Accles &
Pollock, Ltd.), 396*
— See also Tube
Tubular Construction, “ Kee Klamp ” System, Ratchet Spanner for Use with (George H. Gasgoigne Co., Ltd.), 37
— Post Pallets of Welded Construction for
Tyre Storage at Fort Dunlop and Coventry Stores of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 796*
— Sections (Trade Publication), 213
— Steel Roof Trusses, Fabricated (Trade
Publication), 503
Tuck, J., on Neutrons from Stabilised Toroidal Pinch, 186*
Tucker (2orp., “ Sno-Cat ” Vehicles for
British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 372*
Tudsbery, M. T., Television Centre of British Broadcasting Corporation at Wood Lane, 363*
Tuke, A. W., Views on Suez Crisis and Speculation, 111
Tully Engineering Co., Ltd., Servo-Mechanisms for Remotely-Controlled Angular or Straight Line Motion, 820*
Tuner, Turret, Television, Plastics, (A.B. Metal Products, Ltd.), LETTER, 740
Tungsten-Carbide Tipped Tools,
Tunnel, Darlford-Purfleet, Progress of, 175; Tolls for, 175
— Electrodes for Argon Arc Welding Process
(British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 211
— English Channel, Bibliography on, by
H. Smith, Note on, 443
Channel, Centenary of First Project 17 Channel, Concrete Ring Methed, 249 Channel, Position and Prospects of, 774 Channel, Revival of Interest in, 116 Channel, by H. Slater and C. Barnett (Review), 502
Channel, Works at Folkestone Warren, 818
— Light, High-Intensity, for Examination of
Cars at Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., 636*
— Linings, Stresses in. Research on, 350
— for Nuclear Explosions at Nevada, 399*
— Tyne, Discussion in Parliament on Possible
Commencement of, 175
Turbines, Blading for. See Blades; Blading
— Gas, Alternator Set for Shelton Iron,
Steel and Coal Co., Ltd. (Richardsons Westgarth (Hartlepool), Ltd.), 196* Blading for. See Blades; Blading Casing Flexibility, Effect on Critical Shaft Speed, by A. W. Pope, 93*
Closed-Cycle, Nuclear Reactors with, 41 * Closed-Cycle Reactor, for Marine Propulsion or Power Generation, 270*
Critical Shaft Speed: Effect of Turbine Casing Flexibility, by A. W. Pope, 93*
Establishment, National, Work Ram-Jets, 25*
Helicopter, Boost Systems for. Dr. A. W. Morley, 159
for Locomotives. See Locomotives Marine, Possible Future Use of, 28 Regenerator Performance, by Dr.
Fortescue and D. V. Wordsworth, 284*
on
by
P.
Extended Surface,
and Prospects of.
1 and Variations in C. Robinson and
“ Fireball ” 704*. See
Wickman- Niven Bench-type Grinding Machine for (Trade Publication), 730
— Lamps. See Lamps under Electric
“Turbomeca” Range (Blackburn and General Aircraft, Ltd.), 667*
See also Engines under Aeronautics
— Hydraulic, Francis, for Pumped-Storage
Scheme at Blaenau-Ffestiniog (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 491
See also Power Plant
— Powered Helicopter Ground Rig (Bristol
Aircraft Ltd.), 61 *
— Pumps. See Pumps, Centrifugal
— Steam, Back-Pressure, Control by Speed
and Pressure Systems, 606* (VEB Turbin- enfabrik), 606*
Blading for. See Blades: Blading Impulse, Heat Distortion Effects in, 121 ? in 550 MW Turbo-Generating Set for
Thorpe Marsh Power Station (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 586*. See Erratum, 767
Pametrada, Sealing Glands for Casing Distortion in, 121
Ship Propulsion by, by Dr. T. W. F. Brown, 28
See also Turbo-Generators
— Steamers. See Steamers; Warships
— Water, New Shop for, at Alloa (Harland
Engineering Co., Ltd.), 670*
Turbo-Alternator Compressed-Air Driven Power Packs for Guided Weapons (de Havilland Propellers Ltd.), Ill*
Hot-Gas Driven, for Guided Weapons (de Havilland Propellers, Ltd.), 728*
— Charged Diesel Engine, 300 b.h.p., for
Heavy-Duty Dumper (Rolls-Royce, Ltd,), 165
— Chargers, Holset, for Leyland Six-Cylinder
Horizontal Direct-Injection Diesel Engines for Ulster Transport Authority Railcars, 73*
—? Generating Set, 550 MW, for Thorpe Marsh Power Station (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.), 586*. See Erratum, 767
— Generator, Alternating-Current, Back-Pres
sure, General Electric Co., Ltd., for Integrated Power and Heating Scheme at National Physical Laboratory, 408
Alternating-Current, for Blyth “ B ” Power Station (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 330*
Asynchronous Running of, by P. C. Kovacs and F. Csaki, 821
Turbojet Systems for Missiles, 269*
Turbomachines, Runner Vane Shapes of. Design Method, by L. Young, 376
“ Turbomeca ” Range of Gas Turbines (Black burn and General Aircraft, Ltd.), 667*
Turkmenia, Soviet Economic Planning in, 35 “ Turmo ” Gas Turbine, Manufacture by
Blackburn and General Aircraft Ltd., 667* Turnbull, A. H., on Vacuum Technique in
Atomic Energy Research, 495*
Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ltd., Development Project at Hindley Green for Production of Asbestos Textiles and Brake Linings, 412*
Turner, D. V., on Crime in Youth, 391
Turners Asbestos Cement Co., Ltd., “ Limpet ” Sprayed Asbestos Coatings, 472
Turning and Boring Mills. See Machine Tools
— with Ceramic and Sintered Oxide Tools, by
R. C. Brewer, 543
— Developments in, by Dr. E. M. Trent, 542 Turnover, Labour, by J. Crowther, 44
Turret Lathes, See Lathes under Machine Tools
— Tuner, Television, Plastics, “ Fireball ”
(A.B. Metal Products, Ltd.), 704*. See LETTER, 740
Turriff Construction Corp., Ltd., Nuclear- Energy Activities, 619*; Terminal Building at Gatwick Airport, 655*
Tussaud’s, Madame, Ltd., Sponsorship of London Planetarium, 392*
Tutankhamen’s Tomb, Chariots in, 474*
“ TV701 FN2/12” Neutron Counter for
ZETA (Solus Electronic Tubes, Ltd.), 206 Twallin, C. G., on Position and Prospects of E.N.V. Engineering Co., Ltd., 743
Twentieth Century Electronics, Ltd., Type KR3, Cathode Ray Tube for use at 3 kMc/s, 389*
TWIS. See Technical Writing Improvements Society
Twist Drill. See Drill under Machine Tools
N uclear-Po wered
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49
Tyne Tunnel, Discussion in Parliament on
Possible Commencement of, 175 Tyneside, Dry Docks on. Discussion in Parliament on, 680
?— Unemployment on, 680
Type Tests on N,EI,6 “ Eland ” Propeller Turbine Aero-Engine (D. Napier and Son, Ltd.), 572
Typing Mathematical Manuscripts, by Dr.
J. F. Alcock, 356. See LETTER, 515 Tyres, Price Reductions by Dunlop Rubber
Co., Ltd., 433
— Stores, Palletised, of Dunlop Rubber Co.,
Ltd., at Fort Dunlop and Coventry, 796*
— Tubeless, Sealing of, “ Pull-Jack ” Tool for
— Tubeless, Sealing of, “ Pull-Jack ” (Rotolift Sales Co., Ltd.), 678
U.A.M, Group Advisory Service, Insulation of Buildings, Using Cement Materials (Trade Publication), 534
U.D. Engineering Co,, Ltd., Stacking Crates or Boxes (Trade Publication), 119; Industrial Refrigerators (Trade Publication), 347 Uganda, Electric Power Shortage in, 99
— Electricity Board, Order for Distribution
Lines between Nityana and Kenya Border to British Insulated Callender’s Cables, 115; Annual Report, 514
— Electricity Supply and Consumption in, 99
— Industrial Development Survey, 99
Ulster Transport Authority, Multi-Purpose Diesel Railcar Trains for Freight or Passenger Service, 72*
“ Ultra-Light ” Helicopter, “ Palouste ” Gas Turbine for (Fairey Aviation Co., Ltd.), 667*
“ Ultraphot II ” Automatic Camera-Microscope (Carl Zeiss), 805*
Ultrasonic Cleaning Plant with Vacuum Technique (Electro-Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd.), 485
— Examination Methods of Vickers-Arm-
strongs (Aircraft), Ltd., 782*
— Flaw Detection, Instrumentation in, by
D. G. W. Claydon, 575
— Test Equipment at Rogerstone Plant of
Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd. (Curtiss- Wright Co.), 412*
— Testing in Manufacture of Aluminium
Alloys and other Non-Ferrous Materials, by J. C. Harris and J. Crowther, 575
“ Uma ” Facing and Centring Machine (Mortimer Engineering Co.), 805*
“ Unatap ” Spray Mixing Tap, Price Reduction by Walker Croswell, 433
Under-Developed Countries, British Aid for, 144
Countries, Need for Technical Assistance in Addition to Capital, 2
Underfloor Air-Feed Fire,” Redfyre Bacboiler” (Newton Chambers and Co., Ltd.), 384
Underground Corrosion, by M. Romanoff (Review), 90
— Railways, Klaxon Horn for, 203. See also
London Transport Executive
—? Workers’ Wage Claim Rejected, 560 Unemployment. See Labour
Unicam Instruments, Ltd., Flame Spectrophotometer for Determination of Metals in Solution, 550*
“ Unidex ” Indexing Diamond Dressing Tool Trade Publication), 347
Unified Field Theory, Prof. W. Heisenberg’s Work on, 290, 303
“ Uniflow ” Settling Tank for Removal of Solids (Trade Publication), 659
Uniform for Executives, Blazers as. Comment on, 685
Unilever, Ltd., Advertising of. Remarks by Lord Heyworth on, 546; Annual General Meeting, 546; Address on Advertising by Lord Heyworth, 823
Union Carbide Corp., Powder-Lance for Cutting Heavy Concrete Walls, 191*
Union Carbide International Co., Portable Liquid-Nitrogen Refrigerator, 197*; Linde Synthetic Sapphire for Infra-Red Radiation Entrance Windows and Heat Sinks, 817*
Union Carbide, Ltd., High-Grade Vanadium Oxide, 316
— of International Associations, Campaign
for Reducing Number of Conferences, 67
— of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers.
See Shop under Labour
— of Testing and Research Laboratories for
Materials and Structures, Symposium on the Observation of Structures (Book), 91
— Trade. See Labour
United Automobile Workers’ Union. See Automobile under Labour
United Construction Machinery Co., Ltd., Exhibition at Poznan Fair, 755
United Dominions Trust, Ltd., Hire-Purchase Activities of, 675
— Kingdom, Agreement with Italy for Co
operation in Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, 43
— — Atomic Energy Authority. See Atomic
Energy Authority
Atomic Energy Co-operation with Western Europe, 552
Chamber of Shipping. See Shipping
— — Offer to International Atomic Energy
Agency, 238
Prices for Open-Hearth Steel, 536
Shipment of Liquefied Natural Gas from
Gulf Coast Oilfields to, 241* as World Banker, 529
— Nations Atomic Energy Exhibition (Geneva),
333
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Campaign for Reducing Conferences, 27. See LETTER, 67; Study Abroad (Publication), 57; Proceedings of International Conference on Radioisotopes in Scientific Research, 527; Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Bulletin for Libraries, Note on, 700; Establishment of Provisional International Computation Centre, 803
Thermal Asbestos
United Nations Mechanisation in Construction of Hydro-Electric Power Plants, 49
?—• — See also Atomic Energy, Peaceful Uses of. International Conference on (Geneva)
— States, Advertising in, Statistics on, 337 Aid to India, 147
Air Conditioning in, 352
— — Aircraft Workers, Wage Increase for, 816 Aluminium Industry, Position and
Prospects of, 395
Atomic Energy Commission. See Atomic Energy Commission
Atomic Industrial Forum, Papers from Conferences on “The 1957 Nuclear Industry,” 174; Growth Survey of Atomic Industry, 1958-1968, 620
Bureau of Mines, Diamond-Bit Performance in Sandstone, by A. E. Long, 536; Diamond-Bit Performance in Limestone and Dolomite, by M. J. Gallagher and A. E. Long, 536
Chamber of Commerce, Air Conditioning in, 352
Coast Survey Service, Annual Report of, 802
Cold-Roll Forming Practice in, by W. G. Kirkland, 734
Committee for Economic Development, 15th Anniversary of, 147
Competition Facing, in Changing World, 147
Complexity and Integration of, 780 Congress, Library of. Price List, 793 Consumer Durable Goods, Output of, 745*
Consumption Statistics, 280
Copper Industry, Position and Prospects of, 395
Corporate Growth of, 780
— — Current Prices as Guide to Economic
Situation, 747
Decentralisation and Participation in, 781 Defence Policy of. President Eisenhower’s Speech on, 66
Deflationary Policy in, 354
Department of Commerce, Scheme for Translations of Soviet Technical Literature, 375; E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 716
? Diversification in, 781
Durable and Non-Durable Goods, Sales of, 745*
Economic Aid Programme of. President Eisenhower’s Speech on, 66
Economic Climate of, by E. P. Ward, 745*
Economic Problems of, 147
Education in, by E. P. Ward, 825* Effect of Automation on Management in, 824
Employment in. Position of, 747
Expenditure on Plant and Equipment, 744*
Exports to, Statistics on, 529 Four-Day Week in. Discussion on, 10 —? — and France, Transatlantic Submarine Telephone Cables between (American Telephone and Telegraph Co.), 115
—? —? Frontiers of Education and Management in, by E. P. Ward, 824*
Future of. Elements in American Tradition as Guide to, by E. P. Ward, 778*
Gold Position in. Effect of Recession on, 770
Government Growth in, 781 Gross National Product and Income, 744*
Growth of, 779
Hire of Motor Cars in, 273
Imports of Heavy Electrical Equipment, 790
Importation of Foreign-Built Electrical Equipment, 658
? Income Trends, 747*
— ?—Index of Industrial Production, 745*
?—? — Industrial Digest, Note on First Issue of, 762
Industrial Growth of, 780
Inventories for Durable and Non- Durable Goods, 746*
Investments Abroad, President Eisenhower’s Speech on, 66
Investments Abroad, Remarks on, by L. K. Macy, 588
Investments in Australia, 3
— ?— Investments in Canada, Position and
Prospects of, 802
Investments, Position and Prospects of, 746*
Investment in Scotland, 322 Investments, Statistics on, Labor's Economic Review
Position in, 803
— ?— Labour Force, Total and
744*
Lead Production in, 20
?—? — Locomotive Building Industry, Decline in, 461
Management in, by E. P. Ward, 824* Missile Workers, Wage Increase for, 816 Monopoly in, 781
Motor Car Imports, 178 Motor Car Industry, 178 Motor-Car Industry, Activity of United Automobile Workers’ Union in Price Policy of, 273
?— —? Motor-Car Industry, Arbitration for, 651 Motor Car Industry, Position and Prospects of, 578
Motor-Car Industry Price Policy, Investigation into, by Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Sub-Committee, 273
? Motor Industry, Profit-Sharing Propo
sals by United Automobile Workers, 107 Motor Industry, Scheme of W. Reuther for New Wage Terms in, 720
National Bureau of Standards, Underground Corrosion, by M. Romanoff (Review), 90; Standard X-Ray Diffraction Powder Patterns, by H. E. Swanson, N. T. Gilfrich, and M. 1. Cook (Book), 91; Annual Report, 639; Properties of Air and Its Constituents, 639; Modes of Oxidation of Propane, 639; Investigation of Hot Flame and Flame Initiation, 639; Instrument for Sensing Gas Temperatures,
639; Behaviour in Tension of Annealed Commercially Pure Titanium and Titanium Alloy, 639; Precipitation-Hardening Stainless Steels 17-7 PH, 639; Behaviour of Refractory Materials at High Temperatures, 639; Vapour Pressure of Aluminium Oxide at 1,000° to 1,350° C, 639; Vaporisation Process of Aluminium Oxide, 639; Studies of Concrete at Elevated Temperatures, 639; Vitron for Study of Glassiness, 639; Molecular Structure of Glasses, 639; Reaction of Glasses to Mechanical Vibrations, 640; Excess Entropy in Glass, 640; Application of SEAC High-Speed Digital Computer, 640; Mechanisation of Patent Searching, 640
National Science Foundation Survey of Research and Development, 355
Naval Research Laboratory, E.
Ward’s Visit to, 716; Indexes, 730
p.
? Navy, See United States under Warships
New Construction in, 746*
Nuclear Fusion Reaction, Approaches to, 43
Nuclear Power Station Development, 808 Nuclear Reactors, 77*
? Nuclear-Reactor Development Projects,
808
Offer to International Atomic Energy Agency, 238
Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 456*
? Pragmatism in, 778
Price Reductions in, 209
Professional Immigrants for, 493 Raw-Material Purchases of. Cuts in, 10 Recession in. Effects on British Production and Economy, 738
Recession, Effect on Gold Position, 770 Recession in Terms of Government Statistics, 744*
—?— Report on, by E. P. Ward, 712*, 744*, 778*, 824*, See also 705
Retail Price Index, 746* Sale of Oil Seals in, by Burton-Wood Engineering, 147
Satellite Projects, 262*
Shortage of Engineers and Scientists in, 146
Small Motor Cars in. Position and Prospects of, 675
United States Steel Corp., Position and Prospects of, 427, 584; Manpower Statistics, 824; Management Methods, 824 Steel Industry, Comment on Recession in, 335
Tariff Policy of, 3
Tariff Reductions, Prospects of, 827 Thermonuclear Research in, 185* Trade Unions, Economic Research by, 391
Trade-Union Growth, 781
— •—Trade Unions Views on Economic
Position in, 803
Unemployment in, 361
Unemployment in. Effect on Deflationary Policy, 354
University Research in, 826 Uranium-Ore Programme in, 494 Uranium-Ore Reserves in, 494 Way of Living in, by E. P, Ward, 744 World Trade Fair, Survey of, 209 Zinc Production in, 20 See also America
United Steel Companies, Ltd., Trading Profits of, 13; Annual Report, 79; Propaganda Against Re-nationalisation of Steel Industry, 162
Universal Diamond Co., Ltd., “ Unidex ” Indexing Diamond Dressing Tool for Grinding Wheels (Trade Publication), 347 “ Universal ” Fork-Lift Trucks (Coventry Climax Engines, Ltd.), 582*
— Grinding Machine. See Grinding Machine
under Machine Tools
— Oscillograph, MUR6, for Multi-Channel
Recording (Southern Instruments Oscillograph Division), 485*
— Tool Head (Trade Publication), 347
Universities, Admission Standards, Discussion in Parliament on, 656
— College (London), Course on
Contamination of Water and
— College (Swansea), Inaugural
Communication of Ideas, by Macmillan, 375
Uranium Oxide as Nuclear Fuel, 648
Nuclear Fuel Element, 398
— Production Programme of United States
Atomic Energy Commission, 494
— Purchase Agreement of United Kingdom
Atomic Energy Authority through Combined Development Agency, 656
— — from South Africa, 656
— Purification Plant for Dounreay Materials
Testing Reactor, 458*
— Recovery by Ion Exchange, by R. Clark, 459
— Reprocessing Plants for, 495
— Separation of, from Nuclear Fission Pro
ducts by Tributyl Phosphate, by J. T. Wood and J. A. Williams, 204, 236
of Unused, 495
—-in South Africa, 1946-1956, Vols. 1 and II (Review), 118
— Temperature, Effect of Cluster Nuclear
Fuel Elements on, 808*
— 233-Thorium Cycle in Breeding Reactor
Systems, 42
— World Requirements of. Remarks by Sir E.
Plowden, 110
Urdahl, T. H., on Climatic Influences as Basic Concept in Air Conditioning, 352
Uruguay, Resumption of British Overseas Airways Corp. Operations to, 390
Urwick, Lt.-Col. L., on Selection and Training of Managers, 176
Usher, Sir G., Remarks on Position and Prospects of International Combustion Africa Ltd., 496
Uzbekistan, Soviet Economic Planning in, 35
“ V3 ” Miniature Micro-Switch (Burgess Products Co., Ltd.), 359*
V-Block, Magnetic “ Eclipse ” (James Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd.), 324*
Vactric (Control Equipment), Ltd., Rotary Switch for Information Sampling, 488* Vacuum Brake. See Brake
— Columns at Isle of Grain Refinery, 794*
— Furnace. See Furnace
— High, Industry, New Groupings in, 611
— Melting Processes for Titanium
Zirconium (William Jessop Ltd.), 187*
— Oven, “ Gardiner,” for Precise
ments (Griffin and George, Ltd.),
— Pump. See Pump
— Sublimation of Zirconium Fluoride, Zir
conium Production by, 495
— System for Mark II Electromagnetic
Separator, “ Hermes,” 495*
— ?— Pressure Measurement in, by J, H. Leek
(Review), 502
— Tank, Epoxy Resin, for 7 GeV Proton
Synchrotron for National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science, 776
— Technique in Atomic Energy Research, by
A. H. Turnbull, 495*
International Congress (Namur) on. Preliminary Notice, 409
X-Rays:
and
& Sons,
Measure- 292*
Telephony,
280
on Economic
Unemployed,
Radioactive Sewage, 334 Lecture on Prof. R. H.
— Education in Marine Engineering, by Prof.
G. H. Chambers, 75
— and Industry, Need for Closer Co-operation,
75
— Need
on,
— Need
Parliament on, 524, 656
— Population, Proportion of Faculties, 496 ?— Research in United States, 826
?— See also Education and specific universities Unwin, J., on Waste of Meter Readers’ Time, 416
Upper Yardmen Scheme of Royal Navy, Revised Plans for Entry and Training under, 493
Upton Electric Furnaces Co., Graphite- Electrode Salt-Bath Furnaces, 167*
Ur Mosaic Standard of Earliest Known Wheel, 474*
Uranium in Antarctic, 684
— Canning of. Finned Tube Sections for
(Accles and Pollock, Ltd.), 396*
— Dioxide in Cermets, 42. See Erratum, 77
— Enriched Reactor Fuel, United States
Atomic Energv Commission New Policy for, 749
— Extraction from Sea-Water, Russian Process
for, 494
— Fuels, Recovery of, 495
Rod, Fire of, at Chalk River, 749
— Graphite, Exponential Assembly at Imperia
College (London), 394*
— Ore Production in Canada, 494 Production in Europe, 494 Production in France, 494
— ?— Production in South Africa, 494 Programme in United States, 494 Reserves in United States, 494
for More, Discussion in Parliament in
for More Places at. Discussion in
— Tube. See also
Wireless
— Valve, “ Dustex,”
Hopper and Bin Engineering, Ltd.), 646*
Vajda, Dr. S., on Theory of Games: Tool for Operational Research, 369*
“ Valiant ” Bomber, Refuelling in Flight, 477* “ Valithene ” Polyethylene-lined Rubber Hose for Conveyance of Concentrated Mineral Acids (Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd.), 580 Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory of General Electric Co., NTR Nuclear Reactor at, 590 Valves, Air Control, at High-Altitude Ram- Jet Test Plant at Bristol Aero-Engines, Ltd., 468*
— Alloy (Trade Publication), 57
— Ball, Domestic, New (National Research
Development Corp.), 768
— Body, Hydraulic, Checking Position of
Cut-Off Lands Within, Air Gauge for (Thomas Mercer Air Gauges, Ltd.), 221* —? Butterfly (Trade Publication), 534 for Tidal Model for Southampton Water, 201 *
— Control, Diaphragm Operated, Masoneilan
Type 107/108, for Small Flows (Crosby Valve and Engineering Co., Ltd.), 102
— Diaphragm (Trade Publication), 57
— Factory, at Paignton, of Standard Tele
phones and Cables, Ltd., 348*
— Large, Lapping and Grinding Machine for,
at Esso Petroleum Co. (Rockwell Machine Tool Co., Ltd.), 518*
— Microwave, International Convention on,
723, 724
— Mixing, “ Sigmix,” for Hot Water Heating
Systems (Sigmund Pumps, Ltd.), 672*
— Pressure-Reducing, Foxboro-Yoxall, for
Steam Accumulators for High-Altitude Ram-Jet Test Plant at Bristol AeroEngines, Ltd. (Foxboro-Yoxall), 469
— Receiving, Ultra High “
formance of, by W. E, Harris (Book), 823
— Remote Control Servo
(Tully Engineering Co., Ltd.), 820*
— Selector, Ten-Port (Martonair, Ltd.), 804*
— Steam Reducing, at Manvers Main (Colliery
Coke-Oven Plant, 510
— Stop, Glandless, “ Rayon-Patent ” (Meynell
and Sons, Ltd.), 358*
— Throttle, “ Hole-and-Hill,” of Hydraulic
Motor for Guided Weapons, 728*
— Vacuum, “ Dustex,” for Dust Collector
Hopper and Bin Discharges (Mancuna Engineering, Ltd.), 646*
— Voltmeter, Digital (Burndept, Ltd.), 389
—? and Valve Gear. See also Engines
— See also Diode; Triode
van der Veen Slow Notched Bend Test, 498 Van Doorne Brothers, “ DAF600 ” Motor Car, 265*
Vanadium, Properties of, 396
— Oxide, High-Grade (Union Carbide, Ltd.),
316
for Dust Discharges
Collector (Mancuna
Frequency PerBenham and LA.
Mechanism for
<1
50
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Vancouver, Oak Street Bridge, Opening of, 48
— Island and British Columbia, Circuit in
Submarine Power Cable Line Between, Contract for, to British Insulated Callender’s Cables, 115
Vane Shapes of Turbomachine Runners, Design Method, by L, Young, 376*
“ Vanguard ” Artificial Satellites, K. W. Gatland on, 263*
— Rocket and Test Satellite in Orbit, 462*
— Satellite Signal for Cutting Ribbon at
Opening of Texas Instruments Inc, Plant, 818
“ Vanguard TV-4 ” Rocket Launching Vehicle, 462*
Satellite, 462*
Vapor International Corp., Packaged Steam Generator, 519
Vaporisation Process of Aluminium Oxide, 639 “ Vapormatic ” Stepless Starter for Slip-Ring Motors (Lee-Guinness, Ltd.), 359*
Vapour Explosions, Flame Arresters for, K. N. Palmer, 438
— Pressure of Aluminium Oxide at 1,000°
l,350°C, 639
— Solvent, Detection of, 690
— Source, Refractory, for Evaporation
by
to
of
Aluminium (Edwards High Vacuum, Ltd.), 400
Variable-Speed Gear. See Gears
“ Variomatic ” Belt-Drive Automatic Transmission for Motor Cars, 265*
“ Varionic ” Lancashire-Nevlin Variable Speed Drive (Trade Publication), 181
Varistor, Field Effect, 562*
Varnishes, Silicone, for Insulation in Metadyne Machine, 820
Varshney, M.P., on Counting with Fingers, 739, 740*. See LETTER, 803*
Vaughan-Morgan, J. K,, on Overseas Work of Consulting Engineers, 259; Chairman of Council on Middle East Trade, 273. See also 259
Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Production and Export Statistics, 83; “ Victor ” Estate Car, 295*; Position and Prospects of, 523; Works Extension and Modernisation, 634*
“VCIO” Jet Airliners for British Overseas Airways Corp. (Vickers-Armstrongs Aircraft, Ltd.), 103*
Veale, Sir D., Appointment as Chairman of Atomic Safety Committee, 650
VEB Turbinenfabrik, Control of Back-Pressure Steam Turbines by Speed and Pressure Systems, 606*
Veksler, Prof. V., on 10 GeV Proton Synchrotron, 43*
Venables, Dr. P. F. R., on Hives Council, 193 Vending (Journal of Automatic Exhibition of Automatic Machines,790
— Machines, Automatic, Exhibition
liminary Notice, 790
Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd., “ VCIO” Jet Airliners for British Overseas Airways Corp., 103*; “Local-Service Viscount” Airliner for Local-Service Operation on North American Continent, 253; “ Dart ” Propeller-Turbine Engine in “ Viscount ” Airliner, 379; Refuelling of “Valiant” Bomber in Flight, 477*; Policy and Action of, 594; Experience of Selling Civil Aircraft, 602; Non-Destructive Testing Techniques, 782*
Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers), Ltd., American 600-ton Automatic Hydraulic Scrap Cutting Shear, 741 *
Vickers-Armstrongs Scholarships, 45. See LETTER, 292
Vickers Group, Activities of, 647
VicKers, Ltd., Scholarships Awarded by, by C. L. Old, 292. See LETTER, 292
Vickers Nuclear Engineering, Ltd., Nuclear- Powered Submarine “ Dreadnought,” 174; Nuclear-Energy Activities, 619*
Vickers Scholarship Awards, 45
“Victor” Bomber, Handley Page, Constfnt- Thrust Version of “ Spectre ” Rocket Engine as Assisted Take-Off Unit for (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
— Estate Car (Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.), 295* Victor Products (Wallsend), Ltd., Flameproof
and Weatherproof Lighting Fittings (Trade Publication), 534
“ Victorious,” H.M. Aircraft Carrier, Modernisation of, 94*
Victory, Three Steps to, by Sir R. Watson- Watt (Review), 250; Extract from, on Committees and Chairmen, 282
Viculite ” Solid Core for Holoplast “ 80 ” Structural Panels (Holoplast, Ltd.), 46 Viking ” Rocket, 262
Viking 11 ” High-Altitude Research Rocket, 462*
((
Selling), Vending
of, Pre-
Vents, “ Parovent,” for Escape of Moisture from Below Impervious Roof Layers (Paramount Asphalte, Ltd.), 519*
Ventilating and Heating Engineers, Institution of. See Heating
— Research Council. See Heating and
Ventilating Research Council
?— System in Ford Thames Foundry, 732* Ventilation in Beryllium Laboratory, 499*
— Electrical, in Interfrigo Meat Wagons for
Through Conveyance to Continent, 704
— in High-Activity Handling Building at
Harwell, 110
— Mechanical, and Air Conditioning,
Buildings, British Standard Code Practice for, 704
in
of
— of New Chemical Engineering Laboratories
at Manchester College of Science and Technology, 763
— of Paints Laboratory of Imperial Chemical
Industries, Ltd., 817
VERA. See Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus
Verdon-Roe, Sir A., the Late, 36
Veritys, Ltd., “ Alux ” Aluminium Light Reflector Material, 544
Vermeer, J,, on Contribution to Development of Power Cables for High and Extra High Voltages with a Composite Insulation of Synthetic High Polymer Materials and Oils, 822
Vernier Resolver Electromagnetic Angle Transducer (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 94
Verry, H. R., on Micro-Recording, 155 “ Vertimax ” Vertical-Chucking Lathe (Trade Publication), 309
Verulam, Lord, on Libraries, Note on, 409
VHT Nuclear Reactor, Gas-Turbine Regenerator Design for, by Dr. P. Fortescue and D. V. Wordsworth, 284*
Viaduct over River Trent for London to Yorkshire Motorway, Study of Length of, at Hydraulics Research Station, 46
— See also Bridges
Vibration, Anti-, Mountings, Test Rig for, 697*
— of Gas-Turbine Shaft: Effect of Turbine
Casing Flexibility, by A. W. Pope, 93*
— Isolation in Machine-Tool Foundations,
Flexible Support for, 568*
— Mechanical, Reaction of Glasses to, 640
— Meter (Brush Electrical Engineering Co,,
Ltd.), 454
— in Railway Coaches, by J. C, Loach, 186.
See LETTERS, 227, 259, 387
— Sensitive Probe in Solid Flow Detector, 101*
— Tests, Rocket-Excited, on Phoenix Tower,
246
Vibrator, Concrete, Immersion-Poker, Very- High-Frequency, “ Multibrator ” (C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd.), 613*
— Short-Circuiting, in Dynamic Calibration
of Fatigue Testing Machines, 694*
Vibro-Meter, Ltd., Displacement and Load Transducers, 471
“ Vibrophore ” High-Frequency Photoelectric Control Device for “ Torsator ” Torsion- Fatigue Testing Machine (Alfred J. Amsler and Co.), 786*
“ Vibroto ” Electric Hand Drill for Concrete (Rawlplug Co., Ltd.), 455*
Vice. See Machine Tools
Vilentchuk, L, on Nuclear Reactors for Distillation of Sea-Water, 628*
Villiers Engineering Co., Ltd., Recruitment Drive, 44
Vinyl Tape, “ Sellotape ” No. 12 (Gordon and Gotch, Ltd.), 192*
“ Viscount ” Airliner, “ Dart ” Propeller- Turbine Engine in (Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 379
— ?— Operators Conference (Vickers-Arm
strongs (Aircraft), Ltd.), 782*
Viscount Nuffield Paper “ Technical Education for Production Engineers,” by Lord Hives, Comment on, 193
Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus, 512* Vision Engineering, Ltd., “ Inspectascope ” for Inspection of Internal Surfaces, 742 Visual-Audio Aids for Libraries, 155
Vitron for Study of Glassiness, 639
Voce, Dr. E., on Influence of Strain Hardening on Dilation of Cylinders under Internal Pressure, 756*
Volkswagen Motor Car, Sales in United States, 178
Volta River Scheme, 482
Voltmeter, Digital (Ferranti, Ltd.), 389
— ?— (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co.,
Ltd.), 389
— ?—Type TM728 (Solatron Electronics,
Ltd.), 389*
?—? Valve, Digital (Burndept, Ltd.), 389 Volumetric Analysis, Kolthoff’s, Note on, 251 Volvo, “ Amazon ” Saloon Motor Car, 435 von Braun, Dr. W., Work on Artificial Satellites, 262*
Von Kramer, H., Development of “ Railophone ” Audio-Frequency Inductive System, 158
Vosper, Ltd., H.M.S, “ Brave Borderer,” Brave Class Fast Patrol Boat, 63
“ Vulcan ” Bomber, Avro, Constant-Thrust Version of “ Spectre ” Rocket Engine as Assisted Take-Off Unit for (de Havilland Engine Co., Ltd.), 276
Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., “ Deltic ” Diesel- Electric Locomotives for British Railways, 450
“ Vyback DVB229 ” Semi-Rigid Transparent Sheet for Use in Making Machine Guards, Protective Screens and Windows (Bakelite, Ltd.), 149*
Wales, South, Industrial Development in. Comment on, 801
— ?— West, Government Aid for. Discussion
in Parliament on, 464
West, Unemployment in, 464
— Unemployment in, 300, 361, 560
Walker Bros., Board Machine at New Board Mill of Colthrop Board and Paper Mills, Ltd., 765*
Walker Croswell, Price Reduction on “ Unatap ” Spray Mixing Tap, 433
Walker, D. D., on Windscale Incident, 527
Walker, J. W., on Control of Production Engineering, 145
Walker, P. G. Gordon, Remarks at European Industrial Conference, 307
Walls, Concrete, Powder Lance for Cutting (Union Carbide Corp.), 191*
— Cracks, “ Gyproc Cove ” Fire-Protective
Gypsum Core for Concealing (Gyproc Products, Ltd.), 224
— Retaining, Earth Pressures and, by W. C.
Huntington (Book), 213
Wallboard, “Warerite” (Bakelite, Ltd.), 384 Wallington Wester and Co., Ltd., “ Fromo Plas N ” High-Tensile High-Impact Strength Plastics Sheeting, 761
“ Wallstrip ” Heating Elements for Skirting Heating (Copperad, Ltd.), 480*
Walmsleys Conical Refiners at New Board Mill of (2olthrop Board and Paper 764; Board Machine at New of Colthrop Board and Paper 765*
Walterisation Co., Ltd., “ Foscote Corrosion Liquids (Trade Publication), 27 “ SPC ” Phosphating Process for Steel Sheet, 338
Wanner Hand-Operated Grease Guns (Trade Publication), 730
War, Inevitability of and Development in. Comment on, 258
Ward, E. P., on Talking to Americans, 712*, 744*, 778*; 824*. See also 705
Ward-Leonard Set, Transistorised, “ Transi- dyne ” (Lancashire Dynamo Electronics, Ltd.), 455*
Ward, T. W., Ltd., Automatic Routing Conveyor System, 614
“ Warerite ” Wallboard (Bakelite, Ltd.), 384 Warfare, Naval. See Warships
— Use of Aircraft in. See Aeronautics Waring, A. B., on Joseph Lucas, 46
Warner, R. M., Jr., on Two-Terminal, Passive Semiconductor Component, 562*
Warren Morrison, Ltd., Diaphragm Valves (Trade Publication), 57
“Warrior,” H.M. Aircraft Carrier, Sale of. Discussion in Parliament on, 524
Mills, Ltd., Board Mill Mills, Ltd.,
” Anti
Washing Equipment, Portable, Without Waler (Deb Chemical Proprietaries, Ltd.), 95
— Tanks, Grit (Trade Publication), 347 Wastes, Atomic, Comment on, 366
— Gases from Isle of Grain Refinery, Agree
ment between South-Eastern Gas Board and British Petroleum Co., Ltd., for Use of, 350
— Radioactive, Comment on, 366
Disposal at Shippingport Nuclear Power Station, 684
— — Disposal at Yankee Atomic Electric
Plant, 807
Watches, Export Statistics, 116*
— Output Statistics, 116*
Water, Brackish, Treatment into Fresh Water by Electrodialysis Process, Orange Free State Plant for, 674
“ Water Buffalo” Crawler Tractor for Marsh Country (Albion Motors, Ltd.), 168*
— Cooling, Power Cables with, for Hydro-
Electric Power Commission of Ontario, 30 System at Isle of Grain Refinery, 795* ?—? Demineralisation of, by Ion Exchange, 338
— Distillation, Nuclear Energy for. Cost of,
674*
Plant at Gibraltar, 674
— Effluent, Corby Ion-Exchange Process for,
338
— Filters. See Filters
— Fresh, Cost of Production from Sea-Water,
531
Distillation from Sea Water, Costs and Developments in, 674
“ Multiflash ” Process from Sea-Water, 530*
Treatment of ~ Electrodialysis State Plant for,
— Heater, Electric,
for Producing
Water into, by Orange Free
WADE, G., on Microwave Parametric Amplifiers and Converters, 724
Wadkin, L. C. Routing Machine, 731* Wadkin, Ltd., Plate Saw at Rogerstone of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.,
Wages. See Labour
Waggon und Maschinenbau G.m.b.H.,
Plant
411*
Rail-
Busesfor Light TrafficonRural Lines, 316*
Wagons, Coal, History of, 476*
— History of, 476
— Meat, Interfrigo, with Electrical Ventilation,
for TThrough Conveyance to Continent, 704
— Motor. See Motor Vehicles; Tractors
— Railway, Output Position and Prospects
of, 51*
Wailes, R., on George Stephenson Institution of Civil Engineers. LETTER, 291. See also Vol. 184
Wainwright, C., on Tests of Structural ditions in Steel Bearing-Balls, 151*
Wait, A. J., Ltd., London Planetarium,
and
See
Con-
393*
Wakefield B Power Station, Boiler Furnace Inspection Platform at (Foster Wheeler, Ltd., and Non-Corrosive Metal Products, Ltd.), 169*
Wakefield, C. C., and Co., Ltd., Scuffing, by L. A. Cooper, 355, 356
Waldron, Dr. M. B., on Plutonium-Iron System, 459
Wales, Craftsmen Registered as Unemployed, 208
— North, Nuclear Power Station Proposed for,
365
— ?—? Nuclear Power Station, Public Inquiry
into Proposal by Central Electricity Generating Board to Build, 238
— Nuclear Power Proposals for, 490*
Warships :
Aviation, Naval. See Aeronautics Battleships, British, by O. Parkes (Review), 408
“Comet,” United States Naval Vehicle Carrier, 271
“ Couronne,” French Ironclad Warship, Centenary of, 17
Destroyers, Guided-Missile, Discussion in Parliament on, 777
— Steam Turbine Propulsion Machinery for, 28
Escort Vessels, Steam Turbine Propulsion Machinery for, 28
Frigate Conversion, Discussion in Parliament on, 272
“ Gloire ” French Ironclad Warship, Centenary of, 17
H.M. Aircraft Carrier “ Magnificent,” Sale of. Discussion in Parliament on, 524
Carrier “ Victorious,” Modernisation of, 94*
Carrier “ Warrior,” Sale of. Discussion in Parliament on, 524
Detection Vessel “ Lincoln,” Discussion in Parliament on Construction of, 240
— Anti-Aircraft Frigate “ Leopard,” Discussion in Parliament on Construction of, 240
— Cruiser “ Tiger,” Discussion in Parliament on, 777
— Patrol Boat “ Brave Borderer ” (Vosper Ltd.), 63
— Submarine
Powered, Nuclear
Parliament on, TTl H.M.S. “ Gorgon,” Use as Cable Ship,
Centenary of, 17
“ Invincible,” French Ironclad Warship, Centenary of, 17
Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1957-58, by R. V. B. Blackman (Review), 252 Naval Aeronautics. See Aeronautics — Shipbuilding, Discussion in Parliament on, 272
“ Normandie,” French Ironclad Warship, Centenary of, 17
Nuclear Powered Submarine, Appointment of R. Baker as Technical Chief Executive, 399
Submarine “Dreadnought” (Vickers Nuclear Engineering, Ltd.), 174
Russian Submarines, Threat of. Discussion in Parliament on. 111
Shipbuilding, Naval, D'scussion in Parliament on, 272
Submarine, Nuclear-Powered, Appointment of R. Baker as Technical Chief Executive, 399
Tank Landing Craft, Future of. Discussion in Parliament on, 524
United States Navy Vehicle Carrier, “ Comet,” 271
Warships, Modern Design Trends, Discussion in Parliament on. 111
See also Naval
“ Dreadnought,” Nuclear-
174
Powered, Discussion in
Warwick Production Co., Ltd., “ Collapsible Container, 133*
Warwick, W. C., Remarks on Shipping Industry, 810
Washery Slurry for Fuel Supplies Power Station, 159
Retemba ”
Slump in
at Barony
Brackish Process, 674 Instantaneous, “ Clage ” (l.C.G., Ltd.), 320*
See also Feed Water
— Heavy, Availability and Cost of, 398
Circuit, in HIFAR Nuclear Reactor, 559* for Gas-Cooled Reactor System, Position and Prospects of, 398
— Hot, for Heating Systems, “ Sigmix ”
Mixing Valves for (Sigmund Pumps, Ltd.), 672*
— Pipes, Aluminium, Laying of, on Canadian
Oil Field, Cinema Film “ Put Your Pipe” on (Aluminium Canada, Ltd.), 401
— Power. See Hydraulic;
Power, Water; Turbine,
— Repellent Coating for “
land Cement (Rugby Co.), 149
— Sea. See Sea-Water
— and Sewage, Radioactive Contamination of,
Course on, 334
— Sterilisation of, “ Clorocel ” Equipment
(CF/E Series Electrolysers) for (Paterson Engineering Co., Ltd.), 22
— Supplies for Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick
Works, 106*
Sea-Water Distillation Compared with Catchment Method, 531
— — in Western Germany (Book), 181 See also Irrigation
— Systems, Hot, High-Pressure, Corner Tube
Boiler Unit for (Edwin Danks and Co. (Oldbury), Ltd.), 519
— Tanks. See Tanks
— Tube Boiler. See Boiler
— Turbines. See Turbines, Hydraulic; Power
Plant
Watertight Fluorescent Fittings for Switch- Start Lamps (Philips Electrical, Ltd.), 512 Waterways, Inland, Bowes Committee Inquiry on. Discussion in Parliament, 300
— See also Rivers; Canals; Navigation, Inland Waterworks, Cherry Garden, of Folkestone
and District Water Co., Visit to, 818
— Lower Standen, of Folkestone and District
Water Co., Visit to, 818
— See also Water Supply
Watkinson, H., on British Railways Modernisation Programme, 354; Remarks on New Efficiency Measures for Transport, 803; on Railway Economy Measures, 809 Watson, A. K., on Position and Prospects of I.B.M. United Kingdom, Ltd., 647
Watson, W. and J. R., Ltd., Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Factory for Concentrated Complete Fertiliser at Leith Docks, 508 Watson-Munro, C. N., on Work at Lucas Heights, 558*
Watson-Watt, Sir R., on Committees and Chairmen (Extract from Three Steps to Victory), 282
Watt, G., London Planetarium, 393*
Watts, N. P., on Air Operated Equipment, 671
Watts, R. M., on Fabrication Practice for Machine Elements, 505
Waves, Electromagnetic, High Frequency, Generating, Using the Doppler Effect, Proposals for, by R. B. R. Shersby-Harvie, 725
— ?— See also Telephony, Wireless
— Interactions, Fast, with an Electron Film
at Cyclotron Resonance, by A. Karp, 725 ?—? Micro. See Microwaves
— Space Charge, Parametric Amplification of,
by A. A. Ashkin, T. J. Bridges, W. H. Lousell, and C. F. Quate, 725
Wavemaking Installations in Dutch Pavilion at Brussels Fair, 522*
Wavemeters for Royal Aircraft Establishment for Range 1-40 kMc/s (Wayne Kerr Laboratories, Ltd.), 390
Waverley, Viscount, the Late, 36
Wax Removal from Oil at Isle of Grain Refinery, 795*
Wayne Kerr Laboratories, Ltd., Series of Wavemeters for Royal Aircraft Establishment for Range 1-40 kMc/s, 390
Wayne Tank and Pump Co., Ltd., “ Dock-o- matic ” Loading Ramp, 574*
Wealth of Americans, 779
— Effect on Crime in Youth, 391 Weapons, Guided. See under Aeronautics
— Nuclear. See Nuclear Weapons
this in
Co. of
Plant;
Power Hydraulic Pectacrete ” Port- Portland Cement
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 (1958)
Wear and Corrosion Handbook for Cooled Nuclear Reactors, by DePaul (Book), 823
— of Timber Floors, Abrasion Machine for
Simulating, 32*
“ Weasel ” Amphibian Vehicles for British Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Studebaker), 372*
Weatherproof Fittings for 150 watt Pressed- Glass Reflector Lamps (Philips Electrical, Ltd.), 512
— and Flameproof Lighting Fittings (Trade
Publication), 534
Weaver Motor-Vehicle Lamp Testing, 371* “ Weaver ” Two-Lever Door Catch (Thomas Crompton and Sons, Ltd,), 128*
Webs, Plate Girder, Buckling of, by Dr, K. C. Rockey, 312
Weeding, Mowing, Hedgecutting, Digging and Hoeing, “ Gardenmaster 34 ” Multi- Purpose Machine for (Landmaster, Ltd.), 352*
Weekly Survey, 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 Weighbar, Strain-Gauge, Load Measurements by, in Dynamic Calibration of Fatigue- Testing Machines, 693*
Weighing, Electrical (Trade Publication), 181 Weight, A. J., on Sending Machines and Spares by Air, 242
— Saving in Military Steel Bridges, by A. E. Long, 735
Weiner, R. T., on Thorium-Cerium System, 459 Weir, Sir C., Chairman of Committee on Administration of Electricity and Gas Industries, 367
Weir, Sir C. M., on Position and Prospects of British Tabulating Machine Co., Ltd., 171
Weir, G. and J., Ltd., Feed Pumps for Hunters- ton Nuclear Power Station, 270; Research and Development Work on Sea-Water Evaporation Plant, 530*; “Multiflash” Process for Producing Fresh Water from Sea-Water, 530*; Position and Prospects of, 647; Sea-Water Evaporating and Distillation Plant, 674
Weir, Hon. J. K., on Annual Report of G. and J. Weir, Ltd., 647
Weld Inspection, by A. H. Goodger, 505
?— Resistance Formed, in Mild Steel, Tentative Design Standards for. Report on, 503
Welded High-Tensile Steel, Structural Uses of, by G. Roberts, 734
— Ships, Brittle Fracture in, by J. Hodgson and G. M. Boyd, 497*
Construction—Records of Common Fractures and Their Causes, by H. R. Gibbs and G. M. Boyd, 241 *
— Stainless-Steel Nitric-Acid Absorption Colum at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478*
•— Tubular Post Pallets for Tyre Storage at Fort Dunlop and Coventry Stores of Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 796*
Welders’ Brush, “ TT ” (Rockweld, Ltd.), 645 Welding, Aluminium, High-Speed, Cinema Film on (Aluminium Co. of Canada, Ltd.), 401
— Arc, Modern Developments in, by Dr. N. Gross, 505
— Argon Arc, Tungsten Electrodes for (British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 211
— Argonaut, of Noral Plate at Rogerstone Plant of Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 411
— of Beryllium, Laboratory for, 501
— Electrodes, “ Groovees,” for Grooving,
Gouging and Piercing (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 281
“ Staymec No. I ” for Welding of Stainless-Steel Nitric-Acid Absorption Column at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478*
— ?— Tungsten, for Argon Arc Process
(British Oxygen Gases, Ltd.), 211
— Equipment, Multi-Operator, Three-Phase
(Trade Publication), 119
Portable Rectifier, Type LWD35O (Trade Publication), 119
at Shipyard of Bartram and Sons, Ltd., 140*
— Handbook, Part I: Basic Principles and
Data, by A. L. Phillips (Review), 282
— of Heat Exchangers for Brad well Nuclear
Power Station, 718*
— Influence on Brittle Fracture in Ships, 498
— Machine, Arc, “ Ballard ” (Slough Metals,
Ltd.), 454*
— ?— Automatic, Fusarc, for Welding of
Stainless-Steel Nitric-Acid Absorption Column at Wilton Works of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 478*
Spot, Heavy Duty, Leopard “S.70” (Portable Welders, Ltd.), 68
Spot, Heavy Duty, Leopard “S.IOO” (Portable Welders, Ltd.), 68
Spot, Lightweight Portable, Leopard Auto-Spot (Portable Welders, Ltd.), 68*
— Manipulators (Trade Pubfication), 762
— of Pressure Vessel " _ -. .
Reactor, 719*
— Resistance, Modern
C. A. Burton, 505
— of Sealed Cabinets
Ltd.), 731*
— Titanium Alloys (Trade Publication), 730
— Transformers (Trade Publication), 119 Welfare. See Labour
Welford, A. T., on Ergonomics, 195
Wellman Smith Owen Engineering Corp., Ltd., Softening and Descaling Lines at Shepcote Lane Rolling Mills, 633
Wells, I., on Nuclear Fuel Processing in Homogeneous Aqueous Reactors, 204, 236 Welsh Tinplate Works, Closure of, 208 Wernher, Sir H., on Position and Prospects of Ericsson Telephones, Ltd., 584 West Africa. See Africa, West West Indies, Federation of. Consequences of, 578
West Midlands. See Midlands Gas Board, Solihull Research Station for Research on Complete Gasification o Coal, 533*
West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute. See Iron and Steel Institute, West of Scotland
West Thurrock, External Electricity Meters Experiment at, 416
Westfield, Fife, Lurgi High-Pressure Complete- Gasification Plant for, 401
Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., Ltd., Mining Equipment (Trade Publication), 90; Annual Report, 137; Activities of Brake Division, 137; Activities in Rectifier Field, 137; Agreements with Westinghouse Electric Corp., and Radio Corp, of America, 137; Mining Equipment (Trade Publication), 659
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Agreement with Westinghouse Brake and Signal Co., 137; E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 715; Manpower Statistics, 824
Westlake, Sir C., Remarks on Peace in Industry at Bicentenary Luncheon of Fawcett Preston and Co., Ltd., 743
Westland Aircraft Ltd., Policy and Action of, 594; Diversification Activities of, 601; Application for Heliport in Battersea, 642; “ Westminster ” Helicopter, 751 *
“ Westminster ” Helicopter (Westland Aircraft, Ltd.), 751*
Westrex Co., Ltd., “ Selectacall ” Individual Stair Call Unit, 519
Westrum, E. F.,on Microscale Preparation and Micrometallurgy of Plutonium Metal, 457 “ Westwood ” Automatic Recessing Head with Integral Micrometer Adjustment for Depth of Cut (Trade Publication), 659
Westwood, Lord, Memorial Lecture on Engineering Design—the Background and Basis of Contemporary Life, by H. Clausen 791*
Wet Cyclone, Portable, “ Bahco,” for Dust Extraction (Trade Publication), 534
— Process for Phosphoric Acid Manufacture
at Scottish Agricultural Industries Ltd. Fertiliser Factory, 506*
Wharf, Deep-Water, at Belfast, 625
Wheel Arrangements on Coaches, History of, 475*
— and Axle, History of, by J. T. Emmerton,
474*
— or Axle: Which Should Turn? by J. T.
Emmerton, 474*
on Chariots, 474*
— Earliest Known, 474*
— Fixed, History of, by J. T. Emmerton, 474*
— Gauge, Railway, Changing by Axle Chang
ing in Spain, 799
— Gear. See Gears; Gearing
?— “ Green Grit,” for Sharpening Tungsten- Carbide-Tipped Drills at Home (John M. Perkins and Smith, Ltd.), 224
— Grinding. See Grinding under Machine
Tools
— Invention of, 474
— Loose, on Cart on Luttrell Psalter, 474* History of, by J. T. Emmerton, 474*
— Railway, History of, 476
— Stores at Fort Dunlop and Coventry, of
Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., Palletisation of, 796*
Wheeler, C. R., on Raw Material Supplies and Future Development of Iron and Steel Industry, 626
Whessoe Co., Ltd., Storage Tanks for Trial Shipment of Liquid Methane, 241
Whipple, G. A., Remarks on Position and Prospects of Hilger and Watts, Ltd., 427
Whirling of Vertical Rotors, Influence.of Qil Resonance in Bearings, by Dr. F. Orbeck, 343*
“ Whirlwind ” Air Separators for Particle Grading (Trade Publication), 534
Whitaker, Sir A., Plea for Single Representative Body of Engineers in Britain, 738
White, A. J., on Future Pattern of Surface Transport, 227
White House, E. P. Ward’s Visit to, 715
White, J. (Contractors), Ltd., Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., Factory for Concentrated Complete Fertiliser at Leith Docks, 508
White, J. S., and Co., Ltd., Annual Report of, 247; Beam Testing Machine for Lloyds British Testing Co., Ltd., 484*
— Metal Bearing Linings, Adhesion of. Swing
ing Galvanometer for Inspection of (Brush Group, Ltd.), 276
— Papers on National Economy, 450
on Organisation of United Kingdom
Atomic Energy Authority, 13
— ?— on Proposed Capital Investment in Coal,
Gas and Electricity Industries, 515
Report on Defence, 624
Report on Defence, Effect on Aircraft Industry, 577
Whitehead Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., Position and Prospects of, 335
Whitelegg, F., Ltd., Coil Winders (Trade Publication), 181; Bar Turning Machines (Trade Publication), 309; Bar and Tube Straightening Machines (Trade Publication), 347; Single Blow Press for Wire Ball Forming (Trade Publication), 409; Bar Pointing Machine (Trade Publication), 503; Screwing and Bar Skimming Machines (Trade Publication), 534; Tube Parting and Chamfering Machine (Trade Publication), 534
Whitfield, G. A., on Guidance and Control of Long-Range Vehicles, 331
Whitfield, H. R., on Mathematic Analysis of Collision Course Prediction by Doppler Radar, 467
Whitlock Bros., Ltd., Hydraulic Power Grab for “ Dinkum Digger Major ” Trench Excavator, 613*
Whitney, Mr., Psychometricist, E. P. Ward’s Conversation with, 715, 716
Whittaker, A., on Gamma Absorptiometer, 590 Whyte, W. H., on Group Thinking, 825 Wickham, D., and Co., Ltd., Rail-Buses for Light Traffic on Rural Lines, 316*
Wickman, Ltd., Copying Lathes (Trade Publication), 119; Work Handling for Multi-Spindle Automatics (Trade Publication), 409; Medium-Batch Production on Automatic Machines (Trade Publication), 730; Wickman-Niven Bench-Type Grinding Machine for Tungsten-Carbide Tipped Tools (Trade Publication), 730
Wight, D. A., on Specification of Tool Shape and Grinding of Cutting Tools, 542
Wignall, R. S., on Recent Trends in Electric Rail Traction, 340*
Wigner Effect, by Dr. P, J. Grant, 120*
— Release in BEPO Nuclear Reactor, 366
399*
Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture on Automatic Flight—the British Story, by Dr. G. W. H. Gardner, 664
Wilford, A. T., on Fuel Economics of Buses, 644
Wilhelmshaven, Oil Pipeline from, to Rhine- Ruhr Area, 233
Wilkins, G., on Folding Car for Airborne Forces, 18* ; on Willment Racing Car, 82*; on Motoring to the South Pole, 372; on Austin Healey “ Sprite ” Sports Motor Car, 644; on Central London without Buses, 644
Williams, C., on Review of Radio Aids to Aeronautical and Marine Navigation, 466
Williams, Lady G., Study of Apprenticeship by, 278
Williams, J. A., Computation of the Performance of a Multicomponent Solvent Extraction System. The Separation of Uranium, and Plutonium from Nuclear Fission Products by Tributyl Phosphate, 204, 236
Williams, Sir O., and Partners, Bridges on St. Albans By-Pass, 441; London-Birmingham Motorway, 441
Williamson, D. T. N., on Automatic Control of Machine Tools, 478
Williamson, Dr. G. K., on Plutonium-Thorium System, 458
Williamson, Sir T., on Lord Chandos’s Suggestion for Regular Annual Wage Increases, 44 ; Plea for Relaxation of Government’s Restrictive Policies, 752
Willment Racing Car, by G. Wilkins, 82*
Wilmot Breeden Group, Fellowships of, 428
Wilmot, H., on Diversification Policy of Beyer> Peacock and Co., Ltd., 681
Wilson, G. H., on Position and Prospects of Laurence, Scott and Electromotors, 774
Wilson, Lt.-Col. G. R. S., the Late, 388
Wilson, J. H., on Control of Steel-Strip Quality, 575
Wimpey, G., and Co., Ltd., Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, 104*, 188*; Television
Centre of British Broadcasting Corporation at Wood Lane, 363*; Trading Profit of, 647; Isle of Grain Refinery, 796*
Winans, Walter, “ Cigar Ship,” Centenary of, 17
Winch, Pneumatic, 3-ton (Globe Pneumatic Engineering Co., Ltd.), 740
Wind-Driven Generating Plant (Enfield Cables, Ltd.), 297*
— Loading of Structures, Wind Tunnel Tests
on, 697
—? Tunnel Tests on Funnel Smoke, 253
See also Aeronautics
Winders, Coil (Trade Publication), 181
— Mine, Control by Mercury-Arc Converter
(English Electric Co., Ltd.), 702
Windings, Alternator, Resistance Measurement under Load, by D. W. Birnstingl, 317*
— Gear, Pit, Double-Drum, Electrically
Driven, Model of (Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.), 457*
Windmill, Barham Downs, Visit to, 818
— at Bogo, Denmark, for Parallel Qperation
with Alternating-Current Network (S.E.A.S.), 689*
— at Costa Head, Qrkney, for Parallel Opera
tion with Alternating-Current Network (John Brown and Co.), 688*
— Darrieus Direct-Current, for Parallel Opera
tion with Three-Phase Alternating-Current, 687*
— Development of, and Position and Prospects
of, by G. Gimpel, 686*
— Direct-Current, for - • -
La Cour, 687*
— Direct-Current, for
gaard Co.), 688*
— Direct-Current, for
Smidth Co.), 688*, 689
— Enfield (Algeria), 688*
— with Fantail and Remotely-Controlled
Slatted Blades, 686*
— at Gedser, Denmark, for Parallel Operation
with Alternating-Current Network (S.E.A.S.), 689*
— for Parallel Operation on Alternating-
Current Network (Russian), 688*
— for Parallel Operation on Alternating-
Current Network (S. Morgan Smith Co.), 688*
Window Cracking due to Rust Formation on Frame, 96
— Entrance, Infra-Red Radiation, Linde
Synthetic Sapphire for (Union Carbide International Co.), 817*
— Frames, Cracking of Windows due to Rust
ing of, 96
•— Testing of, by Building Research Division of National Research Council of Canada, 128
— “ Vyback DVB 229 ” Semi-Rigid Trans
parent Sheet for Use in Production of (Bakelite, Ltd.), 149*
Windscale Accident, 366
Findings of Committee of Inquiry on, 75 Plain Words on, 66
— Atomic Energy Station, Nuclear Plant using
Beryllium Canning for, 365
— Incident, by D. D. Walker, 527
— Stored Energy Measurements on Graphite
Samples, 697
Windshields of Worcester, Ltd., Aluminium Water Tanks for Caltex Gil Tankers, 645
Winfrith Heath. See Atomic Energy Research Establishment (Winfrith Heath)
Winstanley, S., on Engineer and Management, 784
Wire Ball Forming, Single Blow Press for (Trade Publication), 409
Wire Cloth Core for Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor, Proposal for, 303
— Drawing Equipment at Kingfield Wire and
Rod Works of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., 830
— Hot, Detector for Combustible Gases, 690
— Industry, Position and Prospects of, 114*
— Rope Eye, “ Superloop ” (British Ropes,
Ltd.), 327*
— Works, Kingfield, of Darwins Bright Steels,
Ltd., 830*
Wireless Installations, “ Salvare,” for Class “A”Motor Lifeboats on “Mauretania,”253
— Telegraphy. See Telegraphy: Radio;
Radar; Television
— Telephony. See Telephony; Radio; Radar;
Television
— See also Receiver
Wiring Accessories for “ Closegang ” Switch-
Boxes (J. A. Crabtree and Co., Ltd.), 480* Wise, A. F. E., on Hydraulic Design and Per
formance of Drainage Pipework in Dwellings, 288*
Witzke, R. L., on Operating Essentials of Pressurised-Water Reactors, 172
Wohler’s Tests. See Fatigue under Tests (Materials)
Wolf Electric Tools, Ltd., “ Quartermaster ” Range of Home Power Equipment, 224; Radial Arm Drilling Machine, 640*
Women in Engineering Industry, Careers for, 300
— Men, and Work, by L. Wright, 685
— Motorists, Favourable Report on, 139
— as Reserve of Scientific and Technical Skill,
146
— Workers. See Labour
Woods, American, Encyclopaedia of. Note on
Revised Edition of, 633
Wood, J. T., on Computation of the Performance of a Multicomponent Solvent Extraction System. The Separation of Uranium and Plutonium from Nuclear Fission Products by Tributyl Phosphate, 204, 236
— Laminate, Densified, Resin-Impregnated,
Insulation, Permali, for ZETA, 33.3
— Pole Circuits, 200 kV, Interference Studies
on, by J. R. Leslie and D. E. Jones, 822 Wood, Pritchett and Partners, Ltd., Mechanical
Handling and Material Moving Equipment, 261
— Soft, Export Prices of, 338
Wood, W. G., on a User’s Experience of Compressed Air, 671
— See also Timber
Woodall-Duckham Construction Co., Ltd.,
Licence to Build Plants for Burstlein Coal Preparation Process for Coking, 22
“ Woodpecker ” Air/Hydraulic Drill Unit (Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Works Ltd.), 327*
Woodroff, D. J., on Advertising Exports, 387 Woods of Colchester, Ltd., Chromate Oxidisation Process for Aluminium Castings, 127
Wooler, J., on Position and Prospects of William Briggs and Sons, Ltd., 207
Woollard, F. G., the Late, 9
Wootton, Dr. K. J., Appointment as Manager of Atomic Energy Division of General Electric Co., Ltd., 365
Worboys, A. T., on Position and Prospects of London Brick Co., 774
Wordsworth, D. V., on Gas-Turbine Regenerator Performance, 284*
Work Handling for Multi-Spindle Automatics (Trade Publication), 409
— Men, Women and, by L. Wright, 685
— Sampling, by R. M. Barnes (Review), 346
— Study—Its Application to Team Work
Cinema Film on, 338
Conference (Harrogate), 83
in Design of Chemical Processing Plant, by A. L. Marsden, 83
Efficiency Increase by, 592 in Farming, Achievements of, 267 in Industrial Undertakings, Application of, 208
“ Workmaster ” Crop-Spraying Aircraft (Auster Aircraft, Ltd.), 357*
Workmen. See Labour
— Compensation. See Labour
Works :
Bilston Foundries, New Domestic Bath Manufacturing Plant at Batman’s Hill, 637*
Brick Works, Kuwait Sand-Lime, Formation and Activities of, 104*; Brick Production at, 188*_
Engineering
Women. See Labour Gas Works. See Gasworks Hindley Green, Development Project of
Turner Bros. Asbestos Co., Ltd., for Production of Asbestos Textiles and Brake Linings, 412*
Kingfield Wire and Rod Works of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., 830*
Kuwait Sand-Lime Brick Works, Formation and Activities of, 104*; Brick Production at, 188*
Leith Docks Factory of Scottish Agricultural Industries, Ltd., for Concentrated Complete Fertiliser, 506*
Modernisation, of Oil-Engine Works at Petters, Ltd., 382*
Oil-Engine, Modernisation of, at Petters, Ltd., 382*
Paignton Valve Factory of Standard Telephones and Cables, Ltd., 348*
Rod Works, Kingfield, of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd,, 830*
Sheffield Works of Thos. Firth and John Brown Ltd., Cinema Film on Tour of, 338
Steelworks, Use of Electronic Computers for Production Control in, 552
Tinplate Works, Wales, Closure of, 208 Tube Works, Proposals for New, 579 Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Works Extension and Modernisation, 634*
Welfare Movement in Works. See Labour Wire Works, Kingfield, of Darwins Bright Steels, Ltd., 830*
ENGINEERING, VOL. 185 <1958)
Works, Ministry of. Vacancy of Post of Director General of Works at, 203; Codes of Practice, See Standards
Workshops, Directory of Mechanical Engineering Equipment for, by M. Coyaud (Book), 309
— Psychology, by P. V. Hoare, 579 •— Training. See Education
— See also IVorks; Machine Tools World Aviation Directory, Note on, 27
— Bank. See Bank, International
— Commodity Prices, Reactions to Fall in, 81
— Electricity Undertakings of, 1957-58; Elec
trical Journal Red Book (Book), 585
— Fuel and Power Requirements and Nuclear
Energy, by E, F. Schumacher, 527
— Scarcity of Engineers and Scientists, 146
— Smelter Production of Non-Ferrous Metals
in 1907 and 1957, 626
— Trade, Adaptation of Investments to, by
Dr. T. Barna, 106
Fair, United States, Survey of, 209 Worn, D. K., on Continuous Production of
Strip by Direct Rolling Process, 472 Worsted Material, “ Magnaspin ” Spinning
Machine for. Tests on (Fairbairn Lawson Combe Barbour, Ltd.), 54
Worthington Simpson, Ltd., Position and
Prospects of, 647 Wrecks. See Accidents Wright, L., on Men, Women and Work, 685 Wright, Wilbur, Memorial Lecture, on Automatic Flight—-the British Story, by Dr.
G. W. H. Gardner, 664
Writing, Technical, by A. H. Toms, 3. See also
Vol. 184. See also 762
Bad, Note on, 119
— — Improvements Society, Note on Activi
ties of, 119
Wrought Iron. See Iron
Wust, A., on Report on Work of Study Committee on Generation, 821
Wyatt, L. M., on Metallurgy and Fuels in Nuclear Energy, 648; Biographical Note, 649
Wyman, F. H., Interview with E. P. Ward,
714
Wynn, A. H. A., on Developments in the Use of Coal, 769

X-RAY Diffraction Examination of Bearing- Balls, 151*, 152*
Diffraction Powder Patterns, by H. E. Swanson, N. T. Gilfrich, and M, I. Cook (Book), 91
— — Equipment, Industrial, Portable, 110
kVp, Type TF1597 (Marconi Instruments, Ltd.), 422*
— — Examination, Stroboscopic, of Critical
Components of Vibrating Assembly (Philips Electrical, Ltd.), 551
Fluorescence Method for Non-Contact Measurement of Thickness of Tin Coatings on Steel (Newton Victor, Ltd.), 575
Fluorescence Spectrometry, by H. M. Davies, 590
Irradiation by, 748*
Output in Pinched Discharges, 432 Testing Methods of Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), Ltd., 782*
Xenon-Filled Triode Thyratron, Type XRl- 6400A, of Disc-Seal Construction (Mul- lard, Ltd.), 806
— Poisoning, 629

YACHTS, Construction Materials, 9*
— Design, Hydrodynamic and Aerodynamic
Considerations Affecting, 6*
?— Hull Design of, 7*
— 5-5 Metre, “ Yeoman,” Tests on, 7*
— Model Tests at Saunders-Roe, Ltd., 9
— Motion of. Through Air and Water, by W. A. Crago, 6*. See LETTERS, 68, 99, 195
— “ Sceptre,” Model Tests on, 8*
— See also Catamaran
Yachting, History and Progress of, 6
Yankee Atomic Electric Plant, Details of, 807* Yard Truck, 2 ton Capacity, with Torque Converter Drive (Conveyancer Fork Trucks, Ltd.), 582*
“ Yardmaster ” Industrial Shunting Locomotive (Hunslet Engine Co., Ltd.), 611*
Yarmouth Harbour, Scouring in. Elimination of, 625
Yarrow and Co., Ltd., Boilers for 275 MW Turbo-Alternators (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 330*
Yearbook of British Standards Institution, Note on, 535
— Engineer’s, Kempe’s, for 1958, by C. E.
Prockter and B. W. Pendred (Book), 585
— of Technical Education and Careers in
Industry (A. and C. Black), 823 “ Yeoman ”5-5 Metre Yacht, Tests on, 7
Yield Propagation During Flexure in Overstrained Mild-Steel Beams, 788* Yielding, Piecemeal, of Mild Steel, by K. Farnell, 92*
Yorkshire Copper Works, Proposed Merger with Metals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., 111
Yorkshire Imperial Metals, Ltd., Formation of by Imperial Chemical Industries, 239. See Erratum, 292; Cleaning Condenser Tubes Continuously with Foam-Rubber Balls, 828*
— to-London Motorway, Discussion in Parliament on, 656
— — Motorway, Study of Length of Viaduct
over River Trent for, at Hydraulics Research Station, 46
“Yorkshire” Super Fuellers, 10,000 Gallon, for British Petroleum Co., Ltd., 709 Yorkshire Switchgear, Switchgear for Gatwick Airport, 653
Young, L., on Runners of Experimental Turbomachines, 376*
Youth, Crime in. Effect of Wealth and Poverty, 391
— Employment. See Labour
— Section of Amalgamated Engineering
Union, Conference of (Bournemouth), 428 Yuni Tehnik (Soviet Journal), Aims of, by V. Bolkhovitinov, 4

ZAMBESI, River, Flooding of Kariba Dam by, 625*
Zeiss, (2., “ Ultraphot II ” Automatic Camera- Microscope, 805*
— Projector in London Planetarium, 392* Zero Energy, Definition of, 142
Thermonuclear Assembly. See ZETA ZETA; Experiments on, 43; Description of, 108; Introduction to ,134*; Significance of Experiments with, by R. S. Pease, 134*; Description of Apparatus, 135*; Experimental Methods Employed on, 135*; Design and Operation of, 136*; Future Work on, 136; Contractors Engaged on, 142; Personnel Engaged on, 142; Effect of Progress with, on Fission Reactors. 173; Results Obtained with, by Sir J. Cockcroft, 173; Modifications to, 173; Small- Scale Prototypes of, 186*; Third-Scale Prototype of, 186*; 3i kW Radyne “C.21 ” Induction Heater for (Radio Heaters, Ltd.), 206; “TV701 “ FN2/I2 Neutron Counter for (Solus Electronic Tubes, Ltd.), 206; Discussion in Parliament on, 208; Information from Experiments on, 288; Dismantling of, 303; Model for Brussels Fair, 303; Permall Resin- Impregnated Densified Wood Laminate Insulation for, 333; Facts About (Booklet), 334; Significance of, in Fusion Power, by Dr. A. Gibson, 649; Hulton Achievement Award to Team on, 650; Thermonuclear Reactions in. Comment on Degree of, 650; Aluminium Torus for, 776; Experiments at Increased Energies 776; Neutron Spectra from. Measurement of. Note on, 776; see also Thermonuclear Reactions
Zinc Oxide Semiconductor for Amplification in Electrolyte, 696*
— Prices, Position and Prospects of, 20
— Production in United States, 20
“ Zinco ” Engraved Positive Printing Blocks for Patterns on Glass, 357*
Zircaloy 2, Properties of, 396
Zirconium (Butterworth and Co. (Publishers), Ltd.), 57
— as Canning Material, 648
— Fluoride, Zirconium Production by Vacuum Sublimation of, 495
— Low-Hafnium, Description of Material, 396
— Production by Vacuum Sublimation of Zirconium Fluoride, 495
— Vacuum Melting Process for (William Jessop and Sons, Ltd.), 187*
Zoller, R. E., on Extended Heat Exchange Surface for Marine and Nuclear Boilers, 286
Zoo, Bronx, New York, Strike of Maintenance Workers at, 784
— Dudley, Chairlift, Model of (British Ropeway Engineering, Ltd.), 615
Zuckerman, Sir S., Nomination of, for Science Council of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 175

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