Engineering 1959 Jul-Dec: Index

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Owing to a dispute in the printing industry, which affected the printing of all periodicals in Britain, there were no issues of ENGINEERING for 26 June and 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31 July, 1959.

A99 Austin motor car, by G. Wilkins, 128. See LETTER, 195
Aas-Jakobsen, A., on economics of cylindrical shells (review), 134
Abacas Engineering Co. Ltd., cranes and hoists (trade publication), 40
Abelson and Co (Engineers) Ltd., wet receiving hopper, 338
Aberconway, Lord, on John Brown and Co. Ltd., 120
Aberdeen, paper-making industry in, effect of Free Trade Area Outer Seven on, 531
Ablation, hypersonic, by S. M. Scala, 208 Abrasion resistance of polyester fibre reinforced plastics, 323
Absorption cooling machine for air conditioning, 329
— Spectroscopy equipment, Hilger atomic (Hilger and Watts Ltd.), 196
Abstracts, International Journal of, statistical theory and method, 133
Abstracting, technique of, by J. Farradane, 69 ACA, review of Effects of Differential Tax Treatment of Corporate and Non-Corporate Enterprises, 257; biographical note, 258
Acceleration, motor car, by G. Wilkins, 372
Accelerator costs at AWRE, 343
— Electron linear, for Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, 342
Linear, Stanford University, 310
— Energy, ultimate limit of, 310
— Linear, high current proton source for, 36 for medical use in Russia, 692
for medical use (Vickers), 342 for processing materials (Vickers), 343 for radiation therapy (Vickers), 343 for tumour treatment, 311
— Particle, 310
High-energy, 310
as injector, 342
Low-energy, applications of, 342 References in ENGINEERING, 343 Tandem Van de Graaff, for Switzerland and Australia (High Voltage Engineering), 343
— Pre-, for Argonne ZGS synchrotron, 342
— Proton, Alvarez, as injector for Nimrod proton synchrotron, 342
Linear, Rutherford Laboratory, 311
— Relativistic plasma in, 510
— Small Boar, for small bore heating systems (Precision Electrical Products (Stockport) Ltd.), 433
— in Sweden, 123
— Tandem Van de Graaff, California Institute, 342
—? See also Electron synchrotron; Proton synchrotron
Accelerometer, high precision, manufacture of (Ferranti), 329
— for measuring shock and vibration (Technical Ceramics), 52
Access Equipment Ltd., Mountie mobile steps with elevating shelf, 402; staging (trade publication), 586
Accidents in building industry, 669
— Cost of, by G. H. Stuart Price, 669
— due to out-of-date equipment, 153 Accidents at Factories, Docks, Budding Operations and Works of Engineering Construction (booklet), 277
— Industrial, report on, 79
— Prevention in atomic-propelled ships, Attitude survey, NIIP, 277 See also Royal Society
— Road, cost of, 186, 188
— Royal Society for the Prevention of.
Royal Society for the Prevention
— in steel industry in UK, US and W.
many, 27
— Shippingport reactor, 639
— Windscale reactor, compensation and
63
Acco Bloklink elevator chains (trade publication), 40
Accuread micrometer height gauge (Amar Gauge and Tool Co. Ltd.), 634
ACD Bridge Co., contract for cables of Forth suspension bridge, 251
A.C.E. Machinery Ltd., midget hoists (trade publication), 40; Skymaster passenger hoist, 466
Acetate ester solvent price reduction, 595
ACF Industries Inc., purchase of Reactor Office by Allis-Chalmers, 283
Acid resistance of polyester fibre reinforced plastics, 323
Acme plastics welding machines with double heads (H.F. Industrial Services), 21
Acoustic duct for calibration of microphones, 163
— Research Station, anechoic chamber, 487
— Surface treatment, fibreglass wedges for, 65 Acoustical Investigation and Research Organisation (AlRO) Ltd., research station at Hemel Hempstead, 397; activities of, 509
— Materials, ASTM standards (book), 134 Acoustics, noise and buildings, by P. H.
Parkin and H. R. Humphreys (review), 481 Acrow (Engineers) Ltd., offer to Hardwick Industries, 26
Acrylic-base caulking compounds, 451
— Plastics sheets for transparent dome sky
lights (Rohm and Haas), 359
Acrylonitrile. See Copolymer
Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica, note on, 257 Activation wire drive instrumentation system for ascertaining information from a reactor core (Teleflex Incorp.), 448
Ad. Auriema Inc., programmable constant current source, 52; Y series of Sarkes- Taryian silicon rectifiers, 600
Adams, J. B., appointed director of thermonuclear research establishment, UKAEA, 62
Adapta wall plugs (trade publication), 514 Adding machine, Summa 15, price reduction by British Olivetti, 267
Addison Electric Co. Ltd., instrumentation (trade publication), 212; monitor recorder for impregnation of cables, 369; eccentricity gauge for extruded cables, 465
Additive, Desulfurol, for residual fuel oil, 556
— Levelling, Elchem, for copper plating, 588
— Petrol, 2CP and 4BP (Union Carbide Inter
national Co.), 516
Adelaide Cement Co. Ltd., Pennsylvania-Dixie swing hammermill for quarry of (GEC), 624
Aden Port Trust tug. Sir William Luce, gear for, 169
Adhesion, physical phenomena of, by Dr. H.
Krupp, 135 Adhesives, ASTM standards (book), 134
— Bonding of reinforced plastics, by H.
Perry (book), 418
— Building, P.V.A. (Polybond), 651
— Export of, 268
— Film, transparent, Transpasene (BX Plas
tics), 353
Adhesives Guide by J. Hurd, 484
— Resin, Redux, for brake liners, 620
— for shell roof, Aerodux 185, 579
— for shell roof. Aerolite 300, 579
— Toluol resistant. Bondmaster L379, 556
— Wood, efficiency of (Forest Products Re
search Laboratory), 160
Adlam, J. H,, on diffusion of magnetic fields in a cylindrical conductor, 36
Administrators, engineers and scientists as.
Plain Words on, 146 Admiralty Materials Laboratory, lead-tin- barium alloy for battery grids, 29 Advertisements on litter bins, 153
— for management staff, 435 Advertising by mangement consultants, 271
— by solicitors, 271
Advisory Committee on Further Education for
Commerce, report of, 57
— Council on Scientific Policy, survey of
scientific and engineering manpower, 630, 637
AEC Ltd., 10,000 gal. “ Yorkshire ” aviation fuellers for jet aircraft, 263; subsidiary in Johannesburg, 332; Dumptruck with Edbro tipping gear, 359; supply of Mandators for tanker and refinery work to Mobil Oil Portuguesa S.A., 492
AEC Vehicles (SA), formation of, 332 AECL. See Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. AEI-John Thompson Nuclear Energy Co. Ltd., collaboration with Nuclear Power Plant Co. Ltd., 62; reactor systems for ship propulsion, 83-84; cylindrical vessels with steel tape frettage, 471; boiling water reactor for ship propulsion, 607
AEI Lamp and Lighting Co. Ltd., extension to marketing organisations, 491; Xenon discharge lamp for Dungeness High lighthouse, 688
Aerial surveying for maps and mosaics, 504 of mineral deposits, 504 in road building 505 Aerialite Ltd., annual report, 645
Aero Clubs, Association of British. See Association
— Engine. See Aircraft engine Aero-Enterprises (Boreham Wood) Ltd.,
Piaggio P. 166 aircraft, 152 Aerodux 185, adhesive for shell roof, 579 Aerodynamic instability of bridges, 183 Aerodynamics of automobiles, MIRA research, 383
— Exhibits at Science Museum, 409 Aerograph-DeVilbis Co. Ltd., rail-mounted
self-propelled paint spray booth, 84; paint distribution system for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459
Aerogreg preimpregnates for reinforced plastics, 103
Aerojet General Nucleonics, boiling sulphur reactor, 64; graphite-moderated boiling- sulphur reactor, 205; M-1 gas turbine
reactor plants, 638
Aerolite 300, adhesive for shell roof, 579 Aeronautical Collection, National, at Science
Museum, 408. See LETTER, 568
— Conference, Anglo-American. See Anglo-
American
— Engineering, College of. See College Dictionary of, by J. L. Nayler, 649 School of, transfer of, 245
— Research Laboratories (Australia) annual
report, 211
— Society, Royal. See Royal Aeronautics, Collage of. See Cranfield
— Documentation and information service
(Paris), 5
— See also National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Aeroplane. See Aircraft
— Engines. See Aircraft engine; Turbine, gas Aeroplastics Ltd., Aerogreg preimpregnates,
103
Aerosols, by A. Herzka and J. Pickthall (review), 166
— Industry, position and prospects of, 445
— Products, 445
Aerosol-Turbo Ltd., Aerosolette portable humidifier, 569
Aerosolette portable humidifier (Aerosol- Turbo Ltd.), 569
AFL-CIO, survey on wages in union and nonunion shops, 373
Africa, tour by Lord and Lady Montague with Beaulieu Motor Museum exhibits, 348
— West. See West
African Manganese Co., diesel-electric shunting locomotive for (Yorkshire Engine), 686
— North. See North African
Afterburner, catalytic, for exhaust fume treatment, 28
Agecroft Colliery, tunnel driving at, 23 Aggregate and cement, reactions between, by
F. E. Jones and R. D. Tarleton (book), 70, 102
— Cladding panels, exposed, for office block
(John Ellis and Sons Ltd.), 542
— Handling, Fulflo conveyor feeder for
(Wickham Engineering), 22
— Lightweight, for concrete, from sintered
pulverised fuel ash (Lytag Ltd.), 475 Agitator. See also Stirring devices Aglite lightweight aggregate, 651
Agricola aircraft for agricultural use (Auster), 357
Agricultural Aviation Centre, European, activities of, 357
Conference, International, See International
Group of Royal Aeronautical Society, 25
— Engineers, Institute of British. See Institute Association, trend of agricultural machinery sales, 460
— Gallery at Science Museum, 408
— Machinery Exhibition and Smithfield show,
627
Insurance of, 598 Sales, trend in (Agricultural Engineers
Association), 460
— Plant (trade publication), 514
— Production in China, 115 Agriculture, aircraft for, 357
— See also Farm irrigation; Tractors
Ailsa Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Freshwater passenger and car ferry, 590
Air Automation, pneumatic equipment (trade publication), 212
— Blowers. See Blowers
— Breathing engines, Mollier diagram applica
tions, 214. See Correction, 560
— Circulation ovens on BOAC Comet 4 (GEC
Ltd.), 295
— Clean. See Clean air
— and combustion gases, thermodynamic pro
perties of. by O. Lutz and F. Wolf (book), 482
— Compressed. See Compressed air; Pneu
matic
— Compressors (trade publication), 212 Axial-flow, silenced (Plannair), 140 for Cumbrae Lighthouse (Broom
Wade), 520
for Ford Motor Co, expansion (Alley
and Maclellan (Polmadie) Ltd.), 459 for Netherlands electric power stations (Grasso Koninklijke Machinefabrieken), 361
Portable, with electric drive (Hymatic Engineering), 401
Stationary, combined aftercooler and anti-surge tank for use with (Holman Bros. Ltd.). 486
Stationary duplex (Holman Bros. Ltd.), 370
Tractor-mounted Weir-Clark, 491 See also Blower;
— in concrete, meter
publication), 514
— Conditioning (trade by absorption cooling machine, 329 Equipment for paper making industry
(trade publication), 386
— — for high-precision instrument manufac
ture, 329
Plant, Carrier, 308 Plant for Garnet Products Ltd. (Climatic
Controls), 110
— Coolers at Milford Haven refinery, 347
— Diffuser, Kno-Draft, with adjustable dis
charge (Ozonair Engineering Co. Ltd.), 665
— Extractor, Mechavent Roofline, for root
ventilation (Greenwood and Airvac Ventilating Co.), 400
— Filter for multi-fuel engines, 655
— Filtration for air conditioning plant, 329
— Flow switches for safety and control cir
cuits (Londex), 400
— Force Research (U.S.). See United States
Air Force
— Freight price reduction by KLM, 595
— Heater. See Heater
— Heating (trade publication), 258
— Leakage in rotary blowers, 325, 326
— Lubricated bearings for precision dynamo
meter, 614
Air-O-Brinell hardness testing machine (Edward G. Herbert Ltd.), 85
— Pollution, electric train overhead equipment
problems, 233
—? — by exhaust fumes, 28 Plain Words on, 302
Air pollution research at Warren Spring Laboratory, 68
by smoke, 28
— Registration Board, annual report, 83
— Screws. See Propellers
— Traffic Control Board, constitution and
activities of, 28; aircraft control in London Control Zone, 531; terms of reference, 567
Control, civil research in, 577
Control experimental unit, 577
Control, General Precision Systems, 549 Control, military research in, 577 Control, need for action in, 576 Control, operational research in, 577 Statistics, 19
Air Trainers Link Ltd., CERES electronic simulator for refinery processes, 38
— Training, College of, plans for, 245
— Transport to Antarctica, 640
Association, International. See International
in Europe, discussions in Parliament, 531 Fares dispute, 367
Position and prospects of, by Sir E.
Smith, 127
— Turbine. See Turbine
— Unit, cold, Godfrey CA-7 Mk. 5, for cool
ing aircraft cabins, 215
— See also Atmosphere Airborne Profile Recorder, 504, 505 Airco DH-I2I jet airliners for BEA, 88 Aircommuter airliner project (Lockheed), 26 Aircraft accessory gearbox on Vickers Vanguard aircraft (Rotol Ltd.), 296
— Agricola, for agricultural use (Auster), 357
— for agriculture, 357
— Airco DH-I2I jet airliners for BEA, 88
— Aircommuter airliner project (Lockheed),
26
— Argosy freighter, roller conveyor for (Arm
strong Whitworth), 170
— Britannic 3A freighter, 308
— Britannic SC5 freighter, 308
— Cabins, cooling, Godfrey CA-7 Mk 5 cold
air unit for, 215
— Caribou transport (de Havilland (Canada)),
559
Transport, for US Army, 660
— Carrier Enterprise, reactors under test for,
380
Hermes, description of, 609
Ocean, conversion to exhibition ship, 111 Victorious, 327
— Civil, development of, 308
— Comet airliner for BEA, 549 Airliners for Misrair, 627
— Comet 4 airliner (de Havilland), 215 Airliner with air-circulation ovens (GEC
Ltd.), 295
— — Airliner, radome for, 323
— Constructors, British, Society of. See
Society of British
— Control in London Control Zone, discus
sion in Parliament, 531
— Convair 600 jet freight-passenger liner, 396
— Coronado jet freight-passenger liners for
Swissair and SAS, 396
— Curtiss pusher biplane (1912), replica of, 107
— De-icing on Electra airliner, 582
— Delta-wing (Nord-Aviation), 519
— DHI21 jet airliner, design modifications, 25
— Dornier D027 (Blackburn Aircraft), 519
— Electra airliner, ice protection on, 582
— Electrical engineering, by G. G. Wake
field (book), 134
— Engines, Blackburn, 645 Double Scorpion rocket, 107 Leonides in Hovercraft (Alvis), 202 ?—? — Model, Frog 349, 672
Orpheus turbojet, for Japan, 627 Orpheus turbojet, manufacture by
Hindustan Aircraft, 605
Orpheus turbojet, serviceability record in Fiat G91 fighters, 31
at Science Museum, 409 Thor BT-I ram jet (Bristol Siddeley), 391 Tool kit for (Rolls-Royce, Ltd.), 169 Upper atmosphere, by Dr. W. F. Hilton, 89
for VTOL aircraft, by H. Pearson, 584 Aircraft and Equipment News, Reed’s, 257
— Exhibits in aeronautical collection at
Science Museum, 408
— at Farnborough Show, 202-203
— Fiat G9I fighter, serviceability record, 31
— Flying Bedstead VTOL, 190
— Fuselage, section exhibit at Science Museum,
409
— Glider, miniature barograph for recording
height (Firth Cleveland Instruments), 262
— Helicopter, for ambulance pods, 405
— — for Armed Forces, 667
Bristol 192 twin-engined tandem-rotor, 519
for India, 563 Noise, 678 Saunders-Roe P531, with Blackburn
A129 free-turbine engine, 295
3-way lift, designs for (Westland Aircraft), 359
Turbine-engined Sikorski S62, 391
— Hiller XROE-1 Rotocycle (Saunders-Roe),
519
— Hovercraft at Farnborough Show, 202 in US, discussion in Parliament on, 499
— IL-18 turboprop airliner, Russian, 519
— Industry, civil aircraft developments in, 308 Company mergers in, 26
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Aircraft industry, exports of, 494
French, progress and sales boosting in, 364
Position and prospects of, 661
Position and prospects of, E. Bowyer on, 238
Position and prospects of, discussion in Parliament on, 499
Position and prospects of, trade union deputation on, 238
Redundancy in, 89
• Research and development plea, by Lord Brabazon. 83
Trade union deputation on, 238
— Jet airliners, crews of, 635
Airliners, fares dispute on, 367
Airliners, insurance of, 598
Noise suppression of, 397
Noise suppression nozzle for, 453
— •—• Provost trainer, fatigue loadings study
on, 512. See LETTER, 631
Thrust reversal “ eyelids ” for, 453 “ Yorkshire ” 10,000 gal aviation fuellers for (AEC), 263
— JetStar jet transport, chemical milling
system for, 30
— L-60 Brigadyr, for agricultural use, 357
— Landing. See Landing
— Limocopter helicopter project (Lockheed),
26
— Lockheed Electra airliner (KLM), 519
— Man-powered (T. R F. Nonweiler), 559
Aircraft Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Airco DH-121 jet airliners for BEA, 88
— Models, reinforced plastics for, 420
at Science Museum, 409
Silver Streak diesel engine for, 29
— Noise, discussion in Parliament, 531
?— Piaggio P.166 for executives, 152
— Prospector, for agricultural use (Lancashire
Aircraft), 357
— Refuelling pack, Mk 20, 215
Pack, Mk 20, ram air turbine drive of (Flight Refuelling Ltd.), 295
— Rolling, response in, by W. J. G. Pinsker,
512
— Rotodyne VTO airliner as “ flying crane,”
23
VTO airliner at Farnborough Show, 202 VTO airliner, government aid for, 152
— SCI VTO research, 190
VTO research, at Farnborough Show, 202
VTOL research, autostabiliser system, 192
VTOL research, landing gear, 192
VTOL research, stabilisation system, 191; simulation testing, 191; control engineering for, 192
— SE5A fighter, 215
—- Short take-off and landing, future of, by H. G. Conway, 189
— Sikorsky S-60 crane helicopter, 655
— S. O. Djinn helicopter for agricultural use,
358
— Structures, bonded (book), 4
— ?— Exhibits at Science Museum, 409
•—Supersonic airliner, UK-US collaboration urged, 25
— Survey, 505
— Tipsy Nipper ultra-light (Fairey Group), 519
— Turbo-jet airliners at London Airport, 635
— Undercarriage gear at Science Museum, 409
— Vertical take-off, future of, by H. G. Con
way, 189
Take-off and landing, engines for, by H. Pearson, 584
Take-off and landing, future of, by H. G. Conway, 189
— Vertol 107 twin-turbine helicopter, 519
— Victor, Handley Page, undercarriage for,
107
— Wessex, helicopters for India, 563
— Westminster helicopter for ambulance pods,
405
— Whirlwind helicopters for Queen’s Flight
(Westland), 159
— Wing flutter, by E. G. Broadbent, 512
Section exhibit at Science Museum, 409
— Workmaster, for agricultural use (Auster),
357
— X-15 research, titanium in, 480
— X15 rocket, first flight of, 25
— See also Aeronautics
Airheating, Ltd., Major oil-fired air heater, 369 Airlines fares dispute, 367
— Pilots national training college, 57
Airliner. See Aircraft
Airmec Vero drilling machine, turret head, with tape control (Catmur Machine Tool Corp.), 602
Airport, Arlanda, radar for, 688
— Croydon, closure of, 373
— Gatwick, telecommunications establishment
at, 281
— Hong Kong, lighting at (GEC), 297
— Kai Tak, lighting at (GEC), 297
— London, Decca Airway Amber One from, 88
Exhibition site proposal near, 367
? Fog disposal at, 635
Turbo-jet airliners at, 635
— Rangotoi, Wellington, use of SRE and
PAR, 159
Airtrain monorail project (Lockheed), 26
Airway, Decca Amber One, from London Airport, 88
Airwork Services Training Ltd., School of Aeronautical Engineering transfer, 245
Ajax process, open-hearth furnace conversion, 31
Al-Fin process for Pontiac lightweight wheelbrake drum, 612
Alarm, temperature, Temp-O-Larm (Walter Kidde Co. Ltd.), 569
Albi-R fire retardent coating (trade publication), 586
Albi-Willesden Ltd., Albi-R fire retardent coating (trade publication), 586
Albion Chiefton motor truck chassis, 659 Albrecht, J. D., reflector for BR-2 reactor, 639 Albright and Wilson Ltd., fireproof polyester glass laminates, 103
Albu, A., review of Factories and Plant, 211; biographical note, 212
Albu, C. J., review on Ten Miles High Two Miles Deep, 449; biographical note, 450; review of Turbines, 649; review of Internal Combustion Engines, 649; review of More Power to You, 649; review of Six Great Engineers, 649; review of BOAC Book of Flight, 649; review of Boys’ Book of Flight, 649; biographical note, 650
Alco Products (USA), production agreement with Associated Electrical Industries, 477
Alden, B. M., on science teaching, 567-568 Aiderton Construction Co. Ltd., Chiswick flyover, 315
Alexander Engineering Co., Ltd., bolt-on nuts for motor-car wheels, 612
Alexander, Fergusson and Co. Ltd., polyethylene discs for paint skin prevention, 111
Alfven waves in plasmas, 407 Alkali-aggregate interaction, by F. E. Jones and R. D. Tarleton (book), 70, 102
Allan, W. N., irrigation control of Nile, 507 Allen, Prof. D. N. de G. on solution of partial differential equations by relaxation on an electronic computer, 280
Allen, Edgar, and Co. Ltd., T. S. Eliot’s visit to, 120; 40th anniversary of, 120; staff news, 120; Edgar Allen News, 120
Allen Fairhead, factory for Atlas Copco (Great Britain) Ltd., 88
Allen, H. G., retirement of, 33
Allen, P. W., and Co., safety periscope, 633; portable fluorescent light, 666
Allen, W. A., review of International Review of Aluminium in Modern Architecture, 1958, 513-514; biographical note, 514; review of Materials and Methods of Architectural Construction, 553; biographical note, 554
Allen, W. G., on Atkinson Lorries Ltd., 381
Allen, W. G., and Sons (Tipton) Ltd., Vial mine car tipping system, 54
Allen, W. H., Sons and Co. Ltd., retirement of H. G. Allen, 33; gearbox for Brave Borderer, 389
Alley and Maclellan (Polmadie) Ltd., air compressors for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459
Allibone, Dr. T. E., atomic energy lectures, 639 Allied Chemical Corp., nylon type 6, 104; nylon cord for tyres, 483
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Ltd., purchase of ACF Reactor Office, 283
Alloy, Light. See Light alloy
— Sheet, and nitrile rubber, laminate of (Fire
proof Tanks Ltd.), 218
— Titanium, 230 and 260 (ICI), 260
— See also under specific type of alloy
Allscott thermocouple selector for data sampling (James Scott and Co.), 656
Allweather Paints Ltd., Pitan metallic lead primer, 219
Alpha-active materials, equipment for obtaining X-ray diffraction photographs of, by R. W. M. D’Eye, I. F. Ferguson, and R. S. Street (publication), 164
— Dinghy, plastics hulls for (Bristol Aircraft
Ltd.), 355
— Polyurethane foam for, 104
— Emitters, monitoring of effluent for, 36
— Particle induced combination of nitrogen
and oxygen, 36
— Thermonuclear device in operation, 407 Alpine sports car (Sunbeam), by G. Wilkins, 55 Alsthom single motor bogie, 59
Alternator, brushless (Macfarlane Engineering Co. Ltd.), 392
— Sets, diesel, for Air Ministry (Ruston &
Hornsby Ltd.), 622
— Turbo, for Willington A power station, 281
— See also Generator; Turbo
Altitude warning device (Mechanism Ltd.), 29 Aluminium alloy for fuelling and dumping unit for rocket propellent (Saunders-Roe (Anglesey) Ltd.), 491
Sheets, Noral B51SWP, for van body (Northern Aluminium),
and steel hatchway Glengarnock, 443
Van body (Northern
Ltd.), 216
— Busbar jointing, Kynal (trade publication),
290
— Canal drawbridge over Birmingham-Oxford
canal at Banbury (Northern Aluminium Co. Ltd.), 251
Aluminium Co. of America, collaboration with ICI, 33; lateral impact extrustion process, 594; Surinam development project, 663
— Construction, course on (Aluminium
Development Association), 377
Aluminium Corp., Golden Jubilee, 420; activities of, 420
— Development Association, course on con
struction in aluminium and its alloys, 377; aluminium street lighting column competition, 560
— Drain pipes and guttering, 80
— Foil, for Foylin insulation board, 396
Winding for Balarc—175 welding transformer, 560
— Lamp standard competition, 560
— Main load bearing structure of Brave
Borderer, 389
— in modern architecture, international re
view, 1958 (review), 513
— Motor car engine, V-8 (Rolls-Royce), 275
— Pipes, friction coefficients in, by J. S.
Campbell and A. Brebner, 61
— Rod manufacture in Ireland, 313
—? Roofs, prefabricated steel, for small buildings (Coseley Buildings Ltd.), 61
— Roofing sheet, interlocking. Lockroll
(British Aluminium), 652
— Sheet for shipyard prefabrication shops, 281
— Slabs, mechanical handling devices for, at
Northern Aluminium Co., 266
— See also Bronze, nickel-aluminium
Alvarez proton accelerator as injector for Nimrod proton synchrotron, 342
Alvis Leonides engine in Hovercraft, 202 Amalgamated Engineering Union, in Morris paint shop workers’ dispute, 89 ; Communists on executive, 245; wage claim submitted, 270; national executive voting figures, 277
Amar Gauge Tool Co. Ltd., Accuread micrometer height gauge, 634
Amateur Tape Recording Magazine, 373
Amber Chemical Co., Ambersil Formula 1 silicone fluid, 556; Electrospray silicone antitracting fluid, 588
Ambersil Formula 1 silicone fluid, 556 Ambulance pods with helicopter, 405 America. See North America; United States American Documentation, note on, 5
— European Lines N.V., contract for liner to
Verolme United Shipyards, 445
American Hydrotherm Co., collaboration with Lockhead, 283
— Institute of Physics, Soviet physics periodi
cals, 353
— Institute of Steel Construction, highway
bridge design
— Investment in I
try, by J. H. 1
American Latex filling, 483
— Newcomen Society, Newcomen address on
history of United Aircraft Corp., by H. M. Horner, 33
— Nuclear Society, coordinated meetings with
Atomic Industrial Forum, 283; 1959
Winter Meeting, 606, 638
— Polymer Research Institute, synthesizing
high strength polymers, 292
American Ship Building Co., annual statement, 381
— Society of Mechanical Engineers, ceramics
from glass, by S. D. Stookey, 41; annual review of heat transfer, 69
for Testing Materials, 1958 Book of Standards, parts 5, 6, 8 (book), 134; Index to the Literature on Spectrochemical Analysis, 385; Symposium on basic mechanisms of fatigue, 417; supplement to bibliography of spectrophotometric methods of analysis for inorganic ions, 417
— See also United States
Amigo Machine Co. Ltd., Blowmaster blow moulding machine for plastics containers, 85
Ammeter, short-scale switchboard, 107 Ammonia for nitrogen fertiliser production (Fisons), 217
Amos, S. W., on principles of transistor circuits (review), 321-322
Ampex Corp., distributors in US for Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd., and English Electric Valve Co. Ltd., 112
Amplivox noise-cancelling microphone on helmet, 487
Anaconda Wire and Cable Co., a.c. cable testing set for (Ferranti), 349
Anadara tanker, 139
Analogue computer. See Computer
— Electrical network analyser as, 319 Analyser, network, electrical, variable frequency, ERA, 319
— Valve, type U-61B (Metrix Instruments
Ltd.), 273
Analysis, electromagnetic, in aerial surveying, 504
— of impurities in helium, 8
— Linear, programming of force method, by
J. C. de C. Henderson, A. D. Edwards and J. Munroe, 280
of spacial structures by H. Tottenham, 280
— of linear systems, by D. Cheng (book), 554
— Matrix, of fuselages and the digital com
puter, by Prof. J. H. Argyris, 280
— Plastic, of structures, by P. G. Hodge, Jr.
(review), 553-554
— Spectrochemical, index to literature on
(ASTM), 385
— Spectrophotometric methods, for inorganic
ions, bibliography of, 417
— Strain. See Strain
— Stress. See Stress
— of thorium-magnesium alloys, 35
Anchor Chemical Co., Cycolac copolymer, 103 Anchor grip, spiral, for prestressed concrete (Cable Covers Ltd.), 411
Anchorage, spiral, for prestressed concrete (Cable Covers Ltd.), 411
Anderson, Sir C., on design policy in industry, 30
Anderson, Prof. J. S., appointment as director, NCL, 32
Anderston Clyde (Midlands) Ltd., Move-on self-propelled staging, 400
Anderton Shearer machines. Coal Winner conversion unit for (N. J. Muschamp), 53
Andre Rubber Co., rubber bearings for Chiswick flyover, 315
Andrew Air Conditioning Ltd., plenum plants for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459
Andrew, R. P., Federation Internationale de la Precontrainte, Berlin, 1958; Papers (book), 418; on Third congress of Federation Internationale de la Precontrainte (book). Correction, 514; on the proceedings of a symposium on the strength of concrete structures (review), 554
Andrews, A. R., on renewing book loans, 19 Andytap tapping and reaming machine (Monks and Crane), 52
Anechoic chamber (Acoustic Research Station), 487
for noise research, by G. Berry, 65 Anger, Dr. G., beam tables (review), 5 Angle grinder (Black and Decker), 338 Anglia motor car (Ford), 295, 316, 372 Car, heater for (Ford), 444 Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference (New York), engines for VTOL aircraft, by H. Pearson, 584
Anhydrite, 1,000,000-ton production at Long Meg mine, Langwathby, 136
Animal feeding stuffs, Mikro-Pulsaire bag filter collector foi recovery after grinding (Pulverising Machinery Ltd.), 116
— in space research, 155
Annals of Occupational Hygiene, 321 Annealing furnace. See Furnace Antarctic bases, 641
— Research, 640
— Trans-, Expedition, 640 Antarctica, air transport to 640
— Mineral deposits, 641
— Surveying for mineral deposits, 505
Antarctica, vehicles for use in, 641 Anthracene fission decomposition, evolved in, 36
Anti-freezes, ASTM standards (book), Mixtures for motor vehicles, 619 for motor car radiators, 444 Anti-matter, particles of, 310
Anti-neutrino cross-sections, by R. E. Carter et al., 311
Experiments on, by F. Reines and C. L. Cowan, Jr., 311
Anti-tracking fluid. Electrospray, 588 Anvoner, S., on solution of problems in theory of machines (review), 290
Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co., Ajax process, open-hearth furnace conversion, 31; sheet steel piling made for Suez, 160; extension of section mills for rolling universal beams, 251
Apprentices in building industry, 599
— Survey of, IWS, 277
— Tax relief for firms employing, 27 Apprenticeship, Engineering Industries Group
scheme, 335
— Unemployment and, 153
Apwar Edgefinder for setting-up work (A. P. Warren Ltd.), 402
Aquifers, water supply from, 474
Arab Republic, United, agreement with Sudan for sharing of Nile waters, 507
Arabic, catalogue in (GEC), 79
Araldite epoxy resins (trade publication), 290
— Plastic, X83/8 for fume duct at National
Smelting Co. (CIBA), 292
Arc-furnace. See Furnace, electric
— Welding. See Welding
Archdale, James, and Co. Ltd., vertical milling machine (trade publication), 102
Architects, naval. See Naval architects
— Relation with engineer, 525, 543, 675
— Responsibility of, by E. D. Jefferiss Mathews
543. See LETTER, 599
Architectural construction, materials and methods of, by H. Parker, C. M. Gay and J. W. McGuire (review), 553
Architecture, concrete, in Scandinavia, 410
— Modern, aluminium in, international review
of, 1958 (review), 513
Ardam monorail camera, use of Tesamoll urethane plastics foams with, 392
Ardrox 381 marking-off ink (Brent Chemical Products), 516
Argalin electrolytic treatment for protection of silver against tarnish (Roto-Finish), 356 Argentina, locomotive building programme, 56
— Power survey, 271
Argentine State Railways, diesel-electric railways for (Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns), 56; diesel-electric locomotives for (English Electric Co., Ltd.), 456
Argonaut atomic reactor, 471
— Reactor for Siemens Schuckertwerke, 575 Argonne National Laboratory, formation of
International Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering, 201; Dr. K. S. Singwi appointed research associate, 201; proton synchrotron, 310, 311, 342; atmospheric carbon 14 and tritium content, 439; atomic fuel fabrication plant, 502; fast reactor with “ bomb ” control method, 503; Fast Source-Reactor criticality, 503; research on hydrogen embrittlement in steel, 516; fast breeder reactor development, 607 Argosy freighter aircraft, roller conveyor for (Armstrong Whitworth), 170
Argus nuclear explosion experiment, 438 Argyris, Prof. J. H., on matrix analysis of fuselages and the digital computer, 280 Arlanda airport, radar for, 688
Armature tester, Disa Armascope (B and K Laboratories), 86
Armfield Hydraulic Engineering Co., Ltd., Maxiflow mobile axial
Arms, sales abroad, 174 Armstrong cylinder honer International), 86
— H2 cylinder honing
Products International Ltd.), 633 Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire saloon car, 423
Armstrong Whitworth, Sir W. G. (Aircraft) Ltd., manned space vehicle projects, 155; roller conveyor for Argosy freighter aircraft, 170
Army staff officers, science courses for, 153 Aromatic hydrocarbons, ASTM standards (book), 134
Arthur D. Little Research Institute, wood stabilisation by chemical reaction, 38 Artists, Aviation, Society of. See Society Arts, Royal Society of. See Royal Society Asbestolux board for bonding with stainless steel cladding for chemical laboratory of S. Fox and Co. Ltd., 475
— Insulation board of asbestos fibre bonded
with silica, 396
Asbestos-based material sprayed on ceilings and walls, Stilbestos, 492
— Fibre bonded with silica for Asbestolux
insulation board, 396
Filled resins for caulking, 451
ASEA, atomic energy activities, 123;
Research, journal, 353 Asea Research, journal, 353 Ash extractor, automatic, for chain stokers (Riley (IC) Products Ltd.),
— Fuel, sintered pulverised, for lightweight
aggregate for concrete (Lytag Ltd.), 475 Ashmore, Benson, Pease and Co. Ltd., activities of, 78; new South Works of, 78; machine shops of South Works, 78; machining and assembly work, 78; Josephine blast furnace at Ford Motor Co., 249; No. 5 blast furnace for Steel Co. of Wales, 249; blast furnace for Stewarts and Lloyds, Bilston, 249; new organisstion of, 445
Ashorne Hill, BISF management courses, 17 Ashton-Young Engineering Development Co.
Ltd., aluminium foil transformer windings, 560
Asia, Economic Commission for. See Economic Commission for
— Link with North America by dam across
Bering Straits, plans for, 411
Asia Publishing House, catalogue of books from India, 513
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Aslib, conference on presentation and interpretation of technical information, 321; conference on improved techniques in building industry, 475; conference on information in the building industry, preliminary notice, 553
— Engineering Group, tour of Lyons bakeries,
481
Aslin, E. J., on modern copying techniques for the drawing office (book), 322
Asphalt, hot-rolled, Blaw-Knox Express paver for laying, 61
—? Plant, Good-Win mobile (Goodwin Barsby and Co. Ltd.), 273
— Roads, vehicle wear tests on, 23
Assam, new oil pipeline for (Stewarts and Lloyds), 119
Associated Automation Ltd., high-speed tape reader, 337; postal vending suite, 655
Associated British Engineering Ltd., position and prospects of, 308
Associated Electrical Industries Ltd., annual report on reorganisation of, 33; product divisions of, 33; riding carriages, exhibitions and research projects 471; production Products (USA), system for wave-maker at Ship Hydrodynamics Laboratory, 518; overseas trading companies, 524; turbine generator units for West Thurrock power station, 524; germanium rectifiers in Mull of Kintyre maintenance ship, 621. See also MERLIN reactor
Associated Electrical Industries (Manchester) Ltd., new name for Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical, 581
Associated Electrical Industries (Rugby) Ltd., new name for British Thomson-Houston, 581
Associated Ltd., Swan,
Associated
Ltd., barges for cement transport, 172 Associated Television, purchase of Vauxhall site, 381
Association of British Aero Clubs, hire purchase for flying training, 669
— of Engineering and Shipbuilding Draughts
men, drop forging die design (book), 40
— of Short-Circuit Testing Authorities, J. R.
Wilkinson appointed deputy chairman, 33 —- of Supervising Electrical Engineers, change in examination syllabus, 669
AST A. See Association of Short-Circuit
Testing Authorities
ASTM Standards. See American Society for Testing Materials
Aston Martin DB4GT motor car (David Brown), 423
Astronautical Congress, International, 114, 154
— Federation, See International Astronautical
Federation
Astronautics and Aviation, World Directory of, 1959, Interavia ABC (book), 258
— Decimal classification of (International
Astronautical Federation), 133
— International academy of, 194 Astronomical clock for Financial Times
offices, 557
Aswan High Dam, construction to begin, 30 Dam, Russian recommendations on, 25 A. T. and E. (Wigan) Ltd., underground train signalling system, 54
Athlone Fellowship Scheme, 277
Atkins, Capt. H, F., on steam-cooled reactor system for ship propulsion, 8, 147, 148. See also 1. See also LETTERS, 83, 239
Atkinson Lorries (Holdings) Ltd., annual report, 381
Atlantean double-deck motor coach, 623 Atlantic. See also Transatlantic
Atlas Copco (Great Britain) Ltd., new factory at Hemel Hempstead, 88
Atlas digital computer, development of (Ferranti), 239
Atlas Engineering Co., wheel truing machine, 31
Atlas Stone Co., reinforced concrete glazing unit, 651
Atmospheres, controlled
258
— Radioactivity in. See
— Upper. See Upper Atmospheric pollution.
Clean air; Smoke
Atomenergi AB, uranium refining plant, 283 Atomic absorption spectroscopy equipment (Hilger and Watts Ltd.), 196
— Clock for orbiting satellite (Hughes Air
craft Co.), 255
Elements, uranium tubular, 502
— Energy agreements with Canada, discussion
in Parliament, 531
Amendment bill. South African, 283
Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., agreement with Euratom, 378; cancer treatment machines for China, 379; Manitoba research centre, 379; radioactive waste disposal, 535
— Energy Commission (Sweden), organisation
of, 122
Consortia, French, 283 Consortia, Portuguese, 283 Consortia, Spain, 122 Consortia, Sud-Atome, 639 Consortia, Sweden, 123 ?—- — Consortia, Swiss, 282, 283 Consortium, in Holland, 283 Courses in OEEC countries, 205 Decline and fall in, 670 Electricity supply capacity, 311 Forecast, by Prof. J. M. Kay, 671 Industry, position and prospects of, 81 Insurance, 62, 63
Insurance conference, 380
Lectures, Dr. T. E. Allibone, 639
in medicine. Royal Marsden Hospital project, 535
— — Peaceful Uses of, 2nd International
Conference on (Geneva), publication of proceedings of, 247
Production in Europe, 1958-65, estimates of, 95
Atomic energy programme, British, 81
Programme, Canada, 378
Programme, Dominican Republic, 439 Programmes, Peru, 122
Programme, Rumania, 122
Programme, Spain, 122
Programme, Sweden, 122
Programme, Switzerland, 732 Programme, Thailand, 282
— ?—? Programme, Uruguay, 282 Programme, Venezuela, 282 Programmes, world, 122, 282 Research centre, Manitoba, 379
Research Establishment, equipment for obtaining X-ray diffraction photographs of alpha active materials (publication), by R. W. M. D’Eye, 1. F. Ferguson, and R. S. Street, 164; turret glove box, 439; radiation protection course, 439; dust collector at (Dallow Lambert), 625
Safety, 62, 63
Security control convention, OEEC, 283 in Western Germany, 671
Workshops for librarians, 535
— Engineering firms, decline and fall of, 670
— Explosions. See Explosions
— Forum, German, formation of, 283
— Fuel canning, beryllium, 311 Canning requirements, 156 Canning, stainless steel, 311
Chemical processing of. See European Company for Chemical Processing
Complementary use of, 471 Cost of, 162, 502
Costs of MGCR reactor, 204 Costs for OCDRE reactor, 378
Developments, 638
Dispersion,type, stability of, 503 Elements, annealing furnace for (Birlec), 276
Element can, niobium-zirconium, 535 Element, codissolution of cladding and core material, 575
Elements, commercial fabrication of, 575 Element, Daniels-Boyd reactor, 157 Element detection gear, 639
Element fabrication for BR-2 reactor, 502 Element failure rate at Calder Hall, 439 Element for gas-cooled intermediatetemperature reactor (Oak Ridge), 157
Elements, homogeneous, for pebble-bed reactor, 157
Elements, hyperfine flux structure calculation by computer, 439
Element for pebble-bed reactor (Brown, Boveri-Krupp), 156
Element plant, Rolls-Royce, 503
Element, plutonium and uranium oxide, 123
Elements, sawing of, 575
Elements, shear for, Hanford, 575
Elements for steam-cooled marine reactor (Vickers), 9
Elements, technology of, 638
Elements, ultrasonic testing of, 502
Element, uranium oxide, fabrication at Chalk River, 407
Elements, uranium oxide powder, sinterability of, 502
Fabrication plant, Argonne, 502
Fabrication plant, Trombay, 503
Handling, self-contained, 380
Homogeneous carbon compacts containing uranium and thorium, 158
for icebreaker Lenin, 535
Liquid, 638
Liquid metal, solvent extraction for, 574 for organic cooled reactors, 638
Plutonium as, Canadian experience, 379 Plutonium ceramics as, 96
Processing plants and projects, 574 Reprocessing costs, 574
Reprocessing plant projects, 574
Reprocessing by pyrometallurgical methods, 574
Slurry, corrosion rate of, 503
Slurry, duffusion of fission fragments in, 7
Slurry, particle size estimation for, 7 Slurry, pumpability of, 503
Storage in reactor pressure vessel, 379 Testing, 638
Tubes, sintered uranium oxide and stainless steel, 502
Uranium oxide as, 638
— Industrial Forum, international nuclear
liability (report), 63; Atomic Industry Directory (1959), 205; coordinated meetings with Atomic Nuclear Society, 283
— Industry Directory of Products, Equipment
and Services (1959), 205
— Legislation in Europe, study of, by K.
Wolff and F. Schmid (review), 322
— Power in Australia, plans for, 439 Bibliography, 8
Atomic Power Constructions Ltd,, firms comprising, 62; Trawsfynydd atomic power station contract, 62; collaboration with GEC-Simon Carves, 283
Costs in Canada, 378
Effect on interconnected electricity supply systems, 90
in India, 607
— ?—Plant, gas-turbine, M-1 (Aerojet-
General), 638
Plants, Italian, 283
Plant, military field, USAEC contract for Combustion Engineering, 439
Plant, military, for remote installations, USAEC contract to Kaiser Engineers, 439 Plant, SSNPP, 671
Plant with superheated steam reactor, Russian, 123
— — Programme, Europe. See LETTER, 52 Station, Bal3cock-Wilcox 100 MW, 247 Stations, break-even point, 96
Station, Calder Hall, fuel element failure rate, 439
Station, Candu, progress of, 379
Station, Candu, site for, 607
Station capacities, 311
Stations, CEGB’s eventual building control oG 96
Station, costs of, by F. H. S. Brown and J. Henderson, 96
Stations, cost reductions for, 471
Atomic power station, Dounreay, 499
Station, Dungeness, approval for, 62 Station for East Germany, 535
Station, Enrico Fermi, steam generating plant for, 283
Station, Geertruidenberg, cancellation of, 639
Station, Hinkley Point, crane for, 75_ Station, Station,
reactor vessels, 49(3
Station, Hunterston, X-ray examination of welds, 490
Stations, hydraulic damper for gas ducting, 590
Station for India, 123
Station, pressurised-water 16-5 MW USAEC, 283
Stations, progress on, by F. H. S. Brown and J. Henderson, 96
Station for Scotland, discussion on, 28 Station, SENN, 247
Station, Shippingport, accident in, 639
Stations, siting of, by Sir C. Hinton, 599
Station, Tokai Mura, progress on, 671 Station, Trawsfynydd, civil engineering work, 30
Station, Trawsfynydd, details of, 62 in US seven year plan, 671
— Propulsion of aircraft carrier Enterprise,
reactors under test for, 380
of cargo liners, 379
for icebreaker Lenin, 246
of icebreaker Lenin, atomic fuel for, 535
of merchant ship Savannah, 246
of rockets, by O. H. Wyatt, 155
of ships, accident prevention in, 246
of ships, comment on, 365
of ships, discussion in Parliament, 467, 571, 635
of ships, Euratom study of, 64
-of ships, gas-turbine cycles for, 535 of ships, position and prospects of, 246 of ships, radioactive waste disposal in, 535 of ships, safety regulations for, 380 of ships. Yarrow studies on, 471
of submarine Dreadnought, discussion in Parliament on, 571
of submarine ore-carrier Moby Dick, 247 of submarine Skipiack, 167
Swedish research, 123
of tanker, cost of analysis of, 284
— Reactor, advanced gas cooled, CEGB
project, 331
Advanced gas-cooled, information exchange on, 607
advanced pressurised water, 606
Argonaut, 471
Argonaut, for Siemens Schuckertwerke, 575
Argonne Fast Source-Reactor, criticality in, 503
BEPO, radioactivity of coolant air, 6 Boiling sulphur cooled, 64
? Boiling-water, 606
Boiling-water, AKK project, 283
? Boiling-water, containment of, 205
Boiling-water, cost comparison of, 638 Boiling-water, Dresden, commissioning trials, 503
Boiling-water, natural circulation, Knoll’s study of, 380
Boiling-water, Senn, 607
Boiling-water, for ship propulsion, 83, 607
BR-2, beryllium reflector for, 639 BR-2, containment shells tested, 471 BR-2, fuel element fabrication for, 502 BR-3, containment shells tested, 471
?— — Bradwell, top dome and thermal shield for, 655
British, comment on, 81
in Canada, 378
Carbon-dioxide cooled graphite-moderated, MGCR, 204
Carbon-dioxide cooled light-water moderated, MGCR, 204
Carbon-dioxide cooled zirconiumhydride moderated, MGCR, 204
Containment, 156
Control rod, reactivity control by single, 6 Control systems, NPD and NRX, 378 Coolant gas, carbon 14, 36
Cores, neutron passage in, effect of holes, 7
Core, system for neutron flux and fuel distribution information, 448
Costs comparison, 606
— —? Cost-output relation for all types, 158
Coupled thermal-fast, superheating in, 638 Czech, completion of, 283
Daniels-Boyd, active gas circuit in, 157 Development programme of UKAEA, 365
DIMPLE, neutron flux distributions in loops, 7-8
for Dominican Republic, 439
? Dragon, 96
— — Dragon, meeting on (Winfrith), 123 EDF-1, Chinon, welding delay at, 607 Engineering, bibliography, 8
? Engineering, reports on, 8
Enriched uranium-oxide boiling-water, SENN, 247
Eureka facility, 671
Fast, BR-2, details of, 63
Fast breeder, Argonne, 607
Fast breeder, “ bomb ” method of control, Argonne, 503
Fast breeder, Dounreay, criticality in, 503 Fast breeder, Dounreay, delay of, 380 Fast breeder, Dounreay, operation commenced, 64
Fast, complementary with high-temperature gas-cooled type, 471
Fast, Russian, 63
Flowable Solids, 503
— — G-3, critical (Marcoule), 123
Gas circulator drive, 205
gas-cooled, 156. See LETTERS, 335, 368, 632
Gas-cooled graphite-moderated, for ship propulsion (GEC-Simon Carves), 284
Gas-cooled heavy-water-moderated pressure-tube (General Nuclear ~ 157
Atomic reactor, gas-cooled intermediate-temperature (Oak Ridge), 157
Gas-cooled, pressure-vessel size trend, 158
Gas-cooled, rebellion against policy of, 1 Gas-cooled, references to, 158
Gas-cooled, for ships, land based versions (GEC), 158
Gas-cooled, USAEC, civil engineering contractor appointed, 380
Gas-cooled, with 20 year life without refuelling, 343
Gas-turbine applications, 204
Graphite-moderated boiling-sulphur (Aerojet-General Nucleonics), 205
Graphite-moderated, earthquake proofing (GEC), 471
Graphite-moderated gas-cooled, for ship propulsion (GEC), 83
Graphite-moderated, for production of special materials (USAEC), 123
Graphite-moderated, reports on, 6
Halden, 95
Halden, criticality achieved, 64
HAZEL, 7
Heat for chemical processes, 205
Heavy-water,for Canada, 471
Heavy-water moderated, 638
Heavy-water moderated, in Canada, 378 Heavy-water moderated, for Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Zurich, 282
Helium-cooled graphite-moderated MGCR, 204
High-temperature gas-cooled, complementary with fast type, 471
High-temperature helium-cooled (High Temperature Reactor Development Associates), 158
High-temperature systems, 156
Homogeneous, reports on, 7
in Italy, 503
Jason (Hawker Siddeley), 380
LAMPRE, work suspended on, 64
LAMPRE-1, progress on, 64
LAPRE-2, work suspended on, 64
for Lenin icebreaker, servicing of, 247
LIDO, engineering and physics design, 7 Light-water-moderated, physics of, bibliography, 7
Liquid fluidised-bed, experiments on, 503 Liquid fluidised-bed, lubricant addition to moderator, 503
Liquid fuelled, 638
Liquid-sodium-cooled, heavy-watermoderated, USAEC work suspended, 64
Marine, discussion in Parliament on, 467 Marine Gas Cooled moderator-coolant combinations for (General Dynamics), 204 Materials manuals, 205
for medical research, Walter Reed centre, 205
— — MERLIN, criticality achieved, 64
MERLIN, features of, 64
MERLIN, official opening of, 471
Moderator, gamma heating from uranium fuel rods, 6
Natural-uranium heavy-water system, Swedish-Canadian cooperation, 283
Nestor, neutron source, 607
Nestor, for Winfrith Heath, 575
Nimrod, magnet sections for, 575
NPD-2, progress of, 379
NRU, Chalk River, 378
in OEEC countries, 95
— — OMRE, moderator behaviour in, 380
—? ?—? Optimised pressurised, cost comparison
of, 638
? Organic-cooled, 606
— — Organic-cooled, cost comparison of, 638
?—? — Organic-cooled, fuel systems for, 638 Organic-cooled heavy-water moderated
(OCDRE), 378. See Correction, 407
Organic-liquid-moderated, approach to critical experiments, 6
Organic liquid moderated and cooled,for ship propulsion, 83
Organic-moderated and cooled, for ship propulsion, 607
Organic-moderated and cooled, with thermoelectric generator, economics of, 161
Organic-moderated, heating and cooling, 380
Organic-moderated, with inverted control rods, 380
?—? — Organic-moderated, reports on, 6
Organic-moderated, with self-contained fuel handling, 380
Organic-moderated, for ship propulsion, 380
Organic-moderated, for ship propulsion, by E. C. B. Corlett and E. P. Hawthorn, 379
Organic-moderated, thermoelectric generator for use with, 131
Organic moderators, density of potential, 6
— -Pebble-bed (Brown, Boveri-Krupp), 156
— — Pebble-bed, control system, 156
? Pebble-bed, coolant for, 157
Pebble-bed, core assembly and primary circuit, 157
Pebble-bed, fission product diffusion in, 156
Pebble-bed, heat transfer in, 156
Pebble-bed, high density graphite for, 157 Pebble-bed, homogeneous fuel for, 157
— — PEG, at Electrama Exhibition, 59
Physics, reports on, 7
?—? — PIPPA, declassified report on, 6
Pressure tube, heat losses to moderator of, 535
Pressure-tube water, for Spain, 283
Pressurised-light-water (Martin-Nuclear), 502
Pressurised-water, containment of, 205 Pressurised-water, Enrico Fermi, 283 Pressurised-water, Russian, 123
Pressurised-water, for ship propulsion, 83 Pressurised-water, in Skipjack submarine, 167
Pulsed, using accelerator source, 471
— ?— RO, R2 and R2-0, Studvik, 639
R-3/Adam project, 123
R-4/Eve project, 123
R-4/Eve ,tenders invited for, 283
Replacement for remote areas, 343
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Atomic reactor, safety at sea, 204
for Savannah merchant ship, 246
for Savannah merchant ship, servicing barge for, 247
School, Chalk River, 379
Shielding. See Shielding for ship propulsion, 83, 365
for ship propulsion, Galbraith committee on, 1
for ship propulsion, survey of (English Electric), 64
Single-zone, using uranium 233 thoria slurry, 7
Snap-2, 639
Sodium cooled, 638
Sodium-graphite, 638
Sodium-heavy-water, 638
Sodium hydroxide for, 8
Solid homogeneous-fuel, Lovanium University, 380
Steam-cooled, NDA, 2
Steam-cooled for ship propulsion (Vickers), 8, 64, 147-148. See also 1; mechanical design of, 8; steam circuit diagram for 9. See LETTERS, 83, 239
Superheated steam from, 64
Superheated-steam-cooled, for Russia, 123
Superheater development, 64
in Sweden, 122, 471
Swimming-pool, Moncloa (Spain), 122 for Switzerland, 282
for Thailand, 282
Top dome and thermal shield. Bradwell, 655
for Trawsfynydd power station, 62
Triga II, 471
Troubles with, 471
Turret, Los Alamos, 607
• for Venezuela, 282
Vessels, welding of, at Hinkley Point, 490 Water-moderated, reports on, 7
Zed-2, Chalk River, 379
ZENITH, completion of, 96 • ZENITH, description of, 96 ZENITH, exponential experiments, 123 Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, accelerator costs, 343; nuclear fusion research, 406
See Weapons
Atomics International. See Snap-2 and SEE reactor
Atomiser, airborne, Micronair rotary, 358 Pods for (Britten-Norman), 358 Atomkraft Konsortiet, atomic energy consortium, 123; boiling-water reactor project, 283
Auckland Harbour Bridge, 182
August Bank Holiday, IWS conference on, 501 Auris, Shell tanker, 327
Aurora study at Hillhead Experimental Station, 680
Aust and Schlittler and Co., reinforced plastics spraying machines, 104
Austenitic iron hard facing alloys, 426
— Steel hard facing alloys, 426
Auster Agricola aircraft for agricultural use, 357
— Workmaster aircraft for agricultural use,
357
Austin A99 3-litre motor car, by G. Wilkins, 128. See LETTER, 195
Austin, Gipsy pick-up truck, 623
Austin Hoy and Co. (Holdings), acquired by Mavor and Coulson, 549
Austin and Pickersgill Ltd., shipyard reconstruction at Sunderland, 610
— Seven motor car, Claylastic trim sections
for, 619
Motor car with front wheel drive, 423 Motor car, heater-demister system for, 444
Motor car, position and prospects of, 334 Motor car, spot welding on, 330 Motor car, suspension of, 344, 345 Motor car, by G. Wilkins, 87
Australia, atomic power plans for, 439
?— Government grant for road works, 475
— Import restrictions, relaxation of, 144
—? Manufacturing in, survey on, 83
— Power development in, 83
— Uranium production in, 470
Australian Academy of Science, dome of concrete covered with copper sheets, 559
— Commonwealth Building Research Station,
artificial sky, 539
Authority, Plain Words on, 398
Auto tester for typewriters, 425
— Trailer tent, folding camping trailer
(European Appliances Ltd.), 488
Autocar Road Tests, Spring 1959 (review), 353 Autodrill, Precise, automatic drilling machine (Newage Machine Tools Ltd.), 197
Autohall Ltd., motor car contract hire, Automatic Coal Cleaning Co, Ltd.,
Bloklink elevator chains (trade lication), 40
— Control, See Control
— Electroplating plant, by L. N. Sinclair, 291
— Measurement of quality in process plants
(review), 257
— Sac-Sealer for sealing paper sacks (Medway
Paper Sacks), 363
— and Telematics, Institute of. See Institute Automatic Telephone and Electric Co. Ltd.,
annual report, 26; traffic lights (trade publication), 166; electronic telephone exchange at Dollis Hill, 495, 552
— transmission. See Transmission Automation, cinema film on, 382
— Institute for. See Institute
— Mobile demonstration unit (EMI Elec
tronics Ltd.), 299
— Motor industry, Russia, 626
— in Russia, 195
Automobile Engineering, College of. See College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering
— Year No. 6, 1958-59 (review), 353
— See also Motor cars
Autopak submerged-arc welding process (Rockweld), 563
Autostabiliser system for SCI VTOL research aircraft, 192
Aveling Barford Group, road-making and agricultural plant (trade publication), 514; highway engineering scholarship, 669
Avery-Hardoll Ltd., bottom loading equipment (trade publication), 40
Avery, R., on coupled steam superheater, 638
Averys Ltd., trading report, 152
Aves, R., on helium 3 fast neutron spectrometer, Part I, 36
Aviation, agricultural, European Centre. See European Agricultural
Group of Royal Aeronautical Society, 25 International Conference on. See International
— Artists, Society of. See Society
— and Astronautics, World Directory of, 1959,
Interavia ABC (book), 258
— Fuellers Yorkshire, 10,000 gals, for jet
aircraft (AEC), 263
— Ministry of, formation, 467
— Writers. See International Society of
Aviation Writers
Avon, river, water supply for J. S. Fry and Sons Ltd., 474
Axelrad, D. R., on strength of materials for engineers (book), 418
Axial elasticity. See Elasticity
Axle fatigue tests, by C. E. Phillips, 367. See LETTER, 496
BABCOCK and Wilcox Ltd., 100 MW nuclear power station, 247; agreement with Humphreys and Glasgow, 471; position and prospects of, 477; reactor vessels for Hinkley Point, 490
Bach, J. H., on optical instruments, 583 Backing-off machine, electro-hydraulic automatic (Stuart Davis Ltd.), 149
Backing strip, weld, silicone, 452
Backstop, miniature drive as (Tiltman Langley), 76
Bacon, F. T,, fuel cell, 106
Bacon Hydrox fuel cell, principle and applications, 106
Baddeley, D. S., Engineering Co. Ltd., welding and cutting (trade publication), 290
Baghdad Pact nuclear centre, Tehran, 205 Bagrit, L., on automation in Russia, 195 Bahn, G. S., on Mollier diagrams, 560 Bailey, D. E., recovery of earth satellites, 208 Baileys (Bristol) Ltd., aluminium sheet for shipyard prefabrication shops, 281
Bakelite Ltd., glass-fibre and mineral filled polyester doughs, 103; phenol formaldehyde foam, 104; epoxy resin hardeners, 218; epoxy glass laminates, 218; reinforced plastics for TVR Grantura sports car body, 360; glass fibre reinforced polyester resin, for plastic machine guards (Tomlinsons (Rochdale), Ltd.), 484; polyethylene lining for concrete shuttering, 539; Warerite-panelled lift shaft, 542; plastics for Routemaster buses, 620
Baker, C. L., on the first six million prime numbers, 553
Baker, J., and Sons Ltd., lighthouse lathe tools (trade publication), 166
Baker, Prof. J. F., biographical note, 40 Bakers’ and Confectioners’ Exhibition, 162 Baking of bread, electrical aids to, 162 Balance of nature. Plain Words on, 302
— See also Unbalance
Balancing machine, dynamic (Repco Ltd.), 197 Z34EB (Schenck Maschinenfabrik GmbH), 433
— of precision dynamometer, 616 Balarc 175 welding transformer, 560
Baldwin Instrument Co. Ltd., power cylinders (trade publication), 212
Baler, swarf (trade publication), 618 Bales catch, key-adjustable, 391
Balfour, D., and Sons, pipeline in Ga Lagoon, Gulf of Guinea, 578
Ball bearings. See Bearings
Ball, J. G., on crystal structures of plutonium, 35
Ball joint for pipelines, 485
— Tooling and gauging, master (Insley
Industrial Supply Co. Ltd.), 198
Ballast cleaning on Midland Region of British Railways, 579
Balloon activities of NASA, 463 Band conveyors. See Conveyors
Band-It strapping system (G. E. Simm Engineering), 53
Bandsaw. See Saws
Bank accounts for wage earners, 245
— Export-Import, of Washington. See Export-
Import Bank
— Holiday, August, IWS conference on, 501
— International. See International Bank
— for International Settlements (Basle),
annual report, 114
— Loans, personal, 245
— of Montreal, strongroom doors for (Chubb
and Sons), 559
— Term loans granted by, 494
— World. See International Bank
Bannister, F. K., on pressure waves in gases in pipes (book), 134
Bar cut-off machines, automatic (Rockwell Machine Tool Co,), 601
— Shearing machine, Valdarno portable
(Sharston Engineering Co. Ltd.), 370 Barbados, dredger from Caribbean Dredging Co., for Port of Guayaquil contract, 251 Barcro, half-plate negative viewer (E. N. Mason and Son Ltd.), 666
Bardal tanker, 139
Barden, S. E., subcritical assemblies of enriched uranium plates in natural water: Part I, 7 Bardic Ltd., BM electric hand torch, shockproof and flameproof, 433
Barge, oil, Dracone flexible, 200
— for reactor servicing of Savannah atomic-
propelled merchant ship, 247
Barker, D., on formation of private companies, 513
Barkin, S., on trade union industrial engineers, 277
Barnes, H. Lloyd, on prospecting for uranium (book), 134
Barnet ventilator, electronic lung, 469 Barograph, miniature, for recording glider height (Firth Cleveland Instruments), 262
Barque, three masted, for German navy (Blohm
and Voss AG.), 327
Barrage, Grand Anicut (India), 15
Barrel stacker, hydraulic (Powell and Co.), 198
Barrett, W. H., on modern copying techniques for the drawing office (book), 322
Barrus, E. P., Ltd., Greenfield taps and dies (trade publication), 102
Barry, H. D., on information officers and librarians, 463-464. See LETTER, 568
Baryon elementary particles, 310
Basilica of St. Pius X (Lourdes), 281
Basov, Prof. N. G., slowing down molecular particles in beam maser devices, 384
Batch counter, recording (Electronic Machine Co. Ltd.), 370
— Piercing, small, Weidmann turret press for
(Dowding and Doll, Ltd.), 242
Batchelor, R., on helium 3 fast neutron spectrometer; Part 1, 36
Bates, Col. D., obituary, 201
Bateson, T. C. H., on sewage works design (book), 134
Bath, cast iron (Carron Co.), 46
Battersea power station, epoxide pipe for drainage, 93
Battery, emergency, Nife-Neverfayle, 593 Power applications, 593
— Grids, lead-tin-barium alloy for, 29
— Lamps, 593
— Nickel-cadmium, stand-by lamp with (Nife
Batteries Ltd.), 664
— Vehicles. See Motor vehicles
?— See also Cell
Bauer, A. A., on uranium and thorium alloys, 639
Beams, broad flange, British Standard, 207
— Concrete, precast prestressed, for Chiswick
flyover, 315
— Engine in Adelaide Museum, 51
— Maser devices, slowing down molecular
particles in, by Prof. N. G. Basov, 384
— Precast I-units for Swan River Narrows
bridge, 506
— Rolling universal, extension of section mills
for (Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co.), 251 “ Steel and aluminium alloy hatchway, tested at Glengarnock, 443
— Straightening an overstrained, 521
— Tables, by Dr. G. Anger (review), 5
— tapered I-section, moment distribution
factors for, 108
— Timber, sheathed with plywood, Girdaling
lightweight (H. Newsum Sons and Co. Ltd.), 542
— Trammels, stainless steel (Moore and
Wright), 497
— Units, precast, for Chiswick flyover (Cowley
Concrete Co. Ltd.), 315
— Universal, British Standard, 207
with plastic design, for new rod mill of Arthur Lee and Sons, 119
Beardsley and Piper, Speed-Slinger moulding machine, 109
Bearings, air lubricated, for precision dynamometer, 614
— Ball, Fenner-Dodge plummer blocks for
(J. H. Fenner and Co.), 54
and roller (Kugelfischer), 5
— Gas-lubricated journal, by L. N. Snell, 285
— Glass-ceramics, dry, 41
— Manufacturing industry, position and pros
pects of, 56
— Materials for sodium pump, 8
— Pads, Freyssi natural rubber, for bridges
(PCS Equipment), 347
— Plates and rockers of Meehanite CB metal
for Chiswick flyover, 315
— Ramrod lubricating system for (Glacier
Metal Co. Ltd.), 656
— Roller, Garnet taper, production of, 110 with one-piece cage (Torrington Co.), 456
— Rubber, for Chiswick flyover (Andre
Rubber Co.), 315
Beaulieu Motor Museum exhibits for Africa tour of Lord and Lady Montague, 348 Beautyboard laminate, wood and plastics (Formica), 652
Bechtel Corp., high temperature reactor, 158 Beck, G. N. J., review on Fundamentals of Transistors, 321-322; review on Junction Transistor Electronics, 321-322; review on Principles of Transistor Circuits, 321- 322; reivew on Transistor Electronics, 321-322; biographical note, 322
Beck, G. W., on rubber extrudability charts, 76 Bedford motor trucks for soft terrain for Shell Condor S.A., 41
Bedford-St. Pancras line, diesel multiple unit trains for, 424
Beedle, L. S., on plastic design of steel frames (review), 553
Beesing, A. M., winner of US highway bridge design competition, 411
Beetle power propulsion unit for railway wagons, 69
Behrend, G., on history of wagon-lits, 1875- 1955 (book), 322
Behrens, D. J., effect of holes in reacting material, 7; neutron migration length, 7
Bell and hopper development, 248
Bell Telephone Laboratories, fluoride film insulation, 29; coding system for digital pulsed data for telephone transmission, 32; p-n-p-n semiconductor stepping device, 255
Belmos Co. Ltd., electric-motor starter, 22
Belt conveyor. See Conveyor
— Scraper, multi-blade (Richard Sutcliffe
Ltd.), 116
Belting, conveyor. See Conveyor belting
Bench drill, high speed sensitive (A. A. Jones and Shipman), 85
— Hydraulics laboratory (Tecquipment Ltd.),
10
— Saw (A. Cooksley and Co. Ltd.), 529 Bursgreen 10 in. (Wadkin), 336 Bending machine, tube, Herber (Chamberlain
Industries Ltd.), 368
— Plate (trade publication), 102
Rollers, Besco Pyramid (F. J. Edwards, Ltd.), 401
— Rolls for plate (Bronx Engineering Co.
Ltd.), 666
Benevolent fund, lEE, 373
Benham, A, D,, appointed professor of engineering, Bangkok, 573
Benjamin, C. G., on officer managers, 57
Bennett, Mr. E. F., on United States national helium-conservation plan, 292
Bennis Combustion Ltd., universal elevator for coal, 149
Bentley S2 motor car, heating and ventilating system for, 444
BEPO reactor, radioactivity of coolant air, 6
Bergius Co. Ltd., extensions to marketing organisations, 491
Bering Straits, dam proposal, 411, 431
Berinkle spanners, non-magnetic, non-inductive (Brandauer and Co. Ltd.), 198
Berkeley, E. C., on symbolic logic and intelligent machines (review), 617
Berkeley, M., on information officers and librarians, 463-464
Berkeley Nuclear Laboratoties, Dr. C. P. Haigh director of, 62
Berliner, J. J., and Staff, world marketing publicity, 332
Berners-Lee, C. M., on computers in commerce, 473
Bernstein, G. J., on reprocessing by pyrometallurgy, 574
Bernstein, W., on ohmic heating in stellarator, 407
Berrick, N. D., on hard facing, 426
Berridge, C., on AEU national executive, 277 Berry, G., on anechoic chamber research, 65; on calibration phones, 163
Beryllium fuel canning, 311
— Monitor for Atomic Energy
(Glass Developments Ltd.), 401
— Reflector for BR-2 reactor, 639
— 7, production and separation, Harwell, 36 Besco pyramid plate bending rollers (F. J.
Edwards Ltd.), 401
Beta counting of uranium 237 and neptunium 239, 36
BETA, news sheet of Quality Bearings Ltd., 353 Betatron, plasma, 510
— Radiographic, Brown Boveri (Watson &
Sons (Electro-Medical) Ltd.), 666
Bethlehem Steel Co., Long Beach atomic cruiser, 247
Bevan, G., exponential experiments for PIPPA Mk. I, 6
Bevel gears. See Gears
BGS saw bench (Wadkin), 336
Bi-Stat sequence control (Brookhirst-Igranic Ltd.), 241
Biasing force in fiducial indicator, 137
Bibliography on atomic power and reactor engineering, 8
?— Continuous casting of steel, 681
— Effect of technical progress on education, by
B. Board, 165
— Monolingual scientific and technical glos
saries, Vol. II, 39; (book), 322
— Physics of light water moderated reactors, 7 —? Spectrophotometric methods of analysis for
inorganic ions, 417
— Technical and vocational education in
USSR, by M. I. Movsovic, 165
BICC-Burndy Ltd. See British Insulated Callenders Cables
Bicentenary of Carron Co., 45
— Dowlais Ironworks, 109
Bidding for the lot, by Prof. R. Y. Goodden, 501
Bieber, H., on chemical engineering calculations (book), 354
Biffa, R., Ltd., Leyland Octopus eight wheeled tippers for soil removal at Hither Green railway sheds, 251
Bikini temperature controller (Fielden Electronics Ltd.), 432
Bills of quantities, preparation of, and specifications for road and bridge works (book), 134
Billet shears, Valdarno (Sharston Engineering), 602
Bins, litter, free, in exchange for advertisements, 153
— Waste, Medway disposable paper sacks as
(Medway Paper Sacks Ltd.), 634
Biological satellites, by R. P. Haviland, 155 Biology, marine, research, 414
BIP Engineering Ltd., Bipel injection moulding press, 305
Bipel injection moulding press (BIP Engineering Ltd.), 305
Birch, N., on research workers’ freedom, 478. See LETTER, 496
Birkenhead, multi-storey flats for, 547
Birlec-Efco (Melting) Ltd., vacuum furnace with degassing unit, 401
Birlec Ltd., box-type electric furnaces, 31; annealing furnace for Oy Vuoksenniska, AB, 276; annealing furnace for reactor fuel elements, 276; annealing furnace for Caterpillar Tractor Co., 276; heat treatment furnace for English Steel Corp., 276 Birmabright Ltd., light alloy for Thames sluice gates, 331
Birmid Industries, chairman’s annual statement 677
Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., motorway service charges, 549; longdistance motor coaches, 623
— Oxford canal, aluminium drawbridge at
Banbury (Northern Aluminium Co. Ltd.), 251
— Preston-Penrith motorway, viaduct con
tracts, 61
— Radio control centre for gas supplies in, 657
— University, operational research course, 57;
Russian for scientists, 121; economic study of London-Birmingham motorway, 472. See also 463; highway engineering scholarship, 669
— See also London-Birmingham motorway
Birth of the steamboat, by H. P. Spratt (book), 258
Birtley Engineering Ltd., belt conveyor for granular materials, 391
Bisby, H., on detection and measurement of radioactivity, 36
Bishop, S. M., dispersion-type nuclear fuels, 503
Bismuth, neutron diffusion in, 7
— Uranium alloys, spectrographic determina
tion of magnesium in, 36
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Bison precast concrete units for multi-storey flats (Concrete Ltd.), 541
Bitumen, glass fibre based, and copper sheeting roofing material (Ruberoid), 80
— Mixing plant, automatic weighing installa
tion at (Derbyshire Stone Ltd.), 251
B and K Laboratories Ltd., armature tester, 86 Black Automatic Controls Ltd., solenoid operated lever valve, 454
Black and Decker Ltd., angle grinder, 338
Black Knight rocket, combined with Blue Streak missile, 208
Rocket, modified with Blue Streak tank, 210
Rocket, as second stage for Blue Streak rocket (RAE), 209
Blackburn Aircraft, Dormier DO27 light aircraft, 519
Blackburn Group, Hawker Siddeley bid for, 645; aircraft engine production and developments of, 645
Blacker, Lieut.-Col. L. V. Stewart, on military rockets 351
Blackie, A. A. C., on Blackie and Son 1809-1959 (review), 650
Blackie and Son 150th anniversary, 581; 1809- 1959, by A. A. C. Blackie (review), 650
Blackman, Keith, Ltd., centrifugal fans (trade publication), 212; fan noise (trade publication), 258; Fischer automatic dust filter, 602
Blade frequency of turbines, by J. P. Ellington and Dr. H. McCallion. See LETTER, 20
— Type blower, BICERA, 325
Blading, turbine, tensile stainless steel for (Firth-Vickers Stainless Steels Ltd.), 324
Blair, Dr. J. S., review of Autocar Road Tests Spring 1959, 353-354; review of Go Continental—By Car, 354; biographical note, 354; on automobile asymptote, 399; on fuel consumption in cars, 528
Blanks Boatyard, Debutante Bermudan sloop 687
Blast furnace. See Furnace
Stove. See Stove
— Hot, for blast furnace, 248
Blasting in coal-bearing strata, photographic analysis of, by Dr. E. M. Patterson, 253
Blaw-Knox Co. of America, electrolytic tinning line for Ebbw Vale works of Richard Thomas and Baldwins Ltd., 362
Blaw-Knox Express paver for laying hot rolled asphalt, 61
Blaw Knox Ltd., Mixer-Master mobile concrete mixer, 530; concrete cooling for Klang Gates dam, 578
Blind Landing Establishment (Bedford), work of, 189
— Work for the, 637
Blocks, concrete shielding, transporters for,293
— Thermalite, for multi-storey office block
(John Laing and Son Ltd.), 541
Blockey, Air Vice-Marshal P. S., appointed senior staff officer, RAF Technical Training Command, 153
Bloctube control levers, for Brave Borderer, 389 Bloctube Controls, Ltd., Voith-Schneider propellers control in ferry Freshwater, 590 Blohm and Voss AG., German navy training ship, 327
Blomeke, J. O., on sawing fuel elements, 575
Blow moulding machine. Blowmaster, for plastics containers (Amigo Machine Co.), 85
Blower, air, axial-flow, silenced (Plannair), 140
— Blade-type, BICERA, 325
—? Roots-type, comparison with blade-type, 325, 326
— See also Supercharger
Blowmaster blow moulding machine for plastics containers (Amigo Machine Co.), 85
Blue Streak ballistic missile combined with Black Knight rocket, 208
Ballistic missile, by G. K. C. Pardoe, 208 Rocket, Black Knight as second stage for (RAE), 209
Rocket, first stage of satellite launching vehicle (de Havilland Propellers Ltd.), 209 Rocket servicing tower (de Havilland), 209
Rocket tank in Black Knight, 210
BMT universal woodworking machine (Parry and Son (Tools) Ltd.), 529
BMW, amalgamation with Daimler-Benz, 566; motor car production, 644; control by Daimler Benz-Auto Union scheme, 644
— 700 sports car, by G. Wilkins, 55
BO AC. See British Overseas Airways Corp.
Boake, Roberts and Co., ECP27 nitrile rubber plasticiser, 103
Board, B., bibliography on effect of technological progress on education, 165
— Insulation, Asbestolux, fire-proof, 396 Foylin, 396
? Treetex, 396
— of Trade, statistical inquiry into engineering
industry, 28; Committee on consumer protection, 48; increase in new factory approvals, 79; rejections by International Cooperation Administration, 79; exporting to France (report), 80; forming a company in France (report), 80; report on census of distribution and other services, 143; information on British constructional work overseas, 207; Export Service Bulletin, 663
Boarding, Celotex, for noise research chamber, 65
Boats, lifeboat. See Lifeboat
— Patrol. See Patrol
— Runabout, Capri Mk II (Toby Marine), 687
— Trollboat (Folland Aircraft and British
Aluminium), 687
—? See also Dinghy: Yacht
Boby, William, Sc Co. Ltd., electrodialysis stack, 30; orders for purification plant for liquids, 174
Bogie, single motor, Alsthom, 59
— See also Truck
Bogorov, V. G., on radioactive waste, 535 Bogota, tanker for Texas Co. (Norway), 327 Boilers, critical Reynolds number exceeded in, 286, 317
— Feed pump. See Pump
Water and cooling water, by VGB (review), 166
Boilers, feed pump water, by F. Freier (review), 165
— Furnace. See Furnace: Stoker
— with high gas pressure, research on, 286
— House technique, by P. D. Dehnel (book),
258
— Insurance, history of (Vulcan), 110
— Multipac (John Thompson (Wilson Boilers)
Co.), 488
— Pump control (McDonnell «& Miller), 264
— Solid fuel, automatic control of, conference
on, 398
— Superheater. See Superheater
— Tube banks, closed circuit rig for testing, 317
— Waste heat, tube bundle for, 655
— Water-tube, for Drakelow C power station,
596
Boilermakers’ Association, Water-Tube. See Water-Tube
— Society, wage claim submitted, 270 Bolometer for locating hot spots (H. Tinsley &
Co. Ltd.), 434
Bolts, friction-grip, British Standard for, 475
— Grip, in bridge construction, 181
— High-strength, symposium on, 1.Struct.E.,
30
— High tensile steel, 536
— Wedglok nylon pellet locking element for
body of (GKN (Midlands) Ltd.), 296
Boltzmann, Sens de, la theorie physique au, by R. Dugas (book), 586
Bombers Eye, by D. Saward (review), 681 Bonallack and Sons Ltd., motor vehicle with blown-discharge bulk container, 149
Bonding, adhesive, of reinforced plastics, by
H. A. Perry (book), 418
— Resin (trade publication), 354
Bone, strontium in, 36
Books, historic, on machines, by C. St. C. B. Davison (book), 212
— from India, catalogue of (Asia Publishing
House), 513
— Loans, renewal notices for, by A. R.
Andrews, 19
Booksellers’ Association, training scheme grant, 599
Boon, M. H., on hydromagnetic instabilities of a cylindrical gas discharge; Part 6, 36
Booster relay, model 61 H (Sunvic), 44
Booth, Dr. A. D., review of Multivibrator Circuits, 617; review of Practical Robot Circuits, 617; review of Symbolic Logic and Intelligent Machines, 617; biographical note, 618
Borax industry of US, British interest in, 25
Borer Engineering Co., flange spreader for breaking joints, 602
Borg-Warner Ltd., automatic transmission (trade publication), 212; automatic transmission, 275
Borgward, Lloyd Arabella motor car, 252
Boring, drilling and milling machine, horizontal, WH63 (Strojexport), 339
— and milling machine, jig, Hydroptic 7A
(Societe Genevoise Ltd.), 117
— and turning mill, vertical (Strojexport), 339 Borisov, P., Bering Straits dam proposal, 431 Borland fish pass at Orrin power station in
Ross-shire, 160
Bornu railway extension, award of contract to Germany, 267
Boson elementary particles, 310
Bossoms of Oxford, plastics hulls for Alpha sailing dinghy, 355
Boulding, R. S. H., on principles and practice of radar (book), 290
Boulton and Paul Group, activities of, 677
Boulton and Watt partnership, steam power for blast furnace, 248
Boundary layer research, by H. Gortler (review), 133
Bourdon tubing, British Standard for, 324 Bournemouth, unemployment in, 28
Bourner, F. H. (Fixings) Ltd., Spitmatic fixing gun, 530
Bowker, S. O., Ltd., switch socket and fused plug, 295
Bowles, P., on Exercise Mermaid, 35
Bowring, R. W., density of organic moderators, 6
Bowthorpe Electric Co., wood pole preservation (trade publication), 682
Bowyer, E., on aircraft industry, 238 Boxes, handling, sound film strip on, 109 Boyd, P. G., on economy motor cars, 632 Boyd, W., on gas-cooled reactors, 335, on heavy-water moderated reactor, i on Anglo-Canadian nuclear link, on gas-cooled reactors, 632
Boyd-Orr, Lord, on trade with China, 631
Boydell, E., and Co., Ltd., 2WL Muir-Hill loader, 336; Muir-Hill 14B hydraulic dumper truck, 623
Boy’s Book of Flight, by A. Le Roi (review), 649
Benzin, multi-grade petrol pump, 82 Statistical Review of World Oil Industry 1958, 553
Tanker Co., marine paint tests on British Kiwi, 356
BR-2 atomic reactor, details of, 63; containment shells tested, 471; fuel element fabrication for, 502; beryllium reflector for, 639 BR3 atomic reactor, containment shells tested, 471
Brabazon, Lord, on aircraft research need, 83 Braby, F. C., elected chairman of British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association, 501
Brades Nash Tyzack Ltd., face pressure spanners, 215
Bradwell atomic reactor, top dome and thermal shield, 655
Braithwaite Foundations and Construction Ltd., bridge piling of Chiswick flyover, 315
Brake, disc (trade publication), 166 -on A99 Austin motor car, 128 for MGA 1600 sports motor car (Lockheed), 24
on motor cars, 412
for Wolseley 6/99 motor car (Lockheed), 24
— Drum, lightweight, by Al-Fin process
(GMC), 612
on motor cars (General Motors), 412
— Liners, Redux resin adhesive for, 620
Brake, motor car, by G. Wilkins, 412
— Parking, pedal-operated, 412
— Safety, for man-riding carriages (AEI), 53
— Total-contact (Chrysler), 412
— Vacuum, for diesel multiple unit trains on
St. Pancras-Bedford line, 424
for wagons, discussion in Parliament on, 28
— Wheel of Jolesfield windmill, 262
— See also Dynamometer
Braking of multi-unit electric trains, 232 Brandauer, C., and Co., Ltd., non-magnetic non-inductive Berinkle spanners, 198
Brandenberger, E., on chemical engineering (book), 166
Brandii, A., on frequency stabilisation in microwaves (book), 450
Brass pressing, hot, book on (Copper Development Association), 292
Brave Borderer, patrol boat, 389, 455
Bray Construction Equipment Ltd., front end loader tractor shovel, 466
Brazeau river hydroelectric power project in Alberta (Calgary Power Ltd.), 160
Brazil, Volkswagen factory in, progress of, 612 Bread, baking of, electrical aids to, 162 Breakdowns. See Accidents
Brebner, A., friction coefficients in aluminium pipes, 61
Brech, E. F. L., review of The Landmarks of Tomorrow, 585; review of Men who Manage, 585; reivew of the Role of The Managing Director, 585; biographical note, 586
Brenner, H., on theory of fading properties of a fluctuating signal imposed on a constant signal (book), 290
Brent Chemical Products, Ardrox 381, marking-off ink, 516
Breslin, J. P., on propeller pressure field, 584 Bricks, fire. See Refractory materials
— Packaged, at brickworks, film on, 507 Brick, V, film on, 507
Bricklaying, work study in, 548 Brickworks, packaged bricks at, film on, 507 Bridges, aerodynamic instability of, 183
— Auckland Harbour, 182
— Box girder, 181
— Caracas, Venezuela, 182
— Clifton, Nottingham, model testing for, 60
— Construction, aesthetic aspects, 184 Brittle fracture in, 182 Competitive designs in, Fatigue in, 182 Grip bolts in, 181 Materials, 181 Prestressed concrete in, Reinforced concrete in,
— ?— Standardisation in, 183 Welding in, 180, 182
— Conveyor for Samson loader (Mavor &
Coulson), 54
— Design, critical survey of, by O. A. Keren
sky, 180
Discussion in Parliament, 467 for road programme (Institution of Civil Engineers), 475. See LETTER, 568
— Dusseldorf Nordbrucke, 181
— Early, 180
— Forth road, progress on, 603
— Forth suspension, high tensile galvanised
wire for cables of (Dorman Long (Steel) Ltd.), 251
— Freyssi natural rubber bearing pads for
(PCS Equipment), 347
— Highway, design competition, US winners
in, 411
Replacement at Doncaster, 610
— Lifting, Kingsferry (J. Howard and Co.,
Ltd.), 207
— Load factors, 183
— Loading demands, 182
— for London-Birmingham motorway, 178
— on Maidstone bypass (Scott, Wilson
Kirkpatrick), 118
— Maintenance, 182
— Medway, model study on, 60 Motorway, tenders invited for, 675
— New road, over Thames, discussion in Par
liament, 467
— Piling of Chiswick flyover (Braithwaite
Foundations and Construction Ltd.), 315
— Plate girder, 180
— Railway, electric train overhead equipment
problems, 233
— ?— Lattice-girder, at Nottingham, replace
ment of, 119
— Reinforced concrete, for Sydney Harbour,
30
— River Sava, Yugoslavia, 181
— Road, in Chiswick flyover, 314 over River Niger, 93
? Progress on new, 126
Steel, 643
Tancarville suspension, 30, 92
— and road works, specifications for, and
preparation of bills of quantities (book), 134
— Span lift by Rotodyne airliner, 23
— Steel, development of, 180
— Suspension, development of, 180
— ?— River Tamar, locked coil wire ropes for
cables of (British Ropes Ltd.), 377
Tancarville road, 30, 92
— Swan River, Narrows, 506, 563
— Tay road, progress on, 603
— Thelwall, steelwork contract to Dorman
Long (Bridge and Engineering), Ltd,, 207
— Weinland, competitive designs for, 184
— See also Viaduct
Bridges, S, N,, i in. electric drill attachments, 222
Bridgework at Saigon, contract to Dorman Long (Bridge and Engineering) Ltd., 207
Brigadyr L-60 aircraft, for agricultural use, 357 Briquettes, sand cooling, 29
Bristol Aircraft Ltd., polyurethane foam for Alpha dinghy, 104; unsinkable dinghy, 327; eddy current flaw detector, 331; glass fibre bodies for Lotus Elite motor car, 355; plastics hulls for Alpha sailing dinghy, 355; Bristol-192 twin-engined tandem rotor helicopter, 519
— College of Technology, advanced tech
nology status, 27
Bristol Marine Proteus gas turbines for Brave Borderer, 389
— Multi-storey garage for, 1 19
Bristol-Siddeley Group, Orpheu.s engine serviceability record in Fiat G9I fighters, 31; ThorBT-1 ram jet engine, 391; training of Hindustan Aircraft staff at, 605; Orpheus turbojet engines for Japan, 627
“ Britain in Europe ” Monthly News Letter, 5 Britannic 3A freighter aircraft, 308
— SC5 freighter aircraft, 308
British Aircraft Constructors, Society of. See Society
British Aluminium Co. Ltd., Lockroll interlocking aluminium roofing Trollboat, 687
— Association, Meeting in York:
Address by Sir J. Gray, 114, importance of transport and tions, by Sir E. Smith, 124. See also 113; Section G (Engineering): building the London-Birmingham motorway, by W. K. Laing, 175; critical survey of bridge design, by O. A. Kerensky, 180; road improvements: choosing priorities by a new formula, by Dr. G. Charlesworth,
D. J. Reynolds and J. G. Wardrop, 185; promising future of vertical take-off, by H. G. Conway, 189; railways, roads and the public good, by Sir R. Wilson, 223; future of freight by rail, by G. F. Fiennes, 226; computers in transport, by Brig.
G. H. Hinds, 229; railway electrification programme, by S. B. Warder, 231; application of diesel engines and gas turbines to rail transport, by E. S. Cox, 234. See LETTER, 304; high-speed photographic analysis of coal-bearing strata, by Dr.
E. M. Patterson, 253
of Industrial Editors, 10th anniversary, 147
British Broadcasting Corp., Transatlantic film transmission for television, 32; remote control television camera, 255; comment on monopoly of, 573
— Columbia University, field study of post-
and-beam building construction in Vancouver, 174
— Commonwealth. See Commonwealth
— Computer Society, Conference at Cambridge
Misuse of computers, by J. A. Goldsmith, 18
— Constructional Steelwork Association, trade
agreement removal from Restrictive Trading Register, 173; exploratory brochure on BS449 for structural steelwork, by L. E. Kent, 347
— Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Associa
tion, publicity conference: house journals, by B. Samain, 469
— Electrical Power Convention, nuclear power
station costs, by F. H. S. Brown and J. Henderson, 96
British European Airways, Airco DH-121 jet airliners for, 88; position and prospects of, 152; Comet jet airliner for, 549
— Exhibition (New York), preliminary notice,
527, 662
British General Electric Co. Ltd., lighting installed at Hong Kong airport, 297
British General Electric Co. of Japan, formation of, 671
British Geon Ltd., Hycar nitrile rubber for gasket material, 516
British Glues and Chemicals Ltd., protein production, research on quality of, 307 British Guiana, trade mission from, 19
— Hydromechanics Research Association,
pipelines for transport of solid/liquid mixtures, 32
British India Steam Navigation Co. Ltd., BuHmba cargo liner for, 455
— Institute of Management, cost of labour
turnover (pamphlet), 27; human relations adviser’s tour of US, 57; advertising by management consultants, 271
— Institution of Radio Engineers, Clerk
Maxwell memorial lecture on human aspects of engineering progress, by Dr. V. K. Zworykin, 373
British Insulated Callender’s Cables—Burndy Ltd., manufacture of electrical connectors in UK, 395
Biritish Insulated Callender’s Cables Ltd., nylon tubes with pvc or pep, 218; distribution box for multi-storey building, 542
British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co. Mendlesham TV mast, 281
— Insurance (Atomic Energy) Committee,
conference of, 380
— Internal Combustion Engine Research
Association, handbook on torsional vibration, by E. J. Nestorides (review), 69. See LETTER, 271; blade-type blower, 325; diesel engine exhaust noise, 384; engine exhaust noise, 397; connecting rod failure investigation, 685
— Interplanetary Society, Commonwealth
Space-flight Symposium, 114; International Astronautical Congress, 114; Commonwealth Spaceflight Symposium (report), 154; International Astronautical Congress (report), 154; Second Space Law Colloquium, 154
— Iron and Steel Federation, management
courses at Ashorne Hill, 17; Safety (5th edition), 57; management training experiment, 121; steel specifications, 299; Russian dictionary on continuous casting, 617
and Steel Research Association, electrical sheet, 29; work of Corrosion Committee, 259; conference on computers in the iron and steel industry (review), 386; Sectionmaster apparatus for waste avoidance in cutting strip, 425
British Journal of Non-Destructive Testing, first number, 321
British Kiwi anker, marine paint tests on, 356 British Lead Mills Ltd., high density lead shielding bricks, 205
British MonoRail Ltd., overhead conveyor (trade publication), 40
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British Motor Corp. Ltd., C-type engine for Wolseley 6/99 motor car, 24; Wolseley 6/99 motor car with Farina styled body, 24; Austin and Morris baby motor cars, by G. Wilkins, 87; strike at Ward End, 153; position and prospects of baby cars of, 334; strike delays at, 334; suspension of baby cars, 344, 345; heater-demister system for Austin Seven and Morris Miniminor cars, 444; chairman’s annual statement, 581; Claylastic trim sections for Austin Seven and Mini Minor motor cars, 619; lorry-cab fatigue tests for drivers, 625
— National Committee on Space Research,
upper atmosphere research, 647
— Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association,
extension of London laboratories, 136; F. C. Braby elected chairman, 501
British Nylon Spinners Ltd., nylon types, 71; nylon cargo net, 272
British Olivetti Ltd., price reduction of Summa 15 adding machine, 267
British Overseas Airways Corp., London- Hong Kong air freight service, 48; air circulation ovens on Comet 4 (GEC Ltd.), 295; improved position of, 399; Book of Flight, by B. Cooper (review), 649
British Oxygen Gases Ltd., surveys of oxy-fuel gas equipment, 153; strike at, 302; flame cutting of material 5 ft. thick, 595
British Oxygen (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd., oxygen production increase, 659
British Petroleum Co. Ltd., Finnert terminal for super tankers, 30; CERES electronic simulator for refinery processes, 38; progress in Canada and New Zealand, 349; films for public relations and sales promotion, 349; statistical review of world oil industry 1958, 553; oil explorations in Switzerland, 631
British Petroleum Tanker Co., marine paint tests on British Kiwi, 356
British Plastics Federation, surface coating resin index (booklet), 136
British Plimber Ltd., Plimber chipboard, 652
British Productivity Council, take over of Target bulletin, 28; new films on quality control, suggestion schemes, opportunities for boys at technical colleges, and human factor in work study, 659
British Radio Corp., turnover of, 200
British Railways, cable and accessory orders, 19; BTC review of modernisation plan, 26; wheel profile truing machine, 31; position and prospects of, by Sir E. Smith, 126; wagon usage, 126; productivity graph, 127; computer uses, 229; computer examination of Crewe-Manchester electrification system, 230; electrification programme, by S. B. Warder, 231; electric locomotives for, 232; overhead equipment, 232; diesel traction in modernisation plan, 234; gas turbine locomotive, 236; freight traffic figures, 271; performance and efficiency tests of steam freight locomotive (book), 322; fluorescent lighting for Caledonian London-Glasgow express, 520; comment on monopoly of, 573; ballast cleaning on Midland Region of, 579; modernisation scheme effect on locomotive industry, 598; points system of, 667
British Recording Club, activities of, 373
British Resin Products Ltd., Styron 440 and 700 polystyrenes, 103; Rigidex polyethylene for stiff mesh in sheet and roll, 170; Rigidex and Styron 475 for spin dryer mouldings, 324; resin bonds (trade publication), 354; Rigidex polyethylene (trade publication), 650
British Rope Ltd., exports orders from Canada to Martin, Black and Co. (Wire Ropes) Ltd., 268; locked coil wire ropes for cables of river Tamar suspension bridge, 377
— Scientific Instrument Research Association,
adhesives guide, by J. Hurd, 484
— Shipbuilding Research Association, steel
and aluminium alloy hatchway beams tested at Glengarnock, by M. N. Parker, J. A. Ross and K. V. Taylor, 443
— Standards Institution, Kitemark, 48, 524 Specifications: Structural steel in building,
30; methods of testing vulcanised rubber (book), 70; fiat bottom railway rails, 76; steel fishplates for railway rails, 76; periodicals of reference value, 101; broad flange beams, universal beams and column sections, 207; steels, 299; ferrous and non-ferrous Bourdon tubing, 324; structural steel, 347; structural steel in building, 376; friction-grip bolts, 475; investment castings in metal, 484; prestressed concrete in buildings, 643; steels, 659
— Steel Castings Research Association, re
search on steel castings, 32; Dr. R. Hunter elected chairman, 501
British Steel Piling Co. Ltd., helically welded steel pipe, 143; sheet steel piling for Suez 160
— Tape Recording Society. See British
Recording Club
British Technical Cork Products, gasket material of cork with nitrile rubber, 516
British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd., opening of new education building, 239; change of name to Associated Electrical Industries (Rugby) Ltd., 581; traction generator for diesel-electric shunting locomotive, 686
British Timken Ltd., position and prospects of, 56
British Titan Products, new plant for production of sulphur dioxide from ferrous sulphate, 388
— Transport Commission, fall in income, 25;
computer uses, 229; improvements to King George Dock, Hull, 411; see also British Railways; British Waterways
British United Traction Ltd., trolley buses in Portugal, 623
— Waterways, North Eastern Division, lock at
Long Sandall, 474
British Welding Research Association, departmental and staff changes, 245; Welding Production, translation of Russian journal, 353; welding dissimilar metals, 355; work on steel-framed buildings, 536; plastic properties of rolled sections (booklet), 539 British Xylonite, plastics bonnets for Routemaster buses, 620
Brittape tape cassette for continuous play (Guy’s Calculating Machines Ltd.), 528
Britten-Norman Ltd., Micronair rotary airborne atomiser, 358; detachable pods for airborne atomisers, 358
Brittle fracture in bridge construction, 182 Effect of low temperatures on, 641 Brno Trade Fair, preliminary notice, 48; note on, 112; buildings at, 358; preliminary notice, 527
Broaching machine, horizontal (Lapointe), 498 Broad, H. F., on science teaching, 567 Broadbent, E. G., on wing flutter, 512 Broadening functions, stark, of hydrogen lines, by A. B. Underhill and J. H, Waddell (book), 354
Brompton, Harry, and Partners, chiswick flyover, 281, 315, 335-336
Bronowski, Dr. J., on smokeless fuel plant, 691 Bronx Engineering Co. Ltd., plate levelling and straightening machine, bending rolls, 338; plate, 666
Bronze, nickel-aluminium,
(Lips), 559
Brooke, M., on cooling towers (review), 39 Brookes (Oldbury), trade with Russia, 428 Brookhirst-lgranic Ltd., Bi-Stat sequence control, 241
Broom and Wade Ltd., air compressors (trade publication), 212; compressors for Cumbrae Lighthouse, 520; trading profits, 677 Brotton, Dr. D., on economic use of electronic digital computers, 280
Brown-Boveri, portable electric mould dryer (Electric Resistance Furnace Co. Ltd.), 358; radiographic betatron (Watson and Sons (Electro-Medical) Ltd.), 666 Brown-Boveri-Krupp pebble-bed reactor, 156 Brown, D., review of Automobile Year No. 6, 1958-59, 353; biographical note, 354; Brown, David, Albion Division, Super Hurricane silage making and green-feeding machine, 592; manure spreader, 592
Brown, David, Construction Equipment Ltd., sewage sludge mechanical handling equipment, 23
Brown, David, Industries Ltd., dispute at Newport Pagnall factory, 153; epicyclic differential gearbox for induction motor test plant, 361
Brown, David, Ltd., 2D tractor with diesel engine, 263; Aston Martin DB4GT motor car, 423
Brown, F. H. S., on nuclear power station costs, 96
Brown, H. B., engineering science. Vol II (book), 4
Brown, John, and Co. (Clydebank) Ltd., position and prospects of, 120; prevention of undercooling in condensers on tankers, 422 Brown, John, Land Boilers Ltd., heat transfer at high gas pressures, 384
Brown, W,, on Glacier Metal Co., 56
Bruce Peebles and Co. Ltd., retirement of G. Henderson, 469
Bruinsma, A. H., multivibrator circuits (review), 617; practical robot circuits (review), 617
Brunt, D. See Brunt, M.
Brunt, M., and D. Brunt, winners in US highway bridge design competition, 411
Brush, Bullet, for Royal Dutch Navy, 659 Brush Engineering Co. Ltd., diesel locomotive (trade publication), 166
Bryant, A. J., engineering science. Vol. II (book), 4
Bryant, F. J., on radioactive and natural strontium in human bones, 36
BS3 tyre with removable tread (Pirelli), 444, 517
BSA Tools Ltd., 98 L single spindle automatic lathe, 242
BTR Industries, ptfe Fluoroflex piping, 104 Bucher, C. J., AG., Camera, journal on photography, 165
Budd, J. P., hot blast stoves, 248
Bufra, strain gauges, 686 Builder, C. H., on Mollier diagrams, 560 Building accidents (booklet), 277
— Adhesive, P.V.A. (Polybond), 651
— Architect-engineer relation in, 525
— Block for use in pneumatic gauging equip
ment (Teddington Industrial Equipment Ltd.), 464
— at Brno engineering exhibition, Czecho
slovakia, 358
— Centre. See Manchester Building Centre
— Cold storage, frost action below, 159. See
LETTER, 496
— Concrete, developments in, 546
— Contracts, Government, discussion in Par
liament on, 603
?— Exhibition (Olympia), 466, 529, 596
— Fire protection of (booklets), 611
— High, in London, exhibition on, 539
— House, alternative methods study, 643
— Industrial, increase in, 79
— Industry, accidents in, 669 Apprenticeship scheme, 599
Improved techniques in, Aslib conference, 475
? Information in the, preliminary notice of
conference (Aslib), 553
Safety in, 669
Trading position in, 114
— Insulation of, 396
— Large, architect-engineer relation in, 543
— —? Tower cranes for, by J. F, Eden, 545
— the London-Birmingham motorway, by W.
Kirby Laing, 175
— Materials, flame-retardant (booklet), 611
— Mechanisation in, 548
— Mobile (trade publication), 514
— Multi-storey, cleaning exterior of, 537
— —? Comment on, 525
? Distribution box for (BICC Ltd.), 542 Engineering on, 541
Building, multi-storey, new techniques for, 547
— ?—? Precast concrete, 536
— ?— with precast load bearing walls, 546 Reinforced concrete, 536
Steel framed, 536
— — of wall-size load-bearing concrete panels,
546
See also Fiats
— Noise and acoustics, by P. H. Parkin and
H, R. Humphreys (review), 481
in, discussion in Parliament on, 603
— for North Thames Gas Board, 675
?— Plant exhibitions. Ministry of Works, 28
— Prestressed concrete in, BSS, 643
— Reinforced concrete, at Liverpool
sity (Holland and Hennen and Ltd.), 443
— Research Division (Ottawa). See
of Building Research
Univer-
Cubitts
Division
197; vertical plate
bending rolls for
propeller cast in
Station, reactions between aggregates and cements. Part IV, by F. E. Jones and R. D. Tarleton (book), 70; reactions between aggregates and cement, by F. E Jones and E. D, Tarleton (book), 102; floor finishes for factories (booklet), 160; report on expensive inaccuracies in house building, 207; Smail Underground Drains and Sewers: II, 347; tests on encased steel stanchions, by R. F. Stevens, 376; noise research, 397;
492;
sound insulation, cinema films on new V-brick and packaged bricks at brickworks, 507; mortars for brickwork (digest), 579; heliport noise study, 678
— and sandwich constructions, ASTM stan-
ards (book), 134
?— Structural steel in, British Standard, 30 ? Steel in, changes in BS on, 376
— Techniques, new, by J. L. Robinson, 547 in Sweden, trends in, 410
— Timber, Middlesex range (trade publica
tion), 514
— Unit (trade publication), 554
— Wind loadings on, by C. S. Durst, 550.
See LETTER, 663
— Work study in, 548 Bulge. See School-leavers Bulimba cargo liner, 455
Bull, G. V., on hypersonic guns, 648 Bullet brushes for Royal Dutch Navy, 659 Bullinger, C., on sodium-graphite reactors, 638 Bullows, Alfred, and Sons Ltd., agreement with
Gray Co. Inc. for distribution of Graco industrial equipment, 363; Graco Hydra- Spray paint sprayer, 465; Pogo pump for spray finishing, 691
Bupp, L. P., on shear for fuel elements, 575 Bureau of Mines. See United States National ?— of Standards. See United States National Burgermeiseter, G., on structural stability (review), 290
Burmah Oil Co. Ltd., new oil pipeline in Assam, 119
Burmeister and Wain, licence agreement with Polish Government, 276; Maskinog Skibsbyggeri, ships and engines (trade publication), 514
Burn, A. H., on chipping of hammers, 304 Burner for Eddystone lighthouse, 75
— Oil, for heavy grade fuels, MacFlame
(Urquhart’s (1926) Ltd.), 634
— See also Afterburner
Burnerd, F., and Co. Ltd., Multisize collets, 665 Burness, Corlett and Partners, Ltd., history, composition and achievements (trade publication), 418
Burns, A., on fatigue loadings in flight, 512 Burns, R. H., on Exercise Mermaid, 35 Burns and Roe, special materials reactor, 123 Burntisland Shipbuilding Co. Ltd., Stonington motor vessel, 455
Bursgreen 10 in saw bench (Wadkin), 336 Burtonwood Engineering Co., purchase by
U.S. Industries Inc. (Great Britain), 413 Bus delay device, 230
— Double-decker, Wulfrunian (Guy Motors),
623
— Loading recording devices, 230
— Motorway, charges of, 549
— Routemaster, plastics in (LTE), 620
— Strike, London Transport, 146
— Traffic congestion by, 667
— Transport, position and prospects
146-147
— Trolley, in Portugal (British United Trac
tion Ltd.), 623
Busbar jointing, Kynal aluminium (trade publication), 290
Businessmen, political role for, by C. H. Greenwait, 34
Butadiene. See Copolymer
Butler, L. H., on ventilation of road tunnels, 23 Butterley Co. Ltd., Aglite lightweight aggregate, 651
Butters Bros. and Co. Ltd., Monotower travelling cranes for shipyards, 624
Butterworth Publications, Polymer, journal to promote science of large molecules, 417 Butyl rubber for tyres, 483 X2I3X (Precision Rubbers), 588
BX Plastics Ltd., Cobex rigid pvc for ventilation ducts at National Chemical Laboratory, 292; Transpasene transparent adhesive film, 353
Bypass, Maidstone, construction of 118
of,
C LICENCES, warning on growth in, 25 Cable, coaxial, with foamed polyethylene core, 29
— Compensating, for pyrometry (trade publi
cation), 212
Cable Covers Ltd., spiral anchor grip for prestressed concrete, 411
— Electric, British Railways orders for, 19 Ratproof, research on (Royal Veterinary
College, Stockholm), 324
— Extractor for disused, 23
— Extruded, eccentricity gauge for (Addison
Electric), 465
— Fittings of thermoplastic. Polystraps (Hel-
lermann Ltd.), 292
Cable for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459
— Heating, for Murrayfield rugby ground, 539
— High tensile galvanised wire, for Fourth
suspension bridge (Dorman Long (Steel) Ltd.), 251
— Industry, monopoly pressures in, 531
Position and prospects of, 645
— Junctions for electric train overhead equip
ment, 233
— Overhead transmission, by Sir C. Hinton,
599
?— Ratproof, research on (Sieverts Kabelverk), 324
— of river Tamar suspension bridge, locked
coil wire ropes for (British Ropes Ltd.), 377
— Telephone, Commonwealth, 571
— Wire rope, for Swan River Narrows bridge,
507
— See also Power transmission: Wire rope Cadell, W., founder of Carron Co., 45 Cadet range band saw (Thomas Robinson &
Son Ltd.), 530
Cadmium plating, bright, 291 Chromate passivation of, 291 Caesium in fission products, 534
— Rocket propellent, for ion thrust rocket, 210 Calcium, radio, determination in effluent, 36 Calder Hall atomic power station, fuel element
failure rate, 439
— Operations School, programme, 639 Caledonian London-Glasgow express, fluorescent lighting for (G.E.C.), 520
Calgary Power Ltd., hydroelectric project in Alberta, 160
Calibration of microphones at low frequencies, by G. Berry, 163
Calibrator, time (Cawkell Research and Electronics), 85
California Institute of Technology, Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator, 342
California Salvage Co., radioactive waste disposal in ocean, 535
— University, proton synchrotron, 310, 311 Calorimeter for irradiated graphite energy
measurement, 6
Calumet and Hecla Inc., Strubing inflatable metal tubing, 420
Calver, C. M. G., Ltd., Revlac indexing heads (trade publication), 134; Revlac Trigrinding universal grinding machine (trade publication), 134
Cam timer, ZX synchronous (Electrical Remote Control Co. Ltd.), 432
Cambridge Instrument Co., X-ray scanning microanalyser for metal tube research, 352
— University, chemical engineering depart
ment at, 637
Cambridge University Press, Correspondence of Isaac Newton, 385
Camera, Ardam monorail, use of Tesamoll urethane plastics foam with, Mr. Van Kan, 392
— Eastman-Kodak high-speed, for blasting
study, 253
Camera, journal on photography (C. J. Bucher AG.), 165
Camera lens for aerial surveying, 505
— and solar telescope. Invar for (Perkin-
Elmer Corp., USA), 484
— Spinning panoramic, for lunar exploration,
154
— Television, orthicon Mark IV (Marconi),
487
with remote control (BBC), 255
— X-ray, in glove box, 164
Camgrip machine vice (Hill and Co. (Tools) Ltd.), 632
Cammell Laird and Co. Ltd., effects of interunion disputes, 413
Camp Bird cold forging process, 677; activities of, 677
Campbell, D. F., on Davy-United, 244 Campbell, J. S., friction coefficients in aluminium pipes, 61
Campbell, R. M., Cumbrae Lighthouse, 520 Campini, E., on costs of large engineering operations (book), 554
Camps, M., on Free Trade Association, 147 Can filler, Colton-Hope (Arthur Colton Co.), 664
— Filling machine for fluids (Mather and Platt),
338
Canada, Athlone Fellowship Scheme, 277
— Atomic energy agreements, 283
Energy agreements with, discussion in
Parliament, 531
Energy, agreement with Euratom, 378 Energy agreement with Pakistan on atomic energy, 379
Energy programme, 378
? Power costs, 378
• Reactors, 378
? Reactor, heavy water, for, 471
— Exports to, statistics, 299
— Marketing of control instruments (Ever-
shed-Powertronic Ltd.), 395
— Marketing in, guide to, 47
— National Energy Board, 83
— Post-and-beam houses in, 174
— Plutonium as atomic fuel, 379
— Radioactive waste disposal in, 535
— Royal Society of, Canadian Northwest: its
potentials, by F. H. Underhill (review), 513
— Uranium production in, 470 Production, 503
Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment, hypersonic gun techniques, 648
Canadian Foster Wheeler, Zed-2 reactor, 379 Canadian General Electric, OCDRE reactor contract, 378. See Correction, 407
— National Building Code, snow loading
roofs, 539
— National Research Council, field study
post-and-beam building construction Vancouver, 174
on
of
in
— Northwest, its potentials, by F. H. Under
hill (review), 513
Canal closure dates, St. Lawrence Seaway, 431
— Drawbridge, aluminium, over Birmingham-
Oxford canal at Banbury (Northern Aluminium Co. Ltd.), 251
— Irrigation, Gar Wood-Buckeye ditcher for
(Mackay Industrial Equipment), 86
— Panama jCxcavation work, 315
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Canal, Welland, capacity improvements to 194, 207
Canberra, liner, 331, 591 Cancer treatment machines for China, 379 Candella, roof of Texas Instruments Ltd. new plant, 281
Candu atomic power station, progress of, 379 Power station, site for, 607
Canmark Services Ltd., sale and servicing industrial products, 299-300
Canning, atomic fuel. See Atomic Juel Canning, W., and Co. Ltd., duplex nickel coatings, 218
Cannon, Power-Maid food mixer with attachments, 428
Cape Building Products Ltd., rockwool insulating materials, 260; plastic faced asbestos insulation board, 652
Capri, runabout boat (Toby Marine), 687 Capricorn. See Plain Words articles
Car, motor. See Motor car
— Train ferry, Trelleborg (Elsinore Shipbuild
ing and Engineering Co. Ltd.), 455
Caracas Bridge, Venezuela, 182 Caravans as homes, survey on, 501
— Trailer, telescopic, Farlander, 559 Carbides, cemented, Cutanit (“ Jessop-Saville ”
Ltd.), 136
— Tipped saws, Speedicut Mitia (trade publi
cation), 166
Carbion packaging material (Spicers), 31 Carbon dioxide regulators. Lined (Union Carbide International Co. Ltd.), 434
— Disulphide recovery with fluidised carbon
(Courtaulds), 260
— Fluidised, for recovery of carbon disulphide
(Courtaulds), 260
— Lining for blast furnace (Great Lakes Steel
Corp.), 218
— Monoxide and hydrogen, synthesis of oils
and chemicals from 68
Carbon 14, atmospheric content of, 439 Determination in reactor coolant gas, 36 Production in nuclear explosions, 439 Cordon fire-fighting tug (Lobnitz and Co.), 455 Careers in Industry Index (booklet), 89 Cargo liner. See Liner
— Net, nylon (British Nylon Spinners Ltd.),
272
— Ship. See Ship
Caribbean Dredging Co., dredgers for Port of
Guayaquil contract, 251 Caribou transport aircraft, 559 Aircraft for US Army, 660 Carisbrooke Castle vehicle and passenger ferry,
139
Carlyle Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Ltd., formation, 308
Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, grants for amateur scientists, 89
Carnets, Transport Internationale Routier, 662 Carpenter, J. A., on town planning, 114
Carr, L. H. A., Patents for Engineers (review), 681
Carriage, mine, man-riding, safety brake for (AEI), 53
— Rails for towing tank at NHL, 416
Carrier Corp., licence agreement with Stone-
Platt, 308
— Straddle (trade publication), 40 Carron Co., history and bicentenary of, 45 Carron Shipping Co., 46
Carron, W. J., on wage claim, 270 Carronade gun (Carron Co.), 46
Carruthers, J. F. S., on heat penetration in pressing of plywood (book), 258
Carruthers, J. H., and Co. Ltd., new factory, 330; increasing productivity and earnings at, 627
Carter, B. and F., and Co. Ltd., Ribble variable speed gear unit, 272
Carter, Prof. C. F., on Science in Industry, 597 Carter, R. E., on anti-neutrino cross-sections, 311
Carter Screw and Engineering Co., press feeder (trade publication), 134
Cartography and geodesy (book), 289 Carton counting by photo-electric cell at
Chiswick Products Ltd., 299
Carton, D. S., on Moon landing problems,
155; on moon landing of instruments, 480 Case, Alfred, and Co. Ltd., acquisition by Delta Metal, 413
CASS corrosion test for chromium-plated parts, 419
Cassette, tape, for continuous play, Brittape
(Guy’s Calculating Machines Ltd.), 528 Casson, Sir L., Fellow of Imperial College, 405 Cassuto, A., review on To Feed the Hungry, 449-450; biographical note, 450
Cast iron, ductile, glass-coated, 587 Spheroidal graphite (trade publication), 650
Spheroidal graphite, glass-coated, 587 Caste system in engineering profession. Plain
Words on, 494. See LETTER, 528
Castelco (Great Britain) Ltd., miniature cordpull switch, 498
Casting alloy, nickel-chromium, Nimocast 713C (Wiggin and Co.), 218
Casting, continuous, bibliography on, 681 Russian dictionary, British Iron and
Steel Federation, 617
— in Hallsworth automatic moulding system,
14
— in metal, investment, British Standard for,
484
— Steel, research on, 32
Research Association, British. See British
See also British Steel Castings Research Association
— Zirconium into air-cooled moulds, 639 Castrol House, 537
Catalogue in Arabic (GEC), 79
Catalytic afterburners for exhaust fume treatment, 28
— Studies on fluid alloys, discussion
Dechema meeting, 135
Catamaran (Hawker Siddeley), 687
— Thai 3 (J. R. Macalpine-Downie), 687 Catenary for electric train overhead equipment, 232
Catering equipment for NAAFI, 533
• for St. Anne’s College, Oxford, 533
Caterpillar Tractor Co. Ltd., opening of Tannochside factory, 120; production at Tannochside factory, 220; Birlec annealing furnace for forgings, 276; hydraulic control for winch for tractors D8 and D9 (Hyster Co.), 665
Cathode ray tube and its applications, by G. Parr and O. H. Davie (book), 682
Catmur Machine Tool Corp., Airmec Vero turret head drilling machine, with tape contol, 602
Cattermole, K. W., on transistor circuits (book), 514
Catton, N., on elastomers, 451
Caulking compounds, elastomer-base, by N. Catton, 451
Causeway Reinforcements Ltd., supports for tunnel walls and roofs, 207
Caustic soda. See Sodium hydroxide
Cauvery River, irrigation and power projects on, 14
CAV Ltd., Thermostart Mk. Ill starting aid for diesel engines, 424; multi-fuel pump, 561
Cavendish Laboratory, X-ray scanning microanalyser, for metal tube research, 352
Cavitation studies, 44-in water tunnel for, at NHL, 416
Cavity walls, Thermagrade lining system (EAW Industries), 396
Cawkell Research and Electronics Ltd., time calibrator, 85
Cawley, M., Doncaster highway bridge replacement, 610
Cawley Plastics Ltd., Tufplas glass reinorced plastics vessels, 356
CECE. See European Committee for Construction Equipment
Ceiling and flooring panel of precast concrete. Waffle, for Winfrith Heath offices (Modular Concrete Co. Ltd.), 475
— Jabilite expanded polystyrene lining for, 396
— Tiles, acoustical, of fibre board. Cushion
tone, 492
— Translucent, Isor (SFIM(GB) Ltd.), 542 Cell, electroluminescent, lamps (Westinghouse),
111
— Fuel. See Fuel cell
— Photo-electric, for carton counting at
Chiswick Products Ltd., 299
— Silicon solar (International Rectifier), 86
— Silver-zinc, for space vehicles, 208
— Solar, for space vehicles, 208
Cellobond adhesive and binder resins (trade publication), 354
Cellon Ltd., Cerrarc primer for steel, 119 Cellular acoustic mineral tiles, Kilnoise, 492
— Sheet-steel floor construction, Q-Floor
(Robertson Thain Ltd.), 328
Cellulose, ASTM standards (book), 134
— Pulp mill supplied to Russia (KMW), 460 Celotex boarding for noise research chamber,
65
Cement and aggregates, reactions between, by
F. E. Jones and R. D. Tarleton (book), 70, 102
— Ciment Fondu, 115
— Coloured, 61
— and Concrete Association, model testing of
concrete structures, 51, 60; symposium on models for structural design, 60; coloured cements and exposed aggregates, 61; lists of concrete technology courses, 315; Federation Internationale de la Precon- trainte, Berlin 1958; Papers (book), 418; Third Congress of Federation Internationale de la Precontrainte, by R. P. Andrew (book). Correction, 514; proceedings of symposium on the strength of concrete structures, by R. P. Andrew (review), 554
— Handling, mechanised, at Erith North
factory, 172
— Secar 250, 115
— Slag (Frodingham), 516
— See also Concrete
Cementation Group, international management conference, 33; expansion of activities, 477; Research headquarters at Maple Cross, 675; new divisions of, 675 Cementation Ltd., world-wide activities of, 613 Cemented carbides, Cutanit (Jessop-Saville Ltd.), 136
Census of distribution and other services. Board of Trade report, 143
Centec Machine Tools Ltd., Centec 2B milling machine with hydropneumatic table drive, 274; Centec Senior portable routing machine, 530
Centenary, oil, 114
— See also Bicentenary
Central Advisory Water Committee, report of, 250
— Electricity Generating Board, eventual
building control of atomic power stations, 96; trade agreement removal from Restrictive Trading Register, 173; H. C. Spear appointed chief personnel officer, 309; fuels for electricity generation, 311; atomic power station capacities, 311; See also Atomic power station; Power station
?— Heating. See Heating
— Housing Advisory Committee
report, 364
— Mine Building Research Institute
shaft sinking machine for mines,
— Office of Information, Commonwealth
Education (booklet), 27
Centre d’Etudes Nucleaires de Saclay, nuclear maser magnetometer, 384
Centrifugal fans (trade publication), 212, 258
— Pump. See Pump
Cenusa, atomic energy consortium (Spain), 122 Ceramics, ASTM standards (book), 134
•— Crystalline, Lucalox (General Electric Co. (US)), 388
— Glass, Pyroceram (Corning), 41
— from glass, by S. D. Stookey, 41
— Non-porous (Morgan Refractories), 388
— Plutonium, as atomic fuel, 96
— for re-entry vehicles, 208
Ceramica Veggia, Snowtop Kervit tiles, 651 CERN. See European Organisation for Nucl Research
Cerrarc primer for steel (Cellon Ltd.), 119
Chains, elevator, Acco Bloklink (trade publication), 40
— Pintle, 600 series (Locke), 688
Chair, dentistry, Euphorian (Walter Dorwin Teague Associates), 263
Chalk River, fabrication of uranium oxide fuel elements, 407
— •— NRU reactor, 378
Radioactive waste disposal, 535 Reactor school 379
Zed-2 reactor, 379 Chaloner, W. H., on Vulcan boiler centenary,
110
Chamberlain Industries Ltd., Herber tube bending machine, 368; Staffa units for hydrostatic tractor drive, 421; Stalfa hydraulic motor Mark V, 569
Chambers, S. P,, chairman, ICI, 27 Champion, F. C., on properties of matter (book), 618
Chance Bros. Ltd., Velio process for lead glass tubing, 31
Chancery Insulations Ltd,, acquisition of share capital by Universal Asbestos, 276
Chandos, Lord, on AEI reorganisation, 33; on development corporations, 430; on Institute of Directors, 462; on new organisation of AEI, 581
Channel tunnel, economics of, 239
Chantier Navales de la Pallice, atomic engineering activities, 205
Chapman, T., on AEU national executive, 277 Chapman, W. A. J., on workshop technology (book), 618
Chard, S., appointed Deputy Director of Ordnance Factories (Filling), 437
Charging machine for titanium heat treatment furnace, 690
Charlsworth, D. H., on insulation of reactor pressure tubes, 535
Charlesworth, Dr. R., on road improvement priorities formula, 185
Charlotte Dundas, steamer, 46
Charpy impact testing machines, support conditions for, 352
Charts, rubber extrudability (General Motors Corp.), 76
— Service (trade publication), 166
Chartered Electrical Engineer, on engineers’ earnings, 399
— Surveyors, annual conference, 114 Chaudesaigues, M. J., basilica of St. Pius X
(Lourdes), 281
Chayen, Mr. I. H., impulse process for protein production, 307
Chemical analysis. See Analysis
Chemical Construction (GB) Ltd., new plant for production of sulphur dioxide from ferrous sulphate, 388; flowsheet for design of sulphuric acid plant, 588. See LETTER, 599
— Engineering calculations, by E. J. Henley
and H. Bieber (book), 354
by E. Brandenberger (book), 166 department at CambridgeUniversity, 637 European Federation ~ ~
tion
Group proceedings;
1956-57 (book), 258 Introduction to, by
and G. F. Meenaghan (book), 386 Chemical Engineering Wiltons Ltd., process
plant (trade publication), 650
— Industry. See also Petroleum chemical
industry
— Laboratory, National. See National
of Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd., stainless steel cladding for, 475
— Milling. See Milling
— Processes, atomic-reactor heat for, 205
— Reactions, influence of physical factors
during, by D. A. Frank-Kamenetzki (review), 212
— Synthesis from carbon monoxide and
hydrogen, 68
Fischer-Tropsch process, 67, 68
— Technique heat exchangers, by R. Gregorig
(review), 165
— Vessels, heavy, non-stationary temperature
distribution in, by R. Neubauer (book), 418
Chemistry for engineering students, by R. Hum (book), 386
— Made easy, by Snell and Snell (book), 354
— Study of, at Johns Hopkins University, 309 Cheng, Chung-Chih, on transistor electronics
(review), 321-322
Cheng, D., on analysis of linear systems (book), 554
Chenley, R. B., on lanthanum fluoride coprecipitation of plutonium, 35
Cheque, payment by, 245
Chest and Heart Association, business executives conference, 153
Chettoe, C. S., Swan River Narrows bridge, 506 Chevrolet, aluminium for automobile castings, 218
— Corvair motor car, 345 motor car, heater for, 444
Chick, D. R., on particle accelerators, 342 Chiefton motor truck chassis (Albion), 659 Childe, H. L., editorial notes from Concrete and
Construcational Engineering (review), 418 Chimneys, reinforced concrete at CEGB’s
Northfleet power station, 443
China, agricultural production target statement, 115
— Market for heavy duty trucks from Leyland
Motors Ltd., 492
— Standards of living in, 462
— Tea clipper. Cutty Sark, 591
— Trade with, 428
with, by Lord Boyd-Orr, 631
— See also Chinese People's Republic
Chinese People’s Republic, at Leipzig Autumn Fair, 173
Chipboard, Plimber (British Plimber Ltd.), 652 Chipping of hand hammers, by A. H. Burn, 304 Chiswick flyover, 281, 314, 335
Chiswick Products Ltd., photo-electric cell for carton counting, 299
Chocks, self-advancing. Desford (A. G. Wild and Co.), 54
Christchurch, unemployment in, 28 Christian! and Nielsen, Swan River Narrows bridge, 506
Christina motor yacht, roll-damping fins on, 440 Christmas cards. Plain Words on, 662 Chromate passivation of cadmium plating, 291 Chromium carbide hard facing alloys, 426
— Plated coatings, duplex, 419
— -— Parts, corrosion tests for, 419
— Plating unit for Veriform process (Rockwell
Machine Tool Co.), 601
Chrysler Corp., motor car body finishing system, 363; ram induction system on V8 motor car engines, 372; activities in Europe, 381; total-contact brakes, 412 Chubb and Sons, strongroom doors for Bank of
Montreal, 559
Chuck, magnetic. Eclipse Permanent Electro
(James Neill and Co. (Sheffield) Ltd.), 117 Chugg, W., on glued laminated timbers, 377 Churchill Machine Tool Co. Ltd., cinema film on model NB horizontal spindle grinding machine, 31
Churchill-Redman P5 automatic lathe, automatic loading and unloading mechanism, 627
CIBA (A.R.L.) Ltd., Araldite epoxy resins (trade publication), 290; Araldite plastic X83/8 for fume duct at National Smelting Co., 292
Ciment Fondu cement, 115
Cincinnati guillotine shears (trade publication), 102
Cincinnati Shaper Co. Ltd., Cincinnati guillotine shears (trade publication), 102 Cinechrome Ltd., “Time to Think” export promotion film of ICT, 16
Cinema film. See Film, cinema Circuit breaker. See Switchgear
— Multivibrator, by A. H. Bruinsma (review),
617
?— Printed, by P. Eisler (book), 134
— Radio, by W. E. Miller and E. A. W.
Spreadbury (book), 354
— Robot, practical, by A. H. Bruinsma (re
view), 617
— Transistor, by K. W. Cattermole (book), 514 Principles of, by S. W. Amos (review),
321-322
Circulator, gas, drive for atomic reactor, 205 Cis-polybutadiene synthetic rubber, 483 Cis-polyisoprene synthetic rubber, 483
Citroen Cars Ltd., Bijou, new version 2CV, 644 City and Guilds of London Institute, New and
Revised Schemes for the Session 1959-1960, 469
City of Melbourne motor liner (A. Stephen and Son Ltd.), 455
Civil Engineers, appointment of consultants by Ministry of Transport, discussion in Parliament, 467
Institution of. See Institution
— Engineering contracts. Government, discus
sion in Parliament on, 603
Contractors, Federation of. See Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors Films, 675
— — Models, 675
Nuclear explosions in, 438
Scholarship Trust, awards, 61; scholarships awarded by, 579
Sites, safety course on, 93
— Service, shortage of engineers and scientists
in, 277
Commissioners, annual report, 277 Cladding panels, exposed aggregate, for office
block (John Ellis and Sons Ltd.), 542
— Stainless steel, for chemical laboratory of
Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd., 475
Clamp, adjustable, for welding (Interlas Ltd.), 198
— Jig, Cone-Lok (F. Pratt and Co. Ltd.), 150
— Toggle, Speetog vertical lift (Speed Tools
Ltd.), 528
— Vacuum, for welding (Vacuum Industrial
Applications Ltd.), 196
— Work, air-operated, Fein (Verrolec), 496 Clapham, M. J. S., appointed chairman, ICI
metals division, 405
Clark Bros., development of Weir-Clark compressors, 491
Clark, D., on plane surveying for engineers (book), 102
Clark, R. L., on forge rolling fof cover plates, 502
Clarke, A., on information officers and librarians, 463-464
Clarke, W. G., heavy water solutions of uranyl fluoride (HAZEL), Part 2, 7; single-zone U233 thoria slurry reactors, 7.
Clarkson (Engineers) Ltd., twist drills (trade publication), 102
Clausen, H., on caste system, 528 Clays, fire. See Refractory materials Claylastic plastic/metal extruded trim sections,
619
Clayton, A. E., on d.c. machines, performance and design (book), 354
Clayton Crane and Hoist Co. Ltd., overhead cranes (trade publication), 40
Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd., motor vehicle equipment (trade publication), 212
Clayton-Wright, Howard, Claylastic trim sections, 619
Clean Air Act, mechanical stokers under, 31 National Society for. See National
Society
Year Book, 1959 (book), 102
— Production, Garnet Products Ltd., 110 Cleaning, gas, open-hearth furnace, 111
— of multi-storey buildings, 537
— Tube, at tar distillery, 31
Cleanser, Duckham’s Hand (A. Duckham and Co. Ltd.), 287
Cleco Electric Industries Ltd., side loading fork trucks (trade publication), 40
Clements, R., on Glory without power (review), 617
Clerk Maxwell memorial lecture on human aspect of engineering progress, by Dr. V. K. Zworykin, 373
Cleveland Bridge Engineering Co. Ltd., river Tamar suspension bridge, 377; Tranmere oil jetty, 442
Cleverdon, C. W., on computer aids, 496 Clifton Bridge, Nottingham, model testing for,
60
Climatic Controls Ltd., air conditioning plant for Garnet Products Ltd., 110
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Climax Rock Drill and Engineering Ltd., mining equipment for Russia, 276
Clock, astronomical, for Financial Times offices, 557
— Atomic, for orbiting satellite (Hughes
Aircraft Co.), 255
Clothing, protective, neoprene-coated, for tunnelling gangs, 347
— Special, for high-precision instrument
manufacture, 329
Clough, J. O., and Son Pty. Ltd., Swan River Narrows bridge, 506
Clutch, miniature drive as (Tiltman Langley), 76
- — Motor controls (Marine Engineering), 686 Clyde graving dock scheme, 270
— Lighthouses Trust, new equipment for
Cumbrae Lighthouse, 520
— Navigation Trust, financial interest in
Greenock graving dock, 51
— “ Puffer ” ship Lascar, conversion to diesel
power (J. and J. Hay Ltd.), 520
— Tunnel, new, discussion in Parliament, 467
— Unified port authority for, 51 COo. See Carbon dioxide Coach, motor. See motor vehicle Coal, ASTM standards (book), 134
— Bearing strata, blasting in, photographic
analysis of, by Dr. E. M. Patterson, 253
— Bituminous, mining with water jets, 522
— Board, National. See National
— Burning furnaces with mechanical stokers
for smokeless areas, 31
— Cutter, electrohydraulic (Siskol), 53
Water distributor for dust suppression, 486
— Demand, decreased estimates, 115
— Elevator for (Bennis Combuation Ltd.), 149
— Fired boilers. See Boilers
— Gas. See Gas
— for gas industry, 302
— Gasification underground, 50
— Industry, “ come-back ” campaign in, 302 Future of, 89
in Holland, 527
Position and prospects of, 302, 367
— Mine. See Colliery
?— Mining with water jets, 522 Industry. See Coal industry
— Output statistics, ECSC, 239
— Revised plan for, NCB, 367
— Sales policy, by Lord Mills, 51
— Supplies, surplus in, 367
— Tar coatings for concrete, 684
Epoxy coating, Epi-Tar (Corrosion Ltd.), 219
— Washing plant, Humboldt, manufacturing
agreement, 613
— Winner conversion unit for Anderton
Shearer machines (N. J. Muschamp and Co. Ltd.), 53
— See also European Coal and Steel Commun
ity
Coales, J. F., review of Automatic Measurement of (Quality in Process Plants, 257-258; biographical note, 258
Coalminers, redundancy of, 89 Coatings for concrete, 683
Coatings, duplex nickel (W. Canning and CoLtd.), 218
— Epoxy, coal tar, Epi-Tar (Corrosion Ltd.),
219
— Fire retardent, Albi-R (trade publication),
586
— Glass, of ductile and SG iron fittings, 587
— Plastics, machinery (Mather and Platt), 198
— — Plasinter process, 104
— Protective, for steel (Coating Contractors
Ltd.), 260
— Rubber, for concrete, 684
— Silbestos (Sprayed Insulations Ltd.), 541
— System, vinyl resin, for sector gates of St.
Lawrence Seaway, 388
— Vinyl resin, for radar installation in North
Atlantic, 675
— See also Electroplating
Coatings Contractors Ltd., protective coatings for steel, 260; rubber coatings for concrete, 684
Cobalarc hard-facing welding electrodes (Quasi-Arc Ltd.), 356
Cobalt alloy hard facing alloys, 426
— Unit, rotating, Mobaltron IV, for oxygena
tion therapy (Nuclear Engineering), 263
Cobex rigid pvc for ventilation ducts at National Chemical Laboratory, 292
Codd, J., temperature coefficient of reactivity, 7
Coding system for data for telephone transmission, 32
Cohen Council on Prices, Productivity and Incomes, 3rd report of, 50
Cohen, George, Sons and Co. Ltd., Jones KLlO-10 mobile crane, 570; plant disposal at Rota naval base, 628
Coil, servo, for precision dynamometer, 615
— Spring Federation Research Organisation,
book of spring specifications, 136
— Steel strip, electrolytic tinning of, 362
?—-Torque, for precision dynamometer, 615 Coinage decimal, for New Zealand, 494 for South Africa, 494 in UK, prospects of, 494
Coke, ASTM standards (book), 134
— as blast-furnace fuel, introduction of, 248
— Ovens, W-D Becker combination underjet,
at MCPP (Woodhall-Duckham), 171 Coking plant at MCPP (Woodall-Duckham), 171
Cold-Cure Silastomer cold curing-silicone rubbers (Midland Silicones Ltd.), 356 Cold forging. See Forging
— Storage buildings, frost action below, 159.
See LETTER, 496
Cole, Dr. B. N., on restoring deformed parts, 521
Cole, Dr. G. H., on pinch effect, 407
Cole, R. H., and Co., Makrolon polycarbonate plastics, 420
Coleman, L. F., on reprocessing by pyrometallurgy, 574
Collacott, Dr. R. A., on plastic flow patterns, 646
Collapsible cores, for use with hollow prestressed concrete piles (J. Mowlem), 315
College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering, Wakefield Memorial Lecture, by P. Masefield, 25
?— of Aeronautics, Cranfield. See Cranfield —? See under specific name or subject Collet, Multisize (F, Burnerd and Co. Ltd.), 665 Collett’s Holdings Ltd., 1960 list of Russian periodicals, 353
Colliery, Agecroft, tunnel driving at, 23
— Closure of, 367 Plans of NCB, 115
Colliery, J. G., two-phase heat transfer, 8
— in South Wales and Monmouthshire, 499
— See also Mines; Coal
Collins, R. W., review of Pressurised Packaging (Aerosols), 166; biographical note on, 166 Collins Submarine Pipelines Overseas Ltd., pipeline in Ga Lagoon, Gulf of Guinea, 578
Collisions. See Accidents
Collister, E. R., and Associates, architectengineer relationship in, 675; North Thames Gas Board building, 675
Colloidal dispersions, foliac (trade publication), 650
Colloquium on Model Structures (Madrid), 60 Colonial Development Corp., financial structure inquiry, 83
Colonial and Eagle Wharves, foremen selection and training by NllP, 637
Colorplaster natural stone facing (Glamorock), 652
Colour Galbestos laminate (Robertson Thain),
652
Colston, Charles Ltd., dish washing machine, 563, 596
— Dishwashing machine, 563, 596
— Research Society, structure and properties
of porous materials, by D. H. Everett and F. S. Stone (review),289
Colt Ventilation Ltd., Turbo-Static oil fired air heater, 432
Colton, Arthur Co., Colton-Hope can filler, 664 Colton-Hope can filler (Arthur Colton Co.), 664
Column sections, British Standard, 207 Combustion Chemicals Ltd., Desulfurol
additive for residual fuel oil, 556
—? Engineering Association, conference on automatic control of solid fuel boilers, 398 Combustion Engineering, contract for military field atomic power plants, 439
Combustion Engineering-General Nuclear Engineering Corp., integral boiling superheated reactors, 64
— Gases and air, thermodynamic properties of,
by O. Lutz and F. Wolf (book), 482
— and gasification, equilibrium gases of, by
A. Grumbt (review), 165
— Institute, seventh symposium (International)
on Combustion (book), 650
— Seventh Symposium (International) on
(book), 650
Comet airliners for BEA, 549 Flight simulator, BEA, 655 for Misrair, 627
Comet 4 airliner (de Havilland), 215 Airliner, air-circulation ovens on GEC
Ltd.), 295 Airliner, radome for, 323 Comitato Nazionale per le Richerche Nucleari, electrodialysis stack, 30
Commer TS3 diesel power unit for underfloor applications (Rootes Group), 264 Commerce, computers place in, by C. M. Berners-Lee, 473
— Education for, report on, 57
Commercial Translator for programming electronic computers (IBM United Kingdom Ltd.), 331
Committee on Consumer Protection, 48; Safety in the home, 460
Commonwealth education (booklet), 27
— Graduate engineers in Britain, 398
— Institute, materials for, 675
— Research, Overseas Research Council on, 32
— Scientific and Industrial Research Organ
isation (Australia), vibration and shock isolation, by J. A. Macinante (review), 418
— Spaceflight Symposium, Hawker Siddeley
papers, 89 ; report of, 114, 154; spacevehicle engineering, 208
— Standards Conference (Ottawa), progress in
alignment of industrial standards, 362
— Telephone cable, 571
— Thorium resources in, 471
— Uranium production and resources in, 470
— Weeks, 501
— See also Australia: etc.
Communication equipment, transistorised marine (Siemens Edison Swan Ltd.), 198
— Speech, system for Dorman Long’s
Lackenby Works (Tannoy), 31
— System at Upminster railway depot, 267
— and transport, critical importance of, by
Sir E. Smith, 124. See also 113 Communications, International Society
Aviation Writers, 385 Communists on AEU executive, 245 Compaction work, road, Yuba Southwest rollers and sprinkler tanks for (trade publication), 554
Companhia Portuguesa de Industrias Nucleates (CPIN), formation of, 283
Compania Shell de Venezuela, Cardon firefighting tug for, 455
Company, forming in France (report), 80
— Ownership directory. Who Owns Whom, 88
— Private, formation of, by D. Barker and
A. P. Halberstam, 513
— Small, finance for, 349 Compass, gyro (Sperry), 492 on MV Port Fairey, 660 Competition for highway bridge design in US,
winners in, 411
Complaining, Plain Words on, 462 Component dispenser, Rotasembler (Work Study Equipments), 497
Compressed air (trade publications), 212 Service at Warren Spring Laboratory, 68 System for Netherlands electric power station, 361
See also Pneumatic
— Gas cylinders. See Gas
Compression cycle for blade-type blower, 325 Compressor, air. See Air
of
Computers, advanced, research aid for, 25
— Analogue (Short Brothers and Harland), 305 Control of digital computer by, 511 Emiac 11, for suspension design, 476 IBM 704, for de-icing study on Lockheed
Electra aircraft, 583
Pace TRIO (Electronic Associates Inc.), 570
for structural problems by Dr. J. P. Jones, 280
— Applications of, 229
to plasticity problems, by Dr. R. K. Livesley, 280
— Automatic analogue, for missile homing
investigations, by J. G. Thomason, 511
— as design and production tools, 509
— Digital, Atlas, development of (Ferranti),
239
Characteristics of, 229
Controlled by analogue computer, 511 —? — Economic use of, by Dr. D. Brotton, 280
— — for electronic telephone exchange,
Dollis Hill, 552
History and development of, by Dr. C. M. Wilson, 280
Matrix analysis of, by Prof. J. H. Argyris, 280
Pegasus, for transformer design, 73 Spectrophotometer output fed to, 583 Speed of, discussion at lEE, 511
— for electrical machinery design, 509
— electronic, New language for programming,
331
Solution of partial differential equations by relaxation on, by Prof. D. N. de G. Allen, 280
-— Emidec 2400, for Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 509
— in iron and steel industry, conference on,
BISRA (review), 386
— Misuse of, by J. A. Goldsmith, 18
— Orders, new, 508
— Pegasus, for Road Research Laboratory
(Ferranti Ltd.), 579
for Steel Co. of Wales (Ferranti Ltd.), 579
Users’ conference, 120
— Programme for hyperfine flux structure of
fuel elements, 439
for power transformer design, by M. A. Spurway, 73
— for railway timetables, 230
— as research aid in US, 479. See LETTER, 496
— Sales problems, 120
— for smaller firm, conference, 473
— Society, British. See British
— in structural engineering, symposium on use
of, at Southampton University, 280
— Trade mission from West Germany, 596
— for transformer design, 509
— in transport, by Brig. G. H. Hinds, 229
— UNIVAC, in rudder flutter study, 584 Computing methods and applications, highspeed, by S. H. Hollingdale (review), 386
Concatenation at Thorex pilot plant, 575 Concrete, air in, meter for measuring (trade publication), 514
— Architecture in Scandinavia, 410
— Association. See Cement and Concrete
— Beams, precast prestressed, for Chiswick
flyover, 315
— Buildings, developments in, 546
—? Casing of encased steel stanchions, 376
— Chimneys, reinforced, at CEGB’s North
fleet power station, 443
— Coatings for, 683
— Colour and pattern of finished, 537 Concrete and Constructional Engineering,
editorial notes from, by H. L. Childe (review), 418
— Cooling in Klang Gates dam, 578
— Delivering machine, Durogun (Warsop
Power Tools Ltd.), 529
— Dry, for prestressed piles for Esso oil
refinery jetty (J. Mowlem), 315
— Floor, (5mnia, for storage depot at King’s
Lynn, 281
— Handling, Fulflo conveyor feeder for
(Wickham Engineering), 22
— Hardener for dustless industrial floors
(trade publication), 554
— Joints and cracks in, by P. L. Citchell
(book), 258
— Lightweight aggregate from sintered pul
verised fuel ash for (Lytag Ltd.), 475
— for London-Birmingham motorway, 177 Concrete Ltd., nylon cores for prestressed
concrete, 119; Bison precast concrete units for multi-storey flats, 541
— Material, lightweight. Siporex, for buildng
construction, 410
Lightweight, Ytong, 410
— Mixer, mobile, Mixer-Master (Blaw Knox
Ltd.), 530
7T tilting (Stothert and Pitt Ltd.), 529
— Mixing machine. Plowmixer (Frederick
Parker Ltd.), 466
— Derating process for, 683
— Panels, wall-size load-bearing, 546
— Pile, Delta (H.D. Foundations), 443
Hollow prestressed, for Esso oil refinery jetty (J. Mowlem), 315
— Practice, vol. 1, by R. H. Elvery (book), 102
— Precast, Bureau of. See International
Bureau
Flooring and ceiling panel. Waffle, for Winfrith Heath offices (Modular Concrete Co. Ltd.), 475
for jetty at Milford Haven refinery, 346
— ?— for multi-storey buildings, 536
Practical applications of vibration for, 443
for Swan River Narrows bridge, 506 Units, Bison, for multi-storey flats (Concrete Ltd.), 541
— Prestressed, in bridge construction, 181 in buildings, BSS, 643
Construction at Southampton Docks, 568
— ?—• Nylon cores for (Concrete Ltd.), 119
— — Spiral anchor grip for (Cable Covers
Ltd.), 411
for Swan River Narrows bridge, 506
— Radiators, 160
— Reinforced, in bridge construction, 181
— ?— Bridge for Sydney Harbour, 30
Concrete, reinforced, buildings at Liverpool University (Holland and Hannen and Cubitts Ltd.), 443
for Chiswick flyover, 314
Deck for Doncaster highway bridge replacement, 610
for flats, 536
Glazing unit (Atlas Stone Co.), 651 for multi-storey buildings, 536
? Prometo sliding shuttering for, 547
for Tancarville bridge towers, 92 Tensile cracks in, research on, 443
— Roads, Fisher joint for (Dickens Ltd.), 579 Jointing, Fisher Joint (S, B. Dickens
Ltd.), 315
— — Vehicle wear tests on, 23
— Shielding blocks, transporters for, 293
— Shuttering, polyethylene lining for, 539
— Structures, model testing of, by Cement and
Concrete Association, 51, 60
Strength of, proceedings of symposium by the Cement and Concrete Association, by R. P. Andrew (review), 554
— Surface treatments for, 683
— Technology, courses in, lists from Cement
and Concrete Association, 315
Condenser, graphite cartridge, vapours (Powell Duflryn ducts Ltd.), 337
— in tankers, prevention of
investigation into by John (Clydebank) Ltd., 422
— Tubes, hydraulic-pneumatic
chine for (Hymatic Engineering), 570
Conditions of Contract, Institution of Civil Engineers, 93
Conducting walls, influence on wriggling gas discharge, 36
Conductor, cylindrical, diffusion of magnetic fields in, 36
— Rectifiers, semi-. See Semi-conductor
Cone-Lok jig clamp (F. Pratt and Co. Ltd.), 150 Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, deputation on aircraft industry, 238; wage claim, 526; demand for wage increase and forty hour week, 637
Conference, Anglo-American Aeronautical. See Anglo-American
— Aslib, improved techniques in the building
industry, 475
— August Bank Holiday, IWS, 501
— Automatic control of solid fuel boilers, 398
— British Insurance (Atomic Energy) Com
mittee, 380
— Chartered Surveyors, 114
— Chest and Heart Association, 153
— Commonwealth Spaceflight Symposium,
89, 114, 154, 208
Standards (Ottawa), progress in alignment of industrial standards, 362
— on computers in the iron and steel industry,
BISRA (review), 386
for the smaller firm, 473
— European market research (EPA), 173
— of European Postal and Telecommunica
tions Services, 571
— Forest machinery (Seattle, 1960), 50
— High Temperature Physics, 406
— on Information in the Building Industry,
preliminary notice (Aslib), 553
— International Agricultural Aviation, 357 Air Traffic Association, 367
— Ionisation phenomena, Uppsala, 406
— Management, of Cementation Group, 33
— Montreal, scholarships and fellowships
target, 57
— National Society for Clean Air, 334
— Nuclear fusion, London, 406 Fusion, Uppsala, 406
— Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, 2nd of
for corrosive Carbon Pro-
undercooling,
Brown and Co.
transfer ma-
International (Geneva), publication proceedings of, 247
— Pegasus computer users’, 120
— on Presentation and Interpretation
Technical Information, Aslib, 321
— Publicising for Canberra liner, 331
— Society of Instrument Technology
national certificates, 245
— World Marketing (Chicago), 332
— Young presidents, 201
Congress of Federation Internationale de la Precontrainte, by R. P. Andrew (book). Correction, 514
— Ground subsidence, proceedings of, 93
— International Astronautical, 114, 154 Scientific Film Association, 382 Coniston, hull roll damping device for. Connecting boxes, flameproof (W.
Nelson Ltd.), 569
— Rod failure investigation, 685 Connectors, electrical, manufacture
(BlCC-Burndy Ltd.), 395
Connell, Charles, and Co. Ltd., berth 65,000 dw vessels, 381
Connor, W. S., fractional factorial experiment designs for factors at three levels (book), 40 Conquest lawn mower (Ransome), 80 Conservative Party, election manifesto, 238 Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co. Ltd., tar distillery tube cleaning equipment, 31; Reich 155 well-point drilling machine, 432; reorganisation in integration with Reich- drill Manufacturing Co., 445
Consortia, atomic energy, French, 283
Energy, Portuguese, 283
Energy, Spain, 122
Energy, Sud-Atome, 639
Energy, Sweden, 123 Energy, Swiss, 282, 283
Constitutional diagrams of uranium and thorium alloys, 639
Construction (trade publication), 514
— Architectural, materials and methods of, by
H. Parker, C, M. Gay and J. W. MacGuire (review), 553
— Work, increase in, 119 State, in New Zealand, 61 Constructional industry, position and prospects
of, 659
Statistics, 675
— Steelwork Association, British, See British
Constructional Steelwork
— Work overseas, British, information on, 207 Consultants, management, advertising by, 271 Consumers Advisory Council, activities of,
524; Shoppers' Guide (publication) 524
359
&
in
on
H.
UK
for
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Consumers Association Ltd., Plain Words on, 238. See LETTER, 336; activities of, 524; IVhichl (publication), 524
— Goods industries, executives to work in
North American stores, 331
— Protection bodies, 605
Committee on. See Committee
need, TUC on, 605
Contacts, electrical, lubricant for. Electrolube, 452
Containers, rubber 273
— Plastics,
chine for (Amigo Machine Co.), 85
— Road/rail, design of, 228
— Shipping, ASTM standards (book), 134
— Transport, electrically heated (GEC), 665
— Trolley, of light alloy (Light Alloy Con
struction Ltd.), 465
Containment, atomic reactor. See Atomic reactor
Contamination monitor, portable, dual phosphor (EMI Electronics Ltd.), 528
Continental motoring, by W. Hutton (review), 354
Continental Publishers and Distributors Ltd., centenary of, 581
Contourmatic profile milling machine (High Precision Equipment Ltd.), 117
Contract, conditions of. Institution of Civil Engineers, 93
— Government, for building and civil-engi
neering works, discussion in Parliament on, 603
— Hire of motor cars. Autohall Ltd., 381 Contractors, Civil Engineering, Federation of.
See Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors
— Prospects for, by R. M. Douglas, 523
— Returns, figures from Ministry of Works,
251
Control, automatic, of boilers using solid fuel, conference, 398
of industrial processes (System Engineering Group of de Havilland Propellers Ltd.), 384
Principles of, by F. E. Nixon (review), 618
in Russia, 626
— Bi-Stat sequence (Brookhirst-Igranic Ltd.),
241
— Boiler pump (McDonnell and Miller), 264 —? Clutch, motor (Marine Engineering), 686
— Course, Harwell Reactor School, 439
— Desk for Dinslaken oil refinery, 691
—? — Sound (Marconi), 655
— Electronic, for wavemaker at Ship Hydro
dynamics Laboratory (AEl), 518
—? Engineering of automatic weighing installation in bitumen mixing plant (Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd.), 251
— Equipment exhibition, Elliott Nucleonics,
120
at MCPP (Woodhall-Duckham, Fox- boro-Yoxall), 171
— Instruments, marketing in Canada (Ever-
shed-Powertronic Ltd.), 395
— Levers, Bloctube, for Brave Borderer, 389
— Machine tool, hydraulic gearbox for
(Ferranti), 454
— Pedestal for Voith-Schneider propellers, 590
— Process, in non-ferrous metals production,
inspection techniques as aids to (book), 134
— Programme. Dial-a-Cycle, on Mil-Waukee-
Mil bed-type milling machine (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.), 274
—? Quality, by optical instruments, 583
— Remote, in Hermes aircraft carrier, 609 Television camera with (BBC), 255
— Rod. See Atomic reactor control rod
— System, Datatrol on Spirametric Jigmil
milling machine (A. Herbert Ltd.), 241 Electronic machine, mobile Automation, mobile demonstration unit (EMI Electronics Ltd.), 299
for NPD and NRX reactors, 378 in pebble-bed reactor, Positional, electronic, 658
Temperature, Sunvic, with (Hedin Ltd.), 197
— Tape, for turret head
collapsible, liquid, of reinforced nylon (Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.),
Blowmaster blow moulding ma-
Conveyor idlers, Flexiroll system (trade publication), 40
— Overhead (trade publication), 40
— Portable, in building, 548
— Roller, for Argosy freighter aircraft
(Armstrong Whitworth), 170
— Transportable, with electric drive (Richard
Sutcliffe Ltd.), 633
— “ Two Hundred ” driving head for (Richard
Sutcliffe Ltd.), 54
— Vibratory, for low headroom (Sinex
Engineering Co. Ltd.), 665
Conway, H. G., on vertical take-off, 189 Coodes and Partners, Dartford-Purfleet Tunnel, 93
Cooksley, A. and Co. Ltd., saw bench, 529 Coolant pump (SEM), 52
Coolers, air, at .Milford Haven refinery, 347
Cooling aircraft cabins, Godfrey CA-7 Mk cold air unit for, 215
— Panel, wall, heating, lighting and, 16
— Tower, industrial, by K. K. McKelvey and
M. Brooke (review), 39
Polygrid Plastic Packing, moulded packings for, 579
— Water, by VGB (review), 166
Cooper, B., BO AC Book of Flight (review), 649
Cooper, McDougall and Robertson, aerosol production, 445
Cooper, R., review of Nonlinear Problems in Random Theory, 101, 102
Cooperative exports. See Exports
Copeman, G., on role of the managing director (review), 585
Copenhagen, concrete architecture in, 410
Copolymer of styrene and acrylonitrile, Tyril 767 (Distrene), 103
Styrene, acrylonitrile and butadiene, Cycolac (Anchor), 103
Copper alloys. See Brass; Gunmetal
— Development Association, Hot Brass
Pressing (book), 292
— Plating with Elchem levelling additives, 588
— Roofing tiles (Marsland and Co.), 80
— Sheeting and glass fibre based bitumen
roofing material (Ruberoid), 80
Copying, face. Swift tyj^ TA right angle chucking lathe
Ltd.), 242
— Hydraulic, lathe
339
— Techniques for
for (Drummond-Asquith
attachment (Strojexport),
156
for Rolls-Royce,
laboratory ovens
drilling machine, Airmec Vero (Catmur Machine Corp.), 602
— Teleprinter system at Ford Motor
expansion, 459
— Unit, electric automatic torque, for
expander (Charles Wicksteed and Co. Ltd.), 464
Motor, type MCU (Electrical Remote Control Ltd.), 21
Controlled atmospheres (trade publications), 258
Controllers, electric motor. See Motors, electric
— Level, Leveltron, for liquids and solids
(Thomas Industrial Autornation Ltd.), 272
— Precision temperature, Winston-United
Steels (Winston Electronics Ltd.), 150
—? Sequence (trade publication), 212
— Temperature, Bikini (Fielden Electronics
Ltd.), 432
Convair 600, jet freight-passenger airliners for Swissair and SAS, 396
Convention for Safety of Life at Sea,
— Security control in nuclear energy.
Conveyor belt covering materials, 71 • Distington-Goodman Ropex
Steel Companies), 54
? for granular materials (Birtley Engi
neering Ltd.), 391
Idlers and rollers for (trade publication), 40
for moving people, development progress, 358
Width, nomogram for finding (Sandvik Steel Band Co.), 170
— Belting, nylon, 71 Terylene, 71 ?—? Bridge, for Samson loader (Mavor
Coulson), 54
— Feeder, Fluflo, for handling aggregate
concrete (Wickham Engineering), 22
— Heat treatment line at Caterpillar’s
Tannochside factory, 220
Tool
Co.,
tube
28
283
(United
or
the drawing office, by H. Easterbrook, R. A. Dixey, E. J. Aslin and W. H. Barrett (book), 322
Cores, collapsible, for use with hollow prestressed concrete piles (J. Mowlem), 315
— Nylon, for prestressed concrete (Concrete
Ltd.), 119
Cork with nitrile rubber for gasket material (British Technical Cork Products), 516
Corlett, E. C. B., on marine organic-moderated reactor, 379
Cornice lighting for Portsmouth Guildhall (GEC Ltd.), 541
Cornigliano SpA, electrostatic precipitator for open-hearth furnace gas cleaning, 1’11
Corning Glass Works, Pyroceram glassceramics, 41
Coronado jet freight-passenger airliners for Swissair and SAS, 396
Coronet range sound insulators for panels, partitions and ceilings, 492
Corporate enterprises, tax treatment, by C. Cosciani (review), 257
Correspondence of Isaac Newton (CUP), 385 Corrodkote corrosion test for chromium- plated parts, 419
Corrosion Committee, work of, 259
Corrosion Ltd., Epi-Tar, coal tar epoxy coating, 219
— Marine, Corrosion Committee’s work on,
259
— Protective film in, 135
— Rate of atomic fuel slurries, 503
— of surfaces, discussion at Dechema meeting,
135
— Test, CASS, for chromium-plated parts, 419 Corrodkote, for chromium-plated parts,
419
-on steel in sea water, 259
Corrosive vapours, graphite cartridge condenser for (Powell Duffryn Carbon Products Ltd.), 337
Corvair motor car, heater for (Chevrolet), 444 Car, rear-engined (Chevrolet), 345 Coryton oil refinery, safety record, 121 Cosciani, C., on tax treatment of corporate and non-corporate enterprises (review), 257
Coseley Buildings Ltd., prefabricated aluminium roofs for small buildings, 61; main steel framed and asbestos sheeted structure for storage depot at King’s Lynn, 281; unit buildings (trade publication), 554
Cosmetics, silicones for, 112
Cossor Instruments Ltd., Hydraudyne model 1063 pressure measurement instrument, 21 Cost of accidents, by G. H. Stuart Price, 669
— Atomic power station, by F. H. S. Brown
and J. Henderson, 96
— of labour turnover (pamphlet), 27
— of large engineering operations, by E.
Campini (book), 554
?— of water supply from Ranney collector installation, 474
Costain, Richard, Ltd., Maidstone by-pass, 118; Port of Guayaquil dreding contract to, 251
Costing, use of computer for, 473 Cotswold village model, 673 Cotterill, J. C., on spectrographic determination of magnesium in bismuth-uranium alloys, 36
Cotton, Sir A., irrigation work in India, 14 Cotton Board, training scheme grant, 599 Council of Industrial Design, record of approved designers, 30; Plain Words on activities of, 238. See LETTERS, 303, 336; Mr. D. M. Oppenheim, chairman of, 605
— and their houses ( report), 309
— of Underground Machinery Manufacturers,
Mining Machinery Exhibition (Olympia), 53
Counter, batch recording (Electronic Machine Co. Ltd.), 370
Type BCP, 10 programme capacity (Electronic Machine Co.), 601
— Electronic transistorised (Electronic Ma
chine Co. Ltd.), 299
— Miniature, low-torque, for indicating
degrees (Smiths Aviation Division), 498
— Proportional, helium 3 fast neutron
spectrometer as, 36
— Scintillation, in aerial surveying, 504
—? — Method of comparing neutron source strengths, 671
Counting, Beta, of uranium 237 tunium 239, 36
Counting Instruments Ltd., series display units, 52
County councils, district councils’ from, 573
and nep-
100 digital
delegation
Couplings, flexible. Turboflex (Turbomachines Ltd.), 496
— Induction, TASC (Pye Electric Ltd.), 434
— Magnetic particle, for tension control of
paper, 489
— See also Clutch
Courses, concrete technology, lists from Cement and Concrete Association, 315
— Control, Harwell Reactor School, 439
— Instrumentation, Harwell Reactor School,
439
— Management, BISF, at Ashorne Hill, 17 Training, Prof. N. Hunt on, 526
— Nuclear energy, in OEEC countries, 205
— Operational research, Birmingham Uni
versity, 57
— Radiation protection, AERE, Harwell, 439
— Radioactivity in water treatment and sewage
works, 535, 539
— Russian for scientists, 121
— Safety on civil engineering sites, 93
— Science, for army staff officers, 153
— Timber engineering, 539
— United Steel Cos. short residential, 201
— University, duration of, comment on, 429 —? Welding design and aluminium construction,
by Institute of Welding and Aluminium Development Association, 377
— Works and plant engineers’, Leeds Uni
versity, 277
Courtaulds Ltd., annual report, 120; fluidised carbon for recovery of carbon disulphide, 260; price reduction for Courtelle, 595
— Technical Services, progress report, 120 Courtelle acrylic fibre, price reduction, 595 Coventry Climax Engines Ltd., extensions to
marketing organisations, 491; “H”
series multi-fuel engine, 561
Covers, machinery, F.R. Polythene for (Swains Papercraft Ltd.), 292
Glass reinforced polyethylene for (Swains Papercraft Ltd.), 292
— Plates, Zircaloy, forge rolling of, 502 Cowan, C. L., Jr., on anti-neutrinos, 311 Cowley Concrete Co. Ltd., precast beam units
for Chiswick flyover, 315
Cowlin, Wm., and Son, multi-storey garage for Bristol, 119
Cowper, E. A., regeneration stove, 248
Cox, E. S., on diesel engines and gas turbines in rail transport, 234
Cracks and joints in concrete, by P. L. Critchell (book), 258
— Tensile, in reinforced concrete, research
on, 443
— in welds, 141-142
Craelius Co. Ltd., ZH50 grouting pump with adjustable pressure, 466
Crane Carrier (Canada), Mixer-Master mobile concrete mixer, 530
— Clean lines (Stothert and Pitt), 105
— Heavy duty, NCK-Rapier Pennine (Newton
Chambers and Co. Ltd.), 197
— Helicopter, Sikorsky S-60, 655
— for Hinkley Point atomic power station, 75
— and hoists (trade publication), 40
— Mobile, Jones KL10-10 (George Cohen,
Sons and Co. Ltd.), 570
— Overhead (trade publication), 40
Depiling, for aluminium slabs (Geo. W. King Ltd.), 266
Crane Packing Ltd., single rotating seal with ESW extended surface seat, 486
— Rotodyne airliner as “ flying,” 23
— Tower, in building, by J. F. Eden, 545
— Travelling, Monotower, for shipyards (Butters Bros,), 624
— See also Derrick; Hoist; Transporter Crane, Dr. W. W. T., on isotopic
supply, 208
Cranfield College of Aeronautics, national Agricultural Aviation ference, 357
Crankshafts, flame hardening, 78 Craven Bros. Ltd,, annual report, 33 Craven Machine Too! Gazette, 481 Crawfords Advertising Service, guide marketing in Canada (booklet), 47 Crawley, development progress, 245 Credit facilities for exports, FBI memorandum, 25
Creighton, H., review on Acoustics, Noise and Buildings, 481; biographical note, 482 Creswell Viaduct over Birmingham-Preston- Penrith motorway, 61
Crews for jet airliners, 635 Critchell, P. L., joints and cracks in concrete
(book), 258
Crittall Manufacturing Co. Ltd., plastics for metal-cored window frame, 541
Crompton Parkinson Ltd., installation of electrical machinery drive for United States Metallic Packing Co. Ltd., 173; diesel electric traction (trade publication), 212; cable for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459; substation equipment for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459; switchgear for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459; trading report, 549
Crooks, R. N., radioactivity of cooling gas, 6 Crouch, E. G, H., on calculation of fission product accumulation, 35
Crown glass fibre for thermal and sound insulation (Fibreglass Ltd,), 219
Crowther, J. G., on Six Great Engineers (review), 649
Croydon Airport, closure of, 373
Crucible Steel Co., titanium in X-15 research aircraft, 480
Cruiser, Long Beach, atomic-propelled, launching of, 247
Crusher, roll, Pennsylvania Hercules (Fraser and Chalmers), 401
Crystals, whisker, non-metallic, research on properties of, 352
Crystallisation, fractional, of fission products, 575
Csanady, G. T., on thermodynamic relationships, 527
Cubitts-Fitzpatrick-Shand, London-Birmingham motorway paving record, 207
Culham nuclear fusion research centre, 406 Cultivator, rotary. Gardenmaster (Landmaster), 80
Cumbrae Lighthouse, compressors for, 520 New equipment for, 520
Cunard Line, death of Col. D. Bates, 201; replacement of Queen liners, committee on, 201
Cuneo, T., paintings for John Laing, 57 Cunic partitioning for offices (Holland &
Hannen and Cubitts (G.B.), 542
Cunningham, Sir G., Fellow of Imperial College, 405
Cunningham, J. E., aqueous uranyl fluoride solutions: Part 2, 7
Current, electric. See Electric Curtain wall, Castrol House, 537 for chemical laboratory of Samuel Fox
& Co. Ltd. (Crittall Manufacturing Co. Ltd.), 475
— — for multi-storey offices, 537 Preformed seals for, 451
Sheffield College of Technology, 537 Curtiflux flux for titanium, 29
Curtisol solder for titanium, 29
Curtiss pusher biplane (1912), replica of, 107 Curtiss-Wright Corp., Curtisol silver based solder and Curtiflux flux for titanium, 29; rotating-piston engine, 580, 676
Cushiontone acoustical ceiling tiles of fibre board, 492
Customs Convention on International Transport of Goods, 662
Customs Translation Club, 585
Cut-off machines, automatic bar (Rockwell Machine Tool Co.), 601
Cutanit cemented carbides (“ Jessop-Saville ” Ltd.), 136
Cutters, coal, water distributor for dust suppression, 486
Cutting, flame, of material 5 ft thick, 595
— Jib, double turret (Edibrac), 54
— Machine electrohydraulic (Siskol), 53
— -— Flame, Oxweld (Linde), 31
— Oils, Dromus soluble (Shell-Mex and BP), 143
— Strip, Sectionmaster apparatus
avoidance in, 425
— and welding (trade publication). Cutty Sark, China tea clipper, 591 Cwm Rheidol hydroelectric scheme, Cyanamid International, flocculating agent, 639 Cycle, motor. See Motor cycle
Cyclone ore washer (trade publication), 650 Cyclotron as isotope source, 671
Cycolac copolymer (Anchor), 103 Cylinder, gas. See Gas
— Power (trade publication), 212 Cylindrical structures, electromagnetic radiation from, by J. R. Watt (book), 386
Czechoslovakia, atomic reactor completion, 283
— Engineering production progress, 112
— Hillman Minx motor cars for, 349
— See also Brno
for waste
290
30
power
Inter-
Con-
to
DAIMLER 2 litre V8 sports car, 423
— SP250 sports motor car, 275
Daimler-Benz, annual report, 200; amalgamation with BMW, 566, 644
Dairying, National Institute for Research in. See National
Dale, John, merger with Metal Closures, 445 Dalglish, John, synthetic rubber for Russia, 691 Dallavalle, J. M., on fine particle measurement (review), 385
Dallow Lambert and Co. Ltd., dust collector maintenance scheme, 31; unit dust collector at Harwell, 625
Dalton, M., on men who manage (review), 585 Dam, Aswan, 25, 30
— Bering Straits, proposal for, 411, 431
— Failure of, by D. Davies, 631
— Kariba, construction progress, 30
— Klang Gates, concrete cooling in, 578
— Malpasset, failure of, 611, 642
— Mettur (Madras), 15
— Thomaston, drilling of anchor bolt holes
for, 643
— Wanapum, English Electric’s lawsuit on
contract for, 26
Damper, hydraulic, for earthquake shocks, 590
— Venturi ventilation (W. C. Holmes and ~
Ltd.), 488
Danarm, J. Clubley Armstrong, chain (trade publication), 618
Daniel Guggenheim medal awarded to G. Edwards, 533
Daniels-Boyd reactor, active gas circuit in, 157 Danish gravel deposits, quaternary, petrographic investigation, by B. Sondergraad (book), 450
— See also Denmark
Dannatt, P. C., on marine reactor systems, 83, See LETTER, 147-148
Danube, River, hydroelectric power schemes on (report), 23
Dapples, E. C., on basic geology for science and engineering (book), 386
Darby, Abraham, coke for blast furnace, 248
Dargue Bros. Ltd., Speedrafter drafting machine (trade publication), 618
Darlaston Galvanised Holloware Ltd,, Pla- sinter plastics coating process, 104
Dartford-Purfieet Tunnel, northern approach contract, 93
Tunnel, progress of, 635
Darwins Ltd., permanent magnets (trade Dublication), 40
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saw
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Data, digital pulsed, telephone transmission of, 32
— Processing System, IBM 1401 transistorised
(IBM (UK) Ltd.), 384
— Sampling, Allscott Thermocouple selector
for (James Scott and Co.), 656
Datatrol control system on Spiramatic Jigmil milling machine (A. Herbert Ltd.), 241 Dauphine motor car, suspension of (Renault), 345
Davey, W. G., slowing down of fission neutrons and diffusion of thermal neutrons, 7
David Taylor Model Basin, control work on Skipjack atomic submarine, 167; flow around rudders, 584
Davie, O. H., Cathode-Ray Tube and its Applications (book), 682
Davies, D., review of Design of Land Drainage Works, 212; review of Hydrology for Engineers, 211-212; biographical note, 212; on water shortages, 272; on safety of earth dams, 631
Davies, M. E., on lunar exploration by photography, 154
Davis, Leon, and Co. Ltd., Essor Zephyr whole surface gluing machine, 149; Tempo Universal gluing machine, 149
Davis, S., Ltd., air valves (trade publication), 212
Davison, C. St. C. B., on historic books on machines (book), 212; on history of steam road vehicles (book), 212
Davy, N., on properties of matter (book), 618 Davy and United Engineering, new reversing rolling mill for Northern Aluminium Co., 218
Davy-United Group, The Money-X'iS') (Financial report for employees), 405
Davy-United Ltd., reorganisation, 27; chairman’s annual statement, 244
Dawe Instruments Ltd., Strobopack battery- operated portable stroboscope, 402
Dawson, McDonald and Dawson Ltd., PPP paint sprayer with flexible drive for drilling, polishing and grinding, 433
Dawtry, L, H., on motor vehicle roof luggage, 405
Daxel circulating pump for domestic hot water systems (Rhodes, Brydon and Youatt Ltd.), 338
Dean, F. E., on Turbines (review), 649
De Beers Consolidated, position and prospects of diamond industry, 567
Debutante, The, Bermudan sloop (Blanks Boatyard), 687
Decca Airway Amber One from London Airport, 88
Decca Radar Ltd., radar exports, 80; type 214 radar installation for rivers, 625; type DASRI radar for Arlanda (Sweden), 688 Dechema. See European Federation of Chemical Engineering
—? Prize for 1958, 135
Decimal Classification of Astronautics (International Astronautical Federation), 133
— Coinage for New Zealand, 494 for South Africa, 494
—? — in UK, prospects of, 494 Decontamination of nuclear effluents, electrodialysis stack for research on, 30
Defence, Ministry of. Inspection Service of, 446 Defence Standards Laboratories (Australia), thixotropic protective oil for critical metal surfaces, 620
Definitions and formulae for students of engineering science (book), 102
Deformed parts, effect of restoring, by Dr. B. N. Cole, 521
Degrees, miniature counter for indicating (Smiths Aviation Division), 498
de Haller, P., on Sulzer heavy-water reactor, 282
de Havilland Aircraft Co. Ltd., design modifications for DH121 jet airliner, 25; Comet 4 airliner, 215; Comet jet airliner for BEA, 549; Comet airliners for Misrair, 627
de Havilland Aircraft of Canada Ltd., Caribou transport aircraft, 559; YAC-1 Caribou STOL transport aircraft for US Army, 660 Havilland Engine Co. Ltd., gas-cooled reactor with 20 year life without refuelling, 343; reactor replacement scheme, 343 Havilland Propellers Ltd., two-stage satellite launching vehicle, 209; formation of Systems Engineering Group for automatic control of industrial processes, 384 Havilland test site. Blue Streak servicing tower, 209
Dehnel, P. D., on boiler house technique (book), 258
De-icing on Electra airliner, 582
Deimel, R. F., on mechanics of the gyroscope (review), 682
Delaney Gallay, motor-car heater, 444 Delapena and Son Ltd., station changeover switch for induction heating, 337
De La Rue Bull Machines Ltd., formation of, 27
de Lavals Angturbin AB, amalgamation with Svenska Turbine AB Ljungstrom, 88
Delegating, techniques of, by D. A. Laird and E. C. Laird (review), 650
Delle, air blast circuit breaker at Electrama, 58; pantograph-type isolator, 58
Delta Metal Co. Ltd., acquisition of EP Jenks Ltd. and Alfred Case and Co. Ltd., 413
— Pile, concrete (H.D. Foundations), 443 Demarcation disputes, Cammell Laird, 413 Deminrolit mixed-bed water-treatment plant
(Permutit Co. Ltd.), 434
Demister. See Heater-demister Demonstration unit, mobile, electronic machine control system in (EMI Electronics Ltd.), 299
?—? ?— Mobile (Smiths and Sons (England) Ltd.), 459
Denmark, concrete architecture in, 410
— Position in European Common Market, 147
— See also Danish
Dennis Bros. Ltd., plastics parts for Pax vehicles, 355
Density of diphenyl organic moderator, 6
— of Dowtherm organic moderator, 6 ?— of Santowax organic moderator, 6
Density, smoke, indicator, Electricon (R. Trist and Co. Ltd.), 196
— of terphenyl organic moderator, 6 Dentistry chair, Euphorian (Walter Dorwin
Teague Associates), 263
Department of Commerce, U.S. See United States Department of
— of Scientific and Industrial Research, report
on co-operative research economics, 83; annual report on building, 207; Scientific Research in British Universities, 353; pneumatic-tyred rollers and compaction of soil, 377; report on machine tool industry, 499; contributions to Production Engineering Research Association, 603; paraffin heaters study, 605
Derbyshire Stone Ltd., bitumen mixing plant with automatic weighing installation, 251
Dermatitis, industrial. Duckhams Hand Cleanser (A. Duckham and Co. Ltd.), 287
Derricks for research ship, 416
— See also Crane
Derwent Russian Patents Report, 481
Desert, North African, electrodialysis plant for potable water in (Ionics Incorp.), 411
Desford self-advancing chocks (A. G. Wild and Co.), 54
Desiccant, low-dewpoint, Sorbead R (Mobil Oil Co.), 516
Design Centre, record of approved designers, 30
— Engineering materials and, exhibition, 29
— Industrial, Council of. See Council
— Plastic, of steel frames, by L. S. Beedle
(review), 553
— Policy in industry, by Sir C. Anderson, 30
— for production, examples, by F. Noblett, 213
— in timber (booklet), 539
— and use of instruments and accurate
mechanism, by T. N. Whitehead (book), 102
Designers, record of approved, 30 Destroyer Forrest Sherman, rudder 584
Desulfurol additive for residual fuel Detector, fault, electronic (Ferranti
— Flaw, eddy current (Bristol Aircraft Ltd.),
331
Detwiler, E. L., passenger liner order placed by, 445
Deuterium sulphate, preparation of, 36 Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), electron linear accelerator for, 342
Development areas. Government-financed factories in, 667
— Corporation, comment on, 430
Dexion Ltd., industrial flooring grid, 541 D’Eye, R. W. M., on equipment for obtaining X-ray diffraction photographs of alpha active materials (publication), 164
DH121 jet airliner, design modifications, 25 Dial-a-Cycle programme control on Mil- Waukee-Mil bed-type milling machine (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools), Ltd.), 274
Dial gauges, extra sensitive range (Thomas Mercer Ltd.), 528
Diametile industrial floor tile (Jaconello), 61 Diamond industry, industrial development in,. 567
— Synthesis, 567
— Synthetic, GEC process, 587
Dicht AG (Switzerland), concrete Delta pile, 443
Dickens, Stuart B., Ltd., Fisher Joint, rubber jointing for concrete roads, 315, 579
Dictating machine, Interecorder magnetic tape (trade publication), 618
Dictionary of aeronautical engineering, by J. L. Nayler, 649
— Russian, on continuous casting, 617 Diderot pictorial encyclopedia of trades and
industry, by D. Diderot (book), 514
Die casting machine, gravity (Electric Resistance Furnace Co. Ltd.), 665
— Drop forging design, by R. C. Jones (book),
40
— Shear lines, McKaymatic (Vickers-Arm-
strongs), 489
— and taps, Greenfield (trade publication), 102 Diesel alternator sets. See Alternator sets,
diesel
— Electric locomotive. See Locomotive Traction (trade publication), 212
— Engine. See Engine, diesel; Marine pro
pulsion
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Multiple unit trains. See Railway Trains
— Power plant conversion for “ puffer ” ship
Lascar (J. and J. Hay Ltd.), 520
Unit, Commer TS3, for under-floor applications (Rootes Group), 264
Differential equations, partial, solution of, by relaxation on an electronic computer by Prof. D. N. de G. Allen, 280
— Limited-slip, 444
Diffuser, air, Kno-Draft, with adjustable discharge (Ozonair Engineering Co. Ltd.), 665
Diffusion of fission fragments in slurries, 7
— of magnetic fields in cylindrical conductor,
36
— Neutron, in graphite and bismuth, 7 Digests, technical, by F. Machon, 278 Digger, tractor-mounted (Massey-Ferguson
(GB) Ltd.), 337, 390. See LETTER, 399 Digital computer. See Computer
— Display units (Counting Instruments Ltd.),
52
— Pulsed data, telephone transmission of, 32 Dimension saw attachments, sheet (Robinson
and Son Ltd.), 240
DIMPLE, neutron flux distributions in loops, 7-8
Dinghy, sailing. Alpha, plastics hulls for (Bristol Aircraft Ltd.), 355
Alpha, polyurethane foam for, 104
— Unsinkable (Bristol Aircraft Ltd.), 327 Dinslaken oil refinery, control desk for, 691 Diodes, silicone, for high temperature operation (International Rectifier Co. (GB) Ltd.), 601
— Thermionic, conversion of heat to electricity
in, 99
Gas-filled, 99
— Tunnel (G.E.C. (U.S.)), 132 Diphenyl organic moderator, density of, 6
Diploma in Technology, first awards of, 201 Position and prospects of, 239
Direct current machines, performance and design, by A. E. Clayton and N. N. Hancock (book), 354
— Reading machine for co-ordinate checking
of machined workpieces (Ferranti), 117 Directors, Institute of. See Institute
— Typical, questionnaire on, 437
Directory, film and television, Kemp’s international, 1959 (book), 40
— Who Owns Whom, company ownership, 88
— World, of Aviation and Astronautics, 1959,
Interavia ABC (book), 258
Disa Armascope armature tester (B and K Laboratories), 86
Disabled persons, apparatus research for, 19
— Queen Elizabeth’s Training College for the.
See Queen Elizabeth's
— W'ork for the, 637
— See also Remploy Disc brake. See Brake
— Turbine, elasticity of, effect of blade fre
quency, by J. P. Ellington and Dr. H. McCallion. See LETTER, 20
Discharge, electrodeless, phenomena of, 407
— Gas, Alfven waves in, 407
Fast-pinched, theory of, 36
? Hydromagnetic instability of, 36
? Wriggling, influence of conducting walls,
36 See also Pinch; Plasma
— over a notch, hydraulics laboratory equip
ment (Tecquipment), 12
— through orifice, hydraulics laboratory
equipment (Tecquipment), 11
Discoverer V satellite, 50 Discovery U, R.R.S., 415, 416 Dish washing machine, Colston, 563, 596 Machines, Dishlex Automaid, 596 Machines, Swanmaid, 596
Dishlex Automaid dishwashing machine, 596 Disington Engineering Co., rolling mill for
Appleby-Frodingham, 251
Dispenser, component, Rotasembler (Work Study Equipments), 497
Display units, digital (Counting Instruments Ltd.), 52
Dissimilar metals, welding of, 355
Distillers Co. Ltd., at Scottish Industries Exhibition, 152; acetate ester solvent price reductions, 595
Distillers Plastics Group, resins and plastics (trade publication), 682
Distillery, tar, tube cleaning, 31 Distington-Goodman Ropex belt conveyor
(United Steel Companies), 54
Distrene, Styron 440 and 700 polystyrenes, 103
— Tyril 767 styrene acrylonitrile copolymer,
103
Distribution box for multi-storey building (BICC Ltd.), 542
— Census of, and other services. Board of
Trade report, 143
— of Industry (Industrial Finance) act (1958),
unemployment assistance under, 146 Ditcher, Gar Wood-Buckeye (Macay Industrial
Equipment). 86
Division of Building Research (Ottawa), study of structural damage to cold storage buildings by differential movements of underlying ground, 159
Dix, B., review on Labour and Economic Development, 385; biographical note, 386 Dixey, R. A., on modern copying techniques for the drawing office (book), 322
Dock accidents (booklet), 277
— Graving, Clyde, at Greenock, scheme for,
270 Greenock, 28 Greenock, financing, 51
— King George, Hull, improvements at, 411,
603
—? Labour Board, National. See National
— Royal Albert, transit sheds, modification
for faster traffic, 118
— Southampton, concrete construction at, 568
— Workers, cinema films for, 27
Documents, transparent protection film for, Halco-Sheen (Halden and Co.), 484
Documentation, American, note on journal on,
5
— and information service for aeronautics
(Paris), 5
— Modern trends in, 69
? Trends in, symposium at University of
S. California (review), 481-482
Dohm Ltd., transparent flexible plastics material for double glazing windows, 396 Dolci, D., feed the hungry (review), 449-450 Dollar Exports Council Conference, execu
tives of consumer goods industries to work in North American stores, 331
— Imports, freeing of, 462
Dollis Hill electronic telephone exchange, 495, 552
Dome of concrete covered with copper sheets for Australian Academy of Science, 559
Domestic appliances, tests on, 524 Dominican Republic, atomic reactor project, 439
Dominion Engineering Works Ltd., heavy engineering (trade publication), 514
Doncaster highway bridge replacement, 610 Door of counterbalanced panels, Welford
(Westland Engineers Ltd.), 541
— Lift, stainless steel, for Samuel Fox (United
Steel Cos. Ltd.), 541
— Sliding, for factory subdivisions (Dura-
steel Ltd.), 542
— Strongroom, for Bank of Montreal (Chubb
6 Sons), 559
Doppler broadening of spectral lines in Zeta and Sceptre, 406
Dorman Long (Bridge and Engineering) Ltd., contract for bridgework at Saigon, 207; steelwork for Kingsferry lifting bridge, 207; Doncaster highway bridge replacement, 610
Dorman Long (Steel) Ltd., speech communication system for Lackenby Works (Tannoy), 31; new rod mill for Arthur Lee and Sons, 119
Dorman, W. H., Ltd., position and prospects of, 308
Dormer drill point thinning machine (Sheffield Twist Drill and Steel Co. Ltd.), 306
Dornier DO27 light aircraft (Blackburn Aircraft), 519
Dorr Oliver, new plant for production of sulphur dioxide from ferrous sulphate, 388 Double Scorpion aircraft rocket engine, 107 Douglas Equipment Ltd., DM 66 Prospector chassis for cross-country unit, 304
Douglas, R. M., on prospects for contractors, 523
Dounreay Atomic Energy Establishment, report of Select Committee on Estimates, 96
Power station, 499
— Fast breeder reactor, criticality in, 503 Breeder reactor, delay of, 380
Breeder reactor, further delay in startup, 471
Breeder reactor, operation commenced, 64
Dow-Mac Products Ltd., piles for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459
Dowding and Doll Ltd., bobbing machine (trade publication), 134; Weidmann turret press for small batch piercing, 242
Dowlais Ironworks, bicentenary, 109 Dowtherm organic moderator, density of, 6 Dowty, Sir G., on Dowty Group, 200
Dowty Group, chairman’s report, 200
Dowty Mining Ltd., orders for Dowty Rodjo shield with Roofmaster self-advancing hydraulic roof-support system, 491
Doxford, William, and Sons Ltd., position and prospects of, 381
Dracone flexible oil barge, 200
Drafting machine. Speedrafter (trade publication), 618
DRAGON atomic reactor, 96
— High-temperature reactor project, meeting
on (Winfrith). 123
Drains for Ford Motor Co. expansion (G Percy Trentham Ltd.), 459
— Pipes, aluminium, 80 Pitch fibre for, 80
— Small underground, and sewers. Building
Research Station digest on, 347
Drainage, land. Maxiflow pump for (Armfield Hydraulic Engineering), 653
— for London-Birmingham motorway, 177
— Pump, Sumpette (Holden and Brooke Ltd.),
305
— in rural areas, 667
— Works, land, design of, by R. Berkeley
Thorn (review), 212
Drakelow C power station, boilers for, 596 Draley, J. E., on liquid fuel reactors, 638 Draughtsmen, Engineering and Shipbuilding, Association of. See Association
Drawbridge, aluminium, over Birmingham- Oxford canal at Banbury (Northern Aluminium Co. Ltd.), 251
Drawing board, over the, by R. Forman (book), 212
— Engineering, with worked examples, by
F. Pickup and M. A. Parker (book), 482
— Office, copying techniques for, by H.
Easterbrook, R. A. Dixey, E. J. Aslin and W. H. Barrett (book), 322
— Tube (trade publication), 166 Drawplane, Surform, 222
Dreadnought atomic submarine, discussion in Parliament on, 571
Dredge and Reclaim Ltd., Port of Guayaquil dredging contract to, 251
Dredgers from Caribbean Dredging Co. for Port of Guayaquil contract, 251
— Diesel hopper, twin-grab, for Scottish east
coast ports, 61
— for Port of London Authority, 691
?— Rock cutting. Port Sunlight, 591
— Suction, delivery piping, ball joint connec
tion for, 485
Rock-cutting, Port Sunlight, 30
Dredging contracts to R. Costain Ltd. and Dredge and Reclaim Ltd. for Port of Guayaquil, Ecuador, 251
Dresden atomic reactor, commissioning trials, 503
Dresser Industries, development of Weir-Clark compressors, 491
Dressing machine, grinding wheel, Optidress (Precision Grinding Ltd.), 432
Drew, Prof. G. C., lorry cab fatigue tests for drivers, 625
Dreyfus, P., on Renault, 509
Driam unit for helically welded steel pipe, 143 Drier, foundry (Modern Furnaces), 111
— See also Dryer
Drill, bench, high speed sensitive (A. A. Jones and Shipman), 85
— Electric hand, Revo Jobber (Revo Electric),
400
— Guard, telescopic (Wm. Jones), 31
— Point thinning machine. Dormer (Sheffield
Twist Drill and Steel Co. Ltd.), 306
— Twist (trade publication), 102
— — Tungsten carbide tipped (trade publica
tion), 166
— Two-speed electric RP2 (Rawlplug Co.
Ltd.), 466
Drillhead with air hydraulic operation, Pacera (W. J. Medings Ltd.), 369
— Pacera multi-spindle (W. J. Meddings Ltd.),
370
Drilling of anchor bolt holes for Thomaston dam, 643
— Boring and milling machine, horizontal,
WH63 (Strojexport), 339
— Machine attachements (Bridges), 222
—- — Automatic, Precise Autodrill (Newage Machine Tools Ltd.), 197
Pacera multihead (trade publication), 134 Radial (trade publication), 166
? — Turret head, Airmec Vero, with tape
control (Catmur Machine Tool Corp.), 602 Well-point, Reich 155 (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co. Ltd.), 432
— Mast, lever lift (Oil Well Supply Co. Ltd.),
391
— Rigs, oil, for Yugoslavia (Woodfield Hoist),
396
Drive, atomic reactor gas circulator, 205
— Dual, miniature drive as (Tiltman Langley),
76
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Drive, electrical machinery installation at United States Metallic Packing Co. Ltd., 173
— Hydropneumatic table, on Centec 2B
milling machine (Centec Medinie Tools Ltd.), 274
— Miniature (Tiltman Langley), 76
— Turbine, ram air, of Mk 20 refuelling pack
(Flight Refuelling Ltd.), 295
Drivers, lorry cab fatigue tests for (BMC), 625 Driving head, “ Two hundred,” for conveyors (Richard Sutcliffe Ltd.), 54
Dromus soluble cutting oils (Shell-Mex and BP), 143
Drop forging die design, by R. C. Jones (book), 40
Drucker, P. F., on landmarks of tomorrow (review), 585
Drum-handling equipment, Master (trade publication), 40
Sound film strip on, 109
Drummond, W., review of Foundations of Thermodynamics with antitheses and Disputation, 514; biographical note, 514
Drummond-Asquith Ltd., swift type TA right angle chucking lathe for face copying, 242 Dry-dock. See Dock
Dryden, Dr. H., on space exploration, 154
Dryer, mould. Brown Boveri portable electric (Electric Resistance Furnace Co., Ltd.), 368
— Spin, with plastic mouldings (Gordon-
Miller Ltd.), 324
on washing machines, 268
— See also Drier
Drying of gelatine, 555-556
— in trichlorethylene. Trisec surface activiting
agent for, 29
DSIR. See Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
Du Cane, Commander P., on roll-damping fins, 440
Duckham, Alexander, and Co., Ltd., hand cleansing plant, 287
Duct, acoustic, for calibration of microphones, 163
— Glass reinforced epoxy resin, for National
Smelting Co., 292
— Plastic, pvc for ventilation, 292
Ducting, gas in atomic power stations, hydraulic damper for, 590
Dugas, R., on la theorie physique au Sens de Boltzmann (book), 586
Dumper truck. See Motor Vehicle, truck Dumping and fuelling unit of aluminium alloy for rocket propellent (Saunders-Roe (Anglesey) Ltd.), 491
Dumptruck with Edbro tipping gear (AEC) 359
Dungeness atomic power station, approval for, 62
— High lighthouse. Xenon discharge lamp for,
688
Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd., Hycar nitrile rubber for industrial gloves, 29; disc brakes (trade publication), 166; collapsible liquid containers of rubber reinforced nylon, 273; disc brakes on motor cars, 412 Dunning, J. H., on American investment in British manufacturing industry (review), 417
Dunsworth, Dr. J. V., appointed assistant to director. Winfrith Heath, 123
Duplex nickel coatings (W. Canning and Co, Ltd.), 218
du Pont, E. L, de Nemours and Co., overseas activities, 47; metallurgical research, 381; copper plating with Elchem levelling agents, 588
Neoprene-jacketed heater cord for small kitchen appliances, 359
Duraflex Housecrafts Ltd., Duraflex thresholds, 652
Duramat needled glass mat reinforced plastics, 103
Durasteel Ltd., factory subdivision by partitions and sliding doors, 542
Duratiles industrial tiles (Snowtop), 651
Durelli, A. J., on stress and strain analysis (book), 134
Durgapur iron and steel works, position and prospects of, 630
Durogun concrete delivering machine (Warsop Power Tools Ltd.), 529
Durst, C. S., on wind loading on buildings, 550. See LETTER, 663
Dust collector at Harwell (Dallow Lambert), 625
Maintenance scheme (Dallow Lambert), 31
— Filter, automatic, Fischer (Keith Blackman
Ltd.), 602
— Free production of instruments, 329
— Suppression, water distributer for coal
cutters, 486
Dustfoe 66 respirator (Mine Safety Appliances), 22
Dwarka lighthouse (trade publication), 386 Dwight, J. B., street lighting competition, 560 Dye penetrants, 515
Dykehouse plastics machines (Fairey), 26 Dymo-mite label marker with embossed white lettering (Hellerman), 402
Dynamic balancing machine (Repco Ltd.), 197
— Torsion tests on mild-steel, 216
Dynamo. See Generator, electric; Turbogenerator
Dynamometer, precision, development of, by M. Graneek, H. L. Wunsch, and W. M. Nimmo, 614
— for transmission power loss measurement
(MERE), 29
— See also Brake
Dyson, J. A., heavy water solutions of uranyl fluoride (HAZEL), Part 2, 7
EARTH loop tester. Megger (Evershed and Vignoles), 86
Earthmoving
(Mackay), 691
Earthquake proofing of atomic reactor (GEC), 471
— Shocks, hydraulic damper for, 590
equipment service depot
East, L. R., on learning to type, 20 Easterbrook, H., on modern copying techniques for the drawing office (book), 322 Eastern Electricity Board, direct buried transformer for (Hackbridge and Hewittic Electric Co. Ltd.), 149
Eastman-Kodak high-speed camera for blasting study, 253
EAW Industries, Thermograde lining system for cavity walls, 396
E.C.C. Moulded Breakers Ltd., moulded plastics circuit breakers, 337
Eccentricity gauge for extruded cables (Addison Electric), 465
Eccles, Sir D., on development areas, 270; on Loughborough College extension, 501
Eclipse hand saw for wood or metal Neill and Co. (Sheffield) Ltd.), 465
— Permanent Electro magnetic chuck
Neill and Co. (Sheffield) Ltd.), 117
— Tool holder (trade publication), 166 Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Zurich,
water moderated reactor, 282
Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, proceedings of conference on water resources, 251
for Europe, hydroelectric power schemes on River Danube (report), 23; administrative regulations investigation of ECM, 147
— Co-operation, European, Organisation for.
See Organisation for European
— Development and labour, by W. Galenson
(review), 385
in Middle East, 115
— Position, recovery in, 18
— Survey, World U958), 25
Economics of cylindrical shells, by A. Aas- Jakobsen (review), 134
— in time and money by use of computers, 473
— of transport, by Sir R. Wilson, 223. See
LETTER, 304
Edbro tipping gear, AEC Dumptruck with, 359 Eddystone lighthouse, burners for, 75
Eden, J. F., on tower cranes in building, 545 Edgar Allen News, 40th anniversary, 120
Edge locator, Apwar Edgefinder for setting-up work (A. P. Warren Ltd.), 402
Edibrac Ltd., double turret cutting jib, 54
Editors, Industrial, British Association of. See British Association
Editorial notes from Concrete and Constructional Engineering, by H. L. Childe (review), 418
Education for commerce, report on, 57
— Commonwealth (booklet), 27
— Effect of technical progress on, bibliography,
by B. Board, 165
— Engineering, in Russia, 626
— Governing bodies in, comment on, 49
— Ministry of. Education in 1958 (report), 27;
governing bodies for major establishments of further education (circular), 49
Education in 1958 (report), Tl —? Technical, in Scotland, 27 and vocational, in USSR, bibliographical survey by M. I. Movsovic, 165
Educational institutions, engineering and industrial organisations, research relations between (publication), 133
Edwards, A. D., on programming of force method of linear analysis, 280
Edwards, F. J., Ltd., Besco pyramid plate bending rollers, 401
Edwards, Sir G., awarded Guggenheim medal, 533
Edwards High Vacuum Ltd., vacuum leak detection techniques, 31
Edwards, J. W., on analysis of thoriummagnesium binary alloys, 35
Eeles, W. T., on electrodeless discharge, 407 Efco-Udylite Cyclemaster electroplating plant (Electro-Chemical Engineering Co. Ltd.) 116
E.F.F.I. See Electronic Eorum for Industry Effluent, determination of radiocalcium and radiostrontium in, 36
— Disposal, radioactive. Exercise Mermaid on
(Winfrith Heath), 35
— Industrial, Plain Words on, 302
— Monitoring, radium estimation in, 36
— Nuclear, decontamination research
electrodialysis stack, 30
Efsen, A., on tensile cracks in reinforced concrete, 443
Egelstaff, P. A., tables of nuclear data, 7 Eichner, H., on reading German for scientists (book), 418
EID. See Electrical Inspection Directorate EIGA. See Engineering Industries Group Apprenticeship
Eire. See Ireland
Eisler, P., on printed circuits (book), 134 Elana polyester fibre (Poland), 427
Elastic materials, tensile strength of, 3 Elasticity, axial, Newtonian theory of, by A. N. Procter, 3, 37, 366-367. See LETTER, 195
— Modulus, function of, 3
— of surface layers, 4
— of turbine disc, effect of blade frequency, by
J. P. Ellington and Dr. H. McCallion. See LETTER, 20
Elastomer-base caulking compounds, by N. Catton, 451
Preformed seals, by N. Catton, 451 Resilient gaskets, by N. Catton, 451
— Neoprene, for resisting oil and steam (Sun
Oil Refinery), 136
Elchem levelling agents for copper plating, 588 Elcontrol Ltd., automatic weighing equipment, 306
Election, effect on engineering industries, 334
— Minister of Science in manifestos, 238
— Unemployment in manifestos, 238 Electra airliner, ice protection on, 582 Electrama exhibition, by J. H. M. Sykes, 58 Electric current course, constant programmable
(Ad. Auriema Inc.), 52
Stability experiment, intermediate. See Intermediate
— Furnaces. See Furnaces
— Generator. See Alternator; Generator and
Turbo
— Locomotive. See Locomotive, electric
(James
(James
heavy-
by
Electric machines, d.c., performance and design, by A. E. Clayton and N. N. Hancock (book), 354
See also Alternator; Generator; Motor; Turbo
— Mains. See Cable
— Motor. See Motor, electric
— Plug and socket, safety of, 564
— Power. See Power
— Railways. See Railways
Electric Resistance Furnace Co. Ltd., heat treatment line for Caterpillar’s Tannoch- side factory, 220; Brown-Boveri portable electric mould dryer, 368; Reynolds shell moulding machine, 633; Gravity die casting machine, 665
— Starters, motor. See Motor, electric
— Torch, BM shockproof and flameproof
(Bardic Ltd.), 433
Electrical appliances, domestic, approval mark for, 605
— Conductivity of semiconductor material, 129
— Connectors, manufacture in UK (BICC-Burndy Ltd.), 395
— Contacts, lubricant for. Electrolube, 452
— Development Association, electrical aids to baking, 162; cinema film “Industrial Electric Heating,” 449; safety in the home, 460
— Engineers, Institution of. See Institution International cooperation, 245
Supervising, Association of. See Association of Supervising
— Engineering, aircraft, by G. G. Wakefield (book), 134
Industry, position and prospects of, 18
— Inspection Directorate, open days, 446; activities of, 446; engineering services, 446; metrology section, 446; packaging branch, 446; metallurgical branch, 447; power and instruments division, 447; electronics division, 447
— Installation Contracting. See Inspection Council
for Welwyn-Hatfield general 280
— Machinery design, computers for, Imports in US, ruling on, 25 Industry, France, 58
Industry, position and prospects of, 349 Industry, US, contract dispute in, 26
— Network. See Network
— Power gallery at Science Museum, 408
Electrical Remote Control Ltd., control unit type MCU, 21; AMS miniature synchronous timer, 400; ZX synchronous cam timer, 432
— Research Association, technical reports (book), 4; variable frequency electrical network analyser, 319
— Sheet, BISRA research, 29
— Trades Union, elections of, 277; negotiations with leaders of electrical industry, 533; TUC inquiry abandoned, 573
Electricity in baking bread, 162
— Conversion of heat to. See Thermoelectric and Generator, thermoelectric
— Council, 1st annual report and accounts, 302
— Generating fuels, 311
— and magnetism, physics of, by W. Taussig
Scott (book), 418
— Maintenance, Midlands radio network for,
657
— Supply Board, Eire, 311 Failure standby for, 593
— ?— Industry, Ireland, 312
Industry, position and prospects of, 302 Industry, scholarships to universities, 89 Industry, statistics on, 302
Industry, union negotiations, 533
Interconnected, for Europe, by J. H. M. Sykes, 90
Load factors, need to improve, 91 at Warren Spring Laboratory, 68 Electricon smoke density indicator (R. Trist and Co. Ltd.), 196
Electrification, rural, prbgress in (North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board), 491
Study party on, 245
Electro Mechan-Heat Ltd., multi-spot welding machines for Austin Seven motor car, 330 Electro-Chemical Engineering Co. Ltd., Efco- Udylite Cyclemaster electroplating plant, 116
Electro-Hydraulics Ltd., hydraulic damper for earthquake shocks, 590
Electrochemical relay, new long-life (Ovitron), 68
Electrodes, Hermees (trade publication), 290
— Holders, welding, Handicool (Quasi-Arc),
498
— Koronamax, for electrostatic pricipitator,
111
—Welding. See Welding
Electrodialysis plant for potable water in North African desert (Ionics Incorp.), 411
— Stack for research on decontamination of
nuclear effluents, 30
Electrohydraulic automatic backing-off machine (Stuart Davis Ltd.), 149
— Coal cutter (Siskol), 53
— Servo motor in SCI aircraft autostabiliser
system, 192
Electrolube lubricant for electrical contacts, 452 Electroaluminescence in heating, cooling and lighting wall panel, 16
Electroluminescent cell lamps (Westinghouse), 111
Electrolytic tinning of coils of steel strip, 362 Line for Ebbw Vale Works of Richard Thomas and Baldwins (Head Wrightson Machine Co.), 362
— Treatment, Argalin, for protection of silver
against tarnish (Roto-Finish), 356
Electromagnetic analysis in aerial surveying, 504
— Radiation from cylindrical structures, by
J. R. Watt (book), 386
— Torque, balance for precision dynamometer,
servo controlled, 614
Electromechanical locks, sequential switch for unlatching (Microcell Electronics), 518
Electro-mechanics, Institute of. See Institute
Nationa!
hospital,
509
Electron density-height profiles, conversion of ionospheric virtual height-frequency curves to, by J. O. Thomas and M. D. Vickers (book), 290
— Elementary particles, 310
— Multiplication used in nuclear instru
mentation, 447
— “ Runaway,” in plasma betatron, 510
— Speed regulator using eddy
(Westool Ltd.), 328
— Synchrotron, Rome, 311
Electronic Associates Inc., Pace TR ogue computer, 570
— Components testing at EID, 447
— Computer. See Computer
— Control system for wavemaker
Hydrodynamics Laboratory (AEl), 518
— Counter, transistorised (Electronic Machine
Co. Ltd.), 299
— Equipment, molecular, US Naval and
Air Force research, 132
— Fault detector (Ferranti Ltd.), 150
— Forum for industry, bulletin of, 649
— Gas detector (lEC-Sieger), 657
— Letter sorter, ELSIE, 30
— Lung, Barnet ventilator, 469
Electronic Machine Co. Ltd., transistorised electronic counter at Chiswick Products Ltd., 299; recording batch counter, 370; type BCP batch counters, 10 programme capacity, 601
Control systems, mobile demonstration unit (EMI Electronics Ltd.), 299
— Micrometer, B72I (Wayne Kerr Labora
tories Ltd.), 296
— Positional control system for Rolls-Royce,
658
— Research Committee, Joint. See Joint
— Simulator, CERES, for refinery processes, 38
— Telephone exchange at Dollis Hill, 495, 552
— Valve testing at EID, 447
Electronics, basic, by P. B. Zbar and S. Schildkraut (review), 69
— Division of EID, 447
— International exhibition, Ljubljana (Yugo
slavia), Marconi Instruments Ltd. tele- communcation measurement equipments exhibits at, 364
— Junction transistor, by R. B. Hurley
(review), 321-322
— in ONC electrical engineering courses, 89
— and radio, fundamentals of, by W. L.
Everitt (book), 102
— in radioactivity detection and measurement,
36
— Transistor, by A. W. Lo, R. O.
J. Zawels, F. D. Waldhauer and Chih Cheng (review), 321-322
Electroplating plant, automatic, by Sinclair, 291
Efco-Udylite Cyclemaster (Electro- Chemical Engineering Co. Ltd.), 116 —? for watches, 692
Electrorefining of plutonium, 575 Electro-slag welding. See Welding Electrospray silicone antitracking fluid, 588 Electrostatic precipitator. See Precipitator Electrotechnics and heat and heat engines, by H. B. Brown and A. J. Bryant (book), 4
Elements of materials science, by L. H. Van Viack (book), 418
Elevator chains, Acco Bloklink (trade publication), 40
— Universal, for coal (Bennis Combustion
Ltd.), 149
Eliot, T. S., visit to Sheffield, 120
Elite motor car, glass fibre bodies for (Lotus), 355
Ellington, J. P., on blade frequency of turbines. See LETTER, 20
Elliott-Automation Ltd., annual statement, 26 Elliott, B. (Machinery) Ltd., Junior Omnimil milling machine with tilting head, 633
Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd., control engineering of automatic weighing installation in bitumen mixing plant, 251; computer sales, 509
Elliott, D. F., bearing materials under liquid sodium, 8
Elliott Nucleonics Ltd., exhibition of nuclear instruments and control equipment, 120
Ellis, John, and Sons Ltd., exposed aggregate cladding panels for office block, 542
Ellis Research and Testing Laboratories Ltd., activities of, 524
Ellison hydraulic valves EC Mark II, 264 ELSIE electronic letter sorter, 30
Elsinore Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. Trelleborg train-car ferry for Swedish State Railways, 455
Elvery, R. H., concrete practice (book), 102 Embetson, Mr. D. L., image intensifier with high definition, 447
Embrittlement, hydrogen, in steel, 516
Emett, R., tractor model for B.90 exchange scheme, 75
E.M.I. Electronics Ltd., mobile demonstration unit, 299; Emiac 11 analogue computer for suspension design, 476; equipment for charting eye movements, 487; Emidex 2400 computer for Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 509; portable contamination monitor using dual phos- phortechnique, 528; electronically controlled positioning system for Rolls-Royce, 658
Emiac II analogue computer for suspension design, 476
Emidex 2400 computer for Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, 509
Employment in iron founding industry, 603
— Statistics, 89, 627
ENA. See Network analyser, electrical Enamel firing furnace (Ferro), 109 Enamelled Metal Products, glass coating of ductile and S.G. iron fittings, 587
Enamelling, vitreous, improvements in, 29 Encyclopedia, pictorial, Diderot, of trades and industry, by D. Diderot (book), 514
— Science and technology, 681 End blocks, model study of, 60
Endres, R. O., on transistor electronics (review), 321-322
Energy applied to non-linear braced frameworks, by Prof. J. A. L. Matheson. See LETTERS, 19, 271
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— Measurement in irradiated graphite, calori
meter for, 6
— Storage for fuel cells, 535
Enfield Tool Manufacturing Co. Ltd., prototypes (trade publication), 514
Engell, Dr. H. G., on action of vanadium pentoxide, 135
Engine, aero. See Aircraft engine
“ Air-breathing, Mollier diagram applications, 214. See Correction, 560
— Beam, in Adelaide Museum, 51
— Diesel, for alternator sets (Ruston and
Hornsby Ltd.), 622
— •— Exhaust fumes, 635 ? Exhaust
treatment
— •— Exhaust Exhaust
384
Four 203 industrial (Perkins), 622 Four 270D (Perkins Engines), 173 Four 270D, order from Germany for (Perkins), 174
Four-stroke, positive displacement superchargers for, by Dr. T. E, A. Youssef, 448
— — Model, Frog 349, 672
-— — for rail transport, by E. S. Cox, 234 Rolls-Royce, for diesel-electric shunting locomotive, 686
Savings with, nomograms (Perkins), 31
— •— Serckstat automatic temperature control
valve for, 12
Silver Streak, for model aircraft, 29 Starting aid. Thermostart Mk. Ill (CAV), 424
for tanker (MAN), 622 See also Engine, multi-fuel
— Free-turbine, Blackburn A129 in Saunders-
Roe P531 helicopter, 295
?— Heat, and heat and electrotechnics, by H. B. Brown and A. J. Bryant (book), 4
— Internal combustion, model, 672
Combustion, with rotating piston, 580,676 Combustion, by E. T. Westbury (review), 649
Combustion. See also British Internal Combustion Engine Research Association Combustion. See also Turbines, gas
— Model, 672
— Motor-car. See Engines, petrol; Motor-car
engines
— Multi-fuel, development of, 561
— Oil. See Engine, diesel
— Petrol. See Aircraft engine; Motor-car
engine
— Rotating piston, 580, 676
— and ships (trade publication), 514
— Steam, beam-type, in Adelaide Museum, 51 Engineers as administrators, Plain Words on,
146
— Architect relationship. See Architect
— Guild, survey of professional engineers’
earnings, 334, 341. See LETTERS, 399, 495
— Hydrology for, by R. K. Linsley Jr., M. A.
Kohler and J. L. H. Paulhus (review), 211-212
— Importance in House building, 364
•— Industrial. See Industrial
•— Plane surveying for, by D. Clark (book), 102
— for processing industries, by A. C. Hartley,
463
— Professional, making of, by Sir W. Jackson,
335
Survey of earnings, 334, 341. See LETTERS, 399, 495
— Selling his brain. Plain Words on, 566
?— Shortage of, 630
— Shortage in Civil Service, 277
•— Six great, by J. G. Crowther (review), 649
— Survey on concentration and movement of,
630
— Teaching by, 335
— Traditions of. Plain Words on, 270 Engineering apprentices. See Apprentices
— Centre news letter, 353
— Contracts. See Contracts •— Drawing. See Drawing
— Education. See Education
— Educational institutions and industrial
organisations, research relations between (publication), 133
— Equipment Users’ Association, engineering
standards, by Sir C. Hinton, 373
— Exhibition at Brno, Czechoslovakia, build
ings at, 358
— in food industry, 269
— Heavy (trade publication), 514
— Industries Association, exhibition, EIGA
scheme at, 335
Board of Trade statistical inquiry on, 28
— — Election effect on, 334 Exports. See Exports Forty hour week demand, 637 Group Apprenticeship scheme, 335 Holland, survey of, 147
Position and prospects of, 18 Restraint in stock building, 79 Wage claims in, 270, 335, 526, 637 “ White collar ’’ workers, wage demands by, 437
— in Ireland, 312
— Journal, Russian, PERA translation of, lOI
— Laboratories. See Laboratories; National
Engineering; National Physical
— Materials and Design Exhibition, prelimi
nary notice, 29
— Operations, large, costs of, by E. Campini
(book), 554
— Plain Words on possibilities of, 366
— Profession, caste system in, 494. See
LETTER, 528
— Progress, human aspect of, by Dr. V. K.
Zworykin, 373
— Research, annual summary of, Illinois
University, 69
— and science, basic geology for, by E. C.
Dapples (book), 386
— Science, definitions and formulae for
students of (book), 102
Vol. II: heat and heat engines and electrotechnics, by H. B. Brown and A. J. Bryant (book), 4
— and Shipbuilding Draughtsmen, Association
of. See Association
fumes, catalytic afterburner for, 28
noise of, BICERA work on, 397 noise, research on (BICERA),
Engineering standards. See British Standards Institution; Standards
— Technical Society, Junior. See Junior Engi
neering
— Unions, Confederation of Shipbuilding and.
See Confederation
English Electric-Babcock and Wilcox-Taylor Woodrow group, Hinkley Point atomic power station, 675
English Electric Co. Ltd., lawsuit on Wanapum Dam contract, 26; Whetstone Works atomic power centre, 32; survey of reactor systems for ship propulsion, 64; Hermees electrodes (trade publication), 290; diesel generating equipment for Karachi, 349; diversification of nuclear programme, 407; diesel-electric locomotives for Argentine State Railways, 456 English Electric Export and Trading Co. Ltd., rejection of bid for Barkley dam project, 349
English Electric Valve Co. Ltd., Ampex Corp, distributors in US, 112
English Steel Corp., Ltd., Birlec heat-treatment furnace for forgings, 276
English Steel Spring Corp. Ltd., purchase of W. Griffiths, 276
Engraving machine, pantograph (Taylor, Taylor, and Hobson), 497
Enrico Fermi atomic power station, steam generating plant for, 283
Ensor, G., on refractories for ICBM take-off platforms, 115
Enterprise, aircraft carrier, reactors under test for, 380
Enterprises, corporate and non-corporate, tax treatment of, by C. Cosciani (review), 257 Enthalpy-entropy diagram, 214 Entropy-enthalpy diagram, 214
Environment, expansion of, with scientific discovery, Plain Words on, 114
Environmental Engineers, Society of. See Society
— Engineering, activities in, 195
Envoy rocket for British instrumented satellite, 154
EP Jenks Ltd., acquisition by Delta Metal, 413 Epi-Tar, coal tar epoxy coating (Corrosion Ltd.), 219
Epikote resins for concrete treatment, 684 Tooling, 31
Epoxide pipe for drainage at Battersea power station, 93
Epoxy coating, coal tar, Epi-Tar (Corrosion Ltd.), 219
— Glass laminates (Bakelite Ltd.), 218
— Resins, Araldite (trade publication), 290 Coatings for concrete, 684
Duct, glass reinforced, for National Smelting Co., 292
Hardeners (Bakelite Ltd.), 218
for road surfacing (Shell Chemical Co.), 136
Vacuum chamber, irradiation of, 311 Epsylon Industries Ltd., Paraphone magnetic tape recorder, 116
Equilibrium gases of combustion and gasification, by A. Grumbt (review), 165
Equipment (trade publications), 618
Ericsson Telephones Ltd., electronic telephone exchange at Dollis Hill, 495
Eriksberg, tanker Bardal, 139; tanker Bogota, for Texas Co. (Norway), 327
Escher Wyss, growth of, 276
Essen, Dr. L., awarded A. S. Popov’s Gold Medal, 34
Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd., construction of oil refinery at Milford Haven, 346
— Refinery, Milford Haven, 315
Esso Research and Engineering Co. Ltd., Milford Haven refinery, 346
Essor Zephyr whole surface gluing machine (Leon Davis and Co. Ltd.), 149
Estimates, Select Committee on, report on UKAEA, 96
Etablissements Couson Freres, Oscilla surface grinding machine with oscillatory motion, 242
Etching. See Milling, chemical Ethylene glycol antifreeze, 444 Eucumbene-Tumut tunnel for Snowy Mountain hydroelectric project, completion of, 61
Euphorian rest chair for dentistry (Walter Dorwin Teague Associates), 263
Euratom. See European Atomic Energy Community
Eureka reactor facility, 671
Eurochemic. See European Company for Chemical Processing of Nuclear Fuels
Europe, air transport in, discussion in Parliament, 531
— Atomic energy production estimates (1958-
65), 95
Legislation in, study, by K. Wolff and F. Schmid (review), 322
Power programme. See LETTER, 52 Reactors in, 95
— Britain in. Monthly News Letter, 5
— Economic Commission for. See Economic
— Interconnected power systems for, by
J. H. M. Sykes, 90
— Motor car exports to, 635
— Western, tariffs and trade in (PEP report),
608
European Agricultural Aviation Centre, activities
European Appliances Ltd., folding camping trailer. Auto Trailer tent, 488
— Atomic Energy Community (Euratom),
nuclear ship propulsion study, 64; credit agreement with Export-Import Bank of Washington, 94; US joint programme with, 94; Joint Reactor Board, 94; Joint Research and Development Committee, 94; firms participating in US joint programme, 94; US joint research contracts, 95; joint research centre, Ispra, 95; accounting system for nuclear materials control, 95; D. H. Hill, British resident attache, 95; amalgamation with OEEC, 95; report on position of nuclear industries in the community, 95; agreement with Canada, 378; agreements with member countries, 671
European Coal and Steel Community, production statistics, 51; mobile Nordic labour in Scandinavia, 121; steel output statistics, 239; coal output statistics, 239; Holland’s position in, 527
— Committee for Construction Equipment,
further sections to be formed, 579
? for Co-operation of Machine Tool
Industries, European Machine Tool Exhibition (Paris), 117
Market, effect on expansion policies, 88 Market, effect on French machine tool industry, 430
Market, investigations into administrative regulations, 147
Market, Italy and, 115
Market, new member-applicants, 18 Market, positions and prospects of, 430-431
Market,
relations with Free Trade Area
of, 351
Outer Seven, 599
Market, sales groups in Italy, 115
Market. See also European Economic Community
European Company for Chemical Processing of Nuclear Fuels (Eurochemic), participants and activities, 95
— Economic Community, relations with Free
Trade Association, 303
Community, tariffs and trade in, 608 Community. See also European Common Market
Co-operation, Organisation for. See Organisation
— Federation of Chemical Engineering, dis
cussions at annual meeting (Frankfurt), 135
— Free Trade Area. See Free Trade Area
— Machine Tool Exhibition (Paris), exhibits
at, 117, 241, 274
— Market Research, Conference on (EPA), 173
— Nuclear Energy Agency, nuclear energy
liability, 63; catalogue of courses on nuclear energy, 205; security control in nuclear energy, 283; study of atomic legislation in Europe, by K. Wolff and F. Schmid (review), 322
— Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN),
proton synchrotron critical, 311; plasma betatrons, 510; proton synchrotron at full power, 575
— Postal and Telecommunications Services,
Conference of, 571
— Productivity Agency, applied research
rationalisation for OEEC members, 51; conference on European market research, 173
European Transits Ltd., freight transport, 396
— Young Presidents’ Federation, 201
E.V. Industrials Ltd., merger with Export Tool and Casehardening Co. Ltd., 413
Everett, D. H., on structure and properties of porous materials (review), 289
Everitt, W. L., on radio and electronics (book), 102
Evershed-Powertronic Ltd., formation in Canada to market control instruments, 395 Evershed and Vignoles Ltd., Megger line earth loop tester, 86; control desk at Dinslaken oil refinery, 691
Excavation for London-Birmingham motorway, 178
Executives, health of. Chest and Heart Association conference, 153
— Salary and profits survey, 573
— See also Management
Exercise Mermaid (Winfrith effluent), 35 Exeter, Marquess of, on Birmid Industries, 677 Exhaust, diesel engine, fumes of, 635
— Fumes, catalytic afterburner treatment, 28 Pollution of town air by, 28
•— Motor car, noise of, MIRA work on, 397
Cycle, noise of, MIRA work on, 397
— Noise, BICERA work on, 397
Diesel engine, research on (BICERA), 384
— Valves. See Valves
Exhibition, Agricultural Machinery, and Smithfield Show, 627
— Bakers’ and Confectioners’, 162
— British (New York), 527, 662
— Brno Trade Fair, 48, 112, 358, 527
— Building, 466, 529, 596
— — Plant, Ministry of Works, 28
— Centre for trade in London, discussion in
Parliament, 467
— Commonwealth Weeks, 501
— East German achievements in international,
663
— Electrama, by J. H. M. Sykes, 58
— Engineering Industries Association, 335 Materials and design, 29
— European Machine Tool (Paris), 117, 241,
274
— Facilities in UK, FBI inquiry, 366
— Farnborough Show, exhibits at, 202
— Food industry, 269
— Foundry, exhibits at. 111
— Frankfurt motor show, Rolls-Royce at, 395
— Frozen Foods and Quick-Freezing, 270
— High buildings in London, 539
— Instruments for education, research and
development, 595
— International Plastics, 103
— Leipzig Autumn Fair, Chinese People’s
Republic at, 173
— Ljubljana International “ Modern Elec
tronics’’ Fair (Yugoslavia), Marconi Instruments Ltd., telecommunication measurement equipments exhibits at, 364
?— Londex Ltd., 143
— London Airport proposal, 367
— Mining Machinery (Olympia), exhibits at, 53
— National Society for Clean Air, preliminary
notice, 334-335
— New Town, 303
— Nuclear and control equipment, Elliott
Nucleonics, 120
—• St. Erik’s Fair (Stockholm), 692
— Scottish Industries, 152
Industries, Multipac boiler, 488 Industries, nuclear exhibits, 247
— Ship, Ocean aircraft carrier conversion to,
111
— Smithfield Show, 592
— Society of Aviation Artists, 309
Exhibition, Swiss Fortnight (London), 276
— Welding equipment (AEI), 413
— World periodicals and newspapers, in
Japan, 144
Expanded Metal Co., stiff polyethylene mesh in sheet and roll, 170; plastics meshes, 260
Expanded Rubber Co. Ltd., Onazote thermal insulation material, 263
Expansion joint sealant, Secoflex, 29 Exploration, mineral (trade publication), 418 Explosion, atomic, Argus experiment, 438 Carbon 14 production in, 439
—? ?— Civil engineering applications, 438
— ?— Detection of UKAEA test of, 575
— •— Effects of, treatise on, 439
Genetic defects due to, 439 as neutron source, 438 Oil production by, 438
Orange experiment, 438
Peaceful uses of, 438
Position and prospects of, 438
•— — Teak experiment, 438
— Iodine extraction reactor, 575
— by lightning, 29
— Rainier, temperature distribution in rock
after, 438
— Underground, detection experiments, 439 Heat utilisation from, 438
Nuclear, 438
Seismic signals from, 439
Explosives, characteristics of movements induced in coal-bearing rocks by, 253
Exports, aircraft industry, 494
— to Canada, statistics, 299
— Co-operative, progress review, 111
— Credit facilities for, FBA memorandum, 25
• and insurance facilities, 146
— Diesel engines (Perkins Engines), 173-174
— Electric motors (Newman Industries), 173
— Engineering industry, position and pros
pects of, 494
— Finance facilities for, 146 Export-Import Bank of Washington,
agreement with Euratom, 94
— Japanese, revival of, 221
— Machine tools, 660
— Military equipment, 174
— Motor car, to Europe, 635
— Orders from Canada for British
obtained by Martin, Black and Co. Ropes) Ltd., 268
credit
Rope
(Wire
— Periodicals, discussion in Parliament, 531
— Position and prospects, 221
— Radar (Decca), 80
Export Service Bulletin, 663
— Statistics, 222, 331
— Steering gear units (Frydenbo Slip and
Mek. Verksted), 459
Export Tool and Casehardening Co. Ltd., merger with E.V. Industrials Ltd., 413
— Tractors (Fordson), 244
— to U.S., statistics, 299
Exporters, guide to, Gauge and Tool, 27
— Prospective, simple guide to (booklet), 363 Exporting to France, Board of Trade report on,
80
Express paver for laying hot rolled asphalt (Blaw-Knox), 61
Extraction, solvent, at Thorex pilot plate, 575 Extractor for disused service pipes and cables, 23
— Fan, Xpelair, two-speed and reversible
(Woods of Colchester), 497
Extrudability charts, rubber (General Motors Corp), 76
Extruded trim sections, Claylastic plastic metal, 619
Extrusion, impact, lateral, Alcoa process, 594
— Process, impact (NEL), 287
Eye movements, charting equipment (EMI Electronics), 487
FABER, Oscar, and Partners, Bedford factory roof, 60; roof of Texas Instruments Ltd., new plant, 281
Face copying, swift type TA right angle chucking lathe for (Drummond-Asquith Ltd.), 242
Facing, stone, Glamorock Colorplaster, 652 Glamorock Granite Decor, 652
Factor of safety for structures, by M. Rocha, 60
— at three levels, fractional factorial experi
ment designs for, by W. S. Connor and M. Zelen (book), 40
Factorial experiment designs, fractional, for factors at three levels, by W. S. Connor and M. Zelen (book), 40
— Accidents. See Accidents
— Act (1959), provisions of, 573
— in Development Areas, Government-
financed, 667
— Fire prevention in, 457
— Floor finishes for (booklet), 160
— Inspectorate, medical branch of, White
Paper on, 27
— New, increase in Board of Trade approvals
for, 79
— and plant by W. Hornby (review), 211
— for production of pressure vessels and heat
exchangers, of Steels Engineering Installations Ltd., 171
— Roof, model study of, 60
— Subdivision by partitions and sliding doors
(Durasteel Ltd.), 542
— Volkswagen, in Brazil, progress of, 612 Fading properties of fluctuating signal imposed
on a constant signal, by H. (book), 290
FAG Bearing Co. Ltd., Kugelfischer roller bearings, 5
Fair, trade. See Exhibition
Fairclough, Leonard, Ltd., Thelwall over Birmingham-Preston-Penrith motorway, 61; Thelwall bridge, 207
Fairey Aviation Co. Ltd., Rotodyne vertical take-off airliner as “flying crane,“23; Government aid for Rotodyne VTO airliner, 152; Rotodyne VTO airliner at Farnborough Show, 202; position and prospects of, 477
Brenner
ball and
Viaduct
14
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Fairey Engineering Ltd., Dykehouse plastics machines, 26
Fairey Group, Tipsy Nipper ultra-light aircraft, 519
Fairlead with roller, Port Colborne, 169 Falcon motor car, suspension of (Ford), 345 Falks, Hermes ceiling titling, Olympus lamps, 391
Fall pipes of Weldvic polyvinyl chloride (Unity Structures), 80
Fallon, R. T., on Junior Engineering Technical Society, 464
Famillereux slideway grinding and shaving machine (A. A. Jones and Shipman Ltd.), 242
Fans, centrifugal (trade publication), 212
(Trade publication), 258
•— Extractor, Xpelair, two-speed and reversible (Woods of Colchester), 497
— Impeller manufactured by S. Smith and Sons
(England), 692
— Marex industrial (Marston Excelsior Ltd.),
148
— Noise (trade publication), 258
— Propeller (trade publication), 258
— Ventilation, flow meter for measuring
performance of (National Coal Board), 498
— Ventilator, for window, 107
•— Wheel of Jolesfield windmill, 262
Far East, Economic Commission for. See Economic Commission for
Farbenfabriken Bayer AG, Makrolon polycarbonate plastics, 420
Farina styled body for Wolseley 6/99 motor car, 24
Farlander telescopic caravan trailer, 559
Farm electricity in Scotland, 491
Farmall B45O tractor, S21 hydraulic control valve for (Hymatic Engineering), 140
Farming. See also Agriculture; Irrigation; Tractors
Farnborough Flying Display and Exhibition, preview of, 88; exhibits at, 202
Farradane, J., technique of abstracting, 69 Fatigue, basic mechanisms, symposium on, 417
— in bridge construction, 182
?—- Loadings in flight, by A. Burns, 512
— Properties, thermal, of rocket ship X-15,
testing rig for, 295
•— Tests, axle, by C. E. Phillips, 367. See LETTER, 496
for drivers in lorry cabs (BMC), 625
— Testing machine for London Transport
Central laboratory, 255
Fault detector, electronic (Ferranti Ltd.), 150 Federation of British Industries, 5th inquiry of, 25; memorandum on credit facilities for exports, 25; inquiry into exhibition facilities in UK, 366; replies to current four-monthly inquiry, 366; conference on computers for the smaller firm, 473; committee on underdeveloped countries, 566
— of Civil Engineering Contractors, training
course on site safety, 93; catalogue of films and models, 675
?— of Industries (UNICE), committee for nuclear questions, 283
Federation Internationale de la Precontrainte, Berlin 1958: Papers, by R. P. Andrew (book), 418
Federation of South Eastern Railway Travellers’ Associations, Travellers’ Charter, 573 Feed the hungry, by D. Dolci (review), 449-450 ?— Water, boiler. See Boiler
Feeder, conveyor, Fulflo, for handling aggregate or concrete (Wickham Engineering), 22
— Parts (Sinex Engineering), 424
— Press (trade publication), 134
Feeding stuffs, animal, Mikro-Pulsaire bag filter collector for recovery after grinding (Pulverising Machinery Ltd.), 116
Fein air-operated work clamps (Verrolec), 496 Fellowships, Athlone Scheme, 277
—? Target at Montreal Conference, 57 Fendering for berths at Milford Haven refinery, 347
Fenestra 237 system, for chemical laboratory of Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd. (Crittall Manufacturing Co. Ltd.), 475
Fenna, C. E., on fire-fighting, 20 Fenner-Dodge plummer blocks for ball bearings (J. H. Fenner and Co. Ltd.), 54
Fenner, J. H., and Co. Ltd., Fenner-Dodge plummer blocks, 54
Fennessy, Group Capt. E., review on Bombers Eye, 681; biographical note, 682
Ferguson, H. K., Co., contractor for gas- cooled reactor project, 380
Ferguson, 1. F., on equipment for obtaining X-ray diffraction photographs of alpha active materials (publication), 164
Ferguson tractor memorial, Wentworth, NSW, 89
Fermion elementary particles, 310
Ferranti, Ltd., Pegasus digital computer for transformer design, 73; direct reading machine for coordinate checking of machined workpieces, 117; numerical positioner, 117; computer sales problems, 120; Pegasus computer users’ conference, 120; development of Atlas digital computer, 239; laboratory extension for production of inertial navigation instruments at Crew Toll, 329; a.c. cable testing set for Anaconda Wire and Cable Co., 349; hydraulic gearbox for machine tool control, 454; Pegasus computers for Road Research Laboratory and Steel Co. of Wales, 579
Ferro Enamels Ltd., enamel firing furnace, 109 Ferrochrome alloy pellets. Simplex (Union Carbide), 484
Ferry, Carisbrooke Castle, vehicle and passenger, 139
— Freshwater, Voith-Schneider cycloidal pro
pellers on,590
—? Train-car, Trelleborg (Elsinore Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd.), 455
Fertiliser, nitrogen, production at Fisons’ Stanford-le-Hope factory, 217
Feuchtinger, Prof. M., on traffic engineering, 475
Fiat, car marketing on the Continent, 460
— G91 fighter aircraft, serviceability record, 31
Fibre glass. See Glass fibre
— Synthetic, for Poland, 427 to reinforce plastics, 323 Fibreglass Ltd., crown glass fibre for thermal and sound insulation, 219
Ficep shearing machines (trade publication), 102
Fiducial indicator for inspecting close tolerances, 137
Field, J. C., slowing down of fission neutrons and diffusion of thermal neutrons, 7
Fielden Electronics Ltd., Bikini temperature controller, 432
Fielden, G. B. R., managing director of Hawker Siddeley Brush Turbines Ltd., 56
Fiennes, G. F., on freight by rail, 226 Fiennes, M. A., on financing exports, 146 Fighter aircraft. See Aircraft
Fighting Vehicles Research and Development Establishment, multi-fuel engines, 561; air filter for multi-fuel engines, 655
Filler, can, Colton-Hope (Arthur Colton Co.), 664
Film (cinema) on automation (Renault), 382 Awards for, 382
British locomotives, 598
?—??— British Petroleum Co. Ltd., 349
Civil engineering, 675
Cutanit cemented carbides (“ Jessop- Saville ” Ltd.), 136
—? — for dock workers, 27
Gaumont British library, 649
Grinding machine, horizontal model NB (Churchill), 31
Handling of boxes, drums and sacks, 109 Human factor in work study, 659 “ Industrial Electrical Heating ” (Electrical Development Association), 449
at International Scientific Film Association congress, 382
London-Birmingham motorway, 675 New V-brick, 507
Opportunities at technical colleges, 659 Packaged bricks at the brickworks, 507 Quality control, 659
Safety on motorways, 399
—? — Schlieren (Shell), 382
Soil investigation (Foundations Ltd.), 611
—? — Suggestion schemes, 659
Synchrotron, 382
“ Time to Think ” (export promotion, ICT), 16
Transatlantic transmission for television, 32
?—? — See also International Scientific Film Association
— Fluoride, insulation by, 29
— Polyester, Melinex (ICI), 218
— Protective, in corrosion, 135
— Stiffness in gas-lubricated bearings, 285
— and television director, Kemp’s inter
national, 1959 (book), 40
— Transparent adhesive, Transpasene (BX
Plastics), 353
Protection, for documents, Halco-Sheen Halden and Co.), 484
Filter, air, for air conditioning plant, 329 for multi-fuel engines, 655
— Collector, bag, Mikro-Pulsaire, for recovery
of animal feeding stuffs after grinding (Pulverising Machinery Ltd.), 116
— Dust, Fischer automatic (Keith Blackman
Ltd.), 602
— Pressure-locked (Purolator Products), 654 Filton-Barske pump on Saunders-Roe rocket
fuelling unit, 491
Fin, roll-damping. See Roll-damping fins; Stabilisers
Finance Act, 1956 (Eire), 312
— for small companies, 349
Financial estimates for Russia, 462
Financial Times, astronomical clock for, 557 Fine Arts Commission, sanction for Chiswick flyover, 314
Finish, floor, for factories (booklet), 160
— of goods for Venezuelan market, report on,
144
Finishing machines, vibratory (Roto-Finish), 31
— Motor car bodies (Chrysler Corp.), 363
— Spray, Pogo pump for, 691 Finkelstein, D., on higher states of matter, 407 Finland and Free Trade Area, 495 Finnert terminal for super tankers, 30 Finsider Steel Group, new steel plant
Taranto, 51
Fire damage statistics, 27
— Detection devices in factories, 457
— Engines, by C. E. Fenna, 20 Firemaster (Leyland), 654
— Factory, comment on, 431
— Fighters, Mars gas-turbine water pump
(Perkins Gas Turbines Ltd.), 422
— Fighting, by C. E. Fenna, 20 Tug Cardon (Lobnitz and Co.), 455
— by lightning, 29
— Losses, by R. C. Smart, 303
— by paratfin heaters, 605
— Prevention in factories, 457
— Protection Association, annual report,
gas cylinder storage safety, 31; industrial solvents and flammable liquids (booklet), 219; booklet, 449; information and advice on fire prevention in factories, 457; flame-retardant building materials (booklets), 611
— — of buildings (booklets), 611
— References to, scientific literature on
(DSIR), 449
— Research Board, timber fire research, 32 Organisation, Joint. See Joint
Station, References to Scientific Literature on Fire, 449
— Resistance of multi-storey buildings, 536 of polyesters, 103
— Retardant coating, Albi-R (trade pub
lication), 586
— Tests, ASTM standards (book), 134
— Timber, research on, 32 Firebricks, See Refractory materials Firemaster fire engine (Leyland), 654 Fireproof Tanks Ltd., Hy-Clad laminate,
nitrile rubber, light alloy sheet, 218
Firms, small, term loans for, 494
— Smaller, computers for, conference on, 473
Firth Brown Tools Ltd., oxide tip tools (trade publication), 134; Speedicut Mitia carbide- tipped saws (trade publication), 166
Firth Cleveland Instruments, miniature barograph for recording glider height, 262 Firth-Vickers Stainless Steel Ltd., tensile stainless steel for turbine blading, 324; trade with China, 428
Fischer automatic dust filter (Keith Blackman Ltd.), 602
Fischer-Tropsch chemical synthesis
67, 68
Fish pass at Orrin power shire, 160
Fisher Joint for concrete
Ltd.), 579
Rubber jointing for
(S. B. Dickens Ltd.), 315
process,
at
for
27;
station
roads
in Ross-
(Dickens
concrete roads
Fisher and Ludlow Ltd., Flexiroll system of conveyor idlers (trade publication), 40
Fishplates, steel, for railway rails, British Standards specification for, 76
Fishter, G. E., on optical instruments, 583 Fisons, nitrogen fertiliser production
Stanford-le-Hope factory, 217 Fissile materials, production of, 470 Fission decomposition of anthracene, gases evolved in, 36
—? Fragment diffusion in slurries, 7
— Nuclear constants for, 7
— Product accumulation, programme for
calculation of, 35
Concentration of, 534
? Continuous removal of, 503
Diffusion in pebble-bed reactor, 156 Disposal of, 534
Fractional crystallisation of, 575
Removal from solution with precipitator-column treatment, 35
— Wastes, cooling of underground, 35 Fitzgerald, Brig. G. L., military adviser to
Short Bros. and Harland, 26
Fixing gun, Spitmatic (F. H. Bourner (Fixings) Ltd.), 530
— Tool, Hilti, for narrow sections (Ucan
Development Ltd.), 116
Fixtures, jigs and tools, by P. Gates (book), 102
— and manipulators (trade publication), 290 Flame cutting machine. See Cutting machine Material 5 ft thick, 595
— Hardening of crankshafts, 78
of gears, 78
Peddinghaus process, 77
— Retardant building materials (booklet), 611 Paint, Trerock, 652
Flammable liquids and industrial solvents (booklet), 219
Flanges, pipe, polyethylene (Foster Bros. Ltd.), 218
— Spreader for breaking joints (Borer Engi
neering Co.), 602
Flares, Schermuly pyrotechnic, 253
Flats, multi-storey, Birkenhead, 547
Storey, Bison precast concrete units for (Concrete Ltd.), 541
Storey, with repeated floor plan, 546
— Reinforced concrete, 536
— at Roehampton, 537
— Skarne system for erection of, 410 Flaw detection, penetrants for, 515
Verimor penetrant ink for (Manchester Oil Refinery (Sales) Ltd.), 620
— Detector, eddy current (Bristol Aircraft
Ltd.), 331
Fleck, Sir A., retirement as ICI chairman, 27; on industrial relations, 462
Fleeting, R., on blade frequency of turbines, 20 Fleming and Ferguson, dredger for Port of London Authority, 691
Fleming, R., scale-up in practice (review), 101 Fletcher Works Inc., purchase of centrifugal division by Sharpies Centrifuges Ltd., 523 Flexible Drives (Gilmans) Ltd., agents for Tyrolit grinding-wheel products, 47
Flexiroll conveyor idlers (trade publication), 40 Flight, BOAC book of, by B. Cooper (review), 649
— Boys’ book of, by A. Le Roi (review), 649
— Fatigue loadings in, by A. Burns, 512
— Paths, conventional and VTOL, 190
Flight Refuelling Ltd., ram air turbine drive of Mk. 20 refuelling pack, 295
— Simulator for BEA Comet, 655 Gepus, at RAE Farnborough, 512 Float switch (Megator Pumps), 360
Floating body, stability of, hydraulics laboratory equipment (Tecquipment), 11
— Dock. See Dock
Flocculating agent, Cyanamid International, 639
Floform Parts Ltd., formation of, 613
Flood control. Maxiflow pump for (Armfield Hydraulic Engineering), 653
— Protection, Great Ouse, 499
Floor, concrete. Omnia, for storage depot at King’s Lynn, 281
— Construction, cellular sheet-steel, Q-Floor
(Robertson Thain Ltd.), 328
— Finishes for factories (booklet), 160
— Industrial, dustless, concrete hardener for
(trade publication), 554
— Raft (trade publication), 554
— Tile, industrial, Diametile (Jaconello), 61 Flooring and ceiling panel of precast concrete.
Waffle, for Winfrith Heath offices (Modular Concrete Co. Ltd.), 475
— Grid, industrial (Dexion Ltd.), 541
Flour mill at Manila (Republic Flour Mills), 413
Flow, fuel, test house (trade publication), 386
— Meter for measuring ventilation fan per
formance (National Coal Board), 498
— Patterns, plastic, by Dr. R. A. Collacott, 646
— Rates in aluminium pipes, by J. S. Campbell
and A. Brebner, 61
Flowable Solids Reactor, 503
Flowsheet for sulphuric acid plant design (Chemico), 588
Fluid, antitracking. See Antitracking
— Can filling machine for (Mather and Platt)
338
— Hydraulic. See Hydraulic
Fluidised beds, quenching with, at National Gas Turbine Establishment, 260
— Carbon for recovery of carbon disulphide
(Courtaulds), 260
at
Fluor Products Co., Polygrid Plastic Packing for cooling towers, 579
Fluorescent ink penetrants, 515
— Light. See Light; Lighting Fluoride film insulation, 29
Fluorinated silicone rubber, price reduction by Midland Silicones Ltd., 267
Fluoroflex piping, ptfe (BTR), 104 Fluorosint stable reinforced polytetrafluorethylene (Polypenco Ltd.), 136
Flutter, rudder, by R. T. McGoldrick, 584 Flux flattening for reactor gas-turbine cycles, 638
— for titanium, Curtiflux, 29
Flying Bedstead VTOL aircraft, 190
— Training, hire purchase for, 669
Flyover, Chiswick, 281, 814. See LETTER, 335
— Hammersmith, model study of, 60
— Motorway, Fort Worth, 183
Foam, phenol formaldehyde (Bakelite), 104
— Plasticell closed cell (Microcell), 104
— Plastics, Tesamoll self-adhesive urethane
(Sealdraught Ltd.), 392
— Polyurethane, for Alpha dinghy, 104
— Vyon polyethylene (Pritchett and Gold), 104 Fog disposal at London Airport, 635
Foil, aluminium, for Foylin insulation board, 396
Winding for Balarc-175 welding transformer, 560
Foliac colloidal dispersions (trade publication), 650
Folland Aircraft, Trollboat, 687
Fondu-Fyre slab for take-off platform, 115 Food exhibitions, note on, 269
— Frozen. See Frozen foods
— Industry, engineering in, 269. See LETTER,
599
Plain Words on, 334
— Mixer, Power-Maid, with attachments
(Cannon), 428
— Production, haphazardness in, comment on,
296
— Technology, National College of. See
National College
Foppl, L., on Praktische Spannungsoptik (book), 450
Force method of linear analysis, programming of by J. C. de C. Henderson, A. D. Edwards and J. Munroe, 280
Ford, G. W. K., Nestor reactor, 607
Ford Falcon motor car, suspension of, 345
Ford Motor Co. Ltd., Josephine blast furnace, 249; Anglia motor car, 295; new version Anglia motor car, by G. Wilkins, 316; trading results, 349; Anglia motor car, 372; heater for Anglia motor car, 444; new body, paint, trim and assembly building, 458
Fordson tractor, exports of, 244 in ploughing contest, 524 Foreman, A. J. E., propagation waves in media with stored on rate of swelling of gas uranium, 35
of thermal energy, bubbles
6;
in
by
Foreman, managerial development of, H. A. C. Tracey, 34
— Selection and training by NllP, 637
Forest machinery conference (Seattle, 1960), 50
— Products Research Laboratory, efficiency of
wood adhesives, 160; heat penetration in pressing of plywood, by J. F. S. Carruthers (book), 258; natural durability of timber, 507
Forge rolling of Zircaloy components, 502 Forging, cold. Camp Bird process, 677
— Drop. See Drop forging
— Press. See Press
Fork trucks. See Trucks
Forman, R., on Over the drawing board (book) 212
Formica Ltd., Beautyboard wood and plastics laminate, 652
Formulae and definitions for students of engineering science (book), 102
Forrest Sherman destroyer, rudder flutter in, 584
Fort Worth motorway flyover junction, 183 Forth road bridge, progress on, 603
— Suspension bridge, high tensile galvanised
wire for cables of (Dorman Long (Steel) Ltd.), 251
Forty-hour week. See Hours of Labour Foster Brothers Ltd., polyethylene pipe flanges, 218; welding fittings for steel pipe (trade publication), 354
Foster Wheeler Ltd., Milford Haven refinery, 347
Foundations Ltd., cinema film on soil investigation, 611
Foundry exhibition, exhibits at. 111
— Ingot mould, Ivor Works, Dowlals, 109
— Machinery (Paterson Hughes), 111
— Mechanisation, 13
— Mungal, of Carron Co., 46
— Non-ferrous, safety, health and welfare in,
report on, 533
— Packaged, 13
— Practice, by E. D. Howard (book), 166
— See also Castings; Moulding
Four 203 induS.triat diesel engine (Perkins), 622 •— 270D diesel engine, export orders for (Perkins Engines), 173
— 270D diesel engine, order
for (Perkins), 174
4BP petrol additive (Union national Co.), 516
Fonts, J. M,, on uotrasonic elements, 502
from Germany
Carbide Inter
testing of fuel
Fox, Samuel, and Co. Ltd., stainless steel cladding for chemical laboratory of, 475; stainless steel lift door for (United Steel Cos. Ltd.), 541
Foxboro-Yoxall control equipment at Murton coal preparation plant, 171
Foylin, insulation board of aluminium foil, 396 F.R. Polythene for machinery covers (Swains Papercraft Ltd.), 292
Fractional crystallisation of fission products, 575
— Factorial experiment designs for factors at
three levels, by W. S. Connor and M. Zelen (book), 40
Fracture, brittle, in bridge construction, 182 Effect of low temperatures on, 641
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15
or.
IV- -
J J*
ob.
Frames, Coseley portal, for storage depot at
King’s Lynn, 281
— Steel, for multi-storey buildings, 536 Plastic
(review),
— Window.
Frameworks,
design of, by L. S. Beedle
553
See Window frames non-linear braced, virtual work and complementary energy applied to, by Prof. J. A. L. Matheson. See LETTERS, 19, 271
— Plane rigid, by Dr. R. Glatz (review), 5 France, aircraft industry, progress in, 364 Industry, sales boosting, 364
— Atomic energy group, 283
— “ Dumb ” post office, 263
•—? Electrical machinery industry, 58
— Exporting to, Board of Trade report on, 80
— Forming a company in (report), 80
— Interconnected power systems in, 91 France, liner, 591
-—? Machine tool industry, effect of European Common Market on, 430
— Uranium 235 production in, 470
— See also French
Franck, Dr. E. U., work on supercritical gases, 135
Frank-Kamenetzki, D. A., on influence of physical factors during chemical reactions (review), 212
Frankfurt motor show, Rolls-Royce exhibited at, 395
Fraser and Chalmers Engineering Works, Pennsylvania Hercules roll crusher, 401
Free-piston gasifier. See Gasifier
— Trade Area, Denmark and, 147 Area, Finland and, 495 Area Outer Seven, 495
Area Outer Seven, air transport arrangements of, 531
— ?— Area. Outer Seven, discussion in Parlia
ment, 467
Area Outer Seven, effect on papermaking industry, 28, 531
— — Area Outer Seven, relations with Euro
pean Common Market, 599
— — Area, Portugal as member of, 662 Area, position and prospects of, 147, 495 Area, tariffs and trade in, 608
Treaty drafting, 147
Association, by M. Camps, 147
Association, relations with European Economic Community, 303
Association, Stockholm draft plan for (White Paper), 18
Freeman, Fox and Partners, Cwm Rheidol hydroelectric power scheme, 30 ; Medway Bridge, 60; Medway motorway bridge, 675
Freeman Morrison Ltd., aluminium sheet for shipyard prefabrication shops, 281
Freewheel, miniature drive as (Tiltman Langley), 76
Freezing, quick. See Quick-freezing
Freier, R., on boiler feed water (review), 165
Freight net of woven nylon webbing (Thomas French and Sons Ltd.), 487
— Rail, future of, by G. F. Fiennes, 226
— Railway, road competition for, 126
— Transport, demand for, 226
French, Thomas, and Sons Ltd., freight net of woven nylon webbing, 487
Frequency stabilization in microwaves, by A. Brandli (book), 450
Freshwater passenger and car ferry. Voith- Schneider cycloidal propellers on, 590
Freudenstein, on trends in. kinematics of mechanisms, 417
Freyenfeld, W. A., computer market figures, 473
Freyssi natural rubber bearing pads for bridges (PCS Equipment), 347
Friction coefficients in aluminium pipes, by J. S. Campbell and A. Brebner, 61
— Grip bolts, British Standard for, 475
— Loss along a pipe, hydraulics laboratory
equipment (Tecquipment), 12
in rotary blowers, 326
Fritzsche, A. F., on Sulzer heavy-water reactor, 282
Frodingham slag cement, 516 Frog 349 model diesel engine, 672
Frost action below cold storage buildings, 159. See LETTER, 496
Frozen Foods and Quick-Freezing Exhibition and Convention, 270
— Milk, ultrasonic process for, 255
Fry, J. S., and Sons, Ltd., use of Ranney collector for water supply from Avon, 474
Frydenbo Hydrapilot, marine hydraulic steering gear products, 459
— Slip and Mek. Verksted, steering gear unit
exports, 459
Fuel ash, sintered pulverised for light-weight aggregate for concrete (Lytag Ltd.), 475
— Cell, Bacon Hydrox, principle and applica
tions, 106
Development of, 106
-— — Energy storage and, 535
— Consumption on motor cars, 353, 476. See
LETTERS, 496, 528
— Distribution of a reactor core, system for
ascertaining information of (Teleflex Incorp.), 448
— for electricity generation, 311
— Flow test house (trade publication), 386
— Gaseous, ASTM standards (book), 134
— Luminometer Number for rating radiant
properties of (Texaco), 516
— Oil. See Oil feul
— and Power Industries, Nationalised. See
Nationalised
— Pump. See Pump
— Research Station, transfer of activities to
Warren Spring Laboratory, 67, 68
— Smokeless solid, Dr. J. Bronowski on, 691
— Solid, boilers using, automatic control of,
conference on, 398
— See also under specific types of fuel Fuellers, aviation, “Yorkshire” 10,000 gal,
for jet aircraft (AEC), 263
Fuelling and dumping unit of aluminium alloy for rocket propellent (Saunders-Roe (Anglesey) Ltd.), 491
Fulflo conveyor feeder for handling aggregate or concrete (Wickham Engineering), 22
Fuller Electric Ltd., low frequency, two chamber induction furnace, 150
Fumes, exhaust. See Exhaust
— from factories, discussion in Parliament, 467
— Sulphur, removal with residual fuel oil, 556 Furnace, annealing, electric, for forgings, for
Caterpillar Tractor Co. (Birlec), 276
Electric, for Oy Vuoksenniska AB (Birlec), 276
for reactor fuel elements (Birlec), 276
— Blast, bell and hopper development, 248 with carbon lining (Great Lakes Steel
Corp.), 218
Charge distribution, 249
— — Closed forepart development, 248
Coke as fuel for, introduction of, 248
Development since Abraham Darby, 248 High top pressure, 249
Hot blast for, 248
—? — Josephine (Ford), 249
Lines of, development of, 248
Mechanisation, 249
Post-war developments, 249
Steel Co. of Wales No. 5, 249
Stewarts and Lloyds, Bilston, 249
Stove. See Stove
Tuyere development, 248
— Box, heat-treatment (Hedin), 22
— Coal burning, with mechanical stokers for
smokeless areas, 31
— Electric arc, for Steel, Peech and Tozer, 645 Batch, for titanium heat treatment
(GWB), 690
Box-type (Birlec), 31
induction, low-frequency two-chamber (Fuller), 150
— Enamel firing (Ferro), 109
— Glove-box, contract from UKAEA to
Hawker Siddeley Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., 164, 380
— Heat treatment, for forgings for English
Steel Corp. (Birlec), 276
Treatment, roller hearth, at Caterpillar’s Tannochside factory, 220
— Open-hearth, Ajax oxygen conversion, 31 Hearth, gas cleaning, 111
— Sintering, heavy duty (Royce Electric
Furnaces Ltd.), 602
— Vacuum, with degassing unit (Birlec-Efco),
401
Melting, contract from UKAEA to Hawker Siddeley Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., 164, 380
with molybdenum heating windings (Vacuum Metallurgical Development Ltd.), 338
— See also Coke oven
Fuselages, matrix analysis of, by Prof. J. H. Argyris, 280
Gas industry, independence of coal supplies, 302
— Lubrication of journal bearings, by L. N.
Snell, 285
— in pipes, pressure waves in, by F. K. Ban
nister (book), 134
— Pressure, high, heat transfer at, 286, 317
— Service at Warren Spring Laboratory, 68
— Supercritical, as solvents. Dr. E. U. Franck
on, 135
— Supplies, radio control centre for Birming
ham, 657
— Swelling of uranium, 35
— Turbine. See Turbine
— Welding regulator (British Industrial Gases Ltd.), 150
— See also under specific gases Gaseous fuels, ASTM standards (book), 134 Gasification of coal underground, 50
— and combustion, equilibrium gases of, by
A. Grumbt (review), 165
Gasifiers, free-piston, at olefine plant of ICI (Wilton), 265
Piston, SIGMA, 265
Gaskell, T. F., on oil production by nuclear explosions, 438
Gasket material of cork with nitrile rubber (British Technical Cork Products), 516
— Neoprene, for weatherstripping, 451
— Preformed, wet seal (Pawling), 452
— Resilient, of plastic and elastomeric
materials, 451
Gasoline. See Petrol
Gates, P., on jigs, tools and fixtures (book), 102 Gathurst Viaduct over Birmingham-Preston- Penrith motorway, 61
Gatwick Airport, telecommunications establishment at, 281
Gauges, dial, extra sensitive range (Thomas Mercer Ltd.), 528
— Eccentricity, for extruded cables (Addison
Electric), 465
— Height, Accuread micrometer (Amar Gauge
and Tool Co. Ltd.), 634
— Strain. See Strain gauge
— and Tool Makers’ Association, guide to
exporters, 27, 363
Gauging equipment, pneumatic, using building block unit (Teddington Industrial Equipment Ltd.), 464
— and honing machines (Wickman), 658
— and tooling balls, master (Insley Industrial
Supply Co. Ltd.), 198
Gaumont British, film library, 649 Gay, C. Merrick, on materials and methods of architectural construction (review), 553
Gay, J. A., UKAEA patents and inventions, 6 Gazelle motor car, automatic transmission on (Singer), 199
Car, improvements to (Singer), 199
Gear for Aden Port Trust tug. Sir William Luce, 169
— Helical, flame hardening, 78
— Mechanical, positively-driven continuously
variable, by E. H. Voice, 19
— Reverse-reduction, oil-operated,
“ puffer ” ship Lascar^ 520
General Motors Corp., rubber extrudability charts, 76; drum brake development, 412; petrol-burning motor-car heater, 444 research workers’ freedom, by N. Birch, 478; lightweight wheel-brake drum by Al-Fin process, 612
General Nuclear Engineering Corp., gas- cooled heavy-water-moderated pressure tube reactor, 157
General Post Office, ELSIE electronic letter sorter, 30; telephone accounts, 121; use of 473;
Dollis
G3 atomic reactor (Marcoule), critical, 123
Ga Lagoon, pipeline in, 578
Gabon Republic, manganese deposits load, 11 5 Gadgets, kitchen, changes in, 428
Galbestos laminate, colour (Robertson Thain), 652
Galbraith committee on marine atomic reactor systems, 1, 607
Gale, H. J., radioactivity of cooling gas, 6 Galenson, W., on labour and economic development (review), 385
Gallium for scientific studies, 388
Galvafroid zinc-rich paint (trade publication), 682
Galvanised high tensile wire for cables of Forth suspension bridge (Dorman Long (Steel) Ltd.), 251
Gamage, Sir L., on GEC, 56
Gambia piles for Swan River Narrows bridge, 506
Garnet Products Ltd., roller bearing production, 110
Garnet taper roller bearings, production of, 110 Gamma heating of reactor moderator, 6
— Radiation detector, PNI 1080 (Plessey Co.
Ltd.), 369
Gant, H. N., on mobile radio telephone (book), 70
Gar Wood-Buckeye ditcher (Mackay Industrial Equipment), 86
Garage, multi-storey, for Bristol, 119
— Shell roof for, model study of, 60 Garbett, S., founder of Carron Co., 45 Garden shears, stainless steel (Ward and Payne
Ltd.), 295
Gardenmaster rotary cultivator (Landmaster), 80
Gardner, F. V., on profit management and control (book), 258
Garner, R. L., ou use of professional advice, 399
Garton, D. A., density of organic moderators, 6 Gas Board, West Midlands. See West Midlands
— Circulator drive, atomic reactor, 205
— Cleaning, open-hearth furnace, 111
— Combustion, and air, thermodynamic pro
perties of, by O. Lutz and F. Wolf (book), 482
— Compressed, vibration elimination by ven
turi ventilation damper (W. C. Holmes and Co. Ltd.), 488
— Compressors, Weir-Clark, 491
— Council, changes in senior posts, 153;
safety in the home, 460
— Cylinder storage safety precautions, 31
— Detector, electronic (lEC-Sieger), 657
— Discharge. See Discharge; Plasma
— Ducting in atomic power stations, hydraulic
damper for, 590
— Equilibrium, of combustion and gasifica
tion, by A. Grumbt (review), 165
— Evolved in anthracene fission decomposi
tion, 36
?—? Gallery at Science Museum, 408
— Heating system in boiler tube bank test rig,
318
— Holders, dry-seal, for Indian Atomic
Energy Authority, 523
— Industrial, Plain Words on, 302
— Industry, coal for, 302
for
— Shaving machine, VS4A (W. E. Sykes Ltd.),
274
— Spur, flame hardening, 78
— Steering. See Steering Gear
— Teeth with circular arc profiles, by
Johnson, 294
— Testing (trade publication), 102
— Train for blade-type blower, 326
— Transmission, magnetic tester for
export), 339
— Unit, Ribble variable speed (B.
Carter and Co. Ltd.), 272
— Variable-speed, Kopp, 614 Gearbox, aircraft accessory, on
D. C.
(Stroj-
& F.
Vickers
Vanguard aircraft (Rotol Ltd.), 296
— Automatic, for small motor cars, 476
— for Brave Borderer (W. H. Allen, Sons &
Co. Ltd.), 389
— Epicyclic differential, for induction motor
test plant (David Brown Industries), 361
— Hydraulic, for machine tool control
(Ferranti), 454
Gearing, Novikov system, 294
GEC-Simon Carves, collaboration with Atomic Power Constructions Ltd., 283; gas-cooled graphite-moderated ship propulsion plant, 284
Geertruidenberg atomic power station, cancellation of, 639
Gelatine, drying of, 555-556
— from hides and skins, by D. G. Plowright, 555 GEM Suspensor of plaited nylon (Windshields
of Worcester Ltd.), 487
Gendron grinding machine with automatic loading (S. Howard Ltd.), 241
General Dynamics Corp., high temperature reactor, 158; moderator-coolant combinations for Marine Gas Cooled Reactor, 204; atomic reactor at Lovanium University, 380
General Electric Co. Ltd., annual review, 56; catalogue in Arabic, 79; reactor system for ship propulsion, 83; land based versions of gas-cooled ship reactor, 158; aircirculation ovens in BO AC Comet 4, 295; lighting supplied for Hong Kong airport, 297; contract for power transformers for CEGB, 349; test plant for large induction motors or synchronous machines, 361; earthquake proofing of atomic reactor, 471; electronic telephone exchange at Dollis Hill, 495; fluorescent lighting for Caledonian London-Glasgow express, 520; cornice lighting for Portsmouth Guildhall, 541; pinch seal machine for incandescent lamps, 594; Pennsylvania-Dixie swing hammermill for Australian quarry, 624; electrically heated transport container, 665; Japanese branch, 671
General Electric Co. (US), reactor superheaters, 64; special materials reactor, 123; tunnel diode, 132; marketing small electric motors, 300; Lucalox crystalline ceramic, 388; radiation effects on pressure-vessel steel, 439; research workers’ freedom, by N. Birch, 478; electrical machinery price reductions by computer techniques, 509; diamond synthesis, 567; synthetic diamonds, 587. See also IGE
computer in supplies branch, electronic telephone exchange at Hill, 495, 552
General Precision Systems Ltd., air control activities, 549; BEA Comet flight simulator, 655
Generating sets, diesel, for Karachi (English Electric), 349
Generator, remote pulse, for radioactive materials pumping, 574
— Signal, for L band frequencies (Winston
Electronics Ltd.), 634
— Thermionic-thermoelectric, 132
— Thermoelectric, 97 Construction of, 131
Cost of power generation, 162 Materials for, 129
with organic moderated and cooled reactor, 131, 161
SNAP III, 97 Symbols for, 98 ? Thermopile for, 130 —- — Use with organic-moderated reactor, 131 for US Navy'(Westinghouse), 32
— Traction, BTH, for diesel-electric loco
motive, 686
— Units, turbine, for West Thurrock power
station, 524
— See also Alternator; Turbo-generator Genetic defects due to nuclear explosions, 439 Geodesy and cartography (book), 289
Geology, basic, for science and engineering, by E. C. Dapples (book), 386
Geometry interpreted by stereoscopic views, by 1. Pal (book), 39
Gepus simulator at RAE Farnborough, 512 Gere, J. M., on moment distribution factors for beams, 108
German Atomic Forum, formation of, 283
— Democratic Republic. See Germany,
Eastern
— Reading, for scientists, by H. Eichner and
H. Hein (book), 418 Germanium rectifiers in Mull of Kintyre maintenance ship (Associated Electrical Industries), 621
— 65 isotope, 671
Germany, Eastern, atomic power station for, 535
trade fair achievements, 663
— Motor-vehicle industry, 200
— Western, atomic energy progress, 671 Computer trade mission from, 596 Economic position in, 428
Trade with, expansion efforts, 566
— Working week reduced in, 201 Gesellschaft ftir Trenn-und Trockentechnik
m.b.h., purchase by Sharpies, 523
Ghana Government Tema Development Corp., pipeline in Ga Lagoon, Gulf of Guinea, 578
— Visit by ICE president and secretary, 309,
398
Gibbons, Giddings 244
Gifford, bridge, 506
Gilbert, J. C., slowing down of fission neutrons and diffusion of thermal neutrons, 7
Gilpin, Joshua, Newcomen lecture on, 605 Gimson and Co. (Leicester) Ltd., pallet loading machine, 570
Gipsy pick-up truck (Austin), 623
Girdaling lightweight timber beams sheathed with plywood (H. Newsum, Sons and Co. Ltd.), 542
Girders. See Beams; Bridges; Floors Girling disc brakes on motor cars, 412 Glacier Metal Co. Ltd., position and prospects of, 56; Ramrod lubricating system for bearings, 656
Glamorock Ltd., Granite Decor and Colorplaster natural stone facings, 652
Glands, valve, ptfe packing rings for, 387 Glanville, D. E., preparation of deuterium sulphate, 36
Glasgow, compensation water permitted, 643
— Overspill Plan, 276
Glass Age Development Committee, Motopia new town and other proposals of, 206
— Ceramics, Pyroceram (Corning), 41 —• — from, by S. D. Stookey, 41
— Coating of ductile and SG iron fittings, 587 Glass Developments Ltd., beryllium monitor
for Atomic Energy Authority, 401
— Epoxy, laminates (Bakelite Ltd.), 218
— Fibre based bitumen and copper sheeting
roofing material (Ruberoid), 80
Bodies for Lotus Elite motor car (Bristol Aircraft Ltd.), 355
Bottom on Brave Borderer, 389 Case for portable low voltage transformer (Sturdy Electric Co. Ltd.), 306
Crown, for thermal and sound insulation (Fibreglass Ltd.), 219
—? •— Lifeboats (W. and J. Tod), 687 Mat for roof space insulation, 396
— — to reinforce plastics, 323
Reinforced Bakelite polyester resin for plastics machine guards (Tomlinsons (Rochdale) Ltd.), 484
Reinforced epoxy resin duct, for National Smelting Co., 292
Wedges for acoustic surface treatment, 65 — Pipeline for whisky, 29
— Reinforced epoxy resin duct for National Smelting Co., 292
Plastics, Tufplas, vessels of (Cawley Plastics), 356
— Safety, rubber-glazed, for crane cab, 106 — Tubing, lead, Velio process, 31
— Volumetric apparatus, testing of, by J. C. Hughes (book). 650
traffic
John, blast furnace lines, 248 and Lewis-Fraser Ltd., fcrmation.
E. W. H., Swan River Narrows
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Glatz, Dr. R., plane rigid frameworks (review).
Glazing, double, of windows, 332, 396
— Unit, reinforced concrete (Atlas Stone Co.), 651
Glengarnock, testing of aluminium alloy and steel hatchway beams, 443
Glory without power, by R. Clements (review), 617
Glossaries, monolingual scientific and technical, Vol, II, by E. Wilster (book), 39, 322 — of nuclear science terms, 283
Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. Ltd., new policy of, 445; trading report, 549
Glove box furnace for UKAEA (Hawker Siddeley), 164, 380
Turret, for machining radioactive materials, 439
X-ray camera in, 164
— Industrial, Hycar (Dunlop), 29
Gluing machines, Essor
and Co. Ltd.), 149
Tempo Universal Ltd.), 149
Glycol antifreeze mixtures, 619
Go Continental—By Car, by W. Hutton (review), 354
Godber, Lord, at chemical engineering department opening, Cambridge, 637
Godfrey CA-7 Mk 5 cold air unit for cooling aircraft cabins, 215
Goeller, H. E., on sawing fuel elements, 575 Gold stocks, transfers of US, 51
Gold 199, production and separation, Harwell, 36
Goldsmith, J. A., on misuse of computers, 18; on hiring of computers, 473
Good Housekeeping Institute, seal of approval, 48
Good-Win mobile asphalt Barsby and Co. Ltd.), 273 Goodden, Prof. R. Y., on lot, 501
Goodfellow, B. R., on fuel cars, 496. See LETTER, 528
Goodwin Barsby and Co. Ltd., Good-Win mobile asphalt plant, 273
Goodyear Pumps Ltd., marketing of snoring pump in European countries, 427
Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. Ltd., Sure- Grip Lug Earthmover tyre, 215
Gordon-Miller Ltd., spin dryer with plastic mouldings, 324
Gdrtler, H., on boundary layer research (review), 133
Gosheron, John, Hitem 577 masking tape, 388 Gotaverken, MS Kookaburra, 139
Goulder, J., and Sons Ltd., gear testing (trade publication), 102
Goulding, W. and H. M., fertiliser factory at Cork, 26
Governing bodies in education, comment on, 49 Government support for research and development in industry, 597
Gow, J. D., on ion magnetron, 407
Grab, Mansaver, for aluminium slabs (Geo. W. King Ltd.), 266
Graco Hydra-Spray paint sprayer (Alfred Bullows and Sons Ltd.), 465
— Industrial equipment, Alfred Bullows
appointed distributors of, 363
Graduates, engineering, supply and demand of. See LETTER, 2
Grand Anicut barrage (India), 15
Graneek, M., precision dynamometer, 614 Grangemouth petroleum chemical industry exhibit, 152
Granite Decor natural stone facing (Glamo- rock), 652
Grants for amateur scientists, 89
Grant, G., mission to Russia on patents, 533 Grantura, TVR, sports car, reinforced plastics body for (Layton Sports Cars), 360 Granular material, mobile pneumatic handling plant for (Spencer (Melksham) Ltd.), 601 Graphite blocks, heat exchanger with, by A.
Hilliard, 261
— Cartridge condenser for corrosive vapours
(Powell Duffryn Carbon Products Ltd.), 337
— Irradiated, energy measurement, calori
meter for, 6
— Machining, Powell Duffryn, 205
— Microstructure of, 6
— Neutron diffusion in, 7
Graphite Products Ltd., foliac colloidal dispersions (trade publication), 650
— Thermal wave propagation in, 6
— Water adsorption by, 6
Grassam, Dr. N. S., review on Theory of Machines, 289-290; review on Solution of Problems in Theory of Machines, 290; biographical note, 290
Grasso Koninklijke Machinefabrieken, air compressors for Netherlands power station, 361
Grate stokers, chain, automatic ash extractor for (Riley (IC) Products Ltd.), 370
Gravel deposits, quaternary Danish, petrographic investigation, by B. Sondergraad (book), 450
Graving dock. See Dock
Gray Co. Inc. agreement with Alfred Bullows and Sons Ltd. for distribution of Graco industrial equipment, 363
Gray, D. A., on proton synchrotron magnet, 343
Gray, Sir J., Presidential Address to BA, 145; Plain Words on, 114; on approach to work, 367
Gray, J. L., on heavy-water reactors, 471
Great Lakes Steel Corp., carbon lining for blast furnace, 218
Great Ouse flood protection scheme, 499 Greaves, A. E., and Son Ltd., oil-fired heaters (trade publication), 258
Green, A., engineering and physics design, 7 Greenfield, P., on crystal structures of plutonium, 35
Greenfield taps and dies (trade publication), 102
Greenhouse can, polythene, Longfellow, 75 Greenock Dockyard Co. Ltd., Monotower travelling cranes for slipways, 624
nitrile rubber for
Zephyr (Leon Davis
(Leon Davis and Co.
plant (Goodwin
bidding for the
consumption in
Greenock graving dock, 28 Dock, financing, 51 Greenwait, C. H., on political role for businessmen, 34
Greenwood and Airvac Ventilating Co. Ltd., Mechavent Roofline air extractor for roof ventilation, 400
Greentyood, J. R., on Craven Bros., 33 Gregorig, R., on heat exchangers (review), 165 Gregory, J. N., molten sodium hydroxide, 8 Gregory, M., on virtual work, 19-20. See LETTER, 271
Greig, David Ltd., tea handling equipment, 690 Grids, battery, lead-tin-barium alloy for, 29
— Flooring, industrial (Dexion Ltd.), 541 Gridley, R. J., on forge rolling of cover
plates, 502
Griffin and George Ltd., branch office at Newcastle, 595
Griffin, J. R., Nestor reactor, 607
Griffiths, W., and Sons Ltd., purchase of, by English Steel Spring Corp., 276
Grimes, S. A., on use of medium-sized computer to deal with customers’ order, 473 Grinding animal feeding stuff's, Mikro- Pulsaire bag filter collector for recovery after (Pulverising Machinery Ltd.), 116
— Machine, air-driven. Turbodyne (Turbo
machines Ltd.), 465
Angle (Black and Decker), 338
Centreless, using wet belt (Taylor Tools and Supplies Ltd.), 634
Centreless, Wickman-Scrivener range, 464 Cylindrical (trade publications), 102 Gendron, with automatic loading (S. Howard Ltd.), 241
Horizontal spindle, model NB, cinema film on (Churchill), 31
Jig, Matrix 56-12-18 (Rockwell Machine Tool Co. Ltd.), 369
Revlac Trigrinding universal (trade publication), 134
Surface, Oscilla, with oscillatory motion (Etablissements Couson Freres), 242
Taylor platen belt (Taylor Tools and Supplies Ltd.), 273
— and shaving machine, Famillereux slideway
(A. A. Jones and Shipman Ltd.), 242
— Spindles (trade publication), 134
— Wheel dressing machine, Optidress (Pre
cision Grinding Ltd.), 432
Products, Tyrolit, agency for Flexible Drives (Gilmans) Ltd., 47
Grip bolts in bridge construction, 181 Gross national product, transport of, 125
Ground subsidence, congress | (Leeds), 93
Groupement Intersyndical de _ Nucleaire, formation of, 283 adjustable pressure,
Ltd.), 466 the first six million
percentage
proceedings
rindustrie
Grouting pump with ZH50 (Craelius Co.
Gruenberger, F. J., on prime numbers, 553
Grumbt, A., on equilibrium gases of combustion and gasification (review), 165
Guarantee, legal aspects of, 48
Guards, machine, plastic, of glass fibre reinforced Bakelite polyester resin (Tomlinsons (Rochdale) Ltd.), 484
Guayaquil, Port of, dredging contract to R. Costain Ltd., and Dredge and Reclaim Ltd., 251
Guest Keen Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., Dowlais Ironworks, 109
Guest Keen and Nettlefolds, nylon screws, 104 Guest Keen and Nettlefolds (Midlands) Ltd., Wedglok nylon pellet locking element for body of nut, bolt or screw, 296
Guggenheim, D. See Daniel Guggenheim medal
Gun, Carronade (Carron Co.), 46
— Fixing, Spitmatic (F. H. Bourner (Fixings)
Ltd.), 530
— Hypersonic, 648
Gunmetal, improved (Mond Nickel Co.), 420 Guthrie, C. E., on radiochemical reprocessing costs, 574
Guttering, aluminium, 80
— Weldvic polyvinyl chloride (Unity Struc
tures), 80
Guy Motors Ltd., bus, 623
Guy’s Calculating recorder tape play, 528
GWB Furnaces Ltd., electric batch furnace for titanium, 690
Gypsum, research on, 484
Gyramatic, Tavannes, 6-spindle automatic lathe with swarf extractor (S. Howard Ltd.), 241
Gyro compass (Sperry Gyroscope Co.), 492 Sperry’s, on MV Port Fairey, 660
— Control unit in SCI aircraft autostabiliser
system, 192
— Pilot unit (Sperry Gyroscope Co.), 492
— Rate, in SCI aircraft autostabiliser system,
192
Gyroscope, high precision, manufacture of (Ferranti), 329
— Mechanism of, by R. F. Deimel (review), 682
Wulfrunian double-decker
Machines Ltd., Brittape cassette for continuous
HACKBRIDGE and Hewittic Electric Co. Ltd., direct buried transformer for “ Electricity Board, 149
Hadden, R. J. B., on epoxy resin chamber, 311
Hagan Controls Ltd., formation, 244
Haigh, Dr. C. P., director of Berkeley Laboratories, 62
Hailsham, Lord, as Minister for Science, 366; proposals as Minister for Science, 398
Halberstam, A. P., on formation of private companies, 513
Halco-Sheen, transparent protection film for documents (Halden and Co.), 484
Halcyon convection space heater (Sugg), 300 Halden and Co., Halco-Sheen transparent protection film for documents, 484
Eastern
vacuum
Nuclear
Halden reactor, 95
Criticality achieved, 64
Hall, Russell and Co. Ltd., MV Santona, 139 Hallsworth, H. B., automatic moulding system, 13
Hamburg, radioactivity measurements, 535 Hammers, hand, chipping of, by A. H. Burn, 304
Hammermill, swing, Pennsylvania-Dixie, for Australian quarry (GEC), 624
Hammersmith flyover, model study of, 60 Hammond, R., on tunnel engineering (review), 482
Hammond, R. P., on Turret reactor, 607 Hancock, A. E., on d.c. machines, performance and design (book), 354
Hancock, Dr. H. B., on Joshua Gilpin, 605 Handbook on technology of refrigeration, by R. Plank and W. Niebergall (book), 682
— on torsional vibration, by E. J. Nestorides
(review), 69. See LETTER, 271
Handicool welding electrode holders (QuasiArc), 498
Handley Page, Sir F., on Handley Page Ltd., 200
Handley Page Ltd., Victor aircraft undercarriage, 107; chairman’s report, 200
Handling, boxes, sound film strip on, 109
?— Correct, Safety week theme, 153
— Drums, sound film strip on, 109
— Equipment, Master, for drums (trade
publication), 40
— Mechanised, of cement, at Erith North fac
tory, 172
— Plant, mobile pneumatic, for granular
material (Spencer (Melksham) Ltd.), 601
— Sacks, sound film strip on, 109
— See also Materials handling; Mechanical
handling
Hanford plant of USAEC. See United States Atomic Energy Commission
Hangar, roof erection for, at Abingdon, 547 Hanover Technical University, reactor gasturbine cycles for ship propulsion, 535 Harbour, Sydney, reinforced concrete bridge, 30
Hard facing alloys, properties and types of, 426 Alloys, selection and application, 427 Applications, 427
of knives for hide, 555
— ?— in plant maintenance, 426 Process, by N. D. Berrick, 426 Hardeners, epoxy resin (Bakelite Ltd.), 218 Hardening. See Heat treatment Hardness, impact. Shore scleroscope for, 4
— Newton on, 4
— Testing machine, Qlsen Air-O-Brinell
(Edward G. Herbert Ltd.),^5
Hardwick Industries Ltd., (Engineers) Ltd., 26 Hardwoods for structural report on, 207
— Structural, research by
ment Association, 207
Hardy Cross moment distribution method, 108 Hargreaves, L. S., on Aerialite Ltd., 645 Harkin, M. J., on information officers and librarians, 463-464
Harland Engineering Co. Ltd., Kalorite circulating pump for central heating systems, 22 Harland and Wolff, Canberra liner, 331 Harper, E. A., microstructure of graphite, 6 Harris Calorific Co., gas welding regulator (British Industrial Gases Ltd.), 150
Harrison, A. F., biographical note, 4; review of Venice throughout the centuries. Vols. I and II, 5
Harrison catch, roller, coin adjustable, 391 Harrison, E. R., on high current proton source, 36
Harrison, J. R., heavy water solutions of uranyl fluoride (HAZEL) Part 2, 7; Nestor reactor, 607
Hartas, J. C., nuclear power and reactor engineering, 8
Hartley, A. C., on engineers for processing industries, 463
Hartman, W. A., BWR reactor system, 606 Hartwell, George, Ltd., showrooms for car selling by night, 80
Harvard Law School, international nuclear liability (report), 63
Hatchway beams, steel and aluminium alloy, tested at Glengarnock, 443
Hatfield Technical College, modern copying techniques for the drawing office (book), 322
Haviland, R. P., on biological satellites, 155 Havkong, tanker, 591
Hawes, R. J., soluble slurries flowing under a thermal gradient, 7
Hawker Siddeley Brush Turbines Ltd., formation, 56
Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd., reorganisation, 56; formation of Hawker Siddeley Brush Turbines Ltd., 56; papers at Commonwealth Spaceflight Symposium, 89; formation of Primapax Ltd., 120; acquisition of Veritys Ltd., 276; Jason reactor, 380; Nestor and Jason reactors, 575; organic reactor for ship propulsion, 607; bid for Blackburn group, 645; catamaran, 687 Hawker Siddeley Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., contract from UKAEA for glove box and vacuum melting furnaces, 164, 380
Hawley Products, moulding material of wood-pulp fibres with phenolic resin and rubber latex, 388
Hawthorn, E, P., on marine organic-moderated reactor, 379
Hawthorn Leslie (Shipbuilders) Ltd., tanker Anadara, 139
Hay, J. and J., Ltd., conversion of Lascar “ puffer ” ship to diesel power, 520
Hayward, B. R., on fuel element technology, 638
HAZEL Homogeneous Assembly Zero Energy,
7
H. and B. Precision Engineers Ltd., Watford pleat wrapping machine, 433
H.D. Foundations, Delta concrete pile, 443 Head, Dr. M. R., review of Boundary layer research, 133; biographical note, 134
Head Wrightson and Co. Ltd., progress of, 88
offer by Acrow
purposes, TDA
Timber Develop-
Head Wrightson Colliery Engineering Ltd., Stripa process (trade publication), 650; cyclone washer (trade publication), 650
Head Wrightson Ltd., iron and steel plant (trade publication), 418
Head Wrightson Machine Co. Ltd., tube drawing (trade publication), 166; electrolytic tinning line for Ebbw Vale works of Richard Thomas and Baldwins, 362
Head Wrightson Processes Ltd., Polygrid Plastic Packing for cooling towers, 579 Headlamp safety measures, 476
Health of executives. Chest and Heart Association conference, 153
— Industrial, report on, 79
— in non-ferrous foundries, report on, 533
— Occupational, discussion in Parliament on,
571
— Organisation in UKAEA, 63
— Services, industrial, 669
— See also Royal Society for the Promotion of
Health
Heat, atomic reactor, for chemical processes, 205
— Conversion to electricity. See Thermo
electric and Generator, thermoelectric
— Engines and heat and electrotechnics, by
H. B. Brown and A. J. Bryant (book), 4
— Exchanger elements. Polybloc, 261
with graphite blocks, by A. Hilliard, 261 by R. Gregorig (review), 165
Production at factory of Steels Engineering Installations Ltd., 171
— and heat engines and electrotechnics, by
H. B. Brown and A. J. Bryant (book), 4
— and mass transfer, international journal of,
69
— Penetration in pressing of plywood, by
J. F. S. Carruthers (book), 258
— Sink for thermoelectric power, 130
— Sources for thermoelectric power, 130 ?— Transfer, ASME annual review, 69
— — at high gas pressures, 286, 317 Medium, Thermex (ICl), 620 in pebble-bed reactor, 156 Two-phase, review, 8
— Treatment box furnace (Hedin), 22
Conveyor line at Caterpillar’s Tannoch-
side factory, 220
Furnace. See Furnace
Hardening, flame, of crankshafts, 78 Hardening, flame, of gears, 78 Hardening, flame, Peddinghaus process, 77
Quenching at Caterpillar’s Tannochside factory, 221
of titanium, electric batch furnace for
(GWB), 690
Unit, Ipsen automatic, 434
— Utilisation from underground explosions,
438
Heater, air. Major oil fired (Airheating Ltd.),
369
Oil-fired, Turbo-Static (Colt Ventilation Ltd.), 432
Oil-fired, for factories (Speedyheat), 401
— Cord, neoprene-jacketed, for small kitchen
appliances (Du Pont), 359
— Demister for Austin Seven and Morris
Miniminor cars, 444
— Induction, RF2 (Pye Ltd.), 498
?—? Motor-car, petrol-burning, 444 Car, trends in, 444
— Oil, approval tests on, 524 Safety devices for, 667
— Oil-fired (trade publication), 258
— Paraffin, fire due to, 605
— Space, convection, Lornair Stairpak, 300 Convection, Potterton, 300
Convection, Sugg Halcyon, 300
— — See also Heater, air
— Unit, Thermolier (Mather and Platt Ltd.), 272 Heating, air (trade publication), 258
— Cable for Murrayfield rugby ground, 539
— of coke at MCPP, 171
— Domestic, economics of, 396
— Gamma, of reactor moderator, 6
—? Gas system in boiler tube bank test rig, 318
— Induction, station changeover switch (Dela
pena), 337
?—? Industrial electric, cinema film (Electrical Development Association), 449
— Ohmic, in B-1 stellarator, 407
— Panel, wall, cooling, lighting and, 16
— Systems, central, Kalorite circulating pump
for (Harland Engineering), 22
Domestic, Daxel circulating pump for (Rhodes, Brydon and Youatt Ltd.), 338
— — Motor car (Mercedes-Benz), 508 for Rolls-Royce motor car, 508
? Small bore. Small Boar accelerator for
(Precision Electrical Products (Stockport), Ltd.), 433
— for Welwyn-Hatfield general hospital, 280 Heavy water solution of uranyl fluoride,
HAZEL, 7
Hedin Ltd., heat-treatment box furnace, 22; laboratory ovens with Sunvic temperature control, 197
Heenan and Froude Ltd., Multiform strip-forming machine, 241
Height gauge, micrometer, Accuread (Amar Gauge and Tool Co. Ltd.), 634
Hein, H., on reading German for scientists (book), 418
Heliarc welding process. Pilot Arc starting for, 563
Helical gear. See Gear Helicopters. See under Aircraft
Heliport noise, by P. H. Parkin, 678 Helium conservation plan in United States, 292
— Impurities in, katharometer for continuous
analysis, 8
— Production in United States, 292
— Resources in US, 205
— 3 fast neutron spectrometer as proportional
counter, 36
Heller, F. A., new developments in training (book), 514
Heller, F. P., review of Mechanics of the Gyroscope, 682; biographical note, 682
Hellermann Ltd., Polystrap thermoplastic cable fittings, 292; Dymo-mite label marker with embossed white lettering, 402
Helmet with Amplivox noise-cancelling microphone, 487
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Henderson, E. H., on radioactive and natural strontium in human bones, 36
Henderson, G,, retirement of, 469
Henderson, J., on nuclear power station costs, 96
Henderson, J. C. de C. on programming of force method of linear analysis, 280
Henley, E. J., on chemical engineering calculation (book), 354
Henley, W. T., Telegraph Works Co. Ltd., new marketing in India, 459
Henry, H., formation of Marplan Ltd., 299 Henson, R. W., adiabatic rise calorimeter for measuring stored energy in irradiated graphite, 6
Herald motor car, construction of (Triumph), 344; suspension of, 345
Car heater for (Triumph), 444
— •—? Car, replaceable units of (Triumph), 476 Herber tube bending machine (Chamberlain Industries Ltd.), 368
Herbert, A., Ltd., Spiramatic Jigmil milling machine with Datatrol control system, 241
Herbert, D. C., on Newtonian theory of axial elasticity, 195-196. See LETTER, 367
Herbert, Edward F., Ltd., Olsen Air-O-Brinell hardness testing machine, 85
Herbet, J. D., on electrodeless discharge, 407 Hercules 35 welding electrodes (English Electric), 260
Herdman, Dr. H. F. P., on research ship, 414 Hermees electrodes (trade publication), 290 Hermes, aircraft carrier, description of, 609 Hermes ceiling fitting, Olympus lamps (Falks), 391
Herzka, A., on pressurised packaging (Aerosols) (review), 166
Hesford, E., on recovery of neptunium from the Windscale plant, 35
Het acid in fireproof polyesters, 103
Heyman, Dr. J., biographical note, 4; review of Plane rigid frameworks, 5; review of Beam tables, 5; review of Economics of Cylindrical Shells, 134; biographical note, 134; review of Structural Stability, 290; biographical note, 290
H.F. Industrial Services Ltd., Acme plastics welding machines with double heads, 21 Hi-Flex flexible pressure pipe, extensible hydraulic link for use with (Oil Feed Engineering Co. Ltd.), 392
Hicks, D., neutron flux distributions in loops, 7-8
Hides, gelatine from, by D. G. Plowright, 555 High Precision Equipment Ltd., Contourmatic profile milling machine, 117
— Temperature Physics Conference, nuclear
fusion research progress, 406
— •— Reactor Development Associates, high-
temperature reactor, 158
High Voltage Engineering Corp., tandem /an de Graaff accelerator for California Institute, 342; tandem particle accelerators for Switzerland and Australia, 343 Highway bridge. See Bridge
— Code, new, road safety campaign for, 667
— Engineering scholarship at Birmingham
University, 669
— Paving record on Watford leg London-
Birmingham motorway, 207
— and traffic engineering, lectures (Pavings
Development Group), 475
— See also Road
Hildred, Sir W., on airline fares, 367
Hilger and Watts Ltd., Hilger atomic absorption spectroscopy equipment for use with Uvispek spectrophotometer, 196; purchase of Infra-Red Development Co., 549 Hill and Co. (Tools) Ltd,, Camgrip machine vice, 632
Hill, D. H., British resident attache to Euratom, 95
Hill, E. J., on wage claim, 270
Hiller XROE-1 Rotorcycle (Saunders-Roe), 519 Hilliard, A., on heat exchanger with graphite blocks, 261
Hillman Minx motor car, automatic transmission on, 199
— — Motor cars for Czechoslovakia, 349
— ?— Motor car, improvements to, 199
Hilti fixing tool for narrow sections (Ucan Development Ltd.), 116
Hilton, Dr. W. F., on upper atmosphere engine 89; on shock heating for ramjet, 155
Hinds, Brig. G. H., on computers in transport, 229
Hindson, R., on information officers and librarians, 463-464
Hindustan Aircraft staff training at Bristol Siddeley, 605
Hinkley Point atomic power station, crane for, 75
Atomic power station, progress at, 675 Atomic power station, welding of reactor vessels, 490
Hinton, Sir C., on engineering standards, 373; on power transmission in countryside, 599 Hire-purchase debt, discussion in Parliament, 531
Debt, statistics, 598 for flying training, 669 in Italy, 221
of motor cars by servicemen overseas, 533
Hirschfeld, K., on structures: theory and practice (book), 650
Hiscox, W. A., Ltd., contractor for automatic weighing installation in ' ‘ plant, 251
Historic books on machines, Davison (book), 212
History, Blackie and Son, 581;
— Blast furnace, 248
— Bridges, 180
— Carron Co., 45
— Continental Publishers and Distributors, 581
— Dowlais Ironworks, 109
— Gilpin, Joshua, 605
— Railway electrification, 231
— Singer sewing machine, 660
— Steam road vehicles, by C. St. C. B. Davison
(book), 212
— Sulzer Bros., 276
— United Aircraft Corp., by H. M. Horner, 33
History, Vulcan Boiler and General Insurance Co., Ltd., 110
— Wagon-lits, by G. Behrend (book), 322 Hitem 577, masking tape (J. Gosheron and Co.), 388
Hobbing machine (trade publication), 134 Hodge, N., molten sodium hydroxide, 8 Hodge, P. G., Jr., on plastic analysis structures (review), 553-554
Hoffman Manufacturing Co. Ltd., position and prospects of, 56
Hoists and cranes (trade publication), 40
— “ Lo-Hed ” (Taylor Stoker Co.), 625 — Midget (trade publication), 40
— Mine car, proximity switches for levelling (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical), 53
— Passenger, Skymaster (A.C.E. Machinery
Ltd.), 466
— See also Crane: Transporter; Derricks Holden, Arthur, and Sons, Polyprimer, 516 Holden and Brooke Ltd., Sumpette drainage
pump, 305
Holders, electrode, Handicool (Quasi-Arc), 498 Holdite No. 33 adhesive bought by Wartsila Koncernen A/B, (Surridges Patents Ltd.), 268.
Holford, William, and Partners, Swan River Narrows Bridge, 506
Holiday, Bank, August, IWS conference on, 501 Holland-Amerika Line, liner Rotterdam, 139 Holland, atomic energy consortium, 283
— Coal industry of, 527
Holland, E., bearing materials under liquid sodium, 8
—? Engineering industry survey, 147
Holland and Hannen and Cubitts Ltd., annual report, 27; new lecture hall for Royal Aeronautical Society, 347; reinforced concrete buildings at Liverpool University, 443; Cunic partitioning for offices, 542; Doncaster highway bridge replacement, 610
Holland, nuclear agreement with Norway, 283 Hollingdale, S. H., on high speed computing methods and applications (review), 386
Holloway Bros. (London) Ltd., shipyard reconstruction for Austin and Pickersgill, 610
Holman Bros. Ltd., stationary duplex compressors, 370; combined aftercooler and anti-surge tank for use with stationary air compressor, 486; new premises for selling and servicing in Birmingham, 564;
— Stationary duplex compressors (Holman
Bros. Ltd.), 370
Holmes, W. C., and Co. Ltd., Koronamax electrode for electrostatic precipitator. III; Chemical Engineering Division, venturi ventilation damper, 488
Holz-Her PKS panel saw (J.K.O. Cutters Ltd.), 529
Home safety, death rate statistics, 460
Hommel roundness and straightness measuring machine (Rubert and Co. Ltd.), 664
Honeywell Controls Ltd., McDonnell and Miller boiler pump controls, 264
Hong Kong, air freight service to, 48 Airport, lighting at (GEC), 297 Department of Civil Aviation, lighting for airport, 297
Honing machine, Armstrong (Payne Products International), 86
Automatic (Wickman Ltd.), 658
Cylinder, Armstrong H2 (Payne Products International Ltd.), 633
— Straight or cranked shafts, lathe tool for (Nicol and Andrew Ltd.), 601
Honour, A., ten miles high two miles deep (review), 449
Hooker, A. V., on architect-engineer relationship, 599
Hooker, Dr. S. G., on aircraft industry, 661 Hooper, D. W., on exchange of information between user and manufacturer of computers, 473
Hoover, Ltd., expansion programme, 88; position and prospects of, 88
Hope, Henry, and Sons Ltd., projected window for tropical climates, 542
Hopper, bell and, development of, 248
— Wet receiving (Abelson and Co. (Engineers)
Ltd.), 338
Horn, H. A., on modern welding techniques in industry (review), 258
Hornby, W., on factories and plant (review), 211
Horner, H. M., on history of United Aircraft Corp., 33
Hornung, R., on ultrasonic weld testing, 141 Horsley, G. W., soluble slurries flowing under a thermal gradient, 7
Horsman, F., in Morris paint shop workers’ dispute, 89
Horton, C. C., adsorption of water on pile graphite, 6
Hospital, mobile, helicopter ambulance pods as, 405
— Royal Marsden, nuclear therapy project, 535
— St, Thomas’s, London, Mobaltron IV
rotating cobalt unit for oxygenation therapy (Nuclear Engineering), 263
— Welwyn-Hatfield general, electrical and
mechanical installations for, 280
Hotel and Catering Institute, training scheme grant, 599
Houdry, Litol process for upgrading light oils, 620
Hours of labour, demand for shorter, 245 Forty hour week demand, 637
— ?— Forty-hour week, TUC and, 121 Forty-two hour week at ICI, 437 -in Germany, 201
Leisure time and, 57
House building, alternative methods study, 643
— — Expensive inaccuracies in. Building
Research Station report on, 207
— Councils and their (report), 309
— Grants for modernising improvements, 596
— Insulation of, 396
— Journals, by B. Samain, 469
Growth of, 147
— Post-and-beam, in Canada, 174
— and Purchasing Act, modernising grants
under, 596
Housing, Institute of. See Institute
Housing and Local Government, Minister of, on housing management, 309
— Management by local authorities, 309
— Report of Central Housing Advisory Committee, 364
— Schemes in Stockholm, 410
Hovercraft. See Aircraft
Howard, E. D., on foundry practice (book), 166
Howard, J., and Co. Ltd., Kingsferry lifting bridge, 207
Howard, Stanley, Ltd., agency for Eugen Weisser machine tools, 47; Gendron grind ing machine with automatic loading, 241; Tavannes Gyromatric 6-spindle automatic lathe with swarf extractor, 241 Howden Hume, J., on James Howden and Co.
Ltd., 477
Howden, James, and Co. Ltd., annual report, 477 Howe, J., street lighting competition, 560 Hudson, J. C., on surface preparation of ship plate, 259
Hudson, Robert, Ltd,, transporters for concrete shielding blocks, 293
Hudswell, F., on Exercise Mermaid, 35 Hughes Aircraft Co., atomic clock for orbiting satellite, 255
Hughes Bolckow Shipbreaking Co,, 50th anniversary, by H. White, 52
Hughes, J. C,, on Testing of Glass Volumetric Apparatus (book), 650
Hull Docks, improvements to, 411
Improvements, 603
— Form of research ship, 415
— Plastics for Alpha sailing dinghy (Bristol
Aircraft, Ltd.), 355
— Roll damping device for HMS Coniston
(Vosper), 359
— Tear drop, in atomic submarine Skipjack,
167
— Vibration, rudder-excited, by R. T. Mc-
Goldric, 584
Hum, R., on chemistry for engineering students (book), 386
Human aspect of engineering progress, by Dr. V. K. Zworykin, 373
— Factor in work study, film on, 659
— Problems in Marine Engineering, by C. C.
Pounder, 669
— Relations, G. R. Pryor on, 627
Photography in, by W. Nurnberg, 27 Tour of US by E. Moonman, 57 Humboldt coal washing plant, manufacturing agreement, 613
Hume, K. J., on practical metrology (book),290 Humidifier, Aerosolette portable (Aerosol- Turbo Ltd.), 569
Humidity-controlled production of instruments, 329
Humphreys and Glasgow Ltd., agreement with Babcock and Wilcox Ltd., 471
Humphreys, H. R., on acoustics, noise and buildings (review), 481
Hunslet Engine Co. Ltd., Hunslet diesel shunting locomotive, 369
Hunt, Prof. N., on management training courses, 526
Hunter, A. B., on insurance of jet airliners, 598
Hunter, G. J., on lanthanum fluoride coprecipitation of plutonium, 35
Hunter, G. (London) Ltd., lifting equipment (trade publication), 40
Hunter, Dr. R., elected chairman of British Steel Castings Research Association, 501 Hunterston atomic power station. X-ray examination of welds, 490
Hunting Technical Service Ltd., mineral exploration in Burma (trade publication), 418
Hunwicks, S. A., appointed director. Atomic Weapons (Development), 380
Hurley, R. B., on junction transistor electronics (review), 321-322
Hutchinson, W. K., appointed deputy chairman, Gas Council, 153
Hutchison, Sir J., on takeover bids, 82
Hutton, W., on Go Continental—By Car (review), 354
Hy-Clad laminate of nitrile rubber and light alloy sheet (Fireproof Tanks Ltd.), 218 Hycar nitrile rubber for gasket material (British Geon), 516
Rubber for industrial gloves (Dunlop), 29 Hydeofiner at Milford Haven refinery, 347 Hyder, H. R. McK., engineering and physics design, 7
Hydra-Spray paint sprayer, Graco range (Alfred Bullows and Sons Ltd.), 465
Hydraflo high pressure pump (Tangyes), 108 Hydrapilot, Frydenbo, marine hydraulic steering gear products, 459
Hydraudyne pressure measurement instrument (Cossor), 21
Hydraulic barrel stacker (Powell and Co.), 198
— Control valve, S.21, for Farmall B.450
tractor (Hymatic Engineering), 140
for winch for Caterpillar D8 and D9 tractors (Hyster Co.), 665
— Copying lathe attachment (Strojexport), 339
— Damper for earthquake shocks, 590
— Fluids, Skydrol (Monsanto Chemicals), 588
— Gearbox for machine tool control (Ferranti),
454
— Link, extensible, for use with Hi-Flex
flexible pressure pipe (Oil Feed Engineering Co. Ltd.), 392
— Machines (trade publication), 134
— Motor, Staffa Mark V (Chamberlain Indus
tries Ltd.), 569
— Pneumatic transfer machine for condenser
tubes (Hymatic Engineering), 570
— Press. See Press
— Pump. See Pump
— Ram and pump, combined, Linford 4000
(Linford Engineering), 570
— Research Board, model study of Severn
estuary, 205
— Research in US (catalogue), 579
— System for wavemaker at Ship Hydro
dynamics Laboratory (Keelavite Hydraulics), 518
— Transport of solid/liquid mixtures, 32
— Turbine. See Turbine: Power plant
— Valves, EC Mark II (Ellison), 264
with feel control (Keelavite Hydraulics Ltd.), 273
Hydraulics laboratory apparatus (Tecquipment Ltd.), 10
— Research Station, activities of, 160
— Teaching laboratory for, by Dr. E. Mark-
land, 10
— See also Hydrodynamics; Irrigation; Water Hydrocarbons, aromatic, ASTM standards
(book), 134
Hydrodynamics Laboratory, National. See National
Hydroelectric Board, North of Scotland. See North of Scotland
— and irrigation scheme. Snowy Mountains,
tunnelling on, 315
— Power Commission (Ontario), new and
extended generating capacity, 377
in Ireland, 312
Project on Brazeau river in Alberta (Calgary Power Ltd.), 160
Projects on Cauvery River, 14
Scheme, Cwm Rheidol, contract for, 30 Schemes on River Danube (report), 23 Scheme, Yeniseisk, USSR, 315
Station, Snowy TI, Snowy Mountains scheme, 475
— Project, Snowy Mountain, completion of
Eucumbene-Tumut tunnel for, 61
Hydrogen and carbon monoxide, synthesis of oils and chemicals from, 68
— Embrittlement in steel, 516
— Lines, stark broadening functions for, by
A. B. Underhill and J. H. Waddell (book), 354
Hydrology for engineers by R. K. Linsley Jr., M. A. Kohler, and J. L. H. Paulhus (review), 211-212
Hydromagnetic instability of cylindrical gas discharge, 36
Hydromechanics Research Association, British. See British
Hydrometallurgy facilities at Warren Spring Laboratory, 68
Hydropneumatic table drive on Centec 2B milling machine (Centec Machine Tools Ltd.), 274
Hydroptic jig boring and milling machine (Societe Genevoise Ltd.), 117
Hydrostatic transmission for tractors (Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd.), 421
Hygiene, occupational. See Annals of Occupational Hygiene
Hymatic Engineering Co. Ltd., inflating machine for tubeless tyres, 85; S.21
hydraulic control valve for Farmall B.450 tractor, 140; portable air compressor with electric drive, 401; hydraulic- pheumatic transfer machine for condenser tubes, 570
Hymeg insulation tester (Miles Hivolt), 22 Hypalon coatings for concrete, 684 Hyperbolic paraboloid panels for timber shell roof, 579
Timber shells for school roof (Wheelers Ltd.), 315
Hyperfine flux structure, computer calculation of fuel elements, 439
Hyperon elementary particles, 310
Hypersonic guns, 648
Hyster Co,, SpaceSaver fork trucks (trade publication), 40; straddle carrier (trade publication), 40; new trade mark, 222; marketing of internal combustion engined trucks, 492; Hydraulic control for winch for Caterpillar D8 and D9 tractors, 665
IBM (United Kingdom) Ltd., Commercial Translator for programming electronic computers, 331; IBM 1401 Data Processing System transistorised, 384; bid for shares of, 549; IBM 704 analogue computer for de-icing study on Lockheed Electra aircraft, 583
IBM World Trade Corp., bid for IBM United
Kingdom shares, 549
Ice protection on aircraft. See De-icing Icebreaker, Lenin atomic-propelled, maiden voyage of, 246; accident prevention in, 246; sinking safety of, 246; reactor pressure vessel for, 247; reactor servicing, 247; specification, 247; atomic fuel for, 535
ICSE. See Intermediate current stability experiment
Idaho Falls, sintered “ sandwich ” fuel tubes for materials testing reactor, 502
— Plant, reprocessing of atomic fuels, 574 Ideal Casements Ltd., Ideal Mipolam window
frames of plastics coated steel tube, 332
— Mipolam window frames of plastics coated
steel tube (Ideal Casements Ltd.), 332 lEC-Sieger Ltd., electronic gas detector, 657 IGE, atomic power station for SENN, 247 Iliffe, W. R., Indus River negotiations, 82 Illinois Institute of Technology, pile driving research, 23
— University Engineering Experiment Station,
annual summary of engineering research, 69
Illuminant system for Cumbrae Lighthouse (Stone-Chance Ltd.), 520
Illuminating Engineering Society, gold medal awarded to Dr. J. W. T. Walsh, 501
Illumination. See also Light: Lighting; Lamps Image intensifier with high definition developed at Imperial College, 447
Impact extrusion, lateral, Alcoa process, 594 Process (NEL), 287
— Hardness, Short scleroscope for, 4
— of jet, hydraulics laboratory equipment
(Tecquipment), 11
— Tests by Newton, 3
?—? Testing machines, Charpy, support condi- sions for, 352
Machines, Izod, support conditions for, 352
Machines, support conditions for, by J. H. Lamble, 352
Impalco. See Imperial Aluminium Co. Ltd. Impeller, fan, manufacture by S. Smith and Sons (England), 692
Imperial Aluminium Co. Ltd., board of, 152; position and prospects of, 152
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ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., change in Chairmanship, 27; Trisec surface activating agents, 29; collaboration with Aluminium Co. of America, 33; Terylene yarns, 71; Weldvic polyvinyl chloride for fall pipes and guttering, 80; Plastics Today, 101; Propathene polypropylene, 103; Melinex polyester film, 218; titanium alloys “ 230 and 679,” 260; work of Nobel Division on movement of coal-bearing rocks by explosives, 253; olefine plant at Wilton, 265; Kynal aluminium busbar jointing (trade publication), 290; titanium with platinum film, 292; comparison of glass- and polyester-reinforced plastics, 323; trading report, 381; M. J. S. Clapham appointed chairman of metals division, 405; polyester fibre to be made under licence in Poland, 427; 42-hour working ployees, medium, concrete, titanium heat treatment, 690
Imperial College of Science and Technology, opening of Weeks Hall, 309; commemoration day, 405; image intensifier with high definition, 447
Imports, dollar, freeing of, 462
— Duty on machine tools, 603
— Electrical machinery in US, ruling on, 25
— Quotas for motor cars in Europe, 635
— Restrictions in Australia, relaxation of, 144
— Statistics, 222, 331
— US, new markets for, by Mr. j. H. Smeddle,
332
— •— of oil, quota for, 18
Impregnation of cables, monitor recorder for (Addison Electric Co. Ltd.), 369
Impulse process, protein production from vegetable matter, 307
Impurities in helium, katharometer for continuous analysis, 8
Incandescent Heat Co. Ltd., controlled atmospheres (trade publication), 258
Inchgreen Development Co. Ltd., graving dock at Greenock, 28
Inchgreen Investigating Co., Clyde growing dock scheme 270
Incomes, Cohen Council on. See Cohen
?—-Professional engineers’, survey, 334, 341. See LETTERS, 399, 495
— Tax, surtax statistics, 669
Treatment of corporate and noncorporate enterprises, by C. Cosciani (review), 257
— See also Salary; Wage Inconel-X in X-15 research aircraft, 480 Independent Television for South Wales and
West of England (TWW), service to advertisers and their customers, 16
Index to the Literature on Spectrochemical Analysis (ASTM), 385
— Surface coating resin, 136
— Vocabulorum Quadrilinguis, on paint, 385 Indexing heads, Revlac (trade publication), 134 India, atomic power in, 607
Power station for, 123
— books from, catalogue of (Asia Publishing
House), 513
— Cauvery River irrigation and power pro
jects on, 14
— Helicopters for, 563
— Indus River constructional projects, 93 River negotiations, 82
Valley waters negotiations, 499 —? Loan from International Bank, 26
— Marketing of electrical and industrial pro
ducts (W. T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Co. Ltd.), 459
— Motor vehicle industry, committee on, 83
— Oil pipeline for Assam (Stewarts and Lloyds),
119
— Over-production risk in, 645 ?—? Third five-year plan, 195
Indian Atomic Energy Authority, dry-seal gas holders for, 523
?— and Eastern Engineer Centenary Number, 1858-1958 (book), 354
Indian Iron and Steel Co., annual statement, 645
— Railway Testing and Research Centre,
annual report, 160
Indian Steelworks Construction Co. Ltd., Durgapur iron and steel works, 631
Indicator, fiducial, for inspecting close tolerances, 137
?—? Smoke density, Electricon (R. Trist and Co. Ltd.), 196
Individual and the universe, by Prof. A. C. B. Lovell (review), 449
Induction coupling, TASC (Pye Electric Ltd.), 434
— Furnace. See Furnace, induction
— Heater, RF2 (Pye Ltd.), 498
— Heating station changeover switch (Dela
pena), 337
— Motor. See Motor, electric
— Ram system for Chrysler motor car engines,
372
Indus River, negotiations on, 82
— Valley constructional projects, 93 Waters, negotiations on, 499 Industrial accidents, report on, 79
— Association of Wales and Monmouthshire,
Careers in Industry Index (booklet), 89
— Building, increase in, 79
Industrial and Commercial Finance Corp., annual report, 349
— Design. See Design Council of. See Council
Industrial Development and Construction Ltd., new rod mill for Arthur Lee and Sons, 119
— Editors, British Association of. See British
Association
?— Engineer, trade union, 277
— Health, report on, 79
Industrial Machine and Equipment Co. (Brim- pex) Ltd., stacker operated by propane gas, 85
Organisations and engineering educational institutions, research relationships between (publication), 133
Output statistics, FBI, 366
— Production index for August, 303
— Productivity statistics, FBI, 366
week, 437; share gifts to em- 605; Thermex heat transfer 620; silicone treatment of 684; electric batch furnace for
Industrial Psychology, National Institute of. See National Institute
Industrial Rectifier Co. Ltd., silicon solar cells, 86
— Relations, Sir A. Fleck on, 462
— Solvents and flammable liquids (booklet),
219
— Standards alignment, progress in, 362
— Training Council, training scheme grants,
599
— Welfare Society, recruitment, training and
supervision of office staff (report), by E. M. Pepperell, 34; sound film strips on handling of boxes, drums and sacks, 109; survey of apprentices, 277; conference on August Bank Holiday, 501
Industry, service for (trade publication), 418
— and trades Diderot pictorial encyclopedia of,
by D. Diderot (book), 514
— Welding technique applications, by P.
Schimpke and H. A. Horn (review), 258
Inertial guidance for radio telescope at West Virginia, 32
— Navigation instruments, production of
(Ferranti), 329
Inferation Units (Stott), 533 Inflating machine for tubeless tyres (Hymatic Engineering), 85
Information in the building industry, preliminary notice of conference (Aslib), 553
— Central Office of. See Central Office
— Centre at UKAEA London office, 6
— Exchange between user and manufacturer
of computers, 473
— Making it available, Plain Words on, 194
— Officer, functions of, by I. M. Slade, 374.
See LETTERS, 463, 568
— Scientists, Institute of. See Institute
— Sources, 375
— Storage and retrieval, problems in, 69
— Work, scientific, definition of, 375 Infra-Red Development Co., purchased by
Hilger and Watts, 549
Ingot moulds foundry, Ivor Works, Dowlais, 109
Inhibitor, rust, in antitracking fluid, 588 INI Group, atomic energy consortium, 122 Injection moulding press, Bipel (BIP Engineering Ltd.), 305
Injector, Alvarez proton accelerator, for Nimrod proton accelerator, 342
— for Argonne proton synchrotron, 342 ?—? Particle accelerator as, 342
— Test cabinet (Simms Motor Units Ltd.), 465 Ink, marking-off, Ardrox 381 (Brent Chemical
Products), 516
— Penetrant, Verimor, for flaw detection
(Manchester Oil Refinery (Sales) Ltd.), 620
— Use in fast computers, 473 Innocenti, expansion plan, 88
Insley Industrial Supply Co. Ltd., master gauging and tooling balls, 198
Inspection Service of Ministry of Defence, 446
— Techniques as aids to process control in
non-ferrous metals production (book), 134 Institute of Automatics and Telemechanics (Moscow), activities of, 626
— for Automation (Ukraine), activities of, 626
— of British Agricultural Engineers, wind
erosion of soil, 539
— of Directors, questionnaire on typical
director, 437
— of Electro-mechanics (Leningrad), activities
of, 626
— of Housing, annual conference, 309
— of Industrial Supervisors, Further Along the
Line (report on foremen), by H. A. C. Tracey, 34
— of Information Scientists, definition of
scientific information work, 375
— of Marine Engineers, surface preparation of
ship plate for painting, by J. C. Hudson, J. F. Stammers and A. G. B. Miller, 259
— of Metals, inspection techniques as aids to
process control in non-ferrous metals production (book), 134; Powder Metallurgy, note on publication, 289
— of Welding, course on welding design, 377 Institution of Civil Engineers, Conditions of
Contract, 93; President’s visit to West Africa, 309; visit by President and Secretary to West Africa, 398; presidential address on engineers for processing industries, by A. C. Hartley, 463; bridge design for road programme, 475. See LETTER, 568; formation of Traffic Engineering Study Group, 507; irrigation control of Nile waters, by H. A. W. Morrice and W. N. Allan, 507
— of Electrical Engineers, presidential address
on making of professional engineers, by Sir W. Jackson, 335; Incorporated Benevolent Fund report, 373; discussion of high-speed digital computers, 511
— of Engineers and Shipbuilders of Scotland,
steel and alumjnium alloy hatchway beams tested Watt lecture Sims, 471
— of Industrial
meeting at Brighton, 437
— of Mechanical Engineers, mechanical
engineering in Switzerland, by G. Sulzer, 25; Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 69; consolidated list of advance copies of papers and lectures published since January, 1959, 211; plans for
improvements to premises Automobile Division: Effect luggage on motor car performance, by L. H. Dawtrey, 405
— of Naval Architects, surface preparation of
ship plate for painting, by J. C. Hudson, J. F. Sammers and A. G. B. Miller, 259
— of Structural Engineers, symposium on
high-strength bolts, 30
Instituto Technico de la Construccion y del Cemento, colloquium on model structures, 60
Instruments and accurate mechanism, design and use of, by T. N. Whitehead (book), 102
— Balance tester at EID, 447
— Control, marketing in Canada (Evershed-
Powertronic Ltd.), 395
— Division of EID, 447
at Glengarnock, 443; James on nuclear navy, by A. J.
Safety Officers, annual
of.
366; of roof
Instruments for education, research and development, exhibition on, 595
— for inertial navigation, laboratory for
(Ferranti), 329
— Landings, systems, work of Blind Landing
Establishment, 189
— Moon, landing of, by D. S. Carton 480
— Nuclear, exhibition of, Elliott
120
— Optical, quality control by, by
and G. E. Fishter, 583
?— Recording, by A. Palm, H. E. G. Schlosser (review), 102
— for satellite, UK-US project, 18
— Technology, national certificates, 245 Society of. See Society Instrumentation (trade publication), 212
— Course, Harwell Reactor School, 439
— Nuclear, electron multiplication used in, 447
— for satellite, British, 154
— System, activation wire drive, for ascertain
ing information from a reactor core (Teleflex Incorp.), 448
Insulating board, Asbestolux, fireproof, 396
— Felt for roof space insulation, 396
— Materials, rockwool (Cape Building Pro
ducts), 260
Insulation, ASTM standards (book), 134
— of atomic reactor pressure tubes, 535
— Board, asbestos, plastic faced (Cape
Building Products), 652
Foylin, 396 Treetex, 396
— of buildings, 396
— Fluoride film, 29 -—? of houses, 396
— of roof space, 396
— Sound (Building Research Station), 492 Crown glass fibre for (Fibreglass Ltd.),
219
— — at heliports, 678 by E. F. Stacey, 492
— Tester, Hymeg (Miles Hivolt), 22
— Thermal, Crown glass fibre for (Fibreglass
Ltd.), 219
Onazote material for (Expanded Rubber Co.), 263
Insulator, Rosite cold-moulded plastic, 103
— Sound, Coronet range, 492 Insurance of agricultural machinery, 598
— Atomic energy, conference, 380
— — Installations, 63
—? Boilers, history of (Vulcan), 110
— Engineering, 110
— Jet airliners, 598
— Motor, comment on, 437
— National. See National Insurance Interavia ABC, World Directory of Aviation
and Astronautics, 1959 (book), 258
Interecorder magnetic tape dictating machine (trade publication), 618
Interference from electric train overhead equipment, 233
Interlas Ltd., electrode holder and clamp for welding, 198
Intermediate current stability construction at Culham, 406
Internal-combustion engine. See also Aircraft engine; Motor; Tractor; Turbine, Gas
— — Engine Research Association, British
See British
International Agricultural Aviation Conference, aircraft for agriculture, 357
— Air Transport Association, traffic con
ference of, 367
— Astronautical Congress, 114; report of, 154
— Atomic Energy Agency, workshops for
librarians, 535
— Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
loan to India, 26; reserves increased, 51; Indus River negotiations, 82; Indus Valley constructional projects, 93; loan for manganese deposits in Gabon Republic, 115; SENN atomic power station loan. 247; annual meeting in Washington, 271; death of H. Riley, treasurer, 309; negotiations on Indus Valley waters, 499
?— Bureau for Precast Concrete, practical
applications of vibration for precast concrete, 443
International Computers and Tabulators Ltd., “ Time to Think ” (export promotion film), 16
— Cooperation Administration, rejections by,
79; electrodialysis plant installations for potable water in North African desert, 411 International Finance Corp., annual meeting in Washington, 271; annual meeting, 399
— Geophysical Year, Antarctic research, 640
— Harvester, S21 hydraulic control valve for
Farmall B450 tractor, 140
— Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineer
ing (Argonne), 201
International Journal of Abstracts Statistical Theory and Method, 133
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 69
?— Labour Organisation, retirement of Sir G, Myrddin-Evans as Government representative to, 501; occupational health services, 571
International Model Aircraft Ltd., Frog 349 model diesel engine, 672
— Monetary Fund, annual meeting in Wash
ington, 271
— Plastics Exhibition, new materials exhi
bited, 103
International Rectifier Co. (GB) Ltd., silicon diodes for high temperature operation, 601
— Scientific Film Association, congress of
(Oxford), 382
— Society of Aviation Writers, Communica
tions, 385
International Synthetic Rubber Co., new plant for synthetic rubber latex, 324; progress of, 483
?— Union of Testing and Research Laboratories for Materials and Structures (RILEM), colloquium on model structures, 60
Interplanetary reconnaissance vehicle (US), 169 Interpolation coefficients, osculators, tables o f by H. E. Salzer (book), 40
Nucleonics,
J. H. Bach
Roth and
experiment.
Engine. See Motor boat;
Interscience Publishers, American Documentation, 5
“Interview with Ourselves” (editorial), 145. See LETTER, 240
Invar for solar telescope and camera (Perkin- Elmer Corp. USA), 484
Investment, American, in British manufacturingindustry, by J. H. Dunning (review), 417
Investment Castings in Metal, British Standard for, 484
Iodine extraction reactor, explosion of, 575
Ion-exchange unit for Ford Motor Co. expansion (Permutit Co. Ltd.), 458
Ions, inorganic, spectrophotometric methods of analysis for, bibliography of, 417
— Magnetron, 407
— Thrust rocket (North American Aviation
Ltd.), 210
Ionics Incorp., electrodialysis plant installations for potable water in North African desert, 411
Ionisation phenomena, international conference on, 406
Ionospheric virtual height-frequency curves, conversion to profiles, by J. O. Thomas and M. D. Vickers (book), 290
Ipsen automatic heat treatment unit (Ipsen Industries Incorp.), 434
Ipsen Industries Incorp., Ipsen automatic heat treatment unit, 434
Ipswich school, new, roof for (Wheelers Ltd.), 315
Ireland, aluminium rod manufacture, 313
— Electricity supply industry, 312
— Engineering expansion in, 312
Materials manufacture, 313
— Finance Act (1956), 312
— Metal mining, 312
— Peat production, 312
— Shipbuilding industry, 313
— Steel production, 313
— Transport facilities, 313
Irish Refining Co. Ltd., oil refinery at Whitegate, 312; air-cooled oil refinery, at Whitegate, 595
Irish Steelholdings Ltd., activities of, 313
Iron, austenitic, hard facing alloys, 426
— Cast. See Cast iron
— Domestic, developments in, 268
— Founding industry, employment in, 603
— Martensitic, hard facing alloys, 426
— Ore. See Ore
— and Steel Board, annual report (1958), 51;
steel consumption statistics, 82; steel output statistics, 238
Federation, British. See British
Gallery at Science Museum, 408
Industry, conference on computers in, BISRA (review), 386
Industry, Russia. See LETTER, 2
Industry, safety in, 57
Institute, 6th report of Corrosion Committee, 259; Powder Metallurgy, note on publication, 289; Oxygen in Steelmaking, 681; Bibliography on the Continuous Casting of Steel, 681
Institute of West of Scotland, Journal of. See Journal of West Scotland
Plant (trade publication), 418
Works, Durgapur, position and prospects of, 630
— Structures, Metalife 1000 protective coating
for (Southern Metalife Ltd.), 219
— See also Cast iron; Steel; Metallurgy Ironwork, ornamental (Carron Co.), 46
— Structural. See Bridge; Floor; Column;
Roof: Steelwork; Structure
Irradiated graphite energy measurement, calorimeter for, 6
Irradiation, neutron, effect on epoxy resin vacuum chamber, 311
— Plutonium detection in pile by, 35
?— Proton, effect on epoxy resin vacuum chamber, 311
— See also Radiation
Irrigation canals, trapezoidal. Gar Wood- Buckeye ditcher for (Mackay Industrial Equipment), 86
— Control of Nile waters, by H. A. W.
Morrice and W. N. Allan, 507
— and hydroelectric scheme. Snowy Moun
tains, tunnelling on, 315
— Works on Cauvery River, 14
ISCON. See Indian Steelworks Construction Co. Ltd.
Isolator, pantograph-type (Delle), 58
Isora translucent ceiling (SFIM (GB) Ltd.), 542 Isotopic power for space vehicles, 208
Ispra, financial contributions for, 282; work of, 282
Italy, atomic power plants for, 283
Reactors, 503
— European Common Market and, 115
— Hire purchase in, 221
•— Nuclear study centre, 283
— Sales groups for European Common
Market, 115
— Wage policy, 115
Ivor Works, ingot mould foundry, 109
Izod impact testing ditions for, 352
electron density-height
machines, support con-
polystyrene, for lining
JABLITE, expanded
walls, roofs and ceilings, 396
Jacks, electric screw, for locomotive servicing (Matterson), 657
Jackson, Sir W., on professional engineers, 335 Jacobsson, M., on trends in Swedish building construction, 410
Jacomb-Hood, E. W., review on Tunnel Engineering, 482; biographical note, 482
Jaconello Ltd., Diametile industrial floor tile, 61
Jaguar Cars Ltd., order from Mexico, 112; improvements for 1960, by G. Wilkins, 316; suspension of Mark 2 models, 344; improvements for 1960 motor cars, by G. Wilkins, 348. See Correction, 476
James, M., review of Principles of Automatic Controls, 618; biographical note, 618
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James, R. T., and Partners, shipyard reconstruction for Austin and Pickersgill, 610
James Watt lecture on nuclear navy, by A. J. Sims, 471
Japan, atomic power station progress, 671
— Display of world periodicals and news
papers, 144
—? Export revival, 221
— Motor car production, 644
— Reflecting telescope for (Sir Howard Grubb
Parsons), 654
Jason reactor (Hawker Siddeley), 380
Jellett, J. H., on prestressed concrete, 568 Jenkins, E. N., on monitoring of effluent. Part 3, 36
Jenkins, Robert, and Co. Ltd., Polybloc graphite blocks, 261
Jenks, E. P. Ltd., acquisition by Delta Metal, 413
Jephcott, D. F., on Alfven waves, 407 “Jessop-Saville” Ltd., Cutanit cemented carbides, 136
Jet, impact of, hydraulics laboratory equipment (Tecquipment), 11
— Provost trainer aircraft, fatigue loadings
study on, 512. See LETTER, 631
— Star jet transport aircraft, chemical milling
system for, 30
— Water, coal mining with, 522
JETS. See Junior Engineering Technical Society
Jetty for Esso refinery, Milford Haven, 315, 346
— Oil, for supertankers at Tranmere, 442
Jib, crane, clean lines of (Stothert and Pitt), 105
— Cutting, double turret (Edibrac), 54
Jig boring and milling machine, Hydroptic 7A (Societe Genevoise Ltd.), 117
— Clamp, Cone-Lok (F. Pratt &Co. Ltd.), 150
— Grinding machine. Matrix 56-12-18 (Rock
well Machine Tool Co. Ltd.), 369
— Tools and fixtures, by P. Gates (book), 102 J.K.O. Cutters Ltd., Holz-Her PKS panel
saw, 529
Jobber electric hand drill with built-in spirit level (Revo Electric), 400
Jodrell Bank radio astronomy station, satellite tracking, 50
Radio telescope, 559
Johns Hopkins University, new chemistry course, 309
Johnson, D. C., on gear teeth with circular arc profiles, 294
Johnson Matthey and Co. Ltd., FSP36 thermosetting silvering preparation, 135; production of rare earth metals, 324
Johnson and Phillips Ltd., type PDB circuit breaker, 240
Johnson, R. D., on forge rolling of cover plates, 502
Joint, ball, for pipelines, 485
— British Committee for Vacuum Science
and Technology, formation and constitution of, 494, 495; formation of, 552
— and cracks in concrete, by P. L. Critchell
(book), 258
?—? Electronic Research Committee (JERC), 495
?—? Expansion, Secoflex sealant for, 29
?— Fire Research Organisation, fire protection of buildings (booklets), 611
— Fisher, for concrete roads (Dickens Ltd.),
579
— Flange spreader for breaking (Borer
Engineering Co.), 602
— Reactor Board, US-Euratom, 94
?— Standing Committee on Safety in Non- Ferrous Foundries, 2nd report of, 533
Jointing, aluminium busbar, Kynal (trade publication), 290
— for concrete roads, Fisher Joint (S. B.
Dickens Ltd.), 315
Jolesfield windmill machinery, 262
Jones, A. See Supply, Minister of
Jones, A. A., and Shipman, annual report, 33; high-speed sensitive bench drill, 85; cylindrical grinders (trade publication), 102; grinding spindles (trade publication), 134; Famillereux slideway grinding and shaving machines, 242; 1795 pneumatic press, 306
Jones, E. D., engineering and physics design, 7 Jones, E. H. (Machine Tools) Ltd., Mil- Waukee-Mil bed type milling machine with Dial-a-Cycle programme control, 274 Jones, F. E., on reactions between aggregates and cement. Part IV (book), 70; on reactions between aggregates and cement (book), 102
Jones, Sir H., appointed chairman. Gas Council, 153
Jones, Dr. J. P., on analogue computers for structural problems, 280
Jones KLlO-10 mobile crane (George Cohen, Sons and Co. Ltd.), 570
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp., electrostatic precipitator for open-hearth furnace gas cleaning, 111
Jones, R. C., drop forging die design (book), 40 Jones, Tate and Co. Ltd., sequence controller (trade publication), 212
Jones, William Ltd., telescopic drill guard, 31 Jordan, E. D., on sodium-heavy-water reactor, 639
Josephine blast furnace (Ford), 249
Joughin, Comdr. J. R., on trade with Russia, 20. See LETTER, 52
Journals, house. See House journals
Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 69 Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research, criteria for design of windmills for low to moderate wind velocities, 417
Journal of the West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute (book), 586
Journalism, Plain Words on. See LETTER, 20 Joy Manufacturing Co., mass drilling on rock face, 643
Joyce, A. W., on Savannah River plant, 574 Jugoslavia. See Yugoslavia
Jukes, J. D., on fast-pinched gas discharge, 36 Junction transistor electronics, by R. B.
Hurley (review), 321-322
Junge Unternehmer, young presidents’ organisation, 201
Junior Engineering Technical Society, Plain Words on activities of, 50. See LETTER, 464
Junior Institution of Engineers, Presidential
address on nuclear power, 671
—? Omnimil milling machine with tilting head
(B. Elliott (Machinery) Ltd.), 633 Junkers, 40th anniversary of F-13 aircraft, 88
Kriescher and Cie., machine tools (trade publication), 134
Krugman, L. M., on fundamentals of transistors (review), 321-322
Krupp, Dr. D. H., on adhesion, 135
Kugelfischer ball and roller bearings, 5
Kure shipyard (Japan), activities at, 445
Kynal aluminium busbar jointing (trade publication), 290
KAI TAK airport, Kowloon, lighting at (GEC), 297
Kaiser Aluminium, formation of private company in Britain, 413
Kaiser Engineers, special materials reactor, 123; contract on nuclear power for remote military installations, 439
Kalorite circulating pump for central heating systems (Harland Engineering), 22
Kan, Mr. V., use of Tesamoll urethane plastics foam with Ardam monorail camera, 392 Kane, Douglas, Ltd., Obo pins for timber to masonry, 632
Karachi Electricity Supply generating equipment for trie), 349
— Transport improvements in,
Kariba Dam, construction progress, 30 Karlstads Mekaniska Werkstad, cellulose pulp mill supplied to Russia, 460
Karpinski, F., on single spindle automatic lathes (review), 133-134
Karting sport, foot-controlled Tro-Kart for, 423
Katharometer for analysis of impurities in helium, 8
Kay, Prof. J. M., on nuclear power, 671
Keelavite Hydraulics Ltd., hydraulic valve with feel control, 273; wave-making machine for NHL, 416; hydraulic system for wavemaker at Ship Hydrodynamics Laboratory, 518
Keeton, Sons and Co. Ltd., Keetona shears, 21 Keetona shears (Keeton, Sons and Co.), 21 Keir, J. L., and Co. Ltd., Creswell Viaduct over Birmingham-Preston-Penrith motorway, 61
Kellogg, M. W., Co., olefine process, 265
Kelly, A. G., on ventilation of steam power station, 42
Kemp’s International Film and Television Directory, 1959 (book), 40
Kent, George, Ltd., selling to nuclear energy, by R. Wrightson, 363
Kent, L. E., exploratory brochure on BS449 for structural steel, 347
Kenward, C. J., engineering and physics design, 7
Kerensky, O. A., on bridge design, 180
Kerry’s (Engineering) Co. Ltd., toolroom lathe (trade publication), 102
Keruing bending tests, TDA report on, 207 Kervit tiles (Snowtop), 651
Key Engineering Co., pitch fibre piping, 80; 24-hour delivery service for pitch fibre pipe, 628
KG (Holdings) Ltd., trading report, 477 Kidde, Walter, Co. Ltd., Tempo-O-Larm, temperature alarm, 569
Kilnoise cellular acoustic mineral tiles, 492 Kindersley, Lord, on Rolls-Royce Ltd., 56 Kinematics of mechanisms, trends in, by Freudenstein, 417
King George Dock, Hull, improvements to, 411, 603
King, (jeo. W., Ltd., mechanical handling devices for aluminium slabs, 266; automatic conveyor for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 458
King overhead depiling crane for aluminium slabs (Geo. W. King Ltd.), 266
Kingsferry lifting bridge over River Swale (J. Howard and Co. Ltd.), 207
Kingston Kurust resin-phosphate primer, 556 Kingston Mouldings, plastics mouldings for spin dryer, 324
Kinney-Osborne process for lightweight aggregates, 651
Kinseal paint for perishing distemper, 588 Kista Dan polar research ship, 640
Kit-E-Kat price reduction, 595 Kitchen gadgets, changes in, 428
Kitemark approval mark of BSI, 48, 524 Klang Gates dam, concrete cooling in, 578 Kleen-e-Ze Brush Co., Bullet brushes for Royal Dutch Navy, 659
KLM Airlines, Lockheed Electra airliner, 519; air freight price reduction, 595
Kldckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG licence agreement with Plowright Bros., 613
KIdekner-Werke AG, flame cutting of material 5 ft thick, 595
Klystron power tube, 311
Knife, hardfacing, for hide, 555
Kno-Draft air diffuser with adjustable discharge (Ozonair Engineering Co. Ltd.), 665 Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, plutonium and uranium oxide fuel element, 123; natural circulation boiling water reactor plant, 380
Knop, E. G., inventor to salesman, 533 Knowsley Cast Metal Co., remote control monitor for Firemaster fire engine, 654 Kodak Ltd., SAIB, 103
Koenigsberger, Dr. F., review Spindle Automatic Lathes, biographical note, 134
Koepe pit winding gear (NCB), 491
Kohler, M. A., on hydrology for
(review), 211-212
Kookaburra, MS, 139
Kopp variable-speed unit for dynamometer, 614
Koppers Co., electrostatic precipitators for open-hearth furnace gas cleaning, 111
Koronamax electrode for electrostatic precipitator, 111
Kranz, A. Z., on ohmic heating in stellarator, 407
Krasin, A. K,., et al., superheated-steam-cooled reactor, 123
Krenchel, H., on tensile cracks in reinforced concrete, 443
Kreps, E. M., on radioactive waste, 535
Corp., (English
119
fixing
diesel
Elec-
of Single 133-134;
engineers
precision
L-60 Brigadyr aircraft, for agricultural use, 357 Label marker, Dymo-mite, with embossed white lettering (Hellerman), 402
Laboratoriet for Bygningsteknik (Copenhagen), tensile cracks in reinforced concrete, research on, 443
Laboratory, central, for London Research Dept., at Chiswick, LETTERS, 367, 496
?—? Chemical, of Samuel Fox and stainless steel cladding for, 475
Transport 255. See
Co. Ltd.,
— Defence Standards (Australia). See Defence
Standards
— Extensions in London of British Non-
Ferrous Metals Research Association, 136
— Hydraulics, apparatus (Tecquipment Ltd.),
10
?—? — Teaching, by Dr. E. Markland, 10
— for instruments for inertial navigation
(Ferranti), 329
— National Chemical. See National Engineering. See National Hydrodynamics. See National —? — Physical. See National
— Nucleonics, in Skipjack atomic submarine,
168
— Ovens (Hedin Ltd.), 197 —? in research ship, 415
— Technique (book), 40
— Warren Spring. See Warren Spring Laboritorio Central de Ensayo de Materiales
de Construccion, colloquium on model structures, 60
— Nacional de Engenharia Civil (Lisbon),
research reports, 119
Labour and economic development, by W. Galenson (review), 385
— International Organisation. See Inter
national Labour
— and National Service, Ministry of, report on
safety in non-ferrous foundries, 533
— Party, election manifesto, 238; position and
prospects of, 469
— Turnover, cost of (pamphlet), 27
Ladd, C. M., reflector for BR-2 reactor, 639 Lafarge Aluminous Cement Co. Ltd., Fondu- Fyre slab take-off platform, 115; Froding- ham slag cement, 516
Laing, John, and Son Ltd., annual statement, 56; paintings by T. Cuneo for, 57; London- Birmingham motorway, 175; London- Birmingham motorway, 442; Lytag lightweight aggregate for concrete from sintered pulverised fuel ash, 475; Thermalite blocks for multi-storey office block, 541; Fisher joint for concrete roads, 579 Laing Ltd., Lytag lightweight aggregate, 651 Laing, W. K., on John Laing and Son Ltd., 56; on building the London-Birmingham motorway, 175
Laird, D. A., on Techniques of Delegating (review), 650
Laird, E. C., on Techniques of Delegating (review), 650
Lamble, J. H., on support conditions for impact testing machines, 352
LAMFRE reactor, work suspended on, 64 Laminate, Colour Galbestos (Robertson Thain), 652
— Epoxy glass (Bakelite Ltd.), 218
— of nitrile rubber, light alloy sheet (Fireproof
Tanks Ltd.), 218
— Wood and plastics. Beautyboard (Formica),
652
Laminated timbers, glued, by W. Chugg (Timber Development Association), 377 Standards, 667
Lamps, battery-operated, 593
•— Electroluminescent cell (Westinghouse), 111 —- Headlamp safety measures, 476
— Incandescent, pinch seal machine for
(GEC), 594
—? Olympus range, Hermes ceiling fitting (Falks), 391
— Price reductions, 427
— Stand-by with rechargeable nickel-cadmium
battery (Nife Batteries Ltd,), 664
?—-Xenon discharge, for Dungeness High lighthouse, 688
LAM PRE-1 reactor, progress on, 64 Lanarkshire, new steel strip mill to be erected in, 79
Lancashire Aircraft Co. Ltd., Prospector aircraft for agricultural use, 357
Lancashire Tar Distillers Ltd., tube cleaning, 31 Lancers, Machinery Ltd., side loaders (trade publication), 40
Lancia, new factory at Chivasso, 27
Land drainage works, design of, by R. Berkeley Thorn (review), 212
Landing gear for SCI VTOL research aircraft, 192
?—? Instrument systems, work of Blind Landing Establishment, 189
— paths, conventional and VTOL, 190
— System for Moscow Airport. See LETTER, 2 Landis Machine-Maiden Ltd., MB tangential
threading machines, 306
Landmark plant for recovery of carbon disulphide with fluidised carbon (Cour- taulds), 260
— of tomorrow, by P. F. Drucker (review), 585 Landmaster Ltd., Gardenmaster rotary cultivator, 80
Lane, K. A., review of Glory Without Power, 617; review of Trade Union Law, 617; biographical note, 618
Lang, E. W., on hydromagnetic instabilities of a cylindrical gas discharge; Part 6, 36
Lange and Seidel, Lusin mould release agents for resins and plastics, 324
Languepin, formation of Solar Weld Languepin, 27
Lansing Bagnall, changes on board, 244 Lanthanum fluoride coprecipitation for determination of plutonium, 35
Lanz, P. M., on neptunium recovery, 575 Laplacians of subcritical assemblies of uranium plates in natural water, 7
Lapointe Machine Tool Co. Ltd., horizontal broaching machine, 498
LAPRE-2 reactor, work suspended on, 64 Lascar “ puflfer ” ship, conversion to diesel power (J. and J. Hay Ltd.), 520
Latex, synthetic rubber, new plant for (International Synthetic Rubber Co.), 324
Lathe, automatic, Churchill-Redman P5, automatic loading and unloading mechanism, 627
Single spindle, by F. Karpinski (review), 113-134
Single spindle 98L (BSA Tools Ltd.), 242 Tavannes Gyromatic 6-spindle with swarf extractor (S. Howard Ltd.), 241
— Bench (trade publication), 102
— Hydraulic copying, attachment for (Stroj-
export), 339
— Swift type TA right angle chucking, for face
copying (Drummond-Asquith Ltd.), 242
— Tool for honing straight or cranked shafts
(Nicol and Andrew Ltd.), 601
— Tools, lighthouse (trade publication), 166
— Toolroom (trade publication), 102
— Turret R80 (Strojexport), 339
— Wohlenberg E57 (Sykes Machine Tool Co.
Ltd.), 274
Launch, motor. See Boat
Launching vehicle, satellite (de Havilland Propellers Ltd.), 209
Laurence, Scott and Electromotors Ltd., L.S.E.
Engineering Bulletin, 39 Law Society, advertising by, 271
— Trade union, by H. Samuels (review), 617 Lawn mower, Ransome Conquest, 80 Laycock de Normanville overdrive, 275 Layton Sports Cars Ltd., reinforced plastics
body for TVR Grantura sports car, 360 LD steelmaking process, agreement between
Wellman Smith Owen Engineering and Vdest AG, 613
Le Roi, Boys’ Book of Flight (review). Lead glass tubing, Velio process, 31
— Primer, metallic, Pitan (Allweather
Ltd.), 219
— Shielding bricks, high density, 205
— Tin-barium alloy for battery grids, 29 Leak detection, vacuum techniques, 31 Leather, ASTM standards (book), 134
— Silicone treatment, 112 Lecture hall, new, for Royal Aeronautical
Society, 347
Lee, Arthur, and Sons Ltd., new rod mill for, 119 Lee Guiness Ltd., Statormatic starter for squirrel cage electric motors, 569
Leeds Engineering and Hydraulic Co. Ltd., hydraulic machines (trade publication), 134
— University, proceedings of ground subsi
dence congress, 93; refresher course for works and plant engineers, 277
Legal aspects of guarantees, 48 of space flight, new bodies on, 194 Legislation, atomic, study in Europe, by
K. Wolff and F. Schmid (review), 322 Legislator, biographical note, 322; review on Study of Atomic Legislation in Europe, 322
Leipzig Autumn Fair, Chinese People’s Republic at, 173
Leisure time of wage earners and executives, 57 Lenin, atomic icebreaker, maiden voyage of, 246; accident prevention in, 246; sinking safety of, 246; reactor pressure vessel for, 247; reactor servicing, 247; specification, 247; atomic fuel for, 535
Lens, camera, for aerial surveying, 505
— Lighthouse, 688
Lenson Engineering Co., mobile working platform, 337
Leonard 21 water mixing valve with thermostatic control (Walker, Crossweller and Co. Ltd.), 529
Leonides aircraft engine in Hovercraft (Alvis), 202
Lepton elementary particles, 310
Lesser, J. E., and Sons Ltd., Middlesex range of timber buildings (trade publication), 514 Letters, French “ dumb ” post office for, 263
— Sorter, electronic, ELSIE, 30 Level controller, Leveltron, for
solids (Thomas Industrial
Ltd.), 272
Levelling additives, Elchem, plating, 588
— and straightening machine for plate (Bronx
Engineering Co. Ltd.), 197
Leveltron level controller for liquids and solids (Thomas Industrial Automation Ltd.), 272
Lever valve, solenoid operated (Black Auto" matic Controls Ltd.), 454
Levitron toroidal apparatus, magnetic levitation in, 406
Lewis, F., and Co. (London) Ltd., Norton hydraulic press (trade publication), 166 Lewis, W. A., on pneumatic-tyred rollers and compaction of soil, 377
Lewis, Dr. W. B., on heavy-water moderated reactor, 378
Lewis, W. H., on sawing fuel elements, 575 Lex Garages, multi-storey garage for Bristol, 119
Ley, Colbeck and Partners, new lecture hall for
Royal Aeronautical Society, 347
Leyland Motors Ltd., service charts (trade publication), 166; Octopus eight-wheeled tippers for soil removal at Hither Green railway sheds (R. Biffa Ltd.), 251; heavy duty truck sold in China, 492; “ L ” series multi-fuel engine, 561; Super Comet truck, 623; Firemaster fire engine, 654; Albion Chieftain motor truck chassis, 659 LFBR reactor. See Atomic reactor, liquid fluidised-bed
Libby, W. E., on nuclear explosions, 438 Librarians, atomic energy workshops for, 535
Corp.
649
Paints
liquids and Automation
for copper
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Librarians, functions of, by I. M. Slade, 374. See LETTERS, 463, 568
Library, photographic, at UKAEA London office, 6
— Special, and Information Bureaux, Asso
ciation of. See Aslib
Licence, C, warning on growth in, 25
LIDO reactor, engineering and physics design, 7
Life rafts requirements of International Convention, 28
Lifeboat of glass fibre reinforced polyester resin, 107
— Glass fibre (W. and J. Tod), 687
— Requirements of International Convention,
28
Lift door, stainless steel, for Samuel Fox (United Steel Co.s Ltd.), 541
— Passenger (trade publication), 586
— Shaft, Warerite-panelled (Bakelite Ltd.), 542
— Table, folding Zeeta (trade publication), 40
— for Welwyn-Hatfield general hospital, 280 Lifter, Mansaver grab, for aluminium slabs
(Geo. W. King Ltd.), 266
Lifting bridge, Kingsferry (j. Howard and Co. Ltd.), 207
—? Equipment (trade publication), 40
— Magnets, Liftmaster (trade publication), 40
— Platform, electro-mechanical, Wharton-
Vilver, 244
Liftmaster lifting magnets (trade publication), 40
Light Alloy Construction Ltd., trolley containers, 465
Sluice gates for Thames weirs (Birmabright Ltd.), 331
— ?— Trolley containers (Light Alloy Construc
tion Ltd.), 465
— Fluorescent, portable (P. W. Allen and Co.
Ltd.), 666
— Rays, interference effects of, by Sir Isaac
Newton, 37
Splitting of, by Sir Isaac Newton, 37
— Rayescent Safety, 111
— Traffic (trade publication), 166
Lightfoot, Dr. E., review of Plastic Design of Steel Frames, 553; review of Plastic Analysis of Structures, 553-554; biographical note, 554
Lighthill, Prof. M. J., appointed director, RAE, Farnborough, 121
Lighthouse, Cumbrae, compressors for, 520 New equipment for, 520
— Dungeness High, Xenon discharge lamp for,
688
— Dwarka (trade publication), 386
— Eddystone, burners for, 75
— Lathe tools (trade publication), 166
— Lenses, 688
Lighting column, street, competition for, 560
— Diesel multiple unit trains on St. Pancras-
Bedford line, 424
— Emergency battery, 593
— Fluorescent, as artificial sky, 539
for high-precision instrument manufacture, 329
with transistor inverts for Caledonian London-Glasgow express (GEC), 520
— at Hong Kong airport (GEC), 297
— Panel, wall, heating, cooling and, 16
— for Welwyn-Hatfield general hospital, 280
— See also Lamps, Lights
Lightning, fire and explosion by, risk of, 29 Limocopter helicopter project (Lockheed), 26 Lincolne, G. B., on engineering graduates, 2; on beam engine, 51-52
Lind, Peter, and Co. Ltd., Tranmere oil jetty, 442
Linde carbon dioxide regulators (Union Carbide International Co. Ltd.), 434
Lindley, B. C., on thermoelectric power, 97, 129, 161, 600
Linear analysis, programming of force method of, by J. C. de C. Henderson, A. D. Edwards and J. Monroe, 280
— Systems, analysis of, by D. Cheng (book),
554
Liner, Canberra, publicising conference, 331, 591
— Cargo, atomic propulsion of, by E. C. B.
Corlett and El P. Hawthorn, 379
Bulimba, 455
— France, 591
— Motor, City of Melbourne (A. Stephen &
Son Ltd.), 455
— Queen, replacement of, committee on, 201
— Rotterdam, 139
— See also Ships: Steamers
Lines Bros., model developments, 628; toys of engineering precision, 672; Frog 349 model diesel engine, 672; mechanical speciality toys, 673
Linford Engineering Co. Ltd., Linford 4000 combined pump and hydraulic ram, 570
Linings, brake. Redux resin adhesive for, 620
— Carbon, for blast furnace (Great
Steel Corp.), 218
— Jablite expanded polystyrene for
roofs and ceilings, 396
— Material, Treetex insulation board
soft wood fibre, 396
— Polyethylene, for concrete shuttering, ?— System, Thermagrade, for cavity
(EAW Industries), 396
Link, extensible hydraulic, for use with Hi-Flex flexible pressure pipe (Oil Feed Engineering Co. Ltd.), 392
Linotype and Machinery Ltd., trading report, 549 Linsley, R. K., Jr., on hydrology for engineers (review), 211-212
Lintran transducer for mains voltage operation (James Scott and Co. (Electrical Engineers) Ltd.), 666
Lion Electronic Developments Ltd., Nanoscope for observing fast wave forms, 86
Lips, propeller cast in nickel-aluminium bronze, 559
Liquid containers, collapsible, of rubber reinforced nylon (Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.), 273
— Flammable, and industrial solvents (book
let), 219
— Methane. See Methane
— Purification plant, orders for (William Bobv
and Co.), 174
Liquids and solids, Leveltron level controller for (Thomas Industrial Automation Ltd.), 272 Lisbon, research reports from, 119
Literature on spectrochemical analysis, index to (ASTM), 385
Lithgows Ltd., new prefabrication shop at Port Glasgow works, 281
Litol process for upgrading light oils (Houdry), 620
Litter bins, free, in exchange for advertisements, 153
Little, Arthur D., Research Institute. See Arthur D, Little
Littlejohn, C. E., on chemical engineering (book), 386
Litzler, C. A., Co., plastics coating machinery, 198
Liverpool Electric Cable Co., position and prospects of, 477
Liverpool University, reinforced concrete buildings (Holland and Hannen and Cubitts Ltd.), 443
Livesley, Dr. R. K., on application of computers to problems involving plasticity, 280 Ljubljana International “ Modern Electronics ” Fair, telecommunication measurement equipments exhibits of Marconi Instruments at, 364
Lloyd Arabella motor car (Borgward), by G. Wilkins, 252
Lloyd, G., on Dip. Tech, students, 239
Lloyd 900 sedan motor car, by G. Wilkins, 55 Lloyds Register of Shipping, Register Book 1959-1960, Vol. I, Register of Ships; Vol. II, Appendix; Vol. Ill, Shipowners (books), 618
Lo, A. W., on transistor electronics (review), 321-322
“ Lo-Hed ” hoist (Taylor Stoker Co.), 625 Load factors in bridge construction, 183 See also Electricity supply Loader, Muir Hill 2 WL (E. Boydell and Co.), 336
— Samson, bridge conveyor for (Mavor &
Coulson), 54
— Tractor, Mastiff (Mathew Bros.), 52 Loading equipment, bottom (trade publication), 40
— Machine, pallet (Gimson and Co. (Leicester)
Ltd.), 570
— of models, 60
— Shovels for soft ground (F. E. Weatherill
Ltd.), 197
— ?— Weatherill Hydraulic (F. E. Weatherill
Ltd.), 530
— and unloading, automatic, on lathe, 627 Loan, term, granted by banks, 494 Lobnitz and Co., Cardan fire-fighting tug, 455 Local authorities. See Municipal
— Council. See Municipal
— Unemployment Bill, terms of, 430 Lock, double chamber at Long Sandall, 474
— Electro-mechanical, sequential switch for
unlatching (Microcell Electronics), 518
Locke Steel Chain Co., Ltd., 600 series pintle chain, 688
Lockheed Aircraft Corp., Aircommuter airliner, Limocopter helicopter, and mono- rail Airtrain projects, 26; chemical milling system for JetStar jet transport, 30
— Braking system for MGA 1600 sports motor
car, 24
— — System for Wolseley 6/99 motor car, 24
— Collaboration with Stearns-Roger Manufac
turing Co. and American Hydrotherm Co., 283
— Disc brakes on motor cars, 412
— Electra airliner, 519; ice protection on, 582 Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co. Ltd., emergency power battery set for crane, 593
Lockroll interlocking aluminium roofing sheet (British Aluminium), 652
Locomotives, British, cinema film on, 598
— Diesel (trade publication), 166
in BR modernisation programme, 234 V. electric, 231
Shunting, Hunslet, 369
Wheel profile turning machine (North British), 31
— Diesel-electric, for Argentina, 56
Electric for Argentine State Railways
(English Electric Co. Ltd.), 456 Electric, for Argentine State Railways
(Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns), 56 Electric shunting, for African Manganese
Co. (Yorkshire Engine), 686
Electric, wheel profile trueing machine (North British), 31
Hydraulic, underframe of, 75
— Electric, for BR modernisation programme,
232
V. diesel, 231 French, speed records of, 59
— Gas turbine, by D. C. MacPhail, 30
—? — Turbine, position and prospects of, 236
— Model, 672
Developments, 628
— Railway, at Swiss transport museum, 138
— Servicing, electric screw jacks for (Matter-
son), 657
— Steam freight, performance and efficiency
tests of (book), 322
Logic of nuclear navy, by A. J. Sims, 471
— Symbolic, and intelligent machines by E. C.
Berkeley (review), 617
Lomer, W. M., diffusion of fission fragments in slurry fuel elements, 7; particle size required in a settled slurry fuel element, 7 Londex Ltd., private exhibition at Glasgow, 143; hopper level switch, 370; air flow switches for safety and control ciicuits, 400 London Airport, Decca Airway Amber One from, 88
—? — Exhibition site proposal near, 367 Fog disposal at, 635
Turbo-jet airliners at, 635
— Birmingham motorway, 125, 442; building
the, by W. Kirby Laing, 175; highway paving record at Watford leg, 207; economic study of, 472. See also 463; by L. T. C. Rolt, 585; film of, 675
— Building and Engineering Contractors
Accident Prevention Group, cost of accidents, by G. H. Stuart Price, 669
— Conference on nuclear fusion, 406
London Control Zone, aircraft control in, discussion in Parliament, 531
— County Council, protest against London
schools project, 437; high buildings exhibition, 539
— Development prospect, A. G. Powell on, 245 London Fan and Motor Co. Ltd., propeller fans
(trade publication), 258
— High buildings exhibition, 539
— Road improvement competition, 674 System, improvement proposals, 399 Traffic problems, 461
— Schools project, LCC protest against, 437
— Traffic, report on, 399
— Transport Executive, Victoria tube project,
23; annual review, 146; effect of bus strike, 146; bus delay device, 230; central laboratory for Research Dept., at Chiswick, 255. See LETTERS, 367, 496; Underground railway depot at Upminster, 266, Plain Words on underground rush-hour travel, 598; use of plastics in Routemaster buses, 620
London Underground Railways. See Underground; London Transport Executive
— Underpass tunnel scheme for, 411
— Yorkshire motorway, northern section draft
Scheme, 93
Long Beach atomic-propelled guided missile cruiser, launching of, 247
Long Meg anhydrite mine, Langwathby, 1,000,000 ton production, 136
— Sandall double-chamber lock, 474 Longfellow polythene greenhouse can, 75 Loom, shuttleless, Maxbo, for full-size cloth,
138
Lorant Engineers (London), Ltd., Westia- Widia tungsten carbide tipped twist drills (trade publication), 166
Lord, Sir L., on BMC, 581 Lord Privy Seal, appointment of M. I. Michaels as head of atomic energy division, 471 Lornair stairpak convection space heater, 300 Lorry. See Motor vehicles
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, gas-filled thermionic devices, 99; thermionic-thermoelectric generator, 132; Scylla magnetic mirror machine, 406; nuclear explosion as neutron source, 438; Turret reactor, 607 Lotus Cars, glass fibre bodies for Elite motor car, 355
Loughborough College of Technology, extension to, 501
Lovanium University, atomic reactor at, 380 Lovell, Prof. A. C. B., on the individual and the universe (review), 449
Loveridge, B. A., on determination of radiocalcium and radiostrontium in effluent, 36 Low, Archibald, and Son, new premises at Kirkintilloch, 276
Low, B. B., on theory of machines (review), 289-290
Low temperatures, effects on materials, 641 L.S.E, Engineering Bulletin, note on, 39 Lubricant for electrical contacts. Electrolube, 452
Lubricating system. Ramrod, for bearings (Glacier Metal Co. Ltd.), 656
Lubrication, gas, of journal bearings, by L. N. Snell, 285
Lucalox crvstalline ceramic (General Electric Co. (US)), 388
Lucas, Joseph (Industries) Ltd., hydrostatic transmission for tractors, 421
Luebke, A. E., on plutonium and uranium oxide, 123
Luggage, roof, motor car, effect on performance, by L. H. Dawtry, 405
Luminescent chamber for photography of light from paths of nuclear particles, 343
Luminometer Number, for rating radiant properties of fuels (Texaco), 516
Lunar expedition, manned, by M. W. Rosen and F. C. Schwenk, 154
— Exploration by photography, by
Davies, 154
— Probe, Lunik 11, 193, 194 Lunik 111, 303, 480 Lung, electronic, Barnet ventilator, 469 Lunik 11 moon rocket, 193, 194
— Ill moon rocket, 303, 480 Lusin mould release agents for resins and
plastics (Lange and Seidel), 324
Lutz, O., on thermodynamic properties of air and combusion gases (book), 482
Lyman, Prof. V. F., field study of post-and- beam building construction in Vancouver, 174
Lyons, Dr. H., atomic clock for orbiting satellite, 255
Lyons, J., and Co. Ltd., formation of Primapax Ltd., 120; utilisation of computers, 473
Lysaght, John, Bristol Works Ltd., paint shop for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 458
Lysholm blower for four-stroke diesel engines, 448
Lytag Ltd., lightweight aggregate for concrete from sintered pulverised fuel ash, 475; lightweight aggregate (Laing), 651
motorway. motorway Macalpine-Downie, J. R., catamaran Thai 3, 687
Macfarlane Engineering Co. Ltd., brushless alternator, 392
Macfarlane, M. J., on waterways, 399-400 MacFlame oil burner for heavy grade fuels
(Urquhart’s (1926) Ltd.), 634 MacGuire, J. W., on materials and methods of
architectural construction (review), 553 Machine control system, electronic, mobile demonstration unit (EMI Electronics Ltd.), 299
— Guards, plastic, of glass fibre reinforced
Bakelite polyester resin (Tomlinson (Rochdale) Ltd.), 484
—? Historic books on, by C. St. C. B. Davison (book), 212
— Intelligent, and symbolic I ogic by E. C.
Berkeley (review), 617
Machine shop of Ashmore, Benson, Pease and Co.’s South Works, 78
— Teaching and training by, 34
— Theory, by B. B. Low (review), 289-290 Solution of problems, by S. Anvoner (review), 290
— ?— Through worked examples, by G. H.
Ryder (book), 586
— Tools (trade publications), 102, 134, 166 Automatic control in Russia, 626 Control, hydraulic gearbox for (Ferranti), 454
Exhibition, European (Paris), exhibits at, 117, 241, 274
Exports, 660
— ?— Import duty on, 603
Industry, discussion in Parliament on, 499
Industries, European Committee for Cooperation of. See European Committee
Industry, France, elfect of European Common Market on, 430
Industry, position and prospects in, 567, 660
Industry report, DSIR, 499
Industry, Russia, Prof. S. Melman on, 237, 567
Industry, tax reduction in, 567
— — Industry, trading position in, 114 and Machining, Research Institute of.
See Research Institute
— ?— Weisser, agency for Stanley Howard
Ltd., 47
Machines and Tooling, PERA translation of 101
Machinery of Jolesfield windmill, 262 Machining, spark erosion machine for (Wickman Ltd.), 148
Toolmaking with (trade publication), 134 Machon, F., on technical digests, 278
Macinante, J. A., on vibration and shock isolation (review), 418
Mackay Industrial Equipment Ltd., Gar Wood-Buckeye ditcher, 86; earthmoving equipment service depot, 691
MacPhail, D. C., on gas-turbine locomotives, 30
Macrae, W., xenon poisoning, 7
Mac. See also Me Madrive clutch motors, 686 Magga Dan research ship, 640 Magnesium, spectrographic determination in bismuth-uranium alloys, 36
Magnet coils for Nimrod proton synchrotron, 311
— Effects of nuclear radiation on, US Dept.
of Commerce research report on, 132
— Lifting, Liftmaster (trade publication), 40
— for Nimrod proton synchrotron, model
tests on, 343
— Permanent (trade publication), 40
Wet drum separator (Rapid Magnetic Machines Ltd.), 196
— Sections for Nimrod reactor, 575
— Suspension (trade publication), 40 Magnetic chuck. Eclipse Permanent Electro
(James Neill and Co. (Sheffield) Ltd.), 117
— Fields, diffusion in cylindrical conductor, 36
— — for pinch stabilisation, 406 of proton synchrotron, 310
— Gear transmission tester (Strojexport), 339
— Ink. See Ink
— Mirror machine, Scylla, Los Alamos, 406
— Recording techniques, by W. E. Stewart
(book), 258
— Tape. See Tape Recorder, Paraphone (Epsylon
tries), 116
Magnetism and electricity, physics of, Taussig Scott (book), 418 Magnetohydrodynamics, definition of. Magnetron, ion, 407 Magnetometer, nuclear maser, 384 Mahla, Dr. E. M., on metals for a new age, 381 Maidstone bypass, construction of, 118 Mains, electric. See Cable Maintenance service scheme (Wolf Electric Tools Ltd.), 300
— Ship, Mull of Kintyre, semi-conductor
rectifiers for, 621
Major oil-fired air heater (Airheating Ltd.), 369 Makepeace-Lott, S., review of Boiler Feed Water, 165; review of Equilibrium Gases of Combustion and Gasification, 165; review of Heat Exchangers, 165; review of Boiler Feed Water and Cooling Water, 166; biographical note on, 166
Makins, Sir R., appointed chairman, UKAEA, 62
Makrolon polycarbonate plastics (R. H. Cole and Co.), 420
Malin, L., on steam-cooled reactors, 2
Mallet, Sir V. A. L., on Skefco Ball Bearing Co., 56
Mallik and Reed, reinforced concrete bridge for Sydney Harbour, 30
Malpasset dam, failure of, 611, 642 M.A.N., diesel engine for tanker, 622 Management Association, Polytechnic. See Polytechnic
— British Institute of. See British
— Conference of Cementation Group, 33
— Consultants, advertising by, 271
— Courses of BISF, Ashorne Hill, 17
— Housing, by local authorities, 309
— Nature and function of, 17
Management Selection Ltd., activities of, by H. E, Roff, 435. See also 431. See LETTER, 527; MSL Index of Executive Employment, 435. See also 431
— Staff trends, by H. E. Roff, 435. See also
431. See LETTER, 527
— Training courses. Prof. N. Hunt on, 526 Experiment, BISF, 121
Manager, office, future role of, 57 Managing director, role of, by G. Copeman (review), 585
Mance, Brig.-Gen. Sir H. Osborne, on economics of transport, 304
Manchester Building Centre formation, 315
— College of Science and Technology, support
conditions for impact testing machines, 352; course on radioactivity in water treatment and sewage works 535, 539
— High-level motorway, 377
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Manchester Oil Refinery (Sales) Ltd., Verimor penetrant ink for flaw detection, 620
Mandators for tanker and refinery work to Mobil Oil Portuguesa S.A. from AEC Ltd., 492
Mander, G. C., multi-storey garage for Bristol, 119
Manganese deposits loan in Gabon Republic, 115
— Steel carriage rails for towing tank at
NHL, 416
— Welding electrodes (English Electric), 260
— 52, production and separation, Harwell, 36 Manipulators and fixtures (trade publication),
290
Manitoba nuclear research centre project, 379 Mann Egerton, refrigeration and insulation contractor for storage depot at King’s Lynn, 281
Mannesmann Co., steel tube piles for Tranmere jetty, 442
Mannesmann Group, reorganisation and activities of, 308
Mansaver grab lifter for aluminium slabs Geo. W. King Ltd.), 266
Manual work in Russia, Prof. T. Zolotarov on, 566
Manufacturers, stock building restraint policy, 79
Manufacturing in Australia, survey on, 83
— Industry, British, American investment in,
by J. H. Dunning (review), 417
Manure spreader (David Brown Albion), 592 Maps, surveying for, advances in, 504 Marazen Co. Ltd., annual display in Japan of world periodicals and newspapers, 144
Marconi Instruments Ltd., exhibition of telecommunication measurement equipments at Ljubljana International “ Modern Electronics” Fair (Yugoslavia), 364; transistorised low voltage power supply unit, 602
Marconi International Marine Communication Co. Ltd., trade with Poland, 428; reorganisation of sales and service facilities India, 523
Marconi surveillance radar equipment Rongotai airport, Wellington, 159
Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co. Ampex Corp, distributors in US, radio transmitter HS113, with wide amplification, 164; television transmitters for Western Nigeria, 222; Mark IV orthicon TV camera, 487; sound control desk, 655
Marconi world-wide achievements, 645 Mardon, P. C., on crystal structure of plutonium, 35
Marex Industrial fan (Marston Excelsior Ltd.), 148
Marine air conditioning (trade publication), 258
— Auxiliaries (trade publication), 418
— Biology research, 414
?—? Communication equipment, transistorised (Siemens Edison Swan Ltd.), 198
— Corrosion. See Corrosion
— Engineer, evolution of, by C. C. Pounder,
669
— — Institute of. See Institute
Marine Engineering Co. (Stockport) Ltd., clutch motor controls, 686
Human problems in, by C. C. Pounder, 669
— Paint tests on tanker British Kiwi, 356
— Propulsion, research ship, 415 Thermoelectric power for, 161 See also Engine; Turbine; Propeller
— Terminal at Tranmere, oil jetty for, 442 Mark, Prof. H., on high strength polymers, 292 Markets for imports to US, new, by Mr. J. H.
Smeddle, 332
— Overseas, company executives’ tours of, 221
— Research company, Marplan Ltd., forma
tion of, 299
Computer for, 473
European, Conference on (EPA), 173
— Venezuelan, report on packaging, presenta
tion and finish of goods for, 144
?— See also Trade
Marketing alliance between Hyster Ltd. and Ransomes Sims and Jefferies Ltd., 492
— in Canada, guide to, 47
— Control instruments in Canada (Evershed
Powertronic Ltd.), 395
— Electrical and industrial products in India
(W. T. Henley’s Telegraph Works Co. Ltd.),459
— Motor cars on Continent, Simca and Fiat,
460
— Organisations, extensions to, 491
— Publicity, world, J. J. Berliner and Staff, 332
— Small electric motors (GEC of America), 300 Markland, Dr. E., on teaching laboratory for
elementary hydraulics, 10
Marlar-rag paper laminates, 556
Marplan Ltd., formation by Mr. H. Henry, 299 Marples, E., appointed Minister of Transport, 367
Marryat and Scott Ltd., passenger lifts (trade publications), 586
Mars gas-turbine water pump (Perkins Gas Turbines Ltd.), 422
Marshall of Cambridge, fuel cell, 106 Marshalling yards, G. F. Fiennes on, 228 Marsland and Co., copper roofing tiles, 80 Marston Excelsior Ltd., Marex industrial fan, 148
Martensitic iron hard facing alloys, 426 —? Steel hard facing alloys, 426
Martin, Black and Co. (Wire Ropes) Ltd., export orders from Canada for British Rope, 268
Martin Co. (Baltimore), Activation Division, 26 Martin, F. S., on chemistry of ruthenium, 35 Martin-Nuclear, pressurised light water reactor for US Air Force, 502; experiments on LFBR reactor, 503
Martin, W. J., on neptunium recovery, 575 Martinola, M., on determination of optical constants of isotropic transparent materials (book), 450
Masefield, P., Wakefield Memorial Lecture, 25 Maser devices, beam, slowing down molecular particles in, by Prof. N. G. Basov, 384
— Magnetometer, nuclear, 384 Masking tape, Hitem 577 (J. Gosheron and Co.), 388
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112;
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Mason, E. N., and Son Ltd., Barcro half plate negative viewer, 666
Masonry, fixing timber to, Obo pins for (Douglas Kane Ltd.), 632
— Products, ASTM standards (book), 134
Mass spectrometer, MS7 (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd.), 116
— Transfer, heat and international journal of, 69
Massey-Ferguson, sales statistics, 27; 702 tractor to mount digger, shovel or grader, 337; MF702 tractor-mounted digger and power shovel, 390. See LETTER, 399; insurance of agricultural machinery, 598; reorganisation of, 628
Mast, drilling, lever lift (Oil Well Supply Co. Ltd.), 391
Master drum-handling equipment (trade publication), 40
Mastiff tractor loader (Mathew Bros.), 52 Materials (trade publications), 650
— Engineering, design and, exhibition, 29
— Granular, belt conveyor for (Birtley Engi
neering Ltd.), 391
— Handling, conveyor-belt width for, nomo
gram for finding (Sandvik Steel Band Co.), 170
See also Handling: Mechanical Handling
— and methods of architectural construction,
by H. Parker, C. M. Gay and J. W. Mac- Guire (review), 553
—? Science, elements of, by L. H. Van Viack (book), 418
?— Strength of, for engineers, by D. R. Axelrad (book), 418
Mathematics of Computation, 681
Mather and Platt Ltd., plastics coating machinery, 198; Thermolier heater unit, 272; can filling machine for fluids, 338
Matheson, Prof. J. A. L., on virtual work and complementary energy applied to nonlinear braced frameworks. See LETTER, 19; on virtual work, 271-272
Mathew Bros., Mastiff tractor loader, 52 Mathew, E. D. Jefferiss, on architect’s responsibility, 543. See LETTER, 599
Matrix analysis of fuselages and the digital computer by Prof. J. H. Argyris, 280
— 56-12-18 jig grinding machine (Rockwell
Machine Tool Co. Ltd.), 369
Matter, higher states of, 407
— Properties of, by F. C. Champion and N.
Davy (book), 618
Matterson Ltd., electric screw jacks for locomotive servicing, 657
Maunsell, G., and Partners, reinforced bridge for Sydney Harbour, 30; Hammersmith flyover, 60; Swan River Narrows bridge, 506, 563
Mavor and Coulson Ltd,, idlers and rollers for conveyor belts (trade publication), 40; bridge conveyor for Samson loader, 54; acquisition of Austin Hoy and Co. (Holdings), 549
Maxbo shuttleless loom for full-size cloth, 138 Maxiflow mobile axial water pump (Armfield Hydraulic Engineering), 653
Maxwell, Clerk. See Clerk Maxwell memorial lecture
M and B Plastics Ltd., nylon type 6, 104
MB tangential machines (Landis Machine- Maiden Ltd.), 306
McAlpine, Sir Robert, and Sons Ltd., aviation activities, 152; Piaggio P. 166 executive aircraft, 152
McCallion, Dr. H., on blade frequency of turbines. See LETTER, 20
McCone, J. A., on Alpha thermonuclear device, 407
McCracken, A. K., approach-to-critical experiments, 6; subcritical assemblies of enriched uranium plates in natural water: Part 1, 7
McCullen, J. D., excess reactivity controlled by single central control rod, 6
McDonald, A., on engineering graduates from Commonwealth countries, 398
McDonnell and Miller, boiler pump control, 264
McFadzean, W. H., on economic blocs in Western Europe, 303; on FBI committee on under-developed countries, 566
McGoldrick, R. T., on rudder flutter, 584 McKay, H. A. C., on detection of plutonium by irradiation, 35; on recovery of neptunium from the Windscale plant, 35
McKay Machine Co., McKaymatic die shear lines, 489
McKaymatic die shear lines (Vickers-Arm- strongs), 489
McKelvey, K. K.,on cooling towers (review),39 McKenzie, S. C., on “ Interview with Ourselves,” 240
McKinsey and Co., survey of chief executives’ salary and profits, 573
McLean, Dr. A. S., appointed director of health and safety, UKAEA, 63
McMeeking, J. G., chairman of committee on education for commerce, 57
Me. See also Mac
Measurement, automatic, of quality in process plants (review), 257
— Fine particle, by C. Orr, Jr. and J. M.
Dallavalle (review), 385
— Work, by V. H. Rotroff (review), 321 Measuring machine for straightness and
roundness Hommel (Rubert and Co. Ltd.), 664
— Techniques, automatic, EID work on, 446 Mechanical Engineers, American Society of.
See American
Institution of. See Institution
— Engineering industry, position and prospects
of, 18
Industry, Switzerland, by G. Sulzer, 25 Industry, trading position in, 114
Research Laboratory, precision dynamometers for measurement of power in transmission units, 29; see National Engineering Laboratory
Science, Journal of, 69
— Gear, positively-driven continuously
able, by E. H. Voice, 19
— Handling devices for aluminium slabs at
Northern Aluminium Co., 266
losses also
vari-
Mechanical handling equipment for sewage sludge (David Brown), 23
— — Machinery (trade publication), 212 at Vauxhall Motors, 172
See also Handling: Materials handling
— Installations for Welwyn-Hatfield general hospital, 280
— Stokers. See Stokers
Mechanics of the Gyroscope, by R. F. Deimel (review), 682
Mechanisation in building, 548
— in Swedish building construction, 410 Mechanised cement handling at Erith North
factory, 172
Mechanisms, kinematics of, trends in, by Freudenstein, 417
Mechanism Ltd., altitude warning device, 29 Meehans Ltd., trading recovery of, 349 Mechavent Roofline air extractor for roof ventilation (Greenwood and Airvac Ventilating Co.), 400
Meddings, W. J., Ltd., Pacera multihead drilling machines (trade publication), 134; Pacera drillhead with air hydraulic operation, 369; Pacera multi-spindle drillheads, 370
Medical branch of Factory Inspectorate, White Paper on, 27
— Centre, Vickers-Armstrongs, 309
— Profession. See also Professions Supplementary to Medicine Bill
— Research Council, noise research, 397 —? — Reactor, Walter Reed Centre, 205 Medicine, atomic energy in. Royal Marsden
Hospital project, 535
— Cyclotron isotopes in, 671
—? Linear accelerator for (Vickers), 342 Medway Bridge, model study on, 60
— Motorway bridge, tenders invited for, 675 Medway Paper Sacks Ltd., Automatic Sac-
Sealer for sealing paper sacks, 363; waste bins, Medway disposable paper sacks as, 634
Meebold, R., on Construction and use of Wire Ropes (book), 650
Meehanite CB metal for bearing plates and rockers of Chiswick flyover, 315
Meenaghan, G. F., on chemical engineering (book), 386
Megator Pumps and Compressors Ltd., float switch, 360
Megger line earth loop tester (Evershed and Vignoles), 86
Melinex polyester film (ICl), 218
Mellish, C. E., on production and preparation of isotopes, 36
Melman, Prof. S., on Russian machine-tool industry, 237; on Soviet machine tool industry, 567
Melville, Dundas and Whitson Ltd., Finnert terminal for super tankers, 30
Men who manage, by M. Dalton (review), 585 Mendip (Chemical Engineering) Ltd., epoxide pipe for Battersea power station, 93; Terylene/polyester overlay for cast iron pump casing, 323
Mendlesham TV mast, British Insulated Callender’s Construction Co., 281
Meranti, red, bending tests, TDA report on, 207 Mercedes-Benz 220 motor car, by G. Wilkins, 151; construction of, 344; heating system for, 508
Mercer, Thomas, Ltd., dial gauges with extra sensitive range, 528; Saxl tension meter for wire or wool, 634
Merchant ships. See Ships; Steamers; Liners: Motorships: Tankers, etc.
“ Meridian ” sculpture at State House, 537 MERLIN atomic reactor, features of, 64; criticality achieved, 64; official opening of, 471
Mermaid, Exercise (Winfrith effluent), 35
Mersey Cable Works Ltd., compensating sables for pyrometry (trade publication), 212
— Docks and Harbour Board, Tranmere oil
jetty, 442
Merton, Air Marshal Sir W. H., appointed Air Member for Supply and Organisation, 501
Mesh, plastics (Expanded Metal Co.), 260
— Polyethylene, in roll and sheet (Expanded
Metal Co.), 170
Meson elementary particles, 310
Metal Closures, merger with John Dale, 445
— Dissimilar, welding of, 355
— Hand saw for. Eclipse range (James Neill &
Co. (Sheffield) Ltd.), 465
Metal Industries Ltd., purchase of Olaer France SA, 26; trading report, 152
— Institute of. See Institute of Metals
— Mining in Ireland, 312
— for a new age, by Dr. E. M. Mahla, 381
— Non-ferrous. See also British Non-Ferrous
Metals Research Association
Production, inspection techniques as aids to process control in (book), 134
Metal Porcelains Ltd., improvements in vitreous enamelling, 29
— Re-entry vehicles, 208
— Surfaces, thixotropic protective oil for, 620 Metal and Thermit Corp., duplex chromium
plating process, 419
— See also Metallurgy
Metalife 1000, protective coating for iron and steel structures (Southern Metalife Ltd.), 219
Metallurgical branch of EID, 447 Metallurgy, powder, note on publication, 289
— Research in, Du Pont, 381
— See also Iron and Steel Institute; Metals,
Institute of
Metarock Ltd., concrete hardener for dustless industrial
Meter for air
514
— Flow, for
formance
— Miniature,
Electrical
floors (trade publication), 554 in concrete (trade publication),
measuring ventilation fan per- (National Coal Board), 498 for edgewise mounting (Taylor Instruments Ltd.), 664
— Multi-range (trade publication), 212
— Parking, 667
— Tension, for wire or wool, Saxl (Thomas
Mercer Ltd.), 634
Methane, liquid, third experimental cargo, 28
Metrix Instruments Ltd., valve analyser, type U-61, 273
Metrology, practical, by K. J. Hume and G. H- Sharp (book), 290
— Section of EID, 446
Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd., proximity switches for levelling mine car hoists, 53; MS7 mass spectrometer, 116; electron linear accelerator for Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), 342; change of name to Associated Electrical Industries (Manchester) Ltd., 581
Mettur Dam and Reservoir (Madras), 15
— Tunnel scheme, 15
MG Cars Ltd., MGA 1600 sports motor car, 24 Mica extraction, 260
Michaels, M. 1., appointed head of atomic energy division of Lord Privy Seal’s Office, 471
Michels, L. R., on off-gas systems, 575
Michigan (Great Britain) Ltd., pipe handling tractor for Niger Delta oilfields, 21; tractor modified for beach loading and unloading of lighters, 173
Microanalyser, X-ray scanning, for metal tube research, 352
Microcell Electronics, high-speed sequential switch for unlatching electro-mechanical locks, 518
Microcell Ltd., Plasticell closed cell foam, 104 Micrometer, electronic, B721 (Wayne Kerr Laboratories Ltd.), 296
— Height gauge, Accuread (Amar Gauge and Tool Co. Ltd.), 634
Micronair rotary airborne atomiser, 358 Microphone, calibration at low frequencies, by G. Berry, 163
— Noise-cancelling, Amplivox, on helmet, 487
— Sensitivities, comparison of, 163 Microphotography of LIKAEA documents, 6 Mircoporosity in steel castings, 32 Microstructure of graphite, 6
Microwaves, frequency stabilisation in, by A.
Brandii (book), 450 Mid-Northamptonshire Water Board, six- county water grid, 507
Middle East, economic developments in, 115 Middlesex timber buildings (trade publication), 514
Midland Heating and Ventilation Co. Ltd., centrifugal fans (trade publication), 258 Midland Silicones Ltd., price reduction of fluorinated silicones, 267; Cold-Cure Silastomer cold-curing silicone rubbers, 356; silicone weld backing strip, 452 Midlands Electricity Board, radio network for maintenance of electricity supplies, 657
Mikro-Pulsaire bag filter collector for recovery of animal feeding stuff's after grinding (Pulverising Machinery Ltd.), 116
Mil-Waukee-Mil bed type milling machine with Dial-a-Cycle programme control (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools) Ltd.), 274
Mild steel, dynamic torsion tests on, 216
Miles, G. L., on chemistry of ruthenium, 35
Miles Hivolt Ltd., Hymeg insulation tester, 22
Miles, R., on Head Wrightson and Co., 88
Milford Haven refinery, construction of, 315, 346
Military equipment, sales abroad, report on, 174
Milk, fresh-frozen by ultrasonic vibrations, 255
— Quick-freezing, 270
— Strontium-90 removal from, 535
Mill, flour, at Manila (Republic Flour Mills), 413
— Rolling. See Rolling Mills
— Stones of Joelsfield windmill, 262
Miller, A. G. B., on surface preparation of ship plate, 259
Miller, C. W., on particle accelerators, 342
Miller, W. E., on radio circuits (book), 354
Milling and boring machine, jig, Hydroptic 7A (Societe Genevoise Ltd.), 117
— Chemical, for JetStar jet transport, 30
— Drilling and boring machine, horizontal, WH63 (Strojexport), 339
— Machine, bed-type, Mil-Waukee-Mil, with
Dial-a-Cycle programme control (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools) Ltd.), 274
Fritz Werner series (Rockwell Machine Tool Co. Ltd.), 305
with hydropneumatic table drive Centec 2B (Centec Machine Tools Ltd.), 274
Profile, Contourmatic (High Precision Equipment Ltd.), 117
— — Spiramatic Jigmil, with Datatrol control system (A. Herbert Ltd.), 241
— — with tilting head. Junior Omnimil (B. Elliott (Machinery) Ltd.), 633
with unit head construction (Strojexport), 339
Vertical (trade publication), 102 Milliscope optical pyrometer for flame hardening machines, 77
Mills, A. M., heavy water solutions of uranyl fluoride (HAZEL), Part 2, 7
Mills, Lord, on coal sales policy, 51 Milne, O. P., on Royal Society of Arts, 469 Milner, G. W. C., on analysis of thoriummagnesium binary alloys, 35
Mine, Building Research Institute (USSR). See Central Mine Building Research
— Car hoists, proximity switches for levelling (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical), 53 Tipping system. Vial (W. G. Allen and Sons (Tipton) Ltd.), 54
Manufacturers’ Association. See Pit Tub and Mine Car
— Carriages, man-riding, safety brake for (AEl), 53
— Coal. See Colliery
Mine Safety Appliances Co. Ltd., Dustfoe 66 respirator, 22
— Soviet, shaft sinking machine for (Central
Mine Building Research Institute, USSR), 443
— United States Bureau of. See United States
National
— See also Coal; Collieries: Mining; Ores Miner, coal. See Coalminers
Mineral deposits, aerial surveying of, 504
— — in Antarctica, 641
in Antarctica, surveying for, 505
— Exploration (trade publication), 418
Mineral processing research at Warren Spring Laboratory, 68
— See also Coal; Mining; Ores
Mini-minor motor car, heater-demister system for (Morris), 444
Car, Morris, Claylastic trim sections for, 619
Car, position and prospects of, 334 Car, suspension of (Morris), 344, 345
— — Car, by G. Wilkins, 87
Minic waterline and ship models, 673 Mining, coal, with waterjets, 522
— Machinery Exhibition (Olympia), exhibits at, 53
— Metal, in Ireland, 312
Minister of Science, See Science
Ministry of. See Education: Healthy etc.
Minx motor car, automatic transmission on (Hillman), 199
Car for Czechoslovakia (Hillman), 349 Car, improvements to (Hillman), 199
Miozzi, E., Venice throughout the centuries. Vols. 1 and II (review), 5
Mirror machine, magnetic, Scylla, Los Alamos, 406
Misrair, purchase of Comet airliners, 627
Missile, ballistic. Blue Streak, combined with Black Knight rocket, 208
— — Blue Streak, by G. K. C. Pardoe, 208
— Design, vacuum tank for, 384
— Homing, analogue computer investigation of, by J. G. Thomason, 511
— Intercontinental ballistic, take-off platforms, 115
— Trajectories, prediction of ballistic, from radar observations, by 1,1. Shapiro (book), 290
Mitchell Engineering, Moby Dick submarine ore-carrier, 247
Mitchell-Fairfield, boiling water reactor for ship propulsion, 607
Mixer, concrete, mobile, Mixer-Master (Blaw Knox Ltd.), 530
Plowmixer (Frederick Parker Ltd.), 466 Mixer-Master mobile concrete mixer (Blaw Knox Ltd.), 530
7T tilting (Stothert and Pitt Ltd.), 529
— See also Stirring devices
Mobaltron IV rotating cobalt unit for oxygenation therapy (Nuclear Engineering), 263
Mobil Oil Co., safety record at Coryton oil refinery, 121; Sorbead low-dewpoint desiccants, 516
Mobil Oil Portuguesa S.A., market for Mandator motor vehicles for tanker and refinery work from AEC Ltd., 492
Mobile buildings (trade publication), 514
— Demonstration units. See Demonstration
— Working platform (Lenson Engineering) 337
Model aircraft engine. Frog 349, 672
Reinforced plastics for, 420
at Science Museum, 409
Silver Streak diesel engine for, 29
— Civil engineering, 675
— Construction problems, 60
— Engines, 672
— Loading systems, 60
— Locomotives, 672
— of magnet for Nimrod proton synchrotron, tests on, 343
— Material considerations, 60
— Practical application and interpretation of results, 61
— Railway developments, 628
— Rolling stock, at Swiss transport museum, 138
— Scale considerations, 60
— Ship, Minic, 673 See also David Taylor Model Basin
— Strain determination in, 61
— for structural design, by R. E. Rowe, 60
— Structures, colloquium on (Madrid), 60
— Study of Severn estuary, 205
— Tests on Clifton Bridge, Nottingham, 60 of concrete structures, by Cement and Concrete Association, 51, 60
on end blocks, 60
Factor of safety determination from, 60
—- — on factory roof (Bedford), 60
on Hammersmith flyover, 60
on Medway Bridge, 60
on shell roof for garage, 60
— and toy developments, 628
Moderator. See Atomic reactor
Modern Furnaces and Stores Ltd., driers. 111
Modular Concrete Co. Ltd., Waffle precast concrete flooring and ceiling panel for Winfrith Heath offices, 475
Modular Society formation in Australia, 315
Module with transistor elements in aluminium ” window-frame,” 359
Molecular electronic equipment. United States Naval, and Air Force Research, 132
— Particles in beam maser devices, slowing down, by Prof. N. G. Basor, 384
Mollier diagram for air-breathing engine calculations, 214. See Correction, 560
Molybdenum heating windings, vacuum furnace with (Vacuum Metallurgical Development Ltd.), 338
Moment distribution method for continuous beams, 108
Monahan, J., on removal of fission products from solution, 35
Monch, E., on Praktische Spannungsoptik (book), 450
Mond Nickel Co. Ltd., improved gunmetal, 420; SG iron (trade publication), 650
Monetary system, Radcliffe report on, 82
Monitor, beryllium, for Atomic Energy Authority (Glass Developments Ltd.), 401
— Contamination, portable, dual phosphor (EMI Electronics Ltd.), 528
— Pulse, sampling oscilloscope as, 32
— Recorder for impregnation of cables (Addison Electric Co. Ltd.), 369
— Remote control, for Firemaster fire engine (Knowsley Cast Metal Co.), 654
Monitoring of effluent for radium, 36
— Sections in US firms, 478
Monk, A,, and Co., Ltd., Gathurst Viaduct over Birmingham-Preston-Penrith motorway, 61
Monks and Crane Ltd., Andytap tapping and reaming mzchine, 52
Monolingual scientific and technical glossaries, bibliography of. Vol. II, by E. Wiister (book), 322
Monorail, Airtrain project (Lockheed), 26
— System, Northrop Gyro-glide, in Los Angeles, 169
Monotower travelling cranes for shipyards (Butters Brothers and Co. Ltd.), 624
Monsanto Chemicals Ltd., polyethylene plant, Fawley, 29; Skydrol hydraulic fluids, 588
Mont Blanc tunnel, slow down in progress on, 119
Montague of Beaulieu, Lord and Lady, tour of Africa with Motor Museum exhibits, 348
Montreal (trade publication), 418
— Bank of, strongroom doors for (Chubb & Sons), 559
— Conference, scholarships and fellowships target, 57
Mookerjee, Sir Biren, on over-production in India, 645
Moon landing of instruments, by D. S. Carton, 480
Problems, by D. S. Carton, 155
— Photograph, Russian, 480
— Rocket, Lunik II, moon landing of, 193, 194 Lunik III, 303, 480
Moonman, E., tour of US, 57
Moore, Dr. 1. G., on Austin A99 motor car, 195
Moore, P., review on The Individual and the Universe, 449; biographical note, 450
Moore and Wright (Sheffield) Ltd., stainless steel beam trammels, 497
Moore, W. T., removal of fission products, 503
Mooring pontoon, floating, for super tankers at Tranmere, 442
More Power to You, by H. Schneider and N. Schneider (review), 649
Morgan, D. D., on automation in Russia, 195
Morgan, R. Travers and Partners, Clifton Bridge, Nottingham, 60
Morgan Refractories, production of non- porous ceramics, 388
Morgan, W., structural mechanics (book), 70
Morgan, Gen. Sir W., on Gloucester Railway Carriage policy, 445; on Gloucester Railway Carriage, 549
Morice, Prof. P. B., review of Proceedings of a Symposium on the Strength of Concrete Structures, 554; biographical note, 554
Morrice, H. A. W., irrigation control of Nile waters, 507
Morris, F., on Herbert Morris, 645
Morris, F. G., on Jones and Shipman, 33
Morris, G., review of Scale-Up in Practice, 101
Morris, H., Ltd., mechanical handling machinery (trade publication), 212
Morris, Herbert, chaiman’s annual statement, 645
Morris Miniminor motor car, Claylastic trim sections for, 619
— — Motor car, heater-demister system for, 444
Motor car, position and prospects of, 334
Motor car, suspension of, 344, 345
Motor car, by G. Wilkins, 87
Morris Motors, strike of paint shop workers, 89
Mortars for brickwork (digest), 579
Morton, K. W., tables of nuclear data, 7
Mosaics, surveying for, advances in, 504
— and Terrazzo Precast, Terrazzo Polka-Dot tiles, 651; Kervit titles, 651; Duratiles, 651; Spanish tiles, 651
Mosburg, E. R., Jr., on comparing neutron source strengths, 671
Moscow, Netherlands Railways connection to, 539
Moseley, F., on alpha particle induced combination of nitrogen and oxygen, 36
Motherwell Bridge and Engineering Co. Ltd., Milford Haven refinery, 347
Motivation research, 299
Motopia new town proposal, 206
Motor boat. See Boat
— Car acceleration, by G. Wilkins, 372 Aerodynamics, wind tunnels for research on, 383
Armstrong Siddeley Star Sapphire saloon, 423
Aston Martin DB4GT (David Brown), 423
— — Austin LETTER,
Austin for, 619
A99, by G. Wilkins, 128. See 195
Seven, Claylastic trim sections
Austin Seven with front wheel drive, 423 Austin Seven, heater-demister system for, 444
Austin Seven, position and prospects of, 334
Austin Seven, spot welding on, 330
Austin Seven, suspension of 344, 345
Austin Seven, by G. Wilkins, 87 —• — Automatic gearbox for small, 476
Bentley S2, heating and ventilating system for, 444
BMW, production of, 644
BMW 700 sports, 55
Body finishing system of Chrysler Corp., 363
Body, replaceable, 476
Brakes, by G, Wilkins, 412
Chevrolet Corvair, 345
Chevrolet Corvair, heater for, 444
Citroen Bijou, 644
Contract hire. Autohall, 381 Daimler SP250 sports, 275 Daimler 2-litre V8 sports, 423 Design, comment on, 333
Design, seeking the best in, 476
— — Differential, limited-slip, 444 Disc brakes on, 412
— — Economy, statistical data on, 540. See
LETTER, 632
Engine for Austin and Morris baby cars, 87
• Engine, BMC C-type, for Wolseley 6/99
motor car, 24
Engine, ram induction system for (Chrysler), 372
Engine, Rolls-Royce V-8, 275
Engines, V-8, 275
•—? — Exhaust noise, MIRA work on, 397
Motor car exhibits from Beaulieu Motor Museum for Africa tour of Lord and Lady Montague, 348
Exports to Europe, 635 Ford Anglia, 195, 372
Ford Anglia, heater for, 444
Ford Anglia, new version, by G. Wilkins, 316
Ford Falcon, suspension of, 345
Fuel consumption, 353, 476. See LETTERS, 496, 528
• Heater, petrol-burning, 444
Heating system (Mercedes-Benz), 508 Heating and ventilating (Rolls-Royce), 508
Heating and ventilating, trends in, 444 Hillman Minx, automatic transmission on,199
Hillman Minx, for Czechoslovakia, 349 Hillman Minx, improvements to, 199 Hire purchase of, by servicemen overseas, 533
Increase in numbers on road, 405
Industry, position and prospects of, 413 Industry, Russia, automation in, 626 Industry in Scotland, 603
Industry, US, small cars in, 143
Industry. See also Motor industry Jaguar, improvements for 1960, by G.
Wilkins, 316, 348. See Correction, 476 Jaguar Mark 2, suspension of, 344 Japanese production of, 644 Lloyd 900 sedan, 55 Lloyd Arabella (Borgward), by
Wilkins, 252
Luxury, by G. Wilkins, 508
Marketing on the Continent by Simca and Fiat, 460
Mercedes Benz 200, heating system for, 508
Mercedes Benz 220, construction of, 344 Mercedes-Benz 220, by G. Wilkins, 151 MGA 1600 sports, 24
Morris Miniminor, tions for, 619
Morris Miniminor, tern for, 444
Morris pects of,
Morris
345
Morris
Performance, effect of roof luggage, by L. H. Dawtry, 405
PL 17 (D. B. Panhard), by G. Wilkins, 252
Porsche, suspension of, 344
Radiator shutter, 444
Rear-engined, heating of, 444
? Renault, production of, 644
Renault Dauphine, suspension of, 345 Repairs and maintenance, comment on, 333. See LETTER, 399
Research, wind tunnels for, MIRA, 383 Road holding of new, by G. Wilkins, 344 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II and Phantom V, heating and ventilating system for, 444
Roof luggage, effect on performance, by L. H. Dawtry, 405
Rover 80, by G. Wilkins, 252
Rover 100, by G. Wilkins, 252
— — Safety belts, 476
Safety belts in, discussion in Parliament, 467
Safety requirements, 476
Secondhand, prospects of, 333
Selling by night, showrooms for (George Hartwell Ltd.), 80
— — Silencer, stainless steel, 588
Singer Gazelle, automatic transmission on, 199
Singer Gazelle, improvements to, 199 Small, in US, 143, 146
Speed and acceleration, by G. Wilkins, 372
Stainless steel in, in US, 527
Steering column, collapsible, 476
Subframe construction, 344
Sunbeam Alpine sports, 55
Sunbeam Rapier, improvements to, 199 Sunbeam Rapier Mark III, 423 Suspension. See Suspension
Toy, electrically-driven, 673
Trim and assembly shop (Ford), 459
Triumph Herald, construction of, 344; suspension of, 345
— Triumph Herald, heater for, 444
Triumph Herald, replaceable units of, 476 TVR Grantura sports, reinforced plastics body for (Layton Sports Cars), 360
Tyre. See Tyre
Unit structure in US, 344
US production of small, 143, 146
Volga M-21k, Russian (V/O Autoexport), 423
Volkswagen, Wilkins, 151
Volkswagen,
?—? — Wheels, bolt-on nuts for (Alexander Engineering), 612
?—? — Winter running, by G. Wilkins, 444 Wolseley 6/99, with Farina styled body, 24
Workers, BMC, strike of, 334
See also Motor vehicles
— Carriage, railway. See Carriage; Railcar
— Cycle exhaust noise, MIRA work on, 397
— Electric, clutch controls (Marine Engineer
ing), 686
Control unit type MCU (Electrical Remote Control Ltd.), 21
Exports of (Newman Industries), 173
? Induction, test plant for large (GEC), 361
Marketing small (GEC of America), 300 Squirrel cage, Statormatic starter for
(Lee Guiness Ltd.), 569
Starter for (Belmos), 22
— Hydraulic, Staffa Mark V
Industries Ltd.), 569
— Industry, expansion plans of,
-— — Fire losses in, 303
Position and prospects of,
Research Association, wind tunnels be built at Lindley laboratories, 383; haust noise of motor cars and cycles, 397
Miniminor,
334
Miniminor,
G.
Claylastic trim sec
heater-demister sys-
position and pros-
suspension of, 344,
Miniminor, by G. Wilkins, 87
improvements, by G.
road holding of, 345
(Chamberlain
598
334
to
ex-
Motor industry in Scotland, 598
See also Motor-car industry: Motorvehicle industry
— Insurance, comment on, 437
— Internal-combustion. See Aircraft engine;
Motor-car engine: Motor car; Motor boat; Motor, electric: Tractor
— Lorries. See Motor vehicles
— Omnibus. See Bus
— Outboard, survey of uses, 47
Tests on 20 ft Tuna cruiser (Perkins), 687
— Servo, electrohydraulic, in SCI aircraft
autostabiliser system, 192
— Show, comment on, 333, 334, 373. See
LETTER, 399
Frankfurt, Rolls-Royce exhibited at, 395
— Vehicles for Antarctic use, 641
Coach, double-deck, rear-engined, Atlantean, 623
Coach, long-distance (Birmingham and Midland Red Omnibus Co.), 623
Commercial, heavy, overseas markets for, 492
DM 66 Prospector cross-country unit (Douglas Equipment Ltd.), 304
Equipment (trade publication), 212
Industry, Germany, 200
Industry, India, committee on, 83
Licensed, statistics on, 125
Loader, Muir Hill 2 WL (E. Boydell and Co.), 336
Lorry, with blown-discharge bulk container for tipper or flat-platform body (Bonallack and Sons Ltd.), 149
Lorry, cab fatigue tests for drivers (BMC), 625
Lorries, Pax, plastics parts for (Dennis Bros. Ltd.), 355
Speed and cost calculations, 126
Surrey, L. F. Ward building kit for, 423
Truck, Albion Chiefton chassis, 659 Trucks, battery-operated, servicing at Vauxhall Motors, 172
Truck, dumper, Muir-Hill 14B (E. Boydell and Co. Ltd.), 623
Truck, Dumptruck, with Edbro tipping gear (AEC), 359
Truck, marketing of (Hyster), 492 Truck, pick-up, Gipsy (Austin), 623 Truck, for soft terrain (Bedford), 31 Truck, Super Comet (Leyland), 623 .— — Truck. See also under Truck Unbalance of wheels on, 350
Van body, aluminium alloy (Northern Aluminium), 216
Van, electrically-warmed, for bread delivery, 162
— Workers’ strike, BMC’s Ward End factory,
153
Strike, David Brown’s Newport Pagnall factory, 153
— Yacht Christina, roll-damping fins on, 440 Japanese, roll-damping fins on, 441 Viking Series 2 twin-screw, 75 Motores Perkins SA, formation of, 26 Motoring, Continental, by W. Hutton (review),
354
— for the masses, 373
Motorists, radio telephone service for, 559 Motorway, Birmingham-Preston-Penrith, viaduct contracts, 61
— Bridge, Medway, tenders invited for, 675
— Bus charges, 549
— Elevated, design competition results, 611
— Flyover junction. Fort Worth, 183
— High-level for Manchester, 377
— London-Birmingham, 125, 442 Birmingham,
Laing, 175
Birmingham, See also 463
Birmingham, leg, 207
Birmingham, by L. T. C. Rolt, 585 Yorkshire, northern section draft scheme, 93
— Maidstone bypass, construction of, 118
— Need for, 495
— Safety on, filmlets on, 399
— UK and overseas compared, 126
Mott, B. W., on surface activity of uranium alloy ingots, 35
Mott, Hay and Anderson, Trawsfynydd atomic power station, 30; Dartford- Purfleet tunnel, 93; Tyne tynnel project, 160; Kingsferry lifting bridge, 207
Mouchel, L, G., and Partners, reinforced concrete chimneys at Northfleet power station, 443
Moulds, air-cooled, casting zirconium into, 639
— Dryer, Brown-Boveri portable electric
(Electric Resistance Furnace Co. Ltd.), 368
— Ingot, foundry for, Ivor Works, Dowlais,
109
— Release agents, for resins and plastics,
Lusin (Lange and Seidel). 324
Moulding machine, automatic, Hallsworth (Rubery, Owen), 13
Blow, Blowmaster, for plastics containers (Amigo Machine Co.), 85
Shell, Reynolds (Electric Resistance Furnace Co. Ltd.), 633
Speed-slinger (Beardsley and Piper), 109
— Material for wood-pulp fibres with phenolic
resin and rubber latex (Hawley Products), 388
— Plastic, spin dryer with (Gordon-Miller,
Ltd.), 324
— Press, injection Bipel (BIP Engineering Ltd.),
305
— See also Foundry
Moulton suspension unit for BMC baby cars,
345
Mountie mobile steps with elevating shelf (Access Equipment), 402
Move-on self-propelled staging (Anderston Clyde (Midlands) Ltd.), 400
Movsovic, M. L, bibliographical survey on technical and vocational education in USSR, 165
Mower, Ransome Conquest, 80
Mowlem, John, hollow prestressed concrete piles with collapsible cores for Esso refinery jetty, 315, 346; Milford Haven refinery,
346
building the, by W. Kirby
economic study of, 472.
paving record at Watford
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
23
H.
'•4
MSL. See Management Selection Ltd.
Muir Hill 2WL loader (E. Boydell and Co.), 336 14B hydraulic dumper truck (E. Boydell and Co. Ltd.), 623
Mull of Kintyre maintenance ship, semiconductor rectifiers for, 621
Mullard, automatic picture control for television receivers, 144
Mullard Equipment Ltd., sampling oscilloscope as pulse monitor, 32; linear accelerator for medical use in Russia, 692
Mullard Research Laboratories activities and organisation of, 616
Muller, D. R., on OMRE reactor, 380 Multicolour paint (Tretol), 652 Multiform strip-forming
Froude Ltd.), 241
Multiglass Ltd., double
frames, 332 Multipac boiler (John
Boilers) Co.), 488
Multisize collets (F. Burnerd and Co. Ltd.), 665 Multivibrator circuits, by A. H. Bruinsma (review), 617
Mummery, P. W., exponential experiment for PIPPA Mk. 1, 6
Mungal foundry of Carron Co., 46
Municipal authorities, housing management by, 309
— Councils, delegation from county councils,
573 Munitions, sales abroad, report on, 174 Munroe, Mr. J., on programming of force method of lineer analysis, 280 Muon elementary particles, 310 Murex Welding Processes Ltd., purchase of
Donald Ross and Partners, 276 Murray, J. R., on thorium, 35 Murrayfield rugby ground, heating cables, 539 Murton coal preparation plant, 171 Muschamp, N. J., and Co. Ltd., Coal Winner
conversion unit for Anderton Shearer machines, 53
Muscovite mica for electrical insulation, 260 Museum, Science, National Aeronautical
Collection at, 408. See LETTER, 568 ?— Transport, Swiss Institute of Transport and
Communications, 138
Music for increasing work tempo, M uzak system, 689
Muzak music for increasing work tempo, 689 Myrddin-Evans, Sir G., retirement of, 501
machine (Heenan &
glass units without
Thompson (Wilson
-J .1 nr
ci
ibW'
NAAFI, activities of, 533
Nagel, G.m.b.H., automatic honing machines, 658
Nanoscope for observing fast wave forms (Lion Electronic Developments), 86
Naphtha treatment plant at Milford Haven refinery, 347
Napier, D., and Son Ltd., technical digests, by F. Machon, 278
National Aeronautical Collection at Science Museum, 408. See LETTER, 568
— Aeronautics and Space Administration
(US), future programme, 154; position and activities of, 463
— Bulk Carriers, activities at Kure (Japan)
shipyard, 445
— Bureau of Standards.
— Centre of Nuclear
Spain), activities of,
See United States Energy (Moncloa, 122
•— Certificates in instrument technology, 245
— Chemical Laboratory, appointment of Prof.
J. S. Anderson as director, 32; pvc ventilation ducts, 292
— Coal Board, sand cooling of briquettes, 29;
nylon and Terylene conveyor belting, 71; future of coal industry, 89; decreased estimate for coal demand, 115; colliery closure plans, 115; new Murton pit- head coal preparation plant, 171; winter publicity campaign, 302; Revised Plan for Coal, 367; campaign for increased use of coal-fired boilers, 398; water distributor for dust suppression for coal cutters, 486; Koepe pit winding gear, 491; Thorpe portable flow meter for measuring ventilation fan performance, 498; opencast site statistics in South Wales and Monmouthshir , 499; smokeless fuel plant, 691; see also Coal; Colliery
— College of Food Technology, activities of,
334
— Dock Labour Board, films for dock
workers, 27
— Energy Board, Canada, constitution and
activities of, 83
— Engineering Laboratory, ventilation of road
tunnels, by L. H. Butler, 23; noise reduction studies, 38; anechoic chamber for noise research, 65; impact extrusion process, 287; noise research, 397; precision dynamometer, 614
— Fund of Poliomyelitis Research, committee
for research on disabled, 19
— Gas Turbine Establishment, quenching
with fluidised beds, 260
— Gallery, Plain Words on, 630
?— Hydrodynamics Laboratory, ship testing equipment at, 416
?— Industrial Safety Week, 153
?— Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting, safety in the home, 460
— Institute of Industrial Psychology, attitude
survey on office staff problems, 34; attitude survey on accident prevention, 277; selection and training of foremen, 637
? for Research in Dairying, ultrasonic
fresh-frozen milk, 255
— Insurance Act (1959), regulations of, 89
— Physical Laboratory, 1,000 megohm resist
ance standard, 32; fiducial indicator for inspecting close tolerances, 137; noise research, 397; ship research facilities at, 416
National Research Corp. (US), vacuum tank for missile design, 384
— Research Council (Ottawa) research on
gypsum, 484; Mathematics of Computation, 681
National Research Development Corp., Bacon Hydrox fuel cell, 106; ultrasonic fresh- frozen milk, 255; quick-freezing of milk, 270
— Society for Clean Air, 1959 Clean Air
Year Book (Book), 102; jubilee conference 334
— Standards for screw threads (booklet), 216 ?—? — Laboratory (Australia), vibration and
shock isolation by J. A. Macinante (review), 418
Nationalised Fuel and Power Industries, Radio ~ for
Committee, radio control centre Birmingham gas supplies, 657
Nature, balance of. Plain Words on, 302 Naval architects (trade publication), 418 Institution of. See Institution and Marine Engineers, Society of. Society
— Research (US). See United States Office of
— Stores, ASTM standards (book), 134 Navigation, inertial, instruments for, production of (Ferranti), 329
Navigational equipment for research ship, 416 Navy, nuclear, logic of, by A. J. Sims, 471
— Royal. See Royal Navy
Nayler, J. L., Dictionary of Aeronautical Entiineering, 649
NCK—Rapier Pennine heavy duty crane (Newton Chambers and Co. Ltd.), 197
Neal, A. C., on need for US to join OEEC, 599 NEDECO in West Africa, 398
Neeratom, Senn reactor components, 607 NEF circuit breakers with moulded plastics cases (E.C.C. Moulded Breakers Ltd.), 337 Negative viewer, Barcro half-plate (E. N. Mason and Son, Ltd.), 666
Neill, James, and Co. (Sheffield) Ltd., Eclipse Permanent Electro magnetic chuck, 117; Eclipse tool holder (trade publication), 166; hand saw for wood or metal. Eclipse range, 465
Neill, W., and Son (St. Helens) Ltd., Milford Haven refinery, 347
Neilson, J. B., hot blast for blast furnace, 248 Nelson, Sir G., on British locomotives, 598 Nelson, W. and H., Ltd., flameproof connecting boxes, 569
Neoprene-base caulking compounds, 451
— Bedding material for curtain wall for
chemical laboratory of Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd. (Crittall Manufacturing Co. Ltd.), 475
?— Coated protective clothing for tunnelling gangs, 347
— Coatings for concrete, 684
— Elastomers for resisting oil and steam
(Sun Oil Refinery), 136
— Gaskets for weatherstripping, 451
— Jacketed heater cord for small kitchen
appliances, 359
— Sealing strips, 452
Neptunium 239, beta counting, 36
— Recovery by Nethix-1 process, 575 Windscale plant, 35
Neratoom atomic energy consortium, 283 Nestor neutron source thermal reactor for Winfrith Heath, 575
— Reactor for UKAEA, 607
Nestorides, E. J., handbook on torsional vibration (review), 69. See LETTER, 271
Net, freight, of woven nylon webbing (Thomas French and Sons Ltd.), 487
— Nylon cargo (British Nylon Spinners Ltd.),
272
Netherland electric power station, compressed- air system for, 361
Netherland Engineering Consultants, River Niger road bridge, 93
— Railways, rail connection to Moscow, 539 Netherlands Rhine Navigation Co., pushboat
tug Olivier van Noort for, 455
Nethix-1 process for neptunium recovery, 575 Network analyser, electrical, variable frequency, ERA, 319
Neubauer, R., on non-stationary temperature distribution in cylindrical reaction vessels (book), 418
Neucleon elementary particles, 310
Neutrino elementary particles, 310
— See also Anti-neutrino
Neutron bursts for pulsed reactor, 471
— Diffusion in graphite and bismuth, 7
— Elementary particles, 310
— Flux distributions in loops (DIMPLE), 7-8
— ?—? of a reactor core, system for ascertaining
information of (Teleflex Incorp.), 448
— Irradiation, effect on epoxy resin vacuum
chamber, 311
— Migration length, 7
— Passage in reactor cores, effect of holes, 7
— Source, nuclear explosion as, 438 Reactor, Nestor, 607
Strengths, scintillation counter method of comparing, 671
— Spectrometer, helium 3 fast, as proportional
counter, 36
— Structure of, by K. Tanaka, 311
— of 2,200 metres per second, fission of,
nuclear constants for, 7
New Town Exhibition, 303
See also Towns
New York City’s West Delaware water tunnel, roof bolts for, 61
New Yorker on radioactive contamination, 439 New Zealand, decimal coinage for, 494 Ministry of Works’ annual statement, 61 State construction works in, 61
use of SRE and PAR at Rangotai airport, Wellington, 159
Newage Machine Tools Ltd., Precise Autodrill, automatic drilling machine, 197
Newage (Manchester) Ltd., tractor-mounted air compressor, 592
Newberry, G. R., on isotopes in medicine, 671 Newcomen address on history of United Aircraft Corp., by H. M. Horner, 33
— Lecture on Joshua Gilpin, by Dr. H. B.
Hancock and Dr. N^ B. Wilkinson, 605
— Society, American.
Newman Industries electric motors.
Newspapers, world,
144
Newsum, H., Sons
See
See American
Ltd., export orders for 173
annual display in Japan,
and Co. Ltd., Girdaling lightweight timber beams sheathed with plywood, 542
Newton, Chambers and Co. Ltd., NCK-Rapier
Pennine heavy duty crane, 197
Newton, Sir Isaac, impact tests of, 3; on hardness, 4; on interference effects of light rays, 37; on splitting of light rays, 37; on theory of sound, 37; correspondence of (CUP), 385
Newtonian theory of axial elasticity, by A. N.
Procter, 3, 37, 366-367. See LETTERS, 195 NHL. See National Hydrodynamics Laboratory Nickel alloy hard facing alloys, 426
— Chromium casting alloy, Nimocast 713 C
(Wiggin and Co.), 218
— Coatings, duplex (W. Canning and Co. Ltd.),
218
— Plating. See also Tin-nickel
— See also Bronze, Nickel-aluminium
Nicol and Andrew Ltd., lathe tool for honing straight or cranked shafts, 601
Niebergall, W., on technology of refrigeration (book), 682
Nife Batteries Ltd., Nife-Neverfayle emergency battery equipment, 593; stand-by lamp with rechargeable nickel-cadmium battery, 664
Nife-Neverfayle emergency battery equipment,
593
Niger Delta oilfields, pipe handling tractor for (Michigan), 21
— River, road, bridge, 93
Nigeria, visit by ICE president and secretary,
398
— Western, television for, 222
Nigerian Railway Corp., award of contract for extension of Bornu railway to Germany, 267
Nile waters, agreement between Sudan and United Arab Republic for sharing, 507 Irrigation control, by H. A. W. Morrice and W. N. Allan, 507
Nimmo, W. M., precision dynamometer, 614 Nimocast 713C, nickel-chromium casting alloy (Wiggin and Co.), 218
Nimrod proton synchrotron, injector accelerator for, 342; irradiation of vacuum chamber for, 311; magnet coils for, 311; model tests on magnet for, 343
— Reactor, magnet sections for, 575
1958 Book of ASTM Standards, parts 5, 6, 8
(book), 134
1959 Clean Air Year Book (book), 102 Niobium data manual, 205
— Forming research, Du Pont, 381
— Zirconium atomic fuel can, 535 Nitrile rubber. See Rubber
Hycar, for industrial gloves (Dunlop), 29 and light alloy sheet, laminate of (Fireproof Tanks Ltd.), 218
Plasticiser, ECP27 (Boake, Roberts), 103 Nitrogen fertiliser production at Fisons’
Stanford-le-Hope factory, 217
— and oxygen, alpha particle induced com
bination of, 36
Nixon, F. E., on principles of automatic controls (review), 618
NJ circuit breakers with moulded plastics cases
(E.C.C. Moulded Breakers Ltd.), 337 Noblett, F., designing for production, 213 Noise, acoustics and buildings, by P. H. Parkin
and H. R. Humphreys (review), 481
— Aircraft, discussion in Parliament, 531
— of blade-type blower, 326
— in building, discussion in Parliament on, 603
— Cancelling microphone, Amplivox, on
helmet, 487
— Diesel engine exhaust, research on
(BICERA), 384
— Exhaust, BICERA work on, 397
?— — MIRA work on, 397
—? from factories, discussion in Parliament, 467
— Fan (trade publication), 258
— Helicopters, 678
— Heliport, by P. H. Parkin, 678
— Jet aircraft, suppression of, 397
— Level criteria, 678
— Prevention methods, 492
— Reduction studies, NEL, 38
— Research, AIRO, 509
?—? — Anechoic chamber for, by G. Berry, 65
— —? Comment on, 397
?— in research ship, 415
— Suppression nozzle for jet aircraft, 453 Nolan, V. C., review of Techniques of Delegating, 650; biographical note, 650
Nomograms on diesel engine savings, 31
— for finding conveyor-belt width (Sandvik
Steel Band Co,), 170
Non-destructive testing, penetrants for, by R, Schnurmann, 515
— — Testing Society, first number of British
journal of non-destructive testing, 321 Testing. See also British Journal of
Non- Destructive Testing
Non-ferrous foundries, safety, health and welfare in, report on, 533
Metals production, inspection techniques as aids to process control in (book), 134 Metals Research Association, British.
See British
Nonlinear problems in random theory, by N.
Weiner (review), 101
Nonweiler, T. R. F., man-powered aircraft, 559 Noral B51SWP aluminium alloy sheets for van body (Northern Aluminium), 216
Norconsultants, cooperative export organisation, 111
Nord-Aviation, delta-wing aircraft, 519 Nordhoff, Dr., on Volkswagen factory in
Brazil, 612
Nordic labour, mobile, 121
Noreno, cooperative export organisation, 111 Norfolk, road improvements in, 495 Normalair Ltd., research on boilers with
Reynolds number exceeding critical, 286; 317
North African desert, electrodialysis plant for potable water in (Ionics Incorp.), 411
North America link with Asia by dam across Bering Straits, plans for, 411
North American Aviation Ltd., ion thrust rocket, 210
North British Locomotive Co. Ltd., wheel true- ing machine, 31
North Eastern Division, British Waterways.
See British lYaterways
North Hills Electric Co. Inc., programmable constant current source, 52
North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board, electronic fault detector (Ferranti Ltd.), 150; Orrin power station fish pass, 160; progress in rural electrification, 491
North Thames Gas Board, new building for, 675
North Wilford power station, sulphur removal at, 603
Northern Aluminium Co. Ltd., aluminium alloy van body, 216; reversing rolling mill 218; aluminium drawbridge over Birmingham-Oxford canal at Banbury, 251; mechanical handling devices for aluminium slabs, 266
Northern Ireland, unemployment in, 627 Northern Lights. See Aurora
Northfleet power station, reinforced concrete chimneys at, 443
Northrop Gyro-Glide monorail system on Los Angeles freeway, 169
Norton hydraulic press (trade publication), 166 Norway, export market organisations, 111
— Nuclear agreement with Holland, 283
Norwegian Institute for Atomenergi. See Halden reactor
Norwich University, site for, 405
Notch, sharp-edged, discharge over, hydraulics laboratory equipment (Tecquipment), 12
Notched-bar tests. See Impact tests Nothelfer, A., and Sohne, activities of, 677 Nottingham, lattice-girder railway bridge, replacement of, 119
— University, pressure waves in gases in pipes,
by F. K. Bannister (book), 134; fatigue testing machine for London Transport central laboratory, 255
Nova rocket project, 463 Novikov gearing system, 294
Nozzle, noise suppression, for jet aircraft, 453
— Rocket, position of, 351
NPD-2 atomic reactor, progress of, 379 NRU reactor. Chalk River, 378
NSU, lightweight engine with rotating piston, 580, 676
Nuclear centre of Baghdad Pact, Tehran, 205 Nuclear Civil Contractors, Trawsfynydd atomic power station, 30
— Constants for fission, 7
— Data Committee, aims of, 535
Nuclear Development Corp, of America, steam- cooled atomic reactor, 2
— Effluents, decontamination research by
electrodialysis stack, 30
— Energy, National Centre of (Moncloa,
Spain). See National Centre
Selling to, by R. Wrightson, 363
Nuclear Engineering Ltd., Mobaltron IV rotating cobalt unit for oxygenation therapy, 263
— Explosion. See Explosion, atomic
— Fusion, cause of heating in, 406
Conference, London, 406 Conference, Uppsala, 406
Research centre of UKAEA, Culham, 406
Research organisations, 406 Research progress, 406
—? — Research. See also Alpha; Zeta; etc.
— Installations (Licensing and Insurance) Act,
62
— Instrumentation,' electron multiplication
used in, 447
— Instruments exhibition, Elliot Nucleonics,
120
— Liability. See Insurance
— Maser magnetometer (Centre d’Etudes
Nucleaires de Saclay), 384
— Navy, logic of, by A. J. Sims, 471
Nuclear Power Plant Co. Ltd., collaboration with AEI-John Thompson Nuclear Energy Co. Ltd., 62; top dome and thermal shield. Bradwell atomic reactor, 655
— Radiation. See Radiation
— Reactor. See Atomic reactor
— Research centre, Swedish (Studsvik), 205
— Science terms, glossary, 283
— Society. See American Nuclear Society
— Study centre, Italian, 283
— Superheat studies, 64
— Test Plant at Reactor Testing
(Idaho Falls), 439
— Warhead for rockets, 351
— See also Atomic
Nuclenor, atomic energy consortium
122
Nucleonic laboratory in Skipjack submarine, 168
Numerical positioner (Ferranti Ltd.),
Nurnberg, W., on photography in relations, 27
Station
(Spain),
atomic
117
human
Nuts, bolt-on, for motor-car wheels (Alexander Engineering), 612
— Wedglok nylon pellet locking element for
body of (GKN (Midlands) Ltd.), 296
Nuttal, Edmund, Sons and Co. (London) Ltd., contract for northern approach to Dartford Purfleet Tunnel, 93
Nylon cargo net (British Nylon Spinners Ltd.), 272
— Conveyor belting, 71
— Cores for prestressed concrete (Concrete
Ltd.), 119
— Pellet locking element, Wedglok for nut,
bolt, and screw (GKN (Midlands) Ltd.), 296
— Plaited for GEM Suspensor (Windshields
of Worcester Ltd.), 487
— Polycaprolactum type 6, 104
— Raisin type 11 (Societe Organico), 104
— Resilient gaskets, 451
— Rubber reinforced, collapsible liquid containers (Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.), 273
— Screws (GKN), 104
— Tubes, sheathed with pvc or pep (British Insulated Callender’s Cables Ltd.), 218
— in tyres, 483
— Webbing, woven, for freight net (Thomas French and Sons Ltd.), 487

OAK Ridge National Laboratory, gas-cooled intermediate-temperature reactor, 157
Oakes, Timothy, blast furnace design, 248

Obituary: See Obituaries

Obo pins, for fixing timber to masonry (Douglas Kane Ltd.), 632
Observations, radar, prediction of ballistics missile trajectories from 1. 1. Shapiro (book), 290
Occupational health, discussion in Parliament on, 571
— Hygiene. See Annals of Occupational Hygiene
OCDRE reactor, Canadian General Electric, 378. See Correction, 407
Ocean aircraft carrier conversion to exhibition ship, 111
— oil installation at Teesport, extensions to, by Shell Mex and BP Ltd., 119
— Radioactive waste disposal in, 534
Waste disposal in, by California Salvage Co., 535
Oceanography research ship, design for, 414
Oceanwise Exhibits Ltd., Ocean aircraft carrier as exhibition ship, 111
Derating process for concrete, 683 Ocrietfabriek, NV, Derating process for concrete, 683
Octopus, Leyland eight wheeled tippers for soil removal at Hither Green railway sheds (R. Biff'a Ltd.), 251
OEEC. See Organisation for European Economic Cooperation
Olf-gas systems in nuclear processing plants, 575
Office block construction in Stockholm, 410 ? Exposed aggregate cladding panels for
(John Ellis and Sons Ltd.), 542
Multi-storey, Thermalite blocks for
(John Laing and Son Ltd.), 541
— Cunic partitioning for (Holland& Hannen
and Cubitts (GB) Ltd.), 542
— Curtain wall for, 537
— Energy expenditure in. Plain Words on, 430 ?— Manager, future role of, 57
— Multi-storey, constructional trends, 537
— Staff problems, attitude survey of NllP, 34 Recruitment, training and supervision of
(IWS report), 34
Officers, army staff, science courses for, 153
— Ex-, resettlement of, 201
Ohmic heating in B-1 stellarator, 407 Oil barge, Dracone flexible, 200
— Burner. See Burner
— Centenary of, 114
— Cutting, Dromus soluble (Shell-Mex and
BP), 143
— Drilling rigs for Yugoslavia (Woodfield
Hoist), 396
— Engine. See Engine, diesel
—• Exploration in Switzerland, 631
Oil Feed Engineering Co. Ltd., extensible hydraulic link for use with Hi-Flex flexible pressure pipe, 392
— Fired air heaters for factories (Speedyheat),
401
-?—? Fuel, residual. Desulfurol additive for, 556
— Heaters, approved tests on, 524
Safety devices for, 667
— Imports in US, quota for, 18
?— Industry, world, statistical review, 1958
(British Petroleum Co. Ltd.), 553
— Light, Litol process for upgrading
(Houdry), 620
?— Pipeline. See Pipeline
— Pollution prevention at Milford Haven
refinery, 347
?— Production in Middle East, 115 by nuclear explosion, 438 Statistics, 25
— Refinery, Coryton, safety record at, 121 Dinslaken, control desk for, 691 Milford Haven, 315
Milford Haven, construction of, 346 Processes, CERES electronic simulator for, 38
Teesport, extensions to, by Shell Mex and BP Ltd., 119
Whitegate, 312, 595
— Resources in Sahara, development progress,
19
— Storage capacity at Thames Haven Oil
Wharves, 136
— Switch. See Switchgear
— Synthesis from carbon monoxide and hydro
gen, 68
— Thixotropic protective, for critical metal
surfaces, 620
Oil Well Supply Co. Ltd., lever-lift drilling mast, 391
— See also Lubrication; Paraffin; Petroleum Oilfields, Niger Delta, pipe handling tractor
for (Michigan), 21
Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, reflecting telescope for (Sir Howard Grubb Parsons), 654
Olaer France SA, purchase by Metal Industries Ltd., 26
Oldfield and Schofield Co. Ltd., bench lathe
(trade publication), 102 Olefine plant, ICI (Wilton), 265 Oliver, R. C., Flowable solids reactor, 503 Olivier van Noort, pushboat tug, 455 Olsen Air-O-Brinell hardness testing machine
(Edward G. Herbert Ltd.), 85
Olympic Games, Rome, Palazzetto dello
Sport for, 655
Olympus lamps, Hermes ceiling fitting (Falks), 391
Omni (London) Ltd., Bondmaster L379 toluol resistant adhesive, 556
Omnia concrete floor for storage depot at
King’s Lynn, 281 Omnibus, motor. See Bus OMRE reactor. See Atomic reactor Onassis, A., motor yacht Christina, 440 Onazote thermal insulation for (Expanded
Rubber Co.), 263
Oneglia and Gervasini Inc., mass drilling on rock face, 643
Open-hearth furnace. See Furnace Operating unit, helicopter transit for, 405 Operational research in air traffic control, 577 Course, Birmingham University, 57 Oppenheim, D. M., chairman of Council of Industrial Design, 605
Opportunities for Western nations, comment on, 193
Optical constants of isotropic transparent materials, determination of, by Mr. M. Martinola (book), 450
— Instruments, quality control by, by J. H.
Bach and G. E. Fishter, 583
Optical Measuring Tools Ltd., electronically controlled positioning system for Rolls- Royce, 658
— Projector, Shadowmaster, with Vernier
protractor (Watson, Manasty and Co. Ltd.), 434
— Pyrometer. See Pyrometer
Optidress grinding wheel dressing machine (Precision Grinding Ltd.), 432
Oram, P. J., engineering and physics design, 7 Orange nuclear explosion experiment, 438 Orders dealt with by computers, 473 Ordnance Factories (Filling), S. Chard appointed Deputy Director of, 437
Ore-carrier, Moby-Dick submarine atomic- propelled, 247
— Deposits, aerial surveying of, 504
— Separation, Stripa process (trade publica
tion), 650
— Washer, cyclone (trade publication), 650 Organic moderated reactor. See Atomic
reactor
— Moderators, density of, 6
Organisation for European Economic Cooperation, Spain as member of, 26; amalgamation with Euratom, 95; atomic reactors in Europe, 95; estimates of nuclear energy production in Europe (1958-65), 95; convention on establishment of security control in nuclear energy, 283; US need to join, A. C. Neal on, 599; See also European Nuclear Energy Agency; European Productivity Agency and Halden reactor
Orifice, sharp-edged, for hydraulics laboratory (Tecquipment), 1 1
Ornamental Pottery Association, trade agreement removal from Restrictive Trading Register, 173
Orpheus turbojet aero-engine for Japan, 627
— — Aero-engine manufacture by Hindustan
Aircraft, 605
Aero-engine, serviceability record in Fiat G91 fighters, 31
Orr, C., Jr., on fine particle measurement (review), 385
Orrin power station in Ross-shire, fish pass, 160 Orthicon TV camera, Mark IV (Marconi), 487 Osaka, display of world periodicals and newspapers, 144
Oscilla surface grinding machine with oscillatory motion (Etablissements Couson Freres), 242
Oscilloscope, double beam CD71152 (Solartron Electronic Group Ltd.), 305
— Nanoscope auxiliary unit for observing fast
wave forms (Lion Electronic Developments), 86
— Sampling, as pulse monitor, 32
Osculatory interpolation coefficients, tables of, by H. E. Salzer (book), 40
Otsu Rubber, vinylon cord for tyres, 483 Ottermill Switchgear Ltd., factory tours for consultants and engineers, 48; circuit breaker, 149
Outboard Marine International SA, survey of practical uses of outboard motor (brochure), 47
— Motor, survey of uses, 47
Tests on 20 ft Tuna cruiser (Perkins), 687 Outer Seven. See Free Trade Area
Ovens, air-circulation, on BOAC Comet 4 (GEC Ltd.), 295
— Coke. See Coke oven
— Laboratory (Hedin Ltd.), 197
Over the drawing board by R. Forman (book), 212
Overdrive, Laycock de Normanville, 275
— Transmission on A99 Austin motorcar, 128 Overlays, Terylene polyester, 323
Overseas constructional work, British, information on, 207
— Markets, company executives’ tours of, 221
— Research Council, formation and activities,
32
Ovitron Corp., long-life relay using new electro-chemical principle, 68
Ovshinsky, S. R., electrochemical relay, 68 Oxide tip tools (trade publication), 134 Oxweld CM flame cutting machine (Linde), 31 Oxygen industry, strike in, 302
— and nitrogen, alpha particle induced com
bination of, 36
•— Plant in Hermes aircraft carrier, 609
— Steelmaking, Ajax open-hearth furnace
conversion, 31
— in steelmaking (report), 681
Oxygenation therapy, Mobaltron IV rotating unit for (Nuclear Engineering), 263
Oy Vuoksenniska Ab, order for Birlec annealing furnace, 276
Ozonair Engineering Co. Ltd., Kno-Draft air diffuser with adjustable discharge, 665
PAABO, Max, Maxbo shuttleless loom for full-size cloth, 138
Pace TR 10 analogue computer (Electronic Associates Inc.), 570
Pacera drillhead with air hydraulic operation (W. J. Meddings Ltd.), 369
— Multihead drilling machines (trade publica
tion), 134
— Multi-spindle drillheads (W. J. Meddings
Ltd.), 370
Packaging branch of EID, 446
— Material Carbion (Spicers), 31
— Presentation and finish of goods for the
Venezuelan market, report on, 144
Packaging, pressurised (Aerosols), by A. Herzka and J. Pickthall (review), 166
Packers Supply Co. Ltd., Straplicator strapping tool with automatic tensioning, 240
Packing, Polygrid Plastic, moulded packings for cooling towers, 579
— Rings, ptfe, wear of, by T. D. S. Wood, 387 Paddle stirring devices, power consumption of,
589
Pafco, aerosol production, 445
Paint, ASTM standards (book), 134
— Distribution system for Ford Motor Co.
expansion (Aerograph De Vilbiss Co. Ltd.), 459
— Flame retardant, Trerock, 652
— Multicolour (Tretol), 652
— Multilingual vocabulary on, 385
— Primer, Cerrarc, for steel (Cellon Ltd.), 119 Metallic lead, Pitan (Allweather Paints
Ltd.), 219
— •— Polyprimer (Arthur Holden and Sons), 516 Resin-phosphate, Kingston Kurust, 556 ?— P.V.A. based, for damp plaster or perishing
distemper, 588
— Shop, for Ford Motor Co. expansion (John
Lysaght’s Bristol Works Ltd.), 458
— — Workers strike of, Morris Motors, 89
— Skin prevention, polyethylene discs for, 111
— Spray booth, rail-mounted self-propelled
(Aerograph-DeVilbis), 84
— Sprayer, Hydra-Spray, Graco range (Alfred
Bullows and Sons Ltd.), 465
PPP, with flexible drive for drilling, polishing and grinding (Dawson, McDonald and Dawson Ltd.), 433
— for underwater use. Corrosion Committee’s
work on, 259
— Vinyl resin coating system for sector gates
of St. Lawrence Seaway, 388
— Zinc-rich, Galvafroid (trade publication),
682
Painter Brothers, steelwork for Mendlesham TV mast, 281
Paintings of buildings and civil engineering work, 57
— of ship plate, surface preparation for, by “ J. C. Hudson, j. F. Stammers and A. G. B.
Miller, 259
Pakistan, agreement with Canada on atomic energy, 379
— Indus River constructional projects, 93 River negotiations, 82
Valley waters negotiations, 499
— Second five-year plan, 195
— West, transport improvements, 119
Pal, L, on descriptive geometry interpreted by stereoscopic views (book), 39
Palazzetto dello Sport, 655
Palladium alloying additions to titanium (Union Carbide Metals Co.), 292
Pallet loading machine (Gimson and Co. (Leicester) Ltd.), 570
Palm, A., recording instruments (review), 102 Panama, Canal, excavation work, 315
Panels, hyperbolic paraboloid, for timber shell roof, 579
— Saw, Holz-Her PKS (J.K.O. Cutters, Ltd.),
529
— Sizing machine, ER (Thomas White and Sons
Ltd.), 530
— Wall, for heating, cooling and lighting, 16 Panglass Ltd., glass reinforced epoxy resin
duct for National Smelting Co., 292
Panhard, D. B., PLI7 motor car, 252
Pantak Ltd., X-ray examination of welds, 490 Pantograph for electric train overhead equipment, 233
— Engraving machine (Taylor, Taylor &
Hobson), 497
Paper, ASTM standards (book), 134
— Making, air conditioning equipment for
(trade publication), 386
Industry in Aberdeen, effect of Free Trade Area Outer Seven on, 531
Industry, effect of Outer Seven tariff reductions, 28
— Sacks, Medway disposable, as waste bins
(Medway Paper Sacks Ltd.), 634
Sealing, Automatic Sac-Sealer for (Medway Paper Sacks), 363
— Tension control of, magnetic particle
coupling for, 489
PAR. See Precision approach radar
Paraboloid panels, hyperbolic, for timber shell roof, 579
— Timber shells, hyperbolic, for school roof
(Wheelers Ltd.), 315
Paraffin heaters, fire due to, 605
Paraphone magnetic tape recorder (Epsylon Industries), 116
Pardoe, G. K. C., on British space flight programme, 208
Parker, F., Ltd., black top paver, 273; Plowmixer concrete mixing machine, 466
Parker, G. W,, on neptunium recovery, 575 Parker, H., on materials and methods of architectural construction (review), 553
Parker, M. A., on engineering drawing (book), 482
Parker, M. N., steel and aluminium alloy hatchway beams tested at Glengarnock, 443
Parkin, P. H., on acoustics, noise and buildings (review), 481; on heliport noise, 678
Parking meters, 667
— Problems, 125
— Watch, 605
Parr, G., Cathode-Ray Tube and Its Applications (book), 682
Parr, R., xenon poisoning, 7
Parry, George, bell and hopper for blast furnace, 248
Parry and Son (Tools) Ltd., BMT universal woodworking machine, 529
Parsons, C. A., and Co. Ltd., emergency power battery sets, 593
Parsons, Sir Howard Grubb, reflecting telescope for Japan, 654
Parsons turbines. See Turbine, steam; Marine propulsion
Particles of anti-matter, 310
—? Elementary, table of classes and properties, 310
— High-energy, 310
— Measurement, fine, by C. Orr, Jr., and
J. M. Dallavalle (review), 385
Particles, molecular, slowing down in beam maser devices, by Prof. N. G. Basal 384
— Nuclear, luminescent chamber for photo
graphy of light from paths of, 343
— Size extimation for slurry fuels, 7
— Sub-atomic, 310
— Time reversal invariance of, 343
Partitions for factory subdivisions (Durasteel Ltd.), 542
Partitioning, for offices, Cunic (Holland and Hannen and Cubitts (GB) Ltd.), 542
Parts feeder (Sinex Engineering), 424
Pass, E., and Co. Ltd., extractor for disused pipes and cables, 23
Passenger-carrying conveyor belts, development progress, 358
— Hoist, Skymaster (ACE Machinery Ltd.),
466
Passivation, chromate, of cadmium plating, 291 Patents for engineers, by L. H. A. Carr and J. C. Wood (review), 681
— Protection mission to Russia, 533
— Time elapse in granting, 635
Paterson Hughes Engineering Co. Ltd., foundry machinery, 111
Patrol boat Brave Borderer (Vospers Ltd.), 389, 455
Patterson, Dr. E. M., on photographic analysis of blasting, 253
Paulhus, J. L. H., on hydrology for engineers (review), 211-212
Paver, black top (F. Parker Ltd.), 273
— Blaw-Knox Express, for laying hot rolled
ashpalt, 61
Paving record on London-Birmingham motorway, 207
Pavings Development Group, lectures on highway and traffic engineering, 475
Pawling Rubber Corp., wet seal preformed gasket, 452
Pax motor vehicles, plastics parts for (Dennis Bros. Ltd.), 355
Payne, J. A., on production and preparation of isotopes, 36
Payne Products International Ltd., Armstrong cylinder honer, 86; Armstrong H2 cylinder honing machine, 633
PCS Equipment Ltd., Freyssi natural rubber bearing pads for bridges, 347
PDB circuit breaker (Johnson and Phillips), 240 Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy Conference. See Atomic Energy, Peaceful Uses of
Pearl Varnish Co. Ltd., Trerock flame retardant paint, 652
Pearlitic steel hard facing alloys, 426
Pearson, H., on engines for VTOL aircraft, 584 Peat in Ireland, 312
— for power stations in Ireland, 313 Peddinghaus flame hardening process, H Peery, L. C., on Savannah River plant, 574 PEG reactor at Electrama Exhibition, 59 Pegasus computer for Road Research laboratory (Ferranti Ltd.), 579
for Steel Co. of Wales (Ferranti Ltd.), 579 Users’ conference, 120
— Digital computer for transformer design, 73 Pellet, nylon, locking element, Wedglok, for
nut, bolt and screw (GKN (Midlands) Ltd.), 296
Pelly, Air Chief Marshal Sir C., appointed member for weapons, UKAEA, 62
Peltier effect in refrigerator, 16 in wall heating panel, 16 Peltzer and Ehlers automatic bar cut-off machines, 601
Penetrants, dye, 515
— Fluorescent ink, 515
— Ink, Verimor, for flaw detection (Man
chester Oil Refinery (Sales) Ltd.), 620
— for Non-destructive testings, by R. Schnur-
mann, 515
Pennsylvania-Dixie swing hammermill for Australian quarry (GEC), 624
— Hercules roll crusher (Fraser and Chalmers),
401
Penrith-Preston-Birmingham motorway. See Birmingham
Penrose, H. F., on principles and practice of radar (book), 290
Pensions and National Insurance, Ministry of, Emidec 2400 computer for, 509
People, conveyor belts for moving, development progress, 358
Pepperell, E. M., on office staff, 34
Pergamon, Modern trends in documentation, 69; Problems in information storage and retrieval, 69; Technique of abstracting, by J. Farradone, 69; International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 69
Periodicals, export of, discussion in Parliament, 531
— of reference value, British Standard, 101
—? World, annual display in Japan, 144 Periscope, safety (P. W. Allen and Co.), 633 Perkin-Elmer Corp. (U.S.A.), Invar for solar telescope and camera for use in upper atmosphere, 484
Perkins Engines Ltd., nomograms on diesel engine savings, 31; export orders for Four 270D diesel engine, 173; German order for Four 270D diesel engine, 174; Four 203 industrial diesel engine, 622
Perkins, F., Ltd., formation of Motores Perkins SA, 26; factory for outboard motors under Oliver Corp, licence, 88; outboard motor tests on 20 ft Tuna cruiser, 687
Perkins Gas Turbines Ltd., Mars gas-turbine water pump, 422
Permanent magnets (trade publication), 40 Wet drum separator (Rapid Magnetic Machines Ltd.), 196
Permutit Co. Ltd., Deminrolit mixed-bed water-treatment plant, 434; ion-exchange unit for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 458; recirculation plant at Ford Motor Co. expansion, 458
Perring, J. K., on cooling of underground fission wastes, 35-36
Perry, H. A., adhesive bonding of reinforced plastics (book), 418
Personnel Administration Ltd., increased productivity and earnings at J. H, Carruthers and Co. Ltd., 627
Persuasion rating. Plain Words on, 430 Peru, atomic energy programme, 122
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Petfoods Ltd,, Kit-E-Kat price reduction, 595 Petrochemical plants, ICl (Wilton and Billingham), 265
Petrographic investigation of quaternary Danish gravel deposits, by B. Sonder- gaard (book), 450
Petrol additives, 2CP and 4BP (Union Carbide International Co.), 516
— Burning heater for motor cars, 444
— Octane blending, 82
— Pump, multi-grade, 82 Petroleum. See Oil; Paraffin Petroleum AG, multi-grade petrol pump, 82 —? Chemical industry, Grangemouth, exhibit,
on, 152
PG Engineering Ltd., new organisation of, 445; tube bundle for waste heat boiler, 655
Phantom V motor car, heating and ventilating system for (Rolls-Royce), 444
Phase changes, detection of, discussion at Dechema meeting, 135
Phenol formaldehyde foam (Bakelite), 104 Philadelphia Electric Co., high temperature reactor, 158
Philco, television receiver with wide-angle tube, 144
Philippines, flour mill of Republic Flour Mills, 413
Philips Electrical Ltd., arc welding plant and accessories (trade publication), 354; type C16 contact welding electrodes, 360; shielding system for measuring low levels of radioactivity, 448
Phillips, Dr. C. E., on axle fatigue tests, 367. See LETTER, 496
Phillips, E. A., (book), 134 Philosophy of (review), 39
Philplug Ltd., publication), 514
Phlogopite extraction, 260
Phosphate-resin primer, Kingston Kurust, 556 Photoelastic tests on secondary shear strains in transparent materials, 37
Photoelectric cell for carton counting at Chiswick Products Ltd., 299
Photographs, X-ray diffraction, of alphaactive materials, by R. W, M. D’Eye, 1. F. Ferguson and R. S. Street, 164
Photographic analysis of blasting in coalbearing strata, by Dr. E. M. Patterson, 253
— Library at UKAEA London office, 6 Photography in aerial surveying, 505
— in human relations, by W. Nurnberg, 27
— Lunar exploration by, by M. E. Davies, 154
— Micro. See Microphotography
— Schlieren, cinema film on, 382
Photomicrograph. See Microphotography Photon elementary particles, 310
Physical factors during chemical reactions, influence of, by D. A. Frank-Kamenetzki (review), 212
— Laboratoty, National. See National Physics, American Institute. See American
— Atomic reactor, reports on, 7
— is easy, by D. S. Watt (review), 69
— of electricity and magnetism, by W. Taussig Scott (book), 418
— High temperature, conference on, 406
— of light water moderated reactors, bibliography, 7
— Plasma, research centre, Culham, 406
— Soviet periodicals on (American Institute of Physics), 353
Piaggio Pl66 aircraft for executives, 152
Pickthall, J., on pressurised packaging (Aerosols) (review), 166
Pickup, F., on engineering drawing (book), 482
Piercy, Lord, on ICFC, 349
Pierhead Ltd., building for North Thames Gas Board, 675
Piles, concrete, hollow prestressed, for Esso oil refinery jetty (J. Mowlem), 315, 346
— Delta concrete (HD Foundations), 443
— Driving, research at Illinois Institute of Technology, 23
Vibrations for faster, 23
— for Ford Motor Co. expansion (Dow-Mac Products Ltd.), 459
— Gambia, for Swan River Narrows bridge, 506
— High tensile steel tube, for Tranmere jetty, 442
— for jetty at Milford Haven refinery, 346 Piling, sheet steel, for Suez (British Steel Piling Co. Ltd.), 160
Pilot, airline, national training college for, 57
— Arc starting for Heliarc welding process, 563
Pins for fixing timber to masonry, Obo (Douglas Kane Ltd.), 632
Pinch discharge work at AWRE and Imperial College, 406
— Effect, by Dr. G. H. Cole, 407 Instability in, 406
— Fast, as plasma-heating element, 639
— Seal machine for incandescent lamps (GEC), 594
— Stabilisation by trapped magnetic fields, 406
— Stabilised annular, theory of, 36
Pinched discharge, fast, theory of, 36
Pinder, W., and Son Ltd., Rovabin storage rack with rotating trays, 402
Pinsker, W. J. G., on aircraft response in rolling, 512
Pintle chain, 600 series (Locke), 688
Pion elementary particles, 310
Pipes, aluminium, friction coefficients in, by J. S. Campbell and A. Brebner, 61
— Collector, of slotted steel sheet (Ranney Method Water Supplies), 474
— Drain, aluminium, 80 Pitch fibre for, 80
— Epoxide, for drainage at Battersea power station, 93
— Extractor for disused, 23
— Fall, of Weldvic polyvinyl chloride (Unity Structures), 80
— Flanges, polyethylene (Foster Brothers. Ltd.), 218
— Friction loss along, hydraulics laboratory equipment (Tecquipment), 12
— Handling tractor for Niger Delta oilfields (Michigan), 21
— Pitch fibre. Key Engineering 24-hour delivery service for, 628
on stress and strain analysis structures, by E. Torroja
Adapta wall plugs (trade
Pipes, pressure, Hi-Flex flexible, extensible hydraulic link for use with (Oil Feed Engineering Co. Ltd.), 392
Waves in gases in, by F. K. Bannister (book), 134
— Ptfe Fluoroflex (BTR), 104
— Steel, welding fittings for (trade publication), 354
— Welded steel (British Steel Piling Co. Ltd.), 143
— See also Tubes
Pipeline for Assam (Stewarts and Lloyds), 119
— Ball joints for floating or underwater, 485
— in Ga Lagoon, Gulf of Guinea, 578
— Glass, for whisky, 29
—? Milford Haven-Llandarcy refinery, 347, 611
— Oil, G. F. Fiennes on, 227
— Valve, through conduit (Triangle Valve Co. Ltd.), 21
Piper, F., and Sons Ltd., tubular folding sack truck, 497
Pipestill, single-stage atmospheric, at Milford Haven refinery, 347
PIPPA reactor experiments, declassified report on, 6
Pippard, Prof. A. J. S., visit to West Africa, 309
Pirelli-General, heating cable for Murrayfield rugby ground, 539
Pirelli Ltd., BS3 tyre with separate and replaceable tread, 444, 517
Piston, rotating, in engine, 580, 676
Pit Tub and Mine internal combustion Car Manufacturers’ Association, trade agreement removal from Restrictive Trading Register, 173
— Winding gear, Koepe (NCB), 491
Pitan metallic lead primer (Allweather Paints Ltd.), 219
Pitch fibre for drain pipes, 80
PL17 motor car (D.B. Panhard), 252
Plane and geodetic surveying for engineers. Vol. 1, by D. Clark (book), 102
— Rigid frameworks, by Dr. R. Glatz (review), 5
— Surform Craftsman, 222
—• — Drawplane, 222
Plank, R., on technology of refrigeration (book), 682
Plannair Ltd., silenced axial-flow air blowers and compressors, 140
Planned Music Ltd., Muzak music system, 689
Plant, building, exhibitions on. Ministry of Works, 28
— Engineers’ refresher course, Leeds University, 277
— and factories, by W. Hornby (review), 211
Plasinter plastics coating process, 104 Plasma, Alfven waves in, 407
— Betatron, 510
— Heating element, fast pinch as, 639
— as higher state of matter, 407
— Instabilities, 511
— Ion density determination of, 407
— in ion magnetron, 407
— Oscillations, high frequency electron, 406
— physics research centre, Culham, 406
— Relativistic, accelerator applications of, 510 production by plasma betatron, 510
— Stable, by USNRL, 407
Plastic analysis of structures, by P. G. Hodge, Jr. (review), 553-554
— Araldite X83/8 for fume duct at National Smelting Co. (CIBA), 292
— Design of steel frames, by L. S. Beedle (review), 553
— Flow patterns, by Dr. R. A. Collacott, 646
— Properties of rolled sections, BWRA booklet, 539
Plasticell closed cell foam (Microcell), 104 Plasticine for flow pattern study, 646 Plasticiser for nitrile rubber, ECP27 (Boake, Roberts), 103
— SAIB, 103
Plasticity problems, computer application to, by Dr. R. K. Livesley, 280
Plastics coated steel, SAS75 welding machine for (Sciaky Electric Welding Machines Ltd.), 433
— Coating machinery (Mather and Platt), 198 Plasinter process, 104
— Containers, Blowmaster blow moulding
machine for (Amigo Machine Co.), 85
— Ducts for ventilation, 292
— Engineering, new, 103
— Exhibition, International, new materials
exhibited, 103
— Faced asbestos insulation board (Cape
Building Products), 652
— Federation, British. See British
— Foam, urethane self-adhesive, Tesamoll
(Sealdraught Ltd.), 392
— Glass reinforced, Tufplas, vessels of
(Cawley Plastics), 356
— Hulls for Alpha sailing dinghy (Bristol
Aircraft Ltd.), 355
— Industry, production and sales statistics, 19
— Lusin mould release agents for (Lange &
Seidel), 324
— Machines, Dykehouse (Fairey), 26
Guards of glass fibre reinforced Bakelite polyester resin (Tomlinsons (Rochdale) Ltd.), 484
— Material, transparent flexible for double
glazing windows (Dohm Ltd.), 396
— Meshes (Expanded Metal Co.), 260
— Metal, extruded trim sections, Claylastic,
619
— for metal-cored window frame (Crittall
Manufacturing Co. Ltd.), 541
— Moulded, circuit breakers (ECC Moulded
Breakers Ltd.), 337
for intercom telephone, 169
— Mouldings, spin dryer with (Gordon-
Miller Ltd.), 324
— Packing, Polygrid, moulded packings for
cooling towers, 579
— Polycarbonate, Makrolon (R. H. Cole &
Co,), 420
— for re-entry vehicles, 208
— Reinforced, adhesive bonding of,
H. A. Perry (book), 418
for aircraft models, 420
Duramat needled glass mat, 108
by glass fibre, 323
at International Plastics Exhibition,
for Pax lorries (Dennis Bros. Ltd.),
Plastics, reinforced by polyester fibre, 323 Preimpregnates for, 103
Spraying machines for (Aust and Schlittler), 104
— •—-by synthetic fibres, 323
•—? — for TVR Grantura sports car body (Layton Sports Cars), 360
— for resilient gaskets, 451
— and resins (trade publication), 682
— in Routemaster buses (LTE), 620
— and rubber compounds, 356
— Sheets, acrylic, for transparent dome
skylights (Rohm and Haas), 359
— .—. Welders (trade publication), 354
— Thermo, cable fittings, Polystraps (Heller-
mann Ltd.), 292
Plastics Today (ICI), 101
— Welding machines. Acme, with double
heats (HF Industrial Services), 21
— and wood laminate. Beautyboard (Formica),
652
— See also under specific types of plastics Plate bending (trade publication), 102
Rolls for (Bronx Engineering Co. Ltd.), 666
Rolls, vertical (Bronx Engineering), 338 Rollers, pyramid, Besco (F. J. Edwards Ltd.), 401
— Levelling and straightening machine (Bronx
Engineering Co. Ltd.), 197
— Ship, surface preparation for painting, by
J. (7. Hudson, J. F. Stammers and A. G. B. Miller, 259
— Thick, welding of, 490
— Uranium, Laplacians of subcritical assem
blies in natural water, 7
Welding of thick, by electro-slag process, 298
Platforms (trade publication), 618
— Lifting, electro-mechanical, Wharton-Vilver,
244
— Mobile working (Lenson Engineering), 337 Plating, electro. See Electroplating
Platinum alloying addition to titanium (Union Carbide Metals Co.), 292
— Film on titanium (ICI), 292
Platt Bros. (Sales) Ltd., trade with Russia, 428 Plawcham, J. D., OCR reactor system, 606 Pleat wrapping machine, Watford (H and B Precision Engineers Ltd.), 433
Plenum plants for Ford Motor Co. expansion (Andrew Air Conditioning Ltd.), 459
Plessey Co. Ltd., formation of Hagan Controls, 244; gamma radiation detector, 369
Plessey Nucleonics, fuel element detection gear, 639
Plimber chipboard (British Plimber), 652 Plough, Ransomes, in ploughing contest. Ploughing contest, Fordson-Ransomes in, Plowden, Lord, on break-even point nuclear power stations, 96
524
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for
by
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355
Plowmixer concrete mixing machine (Frederick Parker Ltd.), 466
Plowright Bros, licence agreement with Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG, 613
Plowright, D. G., on gelatine from hides and skins, 555
Plowshare project for underground nuclear explosions, 438
Plug, electric, safety of, 564
— Wall, Adapta (trade publication), 514 Plummer blocks for ball bearings, Fenner-
Dodge (J. H. Fenner and Co.), 54
Plutonium as atomic fuel, Canadian experience, 379
— Atomic fuel elements production plant,
Argonne, 502
— Ceramics as atomic fuel, 96
— Crystal structures of delta and epsilon
phases, 35
— Detection by irradiation in pile, 35
— Determination by lanthanum fluoride
coprecipitation, 35
— Electrorefining of, 575
— Nitrate, purification of, at Hanford, 575
— Production in gas-cooled reactors (GEC),
158
in US, 470
— Separation process, chemistry of ruthenium
in, 35
— and uranium oxide fuel element, 123
— 239 fission, nuclear constants for, 7 Plywood, pressing of, heat penetration in, by
J. F. S. Carruthers (book), 258 Pneumatic drill. See Drill
— Equipment (trade publication), 212
— Gauging equipment, using building block
unit (Teddington Industrial Equipment Ltd.), 464
— Press, 1795 (A. A. Jones and Shipman Ltd.),
306
— Tyred rollers and compaction of soil, by
W. A. Lewis, 377
— See also Compressed air; Air compressor
P. and O. Steam Navigation Co., Canberra liner, publicising conference, 331
Pod for airborne atomiser (Britten-Norman), 358
— for mobile hospital, with helicopter, 405 Pogo pump for spray finishing, 691
Pointer, Harry (Norwich) Ltd., storage depot at King’s Lynn, 281
Points system of British Railways, 667 Poisoning, xenon transients, effect on reactivity, 7
Poland, polyester fibre production, 427
— Trade with, 428
Pole, South. See Antarctic
— Wood, preservation of (trade publication),
682
Polimex, Elana polyester fibre, 427 Poliomyelitis Research, National Fund See National Fund
Polish, silicone, 112
Polishing machine, centreless, using wet belt (Taylor Tools and Supplies Ltd.), 634
Hand model 2006/3 (Rudkin and Riley Ltd.), 570
Political and Economic Planning, European Free Trade Association, by M. Camps, 147; Tariffs and Trade in Western Europe, 608
— Role for businessmen, by C. H. Greenwait,
34
Pollard Ball and Roller Bearing Co., trading profits, 56
of.
PoIIicutt, F. H., on jet Provost, 631
Pollution, oil, prevention at Milford Haven refinery, 347
Polson, C. E., on tubular uranium fuel elements, 502
Polybloc graphite-block heat exchanger elements, 261
Polybond Ltd., PVA building adhesive, 651 Polybutene-base caulking compounds, 451 Polycarbonate plastics, Makrolon (R. H. Cole
and Co.) ,420
Polychloroprene sheath for nylon tubes (British Insulated Callender’s Cables Ltd.), 218
Polyester doughs, glass-fibre and mineral filled, 103
— Fibre production in Poland, 427
Reinforced plastics, 323
for tyres, 483
— Film, Melinex (ICI), 218
“ Glass laminates, fireproof, 103
—? Resin, Bakelite, glass fibre reinforced, for plastic machine guards (Tomlinsons (Rochdale) Ltd.), 484
Polyether, chlorinated, thermoplastic K51
(Polypenco Ltd.), 324
Polyethylene discs for paint skin prevention, 111
— Foam, Vyon (Pritchett and Gold), 104
— Foamed, for core of coaxial cable, 29
— Glass reinforced, for machinery covers
(Swains Papercraft Ltd.), 292
— Lining for concrete shuttering, 539
— Mesh, stiff, in roll and sheet (Expanded
Metal Co.), 170
— Pipe flanges (Foster Bros. Ltd.), 218
— Plant of Monsanto Chemicals at Fawley, 29
— Rigidex (trade publication), 650
for spin dryer mouldings (British Resin Products), 324
Polygrid Plastic Packing, moulded packings for cooling towers, 579
Polymers, high strength, synthesising of, 292 Polymer, journal to promote science of large molecules (Butterworth), 417
— Ordered and disordered, 103
— Synthetic, jointing for concrete roads,
Fisher Joint (S. B. Dickens Ltd.), 315 Polypenco Ltd., Fluorosint, stable reinforced polytetrafluoroethylene, 136; chlorinated polyether, thermoplastic K51, 324 Polyprimer, Arthur Holden and Sons, 516 Polypropylene isotactic polymer, 103. See
Correction, 336
Polyrubber tyre filling, 483
Polystraps, thermoplastic cable fittings (Heller- mann Ltd.), 292
Polystyrene, expanded, Jablite, for lining walls roofs and ceilings, 396
— Materials, 103
— Styron 475, for spin dryer mouldings
(British Resin Products), 324
Polysulphide-base caulking compounds, 451 Polytechnic Management Association, new developments in training, by F. A. Heller (book), 514
Polytetrafluoroethylene in Fluoroflex piping
(BTR), 104
— Packing rings, wear rate of, by T. D. S.
Wood, 387
Polythene, F.R., for machinery covers (Swains
Papercraft Ltd.), 292
— Greenhouse can, Longfellow, 75 Polyurethane foam for Alpha dinghy, 104 Polyvinyl alcohol for resilient gaskets, 451
— Chloride for Ideal Mipolam window frames
(Ideal Casements Ltd.), 332
—? —? for resilient gaskets, 451
and rubber compounds, 356 Sheath for nylon tubes (British Insulated
Callender’s Cables Ltd.), 218
Unplasticised for Thermograde lining system for cavity walls (EAW Industries), 396
?—? •— Welded, for ventilation duct at National Chemical Laboratory, 292
Weldvic, for fall pipes and guttering (ICI), 80
Polyvinylidene chloride for resilient gaskets, 451
Pontiac, Al-Fin process for, lightweight wheelbrake drum, 612
Pontoon, mooring, floating, for supertankers at Tranmere, 442
— Sheet metal, for hydraulics laboratory
(Tecquipment), 11
Poole, unemployment in, 28
Pope, A. L., slowing down of fission neutrons and diffusion of thermal neutrons, 7 Popov, A. S., Gold Medal award to Dr. L. Essen, 34
Porosity, micro, in steel castings, 32
Porous materials, structure and properties of. By D. H. Everett and F. S. Stone (review), 289
Porsche motor cars, suspension of, 344
Port authority for Clyde, 51
— Colborne fairlead with roller, 169
Port Fairey, MV, Sperry’s gyro compass on, 660
— of Guayaquil dredging contract to R. Cos
tain Ltd., and Dredge and Reclaim Ltd., 251
— of Karachi, reconstruction works in, 119
?— of London Authority, modification of transit sheds in Royal Albert Dock, 118; dredger for, 691
Port Sunlight rock-cutting suction dredger, 30, 591
Portable Balers Ltd., swarf baler (trade publication), 618
Portrait Gallery, National, Plain Words on, 630 Portsmouth Guildhall, cornice lighting for (GEC Ltd.), 541
Portugal, atomic energy consortium, 283
— in European Free Trade Area, 662
— Trolley buses for (British United Traction
Ltd.), 623
Posford, Parvy and Partners, expansion of Ford Motor Co. buildings, 458
Positional control system, electronic, for Rolls- Royce, 658
Post-and-beam houses in Canada, 174 Post Office. See General Post Office “ Dumb,” French, 263
Postal orders, French “ dumb ” post office for, 263
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Postal and Telecommunication Services, Conference of European, 571
— Vending suite, 655 Postmark, publicity by, 16
Potter, A., bibliography of light water moderated reactors, 7
Potter, P. J., on power plant theory and design (book), 418
Potterton warm air space heating unit, 300 Pottery. See Ornamental Pottery Association Pounder, C. C., on marine engineering, 669 Powder Metallurgy, note on publication, 289 Powder, stainless steel, for atomic fuel tubes, 502
— Uranium oxide, for fuel elements, 502 Powell, A. G,, on London development prospect, 245
Powell and Co., Master drum-handling equipment (trade publication), 40; hydraulic barrel stacker, 198
Powell Duffryn Carbon Products Ltd., graphite machining, 205; graphite cartridge condenser for corrosive vapours, 337
Power consumption of stirring devices, 589
— Development in Australia, 83
— Division of EID, 447
— Electrical, gallery at Science Museum, 408
— Emergency battery, applications of, 593
— and Fuel Industries, Nationalised. See
Nationalised
Power-Gas Corp. Ltd., activities of, 78; reorganisation of, 445; dry-seal gas holders for Indian Atomic Energy Establishment, 523
— Glory without, by R. Clements (review), 617
— Industry, planning in, 565
— Loss measurement in transmission units,
precision dynamometer for (MERL), 29
— Maid electric mixer with attachments
(Cannon), 428
— More to you, by H. Schneider and N.
Schneider (review), 649
— Plant, steam, cost-output relation, 158 Theory and design, by P. J. Potter
(book), 418
See also Hydro-electric; Power station; Power, water; Substation; Atomic power station
— Production in countryside, by Sir C. Hinton,
599
— Shovel, tractor-mounted, MF702 (Massey-
Ferguson), 390
— Station, atomic. See Atomic power stations ?—• — Battersea, epoxide pipe for drainage, 93 Drakelow C, boilers for, 596
— ?— Electric, Netherlands, compressed air
system for, 361
Giant thermal, standard designs for, 681 North Wilford, sulphur removal at, 603 Northfleet, reinforced concrete chimneys at, 443
— ?— Orrin, fish pass at, 160
? Peat-fired, in Ireland, 313
Ventilation of, by A. G. Kelly, 42
— — West Thurrock, turbine generator units
for, 524
Willington A (CEGB), 281
See also Power plant; Substation
— Supply for Russia, 500 kV equipment, 58 Unit, transistorised low voltage (Marconi
Instruments), 602
— Survey in Argentina, 271
— Systems, interconnected, for Europe, by
J. H. M. Sykes, 90
— Thermoelectric. ~
electric
— Tools in building,
?—• Transmission in Hinton, 599
Overhead lines, by Sir C. Hinton, 599 See also Gearing; Drives; Transmission
— Water. See Hydraulic; Hydro-electric Powerformer at Milford Haven refinery, 347 PPP paint sprayer with flexible drive for
drilling, polishing and grinding (Dawson, McDonald and Dawson Ltd.), 433
Practical robot circuits, by A. H. Bruinsma (review), 617
Praktische Spannungsoptik, by L. Fdppl and E. Mdnch (book), 450
Pratt, D. L., on vehicles for Antarctic conditions, 641
Pratt, F., and Co. Ltd., Cone-Lok jig clamp, 150 Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, awards in ideas competition, 373
Precast concrete. See Concrete
Precipitator, electrostatic, for open-hearth furnace gas cleaning (Koppers), 111
Precise Autodrill, automatic drilling machine (Newage Machine Tools Ltd.), 197
Precision approach radar (PAR) at Rangotai airport, Wellington, 160
Precision Electrical Products (Stockport) Ltd., Small Boar accelerator for small bore heating systems, 433
Precision Grinding Ltd., Optidress grinding wheel dressing machine, 432
Precision Rubbers Ltd., X2I3X butyl rubbers, 588
— Temperature controller, Winston-United
Steels (Winston Electronics Ltd.), 150
Precontrainte, Federation Internationale de la, Berlin 1958; Papers by R. P. Andrew (book), 418; third congress of, by R. P. Andrew (book). Correction, 514
Preece, Cardew and Rider, lighting of Hong Kong airport, 297
Preece, G. E., on gas-cooled reactors, 368. See LETTER, 632
Prefabrication in Scandinavian concrete architecture, 410
Preimpregnates, Aerogreg, for reinforced plastics, 103
Prentice-Hall Inc., Muzak music system at, 689 Presentation, packaging and finish of goods for the Venezuelan market, report on, 144 Presidents, young, conferences of, 201 Press feeder (trade publication), 134
— Hydraulic, Norton (trade publication), 166
— Injection moulding, Bipel (BIP Engineering
Ltd.), 305
— Norton hydraulic (trade publication), 166
— Plants, automatic measurement of quality
(review), 257
— Pneumatic, 1795 (A. A. Jones and Shipman
Ltd.), 306
See Generator; Thermo-
548
countryside, by Sir C.
Press and Shear Co. Ltd., sheet metal and tube working machines (trade publication), 102
— Weidmann Turret, for small batch piercing
(Dowding and Doll Ltd.), 242
Pressing, hot brass, book on (Copper Development Association), 292
— of plywood, heat penetration in, by J. F. S.
Carruthers (book), 258
Pressure, gas, high, heat transfer at, 286, 317
— Measurement instrument, Hydraudyne
(Cossor), 21
— Vessel, atomic reactor, fuel storage in, 379 Daniels-Boyd reactor, 157
for gas-cooled reactors, smaller-size trend, 158
Production at new factory of Steels Engineering Installations Ltd., 171
Steel, radiation effects on, 439
— Waves in gases in pipes, by F. K. Bannister
(book), 134
Pressurees I PI welding electrodes (English Electric), 260
Pressurised packaging (Aerosols), by A. Herzka J. Pickthall (review), 166
Preston-Penrith-Birmingham motorway. See Birmingham
Prestressed concrete. See Concrete, prestressed Prestressed Concrete Development Group, visit to Stock-holm and Copenhagen, 410; elevated motorway competition results, 611
Prices, Cohen Council on. See Cohen Price, G. H. Stuart, on cost of accidents, 669 Price reductions, 267, 427, 595
Primapax Ltd., formation of, 120
Prime numbers, first six million, by C. L. Baker and F. J. Gruenberger, 553
Primer. See Paint
Printed circuits, by P. Eisler (book), 134 Printing machine, rotary, coupling for paper tension control in, 489
Pritchett and Gold and EPS, Vyon polyethylene foam, 104
Private companies, formation of, by D. Barker and A. P. Halberstam, 513
“ Problem Below,” cinema film on soil investigation, 611
Process control in non-ferrous metals production, inspection techniques as aids to (book), 134
— Plant (trade publication), 650 Processing industries, engineers for, by A. C,
Hartley, 463
Procter, A. N., on Newtonian theory of axial elasticity, 3, 37, 366-367. See LETIER, 195
Proctor, L, and Wilson, S. S., unsinkable dinghy, 327
Products and services (trade publication), 386 Production, design for examples, by F. Noblett, 213
— Engineering Research Association, transla
tion of Russian Engineering Journal and Machines and Tooling, 101; contributions by D.S.LR., 603
— Index, increase in, 627
— Industrial, index for August, 303
— World, survey, 25 Productivity bulletin. Target, 28
— Cohen Council on. See Cohen
— Council, British. See British
— Effect of music on, 689
— Increase, J. H. Carruthers and Co. Ltd., 627
— Railway, 127
— Statistics, FBI, 366
— in Yugoslavia, 566
Professional advice, use of, R. L. Garner on, 399
— Classes Aid Council, annual report, 669 Professions Supplementary to Medicine Bill,
527
Profits and executives salary survey, 573
— Management and control, by F. V. Gardner
(book), 258
Programme Control, Dial-a-Cycle, on Mil- Waukee-Mil bed-type milling machine (E. H. Jones (Machine Tools)
Programming of force method analysis by Mr, J. C. de C. Mr. A. D. Edwards and Mr. 280
Project Plowshare for underground nuclear explosions, 438
Projector, optical. Shadowmaster, with Vernier protractor (Watson, Manasty and Co. Ltd.), 434
Promethium 148, production and separation, Harwell, 36
—? 152 and 154 isotopes, 671
Prometo system of sliding shuttering, 547
Propane for flame cutting of material 5 ft. thick, 595
— Stacker operated by (International Machine
and Equipment), 85
Propathene polypropylene (ICI), 103 Propellent, rocket. See Rocket
Propeller bosses for Brave Borderer (Skefko), 389
— Cast in nickel-aluminium bronze (Lips), 559 —? Cavitation studies, 44-in. water tunnel for,
at NHL, 416
—? Controllable-pitch, Kamewa (Stone), 680
— Fans (trade publication), 258
— Pressure field, by J. P. Breslin and S.
Tsakuiias, 584
— Voith-Schneider cycloidal, on ferry Fresh
water, 590
Properties of matter, by F. C. Champion and N. Davy (book), 618
Propulsion of ships. See Atomic propulsion; Marine propulsion; Turbines; Propellers; Ship resistance
— Unit, power Beetle for railway wagons, 169 Prospecting for uranium, by H. Lloyd Barnes
(book), 134
Prospector aircraft for agricultural use (Lancashire Aircraft), 357
— Chassis, DM 66, for cross-country unit
(Douglas Equipment Ltd.), 304
Protactinium, isolation of, 671
— 233, production and separation, 36 Protective clothing, neoprene-coated, for tunnelling gangs, 347
Protein production by impulse process, 307 Protester, Plain Words on, 462
Proteus gas turbines, Bristol marine for Brave Borderer, 389
Ltd.), 274 of linear Henderson, J. Munroe,
Proton elementary particles, 310
— Irradiation, ettect on epoxy resin vacuum
chamber, 311
— Source, high current, for linear accelerators,
36
— Synchrotrons, Argonne, 310, 311, 639
— — California University, 310-311
CERN, critical, 311
CERN, at full power, 575
Dubna, steel for magnet of, 310
? Dubna, use of, 310
Limit of performance of, 310
Magnetic field of, 310
— ?— Maximum energy obtainable, 310
Nimrod, injector accelerator for, 342 Nimrod, irradiation of vacuum chamber
for, 311; magnet coils for, 311
Nimrod, model tests on magnet for, 343 Table of, 311
Prototypes (trade publication), 514 Protractor, Vernier, for the Shadowmaster optical projector (Watson, Manasty and Co. Ltd.), 434
Proudlove, J. A., London road improvement prize, 674
Provisioning, using small computer (GPO), 473 Proximity switches for levelling mine car hoists (Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical), 53
Pryor, G. R., on human relations, 627 Psychological set, Plain words on, 430 Psychology, Industrial, National Institute of. See National Institute
PTFE. See Polytetrafluoroethylene
Publicity, British, abroad, by J. A. Weller, 147
— by postmarks, 16
“ Puffer ” ship, Lascar, conversion to diesel power (J. and J. Hay Ltd.), 520
Pulp mill, cellulose, supplied to Russia (KMW), 460
Pulse monitor, sampling oscilloscope as, 32 Pulver, P. L., on cold storage buildings, 496 Pulverising Machinery Ltd., Mikro-Pulsaire bag filter collector for recovery of animal feeding stulls after grinding, 116
Pump, air. See Air compressors
— Boiler, control (McDonnell and Miller), 264
— Centrifugal, for liquids and slurries, Univac
UVS2 (Henvy Sykes Ltd.), 633
— Circulating, Daxel, for domestic hot water
systems (Rhodes, Brydon and Youatt Ltd.), 338
Kalorite, for central heating (Harland Engineering), 22
— Coolant (SEM), 52
— Drainage, Sumpette (Holden &
Ltd.), 305
— Filton-Barske, on Saunders-Roe
fuelling unit, 491
— Fuel, multi-fuel, 561
— Grouting, with adjustable pressure, ZH50
(Craelius Co. Ltd.), 466
— High pressure, Hydroflo (Tangyes), 108
— Houses for Ford Motor Co. expansion (G.
Percy Trentham Ltd.), 459
— and hydraulic ram, combined, Linford 4000
(Linford Engineering), 570
— Petrol, multi-grade, 82
— Pogo, for spray finishing, 691
— for radioactive materials, Idaho plant, 574
— Snoring, Goodyear, marketing in Europe,
427
— Sodium, bearing materials for, 8
— Water, direct acting, for high pressures
(Richard Sutcliffe Ltd.), 666
Gas-turbine, Mars (Perkins Gas Turbines Ltd.), 422
Mobile axial. Maxiflow (Armfield Hydraulic Engineering), 653
on Saunders-Roe rocket fuelling unit, 491 Punching and shearing machine, universal, Valdarno (Sharston Engineering Co. Ltd.), 306
Purchasing Qfficers’ Association, Annual conference: W. H. McFadzean on economic blocs in Western Europe, 303
Purex plant, Savannah River, 574
— Solvent, bauxite slurry treatment of, 575 Radiolysis of, 575
— Ventilation exhaust filter at Hanford, 575 Purfleet. See Dartford-Purfleet Tunnel Purification plant for liquids, orders for
(William Boby and Co.), 174
Purolator Products Inc., pressure-locked filters, 654
Pushboat tug Olivier van Noort, 455
P.V.A. building adhesive (Polylsond), 651
— Paints for damp plaster or perishing dis
temper, 588
PVC. See Polyvinyl chloride
Pye Electric Ltd., TASC induction coupling, 434
Pye Ltd., aircraft landing system for Russia. See LETTER, 2; increased investments in Commonwealth, 413; RF2 induction heater, 498
Pyristees welding electrodes (English Electric), 260
Pyroceram glass-ceramics (Corning), 41 Pyrolysis plant at olefine plant of ICI (Wilton), 265
Pyrometallurgy, reprocessing atomic fuels by, 574
Pyrometer, optical. Milliscope, for flame hardening machines, 77
Pyrometry, compensating cables for (trade publication), 212
Quarry, Australian, Pennsylvania-Dixie swing hammermill for (GEC), 624
Quasi-Arc Ltd., Cobalarc hard-facing welding electrodes, 356; Handicool welding electrode holders, 498; Sigmette welding gun, 562
Queen Elizabeth’s Training College for the Disabled, 637
Queen liners, replacement of, committee on, 201 Quenching with fluidised beds at National Gas Turbine Establishment, 260
— of steel. See Heat treatment Quick-freezing exhibition, 270 of milk, 270
QVF Ltd., glass pipeline for whisky, 29
systems
Brooke
rocket
R3/Adam reactor project, 123 R4-Eva reactor, 123, 283 Radar exports (Decca), 80
— in Hermes aircraft carrier, 609
— Installation in North Atlantic, vinyl resin
coating for, 675
— Long-range DASRl, for Arlanda (Sweden),
688
— Observations, prediction of ballistic missile
trajectories from, by 1. 1. Shapiro (book), 290
— Principles and practice, by H, G. Penrose
and R. S. H. Boulding (book), 290
— River (Decca Radar Ltd.), 625 Radcliffe report on monetary system, 82 Radial drill. See Drilling machine Radiation detector, gamma, PN11080 (Plessey
Co. Ltd.), 369 Portable electronic, for liquids (US
National Bureau of Mines), 84
— Effects of, 534
on pressure-vessel steel, 439
— Electromagnetic, from cylindrical struc
tures, by J. R. Watt (book), 386
— Hazards, training in, 47
— Level tests in Skipjack atomic submarine,
168
— Nuclear, effects on magnets, US Department
of Commerce report on, 132
— Protection course, AERE, Harwell, 439
— Therapy, linear accelerator for (Vickers), 343
— Tolerance limits of, 534
— Transition, 639
— See also Irradiation Radiators, concrete, 160
— Shutter for motor cars, 444
Radio circuits, by W. E. Miller and E. A. W.
Spreadbury (book), 354
— Control centre for Birmingham gas
supplies, 657
Radio Corp, of America, luminescent chamber, 343
— and electronics, fundamentals of, by
Everitt (book), 102
— Engineers, British
British Institution Radio Heaters Ltd.,
publication), 354
— Research Station,
Institution of.
plastic welder
conversion of
W. L.
See
(trade
iono-
spheric virtual height-frequency curves to electron density-height profiles, by J. O. Thomas and M. D. Vickers (book), 290
— Telephone, mobile, by H. N. Gant (book),
70 Service for motorists, 559
— Telescope for aurora study, 680 Jodrell Bank, 559
for New South Wales, 50 for West Virginia, 32 ?— VHF, system at Upminster railway depot,
267
— Waves, aurora effect study, 680
— Yorkshire, formation of, 573
— See also Television; Radar; Valves; Ther
mionic
Radioactive contamination. New Yorker
439
— Deposits, aerial surveying of, 504
— Effluent disposal. Exercise Mermaid
(Winfrith Heath), 35 ?— Materials, pump for, Idaho plant, 574
— Matter, atmospheric mixing of, 439
— Substances Bill, 534
— Waste disposal in Canada, 535
— — Disposal, magnitude of problem of, Disposal, methods of, 534
on,
on
534
Q-FLOOR, cellular sheet-steel floor construction (Robertson Thain Ltd.), 328
Qualifications, Plain Words on, 18
Quality Bearings Ltd., BETA news sheet, 353
•— Control, film on, 659
by optical instruments, 583
— in process plants, automatic measurement (review), 257
Qualters and Smith Bros. Ltd., radial drilling machine (trade publication), 166; Sawmaster type lOB autobandsaw, 242
Quantities, bills of, preparation of, and specifications for road and bridge works (book), 134
Disposal in ocean, by California Salvage
Co., 535
Disposal in oceans, disagreement on, 575 Disposal in ocean trenches, 534 Disposal, recommendations of
Government, 534 Disposal from submarines, US
regulation, 535 Disposal, White Paper on, 534 Storage tanks for Savannah
plant, 535 Radioactivity, atmospheric, from
weapon tests, 439 Controlling mechanisms of, 439
— of coolant air of BEPQ reactor, 6
— Detection and measurement, electronics
in, 36
— Measurements in Hamburg, 535
— Measuring low levels, shielding system for
(Philips Ltd.), 448
— in sewage works, course on, 535, 539
— in water treatment, course on, 535, 539 Radiocalcium determination in effluent, 36 Radiochemical reprocessing costs, by C. E.
Guthrie, 574
Radiographic betatron, Brown-Boveri (Watson
and Sons (Electro-Medical) Ltd.), 666 Radiography of uranium cartridges, 35 Radioisotope, cyclotron as source for, 671
— Long-lived, in fission products, 534
— New, 671
— Production from nuclear explosion, 438 and separation, Harwell, 36 Radiological protection in UKAEA, 63 Radiolysis of Purex solvent, 575 Radiostrontium determination in effluent, 36 Radium estimation in effluent. Radome, Terylene/polyester reinforced, for
Comet IV airliner, 323 Radomer, glass-ceramics, 41
UK
Navy
River
atomic
36
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27
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Raft floors (trade publication), 554
— Life, requirements of International Con
vention, 28
Rails, carriage, for towing tank at NHL, 416
— Freight, figures for BR, 271
Future of, by G. F. Fiennes, 226
— Materials for rocket sleds, research on, 484 Rail Traction Supplies Ltd., Vent-Axia
ventilators (trade publication), 258
— Transport, diesel engines for, by E. S. Cox,
234
Gas turbines for, by E. S. Cox, 234 Relative advantages of, 226 Railcar. See Carriage
Railway Advisory Service, United Kingdom, formation and activities of, 430
— Argentine State. See Argentine
— Bornu, extension, award of contract to
Germany, 267
— Bridge. See Bridge •—• British. See British
— Carriage. See Carriage
Railway Corp, of Nigeria, extension of Bornu railway, contract to Germany, 267
—? Crossing surfaces, flame hardening, 78
—? Electrification, history of, 231
— — See also British Railways
?—? Exhibits at Swiss transport museum, 138
— Freight, road competition for,
— Locomotive. See Locomotive
— Model, developments, 628 —• Monorail.
— Netherlands,
539
— Plain Words
in, 82
— Productivity,
— Rails, flat
specification for, 76
Steel fishplates for, British Standards specification for, 76
— Roads and the public good, by Sir R.
Wilson, 223. See LETTER, 304
— Rolling stock. See also Carriage; Loco
motive: Wagon
— Signalling. See Signalling
— System in West Pakistan, modernisation of,
119
— Technical advances of, 227
— Testing and Research Centre (India)
annual report, 160
— Timetables, computer for, 230
— Train brake. See Brake
Caledonian London-Glasgow express, fluorescent lighting for (GEC), 520
Car ferry, Trelleborg (Elsinore Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd.), 455 Diesel, in BR modernisation programme, 234
Diesel multiple unit, for St. Pancras- Bedford line, 424
— •— Electric, basic arrangements of, 232
Electric, overhead equipment, 232 Loads, making up, 228
Multi-unit passenger, 232
— Tube. See Underground; London Transport
Executive
— Travellers’ Associations, Federation of
South Eastern, Travellers’ Charter, 573
— Underground. See Underground; London
Transport Executive
— Wagon. See Wagon
Rainier explosion, temperature distribution in rock after, 438
Raisin, nylon II (Societe Organico), 104 Ram, hydraulic, and pump, combined, Linford 4000 (Linford Engineering), 570
— Induction system (Chrysler), 372
— Jet engine, Thor BT-I (Bristol Siddeley), 391 Shock heating in, by Dr. W. F. Hilton,
155
Ramrod lubricating system for bearings (Glacier Metal Co. Ltd.), 656
Randles, J., on hydromagnetic instabilities of a cylindrical gas discharge: Part 6, 36 Random theory, nonlinear problems in, by N. Weiner (review), 101
Rangotai airport, Wellington, use of SRE and PAR, 159
Ranney collector installation for water supply to J. S. Fry and Sons Ltd., 474
Ranney Method Water Supplies Ltd., tapping system for cheap supply, 474
Ransomes, Sims and Jeffries Ltd., Conquest lawn mower, 80; marketing of electric trucks, 492; ploughing contest, 524
Rapid Magnetic Machines Ltd., Liftmaster lifting magnets (trade publication), 40; suspension magnets (trade publication), 40; permanent magnet wet drum separator, 196
Rapier motor car, improvements beam), 199
Rare earth metals production Matthey and Co. Ltd.), 324 Rats, damage to electric cables, on, 324
Rate gyro in SCI aircraft autostabiliser system, 192
Ratproof cables (Sieverts Kabelverk), 324 Rawlplug Co. Ltd., RP2 two-speed electric drill, 466
Rays, light, interference effects of, by Sir Isaac Newton, 37
Splitting of, by Sir Isaac Newton, 37
— See also Cathode ray; X-ray Rayescent Safety Light, 111
Reactions between aggregates and cement. Parts V and VI, by F. E. Jones and E. D. Tarleton (book), 102
— Vessels, cylindrical, temperature distribution
in, by R. Neubauer (book), 418
Reactivity temperature coefficient, 7
— Xenon poisoning effect on, 7 Reactor AG, activities of, 282
— Atomic. SQQ Atomic reactor
Reactor Centrum Nederland, managing directors appointed, 283
— Iodine extraction, explosion of, 575
•—? School (Harwell), course on control and instrumentation, 439
— Testing Station (Idaho Falls), Nuclear
Test Plant at, 439
Reader, tape, high-speed (Associated Automation Ltd.), 337
See Monorail rail connection
on closure and
126
to Moscow,
competition
127
bottom, British Standards
to (Sun-
(Johnson
research
Reading German for scientists, by H. Eichner and H. Hein (book), 418
— Machine, direct, for coordinate checking of
machined workpieces (Ferranti), 117
— Systematic, survey of, 121
Reaming and tapping machine, Andytap (Monks and Crane), 52
Recession, world, statistics, 25
Recirculation plant at Ford Motor Co. expansion (Permutit Co. Ltd.), 458
Recorder, monitor, for impregnation of cables (Addison Electric Co. Ltd.), 369
— Tape, magnetic, Paraphone (Epsylon Indus
tries), 116
See also Tape recording
Recording Club, British. See British
— Instruments, by A. Palm, H. Roth and
E. G. Schlosser (review), 102
— Tape. See Tape recording; British Recording
Club
— Techniques, magnetic, by W. E. Stewart
(book), 258
Rectifier, comparison of efficiencies of, 161
— Germanium, in Mull of Kintyre main
tenance ship (Associated Electrical Industries), 621
— Silicon, Y series, Sarkes-Taryian (Ad.
Auriema, Incorp.), 600
Red meranti, bending tests, TDA, report on, 207
Redfearn, J., on surface activity of uranium alloy ingots, 35
Rediweld Ltd., pvc ventilation ducts for National Chemical Laboratory, 292
Redpath Brown and Co. Ltd., steelwork for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459
Redundancy in aircraft industry, 89
— of coal miners, 89
Redux resin adhesive for brake liners, 620 Reed'^s Aircraft and Equipment News, 257 Re-entry problems, papers on, 208
— of space vehicles, by H. R. Watson, 89
— Vehicles, materials for, 208
References by code, by J. C. B. Williams, 147. See LETTER, 239
Refinery, oil. See Oil refinery
Reflector, beryllium, for BR-2 reactor, 639
Refractory materials for take-off platform for ICBM, 115
Refrigeration, handbook on technology of, by R. Plank and W. Niebergall (book), 682
— and insulation contractor for storage depot
at King’s Lynn, Mann Egerton, 281
— Peltier effect in, 16
— Thermoelectric, 16
Refuelling pack, Mk 20, for aircraft, 215
Regulator, carbon dioxide, Linde (Union Carbide International Co. Ltd.), 434
— for electric appliances, Reguplug, 564
— for gas welding (British Industrial Gases
Ltd.), 150
— Speed, using eddy currents. Electron
(Westool Ltd.), 328
Reguplug regulator for electric appliances, 564 Reich 155 well-point drilling machine (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co. Ltd.), 432
Reichdrill Manufacturing Co. Ltd., reorganisation in integration with Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co,, 445
Reichle, L. F. C., BWR reactor system, 606
Reilly, P., on Council of Industrial Design, 303-304
Reinecker, electro-hydraulic automatic backing-off machine (Stuart Davis Ltd.), 149
Reines, F., on anti-neutrinos, 311; on antineutrino cross-sections, 311
Reinforced concrete. See Concrete
Relay, booster, model 61H (Sunvic), 44
— Electrochemical, new long-life (Ovitron), 68 Release agents, mould, for resins and plastics,
Lusin (Lange and Seidel), 324
Remington Rand Ltd., auto tester for typewriters, 425
Remote control monitor for Firemaster fire engine (Knowsley Cast Metal Co.), 654 Television camera (BBC), 255
Remploy Ltd., assembly of aluminium foil transformer windings, 560
Renault Dauphine motor car suspension, 345; annual report, 509; motor car production, 644
Rendel, Palmer and Tritton, Finnert terminal for super tankers, 30; reconstruction works in Port of Karachi, 119
Repco Ltd., dynamic balancing machine, 197 Republic Flour Mills Inc., new
Manila, 41 3
Research (trade publication), 418
— and development in industry,
support for, 597
Development, spectrum of, on, 366
— Economies due to joint, 83
— Government, discussion in
28
— Institute of Machine Tools
(Prague), magnetic tester missions, 339
— Metallurgical, Du Pont, 381
— Relations between engineering educational
institutions and industrial organisations (publication), 133
— Reports from Lisbon, 119
— Ship, deck arrangements in, 416
Deck winches for, 416
—• — Derricks for, 416
£)z5covery //, 415, 416
Kista Dan, 640
Laboratories, workshops and stores in, 415
Magga Dan, 640
Manoeuvrability of, 415
Navigational equipment for, 416
Ocean-going design for, by Dr. H. E. P. Herdman, 414
Optimum size of, 414
• Propulsion of, 415
Thala Dan, 640
— Workers, freedom of, by N. Birch, 478 Reservoir, Mettur (Madras), 15
Residual stresses in restoring deformed parts, 521
Resin adhesive. Redux, for brake liners, 620
— Bakelite polyester, glass fibre reinforced,
for plastic machine guards (Tomlinsons (Rochdale) Ltd.), 484
flour mill at
Government
Plain Words
Parliament on,
and Machining for gear trans-
Resin bonds (trade publication), 354
— Caulking compounds, 451
— Coating system, vinyl, for sector gates of
St. Lawrence Seaway, 388
Vinyl, for radar installation in North Atlantic, 675
— Epikote, tooling, 31
— Epoxy, Araldite (trade publication), 290 Coatings for concrete, 684
Glass reinforced duct, for National Smelting Co., 292
Hardeners (Bakelite Ltd.), 218
for road surfacing (Shell Chemical Co.), 136
Vacuum chamber, irradiation of, 311
— Lusin mould release agents for (Lange &
Seidel), 324
— Phosphate primer, Kingston Kurust, 556
— and plastics (trade publication), 682
— Silicone, low-temperature curing (Union
Carbide Ltd.), 136
— Surface coating, index, 136
Resistance standard, 1,000 megohm, NPL, 32 Resonance due to unbalanced wheels on vehicles, 350
— in gas-lubricated bearings, 285 Respirator, Dustfoe 66 (Mine Safety Appliances), 22
Restoring deformed parts, by Dr. B. N. Cole, 521
Restrictive Trade Practices Act, progress under, 194
— Trading Agreements, removals from Regis
ter of, 173
Retail trade, expansion in, 143
Returns, contractors, figures from Ministry of Works, 251
Revlac indexing heads (trade publication), 134
— Trigrinding universal grinding machine
(trade publication), 134
Revo Electric Co. Ltd., silvertip switchfuses, 391; Jobber electric hand drill with built-in spirit level, 400
Reynolds, D. J,, on road improvement priorities formula, 185
Reynolds Metal Co., potlines for producing aluminium, 218; international review of aluminium in modern architecture (review), 513
— Number, critical, exceeded in boilers, 286,
317
Rig, open circuit high (Normalair), 286
— Shell moulding machine (Electric Resistance
Furnace Co. Ltd.), 633
Rhodes, Brydon and Youatt Ltd., Daxel circulating pump for hot water systems, 338
Rhodesia and Nyasaland, University College of, British financial allocation to, 533 Ribble variable speed gear unit (B. and ” Carter and Co. Ltd.), 272
Richardsons Westgarth Group, changes organisation, 581
Riddles, R. A., on Stothert and Pitt, 677 Rigidex polyethylene (trade publication), 650 for spin dryer mouldings (British Resin Products), 324
for stiff-mesh in roll or sheet (British Resin Products), 170
RILEM. See International Union of Testing and Research Laboratories
Riley, H., obituary, 309
Riley (IC) Products Ltd., automatic ash extractor for chain grate stokers, 370
Rings, packing, ptfe, wear of, by T. D. S. Wood, 387
Ripple computer programme for hyperfine flux structure, 439
Ritter Co., Euphorian rest chair for dentistry, 263
River Brazeau hydroelectric power project in Alberta (Calgary Power Ltd.), 160
— Cauvery, irrigation and power projects, 14
— Danube, hydroelectric power schemes on
(report), 23
— Great Ouse flood protection scheme, 499
— Indus, constructional projects, 93 Negotiations on, 82, 499
?— Niger, road bridge, 93
— Radar installations for (Decca Radar), 625
— Severn, model study of, 205
— Tamar suspension bridge, locked coil wire
ropes for cables of (British Ropes Ltd.), 377
Rivers, A. E. (Sales) Ltd., Silver Streak diesel engine for model aircraft, 29
Rivers, P., on knowledge of winds, 663-664 Rivington, C. T., on Science Museum, 568 RO, R2 and R2-0 reactors, Studvik, 639 Road accidents. See Accidents
— Asphalt, vehicle wear tests on, 23
— and bridge works, specification for, and
preparation of bills of quantities (book), 134
—• Bridge, Forth, progress on, 603 New Thames, discussion in Parliament, 467
over River Niger, 93
Steel, 643
? Tancarville, opening of, 30
Tay, progress on, 603 See Bridge
— Building, aerial survey for, 505
— Campaign Council, “ New Ways for
London ” competition, 674
— Concrete, Fisher joint for (Dickens Ltd.),
579
Jointing for, Fisher Joint (S. B. Dickens Ltd.), 315
Vehicle wear tests on, 23
— Conditions, effect on transport costs, 186,
187
in UK, 185
— Construction in the city, by Schwedler, 475 Delays in, 495
— ?— Techniques in Switzerland, by W.
Schuepp, 475
— Development programme, 26
Programmes, discussion in Parliament on, 603
— Economic traffic capacity of, 187, 188
— Expenditure overseas, 126 UK, 125, 126
— Holding of new motor cars, by G. Wilkins,
344
F.
in
Road improvements, choosing priorities by new formula, by Dr. R. Charlesworth, D. J. Reynolds and J. G. Wardrop, 185 Competition, London, 674
Criteria for, 187
— —-in Norfolk, 495
Priority assessment for, 187
Returns from, 187
— London, improvement proposals, 399
— Making plant (trade publication), 514
— Mileage data in UK, 185
— Programme, bridge design for (Institution
of Civil Engineers), 475. See LETTER, 568 Position and prospects of, 367
—/Rail transfer in inland freight transport, 226
— Railways and the public good, by Sir R.
Wilson, 223. See LETTER, 304
— Research Laboratory, activities of, 125;
pneumatic-tyred rollers and compaction of soil, 377; economic study of London- Birmingham motorway, 472. See also 463; Pegasus computer for (Ferranti Ltd.), 579
— Rural, economic traffic capacity of, 188
— Safety campaign for new Highway Code, 667 —? ?— Kits for schools, 399
— Speeds, 186
— Surfaces, asphalt, Blaw-Knox Express
paver for laying, 61
— Surfacing, epoxy resins for (Shell Chemical
Co.), 136
— Tests, Autocar, Spring 1959 (review), 353
— Traffic. See Traffic
— Transport competition for railway, 126 Costs, effect of road conditions on, 186,
187
Efficiency increase, 187
Problem, position and prospects of, 367 —- — Relative advantages of, 226
— Trunk, traffic distribution on, 185
— Tunnels, ventilation of, by L. H. Butler, 23
— Vehicles, steam, history of, by C. St. C. B.
Davison (book), 212
— Widening, cost of, 188
— Works, Australian Government grant for,
475
— See also Bypass: Highway; Motorway Robbins, E. L. G., on management selection,
527
Robbins, R. M., on axle fatigue tests, 496 Roberson Construction Co., radioactive waste storage tanks for Savannah River plant, 535
Roberts, E., on Consumers’ Association, 336 Roberts, L. E. J., adsorption of water on pile graphite, 6; microstructure of graphite, 6 Roberts, S., on Hoover Ltd., 88
Roberts, S. J., on hydromagnetic instabilities of a cylindrical gas discharge; Part 6, 36; on influence of conducting wriggling gas discharge, 36
Robertson, j. A. L., on crystal plutonium, 35
Robertson Thain Ltd., Q-Floor, steel floor construction, Galbestos laminate, 652
Robertson, W. H. A., and Co. Ltd., thread rolling (trade publication), 102; national standards for screw threads (booklet), 216
Robinson, E. S. and A., polyethylene discs for paint skin prevention, 111
Robinson, J. L., on new building techniques, 547
Robinson and Son Ltd., sheet dimension saw attachments, 240
Robinson, Thomas, and Son Ltd., flour mill at Manila, 413; Cadet range band saw, 530
Robot circuits, practical, by A. H. Bruinsma (review), 617
Rocha, M., on factor for safety of structures, 60
Rock, coal-bearing movement in blasting, photographic analysis, 253
— Drilling for anchor bolt holes, 643
— Rainier explosion in, temperature distribu
tion after, 438
Rockers of Meehanite CB metal for Chiswick flyover, 315
Rockets, accuracy of, by Lieut-Col. L. V. Stewart Blacker, 351
•— Aircraft, XI5, first flight of, 25
— Artificial guidance of, by Lieut.-Col. L. V.
Stewart Blacker, 351
— Atomic-propelled, by O, H. Wyatt, 155
— Black Knight as second stage for Blue
Streak (RAE), 209
— Blue Streak, as first stage of satellite launch
ing vehicle (de Havilland Propellers Ltd.),
209
Streak servicing tower, 209
Streak tank and Black Knight propulsion bay, 210
— Components, zirconia sandwich structure
for (Solar Aircraft Co.), 420
— Engine, aircraft. Double Scorpion, 107
— Envoy, for British instrumented satellite, 154
— High altitude and satellite (review), 70
— Ion thrust (North American Aviation Ltd.),
210
— Moon, Lunik 11, moon landing of, 193, 194 Lunik III, 303, 480
— Nova project, 463
— - Nozzle position in, 351
— Nuclear warheads for, 351
— Propellent, caesium, for ion thrust rocket,
210
Fuelling and dumping unit of aluminium alloy (Saunders-Roe (Anglesey) Ltd.), 491
—? ?— Solid, by H. L. Thackwell, Jnr., 154
— Saturn project, 463
— Scout, for launching UK-US satellite, 18
— — Solid propellent, 154
— Skylark, in upper atmosphere experiments,
647
— Ship X-15, testing rig for thermal fatigue
properties, 295
— Simplicity of, by Lieut.-Col. L. V. Stewart
Blacker, 351
— Sleds, slipper and rail materials for, research
on, 484
— Targets, types of, 351-352
—• Warhead requirements, 351-352 Rocksil Aluminium Foil Faced Slabs for insulation (Cape Building Products), 260
— Barrier Mat insulating material, 260
walls on the
structures of
cellular sheet 328; Colour
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Rocksil tissue faced slabs for insulating (Cape Building Products), 260
Rockweld Ltd., Autopak submerged-arc welding process, 563
Rockweld-Vus Vertomatic electro-slag welding machine, 298
Rockwell Machine Tool Co. Ltd., Fritz Werner milling machines, 305; Matrix 56- 12-18 jig grinding machine, 369;McKay- matic die shear lines, 489; automatic bar cut-oft' machines, 601; chromium plating unit for Veriform process, 601
Rockwool insulating materials (Cape Building Products), 260
Rocol Ltd., agreement with Societe Nouvelle des Huiles Minerales de France, 267
Rod, aluminium, manufacture in Ireland, 313
— Mill, new, for Arthur Lee and Sons Ltd., 119 Rodjo shield with Roofmaster self-advancing
hydraulic roof-support system, orders for (Dowty Mining Ltd.), 491
Roebuck, Dr. John, founder of Carron Co., 45 Roff, H. E., on management selection, 435. See also 431. See LETTER, 527
Rohm and Haas, acrylic plastics sheets for transparent dome skylights, 359
Rolatruc Ltd., Swedish BT SV stackers for confined spaces, 497
Rolls, bending for plate (Bronx Engineering Co. Ltd.), 666
?— Crusher, Pennsylvania Hercules (Fraser and Chalmers), 401
— Damping device for hull of H.M.S. Coniston
(Vosper), 359
Fins on Japanese motor yacht, 441 Fins on motor yacht Christina, 440 Fins. See also Stabilisers
— Vertical plate bending (Bronx Engineering),
338
Rolled sections, plastic properties of BWRA booklet, 539
Roller bearings. See Bearings
— Catch, door, Harrison, coin adjustable, 391
— Plate bending, Besco pyramid (F, J.
Edwards Ltd.), 401
— Pneumatic-tyred, and compaction of soil,
by W. A. Lewis, 377
— and sprinkler tanks, Yuba Southwest, for
road compaction work (trade publication), 554
Rolling, aircraft, response in, by W. J. G. Pinsker, 512
— Forge, of Zircaloy components, 502
— Mill for Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co.
(Distington Engineering Co.), 251
Reversing for Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., 218
— Ship, in wake of typhoon, by Commander
P. Du Cane, 440
— Stock, models at Swiss transport museum,
138
See also Carriage; Locomotive; Wagon
— Thread (trade publication), 102
— Universal beams, extension of section mills
for (Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co.), 251 Rolls-Royce Ltd., position and prospects of, 56; tool kit for aircraft engine, 169; Flying Bedstead VTOL aircraft, 190; V-8 aluminium motor-car engine, 275; at Frankfurt motor show, 395; heating and ventilating system for Silver Cloud 11 and Phantom V motor cars, 444; thrust reversal “eyelids” for jet aircraft, 453; noise suppression nozzle for jet aircraft, 453; . - . .
motor system, engine, positioning system for, 658; for diesel-electric shunting locomotive, 686 Rolt, L. T. C., London-Birmingham Motorway, 585
Romania, atomic energy programme, 122
— Uranium production in, 470
Roofs, aluminium, prefabricated, for small buildings (Coseley Buildings Ltd.), 61
— Covering, Rubervent (Ruberoid Co.), 160
— Erection for hanger at Abingdon, 547
— Factory, model study of, 60
— Jablite expanded polystyrene lining for, 396
— Luggage, motor car, effect on performance
by L. H. Dawtry, 405
— for new Ipswich school (Wheelers Ltd.), 315
— Shell, for garage, model study of, 60
— Snow loading on, 539
— Space, insulating, 396
— Support system, self-advancing hydraulic,
on Rodjo shield, orders for (Dowty Mining Ltd.), 491
for tunnels (Causeway Reinforcements Ltd.), 207
— of Texas Instruments Ltd. new plant,
hyperbolic paraboloid shells for, 281
— Timber shell, hyperbolic paraboloid panels
for, 579
— Ventilation, Mechavent Roofline air extrac
tor for (Greenwood and Airvac Ventilating Co.), 400
Roofing material, laminated copper sheeting and glass fibre based bitumen (Ruberoid), 80
— Sheet, aluminium interlocking. Lockroll
(British Aluminium), 652
— Tiles, copper (Marsland and Co.), 80 Roofmaster self advancing hydraulic roofsupport system on Rodjo shield, orders for (Dowty Mining Ltd.), 491
Rootes Group, Smith’s Electric Karrier battery electric tractor, 138; automatic transmission for Hillman Minx and Singer Gazelle motor cars, 199; improvements to Hillman, Singer and Sunbeam motor cars, 199; Commer TS3 diesel power unit for under-floor applications, 264; Hillman Minx motor cars for Czechoslovakia, 349; trading profit, 413; expansion of activities, 477
Roots blower, comparison with blade-type, 325, 326
Rope, wire. See Wire rope
Ropex belt conveyor (United Steel Companies), 54
Rorqual, submarine, 327
Rosen, M. W., on manned lunar expedition, 154
Rosite insulation cold-moulded plastic, 103
Roskill, O. W., and Co. Ltd., Who Owns Whom company ownership directory, 88
Ross, Donald, and Partners, purchase of, by Murex, 276
Ross, 1. M., p-n-p-n semiconductor stepping device, 255
Ross, J. A., steel and aluminium alloy hatchway beams tested at Glengarnock, 443
Roster, Dipl. Ing. E., on lightning, 29
Rota naval base, plant disposal at (Cohen), 628
Rotary cultivator. Gardenmaster (Landmaster), 80
Rotasembler component dispenser (Work Study Equipments), 497
Roth, H,, recording instruments (review), 102
Roto-Finish Ltd., vibrators finishing machines, 31; Argalin electrolytic treatment for protection of silver against tarnish, 356
Rotodyne VTO airliner as “ flying crane,” 23 Airliner at Farnborough Show, 202 Airliner, government aid for, 152
Rotol Ltd., aircraft accessory gearbox, 296
Rotor for blade-type blower, 326
Rotorcycle, Hiller XROE-1 (Saunders-Roe), 519
Rotroff, V. H., on work measurement (review),
321 Rotterdam liner, 139
Rough, F., on uranium and thorium alloys, 639
Roughness, surface, CLA method, 394 Definitions of, 393 E system of, 393
— ?— M system of, 393
Measurement of, by M. P. Rubert, 393.
See Correction, 490 Standards, 394 Tests on samples for, 395
Roundness and straightness measuring machine, Hommel (Rubert and Co. Ltd.), 664
Routemaster buses, plastics in (LTE), 620
Routing machine, HYR three dimensional (Wadkin Ltd.), 274
Portable, Centec Senior (Centec Machine Tools Ltd.), 530
Rovabin storage rack with rotating trays (W. Pinder and Son Ltd.), 402
Rover Co. Ltd., simplification of car production programme, by G. Wilkins, 252; trading profit, 413; annual report, 613
Rowe, N. E., on university courses, 495
Rowe, R. E., on models for structural design, 60
Royal Aeronautical Society, agricultural aviation group, 25; high altitude and satellite rockets (review), 70; aircraft electrical engineering, by G. G. Wakefield (book), 134; new lecture hall, 347
— Aircraft Establishment (Farnborough), Prof. M. J. Lighthill appointed director, 121;
Black Knight as second stage for Blue Streak, 209; reinforced plastics for aircraft models, 420; Gepus flight simulator studies, 512; upper atmosphere research, 647
— Albert Dock, transit sheds, modification for faster traffic, 118
— Automobile Club, telephone box. Continental-style, 487
— Marsden Hospital, nuclear therapy project, 535
— Navy, scholarships for officer entry, 571
— Society of Arts, inaugural address on Royal Society of Arts—yesterday, today and tomorrow, by O. P. Milne, 469
— Society of Canada, Canadian Northwest:
its potentials, by F. H. Underhill (review), 513
?— Society for the Prevention of Accidents, National Industrial Safety Week, 153; campaign to check falls in the home, 460
— Society for the Promotion of Health, E. F. Stacey on sound insulation, 492
— Veterinary College (Stockholm), research on ratproof cables, 324
Royce Electric Furnaces Ltd., heavy duty, sintering furnace, 602
Rubber bearings for Chiswick flyover (Andre Rubber Co.), 315
Pads, Freyssi, for bridges (PCS Equipment), 347
— Butyl, for tyres, 483
X213X (Precision Rubbers), 588 ?— Coatings for concrete, 684
— Extrudability charts (General Motors Corp.), 76
— Fluorinated silicone, price reduction by
Midland Silicones Ltd., 267
— Jointing for concrete roads, Fisher Joint
(S. B. Dickens Ltd.), 315
— Latex, synthetic, new plant for (International Synthetic Rubber Co.), 324
—? Nitrile, cork with, for gasket material (British Technical Cork Products), 516 Hycar, for industrial gloves (Dunlop), 29 with light alloy sheet, laminate of (Fireproof Tanks Ltd.), 218
Plasticiser, ECP27 (Boake, Roberts), 103
— and plastics compounds, 356
— Reinforced nylon collapsible liquid containers (Dunlop Rubber Co. Ltd.), 273
— Silicone, 112
Cold-curing, Cold-Cure Silastomer (Midland Silicones), 356
? for tyres, 483
— Stocks, Silastomer (Midland Silicones Ltd.), 356
?—? Synthetic, developments in, 483 Plant for Russia, 691 for tyres, 483
— Vulcanised, methods of testing. BS903; 1950 (book), 70
Ruberoid Co., roofing material of copper sheeting and glass fibre based bitumen, 80; Rubervent roof covering, 160
Rubert and Co. Ltd., Hommel roundness and straightness measuring machine, 664
Rubert, M. P., on surface roughness measurement, 393
Rubervent roof covering (Ruberoid Co.), 160 Rubery, Owen and Co. Ltd., automatic moulding machine, 13
Rudder flutter, by R. T. McGoldrick, 584 Rudkin and Riley Ltd., polishing machine, hand model 2006/3, 570
Rugby College of Technology, opening of extensions to, 239
Ruge, J., on design of welding constructions (review), 258
Rule, steel, pocket, Stanley, 222
Rural electrification study party,)245
Russia, Academy of Sciences, UKAEA fast reactor team at, 63
— Atomic power plant, with superheated steam reactor, 123
Reactors, 123
— Automatic control in, 626
— Automation in, 195
— Cellulose pulp mill from KMW, 460
— Electric power supply, 500 kV grid, 58
— Engineering education in, 626
— Financial estimates, 462
— Hydroelectric tpower scheme at Yeniseisk, Siberia, 315
— Iron and steel industry. See LETTER, 2
— Machine tool industry. Prof. S. Melman on, 237 Tool industry. Prof. S. Melman on, 567
— Manual work in, Prof. T. Zolotarov on, 566
— Motor car industry automation, 626
— Nuclear joint projects with US, 607
— Patents protection mission to, 533
— Space research leadership, 303
— Standards of living in, 462
— Technical and vocational education in, biographical survey by M. 1. Movsovic, 165
— Trade with, 428
with, discussion in Parliament, 531
with, by Com. J. H. Joughin, 2
with, by P. Sloan, 52
with West, 79
Russian dictionary, by British Iron and Steel Federation on continuous casting, 617
Russian Engineering Journal, PERA translation of, 101
— Journal translation. Welding Production (BWRA), 353
— Moon rocket. See Moon rocket
Russian Patents Gazette (Technical Information Co.), 257
— Periodicals, I960 list of (Collett’s Holdings Ltd.), 353
— Physics periodicals (Amercan Institute of Physics), 353
— for scientists, course on, 121
— Shaft sinking machine for mines in, 443
Rust inhibitor in antitracking fluid, 588
— Removal, Kingston Kurust resin-phosphate primer for, 556
— See also Corrosion
Ruston and Hornsby Ltd., position and prospects of, 308; Deisel alternator sets for Air Ministry, 622
Rustyfa Ltd., tyre factory contract with Masinimport, 56
Ruthenium, chemistry of, in plutonium preparation process, 35
— in uranium stream, sulphide treatment for, 35
Rutherford High Energy Laboratory, proton linear accelerator, 311
Ryder, G. H., on theory of machines through worked examples (book), 586

SAC-Sealer, automatic, for sealing paper sacks (Medway Paper Sacks), 363
Sacks, handling, sound film strip on, 109
— Paper, Medway disposable, as waste bins (Medway Paper Sacks Ltd.), 634
Sealing, Automatic Sac-Sealer for (Medway Paper Sacks), 363
— Truck, folding tubular (F. Piper and Sons Ltd.), 497
Sadi Engineering Co., power consumption of paddle stirring devices, 589
Sadowski, G. S., on Thorex pilot plant, 575
Safety, atomic installations, 62, 63
— Atomic-propelled ships, 246
— — Reactors at sea, 204
— Belts for motor cars, 467, 476
— in building industry, 669
— Civil engineering sites, course on, 93
— Consciousness, 121
— Devices for oil heaters, 667
— Drill guard, telescopic (Wm. Jones), 31
— Electric domestic plugs and sockets, 564
— Factor of, for structures, by M. Rocha, 60
— Gas cylinder storage, 31
— Glass for crane cab, 106
— in the home, death rate statistics, 460
— in iron and steel industry, 57
— Light, Rayescent, 111
— in motor car design, 476
— in motor car headlamps, 476
?— on motorways, filmlets on, 399
—? in non-ferrous foundries, report on, 533
— Officers, Institution of Industrial. See Institution
?— Organisation in UKAEA, 63
— Periscope (P. W. Allen and Co.), 633
— Record at Coryton oil refinery, 121
?— Regulations for atomic-propelled ships, 380
— Road, kits for schools, 399
New Highway Code campaign, 667 —? at sea, international convention, 28
?— Week, National Industrial, 153
Sahara oil resources, development progress, 19
SAIB. See Sucrose acetate isobutyrate
Saigon, bridgework contract to Dorman Long (Bridge and Engineering) Ltd., 207
Sailing dinghy. Alpha, plastics hulls for (Bristol Aircraft Ltd.), 355
Saint. See St.
Salary, executives’, and profits survey, 573 Sales, aircraft, boosting of, in France, 364
— Computer, problems of, 120
— Groups in Italy for European Common Market, 115
?—? of military equipment abroad, report on, 174
— Motor car, showrooms for promotion by night (George Hartwell Ltd.), 80
Salesman, specialist, function of, 363
Salmon, A. J., exponential experiments for PIPPA Mk. I, 6
Salvage of Swedish warship Vasa, 523
Salvini, G., on electron synchrotron (Rome),
Salzer, H. E., tables of osculatory interpolation coefficients (book), 40
Samain, B., on house journals, 469
Sampling, data. See Data
— Oscilloscope as pulse monitor, 32
Sampson, J. B., on plutonium and uranium oxide fuel element, 123
Samson loader, bridge conveyor for (Mavor and Coulson,) 54
Samuels, H., on trade union law (review), 617 Sand cooling of briquettes, 29
Sanders, J. E., tables of nuclear data, 7
Sanders, L. G., approach-to-critical experiments, 6
Sanderson, A., phosphate paints for temper, 588
Sanding disc attachment, Swirlaway, with ball joint drive (Stanley Works (GB) Ltd.), 402
Sandvik Steel Band Co. Ltd., nomogram for finding conveyor-belt width, 170
Sandvik Steel Works, superheater tube material development, 558
Sandwich and building constructions, ASTM standards (book), 134
Sandys, D., on aircraft industry concentration, 661
Sangster, D. F., on gases evolved during decomposition of anthracene, 36
Sankey, J., magnet sections for Nimrod project, 575
Santona cargo ship, 139
Santowax organic moderator, density of, 6 Sarkes-Taryian silicon rectifiers, Y series (Ad. Auriema, Incorp.), 600
Sarnecki, W. M. B., on Soviet war effort, 2. See LETTER, 52
Satellite, atomic clock for orbiting (Hughes Aircraft Co.), 255
— Biological, by R. P. Haviland, 155
— British instrumentation for, 154
Plans for, 32
— Discoverer V, 50
— and high altitude rockets (review), 70
— Instruments for UK-US project, 18
— Launchings in US, 50
— — Vehicle (de Havilland Propellers Ltd.,,
209 !
— Manned, projects (Armstrong Whitworth),
155
— Recovery of, by D. E. Bailey, 208 Saturn rocket project, 463
Saunders, Edward, and Son Ltd., tension control in paper, 489
Saunders-Roe Ltd., merger with Westland Aircraft, 26, 88; Epikote resin for tooling, 31; SR-NI Hovercraft at Farnborough Show, 202; P531 helicopter with Blackburn
A129 free-turbine engine, 295; Hiller XROE-I Rotorcycle, 519
Saunders-Roe (Anglesey) Ltd., rocket fuelling and dumpting unit of aluminium alloy, 491 Savannah atomic merchant ship, position of, 246; accident prevention in, 246; reactor for, 246; sinking safety of, 246; off-shore servicing barge for, 247
Savannah River plant, operating experience, 574
Plant, radioactive waste storage tanks for, 535
Saw, band. Cadet range (Thomas Robinson and Son Ltd.), 530
Sawmaster type lOB auto (Quakers and Smith Bros. Ltd.), 242
— Bench, Bursgreen 10 in. (Wadkin), 336
— — (A. Cooksley and Co. Ltd.), 529
— Chain (trade publication), 618
— Hand, for wood or metal. Eclipse range
(James Neill and Co. (Sheffield) Ltd.), 465
— Panel, Holz-Her PKS (J.K.O. Cutters,
Ltd.), 529
— Sheet dimension, attachments (Robinson &
Son Ltd.), 240
?— Speedicut Mitia carbide tipped (trade publication), 166
Sawing of atomic fuel elements, 575 Sawmaster type I OB autobandsaw (Quakers and Smith Bros. Ltd.), 242
Saword, D., Bombers Eye (review), 681
Saxl tension meter for wire or wool (Thomas Mercer Ltd.), 634
SCI VTO research aircraft, 190
Research aircraft, control engineering for, 192
? Research aircraft at Farnborough Show,
202
Research aircraft, simulation testing, 191
— — Research aircraft, stabilisation system,
191
— VTQL research aircraft, autostabiliser
system, 192
Research aircraft, landing gear, 192 Scala, S. M., on hypersonic ablation, 208 Scale-up in practice, by R. Fleming (review), 101
Scandinavia, concrete architecture in, 410
— Mobile Nordic labour in, 121
Scandinavian Airlines System, Convair 600 jet freight-passenger airliners for, 396 Scanning microanalyser. X-ray, for metal tube research, 352
Sceptre, Doppler broadening of spectral lines in, 406
—? IV, condenser bank energy of, 406
Schenck, Carl, Maschinenfabrik GmbH., Z34EB balancing machine, 433
Schermuly pyrotechnic flares, 253 Schildkraut, S., Basic electronics (review), 69 Schimpke, P., on modern welding techniques in industry (review), 258
Schlieren photography, cinema film on, 382 Schloemann Aktiengeselshaft, automatic sheet sorting and stacking plant, 563
Schlosser, E. G., recording instruments (review), 102
Schmid, F., on study of atomic legislation in Europe (review), 322
Schneider, H., on More Power to You (review), 649
Schneider, N., on More Power to You (review), 649
Schnurmann, R., on penetrants for nondestructive testing, 515
Scholarships, awarded by Civil Engineering Trust, 579
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Scholarships, civil engineering, 61
— Electricity, university, 89
— Highway engineering, at Birmingham Uni
versity, 669
— for Royal Navy officer entry, 571
— Target at Montreal Conference, 57 School-leavers, bulge of, unemployment and,
153
— London, LCC protest against project for,
437
— New Ipswich, roof for (Wheelers Ltd.), 315
— Population, places for “ bulge ” in, 27
— Secondary, syllabus of science teaching in,
629, 636
— Time at, 495
— See also under specific name or subject. Schraidt, J. H., on reprocessing by pyrometallurgy, 574
Schiiepp, W., on road construction in Switzerland, 475
Schwab, Prof. G. M., work on catalytic studies on fluid alloys, 135
Schwedler, on road construction in the city, 475 Schwenk, F. C., on manned lunar expedition,
154
Sciaky Electric Welding Machines Ltd., SAS 75 welding machine for plastics coated steel, 433; BPW3-400H flash-butt
machine, 562
Science, approach to. Sir J. Gray on,
— Courses for army staff officers, 153 —? and engineering, basic geology
E. C. Dapples (book), 386
— Engineering, definitions and formulae for
students of (book), 102
Vol. II: Heat and heat engines and electrotechnics, by H. B. Brown and A. J. Bryant (book), 4
— and Industry Committee, 3rd report of, 597
— in Industry—Policy for Progress, by Prof.
C. F. Carter and Prof. B. R. Williams, 597
— Masters’ Association, syllabus for teaching
of science in secondary schools, 629
— Minister for, comment on, 301
Creation, discussion in Parliament, 467 in election manifestos, 238
Lord Hailsham as, 366
— Museum, National Aeronautical Collection
at, 408. - ?
— Teachers.
— Teaching,
LETTER, in secondary schools, syllabus of, 629, 636
— and technology, encyclopedia of, 681 Scientific discovery, environment expansion
with. Plain Works on, 114
— Film Association, International. See Inter
national
— and Industrial Research, Journal of. See
Journal
— Research. See Research
— Research in British universities (DSIR), 353
— and technical glossaries, bibliography of
monolingual. Vol. 11, by E. Wilster (book), 322
— Writers. See Writers
Scientists as administrators. Plain Words on, 146
— Amateur, grants for, 89
?— Reading German for, by H. Eichner and
H. Hein (book), 418
— Russian for, course on, 121
— Selling his brain. Plain Words on, 566
— Shortage of, 630 in Civil Service, 277
— Survey on concentration and movement of,
630
— and technologists, shortage of, 335 Scintillation counters in aerial surveying, 504 Method of comparing neutron source
strengths, 671
Scleroscope, Shore, for impact hardness test, 4 Scotland, atomic power station, discussion on, 28
— Motor industry in, 598, 603
— North of, Hydro-Electric Board. See
North of Scotland
— Steel strip mill for Lanarkshire, 79
— Takeover bids in. Sir J. Hutchison on, 82
— Technical education in, 27
— West of. Iron and Steel Institute, Journal of.
See Journal of West oj Scotland
Scott, James, and Co. (Electrical Engineers) Ltd., Allscott thermocouple, thermocouple selector for data sampling, 656; Lintran transducer for mains voltage operation, 666
Scott, W. Taussig, on physics of electricity and magnetism (book), 418
Scott, Wilson and Kirkpatrick, bridges on Maidstone bypass, 118
Scott and Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners (Hong Kong), lighting at Hong Kong airport, 297 Scottish Industries Exhibition, exhibits at, 152;
nuclear engineering exhibits, 247; Multipac boiler, 488
Scottish Land Development, Ltd., new plant depot at Portobello, Birtley, 244
Scourer, Simsave, 596
Scout rocket for launching UK-US satellite, 18 Solid propellent, 154
Scraper, belt, multi-blade (Richard Sutcliffe Ltd.), 116
Screws, nylon (GKN), 104
— Propeller. See Propeller
— Wedglok nylon pellet locking element for
body of (GKN (Midlands) Ltd.), 296
— See also Thread; Threading
Scrivener, Arthur, Ltd., Wickman-Scrivener range centreless grinding machine, 464 Sculpture, “ Meridian,” at State House, 537 Scylla magnetic mirror machine, Los Alamos, 406
SE5A fighter aircraft, 215 Sea-keeping tank at NHL, 416
— Safety at. International convention, 28
— Water. See Water
SEAG, oil exploration in Switzerland, 631 Seal of approval, 48
— Preformed, elastomer-base, by N. Catton,
451
— Single rotating, with ESW extended surface
seat (Crane Packing Ltd.), 486
Sealant, expansion joint. Secoflex, 29 Sealdraught Ltd., Tesamoll self-adhesive urethane plastics foam, 392
welding
367
for,
by
See LETTER, 568
See Teachers
Plain Words on, 526. See 567
Sealing paper sacks. Automatic Sac-Sealer for (Medway Paper Sacks), 363
— Strips, neoprene, 452
Sea work Ltd., twin-grab diesel hopper dredger for Scottish east coast ports, 61
Secar 250 cement, 115
Seeker, H. W., on Thomas W. Ward group, 509 Secoflex expansion joint sealant, 29
Secomastic Ltd., Secoflex expansion joint sealant, 29; Galvafroid zinc-rich paint, (trade publication), 682
Secondary schools, syllabus of science teaching in, 629, 636
Section mills extension for rolling universal beams (Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co.), 251
— Rolled, plastic properties of, BWRA book
let, 539
Sectionmaster apparatus for waste avoidance in cutting strip, 425
Seebeck coefficient of semiconductor material, 129
— Effect in thermoelectric power, 97
Seedhouse, K. G., on removal of fission products from solution, 35
Seismic signals from underground explosions, 439
Seismology. See Earthquake
Select Committee on Estimates, report on UKAEA, 96
Self-Changing Gears Ltd., oil-operated reversereduction gear transmission for “ puffer ” ship Lascar, 520
Selling to nuclear energy, by R. Wrightson, 363 SELNI. See Societa Elettronucleare Italiana SEM Ltd., coolant pump, 52
Semiconductor material, electrical conductivity of, 129
Research requirements on, 162
Seebeck coefficient of, 129
Thermal conductivity of, 129
— Rectifiers for Mull of Kintyre, maintenance
ship, 621
— Stepping device, p-n-p-n (Bell Telephone
Laboratories), 255
— in thermoelectric devices, 98
SENN. See Societa Elettronucleare Nazionale Separator, permanent magnet wet drum (Rapid Magnetic Machines Ltd.), 196
Sequence control, Bi-Stat (Brookhirst-lgranic Ltd.), 241
— Controller (trade publication), 212 Sequential switch for unlatching electromechanical locks (Microcell Electronics), 518
Serckstat automatic temperature control valve for diesel engines, 12
Service centres for computer time hiring, by small firms, 473
— Charts (trade publication), 166
— and products (trade publication), 386 Servicemen, overseas, hire purchase of motor
cars by, 533
Servicing tower for Blue Streak rocket (de Havilland), 209
Servo coil, for precision dynamometer, 615
— Controlled electromagnetic torque balance
for precision dynamometer, 614
— Motor, electrohydraulic, in SCI aircraft
autostabiliser system, 192
Severn estuary, hydraulic model study of, 205
Sewage sludge mechanical handling equipment (David Brown), 23
— Works design, by T. C. H. Bateson (book),
134
Radioactivity in, course on, 535, 539
Sewers, small underground drains and. Building Research Station digest on, 347
Sewing machine. Singer, history and development of, 660
SFIM (G.B.) Ltd., Isora translucent ceiling, 542 Shadowmaster optical projector with Vernier protractor (Watson, Manasty and Co. Ltd.) 434
Shaft coupling. See Coupling
— Crank. See Crankshaft
— Dynamometer. See Dynamometer
— Honing straight or cranked, lathe tool for (Nicol and Andrew Ltd.), 601
— Lift, Warerite-panelled (Bakelite Ltd.), 542
— Sinking machine for Soviet mines, PD-IM (Central Mine Building Research Institute, USSR), 443
Record of Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining, 347
— Straightening an overtwisted, 522
— Surface finish, effect on wear of ptfe packing rings, 387
Shaper-junior, Stanley, 222
Shapiro, 1. I., on prediction of ballistic missile trajectories from radar observations (book), 290
Share gifts to employees of ICI, 605
Sharp, G. H., on practical metrology (book), 290
Sharpies Centrifuges Ltd., purchase of centrifugal division of Fletcher Works Inc., 523; purchase of Gesellschaft file Trenn-und Trockentechnik m.b.H., 523
Sharston Engineering Co. Ltd., Valdarno universal punching and shearing machine, 306; Valdarno portable bar shearing machine, 370; Valdarno billet shears, 602 Shaving and grinding machine, Famillereux slideway (A. A, Jones and Shipman Ltd.), 242
— Machine, gear, VS4A (W. E. Sykes Ltd.),
274
Shear for atomic fuel elements, Hanford, 575
— Billet, Valdarno (Sharston Engineering), 602
— Garden, stainless steel (Ward and Payne Ltd.), 295
— Guillotine, Cincinnati (trade publication), 102
— Keetona (Keeton Sons and Co.), 21
— Lines, die, McKaymatic (Vickers-Armstrongs), 489
— Strains in transparent material, photo elastic analysis of, 37
Shearing machine, bar, Valdarno portable (Sharston Engineering Co. Ltd.), 370 Ficep (trade publication), 102
— and punching machine, universal, Valdarno (Sharston Engineering Co. Ltd.), 306
Sheds, transit, in Royal Albert Dock, modification for faster traffic, 118
Sheet, alloy, and nitrile rubber, laminate of (Fireproof Tanks Ltd.), 218
— Aluminium alloy. Noral B51SWP, for van body (Northern Aluminium), 216
— — for shipyard prefabrication shops, 281
— Dimension saw attachments (Robinson and Son Ltd.), 240
— Electrical, BISRA research, 29
— Metal machines (trade publication), 102 Pontoon for hydraulic laboratory (Tec-quipment), 10
?— Sorting and stacking plant, automatic, Schloemann, 563
— Steel, cellular, for floor construction, Q-Floor (Robertson Thain Ltd.), 328
— — Piling for Suez (British Steel Piling Co. Ltd.), 160
Sheffield College of Technology, curtain wall, 537
Sheffield, J. V., on Meehans Ltd., 349
Sheffield Twist Drill and Steel Co. Ltd., Dormer drill point thinning machine, 306
— University, window construction for library, 537
Sheldon, E. B., on Savannah River plant, 574
Sheldon, R., soluble slurries flowing under a thermal gradient, 7
Shell Chemical Co. Ltd., Epikote resin for tooling, 31; epoxy resins for road surfacing, 136; ammonia for Fisons’ nitrogen fertiliser plant, 217; polypropylene manufacture, 336; Epikote resin for concrete, 684
Shell Chemical Engineering Studies Fund, 637
Shell Condor S.A., Bedford motor trucks for soft terrain, 31
— Cylindrical, economics of, by A. Aas-Jakobsen (review), 134
— Hyperbolic paraboloid, for roof of Texas Instruments Ltd. new plant, 281
Paraboloid timber, for new school roof (Wheelers Ltd.), 315
Shell-Mex and BP Ltd., extensions to ocean oil installation at Teesport, 119; Dromus soluble cutting oils, 143; cinema film “ Schlieren,” 382; filmlets on safety on motorways, 399; road safety kits for schools, 399; new office on London South Bank, 536
— Moulding machine. See Moulding Machine
Shell Petroleum Co. Ltd., tanker Auris, 327
Shell Refining Co. Ltd., oil jetty for supertankers at Tranmere, 442
?— Roof for garage, model study of, 60
— Shrapnel (Carron Co.), 46
— Theory and applications, by W. S. Wlassow (book), 650
Shemstrand, acrylic fibre price reduction, 595
Sherman tank mechanical toy, 673
Shield with self-advancing hydraulic roof support system Rodjo, orders for (Dowty Mining Ltd.), 491
— Thermal, for Bradwell atomic reactor, 655
Shielding, atomic reactor in Skipjack submarine 167
— Blocks, concrete, transporter for, 293
— Bricks, high density lead, 205
— System for measuring low levels of radio activity (Philips Ltd.), 448
Shift differential payments, US review, 27
Ship, cargo. Kookaburra, 139
Santona, 139
See also Liners, cargo
— Emergency power equipment in, 593
— and engines (trade publication), 514
— Hydrodynamics Laboratory, wave-making equipment for towing tank, 518
— Launching. See Launching
— Merchant, atomic-propelled. Savannah. See Savannah
Atomic propulsion of, discussion in Parliament, 467
— Models, Minic, 673
— — See also David Taylor Model Basin; Tank
— Plate. See Plate
— Propulsion. See Atomic Propulsion; Marine propulsion; Turbines; Propellers
— “ Puffer,” Lascar, conversion to diesel power (J. and J. Hay Ltd.), 520
— Register of. Vol. I, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping (book), 618
— Research. See Research ship Facilities at NPL, 416
— Rolling, in wake of typhoon, by Commander P. Du Cane, 440
— Salvage of. See Salvage
— Testing equipment at NHL, 416
— Training, for German navy (Blohm and Voss AG.), 327
— See also under specific types of ship Shipbuilding and Engineering Draughtsmen,
Association of. See Association
Unions, Confederation of. See Confederation
— Foreign, in Britain, 635
— Industry, forty-hour week demand, 637 Ireland, 313
Position and prospects of, 127, 430, 445, 571
Productivity team’s visit to Sweden, 430 Responsibility for, discussion in Parliament on, 571
Spain, 27
— — US, position and prospects of, 26, 381 Wage claim, 270, 335, 526, 637
?— Overseas, British, 635
Shipowners, Vol. Ill, Lloyd’s Register of Shipping (book), 618
Shipping containers, ASTM standards (book), 134
— Industry, position and prospects of, 127, 493 World survey of, 51
Shippingport atomic power station, safe accident at, 639
Shipton, E., and Co. Ltd., Interecorder dictating machine (trade publication), 618
Shipyard, Kure (Japan), activities at, 445
— Monotower travelling cranes for (Butters Bros.), 624
— Prefabrication shop, Lithgows Ltd., 281
— Prefabrication shop. Swan, Hunter
Wigham Richardson Ltd., 281
— Reconstruction at Sunderland of Austin
Pickersgill Ltd., 610
Shock heating in ramjet, by Dr. W. F. Hilton, 155
Shock measurements, accelerometer for (Technical Ceramics), 52
—? and vibration isolation, by J. A. Macinante (review), 418
— Wave effects on structural elements, 61
— — Used in protein production from vege
table matter, 307
Shoppers' Guide, publication of Consumers’ Advisory Council, 524
Shore scleroscope for impact hardness test, 4 Short-Arc welding process, 562
Short Bros, and Harland Ltd., Brig. G. L. Fitzgerald appointed military adviser, 26; SCI VTOL research aircraft, 189-192; SC-1 VTO research aircraft at Farnborough Show, 202; analogue computer, 305; SC5 Britannic freighter aircraft, 308; Britannic 3A freighter aircraft, 308
Shovels, loading for soft ground (F. E. Weathe- rill Ltd.), 197
Weatherill Hydraulic (F. E. Weatherill Ltd.), 530
— Power, tractor mounted (Massey-Ferguson (GB) Ltd.), 337. See LETTER, 399
Tractor-mounted, MF702 (Massey-Ferguson), 390
— Tractor, front end loader (Bray Construction Equipment Ltd.), 466
Show. See Exhibition
Shrapnel shells (Carron Co.), 46
Shunting method at Upminster railway depot, 267
Shuttering, sliding, Prometo system of, 547
Siemens Edison Swan Ltd., transistorised marine communication equipment, 198; electronic telephone exchange at Dollis Hill, 495; change of name to Associated Electrical Industries (Woolwich) Ltd., 581
Siemens Schuckertwerke, Argonaut reactor for, 575
Sieverts Kabelverk, research on ratproof electric cables, 324
SIGMA, free-piston gasifiers, 265
Sigmette welding equipment (Quasi-Arc), 562
Signal, constant, fading properties of a fluctuating signal imposed on a, by H. Brenner (book), 290
— Fluctuating, imposed on a constant signal,
fading properties of, by H, Brenner (book), 290
— Generator for L band frequencies (Winston Electronics Ltd.), 634
Signalling, railway. Plain Words on, 82
— System for underground trains (A. T. & E. (Wigan) Ltd.), 54
Sikorsky S-60 crane helicopter, 655
— S62 turbine-engined helicopter, 391
Silage making and green-feeding machine. Super Hurricane, 592
Silastomer, Cold-Cure, cold-curing silicone rubber (Midland Silicones), 356
— Rubber stocks (Midland Silicones Ltd.), 356
Silbestos coating (Sprayed Insulations Ltd.), 541
Silencer, motor car, stainless steel, 588
— See also Noise Suppression nozzle
Silica bonded with asbestos fibre for Asbestolux insulation board, 396
— Forming media for concrete treatment, 683
Silicon diodes for high temperature operation (International Rectifier Co. (GB) Ltd.), 601
— Rectifiers, Y series Sarkes-Taryian (Ad. Auriema, Incorp.), 600
— Solar cells (Industrial Rectifier Co. Ltd.), 86
— Tetrafluoride in concrete treatment, 683
Silicone antitracking fluid, Eiectrospray, 588
— for concrete treatment, 684
— for cosmetics, 112
— Fluid, Ambersil Formula 1, 556
— in the home, 112
— for leather treatment, 112
— Manufacture methods, 112
— Nature and properties of, 112
— Polishes, 112
— Resin, low-temperature curing Union Carbide Ltd.), 136
— Rubbers, 112
Cold-curing, Cold-Cure Silastomer (Midland Silicones Ltd.), 356
— — Fluorinated, price reduction by Midland Silicones Ltd., 267
for tyres, 483
— Weld backing strip, 452
Silver III, production and separation, Harwell 36
— Cloud II motor car, heating and ventilating system for (Rolls-Royce), 444
— Fox 20, steel for cladding for chemical laboratory of Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd., 475
— Streak diesel engine for model aircraft, 29
— Tarnish, Argalin electrolytic treatment for protection against (Roto-Finish), 356
— Zinc cells for space vehicles, 208
Silvering preparation, thermosetting, FSP 36 (Johnson Matthey), 135
Silvertip switchfuses (Revo Electric), 391
Simca, car marketing on the Continent, 460
Simm, G. E., Engineering Ltd., Band-It strapping system, 53
Simmonds Aerocessories Ltd., fuel flow test house (trade publication), 386
Simmons, H. H., on the small computer ICT 1201 for store control and provisioning in GPO supplies branch, 473
Simmons, J. H. W., adiabatic rise calorimeter for measuring stored energy in irradiated graphite, 6
Simms Motor Units Ltd., injector test cabinet, 465
Simon-Carves, contractors for Cork fertiliser factory of W, and H. M. Goulding, 26
Simon, Henry, Ltd., platforms (trade publication), 618
Simplex ferrochrome alloy pellets (Union Carbide), 484
Sims, A. J., on nuclear navy, 471
Simsave scourer, 596
Simulator, electronic, CERES, for refinery processes, 38
— Flight, Gepus, at RAE, Farnborough, 512
Sinclair, L. N., on automatic plating plant, 291
Sinex Engineering Co., Ltd., parts feeder, 424;
vibratory conveyor for low head room, 665
Singer Gazelle motor car, automatic transmission on, and improvements to, 199
Singer sewing machine, history and development of, 660
Singwi, Dr. K. S., appointed research associate, Argonne, 201
Sinking machine, shaft, for Soviet mines, PD-IM (Central Mine Building Research Institute, USSR), 443
Sinterability of uranium oxide powder for fuel elements, by R, Wrinkle, 502
Sintering furnace, heavy duty (Royce Electric Furnaces Ltd.), 602
Siporex light-weight concrete material for building construction, 410
Siskol Machines Ltd., electrohydraulic coal cutter, 53
Sites, civil engineering, safety course on, 93
Six Great Engineers, by J. G. Crowther (review), 649
Sizing machine, panel, ER (Thomas White and Sons Ltd.), 530
Sjogren, P. A., overseas tours, 221
Skarne system for erection of blocks of flats, 410
Skefko Ball Bearing Co. Ltd., position and prospects of, 56; propeller bosses for Brave Borderer, 389
Skins, gelatine from, by D. G. Plowright, 555
Skipjack atomic submarine, at Portland, 64; low drag form of, 167; reactor and engine room, 167; controllability, 167; flying analogy, 167; Internal economy, 168; performance and other characteristics, 168; nucleonics laboratory, 168
Sky, artificial, in building research, 539
Skydrol hydraulic fluids (Monsanto Chemicals), 588
Skylark rockets in upper atmosphere experiments, 647
Skylights, transparent dome, acrylic plastics sheets for (Rohm and Haas), 359
Skymaster passenger hoist (A.C.E. Machinery Ltd.), 466
Skyways Ltd., London-Hong Kong air freight service, 48
Slabs, aluminium, mechanical handling devices for, at Northern Aluminium Co., 266
Slade, I. M., let the information officer inform, 374. See LETTERS, 463, 568
Slag cement (Frodingham), 516
— Welding machine, Vertomatic (Rockweld Ltd.), 150
Sleds, rocket, slipper and rail materials for, research on, 484
Slideway grinding and shaving machine, Famillereux (A. A. Jones and Shipman Ltd.), 242
Sliding doors for factory subdivisions (Dura- steel Ltd.), 542
Slipper materials for rocket sleds, 484
Sloan, P,, on trade with Russia, 52
Sloop, Bermudan, The Debutante (Blanks Boatyard), 687
Sludge, sewage, mechanical handling equipment (David Brown), 23
Sluice gates, light alloy, Birmabright (Birmabright Ltd.), 331
Slurry fuel element, diffusion of fission fragments in, 7
Element, particle size estimation for, 7
— Reactors, thoria uranium 233, 7
— Systems, soluble, under thermal gradients, 7
Small Boar accelerator for small bore heating
systems (Precision Electrical Products (Stockport) Ltd.), 433
Small, C. T., microstructure of graphite, 6
Smaller firm, computers for. See Firm
Smart Bros., reinforced concrete bridge for Sydney Harbour, 30
Smart, R. C., on fire losses, 303
Smeaton, John, work for Carron Co., 45
Smeddle, Mr. J. H., on new markets for imports to the U.S., 332
Smelting furnace. See Furnace
Smigielski, W. K., London road improvement competition, 674
Smith, Sir E., on transport and communications, 124. See also 113
Smith, F. H., on references by code, 239-240; on renewing book loans. See LETTER, 19
Smith, Sir H., on gas industry’s independence of coal supplies, 302
Smith, H. F. E., review of Canadian Northwest; its potentials, 513; biographical note, 514
Smith, Sir H. Wilson, on Sunderland Shipbuilding Dry Docks and Engineering Co., 477
Smith, Hugh, and Co. (Possil) Ltd., plate bending (trade publication), 102
Smith, J., on handbook on torsional vibration, 271
Smith, J. A. G., on radiography of active uranium cartridges, 35
Smith, J. M., on radioactive waste disposal from ships, 535
Smith, L., on ion magnetron, 407
Smith, M. F., heavy water solutions of uranyl fluoride (HAZEL), Part 2, 7
Smith, S., and Sons, automatic transmission for Hillman Minx and Singer Gazelle motor cars, 199
Smith, S., and Sons (England) Ltd., mobile demonstration units for the industrial instruments division, 459; magnetic particle coupling for tension control of paper, 489; new price structure by Aviation Division, 595; fan impeller licence agreement with Torrington Co., 692
Smith, W. P., on aerial map making, 505 Smithfield Show and Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, 592, 627
Smiths Aviation Division, low-torque miniature counter for indicating degrees, 498
Smith’s Delivery Vehicles, Smith’s Electric Karrier battery electric tractor, 138
Smith’s Electric Karrier battery electric tractor (Rootes Motors), 138
Smiths Industrial Instrument Division, ATH24 hand tachometer, 305
Smoke, atmosphere pollution by, 28
— Density indicator, Electricon (R. Trist and Co. Ltd.), 196
Smokeless areas, coal burning furnaces with mechanical stokers for, 31
Snap-2 atomic reactor, 639
Sneddon, G. W., on monitoring of effluent. Part 3, 36; on Vickers marine reactor, 239
Snell, L. N., on gas-lubrication bearings, 285
Snell and Snell, on chemistry made easy (book), 354
Snow, Frederick S., and Partners, consulting engineers for storage depot at King’s Lynn, 281; Laboratories and offices for Gatwick Airport, 281
— Loading on roofs, 539
Snowtop Products Ltd., Terrazzo Polka-Dot tiles, 651; Kervit tiles, 651; Duratiles, 651; Spanish tiles, 651
Snowy Mountains hydroelectric project, completion of Eucumbene-Tumut tunnel for, 61
Hydroelectric project, hydroelectric power station Snowy TI, 475
— — Hydroelectric project, tunnelling on, 315
— TI, hydroelectric power station in Snowy
Mountains, opened 1959, 475
S.O. Djinn helicopter for agricultural use, 358
Societa Elettronucleare Italiana (SELNI), nuclear steam generating plant for Enrico Fermi atomic power station, 283 Nazionale (SENN), loan for power station, 247
Societe Genevoise Ltd., Hydroptic boring and milling machine, 117
— Nouvelle des Huiles Minerales de agreement with Rocol Ltd., 267
— Organico, nylon type II, 104
Society of Aviation Artists, annual exhibition, 309
— of British Aircraft Constructors. See Farnborough Show
— of Environmental Engineers, formation and activities of, 195
— of Instrument Technology, conference on
national certificates in instrument technology, 245; automatic measurements of quality in process plants (review), 257; modern developments in optical instruments, by J. H. Bach and G. E. Fishter, 583
— of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, rudder-excited hull vibration on USS Forrest Sherman, by R. T. McGoldrick, 584; marine propeller pressure field, by J. P. Breslin and S. Tsakonas, 584; human problem in marine engineering, by C. C. Pounder, 669
— Specialist, Plain Words on, 18 Socket, electric, safety of, 564
Sodium benzoate inhibitor for antifreeze mixtures, 619
— Hydroxide, molten, as reactor medium, 8
— Hypochlorite solution manufacturers, trade agreement removal from Restrictive Trading Register, 173
— Nitrite inhibitor for antifreeze mixtures, 619
— Pump, bearing materials for, 8
— Tetraborate inhibitor for antifreeze mixtures, 619
Soil, compaction of, and pneumatic-tyred rollers, by W, A. Lewis, 377
— Erosion by wind, 539
— Investigation, cinema film on (Foundations Ltd.), 611
Soiltest Inc., meter for measuring air in concrete (trade publication), 514
Solar Aircraft Co., zirconia sandwich structure for rocket components, 420
— Cells, silicon (International Rectifier Co.), 86
for space vehicles, 208
Solar Industries, formation of Solar Weld Languepin, 27; trading report, 613
— Telescope and camera. Invar for (Perkin-
Elmer Corp., USA), 484
Solar Weld Languepin, formation of, 613 Solartron Electronic Group Ltd., CD711S2 double beam oscilloscope, 305
Solder for titanium, Curtisol, 29 Solicotors, advertising by, 271 Solids, hydraulic transport of, 32
— and liquids, Leveltron lever controller for
(Thomas Industrial Automation Ltd.), 272 Solly, N. N., blast furnace tuyeres, 248 Solvent extraction for liquid metal fuel, 574 —? ?— at Thorex pilot plant, 575
— Industrial, and flammable liquids (booklet),
219
— Supercritical gases as. Dr. E. U. Franck on,
135
Sontag, W., on information officers or librarians, 568
Sorbead, R., low-dewpoint desiccants (Mobil Oil Co.), 516
Sorter, letter, electronic, ELSIE, 30
Sorting, sheet, automatic plant for, Schloe- mann, 563
Sound control desk (Marconi), 655
— Insulation. See Insulation
— Insulator. See Insulator
— Propagation and insulation in heliports, 678 —? Theory of, by Sir Isaac Newton, 37
— See also Noise
South Africa, atomic energy amendment bill, 283
Decimal coinage for, 494 Uranium production in, 470, 607 South Durham Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., trading report, 613
— East Asia Treaty Organisation, appointment
of A. D. Benham to Bangkok school, 573
— Pole. See Antarctic
Southampton Docks, concrete construction at, 568
Southampton University, symposium on use of computers in structural engineering; history and development of electronic digital computers by Dr. C. M. Wilson, 280; solution of partial differential equations by relaxation on an electronic computer by Prof. D. N. de G. Allen, 280; economic use of electronic digital computers by Dr. D. Brotton, 280; programming of force method of linear analysis by Mr. J. C. deC. Henderson, Mr. A. D. Edwards and Mr. J. Munroe, 280; linear analysis of spacial structures by Mr. H. Tottenham, 280; analogue computers for structural problems by Dr. J. P. Jones, 280; application of computers to problems involving plasticity by Dr. R. K. Livesley, 280; matrix analysis of fuselages and the digital computer by Prof. J. H. Argyris, 280
Southern Metalife Ltd., Metalife 1000 protective coatings for iron and steel structures, 219
Soviet Bloc, trade with West, 79
Soviet News, Standard Design for Giant Thermal Power Stations, 681
SP250 sports motor car (Daimler), 275
Space exploration, global aspects of, by Dr, H. Dryden, 154
— Flight, legal aspects of, new bodies on, 194
? Programme, British, by G. K. C. Pardoe,
208
Symposium, Commonwealth, 114, 154, 208; Hawker Siddeley papers, 89
— Heater. See Heater, air
— Law Coloquium, Second, 154
— Propulsion, recent advances in, 617
— Research, animals in, 155
British, discussion in Parliament on, 28
— —-Conferences, British Interplanetary
Society, 114
— — British National Committee on. See
British
— — Russian leadership in, 303
— Vehicle engineering, 208
Power supply systems, 208
Re-entry of manned, by H. R. Watson, 89
— See also National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
SpaceSaver fork trucks (trade publication), 40 Spacial structures, linear analysis of, by H. Tottenham, 280
Spain, atomic energy programme, 122
— Foreign trade deficit, 268
— OEEC membership, 26
— Pressure-tube reactor study, 283
•— Rate of exchange revised, 26
— Shipbuilding industry, 27
Spanish tiles (Snowtop), 651
Spanners, Berinkle, non-magnetic, non inductive (Brandauer and Co. Ltd.), 198
— Face pressure (Brades Nash Tyzack Ltd.),
215
Spark machining. See Machining
Spark Machining Co. (Laytons) Ltd., toolmaking with spark machining (trade publication), 134
Spear, H. C., appointed chief personnel officer. Central Electricity Board, 309
Specialists, Plain Words on, 18 Specifications for road and bridge works and preparation of bills of quantities (book), 134
— Spring book of (Coil Spring Federation
Research Organisation), 136
— Standard. See British Standards Institution:
Standards; Standardisation
Spectrochemical analysis, index to literature on (ASTM), 385
Spectrographic determination of magnesium in bismuth-uranium alloys, 36
Spectrometer, mass, MS7 (Metropolitan- Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd.), 116
— Neutron, fast, helium 3 as, 36 Spectrophotometer, output fed to computer,
583
— Quality control with, 583
— Uvispek, for use with Hilger atomic absorp
tion spectroscopy equipment (Hilger and Watts Ltd.), 196
Spectrophotometric methods of analysis for inorganic ions, bibliography of, 417
Spectroscopy equipment, Hilger atomic absorption (Hilger and Watts Ltd.), 196
Spectrum of research and development. Plain Words on, 366
Speech communication system for Dorman Long’s Lackenby Works (Tannoy), 31
Speed, motor car, by G. Wilkins, 372 Vehicle, and cost calculations, 126
— Regulator using eddy currents. Electron
(Westool Ltd.), 328
— of road traffic, 186
— Slinger moulding machine (Beardsley &
Piper), 109
Speed Tools Ltd., Speetog vertical lift toggle clamp, 528
Speedicut Mitia carbide-tipped saws (trade publication), 166
Speedrafter drafting machine (trade publication), 618
Speedsanders for top and bottom surfacing (Thomas White and Sons Ltd.), 466
Speedyheat Ltd., oil-fired air heaters for factories, 401
Speetog toggle clamp, vertical lift (Speed Tools Ltd.), 528
Spencer (Melksham) Ltd., mobile pneumatic handling plant for granular material, 601
Spencer, Walter, chairman’s annual statement, 677
Sperry Gyroscope Co. gyro compass and gyro pilot units, 492; gyro compass Port Fairey, 660
Spheroidal graphite cast iron (trade tion), 650
Spicer, G. S., on radioactive and strontium in human bones, 36
Spicers Ltd., Carbion packaging material, 31 Spin dryer with plastic mouldings (Gordon- Miller Ltd.), 324
on washing machines, 268 Spindles, grinding (trade publication), 134 Spiral anchor grip for prestressed concrete (Cable Covers Ltd.), 411
Spiramatic Jigmil milling machine with Data- trol control system (A. Herbert Ltd.), 241 Spitmatic fixing gun (F. H. Bourner (Fixings) Ltd.), 530
Spittle, W., on epoxy resin vacuum chamber, 311
Spitzer, L., on heating gas in stellarator, 407 Spolaris, C. N., on uranium oxide fuel, 638 Spot welding. See Welding
Spratt, H. P., on birth of the steamboat (book), 258
Spray booth, paint, rail-mounted self-propelled (Aerograph-DeVilbis), 84
— Equipment, Graco, Alfred Bullows ap
pointed distributors of, 363
— Finishing, Pogo pump for, 691
Sprayed Insulations Ltd., Silbestos coating, 541 Sprayer, paint, Hydra-Spray, Graco range (Alfred Bullows and Sons Ltd.), 465
Sprayer, paint, PPP, with flexible drive for drilling, polishing and grinding (Dawson, McDonald and Dawson Ltd.), 433
Spraying machines for reinforced plastics (Aust and Schlittler), 104
Spreadbury, E. A. W., on radio circuits (book), 354
Spreader, manure (David Brown Albion), 592
Spring, K. H., on thermoelectric power, 431. See LETTER, 600
— Specifications, book of (Coil Spring Federa
tion Research Organisation), 136
Sprinkler tanks and rollers, Yuba Southwest, for road compaction work (trade publication), 554
Spur gear. See Gear
Spurway, A. H., on proton synchrotron magnet, 343
Spurway, M. A., on computer programme for power transformer design, 73
SRE. See Surveillance radar equipment
— Reactor, superheated steam from, 64 Srinivasan, P., on unbalanced wheels, 350 SSNPP atomic power plant, 671
St. Anne’s College, Oxford, catering equipment for, 533
St. Erik’s Fair (Stockholm), 692
St. Lawrence Seaway, canal traffic connecting with, 194
— ?— Seaway closure date, 431
Seaway, Storrington merchant vessel equipped for, 455
— -— Seaway, vinyl resin coating system for
sector gates, 388
St. Pancras-Bedford line, diesel multiple unit trains for, 424
St. Pius X, basilica of (Lourdes), 281
St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, Mobaltron IV rotating cobalt unit for oxygenation therapy (Nuclear Engineering), 263
Sta Finanziaria Meccanica, contract for diesel electric locomotives for Argentina, 56
Stabilisation of VTO aircraft, 191
Stabilisers. See also Roll-damping fins Stability of floating body, hydraulics laboratory equipment (Tecquipment), 11
— Structural, by G. Burgermeister and H.
Steup (review), 290
Stablok circuit breakers with moulded plastics cases (E.C.C, Moulded Breakers Ltd.), 337
Stacey, E. F., on sound insulation, 492
Stacker, hydraulic, barrel (Powell and Co.), 198
— Propane gas operated (Industrial Machine
and Equipment Co. (Brimpex) Ltd.), 85
— Swedish BT SV, for confined spaces
(Rolatruc), 497
Stacking, sheet, automatic plant for, Schloe- mann, 563
Staff officers, army, science courses for, 153
Staffa hydraulic motor, Mark V (Chamberlain Industries Ltd.), 569
— Units for hydrostatic tractor drive (Cham
berlain Industries), 421
Staging (trade publication), 586
— Move-on self-propelled (Anderston Clyde
(Midlands) Ltd.), 400
Stainless steel. See Steel
Stammers, J. F., on surface preparation of ship plate, 259
Stamps, French “ dumb ” post office for, 263 Stanchions, axially loaded, tests on, 376
— Eccentrically loaded, tests on, 376
— Steel, encased, by R. F. Stevens, 376
— See also Beam; Column
Standards, ASTM. See American Society for Testing Materials
— Commonwealth, Conference (Ottawa), pro
gress in alignment of industrial standards, 362
Standard Design for Giant Thermal Power Stations, 681
— Engineering, Sir C. Hinton on, 373
—? Industrial, alignment, progress in, 362
— Institution, British. See British
Standard Motors Ltd., factory in Italy, 26
— National, for screw threads, 216
Standard Representative Engineers, contract for oil drilling rigs for Yugoslavia, 396
— Resistance, 1,000 megohm, NPL, 32
— Surface roughness, 394
Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd., precision approach radar at Rangotai airport, Wellington, 160; electronic telephone exchange at Dollis Hill, 495
Standard-Triumph International, annual report, 581
— United States Bureau of. See United States
National
Standardisation in bridge construction, 183 Stanford Research Institute, slipper and rail materials for rocket sleds, 484; telescope for aurora study (Hillhead), 680
— University, electron linear accelerator, 310 Stanley, C. O., on Pye Ltd., 413
— Shaper-junior, 222
— Steel pocket rule, 222
Stanley Works (GB) Ltd., Swirlaway sanding disc attachment with ball joint drive, 402
Stanton Ironworks Co. Ltd., Kinney-Osborn process for lightweight aggregate, 651
Star Sapphire saloon motor car (Armstrong Siddeley), 423
Stark broadening functions for hydrogen lines, by A. B. Underhill and J. H. Waddell (book), 354
Starter for electric motors (Belmos), 22
— for squirrel cage electric motors, Stator-
matic (Lee Guiness Ltd.), 569
Starting aid. Thermostart Mk. Ill, for diesel engines (CAV), 424
State House (High Holborn), construction of, 537; “ Meridian ” sculpture at, 537
Statistical review of world oil industry 1958 (British Petroleum Co. Ltd.), 553
Statormatic starter for squirrel cage electric motors (Lee Guiness Ltd.), 569
Steam-cooled atomic reactor. See Atomic reactor
— Engine. See Engine
— Plant, cost-output relation, 158
— Power developments, 558
— Reheat cycle for OCDRE reactor, 378
— Road vehicles, history of, by C. St. C. B.
Davison (book), 212
— Service at Warren Spring Laboratory, 68
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Steam, superficial, as solvent. Dr. E. U. Franck on, 135
— Superheated, from SRE reactor, 64
— Turbine. See Turbine
Steamboat, birth of, by H. P. Spratt (book), 258 Steamer, Charlotte Dundas, 46
Steamship. See Liner; Ship; Steamer; etc. Stearns-Roger Hydrotherm Co., collaboration with Lockheed, 283
Steel and aluminium alloy hatchway beams tested at Glengarnock, 443
— Austenitic, hard facing alloys, 426
— British Standards for, 299, 659
— Castings, research on, 32
Research Association, British
Steel Co. of Wales Ltd., No. 5 249; Pegasus computer Ltd.), 579
— Consumption statistics, 82
— Fibres for tyres, 483
— Fishplates for railway rails,
dards specification for, 76
— Foundry. See Foundry
— Frames for multi-storey buildings, 536 Plastic design of, by L. S. Beedle
(review), 553
— Furnace. See Furnace
— Heat treatment of. See Heat treatment
?—? High tensile, bolts, 536
— Hydrogen embrittlement in, 516
— Industry accidents in UK, US and W. Ger
many, 27
Election effect on, 334
—?— Position and prospects of, 613
United States, strike of, 335
— Martensitic, hard facing alloys, 426
— Mild, dynamic torstion tests on, 216
— for multi-storey buildings, 536
— Output statistics, 238
Statistics, ECSC, 239
— Pearlitic, hard facing alloys, 426
Steel, Peech and Tozer, expansion and modernisation, 645
— Piling, sheet, for Suez (British Steel Piling
Co. Ltd.), 160
— Pipe, welded (British Steel Piling Co. Ltd.),
143
Welding fittings for (trade publication), 354
— Plant. See Steelworks
— Plastics coated, SAS 75 welding machine for
(Sciaky Electric Welding Machines Ltd.), 433
— Pressure-vessel, radiation effects on, 439
— Primer, Cerrarc (Cellon Ltd.), 119
— Production in Ireland, 313 Position and prospects, 663
— Protective coatings for (Coating Contrac
tors Ltd.), 260
— Rail. See Rail
— Road bridges, 643
— Rope. See Wire rope
— Rule, Stanley, 222
— Sheet, cellular, for floor construction,
Q-Floor (Robertson Thain Ltd.), 328
— — Slotted, for collector pipes (Ranney
Method Water Supplies), 474
— Silver Fox 20, for cladding for chemical
laboratory of Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd., 475
— Stainless, beam trammels (Moore and Wright)
497
? Cladding for chemical laboratory of
Samuel Fox and Co. Ltd., 475
Fuel canning, 311
— ?— Garden shears (Ward and Payne Ltd.), 295 Lift door for Samuel Fox (United Steel
Cos. Ltd.), 541
• Motor car silencer, 588
in motor cars in US, 527
Powder for atomic fuel tubes, 502
for turbine blading (Firth-Vickers Stainless Steels Ltd.), 324
— Stanchions, encased, by R. F. Stevens, 376
— Strip, coils, electrolytic tinning of, 362 Mill for erection in Lanarkshire, 79
— Structural, in building, British Standard, 30
— ?— Building, changes in BS on, 376
— Structures, Metalife 1000 protective coating
for (Southern Metalife Ltd.), 219
— Tube. See Tube
— See also European Coal and Steel Community Steelmaking, oxygen in (report), 681
Steels Engineering Installations Ltd., new factory for production of pressure vessels and heat exchangers, 171
Steelwork, constructional. See British Constructional Steelwork Association
— for Ford Motor Co. expansion (Redpath
Brown and Co. Ltd.), 459
— for Kingsferry lifting bridge (Dorman Long
(Bridge and Engineering) Ltd.), 207
— Structural, exploratory brochure on BS449
for, by L. E. Kent, 347
— for Thelwall bridge, contract to Dorman
Long Ltd., 207
Steelworks, Steel, Peech and Tozer expansion, 645
— Taranto, plans for, 51
Steering column, collapsible, 476
— Gear products, Frydenbb Hydrapilot, 459 Unit exports (Frydenbb Slip and Mek.
Verksted), 459
Stein Atkinson Vickers Hydraulics Ltd., mechanisation of lock at Long Sandall, 474 Stelcon (Industrial Floors) Ltd., raft floors (trade publication), 554
Stellarator, heating gas in, 407
— Instabilities in, 406
— B-1, ohmic heating in, 407
Steps, mobile, Mountie, with elevating shelf (Access Equipment), 402
Stephen, Alexander, and Son Ltd., City of Melbourne motor liner, 455
Stephenson, Robert, and Hawthorns, diesel electric locomotives for Argentine State Railways, 56
Stepping device, p-n-p-n semiconductor (Bell Telephone Laboratories), 255
Stereoscopic interpretation of geometry, by I. Pal (book), 39
Steup, H., on structural stability (review), 290 Stevens, R. F., on encased steel stanchions and BS 449 ; 1959, 376
Stewart, G., Chiswick flyover, 315
Stewart, N. G., on beta counting of U237 and Np239, 36
Stewart, W. E., on magnetic recording techniques (book), 258
Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd., new oil pipeline for Assam, 119; blast furnace at Bilston, 249; expansion of activities, 477
Stilbestos, asbestos-based material sprayed on ceilings and walls, 492
Stirling and Astaldi (Nigeria) Ltd., contract for Nigerian Railway extension, 267
Stirring devices, paddle, power consumption of, 589
Stock building restraint in engineering industry, 79
— Control, use of computer for, 473 Stockholm, concrete architecture in, 410
— Draft Plan for EFTA, White Paper on, 18 Stocznia Gdanska, licence agreement with
Burmeister and Wain, 276
Stokers, chain gate, automatic ash extractor for (Riley (IC) Products Ltd.), 370
— mechanical, for smokeless areas, 31 STOL. See Aircraft
Stone-Chance Ltd., equipment for Dwarka lighthouse (trade publication), 386; illu- minant system for Cumbrae Lighthouse, 520
Stone, F. S., on structure and properties of porous materials (review), 289
— Facings, Glamorock Colorplaster, 652 Glamorock Granite Decor, 652
Stone Marine Engineering Co., Ltd., Kamewa controllable-pitch propeller, 680
— Mill, of Jolesfield windmill, 262
Stone-Platt Industries Ltd., licence agreement with Carrier Corp., 308
Stookey, S. D., on ceramics from glass, 41 Storage buildings, cold, frost action below, 159. See LETTER, 496
— Depot at King’s Lynn, 281
— Rack, Rovabin, with rotating trays (W.
Pinder and Son Ltd.), 402
Store control using small computer (GPO), 473
— Naval, ASTM standards (book), 134
— in research ship, 415
Storey, J. S., escape of gamma radiation from uranium rods, 6
Storrington, merchant vessel (Burntisland Shipbuilding Co, Ltd.), 455
Stothert and Pitt, Ltd., crane with clean lines project, 105; 7T tilting concrete mixer, 529; chairman’s annual statement, 677 Stott, Inferation Units, 533
Stove, blast furnace, development of, 248 Straddle carrier (trade publication), 40 Straightening and levelling machine for plate (Bronx Engineering Co. Ltd.), 197
— of overstrained beam, 521
— of overtwisted shaft, 522
Straightness and roundness measuring machine, Hommel (Rubert and Co. Ltd.), 664
Strain analysis, by A. J. Durelli, E. A. Phillips, and C. H. Tsao (book), 134
— Gauge, miniature 101 series (TMS), 686 Temperature compensated rosette (TMS),
686
301 series (TMS), 686
— Measurement in models, 61
— Shear, in transparent material, photo
elastic analysis of, 37
Straplicator strapping tool with automatic tensioning (Packers Supply Co. Ltd.), 240 Strapping system, Band-It (G.E. Simm Engineering), 53
— Tool, Straplicator, with automatic tension
ing (Packers Supply Co. Ltd.), 240
Strasser, A., on BR-2 fuel elements, 502 Street lighting column competition, 560 Street, R. S., on equipment for obtaining X-ray diffraction photographs of alpha active materials (publication), 164
Strength of concrete structures, proceedings of symposium by the Cement and Concrete Association, by R. P. Andrew (review), 554
— of materials for engineers, by D. R. Axelrad
(book), 418
Stress, alternating. See Fatigue
— Analysis, by A. J. Durelli, E. A. Phillips and
C. H. Tsao (book), 134
— Optical determination of. See Photo
elastic
— Residual, in restoring deformed parts, 521 Strikes, benefits paid by trade unions, 533
— British Oxygen, 302
— Bus, London Transport, 146
—-at Cammell Laird, 413
— Motor car workers, BMC, 153, 334
Car workers, David Brown’s Newport Pagnall factory, 153
?— Oxygen workers, 302
— Paint shop workers, Morris Motors, 89
— in United States steel industry, 335 —? Unofficial, TUC inquiry into, 526
— Working days lost through 526
Strip, cutting. Sectionmaster apparatus for waste avoidance in, 425
— Forming machine. Multiform (Heenan &
Froude Ltd.), 241
— Mill for erection in Lanarkshire, 79
— Steel, coils, electrolytic tinning of, 362 Stripa ore separation process (trade publication), 650
Strobopack battery-operated portable stroboscope (Dawe Instruments), 402
Stroboscope, battery-operated portable, Strobopack (Dawe Instruments), 402
Strojexport (Prague), FRO8 milling machine with unit head construction, 339; hydraulic copying lathe attachment, 339; magnetic gear transmission tester, 339; R80 turret lathe, 339; SKI2 vertical boring and turning mill, 339; WH63 horizontal boring, drilling and milling machine, 339 Strongroom doors for Bank of Montreal (Chubb and Sons), 559
Strontium in fission products, 534
—? in human bones, 36
— Radio, determination in effluent, 36
•— 85, production and separation, Harwell, 36
— 90 removal from milk, 535
Strubing inflatable metal tubing (Calumet and Hecla Inc.), 420
Structural design, models for, by R. E. Rowe, 60
Structural Engineers, Institution of. See Institution
— Engineering associations, liaison between,
675
Symposium on use of computers in, at Southampton University, 280
— Hardwoods, research by Timber Develop
ment Association, 207
— Mechanics, by W. Morgan and D. T.
Williams (book), 70
— Problems, analogue computer for, by Dr.
J. P. Jones, 280
— Stability by G. Burgermeister and H. Steup
(review), 290
— Steel in building, British Standard, 30
in building, changes in BS on, 376
— Steelwork, exploratory brochure on BS449
for, by L. E. Kent, 347
See also Steelwork
Structures, aircraft, bonded (book), 4
— of Chiswick flyover (Ministry of Transport
Standard Highway Loading), 314
— Concrete, model testing of, by Cement and
Concrete Association, 51, 60
Strength of, proceedings of symposium by the Cement and Concrete Association, by R. P. Andrew (review), 554
—? Cylindrical, electromagnetic radiation from, by J. R. Watt (book), 386
— Eactor of safety for, by M. Rocha, 60
— Hyperfine flux, of fuel elements, computer
calculation of, 439
— Model, colloquium on (Madrid), 60
— Neutron, by H. Tanaka, 311
— Philosophy of, by E. Torroja (review), 39
—? Plastic analysis of, by P. G. Hodge, Jr. (review), 553-554
— and properties of porous materials, by D. H.
Everett and E. S. Stone (review), 289
— Spacial, linear analysis of, by H. Tottenham,
280
— Theory and practice, by K. Hirschfeld
(book), 650
Students of engineering science, definitions and formulae for (book), 102
— University, failure rate of, 667
Studvik Research Centre, 639
Sturdy Electric Co. Ltd., portable low voltage transformer with glass fibre case, 306
Sturtevant Engineering Co. Ltd., air conditioning equipment for paper making industry (trade publication), 386
Stylus in fiducial indicator, 137
Styrene acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer, Cycolac (Anchor), 103
Copolymer, Tyril 767 (Distrene), 103
Styron 440 and 700 polystyrenes (Distrene), 103
— 475, polystyrene, for spin dryer mouldings
(British Resin Products), 324
Subak, W. K., review of Registrierinstrumente, 102; biographical notes, 212, 258; review of Influence of Physical Factors during Chemical Reactions, 212; review of Application of Modern Welding Techniques in Industry, 258
Submarine, atomic, radioactive waste disposal from US Navy, 535
Second British, 607
— Dreadnought, atomic-propelled, discussion
in Parliament on, 571
— Ore-carrier. See Ore-carrier
— Rorqual, 327
— Skipjack, atomic-propelled, at Portland, 64;
low drag form of, 167; reactor and engine room, 167; controllability, 167; flying analogy, 167; internal economy, 168; performance and other characteristics, 168; nucleonics laboratory, 168
— Transport, by Sir E. Smith, 127
Subsidence, ground, congress proceedings (Leeds), 93
Substation equipment for Ford Motor Co. expansion (Crompton Parkinson Ltd.), 459
Sucrose acetate isobutyrate (SAIB), 103 Sud-Atome, nuclear energy consortium, 639 Sudan, agreement with United Arab Republic for sharing of Nile waters, 507
Suez Canal Authority, sheet steel piling from British Steel Piling Co. Ltd., 160
Sug Halcyon convection space heater, 300
Suggestion scheme awards at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, 373
Film on, 659
Sulphide treatment for ruthenium in uranium stream, 35
Sulphur dioxide production from ferrous sulphate (Chemico and Dorr Oliver), 388
— Fumes removal with residual fuel oil, 556
•— Removal at North Wilford power station, 603
Sulphuric acid plant design (Chemico), 588. See LETTER, 599
Sulzer Bros., ultrasonic weld testing, 141; 125th anniversary and history of, 276; heavy-water reactor for Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Zurich, 282
Sulzer, G., on mechanical engineering in Switzerland, 25
Summa 15 adding machine, price reduction by British Olivetti, 267
Sumpette drainage pump (Holden and Brooke Ltd.), 305
Sun. See Solar
Sun Oil Co., petrol octane blending, 82
Sun Oil Refinery, neoprene elastomers for resisting oil and steam, 136
Sunbeam Alpine sports car, by G. Wilkins, 55
— Rapier motor car, 199, 423
Sunderland Shipbuilding Dry Docks and Engineering Co., annual report, 477
Sunvic Controls Ltd., Model 61H booster relay, 44; temperature control system on laboratory ovens, 197; Reguplug regulator for electric appliances, 564
Super Comet motor truck (Leyland), 623
— Hurricane silage making and green-feeding
machine, 592
Superchargers, positive displacement, for diesel engines, by Dr. T. E. A. Youssef, 448
— Turbo, comparison with positive-displace
ment, 448
Superheat, nuclear, studies on, 64
Superheater tube material development, Sandvik, 558
Superheating in coupled thermal-fast reactor, 638
Supervising Electrical Engineers, Association of. See Association
Supply, Minister of, deputation on aircraft industry to, 238
— Ministry of, sale of munitions and military
equipment to foreign Governments, 174; resignation of Sir O. Wansbrough-Jones as chief scientist, 245; dissolution of, 499 Supports for tunnel walls and roofs (Causeway Reinforcements Ltd.), 207
Sure-Grip Lug Earthmover tyre (Goodyear), 215
Surface activating agent. Trisec, 29
— Activity of uranium alloys, 35
— Coating resin index, 136
—- — Synthetic Resin Manufacturer’s Association, surface coating resin index (booklet), 136
— Finish of shafts, effect on wear of ptfe
packing rings, 387
— Gluing machine, Essor Zephyr (Leon Davis
and Co. Ltd.), 149
— Grinding machine, Oscilla, with oscillatory
motion (Etablissements Couson Freres), 242
— Layers, elasticity of, 4
— Metal, thixotropic protective oil for, 620
— Preparation of ship plate for painting, by
J. C. Hudson, J. F. Stammers and A. G. B. Miller, 259
— Roughness, CLA method, 394
? Definitions of, 393
E system of, 393 M system of, 393 Measurement, by M. P. Rupert, 393.
See Correction, 490
Standards, 394
Tests on samples, 395
— Tension in amorphous materials, 4
— Treatments for concrete, 683
Surfacing, road, epoxy resins for (Shell Chemical Co.), 136
— Top and bottom. Speedsanders for (Thomas
White and Sons Ltd.), 466
Surfard Ltd., Peddinghaus fiame hardening machines, 77
Surform Craftsman plane, 222
— Drawplane, 222
Surrey motor vehicle, L. F. Ward building kit for, 423
Surridge’s Patents Ltd., Holdite No. 33 adhesive bought by Wartsila Koncernen A/B, 268
Surrock, P. A., on higher states of matter, 407 Surtax statistics, 669
Surveillance radar equipment (SRE) at Ran- gotai airport, Wellington (Marconi), 159 Survey aircraft, 505
Surveying, aerial, for maps and mosaics, advances in, 504
of mineral deposits, 504
in road building, 505
— for mineral deposits in Antarctica, 505
— Plane, for engineers, by D. Clark (book), 102
— Tellurometer for, 505
Surveyors, Chartered, annual conference, 114 Suspension bridge. See Bridge
— Design, Emiac 11 analogue computer for,
476
— Magnets (trade publication), 40
— Motor car, 344, 345
Car, independent rear, 444
— Unit, Moulton, for BMC baby cars, 345 Suspensor, GEM, of plaited nylon (Windshields of Worcester Ltd.), 487
Sutcliffe, Richard, Ltd., “ Two Hundred ” driving head for conveyors, 54; multiblade belt scraper, 116; transportable conveyor with electric drive, 633; direct acting water pump for high pressures, 666 Svantesson, S., on foundations of thermodynamics with antitheses and disputation (review), 514 Svenska Turbine amalgamation bin, 88
Swains Papercraft machinery covers, 292
Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd., new prefabrication shop at Neptune Works, 281
Swan River Narrows bridge, 506, 563 Swanmaid dishwashing machine, 596 Swanson, N. J., on OMRE reactor, 380 Swarf baler (trade publication), 618
— Extractor on Tavannes Gyromatic 6-spindle
automatic lathe (S. Howard Ltd.), 241
Sweden, Atomic Energy Commission, 122 Energy programme, 122 Reactors in, 471
— Building techniques, trends in, 410
— Concrete architecture in, 410
— Uranium extraction in, 471
Swedish Neptun Salvage Co., salvage of warship Vasa, 523
— Nuclear research centre (Studsvik), 205
— State Railways, Trelleborg train-car ferry,
455
Swift Plan Ltd., mobile buildings (trade publication), 514
?— Type TA right angle chucking lathe for face copying (Drummond-Asquith Ltd.), 242
Swift-Hook, D. T., on thermoelectric power, 431. See LETTER, 600
Swirlaway sanding disc attachment with ball joint drive (Stanley Works (GB) Ltd.), 402 Swiss Fortnight exhibition in London, 276
— Institute of Transport and Communica
tions, transport museum, 138
Swissair, Convair 600, jet freight-passenger airliners for, 396
Switch, cord-pull, miniature (Castelco), 498
— Domestic, safety of, 564
— Float (Megator Pumps and Compressors), 360
— Proximity, for levelling mine car hoists
(Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical), 53
— Sequential, high-speed, for unlatching
electro-mechanical locks (Microcell Electronics), 518
— Socket and fused plug (S. O. Bowker Ltd.),
295
— Station changeover, for induction heating
(Delapena), 337
— See also Relay
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
Switchgear, air flow, for safety and control circuits (Londex), 400
— Circuit-breaker (Ottermill Switchgear), 149 Breaker, air blast (Delle), 58
— ?— Breakers, with moulded plastics cases
(E.C.C. Moulded Breakers Ltd.), 337
Breakers (Ottermill Switchgear Ltd.), 149
— for Ford Motor Co. expansion (Crompton
Parkinson Ltd.), 459
— Fused plug and switch socket (S. O. Bowker
Ltd.), 295
— Hopper level swtich (London Ltd.), 370
— PDB circuit breaker (Johnson and Phillips),
240
— Plug, fused and switch socket (S. O. Bowker
Ltd.), 295
— Switchfuses, silvertip (Revo Electric), 391
— ZX Synchronous cam timer (Electrical
Remote Control Co. Ltd.), 432
Switzerland, atomic energy consortia, 282, 283 Energy programme, 282
— Mechanical engineering industry, by G.
Sulzer, 25
— Oil exploration in, 631
— Road construction techniques in, by W.
Schiiepp, 475
— Uranium ore deposits, 282
Sydney Harbour, reinforced concrete bridge, 30 Sykes, Henry, Ltd., diesel-driven double-barrel, heavy-duty winches, 140; Univac UVS2 centrifugal pump for liquids and slurries, 633
Sykes, J. H. M., on Electrama exhibition, 58; on interconnected power systems, 90
Sykes Machine Tool Co. Ltd., Wohlenberg E57 lathe, 274
Sykes, W. E. Ltd., VS4A gear shaving machine, 274
Sylvester, E. Q., on American Ship Building Co., 381
Symbolic logic and intelligent machines by E. C. Berkeley (review), 617
Symington, William, steamer Charlotte Dundas, 46
Symposium at University of Southern California, modern trends in documentation (review), 481-482
Synchrocyclotron laboratory, shielding system for measuring low levels of radioactivity (Philips Ltd.), 448
Synchronous machines, test plant for (GEC), 361
Synchrotron, cinema film on, 382
Syndicat des Constructeurs Francais de Machine-outils, European Machine Tool Exhibition (Paris), 117
Synthesis of oils and chemicals from carbon monoxide and hydrogen, 68
Synthesizing high-strength polymers, 292 Synthetic fibre. See Fibre
?— Rubber latex. See Rubber
Systems Engineering Group for automatic control of industrial processes (de Havil- land Propellers Ltd.), 384
TABLES, beam, by Dr. G. Anger (review), 5
— Lift, folding, Zeeta (trade publication), 40
?— of osculatory interpolation coefficients, by H. E. Salzer (book), 40
Tachometer, hand, ATH24 (Smiths Industrial Instrument Division), 305
Take-off platforms for ICBM, 115 Takeover bids, Sir J. Hutchison on, 82
Tallon, W., on 42 hour week at ICI, 437 Tamar, River, suspension bridge, locked coil wire ropes for cables of (British Ropes Ltd.), 377
Tanaka, K., on structure of neutron, 311 Tancarville road bridge, opening of, 30, 92 Tangential threading machines, MB (Landis Machine-Maiden Ltd.), 306
Tangyes Ltd., Hydraflo high pressure pump, 108
Tanks, radioactive waste storage, for Savannah River plant, 535
•—? Sea-keeping, at HNL, 416
— Sherman, mechanical toy, 673
— Sprinkler and rollers, Yuba Southwest, for
road compaction work (trade publication), 554
— Storage, at Milford Haven refinery, 346
— Towing, at NHL, 416
• Wavemaker for, at Ships Hydraulics
Laboratory, 518
— Vacuum, for missile design, 384
Tanker, Anadara, 139
— Atomic-propelled, cost analysis compared
with conventional, 284
— Auris, Shell, 327
— Bardal, 139
— Bogota for Texas Co. (Norway), 327
— British Kiwi, marine paint tests on, 356
— Building of British overseas, 635
— Condensers, undercooling in, investigation
into prevention of, by John Brown and Co. (Clydebank) Ltd., 422
— Diesel engine for (MAN), 622
— Havkong, 591
?—? Jetty at Milford Haven refinery, 346
— Large, oil jetty for, at Tranmere, 442
— Super, Finnert terminal for, 30
Tannoy Products, speech communication system for Dorman Long’s Lackenby works, 31
Taps and dies, Greenfield (trade publication), 102
Tape control for turret head drilling machine, Airmec Vero (Catmur Machine Tool Corp.), 602
— Magnetic, for computers used in commerce,
473
— Masking, Hitem 577 (J. Gosheron and Co.),
388
— Reader, high-speed
tion Ltd.), 337
— Recorder, magnetic.
Industries), 116
— Recording, cassette
(Associated Automa-
Paraphone (Epsylon
for continuous play, Brittape (Guy’s Calculating Machines Ltd.), 528
Growth of, 373 See also British Recording Club
Tape Recording Magazine, Amateur, 373
Tapping and reaming machine, Andytap (Monks and Crane), 52
Tar, coal, coatings for concrete, 684
Epoxy coating, Epi-Tar (Corrosion Ltd.), 219
— Distillery tube cleaning, 31 Taranto, steelworks plan for, 51
Target, productivity bulletin, British Productivity Council to take over, 28
Tariff reductions, effect on paper making industry, 28
— in Western Europe (PEP report), 608 Tarleton, R. D., on reactions between aggregates and cement, (book) 70, 102
Tarmac Civil Engineering Ltd., roof for new plant for Texas Instruments Ltd., 281
TASC induction coupling (Pye Electric Ltd.), 434
Tatnall Measuring Systems Co., strain gauges, 686
Tavannes Gyromatic 6-spindle automatic lathe with swarf extractor (S. Howard Ltd.), 241
Tax relief for apprenticeship firms, 27
—• Treatment of corporate and non-corporate enterprises, by (2. Cosciani (review), 257
Tay Road Bridge, progress on, 603
Tayler, R. J., on diffusion of magnetic fields in a cylindrical conductor, 36; on hydro- magnetic instabilities of a cylindrical gas discharge, 36; on influence of conducting walls on the wriggling gas discharge, 36; on stabilised pinch, 36
Taylor Electrical Instruments Ltd., multirange meter (trade publication), 212; miniature meter for edgewise mounting, model 220, 664
Taylor, F,, and Sons (Manchester) Ltd., mining equipment for Russia, 276
Taylor, K. V., steel and aluminium alloy hatchway beams tested at Glengarnock, 443
Taylor Stoker Co. Ltd., “ Lo-Hed ” hoist, 625 Taylor, Taylor, and Hobson Ltd., pantograph engraving machine, 497
Taylor Tools and Supplies Ltd., Taylor platen belt grinding machine, 273; centreless grinding and polishing machine using wet belt, 634
Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd., Cwm Rheidol hydroelectric power scheme, 30; railway sheds at Higher Green, 251
Taylor Woodrow (Ghana) Ltd., pipeline in Ga Lagoon, Gulf of Guinea, 578
Taylor Woodrow (Nigeria) Ltd., River Niger road bridge, 93
Tea handling equipment (David Greig), 690 Teachers, science, shortage of, 637
— Training statistics, 27 Teaching by engineers, 335
— Laboratory for elementary hydraulics, by
Dr. E. Markland, 10
— by machine, 34
— of science. Plain Words on, 526. See
LETTER, 567
in secondary schools, syllabus of, 629, 636
— See also Education
Teague, Walter Dorwin, Associates, Euphorian dentistry chair, 263
Teak nuclear explosion experiment, 438 Technetium, isolation of, 671
Technical Ceramics Ltd., type G88 accelerometer, 52
— Colleges, governing bodies of, comment on,
49
Opportunities at, film on, 659
— Digests, by F. Machon, 278
— Information. See Conference on Presenta
tion and Interpretation of
Technical Information Co., Russian Patents Gazette, 257
— Report, oral, characteristics and organiza
tion, l?y R. P. Wilcox, 649
— and scientific glossaries, bibliography of
monolingual. Vol. II, by E. Wuster (book), 322
— and vocational education in USSR, biblio
graphical survey, by M. 1. Movsovic, 165
— Writers. See Writers
Techniques of delegating, by D. A. Laird and E. C. Laird (review), 650
Technological progress, effect on education, bibliography, by B. Board, 165
Technology and science, encyclopedia of, 681 Tecquipment Ltd., hydraulics laboratory equipment, 10
Tedder, Lord, on Standard-Triumph, 581 Teddington Industrial Equipment Ltd., building block for use in pneumatic gauging equipment, 464
Teesport ocean oil installation extensions by Shell Mex and B.P. Ltd., 119
Teeth, gear. See Gear teeth Telecommunications establishment at Gatwick Airport, 281
— Measurement equipments exhibits at
Ljubljana International “ Modern Electronics ” Fair (Yugoslavia) (Marconi Instruments), 364
— Services, Conference of European Postal
and 571
Teleflex Inc. (USA), activation wire drive instrumentation system for ascertaining information from a reactor core, 448
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co. Ltd., marine auxiliaries (trade publication), 418
Telemechanics, Institute of Automatics and. See Institute
Telephone bill, comment on, 121
— Box, continental style (RAC), 487
— Cable, Commonwealth, 571
— Data coding system for transmission by
(Bell), 32
— Exchange, electronic, Dollis Hill, 495, 552
— Intercom, moulded plastic, 169
— Radio, mobile, by H. N. Gant (book), 70
— Service, radio, for motorists, 559
—? Systems for Welwyn-Hatfield general hospital, 280
— Voting scheme. Dr. V. K. Zworykin’s
scheme for, 373
Teleprinter system control at Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459
Telescope, radio, for aurora study, 680
Jodrell Bank, 559
for New South Wales, 50
for West Virginia, 32
— Reflecting, for Japan (Sir Howard Grubb
Parsons), 654
— Solar, and camera. Invar for (Perkin-
Elmer Corp., USA), 484
Television, Associated. See Associated Television
— Camera, orthicon Mark IV (Marconi), 487 with remote control (BBC), 255
— and Film Directory, Kemp’s International
(book), 40
— Independent. See Independent Television
— Line-definition report, 25
— Mast, Mendlesham, British Insulated
Callender’s Construction Co., 281
— Receivers, automatic picture control for
(Mullard), 144
— — Frame-grid valve for, 144 Slim look for, 144
?—? ?— with wide angle tube (Philco), 144
— Transatlantic film transmission for, 32
— in Western Nigeria, 222 Tellurometer for ground surveying, 505 Temp-O-Larm, temperature alarm (Walter
Kidde Co. Ltd.), 569
Temperature alarm, Temp-O-Larm (Walter Kidde Co. Ltd.), 569
— Coefficient of reactivity of spherical core, 7
— Control system. Sunvic laboratory ovens
with (Hedin Ltd.), 197
— •— Valve, Serckstat automatic, for diesel
engines, 12
— Controlled production of instruments, 329
— Controller, Bikini (Fielden Electronics
Ltd.), 432
Precision, Winston-United Steels (Winston Electronics Ltd.), 150
?— Distribution in cylindrical reaction vessels, by R. Neubauer (book), 418
in rock after Rainier explosion, 438
— Low. See Low temperatures
— Measurement. See Pyrometry; Thermo
couple
— Unit for thermodynamic relationships, by
G. T. Csanady, 527
Tempo Universal gluing machine (Leon Davis and Co. Ltd.), 149
Ten miles high two miles deep, by A. Honour (review), 449
Tennessee University, strontium-90 from milk, 535
Tensile cracks in reinforced concrete, on, 443
— Strength of elastic materials, 3
Tension control of paper, magnetic coupling for, 489
removal
research
particle
— Meter for wire or wool, Saxl (Thomas
Mercer Ltd.), 634
Tent, Auto Trailer, folding camping trailer (European Appliances Ltd.), 488
Term loans granted by banks, 494 Terphenyl organic moderator, density of, 6 Terratires for motor trucks for soft terrain, 31 Terrazzo Polka-Dot tiles (Snowtop), 651 Terylene for conveyor belting, 71
— Polyester overlays, 323
— Reinforced plastics, 323
Tesamoll self-adhesive urethane plastics foam (Sealdraught Ltd.), 392
Tests on domestic goods and appliances, 524
— Plant for large induction motors or syn
chronous machines (GEC), 361
-— See also under specific types of test and materials and items tested
Testing machines. See under specific types of testing machine
?— Rig for rocket ship X-15 thermal fatigue properties, 295
Texaco, Luminometer Number for rating radiant properties of fuels, 516
Texas Co. (Norway), tanker Bogota for, 327
Texas Instruments Inc., appointment of E. G. Knop as technical representative in Germany, 533
Texas Instruments Ltd., new plant at Bedford, 200; hyperbolic paraboloid shells for roof of new plant, 281
Textile machinery production, discussion in Parliament on, 499
Textilimport, Elana polyester fibre, 427 Thackwell, H. L., Jnr., on solid rocket propellents, 154
Thai 3 catamaran (J. R. Macalpine-Downie), 687
Thailand, atomic energy programme, 282 Thala Dan research ship, 640
Thames Haven Oil Wharves, oil storage capacity, 136
— Road bridge, new, discussion in Parliament,
467
Thelwall Viaduct over Birmingham-Preston- Penrith motorway, 61
Steelwork contract to Dorman Long (Bridge and Engineering) Ltd., 207
Theorie physique au Sens de Boltzmann, by R. Dugas (book), 586
Theory of machines, by B. B. Low (review), 289-290
Solution of problems, by S. Anvoner (review), 290
through worked examples, by G. H. Ryder (book), 586
Thermal conductivity of semiconductor material, 129
— Fatigue properties of rocket ship X-15,
testing rig for, 295
— Insulation. See Insulation
— Shield and top dome. Bradwell atomic
reactor, 655
—? Treatment of metals. See Heat treatment
— Wave propagation in graphite, 6 Thermalite blocks for multi-storey office
block (John Laing and Son Ltd.), 541 Thermex heat transfer medium (ICI), 620 Thermionic devices, symbols for, 98 for thermoelectric power, 97 —- Diode, conversion of heat to electricity in, 99 Gas-filled, 99
— Generation, efficiency of, 99
— Thermoelectric generator. See Generator
— See also Valve; Radar; Radio; Television Thermocouple selector, Allscott, for data
sampling (James Scott and Co.), 656
Thermocouple. See also Pyrometer Thermodynamic properties of air and bustion gases, by O. Lutz and F. (book), 482
— Relationships, by G. T. Csanady, 527 Thermodynamics, foundations of, with
theses and disputation, by S. Svantesson (review), 514
Thermoelectric effect in heating, cooling lighting wall panel, 16
— Generation, efficiency of, 98
— Generator. See Generator
— Power, alternating-current generation, Applications of, 161
— ?— Direct-current generation, 161 —? — Economics of, 161 Generation of, 161 Generation methods, by Dr. G.
Wilson and B. C. Lindley, 97
— ?— Heat sources and heat sinks for, 130 Possibilities of, by Dr. G. W. Wilson
and B. C. Lindley, 97, 129, 161
— ?— Potentialities of, by K. H. Spring and
D. T. Swift-Hook, 431 -432. See LETTER,600
— Refrigeration. See Refrigeration Thermoelement, for thermoelectric generator,
129
Thermograde lining system for cavity walls (EAW Industries), 396
Thermolier heater unit (Mather and Platt Ltd.), 272
Thermonuclear reactions. See Nuclear fusion Thermopile for thermoelectric generator, 130 Thermoplastic K51, chlorinated polyether (Polypenco Ltd.), 324
Thermostart Mk. Ill diesel engine starting aid (CAV), 424
Thermotank Ltd., marine (trade publication), 258
Thewlis, J., on radiography cartridges, 35
Thinning machine, drill
com-
Wolf
anti-
and
161
W.
air conditioning
of active uranium
point. Dormer (Sheffield Twist Drill and Steel Co. Ltd.), 306 Thixotropic oil for critical metal surfaces, 620 Thomas Industrial Automation Ltd., Leveltron level controller for liquids and solids, 272 Thomas, J. O., on conversion of ionospheric virtual height-frequency curves to electron density-height profiles (book), 290
Thomas, Richard, and Baldwins Ltd., electrolytic tinning line for Ebbw Vale works (Head Wrightson Machine Co.), 362
Thomason, J. G., on analogue computer for missile homing investigation, 511
Thomaston dam, drilling of anchor bolt holes for, 643
Thompson, A., on information officers and librarians, 463-464
Thompson, John, Ltd., research work (trade publication), 418; boilers for Drakelow C power station, 596
Thompson, M. W., exponential experiments for PIPPA Mk. 1, 6
Thompson, T. R., computer applications in the small firm, 473
Thomson, Sir G., on technical and scientific writers, 194
Thoneman, P. C., on high current proton source, 36
Thor BT-I ramjet engine (Bristol Siddeley), 391 Thorex pilot plant, concatenation at, 575 Thoria uranium 233 slurry reactor, 7
Thorium alloys, constitutional diagrams of, 639
— Data manual, 205
— Magnesium alloys, analysis of, 35
— Oxide resources, 471
— Preparation, properties and alloying be
haviour of, 35
— Resources in Commonwealth, 471
Thorn Electrical Industries Ltd., position and prospects of, 200
Thorn, R. Berkeley, on land drainage works (review), 212
Thornycroft, Sir John, on John 1. Thornycroft, 549
Thornycroft, John L, and Co. Ltd., vehicle and passenger ferry Carisbrooke Castle, 139; trading loss, 549
Thread rolling (trade publication), 102
— Screw, national standards for (booklet), 216 See also Screw
Threading machine, tangential, MB (Landis Machine-Maiden Ltd.), 306
Thresholds, Duraflex, 652
Thrust reversal eyelids for jet aircraft, 453 Thwaites and Reed Ltd., astronomical clock for Financial Times offices, 557
Tiles, ceiling, acoustical, of fibre board. Cushiontone, 492
— Cellular acoustic mineral, Kilnoise, 492
— Floor, industrial Diametile (Jaconello), 61
— Industrial, Duratiles (Snowtop), 651
— Kervit (Snowtop), 651
— Roofing, copper (Marsland and Co.), 80
— Spanish (Snowtop), 651
— Terrazzo Polka-Dot (Snowtop), 651
Tileman and Co. Ltd., reinforced concrete chimneys at Northffeet power station, 443 Tiltman Langley Ltd., miniature power drives, 76
Timber beams sheathed with plywood, Gir- daling lightweight (H. Newsum, Sons and Co. Ltd.), 542
— Buildings, Middlesex range (trade pub
lication), 514
— Design in (booklet), 539
— Development Association, proving tests on
structural hardwoods, 207; glued laminated timbers, 377; course on timber engineering, 539; design in timber (booklet), 539
— Engineering, course on, 539
— Fire hazards, research on, 32
— Fixing to masonry, Obo pins for (Douglas
Kane Ltd.), 632
— Industry, discussion in Parliament on, 667
— Laminated, glued, by W. Chugg (Timber
Development Association), 377
Standards for, 667
— Natural durability of. Forest Products
Research Laboratory, 507
— Shells, hyperbolic paraboloid, for school
roof (Wheelers Ltd.), 315
Roof, hyperbolic paraboloid panels for 579
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188 (1959)
33
Time calibrator (Cawkell Research and Electronics), 85
—? Reversal invariance of sub-atomic particles, 343
“ Time to Think ” export promotion film (ICT), 16
Timer, cam, ZX synchronous (Electrical Remote Control Co. Ltd.), 432
—• Miniature synchronous (Electrical Remote Control), 400
Timetables, railway, computer for, 230 Tin-nickel plating for watches, 692
— Recovery from tinplate in USA in 1955,
136
— Research Institute, tin-nickel plating for
watches, 692
Tinning, electrolytic, of coils of steel strip, 362
— Line, electrolytic, for Ebbw Vale Works of
Richard Thomas and Baldwins (Head Wrightson Machine Co.), 362
Tinplate, tin recovery from, in USA in 1955, 136
Tinsley, H., and Co. Ltd., bolometer for locating hot spots, 434
Tippers, Leyland Octopus eight-wheeled, for soil removal at Hither Green railway sheds (R. BilTa Ltd.), 251
Tipping system, mine car. Vial (W. G. Allen and Sons (Tipton) Ltd.), 54
Tipsy Nipper ultra-light aircraft (Fairey Group), 519
Tipton Welded Fabrications Ltd., Zeeta folding lift table (trade publication), 40
TIR. See Transport Internationale Routier Titanium alloys 230 and 260 (ICI), 260
— Forming research, Du Pont, 381
— Heat treatment in electric batch
(GWB), 690
— with palladium alloying additions
Carbide Metals Co.), 292
— with platinum alloying additions
Carbide Metals Co.), 292
— with platinum film (ICI), 292 —? Soldering, Curtlsol solder and Curtiffux
ffux for, 29
— in X-15 research aircraft, 480
Tobruk, electrodialysis plant for potable water in (Ionics Incorp.), 411
Toby Marine, Capri Mk. II runabout boat, 687
Tod, W. and J., glass fibre lifeboats, 687
Todd Shipyards, reactor servicing barge for Savannah atomic-propelled merchant ship, 247
Toggle clamp, Speetog vertical lift (Speed Tools Ltd.), 528
Tokai Mura atomic power station, progress on, 671
Tokyo, display of world periodicals and papers, 144
Toluol resistant adhesive. Bondmaster 556
Tomblin, K. A., bearing materials liquid sodium, 8
furnace
(Union
(Union
news-
L379,
under
Tomlinsons (Rochdale) Ltd., plastic machine guards of glass fibre reinforced Bakelite polyester resin, 484
Tool, fixing, Hilti, for narrow sections (Ucan Development Ltd.), 116
— for the handyman, 222
— Holder, Eclipse (trade publication), 166
— Jigs and fixtures, by P. Gates (book), 102
— Kit for aircraft engine (Rolls-Royce Ltd.),
169
— Lathe, for honing straight or cranked shafts
(Nicol and Andrew Ltd.), 601
— Makers’ Association, Gauge and. See
Gauge and Tool Makers' Association
— Oxide tip (trade publication), 134
— Power, in building, 548
Tooling and gauging balls, master (Insley Industrial Supply Co. Ltd.), 198
— Machines and, PERA translation of, 101 Toolmaking with spark machining (trade
publication), 134
Toppel, J. P., on coupled steam superheater, 638
Torch, electric, BM shockproof and ffameproof, hand (Bardic Ltd.), 433
Torque balance, electromagnetic, for precision dynamometer, servo controlled, 614
— Coil, for precision dynamometer, 615
— Control unit, electric automatic, for tube
expander (Charles Wicksteed and Co. Ltd.), 464
— Measuring instrument, NEL, 614
— Meter. See Dynamometer
Torrington Co. (Connecticut), roller bearings with one-piece cage, 456
Torrington Manufacturing Co., fan impeller licence agreement with S. Smith and Sons (England), 692
Torroja, E., on philosophy of structures (review), 39
Torsion tests, dynamic, on mild steel, 216 Torsional vibration handbook, by E. J. Nestorides (review), 69, See LETTER, 271 Tottenham, H., on linear analysis of spacial structures, 280
Tow, D. J., review of Industrial Cooling Tower, 39-40; biographical note, 40
Tower, cooling. See Cooling tower
— Crane. See Crane
— Servicing, for Blue Streak rocket (de
Havilland), 209
Towing tank at NHL, 416 Wavemaker for, at Ship Hydraulics
Laboratory, 518
Towing winch, automatic, for tugboat, 328 Town and Country Planning Act (1959), new points under, 121
Planning Association, New Town Exhibition, 303; on housing standards, 364
— Gas service at Warren Spring Laboratory, 68
— New, development of, 245
Exhibition on, 303
Position and prospects of, 303
— — Zoning systems in, 531
— Planning, by J. A. Carpenter, 114 Toys, engineering precision, 672
— Mechanical specialities, 673
— and model developments, 628
Tracey, H. A. C., Further Along the Line (report on foremen), 34
Traction, diesel electric (trade publication), 212
— Electric. See Railway; British Railways
Traction unit, electric, for concrete-block transporter, 293
Tractors for Antarctic use, 641
— Battery electric. Smith’s Electric Karrier
(Rootes Motors), 138
— for beach loading and unloading (Michigan),
173
— Caterpillar D8 and D9, hydraulic control
for winch for (Hyster Co.), 665
— David Brown 2D, with diesel engine, 263
— with digger and power shovel, MF702
(Massey-Ferguson), 390. See LETTER, 399
— Emett design, for B90 exchange scheme, 75 —? Farmall B450, S21 hydraulic control valve
for (Hymatic Engineering), 140
— Ferguson, memorial, Wentworth, NSW, 89
— Fordson, exports of, 244
in ploughing contest, 524
—? Hydrostatic transmission for (Joseph Lucas (Industries) Ltd.), 421
— Insurance of, 598
— Loader, Mastiff (Mathew Bros.), 52
— to mount digger, shovel or grader (Massey-
Ferguson (GB) Ltd.), 337
— Mounted air compressor (Newage), 592
— Pipe handling, for Niger Delta oilfields
(Michigan), 21
— Production at Caterpillar’s Tannochside
factory, 220
—? Shovel, front end loader (Bray Construction Equipment Ltd,), 466
Trade, Board of. See Board of Trade
— with China, 428
— with China, by Lord Boyd-Orr, 631
—? Exhibition. See Exhibition
— with Germany, expansion efforts, 566
—and industry, Diderot pictorial encyclopedia of, by D. Diderot (book), 514
— Mark, Hyster Co.’s new, 222
—? Mission for computers from West Germany, 596
from West Indies and British Guiana, 19
— with Poland, 428
— Retail, expansion in, 143
— with Russia, 79, 428
— with Russia, discussion in Parliament, 531
— with Russia, by Com. J. H. Joughin, 2
— with Russia, by P. Sloan, 52
— with Soviet Bloc, 79
— Statistics, 222
—? Unions, election effect on, 334
Industrial engineering activities, 277 Law, by H. Samuels (review), 617
Strike benefit paid by, 533
— — “ White collar ” workers’, wage demands
by, 437
See also under names of specific unions
— in Western Europe (PEP report), 608
Trades Union Congress, forty-hour week, 121; inquiry into unofficial strikes, 526; inquiry on Electrical Trades Union abandoned, 573; on consumer protection need, 605; on industrial health service, 669
Traffic capacity of road, economic, 187, 188
— Congestion, discussion in Parliament on, 667
— Distribution on trunk roads, 185
—? Engineers, prospects for, 667
— Engineering, by Prof. M. Feuchtinger, 475 Study Group, formation at I.C.E., 507
— and highway engineering, lectures (Pavings
Development Group), 475
— Increases in, comment on, 461
— Lights (trade publication), 166
— London, problems of, 461
report on, 399
— on London-Birmingham motorway, study
of, 472. See also 463
— Problem, Plain Words on, 598
— Speed of, 186
— Statistics on, 125
Trailer, folding camping. Auto Trailer tent (European Appliances Ltd.), 488
Train, railway. See Railway Train; Underground
Training college of airline pilots, 57
—• Council, Industrial. See Industrial
— Flying, hire purchase for, 669
— Foremen by NIIP, 637
— Management, experiment, BISF, 121
— by machine, 34
— New developments in, by F. A. Heller
(book), 514
— Office staff'(IWS report), 34
— in radiation hazards, 47
— Scheme grants. Industrial Training Council,
599
— Ship for German navy (Blohm and Voss AG.), 327
— See also Education
Trajectories, ballistic missile, prediction of, from radar observations by I, I. Shapiro (book), 290
Trammels, beam, stainless steel (Moore and Wright), 497
Tranmere, oil jetty for supertankers, 442 Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 640 Transatlantic film transmission for television, 32
Transducer, Lintran, for mains voltage operation (James Scott and Co. (Electrical Engineers) Ltd.), 666
Transfer machine, hydraulic-pneumatic, for condenser tubes (Hymatic Engineering), 570
Transformers, computers for design of, 509
— Core design by computer, 73
— Design, computer programme for, by M. A.
Spurway, 73
— Design progress, 59
— Direct buried distribution (Hackbridge &
Hewittic Electric Co. Ltd.), 149
— at Electrama Exhibition, 58-59
— Low voltage, portable with glass fibre case
(Sturdy Electric Co. Ltd.), 306
— Welding, Balarc-175, 560
— Winding space design by computer, 73 Transistor circuits, by K. W. Cattermole (book)
514
Principles of, by S. W. Amos (review), 321-322
— Electronics by A. W. Lo, R. O. Endres, J.
Zawels, F. D. Waldhauer and Chung-Chih Cheng (review), 321-322
Junction, by R. B. Hurley (review), 321- 322
Transistor elements, module with, in aluminium “ window-frame,” 359
— Fundamentals by L. M. Krugman (review),
321-322
— p-n-p-n, for semiconductor (Bell Telephone
Laboratories, 255
Transistorised Data Processing System, IBM 1401 (IBM (UK) Ltd.), 384
— Electronic counter (Electronic Machine Co.
Ltd.), 299
?— Low voltage power supply unit (Marconi Instruments Ltd.), 602
— Marine communication equipment (Siemens
Edison Swan Ltd.), 198
Transit sheds in Royal Albert Dock, modification for faster traffic, 118
Translation, Customs Club, 585
Translator, Commercial, for programming electronic computers (IBM United Kingdom Ltd.), 331
Translucent ceiling, Isora (SFIM (GB) Ltd.), 542
Transmission, automatic (trade publication), 212
Borg Warner, 275
for Hillman Minx motor car, 199
— — for Singer Gazelle motor car, 199
—? Gear, magnetic tester for (Strojexport), 339
— Hydrostatic, for tractors (Joseph Lucas
(Industries) Ltd.), 421
— Lines, G. F. Fiennes on, 227
Overhead, for electric trains, 232
— Power loss measurement, precision dynamo
meter for (MERL), 29
— See also Drive; Power
Transmitter, radio HS113, with wide band amplification, 164
Transparent adhesive film, Transpasene (BX Plastics), 353
— Materials, photoelastic analysis of shear
strains in, 37
Transpasene transparent adhesive film (BX Plastics), 353
Transport (trade publication), 166
— Air. See Air; Aircraft; Aviation
— Choice of, 226
— and Civil Aviation, Ministry of, specification
for road and bridge works and preparation of bills of quantities (book), 134; Standard Highway Loading, design for structure of Chiswick flyover, 314; design and supervision of Chiswick flyover to H. Brompton and Partners, 315
— Commission, British. See British Transport
— and communications, critical importance of,
by Sir E. Smith, 124. See also 113
— and Communications, Swiss Institute of,
transport museum, 138
— Computers in, by Brig. G. H. Hinds, 229
— Container, electrically heated (GEC), 665
— Economics of, by Sir R. Wilson, 223. See
LETTER, 304
— Freight, demand for, 226
Trans-Europe, boxed semi-trailers for, 396
— Goods, international, 662
— Gross national product percentage, 125
— Hydraulic, of solid/liquid mixtures, 32
— Improvements in West Pakistan, 119
— Inland, future of, 228
— Internationale Routier carnets, 662
— in Ireland, 313
— Marine. See Ship; Shipbuilding; Shipping
— Minister of, E. Marples appointed, 367
— Museum, Swiss Institute of Transport and
Communications, 138
— Railway. See Railway; Rail
— Relative advantages of road, rail and water,
226
— Road. See Road; Motor car; Motor vehicle
— Sea. See Ship; Shipping
Transporter for concrete shielding blocks, 293 Travellers’ Charter of Federation of South Eastern Railway Travellers’ Associations, 573
Trawsfynydd atomic power station, civil engineering work, 30
— •— Power station, details of, 62
Treetex insulation board for lining, 396 Trehearne, Norman and Preston, mosaic cladding on Villiers House, 651
Trelleborg, train-car ferry (Elsinore Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd.), 455
Trentham, G. Percy, Ltd., drains and pump house for Ford Motor Co. expansion, 459 Trerock, flame retardant paint, 652 Tretol Ltd., Multicolour paint, 652
Trials, ship rolling, in wake of typhoon, by Commander P. Du Cane, 440
Tri-ang model developments, 628
Locomotives, 672
— Scalextric model car racing outfit, 673 Triangle Valve Co. Ltd., through conduit
pipeline valve, 21
Trichlorethylene, drying in. Trisec surface activating agent for, 29
Triethanolamine phosphate antifreeze, 444 Triga II atomic reactor, 471
Trim sections, extruded, Claylastic plastic/ metal, 619
Trisec surface activating agent, 29
Trist, R., and Co. Ltd., Electricon smoke density indicator, 196
Tritium, atmospheric content of, 439
Triumph Herald motor car, construction of, 344; suspension of, 345
Motor car, heater for, 444
— Motor car, replaceable units of, 476 Tro-Kart, foot-controlled, for karting, 423 Trojan Ltd., trocarting, 669
Trokarting, sport of, 669
Trollboat (Folland Aircraft and British Aluminium), 687
Trolley buses in Portugal (British United), 623
— for concrete-block transporter, 293
?— Containers of light alloy (Light Alloy Construction Ltd.), 465
Trollope and Colls, building for North Thames Gas Board, 675
Trombay atomic fuel fabrication plant, 503 Tropical climates, projected window for (Henry Hope and Sons Ltd.), 542
Troup, J. D,, on “ Interview with Ourselves,” 240
Truck Acts, inquiry into, 57
Trucks, electric, marketing of (RansOme Sims and Jefferies Ltd.), 492
— Fork-lift, servicing at Vauxhall motors, 172 Side-loading (trade publication), 40
— Fork, SpaceSaver (trade publication), 40
— Motor. See Motor vehicle
— Railway. See Wagon
— Sack, folding tubular (F. Piper and Sons Ltd.),
497
— Side-loading (trade publication), 40
— See also Bogie
Tsakonas, S., on propeller pressure field, 584 Tsao, C. H., on stress and strain analysis (book) 134
Tube banks, boiler, closed circuit rig for testing, 317
— Bending machine, Herber (Chamberlain
Industries Ltd.), 368
?— Bundle for waste heat boiler, 655
— Cathode-ray, application of, by G. Parr and
O. H. Davie (book), 682
— Cleaning at tar distillery, 31
— Condenser, hydraulic-pneumatic transfer
machine for (Hymatic Engineeringj), 570
— Drawing (trade publication), 166
— Expander, electric automatic torque control
unit for (Charles Wicksteed and Co. Ltd.), 464
— High tensile steel, piles for Tranmere jetty,
442
Tube Investments Ltd., metal tube research centre at Hinxton Hall, 352; trade with Russia, 428; trading report, 549, 613
— Klystron power, 311
?—? Metal, research centre at Hinxton Hall
(Tube Investments Ltd.), 352
— Nylon, sheathed with pvc or pep (British
Insulated Callender’s Cables Ltd.), 218
?— Plastics coated steel, for window frames (Ideal Casements Ltd.), 332
— Pressure, insulation of reactor, 535
— Railway. See Underground: London
port Executive
— Superheater, material development,
vik, 558
— Venturi, for hydraulics laboratory
quipment), 10
Trans-
Sand-
(Tec-
— Working machines (trade publication), 102
— See also Pipe; Tubing
Tubeless tyres, inflator for (Hymatic), 85 Tubing, Bourdon, British Standard for, 324
— Lead glass, Velio process, 31
— Metal, inflatable, Strubing (Calumet and
Hecla Inc.), 420
Tufplas glass reinforced plarties vessels (Cawles Plastics Ltd.), 356
Tug, automatic towing winch, 328
— Fire-fighting, Cardon (Lobnitz and Co.), 455
— Pushboat, Olivier van Noort, 455
— Sir William Luce, gear for, 169
Tully, N. M., on information officers and librarians, 463-464
Tumut-Eucumbene tunnel for Snowy Mountain hydro-electric project, completion of, 61
Tuna cruiser, outboard motor tests on (Perkins) 687
Tungsten carbide hard facing alloys, 426 Spikes in motor car tyre for driving on ice, 444
Tipped studs in BS3 tyre, 517 —? — Tipped twist drills (trade publication), 166
Tunnel, Clyde, new, discussion in Parliament, 467
— Dartford-Purfleet, northern approach con
tract, 93
—? Dartford-Purfleet, progress of, 635
— Diode (GEC (US)), 132
— Driving at Agecroft Colliery, 23
— Engineering, by R. Hammond (review), 482
— Eucumbene-Tumut, for Snowy Mountain
hydroelectric project, completion of, 61
— Mettur, scheme for, 15
— Mont Blanc, slow down in progress on, 119
— Road, ventilation of, by L. H. Butler, 23
— Supports for walls and roofs (Causeway
Reinforcements Ltd.), 207
— Tyne, Ministry of Transport approval for
project, 160
—Underpass scheme for London, 411
— Water, 44-in. for cavitation studies at NHL,
416
West Delaware, roof bolts for, 61 Tunnelling gangs, neoprene-coated protective clothing for, 347
— on Snowy Mountain hydroelectric and
irrigation scheme, 315
Turbin AB de Laval Ljungstrom (TALL), formation of, 88
Turbine, air, with free speed of 35,000 r.p.m, (Turbomachines Ltd.), 600
Ram drive, of Mk 20 refuelling pack
(Flight Refuelling Ltd.), 295
— Blades. See Blade: Blading
— by F. E. Dean (review), 649
— Disc, elasticity of, effect of blade frequency,
by J. P. Ellington and Dr. H. McCallion.
See LETTER, 20
— Gas, atomic-reactor applications, 204
— — Bristol marine Proteus, for Brave
Borderer, 389
Cycles for atomic ship propulsion, 535 Locomotive, by D. C. MacPhail, 30 Locomotive, position and prospects of, 236
M-1, for atomic power plant (Aerojet- General), 638
for rail transport, by E. S. Cox, 234 Water pump. Mars (Perkins Gas Turbines Ltd.), 422
See also Aircraft engine
— Generator units for West Thurrock
station, 524
— Hydraulic. See also Hydro-electric:
plant
— Pump. See Pump, centrifugal
— Steam. See also Turbo-generator Blading for. See Blade: Blading Turbo-alternators for Willington A
station, 281
power
Power
power
Turbo-Static oil-fired air heater (Colt Ventilation Ltd.), 432
Turbo-supercharger. See Supercharger Turbodyne air-driven grinders (Turbomachines
Ltd.), 465
'’Bin
ENGINEERING, VOL. 188
Turboflex flexible couplings (Turbomachines Ltd.), 496
Turbomachines Ltd., Turbodyne air-driven grinders, 465; Turboflex flexible couplings, 496; air turbine with free speed of 35,000 r.p.m., 600
Turf. See Peat
Turner Bros. Asbestos, Duramat needled glass mat reinforced plastics, 103
Turners Asbestos Cement Co. Ltd., mechanised cement handling at Erith North factory, 172
Turning and boring mill, vertical (Strojexport) 339
Turret press, Weidmann, for small batch piercing (Dowding and Doll Ltd.), 242
— Reactor, Los Alamos, 607
Turriff Construction Co. Ltd., offices at Winfrith Heath, 475
Tuyere, blast furnace, development of, 248
TVR Grantura sports car, reinforced plastics body for (Layton Sports Cars), 360
2CP, petrol additive (Union Carbide International Co.), 516
“ Two Hundred ” driving head for conveyors (Richard Sutcliffe Ltd.), 54
TWW. See Independent Television
Tyne tunnel project. Ministry of Transport approval for, 160
Typewriter, auto tester for (Remington Rand), 425
Typing at school, by L. R. East, 20
Tyre, BS3 removable-tread (Pirelli), 444, 517
— Butyl rubber for, 483
?— Filling, Polyrubber, 483
— Improved materials for, 483
— Nylon cord for, 483
?— Polyester fibres for, 483
— Silicone rubbers for, 483
— Steel fibres for, 483
— Sure-Grip Lug Earthmover (Goodyear), 215
— Tubeless, inflator for (Hymatic), 85
— Tungsten carbide spikes in, for driving on
ice, 444
— Vinylon cord for, 483
Tyril 767 styrene acrylonitrile copolymer (Distrene), 103
Tyrolit grinding-wheel products agency for Flexible Drives (Gilmans) Ltd., 47
UCAN Development Ltd., Hilti fixing tool for narrow sections, 116
Uddeholms AB, activities of, 564
Uddeholms Ltd., expansion of activities, 564 Uganda Electricity Board, all-African survey team, 89
UKRAS. See United Kingdom Railway Advisory Service
Ulster, development of new industries, 270 Ultrasonic fresh-frozen milk 255
— Tests on internal cracks in elastic materials,
37
— Testing apparatus, 37, 38 of atomic fuel elements, 502 of welds, by R. Hornung, 141 Unbalance of wheels on vehicles, by P. Srinivasan, 350
Undercarriage for Victor aircraft, 107
Undercooling in condensers on tankers, investigation into prevention of by John Brown and Co. (Clydebank), Ltd., 422
Under-developed countries, FBI committee on, 566
Undergraduate failures, survey of, 57 Underground Machinery Manufacturers, Council of. See Council
— Railway depot at Upminster, 266
Train signalling system (A. T. and E. (Wigan) Ltd.), 54
See also London Transport Executive Underhill, A. B., on stark broadening functions for hydrogen lines (book), 354
Underhill, F. H., on Canadian Northwest (review), 513
Underhill, H. W., on use of smaller computers, service centres and joint ownership, 473 Underpass tunnel scheme for London, 411 Underwood, E. N., multi-storey garage for Bristol, 119
Unemployment areas, redeployment in, 146
— in election manifestos, 238
— in iron founding industry, 603
— in Northern Ireland, 627
— in Poole-Bournemouth-Christchurch area,
28
— School-leavers bulge and, 153
— Statistics, 27, 89
— See also Local Unemployment Bill UNESCO. See United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organisation
UNICE. See Federation of Industries Unidare Ltd., activities of, 313
Union Carbide International Co., foamed polyethylene core for coaxial cables, 29; weld CM flame cutting machine, 31; temperature curing silicone resin, Linde carbon dioxide regulators. Simplex ferrochrome alloy pellets, 2CP and 4BP petrol additives, 516; Short- Arc welding process, 562; Pilot Arc starting for Heliarc spot welding process 563; vinyl coating for radar station, 675 Union Carbide Metals Co., titanium with alloying additions of platinum or palladium 292
— Trade. See Trade Union and under names
of specific unions
Unit buildings (trade publication), 554
United Arab Republic, agreement with Sudan for sharing of Nile waters, 507
United Aircraft Corp., history of, by H. M. Horner, 33
United Dominions Trust, hire purchase of motor cars by servicemen overseas, 533; hire purchase for flying training, 669
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, comment on gas-cooled reactor policy, 1; review of reports, 6; information centre at London office, 6; photographic library, 6; microphotography of documents, 6; patents and inventions list, 6; reports of, 35; training in radiation hazards, 47; increase of membership planned, 62; Sir R. Makins appointed chairman, 62; Air Chief Marshal Sir C. Belly appointed member for weapons, 62; J. B. Adams appointed director of new thermonuclear research establishment, 62; insurance liability of, 63; revised safety and health organisation, 63; Dr. A. S. McLean appointed director of health and safety, 63; safeguards division, 63; radiological protection division, 63; report by Select Committee on Estimates, 96; contract to Hawker Siddeley Nuclear Power Co. Ltd., for glove-box and vacuum melting furnaces, 164; reactor materials manuals, 205; Birlec furnace for annealing reactor fuel elements, 276; reactor development programme, 365; beryllium monitor for (Glass Developments Ltd.), 401; central research facility for plasma physics and thermonuclear reactions at Culham, 406; underground explosion experiments, 439; membership expansion, 503; test of atomic explosion detection methods, 575; see also under specific projects and establishments United Kingdom Railway Advisory Service (UKRAS), formation and activities of, 430 United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s Inland Transport Committee, 476
— — Economic developments in Middle East,
115
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, bibliography of monolingual scientific and technical glossaries. Vol. 11, 39; (book), 322
Special Fund, Argentina power survey, 83, 271
United States Air Force Research and Development Command, molecular electronic equipment, 132
United States Atomic Energy Commission, nuclear superheat development, 64; work suspended on liquid-sodium-cooled, heavywater moderated reactor, 64; graphitemoderated plutonium production reactor, 123; tenders invited for, 16-5 MW pres- surised-water power station, 283; military field atomic power plants, 439; nuclear power in remote military installations, 439; underground explosion experiments, 439; Purex ventilation exhaust filter at Hanford, 575; shearing fuel elements at Hanford, 575; purification of plutonium nitrate at Hanford, 575; reactor comparison studies, 606; advanced pressurised water reactor, 606; boiling water and organic cooled reactor systems 606; SSNPP power plant, 671; see also under specific projects and research establishments
— -— Atomic power seven year plan, 671 United States Borax and Chemical Corp.,
British investment in, 25
Department of Commerce research report on nuclear radiation effects on magnets, 132
? Electrical machinery imports, ruling on,
25
?—? — Electrical machinery industry, contract dispute in, 26
Euratom joint programme with, 94 Exports to, statistics, 299 Gold stocks transfers, 51 •—? — Helium production in, 292
Hydraulic research in (catalogue), 579 Interplanetary reconnaisance vehicle, 169 United States Metallic Packing Co. Ltd., installation of electrical machinery drive, 173 Motor car industry, small cars in, 143 Motor cars, production of small, 146
? National Bureau of Mines, radiation
detector for liquids, 84; atomic reactor heat for chemical processes, 205; mining of bituminous coal with jets of water, 522; air-cooled crucible, 639
National Bureau of Standards, fractional factorial experiment designs for factors at three levels, by W. S. Connor and M. Zelen (book), 40; tables of osculators interpolation coefficients (book), 40; Circular 599, theory of fading properties of a fluctuating signal imposed on a constant signal, by H. Brenner (book), 290; list of publications, 321; hydraulic research (catalogue), 579
National helium-conservation plan, 292 Naval Research Laboratory, stable plasma, 407
New markets for imports to, by Mr. J. H. Smeddle, 332
Nuclear joint projects with Russia, 607 Office of Naval Research, molecular electronic equipment, 132
Oil imports, quota for, 18
? Plutonium production in, 470
— — Shift differential payments review, 27 Shipbuilding industry, order position in,
26
Shipbuilding industry, position and prospects of, 381
United States Steel Corp., new products and processes of, 152; highway bridge design competition, winners in, 411; radiation effects on pressure-vessel steel, 439; steel road bridge competition, 643
Steel industry, strike of, 335
— — Tin recovery from tinplate in 1955, 136 Uranium production in, 470
See also America; American
United Steel Cos. Ltd., Distington-Goodman Ropex belt conveyor, 54; short residential courses, 201; stainless steel lift door for Samuel Fox, 541
Unity Structures, fall pipes and guttering of Weldvic polyvinyl chloride, 80
UNIVAC computer in rudder flutter study, 584 Univac UVS 2 centrifugal pump for liquids and slurries (Henvy Sykes Ltd.), 633
Universal Asbestos Manufacturing Co., pitch fibre piping, 80; acquisition of share capital of Chancery Insulations, 276
Universal beams with plastic design for new rod mill of Arthur Lee and Sons, 119
— Elevator for coal (Bennis Combustion Ltd.),
149
Universe, the individual and, by Prof. A. C. B. Lovell (review), 449
University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, British financial allocation to, 533
— Course, duration of, comment on, 429
— Entrants, discussion in Parliament on, 499 University Microfilms, change of address, 69
— Scientific research in British (DSIR), 353
— Students, failure rate of, 667
— See also under specific universities Upminster underground railway depot, 266 Upper atmosphere engine, by Dr. W. F. Hilton,
89
Experiments, 647
Uppsala conference on nuclear fusion, 406 Uranium alloys, constitutional diagrams of, 639 Surface activity of, 35
— Cartridges, radiography of, 35
— Consumption, 470
— Data manual, 205
— Extraction in Sweden, 471
— Fuel elements, tubular, 502
Rods, gamma heating of reactor moderator by, 6
— Gas swelling of, 35
— Natural, fission products from, 534
— Ore deposits, Peru, 122 Deposits, Spain, 122 Deposits, Sweden, 122
? Deposits in Switzerland, 282
— Oxide as atomic fuel, 638
as atomic fuel for OCDRE reactor, 378 Atomic fuel elements, fabrication at Chalk River, 407
Atomic fuel tubes, sintered with stainless steel, 502
Powder for fuel elements, 502
See also Plutonium and uranium oxide
— Plates, Laplacians of subcritical assemblies
in natural water, 7
— Production in Australia, 470 Canada, 470, 503 Commonwealth, 470 Roumania, 470 South Africa, 470, 607 United States, 470
— Prospecting, by H. Lloyd Barnes (book), 134
— Requirements for military purposes, 470 for peaceful purposes, 470
— Resources in Commonwealth, 470
— Stream, sulphide treatment for ruthenium
in, 35
— 233 fission, nuclear constants for, 7 Thoria slurry reactor, 7
— 235 fission, nuclear constants for, 7 Production in France, 470 Shipment guide, USAEC, 471
— 237, beta counting, 36
— See also Bismuth-uranium Uranyl fluoride, heavy water solution
HAZEL, 7
Solutions, preparation and handling, 7 Urethene-base caulking compounds, 451
— Self-adhesive plastics foam, Tesamoll (Seal
draught Ltd.), 392
Urquhart’s (1926) Ltd., MacFlame oil burner for heavy grade fuels, 634
Uruguay, atomic energy programme, 282 US Industries Inc. (Great Britain) Ltd., formation, 244; purchase of Burtonwood Engineering Co., 413
Utile, bending tests, TDA report on, 207 Uvispek spectrophotometer, Hilger atomic absorption spectroscopy equipment for use with (Hilger and Watts Ltd.), 196
V-BRICK, new, film on, 507
V-8 motor-car engines, 275
Vaal Reefs Exploration and Mining, shaft sinking record, 347
Vacuum brake. See Brake
— Chamber, epoxy resin, irradiation of, 311
— Clamp, mobile, for welding (Vacuum Indus
trial Applications Ltd.), 196
— Furnace with degassing unit (Birlec-
Efco)40l
with molybdenum heating windings (Vacuum Metallurgical Development Ltd.) 338
Vacuum Industrial Applications Ltd., mobile vacuum clamp for welding, 196
— Leak detection techniques, 31
Vacuum Metallurgical Development Ltd,, vacuum furnace with molybenum heating windings, 338
— Pump. See Pump
Vacuum Science and Technology, Joint British Committee for, formation and constitution of, 494-495, 552
— Tank for missile design (National Research
Corp., US), 384
Valdarno bar shearing machine, portable (Sharston Engineering Co. Ltd.), 370
— Billet shears (Sharston Engineering), 602
— Universal punching and shearing machine
(Sharston Engineering Co. Ltd.), 306
Valves, air (trade publication), 212
— Analyser, type U-61B (Metrix Instruments
Ltd.), 273
— Electronic, testing at EID, 447
— Frame-grid, for television receivers, 144
?— Glands, ptfe packing rings for, 387
— Hydraulic, EC Mark 11 (Ellison), 264
for Farmall B.450 tractor, S.21 (Hymatic Engineering Co. Ltd.), 140
— — with feel control (Keelavite Hydraulics
Ltd.), 273
?— Lever, solenoid operated (Black Automatic Controls Ltd.), 454
— Pipeline, through conduit (Triangle Valve
Co. Ltd.), 21
— Temperature control, automatic, Serckstat,
for diesel engines, 12
control Leonard 21 (Walker, Crossweller and Co. Ltd.), 529
Vamamoto, Japanese warship, building of, 445 Van. See Motor vehicle
Van de Graaff particle accelerator for California Institute, 342; for Switzerland and Australia (High Voltage Engineering), 343 Van Viack, L. H., on elements of materials science (book), 418
Vanadium data manual, 205
— 48, production and separation, Harwell, 36
— Pentoxide, action of, by Dr. H. G. Engell,
135
Vancouver, post-and-beam houses in, 174 Vanguard aircraft, Vickers, accessory gearbox on (Rotol Ltd.), 296
Vapours, corrosive, graphite cartridge condenser for (Powell Dufl'ryn Carbon Products Ltd.), 337
Vasa, Swedish warship, salvage of, 523 Vauxhall, ATV at, 381
Vauxhall Motors Ltd., mechanical handling at, 172
Vegetable matter, protein production by shock waves through water, 307
Vehicle Contracts, vehicle fleet hire service, 691 Vehicles, steam road. See Steam road
— See also Motor
Velio process for lead glass tubing, 31 Vending machines, formation of Primapax Ltd. for, 120
— Suite, postal, 655
Venezuela, atomic energy programme, 282 Venezuelan market, report on packaging, presentation and finish of goods for, 144 Venice throughout the centuries. Vols. I and II; the city, by E. Miozzi (review), 5 Vent-Axia extraction fans and cowls (trade publication), 258
Ventilation damper, venturi (W. C. Holmes and Co. Ltd.), 488
— Duct, pvc, at National Chemical Labora
tory, 292
— Fan, flow meter for measuring performance
of (National Coal Board), 498
Xpelair, two-speed and reversible (Woods of Colchester), 497
— Plant for Welwyn-Hatfield general hos
pital, 280
— of road tunnels, by L. H. Butler, 23
— Roof, Mechavent Roofline air extractor for
(Greenwood and Airvac Ventilating Co.), 400
— of steam power station, by A. G. Kelly, 42
— System for Rolls-Royce motor car, 508 Ventilator fan for window, 107
— Powered, Vent-Axia (trade publication), 258 Venturi tube for hydraulics laboratory (Tec-
quipment), 10
— Ventilation damper (W. C. Holmes and Co.
Ltd.), 488
Vereinigung der Grosskesselbesitzer on boiler feed water and cooling water (review), 166 Veriform process, chromium plating unit for (Rockwell Machine Tool Co.), 601 Verimor penetrant ink for flaw detection (Manchester Oil Refinery (Sales) Ltd.), 620 Veritys Ltd., acquisition by Hawker Siddeley, 276
Vernier protractor for the Shadowmaster optical projector (Watson, Manasty and Co. Ltd.), 434
Vero, Airmec, drilling machine, turret headl with tape control (Catmur Machine Too, Corp.), 602
Verolme, C., shipbuilder, 445
Verolme Cork Dockyard Ltd., shipbuilding activities of, 313
Verolme United Shipyards, contract for liner for American European Lines N.V., 445 Verrolec Ltd., Fein air-operated work clamps, 496
Vertol 107 twin-turbine helicopter, 519 Vertomatic electro-slag welding machine,
Rockweld-Vus, 150, 298
Vessels, reaction, cylindrical, temperature distribution in, by R. Neubauer (book), 418
— Tufplas glass reinforced plastics (Cawley
Plastics), 356
Veterinary College (Stockholm). See Royal Veterinary College
VGB. See Vereinigung der Grosskesselbesitzer Viaduct, Creswell, over Birmingham-Preston- Penrith motorway, 61
— Gathurst, over Birmingham-Preston-Pen
rith motorway, 61
— Thelwall, over Birmingham-Preston-Penrith
motorway, 61
Steelwork contract for, 207
— See also Bridge
Vial mine car tipping system (W. G. Allen &
Sons (Tipton) Ltd.), 54 Vibration for faster pile driving, 23
— Hull, rudder-excited, by R. T. McGoldrick,
584
— Isolation for high-precision instrument
manufacture, 329
— Measurement, accelerometer for (Technical
Ceramics), 52
— for precast concrete, practical applications
of, 443
— in research ship, 415
— and shock isolation, by J. A. Macinante
(review), 418
— Torsional, handbook, by E. J. Nestorides
(review), 69. See LETTER, 271
— due to unbalanced wheels on vehicles, 350 Vibrator for electrostatic precipitator (Kop-
pers), 111
— Multi, circuits, by A. H. Bruinsma (review),
617
Vice, machine. Camgrip (Hill and Co. (Tools) Ltd.), 632
Vick, W. D. Ltd., spot welding (trade publication), 354
Vickers Ltd., position and prospects of, 308; opening of Weeks Hall, Imperial College, 309
Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd., new medical centre in Newcast'e upon Tyne, 309
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35
Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd., aircraft accessory gearbox (Rotol Ltd.), 296; Alvarez proton accelerator as injector accelerator for Nimrod proton synchrotron, 342; model tests on magnet for Nimrod proton synchrotron, 343; Eureka reactor facility, 671
Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers) Ltd., McKay- matic die shear lines, 489
Vickers-Armstrongs (Shipbuilders) Ltd., Hermes aircraft carrier, 609
Vickers, M. D., on conversion of ionospheric virtual height-frequency curves to electron density-height profiles (book), 290
Vickers Nuclear Engineering Ltd., steam- cooled reactor system for ship propulsion, by Capt. H. F. Atkins, 8, 146-147. See also I. See LETTERS, 83, 239; steam-cooled reactor for ship propulsion, 64
Vickers Research Ltd., linear accelerator for medical use, 342; linear accelerators for processing materials and radiation therapy, 343
Vickery, B. C., review on Modern Trends in Documentation, 481-482; biographic note, 482
Victor aircraft, Handley Page, undercarriage for, 107
Victoria tube project, 23
Victorious, aircraft carrier, 327
Viewer for half-plate negatives, Barcro (E. N. Mason and Son Ltd.), 666
Viking Series 2 twin-screw motor yacht, 75 Village model. Costwold, 673
Villiers Co., chairman’s annual statement, 677 Villiers House, mosaic cladding on, 651
Vinyl resin coating for radar installation in North Atlantic, 675
Coating system for sector gates of St. Lawrence Seaway, 388
Vinylon in tyres, 483
Virtual work and complementary energy applied to non-linear braced frameworks, by Prof. J. A. L. Matheson. See LETTERS, 19, 271
Viton coatings for concrete, 684
Vitreous enamelling, improvements in, 29 Vocational and technical education in USSR, bibliographical survey by M. 1. Movsovic, 165
Vdest AG agreement with Wellman Smith Owen Engineering Corp, on LD making process, 613
Voice, E. H., on mechanical gear, 19 Voith-Schneider cycloidal propellers on Freshwater, 590
Volga M-2lk motor car, Russian Autoexport), 423
Volker Aannaeming, new quay wall for Port of Karachi, 119
Volkswagen factory in Brazil, progress of, 612
— Motor car improvements, by G. Wilkins,
151
— — Car, road holding of, 345
Voltas Ltd., marketing in India of Henley’s products, 459
Volumetric apparatus, glass, testing of, by J. C. Hughes (book), 650
Vosper Ltd,, roll damping device for hull of HMS Coniston, 359; patrol boat. Brave Borderer, 389; roll-damping fins for motor yacht Christina, 440; Brave Borderer patrol boat, 455
Voting by telephone. Dr. V. K. Zworykin’s scheme for, 373
VTQ. See Aircraft VTQL. See Aircraft Vulcan Boiler and General Insurance Co. Ltd., centenary of, 110
Vus (Bratislava) Vertomatic slag welding machine (Rockweld Ltd.), 150
Vyon polyethylene foam (Pritchett and Gold), 104
steel
ferry
(VO
WADDELL, J. H., on stark broadening functions for hydrogen lines (book), 354 Wadkin Ltd., HYR three dimensional routing machine, 274; Bursgreen 10-in. saw bench, 336
Waffle precast concrete flooring and ceiling panel for Winfrith Heath offices (Modular Concrete Co. Ltd.), 475
Wage claim. Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions, 637
Engineering unions, 270, 526
Shipbuilding unions, 526
— Computer for, 473
— Demands, comment on, 245
Engineering industry, 335 Engineering industry “ white collar ” workers, 437
Shipbuilding industry, 335
— Earners, bank accounts for, 245
— in Italy, 115
— in union and non-union shops, AFL-CIQ
survey, 373
Wagner, J, J., on anti-neutrino cross-sections, 311
Wagons-lits, history of, 1875-1955, by G, Behrend (book), 322
— Railway, Beetle power propulsion unit for,
169
— Size standard, 126
— Usage by BR, 126
— Vacuum brakes for, discussion in Parlia
ment on, 28
Weiner, N., nonlinear problems in random theory (review), 101
Wakefield, G. G., on aircraft electrical engineering (book), 134
Wakefield Memorial Lecture, by P. Masefield, 25
Waldhauer, F. D., on transistor electronics (review), 321-322
Wales, industry movement to, 603
— and Monmouthshire, Industrial Association
of. See Industrial Association
Walker, Crossweller and Co. Ltd., Leonard 21 water mixing valve with thermostatic control, 529
Walker Manufacturing Co., stainless steel motor car silencer, 588
Walls, cavity, Thermagrade lining system (EAW Industries), 396
— Curtain, Castrol House, 537
— — for chemical laboratory of Samuel Fox
& Co. Ltd. (Crittall Manufacturing Co. Ltd.), 475
— ?— for multi-storey offices, 537 Preformed seals for, 451
Sheffield College of Technology, 537 Wall, G. P., aqueous uranyl fluoride solutions: Part 2, 7
— Heating, cooling and lighting panel, thermoelectric and electroluminescent, 16
— Jablite expanded polystyrene lining for, 396
— Plugs, Adapta (trade publication), 514
— Precast load bearing, 546
— Supports for tunnels (Causeway Reinforcements Ltd.), 207
Wallace, L. MacQuisten, on engineers’ earnings, 495
Wallis, G., on removal of fission products from solution, 35
Walsh, Dr. J. W. T., awarded gold medal of Illuminating Engineering Society, 501
Walter Reed Army Medical Centre, research reactor, 205
Wanapum Dam, English Electric’s lawsuit on contract for, 26
Wankel, F., rotating-piston engine, 580, 676 Wansbrough-Jones, Sir Q., resignation as chief scientist. Ministry of Supply, 245
Ward Group, products and services (trade publication), 386
Ward, L. F., building kit for Surrey motor vehicle, 423
Ward-Leonard set for crane control, 105 Ward and Payne Ltd., stainless steel garden shears, 295
Ward, Thos., Ltd., Ficep shearing machines (trade publication), 102; National Hydrodynamics Laboratory, 416; annual report and accounts, 509
Warder, S. B., on railway electrification, 231 Wardrop, J. G., on road improvement priorities formula, 185
Warerite, panelled lift shaft (Bakelite Ltd.), 542 Warhead, rocket, requirements, 351-352 Warning device, altitude (Mechanism Ltd.), 29 Warren, A. P., Ltd., Apwar Edgefinder for setting-up work, 402
Warren Spring Laboratory, catalytic afterburners for diesel engine exhaust fumes, 28 facilities and research programme of, building construction and layout of, engineering services and plant at, divisions of, 68
Warship, Vasa. Swedish, salvage of, 523
— See also under specific type of warship Warsop Power Tools Ltd., Durogun concrete
delivering machine, 529
Wartsila Koncernen A/B purchase of Holdite No. 33 adhesive from Surridges Patents Ltd., 268
Washing machine, dish, Colston, 563 Engineering problems of, 268 Sale increases in, 268
Waste bins, Medway disposable paper sacks as (Medway Paper Sacks Ltd.), 634
— Fission, cooling of underground, 35
— Radioactive. See Radioactive
Watch, parking, 605
— Tin-nickel plating for, 692
Water adsorption by graphite, 6
— Board, Mid-Northants, six-county water
grid, 507
— Boiler feed. See Boiler
— Can, polythene, Longfellow, 75
— Chemically-pure for Ford Motor Co.
expansion (Permutit Co. Ltd.), 458
— Circulation system in boiler tube bank test
rig, 318
— Committee. Central Advisory, report of, 250
— Compensation, Glasgow, 643
— Consumption statistics, 251
— Cooling. See Cooling
— Distributor for dust suppression for coal
cutters, 486
— Grid, six-county, for Mid-Northants Water
Board, 507
— Jet, coal mining with, 522
— Mixing valve with thermostatic control,
Leonard 21 (Walker, Crossweller and Co. Ltd.), 529
— Portable electrodialysis plant for, in North
African desert (Ionics Incorp.), 411
— Power. See Hydraulic; Hydro-electric
— Pump, direct acting, for high pressures
(Richard Sutcliffe Ltd.), 666
Gas-turbine, Mars (Perkins Gas Turbines Ltd.), 422
Mobile axial. Maxiflow (Armfield Hydraulic Engineering), 653
on Saunders-Roe rocket fuelling unit, 491
— Purification plant, orders for (William Boby
and Co.), 174
— Resources in Asia and Far East, pro
ceedings of conference on (ESCAFE), 251
— Sea, corrosion tests on steel in, 259
— Shortage, position and prospects of, 194,
250. See LETTER, 272
— Supply, hot, for Welwyn-Hatfield general
hospital, 280
for industry, 250
Position and prospects, 250
Position and prospects of. Plain Words on, 2
Statistics, 250
from underground strata, 474 at Warren Spring Laboratory, 68 See also Irrigation
—-Transport, relative advantages of, 226
— Treatment plant, Deminrolit mixed-bed
(Permutit Co. Ltd.), 434
— Treatment, radioactivity in, course on, 535,
539
Water-Tube Boilermakers’ Association, trade agreement removal from Restrictive Trading Register, 173
— Tunnel, 44 in, for cavitation studies, at
NHL, 416
West Delaware, roof bolts for, 61
— Turbine. See Hydro-electric
— Wheel. See Hydro-electric Waterways, inland, by M. J. Macfarlane, 399-
400
— See also River; Canal
67;
67;
68;
Wales, model of Soho building, 536
Watford, pleat wrapping machine (H and B Precision Engineers Ltd.), 433
Watson, H. R., on re-entry of manned space one-man space vehicle.
vehicles, 89; on
155
Watson, Manasty and tractor for the projector, 434
Watson and Sons (Electro-Medical) Ltd., Brown- Boveri radiographic betatron, 666
Watson, W., Barnet ventilator, 469
Watt, D. S., Physics is easy (review), 69
Watt, James, connection with Carron Co., 46; see also Boulton and Watt; James Watt lecture
Watt, J. R., on electromagnetic radiation from cylindrical structures (book), 386
Wave, Alfven, in plasma, 407
— Forms, Nanoscope for observing fast (Lion
Electronic Developments), 86
— Making equipment for towing tank at Ship
Hydrodynamics Laboratory, 518
— Making machine at NHL (Keelavite
Hydraulics Ltd.), 416
— Micro. See Microwaves
— Pressure, in gases in pipes, by F. K. Ban
nister (book), 134
— Radio, aurora effect study, 680
— Shock. See Shock
— Thermal, propagation in graphite, 6
Wayne Kerr Laboratories Ltd., B721 electronic micrometer, 296
W-D Becker combination underjet coke ovens at MCPP (Woodall-Duckham), 171
Weale, J., W., engineering and physics design, 7 Weapons, atomic, tests of, atmospheric radioactivity from 439
— — Tests of, detection of underground, 439 Wear of ptfe packing rings, effect of shaft
surface finish on, 387
— of ptfe packing rings, by T. D. S. Wood, 387
— Resistance of hard facing alloys, 426 Wearmouth, W. G., on food production, 599-
600
Weatherill, F. E., Ltd., loading shovels for soft ground, 197; Hydraulic loading shovels, 530
Weathertripping, metal vs. neoprene, 451 Webb, M. S. W., on radioactive and natural strontium in human bones, 36
Webber, T. J., on lanthanum fluoride coprecipitation of plutonium, 35; on radioactive and natural strontium in human bones, 36
Webbing, nylon, woven, for freight net (Thomas French and Sons Ltd.), 487
Wedge, fibreglass, for acoustic ment, 65
Wedglok nylon pellet locking body of nut, bolt or screw lands) Ltd.), 296
Weeks Hall, Imperial College, opening of, 309 Weeks, Lord, at Imperial College commemoration day, 405
Weidmann turret press for small batch piercing (Dowding and Doll Ltd.), 242
Weighing equipment, automatic (Elcontrol Ltd.), 306
— Installation, automatic, at bitumen mixing
plant (Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd.), 251 Weinland bridge, competitive designs for, 184 Weir, G. and J., Ltd., manufacture of Weir- Clark compressors, 491
Weisser, Eugen, machine tool agency for Stanley Howard Ltd., 47
Weld backing strip, silicone, 452
— Ultrasonic testing of, by R. Hornung, 141
— X-ray examination of, at atomic power
stations, 490
Welded constructions design, by J. Ruge (review), 258
— Steel pipe (British Steel Piling Co. Ltd.), 143 Structure for Doncaster highway bridge
replacement, 610
Weldees welding electrodes (English Electric). 260
Welding, arc, plant and accessories (trade publication), 354
— of atomic reactor vessels at Hinkley Point,
490
— in bridge construction, 180, 182
— and Cutting (trade publication), 290
— Design, course on(lnstitute of Welding), 377
— Dissimilar metals, 355
— Electro-slag, of thick plates, 298
— Electrodes, 6011 (English Electric), 260 Contact (Philips Electrical), 360 for hard facing, 426
Hard-facing Cobalarc (Quasi-Arc Ltd.), 356
Herculees 35 (English Electric), 260 Holder and clamp (Interlas Ltd.), 198 Holder, Handicool (Quasi-Arc), 498 Manganees (English Electric), 260 Pressurees I Pl (English Electric), 260 Pyristees (English Electric), 260 Weldees (English Electric), 260 —? Equipment exhibitions (AEI), 413 Semi-automatic, Sigmette (Quasi-Arc), 562
— Fittings for steel pipe work (trade publica
tion), 354
— Gas, regulator for (British Industrial Gases
Ltd.), 150
— Hard facing by, 426
— Heliarc process. Pilot Arc starting for, 563 Welding Industries Ltd., a.c. mobile welding
set, 569
— Institute of. See Institute of Welding
— Machine, electro-slag, Rockweld-Vus Verto
matic, 150, 298
Flash-butt, Sciaky BPW3-400H, 562 Multi-spot for Austin Seven motor car (Electro Mechan-Heat Ltd,), 330
for plastics. Acme, with double heads (H.F. Industrial Services), 21
for plastics coated steel, SAS 75 (Sciaky Electric Welding Machines Ltd.), 433
for plastics sheet (trade publication), 354
— Mobile vacuum clamp for (Vacuum Indus
trial Applications Ltd.), 196
Welding Production, (BWRA), 353
Welding set, mobile,
Ltd.), 569
Co. Ltd., Vernier proShadowmaster optical
surface treat-
element for (GKN (Mid
translation of Russian
a.c. (Welding Industries
Welding. Short-Arc process, 562
— Spot (trade publication), 354 on Austin Seven motor car, 330
— Submerged-arc, Autopak (Rockweld), 563 Arc, comparison with electro-slag process for thick plate, 298
— Techniques, application in industry, by P. Schimpke and H. A. Horn (review), 258 in industry, 258
— of thick plate, 490
— Transformer, Balarc-175, 560
Weldvic polyvinyl chloride for fall pipes and guttering (ICI), 80
Welfare in non-ferrous foundries, report on, 533 — Society, Industrial. See Industrial
Welford door of counterbalanced panels (Westland Engineers Ltd.), 541
Well-point drilling machine, Reich 155 (Consolidated Pneumatic Tool Co. Ltd.), 432
Welland Canal, capacity improvements to, 194 Closure date, 431
Increase in capacity, 207
Weller, J. A., on British publicity abroad, 147
Wellman Smith Owen Engineering Corp, agreement with Vdest AG on LD steelmaking process, 613
Wells, L, aqueous uranyl fluoride solutions; Part 2, 7
Welsh College of Advanced Technology, plea for greater use of, 98
Welwyn-Hatfield general hospital, elec'rical and mechanical installations for, 280
Werner, Fritz, milling machines (Rockwell Machine Tool Co. Ltd.), 305
Wessex helicopters for India, 563
West Africa, visit by ICE president and secretary, 309, 398
— Delaware water tunnel, roof bolts for, 61
— Indies, trade mission from, 19
— Midlands Gas Board, radio control centre for Birmingham gas supplies, 657
— Pakistan. See Pakistan
West of Scotland Iron and Steel Institute. Journal of. See Journal of IVest of Scotland
— Thurrock power station, turbine generator units for, 524
— Virginia, radio telescope for, 32
Westbury, E. T., on Internal Combustion Engines (review), 649
Westia-Widia tungsten carbide tipped twist drills (trade publication), 166
Westinghouse Electric Corp., wall panel for heating, cooling and lighting, 16; thermoelectric generator for US Navy, 32; electroluminescent cell lamp. 111; high temperature reactor, 158; pressure-tube reactor study for Spain, 283; luminescent chamber, 343
Westinghouse Electric International Co., nuclear steam generating plant for Enrico Fermi project, 283; reactor manufacture agreements in Belgium and Italy, 535 Westland Aircraft Co. Ltd., merger with Saunders-Roe, 26, 88; designs for 3-way lift helicopter, 359; Westminster helicopter for ambulance pods, 405; Whirlwind helicopters for Queen’s Flight, 519; Wessex helicopters for India, 563
Westland Engineers Ltd., Welford door of counterbalanced panels, 541
Westminster Dredging Co. Ltd., Port Sunlight rock-cutting suction dredger, 30
— Helicopter, for ambulance pods, 405
Westool Ltd., Electron speed regulator using eddy currents, 328
Wharton Crane and Hoist Co. Ltd., Wharton- Vilver electro-mechanical lifting platform, 244
Wharton-Vilver electro-mechanical lifting platform, 244
Wheel-brake drum, lightweight, by Al-Fin process (GMC), 612
of Jolesfield windmill, 262
— Fan, of Jolesfield windmill, 262
— Motor car, bolt-on nuts for (Alexander Engineering), 612
— Profile truling machine for locomotives (North British), 41
— Unbalance of, on vehicles, by P. Srinivasan, 350
Wheeler, P. R. V., on KG (Holdings) Ltd., 477
Wheelers Ltd., hyperbolic paraboloid timber shells for new Ipswich school roof, 315
Whessoe Ltd., Milford Haven refinery, 347
Whetstone Works. See English Electric Co. Ltd.
Which? publication of Consumers Association Ltd., 336, 524
Whiffen and Sons, nylon type 11, 104
Whipple, R. T. P., on Exercise Mermaid, 35 Whirlwind helicopters for Queen’s Flight (Westland), 519
Whisker crystals, non-metallic, research on properties of, 352
Whisky, glass pipeline for, 29
“ White collar ” workers, wage demands by, 437
White, H., on Hughes Bolckow jubilee, 52 White, Thomas, and Sons Ltd., Speed-sanders, for top and bottom surfacing, 466; ER panel sizing machine, 530
Whitegate oil refinery, 312, 595
Whitehead, T. N., on design and use of instruments and accurate mechanism (book), 102 Whiteley, C. S., review on Patents for Engineers, 681-682; biographical note, 682 Who Owns Whom company ownership directory, 88
Whole surface gluing machine, Essor Zephyr (Leon Davis and Co. Ltd.), 149 _
Wickham Engineering veyor feeder for concrete, 22
Wickman Ltd., spark automatic honing machines, 658
Wickman-Scrivener range centreless grinding machine (Arthur Scrivener Ltd.), 464
Wicksteed, Charles, and Co. Ltd., electric automatic torque control unit for tube expander, 464
Wiggin, H., and Co., Nimocast 713C, nickelchromium casting alloy, 218
Co. Ltd., Fulflo con- handling aggregate or erosion machine, 148;
Wiggs, P. K. C., review on Structure and Properties of Porous Materials, 289; biographical note, 290; review on Fine Particle Measurement, 385; biographical note, 386
Wilcock, Dr. W. L., image intensifier with high definition, 447
Wilcox, J. M., on ion magnetron, 407
Wilcox, R. P., on characteristics and organisation of the oral technical report, 649
Wild, A. G., and Co. Ltd., Desford selfadvancing chocks, 54
Wilkins, G., on Wolseley 6/99 motor car, 24; on M (3 A1600 sports motor car, 24; Sunbeam Alpine sports car, 55; Lloyd 900 sedan car, 55; BMW 700 sports coupe, 55; Austin and Morris baby motor cars, 87; Mercedes-Benz 220 saloon motor car, 151; Volkswagen motor car improvements, 151; A99 Austin motor car, 128. See LETTER, 195; automatic transmission for Hillman Minx and Singer Gazelle motor cars, 199; improvements to Hillman, Singer and Sunbeam motor cars, 199; Lloyd Arabella motor car, 252; Panhard PL 17 motor car, 252; Rover 80 and 100 motor cars, 252; Jaguar motor car improvements for 1960, 316; new version of Ford Anglia motor car, 316; new motor cars, 344; I960
Jaguar motor car improvements, 348, See Correction, 476; speed and acceleration, 372; brakes on I960 motor cars, 412; cars for winter running, 444; luxury motor cars, 508
Wilkins, J. J., on proton synchrotron magnet, 343
Wilkins, M., impurities in helium: Part I, 8 Wilkinson, J. R., appointed deputy chairman of ASTA, 33
Wilkinson, Dr. N. B., on Joshua Gilpin, 605 Williams, Prof. B. R., on Science in Industry, 597
Williams, Dennis M., Ltd., cladding and mural work with mosaics, 651
Williams, D. T., structural mechanics (book), 70
Williams, J. A. C., review on Work Measurement, 321; biographical note, 322
Williams, J. C. B., on references, 147. See LETTER, 239
Williams, Sir Owen, and Partners, northern section of London-Yorkshire motorway, 93; London-Birmingham motorway, 175, 442
Williams, R. H., biographical note, 386; review on Conference on Computers in the Iron and Steel Industry, 386; review on High Speed Computing Methods and Applications, 386
Williamson, James, and Partners, Cwm Rheidol hydroelectric power scheme, 30
Willington A power station (CEGB), 281 Willowbrook Ltd., aluminium alloy van body, 216
Wilson, Sir A., survey on caravans as homes, 501
Wilson, Dr. C. M., on history and development of electronic computers, 280
Wilson, Dr. G. W., on thermoelectric power. Part 1, 97; thermoelectric power, 129, 161, 600
Wilson, H. M., on nuclear power programme, 52
Wilson, J. D., impurities in helium; Part 1, 8 Wilson, Sir R., on railways and roads, 223.
See LETTER, 304
Wilson, R. F., OCR reactor system, 606 Wilson, T. D., on information officers and librarians, 463-464
Wimpey, George, and Co. Ltd., Finnert terminal for super tankers, 30; Milford Haven refinery, 346
Winch, deck, for research ship, 416
— Heavy-duty, diesel-driven double-barrel, 140
— Hydraulic control for, for Caterpillar D8 and D9 tractors (Hyster Co.), 665
— Tugboat towing automatic, 328
Wind erosion of soil, 539
— Loading on buildings, by C. S. Durst, 550. See LETTER, 663
— Tunnels for automobile research, MIRA, 383
for de-icing study on Lockheed Electra aircraft, 583
Winding gear, pit, Koepe (NCB), 491 Windmill, Jolesfield, machinery, 262
— for low to moderate wind velocities, criteria for design of, 417
Windows, double glazing of, 332, 396
— Frame, metal-cored, plastics for (Crittall Manufacturing Co. Ltd.), 541
of plastics coated steel tube (Ideal Casements Ltd.), 332
— Projected, for tropical climates (Henry Hope and Sons Ltd,), 542
Windscale accident, compensation and cost, 63
— Neptunium recovery, 35
Windshields of Worcester Ltd., GEM Suspensor of plaited nylon, 487
Winfrith Heath Atomic Energy Establishment, Exercise Mermaid (effluent disposal simulation), 35; research projects at, 96; ZENITH reactor completed, 96; description of ZENITH reactor, 96; DRAGON reactor, 96; meeting on Dragon project, 123; Dr. J. V. Dunworth assistant to director, 123; office construction, 475; Nestor reactor for, 575
Wing, flutter in untapered, by E. G. Broadbent 512
Winsbro, W. R., on Thorex pilot plant, 575
Winston Electronics Ltd., Winston-United Steels precision temperature controller, 150; signal generator for L band frequencies, 634
Winston-United Steels precision temperature controller (Winston Electronics Ltd.), 150 Wire drive instrumentation, activation, for ascertaining information from a reactor core (Teleflex Incorp.), 448
— High tensile galvanised, for cables of
Forth suspension bridge (Dorman Long (Steel) Ltd.), 251
— Rope cables f^or Swan River Narrows bridge, 507
Construction and use, by R. Meebold (book), 650
Locked coil (Whitecross Co. Ltd.), 491 Locked coil for cables of river Tamar suspension bridge (British Ropes Ltd.), 377
— Tension meter Ltd.), 634 Witt, P. J., on structures, 51 Wlassow, W. S.,
Wood, R. McKinnon, Fellow of Imperial College, 405
— Stabilisation by chemical reaction, 38 Wood, T. D. S., on packings in ptfe, 387
Woodall-Duckham Construction Co. Ltd., coking plant at MCPP, 171; control equipment at Murton coal preparation plant, 171
Woodfield Hoist, contract for oil drilling rigs for Yugoslavia, 396
Woods of Colchester Ltd., Xpelair extractor fan, two-speed and reversible, 497
Woodworking machine, BMT universal (Parry and Son (Tools) Ltd.), 529
Woodworth, N. A., Co., Cone-Lok jig clamp, 150
Wool, tension meter for, SaxI (Thomas Mercer Ltd.), 634
Wootton, K. J., on marine reactor systems, 83. See LETTER, 147-148
Work clamps, air-operated, Fein (Verrolec), 496
— Measurement,by V. H. Rotroff (review), 321
— Study in building, 548
— Study Equipments, Rotasembler component dispenser, 497
Human factor in, film on, 659
— Virtual, and complementary energy applied to non-linear braced frameworks, by Prof. J. A. L. Matheson. See LETTERS, 19, 271
Workmaster aircraft for agricultural use (Auster), 357
Works engineers’ refresher course, Leeds University, 277
— Ministry of, exhibitions of building plant, 28; constructional work overseas, 207; figures for contractors returns, 251
Workshop in research ship, 415
Workshop technology, by W. A. J. Chapman (book), 618
World Bank. See International Bank
— Directory of Aviation and Astronautics, 1959 Interavai ABC (book), 258
— Economic Survey (1958), 25
— Marketing conference (Chicago), 332
— Production survey, 25
— Recession statistics, 25
Worthington, G., on information officers and librarians, 463-464
Wrapping machine, pleat, Watford (H. and B. Precision Engineers Ltd.), 433
Wreck raising. See Salvage
Wright, J. K., on electrodeless discharge, 407
Wrightson, R., on selling to nuclear energy, 363
Wrinkle, R., on uranium oxide powders, 502
Writers, technical and scientific. Sir G. Thomson on, 194
Writing, scientific. Plain Words on, 194
Wulfrunian double-decker bus (Guy), 623
Wunsch, H. L., precision dynamometer, 614
Wiister, E., bibliography of monolingual scientific and technical glossaries. Vol. 11 (book), 322
Wyatt, E. L., on sulphuric acid plants, 599
Wyatt, O. H., on nuclear-propelled rockets, 155
Wyman, M. E., on anti-neutrino cross-sections, 311

X-15 research aircraft, titanium in, 480
Aircraft, first flight of, 25
X-ray camera in glove box, 164
Diffraction photographs of Alpha active materials, by R. W. M. D'Eye, I. F. Ferguson and R. S. Street (publication), 164
X-Ray Engineering, licence suspension, 639 Examination for welds in atomic reactor vessels, 490
Scanning microanalyser for metal tube research, 352
Source for pulsed reactor, 471
Xenon discharge lamp for Dungeness High lighthouse, 688
— Poisoning transients, effect on reactivity, 7 Xpelair extractor fan, two-speed and reversible (Woods of Colchester), 497
Xylonite for photoelastic analysis, 37

YACHT, motor, Christina, roll-damping fins on, 440
Japanese, roll-damping fins on, 441 Viking Series 2 twin-screw, 75
Yarrow and Co. Ltd., nuclear propulsion studies, 471 ; chairman’s annual statement, 677
Yarrow, Sir H., on Yarrow and Co., 677
Yates Plant Ltd., manipulators and fixtures (trade publication), 290
Year book, clean air, 1959 (book), 102
Yeniseisk, hydroelectric power scheme, 315
York Shipley Ltd., cooling plant for Klang Gates dam, 578
“Yorkshire” aviation fuellers for jet aircraft (AEC), 263
Yorkshire Engine Co. Ltd., diesel electric shunting locomotive for African Manganese Co., 686
Yorkshire Hennebique Contracting Co. Ltd,, lock at Long Sandall, 474
Yorkshire Radio, formation of, 573
— See London- Yorkshire motorway
Young, John S., and Co. Ltd., industrial service (trade publication), 418
Young Presidents’ Organisation, 201
Young’s Modulus. See Elasticity modulus Youssef, Dr.T. E. A., on positive displacement superchargers, 448
Ytong lightweight concrete material, 410
Yuba Consolidated Industries Inc., Yuba Southwest rollers and sprinkler tanks for road compaction work (trade publication), 554
Yugoslavia, contract for oil drilling rigs to Woodfield Hoist, 396
— Productivity in, 566

ZARZIS, electrodialysis plant for potable water in (Ionics Incorp.), 411
Zawels, J., on transistor electronics (review), 321-322
Zbar, P. B., basic electronics (review), 69
Zed-2 atomic reactor. Chalk River, 379
Zecta folding lift table (trade publication), 40
Zelen, M., fractional factorial experiment designs for factors at three levels (book), 40
ZENITH atomic reactor, completion of, 96 Reactor, description of, 96
Reactor experiment, exponential experiments, 123
Zeta, condenser bank energy increased, 406
— Doppler broadening of spectral lines in, 406
ZETR 2. See HAZEL
Zinc alloys, chromium plating of, 419
— Coatings, advantages of, 291
— Plating, bright, 291
Zircaloy components, forge rolling of, 502
Zirconia sandwich structure for rocket components (Solar Aircraft Co.), 420
Zirconium, casting into air-cooled moulds, 639
Zolotarov, Prof. T., on manual work in Russia, 566
Zoning systems in new towns, 531
Zworykin, Dr. V. K., tele-voting system, 373

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