The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

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The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

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The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1926 Jan-Jun: Paragraphs Index.

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A

• ABATTOIR and Refrigerating Plant for East London, S.A., 437
• Aberdeen New Suction Hopper Dredger, 153
• Accidents in Mines in U.S.A., 153
• Acetylene Generating Plant, Very Large, 413
• AERONAUTICS :
• - Aeroplane, New Very High-speed, A. V. Roe, 213
• - Aeroplane Services, Several New, to Start, 413
• - Aircraft Apprentices, 149
• - Amphibian Flying Boats for Royal Australian Air Service, First Boat Launched, 213
• - Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 512
• - Cairo-Karachi Service, Details of Five Projected Machines for Use, 213
• - Cairo and Khartoum, Mail Service Possible by Aeroplane, 13
• - Croydon to Nuremburg and Back in 15.5 Hours, 469
• - Flight from Rome to Tokio and Back, Marchese de Pinedo, 441
• - Flying Boat Widgeon, Official Test, 446
• - French Flying, Government Prize Oiler, 213
• - Fuel Tank, Pescara Bullet-proof, for Aeroplanes, 325
• - Glider, Engineless German, Record Flight of Over Nine Hours in the Air, 637
• - Glider, the "Sea Flea," Manned by Two Men, Proposed Voyages, 525
• - Helicopter Competition Fallen Through, 525
• - Night Flight in America, Only Partially Lighted, Plans for Extension, 553
• - R 36 Projected Flight Cancelled, 71
• - Royal Air Force Flight from Cairo to the Cape, Details of Project, 213
• - Superseded Aeroplane's Life Record, 497
• - Tenth Aeronautical Exhibition, 289
• - Wooden and Metal Propellers for Aircraft, Experiments to Determine Relative Merit of, 497
• AFFORESTATION in Australia, 43
• Alberta Oil Wells, High Average Production,
• Alcohol from Sugar, Doubtful as a Paying Project, 441
• Alloy of Manganese and Phosphorus, American Investigation, 125
• Aluminium Abundance and Increasing Consumption, 441
• Aluminium Paint, Durability and Protective Power of, E. Andrews, 379
• American Honour for English Writer, 224
• Analysis of Gases and Orsat Apparatus, 125
• Ancient Cottages Preservation, 440
• Anglo-Italian Mutual Concessions in Abyssinia and the Soudan, 441
• Antimony Mine in Brittany Approaching Exhaustion, 637
• Antimony, Uses of, in War and Peace, 581
• Apprentices in the Engineering Trades, Education of, 337
• Apprenticeship System for Contractors and Building Trades in British Columbia, 183
• Argentine Machinery and Merchandise Demands, 71
• Artificial Silk by Cellulose-acetate Process, Factory Projected in Canada, 43
• Artificial Silk, Cheaper Qualities of, Factory Projected in Germany, 43
• Artificial Silk, Mill Projected for, at Kendal, 43
• Asbestos Cement, Projected Factory for, in Australia, 13
• Asbestos Find in British Columbia, 153
• Assay Laboratory at Lydenburg, South Africa, 13
• ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
• - ASSOCIATION, BRITISH ACETYLENE AND WELDING :
• -- Luncheon and Presentation for Valuable Service, 651
• -- Oxygen Used for Cutting Blow-pipes, Effect on the Apparatus of any Loss of Purity, C. R. Houseman, 500
• - ASSOCIATION OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS :
• -- Annual Dinner, 268
• - INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
• -- Annual General Meeting, 167, 537
• -- Annual Dinner, 167
• -- Bessemer Gold Medal Award, 409
• - INSTITUTE OF METALS :
• -- Annual Autumn Meeting at Liege, Programme, 440
• -- Postal Ballot for Membership, 278
• - INSTITUTE, ROYAL, OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS :
• -- Lincoln Cathedral Restoration, Use of Jackhammers, Sir Francis Fox, 71
• -- Royal Gold Medal Award, 425
• - INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT :
• -- Examinations for Graduateship and Associate Membership, 366
• -- President-elect a Railway Director and Manager, 608
• - INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS :
• -- Examinations for Associate Membership,
• -- Tube Mill Grinding, Dr. G. Martin, 153
• ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
• - INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
• -- Association of London Students : Forty-fifth Annual Dinner, 393
• -- Awards for Papers, 624
• - INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
• -- A.M.I.E.E. Examination, 60
• -- Design and Performance of Protective Relays, C. L. Lipman, 99
• -- Faraday Medal Award, 140
• -- I.E.E. Model Form of General Conditions "A," 258
• -- Premiums for Papers, 596
• -- Summer Meeting Postponed to Next Year, 568
• -- Wireless Section :
• -- Radiogoniometer and Azimuth or Arrival of Wave Trains, Paper Read, 325
• - INSTITUTION OF FUEL ECONOMY ENGINEERS :
• -- Communication to Secretary of Proposed New Fuel Institute, 621
• -- Council Meetings, 111, 621
• -- Formation and Objects, 43
• - INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS :
• -- Air Conditioning as an Aid to Industry, J. W. Cooling, 665
• - INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
• -- Annual Dinner, 509
• -- Coal-cutting Machinery, Lecture, S. Reilly,
• -- Meeting, Films Shown Illustrating Work at Sheffield Works of Vickers Ltd., 54
• -- Paint Spraying, Lecture, F. E. Webb, 385
• - INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS :
• -- Automatic Mechanical Couplings for Railway Rolling Stock, A. M. Bell, 413
• - INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY :
• -- Awards of Gold Medals and Premium, 312
• - INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
• -- Annual Meetings, Dates, 152
• -- Annual Dinner, 152
• -- Award of Premiums, 265
• -- Summer Meeting in Belgium, 481
• ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
• - INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS :
• -- Comparative Survey of American and British Signalling, Joshua Parsons, 497
• -- Four-aspect Colour Light Signals, W. J. Thorrowgood, 385
• -- Long-burning Signal Lamps, H. E. Morgan and F. J. Hookham, 43
• -- New President and Members Elected, 183
• -- "Proceedings," Publication of Interesting Papers, 553
• - INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
• -- Annual Meeting, 540
• -- Anonymous Donation, £500, 167
• -- Elections, 167, 281, 540, 624
• -- General Meetings, 167, 281, 540, 624
• -- Lectures by Sir William Bragg on "X-rays and Living Matter," and Sir William Hardy on "Films," 86
• -- Various Lectures Projected, Lecturers and Dates, 224
• - INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS :
• -- Annual Dinner--and Criticism, 453
• -- Engineer and Chemist, Combination Highly Necessary for this Country, Sir Alfred Mond's View, 469
• -- Impact of Wheels on Road Surface, Difference between Solid and Pneumatic Tires, Major R. A. B. Smith, 153
• -- Portland House Scholarship, 624
• - INSTITUTION OF WELDING ENGINEERS :
• -- Arc Welding of Seams in Steel Plates, J. T. Carr, 183
• - SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :
• -- Annual General Meeting, The King as Patron, 153
• - SOCIETY, THE FARADAY :
• -- Explosive Reactions in Gaseous Media Discussion Organised by Society, 481
• -- Temporary Appointment of Secretary and Editor, 665
• - SOCIETY OF GLASS TECHNOLOGISTS :
• -- Visit to Osram Glass Works, Papers on Glass Technology, Luncheon, 651
• - SOCIETY, ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING :
• -- Engine Drivers' Eyesight, Effect of Passing from Tunnels to Lighted Stations, 637
• - SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL ENGINEERING :
• -- Development of Water Power Resources, A. E. Malpas, 13
• ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
• - SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, LONDON :
• -- Second Annual Dinner, 162
• - SOCIETY, NEWCOMEN :
• -- Summer Meeting, 1926, 565
• - SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL :
• -- President Elected, 469
• - SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
• -- Ancient Cottages, Preservation of, Meeting to Discuss Measures for, 440
• -- Roads, Danger of Cambering, Lieut. - Colonel Sir A. H. Burgoyne, 43
• - SOCIETY, ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL :
• -- Symons Memorial Lecture, Advances in Atmospheric Physics, Professor Sydney Chapman, 363
• - SOCIETIES, PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL :
• -- Exhibition, 13
• AUTOMATIC Telephone Exchange at Manchester, 71

B

• "BANK" Telephone Exchange Closed, 617
• Barbed Wire, German Substitute for, 71
• Baroda's New Harbour at Okha, 469
• Bauxite or Clay, Extraction of Metal from, Professor N. Vittorf's Invention, 217
• Bauxite in Montenegro, Large Deposits Discovered, 43
• Bauxite Production in the United States, 553
• Bauxite Reduction to Aluminium Oxide by Aid of Iron Ore Instead of Coal, 581
• Bedrock Depth for Sheet Piling, Method of Ascertaining, 183
• Beet Sugar Factory for Three Welsh Counties, 153
• Bell, 15 Tons, for America Ordered from Croydon, 125
• Berlin Projected Prize Competition for Caterpillar Tractor, 13
• Beryllium, Properties of, 183
• Birmingham Sewage Disposal, Sludge Gas Power Plant Installed, 553
• Blast-furnaces--see Iron
• Board of Trade Engineers' Examinations to be Suspended in August, 125
• Board of Trade Navigation Certificates, New Test of Competency, 269
• Board of Trade Returns, Exports of Machinery Show Highest Figure since 1913, 125
• Boilers, Precipitates Forming in, Investigation in America, 43
• Breakwaters in the Bay of Corinto, Pacific Coast, Projected, 213
• BRIDGES :
• - See also Railways
• - Bascule Bridges for Welland Canal, 43
• - Blue Nile Flow, Possibility of Regulation and Irrigation Water Supply Improvement, 609
• - Bridge Colouring to Harmonise with House, 43, 71
• - Bridges Over the Vaal and Orange Rivers, Construction of Seven New, Proposed, 385
• - Cantilever Bridge, to Connect Rhode Island with American Mainland, 385
• - Finnieston, New Bridge Across the Clyde at, under Consideration, 213
• - Murray River Bridges, Two, in Course of Erection, Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., Ltd., 71
• - Murray River, History of Old Bridge, 125
• - Murray River New Bridge, Second Longest in Australia, 71
• - Niagara Falls Cantilever Bridge, Unusual Rusting, 71
• - Old and New Bridges Crossing Newark Bay, N.J., Cost of, 293
• - Port Augusta, South Australia, Proposed Bridge, 13
• - Two-deck Continuous Girder Bridge Recommended to Connect North Brisbane with Kangaroo Point, 297
• - Umgeni River, Natal, Bridge Over, Completed, 385
• - Wear, Bridge Over, at Sunderland, Tender of Sir William Arrol and Co. Accepted, 478
• - Westminster Bridge as Sound as When Erected, 641
• BRITISH Columbia's Hydro-electric Schemes, 637
• British Columbia, Record Low Rate of Mine Fatalities, 385
• BRITISH ELECTRICAL AND ALLIED INDUSTRIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION :
• - Change of Methods of Classification of Insulating Materials, 255
• BRITISH ENGINEERSí ASSOCIATION :
• - Improvement Reported in Overseas Trade Inquiries, 98
• - Overseas Inquiries, New Zealand's Extensive Requirements, 269
• BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION :
• - Electric Cable Specification, 481
• British Engineering Industry, Share of World Trade, 153
• British Factories to be Opened to Traders during British Industries Fair in Birmingham, 183
• British Malaya's First Large Power Development Projected, 669
• British Manufacturers' Increasing Contracts, 183
• Budapest, Municipality's Extensive Programme of Improvements, 525
• Buenos Aires, Port Improvement Projected, 413
• Bullet-proof Screen, Reported Wonderful New Invention, 355

C

• CABLE, New Underground, Between London and Glasgow, 71
• Cables to be Laid between the Azores and Cape Verde, Italy and the Azores, and Between Lisbon and Malaga, 525
• Cables, Long-distance, Reported Company for Manufacture at Prague, 385
• Calcutta Drainage Scheme, 183
• Canada, Impracticability of Formation of Sixth Great Lake, 355
• Canada’s Export of Motor Vehicles and Parts, 99
• Canadian Export of Copper, Lead, Nickel and Zinc, 71
• Canadian Hydro-electric Stations, Greatly Increased Horse-power, 269
• Canadian Ilmenite Ores, Process under Development for Utilisation of, 497
• Canadian Motor Industry, Highest Production Year, Statistics of, 325
• Canal Expenditure in Canada, 441
• Canal, New York State Barge, Question of Deepening, Canadian Views, 213
• Canton Harbour Improvement, 243
• Canvey Island, Scheme to Link up with Main¬land by means of a Lock, 664
• Carbon Dioxide, Solid, Production in America, 665
• Carborundum, Annual Production, 413
• Cargo Waiting for River Transport in Barranquilla, Colombia, 125
• Carnival Dance, 137
• Celluloid, Sheet, as Substitute for Tracing Cloth, 525
• “Cellulose Enamels,” A. E. Lain, 146
• Cellulose Lacquer Production in United States, 385
• Cement, Large Consignment of, from United Kingdom to Florida, 385
• Cement Works Projected in New South Wales, 665
• Central Heating by Exhaust Steam, 413
• Chemical Factory in Australia, Allen and Hanbury’s Investigation, 43
• Chemical Processes, Steam Heating for, 385
• China, Bulk of Electricity Imported, 22
• China, North-West, Five Motor Roads Opened to Traffic, 297
• Cinnabar Deposit at Kamloops Lake, British Columbia, Working Renewed, 13
• Citroen Motor Car Works at Slough, 269
• Clan Line Engineer Appointment, 212
• COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
• - Accidental Explosion of Blasting Charge, 153
• - Belgian Coal Pits Suffering from Floods, 99
• - Blast-furnace Coke Research at Sheffield University, 325
• - Blasting, Proportion of Large Coal and Method of Drilling, 43
• - Borings in Search of the Silkstone Seam, 37
• - British Coke Industry, Application of American Practice to, T. B. Smith, 269
• - By-product Coking Plant, Thirty-five Ovens, for Hamilton, Ontario, 421
• - Chemist’s Assistance with Regard to Coal Mining Risks, 153
• - Coal for Australian Railways, Values of Content, 13
• - Coal Dust, Differing from other Dust, Said to be Harmless, Sir R. A. Jones, 153
• - Coal Mine with Electrically Driven Plant Supplied by Batteries in the. Mine, 665
• - Coal Prospects Good for Present Quarter, 99
• - Coal Shipping Conveyor Projected for Newport, South Wales, 153
• - Coke Ovens at Blaydon Burn, Possible Restarting, 297
• - Coking Industry and Useless Waste, Professor R. Lessing, 183
• - Colliery Engineering Record, Dismantling and Installing a New Winding Engine, 525
• - Cuticle in Coal, Interesting Account of, V. H. Legg and R. V. Wheeler, 125
• - Doncaster Collieries’ Association, Cable to Link Up Collieries, 497
• - Duty Reduced on Coal Imports to Switzerland, 99
• - French Coal Industry Strides, 43
• - Fuel Research Board :
• -- Physical and Chemical Survey of Coalfields of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, 243
• -- Report on Lancashire Coal Seam, 13
• - German Engineer to Report on Coal at Australian Works, 80
• - Great Britain’s Week’s Coal Output, 71, 183, 243, 269, 297, 413, 441, 469
• - Growth of Colliery Enterprise in Nottinghamshire, 125
• - Heat, Waste, from Colliery, to Supply Hot Water to Large Number of Houses, 269
• - Investigations and Tests in American Mine, Fruitful Results, 99
• - Kent Colliery, Progress of Shaft Sinking, 355
• - Lignite Coalfield Discovery in Saskatchewan, 441
• - Locomotive Coal Price Reduced in Yorkshire, 71
• - New Coal Discovered in Bargoed Steam Coal Colliery and Near Retford, 71
• - New South Wales Coalfield at Newcastle, Estimate of Coal Available, 13
• - New South Wales, New Coal Seam Near Dubbo, 273
• - Pulverised Coal, Conflicting Views as to Dust Effects, 153
• - Royal Commission on Coal Industry Report, Standardisation of Colliery Equipment, 355
• - Search for Coal Near the Black Sea and Output of Iron Mines to be Increased, 497
• - Six-foot Seam of Steam Coal, Port Talbot, 306
• - Swansea Valley, New Coal Pit to be Sunk, 385
• - Tasmania, Coal Output in, 43
• - Tasmania, Seymour Coalfield’s Development, 665
• - Thickest Coal Seam Ever Discovered in Klip River Valley, South Africa, 497
• - Tipton Coal Seam Reached at Markham Colliery and Deep Soft Coal at Barlborough Colliery, 125
• - Top Hard Seam Reached Near Mansfield, 125
• - Turkish Coal and Iron Industry, Development, 385
• - Wemyss Coal Company, Firth of Forth, New Shaft to be Sunk by Francois Cementation Process, 276
• COBS as Packing Material and Fertiliser, 413
• Colorado Output of Ores, Precious and Other, 153
• Colouring Concrete in Bridge to Harmonise with House, 43, 71
• Combine in Continental Wire Trade, 197
• Commercial Education, 54
• Commercial Motor Users' Association, 440
• Concrete Culverts, Novel System of Forming, 469
• Concrete Houses in the United Kingdom, 24,000 Erected in 1925, 71
• Concrete Oil Reservoir, Very Large, in Canada, 673
• Concrete Piles in Los Angeles Harbour, Cracking Effects, 609
• Concrete Silos, Rapid Construction of, 263
• Concrete Testing Data from Chicago, 13
• Concrete Treated with Silicate of Soda, 447
• Congress for Applied Mechanics, 552
• Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize, 651
• Co-partnership and Co-operation, 224
• Copper, Blister, Record Monthly Output, 124
• Copper Production in U.S.A., 71
• Copper Property, the Flin Flon, in Manitoba, 43
• Corrosion, Mechanism and Control of, in Steam Power Plant, Investigation, 213
• Corrosion, Mechanism of, and Factors Effective in its Control in Steam Power Plant, 385
• Cranes, Repair and Overhaul of, After Over Fifty Years' Service, 413
• Crude Oil Production in the United States, 385
• Crude Oil and Supply of Motor Fuel, Effect on these of Artificial Methods of Recovery, 581
• Culverts--see also Concrete
• Culverts, Flat-top Wooden, Successful in Replacement of Old Type of Waterbreaks, 581
• Cyprus Asbestos Plant Output, 99

D

• DAIREN, the Second Port of China, 609
• Dam, Cyclopean, for Irrigation, Across the Cauvery River, India, 581
• Dam Leakage Stopped by Grouting with Asphalt, 609
• Dam of Unusual Form in Arizona, 609
• Demolition Projected of Fourteenth Century Bridge in Bath, 525
• Development of Additional 22,000 Horse-power in New Brunswick and its Cost, 523
• Diamond Mines Lit by Electric Flood Light, 553
• Diatomite or Infusorial Earth, Deposit Discovery in Ontario, 99
• Diesel Engine, 2900 H.P. Marine, Non-stop Thirty Days' Trial Run, 385
• Dock, Inland, at Warrnambool, Victoria, 183
• Dock Works at Buenaventura, 645
• Dover Harbour, Parliamentary Bill, 63
• Dry Dock, New, at Victoria, B.C., 497
• Durban, Extension of North Pier, 385
• Durban's Preference for British Material, 153
• Dust Collectors, Birmingham, 153

E

• EARTHQUAKES in California, Hypotheses Regarding, 153
• Egyptians’ Advanced Handicraft Skill 5000 Years Ago, 609
• Egyptian Appointment, 162
• ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
• - Accident at Barking Power Station, 71
• - Arc Lamp Carbons with Higher Crater Brightness, 413
• - Australian Generating Plant, Greatly Increased Output of Energy, 589
• - Australian Transmission Line, Longest Outside America, 385
• - B.E.A.I. Research Association, Change of Classification Methods for Insulating Materials, 255
• - Cable, 150-000-Volt, Piece of, on View, 242
• - Canada’s Electric Power Consumption per Head Twice that of any other Country, 355
• - Capetown Suburban Railways, Tenders for Equipment for Electrification, 297
• - Cheshire Farms’ and Villages’ Universal Use of Chester Electricity Supply, 665
• - Chinese Eastern Railway, Programme for Electric Light Stations Reported, 297
• - Chorzow Electric Works, Reported Anglo- American Negotiations for Acquisition of, 269
• - Diamond Mines, Electric Flood Lighting for, 553
• - Electric Current Replacing Gas for Domestic Purposes in Canada, 609
• - Electric Engineering Work in Victoria, One of Biggest Schemes in the British Empire, 297
• - Electric Shock and its Cause, 385
• - Fire-damp Indicating Electric Lamp, Herr Martienssen, 553
• - Frequency Changer, Largest Ever Built, 99, 183
• - Generating Plant, in U.S.A., Analysis of Rating, 99
• - German Electrical Power Undertakings, American Loan Issue for, 335
• - Independent Power Plant, A Word in Favour of, 243
• - Insulators in Victoria Affected by Protracted Drought, Measures to Remedy the Trouble, 497
• - Ionisation Phenomena in Paper-insulated, High-voltage Power Cables, Research Investigation, 553
• - Locomotive, Electric Storage Battery, for Use in Coal Mines, £1000 Prize Award, 609, 637
• - Lots-road Generating Plant to be Augmented, 297
• - “National Significance of Electricity,” 243
• - North-West Midlands Electricity District, Inquiry at Stoke-on-Trent, 71
• - Oil Engine, Ruston-Hornsby, for Electric Power Plant, in Ceylon, 43
• - Power Development Company’s Electrical Project for Rural District, 269
• - Power Station for Middlesbrough, 71
• - Reinforced Concrete Arched Bridges to Carry Overhead Wires in Railroad Electrification, 297
• - Salford Electricity Committee Seeks Loan, 125
• - Sheffield and Government’s Electricity Bill, 441
• - Steel-frame Two-storey Building Electric Arc Welded, 183
• - Stirling Castle, War Office Demand for Electrical Supply for, 153
• ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):
• - Sutton Coldfield Increasing Demand for Electricity, 42
• - Towers for High-voltage Lines, "Kay" Preferred to Lattice, 43
• - Transmission Line Begun by Canada Northern Power Company, A Big Development, 553
• - Transmission Line, Electric Power, Projected New, for Ontario, 553
• - Tumbler Switches, J. H. Tucker and Co., Ltd., 412
• - Turbo-alternating Plant Projected for Bucarest, 269
• - Turbo-alternator for Japan, Metropolitan - Vickers Company, 413
• - Turbo-alternators for South Brisbane Power House, Tenders for Two Invited, 497
• - Turbo-generator, Easily a Record, Exhibited in Osaka, 581
• - Turbo-generators, 80,000 H.P. Each, 406
• - Turbo-generators, 45,000-Kilowatt, Highest Steam Pressure Claim, 243
• - Victoria Electricity Commission to Deal with Requirements for Further Energy, 581
• - West Bank Power Station, Installation of 10,000-Kilowatt Turbo-generator Set and Condensing Plant, 665
• - Worcester's Prosperous Electricity Scheme, 43
• ELECTROLYTIC Zinc Company's Projected Researches in School of Chemistry, Melbourne, 637
• Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 1927, 258
• Engines, Heavy Oil, Working Costs of, 99
• Engine, Standard Marine, Tests, 312
• Engineering Structures Considered Beautiful, 441
• Engineers' Club, Birmingham, 453
• Esquimalt Dry Dock, Ottawa, Ready for Ships, 553
• Ether, Existence or Non-existence of, 553
• Excavator, Dragline, New Type, 525
• Exhaust of the Jackhammer as Assistance to Ventilation, H. S. Potter, 441
• EXHIBITIONS :
• - Aeronautic Exhibition, Tenth International, 289, 665
• - British Chemical Plant Exhibition, 297
• - British Industries Fair at Castle Bromwich in 1927, 549
• - British Industries Fair, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Discussing Possibility of Local Section, 385
• - Canadian National Exhibition, Projected Additions, 43
• - Exhibition at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Lighting Appliances, 312
• - International Laundry and Allied Trades' Exhibition, 525
• - International Oil Exhibition for London, 565
• - Norwegian Industries Fair at Oslo, 413
• - Philadelphia Exhibition, British Section at, 385
• - Physical and Optical Societies Exhibition, 13
• - Radio-technical Instruments Section at Padua Sample Fair, 441
• - Riga, International Fair, 469
• - Riga Fair and International Competition of Machinery, 497
• - Salonika, Trade and Industrial International Fair, 441
• - Swedish Industries Fair, 481
• EXPLOSION of Cast Iron Stop Valve Chest, 297
• Explosion of Heating Tube in Baker's Oven, Engineer's Report, 609
• Explosion of Oxygen Cylinder and Effect of Sea Water, 153
• Explosion, Unusual, in connection with Highspeed Steam Engine, 441
• Explosives, Authorised, Home Office List, 183
• Explosives Inspectors, Appointments, 243

F

• FACTORIES, Soda Powder, Paper Works, and Artificial Silk, Projected in China, 637
• Fairs--see Exhibitions
• Faraday House, Entrance Scholarships and Prizes Awards, 453
• Firedamp in Mines, Possible Ignition by Electric Currents, Research Work in Progress, 469
• Firms' Recognition of Workmen's Loyalty and Zeal at Time of Strike, 581
• Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen and Conversion into Nitrate of Lime, Projected Plant for, 413
• Floating Dock, 15,000-Ton, to be Constructed at Newcastle, New South Wales, 385
• Floating Dock, 60,000-Ton, Temporary Removal due to Silting of Bed, 637
• Floors, Steel and Concrete, Regulations Governing Construction, 553
• Fly-wheel's Disastrous Burst, 99
• Fog Dispersement by Special Apparatus, 497
• Ford Car's Long Journey by Aeroplane and Rapid Repair for Roadwork, 13
• Francois Cementation Process, to be Used for Mersey Tunnel and a New Coal Shaft, 276
• French Citizenship, the Jean Bares Award, 553
• Fuel Carbonised to Reduce Freight Charges, 497
• Fuel Research--see Coal

G

• GARNET and Quartz Sandpaper Compared, 243
• Gas and Oil Product of Well in Alberta, 581
• Gas Plant Tests in America, 213
• Gasworks, Heavy Expenditure on, in Johannesburg, 441
• General Strike Costs Loss of Ship Repair Contract, 609
• Geodetic Survey of Canada, 348
• Geodetic Surveys and Reports in Canada, Big Outlay on, 609
• German and Belgian Wire Producers, Conferences, 213
• German Patent Classifications, New Grouping, 174
• Germany, Analysis of Accidents with Gas, Petroleum and Electricity, 153
• Germany, Motor Car Production Statistics, 153
• Gisborne Harbour, N.Z., Extended by Diversion of River Turanganui, 125
• Gliders--see Aeronautics
• Gold-bearing Ore Discovery near Yilgarn, West Australia, 497
• Gold-bearing Quartz, Heavy Gold Percentage in Rhodesia, 637
• Gold-mining Expectations in Canada, 13
• Gold Seams Discoveries at Cicapra, State of Bolivar, 497
• Gold Yield of One Month for New South Wales, 609
• Grain Elevator, Reinforced Concrete, at Owen Sound, 413
• Grand Falls, New Brunswick, Company Formed for Development of, 609
• Grants for Research Abroad, 540
• Graphite Mining in Canada Recovering from Depression, 441
• Grass Tree, Victoria, Commercial Utilisation of, 305
• Greenland, Establishment of Meteorological Stations, 524
• Grenada's Proposed Development of Water Supply and Water Power, 297

H

• HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Cold Storage Plant and Ice Factory, 497
• Harbour Construction at Napier, N.Z., 355
• Heat, Effects of, upon Rocks, 179
• Heat Flow Meters for Furnace Walls, Study Conducted in U.S.A., 325
• Helium in Australian Natural Gas, Analysis, 441
• Hoist, Electric, to be the Largest in the World, 355
• Hoist to Handle 20 Tons of Ore, 269
• Hoists, Two Largest Ever Made in Canada, 355
• Hume Concrete Pipes by Centrifugal Process, 413
• Hydraulic Turbine Governing, Tendency to Elimination of, 297
• Hydro-electric Enterprise in Tasmania, 125
• Hydro-electric Plant in Korea, 77
• Hydro-electric Power in Canada, Bill to Prohibit Exportation of, 269
• Hydro-electric Power Development, Comparison of Cost, 71
• Hydro-electric Power Development on Perak River, 183
• Hydro-electric Power Development of Pykara Falls, Nilgiris District, 207
• Hydro-electric Power Plant Extension, at Mulungushi, Rhodesian Broken Hill Company, 497
• Hydro-electric Stations in Austria, 13
• Hydro-electric Station at Buenos Aires, One of Largest in the World, 413
• Hydro-electric Stations for Supplying Light to Tripoli and other Centres, 547
• Hydrogen Production by Micro-organisms, Dr. A. C. Thaysen, 71

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• ICEBERGS, Experiments for Disintegration of, Projected at Newfoundland, Dr. Howard F. Barnes, 213, 525
• Improvised Oil Burning, 621
• Indian Boilers, Incomplete Inspection, 222
• Industrial Chemistry, Sixth Congress to be held at Brussels, 469
• Inland Waterway Projects on American Rivers, 99, 243
• Inorganic Chemistry, Discovery by Professor B. S. Hopkins, 297
• International Geological Congress, Madrid, 153
• Irish Section of the London Chamber of Commerce, Proposed Formation of, 608
• IRON AND STEEL :
• - Accident to American Blast-furnace, 525
• - Australian Production of Railway Steel Specialities on American Lines, 609
• - Blast-furnace and Coke Oven Battery, New, Started by Wigan Coal and Iron Company, 125
• - Blast-furnace Fuels Research, 297
• - Blast-furnaces in France, Statistics, 43
• - Blast-furnaces Projected for Smelting Iron Ore near Fort William, Ontario, 609
• - Blasting in Heavy Sulphides, Risk from Dangerous Gases, 497
• - Canada, the World's Largest Nickel Producer, 153
• - Cast Iron Recently Brought Out in U.S.A. of Much Increased Tensile Strength, 637
• - Castings, Hydraulic Method of Cleaning, 71
• - Chemical Composition of Steel, Analysis and Melting or Pouring Practice both Called for, 553
• - Collapse of Steel Pipe and Reshaping, 183
• - Consumption of Scrap in Steel Production, Method of Estimating, 469
• - Direct Electric Iron Production, M. Flodin, 609
• - Drill Steel Axial Hole, South African Government Mining Regulations, 269
• - First Steel Rolled in Australia for Sydney Harbour Bridge, 297
• - Ingot Mould, Exceptionally Large, 43
• - Iron Ores, High Silica, Investigation into Means of Treating, 125
• - Iron and Steel Works, Projected, on Shore of Black Sea and Alexandretta, 497
• - Iron Trades Employers' Insurance Association, Ltd., 593
• - Lifting Magnets for Recovery of Strip Steel from Pickling Tanks, 99
• - Low Ash in Blast-furnace Use, Valuable Tests, 469
• - Manganese Ore Export from India, 665
• - Manganese Output in Russia, 70
• - Mysore Iron Ore Deposits, 603
• - Nankin Price for Cast Iron, 183
• - National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers :
• -- Annual Meeting and Elections, 680
• -- Pig Iron and Steel Production in January, 213
• -- Pig Iron and Steel Production in February, 325
• -- Pig Iron and Steel Production in March, 441
• -- Pig Iron and Steel Production in April, 581
• IRON AND STEEL (continued) :
• - Nickel Industry Recovery from Deflation, 325
• - Phosphorus Effect on Wrought Iron, Experiments, 581
• - Rails for American Railroads, New Steel for, Patented, 269
• - Rails Trust, Negotiations for Forming, 385
• - Rhenish Westphalian Steel Trust Started, 525
• - Rust Effect on Bridge over Niagara Falls, 71
• - Scrap Metal in Blast-furnaces, Advantages of Use, 71
• - Sheet and Galvanising Works, Projected by Llanelly Steel Company, 125
• - Steel, New, Light Type of Structural Material, 553
• - Swedish Iron Ore Production, 71
• - Swedish Ores and Furnaces for Refining, 325
• - Union of South Africa, Production of Iron and Steel Manufactures, Statics, 325
• - Velocity of Ascending Gas Inside a Blastfurnace, 497
• - Wrought Iron Pipe, Good Condition After more than Half a Century in Use, 469
• IRRIGATION Project for Coimbatore under Consideration by Madras Government, 469

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• JAMES Watt House in Scotland, Steps Taken for Preservation, 355
• Joule's Life and Work in Salford, Lecture by Professor W. H. Haldane Gee, 99
• Jubilee of Service, 400

K

• KILINDINI, East Africa, Port Manager, 533
• Kiukiang, Yangtze River, Pipes for Drinking Water Supply, 469

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• LABORATORY Tests of Concrete Cylinders, 13
• Lamp Production Reduced in Germany, 13
• Lantern Slides for Lectures :
• - Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., 60
• - Petters, Ltd., 425
• Lead Paint (Protection Against Poisoning) Bill, 355
• Lead Pigment, Remarkable for Protection of Iron Against Rust, 641
• Lead Poisoning, Proper Medication Treatment, Dr. W. F. Boos, 13
• Leaks in Water Mains Discovered by the Teeth, 413
• Lessons from the Fire in the Argonaut Mine, 553
• Libraries and Information Bureaux Association, of, 340
• Lifeboats, "Emergency Fleet," at Cowes, 609
• Lighting Appliances, Exhibition at Newcastle- upon-Tyne, 312
• Lighting of Rural Highway for Night Delivery of Farm Products into New York, 525
• Lime Burning Kilns with Riveted Joints, Welded Joints Preferable, 637
• Linseed, World's Production of, 297
• Lock, Entrance, for the North Sea Canal, to be by far the Largest in the World, 609
• Locomotive, Electric Storage Battery Competition, 609, 637
• Locomotives, Forty-one Electric, Ordered from Metropolitan-Vickers Company, 665
• London to Aberdeen by Motor in 12.75 Hours, 469
• Loom, Improved New Type, in America, 665
• Low-temperature Carbonisation Plant in Natal, 665
• Lubricating Oils, J. E. Hackford, 355
• Lumber Shipments from British Columbia, 355
• Luminous Fountains in Paris, Spectacular Performances on the Seine, 213

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• MADRID, Great Schemes for Public Works, 665
• Manchester Steam Users' Association, Work of the Year, 385
• Manganese--see Iron and Steel
• Maracaibo, Port of, Venezuela, Enlargement and Improvement Emba ked upon, 469
• Matadi on the Congo, Progress of Work on the Port of, 609
• Meadow Embankment and the Use of Dynamite, 469
• Measuring Pressures, New Method, 54
• Meat Preserved for Fifty Days by New Process, 213
• Melting Points of Barium and other Oxides, 441
• Mica Mined in Ontario, Projected Refinery, 43
• Mine Gases, Sampling and Examination of, 297
• Miner's Long Record Underground, 665
• Mines Research, "Inflammability of Firedamp and Air," M. G. Burgess and R. V. Wheeler, "Ignition of Firedamp," H. F. Coward and R. V. Wheeler, 43
• Mines Safety Measures, Joint Investigation by British and American Authorities, 13
• Mines, Use of Breathing Apparatus in, F. J. Johnston, 525
• Mining, World's Record in, 43
• Molybdenite and Molybdenum, Present Market Demand Inconsiderable, 553
• Montreal's Successful Season in 1925, 441
• Morocco Roads, Extensive System, but not yet quite Complete, 297
• Motor Band Losses, T. Spooner, 213
• Motor Boat Race on the Thames, 469
• Motor Cars, British, for Service Abroad, Requirements, 413
• Motor Cars in China, 183
• Motor Cycle World's Speed Record, 441
• Motor Roller, Diesel-engined, made at Melbourne, 13
• Motor Traffic in Morocco, British Cars Almost Unknown, 325
• Museum, National, of Engineering and Industry in America, Plans for, 71
• Mysore Border, Project for Utilising Water Power of Pykara River, 609

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• NANKING Price for Cast Iron, 183
• Natural Gas Transmission Lines, Reduction of Leakage Rate, 413
• Newcomen--see Associations, andc.
• New South Wales South Coast Towns, Four Schemes for Water Supply, 13
• New South Wales Southern Tablelands, Extensive Development of Resources, 413
• Newsprint Mill, Largest in Existence, at Quebec, 413
• New Zealand Government Decision, Scenic Beauty or Water Power for Nitrate Production, 297
• New Zealand Government Licence for Horsepower Generation, 153
• Niagara Falls Water for Power Purposes, Increased Diversion Asked for, Committee for Investigation to be Formed, 581
• Niagara Gorge, Permit for Investigation of Possible Power Project, 585
• Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Plant for Fixation, New South Wales, 355
• Norton and Gregory Engineering Scholarships, 1926, Awards, 593
• Notable Dinner, 309

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• OIL-BEARING Shale, Rich Find in Tasmania, 609
• Oil Boring on Prince Edward Island, 13
• Oil Can, A Good, Joseph Kaye and Sons, Ltd., 540
• Oil Engine, Largest Ever Installed in Ontario Gold Mine, 634
• Oil Extraction from Tasmanian Shale, 297
• Oil Production Methods, Study of, 269
• Oil Refinery Projected for Khanagin, Persia, 152
• Oil Shales in Tasmania, Retort Plant for Distilling, 665
• Oil Wells Production in California, 413
• O.M.S., New Organisation Formed, Government Scheme, 54
• Ontario, Big Addition Projected to Plant at Port Colbourne, 413
• Ontario's Horse-power Installation for 1925, 153
• Ontario Hydro-electric Commission's Projected Development, 325
• Ottawa River, Chute des Chats Falls to be Utilised for Power Development, 384
• Ottawa River, Joint Survey and Division of Resources, 637

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• PAINT Manufacturing Plant to be Established at Levis, Quebec, 525
• Paint and Varnish Industries Research, 183
• Paper Mill at Thunder Bay, Ontario, 665
• Paris Subways, Competition for Design, 197
• Pensions in the Metal Trade, 400
• Persian Gulf, Advantage of New Channel, 609
• Petroleum Production of Venezuela, 441
• Petroleum Refineries Statistics in U.S.A., 325
• Petroleum, Test Wells in Iraq, 585
• Petters' Offer of £100 Prize for Essay, 86
• Photographs of Solar Eclipse and the Einstein Theory, Successes and Failures, 125
• Piccadilly--see Road Traffic
• Pigment Grinding by Crushing, 297
• Pigments Ranging in Shade from Orange to Purplish-red, Recipe for Cheaper Production, 637
• Pipe Joints for Petrol, to Tighten, 609
• Platinum Abundance in South Africa, 441
• Platinum, First Output in South Africa, 297
• Poland, New Port at Gdynia, 130
• Police Signalling Scheme to Check Motor Bandits, 125
• Polish Import Duty on Industrial Machinery Reduced, 413
• Pollution of Navigable Waters by Oil, United States Government Calls Conference to Deal with, 469
• Power Alcohol from Molasses, Projected Large Production in Australia, 441
• Power Alcohol from Prickly Pear, Chemical Tests in Progress, 297
• Power Development Plant Projected for Nipigon River, Ontario, 183
• Power from Tides, Favourable Situation for Development, 183
• Power from Tides in Passanaquoddy Bay, New Brunswick, Details of Project, 637
• Presentations for Long Service, 537
• Primary Power in Manufacturing and other Industries, Huge Increase in U.S.A., 183
• Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada, Increased Productive Capacity, 665
• Pulp from Waste Paper, Mill for Manufacture, in Manitoba, 413
• Pyrites Production in the United States, 469

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• QUARTZ Lode Discovery Reported in Central Australia, 469
• Quay and Roadmaking Construction at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 13
• Quebec Harbour's Record Year, 609
• Quebec Harbour Works, Additional Quay, 497
• Quebec, Port of, Modern Cold Storage Warehouse, Fish-house and Power-house Prove Valuable Addition to Facilities, 581
• Queensland's Mineral Output for 1925, 665

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• RADIUM Bromide Extraction from Crude Ore, Australia, 125
• Radium Industry, Belgian and French Rivalry, 325
• Radium and Rare Earths Treatment Company, Development Work in South Australia, 99
• RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
• - Accidents :
• -- Accidents in Last Year and in Previous Years, Comparison of Statistics, 43
• -- American Fatal Disaster Due to Passing Danger Signals, 665
• -- Amiens Derailment, Imprisonment Sentence in Suspension, 71
• -- Britain Overseas, Serious Accidents in S. Africa and in New South Wales, 637
• -- British Railway Accident Inquiries in 1925, Analysis of, 441
• -- British Railways, Accidents on, Greater Number of Casualties Caused by other than Train Accidents, 269
• -- Buffer Stop Collision, Serious, at Clevedon, Report and Remarks, 125, 665
• -- Collision between Two Empty Passenger Trains at Blackburn Station, 461
• -- Derailment and Heavy Death Roll on Costa Rica Railway, 325
• -- East Africa, Government Guarantee in Aid of Railways, 525
• -- Fatal Disaster in Munich East Station, 581
• -- Fenny Stratford Level Crossing Disaster, Coroner's Inquest Verdict, 325, 355, 413, 469
• -- Flin Flon Copper Mine, Railway Line, Construction Authorised, 525
• -- Florida East Coast Railway Collision, 183
• -- Fog Collision Inquiry and Verdict, 441
• -- French Express Train Derailment, 13
• -- Great Western Railway Accidents, Statistics, 441
• -- Isle of Man Railway Buffer Stop Collision and Fatality, 325
• -- Level Crossing Disaster near Forest Hall Station, L. and N.E. Railway, 99, 125
• -- Motorists Running into Gates, 469
• -- Partenkirchen to Innsbruck Electric Train Accident and "Dead Man's Handle," 441
• -- Previous Accidents Recalled, 269
• -- Railway Servants' Accident Inquiries, Analysis of Causes of, 297
• -- Report on Collision at Llandudno Station, 385
• -- Report on Collision at Victoria Station, Sheffield, 243
• -- Road Motor Victims at Fenny Stratford, to be Included in Railway Returns, 581
• -- Sand Boxes for Use in Accident Prevention, 665
• -- Southern Pacific, Lines and Shops, Diminution of Accidents, 465
• -- Strike, and Consequent Accidents, 553
• -- Traction Engines at Level Crossings, Railway Rule, 125
• - Advance Bookings to be Required for Longdistance Excursion Train Travelling, 213
• - Allison, The Late Sir R. A., 164
• - Alpine Tunnel, Another Projected, 637
• - American Record for Safety in Railway Travel, 355
• - American Visitors Carried in Long Non-stop Trains at Very High Speed, 469
• - Appointments and Staff Changes, 43, 99, 269, 325, 533, 553, 581, 609
• - Australia, South to Central, New Railway, 125
• - Baden State Railway Urges Electrification, 553
• - Bengal Legislative Council's Suggestions for Structure of Bally Bridge, 441
• - Berlin Metropolitan Railway, New Power Station to Supply Electricity, Lignite as Fuel, 581
• - Betterments, British and American Account-keeping, Difference in Methods, 297, 385
• - Birds Damage Themselves and Electric Railways, 553
• - Blackfriars Metropolitan District Station, Improvement, 221
• - Canadian National Railways' Report, 553
• - Canadian-Pacific Railway Expansion, 441
• - Cascade Range Crossed by Great Northern Railway of America, Difficulties and Proposed Tunnel, 99
• - Centenary Famous Locomotive for Museum at York, 325
• - Central London Tube, New Power Supply, 243
• - Chain Letters and "Safety First," 355
• - Change-giving Device at St. James's Park Station, 125
• - City and South London Railway, Question of Name, 413
• - Coal Stoppage Effect on Railway Finances in 1912 and 1921, 665
• - Coke and Coal, Comparison for Railway Use, J. G. H. Warren, 469
• - Colouring of Railway Buildings to Harmonise with Country, 43
• - Control, Train or Traffic, 268
• - Death of Mr. Victor Angerer, 609
• - Death of Sir George Gibb, 13
• - Death of Mr. J. P. Grassick, 44]
• - Death of Herr Rudolf Oeser, 609
• - Delhi-Umballa-Kalka Railway, Negotiations Followed by Sale to Government, 71
• - East London Traffic Facilities Inquiry, 413
• - East London Travelling Facilities, Inquiry Begun, 325, 413
• - Egyptian State Railways, Invited Tenders, 13
• - Electric Traction Extension on Railways, 409
• - Electrically Operated Trains on Various Sections, Extension of Use, 268
• - Electricity Bill and Railway Generating Stations, Concessions to Various Undertakings, 637
• - Elephant and Castle to have Single Station with Escalators, 314
• - Entertainment Train for Lonely Railway Employees in Remote Districts, 637
• - Escalators at Trafalgar Square Station, 504
• - Films of Railway Activities, by Railwaymen,
• - Finance of Railways, Need for Depreciation Fund, Metropolitan Railways' Position,
• - Financial Results of Working of Three Principal Lines in 1925, 269
• - Fog and Signalmen, 553
• - Fog and Use of Detonators, 553
• - Four Electric Locomotives, Said to be the Most Powerful in the World, 581
• - "Garratt" Locomotives, Great Success in South Africa, 355
• - Genoa and Rome, 25 Additional Miles of Main Line Converted to Electric Traction, 497
• RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
• - German Railways' Train Telephones, 225
• - Glasgow Experiments in Two-penny Tramway Fares, 71
• - Great Northern Railway of Ireland, Decline in Traffic, Cancelment of Scheme for New Wagons, 297
• - Great Southern Railway (Ireland), First Year's Report, 355
• - Great Western Railway :
• -- Accidents to Railway Servants, 441
• -- Closing Branch Lines, Complaint, 125
• -- Safety First Reduction in Accidents, 125
• - Grouped Companies' Increased Receipts, 525
• - Grouped Companies' Percentage of Passenger and Freight Traffic, 125
• - Grouping, Savings Effected and Secret Figures, 99
• - Harbin Electric Tramways, Material from Germany, 637
• - Institutes and Institutions, Railway and Transport--see Associations
• - International Union of Tramways, Barcelona Meeting, 665
• - Irish Railways' Financial Plight, 609
• - Italian Railway Electrification Equipment by Brown, Boveri Company, 581
• - Japanese Entire Railway Rolling Stock Converted to Automatic Coupling in One Day, 71
• - Joint Ownership of Railways and Stations in Great Britain, 297
• - Kenya and Uganda Railway, 227
• - Khyber Railway, Cost of, 13
• - Lamps, Side and Tail, and their Significance, 153
• - Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company and Railway Bridge Loads, 441
• - Locomotive Coal Price, Yorkshire Collieries Reduction in, 71
• - L.C.C. Tramcars, Swaying Trouble and Apparatus for Steadying, 355
• - London Electric Railways, Edgware Extension Satisfactory Traffic Figures, 468
• - London Electric Railways Seeks Connection with Southern Railway, 413
• - London, Midland and Scottish Railway :
• -- Annual Meeting and the Year's Financial Results, 268
• -- Coal-tipping Plant at Swansea, Projected Improvement by Railway Company, 525
• -- Conversion of Locomotives from Coal to Oil-burning, 581
• -- First-class and Third-class S5eats, Revenue Returns from, 553
• -- Fleetwood Facilities for Handling Passenger Traffic for Isle of Man and Belfast, 385
• -- Fuel Bills for 1924 and 1925, 297
• -- "Garratt" Locomotives for Coal Trains, 269
• -- London, Tilbury and Southend Railway and Electric Traction, 413
• -- Motor Traffic and Railways, Question under Consideration, 297, 325
• -- Settle and Carlisle Section of Midland Railway, Some Past History, 497
• -- Short Time for Shopmen, Permanent Way not Locomotive Shopmen, 497
• -- Track Circuits, Telephones and Telegraphs, Outlay Last Year and Projected, 317
• - London and North-Eastern Railway :
• -- Congestion in the Southern Area, Causes of
• -- Delay in Improvement, 385
• -- Frodingham, Scheme for Improvements at, 183
• -- Harrogate-King's Cross Pullman, Punctuality and Speed, 187
• -- King's Cross Platform and Siding Alterations, 637
• -- King's Cross to Scotland, Relief Train to Begin, 497
• -- Oil Jetty at Salt End, Hull, Projected Additional, 213
• -- Punctuality, Decline and Need of Improvement, 183
• -- Smoking in Waiting Rooms Permitted, 385
• -- Steel Rails Orders, 99
• -- Tank Engines, New Type, for Suburban Trains, 71
• -- Traffic Movement from Hull to the West Riding, Complaints and Census Results, 637
• - London Post Office Tube Railway Expenditure, 243
• - London Traffic, Central Goods Clearing Station Scheme, 637
• - London Underground Idea Utilised in Berlin, 609
• - Manchester Extension of Tramway Track and Number of Cars, 553
• - Material and Stores, Loss Due to Interest, Depreciation, andc , 213
• - Melbourne and Sydney, N.S.W., Extension of Railway Electrification, 547
• - Mersey Railway Company's Diminished Deficit, 213
• - Metropolitan Railway, Approaching Electric Traction on Certain Sections, 213
• - Metropolitan Railway Bill, Tube from Willesden Green to Edgware-road, 413
• - Metropolitan Railway, Changes at Edgware-road, 614
• - Metropolitan Railway New Junction between Euston Square and King's Cross, 325
• - Mid-Nottinghamshire Joint Railway Bill Passed, 385
• - Mineral and Freight Traffic, Rise and Fall, 183
• - Ministry of Transport:
• -- Denbigh Station, Powers of the Ministry, 43
• -- Hand Brakes on Both Sides of Wagons, New Rule, 497
• -- Light Railway Order to Connect Romney and Hythe, 609
• -- Passenger Tube Railway Under the Tyne, Conflict of Opinions, 71
• -- Preliminary Railway Returns Published, 385, 469
• -- Railway Companies Association and Road Damage by Motor Traffic 297, 325
• -- Railway Statistics for October, 1925, 71
• -- Railway Statistics for November, 1925, 243
• -- Railway Statistics for December, 1925, 355
• -- Railway Statistics for January, 1926, 525
• -- Traffic Mileage and Receipts Statistics for Nine Months of 1925, 13
• RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
• - Morden Tube Extension, Contracts for Stations and Further Work, 183, 621
• - Motor Car Type "Trains," 469 ; (Letter), 531
• - National Union of Railwaymen :
• -- Delegate Meeting on Wages Board Award, 71 ; Result, 125
• -- Depredations by Railway Servants Greatly Decreased, 99
• -- Greatly Increased Membership, 497
• -- Suspension of the Guaranteed Week, 609
• - National Wages Board, 71
• - New South Wales Railway, Wagon Record for Loading and Mileage, 213
• - New Year Honours, 43
• - New Zealand Government Railways' Engine, New Type, Named in Memory of Servants Killed in the War, 153
• - New Zealand, Locomotive Workshops Projected at Wellington, 385
• - Northern Railway of France and Dunkirk Harbour, Connection with Tilbury, 213
• - Osaka, Japanese Considering Erection of Up- to-date Station, 525
• - Piccadilly and City Lines, Tube Link at King's Cross, 243
• - Pingtichuan to Pangkiang, Proposed Railway, 297
• - Post Office Sorting Vans on Railways, Ownership of, 13
• - Power-house Dispute Settlement, 213
• - Private Owners of Railway Rolling Stock, Minimum Tare, 71, 413
• - Race Meetings, Trains Most Profitable to Railways and Those who Trade with Them, 665
• - Radial Railway, High-speed, from Toronto to Hamilton, Proposed Construction, 385
• - Rails Used Annually on Railways, Returns, 99
• - Railway Benevolent Institution, 497
• - Railway Companies' Burdens and Rates Increase, 324
• - Railway Material Exports Statistics, 13, 153, 183, 243, 325, 441, 581, 665
• - Railwaymen on Strike and Assistance to Injured Travelers, 581
• - Railway Rates Tribunal:
• -- "A" Year, Expenditure of, 43, 71
• -- "Circuitous Route" Investigation and Its Cost, 243
• -- New Schedule of Charges and the "Appointed Day," 637
• -- Private Owners of Rolling Stock and Minimum Tare, 71, 413
• -- Standard Charges on the Four Grouped Systems, 497
• -- Workmen's Cheaper Tickets and Higher Wages, 525
• - Railway Shopmen and Court of Inquiry, Result, 213
• - Railway Superannuation Funds and Grouping, L. and N.E.R. Bill Rejected, 325
• - Road Traffic Competition and Loss of Goods Revenue by Railways, 525
• - Roads, Motors and Railways, 325
• - Runaway Catch Points and their Use, 213
• - Russian Railway Development, Possible Rolling Stock Orders, 71
• - Safety of British Railways, Proof by Statistics, 268
• - Sentence Passed Nearly Two Years After Offence in America, 609
• - Shareholders and Discussion of Questions of Practical Economy, 525
• - Shunting of British Railway Wagons, Link Coupling Advantages, 525
• - Signal Engineers from French Railway Inspecting English Installations, 125
• - Signalmen's Duty in Case of Mishap, 213
• - Signals, Four-aspect Colour Light, 385
• - Sleeping Car Suggestions, International Competition Arranged, 125
• - Snow Delays Post Office Mails on Railways, 13
• - South African Railways Relaying Track, 469
• - South Australian Success with Motor Rail Cars, 325
• - South London Tube, The New, 621
• - Southern Railway :
• -- Accusations of Delay and the Reply, 153
• -- Atlantic Coast Express, 24
• -- Bridges, Strengthened, to Carry "King Arthur" Class of Engine, 94
• -- Brighton Section, Electric System to be Changed from Overhead to Third Rail, 268
• -- Cannon-street Station's Defects and Probable Closing for Alterations, 125, 183
• -- Cannon-street Station Temporarily Closed, 553, 609
• -- Dover-Ostend Boat Train Acceleration, 243
• -- Electrical Service, Temporary, and Future Permanence, 183
• -- Electrical Services and Increased Number of Passengers, Proposed Extensions on Brighton Section, 469
• -- Electrification Programme to be Carried Out, 553, 609
• -- Ferro-concrete Engine Depot at Exmouth Junction, 213
• -- Floating Dock, 60,000-Ton, Temporary Removal, 637
• -- Millbrook Station Improvements, 153
• -- Proposed Improvements Consequent on Grouping, 469
• -- Queen-street Station, Exeter, Additions, 360
• -- Southampton, New Docks for Southern Railway, 153
• -- Widening between Eastleigh and Shawford, 355
• - Steam Tramway Suspended on Account of Loss in Working, 609
• - Steel Sleepers for North Australian Railways, 325
• - Stockton and Darlington Centenary, Men's Demonstration and Funds Division, 71
• - Stockton and Darlington Railway, Tablet to Memory of Pioneers, 413
• - Stores and Materials, Values of Certain Railways, 355
• - Switches of Railway Points, Oiling and Cleaning, 385
• - Third-class Passengers and Privileges, 99
• - Ticket-issuing Machine, New Type, 525
• RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
• - Tottenham Court-road New Station’s Progress, 153
• - Trackless Tramway System for French Concession at Shanghai, 637
• - Traffic Receipts and Items of Expenditure, More Information Desired from Certain Railways, 355
• - Train-destination Indicators for Various London Stations, 609
• - Train Ferry, Harwich-Zeebrugge, Profit made in 1925, 355
• - Train Indicator, New Installation at Baker- street, 125
• - Tramways and Light Railways Returns, 562
• - Transport by Road and Rail, Colonel Ashley’s Views, 99
• - Travelling Facilities To and From East and North-East London, Investigations, 268
• - Tube Extensions, Expectations Regarding, 13
• - Tube Railways in South London, Proposed Extension, 153
• - Tunnel Darkness and Brilliantly Lighted Stations, Effect of Passing from One to the Other on Eyesight of Engine Drivers, 637
• - Uganda Railway—-see Kenya
• - “Underground” Group, Increased Omnibus Traffic, 413
• - Underground Railway Company’s Possible Use for Loud Speakers, 243
• - Vacuum Brake Fitted After Accident, 325
• - Wages—-see National Union
• - Wagon, Two-body Self-discharging, 552
• - Watford Line Opening and Increased Number of Trains, 297
• - Western Australian Government Accepts English Firm’s Tender for Rails, 13
• - Windmill-driven Turbine and Alternating- current Generator for Working Signals, 609
• - Workman’s Ticket Claim Question, 637
• - Yellow to Replace Red Light Signals, Gradual Extension of Use, 665
• RECLAMATION Scheme, Back Bay, Indian Government Inquiry, 553
• Reinforced Concrete Bridge at Cymmer with Largest Span in Wales, 441
• Reinforced Concrete Wharf at Zanzibar, Progress of, 355
• Reservoir at Cardiff, Difficulties in Construction, 413
• Rio de Janeiro, State of, Projected.Construction of Two New Ports, 269
• River Carriage Aided by Growth of Railways, C. S. Butts, 183
• Rivets, Countersunk or Bottom-head, Tests of Strength of, 43
• Road Congresses, Permanent International Association of, 243
• Road Construction in Spain, 355
• Road-making, Cost of Construction and Maintenance, in Africa and in Yorkshire, 183
• Road-making Experiments in Canada, 354
• Road Traffic of Piccadilly to be Controlled by Light Signals, 243, 355
• Roads Cleared of Scrap Iron by Magnet Hung Beneath 5-Ton Wagon, 125
• Roads, Concrete, in Missouri, Increased Mileage, 272
• Rock and Air Temperatures in Deep-level Mines, M. O. Tillard and E. C. Ranson, 346
• Rock Drills, Committee Recommendations on the Rand, Successful Results, 191
• Royal Metal Trades’ Pension and Benevolent Society, Seventy-eighth Anniversary Festival, 537
• Ruhr Agreement with South American Province, Iron Ore and Coke Smelting, 325

S

• SAFETY Lamp, New Type, for Mines, 553
• Safety Razor Blade Factory in Sheffield, Enormous Output, 71
• St. Lawrence River Water Power Development Report, 43
• Salt Works and Grounds near Sandbach Closed, 636
• Salvador, Cutuco Port to Become a Satis¬factory Harbour, 609
• Scales, Engineers’, New Type, 484
• Shanghai Company for Building Motor Cars on American Lines, 637
• Shell Oil Company’s Boilers to be Fired with Pulverised Coal, 618
• SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :
• - Antwerp and British Tonnage, 441
• - Barge’s Independent Journey in a Gale, 13
• - Cable Steamer Colonia, Largest in the World, Sailed from the Thames to Lay 1800 Miles Duplicate Cable, 99
• - Fire-extinguishing Appliances on Ships, New Board of Trade Regulations, 441
• - Five British Submarines, Contracts for, 469
• - French Steel Deep-sea Trawler, the Last Word in Fittings, 99
• - Fruit-carrying Steamers for New York Firm, and Passenger Liner Ordered from Belfast, 609
• - Gyroscopic Steering Gear and Time-saving, 71
• - H.M.S. Destroyer Amazon, 71
• - H.M.S. Destroyer Ambuscade, 153
• - Italian Emigrant Steamships, Genoa to Rosario, Proposals, 213
• - Lifeboat Rescues in 1925, 43
• - Mauretania’s High Speed after Twenty Years, 441
• - Montreal, Port, Transatlantic Vessels, Statistics, 183
• - Motor Lifeboat Engines of the R.N.L. Institution, R.N. Engineer-Commander to Take Charge, 243
• - Motor Ship Primero, 54
• - Motor Tanker, Swedish, Large Marine Oil Engine for, 637
• - Rotor Ship, A New, for Hamburg, 355
• - Scapa Flow Salving of German Destroyers, Progress, 213, 297, 440
• - Steamer’s Engines and Boiler Good After Forty-three Years’ Work, 677
• - Steamers on the Murray River and Ocean¬going Vessels, Suggested Communication Between by Aerial Ropeway, 665
• - Steamship Service from Vancouver to Argentina, 297
• - Submarine L 27, Trials and Completion, 71
• SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued) :
• - United States Navy, Two 10,000-Ton Cruisers for, Suggested Machine Pressure, and Radical Departure from Normal Marine Practice, 385
• - War Office Motor Launches, 309
• SHIPPING Conveyor Galleries, Quebec, Erection Approaching Completion, 553
• Silver Compounds, New Type, Found in Australia, 413
• Sir John Cass Technical Institute, 453
• Slate for Structural Purposes, Coloured Surfacing Introduced, 243
• Smoke Evil, Colossal Cost to the Country, Dr. John S. Owens, 243
• Snow Clearing Equipment in Ontario, 183
• Societies--see Associations
• South Africa, New Industry Started, 13
• Soviet Union's Lack of Calcium Carbide, Reopening of Works for Additional Supply, 497
• Spanish Government Loan for Works at Port of La Luz, Canaries, 469
• Spanish National Fuel Council, 125
• Spelter and Sulphuric Acid Output from Seaton Carew Works, 13
• Spontaneous Inflammation of Certain Oils and Oil Mixtures, Method of Prevention, 469
• Steam Pipe Explosion, Possible Cause and Need of Care, 43
• Steam Turbo-generator Failure After Long Service, 413
• Steel--see Iron and Steel
• Stone, Weathering of, 577
• Strainer, Choked, Removed from the Bottom of a Well, 413
• Street Signs, Lighted Warning, in Chicago, 13
• Suction Dredger with Steam Turbine-driven Pump, 13
• Sugar Mill in Australia, Power Plant from Various English Manufacturers, 71
• Sulphur Production in Java, 497
• Sulphuric Acid Increased Output in France, 637
• Swedish Ball Bearings, Annual Output, 213

T

• TAMPING Asphalt Road Surfacing, Novel Appliance for, 413
• Tanganyika Territory, Analysis of Import Trade Origin, 269
• Tantalum, Pure, in Large Blocks, Useful Production for Scientific Apparatus, 269
• Tar Over Salt Solution Layer, German Invention, 99
• Tasmania Local Shale for Oil Production, Plant for Testing Possibilities, 413
• Tasmanian Discovery of New Alloy, 497
• Tasmanian East Coast, Projected Development of Water Power Resources, 497
• Tasmanian Report, Coal Seams, Silver-lead Lodes, Copper and Tin Lodes, 191
• Taxi-cab Telephones, 553
• Telephone Cable, New York-Chicago, Said to be Longest in the World, 99
• Telephone Developments in and Round Shrewsbury, 99
• Telephone Exchange, Strowger Automatic, at Ipswich, 421
• Telephone Exchanges, Two New, for South London, 469
• Telephone Figures for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 581
• Telephone between London and Berlin and other German Towns, Arrangements, 321
• Telephonic System, International, Linking-up of Hungary, 355
• Tenders foe Steam-raising Plant, Marked Difference in Amount, 609
• Teredos Boring Damage in Three Months, 243
• Terminal Warehouse, Toronto, New, Begun, 553
• Thames Silting Near Waterloo Bridge, 441
• Thermometer for Measuring High Temperatures, 385
• Tides in the Bay of Fundy, Utilisation of, for Hydro-electric Development, 609
• Timber Royalties in British Columbia, Levy Proposed to Provide Funds for Afforestation, 99
• Tin Discoveries in the North-Western Part of Tanganyika, 413
• Tin and Greisen Discovery on Babel Island, Tasmania, 469, 497
• Tin Mine, Dolcoath, New Shaft, 413
• Tin Mining's First Commercial Success in Canada, 609
• Tin Ore Discovery in Cornwall, 71
• Tin-plate Scrap, Cost of Handling, 469
• Tin-plate Workers' Official Tour, 183
• Tires, Michelin, Reported Project for Manufacture in England, 13
• Tool-box, Double-cutting, for Planing Machines, 509
• Trade with China, Prospects, 469
• Transport Difficulties Caused by Drought Affecting River in Colombia, 645
• Trojan Service Manual, 456
• Tubes, Special, Provisional Agreement between Germano-Czech Tube Combination and French Tube Rolling Works, 385
• Tunnels, Three, Projected Under the Detroit River, 382

U

• UNDERGROUND Lake Discovery, Plans to Drain on to Land for Irrigation, 413
• "Uniflow and Extraction Steam Engines," Dr. T. B. Morley, 243
• Universal Ball Joint, B.E.N. Patents, Ltd., 277
• University of British Columbia, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Equipment, 269
• University College Engineering Society, Annual Dinner, 277
• Uxbridge Rural Drainage Loan, 637

V

• VALPARAISO Water Supply and Hydroelectric Plant, New Project Under Consideration, 297
• Vancouver, Projected New Pier, 71
• Venice as a Port, Projected Reconstruction, 355
• Veteran Workers at Ironworks and Collieries, 512
• Vickers Group Amateur Operatic Society, 537
• Victoria, Vancouver Island, Dock Gates, 13
• Village Deep Mine, Transvaal, now the Deepest in the World, 637

W

• "WARD Leonard Control of Winding Engines," E. Le Lew Lamb, 243
• Warehouse, Projected, of Record Size, 13
• Water Power Resources, Development of, A. E. Malpas, 13
• WATER SUPPLY :
• - Auckland, N.Z., Development of Water Supply, 125
• - Barton, Ontario, Extension of Water Supply Projected, 125
• - Clay Cross Seeks Loan to Increase Water Supply, 665
• WATER SUPPLY (continued) :
• - New South Wales, Lachlan River Water Conservation Scheme, 125
• - Underground Water, 337
• - Yangchow, China, Proper Water Supply Projected, 637
• WEATHERING of Stone, 577
• Well and Bore-hole Successfully Sunk at Measham, 581
• Welland Ship Canal, Amount Still Required for Completion, 469
• Whitworth Society, Commemoration Dinner, 27
• Wind Tunnel Experiments, 441
• Winding Engine Accidents, Fewer with Electrical than Steam Engines, 355
• Wire and Wire Products, Minimum Prices for, in France and Belgium, 609
• WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY :
• - Asuncion, Projected Large Broadcasting Station at, 213
• - Basrah Port Trust, Satisfactory Working of Wireless Telephone Sets on Harbour Vessels, 665
• WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY (continued) :
• - Broadcasting Wave Lengths, Proposed Redistribution, 213
• - Government Wireless between this Country and the Dominions, 243
• - Radio Telegrams for Ships, Extension of Service, 323
• - Spain's Use of British Wireless Apparatus, 99
• - Venezuela, Two New Wireless Installations, at Caracas and Maracaibo, 497
• - Wave Length for "Trans-Canada" Long-distance Relay, 99
• - Windmill, Purchase of Ditchling's 200-year-old Peg and Post Mill, 530
• - Wireless Apparatus Imports, British Prospects in no Danger, 325
• - Wireless Receiving Licences, Post Office Receipts, 325
• WOOD Boring Pest Imported into Australia, Possible Extermination, 13
• Wooden Stove Pipe, Fine Specimen, Built by Californian Power Company, 497
• Work, Joy in, and Routine Tasks, C. M. Schwab, 125
• Workmen's Average of 63-20 Years of Service per Man, 581

X

• X-RAY Apparatus and Dark Room Mounted on Fast Motor Car, Great Value of, in Emergency, 125

Z

• ZINC Chloride, Method of Preparation, P. Brallier, 497
• Zinc Oxide Factory in Course of Erection on the River Don, Russia, 637
• Zinc, Slab, Production at U.S.A. Zinc Reduction Plants in 1925, 525
• Zinc Smelter for Saguenay, Quebec, 469

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