The Engineer 1927 Jan-Jun: Index: Miscellaneous

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ABELL, Professor T. B.. Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies, 149
Acetylene Breakdown Equipment, Allen- Liversidge, Ltd., vii
Adjustable Cabin Ventilating Fitting, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422
AERONAUTICS :
- See also Annual Articles
- Aero-engines--see Engines
- Cardington Airship Shed and Mooring Tower, 230, 242, 258, 270, 288, 300 ; (Addendum), 586
- French Air Services, 659
- French Trans-atlantic Flights, 554
- International Register of Aircraft, 244
AGRICULTURAL Engineering, 104
Air Compressor, 4.5 H.P., Blackstone and Co., Ltd., 217
Air Filter for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559
Air Pollution in English and Scotch Towns and Cities, John B. C. Kershaw, 203
Alloys, Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in, R. Genders, 323
Alloys--see also Electrical Matters
Aluminium, Soldering and Welding, Some Practical Notes on, A. Eyles, 121
Ambrose, E., Electrical Osmosis, 412
America and Groat Britain, 415
America--see alto Ships, Naval Matters, also Railways
AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS ;
- 468, 610, 638
- Burning Wood Waste, 638
- High-pressure Locomotive, Another, 610
- High-speed Oil Engines, 638
- Improvements in Points and Crossings, 610
- New Port, 611
- Permanent Way Recording Car, 468
- Pipe Lines for Oil, 468
- Power in the American Steel Industry, 610
- Proportioning Concrete by Weight, 638
- Remote Control Mine Haulage, 610
- Track Brakes for Gravity Yards, 468
- Track Shifting Machine, 610
- Ventilation of the Oakland Tunnel, 610
ANGLE Bender, Heywood and Porteus, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Anglo-French Submarine Telephone Cable. New. Siemens Brothers and Co., 336
Annealing Temperatures--see Iron and Steel
ANNUAL ARTICLES :
- AERONAUTICS IN 1926, 19, 34 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Aircraft Engines--see Engines Some Typical British Aeroplanes, 19
-- Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft. Ltd,:
-- All-steel Siskin III., A Single-seater Fighter, 37
-- "Argosy" Twenty-seater Three-engined Air Liner, 36, 37
-- Aeroplanes for Aerodynamic Research, 37
-- A. V. Roe and Co.. Ltd,:
-- Avro "Avenger" Single-seater Scout, 35
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued)
- AERONAUTICS IN 1926 (continued):
-- Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd.:
-- "Ripon" Torpedo Aeroplane, 37
-- "Sprat" Two-seater Ail-purpose Training Machine with 275 H.P. Rolls- Royce Falcon Engine, 37
-- "Iris" Triple-engined Reconnaissance Flying Boat, 36, 37
-- Boulton and Paul, Ltd., Work During the Year, 35
-- Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.:
-- Bristol "Badminton" Single-seater Racing Machine, 35, 36
-- Bristol "Berkeley" Day Bomber, 34
-- Bristol "Boarhound" Two-seater Military Machine, 34
-- Work for Foreign Countries as Well as Home Ministry, 34
-- Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd.:
-- The "Fawn," "Flycatcher" and "Fox" Machines, 35
-- Gloster Aircraft Company. Ltd.:
-- Wooden Aeroplanes Re-designed in Steel, Two New Two-seater Fighting Machines, 37
-- "Coral" All-steel Aeroplane, 37
-- "Gambet" Single-seater Deck-landing Scout, with Bristol Jupiter Mark VI. Engine, 36, 37
-- Handley Page, Ltd.:
-- "Hendon" Slotted Wing Torpedo Carrier, Two-seater Military Machine, 16, 19
-- "Hamlet" Five-seater Three-engined Slotted Wing Monoplane, 19 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Hawker Engineering Co., Ltd.:
-- "Danecock" Single-seater Fighter, 21 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- 650 H.P. "Horn bill" Single-seater Fighter, 16, 21
-- Short Brothers, Ltd.:
-- All-metal "Calcutta" Flying Boat, 20
-- Duralumin Propeller with Detachable Blades, 20
-- "Mussel" All-metal Seaplane, 20 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd.:
-- "Southampton" Flying Boat, 19 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Vickers Ltd.:
-- "Vendace" Two-seater Training Machine, "Vespa" Army Co-operation Two-seater Aeroplane, 16, 21
-- Viekers-Wibault All-metal Monoplane Scout, 21 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Westland Aircraft Works, Ltd.:
-- Captain G. T. R. Hill's "Pterodactyl" or Tailless Aeroplane, 21 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
- BRIDGES IN 1926, 7 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Berwick Bridge, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Caversham Bridge, 7 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Floating Roadway, New, at Seacombe Ferry, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Lea Marshes Viaduct, 7 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) :
- BRIDGES IN 1926 (continued):
-- Railway Drawbridge at Keadby, 7 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
- ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1926, 25. 43 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Converters, Automatic Sub-station, Soho- square, 25 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Electric Traction, 43
-- 50-Cycle Single-phase Locomotive, Fried, Krupp, 43, 44
-- Electricity in Agriculture, 26
-- Hydro-electric Plant, 25
-- Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, Hewittie Electric Company, Ltd., 43
-- Miscellaneous, 44
-- Research, 25
-- Telephones, 44
-- Television, 26
-- The Baird Televisor, 26
-- Transatlantic Wireless Telephony, Stations at Rugby and Wroughton, 26 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Turbo-generator Sets, 43
-- High-pressure Alternator Windings, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 43
-- Wireless Communication, 26 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Photo-radiogram Receiver and Transmitter, Marconi Company, London, 26
-- Transmitting Station at Bodmin, Receiving Station Near Bridge water, 26 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
- HARBOURS AND WATERWAYS IN 1926, 38
-- The United Kingdom, 38
-- British Waterways, 38
-- London, Port of, 38
-- Mersey, The, and Manchester Ship Canal, 38
-- Floating Roadway at Seacombe Ferry, 38 (Supplement, January 7th. 1927)--see Bridges (Annual Articles) Naval Dockyards, 38
-- North-East Coast and Humber Ports, 38
-- Other Ports, 38
-- Scotland, 38
-- Southampton, 38
-- Africa, 39
-- Australasia, 39
-- Canada, New Dry Dock at Esquimalt, 39 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- East, The, 39
-- European Ports and Waterways, 38
-- North and South America, 39
- IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTION IN 1926, 84
- LOCOMOTIVES OF 1926, 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Ljungstrom Turbine Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd., 3, 6 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Reid-MacLeod Turbine Locomotive, L. and N.E.R., Attached to Special Train, 4, 6
-- Great Western Railway, New Type of Tender for "Castle" Class Engines, 4, 5
-- London, Midland and Scottish, Mixed Traffic Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- London and North-Eastern Railway, 5
-- Booster Addition Proved of Great Value, 5, 6
-- Lentz Valve Gear Adopted, 5
-- New Standard Goods Engine, Extended Use of, 5
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) :
- LOCOMOTIVES IN 1926 (continued):
-- Southern Railway, 4
-- Lord Nelson, 3, 4 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Locomotive Industry, 6
-- Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co,, Ltd.. Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Three-cylinder Oil Fuel Engines, andc., 7
-- Beyer, Peacock Locomotives, Additional, Garratt Engine for Rhodesia. Central Argentine Railway Eight- coupled Cross Compound Engine, 6, 7
-- Kitson and Co., Ltd.. Midland Railway of Western Australia, Locomotives, 6, 7
-- North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., Rhodesian Railway Locomotive with Lentz Valves, 6 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway Six-coupled Three-cylinder Engine, andc., 7
-- Light Locomotives, 7
-- Fowler, John, and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Narrow-gauge Locomotive for 60 cm. Railway for Agricultural Use, 7
-- Puckett and Sons, Ltd., Special Light Engines for Quarry Use, 7
- MOTOR VESSELS AND MARINE On. ENGINES IN 1926, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Double-acting Engines, 8
-- Richardsons, Westgarth and Co., Ltd., 8, 10
-- Elder Dempster Motor Liners Accra and A papa, with Twin-screw Double-acting Engines, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 8, 9
-- Opposed-piston Engines, 11
-- Doxford Four-cylinder Opposed-piston Airless Injection Oil Engine, 10, 11
-- Plenty-Still Oil Engine, 10, 11
-- Progress in Europe and America, 11
-- Rotor Ship Barbara with Two Weser- M.A.N. Engines, 11, 12
-- Silver Line Motor Cargo Ship Silverash with Opposed-piston Engine. 10, 11 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Single-acting Four-cycle Engines, 8
-- Dolores do Urquiza, A. and J. Inglis. Ltd., 9 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Single-acting Two-cycle Engines, 9
-- Some Large Motor Passenger Liners, Union Castle Liner Carnarvon Castle, Harland and Wolff, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Smaller Marine Motors, 11
-- Some New Directions of Development, 11
-- Ten-cylinder Sulzer Engine for the Christiaan Huygens, 11, 12
- NAVAL CONSTRUCTION IN 1926, 2 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- British Empire, 2
-- France, 3
-- French Cruiser Duguay-Trouin, 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Italy, 3
-- Japan, 3
-- Japanese Cruiser Furutaka, 3
-- Japanese Minelaying Submarine, 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued):
- NAVAL CONSTRUCTION IN 1926 (continued) :
-- United States, 2
-- Minor Navies, 3
- RAILWAYS IN 1926, 42
-- Great Western, 42
-- London, Midland and Scottish, 42
-- London and North-Eastern, Drawbridge at Keadby, 42 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Metropolitan, 43
-- Southern, 42
-- Underground, 43
- SANITARY ENGINEERING IN 1926, 55
-- General, 55
-- Bradford, 55
-- Leeds, 55
-- Leicester, 55
-- London Main Drainage, 55
-- Manchester, 55
-- Main Drainage, 55
-- Outfall Works, 55
-- Portobello (Edinburgh), 55
-- West Kent Main Sewerage Board. 55
-- Works in Progress or in Contemplation, 55
-- France, 55
-- Other Works Abroad, 56
- STEAMSHIPS AND STEAM MARINE ENGINEERING IN 1926, 22 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Higher Steam Pressures and Temperatures, 22
-- High-pressure Geared Turbine Clyde Steamer King George V., 22 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Some Notable Ships of the Year, 22
-- Blue Star Liner Almeda, Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Cable-laying Steamer Dominia, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., 22
-- Orient, Liner, 20,000-Ton Otranto, Vickers Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Union-Castle Liner Llandaff Castle, Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., 22
-- Repairs and Reconditioning, 22
-- Clan Macnaughten Improvised Stern Frame, 22
-- High Elastic Limit Steels for Shipbuilding 23
-- Improved Marine Engine Efficiency, 23
-- Bauer - Wach Turbine - Reciprocating Engine, 24
-- Large Liners Launched and Built Abroad, 23
-- Salvage Operations and Shipbreaking, 23
-- Some Dredgers of 1926, 23
-- Drag and Suction Dredger Vizagapatam, Wm. Simons and Co., Ltd., 23
-- L.N.E.R. Bucket Dredger Telford, Lobnitz and Co., Ltd., 23
-- Conclusion, 24
- WATER SUPPLY IN 1926, 24 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- General, 24
-- Aberdeen Water Supply, Old and New Reservoirs at Invercannie, 24 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Birmingham, 51
-- Cardiff, 51
-- Llwynon Reservoir, 52
-- Roughing Filters, 52
-- Taff Fawr Pipe Line, 52
-- Wenallt Reservoir, 52
-- Durham County Water Board, 52
-- Glasgow, 53
-- Liverpool, Vyrnwy Supply, 24
-- Aber Tunnel, 24
-- Vyrnwy Aqueduct, 24
-- Londonderry, 52
-- Manchester, 51
-- Haweswater Scheme, 51
-- Heaton Park Reservoir, 51
-- Thirlmere, 51
-- Thirlmere Aqueduct, 51
-- Mechanical Filtration Plants, 53
-- Bradford, 53
-- Exeter, 53
-- Mid-Sussex Joint Water Board, 53
-- Metropolitan Water Board, 51
-- Supply from the Queen Mary Reservoir, 51
-- Walton-on-Thames Filtration Plant, 24 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)
-- Works for the Improvement of Supply North of the Thames, 51
-- Works for the Improvement of Supply South of the Thames, 51
-- Works at Hampton, 51
-- Nottingham, 52
-- Bore-holes at Burton Joyce, 52
-- Colwick Hill Reservoir, 52
-- East wood Filtration Plant, 52
-- Plymouth, 52
-- Preston, 52
-- Taf Fechan, 53
-- Wakefield, 52
-- Bombay, 53
-- France, 53
-- Singapore, Water Supply from Johore, 53
-- South Australia, 53
-- Other Works Abroad, 53
-- Irrigation, 54
ARMOURING Machine--see Electrical Matters
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
Association, Diesel Engine Users' :
- Consumers' Oil Tests, Arthur F. Evans, 665
- Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans 504
- High Revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday, 298
Association of Engineers, Manchester :
- Annual Dinner, 71
- Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E. Windeler, 354
- Junior Technical School and its Relation to Engineering, S. Howden, 125
- Modern Developments in Steam Pressures, W. Bayliss, 280
- Recent Developments in Machine Tools, Q. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:
- Annual Convention at Buxton, 607, 622
- Annual General Meeting, 624
- Dinner, 624
- Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland with Special Reference to the Heating Question, H. H. Berry, 624
- Methods and Capital Costs of Distribution Over an Extensive Area, W. C. Bexon, 607
- Presidential Address, R. W. L. Phillips, 607
- Recent Developments in Power Plant Design and their Effects on the Economy of Generation. T. Roles, 622
Institute, Iron and Steel:
- Annual Meeting, 502, 513, 541
- Annual Report, 513
- Annual Dinner, 516
- AC2 Range in Special Steels, Professor J. H. Andrew and H. A. Dickie, 543
- Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins, 541, 557
- Experimental Inquiry into the Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, Professor W. A. Bone and Others, 514, 530
- Four Other Papers Taken as Read, 544
- Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 558
- Influence of Annealing Temperatures on the Properties of Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543
- Low-carbon Alloys of Iron and Manganese, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515, 516
- Metal Manganese and its Properties, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515
- Metallurgical Industry, The Heavy, of the East of France, M. J. Seigle, 514
- Presidential Address, F. W. Harbord, 502, 514
- Properties of Some Nickel-chromium-molybdenum Steels, Professor Andrew and Others, 544
- Some Notes on Cold-rolled Strip, Dr. T. Swinden and Mr. G. R. Bolsover, 543
- The Alloys of Iron Research. Dr. Rosenhain and Others, 516
- Theory of the Growth of Cast Iron Repeatedly Heated, Dr. C. Benedicks and M. H. Loquist, 543
Institute of Marine Engineers ;
- Recovery and Utilisation of Heat from Exhaust Gases of Internal Combustion Engines, Thomas Clarkson, 411
- Some Types of Marine Internal Combustion Engines. W. F. Rabbidge, 273
Institute of Metals :
- Annual General Meeting, 184, 294, 322
-- Programme, 184
- Autumn Meeting, 184
- Application of Strain Methods to the Investigation of the Structure of Eutectic Alloys, F. Hargreaves, 322
-- Crystallisation of the Lead-tin Eutectic, F. Hargreaves, 322
- Attack of Molten Metals on Certain Nonferrous Metals and Alloys, Harold J. Hartley, 322
-- Penetration of Brass by Tin and Solder, H. J. Miller, 322
-- Penetration of Mild Steel by Brazing Solder and other Metals, R. Genders, 322
- Brittleness in Arsenical Copper, Clement Blazey, 294
- Effect of Arsenic on Copper, Effect of Arsenic and Arsenic plus Oxygen on Copper, Professor D. Hanson and Mr. C. B. Marryat, 294
- Effect of Bismuth on Copper, Dr. Hanson and Miss Ford, 294
- Electric Furnaces in Non-terrous Metallurgy, D. F. Campbell, 295
- Hair Springs, Manufacture and Properties of, Moore and Beckinsale, 322
- Influence of Calcium on Aluminium Containing Silicon, J. D. Grogan, 323
- Magnesium-rich Magnesium-copper Alloys, Max Hansen, 323
- Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in Alloys, R. Genders, 323
- Seventh May Lecture : Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527
Institution of Chemical Engineers :
- Annual Dinner, 326
- Annual General Meeting, 326
- Conference, 193
- Programme, 193
- Cross Cracking Process and Plant. F. Heron Rogers, 326
- Meeting, 302, 325
- Effect of Temperature on Some of the Properties of Metals, andc., Professor F. C. Lea, 325
- Intensive Sulphuric Acid Manufacture :
-- (1) Dr. H. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds,
-- (2) W. G. Mills, 303
- Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302
- Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to Lead Burning. W. C. Freeman, 302
- Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, B. D. Porritt, 325
- Some Industrial Developments and the Chemical Engineer, Sir F. Nathan, 326
Institution of Civil Engineers :
- Applications of Power on Gasworks, Harold C. Smith, 137
- Conversazione, 662
- Three Lantern Lectures, 662
- Exhibits : Yarrow-Hyde Bed, "Rubber- phalte" Road Blocks, andc., 662
- James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering. Professor H. C. N. Carpenter, 490, 520
- October Examinations. 1926, Pass List, 113
- April Examinations, 1927, Pass List, Interim, 668
- Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River. T. C. S. Haslam, 602
- MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION :
-- Sixth Annual Dinner, 181
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
- Alternating-current. Measuring Instruments, Recent Advances in, Lieut.-Colonel K. Edgcumbe and Mr. F. E. J. Oekenden, 208
- Annual Dinner, 71, 193
- Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, Professor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472
- Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, Lieut.-Commander Haydn T. Harrison, 297
- Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough, 221
- Summer Meeting at North-Eastern Centre. 654, 680, 686 ; Programme, 354
- Visits to Heaton Works (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.) and to Hebburn Works (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 654
- Visits to Works of Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.. Works of Consett Iron Company, and North Tees Electric Power Station, 680, 686
- What is Electricity ? Abstract of Faraday Lecture. Professor W. M. Thornton, 331
- WIRELESS SECTION :
-- Battery Eliminators, Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews, 412
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
- Joint Meeting with North-East Coast Institution, 611, 693
- Programme, 611
- Historical References to the Progress in Use of High-pressure Steam, James Mollison, 693
- Machinery Installation of the Grosser Kurfurst, John S. Brown, 276
- Various Papers, Dinner, Visits, 693
Institution, Junior, of Engineers:
- Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412
- Torsional Vibration, Investigation of, J. Calderwood, 336
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
- Annual General Meeting, 206
- Report, 206
- Conversazione, 208
- Development of Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 332
- Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses, andc., Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter). 522
- Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut. - Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 410, 415, 416, 445
- Joint Meeting with Chemical Engineering Group, Lubrication. Dr. W. R. Onnandy. 358, 361, 393
- Second Joint Meeting, Lubricating Oils--Laboratory' in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton, 376
- Summer Meeting, Birmingham, 240
- Provisional Programme, 240
- Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanbv and Professor William Kerr, 94, 107, 126, 166, 207 : (Erratum), 146
- NORTH-WESTERN BRANCH :
- Annual General Meeting, 109
- Joint Meeting, Discussion, of Professors Mellanby and Kerr's Paper, 207
- Manchester Meeting, 208
- Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, 207, 208
- Meeting in Manchester, Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.-Colonel Kitson Clark, 444
- Small Turbine Units for Industrial Purposes, G. Arrowsmith, 109
- Joint Meeting, Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 377
- Mechanical Vehicles, Development of. for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 330
- Recent Developments in Grinding Machines and Processes, H. H. Axbridge, 276
Institution of Mining Engineers :
- Eighty-sixth General Meeting, Programme, 638
Institution of Municipal and County Engineers
- Annual General Meeting and Conference. Programme, 531
Institution of Naval Architects :
- Annual Dinner, 388
- Annual General Meeting, 387, 405, 434
- Report and Elections, 387
- Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats, David Nicolson, 409
- Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, H. J. R. Biles, 435, 439
- Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405
- Notes on the Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 408
- Oil Engine Energy Diagram and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dalby, 406, 420, 421
- Programme of Meetings, 336
- Propulsion of Ships Under Different Weather Conditions, J. L. Kent, 434
- Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors, Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408
- Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436
- Ship Wave Resistance, W. C. S. Wigley, 436
- Summer Meeting in Cambridge, Programme, 336
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
- Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion, G. S. Baker, 1 125
- Joint Meeting--see Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland
- Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery on Land and Sea, Sir C. A. Parsons and Others, 69
- Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth, 249
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Institution of Structural Engineers :
- Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, H. J. Gough, 474
Institution of Water Engineers :
- Summer General Meeting, Programme and List of Papers, 450
- Theory and Practice (from Presidential Address of Dr. Herbert Lapworth), 691
Society, Ceramic :
- Spring Meeting in Czechoslovakia, 437
Society of Chemical Industry :
- Midland Section, Joint Meeting, 84
-- Measurement of Temperature in Technical Practice, Professor J. W. Hinchley, 84
-- Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, J. A. Hall, 84
- Chemical Engineering Group, Joint Meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 358, 361, 393
Society, Faraday ;
- Meeting for Presentation of Second Report to Atmospheric Corrosion Research Committee, by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon, 374
- Theory of Strong Electrolytes, Programme of Papers and General Discussion at University Museum, Oxford, 392
Society, Liverpool Engineering :
- Annual Dinner. 155
Society, Newcomen :
- Meeting, 219
- British Railways of 1825 as Seen by Marc Seguin, Ferdinand Achard and Laurent Seguin, 219
- First British Locomotives of the St. Etienne- Lyon Railway, M. Achard, 219
- Summer Meeting, 576
Society, Royal :
- Conversazione : Ultra-violet Radiation, Applications of and Apparatus for Generation of ; Specimens of Pure Metals ; Specimens Illustrating Metallography of Solid Mercury ; Magnetometer ; Model of Rotating Shaft; New Form of Thermostat ; Selenyi's Method of Observing the "Cleanup" in a Vacuum Lamp, andc., 522
Societies, Physical and Optical:
- Exhibition, 12, 42, 72--For Details see Separate Heading, "Physical and Optical Exhibits"
ATKINS, E. A., Drawing Steel Wire, 541, 557
Australia and India, Wireless Communication with--see Wireless Telegraphy, Grimsby and Skegness Stations
Automatic Electro-plating Machine, Grinding Machinery, "Minik" Plating Apparatus, andc., W. Canning and Co., Ltd., 264, 265

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BAILEY, Alex. D., High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, 635
Baker, G. S., Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion, 125
Baker, G. S., Skin Friction Resistance, 179
Balancing Gear--see Engines
Balancing Machine, Martin, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i, ii
Bars, Centrifugal Casting of, Leon Cammen, 574
Baulino Continuous Fuel Indicator, 157
Beam Engines--see Engines
Beet Sugar, New Method of Making, 431, 442, 444
Benedicks, Dr. C-, and M. H. Loquist. Growth of Cast Iron, 543
Berry, H. H., Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland, 624
Biles, H. J. R., Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, 435, 439
Boiler Drums, High-pressure. Manufacture of, Thyssen and Co., 246
Boiler, Exhaust Gas, Determination of the Efficiency of, Professor G. Cook, 403
Boiler, Experimental Critical Pressure, Siemens. Benson. 690
Boiler Fittings, Feed Pumps and Boiler-house Apparatus at Leipzig, 321
Boiler Mountings, Variety of Valves, andc., Hunt and Mitt on, 267
Boiler Tubes, Duty of, 580
Boiler, Vertical Tubular, Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
Boiler, Woodeson Water-tube, with Pulverised Coal Equipment. Clarke. Chapman and Co.. 681, 682
Boilers, Pulverised Fuel, at Birmingham, 363
Boilers, Lancashire and Water-tube, John Thompson, Ltd., vii
Bone, Professor W. A., and Others, Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, 514, 530
Books of Reference, 100, 152, 184, 220, 268, 364, 437, 584, 611
Borbera Valley Hydro-electric Installation, 222
Boring Machines--see Machine Tools
Brakes, Trains--see Railways
BRIDGES :
- Bridges, Swing, Over the River Waveney at Beccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177
- Delaware River Suspension Bridge. U.S.A., 202, 214, 231, 304, 305, 318, 345
- "Iron Bridge" at Plymouth, Centenary, 625
- Kafne Bridge, Lifting the, 478
- Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Welded Repairs to, 419
BRITISH Engineers' Association, Luncheon, Economic Conference at Geneva, Sir Arthur Balfour, 665
BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION
- Conference by Screw Threads Committee on Question of Width Across Flats of Nuts and Bolt Heads, 335
- Specifications :
-- Charcoal Iron Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, 212
-- Cold-drawn Weldless Steel Tubes for Locomotive Boilers, 212
-- Contours for Locomotive Tires for British Railways, 440
-- Copper Conductors for Electric Power and Light, 308
-- Electrical Protective Relays, 336
-- Flame-proof Enclosures for Electrical Apparatus, 84
-- Gear Wheels and Pinions for Electric Tramways, 394
-- Instrument Transformers and Recording Ammeters, Voltmeters and Wattmeters, 531
-- Iron or Steel Tubular Poles for Telegraph and Telephone Purposes, 582
-- Oil Paints, 277
-- Paints, Varnishes and Paint Ingredients, 44
-- Piston Rings for Automobiles, 550
-- Switchgear Cells and Cubicles, 193
-- Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 692
-- Water-tight Fittings for Incandescent Electric Lamps, 109
-- Zinc Specifications, 171
BRITISH Foundrymen, Institute of, Annual Convention, Programme, 637
British Industries--see Exhibitions
British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Second Report to Corrosion Research Committee, 374
Bronze Founding, Sir John Dewrance, 274
Browne, A. W., Storage Buttery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268
Buenos Aires Port Works, 298
Burning--see Coal

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CABIN Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422
Cables--see Electrical Matters
Calder, J. Douglas, Notes on the Design of Coasters, 408
Calendars, Diaries, andc., 87, 109, 225
Cammen, Leon, Centrifugal Casting of Bars, 574
Cardington--see Aeronautics
Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering, 490, 520
Cast Iron Casing for Turbo Air Compressor, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654
Castings, Large, of High-conductivity Copper, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd., 611
Catalogues, 87, 109, 171, 197, 367, 425, 453, 477, 611, 641, 671, 697
Centenary, Railway--see Railways
Centenary, Waterworks--see Water Supply
Centrifugal Casting of Bars, Leon Cammen, 574
Chain Bending and Chain Welding Machines, Fin Stripper and Testing Machine, Holden and Hunt, B.l.F. Supplement, iii
Chain Pulling Jack, "Little Jack" Engineering Company, Ltd., 694
Chemical Analysis, 216
China, The "Red Menace" in, 105
Chloronome--Water Softening
Ciment Fondu Concrete, 329; (Letter), 351
Circulating Water--see Electrical Matters
Clarkson, Thomas, Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, 411
"Clear Space" Pneumatic Power Hammer, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666
Clough, F. H., Stability of Large Power Systems, 221
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES :
- British Cool in Franco, 350
- Burning of Low-grade Coal, 162
- Coal Ash and Probability, 48 ; (Letter), 449
- Coal Pulverising Machine, Mayhew, Ramsay and Co., Ltd., 249
- Pneumatic Coal and Ash Conveying Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160, 163
- Pulverised Coal Plant at the Poplar Power Station, 466, 470
- Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268
- Stourport Power Station, Coal-handling Plant, 626, 663
COASTERS--see Ships
Coilers for Cold Strip Rolling Mills, C. E. Davies, 92, 123
Colombia, Port Improvements in, 692
Combustion--see Engines
Compressor, CO2, Tandem-compound Steam- driven, for the Almeda Liner, 379
Conference on Engineering Materials, 448
Conferences on Industrial Welfare, 477 Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, William Harvey, 568
Contracts. 59, 90, 113, 146, 174, 197, 225, 253, 283. 311, 339, 367, 397, 425, 453, 481, 507, 535, 566. 588, 618, 644, 674, 670
Conveyor, General Purpose, New Conveyor Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Cook, Professor G., Determination of the Efficiency of an Exhaust Gas Boiler, 403
Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215
Co-operative Industrial Research, 471
Copper,Arsenic and ; Copper. Arsenical ; Copper, Bismuth and ; Papera and Discussion at the Institute of Metals, 294
Copper Castings--see Castings
Copper Conductors, Hard-drawn, 463
Corrosion, Atmospheric, of Metals--see British Non-ferrous Metals
Crane Girder Design--see Economics of
Cross Cracking Process and Plant, F. Heron Rogers, 326 ; (Letter), 351
Cultivating Machinery--see Steam
Cultivator--see Tea Garden
Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 30, 60, 88, 114, 144, 172, 198, 226, 254, 284, 312, 340, 368, 398, 426, 454, 482, 508, 536, 564, 590, 616, 642, 672, 698
Cylinder Piers for Dockyard Wharf, 527

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DALBY, Professor W. E., Energy Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials. 406, 420, 421
Dam, Eguzon, on the River Cruese, 64, 76
Dam, Wilson Bhandardara Dam, Bombay, 317, 328
Dams, Continuous Nature of Decay in, William Harvey, 668
Davies, C. E., Coders for Cold Strip Rolling Mills, 92, 123
Deferrating Plant at a Sussex Works, 98, 102
Delaware--see Bridges
Demoulin, Maurice, Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518
Deptford--see Electrical Matters
Dewrance, Sir John, Bronze Founding, 274
Diamond Pool--see Longlands
Die Casting, Non-metallic Materials, 321
Diesel Engines--see Engines
Digging and Loading Machine, Spencer (Melksham), Ltd., 393
Dock Extensions at Liverpool, 372, 373, 384
Double Dry Grinding Machine, Electrically Driven, B. R. Rowland and Co., Ltd., 667
Drawing-office Lighting, 205
Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541, 557
Drilling Machines--see Machine Tools
Drying Oven, Large Vacuum, at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654
Dunsheath, Percy, 33,000-Volt Three-core Cables, 99
Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580
Dynamic Balancing Machine. W. and T. Avery, Ltd., 265
Dynamometer, Heenan-Highfield Electric, Heenan and Fronde, Ltd., 265

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EARLY Modern Plough Design, G. E. Fussell, 233
Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, C. J. Wharton, 278
Economics of Crane Girder Design, Edward G. Fiegehen, 204
Economy of Tank Testing--see Ship Propulsion Research
Educational Intelligence, 54
Edwards, Professor C. A., and Mr. J. C. Jones, Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets, 543
Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
- See also Annual Articles, also Physical and Optical Societies' Exhibits
- Alternating-current Motor Starting Panel, Arc Welding Equipment. Gate End Starting Box, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 236
- Armouring Electric Cables, Large Machine for, Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 552, 560
- Automatic Control of Boilers Working with Powdered Fuel, Allgemeine Elektricitats Gesellschaft, 297
- Automatic Sub-station in Copenhagen, Electrical Equipment, Metropolitan-Vickers Company, 584
- Battery Eliminators, andc., Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews, 412
- Binary Electric Converter, Mawdsley's, Ltd., 238
- Cables, 33,000-Volt Three-core, Percy Dunsheath, 99
- Canada, Electric Power Position in, 233
- Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, 529
- Circulating Water System, New, at Woolwich Electricity Station, 150
- CO2, Recorder, Electroflo Meters, Ltd., 239
- Congella Power Station, Durban, 106
- Consett Iron Company's Works, Electrical Equipment at, 682, 686
- Cubicle Switchgear, George Ellison, 532
- Direct-current Controller with Pivoted Contact Finger, Unbreakable Resistance, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 237
- Double-pole Switch, D. B. Minor, General Electric Company, 239
- Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, C. J. Wharton, 278
- Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76
- Electric Furnaces in Non-ferrous Metallurgy, D. F. Campbell, 295
- Electrical Industry, The, 437
- Electrical Instruments, 208
- Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412
- Electrical Research, 188
- Electric Welding Machines, Siemens-Schuckert, 297
- Electrified Homes the Heating Question, H. H. Berry, 624
- Extensions at the Deptford Power Station, 598, 604
- French Electrification Developments, 250
- High-frequency Currents, Kelvin Lecture, Profeasor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472
- High-voltage Outdoor Transformers, Ferranti Ltd., 496, 503
- Langerbrugge Power Station, Results Obtained with High-pressure Steam at, 550
- Largo Transformers, Mctropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 135
- Loading Reactances for Large Generators, Oerlikon Company, 694
- Magnetic Alloys, Mumetal and Rhometal, Gutta Percha Company, 240
- Manchester Electricity Supply, 625
- Models for Demonstrating Electrical Principles, Dr. F. W. Alexander, 547
- North Tees Electric Power Stations, 680
- Outdoor Transformers at Stourport, 663
- Parsons 20,000-Kilowatt Turbo-alternator at Rotterdam, 512, 524, 540 (Two-page Supplement, May 13th 1927)
- Power Station, New, at Willow Holme, Carlisle, 573, 578
- Power Station at Poplar, A New. 466, 470
- Pyromic, Nickel-Chromium Alloy, Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Ltd., 240
- Recent Development in Power Plant Design, andc., T. Roles, 622
- Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, A. W. Browne, 268
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
- Stourport Power Station, 626, 627, 663
- Street Lighting, Haydn T. Harrison, 297
- Switch, 400-Ampdre Oil-immersed Fuse, A. Reyrolle and Co., 236, 237
- Switchgear, Cubicle Typo for 11,000 Volt Supply, George Ellison, 267
- Switchgear Works, New, The Oerlikon Company, 404, 414
- Switching Plug, Stanton, Ltd., 207
- Tapping Switch, Hackbridge Electric Construction Company, 238
- Thornton and Cleveley's Electricity Scheme, 608
- Three-phase Circuit Breaker, 100,000-Volt, 297
- Three-phase Oil Switch and Switchgear, Park Royal Engineering Company, 238, 239
- Trafford Park Power Station, New Coalhandling Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160, 163
- Transformer, Three-phase, Oil-cooled, Core Type Transformers : Single-phase, Radical Type, Air-cooled Transformer, British Electric Transformer Company, 266
- Treforest Power Station, Extensions to, 500
- Truck, Electric, Wingrove anil Rogers, Ltd., 237, 238
- Truck Elevating Platform, Electricars, Ltd., 267
- Turbo-alternator, 12,000-kW, Two Turbogenerator Sets at 20,000 kW, at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654
- U Type Motors. Alternating and Direct Current, Squirrel Cage and Slip Ring Motors, Squirrel Cage Rotor, Brush Gear, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 266, 267
- Voltage Regulating Equipment for Transmission Lines, Newcastle - upon - Tyne Scheme, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 556
- What is Electricity ? Faraday Lecture, Professor W. M. Thornton, 331
ENERGY Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dolby, 406, 420, 421
ENGINES AND MOTORS
- See also Annual Articles
- Aircraft Engines :
-- Beardmore "Typhoon" Aero-engine, 97
-- Bristol Company's "Cherub," "Jupiter" and "Lucifer" Aeroplane Engines, 35
-- "Cirrus" Mark II. 75-80 H.P. Engine, "Nimbus" 300-330 H.P. Six-cylinder Engine. A.D.C. Aircraft, Ltd., 35. .
- Aircraft Engines, Torsional Vibration with Particular Reference to, J. Calderwood, 336
- Airless Injection, 1000 B.H.P. Marine Oil Engine, "V.M." Deutz Type, 528, 544
- Automatic Steam Engine, Small, 392 ; (Letter), 448 ; (Correction), 507
- Balancing Gear for a Four-cylinder 250 B.H.P. Oil Engine. W. H. Allen, Sons anil Co., Ltd., 692
- Beam Engines, Old--see Letters to the Editor, 351, 449, 465, 625, 656, 684 ; (Correction), 400
- Cold-starting Heavy Oil Engine, Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., 80
- Combustion, A New Process of, for Highspeed Heavy Oil Engines, Dr.-Ing. R. Stribeck. 632
- Compound Engine, 100 kW Two-crank, with Dynamo ; Turbine with Dynamo ; Heavy Oil Engine, 50 H.P. Two-cylinder ; Centrifugal Pump for Irrigation ; Mode! of Borehole Pump, W. H. Allen, Sons, and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi, vii
- Crossley Premier Oil Engine, Four-cylinder, for Driving Pumps at Epsom Waterworks, 569
- Diesel Engineer's Log, M. V. Tampa, 279
- Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans, 504
- Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 47
- High-revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday, 298
- Hopper-cooled Oil Engine, Crosslev Brothers, Ltd., 137
- Internal Combustion Engines, Various. Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Fielding and Platt, Ltd., Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii
- Marine Oil Engines--see also Annual Articles (1) Motor Vessels, andc.; (2) Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering
- Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors. Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518
- Oil Engine, Vertical, with New Form of Exhaust Valve Gear, Blackstone and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
- Oil Engines, 70 H.P. Cold-starting Heavy Oil, and 96 H.P. Four-cylinder Vertical, Norris, Henty and Gardners, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii
- Oil Engines and Governor Gear, Marshall, Sons and Co., B.I.F. Supplement, ii
- Oil Engines, Stationary, and 24 H.P. Twincylinder Marine, Fuel Pump Unit and Spraying Jet, Petters, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
- Some Types of Marine Oil Engines, W. F. Rabbidge, 273
- Steam Engine, 75 B.H.P., for Export, E. S. Bindley and Sons, 335
- Uniflow Marino Engine with Oil-operated Valve Gear, Sulzer Brothers, 676
- Vertical Gas Engine, 31 B.H.P., National Gas Engine Company. Ltd., 217
- Water Power versus Oil Engines in Bulgaria, 97
- Winch Engine and Equipment at Cardington, Babcock and Wilcox, 288, 300
ENGINEER and Client, 193
Engineering Conference at Manchester, 412
Engineering Materials, Conference on, 448
Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs. P. T. Wilkins, 188; (Letter), 240
Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405
Exchange in Ideas, 579 ; (Letter), 625
Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, Thomas Clarkson, 411
EXHIBITIONS:
- British Industries Fair, 217, 236, 264
- Leipzig Fair, 263, 296, 320
- Midland Building Trades' Exhibition, 585
- Paris Fair, 572
- Physical and Optical Societies' Exhibition, 12, 40, 72--For Exhibits, see Physical and Optical
- Prague Fair, 350
EXPERT Evidence, 131
Extinguishing Oil Fires Afloat, Apparatus by Merry weather anti Sons, 612
Eyles, A., Notes on Soldering and Welding Aluminium, 121

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FACTORIES, Safety in, 558
Failure of Some Steel Wires under Repeated Torsional Stresses, andc., Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522
Fairs--see Exhibitions
Fan--see also Mine
Fan, Induced Draught ; Fan, Centrifugal, with Dust Collecting Unit ; Fan, Propeller, for Cooling, Musgrave and Co., Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, vi
Fatigue of Metals, Some Modern Views on the, H. J. Gough, 474
Ferry, Largo Oil-engined Propelled Train, Danish, 610
Fiegehen, Edward G., Economics of Crane Girder Design, 204
Filter, Air, for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559
Filter, Experimental Mechanical. V. L. Hartley, 624
Firo Engine. 80 H.P. Turbine Pump Motor, Merry weather and Sons, Ltd., 638
Fires Afloat--see Extinguishing
Fleets, Fighting--see Ships, Naval Matters
Floating Prismatic Bodies--see Stability
Flue Dust Collector, "Sirocco" Fans, Davidson and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
Foreign Trade and Tariffs, 132
Forrester, R. Desmond, Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, 594
Forthcoming Engagements, 32, 62, 96, 116, 146, 174, 200, 228, 256, 286, 314, 342, 370, 400, 428, 456, 484, 510, 538, 566, 592, 618, 641, 674, 670
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES :
- 31, 61, 89, 115, 145, 173, 199, 227, 255, 285, 313, 341, 369, 399, 427, 455, 483, 509, 537, 565, 591, 617, 043. 673, 699
- African Railways, 227
- Barrage Models, 537
- Battleship France, 173
- Bridge Enlargements, 285
- British Coal Trade Imperilled, 617
- British Trade, 399
- Cameroon Railways, 369
- Chambon Barrage, 115
- Coal Import Licences, 673
- Coal Production, 199
- Coal Situation. 285, 341, 643
- Coal Trade, 565, 699
- Colonial Exhibition, 341
- Colonial Works, 31, 509
- Commercial Agreements, 427
- Commercial Aviation, 255
- Continuous Brakes, 369
- Cruiser Suffren, 537
- Engineering Trades, 483
- Export Trade, 89
- Flood Protection, 89
- Foreign Trade, 227, 591, 699
- Hydraulic Works, 115
- Hydro-electric Schemes, 455
- Import Duties, 255
- Industrial Agreements, 643
- Inland Navigation, 509
- Kembs Barrage, 369
- Languedoc Ship Canal, 483
- Manufacturing Costs, 61
- Marseilles Extensions, 313
- Midi Electrification, 483
- Mont Valerien Lighthouse, 565
- Motor Car Industry, 399, 565
- Motor Car Trade, 227
- Naval Construction, 369, 455
- New Cruiser Type, 173
- Novel Boat, 699
- Over-production, 537
- Paris Suburban Traffic, 427
- Paris Water Supply, 399. 455, 617
- Port of Strasburg, 341
- Production and Prices, 565
- Prospecting by Colours, 89
- Public Works, 61, 145
- Rail Motors, 173
- Railway Accident, 643
- Railway Centenary, 61
- Railway Electrification, 399
- Railway Standardisation, 31
- Rod Makers' Agreement, 89
- Rove Tunnel, 483
- Russian Navy, 285
- Sales Organisations, 509
- Sewage Disposal, 617
- Shipbuilding, 145, 255
- South American Air Service, 199
- Steel and Concrete, 427
- Steel Industry, 145, 673
- Steel Pact, 313
- Steel Trade, 455
- Steel Trade Depression, 699
- Steel Union, 61
- Tariff Bill, 591
- Tariffs and Coal, 643
- The "Ile de France," 673
- Tidal Power, 673
- Trade Depression, 145
- Trade Difficulties, 255
- Trade Organisation, 285
- Trade Outlook, 399
- Trade Returns, I 15
- Trade Situation, 115
- Trade Slump, 173
- Trade Stagnation, 369
- Trans-Saharan Railway, 89
- Tunnelling the Vosges, 509
- Two Concrete Bridges', 673
- Underground Paris, 115
- Unemployment, 341
- Wages and Prices, 227
- Wages Reductions, 509
FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES (continued)
- Wages and Work, 313
- Water Sterilisation, 399
- Weaker Prices, 31
- West African Railways, 427
- Work for Unemployed, 199
- Works in Indo-China, 537
FRENCH Oil Problem, 357
Fuel Pump--see Pumps
Fuel Research. Report for 1925, 54
Furnace for Bright Annealing of Non-ferrous Metals, Gibbons Brothers. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, ii
Furnaces, Electric--see Electrical Matters
Fussell, G. E., Early Modern Plough Design, 233

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GAS--see also Suction Gas
Gas Boiler--see Boiler
Gas Engines--see Engines
Gas Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131
Gas Transmission, Long-distance. in Saxony, 193, 240
Gases and Ore, Interactions of, in the Blast - furnace, Professor William A. Bone and Others, 514, 530
Gasworks, Applications of Power on. Harold C. Smith, 137
Gasworks, Scunthorpe, Cooling and Cleaning Plant at, 477
Gear-boxes, Infinitely Variable ; Open Motor Drive, P.l.V. Gear Syndicate, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii
Gear-cutting--see Machine Tools
Gear Wheels, Quiet-running, New Material for Making, "Fenlin," Alfred Wiseman, Ltd., 207
Geared Electric Motor at Leipzig Fair, 321
German Steel--see Iron
Gillingham, C. A., Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry, 667
Gladstone Dock--see Dock Extensions
Gough, H. J., Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, 474
Government Certificate for Mining Engineers, 71
Gravel Washer and Screener, Hardy and Pudmore, Ltd., 478
Grinding Machines--see Machine Tools
Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527

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HADFIELD, Sir Robert, Metal Manganese and its Properties, 515 ; Iron and Manganese, Low Carbon Alloys, 515, 516
Hair Springs, Moore and Beckinsale, 322
Hall, J. A., Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, 84
Hammer, "Clear Space," Pneumatic Power, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666
Harbord, F. W., Presidential Address, 502, 514
Hard-drawn Copper Conductors, 163
Hardness Testing Instrument, "Duroscope," 321
Harrison, Haydn T., Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, 297
Harvey, William, Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, 568
Haslam, T. C. S., Timber Viaduct Over the Tunnyan River, 602
Hatfield, Dr. W. H., Heat-resisting Steels, 558
Helium in Canada, 465
Herbert, Edward G.. Work-hardening Properties of Metals, 138, 156, 180; (Letters), 277
Heteroptic Shutter : A Stroboscope Development, A. J. Ashdown, 82
High-conductivity Copper Castings, Large, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd., 611
High-pressure Steam, Historical References to the Progress in Use of, James Mollison, 693
High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, Alex. D. Bailey, 635
Horated Keynes--see Water Supply, Deferrating
Howden, S., Junior Technical School and its Relation to Engineering, 125
Hydraulic Formula, A New, F. W. Woods, 646
Hydraulic Press, Experimental, Tangyes Ltd., 217
Hydraulic Presses and Pumps, Hand-operated Press for Light Scrap, Rollings and Guest, Ltd., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Hydro-electric Installation, Borbera Valley, 222
Hydro-electric Progress in Canada during 1926, 219

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IDEA of Power for Nothing, 554
Ideas, Exchange of, 579; (Letter), 625
India, Vacuum Brake in. 462 ; (Letter), 684
Indicator, Continuous Fuel, The Baulino, 157
Indicator Gear, Werkspoor, 209
Industrial Bursaries in Metallurgy, 531
Industrial Welfare, Conferences on, 477
Industry--see Labour
Institutes and Institutions--see Associations
Interactions--see Gases
Internal Combustion Engines--see Engines ; also Railway Locomotives
International Congress for Testing Materials, 184
International Discussion, 660
International Register of Aircraft, 244
Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 632
IRON AND STEEL
- Alloys of Iron Research, Dr. Roscnhain and Others, 516
- Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543
- Cold Rolled Strip Steel, Dr. T. Swindon and Mr. J. R. Bolsover, 543
- Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins, 541
- German Steel Combination, 350
- Growth of Cast Iron, Dr. C. Benedicks and M. H. Loquist, 543
- Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 558
IRON AND STEEL (continued):
- Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blastfurnace, Professor W. A. Bone and Others 514, 530
- Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84
- Iron and Steel in Sweden, New Methods of Production, 662
- Low-carbon -Alloys of Iron and Manganese Metal Manganese and its Properties, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515, 516
- Mild Steel Penetration by Brazing Solder, andc. R. Genders, 322
- National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Dinner, 691
- Protective Effect of Metal Deposits on Iron S. Wernick, 582
- South Africa, Steel Industry in, 348
- Stainless Steel for Variety of Uses, at Leipzig, 321
- Steel Cartel, 179
- Steel Sections, Special. James Mills, Ltd. Stringer and Co., Jno. Hy. Andrew ant Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv

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JACK-- see Chain Pulling
James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 490, 520

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KELVIN Lecture--see Institution of Elect rica Engineers
Kent, J. L., Propulsion of Ships under Different Weather Conditions, 434
Kershaw, John B. C., Air Pollution in British and Scotch Towns and Cities, 203
Kershaw, John B. C., World's Future Supply of Liquid Fuels, 244, 261, 292, 316, 344
Kitson Clark, Lieut.-Colonel E., Internal Com bust ion Locomotives, 410, 415, 416
Kuhne, Captain C. H.. Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, 291, 306, 330, 332

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LABOUR MATTERS :
- Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, P. T. Wilkins, 188
- Goodwill in Industry, 440
- Right of Continental Railwaymen to Strike, 688
- Trades Unions Bill, 385
LADDERS, Steel Tube, L. Nicklin. Ltd., B.I. F. Supplement, iv
Langerbrugge--see Electrical Matters
Lathes--see Machine Tools
Launches and Trial Trips, 87, 113, 171, 225, 283, 311, 397, 453, 563, 589, 611, 641, 671, 697
Lea, Professor F. C., Effect of Temperature on Some of the Properties of Metals, andc., 325
Lea, Professor F. C., and Mr. F. Heywood, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses, andc., 487 ; (Letter), 522
Lead Burning, Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to, W. C. Freeman, 302
Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302
LEADERS
- 1926--A Retrospect of, 17
-- Electricity Supply, 18
-- High Pressures, 18
-- Locomotives, 18
-- London Traffic, 18
-- Metallurgy, 18
-- Conclusion, 18
- Agricultural Engineering, 104
- America and the Cruiser Question, 103
- America and Great Britain, 415
- Armament of Capital Ships, 553
- British Locomotive, The. and Foreign Inventors, 243
- Burning of Low-grade Coal, 161
- Chemical Analysis, 216
- Ciment Fondu Concrete, 329
- Coal Ash and Probability, 48
- Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631
- Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215
- Co-operative Industrial Research, 471
- Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580
- Electrical Research, 188
- Exchange in Ideas, 579
- Expert Evidence, 131
- French Air Services, 659
- French Oil Problem, 354
- French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605
- French Transatlantic Flights, 553
- Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 47
- Gas Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131
- Idea of Power for Nothing, 553
- Internal Combustion Locomotives, 415
- International Discussion, 660
- International Register of Aircraft, 214
- Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 632
- Kelvin Lecture, 472
- Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs, 497
- Marine Steam Turbine Progress, 77
- Metallurgists and Engineers, 525
- Naval Limitation Conference, 687
- Navy Estimates, 301
- New Method of Manufacturing Beet Sugar, 444
- Old and New Atomic Theories, 606
- President Coolidge on Naval Armaments, 187
- Problem of High Superheats, 272
- Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, 443
- Railways and Unfair Competition, 354
- Rating of Machinery, 161
- Reticence, 302
- Right of Continental Railwaymen to Strike, 688
- Steam Accumulators, 78
- Super-pressure Steam Plant as Bradford, 78
- Theoretical and Practical Lubrication, 386
- Torsional Fatigue, 526
- Trades Disputes Bill, 525
- Trades Unions Bill, 385
LEADERS (continued) :
- Trans-Saharan Railway, 497
- Trend of Fuel Injection Practice, 329
- World's Fighting Fleets, 271
LEIPZIG--see Exhibitions
LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS :
- England, North of, 28, 58, 86, 112, 142, 170, 196, 224, 252, 282, 310, 338, 366, 396, 424, 452, 480, 506, 534, 562, 588, 614, 640, 670, 696
- Lancashire, 27, 57, 85, 111, 141, 169, 195, 223, 251, 281, 309, 337, 365, 395, 423, 451, 479, 505, 533, 561, 587, 613, 615, 639, 669, 695
- Midlands and Staffordshire, 27, 56, 85, 111, 141, 169, 194, 223, 251, 281, 309, 337, 364, 395, 423, 451, 479, 505, 533, 561, 587, 613, 615, 639, 669, 695
- Scotland, 29, 59, 86, 112, 143, 171, 197, 225, 253, 283, 311, 339, 367, 397, 425, 452, 481, 507, 534, 563, 589, 615, 640, 670, 696
- Sheffield. 28, 58, 86, 112, 142, 170, 196, 224, 252, 282, 310, 338, 366, 396, 424, 452, 480, 506, 534, 562, 588, 614, 640, 670, 696
- Wales and Adjoining Counties, 29, 59, 87, 113, 143, 171, 197, 225, 253, 283, 311, 339, 367, 397, 425, 453, 481, 507, 535, 563, 589, 615, 641, 671, 697
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :
- Beam Engine, An Old, W. J. Barker, 351 ; W. Yates, 449 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 465 ; (Correction), 409
- Beam Engine, The Last. EdgarC. Smith, 625 ; H. Taylor, 656; Worthington-Simpson. Ltd., 684
- Brains in the Foundry, J. IL Jones, 133
- British Columbia Electric Railway. J. Lightbody. 559
- British Steel and Research, John Brown and Co., Ltd., 351
- Cast Iron, Horace J. Young, 82
- Ciment Fondu, John G. Kay, 351
- Coal Ash and Probability, Dr.-Ing. K. Daevos, 450
- Dearth of Useful British Inventions, Athol G. Evans, 625
- Direct Conversion of Low-pressure Superheats into Super-pressure, "Astonished," 44
- Directory of Sources of Special Information. G. F. Barwick, 351
- Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, G. T. Wilkins, 240
- Harvey Combe Locomotive, J. C. H. Warren, 44
- High Motor Speeds, I. Wonder, 392
- High-pressure Reciprocating Engines, M.I. Mech. E., 656
- Higher Pressure in Boilers and I.C. Engines, F. J. B. Maggs, 181
- "Howlers," H. E. Wimperis, 656
- Industrial Welfare Society, Robert R. Hvde, 181
- Internal Combustion Locomotives, James Clayton, 465
- Largest Passenger Locomotive, Win. T. Hoecker, 133
- Magnetisation of Dextrorsal and Sinistrorsal Helices, Fredk. W. Alexander, 585
- Men Who Do Things, S. P. Christie, 494
- Newton Bicentenary. R. de Villamil, 133
- Oldest Engineering Firm, Clydeside, 456
- Railway Signal Engineer, A Railway Engineer, 83
- Reid-Maeleod Steam Turbine Locomotive, Ernest Moir, 181
- Senate of the University of London. Roger T. Smith, 494
- Small Automatic Steam Engine, Edwin W. Jones, 448
- Smith, A. M., and Co., Ltd., Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., 83
- Speed Record, Hugh H. Gregory. 240 ; F. Lindsay Lloyd. 277
- Taxes on Transport, Edward S. Shrapnell- Smith, 298
- Three-cylinder Locomotives, Chas. W. Dauncy, 240 ; W. H. Thornbury, 298
- Torsional Fatigue, G. A. Hankins, 522
- Unemployment--the Gateway to a New Life, Geo. W. Mullins, 133
- Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam. R. S. T. Collingham, 298
- Vacuum Brake in India, Another Indian Railway Engineer, 684
- Work Hardening. R. Poliakoff, 277 ; Edward G. Herbert, 277 ; C. L. Sumpter, 277
LIFEBOAT Launching Tractor. Four-Wheel Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531
Lifting the Kafue Bridge, 478
Lifting Magnet, Bi-polar, Rapid Magnetting Machine Company. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v, vi
Liquid Fuels, World's Future Supply of, John B. C. Kershaw, 244, 261, 292
LITERATURE :
Reviews :
- Atomic Theory : An Elementary Exposition, A. Haas, 245, 473
- Beitrage zur Geschichte dec Technik und Industrie, V.D.I. Year Book, Conrad Matchoss, 216
- Chemistry of Cellulose and Wood. A. W. Sehorger, 133
- Chemistry of the Oil Industries, J. E. Southcombe, 74
- Chronicles of Boulton's Siding, A. R. Bennett, 105
- Collected Papers of Sir James Dewar, Lady Dewar and Ot hers, 189, 350
- Edison : The Man and His Work, G. S. Bryan. 105, 386
- Electric Switch ami Controlling Gear, C. C. Garrard, 354, 660
- Hydrous Oxides, The, Harry Boyer Weiser, 105
- Marketing Problem, E. T. El bourne. 526
- Masonry Structures, F. P. Spalding. 155, 445
- Natural History of a Savant. Professor C. Richet, 386
- Reinforced Concrete Design. Introduction to, H. Sutherland and W. W. Clifford, 354, 498
- Rotary Converters, E. P. Hill, 189, 473
- Scientific Principles of Petroleum Technology, Dr. Leo Gurwitsch, 155

LITERATURE (continued):

Short Notices:
- Auskleidung von Druckstollen und Druckschachten, Dr.-Ing. Otto Walch, 74, 189
- Business Economics, Sir William Ashley, 155
- Capacities: and Properties of Steel Tubes, 189
- Coal anti Allied Subjects, N. Simpkin and F. S. Sinnatt, 155
- Controllers for Electric Motors, H. D. James, 354, 580
- Design and Construction of Form Work for Concrete' Structures, A. E. Wynn, 216
- Die Luftvorwarmung im Dampfkesselbetrich, Dipl.-Ing. W. Gumz, 133
- Electric Trains, R. E. Dickinson, 189
- Field Astronomy, David Clark, 155
- Use of Power in Colliery Working, John Kirsopp, 105
- Whitworth Book, The, 105
Books Received :
- Abridged Callendar Steam Tables : Fahrenheit Units, H. L. Callendar, 494
- Activated Sludge Process, A. J. Martin, 660
- Advertising, Printing and Art in Commerce, J. F. Preston and E. Arch, 689
- Aerial Cableways, G. Beretti, 189
- Age of the Earth. A. Holmes, 277
- Allgemeine Energiewirthschaft, Hofrat Ing. Hans von Juptner, 277
- Aluminium and its Alloys, M. G. Corson, 133
- Aluminium Facts and Figures, 105
- American Society for Testing Materials, Proceedings of Meeting, 380
- Amerikas Dainpfturbinenbau, Professor Dr.- Ing. E. A. Kraft, 354
- Annales des Ponta et Chaussees, 1926, 189
- Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, 585
- Annali dei Lavori Pubblici (gia Giornale del Genio Civile). 354, 473, 585, 689
- Annual Report of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, 660
- Annual Report, 1924-25 of the Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service, Canada,105
- Anton Flettner : Story of the Rotor, 689
- Architectural Design in Concrete, T. P. Bennett, 660
- Art de L'Ingenieur et Metallurgic, L. Descroix, 105
- Artificial Fertilisers : Their Chemistry, Manufacture and Application, P. Parrish and A. Ogilvie, 277
- Automatic Telephony, A Manual of, C. W. Wilman, 633
- Bauxite : Treatise Discussing the Origin. Constitution, andc., of Bauxite, C. S. Fox, 689
- Bewegungsfugen im Belon- und Eisenbeton- bau. Professor Dr.-Ing. A. Kleinlogel, 445
- Blue Book, 1927, 155
- British Railway Operation, T. Bernard Hare, 473
- British Waterworks Year Book and Directory, andc., G. P. Warner Terry, 133
- Building Construction and Drawing, Part I., C. F. Mitchell, 585
- Building Science, An Introduction to, F, L. Brady, 689
- Bulletin of the British Cast Iron Research Association, No. 16, 585
- Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, Vol. XXV., No. 1, 1927, 633
- Bulletin de la Societe d'Encouragement pour L'Industrie Nationale, 606, 633
- Calvert's Mechanics' Almanack, 1927, F. Nasmith, 105
- Capital for Labour. W. Francis Lloyd and Bertram Austin, 473
- Carbon Brushes and Brush Shunts, 633
- Carbon y Fierro, No. I., 633
- Carnegie Scholarship Memoirs, Vol. XV., 189
- Central Station Voltages and Charges Throughout the United Kingdom, 1927, 606
- Chemical Engineering and Chemical Catalogue, 354
- China Architects' and Builders' Compendium, J. T. W. Brooke and R. W. Davis, 633
- China and the Nations, Wong Ching-Wai, 245
- Coal Carbonisation : High and Low Temperature, J. Roberts, 633
- Colliery Manager's Pocket Book, 1927, 48
- Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory, 1927, 386
- Concrete Year Book, 1927, 48
- Craft of Tracing, 417
- Cutters and Cutter Blocks. S. Ransome, 417
- Cycling Manual, 155
- Danube-Aegean Waterway Project, Prince Lazarovich - Hrebelianovich, 245
- Der Bau des Dieselmotors, Ing. Kamillo Korner, 473
- Der elastisch drehbar gestutzte Durchlauf- balken. Dr.-Ing. H. Craemar, 526
- Dielectric Phenomena, S. Whitehead, 494
- Die rationelle Bewirtschaftuug des Batons, Dr.-Ing. A. Agatz, 105
- Die Trockentechnic, Dipl.-Ing. M. Kirsch, 585
- Diesel Engines, A. H. Goldingham, 133
- Directory of Contractors and Public Works Annual, 1927, 494
- Directory of the Members, Subscribers, andc., of the Birmingham Exchange, 1927, 660
- Directory of Paper Makers, 1927, 386
- Directory of Shipowners. andc., 1927, 189
- Domestic Electric Heating, H. G. Solomon. 633
- Doubling our Coal Power, A. Allport, 277
- Draft und Capacity of Chimneys, J. G. Mingle, 633
- Drainage and Sanitation. E. H. Blake, 189
- Dredging and Dredging Appliances, P. M. Dekker, 633
- Durchlaufende Eisenbetonkonstruktionen in elastischer Verbindung mit den Zwischenstutzen, Baurat Dr.-Ing. F. Kann, 105
- Economic Basis of Fair Wages, J. D. Cox, 354
- E. H. T. Switchgear and Breakers, G. L. E. Metz, 417
- Ein Jahrhundert Deutscher Maschinenbau. Conrad Matsrhoss, 133
- Electric Telpherage. G. W. Grossmith, 48
- Electricity Act, The Now. W. S. Kennedy, 189
- Electricity (Supply) Act, 1926, J. C. Dalton, 354
- Electricity (Supply) Act, 1926, E. J, Rimmer and G. Rend Allen, 354
- Empire Forestry Journal, Fraser Story, 245
LITERATURE (continued):
Books Received (continued):
- Empire Municipal Directory and Year Book, 192, 473
- Engine Service Tests of Internal Combustion Engine Lubricating Oils, andc., M. J. Gavin and G. Wade, 633
- Engineering Index, 1926, 689
- English Clubs, A List of, 1927, E. C. Austen-Leigh, 133
- Erdstatische Berechnungen mit Reibung and Kohasion, andc., W. Fellenius, 277
- Four-place Tables with Forced Decimals. F. S. Cary and S. F. Grace, 660
- Gas Meters, A. T. Gilbert, 364
- Gottlob's Technology of Rubber, J. J,. Rosenbaum, 417
- Grundlagen des Aufzugsbaues, Dr. M. Paetzold, 633
- Handbibliothek fiir Bauingenieure : Eisenbahnwesen und Statdtebau, Oberbau und Gleisverbindungen. Dr.-Ing. Adolf Bloss, 386
- High Vacua, C. W. C. Kaye, 48
- Helium in Canada. R. T. Elworthy, 633
- H.M. Stationery Office Publications :
-- Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum : Electrical Engineering, F. St. A. Hartley, 633
-- Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum, Land Transport : No. IV., Railway Construction and Working. E. A. Forward, 606
-- Gas Storage of Fruit, Franklin Kidd and Others, Special Report No. 30, 526
-- Inflammation of Coal Dusts : The Effect of the Chemical Composition of the Dust, T. M. Mason and R. V. Wheeler, 585
-- Investigation of the Caking Power of Coal, 386
-- Low-temperature Carbonisation, 386
-- Measurement of Mean Spherical Candlepower, 689
-- Primary Decomposition of Coal : I., The Temperature of Initial Decomposition, 585
-- Report on the Economic Situation in Belgium, J. Pict on Bagge, 494
-- Report on the Industrial. Commercial and Financial Situation in Poland, R. E. Kimens, 585
-- Report on the Science Museum for the Year 1926, 633
- History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Arnold Reymond, 155
- Hope of the Workers, Austin Hopkinson, 660
- Hydro-electric Handbook, W. P. Creager and J. D. Justin, 585
- Indian Railways: Rates and Regulations. N. B. Mehta, 633
- Industrial Combination in England, P. Fitzgerald, 48
- Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Comprehensive Treatise on, J. W. Mellor, 133
- Institution of Structural Engineers' Year Book, 1927, 473
- International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, 473
- Investigations in Ore Dressing and Metallurgy, 1925, 105
- Ist Gussbeton wirthschaftlich ? Dr.-Ing. L. Baumeister, 633
- Jahrbuch der Brennkrafttechnischen Gesellschaft E.V., 1926, 585
- Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft. 1927, 189
- Journal of the Franklin Institute, May, 1927, 633
- Journal of the Institute of Metals, Vol. XXXVI., 155
- Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 189
- Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, Vol. 87, 660
- Kelly s Directory of the Merchants, Manufacturers and Shippers of the World, 1927, 633
- La Machine Locomotive, E. Sauvage, 417
- La Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France : Memoires et Coinpte Rendu des Travaux, 417
- Large Uses of Steel in Small Ways, 689
- Locomotive of To-day, 105
- L'Organisation Scientifique du Travail. G. Bricard, 386
- Lubrication in Colliery Practice, N. Simpkin and A. Dawe, 48
- Lubrication and Lubricants, L. Archbutt and R. M. Deeley, 585
- Machine Design. Construction and Drawing, H. J. Spooner, 354
- Machine Tool Driving and Feed Gear-boxes, H. C. Town, 133
- Magneto Manual, H. R. Langman, 633
- Manuel des Laboratoires Siderurgiques : Methodes Analytiques Conventionnelles de la Communaute- Arbed Terres-Rouges, 417
- Marine Diesel Engines, W. C. Macgibbon, 633
- Mathematical Tables (Four Figures). C. V Durell, 473
- Mechanical World Electrical Pocket-book. 1927, 133
- Mechanics Applied to Engineering, J. Goodman, 354
- Mechanics, Text-book of. E. H. Wood, 133
- Mechanische Schwingungen und ihre Messung, Dr -Ing. J. Geiger, 585
- Metallurgists’ Manual, T. G. Bamford and H. Harris, 633
- Metallurgy of the Common Metals, L. S. Austin, 155
- Meteorological Report for the Year 1921, 689
- Modern Ignition. H. H. U. Cross, 633
- Modern Scientific Ideas. Sir Oliver Lodge, 277
- Modern Steelwork, E. Fiander Etchells, 689
- Motor Cycling Manual 105
- Motor Shin Reference Bock for 1927, 155
- Movable Bridges : Vol. II., Machinery, O. E. Hovey, 606
- National Physical Laboratory, Collected Researches, 1926, 245
- Naval Engineering Review, Part XII., No. 70, 473
- New South Wales, Report of Metropolitan Water, Sewerage, andc., 386
- Notes on the Preparation of Railway Projects, H. L. Glass, 606
- Oil and Retortable Materials, G. W Halse, 526
- Ordinary Differential Equations, E. L. Ince, 526
- Petrol Engine, 473
LITERATURE (continued):
Books Received (continued) :
- Plastering. Plain and Decorative. W. Millar and G. P. Bankart, 633
- Port of Gothenburg Year Book, 1927, Sixten Prytz, 606
- Practical Electricians' Pocket-book. 1927, 155
- Pratique duCalcul du Beton Arme,G. Magnel, 133
- Principles of Irrigation, Roads and Buildings and of the Water Supply of Towns, W. L. Strange, 585
- "Proceedings" of the American Society of Civil Engineers, April, 1927, 494
- "Proceedings" of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Part I., 1927, 585
- "Proceedings" of the Chemical Engineering Group, 585
- "Proceedings" of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers, 585
- "Proceedings" of the Optical Convention, 1926, Parts I. and II., 18
- "Proceedings" of the Rugby Engineering Society. Vol. XX., 386
- "Proceedings" of the South Wales Institute of Engineers. 354, 473
- Radio Communication, The Elements of, O. F. Brown, 133
- Railway and Commercial Gazetteer of England, Scotland and Wales, 1927, 155
- Railway Year Book, 1927, 585
- Rainfall Atlas of the British Isles, 277
- Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings, 689
- Relation of Atmospheric Conditions to Working Capacity and Accident Rate of Coal Miners, H. M. Vernon and T. Bedford, 133
- Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum, 1926, 494
- Running Maintenance of the Marine Diesel Engine, John Lamb, 277
- Safeguarding Workmen at Oil Derricks, H. C. Miller, 660
- Schnitte und Stanzen, Ernst Gohre, 105
- Sell's Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 1927, 245
- Sewage Works, F. C. Temple, 354
- Skandinaviska Kreditaktiebolaget-Gothenburg, Stockholm, Malmo, Quarterly Report, 473
- Some Considerations in the Design of Spur and Helical Gearing, H. Walker, 133
- Specification Writing, The Elements of, R. S. Kirby, 633
- Spectroscopy, Vol. I., E. C. C. Baly, 585
- Standards Year Book, 1927, 585
- Stresses in Space Frames. Dr. W. W. Padfield, 48
- Study of Flame Movement, O. C. de C. Ellis, 445
- Successful Asphalt Paving, P. J. M. Larranaga, 386
- Support of Underground Workings in the East Midland Coalfield, 189
- Theory of Machines, Louis Toft and A. J. J. Kersey, 633
- Theory and Practice of Rolling Steel, Wilhelm Tafel, 689
- To America in Thirty-nine Days, J. Biggs, 445
- Towards Industrial Recovery, Hugh Quigley, 633
- "Transactions" of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, 74
- "Transactions" of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 245
- "Transactions" of the Liverpool Engineering Society, F. W. Gaskin and A. M. Robb, 245
- Treatise on Thermodynamics, Dr. Max Planck, 105
- Trials with Vacuum Brakes on Long Goods Trains, 1926, R. C. Case, 74
- Twenty-sixth Financial and Economic Annual of Japan, 1926, 585
- Universal Directory of Railway Officials, 1927, 660
- Warmetechnische Grundlagen der Industrieofon, Professor Hans V. Juptner, 633
- Wasserdurchlassigkeit von Bet on, andc., Dr.- Ing. G. Merkle, 386
- Water Power Practice, F. Johnstone-Taylor, 386
- Water Powers of Manitoba, C. H. Attwood, 494
- Water Transport: II., Merchant Steamers, Catalogue of Collections in the Science Museum, 526
- Wellington Harbour Board. Accounts. andc., to September 30th. 1926, 689
- Witness of the Great Pyramid, B. Stewart, 155
- Working of Unstratified Mineral Deposits, G. J. Young, 277
- Year Book of the Bermudas, the Bahamas, British Guiana, British Honduras, and the British West Indies, 1926-7, 74
- Year Book and Directory of the South African Mining and Engineering Journal, 1927, 417
- Zur Frage des Shiffswiderstandes, Ch. Doydere, 606
LIVENS. F. H., Rating and Valuation Act. 1925, 148
Lloyd's Register--see Ships
Locomotive, Internal Combustion, 96
Locomotives--see also Railway Locomotives, also Storage Battery Locomotives (Electrical Matters)
Long Distance Gas Transmission, 193, 240
Longlands Diamond Pool on the Vaal River, 277
Lubricating Oils--Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton, 376
Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 358, 361, 393--see also Theoretical Lubrication

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MACHINE TOOLS :
- Boring Machine. Large Horizontal, for Turbine Cylinders, Schiess-Defries, 297, 630, 635
- Centreless Grinders at Leipzig Fair, 320
- Combination Machine Tool. Max Hopfengartner A.G., 583
- Crank Pin Turning and Grinding Machine, Jones, Burton and Co., Ltd., 110
MACHINE TOOLS (continued) :
- Double-spindle Locomotive Connecting-rod Drilling Machine, George Swiff and Sons, Ltd., 106, 107
- Drills, Milling Cutters, Reamers, Saws. andc., Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, viii, and 265
- Flat-edge Trimming Machine, Press with Pneumatic Die Cushion, Taylor and Challen, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
- Gear Hobbing Machine, Schuchardt and Schutte, 297
- Grinding Machines and Processes, Recent Developments in. H. H. Asbridge, 277
- Hammer, Motor-driven Air. Record Size, Eumtico A.G., andc., 297
- High-speed Planing Machine, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i
- "Hiloplane" Planing Machine, John Stick and Sons, Ltd., 190, 191
- Lathe, Heavy Double bed Centre, Schiess-Defries, 297
- Lathes, Powerful Railway Wheel, Wilhelm Hegenscheidt, 297
- Maag Gear-cutting Machine, 320
- Machine Toni Hall and German Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers' Exhibits, 297
- Milling Cutters, Drills, Chucks, andc., Portable Cylinder Re-boring Tool, "Flextol," Alfred Herbert. Ltd., 266
- Recent Developments in Machine Tools, G. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235
- Rotary Milling Machines in a Motor Car Engine Works, Morris Motors, Ltd., and Wm. Asquith, Ltd., 352, 356
- Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines, 463
- Screwing Machine, Automatic, Thomas Chatwin, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
- Shearing Machine for Curves, 320
- Shearing Machine, Henry Pels, 297
- Shearing Machine, Open-ended, for Reinforcing Rods, Henry Pels, 280
- Sheet Edge Grinding Machine, Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., 692
MACHINERY--see also Rating
Machinery, World's Production and Trade in, 648
Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs, 497
Manufacture of High-pressure Boiler Drums, Thyssen and Co., 246
Marchant, Professor E. W., Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, 461, 472
Marine Engines--see Engines
Marine Steam Turbine Progress, 77
Marshall, A. G., and C. H. Barton, Lubricating Oils-Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, 376
Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 330, 332
Mechanical--see also Tea Garden
Mellanby, Professor A. L., and Professor W. Kerr, Use and Economy of High pressure Steam Plants, 94, 107, 126, 166, 207, 208; (Erratum), 146 ; (Letter), 298
Mersey Tunnel--see Pumps
Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, The Heavy. M. J. Seigle, 514
Metallurgists and Engineers, 525
Metallurgy, Industrial Bursaries in, 531
Metallurgy, Some Recent Services of, to Engineering, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 490, 520
Metals--see also Associations, andc., Institute of Metals
Metals--see also Work Hardening
Miers, Sir Henry A., Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, 527
Milling Machines--see Machine Tools
Mine Fan, Large, for Durban Navigation Collieries, Davidson and Co., Ltd., 548
Mineral Wealth of Cornwall, 665
Mines--see Safety
Mining Industry of Now South Wales, 209
Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 71
Model Steam Power Station, 217
Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518
Monel Metal and Malleable Nickel, G. and J. Weir, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii
Motor Car Engine Works, Milling Machines--see Machine Tools
Movement of Sand by Wind, Dr. J. S. Owens, 377

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NAVAL Matters--see Ships
New Work Always Ready for Men who Do Things, Frank Richards, 467 ; (Letter), 494
Nicolson, David, Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats, 409
Nozzles--see Proportioning

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OBITUARY :
- Anderson, Konrad, 389
- Boulnois, Henry Percy, 50
- Calthrop, Everard R., 354
- Campbell, Archibald W., 580
- Chapman, Mr. H. T., 444
- Cowdray, Viscount (Portrait), 499
- D'Alton, Lieut.-Colonel Patrick Walter, 117
- Etchells, Ernest Fiander, 50
- Fox, Sir Francis (Portrait), 49
- Greenhill, Sir George, 189
- Haslam, Sir Alfred Seale, 50, 79
- Hill, Alfred John, 302
- Hills, Arnold Frank, 273
- Hutchins, Thomas William Stainer, 602
- Kearns, Henry Ward, 154
- Kemnal, Sir James (Portrait), 154
- M'Cullough, F. W., 354
- Phipps, Frederick Reginald, 50
- Platt, John, 662
- Samuelson, Ernest, 580
- Savage, E. A., 151
- Stokes, Sir Wilfrid (Portrait), 153
- Taylor, Godfred Midgley (Portrait), 661
- Thomas, Qeorgo, 354
OIL Engines--see Engines
Oil Tests, Consumers', Arthur F. Evans, 665
Old and New Atomic Theories, 606
Ormandy, Dr. W. R.. Lubrication, 358, 361, 393
"Osiso" and its Modification." for Use as a Phonoscope, Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 135
Oscilloscope and Oxygen Apparatus--see Physical and Optical Exhibits
Owens, Dr. J. S., Movement of Sand by Wind, 377
Oxygen Jet Metal Cutting Machine, Godfrey Engineering Works, 267

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PAINT-MAKING MACHINERY
- 388, 418, 438, 464, 519
- Paint Mills and Mixers, Torrance and Sons, 388, 389, 418, 461, 519
- Ball Mill and Laboratory Ball Mill, Hind and Lund, 519, 520
- Mill, Single-roll Finishing, Sidney Smith and Blyth, 464
- Mills with Chain-driving Gear, Marchant Brothers, Ltd., 138, 439
- Mills with Helical Driving Gear, Cam Gear, Spring Adjusting Gear, Brinjes and Goodwin, 438
- Paint Mixer and Strainer, Marchant Brothers, Ltd., 461
PARSONS, Sir Charles, Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, 387, 390, 405
Parsons, Sir C. A., and Others, Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery, 69
PATENT SPECIFICATIONS, BRITISH :
- Aeronautics, 313
- Batteries and Accumulators, 537, 591, 617
- Building, 400
- Condensers and Feed-water Healers, 173, 199, 591
- Cranes and Conveyors, 61, 484, 510, 592
- Crushing and Grinding, 200, 700
- Dynamos and Motors, 61, 227, 255, 341, 399, 427, 455, 565, 617, 643, 673, 699
- Electrical Appliances, 89, 115, 199, 227
- Engines, Internal Combustion, 31, 89, 145, 173, 227, 313, 369. 455, 483, 565, 591, 617
- Furnaces, 89, 199, 228, 255, 427, 456, 510, 566, 643, 674
- Gas Producers, 89
- Lighting and Heating, 200, 313, 369, 566, 618
- Locomotives, 510
- Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 32, 228, 342, 399, 510, 592, 618, 643, 674, 699
- Measuring and Testing Instruments, 61, 199, 369, 509, 6£9
- Metallurgy, 285, 428, 456
- Mining Machinery, 115, 145
- Miscellaneous, 32, 62, 90, 116, 146, 174, 228, 255, 286, 313, 342, 369, 400, 428 484. 510, 538, 566, 592, 618, 644, 674
- Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 484, 618, 670
- Ordnance and Armour, 90
- Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 31, 285, 341, 483, 538, 618, 643
- Ships and Boats, 62. 173, 566, 670
- Steam Generators, 173, 285, 313, 427, 509, 565, 591
- Switchgear, 31, 61, 341, 399, 509, 537, 617, 643, 673
- Telegraphs and Telephones, 31, 61, 89, 145, 341, 369, 399, 427, 456, 483, 509, 565, 592, 617, 673
- Tramways and Railways, 115, 173
- Transformers and Converters, 173, 455, 483, 509
- Transmission of Power, 145, 199, 227, 255, 285, 399, 427, 537, 592, 643, 674, 699
- Turbine Machinery, 227, 313, 483, 537, 699
PERSONAL and Business Announcements, 29, 87, 116, 140, 174, 200, 225. 253, 286, 314, 342, 367, 400, 425, 456, 481, 510, 535, 563, 589, 615, 644, 671, 697
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES' EXHIBITS :
- 12, 40, 72
- Apparatus for Observing Flaws in Metal Surfaces and Comparing Conductivities of Metal Plates, Professor E. W. Marchant and Mr. J. L. Miller, 12
- Apparatus, Research Departments of Various Firms and the National Physical Laboratory, 12
- Automatic Voltage Regulator for Direct- current Generators, Isenthal and Co., Ltd., 74
- Bridge Ohmmeter, Record Electrical Company, Ltd., 41
- Carbon Dioxide Measuring Instrument, 72
- CO2 Indicator and Recorder, 41 ; Dissolved Oxygen Apparatus, 14 ; Surface Pyrometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, 41
- Dew Deposition Recorder, 72
- Elverson Flashing Lamp Oscilloscope, 72
- Guillet Vibrating-wire Stroboscope, 73
- Level, Tungsten Wire, General Electric Company, 40, 41
- Lighting, Internal, of Rooms by Daylight, Method of Measurement by Mode), 72
- Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of a Metal Rod, 72
- Peak Voltage Measuring Instruments, L.M. Magneto Syndicate, Ltd., 12
- Photo-electric Rating Machine for Lamps, General Electric Company, 40
- Pin Jack Voltmeter, Weston Electrical Instrument Company, 42
- Rotary Pump, The "Geryk," Pulsometer Company, Ltd., 74
- Rotary Steam Meter, George Kent, Ltd., 74
- Schering Galvanometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, Ltd., 13
- Sparking Plug Thermo-couple Pyrometer, Foster Instrument, Company, 41, 42
- S.P. 18 Amplifying Valve, Collection of Constituent Parts and other Exhibits. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 72
- Standard Telephonic Frequencies Obtained through a Clock Pendulum, 72
- Transformers, Portable Current, Everett, Edgoumbe and Co., Ltd., 74
- Venner-Shotter Water Flow Meter, 73
PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES' EXHIBITS (continued):
- Wireless Apparatus :
-- Continuous Wave Transmitter, 1.5 kW, Radio Communication Company, 40, 41
-- Galletti's Radio Beam Transmitter, H. Tinsley and Co., 12
-- Mid worth Distant Repeater, Evershed end Vignoles, Ltd., 13
-- Wireless Receiver, Seven Valve, Igranic Electric Company, 74
PICCADILLY-CIRCUS--see Railways
Pipe Covering, "Kisol," Wm. Kenyon and Sons, Ltd., 267
Planing Machines--see Machine Tools
Poplar--see Electrical Matters
Port Improvements in Colombia, 692
Potter, R. B.. Pulverised Fuel, 362
Poultney, E. Tests of a 2 8-4 Type Locomotive, 620
Power for Nothing, The Idea of, 554
Power Stations--see Electrical Mutters
Prague--see Exhibitions
President Coolidge on Naval Armaments, 187
Problem of High Superheats, 272
Propelling Machinery of Canadian -Pacific Liner Empress of Australia. 649, 658, 692
Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Turbines, E. C. Wadlow, 600
Protective Effect--see Iron
Pullman Cars--see Railways
Pulverised Fuel, R. B. Potter, 362
PUMPS :
- Deep Well Turbine Pump, Pulsometer Engineering Company, Ltd., 222
- Fuel Pumping Equipment at Cardington Airship Shed, Zwicky, Ltd., 290
- Horsted Keynes Pumping Station, 98, 102
- Mersey Tunnel Works, Submersible Pump for, Drysdale and Co., Ltd., 580
- Oil Engine Driven Pumping Plant at Epson Waterworks, 569
- Pumps, Centrifugal, Double Inlet ; Multi stage Turbine ; Reciprocating, Lee, How and Co., Ltd., B.l.F. Supplement, v
- Rotary Pump, A New, Mepstead and Co., 440
- Rotary Pump, Ashwell and Nesbit-, Ltd., 694
- Ten-stage Centrifugal Feed Pump, Holder and Brooke, Ltd., 532 ; (Paragraph), 566

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QUARRY, Somerset. Resuscitating, 549
Quarrying--see Steam Shovel

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RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS
General:
- A Few Observations on Railways, 152
- Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631
- Railway Expenditure in relation in Railway Receipts, 474
- Railways and Unfair Competition, 357
British, Colonial and Indian :
- India, Vacuum Broke in, 462 ; (Letter), 684
- Indian Railway Report. 235 Railway Projects in Africa, 450
- Railway and Urban Improvements at Piccadilly-circus, 458, 492, 493
- Swing Bridges, London and North-Eastern Railway, at Boccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177
- Travelling Facilities in South-East London, 267
Foreign :
- Bolivian Railway Construction, 522
- Centenary of the First Railway in France, J. CL H. Warren, 679
- Electrification on the American Great Northern Railway, 107
- Girardot Railway, Colombia, Kitson-Meyer Locomotive, 360 (Two-page Supplement, April 1st, 1927)
- Paris-Orleans Railway Company, Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains, 134
- Pullman Cars for the Continent, Leeds Forge Company, Ltd., 136
- Railway Projects in Africa, 450
- Right of Continental Railwaymen to Strike, 688
- Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains, Paris-Orleans Railway Company, 134
- Swedish Railway Memorial, 277
- Trans-Saharan Railway, 84, 197
RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES
- See also Annual Articles
General:
- British Locomotive, The, anti Foreign Inventors, 243
- Internal Combustion Locomotive, 96
- Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut. Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 419, 415, 416
- Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E Windeler, 354
- Light Steam Locomotive, Clayton Wagons, Ltd., 381
- Repairs to Locomotives of American Design, 67
- Tests of a 2-8-4 Type Locomotive. F. C. Poultney, 620
- Tools for Locomotive Work--see Machine Tools
British, Colonial and Indian ;
- Reid-MacLeod Steam Turbine Locomotive, North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 118, 130; (letter), 181
Foreign
- Kitson-Meyer Locomotive for Colombia, 360 (Two-page Supplement, April 1st, 1927)
- Single-phase Baldwin Westinghouse Electric Locomotive, 107
RATING of Machinery, 148, 161
Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, F. H. Livens, 148
Rectifier, New Electronic, L. O. Grondahl and P. H. Geiger, 364
"Red Menace" in China, 105
Refrigerating Machinery on the Blue Star Liner Almeda, Liverpool Refrigerating Company, Ltd., 378, 379, 380
Research, Co-operative Industrial, 472
Reservoirs--see Water Supply
Resuscitating a Somerset Quarry, 549
Reticence, 302
Richards, Frank, New Work Always Ready for the Men who Do Things, 467 ; (Letter), 491
Road Machinery, Various, at Leipzig, 321, 322
Road-making, Concrete, Machine, Joseph Vogele, 296
Road Metal from Household Refuse, Plant at Brighton, Millars' Machinery Company, Ltd., 504
Rogers, F. Heron, Cross Cracking Process and Plant, 326 ; (Letter), 351
Roles, T., Recent Development in Power Plant Design, andc., 622
Rolling Mills--see Cotters for
Rosenhain, Dr., and Others, The Alloys of Iron Research, 516
Rotoscope--see Heteroptic Shutter
Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering. B. D. Porritt, 325

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SAFETY in Factories, 558
Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines, 463
Safety in Mines Research Station near Buxton, 651
Samuel Crompton Centenary, 665
Sand-mixing Machine, Pneulee, Ltd., 266
Sand--see Movement of
Saws, Cold Disc, 321
Saws for Cutting Metal, both Hot and Cold, Sanderson Brothers and Newhould, Ltd., 267
Schemes in Soviet Union, 14
Scientific Apparatus--see also Physical and Optical Societies' Exhibition.
Scientific, and Industrial Research, Report of Committee, 349
Screwing Machines--see Machine Tools
Scunthorpe--see Gasworks
Seigle, M. J., The Heavy Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, 514
Self-cleaning Grate and Sprinkler Stoker, Crosthwaite Engineering and Furnace Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi
Shearing Machines--see Machine Tools
SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING :
- See also Annual Articles
General Matters :
- America and the Cruiser Question, 103
- Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 408
- Effect of Wind on Power and Speed. H. J. R. Biles, 435, 439
- High-speed Motor Boats, Design and Construction of, David Nicolson, 409
- Lloyd's Register :
-- Annual Summary, 81
-- Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 50, 412
- M.V. Tampa, Return Voyage of, and Engineer's Log, 279
- Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors, Future of, Captain Chr. Blom, 408
- Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth, 249
- Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436
- Ship Wave Resistance, W. C. S. Wigley, 436
- Skin Friction Resistance, G. S. Baker, 179
- Ship Propulsion Research. G. S. Baker, 125
- Weather and the Propulsion of Ships, J. I. Kent, 434
Naval Matters :
- Armament of Capital Ships, 553
- Machinery Installation of the Grosser Kurfurst, John S. Brown, 276
- Naval Limitation Conference, 687
- Navy Estimates, 301
- President Coolidge on Naval Armament 187
- Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, 443
- World's Fighting Fleets, 271
Foreign Navies:
- French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605
Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels
- Blue Star Liner Almeda, Refrigerating Machinery on, 378, 379
- Danish Motor Train Ferry Korsor, 610
- Empress of Australia, Reconditioned Liner, 649, 658, 692
- Paddle-wheel Steamer Helvetic with Uniflow Engine and Oil-operated Valve Gear, 676
- Royal Mail Motor Liner Alcantara, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 210, 211
SIEMENS-BENSON Critical Pressure Boiler, 690
Sixty Years Ago. 14, 48, 83, 97, 137, 162, 184, 212, 249, 273, 393, 331, 351, 392, 417, 450, 463, 498, 527, 547, 585, 602, 633, 656, 693
Skin Friction--see Ships
Smith, Harold C., Applications of Power on Gasworks, 137
Societies--see Associations
Soldering and Welding--see Aluminium
South Africa, Steel Industry in, 348
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES
- 110, 128, 168, 191, 221, 250, 280, 336, 391, 422, 559, 585, 612, 666, 681
- Accident Rate in Mines, 250
- An Aerial Survey, 250
- Automatic Rotary Sub-station, 169
- Big Platinum Plant, 194
- British Combine, 250
- British Motor Industry, To Help, 280
- Buluwayo Water Supply, 336
- Cape Town Harbour Extensions, 392
- Cape Town's Floating Dock, 168
- Cape Town's Mountain Cableway, 194
- Cape Town Water Supply, 422
- Carbide Factory at Wit bank, 684
SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES (continued):
- Defective American Locomotives, 280
- Developing Table Bay, 336
- Dunswart Works Expanding, 606
- Durban's Grain Elevator, 194
- Electric Lighting of Trains, 392
- Electric Power from City Reservoir, 612
- Electricity Undertakings, 168
- Electrification Results, 612
- Engineering in 1926, 221
- Ermelo Torbanites, 250
- Funicular Railway, 330
- Huge Locomotives, Two, 221
- Improved Mining Methods, 110
- Industrial Enterprises Checked, 684
- Industrial Expansion, 128
- Iron Ore Deposits of the Union, 392
- Johannesburg Gasworks, 422
- Johannesburg's New Gasworks, 250
- Largest, Winding Hoist, 585
- Lightning Causes Mine Fire, 110
- Manganese for America, 422
- Mining at Broken Hill, 336
- Now Cement Factories, 250
- New Durban North Bridge, 191
- New Plant for Rond Mine, 191
- Oil Boring Operations, 250
- Pipes, Large Order for, 684
- Platinum Mining, 684
- Platinum Production, 250
- Port Elizabeth Harbour, 194
- Potgietersrust Platinums, 391
- Preference on British Goods, 559
- Pretoria Railway Workshops, 128
- Pretoria Steel Foundry, 666
- Production of Oil, 168
- Progress at Dunswart Works, 250
- Quick Coaling at Durban, 128
- Railway Construction, 110
- Railway Repair Shops, 612
- Rand Industrial Exhibition, 559
- Rand's Latest Reduction Plant, 559
- Results of Railway Electrification 280
- Rhodesia's Copper Mines, 128
- Road Mot or Services, 336
- Rolling Stock Position, 559
- Sabie Hydro-electric Scheme, 585
- Sir William Hoy to Leave the S.A.R., 666
- South African Coal, 194
- S.A. Market for Tools, 559
- State-aided Steel Industry, 612
- Steam Omnibus, 250
- Steel Combine Formed, 221
- Suburban Railway Electrification, 666
- Table Bay Cooling Chambers, 684
- Table Mountain Cableway, 221
- Three-cylinder Locomotives, 422, 606
- Tram Design, New, 585
- Union Miniere Progress, 194
- Union Rubber Industry, 168
- Wankie Colliery Expansion, 110
- Wankie Colliery Reconstruction, 612
SOUTH African Mining Prospects for 1927, 179
South Australia--see Water Supply
South-East London, Travelling Facilities in, 267
Springs--see also Manufacture
Springs, Fine, for Gun Makers, Northern Spring Company, 267
Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies of Simple Geometric Section, Professor T. B. Abell, 149
Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough, 221
Stationary Engine--see Engines
Steam Accumulators, 78
Steam Boiler Wagons--see Railways
Steam Cultivating Machinery, Powerful, for Italy, John Fowler and Co., Ltd., 581
Steam Engines--see Engines
Steam Fittings, Venturi Typo Parallel Slide Valve, andc., Gummers, Ltd., 267
Steam Plant, Super-pressure, at Bradford, 78
Steam Plants, High-pressure, Use and Economy of, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Professor W. Kerr, 94, 107
Steam Pressures, Modern Developments in, W. Bayliss, 280
Steam Production--see Economic
750-kW Steam Turbine Coupled with Alternator, 290 B.H.P. High-speed Engine, Multi-jet Condensing Set, Belliss and Morcom, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, vi.
Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, R. Desmond Forrester, 594
Steel--see Iron
Storage Batteries--see Electrical Matters
Stourport--see Electrical Matters
Stresses, Repeated Torsional, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under, Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522
Stribeck, Professor, A Now Process of Combustion for High-speed Heavy Oil Engines, 632
Strikes--see Labour
Stroboscope--see Hetoroptic Shutter, also Physical and Optical Societies' Exhibition
Suction Gas for Commercial Vehicles, 488, 516
Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, Intensive, (1) Dr. H. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds ; (2) W. G. Mills, 303
Swedish Railway Memorial, 277
Swinden, Dr. T., and Mr. G. R. Bolsovor, Cold- rolled Strip Steel, 543
Switchgear--see Electrical Matters

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TEA Garden Cultivator, Mechanical. Win. Foster and Co., Ltd., 468
Telfer. Dr. E. V.. Ship Resistance Similarity, 436
Temperature Conditions in Refrigerated Holds, 134
Testing and Balancing House at Heaton Works. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654
Testing Machine, Multi-lever, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i, ii
Testing Machines, 30-Ton Vertical Singlelever, 30,000 lb. Multi-lever, Joshua Burkton and Co,, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i, ii
Testing and Research Laboratory and Equipment, at Hehburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654, 656
Tests, Locomotive--see Railway Locomotives
Theoretical and Practical Lubrication, 386
Theory and Practice, Dr. Herbert Lap worth, 691
Theory of Strong Electrolytes, General Discussion at the University Museum, Oxford, Programme of Papers, 392
Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, T. A. Hall, 84
Thornton and Clevrleys'--see Electrical Matters
Thornton, Professor W. M., Faraday Lecture. What is Electricity ? 331
Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River, T. C. S. Haslam, 602
Tinning Compounds', Soldo Company, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
Torsional Fatigue, 526 ; (Letter), 522
Torsional Stresses--see Failure of Steel Wires
Torsional Vibration, J. Calderwood, 336
Tractor for Lifeboat Launching, Four-wheel Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531
Trades Disputes Bill, 525
Trades Unions and Trade Disputes--see Labour
Trafford Park--see Electrical Matters
Train Ferry--see Ferry
Transformers--see Electrical Matters
Travelling Grate, H. Type. Stoker, Underfeed Stoker Company, 218
Trend of Fuel Injection Practice, 329
Trucks--see also Electrical Matters
Turbine, Improved Back pressure, English Electric Company, 46, 56
Turbine Machinery on I.and and Sea, Sir C. A. Parsons and Others, 69
Turbine Pumps--see Pumps
Turbine, 20,000-Kilowatt Steam, at Rotterdam, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 512, 524, 540 (Two-page Supplement, May 13th, 1927)
Turbine Units, Small, for Industrial Purposes. G. Arrowsmith, 109
Turbines--see also Proportioning
Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry, C. A. Gillingham, 667

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UNIFLOW Engines--see Engines
Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Professor William Kerr, 94, 107, 126, 166, 207, 208; (Erratum), 146 ; (Letter), 298

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VACUUM Brake in India, 462 ; (Letter), 684
Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable Cabin, 422
Verein Deutscher Ingenieure, 1856-1926, 193
Viaduct--see Timber
Volta and Laplace, 233

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WADLOW. E. C., Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Turbines, 600
Wages--see Labour
Wans, Oswald, Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, 504
Warren, J. G. H., Centenary of the First Railway in France, 679
Water Lifter, Direct-acting Feed Pump, Frank Pearn and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii
Water Power versus Oil Engines in Bulgaria, 97
Water-softening Plant with Osilameter Measuring and Chemical Supply Gear ; "Basex" Base-exchange Water Softener ; Pressure Filter for Purification of Sedimentary Waters for Boiler Feed, andc.; Chloronome, Paterson Engineering Company, 218
Water-sterilising Process, New, Bunau-Varilla System, 234
WATER SUPPLY :
- See also Annual Articles
- Annual Report to the Metropolitan Water Board, Sir Alexander Houston, 555
- Birmingham Water Supply, Bartley Reservoir, 182, 186
- Centenary of the Shawís Water Company's Works, 688
- De-ferrating Plant at a Sussex Works, 98, 102
- Epsom Waterworks, Oil Engine Driven Pumping Plant at, 569
WELDED Repairs--see Bridges
Werkspoor Indicator Gear, 209
Wernick, S., Protective Effect of Metal De- posits on Iron, 582
Wharton, C. J., Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, 278
Whitworth Scholarships. 1928, 220
Wigley, W. C. S., Ship Wave Resistance, 436
Wilkins, P. T., Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, 188 : (Letter), 240
Wilson Dam--see Dam
Winch Equipment, Cardington Airship Tower, Babcock and Wilcox, 288, 289, 300
Wire Rods, "Road Studs," andc., William Cooke and Co., Ltd., B.I.F., Supplement, iv
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY
- See also Physical and Optical Societies' Exhibits
- Grimsby and Skegness Wireless Beam Stations, 323
- Marconi Type R.g. 12 "Press" Wireless Receiver, 634
WOODS, F. W., A New Hydraulic Formula, 646
WOODWORKING MACHINES :
- Saw Bench. Two-spindle Dimension, T. Robinson and Son. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
- Saw, Cross-cutting and Trenching ; Combined Disc and Bobbin Sandor ; Single- dimension Saw Bench ; Combined Surfacing and Thicknessing Machine, andc,. Wadkin and Co., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv
- Universal Woodworking Machine, Midland Saw and Tool Company. Ltd., 264
- Woodworking Tools. Various, at Leipzig, 321
WOOLWICH--see Electrical Matters
Work-hardening Properties of Metals. Edward G. Herbert, 138, 156, 180 ; (Letters), 277
Works, Now Switchgear, The Oerlikon Company, 404, 414
Works Visited bv the Institution of Electrical Engineers : Clarke, Chapman and Co,, Ltd., 681, 683; Consett Iron Company, 682, 686 ; Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654 ; Hebburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654
World's Future Supplies of Liquid Fuels, John B. C. Kershaw, 244, 261, 292, 310, 344
World's Production and Trade in Machinery, 648
Worm Goar, Mem. J. Buckton and Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Bostock and Bramley, B.I.F. Supplement, ii

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