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*ACCIDENTS in Factories, Large Proportion of Preventable Cases, 129
*Acetic Acid from Cocoanut Shells, 559
*Acetylene and Electric Welding, 546
AERONAUTICS :
*- Aeronautical Engineering Professorship at Cambridge, 277
*- Aeroplane Government Service for South Africa, 249
*- Aeroplane-making : Is it Engineering ? Wolverhampton’s Decision, 532
*- Airship Capable of Going to New York and Back without Stopping, 177
*- British Aeroplane’s Record Flight in Spain, 429
*- British Airship R 34, 533
*- Chilian Air Service Started with British Naval Aeroplanes, 57
*- Costs of Aerial Transport per Ton-mile, 559
*- Dominions Governments' Priority Claim in Allotment of Aeroplanes, 249
*- Farman Aeroplane for Paris-London Service. Details of Capabilities, 105
*- Italian Biplane’s Reported Speed of 162 Miles per Hour, 193
*- Liberty Aero Engines, Large Number Built in America, 11
*- Lighter-than-Air Machines and Cheaper Helium Gas, 81
*- Meteorological Expedition to Test Atmosphere over the Atlantic, 329
*- Norway, Aeroplane Exhibition at the Kjeller Aerodrome, 57
*- Transport of Material by Aeroplane to the Interior of China, 105
*- Visibility of Aeroplanes, Experiments in U.S.A., 455
*AFRICAN Baobab Tree, Finest Paper-making Material, 533
*Air Filters in Germany, Iron Replaces Wool, 11
*Alcohol, Industrial, Manufacture from Waste Sulphite Liquors of Pulp Mills in Canada, 225
*Alcohol in Mixtures as Fuel, Need of Research before Use, Dr. W. Ormandy, 11
*Alcohol Motor Fuel, Research Programme, 292
*Alginic Acid and its Manifold Uses, 153
*Alloy of Aluminium with Calcium Superior to Aluminium, 105
*Alloy, Metal Magnesium for Automobile and Aeroplane Construction, 57
*Alloys, Cost as an Estimate of Value, V. G. Stevens, 429
*Aluminium, Experiments on Purification of, 225
*Aluminium Overhead Lines Chart—see Electrical Matters
*Aluminium from Stone in Norway Hitherto Looked on as Worthless, 201
*Aluminium Time Ball for Greenwich Obser- vatorv, Erected after Five Years’ Waiting, 631
*Amalgamation of the Federation of British Industries and the British Manufacturers' Corporation, 190
*Amalgamation of Harland and Wolff with David Colville and Sons, 129
*Amalgamation of Important Electrical Companies, 47
*American Catalogues and Booklets, Two Standard Sizes Adopted, 129
*Amsterdam, Aircraft Exhibition, 533
*Antimony and Stibnite Deposts on Burma- Siam Frontier, 81
*Apprenticeship Scheme for South Africa, 277
*Aqueduct Suspension Span in Wyoming, Twice Rebuilt in Six Weeks, 129
*Argentina’s Great Falls at Igazu, Power Plant Erection to Solve Fuel Problem, 11
*Asbestos in the Lyden burg, Transvaal, 205
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
*- ASSOCIATION OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS :
*-- Meeting for Formation of Association, 379, 566
*-- Successful Dinner, 566
*- ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, MANCHESTER :
*-- Design of Jigs and Tools, Effect on Rapid Production, G. H. Hey, 201
*-- Gold Medal Offered by Past-President, 355
*-- Power Stations of the Future. S. L. Pearce, 201
*- ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED MUNICIPAL :
*- Annual Convention at Felixstowe, 303
*- ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED MUNICIPAL ELECTRICAL :
*-- Objections to Control of Electrical Supply by Proposed Ministry of Ways and Communications, 303
*- INSTITUTE, CONCRETE
*-- Recommendations to Inspectors, andc., concerning the Execution of Concrete Works, Pamphlet and Specimen Diary, 249
*-- Sands for Concrete Making, P. G. H. Boswell, 583
*-- Structure Theories and General Stability, A. S. Spencer, 631
*- INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL:
*-- Annual and Autumn Meetings, 164
*- INSTITUTE OF METALS :
*-- Annual Meetings, Date, Report and Programme, 214
*-- Autumn Meeting at Sheffield, 413
*-- Radio-activity, Annual May Lecture, Professor F. Soddy, 413
*- BIRMINGHAM SECTION :
*-- Scientific Factory Management, Lectures on, 177
*- INSTITUTE, ROYAL SANITARY :
*-- Conference on Post-war Developments relating to Public Health, Subjects and Speakers, 153, 248
*-- Proposed Congress at Newcastle-upon- Tyne, 302, 546
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
*- INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
*-- Agreement with other Motor Societies as to Future Handling of Motor Industry Matters, 329
*-- Information for Parents as to Openings in the Motor Industry, 328
*-- Mr. Thomas Clarkson Elected President, 201
*-- Olympia Motor Show, Special Session of the Institution, 481
*-- Two-stroke Engines for Motor Cycles, E. Tilston, 507
*- INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
*-- Election of Honorary Members, Awards for Papers and Premiums, 450
*-- Election of War Leaders as Honorary Members, 129
*-- Yarrow and William Lindley Scholarships Re-opened, 559
*- INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS:
*-- Conversazione and Uniform, 583
*-- Electrical Appointments Board, Register of Applicants for Employment, 214
*-- National Proving-house for the Electrical Trade, Proposed Establishment, 455
*-- Use of High-pressure and High-temperature Steam in Large Power Stations, J. H. Shaw, 105
*- DUBLIN SECTION :
*-- Water Power Development in Ireland, G. Marshall Harriss, 260
*- INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, JUNIOR :
*-- Commercial Testing of Railway Materials, T. H. Sanders, 481
*-- Improved Notation and Simplified Precision Instrument for Measuring British Binary Inch Fractions, A. Watkins, 559
*- MIDLAND SECTION :
*-- Heat Waste in United Kingdom, Small Electric Stations Advocated, A. E. A. Edwards, 355
*- INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :
*-- Air Supply to Boiler-rooms, R. W. Alien’s Reply to Discussion, 153
*- INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS :
*-- Durability of Heating Apparatus, Sectional and Saddle Boilers, C. R. Honiball, 201
*- INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS :
*-- Train Heating, Average Daily Coal Supply for, J. Carlier, 249
*- LEEDS CENTRE:
*-- Locomotive Stays, Improved Method of Production by the North-Eastern Railway, 201
*- MANCHESTER CENTRE :
*-- Formation, 429
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
*- INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :
*-- Indian Members to Organise a Society of Indian Mechanical Engineers, 153
*-- Projected Visit to French War Area, 516, 619
*-- Sir Robert Hadfield Prize, 316
*- INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
*-- Annual Meeting, 118
*-- Awards of Annual Gold Medal and of Premium, 300
*-- Dinner Given to Secretary of the United States Navy and Officers of Mission in England, 455
*-- Programme, 260
*- INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :
*-- Comparison of Deadweight in Steel and in Reinforced Concrete Ships, T. J. Querette, 225
*-- Women’s Admission to Membership, 607
*- INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS :
*-- Alcohol in Mixtures as Fuel, Research Necessary before Use, Dr. W. Ormandy, 11
*-- Capital Invested in Oil Enterprises, Montagu Summers, 201
*-- Oil, Natural, World’s Production, Dr. Moll wo Perkin, 72
*- INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS :
*-- Renovation of Leclanche Porous Pots, andc., W. J. Thorrowgood, 455
*- INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
*-- Explosion Time Calculations ; Use of Electrified Crystal, Sir J. J. Thomson, 403
*-- Listening Under Water and Submarine Terror, Professor Bragg, 559
*-- Meetings and Elections, 142, 231, 366, 470
*-- Postponement of Professor Hele-Shaw’s Lecture on “Clutches,” 232
*-- Programme of Lectures, 390, 413
*-- Two Lectures on “Clutches,” Dr. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 413
*- SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING :
*- LIVERPOOL SECTION :
*-- Pulverised Fuel, Lecture by Mr. A. Grounds, 329
*- SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :
*-- Inaugural Meeting of Chemical Engineering Group, 302
*- SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
*-- Association with Engineering Societies, 607
*-- Bearing Power of Piles Driven in Clay Soil, A. S. E. Ackermann, 303
*-- Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 413
*-- Modern Explosives, Professor J. Young, 481
*-- Officers Desiring Engineering Appointments ; Permission Given for Use of Rooms and Attendance at Meetings, 456
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
*- SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, SHEFFIELD :
*-- Heat Treatment of Steel, C. O. Bannister, 583
*-- Powdered Fuel, J. S. Atkinson, 507
*- SOCIETIES, FARADAY AND RONTGEN :
*-- Examination of Materials by X-rays, General Discussion, Papers, andc., 416
*- SOCIETY, JUNIOR MINING ENGINEERS’ :
*-- First Meeting, 507
*- SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL ENGINEERING :
*-- Boiler Mountings : An Unbreakable Water Gauge, J. Purves, 355
*-- Refrigerating Machinery, Single Rather than Double-acting Compressors Preferable, B. Rathmell, 355
*-- Seay Ammonia Absorption Refrigerating Plant, B. Rathmell, 379
*- SOCIETY, MIDLAND JUNIOR MINING ENGINEERS :
*- Formation and Elections, 495
*- SOCIETY, OPTICAL :
*-- Moisture on Lenses in Optical Instruments, Mr. L. C. Martin and Mrs. C. H. Griffiths, 177
*-- Society’s New Address at South Kensington, 201
*- SOCIETY, PHYSICAL :
*-- Annual Meeting and Elections, 277
*-- Lubrication, Paper by Principal S. Skinner, C. T. Thomsen, 177
*- SOCIETY, ROYAL :
*-- Light Used for Transmission of Speech, Dr. A. O. Rankine’s Exhibit at Conversazione, 631
*- SOCIETY, ROYAL AGRICULTURAL :
*-- Show to be held at Cardiff, 164, 507
*- SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
*-- Albert Medal Awarded to Sir Oliver Lodge, 559
*-- Gas and Electricity for Heating, Lighting, and Power Comparison, Sir Dugald Clerk, 329 ; (Letter), 399, 436
*-- National Electricity Supply Scheme, W. A. Tookey, 249
*-- Supply of Electricity, J. S. Highfield, 507
*-- Transformation, Direct, of Radiant Energy into Chemical or Electrical Energy, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 35
*-- Water Power Development, Professor A. H. Gibson, 429
*-- Water Power Sites on the Saguenay River, Canada, Professor J. C. McLennan, 329
*AUSTIN Motor Works Sale of Munitions Plant, Big Prices Secured, 249
*Australia, Site of Reservoir for Regulating the Murray River, 481
*Australian Engineering Standardisation Committee Proposed, 455
*Australian Hard Woods for Sleepers, Preference Asked for and Refused, 603
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*BANK, The British Overseas, Limited, for Promotion of Foreign Trade, 201
*Barge Canal Bulletin Ceases Publication, 277
*Basic Slag Manufacturers’ Proposed Association, 177
*Bavarian Water Power, Proposed Utilisation, 429
*Bayonet, New Rolled Type, United States Manufacture, 105
*Belgian Blast-furnace, First Re-lighted After German Destruction, 583
*Belgian Industries Reconstruction, British Special Commissioner Appointed to Assist, 455
*Bengal Smoke Nuisance Commission, 129
*Benzole, Annual Production of, 303
*Benzole, Home-produced, Suspension of Tax, 57
*Benzole Output of Gasworks and Great D< mand for Motor Spirit, 11
*Benzole and Petrol, Economy in Use of Benzole for Motor Vehicles, Stenson Cooke, 607
*Benzole as well as Petrol Available for Motor Fuel, 35
*Birmingham Commercial Library, 340
*Birmingham’s Projected Wide Roads and Tramways with Metals on Sleepers, 153
*Birmingham Transport Communication, Question of Canal Navigation, 533
*Blast-furnace Slags in Concrete, Dr. J. E. Stead, 481
*Blind Men, Hoped-for Success in Teaching them to Make Cores, 129
*Board of Trade Takes Over War Trade Department, 355
*Boiler Compounds and Water Treatment, 580
*Boiler Feed-water Purification System Described by J. P. Dijxhoom, 105
*Boiler Scale and Heat Loss of Fuel, 379
*Boiler Scale Removal by Graphite and Kerosene, 559
*Boilers Costing £450 Realise £1350 to £1475, 249
*Boilers, Salved from Wreck, Transported by Rolling, 481
*Boilers, Sectional and Saddle, Durability, C. R. Honiball, 201
*Borehole in Cornwall, Record Depth for United Kingdom, 379
*Brass, Copper and Allied Industries Proposed Industrial Council, 355
*Brazil and Federation of British Industries, 277
*Brazil and Great Britain ; Federation of British Industries’ Invitation to Brazil Business Men, 177
*Brazil, Reafforestation Schemes to Overcome Fuel Shortage, 177
*Brazil, Unused Water Power, 403
*Brazilian Budget, Imports Free and Taxed, 403
*Brickmaking in the Peterborough District, 583
*Bricks from Crushed Slag, System of Hardening, 533
*Bricks, Heat Conducting Properties of, Effect of Porosity, Dr. J. W. Mellor. 403
*Bridge, Ohio River, New Simple Truss Span, Record Length and Weight, 583
*Bridge, Proposed, at Minneapolis, Record Length of Concrete Arch, 455
*Bridge, Quebec, 164
*Bristol University, B.Sc. Degree, Additional Subjects Required for Qualification, 329
*British Association Fuel Economy Committee, Continued Investigations, 303
*British Commercial Mission for Baltic Provinces, London Address, 63 1
*British Industrial Exhibition for Athens, 390
*British Industries Fair, Increased Number of Exhibitors, 201
*British Industries Fair in 1920, to be Held in Various Towns Simultaneously, 468
*British Manufacturers’ Corporation, 190
*British Motor and Allied Manufacturers’ Association. Investigation of Eastern Markets, 225
*British Science Guild Journal, E'ghth Number Obtainable, 481
*British Scientific Products Exhibition, King as President, 225
*British Scientific Product s Exhibit ion, Further Particulars, 379, 559
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*CALIFORNIA, Combined Reclamation and Irrigation System, 533
*Cambridge University Appointments Board : Employment for Officer Graduates, 507
*Cambridge University, Goldsmiths’ Company’s Gift to Department of Metallurgy, 583
*Cameroons Mineral Resources, 403
*Canadian Customs, Remission of Duty on Farm Traction Engines, 378
*Canadian Engineering Standards Association, Incorporation, 403
*Canadian Mineral Output for 1918, Increase, 429
*Canadian Reconstruction and Completion of the Welland Canal, 81 ; (Letter), 109
*Canadian Roads Department, Originally Founded at Quebec by Chainplain, 631
*Canadian Timber in Order of Value, 403
*Canal Committee’s Efforts to Facilitate Traffic Conveyance, 631
*Canal to Connect Cherson with Danzig or Konigsberg, Ukrainian Government Plans, 201
*Canal Connecting Rivers at Different Levels, German Invention for Improved Transport of Vessel, 81 ; (Letter), 109
*Canal Development in the Midlands, Conference Suggested, to Ask for Government Assistance, 160
*Canal, Proposed, to Connect Mediterranean with Persian Gulf, 435
*Canals, New Handbook, with Maps, 81
*Caterpillar Tractors for Ore Haulage from Mine, 559
*Caustic Soda and Hydro-chloric Acid Manufactured by Electrolysis of Common Salt, 201
*Cement for Cast Iron Water Main Joints at Portland, Oregon, 481
*Cement-making with Blast-furnace Slag, andc., Research with regard to Chemical Reactions Resulting, 11
*Cement, Waterproofing by Oil, 201
*Cements and Salts, Experiments, 81
*Ceylon, Discovery of Monazite Sand, 559
*Ceylon and Water Power Possibilities, 105
*Charcoal Blast-furnace near Lake Windermere, Renewal of Working, 249
*Chemistry, Pure, and Applied, Federal Council Formed, 153
*Chemistry, Widespread Utility in War Material, 11
*Chemists Discharged from the Army as Temporary Members of Chemical Industry Club, 201
*Chimney Top Elevation over 1500ft. above Sea Level, 355
*Chlorine in the Future, Probable Increase in Use, H. H. Hooker, 507
*Christiania Port Authorities, Projected Improvements, 533
*Chrysotile Beds in Natal to be Worked for Asbestos, 355
*Cinematograph Film Development, New Portable Apparatus, 57
*Cleveland Ironstone Slag, High Value for Concrete Making, 533
COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:
*- Acting Controller of Coal Mines Appointed, 225
*- Alfreton, Derbyshire, Coalfield Sinking Schemes Stopped owing to Coal Trade Uncertainties, 533
*- Ash Content of Coal, 533
*- Boiler Water Softening and Coal Saving, 559
*- Bowen, North Queensland, and Dawson Valley Coal Mines, 455
*- Bunker Coal Cargoes for the Baltic and Norway, Controller’s Orders, 631
*- By-product Recovery from Waste of Coal Mines in the Transvaal and Natal, 379
*- Coal Exports Committee, Dissolution, 225
*- Coal Mining under Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia, 57
*- Coal Resources of South Africa, 277
*- Coal Saving by Railway Electrification, E. W. Rice, 11
*- Coke Mixed with Coal for Water-tube Boilers, Economical Result, 129
*- Coke Ovens in New South Wales, Great Loss in By-products, 607
*- Coke Supplies of France, Suggested Further Demands upon Germany, 303
*- Controller of Coal Mines, Successor to Sir Guy Calthrop, 225
*- Deep Pits being Sunk near Doncaster, 329
*- Denmark, Coal Controller’s New Announcement, 57
*- Denmark and Coal Supply from United Kingdom, Extension of Exemption from Surcharge, 129
*- Electrical Coal-cutting Machines, 81
*- Export of Coal, 516
*- Faversham Creek Improvement with View to Handling Kent Coal, 249
*- Investigation into Properties of Coal, Company Formed in Essen, 455
*- Italian Government and Coal I ndustry, 249
*- Mines Water-looged Between Tividale and Greets Green, 277
COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES (continued) :
*- Newport Docks New Coaling Hoist, 249
*- Nigeria, Coal of High Value being Mined by Government at Udi, 329
*- Pollington Colliery Closed on Account of Water Accumulation, 507
*- Pre-war Contracts and Export of Coal, 249
*- Pulverised Coal as Fuel, Good Results from Tests, 153
*- Rationing Coal, Gas and Electricity, 631
*- Russia, Coal Production in the Donetz District, 533
*- Saving of Coal and Efficiency of Industrial Works, 277
*- Skip-stop System, Great Coal Saving by, 11
*- Spelter Manufacturers’ Oppout on to Nationalisation of Coal Mines, 607
*- Spitzbergen Coal Output, 225
*- Sulphate of Ammonia and other By-products -of Coal, Production in South Africa, 355
*- Sumatra Coalfields and the Dutch Government, 583
*- Sweden, Coal Deposits Discovered near Bellinge, 303
*- Tanganyika and Zambesi Coal Areas, Extensive Opening Up, 631
*- Tyne Shipping of Coal and Coke, Statistics, 303
*- United States Coal Mine Fatalities, 582
*- United States Coal Shipment Figures, 249
*- Unwatering of Pits in the Kent Coalfield, 253
*- Vanadium in Swedish Coal, 607
*- Water-gas to Relieve Coal Shortage in Germany, 35
*- Water-logged Coal Mines in Tipton District, 379
*- Welsh Coal Compared with, that from other Countries, Sir Thomas Watson, 277
*COLD Storage in France, Government Outlay on, 429
*Columbia Basin Reclamation Project, 559
*Commercial Motor Users’ Association, Annual Luncheon, 355
*Concrete Floors, Hardening Solution to Prevent Dusting, 631
*Concrete, Monolithic, for House-building, W. Calway, 225
*Concrete Pipes Replace Wooden Piles in Wharf Construction in Tasmania, 607
*Concrete Reinforcement with Wood, Needful Precautions, 607
*Concrete Ships—see Ships
*Condenser Tubes, Novel Cleaning Method, 262
*Consolidated Goldfields Working Costs, Increase, 153
*Consulting Engineers, Naval Architects and Marine Surveyors, Proposed Association, 379
*Cooper, General A. S., New Appointment in Peru, War Services and Previous Work, 54, 125, 153
*Copper Company’s Precautions with Electric Cables in Mine, 225
*Copper Exports from Chili, Increase, 201
*Copper from Katanga to Antwerp, 249
*Copper Mines in Australia, Nearly all Closed on Account of Accumulations, 481
*Copper Output from Katanga Mines, 277
*Cork Substitute from Acetylene Action on Copper and Nickel, 153, 403
*Corn Yield Increased by Wolfryn Treatment, 559
*Corrugated Iron Huts on Sale by Ministry of Munitions, 631
*Corundum Production, South Africa the Leading Country, 249
*Cotton Production in Portuguese East Africa, Great Increase, 277
*Coventry, Proposed Technical Institute, 177
*Coventry, Technical Institute and Instruction Funds, 225
*Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 413
*Cutlery Supplies Remain Scanty Owing to Government Demands, 35
*Cyanamide Factory Projected at Workington, 152
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*DACCA Waterworks Improvements, 105
*Dartmoor, Hydro-electric Scheme, 329
*Dawson, Philip, Belgian Decoration Conferred for Services in Electrification of Belgian State Railways, 329
*Depth Charge Invention, Rival British and American Claims, 303
*De-tinning Works at Llanelly, 379
*Detonator, New Type, Manufacture in Norway, 57
*Diamond Dredging off South-west African Coast, 303
*Diamond Pipe of Great Extent in Brazil, 559
*Drainage Machine for Marsh Land Wanted, 626
*Dredging on Large Scale at Sydney, 201
*Dry Dock, Large, Opened at Portsmouth, Virginia, 153
*Dry Docks, Government Relinquishes Control 455
*“Drylock” on the Neckar Danube Canal, German Invention, 81 ; (Letter), 109
*Dust Extraction from Flue Gases in Sulphuric Acid Factory, 177
*Dutch Coal Mines Output, 429
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ELECTRICAL MATTERS:
*- Acetylene and Electric Welding, 546
*- Argentine’s Huge Falls, Possibilities of, to Relieve Fuel Scarcity in Electric Development, 11, 249
*- Birmingham Electrical Power Plant Load, Christmas Day Comparison, 81
*- Birmingham New Power Station, Projected Completion, 81
*- Birmingham’s Proposed Purchase of Land for Power Plant Station, 277
*- Birmingham Sub-station at Bournville, 403
*- Blackburn Corporation’s New Generating Station at Whitebirk, 429
*- Bolton Corporation and Lancashire Electric Power Company, Inter-connection of Supply Systems, 35
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):
*- Bombay, Andhra Scheme for Electric Power Supply, 559
*- Bradford Electricity Output Increase, Proposed Extension of Works, 303
*- Bradford’s Proposed Expenditure on Elec trical Work, 177
*- Bury Electrical Power Plant Extensions, 201
*- Canadian Electric Power Stations, Horse-Power Percentage from Water, 201
*- Coal-cuttting Machines Electrically Driven, 81
*- Copper Company’s Precautions in Mine in Use of Electrical Cables, 225
*- Cost of Power in Relation to Electric Furnace Development, 81
*- Costs of Electric Lighting Installations, Present Day and Pre-war, 450
*- Croydon New Power Station Plant, Application for Loan, 455
*- Dartmoor Water Power, Suggested Utilisation for Cornwall Electricity Supply, 303
*- Devon Electrical Supply Schemes, 403
*- Dewsbury’s Proposed Power Plant Extensions Abandoned, 177
*- Dynamos Driven by Wind Power, H. C. Vogt, 57
*- East Grinstead’s Contemplated Electricity Supply, 177
*- Edinburgh to Adopt Overhead Trolley System for Tramways, 481
*- Edinburgh’s New Power Station at Portobello, 153
*- Edinburgh Tramways Proposed Electrification. Committee to Report on London Conduit System, 303
*- Electricity, Experiments in Effect of. Alternating more Dangerous than Continuous Current, 403
*- Explosion Calculations and Electricity, Sir J. J. Thomson, 403
*- Extensions to Generating Stations and Plant, Limitation of, 150
*- Fermoy and Electricity Proposals, 177
*- Floating Power Stations, Suggested Use of Old Battleships, J. S. Highfield, 507
*- Generating Station, New, at Nechells, Birmingham, 533
*- Gravesend’s New Generating Sets, 153
*- Heat Shrinking instead of Press Fitting Parts of Machines on to Shafts, 379
*- Holland, New Company for Supplying Electrical Energy to Public Bodies, 481
*- Hydro-electric Schemes—see also Hydroelectric
*- India and Power Supply, Bombay, Calcutta and Tata Companies, 277
*- Insulators and All-porcelain Articles for Installations, Increased Import Duty in Brazil, 403
*- Iron Smelting, Electrical, in British Columbia, Possibilities of, 303
*- Iron and Zinc as Electrical Conductors, 225
*- Japan’s Electrical Undertakings, 631
*- Leeds Electricity Plant Extensions, 177
*- Lot’s-road New 15,000-Kilowatt Turboalternator, 303
*- Manchester’s New Generating Station at Barton, 631
*- Midland Electric Corporation Power Plant Extension, 355
*- Motor Culture Week, 164
*- Mysore State Electrical Power, Details of Amount, Cost, and Earning in 1917 18, 329
*- National Electricity Supply, Protest against Control by Ministry of Ways and Communications, 303
*- National Proving House for the Electrical Trade, Proposed Establishment, 455
*- New Zealand Power Plant to be Used for Manufacture of Caustic Soda and Hydro chloric Acid, also for Steel Smelting, 201
*- New Zealand Water Power Development Schemes, Cost and Coal Saving, 194
*- Niagara Falls, Control of the Power Situation by Amalgamation of Companies, 11
*- Norway Water Power Utilisation for National Use, Commission Appointed to Investigate, 329
*- Nottingham Electricity Committee, Increase of Power Supply, 153
*- Oldham’s Proposed Expenditure on Generating Plant and Mains, 201
*- Power Generation, Additional Supply from Water of Cauvery River, Mysore, 129
*- Power Stations of the Future, Problems of Transmission, S. L. Pearce, 201
*- Record Motor at Stafford Works, 201
*- Rotherham Corporation New Turbo-alternators, 379
*- Shanghai Electrical Plant, Old and New, 429
*- Sheffield’s New Electric Power Station, 1 77
*- Shipbuilding, Great Saving in Cost by Electric Welding instead of Riveting, 105
*- Skip-stop System, Great Saving in Electricity, 11
*- Southport, Single-phase System to give way to Three-phase, 455
*- Standards for Electricity Measurement, Instruments at National Physical Laboratory, 455
*- Static Transformer, German, for Stepping -up from 6250 Volts to 110,000 Volts, 424
*- Steam and Electric Railway Working. Mersey Railway as an Example, 559
*- Steel Furnace, Electric, in Spain, Particulars of, 105
*- Steel Furnaces, Method of Reducing Consumption of Electrodes in, 105
*- Stepney’s Proposed Temporary Sub-station Plant and Mains, 177
*- Storage of Energy, Proposed Use of Electric Heaters, Mr. Partridge, 507
*- Stress Deflection Chart for Aluminium Overhead Lines, 470
*- Sumatra Power Generation for Manufacture of Artificial Fertilisers, 583
*- Supply of Electricity, J. S. Highfield, 507
*- Teignmouth Debating Question of Electricity versus Gas for Lighting, 481
*- Transmission Shafting in Berlin, Calculation of Losses, 35
*- Tungsten Arc Light, Properties of, 129
*- United States Electricity Supply, Report on, 559
*- Wallasey Electric Power Plant Extension, 153
*- Water Power in France, Project for Union of all Private Undertakings and Utilisation for Railway Electrification, 402
*- Windmill, High-speed, for Driving Electric Generators, Monsieur P. Fayard, 379
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):
*- Wolverhampton, Walsall and Electricity Supply, RivabSchemes, 277
*ENGINE, The “Still,” Lubrication Experiments, 607
*Engineering Golfing Society, 117
*Engineering Scholarships at Bristol for Sons of Officers Killed in the War, 249
*Engineering Scholarships Offered to Armstrong College, 277
*Engineers Fallen in the War, Westminster Abbey Service, 583, 607
*English Manufacturer and Foreign Customer, Cecil Walton, 201
*Exhibition—see British Scientific Products
*Explosions, Relative Merits of Different Classes, Professor J. Young, 455
*Explosive, New, in South Africa, 153
*Explosives Production, Organisation and Technical Training, by K. B. Quinan, 101
*Explosives Supplied by Manchester, 35
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*FAIR, British Industries, in 1920, to be held Simultaneously in Various Towns, 468
*Fair, British Industries, Increased Number of Exhibitors, 201
*Fall of 110ft. without Injury, 607
*Federation of British Industries :
*- Anglo-French Conference in Paris, 236
*- Commissioner Appointed for East Coast of South America, 455
*- To Guard National Rolling Mill at Southampton from Foreign Acquisition. 329
*- National Conference on Ways and Communications Bill, 607
*- Representatives to Accompany Government Mission to Germany to Examine Engineering Developments, 329 —See also Brazil.
*FERTILISER Factory at Johannesburg, 507
*Fire Engineers, Proposed Formation of Institute, 35
*Fire at North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company's Wallsend Works, 533
*Fishing Industry Development, Lewis Island and Fleetwood, Lord Leverhulme’s Scheme, 630
*Flooding in Somerset, Projected Scheme for Prevention, 379
*Foochow, Improvements on the River Min, 403
*Food Committee’s Report on Refrigerator Wagon Defects, 555
*Ford Motor Company’s Assembling Plants in Spain and Denmark, 586
*Ford Motor Company’s Change of President, 57
*Forest Fires in U.S.A., Suggested Use of Aeroplanes for Detection and Transport of Fire Fighters, 607
*Fouling of Gun Barrels, System of Overcoming, 533
*Frangois Method of Stopping Underground Water Flow, 57
*French Crops and Unwanted Agricultural Machinery for Disposal, 583
*Furnace Construction, Importance of Refractory Materials Employed, W. J. Rees, 153
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*GALENA in South Africa. Discovery of Rich Deposit, 533
*Gas and Electricity, Increased Allowances since Armistice, 35
*Gas Light and Coke Company’s Share in Supply of War Material, 201
*Gas Producer with Concrete Slabs instead of Steel Casing, 74
*Gas Producer Furnace, Richards, for Production of Realgar, 105
*Gas Storage in Exhausted Natural Gas Wells Proposed, 153
*Gas from Wheat Straw as Motor Car Fuel in British Columbia, 35
*German Chemical and Dye Works Resuming Business, 105
*German Machine Industry, Precarious Condition, 355
*German Potash Industry and the Labour Question, 140
*German Raw Materials no Longer to be Used for Military Purposes, 35
*German Submarine Engines Landed in the United Kingdom, 533
*German Works Closing Down in Luxemburg, 559
*Germany’s Successful Discovery of Substitutes for Textile Requirements, 81
*Glass from Paddy Husks, Experiments in Burma, 403
*Glass Shortage in Europe, Various Substitutes, 140
*Glasses for Protection of Eyes of Furnace Workers, 607
*Glue, Proper Treatment for Joints, 358
*Glued Joints, Tests of Strength with Various Glues, 583
*Gold Coast Palm Oil Tax, 105
*Gold Deposits in the Belgian Congo, 455
*Goldfields in Belgian Congo, Increased Output Expected from New Plant, 277
*Gold Mine at Modderfontein, New Shaft to be Sunk, 355
*Gold Output of the Empire, Reduction in Recent Years, 35
*Gold Output of the Klondyke, 379
*Government Assistance for Housing, 340
*Graphite Deposits, Valuable, in Siberia, 177
*Graphite as a Lubricant for Air Compressor Cylinders, and Otherwise, Its Great Advantage, 189
*Grangemouth Reopened for Mercantile Shipping, 129
*Greenwich Observatorv, New Aluminium Time Ball, 631
*Greenwich Record of Sunshine and Rainfall, 631
*Greenwich Record of Temperature and Air Movement, 631
*Gregory, Professor Richard, Knighted, 429
*Groupe Inter-Universitaire Franco -Britannique, 494
*Guatemala and Mineral Deposits, 607
*Gyratory Stone Crusher, Large, in America, 583
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*HARTLEPOOL andWest Hartlepool Boroughs, Proposed Amalgamation, 355
*Health and Death-rate Statistics of England and Wales, 57
*Heat Conducting Properties of Bricks and Effect of Porosity, Dr. J. W. Mellor, 403
*Heat Insulating and Filtering Kieselguhr Found in Ireland, D. A. MacCullum, 153
*Heat-insulating Material, Molera, Possible Use for Sound-proof Chambers, 11
*Heating of Houses by Open Fires, Economy by Reducing Ventilation, 129
*Heysham as a Port of the Midland Railway, 429
*High Explosives, War Experiences with, Professor H. B. Dixon, 105
*Hong-Kong Plantation of Eucalyptus and Camphor Trees, 153
*House-building in Monolithic Concrete, W. Cal way, 225
*House-building with Wooden Lath Netting in Norway, 249
*Hudson River Tunnel to Connect Manhattan with New Jersey, Large Money Vote, 249
*Hydro-electric Possibilities in the Argentine, 11, 249
*Hydro-electric Power Plant, Tavoy, Burma, 403
*Hydro-electric Scheme for Dartmoor, 329
*Hydro-electric Schemes in Ontario, 336
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*ICELAND’S Plan to Combine Salt Production, Iron Industry and Electric Power, 35
*India, British, Statistics of Imports and Exports, Pre-war and Since, 631
*Industrial Bank for South Africa, 403
*Industrial Classes, Increase in Students, 80
*Industrial Essay Competition, 546
*Industrial Reconstruction Committee for Zinc and Spelter Industry, to Assist Government in Future, 507
*Industrial Reconstruction Council, Fortnightly Conferences, 225
*Industrial Reconstruction Council, Open-air Meetings for Advocation of Whitley Council Policy, 583
*Inland Waterways Scheme to Cost £80,000,000, 249
*Insulator, Heat and Cold, from Waste Paper, Mr. L. Edwards’ Production, 129
IRON AND STEEL:
*- Australia, Western, Conference of Steel Users in view of Deficient Supplies from British Factories Owing to War Requirements, 329
*- Austrian Iron Industry, Lack of Coal and Iron Ore, 245
*- Barrow Hematite Steel Company Recommences Work, 507
*- Blast-furnace and Steel Works in Ontario, Disputed Scheme, 177
*- Blast-furnaces in United States, Reduced Iron Output, 303
*- Buenos Aires Ironworks Closed Down Because of Strike, 249
*- Celebes, Iron Ore in the Larona District, 559
*- Coal Saving by Softening Boiler Water, 559
*- Converter Steel without the Use of Pig Iron, Result of Experiments, 507
*- Drainage Pipes, Comparative Value of Cast Iron, Wrought Iron and Steel, W. P. Gerhard, 329
*- Economics in Hand Drill Steel, H. A. Read, 583
*- Electric Iron Smelting in British Columbia, Possibilities, 303
*- Electric Steel Furnace in Spain, Particulars of, 105
*- Electrode Consumption in Electric Steel Furnaces, Method of Reduction, 105
*- Growth of Cast Iron, Method of Prevention, 225
*- Indian Iron and Steel Company’s Excellent Iron Ore, 153
*- Iron Coating with Aluminium, German Method, 277
*- Iron Immersion Experiments and Discoveries, 507
*- Iron Ore in the Midlands for Blast-furnace Work, 277
*- Iron as Substitute for' Wool in German Air Filters, 11
*- Iron and Zinc as Electrical Conductors, 225
*- Japan’s Enormous Increase in Production, Consumption and Price of Steel during the War, 189
*- London Iron and Steel Exchange, Opening, 11, 57
*- Malleable Castings Without Shrinkage, 11
*- Manganese Discoveries in Northern Brazil, 379
*- Manganese Orc on the Gold Coast, 379
*- Manganese Ore from Mines of San Antonio, Ecuador, 455
*- Manganese Ore, Native, in Use in Australia, 507
* -Mexico, Famous Iron Mountain may Pass to Japanese Syndicate, 533
*- Mild Steel Production Record for this Country, 481
*- Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, Scanty Interest Shown in Election of President, 11
*- Newfoundland Iron Mines Developments, 428
*- Newfoundland and Spanish Iron Ore, Comparison in Cost of Delivery to United Kingdom, 329
*- Norwegian Steel Works at Hardanger, 583
*- Ontario, Projected Steel Works at Goderich, 533
*- Painting Iron, Use of Sprayer, 429
*- Pig Iron Made at Pretoria, 11
*- Pretoria Ironworks, New Blast-furnace, 533
*- Prevention of Columnar Crystallisation in Steel Ingots, L. B. Lindemuth, 559
*- Queensland State Steel and Ironworks, Unsuccessful Search for Site, 631
*- Scheelite Ore Deposits in Canada, 429
*- Slag Wool and Rust on Steel, Tests by Dr. J. E. Stead, 481
*- Solid and Liquid States of Steel, Cosmo Johns, 379
*- Spain, Iron Ore Deposits, 455
IRON AND STEEL (continued) :
*- Stainless Steel Production, Increased Prices, 81
*- Steel Plate, Record Size, Rolled in U.S.A., 429
*- Steel Rods, Painted and Unpainted, for Reinforcement, 177
*- Tata Iron and Steel Works Extensions in India, Prospects, 379
*- Tests on Steel Ingot and Increase of Density, 153
*- Tungsten Deposits in Canada, 429
*- Tungsten Ore Exports from the Federated Malay States, 81
*- Ukraine Iron Oro Production, 533
*- Waratah, New South Wales, Steel Company’s Production of Railway Wheels, Tires, and Axles, 303
*- Wolfram Output, Great Increase Due to War, 533
*ITALIAN Motor Car Exports, Falling-off, 105
*Italian Need of Machine Tools, Replacement of Former Supply from Germany, 140
*Italian Public Works during Transition from War to Peace, 88
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*JAPAN, Cable Tramway Across Mountains, 153
*Japan, Improved Harbour at Muroran, 153
*Japan, Two Portland Cement Factories to be Set up at Kawasaki and Hokkaido. 129
*Japanese Tin-plate for Switzerland, 631
*Java, Engineering Congress Postponed, 607
*Java, Forthcoming Engineering Congress Proceedings to be in both English and Dutch, 481
*Jig and Tool Design, Effect on Rapid Production in Engineering Work, G. H. Hey, 201
*Johannesburg Foundry, Moulders’ Work, 105
*Joints Made with Joiners’ Glue, 358
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*KAFFIR Pick as a Cattle Call, Cecil Walton, 201
*Kamnassie Irrigation Scheme, 355
*Kitson-Emp:re Lighting Company, Patriotism and Foreign Goods, 29
*Krupp’s War-work Machines Used for Commercial Purposes, 481
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*LADYBIRDS in Cold Storage for Greenfly Destruction, 129
*Land Acquisition for-Public Purposes, 57
*Lapland, Valuable Deposit of Iron Pyrites said to have been Discovered, 129
*Lathe, All-geared, Prize Suggested, 105
*Lead Discoveries near Loch Leven, 277
*Lead Mines, Old, in Derbyshire to be Worked for Lead, Vanadium and Molybdenum, 303
*Lead Mines, Old, in the Midlands, Re-opening, 379
*Leather, Experiments on Wearing Qualities, 455
*Light Used for Transmission of Speech, Dr. A. O. Rankine, 631
*Lignite Briquettes, Carbonised, Projected Canadian Industry, 105 : Delay of Scheme, 153
*Lignite Mining and Yield of Oil, 507
*Lille, Lamentable Condition Due to War British Chamber of Commerce Report, 105
*Lloyd’s Register—see Ships
*Lock-houses on the Thames, to be Rebuilt After 100 Years of Life, 631
*Lodge, Sir Oliver, Resignation as Principal of Birmingham University, 225
*London Cartage and Haulage Contractors’ Objection to Control of Roads and Railways by One Department, 303
*London Electrical Engineers, R.E. (T.F.), Dinner, 477
*London, Port of, Report Against Bill for Wharf Construction at Canvey Island, 429
*Lytham Wind Mill Burned Down, 225
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*MACEDONIA, Abundant Deposits of Coal, 129
*Machine Tool and Engineering Association, Dinner, 232
*Madagascar, Mineral Wealth of, 403
*Magnesia as Reagent for Neutralising Acid Mine Water, 105
*Magnetos, British Firms’ Output, 35
*Manchester Traincar Building Expenditure, 249
*Manchester’s Contribution of High Explosives, 35
*Manganese—see Iron and Steel
*Manila Seismic Record, 631
*Mechanical Haulage, Experiments on Comparative Cost of Steam, Petrol, and Electrical Vehicles, 481
*Mersey and Irwell Committee and Pollution of Rivers, 583
*Meso-thorium as Substitute for Radium, 225
*Metals Occluding both Oxygen and Hydrogen, 11
*Metals in Possession of the Ministry of Munitions, Monthly List to be Published, 153
*Metric System Enforced in Uruguay, 11
*Metric System of Weights and Measures, Harry Allcock, 177
*Michell Thrust Block, Patent Extension, 288
*Middlesbrough Chapel Premises, Conversion into Technical Institute, 355
*Mine Precautions by Copper Company in Use of Electric Cables, 225
*Mine Rescue Apparatus, Nose Clips, Dr. Henry Briggs, 474
*Mines, Non-ferrous, in the Lake Country, Relations with Government, 631
*Mines Rescue Apparatus, Army Respirator and Eeds Helmet Useless as Protection, 583
*Mineral Discoveries in Montenegro, 57
*Moir, Sir Ernest, Presentation to him by Members of Ministry of Munitions, 236
*“Molera” for Lagging Steam Pipes and Boilers, 11, 153
*Montreal Harbour Improvement Scheme, 533
*Mortar made Water-tight with Sugar, 481
*Motor Car Engine’s Fuel, Petrol and Town Gas Compared, 129
*Motor Car Headlights and Proper Positioning of Filament, 81
*Motor Car 500-Mile Race at Indianapolis, 639
*Motor Car Prices, Probable Increase in, 133
*Motor Cycles Sold by Government to ExDespatch Riders from Government Services, 607
*Motor Fuel, Alcohol, Research Programme, 292
*Motor Haulage Vehicles and Government Sales, 277
*Motor Industry Matters, Agreement between Institution of Automobile Engineers and Two other Societies, 329
*Motor Industry, Proposed Import Dufy on Foreign Vehicles and Parts, 153
*Motor Plough Manufacture in Austria, 105
*Motor Users and Legislation for Road Reconstruction, 81
*Motor Vehicles and Economy by Use of Benzole in Preference to Petrol, Stenson Cooke, 607
*Mud Jet for Extinction of Underground Fires, Monsieur Fayol’s Method, 177
*Munitions, Ministry’s Large Profits on Sale of Electric Hoists and Motors, 634
*Museum of Munitions to Facilitate Sale of Stores, 631
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*NATIONAL Factory at Willesden for Sale, 607
*Natural Gas Borings in Hungary, 355
*Natural Gas Supplants Oil as Fuel for Steam- driven Plant, 57
*Newcastle’s Contemplated Wholesale Production from Conversion of Waste Products, 153
*New Zealand Hydro-electric Scheme, 403
*Niagara, New Water Power Plant, 81
*Nickel, Over 77 per Cent, of World’s Supply Mined in the British Empire, 277
*Nitric Acid from the Atmosphere, Japanese Factory, 57
*Nitrogen Production in Germany Greatly Increased, 481
*North Pole Storkerson Expedition Abandoned, Erroneous Theory of Ocean Currents, 303
*Norway, Factory for Erection of Cheap Wooden Houses, 355
*Norwegian Glycerine Refinery, 57
*Nose-clips for Rescue Apparatus, Dr. Henry Briggs, 474
*Nova Scotia Hydro-electric Commission, 631
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*OIL Drilling and Electrolysis Troubles, 559
*Oil Extraction from Steam Engine Exhaust, 355
*Oilfields in Papua, Exploratory Work by Australian Government, 379
*Oilfields and Rotary Drilling, 2
*Oil from Kauri Gum, Production in New Zealand, 607
*Oil, Mineral, Deposits in Northern Transvaal, 379
*Oil Prospects in Derbyshire, Favourable Indi- cations, 177
*Oil Prospects in Derbyshire, Pessimistic Prophecy, 153
*Oil Refinery near Swansea, 481
*Oil Well in California, Record Speed in Sinking, 2
*Oil Wells in Galicia and Roumania, Flow Restored by Electrical Heating, 355
*Oils for Transformer Immersion, Comparison of Fixed and Straight Oils, 57
*Omnibus Fares in London, Home Secretary’s Inquiries, 481
*Ontario, Hydro-electric Schemes, 336
*Osaka Harbour, Japan, Cost of Improvements, 129
*Oxy-acetylene Cutting of Cast Iron, Special Precautions Necessary, 303
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*PAINTS for Floors, Useful Hints, 11
*Palmer Shipbuilding Employees’ Shares, 481
*Papermaking Experiments, Unsuitability of Burma Rice Husks, 583
*Paper Manufacture and the African Baobab Tree, 533
*Paper Pulp from Indian Bamboos and Grasses, Great Possibilities, W. Raitt, 105
*Papuan Oilfields, Imperial and Australian Government Co-operation, 583
*Patent Extension, Michell Thrust Block, 288
*Patent Laws Revision in Japan, 559
*Patent Office of India, New Type of Journal, 521
*Patriotism and Foreign Goods, 29
*Petrol Imports, British Increase in 1918, 105
*Petrol Licences through the Royal Automobile Club, 225
*Petrol Lorries’ Journey Across America, 429
*Petroleum Discovery at Bahia Blanca, South America, 129
*Photometer, New Light Measurer, 379
*Pigments from Various Minerals, 607
*Pipes, Concrete, Replace Wooden Piles in Construction of Tasmanian Wharf, 607
*Pitting, Abnormal, Observations of, Mr. O. P. Watts, 507
*Platinum Discovered by Spain in Serrana Volcanic Mountains, 303
*Ploughs, Motor, Manufacture in Austria, 105
*Plymouth, Wembury Dock Scheme Revival, 533
*Pneumatic Hammer of 65 lb. Weight, 455
*Polish Trade, Export Directory of British Firms in Course of Preparation, 303
*Portland Cement Factory at Singapore, 586
*Portland Cement Industry in Ceylon, Investigations, 481
*Portuguese River Power Utilisation for Wolfram Mines, 455
*Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada, Statistics, 57
*Pumping Plant, Novel Set, Installed at Cornwall, Ontario, 631
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*QUEBEC Bridge, 164
*Queensland, Projected Deep-water Port and Railway Connections, 403
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*RADIUM, Meso-thorium as Substitute, 225
*Rafts for Ocean Transport of Timber, 533
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
*- Accident, Disastrous, on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad, 153
*- Accident Narrowly Averted on the Somerset and Dorset Line, 249
*- Accidents on April 1st Fewer than on other Dates, 455
*- Accidents Blue-book Unissued, Board of Trade Reports Still Available, 631
*- Accidents in February of Past Years, 153
*- Accidents in January of Various Years, 35
*- Accidents to Railway Servants, Committee of Inquiry, 201, 225
*- Accidents, Seven, Board of Trade Reports, 153
*- Ambulance Trains at Southampton Docks, Period of Greatest Stress, 559
*- American Managers for English Railways, Great Eastern Appointment Sequel, 554
*- American Railways Coal Saving, 607
*- American Soldiers on French Railways, Plain Speaking as to Regard for Safety, 35
*- American War Locomotives and Cars, Huge Cost, 529
*- Appeal to Traders Poster by Railway Executive Committee, 11
*- Appointments and Staff Changes, 11, 57, 105, 125, 153, 201, 225, 277, 379, 402, 155, 501, 507, 515, 559, 583, 631
*- Assistant General Managers Appointed in View of Work Pressure, 276
*- Australian Hard Woods for Sleepers, Preference Asked for, 603
*- Automatic or Hand Couplers for British Railway Wagons, 611
*- Baghdad Railway Taurus Mountain Section, Good Condition but Deficient Rolling Stock, 379
*- Bain, Mr. D., Retirement, Great Services in Safety Measures, 402, 455, 559
*- Baldwin Locomotive Works, Fiftythousandth Engine, 390
*- Barry Railway General Manager, 225
*- Basingstoke and Alton Railway, Reopening Uncertain, 303
*- Belfast and County Down Railway, Loss nf Steamer Erin’s Isle, 355
*- Belfast Shipyard Men and Workmen's Tickets, 303
*- Belgian State Railways Electrification, Honour Conferred on Mr. Philip Dawson, 329
*- Birthday Honour for Mr. Church, 607
*- Board of Trade Replies to Questions on British Railway Matters, 379
*- Bombay Harbour, Proposed Railway Under, 201
*- Brazilian Railways Proposed Electrification, 583
*- British Building of Engines and Machinery, Cape Newspaper's Tribute to, 455
*- British Railway Locomotives and Wagons being Returned to England from France, 631
*- Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad, Terrible Smash of an Electric Train, 153
*- Burma, Proposed Coast Line to Connect with India, 403
*- Cabs Free Entry to Railway Stations, Question Unsettled, 396
*- Caledonian Railway Company’s Roll of Honour, 277
*- Caledonian Railway, Locomotive Repairs, New Rolling Stock Needed. 249
*- Cambrian Railway Locomotive Superintendent Retires, 11
*- Cambrian Railway’s Changes of Staff, 515
*- Canada’s Fast Transcontinental Service. 559
*- Canada’s Gift of Food and Railway Transport, 153
*- Canadian Forestry Corps’ Gratitude to Station Master, Woburn Sands, London and North-Western Railway, 177
*- Canadian Government Railways, Change of Control, 81
*- Canadian Government’s Big Order for Steel Rails, 631
*- Canal Training at Devizes, Sir Maurice Fitz- maurice’s Evidence, 81
*- Canvey Island Scheme, Bill Rejected, 533
*- Cape to Cairo Railway Extension, 631
*- Capital and Revenue Returns for United Kingdom Railways, Real and Fictitious, 57
*- Cheap Travelling Facilities Under Consideration, 225
*- Children’s School Treats, Cheap Trains for, 507
*- Chinese Railways, Suggested Internationalisation, 105
*- Coal Saving by Railway Electrification, E. W. Rice, 11
*- Coastwise Steamer Trade and the Railways, 507, 583
*- Collision, Fatal, at Banff ur long Junction, Report Recommends Track-circuiting, 129
*- Commercial Travellers and Week-end Facilities, 507
*- Common User Additional Vehicles Included in Arrangement, 583
*- Concrete Rolling Stock in Holland, 559
*- CongoNile Railway, Construction about to be Started, 631
*- Control of Railways during the War, Comparison between Our Own and American Methods, 105
*- Control of Railways in the Future, 146
*- Cooper, General A. S., 54, 125, 153
*- Cornish Railway, Burngullow to Falmouth, Projected, 524
*- Cost of Living and War Wages, 481
*- Craven Arms and Montgomery, New Railway Connection Wanted, 225
*- Crewe Works of London and North -Western Closed for a Week, 631
*- Cuffley and Stevenage Section of Enfield Loop Opened, 225
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
*- Cumberland Coast. Suggested Railway to Connect Silloth, Solway Firth, with Mary- port, 105
*- Death of Mr. G. Murray Smith, Midland Railway Company, 403
*- Death of Sir George Armytage, 249
*- Death of Mr. VV. E. Blake, Superintendent of London Tube and District Railways, 481
*- Death of Mr. W. H. Williams, Great Western Railway, 35
*- Death of Captain James Williamson. 277
*- Deaths of Dr. Angus Sinclair and Mr. Walter V. Turner, 153
*- Denbighshire Rural Railway Facilities Scheme, 201
*- Devon’s Desire for Railway from Okehamp- ton to Moretonhampstead, 177
*- District Railway Broken Rail, Protection by Track Circuits, 105
*- District Railway Overcrowding, 355
*- Dividends of Certain Railways, Increase in, 160, 225
*- Dover and Folkestone Damaged Line, Proposed Temporary Replacement by Light Railway, 105
*- Druitt, Colonel E., Retirement of, from Railway Department. Board of Trade. 379
*- Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, Sea Encroachment and Talked-of Diversion of Line, 559
*- Durban. Railway V orkshops Extension. 355 East London Railway and Half-finished Tunnel Connection with Great Eastern, Completion bv Government Recommended, 201
*- Easter, Question of Movements of Troops and Holidaymakers. 355
*- Electrification of Mountain Sections of Californian Railways, 403
*- Empire Medal Award to Signalman, 105
*- Engine-driver’s Long Service on Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 35
*- Entre Rios Railways New Chief Engineer, 11
*- Euston to Watford New Railway, Construction Work Recommenced, 177
*- Fares Increase Likely to Continue at Present, 355
*- Fares Increase and the National Union of Railwaymen, 631
*- Fay, Sir Sam, Return from Government Post to Great Central Railway, 201
*- Federated Malay States, Locomotives Ordered from America at Lower Cost and Quicker Delivery than in Britain, 249, 403
*- Fish Docks at Grimsby, Reported Renewal of Extension Work by Great Central Railway, 81
*- Food Waste for Lack of Railway Collection and Delivery, 607
*- Forty-seven-hour Week in Great Eastern Railway Workshops, 277
*- Forty-seven Hours on Various Railways, 11, 35
*- French Railway Electrification, Proposed Schemes, 303
*- French Railways on American Lines, A Report, 11
*- Fuel Conservation Charts to Illustrate Waste in Irregular Firing of Locomotives, 455
*- Furness Railway, Departmental Co-ordination, 225
*- Furness Railway Purchases of Engines and Tenders, 303
*- Furness Railway Steamers, Sale of, 583
*- Furness Railway’s All-Blue Carriages, 507
*- Future of Railways, Government Questioned as to Cost and Losses, 201
*- Gauge Difficulty in Australia, Numerous Unacceptable Devices, 81
*- Geddes, Sir Eric, and the North-Eastern Railway, 177
*- Gibb, Sir George, and his Dual Activities, 631
*- Gibb, Sir George, and the Road Board, 583
*- Glasgow and South-Western Clyde Steamers Still in Admiralty Employ, 277
*- Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Collision at Elderslie, Colonel Pringle’s Report, 225
*- Glasgow and South - Western Railway, Favourable Condition of Railway Material, 329
*- Goods Brake Vans, While Hand-rails for Use of Guards at Night. 403
*- Government Departments, Cost of Railway- Service to, 507
*- Government and Railway Superannuation Funds, 303
*- Government Traffic Cost and Value, 303
*- Great Central Main Line Viaducts Strengthened, 277
*- Great Central Railway Locomotives, Mr. Robinson’s Design Chosen for Engines Ordered by War-office, 303
*- Great Eastern Railway, General Manager’s Temporary Dual Functions at an End, 631
*- Great Eastern Railway Manager on English Railways, 554
*- Great Eastern Railway Orders for Engines and Tenders, 329
*- Great Eastern Railway Warehouses Destroyed by Fire, 35
*- Great "Eastern Railway’s New Steamers, 262
*- Great Eastern Suburban Train Service, Improvement in Late Trains, 57
*- Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and Oilburning Locomotives, 355
*- Great Northern, Great Eastern and Great Central Railways’ Pooling of Cartage and Resulting Economy, 329
*- Great Northern Railway, Opening of Cuffley and Stevenage Section of Enfield Loop, 225
*- Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, Improved Service, 355
*- Great Northern of Ireland, Permanent Way Relaying ; also Orders for Wagons. 379
*- Great North of Scotland Educational Scheme as War Memorial, 329
*- Great North of Scotland Herring Fishery Traffic, 429
*- Great North of Scotland, Increase in Passengers and Revenue, 277
*- Great Southern and Western, Special Train for Irish Commander-in-Chief, 11
*- Great Western Railway :
*-- Accident and Prompt Action of Driver and Signalman, 153
*-- Coal Supply, 303
*-- Engineering Department Changes, 583
*-- Experiences, A Man and a Woman, 583
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
*- Great Western Railway (continued):
*-- Facilitates Exchanges of District between Members of Staff, 559
*-- Goods Mileage and Receipts in 1900 and 1912, 429
*-- Roll of Honour, 177
*-- Signals, Accumulators for Track Circuits, andc., 153
*-- and the Treasury, Settlement Effected, 429
*-- War Bonus Cost, 303
*-- War Record in Passenger Trains, 277
*-- Working of Admiralty Coal Trains, 81
*-- Works Manager, Mr. C. B. Collett, Promoted, 501
*- Highland Railway Expenditure and Need of Bank Loans Due to Government Traffic, Complaints, 303
*- Honours for Bailway Men, 57, 455
*- Increased Cost of Horse’s Keep and of Coals on the Midland Railway, 559
*- Indian Coalfields, Bokharo and South Karan pura, Survey for Railway to Connect, 249
*- Indian Mails’ Renewed Transit Overland, 57
*- Indian Railway Board, Recognition of Patriotism of Staff, 379
*- Indian Railway Working, Proposed Inquiry with View to Changes, 379
*- Indian State Rail ways, Expenditure in 1917— 1918, 303
*- Indian State Railways, Net Working Profit in 1917-1918, 303
*- Institutions, Locomotive and Railway—see Associations, andc.
*- Irish Railway Shareholders’ Protection Association, 429
*- Isle of Wight Communication with the Mainland, Improvements Suggested, 559
*- Italian Railwaymen’s Eight-hours Day, 507
*- Jamaica’s Purchase of Railway Material in France, 11
*- Jubilee of First American Transcontinental Railway, 607
*- Labour Troubles on the Lancashire and Yorkshire and London, Brighton and South Coast Railways, 35
*- Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Annual Report, 147
*- Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway East Coast Fleet, Government Compensation for Vessels Lost in the War. 329
*- Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Finance, Comparison between 1887 and 1913, 249
*- Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Stockholders, 355
*- Laraiche-Alcazar Railway, Morocco. Tenders for Construction, 355
*- Lavatory Water Tanks on Railway Carriages, New System for Refilling, 402
*- Light Railway Commissioners Orders Applied for and Confirmed. 225, 631
*- Light Railway and Motor Services for Scotland, 355
*- Light Railways for Isle of Lewis Development. 81
*- Light Railways in the West of England, Various Proposals, 303
*- Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway Taken Over by Government to End Labour Troubles, 631
*- Locomotives, Latest, Very Large, on Virginia Railway, 277
*- Locomotives, Return from France, 355
*- London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Comparison of Stockholders’ Income in 1913 and 1918, 329
*- London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Expected Renewal of Newhaven and Dieppe Service, 249
*- London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Failure of Tunnel at Oxted, 455
*- London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Increased Traffic and Revenue, 329
*- London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, War Memorial to Fallen Men, at Victoria and Elsewhere, 277
*- London, Chatham and Dover Railway’s Claim for Rent for Buildings Requisitioned by Government, 277
*- London, Chatham and Dover Railway’s Loss on Automatic Machine Rentals, 249
*- London Electric Railways, City and South London and Central London Railway Companies’ Working Arrangement, 177
*- London Electric Railway Season Tickets and the Strike, 201
*- London and North-Western Railway, Insurance Society, 429
*- London and North-Western Railway’s Marine Superintendent, 507
*- London and North-Western Railway Men’s Forty-seven-hour Week, 11
*- London and North-Western Railway, Narrow Escape of Serious Disaster, 639
*- London and North-Western Railway’s New Steamers for Irish Service, 105
*- London and North-Western Railway, Roll of Honour, 177
*- London and North-Western Railway, Steamer Run Down by American Destroyer, 303
*- London and Paris, New Daily Service, 129
*- London, Port of. Authority, Opposition to Thames Ocean Wharf and Railway Bill, 533
*- London and South-Western Railway, Capital Expenditure in 1918, 303
*- London and South-Western Railway, Change of General Manager’s Assistant, 559
*- London and South-Western Railway. Signal and Telegraph Engineer Retires, 105
*- London and South-Western Suburban System Electrification, Passenger Increase, 583
*- London Suburban Stations Closed during War. Reopening Improbable at Present, 249
*- London Traffic Conditions and Difficulties, 481, 507, 533, 631
*- London Traffic and Supply of Rolling Stock, Priority Grant Unnecessary, 631
*- London Underground Traffic on Easter Monday, 129
*- Long-distance Trains, Some Few, being Restored, 105
*- Loss on Railway Working, Heavy Estimate, 355
*- Madrid and France, Cost of New Railway, Electric Traction Proposed, 455
*- Manchester Tramway Passengers, Proposi tion for Tube Railway, 177
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
*- Mansfield Railway Connection with Colliery, Utility in War Service, 607
*- Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company, Adverse Conditions of Goods Engines Purchase, 533
*- Melbourne Electric Railways Opened, 455, 559
*- Memorial Services for Fallen Railway Men, 484
*- Mersey Railway, Comparison between Steam and Electric Working, 559
*- Metropolitan District Railway Company’s New Turbo-alternator at Lot’s-road, 303
*- Metropolitan District Railway’s War Difficulties and Overcrowding, 177
*- Metropolitan Railway Demobilisation Anticipations, Loss of Men Fallen in Service, 177
*- Metropolitan Railway’s Excellent Working, 607
*- Metropolitan Railway’s New Passenger Coaches, 507
*- Metropolitan Railway Non-strikers, Company’s Appreciation of Loyalty, 403
*- Metropolitan Railway War Memorial, 429
*- Mid-Flint Light Railways Scheme, 81
*- Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, Manager Appointed, 153
*- Midland Railway Appointments, 402
*- Midland Railwav Employees in 1914 and Now, 303
*- Midland Railway Punctuality, 559
*- Midland Railway, Small Capital Expenditure, 355
*- Midland Railwav Statistics in 1907 and 1913, 429
*- Midland and South-Western Junction Railway, Greatly Increased Cost of Working, 559
*- Motor Cars’ Competition with Railways in the United States, 559
*- Motor Vehicles as Railway Feeders in Italy, 403
*- National Union of Railwaymen and its President, 35
*- National Union of Railwaymen and Railway Executive Committee, 129, 277, 446, 631
*- Nationalisation of Railways, Minerals and Lands, No Official Estimate Prepared, 225
*- New Transport Company. Limited, Refusal of Permission for Capital Increase, 201
*- New Year’s Honours for Railwaymen, 11
*- New York Subway Extension System, Notable Electrical Railway Undertaking, 184
*- New Zealand Government Railways Programme, 201
*- New Zealand Government Railways War Balance Sheet, 177
*- New Zealand State Railways in 1918, Financial Results of Working, 328
*- New Zealand State Railways, Interrupted Extensions and Lack of Facilities, 303
*- North-Eastern Railway General Manager, Reported Change, 57
*- North-Eastern Railway Passenger Increase, 391
*- North-Eastern Railway Policy?, War Record, 455
*- North-Eastern Railway and Sir Eric Geddes, 177
*- North London Electric Service Improvement, 429
*- Norway’s Order for Locomotives and Rolling Stock Parts from U.S.A., 455
*- Nottingham, Congestion of Traffic at, 631
*- Nyassaland, Projected Government Railwav, 129
*- Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Electric Railway, Benefit of Change in Trolley Wheels, 57
*- Oil Fuel Burning on Railways, Results of Tests of Various Systems, 403
*- Oil as Protection from Rust of Permanent Way Angle Bars and Bolts, 559
*- Oxted Tunnel Closing, Temporary, 533
*- Paris Underground Fares Increase, 507
*- Passenger Facilities, Improvement not yet Expected, 105
*- Passenger Fares and Postage on Letters, Small Prospect of Return to Pre-war Rates, 249
*- Passenger Train and Heavy Goods Loads 225
*- Passengers’ Roll of the" London Electric Railway Companies, 177
*- Perishable Goods, Design of Railway Wagons for, 351
*- Post-offices for Service between Queenstown and Kingstown Harbour, 11
*- Potteries Railway, Failure of Application to Reconstruct, 329
*- Preferential Treatment and Agricultural Produce, 533
*- Pre-war Travelling Conditions, Gradual Efforts To wards Restoration, 303
*- Profit, Railway, and Otherwise, a Vanishing Quantity, Mr. Lloyd George, 188
*- Proposal to Return Railways to Private Working with Guarantee of Minimum Rate of Return, 225
*- Queensland Commissioner of Railways, Retirement after Fifty Years’ Service, 277
*- Race Meetings and Increased Fares, 591
*- Rails and Sleepers from Temporary Railways in France, Question of Disposal, 533
*- Railway Benevolent Institution, 225
*- Railway Benevolent Institution, Presidentelect, 81
*- Railway Clerks’ Association Recognised, on Conditions, 153
*- Railway Conditions as to Claims for Losses, as to Carriage, andc., 303
*- Railway Executive Committee and Privately- owned Wagons, 563
*- Railway Executive Committee, Offices and Staff from Railway Companies, No Cost to Board of Trade, 355
*- Railway Executive Committee, Poster Appeal, 11
*- Railway Executive Committee and Railwaymen, 129, 277, 446, 533, 631
*- Railway Material Exports Statistics, 57, 129, 455, 631
*- Railwaymen and the Eight-hour Day, 129
*- Railwaymen’s Two Unions, Their After-war Programme, 35
*- Railway Officials Resume Work on Retirement from Government Positions, 455
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
*- Railway Servants and War Wages, 201
*- Rates for Goods and Running Costs, 583
*- Rationing Holiday Traffic to and from Blackpool, 429
*- Refrigerator Wagons Defects, Report by Food Committee, 555
*- Restaurant Services Re-established on Great Northern Trains, 129
*- Rome and Constantinople, Proposed Direct Railway Communication, with Supplementary Ferry-boat Service, 105
*- Roosevelt, Late President, and the United States Railways, 81
*- Royal Agricultural Society’s Cardill Show, Railway Facilities, 507
*- Sack, Railway-owned, Shortage in Scotland, Farmers’ Troubles, 249
*- Safety First in the United States, 541, 583
*- Scottish Labour Members’ Fares, 506
*- Shropshire and Montgomery Light Railway Company, 201
*- Signalman’s Gallantry during Air Raid, 607
*- Signals, Coloured and Position, Comparison of, and Report on both Types, 451
*- Singapore and Malay States, Causeway Across Johore Straits to Replace Train Ferry Connection, 81
*- Skip-stop System for Street Railways, Fuel Economy of, 11
*- Sleeping Car Services between Paris and Alsace-Lorraine, 11
*- Snow Damage of Telegraph Wires and Much Delayed Trains, 35
*- South Africa Adopts Eight-hours Day in Railway and Harbour Department, 607
*- South African Passenger Fares and Goods Rates, Further Increase, 11
*- South African Railways Annual Reports, Change in Period Covered, 11
*- South Australian Government Railways Finance, 129
*- South Australian Locomotives, Largest yet Built in the Province, 129
*- South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Landslide and Empty Train Wreckage, 249
*- South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Land-slip Repair, 277
*- South-Eastern and Chatham Railway’s New Steamer, 249
*- South-Eastern Railway Wagon Shops Burned Down, 583
*- South Manchuria Railway Improvements of Track and Rolling Stock, 201
*- Steam Locomotion and Wasted Fuel, 403
*- Steel Rails in the United States, Reduced Output in 1918, 583
*- Straps on Railway Carriage Windows, 429
*- Sturrock’s Steam Tender, 81—see Miscellaneous Index
*- Summer Time Dates Fixed, 225
*- Superannuation Allowance to Retired Railway Officers, Question of Increase, 507
*- Taff Vale Railway, Co-operation between Employers and Employed, 429
*- Taff Vale Railway and the Eight Hours Day, 355
*- Taff Vale Railway, Questions of Joint General Manager and Common User of Wagons, 355
*- Taff Vale Railway Roll of Honour, 177
*- Thomas, Mr. J. H., Health Visit to America, 506
*- Traffic and Railway Services, Further Increase Impossible, 481
*- Train Ferries on Entre Rios Railway as Precursor of the Richborough Cross-Channel Undertaking, 35
*- Train Service Improvement, 429
*- Train Service Improvements, Restaurant Cars Again Running, 225
*- Training, Free, for Junior Clerical Staff of Underground Railways and Omnibus Company after War Service, 277
*- Transport Bill and New Works, 481
*- Transport Committee and London Traffic, 607
*- Transport in India and East Africa, Inquiry, 429
*- Transport of Troops and Munitions, Statement of Cost, 399
*- Tube Railway Fares, Concessions as to Wages and Hours, 403
*- Tube Railways, London, Financial Problems, 607
*- Tunnel to Connect Denmark and Sweden, 455
*- UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION :
*-- Additional Precautions at Level Crossing?, 329
*-- Armistice Stops Entrainment of 250,000 Men, Cancelled Arrangements and Efficient Handling, 403
*-- Coal Contract Publicity, 533
*-- Commissions on Contracts, Modification of Original Clause, 533
*-- Congress and Big Railway Deficit Vote, 607
*-- Control of Railways, President Wilson’s Message, 507
*-- Director-General, Mr. McAdoo Succeeded by Mr. Walker D. Hines, 153
*-- Fuel Conservation Section’s Large Saving in Coal and Oil, 57
*-- Fuel Zone System, Great Saving in Transport, 11
*-- Future of American Railways, Question of Finance, 481
*-- Increased Fares and Freight Rates Cause Reduction of Deficit, 57
*-- Interstate Commerce Commission Report and Bureau of Railway Economics, 379
*-- New Railway Works Programme Shelved for Lack of Funds, 411
*-- Routeing of Traffic on United States Railways, 481
*-- Troops Traffic Statistics, 403
*-- United States Railway System, Proposed New Federation Scheme, 11
*-- United States Societies, Clubs, andc., Devoted to Railway Subjects, 328
*-- Wages Statistics during Administration Control, 607
*-- Wages, Trainsmen’s Further Advance of 65,000,000 Dollars, 379
*- Wages Increase of Miners, Railway and Transport Workers, 110 to 120 per Cent, since War Outbreak, 455
*- Wages Statistics, 583
*- Wagon Repairs and Labour Shortage. 429
*- Wagon Shortage and Delayed Ships, 583
*- Wagons, British Wooden, Life of, 533
*- Wagons on Indian Railways, Statistics, 35
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
*- War-office Orders for Locomotives to Design of Mr. J. G. Robinson, 303
*- Waterloo, Escalators between Main Line Station and City Railway, 379
*- Waterloo Station Reconstruction Nearly Completed, 583
*- Waterloo Station, Slight Collision between Steam and Electric Trains, 303, 607
*- Water Power Utilisation in France for Electrification of Main Railways, 402
*- Ways and Communications :
*-- Finance Questions, 249
*-- Finance and Condition of Permanent Way and Rolling Stock, Sir F. Banbury, 379
*-- Opposition, 225
*-- Statement by Mr. Bonar Law, 201
*-- Trade Associations not Represented, Delay Asked for, 481
*-- Wagons, Privately Owned, Inquiry as to Steps Taken, 533
*- White Paper Initials on Railway Working, 507
*- Whit Monday Passengers on London Underground Lines, 631
*- Women Railway W’orkers, Donation on Discharge, 35
*- Women’s War Wages Advance, Arbitration Decision, 177
*- Woolwich, Kearney Railway of 0.75-Mile Length and One Minute’s Journey, Projected, 129
*RAINFALL in Australia, Records, 403
*Reafforestation in Great Britain to Replace Timber Cut Down during War, 240
*Realgar, Successful Production with Richards Gas Producer Furnace, 105
*Reunion of Ex-British W’estinghouse Men, 190
*Road Improvement, Government Grant of £10,000,000, 81, 480
*Roads and Road Transport and also Railways, Opposition to Proposed Unification of Government Control, 81, 277
*Roads and Transport Congress and Exhibition, 495
*Rolling Mill at Southampton, Steps by Federation of British Industries to Guard it from Foreign Acquisition, 329
*Rotary Engine, Isaac Smith’s, Working Drawing of, Placed in Science Museum, 201
*Royal Automobile Club’s Opposition to Ways and Communications Bill, 225
*Royal Automobile Club’s Services to Overseas Officers during the War, Sir A. Stanley, 559
*Royal Dockyard Apprenticeship and Educational System, Successful Results, 277
*Rubber Association of Singapore, Standard Qualities Fixed, 583
*Rubber, Synthetic, German Factory, 105
*Russia’s Abundant Supplies of Timber, 153
*Russian Industrial Undertakings and Workmen in 1914, 533
*Russia’s Introduction of Metric Weights and Measures, 55, 177
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*SAFETY Precautions for Transmission Machinery, Home-office Report, 464
*Salcoats, Borehole Projected to Search for Minerals, 481
*Saturday Holiday, Five Days’ Work at a London Works, 403
*Scheelite—see Iron and Steel
*Science, Application of, to Industry, C. M. Walter, 277
*Scientific and Industrial Research, Expenditure, Sir F. Heath, 225
*Segnite, New Explosive in South Africa, 153
*Selenium and other Minerals and Production of Pigments, 607
*Serbia, Government and Industrial Mission, 225
*Sewage Disposal and Pollution of Rivers, 583
*Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Works near Bridgend, 428
*Shaft-sinking in the Transvaal, World’s Record, 177
*Shale Oil in Brazil, Larger Percentage than from Scotch Shale, 129
*Sheep Losses by Blow-fly, Scientific Efforts at Prevention, 35
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :
*- American Destroyer Built in Seventy Days, 57
*- American Shipbuilder’s Offer to the Shipping Board, 429
*- American Shipping Board Orders Cancelled or Curtailed and Prices for Ships Lowered, 444
*- American Wooden Steamers Converted as Tow Barges, 355
*- Armistice, First British Concrete Steamship, Behaviour of, 177
*- Barnstaple Reinforced Concrete Shipbuilding Yard, Activities, 177
*- Battleship Design in the Future, H. C. By water, 329
*- Concrete Barges, Seaworthy Qualities Doubted, 303
*- Concrete Ferry-boat, Accident and Repair, 481
*- Concrete, Reinforced, and Steel Vessels, Comparison of Deadweight, T. J. Querette, 225
*- Cromarty, Closing of Naval Base, 533
*- Cunard’s New Service of Steamers, 455
*- Dutch Companies Repairing British Ships, 105
*- Electric Welding of Ship Joints, Great Saving in Cost Compared with Riveting, 105
*- First Steamship to Cross the Atlantic. 533
*- Great Eastern Railway’s New Steamers, 262
*- H.M. Destroyer Zubian, One Ship Reconstructed from Two, 429
*- H.M.S. Truant, Ocean-going Torpedo-boat Destroyer. J. S. White and Co., 277
*- Japanese Mercantile Marine, Details, 249
*- Japanese New Cargo Boat Service from Yokohama to Calcutta, 607
*- Japanese Shipbuilding Programme, 249
*- Lloyd’s Register, Chairmen and Vice-chairman, Elections, 631
*- London and North-Western Steamer Run Down by American Destroyer, 303
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued):
*- Mauretania’s Record Trip from Halifax to New York, 533
*- Mercantile Marine Openings, Various, for Boys, 583
*- Merchant Shipping Act, Lifeboats and Rafts for all, 105
*- Newhaven and Dieppe Steamship Service, Expected Reopening, 249
*- Northumberland New Shipbuilding Combination, 201
*- Osaka Shosen Kaisha and Shipbuilding, 607
*- Reconstructed Vessels for Sale by Admiralty, 429
*- Repairs of Shipping, Announcement by Controller, 35
*- Salvage of the A. J. Fuller, Attempt to Raise the Ship, 177
*- Salvage of Ships after the War, A Great Harvest Expected from them, 11
*- Shipbuilding Yard at Ardencaple, 583
*- Ship Losses during the War, Twenty-five Times as many British as American Vessels, 429
*- Ship Plates for Australia, Cheaper from England than in Australia, 507
*- South-Eastern and Chatham’s New Steamer Maid of Orleans, 249
*- Steamer Wrecked in 1840, Remains Exposed by Dredging, 533
*- Steam Yacht Carnegie’s Long Voyages, 507
*- Submarines, and Under-water Listening, Professor Bragg, 559
*- Submerged Submarines, French Invention for Locating, 201
*- Swedish Mercantile Marine War Losses, 455
*- Tyne Shipping, Increase in Output of Ships, 303
*- United States Battleship Idaho and H.M.S. Dreadnought, Comparisons, 481
*- 10,000-Ton Vessel Bisected to Pass through Locks on the Welland Canal, 403
*- War Vessels Launched on the Tyne during the War, 355
*- Whitshed, H.M.S., Ocean-going Torpedo- boat Destroyer Launched at Wallsend, 140
*- Wooden Ship, Sierra Npvada, Built in 1854 and Still Afloat, 429
*- Wooden Shipbuilding at Quebec, Good Record, 481
*- X-rays for Inspection of Concrete Ships, 403
*- Yarrow-built Destroyer’s Record Speed, 303
*SIBERIA, Northern, Harbour and Handling Facilities at Mouth of River Ob, 403
*Slag for Concrete-making, 533
*Smoke Prevention, Condition of Sheffield, Sir R. Hadfield, 81
*Soap-making from Petroleum in Germany, 429
*Soda near Pretoria, Valuable Deposits, 277
*Solar Eclipse on May 29th, 1919, Experiments, 455
*South African Gold Mine, New Shaft being Sunk, 379
*South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, President, 249
*South African Mineral Output and Working Cost Statistics, 355
*South African Mining Improvements in Tube Mills, 379
*South African Societies’ Combined Exhibition of Machinery and Appliances, 355
*South Africa, Trade Conditions of, and Federation of British Industries, 277
*Southampton’s Embarkation Work during the War, 249
*Spain and Export of Machinery, 177
*Spanish Industries, Government Concessions, 481
*Spelter Manufacturers and Nationalisation of Coal Mines, 607
*Spirit from Sulphite Waste of Pulp Mills, 583
*Spitzbergen, A Departure of Workers for the Northern Exploration Company, 507
*Spitzbergen, A No Man’s Land, 455
*Steam Engine Building in the Last Generation, Excellent Record, 177
*Steel—see Iron and Steel
*Stephenson, George, Interesting Maps and Papers belonging to him Presented to Newcastle, 153
*“Still” Engine and Lubrication Experiments, 607
*Strike for Less Pay, 177
*Submarine Mine Exploders, Thousands for Sale by Disposal Board, 441
*Sulphur Deposits in Texas, 455
*Sulphur Waste in Fumes Round Nickel Mines in Ontario, 329
*Superheating by Steam as Preventive of Rust in Iron, 355
*Surplus Government Stores, Profitable Sales, 583, 607, 634
*Swedish Factory Started for Manufacture of Mica Insulating Materials from Native Mines, 129
*Swedish Industries Fair at Gothenburg, 607
*Sweden, Removal of Restrictions on Exports to, 646
*Swiss Trade Exhibition, 355
*Sydney Harbour Dredging, Material Removed Last Year, 201
*Sydney, Pyrmont Bridge Repaired Rapidly by Oxy-acetylene Welding, 429
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*TAMPING Railway Sleepers in Canada, Advantage of Use of Pneumatic Tools, 533
*“Tanks” Association, A New Society, 65
*Tanks to be Broken Up, 81
*Tasmania and Hydro-electric Development, 355, 481
*Telephone between Cawnpore and Lucknow, 559
*Telephone Cables in London, Quick Repair of Extensive Damage, 153
*Telephone Exchanges, London, Cost of Scheme for Conversion to Automatic System, 329
*Telephone Statistics in United States, 355
*Telephone System in Bolivia, Reputed to be the Highest in the World, 57
*Telescope, Great Reflecting, near Victoria, B.C., Completed, 35
*Ticker in Wireless Telegraphy, Other Applications Suggested, M. Goudet, 81
*Tidal Wave and Atmospheric Pressure, 249
*Timber of Canada, List of Trees Used, 403
*Timber Growth, Experiments in India, 355
*Timber Shortage Due to War and Reafforestation Scheme, 240
*Timber Supplies, Rationing Abolished and Prices Reduced, 129
*Timber Supply by Government at Reasonable Price, 507
Timber Transport by Rafting Across the Atlantic, 533
*Time-keeping Accuracy of Country’s Principal Clocks, 631
*Time Lost and Device for Prevention, 379
*Tinfoil Manufacture in China, 129
*Tin Mining in Cornwall, Question of Subsidising, 159
*Tin Slimes Concentration, J. M. Buckland, 249
*Tramcars on Elevated Line from Tokyo, Trial Run, 481
*Tungsten—see Iron and Steel
*Tunnel Below Sea at Moji, Japan, 481
*Tunnel, Railway, to Connect Denmark and Sweden, 455
*Turbine Design and Problems of Distortion, 57
*Turbines, Steam, Most Economical Size of Unit for, 225
*Turpentine Oil and Rosin, New Source of Supply of, Found in India, 533
*Tyne Improvement Commission’s Plant, Proposed Purchase of New Dredgers, 333
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*UNITED States and Need of Good Work, 212
*Universities and British Industries, 541
*Universities and Colleges Better Supported in the United States than in Great Britain, 481
*University College and Hospital War Memorial, 594
*University College, London, Annual Dinner, 570
*University College, London, Annual Report, Decrease in Students and Revenue, 249
*University Endowments in England and Wales, Analysis of Distribution, 481
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*VANADIUM in Swedish Coal, 607
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*WALKER, James, and Co., New Arrangement of Working Hours, 403
*Walter Scott and Middleton, Presentation, 213
*Wangduni, New Zealand, Port Development Delayed, 429
*War in its Dependence on Chemistry, 11
*War “Gases,” Serious Effects of Chloropicrin, 35
*War Memorial, A. A. Jones and Shipman, Limited, 47
*War Output of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., 436
*Warehouse Accommodation, Great Extension by Mersey Docks and Harboi r Board, 57
*Water, Colour Improvement Caused by Storage, 129
*Water Power Committee’s Report on Capacity of British and German New Guinea, 507
*Water Power Development in Europe and Japan, 429
*Water Power Schemes in the Ghats, in Province of Bombay, 559
*Water Powers of the Ukraine, 533
WATER SUPPLY:
*- Birmingham, Proposed New Pipe from the Elan Valley, 329
*- Bombay Water Supply from Powai Lake, 631
*- Cohoes, New York, W’ater Consumption, Pumps Cheaper than Water Meters, 429
*- Dacca Waterworks Improvement, 105
*- Electrolytic Corrosion, New Resistance Device for Water Pipes, 153
*- Hyderabad Water Supply, Completion of Oosman-Sagar Dam, 607
*- India, Waterworks Called for at Chandpur, 403
*- Kawasaki, Cost of New Waterworks, 429
*- Manchester Corporation’s Water Bill, 303
*- Manchester, Greatly Increased Consumption of Water, 129
*- Manchester’s Scheme for Water from Westmorland, 607
*- Midnapore, India, Water Supply, Further Grant Required for Cost, 129
*- Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, W’ater Supply, Alternative Schemes, 533, 631
*- South Australia, New Schemes for Water Supply, 507
*- Sydney, New South Wales, Storage Incicase, 484
*- Sydney Water Supply, Cordeaux River Dam, 455
*- Uruguay, Projected W’ater Supply and Sewerage Works, 533
*- Water Consumption in Great Britain for Papermaking, Brewing, Railways, and Fire Extinction, 533
*- Water Filtration Plant at Detroit, 429
*- Water Filtration Plant Sludge. Experiments, 455
*- Water Meter Test Results, F. B. Nelson, 403
*WATER in Underground Fissures, Stoppage by Injection of Liquid Cement, 57
*Wzater-gas to Relieve Coal Shortage in Germany, 35
*Waterproofing of Drawings and Tracings for Use in Wet Places, 11
*Waterways Lost and Regained by the British in Flanders in 1918, 129
*Wraygood-Otis Foremen’s Dinner, 248
*Ways and Communications Bill, Mr. Bonar Law on, 201 ; Opposition, 225 ; Finance Questions, 249—see also Railways
*Ways and Means, Ernest Benn, 288
*Weights and Measures, Metric and English Systems, Comparison of Use, Mr. Halsey, 507
*Welding, Acetylene and Electric, 546
*Wheat and Beans, Suggested Mixture of Crop as Protection from Storms, 129
*Wheels for Road Vehicles, Steel and Wood, Comparison of Advantages for Overseas Service, 329
*White Arsenic, Plant for Production to be Put Up in South Africa, 355
*“Whitley” Plan as Applied to Brass and Copper Industries, 355
*Wireless Communication by Telephone with Moving Omnibus, 559
*Wolfram—see Iron anti Steel
*Wolfryn Electro-chemical Treatment of Seeds, 559
*Wolverhampton and Aeroplane Making, 532
*Wood as a Boiler Fuel, 533
*Wood for Concrete Reinforcement, Precautions in Use, 607
*Wood Distilling Works in Ontario, Growth in Twenty Years, 81
*Wool Scarcity in Germany, Use of Iron for Air Filters, 11
*Working Drawing of Isaac Smith’s Rotary Engine Placed in Science Museum, 201
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*X-RAY Discussion at Faraday and Rontgen Societies’ Meeting, 416
*X-Rays for Inspection of Concrete Ships, 403
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*YARROW and Company’s Output to Increase in Vancouver but Diminish on the Clyde, 129
*Yellow Pine Shortage in United Kingdom, Government Measures for Supply and Price Regulation, 303, 507
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*ZINC and Lead Pipes, Corrosion, and Methods of Protection from, 631
*Zinc Production by Electrolytic Company of Australia, 201
*Zirconium Exports from Brazil, 559


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  • ACCIDENTS in Factories, Large Proportion of Preventable Cases, 129
  • Acetic Acid from Cocoanut Shells, 559
  • Acetylene and Electric Welding, 546

AERONAUTICS :

  • - Aeronautical Engineering Professorship at Cambridge, 277
  • - Aeroplane Government Service for South Africa, 249
  • - Aeroplane-making : Is it Engineering ? Wolverhampton’s Decision, 532
  • - Airship Capable of Going to New York and Back without Stopping, 177
  • - British Aeroplane’s Record Flight in Spain, 429
  • - British Airship R 34, 533
  • - Chilian Air Service Started with British Naval Aeroplanes, 57
  • - Costs of Aerial Transport per Ton-mile, 559
  • - Dominions Governments' Priority Claim in Allotment of Aeroplanes, 249
  • - Farman Aeroplane for Paris-London Service. Details of Capabilities, 105
  • - Italian Biplane’s Reported Speed of 162 Miles per Hour, 193
  • - Liberty Aero Engines, Large Number Built in America, 11
  • - Lighter-than-Air Machines and Cheaper Helium Gas, 81
  • - Meteorological Expedition to Test Atmosphere over the Atlantic, 329
  • - Norway, Aeroplane Exhibition at the Kjeller Aerodrome, 57
  • - Transport of Material by Aeroplane to the Interior of China, 105
  • - Visibility of Aeroplanes, Experiments in U.S.A., 455
  • AFRICAN Baobab Tree, Finest Paper-making Material, 533
  • Air Filters in Germany, Iron Replaces Wool, 11
  • Alcohol, Industrial, Manufacture from Waste Sulphite Liquors of Pulp Mills in Canada, 225
  • Alcohol in Mixtures as Fuel, Need of Research before Use, Dr. W. Ormandy, 11
  • Alcohol Motor Fuel, Research Programme, 292
  • Alginic Acid and its Manifold Uses, 153
  • Alloy of Aluminium with Calcium Superior to Aluminium, 105
  • Alloy, Metal Magnesium for Automobile and Aeroplane Construction, 57
  • Alloys, Cost as an Estimate of Value, V. G. Stevens, 429
  • Aluminium, Experiments on Purification of, 225
  • Aluminium Overhead Lines Chart—see Electrical Matters
  • Aluminium from Stone in Norway Hitherto Looked on as Worthless, 201
  • Aluminium Time Ball for Greenwich Obser- vatorv, Erected after Five Years’ Waiting, 631
  • Amalgamation of the Federation of British Industries and the British Manufacturers' Corporation, 190
  • Amalgamation of Harland and Wolff with David Colville and Sons, 129
  • Amalgamation of Important Electrical Companies, 47
  • American Catalogues and Booklets, Two Standard Sizes Adopted, 129
  • Amsterdam, Aircraft Exhibition, 533
  • Antimony and Stibnite Deposts on Burma- Siam Frontier, 81
  • Apprenticeship Scheme for South Africa, 277
  • Aqueduct Suspension Span in Wyoming, Twice Rebuilt in Six Weeks, 129
  • Argentina’s Great Falls at Igazu, Power Plant Erection to Solve Fuel Problem, 11
  • Asbestos in the Lyden burg, Transvaal, 205

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:

  • - ASSOCIATION OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS :
  • -- Meeting for Formation of Association, 379, 566
  • -- Successful Dinner, 566
  • - ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, MANCHESTER :
  • -- Design of Jigs and Tools, Effect on Rapid Production, G. H. Hey, 201
  • -- Gold Medal Offered by Past-President, 355
  • -- Power Stations of the Future. S. L. Pearce, 201
  • - ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED MUNICIPAL :
  • - Annual Convention at Felixstowe, 303
  • - ASSOCIATION, INCORPORATED MUNICIPAL ELECTRICAL :
  • -- Objections to Control of Electrical Supply by Proposed Ministry of Ways and Communications, 303
  • - INSTITUTE, CONCRETE
  • -- Recommendations to Inspectors, andc., concerning the Execution of Concrete Works, Pamphlet and Specimen Diary, 249
  • -- Sands for Concrete Making, P. G. H. Boswell, 583
  • -- Structure Theories and General Stability, A. S. Spencer, 631
  • - INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL:
  • -- Annual and Autumn Meetings, 164
  • - INSTITUTE OF METALS :
  • -- Annual Meetings, Date, Report and Programme, 214
  • -- Autumn Meeting at Sheffield, 413
  • -- Radio-activity, Annual May Lecture, Professor F. Soddy, 413
  • - BIRMINGHAM SECTION :
  • -- Scientific Factory Management, Lectures on, 177
  • - INSTITUTE, ROYAL SANITARY :
  • -- Conference on Post-war Developments relating to Public Health, Subjects and Speakers, 153, 248
  • -- Proposed Congress at Newcastle-upon- Tyne, 302, 546

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

  • - INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
  • -- Agreement with other Motor Societies as to Future Handling of Motor Industry Matters, 329
  • -- Information for Parents as to Openings in the Motor Industry, 328
  • -- Mr. Thomas Clarkson Elected President, 201
  • -- Olympia Motor Show, Special Session of the Institution, 481
  • -- Two-stroke Engines for Motor Cycles, E. Tilston, 507
  • - INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Election of Honorary Members, Awards for Papers and Premiums, 450
  • -- Election of War Leaders as Honorary Members, 129
  • -- Yarrow and William Lindley Scholarships Re-opened, 559
  • - INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS:
  • -- Conversazione and Uniform, 583
  • -- Electrical Appointments Board, Register of Applicants for Employment, 214
  • -- National Proving-house for the Electrical Trade, Proposed Establishment, 455
  • -- Use of High-pressure and High-temperature Steam in Large Power Stations, J. H. Shaw, 105
  • - DUBLIN SECTION :
  • -- Water Power Development in Ireland, G. Marshall Harriss, 260
  • - INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS, JUNIOR :
  • -- Commercial Testing of Railway Materials, T. H. Sanders, 481
  • -- Improved Notation and Simplified Precision Instrument for Measuring British Binary Inch Fractions, A. Watkins, 559
  • - MIDLAND SECTION :
  • -- Heat Waste in United Kingdom, Small Electric Stations Advocated, A. E. A. Edwards, 355
  • - INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :
  • -- Air Supply to Boiler-rooms, R. W. Alien’s Reply to Discussion, 153
  • - INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS :
  • -- Durability of Heating Apparatus, Sectional and Saddle Boilers, C. R. Honiball, 201
  • - INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS :
  • -- Train Heating, Average Daily Coal Supply for, J. Carlier, 249
  • - LEEDS CENTRE:
  • -- Locomotive Stays, Improved Method of Production by the North-Eastern Railway, 201
  • - MANCHESTER CENTRE :
  • -- Formation, 429

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

  • - INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Indian Members to Organise a Society of Indian Mechanical Engineers, 153
  • -- Projected Visit to French War Area, 516, 619
  • -- Sir Robert Hadfield Prize, 316
  • - INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
  • -- Annual Meeting, 118
  • -- Awards of Annual Gold Medal and of Premium, 300
  • -- Dinner Given to Secretary of the United States Navy and Officers of Mission in England, 455
  • -- Programme, 260
  • - INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :
  • -- Comparison of Deadweight in Steel and in Reinforced Concrete Ships, T. J. Querette, 225
  • -- Women’s Admission to Membership, 607
  • - INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS :
  • -- Alcohol in Mixtures as Fuel, Research Necessary before Use, Dr. W. Ormandy, 11
  • -- Capital Invested in Oil Enterprises, Montagu Summers, 201
  • -- Oil, Natural, World’s Production, Dr. Moll wo Perkin, 72
  • - INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Renovation of Leclanche Porous Pots, andc., W. J. Thorrowgood, 455
  • - INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
  • -- Explosion Time Calculations ; Use of Electrified Crystal, Sir J. J. Thomson, 403
  • -- Listening Under Water and Submarine Terror, Professor Bragg, 559
  • -- Meetings and Elections, 142, 231, 366, 470
  • -- Postponement of Professor Hele-Shaw’s Lecture on “Clutches,” 232
  • -- Programme of Lectures, 390, 413
  • -- Two Lectures on “Clutches,” Dr. H. S. Hele-Shaw, 413
  • - SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING :
  • - LIVERPOOL SECTION :
  • -- Pulverised Fuel, Lecture by Mr. A. Grounds, 329
  • - SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :
  • -- Inaugural Meeting of Chemical Engineering Group, 302
  • - SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
  • -- Association with Engineering Societies, 607
  • -- Bearing Power of Piles Driven in Clay Soil, A. S. E. Ackermann, 303
  • -- Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 413
  • -- Modern Explosives, Professor J. Young, 481
  • -- Officers Desiring Engineering Appointments ; Permission Given for Use of Rooms and Attendance at Meetings, 456

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

  • - SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS, SHEFFIELD :
  • -- Heat Treatment of Steel, C. O. Bannister, 583
  • -- Powdered Fuel, J. S. Atkinson, 507
  • - SOCIETIES, FARADAY AND RONTGEN :
  • -- Examination of Materials by X-rays, General Discussion, Papers, andc., 416
  • - SOCIETY, JUNIOR MINING ENGINEERS’ :
  • -- First Meeting, 507
  • - SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL ENGINEERING :
  • -- Boiler Mountings : An Unbreakable Water Gauge, J. Purves, 355
  • -- Refrigerating Machinery, Single Rather than Double-acting Compressors Preferable, B. Rathmell, 355
  • -- Seay Ammonia Absorption Refrigerating Plant, B. Rathmell, 379
  • - SOCIETY, MIDLAND JUNIOR MINING ENGINEERS :
  • - Formation and Elections, 495
  • - SOCIETY, OPTICAL :
  • -- Moisture on Lenses in Optical Instruments, Mr. L. C. Martin and Mrs. C. H. Griffiths, 177
  • -- Society’s New Address at South Kensington, 201
  • - SOCIETY, PHYSICAL :
  • -- Annual Meeting and Elections, 277
  • -- Lubrication, Paper by Principal S. Skinner, C. T. Thomsen, 177
  • - SOCIETY, ROYAL :
  • -- Light Used for Transmission of Speech, Dr. A. O. Rankine’s Exhibit at Conversazione, 631
  • - SOCIETY, ROYAL AGRICULTURAL :
  • -- Show to be held at Cardiff, 164, 507
  • - SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
  • -- Albert Medal Awarded to Sir Oliver Lodge, 559
  • -- Gas and Electricity for Heating, Lighting, and Power Comparison, Sir Dugald Clerk, 329 ; (Letter), 399, 436
  • -- National Electricity Supply Scheme, W. A. Tookey, 249
  • -- Supply of Electricity, J. S. Highfield, 507
  • -- Transformation, Direct, of Radiant Energy into Chemical or Electrical Energy, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 35
  • -- Water Power Development, Professor A. H. Gibson, 429
  • -- Water Power Sites on the Saguenay River, Canada, Professor J. C. McLennan, 329
  • AUSTIN Motor Works Sale of Munitions Plant, Big Prices Secured, 249
  • Australia, Site of Reservoir for Regulating the Murray River, 481
  • Australian Engineering Standardisation Committee Proposed, 455
  • Australian Hard Woods for Sleepers, Preference Asked for and Refused, 603

B

  • BANK, The British Overseas, Limited, for Promotion of Foreign Trade, 201
  • Barge Canal Bulletin Ceases Publication, 277
  • Basic Slag Manufacturers’ Proposed Association, 177
  • Bavarian Water Power, Proposed Utilisation, 429
  • Bayonet, New Rolled Type, United States Manufacture, 105
  • Belgian Blast-furnace, First Re-lighted After German Destruction, 583
  • Belgian Industries Reconstruction, British Special Commissioner Appointed to Assist, 455
  • Bengal Smoke Nuisance Commission, 129
  • Benzole, Annual Production of, 303
  • Benzole, Home-produced, Suspension of Tax, 57
  • Benzole Output of Gasworks and Great D< mand for Motor Spirit, 11
  • Benzole and Petrol, Economy in Use of Benzole for Motor Vehicles, Stenson Cooke, 607
  • Benzole as well as Petrol Available for Motor Fuel, 35
  • Birmingham Commercial Library, 340
  • Birmingham’s Projected Wide Roads and Tramways with Metals on Sleepers, 153
  • Birmingham Transport Communication, Question of Canal Navigation, 533
  • Blast-furnace Slags in Concrete, Dr. J. E. Stead, 481
  • Blind Men, Hoped-for Success in Teaching them to Make Cores, 129
  • Board of Trade Takes Over War Trade Department, 355
  • Boiler Compounds and Water Treatment, 580
  • Boiler Feed-water Purification System Described by J. P. Dijxhoom, 105
  • Boiler Scale and Heat Loss of Fuel, 379
  • Boiler Scale Removal by Graphite and Kerosene, 559
  • Boilers Costing £450 Realise £1350 to £1475, 249
  • Boilers, Salved from Wreck, Transported by Rolling, 481
  • Boilers, Sectional and Saddle, Durability, C. R. Honiball, 201
  • Borehole in Cornwall, Record Depth for United Kingdom, 379
  • Brass, Copper and Allied Industries Proposed Industrial Council, 355
  • Brazil and Federation of British Industries, 277
  • Brazil and Great Britain ; Federation of British Industries’ Invitation to Brazil Business Men, 177
  • Brazil, Reafforestation Schemes to Overcome Fuel Shortage, 177
  • Brazil, Unused Water Power, 403
  • Brazilian Budget, Imports Free and Taxed, 403
  • Brickmaking in the Peterborough District, 583
  • Bricks from Crushed Slag, System of Hardening, 533
  • Bricks, Heat Conducting Properties of, Effect of Porosity, Dr. J. W. Mellor. 403
  • Bridge, Ohio River, New Simple Truss Span, Record Length and Weight, 583
  • Bridge, Proposed, at Minneapolis, Record Length of Concrete Arch, 455
  • Bridge, Quebec, 164
  • Bristol University, B.Sc. Degree, Additional Subjects Required for Qualification, 329
  • British Association Fuel Economy Committee, Continued Investigations, 303
  • British Commercial Mission for Baltic Provinces, London Address, 63 1
  • British Industrial Exhibition for Athens, 390
  • British Industries Fair, Increased Number of Exhibitors, 201
  • British Industries Fair in 1920, to be Held in Various Towns Simultaneously, 468
  • British Manufacturers’ Corporation, 190
  • British Motor and Allied Manufacturers’ Association. Investigation of Eastern Markets, 225
  • British Science Guild Journal, E'ghth Number Obtainable, 481
  • British Scientific Products Exhibition, King as President, 225
  • British Scientific Product s Exhibit ion, Further Particulars, 379, 559

C

  • CALIFORNIA, Combined Reclamation and Irrigation System, 533
  • Cambridge University Appointments Board : Employment for Officer Graduates, 507
  • Cambridge University, Goldsmiths’ Company’s Gift to Department of Metallurgy, 583
  • Cameroons Mineral Resources, 403
  • Canadian Customs, Remission of Duty on Farm Traction Engines, 378
  • Canadian Engineering Standards Association, Incorporation, 403
  • Canadian Mineral Output for 1918, Increase, 429
  • Canadian Reconstruction and Completion of the Welland Canal, 81 ; (Letter), 109
  • Canadian Roads Department, Originally Founded at Quebec by Chainplain, 631
  • Canadian Timber in Order of Value, 403
  • Canal Committee’s Efforts to Facilitate Traffic Conveyance, 631
  • Canal to Connect Cherson with Danzig or Konigsberg, Ukrainian Government Plans, 201
  • Canal Connecting Rivers at Different Levels, German Invention for Improved Transport of Vessel, 81 ; (Letter), 109
  • Canal Development in the Midlands, Conference Suggested, to Ask for Government Assistance, 160
  • Canal, Proposed, to Connect Mediterranean with Persian Gulf, 435
  • Canals, New Handbook, with Maps, 81
  • Caterpillar Tractors for Ore Haulage from Mine, 559
  • Caustic Soda and Hydro-chloric Acid Manufactured by Electrolysis of Common Salt, 201
  • Cement for Cast Iron Water Main Joints at Portland, Oregon, 481
  • Cement-making with Blast-furnace Slag, andc., Research with regard to Chemical Reactions Resulting, 11
  • Cement, Waterproofing by Oil, 201
  • Cements and Salts, Experiments, 81
  • Ceylon, Discovery of Monazite Sand, 559
  • Ceylon and Water Power Possibilities, 105
  • Charcoal Blast-furnace near Lake Windermere, Renewal of Working, 249
  • Chemistry, Pure, and Applied, Federal Council Formed, 153
  • Chemistry, Widespread Utility in War Material, 11
  • Chemists Discharged from the Army as Temporary Members of Chemical Industry Club, 201
  • Chimney Top Elevation over 1500ft. above Sea Level, 355
  • Chlorine in the Future, Probable Increase in Use, H. H. Hooker, 507
  • Christiania Port Authorities, Projected Improvements, 533
  • Chrysotile Beds in Natal to be Worked for Asbestos, 355
  • Cinematograph Film Development, New Portable Apparatus, 57
  • Cleveland Ironstone Slag, High Value for Concrete Making, 533

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:

  • - Acting Controller of Coal Mines Appointed, 225
  • - Alfreton, Derbyshire, Coalfield Sinking Schemes Stopped owing to Coal Trade Uncertainties, 533
  • - Ash Content of Coal, 533
  • - Boiler Water Softening and Coal Saving, 559
  • - Bowen, North Queensland, and Dawson Valley Coal Mines, 455
  • - Bunker Coal Cargoes for the Baltic and Norway, Controller’s Orders, 631
  • - By-product Recovery from Waste of Coal Mines in the Transvaal and Natal, 379
  • - Coal Exports Committee, Dissolution, 225
  • - Coal Mining under Sydney Harbour, Nova Scotia, 57
  • - Coal Resources of South Africa, 277
  • - Coal Saving by Railway Electrification, E. W. Rice, 11
  • - Coke Mixed with Coal for Water-tube Boilers, Economical Result, 129
  • - Coke Ovens in New South Wales, Great Loss in By-products, 607
  • - Coke Supplies of France, Suggested Further Demands upon Germany, 303
  • - Controller of Coal Mines, Successor to Sir Guy Calthrop, 225
  • - Deep Pits being Sunk near Doncaster, 329
  • - Denmark, Coal Controller’s New Announcement, 57
  • - Denmark and Coal Supply from United Kingdom, Extension of Exemption from Surcharge, 129
  • - Electrical Coal-cutting Machines, 81
  • - Export of Coal, 516
  • - Faversham Creek Improvement with View to Handling Kent Coal, 249
  • - Investigation into Properties of Coal, Company Formed in Essen, 455
  • - Italian Government and Coal I ndustry, 249
  • - Mines Water-looged Between Tividale and Greets Green, 277

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES (continued) :

  • - Newport Docks New Coaling Hoist, 249
  • - Nigeria, Coal of High Value being Mined by Government at Udi, 329
  • - Pollington Colliery Closed on Account of Water Accumulation, 507
  • - Pre-war Contracts and Export of Coal, 249
  • - Pulverised Coal as Fuel, Good Results from Tests, 153
  • - Rationing Coal, Gas and Electricity, 631
  • - Russia, Coal Production in the Donetz District, 533
  • - Saving of Coal and Efficiency of Industrial Works, 277
  • - Skip-stop System, Great Coal Saving by, 11
  • - Spelter Manufacturers’ Oppout on to Nationalisation of Coal Mines, 607
  • - Spitzbergen Coal Output, 225
  • - Sulphate of Ammonia and other By-products -of Coal, Production in South Africa, 355
  • - Sumatra Coalfields and the Dutch Government, 583
  • - Sweden, Coal Deposits Discovered near Bellinge, 303
  • - Tanganyika and Zambesi Coal Areas, Extensive Opening Up, 631
  • - Tyne Shipping of Coal and Coke, Statistics, 303
  • - United States Coal Mine Fatalities, 582
  • - United States Coal Shipment Figures, 249
  • - Unwatering of Pits in the Kent Coalfield, 253
  • - Vanadium in Swedish Coal, 607
  • - Water-gas to Relieve Coal Shortage in Germany, 35
  • - Water-logged Coal Mines in Tipton District, 379
  • - Welsh Coal Compared with, that from other Countries, Sir Thomas Watson, 277
  • COLD Storage in France, Government Outlay on, 429
  • Columbia Basin Reclamation Project, 559
  • Commercial Motor Users’ Association, Annual Luncheon, 355
  • Concrete Floors, Hardening Solution to Prevent Dusting, 631
  • Concrete, Monolithic, for House-building, W. Calway, 225
  • Concrete Pipes Replace Wooden Piles in Wharf Construction in Tasmania, 607
  • Concrete Reinforcement with Wood, Needful Precautions, 607
  • Concrete Ships—see Ships
  • Condenser Tubes, Novel Cleaning Method, 262
  • Consolidated Goldfields Working Costs, Increase, 153
  • Consulting Engineers, Naval Architects and Marine Surveyors, Proposed Association, 379
  • Cooper, General A. S., New Appointment in Peru, War Services and Previous Work, 54, 125, 153
  • Copper Company’s Precautions with Electric Cables in Mine, 225
  • Copper Exports from Chili, Increase, 201
  • Copper from Katanga to Antwerp, 249
  • Copper Mines in Australia, Nearly all Closed on Account of Accumulations, 481
  • Copper Output from Katanga Mines, 277
  • Cork Substitute from Acetylene Action on Copper and Nickel, 153, 403
  • Corn Yield Increased by Wolfryn Treatment, 559
  • Corrugated Iron Huts on Sale by Ministry of Munitions, 631
  • Corundum Production, South Africa the Leading Country, 249
  • Cotton Production in Portuguese East Africa, Great Increase, 277
  • Coventry, Proposed Technical Institute, 177
  • Coventry, Technical Institute and Instruction Funds, 225
  • Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers and Awards, 413
  • Cutlery Supplies Remain Scanty Owing to Government Demands, 35
  • Cyanamide Factory Projected at Workington, 152

D

  • DACCA Waterworks Improvements, 105
  • Dartmoor, Hydro-electric Scheme, 329
  • Dawson, Philip, Belgian Decoration Conferred for Services in Electrification of Belgian State Railways, 329
  • Depth Charge Invention, Rival British and American Claims, 303
  • De-tinning Works at Llanelly, 379
  • Detonator, New Type, Manufacture in Norway, 57
  • Diamond Dredging off South-west African Coast, 303
  • Diamond Pipe of Great Extent in Brazil, 559
  • Drainage Machine for Marsh Land Wanted, 626
  • Dredging on Large Scale at Sydney, 201
  • Dry Dock, Large, Opened at Portsmouth, Virginia, 153
  • Dry Docks, Government Relinquishes Control 455
  • “Drylock” on the Neckar Danube Canal, German Invention, 81 ; (Letter), 109
  • Dust Extraction from Flue Gases in Sulphuric Acid Factory, 177
  • Dutch Coal Mines Output, 429

E ELECTRICAL MATTERS:

  • - Acetylene and Electric Welding, 546
  • - Argentine’s Huge Falls, Possibilities of, to Relieve Fuel Scarcity in Electric Development, 11, 249
  • - Birmingham Electrical Power Plant Load, Christmas Day Comparison, 81
  • - Birmingham New Power Station, Projected Completion, 81
  • - Birmingham’s Proposed Purchase of Land for Power Plant Station, 277
  • - Birmingham Sub-station at Bournville, 403
  • - Blackburn Corporation’s New Generating Station at Whitebirk, 429
  • - Bolton Corporation and Lancashire Electric Power Company, Inter-connection of Supply Systems, 35

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):

  • - Bombay, Andhra Scheme for Electric Power Supply, 559
  • - Bradford Electricity Output Increase, Proposed Extension of Works, 303
  • - Bradford’s Proposed Expenditure on Elec trical Work, 177
  • - Bury Electrical Power Plant Extensions, 201
  • - Canadian Electric Power Stations, Horse-Power Percentage from Water, 201
  • - Coal-cuttting Machines Electrically Driven, 81
  • - Copper Company’s Precautions in Mine in Use of Electrical Cables, 225
  • - Cost of Power in Relation to Electric Furnace Development, 81
  • - Costs of Electric Lighting Installations, Present Day and Pre-war, 450
  • - Croydon New Power Station Plant, Application for Loan, 455
  • - Dartmoor Water Power, Suggested Utilisation for Cornwall Electricity Supply, 303
  • - Devon Electrical Supply Schemes, 403
  • - Dewsbury’s Proposed Power Plant Extensions Abandoned, 177
  • - Dynamos Driven by Wind Power, H. C. Vogt, 57
  • - East Grinstead’s Contemplated Electricity Supply, 177
  • - Edinburgh to Adopt Overhead Trolley System for Tramways, 481
  • - Edinburgh’s New Power Station at Portobello, 153
  • - Edinburgh Tramways Proposed Electrification. Committee to Report on London Conduit System, 303
  • - Electricity, Experiments in Effect of. Alternating more Dangerous than Continuous Current, 403
  • - Explosion Calculations and Electricity, Sir J. J. Thomson, 403
  • - Extensions to Generating Stations and Plant, Limitation of, 150
  • - Fermoy and Electricity Proposals, 177
  • - Floating Power Stations, Suggested Use of Old Battleships, J. S. Highfield, 507
  • - Generating Station, New, at Nechells, Birmingham, 533
  • - Gravesend’s New Generating Sets, 153
  • - Heat Shrinking instead of Press Fitting Parts of Machines on to Shafts, 379
  • - Holland, New Company for Supplying Electrical Energy to Public Bodies, 481
  • - Hydro-electric Schemes—see also Hydroelectric
  • - India and Power Supply, Bombay, Calcutta and Tata Companies, 277
  • - Insulators and All-porcelain Articles for Installations, Increased Import Duty in Brazil, 403
  • - Iron Smelting, Electrical, in British Columbia, Possibilities of, 303
  • - Iron and Zinc as Electrical Conductors, 225
  • - Japan’s Electrical Undertakings, 631
  • - Leeds Electricity Plant Extensions, 177
  • - Lot’s-road New 15,000-Kilowatt Turboalternator, 303
  • - Manchester’s New Generating Station at Barton, 631
  • - Midland Electric Corporation Power Plant Extension, 355
  • - Motor Culture Week, 164
  • - Mysore State Electrical Power, Details of Amount, Cost, and Earning in 1917 18, 329
  • - National Electricity Supply, Protest against Control by Ministry of Ways and Communications, 303
  • - National Proving House for the Electrical Trade, Proposed Establishment, 455
  • - New Zealand Power Plant to be Used for Manufacture of Caustic Soda and Hydro chloric Acid, also for Steel Smelting, 201
  • - New Zealand Water Power Development Schemes, Cost and Coal Saving, 194
  • - Niagara Falls, Control of the Power Situation by Amalgamation of Companies, 11
  • - Norway Water Power Utilisation for National Use, Commission Appointed to Investigate, 329
  • - Nottingham Electricity Committee, Increase of Power Supply, 153
  • - Oldham’s Proposed Expenditure on Generating Plant and Mains, 201
  • - Power Generation, Additional Supply from Water of Cauvery River, Mysore, 129
  • - Power Stations of the Future, Problems of Transmission, S. L. Pearce, 201
  • - Record Motor at Stafford Works, 201
  • - Rotherham Corporation New Turbo-alternators, 379
  • - Shanghai Electrical Plant, Old and New, 429
  • - Sheffield’s New Electric Power Station, 1 77
  • - Shipbuilding, Great Saving in Cost by Electric Welding instead of Riveting, 105
  • - Skip-stop System, Great Saving in Electricity, 11
  • - Southport, Single-phase System to give way to Three-phase, 455
  • - Standards for Electricity Measurement, Instruments at National Physical Laboratory, 455
  • - Static Transformer, German, for Stepping -up from 6250 Volts to 110,000 Volts, 424
  • - Steam and Electric Railway Working. Mersey Railway as an Example, 559
  • - Steel Furnace, Electric, in Spain, Particulars of, 105
  • - Steel Furnaces, Method of Reducing Consumption of Electrodes in, 105
  • - Stepney’s Proposed Temporary Sub-station Plant and Mains, 177
  • - Storage of Energy, Proposed Use of Electric Heaters, Mr. Partridge, 507
  • - Stress Deflection Chart for Aluminium Overhead Lines, 470
  • - Sumatra Power Generation for Manufacture of Artificial Fertilisers, 583
  • - Supply of Electricity, J. S. Highfield, 507
  • - Teignmouth Debating Question of Electricity versus Gas for Lighting, 481
  • - Transmission Shafting in Berlin, Calculation of Losses, 35
  • - Tungsten Arc Light, Properties of, 129
  • - United States Electricity Supply, Report on, 559
  • - Wallasey Electric Power Plant Extension, 153
  • - Water Power in France, Project for Union of all Private Undertakings and Utilisation for Railway Electrification, 402
  • - Windmill, High-speed, for Driving Electric Generators, Monsieur P. Fayard, 379

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):

  • - Wolverhampton, Walsall and Electricity Supply, RivabSchemes, 277
  • ENGINE, The “Still,” Lubrication Experiments, 607
  • Engineering Golfing Society, 117
  • Engineering Scholarships at Bristol for Sons of Officers Killed in the War, 249
  • Engineering Scholarships Offered to Armstrong College, 277
  • Engineers Fallen in the War, Westminster Abbey Service, 583, 607
  • English Manufacturer and Foreign Customer, Cecil Walton, 201
  • Exhibition—see British Scientific Products
  • Explosions, Relative Merits of Different Classes, Professor J. Young, 455
  • Explosive, New, in South Africa, 153
  • Explosives Production, Organisation and Technical Training, by K. B. Quinan, 101
  • Explosives Supplied by Manchester, 35

F

  • FAIR, British Industries, in 1920, to be held Simultaneously in Various Towns, 468
  • Fair, British Industries, Increased Number of Exhibitors, 201
  • Fall of 110ft. without Injury, 607
  • Federation of British Industries :
  • - Anglo-French Conference in Paris, 236
  • - Commissioner Appointed for East Coast of South America, 455
  • - To Guard National Rolling Mill at Southampton from Foreign Acquisition. 329
  • - National Conference on Ways and Communications Bill, 607
  • - Representatives to Accompany Government Mission to Germany to Examine Engineering Developments, 329 —See also Brazil.
  • FERTILISER Factory at Johannesburg, 507
  • Fire Engineers, Proposed Formation of Institute, 35
  • Fire at North-Eastern Marine Engineering Company's Wallsend Works, 533
  • Fishing Industry Development, Lewis Island and Fleetwood, Lord Leverhulme’s Scheme, 630
  • Flooding in Somerset, Projected Scheme for Prevention, 379
  • Foochow, Improvements on the River Min, 403
  • Food Committee’s Report on Refrigerator Wagon Defects, 555
  • Ford Motor Company’s Assembling Plants in Spain and Denmark, 586
  • Ford Motor Company’s Change of President, 57
  • Forest Fires in U.S.A., Suggested Use of Aeroplanes for Detection and Transport of Fire Fighters, 607
  • Fouling of Gun Barrels, System of Overcoming, 533
  • Frangois Method of Stopping Underground Water Flow, 57
  • French Crops and Unwanted Agricultural Machinery for Disposal, 583
  • Furnace Construction, Importance of Refractory Materials Employed, W. J. Rees, 153

G

  • GALENA in South Africa. Discovery of Rich Deposit, 533
  • Gas and Electricity, Increased Allowances since Armistice, 35
  • Gas Light and Coke Company’s Share in Supply of War Material, 201
  • Gas Producer with Concrete Slabs instead of Steel Casing, 74
  • Gas Producer Furnace, Richards, for Production of Realgar, 105
  • Gas Storage in Exhausted Natural Gas Wells Proposed, 153
  • Gas from Wheat Straw as Motor Car Fuel in British Columbia, 35
  • German Chemical and Dye Works Resuming Business, 105
  • German Machine Industry, Precarious Condition, 355
  • German Potash Industry and the Labour Question, 140
  • German Raw Materials no Longer to be Used for Military Purposes, 35
  • German Submarine Engines Landed in the United Kingdom, 533
  • German Works Closing Down in Luxemburg, 559
  • Germany’s Successful Discovery of Substitutes for Textile Requirements, 81
  • Glass from Paddy Husks, Experiments in Burma, 403
  • Glass Shortage in Europe, Various Substitutes, 140
  • Glasses for Protection of Eyes of Furnace Workers, 607
  • Glue, Proper Treatment for Joints, 358
  • Glued Joints, Tests of Strength with Various Glues, 583
  • Gold Coast Palm Oil Tax, 105
  • Gold Deposits in the Belgian Congo, 455
  • Goldfields in Belgian Congo, Increased Output Expected from New Plant, 277
  • Gold Mine at Modderfontein, New Shaft to be Sunk, 355
  • Gold Output of the Empire, Reduction in Recent Years, 35
  • Gold Output of the Klondyke, 379
  • Government Assistance for Housing, 340
  • Graphite Deposits, Valuable, in Siberia, 177
  • Graphite as a Lubricant for Air Compressor Cylinders, and Otherwise, Its Great Advantage, 189
  • Grangemouth Reopened for Mercantile Shipping, 129
  • Greenwich Observatorv, New Aluminium Time Ball, 631
  • Greenwich Record of Sunshine and Rainfall, 631
  • Greenwich Record of Temperature and Air Movement, 631
  • Gregory, Professor Richard, Knighted, 429
  • Groupe Inter-Universitaire Franco -Britannique, 494
  • Guatemala and Mineral Deposits, 607
  • Gyratory Stone Crusher, Large, in America, 583

H

  • HARTLEPOOL andWest Hartlepool Boroughs, Proposed Amalgamation, 355
  • Health and Death-rate Statistics of England and Wales, 57
  • Heat Conducting Properties of Bricks and Effect of Porosity, Dr. J. W. Mellor, 403
  • Heat Insulating and Filtering Kieselguhr Found in Ireland, D. A. MacCullum, 153
  • Heat-insulating Material, Molera, Possible Use for Sound-proof Chambers, 11
  • Heating of Houses by Open Fires, Economy by Reducing Ventilation, 129
  • Heysham as a Port of the Midland Railway, 429
  • High Explosives, War Experiences with, Professor H. B. Dixon, 105
  • Hong-Kong Plantation of Eucalyptus and Camphor Trees, 153
  • House-building in Monolithic Concrete, W. Cal way, 225
  • House-building with Wooden Lath Netting in Norway, 249
  • Hudson River Tunnel to Connect Manhattan with New Jersey, Large Money Vote, 249
  • Hydro-electric Possibilities in the Argentine, 11, 249
  • Hydro-electric Power Plant, Tavoy, Burma, 403
  • Hydro-electric Scheme for Dartmoor, 329
  • Hydro-electric Schemes in Ontario, 336

I

  • ICELAND’S Plan to Combine Salt Production, Iron Industry and Electric Power, 35
  • India, British, Statistics of Imports and Exports, Pre-war and Since, 631
  • Industrial Bank for South Africa, 403
  • Industrial Classes, Increase in Students, 80
  • Industrial Essay Competition, 546
  • Industrial Reconstruction Committee for Zinc and Spelter Industry, to Assist Government in Future, 507
  • Industrial Reconstruction Council, Fortnightly Conferences, 225
  • Industrial Reconstruction Council, Open-air Meetings for Advocation of Whitley Council Policy, 583
  • Inland Waterways Scheme to Cost £80,000,000, 249
  • Insulator, Heat and Cold, from Waste Paper, Mr. L. Edwards’ Production, 129

IRON AND STEEL:

  • - Australia, Western, Conference of Steel Users in view of Deficient Supplies from British Factories Owing to War Requirements, 329
  • - Austrian Iron Industry, Lack of Coal and Iron Ore, 245
  • - Barrow Hematite Steel Company Recommences Work, 507
  • - Blast-furnace and Steel Works in Ontario, Disputed Scheme, 177
  • - Blast-furnaces in United States, Reduced Iron Output, 303
  • - Buenos Aires Ironworks Closed Down Because of Strike, 249
  • - Celebes, Iron Ore in the Larona District, 559
  • - Coal Saving by Softening Boiler Water, 559
  • - Converter Steel without the Use of Pig Iron, Result of Experiments, 507
  • - Drainage Pipes, Comparative Value of Cast Iron, Wrought Iron and Steel, W. P. Gerhard, 329
  • - Economics in Hand Drill Steel, H. A. Read, 583
  • - Electric Iron Smelting in British Columbia, Possibilities, 303
  • - Electric Steel Furnace in Spain, Particulars of, 105
  • - Electrode Consumption in Electric Steel Furnaces, Method of Reduction, 105
  • - Growth of Cast Iron, Method of Prevention, 225
  • - Indian Iron and Steel Company’s Excellent Iron Ore, 153
  • - Iron Coating with Aluminium, German Method, 277
  • - Iron Immersion Experiments and Discoveries, 507
  • - Iron Ore in the Midlands for Blast-furnace Work, 277
  • - Iron as Substitute for' Wool in German Air Filters, 11
  • - Iron and Zinc as Electrical Conductors, 225
  • - Japan’s Enormous Increase in Production, Consumption and Price of Steel during the War, 189
  • - London Iron and Steel Exchange, Opening, 11, 57
  • - Malleable Castings Without Shrinkage, 11
  • - Manganese Discoveries in Northern Brazil, 379
  • - Manganese Orc on the Gold Coast, 379
  • - Manganese Ore from Mines of San Antonio, Ecuador, 455
  • - Manganese Ore, Native, in Use in Australia, 507
  • -Mexico, Famous Iron Mountain may Pass to Japanese Syndicate, 533
  • - Mild Steel Production Record for this Country, 481
  • - Miners’ Federation of Great Britain, Scanty Interest Shown in Election of President, 11
  • - Newfoundland Iron Mines Developments, 428
  • - Newfoundland and Spanish Iron Ore, Comparison in Cost of Delivery to United Kingdom, 329
  • - Norwegian Steel Works at Hardanger, 583
  • - Ontario, Projected Steel Works at Goderich, 533
  • - Painting Iron, Use of Sprayer, 429
  • - Pig Iron Made at Pretoria, 11
  • - Pretoria Ironworks, New Blast-furnace, 533
  • - Prevention of Columnar Crystallisation in Steel Ingots, L. B. Lindemuth, 559
  • - Queensland State Steel and Ironworks, Unsuccessful Search for Site, 631
  • - Scheelite Ore Deposits in Canada, 429
  • - Slag Wool and Rust on Steel, Tests by Dr. J. E. Stead, 481
  • - Solid and Liquid States of Steel, Cosmo Johns, 379
  • - Spain, Iron Ore Deposits, 455

IRON AND STEEL (continued) :

  • - Stainless Steel Production, Increased Prices, 81
  • - Steel Plate, Record Size, Rolled in U.S.A., 429
  • - Steel Rods, Painted and Unpainted, for Reinforcement, 177
  • - Tata Iron and Steel Works Extensions in India, Prospects, 379
  • - Tests on Steel Ingot and Increase of Density, 153
  • - Tungsten Deposits in Canada, 429
  • - Tungsten Ore Exports from the Federated Malay States, 81
  • - Ukraine Iron Oro Production, 533
  • - Waratah, New South Wales, Steel Company’s Production of Railway Wheels, Tires, and Axles, 303
  • - Wolfram Output, Great Increase Due to War, 533
  • ITALIAN Motor Car Exports, Falling-off, 105
  • Italian Need of Machine Tools, Replacement of Former Supply from Germany, 140
  • Italian Public Works during Transition from War to Peace, 88

J

  • JAPAN, Cable Tramway Across Mountains, 153
  • Japan, Improved Harbour at Muroran, 153
  • Japan, Two Portland Cement Factories to be Set up at Kawasaki and Hokkaido. 129
  • Japanese Tin-plate for Switzerland, 631
  • Java, Engineering Congress Postponed, 607
  • Java, Forthcoming Engineering Congress Proceedings to be in both English and Dutch, 481
  • Jig and Tool Design, Effect on Rapid Production in Engineering Work, G. H. Hey, 201
  • Johannesburg Foundry, Moulders’ Work, 105
  • Joints Made with Joiners’ Glue, 358

K

  • KAFFIR Pick as a Cattle Call, Cecil Walton, 201
  • Kamnassie Irrigation Scheme, 355
  • Kitson-Emp:re Lighting Company, Patriotism and Foreign Goods, 29
  • Krupp’s War-work Machines Used for Commercial Purposes, 481

L

  • LADYBIRDS in Cold Storage for Greenfly Destruction, 129
  • Land Acquisition for-Public Purposes, 57
  • Lapland, Valuable Deposit of Iron Pyrites said to have been Discovered, 129
  • Lathe, All-geared, Prize Suggested, 105
  • Lead Discoveries near Loch Leven, 277
  • Lead Mines, Old, in Derbyshire to be Worked for Lead, Vanadium and Molybdenum, 303
  • Lead Mines, Old, in the Midlands, Re-opening, 379
  • Leather, Experiments on Wearing Qualities, 455
  • Light Used for Transmission of Speech, Dr. A. O. Rankine, 631
  • Lignite Briquettes, Carbonised, Projected Canadian Industry, 105 : Delay of Scheme, 153
  • Lignite Mining and Yield of Oil, 507
  • Lille, Lamentable Condition Due to War British Chamber of Commerce Report, 105
  • Lloyd’s Register—see Ships
  • Lock-houses on the Thames, to be Rebuilt After 100 Years of Life, 631
  • Lodge, Sir Oliver, Resignation as Principal of Birmingham University, 225
  • London Cartage and Haulage Contractors’ Objection to Control of Roads and Railways by One Department, 303
  • London Electrical Engineers, R.E. (T.F.), Dinner, 477
  • London, Port of, Report Against Bill for Wharf Construction at Canvey Island, 429
  • Lytham Wind Mill Burned Down, 225

M

  • MACEDONIA, Abundant Deposits of Coal, 129
  • Machine Tool and Engineering Association, Dinner, 232
  • Madagascar, Mineral Wealth of, 403
  • Magnesia as Reagent for Neutralising Acid Mine Water, 105
  • Magnetos, British Firms’ Output, 35
  • Manchester Traincar Building Expenditure, 249
  • Manchester’s Contribution of High Explosives, 35
  • Manganese—see Iron and Steel
  • Manila Seismic Record, 631
  • Mechanical Haulage, Experiments on Comparative Cost of Steam, Petrol, and Electrical Vehicles, 481
  • Mersey and Irwell Committee and Pollution of Rivers, 583
  • Meso-thorium as Substitute for Radium, 225
  • Metals Occluding both Oxygen and Hydrogen, 11
  • Metals in Possession of the Ministry of Munitions, Monthly List to be Published, 153
  • Metric System Enforced in Uruguay, 11
  • Metric System of Weights and Measures, Harry Allcock, 177
  • Michell Thrust Block, Patent Extension, 288
  • Middlesbrough Chapel Premises, Conversion into Technical Institute, 355
  • Mine Precautions by Copper Company in Use of Electric Cables, 225
  • Mine Rescue Apparatus, Nose Clips, Dr. Henry Briggs, 474
  • Mines, Non-ferrous, in the Lake Country, Relations with Government, 631
  • Mines Rescue Apparatus, Army Respirator and Eeds Helmet Useless as Protection, 583
  • Mineral Discoveries in Montenegro, 57
  • Moir, Sir Ernest, Presentation to him by Members of Ministry of Munitions, 236
  • “Molera” for Lagging Steam Pipes and Boilers, 11, 153
  • Montreal Harbour Improvement Scheme, 533
  • Mortar made Water-tight with Sugar, 481
  • Motor Car Engine’s Fuel, Petrol and Town Gas Compared, 129
  • Motor Car Headlights and Proper Positioning of Filament, 81
  • Motor Car 500-Mile Race at Indianapolis, 639
  • Motor Car Prices, Probable Increase in, 133
  • Motor Cycles Sold by Government to ExDespatch Riders from Government Services, 607
  • Motor Fuel, Alcohol, Research Programme, 292
  • Motor Haulage Vehicles and Government Sales, 277
  • Motor Industry Matters, Agreement between Institution of Automobile Engineers and Two other Societies, 329
  • Motor Industry, Proposed Import Dufy on Foreign Vehicles and Parts, 153
  • Motor Plough Manufacture in Austria, 105
  • Motor Users and Legislation for Road Reconstruction, 81
  • Motor Vehicles and Economy by Use of Benzole in Preference to Petrol, Stenson Cooke, 607
  • Mud Jet for Extinction of Underground Fires, Monsieur Fayol’s Method, 177
  • Munitions, Ministry’s Large Profits on Sale of Electric Hoists and Motors, 634
  • Museum of Munitions to Facilitate Sale of Stores, 631

N

  • NATIONAL Factory at Willesden for Sale, 607
  • Natural Gas Borings in Hungary, 355
  • Natural Gas Supplants Oil as Fuel for Steam- driven Plant, 57
  • Newcastle’s Contemplated Wholesale Production from Conversion of Waste Products, 153
  • New Zealand Hydro-electric Scheme, 403
  • Niagara, New Water Power Plant, 81
  • Nickel, Over 77 per Cent, of World’s Supply Mined in the British Empire, 277
  • Nitric Acid from the Atmosphere, Japanese Factory, 57
  • Nitrogen Production in Germany Greatly Increased, 481
  • North Pole Storkerson Expedition Abandoned, Erroneous Theory of Ocean Currents, 303
  • Norway, Factory for Erection of Cheap Wooden Houses, 355
  • Norwegian Glycerine Refinery, 57
  • Nose-clips for Rescue Apparatus, Dr. Henry Briggs, 474
  • Nova Scotia Hydro-electric Commission, 631

O

  • OIL Drilling and Electrolysis Troubles, 559
  • Oil Extraction from Steam Engine Exhaust, 355
  • Oilfields in Papua, Exploratory Work by Australian Government, 379
  • Oilfields and Rotary Drilling, 2
  • Oil from Kauri Gum, Production in New Zealand, 607
  • Oil, Mineral, Deposits in Northern Transvaal, 379
  • Oil Prospects in Derbyshire, Favourable Indi- cations, 177
  • Oil Prospects in Derbyshire, Pessimistic Prophecy, 153
  • Oil Refinery near Swansea, 481
  • Oil Well in California, Record Speed in Sinking, 2
  • Oil Wells in Galicia and Roumania, Flow Restored by Electrical Heating, 355
  • Oils for Transformer Immersion, Comparison of Fixed and Straight Oils, 57
  • Omnibus Fares in London, Home Secretary’s Inquiries, 481
  • Ontario, Hydro-electric Schemes, 336
  • Osaka Harbour, Japan, Cost of Improvements, 129
  • Oxy-acetylene Cutting of Cast Iron, Special Precautions Necessary, 303

P

  • PAINTS for Floors, Useful Hints, 11
  • Palmer Shipbuilding Employees’ Shares, 481
  • Papermaking Experiments, Unsuitability of Burma Rice Husks, 583
  • Paper Manufacture and the African Baobab Tree, 533
  • Paper Pulp from Indian Bamboos and Grasses, Great Possibilities, W. Raitt, 105
  • Papuan Oilfields, Imperial and Australian Government Co-operation, 583
  • Patent Extension, Michell Thrust Block, 288
  • Patent Laws Revision in Japan, 559
  • Patent Office of India, New Type of Journal, 521
  • Patriotism and Foreign Goods, 29
  • Petrol Imports, British Increase in 1918, 105
  • Petrol Licences through the Royal Automobile Club, 225
  • Petrol Lorries’ Journey Across America, 429
  • Petroleum Discovery at Bahia Blanca, South America, 129
  • Photometer, New Light Measurer, 379
  • Pigments from Various Minerals, 607
  • Pipes, Concrete, Replace Wooden Piles in Construction of Tasmanian Wharf, 607
  • Pitting, Abnormal, Observations of, Mr. O. P. Watts, 507
  • Platinum Discovered by Spain in Serrana Volcanic Mountains, 303
  • Ploughs, Motor, Manufacture in Austria, 105
  • Plymouth, Wembury Dock Scheme Revival, 533
  • Pneumatic Hammer of 65 lb. Weight, 455
  • Polish Trade, Export Directory of British Firms in Course of Preparation, 303
  • Portland Cement Factory at Singapore, 586
  • Portland Cement Industry in Ceylon, Investigations, 481
  • Portuguese River Power Utilisation for Wolfram Mines, 455
  • Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada, Statistics, 57
  • Pumping Plant, Novel Set, Installed at Cornwall, Ontario, 631

Q

  • QUEBEC Bridge, 164
  • Queensland, Projected Deep-water Port and Railway Connections, 403

R

  • RADIUM, Meso-thorium as Substitute, 225
  • Rafts for Ocean Transport of Timber, 533

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :

  • - Accident, Disastrous, on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad, 153
  • - Accident Narrowly Averted on the Somerset and Dorset Line, 249
  • - Accidents on April 1st Fewer than on other Dates, 455
  • - Accidents Blue-book Unissued, Board of Trade Reports Still Available, 631
  • - Accidents in February of Past Years, 153
  • - Accidents in January of Various Years, 35
  • - Accidents to Railway Servants, Committee of Inquiry, 201, 225
  • - Accidents, Seven, Board of Trade Reports, 153
  • - Ambulance Trains at Southampton Docks, Period of Greatest Stress, 559
  • - American Managers for English Railways, Great Eastern Appointment Sequel, 554
  • - American Railways Coal Saving, 607
  • - American Soldiers on French Railways, Plain Speaking as to Regard for Safety, 35
  • - American War Locomotives and Cars, Huge Cost, 529
  • - Appeal to Traders Poster by Railway Executive Committee, 11
  • - Appointments and Staff Changes, 11, 57, 105, 125, 153, 201, 225, 277, 379, 402, 155, 501, 507, 515, 559, 583, 631
  • - Assistant General Managers Appointed in View of Work Pressure, 276
  • - Australian Hard Woods for Sleepers, Preference Asked for, 603
  • - Automatic or Hand Couplers for British Railway Wagons, 611
  • - Baghdad Railway Taurus Mountain Section, Good Condition but Deficient Rolling Stock, 379
  • - Bain, Mr. D., Retirement, Great Services in Safety Measures, 402, 455, 559
  • - Baldwin Locomotive Works, Fiftythousandth Engine, 390
  • - Barry Railway General Manager, 225
  • - Basingstoke and Alton Railway, Reopening Uncertain, 303
  • - Belfast and County Down Railway, Loss nf Steamer Erin’s Isle, 355
  • - Belfast Shipyard Men and Workmen's Tickets, 303
  • - Belgian State Railways Electrification, Honour Conferred on Mr. Philip Dawson, 329
  • - Birthday Honour for Mr. Church, 607
  • - Board of Trade Replies to Questions on British Railway Matters, 379
  • - Bombay Harbour, Proposed Railway Under, 201
  • - Brazilian Railways Proposed Electrification, 583
  • - British Building of Engines and Machinery, Cape Newspaper's Tribute to, 455
  • - British Railway Locomotives and Wagons being Returned to England from France, 631
  • - Brooklyn Rapid Transit Railroad, Terrible Smash of an Electric Train, 153
  • - Burma, Proposed Coast Line to Connect with India, 403
  • - Cabs Free Entry to Railway Stations, Question Unsettled, 396
  • - Caledonian Railway Company’s Roll of Honour, 277
  • - Caledonian Railway, Locomotive Repairs, New Rolling Stock Needed. 249
  • - Cambrian Railway Locomotive Superintendent Retires, 11
  • - Cambrian Railway’s Changes of Staff, 515
  • - Canada’s Fast Transcontinental Service. 559
  • - Canada’s Gift of Food and Railway Transport, 153
  • - Canadian Forestry Corps’ Gratitude to Station Master, Woburn Sands, London and North-Western Railway, 177
  • - Canadian Government Railways, Change of Control, 81
  • - Canadian Government’s Big Order for Steel Rails, 631
  • - Canal Training at Devizes, Sir Maurice Fitz- maurice’s Evidence, 81
  • - Canvey Island Scheme, Bill Rejected, 533
  • - Cape to Cairo Railway Extension, 631
  • - Capital and Revenue Returns for United Kingdom Railways, Real and Fictitious, 57
  • - Cheap Travelling Facilities Under Consideration, 225
  • - Children’s School Treats, Cheap Trains for, 507
  • - Chinese Railways, Suggested Internationalisation, 105
  • - Coal Saving by Railway Electrification, E. W. Rice, 11
  • - Coastwise Steamer Trade and the Railways, 507, 583
  • - Collision, Fatal, at Banff ur long Junction, Report Recommends Track-circuiting, 129
  • - Commercial Travellers and Week-end Facilities, 507
  • - Common User Additional Vehicles Included in Arrangement, 583
  • - Concrete Rolling Stock in Holland, 559
  • - CongoNile Railway, Construction about to be Started, 631
  • - Control of Railways during the War, Comparison between Our Own and American Methods, 105
  • - Control of Railways in the Future, 146
  • - Cooper, General A. S., 54, 125, 153
  • - Cornish Railway, Burngullow to Falmouth, Projected, 524
  • - Cost of Living and War Wages, 481
  • - Craven Arms and Montgomery, New Railway Connection Wanted, 225
  • - Crewe Works of London and North -Western Closed for a Week, 631
  • - Cuffley and Stevenage Section of Enfield Loop Opened, 225

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

  • - Cumberland Coast. Suggested Railway to Connect Silloth, Solway Firth, with Mary- port, 105
  • - Death of Mr. G. Murray Smith, Midland Railway Company, 403
  • - Death of Sir George Armytage, 249
  • - Death of Mr. VV. E. Blake, Superintendent of London Tube and District Railways, 481
  • - Death of Mr. W. H. Williams, Great Western Railway, 35
  • - Death of Captain James Williamson. 277
  • - Deaths of Dr. Angus Sinclair and Mr. Walter V. Turner, 153
  • - Denbighshire Rural Railway Facilities Scheme, 201
  • - Devon’s Desire for Railway from Okehamp- ton to Moretonhampstead, 177
  • - District Railway Broken Rail, Protection by Track Circuits, 105
  • - District Railway Overcrowding, 355
  • - Dividends of Certain Railways, Increase in, 160, 225
  • - Dover and Folkestone Damaged Line, Proposed Temporary Replacement by Light Railway, 105
  • - Druitt, Colonel E., Retirement of, from Railway Department. Board of Trade. 379
  • - Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, Sea Encroachment and Talked-of Diversion of Line, 559
  • - Durban. Railway V orkshops Extension. 355 East London Railway and Half-finished Tunnel Connection with Great Eastern, Completion bv Government Recommended, 201
  • - Easter, Question of Movements of Troops and Holidaymakers. 355
  • - Electrification of Mountain Sections of Californian Railways, 403
  • - Empire Medal Award to Signalman, 105
  • - Engine-driver’s Long Service on Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 35
  • - Entre Rios Railways New Chief Engineer, 11
  • - Euston to Watford New Railway, Construction Work Recommenced, 177
  • - Fares Increase Likely to Continue at Present, 355
  • - Fares Increase and the National Union of Railwaymen, 631
  • - Fay, Sir Sam, Return from Government Post to Great Central Railway, 201
  • - Federated Malay States, Locomotives Ordered from America at Lower Cost and Quicker Delivery than in Britain, 249, 403
  • - Fish Docks at Grimsby, Reported Renewal of Extension Work by Great Central Railway, 81
  • - Food Waste for Lack of Railway Collection and Delivery, 607
  • - Forty-seven-hour Week in Great Eastern Railway Workshops, 277
  • - Forty-seven Hours on Various Railways, 11, 35
  • - French Railway Electrification, Proposed Schemes, 303
  • - French Railways on American Lines, A Report, 11
  • - Fuel Conservation Charts to Illustrate Waste in Irregular Firing of Locomotives, 455
  • - Furness Railway, Departmental Co-ordination, 225
  • - Furness Railway Purchases of Engines and Tenders, 303
  • - Furness Railway Steamers, Sale of, 583
  • - Furness Railway’s All-Blue Carriages, 507
  • - Future of Railways, Government Questioned as to Cost and Losses, 201
  • - Gauge Difficulty in Australia, Numerous Unacceptable Devices, 81
  • - Geddes, Sir Eric, and the North-Eastern Railway, 177
  • - Gibb, Sir George, and his Dual Activities, 631
  • - Gibb, Sir George, and the Road Board, 583
  • - Glasgow and South-Western Clyde Steamers Still in Admiralty Employ, 277
  • - Glasgow and South-Western Railway, Collision at Elderslie, Colonel Pringle’s Report, 225
  • - Glasgow and South - Western Railway, Favourable Condition of Railway Material, 329
  • - Goods Brake Vans, While Hand-rails for Use of Guards at Night. 403
  • - Government Departments, Cost of Railway- Service to, 507
  • - Government and Railway Superannuation Funds, 303
  • - Government Traffic Cost and Value, 303
  • - Great Central Main Line Viaducts Strengthened, 277
  • - Great Central Railway Locomotives, Mr. Robinson’s Design Chosen for Engines Ordered by War-office, 303
  • - Great Eastern Railway, General Manager’s Temporary Dual Functions at an End, 631
  • - Great Eastern Railway Manager on English Railways, 554
  • - Great Eastern Railway Orders for Engines and Tenders, 329
  • - Great Eastern Railway Warehouses Destroyed by Fire, 35
  • - Great "Eastern Railway’s New Steamers, 262
  • - Great Eastern Suburban Train Service, Improvement in Late Trains, 57
  • - Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and Oilburning Locomotives, 355
  • - Great Northern, Great Eastern and Great Central Railways’ Pooling of Cartage and Resulting Economy, 329
  • - Great Northern Railway, Opening of Cuffley and Stevenage Section of Enfield Loop, 225
  • - Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, Improved Service, 355
  • - Great Northern of Ireland, Permanent Way Relaying ; also Orders for Wagons. 379
  • - Great North of Scotland Educational Scheme as War Memorial, 329
  • - Great North of Scotland Herring Fishery Traffic, 429
  • - Great North of Scotland, Increase in Passengers and Revenue, 277
  • - Great Southern and Western, Special Train for Irish Commander-in-Chief, 11
  • - Great Western Railway :
  • -- Accident and Prompt Action of Driver and Signalman, 153
  • -- Coal Supply, 303
  • -- Engineering Department Changes, 583
  • -- Experiences, A Man and a Woman, 583

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

  • - Great Western Railway (continued):
  • -- Facilitates Exchanges of District between Members of Staff, 559
  • -- Goods Mileage and Receipts in 1900 and 1912, 429
  • -- Roll of Honour, 177
  • -- Signals, Accumulators for Track Circuits, andc., 153
  • -- and the Treasury, Settlement Effected, 429
  • -- War Bonus Cost, 303
  • -- War Record in Passenger Trains, 277
  • -- Working of Admiralty Coal Trains, 81
  • -- Works Manager, Mr. C. B. Collett, Promoted, 501
  • - Highland Railway Expenditure and Need of Bank Loans Due to Government Traffic, Complaints, 303
  • - Honours for Bailway Men, 57, 455
  • - Increased Cost of Horse’s Keep and of Coals on the Midland Railway, 559
  • - Indian Coalfields, Bokharo and South Karan pura, Survey for Railway to Connect, 249
  • - Indian Mails’ Renewed Transit Overland, 57
  • - Indian Railway Board, Recognition of Patriotism of Staff, 379
  • - Indian Railway Working, Proposed Inquiry with View to Changes, 379
  • - Indian State Rail ways, Expenditure in 1917— 1918, 303
  • - Indian State Railways, Net Working Profit in 1917-1918, 303
  • - Institutions, Locomotive and Railway—see Associations, andc.
  • - Irish Railway Shareholders’ Protection Association, 429
  • - Isle of Wight Communication with the Mainland, Improvements Suggested, 559
  • - Italian Railwaymen’s Eight-hours Day, 507
  • - Jamaica’s Purchase of Railway Material in France, 11
  • - Jubilee of First American Transcontinental Railway, 607
  • - Labour Troubles on the Lancashire and Yorkshire and London, Brighton and South Coast Railways, 35
  • - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, Annual Report, 147
  • - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway East Coast Fleet, Government Compensation for Vessels Lost in the War. 329
  • - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Finance, Comparison between 1887 and 1913, 249
  • - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Stockholders, 355
  • - Laraiche-Alcazar Railway, Morocco. Tenders for Construction, 355
  • - Lavatory Water Tanks on Railway Carriages, New System for Refilling, 402
  • - Light Railway Commissioners Orders Applied for and Confirmed. 225, 631
  • - Light Railway and Motor Services for Scotland, 355
  • - Light Railways for Isle of Lewis Development. 81
  • - Light Railways in the West of England, Various Proposals, 303
  • - Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway Taken Over by Government to End Labour Troubles, 631
  • - Locomotives, Latest, Very Large, on Virginia Railway, 277
  • - Locomotives, Return from France, 355
  • - London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Comparison of Stockholders’ Income in 1913 and 1918, 329
  • - London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Expected Renewal of Newhaven and Dieppe Service, 249
  • - London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Failure of Tunnel at Oxted, 455
  • - London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Increased Traffic and Revenue, 329
  • - London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, War Memorial to Fallen Men, at Victoria and Elsewhere, 277
  • - London, Chatham and Dover Railway’s Claim for Rent for Buildings Requisitioned by Government, 277
  • - London, Chatham and Dover Railway’s Loss on Automatic Machine Rentals, 249
  • - London Electric Railways, City and South London and Central London Railway Companies’ Working Arrangement, 177
  • - London Electric Railway Season Tickets and the Strike, 201
  • - London and North-Western Railway, Insurance Society, 429
  • - London and North-Western Railway’s Marine Superintendent, 507
  • - London and North-Western Railway Men’s Forty-seven-hour Week, 11
  • - London and North-Western Railway, Narrow Escape of Serious Disaster, 639
  • - London and North-Western Railway’s New Steamers for Irish Service, 105
  • - London and North-Western Railway, Roll of Honour, 177
  • - London and North-Western Railway, Steamer Run Down by American Destroyer, 303
  • - London and Paris, New Daily Service, 129
  • - London, Port of. Authority, Opposition to Thames Ocean Wharf and Railway Bill, 533
  • - London and South-Western Railway, Capital Expenditure in 1918, 303
  • - London and South-Western Railway, Change of General Manager’s Assistant, 559
  • - London and South-Western Railway. Signal and Telegraph Engineer Retires, 105
  • - London and South-Western Suburban System Electrification, Passenger Increase, 583
  • - London Suburban Stations Closed during War. Reopening Improbable at Present, 249
  • - London Traffic Conditions and Difficulties, 481, 507, 533, 631
  • - London Traffic and Supply of Rolling Stock, Priority Grant Unnecessary, 631
  • - London Underground Traffic on Easter Monday, 129
  • - Long-distance Trains, Some Few, being Restored, 105
  • - Loss on Railway Working, Heavy Estimate, 355
  • - Madrid and France, Cost of New Railway, Electric Traction Proposed, 455
  • - Manchester Tramway Passengers, Proposi tion for Tube Railway, 177

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

  • - Mansfield Railway Connection with Colliery, Utility in War Service, 607
  • - Maryport and Carlisle Railway Company, Adverse Conditions of Goods Engines Purchase, 533
  • - Melbourne Electric Railways Opened, 455, 559
  • - Memorial Services for Fallen Railway Men, 484
  • - Mersey Railway, Comparison between Steam and Electric Working, 559
  • - Metropolitan District Railway Company’s New Turbo-alternator at Lot’s-road, 303
  • - Metropolitan District Railway’s War Difficulties and Overcrowding, 177
  • - Metropolitan Railway Demobilisation Anticipations, Loss of Men Fallen in Service, 177
  • - Metropolitan Railway’s Excellent Working, 607
  • - Metropolitan Railway’s New Passenger Coaches, 507
  • - Metropolitan Railway Non-strikers, Company’s Appreciation of Loyalty, 403
  • - Metropolitan Railway War Memorial, 429
  • - Mid-Flint Light Railways Scheme, 81
  • - Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway, Manager Appointed, 153
  • - Midland Railway Appointments, 402
  • - Midland Railwav Employees in 1914 and Now, 303
  • - Midland Railway Punctuality, 559
  • - Midland Railway, Small Capital Expenditure, 355
  • - Midland Railwav Statistics in 1907 and 1913, 429
  • - Midland and South-Western Junction Railway, Greatly Increased Cost of Working, 559
  • - Motor Cars’ Competition with Railways in the United States, 559
  • - Motor Vehicles as Railway Feeders in Italy, 403
  • - National Union of Railwaymen and its President, 35
  • - National Union of Railwaymen and Railway Executive Committee, 129, 277, 446, 631
  • - Nationalisation of Railways, Minerals and Lands, No Official Estimate Prepared, 225
  • - New Transport Company. Limited, Refusal of Permission for Capital Increase, 201
  • - New Year’s Honours for Railwaymen, 11
  • - New York Subway Extension System, Notable Electrical Railway Undertaking, 184
  • - New Zealand Government Railways Programme, 201
  • - New Zealand Government Railways War Balance Sheet, 177
  • - New Zealand State Railways in 1918, Financial Results of Working, 328
  • - New Zealand State Railways, Interrupted Extensions and Lack of Facilities, 303
  • - North-Eastern Railway General Manager, Reported Change, 57
  • - North-Eastern Railway Passenger Increase, 391
  • - North-Eastern Railway Policy?, War Record, 455
  • - North-Eastern Railway and Sir Eric Geddes, 177
  • - North London Electric Service Improvement, 429
  • - Norway’s Order for Locomotives and Rolling Stock Parts from U.S.A., 455
  • - Nottingham, Congestion of Traffic at, 631
  • - Nyassaland, Projected Government Railwav, 129
  • - Oakland, Antioch and Eastern Electric Railway, Benefit of Change in Trolley Wheels, 57
  • - Oil Fuel Burning on Railways, Results of Tests of Various Systems, 403
  • - Oil as Protection from Rust of Permanent Way Angle Bars and Bolts, 559
  • - Oxted Tunnel Closing, Temporary, 533
  • - Paris Underground Fares Increase, 507
  • - Passenger Facilities, Improvement not yet Expected, 105
  • - Passenger Fares and Postage on Letters, Small Prospect of Return to Pre-war Rates, 249
  • - Passenger Train and Heavy Goods Loads 225
  • - Passengers’ Roll of the" London Electric Railway Companies, 177
  • - Perishable Goods, Design of Railway Wagons for, 351
  • - Post-offices for Service between Queenstown and Kingstown Harbour, 11
  • - Potteries Railway, Failure of Application to Reconstruct, 329
  • - Preferential Treatment and Agricultural Produce, 533
  • - Pre-war Travelling Conditions, Gradual Efforts To wards Restoration, 303
  • - Profit, Railway, and Otherwise, a Vanishing Quantity, Mr. Lloyd George, 188
  • - Proposal to Return Railways to Private Working with Guarantee of Minimum Rate of Return, 225
  • - Queensland Commissioner of Railways, Retirement after Fifty Years’ Service, 277
  • - Race Meetings and Increased Fares, 591
  • - Rails and Sleepers from Temporary Railways in France, Question of Disposal, 533
  • - Railway Benevolent Institution, 225
  • - Railway Benevolent Institution, Presidentelect, 81
  • - Railway Clerks’ Association Recognised, on Conditions, 153
  • - Railway Conditions as to Claims for Losses, as to Carriage, andc., 303
  • - Railway Executive Committee and Privately- owned Wagons, 563
  • - Railway Executive Committee, Offices and Staff from Railway Companies, No Cost to Board of Trade, 355
  • - Railway Executive Committee, Poster Appeal, 11
  • - Railway Executive Committee and Railwaymen, 129, 277, 446, 533, 631
  • - Railway Material Exports Statistics, 57, 129, 455, 631
  • - Railwaymen and the Eight-hour Day, 129
  • - Railwaymen’s Two Unions, Their After-war Programme, 35
  • - Railway Officials Resume Work on Retirement from Government Positions, 455

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

  • - Railway Servants and War Wages, 201
  • - Rates for Goods and Running Costs, 583
  • - Rationing Holiday Traffic to and from Blackpool, 429
  • - Refrigerator Wagons Defects, Report by Food Committee, 555
  • - Restaurant Services Re-established on Great Northern Trains, 129
  • - Rome and Constantinople, Proposed Direct Railway Communication, with Supplementary Ferry-boat Service, 105
  • - Roosevelt, Late President, and the United States Railways, 81
  • - Royal Agricultural Society’s Cardill Show, Railway Facilities, 507
  • - Sack, Railway-owned, Shortage in Scotland, Farmers’ Troubles, 249
  • - Safety First in the United States, 541, 583
  • - Scottish Labour Members’ Fares, 506
  • - Shropshire and Montgomery Light Railway Company, 201
  • - Signalman’s Gallantry during Air Raid, 607
  • - Signals, Coloured and Position, Comparison of, and Report on both Types, 451
  • - Singapore and Malay States, Causeway Across Johore Straits to Replace Train Ferry Connection, 81
  • - Skip-stop System for Street Railways, Fuel Economy of, 11
  • - Sleeping Car Services between Paris and Alsace-Lorraine, 11
  • - Snow Damage of Telegraph Wires and Much Delayed Trains, 35
  • - South Africa Adopts Eight-hours Day in Railway and Harbour Department, 607
  • - South African Passenger Fares and Goods Rates, Further Increase, 11
  • - South African Railways Annual Reports, Change in Period Covered, 11
  • - South Australian Government Railways Finance, 129
  • - South Australian Locomotives, Largest yet Built in the Province, 129
  • - South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Landslide and Empty Train Wreckage, 249
  • - South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, Land-slip Repair, 277
  • - South-Eastern and Chatham Railway’s New Steamer, 249
  • - South-Eastern Railway Wagon Shops Burned Down, 583
  • - South Manchuria Railway Improvements of Track and Rolling Stock, 201
  • - Steam Locomotion and Wasted Fuel, 403
  • - Steel Rails in the United States, Reduced Output in 1918, 583
  • - Straps on Railway Carriage Windows, 429
  • - Sturrock’s Steam Tender, 81—see Miscellaneous Index
  • - Summer Time Dates Fixed, 225
  • - Superannuation Allowance to Retired Railway Officers, Question of Increase, 507
  • - Taff Vale Railway, Co-operation between Employers and Employed, 429
  • - Taff Vale Railway and the Eight Hours Day, 355
  • - Taff Vale Railway, Questions of Joint General Manager and Common User of Wagons, 355
  • - Taff Vale Railway Roll of Honour, 177
  • - Thomas, Mr. J. H., Health Visit to America, 506
  • - Traffic and Railway Services, Further Increase Impossible, 481
  • - Train Ferries on Entre Rios Railway as Precursor of the Richborough Cross-Channel Undertaking, 35
  • - Train Service Improvement, 429
  • - Train Service Improvements, Restaurant Cars Again Running, 225
  • - Training, Free, for Junior Clerical Staff of Underground Railways and Omnibus Company after War Service, 277
  • - Transport Bill and New Works, 481
  • - Transport Committee and London Traffic, 607
  • - Transport in India and East Africa, Inquiry, 429
  • - Transport of Troops and Munitions, Statement of Cost, 399
  • - Tube Railway Fares, Concessions as to Wages and Hours, 403
  • - Tube Railways, London, Financial Problems, 607
  • - Tunnel to Connect Denmark and Sweden, 455
  • - UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION :
  • -- Additional Precautions at Level Crossing?, 329
  • -- Armistice Stops Entrainment of 250,000 Men, Cancelled Arrangements and Efficient Handling, 403
  • -- Coal Contract Publicity, 533
  • -- Commissions on Contracts, Modification of Original Clause, 533
  • -- Congress and Big Railway Deficit Vote, 607
  • -- Control of Railways, President Wilson’s Message, 507
  • -- Director-General, Mr. McAdoo Succeeded by Mr. Walker D. Hines, 153
  • -- Fuel Conservation Section’s Large Saving in Coal and Oil, 57
  • -- Fuel Zone System, Great Saving in Transport, 11
  • -- Future of American Railways, Question of Finance, 481
  • -- Increased Fares and Freight Rates Cause Reduction of Deficit, 57
  • -- Interstate Commerce Commission Report and Bureau of Railway Economics, 379
  • -- New Railway Works Programme Shelved for Lack of Funds, 411
  • -- Routeing of Traffic on United States Railways, 481
  • -- Troops Traffic Statistics, 403
  • -- United States Railway System, Proposed New Federation Scheme, 11
  • -- United States Societies, Clubs, andc., Devoted to Railway Subjects, 328
  • -- Wages Statistics during Administration Control, 607
  • -- Wages, Trainsmen’s Further Advance of 65,000,000 Dollars, 379
  • - Wages Increase of Miners, Railway and Transport Workers, 110 to 120 per Cent, since War Outbreak, 455
  • - Wages Statistics, 583
  • - Wagon Repairs and Labour Shortage. 429
  • - Wagon Shortage and Delayed Ships, 583
  • - Wagons, British Wooden, Life of, 533
  • - Wagons on Indian Railways, Statistics, 35

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

  • - War-office Orders for Locomotives to Design of Mr. J. G. Robinson, 303
  • - Waterloo, Escalators between Main Line Station and City Railway, 379
  • - Waterloo Station Reconstruction Nearly Completed, 583
  • - Waterloo Station, Slight Collision between Steam and Electric Trains, 303, 607
  • - Water Power Utilisation in France for Electrification of Main Railways, 402
  • - Ways and Communications :
  • -- Finance Questions, 249
  • -- Finance and Condition of Permanent Way and Rolling Stock, Sir F. Banbury, 379
  • -- Opposition, 225
  • -- Statement by Mr. Bonar Law, 201
  • -- Trade Associations not Represented, Delay Asked for, 481
  • -- Wagons, Privately Owned, Inquiry as to Steps Taken, 533
  • - White Paper Initials on Railway Working, 507
  • - Whit Monday Passengers on London Underground Lines, 631
  • - Women Railway W’orkers, Donation on Discharge, 35
  • - Women’s War Wages Advance, Arbitration Decision, 177
  • - Woolwich, Kearney Railway of 0.75-Mile Length and One Minute’s Journey, Projected, 129
  • RAINFALL in Australia, Records, 403
  • Reafforestation in Great Britain to Replace Timber Cut Down during War, 240
  • Realgar, Successful Production with Richards Gas Producer Furnace, 105
  • Reunion of Ex-British W’estinghouse Men, 190
  • Road Improvement, Government Grant of £10,000,000, 81, 480
  • Roads and Road Transport and also Railways, Opposition to Proposed Unification of Government Control, 81, 277
  • Roads and Transport Congress and Exhibition, 495
  • Rolling Mill at Southampton, Steps by Federation of British Industries to Guard it from Foreign Acquisition, 329
  • Rotary Engine, Isaac Smith’s, Working Drawing of, Placed in Science Museum, 201
  • Royal Automobile Club’s Opposition to Ways and Communications Bill, 225
  • Royal Automobile Club’s Services to Overseas Officers during the War, Sir A. Stanley, 559
  • Royal Dockyard Apprenticeship and Educational System, Successful Results, 277
  • Rubber Association of Singapore, Standard Qualities Fixed, 583
  • Rubber, Synthetic, German Factory, 105
  • Russia’s Abundant Supplies of Timber, 153
  • Russian Industrial Undertakings and Workmen in 1914, 533
  • Russia’s Introduction of Metric Weights and Measures, 55, 177

S

  • SAFETY Precautions for Transmission Machinery, Home-office Report, 464
  • Salcoats, Borehole Projected to Search for Minerals, 481
  • Saturday Holiday, Five Days’ Work at a London Works, 403
  • Scheelite—see Iron and Steel
  • Science, Application of, to Industry, C. M. Walter, 277
  • Scientific and Industrial Research, Expenditure, Sir F. Heath, 225
  • Segnite, New Explosive in South Africa, 153
  • Selenium and other Minerals and Production of Pigments, 607
  • Serbia, Government and Industrial Mission, 225
  • Sewage Disposal and Pollution of Rivers, 583
  • Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Works near Bridgend, 428
  • Shaft-sinking in the Transvaal, World’s Record, 177
  • Shale Oil in Brazil, Larger Percentage than from Scotch Shale, 129
  • Sheep Losses by Blow-fly, Scientific Efforts at Prevention, 35

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :

  • - American Destroyer Built in Seventy Days, 57
  • - American Shipbuilder’s Offer to the Shipping Board, 429
  • - American Shipping Board Orders Cancelled or Curtailed and Prices for Ships Lowered, 444
  • - American Wooden Steamers Converted as Tow Barges, 355
  • - Armistice, First British Concrete Steamship, Behaviour of, 177
  • - Barnstaple Reinforced Concrete Shipbuilding Yard, Activities, 177
  • - Battleship Design in the Future, H. C. By water, 329
  • - Concrete Barges, Seaworthy Qualities Doubted, 303
  • - Concrete Ferry-boat, Accident and Repair, 481
  • - Concrete, Reinforced, and Steel Vessels, Comparison of Deadweight, T. J. Querette, 225
  • - Cromarty, Closing of Naval Base, 533
  • - Cunard’s New Service of Steamers, 455
  • - Dutch Companies Repairing British Ships, 105
  • - Electric Welding of Ship Joints, Great Saving in Cost Compared with Riveting, 105
  • - First Steamship to Cross the Atlantic. 533
  • - Great Eastern Railway’s New Steamers, 262
  • - H.M. Destroyer Zubian, One Ship Reconstructed from Two, 429
  • - H.M.S. Truant, Ocean-going Torpedo-boat Destroyer. J. S. White and Co., 277
  • - Japanese Mercantile Marine, Details, 249
  • - Japanese New Cargo Boat Service from Yokohama to Calcutta, 607
  • - Japanese Shipbuilding Programme, 249
  • - Lloyd’s Register, Chairmen and Vice-chairman, Elections, 631
  • - London and North-Western Steamer Run Down by American Destroyer, 303

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued):

  • - Mauretania’s Record Trip from Halifax to New York, 533
  • - Mercantile Marine Openings, Various, for Boys, 583
  • - Merchant Shipping Act, Lifeboats and Rafts for all, 105
  • - Newhaven and Dieppe Steamship Service, Expected Reopening, 249
  • - Northumberland New Shipbuilding Combination, 201
  • - Osaka Shosen Kaisha and Shipbuilding, 607
  • - Reconstructed Vessels for Sale by Admiralty, 429
  • - Repairs of Shipping, Announcement by Controller, 35
  • - Salvage of the A. J. Fuller, Attempt to Raise the Ship, 177
  • - Salvage of Ships after the War, A Great Harvest Expected from them, 11
  • - Shipbuilding Yard at Ardencaple, 583
  • - Ship Losses during the War, Twenty-five Times as many British as American Vessels, 429
  • - Ship Plates for Australia, Cheaper from England than in Australia, 507
  • - South-Eastern and Chatham’s New Steamer Maid of Orleans, 249
  • - Steamer Wrecked in 1840, Remains Exposed by Dredging, 533
  • - Steam Yacht Carnegie’s Long Voyages, 507
  • - Submarines, and Under-water Listening, Professor Bragg, 559
  • - Submerged Submarines, French Invention for Locating, 201
  • - Swedish Mercantile Marine War Losses, 455
  • - Tyne Shipping, Increase in Output of Ships, 303
  • - United States Battleship Idaho and H.M.S. Dreadnought, Comparisons, 481
  • - 10,000-Ton Vessel Bisected to Pass through Locks on the Welland Canal, 403
  • - War Vessels Launched on the Tyne during the War, 355
  • - Whitshed, H.M.S., Ocean-going Torpedo- boat Destroyer Launched at Wallsend, 140
  • - Wooden Ship, Sierra Npvada, Built in 1854 and Still Afloat, 429
  • - Wooden Shipbuilding at Quebec, Good Record, 481
  • - X-rays for Inspection of Concrete Ships, 403
  • - Yarrow-built Destroyer’s Record Speed, 303
  • SIBERIA, Northern, Harbour and Handling Facilities at Mouth of River Ob, 403
  • Slag for Concrete-making, 533
  • Smoke Prevention, Condition of Sheffield, Sir R. Hadfield, 81
  • Soap-making from Petroleum in Germany, 429
  • Soda near Pretoria, Valuable Deposits, 277
  • Solar Eclipse on May 29th, 1919, Experiments, 455
  • South African Gold Mine, New Shaft being Sunk, 379
  • South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, President, 249
  • South African Mineral Output and Working Cost Statistics, 355
  • South African Mining Improvements in Tube Mills, 379
  • South African Societies’ Combined Exhibition of Machinery and Appliances, 355
  • South Africa, Trade Conditions of, and Federation of British Industries, 277
  • Southampton’s Embarkation Work during the War, 249
  • Spain and Export of Machinery, 177
  • Spanish Industries, Government Concessions, 481
  • Spelter Manufacturers and Nationalisation of Coal Mines, 607
  • Spirit from Sulphite Waste of Pulp Mills, 583
  • Spitzbergen, A Departure of Workers for the Northern Exploration Company, 507
  • Spitzbergen, A No Man’s Land, 455
  • Steam Engine Building in the Last Generation, Excellent Record, 177
  • Steel—see Iron and Steel
  • Stephenson, George, Interesting Maps and Papers belonging to him Presented to Newcastle, 153
  • “Still” Engine and Lubrication Experiments, 607
  • Strike for Less Pay, 177
  • Submarine Mine Exploders, Thousands for Sale by Disposal Board, 441
  • Sulphur Deposits in Texas, 455
  • Sulphur Waste in Fumes Round Nickel Mines in Ontario, 329
  • Superheating by Steam as Preventive of Rust in Iron, 355
  • Surplus Government Stores, Profitable Sales, 583, 607, 634
  • Swedish Factory Started for Manufacture of Mica Insulating Materials from Native Mines, 129
  • Swedish Industries Fair at Gothenburg, 607
  • Sweden, Removal of Restrictions on Exports to, 646
  • Swiss Trade Exhibition, 355
  • Sydney Harbour Dredging, Material Removed Last Year, 201
  • Sydney, Pyrmont Bridge Repaired Rapidly by Oxy-acetylene Welding, 429

T

  • TAMPING Railway Sleepers in Canada, Advantage of Use of Pneumatic Tools, 533
  • “Tanks” Association, A New Society, 65
  • Tanks to be Broken Up, 81
  • Tasmania and Hydro-electric Development, 355, 481
  • Telephone between Cawnpore and Lucknow, 559
  • Telephone Cables in London, Quick Repair of Extensive Damage, 153
  • Telephone Exchanges, London, Cost of Scheme for Conversion to Automatic System, 329
  • Telephone Statistics in United States, 355
  • Telephone System in Bolivia, Reputed to be the Highest in the World, 57
  • Telescope, Great Reflecting, near Victoria, B.C., Completed, 35
  • Ticker in Wireless Telegraphy, Other Applications Suggested, M. Goudet, 81
  • Tidal Wave and Atmospheric Pressure, 249
  • Timber of Canada, List of Trees Used, 403
  • Timber Growth, Experiments in India, 355
  • Timber Shortage Due to War and Reafforestation Scheme, 240
  • Timber Supplies, Rationing Abolished and Prices Reduced, 129
  • Timber Supply by Government at Reasonable Price, 507

Timber Transport by Rafting Across the Atlantic, 533

  • Time-keeping Accuracy of Country’s Principal Clocks, 631
  • Time Lost and Device for Prevention, 379
  • Tinfoil Manufacture in China, 129
  • Tin Mining in Cornwall, Question of Subsidising, 159
  • Tin Slimes Concentration, J. M. Buckland, 249
  • Tramcars on Elevated Line from Tokyo, Trial Run, 481
  • Tungsten—see Iron and Steel
  • Tunnel Below Sea at Moji, Japan, 481
  • Tunnel, Railway, to Connect Denmark and Sweden, 455
  • Turbine Design and Problems of Distortion, 57
  • Turbines, Steam, Most Economical Size of Unit for, 225
  • Turpentine Oil and Rosin, New Source of Supply of, Found in India, 533
  • Tyne Improvement Commission’s Plant, Proposed Purchase of New Dredgers, 333

U

  • UNITED States and Need of Good Work, 212
  • Universities and British Industries, 541
  • Universities and Colleges Better Supported in the United States than in Great Britain, 481
  • University College and Hospital War Memorial, 594
  • University College, London, Annual Dinner, 570
  • University College, London, Annual Report, Decrease in Students and Revenue, 249
  • University Endowments in England and Wales, Analysis of Distribution, 481

V

  • VANADIUM in Swedish Coal, 607

W

  • WALKER, James, and Co., New Arrangement of Working Hours, 403
  • Walter Scott and Middleton, Presentation, 213
  • Wangduni, New Zealand, Port Development Delayed, 429
  • War in its Dependence on Chemistry, 11
  • War “Gases,” Serious Effects of Chloropicrin, 35
  • War Memorial, A. A. Jones and Shipman, Limited, 47
  • War Output of Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth and Co., 436
  • Warehouse Accommodation, Great Extension by Mersey Docks and Harboi r Board, 57
  • Water, Colour Improvement Caused by Storage, 129
  • Water Power Committee’s Report on Capacity of British and German New Guinea, 507
  • Water Power Development in Europe and Japan, 429
  • Water Power Schemes in the Ghats, in Province of Bombay, 559
  • Water Powers of the Ukraine, 533

WATER SUPPLY:

  • - Birmingham, Proposed New Pipe from the Elan Valley, 329
  • - Bombay Water Supply from Powai Lake, 631
  • - Cohoes, New York, W’ater Consumption, Pumps Cheaper than Water Meters, 429
  • - Dacca Waterworks Improvement, 105
  • - Electrolytic Corrosion, New Resistance Device for Water Pipes, 153
  • - Hyderabad Water Supply, Completion of Oosman-Sagar Dam, 607
  • - India, Waterworks Called for at Chandpur, 403
  • - Kawasaki, Cost of New Waterworks, 429
  • - Manchester Corporation’s Water Bill, 303
  • - Manchester, Greatly Increased Consumption of Water, 129
  • - Manchester’s Scheme for Water from Westmorland, 607
  • - Midnapore, India, Water Supply, Further Grant Required for Cost, 129
  • - Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, W’ater Supply, Alternative Schemes, 533, 631
  • - South Australia, New Schemes for Water Supply, 507
  • - Sydney, New South Wales, Storage Incicase, 484
  • - Sydney Water Supply, Cordeaux River Dam, 455
  • - Uruguay, Projected W’ater Supply and Sewerage Works, 533
  • - Water Consumption in Great Britain for Papermaking, Brewing, Railways, and Fire Extinction, 533
  • - Water Filtration Plant at Detroit, 429
  • - Water Filtration Plant Sludge. Experiments, 455
  • - Water Meter Test Results, F. B. Nelson, 403
  • WATER in Underground Fissures, Stoppage by Injection of Liquid Cement, 57
  • Wzater-gas to Relieve Coal Shortage in Germany, 35
  • Waterproofing of Drawings and Tracings for Use in Wet Places, 11
  • Waterways Lost and Regained by the British in Flanders in 1918, 129
  • Wraygood-Otis Foremen’s Dinner, 248
  • Ways and Communications Bill, Mr. Bonar Law on, 201 ; Opposition, 225 ; Finance Questions, 249—see also Railways
  • Ways and Means, Ernest Benn, 288
  • Weights and Measures, Metric and English Systems, Comparison of Use, Mr. Halsey, 507
  • Welding, Acetylene and Electric, 546
  • Wheat and Beans, Suggested Mixture of Crop as Protection from Storms, 129
  • Wheels for Road Vehicles, Steel and Wood, Comparison of Advantages for Overseas Service, 329
  • White Arsenic, Plant for Production to be Put Up in South Africa, 355
  • “Whitley” Plan as Applied to Brass and Copper Industries, 355
  • Wireless Communication by Telephone with Moving Omnibus, 559
  • Wolfram—see Iron anti Steel
  • Wolfryn Electro-chemical Treatment of Seeds, 559
  • Wolverhampton and Aeroplane Making, 532
  • Wood as a Boiler Fuel, 533
  • Wood for Concrete Reinforcement, Precautions in Use, 607
  • Wood Distilling Works in Ontario, Growth in Twenty Years, 81
  • Wool Scarcity in Germany, Use of Iron for Air Filters, 11
  • Working Drawing of Isaac Smith’s Rotary Engine Placed in Science Museum, 201

X

  • X-RAY Discussion at Faraday and Rontgen Societies’ Meeting, 416
  • X-Rays for Inspection of Concrete Ships, 403

Y

  • YARROW and Company’s Output to Increase in Vancouver but Diminish on the Clyde, 129
  • Yellow Pine Shortage in United Kingdom, Government Measures for Supply and Price Regulation, 303, 507

Z

  • ZINC and Lead Pipes, Corrosion, and Methods of Protection from, 631
  • Zinc Production by Electrolytic Company of Australia, 201
  • Zirconium Exports from Brazil, 559

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