The Engineer 1919 Jan-Jun: Index: Paragraphs

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A

• 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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