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A

• ACETYLENE and Coal Gas, Illuminating Power and Immunity from Risk, 135
• Acetylene, Compressed, in a Porous Substance, Government Order, 53

AERONAUTICS:

• - Aerodrome at Durban, Proposed Erection’ 635
• - Aerodrome at Goregaon, Bombay, 539
• - Aeroplane Surplus Engine at Work in Factory, 85
• - American Offer for Aeroplanes and Engines from British Disposal Department, 154
• - Amsterdam Aircraft Exhibition, British Section Delayed by Strikes, 157
• - Aviation Exhibition, Paris, 565
• - “Bristol” Fighter Biplane, Continuous Commission 463
• - Dutch Aviation Routes to be Opened Next Year ; Services to England and Elsewhere, 572
• - Fiat B.R.F. Biplane, 635
• - Fire Patrols by Aeroplane over Californian Forest Reserves, 301
• - India, Aerodrome Construction near Bangalore, 85
• - Insect Hunting Surveys by Aeroplane, 635
• - Man-power Aeroplane Flight at Paris, G. Poulain, 157
• - Pan - American Aeronautic Convention, Colonel E. Lister Jones’ Address, 161
• - Rome to Turin Flight, Record Broken, 85
• - Semi-rigid Airship Purchased from Italy by U.S.A., 489
• - United States Airship Blown Up Owing to Sun Heat Expansion, 11
• - Wireless Telephony, Air Squadrons Fitted with during War, 157
• AFFORESTATION Cost, Amount Allocated by Government, 135
• Agricultural Engineers’ Combination, 419
• Agricultural Implements Imported into India, 11
• Agricultural Tractors and Ploughs, Royal Agricultural Society Trials, 635
• Alcohol, andc., from Coke-oven Gas, Process for Commercial Development, E. Bury, 635
• Alcohol as Fuel for High-speed Internal Combustion Engines, Benzol Admixture Necessary, 111
• Alcohol from the Mahwa Tree, 85
• Alcoholic Motor Spirit Factory in Natal, Output of, 157
• Algeria’s Mineral Exports, 613
• Alloy, Iron, Acid-proof, Italian’s Claim, 59
• Alloys of the Duralumin Type, Heat Treatment of, 35
• Aluminates of Lime, Value as Cement, 85
• Aluminium Alloy with Calcium, 279
• Aluminium and Alloys Coating Flux, S. O. Cowper-Coles, 489
• Aluminium in Germany, Output, and Need of Coal, 359
• Aluminium, Prescription for Soldering, 11
• Aluminium, Useful American Circular, 305
• American Association of Engineers, Committee on Legislation, 35
• American Concrete Institute, Recommendations, 135
• American Lakes and Rivers, Plan for Control and Regulation of Discharge and Flow, 589
• American Petroleum Export Statistics, 279
• Architectural and Museum Studies, Prizes for Drawings ; Conditions, 419
• Armstrong College, Appointments of Principal and Registrar, 111
• Armstrong College, Vacant Professorship of Engineering, 359
• Asbestos Production in Rhodesia, 411

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES :

• - ASSOCIATION, BRITISH :
• -- Statistics of War Transportation in France, Colonel Sir G. Beharrell, 279
• -- Transport Policy, Mr. Acworth, 279
• - ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERING AND SHIPBUILDING DRAUGHTSMEN :
• -- Strike at Works of Kerr, Stuart and Co., Stoke-on-Trent, Supported by Association, 11
• - SHEFFIELD BRANCH :
• -- Winter Programme ; Projected Lectures, 613
• - ASSOCIATION OF ENGINEERS, MANCHESTER :
• -- Scientific Management, H. W. Allingham, 613
• - INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERS :
• -- Council Formation, 157
• - INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
• -- Autumn Meeting in France, Proposed, 565
• -- Bessemer Medal Award, 231
• -- President for Next Year, Dr. J. E. Stead, 548
• - INSTITUTE OF METALS :
• -- Brass : Its Construction and Impurities’ F. S. J. Pile, 635
• -- Micro-mechanism of the Ageing of Duralumin, Dr. Zay Jeffries, 255
• - INSTITUTE OF MINE SURVEYORS OF GREAT BRITAIN :
• - SCOTTISH BRANCH :
• -- Discussion of Objects of Institute ; Salaries Question, 359
• - INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
• -- Examination for Admission to Membership, 589
• -- Meeting, 287
• -- Presidential Address, Thos. Clarkson, 287
• -- Reception, 478
• - INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
• -- Fowls Lodged by Institution, 207
• - INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
• -- Liverpool Sub-centre to be Formed, 539
• -- Water Power, Professor Magnus Maclean. 279
• - INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS (INDIA) :
• -- Rapid Establishment and Predicted Usefulness of the Institution, 539
• - INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :
• -- Reoccupation of Old Premises Commandeered by Ministry of Munitions, 437
• -- Special Steels and Aluminium Alloys, Importance in Motor Vehicles and Aircraft, Dr. T. Blackwood Murray, 589
• - INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
• -- Members’ List, 359
• - INSTITUTION OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS :
• -- Flags for Road Paving, Natural and Artificial, F. W. Bricknell, 359

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

• - INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
• -- Awards of Elgar Scholarship and Earl of Durham Prize, 181
• -- Cammell Laird and Parsons Scholarships, Entries for, 181 ; Awards, 421
• -- Martell Scholarship in Naval Architecture (1920), 597
• -- Scholarships Offered, 24, 135
• - INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :
• -- Joint Technical Institute for the North- East Coast Institution and the Cleveland Institution of Engineers, 181
• - INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
• -- Christmas Juvenile Lectures : The World of Sound, Professor W. H. Bragg, 528
• -- Election of Members and Honorary Members, 564
• -- Meetings, 476, 564
• -- Programme up to Easter, 1920, 564
• - SOCIETY, CERAMIC :
• -- Refractory Materials Section ; Arrangements for Meetings, 383
• - SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
• -- Award of Premiums for Papers, 646
• -- New Scheme for Association of Engineering Societies, Offer of Annual Premium by Mr. Burnard Geen, 11
• - CRYSTAL PALACE ENGINEERING SOCIETY :
• -- Papers and Awards, 625
• - SOCIETY, FARADAY :
• -- Magnetic Hardness of Ferrous Metals, andc., L. A. Wild, 255
• - SOCIETY, OPTICAL :
• -- Spirit Level from Captured Zeiss Director, Liquids for Filling Levels, J. W. French, 135
• -- Spirit Level, Requirements, Major E. O. Henrici, 59
• - SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
• -- Australian Growth in Industrial Manufacture, Sir J. McCall on, 59
• -- Trueman Wood Lecture, Sir Oliver Lodge, 613
• -- Use of Electricity in Agriculture, Dr. J. F. Crowley, 489
• - SOCIETY OF TECHNICAL ENGINEERS :
• -- Mass Meeting, 554, 601
• ATHENS, Exhibition of British Manufactures, 207, 411, 489, 515, 565
• Australia, Rapid Growth in Industrial Manufacture, 59
• Automatic and Electric Furnaces, Limited, Loan of Magnetic Sclerometer for Demonstration, 315

B

• BALLOONS Used in Tree Fumigation, 515
• Barcelona, Annual International Fair Instituted, 511
• Beardmore and Co.’s Large Section Mill, 181
• Bearing Metals and Modern Metallography, 279
• Belgian Rolling Mills, Esperance Abandoned, New Works Projected at Hourpes, 489
• Belgium, British Trade with, Catalogues at Liege, 262
• Bennis, Ed., and Co., Lantern Slides for Lectures, 526
• Benzole and the Cinematograph, 22
• Benzole, Increased Production and Further Possibilities as Substitute for Motor Spirit, 11 Benzole, “ National,” Test with a Sunbeam Car, 207, 255
• Benzole Test on 10,000-Miles Run by Sunbeam Car, 589
• Bill to Prevent “Lightning Strikes,” 419
• Birmingham, Big Scheme in Progress for Improvement of Hockley Brook, 85
• Blowpipe Cutting of Scrap Metal, 181
• Board of Trade, Certain Powers of, Transferred to Home-office, 539
• Board of Trade Departments, New Addresses and Telephone Numbers, 502
• Board of Trade, New Administrative Council, 305
• Boiler Plates, Steel, in the Yangtze Valley, High Prices Paid, 35
• Boiler Tube Explosion Report, 85
• Boilers Heated by Electricity, 11
• Bombay, New Companies Organised, 35
• Borneo and Sumatra Waterfalls, Available Horse-power, 359
• Bradford Engineering Society, Coming of Age, 392
• Brazil Trade, Increased Imports and Exports, 463
• Brewers’ Exhibition, 452, 476
• Brick Chimney for Cleveland Electric Company, Dimensions of, 85
• Bridge, Highway, in Ohio, Accident during Reconstruction, 565
• British Chemical Manufacturers’ Association, Visit to Germany, 68
• British East African Land, Government Condition for Leasing, 613
• British Industries Fair, Birmingham’s Share, 146
• British Science and Key Industries Exhibition at Glasgow, 157, 328
• British Scientific Products Exhibition, 59
• British Westinghouse Company, Change of Name, 181, 548
• Brussels Commercial Fair, Proposed, 157
• Buenos Aires, Proposed Underground System of Electric Tramways, 613
• Building Materials’ Tenacity ; Observations in the War Area, Sir B. Fletcher, 359
• Bullion Salved from the Wreck of the Laurentic at Entrance to Lough Swilly, 157

C

• CABLE Across the Pacific Ocean, 332
• Calcutta Corporation and Question of Sanitary Dwellings, 411
• Canada, Export Trade, Increase since 1914, 85
• Canada and Street Cars, Decision Against Local Manufacture in Toronto, 111
• Canadian Water Power Development, Professor J. C. McLennan, 305
• Canal, Crinan, Position under Consideration by Ministry of Transport, 635
• Canal, First, in Northern India, Proposed Celebration of Centenary, 59
• Canal, Huningue to Strasburg, Proposed Hydro-electric Stations, 565
• Canal, Ship, Proposed, at South-west of Long Island, U.S.A., 613
• Canal System in Canada, Government Survey, 565
• Canal System of South Yorkshire, Reorganisation under Consideration, 635
• Canals’ Future as a Difficult Problem, 135
• Canalising the Rhone, Power and Coal Saving, 255
• Cape Copper Company Closes Mines, Large Returns since 1863, 85
• Casein Glues, Valuable Properties, 111
• Casting Iron Pipes, Centrifugal System, 613
• Cement, Waterproof, Sir G. K. Scott Moncrieff, 489
• Census of Europeans in South Africa, 11
• Chain Manufacturers, New Association, 124, 220, 359
• Charcoal Briquettes in India ; Difficulty, 157
• Chemical Employers and Motor Transport Employers’ Federations, Alliance, 59
• Chemical Engineer as a Liaison Officer, 181
• Chemistry, Organic, Professorship at Armstrong College, Dr. S. Smiles Appointed, 157
• Chicago and the Atlantic, Improved Water Communication, 59
• Chimney, Tall Reinforced Concrete, at Sagano- seki, Professor Omori’s Conclusions, 437, 463
• Chimneys, Tall, Stresses by Wind Pressure and Seismic Motion Compared, 437
• China Clay Transport Difficulties and Settlement, 514
• China, Local Materials Economically Used for Construction Work, D. F. McLeod, 181
• Chinese Dockyard Improved to Carry Out American Contracts, 231
• Cinematograph as Advocate for Benzole, 22

COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES:

• - Amount of Coal Required to Mill One Ton of Ore, 589
• - Anthracite Seam Struck at Glyn Neath, 231 Argentine Coal Discovery, its Great Value, 207
• - Belgian Blast-furnaces and Coke Scarcity, 333
• - British Columbia and Coalfields, 383
• - Calcium Carbide Manufacture and Byproduct Extraction from Coal and Shale at Natal Collieries, 565
• - Coal Discovery in Chili, 613
• - Coal Mining in Germany, Decreasing Output, Increasing Cost of Production, 85
• - Coal Transport by Rail, Suspended Restrictions, 279
• - Commercial Motor Users’ Association and Coal Permits, 74
• - Compressed Air Coal-cutting Machines, Tests, 589
• - Controller of Coal Mines, Change of Appointment, 437
• - Dutch East Indies, Increased Coal Consumption, 259
• - Electrical Charges Advance with Price of Coal, 135
• - Federated Malay States, Useful Discovery of Coal and Output, 539
• - Fire Extinction by Mud Jet, 135
• - Gasworks, Demand for Asli Guarantee, 315
• - High-priced Coal and Hydro-electric Power Extension, 7
• - India, Increased Output of Coal Mines, 59
• - Ireland, Stationary Output of Coal, 565
• - Kent Collieries during the Railway Strike, 411
• - Lens and Lievin Mines Flooding ; Ten Years Required for Complete Restarting, 135
• - Lord Bute no Longer Colliery Proprietor, 59
• - Lourenco Marques, Coal Deposits Found, 157
• - Melbourne Harbour Coaling Plant, 515
• - Mines Unwatering, Need of Barriers, 515
• - Mines Water-logged in the Tipton District, 181
• - Mining in Formosa, Primitive Methods, 231
• - Natal, Coal and Bituminous Shale Development in, 411
• - Natal Navigation Company’s New Coal Area, 515
• - Natal, Official Coal Trade Report, Decreasing Output, 383
• - Nationalisation of Mines, Mr. Justice Sankey’s Report, 23
• - New Zealand, Coal Discovery in, 157
• - New Zealand Coal Mines and Nationalisation, 312
• - Oil Fuel in France, Commission Urges its Use to Replace Coal, 565
• - Output of Coal in the United Kingdom during Four Weeks, 359
• - Output, Slight Improvement, 287
• - Powell Duffryn Company’s New Pit, 539
• - Pulverised Coal for Open-hearth Furnaces, N. C. Harrison, 539
• - Quick Work at a Colliery, 279
• - Seven-hour Day and the Output, 255
• - South Africa, Coal Development Company Formed, 383
• - South Africa, New Colliery, 157
• - Spitsbergen Coal Deposits, Scottish Syndicate to Prospect, 11
• - Spitzbergen, Coal Exports from, 613
• - Spitsbergen, Further Coal Discovery, 157
• - Storing Coal in Carbonic Acid Gas, 589
• - Temperature of Coal Mines, Atmospheric Conditions, Ventilation and Health, 539
• - Tonkin Output from the Hongay Mines, 255
• - United States Coal Consumption Estimate, 57
• - Vienna Company’s Coke Supply Transferred to Czechs with Change of Frontiers, 535
• - Wagon Shortage on Railways, Measures Taken on Behalf of Collieries, 135
• - Water in South Staffordshire Mines, 589
• - Western India, Trial Boring for Coal ; Heavy Cost of Coal at Bombay, 565
• CONCRETE Caissons for Bridge Foundations, Best Method of Sinking, F. W. Sweeney, 35
• Concrete and Fire Resistance, 135
• Concrete Mooring Buoys Compared with Steel,
• Concrete Pipe Failure in Arizona, Professor G. E. P. Smith, 181
• Concrete Replaces Plain Steel for Cranes, 383
• Concrete Setting Studied by Assistance of Camera, 111
• Concrete Tanks for Fuel Oil Storage, 85
• Copper in Ancient India, Mr. Panchanan Neogi, 515
• Copper Conductors, 242
• Copper Contact Bows of Electric Railways Replaced by Carbon, 515
• Copper Mines in Norway, Cost of Production and Falling Prices, 411
• Copper as a Protective Against Corrosion of Steel, 305
• Cornish Mining in St. Ives District, 565
• Corrosion in Boilers with Turbines and with Reciprocating Engines ; Tests, 157
• Corundum, Artificial, Cheap Manufacture of, Possible in England, C. J. Brockbank, 635
• Cotton Mill in Central China ; British and American Machinery, 255
• Creosoted Piles, Long Life of, 255
• Crystal Palace Engineering Society : Papers and Awards, 625
• Crystal Palace School of Practical Engineering, Admiral Sir G. W. Moore on Future of Engineering, 122

D

• DAM Proposed Across Sutlej River, India, Highest in the World, 613
• Dam, Proposed, for Irrigation Scheme in Idaho, Higher than Any Yet Built, 613
• Dam in Tasmania, Cause of Failure, H. E. Bellamy, 383
• Davidson and Company’s War Work Booklet, 98
• Daylight Saving in General Favour, 215
• Death of Mr. T. P. Shonts : His Work on Panama Canal Development and on New York Subways, 569
• Decimal Currency, Increased Adoption, 411
• Derrick Cranes with Reinforced Concrete Replacing Plain Steel, 383
• Diamond Getting by Use of a Diving Bell, 231
• Diesel Engine Users’ Association : Applies for Grant for Research, Complains of Household Fuel Order as Applied to Electrical Companies Using Oil, 59
• Ding-Dong Mine Reopening, 411
• Disabled Men Nearly All Again at Work, 85
• Dock, Largest in the World Projected at Vancouver Island, 234
• Dolomite Deposits in the Peak District of Derbyshire, Scheme for Working, 35
• Douglas Fir Timbers, Old and New, Results of Tests, 207
• Dredging Bucket Weighing Nearly 20 Tons, 207
• Drills, Small Twist, Device for Protection, 231
• Duralumin, Ageing of, Dr. Zay Jeffries, 255
• Duralumin and Kindred Alloys, Heat Treatment of, 35
• Dutch East Indies, Road and Railway Construction Extended, 515
• Dutch Margarine Makers’ Purchase of Oil Mills at Selby, 85
• Dutch Section of the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 320

E

• EAST AFRICAN Mines Department and Geological Survey, 539
• Eisteddford, Welsh, and Applied Science, 279

ELECTRICAL MATTERS:

• - Accrington, Extensions of Generating Plant, 255
• - Agriculture, Use of Electricity in, Dr. J. F. Crowley, 489
• - Air from Turbo-generators as Forced Draught for Furnaces, 333
• - Alloy for Resistance Elements of Electrical Instruments, F. Weimar, 565
• - Austria’s Lost Coal to be Replaced by Electric Power, 535
• - Ayr, Proposed Loan for Electricity Supply, 207
• - Birmingham’s Electric Dust Carts, Batteries from America, 35
• - Bolton, Projected Expenditure on New Transformers, 207
• - Burma, Hydro-electric Plant for Mine, 207
• - Canadian Electrical Association : Bare and Covered Wires, 455
• - Canadian Electric Generating Plants, Statistics, 305
• - Castings for Switch-boxes, Replaced by Electric Welding, 463
• - Ceylon Hydro-electric Scheme, 489
• - Coal Prices and Electrical Charge Increase, 135
• - Copper Conductors, 242
• - Cracking of Rubber Insulation on High- tension Cables, F. B. Silsbe, 589
• - Denmark, Large Hydro-electric Works for Jutland, 279
• - Doncaster Corporation Loan for Generating Station, 635
• - Douglas Electric Light Supply, 181
• - Dundee Electricity Scheme, 181 ; Proposal for Extension by Use of Water from the Tummel Valley, 279
• - Furnace Installation, Electric, for Norway, from United States, 635
• - Generating Station Statistics in the United States, 85
• - German Output of Crucible and Electric Steel, Furnaces Employed, 111
• - Glasgow Electrical Finance, 333
• - Gwalior, India, Electricity Supply, 181
• - High-tension Electrical Power Transmission, Extension of Possibilities, 589
• - High-voltage Transmission, Practicability, Southern Californian Successful Operations, 493
• - Hull Electrical Plant Extensions, Loan Sanctioned, 135
• - Indian Scheme for Electric Supply from Local Water Power in the Nilgiris, 539
• - Italy, Two Large New Hydro-electric Stations for Industrial Work, 279
• - Japanese Electrically Driven Steel Plant Coming from the United States, 635
• - Kelp for Insulation, in Australia, 333
• - London Electricity Supplies, Linking-up, 635
• - Manchester’s Proposed Loan for Generating Station, 279
• - Mercury Vapour Rectifiers for Transforming High-tension Current, 613
• - Niagara, Power Utilisation and Natural Beauty, 383
• - Ootacamund,. Madras, Proposed Electric Supply from Sandy Nullah Waterfall, 59
• - Osaka Steam-driven Electrical Installation, Largest in the Far East, 437

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued):

• - Paris Electric Power Distribution, Large Outlay, 181
• - Pittsburgh, Large Power Plant, 255
• - Power in India, Increasing Demand for, 429
• - Power Project in Manitoba, 255
• - Railway and Dock Generating Stations and Lines Exempted from Transfer under Electricity Supply Bill, 135
• - Rapid Reversing Motor at Indiana Harbour, 157
• - Rhodesia and Available Electric Horsepower, 35
• - Rhone Development, Use of Power in Paris, P.L.M. Railway, andc., Government Outlay, 613
• - Rivets, Electrically Heated, G. M. Clark, 589
• - Rotherham Loans for Electricity Undertaking Bill to be Passed, 135
• - Sheffield Electrical Finance, 333
• - Spain, Utilisation of Water Power of the River Tort, 181
• - Suffolk Electricity Supply Company Obtains Exemption from the Household Fuel and Lighting Order, 437
• - Surplus Hydro-electric Power Developed in British Columbia, 642
• - Temperature of Electric Furnaces, Device to Regulate, Monsieur Lequex, 489
• - Towing, Electric, on the Canal de la Marne, 255
• - Transport, Ministry of, and New Powers under the Electricity Bill, 539
• - Trial Borings with View to Tunnel Under Liffey for Electric Mains, 207
• - Whitley Council for the West Midland Electricity Supply Industry, 287
• - Wind Power as Source of Electrical Supply, Comparison with Gas, 59
• - York City Hydro-electric Scheme, 489
• ELECTROLYTIC Zinc in Australia, 157
• Ellesmere Port, New Wharves for Ocean-going Steamers, 11
• Engine, James Watt, 206, 213
• Engineers’ Patience and Pay, 31
• Engineering, The Future of, Admiral Sir G. W. Moore, at the Crystal Palace School of Engineering, 122
• Exhibition, All-British, Proposed at Singapore, 613
• Exhibition, in Athens by Federation of British Industries, 207, 411
• Exhibition, Aviation, in Paris, 565
• Exhibition, at Barcelona, British Firms to Exhibit Mechanical Inventions, andc., 305
• Exhibition, Brewers, 452, 476
• Exhibition, of British Manufactures at Athens, 207, 411, 489, 515, 565
• Exhibition, British Science and Key Industries, at Glasgow, 157, 328
• Exhibition, International Motor Boat and Marine and Stationary Engine, 626
• Exhibition, Mining, in South Africa, 534
• Exhibition, Shipping, Engineering, and Machinery, at Olympia, 11, 181, 320
• Exhibition, Union of Inventors of the Loire, 359
• Exhibition, of Venezuela, First National, 437
• Explosion of Economiser at Yorkshire Dye Works, 463
• Explosion of Safety Valve Chest Due to Collision between Tug and Dredger, 111
• Explosion at Scotswood Works, Official Report, 35
• Explosions in War Factories, Low Rate of Fatalities, 231
• Explosive Charges for Sea Depth Soundings, 463

F

• FACTORIES, Safety Pamphlet Issued by Home-office, 620
• Factory and Agricultural Labour, Suggested Alternation of, 515
• FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES :
• - Change of Address, 59
• - Exhibition in Athens, 207, 411, 489, 515, 565
• - Finland’s Water Power Resources, 411
• - Instigates Government Continuance of Emergency Road Transport Service, 411
• - Sending Staff to Cologne, 111
• FEDERATION OF TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATIONS :
• - Formation and Objects, 238
• - Meeting, Constitution Proposals, 290
• Ferrous Metals—see Iron and Steel
• Fertiliser Manufacture from Phospha tic Rock at Johannesburg, 35
• Fibre from Eucalyptus Bark ; Factory Started in Australia, 589
• File for Cleaning Contact Points of Sparking Plugs, Brown Brothers, Limited, 601
• Files and Drills, Economical Use of, 463
• Fire in Coal Stack, Extinguishing, 383
• Fire Engine for Refilling Water Reservoir, 181
• Fire Extinction by Mud Jet in Collieries, 135
• Fire-grates, Economy in, 635
• Fire Losses in this Country, Enormous Increase this Year, 231
• Fire Losses Greater per Head in Canada than Elsewhere, 111
• Fire Patrols, Aeroplane, Over Californian Forest Reserves, 301
• Fires in Grain Elevator Caused by Wheat Dust Collecting on Electric Lamp, 111
• Fish Scarcity at Billingsgate and the Railway Companies, 58
• Fixation of Atmospheric Nitrogen, Experiments Resumed, 489
• Flag-pole, Reinforced Concrete, 157
• Flux for Coating Aluminium and Alloys, S. O. Cowper-Coles, 489
• Fog, Effect of, on Light Intensity, C. L. Utterback, 337
• Foire de Paris, Variety of Exhibits, 383
• Ford Tractor Factory at Cork, 255
• Forest Area, Valuable, in Asia Minor, 538
• “France,” A Catalogue of French Industry, Exports, andc., 613
• Franco-Polish Society Founded in Warsaw, 589
• French Docks Congestion, Measures to Relieve 383
• French Offer for Works near Saarbriicken, 463
• French Purchase of Peat Bog in Ireland for Fuel Making, 85
• French Reconstruction of Roads, Railways, Bridges, Tunnels, Telegraphs, and Telephones, 117
• French Reconstructional Work ; Question of Contracts for British and American Firms, 437
• French Unused Water Power for Relief of Coal Scarcity, Suggestion, 59
• Fuel Economy Organisation Committee s Report, Sir R. Hadfield on, 59
• Fuel Economy in Power Production, W. T. Lane, 359
• Fuel, French Commission Urges Use of Oil to Replace Coal, 565
• Fuel for Internal Combustion Engines, Alcohol Requires Addition of Benzole, 111
• Fuel Oil Tanks at Portland, 81
• Fuel Research ; Government Station at Greenwich, 207, 305

G

• GADGETTS for Motorists, 522
• Gas and Electricity Derived from Wind Power, Mr. F. Barrett on, 59
• Gas as Fuel for Motor Vehicles, Uncertainties of Liquid Fuel, 135
• Geological Survey and Museum, Transfer of Departments,1 489
• Geophone, Successful Experiment in Pennsylvania Coal Mine, 111
• German Amalgamation of Big Electrical and other Firms, 589
• German Union of Technical Societies, Petition for New Technical Library, 11
• Germany Outbids other European Countries for Erection of Wireless Telegraphy Station, 255
• Glass Globes and Window Glass, Factory for Manufacture of, to be Erected at Queenborough, 111
• Glass-making in West Norfolk, 207
• Glue Joints and Varnished Wood Surfaces, 437
• Gold Mine, Deepest of any Metal Aline in the World, 383
• Gold Mines, Low-grade, in South Africa, Serious Position, 207
• Gold Ore Reserves of the Rand, 35
• Gold Refinery for the Rand, Proposed, 411
• Gold from the Transvaal, Effect on the Industry of a Free Market, 333
• Government Car Used as Beehive, 111
• Government Financial Help for Higher Education of Ex-Service Officers and Men, 181, 279
• Government Sale of Cranes and Machine Tools, 181
• Grantham and District Engineering Society, 411
• Grantham, Special Engineering School for Boys, 613
• Gravel as an Aggregate in Concrete, 135
• Greenwich, Fuel Research Station at, 207
• Gunpowder in Railway Workshops, 135
• Gwalior State Project for Waterway Connection with Calcutta, 11

H

• HARDENING of Duralumin, 35
• Health, New Ministry of, 11
• Heat Economy in Chemical Works, Harold Nielsen, 613
• Hong-Kong’s Imports of Tin, 463
• Hooghly River Bed Survey, 59
• House-building, Comparison between Cost of Brick and Concrete, 207
• Hydraulic Works on the Rhone, 378, 383
• Hydro-electric Plant in Burma, 207
• Hydro-electric Power Extension in Sweden, 7
• Hydro-electric Power, Surplus Developed in British Columbia, 642
• Hydro-electric Scheme, Ceylon, 489
• Hydro-electric Scheme, York City, 489
• Hydro-electric Schemes—see also Electrical Matters
• Hydrogen Peroxide, Experimental Plant for, by Kynoch Limited, in Natal, 380
• Hydrographic Surveys in the North Sea, 181

I

• IMPERIAL Mineral Resources Bureau, Offices Moved, 231
• India, Distillation of Wood and Production of Stockholm Tar, 85
• India, Government and Private Service in, 406
• India, Water Power Resources of, Report on, 437, 515
• Indian Public Works Department, Increased Pay for Members, 363
• Indian Scheme for Dredging Chilka Lake to Avoid Flooding, 411
• Indians to have Training in Navigation, Bom* bay Scheme, 35
• Industrial League Conference of Employers and Employed, 290
• Industrial Life in America, President Wilson on, 383
• Industrial Reconstruction Council and Industrial League ; Amalgamation ; New Title, 290
• Insect Hunting Surveys by Aeroplane, 635
• Institute Building for General Use of Technical Societies in South Africa, 135
• International Electrotechnical Commission Alee ting, 314
• Ipswich Rails, British Tender Preferred to American, 157

IRON AND STEEL:

• - Acid-proof Iron Alloy, Claim by Italian, 59
• - Anzan Steel Works of South Manchuria Railway, Plant Extension and Output, 489
• - Austria-Hungary’s Steel Output in 191 7 and 1918, 333
• - Bethlehem-Chile Iron Ore Dock at Cruze- Grande, 279
• - Blast-furnaces at Wellingborough Re-opened,
• - British Federation of Iron, Steel, Tin-plate and Metal Merchants, Aleeting between Merchants and Manufacturers, 333

IRON AND STEEL (continued):

• - Castings, Iron, in America, Cost of, at Begin ning of Last Century, 437
• - Castings Replaced by Electric Welding of Steel Plates, 463
• - Chrome Iron Ore Discovery in Rhodesia, 157
• - Coating Iron Articles, Dr. C. Baskerville’s Method, 157
• - Copper as a Protective Against Steel Corrosion, 305
• - Corrosion of Iron Hot-water Pipes, Method of Prevention, 85
• - Ferrous Metals, Measuring Magnetic Hardness, andc., L. A. Wild, 255
• - First Cast of Steel at Coatbridge Works, 589
• - French Iron and Steel Companies Amalgamation, 279
• - French Tool Steel, “Etiquette Rouge,” 305
• - German Iron and Steel Industries Proposed Combination, 411
• - German Output of Crucible and Electric Steel in 1917, 111
• - Gorman Prices of Pig Iron, Spiegel, and Merchant Bars, 489
• - Ingot Heating, Possible Injury by Great Speed, F. E. Bash, 589
• - Iron Oro Deposit Investigation by United States Geological Survey, 463
• - Lorraine Iron Ore for Export to Germany, French Price for, 463
• - Manganese Shortage : Additional Sources Indicated, 565
• - Ontario, Two New Steel Works being Built, 539
• - Pretoria Iron and Steel Industry, Proposed Extension, 565
• - Rusting of Steel having Copper Content, 85
• - Steel Boiler Plates in the Yangtze Valley, High Prices Paid, 35
• - Swedish Iron and Steel Industry, Low Output and Depression, 305
• - Swiss Steel Foundry, Electric Smelting of Scrap Iron, 437
• - Tata Steel Works, India : Renewed Contracts with Japan, 279
• - Titaniferous Iron Sands of New Zealand, V. W. Aubel, 565
• - Tunis Iron Exports to England, 231
• - Vancouver Company to Test Electric Smelting Process for Magnetite Ores, 383
• IRRIGATION, Blue Nile Scheme, Bill for Loan Passed by House of Commons, 135
• Irrigation Reservoir in Ahmcdnagar District, Bombay, 635
• Irrigation Scheme for Mexico, 463
• Irrigation in South Africa from the Upper Modder River, 85
• Irrigation in South Africa : Utilising the Kalahari Lake, 135
• Italy, Investigation into Extent of Radioactive Substances, 85

J

• JAMAICA, Loan for Roads and Other Constructional Work, 157
• Japan, Mineral Statistics of, 255
• Japan, Submarine Tunnel to Replace Ferry between Railway Stations, 279
• Japan as a Trade Competitor, E. F. Crowe, 111
• Japan’s Foreign Trade, Great Increase, 135
• Japanese New Monthly Journal, “The Transpacific,” 359
• Japanese Population and Trade in India, Rapid Growth, 333
• Java Fair at Bandoeng : British Section Inadvisable, 613
• Java, Industrial Fair at, Important, 59

K

• KAPOK, Buoyancy of, Results of Experiments, 85
• “Kapok” for Life-saving Appliances at Sea, 157
• Kauri Forests in New Zealand, 35
• Kelp, Wet, Plant for Dealing with, 565
• Kinematograph Films Shown at the British Scientific Products Exhibition, 35
• King’s College : Old Students’ Association, 68
• King’s College War Memorial, 255
• Korean Ores Largely Exploited by Japanese, 35
• Krupp Works Locomotive Output, 411
• Kwantung Factories for Sulphuric Acid, Soap, andc., 231

L

• LABOUR Costs and Mining Output Decline on the Rand, 181
• Lantern Slides for Lectures, Bennis and Co., 526
• Lantern Slides for Lectures, Marshall, Sons and Co., 548
• Lead Factories in Belgium, German Treatment of, 383
• Lead-Zinc-Iron Ores, Finely Disseminated, Difficulty in Making Clean Separation, 35
• Lead and Zinc Mines in the Lake Country, Projected Developments, 207
• Leaks in Masonry Wall of Canal, Method of Stopping, 383
• Leather Belting : New Conditions of Sale, 147
• Lectures and Concerts to Workmen, Palmers, Hebburn-on-Tyne, 578
• Liffey, Proposed Tunnels Under, for Electric Mains and for Pedestrians, 207
• Light Intensity, Effect of Fog on, C. L. Utterback, 337
• Lighting in Factories and Workshops, Leon Gaster, 122
• Lighting, Public and Private, Recent Developments in, W. C. Clinton, 421
• “Lightning Strikes,” Bill to Prevent, 419
• Lignite Briquetting Factory in Canada, 613
• Lille, Exposition Internationale, andc., for Samples to Utilise in Reconstruction of Devastated Country, 613
• Lithuania, Articles in Demand, 589
• Liverpool to Provide Storage for Oil Fuel for Merchant Steamers, 237
• Local Government Board, Passing of, 11
• Lodge, Sir Oliver, Tidal Power versus Land Reclamation : Atomic Energy, Wasteful Use of, 613
• Longitude of the World to be Determined by Wireless Telegraphy, 515
• Lord Roberts’ Memorial Workshops, Some Results, 7
• Lumber Production in United States, 11
• Lysaght, John, Limited, New Australian Works, 539

M

• MACHINE Tools, Government Sale at High Prices, 34
• Machine Tools, Suggestions for Common Standards in Certain Directions for Britain and America, 35
• Machine Tools, Use of, for Mechanical Accuracy; Egyptians, in 4700 B.C., were Beforehand with Whitworth, Professor W. M. F. Petrie, 47
• Madagascar, Hydro-electric Installation at Tamatave, 635
• Madras Engineering College Not Quite Ready, 231
• Madras Government Orders Survey and Report on Various Ports, 59
• Magnetic Sclerometer on Lean, 315
• Magnetic Surveys at Irthlingborough and Melton Mowbray, Investigation and Important Conclusions, 11
• Manganese—see Iron and Steel
• Maps from Aero-photographs, Disadvantages, 161
• Marshall, Sons and Co., Lantern Slides for Lectures, 548
• Mechanical Transport Department’s Smart Work at Kempton Park, 11
• Mexico City, Projected Exhibition of British Products, 231
• Micro-mechanism of the Ageing of Duralumin, Dr. Zay Jeffries, 255
• Microscope : Its Design, Construction, and Application : A Symposium, 588
• Midland Laboratory Guild, 539
• Milk Churns Brought to Paddington Daily, 383
• Mills on the Thames for Extraction of Oil from Copra and Palm Nuts, 85
• Milne Earthquake Observatory, Work to be Carried on at Oxford, 231
• Mine in Michigan, Deepest in the World, 333 ; (Letter), 409
• Mino Timber, The Preservation of, N. T. Williams, 47, 463
• Mineral Resources of the Empire : Monographs Committee of the Imperial Institute, 561
• Mineral Wealth of St. Agnes, Cornwall, 489
• Minerals Development, 597
• Miners Conveyed to and from Work at Doncaster, 35
• Miners’ Lamps, Home-office Invites Suggestions, 255
• Mining Exhibition in South Africa, 534
• Mining Explosion in Staffordshire : Gas and Coal Dust, 462
• Mining, Non-ferrous, in the United Kingdom, Board of Trade Committee, 173, 383, 411, 437, 489, 565
• Mining at St. Ives, Cornwall, 565
• Motor Boat and Marine and Stationary Exhibition, International, 626
• Motor Car Engines, Weight of, Compared with Aero-Engines, 359
• Motor Car Weight Increase, Major F. Strickland, 207, 359
• Motor Cars, Lorries, and Cycles, Output from Government Transport Depot at Slough, 539
• Motor Cycle’s Mileage on a Gallon of Petrol, Ealing Trials, 255
• Motor Omnibuses, Involuntary Stops, Small Proportion of, 515
• Motor Spirit Replaced by Benzole and Alcohol, Captain Montgomery, 11
• Motor Spirit from Sugar Cane : Works at Nairobi, 157
• Moving a Big Gas Container, 11

N

• NANKING Experiments in Cultivation of American Cotton, 333
• National Factories for Sale, 46
• Nature, Jubilee of, 463
• Naval History Chair for University of London, 135
• Necessity Not the Mother of Invention, 635
• New Zealand Coal Mines, Reported Nationalisation, 85
• New Zealand Hydro-electric Works Acquired by Dominion Government, 515
• News Letter for American Contractors’ Business, 111
• Niagara Falls, Chemical Industries, Established and Prospective, 383
• Niagara Falls Power Development Begun in 1842, 635
• Nice, Reconstruction of Port, 463
• Nitrate Deposits in South African District, Costs of Commercial Production, 589
• Nitrate of Lime Factory in Norway, Largest Water Power Station in the World, 613
• Nitrates from Overseas for British Explosives, Urgent Need for Construction of Factory in England, James Young, 85
• Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Experiments in Fixation of, 489
• Nitrogen, Atmospheric, Fixation of, Sale of Incomplete Government Factory, 539
• Nobel Prize Distribution Postponed till 1920, 85
• Non-ferrous Mining, Board of Trade Committee, 173, 383, 411, 437, 489, 565
• Norway’s Imports of Motor Cars, Lorries, andc., Small Proportion from Great Britain, 585

O

• OIL Depot at Belfast with View to Shipping and Electrical Requirements, 305
• Oilfield in West Norfolk, Development Leads to Brick and Glass Making, 207
• Oilfields of Athabaska, Wealth Confirmed by Old Records, 437
• Oil Fuel Immensely Cheaper than Coal in Far Eastern Ports, 515
• Oil Fuel Recommended in Substitution for Coal in France, 565
• Oil Fuel Storage at Liverpool, 237
• Oil at the Hardstoft Well, Increased Flow, 437, 463
• Oil in Midlothian, 359
• Oil in Northern Rhodesia, 231
• Oil Tanks for Naval Supply, 81
• Oil Wells, Government, in Derbyshire, Progress and Prospects, 463
• Old Centralians, Address, andc., 196
• Olympia, Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 11
• Omnibus Fares Increase Justified by Increased Costs, 10
• Omnibuses, Overloaded : Factor of Safety, 539

P

• PAINT on Structural Steel, Quantities, 84
• “Painter” in Water Off the Coast of Peru, 539
• Paints for Bearings and Machinery, Research into Behaviour of Double Iodides of Mercury, andc., 305
• Panama Canal Negotiated by Dreadnoughts, 135
• Paper Import Restrictions Removed, 255
• Paris Institution for Centralisation of Trade Projected, 437
• Patent-office Examiners, 242
• Patent-office Library Hours, Petition for Lengthening, 613
• Patent Owners and Manufacturers, Now Association, 11
• Patents in Poland, 231
• Patents Prolongation, British Chambers of Commerce Resolution, 59
• Patents and Trade Marks in Enemy Countries, Board of Trade Authorisation of Fees, 35
• Patents and Trade Marks : International Congress to Discuss Question, 111
• Patentees, Imperial Institute of, 528
• Peace Celebration Dinner, G. A. Harvey and Co., 110
• Peat Resources of Irish Bogs, 539
• Petrograd Engineering Factories Suffer from Bolshevist Rule, 463
• Petrol Drums, Supposed Empty, Fatal Explosions, 207
• Petrol Handling in France, 207
• Petroleum, Boring for, at West Calder, 255
• Petroleum Executive : Development of Oil Shale Industry in United Kingdom, 383
• Petroleum Investigations in Mexico, 411, 463
• Petroleum in Mexico, Output, Potential and Actual, 437
• Petroleum in New Guinea as Possible Repayment for Australia’s War Outlay, 134
• Phosphate Mines, Morocco, 565
• Photographic Development, Process for Gum- bichromate Prints, 35
• Photography Aided by Refrigeration, 157
• Pipes, Casting Iron, by Centrifugal System, 613
• Platinum Mining Improvement, Increased Russian Output Expected, 85
• Poland to Obtain Certain Chemical Products from Czecho-Slovakia, 589
• Poland’s Economic Resources, 539
• Polish Government Loan in the United States, 589
• Pontoons, Flexible, in Ship Salvage, Successful Experiments, 279
• Port of Sagua, Cuba, Improvement by Dredging, 613
• Portland Cement Factory in Buenos Aires District, 383
• Portland Cement Factories and Potash Recovery, 411
• Portuguese Proposed Purchase of British Wireless Installation at Madeira, 613
• Power Costs at Rhodesian Gold Mine, Coal Cost, 231
• Power,.Electric—see also Electrical Matters
• Power Transmission by Steel Belts on Magnetised Pulleys, 35
• Profit-sharing and Labour Co-partnership, Government Report, 111

Q

• QUEENSLAND’S Mineral Output, 411
• Queensland State Iron and Steel Industry : Suggested By-product Production, 437
• Queensland University Lectureship, 268

R

• RADIUM Discoveries in Canada, 565
• Radium Production in the United States, 305
• Railless Electric Traction Service of Shanghai, 411

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :

• - Accident, Derailment on London and North- Western, 181
• - Accident, Fatal, on French Railway, 279
• - Accident Reports, Board of Trade, 437
• - Accidents, Fatal, to Passenger Trains, A Year’s Immunity from, 59
• - Accidents, Level Crossing, on Southern Pacific Railroad, 135
• - Allocation of Goods Traffic and Hardships of Traders, 85
• - Ambulance Train Traffic on the Great Western Railway, 207
• - American Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen : Proposed Cooperative Stores on Large Scale, 135
• - American Express Company, Packing Regulations, 359
• - American Locomotives, 150, for Italian Railways, 35
• - American Railway Associations Convention : Depreciation in Freight Cars, 135
• - American Saw Mills Supplying Sleepers for British and French Railways, 35, 85
• - American Troop Movement ; Bailway Figures, 111

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

• - Annual Reports of Railways, Statutory Form of Account to be Resumed, 111
• - Appointmentsand Staff Changes, 11, 85, 135, 207, 230, 255, 279, 437, 463, 515
• - Arabia, Narrow-gauge Railway, Aden to Lahej, 488
• - Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co., First Main Line Locomotive Built, Trial of, 437
• - Athens, Existing Travel Facilities, Overland to Mediterranean Ports and Thence by Steamer, 279
• - Baldwin Locomotive Works Change of President, 35
• - Banbury Station Free Buffet War Work, 411
• - Blackpool Traffic “ Rationing,” 135
• - Blandford Railway, Net Cost, 231
• - Bolivia’s National Resources and Lack of Transport Facilities, 305
• - “Bradshaw’s Continental Guido,” Death of Editor, 333
• - Brakesman’s Comfort on the El Paso and South-Western Railroad, 489
• - Brazil Commission on State Railway Standardisation, 515
• - Brighton Tramway Track Renewals Cost, 180
• - British Railway Companies’ Weekly Notices to Operating Staff, 565
• - Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway Finance, 539
• - Buenos Aires Railway, Oil Fuel Supply Cheaper than Coal, 515
• - “Calling-on” Signal on Different Railways’ 515
• - Canadian Government Acquisition of Grand Trunk and other Railways, Terms, 321, 333, 411
• - Canadian Government Railroad Commissioner as Finance Minister, 305
• - Canadian Pacific Railway, Reputation for Courtesy, 359
• - Canadian Pacific Railway, Transport of Returned Troops, Record Figures, 111
• - Canal Traffic Tonnage Statistics, 565
• - Carriages Turned into Living-rooms for Railway Workmen, 255
• - Cartage of Goods by Railways, When Remunerative and Otherwise, 59
• - Central London and London and South- Western, Suggested New Connection, 613
• - Ceylon Government Railways and Coal Economy, 359
• - Charing Cross Underground Station ; Quarter Million Passengers and Additional Stairways, 497
• - Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, Track Kept Level by Adjustment of Pontoon Bridge, 35
• - Chicago Railway Services, Electrification, Agreement between City and Railway Company, 35
• - Chili State Railways, Electrification of 2300 Miles, 305
• - Clock, Electrical, Four-face, for Waterloo, 613
• - “Closed” Stations and Platform Tickets, Protest at Manchester, 589
• - Coal Bill of Railways with Six Shillings a Ton Increase, 85, 613
• - Coastwise Traffic Decline, Subsidy and E dimated Cost, 635
• - Coast Traffic—see also Sea-borne
• - Collision, Buffer Stop, at Cannon-street, 59, 359
• - Collision, Buffer Stop, at Crowe, 515, 565 ; Suggested Precaution for Bay Lines, 613
• - Collision, Buffer Stop, at Haverhill, Great Eastern Railway, 589
• - Collision, at Cheshire Lines Manchester Station, 463
• - Collision, Due to Gale, near Chesterfield, 635
• - Collision, Fatal, on the Caledonian Railway, 359
• - Collision, at Huddersfield, 359
• - Collision, at Hull, Report, 231
• - Collision, between London, Brighton and South Coast Train and Light Engine at Streatham, 463
• - Collision, on Midland Great Western Railway, 539
• - Collision, on the New York Central Railway, Supposed Caused by Tramp Stowaway, 231
• - Collision, at Preston Station, Report, 424
• - Collision, at Prestwick, Glasgow and South- Western Line, 539
• - Collision, at Selby between Great Eastern and Great Northern Trains, 463
• - Commercial Travellers’ Privileges, Certain Restrictions to be Retained, 539
• - Commercial Travellers’ Privileges Still Suspended, 59
• - Congestion of Railways and Docks as a War Consequence, 207
• - Congestion of Railways and Wagon Shortage ; High Sea Rates Cause Transference of Conveyance to Railways, 92, 207
• - Cork Railway Connections, Temporary, Request for Permanent Maintenance, 539
• - Corrugated Fire-box, New Type, in U.S.A., 255
• - Cycle Carriage on the District Railway, 207
• - Death of Mr. G. P. Culverwell, 489
• - Deatli of Mr. Charles Mattathias Jacobs, 359
• - Death of Mr. William Kirtley, 411
• - Death of Sir Joseph Lawrence, 489
• - Death of Mr. Frank Potter, Great Western Railway Manager, 85, 111, 135
• - Death of Railway Commissioner to the Victorian Government, 207
• - Death of Lord Rathmore, 206
• - Death of Mr. H. Cuff Smart, 489
• - Derailment at Acton Bridge, Report Findings, Fire from Gas Cylinder, 305
• - Derailment on the District Railway, 255
• - Derailment, Fatal, in France, 207
• - Derailment, Fatal, on the Midland Railway, 359, 411, 489
• - Derailment Outrage in Ireland, 181, 359
• - Derbyshire Peak, Scheme for Railway, 635
• - Dover and Calais Service ai/d Demobilisation, 383
• - Dublin Mail Boat Service, Changes, 255
• - East Indian Railway Company, Extension of Contract for Working under Consideration, 111
• - East Indian Railway Fatal Collision, 35

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con- tinued):

• - East Indian Railway Company, Government Contract Extension ; Conversion Rate for Rupee, 370
• - East Indian Railway Company, Increased Carriage of Coals and other Goods, 157
• - East Indian Railway, New Chief Engineer, 135
• - East London Railway Opening, Jubilee, 565
• - Edinburgh and Glasgow Traffic, Respective Routes, 515
• - Eight-hour Day Adoption and Difficulties, 11
• - Electric Lighting for Railways to Prevent Fires, 231
• - Electric Locomotives for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Tests, 589
• - Electricity Supply Bill, Railway Generating Stations and Main Transmission Lines Exempted from Transfer under Clause 7, 135
• - Electrification of Italian Railways by Italo- American Syndicate, 565
• - Electrification of Main Line Railroads, Statistics for U.S.A., W. B. Potter and S. T. Dodd, 85
• - Electrification on North-Eastern Main Line Section and on Loop Line, 463
• - Electrification and Rebuilding of French Railways, 117
• - Electrification Schemes on Various British Main Lines, 539
• - Engineers as General Managers, 255
• - Enginemen’s Equalised Pay and Unequalised Hours and Responsibility, 489
• - Enginemen to have Working Clothes Provided Free, 35
• - Engines, Robinson Design, Transferred from War-office to Various Railways, 135
• - Entre Rios Railway, Fuel Question, 411, 437
• - Entre Rios Railway, Record Growth in Receipts and Ton Mileage, 463
• - Eyesight of Drivers and Firemen, 35, 411
• - Eyesight Test, 279
• - Fares and Freight Rates ; Question of Ending Subsidy to Railways, 181
• - Fares Revision on the London Underground Railways, 255
• - Federated Malay States Railways Engine, 383
• - Federated Malay States Railways Increased Maintenance Costs, 305
• - Fifty Years’ Work with One Company, 181
• - Films Showing Railway Work, 85
• - Fires on Railways ; Gas versus Electricity, 231, 305
• - Fish and the Railways, 58
• - Flag Decoration of Omnibuses, Trams, and Trains of London Electric Railways and Allied Companies to Celebrate Employees’ Return from the Army, 11
• - Folkestone-Dover Line Closed since 1914 and now Reopened, 111
• - Foodstuffs, Perishable, Carriage Arrangements, 613
• - France, Railway Accidents in Three Months, 383
• - Freight Cars Depreciation in America, 135
• - Freight Rates on Railways and Sea-borne Goods, 157
• - French Flat-bottomed Rails Sold to South Africa, 111
• - French Officials Visit United States for Study of Electrification of Railways, 35
• - French Railways, Reconstruction and Electrification, 117
• - French State Railways Derailment, 207
• - Fuel Question on South American Railways, Oil Displacing Coal, 411, 437
• - Galway (Barna) Railway and Harbour Bill, 613
• - Gas on Railways as a Cause of Fire, 231, 305
• - Gattie System of Handling Goods, Committee of Inquiry, 35, 58, 157, 279, 333
• - Gauges on Railways, Three in All, 59
• - Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Eight Men with Company for Fifty Years, 181
• - Golf as an Aid to Railroad Working, 489
• - Goods and Passenger Traffic, Estimate of Revenue Asked for, 11
• - Government’s Offer to Railwaymen, 635
• - Government and Railwavmen’s Unions, 207, 383
• - Great Eastern Railway, Slight Collision with Buffer Stop, 333
• - Great Northern Expresses, Acceleration, 539
• - Great Northern Railway Extension, Change of Scheme, 635
• - Great Northern Railway, Retirement of Chief Traffic Manager, 135
• - Great Western Railway Divisional Engineer at Shrewsbury, 11
• - Great Western Railway General Manager, Death of Mr. Frank Potter ; New Appointment, 85, 111, 135
• - Great Western Railway, Mileage Increase of, 635
• - Hand-to-mouth Principle, Consignments Smaller and More Frequent than in Prewar Days, 35
• - Handling Goods and Traffic, Mr. A. W. Gattie’s Proposals, Board of Trade Committee to Investigate, 35, 58, 157
• - Hull Station and the Gattie System, 157
• - Improved Service between London, Birmingham, andc., and Wales, 383
• - India-office Negotiations on Locomotive Building, 565
• - Indian Railway Conference and Standardised Wagons, 231
• - Indian Railways and Home-made Wagons, 231
• - Irish Transport Director, Contemplated Appointment, 111
• - Jamaica Railways, Question of Conversion from Steam to Electrical Working, 11
• - Japan and Railway Electrification, Locomotives from Germany Compared with Home-made, 92
• - Krupp’s New Locomotive Works and Prussian State Railways, 333
• - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway “Rationing,” 135
• - Letterkenny and Burtonport Railway, Improvements in Line and Working, 11
• - Level Crossing Accidents on Southern Pacific Railroad, 135
• - Light Railway Commissioners: Orders Applied for and Confirmed, 135, 589

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

• - Locomotive Building Design in America, Question of Standardisation or Otherwise, 35
• - Locomotive Building in India, 565
• - Locomotive Situation in France, 215
• - Locomotives from France, Cost of Fifty, 613
• - Locomotives for France from United States in War Time, 515
• - Locomotives, Mr. Robinson’s Design, Lying Idle ; Possible Explanation, 333, 613
• - Locomotives and Rolling Stock Sent Overseas during the War, 85
• - Locomotives for South Africa to be Built in Canada and United States instead of United Kingdom, 111
• - Locomotives and Wagons Built at Woolwich, 437
• - Locomotives and Wagons Stored in the Open, Question and Answer, 207
• - Lodging Allowance to Travelling Trainmen, Revision, 85
• - London and North-Western Coach Derailed, 181
• - London and North-Western’s Greenore Service New Steamers, 463
• - London and North-Western Railway Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Buffet, 207
• - London and North-Western Running Superintendent, Changes, 85
• - London and North-Western War Memorial, 463
• - London and Paris, Day Passenger Service Resumed by Brighton Railway Company, 35
• - London and Paris, Time-table of Connections, 437
• - London Railways and Extension of Electrification, 59
• - London, Railways Running Into, Present Percentage of Pre-war Services, 85
• - London and South-Western Suburban Services Improvements, 613
• - Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Manager Thanked for Assistance to Navy During War, 142
• - Lorries May be Adopted by Railways, But Not by the State, 635
• - Lorries, War-office, for Conveyance of Railway Goods, 111, 157, 635
• - Lorries—see also Transport, Ministry of
• - Madrid Metropolitan Electric Underground Railway Opened, 437
• - Manchester and Oldham Section of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 489
• - Marseilles Projected Underground Railway, 489
• - Mechanical Stokers on United States Locomotives, Increased Numbers, 157
• - Meeting Trains on United States Railways, A Fifty Years’ Old Rule, 589
• - Melbourne Suburban Railways, Electrification, 635
• - Mersey Dock and Harbour Board, Change of Manager, 437
• - Metropolitan District Railway : Consequences of Rails Scarcity, 85
• - Metropolitan District Railway’s New Cars, 59
• - Metropolitan Railway’s Increased Service, 11
• - Midland Great Western Railway—see Mullingar
• - Midland Railway Steamship Service between Heysham and Belfast, 565
• - Miners’ Demonstration at Blackpool, Special Trains and Numbers, 59
• - Motor Lorries Lent to Railways by Government, 255, 437—see also Lorries
• - Moving Platforms on the New York Subway, 463
• - Mullingar and Kells Railway : Projected Connection between West and North of Ireland, Avoiding Dublin, 569, 613
• - National Railroad Question of To-day, C. A. Morse, 94
• - National Union of Railwaymen, Administration Changes, 539
• - Nationalisation of Railways and Shareholders’ Interests, 59
• - North British Railway Locomotives Renamed After War Service Overseas, 565
• - North British Railway’s Locomotive Loss by Fire at Cowlairs, 11
• - North-Eastern Railway Collision at Hull, Report, 231
• - North-Eastern Railway, Electrification on 489
• - North-Eastern Railway Goods Traffic : Information for Gattie System Committee, 333
• - North-Eastern Railway, New Deputy Manager, 11
• - North-Eastern Railway’s Running Superintendent, 463
• - Nottingham Station Entrance of the Midland Railway, 207, 279, 489
• - Official Appointments of Sir Eric Geddes and Mr. H. G. Burgess, 207
• - Oil Fuel to Replace Coal and Wood on South American Railways, 411, 437
• - Omnibus Men’s Splendid Service on Outbreak of War, 411
• - Overcrowded London Trains and Electrification, 59
• - Parcel Loss on London and North-Western Railway, Case Lost by Railway on Appea 135
• - Parcels Rates Increase, 231
• - Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean Railway, Electrification between Clermont Ferrand and Nimes, 111
• - Paris Metropolitaine Finance, A Deficit, 305
• - Paris Metropolitaine, Great Increase in Tickets Issued, 231
• - Passengers’ Luggage, 100 lb. Limit Question, 169
• - Pennsylvania Railroad, New Mallet Engine 255
• - Pensioned Railway Servants and Higher Cost of Living, 463
• - Piecework and Similar Systems on Railways, Fresh Agreement, 59
• - Plans and Tracings as Hospital Bandages, Historic Signatures, 305
• - Plumb Plan for Railway Operation, 231
• - Pontoon Swing Bridge Adjusted with Rise and Fall of the Mississippi, to Keep Railway Track Level, 35
• - Port Congestion, Sir Auckland Geddes on, 181
• - Post-office (London) Railway, Completion of Running Tunnel, Delayed Opening, 11

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

• - Queensland Government Railway and Automatic Signals, 489
• - Race Meetings and Train Services, 176
• - Railway Benevolent Institution, Record Receipts, 11
• - Railway Bills Deposited, Decreased Number, 613
• - Railway Clearing House, New Secretary, 613
• - Railway Companies Association Circular to Proprietors Explaining Government Connection and Future Prospects, 635
• - Railway Employees, Increased Numbers, 613
• - RAILWAY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE :
• -- Blandford Railway Handed Over to Executive Committee, 231
• -- Collieries and Wagon Shortage, Measures Taken, 135
• -- Continental Services, Efficiency Dependent on Government Requirements, 157
• -- Foreign Goods and Coastwise Traffic and Charges, 207
• -- Holidays and Pay of Clerks, Stationmasters, andc., New Scheme, 305
• -- Sunday Duty Pay, 39
• -- Wages Agreement between Government and Unions, 207
• - Railway Management and Ill-informed Criticism, 589
• - Railway Material Exports, Statistics, 11, 181, 231, 383, 589, 635
• - Railwaymen and Piecework Question, 59
• - Railwaymen’s Nine Hours Interval between Work, 94
• - Railwaymen’s Unions, Probable Amalgamation, 59
• - Railway Working Results to End of August, 437
• - Rates and Strikes, 515
• - “Rationing” Traffic to Blackpool, 135
• - Record Passenger Traffic on London and on New York Local Railways, Comparison, 11
• - Richborough, Cost of Works at, and Future of the Port, 59
• - Rolling Stock Cost, Pre-war and Post-war Prices Compared, 489
• - Rolling Stock Deficiencies as a War Consequence, 565
• - Rolling Stock for War Service Abroad, Questions Arising, 157
• - Russia, South-East, and Turkestan, Railway, Communication Opened, 463
• - “Safety First” Movement, Originator in this Country, 255
• - Safety First ; Records of Immunity from Accident, 411
• - St. Just (Falmouth) Ocean Wharves and Railways Bill, 111
• - St. Paul Station, Second Largest in the United States, 359
• - Sea-borne Goods Charges and Railway Congestion, 92, 207
• - Season Tickets during the Strike, 463
• - Season Tickets, Enamelled, Proposal by the Metropolitan Railway Company, 279
• - Season Tickets, Monthly, Resumed, 255
• - Severn Tunnel, Goods Traffic Increase since Pre-war Time, 635
• - Shanghai to Build its own Tramcars, 231
• - Shropshire, Two New Railways, Conferences on the Proposition, 589
• - Signals, Automatic and Block, in the United States, 333
• - Sinai Railway Built by Engineer Railwaymen, 207
• - Single-line Tokens and Starting Signals, Suggested Precaution, 613
• - Sleepers from United States for British and French Railways, 35, 85
• - Smoking in Hospitals, Railway Employees’ Pipe Renovation Work for Soldiers, 207
• - Snow Closes Transandine Railway for Five Months, 565
• - South African Locomotive Orders Lost to United Kingdom, 111
• - South African Railway Rates Increase, 565
• - South American Railways Fuel—see Fuel South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Accident, Result of Inquiry, 157
• - South-Eastern and Chatham Railway Uses Twenty-four Hours’ Timing, 255
• - South Indian Railway Steamers Worked at a Loss, 515
• - South Wales and Wagon Delays, 635
• - Standardised Wagons for India, 231
• - Steamship, Railway, Services-—see also Ships
• - Strike, Government Direct Cost, 437
• - Strike and Industrial Communications by Railway, 383
• - Strike, Parliamentary Debate Suggested, 437
• - Strike and Passenger Traffic, 383
• - Strike of Railway Shopmen in America, 355, 383
• - Strike and Volunteer Assistance, Railway Companies’ Resolutions in Appreciation, 463
• - Subsidy to Railways and Question of Freight Rates, 181
• - Summer Time in America Causes an Hour’s Train Stoppage, 565
• - Swedish State Railway Electrification, Time and Cost Estimate, 111
• - Swiss Surcharge on Tickets for France, Due to Exchange Rate, 613
• - Thomas, Mr. J. H., on Government Conciliation Scheme, 535
• - Tokyo, Projected Railway Electrification. Locomotive Difficulties, 92
• - Trades Unions, and Railway Control, 539
• - Traffic Allocation to a Given Company, Inconveniences, 157
• - Traffic Difficulties, Offer of War-office Lorries 111, 157
• - Train and Omnibus, Increased Accommodation, 411
• - Transport Committee (Metropolitan Area) Progress, 59 ; Report, 181
• - Transport of Goods Delay, Suggested Remedy, 73
• - TRANSPORT, MINISTRY OF :
• -- Congestion at Terminals and Ports, Cause, and Steps Taken to Remedv, 137
• -- Definition of Word “Possession,” 181
• -- Electricity Bill, New Powers, and the Ministry of Transport, 539
• -- Goods Rates Increase, 279
• -- Information Required from Railway and other Authorities, 333

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

• - TRANSPORT, MINISTRY OF (continued)
• -- Irish County Councils’ Request for Irish Committee for Transport in Ireland, 359
• -- Irish Director-General of Transport, 489
• -- Locomotives of Various Types Built in Great Britain for Use in France, Allocated to British Railways, 539
• -- London Traffic, Special Committee, 255, 359, 463
• -- Minister’s Title Changed to Minister of Transport, 135
• -- Motor Lorries Lent by Government, 255, 437
• -- Number of Ministry Staff, 437
• -- Powers of other Departments, Transference to Ministry of Transport, 279, 305
• -- Return of Locomotives and Wagons Lent to France, 411, 437
• -- Revision of Rates, andc., Committee to Advise before Action, 415, 437, 589
• -- Rolling Stock Position ; Figures in Preparation by Ministry, 515
• -- Royal Assent to Bill, 181
• -- Sir Eric Geddes on Privately Owned Wagons, 85
• -- Transport, Institute of, 489
• -- Transport, Railway, Papers Read at the British Association Meeting, 279
• -- Trucks at Avonmouth, 38 to Replace 482, 181
• -- Tunnel Under the Solent ; Address to Ministry Suggested, 383
• -- Wagon Building, Government and Private, 437
• -- Wagon Ownership, Analysis, 539
• -- Wagons, Privately Owned and Otherwise, Comparison of Tonnage Carried, 181
• - TRAVELLING Vouchers for Members of Parliament, Question of, 157, 181
• - Twenty-four Hours’ Timing :
• -- Home Secretary Appoints Committee to Consider the Question, 333
• -- South - Eastern and Chatham Adopts System, 255
• - Uganda Government Railway, Proposed Increase of Fares, 489
• - “Underground” Posters to Explain Increase in Working Cost, 189
• - Underground Railway Window Posters, 515
• - Uniforms of Underground and Omnibus Employees, Huge Cost Increase, 181
• - United States Exports of Steel Rails, Fishplates, andc., to Various Countries, 515
• - UNITED STATES RAILWAYS :
• -- Agreement between Administration and Companies, Difficulties in Adjustment, 165
• -- Appeal for Economy in Use of Fuel and Stores, 11
• -- Demobilisation and Passenger Equipment, 383
• -- Employees, Statistics, 613
• -- Federal Control Removal from Railways, 489, 515
• -- Freight Cars Orders Delayed, but Good Supply, 463
• -- Inventory of Supplies and Material Prior to Return of Railways to Private Management, 383
• -- Pennsylvania Company’s Fast Train Restored, 35
• -- Railroad Bill, Senator Cummins as Promoter, 515
• -- Railway Industry Shown in Diagram, E. B. Leigh, 111
• -- Railway Operation and the Plumb Plan, 231
• -- Railway Revenue and Expenditure, 305
• -- Ratio of Expenditure to Recipts in 1913 and 1918, 85
• -- Sleepers, 4,000,000, Ordered from Oregon and Washington Sawmills, 35, 85
• -- Strike of Railway Shopmen, 355, 383
• -- War Department Purchases for France Taken Over by Railroad Administration, 85
• -- Women Employees on United States Railways, Increase up to Armistice, Reduction Since, 260
• - Victorian Government Railway Commissioners, An Appointment and a Death, 207
• - Wagon Building and Repair ; Compensation Question, 185
• - Wagon Delays in South Wales, 635
• - Wagon Detention in Excess of Time Allowed, Statistics, 635
• - Wagon, Railway, Ownership, Analysis, 539
• - Wagon Shortage and Colliery Stoppages, 135
• - Wagon Shortage, Relief by Government Motor Lorries, 111, 157
• - Wagons, Common User System, in this Country and in United States, 589
• - Wagons, Privately Owned and Otherwise, Census, 181, 589
• - Wagons Used in France Out of Gauge for English Railways, 613
• - Wagons from Woolwich Arsenal ; None Yet Delivered, 565
• - War Bonus of Officers, 279
• - War Lorries for Relief of Dock Congestion, Cost, 635
• - War Lorries for Relief of Dock Congestion Not a Success, 635
• - Ways and Communications Bill—see Transport
• - Willesden, Railway Property in, Rateable Value, 279
• - Women on Railway Work, Diminishing Number Pending Men’s Demobilisation, 565
• - Women on Railway Work, War Cabinet Committee, 72
• - Workmen’s Fares and Trains Still as in Prewar Time, 59
• - York and Newcastle ; Main and Loop Line Electrification on the North-Eastern Railway, 489
• RAINFALL Data, British, Continuance of Publication, 85
• Rainfall, Record, in Manila, 589
• Rangefinders, Progress in, Dr. A. Barr, 111
• Rangoon Dock Construction Postponed, Erosion Works Projected, 635
• Ransome, Lewis, Accident, 382
• Redmayne, Sir Richard, Returns to Post as Chief Inspector of Mines, 463
• Refractory Materials Section of the Ceramic Society ; Various Meetings, 383
• Refrigerating Plant at Tientsin, 463
• Refrigerating Plants, Small, Successful Manufacture of, in Australia, 463
• Refrigeration to Reduce Glare in Photographing Metal, 157
• Refrigerator Fleet for Italy, Mostly German, 489
• Refuse Collecting and Separating Screen in Hampstead, 111
• Reinforced Concrete Columns, Experiments with Various Forms of Protective Covering, W. A. Hull, 181
• Reinforced Concrete Flag-pole, 157
• Review of the Foreign Press, 528
• Rhodesia Broken Hill Mines, Additional Pump, 157
• Rhone Development—see Electrical Matters
• Richborough, Cost of Works at, and Future of the Port, 59
• Roads, Slippery Condition Due to Tar, andc., Committee of Investigation, 613
• Rock Drilling Tests and Triumphs in South Africa, 181
• Royal Agricultural Society, Trials of Ploughs and Tractors, 635
• Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book, 452

S

• SAFETY in Factories, Home-office Pamphlet 620
• Salvage Pumps and Submersible Salvage Units, Government Sale, 589
• Sand Used in Concrete, Careful Investigation Absolutely Necessary, H. E. Bellamy, 383
• Scarfed Leather Belts, Direction of Travel, 411
• Scientific Lighting and Industrial Efficiency, Leon Gaster, 122
• Scotland and Reinforced Concrete, 333
• Scrap Metal Utilised by Blow-pipe Cutting, 181
• Sea Depth Sounding by Explosive Charges, 463
• Sewage Scheme for Fleet, Further Loan, 231
• Shanghai, Anglo-Chinese Business Men’s Club, 463
• Shanghai, Projected Port Improvements, Dredging and Damming Rivers, 59
• Shearing Strength of Wooden Structures, Simple Device for Improvement, Professor C. Forssell, 35
• Sheffield, Supply of Coke Oven Gas to, Mr. Laverick, 539
• Shells, Commercial Possibilities of, 305

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS:

• - American Transport’s Claim for Record Trip 59
• - Barrow and Belfast Steamship Services, Projected Re-opening, 539
• - Bideford’s First Steel Ship Begun, 565
• - Brussels, Captain Fryatt’s Steamship Salved at Zeebrugge, 207
• - Canadian Government Steel Steamers Building at Vancouver, 635
• - Canadian Mercantile Marine, New Ships Delivered, 515
• - Chicago to Liverpool, Voyage of Vessel of over 4000 Tons, 59
• - Coal Loading Record at Sunderland, 463
• - Curraghmore, London and North-Western Steamer, Lent to City of Dublin Steam Packet Company for Mail Service, 539
• - Dreadnought Fleet Passed through Panama Canal Locks, 135
• - Dublin Mail Boat Service Changes, 255
• - Electrically Welded Ship, First Launched in France, 613
• - First Steamer to be Built at Prince Rupert, British Columbia, 613
• - Foreign Ships’ Charters Freed from Inter- Allied Control, 59
• - French Government Order, Last of Forty New Ships Launched at Victoria, B.C., 515
• - French Merchant Fleet Reconstruction, Report by Government Commission, 515
• - Fuel for Ships, Immense Saving by Use of Oil, 515
• - Gigantic Ocean Liners for Rapid Atlantic Crossing, 111
• - Greece, Shipping Amalgamation in, 359
• - Hebburn-on-Tyne, New Shipyard at, 59, 539
• - Heysham and Belfast Passenger Service Unlikely to be Resumed, 565

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued):

• - H. M. Destroyer Westminster in Collision, 157
• - Indo-Ceylon Steamers Worked at a Loss, 515
• - Irish Shipyard Purchase at Warrenpoint, 333
• - Japan and America, Relative Cost of Shipbuilding in the Two Countries, 333
• - Japanese New Steamship Line, 157
• - Japanese Shipbuilding Profits, 411
• - Japanese Shipowners and Piers in Kobe Harbour, 255
• - Laurentic Wreck at Lough Swilly, Bullion Salved from, 157
• - Life-saving Appliances on Ships ; Use of “Kapok,” 157
• - London and North-Western Company’s Steamers Renamed ; New Ones Built, 341
• - New Steamer Curraghmore, 463
• - Nova Scotia and Steel Shipbuilding Industry, 635
• - Olympic to be Reconditioned at Belfast, 157
• - Queenstown, Calling of Large Cunard and White Star Steamers Suspended, 207
• - Refrigerator Fleet for Italy, Requisitions from Germany, 489
• - Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, 11, 181, 320
• - Ship’s Position at Sea, Discovered by Depth Charges and Hydrophones, 181
• - Spain Prohibits Export of Certain Ships, 411
• - Steamers Sold to Foreigners this Year, 135
• - Towing, Electric, on the Canal de la Marne, 255
• - United States Shipbuilding versus British, 231
• - Yarrow Shipbuilding Programme at Scotstoun, 305
• SHOWER Bath for Mules Used in Mines, 279
• Silt Removal from Zuni Reservoir, New Mexico, Suggested Method, 613
• Singapore, Petrol Transport Service, 333
• Sirocco—see Davidson
• “Skyscraper” Born in Edinburgh in 1698, 11
• Slate Quarry Waste Utilised in Wales, 515
• Sound for Surveying Diamond Drill Holes ; Accuracy of Listening Instruments, 565
• South African Chamber of Mines Building, 539
• South African Low-grade Gold Mines, Serious Position, 207
• South African Post-office Revenue, 333
• South African Technical Societies, Institute Building for General Use, 135
• Spirit Levels, Major E. O. Henrici, 59 ; J. W. French, 135
• Standardisation of Chains, New Association, 124, 220, 359
• Statistics, Request for Parliamentary Committee by Royal Statistical Society, 85
• Steam Turbines and Fuel Consumption, Professor F. Bacon on, 359
• Steaming Gas Retorts, Mr, Riley, 539
• Steel Wire Rope Tests in United States, 333
• Stone Crushers, Gyratory, Largest Portable Yet Built, 333
• Strikes and the Community, A Warning, 333
• Submarine Acoustics, F. Lloyd Hopwood, 181
• Sugar Cane Mills in the Philippine Islands, 359
• Sugar Factory from Locally Grown Beet near Newark, 59
• Sulphur Discovery in Java, 181
• Summer Time Throughout the Year, Monsieur Pascalis, 374
• Surplus Government Property, Successful Sales, 11, 59, 157, 181
• Surplus, Numbers Published, Surplus Sales Results , 59, 589
• Suspension Bridge, Proposed, at Philadelphia, Span Required, 11

T

• TANK for Precipitation of Solids in Mine Water, 620
• Tasmanian Government Power Scheme, 635
• Telephone Boxes, Roadside, for Automobile Association Members, 107
• Telephone Line between Allahabad and Lucknow, 538
• Testing of Anchors and Chain Cables by Lloyd’s Register, 489
• Textile Materials, Tensile Strength and Atmospheric Humidity, 411
• Thermalene, New Gas for Producing High Temperatures, 383
• Thermit Weld, Unusually Large, 59
• Tidal Power Schemes, English and French, 305
• Tigris and Euphrates Estuary Bar, Need of Removal for Sake of Trade, 463
• Timber Growing in South Africa, Advantages of Pine, 437
• Timber, Methods of Preserving, 489
• Timber, Mine, Preservation of, N. T. Williams, 47, 463
• Timber in New Zealand, Neglected Valuable Asset, 35
• Timber Planting in the United Kingdom, Available Land and Need of Timber, 135
• Timber, Seventy Million Feet from Britislu Columbia, 181
• Timber Tests in United States ; Heartwood and Sapwood, 565
• Tin Ore from British Sources, 565
• Tin-plate Manufacture in Japan, 359
• Tin and Silver Lead Output in New South Wales, Increased Value, 85
• Tin in War Time, Cadmium Used as Substitute in Solder, 515
• Tipping Dumping Wagons : Getting Barges over High Lock Sills, A Comparison, 596
• Tractor Trials and Exhibition at Lincoln, 59
• Trade Unionism Among Professional Associations, 181
• Tram Accident at Burton, Suggestion to Check Running Backwards, 613
• Trams versus Rubber-tired Vehicles, Dr. Blackwood Murray, 565
• Tramways in Aberdeen and Glasgow, Profit with Low Fares, 305
• Transport Committee (Metropolitan Area), Progress, 59 ; Report under Consideration, 181

TRANSPORT, MINISTRY OF:

• - Canals’ Future as a Difficult Problem, 135— see also Board of Trade
• - Crinan Canal, Survey,What to Do with it, 635
• - Date of Transfer of Certain Powers from Board of Trade and Ministry of Health, 279, 305
• - Electricity Bill, New Powers, and the Ministry of Transport, 539
• - Goods Rates, Railway, Increase, 279
• - London Traffic Question, 59, 181, 255, 359, 463
• - Minister’s Title Changed to Minister of Transport, 135
• - Revision of Rates, Fares, andc., Procedure Before Taking Action, 415
• - Royal Assent to Bill, 181
• - Slippery Roads, Committee of Surveyors to Investigate, 613
• - Transport Service, Emergency Road, Continued by Government to Relieve Congestion after the Railway Strike, 411
• TRANSVAAL Gold Mines, Coal Used by, 231

U

• UNIVERSITY of Bristol, Major Robertson Appointed Professor of Mechanical Engineering, 35
• UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE :
• - Recent Developments in Public and Private Lighting, W. C. Clinton, 421
• - Thermionic Detectors, Lectures by Professor J. A. Fleming, 382
• University of Manchester, Increase of Funds Needed for Additional Students, 589

V

• VANCOUVER Island ; Projected Largest Dock in the World at Esquimault, 234
• Venezuela, First National Exhibition, 437
• Vickers Electrical Company, Limited, 181
• Vickers to Occupy St. Ermin’s Hotel, 565
• Vickers’ War Memorial Offer for Barrow, 463
• Victoria, Vancouver Island, New Water Supply, 279

W

• WAGES in Japan, Male and Female Workers, 359
• Wales, Use of Water Power of, for Welsh Industries, Prize Essay at Eisteddfod, 279
• War Models Exhibition, Returns, 35
• Washington International Labour Conference, London and North-Western Official Delegate, 489
• Waterfall, Prehistoric, Immense, 635
• Water-logged Pits in the Tipton District, 181
• Water Power Available in Borneo and Sumatra, 359
• Water Power, French, Suggested Use of, in Relief of Coal Scarcity, 59
• Water Power in India, Potential Resources, 437, 515
• Water Power, Insufficiently Utilised in Germany and Austria, 515
• Water Power Resources in Brazil, 463
• Water Power of the St. Lawrence, Development, 635
• Water Power of the Yangtze River, Scheme for Utilisation, S. J. Powell, 613
• Waterproof Cement, Sir G. K. Scott-Moncrieff, 489

WATER SUPPLY:

• - British Columbia, Water Power Resources, 231
• - Dairen, Shahokoa, New Water Supply Appliances, 231
• - Fire Engine for Refilling Water Reservoir, 181
• - Greater Winnipeg Water Board and Shoal Lake Aqueduct, 503
• - Jerusalem, New Water Supply for, 216
• - Lima, Peru, New Waterworks Projected, 635
• - Manchester Water Scheme Passed House of Lords, 610
• - Metropolitan Water Board Reorganisation Scheme Rejected, 359
• - Nuneaton, Further Water Supply Projected, 589
• - Osaka Water Supply Extensions 231
• - Winnipeg Supply from Lake in Ontario, Arduous Task, 157
• - Water Waste at Night, 207
• WATT Engine and James Watt's Cornish Experiences ; Centenary, 206, 213, 450
• Ways and Communications Bill—see Transport —see also Railways
• Weights and Mea ures, Mr. Halsey on the Decimal System, 255
• Weld Requiring 1400 lb. of Thermit, 59
• Welding of Cutter Bars at a Colliery, 359
• Wells, Deepest, in the World, 359
• Westinghouse, Ex-British, Association Dinner, 548
• Wind Power for Production of Electricity, Proposed Windmills for Supply of St. Ives, 59
• Winnipeg River Power Company, Equipment, 255
• Wire Hawsers, Method of Attaching, to Sunken Vessels, 207
• Wireless Shore Stations in U.S.A., 305
• Wireless Telegraph Station at Warsaw, Germany’s Low Bid, 255
• Wireless Telegraphic Stations in Mexico, Foreign Competition Refused, 463
• Wireless Telegraphy for Determination of Longitude, 515
• Wireless Telephony in Air Flight, 157
• Wittet, G., Retirement from Bombay Government Service, 406
• Wolfram Discoveries in Siberia. 111
• Wood Distillation in India, “Stockholm” Tar from Long-leaf Pine, 85
• Wooden Piling in Wrater, Durability Question, 411
• Wooden Structures, Shearing Strength of, Improvement Device, Professor C. Forssell, 35
• Works, New, in the North of England, 539

Y

• YARROW Shipbuilding Programme, 305

Z

• ZEPPELINS, Proposed Line of, between Germany and Sweden, 463
• Zinc, Electrolytic, Production in Australia, 157
• Zinc Ore Accumulation in China, 411

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