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ACOUSTICAL Effects in Wireless, Captain J. Robinson, 619
Aerial Navigation, Radio Apparatus, in, 619
Aerial for Wave Lengths below 400 m., Condenser Type, 669
Agricultural Possibilities of French West Africa, Scheme for Utilisation of Niger Floods, 669
Agricultural Tractor Trials, Name of Prize Winner, 485
Air Navigation, Anglo-French Agreement, 485
“ Alcobrons,” Metal Alloy, 97
Alcohol Fuel, Experimental Consignment of “ Natalite ” from South Africa, 543
Alcohol for Power Purposes, Empire Motor Fuels Committee Report, 265
Alexandria, Proposed Dredging of Great Pass, 643
Aliens, Former Enemy, Excluded from Manufacture of Dyestuffs in the United Kingdom, 433
Aluminium and its Alloys, Protection from Corrosion, Herr L. von Grotthaus, 643
American Air Service Estimates, 207
American Bricklayers’ Increase in Pay and Decrease in Work, 43
Anglo-Swedish Train Ferry Proposed, 13
Apprenticeship Scheme for Queensland, 400
Aqueduct from Naples to Taranto, 321
Argentina State Oilfields Production, Plans for Intensifying, 97
Argentine Company for Shipbuilding for Trade with Europe, 70
Asbestos Exports from Quebec, 619
Asbestos Industry in Quebec, 480
Asphalt Macadam, Proper Method of . Laying,
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*ACOUSTICAL Effects in Wireless, Captain J. Robinson, 619
*Aerial Navigation, Radio Apparatus, in, 619
*Aerial for Wave Lengths below 400 m., Condenser Type, 669
*Agricultural Possibilities of French West Africa, Scheme for Utilisation of Niger Floods, 669
*Agricultural Tractor Trials. Name of Prize Winner, 485
*Air Navigation, Anglo-French Agreement, 485
*"Alcobrons," Metal Alloy, 97
*Alcohol Fuel, Experimental Consignment of "Natalite" from South Africa, 543
*Alcohol for Power Purposes, Empire Motor Fuels Committee Report, 265
*Alexandria, Proposed Dredging of Great Pass, 643
*Aliens, Former Enemy, Excluded from Manufacture of Dyestuffs in the United Kingdom, 433
*Aluminium and its Alloys, Protection from Corrosion, Herr L. von Grotthaus, 643
*American Air Service Estimates, 207
*American Bricklayers' Increase in Pay and Decrease in Work, 43
*Anglo-Swedish Train Ferry Proposed, 13
*Apprenticeship Scheme for Queensland, 400
*Aqueduct from Naples to Taranto, 321
*Argentina State Oilfields Production, Plans for Intensifying, 97
*Argentine Company for Shipbuilding for Trade with Europe, 70
*Asbestos Exports from Quebec, 619
*Asbestos Industry in Quebec, 480
*Asphalt Macadam, Proper Method of. Laying, 237
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:
 
*- INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :
Institute of Chemistry :
*-- Questions for Special Committee. Glassware Origin, andc., 595
 
*- INSTITUTE, CONCRETE :
Questions for Special Committee, Glassware Origin, &c., 595
*-- Building Exhibition, Luncheon at Olympia, 428
 
*-- Land Subsidence, Lawson S. White, 643
Institute, Concrete :
*-- Programme in connection with International Building Trades' Exhibition, 364
 
*- INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
Building Exhibition, Luncheon at Olympia, 428
*-- Annual Meeting and Programme, 335
 
*-- Joint Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162
Land Subsidence, Lawson S. White, 643
*- INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Lloyd's Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162
Programme in connection with Inter national Building Trades’ Exhibition, 364
*-- Lubrication of Internal Combustion Engines, 331
 
*-- Propellers and Question of Erosion, A. T. Quelch, 485
Institute, Iron and Steel :
*- INSTITUTE OF METALS :
 
*-- Autumn Return Visit to Birmingham, 417  
Annual Meeting and Programme, 335
*- LONDON LOCAL SECTION :
 
*-- Formation, Papers, 60:40 Brass, O. W. Ellis; Aluminium Alloys, S. L. Archbutt; Refractories, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 237
Joint Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
 
*- INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT :
Institute of Marine Engineers :
*-- Manchester Congress, Preliminary Announcement, 24
 
*-- Some Advantages of Control as Applied to Traffic on Railways, Arthur Watson, 485
Lloyd’s Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162
*- INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Informal Meetings at Birmingham, 357
Lubrication of Internal Combustion Engines, 331
*-- Pneumatic Motor Tires, Design and Manufacture of, Colin Macbeth, 179
 
*-- Recent Developments in Transmission, Captain S. Bramley-Moore, 97
Propellers and Question of Erosion, A. T. Quelch, 485
*- INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Annual General Meeting, Result of Ballot for Election of Officers, 558
Institute of Metals :
*-- Awards for Papers, 493
 
*-- Engineering Conference, Series, Renewal, 530
Autumn Return Visit to Birmingham, 417 London Local Section :
*-- "James Forrest" Lecture, Date Fixed, 530
 
*-- Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458
Formation, Papers, 60 : 40 Brass, O. W. Ellis; Aluminium Alloys, S. L. Archbutt; Refractories, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 237
*-- Students' Dinner, 493
 
*- INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
*-- Design of a Large Power Station, Some Notes on, Discussion, 191
*-- Election of New Officers and Members of Council, 632
*-- Heating of Buried Cables, Investigation and Report, 43
*-- Informal Meeting, 191
*-- Proposed Examination for Associate Membership, 83
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
 
*- INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS (continued) :
Institute of Transport :
*-- Redecorating and Re-opening of Building, 433
 
*-- Removal of the Institution to Own Building, 549
Manchester Congress, Preliminary Announcement, 24
*-- Summer Meeting in Scotland, 232, 338
 
*- INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :
Some Advantages of Control as Applied to Traffic on Railways, Arthur Watson, 485
*-- Present Position of the Marine Diesel Engine, James Richardson, 237
 
*- INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS :
Institution of Automobile Engineers : Informal Meetings at Birmingham, 357 Pneumatic Motor Tires, Design and Manufacture of, Colin Macbeth, 179
*-- Postponement of Annual Meeting, 527
 
*- INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
Recent Developments in Transmission, Captain S. Bramley-Moore, 97
*-- Annual Dinner, 605
 
*- INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS (LONDON) :
Institution of Civil Engineers :
*-- Election of Officers, 252
 
*- INSTITUTION OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS :
Annual General Meeting, Result of Ballot for Election of Officers, 558
*-- Annual General Meeting and Conference, Programme, 552
 
*-- Programme for Dorking Meeting, 372
Awards for Papers, 493
*- INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
 
*-- Annual Meeting and Dinner, 135, 215 ; Programme, 215
Engineering Conference, Series, Renewal, 530
*-- Awards for Papers, 71
 
“ James Forrest ” Lecture, Date Fixed, 530 Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458
 
Students’ Dinner, 493
 
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
 
Design of a Large Power Station, Some Notes on, Discussion, 191
 
Election of New Officers and Members of Council, 632
 
Heating of Buried Cables, Investigation and Report, 43
 
Informal Meeting, 191
 
Proposed Examination for Associate Membership, 83
 
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):
 
Institution of Electrical Engineers
 
(continued) :
 
Redecorating and Re-opening of Building, 433
 
Removal of the Institution to Own Building, 549
 
Summer Meeting in Scotland, 232, 338
 
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
 
Present Position of the Marine Diesel
 
Engine, James Richardson, 237
 
Institution of Gas Engineers :
 
Postponement of Annual Meeting, 527
 
Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
 
Annual Dinner, 605
 
Institution of Locomotive Engineers
 
(London) :
 
Election of Officers, 252
 
Institution of Municipal and County’ Engineers :
 
Annual General Meeting and Conference, Programme, 552
 
Programme for Dorking Meeting, 372
 
Institution of Naval Architects :
 
Annual Meeting and Dinner, 135, 215 ; Programme, 215
 
Awards for Papers, 71
 
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
 
*- INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :
Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders :
*-- Invitation from Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders In Scotland to hold Summer Meeting in Glasgow, 249
 
*-- Scholarship Offered to Graduates, 293
Invitation from Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders In Scotland to hold Summer Meeting in Glasgow, 249
*- INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS :  
 
*-- Officers Elected for Session 1921-1922, 361
Scholarship Offered to Graduates, 293
*- INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Changes Among Officials, 265
Institution of PetroleuxM Technologists :
*-- Magnetic Storms : Effects upon Railway Signal and Telegraph Apparatus, 513
 
*-- Suggestions for Papers, Premium Offer Renewal, 485
Officers Elected for Session 1921-1922, 361
*- INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
 
*-- Annual Meeting-- Election of Officers, 493  
Institution of Railway Signal Engineers :
*-- General Meetings, Elections, 277, 389, 513, 632
 
*-- Presents to the Institution, Acknowledgement, 632
Changes Among Officials, 265
*-- Programme of Lectures, 277, 357, 361, 584
 
*- INSTITUTION OF WATER ENGINEERS :
Magnetic Storms : Effects upon Railway Signal and Telegraph Apparatus, 513
*-- Summer General Meeting at Hull, Programme, 552
 
*- SOCIETY, AMERICAN, FOR TESTING MATERIALS :
Suggestions for Papers, Premium Offer Renewal, 485
*-- Annual Meeting and Programme, 581
 
*-- Softening Point of Fire-clay Brick, 123
Institution, Royal :
*- SOCIETY, ASSOCIATED, OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Removal of Head Offices to London, 651
Annual Meeting— Election of Officers, 493
*- SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :
 
*-- Oils Used in Transformers, Mr. Archbutt on, 321
General Meetings, Elections, 277, 389, 513, 632
*-- Rudge-Whitworth, Limited, 321
 
*- SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS (CRYSTAL PALACE ENGINEERING SOCIETY) :
Presents to the Institution, Acknowledgement, 632
*-- Wilson Premium Award, C. W. Carter, 440
 
*-- List of Papers Read during Session, 440
Programme of Lectures, 277, 357, 361, 584
*- SOCIETY, FARADAY :
 
*-- General Discussion on Physico-Chemical Problems relating to the Soil, 454, 552  
Institution of Water Engineers :
*-- Joint Meeting and Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162ósee also Miscellaneous Index
 
*- SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL ENGINEERING :
Summer General Meeting at Hull, Programme, 552
*-- Annual Dinner, 132
 
*- SOCIETY, PHYSICAL :
Society, American, for Testing Materials :
*-- Frequency Measurement, Heterodyne Method, Messrs. B. S. Smith and Partridge, 459
 
*- SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL :
Annual Meeting and Programme, 581
*-- Council for 1921, 413
 
*-- Pilcher Memorial Prize for Students, 581
Softening Point of Fire-clay Brick, 123
*- SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
 
*-- Mineral Resources of China, Prize Offered, 135
Society, Associated, of Locomotive Engineers :
*-- Oil-burning Methods and Results in Metallurgical Industries, A. F. Baillie 151
 
*-- Prize in Memory of Mr. Peter Le Neve Foster, 135
Removal of Head Offices to London, 651
*AUSTRIAN Imports and Exports, 349
 
*Automatic Coupling for Railway Vehicles--see Railways
Society of Chemical Industry :
*Automobile Association Fuel Supply Stations, 349
 
*Automobile Association Installation of Telephone Sentry Boxes for Night Use, 265
Oils Used in Transformers, Mr. Archbutt on, 321
*Automobile Standardisation, 642
 
*Aviation in Central Queensland, Linking up of Distant Centres, 569
Rudge-Whitworth, Limited, 321
 
Society of Engineers (Crystal Palace Engineering Society) :
 
Wilson Premium Award, C. W. Carter, 440
 
List of Papers Read during Session, 440
 
Society, Faraday :
 
General Discussion on Physico-Chemical Problems relating to the Soil, 454, 552
 
Joint Meeting and Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162—see also Miscellaneous Index
 
Society, Liverpool Engineering :
 
Annual Dinner, 132
 
Society, Physical :
 
Frequency Measurement, Heterodyne Method, Messrs. B. S. Smith and Partridge, 459
 
Society, Royal Aeronautical :
 
Council for 1921, 413
 
Pilcher Memorial Prize for Students, 581
 
Society, Royal, of Arts :
 
Mineral Resources of China, Prize Offered, 135
 
Oil-burning Methods and Results in Metallurgical Industries, A. F. Baillie, 151
 
Prize in Memory of Mr. Peter Le Neve Foster, 135
 
AUSTRIAN Imports and Exports, 349
 
Automatic Coupling for Railway Vehicles—see Railways
 
Automobile Association Fuel Supply Stations, 349
 
Automobile Association Installation of Telephone Sentry Boxes for Night Use, 265
 
Automobile Standardisation, 642
 
Aviation in Central Queensland, Linking up of
 
Distant Centres, 569


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BALL Bearings for Heavy Horse-drawn Vehicles, Tests by Swedish Artillery, 595
*BALL Bearings for Heavy Horse-drawn Vehicles, Tests by Swedish Artillery, 595
 
*Bamboo for Papermaking, 274, 321
Bamboo for Papermaking, 274, 321
*Belfast, Annual Staff Dinner of Messrs. Musgrave and Co., 305
 
*Belfast, Proposed Grain Silo for, 151
Belfast, Annual Staff Dinner of Messrs. Musgrave and Co., 305
*Belgian Eight-hour Day and Forty-eight-hour Week, 543
 
*Belt Speed and Power Calculator, J. Tullis and Son, Limited, 109
Belfast, Proposed Grain Silo for, 151
*Belt Stretcher, C. M. Conder, 655
 
*Belts, Leather, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605
Belgian Eight-hour Day and Forty-eight-hour Week, 543
*Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211
 
*Bicycles from Germany Much Cheaper than English-made, 265
Belt Speed and Power Calculator, J. Tullis and Son, Limited, 109
*Bilbao Company Exchanges Construction of Ships for Marine Motors and Railway Material, 43
 
*Blast-furnaces--see Iron
Belt Stretcher, C. M. Conder, 655
*Bolivian Demand for Grinding and Crushing Machinery, 619
 
*Bombay and Ahmedabad Telephone Service, 485
Belts, Leather, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605
*Bombay Reclamation Works, 405
 
*Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286
Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211
*Borax, Largest Known Deposit Discovered in Nevada, 619
 
*Bricks, Sand Lime, Manufacture, in Federated Malay States, 293
Bicycles from Germany Much Cheaper than English-ma de, 265
*Brisbane Sewerage System, 405
 
*Bristol University Automobile Laboratory, 151
Bilbao Company Exchanges Construction of Ships for Marine Motors and Railway Material, 43
*British Columbia, Land Clearing and Projected Stump-using Industry, 377
 
*British Columbia, Mineral Production, 179
Blast-furnaces—see Iron
*British Engineering Standards Association, Specification for Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211
 
*British Engineers' Association, Annual Meeting, 552
Bolivian Demand for Grinding and Crushing Machinery, 619
*British Honduras, Development of, Irrigation for Rice Growing, Needs of the Colony, 237
 
*British and South American Merchandise and Produce Exhibition, 97
Bombay and Ahmedabad Telephone Service, 485
*B.T.H. Willesden Works Formen's Dinner, 58
 
Bombay Reclamation Works, 405
 
Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286
 
Borax, Largest Known Deposit Discovered in Nevada, 619
 
Bricks, Sand Lime, Manufacture, in Federated
 
Malay States, 293
 
Brisbane Sewerage System, 405
 
Bristol University Automobile Laboratory, 151
 
British Columbia, Land Clearing and Projected
 
Stump-using Industry, 377
 
British Columbia, Mineral Production, 179
 
British Engineering Standards Association, Specification for Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211
 
British Engineers’ Association, Annual Meeting, 552
 
British Honduras, Development of, Irrigation for Rice Growing, Needs of the Colony, 237
 
British and South American Merchandise and Produce Exhibition, 97
 
B.T.H. Willesden Works Formen’s Dinner, 58
 
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CADMIUM Electro-plating, 669
 
Calcite Spar, Deposit of, near Yokecliffe Lead Mines, 433.
 
Canada’s Metal and Mineral Production, 179,
 
377
 
Canadian Deep Waterways Association, Speeding-up of Public Works Construction Urgently Demanded, 71
 
Canal between Bruges and Roulers, 207
 
Canals in India, Proposed Electrical Connection, 293
 
Canals, Moss and Plant Growth, Methods for Destruction of, 151
 
Carbon Monoxide Detection Instrument, 433 Carbonisation of Coal—see Coal
 
Cardiff Technical College, Class for Rolling Stock Construction, 88
 
Catalogues for Amsterdam, 249
 
Catalogues for Czernowitz, Roumania, 361
 
Catalogues for Jerusalem, 385
 
Catalogues for Madagascar, 650
 
Catskill Aqueduct, Steel Pipe Lining Protection, 513
 
Census of Production Abandoned, 433
 
Charring Useless as a Wood Preservative, 349
 
Chemical Industry in Germany, 207
 
Chimney Down Draught Trouble, 265
 
China, Good Roads Movement, 321
 
China, Important Road-building Scheme Projected, 643
 
China as a Market for Agricultural Implements, 513
 
China, Various Schemes for Important Public Works in, 643
 
Chinese and American Engineers’ Association Organised in Peking, 43
 
Chinese Glass Works, 207
 
Circulating Water, Cooling in Canals, 71
 
Clip, New Type, for Rubber Hose with Metal Fittings, Brown Brothers, Limited, 83
 
Clock, Automatic and Controlling, 405


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*CADMIUM Electro-plating, 669
*Calcite Spar, Deposit of, near Yokecliffe Lead Mines, 433.
*Canada's Metal and Mineral Production, 179, 377
*Canadian Deep Waterways Association, Speeding-up of Public Works Construction Urgently Demanded, 71
*Canal between Bruges and Roulers, 207
*Canals in India, Proposed Electrical Connection, 293
*Canals, Moss and Plant Growth, Methods for Destruction of, 151
*Carbon Monoxide Detection Instrument, 433
*Carbonisation of Coal--see Coal
*Cardiff Technical College, Class for Rolling Stock Construction, 88
*Catalogues for Amsterdam, 249
*Catalogues for Czernowitz, Roumania, 361
*Catalogues for Jerusalem, 385
*Catalogues for Madagascar, 650
*Catskill Aqueduct, Steel Pipe Lining Protection, 513
*Census of Production Abandoned, 433
*Charring Useless as a Wood Preservative, 349
*Chemical Industry in Germany, 207
*Chimney Down Draught Trouble, 265
*China, Good Roads Movement, 321
*China, Important Road-building Scheme Projected, 643
*China as a Market for Agricultural Implements, 513
*China, Various Schemes for Important Public Works in, 643
*Chinese and American Engineers' Association Organised in Peking, 43
*Chinese Glass Works, 207
*Circulating Water, Cooling in Canals, 71
*Clip, New Type, for Rubber Hose with Metal Fittings, Brown Brothers, Limited, 83
*Clock, Automatic and Controlling, 405
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES:
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES:
*- Anthracite Coalfield of British Columbia, 669
*- Atritor Coal Dryer and Pulveriser, 676
*- Briquetting of Lignite Coal, Successful Plant in Saskatchewan, 377
*- Briquetting Plants in German Works, 569
*- British Columbia to Abolish Naked Lights in Coal Mines, 459
*- Canada, Coal Resources of, 459
*- Canadian Steamers Exchanging Oil for Coal Fuel Equipment, 43
*- Carbon Dioxide in Coal, Determination of, 215
*- Carbonisation of Coal, Low Temperature, Advantages of Smokeless Fuel, Major Armstrong's Lecture, 43
*- Coal, Coke and Patent Fuel Export, Withdrawal of Restrictions, 43
*- Coal Transmission by Water Pressure, American Project, 13
*- Coaling Plant for Delagoa Bay, Tests, 485
*- Coke as a Boiler Fuel, 361
*- Coke for Metallurgical Purposes, 13
*- Denton, Valuable Coal Seam Discovery at, 97
*- Dutch Coal Districts and Waterways, Projected Schemes, 293
*- Electrical Coal-cutting Machines Unsafe at Present in New South Wales Colliery, 377
*- Export of British Coal, and Prices, 43
*- Froth Flotation Process for Coal Purification, 179
*- Japan, Average Coal Output, 237
*- Japan Exports Coal to New Zealand, 23
*- Kentish Coal, Calorific Value Compared with Yorkshire, 151
*- Kwantungís Coal Resources, Development by British Syndicate, 377
*- Liquid Air for Coal Blasting, 265
*- Natal Coals, Average Heating Value, 459
*- Newfoundland Coal Area Development, 123
*- Rhenish Brown Coal as Fuel in Gas Producers, 179
*- Richards Bay, North of Durban, as Coaling Port, 237
*- South Africa, Coal Mining Output in, 13
*- South Wales Coal, Best Seams Worked Out, 97
*- Storage Battery Locomotives in American Coal Mines, 207
*- Tippler, Coal, for Delagoa Bay, Satisfactory Test, 595
*- Transport of Coal, Suggestions for Reducing Heavy Cost, 543
*COAST Erosion on the South-east of Ireland, 409
*Colorado River, New Bridge over, 265
*Commercial Motor Users' Association :
*- Annual Luncheon, Roads and Road Users, Sir Eric Geddes, 385
*- Annual Parade of Motor Vehicles, 377
*- London Commercial Motor Parade, 338
*Compressed Air ì Pistols î for Various Uses, 123
*Concrete Arch Bridges, 237
*Concrete Arch, Longest in Canada, 513
*Concrete Bored by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 595
*Concrete Bricks, Sand, Lime and other, H. O. Weller, 459
*Concrete, Fusing Point of, 513
*Concrete Mixing, Tests in America, 595
*Concrete, Oils and Fats Attack on, 71
*Concrete Piles, Hollow, Novel Process of Manufacture, 377
*Concrete Pipes for Water under High Pressure, 669
*Concrete, Reinforced, Wireless Tower, 660ft. High, 595
*Concrete Saving but Increased Cost of Formwork, 321
*Concrete Structures, Joints in, System for Making Water-tight, 513
*Continental Trunk Telephone Cable, 679
*Cooling Tower, Largest, in the World, 293
*Copper, Free Exportation from Mexico, 207
*Corrosion, Internal, of Hot Water Pipes, F. N. Speller, 513
*Corrosion in Steel Works Chimneys, Failure of Attempted Remedy, 595
*Corundum Deposits of the Transvaal, 71
*Cotton Cultivation in Argentina, 123
*Creosoted Wood-stave Pipes, Long Duration of, 237
*Creosoting of Wooden Sleepers, New Process Tried in America, 569
*Crinan Canal, 361
*Crossley Brothers' Staff Dinner, 191
*Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers Read during Session, 440 ; Wilson Premium Award, 440


Anthracite Coalfield of British Columbia, 669
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*DEATH of Captain S. C. Plant, 513
Atritor Coal Dryer and Pulveriser, 676
*Diamond Cutting, Training School for, Projected in Johannesburg, 321
 
*Driving of Centrifugal Machines, F. J. Broadbent, 179
Briquetting of Lignite Coal, Successful Plant in Saskatchewan, 377
*“Drop Forger,” First Issue, 569
 
*Dry Rot and Floor Collapse, 293
Briquetting Plants in German Works, 569
*Dust Collection by Horsed or Electric Vehicles, Ipswich Comparison, 151
 
*Dust Explosions and Concrete Walls, Ample Ventilation Recommended, D. J. Price, 485
British Columbia to Abolish Naked Lights in Coal Mines, 459
*Dyestuffs in the United Kingdom, Manufacture, Former Enemy Aliens Excluded, 433
 
*Dynamite and Liquid Oxygen in Blasting Operations, 151
Canada, Coal Resources of, 459
 
Canadian Steamers Exchanging Oil for Coal Fuel Equipment, 43
 
Carbon Dioxide in Coal, Determination of, 215
 
Carbonisation of Coal, Low Temperature, Advantages of Smokeless Fuel, Major Armstrong’s Lecture, 43
 
Coal, Coke and Patent Fuel Export, Withdrawal of Restrictions, 43
 
Coal Transmission by Water Pressure, American Project, 13
 
Coaling Plant for Delagoa Bay, Tests, 485
 
Coke as a Boiler Fuel, 361
 
Coke for Metallurgical Purposes, 13
 
Denton, Valuable Coal Seam Discovery at, 97
 
Dutch Coal Districts and Waterways, Projected Schemes, 293
 
Electrical Coal-cutting Machines Unsafe at Present in New South Wales Colliery, 377
 
Export of British Coal, and Prices, 43
 
Froth Flotation Process for Coal Purification, 179
 
Japan, Average Coal Output, 237
 
Japan Exports Coal to New Zealand, 23
 
Kentish Coal, Calorific Value Compared with Yorkshire, 151
 
Kwantung’s Coal Resources, Development by British Syndicate, 377
 
Liquid Air for Coal Blasting, 265
 
Natal Coals, Average Heating Value, 459
 
Newfoundland Coal Area Development, 123
 
Rhenish Brown Coal as Fuel in Gas Producers, 179
 
Richards Bay, North of Durban, as Coaling Port, 237
 
South Africa, Coal Mining Output in, 13
 
South Wales Coal, Best Seams Worked Out, 97
 
Storage Battery Locomotives in American Coal Mines, 207
 
Tippler, Coal, for Delagoa Bay, Satisfactory Test, 595
 
Transport of Coal, Suggestions for Reducing Heavy Cost, 543
 
COAST Erosion on the South-east of Ireland, 409
 
Colorado River, New Bridge over, 265
 
Commercial Motor Users’ Association :
 
Annual Luncheon, Roads and Road Users, Sir Eric Geddes, 385
 
Annual Parade of Motor Vehicles, 377
 
London Commercial Motor Parade, 338
 
Compressed Air “ Pistols ” for Various Uses, 123
 
Concrete Arch Bridges, 237
 
Concrete Arch, Longest in Canada, 513
 
Concrete Bored by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 595
 
Concrete Bricks, Sand, Lime and other, H. O.
 
Weller, 459
 
Concrete, Fusing Point of, 513
 
Concrete Mixing, Tests in America, 595
 
Concrete, Oils and Fats Attack on, 71
 
Concrete Piles, Hollow, Novel Process of Manufacture, 377
 
Concrete Pipes for Water under High Pressure, 669
 
Concrete, Reinforced, Wireless Tower, 660ft.
 
High, 595
 
Concrete Saving but Increased Cost of Form-work, 321
 
Concrete Structures, Joints in, System for Making Water-tight, 513
 
Continental Trunk Telephone Cable, 679
 
Cooling Tower, Largest, in the World, 293
 
Copper, Free Exportation from Mexico, 207
 
Corrosion, Internal, of Hot Water Pipes, F. N.
 
Speller, 513
 
Corrosion in Steel Works Chimneys, Failure of Attempted Remedy, 595
 
Corundum Deposits of the Transvaal, 7 I
 
Cotton Cultivation in Argentina, 123
 
Creosoted Wood-stave Pipes, Long Duration of, 237
 
Creosoting of Wooden Sleepers, New Process
 
Tried in America, 569
 
Crinan Canal, 361
 
Crossley Brothers’ Staff Dinner, 191
 
Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers Read during Session, 440 ; Wilson Premium Award, 440
 
DEATH of Captain S. C. Plant, 513
 
Diamond Cutting, Training School for, Projected in Johannesburg, 321
 
Driving of Centrifugal Machines, F. J. Broad -bent, 179
 
“ Drop Forger,” First Issue, 569
 
Dry Rot and Floor Collapse, 293
 
Dust Collection by Horsed or Electric Vehicles,
 
Ipswich Comparison, 151
 
Dust Explosions and Concrete Walls, Ample Ventilation Recommended, D. J. Price, 485
 
Dyestuffs in the United Kingdom, Manufacture,
 
Former Enemy Aliens Excluded, 433
 
Dynamite and Liquid Oxygen in Blasting Operations, 151


E
E
ECONOMIC Position in Engineering Industries, 357
*ECONOMIC Position in Engineering Industries, 357
 
*Egypt and the Sudan, Public Works and Finance, 619
Egypt and the Sudan, Public Works and Finance, 619
*Eight-storey Building Moved 40ft., 569
 
*Einstein Theory and the Velocity of Light, 669
Eight-storey Building Moved 40ft., 569
 
Einstein Theory and the Velocity of Light, 669
 
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
ELECTRICAL MATTERS :
*- A.E.G. and Linke-Hoffmann Works, 330
*- Application of Electrical Machinery to Increase Mine Production, T. R. Haig, 619
*- Arc-fused Steel, Unsatisfactory in Result, 13
*- Arc Welding of Aluminium, F. J. Heyes, 595
*- Artificial Silk for Cable Requirements, 643
*- Ash Disposal in German Power Houses, 123
*- Birmingham and Increased Electrical Supply, The Corporation and the Traders, 207
*- Boston and Washington Districts, Superpower Station and Expected Increased Demand, 321
*- British Electrical and Allied Industries' Research Association, 669
*- Capetown New Power House, Provision for Great Expansion of Electrical Demand, 321
*- Chile, Natural Water Power Resources for Generating Electricity for Certain Towns, 273, 321
*- Coal-cutting Machines and Question of Safety in New South Wales Mine, 377
*- Cotton Mills Electrification in Blackburn, 179
*- Defective Contact Lift Fatality, 97
*- Douro, Proposed Utilisation of Falls of, for Railway Electrification, 377
*- Earthing in Electrical Practice, Indiscriminate Use of Water Pipes, 151
*- Electric Power Utilisation in Modern Gasworks, 265
*- Electric versus Combustion Furnaces for Low Temperatures, F. W. Brooke and G. P. Mills, 123
*- Electrical Research Association and Insulating Materials, 513
*- Electricity Commissioners and Lancashire Schemes, 237
*- Electrostatic Condensers, V. E. Goodwin, 485
*- Federated Malay States Electricity Board, 643
*- Flashlight, Hand, New Type of, 123
*- Fuses, H. W. Kefford, 123
*- Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43
*- German Electric Cable Industry's Bad Trade, 265
*- Germany's Reduced Coal Supply and Increased Demand for Electric Power, 265
*- Gosport and Delayed Power Supply, 543
*- Greenwich Power Station Boilers Equipped for Oil-burning in View of Coal Shortage, 669
*- Grimsby Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13
*- Hereford's Proposed Extension of Area of Electricity Supply, 376
*- High-current Tests and High-tension Switchgear, Philip Torchio, 485
*- High Power Factor on Consumers' Circuits, Proposed Tariff, 569
*- Houses, All-electric, for Power Station Employees, near Stockton-on-Tees, 97
*- Inductance Coils, American Research, 211
*- Ipswich Savings by Substitution of Electric Vehicles for Horses and Carts, 369
*- Lamps in Series on Traction Circuits, Device for Quick Discovery of Damage, 405
*- Leicester's New 10,000-kilowatt Generator, 513
*- Liverpool Docks Electrification Progress, 13
*- Magnetos for the Air Service, Superiority of British Design, Captain A. B. Burgoyne, 485
*- Merchant Ships, Electric Auxiliaries for, C, H. Giroux, 293
*- Mersey Power Station for Supply at Runcorn and at Ellesmere Port, 485
*- Mice and Electric Bells, 265
*- Motor for Use in Rooms where Explosive Mixtures may be Present, 179
*- Neon Lamp, New Type, 321
*- Netherlands East Indies, Lighting and Power Supply Transformation, 97
*- Newark Electricity Scheme, Expense Objected to, 595
*- New Zealand, Ashburton County Electrical Scheme, 349
*- North Wales and Supply of Electricity, Improvement Scheme, 71
*- North-West Midlands District Proposals, Time Extension for Objectors, 349
*- Omnibus, Edison, New Type, 123
*- Paper-making and Scanty Use of Electrical Power, 405
*- Phase Sequence Indicating Device, 619
*- Photometer, Action of Special Device, A. H. Compton, 71
*- Power Pressure Increase in Southern California, 543
*- Preston's Supply Chiefly Generated by Steam from the Refuse Destructor, 619
*- Pukow Projected Electric Generating Plant, 669
*- Punjab, Development of Schemes for Electrical Power, 71
*- Punjab Hydro-electric Scheme for Canal Use, 293
*- Railway Station Lighting, New System Introduced on the London and South- Western Railway, 569
ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :
*- Redditch Electric Supply and Coal Shortage, 669
*- Repelling Arc Furnace, Von Schlegel, 13
*- Resistance, Electrical, of the Human Body, Measurements, 123
*- Rivet Heater, Electric, New Type, 459 Salford Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13
*- San Joaquin River, California, Increased Power from, 293
*- Separators in Secondary Batteries, Improved Type Invented, T. A. Willard, 349
*- Ships, Electric Drive for, H. K. Barrows, 237
*- Simla Roads, Experiment with Electric Vehicles, 263
*- Smelting Works, Electric, for South Africa, 293
*- Spain, Distribution of Energy, National System Proposed, 459
*- Static Electricity Trouble in Textile Factory, 123
*- Steam-electric Plant, 125,000,000-kilowatt in Victoria, 265
*- Storage Batteries, Creeping of Electrolyte, 433
*- Story of the Induction Motor, G. B. Lamme, 349
*- Supply Development Schemes, Increase, 123
*- Swiss Electrical Industry Prosperity, 123
*- Sydney, N.S.W., Controversy over New Turbo-alternator, 265
*- Temperature of Rotors belonging to Alternators, Instrument for Measuring, 265
*- Thermostat, New Type, for Control of Electric Ovens and Heating Appliances, 293
*- Thermostatic Control in connection with Electric Heating, G. Wilkinson, 433
*- Thomson-Houston and General Electric Companies Combination in Spain, 151
*- Tientsin and Pekin Electrical Company Proposed, 643
*- Tokyo, Reported Amalgamation of Electric Power Works, 377
*- Turbo - generator, 10,000 - Kilowatt, for Uruguay, Varying Tenders for, 485
*- United States Increased Production of Electric Lamps, 377
*- Wallasey Power Station Breakdowns, Recommendations, 459
*- West Bromwich Electrical Plant Extensions, 179
*- West Riding Electricity District Meeting, 459
*- Worcester Joint Electricity District Formed, 43
*- Worksop, Proposed Extension of Supply, 543
*- Wye, and Electrical Energy, Application to Commissioners, 543
*- Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnace, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13
*ELECTRO-PLATING, Cadmium, 669
*Engine, Gas, Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605
*Ex-British Westinghouse Association, Annual Reunion, 361
*Exhausts from Two-cycle and Four-cycle Engines, Temperature of, 643
EXHIBITIONS :
*- Agricultural Machinery Exhibition at Brussels, 151
*- Agricultural Machinery Exhibition and Motor Tractor Trials in Spain, 86
*- Annual Agricultural Exhibition at Tours, 433
*- Basle, Fifth Swiss Trade Exhibition at, 349
*- Basle International Automobile Exhibition, 151
*- Efficiency Exhibition, Work of ex-Service Men, 179
*- Industrial and Agricultural Fair in Lemberg, 669
*- International Architecture Exhibition at Ghent, 43
*- International Building Trades' Exhibition at Olympia, 364
*- International Centenary Exhibition at Lima, 569
*- Milan Sample Fair, 274
*- National Industrial Fair at Gothenburg, 643
*- Netherlands East Indies Fair in Java, 83
*- Orient Fair in Czecho-Slovakia, 440
*- Rangoon, Permanent Exhibitions to be Opened, 293
*EXPLOSION of Large Cast Iron Drying Cylinder, 179
*Ex-Service Men, Disabled, Training of, 179
*Eye Magnet, Giant, for Metal Removal from Injured Eyes, 123


A.E.G. and Linke-Hoffmann Works, 330
F
 
*FAILURE of Metals—see Metals
Application of Electrical Machinery to
*Fairs—see Exhibitions
 
*Faraday House Entrance Scholarships, 445
Increase Mine Production, T. R. Haig, 619
*Faraday House Old Students’ Association, Annual Dinner, 357
 
*Federation of British Industries, Packing Case to Guard Against Pilferage, 543
Arc-fused Steel, Unsatisfactory in Result, 13
*Ferro-chrome—see Iron and Steel
 
*Ferrox Welding Wire and Rods, 162 ; (Letter), 178
Arc Welding of Aluminium, F. J. Heyes, 595
*Finland, Large Water Power Station for, 459
 
*Finnish Engineering Students to Study in Germany, 349
Artificial Silk for Cable Requirements, 643
*Finsbury Technical College to Continue Work¬ing, 433
 
*Finsbury Technical College, Old Students’ Association, 132, 474; Manchester Branch Smoking Concert, 581
Ash Disposal in German Power Houses, 123 Birmingham and Increased Electrical Supply,
*Fire Hose Set Alight during Pumping, 405
 
*Fire-resisting Plastic Material, 179
The Corporation and the Traders, 207
*Fires on Board Ship, 669
 
*Firing Sagger Ovens of Potteries, 179
Boston and Washington Districts, Superpower Station and Expected Increased Demand, 321
*Flax Pickers, 'Mechanical, Competition in France, 543
 
*Ford Motor Company Extends Equipment 619
British Electrical and Allied Industries’ Research Association, 669
*Forest Cover and Effect on Streams, Experiments, 405
 
*France, Northern, Reopened Industrial Establishments, 71
Capetown New Power House, Provision for j Great Expansion of Electrical Demand, 321
*Franklin Institute, Awards of Medals and Certificates, 569
 
*French Government Proposed Huge Exhibition Building, Municipal Disapproval, 207
Chile, Natural Water Power Resources for Generating Electricity for Certain Towns, i 273, 321
*French State Monopolies in Bad Odour, 179
 
*French Wireless Plant, Cession to Private Company, Government Explanation, 405
Coal-cutting Machines and Question of i Safety in New South Wales Mine, 377
*Fuel Consumption Trials at Le Mans, 619
 
*Fuel Economy of Motor Cars, Tests, 71
Cotton Mills Electrification in Blackburn, 179
*Fuel Economy Trial, Motor Car, 274
 
*Fuel for Motor Ship Free of Charge, 377
Defective Contact Lift Fatality, 97
*Fuel Oil, Fall in Price, 513
 
*Furnace Collapse, Remarkable, on s.s. Baltriger, 619
Douro, Proposed Utilisation of Falls of, for Railway Electrification, 377
 
Earthing in Electrical Practice, Indiscriminate Use of Water Pipes, 151
 
Electric Power Utilisation in Modern Gasworks, 265
 
Electric versus Combustion Furnaces for Low Temperatures, F. W. Brooke and G. P. Mills, 123
 
Electrical Research Association and Insulating Materials, 513
 
Electricity Commissioners and Lancashire Schemes, 237
 
Electrostatic Condensers, V. E. Goodwin, 485
 
Federated Malay States Electricity Board, 643
 
Flashlight, Hand, New Type of, 123
 
Fuses, H. W. Kefford, 123
 
Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43
 
German Electric Cable Industry’s Bad Trade, 265
 
Germany’s Reduced Coal Supply and Increased Demand for Electric Power, 265
 
Gosport and Delayed Power Supply, 543
 
Greenwich Power Station Boilers Equipped for Oil-burning in View of Coal Shortage, 669
 
Grimsby Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13
 
Hereford’s Proposed Extension of Area of Electricity Supply, 376
 
High-current Tests and High-tension Switch-gear, Philip Torchio, 485
 
High Power Factor on Consumers’ Circuits, Proposed Tariff, 569
 
Houses, All-electric, for Power Station Employees, near Stockton-on-Tees, 97
 
Inductance Coils, American Research, 211
 
Ipswich Savings by Substitution of Electric
 
Vehicles for Horses and Carts, 369
 
Lamps in Series on Traction Circuits, Device for Quick Discovery of Damage, 405
 
Leicester’s New 10,000-kilowatt Generator, 513
 
Liverpool Docks Electrification Progress, 13
 
Magnetos for the Air Service, Superiority of British Design, Captain A. B. Burgoyne, 485
 
Merchant Ships, Electric Auxiliaries for, C. H. Giroux, 293
 
Mersey Power Station for Supply at Runcorn and at Ellesmere Port, 485
 
Mice and Electric Bells, 265
 
Motor for Use in Rooms where Explosive
 
Mixtures may be Present, 179
 
Neon Lamp, New Type, 321
 
Netherlands East Indies, Lighting and Power
 
Supply Transformation, 97
 
Newark Electricity Scheme, Expense Objected to, 595
 
New Zealand, Ashburton County Electrical Scheme, 349
 
North Wales and Supply of Electricity, Improvement Scheme, 71
 
North-West Midlands District Proposals, Time Extension for Objectors, 349
 
Omnibus, Edison, New Type, 123
 
Paper-making and Scanty Use of Electrical
 
Power, 405
 
Phase Sequence Indicating Device, 619
 
Photometer, Action of Special Device, A. H.
 
Compton, 71
 
Power Pressure Increase in Southern California, 543
 
Preston’s Supply Chiefly Generated by Steam from the Refuse Destructor, 619
 
Pukow Projected Electric Generating Plant, 669
 
Punjab, Development of Schemes for Electrical Power, 71
 
Punjab Hydro-electric Scheme for Canal Use, 293
 
Railway Station Lighting, New System Introduced on the London and South-
 
Western Railway, 569
 
ELECTRICAL MATTERS {continued):
 
Redditch Electric Supply and Coal Shortage.
 
669                                    i i q
 
Repelling Arc Furnace, Von Schlegel, 13 Resistance, Electrical, of the Human Body,
 
Measurements, 123
 
Rivet Heater, Electric, New type, 4o9
 
Salford Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13
 
San Joaquin River, California, Increased Power from, 293                      ,
 
Separators in Secondary Batteries, Improved
 
Type Invented, T. A. Willard, 349
 
Ships, Electric Drive for, H. K. Barrows ;37 Simla Roads, Experiment with Elect no
 
Vehicles, 263                          . f .
 
Smelting Works, Electric, for South Africa, 293
 
Spain, Distribution of Energy, National System Proposed, 459
 
Static Electricity Trouble in Textile Factory,
 
Steam-electric Plant, 125,000,000-kilowatt in
 
Victoria, 265                            ,
 
Storage Batteries, Creeping of Electrolyte, 433
 
Story of the Induction Motor, G. B. Lamme, 349                  „ , T
 
Supply Development Schemes, Increase, 1-3
 
Swiss Electrical Industry Prosperity, 123
 
I Sydney, N.S.W., Controversy over New
 
- Turbo-alternator, 265
 
Temperature of Rotors belonging to Alternators, Instrument for Measuring, 26a
 
Thermostat, New Type, for Control of Electric Ovens and Heating Appliances, 293
 
Thermostatic Control in connection with
 
Electric Heating, G. Wilkinson 433
 
Thomson-Houston and General Electric Companies Combination in Spain, lai
 
Tientsin and Pekin Electrical Company Proposed, 643                        .
 
Tokyo, Reported Amalgamation of Electric Power Works, 377
 
Turbo-generator, 10,000 - Kilowatt, for
 
Uruguay, Varying Tenders for, 485
 
United States Increased Production of Electric Lamps, 377                        ,,
 
Wallasey Power Station Breakdowns, Recommendations, 459
 
West Bromwich Electrical Plant Extensions, 179
 
West Riding Electricity District Meeting, 459 Worcester Joint Electricity District Formed, Worksop, Proposed Extension of Supply, Wye, and Electrical Energy, Application to.
 
Commissioners, 543
 
Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel
 
Resistance Furnace, Professor C. H. I ulto , 13
 
ELECTRO-PLATING, Cadmium, 669 Engine, Gas, Exhaust, Utilisation of, b95 ExBritish Westinghouse Association, Annua.
 
E^t :n’from Two-cycle and Four-cycle
 
Engines, Temperature of, 643
 
EXHIBITIONS
 
Agricultural Machinery Exhibition at Brus-
 
AgHcultural Machinery Exhibition and Motor
 
Tractor Trials in Spain, 86
 
Annual Agricultural Exhibition at Tours, 433 Basle, Fifth Swiss Trade Exhibition at349 Basle International Automobile Exhibition, 151
 
Efficiency Exhibition, Work of ex-Service Industrial and Agricultural Fair in Lemberg, International Architecture Exhibition at International Building Trades’ Exhibition at International Centenary Exhibition at Lima, 569
 
Milan Sample Fair, 274
 
National Industrial Fair at Gothenburg, » Netherlands East Indies Fair in Java, 83 Orient Fair in Czecho-Slovakia, 440
 
Rangoon, Permanent Exhibitions to be Opened, 293
 
EXPLOSION of Large Cast Iron Drying Ex-Service M^n, Disabled, Training of, 179 Eye Magnet, Giant, for Metal Removal from
 
Injured Eyes, 123
 
FAILURE of Metals—see Metals
 
Fairs—see Exhibitions
 
Faraday House Entrance Scholarships, 445
 
Faraday House Old Students Association, Annual Dinner, 357               . n
 
Federation of British Industries, Packing Case to Guard Against Pilferage 543
 
Ferro-chrome—see Iron and Steel
 
Ferrox Welding Wire and Rods, 16- , (Letter),
 
178
 
Finland, Large Water Power Station f.or 459
 
Finnish Engineering Students to Study
 
FinsWy^Pechmical College to Continue Work-
 
Fiiwbury3 Technical College, Old Students’
 
Association, 132, 474; Manchester Branch
 
Smoking Concert, 581         .
 
Fire Hose set Alight during P'lWin«’ 405
 
Fire-resisting Plastic Material, 179
 
Fires on Board Ship, 669
 
Firing Sagger Ovens of Potteries, 179
 
Flax Pickers, ‘Mechanical, Competition in
 
Ford^Mot’or Company Extends Equipment 619 Forest Cover and Effect on Streams, Expen-FrTnce^N^orthern, Reopened Industrial Esta-
 
Frankl/^InstRute, Awards of Medals and
 
Certificates, 569                             .  .
 
French Government Proposed Huge Exhib -tion Building, Municipal Dfsapproval, 207
 
French State Monopolies in Bad Odour, 1 / 9
 
French Wireless Plant, Cession to L m ate
 
Company, Government Explanation, o
 
Fuel Consumption Trials at Le Mans, 619
 
Fuel Economy of Motor Cars, Tests, 71
 
Fuel Economy Trial, Motor Car, 274
 
Fuel for Motor Ship Free of Charge, 377
 
Fuel Oil, Fall in Price, 513
 
Furnace Collapse, Remarkable, on s.s. Baltriger, 619


G
G
GAS for Domestic Use, Dangerous Percentage of Carbon Monoxide, 207
*GAS for Domestic Use, Dangerous Percentage of Carbon Monoxide, 207
 
*Gas Engine Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605
Gas Engine Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605
*Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43
 
*Gas Fittings Manufacture, Comparatively Prosperous Condition of, 543
Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43
*Gas Undertakings, Coal and Gas Statistics, 433
 
*Genoa, Port Extension on Large Scale Projected, 643
Gas Fittings Manufacture, Comparatively Prosperous Condition of, 543
*Geological Survey of Western Australia, Publications to Aid Miners, 513
 
*German Boiler Explosions Increase, 97
Gas Undertakings, Coal and Gas Statistics, 433
*German Cement for South Africa at Lower Prices than British, Belgian and Pretorian, 237
 
*German Competition in Hoisting Tackle Manufacture, 595
Genoa, Port Extension on Large Scale Projected, 643
*Germans and the British Magneto Trade, Unfair Competition, 97
 
*Glass, Effect on, of Radium, X-rays, andc., J. R. Clarke, 595
Geological Survey of Western Australia, Publications to Aid Miners, 513
*Glass Factory on Island of Madeira, 485
 
*Gold Belt, Rich, Discovery in Nigeria, 643
German Boiler Explosions Increase, 97
*Gold and Other Metals Output of Ontario, 13  
 
*Gramophones, Small Motors for Driving, 459  
German Cement for South Africa at Lower
*Greenwich Observatory, Repair of Instruments and Installation of New, 663
 
PricesthanBritish, Belgian and Pretorian, 237
 
German: Competition in Hoisting Tackle Manufacture, 595
 
Germans and the British Magneto Trade, Unfair Competition, 97
 
Glass, Effect on, of Radium, X-rays, &c., J. R. Clarke, 595
 
Glass Factory on Island of Madeira, 485
 
Gold Belt, Rich, Discovery in Nigeria, 643
 
Gold and Other Metals Output of Ontario, 13
 
Gramophones, Small Motors for Driving, 459 Greenwich Observatory, Repair of Instruments and Installation of New, 663


H
H
HANDLING Small Locomotives, Booklet by
*HANDLING Small Locomotives, Booklet by Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., 389
 
*Harbour Improvement at Belize, 543
Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., 389
*Havre-Paris Pipe Line Progress, 123
 
*Highest Monolithic Structure Yet Built, 595
Harbour Improvement at Belize, 543
*Hong Kong University, 191
 
*Hot Water Centres during Fuel Shortage in Birmingham, 569
Havre-Paris Pipe Line Progress, 123
*Hydro-electric Plant Nearing Completion in Ontario, 513
 
*Hydro-electric Possibilities of Queensland, 178
Highest Monolithic Structure Yet Built, 595
*Hydro-electrical Development in Java, 13
 
*Hydro-electrical Development in New Zealand, 13
Hong Kong University, 191
 
Hot Water Centres during Fuel Shortage in Birmingham, 569
 
Hydro-electric Plant Nearing Completion in Ontario, 513
 
Hydro-electric Possibilities of Queensland, 178
 
Hydro-electrical Development in Java, 13
 
Hydro-electrical Development in New Zealand, 13


I
I
ICE-CLEARING from Water Power Plants and Effect of Use of Explosives, 349
*ICE-CLEARING from Water Power Plants and Effect of Use of Explosives, 349
 
*Iceland, Proposals for Railway and Electric Development, 97
Iceland, Proposals for Railway and Electric Development, 97
*Imports into Sweden from Germany, 459
 
*Indian Construction Company Floated at Bombay, 123
Imports into Sweden from Germany, 459
*Industrial Administration, Institute of, First Annual Dinner, 277
 
*Industrial Welfare Society Conference, 207
Indian Construction Company Floated at Bombay, 123
*Insulation of Sound, Tests of Variously Built Walls, Professor F. R. Watson, 491
 
*Ipswich and Dust Collection, 151
Industrial Administration, Institute of, First Annual Dinner, 277
 
Industrial Welfare Society Conference, 207
 
Insulation of Sound, Tests of Variously Built Walls, Professor F. R. Watson, 491
 
Ipswich and Dust Collection, 151
 
IRON AND STEEL :
IRON AND STEEL :
 
*- Amalgamation of Steel Companies in France, 405
Amalgamation of Steel Companies in France? 405
*- Arc-fused Steel, Unfavourable Result of Examination by American Bureau of Standards, 13
 
*- Austrian Duties on Iron and Steel, 595
Arc-fused Steel, Unfavourable Result of Examination by American Bureau of Standards, 13
*- Blast-furnace, New, Erected at Huangshi- kang, China, 43
 
*- Blast-furnaces in Lorraine, Diminished Number Working, 293
Austrian Duties on Iron and Steel, 595
*- Bombay Manufacture of High Quality Steels, 669
 
*- Brazilian Government and Electrical Supply for Iron and Steel Making, 669
Blast-furnace, New, Erected at Huangshi-kang, China, 43
*- British Columbia, Government Agreement with Steel Company, 405
 
*- British Columbia, Projected Large Steel Works, 377
Blast-furnaces in Lorraine, Diminished Number Working, 293
*- Burma, Iron Ore Find, 207
 
*- Chilean Concession to German Firm for Iron and Steel Industry, 207
Bombay Manufacture of High Quality Steels, 669
*- Combination of Large Companies in Japan, 43  
 
*- Deoxidisers in Steel Making, G. F. Comstock, 643
Brazilian Government and Electrical Supply
*- Eastern Finland, Discovery of Iron Pyrites Deposit, 513
 
*- Electric Furnace for Iron Castings, 669
* for Iron and Steel Making, 669
*- Ferro-chrome Alloy, Cheap and Rustless, by Electrical Production, 71
 
*- International Nickel Company's 12,000,000- Dollar Plant, 97
British Columbia, Government Agreement with Steel Company, 405
*- Iron Foundry in Chungking, China, Projected, 433
 
*- Italian Inquiry into Iron and Steel Industry, 265
British Columbia, Projected Large Steel Works. 377
*- Krupp Works Rustless Steel, 237
 
*- Magnetic Iron Ore Discovery on the Russo- Ukrainian Border, 459
Burma, Iron Ore Find, 207
*- Magnetic Method of Finding Bubbles and Cracks in Steel, 377
 
*- Metallography of Low-carbon Steel, James Mitchell, 349
Chilean Concession to German Firm for Iron and Steel Industry, 207
*- National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Annual Meeting and Appointments, 344
 
*- Output of Iron and Steel in the United Kingdom, Great Drop, 669
Combination of Large Companies in Japan, 43 Deoxidisers in Steel Making, G. F. Comstock, 643
*- "Rustless" Steel Again, 71, 97
 
*- Steel Analysis, Strength of Solutions Used in Electrolytic Method of Determining, 485  
Eastern Finland, Discovery of Iron Pyrites Deposit, 513
*- Steel Demand and Use of Old Material, 669  
 
*- Steel Ingot Production in the United States, Reduced Output, 595
Electric Furnace for Iron Castings, 669
*- Steel for Valves of Oil Engines, 179
 
*- Steel Works in America Compared with British, R. P. Smith, 543
Ferro-chrome Alloy, Cheap and Rustless, by Electrical Production, 71
*- Steel Works at Port Kemble, New South Wales, 669
 
*- Swedish Ironworks' Association Report, 151
International Nickel Company’s 12,000,000-Dollar Plant, 97
IRON AND STEEL (continued):
 
*- Tungsten and Molybdenum, Cheap Process for Conversion of Ores into Metal, 71
Iron Foundry in Chungking, China, Projected, 433
*- Unbreakable Cast Steel Railway Wheel, Severe Tests, 595
 
*- Western Australia Iron Ore Deposits, 179
Italian Inquiry into Iron and Steel Industry, 265
*ITALY, Engineering Works in, Lectures, Dr. Luigi Luiggi, 194, 232
 
Krupp Works Rustless Steel, 237
 
Magnetic Iron Ore Discovery on the Russo-Ukrainian Border, 459
 
Magnetic Method of Finding Bubbles and Cracks in Steel, 377
 
Metallography of Low-carbon Steel, James Mitchell, 349
 
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Annual Meeting and Appointments, 344
 
Output of Iron and Steel in the United Kingdom, Great Drop, 669
 
Rustless Steel Again, 71, 97
 
Steel Analysis, Strength of Solutions Used in Electrolytic Method of Determining, 485 Steel Demand and Use of Old Material, 669 Steel Ingot Production in the United States, Reduced Output, 595
 
Steel for Valves of Oil Engines, 179
 
Steel Works in America Compared with British, R. P. Smith, 543
 
Steel Works at Port Kemble, .New South Wales, 669
 
Swedish Ironworks’ Association Report, 151
 
IRON AND STEEL {continued) :
 
Tungsten and Molybdenum, Cheap Process for Conversion of Ores into Metal, 71
 
Unbreakable Cast Steel Railway Wheel, Severe Tests, 595
 
Western Australia Iron Ore Deposits, 179
 
ITALY, Engineering Works in, Lectures, Dr.
 
Luigi Luiggi, 194, 232


J
J
JAMES Keith and Blackman Company, Limited, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361
*JAMES Keith and Blackman Company, Limited, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361
 
*Japan, Telephone Service Extension and Improvement, 260
Japan, Telephone Service Extension and Improvement, 260
*Japanese Government to Develop Coal Mining and Other Industries, 293
 
*Japanese High-power Wireless Station near Peking, 467
Japanese Government to Develop Coal Mining and Other Industries, 293
*Japanese Patent Laws, Revision of, 513
 
*Java, Deepening of Sourabaya Harbour, 377
Japanese .High-power Wireless Station near Peking, 467
 
Japanese Patent Laws, Revision of, 513
 
Java, Deepening of Sourabaya Harbour, 377


K
K
KEITH, James, and Blackman Company,
*KEITH, James, and Blackman Company, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361
 
*Kelvin Medal, 1920, 135
Dinner to Directors and Management, 361
*Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458
 
*Kenya Colony, East Africa, Projected Sugar Plantation, 237
Kelvin Medal, 1920, 135
*King George's Dock,-Calcutta, Work Begun, 151
 
Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458
 
Kenya Colony, East Africa, Projected Sugar Plantation, 237
 
King George’s Dock,-Calcutta, Work Begun, 151


L
L
LABOUR Ministry Appointment, 13
*LABOUR Ministry Appointment, 13
 
*Laichikok, Hong Kong, Coaling Wharf and Oil- bunkering Appliances, 377
Laichikok, Hong Kong, Coaling Wharf and Oil-bunkering Appliances, 377
*Lamps, Electric--see Electrical Matters
 
*Lamps, Large Incandescent, in the United States, 123
Lamps, Electric—see Electrical Matters
*Lamps for Use on Board Ship, W. J. Jones, 543
 
*Lead Caulking Recovered by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 619
Lamps, Large Incandescent, in the United
*Leather Belts, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605
 
*Lifting Magnets for Handling Metal Sheets, Major F. A. Hooper, 207
States, 123
*Light Measurement by Portable Meter, 97
 
*Lightning Arresters, Information Sought as to Defective Operation, 543
Lamps for Use on Board Ship, W. J. Jones, 543
*Lightning Arresters, Investigation, 97
 
*Liquid Air in Vacuum Flasks, Losses, andc., Professor H. Briggs, 433
Lead Caulking Recovered by Oxy-acetylene
*Lloyd's Register in Holland, 413
 
*Lloyd's Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162
Blow-pipe, 619
*Lock, Patent, to Eclipse the "Yale," 459
 
*Locomotives, Small, Booklet on Handling, Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., Limited, 389
Leather Belts, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605
*Locust Destruction by Liquid Fire, 527
 
*Lubricating Oil in Constant Service when Continuously Purified, 377
Lifting Magnets for Handling Metal Sheets,
 
Major F. A. Hooper, 207
 
Light Measurement by Portable Meter, 97
 
Lightning Arresters, Information Sought as to
 
Defective Operation, 543
 
Lightning Arresters, Investigation, 97
 
Liquid Air in Vacuum Flasks, Losses, &c.,
 
Professor H. Briggs, 433
 
Lloyd’s Register in Holland, 413
 
Lloyd’s Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162
 
Lock, Patent, to Eclipse the Yale,459
 
Locomotives, Small, Booklet on Handling,
 
Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., Limited, 389
 
Locust Destruction by Liquid Fire, 527
 
Lubricating Oil in Constant Service when Continuously Purified, 377


M
M
MACHINE Tool Trades’ Association, Annual Meeting and Dinner, 55
*MACHINE Tool Trades' Association, Annual Meeting and Dinner, 55
 
*Machine Tools in Australia, Large British Plant Suggested, 97
Machine Tools in Australia, Large British Plant Suggested, 97
*Magnesite Production in the United States, 543
 
*Magnetos for Internal Combustion Engines, A. P. Young, 179
Magnesite Production in the United States, 543
*Manchuria, Establishment of Proper Communications Advised, 513
 
*Manchuria, Harbour Construction on South Coast of, 513
Magnetos for Internal Combustion Engines, A. P. Young, 179
*Manufacturing Processes, Dangerous, List Extended by Home Secretary, 43
 
*Metal and Mineral Output of South Australia, Increased Value of, 433
Manchuria, Establishment of Proper Communications Advised, 513
*Metals, Failure of, under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Joint Discussion, 162--see also Associations
 
*Metals in Germany, Fall in Prices, 109
Manchuria, Harbour Construction on South Coast of, 513
*Metric System Obligatory in Japan, 459
 
*Mica Deposits of Lomagundi, South Africa, 71
Manufacturing Processes, Dangerous, List Extended by Home Secretary, 43
*Microscale, Swedish Instrument for Minute Weighing, 265
 
*Microscope, A Works, 471
Metal and Mineral Output of South Australia, Increased Value of, 433
*Mine Managers and Surveyors, Postponement of Examinations for Certificates, 543
 
*Mine Warnings by Evil-smelling Substance, 293
Metals, Failure of, under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Joint Discussion, 162—see also Associations
*Mineral Output of New South Wales, Increased Value of, 321
 
*Mineral Resources of Tsinanfu, Shantung, 643
Metals in Germany, Fall in Prices, 109
*Miners' Lamps, Safety, andc., Committee Reappointed, 123
 
*Miners' Phthisis in Gold Mines, C. J. Gray, 459
Metric System Obligatory in Japan, 459
*Mining Record in South Africa, 619
 
*Mint at Shanghai will be Largest in the World, 377
Mica Deposits of Lomagundi, South Africa, 71
*Molybdenum--see Iron and Steel
 
*Montevideo Harbour Extension, 43
Microscale, Swedish Instrument for Minute
*Montreal Harbour, New Storage Warehouse, 459
 
*Motor Car Engine, Waste Heat for Warming Body of the Car, 71
Weighing, 265
*Motor Car Fuel Economy Trial, 274
 
*Motor Car Hill-climbing Trials at Monaco, 349
Microscope, A Works, 471
*Motor Car Imports into British India, United States Proportion nearly Three Times that of Great Britain, 43
 
*Motor Car Racing, Disadvantage of Six and Eight-cylinder Engines, 513
Mine Managers and Surveyors, Postponement of Examinations for Certificates, 543
*Motor Car 1000-Miles Trial, Twenty-first Anniversary, 305
 
*Motor Car Routes from the Congo to the Nile and to Lake Albert, 265
Mine Warnings by Evil-smelling Substance, 293
*Motor Car which Won the Corsican Grand Prix, 513
 
*Motor Fuels and Denaturation, Sir C. Bedford, 643
Mineral Output of New South Wales, Increased Value of, 321
*Motor Vehicles, Commercial, Parade of, 162
 
*Motor Vehicles and Population in the United States, 619
Mineral Resources of Tsinanfu, Shantung, 643
*Mysore, High-level Canal from River Cauvery Projected, 433
 
Miners’ Lamps, Safety, &c., Committee Reappointed, 123
 
Miners’ Phthisis in Gold Mines, C. J. Gray, 459
 
Mining Record in South Africa, 619
 
Mint at Shanghai will be Largest in the World, 377
 
Molybdenum—see Iron and Steel
 
Montevideo Harbour Extension, 43
 
Montreal Harbour, New Storage Warehouse, 459
 
Motor Car Engine, Waste Heat for Warming Body of the Car, 71
 
Motor Car Fuel Economy Trial, 274
 
Motor Car Hill-climbing Trials at Monaco, 349
 
Motor Car Imports into British India, United
 
States Proportion nearly Three Times that of Great Britain, 43
 
Motor Car Racing, Disadvantage of Six and Eight-cylinder Engines, 513
 
Motor Car 1000-Miles Trial, Twenty-first Anniversary, 305
 
Motor Car Routes from the Congo to the Nile and to Lake Albert, 265
 
Motor Car which Won the Corsican Grand Prix, 513
 
Motor Fuels and Denaturation, Sir C. Bedford, 643
 
Motor Vehicles, Commercial, Parade of, 162
 
Motor Vehicles and Population in the United States, 619
 
Mysore, High-level Canal from River Cauvery Projected, 433
 
NAILS, Bolts and Nuts Manufacture, Report on Trade Combinations, 543
 
“ Natalite,” Experimental Consignment from South Africa, 543
 
Natural Gas in Mexico, Great Waste of, 207
 
Natural Gas and Petroleum Association of
 
Canada, 216
 
New South Wales Manufactures, Statistics, 643
 
Niagara Falls, Power Increase Without Detriment to View, 71
 
Norway, Industrial and Economic Situation, Report on, 377
 
o
OCEAN Exploration, Proposed Expedition for, 459
 
Oil Bore-hole for South Africa, 293


Oil Deposits, Enormous Unexplored, in Various
N
*NAILS, Bolts and Nuts Manufacture, Report on Trade Combinations, 543
*"Natalite," Experimental Consignment from South Africa, 543
*Natural Gas in Mexico, Great Waste of, 207
*Natural Gas and Petroleum Association of Canada, 216
*New South Wales Manufactures, Statistics, 643
*Niagara Falls, Power Increase Without Detriment to View, 71
*Norway, Industrial and Economic Situation, Report on, 377


Regions of Southern Mexico, 669
O
*OCEAN Exploration, Proposed Expedition for, 459
*Oil Bore-hole for South Africa, 293
*Oil Deposits, Enormous Unexplored, in Various Regions of Southern Mexico, 669
*Oil Development in Alberta, Rush for Oil Leases, 71
*Oil Development in Canada, Petroleum Find, Aeroplane Communication, 123
*Oil Engines, Drott Surface Ignition, Tests by Belgian Colonial Army, 569
*Oilfields of Northern Canada, 293
*Oil Finds on the Mackenzie River, Proposed Investigation by Canadian Government, 71
*Oil Fuel Storage Installations in the Argentine, 669
*Oil Prospecting by Aeroplane in the Orinoco Wilderness, 619
*Oil for Steam Turbines, Necessity for Keeping in Good Condition, C. H. Bromley, 543
*Oil Storage Tanks, Large, Being Built at Durban, 179
*Oil Wells at Baku, Soviet Concession to British Company, 569
*Oils for Lubrication, Continuous Duration if Continuously Purified, 377
*Old Centralians, 191
*Optophone, Thermionic Amplifier Experiments to Increase Sound Volume, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 405
*Omnibus, Six-wheeled, Paris Experiment, 485
*Ontario Loan for Hydro-electric Power Commission, 669
*Ovens for Coke-making, in 1841, 123
*Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe for Boring Concrete, 595
*Oxygen Manufacture for Engineering Use, Study of, at Harvard, 43


Oil Development in Alberta, Rush for Oil Leases, 71
P
 
*PACKING Case, Thief-proof, 543
Oil Development in Canada, Petroleum Find, Aeroplane Communication, 123
*Paris Passenger Traffic, Congestion Increase, Proposed Underground Moving Pavement, 265
 
*Patent Office Assistant Examiners, Competitive Examination, 445, 549
Oil Engines, Drott Surface Ignition, Tests by Belgian Colonial Army, 569
*Patent Office Inefficiency in America, 43
 
*Pearl, Instrument to Detect Difference between Japanese Culture and Real Pearl, 662
Oilfields of Northern Canada, 293
*"Penrol," New Motor Car Fuel, 433
 
*Peru, Nationalisation of Water Power, 321, 669
Oil Finds on the Mackenzie River, Proposed Investigation by Canadian Government, 71
*Petrol Consumption in Australia, 405
 
*Petroleum Bore-hole in Boshof District, South Africa, 485, 595
Oil Fuel Storage Installations in the Argentine, 669
*Petroleum Boring in Leicestershire, Licence Granted, 71
 
*Philippines Postal and Passenger Aeroplane Service, 377
Oil Prospecting by Aeroplane in the Orinoco Wilderness, 619
*Phosphorus Deposits on Uninhabited Island, 265
 
*Photometers, Illumination, Increased Use of, 377
Oil for Steam Turbines, Necessity for Keeping in Good Condition, C. H. Bromley, 543
*Platinum Production in British Columbia, 433
 
*Platinum, Prospecting for, in View of High Prices, 619
Oil Storage Tanks, Large, Being Built at Durban, 179
*Platinum, World's Production of, 293
 
*Plug, Bougiver Type, with Glass Insulator, 237
Oil Wells at Baku, Soviet Concession to British Company, 569
*Polish Wireless Station, Very Large, to be Constructed by American Company, 265
 
*Portland Cement Manufacture in Brazil, Proposed, 71, 151
Oils for Lubrication, Continuous Duration if Continuously Purified, 377
*Post Office Purchase of Trans-Atlantic Cable, 321
 
*Power Plant near Melbourne and Fuel By-Products Recovery, 513
Old Centralians, 191
*Presentations for Long Service, 629
 
*Producer Gas, Bad Effect on Electric Machinery Windings, 179
Optophone, Thermionic Amplifier Experiments to Increase Sound Volume, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 405
*Pulp and Paper Mill, 6,000,000-Dollar, Projected for Prince George, B.C., 97
 
*Pulpwood in Manitoba, Land for Sale on Conditions, 377
Omnibus, Six-wheeled, Paris Experiment, 485
 
Ontario Loan for Hydro-electric Power Commission, 669
 
Ovens for Coke-making, in 1841, 123
 
Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe for Boring Concrete, 595
 
Oxygen Manufacture for Engineering Use, Study of, at Harvard, 43
 
p
PACKING Case, Thief-proof, 543
 
Paris Passenger Traffic, Congestion Increase, Proposed Underground Moving Pavement, 265
 
Patent Office Assistant Examiners, Competitive Examination, 445, 549
 
Patent Office Inefficiency in America, 43
 
Pearl, Instrument to Detect Difference between
 
Japanese Culture and Real Pearl, 662
 
Penrol,New Motor Car Fuel, 433
 
Peru, Nationalisation of Water Power, 321, 669
 
Petrol Consumption in Australia, 405
 
Petroleum Bore-hole in Boshof District, South Africa, 485, 595
 
Petroleum Boring in Leicestershire, Licence Granted, 71
 
Philippines Postal and Passenger Aeroplane Service, 377
 
Phosphorus Deposits on Uninhabited Island, 265
 
Photometers, Illumination, Increased Use of, 377
 
Platinum Production in British Columbia, 433
 
Platinum, Prospecting for, in View of High Prices, 619
 
Platinum, World’s Production of, 293
 
Plug, Bougiver Type, with Glass Insulator, 237
 
Polish Wireless Station, Very Large, to be Constructed by American Company, 265
 
Portland Cement Manufacture in Brazil, Proposed, 71, 151
 
Post Office Purchase of Trans-Atlantic Cable, 321
 
Power Plant near Melbourne and Fuel By-Products Recovery, 513
 
Presentations for Long Service, 629
 
Producer Gas, Bad Effect on Electric Machinery Windings, 179
 
Pulp and Paper Mill, 6,000,000-Dollar, Projected for Prince George, B.C., 97
 
Pulpwood in Manitoba, Land for Sale on Conditions, 377


Q
Q
QUEBEC Government’s Department of Industries, 480
*QUEBEC Government’s Department of Indus¬tries, 480
 
*Quebec Harbour Improvement, 433
Quebec Harbour Improvement, 433
*Queensland, Apprenticeship Scheme, 400
 
*Queensland, Reports on Hydro-electric Possibilities of, 178
Queensland, Apprenticeship Scheme, 400
*Queenston-Chippawa Canal Development, 669
 
Queensland, Reports on Hydro-electric Possibilities of, 178
 
Queenston-Chippawa Canal Development, 669


R
R
RADIO Apparatus in Aerial Navigation, 619
*RADIO Apparatus in Aerial Navigation, 619
 
*Radio-telegraph and Radio-telephone Station, Powerful, for the Argentine, 349
Radio-telegraph and Radio-telephone Station,
*Radio Valves for Handling Large Outputs, 265
 
*Radium for Denmark, National Fund for Purchase of, 513
Powerful, for the Argentine, 349
*Radium Discovery in Madagascar, 106
 
Radio Valves for Handling Large Outputs, 265
 
Radium for Denmark, National Fund for Purchase of, 513
 
Radium Discovery in Madagascar, 106
 
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
 
*Accidents:
Accidents :
*- American Accidents—see United States Railways
 
*- Cambrian Railway Blocked through Gale Damage, 97
American Accidents—see United States
 
Railways
 
Cambrian Railway Blocked through Gale Damage, 97
 
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
 
*- Accidents (continued):
Accidents (continued) :
*-- Cambrian Railway Disaster at Abermule, 237, 265, 651
 
*-- Christmas and Accidents Record, 13
Cambrian Railway Disaster at A her mule, 237, 265, 651
*-- Coupling Failures and Accidents, Change in Regulations as to Reporting, 569
 
*-- Fatal Accident, Rare Type of, on the North British Railway, 377 ; Report, 669
Christmas and Accidents Record, 13
*-- Fatal Accident Statistics, 71
 
*-- Fatal Collision with Empty Coaches, 321
Coupling Failures and Accidents, Change in Regulations as to Reporting, 569
*-- Fatal Passenger Train Accidents in this Country, Only Two in Nine Months, 377
 
*-- Liverpool Overhead Railway Collision, Report, 511
Fatal Accident, Rare Type of, on the North British Railway, 377 ; Report, 669
*-- London and South-Western Collision during Fog, near Vauxhall, 151 ; Report, 405
 
*-- London and South-Western Collision near Vauxhall, Report, 123
Fatal Accident Statistics, 71
*-- Lostock Junction Collision, Death of Another Passenger, 237
 
*-- Paris-Orleans Railway Fatal Accidents, 543
Fatal Collision with Empty Coaches, 321
*-- Reports on Three Months' Accidents, 207, 293
 
*-- Whitehouse Junction, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Collision, Report, 66
Fatal Passenger Train Accidents in this
*- Acworth, Mr. W. M., Knighted, 97
 
*- Amalgamation of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway with the London and North- Western, Terms, 405 ; Previous Rejection of Similar Bill, 405
Country, Only Two in Nine Months, 377
*- American Steam Locomotive Increased Export, 207
 
*- Apple Growing on Railway Embankments, Unfavourable Comment on Proposal, 513
Liverpool Overhead Railway Collision, Report, 511
*- Appointments and Staff Changes, 13, 43, 71, 97, 177, 179, 595, 643, 669
 
*- Argentine and Brazil as Markets for American Railway Material, 431
London and South-Western Collision during Fog, near Vauxhall, 151 ; Report, 405
*- Armistice Railway Car to be Permanently Preserved in Paris, 485
 
*- Ashford Schools of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 245
London and South-Western Collision near Vauxhall, Report, 123
*- Automatic Signalling, English and American Claims to Invention, 237
 
*- Automatic Signalling on Mersey Railway Line, 319
Lostock Junction Collision, Death of Another Passenger, 237
*- Average Wagon Load, Highest on Record, 321
 
*- Baghdad Railway Ownership, 13
Paris-Orleans Railway Fatal Accidents, 543
*- Belfast and County Down Railway, Capital Expenditure, 265
 
*- Bideford, Westward Ho ! and Appledore Railway, Rolling Stock to be Sold, 405
Reports on Three Months’ Accidents, 207, 293
*- Bolivian Railway between Potosi and Sucre, 576
 
*- Bologna and Florence, Electrification of Line, 513
Whitehouse Junction, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Collision, Report, 66
*- Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Survey for New Line, 595
 
*- Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286  
Acworth, Mr. W. M., Knighted, 97
*- Bridge Across the Yellow River, Plans, 71  
 
*- Bridge, New, Over the Avon, Chippenham, 506
Amalgamation of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway with the London and North-Western, Terms, 405 ; Previous Rejection of Similar Bill, 405
*- Bridges Over Railways and Omnibus Traffic, 669
 
* -British Railways and the Great War, Private Wagons Service, E. A. Pratt, 543
American Steam Locomotive Increased Export, 207
*- Brixton and Ludgate Hill Train Service Withdrawn, 321
 
*- Caledonian Railway, Eight-hour Day, Increase in Men and in Cost of Fuel, 293
Apple Growing on Railway Embankments, Unfavourable Comment on Proposal, 513
*- Caledonian Railway Goods Brake Vans, Clayton Wagons, Limited, 151
 
*- Caine Branch Railway Bridge, New, near Chippenham, 506
Appointments and Staff Changes, 13, 43, 71, 97, 177, 179, 595, 643, 669
*- Cambrian Railway Meeting and the Abermule Accident, 237
 
*- Cambrian Railway Takes Over Tanat Valley Light Railway, 377
Argentine and Brazil as Markets for American Railway Material, 431
*- Canadian Railways, Ownership and Finance, 542
 
*- Channel Tunnel Decision Delayed, 669
Armistice Railway Car to be Permanently Preserved in Paris, 485
*- Channel Tunnel or Train Ferries, 321
 
*- Cheap Tickets Issue Question to be Left to the Railway Companies, 433
Ashford Schools of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 245
*- Chilian and Argentine New Railway Construction, 123
 
*- Chinese Railway Single-line Working and Token Instruments, 321
Automatic Signalling, English and American Claims to Invention, 237
*- Claims for Lost or Damaged Goods, Reduced Number of, at Paddington, 433
 
*- Coal Strikes and Railway Loss, 377
Automatic Signalling on Mersey Railway Line, 319
*- Colwyn Committee :
 
*-- Further Information Asked for, 43
Average Wagon Load, Highest on Record, 321
*-- Report, 13
 
*-- Sir A. K. Butterworth's Evidence, 71
Baghdad Railway Ownership, 13
*- Commercial Travellers' Week-end Tickets, Suggested Revival, 349
 
*- Competitive Goods Traffic Allocation Ceases, 265
Belfast and County Down Railway, Capital Expenditure, 265
*- Concession to Season Ticket Holders during Restricted Train Service, 459
 
*- "Container" System and Pilfering from American Railways, 207
Bideford, Westward Ho! and Appledore Railway, Rolling Stock to be Sold, 405
*- Cost of Material for Railways and Shipping, Enormous Rates Driving Huge Orders Abroad, 321
 
*- Crewe Men, Past and Present, 417, 471
Bolivian Railway between Potosi and Sucre, 576
*- Danish State Railways, New Steamer for Ferry, 123
 
*- Death of Engineman, and Workmen's Compensation Act, 485
Bologna and Florence, Electrification of Line, 513
*- Death of Mr. E. A. Bowden, 405
 
*- Death of Mr. George Estall, 638
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Survey for New Line, 595
*- Death of Mr. G. P. Neele, 13
 
*- Death of Lord Terrington, 151
Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286
*- Denbighshire Transport Schemes and State Finance Question, 619
 
*- District and Associated Railways, Self supporting Basis Restored, 265
Bridge Across the Yellow River, Plans, 71
*- Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, and Coast Erosion, 409
 
*- Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, Escape from III Consequences of "Munitions" Strike, 293
Bridge, New, Over the Avon, Chippenham, 506
*- Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Extension, Poor Results, 293
 
*- East London Railway's Hard Caso, 179
Bridges Over Railways and Omnibus Traffic, 669
*- Eastern Group of Railways, Suggested Further Inclusion, 207, 237
 
*- Electric Lighting of Railway Stations, New Method on the London and South-Western Railway, 569
British Railways and the Great War, Private Wagons Service, E. A. Pratt, 543
*- Electric Railway Training Film, 97
 
*- Electrical Starting Signal, 237
Brixton and Ludgate Hill Train Service Withdrawn, 321
*- Electric Traction on Railways, Lecture on its Advantages, Sir V. Raven, 179
 
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
Caledonian Railway, Eight-hour Day, Increase in Men and in Cost of Fuel, 293
*- Electrification of United Kingdom Railways, Delays Solely due to Finance, 522
 
*- Empty Rolling Stock, Waste in Cost of Haulage, 513
Caledonian Railway Goods Brake Vans, Clayton Wagons, Limited, 151
*- English Railway Stockholders' Protection Association, 179
 
*- Exceptional Rates and the Iron and Steel Trade, 669
Caine Branch Railway Bridge, New, near Chippenham, 506
*- Finland, Proposed New Railway in Ceded Territory, 207
 
*- First-class Compartments on the District Railway, Not to be Abolished, 13
Cambrian Railway Meeting and the Aber-inule Accident, 237
*- Folkestone and Boulogne, Day Service Restored, 123
 
*- Freight Statistics, Four Weeks, and the Miners' Strike, 123
Cambrian Railway Takes Over Tanat Valley Light Railway, 377
*- Furness Railway's Increased Passenger Traffic, 412
 
*- Furness Railway's New Locomotives, 71
Canadian Railways, Ownership and Finance, 542
*- Furness Railway Scholarship, Conditions, 513
 
*- Furness Railway, Sunday Closing of some Stations, 122
Channel Tunnel Decision Delayed, 669
*- Gauge, Break of, Device, Trial in Australia, 71
 
*- Gauge Conversion, Cost in Australia, 349
Channel Tunnel or Train Ferries, 321
*- Gauge Disadvantages in Australia, 123
 
*- Gauge Question in South America, Difficulties Caused by Diversity, 43
Cheap Tickets Issue Question to be Left to the Railway Companies, 433
*- German Locomotive Tenders for the Compania del Norte, 207
 
*- Glasgow and South-Western Railway Report, 237
Chilian and Argentine New Railway Construction, 123
*- Glasgow Subway Railway's Heavy Loss on Working, 349
 
*- Glasgow Underground Electrification Declined on Account of Cost, 293
Chinese Railway Single-line Working and Token Instruments, 321
*- Goods Tonnage and Ton-miles in January, Reduction, 485
 
*- Goods Traffic by Road, Railway Companies' Service, 179
Claims for Lost or Damaged Goods, Reduced Number of, at Paddington, 433
*- Government Control, Date of Termination, 207
 
*- Great Eastern Engines Converted for Oil Firing, 569
Coal Strikes and Railway Loss, 377
*- Great Eastern Railway, Harwich-Antwerp New Steamer Malines, 71
 
*- Great Eastern Railway and the Railways Bill, 577
Colwyn Committee :
*- Great Eastern Railway, Steamers and Crane Cost, 179
 
*- Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Expected
Further Information Asked for, 43
*- Large Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 207
 
*- Great Western Goods Train Working, Saving, 293
Report, 13
*- Great Western Point and Signal Levers, 123
 
*- Great Western Railway, Excursions and Fares Reduction, 433
Sir A. K. Butterworth’s Evidence, 71
*- Great Western Railway, Staff Training Scheme, 179
 
*- Grouping of Railways, Pros and Cons, 43, 207, 237, 265
Commercial Travellers’ Week-end Tickets, Suggested Revival, 349
*- Heavy Electric Traction, Co-operation with American Railway Engineering Association, 433
 
*- Holyhead, Work at, Parliamentary Sanction Required, 643
Competitive Goods Traffic Allocation Ceases, 265
*- Hungary and State Railways, Electrification, 643
 
*- Indian Government Loan at 7 per cent., 459
Concession to Season Ticket Holders during Restricted Train Service, 459
*- Indian Railway Development and the Finance Question, 97
 
*- Indian Railways, Automatic Continuous Vacuum Brake Recommended on, 485
Container System and Pilfering from American Railways, 207
*- Ingot Mould Weighing over 87 Tons Carried by Rail, 543
 
*- Institutes and Institutions, Railway--see Associations, andc.
Cost of Material for Railways and Shipping, Enormous Rates Driving Huge Orders Abroad, 321
*- Interlocking on Single-line Railways, 669
 
*- Irish Collieries' War-time Railways, Successful Traffic, 293
Crewe Men, Past and Present, 417, 471
*- Irish Railwaymen and "Direct Action," 13
 
*- Iron and Steel Trade and Exceptional Carriage Rates, 669
Danish State Railways, New Steamer for Ferry, 123
*- Italy's Projected Electrification of 5000 Miles of Railways, 555
 
*- Japanese Government Railways, Electrification, 648
Death of Engineman, and Workmen’s Compensation Act, 485
*- Japanese Imperial Government Railways, Gauge Question, 459
 
*- Krupps' Successful Tender for Steel Wheels for Argentine Railways, 349
Death of Mr. E. A. Bowden, 40.5
*- Lancashire and Yorkshire First-class Season Ticket Holders, 377
 
*- Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Increase of Capital Expenditure, 459
Death of Mr. George Estall, 638
*- Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Sir E. Stockton and Hereditary Service, 179
 
*- Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company Ceases as a Carrier, Wages, Hours and the Trade Union, 433
Death of Mr. G. P. Neele, 13
*- Level Crossing for Two Vehicles a Week at a Weekly Cost of over £12, 293
 
*- Liverpool Committee on Question of Additional Passenger Facilities, 293
Death of Lord Terrington, 151
*- Locomotives and Wagons, New. and under Repair, 237
 
*- London and North-Western Engine Coaling Plant at Crewe, 377
Denbighshire Transport Schemes and State Finance Question, 619
*- London and North-Western Railway Chairmanship, 595
 
* -London and North-Western Work at Holyhead, Parliamentary Approval Necessary, 643
District and Associated Railways, Self supporting Basis Restored, 265
*- London and South-Western Electrical Services Traffic Statistics, 43
 
*- London and South-Western New Signalling Invention, 123
Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, and Coast Erosion, 409
*- London Traffic Authority Bill Abandoned, 321
 
*- Lung-hai Railway Construction, Maritime Terminus and New Port Projected, 595
Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, Escape from Ill Consequences of Munitions Strike, 293
*- Melbourne Suburban Railways, Success of Partial Electrification, 595
 
*- Mersey Railway, Automatic Signalling on Line from Liverpool to Birkenhead, 319
Ealing and Shepherd’s Bush Extension, Poor Results, 293
*- Mersey Railway Company Fares Advance, 569
 
*- Metropolitan Railway Company's New Well, 264
East Lpndon Railway’s Hard Case, 179
*- Midland Railway Express Trains Punctuality, 301
 
*- Midland Railway, Increased Output of New and Repaired Rolling Stock, 265
Eastern Group of Railways, Suggested Further Inclusion, 207, 237
*- Ministry of Transport's Committee on Railway Companies' Goods Traffic Road Service, 179
 
*- Ministry of Transport's Figures as to Passenger Traffic, 669
Electric Lighting of Railway Stations, New Method on the London and South-Western Railway, 569
*- National Union of Railwaymen, Decline in Membership, 543
 
Electric Railway Training Film, 97
 
Electrical Starting Signal, 237
 
Electric Traction on Railways, Lecture on its Advantages, Sir V. Raven, 179
 
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
 
*- New South Wales Railway Car Mileage, Suggested Increase to Effect Large Savings, 465
Electrification of United Kingdom Railways, Delays Solely due to Finance, 522
*- New South Wales Railways, Suggestions for Improvements and Economies Adopted, 349
 
*- North British Railway and Burntisland Harbour, 643
Empty Rolling Stock, Waste in Cost of Haulage, 513
*- North British Railway Ferry Charges, 459
 
*- North British and Other Companies and the Ministry of Transport, Disputed Claims, 237, 293, 543, 595
English Railway Stockholders’ Protection Association, 179
*- North-Eastern Railway, Economies in View of Increased Cost, 293
 
*- North-Eastern Railway, Meeting to Consider Railways Bill, 543
Exceptional Rates and the Iron and Steel Trade, 669
*- North-Eastern Railway and Railway Grouping Scheme, 43, 207, 237
 
*- North-Eastern Wages Bill, Increase of 225 per Cent., 265
Finland, Proposed New Railway in Ceded Territory, 207
*- North Staffordshire Engines Fitted for Oil Fuel, 619
 
*- North Staffordshire Railway Bill, 542
First-class Compartments on the District Railway, Not to be Abolished, 13
*- North Staffordshire Railway's Proposed Capital Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 293
 
*- Norwegian Government Concession for Electric Railway, 179
F olkestone and Boulogne, Day Service Restored, 123
*- Oil Fuel on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 669
 
*- Passenger Fares and the Coal Strike, 538
Freight Statistics, Four Weeks, and the Miners’ Strike, 123
*- Passenger Traffic Reduction Statistics, 669
 
*- Pekin and Hankow Railway, New Bridge, 71  
Furness Railway’s Increased Passenger Traffic, 412
*- Pekin-Hankow and Pekin-Pukow Railways' Connection, 643
 
*- Pekin New Railway Station, 543
Furness Railway’s New Locomotives, 71
*- Policy Proposed in White Paper, Men's Joint Committee on, 97
 
*- Port Talbot Railways and Docks Company, Railway Business and Property Taken Over by Great Western, 433
Funless Railway Scholarship, Conditions, 513
*- Presentation to Mr. J. Rayner-Smith, 43
 
*- Pre-war Facilities, but at Post-war Prices, 619
Furness Railway, Sunday Closing of some Stations, 122
*- Prince of Wales' Train Derailment in Australia Due to Heavy Train, 349
 
*- Queensland Government Railways, Change in Administration, 513
Gauge, Break of, Device, Trial in Australia, 71
*- Quick Method of Tickets Issue, 485
 
*- Quito, Ecuador, National Tramway Company Plans, 643
Gauge Conversion, Cost in Australia, 349
*- Rail Locomotive Parts from the United States, 349
 
*- Rails from Belgium £12 per Ton Against £23 at Home, 321
Gauge Disadvantages in Australia, 123
*- Rails, Steel, for the South Manchurian Railway, 459
 
*- Railway Benevolent Institution Funds, 151. 321
Gauge Question in South America, Difficulties Caused by Diversity, 43
*- Railway Commissioners, New Appointment, 71
 
*- Railway Companies' Claims and the Government, 543
German Locomotive Tenders for the Com-pania del Norte, 207
*- Railway Companies and Trades Unions, New Agreement, 543 ; Further Discussion, 569
 
*- Railway Difficulties and Railwaymen's Hours and Pay, 619
Glasgow and South-Western Railway Report, 237
*- Railway Equipment Increasing Cost, 459
 
*- Railway Material Exports, Statistics, 182, 265, 377, 485, 619
Glasgow Subway Railway’s Heavy Loss on Working, 349
*- Railway Operating Statistics, 123, 151, 179, 292, 330, 459, 485
 
*- Railway Returns for 1919. First Since the War, 237, 568
Glasgow Underground Electrification Declined on Account of Cost, 293
*- Railway Servants' Pay, Sliding Scale, 97, 123, 377
 
*- Railway Staff and Unemployment, Question of Guaranteed Week, 97
Goods Tonnage and Ton-mi les in January, Reduction, 485
*- Railway Stockholders' Association and Sir Eric Geddes, 237
 
*- Railway Stockholders Outnumber Railway Employees, 433
Goods Traffic by Road, Railway Companies’ Service, 179
*- Railway Track Cost and Motor Vehicle Immunity, 293
 
*- Railway and Tramway Traffic, Morning and Evening Hours' Demands, 569
Government Control, Date of Termination, 207
*- Railways Bill, Analysis of Voting, 595
 
*- Railways Bill, Directors' Views and Communication with Proprietors, 569
Great Eastern Engines Converted for Oil Firing, 569
*- Railways Bill Introduction, 459, 543, 643
 
*- Railways Bill Postponement and End of Control, 433
Great Eastern Railway, Harwich-Antwerp New Steamer Malines, 71
*- Rates Advisory Committee, Fares, andc., 237
 
*- Rates Advisory Committee and Goods Classification, 43, 97, 237, 377
Great Eastern Railway and the Railways Bill, 577
*- Rates Advisory Committee, Postponement of Public Meeting on Account of Present Crisis, 433, 569
 
*- Receipts and Expenditure for November, 1920, 71
Great Eastern Railway, Steamers and Crane Cost, 179
*- Receipts and Expenditure for December, 1920, 349
 
*- Receipts and Expenditure for March, 1921, 512
Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Expected Large Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 207
* -Receipts and Expenditure for April, 643
 
*- Receipts and Expenditure for Twelve Months, 349
Great Western Goods Train Working, Saving, 293
*- Reports of English Railway Companies, 179
 
*- Restricted Service Due to Coal Strike, 595
Great Western Point and Signal Levers, 123
*- Richborough and the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 207
 
*- Road Traffic and Loss by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 459
Great Western Railway, Excursions and Fares Reduction, 433
*- Road Traffic by Railways, 459
 
*- Rolling Stock Construction and Repair Statistics, 123, 619
Great Western Railway, Staff Training Scheme, 179
*- Rolling Stock Expenditure by Two Railways, 459
 
* -Rubber Covering of Platforms Suggested to Reduce Noise, 669
Grouping of Railways, Pros and Cons, 43, 207, 237, 265
* -Rumanian Railways and Working by French Group, 71
 
*- "Safety First," Awards to Drivers of Street Vehicles, 265
Heavy Electric Traction, Co-operation with American Railway Engineering Association, 433
*- Scottish Coalowners' Association and the Railway Question, 13
 
*- Scottish Railway Companies and English Amalgamation Tribunal, 569
Holy head, Work at, Parliamentary Sanction Required, 643
*- Scottish Railway Stockholders' Protection Association, Appeal, 485
 
*- Scottish Railway's Increased Expenditure, 643
Hungary and State Railways, Electrification, 643
*- Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company Ceases to be a Carrier, 669
 
*- Signal-box Control of Railway Points, 651
Indian Government Loan at 7 per cent., 459
*- Single-decker Omnibuses for Road Bridges over Railways, 669
 
*- Single-line Working not to be Abandoned, 321
Indian Railway Development and the Finance Question, 97
*- South African Railways and Harbours, Failure in Courtesy of Staff, 513
 
*- South African Railways and Harbours, Finance Analysis, 433
Indian Railways, Automatic Continuous Vacuum Brake Recommended on, 485
 
Ingot Mould Weighing over 87 Tons Carried by Rail, 543
 
Institutes and Institutions, Railway—see Associations, &c.
 
Interlocking on Single-line Railways, 669
 
Irish Collieries’ War-time Railways, Successful Traffic, 293
 
Irish Railwaymen and “ Direct Action,” 13
 
Iron and Steel Trade and Exceptional Carriage Rates, 669
 
Italy’s Projected Electrification of 5000 Miles of Railways, 555
 
Japanese Government Railways, Electrification, 648
 
Japanese Imperial Government Railways, Gauge Question, 459
 
Krupps’ Successful Tender for Steel Wheels for Argentine Railways, 349
 
Lancashire and Yorkshire First-class Season Ticket Holders, 377
 
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Increase of Capital Expenditure, 459
 
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Sir E.
 
Stockton and Hereditary Service, 179
 
Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company Ceases as a Carrier, Wages, Hours and the Trade Union, 433
 
Level Crossing for Two Vehicles a Week at a Weekly Cost of over £12, 293
 
Liverpool Committee on Question of Additional Passenger Facilities, 293
 
Locomotives and Wagons, New. and under Repair, 237
 
London and North-Western Engine Coaling Plant at Crewe, 377
 
London and North-Western Railway Chairmanship, 595
 
London and North-Western Work at Holyhead, Parliamentary Approval Necessary, 643
 
London and South-Western Electrical Services Traffic Statistics, 43
 
London and South-Western New Signalling Invention, 123
 
London Traffic Authority Bill Abandoned, 321
 
Lung-hai Railway Construction, Maritime Terminus and New Port Projected, 595
 
Melbourne Suburban Railways, Success of Partial Electrification, 595
 
Mersey Railway, Automatic Signalling on Line from Liverpool to Birkenhead, 319
 
Mersey Railway Company Fares Advance, 569
 
Metropolitan Railway Company’s New Well, 264
 
Midland Railway Express Trains Punctuality, 301                    •
 
Midland Railway, Increased Output of New and Repaired Rolling Stock, 265
 
Ministry of Transport’s Committee on Railway Companies’ Goods Traffic Road Service, 179
 
Ministry of Transport’s Figures as to Passenger Traffic, C69
 
National Union of Railwaymen, Decline in Membership, 543
 
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
 
*- South African Railways, Increase in Mileage and Traffic, 433
New South Wales Railway Car Mileage, Suggested Increase to Effect Large Savings, 465
*- South African Railways, Useful Disposal of Timber Packing Material, 405
 
*- South African Reduction of Railway Rates for Bunker Coal, 459
New South Wales Railways, Suggestions for Improvements and Economies Adopted, 349
*- South African Treatment of Light Railway Rolling Stock, 652
 
*- South-Eastern Railway, Holdings of Stock, Analysis, 207
North British Railway and Burntisland Harbour, 643
*- South-Western Railway Delayed Electrification Due to Enormous Cost Increase, 293  
 
* -Spanish Iron and Steel Syndicate for Supply of Wagons to Spanish Railways, 151
North British Railway Ferry Charges, 459
*- Spanish Railway Electric Installations, Contract for American Firms, 151
 
*- Spanish Railway Material Obtained from Germany, 151
North British and Other Companies and the Ministry of Transport, Disputed Claims, 237, 293, 543, 595
*- Spanish Railway Wagons and Germany's Successful Tender, 151
 
*- Spanish Railway Wagons Ordered from Spanish Firms, 321
North-Eastern Railway, Economies in View of Increased Cost, 293
*- Spanish Railways, Ownership Transference, 595
 
*- Standardisation of Wages, Anomalies, 349
North-Eastern Railway, Meeting to Consider Railways Bill, 543
*- Standardised Wages in Ireland as well as on British Lines, 293
 
*- Steam Rail Motor Cars Reduced to Four on the London and South-Western Railway, 466
North-Eastern Railway and Railway Grouping Scheme, 43, 207, 237
*- Strikes and Wireless Telephony, 207
 
*- Suez Canal and Kantara Bridge Question, 513
North-Eastern Wages Bill, Increase of 225 per Cent., 265
*- Sunday Night Trains and Withdrawal of Sunday Postal Service, 643
 
*- Sunday Trains, Improved Service between Broad-street and Richmond, 432
North Staffordshire Engines Fitted for Oil Fuel, 619
*- Superannuation Allowances of Old Railway Servants, Increased Benefits, 349
 
*- Superheating on British Railways and Mr. O. Winder, 377
North Staffordshire Railway Bill, 542
*- Swedish Locomotive Manufacturing Firm, Soviet Orders and Extension of Works, 179
 
*- Swiss Electrical Locomotives and Motor Coaches, 569
North Staffordshire Railway’s Proposed
*- Swiss Railways, Nationalisation Question, 619
 
*- Tanat Valley Light Railway Taken Over by Cambrian Company, 377
Capital Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 293
*- Telegraph and Telephone Wire Mileage Maintained by Railways for Post Office Use, 265
 
*- Telescoping and Composition of Passenger Trains, 265
Norwegian Government Concession for Electric Railway, 179
*- Three-cylinder Engines for Express Passenger Trains, 569
 
*- Tientsin--Pukow Railway Electric Plant, 595
Oil Fuel on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 669
*- Ton-mileage Figures for March, 669
 
*- Traffic Figures, Reduction in Passengers, 669
Passenger Fares and the Coal Strike, 538
*- Traffic Increase between Bakerloo and London and North-Western Railway, 328  
 
*- Traffic (Merchandise) Decline during March, 669
Passenger Traffic Reduction Statistics, 669
*- Traffic by Railway or Ship, Rates Question, 459
 
*- Traffic Statistics, Passengers and Passenger Receipts, 123
Pekin and Hankow Railway, New Bridge, 71
*- Train Alterations and Additions Postponed on Account of Coal Dispute, 643
 
*- Train Ferries as Alternative to Channel Tunnel, 321
Pekin-Hankow and Pekin—Pukow Railways’ Connection, 643
* -Train Services, Improvement in, 643
 
*- Train Services, Passenger, Reduction, for Saving of Coal, 485
Pekin New Railway Station, 543
*- Transport, Passenger Traffic and Electric Power Demand, Arthur Watson on, 485
 
*- Triennial Census of Railway Servants, 404  
Policy Proposed in White Paper, Men’s Joint Committee on, 97
*- Tunnel under the Thames to Connect Gravesend and Tilbury, Projected, 321
 
*- Unballasted Lines in Australia, Excessive Cost of Working, 71
Port Talbot Railways and Docks Company, Railway Business and Property Taken Over by Great Western, 433
*- United States Railways :
 
*-- Accident Inquiries, Disastrous Record, 123  
Presentation to Mr. J. Rayner-Smith, 43
*-- Accidents Record, Improvement, 13  
 
*-- Accidents Record, Method of Reporting, 619
Pre-war Facilities, but at Post-war Prices, 619
*-- American Railroad Wages Reduction, 643
 
*-- Average Railway Receipts and Wholesale Prices in United States, 595
Prince of Wales’ Train Derailment in Australia Due to Heavy Train, 349
*-- Baldwin Company's Locomotive Output, 151
 
*- Boilers, Locomotive, Inspector's Recommendation, 405
Queensland Government Railways, Change in Administration, 513
*-- Congressional Enquiry into Railway Finance, 513
 
*-- Consolidation of Railways, U.S. Government Scheme, 64
Quick Method of Tickets Issue, 485
*-- Death of Mr. George S. Rice, 151
 
*-- Electrification of Railways in America, Committee's Conclusions, 595
Quito, Ecuador, National Tramway Company Plans, 643
*-- Electrification of Railways, Committee's Report, 569
 
*-- Electrification of Railways and Industries between Boston and Washington, Investigation as to Economy, 97
Rail Locomotive Parts from the United States, 349
*-- Employees on the United States Railways, Numbers and Pay, 543
 
*-- Expansion of Facilities for Traffic Movements, 265
Rails from Belgium £12 per Ton Against £23 at Home, 321
*-- Freight Traffic Greatly Diminished, 43, 207  
 
*-- Fruits and Vegetables and Freight Rates, 595
Rails, Steel, for the South Manchurian Railway, 459
*-- Labour and Inter-urban Railways, Disputes and Labour Board Decision, 71
 
*-- Locomotive Export Association of New York City on United States Successful Competition for Orders, 349
Railway Benevolent Institution Funds, 151, 321
*-- New York Central, Terrible Collision near Chicago, 342
 
*-- New York State and City, Transit Commission Appointed, 513
Railway Commissioners. New Appointment, 71
*-- Pennsylvania, New York Terminus and Ferries Statistics, 71
 
*-- Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburg Station and Public Thoroughfares, Wall Failure and Results, 151
Railway Companies’ Claims and the Government, 543
*-- Pennsylvania Railroad, Seventy-fifth Anniversary, 513
 
*-- Private Operation of the United States Railways, Nine Months' Remarkable Increases, 207
Railway Companies and Trades Unions, New Agreement, 543 ; Further Discussion, 569
*-- Rail Sections, Rolling, Needless Expense, 179
 
*-- Rails Production in the United States, Details, 595
Railway Difficulties and Railwaymen’s Hours and Pay, 619
*-- Railway Track Mileage, Great Decrease, 569
 
*-- Railwaymen's Conventions and Depressed Trade, 543
Railway Equipment Increasing Cost, 459
 
Railway Material Exports, Statistics, 182, 265, 377, 485, 619
 
Railway Operating Statistics, 123, 151, 179, 292, 330, 459, 485
 
Railway Returns for 1919, First Since the War, 237, 568
 
Railway Servants’ Pay, Sliding Scale, 97, 123, 377
 
Railway Staff and Unemployment, Question of Guaranteed Week, 97
 
Railway Stockholders’ Association and Sir Eric Geddes, 237
 
Railway Stockholders Outnumber Railway Employees, 433
 
Railway Track Ctfst and Motor Vehicle Immunity, 293
 
Railway and Tramway Traffic. Morning and
 
Evening Hours’ Demands, 569
 
Railways Bill, Analysis of Voting, 595'
 
Railways Bill, Directors’ Views and Communication with Proprietors, 569
 
Railways Bill Introduction, 459, 543. 643
 
Railways Bill Postponement and End of Control, 433
 
Rates Advisory Committee, Fares, &c., 237
 
Rates Advisory Committee and Goods Classification, 43, 97, 237, 377
 
Rates Advisory Committee, Postponement of Public Meeting on Account of Present Crisis, 433, 569
 
Receipts and Expenditure for November, 1920, 71
 
Receipts and Expenditure for December, 1920, 349
 
Receipts and Expenditure for March, 1921, 512
 
Receipts and Expenditure for April, 643
 
Receipts and Expenditure for Twelve Months, 349
 
Reports of English Railway Companies, 179
 
Restricted Service Due to Coal Strike, 595
 
Richborough and the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 207
 
Road Traffic and Loss by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 459
 
Road Traffic by Railways, 459
 
Rolling Stock Construction and Repair Statistics, 123, 619
 
Rolling Stock Expenditure by Two Railways, 459
 
Rubber Covering of Platforms Suggested to Reduce Noise, 669
 
Rumanian Railways and Working by French Group, 71
 
“ Safety First,” Awards to Drivers of Street Vehicles, 265
 
Scottish Coalowner s’ Association and the Railway Question, 13
 
Scottish Railway Companies and English Amalgamation Tribunal. 569
 
Scottish Railway Stockholders’ Protection Association, Appeal, 485
 
Scottish Railway’s Increased Expenditure, 643
 
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company Ceases to be a Carrier, 669
 
Signal-box Control of Railway Points, 651
 
Single-decker Omnibuses for Road Bridges over Railways, 669
 
Single-line Working not to be Abandoned. 321
 
South African Railways and Harbours, Failure in Courtesy of Staff, 513
 
South African Railways and Harbours, Finance Analysis, 433
 
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :
 
South African Railways, Increase in Mileage and Traffic, 433
 
South African Railways, Useful Disposal of Timber Packing Material, 405
 
South African Reduction of Railway Rates for Bunker Coal, 459
 
South African Treatment of Light Railway Rolling Stock, 652
 
South-Eastern Railway, Holdings of Stock, Analysis, 207
 
South-Western Railway Delayed Electrification Due to Enormous Cost Increase, 293
 
Spanish Iron and Steel Syndicate for Supply of Wagons to Spanish Railways, 151
 
Spanish Railway Electric Installations, Contract for American Firms, 151
 
Spanish Railway Material Obtained from Germany, 151
 
Spanish Railway Wagons and Germany’s Successful Tender, 151
 
Spanish Railway Wagons Ordered from Spanish Firms, 321
 
Spanish Railways, Ownership Transference, 595
 
Standardisation of Wages, Anomalies, 349
 
Standardised Wages in I reland as well as on British Lines, 293
 
Steam Rail Motor Cars Reduced to Four on the London and South-Western Railway, 466
 
Strikes and Wireless Telephony, 207
 
Suez Canal and Kantara Bridge Question, 513
 
Sunday Night Trains and Withdrawal of Sunday Postal Service, 643
 
Sunday Trains, Improved Service between Broad-street and Richmond, 432
 
Superannuation Allowances of Old Railway Servants, Increased Benefits, 349
 
Superheating on British Railways and Mr. O. Winder, 377
 
Swedish Locomotive Manufacturing Firm, Soviet Orders and Extension of Works, 179
 
Swiss Electrical Locomotives and Motor Coaches, 569
 
Swiss Railways, Nationalisation Question, 619
 
Tanat Valley Light Railway Taken Over by Cambrian Company, 377
 
Telegraph and Tel ephone Wire Mileage Maintained by Railways for Post Office Use, 265
 
Telescoping and Composition of Passenger Trains, 265
 
Three-cylinder Engines for Express Passenger Trains, 569
 
Tientsin—Pukow Railway Electric Plant, 595
 
Ton-mileage Figures for March, 669
 
Traffic Figures, Reduction in Passengers, 669
 
Traffic Increase between Bakerloo and
 
London and North-Western Railway, 328 Traffic (Merchandise) Decline during March, 669
 
Traffic by Railway or Ship, Rates Question, 459
 
Traffic Statistics, Passengers and Passenger Receipts, 123
 
Train Alterations and Additions Postponed on Account of Coal Dispute, 643
 
Train Ferries as Alternative to Channel Tunnel, 321
 
Train Services, Improvement in, 643
 
Train Services, Passenger, Reduction, for Saving of Coal, 485
 
Transport, Passenger Traffic and Electric Power Demand, Arthur Watson on, 485
 
Triennial Census of Railway Servants. 404 Tunnel under the Thames to Connect Gravesend and Tilbury, Projected, 321
 
Unballasted Lines in Australia, Excessive Cost of Working, 71
 
United States Railways :
 
Accident Inquiries, Disastrous Record, 123 Accidents Record, Improvement, 13 Accidents Record, Method of Reporting, 619 .
 
American Railroad Wages Reduction, 643 Average Railway Receipts and Wholesale
 
Prices in United States, 595
 
Baldwin Company’s Locomotive Output, 151
 
Boilers, Locomotive, Inspector’s Recommendation, 405
 
Congressional] Inquiry into Railway Finance, 513
 
Consolidation of Railways, U.S. Government Scheme, 64
 
Death of Mr. George S. Rice, 151
 
Electrification of Railways in America, Committee’s Conclusions, 595
 
Electrification of Railways, Committee’s Report, 569
 
Electrification of Railways and Industries between Boston and Washington, Investigation as to Economy, 97
 
Employees on the United States Railways, Numbers and Pay, 543
 
Expansion of Facilities for Traffic Movements, 265
 
Freight Traffic Greatly Diminished, 43, 207
 
Fruits and Vegetables and Freight Rates, 595
 
Labour and Inter-urban Railways, Disputes and Labour Board Decision, 71
 
Locomotive Export Association of New York City on United States Successful Competition for Orders, 349
 
New York Central, Terrible Collision near Chicago, 342
 
New York State and City, Transit Commission Appointed, 513
 
Pennsylvania, New York Terminus and Ferries Statistics, 71
 
Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburg Station and Public Thoroughfares, Wall Failure and Results, 151
 
Pennsylvania Railroad, Seventy-fifth Anniversary, 513
 
Private Operation of the United States Railways, Nine Months’ Remarkable Increases, 207
 
Rail Sections, Rolling, Needless Expense, 179
 
Rails Production in the United States, Details, 595
 
Railway Track Mileage, Great Decrease, 569
 
Railwaymen’s Conventions and Depressed Trade, 543
 
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
*- United States Railways (continued):
*-- Revenue Decrease, but no Change in Wages, Possible Inquiry, 465, 513
*-- "Safety First" Reminder on the Chicago and North-Western Railroad, 513
*-- Salaries of Railway Officers in America, 643
*-- Tickets or Payment in the Train, Company's Action, 513
*-- Timber Bridge Replaced by Steel, 43
*-- Tramcar Preferred to Rapid Transit Railways, 349
*-- Unjustifiable Complaints from Florida, 595
*- Victoria and New South Wales Delegation to United States, 669
*- Victoria and New South Wales, Increase in Inter-traffic, 123
*- Victoria Station, District Railway, New Footbridge and Exit, 405
*- Victorian Government Railways' New Type of Locomotive, 97
*- Victorian Government Railways' Statement as to Increased Fares, 669
*- Victorian Government Railways' Statistics, 43
*- Victorian Railways and Car Loading, 543
*- Wages and Fares, Railway, Finance on the Furness Railway, 405
*- Wagon, Privately Owned, Question of Abolition, 97
*- Welsh Railways and the Railways Bill Grouping, 619
*- Whitsuntide and the Coal Dispute, 543
*- Wireless on the Midland and London and North-Western Railways for Railway Purposes only, 543
*- Wireless Telephony and Railway Strikes, 207
*RAIN Precipitation by Electro-static Influence, Experiments with Aeroplane, 405
*Refrigerating Industry, Volume of Standard Ton in British Thermal Units, 43
*Reservoirs near Poona, Land Compensation Question Unsettled, 569
*Rest, One Day in Seven, in South African Mines, 97
*Rice Straw for Power Alcohol, 643
*Road 172 Miles Long Proposed between Canton and Kowloon, 595
*Road Wheel, New, 527
*Rock Drills, Pneumatic, Mechanical and Thermal Efficiency of, 71
*"Romance of Science," Professor Sir W. H. Bragg, 321
*Royal Agricultural Society Show, at Darby, 349
*Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines, City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Meteorological Lectures, Programme, 24
*Rubber Industry in United States as Largest User of Electric Power, 97
*Rugby Water--see Water Supply


United States Railways (continued):
S
 
*ST. LAWRENCE River, Latest Water Power Development Scheme, 669
Revenue Decrease, but no Change in Wages, Possible Inquiry, 465, 513
 
“ Safety First ” Reminder on the Chicago and North-Western Railroad, 513
 
Salaries of Railway Officers in America, 643
 
Tickets or Payment in the Train, Company’s Action, 513
 
Timber Bridge Replaced by Steel, 43
 
Tramcar Preferred to Rapid Transit Railways, 349
 
Unjustifiable Complaints from Florida, 595
 
Victoria and New South Wales Delegation to United States, 669
 
Victoria and New South Wales, Increase in I nter-traffic, 123
 
Victoria Station, District Railway, New B oot-bridge and Exit, 405
 
Victorian Government Railways’ New Type of Locomotive, 97
 
Victorian Government Railways’ Statement as to Increased Fares, 669
 
Victorian Government Railways’ Statistics, 43
 
Victorian Railways and Car Loading, 543
 
Wages and Fares, Railway, Finance on the Furness Railway, 405
 
Wagon, Privately Owned, Question of Abolition, 97
 
Welsh Railways and the Railways Bill Grouping, 619
 
Whitsuntide and the Coal Dispute, 543
 
Wireless on the Midland and London and North-Western Railways for Railway Purposes only, 543
 
Wireless Telephony and Railway Strikes, 207
 
RAIN Precipitation by Electro-static Influence,
 
Experiments with Aeroplane, 405
 
Refrigerating Industry, Vohifne of Standard Ton in British Thermal Units, 43
 
Reservoirs near Poona, Land Compensation Question Unsettled, 569
 
Rest, One Day in Seven, in South African Mines, 97
 
Rice Straw for Power Alcohol, 643
 
Road 172 Miles Long Proposed between Canton and Kowloon, 595
 
Road Wheel, New, 527
 
Rock Drills, Pneumatic, Mechanical and
 
Thermal Efficiency of, 71          (
 
4i Romance of Science,” Professor Sir \\. H.
 
Bragg, 321
 
Royal Agricultural Society Show, at Derby, 349
 
Royal College of Science, Royal School of
 
Mines, City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Meteorological Lectures, Programme, 24
 
Rubber Industry in United States as Largest User of Electric Power, 97
 
Rugby Water—see Water Supply
 
s
ST. LAWRENCE River, Latest Water Power Development Scheme, 669
 
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH :
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH :
 
*- Companies Approved and Licence Applied for :
Companies Approved and Licence Applied for :
*-- British Cast Iron Research Association, 669
 
*-- Cast Iron and Allied Industries Research Association, 207
British Cast Iron Research Association, 669
*-- Liquid Fuels for Oil Engines, British Research Association, 237
 
*- Reports of Work in connection with Ministry of Munitions, 428
Cast Iron and Allied Industries Research Association, 207
*- Sulphuric and Nitric Acids, Recovery of, Report, 428
 
*SCIENTIFIC Societies, Conjoint Board to Discontinue Certain Publications, 433
Liquid Fuels for Oil Engines, British Research Association, 237
*Scottish Water Power Companies’ Dispute Settled, 569
 
*Scrap Disposal off Workshop Floors, 643
Reports of Work in connection with Ministry of Munitions, 428
*Searchlights, Military, for Java, Very Powerful, 459
 
*Seine Steamboats Expected to Resume Running, 151
Sulphuric and Nitric Acids, Recovery of, Report, 428
*Shale with Large Oil Percentage in Brazil, 179.
 
*Sheffield Association of Metallurgists and Metallurgical Chemists, 168
SCIENTIFIC Societies, Conjoint Board to Discontinue Certain Publications, 433
*Shell Reamers, “Surrey” Adjustable, 218
 
Scottish Water Power Companies’ Dispute Settled, 569
 
Scrap Disposal off Workshop Floors, 643
 
Searchlights, Military, for Java, Very Powerful, 459
 
Seine Steamboats Expected to Resume Running, 151
 
Shale with Large Oil Percentage in Brazil, 179
 
Sheffield Association of Metallurgists and Metallurgical Chemists, 168
 
Shell Reamers, “ Surrey ” Adjustable, 218
 
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :
*- Admiralty Large Coastal Motor Boat. Trials of No. 102 M, 293
*- American Battle-cruisers, Electric-driven, 485
*- Canadian Government Steamships’ Operations, Ministerial Statistics, 405
*- Canadian Shipbuilding Statistics, 669
*- Canadian Steamers Exchanging Oil for Coal Fuel Equipment, 43
*- Coal Strike Effects on Shipping, 13
*- Danish State Railways’ New Ferry Steamer, 123
*- Diesel Electric Drive in American Steel Ship, 273, 321
*- Diesel Motor Ship, New Twin Screw, Burmeister and Wain, 178
*- Electric Auxiliaries for Merchant Ships, C. H. Giroux, 293
*- Electric Drive for American Cargo Vessels, Experiment, 265
*- Electric Drive for Ships, H. K. Barrows, 237
*- German Motor Ship Machinery, Record Power Development, 643
*- Great Eastern Geared Turbine Steamer Malines for Harwich-Antwerp Service, 71
*- Herring Drifter Speedwell, Lugger Rig and de Laval Steam Turbines, 207
*- Ivernia, Steel Steamer for the Svenska Lloyd Company, 237
*- Launching Lifeboats by Motor Tractor, 335
*- Marine Diesel Engine, Present Position of, James Richardson, 237
*- Motor Ship Canada Built in Sweden for South Pacific Service, 237
*- Motor Ship Java Launched, Burmeister and Wain, 123
*- Motor Ship Trades in Oil Free of Cost for Her Own Fuel, 377
*- Motor Ships, Thirteen Ocean - going, Launched, 321
*- Motor Tug and Repair Boat Esab IV., 293
*- Oil-engined Vessels in Use whilst many Steamers are Idle, 643
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued):
*- Oil Fuel on the ss, Bismarck, 569
*- Oil Tankers and other Steamers Built at Hong Kong, 13
*- Olympic Oil Bunker Capacity Increased, 321
*- Salvaged Vessel from the Red Sea, 595
*- Self-propelled Steel Barges with Electrical Steering Gear, 433
*- Ship Loading Speed Record in Duluth Harbour, 293
*- Shipyard at Vancouver Reopened, 151
*- Somersetshire, Steamship, Launched at Belfast, Complete Electrical Equipment, 293
*- South Australia and Shipbuilding, Launch of the Eurimbla, 485
*- Spanish Shipbuilding and Navigation Development, New Law, 485
*- Steamship Spaniel, Conversion as Cattlecarrying Boat, 454
*- Stranding of Steamer Blackhill, Bearings Obtained by Wireless during Fog, 97
*- Tank Steamer Repaired by Use of Outside Caisson, 13
*- Tug, Quaint Type, for New York State Canal, 569
*SHORT-STROKE Planers, Advantages over Shaping Machines, 543
*Silver and Lead in the Yukon, 151
*Silver-lead Mine at Cania, Central Queensland, 377
*Sir John Cass Technical Institute, 308
*Smart Work by a Middlesbrough Company, 569
*Smugglers' Armoured Car and Contents Captured in Flanders, 569
*South African Imports and Exports, 43
*South African Mining and Engineering Journal, Editor, 207
*South African Road Bridges, Large Order to United Kingdom, 595
*South Kensington Science Museum, New Catalogues, 405
*Spain, Longest Motor Transport Line in the Country Opened, 433
*Spanish Bill for Expenditure on Public Works, 543
*Spanish Harbour Conditions, 405
*Spanish Telephones and Swedish Manufacture, 619
*Sparking Plug, New Type, 669
*Standard--see also British Standard
*Standardisation, Automobile, 642
*Standardisation in Belgium, 43
*Steam Engine, Single-cylinder, Largest in Europe, 513
*Steam Ferry Traffic between Sweden and Great Britain, 349
*Steam Pipe Explosion Causes, 349
*Steam Turbines, Pass-out, D. Brownlie, 179
*Steel--see Iron and Steel
*Sulphite Pulp Mill, Finland, to Begin Work, 485
*Sulphuric Acid Manufacture in the United States, 123
*Sulphuric and Nitric Acid--see also Scientific Research
*Swansea as the Chief Oil Port of the United Kingdom, 619
*Swedish Agricultural Machinery, Reduced Prices, 207
*Sydney Harbour Bridge Proposal, Tenders to be Invited, 43


Admiralty Large Coastal Motor Boat, Trials of No. 102 M, 293
T
 
*TANK, Amphibious, Trials, 459
American Battle-cruisers, Electric-driven, 485
*Taxation of Mechanically Propelled Road Vehicles, 179
 
*Telephone Cable, Continental Trunk, 679
Canadian Government Steamships’ Operations, Ministerial Statistics, 405 >
*Telephone Rate Increase in New York, 349
 
*Telephone Sentry-boxes for Motorists' Night Use, 265
Canadian Shipbuilding Statistics, 669
*Telephones for Cuba, 8000 Ordered, 151
 
*Telephones, Long-distance, Experiments in France, 619
Canadian Steamers Exchanging Oil for Coal
*Telephones in Sweden, Pre-eminent Position Claimed for, 71
 
*Thornycroft's London Staff Dinner, 159
Fuel Equipment, 43
*Thunder and Gunfire, Accoustics Comparison, J. W. Humphreys, 643
 
*Tides Utilisation as Motive Power in Hie et Vilaine, Experimental Work, 237
Coal Strike Effects on Shipping, 13
*Tractor Trials, Successful, on Singapore Rubber Estate, 485
 
*Tractors at Beersheba, Demonstration, 459
Danish State Railways’ New Ferry Steamer, 123
*Tractors to Replace Coolie Labour, Suggestion, 485
 
*Tractors in Western Canada, 595
Diesel Electric Drive in American Steel Ship,
*Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Proposed, 13
 
*Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Postponed, 459
273, 321
*Tungsten--see Iron
 
*Tunnel, New Vehicular, between New York and Jersey, Ventilation Experiments, 97
Diesel Motor Ship, New Twin Screw, Burmeister and Wain, 178
*Turbine Lubrication and Oil Purifying, 377
 
*Turbo-blower, Unusual Accident, 405
Electric Auxiliaries for Merchant Ships, C. H.
 
Giroux, 293
 
Electric Drive for American Cargo Vessels.
 
Experiment, 265
 
Electric Drive for Ships, H. K. Barrows, 237
 
German Motor Ship Machinery, Record
 
Power Development, 643
 
Great Eastern Geared Turbine Steamer Malines for Harwich-Antwerp Service, 7 1
 
Herring Drifter Speedwell, Lugger Rig and de Laval Steam Turbines, 207
 
Ivernia, Steel Steamer for the Svenska Lloyd Company, 237
 
Launching Lifeboats by Motor Tractor, 335
 
Marine Diesel Engine. Present Position of, James Richardson, 237
 
Motor Ship Canada Built in Sweden for South Pacific Service, 237
 
Motor Ship Java Launched, Burmeister and Wain, 123
 
Motor Ship Trades in Oil Free of Cost for Her Own Fuel, 377
 
Motor Ships, Thirteen Ocean - going, Launched, 321
 
Motor Tug and Repair Boat Esab IV., -33
 
Oil-engined Vessels in Use whilst many Steamers are Idle, 643
 
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued) :
 
Oil Fuel on the ss. Bismarck, 569
 
Oil Tankers and other Steamers Built at
 
Hong Kong, 13
 
Olympic Oil Bunker Capacity Increased, 321
 
Salvaged Vessel from the. Red Sea, 595
 
Self-propelled Steel Barges with Electrical Steering Gear, 433
 
Ship Loading Speed Record in Duluth Harbour, 293
 
Shipyard at Vancouver Reopened, 151
 
Somersetshire, Steamship, Launched at Belfast, Complete Electrical Equipment, 293
 
South Australia and Shipbuilding, Launch of the Eurimbla, 485
 
Spanish Shipbuilding and Navigation Development, New Law, 485
 
Steamship Spaniel, Conversion as Cattle-carrying Boat, 454
 
Stranding of Steamer Blackhill, Bearings Obtained by Wireless during Fog, 97
 
Tank Steamer Repaired by Use of Outside Caisson, 13
 
Tug, Quaint Type, for New York State Canal, 569
 
SHORT-STROKE Planers, Advantages over
 
Shaping Machines, 543
 
Silver and Lead in the Yukon, 151
 
Silver-lead Mine at Cania, Central Queensland, 377
 
Sir John Cass Technical Institute, 308
 
Smart Work by a Middlesbrough Company, 569 '
 
Smugglers’ Armoured Car and Contents Captured in Flanders, 569
 
South African Imports and Exports, 43
 
South African Mining and Engineering Journal, Editor, 207
 
South African Road Bridges, Large Order to United Kingdom, 595
 
South Kensington Science Museum, New Catalogues, 405
 
Spain, Longest Motor Transport Line in the Country Opened, 433
 
Spanish Bill for Expenditure on Public Works, 543
 
Spanish Harbour Conditions, 405
 
Spanish Telephones and Swedish Manufacture, 619
 
Sparking Plug, New Type, 669
 
Standard—see also British Standard
 
Standardisation, Automobile, 642
 
Standardisation in Belgium, 43
 
Steam Engine, • Single-cylinder, Largest in Europe, 513
 
Steam Ferry Traffic between Sweden and Great
 
Britain, 349
 
Steam Pipe Explosion Causes, 349
 
Steam Turbines, Pass-out, D. Brownlie, 179
 
Steel—see Iron and Steel
 
Sulphite Pulp Mill, Finland, to Begin Work, 485
 
Sulphuric Acid Manufacture in the United States, 123
 
Sulphuric and Nitric Acid—see also Scientific Research
 
Swansea as the Chief Oil Port of the United I Kingdom, 619
 
Swedish Agricultural Machinery, Reduced j Prices, 207
 
Sydney Harbour Bridge Proposal, Tenders to be Invited, 43
 
TANK, Amphibious, Trials, 459
 
Taxation of Mechanically Propelled Road Vehicles, 179
 
Telephone Cable, Continental Trunk, 679
 
Telephone Rate Increase in New York, 349
 
Telephone Sentry-boxes for Motorists’ Night
 
Use, 265
 
Telephones for Cuba, 8000 Ordered, 151
 
Telephones, Long-distance, Experiments in > France, 619
 
Telephones in Sweden, Pre-eminent Position ' Claimed for, 71
 
Thornycroft’s London Staff Dinner, 159
 
Thunder and Gunfire, Accoustics Comparison,
 
J. W. Humphreys, 643
 
Tides Utilisation as Motive Power in Hie et |
 
Vilaine, Experimental Work, 237
 
Tractor Trials, Successful, on Singapore Rubber
 
Estate, 485
 
| Tractors at Beersheba, Demonstration, 459
 
Tractors to Replace Coolie Labour, Suggestion,
 
I 485
 
Tractors in Western Canada, 595
 
Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Proposed, 13
 
Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Postponed, 459
 
Tungsten—see Iron
 
Tunnel, New Vehicular, between New York and Jersey, Ventilation Experiments, 97
 
Turbine Lubrication and Oil Purifying, 377
 
Turbo-blower, Unusual Accident, 405
 
u
UNEMPLOYMENT on the Continent Daily i Increasing, 151
 
United States Copper Export Association, 179
 
United States Electric Trucks in Commission, Great Increase in Number, 405
 
United States Shipping Material, Sale of, 513
 
University of London, University College, Lectures, 27, 232 ; Lectures by Professor Luigi Luiggi, 194, 232
 
U niversity of Manchester, Lecture by Professor Einstein, 433
 
i VALVES of Internal Combustion
 
Heat Treatment for, 293
 
Engines,
 
Vancouver, Increase in Cargo Handled at the Port, 265
 
Vancouver Island, Mineral-bearing Land Survey by Canadian Pacific Railway, 405


Venezuela, Commercial Museum in, 260
U
*UNEMPLOYMENT on the Continent Daily Increasing, 151
*United States Copper Export Association, 179
*United States Electric Trucks in Commission, Great Increase in Number, 405
*United States Shipping Material, Sale of, 513
*University of London, University College, Lectures, 27, 232 ; Lectures by Professor Luigi Luiggi, 194, 232
*University of Manchester, Lecture by Professor Einstein, 433


w
V
WAGES Reduction in New York Shipyards, 293
*VALVES of Internal Combustion Engines, Heat Treatment for, 293
 
*Vancouver, Increase in Cargo Handled at the Port, 265
Wagon, 12-Ton Standardisation Recommended, 440
*Vancouver Island, Mineral-bearing Land Survey by Canadian Pacific Railway, 405
 
*Venezuela, Commercial Museum in, 260
Water Diversion from Lake Michigan, Proposed, Anticipated Effect on Level of St. Lawrence River, 569
 
Water Power Plant, Cost of, in New England, 237
 
Water Power of the St. Lawrence River, Latest
 
Development Scheme, 669


W
*WAGES Reduction in New York Shipyards, 293
*Wagon, 12-Ton Standardisation Recommended, 440
*Water Diversion from Lake Michigan, Proposed, Anticipated Effect on Level of St. Lawrence River, 569
*Water Power Plant, Cost of, in New England, 237
*Water Power of the St. Lawrence River, Latest Development Scheme, 669
WATER SUPPLY :
WATER SUPPLY :
 
*- Bombay Water Supply Department Inviting Various Tenders, 595
Bombay Water Supply Department Inviting Various Tenders, 595
*- Chauny (Aisne) Drinking Water and Drainage Plant Competition, 237
 
*- Cordoba Water Supply Improvement Scheme, 669
Chauny (Aisne) Drinking Water and Drainage Plant Competition, 237
*- Rand Pumping Scheme Plant, Tenders, 207
 
*- Rand Water Supply, Barrage across the Vaal River, 595
Cordoba Water Supply Improvement Scheme, 669
*- Rugby Water and Sewage Scheme for Clifton- on-Dunsmore, 216
 
*- Seattle, Additional Water Supply, 377
Rand Pumping Scheme Plant, Tenders, 207
*- Specifications of Standard Water Pipes and Fittings, 224
 
*- Sydney Water Supply Extension, 349  
Rand Water Supply, Barrage across the Vaal River, 595
*- Tampico, Mexico, Water Supply for, 433
 
*WATER Tanks, Elevated, Reinforced Concrete Built in Germany, 207
Rugby Water and Sewage Scheme for Clifton-on-Dunsmore, 216
*Waygood-Otis, Limited, Patriotic Fund Winding-up,. 389
 
*Welding, Acetylene, Success with a Long Steel Gas Pipe, 543
Seattle, Additional Water Supply, 377
*Well Sunk by Metropolitan Railway at Neasden, 264
 
*West Bromwich goes a Borrowing, 619
Specifications of Standard Water Pipes and Fittings, 224
*West Kent Main Sewerage Board, New Plant, 97
 
*Wheel, Road, New Form, Stagg Patent Wheel Company, 527
' Sydney Water Supply Extension, 349 Tampico, Mexico, Water Supply for, 433
*Wind Power, Improved Method for Utilisation of, 151
 
*Wire Measurement, Difficulties in Obtaining Exact Results, 43
WATER Tanks, Elevated, Reinforced Concrete-Built in Germany, 207
*Wireless, Amateur, Installations in America and United Kingdom, 151
 
*Wireless Equipped Motor Car for San Francisco, 485
Waygood-Otis, Limited, Patriotic Fund Winding-up,. 389
*Wireless Post Suggested on Willis Island, 643
 
*Wireless Station for Belgium, to be Among Most Powerful in the World, 377
Welding, Acetylene, Success with a Long Steel Gas Pipe, 543
*Wireless Station, Most Powerful in the World, First Stone Laid at Sainte Assise, 71
 
*Wireless Station Plant at Port Elizabeth, 569
Well Sunk by Metropolitan Railway at Neasden. 264
*Wireless Station, Proposed, on Bank Premises, 293
 
*Wireless Station at Shanghai, 513
West Bromwich goes a’ Borrowing, 619
*Wireless Station at Tomiska, Japan, 97
 
*Wireless Station at Warsaw, American Company to Erect, 349
West Kent Main Sewerage Board, New Plant, 97
*Wireless Telegraph Station for Greenland, British and Danish Negotiations, 485
 
*Wireless Telegraph Station on the Willis Islands, Investigation of Possibilities by Australian Government, 265, 321
Wheel, Road, New Form, Stagg Patent Wheel Company, 527
*Wireless Telegraphy in Life-saving at Sea, 349
 
*Wireless Telegraphy for Railway Purposes, Successful Tests, 207
Wind Power, Improved Method for Utilisation of, 151
*Wireless Telephone for American Motor Cars, 71
 
*Wireless Telephone for Panama Railway Towing Vessels, 293
Wire Measurement, Difficulties in Obtaining Exact Results, 43
*Wireless Telephony for Commercial Purposes, First Installation in United Kingdom, 377
 
*Wireless, World's Long-distance Record Broken, 405
Wireless, Amateur, Installations in America and United Kingdom, 15]
*Women's Engineering Society :
 
*- Loughborough Branch Started, 109
Wireless Equipped Motor Car for San Francisco, 485
*- Second Annual General Meeting, 581
 
*Wood Preservation, Various Methods, 349
Wireless Post Suggested on Willis Island, 643
*Wood Pulp Mill Started in Alaska, 433
 
*Wooden Wedges in the Rand Mines, 642
Wireless Station for Belgium, to be Among Most Powerful in the World, 377
*Woosung, near Shanghai, Industrial District Development, 411
 
*Wuchang as a Port on the Yangtze River, 643
Wireless Station, Most Powerful in the World, First Stone Laid at Sainte Assise, 71
 
Wireless Station Plant at Port Elizabeth, 569
 
Wireless Station, Proposed, on Bank Premises, 293
 
Wireless Station at Shanghai, 513
 
Wireless Station at Tomiska, Japan, 97
 
Wireless Station at Warsaw, American Company to Erect, 349
 
Wireless Telegraph Station for Greenland, British and Danish Negotiations, 485
 
Wireless Telegraph Station on the Willis Islands, Investigation of Possibilities by Australian Government, 265, 321
 
Wireless Telegraphy in Life-saving at Sea, 349
 
Wireless Telegraphy for Railway Purposes, Successful Tests, 207
 
Wireless Telephone for American Motor Cars, 71 .
 
Wireless Telephone for Panama Railway Towing Vessels, 293
 
Wireless Telephony for Commercial Purposes, First Installation in United Kingdom, 377
 
Wireless, World’s Long-distance Record Broken, 405
 
Women’s Engineering Society :
 
Loughborough Branch Started, 109
 
Second Annual General Meeting, 581
 
Wood Preservation, Various Methods, 349
 
Wood Pulp Mill Started in Alaska, 433
 
Wooden Wedges in the Rand Mines, 642
 
Woosung, near Shanghai, Industrial District Development, 411
 
Wuchang as a Port on the Yangtze River, 643


X
X
X-RAY Motor Ambulance Wagon, 595
*X-RAY Motor Ambulance Wagon, 595


Y
Y
YORKSHIRE Boiler Works, Visit and Lecture, 471
*YORKSHIRE Boiler Works, Visit and Lecture, 471
 
z
ZANZIBAR Harbour, Extensive improvement, 207
 
Zanzibar Harbour Improvement Works, Cost of, 43
 
Zinc Ammonium Chloride in Galvanising to Replace Sal Ammoniac, 97
 
Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnce, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13


== See Also ==
Z
*ZANZIBAR Harbour, Extensive Improvement, 207
*Zanzibar Harbour Improvement Works, Cost of, 43
*Zinc Ammonium Chloride in Galvanising to Replace Sal Ammoniac, 97
*Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnce, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13== See Also ==
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A

  • ACOUSTICAL Effects in Wireless, Captain J. Robinson, 619
  • Aerial Navigation, Radio Apparatus, in, 619
  • Aerial for Wave Lengths below 400 m., Condenser Type, 669
  • Agricultural Possibilities of French West Africa, Scheme for Utilisation of Niger Floods, 669
  • Agricultural Tractor Trials. Name of Prize Winner, 485
  • Air Navigation, Anglo-French Agreement, 485
  • "Alcobrons," Metal Alloy, 97
  • Alcohol Fuel, Experimental Consignment of "Natalite" from South Africa, 543
  • Alcohol for Power Purposes, Empire Motor Fuels Committee Report, 265
  • Alexandria, Proposed Dredging of Great Pass, 643
  • Aliens, Former Enemy, Excluded from Manufacture of Dyestuffs in the United Kingdom, 433
  • Aluminium and its Alloys, Protection from Corrosion, Herr L. von Grotthaus, 643
  • American Air Service Estimates, 207
  • American Bricklayers' Increase in Pay and Decrease in Work, 43
  • Anglo-Swedish Train Ferry Proposed, 13
  • Apprenticeship Scheme for Queensland, 400
  • Aqueduct from Naples to Taranto, 321
  • Argentina State Oilfields Production, Plans for Intensifying, 97
  • Argentine Company for Shipbuilding for Trade with Europe, 70
  • Asbestos Exports from Quebec, 619
  • Asbestos Industry in Quebec, 480
  • Asphalt Macadam, Proper Method of. Laying, 237

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:

  • - INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :
  • -- Questions for Special Committee. Glassware Origin, andc., 595
  • - INSTITUTE, CONCRETE :
  • -- Building Exhibition, Luncheon at Olympia, 428
  • -- Land Subsidence, Lawson S. White, 643
  • -- Programme in connection with International Building Trades' Exhibition, 364
  • - INSTITUTE, IRON AND STEEL :
  • -- Annual Meeting and Programme, 335
  • -- Joint Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162
  • - INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :
  • -- Lloyd's Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162
  • -- Lubrication of Internal Combustion Engines, 331
  • -- Propellers and Question of Erosion, A. T. Quelch, 485
  • - INSTITUTE OF METALS :
  • -- Autumn Return Visit to Birmingham, 417
  • - LONDON LOCAL SECTION :
  • -- Formation, Papers, 60:40 Brass, O. W. Ellis; Aluminium Alloys, S. L. Archbutt; Refractories, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 237

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

  • - INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT :
  • -- Manchester Congress, Preliminary Announcement, 24
  • -- Some Advantages of Control as Applied to Traffic on Railways, Arthur Watson, 485
  • - INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
  • -- Informal Meetings at Birmingham, 357
  • -- Pneumatic Motor Tires, Design and Manufacture of, Colin Macbeth, 179
  • -- Recent Developments in Transmission, Captain S. Bramley-Moore, 97
  • - INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Annual General Meeting, Result of Ballot for Election of Officers, 558
  • -- Awards for Papers, 493
  • -- Engineering Conference, Series, Renewal, 530
  • -- "James Forrest" Lecture, Date Fixed, 530
  • -- Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458
  • -- Students' Dinner, 493
  • - INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Design of a Large Power Station, Some Notes on, Discussion, 191
  • -- Election of New Officers and Members of Council, 632
  • -- Heating of Buried Cables, Investigation and Report, 43
  • -- Informal Meeting, 191
  • -- Proposed Examination for Associate Membership, 83

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

  • - INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS (continued) :
  • -- Redecorating and Re-opening of Building, 433
  • -- Removal of the Institution to Own Building, 549
  • -- Summer Meeting in Scotland, 232, 338
  • - INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :
  • -- Present Position of the Marine Diesel Engine, James Richardson, 237
  • - INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS :
  • -- Postponement of Annual Meeting, 527
  • - INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
  • -- Annual Dinner, 605
  • - INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS (LONDON) :
  • -- Election of Officers, 252
  • - INSTITUTION OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS :
  • -- Annual General Meeting and Conference, Programme, 552
  • -- Programme for Dorking Meeting, 372
  • - INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
  • -- Annual Meeting and Dinner, 135, 215 ; Programme, 215
  • -- Awards for Papers, 71

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :

  • - INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :
  • -- Invitation from Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders In Scotland to hold Summer Meeting in Glasgow, 249
  • -- Scholarship Offered to Graduates, 293
  • - INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS :
  • -- Officers Elected for Session 1921-1922, 361
  • - INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Changes Among Officials, 265
  • -- Magnetic Storms : Effects upon Railway Signal and Telegraph Apparatus, 513
  • -- Suggestions for Papers, Premium Offer Renewal, 485
  • - INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
  • -- Annual Meeting-- Election of Officers, 493
  • -- General Meetings, Elections, 277, 389, 513, 632
  • -- Presents to the Institution, Acknowledgement, 632
  • -- Programme of Lectures, 277, 357, 361, 584
  • - INSTITUTION OF WATER ENGINEERS :
  • -- Summer General Meeting at Hull, Programme, 552
  • - SOCIETY, AMERICAN, FOR TESTING MATERIALS :
  • -- Annual Meeting and Programme, 581
  • -- Softening Point of Fire-clay Brick, 123
  • - SOCIETY, ASSOCIATED, OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS :
  • -- Removal of Head Offices to London, 651
  • - SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :
  • -- Oils Used in Transformers, Mr. Archbutt on, 321
  • -- Rudge-Whitworth, Limited, 321
  • - SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS (CRYSTAL PALACE ENGINEERING SOCIETY) :
  • -- Wilson Premium Award, C. W. Carter, 440
  • -- List of Papers Read during Session, 440
  • - SOCIETY, FARADAY :
  • -- General Discussion on Physico-Chemical Problems relating to the Soil, 454, 552
  • -- Joint Meeting and Discussion on Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, 162ósee also Miscellaneous Index
  • - SOCIETY, LIVERPOOL ENGINEERING :
  • -- Annual Dinner, 132
  • - SOCIETY, PHYSICAL :
  • -- Frequency Measurement, Heterodyne Method, Messrs. B. S. Smith and Partridge, 459
  • - SOCIETY, ROYAL AERONAUTICAL :
  • -- Council for 1921, 413
  • -- Pilcher Memorial Prize for Students, 581
  • - SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
  • -- Mineral Resources of China, Prize Offered, 135
  • -- Oil-burning Methods and Results in Metallurgical Industries, A. F. Baillie 151
  • -- Prize in Memory of Mr. Peter Le Neve Foster, 135
  • AUSTRIAN Imports and Exports, 349
  • Automatic Coupling for Railway Vehicles--see Railways
  • Automobile Association Fuel Supply Stations, 349
  • Automobile Association Installation of Telephone Sentry Boxes for Night Use, 265
  • Automobile Standardisation, 642
  • Aviation in Central Queensland, Linking up of Distant Centres, 569

B

  • BALL Bearings for Heavy Horse-drawn Vehicles, Tests by Swedish Artillery, 595
  • Bamboo for Papermaking, 274, 321
  • Belfast, Annual Staff Dinner of Messrs. Musgrave and Co., 305
  • Belfast, Proposed Grain Silo for, 151
  • Belgian Eight-hour Day and Forty-eight-hour Week, 543
  • Belt Speed and Power Calculator, J. Tullis and Son, Limited, 109
  • Belt Stretcher, C. M. Conder, 655
  • Belts, Leather, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605
  • Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211
  • Bicycles from Germany Much Cheaper than English-made, 265
  • Bilbao Company Exchanges Construction of Ships for Marine Motors and Railway Material, 43
  • Blast-furnaces--see Iron
  • Bolivian Demand for Grinding and Crushing Machinery, 619
  • Bombay and Ahmedabad Telephone Service, 485
  • Bombay Reclamation Works, 405
  • Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286
  • Borax, Largest Known Deposit Discovered in Nevada, 619
  • Bricks, Sand Lime, Manufacture, in Federated Malay States, 293
  • Brisbane Sewerage System, 405
  • Bristol University Automobile Laboratory, 151
  • British Columbia, Land Clearing and Projected Stump-using Industry, 377
  • British Columbia, Mineral Production, 179
  • British Engineering Standards Association, Specification for Benzol for Motor Fuel, 211
  • British Engineers' Association, Annual Meeting, 552
  • British Honduras, Development of, Irrigation for Rice Growing, Needs of the Colony, 237
  • British and South American Merchandise and Produce Exhibition, 97
  • B.T.H. Willesden Works Formen's Dinner, 58

C

  • CADMIUM Electro-plating, 669
  • Calcite Spar, Deposit of, near Yokecliffe Lead Mines, 433.
  • Canada's Metal and Mineral Production, 179, 377
  • Canadian Deep Waterways Association, Speeding-up of Public Works Construction Urgently Demanded, 71
  • Canal between Bruges and Roulers, 207
  • Canals in India, Proposed Electrical Connection, 293
  • Canals, Moss and Plant Growth, Methods for Destruction of, 151
  • Carbon Monoxide Detection Instrument, 433
  • Carbonisation of Coal--see Coal
  • Cardiff Technical College, Class for Rolling Stock Construction, 88
  • Catalogues for Amsterdam, 249
  • Catalogues for Czernowitz, Roumania, 361
  • Catalogues for Jerusalem, 385
  • Catalogues for Madagascar, 650
  • Catskill Aqueduct, Steel Pipe Lining Protection, 513
  • Census of Production Abandoned, 433
  • Charring Useless as a Wood Preservative, 349
  • Chemical Industry in Germany, 207
  • Chimney Down Draught Trouble, 265
  • China, Good Roads Movement, 321
  • China, Important Road-building Scheme Projected, 643
  • China as a Market for Agricultural Implements, 513
  • China, Various Schemes for Important Public Works in, 643
  • Chinese and American Engineers' Association Organised in Peking, 43
  • Chinese Glass Works, 207
  • Circulating Water, Cooling in Canals, 71
  • Clip, New Type, for Rubber Hose with Metal Fittings, Brown Brothers, Limited, 83
  • Clock, Automatic and Controlling, 405

COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES:

  • - Anthracite Coalfield of British Columbia, 669
  • - Atritor Coal Dryer and Pulveriser, 676
  • - Briquetting of Lignite Coal, Successful Plant in Saskatchewan, 377
  • - Briquetting Plants in German Works, 569
  • - British Columbia to Abolish Naked Lights in Coal Mines, 459
  • - Canada, Coal Resources of, 459
  • - Canadian Steamers Exchanging Oil for Coal Fuel Equipment, 43
  • - Carbon Dioxide in Coal, Determination of, 215
  • - Carbonisation of Coal, Low Temperature, Advantages of Smokeless Fuel, Major Armstrong's Lecture, 43
  • - Coal, Coke and Patent Fuel Export, Withdrawal of Restrictions, 43
  • - Coal Transmission by Water Pressure, American Project, 13
  • - Coaling Plant for Delagoa Bay, Tests, 485
  • - Coke as a Boiler Fuel, 361
  • - Coke for Metallurgical Purposes, 13
  • - Denton, Valuable Coal Seam Discovery at, 97
  • - Dutch Coal Districts and Waterways, Projected Schemes, 293
  • - Electrical Coal-cutting Machines Unsafe at Present in New South Wales Colliery, 377
  • - Export of British Coal, and Prices, 43
  • - Froth Flotation Process for Coal Purification, 179
  • - Japan, Average Coal Output, 237
  • - Japan Exports Coal to New Zealand, 23
  • - Kentish Coal, Calorific Value Compared with Yorkshire, 151
  • - Kwantungís Coal Resources, Development by British Syndicate, 377
  • - Liquid Air for Coal Blasting, 265
  • - Natal Coals, Average Heating Value, 459
  • - Newfoundland Coal Area Development, 123
  • - Rhenish Brown Coal as Fuel in Gas Producers, 179
  • - Richards Bay, North of Durban, as Coaling Port, 237
  • - South Africa, Coal Mining Output in, 13
  • - South Wales Coal, Best Seams Worked Out, 97
  • - Storage Battery Locomotives in American Coal Mines, 207
  • - Tippler, Coal, for Delagoa Bay, Satisfactory Test, 595
  • - Transport of Coal, Suggestions for Reducing Heavy Cost, 543
  • COAST Erosion on the South-east of Ireland, 409
  • Colorado River, New Bridge over, 265
  • Commercial Motor Users' Association :
  • - Annual Luncheon, Roads and Road Users, Sir Eric Geddes, 385
  • - Annual Parade of Motor Vehicles, 377
  • - London Commercial Motor Parade, 338
  • Compressed Air ì Pistols î for Various Uses, 123
  • Concrete Arch Bridges, 237
  • Concrete Arch, Longest in Canada, 513
  • Concrete Bored by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 595
  • Concrete Bricks, Sand, Lime and other, H. O. Weller, 459
  • Concrete, Fusing Point of, 513
  • Concrete Mixing, Tests in America, 595
  • Concrete, Oils and Fats Attack on, 71
  • Concrete Piles, Hollow, Novel Process of Manufacture, 377
  • Concrete Pipes for Water under High Pressure, 669
  • Concrete, Reinforced, Wireless Tower, 660ft. High, 595
  • Concrete Saving but Increased Cost of Formwork, 321
  • Concrete Structures, Joints in, System for Making Water-tight, 513
  • Continental Trunk Telephone Cable, 679
  • Cooling Tower, Largest, in the World, 293
  • Copper, Free Exportation from Mexico, 207
  • Corrosion, Internal, of Hot Water Pipes, F. N. Speller, 513
  • Corrosion in Steel Works Chimneys, Failure of Attempted Remedy, 595
  • Corundum Deposits of the Transvaal, 71
  • Cotton Cultivation in Argentina, 123
  • Creosoted Wood-stave Pipes, Long Duration of, 237
  • Creosoting of Wooden Sleepers, New Process Tried in America, 569
  • Crinan Canal, 361
  • Crossley Brothers' Staff Dinner, 191
  • Crystal Palace Engineering Society, Papers Read during Session, 440 ; Wilson Premium Award, 440

D

  • DEATH of Captain S. C. Plant, 513
  • Diamond Cutting, Training School for, Projected in Johannesburg, 321
  • Driving of Centrifugal Machines, F. J. Broadbent, 179
  • “Drop Forger,” First Issue, 569
  • Dry Rot and Floor Collapse, 293
  • Dust Collection by Horsed or Electric Vehicles, Ipswich Comparison, 151
  • Dust Explosions and Concrete Walls, Ample Ventilation Recommended, D. J. Price, 485
  • Dyestuffs in the United Kingdom, Manufacture, Former Enemy Aliens Excluded, 433
  • Dynamite and Liquid Oxygen in Blasting Operations, 151

E

  • ECONOMIC Position in Engineering Industries, 357
  • Egypt and the Sudan, Public Works and Finance, 619
  • Eight-storey Building Moved 40ft., 569
  • Einstein Theory and the Velocity of Light, 669

ELECTRICAL MATTERS :

  • - A.E.G. and Linke-Hoffmann Works, 330
  • - Application of Electrical Machinery to Increase Mine Production, T. R. Haig, 619
  • - Arc-fused Steel, Unsatisfactory in Result, 13
  • - Arc Welding of Aluminium, F. J. Heyes, 595
  • - Artificial Silk for Cable Requirements, 643
  • - Ash Disposal in German Power Houses, 123
  • - Birmingham and Increased Electrical Supply, The Corporation and the Traders, 207
  • - Boston and Washington Districts, Superpower Station and Expected Increased Demand, 321
  • - British Electrical and Allied Industries' Research Association, 669
  • - Capetown New Power House, Provision for Great Expansion of Electrical Demand, 321
  • - Chile, Natural Water Power Resources for Generating Electricity for Certain Towns, 273, 321
  • - Coal-cutting Machines and Question of Safety in New South Wales Mine, 377
  • - Cotton Mills Electrification in Blackburn, 179
  • - Defective Contact Lift Fatality, 97
  • - Douro, Proposed Utilisation of Falls of, for Railway Electrification, 377
  • - Earthing in Electrical Practice, Indiscriminate Use of Water Pipes, 151
  • - Electric Power Utilisation in Modern Gasworks, 265
  • - Electric versus Combustion Furnaces for Low Temperatures, F. W. Brooke and G. P. Mills, 123
  • - Electrical Research Association and Insulating Materials, 513
  • - Electricity Commissioners and Lancashire Schemes, 237
  • - Electrostatic Condensers, V. E. Goodwin, 485
  • - Federated Malay States Electricity Board, 643
  • - Flashlight, Hand, New Type of, 123
  • - Fuses, H. W. Kefford, 123
  • - Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43
  • - German Electric Cable Industry's Bad Trade, 265
  • - Germany's Reduced Coal Supply and Increased Demand for Electric Power, 265
  • - Gosport and Delayed Power Supply, 543
  • - Greenwich Power Station Boilers Equipped for Oil-burning in View of Coal Shortage, 669
  • - Grimsby Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13
  • - Hereford's Proposed Extension of Area of Electricity Supply, 376
  • - High-current Tests and High-tension Switchgear, Philip Torchio, 485
  • - High Power Factor on Consumers' Circuits, Proposed Tariff, 569
  • - Houses, All-electric, for Power Station Employees, near Stockton-on-Tees, 97
  • - Inductance Coils, American Research, 211
  • - Ipswich Savings by Substitution of Electric Vehicles for Horses and Carts, 369
  • - Lamps in Series on Traction Circuits, Device for Quick Discovery of Damage, 405
  • - Leicester's New 10,000-kilowatt Generator, 513
  • - Liverpool Docks Electrification Progress, 13
  • - Magnetos for the Air Service, Superiority of British Design, Captain A. B. Burgoyne, 485
  • - Merchant Ships, Electric Auxiliaries for, C, H. Giroux, 293
  • - Mersey Power Station for Supply at Runcorn and at Ellesmere Port, 485
  • - Mice and Electric Bells, 265
  • - Motor for Use in Rooms where Explosive Mixtures may be Present, 179
  • - Neon Lamp, New Type, 321
  • - Netherlands East Indies, Lighting and Power Supply Transformation, 97
  • - Newark Electricity Scheme, Expense Objected to, 595
  • - New Zealand, Ashburton County Electrical Scheme, 349
  • - North Wales and Supply of Electricity, Improvement Scheme, 71
  • - North-West Midlands District Proposals, Time Extension for Objectors, 349
  • - Omnibus, Edison, New Type, 123
  • - Paper-making and Scanty Use of Electrical Power, 405
  • - Phase Sequence Indicating Device, 619
  • - Photometer, Action of Special Device, A. H. Compton, 71
  • - Power Pressure Increase in Southern California, 543
  • - Preston's Supply Chiefly Generated by Steam from the Refuse Destructor, 619
  • - Pukow Projected Electric Generating Plant, 669
  • - Punjab, Development of Schemes for Electrical Power, 71
  • - Punjab Hydro-electric Scheme for Canal Use, 293
  • - Railway Station Lighting, New System Introduced on the London and South- Western Railway, 569

ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) :

  • - Redditch Electric Supply and Coal Shortage, 669
  • - Repelling Arc Furnace, Von Schlegel, 13
  • - Resistance, Electrical, of the Human Body, Measurements, 123
  • - Rivet Heater, Electric, New Type, 459 Salford Electrical Extensions Scheme, 13
  • - San Joaquin River, California, Increased Power from, 293
  • - Separators in Secondary Batteries, Improved Type Invented, T. A. Willard, 349
  • - Ships, Electric Drive for, H. K. Barrows, 237
  • - Simla Roads, Experiment with Electric Vehicles, 263
  • - Smelting Works, Electric, for South Africa, 293
  • - Spain, Distribution of Energy, National System Proposed, 459
  • - Static Electricity Trouble in Textile Factory, 123
  • - Steam-electric Plant, 125,000,000-kilowatt in Victoria, 265
  • - Storage Batteries, Creeping of Electrolyte, 433
  • - Story of the Induction Motor, G. B. Lamme, 349
  • - Supply Development Schemes, Increase, 123
  • - Swiss Electrical Industry Prosperity, 123
  • - Sydney, N.S.W., Controversy over New Turbo-alternator, 265
  • - Temperature of Rotors belonging to Alternators, Instrument for Measuring, 265
  • - Thermostat, New Type, for Control of Electric Ovens and Heating Appliances, 293
  • - Thermostatic Control in connection with Electric Heating, G. Wilkinson, 433
  • - Thomson-Houston and General Electric Companies Combination in Spain, 151
  • - Tientsin and Pekin Electrical Company Proposed, 643
  • - Tokyo, Reported Amalgamation of Electric Power Works, 377
  • - Turbo - generator, 10,000 - Kilowatt, for Uruguay, Varying Tenders for, 485
  • - United States Increased Production of Electric Lamps, 377
  • - Wallasey Power Station Breakdowns, Recommendations, 459
  • - West Bromwich Electrical Plant Extensions, 179
  • - West Riding Electricity District Meeting, 459
  • - Worcester Joint Electricity District Formed, 43
  • - Worksop, Proposed Extension of Supply, 543
  • - Wye, and Electrical Energy, Application to Commissioners, 543
  • - Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnace, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13
  • ELECTRO-PLATING, Cadmium, 669
  • Engine, Gas, Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605
  • Ex-British Westinghouse Association, Annual Reunion, 361
  • Exhausts from Two-cycle and Four-cycle Engines, Temperature of, 643

EXHIBITIONS :

  • - Agricultural Machinery Exhibition at Brussels, 151
  • - Agricultural Machinery Exhibition and Motor Tractor Trials in Spain, 86
  • - Annual Agricultural Exhibition at Tours, 433
  • - Basle, Fifth Swiss Trade Exhibition at, 349
  • - Basle International Automobile Exhibition, 151
  • - Efficiency Exhibition, Work of ex-Service Men, 179
  • - Industrial and Agricultural Fair in Lemberg, 669
  • - International Architecture Exhibition at Ghent, 43
  • - International Building Trades' Exhibition at Olympia, 364
  • - International Centenary Exhibition at Lima, 569
  • - Milan Sample Fair, 274
  • - National Industrial Fair at Gothenburg, 643
  • - Netherlands East Indies Fair in Java, 83
  • - Orient Fair in Czecho-Slovakia, 440
  • - Rangoon, Permanent Exhibitions to be Opened, 293
  • EXPLOSION of Large Cast Iron Drying Cylinder, 179
  • Ex-Service Men, Disabled, Training of, 179
  • Eye Magnet, Giant, for Metal Removal from Injured Eyes, 123

F

  • FAILURE of Metals—see Metals
  • Fairs—see Exhibitions
  • Faraday House Entrance Scholarships, 445
  • Faraday House Old Students’ Association, Annual Dinner, 357
  • Federation of British Industries, Packing Case to Guard Against Pilferage, 543
  • Ferro-chrome—see Iron and Steel
  • Ferrox Welding Wire and Rods, 162 ; (Letter), 178
  • Finland, Large Water Power Station for, 459
  • Finnish Engineering Students to Study in Germany, 349
  • Finsbury Technical College to Continue Work¬ing, 433
  • Finsbury Technical College, Old Students’ Association, 132, 474; Manchester Branch Smoking Concert, 581
  • Fire Hose Set Alight during Pumping, 405
  • Fire-resisting Plastic Material, 179
  • Fires on Board Ship, 669
  • Firing Sagger Ovens of Potteries, 179
  • Flax Pickers, 'Mechanical, Competition in France, 543
  • Ford Motor Company Extends Equipment 619
  • Forest Cover and Effect on Streams, Experiments, 405
  • France, Northern, Reopened Industrial Establishments, 71
  • Franklin Institute, Awards of Medals and Certificates, 569
  • French Government Proposed Huge Exhibition Building, Municipal Disapproval, 207
  • French State Monopolies in Bad Odour, 179
  • French Wireless Plant, Cession to Private Company, Government Explanation, 405
  • Fuel Consumption Trials at Le Mans, 619
  • Fuel Economy of Motor Cars, Tests, 71
  • Fuel Economy Trial, Motor Car, 274
  • Fuel for Motor Ship Free of Charge, 377
  • Fuel Oil, Fall in Price, 513
  • Furnace Collapse, Remarkable, on s.s. Baltriger, 619

G

  • GAS for Domestic Use, Dangerous Percentage of Carbon Monoxide, 207
  • Gas Engine Exhaust, Utilisation of, 605
  • Gas-filled Electric Lamps, Increased Demand, 43
  • Gas Fittings Manufacture, Comparatively Prosperous Condition of, 543
  • Gas Undertakings, Coal and Gas Statistics, 433
  • Genoa, Port Extension on Large Scale Projected, 643
  • Geological Survey of Western Australia, Publications to Aid Miners, 513
  • German Boiler Explosions Increase, 97
  • German Cement for South Africa at Lower Prices than British, Belgian and Pretorian, 237
  • German Competition in Hoisting Tackle Manufacture, 595
  • Germans and the British Magneto Trade, Unfair Competition, 97
  • Glass, Effect on, of Radium, X-rays, andc., J. R. Clarke, 595
  • Glass Factory on Island of Madeira, 485
  • Gold Belt, Rich, Discovery in Nigeria, 643
  • Gold and Other Metals Output of Ontario, 13
  • Gramophones, Small Motors for Driving, 459
  • Greenwich Observatory, Repair of Instruments and Installation of New, 663

H

  • HANDLING Small Locomotives, Booklet by Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., 389
  • Harbour Improvement at Belize, 543
  • Havre-Paris Pipe Line Progress, 123
  • Highest Monolithic Structure Yet Built, 595
  • Hong Kong University, 191
  • Hot Water Centres during Fuel Shortage in Birmingham, 569
  • Hydro-electric Plant Nearing Completion in Ontario, 513
  • Hydro-electric Possibilities of Queensland, 178
  • Hydro-electrical Development in Java, 13
  • Hydro-electrical Development in New Zealand, 13

I

  • ICE-CLEARING from Water Power Plants and Effect of Use of Explosives, 349
  • Iceland, Proposals for Railway and Electric Development, 97
  • Imports into Sweden from Germany, 459
  • Indian Construction Company Floated at Bombay, 123
  • Industrial Administration, Institute of, First Annual Dinner, 277
  • Industrial Welfare Society Conference, 207
  • Insulation of Sound, Tests of Variously Built Walls, Professor F. R. Watson, 491
  • Ipswich and Dust Collection, 151

IRON AND STEEL :

  • - Amalgamation of Steel Companies in France, 405
  • - Arc-fused Steel, Unfavourable Result of Examination by American Bureau of Standards, 13
  • - Austrian Duties on Iron and Steel, 595
  • - Blast-furnace, New, Erected at Huangshi- kang, China, 43
  • - Blast-furnaces in Lorraine, Diminished Number Working, 293
  • - Bombay Manufacture of High Quality Steels, 669
  • - Brazilian Government and Electrical Supply for Iron and Steel Making, 669
  • - British Columbia, Government Agreement with Steel Company, 405
  • - British Columbia, Projected Large Steel Works, 377
  • - Burma, Iron Ore Find, 207
  • - Chilean Concession to German Firm for Iron and Steel Industry, 207
  • - Combination of Large Companies in Japan, 43
  • - Deoxidisers in Steel Making, G. F. Comstock, 643
  • - Eastern Finland, Discovery of Iron Pyrites Deposit, 513
  • - Electric Furnace for Iron Castings, 669
  • - Ferro-chrome Alloy, Cheap and Rustless, by Electrical Production, 71
  • - International Nickel Company's 12,000,000- Dollar Plant, 97
  • - Iron Foundry in Chungking, China, Projected, 433
  • - Italian Inquiry into Iron and Steel Industry, 265
  • - Krupp Works Rustless Steel, 237
  • - Magnetic Iron Ore Discovery on the Russo- Ukrainian Border, 459
  • - Magnetic Method of Finding Bubbles and Cracks in Steel, 377
  • - Metallography of Low-carbon Steel, James Mitchell, 349
  • - National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Annual Meeting and Appointments, 344
  • - Output of Iron and Steel in the United Kingdom, Great Drop, 669
  • - "Rustless" Steel Again, 71, 97
  • - Steel Analysis, Strength of Solutions Used in Electrolytic Method of Determining, 485
  • - Steel Demand and Use of Old Material, 669
  • - Steel Ingot Production in the United States, Reduced Output, 595
  • - Steel for Valves of Oil Engines, 179
  • - Steel Works in America Compared with British, R. P. Smith, 543
  • - Steel Works at Port Kemble, New South Wales, 669
  • - Swedish Ironworks' Association Report, 151

IRON AND STEEL (continued):

  • - Tungsten and Molybdenum, Cheap Process for Conversion of Ores into Metal, 71
  • - Unbreakable Cast Steel Railway Wheel, Severe Tests, 595
  • - Western Australia Iron Ore Deposits, 179
  • ITALY, Engineering Works in, Lectures, Dr. Luigi Luiggi, 194, 232

J

  • JAMES Keith and Blackman Company, Limited, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361
  • Japan, Telephone Service Extension and Improvement, 260
  • Japanese Government to Develop Coal Mining and Other Industries, 293
  • Japanese High-power Wireless Station near Peking, 467
  • Japanese Patent Laws, Revision of, 513
  • Java, Deepening of Sourabaya Harbour, 377

K

  • KEITH, James, and Blackman Company, Dinner to Directors and Management, 361
  • Kelvin Medal, 1920, 135
  • Kelvin Medal Presentation to Dr. Unwin, 458
  • Kenya Colony, East Africa, Projected Sugar Plantation, 237
  • King George's Dock,-Calcutta, Work Begun, 151

L

  • LABOUR Ministry Appointment, 13
  • Laichikok, Hong Kong, Coaling Wharf and Oil- bunkering Appliances, 377
  • Lamps, Electric--see Electrical Matters
  • Lamps, Large Incandescent, in the United States, 123
  • Lamps for Use on Board Ship, W. J. Jones, 543
  • Lead Caulking Recovered by Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe, 619
  • Leather Belts, How to Use, Buck and Hickman, Limited, 605
  • Lifting Magnets for Handling Metal Sheets, Major F. A. Hooper, 207
  • Light Measurement by Portable Meter, 97
  • Lightning Arresters, Information Sought as to Defective Operation, 543
  • Lightning Arresters, Investigation, 97
  • Liquid Air in Vacuum Flasks, Losses, andc., Professor H. Briggs, 433
  • Lloyd's Register in Holland, 413
  • Lloyd's Register Scholarships and Essay Competitions, 162
  • Lock, Patent, to Eclipse the "Yale," 459
  • Locomotives, Small, Booklet on Handling, Andrew Barclay, Sons and Co., Limited, 389
  • Locust Destruction by Liquid Fire, 527
  • Lubricating Oil in Constant Service when Continuously Purified, 377

M

  • MACHINE Tool Trades' Association, Annual Meeting and Dinner, 55
  • Machine Tools in Australia, Large British Plant Suggested, 97
  • Magnesite Production in the United States, 543
  • Magnetos for Internal Combustion Engines, A. P. Young, 179
  • Manchuria, Establishment of Proper Communications Advised, 513
  • Manchuria, Harbour Construction on South Coast of, 513
  • Manufacturing Processes, Dangerous, List Extended by Home Secretary, 43
  • Metal and Mineral Output of South Australia, Increased Value of, 433
  • Metals, Failure of, under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Joint Discussion, 162--see also Associations
  • Metals in Germany, Fall in Prices, 109
  • Metric System Obligatory in Japan, 459
  • Mica Deposits of Lomagundi, South Africa, 71
  • Microscale, Swedish Instrument for Minute Weighing, 265
  • Microscope, A Works, 471
  • Mine Managers and Surveyors, Postponement of Examinations for Certificates, 543
  • Mine Warnings by Evil-smelling Substance, 293
  • Mineral Output of New South Wales, Increased Value of, 321
  • Mineral Resources of Tsinanfu, Shantung, 643
  • Miners' Lamps, Safety, andc., Committee Reappointed, 123
  • Miners' Phthisis in Gold Mines, C. J. Gray, 459
  • Mining Record in South Africa, 619
  • Mint at Shanghai will be Largest in the World, 377
  • Molybdenum--see Iron and Steel
  • Montevideo Harbour Extension, 43
  • Montreal Harbour, New Storage Warehouse, 459
  • Motor Car Engine, Waste Heat for Warming Body of the Car, 71
  • Motor Car Fuel Economy Trial, 274
  • Motor Car Hill-climbing Trials at Monaco, 349
  • Motor Car Imports into British India, United States Proportion nearly Three Times that of Great Britain, 43
  • Motor Car Racing, Disadvantage of Six and Eight-cylinder Engines, 513
  • Motor Car 1000-Miles Trial, Twenty-first Anniversary, 305
  • Motor Car Routes from the Congo to the Nile and to Lake Albert, 265
  • Motor Car which Won the Corsican Grand Prix, 513
  • Motor Fuels and Denaturation, Sir C. Bedford, 643
  • Motor Vehicles, Commercial, Parade of, 162
  • Motor Vehicles and Population in the United States, 619
  • Mysore, High-level Canal from River Cauvery Projected, 433

N

  • NAILS, Bolts and Nuts Manufacture, Report on Trade Combinations, 543
  • "Natalite," Experimental Consignment from South Africa, 543
  • Natural Gas in Mexico, Great Waste of, 207
  • Natural Gas and Petroleum Association of Canada, 216
  • New South Wales Manufactures, Statistics, 643
  • Niagara Falls, Power Increase Without Detriment to View, 71
  • Norway, Industrial and Economic Situation, Report on, 377

O

  • OCEAN Exploration, Proposed Expedition for, 459
  • Oil Bore-hole for South Africa, 293
  • Oil Deposits, Enormous Unexplored, in Various Regions of Southern Mexico, 669
  • Oil Development in Alberta, Rush for Oil Leases, 71
  • Oil Development in Canada, Petroleum Find, Aeroplane Communication, 123
  • Oil Engines, Drott Surface Ignition, Tests by Belgian Colonial Army, 569
  • Oilfields of Northern Canada, 293
  • Oil Finds on the Mackenzie River, Proposed Investigation by Canadian Government, 71
  • Oil Fuel Storage Installations in the Argentine, 669
  • Oil Prospecting by Aeroplane in the Orinoco Wilderness, 619
  • Oil for Steam Turbines, Necessity for Keeping in Good Condition, C. H. Bromley, 543
  • Oil Storage Tanks, Large, Being Built at Durban, 179
  • Oil Wells at Baku, Soviet Concession to British Company, 569
  • Oils for Lubrication, Continuous Duration if Continuously Purified, 377
  • Old Centralians, 191
  • Optophone, Thermionic Amplifier Experiments to Increase Sound Volume, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 405
  • Omnibus, Six-wheeled, Paris Experiment, 485
  • Ontario Loan for Hydro-electric Power Commission, 669
  • Ovens for Coke-making, in 1841, 123
  • Oxy-acetylene Blow-pipe for Boring Concrete, 595
  • Oxygen Manufacture for Engineering Use, Study of, at Harvard, 43

P

  • PACKING Case, Thief-proof, 543
  • Paris Passenger Traffic, Congestion Increase, Proposed Underground Moving Pavement, 265
  • Patent Office Assistant Examiners, Competitive Examination, 445, 549
  • Patent Office Inefficiency in America, 43
  • Pearl, Instrument to Detect Difference between Japanese Culture and Real Pearl, 662
  • "Penrol," New Motor Car Fuel, 433
  • Peru, Nationalisation of Water Power, 321, 669
  • Petrol Consumption in Australia, 405
  • Petroleum Bore-hole in Boshof District, South Africa, 485, 595
  • Petroleum Boring in Leicestershire, Licence Granted, 71
  • Philippines Postal and Passenger Aeroplane Service, 377
  • Phosphorus Deposits on Uninhabited Island, 265
  • Photometers, Illumination, Increased Use of, 377
  • Platinum Production in British Columbia, 433
  • Platinum, Prospecting for, in View of High Prices, 619
  • Platinum, World's Production of, 293
  • Plug, Bougiver Type, with Glass Insulator, 237
  • Polish Wireless Station, Very Large, to be Constructed by American Company, 265
  • Portland Cement Manufacture in Brazil, Proposed, 71, 151
  • Post Office Purchase of Trans-Atlantic Cable, 321
  • Power Plant near Melbourne and Fuel By-Products Recovery, 513
  • Presentations for Long Service, 629
  • Producer Gas, Bad Effect on Electric Machinery Windings, 179
  • Pulp and Paper Mill, 6,000,000-Dollar, Projected for Prince George, B.C., 97
  • Pulpwood in Manitoba, Land for Sale on Conditions, 377

Q

  • QUEBEC Government’s Department of Indus¬tries, 480
  • Quebec Harbour Improvement, 433
  • Queensland, Apprenticeship Scheme, 400
  • Queensland, Reports on Hydro-electric Possibilities of, 178
  • Queenston-Chippawa Canal Development, 669

R

  • RADIO Apparatus in Aerial Navigation, 619
  • Radio-telegraph and Radio-telephone Station, Powerful, for the Argentine, 349
  • Radio Valves for Handling Large Outputs, 265
  • Radium for Denmark, National Fund for Purchase of, 513
  • Radium Discovery in Madagascar, 106

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :

  • Accidents:
  • - American Accidents—see United States Railways
  • - Cambrian Railway Blocked through Gale Damage, 97

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) :

  • - Accidents (continued):
  • -- Cambrian Railway Disaster at Abermule, 237, 265, 651
  • -- Christmas and Accidents Record, 13
  • -- Coupling Failures and Accidents, Change in Regulations as to Reporting, 569
  • -- Fatal Accident, Rare Type of, on the North British Railway, 377 ; Report, 669
  • -- Fatal Accident Statistics, 71
  • -- Fatal Collision with Empty Coaches, 321
  • -- Fatal Passenger Train Accidents in this Country, Only Two in Nine Months, 377
  • -- Liverpool Overhead Railway Collision, Report, 511
  • -- London and South-Western Collision during Fog, near Vauxhall, 151 ; Report, 405
  • -- London and South-Western Collision near Vauxhall, Report, 123
  • -- Lostock Junction Collision, Death of Another Passenger, 237
  • -- Paris-Orleans Railway Fatal Accidents, 543
  • -- Reports on Three Months' Accidents, 207, 293
  • -- Whitehouse Junction, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Collision, Report, 66
  • - Acworth, Mr. W. M., Knighted, 97
  • - Amalgamation of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway with the London and North- Western, Terms, 405 ; Previous Rejection of Similar Bill, 405
  • - American Steam Locomotive Increased Export, 207
  • - Apple Growing on Railway Embankments, Unfavourable Comment on Proposal, 513
  • - Appointments and Staff Changes, 13, 43, 71, 97, 177, 179, 595, 643, 669
  • - Argentine and Brazil as Markets for American Railway Material, 431
  • - Armistice Railway Car to be Permanently Preserved in Paris, 485
  • - Ashford Schools of the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 245
  • - Automatic Signalling, English and American Claims to Invention, 237
  • - Automatic Signalling on Mersey Railway Line, 319
  • - Average Wagon Load, Highest on Record, 321
  • - Baghdad Railway Ownership, 13
  • - Belfast and County Down Railway, Capital Expenditure, 265
  • - Bideford, Westward Ho ! and Appledore Railway, Rolling Stock to be Sold, 405
  • - Bolivian Railway between Potosi and Sucre, 576
  • - Bologna and Florence, Electrification of Line, 513
  • - Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Survey for New Line, 595
  • - Boonzaier T.U.V. Automatic Coupling, 286
  • - Bridge Across the Yellow River, Plans, 71
  • - Bridge, New, Over the Avon, Chippenham, 506
  • - Bridges Over Railways and Omnibus Traffic, 669
  • -British Railways and the Great War, Private Wagons Service, E. A. Pratt, 543
  • - Brixton and Ludgate Hill Train Service Withdrawn, 321
  • - Caledonian Railway, Eight-hour Day, Increase in Men and in Cost of Fuel, 293
  • - Caledonian Railway Goods Brake Vans, Clayton Wagons, Limited, 151
  • - Caine Branch Railway Bridge, New, near Chippenham, 506
  • - Cambrian Railway Meeting and the Abermule Accident, 237
  • - Cambrian Railway Takes Over Tanat Valley Light Railway, 377
  • - Canadian Railways, Ownership and Finance, 542
  • - Channel Tunnel Decision Delayed, 669
  • - Channel Tunnel or Train Ferries, 321
  • - Cheap Tickets Issue Question to be Left to the Railway Companies, 433
  • - Chilian and Argentine New Railway Construction, 123
  • - Chinese Railway Single-line Working and Token Instruments, 321
  • - Claims for Lost or Damaged Goods, Reduced Number of, at Paddington, 433
  • - Coal Strikes and Railway Loss, 377
  • - Colwyn Committee :
  • -- Further Information Asked for, 43
  • -- Report, 13
  • -- Sir A. K. Butterworth's Evidence, 71
  • - Commercial Travellers' Week-end Tickets, Suggested Revival, 349
  • - Competitive Goods Traffic Allocation Ceases, 265
  • - Concession to Season Ticket Holders during Restricted Train Service, 459
  • - "Container" System and Pilfering from American Railways, 207
  • - Cost of Material for Railways and Shipping, Enormous Rates Driving Huge Orders Abroad, 321
  • - Crewe Men, Past and Present, 417, 471
  • - Danish State Railways, New Steamer for Ferry, 123
  • - Death of Engineman, and Workmen's Compensation Act, 485
  • - Death of Mr. E. A. Bowden, 405
  • - Death of Mr. George Estall, 638
  • - Death of Mr. G. P. Neele, 13
  • - Death of Lord Terrington, 151
  • - Denbighshire Transport Schemes and State Finance Question, 619
  • - District and Associated Railways, Self supporting Basis Restored, 265
  • - Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, and Coast Erosion, 409
  • - Dublin and South-Eastern Railway, Escape from III Consequences of "Munitions" Strike, 293
  • - Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Extension, Poor Results, 293
  • - East London Railway's Hard Caso, 179
  • - Eastern Group of Railways, Suggested Further Inclusion, 207, 237
  • - Electric Lighting of Railway Stations, New Method on the London and South-Western Railway, 569
  • - Electric Railway Training Film, 97
  • - Electrical Starting Signal, 237
  • - Electric Traction on Railways, Lecture on its Advantages, Sir V. Raven, 179

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

  • - Electrification of United Kingdom Railways, Delays Solely due to Finance, 522
  • - Empty Rolling Stock, Waste in Cost of Haulage, 513
  • - English Railway Stockholders' Protection Association, 179
  • - Exceptional Rates and the Iron and Steel Trade, 669
  • - Finland, Proposed New Railway in Ceded Territory, 207
  • - First-class Compartments on the District Railway, Not to be Abolished, 13
  • - Folkestone and Boulogne, Day Service Restored, 123
  • - Freight Statistics, Four Weeks, and the Miners' Strike, 123
  • - Furness Railway's Increased Passenger Traffic, 412
  • - Furness Railway's New Locomotives, 71
  • - Furness Railway Scholarship, Conditions, 513
  • - Furness Railway, Sunday Closing of some Stations, 122
  • - Gauge, Break of, Device, Trial in Australia, 71
  • - Gauge Conversion, Cost in Australia, 349
  • - Gauge Disadvantages in Australia, 123
  • - Gauge Question in South America, Difficulties Caused by Diversity, 43
  • - German Locomotive Tenders for the Compania del Norte, 207
  • - Glasgow and South-Western Railway Report, 237
  • - Glasgow Subway Railway's Heavy Loss on Working, 349
  • - Glasgow Underground Electrification Declined on Account of Cost, 293
  • - Goods Tonnage and Ton-miles in January, Reduction, 485
  • - Goods Traffic by Road, Railway Companies' Service, 179
  • - Government Control, Date of Termination, 207
  • - Great Eastern Engines Converted for Oil Firing, 569
  • - Great Eastern Railway, Harwich-Antwerp New Steamer Malines, 71
  • - Great Eastern Railway and the Railways Bill, 577
  • - Great Eastern Railway, Steamers and Crane Cost, 179
  • - Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Expected
  • - Large Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 207
  • - Great Western Goods Train Working, Saving, 293
  • - Great Western Point and Signal Levers, 123
  • - Great Western Railway, Excursions and Fares Reduction, 433
  • - Great Western Railway, Staff Training Scheme, 179
  • - Grouping of Railways, Pros and Cons, 43, 207, 237, 265
  • - Heavy Electric Traction, Co-operation with American Railway Engineering Association, 433
  • - Holyhead, Work at, Parliamentary Sanction Required, 643
  • - Hungary and State Railways, Electrification, 643
  • - Indian Government Loan at 7 per cent., 459
  • - Indian Railway Development and the Finance Question, 97
  • - Indian Railways, Automatic Continuous Vacuum Brake Recommended on, 485
  • - Ingot Mould Weighing over 87 Tons Carried by Rail, 543
  • - Institutes and Institutions, Railway--see Associations, andc.
  • - Interlocking on Single-line Railways, 669
  • - Irish Collieries' War-time Railways, Successful Traffic, 293
  • - Irish Railwaymen and "Direct Action," 13
  • - Iron and Steel Trade and Exceptional Carriage Rates, 669
  • - Italy's Projected Electrification of 5000 Miles of Railways, 555
  • - Japanese Government Railways, Electrification, 648
  • - Japanese Imperial Government Railways, Gauge Question, 459
  • - Krupps' Successful Tender for Steel Wheels for Argentine Railways, 349
  • - Lancashire and Yorkshire First-class Season Ticket Holders, 377
  • - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Increase of Capital Expenditure, 459
  • - Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Sir E. Stockton and Hereditary Service, 179
  • - Leeds and Liverpool Canal Company Ceases as a Carrier, Wages, Hours and the Trade Union, 433
  • - Level Crossing for Two Vehicles a Week at a Weekly Cost of over £12, 293
  • - Liverpool Committee on Question of Additional Passenger Facilities, 293
  • - Locomotives and Wagons, New. and under Repair, 237
  • - London and North-Western Engine Coaling Plant at Crewe, 377
  • - London and North-Western Railway Chairmanship, 595
  • -London and North-Western Work at Holyhead, Parliamentary Approval Necessary, 643
  • - London and South-Western Electrical Services Traffic Statistics, 43
  • - London and South-Western New Signalling Invention, 123
  • - London Traffic Authority Bill Abandoned, 321
  • - Lung-hai Railway Construction, Maritime Terminus and New Port Projected, 595
  • - Melbourne Suburban Railways, Success of Partial Electrification, 595
  • - Mersey Railway, Automatic Signalling on Line from Liverpool to Birkenhead, 319
  • - Mersey Railway Company Fares Advance, 569
  • - Metropolitan Railway Company's New Well, 264
  • - Midland Railway Express Trains Punctuality, 301
  • - Midland Railway, Increased Output of New and Repaired Rolling Stock, 265
  • - Ministry of Transport's Committee on Railway Companies' Goods Traffic Road Service, 179
  • - Ministry of Transport's Figures as to Passenger Traffic, 669
  • - National Union of Railwaymen, Decline in Membership, 543

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

  • - New South Wales Railway Car Mileage, Suggested Increase to Effect Large Savings, 465
  • - New South Wales Railways, Suggestions for Improvements and Economies Adopted, 349
  • - North British Railway and Burntisland Harbour, 643
  • - North British Railway Ferry Charges, 459
  • - North British and Other Companies and the Ministry of Transport, Disputed Claims, 237, 293, 543, 595
  • - North-Eastern Railway, Economies in View of Increased Cost, 293
  • - North-Eastern Railway, Meeting to Consider Railways Bill, 543
  • - North-Eastern Railway and Railway Grouping Scheme, 43, 207, 237
  • - North-Eastern Wages Bill, Increase of 225 per Cent., 265
  • - North Staffordshire Engines Fitted for Oil Fuel, 619
  • - North Staffordshire Railway Bill, 542
  • - North Staffordshire Railway's Proposed Capital Expenditure on Rolling Stock, 293
  • - Norwegian Government Concession for Electric Railway, 179
  • - Oil Fuel on the Southern Pacific Railroad, 669
  • - Passenger Fares and the Coal Strike, 538
  • - Passenger Traffic Reduction Statistics, 669
  • - Pekin and Hankow Railway, New Bridge, 71
  • - Pekin-Hankow and Pekin-Pukow Railways' Connection, 643
  • - Pekin New Railway Station, 543
  • - Policy Proposed in White Paper, Men's Joint Committee on, 97
  • - Port Talbot Railways and Docks Company, Railway Business and Property Taken Over by Great Western, 433
  • - Presentation to Mr. J. Rayner-Smith, 43
  • - Pre-war Facilities, but at Post-war Prices, 619
  • - Prince of Wales' Train Derailment in Australia Due to Heavy Train, 349
  • - Queensland Government Railways, Change in Administration, 513
  • - Quick Method of Tickets Issue, 485
  • - Quito, Ecuador, National Tramway Company Plans, 643
  • - Rail Locomotive Parts from the United States, 349
  • - Rails from Belgium £12 per Ton Against £23 at Home, 321
  • - Rails, Steel, for the South Manchurian Railway, 459
  • - Railway Benevolent Institution Funds, 151. 321
  • - Railway Commissioners, New Appointment, 71
  • - Railway Companies' Claims and the Government, 543
  • - Railway Companies and Trades Unions, New Agreement, 543 ; Further Discussion, 569
  • - Railway Difficulties and Railwaymen's Hours and Pay, 619
  • - Railway Equipment Increasing Cost, 459
  • - Railway Material Exports, Statistics, 182, 265, 377, 485, 619
  • - Railway Operating Statistics, 123, 151, 179, 292, 330, 459, 485
  • - Railway Returns for 1919. First Since the War, 237, 568
  • - Railway Servants' Pay, Sliding Scale, 97, 123, 377
  • - Railway Staff and Unemployment, Question of Guaranteed Week, 97
  • - Railway Stockholders' Association and Sir Eric Geddes, 237
  • - Railway Stockholders Outnumber Railway Employees, 433
  • - Railway Track Cost and Motor Vehicle Immunity, 293
  • - Railway and Tramway Traffic, Morning and Evening Hours' Demands, 569
  • - Railways Bill, Analysis of Voting, 595
  • - Railways Bill, Directors' Views and Communication with Proprietors, 569
  • - Railways Bill Introduction, 459, 543, 643
  • - Railways Bill Postponement and End of Control, 433
  • - Rates Advisory Committee, Fares, andc., 237
  • - Rates Advisory Committee and Goods Classification, 43, 97, 237, 377
  • - Rates Advisory Committee, Postponement of Public Meeting on Account of Present Crisis, 433, 569
  • - Receipts and Expenditure for November, 1920, 71
  • - Receipts and Expenditure for December, 1920, 349
  • - Receipts and Expenditure for March, 1921, 512
  • -Receipts and Expenditure for April, 643
  • - Receipts and Expenditure for Twelve Months, 349
  • - Reports of English Railway Companies, 179
  • - Restricted Service Due to Coal Strike, 595
  • - Richborough and the South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 207
  • - Road Traffic and Loss by Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, 459
  • - Road Traffic by Railways, 459
  • - Rolling Stock Construction and Repair Statistics, 123, 619
  • - Rolling Stock Expenditure by Two Railways, 459
  • -Rubber Covering of Platforms Suggested to Reduce Noise, 669
  • -Rumanian Railways and Working by French Group, 71
  • - "Safety First," Awards to Drivers of Street Vehicles, 265
  • - Scottish Coalowners' Association and the Railway Question, 13
  • - Scottish Railway Companies and English Amalgamation Tribunal, 569
  • - Scottish Railway Stockholders' Protection Association, Appeal, 485
  • - Scottish Railway's Increased Expenditure, 643
  • - Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company Ceases to be a Carrier, 669
  • - Signal-box Control of Railway Points, 651
  • - Single-decker Omnibuses for Road Bridges over Railways, 669
  • - Single-line Working not to be Abandoned, 321
  • - South African Railways and Harbours, Failure in Courtesy of Staff, 513
  • - South African Railways and Harbours, Finance Analysis, 433

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

  • - South African Railways, Increase in Mileage and Traffic, 433
  • - South African Railways, Useful Disposal of Timber Packing Material, 405
  • - South African Reduction of Railway Rates for Bunker Coal, 459
  • - South African Treatment of Light Railway Rolling Stock, 652
  • - South-Eastern Railway, Holdings of Stock, Analysis, 207
  • - South-Western Railway Delayed Electrification Due to Enormous Cost Increase, 293
  • -Spanish Iron and Steel Syndicate for Supply of Wagons to Spanish Railways, 151
  • - Spanish Railway Electric Installations, Contract for American Firms, 151
  • - Spanish Railway Material Obtained from Germany, 151
  • - Spanish Railway Wagons and Germany's Successful Tender, 151
  • - Spanish Railway Wagons Ordered from Spanish Firms, 321
  • - Spanish Railways, Ownership Transference, 595
  • - Standardisation of Wages, Anomalies, 349
  • - Standardised Wages in Ireland as well as on British Lines, 293
  • - Steam Rail Motor Cars Reduced to Four on the London and South-Western Railway, 466
  • - Strikes and Wireless Telephony, 207
  • - Suez Canal and Kantara Bridge Question, 513
  • - Sunday Night Trains and Withdrawal of Sunday Postal Service, 643
  • - Sunday Trains, Improved Service between Broad-street and Richmond, 432
  • - Superannuation Allowances of Old Railway Servants, Increased Benefits, 349
  • - Superheating on British Railways and Mr. O. Winder, 377
  • - Swedish Locomotive Manufacturing Firm, Soviet Orders and Extension of Works, 179
  • - Swiss Electrical Locomotives and Motor Coaches, 569
  • - Swiss Railways, Nationalisation Question, 619
  • - Tanat Valley Light Railway Taken Over by Cambrian Company, 377
  • - Telegraph and Telephone Wire Mileage Maintained by Railways for Post Office Use, 265
  • - Telescoping and Composition of Passenger Trains, 265
  • - Three-cylinder Engines for Express Passenger Trains, 569
  • - Tientsin--Pukow Railway Electric Plant, 595
  • - Ton-mileage Figures for March, 669
  • - Traffic Figures, Reduction in Passengers, 669
  • - Traffic Increase between Bakerloo and London and North-Western Railway, 328
  • - Traffic (Merchandise) Decline during March, 669
  • - Traffic by Railway or Ship, Rates Question, 459
  • - Traffic Statistics, Passengers and Passenger Receipts, 123
  • - Train Alterations and Additions Postponed on Account of Coal Dispute, 643
  • - Train Ferries as Alternative to Channel Tunnel, 321
  • -Train Services, Improvement in, 643
  • - Train Services, Passenger, Reduction, for Saving of Coal, 485
  • - Transport, Passenger Traffic and Electric Power Demand, Arthur Watson on, 485
  • - Triennial Census of Railway Servants, 404
  • - Tunnel under the Thames to Connect Gravesend and Tilbury, Projected, 321
  • - Unballasted Lines in Australia, Excessive Cost of Working, 71
  • - United States Railways :
  • -- Accident Inquiries, Disastrous Record, 123
  • -- Accidents Record, Improvement, 13
  • -- Accidents Record, Method of Reporting, 619
  • -- American Railroad Wages Reduction, 643
  • -- Average Railway Receipts and Wholesale Prices in United States, 595
  • -- Baldwin Company's Locomotive Output, 151
  • - Boilers, Locomotive, Inspector's Recommendation, 405
  • -- Congressional Enquiry into Railway Finance, 513
  • -- Consolidation of Railways, U.S. Government Scheme, 64
  • -- Death of Mr. George S. Rice, 151
  • -- Electrification of Railways in America, Committee's Conclusions, 595
  • -- Electrification of Railways, Committee's Report, 569
  • -- Electrification of Railways and Industries between Boston and Washington, Investigation as to Economy, 97
  • -- Employees on the United States Railways, Numbers and Pay, 543
  • -- Expansion of Facilities for Traffic Movements, 265
  • -- Freight Traffic Greatly Diminished, 43, 207
  • -- Fruits and Vegetables and Freight Rates, 595
  • -- Labour and Inter-urban Railways, Disputes and Labour Board Decision, 71
  • -- Locomotive Export Association of New York City on United States Successful Competition for Orders, 349
  • -- New York Central, Terrible Collision near Chicago, 342
  • -- New York State and City, Transit Commission Appointed, 513
  • -- Pennsylvania, New York Terminus and Ferries Statistics, 71
  • -- Pennsylvania Railroad, Pittsburg Station and Public Thoroughfares, Wall Failure and Results, 151
  • -- Pennsylvania Railroad, Seventy-fifth Anniversary, 513
  • -- Private Operation of the United States Railways, Nine Months' Remarkable Increases, 207
  • -- Rail Sections, Rolling, Needless Expense, 179
  • -- Rails Production in the United States, Details, 595
  • -- Railway Track Mileage, Great Decrease, 569
  • -- Railwaymen's Conventions and Depressed Trade, 543

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

  • - United States Railways (continued):
  • -- Revenue Decrease, but no Change in Wages, Possible Inquiry, 465, 513
  • -- "Safety First" Reminder on the Chicago and North-Western Railroad, 513
  • -- Salaries of Railway Officers in America, 643
  • -- Tickets or Payment in the Train, Company's Action, 513
  • -- Timber Bridge Replaced by Steel, 43
  • -- Tramcar Preferred to Rapid Transit Railways, 349
  • -- Unjustifiable Complaints from Florida, 595
  • - Victoria and New South Wales Delegation to United States, 669
  • - Victoria and New South Wales, Increase in Inter-traffic, 123
  • - Victoria Station, District Railway, New Footbridge and Exit, 405
  • - Victorian Government Railways' New Type of Locomotive, 97
  • - Victorian Government Railways' Statement as to Increased Fares, 669
  • - Victorian Government Railways' Statistics, 43
  • - Victorian Railways and Car Loading, 543
  • - Wages and Fares, Railway, Finance on the Furness Railway, 405
  • - Wagon, Privately Owned, Question of Abolition, 97
  • - Welsh Railways and the Railways Bill Grouping, 619
  • - Whitsuntide and the Coal Dispute, 543
  • - Wireless on the Midland and London and North-Western Railways for Railway Purposes only, 543
  • - Wireless Telephony and Railway Strikes, 207
  • RAIN Precipitation by Electro-static Influence, Experiments with Aeroplane, 405
  • Refrigerating Industry, Volume of Standard Ton in British Thermal Units, 43
  • Reservoirs near Poona, Land Compensation Question Unsettled, 569
  • Rest, One Day in Seven, in South African Mines, 97
  • Rice Straw for Power Alcohol, 643
  • Road 172 Miles Long Proposed between Canton and Kowloon, 595
  • Road Wheel, New, 527
  • Rock Drills, Pneumatic, Mechanical and Thermal Efficiency of, 71
  • "Romance of Science," Professor Sir W. H. Bragg, 321
  • Royal Agricultural Society Show, at Darby, 349
  • Royal College of Science, Royal School of Mines, City and Guilds (Engineering) College, Meteorological Lectures, Programme, 24
  • Rubber Industry in United States as Largest User of Electric Power, 97
  • Rugby Water--see Water Supply

S

  • ST. LAWRENCE River, Latest Water Power Development Scheme, 669

SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH :

  • - Companies Approved and Licence Applied for :
  • -- British Cast Iron Research Association, 669
  • -- Cast Iron and Allied Industries Research Association, 207
  • -- Liquid Fuels for Oil Engines, British Research Association, 237
  • - Reports of Work in connection with Ministry of Munitions, 428
  • - Sulphuric and Nitric Acids, Recovery of, Report, 428
  • SCIENTIFIC Societies, Conjoint Board to Discontinue Certain Publications, 433
  • Scottish Water Power Companies’ Dispute Settled, 569
  • Scrap Disposal off Workshop Floors, 643
  • Searchlights, Military, for Java, Very Powerful, 459
  • Seine Steamboats Expected to Resume Running, 151
  • Shale with Large Oil Percentage in Brazil, 179.
  • Sheffield Association of Metallurgists and Metallurgical Chemists, 168
  • Shell Reamers, “Surrey” Adjustable, 218

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS :

  • - Admiralty Large Coastal Motor Boat. Trials of No. 102 M, 293
  • - American Battle-cruisers, Electric-driven, 485
  • - Canadian Government Steamships’ Operations, Ministerial Statistics, 405
  • - Canadian Shipbuilding Statistics, 669
  • - Canadian Steamers Exchanging Oil for Coal Fuel Equipment, 43
  • - Coal Strike Effects on Shipping, 13
  • - Danish State Railways’ New Ferry Steamer, 123
  • - Diesel Electric Drive in American Steel Ship, 273, 321
  • - Diesel Motor Ship, New Twin Screw, Burmeister and Wain, 178
  • - Electric Auxiliaries for Merchant Ships, C. H. Giroux, 293
  • - Electric Drive for American Cargo Vessels, Experiment, 265
  • - Electric Drive for Ships, H. K. Barrows, 237
  • - German Motor Ship Machinery, Record Power Development, 643
  • - Great Eastern Geared Turbine Steamer Malines for Harwich-Antwerp Service, 71
  • - Herring Drifter Speedwell, Lugger Rig and de Laval Steam Turbines, 207
  • - Ivernia, Steel Steamer for the Svenska Lloyd Company, 237
  • - Launching Lifeboats by Motor Tractor, 335
  • - Marine Diesel Engine, Present Position of, James Richardson, 237
  • - Motor Ship Canada Built in Sweden for South Pacific Service, 237
  • - Motor Ship Java Launched, Burmeister and Wain, 123
  • - Motor Ship Trades in Oil Free of Cost for Her Own Fuel, 377
  • - Motor Ships, Thirteen Ocean - going, Launched, 321
  • - Motor Tug and Repair Boat Esab IV., 293
  • - Oil-engined Vessels in Use whilst many Steamers are Idle, 643

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued):

  • - Oil Fuel on the ss, Bismarck, 569
  • - Oil Tankers and other Steamers Built at Hong Kong, 13
  • - Olympic Oil Bunker Capacity Increased, 321
  • - Salvaged Vessel from the Red Sea, 595
  • - Self-propelled Steel Barges with Electrical Steering Gear, 433
  • - Ship Loading Speed Record in Duluth Harbour, 293
  • - Shipyard at Vancouver Reopened, 151
  • - Somersetshire, Steamship, Launched at Belfast, Complete Electrical Equipment, 293
  • - South Australia and Shipbuilding, Launch of the Eurimbla, 485
  • - Spanish Shipbuilding and Navigation Development, New Law, 485
  • - Steamship Spaniel, Conversion as Cattlecarrying Boat, 454
  • - Stranding of Steamer Blackhill, Bearings Obtained by Wireless during Fog, 97
  • - Tank Steamer Repaired by Use of Outside Caisson, 13
  • - Tug, Quaint Type, for New York State Canal, 569
  • SHORT-STROKE Planers, Advantages over Shaping Machines, 543
  • Silver and Lead in the Yukon, 151
  • Silver-lead Mine at Cania, Central Queensland, 377
  • Sir John Cass Technical Institute, 308
  • Smart Work by a Middlesbrough Company, 569
  • Smugglers' Armoured Car and Contents Captured in Flanders, 569
  • South African Imports and Exports, 43
  • South African Mining and Engineering Journal, Editor, 207
  • South African Road Bridges, Large Order to United Kingdom, 595
  • South Kensington Science Museum, New Catalogues, 405
  • Spain, Longest Motor Transport Line in the Country Opened, 433
  • Spanish Bill for Expenditure on Public Works, 543
  • Spanish Harbour Conditions, 405
  • Spanish Telephones and Swedish Manufacture, 619
  • Sparking Plug, New Type, 669
  • Standard--see also British Standard
  • Standardisation, Automobile, 642
  • Standardisation in Belgium, 43
  • Steam Engine, Single-cylinder, Largest in Europe, 513
  • Steam Ferry Traffic between Sweden and Great Britain, 349
  • Steam Pipe Explosion Causes, 349
  • Steam Turbines, Pass-out, D. Brownlie, 179
  • Steel--see Iron and Steel
  • Sulphite Pulp Mill, Finland, to Begin Work, 485
  • Sulphuric Acid Manufacture in the United States, 123
  • Sulphuric and Nitric Acid--see also Scientific Research
  • Swansea as the Chief Oil Port of the United Kingdom, 619
  • Swedish Agricultural Machinery, Reduced Prices, 207
  • Sydney Harbour Bridge Proposal, Tenders to be Invited, 43

T

  • TANK, Amphibious, Trials, 459
  • Taxation of Mechanically Propelled Road Vehicles, 179
  • Telephone Cable, Continental Trunk, 679
  • Telephone Rate Increase in New York, 349
  • Telephone Sentry-boxes for Motorists' Night Use, 265
  • Telephones for Cuba, 8000 Ordered, 151
  • Telephones, Long-distance, Experiments in France, 619
  • Telephones in Sweden, Pre-eminent Position Claimed for, 71
  • Thornycroft's London Staff Dinner, 159
  • Thunder and Gunfire, Accoustics Comparison, J. W. Humphreys, 643
  • Tides Utilisation as Motive Power in Hie et Vilaine, Experimental Work, 237
  • Tractor Trials, Successful, on Singapore Rubber Estate, 485
  • Tractors at Beersheba, Demonstration, 459
  • Tractors to Replace Coolie Labour, Suggestion, 485
  • Tractors in Western Canada, 595
  • Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Proposed, 13
  • Train Ferry, Anglo-Swedish, Postponed, 459
  • Tungsten--see Iron
  • Tunnel, New Vehicular, between New York and Jersey, Ventilation Experiments, 97
  • Turbine Lubrication and Oil Purifying, 377
  • Turbo-blower, Unusual Accident, 405

U

  • UNEMPLOYMENT on the Continent Daily Increasing, 151
  • United States Copper Export Association, 179
  • United States Electric Trucks in Commission, Great Increase in Number, 405
  • United States Shipping Material, Sale of, 513
  • University of London, University College, Lectures, 27, 232 ; Lectures by Professor Luigi Luiggi, 194, 232
  • University of Manchester, Lecture by Professor Einstein, 433

V

  • VALVES of Internal Combustion Engines, Heat Treatment for, 293
  • Vancouver, Increase in Cargo Handled at the Port, 265
  • Vancouver Island, Mineral-bearing Land Survey by Canadian Pacific Railway, 405
  • Venezuela, Commercial Museum in, 260

W

  • WAGES Reduction in New York Shipyards, 293
  • Wagon, 12-Ton Standardisation Recommended, 440
  • Water Diversion from Lake Michigan, Proposed, Anticipated Effect on Level of St. Lawrence River, 569
  • Water Power Plant, Cost of, in New England, 237
  • Water Power of the St. Lawrence River, Latest Development Scheme, 669

WATER SUPPLY :

  • - Bombay Water Supply Department Inviting Various Tenders, 595
  • - Chauny (Aisne) Drinking Water and Drainage Plant Competition, 237
  • - Cordoba Water Supply Improvement Scheme, 669
  • - Rand Pumping Scheme Plant, Tenders, 207
  • - Rand Water Supply, Barrage across the Vaal River, 595
  • - Rugby Water and Sewage Scheme for Clifton- on-Dunsmore, 216
  • - Seattle, Additional Water Supply, 377
  • - Specifications of Standard Water Pipes and Fittings, 224
  • - Sydney Water Supply Extension, 349
  • - Tampico, Mexico, Water Supply for, 433
  • WATER Tanks, Elevated, Reinforced Concrete Built in Germany, 207
  • Waygood-Otis, Limited, Patriotic Fund Winding-up,. 389
  • Welding, Acetylene, Success with a Long Steel Gas Pipe, 543
  • Well Sunk by Metropolitan Railway at Neasden, 264
  • West Bromwich goes a Borrowing, 619
  • West Kent Main Sewerage Board, New Plant, 97
  • Wheel, Road, New Form, Stagg Patent Wheel Company, 527
  • Wind Power, Improved Method for Utilisation of, 151
  • Wire Measurement, Difficulties in Obtaining Exact Results, 43
  • Wireless, Amateur, Installations in America and United Kingdom, 151
  • Wireless Equipped Motor Car for San Francisco, 485
  • Wireless Post Suggested on Willis Island, 643
  • Wireless Station for Belgium, to be Among Most Powerful in the World, 377
  • Wireless Station, Most Powerful in the World, First Stone Laid at Sainte Assise, 71
  • Wireless Station Plant at Port Elizabeth, 569
  • Wireless Station, Proposed, on Bank Premises, 293
  • Wireless Station at Shanghai, 513
  • Wireless Station at Tomiska, Japan, 97
  • Wireless Station at Warsaw, American Company to Erect, 349
  • Wireless Telegraph Station for Greenland, British and Danish Negotiations, 485
  • Wireless Telegraph Station on the Willis Islands, Investigation of Possibilities by Australian Government, 265, 321
  • Wireless Telegraphy in Life-saving at Sea, 349
  • Wireless Telegraphy for Railway Purposes, Successful Tests, 207
  • Wireless Telephone for American Motor Cars, 71
  • Wireless Telephone for Panama Railway Towing Vessels, 293
  • Wireless Telephony for Commercial Purposes, First Installation in United Kingdom, 377
  • Wireless, World's Long-distance Record Broken, 405
  • Women's Engineering Society :
  • - Loughborough Branch Started, 109
  • - Second Annual General Meeting, 581
  • Wood Preservation, Various Methods, 349
  • Wood Pulp Mill Started in Alaska, 433
  • Wooden Wedges in the Rand Mines, 642
  • Woosung, near Shanghai, Industrial District Development, 411
  • Wuchang as a Port on the Yangtze River, 643

X

  • X-RAY Motor Ambulance Wagon, 595

Y

  • YORKSHIRE Boiler Works, Visit and Lecture, 471

Z

  • ZANZIBAR Harbour, Extensive Improvement, 207
  • Zanzibar Harbour Improvement Works, Cost of, 43
  • Zinc Ammonium Chloride in Galvanising to Replace Sal Ammoniac, 97
  • Zinc Ore Treatment by Novel Electric Resistance Furnce, Professor C. H. Fulton, 13== See Also ==
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