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ACCIDENT to Cochin Harbour Board’s Dredger, 171
*ACCIDENT to Cochin Harbour Board's Dredger, 171
 
*Aerial Passenger Cableway to Summit of Table Mountain, Proposed, 117
Aerial Passenger Cableway to Summit of Table Mountain, Proposed, 117
*AERONAUTICS
 
*- See also Associations, Royal Society of Aeronautics
AERONAUTICS
*- Aerial Transport Cost Compared with Sea, Rail and Road Travel, 689
See aleo Associations, Royal Society of Aeronautics
*- Aircraft Apprentices, 500, Wanted by Royal Air Force, 117
 
*- Aircraft in Canada, Particulars of, in 1925, 307
Aerial Transport Cost Compared with Sea, Rail and Road Travel. 689
*- Amphibian Flying Boat's Return to Alberta After 6000-7000 Miles' Tour, 637
 
*- Aviation Gold Medal, Award, 397
Aircraft Apprentices, 500, Wanted by Royal Air Force, 117
*- Awards to Aircraft Apprentices, 238
 
*- Busk Studentship in Aeronautics Award, 143
Aircraft in Canada, Particulars of. in 1925, 307
*- Civil Aviation Mileage and Passenger Statistics, 223
 
*- Dornier Seaplane's Equipment, 171
Amphibian Flying Boat's Return to Alberta After 6000-7000 Miles* Tour, 637
*- Europe-South America Airship Projected by German Company, 644
 
*- Ford Company's Miniature Aeroplane Weighs 350 lb., 143
Aviation Cold Medal, /Award, 397
*- Giant Passenger Aeroplanes for Australia, 343
 
*- Mystery Seaplane at Cromer, 389
Awards to Aircraft Apprentices, 238
*- Parachute Brings Down Aeroplane 2500ft. with Engine Stopped, 277
 
*- Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture to be Given by Professor Prandtl, of Gottingen, 609
Busk Studentship in Aeronautics Award, 143
*AIR Compressor Operation and Practical Method of Cleaning Compressor, 249
 
*Aix-la-Chapelle, ('anal to Connect with the Rhine, 223
Civil Aviation Mileage and Passenger Statistics, 223
*Algeria, Extensive Public Works Projected, 37
 
*Allen-Liversidge, Ltd., London Staff Dinner, 526
Dornier Seaplane's Equipment, 171
*Amber, German Deposits of. the Most Profitable in the World, 342
 
*Ammonia, Daily Out put of, in the United States, 171
Europe-South America Airship Projected by German Company. 644
*Ammonia, Synthetic Production of, at New Works at Oslo, 277
 
*Anticosti Island Timber to be Used for Paper Pulp, 471
Ford Company's Miniature Aeroplane Weighs 350 1b.. 143
*Antimony, Flotation of Company to Work Large Area in the Murchison Range, 117
 
*Antimony Production and Many Uses, 553
Giant Passenger Aeroplanes for Australia, 343
*Antofagasta Port Enlargement and Improvement, 609
 
*Archaeological Engineering, 593
Mystery Seaplane at Cromer, 389
*Argentine Port Facilities, 350
 
*Argentine Public Works Programme, 11
Parachute* Brings Down Aeroplane 2500ft. with Engine Stopped, 277
*Armour Plate Trials, 605
 
*Artificial Silk Factory Projected in Quebec, Cost of, 91
Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture to be Given by Professor Prandtl, of Gottingen, 609
*Artificial Silk from Wood Pulp of Nova Scotia, 37
 
*Artificial Silk, World Production Immensely Increased in 1926, 581
AIR Compressor Operation and Practical Method of Cleaning Compressor, 249
*Asbestos Output from Rhodesia, 609
 
*Asbestos in the United States, Statistics of, 223
Aix-la-Chapelle, ('anal to Connect with the Rhine. 223
*Asphalt, Discovery of 40,000,000 Tons of, in the Philippines, 277
 
*Asphalt Roofing Material and Advantage in Use of Electric Heating Units, 249
Algeria, Extensive Public Works Projected, 37
*ASSOCIATIONS. INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
 
*- INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :
Allen-Li versidgc. Ltd.. London Staff Dinner. 526
*-- Libraries Presented, also Memorial Fund, 533
 
*-- The Chemist in the Non-ferrous Metallurgical Refinery, Streatfield Memorial Lecture, F. C. Robinson, 533
Amber. German Deposits of. the Most Profitable in the World. 342
*- INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Marine Engineering Studentship Facilities, 605
Ammonia, Daily Out put of, in the United States. 171
*- INSTITUTE OF METALS :
 
*-- Latest Date for Receipt of Papers for Next Annual Meeting, 431
Ammonia. Synthetic Production of. at New Works nt Oslo. 277
*- INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT :
 
*-- Railwaymen Elected by Ballot, 91
Anticosti Island Timber to be Used for Paper Pulp. 47 I
*- INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Annual Dinner, 560  
Antimony, Flotation of Company to Work Large Area in the Murchison Range, 117
*-- Graduates' Prize and Crompton Medal Award, 415
 
*-- Joint Gatherings with the Royal Aeronautical Society, 527
Antimony Production and Many Uses. 553
*-- Training for Automobile Engineering, 526
 
*ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
Antofagasta Port Enlargement and Improvement. 669
*- INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Visit to Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 41
Archseological Engineering. 593
*- INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Awards for Papers, 429
Argent inc Port Facilities. 350
*-- "James Forrest" Postponed Lecture, New Date for, 431  
 
*- BIRMINGHAM ASSOCIATION :
Argentine Public. Works Programme, I I
*-- Visits to Pumping Station at Lichfield and to Reservoir at Dudley, 557
 
*- INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
Armour Plate Trials, 605
*-- Portraits of Michael Faraday and Lord Kelvin, 581
 
*-- Ships, Regulations for Electrical Equipment of, 235
Artificial Silk Factory Projected in Quebec, Cost of, 91
*-- Students' Premiums, Awards for Papers, 158
 
*- INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :
Artificial Silk from Wood Pulp of Nova Scotia, 37
*-- Programme of Papers for Winter Session, 357
 
*- INSTITUTION OF FUEL ECONOMY ENGINEERS :
Artificial Silk, World Production Immensely Increased in 1926. 581
*-- First President and First Meeting of Winter Session, 1926, 261
 
*- INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS :
Asbestos Output from Rhodesia, 609
*-- Prizes Offered, 678, 714
 
*- INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
Asbestos in the United States, Statistics of. 223
*-- Awards of Medals, andc., 357, 649
 
*-- Pyrometer Experiments for Measuring Temperatures Within Cylinders of Small Internal Combustion Engines, C. E. Foster, 663
Asphalt, Discovery of 40,000,000 Tons of, in the Philippines, 277
*-- Steel Castings in their Relation to Mechanical Engineering, Robert Lowe, 568
 
*- INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS :
Asphalt Roofing Material and Advantage in Use of Electric Heating Units, 249
*- MANCHESTER CENTRE :
 
*-- Visit to the Crewe* Works, L.M.S. Railway, 207
ASSOCIATIONS. INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
*- INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :
Institute of Chemistry :
*-- Archaeological Engineering. Lecture by Lieut.-Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 593
 
*-- Awards for Papers Read Before Graduates' Section, 678
Libraries Presented, also Memorial Fund, 533
*- INSTITUTION OF MINING ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Summer and Autumn Meeting Abandoned Owing to Stoppage, 261
The Chemist in the Non-ferrous Metallurgical Refinery, St reatfield Memorial Lecture, F. C. Robinson, 533
*- INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
 
*-- National Certificates in Naval Architecture, 659
Institute of Marine Engineers :
*-- Scholarship Awards, 264
 
*-- Scholarships to be Offered in 1927, 624
Marine Engineering Studentship Facilities, 605
*- INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS :
 
*-- Oil Fuel, Dr. F. Mollwo, 553
Institute of Metals :
*-- Research Fund, 455, 527
 
*- INSTITUTION OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERS :
Latest Date for Receipt of Papers for Next Annual Meeting, 431
*-- Third Annual Dinner. 495
 
*- INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS :
Institute of Transport :
*-- Ferro-concrete and also Wooden Poles, with Special Fittings for Signal and Telegraph Purposes, 552
 
*- INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
Railwaymen Elected by Ballot, 91
*-- Courses of Lectures in November and December, 455
 
*-- General Meeting, Thanks for Valuable Gifts, Election of Members, 649
Institution of Automobile Engineers : Annual Dinner. 560 Graduates* Prize ami Crompton Medal Award. 415
*-- Juvenile Lectures, 101st Course, 455, 678
 
*-- Lecture Arrangements Before Easter, 1927, 678, 697
Joint Gatherings with the Royal Aero* nautical Society, 527
*- INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS :
 
*-- Death Vacancy and New President Appointed, 429
Training for Automobile Engineering, 526
*-- Portland House Scholarship and Other Awards, 264
 
*- SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF AERONAUTICS :
ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
*-- Grant of 5000 Dollars from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 307
 
*-- Joint- Gatherings with the Institution of Automobile Engineers, 527
Institution of Chemical Engineers :
*ATMOSPHERIC Oxygen, Process for Extraction of, 117
 
*Australian Graduates, Eight Chosen for Special Research Training, 285
Visit to Royal Naval College, Greenwich. 41
*Australia's Paint Imports, Large Proportion Supplied by Great Britain, 91
 
*Australia's Trade with the United Kingdom, 307
Institution of Civil Engineers :
*Automatic Telephones Being Installed in Dairen, Manchuria, 689
 
*Automobile Association and Improved Methods of Car Shipment, 527
Awards for Papers. 429
 
James Forrest Postponed Lecture, New Date for, 431 Birmingham Association :
 
Visits to Pumping Station at Lichfield and to Reservoir at- Dudley, 557
 
Institution of Electrical Engineers :
 
Portraits of Michael Faraday and Lord Kelvin, 581
 
Ships, Regulations for Electrical Equipment of. 235
 
Students’ Premiums, Awards for Papers, 158
 
Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :
 
Programme of Papers for Winter Session, 357
 
Institution of Fuel Economy Engineers :
 
First President and First Meeting of Winter Session, 1926, 261
 
Institution of Heating and Ventilating Engineers :
 
Prizes Offered, 678, 714
 
Institution, Junior, of Engineers :
 
Awards of Medals, &c., 357, 649
 
Pyrometer Experiments for Measuring Temperatures Within Cylinders of Small Internal Combustion Engines, C. E. Foster, 663
 
Steel Castings in their Relation to Mechanical Engineering, Robert Lowe, 568
 
Institution of Locomotive Engineers : Manchester Centre :
 
Visit to the Crewe* Works, L.M.S. Railway, 207
 
Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
 
Archaeological Engineering. Lecture by Lieut.-Colonel E. Kitson Clark. 593
 
Award* for Papers Read Before Graduates’ Section, 678
 
Institution of Mining Engineers :
 
Summer ami Autumn Meeting Abandoned Owing to Stoppage, 261
 
Institution of Naval Architects :
 
National Certificates in Naval Architecture, 659
 
Scholarship Awards, 264
 
Scholarships to bo Offered in 1927, 624
 
Institution of Petroleum Technologists :
 
Oil Fuel. Dr. F. Moll wo, 553
 
Research Fund. 455. 527
 
Institution of Production Engineers :
 
Third Annual Dinner. 495
 
Institution of Railway Signal Engineers :
 
Ferro-concrete and also Wooden Poles, with Special Fittings for Signal and Telegraph Purposes. 552
 
Institution, Royal :
 
Courses of Lectures in November and December, 455
 
General Meeting, Thanks for Valuable Gifts. Election of Members, 649
 
Juvenile Lectures, 101st Course. 455, 678
 
Lecture Arrangements Before Easter, 1927. 678. 697
 
Institution of Structural Engineers :
 
Death Vacancy and New President Appointed. 429
 
Portland House Scholarship and Other Awards. 264
 
Society, Royal, of Aeronautics :
 
Grant of 5000 Dollars from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund to the Royal Aeronautical Society. 307
 
Joint- Gatherings with the Institution of Automobile Engineers, 527
 
ATMOSPHERIC Oxygen, Process for Extrnct-tion of, 117
 
Australian Graduates, Eight Chosen for Special Research Training, 285
 
Australia's Paint Imports, Large Proportion Supplied by Great Britain, 91
 
Australia's Trade with the United Kingdom. 307
 
Automatic Telephones Being Installed in Dairen, Manchuria, 689
 
Automobile Association and Improved Methods of Car Shipment. 527


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BANFF, Canada. Calculation of Potential Energy from Hot Springs, 715
*BANFF, Canada, Calculation of Potential Energy from Hot Springs, 715
 
*Barbed Wire, History of, 91
Barbed Wire, History of, 91
*Barrages Across the Congo, A Big Proposition, 307
 
*Batavian Production of Resin and Turpentine, 637
Barrages Across the Congo. A Big Proposition, 307
*Bavaria's Water Power Stations, 609
 
*Beet--see Sugar
Batavian Production of Resin and Turpentine, 637
*Beira Port, Portuguese East Africa, Sold to Company and in Course of Improvement, 277  
 
*Belgian State Railways and Government Telegraph and Telephone Systems Leased to Companies, Terms of Arrangement, 223  
Bavaria’s Water Power Stations, 609
*Belt Fastener, A New, Dargue Brothers, Ltd., 704
 
*Bengal Irrigation Department to Attack Pest of Water Hyacinth, 11
Beet—see Sugar
*Beryllium, Valuable Properties and Probably Increased Use of, 281
 
*Big Peter of York Minister to be Recast, 637  
Beira Port, Portuguese East Africa, Sold to
*Birmingham University Metallurgical Society, Retirement and Testimonial to Professor, 106  
 
*Bitumen in Large Quantities Found on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 117  
Company and in Course of Improvement , 277 Belgian State Railways and Government
*Bituminous Roads in South Australia, Cost per Mile, 471
 
*Blasting Charges, New Form of Primer for, 637  
Telegraph and Telephone Systems Leased to Companies, Terms of Arrangement, 223 Belt Fastener, A New, Dargue Brothers, Ltd., 704
*Board of Trade Licence Issued to Research Association of British Paint Manufacturers, 443
 
*Boiler Explosion, Unusual Typo, 11
Bengal Irrigation Department to Attack Pest of Water Hyacinth, 11
*Boiler Stop Valve Failure at a Colliery, 307
 
*Boiler Used on Gold Mino in 1875 Rediscovered in Good Order, 417
Beryllium, Valuable Properties and Probably Increased Use of. 281
*Boiler's Groat Output at Yallorn Power House, Victoria, 417
 
*Bombay Government Appoints Committee to Report on Back Bay Reclamation Scheme, 11, 91
Big Peter of York Minister to be Recast. 637 Birmingham University Metallurgical Society.
*Book Tower in Detroit to be 873ft. Above the Ground, Tallest Building in the World, 143
 
*Bootle Commercially Considered, 361
Retirement and Testimonial to Professor, 106 Bitumen in Large Quantities Found on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 117 Bituminous Roads in South Australia, Cost per
*Bore-hole in Search for Oil at Orallo, Queensland, 499
 
*Brazilian Proposals for Improvement of Port of Ilheos, State of Bahia, 689
Mile, 471
*Bricks at Fiction Brickyards, 16,000,000 per Week Output, 219
 
*BRIDGES:
Blasting Charges, New Form of Primer for. 637 Board of Trade Licence Issued to Research
*- Bascule Bridge's Unusual Mishap, 417
 
*- Bridge Over the Danube from Belgrade to Pancevo, Conflicting Opinion, 307
Association of British Paint Manufacturers, 4 43
*- Double-deck Road and Railway Bridge Across the South Saskatchewan River, 663
 
*- Durban to Connect with Durban North by New Bridge, 715
Boiler Explosion, Unusual Typo. 11
*- Floriunopolis Bridge, Brazil, A Record Structure, 715
 
*- Haven Bridge at Yarmouth, Reconstruction, 117
Boiler Stop Valve Failure at a Colliery. 307
*- Montreal Bridge under Erection will be Second Only to Sydney Harbour Bridge, 689
 
*- Narrows, at Atherlev, Ont., Bridge Over the, 117
Boiler Used on Gold Mino in 1875 Rediscovered in Good Order, 417
*- New Bridge Across the Yare at Yarmouth, 581
 
*- Niagara Falls Memorial Bridge, to Connect Canada and United States, 443
Boiler's Groat Output at Yallorn Power House.
*- Steel Bridge Projected Across Riviere du Loup, Quebec, 471
 
*- Suggested New Road and Railway Bridge at Freemantle, West Australia, 581
Victoria, 417
*- Sydney Harbour, Need of Another Bridge Predicted, 171
 
*- Transporter Bridge near Mouth of Yarra River, Victoria, Proposed Construction, 171
Bombay Government Appoints Committee to Report on Back Bav Reclamation Scheme. 1 I. 91
*BRIDGE River Hydro-electric Scheme in British Columbia, 333
 
*Briquette Works and Superphosphate Plant Projected in South Africa, 417
Book Tower in Detroit to be 873ft. Above the
*BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION SPECIFICATIONS :
 
*- Barytes and Boiled Linseed Oil, 347
Ground, Tallest Building in the World, 143
*- Brazing Solder, 291
 
*- Electric Cable Soldering Sockets, 319
Bootle Commercially Considered, 361
*- Fractional Horse-power Electric Motors, 291
 
*BRITISH Aluminium Company in Norway. Extension of Works, 417
Bore-hole in Search for Oil at Orallo, Queensland, 499
*British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association, Annual Dinner and Speeches, 560
 
*British Foundrymen, Institute, Birmingham, Coventry and West Midlands Branch, Junior Section to be Formed, 478
Brazilian Proposals for Improvement of Port of Ilheos. State of Bahia, 689
*British Gears' Success in Spite of High American Tariff, 417
 
*British Nationality, Out ward-hound Passenger Traffic from Europe Much Increased, 663
Bricks at Fiction Brickyards, 16,000,000 per
*British Treasury to Guarantee Principal and Interest up to £110,000 to Australasian Paper and Pulp Company for Twelve Years, 689
 
*Bromley Ironworks Demolition, 499
Week Output. 219
*Bronze Runners to Replace Steel in Turbines to Avoid Erosion Troubles, 249
 
*Buenos Aires, Port of, Reconstruction Work Resumed, 361
BRIDGES:
Bascule Bridge’s Unusual Mishap, 417
 
Bridge Over the Danube from Belgrade to Pancevo, Conflicting Opinion, 307
 
Double-deck Road and Railway Bridge Across the South Saskatchewan River, 663
 
Durban to Connect with Durban North by New Bridge, 715
 
Floriunopolis Bridge, Brazil, A Record Structure, 715
 
Haven Bridge at Yarmouth, Reconstruction, 117
 
Montreal Bridge under Erection will be Second Only to Sydney Harbour Bridge, 689
 
Narrows, at Atherlev, Ont., Bridge Over the, 117
 
New Bridge Across the Yare at Yarmouth, 581
 
Niagara Falls Memorial Bridge, to Connect Canada und United States. 443
 
Steel Bridge Projected Across Riviere du Loup, Quebec, 471
 
Suggested New Road and Railway Bridge nt Freemantle, West Australia, 581
 
Sydney Harbour, Need of Another Bridge Predicted, 171
 
Transporter Bridge near Mouth of Ynrra River, Victoria, Proposed Construction. 171
 
BRIDGE River Hydro-electric Scheme in British Columbia. .333
 
Briquette Works and Superphosphate Plant Projected in South Africa, 417
 
BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION SPECIFICATIONS :
Barytes and Boiled Linseed Oil, 347
 
Brazing Solder, 291
 
Electric Cable Soldering Sockets. 319
 
Fractional Horse-power Electric Motors. 291
 
BRITISH Aluminium Company in Norway. Extension of Works, 417
 
British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association, Annual Dinner and Speeches, £60
 
British Foundry men. Institute, Birmingham, Coventry and West Midlands Branch, Junior Section to be Formed, 478
 
British Gears’ Success in Spite of High American Tariff. 417
 
British Nationality, Out ward-hound Passenger Traffic from Europe Much Increased. 663
 
British Treasury to Guarantee Principal and Interest up to £110,000 to Australasian Paper and Pulp Company for Twelve Years, 689
 
Bromley Ironworks Demolition, 499
 
Bronze Runners to Replace Steel in Turbines to Avoid Erosion Troubles, 249
 
Buenos Aires, Port of, Reconstruction Work Resumed, 361
 
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CABLE, New, Between England and New York. 307
 
Cable Ship Laving Longest Cable in the World, 342
 
£10,000 Cable Tram Equipment Sold for £450, 249
 
Cairo apd Alexandria to be Linked by Underground Telephone Cable, 389
 
Calcutta Corporation Pumping Plant Extension, 335


Calcutta’s New Drainage Scheme and its Cost, 307
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*CABLE, New, Between England and New York, 307
Calcutta Trust Starting Work on Manicktolla Bridge Reconstruction, 335
*Cable Ship Laving Longest Cable in the World, 342
 
*£10,000 Cable Tram Equipment Sold for £450, 249
Californian Oil Company Planning Drill Hole Down to 10,000ft., Already of Record Depth, 689
*Cairo and Alexandria to be Linked by Underground Telephone Cable, 389
 
*Calcutta Corporation Pumping Plant Extension, 335
Canada, Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service, Report, 612
*Calcutta's New Drainage Scheme and its Cost, 307
 
*Calcutta Trust Starting Work on Manicktolla Bridge Reconstruction, 335
Canada's Gold Production Since 1858, Third in the World’s List of Producers, 171
*Californian Oil Company Planning Drill Hole Down to 10,000ft., Already of Record Depth, 689
 
*Canada, Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service, Report, 612
Canada's Production of Platinium. Palladium, Rhodium, &e., 307
*Canada's Gold Production Since 1858, Third in the World's List of Producers, 171
 
*Canada's Production of Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, andc., 307
Canadian Canals, Traffic Stat istics. 91
*Canadian Canals, Traffic Statistics, 91
 
*Canadian Good Roads Association, 389
Canadian Good Roads Association, 389
*Canadian Magnesite Suitability for Bricks, 171
 
*Cape Town, Dock Improvement Scheme, 122
Canadian Magnesite Suitability for Bricks. 171
*Carbon Acid Gas Purification Plant in Montreal, 197
 
*Carbon Dioxide, New Process for Making, 443
Cape Town. Dock Improvement Scheme. 122
*Cement Manufacture in Victoria, New Works, 249
 
*Cement Sales in Australia, 37
Carbon Acid Gas Purification Plant in Montreal. 197
*Chefoo Harbour Improvement Commission. 37
 
*Chemicals and Drugs Manufacture. Shanghai Factory, 11
Carbon Dioxide, New Process for Making. 443
*Chili, Irrigation Projects in, 223
 
*Chilian Iodine Industry, Terrible Waste of Valuable Iodine, 277
Cement Manufacture in Victoria. New Works. 249
*China, New Arsenal and Mint Projected, 46
 
*China's Population, Analysis of Foreign Proportion, 277
Cement Sales in Australia, 37
*Chinese Architects Form Society, 609
 
*Chinese 400 Miles Road, Motor Car Journey Occupies Three Days, 443
Chefoo Harbour Improvement Commission. 37
*Chittagong Port Development, 37, 277
 
*Circulating Water at American Power Station, to Prevent Choked Gratings, 197
Chemicals and Drugs Manufacture. Shanghai Factory, 11
*Classes for Firemen and Furnaeemen in Glasgow, and Beneficial Result, 335
 
*Cleansing Oil Coolers, Duckham, Alexander, and Co., 291
Chili, Irrigation Projects in, 223
*COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES
 
*- Accidents, Death rate in Coal Mines of the United States, 443
Chilian Iodine Industry, Terrible Waste of Valuable Iodine, 277
*- Baffin Island Coal, Analysis of, 471
 
*- Barnsley Coal Seam said to be Workable Throughout Lincolnshire, 171
China, New Arsenal and Mint Projected, 46
*COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES (continued):
 
*- Bituminous Coal, International Conference on, at Carnegie Institute, 470
China’s Population, Analysis of Foreign Proportion. 277
*- Bolton Now HOUSCH, Cumberland, New Pit Sinking at, 490
 
*- Bombay Coal Consumption Halved, 307, 527  
Chinese Architects Form Society, 609
*- Briquetting Brown Coal at Morwell, Victoria, 335
 
*- British Steel Produced by Aid of American Coal, 527
Chines© 400 Miles Road, Motor Car Journey Occupies Three Days, 443
*- Brown Coal Deposits in South Australia, 417
 
*- Canadian Coal Output in 1925, 143
Chittagong Port Development. 37, 277
*- Carbonisation of Durham Coal in Continuous Vertical Retorts, 171
 
*- Carnock Colliery Contract for New Plant, 90
Circulating Water at American Power Station, to Prevent Choked Gratings, 197
*- Coal Output, Great Increase of, by Nova Scotia Company, 663
 
*- Coal Products--see Exhibitions
Classes for Firemen and Furnaeemen in Glasgow, and Beneficial Result, 335
*- Coal Seam Found in the Lower Cwmgorse Valley, 171
 
*- Coke Oven Plants to Use Canadian and Nova Scotian Coal, 277
Cleansing Oil Coolers, Duckham, Alexander, and Co., 291
*- Czecho-Slovakia, Details of Coal Production, 609
 
*- Dry-cleaning Coal, Professor Henry Louin, 663
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES
*- Dry Coal from Yallourn Utilised by Mixing with Wet, 553
Accidents, Death rate in Coal Mines of the United States, 443
*- Entombed Colliers' Bodies Recovered after Nearly Fifty Years, 249
 
*- German Coal Hewers Output, Great Increase on Pre-war Rate of Production, 249  
Baffin Island Coal, Analysis of, 471
*- Great Britain's Coal Output for week ending December 4th, 666
 
*- Hamburg Arrivals of Water-borne Coal Reduced by Quay Labourers' Strike, 527
Barnsley Coal Seam said to be Workable Throughout Lincolnshire, 171
*- Hull, Proposed Railway from Goole, and Wharfage, to Cheapen Coal Transport, 609, 637
 
*- Japanese Coal Delivered in Shanghai, Cost of, 689
COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES (continued):
*- Leeds, Coal Smoke Nuisance Abatement, 63
 
*- Lisbon, Coal Mines near. Opened Up, but Coal of Poor Quality, 91
Bituminous Coal. International Conference on. at Carnegie Institute, 470
*- New South Wales Metallurgical Coke Output, 637
 
*- Nigeria, Third Coal-carrying Steamer Purchased for, 499
Bolton Now Housch, Cumberland, New Pit Sinking at. 490
*- Oil Distillation from Coal, Satisfactory Tests in China, 11
 
*- Pekin Syndicate Coal Output, 63
Bombay Coal Consumption Halved, 307, 527 Briquetting Brown Coal at Morwell, Victoria, 335
*- Pyritic Oxidation in relation to Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, H. Macpherson and Others, 417
 
*- Sinking Coal Shaft in South Yorkshire, 499
British Steel Produced by Aid of American Coal, 527
*- Spitsbergen Collieries Benefit by British Coal Stoppage, 335
 
*- Transport of Coal by Aerial Ropeway, 249
Brown Coal Deposits in South Australia, 417
*- Upton Colliery Company's Shaft-sinking Progress, 277
 
*- Woodville near Burton-on-Trent, Seam of Coal Located in a Field near, 63
Canadian Coal Output in 1925. 143
*- X-ray Use in Coal Classification, F. J. Harlow, 609
 
*COCHIN, First-class Tidal Harbour, Work Begun, 715
Carbonisation of Durham Coal in Continuous
*Cochin Harbour, Arrival and Work of New Dredger, 91
 
*Cold Storage and Ice Factory Projected in Perth, 715
Vertical Retorts, 171
*Cold Storage Plant for Durban, 417
 
*Cold Storage Plant, Very Large, Projected for Western Canada, 443
Carnock Colliery Contract for New Plant, 90
*Colombia, Reported Projected Construction of Modern Port in Gulf of Uraba, 277
 
*Commonwealth and New South Wales Floating Dock, Increase in Projected Lifting Capacity, 143
Coal Output, Great Increase of, by Nova Scotia Company, 663
*Concrete Controlled in Strength by Ratio of Cement to Water, 91
 
*Concrete of Extreme Strength for Hall in California, 424
Coat Products—ner. Exhibit ions
*Concrete-mixing Investigation and Conclusions, 467
 
*Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Arches of Great Span, Method of Construction by Rib Compensation, Monsieur Freyssinet, 117
Coal Seam Found in the Lower Cwmgorse Valley, 171
*Concrete, Reinforced, for Signal Posts and Telegraph Poles, 552
 
*Concrete Strengthened by Molten Sulphur, 11
Coke Oven Plants to Use Canadian and Nova Scotian Coal, 277
*Concrete Tanks for Storage of Animal and Vegetable Oils, 609
 
*Conveyors, Very Long, in Virginian Mine, 361
Czocho-Slovakia. Details of Coal Production. 609
*Cooling a Troublesome Bearing, 91
 
*Copper Discovery in South Africa, 63
Dry-cleaning Coal, Professor Henry Louin, 663
*Copper, Electrolytic, Union Miniere to Produce Large Quantity Annually, 63
 
*Copper Mine in British Columbia, Reputed Largest in the Empire, 499
Dry Coal from Yallourn Utilised by Mixing with Wet. 553
*Copper Ore Discovery in Now Brunswick, 577
 
*Copper and Silver Output of Canada, 277
Entombed Colliers* Bodies Recovered after Nearly Fifty Years, 249
*Cornish Mining to Seek Government Subsidy, 581
 
*Cornwall Works, Birmingham, 212
German Coal Hewers* Output, Great Increase on Pre-war Rate of Production. 249 Great Britain's Coal Output for week ending December 4th, 666
*Cotton-picking by Machine, New Invention, 471  
 
*Cotton Textile Industry in the Dominion, Seventy Plants Engaged, 171
Hamburg Arrivals of Water-borne Coal Reduced by Quay Labourers' Strike, 527
*Cracked Circular Saws, Mending, 581
 
*Crane for Steel Plant in America, Said to be Largest of Kind in Existence, 443
Hull, Proposed Railway from Goole, and Wharfage, to Cheapen Coal Transport, 609 637
*Cuban Large Rond Construction Programme, 307
 
Japanese Coal Delivered in Shanghai, Cost of. 689
 
Leeds, Coal Smoke Nuisance Abatement, 63
 
Lisbon, Coal Mines near. Opened Up, but Coal of Poor Quality, 91
 
New South Wales Metallurgical Coke Output, 087
 
Nigeria. Third Coal-carrying Steamer Purchased for. 499
 
Oil Distillation from Coal, Satisfactory Tests in China, 11
 
Pekin Syndicate Coal Output, 63
 
Pyritic Oxidation in relation to Spontaneous Combustion of Coal. H. Macpherson and Others. 417
 
Sinking Coal Shaft in South Yorkshire. 499
 
Spitsbergen Collieries Benefit by British Coal Stoppage, 335
 
Transport of Coal by Aerial Ropeway, 249
 
Upton Colliery Company's Shaft-sinking Progress, 277
 
Woodville near Burton-on-Trent, Seam of Coal Located in a Field near. 63
 
X-ray Use in Coal Classification, F. J. Harlow, 609
 
COCHIN, First-class Tidal Harbour, Work Begun, 715
 
Cochin Harbour. Arrival and Work of New Dredger, 91
 
Cold Storage and Ice Factory’ Projected in Perth, 715
 
Cold Storage Plant for Durban, 417
 
Cold Storage Plant, Very Large, Projected for Western Canada, 443
 
Colombia, Reported Projected Construction of Modern Port in Gulf of Uraba, 277
 
Commonwealth and New South Wales Floating Dock, Increase in Projected Lifting Capacity, 14 3
 
Concrete Controlled in Strength by Ratio of Cement to Water, 91
 
Concrete of Extreme Strength for Hall in California, 424
 
Concrete-mixing Investigation and Conclusions, 467
 
Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Arches of Great Span, Method of Construction by Rib Compensation, Monsieur Freyssinet, 117
 
Concrete, Reinforced, for Signal Posts and Telegraph Poles. 552
 
Concrete Strengthened by Molten Sulphur, 11
 
Concrete Tanks for Storage of Animal and
 
Vegetable Oils, 609
 
Conveyors, Very Long, in Virginian Mine, 361
 
Cooling a Troublesome Bearing, 91
 
Copper Discovery in South Africa. 63
 
Copper. Electrolytic, Union Minidre to Produce
 
Large Quantity Annually, 63
 
Copper Mine in British Columbia, Reputed Largest in the Empire, 499
 
Copper Ore Discovery in Now Brunswick, 577
 
Copper and Silver Output of Canada, 277
 
Cornish Mining to Seek Government Subsidv. 581
 
Cornwall Works, Birmingham, 212
 
Cotton-picking by Machine, New Invention, 471 Cotton Textile Industry in the Dominion, Seventy Plants Engaged, 171
 
Cracked Circular Saws, Mending, 581
 
Crane for Steel Plant in America, Said to be
 
Largest of Kind in Existence, 443
 
Cuban Large Rond Construction Programme, 307


D
D
DAM, Large Storage, Under Const ruction by Gatineau Power Company at Bitobe, Quebec, 117
*DAM, Large Storage, Under Const ruction by Gatineau Power Company at Bitobe, Quebec, 117
 
*Dam, New, on the River Mackinac, 91
Dam, New, on the River Mackinac, 91
*Darn in Waranga Basin, Victoria, Question of Strength, 307
 
*Danzig, Coal Situation at, 37
Darn in Waranga Basin, Victoria, Question of Strength, 307
*Detonation of Blasting Explosives, Velocity of 37 ; Paper on Determination of Velocity, 63
 
*Detonation Phenomena in Engines, Monsieur Dumanois, 11
Danzig, Coal Situation at, 37
*Detonators in Mines, Additional Precaution, 637
 
*Development of Paugan Falls on Gatineau River, Ontario, 552
Detonation of Blasting Explosives, Velocity of-37 ; Paper on Determination of Velocity, 63
*Diamond Discovery Reported in Cape Colony, South of Port Nolloth, 499
 
*Diarnondiferous Area of British Guiana, Accompanied by Heavy Minerals, 277
Detonation Phenomena in Engines, Monsieur Dumanois, 11
*Diesel-driven Power Station Likely to be Changed for Local Water Power Scheme, 417  
 
*Diesel Engine Power Plant to be Scrapped in Favour of Steam, 471
Detonators in Mines, Additional Precaution, 637
*Differential Separation by Flotation of Lead and Copper from Zinc in Sulphide Oren, 689  
 
*Disinfectants for New Zealand, Large Tenders Called for, 389
Development of Paugan Falls on Gatineau River, Ontario, 552
*Diving, Success of Use of Artificial Atmosphere, 553
 
*Dock Scheme, King George's, at Kidderporo, Progress, 117
Diamond Discovery Reported in Cape Colony, South of Port Nolloth, 499
*Dock, Wet, at Ayr, Removal of Unused Gates and Sill, 171
 
*Drainage and Road-building Operations at "The Brook Kishon," 307
Diarnondiferous Area of British Guiana, -Accompanied by Heavy Minerals, 277
*Drainage Scheme for Karachi, 171
 
*Dredger at Bristol Undergoing Overhaul, 581
Diesel-driven Power Station Likely to bo Changed for Local Water Power Scheme, 417 Diesel Engine Power Plant to be Scrapped in Favour of Steam, 471
*Drilling by Jack-hammers, A Record, 499
 
*Dublin's First Automatic Telephone Exchange, 527
Differential Separation by Flotation of Lead and Copper from Zinc in Sulphide Oren, 689 Disinfectants for New Zealand, Large Tenders Called for, 389
*Duke of Northumberland to be President of Shipping Exhibition at Olympia, 1927, 91
 
*Duralumin and Welding by Oxy-acetylene, 223  
Diving, Success of Use of Artificial Atmosphere, 553
*Dust- Inhalation in Mines, Paper by P. S. Hay, 116
 
*Dust-proof Plants in Boiler Houses Economical as well as Cleanly, 91
Dock Scheme. King George’s, at Kidderporo, Progress, 117
*Dusty Roads, Now Remedy for, Found in Amsterdam, 277
 
*Dynamite Factory being Put Up in Alabama, 581
Dock, Wet. at Ayr, Removal of Unused Gates and Sill, 171
 
Drainage and Road-building Operations at •* The Brook Kishon," 307
 
Drainage Scheme for Karachi, 171
 
Dredger at Bristol Undergoing Overhaul. 581
 
Drilling by Jack-hammers, A Record. 499
 
Dublin's First Automatic Telephone Exchange, 527
 
Duke of Northumberland to bo President of Shipping Exhibition at Olympia, 1927, 91
 
Duralumin and Welding by Oxy •acetylene, 223 Dust- Inhalation in Mines, Paper by P. S. Hay.
 
I Hi
 
Dust-proof Plants in Boiler Houses Economical as well as Cleanly, 91
 
Dusty Roads, Now Remedy for. Found in Amsterdam, 277
 
Dynamite Factory being Put Up in Alabama, 581


E
E
EFFLUENT Liquor Treatment at Coventry, 581
*EFFLUENT Liquor Treatment at Coventry, 581
 
*ELECTRICAL MATTERS
ELECTRICAL MATTERS
*- Armature of Exceptional Size, Special Arrangements for Railway Transport and Construction of Building, 143
Armature of Exceptional Size, Special Arrangements for Railway Transport and Construction of Building. 143
*- British Columbia Electric Railway. Bridge River Power Development for, 637
 
*- British Industries Fair at Birmingham, Predominance of Electrical Industries, 689
British Columbia Electric Railway. Bridge River Power Development for, 637
*- Characteristics of Single-phase Motors, T. O. Walz, 361
 
*- Cheapest Supply in the World Generated by Steam Plant, 637
British Industries Fair at Birmingham. Predominance of Electrical Industries. 689
*- Competition in Manufacture of Electrical Machinery, Court Judgment at Melbourne, 499
 
*- Consumption of Current in South African Towns, 91
Characteristics of Single-phase Motors, T. (). Walz, 361
*- Dover's Electric Supply Breakdown and Arrangement to Connect Supply with that of Folkestone, 553
 
*- Durban's Electrical Department Budget, 715
Cheapest Supply in the World Generated by Steam Plant, 637
*- Earthing Metal Bodies other than Conductors, 335
 
*- Electric Locomotives for Montreal, 499
Competition in Manufacture of Electrical Machinery, Court Judgment at Melbourne, 499
*- Electrical Trades' Benevolent Institution, 388
 
*- Electrified Ploughshare, Experiments and Result, 499
Consumption of Current in South African Towns, 91
*- Flanged Girder, Electric Arc Welded and Tested to Destruction, 499
 
*- Galle, India, Electric Lighting, 499
Dover’s Electric Supply Breakdown and Arrangement to Connect Supply with that of Folkestone. 553
*- Govan Power House Equipment, 249
 
*- Hardening and Tempering of Steel, Electric Heating for, 143
Durban's Electrical Department Budget, 715
*- High-voltage Electrical Laboratory Built at Stanford University, California, 277
 
*- Industrial Standardisation in the Electrical Field, Percy Good, 389
Earthing Metal Bodies other than Conductors, 335
*- Insulators, Electrical, Question of Manufacture in Bihar with China Clay Found There, 63
 
*- Lamps in Subways, Electric, Comparison Between Bare and Shaded Lamps, 63
Electric Locomotives for Montreal, 499
*- Large Boilers' Provision in Power House for Quick Change of Coal for Oil Fuel, 143
 
*- Lincoln Private Electric Lighting Increase, 389
Electrical Trades' Benevolent Institution, 388
*- Maritime Electric Company, America, Expenditure on Plant and Equipment, 249
 
*- Mexico's New Electrical Code, Demand for Superior Apparatus and Equipment, 361  
Electrified Ploughshare, Experiments and Result, 499
*- Power Development in British Malaya with Construction of Hydro-electric Plant on the Purak River, 117
 
*- Power Generation from Tides of Passamaquoddy Bay, Canadian Government Authorises Scheme for, 277
Flanged Girder. Electric Arc Welded and Tested to Destruction, 499
*- Power Station for Senegal. South Africa, 450
 
*- Power Transmission Wires Between Canada and Island of Orleans, 11
Galle, India. Electric Lighting, 499
*- Pre-heating Rolls of Tin-plate Mills by Means of Electrical Resistances, 335
 
*- Rail Mill in America, Electrification of, 361
Govan Power House Equipment, 249
*- Sale of Electricity, Rapid Progress of, 471
 
*- Shanghai, Projected Power Plant of 20,060 Kilowatts, 637
Hardening and Tempering of Steel, Electric Heating for. 143
*- Ships, Regulations for Electrical Equipment of, 235
 
*- Steam Turbo-generator for American Generating Station, 361
High-voltage Electrical Laboratory Built at Stanford University, California, 277
*- Sulphur Mines in Sicily, All Services to be Electrified within Three Years, 63
 
*- Super-power, Coal Consumption for Generation of Electricity, 389
Industrial Standardisation in the Electrical Field, Percy Good, 389
*- Sydney City Council, Proposal to Acquire Mine or Mines for Purposes of Electricity Department, 117
 
*- Tungshun Island, near Amoy, Suggested Rice Mill for, with Electric Plant for Power and City Lighting, 581
Insulators, Electrical, Question of Manufacture in Bihar with China Clay Found There, 63
*- Turbo-alternators, Four 10,000-Kilowatt, for Bombay Suburban Railways, 637
 
*- Two Million-volt Transformer Set, 143
Lamps in Subways, Electric, Comparison Between Bare and Shaded Lamps, 63
*- Victorian Electricity Commission and German Recommendations, 417
 
*- Western Australia and Electric Supply to Mines, 37
Large Boilers’ Provision in Power House for Quick Change of Coal for Oil Fuel, 143
*- Wolverhampton's Increased Use of Electricity, 389
 
*ELECTROLYTIC Copper, Big Lixiviation Plant for Union Minidre Katanga, 143
Lincoln Private Electric Lighting Increase, 389
*Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress to be held in Canada in 1927, 335
 
*Engineers in China, 452
Maritime Electric Company, America, Expenditure on Plant and Equipment. 249
*English and Amateur Mechanic, 498
 
*Esquimalt Dry Dock Construction, 389
Mexico’s New Electrical Code, Demand for Superior Apparatus and Equipment, 361 Power Development in British Malaya with
*Estonian Oil Shale as Railway Fuel, 663
 
*Ethylene Dichloride as a Solvent for Oils and Fats, 689
Construction of Hydro-electric Plant on the Purak River, 117
*EXHIBITIONS
 
*- Agricultural Show and Exhibition of Cottage Industries at Jubbulpore, 499
Power Generation from Tides of Passama-quoddy Bay, Canadian Government Authorises Scheme for, 277
*- Belgium, Universal Exhibition Projected for 1930, 197
 
*EXHIBITIONS (continued) :
Power Station for Senegal. South Africa, 450
*- British Industries Fair in Birmingham :  
 
*-- Enlargement of Buildings Called for, 417  
Power Transmission Wires Between Canada and Island of Orleans, 11
*-- British Industries Fair and Misconceptions, 417
 
*-- Electric Business Predominance at British Industries Fair in Birmingham, 689
Pre-heating Rolls of Tin-plate Mills by Means of Electrical Resistances, 335
*-- Floor Space at British Industries Fair, Greatly Increased Demand, 581, 637
 
*-- Madras Council Estimate for Participation in British Industries Fair, 471
Rail Mill in /Xmerica, Electrification of, 361
*- Congress of Chemists and Exhibition in London of Apparatus, Chemicals, andc., 37
 
*- Industrial Designs Competition, Selection of Work on Exhibition., 143
Sale of Electricity, Rapid Progress of, 471
*- Ironmongery, Hardware, andc., Exhibition, 276
 
*- Leipzig International Industries Fair, 183
Shanghai, Projected Power Plant of 20,060 Kilowatts, 637
*- Leipzig International Industries Fair, 1927, 624
 
*- Model Engineer Exhibition at Horticultural Hall, Westminster, 143, 171
Ships, Regulations for Electrical Equipment of, 235
*- National Coal Products Exhibition, 495
 
*- Physical Societies' Exhibition, 649
Steam Turbo-generator for American Generating Station, 361
*- Prague Sample Fair to Include Mining Section, 18
 
*- Royal Agricultural Society Exhibition, 1927, Date and Place, 649
Sulphur Mines in Sicily, All Services to be Electrified within Three Years, 63
*- Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, Luncheon to Introduce New President, 560
 
*- Society of Chemical Industry, Exhibition in Manchester, 11
Super-power, Coal Consumption for Generation of Electricity, 389
*- Textile Industry, First National Exhibition, 37
 
*EXPLOSION of Steam-jacketed Pan, 335
Sydney City Council, Proposal to Acquire Mine or Mines for Purposes of Electricity Department, 117
*Explosive Company's Plant at Nobel, Ontario, to be Reopened, 715
 
*Explosives Factories, Diminution in Number and also of Persons Employed, 63
Tungshun Island, near Amoy, Suggested Rice Mill for, with Electric Plant for Power and City Lighting, 581
 
Turbo-alternators, Four 10,000-Kilowatt, for
 
Bombay Suburban Railways, 637
 
Two Million-volt Transformer Set, 143
 
Victorian Electricity Commission and German Recommendations, 417
 
Western Australia and Electric Supply to Mines, 37
 
Wolverhampton’s Increased Use of Electricity, 389
 
ELECTROLYTIC Copper, Big Lixiviation Plant foi Union Minidre Katanga, 143
 
Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress to be held in Canada in 1927, 335
 
Engineers in China, 452
 
English and Amateur Mechanic*, 498
 
Esquimalt Dry Dock Construction, 389
 
Estonian Oil Shale as Railway Fuel, 663
 
Ethylene Dichloride as a Solvent for Oils and
 
Fats, 689
 
EXHIBITIONS
Agricultural Show and Exhibition of Cottage Industries at Jubbulpore, 499
 
Belgium, Universal Exhibition Projected for 1930, 197
 
EXHIBITIONS (continued) :
 
British Industries Fair in Birmingham : Enlargement of Buildings Called for, 417 British Industries Fair and Misconceptions, 417
 
Electric Business Predominance at British Industries Fair in Birmingham, 689
 
Floor Space at British Industries ^Fair, Greatly Increased Demand, 581, 637
 
Madras Council Estimate for Participation in British Industries Fair. 471
 
Congress of Chemists and Exhibition in London of Apparatus, Chemicals, A’c., 3*
 
Industrial Designs Competition, Selection of Work on Exhibition., 143
 
Ironmongery, Hardware, &c.» Exhibition, 276
 
Leipzig International Industries Fair, 183
 
Leipzig International Industries Fair, 1927, 624               .11
 
Model Engineer Exhibition at Horticultural Hall, Westminster, 143, 171
 
National Coal .Products Exhibition, 495
 
Physical Societies’ Exhibition, 649
 
Prague Sample Fair to Include Mining Section, 18
 
Royal Agricultural Society Exhibition, 1927, Date and Place, 649
 
Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, Luncheon to Introduce New President, 560
 
Society of Chemical Industry, Exhibition in Manchester. 1 1
 
Textile Industry, First National Exhibition, 37
 
EXPLOSION of Steam-jacketed Pan, 335
 
Explosive Company’s Plant at Nobel, Ontario, to be Reopened, 715
 
Explosives Factories, Diminution in Number and also of Persons Employed, 63


F
F
FACTORY Proposed in Natal for Manufacture of Canex Boards, 117
*FACTORY Proposed in Natal for Manufacture of "Canex" Boards, 117
 
*Fairs--see Exhibitions
Fairs—see Exhibitions
*Faraday House, Old Students' Association, Annual Dinner, 400, 511
 
*Federated Malay States Insistence on Use of British Materials, 553
Faraday House, Old Students’ Association, Annual Dinner, 400, 511
*Felling a Blast-furnace Stack with Dynamite, 91
 
*Fibre Rope, Inventor's Unsinkable Type, 527
Federated Malay States Insistence on Use of British Materials, 553
*Fire Control in a Pulverised Coal Bin, 91
 
*Fire Losses Due to Electric Irons, 37
Felling a Blast-furnace Stack with Dynamite, 91
*Firedamp in Mines, Measurement by Electric Current, E. H. Liveing, 389
 
*Fire-float Beta III., Record Work at Big Fire in East London, 471
Fibre Rope, Inventor’s Unsinkable Type, 527
*Fireproof Paints Factory at Sault Ste. Marie, 499
 
*Flax Extensively Planted in Natal, Proposed Production of Alcohol from Waste Pulp of Leaves, 171
Fire Control in a Pulverised Coal Bin, 91
*Fleming, Dr. J. A., Presentation of Portrait to, 499, 527
 
*Floating Dock, Small for Table Bay Harbour, 471
Fire Losses Due to Electric Irons, 37
*Floating Dock, 25.000-Ton, for French Government, Launched at Hamburg, 143
 
*Flood Prevention, Irrigation, and Hydroelectric Enterprise in Mexico, 689
Firedamp in Mines, Measurement by Electric
*Floor Tested by Four Hours' Fire, 417
 
*Ford Five-day Week, Divergent Views on, 527
CurrentE. H. Liveing, 389
*Foreign Building Materials, Greatly Increased Importation of, 361
 
*Foreign Trade of the Sudan, Considerable Increase in, 663
Fire-float Beta III., Record Work at Big Fire in East London, 471
*Foundry at Warrington with Area of 3000 Square Yards, 499
 
*Free State Flag, First Boat Launched under, Kahanui, for New Zealand, 223
Fireproof Paints Factory at Sault Ste. Marie, 499
*Frost Effect in Different Soils, Caution Needed in Pipe Laying, 143
 
*Fuel Research Board's Experimental Borgius Process Plant, 361
Flax Extensively Planted in Natal, Proposed Production of Alcohol from Waste Pulp of Leaves, 171
*Fuel from Waste of Palm "Nuts," 581
 
Fleming, Dr. J. A., Presentation of Portrait to, 499, 527
 
Floating Dock, Small for Table Bay Harbour,, 471
 
Floating Dock, 25.000-Ton, for French Government, Launched at Hamburg, 143
 
Flood Prevention, Irrigation, and Hydroelectric Enterprise in Mexico, 689
 
Floor Tested by Four Hours’ Fire, 417
 
Ford Five-day Week, Divergent Views on, 527
 
Foreign Building Materials, Greatly Increased Importation of, 361
 
Foreign Trade of the Sudan, Considerable Increase in, 663
 
Foundry at Warrington with Area of 3000 Square Yards, 499
 
Free State Flag, First Boat Launched under, Kahanui, for New Zealand, 223
 
Frost Effect in Different Soils, Caution Needed in Pipe Laying, 143
 
Fuel Research Board’s Experimental Borgius Process Plant, 361
 
Fuel from Waste of Palm Nuts,581


G
G
GAS Oil for Petrol Engines. 41
*GAS Oil for Petrol Engines. 41
 
*Gas, Outbursts of, in Coal Mines, G. Roblings, 663
Gas, Outbursts of, in Coal Mines, G. Roblings, 663
*Gasworks Capacity of 1,000,000 Cubic Feet per Twenty-four Hours, 417
 
*Gear Grinding, H. F. L. Orcutt, 581
Gasworks Capacity of 1,000,000 Cubic Feet per
*G.E.C. Sports, 75
 
*German Plate-rolling Trade, 287
Twenty-four Hours, 417
*Gold Nugget Weighing over 100 oz. Unearthed in Western Australia, 689
 
*Gold in Sea Water, Not a Paying Proposition, 37
Gear Grinding, H. F. L. Orcutt, 581
*Gold, World's Product of, from 1860 to 1924, Estimated Value, J. P. Dunlop, 689
 
*Goods Transport by Chinese Junks, 197
G.E.C. Sports, 75
*Grab Dredging and Excavating Equipment, Numerous Orders for, 197
 
*Graphite, Natural, Its Manifold Uses, 715
German Plate-rolling Trade, 287
*Great Britain Self-supporting in Only One Nonferrous Metal, Aluminium, 471
 
*Great Lakes Power Company, Ontario, Plans to Meet Increasing Power Demands, 335
Gold Nugget Weighing over 100 oz. Unearthed in Western Australia, 689
*Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Waterways, Disagreement Between Canadian and U.S.A. Joint Board Engineers, 609
 
*Greek Government's Exclusive Convention with Eastern Telegraph Company, 91
Gold in Sea Water, Not a Paying Proposition, 37
 
Gold, World’s Product of, from 1860 to 1924.
 
Estimated Value, J. P. Dunlop, 689
 
Goods Transport by Chinese Junks, 197
 
Grab Dredging and Excavating Equipment, Numerous Orders for, 197
 
Graphite, Natural, Its Manifold Uses, 715
 
Great Britain Self-supporting in Only One Nonferrous Metal, Aluminium, 471
 
Great Lakes Power Company, Ontario, Plans to Meet Increasing Power Demands, 335
 
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Waterways, Disagreement Between Canadian and U.S.A. Joint Board Engineers, 609
 
Greek Government’s Exclusive Convention with
 
Eastern Telegraph Company, 91


H
H
HAITI Projected Expenditure on Public Works, 471
*HAITI Projected Expenditure on Public Works, 471
 
*Hamilton Bridge Works West End Plant Restarted, 91
Hamilton Bridge Works West End Plant Restarted, 91
*Harbour Development, Vizagapatam, 468
 
*Heat Generated by Chemical Action of Setting Concrete, Unforeseen Result, 715
Harbour Development, Vizagapatam, 468
*Hematite Discovery in Siorra Leone, 663
 
*Highway Engineering for University Degree, 663
Heat Generated by Chemical Action of Setting
*House Building, Steel v. Brick for, 389
 
*House of SABEN, 649
Concrete, Unforeseen Result, 715
*Huon Pine Oil for Prevention of Decay in Other Woods, Experiments, 223
 
*Hydrated Lime, Value of, 499
Hematite Discovery in Siorra Leone, 663
*Hydraulic Cements, Free Limo in, Scientific Experiments, 637
 
*Hydro-electric Development of Grand Falk, New Brunswick, 335
Highway Engineering for UniversityjDcgree, 663
*Hydro-electric Installations for Eastern Canada, 389
 
*Hydro-electric Installation to Utilise Water Power of Bidasoa, Navarra, 417
House Building, Steel v. Brick for, 389
*Hydro-electric Metallurgic Works, at Corral, Chile, 637
 
*Hydro-electric Plant, near Concepcion, Chile, 361
House of SaBeN, 649
*Hydro-electric Plant, Exceptionally Large, Under Construction in U.S.A., 197
 
*Hydro-electric Power Plant. Big. and Plant for Magnesium Alloys, to be Erected on the Yalu River, 689
Huon Pine Oil for Prevention of Decay in Other
*Hydro-electric Power Plant at St. Alban, Quebec, 689
 
*Hydro-electric Station in Italy will be Largest in Europe, 663
Woods, Experiments, 223
*Hydro-electric Station, Unusual Type for East Switzerland, 361
 
*Hydro-electric Stations in Italy, Statistics Regarding, 499, 553
Hydrated Lime, Value of, 499
*Hydro-power Development at Alexander's Landing, Ontario, 63
 
*Hydrous Salts, Mainly Sodium Sulphate, Deposits in Western Canada, 689
Hydraulic Cements, Free Limo in, Scientific Experiments, 637
 
Hydro-electric Development of Grand Falk, New Brunswick, 335
 
Hydro-electric Installations for Eastern Canada, '389
 
Hydro-electric Installation to Utilise Water Power of Bidasoa, Navarra, 417
 
Hydro-electric Metallurgic Works, at Corral, Chile. 637
 
Hydro-electric Plant, near Concepcion, Chile, *361
 
Hydro-electric Plant, Exceptionally Large, Under Construction in U.S.A., 197
 
Hydro-electric Power Plant. Big. and Plant for Magnesium Alloys, to be Erected on the Yalu River, 689
 
Hydro-electric Power Plant at St. Alban, Quebec, 689
 
Hydro-electric Statiop in Italy will be Largest in Europe, 663
 
Hydro-electric Station, Unusual Type for East Switzerland, 361
 
Hydro-electric Stations in Italy, Statistics Regarding, 499, 553
 
Hydro-power Development at Alexander’s Landing, Ontario, 63
 
Hydrous Sidts. Mainly Sodium Sulphate, Deposits in Western Canada, 689


I
I
ICE Jam, Method*. Adopted for Breaking Up, 715
*ICE Jam, Method Adopted for Breaking Up, 715
 
*Ignition of Cases, Mixtures of Methane and Air, Comprehensive Research and Report, 117
Ignition of Case?, Mixtures of Methane and Air, Comprehensive Research and Report, 117
*Imperial College of Science and Technology, Annual Dinner, 678
 
*Indian Boiler Regulations Amendments, 637
Imperial College of Science and Technology, Annual Dinner, 678
*Indian Railway Board's Search for Cheap Woods in Indian Forests, 91
 
*India's Import Trade, Depression in Machinery, 117
Indian Boiler Regulations Amendments, 637
*Industrial Casualties, Analysis of Causes of, 117
 
*Industrial Fatigue Research Board's Experiments, 11
Indian Railway Board’s Search for Cheap Woods in Indian Forests, 91
*Information in Periodicals and Libraries, Special, Association Formed and Directory to be Compiled, 63
 
*Insect House Electrically Controlled, 37
India’s Import Trade, Depression in Machinery, 117
*"I. 0. Emmas'" Reunion, 26
 
*Institutes and Institutions--see Associations
industrial Casualties, Analysis of Causes of, 117
*Insulating Varnishes, Ozonised Air Process in the Baking of, L. U. Spence and P. B. Cochran, 277
 
*Iodine, Liquid, Large Exports from Java, 553  
Industrial Fatigue Research Board's Experiments, 11
*Irish Free State and the Shannon Scheme, 62
 
*IRON AND STEEL :
Information in Periodicals and Libraries, Special, Association Formed and Directory to bo Compiled, 63
*- Algoma Steel Works at Sault Ste. Marie, 7  
 
*- Anvil Casting, Record Weight, 581  
Insect House Electrically Controlled, 37
*- Autogenous Welding, Decreasing Use of Cast Iron as Filler, 581
 
*- Black Sand of Pacific Islands for Pig Iron, System for Extraction, 609
“I. 0. Emmas’ ” Reunion, 26
*- Brazil, Steel Making Equipment, 361
 
*- Canadian Pacific Railway a Order for 25,000 Tons of Rails, 335
Institutes and Institutions—ace Associations
*- Central China Company's Large Iron Output, 277
 
*- Corral, in Chile, Projected Iron and Steel Works, 443
Insulating Varnishes, Ozonised Air Process in the Baking of, L. U. Spence and P. B. Cochran, 277
*- Cuynna Range, Northern Minnesota, Estimated Huge Deposits of Black Manganiferous Iron Ore and Brown Ore, 443
 
*- Drawing Qualities of Thin Sheet Metal, G. G. Beard, 581
Iodine, Liquid, Large Exports from Java, 553 Irish Free State and the Shannon Scheme, 62
*- Electric Heating in Hardening and Tempering of Steel, 143
 
*- "F" Steel Not a New Invention, 11
IRON AND STEEL :
*- Flue Dust Escape from Blast-furnaces, Heavy Resulting Loss, 307
Algoma Steel Works at Sault Ste. Marie, 7 Anvil Casting, Record Weight, 581 Autogenous Welding, Decreasing Use of Cast Iron as Filler, 581
*- Heat Treating of Steel, Results of Recent Experiments, C. W. Bryan and C. G. E. Larsson, 715
 
*- High Record for Pig Iron Output, 197
Black Sand of Pacific Islands for Pig Iron, System for Extraction, 609
*- Ingot, Exceptionally Large, Produced at Sheffield, 335
 
*- International Nickel Company's Increased Plant for Electrolytic Nickel, 171
Brazil, Steel Making Equipment, 361
*- Iron Ore and Pig Iron Output in the United States, 37
 
*- Ironworks, New, for Manufacture and Repair of Silk Weaving Machinery Put Up at Hangchow, 689
Canadian Pacific Railway a Order for 25,000 Tons of Rails, 335
*- "Jalcase," New Steel Product, Advantageous Qualities of, 361
 
*- Japan Syndicate of Leading Iron and Steel Concerns, 335
Central China Company’s Large Iron Output, 277
*- Large Castings and their Transport, 171
 
*- Manganese Deposits of Postmasburg District, South Africa, 715
Corral, in Chile, Projected Iron and Steel Works, 443
*- National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Reports :
 
*-- Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron Production and Steel Production, Statistics on Eve of the Coal Stoppage, 249 ; in August, 306 ; September, 464 ; in October, 553
Cuynna Range, Northern Minnesota, Eflti-mated Huge Deposits of Black Man-ganiferous Iron Ore and Brown Ore, 443
*-- Statistics to End of November, 715
 
*- Nickel Mines Exploitation at Locris and in Boetia, 499
Drawing Qualities of Thin Sheet Metal, G. G.
*- Nickel Ore, Extensive Deposits Discovered Near Maikop, in the Caucasus, 443
 
*- Phosphorus and Sulphur Effect on Rivet Steel, 143
Beard, 581
*- Pure Granular Iron Without Use of Coke or Limestone, Experiments, 663
 
*- Refractories for Open-hearth Steel Furnaces, 11
Electric Heating in Hardening and Tempering of Steel, 143
*- Rod Mill in Course of Erection at Newport, 307
 
*- "Safety First" in Blowing-out Blastfurnaces, 143
F Steel Not a New Invention, 11
*- Soft Steel' and Intercrystalline Corrosion, Experiments and their Result, 171
 
*- South African Pig Iron, First Steel Rails from, 143
Flue Dust Escape from Blast-furnaces, Heavy Resulting Loss, 307
*- South African Tungsten Minos Plant Approaching Completion, 197
 
*- Stainless Steel, Properties and Engineering Uses of, R. Waddell, 609
Heat Treating of Steel, Results of Recent Experiments, C. W. Bryan and C. G. E. Larsson, 715
*- Steel, Apparatus for Detection of Defects Not Visible on Surface, 249
 
*- Steel Castings, Robert Lowe, 568
High Record for Pig Iron Output, 197
*- Swedish Iron Ore Trust Shipments, 335
 
*- Welded Steel Tube, Strength Testing Experiments, U.S.A., 11
Ingot, Exceptionally Large, Produced at Sheffield, 335
*- Wolfram Discovery in Cape Province, Hoped- for Addition of Valuable Tungsten Ore, 11
 
*IRRIGATION Dam, Proposed, Across the Colorado River, 715
International Nickel Company’s Increased Plant for Electrolytic Nickel, 171
*Irrigation Enterprise Completed in Chile, 471
 
*Irrigation Works in Mysore, 637
Iron Ore and Pig Iron Output in the United States, 37
 
Ironworks, New, for Manufacture and Repair of Silk Weaving Machinery Put Up at Hangchow, 689
 
Jalcase,New Steel Product, Advantageous Qualities of, 361
 
Japan Syndicate of Leading Iron and Steel Concerns, 335
 
Large Castings and their Transport, 171
 
Manganese Deposits of Postmasburg District, South Africa, 715
 
National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Reports :
 
Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron Production and Steel Production, Statistics on Eve of the Coal Stoppage, 249 ; in August, 306 ; September, 464 ; in October, 553
 
Statistics to End of November, 715
 
Nickel Mines Exploitation at Locris and in Bcetia, 499
 
Nickel Ore, Extensive Deposits Discovered Near Maikop, in the Caucasus, 443
 
Phosphorus and Sulphur Effect on Rivet Steel, 143
 
Pure Granular Iron Without Use of Coke or Limestone, Experiments, 663
 
Refractories for Open-hearth Steel Furnaces, 11
 
Rod Mill in Course of Erection at Newport, 307
 
Safety First in Blowing-out Blastfurnaces, 143
 
Soft Steel and Intercrystalline Corrosion, Experiments and their Result, 171
 
South African Pig Iron, First Steel Rails from, 143
 
South African Tungsten Minos Plant Approaching Completion, 197
 
Stainless Steel, Properties and Engineering Uses of, R. Waddell, 609
 
Steel, Apparatus for Detection of Defects Not Visible on Surface, 249
 
Steel Castings, Robert Lowe, 568
 
Swedish Iron Ore Trust Shipments, 335
 
Welded Steel Tube, Strength Testing Experiments, U.S.A., 11
 
Wolfram Discovery in Cape Province, Hoped-for Addition of Valuable Tungsten Ore, 11
 
IRRIGATION Dam. Proposed, Across the
 
Colorado River, 715
 
Irrigation Enterprise Completed in Chile, 471
 
Irrigation Works in Mysore, 037


J
J
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Electric Power
*JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Electric Power Station Projected, 307
 
Station Projected, 307


KAWASA KI Dockyard. Japan, Increasing Output of Sheet Steel, 443
K
*KAWASAKI Dockyard, Japan, Increasing Output of Sheet Steel, 443


L
L
LACQUERS, Cellulose, Elementary Test for Flow, 277
*LACQUERS, Cellulose, Elementary Test for Flow, 277
 
*Landslide, Serious, on Tennessee Side of Mississippi, 197
Landslide. Serious, on Tennessee Side of Mississippi, 197
*Lantern Slides for Lectures Offered by :
 
*- Automatic and Electric Furnaces, Ltd., 486
Lantern Slides for Lectures Offered by :
*- Bruce Peebles end Co., Ltd., 384
 
*Lead Aluminate Production, 335
Automatic and Electric Furnaces, Ltd., 486
*Lectures, Special, 319
 
*Lighthouse, Lowestoft High, Much Increased Candle-power, 249
Bruce Peebles end Co.. Ltd.. 384
*Lighthouse, New, at Hartlepool. Progress, 660
 
*Lime Addition for Softening Boiler Water, Tests for Ensuring Accuracy in Amount, 443
Lead Aluminate Production, 335
*Littlehampton Harbour, 499
 
*Lithopon, Increased Production of, in the United States, 117
Lectures, Special. 319
*Lithopon Paints, to Remedy Darkening of, 91
 
*Liverpool to East Lancashire, Government Consent to New Road Construction, 197
Lighthouse. Lowestoft High, Much Increased
*Lobnitz Rock Cutter for Sydney Harbour, 143
 
*Lochalsh and Lochs on Balmacara Estate, Hydro-electric Schemes, 527
Candle-power, 249
*Long-lived Engines in Scotsmen's Charge in America, 249
 
*Loughborough College, 319
Lighthouse, New, nt Hartlepool. Progress, 660
*Low Temperature Experimenters' Mistake, O. J. Parker, 663
 
Lime Addition for Softening Boiler Water,
 
Tests for Ensuring Accuracy in Amount, 443
 
Littlehampton Harbour, 499
 
Lithopon. Increased Production of. in the
 
United States, 117
 
Lithopon Paints, to Remedy Darkening of. 91
 
Liverpool to East Lancashire, Government Consent to New Road Construction, 197
 
Lobnitz Rock Cutter for Sydney Harbour, 143
 
Lochalsh and Lochs on Balmacara Estate,
 
Hydro-electric Schemes. 527
 
Long-lived Engines in Scotsmen’s Charge in
 
America, 249
 
Loughborough College. 319
 
Low Temperature Experimenters* Mistake,
 
O. J. Parker, 663


M
M
MAGNESIAN Flooring Materials Association, 235
*MAGNESIAN Flooring Materials Association, 235
 
*Magneto Works Projected near Olomone, Czecho-Slovakia, 249
Magneto Works Projected near Olomone, Czecho-Slovakia, 249
*Manitoba Hydro-electric Transmission System Extended, 197
 
*Maple Sugar and Syrup in Quebec Province, Almost a Monopoly, 553
Manitoba Hydro-electric Transmission System Extended,197
*Match Industry Development in Bihar and Orissa Province, 11
 
*Mazatlan, Port, on West Coast of Mexico, Construction of Stone Breakwater, Dredging, andc., Projected, 223
Maple Sugar and Syrup in Quebec Province, Almost a Monopoly, 553
*Measuring Rope, Cable, Wire, andc., Portable Machine for, 389
 
*"Mechanical Policeman" for Point Duty in Copenhagen, 113
Match Industry Development in Bihar and Orissa Province, 11
*Meductic, Saint John River, Projected Water Power Development, 499
 
*Melbourne, Sewage and Water Statistics, 171
Mazatl&n. Port, on West Coast of Mexico, Construction of Stone Breakwater, Dredging. &c.. Projected, 223
*Memorial, Frederick S. Spiers, 75
 
*Menai Tubular Bridge, Robert Stevenson's Experiments on Models, 581
Measuring Rope. Cable, Wire, &c., Portable Machine for, 389
*Metal Surfacing by Use of Stellite and an Acetylene Blow-pipe, 223
 
*Metallic Cadmium, Large Production in the United States in 1925, 715
Mechanical Policeman for Point Duty in Copenhagen, 113
*Metallurgical Societies in the Midlands, 397
 
*Meteorological Station, New, at Pratas (Doongsha) Shoal, 609
Meductic, Saint John River, Projected Water Power Development, 499
*Methane Air Mixture Explosion Flame Projection, Experiments, 499
 
*Mica Output and Trade in India, 307
Melbourne, Sewage and Water Statistics, 171
*Mica, Promising Occurrences of, in Natal, 689
 
*Mildew in Textile Fabrics. Prevention, 637
Memorial. Frederick S. Spiers. 75
*Main Reef Leader of the Rand Exposed, Estimates of Yield, 715
 
*Mineral Production in British Columbia, 11
Menai Tubular Bridge, Robert Stevenson's Experiments on Models, 581
*Minerals Discovery, Lepidolite and Others, near Winnipeg, in Manitoba and Ontario, 553
 
*Mines--see Dust
Metal Surfacing by Use of Stellite and an Acetylene Blow-pipe, 223
*Mining Incident, Unusual, 471
 
*Mining Machine Electrically Driven, New Type, 335
Metallic Cadmium, Large Production in the United States in 1925, 715
*Mining in New Regions of Ontario, Government- List of Requirements of Prospectors, 63
 
*Mining in North-West Australia, Lack of Transport Facilities, 143
Metallurgical Societies in the Midlands. 397
*Moffatt Tunnel, Fatal Accident in Working, 197
 
*Moffat Tunnel, Progress of Pioneer Headings, 715
Meteorological Station. New, nt Pratas (Doong-sha) Shoal, 009
*Montreal-Ottawa-Georgian Bay Ship Canal, Proposed, 63
 
*Mortar or Concrete Re-tempering, Advantages, 223
Methane Air Mixture Explosion Flame Projection, Experiments, 499
*Mosquito Dest ruction by Paris Green, 91
 
*Motor Cars and Cycles in Kalgan, 11
Mica Output and Trade in India, 307
*Motor Car with New Gear shifting Device, 143
 
*Motor Omnibuses for Glasgow, First of New Fleet, 307
Mica, Promising Occurrences of, in Natal. 689
*Motor Transport Greatly Needed in Spam, Owing to its Mountainous Character, 277
 
*Mysore and Bombay Hydro electric Projects, 335
Mildew in Textile Fabrics. Prevention. 637
 
Main Reef Leader of the Rand Exposed. Estimates of Yield, 715
 
Mineral Production in British Columbia, I I
 
Minerals Discovery, Lepidolite and Others, near Winnipeg, in Manitoba and Ontario, 553
 
Mines—Dust
 
Mining Incident, Unusual, 471
 
Mining Machine Electrically Driven, New Type, 335
 
Mining in New Regions of Ontario, Government- List of Reouiremcnts of Prospectors. 63
 
Mining in North-West Australia, Lack of Transport Facilities, 143
 
Moffatt Tunnel, Fatal Accident in Working. 197
 
Moffat Tunnel, Progress of Pioneer Headings, 715
 
Montreal-Ottawa-Georgian Bay Ship Canal, Proposed. 63
 
Mortar or Concrete Re-tempering, Advantages, 223
 
Mosquito Dest ruction by Paris Green. 91
 
Motor Cars and Cycles in Kalgan. 11
 
Motor Car with New Gear shifting Device, 143
 
Motor Omnibuses for Glasgow, First of New
 
Fleet. 307
 
Motor Transport Greatly Needed in Spam, Owing to its Mountainous Character, 277
 
Mysore and Bombay Hydro electric Projects. 335


N
N
NAPLES and Port of Salerno. Port Canal Projected for, 471
*NAPLES and Port of Salerno. Port Canal Projected for, 471
 
*National Certificates in Naval Architecture, 659
National Certificates in Naval Architecture. 659
*Natural Gas, Accidental Discovery in Manitoba, 663
 
*Natural Gas at Depth of 600ft. in Transvaal, 117
Natural Gaw, Accidental Discovery in Manitoba, 663
*Natural Gas Production in Ontario, 149, 171
 
*Needles Imported by U.S.A, from Great Britain, 63
Natural Gas at Depth of 600ft. in Transvaal, 117 ...
*New South Wales Gold Yield, 37
 
*New South Wales Increased Imports, 609
Natural Gas Production in Ontario, 149. 171
*New Zealand's Projected Big Hydro-electric Development, 197
 
*Newsprint Mill in Ontario, One Day's Output, 197
Needles Imported by U.S.A, from Great Britain. 63
*Newsprint Mill, Quebec, Projected Extension, 223
 
*Newsprint Mills in Canada, Increased Production of, 91
New South Wales Gold Yield, 37
*Newsprint Paper Mill, Quebec, Now Addition, 11
 
*Niagara Falls, Erosion of the Crest at the Rate of 7ft. per Annum. Measures to Relieve, 91
New South Wales Increased Imports, 609
*Niagara Memorial Bridge Company Applies for Charter, 417
 
*Nickel--see Iron
New Zealand’s Projected Big Hydro-electric Development, 197
*Nitric Acid Production by Arc Process with Use of Iceland Waterfalls, 314
 
*Nitrogen, Atmospheric. Factory for Fixation of, 277
Newsprint Mill in Ontario. One Day’s Output, 197
*Nitrogen Fixation, Materials of Construction for, J. G. Thompson, 277
 
*Nitrogen Fixation Plant in Brazil Projected, 637
Newsprint Mill, Quebec, Projected Extension. 223
*Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 417
 
*Norwegian Proposal to Lease Waterfall to Aluminium Corporation of England, 91
Newsprint Mills in Canada, Increased Production of, 91
 
Newsprint Paper Mill, Quebec, Now Addition, 11
 
Niagara Falls, Erosion of the Crest at the Rate of 7ft. per Annum. Measures to Relieve, 91
 
Niagara Memorial Bridge Company Applies for Charter, 417
 
Nickel—see Iron
 
Nitric Acid Production by Arc Process with Use of Iceland Waterfalls, 314
 
Nitrogen. Vmosphenr. F.vtory for Fixation of, 277
 
Nitrogen Fixation, Materials of Construction for, J. G. Thompson. 277
 
Nitrogen Fixation Plant in Brazil Projected, 037
 
Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 417
 
Norwegian Proposal to Lease Waterfall to Aluminium Corporation of England, 91
 
o
OIL from Coal Process, Professor Doctor Bergius’ Warning, 499
 
Oil Company’s Plant at Regina, Saskatchewan,
 
New Equipment for. 443
 
Oil Engine, Swedish, New Type, 701
 
Oil Flow, Temperature Test for, 389
 
Oil, Gross Output in Baku and other Areas, 229
 
Oil Pollution of Navigable Waters by Oilcarrying Vessels, 171
 
Oil Refinery for Fish and Cotton Seed Oil.
 
Projected, in Newfoundland, 171
 
Oil Shale at Coal Mines in Manchuria, 223
 
Oil Shale Dusts Proved Explosive. Need of
 
Same Precautions as in Coal Mines, 277, 361
 
Oil in South Africa, Hopeful Prospects from
 
Boring, 689
 
Oil, Trial Bore-hole in Search for Oil, in South Australia, 548
 
Oil Wells Yield in Oklahoma. Methods of Increasing with Safety Precautions. 553
 
Ontario Oilers Financial Assistance in Diamond
 
Drilling for Coal or Oil, 637


Ore Crushers for Chilian Mine, Allis-Chalmers Company, 715
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*OIL from Coal Process, Professor Doctor Bergius' Warning, 499
*Oil Company's Plant at Regina, Saskatchewan, New Equipment for, 443
*Oil Engine, Swedish, New Type, 701
*Oil Flow, Temperature Test for, 389
*Oil, Gross Output in Baku and other Areas, 229
*Oil Pollution of Navigable Waters by Oil carrying Vessels, 171
*Oil Refinery for Fish and Cotton Seed Oil, Projected, in Newfoundland, 171
*Oil Shale at Coal Mines in Manchuria, 223
*Oil Shale Dusts Proved Explosive. Need of Same Precautions as in Coal Mines, 277, 361
*Oil in South Africa, Hopeful Prospects from Boring, 689
*Oil, Trial Bore-hole in Search for Oil, in South Australia, 548
*Oil Wells Yield in Oklahoma. Methods of Increasing with Safety Precautions, 553
*Ontario Oilers Financial Assistance in Diamond Drilling for Coal or Oil, 637
*Ore Crushers for Chilian Mine, Allis-Chalmers Company, 715
*Oxygen Factory at Fremantle, Australia, 480


Oxygen Factory at Fremantle, Australia, 480
P
 
*PAINT, Colour and Varnish Industry Research, Now Offices, 197
p
*Panama Canal Tolls Increase, 223
PAINT, Colour and Varnish Industry Research, Now Offices, 197
*Paper Mill to be Driven by Power from Outarde Falls, Quebec, 499
 
*Paper Mill Extension for Newsprint at Quebec, 581
Panama Canal Tolls Increase. 223
*Paper Mill, Large, Erection in Quebec, 45
 
*Paper Mill to Use Local Timber in Tasmania, Experiment, 417
Paper Mill to be Driven by Power from Outarde Falls, Quebec. 499
*Paper Pulp Factory Projected for Tasmania, 143
 
*Paper Pulp-making by Keobra Process, 527
Paper Mill Extension for Newsprint at Quebec, 581
*Paper from Straw, Factory for Manufacture of, 443
 
*Paraffin Oil, Increased Importation into Hang, chow Harbour, 171
Paper Mill, Large, Erection in Quebec, 45
*Paranagua, Wharf Projected at, 307
 
*Paste Paints, Zinc Oxide. Enamels, Varnishes, andc., Production in America, 609
Paper Mill to Use Local l imber in Tasmania, Experiment, 417
*Paving Machine Worked by Petrol Motor, 219
 
*Peat Fuel, Conditions of Economical Manufacture of, in Canada, Committee's Report, 466
Paper Pulp Factory Projected for Tasmania, 143
*Pembroke Dockyard, 319
 
*Perak River, Hydro-electric Construction Works on Banks of, 637
Paper Pulp-making by Keobra Process, 527
*Permanent Way, A Century of, 649
 
*Permeability of Natural Stones to Water, Relative Values as Building Material, 249
Paper from Straw, Factory for Manufacture of, 443
*Petroleum Discovery Reported in Chinese Village, 277
 
*Petroleum Products Output in Canada, 307
Paraffin Oil. Increased Importation into Hang, chow Harbour, 171
*Petroleum Storage and Conveyance, Changes in the Law and Scale of Licence Fees Payable, 171
 
*Petroleum Working, Neglect of Economy and Research. Professor J. F. Thorpe, 389
ParanaguA. Wharf Projected at, 307
*Phosphate Rock Discovered in Russia to be Converted into Fertiliser, 443
 
*Phosphates in Irish Free State, 63
Paste Paints, Zinc Oxide. Enamels, Varnishes, <fcc., Production in America, 609
*Piles Supporting Railroad Bridge, over 13,000, Driven 23ft. Below Low Water, 117
 
*Pine Lines Used for Conveying Natural Gas, Effect of Change of Temperature, 443
Paving Machine Worked by Petrol Motor, 219
*Plastint, New Inexpensive Interior Plaster, 117  
 
*Platinum "Dredging" in Russia, 553
Peat Fuel. Conditions of Economical Manufacture of. in Canada, Committee’s Report. 466
*Pollution of Sea by Oil, Conference of Thirteen Countries' Representatives, 37
 
*Polytechnic Engineering Society, Annual Conversazione, 649
Pembroke Dockyard, 319
*Port Kembla-Moss Vale Railway and Port Kembla Ironworks, Agreement, 171
 
*Ports, New, Proposed for Brazil, 663
Perak River, Hydro-electric Construction Works on Banks of, 637
*Portland Cement Concrete, Permeability of. and Experimental Work, 609
 
*Portland Cement Industry in 1925, Record Years'Manufacture, 471
| Permanent Way, A Century of, 649
*Portuguese Schemes for Water Power Development, 499
 
*Potash Discovery in the Ural Mountains, 197
Permeability of Natural Stones to Water, Relative Values as Building Material, 249
*Power Alcohol Distillery Projected for Queensland, 417
 
*Power Development, Quareau River, Quebec, 499
Petroleum Discovery Reported in Chinese Village, 277
*Power Lines, 4000 Miles, Authorised in Quebec, 471
 
*Power Plant at Cape Town, Extension of, 499  
Petroleum Products Output in Canada, 307
*Pressure Wave Sent Out by an Explosive, W. Payman and W. C. F. Shepherd, 641
 
*Printers' Compositors' Work, Illumination Question, 637
Petroleum Storage and Conveyance, Changes in the Law and Scale *of Licence Feos Payable, 171
*Public Works, Roads and Transport Congress and Exhibition in 1927, Offer of Prizes for Papers, 106
 
*Pump Mill, the Second in Northern Manitoba, Survey for, 443
Petroleum Working, Neglect of Economy and Research. Professor J. F. Thorpe, 389
*Pumping Plant of Exceptional Lift at the Simmer and Jack Gold Mine, 553
 
*Pumping Slimes at Rand Gold Mine with Rubber-lined Centrifugal Pump, 443
Phosphate Rock Discovered in Russia to be Converted into Fertiliser, 443
*Pumping Water from Broken Hill Mino, Cost of, 471
 
*Pumps for Pulverised Coal Conveyance in German Power Station, 527
Phosphates in Irish Free State, 63
 
Piles Supporting Railroad Bridge, over 13,000, Driven 23ft. Below Low Water. 117
 
Pine Lines Used for Conveying Natural Gas, Effect of Change of Temperature. 443
 
Plastint, New Inexpensive Interior Plaster, 117 Platinum Dredging in Russia. 553
 
Pollution of Sea by Oil. Conference of Thirteen Countries’ Representatives, 37
 
Polytechnic Engineering Society, Annual Conversazione, 649
 
Port Kembla-Moss Vale Railway ami Port Kembla Ironworks. Agreement. 171
 
Ports. New, Proposed for Brazil. 663
 
Portland Cement Concrete, Permeability of. and Experimental Work, 609
 
Portland Cement Industry in 1925, Record Years'’Manufacture, 471
 
Portuguese Schemes for Water Power Development, 499
 
Potash Discovery in the Ural Mountains, 197
 
Power Alcohol Distillery Projected for Queensland. 417
 
Pow'er Development, Quareau River, Quebec, 499
 
Power Lines, 4000 Miles, Authorised in Quebec, 471
 
Power Plant at Cape Town. Extension of, 499 Pressure Wave Sent Out by an Explosive, W.
 
Payman and W. C. F. Shepherd. 641
 
Printers’ Compositors’ Work, Illumination Question, 637
 
Public Works, Roads and Transport Congress and Exhibition in 1927, Offer of Prizes for Papers, 106
 
Pump Mill, the Second in Northern Manitoba, Survey for, 443
 
Pumping Plant of Exceptional Lift at the Simmer and Jack Gold Mine, 553
 
Pumping Slimes at Rand Gold Mine with Rubber-lined Centrifugal Pump, 443
 
Pumping Water from Broken Hill Mino, Cost of, 471
 
Pumps for Pulverised Coal Conveyance in German Power Station, 527


Q
Q
QUARRIES of the United States, Trouble and Expense Due to Water Seepage and also Ice. 443
*QUARRIES of the United States, Trouble and Expense Due to Water Seepage and also Ice, 443
 
*Quebec Development of Mineral, Water Power and other Resources, 37
Quebec Development of Mineral. Water Power and other Resources, 37
*Quebec, Province of, to be Mapped Photographically from Aeroplanes, 91
 
*Queen's Engineering Works, Past and Present Students' Annual Dinner, 649
Quebec, Province of, to be Mapped Photographically from Aeroplanes, 91
*Queensland State Smelting of Silver-lead Ore, 499
 
Queen's Engineering Works, Past and Present Students’ Annual Dinner. 649
 
Queensland State Smelting of Silver-lead Ore, 499


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RADIO Apparatus—ftcc Wireless
*RADIO Apparatus--see Wireless
 
*RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
*- Accidents :
Accidents :
*-- Accidents of 1925, Annual Report, 335
Accidents of 1925, Annual Report, 335
*-- American Railway Trainmen's Reduced Fatalities, 197
 
*-- Automatic Stop and Fatal Railway Accident, 197
American Railway Trainmen s Reduced Fatalities. 197
*-- Automatic Train Control, Effect of its Absence in Serious Collision, 117
 
*-- Block Instrument Safeguard Against Accident, 471
Automatic Stop and Fatal Railway Accident, 197
*-- Breakdown Work on the Waterloo and City Tube Railway, 527
 
*-- Buffer Stop Collision at Brighton, Report, 90, 143
Automatic Train Control, Effect of its Absence in Serious Collision, 117
*-- Buffer Stop Collision with Empty Coaches at Bradford, 361
 
*-- Buffer Stop Collision Inquiry, 143, 553
Block Instrument Safeguard Against Accident, 471
*-- Buffer Stop Collision at Sligo, General Immunity from Accident of Irish Railways, 527 : Report on Accident, 637
 
*-- Collision at Bishop's Stortford During General Strike, Report on, 277
Breakdown Work on the Waterloo and City Tube Railway. 527
*-- Collision at Brentwood, 63 ; Report by Colonel Sir J. Pringle, 417
 
*-- Collision Between Express and Light Engine Outside Carlisle Station, 361  
Buffer Stop Collision at Brighton, Report, 90. 143
*-- Collision at Kidderminster, 717  
 
*-- Derailment of Train Due to Abnormal Heat and Other Causes, 249
Buffer Stop Collision with Empty Coaches at Bradford. 361
*-- Derailment, Fatal, of Train in Upper Bavaria, 197
 
*-- Derailment Near Helpston, 91
Buffer Stop Collision Inquiry, 143. 55'3
*-- Derailment by Strikers of Scottish Express, 37, 91 ; Report on Derailment, 142, 527  
 
*-- Derailment of Train Entering Waterloo Station, 197
Buffer Stop Collision at Sligo, General Immunity from Accident of Irish Railways, 527 : Report on Accident, 637
*-- Draw-bars Failures, Sir John Pringle's Report, 663
 
*-- Driver's Difficulty in Learning New Section of Road, 663
Collision at Bishop’s Stortford During General Strike, Report on, 277
*-- Fatal Accident to Signal Ganger and Mate and Result of Legal Appeal, 717
 
*-- Fatal Collision at Bethlehem, Penn., 389  
Collision at Brentwood, 63 ; Report by Colonel Sir J. Pringle, 417
*-- Fatal Collision During General Strike, Report on, 63
 
*-- Fatal Collision Between Melun and Montereau, 335, 361
Collision Between Express and Light Engine Outside Carlisle Station, 361 Collision at Kidderminster, 717 Derailment of Train Due to Abnormal Heat and Other Causes, 249
*-- Fatal Collision on Southern Railway, 553  
 
*-- Fatal Collision Between Train and Motor Road Vehicle, 609
Derailment, Fatal, of Train in Upper Bavaria. 197
*-- Fatal Collision and Verdict of Manslaughter, Melbourne Electrified Area, 249, 471
 
*-- Fiftieth Anniversary of Fatal Collision, 689  
Derailment Near Helpston, 91
*-- Fiftieth Anniversaries of Notable Accidents, 117, 171 ; (Letter), 170
 
*-- Fire in a Passenger Train, hut no Fatalities. 117
Derailment by Strikers of Scott ish Express, 37, 91 ; Report on Derailment, 142, 527 Derailment of Train Entering Waterloo Station, 197
*-- First Anniversary of Serious Collision, 249  
 
*-- Flood Damage to Viaduct on Former Furness Railway, 553
Draw-bars Failures, Sir John Pringle’s Report, 663
*-- Fog Collision on Tilbury Section of L.M.S. Railway, also Near Finsbury Park Station, 609, 637
 
*-- Forty-fifth Anniversary of Fatal Collision, 417
Driver’s Difficulty in Learning New Section of Road, 663
*-- French Derailment, Serious, 37
 
*-- French Fatal Railway Accident, 499
Fatal Accident to Signal Ganger and Mate and Result of Legal Appeal, 717
*-- Germany and Poland, Train Disaster the Result of Foul Play, 143
 
*-- German Railway Accidents, New Safety Device, 33
Fatal Collision at Bethlehem, Penn., 389 Fatal Collision During General Strike, Report on, 63
*-- Inquiries into Accidents to Railway Servants, 37
 
*-- Japan, Serious Derailment, 335
Fatal Collision Between Melun and Montereau, 335, 361
*-- Landslide Causes Fatal Derailment of Barcelona-Valencia Train, 277
 
*-- Level Crossing Accident to Cyclist, 443
Fatal Collision on Southern Railway, 553 Fatal Collision Between Train and Motor Road Vehicle, 609
*-- Level Crossing Disaster at Naworth, Worst Known in this Country, Inquest and Government Inquiry, 277, 307, 360, 637
 
*-- Night Train from Glasgow Out of Hand end Resulting Damage, 307
Fatal Collision and Verdict of Manslaughter, Melbourne Electrified Area, 249, 471
*-- Occupation Crossing Fatality on Liverpool- Southport Line, 179
 
*-- Passenger Train Delayed by "Defect" at Hackney Downs, L. and N.E.R. Station, 223
Fiftieth Anniversary of Fatal Collision, 689 Fiftieth Anniversaries of Notable Accidents. 117, 171 ; (Letter), 170
*-- Passenger Train Runs into Light Engine Outside Holbeck, 335
 
*-- Quarterly Returns of Railway Accidents for 1925, Analysis of, 249
Fire in a Passenger Train, hut no Fatalities. 117
*-- Railwaymen Sentenced for Displacing Rails During Strike near Stafford, 91
 
*-- Rawmarsh Accident Recalls Previous Fatalities, 581
First Anniversary of Serious Collision. 249 Flood Damage to Viaduct on Former Furness Rail wav. 553
*-- Rawmarsh Accident, Inquiry, 609, 637, 663  
 
*-- Report on Accident During General Strike in Edinburgh Tunnel, Escape of Gas and Advantage of Electric Lighting, 223  
Fog Collision on Tilbury Section of L.M.S. Railway, also Near Finsbury Park Station. 609. 637
*-- Report on Collision Near Manors Station, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 499
 
*-- Reports on Accidents to Railway Servants, 609
Forty-fifth Anniversary of Fatal Collision, 417
*-- Runaway Carriages Derailed Near Sowerby Bridge, 277
 
*-- Scalded Shunter and Vague Instructions, 307
French Derailment. Serious. 37
*-- Signal Difference of Opinion, 661
 
*-- Twentieth Anniversary of Fatal Accident to Scottish Express, 335
French Fatal Railway Accident. 499
*-- Twenty-one Deaths by Derailment, Wilfully Caused, in Germany, 249, 307
 
*RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
Germany and Poland, Train Disaster the Result of Foul Play, 143
*- Accidents (continued):
 
*-- Two Accidents, but No Fatalities, on the London and North-Eastern Railway, 689  
German Railway Accidents, New Safety Device, 33
*-- United States Inter-State Commerce Commission, Accident Bulletin, 11
 
*-- Water Gauges on Tenders to Avoid Risk to Enginemen, 609
Inquiries into Accidents to Railway Servants, 37
*- Air Lines and Railways, Co-operation and Not Competition, 443
 
*- American Railways' Big Compensation Bill for Personal Injuries, 553
Japan, Serious Derailment, 335
*- America's Largo Proportion of Unprotected Crossings, 663
 
*- Appointments and Staff Changes, 117, 197 223, 277, 359, 499, 527, 689, 715
Landslide Causes Fatal Derailment of Barcelona-Valencia Train, 277
*- Asphyxiation in Tunnel and Train Held Un, 425
 
*- Automatic Application of Continuous Brakes, Great Value of, Proved, 335
Level Crossing Accident to Cyclist, 443
*- Automatic Records of Block Signals, Unheeded Recommendation, 33
 
*- Automatic Signals and Train Control on Pennsylvania Railroad, 581
Level Crossing Disaster r.t Naworth, Worst Known in this Country, Inquest and Government Inquiry, 277, 307, 360. 637
*- Baker-street Connections, Thirty Additional Trains, 499
 
*- Belgium Railways, Like Germany, to Revert from State to Private Ownership, 11  
Night Train from Glasgow Out of Hand end Resulting Damage, 307
*-- Reduction in Number of Temporary Railway Servants, Regular Men Must Retire on Pension at Sixty Instead of Sixty- Five, 11
 
*- Bombay Director of Development Retired, 609
Occupation Crossing Fatality on Liverpool-Southport Line. 179
*- British Railways, Certain Exceptions to Strictly Private Ownership, 361
 
*- Buenos Aires Provincial Railway Systems, New Branches to be Constructed, 683
Passenger Train Delayed by " Defect at Hackney Downs, L. and N.E.R. Station, 223
*- Cable Tramways in Melbourne. Portion of, to be Converted to Electric Traction, 471
 
*- Calgary and Southern Railway, Construction of, About to Bogin, 277
Passenger Train Runs into Light Engine Outside Hol bock, 335
*- Canadian National Railways* Increased Revenue, 171, 527
 
*- Canadian National Railways* Outlay on Radio Service, 91
Quarterly Returns of Railway Accidents for 1925, Analysis of, 249
*- Census of Railway Employees, Decreased Number, 389, 471
 
*- Cheap Fares and Winter Train Service, 249
Railwaymen Sentenced for Displacing Rails During Strike near Stafford, 91
*- Chicago and Illinois Central Railroad Electrification, Rapid Work, 443
 
*- China's First Refrigerator Car, 581
Rawmarsh Accident Recalls Previous Fatalities, 581
*- China's Projected Provincial Railways, 581
 
*- Chinese Government Railways Finance, 527
Rawmarsh Accident. Inquiry, 609, 637. 663 Report on Accident During General Strike in Edinburgh Tunnel, Escape of Gas and Advantage of Electric Lighting, 223 Report on Collision Near Manors Station, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 499
*- City and South London Railway, Modern Lifts to Replace Old Ones, 91
 
*- Coal Consumption of Railways During Mines Stoppage, 91
Reports on Accidents to Railway Servants, 609
*- Coal Dispute Effects on Railway Services, 443  
 
*- Coal Price Increase and Railway Charges, 581  
Runaway Carriages Derailed Near Sowerby Bridge, 277
*- Colliery Lino to Cheapen Coal Transport, 609, 637
 
*- Colliery Wagon Railway Conversion to Light Railway, Order for, 223
Scalded Shunter and Vague Instructions, 307
*- Commonwealth Government's Road Scheme, 143
 
*- Consumption of Coal per Engine Mile, Comparison between Railways, 143
Signal Difference of Opinion. 601
*- Cost of Living Fallen and Reduction of Railwaymen's Pay, 11
 
*- Czechoslovakian Railway Electrification, Rapid Progress of Work, 307
'Twentieth Anniversary of Fatal Accident to Scottish Express, 335
*- Death of Mr. George L. Fowler, 143
 
*- Death of Mr. Francis Clarke Gamble, 637
Twenty-one Deaths by Derailment, Wilfully Caused, in Germany, 249, 307
*- Death of Mr. William Hood, 471
 
*- Death of Mr. H. E. Jones. 11
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
*- Death of Mr. W. H. Oates, 581
 
*- Death of Colonel C. W. P. Ramsey, 361
Accidents (continued):
*- Derwent Valley Railway Ceases Passenger Traffic, 171
 
*- Dividends and Depreciation Funds, 717
Two Accidents, but No Fatalities, on the London and North-Eastern Railway. 689 United States Inter-State Commerce Commission, Accident Bulletin, 11
*- East Indian Railway Lowers Passenger Fares, 637
 
*- East Indian Railway Trains Equipped with Side Lights, 581
Water Gauges on Tenders to Avoid Risk to Enginemon, 609
*- Edgware-road Reconstructed Station Opened, 499
 
*- Great Western Railway :
Air Lines and Railways, Co-operation and Not Competition, 443
*-- Cardiff Railway to be Converted to Single Line, 527
 
*-- Colwall Additional Tunnel, Progress, 63
American Railways’ Big Compensation Bill for Personal Injuries, 553
*-- Rennet and Avon Canal, Railway Wishes to Close, 527
 
*-- Oswestry and Question of Railway Works Enlargement, 307
America’s Largo Proportion of Unprotected Crossings. 663
*- Harwich-Zeebrugge Train Ferry, Successful Through Delivery of Goods between North of England and Italy or France, 335
 
*- Horses Used on Railway Work, Census, 63
Appointments and Staff Changes, 117, 197 223, 277, 359, 499, 527, 689. 715
*- Indian Railway Board, Annual Report for 1925-6, Statistical Section, 721
 
*- Indian Railways' Marked Improvements of Various Kinds, 471
Asphyxiation in Tunnel and Train Held Un, 425                                 H
*- Indian State Railways' Approximate Gross Earnings Compared with Previous Year, 609
 
*- Institutes and Institutions, Railway--see Associations
Automatic Application of Continuous Brakes, Great Value of, Proved. 335
*- Irish Railways' Immunity from Accident, 527
 
*- Italian Railway Electrification from Genoa Completed to Spezia, 499
Automatic Records of Block Signals, Unheeded Recommendation, 33
*- Kent Coalfield Wagon Owners and the Railway Company, 171
 
*- "Ladies' Lounge" Smoking Car, 389
Automatic Signals and Train Control on Pennsylvania Railroad, 581
*- Level Crossing Question, Another Phase, 443
 
*RAILWAYS AMD TRAMWAYS (continued):
Baker-street Connections, Thirty Additional Trains. 499
*- Lisbon to Cascaes Coast Railway Electrification, 223
 
*- Litter on Platforms and Track, Underground to Install Baskets for Collection, 689
Belgium Railways, Like Germany, to Revert from State to Private Ownership, 11 Reduction in Number of Temporary Railway Servants. Regular Men Must Retire on Pension at Sixty Instead of Sixty-Five, 11
*- Locking Bars, Facing Point, 277
 
*- Locomotive Appearance, American and British, 689
Birthday Honours
*- Locomotives, New Type, for Union Pacific Company, 91
 
*- London Electric Railways :
37
*-- London Electric Railways' Brochure, 389
 
*-- Morden Extension and Charing Cross and Kennington Tube, Opening Postponed by Strikes, 91
for Colonial Railwaymen,
*-- Date of Opening, 171
 
*-- Morden Extension and New Omnibus Services, 307
Bombay Director of Development Retired, 609
*-- Work in the Streets for Various Mains Delayed Opening of Morden Extension, 663
 
*- London, Midland and Scottish Railway :
British Railways. Certain Exceptions to Strictly Private Ownership, 361
*-- Burton and Ashby Light Railway Working at a Loss, Application to Cease Operations, 117
 
*-- Carriage and Wagon Works at Stoke-on- Trent to be Closed, 715
Buenos Aires Provincial Railway Systems, New Branches to be Constructed, 683
*-- Crewe Works, Visit by Locomotive Engineers, 207
 
*-- Glasgow Sunday Traffic, St. Enoch's Closed on Sundays, 307
Cable Tramways in Melbourne. Portion of, to be Converted to Electric Traction. 471
*-- Golders Green Station. Passenger Increase, 581
 
*-- Mixed Traffic Locomotives, 100 being Constructed, 249
Calgary and Southern Railway, Construction of, About to Bogin. 277
*-- Shoreditch Station. North London Section, Road Widening and Consequent Alterations to Station and Bridges, 249
 
*-- Staveley, Alterations on Former Midland Section, 335
Canadian National Railways* Increased Revenue. 171, 527
*-- Storm Damage on Central Wales Line, 111
 
*-- Trains Withdrawn to Reduce Expenses, 499
Canadian National Railways* Outlay on Radio Service. 91
*- London and North-Eastern Railway :
 
*-- Branch Railway for New Colliery, 443
Census of Railway Employees, Decreased Number. 389. 471
*-- Coast Erosion Involves New Line for Walton-on-the-Nazo Branch of Railway, 63
 
*-- Cost of Flying Junction at Stratford, 662
(’heap Fares and Winter Train Service, 249
*-- Flushing Boats to Sail from Harwich Instead of from Folkestone, 715
 
*-- Hanging Buffers for Wagons. Disadvantage of, £500 Prize Offered not yet Won. 9 ; Further Rewards for Designs Offered, 91
Chicago and Illinois Central Railroad Electrification. Rapid Work, 443
*-- King's Cross New Platform, 389
 
*-- King's Cross to York Non-stop Rapid Run, 307
China's First Refrigerator Car. 581
*-- Lightning and Fire Destruction of Signal Box near Leeds, 117
 
*-- No Powers Sought at Present, 663
China’s Projected Provincial Railways, 581
*-- Re-signalling of Cambridge Station, a Correction, 689
 
*-- Signal Boxes, Reduction of, and Resulting Economy, 527
Chinese Government Railways Finance, 527
*-- Signals, Automatic Three-aspect Day- Colour Light Projected, 249
 
*-- Stores Department Reorganised, 143
City and South London Railway, Modern
*-- Trains Withdrawn to Reduce Expenses, 527 : Plans for Withdrawal Cancelled, 637
 
*-- Welwyn Garden City Station Opened, 389
Lift.-rto Replace Old Ones, 91
*- Lubricating Oil Consumption per Engine Mile, Comparison of Different Main Lines, 223
 
*- Melbourne Area Railway Electrification, Results, 389
Coal Consumption of Railways During Mines Stoppage, 91
*- Melbourne Suburban Railways. Huge Cost of Conversion to Electric Traction, 581
 
*- Melbourne Suburban Railways, Increased Revenue, 63
Coal Dispute Effects on Railway Services, 443 Coal Price Increase and Railway Charges, 581 Colliery Lino to Cheapen Coal Transport, 609,
*- Metropolitan District Railway, Hounslow Brunch, Double Tracked, 663
 
*- Metropolitan Railway Bill fur Tube between Willesdcn Green and Edgware-road, Passed Committee Stage, 11
Colliery Wagon Railway Conversion to Light
*- Ministry of Transport
 
*-- Coal Stoppage mid Serious Results on Railway's, 416
Railway, Order for, 223
*-- Coal Transport by Railway, Mr. J. H. Thomas Appointed to Committee of Inquiry, 361, 609
 
*-- London Traffic Inquiry as to South-East London, 197
Commonwealth Government’s Road Scheme, 143
*-- Manchester - Middleton Heywood Light Railway Sanctioned, but with Conditions, 248
 
*-- Privately Owned Wagons and Either-side Brakes, 197
Consumption of Coal per Engine Mile, Comparison between Railways, 143
*-- Railway Statistics for February, 1926, 11
 
*-- Railway Statistics for March, 1926, 99
Cost of Living Fallen and Reduction of Railwaymen’s Pay, 11
*-- Railway Statistics for April, 1926, 143
*-- Railway Statistics for May, 1926, 223, 235
*-- Railway Statistics for July, 1926. 443
*-- Railway Statistics for August, 1926, 553
*-- Railway Statistics for September, 1926, 663
*-- Reports to Minister on Travelling Facilities to and from North and North-East London and East London, 637
*-- Tramways and Railway Competition, Appeal to the Ministry for Legislation in Favour of Tramways, 11
*-- Travelling Facilities in North London Reported on, Report on East London Awaited, 63
*-- Underground Tunnel to Connect Piccadilly and City Line Tubes, 335, 417
*- National Union of Railwaymen
*-- Analysis of Members us Guardians, Councillors, andc., 63
*-- Repetition of Railway Centenary Demonstration, 361
*- New South Wales Railways, Progress of Work on Cuttings for Kyogle Railway, 609
*- New South Wales, Survey for Railway, Moss Vale-Port Kembla, 11
*- New York Central Railroad Celebrates Centenary of Charter for Mohawk and Hudson Railway, 11
*- New Zealand, Railway Workshops in, 103
*- Paris and Orleans Trains Hauled by Electric Locomotives for First Time, 417
*- Parliamentary Notices as to Railway Bills for Next Session, Paucity of, 609
*RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
*- Pay and Salary, House of Lords Differentiation, 11
*- Peru, Deviation of Central Railway to Avoid Flood Damage, 335
*- Piccadilly Road Traffic, Control by Railway Signals, 443
*- Post-office Vehicles in France, 443
*- Presentation of Veteran Engine-drivers to the King, 417
*- Queen of Roumania's Free Travel in the United States, 527
*- Rail Joint, New Type Successful, 527
*- Railway Companies' Power to Increase Rates, Test Case in Chancery, 63, 117, 527
*- Railway Finance and the Industrial Situation Before and After April 1926, to end of July, 171
*- Railway Lines and Widenings, Extensive Additions Authorised, 389
*- Railway Material Exports Statistics, 117, 171, 307, 389, 553
*- Railwaymen's Day, Proposed Pageant, 91
*- Railway Rates Tribunal
*-- Complaints of New Schedule Kates Regarding Private Wagons of Coalowners on Southern Railway, 11
*-- Rates Raising Permitted by Law, 689
*-- Standard Charges Consideration Resumed, 417
*-- Test Case in the Court of Appeal, 63, 117, 527
*- Railway Returns, Miscellaneous Information and Comparisons between Railways, 143
*- Railway Returns for 1925, Only Five Passenger-carrying Vehicles Built or Bought without Electric Lighting, 443
*- Reduction of Staff and the General Strike, Sir Ralph Wedgwood's View, 443
*- "Retarders" for Checking Speed of Wagons, 36
*- Retirement anti Previous Services of Mr. Thomas Carlton, 37
*- Road Motors' Competition with Railways, Sir Ralph Wedgewood's Views, 471
*- Shopmen Question, Probability of Settlement, 63, 663
*- Shopmen Question Settlement Rejected, 277
*- Signals, Automatic, Three-aspect Day Colour Light to be Used between Capo Town and Wynborg, 171
*- Signals, Day Colour Light to be Used on 800 Miles of an American Railway, 171
*- Sao Paulo New Station, 499
*- Solway Viaduct and Risk of Railway Accident, 197
*- South London, Transit Conditions in, 579
*- Southern India Railway Development. Discussion, 609
*- Southern Railway :
*-- Bill of Southern Railway Read a Third Time, 11
*-- Cannon-street Station Reopened, Cannonstreet and Charing Cross Platforms Renumbered, 11
*-- Electrical Equipment on the Southern Railway, Changes to be Made, 171, 581, 609
*-- Ferry Service at Lymington and Neglected Dredging, 553
*-- Further Electrification on the Southern Railway, 581, 609
*-- Great Eastern Railway's Previous Reforms, Comparison between Electric and Steam Services, Mr. R. Bell, 171
*-- Improvements on the Southern Railway, Foggy Weather Arrangements, 471
*-- Leatherhead Junction Towards Guildford, Projected Closing of Present Station, 417
*-- Omnibus Station at Victoria, Starting Signal Arrangements, 63
*-- Ramsgate and Margate New Lines and Connections, 37
*-- Reopening of Electrical Services on South London Line, 361
*- Summer Services and Coal Shortage, 37
*- Thames Bridges, Suggested Conversion to Road Bridges and Serious Objections Thereto, 471
*- Ticket and Change-giving Machines, 581
*- Track Circuits and Length Requirements,37
*- Tramcars on Single Tracks Controlled during Fogs by Old Wooden Staff System, 277
*- Trans-Australian Train, Suggestion of Third Rail to Obviate the Difficulty of Difference in Gauge, 91
*- Travelling Facilities of Certain London Boroughs, Public Inquiry, 277
*- Trinidad Railways' Deficit, Select Committee's Recommendation, 717
*- Tube Railways and Electric Lighting Improvements, 63
*- Underground, Escalators and Lifts on the, 581
*- Underground Expenses Leave 5 per cent, for Dividends and Reserves, 117
*- Underground Railway Tunnel to Connect Piccadilly and City Line Tubes, Not for Use of Public, 335, 417
*- Underground Railways of London, Density of Traffic and Time-saving, 143
*- Underground Suggestion Scheme, Useful Results, 223
*- Unemployment and Short Time on the Railways since the General Strike, J. H. Thomas, 443
*- United States Centenary of First Railway Opening, 553
*- Unusual Case Consequent on Smoke from Fire on Railway Bank, 637
*- Wages Boards Exchanged for New Scheme in U.S.A., 197
*- Wagon Scarcity Difficulties, 662
*- Wagons, Privately Owned, Analysis, 389
*- Wimbledon Station Reconstruction, 10
*- Winter Train Service, Few Changes, 335
*- Workmen's Train Grievances and Fares, 249
*- Rotary Converters, 2000-Kilowatt, for Mansion House Underground Sub-station, 223
*RAINFALL Beats All Records in Saskatchewan, 171
*Rainfall Record of Now York Broken, 277
*Rand Mines, Misfire Accidents Increase, 499
*Raw Rubber from Native Sources, South Africa, 249
*Reclamation Work on Foreshore at Port Elizabeth, 637
*Refrigerating Apparatus for Household Use, Two New Inventions, 663
*Re-heat Treatment of Carbon Steel Gas Cylinders, Recommendation of Committee, 171
*Remarkable Record, 393
*Resin, Synthetic, with Certain Glass Characteristics, Discovered by Dr. Pollak, 663
*Retort Plant, Tasmania, Result of Weeks' Trial Run, 91
*Road Construction in British Columbia, Three Years' Programme, 609
*Road Traffic of Piccadilly, Colour Light Signals, 91
*Road Transport in the Future, A. Baker, 307
*Rome, Underground Transport for, Planned by Government, 553
*Roumanian Government, Annual Orders for Rolling Stock at Bukarcst, Works, 277
*Royal Metal Trades Pension and Benevolent Society, 207
*Rubber Curing, Suggested Use of Paranitrophenal, 91
*Rubber Manufacture by New Process in America, 499
*Rubber Purchase by Manufacturers for the Current Year, Estimate of, 689
*Rubber Tire Factory for H uge Output Projected for Sydney, Australia, 715
*Ruling Pens, Care of, 171


Czechoslovakian Railway Electrification.
S
 
*SAFETY Measurements for Planks to Support Men at Work, 715
Rapid Progress of Work, 307
*Safety in Mines Research Board, 103
 
*St. Lawrence. New North Channel, to be Opened During High Water Season, 1927, 249
Death of Mr. George L. Fowler, 143
*Salt Wells at McMurray, Alberta, Successful Mining, 37
 
*Salt Works for Sea Water Evaporation Under Construction in Queensland, 171
Death of Mr. Francis Clarke Gamble, 637
*Sands, Bituminous, Analysis and Experiments on, 581
 
*Sao Paulo Hydraulic Works, 397
Death of Mr. William Hood, 471
*Scholarships, Research, Offer by Rockefeller Institute and Commonwealth Institute, 63
 
*Science Museum, Lecture Tour Arrangements, 649
Death of Mr. H. E. Jones. 11
*Scientific Discovery, Apparatus Used for, and Possibility of Securing for the Nation, 117
 
*Scottish Engineering Works Sold and Altered for Production of Artificial Silk, 249
Death of Mr. W. H. Oates, 581
*Sewage Works, Sludge Beds Covered by Glass, Increased Capacity as Result, 117
 
*Sewerage Scheme at Oruro, Bolivia, and Canal to Connect, with River. Both Contracts Secured by this Country, 689
Death of Colonel C. W. P. Ramsey, 361
*Shale--see also Oil
 
*Shale Oil in Tasmania, Geological Calculations of Very Large Deposits, 689
Derwent Valley Railway Ceases Passenger
*Shanghai Arsenal to Become a Limited Company, 443
 
*Shanghai, Motor Cars, 55 Per Cent, of American Make, 277
Traffic. 171
*Shanghai, New Plant of Chapei Electricity and Waterworks Company, 443
 
*Shanghai, Suggested Conversion of Kiangnan Arsenal into a Factory, 91
Dividends and Depreciation Funds, 717
*Shawinigan Water anti Power Company's New Power Station, 527
 
*Shed, Very Large Area, Proposed Construction on the Mersey, 581
East Indian Railway Lowers Passenger Fares, 637
*Sheffield Town Planning, 389
 
*SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS
East Indian Railway Trains Equipped with Side Lights. 581
*- British Submarine Depot Ship, 311
 
*- Canadian Pacific Cargo Ships, Three New, 21
Edgware-road Reconstructed Station Opened, 499
*- Cargo Steamers' Cost at Greenock, 499
 
*- China's Foreign Trade, Japanese and British Ships as Principal Carriers, 315
Egyptian State Railways, Narrow-gauge Portion to bo Converted to Standard Gauge. 471 ; Completion and Results of Conversion, 637
*- Cunard Liner Berengaria Running with Repaired Rudder During Manufacture of New One, 277
 
*- Cunarder Mauretania, 12.5 Days' Performance, 223
Eightieth Anniversary of Opening of Lancaster and Carlisle Section of Railway, 361
*- Diesel-electric Tugs, Very Large. Used on Panama Canal, 689
 
*- Electric Passenger Ship, Largest Commercial Craft Built in U.S.A., 197
Eightieth Anniversary of Railway Section Opening. 389
*- Finland's Projected Submarine Flotilla, 307
 
*- Forty Vessels with Electric Motors Connected to the Screw Shafts, 223
Electrical Power Houses on London Railways, .Advance of Wages no Longer Justified, 91
*- French Cruiser Tourville Launched, 223
 
*- German Trade Ship Vatcrland Said to be Largest in the World. 171
Estonian Oil Shale as Railway Fuel, 663
*- Germany's Commercial Fleet, Decline and Rebuilding, 527
 
*- H.M.S. Ajax and H.M.S. King George V. to be Broken Up at Rosyth, 689
Exceptional Rates and Power of Companies, .Judge's Decision, 117
*- Italian Government's Subsidy Assist once to Shipbuilding, 663
 
*- Japanese Steamship in the Scheldt, Failure of Salvage Operations, 37
Financial and Other Railway Statistics for 1925, 121
*- Large Electric Passenger Ship, The First Keel Laid at Newport News, Virginia, 223
 
*- Largest Fresh Water Cargo Ship, 307
Fireman's Accidental Electrocution, 412
*- Lightship, Very Up-to-date, for Mouth of Rangoon River, 91
 
*- Motor Lifeboat, New, at Plymouth, 62
First-aid Equipment Carried by Passenger Trains, 7 I 7
*- Motor Vessel for New Zealand Government, 319
 
*- Navigation Light, Unattended Flashlight, 143
First and Third-class Compartments, Com-parison of Numbersand Revenue, 143
*- New Submarine Oberon, Trial of, 335
 
*- Norwegian Mercantile Fleet, 63
Foreign Coal and Railway Difficulties, 663
*- Oil-carrying Vessels, Board of Trade Warnings as to Suitable Precautions, 307
 
*- Poland Start ing a Mercantile Fleet, 527
Great Western Railway :
*- Raising United States Submarine, Difficulties Overcome by Nozzle Invention, 197
 
*- Record Ship Coaling at Svdney, Nova Scotia, 91
Cardiff Railway to be Converted to Single Line, 527
*- Regulations for Elect rival Equipment of, 235
 
*- Shifting Cargoes, Special Parking for Zinc Concentrates, 37
Cblwall Additional Tunnel, Progress, 63 Rennet and Avon Canal, Railway Wishes to Close, 527
*- Shipbuilding Employers and Trade Unions, Meeting, 609
 
*- Shipping on the Clyde and on the Tyne, Decreased Output, 143
Oswestry and Question of Railway Works Enlargement, 307
*- Ships Guided to Harbour, However Thick the Fog, Special Device Employed, 316
 
*- Singapore Harbour, Greatly Increased Traffic, 663
Harwich-Zeebruggo Train Ferry. Successful '1'hrough Delivery of Goods between North of England and Italy or France, 335
*- Submarines Two Large, Launched, for Australia, 37
 
*- The Egypt, Salvage of, Suspended for the Winter, 361
Horses Used on Railway Work, Census, 63
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued) :
 
*- Train Ferry for Kootenay Luke, British Columbia. 58ft
Indian Railway Board, Annual Report for 1925-6, Statistical Section, 721
*- Wireless Daily Communication Over 11,000 Milea by Australian Liner, 521
 
*- Yangtze River, Great, Increase in Steam and Motor Navigation on, 715
Indian Railways' Marked Improvements of Various Kinds, 471
*SILTING Up of Bengal River, 197
 
*Singapore Naval Base, Satisfactory Progress of Work, 117
Indian State Railways’ Approximate Gross Earnings Compared with Previous Year. 609
*Slide Rule, Commercial, John Davis and Son, (Derby), Ltd., 577
 
*Slovakia, Eastern, Proposed Electric Supply for, by Hydro-electric Station, 389
Institutes and Institutions, Railway—sec Associations
*Smoke Abatement Lead, Need of Educative Propaganda, 417
 
*Soap Factory Erection at North Wall, Dublin, 205
Irish Railways' Immunity from Accident, 527
*Soap Works at Irlam, New Section Opened, 171
 
*Soda Recovery Plant at Magadi, East Africa, to be Re-started, 249
Italian Railway Electrification from Genoa Completed to Spezia, 499
*Sodium Sulphate Production from Alkaline Lakes in Saskatchewan, 63
 
*Spain and Portugal, Time Limit for Resumption for Negotiations as to Harnessing Douro Falls, 197
Kent Coalfield Wagon Owners and the Railway Company, 171
*Spare Parts for Machines Already Sold, 117
 
*Specialised Information in Great Britain and Ireland, Directory of Sources of, 11
Ladies’ Lounge " Smoking Car, 389
*Spiers, Frederick S., Memorial, 75
 
*Stains from Contact between Marble and Steel Work, Remedy for, 471
Level Crossing Question, Another Phase, 443
*Steam Accumulator Storing 10,000 lb., 581
 
*Steam Engine and Boiler to Replace Oil Engines in Power Station at Burghersdorp, South Africa, 715
RAILWAYS AMD TRAMWAYS {continued):
*Steam Pipe, Flexible, Explosion,Official Report, 689
 
*Steam Turbine in Trinidad, Special Features of Construction, 143
Lisbon to Cuscaes Coast Railway Electrification, 223
*Steamers on Upper Yangtse River, Great Increase in Number of, 117
 
*Steel--see Iron and Steel
Litter on Platform* and Track, Underground to Install Baskets for Collection, 689
*Suez Canal Traffic and British Coal Working Stoppage, 527
 
*Sugar Beet Factory at Bassano. Alberta, 663
Locking Bars, Facing Point, 277
*Sugar Beet Factory near Selby, 581
 
*Sugar Beet Factory, Spalding, to Begin Operations, 249
Locomotive Appearance, American and
*Sugar Beet Factory, near Wellington, Shropshire, Date for Completion, 714
 
*Sugar Beet in Manitoba, Results from Experimental Growing, 443
British, 689
*Sugar Cane, Factory at Luabo, 352, 378, 390 (Two-page Supplement, October 1st, 1926)
 
*Sugar Cane, Machine for Harvesting, 581
Locomotives. New Type, for Union Pacific
*Sulphur has no Disadvantages in Diesel Fuel, 417
 
*Sulphur Mines in Sicily, Cont nut Signed for Electrification of all Services Connected Therewith, 63
Company, 91
*Sulphuric Acid Factory to be Put Up in China, 471
 
*Sunlight Rays under Water Imitation of, to Check Anchor Ice Formation, 663
London Electric Railways
*Surface Finishes, New Testing Inspection Machine, 637
Ixmdon Electric Railways’ Brochure. 389 Morden Extension and Charing Cross and
*Survey of India, Complete Reorganisation of, into Five Circles, 277
 
*Swedish Standard Type of Cheap Passenger Motor Cars, 197
Kennington Tube, Opening Postponed by Strikes, 91
*Swedish Trade Reports Shipbuilding Industry Improved but Iron Industry Still Depressed, 361
 
*Sydney, Australia, and Maitland, New Carrier Wave Telephone Service, 91
Date of Opening. 171
*Synchronous Condensers, Largest Yet Built for Southern Californian Company, 335
 
*Synthetic Ammonia Works of Large Capacity Projected in Japan, 417
Morden Extension and New Omnibus Services, 307
*Synthetic Rubber, Reported Progress in Manufacture of, by German Dye Trust, 343
 
Work in the Streets for Various Mains Delayed Opening of Morden Extension, 663
 
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
 
Burton and Ashby Light Railway Working at a Loss. Application to Cease Operations, 117
 
Carriage and Wagon Works nt Stoke-on-Trent to be Closed, 715
 
Crowe Works, Visit by Locomotive Engineers, 207
 
Glasgow* Sunday Traffic. St. Enoch s Closed on Sundays, 307
 
Golders Green Station. Passenger Increase. 581
 
Mixed Traffic Locomotives, 100 being Constructed, 249
 
.Shoreditch Station. North London Section.
 
Road Widening and Consequent Alterations to Station and Bridges, 249
 
Staveley, Alterations on Former Midland Section, 335
 
Storm Damage on Central Wtdcs Line, 1 1 •
 
Trams Withdrawn to Reduce Expense*.
 
499
 
London and North-Eastern Railway :
 
Branch Railway for New Colliery, 443
 
Coast Erosion Involves New Line for Walton-on-the-Nazo Branch of Railway, 63
 
Cost of Flying Junction at Stratford, 662
 
Flushing Boat* to Sail from Harwich Instead of from Folkestone, 715
 
Hanging Buffers for Wagons. Disadvantage of, £500 Prize Offered not. yet Won. 9 ; Further Rewards for Dcsigns'Offcred, 91
 
King’s Cross New Platform, 389
 
King's Cross to York Non-stop Rapid Run, 307
 
Lightning and Fire Destruction of Signal Box near Leeds, 117
 
No Powers Sought at Present, 663
 
Re-signalling of Cambridge Station, a Correction, 689
 
Signal Boxes, Reduction of. and Resulting Economy, 527
 
Signals, Automatic Three-aspect Day-Colour Light Projected, 249
 
Stores Department Reorganised. 143
 
Trains Withdrawn to Reduce Expenses.
 
527 : Plans for Withdrawal Cancelled, 637
 
Welwyn Garden City Station Opened, 389
 
Lubricating Oil Consumption per Engine Mile, Comparison of Different Main Lines, 223
 
Melbourne Area Railway Electrification, Results, 389
 
Melbourne Suburban Railways. Huge Cost of Conversion to Electric Traction, 581
 
Melbourne Suburban Railways, Increased
 
Revenue, 63
 
Metropolitan District Railway. Hounslow Brunch, Double Triwked. 663
 
Metropolitan Railway Bill fur Tube between Willcsdcn Green and Edgware-road, Passed Committee Stage. 11
 
Ministry of Transport
Coal Stoppage mid Serious Results on Railway's, 416
 
Coal Transport by Railway, Mr. J. H.
 
Thomas Appointed to Committee uf Inquiry. 361, 609
 
London Traffic Inquiry as to South-East London, 197                      .
 
Manchester - Middleton Heywood Light Railway Sanctioned, but with Conditions, 248
 
Privately Owned Wagons ami Eithcr-side Brakes. 197
 
Railway Statistics for February, 1926. 11
 
Railway Statistics for March, 1926, 99
 
Railway Statistics for April, 1926, 143
 
Railway Statistics for May, 1926, 223, 235
 
Railway Statistics for July, 1926. 443 .
 
Railway Statistics for August, 1926, 553
 
Railway Statistics for September, 1926, 663
 
Reports to Minister on Travelling Facilities to and from North and North-East London and East London, 637
 
Tramways and Railway Competition.
 
Appeal to the Ministry for Legislation in Favour of Tramways, 11
 
Travelling Facilities in North London Reported on. Report on East London Awaited, 63
 
Underground Tunnel to Connect PicciMlilly and City Line Tubes. 335. 117
 
National Union of Railwaymen
Analysis of Members us Guardian*, Conn-ci11ors, Ac.. 63
 
Repetition of Railway Ccnlvnary Demonstration, 361
 
New South Wales Railways, Progress of Work on Cuttings for Kyogle Railway. 609 New South Wales, Survey for Railway, Moss Vale-Port Kembla, 11
 
New York Central Railroad Celebrates Centenary of Charter for Mohawk and Hudson Railway, 11
 
New Zealand, Railway Workshops in. 1U3 Paris and Orleans Trains Hauled by Electric
 
Locomotives for First Time, 417
 
Parliamentary Notices as to Railway Bills for Next Session, Paucity of, 609
 
RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
 
Pay and Salary, House of Lords Differentiation, 11
 
Peru, Deviation of Central Kailway to Avoid Flood Damage, 335
 
Piccadilly Road Traffic. Control by Kail way Signals, 443
 
Post-office Vehicles in France, 443
 
Presentation of Veteran Engine-drivers to the King, 417                    *
 
Queen of Rtnunania’s Free Travel in the United States, 527
 
Kail Joint, New Type Successful, 527
 
Railway Companies’ Power to Increase Rates, Test Case in Chancery, 63, 117, 527
 
Railway Finance and the Industrial Situation Before and After April 1926, to end of July, 171
 
Railway Lines and Widenings, Extensive Additions Authorised, 389
 
Railway Material Exports Statistics, 117. 171, ‘307. 389. 553
 
Railwaymen’s Day, Proposed Pageant, 91
 
Railway Rates Tribunal
Complaints of New Schedule Kates Regarding Private Wagons of Coalowncrs on Southern Railway. 11
 
Rates Raising Permitted by Luu. 689
 
Standard Charges Consideration Resumed.
 
417
 
Test Case in the Court of Appeal, 63. 1 17.
 
527
 
Railway Returns, Miscellaneous Information and Comparisons between Railways, 143
 
Railway Returns for 1925, Only Five Passenger-carrying Vehicles Built or Bought without Electric Lighting, 443
 
Reduction of Staff and the General Strike, Sir Ralph Wedgwood’s View, 443
 
” Retarders ’’for Checking Speed of Wagons, 36
 
Retirement anti Previous Services of Mr. Thomas Carlton, 37
 
Road Motors’ Competition with Railways, Sir Ralph Wedgewood’s Views, 471
 
Shopmen Question, Probability of Settlement, 63. 663
 
Shopmen Question Settlement Rejected, 277 Signals, Automatic, Three-aspect Day Colour Light to be Used between Capo Town und Wynborg, 171
 
Signals, Day Colour Light to be Used on 800 Miles of an American Railway. 171
 
Sao Paulo New Station. 499
 
Solway Viaduct and Risk of Railway Accident. 197
 
South London, Transit Conditions in, 579
 
Southern India Railway Development. Dis-cushion, 609
 
Southern Railway :
Bill of Southern Railway Read a Third Time, 11
 
Cannon-street Station Reopened. Cannonstreet and Charing Cross Platforms Renumbered. 11
 
Electrical Equipment on the Southern Railway, Changes to be Made, 171, 581, 609
 
Ferry Service at Lyrnington ami Neglected Dredging, 553
 
Further Electrification on the Southern Railway. 581, 609
 
Great Eastern Railway’ll Previous Reforms, Comparison between Electric and Steam Services, Mr. R. Bell, 171
 
Improvements on the Southern Railway, Foggy Weather Arrangements, 47 1
 
Leatherhead Junction Towards Guildford, Projected Closing of Present Station, 417 Omnibus Station at. Victoria, Starting Signal Arrangements. 63
 
Ramsgate and Margate New Lincs und Connections. 37
 
Reopening of Electrical Services on South London Line, 361
 
Summer Services and Coal Shortage, 37
 
Thames Bridges, Suggested Conversion to Road Bridges and Serious Objections Thereto, 471
 
Ticket and Change-giving Machines, 581
 
Track Circuits and Length Requirements. 37 Tramcars on Single Trucks Controlled during
 
Fogs by Old Wooden Stuff System, 277 Trans-Australiun Train. Suggestion of Third
 
Rail to Obviate the Difficulty of Difference in Gauge, 91
 
Travelling Facilities of Certain London Boroughs, Public Inquiry, 277
 
Trinidad Railways’ Deficit. Select Committee’s Recommendation, 717
 
Tube Railways and Electric Lighting Improvements, 63
 
Underground. Escalators and Lifts on the. 581
 
Underground Expenses Leave 5 per cent, for Dividends and Reserves, 117
 
Underground Railway Tunnel to Connect Piccadilly and City Line Tubes, Not for Use of Public. 335, 417
 
Underground Railways of London. Density of Traffic and Time-saving, 143
 
Underground Suggestion Scheme, Useful Results, 223
 
Unemployment and Short Time on the Railways since the General Strike, J. H. Thomas, 443
 
United States Centenary of First Railway Opening. 553
 
Unusual Caso Consequent on Smoko from Fire on Railway Bank. 637
 
Wages Boards Exchanged for Neu Scheme «n U.S.A., 197
 
Wagon Scarcity Difficulties. 662
 
Wagons. Privately Owned, Analysis. 389 Wimbledon Station Reconstruction, l<» Winter Train Service, Few Changes, 335 Workmen’s Train Grievances und Fares. 249 Rotary Converters, 2000-Kilowatt, for Man
 
sion House Underground Sub-station, 223 RAINFALL Beats All Records in Saskatchewan. 171
 
Rainfall Record of Now York Broken, 277
 
Rand Mines, Misfire Accidents Increase, 499 Raw Rubber from Native Sources, South
 
Africa, 249
 
Reclamation Work on Foreshore ut Port Elizabeth. 637
 
Refrigerating Apparatus for Household Use, Two New Inventions, 663
 
Rc-heat Treatment of Carbon .Steel Gas Cylinders, Recommendation* of Committee, 171
 
Remarkable Record, 393
 
Resin, Synthetic, with Certain Glass Characteristics, Discovered by Dr. Pollak, 663
 
Retort Plant, Tasmania, Result of Weeks* Trial Run, 91
 
Road Construction in British Columbia, Three Years’ Programme, 609
 
Road Traffic of Piccadilly, Colour Light Signals, 91
 
Road Transport in the Future, A. Baker, 307
 
Rome, Underground Transport for, Planned by Government , 553
 
Roumanian Government, Annual Orders for Rolling Stock at Bukarcst, Works, 277
 
Royal Metal Trades Pension and Benevolent Society, 207
 
Rubber Curing. Suggested Use of Paranitro-phunal, 91
 
Rubber Manufacture by New Process in America. 499
 
Rubber Purchase by Manufacturers for the Current Year. Estimate of. 689
 
Rubber Tire Factory for H uge Output Projected for Sydney, Australia, 715
 
Ruling Pens, Care of, 171
 
s
SAFETY Measurements for Planks to Support Men at Work, 715
 
Safety in Mines Research Board, 103
 
St. Lawrence. New North Channel, to be Opened During High Water Season, 1927, 249
 
Salt Wells at McMurray, Alberta, Successful Mining, 37
 
Sult Works for Sea Water Evaporation Under Construction in Queensland. 171
 
Sands. Bituminous, Analysis and Experiments on, 581
 
Sao Paulo Hydraulic Works, 397
 
Scholarships, Research, Offer by Rockefeller Institute and Commonwealth Institute, 63 Science Museum, Lecture Tour Arrangements, 649
 
Scientific Discovery. Apparatus Used for, and Possibility of Securing for the Nation, 117
 
Scottish Engineering Works Sold ami Altered for Production of Artificial Silk. 249
 
Sewage Works, Sludge Beds Covered by Glass, Increased Capacity as Result, 117
 
Sewerage Scheme at Oruro, Bolivia, and Canal to Connect, with River. Both Contracts Secured by this Country. 689
 
Shale—see also Oil
 
Shale Oil in Tasmania. Geological Calculations of Very Large Deposits. 689
 
Shanghai Arsenal to Become a Limited Company, 443
 
Shanghai, Motor Cars, 55 Per Cent, of American Make, 277
 
Shanghai, New Plant of Chapei Electricity and Waterworks Company, 443
 
Shanghai, Suggested Conversion of Kiangnan Arsenal into a Factory, 91
 
Shawinigan Water anti Power Company’s New Power Station, 527
 
Shed, Very Large Area, Proposed Construction on the Mersey, 581
 
Sheffield Town Planning, 389
 
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS
Brit ish Submarine Depot Ship. 31 I
 
Canadian Pacific Cargo Ships. Tliroo New, 21 Cargo Steamers’ Cost at Greenock. 499 China’s Foreign Trade, Japanese and British
 
Ships as Principal Carriers, 315
 
Cunard Liner Bercngaria Running with Repaired Rudder During Manufacture of New One, 277
 
Cunarder Mauretania. 12£ Days* Performance, 223
 
Diesel-electric Tugs. Very Large. Used on Panama Canal, 689
 
Electric Passenger Ship, Largest Commercial Craft Built in U.S.A.. 197
 
Finland's Projected Submarine Flotilla. 307
 
Forty Vessels with Electric Motors Connected to the Screw Shafts. 223
 
French Cruiser Tourville Launched, 223
 
German Trade Ship Vatcrland Said to be Largest in the World. 171
 
Germany's Commercial Fleet, Decline and Rebuilding, 527
 
H.M.S. Ajax and H.M.S. King George V. to be Broken Up at Rosyth, 689
 
Italian Government's Subsidy Assist once to Shipbuilding, 663
 
Japanese Steamship in the Scheldt, Failure of Salvage Operations, 37
 
Large Electric Passenger Ship, The First Keel Laid at Newport News, Virginia, 223
 
Largest Fresh Water Cargo Ship, 307
 
Lightship, Very Up-to-date, for Mouth of Rangoon River, 91
 
Motor Lifeboat, New, at Plymouth, 62
 
Motor Vessel for New Zealand Government, 319
 
Navigation Light, Unattended Flashlight, 143
 
Now Submarine Oberon, Trial of, 335
 
Norwegian Mercantile Fleet, 63
 
Oil-carrying Vessels, Board of Trade Warnings as to Suitable Precautions, 307
 
Poland Start ing a Mercantile Fleet. 527
 
Raising United States Submarine. Difficulties Overcome by Nozzle Invention, 197
 
Record Ship Coaling at Svdney. Nova Scotia, 91
 
Regulations for Elect rival Equipment of, 235
 
Shifting Cargoes. Special Parking for Zinc Concentrates, 37
 
Shipbuilding Employers and Trade Coions, Meeting, 609
 
Shipping on the Clyde and on the Tyne, Decreased Output, 143
 
Ships Guided to Harbour, However Thick the Fog, Special Device Employed, 316
 
Singapore Harbour, Greatly Increased Traffic, 663
 
Submarines Two Large, Launched, for Australia,,37
 
The Egypt. Salvage of, Suspended for the Winter, 361
 
SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued}:
Train Ferry for Kootenay Luke, British Columbia. 58ft
 
Wireless Daily Communication Over 11,000 Mi lea by Australian Liner, 521
 
Yangtze River, Great. Increase in Steam und Motor Navigation on, 715
 
SILTING Up of Bengal River, 197
 
Singapore Naval Base, Satisfactory Progress of Work, 117
 
Slide Rule, Commercial. John Davis and Son, (Derby). Ltd., 577
 
Slovakia, Eastern, Proposed Electric Supply for, by Hydro-electric Station, 389
 
Smoke Abatement Lead, Need of Educative Propaganda. 417
 
Soap Factory Erection at North Wall, Dublin, 205
 
Soap Works nt Irlam, New Section Opened, 171
 
Soda Recovery Plant at Magadi, East Africa, to be Re-startcd, 249
 
Sodium Sulphate Production from Alkaline Lakes in Saskatchewan, 63
 
Spain and Portugal, Time Limit for Resumption for Negotiat ions as to Harnessing Douro Falls, 197
 
Spare Parts for MaehinesAlrcady Sold, 117
 
Specialised Information in Great Britain and Ireland, Directory of Sources of. 11
 
Spiers, Frederick S., Memorial. 75
 
Stains from Contact between Marble and Steel
 
Work, Remedy for, 471
 
Steam Accumulator Storing 1(1,000 lb., 581
 
Steam Engine and Boiler to Replace Oil Engines in Power Station at Burghersdorp, South Africa. 715
 
Steam Pipe. Flexible, Explosion,Official Report, 689
 
Steam Turbine in Trinidad, Special Features of Construction, 143
 
Steamers on Upper Yangtsc River, Great Increase in Number of, 117
 
Steel—ttf'- Iron and Steel
 
Suez Canal Traffic and British Coal Working Stoppage, 527
 
Sugar Beet Factory at Bassano, Alberta. 663
 
Sugar Beet Factory near Selby, 581
 
Sugar Beet Factory, Spalding, to Begin Operations. 249
 
Sugar Beet Factory, near Wellington, Shropshire. Date for Completion, 71 I
 
Sugar Beet in Manitoba, Results from Experimental Growing. 443
 
Sugar Cane, Factory at Luabo, 352. 378. 390 (Two-payt. Supplement, October l*d, 1926)
 
Sugar (Jane, Machine for Harvesting. 581
 
Sulphur has no Disadvantages in Diesel Fuel. 417
 
Sulphur Mines in Sicily, Cont nut Signed for Electrification of all Services Connected Therewith. 63
 
Sulphuric Acid Factory to be Put Up in China. 471
 
Sunlight Rays under Water. Imitation of, to Check .Anchor Ice Formation, 663
 
Surface Finishes, New Testing Inspection Machine, 637
 
Survey of India, Complete Reorganisation of. into Five Circles, 277
 
Swedish Standard Type of Cheap Passenger Motor Cars, 197
 
Swedish Trade Reports Shipbuilding Industry Improved but Iron Industry Still Depressed, 361
 
Sydney, Australia, and Maitland, New Carrier Wave Telephone Service, 91
 
Synchronous Condensers, Largest Yet Built for Southern Californian Company. 335
 
Synthetic Ammonia Works of Large Capacity Projected in Japan, 417
 
Synthetic Rubber. Reported Progress in Manufacture of. by German Dye Trust, 343


T
T
TANNING Material from Brown Coal. 223
*TANNING Material from Brown Coal, 223
 
*Tasmanian Carbide Works, Prospect of Sale to English Group, 117
Tasmanian Carbide Works, Prospect of Sale to English Group, 1 17
*Taxi-cabs in Peking. Company Formed to Run, 143
 
*Technical Terms Employed in Branches of Physics and Physiology Connected with Illumination, 715
Taxi-cabs in Peking. Company Formed to Run. 143
*"Teknisk Tidskrift," 376
 
*Telephone Cable, Subterranean, between Cairo and Alexandria, 249
Technical Terms Employed in Branches of Physics ami Physiology Connected with Illumination, 715
*Telephone, State, Department of Czechoslovakia to Replace Manual by Marconi Relay Automatic System, 117
 
*Telephone Users of the World, 14-2 to every 100 People in United States, 2-8 per 100 in Great Britain, 171
" Tcknisk Tidskrift." 376
*Tellurium as an Alloy with many Varieties of Metals, 335
 
*Tenders Invited by Madrid for Various Public Improvements, 277
Telephone Cable. Subterranean, between Cairo and .Alexandria, 249
*Theosophical Society, Australia. Erects Powerful Broadcasting Station, 361
 
*Thomas, H. Kerr, Debt of the Community to the Automobile, 384
Telephone. State, Department of Czechoslovakia to Replace Manual by Marconi Relay Automatic System, J17
*Tidal Power on the Tay, Scheme Put Forward by Professor A. R. Fulton, 689
 
*Tin-bearing Ores in Cornwall, Successful Exploration Work, 553
Telephone Users of the World. 14-2 to every 100 People in United States, 2-8 per 100 in Great Britain. 171
*Tin Deposits Discovery on King Island. Bans Straits, 219
 
*Tin Mine, Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Cornwall, Work for Unemployed, 581
Tellurium as an Alloy with many Varieties of Metals, 335
*Tin. Recovery of Ore Previously Wasted, 471
 
*Tin, Rich Lode, Found in Tasmania, 417
Tenders Invited by Madrid for Various Public Improvements, 277
*"Titanite" as Material for Patternmaking, 527
 
*Tiverton Town Water Supply, 361
Theosophical Society, Australia. Erects Powerful Broadcasting Station, 361
*Tokyo and Yokohama. Reconstruction after Earthquake Very Slow, 443
 
*Tool, New Device, for Removing Tar Coating from Steel Water Main, 443
Thomas, H. Kerr, Debt of the Community to t he Automobile, 384
*Toronto Purchase of Ironworks Land for Viaduct and Harbour Development, 249
 
*Torquay Water, Electricity and Harbour Undertakings, Further Powers to be Sought, 637
Tidal Power on the Tay, Scheme Put Forward by Professor A. R. Fulton, 689
*Toxic Gases Danger, 471
 
*Trade Facilities Acts, Treasury Grants for Electrical Supply and Beet Sugar, 553
Tin-bearing Ores in Cornwall, Successful Exploration Work, 553
*Training for Automobile Engineering, Recommended Course, 526
 
*Transvaal Platinum Reduction Plant, Output for June, 197
Tin Deposits Discovery on King Island. Bans Straits, 219
*Triethylamine and Diethylamine, New Process for Manufacture of, 361
 
*Trolley Omnibus Abandoned for Street Car in Larger American Cities, 249
'I’m Mine, Wheal Kitty. St. Agnes, Cornwall, Work for Unemployed. 581
*Tsingtao Wharves and Harbour Suffering from Wholesale Neglect, 443
 
*Tungting Lake, Yangtze Valley, Projected Survey of, 443
Tin. Recovery of Ore Previously Wasted. 471
*Tyne Improvement Commissioners, Projected Schemes, 37
 
Tin. Rich Lode. Found in Tasmania, 417
 
“ Thanite ” as Material for Patternmaking. 527
 
Tiverton Town Water Supply, 361
 
Tokyo and Yokohama. Reconstruction after Earthquake Very Slow, 443
 
Tool, New Device, for Removing Tar Coating from Steel Water Main, 443
 
Toronto Purchase of Ironworks Land for Viaduct and Harbour Development, 249
 
Torquay Water. Electricity and Harbour Undertakings, Further Powers to be Sought. 637
 
Toxic Gases Danger, 471
 
Trade Facilities Acts, Treasury Grants for Electrical Supply and Beet Sugar, 553
 
Training for Automobile Engineering, Recommended Course, 526
 
Transvaal Platinum Reduction Plant, Output for June, 197
 
Triethylamino and Diethylamine, New Process for Manufacture of, 361
 
Trolley Omnibus Abandoned for Street Car in Larger American Cities, 249
 
Tsingtao Wharves and Harbour Suffering from Wholesale Neglect, 443
 
Tungting Lake, Yangtze Valley, Projected Survey of, 443
 
Tyne Improvement Commissioners, Projected Schemes, 37
 
u
UNITED States Firm Buying Up Canadian Works, 335
 
United States Radium Corporation has Closed its Plant at Orange, N. J., 715
 
University of Bristol, 155
 
University of London, University College.
 
Centenary Appeal and Programme, 593


Upington. South Africa, Considering Water and Electricity Scheme, 417
U
*UNITED States Firm Buying Up Canadian Works, 335
*United States Radium Corporation has Closed its Plant at Orange, N. J., 715
*University of Bristol, 155
*University of London, University College, Centenary Appeal and Programme, 593
*Upington, South Africa, Considering Water and Electricity Scheme, 417


V
V
VIBRATION Caused by Rolling of Trains,
*VIBRATION Caused by Rolling of Trains, Effect on Building over the Track, 715
 
*Vienna, Ambitious Power Schemes for, Negotiations with American Financiers, 715
Effect on Building over the Track, 715
*Vienna, New Water Power Works Erected in 1925, 715
 
Vienna, Ambitious Power Schemes for, Negotiations with American Financiers, 715
 
Vienna, New Water Power Works Erected in
 
1925. 715
 
WAREHOUSE, Big New. at Montreal, 499
 
Watchmaking, Maintenance of Schools giving Technical Instruction in, in Switzerland and France, 527
 
Water Level Indicator for Gauge Glasses, Effective Type, 429
 
Water Power Utilisation Research Society in Germany, 335
 
Water Raising by Egyptian Natives, Conditions of Work, 249
 
Waterproof Glue, Formula for Preparing, 443
 
WATER SUPPLY :
Brazil, Water System in, 322
 
Murray River, Australia, Hume Reservoir Works, Cost and Progress, 553
 
Murray Water Conservation Scheme, Additional Weirs Question, 471
 
Rangoon to Obtain Water Supply by Damming the Salwin, 689
 
Sydney and Canberra Water Supply Scheme, 471
 
Sydney Water Board’s Expenditure on New Works, 662
 
Victoria, Water Storage Schemes in Progress and Contemplated, 171
 
WATER-TUBE Boiler Explosion Caused by Neglect, 471, 617
 
Wave-speed Camera—sec Pressure Wave
 
Wax Extract from Flax Plant Tissues, Valuable
 
Properties of, 197
 
Waygood-Otis Club New Sports Ground, 23
 
Welded Connections in Steel-framed Building, Comparison with Strength of Rivets, 11
 
Welding Aluminium, New Process, D. H. K. Bottrill, 663, 689
 
Welding Exhibition at Buffalo, N.Y., 443
 
Wells Drilled for Oil and Gas in the United States, Statistics, 553
 
Whale Fishing, Trial of 13reech-loading Gun for, 197
 
Whale Oil Research Success, 389
 
Wharfage for Deep-draught Vessels at Cairns
 
Harbour, North Queensland, 499
 
Whitworth Society, Fourth Annual Commemoration Dinner, 724
 
Whitworth Society, Summer Meeting. 103
 
Wind Pressure, Pulsating or Static Effects on Different Structures. 581
 
Windsor-Detroit Tunnel, Construction to bo Started, 609
 
Wire and. Wire Nail Works of Karahgatch, Turkey, Begin Work, 307


WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY :
W
Atmospheric Disturbances, Experiments with New Invention, 63
*WAREHOUSE, Big New, at Montreal, 499
 
*Watchmaking, Maintenance of Schools giving Technical Instruction in, in Switzerland and France, 527
Bolivia Telegraph and Wireless Services, Contract with Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., 143
*Water Level Indicator for Gauge Glasses, Effective Type, 429
 
*Water Power Utilisation Research Society in Germany, 335
Bombay and Calcutta, Projected Well-organised Broadcasting Service, H7
*Water Raising by Egyptian Natives, Conditions of Work, 249
 
*Waterproof Glue, Formula for Preparing, 443
British Broadcasting to Pass Under Government Control, 63
*WATER SUPPLY :
 
*- Brazil, Water System in, 322
Broadcasting of Portraits and Piet ures, Monsieur Hermod Petersen, 609, 637
*- Murray River, Australia, Hume Reservoir Works, Cost and Progress, 553
 
*- Murray Water Conservation Scheme, Additional Weirs Question, 471
Broadcasting Station in Vienna, 356
*- Rangoon to Obtain Water Supply by Damming the Salwin, 689
 
*- Sydney and Canberra Water Supply Scheme, 471
Crop Production Assisted by Wireless Aerials Near Potsdam, 361
*- Sydney Water Board's Expenditure on New Works, 662
 
*- Victoria, Water Storage Schemes in Progress and Contemplated, 171
Czecho-Slovak Railways and Wireless Receiving Stations in Trains, 389
*WATER-TUBE Boiler Explosion Caused by Neglect, 471, 617
 
*Wave-speed Camera--see Pressure Wave
French Postal Tests of Wireless Telegraphic Apparatus, 335
*Wax Extract from Flax Plant Tissues, Valuable Properties of, 197
 
*Waygood-Otis Club New Sports Ground, 23
Greece, Wireless Station Projected, 499
*Welded Connections in Steel-framed Building, Comparison with Strength of Rivets, 11
 
*Welding Aluminium, New Process, D. H. K. Bottrill, 663, 689
Hungary's Great Advance in Use of Wireless, 249
*Welding Exhibition at Buffalo, N.Y., 443
 
*Wells Drilled for Oil and Gas in the United States, Statistics, 553
Marconi Marine Communication Company and Radio Communication Company Form Working Agreement, 527
*Whale Fishing, Trial of Breech-loading Gun for, 197
 
*Whale Oil Research Success, 389
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY (continued):
*Wharfage for Deep-draught Vessels at Cairns Harbour, North Queensland, 499
Mexico and Cuba. Telegraph Systems to be Connected by Wireless, 307
*Whitworth Society, Fourth Annual Commemoration Dinner, 724
 
*Whitworth Society, Summer Meeting, 103
Radio Apparatus Production in Canada, 174
*Wind Pressure, Pulsating or Static Effects on Different Structures, 581
 
*Windsor-Detroit Tunnel, Construction to be Started, 609
Radio-electric Mast for Guiding Ships al a
*Wire and Wire Nail Works of Karahgatch, Turkey, Begin Work, 307
 
*WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY :
Distance, Value Proved in Fog, 277
*- Atmospheric Disturbances, Experiments with New Invention, 63
 
*- Bolivia Telegraph and Wireless Services, Contract with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., 143
Reaction on the Aerial, Enforcement of Regulations in Regard to Licences, 63
*- Bombay and Calcutta, Projected Well- organised Broadcasting Service,117
 
*- British Broadcasting to Pass Under Government Control, 63
Seventy Radio Receiving Sets for Isolated Camps in Oregon and California, 403
*- Broadcasting of Portraits and Pictures, Monsieur Hermod Petersen, 609, 637
 
*- Broadcasting Station in Vienna, 356
Ship’s Record Daily Communication with Sydney on Voyage to England, 521
*- Crop Production Assisted by Wireless Aerials Near Potsdam, 361
 
*- Czecho-Slovak Railways and Wireless Receiving Stations in Trains, 389
Waves of Accurately Known Frequency, Usefulness of Transmission, 223
*- French Postal Tests of Wireless Telegraphic Apparatus, 335
 
*- Greece, Wireless Station Projected, 499
Wireless Apparatus Tested as Possible Substitute for Submarine Cable, 389
*- Hungary's Great Advance in Use of Wireless, 249
 
*- Marconi Marine Communication Company and Radio Communication Company Form Working Agreement, 527
WOOD Oil Trees. Experimental Plantation of, in Tasmania. 581
*WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY (continued):
 
*- Mexico and Cuba, Telegraph Systems to be Connected by Wireless, 307
Woolwich Dockyard at Auction, 31
*- Radio Apparatus Production in Canada, 174
 
*- Radio-electric Mast for Guiding Ships at a Distance, Value Proved in Fog, 277
Work on the New Outer Harbour at Macao, 689
*- Reaction on the Aerial, Enforcement of Regulations in Regard to Licences, 63
 
*- Seventy Radio Receiving Sets for Isolated Camps in Oregon and California, 403
World’s Largest Motor Liner, 653
*- Ship's Record Daily Communication with Sydney on Voyage to England, 521
*- Waves of Accurately Known Frequency, Usefulness of Transmission, 223
*- Wireless Apparatus Tested as Possible Substitute for Submarine Cable, 389
*WOOD Oil Trees. Experimental Plantation of, in Tasmania, 581
*Woolwich Dockyard at Auction, 31
*Work on the New Outer Harbour at Macao, 689
*World's Largest Motor Liner, 653


Y
Y
YARRA River Improvement Projected, 471
*YARRA River Improvement Projected, 471
 
z
ZINC, Pure, Physical Properties and Crystal Structure of, 91


Zululand Plant for Extracting Tanning Material from Wattle Bark, 471
Z
*ZINC, Pure, Physical Properties and Crystal Structure of, 91
*Zululand Plant for Extracting Tanning Material from Wattle Bark, 471


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The Engineer 1926 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.
The Engineer 1926 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.
The Engineer 1926 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.
The Engineer 1926 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.
The Engineer 1926 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.
The Engineer 1926 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.
The Engineer 1926 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.
The Engineer 1926 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.
The Engineer 1926 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.
The Engineer 1926 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

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A

  • ACCIDENT to Cochin Harbour Board's Dredger, 171
  • Aerial Passenger Cableway to Summit of Table Mountain, Proposed, 117
  • AERONAUTICS
  • - See also Associations, Royal Society of Aeronautics
  • - Aerial Transport Cost Compared with Sea, Rail and Road Travel, 689
  • - Aircraft Apprentices, 500, Wanted by Royal Air Force, 117
  • - Aircraft in Canada, Particulars of, in 1925, 307
  • - Amphibian Flying Boat's Return to Alberta After 6000-7000 Miles' Tour, 637
  • - Aviation Gold Medal, Award, 397
  • - Awards to Aircraft Apprentices, 238
  • - Busk Studentship in Aeronautics Award, 143
  • - Civil Aviation Mileage and Passenger Statistics, 223
  • - Dornier Seaplane's Equipment, 171
  • - Europe-South America Airship Projected by German Company, 644
  • - Ford Company's Miniature Aeroplane Weighs 350 lb., 143
  • - Giant Passenger Aeroplanes for Australia, 343
  • - Mystery Seaplane at Cromer, 389
  • - Parachute Brings Down Aeroplane 2500ft. with Engine Stopped, 277
  • - Wilbur Wright Memorial Lecture to be Given by Professor Prandtl, of Gottingen, 609
  • AIR Compressor Operation and Practical Method of Cleaning Compressor, 249
  • Aix-la-Chapelle, ('anal to Connect with the Rhine, 223
  • Algeria, Extensive Public Works Projected, 37
  • Allen-Liversidge, Ltd., London Staff Dinner, 526
  • Amber, German Deposits of. the Most Profitable in the World, 342
  • Ammonia, Daily Out put of, in the United States, 171
  • Ammonia, Synthetic Production of, at New Works at Oslo, 277
  • Anticosti Island Timber to be Used for Paper Pulp, 471
  • Antimony, Flotation of Company to Work Large Area in the Murchison Range, 117
  • Antimony Production and Many Uses, 553
  • Antofagasta Port Enlargement and Improvement, 609
  • Archaeological Engineering, 593
  • Argentine Port Facilities, 350
  • Argentine Public Works Programme, 11
  • Armour Plate Trials, 605
  • Artificial Silk Factory Projected in Quebec, Cost of, 91
  • Artificial Silk from Wood Pulp of Nova Scotia, 37
  • Artificial Silk, World Production Immensely Increased in 1926, 581
  • Asbestos Output from Rhodesia, 609
  • Asbestos in the United States, Statistics of, 223
  • Asphalt, Discovery of 40,000,000 Tons of, in the Philippines, 277
  • Asphalt Roofing Material and Advantage in Use of Electric Heating Units, 249
  • ASSOCIATIONS. INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
  • - INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY :
  • -- Libraries Presented, also Memorial Fund, 533
  • -- The Chemist in the Non-ferrous Metallurgical Refinery, Streatfield Memorial Lecture, F. C. Robinson, 533
  • - INSTITUTE OF MARINE ENGINEERS :
  • -- Marine Engineering Studentship Facilities, 605
  • - INSTITUTE OF METALS :
  • -- Latest Date for Receipt of Papers for Next Annual Meeting, 431
  • - INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT :
  • -- Railwaymen Elected by Ballot, 91
  • - INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
  • -- Annual Dinner, 560
  • -- Graduates' Prize and Crompton Medal Award, 415
  • -- Joint Gatherings with the Royal Aeronautical Society, 527
  • -- Training for Automobile Engineering, 526
  • ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) :
  • - INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Visit to Royal Naval College, Greenwich, 41
  • - INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Awards for Papers, 429
  • -- "James Forrest" Postponed Lecture, New Date for, 431
  • - BIRMINGHAM ASSOCIATION :
  • -- Visits to Pumping Station at Lichfield and to Reservoir at Dudley, 557
  • - INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Portraits of Michael Faraday and Lord Kelvin, 581
  • -- Ships, Regulations for Electrical Equipment of, 235
  • -- Students' Premiums, Awards for Papers, 158
  • - INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :
  • -- Programme of Papers for Winter Session, 357
  • - INSTITUTION OF FUEL ECONOMY ENGINEERS :
  • -- First President and First Meeting of Winter Session, 1926, 261
  • - INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS :
  • -- Prizes Offered, 678, 714
  • - INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :
  • -- Awards of Medals, andc., 357, 649
  • -- Pyrometer Experiments for Measuring Temperatures Within Cylinders of Small Internal Combustion Engines, C. E. Foster, 663
  • -- Steel Castings in their Relation to Mechanical Engineering, Robert Lowe, 568
  • - INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS :
  • - MANCHESTER CENTRE :
  • -- Visit to the Crewe* Works, L.M.S. Railway, 207
  • - INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Archaeological Engineering. Lecture by Lieut.-Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 593
  • -- Awards for Papers Read Before Graduates' Section, 678
  • - INSTITUTION OF MINING ENGINEERS :
  • -- Summer and Autumn Meeting Abandoned Owing to Stoppage, 261
  • - INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
  • -- National Certificates in Naval Architecture, 659
  • -- Scholarship Awards, 264
  • -- Scholarships to be Offered in 1927, 624
  • - INSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS :
  • -- Oil Fuel, Dr. F. Mollwo, 553
  • -- Research Fund, 455, 527
  • - INSTITUTION OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERS :
  • -- Third Annual Dinner. 495
  • - INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Ferro-concrete and also Wooden Poles, with Special Fittings for Signal and Telegraph Purposes, 552
  • - INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
  • -- Courses of Lectures in November and December, 455
  • -- General Meeting, Thanks for Valuable Gifts, Election of Members, 649
  • -- Juvenile Lectures, 101st Course, 455, 678
  • -- Lecture Arrangements Before Easter, 1927, 678, 697
  • - INSTITUTION OF STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS :
  • -- Death Vacancy and New President Appointed, 429
  • -- Portland House Scholarship and Other Awards, 264
  • - SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF AERONAUTICS :
  • -- Grant of 5000 Dollars from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund to the Royal Aeronautical Society, 307
  • -- Joint- Gatherings with the Institution of Automobile Engineers, 527
  • ATMOSPHERIC Oxygen, Process for Extraction of, 117
  • Australian Graduates, Eight Chosen for Special Research Training, 285
  • Australia's Paint Imports, Large Proportion Supplied by Great Britain, 91
  • Australia's Trade with the United Kingdom, 307
  • Automatic Telephones Being Installed in Dairen, Manchuria, 689
  • Automobile Association and Improved Methods of Car Shipment, 527

B

  • BANFF, Canada, Calculation of Potential Energy from Hot Springs, 715
  • Barbed Wire, History of, 91
  • Barrages Across the Congo, A Big Proposition, 307
  • Batavian Production of Resin and Turpentine, 637
  • Bavaria's Water Power Stations, 609
  • Beet--see Sugar
  • Beira Port, Portuguese East Africa, Sold to Company and in Course of Improvement, 277
  • Belgian State Railways and Government Telegraph and Telephone Systems Leased to Companies, Terms of Arrangement, 223
  • Belt Fastener, A New, Dargue Brothers, Ltd., 704
  • Bengal Irrigation Department to Attack Pest of Water Hyacinth, 11
  • Beryllium, Valuable Properties and Probably Increased Use of, 281
  • Big Peter of York Minister to be Recast, 637
  • Birmingham University Metallurgical Society, Retirement and Testimonial to Professor, 106
  • Bitumen in Large Quantities Found on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, 117
  • Bituminous Roads in South Australia, Cost per Mile, 471
  • Blasting Charges, New Form of Primer for, 637
  • Board of Trade Licence Issued to Research Association of British Paint Manufacturers, 443
  • Boiler Explosion, Unusual Typo, 11
  • Boiler Stop Valve Failure at a Colliery, 307
  • Boiler Used on Gold Mino in 1875 Rediscovered in Good Order, 417
  • Boiler's Groat Output at Yallorn Power House, Victoria, 417
  • Bombay Government Appoints Committee to Report on Back Bay Reclamation Scheme, 11, 91
  • Book Tower in Detroit to be 873ft. Above the Ground, Tallest Building in the World, 143
  • Bootle Commercially Considered, 361
  • Bore-hole in Search for Oil at Orallo, Queensland, 499
  • Brazilian Proposals for Improvement of Port of Ilheos, State of Bahia, 689
  • Bricks at Fiction Brickyards, 16,000,000 per Week Output, 219
  • BRIDGES:
  • - Bascule Bridge's Unusual Mishap, 417
  • - Bridge Over the Danube from Belgrade to Pancevo, Conflicting Opinion, 307
  • - Double-deck Road and Railway Bridge Across the South Saskatchewan River, 663
  • - Durban to Connect with Durban North by New Bridge, 715
  • - Floriunopolis Bridge, Brazil, A Record Structure, 715
  • - Haven Bridge at Yarmouth, Reconstruction, 117
  • - Montreal Bridge under Erection will be Second Only to Sydney Harbour Bridge, 689
  • - Narrows, at Atherlev, Ont., Bridge Over the, 117
  • - New Bridge Across the Yare at Yarmouth, 581
  • - Niagara Falls Memorial Bridge, to Connect Canada and United States, 443
  • - Steel Bridge Projected Across Riviere du Loup, Quebec, 471
  • - Suggested New Road and Railway Bridge at Freemantle, West Australia, 581
  • - Sydney Harbour, Need of Another Bridge Predicted, 171
  • - Transporter Bridge near Mouth of Yarra River, Victoria, Proposed Construction, 171
  • BRIDGE River Hydro-electric Scheme in British Columbia, 333
  • Briquette Works and Superphosphate Plant Projected in South Africa, 417
  • BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION SPECIFICATIONS :
  • - Barytes and Boiled Linseed Oil, 347
  • - Brazing Solder, 291
  • - Electric Cable Soldering Sockets, 319
  • - Fractional Horse-power Electric Motors, 291
  • BRITISH Aluminium Company in Norway. Extension of Works, 417
  • British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers' Association, Annual Dinner and Speeches, 560
  • British Foundrymen, Institute, Birmingham, Coventry and West Midlands Branch, Junior Section to be Formed, 478
  • British Gears' Success in Spite of High American Tariff, 417
  • British Nationality, Out ward-hound Passenger Traffic from Europe Much Increased, 663
  • British Treasury to Guarantee Principal and Interest up to £110,000 to Australasian Paper and Pulp Company for Twelve Years, 689
  • Bromley Ironworks Demolition, 499
  • Bronze Runners to Replace Steel in Turbines to Avoid Erosion Troubles, 249
  • Buenos Aires, Port of, Reconstruction Work Resumed, 361

C

  • CABLE, New, Between England and New York, 307
  • Cable Ship Laving Longest Cable in the World, 342
  • £10,000 Cable Tram Equipment Sold for £450, 249
  • Cairo and Alexandria to be Linked by Underground Telephone Cable, 389
  • Calcutta Corporation Pumping Plant Extension, 335
  • Calcutta's New Drainage Scheme and its Cost, 307
  • Calcutta Trust Starting Work on Manicktolla Bridge Reconstruction, 335
  • Californian Oil Company Planning Drill Hole Down to 10,000ft., Already of Record Depth, 689
  • Canada, Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service, Report, 612
  • Canada's Gold Production Since 1858, Third in the World's List of Producers, 171
  • Canada's Production of Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, andc., 307
  • Canadian Canals, Traffic Statistics, 91
  • Canadian Good Roads Association, 389
  • Canadian Magnesite Suitability for Bricks, 171
  • Cape Town, Dock Improvement Scheme, 122
  • Carbon Acid Gas Purification Plant in Montreal, 197
  • Carbon Dioxide, New Process for Making, 443
  • Cement Manufacture in Victoria, New Works, 249
  • Cement Sales in Australia, 37
  • Chefoo Harbour Improvement Commission. 37
  • Chemicals and Drugs Manufacture. Shanghai Factory, 11
  • Chili, Irrigation Projects in, 223
  • Chilian Iodine Industry, Terrible Waste of Valuable Iodine, 277
  • China, New Arsenal and Mint Projected, 46
  • China's Population, Analysis of Foreign Proportion, 277
  • Chinese Architects Form Society, 609
  • Chinese 400 Miles Road, Motor Car Journey Occupies Three Days, 443
  • Chittagong Port Development, 37, 277
  • Circulating Water at American Power Station, to Prevent Choked Gratings, 197
  • Classes for Firemen and Furnaeemen in Glasgow, and Beneficial Result, 335
  • Cleansing Oil Coolers, Duckham, Alexander, and Co., 291
  • COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES
  • - Accidents, Death rate in Coal Mines of the United States, 443
  • - Baffin Island Coal, Analysis of, 471
  • - Barnsley Coal Seam said to be Workable Throughout Lincolnshire, 171
  • COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES (continued):
  • - Bituminous Coal, International Conference on, at Carnegie Institute, 470
  • - Bolton Now HOUSCH, Cumberland, New Pit Sinking at, 490
  • - Bombay Coal Consumption Halved, 307, 527
  • - Briquetting Brown Coal at Morwell, Victoria, 335
  • - British Steel Produced by Aid of American Coal, 527
  • - Brown Coal Deposits in South Australia, 417
  • - Canadian Coal Output in 1925, 143
  • - Carbonisation of Durham Coal in Continuous Vertical Retorts, 171
  • - Carnock Colliery Contract for New Plant, 90
  • - Coal Output, Great Increase of, by Nova Scotia Company, 663
  • - Coal Products--see Exhibitions
  • - Coal Seam Found in the Lower Cwmgorse Valley, 171
  • - Coke Oven Plants to Use Canadian and Nova Scotian Coal, 277
  • - Czecho-Slovakia, Details of Coal Production, 609
  • - Dry-cleaning Coal, Professor Henry Louin, 663
  • - Dry Coal from Yallourn Utilised by Mixing with Wet, 553
  • - Entombed Colliers' Bodies Recovered after Nearly Fifty Years, 249
  • - German Coal Hewers Output, Great Increase on Pre-war Rate of Production, 249
  • - Great Britain's Coal Output for week ending December 4th, 666
  • - Hamburg Arrivals of Water-borne Coal Reduced by Quay Labourers' Strike, 527
  • - Hull, Proposed Railway from Goole, and Wharfage, to Cheapen Coal Transport, 609, 637
  • - Japanese Coal Delivered in Shanghai, Cost of, 689
  • - Leeds, Coal Smoke Nuisance Abatement, 63
  • - Lisbon, Coal Mines near. Opened Up, but Coal of Poor Quality, 91
  • - New South Wales Metallurgical Coke Output, 637
  • - Nigeria, Third Coal-carrying Steamer Purchased for, 499
  • - Oil Distillation from Coal, Satisfactory Tests in China, 11
  • - Pekin Syndicate Coal Output, 63
  • - Pyritic Oxidation in relation to Spontaneous Combustion of Coal, H. Macpherson and Others, 417
  • - Sinking Coal Shaft in South Yorkshire, 499
  • - Spitsbergen Collieries Benefit by British Coal Stoppage, 335
  • - Transport of Coal by Aerial Ropeway, 249
  • - Upton Colliery Company's Shaft-sinking Progress, 277
  • - Woodville near Burton-on-Trent, Seam of Coal Located in a Field near, 63
  • - X-ray Use in Coal Classification, F. J. Harlow, 609
  • COCHIN, First-class Tidal Harbour, Work Begun, 715
  • Cochin Harbour, Arrival and Work of New Dredger, 91
  • Cold Storage and Ice Factory Projected in Perth, 715
  • Cold Storage Plant for Durban, 417
  • Cold Storage Plant, Very Large, Projected for Western Canada, 443
  • Colombia, Reported Projected Construction of Modern Port in Gulf of Uraba, 277
  • Commonwealth and New South Wales Floating Dock, Increase in Projected Lifting Capacity, 143
  • Concrete Controlled in Strength by Ratio of Cement to Water, 91
  • Concrete of Extreme Strength for Hall in California, 424
  • Concrete-mixing Investigation and Conclusions, 467
  • Concrete and Reinforced Concrete Arches of Great Span, Method of Construction by Rib Compensation, Monsieur Freyssinet, 117
  • Concrete, Reinforced, for Signal Posts and Telegraph Poles, 552
  • Concrete Strengthened by Molten Sulphur, 11
  • Concrete Tanks for Storage of Animal and Vegetable Oils, 609
  • Conveyors, Very Long, in Virginian Mine, 361
  • Cooling a Troublesome Bearing, 91
  • Copper Discovery in South Africa, 63
  • Copper, Electrolytic, Union Miniere to Produce Large Quantity Annually, 63
  • Copper Mine in British Columbia, Reputed Largest in the Empire, 499
  • Copper Ore Discovery in Now Brunswick, 577
  • Copper and Silver Output of Canada, 277
  • Cornish Mining to Seek Government Subsidy, 581
  • Cornwall Works, Birmingham, 212
  • Cotton-picking by Machine, New Invention, 471
  • Cotton Textile Industry in the Dominion, Seventy Plants Engaged, 171
  • Cracked Circular Saws, Mending, 581
  • Crane for Steel Plant in America, Said to be Largest of Kind in Existence, 443
  • Cuban Large Rond Construction Programme, 307

D

  • DAM, Large Storage, Under Const ruction by Gatineau Power Company at Bitobe, Quebec, 117
  • Dam, New, on the River Mackinac, 91
  • Darn in Waranga Basin, Victoria, Question of Strength, 307
  • Danzig, Coal Situation at, 37
  • Detonation of Blasting Explosives, Velocity of 37 ; Paper on Determination of Velocity, 63
  • Detonation Phenomena in Engines, Monsieur Dumanois, 11
  • Detonators in Mines, Additional Precaution, 637
  • Development of Paugan Falls on Gatineau River, Ontario, 552
  • Diamond Discovery Reported in Cape Colony, South of Port Nolloth, 499
  • Diarnondiferous Area of British Guiana, Accompanied by Heavy Minerals, 277
  • Diesel-driven Power Station Likely to be Changed for Local Water Power Scheme, 417
  • Diesel Engine Power Plant to be Scrapped in Favour of Steam, 471
  • Differential Separation by Flotation of Lead and Copper from Zinc in Sulphide Oren, 689
  • Disinfectants for New Zealand, Large Tenders Called for, 389
  • Diving, Success of Use of Artificial Atmosphere, 553
  • Dock Scheme, King George's, at Kidderporo, Progress, 117
  • Dock, Wet, at Ayr, Removal of Unused Gates and Sill, 171
  • Drainage and Road-building Operations at "The Brook Kishon," 307
  • Drainage Scheme for Karachi, 171
  • Dredger at Bristol Undergoing Overhaul, 581
  • Drilling by Jack-hammers, A Record, 499
  • Dublin's First Automatic Telephone Exchange, 527
  • Duke of Northumberland to be President of Shipping Exhibition at Olympia, 1927, 91
  • Duralumin and Welding by Oxy-acetylene, 223
  • Dust- Inhalation in Mines, Paper by P. S. Hay, 116
  • Dust-proof Plants in Boiler Houses Economical as well as Cleanly, 91
  • Dusty Roads, Now Remedy for, Found in Amsterdam, 277
  • Dynamite Factory being Put Up in Alabama, 581

E

  • EFFLUENT Liquor Treatment at Coventry, 581
  • ELECTRICAL MATTERS
  • - Armature of Exceptional Size, Special Arrangements for Railway Transport and Construction of Building, 143
  • - British Columbia Electric Railway. Bridge River Power Development for, 637
  • - British Industries Fair at Birmingham, Predominance of Electrical Industries, 689
  • - Characteristics of Single-phase Motors, T. O. Walz, 361
  • - Cheapest Supply in the World Generated by Steam Plant, 637
  • - Competition in Manufacture of Electrical Machinery, Court Judgment at Melbourne, 499
  • - Consumption of Current in South African Towns, 91
  • - Dover's Electric Supply Breakdown and Arrangement to Connect Supply with that of Folkestone, 553
  • - Durban's Electrical Department Budget, 715
  • - Earthing Metal Bodies other than Conductors, 335
  • - Electric Locomotives for Montreal, 499
  • - Electrical Trades' Benevolent Institution, 388
  • - Electrified Ploughshare, Experiments and Result, 499
  • - Flanged Girder, Electric Arc Welded and Tested to Destruction, 499
  • - Galle, India, Electric Lighting, 499
  • - Govan Power House Equipment, 249
  • - Hardening and Tempering of Steel, Electric Heating for, 143
  • - High-voltage Electrical Laboratory Built at Stanford University, California, 277
  • - Industrial Standardisation in the Electrical Field, Percy Good, 389
  • - Insulators, Electrical, Question of Manufacture in Bihar with China Clay Found There, 63
  • - Lamps in Subways, Electric, Comparison Between Bare and Shaded Lamps, 63
  • - Large Boilers' Provision in Power House for Quick Change of Coal for Oil Fuel, 143
  • - Lincoln Private Electric Lighting Increase, 389
  • - Maritime Electric Company, America, Expenditure on Plant and Equipment, 249
  • - Mexico's New Electrical Code, Demand for Superior Apparatus and Equipment, 361
  • - Power Development in British Malaya with Construction of Hydro-electric Plant on the Purak River, 117
  • - Power Generation from Tides of Passamaquoddy Bay, Canadian Government Authorises Scheme for, 277
  • - Power Station for Senegal. South Africa, 450
  • - Power Transmission Wires Between Canada and Island of Orleans, 11
  • - Pre-heating Rolls of Tin-plate Mills by Means of Electrical Resistances, 335
  • - Rail Mill in America, Electrification of, 361
  • - Sale of Electricity, Rapid Progress of, 471
  • - Shanghai, Projected Power Plant of 20,060 Kilowatts, 637
  • - Ships, Regulations for Electrical Equipment of, 235
  • - Steam Turbo-generator for American Generating Station, 361
  • - Sulphur Mines in Sicily, All Services to be Electrified within Three Years, 63
  • - Super-power, Coal Consumption for Generation of Electricity, 389
  • - Sydney City Council, Proposal to Acquire Mine or Mines for Purposes of Electricity Department, 117
  • - Tungshun Island, near Amoy, Suggested Rice Mill for, with Electric Plant for Power and City Lighting, 581
  • - Turbo-alternators, Four 10,000-Kilowatt, for Bombay Suburban Railways, 637
  • - Two Million-volt Transformer Set, 143
  • - Victorian Electricity Commission and German Recommendations, 417
  • - Western Australia and Electric Supply to Mines, 37
  • - Wolverhampton's Increased Use of Electricity, 389
  • ELECTROLYTIC Copper, Big Lixiviation Plant for Union Minidre Katanga, 143
  • Empire Mining and Metallurgical Congress to be held in Canada in 1927, 335
  • Engineers in China, 452
  • English and Amateur Mechanic, 498
  • Esquimalt Dry Dock Construction, 389
  • Estonian Oil Shale as Railway Fuel, 663
  • Ethylene Dichloride as a Solvent for Oils and Fats, 689
  • EXHIBITIONS
  • - Agricultural Show and Exhibition of Cottage Industries at Jubbulpore, 499
  • - Belgium, Universal Exhibition Projected for 1930, 197
  • EXHIBITIONS (continued) :
  • - British Industries Fair in Birmingham :
  • -- Enlargement of Buildings Called for, 417
  • -- British Industries Fair and Misconceptions, 417
  • -- Electric Business Predominance at British Industries Fair in Birmingham, 689
  • -- Floor Space at British Industries Fair, Greatly Increased Demand, 581, 637
  • -- Madras Council Estimate for Participation in British Industries Fair, 471
  • - Congress of Chemists and Exhibition in London of Apparatus, Chemicals, andc., 37
  • - Industrial Designs Competition, Selection of Work on Exhibition., 143
  • - Ironmongery, Hardware, andc., Exhibition, 276
  • - Leipzig International Industries Fair, 183
  • - Leipzig International Industries Fair, 1927, 624
  • - Model Engineer Exhibition at Horticultural Hall, Westminster, 143, 171
  • - National Coal Products Exhibition, 495
  • - Physical Societies' Exhibition, 649
  • - Prague Sample Fair to Include Mining Section, 18
  • - Royal Agricultural Society Exhibition, 1927, Date and Place, 649
  • - Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition, Luncheon to Introduce New President, 560
  • - Society of Chemical Industry, Exhibition in Manchester, 11
  • - Textile Industry, First National Exhibition, 37
  • EXPLOSION of Steam-jacketed Pan, 335
  • Explosive Company's Plant at Nobel, Ontario, to be Reopened, 715
  • Explosives Factories, Diminution in Number and also of Persons Employed, 63

F

  • FACTORY Proposed in Natal for Manufacture of "Canex" Boards, 117
  • Fairs--see Exhibitions
  • Faraday House, Old Students' Association, Annual Dinner, 400, 511
  • Federated Malay States Insistence on Use of British Materials, 553
  • Felling a Blast-furnace Stack with Dynamite, 91
  • Fibre Rope, Inventor's Unsinkable Type, 527
  • Fire Control in a Pulverised Coal Bin, 91
  • Fire Losses Due to Electric Irons, 37
  • Firedamp in Mines, Measurement by Electric Current, E. H. Liveing, 389
  • Fire-float Beta III., Record Work at Big Fire in East London, 471
  • Fireproof Paints Factory at Sault Ste. Marie, 499
  • Flax Extensively Planted in Natal, Proposed Production of Alcohol from Waste Pulp of Leaves, 171
  • Fleming, Dr. J. A., Presentation of Portrait to, 499, 527
  • Floating Dock, Small for Table Bay Harbour, 471
  • Floating Dock, 25.000-Ton, for French Government, Launched at Hamburg, 143
  • Flood Prevention, Irrigation, and Hydroelectric Enterprise in Mexico, 689
  • Floor Tested by Four Hours' Fire, 417
  • Ford Five-day Week, Divergent Views on, 527
  • Foreign Building Materials, Greatly Increased Importation of, 361
  • Foreign Trade of the Sudan, Considerable Increase in, 663
  • Foundry at Warrington with Area of 3000 Square Yards, 499
  • Free State Flag, First Boat Launched under, Kahanui, for New Zealand, 223
  • Frost Effect in Different Soils, Caution Needed in Pipe Laying, 143
  • Fuel Research Board's Experimental Borgius Process Plant, 361
  • Fuel from Waste of Palm "Nuts," 581

G

  • GAS Oil for Petrol Engines. 41
  • Gas, Outbursts of, in Coal Mines, G. Roblings, 663
  • Gasworks Capacity of 1,000,000 Cubic Feet per Twenty-four Hours, 417
  • Gear Grinding, H. F. L. Orcutt, 581
  • G.E.C. Sports, 75
  • German Plate-rolling Trade, 287
  • Gold Nugget Weighing over 100 oz. Unearthed in Western Australia, 689
  • Gold in Sea Water, Not a Paying Proposition, 37
  • Gold, World's Product of, from 1860 to 1924, Estimated Value, J. P. Dunlop, 689
  • Goods Transport by Chinese Junks, 197
  • Grab Dredging and Excavating Equipment, Numerous Orders for, 197
  • Graphite, Natural, Its Manifold Uses, 715
  • Great Britain Self-supporting in Only One Nonferrous Metal, Aluminium, 471
  • Great Lakes Power Company, Ontario, Plans to Meet Increasing Power Demands, 335
  • Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Waterways, Disagreement Between Canadian and U.S.A. Joint Board Engineers, 609
  • Greek Government's Exclusive Convention with Eastern Telegraph Company, 91

H

  • HAITI Projected Expenditure on Public Works, 471
  • Hamilton Bridge Works West End Plant Restarted, 91
  • Harbour Development, Vizagapatam, 468
  • Heat Generated by Chemical Action of Setting Concrete, Unforeseen Result, 715
  • Hematite Discovery in Siorra Leone, 663
  • Highway Engineering for University Degree, 663
  • House Building, Steel v. Brick for, 389
  • House of SABEN, 649
  • Huon Pine Oil for Prevention of Decay in Other Woods, Experiments, 223
  • Hydrated Lime, Value of, 499
  • Hydraulic Cements, Free Limo in, Scientific Experiments, 637
  • Hydro-electric Development of Grand Falk, New Brunswick, 335
  • Hydro-electric Installations for Eastern Canada, 389
  • Hydro-electric Installation to Utilise Water Power of Bidasoa, Navarra, 417
  • Hydro-electric Metallurgic Works, at Corral, Chile, 637
  • Hydro-electric Plant, near Concepcion, Chile, 361
  • Hydro-electric Plant, Exceptionally Large, Under Construction in U.S.A., 197
  • Hydro-electric Power Plant. Big. and Plant for Magnesium Alloys, to be Erected on the Yalu River, 689
  • Hydro-electric Power Plant at St. Alban, Quebec, 689
  • Hydro-electric Station in Italy will be Largest in Europe, 663
  • Hydro-electric Station, Unusual Type for East Switzerland, 361
  • Hydro-electric Stations in Italy, Statistics Regarding, 499, 553
  • Hydro-power Development at Alexander's Landing, Ontario, 63
  • Hydrous Salts, Mainly Sodium Sulphate, Deposits in Western Canada, 689

I

  • ICE Jam, Method Adopted for Breaking Up, 715
  • Ignition of Cases, Mixtures of Methane and Air, Comprehensive Research and Report, 117
  • Imperial College of Science and Technology, Annual Dinner, 678
  • Indian Boiler Regulations Amendments, 637
  • Indian Railway Board's Search for Cheap Woods in Indian Forests, 91
  • India's Import Trade, Depression in Machinery, 117
  • Industrial Casualties, Analysis of Causes of, 117
  • Industrial Fatigue Research Board's Experiments, 11
  • Information in Periodicals and Libraries, Special, Association Formed and Directory to be Compiled, 63
  • Insect House Electrically Controlled, 37
  • "I. 0. Emmas'" Reunion, 26
  • Institutes and Institutions--see Associations
  • Insulating Varnishes, Ozonised Air Process in the Baking of, L. U. Spence and P. B. Cochran, 277
  • Iodine, Liquid, Large Exports from Java, 553
  • Irish Free State and the Shannon Scheme, 62
  • IRON AND STEEL :
  • - Algoma Steel Works at Sault Ste. Marie, 7
  • - Anvil Casting, Record Weight, 581
  • - Autogenous Welding, Decreasing Use of Cast Iron as Filler, 581
  • - Black Sand of Pacific Islands for Pig Iron, System for Extraction, 609
  • - Brazil, Steel Making Equipment, 361
  • - Canadian Pacific Railway a Order for 25,000 Tons of Rails, 335
  • - Central China Company's Large Iron Output, 277
  • - Corral, in Chile, Projected Iron and Steel Works, 443
  • - Cuynna Range, Northern Minnesota, Estimated Huge Deposits of Black Manganiferous Iron Ore and Brown Ore, 443
  • - Drawing Qualities of Thin Sheet Metal, G. G. Beard, 581
  • - Electric Heating in Hardening and Tempering of Steel, 143
  • - "F" Steel Not a New Invention, 11
  • - Flue Dust Escape from Blast-furnaces, Heavy Resulting Loss, 307
  • - Heat Treating of Steel, Results of Recent Experiments, C. W. Bryan and C. G. E. Larsson, 715
  • - High Record for Pig Iron Output, 197
  • - Ingot, Exceptionally Large, Produced at Sheffield, 335
  • - International Nickel Company's Increased Plant for Electrolytic Nickel, 171
  • - Iron Ore and Pig Iron Output in the United States, 37
  • - Ironworks, New, for Manufacture and Repair of Silk Weaving Machinery Put Up at Hangchow, 689
  • - "Jalcase," New Steel Product, Advantageous Qualities of, 361
  • - Japan Syndicate of Leading Iron and Steel Concerns, 335
  • - Large Castings and their Transport, 171
  • - Manganese Deposits of Postmasburg District, South Africa, 715
  • - National Federation of Iron and Steel Manufacturers, Reports :
  • -- Furnaces in Blast, Pig Iron Production and Steel Production, Statistics on Eve of the Coal Stoppage, 249 ; in August, 306 ; September, 464 ; in October, 553
  • -- Statistics to End of November, 715
  • - Nickel Mines Exploitation at Locris and in Boetia, 499
  • - Nickel Ore, Extensive Deposits Discovered Near Maikop, in the Caucasus, 443
  • - Phosphorus and Sulphur Effect on Rivet Steel, 143
  • - Pure Granular Iron Without Use of Coke or Limestone, Experiments, 663
  • - Refractories for Open-hearth Steel Furnaces, 11
  • - Rod Mill in Course of Erection at Newport, 307
  • - "Safety First" in Blowing-out Blastfurnaces, 143
  • - Soft Steel' and Intercrystalline Corrosion, Experiments and their Result, 171
  • - South African Pig Iron, First Steel Rails from, 143
  • - South African Tungsten Minos Plant Approaching Completion, 197
  • - Stainless Steel, Properties and Engineering Uses of, R. Waddell, 609
  • - Steel, Apparatus for Detection of Defects Not Visible on Surface, 249
  • - Steel Castings, Robert Lowe, 568
  • - Swedish Iron Ore Trust Shipments, 335
  • - Welded Steel Tube, Strength Testing Experiments, U.S.A., 11
  • - Wolfram Discovery in Cape Province, Hoped- for Addition of Valuable Tungsten Ore, 11
  • IRRIGATION Dam, Proposed, Across the Colorado River, 715
  • Irrigation Enterprise Completed in Chile, 471
  • Irrigation Works in Mysore, 637

J

  • JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Electric Power Station Projected, 307

K

  • KAWASAKI Dockyard, Japan, Increasing Output of Sheet Steel, 443

L

  • LACQUERS, Cellulose, Elementary Test for Flow, 277
  • Landslide, Serious, on Tennessee Side of Mississippi, 197
  • Lantern Slides for Lectures Offered by :
  • - Automatic and Electric Furnaces, Ltd., 486
  • - Bruce Peebles end Co., Ltd., 384
  • Lead Aluminate Production, 335
  • Lectures, Special, 319
  • Lighthouse, Lowestoft High, Much Increased Candle-power, 249
  • Lighthouse, New, at Hartlepool. Progress, 660
  • Lime Addition for Softening Boiler Water, Tests for Ensuring Accuracy in Amount, 443
  • Littlehampton Harbour, 499
  • Lithopon, Increased Production of, in the United States, 117
  • Lithopon Paints, to Remedy Darkening of, 91
  • Liverpool to East Lancashire, Government Consent to New Road Construction, 197
  • Lobnitz Rock Cutter for Sydney Harbour, 143
  • Lochalsh and Lochs on Balmacara Estate, Hydro-electric Schemes, 527
  • Long-lived Engines in Scotsmen's Charge in America, 249
  • Loughborough College, 319
  • Low Temperature Experimenters' Mistake, O. J. Parker, 663

M

  • MAGNESIAN Flooring Materials Association, 235
  • Magneto Works Projected near Olomone, Czecho-Slovakia, 249
  • Manitoba Hydro-electric Transmission System Extended, 197
  • Maple Sugar and Syrup in Quebec Province, Almost a Monopoly, 553
  • Match Industry Development in Bihar and Orissa Province, 11
  • Mazatlan, Port, on West Coast of Mexico, Construction of Stone Breakwater, Dredging, andc., Projected, 223
  • Measuring Rope, Cable, Wire, andc., Portable Machine for, 389
  • "Mechanical Policeman" for Point Duty in Copenhagen, 113
  • Meductic, Saint John River, Projected Water Power Development, 499
  • Melbourne, Sewage and Water Statistics, 171
  • Memorial, Frederick S. Spiers, 75
  • Menai Tubular Bridge, Robert Stevenson's Experiments on Models, 581
  • Metal Surfacing by Use of Stellite and an Acetylene Blow-pipe, 223
  • Metallic Cadmium, Large Production in the United States in 1925, 715
  • Metallurgical Societies in the Midlands, 397
  • Meteorological Station, New, at Pratas (Doongsha) Shoal, 609
  • Methane Air Mixture Explosion Flame Projection, Experiments, 499
  • Mica Output and Trade in India, 307
  • Mica, Promising Occurrences of, in Natal, 689
  • Mildew in Textile Fabrics. Prevention, 637
  • Main Reef Leader of the Rand Exposed, Estimates of Yield, 715
  • Mineral Production in British Columbia, 11
  • Minerals Discovery, Lepidolite and Others, near Winnipeg, in Manitoba and Ontario, 553
  • Mines--see Dust
  • Mining Incident, Unusual, 471
  • Mining Machine Electrically Driven, New Type, 335
  • Mining in New Regions of Ontario, Government- List of Requirements of Prospectors, 63
  • Mining in North-West Australia, Lack of Transport Facilities, 143
  • Moffatt Tunnel, Fatal Accident in Working, 197
  • Moffat Tunnel, Progress of Pioneer Headings, 715
  • Montreal-Ottawa-Georgian Bay Ship Canal, Proposed, 63
  • Mortar or Concrete Re-tempering, Advantages, 223
  • Mosquito Dest ruction by Paris Green, 91
  • Motor Cars and Cycles in Kalgan, 11
  • Motor Car with New Gear shifting Device, 143
  • Motor Omnibuses for Glasgow, First of New Fleet, 307
  • Motor Transport Greatly Needed in Spam, Owing to its Mountainous Character, 277
  • Mysore and Bombay Hydro electric Projects, 335

N

  • NAPLES and Port of Salerno. Port Canal Projected for, 471
  • National Certificates in Naval Architecture, 659
  • Natural Gas, Accidental Discovery in Manitoba, 663
  • Natural Gas at Depth of 600ft. in Transvaal, 117
  • Natural Gas Production in Ontario, 149, 171
  • Needles Imported by U.S.A, from Great Britain, 63
  • New South Wales Gold Yield, 37
  • New South Wales Increased Imports, 609
  • New Zealand's Projected Big Hydro-electric Development, 197
  • Newsprint Mill in Ontario, One Day's Output, 197
  • Newsprint Mill, Quebec, Projected Extension, 223
  • Newsprint Mills in Canada, Increased Production of, 91
  • Newsprint Paper Mill, Quebec, Now Addition, 11
  • Niagara Falls, Erosion of the Crest at the Rate of 7ft. per Annum. Measures to Relieve, 91
  • Niagara Memorial Bridge Company Applies for Charter, 417
  • Nickel--see Iron
  • Nitric Acid Production by Arc Process with Use of Iceland Waterfalls, 314
  • Nitrogen, Atmospheric. Factory for Fixation of, 277
  • Nitrogen Fixation, Materials of Construction for, J. G. Thompson, 277
  • Nitrogen Fixation Plant in Brazil Projected, 637
  • Norwegian Aluminium Industry, 417
  • Norwegian Proposal to Lease Waterfall to Aluminium Corporation of England, 91

O

  • OIL from Coal Process, Professor Doctor Bergius' Warning, 499
  • Oil Company's Plant at Regina, Saskatchewan, New Equipment for, 443
  • Oil Engine, Swedish, New Type, 701
  • Oil Flow, Temperature Test for, 389
  • Oil, Gross Output in Baku and other Areas, 229
  • Oil Pollution of Navigable Waters by Oil carrying Vessels, 171
  • Oil Refinery for Fish and Cotton Seed Oil, Projected, in Newfoundland, 171
  • Oil Shale at Coal Mines in Manchuria, 223
  • Oil Shale Dusts Proved Explosive. Need of Same Precautions as in Coal Mines, 277, 361
  • Oil in South Africa, Hopeful Prospects from Boring, 689
  • Oil, Trial Bore-hole in Search for Oil, in South Australia, 548
  • Oil Wells Yield in Oklahoma. Methods of Increasing with Safety Precautions, 553
  • Ontario Oilers Financial Assistance in Diamond Drilling for Coal or Oil, 637
  • Ore Crushers for Chilian Mine, Allis-Chalmers Company, 715
  • Oxygen Factory at Fremantle, Australia, 480

P

  • PAINT, Colour and Varnish Industry Research, Now Offices, 197
  • Panama Canal Tolls Increase, 223
  • Paper Mill to be Driven by Power from Outarde Falls, Quebec, 499
  • Paper Mill Extension for Newsprint at Quebec, 581
  • Paper Mill, Large, Erection in Quebec, 45
  • Paper Mill to Use Local Timber in Tasmania, Experiment, 417
  • Paper Pulp Factory Projected for Tasmania, 143
  • Paper Pulp-making by Keobra Process, 527
  • Paper from Straw, Factory for Manufacture of, 443
  • Paraffin Oil, Increased Importation into Hang, chow Harbour, 171
  • Paranagua, Wharf Projected at, 307
  • Paste Paints, Zinc Oxide. Enamels, Varnishes, andc., Production in America, 609
  • Paving Machine Worked by Petrol Motor, 219
  • Peat Fuel, Conditions of Economical Manufacture of, in Canada, Committee's Report, 466
  • Pembroke Dockyard, 319
  • Perak River, Hydro-electric Construction Works on Banks of, 637
  • Permanent Way, A Century of, 649
  • Permeability of Natural Stones to Water, Relative Values as Building Material, 249
  • Petroleum Discovery Reported in Chinese Village, 277
  • Petroleum Products Output in Canada, 307
  • Petroleum Storage and Conveyance, Changes in the Law and Scale of Licence Fees Payable, 171
  • Petroleum Working, Neglect of Economy and Research. Professor J. F. Thorpe, 389
  • Phosphate Rock Discovered in Russia to be Converted into Fertiliser, 443
  • Phosphates in Irish Free State, 63
  • Piles Supporting Railroad Bridge, over 13,000, Driven 23ft. Below Low Water, 117
  • Pine Lines Used for Conveying Natural Gas, Effect of Change of Temperature, 443
  • Plastint, New Inexpensive Interior Plaster, 117
  • Platinum "Dredging" in Russia, 553
  • Pollution of Sea by Oil, Conference of Thirteen Countries' Representatives, 37
  • Polytechnic Engineering Society, Annual Conversazione, 649
  • Port Kembla-Moss Vale Railway and Port Kembla Ironworks, Agreement, 171
  • Ports, New, Proposed for Brazil, 663
  • Portland Cement Concrete, Permeability of. and Experimental Work, 609
  • Portland Cement Industry in 1925, Record Years'Manufacture, 471
  • Portuguese Schemes for Water Power Development, 499
  • Potash Discovery in the Ural Mountains, 197
  • Power Alcohol Distillery Projected for Queensland, 417
  • Power Development, Quareau River, Quebec, 499
  • Power Lines, 4000 Miles, Authorised in Quebec, 471
  • Power Plant at Cape Town, Extension of, 499
  • Pressure Wave Sent Out by an Explosive, W. Payman and W. C. F. Shepherd, 641
  • Printers' Compositors' Work, Illumination Question, 637
  • Public Works, Roads and Transport Congress and Exhibition in 1927, Offer of Prizes for Papers, 106
  • Pump Mill, the Second in Northern Manitoba, Survey for, 443
  • Pumping Plant of Exceptional Lift at the Simmer and Jack Gold Mine, 553
  • Pumping Slimes at Rand Gold Mine with Rubber-lined Centrifugal Pump, 443
  • Pumping Water from Broken Hill Mino, Cost of, 471
  • Pumps for Pulverised Coal Conveyance in German Power Station, 527

Q

  • QUARRIES of the United States, Trouble and Expense Due to Water Seepage and also Ice, 443
  • Quebec Development of Mineral, Water Power and other Resources, 37
  • Quebec, Province of, to be Mapped Photographically from Aeroplanes, 91
  • Queen's Engineering Works, Past and Present Students' Annual Dinner, 649
  • Queensland State Smelting of Silver-lead Ore, 499

R

  • RADIO Apparatus--see Wireless
  • RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :
  • - Accidents :
  • -- Accidents of 1925, Annual Report, 335
  • -- American Railway Trainmen's Reduced Fatalities, 197
  • -- Automatic Stop and Fatal Railway Accident, 197
  • -- Automatic Train Control, Effect of its Absence in Serious Collision, 117
  • -- Block Instrument Safeguard Against Accident, 471
  • -- Breakdown Work on the Waterloo and City Tube Railway, 527
  • -- Buffer Stop Collision at Brighton, Report, 90, 143
  • -- Buffer Stop Collision with Empty Coaches at Bradford, 361
  • -- Buffer Stop Collision Inquiry, 143, 553
  • -- Buffer Stop Collision at Sligo, General Immunity from Accident of Irish Railways, 527 : Report on Accident, 637
  • -- Collision at Bishop's Stortford During General Strike, Report on, 277
  • -- Collision at Brentwood, 63 ; Report by Colonel Sir J. Pringle, 417
  • -- Collision Between Express and Light Engine Outside Carlisle Station, 361
  • -- Collision at Kidderminster, 717
  • -- Derailment of Train Due to Abnormal Heat and Other Causes, 249
  • -- Derailment, Fatal, of Train in Upper Bavaria, 197
  • -- Derailment Near Helpston, 91
  • -- Derailment by Strikers of Scottish Express, 37, 91 ; Report on Derailment, 142, 527
  • -- Derailment of Train Entering Waterloo Station, 197
  • -- Draw-bars Failures, Sir John Pringle's Report, 663
  • -- Driver's Difficulty in Learning New Section of Road, 663
  • -- Fatal Accident to Signal Ganger and Mate and Result of Legal Appeal, 717
  • -- Fatal Collision at Bethlehem, Penn., 389
  • -- Fatal Collision During General Strike, Report on, 63
  • -- Fatal Collision Between Melun and Montereau, 335, 361
  • -- Fatal Collision on Southern Railway, 553
  • -- Fatal Collision Between Train and Motor Road Vehicle, 609
  • -- Fatal Collision and Verdict of Manslaughter, Melbourne Electrified Area, 249, 471
  • -- Fiftieth Anniversary of Fatal Collision, 689
  • -- Fiftieth Anniversaries of Notable Accidents, 117, 171 ; (Letter), 170
  • -- Fire in a Passenger Train, hut no Fatalities. 117
  • -- First Anniversary of Serious Collision, 249
  • -- Flood Damage to Viaduct on Former Furness Railway, 553
  • -- Fog Collision on Tilbury Section of L.M.S. Railway, also Near Finsbury Park Station, 609, 637
  • -- Forty-fifth Anniversary of Fatal Collision, 417
  • -- French Derailment, Serious, 37
  • -- French Fatal Railway Accident, 499
  • -- Germany and Poland, Train Disaster the Result of Foul Play, 143
  • -- German Railway Accidents, New Safety Device, 33
  • -- Inquiries into Accidents to Railway Servants, 37
  • -- Japan, Serious Derailment, 335
  • -- Landslide Causes Fatal Derailment of Barcelona-Valencia Train, 277
  • -- Level Crossing Accident to Cyclist, 443
  • -- Level Crossing Disaster at Naworth, Worst Known in this Country, Inquest and Government Inquiry, 277, 307, 360, 637
  • -- Night Train from Glasgow Out of Hand end Resulting Damage, 307
  • -- Occupation Crossing Fatality on Liverpool- Southport Line, 179
  • -- Passenger Train Delayed by "Defect" at Hackney Downs, L. and N.E.R. Station, 223
  • -- Passenger Train Runs into Light Engine Outside Holbeck, 335
  • -- Quarterly Returns of Railway Accidents for 1925, Analysis of, 249
  • -- Railwaymen Sentenced for Displacing Rails During Strike near Stafford, 91
  • -- Rawmarsh Accident Recalls Previous Fatalities, 581
  • -- Rawmarsh Accident, Inquiry, 609, 637, 663
  • -- Report on Accident During General Strike in Edinburgh Tunnel, Escape of Gas and Advantage of Electric Lighting, 223
  • -- Report on Collision Near Manors Station, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 499
  • -- Reports on Accidents to Railway Servants, 609
  • -- Runaway Carriages Derailed Near Sowerby Bridge, 277
  • -- Scalded Shunter and Vague Instructions, 307
  • -- Signal Difference of Opinion, 661
  • -- Twentieth Anniversary of Fatal Accident to Scottish Express, 335
  • -- Twenty-one Deaths by Derailment, Wilfully Caused, in Germany, 249, 307
  • RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
  • - Accidents (continued):
  • -- Two Accidents, but No Fatalities, on the London and North-Eastern Railway, 689
  • -- United States Inter-State Commerce Commission, Accident Bulletin, 11
  • -- Water Gauges on Tenders to Avoid Risk to Enginemen, 609
  • - Air Lines and Railways, Co-operation and Not Competition, 443
  • - American Railways' Big Compensation Bill for Personal Injuries, 553
  • - America's Largo Proportion of Unprotected Crossings, 663
  • - Appointments and Staff Changes, 117, 197 223, 277, 359, 499, 527, 689, 715
  • - Asphyxiation in Tunnel and Train Held Un, 425
  • - Automatic Application of Continuous Brakes, Great Value of, Proved, 335
  • - Automatic Records of Block Signals, Unheeded Recommendation, 33
  • - Automatic Signals and Train Control on Pennsylvania Railroad, 581
  • - Baker-street Connections, Thirty Additional Trains, 499
  • - Belgium Railways, Like Germany, to Revert from State to Private Ownership, 11
  • -- Reduction in Number of Temporary Railway Servants, Regular Men Must Retire on Pension at Sixty Instead of Sixty- Five, 11
  • - Bombay Director of Development Retired, 609
  • - British Railways, Certain Exceptions to Strictly Private Ownership, 361
  • - Buenos Aires Provincial Railway Systems, New Branches to be Constructed, 683
  • - Cable Tramways in Melbourne. Portion of, to be Converted to Electric Traction, 471
  • - Calgary and Southern Railway, Construction of, About to Bogin, 277
  • - Canadian National Railways* Increased Revenue, 171, 527
  • - Canadian National Railways* Outlay on Radio Service, 91
  • - Census of Railway Employees, Decreased Number, 389, 471
  • - Cheap Fares and Winter Train Service, 249
  • - Chicago and Illinois Central Railroad Electrification, Rapid Work, 443
  • - China's First Refrigerator Car, 581
  • - China's Projected Provincial Railways, 581
  • - Chinese Government Railways Finance, 527
  • - City and South London Railway, Modern Lifts to Replace Old Ones, 91
  • - Coal Consumption of Railways During Mines Stoppage, 91
  • - Coal Dispute Effects on Railway Services, 443
  • - Coal Price Increase and Railway Charges, 581
  • - Colliery Lino to Cheapen Coal Transport, 609, 637
  • - Colliery Wagon Railway Conversion to Light Railway, Order for, 223
  • - Commonwealth Government's Road Scheme, 143
  • - Consumption of Coal per Engine Mile, Comparison between Railways, 143
  • - Cost of Living Fallen and Reduction of Railwaymen's Pay, 11
  • - Czechoslovakian Railway Electrification, Rapid Progress of Work, 307
  • - Death of Mr. George L. Fowler, 143
  • - Death of Mr. Francis Clarke Gamble, 637
  • - Death of Mr. William Hood, 471
  • - Death of Mr. H. E. Jones. 11
  • - Death of Mr. W. H. Oates, 581
  • - Death of Colonel C. W. P. Ramsey, 361
  • - Derwent Valley Railway Ceases Passenger Traffic, 171
  • - Dividends and Depreciation Funds, 717
  • - East Indian Railway Lowers Passenger Fares, 637
  • - East Indian Railway Trains Equipped with Side Lights, 581
  • - Edgware-road Reconstructed Station Opened, 499
  • - Great Western Railway :
  • -- Cardiff Railway to be Converted to Single Line, 527
  • -- Colwall Additional Tunnel, Progress, 63
  • -- Rennet and Avon Canal, Railway Wishes to Close, 527
  • -- Oswestry and Question of Railway Works Enlargement, 307
  • - Harwich-Zeebrugge Train Ferry, Successful Through Delivery of Goods between North of England and Italy or France, 335
  • - Horses Used on Railway Work, Census, 63
  • - Indian Railway Board, Annual Report for 1925-6, Statistical Section, 721
  • - Indian Railways' Marked Improvements of Various Kinds, 471
  • - Indian State Railways' Approximate Gross Earnings Compared with Previous Year, 609
  • - Institutes and Institutions, Railway--see Associations
  • - Irish Railways' Immunity from Accident, 527
  • - Italian Railway Electrification from Genoa Completed to Spezia, 499
  • - Kent Coalfield Wagon Owners and the Railway Company, 171
  • - "Ladies' Lounge" Smoking Car, 389
  • - Level Crossing Question, Another Phase, 443
  • RAILWAYS AMD TRAMWAYS (continued):
  • - Lisbon to Cascaes Coast Railway Electrification, 223
  • - Litter on Platforms and Track, Underground to Install Baskets for Collection, 689
  • - Locking Bars, Facing Point, 277
  • - Locomotive Appearance, American and British, 689
  • - Locomotives, New Type, for Union Pacific Company, 91
  • - London Electric Railways :
  • -- London Electric Railways' Brochure, 389
  • -- Morden Extension and Charing Cross and Kennington Tube, Opening Postponed by Strikes, 91
  • -- Date of Opening, 171
  • -- Morden Extension and New Omnibus Services, 307
  • -- Work in the Streets for Various Mains Delayed Opening of Morden Extension, 663
  • - London, Midland and Scottish Railway :
  • -- Burton and Ashby Light Railway Working at a Loss, Application to Cease Operations, 117
  • -- Carriage and Wagon Works at Stoke-on- Trent to be Closed, 715
  • -- Crewe Works, Visit by Locomotive Engineers, 207
  • -- Glasgow Sunday Traffic, St. Enoch's Closed on Sundays, 307
  • -- Golders Green Station. Passenger Increase, 581
  • -- Mixed Traffic Locomotives, 100 being Constructed, 249
  • -- Shoreditch Station. North London Section, Road Widening and Consequent Alterations to Station and Bridges, 249
  • -- Staveley, Alterations on Former Midland Section, 335
  • -- Storm Damage on Central Wales Line, 111
  • -- Trains Withdrawn to Reduce Expenses, 499
  • - London and North-Eastern Railway :
  • -- Branch Railway for New Colliery, 443
  • -- Coast Erosion Involves New Line for Walton-on-the-Nazo Branch of Railway, 63
  • -- Cost of Flying Junction at Stratford, 662
  • -- Flushing Boats to Sail from Harwich Instead of from Folkestone, 715
  • -- Hanging Buffers for Wagons. Disadvantage of, £500 Prize Offered not yet Won. 9 ; Further Rewards for Designs Offered, 91
  • -- King's Cross New Platform, 389
  • -- King's Cross to York Non-stop Rapid Run, 307
  • -- Lightning and Fire Destruction of Signal Box near Leeds, 117
  • -- No Powers Sought at Present, 663
  • -- Re-signalling of Cambridge Station, a Correction, 689
  • -- Signal Boxes, Reduction of, and Resulting Economy, 527
  • -- Signals, Automatic Three-aspect Day- Colour Light Projected, 249
  • -- Stores Department Reorganised, 143
  • -- Trains Withdrawn to Reduce Expenses, 527 : Plans for Withdrawal Cancelled, 637
  • -- Welwyn Garden City Station Opened, 389
  • - Lubricating Oil Consumption per Engine Mile, Comparison of Different Main Lines, 223
  • - Melbourne Area Railway Electrification, Results, 389
  • - Melbourne Suburban Railways. Huge Cost of Conversion to Electric Traction, 581
  • - Melbourne Suburban Railways, Increased Revenue, 63
  • - Metropolitan District Railway, Hounslow Brunch, Double Tracked, 663
  • - Metropolitan Railway Bill fur Tube between Willesdcn Green and Edgware-road, Passed Committee Stage, 11
  • - Ministry of Transport
  • -- Coal Stoppage mid Serious Results on Railway's, 416
  • -- Coal Transport by Railway, Mr. J. H. Thomas Appointed to Committee of Inquiry, 361, 609
  • -- London Traffic Inquiry as to South-East London, 197
  • -- Manchester - Middleton Heywood Light Railway Sanctioned, but with Conditions, 248
  • -- Privately Owned Wagons and Either-side Brakes, 197
  • -- Railway Statistics for February, 1926, 11
  • -- Railway Statistics for March, 1926, 99
  • -- Railway Statistics for April, 1926, 143
  • -- Railway Statistics for May, 1926, 223, 235
  • -- Railway Statistics for July, 1926. 443
  • -- Railway Statistics for August, 1926, 553
  • -- Railway Statistics for September, 1926, 663
  • -- Reports to Minister on Travelling Facilities to and from North and North-East London and East London, 637
  • -- Tramways and Railway Competition, Appeal to the Ministry for Legislation in Favour of Tramways, 11
  • -- Travelling Facilities in North London Reported on, Report on East London Awaited, 63
  • -- Underground Tunnel to Connect Piccadilly and City Line Tubes, 335, 417
  • - National Union of Railwaymen
  • -- Analysis of Members us Guardians, Councillors, andc., 63
  • -- Repetition of Railway Centenary Demonstration, 361
  • - New South Wales Railways, Progress of Work on Cuttings for Kyogle Railway, 609
  • - New South Wales, Survey for Railway, Moss Vale-Port Kembla, 11
  • - New York Central Railroad Celebrates Centenary of Charter for Mohawk and Hudson Railway, 11
  • - New Zealand, Railway Workshops in, 103
  • - Paris and Orleans Trains Hauled by Electric Locomotives for First Time, 417
  • - Parliamentary Notices as to Railway Bills for Next Session, Paucity of, 609
  • RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):
  • - Pay and Salary, House of Lords Differentiation, 11
  • - Peru, Deviation of Central Railway to Avoid Flood Damage, 335
  • - Piccadilly Road Traffic, Control by Railway Signals, 443
  • - Post-office Vehicles in France, 443
  • - Presentation of Veteran Engine-drivers to the King, 417
  • - Queen of Roumania's Free Travel in the United States, 527
  • - Rail Joint, New Type Successful, 527
  • - Railway Companies' Power to Increase Rates, Test Case in Chancery, 63, 117, 527
  • - Railway Finance and the Industrial Situation Before and After April 1926, to end of July, 171
  • - Railway Lines and Widenings, Extensive Additions Authorised, 389
  • - Railway Material Exports Statistics, 117, 171, 307, 389, 553
  • - Railwaymen's Day, Proposed Pageant, 91
  • - Railway Rates Tribunal
  • -- Complaints of New Schedule Kates Regarding Private Wagons of Coalowners on Southern Railway, 11
  • -- Rates Raising Permitted by Law, 689
  • -- Standard Charges Consideration Resumed, 417
  • -- Test Case in the Court of Appeal, 63, 117, 527
  • - Railway Returns, Miscellaneous Information and Comparisons between Railways, 143
  • - Railway Returns for 1925, Only Five Passenger-carrying Vehicles Built or Bought without Electric Lighting, 443
  • - Reduction of Staff and the General Strike, Sir Ralph Wedgwood's View, 443
  • - "Retarders" for Checking Speed of Wagons, 36
  • - Retirement anti Previous Services of Mr. Thomas Carlton, 37
  • - Road Motors' Competition with Railways, Sir Ralph Wedgewood's Views, 471
  • - Shopmen Question, Probability of Settlement, 63, 663
  • - Shopmen Question Settlement Rejected, 277
  • - Signals, Automatic, Three-aspect Day Colour Light to be Used between Capo Town and Wynborg, 171
  • - Signals, Day Colour Light to be Used on 800 Miles of an American Railway, 171
  • - Sao Paulo New Station, 499
  • - Solway Viaduct and Risk of Railway Accident, 197
  • - South London, Transit Conditions in, 579
  • - Southern India Railway Development. Discussion, 609
  • - Southern Railway :
  • -- Bill of Southern Railway Read a Third Time, 11
  • -- Cannon-street Station Reopened, Cannonstreet and Charing Cross Platforms Renumbered, 11
  • -- Electrical Equipment on the Southern Railway, Changes to be Made, 171, 581, 609
  • -- Ferry Service at Lymington and Neglected Dredging, 553
  • -- Further Electrification on the Southern Railway, 581, 609
  • -- Great Eastern Railway's Previous Reforms, Comparison between Electric and Steam Services, Mr. R. Bell, 171
  • -- Improvements on the Southern Railway, Foggy Weather Arrangements, 471
  • -- Leatherhead Junction Towards Guildford, Projected Closing of Present Station, 417
  • -- Omnibus Station at Victoria, Starting Signal Arrangements, 63
  • -- Ramsgate and Margate New Lines and Connections, 37
  • -- Reopening of Electrical Services on South London Line, 361
  • - Summer Services and Coal Shortage, 37
  • - Thames Bridges, Suggested Conversion to Road Bridges and Serious Objections Thereto, 471
  • - Ticket and Change-giving Machines, 581
  • - Track Circuits and Length Requirements,37
  • - Tramcars on Single Tracks Controlled during Fogs by Old Wooden Staff System, 277
  • - Trans-Australian Train, Suggestion of Third Rail to Obviate the Difficulty of Difference in Gauge, 91
  • - Travelling Facilities of Certain London Boroughs, Public Inquiry, 277
  • - Trinidad Railways' Deficit, Select Committee's Recommendation, 717
  • - Tube Railways and Electric Lighting Improvements, 63
  • - Underground, Escalators and Lifts on the, 581
  • - Underground Expenses Leave 5 per cent, for Dividends and Reserves, 117
  • - Underground Railway Tunnel to Connect Piccadilly and City Line Tubes, Not for Use of Public, 335, 417
  • - Underground Railways of London, Density of Traffic and Time-saving, 143
  • - Underground Suggestion Scheme, Useful Results, 223
  • - Unemployment and Short Time on the Railways since the General Strike, J. H. Thomas, 443
  • - United States Centenary of First Railway Opening, 553
  • - Unusual Case Consequent on Smoke from Fire on Railway Bank, 637
  • - Wages Boards Exchanged for New Scheme in U.S.A., 197
  • - Wagon Scarcity Difficulties, 662
  • - Wagons, Privately Owned, Analysis, 389
  • - Wimbledon Station Reconstruction, 10
  • - Winter Train Service, Few Changes, 335
  • - Workmen's Train Grievances and Fares, 249
  • - Rotary Converters, 2000-Kilowatt, for Mansion House Underground Sub-station, 223
  • RAINFALL Beats All Records in Saskatchewan, 171
  • Rainfall Record of Now York Broken, 277
  • Rand Mines, Misfire Accidents Increase, 499
  • Raw Rubber from Native Sources, South Africa, 249
  • Reclamation Work on Foreshore at Port Elizabeth, 637
  • Refrigerating Apparatus for Household Use, Two New Inventions, 663
  • Re-heat Treatment of Carbon Steel Gas Cylinders, Recommendation of Committee, 171
  • Remarkable Record, 393
  • Resin, Synthetic, with Certain Glass Characteristics, Discovered by Dr. Pollak, 663
  • Retort Plant, Tasmania, Result of Weeks' Trial Run, 91
  • Road Construction in British Columbia, Three Years' Programme, 609
  • Road Traffic of Piccadilly, Colour Light Signals, 91
  • Road Transport in the Future, A. Baker, 307
  • Rome, Underground Transport for, Planned by Government, 553
  • Roumanian Government, Annual Orders for Rolling Stock at Bukarcst, Works, 277
  • Royal Metal Trades Pension and Benevolent Society, 207
  • Rubber Curing, Suggested Use of Paranitrophenal, 91
  • Rubber Manufacture by New Process in America, 499
  • Rubber Purchase by Manufacturers for the Current Year, Estimate of, 689
  • Rubber Tire Factory for H uge Output Projected for Sydney, Australia, 715
  • Ruling Pens, Care of, 171

S

  • SAFETY Measurements for Planks to Support Men at Work, 715
  • Safety in Mines Research Board, 103
  • St. Lawrence. New North Channel, to be Opened During High Water Season, 1927, 249
  • Salt Wells at McMurray, Alberta, Successful Mining, 37
  • Salt Works for Sea Water Evaporation Under Construction in Queensland, 171
  • Sands, Bituminous, Analysis and Experiments on, 581
  • Sao Paulo Hydraulic Works, 397
  • Scholarships, Research, Offer by Rockefeller Institute and Commonwealth Institute, 63
  • Science Museum, Lecture Tour Arrangements, 649
  • Scientific Discovery, Apparatus Used for, and Possibility of Securing for the Nation, 117
  • Scottish Engineering Works Sold and Altered for Production of Artificial Silk, 249
  • Sewage Works, Sludge Beds Covered by Glass, Increased Capacity as Result, 117
  • Sewerage Scheme at Oruro, Bolivia, and Canal to Connect, with River. Both Contracts Secured by this Country, 689
  • Shale--see also Oil
  • Shale Oil in Tasmania, Geological Calculations of Very Large Deposits, 689
  • Shanghai Arsenal to Become a Limited Company, 443
  • Shanghai, Motor Cars, 55 Per Cent, of American Make, 277
  • Shanghai, New Plant of Chapei Electricity and Waterworks Company, 443
  • Shanghai, Suggested Conversion of Kiangnan Arsenal into a Factory, 91
  • Shawinigan Water anti Power Company's New Power Station, 527
  • Shed, Very Large Area, Proposed Construction on the Mersey, 581
  • Sheffield Town Planning, 389
  • SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS
  • - British Submarine Depot Ship, 311
  • - Canadian Pacific Cargo Ships, Three New, 21
  • - Cargo Steamers' Cost at Greenock, 499
  • - China's Foreign Trade, Japanese and British Ships as Principal Carriers, 315
  • - Cunard Liner Berengaria Running with Repaired Rudder During Manufacture of New One, 277
  • - Cunarder Mauretania, 12.5 Days' Performance, 223
  • - Diesel-electric Tugs, Very Large. Used on Panama Canal, 689
  • - Electric Passenger Ship, Largest Commercial Craft Built in U.S.A., 197
  • - Finland's Projected Submarine Flotilla, 307
  • - Forty Vessels with Electric Motors Connected to the Screw Shafts, 223
  • - French Cruiser Tourville Launched, 223
  • - German Trade Ship Vatcrland Said to be Largest in the World. 171
  • - Germany's Commercial Fleet, Decline and Rebuilding, 527
  • - H.M.S. Ajax and H.M.S. King George V. to be Broken Up at Rosyth, 689
  • - Italian Government's Subsidy Assist once to Shipbuilding, 663
  • - Japanese Steamship in the Scheldt, Failure of Salvage Operations, 37
  • - Large Electric Passenger Ship, The First Keel Laid at Newport News, Virginia, 223
  • - Largest Fresh Water Cargo Ship, 307
  • - Lightship, Very Up-to-date, for Mouth of Rangoon River, 91
  • - Motor Lifeboat, New, at Plymouth, 62
  • - Motor Vessel for New Zealand Government, 319
  • - Navigation Light, Unattended Flashlight, 143
  • - New Submarine Oberon, Trial of, 335
  • - Norwegian Mercantile Fleet, 63
  • - Oil-carrying Vessels, Board of Trade Warnings as to Suitable Precautions, 307
  • - Poland Start ing a Mercantile Fleet, 527
  • - Raising United States Submarine, Difficulties Overcome by Nozzle Invention, 197
  • - Record Ship Coaling at Svdney, Nova Scotia, 91
  • - Regulations for Elect rival Equipment of, 235
  • - Shifting Cargoes, Special Parking for Zinc Concentrates, 37
  • - Shipbuilding Employers and Trade Unions, Meeting, 609
  • - Shipping on the Clyde and on the Tyne, Decreased Output, 143
  • - Ships Guided to Harbour, However Thick the Fog, Special Device Employed, 316
  • - Singapore Harbour, Greatly Increased Traffic, 663
  • - Submarines Two Large, Launched, for Australia, 37
  • - The Egypt, Salvage of, Suspended for the Winter, 361

SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS (continued) :

  • - Train Ferry for Kootenay Luke, British Columbia. 58ft
  • - Wireless Daily Communication Over 11,000 Milea by Australian Liner, 521
  • - Yangtze River, Great, Increase in Steam and Motor Navigation on, 715
  • SILTING Up of Bengal River, 197
  • Singapore Naval Base, Satisfactory Progress of Work, 117
  • Slide Rule, Commercial, John Davis and Son, (Derby), Ltd., 577
  • Slovakia, Eastern, Proposed Electric Supply for, by Hydro-electric Station, 389
  • Smoke Abatement Lead, Need of Educative Propaganda, 417
  • Soap Factory Erection at North Wall, Dublin, 205
  • Soap Works at Irlam, New Section Opened, 171
  • Soda Recovery Plant at Magadi, East Africa, to be Re-started, 249
  • Sodium Sulphate Production from Alkaline Lakes in Saskatchewan, 63
  • Spain and Portugal, Time Limit for Resumption for Negotiations as to Harnessing Douro Falls, 197
  • Spare Parts for Machines Already Sold, 117
  • Specialised Information in Great Britain and Ireland, Directory of Sources of, 11
  • Spiers, Frederick S., Memorial, 75
  • Stains from Contact between Marble and Steel Work, Remedy for, 471
  • Steam Accumulator Storing 10,000 lb., 581
  • Steam Engine and Boiler to Replace Oil Engines in Power Station at Burghersdorp, South Africa, 715
  • Steam Pipe, Flexible, Explosion,Official Report, 689
  • Steam Turbine in Trinidad, Special Features of Construction, 143
  • Steamers on Upper Yangtse River, Great Increase in Number of, 117
  • Steel--see Iron and Steel
  • Suez Canal Traffic and British Coal Working Stoppage, 527
  • Sugar Beet Factory at Bassano. Alberta, 663
  • Sugar Beet Factory near Selby, 581
  • Sugar Beet Factory, Spalding, to Begin Operations, 249
  • Sugar Beet Factory, near Wellington, Shropshire, Date for Completion, 714
  • Sugar Beet in Manitoba, Results from Experimental Growing, 443
  • Sugar Cane, Factory at Luabo, 352, 378, 390 (Two-page Supplement, October 1st, 1926)
  • Sugar Cane, Machine for Harvesting, 581
  • Sulphur has no Disadvantages in Diesel Fuel, 417
  • Sulphur Mines in Sicily, Cont nut Signed for Electrification of all Services Connected Therewith, 63
  • Sulphuric Acid Factory to be Put Up in China, 471
  • Sunlight Rays under Water Imitation of, to Check Anchor Ice Formation, 663
  • Surface Finishes, New Testing Inspection Machine, 637
  • Survey of India, Complete Reorganisation of, into Five Circles, 277
  • Swedish Standard Type of Cheap Passenger Motor Cars, 197
  • Swedish Trade Reports Shipbuilding Industry Improved but Iron Industry Still Depressed, 361
  • Sydney, Australia, and Maitland, New Carrier Wave Telephone Service, 91
  • Synchronous Condensers, Largest Yet Built for Southern Californian Company, 335
  • Synthetic Ammonia Works of Large Capacity Projected in Japan, 417
  • Synthetic Rubber, Reported Progress in Manufacture of, by German Dye Trust, 343

T

  • TANNING Material from Brown Coal, 223
  • Tasmanian Carbide Works, Prospect of Sale to English Group, 117
  • Taxi-cabs in Peking. Company Formed to Run, 143
  • Technical Terms Employed in Branches of Physics and Physiology Connected with Illumination, 715
  • "Teknisk Tidskrift," 376
  • Telephone Cable, Subterranean, between Cairo and Alexandria, 249
  • Telephone, State, Department of Czechoslovakia to Replace Manual by Marconi Relay Automatic System, 117
  • Telephone Users of the World, 14-2 to every 100 People in United States, 2-8 per 100 in Great Britain, 171
  • Tellurium as an Alloy with many Varieties of Metals, 335
  • Tenders Invited by Madrid for Various Public Improvements, 277
  • Theosophical Society, Australia. Erects Powerful Broadcasting Station, 361
  • Thomas, H. Kerr, Debt of the Community to the Automobile, 384
  • Tidal Power on the Tay, Scheme Put Forward by Professor A. R. Fulton, 689
  • Tin-bearing Ores in Cornwall, Successful Exploration Work, 553
  • Tin Deposits Discovery on King Island. Bans Straits, 219
  • Tin Mine, Wheal Kitty, St. Agnes, Cornwall, Work for Unemployed, 581
  • Tin. Recovery of Ore Previously Wasted, 471
  • Tin, Rich Lode, Found in Tasmania, 417
  • "Titanite" as Material for Patternmaking, 527
  • Tiverton Town Water Supply, 361
  • Tokyo and Yokohama. Reconstruction after Earthquake Very Slow, 443
  • Tool, New Device, for Removing Tar Coating from Steel Water Main, 443
  • Toronto Purchase of Ironworks Land for Viaduct and Harbour Development, 249
  • Torquay Water, Electricity and Harbour Undertakings, Further Powers to be Sought, 637
  • Toxic Gases Danger, 471
  • Trade Facilities Acts, Treasury Grants for Electrical Supply and Beet Sugar, 553
  • Training for Automobile Engineering, Recommended Course, 526
  • Transvaal Platinum Reduction Plant, Output for June, 197
  • Triethylamine and Diethylamine, New Process for Manufacture of, 361
  • Trolley Omnibus Abandoned for Street Car in Larger American Cities, 249
  • Tsingtao Wharves and Harbour Suffering from Wholesale Neglect, 443
  • Tungting Lake, Yangtze Valley, Projected Survey of, 443
  • Tyne Improvement Commissioners, Projected Schemes, 37

U

  • UNITED States Firm Buying Up Canadian Works, 335
  • United States Radium Corporation has Closed its Plant at Orange, N. J., 715
  • University of Bristol, 155
  • University of London, University College, Centenary Appeal and Programme, 593
  • Upington, South Africa, Considering Water and Electricity Scheme, 417

V

  • VIBRATION Caused by Rolling of Trains, Effect on Building over the Track, 715
  • Vienna, Ambitious Power Schemes for, Negotiations with American Financiers, 715
  • Vienna, New Water Power Works Erected in 1925, 715

W

  • WAREHOUSE, Big New, at Montreal, 499
  • Watchmaking, Maintenance of Schools giving Technical Instruction in, in Switzerland and France, 527
  • Water Level Indicator for Gauge Glasses, Effective Type, 429
  • Water Power Utilisation Research Society in Germany, 335
  • Water Raising by Egyptian Natives, Conditions of Work, 249
  • Waterproof Glue, Formula for Preparing, 443
  • WATER SUPPLY :
  • - Brazil, Water System in, 322
  • - Murray River, Australia, Hume Reservoir Works, Cost and Progress, 553
  • - Murray Water Conservation Scheme, Additional Weirs Question, 471
  • - Rangoon to Obtain Water Supply by Damming the Salwin, 689
  • - Sydney and Canberra Water Supply Scheme, 471
  • - Sydney Water Board's Expenditure on New Works, 662
  • - Victoria, Water Storage Schemes in Progress and Contemplated, 171
  • WATER-TUBE Boiler Explosion Caused by Neglect, 471, 617
  • Wave-speed Camera--see Pressure Wave
  • Wax Extract from Flax Plant Tissues, Valuable Properties of, 197
  • Waygood-Otis Club New Sports Ground, 23
  • Welded Connections in Steel-framed Building, Comparison with Strength of Rivets, 11
  • Welding Aluminium, New Process, D. H. K. Bottrill, 663, 689
  • Welding Exhibition at Buffalo, N.Y., 443
  • Wells Drilled for Oil and Gas in the United States, Statistics, 553
  • Whale Fishing, Trial of Breech-loading Gun for, 197
  • Whale Oil Research Success, 389
  • Wharfage for Deep-draught Vessels at Cairns Harbour, North Queensland, 499
  • Whitworth Society, Fourth Annual Commemoration Dinner, 724
  • Whitworth Society, Summer Meeting, 103
  • Wind Pressure, Pulsating or Static Effects on Different Structures, 581
  • Windsor-Detroit Tunnel, Construction to be Started, 609
  • Wire and Wire Nail Works of Karahgatch, Turkey, Begin Work, 307
  • WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY :
  • - Atmospheric Disturbances, Experiments with New Invention, 63
  • - Bolivia Telegraph and Wireless Services, Contract with Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Ltd., 143
  • - Bombay and Calcutta, Projected Well- organised Broadcasting Service,117
  • - British Broadcasting to Pass Under Government Control, 63
  • - Broadcasting of Portraits and Pictures, Monsieur Hermod Petersen, 609, 637
  • - Broadcasting Station in Vienna, 356
  • - Crop Production Assisted by Wireless Aerials Near Potsdam, 361
  • - Czecho-Slovak Railways and Wireless Receiving Stations in Trains, 389
  • - French Postal Tests of Wireless Telegraphic Apparatus, 335
  • - Greece, Wireless Station Projected, 499
  • - Hungary's Great Advance in Use of Wireless, 249
  • - Marconi Marine Communication Company and Radio Communication Company Form Working Agreement, 527
  • WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY (continued):
  • - Mexico and Cuba, Telegraph Systems to be Connected by Wireless, 307
  • - Radio Apparatus Production in Canada, 174
  • - Radio-electric Mast for Guiding Ships at a Distance, Value Proved in Fog, 277
  • - Reaction on the Aerial, Enforcement of Regulations in Regard to Licences, 63
  • - Seventy Radio Receiving Sets for Isolated Camps in Oregon and California, 403
  • - Ship's Record Daily Communication with Sydney on Voyage to England, 521
  • - Waves of Accurately Known Frequency, Usefulness of Transmission, 223
  • - Wireless Apparatus Tested as Possible Substitute for Submarine Cable, 389
  • WOOD Oil Trees. Experimental Plantation of, in Tasmania, 581
  • Woolwich Dockyard at Auction, 31
  • Work on the New Outer Harbour at Macao, 689
  • World's Largest Motor Liner, 653

Y

  • YARRA River Improvement Projected, 471

Z

  • ZINC, Pure, Physical Properties and Crystal Structure of, 91
  • Zululand Plant for Extracting Tanning Material from Wattle Bark, 471

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