The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Index: Paragraphs

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Paragraphs Index.

Note: This is a sub-section of The Engineer 1920 Jul-Dec: Index

View the Volumes that this Index refers to.

A ACCOUNTANTS, Cost and Works, Institute of, 314 Acetone from Bassia Flowers in India, War and Peace Uses of, 446 Advertising, Lectures on, Captain O. A. Minns, 439 Aeronautical Design, American Investigation of Gorman Instruments for, 559 Aeronautics, Department of, Imperial College of Science and Technology, 462 Aeroplanes, American Military, with Air Propeller Driven Generators for Wireless Installation, 637 Aeroplanes for Railway Survey, 453 Africa, South-West Protectorate, Active Waterboring Operations, 453 A.G.E. Smithfield Dinner, 597 Agricultural Machine Manufacture Begun in Australia, 507 Agricultural Tractor Trials at Lincoln, 135 Airships, British “S.S.” Dirigible, for Ice

 Observation in Seal Fishing, 427

Airships Presented to Canada by Imperial Government, 661 Air Velocity in Small Tubes, Experiments, 35 Alaska’s First Pulp and Paper Mill, 157 Alcobronze, New Alloy, 611 Alcohol Fuel Patents, 248 Alcohol, Industrial, from Bassia Flowers, 446 Alcohol Motor Fuel, 214 Alcohol, Power, Supplies, 106 Alloy, New Magnetic, 277 Alloys Discovered in France, 111 Alloys, Pyrophoric, of Cerium and Iron, A. Hirch, 661 Aluminium Alloy Casting, Proper Temperature, 585 Aluminium and its Alloys, Protection from

 Corrosion, 111, 203

Aluminium, Process for Nickelling, 611 Aluminium from Switzerland, 585 American Engineering Societies. Federated, Joined by American Institute of Electrical Engineers, 277 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Election Machinery Improvement, 403 Ammonia—see Synthetic Annealing Polished Metals, German Process for Protection from Tarnishing, 533 Apprentices, Engineering, Shield for, 74 Apprentices of Two Firms, University Scholarships Offered, 377 Asbestos with 3ft. long Fibres at Luzon, 61 Asphalt Production in United States, 178 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES :

 INSTITUTE, ROYAL, OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS :
   War Memorial, 545
 INSTITUTE, ROYAL SANITARY :

Henry Saxon Snell Prize, Conditions for 1921, 597

 INSTITUTE, TEXTILE :

Noise in Weaving Sheds, Causes and Suggested Remedies, Committee’s Report, 533

 INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS
   Annual Dinner, 548
   Arrangements for Meetings, 74

Combustion of Naphthalene Solutions in Internal Combustion Engines, L. S. Palmer, 603 Repair of Worn Motor Parts by Electro deposited Iron, B. H. Thomas, 61 Steel Research Report, 106

 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
   Annual Dinner Not to be Held, 309
   Awards for Papers, 491
 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :

Benevolent Fund, Conditional Offer of Donation, 647 Postponement of Meetings, 494 Subscription Rates Increase Proposal, 453

        NORTH MIDLAND CENTRE :

Quasi-arc Welding lor Bombs and Submarine Mines, C. J. Jewell, 611

 INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS :

Electricity Supply by Gas Companies, J. Fisher, 30 INSTITUTION OF LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS (LONDON):

   Buenos Aires, Local Centre Opened, 170
        SCOTTISH CENTRE :
   Inaugural Meeting, 465
 INSTITUTION OF MINING AND METALLURGY :
   Gold Modal Awards, 506

INSTITUTION OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY ENGINEERS : Economies in Road Maintenance, J. Lam, 179 Gas in relation to the Housing Problem.

      F. W. Goodenough, 403
 INSTITUTION, ROYAL :
   Christmas Juvenile Lecture Programme..
      Professor J. A. Thomson, 619
 SOCIETY OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY :
        BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLAND SECTION :

Corrosion in Copper and Brass, Dr. O. F. Hudson, 611

 SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
   Appeal for Increase of Membership, 85
   Awards for Papers, 623

Concrete, Compressive Strength of, Comparison between Sea Water and Fresh, Professor E. R. Matthews, 35 CRYSTAL PALACE ENGINEERING SOCIETY :

   “ Wilson Premium ” Award, 647

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS &

 SOCIETIES (continued):
 SOCIETY, FARADAY :

Failure of Metals under Internal or Prolonged Stress, Discussion by Four Societies, 340

 SOCIETY, PHYSICAL :

Annual Joint Exhibition with Optical Society, 650 Meetings for the Session, 203 AUSTRALIA, Electrolytic Smelting Industry, Future Possibilities, 453 Australian Grant for Buildings in Future Capital of Canberra, 327 Australian Proposal for Protection of New Industries and Joint Production of Tools by British Firms, 637 Automobile Association and Motor Union Report, 157 Aviation, Civil, Air Ministry’s Report, 661 B BALDWIN’S Toronto Plant Ceases Work for

 Lack of Hydro-electric Power, 85

Bearings, White Metals for, 637 Belgium, Industrial Situation Analysed, 403 Belt Drive Tables, Buck and Hickman, 502 Belting, Method of Eliminating Static Electricity, C. M. Green, 403 Bengal Engineering College, Future of, 61 Bilbao, Crane-buying Difficulties, 322 Blast-furnace Gas, Beneficial Effect of, on

 Plants, 611

Blast-furnaces—see Iron Boiler Explosion and Need of Control, 111 Boiler and Tubes, Longer Life with Coal than

 Oil Burning, 661

Boilers and Engines, Repair by Welding, 100 Boilers, Standard Marine, 165 Bombay Engineering Congress, 106 Bonus Wage Payment Scheme of Lambourne and Co., Limited, 479 Brassfoundry, Measurement of Casting Temperatures, J. Arnott, 327 Brassey’s Annual, 502 Brazil Government Subsidy to Promote

 Chemical Study, 157

Brazilian Loan in the United States, Projected, 353 BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION :

 Specifications Adopted for Official Use in
    South Afritjp, 453
 Standardisation of Test Pieces for Notched
    Bar Test, 231

British Standard Specification for Electrical

    Cooking Ranges, 157

Brussels Ship Canal, 61 Buenos Aires Arrangement for Register of

 Traders, 585

c CABLE Dispute between the Western Telegraph Company and the United States, 661 Cadmium, Pre-war Production in Germany Outdone by the United States, 427 Calcutta, Inland Harbour at Manicktollah, and

 Canal System, 35

Camellaird-Fullagar Engine, 439 Canada and Financial Self-preservation, 327 Canada and Government Control of Hydroelectric Power, 203—see also Hydro-electric Power Canada, Graphite Report, 165 Canada, Public Ownership on Large Scale in, 585 Canada and the West Indies, Preferential Trade Agreement, 427 • Canadian Trade in Fertilisers, 179 Canadian Trent Valley Canal Finished, 111 Canal Abandoned and Used for Bed for Hydroelectric Pipe Track, with Railway Above it, 307 Canal, New, in France, under Consideration, 661 Canal, Part of, Abandoned, 253 Canal Schemes, Two, in India, F. L. Milne, 203 Canals, Disused, as Ponds for Fish Culture, 605 Canals—see also Ministry of Transport Cardiff and Smoke, 314 Cartagena, Project for Protection against Inundation, 299 Catalogues for Reval, 623 Celebration Dinner, 568 Celluloid for Knife Handles and Camphor Shortage, 327 Cement Jointing for Cast Iron Water Pipes, 377 Cement Recovery from Sacks, 61 Cement Tests in the United States Standards

 Bureau, 152

Cerium Alloys from Gas Mantle Residues, 661 Ceylon’s Hydro-electric Possibilities, 85 Chemical Analysis by Use of the Electric Arc, W. R. Mott, 559 China and American Enterprise, 403 China and Marconi Company, Negotiations for Loan for Wireless Stations, 559 China, Tatung Mining Administration, 227 Chromium—see Iron and Steel Clay Product Values in the United States, 348 Clay, Researches into Physical Properties of, Grant in Aid of, 35 CO Detector, Professor C. R. Hoover, 179 COAL, COKE, AND COLLIERIES : Air Required for Coal Combustion, Calculation of, 559 Australian Coal for Sweden, 507 Austria’s Low Coal Production, 377 Belgian Congo, Coal Deposits Discovery, 203 British Empire, Coal Resources of, 623 Canada and Expansion of Coal Output, 227 COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES (continued) : China the Sole Country with Increased Coal Production, 301 Coal-loading Apparatus for Venezuelan Port. 61 Coal Prices and Costs, 74 Coke Supply Decrease in Belgium, 353 Congo, Coal and Iron Deposits Discovered, 427 Durham Colliery’s Experience of Increased Labour Force, Decreased Output and Trebled Wages Bill, 353 Eastern Siberia, Reported Coal Discovery. 559 France, Output of Coke in, Consumption, and Imports, 377 French Coal Consumption and Supply, Effect of War and War Treaty, 377 French Coal-mining Statistics, 559 Groundhog Coal Properties, British Columbia, 427

 Japan, Estimate of Coal Deposits, 111

Lignite to Replace Coal in Westphalian Electrical Works, 301 . Malay Peninsula, Coal Discovery and Mining, 183 Malay Peninsula, Last Year’s Output of Coal. 301 Malay States, Successful Output of Coal at Cheap Rate, 585 Manchurian Coal Mines, Electric Plant Projected for, 533 Mines of Northern France, Clearing of the Dourges Pits, 479 Mines Reclamation at Lens, 301

 Nigeria, Udi Coalfield Development, 135

Pulverised Coal for Firing Steel Furnaces, 301 Queensland Coal Statistics, 111

 Ruhr Region Coal Production, 611
 South African Coal Mines Waste, 507

South African Coal Output, Half in the Middelburg Area, 611 South Wales and Monmouthshire, New Course of Instruction in Coal Mining and Diploma, 179 Tucuman Province, Coal Deposit Discovery, 157

 Upper Silesia, Reduced Output of Coal, 585

Workers’ Output, Averages of Various Countries, 353 COBALT Bloom Deposit Containing Amalite, Discovery in Manitoba, 11 Colloids and Industry, 100 Common Sense in Engineering, W. M. McFarland, 258 Concrete Aggregate, Use of Slags, 430 Concrete Consistency, Simple Apparatus for Determining, 11 Concrete, Effects of Rodding and Tapping, 135 Concrete Floor Subsidence, Method of Repair, 585 Concrete Lining for Irrigation Canals, 637 Concrete Posts, Hollow, for Use as Mine “ Timbers,” 611 Concrete Shipbuilding, Figures of its Failure, 203 Concrete Tanks, Sub-surface, Repair of, 327 Conveying Machinery, &c., Favourable Opportunity in Sweden for British Manufacturers, 179 Coolidge Wrought Tungsten Patent Controversy, 157 Copper Mine Reopened in Merionethshire, 11 Copper Product of the World, 353 Cotton Industry, British, Research Association.

 What it has Done, 377

Cotton-picking Machine in Texas, 403 County of London Royal Engineers Volunteers Disbandment and Funds Distribution, 519 Crane for Bilbao, Difficult Purchase, 322 Crane, Largest Hammer Head Type Fitting- out, 111 Crossed Threads, 522 Crystal Palace Engineering Feat, 203 Crystal Palace Engineering Society, “ Wilson Premium ” Award, 647 Cutlery Research Association, 85, 340 D DANISH Bricks Exchanged for United States Coal, 253 Death of Mr. W. H. Taylor, 6 Detection of Animate and Inanimate Objects by Heat Radiation, 301 “ Dewar ” Challenge Trophy Awarded to National Benzole Company, 479 Diesel Engines, Large Marine, Completed in Germany, 277 Divers’ Time Under Water, Chemical Suggestion for Increasing Capacity for Longer Period, 637 Divining Rod, A. J. Ellis, 301 Dredging Projects and Plant in Argentina, 11 Drill Sizes and Equivalents, C. A. Hunton and Sons, 532 Dry Dock fpr St. John, New Brunswick, 111 “ Dry Rot,” 214 Duddell Memorial, 439 Dunlop Tires Destroyed in Paris Fire, 301 Duplicating Documents for Railroad Purposes by Various Methods on Wholesale Scale, 185 Dutch Commercial Intelligence Office, 289 Dutch East Indies, Forestry Plant and Small Railways, 35 Dyes, Synthetic, Inadequate Supply, No Revival of German Trade with Bombay, 277 E ECONOMISER Wreckage by Explosion at Educational Innovation in America, 533 ELECTRICAL MATTERS: Accounts of the York, Taunton and Sunderland Electricity Departments, 327 Aluminium for Electric Installations, 507 American Electrical Appliances, Exploitation by Houseboat in China, 403 American Large Electrical Power Systems, Analysis of, 179 Auckland Electrical Plant Extension, 327 Austrian Power Station at Strubklamm undot Construction, 661 Birmingham Electric Tramways Statistics, 227 Bolton Electricity Works Additions, 135 Bradford Electricity Works, New Generating Plant, 507 Bridge River Power Site, Vancouver, Development Begun, 61 Burnley Loan for Generating Station Plant, 179 Canadian Government Reduces Licence for Export of Electrical Energy of Three Companies, 585 Cauvery Falls, Development of Power in Mysore, 35 Cauvery Falls, Proposed New Power Stations, 637 Ceylon, Hydro-electric Development in, 377 Charleroi Electrical Trade Improving, 179 Cooking Ranges, Electrical, British Standard Specification for, 157 Cracking in Built-up High-tension Insulators, 85 Eastbourne Electricity Finance, 135 Electricity Supply by Gas Companies, J. Fisher, 30 Ex-Officers Trained for General Electrical

   Company’s Work, 533

Fulham and Hammersmith Undertakings “ Linking Up,” 301 Furnaces Used for Manufacture of Potash and Phosphoric Acid, 35 Garlearini’s Rotating Arc Lamp, 301 Generating Plant for Manchurian Coal Mines, 533 Generators, Air Propeller Driven, in American

   War Aeroplanes, 637

George Montefiore Prize Offer, 157 German Electrical Company’s Increased Dividend, 533 German Electrical Industry Position, 179 Gigantic Power Scheme Proposed for Eastern

   United States, 111

Glasgow Electrical Deficit, 227 Glass Insulator Tests, 479 Greenock as a Power Centre for Renfrewshire, 479 High Voltage by San Francisco Company, 533 Italian Consumption of Electrical Energy, 277 Japan Erecting Power Stations for Train Operation, 111 Japanese Electrical Enterprise Statistics, 479 Japanese Electric Industry and Water Power Rights, 533 Lamp, High-voltage, New Form of, 253 Linking-up Scattered Water Power Resources, Dr. Steinmetz, 203 London County Council Electrical Supply Statistics, 253 Loughborough Corporation Electricity Supply Extension, 135 Maps pf Electrical Districts in Request, 111 Melbourne Electric Company Orders Tramway Rails from America, 277 Motor Tricycles, Electric, for Swiss Posta Work, 510 Nationalisation of German Electrical Under takings, 533 Norwich, Proposed New Electricity Works, 453 Nottingham’s New Electric Power Station, 403 ; Additional Expenditure, 661 Oil Switches, Rating and Design of, 327 Photometer, Electric, New Device, 403 Portobello New’ Generating Station, Capacity, 327 Pretoria, Extensive New Power Scheme, 11 Punjab and Cheap Electric Power, F. L.

   Milne, 203

Refractories for Electric Furnaces, 507 Research Committee. Electrical, New Developments, 253 Research Licence—see Scientific Shanghai Municipal Electrical Undertaking, 111 Southampton Electricity Undertaking Revenue 427 South-East Lancashire Electric Development Schemes, 11 Spanish Extensive Electrical Installations under Construction, 157 * Surveys for Water Power Electric Generating Plant in Vancouver, 11 Swedish Electrical Industries Demand Protective Import Duty, 533 Swiss Increase in Electricity Charges, 253 Tests on 3|-Ton “ Orwell ” Electric Vehicle, 111 “Thermalloy” and Necessary Precautions with Electrical Machinery, 427 Transmission of Electrical Energy, Limiting Voltage, 327 Transmission of Electric Power instead of

   Coal from Belgium to Italy, Proposal, 301
 Turbo-generator Failures and their Cause 135 Welding, Electro-percussive, D. F. Miner,

Wellington, New Zealand, Loan for Power Plant Extension, 157 West Ham Electricity Report, 179 Westphalian Electrical Works, Proposal lo Use Lignite instead of Coal, 301 ELECTROLYTIC Smelting Industry in Australia, 453 Electro-magnetism, Centenary of Discovery by Oersted, 296 Empire Motor Fuels Committee, Inquiries into Use of Alcohol, 353

Empire Press Conference in Newfoundland, Telephonic Communication with England, 85 Engineering Standards Association—see British and also Italy Engines, Diesel, Limited to Small Sizes, 258 Exhibitions:

Algiers, Agricultural Exhibition Project, 427 British Industries Fairs, 100, 507
Civic Survey Diagrams Exhibition, 435, 545 Commercial Fair at Brussels, 647
Dominions Touring Exhibition, 146
 French Products Exhibition in London, 61

International Agricultural Exhibition at Rovigo, Italy, 135 International Motor Show in the Dutch East Indies, 35 Luxemburg, Exhibition of Agricultural Machinery, 227 Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition at Olympia, 61, 110 Paris International Aeronautical Exhibition, 227 Peruvian International Industrial Exhibition, 453 Physical and Optical Societies’ Annual Joint Exhibition, 650 Timber Grown in British Empire Exhibition, 11, 48 EXPLOSION of a Drying Cylinder, 478 Explosions and Value of Isolating Valves, 611 Explosives, Conveyance of, in Petrol-driven

    Vehicles, 559

F FACTORY Department of Home Office, Reorganisation, 203 Fairs-*—see Exhibitions FEDERATION OF BRITISH INDUSTRIES : Meeting to Consider Question of Steam Ferry Across the North Sea, 111, 277

 Membership, Analysis of, 33

Packing in Wire Netting as Protection from Theft, 606 Fertiliser Manufacture near Cape Town, 559 Finnish Industries, Increasing Production, 327 Finsbury Technical College Defence Committee, 600 Fire Extinguishers, Danger of Carbon Tetrachloride in Confined Spaces. 479 Fire Retardent Paints Tried in United States for Forest Protection, 85 Fish Propagation in Ponds Formed from Old Canals, 605 Fish Quarrel at Mevagissey, 253 Floating Dock, 10,000-Ton, for Schiedam, 106 Ford Cars, 4000 a Day Capacity Aimed at, 179 Ford Company’s Free Technical Institute, 277 Ford Company Motor Ploughs for Germany, 661 Ford Motor, Price Reductions, 327 Freezing of Leakage Water, Unexpected Effect, 11 French Arsenal at Lorient to be Handed Over to Private Industry, 111 French Cities, Rebuilding Changes, 636 French Colonies and France, Wireless Connection Projected, 157 French Explosives, Proposal for Storage at the Bottom of a Lake, 507 Fuel Research Board, Conclusions as to Power Alcohol, &c., Ill Furnaces, Electric—see Electrical Matters Fused Quartz, Development and Physical Properties, 427 Hydro-electric Development in Ceylon, 377 Hydro-electric Development in Japan, 533 Hydro-electric Development Schemes, 403 Hydro-electrical Plants, Reduced Utility in Drought and Severe Weather, French Experiences, 661 Hydro-electric Power Possibilities and Government Control, in Canada, 203, 507, 585 Hydro-electric Scheme, Lochaber, 507 Hydro-electric Works at Linton Locks, York, 403 I ICEBREAKER, Proposed Purchase by Sweden, 427 Illumination—see National Imperial College of Science and Technology, Department of Aeronautics, 462 Indian Concession on Condition of Hydroelectric Irrigation Plant Erection, 203 INDUSTRIAL ADMINISTRATION, INSTITUTE OF : Industrial Question, Address by Viscount

    Haldane, 416
  Road Transport as an Aid to Industrial Management, R. Twelvetrees, 533 Industrial Alcohol from Bassia Flowers, 446 Industrial Centres and Water Power Remoteness, 403

Industrial Christian Fellowship, Labour’s Call, • Meeting, 479 INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE :

 Dinner, 309
 Week-end Conferences, 91

Industrial Nottingham, 235 Institutions—see Associations, &c. Insurance Bicentenary, 48 International Communications Conference, Preliminary Meeting at Washington, 301 International Institute of Refrigeration, 24 International Patents Office in Brussels, 507 Inventors and Inventions, State-aided, Committee to Consider Question of, 111 Ireland, Utilisation of Water Power in Donegal, 174 IRON AND STEEL:

 Argentine Large New Ironworks, 157

Australia’s Beginnings of Large Steel Industry, 453 Bilbao Iron Industries and the Italian Market, 327

  Boron in Steel Manufacture, 479
  Brazil Iron Ore Deposits, 135

British Columbia, Iron and Steel Industry, 479 British Columbia, Rolling Mills and Blastfurnaces for Steel Manufacture, 327

  Broken Hill. Australia, New Steel Plant, 301

Canadian New Blast-furnaces on the Detroit River, 1 1 I Cast Steel Wheels for Railways, Japanese Experiments, 277

  China, Blast-furnaces in, 403
  Chinese Iron Ore and Pig Iron Production, 35
  Congo, Coal and Iron Deposits Discovery, 427

Coolidge Wrought Tungsten Patent Dispute, 157 Copper Addition to Iron and Steel to Minimise Corrosion, 507 Electrolytic Iron, Liability to Defects, 61 Fricktal Iron Ore Deposits in Switzerland, Re-discovery, 585 German Shipbuilding Steel from the United States, 157 Hadfield Sink-head Ingots for Rail Manufacture, Tests in America, 661

  High Chromium Steel Research Results, 135

Hoskins Iron and Steel Company’s Land Purchase, N.S.W., 611 Iceland Iron Ore Deposits, 135 Ironfoundries, Geographical Distribution in the United Kingdom, 353 Iron Ore Exports from France, Statistics, 301 Iron Ore Exports from Gaellivare Orefields, 487 Iron Ore Reduction, Investigations by Professor Stansfield, 135 Iron and Steel Exports of this Country and America, Comparison, 479 Japan Thick Steel Plate Plant, 135, 179 Japanese Government Ironworks Undertakings, 453 Manganese Bronze Production, 111 Manganese Exports from India, 568 Manganese Export from Minas Geraes, New Law, 533 Newcastle, New South Wales, Prediction of Great Future for, 427 New Zealand Iron Trade Development, 507 Nichrome, Metallic Alloy, 301 Nickel and Chromium Bearing Iron Ores in Dutch East Indies, 11 Nickel Deposits on Aluminium and its Alloys, Tests in France, 85 Nickelling Aluminium, Process for, 61 I Notched Bar Test Pieces, Standardised, 231 Pig Iron and Steel Output in the United

  Kingdom, 85, 222, 479. 536, 611

Plate Mill, Reversing Universal, Installed in Ontario, 227 Queensland, State Iron and Steel M orks, 253, 277 Railway Rates and Iron and Steel Trade, 203 Rio Manganese Orc Exports, Falling Off due to War and High Freights, 157 Seattle, U.S.A., New Steel Works under Construction, 142 Steel Furnaces Run with Pulverised Coal in Canada, 301

 Steel Output—see Pig Iron
 Steel Rail Imports into the United Kingdom,

• 559

 Steel Research Report, 106
 Swedish Iron Ore Imports into Germany, 157
 Swedish Iron Ore Exports, 253

Swedish Iron and Steel Output, Imports and Exports, 1914 and 1920, 301 Swiss Search for and Discovery of Iron Orc Deposits, 559

 Tool Steel from Detinned Scrap, 227
Vancouver, Coast Range Steel Company, 558 Volcanic Iron Sand fdr Steel Manufacture, 474

IRRIGATION Canals, Lining with Concrete, 637 Irrigation in India, Glossary of Technical Terms, 533 National Illumination Committee of Great Britain, 22 Newcomen Society, First Meeting, Literature of

 Historical Engineering, E. W. Hulmc, 403

News Transmission by Wireless Telephony and

 Telegraphy, Post Office Experiments, 611

New Zealand Government Aid for Petroleum

 Prospecting, 637

Niagara Falls, Gigantic Dam Suggested, 585 Nickel—see also Iron and Steel Nickelling Aluminium, Process for, 611 Nitrogen for France, Government Negotiations for Haber Process Patents, 179 Northampton Polytechnic'Institute, 545 Nottingham, Industrial, 235 o OIL Depot Erection in Paris, 427 Oil Pipe Line of Mexico, Suggested Exclusion of Foreign Powers and Warships, 585 Oil Pipe Mileage of Mexico, 353 Omnibus and Tramways Competition, 111, 143 Ontario New Water Power Plant, 135 Optical Instruments, Elements, Committee’s Standardisation Report, 522 Origin and Energy of the Lightning Flash, Dr.

 C. P. Steinmefz, 584

p PAINT, Bituminous, as the Best Rust Preventive, 277 Palm Oil and Kernels, Various Uses of, 661 Panama Canal Navigation Imperilled by Un

 usual Drought, 135

Panama Canal Statistics, 408 Paris in Dummy Form, War Camouflage, 479 Patent Conference in Brussels, Office for Inter

 national Patents, 507

Patent Office Applications Increase, 227 Patent Office Library, 288 Patent Specifications, Printing Changes, 61 Peat Deposits of Canada, Investigations, 253 Peat Output in Sweden, 637 Peat Production and Use by Swedish State Railways', 157 Peat Values in Ireland, Professor P. F. Purcell, 507 Peruvian New Seaport in Bay of Maratani, 61 I Petrol, Price of, 252 Petroleum Boring in Scotland, Delay at West

 Calder, 377

Petroleum Boring in West Lothian, 301 Plate Mill—see Iron Platinum Find of High Value in Cape Colony.

 453

Platinum Group of Metals, Survey, A. D. Lumb, 637 Port of London Congestion, Situation Improving, 507 Potash Recovery from Cement Kiln Fume, Attempted, 157 Powder Factory in Santiago de Chili, 111 Power Alcohol Supplies, 106 Power Generation by Mercury Vapour, American Experiments, 479 Power Plant, Bridge River, British Columbia, 227 Power Supply for Toronto, 507 Presentation at Kilmarnock, 623 Presentation to Professor F. Bacon, 642 Professional Classes War Relief Council, 439 Professors Attend Lectures by Manufacturers, 533 Pulp Production from African Softwoods, 85 Punch Press Accidents, A Safety Device, 403 Q QUEBEC Bridge Report and Illustrations, 24 Queensland’s Large Irrigation Scheme, 277 Queensland State Iron and Steel Works, 253, 277 R RADIO Research—see Scientific Railless Trolley Car for Bradford, 507 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS : Accidents;

    Buffer Stop Collision at Cambridge, 403

Buffer Stop Collision on the Great Western Railway, Report, 533 Buffer Stop Collision at Littlehampton, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, 157, 179 Buffer Stop Collision at Wimbledon, 403, 637 Caledonian Railway Collision Report, 277 Collision on the Barry Railway, Report, 533 Collision at Hatfield, Great Northern Railway, 403 Collisions at Margate and in North Wales, 301 Derailment on the Metropolitan Railway due to Fog, 427

    Derailment in the United StatdK, 226

Fireman as Temporary Driver as the Cause of Accident, 157 French Railway Accident, Disastrous, 377, 427, 533 Heathfield Station, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Derailment, 34 Indian Train Accident less Disastrous than Supposed, 301 Inquiries into Accidents by Ministry of Transport, Suggested, 253 Lostock Junction Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, Collision, 85, 111, 157 Madras and Bangalore Train Wilfully Derailed, Fatal Disaster, 433

    Midland Railway Double Collision, 377

Missing Tail Lamp and Averted Accident, 377 Piston Valve Fracture on a Caledonian Engine Brake, 11 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) Accidents (continued):

   Six Accidents, Reports, 135
   Stourbridge, Unusual Accident at, 377

Air Brake, New, Adoption in America, 507 Air Brakes, German Type, for Swedish State

   Railways, 179

Air Service of the United States to Undertake Railway Surveys, 453 Amalgamation of Railway Companies, 637 American Locomotives, Oilices for Sale of, Established in Johannesburg, 585 Appointments and Staff Changes, 11, 68, 80, 179, 327, 403, 507, 559, 585, 637 Australia, Committee to Settle Railway Gauge Question, 327 Australian Railway Mileage and Gauge Uniformity, 403 Automatic Train Control, Committee Appointed, 507 Barcelona to Tarrasa,. Electrification, 507 Belgian and Dutch Loan for Chinese Railway Construction, 559 Belgian Railways, Rolling Stock Purchases, 227 Belgian State Railways, Electrification; 215 Bengal-Nagpur Railway Company to Construct Harbour at Vizagapatam, 479 Bengal-Nagpur Railway, Survey for New Line, 585 Bicycles and Cloak-room Law, 135 Blackpool Corporation and Railway Negotiations, 453 Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway, Suburban Electrification, 27 Bombay Housing and the Bombay-Baroda Railway Wharf, Rival Need of Land, 1 I Brakes—see Air Brakes British Columbia Viaduct on the Pacific and

  Great Eastern Railway, 111

Brixton, Loughborough Junction, Elephant and Castle and Ludgate Hill Communication Restored, 353 Brunei’s Timber Viaducts Exchanged for Steel, 559 Buenos Aires Railways, Oil-working Company, 537 Canadian Government to Become Owner of World’s Largest Railway System, 277 Canadian National Railway Mileage, 585 Canadian Pacific Railway Oil Shortage, Re- conversionof Oil-burning Locomotives and Steamships to Coal Burning, 661 Canadian Railway Finance, Twelve Years’ Statistics, 327 Canton-Hankow New Branch Line, 11 Central Argentine Railway, Fuel Question, 507 Central Argentine Railway, Projected Electrification, 227 Central of Brazil Railway Electrification, 611 Chancellor of the Exchequer’s Mistake, 637 Channel Tunnel Problem, 227 Char-a-bancs versus Railway Cost, 403 Charing Cross, Underground, Additional Subways and Stairs, 135, 637 Chilean Railway Proposed from Antofagasta to Salta, Argentina, 353 Chilean State Railways, Projected Electrification, Bids Invited, 514 China Clay from Fowey (Cornwall) to United States, 585 China Clay Question and Railway in Cornwall, 377 Chinese State Railways, Standardisation under Consideration, 35 Christinas Holidays, Reduced Fares, 585 Clapham Common Station, Escalators Installed, 403 Cloak-room Law, 227 Compound Locomotives, Questions of Fuel Economy and Engine Maintenance, 277 Corporation Tax and the Railways, 85 Czecho-Slovakia Building Locomotives and other Rolling Stock, 227 Death of Mr. H. G. Bell, North-Eastern Railway, 403 Death of Lord Bessborough, 585 Death of Mr. W. H. Macnamara, 301 Death of Mr. Neville Priestley, 611 Death of Mr. F. C. Tipler, 327 Deaths of Scottish Railway Veterans, II Doors on the Metropolitan Railway, 559 Dyke Branch, London and South-Western

  Railway, Re-opening, 85

Ealing Broadway Station for Central London Railway Extension, 85 Early African Railways, Dates of Opening, 479 Eastern Bengal Railway, Survey for New Line, 585 Ecuador Government Concession and Proposed Railway, 301 Egyptian State Railways’ Finance, 203 Electric Locomotives, Swedish State Railways’ Order, 253 EmpIoyees’Suggestions for Railway Working, j 69 Excursion Facilities Financially Justified, 485 Excursion Trains Resume Running, 157 Express Trains to the North, Changes, 17 Fares Increase, 111, 135 Fares Increase in London Area, 276 Federated Malay States Railways, Gross and Net Receipts in 1919, 327 Finance—see also Ministry of Transport Fire at Crewe Signal Box, 277 Fire Destruction of Electric Passenger Coaches on the North-Eastern Railway, 85 Fireless Shunting Engine, 352 First-clads Passengers, Percentage of their Accommodation and Payments, -227 Fish from Aberdeen, Accelerated Transit, 61 Fish Traffic by Rail Doubled since 1913, II Fish Traffic and Scarcity of Vans, 203 Freight Traffic Statistics, Great Britain, 198 French Goods Train, Continuous Brakes for, 427 French Railway Commissions on Railway Electrification, Estimate of Cost, 179 Fruit-pickers, Tickets Concession, 61 Furness Railway and Barrow Docks, Efforts at Port Development, 301 Furness Railway Exchanges Steamers for Motor Omnibuses, 559 Gattie System in America, 353 Gauge Question in Australia, Committee of Experts to be Appointed, 327 German Firm Building Locomotives for the Soviet Government, 277 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) : Glasgow Corporation Tramways, Revenue Report, 85 Goods, Delay or Short Delivery, Legal Decision, 35 Government and the Railways, Mr. Lloyd George, 135, 157 Grand Trunk Railway Lines, Disposal Question, 227 Gratitude on an American Railway, 453 Great Eastern Railway Requests for Suggestions as to Improvements, 427 Great Indian Peninsula Railway, Suburban Electrification, 35, 85 Great Northern Railway Engines for Sale, 277 Great Northern Railway, Bogie-saving System, Mr. H. N. Gresley, 453 Great Northern Railway and Future of the Railways, 54 Great Northern Railway Shareholders, Meeting, 111 Great Western Company’s New Service, 227 Great Western Short Line in Cornwall, 111 Great Western Steamer St. David Under

  Repair, 403

Grouping Railways no Economy, Sir A. Pease, 637 Highland Railway News vid America, 453 H ighland Railway and Slow Services, 85 Holyhead Inner Harbour Deepening Not Yet Begun, 559 Holyhead Inner Harbour Deepening Scheme Sanctioned by Ministry of Transport, 675 Hop Exchange Fire and South-Eastern and Chatham Railway, 453 Hudson Bay Railway Construction, Prospect of Resumption of Work, 661 Hull and Barnsley Railway, Provisional Amalgamation with the North-Eastern, 661 Hustler at Victoria, District, Station, 135 Indian Railway Administration, Committee

  Not Yet Appointed, 157, 453

Indian Railways, Suggested Transference of Directorate from England to India, 35 I ndian State Railways’ Earnings, 585 Irish Mails Conveyance, New Contract, 533, 559 Irish Railwaymen and Military Traffic, 637 Irish Railways Not to Come Under Proposed Legislation, 95 Jamaica, Proposed Railway Electrification, 111 Japanese Railway Department Erecting Power Stations, 111, 227 Japanese Ten Years’ Scheme for Railway Improvement, 111 Lancashire and Yorkshire Electrification, Proposed Extension, 215 Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, First- class Day Excursion Tickets, 179 Landslip on Midland Main Line, 377 Leeds City Train ways’ Report, 161 Legion of Honour for English Railway Official, 585 Level Crossings over Public Highways, 35 Light Railway Proposals Rejected, 11 Locomotive Bar Frames and Plate Frames, G. G. Elliott, 637 Locomotive Fitted with Steam Turbine, 460 Locomotive Orders for Germany, 253 Locomotive Quick Cleaning on South African Railways, 661 Locomotives Available for Work and in Stock, Figures for Principal Railways, 353, 661 London, Brighton and South Coast Gasmaking Plant for Sale, 277 London, Brighton and South Coast Railway Scheme for Electrification of the Whole Line, 585 London, Brighton and South Coast Steamer’s Quick Journeys to Brighton, 403 L.C.C. Tram Working Expenses, 61, 85 London Electric Railway Companies (Faros, &c.) Bill, 168, 203 London Electric Railways, Increased Fares and Increased Receipts, 377 London and South-Western, Guildford Electrification Scheme Postponed, 35 London and South-Western “ Trailer ” Cars, Number Increased, 301 London, Tilbury and Southend Section of the Midland Railway, 396 Lorain Surface Contact System or Overhead Lines, Pros and Cons, at Wolverhampton, 11 Manchester Tramways Report, 85 Mechanical Coaling Plants for Locomotives, 305 Metropolitan District Railway New Cars, 637 Metropolitan Railway Doors, A Change, 559 Metropolitan Railway Lectures, Dr. Henry Chellew, 507 Miners’ Strike Turns Big Railway Surplus into Deficit, 585 MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT : Accident Reports—see Accidents “ Actual Fare,” Printing of Tickets, 179 Amalgamation of Hull and Barnsley and . the North-Eastern Railways, Proposal, 35, 85

  Ambulance Trains Offered for Sale, 253

Anniversary of Ministry of Transport Bill, 179 Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, Reopening Debated, 585 Central Authority for London Traffic, Projected Bill. 35 Central Wages Board, Proposed Further Increase, 353—see also Wages Claim Decision between Government and North-Eastern Railway, 85 Coal Strike to Cost Taxpayers Two Millions or More a Week, 427, 479, 585 Committee on Railway Agreements, 507 Cost and Efficiency Figures Tabulated with View to Economy 533 Counsel Retained for Railway Companies before the Rates Advisory Committee, 157 Current and Arrear Maintenance, Forty Millions Payable by Government, 507 Disposal Board Salos of Railway Stock, and Ministry of Transport, Mr. Bonar Law, 17 Economies n Railway Working Claimed by Ministry of Transport, 453 Excursion Trains and Railway Non Possumus, 135 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con- tinned);

 MINISTRY ur TRANSPORT (continued):
  Fares Refunding Question, 111
  Fish Thrown Back to Sea, Unwarranted
    Criticism of Railway 253

Future Powers of the State in relation to Railways, 656 Gattie System, Containers in Cincinnati, 353 Grouping the Railways, Alternative Proposals, 611 Holyhead Harbour and the Ministry, 559, 675 Irish Ministry of Transport, Mr. Burgess’ New Appointment, 179 Iron and Steel Industry and Railway Rates, 203 Local Interests and Reduction in Railway Repairing Shops, 661 Locomotive Shortage due to Arrears of Repairs, 157 London, Brighton and South Coast Meeting, Lord Bessborough on the Government Scheme, 533 L.C.C. Tramway Deficit, Deputation to Sir Eric Geddes, 61, 85 Mid-week Cheaper Ticket Proposal Rejected, 85 Northumberland, Proposals for Series of New Railways, 585 Obsolete Rolling Stock, Disposal of, 85 Railway Companies’ Association and Sir Eric Geddes, 479, 533 Railway Executive Committee Replaced by Railway Advisory Committee, 479

  Railway Expenditure, Analysis, 585
  Railway Expenditure, Mistake, 637

Railway Expenditure, Lord Colwyn’s Committee, 507, 559, 585 Railway Finance Statistics, 61, 203, 211, 277, 353, 559 Railway Operating Statistics, 17, 61, 111, 157, 253, 327, 353, 507, 533, 559, 670 Rates Advisory Committee, 35, 51, 111, 135, 157, 179, 231, 277, 301, 377, 381, 559, 61 1 Revaluation of Railways Impracticable at Present, 327 Scottish Railways and Government Management, Sir Eric Geddes, 84

  Staff Concessions and Rates Increase, 203

Subsidiary Businesses of Railways, Wholesale Losses, 157 Suggested Inquiries into Accidents, 253 Sunday Travelling, Sir E. Geddes, 61, 157 Trade Disturbance and Self-supporting Railways, 203 Traffic Increase by Rail and Road, Sir E.

    Geddes, 11

Traffic Regulation, Lancashire and Yorkshire Scheme, Proposed Adoption by London, 61 Trams and Omnibuses, Competition, Committee to Consider, 111; Conference, 143 Tramway and Light Railway, White Paper Statistics, 611 Tramway Statistics of the United Kingdom, 187 Tunnel under the Solent, Would it Pay ? 203

  Twenty-four-hour Notation System, 61

Unprofitable Branch Lines, Sir E. Geddes, 61 Wages Board Awards and Traffic Finance, 301, 353

  Wagon Supply Shortage Remedied, 19

White Paper Railway Statistics, Statement Asked for, 61 I Workmen’s Fares, New Scale and New Concession, 179 Mono-rail Electric Tramway Proposed for Tokyo, 11 Motor Vehicles and Taxation, 135 National Union of Railwaymen, Report, Cost of Strike, 30 Nationalisation of Railways and Mr. Churchill, 479 Nationalisation of Railways, Government Decision, 111 Netherlands East Indies State Railways and Tramways Development, 656 Netherlands Railway, Electrification Proposed, 301 Netherlands Railways, Control to be Transferred to the State, 637 New South Wales Railway Commissioners’ Annual Report, 533 New Zealand Electrification, English Contract for, 288 New Zealand Railways, Government Report on Finances of, 665 New Zealand Rolling Stock Ordered from Great Britain, 427 North-Eastern Railway and the Railway Companies’ Association, 661 Northern Railway of France, War Traffic Facilitation, 427 Northern Railway of France, Wholesale War Damage and Rapid Process of Repair, 403 Nord-Sud Underground (Paris), Statistics, 227 North - Eastern Railway Electrification Scheme, Experiments, 11 Oil-burning Locomotives, Tests in Progress, 179 Oil Fuel for Locomotives, 304 Oil Locomotives Conversion to Coal Burners, in Texas, 203 Outer Circular Electric Railway for London, Proposal by Mr. Alex. Ross, 479 Paris-Orleans Locomotives, Fifty Ordered from America, 559 Passenger Statistics, Mistaken Figures, 377 Passenger Traffic,United Kingdom, Statistics, 203 Passenger Train Mileage for 1913 and 1920. 85, 203 Penzance Viaduct Replacement, 427 Piccadilly Tube New Cars Starting Arrange ment, 611 Prague, Large Orders for Goods Wagons from the United States, 227 Presentation to Mr. J. II. Robinson, 227 “ Privilege Tickets ” Question, 210 Profits on Railway Refreshments in 1919, 85 Pullman Cars on the Great Eastern Railway, 533 Pulverised Coal. Italian locomotives Fitted *or Burning, 11 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (con. tinned): Queensland Railway Locomotives, Tenders Invited, 559 Queensland Railways’ Development, Anticipated 4000 Miles Journey by Rail. 427 Railless Electric Traction, Possibilities of, R. H. Wilkinson, 61 Railway Benevolent Institution, No Annual Dinner, 35 Railway Expenses for Material, Pre-war and Present Prices, 253 Railway Material Exports Statistics, 35, 253, 327,479,61 1,661 Railway Operating Statistics—see Ministry of Transport Railway Policy Discussion, 61 Railway Working, White Paper, 61 Rates Advisory Committee—see Ministry of Transport Reservation of Compartments Again Allowed, 253, and Price, 403 Rolling Stock—see Wagons, also Ministry of Transport, Operating Statistics Russian Heavy Locomotive Shortage, 157 Salto-Rivera, South America, Proposed Railway, 209 Scottish Railways Opposition to White Paper Scheme, 7 2 Separation of Running Department from that of Chief Mechanical Engineer on Two Railways, 611 Simplon Tunnel, Second, Progress of, 453 Sleeper, Substitute for Wooden One, 327, 507 Sleepers for British Railways, Twenty

  Million Ordered from British Columbia, 507

“ Smoking Forbidden ” Compartments, New Regulation, 179 South Africa, Proposed New Important Railway, 611 South Africa and Railway Electrification, W. Ingham, 11 South African Government Electrification Schemes, 135 South American Railway Congress, Meeting, 61 South American Railways, British Control and American Goods, 301 Southern Pacific Railroad, Wholesale Duplication of Documents by a Variety of Methods, 185 Southwold and Mid-Suffolk Light Railways, Proposal for Amalgamation, 427 Soviet Government Locomotive Contracts, 453 Spanish Rolling Stock Orders for Other Countries, 377 Standard Loading Gauge, Factor of Safety Tests, 301 Steel Rail Imports into United Kingdom, 559 Steel Wheels With and Without Separate Tires, 61 Stockholm—Gothenberg Railway, Government Grant for Electrification, 179 Stockholm Tramway Cars, Large Size, 327 Strike, Railway, Cost to Men’s Union, 30 Strike Settlement Anniversary, 351 Swaziland Railway, Extension Surveys Completed, 585 Swedish Railway Electrification, 611 Tank Locomotives for the Metropolitan Railway, 427 Time-table Alterations, 347 Time-tables, Resumption of Printing but Increase of Cost, 1 11 Timber Trade Increase and Wagon Scarcity, 227 Ton-Mileage Statistics, 277 Traffic Finance—see Railway Finance Traffic, Goods, Four Weeks’ Ret urns, 479, 661 Train Ferry to Replace Bridge over Suez Canal, 61 I Trains, Certain Special, for War Use Now on Sale, 157 Trams—see Railways, Ministry of Transport Trevithick’s Trams and Track (1804) in Berlin and America, 453 Truro-Falmouth Line, Timber Viaduct Removal, 559 Tunnel under the Solent, Question of Cost and Revenue, 203 ; Train Ferry Suggested as Alternative, 277 Turbo-alternator for Australian Suburban Railway Electrification, 372 Two Up and Down Trains per Dav and their Cost, 533 UNITED STATES RAILWAYS : Agencies to be Set Up in Europe to Encourage Immigration and Traffic to Western America, 84 Automatic Train Control, Decision in New York State, 661 “ Booster ” Auxiliary Steam Cylinder in America, 377 Claim by Western Railroad Company on Recent Federal Administration, 258 Coal Commandeered by Railways during Strike, 203

  Coal Purchase and Stores Statistics, 422

Coal, 1,000,000 Tons Undelivered by Rail ways, 203 Electrification of United States Railways, Estimate of Coal Consumption Reduction, 179 Elevated Railway, Solid Floor Construction, 277 Eric Railroad and Norfolk and Western Railway, Adoption of New Air Brake, 507

  Federal Control to be Wound Up by Mr.
    J. B. Payne, 61

Government Guarantee Expiry, Railroads to be Self-supporting. 301 Illinois Central Railway Cars, Doors Question, 35 Labour Board Working and its Results. 135, 157

  Level Crossing Elimination Resumed, 61

Motor Cars and Trains Collisions, Big Figures, 227 New York Central Engine’s Record Speed.

  Engine Scrapped, 453 ; (Correction) 559 Pennsylvania Railroad Signalling Changes,
  Railway Situation Easier, Increased Coa 1
    Carriage and Rolling Stock Orders, 403

Railway Surveys by Aeroplane in the United States, 453 Rate Paradoxes, Inter-State and Stat1 Control, 427

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (eon- tinned.) UNITED STATES RAILWAYS {continued) : Rates Increases as Affecting Prices of

  Goods Carried on Southern Railway, 277 Roumanian Government, Largo Purchase of

American Railway Equipment, Payment in Petroleum, 35 Sleepers, Experiments in Substitutes for Timber, 507 Southern Pacific Railroad’s “ Safety ” Poster, 227 Ton-Miles Figures of Administration Disproved, 301 Traffic Statistics of United States Rail- • ways, 585

Transportation Act, New Enactments, 11 “ Wheel Burnt” and “ Snow Burnt ”
      Rails, 226

Vancouver, Projected Twenty-car Freight Train Ferry, 301 Victoria, Australia, Plan to Meet Intestate Gauge Difficulty, 111

  Victoria, Continental Train Changes, I I

Victoria, N.S.W., Suburban Railway Electrification Cost Much Increased Owing to War, 533

  Victoria, Underground, Footbridge, &c., 135
  Wages Bill Increase, Estimate, 35
  Wages and Increased Cost of Working, 61
  Wagon Detention on the Increase, 179
  Wagon and Locomotive Increase on British
    Railways, 661
  Wagons, Bolster, Scarcity of, 227

Wagons, British, Still in France, 111 ; Much Diminished Number, 479 Wagons Built at Woolwich for the Great Western and North-Eastern Railways, 637 Wagons in Employ of Various Government Departments, 479 Wagons, New, Put into Traffic in Great Britain, Monthly Average, 111 Wagons, Railway-owned, in United Kingdom, Census Taken, 85 Weaver, Mr. Henry, Stationmaster at Paddington, 68 Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company, Amalgamation, 353 Wheels for Railways, Japanese Experiments with Cast Steel, 277

  Workmen’s Fares, 51, 61
  Workmen’s Tickets and Congestion, 135

RAINFALL Variations, Difficulties in Expression of, 35 Rainfall of the World, Statistics, 427 Rayleigh, Lord, Memorial in Westminster Abbey, 85 Refractories for Electric Furnaces, 507 Refrigeration, International Institute, 24 Reinforced Concrete, Risk of Fire and Suggested Remedy, 453 Research—see. Scientific, also Electrical Matters Rhine Water Power for French Mining District, 661 Rhone River Development from Geneva to the

  Sea, Projected, 301

Riga Fishing Boats and British Petrol Engines, 479 Road Damage due to Railway Strike, 377 Road Transport, Map to Aid Commercial Vehicles, 192 Rock Drill. New Type. 253 Rock Salt Production in Poland, 479 Roman Road Discovered in Digging Manhole, 301 Roumanian Oil Industry, New Plans, 253 Rubber, New Source, in Arizona, 203 Rubber as Road Surfacing Material, Experiment in Southwark, 277 Rubber Trees, Uses of Seed Kernels, 35 Russian Plans for Hydro-electric Stations, 227 Russian Pre-war Industries, Extent and Value, 585 Russian Transport Problem, 157 Rust Preventive, Bituminous Paint the Best, 277 s “ SAFETY First ” Convention, 214 St. Lawrence River, Question of Deepening, Divided Opinions, 479 Salt Exportation from Portugal, Falling-off in Trade Due to War, 179 Salt Mines in Greece, Increased Output and Cessation of Imports, 585 . Salt, Ocean, Volume of, in Terms of United States Area, 272

Soot Abatement by Use of Salt, 301 South Africa, Water-boring Plant for, 252 South African Association of British Manufacturers, 11 South African Mineral Production Report, 377 South African Regulation of Drilling Blasting Holes, 157 South American 'Trade for European versus American Markets, 453 Spanish Hydro-electric Power Statistics, 453 Spanish Motor Works, New Establishments, 179 Spanish Power Generation from the River 1 Deva, 135 Spanners, Danger of Great Length in, 479 Sparking Plug Cleaner, Brown Brothers, Limited, 392 Stamps, Inland Revenue, Royal Mint Processes 1 of Production, 59 Standard—see also British Standard Standard Marine Boilers, 165 Static Electricity, Method of Eliminating from Belting, C. M. Green, 403 Steam Ferry Across North Sea Proposed, Swedish Disbelief in Success of Scheme, 111, 277 Steel—see Iron Stenches as Warning in Mines, 611 Stone Crusher, Largest in the World, 35 Storm Detector, 214 Straw Houses for France, 585 Straw as a Source of Gas, 327, 637 Subsidence in Concrete Floors, Method of .

 Repairing, 585

Suez Canal Finances and the War, 281 Suez Canal Navigation and Kantara Opening Bridge, 430 Suez Canal War-time Bridge to be Dismantled, 585, 611 Suggestions from Workers, Proposed Scheme, 327 Sulphur Supply for South Africa, 85 Swedish Air Traffic, International and Home, 187 Swedish and German Aerial Mail Service, 157 Swiss Available Water Power, Statistics, 227 Switzerland as Source of Aluminium, 585 Sydney, Nova Scotia, Railway Employees ’

 Ultimatum and Steel Company’s Reply, 533

Synthetic Ammonia and Nitrates, Limited, 11 Szechuan Trade, Commercial Museum to be

 Established at Chungking, 227

T TAR, Crude or Refined, for Road Surfacing, 277 Tar and Pitch from Gas and Coke Oven Works, Statistics, 157 Tar Spraying, Advantages of a New System, j J. Lang, 179 Technical Students, Greatly Increased Numbers, 403 I Telephone Extensions on Large Scale, I I 1 Telephone Installations of Various Countries Per Cent, of Population, 179 Telephone System for Alagoas State, Brazil, 203 Telephones, Automatic, Proposed Exchanges in London,11 Temperature of a Chimney at Various Depths, Instrument for Ascertaining, 661 Teredos Attacks on Wet Wood, 61 Termite Attacks on Timber, Immunity of Certain Woods, 227 Thermalene as a Fuel, Karl Wolff, 585 ‘‘Thermalloy” Dangers and Electrical Machinery, 427 Thermometers Inaccurate through Ago. 353 Timber Consumption in France, 135 Timber Fence Production, Charring Discredited, 479 Timber Grown in British Empire, Exhibition 11, 48 Timber Piles and Teredo Attacks, 35 Timber Preservation Theories, Experiments, 559 Tin, Large Lode Discovered in Old Mine Working in Cornwall, 85 Tin Ore Discovery in South Africa, 61 Toronto’s Insufficient Hydro-electric Power, 85 Tractor Ploughing Prize. 637 Trade Propaganda and Foreign Students, 253 Trams—see Railways Transport—see Motor, also Ministry of Tropical Diseases Bulletin. 487 Tungsten—see Iron and Steel Tunnel Under the Solent a Question of Cost and Revenue, 203 ; Train Ferry Suggested as Alternative, 277 Turbine, Steam, Fitted to Locomotive, 460 Turkish Concession for Hydro-electric Station in Asia Minor, 661

u UNITED States Engineering Manufactures Increased Imports into South Africa, 35 United States Geological Survey, 178 University Finance, Fees and Endowments Considerably Below Expenditure, 277, 353, 403 University Training Offered to Apprentices, 377 V VANADIUM, World’s Principal Mine in Peru, Statistics of, 35 Vancouver, Question of Dam or Low Level Bridge, I 1 I Vancouver, Three Great Harbo,ur Schemes, 203 Vizagapatam Harbour, Construction to be Carried out by the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, 479 Vosper, Mr. H. E., Retirement of, 647 z ZINC Deposit on Galvanised Iron Apparatus for Determining Weight, 377 Zinc Production in the United States, 227 Zionist Society of Engineers, Plans for Water

  Supply of the Holy Land, 427

See Also

Loading...