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A ABERDEEN, Robert Gordon’s Colleges, Proposed Courses of Instruction, 555 Acoustic Design of Musical Practice Rooms, Changes Needed to Benefit by Sound-proof Walls, 185 Aerial Ropeway in Colombia, Preliminary Survey for, and Details of Scheme, 45 AERONAUTICS :

 Air Defence of Great Britain, 525
 Aircraft Apprentices, Vacancies for, 223

Airship, Five Million Cubic Feet, for Egypt and India Service, 75 Belfast to Gretna or Carlisle, Daily Aeroplane Service Projected, 265 Busk Studentship in Aeronautics, 200 Circumnavigation of the World by Air, Conclusions to Reckon With, 351 Hangar, Aeroplane at Mukden, Largest in Asia, 555 Helicopter Inventor’s New Record and Prize, 351 Imperial Airways Monthly Traffic Returns, June and July, 274 Light Aeroplane Competitions, Lecture by Major J. S. Buchanan, 555 Napier-Blackburn Torpedo-carrying Aeroplanes, 1000 Horse-power, Launch of the First, 211

 R 38 Memorial Prize, Award for 1924, 628

Seaplane for Transport of Fever Patients in British Guiana, 465 World’s Gliding Record Broken by Lieutenant Thoret, St. Remy, 265

 World’s Largest Passenger Flying Bout, 585

AGRICULTURAL Fortnightly Bulletin to be Broadcasted from London, 185 Alien-Liversedge, Limited, Staff Dinner, 512 Alloys Aging Effect and Increased Room Temperature, 525 Aluminium Alloy Road Wheel, Satisfactory

 Results of Experiments, 159

American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical

 Engineers, 130th Meeting, 252

American Stone Quarries Workefrs, Shifts and

 Accident Statistics, 613

Anodes for Brine Electrolysis, 437 Apprentice Scholarships, “ D. B. Morison,”

 Engineering, 449

Asbestos Exports from Canada, 13, 237 Asbestos Mills, Montreal, Two New, 295 x4sbestos Mine near Barberton, Formation of

 Minerals, 613

Asphalt, Liquid and Solid, Throughout the whole of Cuba, 105 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES:

 ASSOCIATION, DIESEL ENGINE USERS’ :
   Significance of Exhaust .Temperature, P. H.
      Smith, 408
 INSTITUTE OF TRANSPORT :
   Gold Medal Awards for Railwaymen’s
      Papers, 381
 INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS :
   Annual Dinner, 593
   Medal Awards for Papers and Service, 584
   Pneumatic Tires, A. Healey, 669
 INSTITUTION OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS :
   Self-balancing Centrifugals, Eustace A.
      Alliott, 133
 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS :
   Awards for Papers, 396
 Joint Meeting with other Associations : Results of Heat Engine and Boiler Trials,
 INSTITUTION OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS :
   A.M.I.E.E. Examination, 145
   Annual Conversazione, 27
   Award of Premiums to Students, 62

New Wiring Regulations, F. C. Raphael, 725

   Sir Oliver Lodge, Honorary Member, 555

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued):

  NORTH WALES (LIVERPOOL) CENTRE : Art of Communication Engineering, Address by H. H. Harrison, 525
      INFORMAL SECTION :

“ Walk Round Pretoria Power Station,” Lecture, G. M. Clark, 697 INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS IN SCOTLAND :

   Janies Watt Annual Dinner, 625
 INSTITUTION OF GAS ENGINEERS :
   Annual Meeting in 1925, 507
   Presidential Election, 185

Storage of Silica Refractories, Lecture, W. J, Rees, 13 INSTITUTION OF HEATING AND VENTILATING ENGINEERS : Awards for Competition to Encourage Education in the Industry, 335 Prizes Offered for Papers, 696

 INSTITUTION, JUNIOR, OF ENGINEERS :

Exhibition of Scientific Instruments and Apparatus, 640

 INSTITUTION OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS :

H.R.H. Prince of Wales to Attend Annual Dinner, 555

 INSTITUTION OF NAVAL ARCHITECTS :
   Scholarships Offered for 1925, 612
   Scholarships and Prize Awards, 304, 479

INSTITUTION, NORTH-EAST COAST, OF ENGINEERS AND SHIPBUILDERS :

   Girders in Ships, J. Foster King, 585
 1 NSTITUTION OF PETROLEUM TECHNOLOGISTS :
   Award of Institution Scholarship, 605
   Awards of Medals and Scholarships, 479

INSTITUTION OF PRODUCTION ENGINEERS : Annual Dinner, 322 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued): INSTITUTION OF RAILWAY SIGNAL ENGINEERS : “Proceedings”; Survey of Indian Signalling,” A. C. Rose, 437 Signalling on the London Underground Railways, W. S. Every, 613 Three-position Signalling, 724

 INSTITUTION, ROYAL :

Before-Easter Lecture Arrangements, 640, 696 General Meeting ; Christmas Lectures, &c., 539

 INSTITUTION OF WATER ENGINEERS :
    Annual Mee.ing and List of Papers, 609
 SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS :
    Awards for Papers, 712

Plumbago, Average Annual Export of, from Ceylon, T. G. Hunter, 351

 SOCIETY, FARADAY :
    Annual General Meeting, 117
    Report, 117
 SOCIETY, ILLUMINATING ENGINEERING :
    Paper by Mr. G. L. Jennings, 185
 SOCIETY, OPTICAL :

Extraordinary General Meeting ; Student Members, Rules, 649 Filpi Picture Production, Optical and Mechanical Problems of, H. Dennis Taylor, 436

 SOCIETY, ROYAL, OF ARTS :
    Award of Medals for Papers, 62

ASTURIAS Mines and Factories to bo Controlled by Krupps, 641 Atlas Works, Sheffield, 129 Atomic Energy, Freeing, At Present an Elusive Secret, Dr. Wall’s Quest, 525 Auckland (New Zealand), New Works and Improvements by Harbour Board, 725 Australia, Proposed Enlargement of Hume

 Reservoir on the Murray River, 351

Australian Engineers in Government Service,

 Question of Increase of Pay, 45

Australian Imports, Quarter’s Analysis, 105 Australian Sea Carriage of Goods Act, 725 Australia’s Rich Radium Deposits, 697 Avery, W. and T., Limited, Recognition of

 Long Service, 27

Avonmouth Spelter Works, Feared Closing after Heavy Expenditure, 185 Avonmouth Spelter Works, Postponement of Closing Down, 323 B BALL Bearings Made of Stainless Steel, Carrying Capacity of, Axel Hultgren, 351 Barranquilla, Colombia, Contract by London Syndicate for Construction of Streets, Tramways and Waterworks, 669 Bath, Rapid Steam Plant Erection at, 678 Beet Sugar Factory in Alberta, Proposed, 669 Beet Sugar Factory on the Wissey River, Another Projected, 351 Belgian Congo, Cobalt Ore in Various Places with Manganese, 265

    Valuable Recent Discovery, 409

Belgian Congo, List of Recently Discovered Minerals, 211 Birmingham Post Office, Alterations for Accommodation of Automatic Telephone, 725 Blast-furnaces—see Iron and Steel Blue Finish to Handles of Pliers, &c., New

 Method for Applying, 323

Boiler Explosion in Small Steamer, Some Peculiar Features, 641 Boiler Explosions, Report for 1923, 525 Bombay, Back Bay Reclamation Progress, 437 Bradford Engineering Society, Programme of

 Lectures, 365

Bradshaw, Eighty-fifth Anniversary of, 469 Brazilian Government Outlay on Port Improvements, 351 Bridge Across the Tees at Newport, Scheme Opposed, 323 Bridge,* Hooghly, Proposed New, at Howrah, Committee Suggestions, 697 Bridge, Newcastle and Gateshead, Tender Accepted, 725 Bridge Over the Ouse at Boothferry, 75 Bridge Over Richmond River, New South Wales, 697 Bridge Span Too Much Expanded by Sun to be Reclosed, 409 British and American Mining Departments, Exchange of Information, Tests of British Explosives, 555 British Columbia, The Third Industrial Province in Canada, 237 BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION : Acceptance of Invitation from German Standards Committee, 641

 Automobile Steels, Publications on, 99

Coal Mining and Industrial Standardisation, Address to be Given in Four Centres by Secretary of the Association, 418

 Glossary of Electrical Engineering Terms, 117
 Standard Keys, Keyways and Keybars,
    Publication Regarding, 709
 Standard Specifications :
    Cast Iron Piston Rings, 479

Conductors for Overhead Power Transmission, 609 Copper, Raw, Five Specifications Issued, 310 Fuel Oils, Four Grades, 572 Magnetos for Internal Combustion Engines, 105 Metallic Resistance Materials, 507 Metallic Resistance Materials Specification Revision, 613 Solders, Silver, Tin-lead and Brazing; Brasses, Special, for Ingots for Castings, for Actual Castings, 89 Spanners, Dimensions of, 593 BRITISH FOUNDRYMEN, INSTITUTION OF :

 Birmingham Branch :

Lecture on “ The Iron Age,” Presidential, 555 Pure Aluminium Unsuitable for Castings, C. Dickens’ Lecture, 641

 Scottish Branch :

Bulk Electricity Supply, Schemes in connection with Foundry Operations, James Affleck, 461 0 CADMIUM, Inhalation of Fumes and Resulting Accident, 45 Canada, Crude Petroleum Production Statistics, 465 Canada, Reclamation of Waterless and Waterlogged Areas in, 494 Canada’s Sulphide Ores Abundance and Variety, 437 Canada and the United States, New Railway Bridge at Niagara Falls, 555 Canadian Copper Output for 1922 and 1923, 323 Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto,

World’s Record Building for Cost and Size, 409

Canadian Natural Gas Light, Heat and Power

 Company, Big Well’s Output, 211

Canadian Patent Law, New, 533 Canadian Trent Canal, Completion Urged on the Government, 105 Capo Copper Smelting Works in. South Wales Bought, 381 Carbon Black, Its Manifold Uses, 21 L Carbon Dioxide as Remedy for Carbon Monoxide Gas Poisoning, 725 Carmichael, The House of, 132 Casablanca Port, Morocco, Approaching Completion, 323 Caustic Soda and Chlorine, Production by Electrolysis, 641 Cement Gun for Stone Dusting, Experiments in a Colliery, 295 Cements Manufactured from Sea Mud Lime, French Experiments, 75 Chapeltown, Sheffield, Gas Lighting Scheme, 237 Chemical Industries, Tenth Exposition of, 249 Chilean Improvements at Port of Lebu, 211 China, Thirty Mining Areas Staked Out, 75 China, Two of Four Projected Trunk Highways Now Completed, 351 Chinese Registration of Trade Marks Bureau, 13. Chlorine Gas, Correct Method of Detection of Leakage, 381 Civic Steam-heating Plant at Winnipeg Opened, Clyde Dredging to be Started, 323 Clyde Tunnel or Bridge, Question for Glasgow, 323 COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES : Argentina, Coal Importations from Great Britain and Elsewhere, 723 Australian Brown Coal from Morwell, Analysis of Grading, 381 Barnsley Seam at Thorne Colliery, Progress, 71 Barnsley Bed of Coal Reached by Shaft Started in 1909, 211 Binder from Seaweed for Coal Briquettes, New Industry in Orkney, 211 Brown Coal Briquetting Plant Capacity, Victorian Electricity Commission, 45 Coal Discovery Reported Under a Staffordshire Farm, 409

 Coalfield, Rich, Discovered near Madrid, 525

Coal Treated by Modern Scientific Methods, Immense Possibilities Suggested by Mr. F. Hodges, 437 Coal Working Under Sheffield, Application, 13 Colliery Shafts to be Sunk by Freezing Process, 697 Consett Iron Company’s Estate Development, Coal Discoveries, 75

Decontrolling the Coal Trade in Czechoslovakia, Possibility under Consideration, 105
 Franco-Belgian Frontier, Coal Discovery, 105

French Undertaking for Economic Utilisation and Conservation of Coal, 495 Great Britain’s Coal Output, Comparative Statistics, 295, 613, 725 Hatfield Moor, Doncaster, Coal Discovery, New Pit to be Sunk, 475

 Increased Use of Coal-cutting Machines, 465

Interesting Week-end Work at Marehay Colliery, 323 Manchuria Coal Mines Financed by Russia, 437

 Natal Coal Mines, July Output, 437

Northern Ireland, 200,000,000 Tons Coalfield near Coalisland, 211 Nova Scotia’s New and Excellent Coal Seam at Maccan, 75

 Nova Scotia’s Undersea Colliery, 75

Pulverised Coal for Birmingham Electric Supply Boilers, 105 Pulverised Coal in Industrial Plants, Effect Similar to Coal Dust in Mines, 185 South Australian Brown Coal for Producer Gas Plant, Experiments, 641 Spanish Coal Problem, Proposed Grouping of Mines, 585 Transvaal Coal and Oil Company’s Valuable Coal, 585 Ulster Collieries, New, at Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, 105 United States, Production of Bituminous Coal and Anthracite, 620 Unwatering Coal Mines, Investigation of Explosion Hazards, 585 Wellington, New Zealand, Important Coal Discovery, 237 COAST Erosion, Question in the House of Commons, 45 Cobalt in Belgian Congo, 265 ; Valuable Recent Discovery, 409 Cobalt, Canadian Smelter Output of, Statistics, 465 Cobalt Silver Mines Twenty Years’ Record, 691 Colombia, Projected Expenditure on Public Works, 211 Colombo Harbour Berths, Four, Sufficient for Present Use, 613 Complimentary Dinner, Yorkshire Electric Power Company, 734 Concrete Bridge Span Bodily Lifted and Replaced, 133 Concrete Impregnated with Molten Sulphur, Great Increase in Strength Thereby, 409 Concrete, Liability to Heat and Advisable Precautionary Measures, 211 Concrete Mixing with Impure Water, 237 Concrete Work, Material for Filling Expansion Joints, 381 Copper Coins in China, Depreciation of, 137 Copper Company, Leading Producer in the World, 555 Copper Cost in Germany, Search for Alloys, 323 Copper Ore Treatment Financed by Western Australian Government, 265 Copper, Pure, Effect of Gradual Heating and

 Cooling in an Electric Furnace, 525

Cottages, Steel, Lord Weir’s Type, 421 Crude Oil from Shale, Extracted by Retort at Burma Pavilion, British Empire Exhibition, 265 Crystal Palaeo School of Engineering, Distribution of Certificates, 709 Cutler, New Master and Mistress, 409 D DAIREN’S Chinese-owned Engineering Works, 495 Dam Across the St. Lawrence Adovcated, 45 Dam Construction in Orange Free State, 437 Dams, Two Gigantic, in Province of Quebec, Progress, 437 De-aoration of Boiler Feed Water in Special Circumstances, Remarkable Process, 237 Death of Herr Carl Fridolf Carlson, 495 Delaware River Bridge, Suspension Cables for, 381 DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH : -

 First Report on Heat Insulators,‘555
 Offers to Undertake Tests on Plant of Low
    Temperature Carbonisation, 265

Diesel Engine, Double-acting, Now Type, Completed in New York, 351 Diesel Engine, 15,000 B.H.P. Stationary, Ordered by Hamburg Electric Light Company, 265 Dock, Appleton, at Melbourne, Details of Projected Construction, 351 Docks Delays Investigation Result, Responsibility Divided, 237 Drought and Salt Water Influx Resulting in Teredo Destruction on Pacific Coast of America, 613 Dry Dock being Constructed in Calcutta, Will be Largest of its Kind in the World, 585 Dublin Dockyard Opened by Vickers (Ireland), Limited, 409 Dudley Erecting Steel Houses, 613 Dunston and Teams Bridge, Cost of Reconstruction, 105 Durban Large Graving Dock Opening, 669 Durban’s Projected Costly Public Works Programme, 295 E ELECTRICAL MATTERS : Air Behaviour in High Voltage Transmission, 585 All-electric New Colliery, 495 Australia, Revised Electrical Wiring Rules. 133 Belgium, New Coal Pits Being Electrically Equipped, 525 Birmingham Schools Electric Lighting and the Unemployed, 525 Brundall and District Electricity Supply, Negotiations for, 211 Bursting of New Pipe Line Under Test for Welsh Power Station, 669 Canada’s Export of Electric Power to the United States, 54 Cape Province, Tenders Called for for Power Station Plant, 335 Cape Town Projected Power Station for Suburban Railways, Details of, 697 Cardiff, All-electric Exhibition at, 465 Chicago, Oldest Electric Truck in Active Service, 525 Chili Climate and Problems for Transmission Line Engineers, 13 Chinese Power Station Equipment with British Engines, 381

Conference Internationale des Grands Re- seaux Electriques, &c., Third Session, 185 Current and Voltage, Determination of Characteristic Curves for Loosely-touching Steel Spheres, Fraulein Szekely’s Experiments, 159

Direction Finder in Foggy Weather, Great Value of, 525 Distributing System for Current Supply in Italy, 641 Dominion Electric Installation Equipment in Canada, Code of Standardised Rules, to be Prepared and Adopted, 44 Electric Boilers as Load Equalisers, Poplar's Record for Low-priced Electric Power in London, 363 Electrical Transmission in Australia, Need of Research, 525 Electricity at Mines, Regulations as to Installation and Use of, New Edition, 409 Electrolytic Corrosion Test, Accelerated, Results, 380 Greenock Corporation’s Proposed Application to Electricity Commissioners for Extension of Supply Area, 133 Hackney Borough Council and Orders for Electric Vehicles, 525 Haulage, Electric, on French Canals, 465 High-tension Switchgear and Transformers, 250 Million Pounds’ Order, 697 High-voltage Corona and Protection Against Lightning, J. B. Whitehead’s Views, 495 Imports and Exports of Electrical Apparatus, The Hague Report, 74 Inductor Cylinder Dynamo, Development of, W. Brooks Sayers, 159 Industrial Use of Electric Power Extended in Auckland, 525 Instrument Current Transformer with Automatic Compensation Device, 613 Insulator, New Type, for High-pressure Systems, Professor H. B. Smith, 211

Johannesburg’s Future Supply of Electricity, Commissioners’ Second Report, 409 Johannesburg Power Station Installation, 45 Johannesburg Projected High-tension Underground Cable to Supply Light to Oaklands District, 437

King William’s Town, South Africa, New Up-to-date Power Station for, 437

Knaresborough Electricity Undertaking, 613 Leek Electricity Works, Prosperous Growth of Trade, 465

Margahao Electric Power Plant, Largest Generating Station in New Zealand, 525 Mines Using Electricity, Loss of Life Due to, 555, 641 Motor-driven Air Compressor and Variation of Torque, 133 New York Edison Company, New Power Station, 185 Newton Abbott Electric Output, Application for Extension of Station, 725 Oil Circuit Breakers and Explosion Pots, Dr. Garrard, 13 Omnibuses, Electric, Question of Use in Sweden, 725

Ottawa River Power Company Progress, 613 Perfect Lighting near Chicago, 465

Plant Propagation, Forced Growth, by Use of Electric Lamps, 725 Portable Electric Plant for Use in Gaseous Mines, 159 Power-house Chimneys, Necholls, Gritcatching Apparatus for, 725 “ Power Factor ” Booklet, Electrical Apparatus, Limited, 569 Power Station Worked by Steam Projected in Ohio, 697 Queenston-Chippewa Power Plant at Niagara Falls, Progress, 323 Quinze River Power Plant, Growth of, 613 Relay Development in America, Special Features of. 133 Rural Electrification in France, Congress at Lyons, 265 Russian Electric Undertakings, Financing of, 381 Safeguarding Linesmen on Transmission Circuit Work, 495 ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued): St. Maurice Power Company’s Hydro-electric Development, 555 Salt River, near Cape Town, Large Electric Power Station Projected, 13, 45

 Sheffield Electricity Works Statistics, 211

Shock, Electric, Necessary Precautions after Apparent Resuscitation, 725 South Africa, Union of, Great Growth of Electrical Power in, 613 Spalding Rural Council and Electricity Supply, 697 Spanish Electrical System Unification Question, 641 Static Condenser, Details of New Typo Developed by American General Electric Company, 74 Storage Batteries, Large, New System of Supporting Cells, 465 Storage Battery Locomotive, Largest Yet Built in the United States, 295 Storms, Distant, Detection Equipment Less Expensive than Supposed, 585 Suspension Type Insulator, New Type, Professor H. B. Smith, 13 Sydney, N.S.W., Overhead Transmission Lines to be Replaced by Underground Cables at Cost of £5,000,000, 437 Tokyo Electric Light Company’s Earthquake Damage Cost, 185 Transforming Alternating Current and Losses in Energy, 159 Walsall to Supply Electricity in Bulk to Lichfield, 669

West Wiltshire Electricity Scheme, 697
Weymouth Generating Station of Boston Company, Progress Towards Operation, 585

Witbank Power Station of Victoria Falls Company, Capacity and Details of Scheme, 45 Wolverhampton’s Electricity Department, Profit, 75 ELECTPvOLYTIC Corrosion Test, Accelerated, Results, 380 Elevators for South Africa, in Favour with Farmers, 437 Engineering Standards—see British Engineers’ Club for Birmingham, 409 England and Bombay, Comparison Between Mean Dampness and Mean Temperature of the Two Climates, 185 EXHIBITIONS : American Inventions Exhibition in New York, 105 Birmingham International Foundry Trades Exhibition, 295 British Empire Exhibition, Conference on Illumination, 142 British Industries Fair, Birmingham, in 1925, 525 Cardiff, All-electric Exhibition at, 465 Engineering Exhibition at Cardiff, 585 German Projected Exhibition of Railway

    Material near Berlin, 295
 Grenoble Forthcoming Exhibition, 625, 668
 Lyons Fair, 625
Mining Industries Exhibition, Lima, Peru, 13 New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition, 641 Scientific Instruments and Apparatus, Exhibition, 640, 684

Third Machine Tool and Engineering Exhibition, Board of Trade Announcement, 13 Wireless Exhibition in the Albert Hall, 75 EXPLOSION in a Dairy Steam-jacketed Pan, 585 Explosion, Unusual, in an Economiser, 555 Explosives Factory for Industrial Purposes

 Projected at Shantung, 295

F FARADAY House Old Students’ Association, Annual Dinner, 449, 539 Ferrantians, The, Proposed Reunion, 449, 648 Fire-damp Detection Invention in Germany, 613 Fire Engine, 160 Years’ Old, Still Used, 211 Fitting-up Bolts, T. L. E. Haug, 62 Flame Lamps being Succeeded by Electric Lamps in American and British Mines, 159 Flax Yarn Production by New Process, Experiments, 697 Floating Dock Sunk on Entry of German Vessel at Dartmouth, Refloated after much Difficulty, 409 Floating Roadway for Goods Traffic at Sea- combe Ferry, 323 Flood Dangers in China, New Works Proposed, 641 Fluorspar Deposits Discovery in the Transvaa 1 613 Folkestone Road Improvement Scheme, 185 Food Cost and Rail Carriage, 563 Food Investigation Board, Engineering Committee’s Report, 704 French Government Law Pronounced a Snare, 585 Fuel Research Board, Third Report on British Coal Seams, 495 Fuel Research, French Company Formed for Carrying Out, 133 Fuels for Heavy Oil Engines, 572 G GARAGE for 10,000 Cars, 105 Garcke’s Manual of Electrical Undertakings, 647 Gas Holder, Brick Disused, to be Converted into Garage in Berlin, 75 Gas, Natural, Large Flow Discovered in Ontario, 295 Gas Sold in Sheffield, Statistics for 1923, 323 Gas Undertakings of Great Britain, Nominal Capital, 669 Gauge Testing, National Physical Laboratory’s

  Pamphlet, 709

Gelatine and Glue, Characteristics, 641 Germany’s Prices, Fall in, 13 Gladstone Dock, New Construction, Mersey

  Docks and Harbour Board’s Plans, 351

Glasgow New Motor Omnibus Service, 669

H HAILSTONES on Christmas Day of Record Size and Weight, 409 Hankow, Tramway and also Railless Trains Services Projected, 265 Harbour Improvement at Kingston, Ontario, 105 Harland and Wolff, Limited, 142 Harwich-Zeebrugge Train Ferry Service, Its Value for Heavy Machinery Transport, 555 Heat Transmission Research in Canada, 237 Henderson, Mr. A., Factory Bill Changes of Definition, 437 Hotel-building Within Temporary Wooden Shell to Protect Workmen from Extreme Cold, 697 Houses, Concrete, Dutch System, for Liverpool, 550 Houses, Proposed New Type of, 295 Hull Corporation and London and North- Eastern Railway, Suggested Pontoon and New Pier Construction, 409 Hull and Lincolnshire Traffic, New Pier and Pontoon Scheme, 13 Hydro-electric Generator, Tests of Hydraulic Efficiency, 555 Hydro-electric Plants in Norway, Results of Survey of, 381 Hydro-electric Power in Sweden, 112 Hydro-electric Station near Foot of Lake Windermere, 409 Hydro-electric Works Duplication in New Zealand, Tenders to be Called for, 641 I INDIAN Imports and Exports, Statistics, 499, Indian Mines, Report of Coal Dust Committee, 437 Industry and Trade, Meeting of Committee, 495 Information Bureaux and Special Libraries, 113 Institutes and Institutions—see Associations International Roads Congress, 521 Iron Oxide Reduction by Carbon Monoxide, Experimental Work, 45 IRON AND STEEL :

 Automobile Steels, Publications on, 99

Barberton District of South Africa, Discovery of Nickel Ore, 211 Blast-furnace in Canada, Record Output, 105 Blast-furnace Using Coke for Fuel, 13 CAST IRON RESEARCH ASSOCIATION :

   Annual Meeting, 625
   Development, 105, 133
   Laboratories Taken Over, 133

Moulding Sands Investigation Arranged for, 351 Cleveland Blast-furnace Practice Defended, 585 Dudley, Iron Works at, Hope of Trade Revival and Re-starting, 295 Electrolytic Iron, Company Formed in Milan for Manufacture of, 133 Experimental Iron Blast-furnace at Minneapolis, 163 Explosions of Cast Iron Hot-plates, 381 Hanyang, China, Large Ironworks Financial Difficulties, 641 Hot-water Tanks, Steel, in America, Reduction in Number of Sizes Made, 13 Iron Ore, Compressive Strength of, Extensive Tests, 323 Manganese Deposits at Insuta, West Africa, Yearly Increase of Output, 613 “ Mechanically Perfect Electrolytic Nickel,” Charles P. Masden, 105 NATIONAL FEDERATION OF IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURERS : Pig Iron and Steel Production in June, 105 Pig Iron and Steel Production in July, 237 Pig Iron and Steel Production in August, 351 Pig Iron and Steel Production in September, 437 Pig Iron and Steel Production in October, 585, 613 Pig Iron and Steel Production in November, 697 New Steel, H. Rossell and Co., Limited, 512 Pig Iron Output of Canada, 608 Pig Iron in the United States, Reduced Output, 295 Redshortness in Wrought Ferrous Metals, 697 Richborough, New Blast-furnace, 613 Seamless Steel Tubing, Manufacture of, W. C. Chancellor, 381 “ Stabrite Silver Steel,” Thos. Firth and Sons, 38 L Stainless Steel Ball Bearings, Tests Results, 465 IRON AND STEEL (continued) : Steel Cables for Delaware Bridge, 25,100 Miles of Wire Needed, 697 Steel Houses for Glasgow, Lord Weir’s Offer Accepted, 381 Steel Industry in India, Government Bounty Proposed, 641 Steel, Medium Carbon, with High Manganese Content, Report, J. A. Jones, 437 Steel Production, New Method Reducing Cost by Half, Invented by Swede, 525 Synthetic Cast Iron Making, Tests, 45 Tasmanian Ironworks Projected at Burnie, 105 Weatherproof Iron, Samuel Osborn and Co., Limited, 27 IRRIGATION Association, Western Canada, Annual Convention, 45 Italian Hydro-electric Companies, Prosperity of, in 1923, 381 J JAPAN, Completion of Orito Tunnel and Its Result, 13 Japanese Development at Hakata, Big American Contract Signed for Harbour, Docks, and other Works, 381 KINGSTON (Ontario), Reported Plans for

  Very Large New Dry Dock, 211, 265

L LADLES, Bottom-Pour, New Design of Nozzle for, 105 Lanarkshire, Collapse of Old Bridge, 323 Lantern Slides, Offers of, for Lectures, Ed.

  Bennis and Co., Limited, 554

Lead Mines in Derbyshire, Work Re-started at, 409 Lever Brothers’ Projected Dock at Bromborough, 265 Light Lorry, Type Required under Subsidy by War Department, 105 Lightning, Possibilities and Probabilities of Stroke, 495 Locomotive, Storage Battery, Largest Yet

  Built in the United States, 295

Locusts in Argentina, Protection Against by Galvanised Steel Sheets, 721 Los Angeles Harbour Improvement, 585 Los Angeles Harbour, Improvements in Shipyards, 159 Low-temperature Distillation, H. Nielsen, 555 Lysaght, John, Limited, and Dominion Sheet Metal Company, 437 M MAGNET Causes Noises to Issue from a Loud Speaker, 669 Manchester Geological and Mining Society, 17 Manchester Ship Canal Receipts, Decrease, 105 Manganese—see Iron and Steel Manitoba Province, All the Pulp Wood Area for Sale by Dominion Government, 669 Mars under Observation to Settle Question as to Existence of Life on the Planet, 211 “ Mavor and Coulson,” Travelling Post-graduate Scholarship, 449 Melbourne Tramways Question, 75 Melbourne, Widening of Victoria Dock, 381 Mercury Vapour Turbine, Further Development, 105 Mersey Dock for Lever Brothers, Predicted Cost, 437 Metal Moulding Trade in New South Wales, Conditions of Apprenticeship, 75 Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Limited, Important Contract, 504 Mexican Government’s Concession for Large Irrigation Dam and other Works, 351 Mica, Its Great Utility, India’s Large Production and Excessive Waste, 495 Mineral Production of Australia for 1922, 351 Mineral Resources of Canada, Dr. C. V. Corless, 211 Miners’ Flame Safety Lamps, Wire Gauze Experiments, 295 Mines Breathing Apparatus, German-made, has Passed Official Tests for British Use, 133 Mines Safety Research Board Report, 237 Mining Subsidence Damage in North Staffordshire, 725 Mining Subsidence, Royal Commission’s Inspection, 323 Minneapolis Methodist Church Displayed by Flood Lights at Night, 185 Montreal, New South Shore Bridge Across the St. Lawrence, 669 Motor Road Building Projects in China, 585 Motor Spirit, Important Now Discovery, 465 Motor Vehicles, Shock Absorber, Prize Competition for, 465 Museum of Engineering Industry, Projected for New York, 105 Mussoorie Improvement, Important Projects for, 555 Mysore Government Projects for Exploitation of State’s Natural Resources, 669 Mysore Survey for Utilising the Gairsoppa Falls, 613 N NAPLES, 200 Million Lire Allotted for Port Enlargement, 185 Natural Gas in Canada, 697 Netherlands East Indies, Deep Sea Harbour at Semarang, 641 Now Brunswick Surveys for Hydro Development Requirements at Grand Falls, 381 Newcastle, Bridge Strengthening to Cope with Increased Weight of Traffic, 335 Newcastle and Gateshead, Progress of New Bridge Across the Tyne, 265 Newcomen Fire-grate Relic, 697 New Guinea Copper Mines Plans, 13 New South Wales, Details of Proposed Bridge

  Across the George’s River, 323

New South Wales New Cement-making Plant, 555 New South Wales and New Zealand, Tenders t Asked for for Metal Work for Bridges, 304 New Zealand, Arapuni Hvdro-electric Scheme, 351 New Zealand, Hydro-electric Power and Projected Increase, 495 New Zealand, Proposed Harbour Works at Gisborne, 323 Niagara Falls Illumination by Night, Projected Joint Scheme, 555 Niagara Falls, Model to Demonstrate Scenic Effect, 105 Norway’s Solution of Unemplovment Trouble, 525 Nottingham as a Port, 295 o OILFIELDS in Argentina, Campbell M. Hunter, 585 Oil-hardening Factories in Norway, 237 Oil Shale in Fushun, Concession Secured by South Manchuria Railway, 265 Oil Still Explosion, Official Report, 585 Oil Well Drilling, Comparison Between Rotary Drilling and Cable Tool Drilling, 323 Oil Wells Sinking in Angola and Near Loanda, 381 Old Tools Replace Binders in Harvesting After Bad Weather, 444 Ontario Hydro-electric Power Commission, Differences of Opinion, 725

  Increased Capacity of Nipigon Plant, 323

Increasing Capacity of Cameron Falls Plant, 55 Proposal for Diversion of Waters from Two Rivers, 323 Ore Discovery, Valuable, in Johore, 211 Ore Transport in Mines, Cost and Efficiency of Different Methods. 403 Overhead Equipment, W. Nairn at Congress of Tramways and Light Railways Association, 75 Oxidation Test on Lubricating Oils, 75 PAINT, Weather-proof, 105 Panama Canal Cargo, United States Ships’

  Carrying Share More than Double the English,

Paper Making in Quebec, Tremendous Progress, 237 Paper Mill, Greatest in the World, at Quebec, 585 Paraffin Removal from Oil Wells by Use of Sodium Peroxide, Successful Use also for Cleansing Wells and Increasing Output, 409 Parker Hardened Drive Screws, Charles Churchill and Co.. Limited, 62 Permanent Paint, Reputed Many Virtues, 105 Petrol Imported to the Clyde, Products Store, 323 Petroleum Discovered in Department of Herault, 381 Platinising, New Process to Prevent Weather Affection of Metals, 525 Platinum, Alluvial, Discoveries in the Transvaal, 697 Platinum Deposits in Waterberg District of the Transvaal, 585 Platinum Exports from Colombia, 45 Platinum Mining in the Transvaal, 613 Platinum Output from Colombia, 409 Poplar, Great Demand for Electrolytic Fluid, 75 Port Construction and Equipment, Contracts

  Between Russia and Franco-Polish Group, 75 Portland Cement, Inspection of, J. R. Dwyer and Roy N. Young, 523

Portland Cement, Its Widespread Empire Manufacture, 265 Portugal and South Africa, Agreement as to Lorenzo Marques, 48 Post Office Tube Railway Orders, 479 Power Alcohol from Beet, Committee to Deal with the Question, 409 Premier Diamond Mine, Statistics of Work and Value Realised, 641 Professor Risler’s Experiments with Gas-filled Tubes at the Sorbonne Laboratory, 669 Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada, Analysis of Use of Water Power in, 159 Pulverised Fuel Utilisation, Quigley Process Rights Purchased, 159 Q QUARRIES in Great Britain and the Isle of Man, List of, 295 Quayside Work, Record Large Wooden Dummy or Fonder for Holding off Leviathan, 295 Quebec Development Company, Progress of Damming Work, 75 Quebec Harbour Improvement, Federal Government Loan, 159, 211 Queensland Government’s Projected Wharves on the Brisbane River, 555 R RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS :

 Accidents :

Accident at Lime-street Station, Liverpool, 495 Broken Coupling Rod, 237 Buffer Stop Collision at London-road Station, Manchester, 351 Collision near St. Helens, and Report, 159 Collision at Stalybridge, 517 Collision, Unusual, on Great Central Section, London and North-Eastern Line, 265 Derailment Caused by Cloudburst, 159 Derailment of East Coast Express Coaches, 13 RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued):

 Accidents (continued):

Derailment on the London, Midland and Scottish Line, Lieut.-Colonel Mount’s Report, 555 Derailment of Night Express at Buddon, Report, No Definite Cause Discovered, 525

  Engine Tire Failure near Weedon, 437

Escape of Express Passenger Train, near Aycliffe, 613 Fatal Accident at Haymarket Station, Edinburgh, 133, 211

  Fatal Collision Outside Preston, 641

Gravesend Accident, Workmen’s Ticket Accident Liabilities, 669 Inquiries into Railway Accidents and their Results, 265 Level Crossing Accident, but Crossing Owner’s Risk, 697 Lime-street Station, Liverpool, Slight Collision, 133 Lytham Disaster, Adjournment of Inquest, 585 ; Inquest Verdict, Accidental Death, 613

  Ministry of Transport Inquiries, 45, 351

Minor Collision Causes Closing of Charing Cross Station, 323 Minor Mishaps on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 241 Montgomery-North-Western Railway of India, Ninety-five Passengers Killed in Collision, 265 ; Increase in Death Roll, 295 Previous Accidents Recalled, 105, 159, 185, 323

  Report on Collision at Eastwood, 133

Report on Collision, at New-street Station, Birmingham, 381 Report on Fatal Collision Outside Euston Station, 295

  Reports on Throe Accidents, 668

September’s Bad Record for Railway Accidents, 323 Signalman’s Temporary Aberration of Mind Cause of Collision at Stoke Works Junction, 381 United States Accident Returns for 1923, 725 American Railway Centennial Invitation, 697 American Railway Labour in 1914 and 1924, Result of Investigation of Wages, Hours, &c., 237 Annual Railway Reports, Statistics, of Ballast, Fencing, Rails and Sleepers, Used in 1923, 555 Appointments and Staff Changes, 45, 105, 185, 211, 465, 585, 669 Associated Society and the Railway Companies, 13 Australia, Northern and Southern Railway to be Built, 555 Australian Commonwealth Parliament, Bill for Construction of Ky ogle-South Brisbane Railway, 641 Australian Commonwealth’s Proposed Construction of Three Goods Lines, 265 Australian New Railway Schemes to be Presented to Federal Parliament, 409 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Centenary, 207 Belgian Congo Railway Electrification, 725 Bombay’s Proposed Underground Railway and Suburban Railway Electrification, 105 Bradshaw, New, Certain Changes Made, 133 British Columbia Electric Railway, Big Power Tunnel for, 409 British Empire Exhibition and Increased Traffic, 211 British Tender Accepted for British Tramways, though Dearest of Three Offers, 133 Brussels, Metropolitan Railway’s New Planning, 323 Cairo-Suez Standard Gauge Electric Railway, Proposed, 237 Canada, Northern Railway Situation and Future Policy, 45 ' Canadian National Railways, Programme, Rejected Bills, 159 C.P.R., New Branch Line, 105 Canal Schemes under Consideration, 113, 185 Capetown—Simonstown Suburban Line Electrification, 641, 697 Cargo Boats, Two New, for Weymouth and Channel Islands Service, 495 Central London Railway, Alteration of Signals and Additional Trains, 105 Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, Request for Tube Railway between South Kensington and South of Thames, 133 Chesterfield to Scrap Electric Tramways and Replace with Trackless Car Service, 669 City Railway, Reopened Section and First Train, 641 City and South London Railway, Reconstruction Approaching Completion, 585 Colombian Government’s Consent to Projected Funicular Railway, 323 Convention of Railway Engineers in Berlin, 279 Cost of Living Higher, but no Change in Wages, 437 Crow’s Nest Pass Railway Rates in Canada, 351 Death of Sir Arthur Anderson, 381 Death of Mr. August Belmont, 725 Death of Brigadier-General Sir Hugh Drummond, 159 Death of Mr. W. Garstang, 437 Death of Mr. F. E. Gobey, 409 Death of Mr. Richard Johnson, 323 Death of Mr. W. L. Meredith, 185 Death of Mr. W. Parker, 45 Death of Colonel H. M. Sinclair, 75 Death of Mr. W. H. Stanier, 45 Death of Mr. H. K. Woodward, 409 Deputation Ask as Work for Unemployed the Building of a Railway between Abergavenny and Talyllin, 133 Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad, First Electric Locomotive for, 45, 105 District Railway’s New Cars, Great Improvements, 185 East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula Railways, Their Future, 13 East Indian Railway Transferred to the State at End of Current Year, 437 East London Railway, Bill for its Acquisition Deposited by the Southern Railway, 641 Electrical Apparatus, Successful Test on the

  South African Railways, 585

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued) : Electrification of Lines Between Manchester (Victoria), through Oldham, to Shaw, 585 Engine Tire Failures not Uncommon, 437 Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army, New Commander, 697 Enginemen’s Mileage Increase, Companies Offer, 641 Escalators at Shepherd’s Bush Station, Central London Railway, 525 Excursion Fares, Pre-war, and Present Time, 211, 351 Export Trade Depression Ascribed to Railway Charges, 465 Facing-points Operation by Low-voltage Electrical Mechanism, 585 Fish by Train Ferry, Scotland to Genoa, 555 Footbridges and Level Crossings, 13 French Colonies Development Scheme, 697 German New Railway Board and the Dawes Report, Names of Four Foreign Members, 409

  Glasgow Subway Improvements, 437

Great Eastern Train Ferries, Chairman’s Hopeful Outlook, 295 G.I.P. Railway Electrification, Rapid Progress, 409, 641 Great Indian Peninsula’s Successful Half Year, 45 Great Southern (Ireland) Railway Company as Amalgamation of all the Wholly Free State Railways, 725 Great Western Railway: Birmingham District, New Trains for Suburban Traffic, 555 Caerphilly Castle, from the Exhibition, Back to Work, 585 Contracts, Important Constructional, for Sheds at Stourbridge and Evesham, 211 Decrease in Traffic in Coal, Diminished Receipts and Much-increased Wages Bill, 641 Devon and Cornwall Sections, Reconstruction Schemes, 697 Fast Timing on the Great Western, 495 Great Bear Re-named, 437 Great Bear Engine, Repair and Reconstruction, 105

    Iver, New Station Opened, 641

Railway Servants, Low Average of Accidents to, 237 Record Speed by Mauretania Special to Paddington, 725 Saltney, near Chester, Projected Alterations at, 237 South Wales, Bad Trade Conditions and Effect on Railwaymen, 669 Swindon to Paddington Quick Run, 405 Unemployment Relief Work, 211 Wagons, Further Fifty, for Coal, Delivered, 409 Windsor Castle, with the King as Driver, Commemoration Plate, 585

  Grouping, and Closing of Works, 13

Hull Corporation Train ways Rails, British, though Highest, Tender Accepted, 133 Hull Purchase of Tram Rails from Germanv, A Saving of £3000, 211 India, Railway Board, Conference on Standardisation, 613 Indian Railways, A Serious Situation, 323 ; Compromise Arrived at, 351 Institutes and Institutions, Railway and Transport—see Associations Interim Dividends and their Signification, 133 International Railway Congress in 1925, 381 Inter-State Commerce Commission Orders for Automatic Train Control, 265 Irish Free State, Railway Tribunal Members, 409 Irish Free State Railway Unification Difficulties, 237, 265 ; New Appointment, 409 Irish Port for America, Blacksod or Galway, Distances to Dublin and Belfast, 377 Irish Railway Tribunal, Free State, Enforced Reduction of Rates for Passengers and Goods, 495 Irish Railways Amalgamation, The Great Southern Railway (Ireland), 613 Irish Trade Union Strike Ended, 323 Japanese Mount Fujiyama, Proposed Cable Railway for, 381 Level Railway Crossings, Proposed Abolition of Some, 185 Light Railway Orders—see Ministry of Transport Light, A Third, for Railway Signals, Investigation by National Physical Laboratory, 264 Listowel and Ballybunion Railway Closed, 437 Living Link, The Only, with the World’s First Railway Engine, 75 Locomotive Construction in Russia, Soviet Programme, 351 Locomotive, Electric, First Built in Spain, 465 Locomotive Enginemen’s Threatened Strike, 613 Locomotive Repairs on British Railways in 1923, 525 Locomotives for China, Order Given to British Firm, 363 Locomotives of this Country, Their Coal and Oil Consumption in 1923, 525 Locomotives for Egypt, 649

 London Electric Railways:

Hendon to Edgware Extension, 133, 159, 237, 409 Improvements During the Past Year, 465 New Under-the-River Connection, Four Shafts Sunk, 323

 London, Midland and Scottish Railway :

Ballycastle Railway to be Taken Over by the Northern Counties System, 159 Caledonian Section, Strathaven and Darvel Branch, Question of Closing, 45 Census of Employees on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, 409 Cinematograph Lectures for Instruction of Railwaymen, 585 Cost of Living and Superannuitants, 75 Crewe Railwaymen’s War Memorials, 613 Destructive Fire at Stoke-on-Trent Works, 105 RAILWAYS ANDJTRAMWAYS (continued): London, Midland and Scottish Railway (continued) : “ Engine-drivers’ Hotel,” Camden Town Hostel, 697 Girders, Huge, Successfully Transported from Reddish to Chesterfield, 377 Glasgow Underground Electrification Question, 140 Government and Railway-owned Canal, 113, 185 Inverness Railway Shops, No Reduction at Present, 381 Kitchen Cars, Independent, New Type, Provided, 265 Long Service and Unbroken Records, 344 Lytham Accident and Grouping Changes, 622 Overcrow’ding on Trains Between Glasgow and London, 133

    “ Prevention Better than Cure,” 159

Removal of Knott Spit Promontory to Improve Navigation of Fleetwood Boats, 261 St. Pancras and Nottingham, Fast Nonstop Train, 351

    Signalling Changes on the Line, 381

Single Line Loop and Bridge Projected to Connect with Colliery, 295 Sleeping Car Train for Stranraer Starting from Euston Instead of St. Pancras, 356 Staff Changes, 211 Steel and Jarrah Non-inflammable Timber, Projected Use of, for Passenger Cars, 390 Track Circuits on London and North- Western Section, 390 Turbine Steamer Order for the Clyde, 185 Wolverton and Wagon Repair, 75

 London and North-Eastern Railway :

Coaling and Sanding Electric Automatic Plant for Locomotives at Doncaster, 437 Eight Largest Locomotives to Test a Bridge, 613 Falling Reserves, Trade Depression and Weak Partners, 159 Hull and Barnsley’s Springhead Works to Close and Locomotive Work to Concentrate at Darlington, 13, 237 Locomotion No. I., 1825, and Flying Scotsman Exhibited at York, 613

    Series of Appointments, 185, 669

Sheffield Pullman to Sleep at Sheffield Instead of in London, 13 Sir Ralph Wedgwood’s Appeal for Coal Economy, 159 Six-mile New Line and Nine New Bridges Required, 669 Standardisation of Equipment Used by Men, 525 Stockton and Darlington Railwaymen Still Living, Names Wanted, 641 Terminal Changes Consequent on Grouping, 528 Timber to be Replaced by Girder Bridge, 13

 London to Peking in Sixteen Days, 669

London Underground Railway, Extension of Hampstead and Highgate Line from Hendon to Edgware, 158 Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway, New Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Shops at Perambur, 237 Melbourne Goods Yard of the Victorian Government, 105

 Melbourne’s New Railway Lines, 555

Metropolitan District Railway New Rolling Stock, 647 Metropolitan District Railway Time-saving by Faster Train Running, 265 Metropolitan Junction, London Bridge, Collision Resulting from Misread Signal, 351 Metropolitan Railway Bonus of 10 Per Cent, to Men of all Grades for Extra Work due to British Empire Exhibition, 39 Metropolitan Railway Rolling Stock, Lettering of Vehicles, 105 Ministry of Transport: Ashover Light Railway Extension, &c., Inquiry, 105 ; Ministry Order Made, 265

    Census of Railway Employees, 409

Facing Points Distance from Signal-boxes, Ministry’s Regulations, 495 Kingston Down (near Calstock) Light Railway Order, 185 Lancashire and Yorkshire Loop Line Order, Time Limit Extension Sought, 258

    Statistics for April, 1924, 133

Statistics for June, Passenger and Freight, 211, 350, 381

    Statistics for July, 474
    Statistics for August, 697
    Statistics for September, 725
 Mornington-crescent Station Reopened, 45

Motor-rail Cars on Country Railway Lines in Australia, Successful Running and Introduction to be Tried in New Zealand, 351

 NATIONAL UNION OF RAILWAYMEN :

Demands Placed in the Hands of the Railway Companies, 725 Forty-eight Hours’ Week ; Washington Convention Resolution, 75

    Nationalisation of Railways, 75

Netherlands East Indies, New Electrification Schemes, 669 New South Wales, Proposed Railway Extension and Electrification, 105 New South Wales Railways, Report by Sir Sam Fay and Sir Vincent Raven, 437 New’ Zealand, Projected Railway Improvement Scheme, 409 New Zealand Railways’ Inquiry About to be Made, 265 Nidd Valley Light Railway, Proposed Electrification Economically Impracticable, 669 Night Expresses to Scotland, Recent Addition, 105 Nord-Sud Trains in Paris, Loud Speakers Installed to Announce Stations, 105 North-South Transcontinental Railway, Australian Opinion Divided, 75 North of Spain Railway Electrification, 585 Old Pneumatic Tube Railway, Projected Utilisation for Underground Trunk Telephone Cables, 525

 One Man Tramcar, 578
 Overcrowding in Long-distance Trains, 75

RAILWAYS AND TRAMWAYS (continued): Paris-Lyons-Mediterranean Line, Contemplated New Line Shortening Journey between Paris and Marseilles, 669 Passengers and Mileage in July, 465 Pietermaritzburg, First Electric Locomotive Leaves for Glencoe Junction, 295 Pilfering, Railway, Action by the Men’s Unions, 233 Polish Rail wav Schemes, Large Electrical, 211

 Post Office Tube Railway, Orders, 479

Power Signalling Apparatus and Tracks Alterations, Central Argentine Railway, Buenos Aires, 725 Rail Car for Paris Suburban Line, New Arrangement of Machinery, 437

 Railroad Priority in America, 555

Railway Bills Deposited for Next Session by Various Lines, 641 Railway Centenary in September, 1925, Railway Companies’ Association’s Invitation to International Railway Congress, 13, 237 Railway Material Exports Statistics, 56, 236, 295, 437, 525, 669 Railwaymen in New Parliament, List of Names, 525 Railwaymen’s Unions, Size and Wealth, 45 Railwaymen’s Wages, 465 Railway Rates Tribunal, Standard Charges Question, 13, 185

 Railway Returns for 1923, 189
 Railway Servants Rating Figures, 45

Rolling Stock, British Railway, Analysis for 1923, 555 Rope-hauled Trains and the Regulations, 465 Santander and Calatayud, Railway Projected Betw’een, 45 Seven Electric Locomotives, New Type, Ordered in America, 585 Shanghai-Nanking Railway, Increase in Passengers, 585 Shortened Funnels for Running on the North British System, 725 Shunting, Gravitational, German and American Devices, 665 Signal and Telegraph Branch of the Victorian Government Railways, 613

 Signalling, Three-position, 724
 Signalmen’s New Union, 105

South Africa Rolling Stock Order to Go Abroad, 193 South Africa, Union of, Minister of Railways Commission on Railway Workshops Question, 465 South Africa, Union of, Over 400 Miles of New Lines to be Opened Shortly, 295 South Australian Government Proposes Electrification in Adelaide Area, 351

 Southern Railway :

Basingstoke and Alton Branch Line Reopened, 185 Brighton Section Electrification Progress ; also South-Eastern from Victoria to Orpington, 585 Brighton Section Vehicles Fitted with Vacuum Brake, 437 Cross-Channel Steamer, Company’s New, 585 Eastbourne Complaints and Company’s Promise, 585 Route of Trains from Waterloo to Portsmouth, 13 Sir Herbert Walker on Work of Staff and on Improved Revenue, 169 Ventnor, Projected Funicular Railway, 585 Spanish New Railway Policy, New Rolling Stock Orders, 495 Spanish Railway Electrification, Tenders Called for, 295 Steam and Electric Trains in Manchester Area, Comparison in Timing, 323

 Strikes and Government’s Powers, ] 3

Suggested Land Purchase for Stone Quarry Extension, 669

 Summer Train Services, 75

Sunderland Docks, Projected Railway Sidings Adjoining, 725 Sunderland Replaces Tramways by Motor Omnibuses, 465 Sweden, North, Rapid Railway Development, 295 Swedish State Railways’ Budget Demands. 351 Swiss Federal Railways Prohibit the Use of Gas-lighted Vehicles, 211 Swiss Railway Electrification, Locomotive Mechanical Parts, 17 Tasmanian Railways’ New Appointment, 159 Tattenham Corner Signal-box Completely Destroyed by Fire, 105 Timber Railway Viaducts Disappearing, 613 Toronto, Railway Viaduct and Union Termini Completion Projected, 101 Toronto’s Street Railway System, 706 Trackless Trams on Rotherham System, 697 Traffic Receipts of Four Grouped Companies, Decrease Due to Strikes, 45 Trams, Electric, Proposed Substitution of Trolley Omnibuses 697 Tube Railways, Doors of New Rolling Stock, 133 Tubes, Suggested New, but Unprofitable, 725 Turbo-condensing Locomotive’s Record Journey, 159 United States Defective Percentage of Rolling Stock and Violations of Safety Appliance Acts, 351 United States Representation at the International Railway Congress, 555 Victoria Railways, Proposed Change of Sites for Certain Works, 725 Wagons, Railway-owned, Annual Reports, 525 War-time Railways by British Engineers in France, Order for Preservation for Public Use, 437 Watford New Line, Remodelling of Station Yard of Metropolitan and London and North-Eastern Joint Railways, 495 Welsh Highland Railway and Passenger Traffic, 677 West Hartlepool Light Railways Orders, 697 West Somerset Mineral Railway Sold by Auction, 185 Wireless Telegraphy, Experiments in its Applications to Railways, 45 Woolwich Locomotives, Twenty Sold to Southern Railway, 465 RAND Record for Shaft-sinking, 555 Remington Typewriter Company Starting Plant in Toronto, 697 Resin from Oporto, Crude Distillation Methods, 265 Rhodesia, Mulungushi Falls Hydro-electric Scheme, 585 Rhodesian Museum, Bulawayo, Government

 Grant for Geologist, 585

Rio de Janeiro Docks Improvement, Further Contracts for, 159 Road Congestion at Westminster, 495 Road Surfaces, Complaints of Slipperiness and Investigation, 295 Roads Bill, New, Introduced, 105 Roads in Quebec, Steady Improvement Reported, 237 Roumanian Market for British Goods, 13 Royal Technical College, Glasgow, Amalgamation of Departments, 62 Royal Technical College, Glasgow, Electrical

 Engineering Equipment, 363

Rubber Latex, Results of Tests on, 265 Rubber in Liquid Form, Increased Shipments of, to America, 409 Russian Geological Committee Reports Coal Discoveries in Petchora Region, 697 Russia’s First Steam Turbine Since the Revolution, 13 s ST. LAWRENCE Waterways Project, Proposed Treaty between Canada and United States, 295 Sandalwood Oil Refineries at Bangalore and Mysore City, Prosperous Pioneer Industry, 211 San Francisco, Projected Water Front Extension, 295 Santa Fe, Reported New Dock Project at, 555 Sault St. Marie, Combined Traffic in Various

 Canal Systems at, 409

Scholarship, Entrance, University College, 220 Scholarships, “ D. B. Morison ” Engineering Apprentice, 449 Scholarships in Engineering, Awards by “ Beama,” 600 Scholarships, “ Mavor and Coulson ” Travelling Post-graduate, 449 Screws, Drive, Parker Hardened, Charles Churchill and Co., Limited, 62 Severn Barrage Scheme, Private Report, 75 Sewage Pump, Electrically Driven, for Calcutta, Tenders Invited, 641 Shanghai Automatic Telephones on Trial in View of Further Installations, 323 Sheffield’s Unemployment Relief, Projected Expenditure, 351 SHIPS AND SHIPPING MATTERS : Allentown, 8000-Ton Tanker, Conversion from Steam to Diesel-electric Propulsion, 159 Anchor Liner Ordered for Indian Service, 185 Australia’s Two New Cruisers, Plans for

  Floating Dock and Building Cruisers in England, 133 ; Tenders to be Called for from England and Australia, 295, 381 British Submarine’s Record Voyage, 185 Cable Ship, New, The Cable, for Eastern
    Extension Telegraph Company, 495

Clyde Tonnage Launched in August, and for Eight Months of Current Year, 265 Cruiser, New, Keel Laid, Vickers Limited, 464 Cruisers, First of the Five New, Started, 409 Cunard Liner Franconia’s Mishap, 133 Egremont Castle, Successful Salving of, After

    Fire and Explosion, 45

Electric Passenger Ship, Reputed Largest in the World, Under Construction, 105, 159 Gyro-compass Position on New Canadian Pacific Steamers, 465

 H.M.S. Lion Broken Up, 555
 Isle of Wight, Motor Lifeboat for, 542

Itchen, Ship and Yacht Building Yard at, 127 Largest Turbine-electrically Propelled Seagoing Liner, Projected Construction, 105, 159

 Laurentic’s Gold Salving Progress, 237
 Mauretania’s Record Speed, 75

Mauretania’s Speed Record Beaten by Herself, 211 Notable Ship Reconstruction by Swedish Company, 323

 Oil Tanker for New Zealand, 381

Orient Liner Oronsay Fitted with Duct Keel, 237 Rio Dorado’s Construction, Exceptional, Details, 13 Scapa Flow Sunken German Vessels, Progress of Salving, 237, 265, 295, 381, 437 Steam Trawler Fatal Accident Due to Stop Valve Failure, 555 Submarine L 53 to be Commissioned for Service, 669

 Tees Much Increased Shipbuilding, 725
 Thames Proposed Passenger Fleet, Sir George
    Hulme’s Views, 323
 Thornycroft Motor Boat, 551

United States Naval Programme for Ships and Aircraft, 613 White Star Liner Arabic, Change of Service, 133 Wooden War-time Ships, American, to be Burnt at Sea, 351 Yarrow’s Designs for Dutch Destroyers Accepted, 265 SISAL Hemp Production in the Empire, 21 Slag Sand Used for Concrete, 409 Smoke Abatement Bill Deferred, 6 9 Societies—see Associations Standards—see British Steam Pipe, Copper, Fatal Failure of, 211 Steam Retort for Experimental Purposes, New Features, 323 Steam Turbines, Proposed Maximum Sizes, 75 Storage Dams on Quebec Rivers, Plans now under Review, 105 Subsidy Type Light Lorries, War Department Specification, 89 Subsoil Water Rising, Preventive Means, 697 Subway in Brussels, Surveys Started for, 525 Sugar Mill, Large, for Jamaica, Duncan

 Stewart and Co., 347

Sugar and Motor Spirit Factory in Mysore, 697 Sulphur Content of Organic Substances, Method of Estimation of, 45 Sulphur Production Increase in Japan, 10 Sulphuric and Hydrochloric Acids, Commercial, Simultaneous Production of. Differing Processes Suggested, 265 Sweden’s Hydro-electric Power but Continued Need for Fuel, 1 33 Swedish Immense Hydro-electric Resources, Possibilities of Much Increased Use, 495 Swedish Telegraphs and Broadcasting, 237 Sydney, Two Automatic Telephone Exchanges for, 105 TANGANYIKA Mines, Copper Production, Great Expectations, 409 Tasmanian Proposed Canal at Ralph’s Bay Neck, 75 Telegram Despatch from Unattended Public Call Boxes in Birmingham, 265 Telephone Exchange, Automatic, for Berne, 185 Telephone Exchanges under Construction and

 Projected, 295

Telephone Exchanges in India, Statistics of, 185 Telephone Subscribers in Paris, Administration’s Lesson in Patience, 159 Telephones in Durban, Conversion to Automatic Working, 159 Telephones in Italy, Cession to Private Industry, 381 Terrestrial Magnetism Department of the Carnegie Institution, Washington, Report of Work Done, 53 Testing Work by United States Bureau of Standards, 237 Thames Longitudinal Bridge Scheme Rejected, 669 Thames-Severn Canal, Projected Abandonment, 75 Tibet Seeks Engineering Instruction from England, 237 Tinfoil Manufacture in Chekiang, China, 465 Tokyo, Projected Construction of Subways, 265 Town Hall, New, for Nottingham, 641 Train Ferry at Grafton, Clarence River, New South Wales, 641 Train Ferry Service Between Harwich and Zeebrugge, Question of Winter Service, 133 Tramway from Southend to Eltham, Proposed to Apply for Authority for Construction, 133 Trelleborg, Sweden, Harbour Extension, 613 Tunnel, Pedestrian, Under the Liffey, 13 Tunnel, Shandaken, for New York Water Supply, Longest in the World and Quickest Excavated, 265 Turbine, Critical Vibrations and Speeds, 351 u ULTRA-VIOLET Rays Effect on Polished Metal, 211 Unemployment, Great Increase in, 133 United States Company’s Loan for Buenos

 Aires Rebuilding and Development, 237

United States Metal Mining Industry Statistics, 669 University College Entrance Scholarship, 220 V VALVES, Steam or Water, Controlled by Electric Motors, 75 Vancouver, Port of, Shipping in and out of, Statistics, 45 Ventilating Fan for Gold Mines, South Africa, Largest in the World, 613 Vermilion Manufacture and Trade in Hong Kong, 295 Victoria Quay, Fremantle, W.A., Construction of, 327 w WAGON and other Wheels, Gears, &o.‘, Con- | structed by Stroh Process, 75 War Department Subsidy Type Light Lorries ; Scheme, Enrolment of Vehicles, 185 Water Gauges for Marine Boiler Testing, Causes of Rise and Fall of Water in the Glass, 437 WATER SUPPLY :

 Edmonton Supply from Pigeon Lake, 45
 Lead Mine Furnishes Pure Water Supply, 525
 New South Wales Water Supply Scheme, 613

New York Water Supply, New Tunnel of Record Length and Speed in Excavation. 265

 New Zealand, Proposals for Auckland Water I
    Supply, 495	I

Pumping Station Below Ground Level to Increase Water Supply in Chicago, 409

 Rand Water Board’s Supply Scheme, 13

South Africa’s Various Schemes for Water Supply, 697 Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks Company’s Undertaking Sold, 13

 Surface Water Supply of Canada, 380

Vernon Hooper Dam for Durban Water Supply, 45 WATER SUPPLY (continued) : Victorian Rivers and Water Supply Commission, Great Storage Increase. 697

 Worthing Proposes New Waterworks. 669 WATER-TUBE Boiler Explosion, Comparison of American and British-made Tubes. 641

Water-tube Boiler Explosion. Report, 697 Water Wheel Used Since 1847 Replaced by

 Turbine, 725

Waygood-Otis Club, Annual Sports, 89 Weathering Properties of Building Stone, Tests and Results, 185 Well Sinking in China. Government Rewards Offered for, 555 Wembley Excursion from Prescot, Lancashire, 421 Western Australia, Mining Statistics of, 492 Westminster Bridge Deflection, Experiments, Wharf to be Constructed Beside Cannonstreet Station, 351 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY.

 ^ft237S and	Earthing Precautions,

Amateur Experimental Work, Need for Guidance, 185 Amplification of Received Wireless Signals, 245 Bombay, Butcher Island, Projected Direction Finder Installation for Ships, 555 British Broadcasting Company’s Chelmsford

   Station Heard on a Crystal at Algiers, 185

Broadcasting in England and America Compared, 555 Broadcasting at Sea, Specially Designed Apparatus for, 465 Crystal Set Experiments, Parts of Human Body Possible to Replace Crystal, 159 Farmer’s Home-made Wireless and an Electric Power Company, New Point in Law. 495

 Greece, Wireless Telephony in, 465

High-tension Wireless Batteries, Hart Accumulator Company, Limited, 194 Johannesburg, Tests from New Broadcasting Station, 159 Lectures on Radio Telephony and Broadcasting, 465 Life-saving in Mines, Experiments in Progress, 133 Lighthouses, British Wireless Transmitting Apparatus for, 323 Marconi, Senatore, Return to London After

   Development of New Beam System, 525

Peking and Tientsin, Tientsin and Shanghai, German Wish to Install Wireless Telephones Between, 437 Post. Office and Radio Society of Great Britain, Difference of Opinion, 495 WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY (continued) : Post and Telegraph Department, South Africa, Rapid Growth of Telephones and Broadcasting, 613 Radio Bearings of Transmitting Stations, Observations of. 641 Radio Club for Poland. The First to be Founded. 641 Radio-telephonic Communication for Mersey Lightships. 725 Radio Transmission Important Results, Claimed from New Development, Dr. J. H. Hammond, jun.. 133

 Railways and Wireless, Experiments, 45
 Regeneration by Inductive Feedback. C. B.
   Jollife and Miss J. A. Rodman. 245

Seven Big Wireless Stations for Great Britain and the Continent for Direction of Aircraft Navigation, Reported Scheme for. 295 Ships’ Lifeboats’ Wireless Set, Successful Tests off Melbourne, 409 Transmitter Experiments Between Vienna and British Broadcasting Stations. 13 Wireless Frame Aerial. Reputed Largest in the World. Erected in Aldwych for United States Shipping Board. 75 Wireless Installation, Very Effective, for New Zeppelin, 159 WOOD Distillation in India, Modern Plant, 566 Wood Distillation Plant of Ford Motor Company, 613 Wood Pulp Industry, Large, for North-West Tasmania, 323 Wreckage Two and Half Centuries Old Dredged Up, 409 X X-RAYS in Industry, .1. F. Driver, 381 Y YALU Timber Company, New Mill Projected, 13 Yokohama Harbour, Further Enlargement Projected, 75 z ZINC Mine in British Columbia, Said to bo World’s Largest, 641

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