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A ABERDEEN, Water Supply Works for, 545, 554 AERONAUTICS : Aerial Mapping Camera, Vickers Ltd., 522, 551

 Aircraft Design :

Compression Ignition, Heavy Oil Engine, D. R. Pye, 192 Corrosion of Aluminium, H. Sutton and Dr. G. D. Bengough, 193

    Rotating Wing, H. E. Wimperis, 191
 AIRCRAFT Development in France, 666
 Aircraft Engines—sec Engines
 Continental Air Progress, 354
 Gaseous Fuel for Airships, 119

Karachi Airship Shed, Armstrong Construction Company, Ltd., 684, 685, 690

 Naval Aviation. 145

Shenandoah, U.S. Airship, Loss of, 181, 279, 399 AGE Hardening Effects, Miss Kathleen Bingham, 314 Agricultural Appliances, Electrically Driven, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., 58 Agricultural Exhibits at Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Reading, 42, 52 Agriculture—see also Electrical Matters Air Compressor, Oil Engine-driven, Ingersoll- Rand Company, Ltd., 333 Air Compressor Practice, Modern, in Oil Engine Installations, R. L. Quertier, 616 Aiton, J. A., Steam Pipes for Extra High Pressure and Temperature, 315 Alloy Steels—see Iron and Steel Aluminium Allovs, Commercial, Dr. A. G.

 Gwyer and Mr. H. W. L. Phillips, 274 Aluminium-silicon Alloys, Modified, Dr. D.
 Stockdale and Mr. I. Wilkinson, 274 .Aluminium, Single Crystals of, Dr. D. Hanson and Others, 274

AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS :

    10, 151, 222, 416, 477
 Filter Washing Machine, 416
 Heavy Excavation for Open Mining, 151
 High Capacity Water Tank, 10
 Iron Ore Development, 416
 Large Waterworks Pumping Engines, 10
 Lift Gates for Canal Lock, 10
 Lifts in Large Buildings, 222
 Mechanical Treatment of Sewage, 477
 Municipal Engineers’ Strike, 222
 Oil Engines for Pumping Oil, 416
 Phosphorus in Steel, 416
 Recent Locomotive Developments, 222
 Steam Engine Supplying Process Steam, 477
 Steel for Machine Tools, 477
 Steel Mill Practice, 151
 Treatment of Industrial Wastes, 416
 Uniflow Engines for a Blooming Mill, 151
 Waste Heat Boiler Plant, 416
 Waste Heat Boilers, 10
 Water-tube Locomotive Boiler, New, 151
 Welding Structural Steam Framework, 477

ANGLES, A., Restriction of Output, 166 Antwerp, Dock Extensions at—see Antwerp, Port of Antwerp, Port of, Monsieur K. Bollengier, 6, 20, 130, 1 1 1 Armstrong, Professor Henry E., Lord Balfour's

 Messel Memorial Lecture, and Coal, 120

Artificial Drying of Crops, Report of an Investigation into, 368 Artificial Silk Factory at Littleborough, 100 Asphalt Plant, Portable, Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., 46 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES Association, British :

 Meeting in Oxford, 146, 164, 191, 216
 Presidential Address by H.R.H. the Prince
   of Wales, 146
 Conversazione, Visits, 218
   SECTION A :
 X-ray Crystal Analysis, Professor W. L.
   Bragg, 216
   SECTION B :
 Scope of Organic Chemistry, Professor T. F.
   Thorpe, 147
   SECTION F:
 Economic Aspects of Labour, Sir Lynden
   Macassey, 166
   SECTION G :
 Aircraft Design :
   Compression Ignition Engine, D. R. Pye,
      192
   Corrosion of Aluminium, H. Sutton and
      Dr. G. D. Bengough, 193

Rotating Wing, Special Requirements in Design, H. E. Wimperis, 191

 B.E.S.A. Glossary, Professor W. O. Howe, 217
 Economics of Electrical Distribution, J. N.
   Kennedy, 165
 Electric Conduction, Professor Win. Cramp,
    166

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) : Association, British (continued) :

  Electric Ploughing, R. Borlase Matthews, 166
  Electricity Supply, Sir John Snell, 164

Pressure in Impulse Steam Turbines, W. J. Kearton, 217 Stress Concentration Produced by Fillets and Holes, 8. Timoshenko, 217 Torsional Stresses, Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. H. P. Budgen, 217

    SECTION J :
  Accidents in Industry, A. Stephenson, 166
  Restriction of Output, A. Angles, 166
    SECTION 1. :
  Education by Wireless, J. C. Stobart, 217

Science and the Humanities, Professor C. H. Desch, 217 Association, Diesel Engine Users : Deleterious Properties of Lubricating Oils, J. E. Hackford, 16 Modern Air Compressor Practice in Oil Engine Installations, R. L. Quertier, 616

  Obligation of the Ironfounder to Diesel Engine
    Users, Horace J. Young, 442
  Visit to Worthing, 100

Association of Engineers, Manchester :

  Address, Sir Benjamin Longbottom, 479
  Rubber and its Application to Engineering,
    H. P. Stevens and B. D. Porritt, 673

Institute, Iron and Steel:

  Autumn Meeting at Stockholm, 125, 244, 269,
     310

ASSOCIATIONS. INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) : Institute. Iron and Steel (continued):

  Banquet, &c.» 270

Carburisation and Decarburisation of Iron, Professor A. Johannson and Mr. R. von Seth, 270 Development of Swedish Iron Industry, Axel Wahl berg. 246 Development of Swedish Mining Industry, Professor W. Petersson, 247 Effect of Nitrogen on Chromium and Some Iron-chromium Alloys. F. Adcock. 247 Heat Conduction in Spherical Steel Specimens. Professor Carl Benedicks and Others. 269 Heat-treated Spring Steels, G. A. Hankins and Others, 269 History and Organisation of Jernkontoret, Emil Kinander. 245

  Industrial Situation, 245
  The Williams Prize, 617

Testing of Hardened Steel. Axel Lundgren, 269 Visits to Mines and Works, Three Days’ Tours, 310, 311 Institute of Marine Engineers

  Lloyd’s Register Scholarships, 479

Steam Pipes for Extra High Pressure and Temperature, J. A. Aiton, 315 Institute of Metals : Autumn Meeting at Li6ge. 45. 181, 274, 275. 313; Provisional Programme, 45; last of Papers, 181 Modern Metallurgy and Ancient Industries, Fifth Autumn Lecture to the Institute. Dr. W. Rosenhain, 274, 287

  Papers Read nt Liege :

Age Hardening of Ternary and Quaternary Alloys of Aluminium Containing Nickel, Miss Kathleen Bingham. 314 Comparison of Static and Dynamic Tensile and Notched-bar Tests, Kotaro Honda, 275 Constitution and Structure of the Commercial Aluminium Alloys, Dr. A- G. Gwyer and Mr. H. L. Phillips, 274 Crystal Deformation, C. J. Smithells and Others, 313 Gear Blanks by Centrifugal Casting, F. W. Rowe, 313 Nickel as Coinage, Captain F. R. Barton, 314 Properties of the Modified Aluminium- silicon Alloys, Dr. D. Stockdale and Mr.

      1. Wilkinson, 274

.Season Cracking in Arsenical Copper Tubes, A. Pinkerton and W. H. Tait, 313 Silumin and its Structure, Mr. Buntaro Otani, 274 Single Crystals of Aluminium Under Reversed Torsional Stresses, Dr. 1).

    T Hanson and Others, 274

Some Mechanical Properties of Siliconaluminium Alloys, J. D. Grogan, 274 Visits to Works, Reception, 4c., 275, 314 Zinc Industry of the Li£ge District, Monsieur L. JBoscheron, 274 Institution of Automobile Engineers : Debt of the Community to the Automobile, H. Kerr Thomas. 384 Institution of Chemical Engineers :

  Conference, 581
  Programme, 581

Institution of Civil Engineers :

  April Examinations, 1926, Pass List, 103

Engineering Works in India, Presidential Address, Frederick Palmer, 493 James Forrest Lecture, Radio Communications, Senatore Guglielmo Marconi, 466 October Examinations, 1926, Pas< List (Interim), 590

    MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION :

New Transit Sheds, Nos. 7. and 9. and No. 9 Dock of the Manchester Ship Canal, H. K. Russell, 668 Institution of Electrical Engineers : Conversazione at. the Science Museum, South Kensington, Various Models and Exhibits, 15 Design of City Distribution Systems and the Problem of Standardisation, J. R. Beard and J. G. N. Haldane, 530

  Faraday Medal Award, 15

Presidential Address, Abstract of, Dr. Eccles, 473, 478 Sir Oliver Lodge’s Lecture on the Telephone, 15

  Telephone Jubilec Luncheon, 14

Terms Used in Electrical Engineering, Glossary, British Engineering Standards Association, 45 Underground Network, 60,001).Volt, of the Union d’Electricit5, Colonel E. Mercier, 686, 692

   NORTH-WESTERN CENTRE :

History of the Telephone, W. J. Medlyn's Address, 495

   WIRELESS SECTION :

Design of a High-power Radio Telegraphic Transmitter Using Thermionic Valves, Dr. R. V. Hansford and Mr. H. Faulkner, 723 Wireless Developments, Professor C. L. Fortescue, 522 Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland :

 Marino Oil Engines, D. M. Shannon, 560

Institution of Fuel Technology :

 Autumn Meeting Programme, 369
 First Autumn Meeting, 636
 Fusion of Two Institutions, 636

Hydraulic Theory of Flow of Gas in Furnaces, Professor W. E. Grouin-Grjimaflo, 636 Low-temperature Carbonisation of Bituminous Coals, S. McEwen, 636 Meeting at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Suggested Amalgamation, 180 ASSOCIATIONS. INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued): Institution of Fuel Technology (continued): Occurrence. Working and Treatment of Brown Coals, Sir Richard Redmayne, 636 Papers by Messrs. T. Hardie, Harold Nielsen, and Professor R. T. Haslam, 636 Presidential Address, Sir Alfred Mond, 636 Smoko and Public Health, Dr. J. S. Owens, 636 Institution of Oas Engineers :

 Conference on Tar, 577

Institution, Junior, of Engineers : Election of Members for Service in 1926-7 Session. 617

 No Admission for Women, 617

Petrol ami its Substitutes for Use in Internal Combustion Engines, 617 Presidential Address, Progress of Marine Engineering, Engineer Vice-Admiral Sir Robert B. Dixon, 600 Institution of Locomotive Engineers :

 Presidential Address, Sir Seymour B.
   Trit ton, 396

Institution of Mechanical Engineers ;

 Annual Dinner, 659

Electric Locomotives, Method of Classifying, Analysing, Av., T. A. F. Stone, 573, 587

 Hawksfey Lecture. Professor Coker, 529

Marine Oil Engine Trials Committee, Fifth Report at Joint Meeting, 657 : Trials of the T.S.M.V. Cape York, 657 Presidential Address, W. Rea veil, Excerpts from, 463

   NORTH-WESTERN BRANCH :
 Annual Dinner, 649

Economic Value of Increased Steam Pressures. H. L. Guy, 533. 534. 561 Joint Meeting with the Liverpool Engineering Society, 659 ; Marine Engine Trials Committee’s Report, Trials of the T.S.M.V. Capo York, 659

   SOUTH WALES BRANCH :

Excerpts from Presidential Address, Electrical Energy in Switzerland, Professor F. Bacon. 521 Institution of Naval Architects : Marine Oil Engine Trials Committee. Joint Meeting—sec Institution of Mechanical Engineers

 Summer Meeting in Belgium, 5

Inclining Experiments on Ships of Small or Negative Stability. Professor William Hovgaard, 5 Oil Separators for Bilge and Ballast Water, Dr. H. S. Hele-Shaw and Mr. Albert Beale, 6 Port of Antwerp, Monsieur K. Bollengier, 6, 20, 139, 144 Ship Strain Observations, Lockwood Taylor, 6 Social Engagements and Visits to Works, Visit to Zeebrugge, 7 Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders : Merchant Ship Trials and Service Performance, Dr. E. V. Teller. 617 Institution of Public Lighting Engineers :

 Conference at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 229

Society of Chemical Industry :

   FUEL SECTION AND MANCHESTER SECTION :
 Conference on Tar, 577

Society. Newcomen :

 Kristofer Polhem, John G. A. Rhodin, 668

Summer Meeting in East Anglia. Visits to Windmills, Silk Weaving Works, Av.; Lectures, Strangers in Norwich, Walter Rudd ; Ancient Local Industries, H. O. Clark, 10 Presidential Address. Observations on the Rise and Progress of Manufacturing Industry in England, Rhys Jenkins, 437 Society, Women’s Engineering :

 Fourth Annual Conference, 98

ATMOSPHERE Pressure and Earth Crust Movements, 200 B BACON. Professor F., Electrical Energy in Switzerland, 521 Band Saw, Tree-felling, John T. Pickles, 19 Barnes, Herbert, Entropy and Probability, 516, 544 Barrage—see Sukkur Basle—see Inland Navigation Beckton—see Coal Bellasis, E. 8., Some Problems in Hydraulics and River Engineering, 202 Berlin Meeting Papers—see Ships Binary Heat—sec Engines BOILERS

 Boiler Blow-down Accident, 142

Boiler Explosion, Unusual, 617—see also “ Paragraphs," 471

 Boiler Explosions and Water Gauges, 502

Boiler-house Extensions at St. Pancras Electricity Station, 504 Boiler Installation for Turbine Steamer King George V., 270, 296 (Two page Supplement, September \llh, 1926)

 Boiler Plate—see Embrittlement of
 Boilers for Posadas Waterworks, 410

Locomotive Boilers—see Railway Locomotives

 Oil Fuel Apparatus for Steam Boilers, 62
 Sulzer, 1500 1b. Boiler, 706

BOLLENGIER, Monsieur K., Port of Antwerp, 6, 20, 139, 144 Books of Reference, 36. 276, 416, 523, 693 Bragg, Professor W. L., X-ray Crystal Analysis, Brass Sheet and Strip- British ICngineering Standards Association, Specifications Breakdowns of Steam Turbines and Engines.

BRIDGES Bascule. Electric Control Equipment for. 480 Drawbridge at Read by, L. and N.E. Railway. 488

 Killermont Bridge, Glasgow, W. L. Scott.
   444. 448
 London Bridges. 665
 Railway Bridges—see also Railways
 Rotokantuku Bridge Over the River Waiapu.
   New Zealand. 18

BRITISH Electrical Engineering—see Electrical Matters BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSO

   NATION *
 Annual General Meeting and Statement. 549

Reports

 Standard Pipe Flanges, 526

Switchgear Equipments for Direct-current Circuits, Ac.. 580 Specifications

 Asbestine, Zinc Oxide and Varnishes. 153
 Brass Bars, 47

Brass Sheet and Strip. Hot Rolled Yellow Metal, Brass Sheet and Strip for General Engineering Purposes, Best Brass Sheet and Strip, Cartridge Brass Sheet and Strip. 632 Colliery Rails and Steel Arches for Use in Mines, 425 Ebonite for Panels for Radio Reception. 695 Electrical Machinery, Revised Specification.

   343
 Fixed Condensers. 697

Indicating Ammeters. Voltmeters, Wattmeters, Ac.. 426

 Portland Blast-furnace Cement, 207

Terms Used in Electrical Engineering. 45. 217 BRONZE Worm Gear Blanks by Centrifugal Casting, F. W. Rowe. 313 ; (Letter), 330 Burden of Research, 39 Burning—see Coal Burnt Fen Pumping Station. 99 ; (Letter). 112 CALENDARS, Diaries, Ac., 727 Cambridge Station, Re-signalling of. 642 ;

 (Correction), 689

Camera—see Aeronautics Can the Heat of Combustion of Coal be Turned Directly into Electric Energy ? John G. A. Rhodin. 80 Caribbean. Port Improvements in the. 125 Catalogues, 23, 129, 155, 183, 209. 235, 347. 455, 483, 649. 724 Cause and Prevention of Embrittlement of Boiler Plate, S. W. Parr and F. G. Straub, 496 ('hart. A New Steam, 222 ; (Letters), 285, 331, 360 Cheadle Heath—see Works Chemical Congress in London, 94 Chemical Exhibition—see Exhibitions, Coal, Ac. ( lassification of Patent Specifications, 217 COAL, COKE AND COLLIERIES For Papers on Brown Coals, Bituminous Coals, Ac.—see Associations, Institution of Fuel Technology

 Burning Gasified Coal, 256
 Coal Dispute, 555
 Coal-handling Plant at Beckton Gasworks, 69

Coal Products. Chemical and Engineering Exhibition, 549 Coal Shipping Machine at Toledo, Wellman- Seaver-Morgan Company, 469, 472

 Coal Silos—see Reinforced Concrete Silos
 Fineness of Coal Dust, 179
 Government and the Coal Dispute, 363

Heat of Combustion Coal and Electric Energy, John G. A. Rhodin, 80 ; (Letter), 112 Hydraulic-electric Coal Hoists at Cardiff, East Ferry-road Engineering Company. Ltd.. 385 Lord Balfour's Messel Memorial Lecture, and Coal, Professor Henry E. Armstrong, 121

 Price of Coal, 611

Work and Wages in Collieries and Steel Works, Sir P. Rylands. 396 COKER, Professor, Hawknley Lecture, 529 Combination of Errors, 226 Coming-of-Age of the University of Sheffield, 32 Commercial Limit of Steam Pressures, 583 ;

 (Letter), 641

Comparison of Static and Dynamic Tensile and Notched-bar Tests, Kotaro Honda, 275, 309 Compressors—see Air Compressor Condensers, Operation of, 391 Connecting-rod Forks, Thomas Petty, 312 Contracts. 26, 52, 78. 106. 132, 183. 207, 235, 261, 294, 319, 347. 376. 397. 429. 458, 483. 511, 539, 593, 617. 649, 67 3. 727 Co-ordination of Experimental Results, 474 Copper, Action of Hydrogen on. Dr. Cyril S.

 Smith and Professor Carle R. Hayward, 313

Cornish Mine “ Tributer,” A. K. Hamilton Jenkin, 688 Cornish Tin Mining Industry, G. C. Cann, 579 Corrosion Problems, Fuel Alcohol, Hormones, 94, 95 Corrugated Rails, Shock Recording Instrument and Hardness Testing, 692 Cost of Research, 338 Crabs, Electric Traveller, Design of, E. G. Fiegehen, 178 Cracking of a Concrete Road, 247 ; (Letter), 285 Cramp, Professor Win., Electric Conduction, 166 Crane, 200-Ton Floating, 308, 315 (.’rompton, Colonel R. E., Electricity Bill, 556 ;

  (Letter), 644

Cultivator, Turning Type, J. and H. McLaren, 031 Current Prices for Metals and Fuels. 24. 50. 70 104. 1.30. 156, 184, 210. 236. 262. 292, 320. 347. .374. 404. 430. 456. 484. 512. 540. 566. 594. 622. 650. 676. 702. 728 D DALMARNOCK Power Station Extensions, 368 Danube—arc Navigation Diiwpon. Sir Philip, and Professor S. Parker Smith, on Main Line Railway Electrification, 570, 598. 626—arc also Railways ; alno Rail way Locomotives Direct Conversion—sec Low-pressure Dixon. Vice-Admiral Sir R. B.. Progress of Murine Engineering, 600, 640 Dock Extensions at .Antwerp, 1.39, 144 Docks —nee also Electrical Matters Drawbridges—see Bridges; also Railways Drilling Machines—see Machine 'Pools E EBONITE—see British Engineering Standards Economic Value of Increased Steam Pressures.

  H. L. Guv, 533, 534, 561, 583 ; (Letter). 644 Education by Wireless. J. C. Stobart, 217 Educational Intelligence, 52, 132, 258, 388 Elbe—see Railways, Foreign

ELECTRICAL MATTERS : Agricultural Machinery, Electrically Driven, Appliances for, Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., 58

 Agriculture, Electricity in, 584

Boiler-house Extensions at St. Pancras Electricity Station. 504

 British Electrical Engineering. 473, 478

Dalmarnock Power Station Extensions. 368 Economics of Electrical Distribution, J. N.

    Kennedy. 165

Electric Conduction, Professor Wm. ('ramp, 166 Electric Control Equipment for a Bascule Bridge. 480

 Electric Crabs—nee Structural Design
 Electric Power Schemes (South Africa). 636
 Electrical Distribution, 530

Electricity Bill, Colonel R. E. Crompton. 556 ; (Letters), 577. 605. 644 Electricity Commissioners* Sixth Annual Report . 667 Electricity Supply, Sir John Snell, 164, 173 ; (Letter), 196 Flow Meter, Electrically Operated, Brown Instrument Company, 504 Gasholder, Electrically Welded, at Melbourne, 586 Heat of Combustion Coal and Electric Energy, John G. A. Rhodin, 80 ; (Letter), 112

 High-pressure Cables, 692

Inductance Design for High-power Radio Transmitters, 723 Models and Analogies for Demonstrating Electrical Principles, 167, 194, 228. 242, 273, 299, 339, .354. 380, 408. 447, 464. 503. 518, 548, 574, 602, 628. 655 Moffatt Tunnel. Electric Supply, Haulage and Ventilation, 55

 Norwich Electricity Supply, 493

Overspeed Test House, Metropolitan -Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 716, 722 Phase Advancer, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 71 Power Station Instruments, Legibility of, 66 Refrigerators, Electrically Operated. Delco Light Company, 62 Soho-square Sub-station of Charing Cross Electricity Supply, 424 Southampton Docks. Electrical Equipment at, 188, 198. 214, 224. 240 Switzerland, Electrical Energy in. Professor F. Bacon, 521

 Telephones—sec Telephone

60,000-Volt Underground Network of the Union d’Electricitd, Colonel E. Mercier, 686. 692 EMBR1TTLEMENT of Boiler Plato, Cause and Prevention of, S. W. Parr and F. J. Straub, 496 ENGINES AND MOTORS Aircraft Engine, Cyclone. William Beard- more and Co., Ltd., 695 Airless Injection Oil Engines, Petrol and Paraffin Engines, Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 43 ; (Correction), 60 Almeda, Propelling Machinery of, 710, 711. 713

 Binary Heat Engines, 222

Cold-starting Igniter for Oil Engines, Cross- ley Brothers, Ltd., 152

 Combination of Errors, 226

Double-acting Two-cycle Engine on the Motor Ship Tampa, 720, 721 Fuel Oil Engines. 14 and 24 B.H.P., Heavy Oil Engine, 47 B.H.P., Tangyes Ltd., 42 Heavy Fuel Oil Engines and Paraffin Engines, Blackstone and Co.. Ltd., 42 Heavy Oil Engine. 600 B.H.P., Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd.. 532 120 B.H.P. High-speed Oil Engine, A. G. Mumford, Ltd., 614 Hot-bulb Oil Engines, 14-16, 28 30, and 48-52 B.H.P., Fielding and Platt. Ltd., 42 Marine Oil Engine, 600 B.H.P. Two-cycle, Vickers-Petters, Ltd., 414

 Marine Oil Engines, D. M. Shannon, 560

Oil Engine, 2 B.H.P., Crossley Brothers, Ltd.. 60 12 H.P. Oil Engine, Marshall, Sons and Co., Ltd., 42 Oil Engine Driven Air Compressor, Ingersoll- Rand Company, Ltd., 333 Oil Engine with New’ Type Lubricator, Tangyes Ltd., 631 Oil Engine, Small. Horizontal, Hopper - cooled. Four-stroke, Crossley Brothers, 632 Paraffin Engine, J6 H.P., Lister ami Co., Ltd., 59 Paraffin Engine, 10 B.H.P. Horizontal, Bamfords, Ltd., 59 Semi-atationary Steam Engine, I4o B.H.P., for Posadas Waterworks, Richard Garrett and Sons, Ltd., 410 ENGINES AND MOTORS (continued): Small Electric Lighting Sets with Paraffin or Petrol Engines, Boulton and Paul, Ltd., 42 Small Horizontal and Vertical Paraffin and Petrol Engines, National (las Engine Co., Ltd., 42 Small Two-stroke 1| 5 B.H.P. Engines, 18-21 H.P. Crude Oil Engine, Paraffin or Petrol, Portable 14 14 B.H.P. Horizontal Engine, Petters. Ltd., 42 Triple-expansion Pass-out Steam Engine. Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd., 250, 257 Twin-cylinder, 132 B.H.P. Oil Engine, National Gas Engine Company, Ltd., 42 . Two-stroke Double-acting Marine Oil Engine, Fried. Krupp Germania VVerft, 550 Union-Castle Liner Carnarvon Castle, Engines of. 100 ENGINEER and the Foundry, 200 Engineering Photography. Some Notes on,

 A. W. .Swan, 434

Engineering Works in India, Frederick Palmer, 493 Engineers, Training of, (il l ; (Letter). 671 Entropy and Probability, Herbert Barnes, 516. 544 Enza Power and Irrigation Project. 523 Escalators and other Equipment of Electric Railways—see London Electric Railways. Extensions Excavators, Rotary, for London Electric Railways* Extension Work, 177, 178 EXHIBITIONS

  Chemical Plant Exhibition in London, 94

Coal Products, Chemical and Engineering Exhibition, 549 Inland Navigation and Water Power Exhibition at Basle. 57 ; (Letter). 90

  Model Engineer Exhibition, 344
  Motor Car Show, 439, 460
  National Radio Exhibition, 282

Royal Agricultural Society’s Show nt Reading, 42. 58, 89 Smithfield Club Show, 631 ; (Letters). 671. 697

  Smoko .Abatement Exhibition, 316

EXPLOSION of a Valve Chest at Barking. 446, 452 ; (Letter), 495 F FACTORY—aec Lunbo ; aleo Sugar Beet Fairlie-Perkins—«er Locomotives Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire. 723 Fen Drainage—*cc Pumps Ferry—see Ships Fiegehen, E. G., Structural Design of Electric Traveller Crabs. 178 Files—#ee Templeborough Filtration—«ce Water Supply Fixed Condensers. British Engineering Standards, 697 Flax-pulling Machine, Robert Boby. Ltd., 59 Flow Meter—net Electrical Matters Ford’s Five-day Week, 468 Fortescue. Professor C. L., Wireless Developments, 522 Forthcoming Engagements. 26. 52, 78. 106. 132, 158, 186, 212, 238. 264. 294. 322. 350. 376, 406, 432, 458. 486, 514, 542. 568, 596, 624, 651, 678, 704, 730 Foundry Sand, Machine for Renovating. J. B. Corrie and Co., 426 Freedom. 337 French Economics and Trade, 93 FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES : 25, 51, 77. 105, 131, 157, 185. 211. 237, 263, 293, 321. 349, 375, 405. 431. 457. 485. 513. 541, 567, 595. 623. 651, 677, 703. 729

  Ad Valorem Duties. 131
  Advancing Wages, 293
  Air Light houses. 651
  Alsace Canal, 77
  Barrage Reservoirs, 541
  Belgian Import Duties. 375
  Coal. 211
  Coal Markets, 237
  Goal Production. 431
  Coke and Anthracite, 595
  Colliery Equipment. 623
  Colonial Development. 263
  Colonial Machinery. 51
  Commercial Aviation, 405
  Commercial Vehicles, 541
  Concrete Suspension Bridge, 105, 513
  Continuous Brakes, 623
  Critical Recovery, 595
   Dockers’ Strikes, 77. 131, 185, 405
   Dunkirk, 321
   Eight Hours’ Day. 431, 567
  Electric Canal Haulage, 677
  Foreign Trade, 25, 349, 595, 703
  Free Trade Manifesto, 485
  German Imports. 211
   Harbour Works, 729
  Home Fuels, 105
  Hydraulic Works on the Congo, 595
  Improving Franc, 485
  Industrial Agreements. 431
   Industrial Charges, 157
  Industrial Position, 321
  Industrial Situation, 105
  Inland Navigation, 457
  Internationa) Rail Union, 25
  Iron and Steel Production, 51, 131
  Irrigation Barrage. 651
  J.abour Troubles, 25
  Limiting the Steel Output, 237
  Luminous Signals, 349
  Miners’ Wages. 541
  Motor Industry, 703
  National Fuel. 211
  Oil Supplies, 567
  Old Suspension Bridge. 77
  Paris Water Supply, 25, 321
  Period of Transition, 703
  Port of Rouen, 405
  Public Works, 567, 677
  Public Works Economies, 375
  Rail Motors, 157
  Rail Orders, 567
  Rail Union, 77
 Railway Accident, 25, 157, 703

BENCH ENGINEERING NOTES (continued): Railway Accidents. 513 Railway Amalgamation. 105, 185 Railway Catastrophe, 375 Railway Electrification. 457, 729 Rhine-Rhone Canal, 293 Road Construction, 405 Russian Trade. 185 Russian Trade Negotiations, 51 Sailing Ships, 293 Shipbuilding, 51. 321 Stabilisation, 729 Stainless Steel Patents, 293 Steel Cartel. 431. 677, 703 Steel Industry, 513 Steel Prices, 405 Steel Production, 457 Steel Production and Costs, 623 Steel Union. 185, 21 1, 237, 263, 349, 485, 513, 651 Suburban Electrification, 623 Synthetical Fuels, 457 The Franc and Trade. 77 The Navy. 157. 263 The Situation, 541 Tin-plates, 77 Trade Decline, 651 Trade Inactivity. 263 Trade Outlook. 349, 677

 Trade Situation, 51, 131

Tunnelling the Vosges. 293

 Unemployment, 237, 595
 Wireless Invention. New. 375
 Works in Algeria. 25
 Works in Paris, 729

FRENCH Engineering Problems, 251 French Mines. Nationalisation of, 253 Fuel Problem in France, 14 Fuel Technology Papers—see Associations, Arc. Fulham Gasworks, Extensions at, 99 Ftilweiler, W. H., Importance of Little Things in the Standardisation of Methods of Testing. 123 Furnace—see Oil Shales G GALE High-speed Indicator, 332, 333 Galvanometer for Direct and Alternating- current Measurements, Cambridge Instrument Company, Ltd., 152 Gaseous Fuel for Airships. 1)9 Gasholder, I,<9)0,000 Cubic Feet Electrically

 Welded, at Melbourne, 586

Gasworks Extensions at Fuihnm, 99 Gauge Glass—see Water Gear, Continuously Variable. Chain-driven, Change Speed, P.I.V. Gear Syndicate, 220 Gear Teeth—see Surface-hardened

- Ghost ” Lines—sec Iron

Gold Industry, The Rand. 423 Good. E. T.. Hours of Labour Abroad. 116 Government and the Coal Dispute, 363 Government and Industry, 717 Grain Dust as Fuel, 360 Great Lakes of North America, The Levels of the, William Porthouse, 218 Grinders—see Machine Tools; also “ Saw Doctor ” Guns—see Ships, Naval Matters Gunter, Edmund, Tercentenary of Death, 590 Guv, H. L., Economic Value of Increased Steam

  Pressure. 533, 534, 561, 583 ; (Letter). 644

H HANSFORD, Dr. R. V., and Mr. H. Faulkner, Design of a High-power Radio Telegraphic Transmitter Using Thermionic Valves, 723 Hatfield, Dr. W. H., “ Ghost “ Lines in Steel Forgings, 226 Hazards—see Ships, Naval Matters Helium, Liquid, Plant—see Scientific Research

 Howe, Professor W. ()., B.E.S.A. Glossary, 217 Heat—sec Coal

Heater, Workshop. Wm. Grice and Sons. 18 Heating Plug, New Type of, Lodge Plugs, Ltd., 646 Hele-Shaw, Dr. H. S., and Mr. Albert Beale.

  Oil Separators for Bilge and Ballast Water. 6

Hinge. Continuous Concrete, at Killermont Bridge, 449 Hoists—see Coal Hoists, Locomotive, for South Africa, Leeds Engineering and Hydraulic Company, Ltd., 618 Hovgoard, Professor Wm., Inclining Experiments on Ships of Small or Negative Stability, Hydraulic Pumps at Southampton Docks, Mather and Platt, Ltd., 240 Hydraulics and River Engineering, Some Problems, E. S. Bellasis, 202 Hydro-electric Power in Ontario, 112 IGNITER—see Engines India, Engineering Works in, Frederick Palmer, 493 INDIAN ENGINEERING NOTES

     660
   Bombay Port Equipment. 660
   Calcutta, The Port of. 661
   Irrigation in Bombay, 660
   Rangoon Port Development, 661

INDIAN Monsoons of 1925, 139

 Indicator, High-speed, C. H. Gale, 332, 333 Inductance Design—see Wireless
 Industrial Radiology. E. W. Lewis, 252 Industrialisation—sec Railways, Foreign Industry, Facts of, 13

Industry, Peace in, 691 Inland Navigation and Water Power Exhibition at Basle, 57 ; (Letter), 90—see alec World Power Conference, 326 Inland Navigation and Water Power in Spain 370

 Institutes and Institutions—see Associations Interatomic Forces and the Strength of Metals, 309

International Roads Congress in Italy : Bituminous and Asphalt Roads, Concrete Roads. Special Roads for Motor Traffic, Standardisation of Tests. 306

 IRON AND STEEL

Carburisation and Decarburisation of Iron, Professor A. Johansson and Mr. R. von Seth. 270

   Cast Iron for Diesel Engines, Horace J.
      Young, 442
   Continental Steel Combine, 146
   European Steel Union. 391

’* Ghost ” Lines in Steel Forgings, Dr. W. If. Hatfield, 226 Heat Conduction m Spherical Steel Specimens, Professor Carl Benedicks ami Others, 269 Heat-treated Spring Steels, G. A. Hankins and Others. 269

   Italian Pig Iron Industry, 204
   .Icrnkontoret, History and Organisation of.
      Emil Kinander, 245
   Production of Iron and Steel, 99
   Rough Turning of Alloy Steels, 526

Stresses in Cast Iron Pipe Sockets, Investigation by R. G. Batson and W. F. Cope. 366 Swedish Iron Industry During the Last Thirty Years, Axel Wahlberg, 246 Swedish Iron and Steel Works. Visits of the Iron and Steel Institute, 310, 311 Testing of Hardened Steel, Axel Lundgren, 269

   Tungsten Crystals. Deformation of, C. .1.
      Smithells and Others. 313
   Welding Copper to Steel, 370

Work and Wages in Collieries and Steel Works, Sir P. Rylands. 396

 IRRIGATION in Bombay. 660

Ismailia Type Tidal Flap Valve, Ham, Baker and Co., Ltd., 724 Italian Pig Iron Industry, 204 ? J JAMES FORREST Leet uro. Radio Communications. Senatoro Guglielmo Marconi, 466 Jenkin. A. K. Hamilton. Cornish Mine “ Tri- buter,” 688 Jenkins, Rhys. Observations on the Rise and Progress of Manufacturing Industry in England, 437

 Jernkontoret—xre Iron
 KA RACHI —<ree Aeronautics

Kearton. W. J., Pressure in Impulse Steam Turbines, 217 Kennedy. J. N., Economics of Electrical Distribution, 165 Kent. C. G., Timbering of Trenches, Shafts and Tunnels, 67, 81 (Two-payc Supplement, July 23rd, 1926) Kotaro Honda, Comparison of Static and Dynamic Notched Bar Tests, 275, 309 Kraft, Professor Dr. E. A., Modern Steam Turbine and Ship Propulsion, 603 L LABORATORIES at Leyden and Eindhoven, 324

 LABOUR MATTERS
   Accidents in Industry. A. Stephenson, 166
   Coal Dispute. 555
   Economic Aspects of Labour. Sir Lynden
      Macassey. 166
   Government and the Coal Dispute. 363
   Hours of Labour Abroad, 116
   Restriction of Output, A. Angles, 166
   Work and Wages in Collieries and Steel
      Works, Sir P. Rylands, 396
 LATHES—see Machine Tools

Launches and Trial Trips, 75. 103, 129, 186, 259, 345, 397, 429, 455. 593, 617, 730

 LEADERS

Atmospheric Pressure and Earth Crust Movements, 200

   Boiler Explosions and Water Gauges, 502
   British Electrical Engineering, 473
   Burden of Research, 39
   Coal Dispute, 555
   Combination of Errors, 226
   Commercial Limit of Steam Pressures, 583
   Continental Steel Combine, 146
   Co-ordination of Experimental Results, 474
   Cost of Research, 338
   Electrical Distribution, 530
   Electricity in Agriculture, 584
   Electricity Supply, 173
   Engineer and the Foundry. 200
   European Steci Union. 392
   Express Locomotive, A New, 419
   Facts of Industry, 13
   Freedom, 337
   French Economics and Trade, 93
   French Naval Construction, 119
   French Naval Progress, 280
   Fuel Problem in France, 14
   Gaseous Fuel for Airships, 119
   Government and the Coal Dispute, 363
   Government and Industry. 717
   Guns of the Fleet, 445
   Hazards of the Submarine, 225
   High-pressure Cables, 691
   Instructive “ Water Hammer ” Explosion.
      446

Interatomic Forces and the Strength of Metals, 309 Legibility of Power Station Instruments, 66

   Limitation of Navies, 555
   Locomotive Boilers, 39
   Locomotive Valve Gears, 310
   London Bridges. 665
   Man and Machines, 65
   Naval Aviation, 145

LEADERS (continued):

  Naval Engineerinc, 640
  Naval Engineers, 93
  New Filtration Plant at Walton. 173
  Now Materials and Old Methods, 420
  Operation of Condensers. 391
  Our Engineering Prestige, 639
  Peace in Industry, 691
  Price of Coal, 611
  Prices and Markets, 501
  Product ion Costs and Trade, 199
  Railway Position, 252
  Railway Signal Engineers, 718
  Shenandoah Disaster, 279
  Some French Engineering Problems, 251
  Technical Societies. 666
  The Text-book and the Lecturer, 364
  Theoretical and Experimental Elasticity, 529
  Training of Engineers. 611

LEEDS Tercentenary, 71 Legibility of Power Station Instruments. 66 LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS England. North of, 22, 48, 74. 102. 128. 154, 182. 208, 231, 260. 290, 318, 346. 372. 402. 428. 454. 482. 510, 538. 564. 592. 620, 648. 674. 700, 726 Lancashire. 21. 47. 73. 101, 127. 153, 181. 207. 233. 259. 289. 317. 345. 371, 401. 427. 453. 481. 509, 537. 563, 591. 619. 647, 673. 699. 725 Midlands and Staffordshire. 21. 47, 73. 101. 127, 153. 181. 207, 233, 259. 289. 317, 345. 371, 401, 427. 453. 481. 509. 537, 563, 590, 618, 646, 673, 699, 724 Scotland. 23. 49. 75. 102. 129. 155. 183, 209. 235, 261. 291. 319. 347. 373. 403, 429. 454, 483. 511, 539, 565. 593. 621, 648. 675. 701, 727 Sheffield, 22. 48. 74. 102. 128. 154, 182. 208. 234. 260. 290. 318, 346. 372. 402, 428, 454, 482, 510, 538. 564, 592, 620, 647. 674, 700. 726 Wales and Adjoining Counties. 23. 49, 75, 103. 129. 155. 183. 209. 235. 261. 291, 319, 347, 373, 403, 429. 455. 483. 511. 539. 565. 593. 621, 649. <175. 701. 727 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR :

 American Tunnel Works, Tunnelman, 36
 British Engineering, Englishman Abroad. 644

Bronze Worm Gear Blanks, C. .1. Fitzpatrick. 330

 Candy Module. John L. Module. 285
 Century of Locomotive Building, &c.. J. (J.
   H. Warren. 330
 Chart, A New Steam, E. B. Wedmore, 285 ;
   Charles Barnes, 331

Chemists and Power Plant Problems, Wm. Boby and Co.. Ltd., 36 ('tearing House for Sources of Information, R. A. Gregory. 577 Combined Diesel Engine and Exhaust Gas Turbine Plant. Charles J. Toth, 113 Commercial Limit of Steam Pressure, H. L.

   Guy, 644

Congress of Mining and Metallurgy, Chas. Stewart. 605 Design of Road Vehicles and Damage to Roads. An Engineer, 479 Destroyer Speeds, John I. Thornycroft and Co.. Ltd.. 113 Diesel Pneumatic Drive for Ships, Janmart, 330 Direct Conversion of Heat into Electrical Energy, A. A. Campbell Swinton, 112 Eight-Impulse Locomotive, F. W. Brewer, 495

 Electric Locomotives, J. Conner, 605
 Electricity Bill, Sydenham of Combe. 577 ;
   Humble Disciple of St. George, 605 ;
   George T. Pardoe, 644
 Electricity Supply. 196
 Empire Trade. Arthur W. Farrer, 170
 Failure of a Concrete Road. W. Muirhead, 285
 Flettner Rudder—see Rotor Ship
 Full-cycle, Stanley P. Christie, 90 ; Donald M.
   Liddell. 170 ; B. E. Martin, 285

Gas Pump for Fen Drainage, Stanley P. Christie. 112 Gorman Naval Engineers, Die Vereinigung der Ingenicuroffiziere der Marine, Chairman, Rnehlerts, Captain (retired). 90 Isaac Dodds and D. and K. Locomotives.

  Sidney Snell, 450

Locomotive Design, P. V. Vernon, 451 ;

  B. E. Martin, 495

Man and Machines, H. C. A., 196 Now Filtration and Pumping Plant at Walton,

  M. Inst. C.E., 196

New Spirit in Industry. J. H. Jones, 495 Old Hydraulic Ram. Robt. C. Green, 671 Pile Driving, Monkey, 577 ; Haddon (’.

  Adams, 605

Pressure, Temperature and Vacuum, T. W.

  Bromley, 360

Propeller Turbine Runner, Michael Perrin, 90 “ Railway Matters.” Wm. Hy. Robson, 170 Railway Standardisation and Grouping, L.A.F.. 285 Retaining Walls and Geostatic Theories, .1. V. Niinmo, 90; F. W. Woods, 113; A. W. Rogers. 425 Rotor Ship and Flettner Rudder. Stanley P. Christie, 425, 523 ; F. Arnold Best. 495, 644 St. Paul’s Cathedral. William Harvey, 451 Smithfield Club Show, John Fowler and Co., Ltd.. 697 Southern Railway Four-cylinder Locomotive, P. W. Bollen, 577 ; G. S. Gough. 605 ; Li brat o, 605 Steam Wagon Design, L. W. Riddell. 671 Telephone Jubilee. H. R. Kempe, 36 Testing Full-sized Structural Members, &c.,

  L. J. Briggs and G. K. Burgess, 330

“ The Two James’s and the Two Stephensons.” C. F. Dendy Marshall. 36 Time is Money, Robert True, 523 Training of Engineers, W. E. Brook, 67 I Unemploy inent : The Remedy, Francis

  Hughesdon, 644

Water Hammer, L. H. E. Dines, 495 Workmen in England and America, J. H.

 Jones, 450

LEVELS of the Great Lakes of North America, William Porthouse, 218 Lewis, E. W., Industrial Radiology, 252 LITERATURE : Reviews :

 Battleships in Action, H. W. Wilson, 502. 530

Braasey's Naval and Shipping Annual, 1927, Sir A. Richardson and A. Hurd, 612, 640 Coal and Ash-handling Plant, John D. Troup, Efficient Boiler-house, J. J. Simmons, 95, 280 Engineering Factory Supplies, W. J, Hiscox. 364,475 Gasoline Automobile,'Ac., Vol. I., P. M. Hcldt, 719 Industrial Furnaces, Vol. J., W. Trinks, 338 Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1926, Oscar Parkes and F. E. McMurtie, 612, 640 Kran- und Transportaulagen fiir Hiitten-, Hafen-, Werft- und Werkstatt-Betriebe, Dipl.-Ing. C. Michenfelder, 121, 557 Lokomotiv versuche in Russland (Locomotive Teats in Russia), Professor G. Lomonossoft, 227

 Marine Works, E. Latham, 612, 693

Mechanical Draught, J. E. Lister and (’. Harman Harris. 95’

 . Motor Boat and Marino Motor Manual. 121
 Motor Vehicle Design, The Elements of,
   C. T. B. Donkin, 95

Movable Bridges, Vol. I., Superstructure, O. E. Hovey, 446, 531 Outbreaks of Fire : Their Causes und Moans of Prevention, Sidney G. Gamble. 471 Science and the Modern World. A. N. White- head, 66, 175 Steam Turbines, Guiscppe Bclluzzo, 174 To-day and To-morrow, Henry Ford, 338, 392 Unemployment, G. W. Mullins, 502, 585 ; (Letter), 644 Venturesome Voyages of Captain Voss, 338. 557 Short Notices : Alternating-current Rectification and Allied Problems, L. B. W. Jolley, 502, 612

 Aluminium Foundry Work, 531
 Belt Conveyors and Belt Elevators, F. V.
   Hetzel, 201, 364

Brassfounders’ and Finishers' Manual, Philip Gates, 280 Comprehensive Treatise on Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, J. W. Mellor, 364 Dictionary' of Costing, R. J. H. Ryall, 41 Discoverer of Gas Lighting, W. T. Layton.

   201, 531

Early British Railways, H. Grote Lewin, 585 Electrical Characteristics of Transmission Circuits, W. Nesbit, 175, 612 Electrical Contracting, H. Ayres Purdie, 280 First Course in Wireless, R. W. Hutchinson.

   421, 475

Foundry Practice, R. H. Palmer, 201, 364 Gas Engineer’s Pocket Book, H. O’Connor, 41 General Strikes and Road Transport, George

   Glasgow, 585

Journal of the Institute of Metals, Vol. XXXV., 311, 364 Les Progrds de la Fondcrie Moulage et Fusion, C. Derulle, 41

 Lightning Graphs, I. S. Dalgleish, 147, 531

Location of Mineral Fields, M. H. Haddock, 201, 364 Locks and Lockmaking, F. J. Butter, 41 Railroad Construction, W. L. Webb, 41, 66 Reminiscences of an Old Engineer, A. J. G.

   Brisbane, 531
 Superheat Engineering Data, 121
 The Islanders, Archibald Hurd, 585

Theory and Practice of Radio-frequency Measurements, E. B. Moullin, 585

 Transport Aviation, A. Black, 66, 531

Transport and Handling of Mineral Acids, F. Hirsch, 41 Wireless Pictures and Television, T. Thorne Baker, 612 Books Received : Administration Report of Commissioners for Port of Rangoon, 421

 Agricultural Research in 1925, 719
 All the World’s Aircraft, 1926, C. G. Grey, 421

American Society for Testing Materials, <fcc., 612

 Annales des Fonts et ChaussGes, 147, 311, 612

Annaies des Travaux Publics de Belgique, 280 Annali dei Lavori gia Giornale del Genio Civile, 121, 280, 446, 585 Arctic and Western Hudson Bay Drainage, 531 Association of British Chemical Manufacturers, Official Directory of Members, Ac., 195 Axle Loads, Wheel Diameter and Railhead Dimensions, A. F. Harvey, 201 Bcitrfige zur Geschichte der Tcchnik und Industrie, Conrad Matschoss, 557

 Best Books, W. Swan Sonnenschoin, 421
 Body Building in Aluminium, 364

Book About Mechanical Marvels, E. Protheroe, 201 Britain’s Economic Plight, Frank Pl achy, jun., 95

 British Rainfall, 1925, 585

Bulletin Administratif de ]a SociGtG des Anciens Eldves des Ecoles Nationales d'Arts et Metiers, 147 Bulletin of the British Cast Iron Research Association, 175 Bus Operating Practice, R. Hauer and G. H. Scragg, 612

 Business Economics, Sir W. Ashley, 446

Calender Effect and the Shrinking Effect of Unvulcanised Rubber, Dr. W. de Visser, 612

 Capitalism is Socialism, 557

Catalogue of British Scientific and Technical Books Supplement, 393 Cement, Concrete and Bricks, A. B. Searle, 66

 Centrifugal Pumps, G. Higgins. 585

Chemistry of Cellulose and Wood, A. W. Schorger, 557 Chemistry of the Oil Industries, J. E. Southconi be, 531 City and Guilds of London Institute, Technology, Programme, 421 City of Providence, 1925, Annual Report of the City Engineer, 66 Civil Engineering Specifications and Quantities, C. J. Coleman and G. M. Flood, 531 Coal and Allied Subjects, &e., N. Simpkin and F. S. Sinnott, 393 LITERATURE (continued) : Books Received (continued):

  Commercial Art, 66

Concrete Floor Treatment, Specifications for Hardening, &c.t 338 Condensing Plant, R. J. Kaula and I. V. Robinson, 147 Corrosion of Metals, Click R. Evan*, 612 Decimal Bibliographical Classification of the Institut International de Bibliographic, 421 Der Ball langer tiefliegonder Gebirgstunnel.

    C. Andress, 446

Der durchlaufendc Tr&ger uber ungleichen Offnungen, Dr. Ing. Emil Kammer, 612 Dcr Genauigkeitsgrad von FlugelmesMimgen bei Wasserkraf taningen, 502 Description of the Planning, Progress, &<•. Ac., in the G.I.P. Railway Shops, F. G. 8. Martin, 612 Design and Construction of Formwork for Concrete Structures. A. E. Wynn. 667 Die Kruft folder in festen elast isehen Kbrpern, Ac., Dr.-Ing. Th. Wyss, 612 Druckrohrleitungen, Dr.-Ing. F. Bundschu. 121

  Electric Train*, 667
  Electrical Industry in Germany, 253

Elektrischu Zilndung, Ac., Dr. Ing. E. Seiler, 364 Elementary Heat and Heat Engine-*. F. G. R. Wilkins, 201 Elements of the Aerofoil and Airscrew Theory, H. Gliiuert, 338

  Empire Forestry Journal, Fraser Story, 175
  Engineering Index, 1925, 95

Engineering Problems, W. G. Raymond and others, 531

  Engineering Science, W. Want. 612

E radruck, Erdwidcrstand und Tragf&higkeit, H. Krey, 502 Executors and Administrators, G. F. Emery. 421 Explosive Reactions in Gaseous Media, Faraday Society, 612 "Express” Metric Quotation Reckoner, J. Gall Inglis, 667 Feuerfcstc BaustofTo fur Kammcrn der Kokcrei- und Gaswerksdfen, I.. Litinsky, I JI

  Field -Astronomy. D. ('lark, 531

Final Report of the Peat Committee . . . Dominion of Canada and Province of Ontario, B. F. Haun cl, 201

  Freitragende Hulzhuut^n, C. Kersten, 311
  From Slip to Sea, A. C. Hardy, 201
  Gasoline Engine, P. M. Hcldt, 502, 719
  Gears und Gear Cutting, J. Horner, 364
  H.M. Stationery Office Publications :

Deterioration of Structures in Sea Water. 338

    Electricity Supply, 1924-1925, 531

Instructions as to the Survey of Life saving Appliances, 531 Syllabus of the Science Scholarships Examination, 1927, 96 History of the States of Guernsey Telephone System. 1895-1925, A. Rosling Bennett, 364 Home Fires Without Smoke, (’. Elliott and Marion Fitzgerald, 585 Hiltte des Ingenieuns Taschenbuch IT., 338

  Hydrous Oxides, H. Boyer Weiser, 557

Ice and Cold Storage Trades’ Directory and Handbook, 1927, 719 Income Tax, Super Tax, Excess Profits Duty, Ac., C. H. Tolley, 253 Industrial Safety, Organisation for Executive and Engineer, L. A. de Blois, 585 Institution of Civil Engineers, List of Members, Ac., 1926, 280 International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology, Vol. I.. 95 International Register of Telegraphic and Trude Addresses, 1926-27, 667 Jahrbuch der Brennkrafttechnischen Gesell- shuft E.V., Wilhelm Knapp, 364 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, India, 338

  Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, 393

Journal of the Municipal College of Technology, Manchester, 338 Journal of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1926, 280 Junior Technical Electricity, R. W. Hutchinson, 421 Kelly’s Directory of Engineers, 502 Largest Ships of the World, V. S. Fellowes Wilson, 557 Lead Storage Battery, H. G. Brown, 121 L’Enseignement Technique, 311 Les Moteurs & Combustion, E. Morcotte, 4 46 Loughborough College Calendar, 1926-27, 175 Manual of Electrical I'ndortakings, T. C.

    Garrett, 612
  Marketing Problem, E. T. Elbourne, 719

Marvels of Modern Mechanics, H. T. Wilkins, 338 Materials of Construction : Their Manufacture and Properties, Professor A. P. Mills, 253

  Mechanical World Year Book, 1927, 719
  Mechanisms, Ewart S. Andrews, 95

Metal Work, H. M. Adam and J. H. Evans, 531 Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron, W. E. Woodward, 66

  Metallurgy of Cast Iron, J. E. Hurst, 147

Middlesbrough Royal Exchange Year Book, 1926, 201 Modern Soap and Detergent Industry, G. Martin, 121 Motor Electrical Manual, 531

  Motor Industry of Great Britain, 1926, 585
  Motor Manual, 121
  Motorship Year Book, 502

Now South Wales, Report for Year ended June 30th, 1925, 446 Northampton Polytechnic Institute, Announcements of, 421 Ovl-und Gas Muschinen, Professor II. Dubbcl, 446

  Oil War, Anton Mohr, 585
  On the Road, 253
  Peaceful Revolution, O. Wildridge, 147
  People's Year Book, 1927, 719
  Photometry, J. W. T. Walsh, 95

Polyphase Induction Motors, R. D. Archibald, 585 LITERATURE (cofifcnusd): Books Received (continued):

 Pompe Centrifughe, Ing M. Medici, 719.

Practical Engineer Electrical Pocket Book, 1927, Conrad Arnold. 667 Practical Engineer Mechanical Pocked Book. 4927, E. G. Beck, 667

 Practical Structural Design in Timber. Ar..
   E. McCullough, 612

•• Proceedings ” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Part I., August. 1926, 280 “ Proceedings " of the Institution of Civil Engineers, II. H. JefTcott, 531 “ Proceedings" of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 364 " Proceedings,” Papers, Ac.. of the Dominion Mining Conference, New Zealand, 253 Public Works Department Administration Report, Part 11.. Irrigation, Madras, 66 Quarry Accidents in the United States, in 1924, W. W. Adams, 311 Railways Statement, New Zealand, 1926, Right. lion. J. G. Coates, 416 Recent Progress in Engineering Production, C. M. Linley, 121 Regehing und Ausglvirh in Darnpfanlagen, Th. Stein. 531

 Reports :

Report of the Chamber of Shipping of the united Kingdom. 95 Report on Economic and Financial Conditions in Germanv, 1925 6, J. W. F. Thelnall. 531 Report of the Hydro-electric Power Commission of the Province of Ontario, 280 Report of Proceedings . . . Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux, 66 Report Respecting Proposal to Develop the St. Lawrence River. 1921, 585 Report of the United States National Museum, 1925, 28<> Rotary and Motor Converters. E. F. Smith. 585 Rubber and Engineering, Dr. H. I’. Stevens and Mr. B. D. Porritt, 121 Scientific Principles of Petroleum Technology, Dr. Leo Gurwitsch, 585 Sedimentary Petrography, Supplement tn an Introduction to, H. B. Milner, 502

 Sewage Treatment and Disposal, 361

Solving Sewage Problems, G. W. Fuller an I .1. R. McClintock, 531

 South American Handbook. 1927, 612

Stability ami Seaworthiness of Ships, T. B, Abel, 531 Statically Indeterminate Stresses, ,1. I Parcel and G. A. Maney. 201 Steam Engine and Other Heat Engines, Sir J. A. Ewing, 502

 Steel Bridge Weights, W. H. Thorpe, 121
 Structure ami Uses of Stabilised Bitumen.
   Treatise on the, 121

Subject Index of the Transactions of the Optical Society, A. F. C. Pollard, 121 Superannuation Schemes, 361

 Supplement—net: Sedimentary

Textile Bleaching, Dyeing, Printing and Finishing Machinery, A. J. Hull, 201 Theorie der Brennkruftmaschinen und deren Brennstoffe, Ac., Ingr. M. Brutzkus, 253 Tonality : Its Rational Basis and Elementary Development, J. L. Dunk, 421

 Track Maintenance, March, 1925, 311

Traction on Rails by Internal Combustion Engines, Ac., E. Brillid. 612 Trade Industries, &c., of South Africa, C. W. Francis Harrison, 421 Trade Unions and Trude Unionism, Sir G. B. Hunter und E. T. Good, 557 Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engi neers of Ireland, 338 Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, 667 Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects, 557 Transactions of the Liverpool Engineering Society, 147

 Transactions of the Optical Society, 175

Transformateurs, R. Carton and P. Durnartm, 502 Uber die Wahi vines G as werksofensy stems, L. Litinsky, 121 Union des Ingdnieurs sort is des Ecoles Spdciales do Louvain, 531 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Mines, Various Publications, 338 U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, Coke and By-products in 1923,

   F. G. Tryon and H. L. Bennit, 311

University of London College Calendar, 502 University of Manchester, Faculty of Technology, Prospectus of University Courses, Ac., 393 Use of Power in Colliery Working, J. Kirr- sopp, 364

 Ventilation of Mines, W. S. Weeks, 557

Wassermessungen bei Wusserkraftanlagen, Dr.-Ing. L. A. Ott, 66 Waterproofing and Damp-proofing Specifications, 338 Water Purification Plants and their Operation, M. F. Stein, 253

 Whitworth Book, D. A. Low, 612
 Window Dictionary, W. F. Crittall, 421
 World Race for Trade, 175
 Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1925, W. A.
   Willis, 95

Zusaminenfassende Darstellung von Schrau benversuchen, Dr.-Ing. Wilhelm Schmidt, 364 LLOYD'S Register—see Ships Locomotive, Contractors’ Petrol, J. and F.

 Howard, 8

Locomotive, 5-Ton, 2ft. Gauge, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 60, 61 Locomotive Hoists—nee Hoists Log Frame, 20in. High-speed, A. Ransome and

 Co., Ltd., 344

London Bridges—nee Bridges London—nee al no Transit Lord Balfour's Messel Memorial Lecture, and Coal, Professor Henry E. Amrstrong, 120 Lorry, Six-wheel Steam. Richard Garrett and

 Sons, Ltd., 150

Low-pressure Superheats, Direct Conversion of, into Super-pressures, 718 Low-temperature Carbonisation, 604 Low-temperature Carbonisation, Salerno Process oi, 343 Luabo Cane Sugar Factory, 352, 378. 390 (Two- page Supplement, October larf. 1926) Lubricating Oils, Some Deleterious Properties of, J. E. Hackford, 10 Lubricator, Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Liitzow— see Ships. Foreign Navies M MACASSEY, Sir Lynden, Economic Aspects of Labour, 166 MACHINE TOOLS All-geared Radial Drilling Machine, Midglcy and Sutcliffe, Ltd., 122 Automatic High Precision Screw-rutting Lat he, A darn Hilger. Ltd., 669 Bending Machine, Roof-stick, J. Fay and Egun (Burk and Hickman), 672

 Cam Milling Machine, Hydraulically Loaded,
   Lidk6pingt> Aktiebolag, 388

Heavy Gap Bed Engine Lathe, Smith, Barker and Willson, Ltd., 118 Motor-driven Gap Bed Lathe, George Swift and Sons, Ltd.. 286

 Motor-driven Vertical Surface Grinder.
   Blanchard Machine Company. 16

Shearing Machine for 8in. Billets, Henrv Pels and Co., 125 Surface Grinding Machine for Tool-room Work, Beyer, Peacock and Co., Ltd., 342 Turret Lathe, Improved Combination, Dean, Smith and Grace, Ltd., 06 MACHINERY and Profit and Loss, P. D. Leake, 533 Magnetic Axle Testing Device, 589 Magneto Works, The B.T.H., 331 Man and Machines, 65 ; (Letter), 196 Manchester Ship Canal, New Transit Sheds and Dock, H. K. Russell, 668 Manchester Steam Users’ Association, Memorandum on Oil Fuel for Steam Boilers, 632 Manufacture of Files at Templeborough Works, Sheffield, J. W. Walker, 578, 582, 606, 629 Manufacturing Industry in England, Observations on the Rise and Progress of, Rhys Jenkins, 437 Marconi, Senatore Guglielmo, James Forrest Lecture, Radio Communications, 466 Marine Engines—see Engines Marine Engineering—see Ships Matthews, R. Borlasc, Electric Ploughing, 166 Melbourne, 1,000,600 Cubic Feet Electrically Welded Gasholder at, 586 Mel bourne Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Systems, 519 Mercier, Colonel E., 60,000-Volt Underground

 Network of the Union d* Electricity, 686. 692

Merritt, Henry E., Assembly of Planetary

 Gears, 312

Metal, Spraying, 632 Mid-European Waterway, 643 Milk Clarifying Bowls for Separators, Lister and Co., Ltd., 59 Milking Machine, Alfa-Laval, 59 Milling Machines-*-«ee Machine Tools Mine Wagon Dumping Machine, 334 Minesweepers—see Ships Mining and Metallurgy in Sweden, John G. A.

 Rhodin, 136, 168

Mining Practice, New, in South Africa, 709 Models—sec also Electrical Matters Modern Metallurgy and Ancient Industries, Dr. W. Rosenhain, 274, 287 Modernisation of Valparaiso Gasworks, 721 Moffatt, U.S.A.—see Railways MOTOR CARS AT OLYMPIA

 439, 460

Alvis Company Car, 12-50 H.P. Chassis, Four-cylinder Monobloc Engine, 463 Argyll Car, 12—40 H.P. Chassis, Single-sleeve

   Valve Engine, 462
 Austin Six-cylinder 23*5 H.P. Cur, 462
 Bean 18-50 H.P. Six-cylinder Car, 440

Clement-Talbot, Ltd., 14—45 H.P. Six-cylinder Car, 442 Crossley 18-50 Six-cylinder Car, 461, 462

 Daimler Twelve-cylinder Car, 439, 440
 Humber 20 25 H.P. Six-cylinder Car, 440
 Imperia Car, Four-cylinder Vertical Monobloc
   Engine, 462
 Lanchester Motor Company's 23 and 40 H.P.
   Cars, 461
 Leyland Motors, Ltd., Trojan Cars, 461
 Morris Company’s 15-9 H.P. Four-cylinder

Car, Morris-Cowley 11*9 Four-cylinder Saloon Car, Morris-Oxford 14—28 Saloon Car, 461 One Hundred Pound Cars, British Ensign Motors, Wuverley Cars, Ltd., 460 Six-cylinder Cars, New, List of British and

   Continental Makers, 460
 Sunbeam 16 H.P. Six-cylinder, 460

Wolseley 16-45 H.P. Six-cylinder Car, 441, 442 Car Accessories, Drummond Brothers, Ltd., 463 MOTOR Cars in Paris, 420 Mowing Machine, Blackstone, 43 Mowing Machine, Horse-drawn, Bamfords, Ltd., 59 N NARROWS Power Plant—sec Railways Naval Matters—see Ships Navigation Works on the Danube, 17 ; (Correc

 tion), 127

New Materials and Old Methods, 420 Newcomen Society—see Associations Nickel as Coinage, Captain F. R. Barton, 314 o OBITUARY :

 Allen, William Henry (Portrait), 281
 Clements, Henry, 40
 Francis, H arry585
 Hardman, James Edward, 196
 James, Christopher William, 196

OBITUARY (continued):

 Markham, Charles, 10
 Moore, Richard St. George, 474
 Moss-Flower, Thomas James, 174
 Row, Oliver Matthews, 364
 Slack, H. A., 641
 Smith, John (Portrait), 90
 Thomas, .lames, 71
 Wright, Sir John Roper, 121

OIL Engines—see Engines Oil Fuel for Steam Boilers, 632 Oil Separators for Bilge and Ballast Water,

 Dr. 11. S. Hele-Shaw and Mr. Albert Beale, 6

Oil Shales as Industrial Fuel, Professor P.

 Soloviev. 394

Oil Silos—see Reinforced Concrete Silos Omnibus, Fourteen-seater All-metal, Short

 Brothers, Ltd., 206

Operation of Condensers, 391 Ougrde-Marihuye Steel Works Silos. 633, 654.

Our Engineering Prestige, 639 p PARAFFIN and Petrol Engines—see Engines Pass-out Engine—sec Engines PATENT SPECIFICATIONS. BRITISH :

Batteries and Accumulators, 51, 157, 237, 293 Condensers and Feed-water Heaters, 211, 349 Cranes and Conveyors, 513
  Crushing and Grinding, 238, 513, 730
  Dynamos and Motors, 25, 131, 157, 237, 293,

457, 485, 541, 567, 595, 623. 651, 677, 703, 729

  Electrical Appliances, 51, 237, 321
  Engines, Internal Combustion, 77, 131, 185,
     293, 321, 349, 457, 485, 541. 703, 729
  Engines, Steam, 431
  Furnaces, 51, 132, 263, 349, 595, 677
  Gas Producers, 375, 677
  Lighting and Heating, 238, 264
  Locomotives, 322, 406, 624

Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 25, 52, 105, 131, 158, 211, 238, 263, 294, 322, 376, 486, 513, 595. 624 Measuring and Testing Instruments, 131, 157. 185, 238, 485, 541, 730

  Metallurgy, 26, 158, 291, 542
  Mining Machinery, 211, 513

Miscellaneous, 26, 52, 77. 106, 132, 158, 186. 212, 238, 264, 294, 322, 350, 376, 406, 432, 458, 486, 514, 542, 568, 595, 624, 652, 678. 704, 730 Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 26, 106, 158, 212, 350, 457, 567, 595, 703

  Ordnance and Armour, 652

Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 77, 105, 158, 185, 264, 322, 375, 457

  Ships and Boats, 186, 322

Steam Generators, 211, 321, 405, 623, 677, 703 Telegraphs and Telephones, 25, 51, 77, 105, 131, 157, 185, 293, 349, 375, 405, 431, 485. 513, 541, 567, 623, 703, 729 Transformers and Converters, 157, 185, 211. 263, 405, 431, 567, 623, 651 Transmission of Power, 25, 77, 211, 237, 263.

  294, 349, 375, 485, 595, 651, 677, 703, 729 Tramways and Railways, 212, 704 Turbine Machinery, 677
  Welding, 458, 513, 541, 730
 PATENT Specifications, Classification of, 217
 Peace in Industry, 691

Perry-Keene, K., Time is Money, 467 ; (Letter), 523 Personal and Business Announcements, 26, 52, 78, 106, 132, 158, 186, 207, 235, 261. 291, 322, 350, 406, 429, 458. 483, 511, 529. 568, 596, 618, 652, 675, 704, 730

 Petrol Rail Coaches—see Railways
 Petty, Thomas, Connecting-rod Forks, 312
 Photography, Engineering, Some Notes on,
   A. W. Swan, 434

Pipe Joints, High-pressure, at Langerbrugge, Babcock and Wilcox, Ltd., 152

 Planer, Shale, Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 694
 Planetary Gears, Assembly of, Henry E.
   Merritt, 312
 Platinum Industry, South African, 688

Ploughing, Electric, R. Borlase Matthews, 166 Ploughing Engines, Compound Steam ; Steam Road Roller, Tipping Steam Wagon, Hoisting Concrete Mixer, Four-shaft Turning Discer, John Fowler and Co., Ltd., 43

 Plug—see Heating

Polhem, Kristofer, John G. A. Rhodin, Polhem’s Water-driven Mining Hoist, 668

 Port of Antwerp—see Antwerp
 Port Extension Works at Santos, Brazil, 526
 Port Improvements in the Caribbean, 125

Porthouse, William, Levels of the Great Lakes of North America, 218

 P.I.V. Gear Syndicate—see Gear
 Posadas, City of. New Waterworks for, 410
 Potato Digger, J. and F. Howard, Ltd., 43

Poultney, E. C., Largest Passenger Locomotive, 698

 Power and Irrigation Project, The Enza, 523
 Power Plant, Narrow’s—see Railways
 Power from the Tides, 661
 Power from Warm Water, 584
 Prices and Markets, 501
 Problems—see Hydraulics
 Production Costs and Trade, 199
 Production and the Production Engineer, G. W.
   Tripp, 40, 56
 PUMPS :

Blackstone-Gwynne Fen Drainage Plant, 99 ; (Letter), 112 Condensate and Circulating Pumps and Boiler Feed Pumps for Surface Condensing Plant. 507 Conical Rotary Pump, A. G. Mumford, Ltd. 17 Helivane Pump, Hathorn, Davey and Co. Ltd., 59 High-speed Centrifugal Duplex Turbine Pump, 163 Portable Pumping Set, Boulton Watei Elevator, Boulton and Paul, Ltd., 42 Self-priming Centrifugal Pump, Siemens Scnuckert, Ltd., 179 Southampton Docks, Electrical Pumping Equipment , 188, 198, 214, 224, 240 PUMPS (continued): Triple-expansion Pumping Engine at Walton- on Thames, Hathorn, Davey and Co., Ltd., 160,161, 172 Walton Pumping Station and Filtration Plant, 108, 109. 118, 134, 160, 161. 172, 173; (Letters), 196, 285 PYE. D. R., Compression Ignition Engine. 192 R RADIO Communications —w Wireless Radiology, Industrial, E. W. Lewis, 252 Rail Joints—nee Railways, 179 Rails—see Corrugated RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS General : Drawbridge at Koadby, L. and N.E. Railway, 488

 German Railway Wagon Combine, 424

Largest Passenger Locomotive, E. C. Poultney, 698

 Magnetic Axle Testing Device. 589

Main Line Railway Electrification, Sir Philip Dawson and Professor S. Parker Smith, 570, 598, 626—for Details see Foreign Railways

 Petrol Rail Coaches for Tasmania. 230. 231
 Railway Position, 252 ; (Letter), 285
 Railway Signal Engineer, 718

Re-signalling of Cambridge Station, British Power Railway Signal Company, Ltd., 642 ; (Correction), 689 Roof-stick Bending Machine, J. A. Fay and Egan, 672

 Wear Plate for Rail Joints, 179

World Power Conference, Summary of Thirteen Reports on Railway Electrification by Dr. E. Hubcr-Stockar, 284 British, Colonial and Indian : London Electric Railways, Extensions. Charing Cross and Kennington, 85 ; Morden Extension of the City and {South London Railway, 176, 266, 278, 301 Re-signalling of Cambridge Station, British Power Railway Signal Company. Ltd., 642 • (Correction), 689 Foreign : Baltimore and Ohio Railway, 300-Ton Passenger Locomotive, 698 Belgian State Railways, “ Industrialisation * of the. 4, 31

 Elbe Railway Bridge, New, 683
 Kirin-Tunghua Railway. 21

Main Line Railway Electrification, U.S.A., North-Eastern States :

   A. —New York Central Railroad, 570

B. —New Y’ork. New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 598 C. —Pennsylvania Railroad (New Y’ork Terminus), 626 D. —Pennsylvania Railroad (Philadelphia Terminus), 627

   E. —Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 627

F. —Grand Trunk Railway (St. Clair Tunnel), 627 G. —Michigan Central Railroad (Detroit River Tunnel), 627 H. —Boston and Maine Railroad (Hoosac Tunnel), 627 J.—Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad. 627 Moffatt Railway Tunnel, U.S.A., 2, 12, 28, 54, 64, 127 ; Accident, 306 : (Letter), 36 Narrows Power Plant of the Virginia Railway Company, 336, 340, 356 RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES General: Contractors’ Petrol Locomotive, J. and F- Howard, 8 Electric Locomotives, Method of Classifying, Analysing, &c.» T. A. F. Stone, 573, 587 ; (Letter), 605 Faidie-Perkins Super-pressure Locomotive. 580 High-pressure Locomotive Lubricator, Bosch Company, 180

 Locomotive Boilers, 39
 Locomotive Valve Gears, 310

Main Line Railway Electrification, Electric Locomotives for :

   U.S.A. North-Eastern States:
   New York Central Railroad, 570, 572, 573

New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 572, 599, 600

   Pennsylvania Railroad, 626
   Experimental Locomotives, 627

Main Line, Locomotive Data for Baltimore and Ohio, Michigan Central and Boston and Maine Railroads. 572, 626 Tank Engine for Great Western Railway at Swansea Docks, 399 Tank Engine for Naval Service at Portsmouth, Avonside Engine Company, Ltd., 399 British, Colonial and Indian ? Southern Railway, Four-cylinder Simple Express Engine, Lord Nelson, 413, 419, 558, 559 ; (Letters), 451, 577, 605 (Twopage Supplement, November 19rt, 1926) Foreign : Decapod Locomotives for Poland, John Cockerill, 398 Russian State Railways, Lomonossoff Geared Diesel Locomotive, 34, 38 RAND Gold Industry, 423 Recording—see Torsionmeter Refrigerators—sec Electrical Matters Regenerative Surface Condensing Plant, Large, at Lister Drive Power Station, Liverpool,

 G. and J. Weir, Ltd., 500, 506

Reinforced Concrete Silos at the Ougr6e- Marihayo Steel Works, 633, 654, 664 (Two- page Supplement, December 17fA, 1926) Repairs Afloat, 205 Research, Cost of, 338 Re-signalling of Cambridge Station. British Power Railway Signal Company. Ltd., 642 ; (Correction), 689 Rhodin, John G. A., Can the Heat of Combustion of Coal be Turned Directly into Electric Energy* 80; (Letter), 112

  Rhodin, John G. A., Kristofer Polhem, 668

Rhodin. John G. A., Mining and Metallurgy' in Sweden, 136, 168 Road. Concrete, Cracking of, 247 ; (Letter), 285 Road Roller, 8-Ton Steam, Scarifier, Wallis and Stcevens, 44

  Road Rollers, Aveling and Porter, Ltd., 44
  Roads—see also International Congress
  Roman Roads, 141

Roof-stick Bending Machine, J. A. Kay and Egan Company (Buck and Hickman),*672 Rosenhain, Dr. Walter, Fifth Lecture to Institute of Metallurgy, Ancient Industries and Modern Metallurgy, 274, 287 Rosenhain, Dr. W., Scientific and Industrial Research in Holland. 324

  Rough Turning of Alloy Steels, 526

Royal Agricultural Society’s Show at Reading. 42. 58, 89 SALERNO Process—see Low-temperature Salvage—see Ships

 Sand Dredger for the Great Lakes, 643
 Saw—see also Band Saw

“ Saw Doctor,” Modern, Making of the, 418. 421 Scaling Tools, Two New, F. Gilman. Ltd.. 370 Scholarships. Lloyd’s Register, 479 Scholarships for Science, 206 Science and the Humanities, Professor (’. H. Desch, 217 Scientific and Industrial Research in Holland. Dr. W. Rosenhain, 324

 Scott, W. L., Killermont Bridge, Glasgow, 444.
 Sea Encroachment in North Devon. 314

Sewerage and Sewage Disposal Systems, Melbourne, 519 Shale Planer, Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., 694 Shannon, D. M., Marine Oil Engines, 500 Shearing Machines—sec Machine Tools Sheffield, University of, Coming of Age. Laboratories, Engineering, Research. Metal- lurgical, 32

 SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING :
 General:

Inclining Experiments on Ships of Small or Negative Stability, Professor W. Hov- gaard, 5

   Berlin Papers :

High-pressure Steam for Marine Use, Director O. H. Hartmann, 641 Modern Steam Turbine Practice and . . . Ship Propulsion. Professor Dr. E. A. Kraft, 603

   Lloyd’s Register :
Lloyd’s Register Scholarships, 479 Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns. 62. 413 Year-book, 126

Marine Oil Engine Trials Committee, Joint Meeting and Discussion of Fifth Report, Trials of the T.S.M.V. Cape York. 657 Ship Propulsion Performance, Accurate Determination of. Dr. E. V. Telfer, 617 Ship Strain Observations with a Simple Instrument, Lockwood Taylor, 6

 British Navy :
  H. M. Destroyer Ambuscade, 369
  H.M. Submarine Oberon, Launch of, 359
 Naval Matters :
  French Naval Construction, 119
  French Naval Progress, 280
  Guns of the Fleet, 445
  Hazards of the Submarine, 225
  Limitation of Navies, 555
  Naval Aviation, 145
  Naval Engineers, 93, 97
  Naval Engineering, 640

Progress of Marine Engineering, Vice- Admiral Sir R. B. Dixon, 600, 640 Royal Naval Engineer Officers, Duke of Northumberland, 97

 Scapa Flow Salvage Operations, 358, 362

Foreign Navies ; Brazilian Scout Cruisers Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul, 112 Dutch Gunboats Flores and Soemba for the East Indies, 478 French Destroyers, The Siinoun, The Tigre Running her Full Power Trial. 84, 92 Latvian Submarine Spidola, Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand, 416

 Liitzow at Jutland, 30
 Minesweeper for Latvia, 316

Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels ? American Motor Ship Tampa, First Voyage of, Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation, 720

 American Train Ferry Steamer, 576, 613
 Blue Star Liner Almeda, 710, 711
 Ferry Steamer for South America, J. I.
   Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., 345

High-pressure Turbine Steamer King George V., 270, 296. 328 (Two-page Supplement, September 17/5, 1926)—sec also Illustrations, Subjects, for Details of Propelling Machinery, &c. Rotor Ship Barbara. German, 422 ; (Letters), 425, 495, 523, 644 Twin-screw Motor Train Ferry Dolores de Urquiza. 477

 Union-Castle Liner Carnarvon Castle, 100

SHOWS—see Exhibitions Signal and Engineers, Railway—see Railways Signalling—see Re-signalling ; also Railways Silicon-Aluminium Alloys, Mechanical ‘Properties of, J. D. Grogan, 274 Silos—see Reinforced Concrete Silos Silting in the Truro River, 697 Silumin and its Structure, Mr. Buntaro Otani 274 Sixty-atmosphere Steam Plant, 204 Sixty Years Ago, 9, 45, 62. 98, 122. 142. 170 196, 222, 248. 288, 314, 333, 368, 397, 412,’ 450. 475, 498. 526, 549, 585, 612, 643. 659 693, 719 Slide Rule. A New Circular, W. H. Fowler and Harold Fowler, 206 Smithfield—see Exhibition?, 631 Smit hells, C. J., and other?, on Deformation of ' Tungsten Crystals, 313 Snell Sir John. Electricity Supply, 164, 173 Societies—Associations Soloviov> Professor P., Oil Shales as Industrila Fuel, 394 SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES : 19. 46. 72. 124, 149, 205, 232, 259, 289. 317, 343, 369, 398, 451, 480, 508, 589, 646, 672. 714

 Aerial Cable way up Table Mountain, 232
 American Locomotives, 508
 Big Mining Amalgamation, 149
 Biggest Copper Producer, 19
 Boring for Oil, 672
 British Coal, In Place of, 714
 Buying Locomotives, 589
 Cape Electrification, 343
 Cano Town Train Disaster, 19
 Colliery Explosion, Big, 589
 Concrete Mino Supports, 451
 Concrete Roads, 508
 Copper Mine Model, 508
 Corundum Industry, 714
 Dock Improvements, 369
 Double-deck Railway Coach, 19
 Durban’s Electricity Bill, 317

Durban South African Railways Improvements, 343

 Electric Drill, 369
 Electrical Progress, 589
 Electrical Undertakings, 313

Finished Steel from South African Pig Iron. 232

 Flour Mill for Cape Town, New, 124
 Fourth Gold Record, 289
 Gold Mining Records, 232
 Harbour Improvements, 451
 Industrial Census, 398
 Industrial Expansion, 149, 232, 480
 Irrigation of the Kalahari, 124
 Jack-hammer Drills, 369
 Jack-hammer Progress, 19
 Kalahari Desert, 46
 Kalahari Lakes, 205
 Kosi Bay Project, 508
 Locomotive Transport Ship, 589
 Locomotives and Rolling Stock, New, 259
 Mail Train in Collision, 398
 Mine, New, At Last, 646
 Mineral Output, 149
 Mineral Output for Half Year, 232
 Mineral Product ion, 508
 Mishap at a Gold Mine, 672
 Motor Assembling, 672
 Motor Assembly Factories, 259
 Motor Vehicles in South Africa, 317
 Municipal Lighting Activities, 289
 Numaqualand Copper, 398
 Natal Electric Locomotives. 398
 Natal Electrification, 317
 Newcastle Blast-furnace, 46
 Newcastle Blast furnace in Operation, 72
 Newcastle Pig Iron, 369
 New Talc Plant, 451
 New Water Supply Scheme. 451
 Oil Ousting S.A. Coal, 289
 Pig Iron Production, 205
 Platinum Extraction, 714
 Platinum Industry, 343
 Pretoria Iron Ore, 451
 Protecting South African Industries, 451
 Quick Piece of Work, 480
 RAil Traffic, Increased, 205
 Rails from Germany, 646
 Railway Accidents, 233
 Railway Electrification, 289
 Railway Works, New, 46
 Rand Engineering Shops, 646
 Record Mineral Output, 714
 Remarkable Cooling System, 19
 Rhodesia Broken Hill,’398
 Rhodesian Development, 508
  Road Motor Services, 646
 Rock Drill Efficiency, 451
 Rubber from Euphorbia, 317
 Salt River Power Station, 508
 Ship-repairing Job, 589
 S.A.R. Contracts, 714
 South African Railways Electrification. 480
 Splitting of Railway Rails, 508
 Standard Brass Foundry, 451
 Steel Research Station, *46
 Swaziland Railway, 19
 Table Bay Harbour, 646
 Tender, New Type of Locomotive, 589
 Torbanite Development, 398
 Union Coal Industry, 451
 Union Imports and Exports, 149
 Union Minidre Flotation Works, 317
 Union Mining Engineer Resigns, 508
 Wai vis Bay, 149
  Wulvis’Bay, New Harbour at, 480
  Witbank Colliery on Fire, 205, 317, 398
  Witbank Power Plant Started, 124
  Witbank Power Station, 672
  World’s Cheapest Copper, 369
  Zenith of Gold Mining in the Union, 124

SOUTH African Platinum Industry, 688 Southampton—see Electrical Matters Spraying Metal, 632 Steam Chart, A New, 222 ; (Letter), 285 Steam Engines-—see also Engines Steam. High-pressure—see Economic Value ; aho Commercial Limit ; also Ships, Berlin Papers Steam Pipes for Extra High-pressure and Temperature, J. A. Ait on, 315 Steam Turbine Practice—see also Ships, Berlin Papers ^^*oT ^ur^*nes an^ Engines, Breakdowns of. Steam Turbines, Impulse, Pressure in, W. J. Keurton, 217 Steam Valve—sec Valve Steel—see Iron Stephenson, A., Accidents in Industry, 166

    T* 4’ E1cctric Locomotives,'Method of Classifying, Analysing, &c., 573, 587 • (Letter), 605

Stress Concentration Produced by Fillets and Holes, S. Timoshenko, 217 1 Stresses in Cast Iron—see Iron Structural Design of Electric Traveller Crabs E. G. Fiegehen i 78 Sugar, Cane. Factory, Luabo, 352 (Two-page Supplement, October Ui, 1926) Sukkur Barrage Irrigation Project, 1920, F. W.

 Woods, 680

Sulzer—see Boilers Surface-hardened Gear Teeth, Patent Gear Hardening Company, 661 Sutton, H., and Dr. G. D. Bengough on Corrosion of Aluminium. 193 Swan, A. W., Notes on Engineering Photography, 434 Swath Turner and Side Rake, Harrison, McGregor and Co., Ltd., 60 Sweden—nee Mining Swedish Iron Industry. Axel Wahlberg, 246 Swedish Mining Industry, Professor W. Petera- son, 247 T TANSA Completion Works, 35 Taylor, Lockwood, Ship Strain Observations with a Simple Instrument, 6 Technical Societies, 666 Telephone Cable, Laying, between North and South Islands. New Zealand, 605, GIO Telephone, History of the. W. J. Medlyn. 495 Telephone Jubilee. 14; (Izetter), 36 Telephone and Telegraph Developments in Italy, 153 Testing Machine, 1250-Ton, W. and T. Avery, Ltd., Ill, 1)5; (Letter), 331 (Two-page Supplement, July 3014, 1926) Testing Machines at Sheffield University Laboratories. 32 Testing, Standardisation of Methods of. Importance of Little Things, W. H. Fulweiler, 123 Text book and the Lecturer, 364 Theoretical and Experimental Elasticity, 529 Thrashing and Finishing Machine, Traction Engine, Agricultural, 5-Ton Compound Steam Tractor, Wm. Foster and Co., Ltd., 60 Tides—see Power from Timbering of Trenches, Shafts and Tunnels, C. G. Kent, 67, 81 (Two-page Supplement, July 23 rd, 1926) Time is Money, K, Perry-Keene, 467 ; (Letter). 523 Torsional Stresses, Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. H. P. Budgen. 217 Torsionmeter, Recording, New Design of, Parker-Jackman, 645 Traction Engine, 7 H.P. Single-cylinder, Tractor, Compound Steam Motor; Wagon, 8-Ton Underty e Steam, R. Garrett and Sons. Ltd., 43 Traction Engine, Steam Road Rollers, Flax Scutcher, &c,, Marshall, Sons and Co.. 45 Tractor. 10-Ton Agricultural, with 20-25 B.H.P. Paraflin Engine, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 60 Tractor, Double-geared Steam, Sentinel Waggon Works, Ltd., 45

 Train Ferry—j»ee Ships
 Training of Engineers, 611 ; (Letter), 671
 Transit Facilities in London, 629

Tripp, G. W., Production and the Production Engineer, 40, 56

 Truro—see Silting
 Tunnels—see Railways
 Turbines—see Steam ; also Water
 Turbines for Steamers—see Ships

u UNIVERSITY of Sheffield, Coming of Age of the, 32 V VALPARAISO Gasworks, Modernisation of, 721

 Valve Chest Explosion at Barking, 446, 452

Valve, Steam, Piston Type, Klinger Patents, Ltd., 442 Valve, Tidal Flap, Ismailia T>'pc, Ham. Baker and Co., Ltd., 724 Valves, Various, for the King George V.

   Steamer, Cockburns, Ltd., 328, 329

w WAGON, Overtype Steam, Clayton and Shuttleworth, 631 Wagon, 6-7-Ton Steam, John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd.. 631 Wagon, 6-Ton Steam, with Vertical Compound Engine, Crossley Brothers, Ltd., 61 Wagon, 6-Ton Steam, Yorkshire Steam Wagon Company, 61 Wagons, Steam, Overtype and Undertype, 631 ; (1.otter), 671 Walker, J. W., The Manufacture of Files at Templeborough Works, Sheffield, 578, 582, 606. 629 Water Gauge Glass, High-pressure, Richard Klinger, Ltd., 232 “ Water Hammer ”—«ee Explosion of Valve Chest Water Power on the River Cenischia, 153 Water Power—see also World Power Conference WATER SUPPLY :

 Aberdeen, Water Supply Works for. 545. 554

Bradford Waterworks. Pressure Filtration Plant. Paterson Engineering Company, Ltd.. 440

 Bristol and its Water Supply, 231

London Water Supply, Sir A. Houston’s Report. 382

 Rio Claro Water Project. 314

Walton Pumping .Station and New Filtration Plant, 108. 109, 118, 134. 160, 161. 172, 173 ; (Letters), 196. 28.5 Waterworks, New, for the City of Posada-.. 410 WATER Turbine, 7500 H.P. Propeller Type, J. M. Voith, 254, 255 Water Weed Cutting Launch, Crossley Brothers, Ltd.. 61 Water Wheel Worked by the Sea, 590 Weighing Appliances, Cabtie Weighbridge, Avery, W. and T., Ltd., 60 Welding Copper to Steel. 370 Wimperis, H. E., Rotating Wing in Aircraft Design, 191 Windlass. Motor, for Working Agricultural Implements, J. and H. McLaren. Ltd., 631 Windlass. Oil Motor, for Cable Ploughing, J.

 and H. McLaren, Ltd., 59

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY & TELEPHONY : Education by Wireless, J. C. Stobart, 217 Imperial Wireless Communication, 452 Inductance Design for High-power Radio

    Transmitters, Dr. R. V. Hansford and Mr.
    H. Faulkner, 723

Radio Communications, James Forrest Lecture, Senatore Guglielmo Marconi, 466, 476 Wireless Beam Stations at Bodmin and Bridgwater, 476—see also Radio Communications Wireless Developments, Professor C. L. Fortescue, 522 Wireless Exhibition, Numerous Instruments, Microphones, Receivers, Transformers, &c., by Various Firms, 282, 283 WOODS, F. W., Sukkur Barrage Irrigation Project, 1920, 680 Woodworking Shops—see Works at Cheadle Heath Work—sec also Labour Workshop Heater, Wm. Grice and .Sons, 18 Works, New. at Cheadle Heath, Henry Simon, Ltd., 524, 528

  WORLD POWER CONFERENCE :
    British National Committee, 18

International Executive Committee. Arrangements for First Sectional Meeting at Basle, 49

    First Sectional Meeting at Basle. 49, 283, 298.
     325, 365
       SECTION A :

Inland Navigation. Summary of Nineteen Reports Under Eight Headings. Dr.-Ing. A. Strickler, 326 Utilisation of Water Power, Summary of Seventeen Reports in Three Groups, Monsieur E. Payot, 325

       SECTION B :

Exchange of Electrical Energy Between Countries. Summary of Six Papers and Discussion, Professor Landry, 365

       SECTION C :

Economic Relation Between Hydro-electric and Thermo-electric Energy, General Survey of Various Reports, Dr. A. Nizzola. 327. 365 Utility of the Diesel Engine in Conjunction with Hydro-electric Installations, Monsieur Buchi and Others, 365

       SECTION D :

Application of Electricity to Agriculture, General Report, 298 Summary of Four Papers and Discussion. 299

       SECTION E :

Electrification of Railways, Summary of Reports, Dr. E. Huber-Stockar, 284 X X-RAY Crystal Analysis, Professor W. L, Bragg, 216

 X-rays—sec also Radiology

Y YOUNG, Horace J., Note on Obligation of the Ironfminder to Diesel Engine Users, 442

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