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ABELL, Professor T. B.. Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies, 149 Acetylene Breakdown Equipment, Allen- Liver- sidge, Ltd., vii Adjustable Cabin Ventilating Fitting, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422 AERONAUTICS :

    See al*o Annua) Articles
 Aero-engines—aee Engines

Cardington Airship Shed and Mooring Tower, 230, 242, 258, 270, 288. 300 ; (Addendum). 586

 French Air Services, 659
 French Trans-atlantic Flights, 554
 International Register of Aircraft, 244

AGRICULTURAL Engineering, 104 Air Compressor, 4| H.P., Blackstone and Co..

 Ltd., 217

Air Filter for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559 Air Pollution in English and Scotch Towns and Cities, John B. C. Kershaw, 203 Alloys, Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in, R. Genders, 323 Alloys—#ee alao Electrical Matters Aluminium, Soldering and Welding, Some Practical Notes on, A. Eyles, 121 Ambrose, E.. Electrical Osmosis, 412 America and Groat Britain, 415 America—see alto Ships, Naval Matters. alto Railways AMERICAN ENGINEERING NEWS ;

   468, 610, 638
 Burning Wood Waste, 638
 High-pressure Locomotive, Another, 610
 High-speed Oil Engines, 638
 Improvements in Pointsand Crossings, 610
 New Port, 611
 Permanent Way Recording Car, 468
 Pipe Lines for Oil, 468
 Power in the /American Steel Industry, 610
 Proportioning Concrete by Weight, 638
 Remote Control Mine Haulage, 610
 Track Brakes for Gravity Yards, 468
 Track Shifting Machine, 610
 Ventilation of the Oakland Tunnel, 610

.ANGLE Bender, Heywood and Porteus, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv Anglo-French Submarine Telephone (’able. New. Siemens Brothers and Co., 336 Annealing Temperatures—«ee Iron and Steel ANNUAL ARTICLES :

 AERONAUTICS IN 1926, 19, 34
 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Aircraft Engines—see Engines Some Typical British Aeroplanes, 19

Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth Aircraft. Ltd.: All-steel Siskin III., A Single-seater Fighter. 37 •* Argosy ” Twenty-seater Three-engined Air Liner, 36, 37 Aeroplanes for Aerodynamic Research, 37

   A. V. Roe and Co.. Ltd.:

Avro “ Avenger ” Single-seater Scout, 35 ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued)

 AERONAUTICS IN 1926 (continued):

Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company, Ltd.:

     “ Ripon ” Torpedo Aeroplane. 37

“ Sprat ” Two-seater Ail-purpose Training Machine with 275 H.P. Rolls- Royce Falcon Engine. 37 “ Iris ” Triple-engined Reconnaissance Flying Boat, 36, 37 Boulton and Paul, Ltd., Work During the Year, 35

   Bristol Aeroplane Company, Ltd.:

Bristol “ Badminton ” Single-seater Racing Machine, 35, 36 Bristol “ Berkeley ” Day Bomber, 34 Bristol “ Boarhound ” Two-seater Military Machine, 34 Work for Foreign Countries as Well as Home Ministry, 34

   Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd.:

'fhe “ Fawn,” “ Flycatcher ” and “ Fox” Machines, 35

   Gloster Aircraft Company. Ltd.;

Wooden Aeroplanes Re-designed in Steel, Two New Two-seater Fighting Machines, 37

     “ Coral ” All-steel Aeroplane, 37

“Gambet” Single-seater Deck-landing Scout, with Bristol Jupiter Mark VI. Engine, 36, 37

   Handley Page, Ltd.:

“ Hendon ” Slotted Wing Torpedo Carrier, Two-seater Military Machine, 16, 19 “ Hamlet ” Five-seater Three-engined Slotted Wing Monoplane, 19 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927)

   Hawker Engineering Co.. Ltd.:

“ Danecock ” Single-seater Fighter, 21 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927) 65(1 H.P. “ Horn bill ” Single-seater Fighter, 16, 21

   Short Brothers, Ltd.:
     All-metal “ Calcutta ” Flying Boat, 20

Duralumin Propeller with Detachable Blades, 20 “ Mussel ” All-metal Seaplane, 20 (Sup piemen t, January 1th, 1927)

   Supermarine Aviation Works, Ltd.:

“ Southampton ” Flying Boat, 19 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

   Vickers Ltd.:

“ Vendace ” Two-seater Training Machine, “Vespa” Army Co-operation Two-seater Aeroplane, 16, 21 Viekers-Wibault All-metal Monoplane Scout, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

   Westland Aircraft Works, Ltd.:

Captain G. T. R. Hill’s “ Pterodactyl ” or Tailless Aeroplane, 21 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

 BRIDGES IN 1926, 7
     (Supplement, January 1th, \Wl)

Berwick Bridge, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Caversham Bridge, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Floating Roadway, New, at Seacoin he Ferry, 8 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Lea Marshes Viaduct, 7 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) ANNUAL ARTICLES (cow/viued) :

 BRIDGES IN 1926 (continued):

Railway Drawbridge at Keadby, 7 (Supplement, .January 1th, 1927) ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING IN 1926, 25. 43 (Supplement. January 1th, 1927) Converters. Automatic Sub-station, Soho- square. 25 (Supplement, January 1th. 1927)

   Electric Traction, 43
     50-Cycle Single-phase Locomotive, Fried.
       Krupp, 43, 44

Electricity in Agriculture. 26 Hydro-electric Plant. 25 Mercury Vapour Rectifiers, Hewittic Electric Company, Ltd., 43

     Miscellaneous, 44
     Research, 25
     Telephones, 44
     Television, 26
     The Baird Televisor. 26

Transatlantic Wireless Telephony, Stations at Rugby and Wroughton. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Turbo-generator Sets, 43

     High-pressure Alternator Windings, C. A.
       Parsons and Co., Ltd., 43

Wireless Communication, 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

    Photo-radiogram Receiver and Transmitter, Marconi Company, London, 26 Transmitting Station at Bodmin, Receiving Station Near Bridge water. 26 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) HARBOURS AND WATERWAYS IN 1926, 38 The United Kingdom, 38

British Waterways, 38 London, Port of, 38 Mersey, The, and Manchester Ship Canal, 38 Floating Roadway at Seacombe Ferry, 38 (Supplement. January 1th. 1927)— ttee Bridges (Annual Articles) Naval Dockyards, 38 Nort h-East Coast and Humber Ports, 38 I Other Ports, 38 Scotland, 38

     Southampton, 38
    Africa, 39
    Australasia, 39

Canada, New Dry Dock at Esquimalt, 39 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) East. The, 39

    European Ports and Waterways, 38
    North and South America, 39

IRON AND STEEL PRODUCTION IN 1926, 84 LOCOMOTIVES OF 1926, 3

      (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Lj angstrom Turbine Locomotive, Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Ltd., 3, 6 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Reid-MacLeod Turbine Locomotive, L. and N.E.R., Attached to Special Train, 4, 6 Great Western Railway, New Type of Tender for “ Castle ’* Class Engines, 4 5 London. Midland and Scottish, Mixed Traffic Engine, 4 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) London anti North-Eastern Railway, 5 Booster Addition Proved of Great Value, 5, 6

      Lentz Valve Gear Adopted, 5
      New Standard Goods Engine, Extended
         Use of, 5

ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued) :

 LOCOMOTIVES IN 1926 (continued):
   Southern Railway. 4

Lord Nelson, 3, 4 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)

   Locomotive Industry, 6

Armstrong, Sir W. G., Whitworth and Co,, Ltd.. Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway, Three-cylinder Oil Fuel Engines, &c., 7 Beyer, Peacock Locomotives, Additional, Garratt Engine for Rhodesia. Central Argentine Railway Eight- coupled Cross Compound Engine, 6, 7 Kitson and Co., Ltd.. Midland Railway of Western Australia, Locomotives, «. 7 North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., Rhodesian Railway Locomotive with Lentz Valves, 6 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) Vulcan Foundry, Ltd., Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway Six-coupled Three-cylinder Engine, Ac., 7

   Light Locomotives, 7

Fowler, John, and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Narrow-gauge Locomotive for 60 cm. Railway for Agricultural Use, 7 Puckett and Sons, Ltd., Special Light Engines for Quarry Use, 7 MOTOR VESSELS AND MARINE On. ENGINES IN 1926, 8

      (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)
   Double-acting Engines, 8
       Richardsons, Westgarth and Co.. Ltd..
         8. 10

Elder Dempster Motor Liners Accra and A papa, with Twin-screw Double-acting Engines, Harland and Wolff, Ltd., 8, 9

     Opposed-piston Engines, 11
 Dox ford Four-cylinder Opposed-piston Airless Injection Oil Engine, 10. 11 Plenty-Still Oil Engine, 10, 11 Progress in Europe and America, 11

Rotor Ship Barbara with Two Weser- M.A.N. Engines, 11, 12 Silver Line Motor Cargo Ship Silverash with Opposed-piston Engine. 10, 11 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927) Single-acting Four-cycle Engines, 8

        Dolores do Urquiza, A. and J. Inglis.

Ltd., 9 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)

     Single-acting Two-cycle Engines, 9

Some Large Motor Passenger Liners, Union Castle Liner Carnarvon Castle, Harland and WolfT, 8 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)

     Smaller Marine Motors, 11
     Some New Directions of Development, II

Ten-cylinder Sulzer Engine for the Christiaan Huygens, 11, 12 NAVAL CONSTRUCTION IN 1926, 2 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927)

      British Empire, 2
      France, 3

French Cruiser Duguay-Trouin, 3 (Supplement, January 7 th, 1927)

      Italy, 3
      Japan, 3
      Japanese Cruiser Furutaka, 3

Japanese Minelaying Submarine, 3 (Supplement, January 7th, 1927) ANNUAL ARTICLES (continued):

 NAVAL CONSTRUCTION IN 1926 (continued) :
    United States, 2
    Minor Navies, 3
 RAILWAYS IN 1926, 42
    Great Western, 42
    London, Midland and Scottish, 42

London and North-Eastern. Drawbridge at Keadby, 42 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)’

    Metropolitan, 43
    Southern, 42
    Underground. 43
 SANITARY ENGINEERING IN 1926. 55
    General, 55
    Bradford. 55
    Leeds, 55
    Leicester, 55
    London Main Drainage, 55
    Manchester, 55
      Main Drainage, 55
      Outfall Works, 55
    Portobello (Edinburgh), 55
    West Kent Main Sewerage Board. 55
    Works in Progress or in Contemplation. 55
    France, 55
    Other Works Abroad, 56

STEAMSHIPS AND STEAM MARINE ENGINEERING IN 1926, 22

      (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

Higher Steam Pressures and Temperatures, 22 High-pressure Geared Turbine Clyde Steamer King George V., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

     Some Notable Ships of the Year, 22

Blue Star Liner Almeda, Cammell Laird and Co., Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Cable-laying Steamer Dominia, Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., 22 Orient. Liner, 20,000-Ton Otranto, Vickers Ltd., 22 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Union-Castle Liner Llandaff Castle, Workman, Clark and Co., Ltd., 22

     Repairs and Reconditioning, 22

(3an Macnaughten Improvised Stern Frame, 22 High Elastic Limit Steels for Shipbuilding 23

     Improved Marine Engine Efficiency, 23

Bauer - Wnch Turbine - Reciprocating Engine, 24 Large Liners Launched and Built Abroad. 23

     Salvage Operations and Shipbreaking, 23
     Some Dredgers of 1926, 23

Drag and Suction Dredger Vizagapatam, Wm. Simons and Co.. Ltd., 23 L.N.E.R. Bucket Dredger Telford, Lobnitz and Co., Ltd., 23

     Conclusion, 24
    WATER SUPPLY IN 1926, 24
        (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)
     General, 24

Aberdeen Water Supply, Old and New Reservoirs at Invercannie, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927)

     Birmingham, 51
     Cardiff, 51
         Llwynon Reservoir, 52
        Roughing Filters, 52
        Taff Fawr Pipe Line, 52
         Wenallt Reservoir, 52
      Durham County Water Board. 52
      Glasgow, 53
      Liverpool. Vyrnwy Supply. 24
         Aber Tunnel, 24
         Vyrnwy Aqueduct, 24
      Londonderry, 52
      Manchester, 51
         H aweswat er Scheme, 5!
         Heaton Park Reservoir, 51
         Thirlmere, 51
         Thirlmere Aqueduct, 51
      Mechanical Filtration Plants, 53
         Bradford. 53
         Exeter, 53
         Mid-Sussex Joint Water Board, 53
      Metropolitan Water Board, 51

Supply from the Queen Mary Reservoir, 51 Walton-on-Thames Filtration Plant, 24 (Supplement, January 1th, 1927) Works for the Improvement of Supply North of the Thames, 51

         Works for the Improvement of Supply

South of the Thames. 51

         Works at Hampton. 51
      Nottingham. 52
         Bore-holes at Burton Joyce, 52
         Colwick Hill Reservoir. 52
         East wood Filtration Plant, 52
       Plymouth, 52
       Preston, 52
      Taf Feehan, 53
       Wakefield. 52
       Bombay, 53
       France, 53
      Singapore, Water Supply from Johore, 53
       South Australia, 53
       Ot her Works Abroad, 53
       Irrigation, 54
  ARMOURING Machine—tee Electrical Matters
  ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES
  Association, Diesel Engine Users' :

Consumers’ Oil Tests, Arthur F. Evans, 665 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans 504 High Revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday. 298

  Association of Engineers, Manchester :
     Annual Dinner, 71
     Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E.
       Windeler, 354

Junior Technical School and its Relation to Engineering, 8. Howden, 125

     Modern Developments in Steam Pressures.
       W. Bayliss, 280

Recent Developments in Machine Tools, Q. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued): Association, Incorporated Municipal Electrical:

  Annual Convention at Buxton, 607, 622
  Annual General Meeting, 624
  Dinner, 624

Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland with Special Reference to the Heating Question, H. H. Berry, 624 Methods and Capital Costs of Distribution Over an Extensive Area, W. C. Bexon, 607 Presidential Address, R. W. L. Phillips, 607 Recent Developments in Power Plant Design and their Effects on the Economy of Generation. T. Roles. 622 Institute, Iron and Steel:

  Annual Meeting, 502, 513, 541
  Annual Report, 513
  Annual Dinner, 516

ACj Range in Special Steels, Professor J. H. Andrew and H. A. Dickie, 543 Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins, 541. 557 Experimental Inquiry into the Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, Professor W. A. Bone and Others, 514, 530 Four Other Papers Taken as Read, 544 Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield. 558 Influence of Annealing Temperatures on the Properties of Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543 Low-carbon Alloys of Iron and Manganese, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515, 516 Metal Manganese and its Properties, Sir Robert Hadfield, 515 Metallurgical Industry, The Heavy, of the East of France, M. J. Seigle, 514 Presidential Address, F. W. Harbord, 502, 514 Properties of Some Nickel-chromium-molyb- denum Steels, Professor Andrew and Others, 544 Some Notes on Cold-rolled Strip, Dr. T. Swinden and Mr. G. R. Bolsover, 543 The Alloys of Iron Research. Dr. Rosenhain and Others, 516 Theory of the Growth of Cast Iron Repeatedly Heated, Dr. C. Benedicks and M. H. Loquist, 543 Institute of Marine Engineers ; Recovery and Utilisation of Heat from Exhaust Gases of Internal Combustion Engines, Thomas Clarkson, 411 Some Types of Marine Internal Combustion Engines. W. F. Rabbidge, 273 Institute of Metals : Annual General Meeting, 184, 294, 322 Programme, 184

  Autumn Meeting, 184

Application of Strain Methods to the Investigation of the Structure of Eutectic Alloys, F. Hargreaves, 322 Crystallisation of the Lead-tin Eutectic, F. Hargreaves, 322 Attack of Molten Metals on Certain Nonferrous Metals and Alloys, Harold J. Hartley, 322 Penetration of Brass by Tin and Solder, H. J. Miller, 322 Penetration of Mild Steel by Brazing Solder and other Metals, R. Genders, 322 Brittleness in Arsenical Copper, Clement Blazey, 294 Effect of Arsenic on Copper, Effect of Arsenic and Arsenic plus Oxygen on Copper, Professor D. Hanson and Mr. C. B. Marryat, 294 Effect of Bismuth on Copper, Dr. Hanson and Miss Ford, 294 Electric Furnaces in Non-terrous Metallurgy, D. F. Campbell, 295 Hair Springs, Manufacture and Properties of, Moore and Beckinsale, 322 Influence of Calcium on Aluminium Containing Silicon, J. D. Grogan, 323 Magnesium-rich Magnesium-copper Alloys, Max Hansen, 323 Mechanism of Inverse Segregation in Alloys, R. Genders, 323 Seventh Maj* Lecture : Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527 Institution of Chemical Engineers :

  Annual Dinner, 326
  Annuel General Meeting, 326
  Conference, 193
   Programme, 193

Cross Cracking Process and Plant. F. Heron Rogers, 326

  Meeting, 302, 325

Effect of Temperature on Some nf the Properties of Metals, &c.. Professor F. C. Lea, 325

   Intensive Sulphuric Acid Manufacture :
    (1) Dr. H. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds,
    (2) W. G. Mills, 303

Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302 Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to Lead Burning. W. C. Freeman, 302 Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, B. D. Porritt, 325 Some Industrial Developments and the Chemical Engineer, Sir F. Nathan, 326 Institution of Civil Engineers : Applications of Power on Gasworks, Harold C. Smith, 137 Conversazione, 662

  Three Lantern Lectures, 662

Exhibits : Yarrow-Hyde Bed. “ Rubber- phalte ” Road Blocks, &c., 662 James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering. Professor H. C. N. Carpenter, 490, 520 October Examinations. 1926, Pass List, 113 April Examinations, 1927, Pass List, Interim, 668 Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River. T. C. S. Haslam, 602 MANCHESTER AND DISTRICT ASSOCIATION :

    Sixth Annual Dinner, 181

ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES {continued) :

 Institution of Electrical Engineers ?

Alternating-current. Measuring Instruments, Recent Advances in, Lieut.-Colonel K. Edgcumbe and Mr. F. E. J. Oekenden, 208 Annual Dinner, 71, 193 Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, Professor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472 Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, Lieut.-Commander Haydn T. Harrison. 297 Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough, 221 Summer Meeting at North-Eastern Centre. 654. 680. 686 ; Programme. 354 Visits to Heaton Works (C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd.) and to Hebburn Works (A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd.), 654 Visits to Works of Clarke, Chapman and Co., Ltd.. Works of (’onsett Iron Company, and North Tees Electric Power Station, 680. 686 What is Electricity ? Abstract of Faraday Lecture. Professor W. M. Thornton, 331

          WIRELESS SECTION :

Battery Eliminators, Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews. 412 Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland : Joint Meeting with North-East Coast Institution, 611, 693

   Programme, 611

Historical References to the Progress in Use of High-pressure Steam, James Mollison, 693 Machinery Installation of the Grosser Kur- furst, John S. Brown, 276

   Various Papers, Dinner, Visits, 693
 Institution, Junior, of Engineers:
   Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412
   Torsional Vibration, Investigation of, J.
     Calderwood, 336
 Institution of Mechanical Engineers :
   Annual General Meeting, 206
   Report, 206
   Conversazione, 208

Development of Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 332 Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses, &c., Professor F. C. I.ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter). 522 Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut. - Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 410, 415, 416, 445 Joint Meeting with Chemical Engineering Group, Lubrication. Dr. W. R. Onnandy. 358, 361, 393 Second Joint Meeting, Lubricating Oils— Laboratory' in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton. 376

   Summer Meeting, Birmingham, 240
   Provisional Programme, 240

Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanbv and Professor William Kerr, 94, 107, 126, 166, 207 : (Erratum), 146 NORTH-WESTERN BRANCH :

   Annual General Meeting, 109

Joint Meeting, Discussion, of Professors Mellanby and Kerr’s Paper, 207

   Manchester Meeting, 208

Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, 207, 208 Meeting in Manchester, Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.-Colonel Kitson Clark, 444 Small Turbine Units for Industrial Purposes, G. Arrowsmith, 109 Joint Meeting, Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy, 377 Mechanical Vehicles, Development of. for Load-carrying Duty in the Army, Captain C. H. Kuhne, 330 Recent Developments in Grinding Machines and Processes, H. H. Axbridge, 276

 Institution of Mining Engineers :

Eighty-sixth General Meeting, Programme, 638

 Institution of Municipal and County Engineers

Annual General Meeting and Conference. Programme, 531

 Institution of Naval Architects :
   Annual Dinner, 388
   Annual General Meeting, 387, 405, 434
   Report and Elections, 387

Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats, David Nieolson, 409 Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, H. .1. R. Biles, 435, 439 Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405 Notes on the Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 408 Oil Engine Energy Diagram and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dalby, 406, 420, 421

   l*rogramme of Meetings, 336

Propulsion of Ships Under Different Weather Conditions, J. L. Kent. 434

   Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors.
     Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408

Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436 Ship Wave Resistance, W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Summer Meeting in Cambridge, Programme, 336 Institution, North-East Coast, of Engineers and Shipbuilders : Economy' of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion, G. S. Baker, 1 125 Joint Meeting—see Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery | on Land and Sea, Sir C. A. Parsons and Others, 69 Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth. 249 ASSOCIATIONS, INSTITUTIONS & SOCIETIES (continued) : Institution of Structural Engineers : Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, H. J. Gough, 474 Institution of Water Engineers • Summer General Meeting, Programme and List of Papers, 450 Theory and Practice (from Presidential Address of Dr. Herbert Lapworth), 691 Society, Ceramic :

  Spring Meeting in Czechoslovakia, 437

Society of Chemical Industry : Midland Section, Joint Meeting, 84 Measurement of Temperature in Technical

 Practice, Professor J. W. Hinchley, 84 Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, J. A. Hall, 84

Chemical Engineering Group, Joint Meeting with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 358, 361, 393 Society, Faraday ; Meeting for Presentation of Second Report to Atmospheric Corrosion Research Committee, by Dr. W. H. J. Vernon, 374 Theory of Strong Electrolytes, Programme of Papers and General Discussion at University Museum, Oxford, 392 Society, Liverpool Engineering :

  Annual Dinner. 155

Society, Newcomen :

  Meeting, 219

British Railways of 1825 as Seen by Marc Seguin, Ferdinand Achard and Laurent Seguin, 219 First British Locomotives of the St. Etienne- Lyon Railway, M. Achard. 219

  Summer Meeting, 576

Society, Royal : Conversazione : Ultra-violet Radiation, Applications of and Apparatus for Generation of ; Specimens of Pure Metals ; Specimens Illustrating Metallography of Solid Mercury ; Magnetometer ; Model of Rotating Shaft; New Form of Thermostat ; Seldnyi’s Method of Observing the “ Cleanup ” in a Vacuum Lamp, &c., 522 Societies, Physical and Optical: Exhibition, 12, 42, 72—For Details see Separate Heading, “ Physical and Optical Exhibits ” ATKINS, E. A., Drawing Steel Wire, 541, 557 Australia and India, Wireless Communication with—see Wireless Telegraphy, Grimsby and Skegness Stations Automatic Electro-plating Machine, Grinding Machinery, “ Minik ” Plating Apparatus, &c., W. Canning and Co., Ltd., 264, 265 B BAILEY, Alex. D., High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, 635 Baker, G. S., Economy of Tank Testing of Ship Forms and Research in Ship Propulsion. 125 Baker, G. S., Skin Friction Resistance, 179 Balancing Gear—see Engines Balancing Machine. Martin, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i, ii Bars, Centrifugal Casting of, Leon Cammen, 574 Baulino Continuous Fuel Indicator, 157 Beam Engines—see Engines Beet Sugar, New Method of Making, 431, 442, 444 Benedicks, Dr. C-, and M. H. Loquist. Growth of Cast Iron, 543 Berry, H. H., Electrified Homes of Great Britain and Ireland, 624 Biles, H. J. R., Effect of Wind on Power and Speed, 435, 439 Boiler Drums, High-pressure. Manufacture of, Thyssen and Co., 246 Boiler, Exhaust Gas, Determination of the Efficiency of, Professor G. Cook, 403 Boiler, Experimental Critical Pressure, Siemens. Benson. 690 Boiler Fittings, Feed Pumps and Boiler-house Apparatus at Leipzig, 321 Boiler Mountings, Variety of Valves, &c., Hunt and Mitt on, 267 Boiler Tubes, Duty of, 580 Boiler, Vertical Tubular, Cochran and Co., Annan, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii Boiler, Woodeson Water-tube, with Pulverised Coal Equipment. Clarke. Chapman and Co.. 681, 682 Boilers. Pulverised Fuel, at Birmingham, 363 Boilers. Lancashire and Water-tube, John Thompson, Ltd., vii Bone, Professor W. A., and Others, Interactions of Gases and Ore in the Blast-furnace, 514, 530 Books of Reference, 100, 152. 184, 220. 268, 364, 437. 584, 611 Borbera Valley Hydro-electric Installation, 222 Boring Machines—see Machine Tools Brakes, Trains—see Railways BRIDGES : Bridges, Swing, Over the River Waveney at Beccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177

  Delaware River Suspension Bridge. U.S.A..
    202, 214, 231, 304. 305. 318. 345
  “ Iron Bridge ” at Plymouth. Centenary, 625
  Kafne Bridge, Lifting the, 478

Princes Bridge, Melbourne, Welded Repairs to, 419 BRITISH Engineers’ Association, Luncheon, Economic Conference at Geneva, Sir Arthur Balfour, 665 BRITISH ENGINEERING STANDARDS ASSOCIATION Conference by Screw Threads Committee on Question of Width Across Flats of Nuts and Bolt Heads, 335

  Specifications :

Charcoal Iron Lap-welded Boiler Tubes, 212 Cold-drawn Wcldless Steel Tubes for Locomotive Boilers, 212 Contours for Locomotive Tires for British Railways, 440 Copper Conductors for Electric Power and Light, 308

    Electrical Protective Relays, 336

Flame-proof Enclosures for Electrical Apparatus, 84 Gear Wheels and Pinions for Electric Tramways, 394 Instrument Transformers and Recording Ammeters, Voltmeters and Wattmeters, 531 Iron or Steel Tubular Poles for Telegraph and Telephone Purposes. 582

    Oil Paints, 277
    Paints, Varnishes and Paint Ingredients, 44
    Piston Rings for Automobiles, 550
    Switchgear Cells and Cubicles, 193
    Telegraph and Telephone Wires, 692
    Water-tight Fittings for Incandescent
       Electric Lamps, 109
    Zinc Specifications, 171

BRITISH Foundrymen, Institute of, Annual Convention, Programme, 637 British Industries—«ec Exhibitions British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association, Second Report to Corrosion Research Committee, 374 Bronze Founding, Sir John Dewrance, 274 Browne, A. W., Storage Buttery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268 Buenos Aires Port Works, 298 Burning—sec Coal c CABIN Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable, John Gibbs and Son, Ltd., 422 Cables—see Electrical Matters Calder, J. Douglas, Notes on the Design of Coasters, 408 Calendars, Diaries, &c., 87, 109, 225 (Jammen, Leon, Centrifugal Casting of Bars, 574 Cardington—see Aeronautics Carpenter, Professor H. C. H., James Forrest Lecture, Some Recent Services of Metallurgy to Engineering, 490, 520 Cast Iron Casing for Turbo Air Compressor, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654 Castings, Large, of High-conductivity Copper, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd., 611 Catalogues. 87, 109, 171, 197, 367. 425. 453, 477, 611, 641, 071, 697 Centenary, Railway—see Railways Centenary, Waterworks—see Water Supply Centrifugal Casting of Bars, Leon Cammen, 574 Chain Bending and Chain Welding Machines, Fin Stripper and Testing Machine, Holden and Hunt, B.l.F. Supplement, iii Chain Pulling Jack, " Little Jack '* Engineering Company, Ltd., 694 Chemical Analysis, 216 China, The “ Red Menace “ in, 105 Chloronome—Water Softening Ciment Fondu Concrete, 329; (Letter), 351 Circulating Water—sec Electrical Mutters Clarkson, Thomas, Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, 411 •‘Clear Space’ Pneumatic Power Hammer, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666 Clough, F. H., Stability of I.arge Power Systems, 221 COAL. COKE AND COLLIERIES :

  British Cool in Franco, 350
  Burning of Low-grade Coal, 162
Coal Ash and Probability. 48 ; (Letter), 449 Coal Pulverising Machine, Mayhew, Ramsay and Co., Ltd., 249

Pneumatic Coal and Ash Conveying Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160, 163 Pulverised Coal Plant at the Poplar Power Station, 466, 470 Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, 268 Stourport Power Station, Coal-handling Plant, 626. 663 COASTERS—see Ships Coilers for Cold Strip Rolling Mills, C. E.

  Davies, 92, 123

Colombia, Port Improvements in, 692 Combiiation—see Engines Compressor, CO2, Tandem-compound Steam- driven, for the Almcdu Liner, 379 Conference on Engineering Materials. 4 48 Conferences on Industrial Welfare, 477 Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, William Harvey, 568 Contracts. 59, 90, 113, 146, 174, 197, 225, 253, 283. 31 1, 339. 367, 397, 425. 453. 481, 507, 535, 566. 588, 618, 644. 674, 670 Conveyor, Genera) Purpose, New Conveyor Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iv Cook, Professor (L, Determination of the Efficiency of an Exhaust Gas Boiler, 403 Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215 Co-operative Industrial Research, 471 Copper,Arsenic and ; Copper. Arsenical ; Copper, Bismuth and ; Papera and Discussion at the Institute of Metals, 294 Copper Castings—see Castings Copper Conductors, Hard-drawn, 463 Corrosion, Atmospheric, of Metal®—see British Non-ferrous Metals Crane Girder Design—sec Economics of Cross Cracking Process and Plant, F. Heron Rogers, 326 ; (Letter). 351 Cultivating Machinery—see Steam Cultivator—see Tea Garden Current Prices for Metals and Fuels, 30. 60, 88, 114. 144. 172, 198. 226. 254, 284, 312, 340, 368, 398. 426, 454, 4 82, 508, 536. 564, 590, 616, 642, 672. 698 Cylinder Piers for Dockyard Wharf, 527 DALBY, Professor W. E., Energy Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials. 406. 420. 421 Dam. Eguzon, on the River (Tense, 64, 76 Dam, Wilson Bhandardara Dam, Bombay, 317, 328 Dams, Continuous Nat ure of Decay in, William Harvey, 668 Davies, C. E., Coders for Cold Strip Rolling Mills. 02. 123 Deferrating Plant at. a Sussex Works. 98. 102 Delaware— .?.re Bridges Demoulin, Maurice, Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518 Deptford—see Electrical Matters Dewrance, Sir John, Bronze Founding. 274 Diamond Pool—see Longlands Die Casting, Non-metallic Materials, 321 Diesel Engines—sec Engines Digging and Loading Machine. Spencer (Mclk- shain), Ltd.. 393 Dock Extensions at Liverpool. 372. 373, 384 Double Dry Grinding Machine. Electrically Driven, B. R. Rowland and Co.. Ltd.. 667 Drawing-otlice Lighting, 205 Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541, 557 Drilling Machines—see Machine Tools Drying Oven, Largo Vacuum, at Heaton Works, (’. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654 Dunsheath, Percy, 33,000-Volt Three-core Cables. 99 Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580 Dynamic Balancing Machine. W. and T.

 Avery, Ltd., 265

Dynamometer, Heenan-Highfield Electric, Heenan and Fronde, Ltd., 265 E EARLY Modern Plough Design, G. E. Fussell. 233 Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, C. J. \\ barton, 278 Economics of Crane Girder Design, Edward G.

 Fiegehcn, 204

Economy of Tank Testing—see Ship Propulsion Research Educational Intelligence, 54 Edwards, Professor C. A., and Mr. J. C. Jones, Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets. 543 Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76 ELECTRICAL MATTERS : See also Annual Articles, also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits Alternating-current Motor Starting Panel, Arc Welding Equipment. Gate End Starting Box, Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 236 Armouring Electric Cables, Large Machine for, Johnson and Phillips, Ltd., 552, 560 Automatic Control of Boilers Working with Powdered Fuel, Allgemeine Elektrieitiits Gesellschaft, 297 Automatic Sub-station in Copenhagen, Electrical Equipment, Metropolitan-Vickers Company, 584 Battery Eliminators. &c., Philip R. Coursey and H. Andrews, 412 Binary Electric Converter, Mawdsley’s, Ltd., 238 Cables, 33,000-Volt Three-core, Percy Dunsheath, 99 Canada, Electric Power Position in, 233

 Central Scotland Electricity Scheme, 529

Circulating Water System, New, at Woolwich Electricity Station, 150

 CO, Recorder, Elect rofio Meters, Ltd.. 239
 Congella Power Station, Durban, 106

(’onset t Iron Company's Works, Electrical Equipment at, 682, 686

 Cubicle Switchgear, George Ellison, 532

Direct-current Controller with Pivoted Contact Finger, Unbreakable Resistance, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 237 Double-pole Switch, D. B. Minor, General Electric Company, 239

 Economic Production of Steam by Electricity,
   C. J. Wharton, 278
 Eguzon Hydro-electric Station, 64, 76
 Electric Furnaces in Non-ferrous Metallurgy,
   D. F. Campbell, 295
 Electrical Industry, The, 437
 Electrical Instruments, 208
 Electrical Osmosis, E. Ambrose, 412
 Electrical Research, 188

Electric Welding Machines, Siemens-Schuc- kert. 297

 Electrified Homes .	.	. the Heating
   Question, H. H. Berry, 624

Extensions at the Deptford Power Station, 598, 604

 French Electrification Developments, 250

High-frequency Currents, Kelvin Lecture, Profeasor E. W. Marchant, 461, 472 High-voltage Outdoor Transformers, Ferranti Ltd., 496. 503 Langerbrugge Power Station, Results Obtained with High-pressure Steam at, 550 Largo Transformers, Mctropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, 135 Loading Reactances for Large Generators, Oerlikon Company, 694 Magnetic Alloys, Mumetal ami Rhome tai, Gutta Pore ha Company, 240

 Manchester Electricity Supply, 625

Models for Demonstrating Electrical Principles, Dr. F. W. Alexander, 547

 North Tecs Electric Power Stations, 680
 Outdoor Transformers at Stourport, 663

Parsons 20,000-Kilowatt Turbo-alternator at Rotterdam, 512. 524, 540 (Ttco-paye Supplement, May 1927) Power Station, New, at Willow Holme, Carlisle, 573, 578

 Power Station at Poplar, A New. 466. 470

Pyromic, Nickel-Chromium Alloy, Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company, Ltd., 240 Recent Development in Power Plant Design, Ac., T. Roles, 622 Storage Battery Locomotives in Mine Service, A. W. Browne, 268 ELECTRICAL MATTERS (continued) : Stourport Power Station. 626, 627, 663 Street Lighting, Haydn T. Harrison. 297 Switch, 400-Ampdre Oil-immersed Fuse, A.

   Reyrolle and Co., 236, 237

Switchgear, Cubicle Typo for 11,000*Volt Supply, George Ellison. 267 Switchgear Works. New, The Oerlikon Com pony. 404. 414

 Switching Plug, Stanton, Ltd., 207

Tapping Switch. Hackbridge Electric Construction Company, 238 Thornton and Clevelvy's Electricity Scheme, 008 Three-phase Circuit Breaker. 100,000-Volt, 297 Three-phase Oil Switch and Switchgear. Park Royal Engineering Company, 238, 239 Trafford Park Power Station, New Coalhandling Plant, Henry Simon, Ltd., 160. 163 Transformer, Three-phase, Oil-cooled, Cort* Type Transformers : Single-phase. Radiid Type, Air-cooled Transformer, British Electric Transformer Company, 266 Treforcst Power Station, Extensions to, 500 Truck, Electric, Wingrove anil Rogers, Ltd., 237. 238 Truck Elevating Platform, Electricars, Ltd., 267 Turbo-alternator, 12,000-kW, Two Turbogenerator Sets at 20,000 kW, at Heaton Works, C. A. Parsons anil Co., Ltd., 654 U Type Motors. Alternating and Direct Current, Squirrel Cage and Slip Ring Motors, Squirrel Cage Rotor, Brush Gear, British Thomson-Houston Company, Ltd., 266. 267 Voltage Regplating Equipment for Transmission Lines, Newcastle • upon - Tyne Scheme, Motropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, Ltd., 556 What is Electricity ? Faraday Lecture, Professor W. M. Thornton. 331 ENERGY Diagram from an Oil Engine and the Marine Oil Engine Trials, Professor W. E. Dolby, 406. 420. 421 ENGINES AND MOTORS

 <$’*•<• al«o Annual Articles
 Aircraft Engines :

Beardmore “ Typhoon ” Aero-engine, 97 Bristol Company’s “ Cherub.” “ Jupiter ’ and ” Lucifer ” Aeroplane Engines. 35 "Cirrus” Mark II. 75-8’1 H.P. Engine, "Nimbus” 300-330 H.P. Six-cylinder Engine. A.D.C. Aircraft, Ltd., 35. . Aircraft Engines, Torsional Vibration with Particular Reference to, J. Calderwood, 336 Airless Injection, 1000 B.H.P. Marine Oil Engine, ” V.M.” Deutz Type. 528. 544 Automatic Steam Engine, Small, 392 ; (Letter), 448 ; (Correction), 507 Balancing Gear for a Four-cylinder 250 B.H.P. Oil Engine. W. H. Allen, Sons anil Co., Ltd., 692 Bearn Engines. Old—we Letters to the Edit or. 351, 449, 465, 025, 656, 684 ; (Correction), 400 Cold-starting Heavy Oil Engine, Clayton ami Shuttieworth, Ltd., 80 Combustion, A New Process of, for Highspeed Heavy Oil Engines, Dr.-Ing. R. Stribeck. 632 Compound Engine, 100 kW Two-crank, with Dynamo ; Turbine with Dynamo ; Heavy Oil Engine, 50 H.P. Two-cylinder ; Centrifugal Pump for Irrigation ; Mode! of Borehole Pump, W. H. Allen, Sons, and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi, vii Crossley Premier Oil Engine, Four-cylinder, for Driving Pumps at Epsom Waterworks. 569 Diesel Engineer s Log, M. V. Tampa, 279 Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, Oswald Wans, 504

 Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 47

High-revolution Oil Engines, P. A. Holliday, 298 Hopper-cooled Oil Engine, Crosslev Brothers, Ltd., 137 Internal Combustion Engines, Various. Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., Fielding and Platt, Ltd., Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii Marino Oil Engines -#rr alto Annual Articles (1) Motor Vessels, Ac.; (2) Steamships and Steam Marine Engineering Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors. Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472. 486, 518 Oil Engine, Vertical, with New Form of Exhaust Valve Gear, Blackstone and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v Oil Engines, 70 H.P. Cold-starting Heavy Oil, and 96 H.P. Four-cylinder Vertical, Norris, Henty and Gardners, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii Oil Engines and Governor Gear. Marshall, Sons and Co.. B.l.F. Supplement, ii Oil Engines. Stationary, and 24 H.P. Twincylinder Marine, Fuel Pump Unit anil Spraying Jet, Petters, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v Some Tvpes of Marine Oil Engines, \V. F. Rubhidge, 273 Steam Engine, 75 B.H.P., for Export, E. S. Bindley and Sons, 335 Uniflow Marino Engine with Oil-operated Valve Gear, Sulzer Brothers, 676 Vertical Gas Engine, 31 B.H.P., National Gas Engine Company. Ltd., 217 Water Power Oil Engines in Bulgaria,

Winch Engine and Equipment at Cardington. Babcock and Wilcox, 288. 300 ENGINEER and Client. 193 Engineering Conference at Manchester, 4 12 Engineering Materials, Conference on, 448 Engineering Wages : Their Influence on

 Manufacturing Costs. P. T. Wilkins, 188;
 (Letter), 240

Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, Sir

 Charles Parsons, 387, 390, 405

Exchange in Ideas, 579 ; (Letter), 625 Exhaust Gas Heat Recovery, Thomas Clarkson,

 II I
 EXHIBITIONS:
  British Industries Fair, 217, 236, 264
  Leipzig Fair. 263. 296. 320
  Midland Building Trades’ Exhibition, 585
  Paris Fair, 572

Physical and Optical Societies* Exhibition. 12, 40, 72—For Exhibits, see Physical and Optical

  Prague Fair, 350
 EX PERT Evidence, 131

Extinguishing Oil Fires Afloat, Apparatus by Merry weather anti Sons, 612 Eyles, A., Notes on Soldering and Welding Aluminium, 121 F FACTORIES, Safety in, 558 Failure of Some Steel Wires under Repeated Torsional Stresses. <&e.. Professor F. C. Lea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522 Fairs—see Exhibitions Fan—see also Mine Fan, Induced Draught ; Fan, Centrifugal, with Dust Collecting Unit ; Fan, Propeller, for Cooling, Musgrave and Co., Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, vi Fatigue of Metals, Some Modern Views on the, H. J. Gough, 474 Ferry, Largo Oil-engined Propelled Train, Danish, 610 Fiegehen, Edward G., Economics of Crane Girder Design, 204 Filter, Air, for Automobile Engines, Visco Engineering Company, Ltd., 559 Filter, Experimental Mechanical. V. L. Hartley, 624 Firo Engine. 80 H.P. Turbine Pump Motor, Merry weather and Sons, Ltd., 638 Fires Afloat—see Extinguishing Fleets. Fighting—sec Ships, Naval Matters Floating Prismatic Bodies—see Stability Flue Dust Collector, *’ Sirocco ” Fans, Davidson and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii Foreign Trade and Tariffs, 132 Forrester, R. Desmond, Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, 594 Forthcoming Engagements, 32, 62, 96, 116, 146, 174, 200. 228, 256. 286. 314, 342, 370. 400. 428. 456, 484, 510, 538. 566. 592. 618. 641. 674, 670 FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES : 31. 61. 89, 115. 145, 173. 199, 227, 255. 285. 313, 341, 369. 399, 427, 455, 483, 509, 537, 565, 591, 617, 043. 673, 699

 .African Railways, 227
 Barrage Models, 537
 Battleship France, 173
 Bridge Enlargements, 285
 British Coal Trade Imperilled, 617
 British Trade, 399
 Cameroon Railways, 369
 Cham bon Barrage, 115
 Coal Import Licences, 673
 Coal Production. 199
 Coal Situation. 285, 341. 643
 Coal Trade, 565, 699
 Colonial Exhibition, 341
 Colonial Works, 31, 509
 Commercial Agreements, 427
 Commercial Aviation. 255
 Continuous Brakes. 369
 Cruiser Suffren. 537
 Engineering Trades. 483
 Export Trade, 89
 Flood Protection, 89
 Foreign Trade, 227, 591, 699
 Hydraulic Works, 115
 Hydro-electric Schemes, 455
 Import Duties, 255
 Industrial Agreements, 643
 Inland Navigation. 509
 Kembs Barrage, 369
 Languedoc Ship Canal, 483
 Manufacturing Costs, 61
 Marseilles Extensions, 313
 Midi Electrification, 483
 Mont Valerien Lighthouse. 565
 Motor Car Industry, 399, 565
 Motor Car Trade. 227
 Naval Construction, 369, 455
 New Cruiser Type, 173
 Novel Boat, 699
 Over-production, 537
 Paris Suburban Traffic, 427
 Paris Water Supply, 399. 455, 617
 Port of Strasburg, 341
 Production and Prices, 565
 Prospecting by Colours, 89
 Public Works, 61, 145
 Rail Motors, 173
 Railway Accident, 643
 Railway Centenary, 61
 Railway Electrification, 399
 Railway Standardisation, 31
 Rod Makers’ Agreement, 89
 Rove Tunnel, 483
 Russian Navy, 285
 Sales Organisations, 509
 Sewage Disposal, 617
 Shipbuilding, 145, 255
 South American Air Service, 199
 Steel and Concrete, 427
 Steel Industry. 145, 673
 Steel Pact, 3i.3
 Steel Trade, 455
 Steel Trade Depression, 699
 Steel Union, 61
 Tariff Bill, 591
 Tariffs and Coal. 643
 The “ He de France,” 673
 Tidal Power. 673
 Trade Depression. 145
 Trade Difficulties, 255
 Trade Organisation, 285
 Trade Outlook, 399
 Trade Ret urns, I 15
 Trade Situation, 115
 Trade Slump. 173
 Trade Stagnation. 369
 Trans-Saharnn Railway, 89
 Tunnelling the Vosges, 509
 Two Concrete Bridges', 673
 Underground Paris. 115
 Unemployment. 341
 Wages and Prices, 227
 Wages Reductions. 509

FRENCH ENGINEERING NOTES {continued) 1

 Wages and Work, 313
 Water Sterilisation, 399
 Weaker Prices, 31
 West African Railways, 427
 Work for Unemployed, 199
 Works in Indo-China, 537

FRENCH Oil Problem, 357 Fuel Pump—sec Pumps Fuel Research. Report for 1925, 54 Furnace for Bright Annealing of Non-ferrous Metals, Gibbons Brothers. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, ii Furnaces, Electric—sec Electrical Matters Fussell, G. E., Early Modern Plough Design, 233 G GAS—aree also Suction Gas Gas Boiler—see Boiler Gas Engines—see Engines Gas Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131 Gas Transmission, Long-distance. in Saxonv, 193, 240 Gases and Oro, Interactions of, in the Blast - furnace, Professor William A. Bone and Others, 514, 530 Gasworks, Applications of Power on. Harold C. Smith, 137 Gasworks, Scunthorpe, Cooling and ('leaning Plant at, 477 Gear-boxes. Infinitely Variable ; Open Motor Drive, P.l.V. Gear Syndicate, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, viii Gear-cutting—see Machine Tools Goar Wheels. Quiet-running, New Material for

  Making, “ Fenlin,” Alfred Wiseman, Ltd., 207

Geared Electric Motor at Leipzig Fair, 321 German Steel—see Iron Gillingham, C. A., Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry, 067 Gladstone Dock—sec Dock Extensions Gough, H. J., Some Modern Views on the Fatigue of Metals, 474 Government Certificate for Mining Engineers, 71 Gravel Washer and Screener, Hardy and Pud- more, Ltd., 478 Grinding Machines—see Machine Tools Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, Sir Henry A. Miers, 527 H HADFIELD, Sir Robert, Metal Manganese and its Properties, 515 ; Iron ami Manganese, Low Carbon .Alloys, 515, 516 Hair Springs, Moore and Beckinsale, 322 Hall, J. A., Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry. 84 Hammer, " Clear Space,” Pneumatic Power, B. and S. Massey, Ltd., 666 Harbord, F. W., Presidential Address, 502, 514 Hard-drawn Copper Conductors, 163 Hardness Testing Instrument, “ Duroscope,” 321 Harrison, Haydn T., Problems of Public Lighting by Electricity, 297 Harvey, William, Continuous Nature of Decay in Dams, 568 Haslam, T. ('. $., Timber Viaduct Over the Tunnyan River, 602 Hatfield, Dr. W. H., Heat-resisting Steels, 558 Helium in Canada, 465 Herbert, Edward G.. Work-hardening Properties of Metals, 138, 156, 180; (Letters), 277 Heteroptic Shutter : A Stroboscope Development, A. J. Ashdown, 82 High-conductivity Copper Castings, Large, Thomas Bolton and Sons, Ltd.. 611 High-pressure Steam, Historical References to tke Progress in Use of, James Mollison, 693 High Steam Pressure and Temperature at Crawford-avenue Station, Alex. D. Bailey, 635 H orated Keynes—see Water Supply, Deferrat- ing Howden, S., Junior Technical School ami its Relation to Engineering. 125 Hydraulic Formula, A New, F. W. Woods. 646 Hydraulic Press, Experimental, Tangyes Ltd., 217 Hydraulic Presses and Pumps, Hand-operated Press for Light Scrap, Rollings and Guest, Ltd., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv Hydro-electric Installation, Borbcra Valley, 222 Hydro-electric Progress in Canada during 1926, 219 I IDEA of Power for Nothing, 554 Ideas, Exchange of, 579; (Letter), 625 India, Vacuum Brake in. 462 ; (Letter), <184 Indicator, Continuous Fuel, The Baulino. 157 Indicator Gear, Werkspoor, 209 Industrial Bursaries in Metallurgy, 531 Industrial Welfare, Conferences on, 477 Industry—see Labour Institutes and Institutions—see Associations Interactions—see Gases Internal Combustion Engines—see Engines ; also Railway Locomotives International Congress for Testing Materials.

International Discussion, 660 International Register of Aircraft. 244 Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 032 IRON AND STEEL Alloys of Iron Research, Dr. Roscnhain and Others, 516 Annealing Temperatures and Mild Steel Sheets, Professor C. A. Edwards and Mr. J. C. Jones, 543 Cold Rolled Strip Steel, Dr. T. Swindon and Mr. J. R. Bolsover, 543 Drawing Steel Wire, E. A. Atkins. 541 German Steel Combination, 350

  Growth of Cast Iron, Dr. (’. Benedicks and
    M.	H. Loquiat, 543
  Heat-resisting Steels, Dr. W. H. Hatfield, 558
  IRON AND STEEL (continued):

Interactions of Gases and Oro in the Blast furnace. Professor W. A. Bone and Others 514. 530

    Iron and Steel Production in 1926, 84

Iron and Steel in Sweden, New Methods o Production, 662 Low-carbon -Alloys of Iron and Manganese Metal Manganese and its Properties. Si Robert Hadfield, 515, 516

    Mikl Steel Penetration by Brazing Solder, &c.
      R.	Genders, 322

National Federation of Iron and Steel Manu facturers, Dinner, 691

    Protective Effect of Metal Deposits on Iron
      S.	Wornick, 582
    South Africa. Steel Industry in, 348
    Stainless Steel for Variety of Uses, at Leipzig
    Steel Cartel, 179

Steel Sections, Special. Janies Mills, Ltd. Stringer and Co., J no. Hy. Andrew ant Co.. Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, iv J

  JACK—Chain Pulling

.lames Forrest Lecture. Some Recent Service) of Metallurgy to Engineering, Professo; II. C. H. Carpenter. 490. 520 K KELVIN Lecture—sec Institution of Elect rica Engineers Kent. J. L., Propulsion of Ships under Different Weather Conditions, 434 Kershaw, John B. C., Air Pollution in Brit is) and Scotch Towns and Cities, 203 Kershaw. John B. C., World’s Future Supply ol Liquid Fuels, 244, 261. 292, 316, 344 Kit son Clark. Lieut.-Colonel E., Internal Com bust ion Locomotives, 410, 415, 416 Kuhne, Captain C. H.. Mechanical Vehicles foi Load-carrying Duty in the Army, 291, 306 330. 332

  LABOUR MATTERS :

Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, P. T. Wilkins, 188

    Goodwill in Industry, 440

Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike, 688

    Trades Unions Bill, 385
  LADDERS, Steel Tube, L. Nicklin. Ltd., B.LF.
    Supplement, iv
  Langerbruggo—sec Electrical Matters
  Lathes—nee Machine Tools

Launches and Trial Trips, 87, 113, 171, 225, 283, 311, 397, 453, 563. 589, 61 I. 641. 671, 697 Lea, Professor F. C., Effect of Temperature on Some of the Properties of Metals, &c., 325 Lea, Professor F. C.» and Mr. F. Heywood, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under Repeated Torsional Stresses. &c., 487 ; (Letter), 522 Lead Burning. Production of Dissolved Acetylene and its Application to, W. C. Freeman, 302 Lead as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering, S. J. Tungay, 302

  LEADERS
    1926—A Retrospect of. 17
      Electricity Supply, 18
      High Pressures. 18
      Locomotives, 18
      London Traffic, 18
      Metallurgy, 18
      Conclusion. 18
    Agricultural Engineering, 104
    America and the Cruiser Question. 103
    America and Great Britain, 415
    Armament of Capital Ships, 553

British Locomotive, The. and Foreign Inventors. 243

    Burning of Low-grade Coal. 161
    Chemical Analysis, 216
    Ci merit Fondu Concrete, 329
    Coal Ash and Probability, 48
    Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631
    Co-operation in Science and Technology, 215
    Co-operative Industrial Research, 471
    Duty of Boiler Tubes, 580
    Electrical Research, 188
    Exchange in Ideas, 579
    Expert Evidence, 131
    French Air Services, 659
    French Oil Problem, 354
    French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605
    French Transatlantic Flights, 553
    Future of the Marine Oil Engine, 4 7
    Gaa Producers for Motor Vehicles, 131
    Idea of Power for Nothing, 553
    Internal Combustion Locomotives, 415
    International Discussion, 660
    International Register of Aircraft. 214
    Interpretation of Natural Phenomena, 632
    Kelvin Lecture, 472
    Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs, 497
    Marine Steam Turbine Progress. 77
    Metallurgists and Engineers, 525
    Naval Limitation Conference, 687
    Navy Estimates, 301

New Method of Manufacturing Beet Sugar, 444

   Old and New Atomic Theories. 606
   President Coolidge on Naval Armaments. 187
   Problem of High Superheats, 272
   Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, -M3
   Railways and Unfair Competition, 354
   Rating of Machinery, 161
   Reticence, 302

Right of Continental Railwavmen to Strike. 688

   Steam Accumulators. 78
   Super-pressure Steam Plant a;. Bradford. 78
   Theoretical and Practical Lubrication. 386
   Torsional Fatigue, 526
   Trades Disputes Bill, 525
   Trades Unions Bill, 385

LEADERS (continued) :

 Trans-Saharan Railway, 497
 Trend of Fuel Injection Practice. 329
 World's Fighting Fleets, 271

LEIPZIG—see Exhibitions LETTERS FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS : England. North of, 28, 58. 86. 112. 142, 170. 196, 224. 252. 282, 3in. 338, 366. 396, 424. 452. 480, 506. 534. 562. 588, 614. 640. 670. 696 Lancashire. 27, 57, 85. 111. 141. 169. 195. 223. 251. 281. 30d, 337. 365. 395. 423. 451, 479. 505, 533. 561, 587. 613. 615. 639, 669. 695 Midlands and Staffordshire, 27, 56. 85. 111. 141, 169, 194. 223. 251. 281. 309. 337. 364. 395, 423, 451. 479, 505. 533, 561, 587, 613. 615, 639, 669, 695 Scotland, 29, 59. 86, 112, 143. 171. 197. 225. 253. 2b3. 311. 339, 367, 397. 425, 452, 481, 507. 534. 563. 589. 615. 640. 670. 696 Sheffield. 28. 58. 86. I 12. 142. 170, 19G. 224, 252. 282. 310, 338. 366, 396. 424. 452. 480. 506. 534. 562. 588. 1H4. 640, 670, 696 Wales and Adjoining Counties, 29. 59. 87. 113, 143, 171, 197, 225. 253. 283. 311. 339. 367. 397, 425, 453, 481, 507, 535. 563, 589. 615. 611, 671, 697 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR : Beam Engine. An Old, W. J. Barker. 351 ; W. Yates. 449 ; Geo. T. Pardoe, 465 ; (Correction). 4011

 Beam Engine, The Last. EdgarC. Smith, 625 ;

H. Taylor, 656; Worthington-Simpson. Ltd.. 684 Brains in the Foundry, J. IL Jones, 133 British Columbia Electric Railway. J. Light - body. 559 British Steel and Research, John Brown and Co., Ltd.. 351

 Cast Iron, Horace J. Young, 82
 Ciinent Fondu, John G. Kay, 351

Coal Ash and Probability, Dr.-Ing. K. Daevos. 450 Dearth of Useful British Inventions, Athol G. Evans, 625 Direct Conversion of Low-pressure Superheats into Super-pressure, “ Astonished,” 44 Directory of Sources of Special Information. G. F. Barwick, 351 Engineering Wages : Their Influence on Manufacturing Costs, G. T. Wilkins, 240 Harvey Combe Locomotive, J. C. H. Warren. 44

 High Motor Speeds, I. Wonder, 392

High-pressure Reciprocating Engines, M.I. Meeh. E„ 656 Higher Pressure in Boilers and I.C. Engines,

    F. J. B. Magg?». 181
 “ Howlers,” H. E. Wimperis, 656

Industrial Welfare Society, Robert R. Hvde, 181 Internal Combustion Locomotives, James Clayton, 465 Largest Passenger Locomotive, Win. T. Hoecker. 133 Magnetisation of Dextrorsa! and Sinistrorse! Helices, Fredk. W. Alexander, 585 Men Who Do Things, S. P. Christie, 494

 Newton Bicentenary. R. de Villamil, 133
 Oldest Engineering Firm, Clydeside, 456

Railway Signal Engineer, A Railway Engineer, 83 Rcid-Maeleod Steam Turbine Locomotive, Ernest Moir, 181 Senate of the University of London. Roger T. Smith, 494 Small Automatic Steam Engine, Edwin W. Jones, 448 Smith. A. M., and Co., Ltd., Thos. W. Ward, Ltd., 83 Speed Record, Hugh H. Gregory. 240 ; F. Lindsay Lloyd. 277 Taxes on Transport, Edward S. Shrapnell- Sinith, 298 Three-cylinder Locomotives, Chas. W. Dauncy, 240 ; W. H. Thornbury, 298

 Torsional Fatigue. G. A. Hankins, 522

Unemployment—the Gateway to a New Life, Geo. W. Mullins. 133 Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam. R. S. T. Collingham. 298 Vacuum Brake in India, Another Indian Railway Engineer, 684

 Work Hardening. IL Poliakoff, 277 ; Edward
    G. Herbert, 277 ; C. L. Sumpter, 277

LIFEBOAT Launching Tractor. Four-Wheel Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531 Lifting the Kafue Bridge, 478 Lifting Magnet, Bi-polar, Rapid Magnetting Machine Company. Ltd., B.l.F. Supplement, v, vi Liquid Fuels, World’s Future Supply of, John B. C. Kershaw. 244. 261. 292 LITERATURE : Reviews : Atomic Theory : An Elementary Exposition, A. Haas, 245. 473 Beitrflge zur Geschichte dec Technik und Industrie, V.D.I. Year Book, Conrad Matehoss, 216 Chemistry of Cellulose and Wood. A. W. Sehorger, 133 Chemistry of the Oil Industries, J. E. South- combe, 74 Chronicles of Boulton’s Siding, A. R. Bennett. 105 Collected Papers of Sir James Dewar, Lady Dewar and Ot hers, 189. 350 Edison : The Man and His Work, G. S. Bryan. 105, 386 Electric Switch ami Controlling Gear, C. C. Garrard. 354. 660 Hydrous Oxides, The, Harry Boyer Weiser, 105

 Marketing Problem, E. T. El bourne. 526
 Masonry Structures, F. P. Spalding. 155, 445
 Natural History of a Savant. Professor C.
    Richet. 386

Reinforced Concrete Design. Introduction to, H. Sutherland and W. W. Clifford. 354, 498 Rotary Converters. E. P. Hill, 189. 473 Scientific Principles of Petroleum Technology, Dr. Leo Gurwitsch, 155 LITERATURE (continued): Short Notices: Ausldoidung von Druckstollen und Druck- schfichten, Dr.-Ing. Otto Walch, 71, 189

 Business Economics, Sir William Ashley. 155
 Capacities: and Properties of Steel Tubes, 189

Coal anti Allied Subjects, N. Simpkin and F. 8. Sinnott, 155 Controllers for Electric Motors, H. I). James, 354. 580 Design and Construction of Form Work for Concrete' Structures, A. E. Wynn, 216 Die Luft vorwilrrnung im DampfkcKselbetrich, Dipl.-Ing. W. (Jumz, 133

 Electric Trains, R. E. Dickinson, 189
 Field Astronomy, David Clark, 155

Use of Power in Colliery Working. John Kirsopp, 105

 Whitworth Book, The. 105

Books Received . Abridged Callondnr Steam Tables : Fahrenheit Units, H. L. Callendar, 494 Activated Sludge Process, A. J. Martin, 660 Advertising, Printing and Art in Commerce, J. F. Preston and E. Arch. 689

 Aerial Cableways, G. Beret ti, 189
 Age of the Earth. A. Holmes. 277
 Allgemeino Energiewirthschaft, Hof rat Ing.
   Hans von JUptner, 277
 Aluminium anil its Alloys, M. G. Corson, 133
 Aluminium Facts and Figures. 105

American Society for Testing Materials. Proceedings of Meeting. 380 Amerikas Dainpfturbinenbau, Professor Dr.- Ing. E. A. Kraft, 354

 Annales des Ponta et Chausseos. 1926, 189
 Annales des Travaux Publics de Belgique, 585

Annali dei Lavori Pubblici (gia (liornale del Genio Civile). 354. 473, 585, 689 Annual Report of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, 660 Annual Report, 1924-25 of the Dominion Water Power and Reclamation Service, Canada,105

 Anton Flettner : Story of the Rotor, 689

Architectural Design in Concrete, T. P. Bennett, 660 Art do ringdnieur ct Metallurgic, L. Descroix. 105 Artificial Fertilisers : Their Chemistry, Manufacture and Application, P. Parrish and A. Ogilvie, 277 Automatic Telephony, A Manual of, C. W. Wilman, 633 Bauxite : Treatise Discussing the Origin. Constitution, &c., of Bauxite, C. 8. Fox, 689 Bewegungsfugen im Belon- und Eisenbeton- bau. Professor Dr.-Ing. A. Kleinlogel, 445

 Blue Book. 1927. 155

British Railway Operation, T. Bernard Hare, 473 British Waterworks Year Book and Directory, &c.. G. P. Warner Terry. 133 Building Construction and Drawing, Part I., C. F. Mitchell, 585 Building Science, An Introduction to, F, L. Brady, 689 Bulletin of the British Cast Iron Research Association, No. 16, 585 Bulletin of the Imperial Institute, Vol. XXV., No. 1, 1927, 633 Bulletin de la Soci6t6 d* Encouragement pour rindustrie Nationale. 606, 633 Calvert’s Mechanics’ Almanack, 1927, F. Nasmith, 105 Capital for Labour. W. Francis Lloyd and Bertram Austin, 473

 Carbon Brushes and Brush Shunts, 633
 Carbon y Fierro, No. I., 633
 Carnegie Scholarship Memoirs, Vol. XV., 189
 Central Station Voltages and Charges
   Throughout the United Kingdom, 1927, 606

Chemical Engineering and Chemical Catalogue. 354 China Architects’ and Builders* Compendium, J. '1'. W. Brooke and R. W. Davis, 633

 China and the Nations, Wong Ching-Wai. 245
 Coal Carbonisation : High and Low Tern-

S erature, J. Roberts, 633

    liery Manager's Pocket Book, 1927, 48

Colliery Year Book and Coal Trades Directory, 1927, 386

 Concrete Year Book, 1927, 48
 Craft of Tracing, 417
 Cutters and Cutter Blocks. 8. Ransome, 417
 Cycling Manual, 155

Danube-Aegean Waterway Project, Prince Lazarovich - Hrebelianovich, 245 Der Bau des Dieselmotors, Ing. Kamillo Korner, 473 Der elastisch drehbar gestutzte Durchlauf- b al ken. Dr.-Ing. H. Craemar, 526

 Dielectric Phenomena, S. Whitehead. 494

Die rationelle Bewirtschaftuug des Batons, Dr.-Ing. A. Agatz, 105 Die Trockentechnic, Dipl.-Ing. M. Kirsch. 585

 Diesel Engines, A. H. Goldingham. 133

Directory of Contractors and Public Works Annual, 1927, 494 Directory of the Members, Subscribers, &c., of the Birmingham Exchange, 1927, 660

 Directory of Paper Makers, 1927, 386
 Directory of Shipowners. Ac., 1927. 189

Domestic Electric Heating. IL G. Solomon. 633

 Doubling our Coal Power, A. Allport, 277
 Draft und Capacity of Chimneys, J. G.
   Mingle, 633
 Drainage and Sanitation. E. H. Blake, 189
 Dredging and Dredging Appliances, P. M.
   Dekker. 633

Durehlaufende Eisen betonkon.strukt ionen in elastischer Verbindung mil den Zwischen- stiitzen, Baurat Dr.-Ing. F. Kann, 105

 Economic Basis of Fair Wages, J. D. Cox, 354

E. H.T. Switchgear and Breakers, G. L. E. Metz, 417 Ein Jahrhundert Deutscher Maschinenbau. Conrad Matsrhoss, 133 Electric Telpherage. G. W. UroaMnith, 48 Electricity Act. The Now. W. S. Kennedy. 189 Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926, J. C. Dalton. 354 Electricity (Supply) Act. 1926. E. J, Rimmer and G. Rend Alien, 354

 Empire Forestry Journal, Fraser Story, 245

LITERATURE (continued): Books Received (continued): Empire Municipal Directory and Year Book, 192", 473 Engine Service Testa of Interna! Combustion Engine Lubricating Oils, &c.» M. J. Cavin and G. Wade, 633

  Engineering Index, 1926, 689

English Clubs, A List of, 1927, E. C. Austen* Jxngh, 133 Erdstatische Berechnungen mit Reibung and KohAsion, &c., W. Fellenius, 277

  Four-place Tables with Forced Decimals.
    F. S. Cary and S. F. Grace, 660
  Gas Meters, A. T. Gilbert, 364

Gottlob’s Technology of Rubber, J. J,. Rosenbaum. 417 Grundlagen des Aufzugsbaues, Dr. M. Paet- zold, 633 Handbibliothek fiir Bauingenieure : Eisen- bahnwesen und Stftdtebau, Oherbau und Glcisverbindungen. Dr.-Ing. Adolf Bloss, 386

  High Vacua, C. W. C. Kaye, 48

Helium in Canada. R. T. Elworthy, 633 H.M. Stationery Office Publications : Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum : Electrical Engineering, F. St. A. Hartley, 633 Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum, Land Transport : No. IV., Railway Construction and Working. E. A. Forward, 606

Gas Storage of Fruit, Franklin Kidd and Others, Special Report No. 30, 526 Inflammation of Coal Dusts : The Effect of the Chemical Composition of the Dust-,
      T.	M. Mason and R. V. Wheeler. 585

Investigation of the Caking Power of Coal, 386 Low-temperature Carbonisation, 386 Measurement of Mean Spherical Candlepower, 689 Primary Decomposition of Coal : I., The Temperature of Initial Decomposition, 585 Report on the Economic Situation in Belgium, J. Pict on Bagge, 494 Report on the Industrial. Commercial and Financial Situation in Poland, R. E. Kimens, 585 Report on the Science Museum for the Year 1926, 633 History of the Sciences in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Arnold Reymond, 155 Hope of the Workers, Austin Hopkinson, 660 Hydro-electric Handbook, W. P. Creager and J. D. Justin, 585

   Indian Railways: Rates and Regulations.
    N.	B. Mehta, 633

Industrial Combination in England, P. Fitzgerald, 48 Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, Comprehensive Treatise on, J. W. Mellor, 133 Institution of Structural Engineers’ Year Book. 1927, 473 International Review of the Science and Practice of Agriculture, 473 Investigations in Ore Dressing and Metallurgy, 1925, 105 • 1st Gussbeton wirthschaftlich ? Dr.-Ing. L. Bauineister, 633 Jahrbuch der Brennkrafttechnischen Gesellschaft E.V.. 1926, 585 Jahrbuch der Schiffbautechnischen Gesellschaft. 1927, 189

Journal of the Franklin Institute, May. 1927,

LITERATURE (continued): Books Received (continued) : Plastering. Plain and Decorative. W. Millar and G. P. Bankart. 633 Port of Gothenburg Year Book, 1927, Sixten Prytz, 006 Practical Electricians' Pocket-book. 1927, 155 Pratique duCalcul du B6tonArm&,G. Magnel, 133 Principles of Irrigation, Roads and Buildings and of the Water Supply of Towns, W. L. Strange, 585 “ Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, April, 1927, 494 ?* Proceedings” of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Part I., 1927, 585 “ Proceedings” of the Chemical Engineering Group. 585 ” Proceedings ” of the Cleveland Institution of Engineers. 585 ” Proceedings ” of the Optical Convention,

   1926, Parts I. and IT.. 18

“ Proceedings ” of the Rugby Engineering Society. Vol. XX.. 386 ” Proceedings ” of the South Wales Institute of Engineers. 354, 473 Radio Communication, The Elements of,

   O.	F. Brown. 133

Railway and Commercial Gazetteer of England, Scotland and Wales, 1927, 155

 Railway Year Book, 1927, 585
 Rainfall Atlas of the British Isles. 277

Regulations for the Electrical Equipment of Buildings, 689 Relation of Atmospheric Conditions to Working Capacity and Accident Rate of Coal Miners, H. M. Vernon and T. Bedford, 133 Report on the Progress and Condition of the United States National Museum,. 1926, 494 Running Maintenance of the Marine Diesel Engine, John Lamb. 277

 Safeguarding Workmen at Oil Derricks, H. C.
   Miller, 660
 Schnitte und Stanzen, Ernst Gohre, 105

Sell’s Directory of Registered Telegraphic Addresses, 1927, 245

 Sewage Works. F. C. Temple, 354

Skandinaviska Kreditaktiebolaget-Gothen - burg, Stockholm, Malmo, Quarterly Report, 473 Some Considerations in the Design of Spur and Helical Gearing, H. Walker, 133 Specification Writing, The Elements of, R. S. Kirby. 633

 Spectroscopy, Vol. I., E. C. C. Baly, 585
 Standards Year Book, 1927, 585

Stresses in Space Frames. Dr. W. W. Pad- lield, 48 Study of Flame Movement, O. C. de C. Ellis, 445 Successful Asphalt Paving, P. J. M. Larra- naga, 386 Support of Underground Workings in the East Midland Coalfield. 189 Theory of Machines, Louis Toft and A. J. J.

   Kersey, 633

Theory and Practice of Rolling Steel, Wilhelm Tafel. 689 To America in Thirty-nine Days, J. Biggs. 445 Towards Industrial Recovery, Hugh Quigley, 633 “ Transactions ” of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, 74 "Transactions” of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, 245 “ Transactions ” of the Liverpool Engineering Society, F. W. Gaskin and A. M. Robb. 245 Treatise on Thermodynamics, Dr. Max Planck, 105 Trials with Vacuum Brakes on Long Goods Trains, 1926, R. C. Case, 74 Twenty-sixth Financial and Economic Annual of Japan, 1926, 585

 Universal Directory of Railway Officials,
    1927, 660

WArmetechnische Grundlagen der Indus- triedfon, Professor Hans V. Juptner, 633 Wasserdurchlassigkeit von Bet on, &c., Dr.- Ing. G. Merkle, 386 Water Power Practice, F. Johnstone-Taylor, 386 Water Powers of Manitoba, C. H. Attwood, 494 Water Transport: IL, Merchant Steamers, Catalogue of Collections in the Science Museum, 526 Wellington Harbour Board. Accounts. Ac., to September 30th. 1926, 689 Witness of the Great Pyramid, B. Stewart, 155 Working of Unstratified Mineral Deposits, G. J. Young, 277 Year Book of the Bermudas, the Bahamas, British Guiana, British Honduras, and the British West Indies, 1926-7, 74 Year Book and Directory of the South African Mining and Engineering Journal, 1927, 417

 Zur Frage dos Shiffswiderstandos. Uh.
   Doydre, 606

LIVENS. F. H., Rating and Valuation Act. 1925, 148 Lloyd’s Register—see Ships Locomotive, Internal Combustion, 96 Locomotives—see also Railway Locomotives. also Storage Battery Locomotives (Electrical Matters) Long Distance Gas Transmission. 193. 240 Longlands Diamond Pool on the Vaal River, 277 Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, A. G. Marshall and C. H. Barton, 376 Lubrication, Dr. W. R. Ormandy. 358. 361, 393 —see also Theoretical Lubrication M MACHINE TOOLS : Raring Machine. Large Horizontal, for Turbine Cylinders, Schiess-Defrics, 297. 630. 635

 Centreless Grinders at Leipzig Fair. 320

Combination Machine Tool. Max Hopfen- glirtner A.G., 583 Crank Pin Turning and Grinding Machine, Jones, Burton and Co., Ltd., 110 MACHINE TOOLS (continued) : Double-spindle Locomotive Connecting-rod Drilling Machine. George Swiff and Sons, Ltd., 106. 107 Drills, Milling Cutters. Reamers, Saws. Arc.. Brooke Tool Manufacturing Company, Ltd,, B.I.F. Supplement, viii, and 265 Flat-edge Trimming Machine, Press with Pneumatic Die Cushion. Taylor and Challen. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v Gear Hobbing Machine, Schuchardt and Schutte, 297 Grinding Machines and Processes, Recent Developments in. H. H. Asbridge, 277

 Hammer, Motor-driven Air. Record Size.
   Eumtico A.G., &c., 297

High-speed Planing Machine, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, i “ Hiloplane ” Planing Machine. .John Stick and Sons. Ltd.. 190. 19! Lathe. Heavy Double bed Centre, Schiesa* Defries, 297 Lat hes, Powerful Railway \\ heel. \\ ilheliii Hegenscheidt, 297

 Maag Gear-cutting Machine. 320

Machine Toni Hall and German Association of Machine Tool Manufacturers’ Exhibits. 297 Milling Cutters, Drills, Chucks, &c.. Portable Cylinder Re-boring Tool, “ Floxtol.” Alfred Herbert. Ltd., 266

 Recent Developments in Machine Tools,
   G. E. Bailey and Thomas Smith, 235

Rotary Milling Machines in a Motor Car Engine Works, Morris Motors, Ltd., anti Wm. Asquith, Ltd., 352, 356

 Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines, 463
 Screwing Machine, Automatic, 3 horn as
   Chatwin, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v
 Shearing Machine for Curves, 320
 Shearing Machine, Henry Pels. 297

Shearing Machine, Open-ended, for Reinforcing Rods, Henry Pels, 280 Sheet Edge Grinding Machine, Soag Machine Tools, Ltd., 692 MACHINERY—«« also Rating Machinery, World’s Production and Trade in. 648 Manufacture and Behaviour of Springs. 497 Manufacture of High-pressure Boiler Drums, Thyssen and Co., 246 Marchant, Professor E. W., Kelvin Lecture, High-frequency Currents, 461. 472 Marine Engines—see Engines Marine Steam Turbine Progress, 77 Marshall, A. G., and C. H. Barton, Lubricating Oils—Laboratory in Relation to Practical Results, 376 Mechanical Vehicles for Load-carrying Duty in the Army. Captain C. H. Kuhne, 291, 306, 330, 332 Mechanical—see also Tea Garden Mellanby, Professor A. L., and Professor W. Kerr, Use and Economy of High pressure Steam Plants. 94, 107, 126, 166, 207, 208; (Erratum), 146 ; (Letter), 298 Mersey Tunnel—see Pumps Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, The Heavy. M. J. Seigle, 514 Metallurgists and Engineers, 525 Metallurgy, Industrial Bursaries in, 531 Metallurgy. Some Recent Services of. to Engineering, Professor H. C. H. Carpenter, 490, 520 Metals—see also Associations, &c., Institute of Metals Metals—sec also Work Hardening Miers, Sir Henry A., Growth of Crystals in Super-saturated Liquids, 527 Milling Machines—see Machine Tools Mine Fan, Large, for Durban Navigation Collieries, Davidson and Co., Ltd., 548 Mineral Wealth of Cornwall, 665 Mines—see Safety Mining Industry of Now South Wales, 209 Mining and Metallurgical Congress, 71 Model Steam Power Station, 217 Modern Steam Engine and Internal Combustion Motors, Maurice Demoulin, 402, 430, 472, 486, 518 Monel Metal and Malleable Nickel, G. and J.

 Weir, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, iii

Motor Car Engine Works, Milling Machines— see Machine Tools Movement of Sand by Wind, Dr. J. S. Owens, 377 N NAVAL Matters—see Ships New Work Always Ready for Men who Do

 Things, Frank Richards. 467 ; (Letter). 494

Nicolson, David, Design and Construction of High-speed Motor Boats. 409 Nozzles—see Proportioning OBITUARY :

  Anderson, Konrad. 389
  Boulnois, Henry Percy, 50
  Culthrop. Everard R.. 354
  Campbell, Archibald W., 580
  Chapman, Mr. H. T., 444
  Cowdray, Viscount (Portrait). 499
  D'Alton, Lieut.-Colonel Patrick Walter. 117
  Etchells, Ernest Fiander, 50
  Fox, Sir Francis (Portrait). 49
  Greenhill, Sir George, 189
  Haslam, Sir Alfred Seale. 50. 79
  Hill, Alfred John. 302
  Hills, Arnold Frank. 273
  Hutchins, Thomas William Stainer, 602
  Kearns, Henry Ward. 154
  Kemnal, Sir James (Portrait), 154
  M’Cullough, F. W., 354
  Phipps. Frederick Reginald, 50
  Platt, John, 662
  Samuelson, Ernest. 580
  Savage, E. A., 151
  Stokes, Sir Wilfrid (Portrait ), 153
  Taylor, Godfred Midgley (Portrait), 661
  Thomas, Qeorgo, 354

OIL Engines — nee Engines Oil Tests, Consumers’, Arthur F. Evans, 665 Old and New Atomic Theories. 606 Ormandy, Dr. W. R.. Lubrication. 358. 361. 393 “ Osiso ” and its Modification." for Use as a

 Phonoscope, Westinghouse Electric and
 Manufacturing Company. 135

Oscilloscope and Oxygen Apparatus — see

 Physical and Optical Exhibits

Owens. Dr. J. 8., Movement nf Sand bv Wind, 377 Oxygen Jet Metal Cutting Machine, Godfrey

 Engineering Works. 267

P PAINT-MAKING MACHINERY

   388. 418. 438. 464. 519

Paint. Mills and Mixers. Torrance and Sons, 388. 389. 418. 461. 519

 Ball Mill and Laboratory Ball Mill, Hind and
   Lund. 519, 520
 Mill, Single-roll Finishing, Sidney Smith and
   Blyth. 464

Mills with Chain-driving Gear. Marchant Brothers, Ltd., 138. 439 Mills with Helical Driving Gear. Cam Gear, Spring Adjusting Gear. Brinjes and Goodwin. 438

 Paint Mixer and Strainer. Marchant Brothers,
   Ltd., 461

PARSONS. Sir Charles, Erosion of the Tubes of Surface Condensers, 387, 390, 405 Parsons, Sir C. A., and Others, Progress in Economy of Turbine Machinery, 69 PATENT SPECIFICATIONS. BRITISH

 Aeronautics, 313
 Batteries and Accumulators, 537, 591, 617
 Building, 400

Condensers and Feed-water Healers. 173. 199, 591

 Cranes and Conveyors, 61. 484. 510, 592

Crushing and Grinding. 200. 700 Dynamos and Motors, 61. 227, 255, 34), 399, ‘427, 455, 565. 617, 643, 673, 699 Electrical Appliances, 89, 115, 199, 227 Engines, Internal Combustion, 31, 89. 145, 173, 227, 313, 369. 455, 483, 565, 591, 617 Furnaces, 89. 199, 228, 255, 427. 456, 510, 566, 643, 674 Gas Producers. 89 Lighting and Heating, 200, 313, 369, 566, 618 Locomotives, 510 Machine Tools and Shop Appliances, 32, 228, 342, 399, 510, 592, 618. 643, 674, 699 Measuring and Testing Instruments, 61, 199, 369, 509, 6£9

  Metallurgy, 285, 428. 456
  Mining Machinery, 115, 145

Miscellaneous, 32, 62. 90, 116, 146, 174, 228, 255, 286, 313, 342, 369, 400, 428 484. 510, 538, 566, 592, 618, 644, 674 Motor Cars and Road Traffic, 484, 618, 670

  Ordnance and Armour, 90

Pumping and Blowing Machinery, 31, 285, 341, 483, 538, 618, 643 Ships and Boats, 62. 173, 566, 670 Steam Generators, 173, 285, 313, 427, 509, 565, 591 Switchgear, 31. 61, 341, 399. 509. 537, 617, 643, 673 Telegraphs and Telephones, 31, 61. 89, 145, 341, 369, 399, 427. 456. 483, 509. 565, 592. 617. 673

  Tramways and Railways, 115, 173

115. 200, 450. 044. 115. 455. 691, 115, 537, Transformers and Converters, 173, 455, 483, 509 Transmission of Power. 145. 199. 227. 255, 285, 399, 427. 537. 592, 643. 674, 699

   Turbine Machinery, 227. 313, 483, 537. 699

PERSONAL and Business Announcements, 29, 87. 116, 140, 174, 200, 225. 253, 286, 314, 342, 367, 400, 425, 456, 481, 510, 535, 563, 589. 615, 644, 671, 697 PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES’ EXHIBITS :

    12. 40, 72

1 Apparatus for Observing Flaws in Metal Surfaces and Comparing Conductivities of Metal Plates, Professor E. W. Marchant and Mr. J. L. Miller. 12 Apparatus, Research Departments of Various Firms and the National Physical Laboratory. 12 Automatic Voltage Regulator for Direct- current Generators, Isenthal and Co., Ltd., 74 Bridge Ohmmeter. Record Electrical Company, Ltd., 41 Carbon Dioxide Measuring Instrument, 72 CO2 Indicator and Recorder. 41 ; Dissolved

Oxygen Apparatus, 14 ; Surface Pyrometer, Cambridge Instrument Company, 41
     Dow Deposition Recorder, 72

Elverson Flashing Lamp Oscilloscope. 72 Guillet Vibrating-wiro Stroboscope, 73 Level, Tungsten Wire, General Electric

       Company, 40, 41

Lighting, Internal, of Rooms by Daylight, Method of Measurement by Mode), 72 Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of a Metal Rod, 72 Peak Voltage Measuring Instruments, L.M. Magneto Syndicate, Ltd., 12 Photo-electric Rating Machine for Lamps, General Electric Company, 40 Pin Jack Voltmeter, Weston Electrical Instrument Company. 42 Rotary Pump, The “ Geryk,” Pulsometer Company, Ltd., 74

Rotary Steam Meter. George Kent, Ltd.. 74 Schering Galvanometer. Cambridge Instrument Company. Ltd., 13

Sparking Plug Thermo-couple Pyrometer. Foster Instrument. Company. 41, 42 S.P. 18 Amplifying Valve, Collection of Constituent Parts and other Exhibits. Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company. 72 Standard Telephonic Frequencies Obtained through a Clock Pendulum, 72 Transformers, Portable Current, Everett, Edgoumbe and Co., Ltd., 74

     Venner-Shotter Water Flow Meter, 73

PHYSICAL AND OPTICAL SOCIETIES' EX

    HIBITS (continued):
 Wireless Apparatus :

Continuous Wave Transmitter, l| kW, Radio Communication Company, 40, 41 (lalletti's Radio Beam Transmitter, H.

      Tinsley and Co.,. 12

Mid worth Distant Repeater. Evershed end Vignoles, Ltd.. 13 Wireless Receiver, Seven Valve, Igranic Electric Company, 74 PICCADILLY-CIRCUS-arc Railways Pipe Covering, “ Kisol,’’ Wm. Kenyon and Sons, Ltd., 267 Planing Machines—«rc Machine Tools Poplar—*ec Electrical Matters Port Improvements in Colombia, 692 Potter, R. B.. Pulverised Fuel, 362 Poultney, E. Tests of a 2 8-4 Type Locomotive. 620 Power for Nothing, The Idea of, 554 Power Stations see Electrical Mutters Prague—tuc Exhibitions

 President Coolidge on Naval Armaments, 187 Problem of High Superheats. 272	,

Propelling Machinery of Canadian -Pacific Liner Empress of Australia. 649, 658, 692 Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Tur bines, E. C. Wadlow, 600 Protective Effect—see Iron Pullman Cars—see Railways Pulverised Fuel. R. B. Potter, 362 PUMPS : Deep Well Turbine Pump. Pulsometer Engineering Company. Ltd., 222 Fuel Pumping Equipment nt Cardington Airship Shed, Zwicky, Ltd.. 290

  H orated Keynes Pumping Station. 98, 102

Mersey Tunnel Works. Submersible Pump* for. Drysdale and Co., Ltd.. 580 Oil Engine Driven Pumping Plant at Epson Waterworks. 569 Pumps, Centrifugal, Double Inlet ; Multi stage Turbine ; Reciprocating, Lee, How and Co., Ltd., B.l.F. Supplement, v

  Rotary Pump, A New. Mepstead and Co., 44(
Rotary Pump. Ashwell and Nesbit-, Ltd., 69*1 Ten-stage Centrifugal Feed Pump, Holder and Brooke, Ltd.. 532 ; (Paragraph), 566

Q

 QUARRY, Somerset. Resuscitating. 549 Quarrying—see Steam Shovel

R RAILWAYS AND RAILWAY MATTERS General:

A Few Observations on Railways, 152 Continuous Brakes for Goods Trains, 631 Railway Expenditure in relation tn Railway Receipts, 474
  Railways and Unfair Competition, 357

British, Colonial and Indian :

India, Vacuum Broke in. 462 ; (Letter), 684 Indian Railway Report. 235 Railway Projects in Africa, 450

Railway and Urban Improvements at Piccadilly-circus, 458. 492, 493 Swing Bridges. London and North-Eastern Railway, at Boccles and at St. Olaves, 176, 177 Travelling Facilities in South-East London. 267 Foreign :

Bolivian Railway Construction, 522 Centenary of the First Railway in France, J. CL H. Warren, 679

Electrification on the American Great Northern Railway, 107 rardot Railway, Colombia. Kitson-Meyer Locomotive. 360 (Two •page Supplement. April Ul, 1927) Paris-Orleans Railway Company. Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains. 134 Pullman Cars for the Continent. Leeds Forge Company, Ltd., 136

  Railway Projects in Africa, 450

Right of Continental Railwaymen to Strike. 688 Steam Boiler Wagon for Heating Electric Trains, Paris-Orleans Railway Company. 134

  Swedish Railway Memorial, 277
  Trans-Saharan Railway, 84. 197

RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES

  Sec also Annual Articles

General: British Locomotive. The, anti Foreign Inventors, 243

  Internal Combustion Locomotive. 96

Internal Combustion Locomotives, Lieut.* Colonel E. Kitson Clark, 419, 415, 416 Internal Combustion Locomotives, G. E Windeler, 354 Light Steam Locomotive. (Jayton Wagons, Ltd., 381 Repairs to Locomotives of American Design, 67 Tests of a 2-8-4 Type Locomotive. F. C. Poultney. 620 Tools for Locomotive Work—see Machine Tools British, Colonial and Indian ; Reid-MacLeod Steam Turbine Locomotive, North British Locomotive Company, Ltd., 118. 130; (letter), 181 Foreign Kitson-Meyer Locomotive for Colombia, 360 (Two-page Supplement, April Inf, 1927) Single-pna.su Baldwin Westinghouse Electric Locomotive, 107

   RATING of Machinery, 148, 161

Rating and Valuation Act, 1925, F. II. Liven#, 148

   Rectifier, New Electronic, L. O. Grondahl and
      P.	H. Geiger, 364
   “ Red Menace ” in China. 105

Refrigerating Machinery on the Blue Star Liner Almedu. Liverpool Refrigerating Coin pany, Ltd.. 378. 379. 380

   Research, Co-operative Industrial, 472
   Reservoirs—see Water Supply
   Resuscitating a Somerset Quarry, 549
   Reticence, 302

Richards. Frank. New Work Always Ready for the Men who Do Things, 467 ; (Letter), 491

   Road Machinery, Various, at Leipzig, 321. 322

Road-making. Concrete, Machine, Joseph Viigelr, 296 Road Metal from Household Refuse, Plant nt Brighton, Millars’ Machinery Company, Ltd.. 504 Rogers, F. Heron, Cross Cracking Process and Plant. 326 ; (Letter). 351 Roles.'I’., Recent Development in Power Plant Design, &c., 622

   Rolling Mills—see Cotters for

Rosenhain, Dr., and Others, The Alloys of Iron Research. 516

   Rotoscope—see Heteropt ic Shutter

Rubber as a Constructional Material in Chemical Engineering. B. D. Porritt, 325 8

  SAFETY in Factories, 558
  Safety of Horizontal Milling Machines. 463

Safety in Mines Research Station near Buxton, 651

  Samuel Crompton Centenary, 665
Sand-mixing Machine, Pneulee, Ltd., 266 Sand—see Movement of Saws, Cold Disc, 321
  Saws for Cutting Metal, both Hot and Cold.
   Sanderson Brothers and Newhould, Ltd., 267 Schemes in Soviet Union, 14

Scientific Apparatus—see. al«o Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibition. Scientific, and Industrial Research, Report of Committee, 349

Screwing Machines—see Machine Tools Scunthorpe—see Gasworks

Seigle, M. J., The Heavy Metallurgical Industry of the East of France, 514

Self-cleaning Grate and Sprinkler Stoker. Crosthwaite Engineering and Furnace Company, Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vi

Shearing Machines—see Machine Tools SHIPS AND SHIPBUILDING See also Annual Articles General Matters : America and the Cruiser Question, 103 Design of Coasters, J. Douglas Calder, 4U8 Effect of Wind on Power and Speed. 11. J. R.

  Biles. 435, 439

High-speed Motor Boats, Design and Con struct ion of, David Nicolson, 409 Lloyd’s Register :

  Annual Summary, 81
  Quarterly Shipbuilding Returns, 50, 412

M.V. Tampa, Return Voyage of, and Engineer’s Log, 279 Sailing Vessels Fitted with Auxiliary Motors.

  Future of. Captain Chr. Blom, 408

Ship Loading and Unloading Facilities, R. I. Dodsworth, 249 Ship Resistance Similarity, Dr. E. V. Telfer, 436 Ship Wave Resistance, W. C. S. Wigley, 436 Skin Friction Resistance, G. S. Baker. Ship Propulsion Research. G. S. Baker. Weather and the Propulsion of Ships.

  Kent. 434

Naval Matters : Armament of Capital Ships. 553 Machinery Installation of the Grosser fiirst, John 8. Brown. 276 Naval Limitation Conference, 687 Navy Estimates. 301 President Coolidge on Naval Armament 187 Projected Battleship for Coast Defence, 443 World’s Fighting Fleets, 271 Foreign Navies: French Squadron at Portsmouth, 605 Mercantile and Miscellaneous Vessels Blue Star Liner Alineda. Refrigerating Machinery on. 378. 379 Danish Motor Train Ferry Korsor, 610 Empress of Australia, Reconditioned Liner. | 649. 658. 692 Paddle-wheel Steamer Helvetic with Uniflow Engine ami Oil-operated Valve Gear, 676 Royal Mail Motor Liner Alcantara, Harland and Wolff. Ltd.. 210. 211 SIEMENS-BENSON Critical Pressure Boiler, 690 Sixty Years Ago. 14. 48. 83. 97. 137, 162. 184. 212. 249. 273. 393. 331. 351. 392. 417. 450. 463. 498. 527. 547, 585. 602. 633. 656. 693 Skin Friction—see Ships Smith, Harold (•., Applications of Power on Gasworks. 137 Societies—see Associations Soldering and Welding—see Aluminium South Africa, Steel Industry in. 348 SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES 110, 128. 168, 191. 221. 250. 280. 336. 391. 422, 559. 585. 612. 666. 681 Accident Rate in Mines, 250 An Aerial Survey, 250 Automatic Rotary Sub-station, 169 Big Platinum Plant, 194 British Combine, 250 British Motor Industry, To Help. 280 Buluwayo Water Supply, 336 Cape Town Harbour Extensions. 392 Cape Town’s Floating Dock. 168 Cape Town’s Mountain (’ableway. 194 Capo Town Water Supply, 422 Carbide Factory at Wit bank, 684 SOUTH AFRICAN ENGINEERING NOTES (continued): Defective American Locomotives, 280 Developing Table Bay, 336 Dunswart Works Expanding, 606 Durban’s Grain Elevator, 194 Electric Lighting of Trains, 392 Electric Power from City Reservoir. 612 Electricity Undertakings, IBS Electrification Results, 612 Engineering in 1926. 221 Ermelo Torbanites, 250 Funicular Railway, 330 Huge Locomotives. Two. 221 Improved Mining Methods. 110 Industrial Enterprises Checked, OK I Industrial Expansion. 128 Iron Ore Deposits of the Union. 392 Johannesburg Gasworks, 422 Johannesburg’s New Gasworks, 25o Largest. Winding Hoist, 585 Lightning Causes Mine Fire, I 10 Manganese for America, 422 Mining at Broken Hill, 336 Now Cement Factories. 250 New Durban North Bridge. 191 New Plant for Rond Mine. 191 Oil Boring Operations, 250 Pipes, Large Order for, 684 Platinum Mining, 684 Platinum Production, 250 Port Elizabeth Harbour, 194 Potgietersrust Platinums, 391 Preference on British Goods, 559 Pretoria Railway Workshops. 128 Pretoria Steel Foundry, 666 Production of Oil, 168

     Progress at Dunswart Works, 250
     Quick Coaling at Durban, 128
     Railway Construction, 110
     Railway Repair Shops, 612
     Rand Industrial Exhibition, 559
     Rand's Latest Reduction Plant, 559
Results of Railway Electrification 280 Rhodesia's Copper Mines. 128 Road Mot or Services, 336 Rolling Stock Position, 559 Sabie Hydro-electric Scheme, 585 Sir William Hoy to Leave the S.A.R.. 666 South African Coal. 194
    S.A. Market for Tools, 559
    State-aided Steel Industry, 612
    Steam Omnibus, 250
    Steel Combine Formed, 221
    Suburban Railway Electrification. 666
    Table Bay Cooling Chambers, 684
    Table Mountain Cableway, 221
    Three-cylinder Locomotives, 422. 606
    Tram Design, New, 585
    Union Minidre Progress, 194
    Union Rubber Industry, 168
    Wankie Colliery Expansion, 110
    Wankie Colliery Reconstruction. 612

SOUTH African Mining Prospects for 1927, 179 South Australia—see Water Supply South-East London. Travelling Facilities in, 267 Springs—see also Manufacture Springs, Fine, for Gun Makers, Northern Spring Company, 267 Stability of Floating Prismatic Bodies of Simple Geometric Section, Professor T. B. Abell, 149 Stability of Large Power Systems, F. H. Clough. 221 Stationary Enginej—see Engines Steam Accumulators, 78

 Steam Boiler Wagons—see Railways

Steam Cultivating Machinery, Powerful, for Italy, John Fowler and Co., Ltd., 581

 Steam Engines—see Engines

Steam Fittings, Venturi Typo Parallel Slide Valve, &c., Gummers, Ltd., 267

 Steam Plant, Super-pressure, at Bradford, 78

Steam Plants, High-pressure, Use and Economy of, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Professor W. Kerr, 94, 107 Steam Pressures, Modern Developments in, W. Bayliss, 280

 Steam Production—see Economic

750-kW Steam Turbine Coupled with Alternator, 290 B.H.P. High-speed Engine, Multijet Condensing Set. Beiliss and Morcom, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, vi. Steam Shovel Work in Tropical South Africa, R. Desmond Forrester, 594 Steel—see Iron Storage Batteries—see Electrical Matters Stourport—see Electrical Matters St resses. Repeated Torsional, Failure of Some Steel Wires Under. Professor F. (’. l-ea and Mr. F. Heywood, 487 ; (Letter), 522 Stribeck, Professor, A Now Process of Combustion for High-speed Heavy Oil Engines, 632 Strikes — see Labour Stroboscope—see Hetoroptic Shutter, also Physical and Optical »Societie«’ Exhibition Suction Gas for Commercial Vehicles, 488, 516 Sulphuric Acid Manufacture, Intensive, (I)

  Dr. II. J. Bush and Mr. Arthur Grounds ;
  (2) W. G. Mills, 303

Swedish Railway Memorial, 277 Swinden, Dr. T., and Mr. G. R. Bnlsovor, Cold- rolled Strip Steel, 543 Switchgear —see Elect rival Mai i era T TEA Garden Cultivator, Mechanical. Win. Foster and Co.. Ltd., 468 Telfcr. Dr. E. V.. Ship Resistance Similarity, 436 Temperature Conditions in Refrigerated Holds, 134 Testing and Balancing House at Heaton Works. A. Parsons and Co.. Ltd., 654 Testing Machine, Multi-lever, Joshua Buckton and Co., Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i, ii Testing Machines, 30-Ton Vertical Singlelever, 30,000 1b. Multi-lever, Joshua Burkton and Co,, Ltd., B.LF. Supplement, i, ii Testing and Research Laboratory and Equipment. at Hehburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654, 656 Tests, Locomotive—see Railway Locomotives Theoretical and Practical Lubrication, 386 Theory and Practice, Dr. Herbert Lap worth, 601

Theory of Strong Electrolytes, General Discussion at the University Museum, Oxford, Programme of Papers, 392 Thermo-electric and Resistance Pyrometry in Industry, .T. A. Hall, 84

  Thornton and Clevrleys’—see Electrical Matters
  Thornton, Professor VV. M., Faraday Lecture.
     What is Electricity ? 331
  Timber Viaduct Over the Tunuyan River,
     T.	C. S. Haslam, 602

Tinning Compounds', Soldo Company, B.I.F. Supplement, iv

  Torsional Fatigue, 526 ; (Letter), 522
  Torsional Stresses—see Failure of Steel Wires
  Torsional Vibration, J. (’alderwood, 336
  Tractor for Lifeboat Launching, Four •wheel
     Drive Lorry Company, Ltd., 531
  Trades Disputes Bill. 525
  Trades Unions and Trade Disputes—w Labour
  Trafford Park—see Electrical Matters
  Train Ferry—see Ferry
  Transformers—sec Electrical Matters
  Travelling Grate, H. Type. Stoker, Underfeed
     Stoker Company, 218
  Trend of Fuel Injection Practice, 329
  Trucks—sec also Electrical Matters

Turbine, Improved Backpressure, English Electric Company, 46, 56

  Turbine Machinery on I.and and Sea, Sir (’. A.
     Parsons and Others. 69
  Turbine Pumps—see Pumps
  Turbine, 20,000-Kilowatt Steam, at Rotterdam.

C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 512, 524, 540 (Two-pagr Supplement, May \3th, 1927)

  Turbine Units, Small, for Industrial Purposes.
     G. Arrowsmith, 109
  Turbines—see also Proportioning
  Twenty-five Years in the Dry Cell Industry.
     C. A. Gillingham, 667

u

  UNIFLOW Engines—see Engines

Use and Economy of High-pressure Steam Plants, Professor A. L. Mellanby and Pro feasor William Kerr. 94. 107, 126, 166. 207, 208; (Erratum), 146; (Letter). 298 V

  VACUUM Brake in India, 462 ; (Letter), 684
  Ventilating Fitting, Adjustable Cabin, 422
  Verein Deutscher Ingenieure. 1856-1926, 193
  Viaduct—see Timber
  Volta and Laplace, 233

WADLOW. E. C., Proportioning of Nozzles for Explosion Turbines. 600

  Wages —see Labour

Wans, Oswald, Further Developments in Mechanical Injection Oil Engines, 504 Warren, J. G. H., Centenary of the First Railway in France, 679 Water Lifter, Direct-acting Feed Pump. Frank Pearn and Co., Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, vii Water Power versus Oil Engines in Bulgarin, 07 Water-softening Plant with Osilameter Measuring and (’hemical Supply Gear ; ** Basex " Base-exchange Water Softener ; Pressure Filter for Purification of Sedimentary Waters for Boiler Feed, Ate.; Chloronome, Paterson Engineering Company, 218 Water-sterilising Process, New, Bunau-Varilla System, 234

  WATER SUPPLY :
    See. also Annual Articles

Annual Report to the Metropolitan Water Board, Sir Alexander Houston, 555 Birmingham Water Supply, Bartley Reservoir, 182, 186 Centenary of the Shaw’s Water Company's Works. 688 De-ferrating Plant at a Sussex Works, 98, Iu2 Epsom Waterworks, Oil Engine Driven

      Pumping Plant at. 569
  WELDED Repairs—see. Bridges
  Werkspoor Indicator Gear. 209

Wernick, S., Protective Effect of Metal De- posits on Iron, 582 Wharton, C. J., Economic Production of Steam by Electricity, 278

  Whitworth Scholarships. 1928, 220
  Wigley, W. C. S., Ship Wave Resistance.
  Wilkins, P. T., Engineering Wages :
    Influence on Manufacturing Costs.
    (Letter), 240
  Wilaou Dam— see

Winch Equipment, Cardington Kirship Tower, Babcock and Wilcox, 288, 289, 300 Wire Rods, “ Road Studs,” Ate., William Cooke and Co., Ltd., B.I.F., Supplement, iv

  WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY AND TELEPHONY

Ser also Physical and Optical Societies’ Exhibits Grimsby and Skegness Wireless Beam Stations, 323 Marconi Type R.g. 12 “ Press ” Wireless Receiver, 634

  WOODS, F. W., A New Hydraulic Formula, 646
  WOODWORKING MACHINES :

Saw Bench. Two-spindle Dimension, T. Robinson and Son. Ltd., B.I.F. Supplement, v Saw, Cross-cutting and Trenching ; Combined Disc and Bobbin Sandor ; Single- dimension Saw Bench ; Combined Surfacing and Thicknesaing Machine, Wo,. Wadkin and Co., 264, B.I.F. Supplement, iv Universal Woodworking Machine, Midland Saw and Tool Company. Ltd., 264

    Woodworking Tools. Various, at Leipzig, 321
  WOOLWICH—see. Electrical Matters
  Work-hardening Properties of Metals. Edward
    U.	Herbert, 138. 156. 18U ; (Letters), 277

Works*, Now Switchgear, The Oerlikon Company, 404, 414 Works Visited l»v the Institution of Electrical Engineers : Ctarke, Chapman and Co,, Ltd., 681, 683; Connett Iron Company, 682, 686; Heftton Works, C. A. Parsons and Co., Ltd., 654 ; Hebburn Works, A. Reyrolle and Co., Ltd., 654 World's Euluro Supplies of Liquid Fuels, John B. C. Kershaw, 244, 261, 292, 310, 344 World's Production and Trade in Machinery, 048 Worm Goar, Mem. J. Buckton and Co., Ltd., and MOMHFH. Bostock and Brarnloy, B.l.F. Supplement, ii

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